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Publication: European Stars and Stripes Saturday, January 28, 1978

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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - January 28, 1978, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 8 the stars and stripes january 1978 for lexus of Spanish Beach is Home yanks Ca Fyna offers Good Good will Byrlea Larkin staff writer Spain s4s there he is behind the wearing his washed out jeans and baseball a Cigar seems on the verge of falling from his constantly moving weve got american pizza and Ham there Gold crazy Over he there new to Spain we moved Here full Lime in september business is getting theres always business in the province especially on the for american John this Canty a is his second bar restaurant in the first was in puerto do Santa just a few Miles from he Kola naval Sta now his place is on the Beach in instead of a clientele that is 95 per cent his customers Are 93 per cent whatever their Canty is at Home with to the Spanish he la Juan the Friendly american who Speaks Spanish and runs a to the americans in Southern he is almost a As in the Case of Many americans who have settled in this cantus introduction to Spain came Courtesy of the Mili in the late he was an information officer at Moron air base near later when stationed at Langley he was a victim of a reduction in they gave me if what was i going to do with that in the states i had no desire to net Back into the radio to rat i had sufficient Cash to do my own i decided to go to it want Long after the first Cantina a pwned that the place with the wild West decor became Well known to those stationed at most of the patrons got to know the Man behind the John Canty likes to talk to his custom with Hes Likely to Remi Nisce about the Good old Days Back at or with the he might gel into a rap about poli bom in 49 years joined Kotc while at Boston University in the late he was a weekend Warrior who spent his weeks working in the radio to but on he was recalled to Active it was during the cuban crisis and he remembers the details it was a sunday i was watching Kennedy was calling in the Reserve chomping on a John Canty hands in front of his Bea Ihsle can Lyna in photo by red Crandy Canty called his unit and Learned that he was to report for Active duty at 9 the nest Canty decided to remain on Active duly in the air he served in the then in Vietnam in 64 and in he was the base information officer at ram and in the late he was Send to after spending several years in he was sent to it was at the height of the Vietnam War and War Canty noticed pow bumper i had been nut of the country for five i didst realize a Campaign had been organized to get the pos he had a Friend who was a pow in Viet he became interested in the move so interested he was inspired to write a who also sings and plays the had the song recorded at the urging of his it was working Par time at a radio he played by Miaow on the then got Calls to Send copies of the song to other not ions he got an even More important he was asked to be on the today show and sing his these Days he sings the praises of Spain and his life he walks out of crosses the Street and looks Down at the wide stretch of Sand and the endless sea he looks at you As it to now you understand Why i love it the bar restaurant business is demand and Canty puts in Long 12 hours a seven Days a he has no i get up late Cantina opens at go to the i buy 50 Kilos of then maybe t run into we go have a then i go to the i run into we have a the Pace is Petely it May Lake you but you dont the Only thing that seems to upset him about Spain is the current political Situa Canty is delighted to see democracy come to the land of flamenco and Bull like he worries about 1 dont really gel involved in politics but i have my be ill throw those asses out if they try to sell communist papers in front of my when i Sec a red Hammer and i get red its a real sometimes he seems More Spanish than he shares his enthusiasm for the country with eager to Tell you what to even take you to see in the he puts tables out in front of and i go to the Beach every he then he remembers another reason Why he loves you dont have to shovel saw soviets arrest georgian human rights Monitor Moscow api soviet Security police have arrested Viktor a member of a human rights monitoring group in soviet dissident sources reported they said a 37yearold Art historian employed by the Georgia minis try of was ordered to a Kab interrogation on wednesday and never later the police searched his apart and relatives Learned that he was of under the sources it was not known what charges he was held a specialist on the preservation of had criticized offi Cial indifference to the gradual destruction of a medieval monastery located on an army firing meanwhile in a group of work Era said 200 people have joined what is believed to be the first Independent labor Union in the soviet a 2 charged in scottish murder Case former Coal Miner Vladimir sold the 25 official labor organizations in which 98 percent of the 110 million workers Are enrolled do not pay enough attention to workers the new Union is called the Trade Union for the defense of Klebanov said it will Appeal for recognition and support from the International labor organization in but he said he fears the govera Scotland up two men were with murder Friday in the bizarre Case involving five bodies scattered widely Over Archibald Butler to former parliament Waller was charged with murdering his employer and another David Michael also was charged with murdering the Agatha Christi Estyle murder Case began on Christmas Day with the discovery of a woman dressed in mens cloth in a Stream 61 Miles South of Edin she was Mary the common Law wife of Donald the Scott Elliot but lers Donald Halls body turned up two Days after he was released from me was hooded and bundled into the trunk of a two Days later police found in a shallow grave 1st Miles Tram Mary goggles body and 90 Miles from two More bodies turned up on Succes Sive Days and Scott Elliott second they were found in widely separated the Scotte riots disappeared from their Home in London fashionable Chelsea District on their absence was not re ported immediately since friends and neighbors thought they were on when police Inalie entered the apart ment they found Cash and Antiques had been stolen in a the and Kitto were arrested during the search or the Klebanov and several associates have been in touch with Western correspondents since he reported he was arrested on 14 and held for is part of the time in a mental Hospital where he was examined by a Klebanov tried to organize an alternative to the official Union Al his mine in the Ukraine in but local officials accused the group of an soviet activity and broke it he said he was fired from a Job As shift Foreman for refusing to demand men put in overtime and for refusing to Send them below when he believed safely regulations were not being  
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