Bikini -
p. 11 · Read in the full issue
...a spark of hope
Reports and pictures
by Gift Johnson Despite the lost years, the knowl edge that many will die in exile, the tears that accompany return ing only briefly to an island that has been but a memory for 51 years - despite all of that, there is increasing optimism among leaders of the Bikini people that a nuclear cleanup of their islands will begin later this year, making it possible for an early, and permanent, return home. It is the most optimism that has been expressed in a decade by the Bikinians, who, since 1946, have lived as nuclear exiles, the poster children for the downside of the atomic age.