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A.10 THE SUN Friday, June 30, 1972 Top Tasaday Priority Is Keeping Them Safe TOREWIDE VP, 111 ONTH A 7 i.V 1 "1 A. END AT HARRIS5 1 7c If rV'Vr- Hf a If i A 4 4 Friday, June 30 You receive Green stamps at Harris1 By JOHN NANCE TASADAY FO REST, Philippines (AT1) The Filipino responsible for finding the Tasaday cavemen says the discovery has exciting scientific value, but that top priority goes to keeping the gentle people safe. "Our purpose," says Manuel Klizulde "is to help people live as they choose." He repeats, in a rising voice: "As they choose they not us!" This has been Elizalde's mission since the mid-19fi0s when he entered what he calls "a war, disguised as modernization, to crush our cultural minorities." The 35-year-old Harvard graduate says: "The Tasaday present a unique situation because our previous work has been with people already battered and bloodied by so-called civilization. With the Tasaday and perhaps other unknown groups in the same forest we have a chance to stop abuse before it starts." The band of 25 Tasaday first met Elizalde as head of Tanamin, a government-supported foundation for assisting minorities, at the edge of a southern Philippine rain forest last June. The Tasaday who wore leafy G-strings, use stone tools and forage for food are the most primitive of the more than 60 minority people who comprise about four million of the Philippines' 38 million population.

Elizalde sees in the Tasaday an example of man's essential goodness and strength, and of his ability to live in harmony with himself and his environment. Panamin, which stands for Presidential Assistant of National Minorities, was formed in Panamin records show that medical services originally dispensed from a converted fishing boat that sailed around the islands have been provided more than 1 5 million patients. Legal aid has been rendered thousands of unsophisticated minority people. Panamin has helped establish 15 permanent set AP Wlrephoto Jjobo, a Tusadny Hoy grins as he hangs by his feet have won the envy of other elopment organizations and the affection of tens of thousands of mountain people who call Elizalde "tao bung, big man, and have made him an adopted son of 84 com munities. Elizalde renewed his con tact with the lasaday in assay March at the forest's edge, and they asked him to their forest home.

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Lowlanders jeered the Taboli's colorful dress, their customs, hairstyles, beads and earrings. They stole their land, raped their women and murdered their men. Today the Taboli live on 5,225 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 clinic and cooperative store. Most important, they have a sense of pride and self-confidence, and peace which they are ready to defend.

Troubles are not over, but a solid foothold has been established. Panamin applied an approach which Elizalde says "is unique in all the world, to my knowledge. We do not never tell people how they should live or what they should do. We ask them what they want. They decide.

"We help them try to achieve whatever it. is. at the heart of everything is the fact they do it. They must do the work themselves. It is their succes, not ours." With the Taboli, as with other disintegrating groups, the first task was to help them find a will to live.

"A will to live; a place to live; a way to live those have become our basic steps," Elizalde says. Finding the will invariably means searching into the past for what it was that gave a people their original character. "The Filipino Christian world has assumed just like the Spanish and Americans who colonized here the role of civilization and converting the minorities into modern western Filipinos," Elizalde argues. "What are we doing? This is all but destroying them, their individuality, their pride and dignity." The results of the programs namin did not find their homesite it could not be adequately protected from farmers and loggers approaching the forest. President Marcos proclaimed 20,000 hectares of forest and nearby land as a reserve for the Tasaday and Manubo blit.

Tanamin was named administrator. Some Filipino scientists muttered that the Tasaday were being exploited for publicity and that too many people had seen them before enough scientific work was done. "We recognize the need for scientific study and want it," Elizalde replies. "The Tasaday offer unparalleled opportunity to observe man at an early stage of development. Our scientific program is well under way.

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Peoples with tribal names like "Mansaka," "higa-onon," "batak," and "ubu" have been bewildered in the rush of civilization brought by ranchers, loggers, miners and others. Often the tribesmen have been tricked out of their ancestral lands or forced out by gunmen. The Taboli people of south C'olahato Province on Mindanao Island provide an example of Panamin's response. Four years ago an estimated Taboli families were U.S. Chess Champ Fails To Show Up Nw York Timpi Nnwi Sfrvic.

REYKJAVIK, Iceland -The eccentric and contentious American chess grandmaster, Hobby Fischer, expected here yesterday morning, again failed to show up. His championship match with Moris Spassky or the Soviet Fnion is scheduled to begin Sunday, but although Fischer had been booked on a flight from New York, he never boarded the plane. There was hope, however, he would arrive loday. The worried members of Icelandic Chess Federation, who have put considerable time and money into the match, are working on that hope. In any case, Fischer will have very little time to adjust his biological clock.

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