Return to Bikini delayed
(N.Z.P. A.Reuter—Copyright)
WASHINGTON, August 26. Bikini Islanders, waiting since 1946 to return home, will have to wait a while longer before they can go back to the nuclear test site, the Interior Department said today. It said that the planned return in mid-September of some 150 Bikinians to the Pacific atoll in the Marshall Islands had been postponed for studies to be completed on results of a radiological survey taken in June. The people of Bikini were evacuated in 1946 when the first of 23 nuclear tests was conducted there.
President Lyndon Johnson promised in 1968 that they would be able to return home from Kili Island in the Marshalls.
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Press, Volume CXV, Issue 33933, 28 August 1975, Page 13
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