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By RICHARD J. MALOY Special To Progress-Index WASHINGTON Ralph Nader chose a new target this week on the very day he was accused of shoddy performance because his resources were already spread too thinly. The United States Congress is the latest target of Nader, who in five years has become the nation's best known consumer advocate and public interest lawyer. He disclosed that Nader's Raiders are going to take on Congress as their next project in an address to the National Press Club. His announcement was made the day The Wall Street Journal printed a long article headlined "Ralph Nader's Shoddy Product" which charged he had taken on so many projects that he wasn't able to supervise the Work of his youthful staff and as a result recent reports failed to meet the high standards of Nader studies.

Asked about the charges during a question and answer session with newsmen, Nader said criticism by The Wall Street Journal and others had failed to find anything wrong with the facts in his studies, but acknowledged he and his critics had different value judgments. submit that my track record is unparalleled," he quipped, laughter from his audience. The "Non-Partisan Congress Project" to be headed by aide Robert Fellmeth will enlist a band of 80 local graduate stu- oents In a year-long investigative effort which Is timed for completion OH the eve of the 1972 flections, will examine the electorial process which results in selection of members of Congress, Will deeply profile individual members, and will recommend Congressional reforms to end that body's status as a "continu- underachlever" which has been overshadowed by the Pres- Went, Nader uid, Nader hopei to enlist local Cllliov ILM-'Ul cltlzeni all over the nation in the study. He Mid Congregu bus grcal po IwtW for about need Asked if he had any personal ambitions for public office, Nader replied with a flat "no." "I am not interested in politics, I want to develop responsible citizenship whicti is the most important element in a Democracy," he added. "The abdication of citizenship is the single most critical problem in the United States today." One questioner accused Nader of "undermining" the country by his investigative attacks on government agencies and corporations.

Nader initially gained fame in 1965 with the publication of his book "Unsafe At Any Speed" which was largely responsible for Congressional passage of sweeping auto safety laws. Two years ago he created the foundation financed "Center for the Study of Responsive Law" which has turned out a dozen major studies on such agencies as the Federal Trade Commission, The Interstate Commerce Commission, The Food and Drug Adminislration, the Agriculture Department and federal antitrust police. His operation now has taken on the look of a public interest conglomerate, with the creation of several different study groups. They include the Public Interest Research Group which gets involved in law suits and the Center for Auto Safety. This summer he started Public Citizen, Inc.

as an arm to solicit funds from the public to support the work of the other organizations. Much of the Nader work is performed by youthful college students and in his Press Club talk he paid high tribute to them. "Their achievements border on the heroic," said Nader of his youthful volunteers. "We sentence American youth to a period of prolonged adoles- ence and don't let them grow up. The work of our volunteers demonstrates the potential of youth if they arc given responsibility." Helps Sleeps JOHANNESBURG, South Africa (AP) Doveton Hale Helps, 54, was charged with nousehrcaking with intent to commit a crime "unknown to WAMENA.

West Irian (AP) The Indonesian governmen thinks the tribesmen of New Gui nea should wear clothes and learn the Indonesian language Efforts to bring this about are getting under way in this frontier town. It is headquar ters for Operation Koteka, ai effort to bring a sort of instant civilization to people more tuned to the Stone age. Indonesia (controls the western part oi New Guinea, next to Greenland the world's largest island, and calls the territory West Irian, Wamena is situated in the middle of the Baliem Valley, an area so remote that the first outsiders entered only in 1938. The only way to reach it now is by plane. Large tracts of land east of the valley are still unexplored and contain thousands of people who have never struck a match, heard a note of music or seen a white person, a wheel or a piece of metal.

The natives, dark-skinned, large-boned people with kinky hair, live largely as their ancestors did thousands of years ago. Tribes are so isolated that often groups who live only several minutes flying time from each other speak different languages. Their axes are made of stone and their knives of bamboo. Women and girls wear miniskirts so low and so brief that they seem to be held up by what one missionary calls "female magic." The men dress only in penis gourds called kptekas held on by a piece of string around the waist. Fingers of little girls and women, and sometimes men, are chopped off during funerals as a sign of mourning for dead members of a family.

Their diet is basically sweet potatoes and pork cooked in large pits heated by hot stones. There is no money. Goods are barted for items of value such as pigs or women. The society has no crime, no pollution, no ulcers, no poverty. Farmers rotate their sweet potato crops to avoid exhausting their fields.

Birth control based on abstinence limits most women to two or three children. The tight village structures insures that no one ever goes hungry. Their languages reflect sophistication easily missed by someone from outside. Dani, most widely spoken in the valley, has 1,680 verb forms and 81 words for sweet potato. It is this society that the Indonesian government wants to modernize.

Basically, Operation hi a two-year to put clothes on the natives, introduce them to a money economy and teach the people to speak, read and write the Indonesian language. "This is an operation for hu- I inanity," explains Brig. Gen. the prosecutor" after he was discovered asleep inside a government school. Helpi testified it that's til in for lo reclaiming stop.

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"We have to prepare the people in the interior to participate in Indonesian development." With zeal and a budget of approximately $720,000, ZainnI and his staff hope by 1973 to put on the backs of all the estimated 300,000 to 500,000 native tribesmen in the central highlands of which the Baliem Valley is a mojor part. "Many foreigners tell me such development could take two generations," the general says. "We can do this in two years if we have the right men- tal attitude, materials and dcdl Zainai is putting 30 specially selected ID-man teams in the field to teach language, help gear local economies to earn money and to guide the people into buying clothes. The man in direct charge of the operation is a trim career officer, Col. Bambaug Sumitro, "We hope that no people will be without any clothes at nil by 1973," says Sumitro.

"If we don't begin now, the interior people will stay backward forever." 42. sons living In West Irian think the ambitious plan has much chance of success. Some think it can only bring disaster. On the record, the several hundred Catholic and Protestant missionaries who work in the interior say they will support the project. Privately, some don't think much of the idea.

The missionaries speak the local languages and have perhaps the best contact with the people. They "are afraid to voice their objections because they are afraid they will be belcd uncooperative," says one man living in East Irian. Critics of the operation point out that putting clothes on the natives would create a revolutionary change in life styles that have survived for thousands of years. Some people feel the project could result in widespread resentment against the Indonesian government. Clothes present several practical problems.

Each person would need at least two sets son one set could be worn while the other is being ashed. This would mean soap, washing ket- tles and cabinets in primitive huts for storage. On top of this, village chiefs seem satislfcd with the present arrangmont. "Old men particularly are ashamed by clothes," says one observer here. Ona young man who works for a missionary in the valley was supplied with clothes but later returned to his koteka.

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