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DATE: 8/23/75
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AMEMPASSY CANPERRA FOR PAC. ISL, MONTHLY
(BIKINI ISLANDERS RETURN TO HOME ISLAND DELAYED)
SAIPAN, AUG.23 (MNS)---THE PLANNED RETURN IN \ ID“SEPTEYEER
OF THE FIRST OFFICIAL CONTINGENT OF SOME 150 BIKINIANS TC THetk
HOME ATOLL HAS PEEN POSTPONED TO PERMIT COMPLETE ANALYSIS AND
EVALUATION OF TEE LATEST RADIOLOGICAL SURVFY,
IT WAS CONDUCTED IT.
JUNE 1975 BY THE ENERGY RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT ADMINISTRATION
(ERDA) ON BIKINI ATOLL.
PIKINI WAS THE SITE OF 23 NUCLEAR TESTS (INCLUDING SURFACE
AND SUF-SURFACE FURSTS) IN THE PFERIO“P 194€-58, THE FIKINIANS
WERE MOVED FROM PIKINI ATOLL RFEFORET TESTING EFEGAN,
THEY WERT
SURSEQUENTLY SETTLED TFMPORARILY ON KILI ISLAND, ALSO IN THE
MARSHALLS,
IN AUGUST, 1968, PRESIDENT JOHNSON
ANNOUNCED That
THE BIKINIANS WOULD FF ARLE TO RFTURN TO THEIR HOMELAND AT A LATOR
TIME,
HE DIRECTED THE DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERTIO®, DEPARTMENT
OF DEFENSE, AND TVE ATOMIC ENFRGY COMMISSION (NOW PART OF ERIA)
TO COOPERATE IN PREPARING FOR THEIR RETURN,
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