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Winona State University OpenRiver Winona Daily News Winona City Newspapers 9-15-1969 Winona Daily News Winona Daily News Follow this and additional works at: https://openriver.winona.edu/winonadailynews Recommended Citation Winona Daily News, "Winona Daily News" (1969). Winona Daily News. 911. https://openriver.winona.edu/winonadailynews/911 This Newspaper is brought to you for free and open access by the Winona City Newspapers at OpenRiver. It has been accepted for inclusion in Winona Daily News by an authorized administrator of OpenRiver. For more information, please contact [email protected]. Bikim^^^M . By GEORGE ZUCKER experts who toured the blasted years are gone. A small force of . Thirty Bikinians will arrive barges and air drops. They established a tent city When the DASA task force Associated Press Writer atoll last weekend with a group U.S. military and civilian work- here next month to help plant on Enyu, second largest island completes its work on Oct. 1, It registered slightly below will fall heir to the BIKINI ATOLL (AP) of American and foreign news- ers has been cleaning up the in the atoll, and within a week the Bikinians - The coconuts, breadfruit and pan- two microroentgens. tent city, the airstrip, a harbor, first no-man's land of the atom- men. He said his atomic counter atoll since mid-February. had cleared the tangle of scrub danus, making ready for the re- "An average reading on the vegetation from the island's two barges and three landing ic age is ready to welcome back showed only faint signs of ra- The 167 Bikinians who were " he said would dioactivity, "less than -in.7Den- ' turn of the others. U.S. mainland, , " 4,600-foot airstrip, unused for a craft. its people, . evacuated amid weeping fare- range from 10 to 20 microroent- : ver, Colo." — wells on March 7, 1946, have McCraw, 41, of Germantown, decade. George Nakanishi, 48-year-old The Atomic Energy Commis- gens." Hawaiian who serves as district sion reports Stripped -of vegetation and since grown to 550 and most are Md., said considerable testing reason for this isolated Pacific badly scarred by 23 thermonu- McCraw said the The first phase of the $3.3 mil- director of agriculture for the atoll, ravaged by dozen years eager to return. has been conducted to deter- the low reading is that Bikini at- lion restoration project was the a clear detonations between 1946 mine the extent of lingering ra- U.S. trust territory, has set up a of nuclear test- oll rose from living coral reefs removal of scrap metal and oth- coconut nursery which eventual- ______ and 1958, 7 the islands have The displaced Bikinians have dioactivity. naturally occur- ing, has less . _. sloughed off all visible effects of living on the and has little er industrial junk. ly will» yield 100,000 coconut Art AP been eking but a "There is virtually no radia- ring radioactivity. radioactivity to- their former devastation. tiny island of Kili, in the south- Three hundred truckloads of palms to be replanted on the is- day than the x tion left," he said, "and we can M-»«ews ern Marshalls. find no discernible effect on ei- Responsibility for restoring scrap, all of it rusted or ra- lands of Bikini and Enyu. U.S. mainland. r Lush foliage has returned in dioactive, were dumped into the "Under the Japanese adminis- Although rich in rainfall, Kill ther plant or animal life." and resettling Bikini atoll is "We can't say Analysis the meager string of islands, Department of sea or buried. tration prior to 1945," says Nak- there is • - ¦ some 2 500 miles west of Ha- has no lagoon or sheltered sea McCraw used an atomic count shared by the abso- , Defense, the AEC and the Inte- Salvageable scrap, including anishi, "the Bikinians were lutely no radia- " '"' waii, and its lagoons are swim- approach. The islanders have ter to sample radioactivity on the island of Airukiraru, across rior Department. more than 100 miles jbf copper producing 30 tons oi copra an- tion danger," says AEC physi- ming pool clear and bountiful. been earning about $20,000 an- This total should rise to of copra the channel from Enyu in the The cleanup began Feb. 17 un- cable which link all of the atoll's' nually. cist Tommy McCraw, "but if The scrap metal and de- nually through the sale 30 tons a month within the next there is and ladies handbags made of atoll's southern complex where der the direction of the Defense 25 islands, will be left for the Bi- we can't find it." bris that littered the white ' kinians to use or sell. 10 years, McCraw was among a team of sand beaches for more than 20 coconut fiber. 13 nuclear shots were fired from Atomic Support Agency. '' Cooler News in Print: Tonight and You Can See ltf Tuesday Reread It, Keep It Israeli Planes 40,000 By NOVEMBER Anno u nces U S. Bomb Strafe Ky Troop Withdrawal Gulf of Suez BULLETIN But he would not speci- back was completed last month. By THE ASSOCIATED TRESS possible to hit it again." Presi- fically verify that number, One phase oi the withdrawal WASHINGTON TO— moved U.S. Army units out of Israeli planes attacked In other military action over dent Nixon has decided saying repeatedly that con- Egypt's Gulf of Suez coast- for the weekend, two Israeli sol- definitely on another with- sultations now are on with the Mekong Delta, U.S. military the fifth time in six days Sun- diers were wounded when Arab drawal of U.S. troops from other troop - contributing spokesmen said .as the Ameri- day, keeping up a campaign to guerrillas ambushed an army White nations and the formal White cans moved out, North Viet- Vietnam and the namese troops in the delta dou- force the Egyptians to shift patrol on the occupied Golan House will announce speci- House announcement will be Suez Canal Sunday morn- fic figures Tuesday morn- withheld until Tuesday. bled in number, to, between 2,000 forces from the Heights of Syria and 3 000 men, spokesman said ing. , front. ing. An Israeli (AP)— Presi- An Israeli military spokesman one of the attackers was killed. Press Secretary Ronald L. SAIGON Vice dent Nguyen Cao Ky said to- One Viet Cong regiment of said the air force bombed and The Israelis reported another Ziegler, talking to reporters 000 to 1,500 men—most of night that another 40,000 Ameri- 1, strafed positions at Ras attack in the Golan Heights ear- today, did not dispute the them North Vietnamese—moved announcement by South can troops will be withdrawn * delta in April the PREPARING TO FIRE . American emplacement in Landing Zone Ike in War Za'farana, 55 miles south of the ly Monday, by two squads- of from Vietnam between now and into the , and Vietnamese Vice President spokesmen said. Antther regi- ioldiers in the 1st Cavalry Division pre- Zone C. They weYe firing at a North Viet- southern end of the canal, guerrillas on the Nahal Golan November. an oil center 120 Nguyen Cao Ky earlier that ment from the North Vie- namese mortar crew; (AP Photofax) Ras Gharib, settlement. A spokesman said troops Ky made the announcement pare to fire a 105 mm howitzer from their miles farther south. He said all 40,000 more American namese army reportedly slipped one Arab squad moved to within will be pulled out before through an aide shortly after an the planes returned safely. 220 yards of the settlement's into the area daring the sum- November. emergency meeting of the South mer months as two brigades of TO SOVIET BLOC NATIONS perimeter and opened up with Vietnamese National Security Egypt's official Middle East bazookas and a machine gun, the U.S. 9th Infantry Division Agency said Egyptian an- Council. News, while another group inside the Ky said communique from the were pulling out to go home. Fourth Solon tiaircraft gunners forced the Is- These were the only American Syrian lines fired mortars at the South Vietnamese government Army forces in the delta other raeli planes "to flee eastwards post. would be issued Tuesday. after they attempted to raid Student Loan , than advisers to South Viet- The spokesman said one guer- President Nguyen Van Thieu namese units. coast guard posts in these rilla was killed and one Israeli apparently gave his approval l^ To Enter GOP However, the two enemy regi- areas." wounded. 7 for the withdrawal in a meeting The Cairo statement also said late in the afternoon with acting ments are operating in areas The spokesman also reported Bill Faces where no U.S. troops were ever Products there was an eight-hour artil- that Arab gunners fired mortars U.S. Ambassador Samuel D. Strategic lery duel Sunday hear Port Tau- Berger and Gen. Creighton W. stationed. Leader Race? at an Israeli settlement south of U.S. headquarters said South LONDON (AP) _ The United ination against Asians. fiq, at the southern end of the the Sea "of Galilee but "added Abrams,; commander of . Ameri- WASHINGTON (AP) - The can forces in Vietnam. Vietnamese forces killed at States and 14 allied countries The committee's purpose is to canal. It gave no further details. there were no casualties. Opposition three-cornered fight for the Ras Za'farana; the target of Abrams and Berger had con- least 83 men from the North are lowering their barriers on coordinate -policies with the in- At the United Nations, new WASHINGTON (AP) - House Vietnamese regiment last tention of denying communist Senate Republican leadership heavy Israeli raids for the past ferred with Thieu at the presi- exports of strategic products to could take on a new dimension talks seeking an Arab-Israeli leaders and President Nixon dential palace in an extraordi- Thursday and captured four oth- countries commodities that week, is 100 miles southeast of settlement are expected to be- face embarrassment and bank- ers after the North Vietnamese the Soviet bloc.