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Tyler Morning Telegraph from Tyler, Texas • 5

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PartV- Sec. 1 Tyler Morning Telegraph FRIDAY, JULY 7, 1972 Far More Th an It Teaches Tasaday Expedition Learns natient. Legal aid hat hepn They disclosed' for the first Today the Taboli live on 5,225 will to live. Elizalde replies. "The Tasadaj groups in the same forest-we offer unparalleled opportunity A will to live; a place to time that they lived in caves.

rendered thousands of unsophis- have a chance to stop abuse be to observe man at an early I After two days of deliber live; a way to live those have fore it starts." value, but that top priority goes to keeping the gentle people safe. i "Our purpose," says Manuel Elizalde "is to help people ations, Elizalde decided to visit stage of development. Our sci The band of 25 Tasaday first become our basic steps," Elizalde says. hectares of land restored to them by the government. There is a council of leaders and a central settlement of more than 200 permanent homes with a dam and reservoir, medical them on grounds that if Pan entific program is well undei cated minority people.

Panamin has helped establish 15 permanent settlement communities on four islands and brought peace to" areas where met Elizalde as head of Pan-amin, a government-supported Finding the will invariably way. live as they choose." He re "Of course we are hoi amin did not find their home-site it could not be adequately protected from farmers and means searching into the past foundation for assisting minor against publicity. It's anofhei clinic and cooperative store. for what it was that gave a peats, in a rising voice: "As they choose they not us!" This has been Elizalde's mis killing was common. ities, at the edge of a southern Philippine rain forest last June.

Most important, they have a people their original character, floggers approaching the forest. There is a long list of requests for similar help. President Marcos proclaimed sion since the mid-1960s when "The Filipino Christian world sense of pride and self-con The Tasaday who wore leafy 20,000 hectares of forest and means to an end-praising fundi to do more of our work. The fact is that publicity given the Tasaday has helped all the tni norities. It has helped drama is assumed just like the G-strings, use stone tools and Peonies with tribal names EDITOR'S NOTE: It was only last year that a tiny band of cave-dwelling people were discovered living on the edge of the southern Philippine rain forest.

Earlier this year, an expedition of scientists made the first visit to the home of the Tasaday. A newsman who accompanied the expedition, in the last of a five-part series, tells what the expedition leader sees for the future of the Tasaday. By JOHN NANCE TASADAY FOREST, Philippines (AP) The Filipino responsible for finding the Tasaday cavemen says the discovery has exciting scientific fidence, and peace which they are ready to defend. Spanish and Americans who nearby land as a reserve for forage for food are the most like "Mansaka," "higa-onon," he entered what he calls "a war, disguised as modernization, to crush our cultural minorities." colonized here the role of civ Troubles are not over, but a primitive of the more than 60 the Tasaday and Manubo blit. Panamin was named ilization and converting the mi minority people who comprise solid, foothold has been established.

"batak," and "ubu" have been bewildered in the rush of civilization brought by ranchers, loggers, miners and nttiers (V. about four million of the Philip tize problems. Just because some so-called primitive people don't use stone tools or live ir caves doesn't make them les' The 35-year-old Harvard graduate says: "The Tasaday norities into modern western Filipinos," Elizalde argues. Panamin applied an approach pines' 38 million population. Some Filipino scientists mut which Elizalde says "is unique present a unique situation be What are we doing? This is all ten the tribesmen have been tered that the Tasaday were Elizalde sees in the Tasaday an example of man's essential but destroying them, their indi cause our previous work has in all the world, to my knowl being exploited for publicity important as human Elizalde says Panamin's ap tricked out of their ancestral lands or forced out by gunmen.

been with people already bat edge. We do not never tell goodness and strength, and of tered and bloodied by so-called people how they should live or his ability to live in harmony and that too many people had seen them before enough scientific work was done. rne Taboli Dennle rrf south viduality, their pride and dignity." The results of the programs have won the envy of other de 0 proach to minorities hai evolved from working witl what they should do. We ask Cotaibato Province on Mindanao civilization. With the Tasaday and perhaps other unknown with himself and his environ ment.

them what they want. They de cide. them: "We have learned far far more than we have taught. "We recognize the need for scientific study and want it," Panamin, which stands for Island provide an example of Panamin's response. Four vears afio an estimated 10.000 velopment organizations and the affection of tens of thou Presidential Assistant of Na "We help them try to achieve whatever it is.

But at the heart tional was formed Taboli families were scattered sands of mountain people who in 1968. through the mountains in dis call Elizalde "tao bung," big of everything is the fact they do it. They must do the work Panamin records show that organized flights. Lowlanders leered the Tafooli's colorful themselves. It is their success, not ours." man, and have made him an adopted son of 84 communities.

Elizalde renewed his contact with the Tasaday in March at the forest's edge, and they asked him to their forest home. medical services originally dispensed from a converted fishing boat that sailed around the islands have been provided more' than 1.5 million dress, their customs, hairstyles, beads and earrings. They stole their land, raped their women and murdered their men. With the Taboli, as with other disintegrating groups, the first task was to help them find a TiTTi fin sew jgaa PHD Yflffiii KBT, VOUIE HOT anti g-g i0 InnJ ROM CTO OUR 100TH ANNIVERSARY YEAR -I "1 I irni --nv I ox 71 MedndGkat pius oiner 3D top hits! wit) RCA VCT HENRY" MANCINI DOC SEUERINSEN BRASS ON IVORY JitEfe ml VICTOR 9 The Bet of JRRV BLACK UNITY ASKED Calling for black unity, the Rev. Jesse Jackson, president of Operation P.U.S.H.

in Chicago, is framed by state delegation signs as he addressed the 63rd annual national convention of the NAACP at Cobo Hall in Detroit, Mich. (UPI Telephoto) nci HMOS MOSES WHEN YOU'RE HOT, YOU'RE HOT JCOHO JOE TUPELO MISSISSIPPI FLASH nci VICTOR WbiToara IfocTaoVt Ht JERRY REED bctrii) hit liitfU "Ami IUwi" GET" WE ten wcio Fischer Apologizes To Chess Champion AMAZING GRACE The Pipe iwl Drum Military fond ul tha ROYAL 5COTS DRAGOON GUARDS GUITAR MAN TODAY IS MINE GEORGIA SUNSHINE aIK dispute over money." THE CLAW GEORGIA ON MY MIND JAILED LOVE U. S. MALE Nevertheless, he took issue with a demand by the Soviet Chess Federation that he be penalized with the loss of the first game for his tardy arrival. 'If this forfeit demand were respected," Fischer wrote, "it OWENS REYKJAVIK, Iceland (AP) Repentant Bobby Fischer offered his "sincerest apology" in writing to Boris Spassky Thursday for "disrespectful behavior" that threatened to torpedo their $300,000 match for the world chess championship.

The American challenger's apology was delivered to fne Russian champion during the morning in an unblocking move that opened the way for the start of the 24-gaime series, plagued by delay, confusion and bad feeling. Officials of the International Chess Federation FLDE said would place me at a tremendous handicap." Described Wednesday as couhfry wstem being "very upset" by the tan gled prelude to the match, JtMl Ptaln Lonttv Spassky appeared calm and fit Thursday as he played his daily IThUWhyli.ov.YouLfPo "FERUN HUSKY V'' 'SiUNNY JAMES 9 round of tennis. T9 To Hold "RTnSTf AGALL they "hope" the match could begin Sunday- Harry Golom-bek, a member of FIDE's central com'mittee, said Tuesday should be the latest time for a start. Fischer delayed the opening of the match, which was to have begun last Sunday, in a 5 holdout for more money. The stakes then were an official Lifesaving Course Here A Senior Life saving swimming course will begin at 7 p.m.

Friday at the Y.M.C.A. on South Vine Street. Red Cross certification may be possible with the course. There will be no limit to the number of participants, and those taking the course should come ready to swim. A $10 fee will be requjred, but a book will be free.

BUM ur Hurt -i IM MtlM Vou About A Song purse of $125,000 and a share of if MERLE MAGGAflO, TV and film receipts. He decided to come arriving Tuesday only after British fin 4 ancier James Slater stepped in with a donation of $130,000. The prize pot totals $255,000 of which the winner will take five-eights and the loser three- Requirements to enter the course are to be able to swim 300 yards, float or tread water RICKY NELSON eiehts. In addition, the plavers w'U get a share of the sale of TV and movie rehts, estimated at perhaps $27,500 each. In his letter to Spassky, vo demanded a written apology for Fischer's conduct before he would sit down at the chess board, the American champion called his attempt to grab a hare of the gate as 'toy petty for 30 minutes, to have a tempered glass face mask and be proficient in the side stroke, American crawl stroke, breast stroke and underwater swim.

Participants must also be over 15 years old, in good physical condition and above average swimmers. DOC WATSON awinMnaocnMMTaM! MB ID GUBi BoesnnwoMACx UfOERSTANOtNG SEMI0 TIEMCuTrMSOf' TOMMY 6AMETT fUU a nn Dommo Leruv masters mm BOOTS AND BRANCHES Is -TTT7 THE VENTURES i 11 GSMD Mmti imm -ill Air Rite Air Cond. Troup Hwy. 5610621 0 0.

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