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STATEMENT OF HIGH COMMISSIONER ADRIAN P. WINKEL BEFORE THE
INTERIOR AND RELATED AGENCIES SUBCOMMITTEE,
COMMITTEE ON
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APPROPRIATIONS, HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, CONCERNING
RESETTLEMENT OF THE
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PEOPLE OF
BIKINI,
MAY
22,
1978
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Mr. Chairman, Members of the Committee:
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The
preceding
statements of Mrs.
Van Cleve and
the
le have
wosed to
presentation of the Department of Energy clearly demonstrate
:
he same
the dilemma we
\
range futures of the people now living on Bikini Island.
icdlanger
Until
eee
immediate and longer-
face in dealing with the
last week,
it
had been a reasonable presumption
based on predictions by the Department of Energy that Eneu
. po en-
in the Bikini Atoll would be a satisfactory place to which
vem
off
woe es
.
.
.
the Bikini people could be moved in the immediate short-run
Nay the
period and
that
it would
also
serve as
a
permanent
location
for the bulk of the larger group still on Kili.
gz about
.
We now know that this is not the case.
cisn'tit?
We thus have the necessity of
a
temporary move
to a
location that most likely will not be the permanent home for
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these people.
At this point let me say that there are no uninhabited
Hatistics
“eo meh
islands or atolls on which these people might make a perma\
nent settlement.
Uninhabited islands in the Marshalls are
uninhabited because they are incapable of sustaining human
life to any extent, particularly the numbers of people we are
vont at:
talking about.
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made a
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