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Jill A. Denny '97-'98 spent two weeks on this island, called Kili, assisting her father, Dr. David M. Denny, with badly needed eye operations...
...Kili is part of the Marshall Islands, which were formerly under possession of the U.S. Its inhabitants, orginally residents of Bikini, another island, were forced to leave their homes in the 1950s so Bikini could be used for nuclear testing...
...Altemur Kiliç, Minister Plenipotentiary Deputy Permanent Representative of Turkey to the U.N., New York City
...spring of 1946, the 161 inhabitants of Bikini sailed away. They carried a few pandanus leaves for thatch and their Bibles and Congregational hymnals. Their unhappy migration took them first to nearby Rongerik atoll, then to Kwajalein, and finally to Kili, the inhospitable, rocky, isolated islet where they have scratched out a poverty-stricken existence for the last 21 years...
...eating land crabs and pounded arrowroot, two delicacies that retain dangerous radioactive isotopes. But the overall level of radiation is now no higher than that of the city of Denver, and the Bikini lagoon teems with edible fish. It was the lagoon that they missed most during exile at Kili, where thundering waves often made fishing impossible...