90,000 Peasants Flee
United Press International
LIMA, Peru —
Torrential rains and flooding in the mountains around Lake Titicaca, the world’s highest inland sea, forced more than 90,000 peasants to flee their homes and destroyed farmland, officials said Friday.
The rains have swollen Titicaca, located between Peru and Bolivia, to 8 1/2 feet above normal--the lake’s highest level this century.
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