homeless men and women in Britain today, according to a survey made by social workers in such cities as London, Manchester and Leeds, The problem "has assumed the proportions of a national epidemic,"
"In 1962-63 there were 12,000-men in London alone living-inhostels and eommon Lodging-houses: around 1,000 men and women slept out, " said the London Observer's (December 20] account of the report, As examples of "sleeping out,” we are given the following: "Each night” about: 87 men and five women sleep on benches at Waterloo Station, They aré made’‘to move on at least twice a night. Victor Station, too, is a refuge until it closes at midnight."
Book Review
guzco: LAND AND DEATH
By Livio Maitan
The peasant thovement: of the Cuzco region has-been the epicenter:of- the revolutionary struggle in Peru in recent. years and remains of crucial importance despite tangible changes in the economic and social structure in some districts, despite Belaunde's "reformist" maneuvers, and despite repressive victimization of many of its leaders and - eadres,
This peasant movement has now found an intelligent and sensi-~ tive chronicler who understands its deep-going causes and who has_ caught its moving spirit in both faithful and dramatic sketches, There is nothing novel, of course,.in a journalist outside the. revolutionary movement achieving a better living synthesis of a revolutionary process than authors whose main resources are their political ties and outlook, What others have done for other countries in other circumstances, Hugo Neira has done for the Cuzco movement in Peru, His book