I see her face." The vision transformed a determination to alleviate hunger into a passion that was to energize the Select Committee on Hunger with Rep. Leland in the chairmanship. A political firebrand in his youth. Rep. Leland made the transition to the political establishment. becoming an effective champion of the poor as well as an eoquent one. He helped awaken the United States to the plight of the faminestricken reople of East Africa. There was no political posturing in his trips to the refugee camps of Ethiopia and Sudan. They were by no means junkets. They were missions of mercy to remote outposts where he helped unload sacks of grain to feed the starving.