The Community Development Projeot on Kili was terminated some time after the typhoon, It was not continued by the community es far as FE know. | Attempts by the Administration to obtain another location for the displaced Bikinians have been abortive. The economic difficulties of the former Bikini people were alleviated when they were paid the sum of $325,000 by the Government in exchange for the use of Bikini Atoll. interest from the trust fund, into which $300,000 was placed is a quaranteed income which helps the local economy. Will become less The This significant as the population increases, as it has since the fund was established in 1956. Present Attitudes Toward Kili The attitudes of Magistrate Juda, the leader of the Kill community, and of other leading people of the community with whom I talked on Majuro, Kwajalein and Ebeye in connection with the Bikini Atoll Survey, seemed to be unchanged. They still say that Kili is no good, it is like a prison, there 1s not enough food there, and the like. tions wnich were made over a decade ago are of the people whom I interviewed return to Bikini to live. the stated that The same objec- still made. they wanted All to They were all very anxious about survey and what the results would be in terms of their being allowed to return to Bikini or not, 1043991