European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - July 8, 1977, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Stories by John Noble Wilford new York times Enewetak natives celebrating their after 3d the people of Enewetak were shipped away 30 Yean nude homeless by american Fiat so that nuclear weapons could be tested on i Clr atoll n the Western now some of 73 of a total of have re turned to one of the 40 tiny islands in the Enewetak to make a Start toward resettling their Homeland on a place that had not been a teat Yoke meaning Welcome All in marshal proclaimed the sign at the septan pier As the old Johanes led his people Home last their Long planned and even longer u an Experiment in the rehabilitation of islands thai suffered the ravages of nuclear Only Lime and the people can determine How soon and to what extent life on ene Wetak that is the preferred spelling now for what was known As Ever be the Sarne some of the people an old and have memories of the Palm Aud the delicious Coconut crab and the Good fishing in the they also remember world War when they bad to flee la outlying islands and when some were killed whether by or 11 did nol to Ibe just returning Home May be Many More Are but since birth the idea of their Homeland has been instilled in them on an alien where they have heard of War and exile and the bombs Many of the teenagers Are believed to be restless Tor a More modern life on the bigger even All joined in the experience of they Sang the hymns of a refugee hymns of longing and mul and they cast a practical Eye Over the Broad Lagoon and dense growth of the Small islands finding suspect Well Only a few Coconut Palm and arrowroot and no breadfruit or Panda very sad what has happened to the the chief said after inspecting they Cut Down most of the it does no look like when we lived hero on their first evening the people gathered in a Grove of Palm by the Coral Shore and feasted on Coconut Coconut pudding and their Host was the american which had summarily ousted them in 1947 and was now welcoming them paying the Way with Money and promises Ofa Gen eral cleanup of the entire except for at least one Island that remains so scarred and contaminated that it will be used As an of limit dumping ground for Rad Loac Tulve chief wearing a White shirt and for la was an important expressed his each american at the feast was festooned with cowrie Shell gifts of the the people who had spent an sometime hungry 30 Yean m exile on 125 Miles to the were offering if Tel to the people who had caused it chief now More than 70 years old he is not sure of hts age said that he had no Ming of hate for the at one Lime they took our he we were not told the americans and were going to use your but now they have returned the islands to we Are Here and we Are on Japan the islanders have five Tow build of normor Raslee com Gaud with Concrete one build inf b lot comm duty part school and part Church Ibe rat Are partitioned into on the second Day people were already settling old women were frying fish Over open men were casting nets into the surf and hauling in earlier in the Day some of the people were taken by boat to the main where 100 americans operate an a radio navigation station and sciences j lying Miles Southwest of and about Halfway to the to one of Many Island called that form the Marshall is lands and Are administered by the United states As part of the Trust territory of the Pacific Between ims and 1mb the Northern islands of Senewe we were rocked by o nuclear including the first explosion of the Hydrogen through much of the after the United states and the soviet Union agreed to a prohibition on atmospheric nuclear the Lagoon continued to to used As a catchers As on american official put for test missiles fired from Van Denberg air freebase the the wets Isles were a f Rait habitat to begin two of the smaller ones were obliterated by the expo deep craters pock the rusting wreckage of War and nuclear testing lies on the in the remaining islands amount to less than three Square Miles of dry Bikini toothed was also used Tor nuclear Testu until a Accident there in rained radio Active fallout on a japanese to slog vessel and the people of a neighbouring Felt of Toon Remote and Bav iof a huge by Japan was it was never used As a test site or a lived on the main Island of a Survey in 1173 by american so enlist found the radiation Levels of Japan la be the same As for Seattle and less than for fish in the Lagoon were found Safe Loas a result Japan was selected As the Point of first the people Are expected to live there for at feast the next three while the other islands Are cleared of structural debris and radiation hazards and replanted with Foo bearing Trees the cleanup program is under the direction of the de sense nuclear Agency and will be carried out by Ameri can troops at a Cost of million the Energy research and development administration has responsibility for technical supervision and for radiological monitoring and american officials have said that the ene welanese were consulted on every phase of the cleanup and rehabilitation Lite was hard on which has Only a Quarter the land area of y of commented Ismael a Deputy District administrator for the Trust territory the Man who will live on Japan and serve As Liaison be tween the people and the american recalling his Peoples plight on John at first the food was crabs and Coconut and then it was we had thought that if we ate More would we started running out of it would be six months Between ships from the Trust Ter ships with we came close to not until did the people get so desperate that the actions set in motion congressional legislation in 1w9 to pay million to the the Money being placed in a Trust fund and the income divided among the enabling them to buy food and other soon after the Peoples Roger the Agency assistant manager of environment and and William a Plum of the the commander for the defense nuclear went to Japan to answer the people had been Given illustrated booklets explaining radiation and the Cal conditions y asked if they would have to undergo medical Examina sons for Ray said there wore no such planning you Are not to any  Arr nuns of no More than any other part of your food will not be a source of a Knox As you dont eat food from the Northern when Taring program to Check the the Small animals a the people one is going to the Trust territory will make ular if an emergency we will see that there is food sent Over from everyone involved in the retain to the Atou american people and the Leaden of the people Tot the future will probably govt Rel pm with Puncuh Sobieki flies some and wit Bevel mire difficult cultural can they return to a virtually self sufficient based on harvesting and fishing if they could would i Frey choose Toor will dose Contact with americans j american particularly during the Deann Lead them away from their 1 uie style Page the stars and stripes to decide whether the at Enewetak is to whether to permit american a Cuneate to continue operating a biology Laboratory there and whether to develop handicraft or fish fru