European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - April 11, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Monday. April 11.19bb the stars and stripes Bikini atoll s radiation cleanup begins Bikini atoll. Marshall islands a decades after residents of this Remote Coral atoll left to make Way for . Atomic bomb tests work has begun to clean up lingering radiation and bring inc nuclear nomads of Bikini Home to stay. Some 50 Bikini Leaden and a delegation of . Officials gathered on inc windswept Island of ecu last week to Mark the Start of inc cleanup and re settlement project. But it May Ipac seven years or work before the Bikini ans can safely return Home and estimates of the Cost Range from 1130 million to Iago million. Tomaki Juda mayor of kill Island where Many Bikini ans now live said thursday s groundbreaking in t a Day of great  a Day of great happiness Tor the Biti Nian a cons wit be coming Back to an Island thai is free of radiation and which we can stay on without being afraid Juda said through an interpreter. The ceremony this afternoon Marks tic beginning of a great Effort but we cannot celebrate until Lite radioactivity has been removed from the Coral soil of our Home  said Honchi Balos a senator representing the Diki tans and acting president of the Marshall islands. Juda and Balos were among 146 pc Pic who Lef Bikini in 1946, when . Officials told them the Western Pacific atoll was needed for testing the atom bomb. The americans promised to re turn the islanders to Bikini when tests were completed. Between 1946 and 1958 the United slates detonated 23 nuclear bombs at Bikini an atoll of islands surrounding � Lagoon 24 Miles Long and 11 Miles wide. The american Promise was something the Bikini ans Wum cd the delegation including rep. Barbara Vuyanovich r nov. And congressional Suft members 10 remember. There Are Only a few elders left who know our traditional customs and it will nol be in 1978 found they were ingesting dangerous amounts of radioactive material drawn up from the soil by food plants and they were evacuated. Today the question is is this a True dream Juda said. Are we going to be Able to come Back Here since their exodus inc Bikini ans have moved several limes through he mar snails hence the nickname nuclear no  the largest group killed Al kill an Island 500 Milch South of Bikini. Congress appropriated 12.3 million for the cleanup and resettlement project this year. Most was earmarked for design and engineering for Bikini Island bul some will be used in begin development of a base Camp on ecu which Lias an Airstrip. The problem on Bikini Island is the radioactive ccsium-137 in its soil. The radioactive isotope has a half life of about 30 Yean meaning in Tain that time for half of in to decay in an additional 30 years half of the remainder will decay the danger from direct exposure is minute scientists say but without the Contra or removal of the cesium-137. They say Bikini s soil might nol produce plants Safe for human consumption until sometime in the 21 St Century. With treatment researchers say. The Bikini ans could begin returning to their Home Island within seven years. Larry l Morgan of the Interior department s office of territorial and International affairs said his department which oversees inc project is awaiting a report on cleanup alternatives before re questing funding. The report is due july scientists Are considering three choices removing the Topsail in which the radioactive cerium is concentrated treat ing the wit with potassium to prevent plants from absorbing the cerium and Flushing the soil with sea water. Manuscript uncovered in Egypt May be Aristotle s London a p an pc Dilion Leader said Friday that archaeologists in Egypt have dug up what May prove to be the earliest Complete versions of three classical greek lexis at least one of them by Aristotle. Professor Anthony 1. Mills said his Canadian team found two books dining from the late third Century one literary and one containing farm accounts while excavating inc remains of the Post hellenic town of ism no in the Nakhla Oasis in Central Egypt. Tiie literary manuscript Conn this past Wick i Reg it i Al the japanese today blocked to str request for the torn Avion of an Independent Gatt steel to re View Jap or a beef and Cyrus quotas and other  practices us Trade representative Clayton be Uff a in a Slatry Nunt released in Washington. Their a n is distress because it keeps the Gatt dispute Scilly Cal pc Msj trom moving  yes her said Washington would continue to Conss with Japan on the Issue and if a solution is n of ibid we will renew our request for the formation of Al Pacl at the next Gatt Council meeting scheduled for cry  continued resistance to establishment of a panel a that time would undoubtedly cad to further escalation of this dispute he warned