WORLD IN BRIEF : MARSHALL ISLANDS : U.S. to Clean Up Bikini Atoll
From Times Staff and Wire Reports
The United States has completed plans to clean up Bikini Atoll, the site of U.S. atomic bomb tests at the height of the Cold War in the 1950s. A delegation headed by U.S. Assistant Interior Secretary Stella Guerra will present the plans to the leaders of the atoll next week, a spokesman for the Bikini islanders said. Congress has provided $90 million for the cleanup.
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