We up here in USA have become accustomed to thinking about our Congresspeople as sitting in cubicles in windowless rooms, calling rich people and begging them for money... and not doing much else.
Back in '78 Leo Ryan (Dem., Calif. 11), traveled to Guyana to investigate reports of human rights abuses at the USA-founded People's Temple. It was not his first attempt to personally learn about a social injustice. It was his last.
