Bikinilans has understandably seemed imminent to then.
Complaint. 9 63, Exhibit B.
Indeed, in the latter part of 1973, the
Trust Territory Deputy High Commissioner said the Bikinians would
Ss allowed to return to Bikini "permanently by Christmas this [1973]
year."
Verified Comslaint, 7 84.
Exhibit I.
Again in February of 1974,
the Department of the Interior announced that the first group of
Bikinians could be resettled in mid-April 1974.
Verified Complaint,
1 85.
No such resettlement was carried out in 1974 or at any ‘time
up to the present.
To the contrary,
reports released in August, 1975,
the preliminary radiological
indicate that residence in the
oni: nouses thus fer tonstructed in the Bikini resettlement will
de unsafe unless the ceople adhere to living patterns significantly
different from normal Bikinian customs.
Id., 99 80, &6.
Pecently, an E=>- representative told the Bikiniens that
neither EZDA nor its vredecessor, the Atomic Energ: Tomnaission,
had ever recommendei tne constructicn of houses on Sixini Island
but ni recommended that Eneu Islené be resettled first.
Id., 7 87.
Such & statement was stunning to the people of Bikini, who throughout
program had believed thet
tne Federal agencies
ini agreed upon what needed to Se done to make their
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