This is the nightmare of Peru's able President Fernando Belaunde Terry:
Communist guerrillas, operating in the remote Andean highlands, inflame the impoverished Indians into open hostility against the government before Belaunde can fulfill his own grand design of bringing a better living standard to the highland people.
Last week Belaunde's fears had substance in at least one region of Peru the mountainous district of Andamarca, 160 miles northeast of Lima. One afternoon, a band of about 60 guerrillas wearing Cuban-style, olive green uniforms and armed with submachine guns, invaded two big cattle estates, burning houses and barns, destroying a butter-and-cheese...
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