The Ukrainian Weekly 1983, No.23

www.ukrweekly.com eere Published by the Ukrainian National Association Inc., a fraternal non-profit association) X09 I I У Vol. LI No. 23 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JUNE 5, 1983 Yuzyk marks 20 years in Senate Soviets accept neutrals' draft by Mykhailo Bociurkiw reeky of the Toronto Ukrainian Catho lic Eparchy; Alberta's Sen. Martha for Madrid concluding document OTTAWA - Canadian Sen. Paul Bielish; newly appointed Ontario Ap MADRID - The Soviet Union on final communique, did little more than Yuzyk was honored on the occasion of peals Court Judge Walter ТагпороІ– May 6 accepted a draft for a concluding assure that another follow-up meeting the 20th anniversary of his appointment sky; and Laverne Lewicky, member of document put forth by professed neutral would convene in three years. to the Senate with a banquet held at Parliament for Dauphin. Man. and non-aligned countries aimed at When the Madrid Conference open Parliament Hill's Confederation Ball Other guests arrived from as faraway breaking the deadlock at the Madrid ed in the shadow of the Soviet invasion room on Friday, May 13. as Winnipeg, New York and Florida. Conference to review the 1975 Helsinki of Afghanistan and the mass arrests of Over 100 friends and relatives attend Thanks to the foresight of the ban Accords, which had been meeting here dissidents prior to the start of the ed the Parliament Hill function to pay quet organizer, Mr. Sirskyj, the even for two and half years. Moscow Summer Olympics, the NATO tribute to the senator, who is highly ing was conducted without the pro But whether the 35-country meeting bloc was determined to use the meeting regarded for his contributions to the longed speeches and greetings charac can be brought to a successful conclu as an effective platform to score Soviet Ukrainian community and to ethnic teristic of many Ukrainian community sion remains unclear because Western behavior abroad and on the domestic minority rights in Canada. functions. After brtef introductory states, particularly the United States, front. For their part, the Soviets hoped The banquet was organized by the remarks, Mr. Sirskyj simply mentioned are known to be dissatisfied with the to forestall Western attempts to give the Ottawa branch of the Ukrainian Cana the Ukrainian community organiza neutrals' proposal, specifically its non- human-rights issues a prominent place dian Committee. Borys Sirskyj, UCC tions in Canada and the United States commital language on human rights. on the agenda, while still nominally branch president - who is also Sen. that had sent their best wishes to the The proposal was introduced in upholding the concept of constructive Yuzyk's executive secretary — was senator. dialogue between the two superpowers. master of ceremonies for the evening. After the main course, the banquet March by eight neutral and non-aligned Among the distinguished guests in program continued with an official countries. It calls for separate 35- The stalemate continued even after attendance were: Bishop Isidore Bo- presentation from the national execu country conferences on disarmament, the declaration of martial law in Poland tive of the Ukrainian Canadian Com military confidence-building measures threatened to unravel the last strands of mittee. National President John No- and scientific cooperation, as well as detente, mainly because neither Wash AHRU asks Congress vosad presented Sent Yuzyk with a pledges of steps against terrorism. ington nor Moscow wanted to accept plaque commemorating his 20th year in firmer commitment to upholding the onus for declaring the conference a the Senate. religious freedom and the guarantee of failure. to launch review Sen. Yuzyk also received an em citizen access to foreign missions. There Many experts feel that the neutrals' broidered Ukrainian tapestry, pre was also some equivocal language about package signals a possible break in the of OSI procedures sented by Eugenia Pasternak, executive the rights of workers to "freely" esta impasse amid a growing consensus that director of the Ivan Franko Home for blish trade unions, a nod to Poland's the conference has gone on for too long. NEWARK, NJ. - Americans for the Aged in Toronto, as well as a plaque Solidarity. In May, spokesmen for the neutral and Human Rights in Ukraine has asked and two Ukrainian hand-carved "to- However, the proposals did not non-aligned countries formally pro members of Congress to launch "a pirtsi," presented by Mr. Sirskyj on include substantive provisions on posed that the conference be concluded. thorough review" of the Office of behalf of the Ottawa branch of the human rights, and virtually ignored a Western delegations, while acknow Special Investigation's use of evidence UCC. group of 14 amendments offered by ledging their colleagues' concerns, supplied by the Soviet secret police in its Following greetings from Ukrainian Western delegations last November, responded by indicating that the NATO proceedings against East European Catholic and Orthodox Churches, Dr. provisions which included the demand contingent was working on some mode emigres suspected of collaborating with (Continued on page 13) for free trade unions, an end to radio rate ideas to improve the neutrals'draft the Germans during World War II. jamming and official permission for to meet the legitimate concerns of In a June 3 letter to all senators and local citizens to establish public groups Western governments. congressmen, the human-rights group to monitor compliance with the Hel In addition to human rights, another wrote that, although it supports "the Polovchak loses sinki agreement. major stumbling block in the negotia prosecution of criminals through legal Max Kampelmah, head of the U.S. tions is the character of a post-Madrid means and in accordance with Ameri round in court delegation at Madrid, has said that the disarmament conference, a point in can jurisprudence," it was "distressed" United States would hold out for a cluded in the neutrals' proposals. One that the Justice Department has used SPRINGFIELD, 111. - Walter "solid and meaningful" final document. area of contention is the geographical evidence supplied-by the KGB. Polovchak, 15, who ran away from "We have not spent two and a half years scope that any so-called confidence- Along with the letter, AHRU en home in 1980 rather than return to the here to go through some empty ges building measures resulting from such a closed a recent article by Warren Soviet Union with his parents, can be tures," he said recejitly. conference would cover. Rogers that appeared in The Philadel returned to his parents if they come here The Madrid Conference convened in The West wanted to limit it from the phia Inquirer in which the author, a to get him, the Illinois Supreme Court November 1980. Its purpose was to Atlantic to the Urals, and the Soviet veteran Washington journalist and ruled on May 27. review implementation of the 1975 Union wanted to extend it into the editor of The White House Weekly, But the parents cannot take the Helsinki Accords and possibly to ex Atlantic, to cove' NATO submarine charged that while the Justice Depart teenager back to the Soviet Union pand them. The accords, a high-water movements and possibly even the U.S. ment agreed to use Soviet-supplied because federal orders that granted mark of detente, laid down a broad node Rapid Deployment Force. evidence to see that suspected Nazi war Walter asylum are still pending, report of conduct in everything from human The Soviet acceptance of the neu criminals were brought to justice, the ed the Associated Press. rights to military maneuvers for closer trals' package pre-empted the latest Soviet motive for the arrangement was The top state court ruled that lower Eist-West cooperation. initiative from the West, which was to to intimidate and silence the often vocal courts erred in making Walter a ward of But when the signatories met in offer four relatively modest changes in anti-Communist emigre communities in the state because, it said, Illinois juvenile Belgrade in 1977 to review compliance, the neutrals' proposals. One would call the United States. laws were designed "to preserve and the concept of detente was (idly battered, a special meeting on human contacts "There are 2 million Ukrainian strengthen the minor's family ties at least partly as a result of the Carter that would deal with separated families. ethnics alone in this country and many whenever possible." administration's insistence that the Another would clarify the mandate of a are vocal and effective critics of the If neither parent returns, Walter's Soviet Union and the Warsaw Pact human-rights conference in Ottawa. A Soviet Union," wrote Mr. Rogers. case will be turned over to the federal countries abide by the human-rights third would change the wording on "How easy to reach out and pluck a few, court, which will handle it in the manner provisions incorporated into the Hel carrying out the Helsinki Accords and a thereby silencing hundreds of thousands "it deems best suited to Walter's needs," sinki Final Act. fourth would include international who. should they speak up, could be the Illinois Court said. At Belgrade, the Soviets managed to broadcasting in the context of a free next." The court also said that Walter's successfully stonewall Western attempts flow of information without prohibiting Mr. Rogers cited several specific attorneys failed to establish that he was to have the final document include jamming by name. cases in which he said the defendant's a "runaway" and thus beyond control of strongly worded language censuring the By accepting the position of the rights may have been violated because his parents. Soviet Union and some of its allies for neutrals - some of whom are said to be (Continued on page 15) ,.

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