RESETTLEMENT OF PEOPLE
198] JANUARY Kwajalein: U.S. and Marshall
Islands government negotiators make pub-
lic an agreement drafted as part of the
Free Association Compact which will give
the U.S. “free acce@a to and unrestricted
control” of the Kwajalein Missile Range
for 30 years, with 100 year authority for
military "denial" (the right to foreclose
access to Kwajalein cto any third nation
for military purposes).
home...”
Atoll, 1981,
tially dangerous amounts of radiation;
and b) knew as early as 1974 that seri-
ous questions existed as to the atoll'’s
safety.”
MAY Bikini: The Marshall Islands government confirms that it was approached by
the Japanese government about the possi-
bility of using Bikini to store nuclear
"The United States told us in
i978, when we were moved from
Sikini a second time, that it
would ‘undertake a program for the
permanent rehabilitation of Kili.’
No action has been taken in over
two years to make Kili a permanent
Senator Henchi Balos,
though it a) allowed the Bikinians to
remain at the atoll and receive poten-
Bikin.
Bikini representatives, not ofwaste.
ficially notified of the discussions,
express "shock" ac the proposal.
Enewetak: Enewetak leaders petition the
United Nations Trusteeship Council to
continue the Trusteeship arrangement
with che U.S. after the agreement has
been terminated for the rest of Micronesia.
MARCH Kwajalein: Senator Imada Kabvwa, a
Kwajalein landowner,
criticizes the <raft
Missile Range agreement because if contains ‘no language about how we are going
to-be treated as people.’ Kabua states
that Kwajalein landowners were not included in the negotiations and he is
“eoncerned that there may be 30 nore
years of treatment as second class ceople
in our homeland,
with one
standard of
niving tor the Americans wno live on
Kwajalein and another for the Marshallese community on Ebeve.”
Enewetak: Approximately 100 Enewetak
people return to Ujelang after living
on Enewetak since October.
They cite
lack of coconuts and other fresh fruits
available, nothing to do on Enewetak
and fear of remaining radiation on the
U.S.ARMY MEN CONSTRUCTING DOME ON
RUNIT ISLAND, ENEWETAK; PAPER
RESPIRATORS ARE WORN TO PREVENT
INHALATION OF PLUTONIUM PARTICLES.
Defense Nuclear Agency Photo.
island.
bikini: The Bikinians file a class action suit against che U.S. government
seeking $450 million in compensation.
The suic charges, among other things,
that the U.S. “breached its fiduciary
obligations to the Rikinianms by failing
from 1972 to 1978 to conduct a choroush
radiological survey of S3ikini...even
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JUNE Kwajalein: A U.S. Districe Court
judge,
in response to Kwajalein resident
Kinoj Mawilon's lawsuit seeking a
court order stopping the U.S. Army's
“search and seizure’ policy against
Marshallese,
rules in favor of the Arty,
noting that the “base commander has in-
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