Five years ago, the Andean highlands of southern Peru were hit by disastrous drought. The 1,000,000 Indian peasants, who chronically suffer from malnutrition, faced outright famine. From Point Four headquarters in Washington went orders that sent 100,000 tons of surplus corn, wheat, barley and dried milk on its way to Peru. The tragic story of just how little of the food found its way into the stomachs of starving Peruvians emerged last week, thanks to a congressional committee in Washington and a hard-digging U.S. newspaperman in Lima.
Much of the story was pieced together by a House subcommittee headed by Virginia...
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