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.
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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,

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