Russians,
Spanish
Friendlier
, LAS P ALMAS, Canary
Islands (AP) Almost every
morning a launch crowded with
husky men weaves through the
•hips in Las Palmas harbor
•nd deposits its- human cargo
Among the thousands of tourists
tunning and buying in this free
port, • part of Spain.
Not many years ago Gen.
Francisco Franco sent Spanish
soldiers to fight against the
Russians in World War 11.
Starting in the '3os he scorned
them as despicable. But now
' hardly a murmur is heard as
Russians step ashore and are
lost in the crowds, dis
tinguished only by their cus
tomary white shirts and the
bags they carry to fill with pur
chases.
Before the year is over, ac
cording to private estimatea,
more than 84,000 Russian tea
men will pass through the
Canary ports of Las Palmas
and Santa Cruz de Tenerife.
Ml Ships
Last year 991 Soviet ships
touched Spanish soil, the bulk
of them in the Canary Islands.
Russian ships in recent months
also have visited every Spanish
port in the Mediterranean.
A new unpublicized Spanish-
Soviet firm called SovHispan
' opened its doors in Las Palmas
it In' October.
' In Madrid, a four-man Rus
sian maritime agency has been
established for more than a
year. Russian crabmeat and
Vodka are in the supermarkets.
A Russian delegation has
talked to Barcelona business
men about forming an import
eftport firm. A Spanish delega
tion has visited Moscow with an
•jre to selling tugboats.
Spain has been trading with
members of the East bloc in
Measurable terms for at least
three years. Cultural exchanges
with the Russians have not
been uncommon. All of this, of
nurse, with the approval of the
Franco government.
Despite occasional outbursts
from the Spanish right, there
seems little doubt that Spain
Mid the Soviet Union are mov
ing toward establishign diplo
matic relations.
Stance of 1930s
This is a far cry from the un-
Mmpromising, anti-Communist
stance imprinted on the country
by Franco during and after
Spain's civil war of the '3os.
it may not be surprising that
the first day-to-day contact is
taking place in the Canary
Islands 700 miles from the
Smnish mainland.
**! don't care if they are Rus
sians," says a shop owner,
j, "They are good customers.
. They don't haAgW-jU-t, ■
I A shippi«7%mfc •- agrw
' Spaniard, s«I lFdifferently: "I
don't know what this govern
ment is thinking about. Don't
-j they read about the Russian
•piei in London? I know for a
■ fact the Communist party here
is stronger since the Russian
teamen started coming. We
rarely saw Communist liter
ature before."
Moat islanders appear to take
the Russians in stride or ignore
them.
"Thfcre go the Russians,'
says a Las Palmas taxi driver.
"They always travel in
groups."
Conflict Rare
That, plus the fact that most
ef them speak no Spanish and
1 must return nightly to their
ships, anchored far out in the
harbor, makes social contact
rare.
The red light section Is
crowded with foreign seamen
at night, but not Russians.
Officially only one Russian Is
residing in the Canary
Islands—Vladimir Sapronov,
who heads the Russian half of
SovHispan.
The firm, formed without
mainland publicity, is expected
to do a good business handling
git the Soviet ships that come
to the Canaries to get supplies.
Francisco Martorell, a Barce
lona businessman making up
the other half of the firm, says
he does not want to talk about
. It
But he says more Russians
trill be coming to live in the Ca
naries "because we have to
have somebody to speak to
Russian ship officials, don't
v. we?"
3 Years Ago
The Influx of Russian ships
fishing the Canary banks for
tuna began three years ago
with new port facilities. The
Russian fishing ships have
competition from Japanese,
South Koreans. Cubans and
Formosans. Most of 537 Soviet
ships that used Las Palmas last
' year apparently were fishing
trawlers. Some Soviet scientific
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ships also have put in, although
Spain's internal domestic policy
remains firmly anti-Commu
nist. And it still is not difficult
to find walls in Madrid with
painted slogans saying "Reds
'no." Economic facts indicate
trade doors are open.
Spanish-Soviet trade amount
ed to $15.6 million in 1970, mi
nute when compared to U.S.-
Spanish trade of more than $1
billion. This year $17.8 million
was recorded in the first nine
months. This does not include
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The Young Adult Mission
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1971 at 6:00 p.m. Many per
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The occasion netted the Young
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Closing remarks were given
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