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