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Aeroflot Flight SU 297 from Moscow was slightly ahead of schedule. The blue and white, three-engine Tupolev 154 taxied to a stop on the tarmac some 200 yards from the main terminal at Madrid's Ba rajas Airport. After a brief delay, the doors opened and a frail figure in black descended the forward boarding ladder. At exactly 7:54 p.m. last Friday, Dolores Ibarruri, 81, La Pasionaria* of Spanish Civil War fame and president of the Spanish Communist Party, set foot on Spanish soil for the first time in 38 years...
...meeting was all the more remarkable because the Communist Party is still officially illegal in Spain, although the government of Premier Adolfo Suárez, in its efforts to broaden political participation, now generally looks the other way when it comes to the Communists' political activities. The government even permitted the party chiefs to hold a two-hour press conference. It also provided heavy security for the visitors. Carrillo himself, undoubtedly mindful of the right-wing assassination of five Communist labor lawyers six weeks ago, escorted his guests from the airport to their hotel in a bulletproof 1948 Cadillac...
...recent months, for example, the Peruvians have bought 36 modern Soviet Su-22 assault jets, at a cost of $250 million, and are thought to be negotiating for more. Peru has a present stock of Soviet-made weaponry, which includes some 250 T-55 tanks (200 more are on order) and scores of SA-2 and SA3 antiaircraft missiles. All this comes on top of a sizable arsenal acquired since the late 1960s-including French Mirage jets, British patrol boats and U.S. transport planes-that has made Peru the leading military power on South America's west coast...
...sales of arms to General Augusto Pinochet's regime because of its callous record on human rights. Although Chile has begun receiving about 50 American F-5E and A-37 warplanes, ordered before the embargo, they may not be a match for Peru's Russian-made Su-22s, especially if Soviet training improves the quality of Peruvian pilots...
American-made F-4 Phantoms, which can easily handle the Su-22s and are eagerly sought by Chile's air force, are barred by the embargo. Chilean commanders also feel that they desperately need better tanks and more antitank and antiaircraft missiles. While Santiago has been able to make some purchases from private arms traders, the weapons acquired have been relatively unsophisticated and expensive. Moans a senior military analyst in Santiago: "Chile gets less for more...