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О С `u о г m Ukrainian Weekl ї О JO Vol. LIII No. 19 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, MAY 12, 1985 25 cents Former Soviet urge Experts meeting on human rights nullification of opens amid agenda controversy NEW YORK - Twenty-two former , Yuri Mnyukhand by Mykhailo Bociurkiw Western sources said that the now in the West, Yuri Yarym-Agaev, all from the delegates from Warsaw Pact nations including Leonid Piyushch Moscow group. OTTAWA After some two hectic held up quick adoption of the and Gen. , have issued According to the former dissidents, weeks of squabbling over an agenda, conference agenda by debating over the an appeal urging Western governments the accords were first viewed by delegates at the 35-nation experts daily closing time of conference plenary to make "null and void" the 1975 Western proponents as a means of meeting on human rights finally agreed sessions. Helsinki Accords on human rights and linking humanTrights issues in the to a timetable on Wednesday, May 8. A U.S. delegate said that the Soviet security in Europe. . and Eastern Europe with The delegates deliberated through­ bloc nations wanted daily plenary In the appeal, which was published in questions of security. But during out Tuesday evening and Wednesday sessions to end no later than 5 p.m. U.S. the May 8 issue of The Wall Street subsequent review conferences in morning, hammering out an agenda and other Western delegations wanted Journal, the dissidents said that the Belgrade (1977) and Madrid (1980-83), which required unanimous approval. to be able to let sessions go on as long as Helsinki Final Act. signed by the United that linkage was gradually abandoned The official opening of the conference there are delegations that want to speak. States, the USSR and 33 other coun­ and today there are separate conferen­ highlighted by a speech delivered by Soviet-bloc countries voiced concern tries, "failed to serve its humanitarian ces going on concerning human rights Canadian External Affairs Minister Joe at the preparatory sessions about the purposes" and had become "a repressive (Ottawa) and security (Stockholm). Clark was delayed by almost eight openness of the experts' meeting. tool in the hands of4Soviet authorities." They said that in the 10 years since the hours because of preliminary wrangling Western delegates said the Soviets (The full text of the appeal appears on agreement was signed, the Soviets have among delegates about procedural feared that members of accredited page 6). exploited provisions deemed beneficial points. media might distribute anti-Soviet The statement was released justj)nor to Moscow's interest while ignoring This session of the Conference on literature in the conference center. The to the convening In Ottawa of an human-rights and other obligations. Security and Cooperation in Europe is Soviets also insisted on holding all experts meeting on human rights, which devoted solely to discussion of human sessions behind closed doors. opened May 7 under the aegis of the "They marked this decade by increa­ rights and will review to what extent the A compromise agreement was struck Helsinki review process. sing expansion throughout the world, 35 countries that signed the Helsinki between East and West nations. The Among the signers of the appeal were including direct invasion of Afghanistan Accords in 1975 are living up to their agreement provides that plenary former members of the Helsinki by an unprecedented military buildup, promises to respect minorities and sessions will end daily at 6 p.m. but mav monitoring groups, set up by private by support of international terrorism, promote human rights. (Continued on page 16) Soviet citizens in five Soviet republics to by escalating repression against their track Moscow's compliance with the people including arrests of almost all accords. One of the main reasons cited members of the Helsinki groups, by the 400 protest Soviet rights violations by the former dissidents for nullifying exile of the Sakharovs, by martial law in the accords is the continued repression Poland, by introducing new legislation by Mykhailo Bociurkiw Parliament Buildings and later through of the Helsinki monitors, including the virtually banning communications downtown streets to the Soviet Em­ deaths last year of imprisoned Ukrai­ between people of the communist OTTAWA Hundreds of Ukrainians bassy, while chanting slogans in English nian monitors and countries and the free world, and by from Ontario and Quebec gathered and Ukrainian. Oleksiy Tykhy, and Ukrainian rights closing emigration." the appeal said in here on Saturday, May 4, to protest It was a one-day demonstration activist . part. against the violations of human and organized by the Council for the "Unable to serve its initial goal, the It should be noted that the Helsinki national rights and fundamental Release of Ukrainian Political Helsinki agreement failed even to Final Act is not a legally binding freedoms in the USSR. Prisoners in the USSR and the Toronto protect the Helsinki monitors, people agreement. Over the years, some pro­ The crowd - estimated at about 400 branch of the Ukrainian Canadian who'sacrificed their freedom to make it minent U.S. conservatives and a number by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police Committee. serve peace and democracy," the appeal of leaders of emigre groups in the West marched on the grounds of the (Continued on page 12) said. have argued that the accords served Former Helsinki monitors to sign the Soviet interests by providing de jure appeal were Gen. Grigorenko, an ori­ recognition of Europe's post-World ginal founder of the Moscow and War II borders in exchange for unen­ Ukrainian Helsinki groups, and forceable pledges on human rights. UNA executive officers confer

JERSEY CITY. N.J. - The Su­ Hawrysz. preme Executive Committee of the First on the agenda were reports of Ukrainian National Association, meet­ officers, and Mrs. Diachuk led off with ing at its regularly scheduled session the Financial Department report. here at the UNA headquarters on Saturday. May 4. focused most of its Supreme treasurer's report attention on the enrollment of new members into the fraternal benefit Mrs. Diachuk reported that UNA insurance society and on combatting assets grew in 1984 by S2.38 million to the defamation of Ukrainians as "Nazi SSI. 134.655. During the lirst quarter ol collaborators." 1985 these assets grew by another UNA Supreme President John O. S953.39I and by the end'of March Flis conducted the meeting, which was exceeded S53 million. attended by the following supreme Mrs. Diachuk also reported that officers: Vice President Myron B. Ku- income in 1984 totalled S9.742.608. ropas. Director for Canada Paul Yu- increasing by 9.4 percent over the /\k. Vice-Prcsidentess Gloria Paschen. previous year. At the same time, Secretary Walter Sochan. treasurer disbursements were S7.35S.350. in- b'lana Diac.huk and ()rgani/er Stefan (Continued on page 5) Ukrainian demonstrators on Parliament Hill. THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, MAY 12, 1985v No. W Jailed poet's husband asks parliamentarians to help his wife Chronicle of NEW YORK - The husband of imprisoned Soviet poet Iryna Ra- the Catholic Church tushynska has asked the European Parliament to intervene with Soviet in officials on behalf of his wife, who was sentenced in 1983 to 12 years' im­ prisonment. In an undated letter released recently by the External Representation of the Following are excerpts from Issue and not Asia? But the main thing is , a rights No. 7 of the Chronicle of the Catholic that you decided to use a stupid organization based here, Ihor Herash- Church in Ukraine, an underground example that may impede fyour chenko said that his wife is in poor publication which first appeared in meaningj, and what if they won't health after two years in a camp for January 1984 hut has only recently listen to you (because they won't women political prisoners in Mordovia. reached the West. The Chronicle is know the Russian tale "The Wolf and He said she was suffering from a kidney published in samvyday form by the the Lambs"). ailment caused by cold and wet con­ Initiative Group for the Defense of You spoke very well about co­ ditions in the camp, where prisoners are Believers and the Church founded in existence ( won't talk about the not given proper clothing or medical 1982 to promote the legalization of war in Afghanistan so as not to confuse attention. the Ukrainian Catholic Church, you). Coexistence is a very inap­ Mr. Herashchenkb, who lives in which has been outlawed since 1946. propriate word; "existing" means Kiev, noted that his wife was sentenced The excerpts below are translated by "not living"... It means hot having a for anti-Soviet activities on the basis of the staff of The Weekly from the living base. It is apparent right away five poems, which he said were "as far Iryna Ratushynska original Ukrainian. that 1 have lived for a long time under from politics as the Lord's Prayer." He chenko told the parliamentarians that the leadership ofyourdear party; the also insisted that her trial violated eight "we are all children on one planet, and terminology 1 use in appraising you is Soviet legal principles, including the our fates are tied together." A Catholic's response government-mandated, authentically right to counsel and the right to an open "Help me save my wife in the name of socialist. You must forgive me. I public trial. the women who gave birth to you and A Ukrainian Catholic's answer to never, completed a higher Soviet The European Parliament is the the women you love," wrote Mr. He- V. Kosolapov, Soviet-Russian func­ education, which I don't regret. I rashchenko in closing. tionary, member of the so-called deliberative body of the European . never liked your party. We coexisted, Communities, which includes the The External Representation said Republic Committee for the Defense me in your concentration camps, and of Peace, doctor of philosophy and Common Market. The 434-member that it had received a handwritten copy you in your element... But I don't organization meets' in Strasbourg, of the letter and was planning to professor at the Radio and Telegragh want to exist; I want to live. You Agency of Ukraine. , though its secretariat and distribute the text to delegates at an allow me and my nation merely to specialized committees sit in Brussels. experts meeting on human rights that Comrade Communist, Defender exist, as you do others. In asking for their help, Mr. Herash- began in Ottawa on May 7. of Peace Kosolapov: The second thing you check off fin your article), is the demagoguery the In your article dated June 15 of puts out in exchange this year and titled "Socialism and for giving you an opportunity to talk peace," you check off, clearly and about peace. You are right; dema­ Lithuanian economist sentenced precisely, the Soviet peace platform goguery must be abandoned and, BROOKLYN, N.Y, - Economist which blames all Americans, Ger­ Prisoner." However, 15 days later, on you are right, a wiser course must be Vladas Lapienis, 79, was sentenced on February 28, 1984, Mr. Lapienis was mans, Englishmen, neo-fascists and honestly taken. As to your third point, March 29 in Vilnius, Lithuania to four all kinds of enemy forces for released on account of his- badly it is in agreement with your"explaining years' labor camp and two years' exile, deteriorating health. Lithuanian only waiting for an opportunity to far and wide the domestic politics report sources in the Soviet Union. wage war against your "peaceful" sources speculate that the KGB feared and activities of the Communist The former prisoner of conscience socialist country... he would die in their custody, thus Party of the Soviet Union." That's Was arrested on January 4 for writing making him a martyr. right. Let's explain and correct one What is the threat of war? It is his memoirs on life in a Soviet labor The KGB kept his internal passport, another. The objectives of your when national leaders cannot feed camp. He was firstarreste d in 1976 and forbade him to leave the capital city of party's politics are clear: Russi- their own people, covet foreign sentenced to five years' imprisonment Vilnius and told him he would certainly fication — there is no Ukraine, never lands, are afraid of theii own people for duplicating and disseminating the be brought to trial. was and never will be — expanding and need war to divert attention from Chronicle of the Catholic Church in The Lithuanian Information Center prisons and labor camps, destroying all the everyday problems afflicting Lithuania, a leading based here has just learned that our culture, etc. their country. publication. photographs of Mr. Lapienis with the And you concluded with beautiful Though the exact charges brought caption "Wanted Criminal" had been And today, comrade Communist, words: "One of the conditions for against him at his trial are not known, posted in Vilnius and other railroad we notice that you carry disarm­ realizing this possibility is the timely he was presumably sentenced under stations shortly before his arrest. ament before you like a shield. actualization of the above-mentioned Article 199-1 of the Lithuanian SSR According to issue No. 65 of the Knowing you as a militant a'.neist. 1 causes of peace and theirdissemination Criminal Code. Criminal charges under Chronicle of the Catholic Church" in am happy that you want disarm­ in foreign environments where there this article "for circulating deliberately Lithuania, Lapienis had left Vilnius in ament; looking from the sidelines, are those whose goals it is to stop false concoctions, slandering the Soviet search of medical treatment for a leg you are almost a believer (some will imperialist provocation regarding state and social order" were instituted wound. agree and say that you are actually a local conflicts." You couldn't have against Mr. Lapienis last year. He was arrested in Kaunas, believer, believing that 1), socialism said it better: (it was) clear and At that time, authorities confiscated , Lithuania, about 100 kilometers west of has been built and that, 2), com­ exhaustive. You want to "peacefully" his handwritten "Memoirs of a Soviet the capital. munism will follow). Under social­ destroy a nation only because it ism your country buys from 70 to 80 wants to live. Peace for you is in- million tons of bread from bad and dispensible; without peace you will hostile camps (not to be confused not be able to fulfill given party with concentration camps) like obligations for your great fatherland. America..'. And how many tons are you counting on from communism, Forward, Kosolapov! And when Ukrainian Weekly that is, if this is not a state secret? I you win the war for peace, let me think that for America war is not have some of this pyrih fdumplingj FOUNDED 1933 convenient for purely economic (baked with American bread). You ` reasons; there would\be nowhere to are a believing person, that is we are Ukrainian weekly newspaper published by the Ukrainian National Association Inc., a sell its bread. And furtrjej.Christians, allies... Extending a hand of,friend-' non-profit association, at 30 Montgomery St., Jersey City, N.J. 07302. seeing that you are rJutting all your ship to the Ukrainian nation, you (The Ukrainian Weekly - USPS 570-870) efforts towards communism, are came with peaceful intentions tc Also published by the UNA;`Svoboda, a Ukrainian-language daily newspaper. giving you the opportunity and in Ukraine; you have to teach these so doing are also feeding you so "khakhly" (a derogatory term for that you. God forbid, will not fall Ukrainians) how to create peace, The Weekly and Svoboda: UNA: from such a responsible path; go Kosolapov. And what could happen (201) 434-0237, 434-0807, 434-3036 (201) 451-2200 forward, be brave. if you and the other 14 million of S Disarmament is nice. But 1 will your peaceniks, who cameto Ukraine- Yearly subscription rate: 58, UNA members - 55. allow myself to ask who will begin uninvited, returned to the you Postmaster, send address changes to: Editor: Roma Hadzewycz .-first? Why do you onl\ want to hold dear in \our hearts and there THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY Associate editor: George Bohdan Zarycky disarm Europe and the United States (Continued on page 14) P.O. Box 346 Assistant editor: Natalia Dmytrijuk Jersey City, NJ. 07303 "Ч No. 19 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, MAY 12, 1985 3

Humphrey calls for cancellation Ottawa experts meeting on human rights of commerce trip to USSR East European groups to lobby WASHING ION Sen. Gordon J. protest of the brutal murder of Major Humphrey (R-N.H.) has called on Nicholson. I respectfully suggest the by Mykhailo Bociurkiw newspaper clippings, were designed by President Ronald Reagan to cancel a meeting of the commission, which will the seven members of the Canadian trip by Commerce Department officials be the first since 1979, should not have OTTAWA - As delegates from the Helsinki Group: the Canadian Hun­ planning to participate in a U.S./ USSR been agreed to in the first place, given 35 states participating in the experts garian Federation, the Czechoslovak Joint Commercial Commission meeting the continuing Soviet crimes against meeting on human rights continued to Association of Canada, the Estonian on May 20. Sen. Humphrey pointed to humanity in Afghanistan." meet to iron out an agenda for this Central Council in Canada, the Latvian "the continuing Soviet crimes against He also noted: major rights conference, several East National Federation in Canada, the humanity in Afghanistan" as the main "Is there no linkage at all between European groups set up temporary Lithuanian Canadian Community, the reason for cancellation of the trip. Soviet behavior and U.S. willingness to offices and displays around town and Canadian Polish Congress and the Sen. Humphrey asked the president if enlarge trade with the USSR? Where is prepared to lobby delegations and the Ukrainian Canadian Committee. the original planning for the trip in­ the imperative to enlarge (rade? The media about individual cases of dis­ dicated the United States did not believe Soviets stand to gain greatly from sidents being persecuted by Warsaw Press conference there is any linkage between Soviet further access to our technology, while Pact governments. behavior and American willingness to we can do very nicely without Soviet The experts meeting, which is being The displays were officially opened to enlarge trade with the USSR. News products or materials. held as part of the Helsinki Accords the public on Monday, May 6, during a reports recently revealed that the Na­ "What signal does the administration review process, is expected to last some press conference and reception hosted' tional Security Council is considering a. mean to send to the Soviets by resuming six weeks. The conference was formally by the Canadian Helsinki Group. recommendation to postpone the trip of trade talks while the Soviets batter and opened on Tuesday evening, May 7, During the press conference, re­ Commerce Department Secretary bleed Afghanistan? What signal does without a finalized agenda. Representa­ presentatives of member goups and a Malcolm Baldridge to Moscow for the the administration mean to send to the tive of the participating delegations had number of former dissidents answered trade talks. freedom fighters by enlarging trade with been meeting in preparatory sessions questions from the press- regarding the In a letter to President Reagan, Sen. the Soviets while the Soviet Army daily here since April 23, but were dead­ human-rights conference and specific Humphrey wrote, in part:"l urge you to bludgeons the people of Afghanistan locked on the issue of the agenda cases of persecuted dissidents. cancel the meeting and not only in (and Pakistan)?" virtually from the start of the talks. Christina Isajiw. executive director of Among the many groups setting up the Human Rights Commission of the shop in Ottawa was the Canadian World Congress of Free Ukrainians, Press review Committee for Captive European represented the Ukrainian community. Nations - a coalition of Canadians of Former Ukrainian Nina Stro- East European origin, also known as kata described conditions in Soviet Dissident Tigreprovince faces the Seven Nations Committee. labor camps. The organization's subcommittee, Among the invited guests at the press mass starvation this summer the Canadian Helsinki Group, rented a conference was Ivan Shumuk of British large meeting room in a hotel across the Columbia, who is the nephew of im­ JERSEY CITY, N.J. - Ethiopia's Meanwhile, officials in Khartoum, street from the site of the experts' prisoned Ukrainian dissident Danylo dissident northern province of Tigre Sudan, allege that no more than half meeting on human rights. During the Shumuk. Mr. Shumuk was in Ottawa to faces mass starvation this summer a million of the estimated 5 to 6 opening week of the conference, con­ talk to the media about the plight of his unless the international community million famine victims in northern ference delegates and the media were to uncle, who has languished in Soviet overcomes the current political Ethiopia are benefitting from the be invited to jhc room to view displays prisons for 37 years. obstacles blocking a major relief Marxist Ethiopian government's and literature on the violations of The press conference, which ran lor operation. The Christian Science own distribution centers. The al­ human rights in Warsaw Pact countries. more than an hour, was well attended legation is vehemently denied by the Monitor recently reported. The displays, which feature detailed by the international news media. "If nothing is done immediately, Ethiopian government and some of "All of the attention we can give to the Western aid agencies, the wall maps, charts, large photographs of for many it will simply be too late,"a imprisoned dissidents and enlarged (Continued on page 14) West European relief coordinator reporter added. who recently returned from a month- Ultimately, noted Mr. Girardet, all long survey of central Tigre for a agree that what is most needed is a British aid agency told reporter political settlement, but all sides Edward Girardet. remain politically intransigent. "It is far worse than anything we have seen so far," he added. Government offensives The official also reported that the eastern and southern regions of Tigre Any hopes of famine relief in the are expected to run out of food immediate future, however, have within seven months, an estimate been forestalled by recent events in that was confirmed by other Western Tigre. In March the Ethiopians relief sources. The sources warned launched a major offensive against that mass starvation is almost certain the Tigreans. According to Western unless ways can be found to channel and other sources, including the food to these areas, noted Mr. Tigrean People's Liberation Front, Girardet. Only in Eritrea, the area the Ethiopians have bombed refugee north of Tigre, are substantial columns and transit camps along the amounts of food relief reportedly road to Sudan where several hundred being trucked across the frontier thousand famine victims have already from Sudan's Red Sea province. taken refuge. Although Mr. Girardet cites sever­ Government troops have also re­ al reasons given by aid groups for the portedly destroyed numerous vil­ lack of relief measures, Europeans, lages and farms, and totally disrupted notably the European Community relief efforts. countries, are reluctant to make any Mr. Girardet went on to note that moves that would violate the Lome denying relief access toguerriila zones Convention, which requires signa­ appears to be part of Ethiopian tories not to intervene in the internal military strategy. "Food control is as affairs of another member state, in good a weapon as any," suggested , this case Ethiopia. one European diplomat in Khartoum. "To put it mildly, cross-border "The Dergue (the military goverr^ relief is an extremely sensitive issue," ment in Addis Ababa) has no qualms one West European diplomat told about striking theTigreanswhen they the reporter. are down," he added. "It is really a matter of respecting a country's sovereignty," explained American efforts Mark Bowden of Britain's Save the Children Fund. In March, M. Peter McPherson, Because cross-border relief acti­ director of the United States Agency vity is so controversial, most major for International Develompent organizations prefer to operate only (AID), discussed with Sudanese out of Addis Ababa, Ethiopia's officials Washington's intention to capital, rather than also in the guer­ support a secret program that would Speakers at the press conference: (clockwise from top left) I.anaard Lukks. rilla-held areas where the majority of funnel food into rebel-held areas of Canadian Helsinki Group; Christina Isajiw, World Congress of Free Ukrainians; famine victims struggle to survive. (Continued on page 14) Nina Strokata, former political prisoner; Ivan Shumuk, nephew of , imprisoned rights activist. 4 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, MAY Щ, 1985 \ No. 19 Hold concert for Horbal St. Sophia Association opens PHILADELPHIA - The (Ukrainian religious research institute Human Rights Committee sponsored a concert dedicated-+д^МукоІа Horbal, WASHINGTON - The St. Sophia for truth." an imprisoned member cf the Ukrainian Association of Ukrainian Catholics, The Rev. Husar. the main speaker of Helsinki Group, on March 28, at the based in Philadelphia, opened its Re­ the evening, examined the of the Ukrainian Educational and Cultural ligious Research Institute hereon April persecution of Ukrainian Catholics and Center. 25 with a program featuring presen­ the moral implications of the persecution. The program was opened by Ulana tations on the Ukrainian Catholic "In the course of history' persecutions Mazurkevich. chairperson of the com­ Church in the Soviet Union. have been a sort of reform lor the entire mittee, and featured pianist Bohdan Speakers at the program which was Church. Persecution is neither normal Sperkacz. opened by the institute's director, Yuriy nor desirable in itself, but it is spiritually Nadia Svitlychna. a former political Starosolsky. included Prof. Leonid useful and valuable given human nature prisoner whose husband is Mr. Rudnytsky of La Salle University. Prof. as it is. Christians in the Soviet Union Horbal's brother-in-law. gave a personal Bohdan Bociurkiw of the Woodrow give expression to such simplicity of joy account of Mr. Horbal's life, writings Wilson International Center for Scho­ and internal peace that their words are and dissident activities. lars and the Rev. Archimandrite Lubo- at limes incomprehensible to us. The Well-known Ukrainian actress and myr Husar of the Ukrainian Catholic violent persecution there could be for drama teacher Lydia Krushelnytsky University in Rome. us. Christians who are not acutely read excerpts from poems written by Prof. Rudnytsky noted that "the line persecuted, a catalyst to reform, to Mr. Horbal. of demarcation between things secular return to basic qualities and attitudes of During the program, guests signed and things religious is not as sharply Christian existence." he said. petitions in defense of the dissident, drawn" in the East as it is in the West. Among the 80 guests present were: who was recently sentenced to eight Nadia Svitlychna speaks about Ukrai­ He added that "to understand this is to Valentyn Moroz of Radio Canada. years' imprisonment and three years' nian political prisoner Mykola grasp more fully the cultural, social and Oksana Dragan of the Voice of America. exile. Horbal's life. political situation in the Slavic East." Orest Deychakiwsky of the Helsinki He pointed out that the opening of the Commission, and several congressional institute coincided with the 40th an­ aides. Gingrich amendment would niversary of the official liquidation of The St. Sophia Religious Association, the Ukrainian Catholic Church by the of Ukrainian Catholics was founded in Soviet regime, and he noted that despite 1974 by Cardinal Josyf Slipyj. The establish disinformation office its liquidation, the Church continues to institute was formed to monitor trends be "a vital factor in the lives of the and events in the cultural and religious WASHINGTON - Rep. Newt amendment to the Department of Stale people." life of Ukrainians in the diaspora, Gingrich (R-Ga.) has inserted an Authorization Act for 1986 that would Prof. Bociurkiw spoke on the dif­ process data on other denominations establish a commission to look into the ficulties of researching religion in the and keep the public informed on the feasibility of establishing a permanent Soviet Union and on the intensive status of religion in the Communist AADU to form office in the State Department to Soviet disinformation campaign aimed world. The institute has begun publish­ investigate "Soviet and Communist at discrediting the Ukrainian Churches ing a semiannual newsletter called disinformation and press manipula­ "through demagoguery and disregard Religious Rights. defense coalition tion." In a May 2 letter informing JENKlNTOWN, Pa. - Americans colleagues of the amendment. Rep. Against Defamation of Ukrainians, Gingrich said he introduced the Groups seek congressional review which has been fighting the defamation amendment to HR 2068 because of of Ukrainians for seven years, recently mounting evidence that the Soviet announced plans to form a coalition of Union and its allies "systematically seek of OSI's use of Soviet evidence Ukrainian organizations in defense of to spread inaccurate and false informa­ tion." WASHINGTON Momentum is Judiciary Committee appealing for charges of Ukrainian collaboration intervention into cases where the OSI with Nazis. , He said he based his concern on growing for congressional oversight hearings into the Justice Department's uses Soviet evidence against U.S. citi­ AADU is asking that all major Ukrai­ papers and documents found in zens. In a letter dated April 18, the Grenada after the U.S. military action Office of Special Investigations(OSI),a nian organizations attend a conference unit set up to locate alleged Nazi war conservative groups voiced their out­ on May 18 at I p.m. at the Ukrainian and on other material. Rep. Gingrich called the dissemination of disinfor­ criminals living in the United Stales. rage over the OSI's collaboration with Educational and Cultural Center in According to Myron Wasylyk. the "secret police of a nco-Stalinist state Philadelphia for the purpose of forming mation by the Soviets "a form of warfare." director of the Ukrainian National that is anti-Semitic to its core and is a coalition. Information Service, "because of sen­ itself the last surviving member of AADU noted that any organization In his letter, the congressman told sitive evidence and highly questionable Hitler's Reich." which has yet to receive an invitation to (Continued on`page 12) procedures used by the OSL we feel " The Veterans of Foreign Wars attend the conference should call (215) congressional oversight hearings are (VFW) have introduced a resolution at 763-3440 or (215) 265-6047. warranted to ensure constitutional due their annual convention urging that a In its release, AADU said it believes process for defendants." "full inquiry be conducted in the af­ that the majority of Ukrainians would UACC meeting The Coalition for Constitutional fairs of the Office of Special Investi­ welcome a unified effort on the part of Justice and Security (CCJS) along with gations to determine whether the civil аІГ Ukrainian organizations to defend discusses by-laws the Ukrainian Congress Committee of rights of any persons have been vio­ the "good name of Ukrainians that is at America have called for congressional lated." stake now and in the future." The JERSEY CITY, N.J. - The Ukrai­ oversight hearings inlo the OSI's use of ' The Michigan State Senate has release was signed by Helena Kozak. nian American Coordinating Council's Soviet-supplied evidence which is being approved a resolution condemning OSI president, and N і la Pawluk, vice- executive committee, and representatives used in U.S. courts against American practices, claiming thai they "lack the president. of its branches and member-organi­ citizens. essential elements ol due process which zations met here at the Ukrainian An associate of the prestigious law characterize the ideals of American National Association building on firm of Sidley and Austin has prepared justice." The resolution also calls upon Official refuses Saturday, April 20, to discuss a draft of a memorandum for American Bar the Justice Department to "review their the council's by-laws. The by-laws are to Association President Wallace D. Riley (OSI) procedures and guarantee the human-rights post b.- voted upon at the UACCouncil's which concluded that "it is obvious... rights of its citizens to due process under convention this fall. that the OSI has placed a perfectly the law." WASHINGTON - At least one Over 30 persons attended the daylong staggering willingness to accept Soviet Tony Mazeika, national coordinator attempt to fill the post of assistant meeting chaired by the UACCouncil 'evidence' unquestioningly." The ex­ of the Coalition for Constitutional secretary of state for human rights and president John O. Flis and vice- hibits provided in the memorandum Justice and Security, met with Rabbi humanitarian affairs, a job vacated by president. Dr. Bohdan Shebunchak. "raise the disturbing possibility that the Cooper of the Simon Wiesenthal Center Elliot Abrams when he was recently Dr. Peter Stercho reported on behalf of Soviet Union has successfuly manipu­ in California on April 26. The issue named head of the State Department's the by-laws committee, and additions lated American courts for its own of civil-rights abuses was raised and Latin America Bureau, has met with and changes to the draft were proposed political purposes." The associate both expressed "concern" over the refusal, reported by Stepan Procyk. suggested that the "matter warrants the OSI's procedures and use of Soviet- on May 8. Branch and member-organization attention of the American Bar As­ supplied evidence in alleged Nazi cases. Jose S. Sorzano. who was senior representatives also voiced their views sociation." The memorandum has been One issue of concern to the coalition deputy to Jcane Kirkpatrick when she regarding the by-laws and, after discus­ sent to the proper committees at the has been the agreement between the was chief U.S. delegate to the United sion of its provisions, a draft was ap­ ABA for further attention and in­ OSI and the Soviet Union, which vestigation. Nations, has declined the human-rights proved. It will now be edited and copies permits the evidence supplied by the assignn. . o.iered to him by Secretary will be sent to all UACC branches for Since the formation of the CCJS. USSR to be used against American of State George Shultz. their perusal and comments. numerous organizations and groups citizens. Although the details of the Mr \brams, who occupied the The by-laws are to be adopted by the have joined the effort in urgingcongres- agreement have never been made^ ;:blic. human`iights ром `mce 1981, succeeds Ukrainian American Coordinating sional hearings. Allan A. Ryan Jr.. former head ol the Langhorne A. Motley as Latin America Council at the convention to be held ' Conservative groups have sent a OSI. refers extensively to the document Bureau chief. October 19-20 in Philadelphia. joint letter to all members of the Senate in his book "Quiet Neighbors." . No. 19 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, MAY 12, 1985

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based on the new 1980 mortality tables. cern is to add to the UNA by-laws District committee meetings UNA executive.. " In accordance with the December., provisions for establishing the UNA as (Continued from page 1) 1984 decision of the Supreme Executive a Canadian organization. Newark creasing by 4.6 percent over 1983. Committee, the Recording Department After giving a brief overview ol UNA The supreme treasurer also noted the met with the UNA's actuary and an activities in Canada during the report following. expert on computers and software. The period. Canadian district meetings and NEWARK. N.J. - Julian Baraniuk ' More than half of the budget of the UNA expects to sign a contract with the Canadian representation, and ol several was re-elected chairman of the Newark Svoboda Press operations — 57 percent expert regarding programs for the IBM new organizing possibilities, specifi­ UNA District Committee at the — is covered by UNA funds. System 36. which will soon be pur­ cally the establishment of two branches committee's annual elections meeting " Soyuzivka enjoyed a good season in chased. in Toronto. Sen. Yuzyk spoke at length held here at the Chornomorska Sitch about recent attacks in Canada, as well 1984. and income totalled S43.197. In Supreme organizer's report hall on Sunday, March 3. view of costly repairs, the construction as in the United States, against Also elected were: Yaroslav Leskiw. of a new pavilion, the purchase of new Ukrainians alleged to be Nazi colla­ vice-chairman; Osyp Stashkiv, furnishings and various other capital Mr. Hawrysz. told the meeting that borators. Although Sen. Yuzyk said he secretary; Volodymyr Boyarsky, improvements, the UNA paid in a sum organizing efforts met with difficulties does not think now is the appropriate treasurer; Olha Oseredchiik, events of SI75.000 to the resort's budget. both in 1984 and the first quarter of time to inform the entire Ukrainian director; St'efania Steciw, Anna " The UNA building collected rents 1985. He said that the Executive community of all the plans made and Twardowsky. Andrew Keybida, totalling 8.4 percent more than in the Committee had set a 1985 quota of actions taken in response to the allega­ Michael Otrok, Semen Chornomaz. previous years, and all income came to 4,000 new members insured for S10 tions, he believes it is necessary to Michael Chytry, Vasyl Osadchuk. S2.422.921. Expenses were more or less million at its meeting last December. inform the community that in Canada Teofil Kleban Volodymyr Rohowsky the same as those of 1983. In January, districts and branches in the matter is "under complete control." and Osy p Trush, members of the board. ' The Ukrainian National Urban ' the United States and Canada were The newly elected auditing Renewal Corp. paid the UNA S890.3I7 informed about their individual quotas.' Report of supreme vice-president committee includes: Volodmyr in interest on its loan, as well as he said. Senezhak, chairman: Vasyl Hnatiw, S5I2.172 to members holding promis­ During the first four months of the Dr. Kuropas reported on his repre­ Michael Ciapka, Julia Demtschuk. sory notes. year, despite appeals from the sentational activities and. like Sen. Volodymyr Shpyrka and Yaroslav Executive Committee and the Yuzyk. spoke at length on the recent Deresh. members. Supreme secretary's report participation of supreme executives in allegations against Ukrainians: Dr. The meeting was called to order by district meetings, the organizing cam- , Kuropas said he has for some time had Mr. Baraniuk. who greeted all Mr. Sochan noted that in 1984. paign did not measure up to expecta­ good relations with many ethnic groups, (Continued on page 15) branch secretaries and organizers enrol­ tions. Mr. Hawrysz. continued. In including Jews, and has been doing all led a total of 2.190 new members for January, only 91 new members insured he can to settle the matter in the United Perth Amboy insurance totalling S9.706.000. This for S252.000 were enrolled. 102 States as well. Dr. Kuropas also noted number includes 667 enrolled in the (S394.000) in February. 158 (5409,500) that the May 5 edition of The New York juvenile department. 952 in the adult in March, and 125 (S583.000) in April. Times will publish an appeal to PERTrfAMBOY. N.J. -The Perth In all. 476 new members were enrolled Amboy District Committee of the and 571 under ADD certificates. In President Ronald Reagan on the matter comparison with the previous year the in the first four months, insured for a of his visit to the Bitburg cemetery in Ukrainian National Association held its total of SI.839.000. annual elections meeting on Sunday, total of new members was higher by 43 Germany which was signed by represen­ and the total amount of new insurance Mr. Hawrysz also named the five tatives of many ethnic organizations, February 24, here at the St. Michael's districts that" had enrolled the most Ukrainian Catholic Church hall. was S 1.638.000 higher. This increase including himself. He said the appeal resulted mostly from more ADD cer­ members by the end of April: Philadel­ specifies that the signatories are Michael Zacharko was re-elected to the phia (64). Chicago (43). New York (ЗЗ)„ position of district chairman. tificates and more five- and 10-year exercising their individual rights to term certificates with higher amounts of Rochester (26) and Detroit (24). protest the president's actions and are Also elected were: Vasyl Boyko. vice- He also outlined the immediate plans chairman: Sophia Lonyshyn, secretary; insurance coverage. not doing so on behalf of the Membership losses in 1984 were of the Organizing Department, organizations to which they belong. The Ivan Babyn. treasurer: Paul Penkevych including sending reminders, to and Kazymvr Ma/ера. members of the almost identical with those of the signatories' organizations will be previous year, whereas cash surrender branches that have yet to organize any printed but only for the purpose ol board: members this year: preparing for the The auditing committee chairman is cases decreased, while the number of identifying the individuals, l)r fully paid-up certificates increased jubilee 10th anniversary conference of Kuropas said he believes that ;i Yuriv Lonyshyn. and its members are district committee heads that will be Vasyl Matko.wsky and Stcphan somewhat, as did the number of deaths. satisfactory settlemeni of the false As of December 31. 1984. total UNA held May 18-19 at Soyuzivka: pre­ accusations, which have deeply Zacharko. paring lor the 10th secretarial courses to The meeting was called to order by membership stood at 79.744. showing a offended the Ukrainian community, is Mr. Zacharko. after which a presidium decrease of 1.018. In active membership Other plans include preparations for possible. was elected to conduct ihe meeting, the UNA sustained a loss of 1.952 a UNA festival at Soyuzivka which will kornylo Halushak was elected members, ending the year in a total of be dedicated to Father's Day and is Supreme president's report chairman, and Vasyl Boyko .recorded 55.530 in active membership. The scheduled to be held June 16. the minutes. amount of insurance covering both Mr. Hawrysz also noted that July and Supreme President Flis began his Reports were delivered by the active and total membership showed a August will be dedicated to ADD report with a general overview of his outgoing district officers, including marked increase, despite losses in policies, and that the pre-convention many visits to various UNA branches Mr. Zacharko. and Mr. Babyn. number of members. In active member­ fall organizing campaign will begin in and districts, and his role in their treasurer. ship, total insurance increased by September, meetings and programs. During the Among those attending the meeting S 1.857,875. while in over-all member­ He also reported on the monthly report period, he represented the UNA was UNA Supreme Organizer Stefan ship it increased by S3.207.830. As of UNA Tribune section in Svoboda. at meetings of various community or­ Hawrysz. who represented the Supreme December 31. 1984. the amount of noting that very little material is being ganizations, such as the World Con­ Executive Committee at the proceed­ insurance covering both active and supplied from branches and districts. gress of Free Ukrainians, the Ukrai­ ings. He also briefly addressed the inactive members totalled SI65.120.295 nian American Coordinating Council meeting participants, touching on a the supreme secretary reported. Report of vice-presidentess and others. Mr. Flis also noted the variety of UNA matters, while stressing In the first four months of 1985 he UNA's participation in the creation of the fraternal society's organizing continued. 476 new members were Mrs. Paschen, like the supreme vice- the National Committee on the affairs. enrolled in the UNA, but these gains president and the supreme director for Millennium of Christianity in Ukraine. failed to cover expected losses in. Canada, does not work out of the UNA During the report period the New York membership, since in over-all member­ Home Office, and their work is Fraternal Congress held two of its Obituary ship the loss was 557 members as of primarily to represent the UNA. During meetings at the UNA Home Office. March 31, when the membership total­ the last report period, Mrs. Paschen led 79,187. noted, there was little opportunity for During the report period, the matter Walter Gwiadza, Mr. Sochan also reported the fol­ representation. Mrs. Paschen took an of purchasing a tract of land from the lowing. active part in UNA matters in her Shevchenko Scientific Society, which Branch 376 member e Two weeks ago the UNA received community, such as the screening of adjoins Soyuzivka, was settled. Designs final approval of its newly printed UNA films, and represented the UNA on for seniors housing for this site are being THORP, Wis. - Walter Gwiadza, insurance certificate forms which fulfill an individual basis at UNA and completed. All these matters will be long-time member of the UNA and the readability requirement of new laws. community functions when UNA finalized at this year's Supreme secretary of Branch 376 in Thorp, died These readability requirements have members requested her to do so. Assembly meeting, which will be held at February 8 at the age of 62. also been taken into consideration in Soyuzivka May 19-26. During that Mr. Gwiadza was born September planning the UNA's new membership Report of Canadian supreme director meeting. Supreme Assembly members 22, 1922, in Thorp. application forms. will attend the congressional recep­ He is survived by his wife, Waneta; ж The UNA's actuary has submitted Sen. Yuzyk informed those tion celebrating 100 years of Ukrainian sons, Gregory and Duane; daughters, for approval two new insurance cer­ assembled that since the last election in immigration to the United States. Cheryle Malecki and Irene Przybyiski; tificates which provide for single pre­ Canada when his party took control of Supreme President Flis ended his report and eight grandchildren. mium payments (W and E-65). He is the government, he is much busier than with a brief description of other Funeral services were held February now working on a revision of dues, in the past and is not sure whether he will matters, in particular the consistently 12 and interment was at Holy Ghost withdrawal equities and dividends, for be able to dedicate as much time as slow mail delivery of Svoboda and The Church cemetery in Thorp. all UNA certificates, which will be previously to the UNA. His main con­ Weekly. ГНЕ UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, MAY 12. 1985 No. 19

Ottawa experts meeting on human rights Helsinki Accords: an agreement Ukrainian Weekly turned into a repressive tool Below is the text of a statement signed the ongoing repression, and finally by veterans by former Soviet dissidents and issued separating human rights and security in on the eve of the experts meeting on further review conferences. human rights, which convened in Unable to serve its initial goal the New York's recent dramatic tribute to Vietnam veterans provides us Ottawa on Tuesday. May 7. Helsinki agreement failed even to with an opportunity to recall the heroism and sacrifice of the countless protect the Helsinki monitors, people young Ukrainians who answered the call of duty in the jungles of The Helsinki agreement on who sacrificed their freedom to make it Southeast Asia. It can be said, we think with some assurance, that the cooperation and security in Europe serve peace and democracy. We tried to bulk of the Ukrainian community understood America's efforts to signed in 1975 by 35 states has been persuade Western governments to make check the spread of communism in that region of the world, so we need from the very beginning a new release of these people a necessary not go through any communal catharsis to expurgate the guilt of concession by the Western democracies condition to continue the Helsinki pro­ having treated these courageous young men as some sort of outcasts. to the Soviet Union and its satellites. cess. It was not done in time and the However, the linkage between situation is irreversible now. We proudly welcomed back our boys, and quietly mourned all those European security and human rights who did not return. Irreversible are the deaths of and regular review meetings to control imprisoned Helsinki monitors Oleksa Today, 10 years after the ignominious fall of Saigon brought that ill- compliance with these basic rights by Tykhy. Valeriy Marchenko and Yuriy waged war to a merciful end. it may be beneficial to think about why each country, established by the Lytvyn from Ukraine and Eduard Americans' are suddenly so anxious to honor the men they reviled and Helsinki Accord, were viewed by its Arutyunyan from Armenia. Irreversible forgot for nearly a decade. How much of it is self-serving soul- Western promoters as a sufficient are the many years spent in prisons and cleansing and how much of it is a genuine re-evaluation of the condition for peaceful coexistence of labor camps by the founders of the circumstances and repercussions of that botched war? Moreover, how two political systems. Human-rights Helsinki movement . much okthis guilt is fueled by a gnawing awareness somewhere in the activists in the Communist countries, Anatoly Sheharansky and other while more doubtful about the real lai reaches of the psyche that, in the face of swarms of boat people, the prisoners of conscience. Irreversible are intentions of their 'governments, still . the deaths in Poland and Afghanistan. genocide in Cambodia, the fall of Laos to the Communists in 1975. considered that these international perhaps the Vietnam war should have been fought to win? We have done our best to make the obligations can lessen repression and Helsinki agreement serve - peace and The so-called "rehabilitation" of the Vietnam veteran, it should also founded public groups to promote democracy. However, we can no longer be noted, comes at a time when it appears Americans are becoming implementation of the Helsinki associate ourselves with the agreement increasingly aware that the threat to their way of life does not come agreement in Moscow. Ukraine. which not only failed to seise its from Washington but from the Soviet Union and its rancid Lithuania. Georgia, Armenia. -humanitarian purposes, but even to Communist ideology. The welcoming back of the Vietnam veterans, Czechoslovakia and Poland. protect its most sincere supporters, then, is as much a reflection of renewed patriotism and faith in Ten years alter Helsinki no one can agreement which has turned into a America's moral vision as it is a statement about national guilt and assume that this agreement can to any repressive lool in the hands of Soviet forgiveness. The redemption of the veteran is the redemption of extent restrict arbitrariness of the authorities. We appeal to the Western America from the morally ambivalent, hand-wringing, self- Communist authorities. They marked governments io make, tiie Helsinki agreement null and void. flagellating mass of uncertainty it was for much of the 10 years after this decade by increasing expansion throughout the world, including direct Wc still believe that peace can be and the end of the war. to the self-confident and pragmatic country sure of invasion of Afghanistan, by an its philosophical underpinnings. must be based on human rights. unprecedented military build-up. by Therefore, until the Soviets prove by This is not to imply that we feel the Vietnam conflict should or could support of international terrorism, by concrete actions their readiness to have been won. We are merely saying that the new acceptance of the escalating repression against their observe these basic rights, any peace or Vietnam veteran has much to do with the realization that he was not a people, including arrests of almost all arms control agreement with them heartless victimizer but a victim of government policies and aroused members of the Helsinki groups, by the would be sell-deception. It cannot be public opinion that would not allow him to fight back with all the exile ol theSakharovs. by martial law in proved by them unless Helsinki resources available against an enemy that was determined to destroy Poland, by introducing new legislation monitors and other prisoners ol virtually banning communications him. conscience in Communist countries are between people of the Communist released. Whatever the reasons and their psychological roots, it is clearly countries and the tree world, and by heartening that the Vietnam veteran has been welcomed back by the closing emigration. The Helsinki nation he fought for so long and hard. Accord was perceived by Soviets as a , Pctr Egides, good cover for this policy and was Alexander Gin/burg, Arina Gin/burg. interpreted by them accordingly. Alexander Glezer, Natalya Gor- banevskaya, Petro Grigorenko, Zinaida Western governments gradually Grigorenko, Emma Kessler, Irina Mother's Day accepted this interpretation. The Korsunskaya. Eduard Ku/net/.ov, Yuri linkage between human rights and Kublanovsky. Edward Lo/ansky, Let's face it. What distinguishes mothers from anyone else is that security was first abandoned by Mikhail Masterkov. Vladimir continuing cooperation with Soviet they have given birth. It's as simple as that. A little romance, a few Maksimov, Yuri Mnyukh, Viktor authorities while they flagrantly Nekrasov, , Vladimir labor pains, hopefully no complications, and suddenly there's a pink suppressed those rights, then by signing wrinkled creature lying inside a glass-enclosed room and a nervous Toltz, Yuri Tuvim, Georgy Vladimov, one after another the final documents of Yuri Yarim-Agaev and, on behalf of the man buying cigars that no one ever lights up. the Belgrade and Madrid review International Society for Human If this scenario would continue, life would unfold smoothly and we conferences without even mentioning Rights, Ivan Agru/.ov. might find outselves peering in disbelief at some real-life episodes of "Leave it to Beaver" in which the boys do not join the hardcore criminal element as they pass the age of 6 or become members of the Rev. Moon's church at 16, and June and Ward grow grey hairs blissfully. But in reality, because motherhood is a state experienced by human beings, as with any other human condition, there will be room for the universal spectrum of human emotions: love, hate, indifference, happiness, despair, affection, jealousy, humility, pride, remorse, elation, etc. Obviously, the woman who gives birth in no way stops being human. From such a position, Mother's Day seems hardly worth celebrating, and to celebrate motherhood for all the cliche reasons (she is selfless, loving, kind, generous, etc.) hardly seems substantial or ultimately true enough. Why then should we for the 79th time set aside this Sunday as a day to honor our mothers if motherhood is indeed so ordinary; so mundane? Because when we celebrate motherhood (and fathers will get their due in June) we are actually celebrating, in whatever form it takes, the gum-chewing kid with the skinned knees or the Bowery bum. the God-given gift of life. 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fined in various special psychiatric A statistical breakdown of the psych­ hospitals since March 1981. He wrote iatric cases in the USSR as of March ЗI, Freedom House releases reporta n essay on economic problems in the 1985, is as follows: USSR and expressed frustration with " Total number of known political on prisoners in psychoprisons the Helsinki process by displaying a prisoners used in this survey 835 banner in Red Square in Moscow which NEW YORK - One in every five institutions to labor camps and three " Out of these, number of indivi­ political prisoners in the Soviet Union is have died. read: "Helsinki-Belgrade-Madrid = 0." duals confined in special psychiatric being held in psychiatric hospitals, One was executed, after having spent Mr. Tyurichev, 38, has been given hospitals (SPH s) and ordinary psv chia- according to a study released here. The 15 years in psychiatric prisons. He was intensive doses of neuroleptic drugs tric hospitals (OPH s) .'.. 165 study, by Freedom House in New York, Yermak Lukyanov, a Soviet soldier throughout his confinment. " Percent 19.8 is being presented to the human-rights from World War 11 who remained in Another prisoner currently com­ ' Number of persons committed in experts meeting in Ottawa to review Belgium at the end of the war. In 1968 mitted is Nizametdin Akhmetov, for the SPHs „. 89 compliance with the 35-nation agree­ Mr. Lukyanov visited the USSR with writing of a letter to the Madrid CSCE " The names of the SPHs and ment known as the Helsinki Accords. his 13 year-old son but was not allowed conference. The Ottawa meeting is number of pe,ople in each: to return home. He was forcibly com­ officially known as the experts session Dnipropetrovske SPH 19 mitted to various psychiatric hospitals of the Conference on Sercurity and Kazan SPH 13 The analysis shows that 166 Soviet Cooperation in Europe (CSCE). prisoners of sound mind are committed until May 14, 1984, when he was Cherniakhovsk SPH II executed for treason at age 70. At the Vladimir Gershuni, 55, a prominent Blagoveshchensk SPH 8 in psychiatric institutions for their Soviet dissident who was the editor of political, religious or moral beliefs. time of his execution Mr. Lukyanov Smolensk SPH .'.... 7 was a Belgian citizen. His wife and the samizdat journal Poiski (Searches) Alma-Ata SPH 6 These persons comprise 19.8 percent of and a member of an unofficial trade the 835 Soviet political prisoners whose children are still living in Belgium. Leningrad SPH 5 names, biographies and places of in­ Among .those who have recently died union, is enduring his fourth psychiatric Sychovka SPH 5 carceration are known. The remaining in psychiatric confinement was Valentin incarceration. His formal diagnosis was Tashkent SPH 4 669 political prisoners are confined in Sokolov, 58. a poet who spent 31 years excessive "search for truth." Mogilev SPH ...- 3 various labor Camps and prisons. in prison, the last six in psychiatric Volgograd SPH 2 institutions. Mr. Sokolov, whose poetry Anna Mykhailenko, 50, a Ukrainian Oryol SPH 1 The statistics were compiled by was published abroad, used the pseudo­ teacher of English who encouraged Andropov SPC 1 Ludmilla Thorne, director of the Center nym "Valentin Zeka." (Zek means Ukrainian children to use their native " Others in SPH s, but not known in for Appeals for Freedom of Freedom prisoner in Russian.) Mr. Sokolov was language instead of Russian, has been which ones 5 House. She noted: "The American a member of the French P.E.N. Club. committed in the Kazan SPH since " Number of persons committed in Psychiatric Association has rightly 1980. OPH s 60 condemned this abuse of psychiatry and Among the new cases is that of Yury An interesting new development is " Others whose exact locations are it is no wonder that many Soviet Popov, 27, who was arrested in a that since the name of the city of not known 16 dissidents have referred to this practice Moscow park while he was distributing Rybinsk has been changed to Andro­ ' "Offenses" for which prisoners of as spiritual murder." leaflets urging an end to capital punish­ pov, the psychiatric ward at the Rybinsk ' conscience are committed: Ms. Thorne conducted a similiar ment and the war in Afghanistan. labor camp where numerous political Individuals engaged in ' mainstream survey in September 1983, at which time Although his arrest took place on June prisoners have been committed over the human-rights activities, such as distri­ out of 1,110 political prisoners 215—19 2, 1983, his case became known only last years has been changed to the Andro­ buting leaflets critical of the regime, percent — were confined in Soviet fall. Mr. Popov is currently committed pov Special Psychiatric Colony (SPC). writing articles, making oral psychoprisons. Out of 215 psychiatric in the Smolensk Special Psychiatric Because the Soviet Union does not statements, or trying to create organiza­ prisoners in the 1983 survey, 132 are still Hospital (SPH). (The special psychiatric provide statistics on its prisons and tions 77 confined and 34 new cases have been hospitals are hospitals for the criminally psychiatric hospitals, the 166 docu­ Persons who tried to escape from the added. Some persons have been com­ insane, where conditions are particu­ mented cases of psychiatric abuse USSR 33 mitted for 10, 15, 20 and — in some larly harsh.) represent only the tip of the iceberg, Ms. Religious believers of various deno­ cases, 37 years. Also committed are four journalists Thorne pointed out in her survey. The minations 22 Twenty-four prisoners from the 1983 for writing articles critical of the Soviet practice of committing dissidents' to Persons who requested permission for tally were released and 46 others were regime, in direct violation of the spirit of psychiatric hospitals has made its way emigration 12 probably released, although definite the Helsinki Accords. to other East-bloc countries, most Individuals striving for greater national confirmations are lacking. Nine pris­ Valery Tyurichev, a store manager notably Czechoslovakia, Rumania and rights 18 oners were transferred from psychiatric from Dnipropetrovske, has been con- Yugoslavia. Others 4

attachments, too many political and Joe Clark: rights will stay economic links, and too many individual human ties for this country ever to ignore European affairs. Deeply on the international agenda conscious of these associations and Below is the і ex і of the statement citizens of our countries who are watch­ their durability, Canada has in the past delivered by Canadian Secretary of ing intently, will share the view that we played an active and, I believe, State for External Affairs Joe Clark on have managed to renew our constructive role in all aspects of the the occasion of the opening of the commitment to respect human rights CSCE process. Under this government, experts meeting on human rights of the and to expand our cooperation in this Canada remains firmly convinced that a Conference on Security and Coopera­ field. safe, prosperous and humane Europe is tion in Europe. As my colleague, Madame Vezina, a cornerstone of a safe, prosperous and the minister for external relations, humane Canada. We will, therefore, It is my pleasant task today to noted when she welcomed delegates to both at this meeting, in Stockholm, in welcome to Ottawa those who will take the Preparatory Meeting on April 23, Budapest later this year, and in Bern part intheCSCE Meeting of Experts on this experts meeting has two claims to and Vienna in 1986, try to expand our Human Rights. A number of you will historical importance. It is the first dialogue and cooperation. It is, I know, a widely shared perception that the Ottawa meeting I am convinced that national boundaries can never and could be a difficult one. In proposing and pursuing with others at Madrid the should never insulate any of us from the natural idea of holding a meeting on human concern of human being for human being. rights, Canada was conscious both of the sensitivity of the subject and of some of the United Nations. These assertions of the reservations and concerns held by reflect the fact that a world that is not have been to North America and to CSCE meeting held on the North our CSCE partners. increasingly humane is unlikely to be Canada before. For those making your American continent, and also the first But issues of central importance such increasingly safe, or even, in the long first visit to this continent and to this dedicated exclusively to human rights. as h.uman rights cannot and must not be run, more prosperous. This is why country, I believe it is particularly Canada has placed great importance avoided just because they are sensitive human rights are, and will stay, on the appropriate that you are here in on the CSCE process since its inception and can sometimes give rise to international agenda. It is wly you are springtime. After the long and difficult because it offers the possibility of disagreement between governments. gathered here today to dedicate six weeks winters we so often have to face in the continuing dialogue and progress in Both the Helsinki Final Act and the to discussing human rights in our states, northern part of this continent, spring areas of interest to our countries, and Madrid concluding document point out something that would have been comes — not a moment too soon - as a allows its participants, large and small, that respect for human rights and unimaginable 20 or perhaps even 10 time of renewal, of expanded horizons to each make our own distinctive fundamental freedoms is an essential years ago. and of a sense of new opportunities. 1 contribution on the basis of equality. factor in the search for the peace, justice Intellectually, we know, of course, hope that this seasonal phenomenon Canada, furthermore, can never turn and well-being necessary to ensure the why human rights are not ah easy can somehow be a metaphor for our its back on developments in Europe. development of friendly relations and question in interstate relations. Despite meeting, and that by the time it ends in North Americans though we are, there cooperation among us. The same the many things which our CSCE June. you. as delegates, and the many are too many historical and cultural recognition is enshrined in the Charter (Continued on page 13) "^

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by Mykhailo Bociurkiw to the subcommittee. UCC spokes­ person Ms. lsajiw stated that OTTAWA The Ottawa meeting "the release from imprisonment and of human-rights experts has brought an end to the harassment of all together Ukrainian community .Helsinki monitors should remain a activists from Toronto. Ottawa and fundamental objective of this the United Stales in a rare but human-rights experts meeting." impressive lobbying movemenl'- To date, it has not been made clear Over the next six weeks, some 20 whether the subcommittee's final people will be involved in the staging recommendations will have a of press conferences, prayer vigils, significant impact on the Canadian film screenings and myriad other delegation at the conference. events in an attempt to inform The ad-hoc committee of conference delegates and the Ukrainians has brought Ivan Canadian public about the plight of Shumuk of British Columbia to Ukrainian political prisoners in the Ottawa for the first week of the USSR. conference. Mr. Shumuk is the The impetus behind all of this nephew of Ukrainian dissident activity came from the human-rights Danylo Shumuk. office of the World Congress of Free According to the worldwide Ukrainians and an ad-hoc group of human-rights organization Amnesty Ukrainians in Ottawa. Both groups International. Danylo Shumuk has felt that the meeting of human-rights been imprisoned longer than any experts which is expected to other living prisoner of conscience. attract world attention would be a Mr. Shumuk has completed a 37- good opportunity to publicize the year term ol imprisonment and is Soviet Union's abyssmal human- now serving a live-year term of "in­ rights record in such areas as family ternal exile" in an isolated village in reunification, religious persecution, Soviet Central Asia. psychiatric abuse and emigration During his visit to Ottawa. Ivan restrictions. Shumuk will give interviews about As delegates to the human-rights his uncle to the media. He also meeting continued to debate over an expects to meet with Canadian agenda on Monday. May 6. the ad- External Affairs Minister Joe Clark, hoc group of Ukrainians mostly who raised the dissident's case during students, professionals and commu­ his recent visit to the Soviet Union. nity leaders finalized a six-week The group scheduled many agenda of their own during a lengthy activities for Thursday. May 9. meeting in Ottawa's Chateau l.aurier During a "Ukrainian Day." group Hotel. members and a lew Parliamentarians Christina Isajiw of the World met on Parliament Hill for a morning Congress of Free Ukrainians prayer service for persecuted cautioned the members of the ad-hoc Ukrainian prisoners of conscience. group not to expect any dramatic A noontime manifestation was results from the plan of action that held in front of the Canadian was drawn up. She added, however, Government Conference Center, that any attempt to assist persecuted while delegates deliberated inside. Ukrainian human-rights activists is The group of placard-carrying beneficial in the long term. Ms. Ukrainians was organized by the lsajiw is also the chairperson of the Ukrainian Human Rights ad hoc group. Committee Qf Philadelphia. The During the first week of the committee, led by Ulana experts meeting, a group of local Ma/urkevich of Philadelphia, Ukrainian students visited paraded in front of the conference politicians from all three major center for almost an hour while a Canadian political parties. The steady stream of lunchtime students' task was to sensitize pedestrians looked on. members of the Parliament and Four members of the Philadelphia senators about dissidents being committee arrived here on Tuesday persecuted by the Soviet regime. The to talk to various delegations and group asked Members of Parlia­ publicize cases of Soviet human- ment to highlight specific cases of rights violations. Ukrainian dissidents during the daily On Thursday evening, a montage question period in the House of of poetry and music was presented in Commons. the Chateau Laurier Hotel by a As of Wednesday. May X. some group of young Ukrainian eight Parliamentarians had met and immigrants from Poland. This` 1 " ! with the students about the Toronto-based ensemble of singers, Union's violation ol the musicians and actors performs Helsi \i Accords. John Nunziata. a regularly under the name of the Liberal member of Parliament from Ukrainian Avant-Garde Theatre Toronto, is expected to read a Group. The Ottawa performance statement in the House of Commons featured original music and poetry urging the government to press the about the persecution of human Soviets on human-rights issues. rights and fundamental freedoms in \ few days prioi l\e official Ukraine. The audience included a opening of the conference, the few Parliamentarians, conference Ukrainian Canadian Committee and delegates and members ol the several other organizations repre­ internaiioh.il media senting East European communities Throughout the first week of the in Canada appeared before a conference and during the next lew Canadian Parliamentary subcom­ weeks, volunteers from the Ottawa mittee on human rights In her brief (Continued on page IS) Demonstrators march toward Soviet Emhas

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St. Michael's Heritage Center Pianist Dr. Juliana Osinchuk to open in New Haven lectures on Ukrainian music NEW HAVEN, Conn. - St. Mi­ under the auspices of St. Michael's WASHINGTON - Members of The chael's Ukrainian Catholic Parish here Ukrainian Catholic Church, the Rev. Washington Group were treated to a will officially open its Heritage Center Golemba. as permanent head, has delightful, informative survey of on Sunday, June 2. named a board of governors, which Ukrainian piano music on Friday, April The center is housed in a building includes: Roman Hezzey, Dr. Albert 26, by Dr. Juliana Osinchuk. The adjacent to the church at 569 George St. Serenty, Donald Horbaty and Wasyll concert pianist and a new member of and consists of five rooms on the first Gina. Mary Hezzey is chairman of the The Washington Group presented a floor and a large room on the second Heritage Center Committee. two-hour "Historical Retrospective on floor which will be used for courses in Ukrainian Piano Music" lecture as the Ukrainian crafts. third presentation in the Friday Many parishioners have warmly Evening Fofum series offered by The responded with donations of books, Famine documentary Washington Group at the St. Sophia pictures, costumes, embroideries and Religious Institute. other artifacts. Display cases and available to viewers Dr. Osinchuk began her presentation bookshelves have been constructed. with a brief background of the piano, a The Rev. Roman Golemba and a TORONTO - "Harvest of Despair," recent instrument which evolved from committee have planned a varied pro­ the 55-minute documentary on the other keyboard instruments. While gram for this day. After the 10 a.m. Ukrainian famine of 1932-33, is availa­ keyboard music was developed divine liturgy, the Heritage Center will ble for purchase or rental for a nominal centuries before the advent of the piano, Dr. Juliana Osinchuk be officially opened. The celebration fee from the film's executive producer, music written for the piano is quite will include cultural exhibits, craft sales, the Ukrainian Famine Research Com­ recent. about the region and history of the entertainment and refreshments. The mittee, based in Toronto. She then proceeded to discuss event will take place rain or shine'. music. He also founded what is now the For information write to the institute Ukrainian composers of the 17th and Conservatory of Music in Kiev. These This particular happening is a cul­ at 620 Spadina Ave., Toronto, Ontario, 18th centuries. Those composers, due to accomplishments were in addition to his mination of the parish's observance of Canada, M5S 2H4; or call (416) 923- the political situation tended to serve at compositions. its 75th anniversary. It is also the 3318. the court in St. Petersburg. The playing Twentieth century composers and opening step in its preparations for the The film was produced to commemo­ of the piano, she noted, was usually pianists were also highlighted by Dr. millennium of Christianity in Ukraine rate the 50th " anniversary of the man- restricted to the upper class, simply Osinchuk. She used the opportunity to in 1988. made famine that killed 7 million because of the expense involved in point out th;it her doctoral dissertation, Since the Heritage Center will be persons in Ukraine. owning the instrument. As a result, the which was accepted by The Juilliard number of composers and their School in New York, was on composer backgrounds were restricted. Also, Victor Kosenko. 1985 tennis season at Soyuzivka music was generally written for the Throughout her presentation. Dr. daughters of the aristocracy so the Osinchuk used taped music to illustrate music tended to be rather simple by her points about the development of USCAK East (Juniors A and В) July 6-7 later standards. Ukrainian piano music. She also Doubles August 10-11 While Dr. Osinchuk traced the pointed out that the difficulty in USCAK Nationals August 30 - September 2 evolution of Ukrainian piano music, she researching the subject due to the lack focused on a few composers from each of surviving materials. Since there is no UNA Invitational September 14-15 period. The first was Dmytro central library or depository of Plast September 28-29 Bortniansky, who served at the St. Ukrainian music, her research entailed KLK October 12-13 Petersburg court and studied extensive travel in an effort to locate extensively in Italy. While he composed surviving music. Travel, however, was various types of music on many themes, the least of her problems, she noted. he successfully integrated Ukrainian Much of the music simply did not music into his sonatas. His influence survive. In addition, surviving music is Notice regarding maH delivery was so great that at one point all music being held in private collections used in the Russian empire had to be inaccessible to her and other of The Weekly composed by him or approved by him. researchers. Dr. Osinchuk gave an Naturally, Dr. Osinchuk devoted It has come to our attention that The Ukrainian Weekly is often impassioned plea to anyone who has part of her lecture to Mykola Lysenko, historical Ukrainian music to either delivered late, or irregularly, or that our subscribers sometimes the "Father of Ukrainian Music." She donate it to a major library, such as the receive several issues at once. pointed out that Lysenko`s greatest one at Harvard, or to, at least, make We feel it is necessary to notify our subscribers that The contribution was the fact that he was the copies for researchers such as herself. Weekly is mailed out Friday mornings (before the Sunday date first true Ukrainian music scholar. Dr. Osinchuk was in Washington for of issue) via second-class mail. Throughout his travels in Ukraine, he a violin and piano recital with Kevin If you are not receiving regular delivery of The Weekly, we collected Ukrainian folk music, Lawrence at the National Gallery of Art urge you to file a complaint at your local post office. This may be catalogued it and took extensive notes on Sunday, April 28. The well-attended done by obtaining the U.S. Postal Service Consumer Service recital was broadcast live as part of the Card and filling out the appropriate sections. 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IRVINGTON. N..1. The Chomo­ educational activities and to promote some of the best teams on the American Sitch conducts a highly popular sports morska Sitch Ukrainian Athletic- sports and athletics. It was founded on continent. school during the summer at the Educational Association of Newark, December 21. 1924. and I. Hrynyk was Verkhovyna resort in Glen Spey. N.Y. N.J., the oldest Ukrainian sports club in elected the first president and I.. Muliar At present. Chomomorska Sitch is The 500-membcr organization will hold the country, celebrated its 60th as secretary. one of the largest Ukrainian sports its sixth annual golf tournament in anniversary with a jubilee banquet and The Newark society was particularly organizations beyond Ukraine. It has September at the Farmstead—QJM^^ ball at the Club Navaho Manor here on active in the struggle for political rights seven separate sports activity branches. Course in Andovcr TowjjsKip, N.J. Sunday. April 28. in Ukraine. A Ukrainian American Congratulatory letters from political club was organized and it was President Ronald Reagan and New active in familiarizing the American Jersey Gov. Thomas Kean were people with Ukrainian problems. It read by Andrew Keybida to the 250 took part in various meetings and mani­ assembled guests. ' Zenon Snylyk. festations, protesting both Polish editor-in-chief of Svoboda. praised the injustice in western Ukraine and Soviet work and achievements of the domination of Ukrainian lands. association's pio"neers as well as the Baseball, basketball and bowling current administration. Association flourished during the late 1930s and this president Myron Stebelsky expressed attracted Ukrainian youths in Newark gratitude to the jubilee committee, the and the vicinity. Members took part in individuals present representing various literally thousands of competitive Ukrainian organizations, special guests events in various sports in New Jersey and the association's executive against other Ukrainian sports clubs as committee. well as against teams representing other The invocation was offered by the nationalities. Rev. Michael Wivvchar of St. John's During trie late I940sandearly 1950s, Ukrainian Catholic Church in Newark, many new emigres joined Sitch. They N.J., and the benediction was offered by were political refugees from the Rev. John Nakonachny of the Holy- communism and they brought with Ascension Ukrainian Orthodox Church them the love for new types of sports in Maplewood. N.J. activity soccer, volleyball, ice Dr. and Mrs. Zenon Malkiwsky hockey, swimming, track and field, Keynote speaker Zenon Snylyk addresses banquet. chaired the evening's events which were chess, tennis and table tennis. By 1969. emceed by Nestor Olcsnycky. Musicfor the Sitch soccer team was playing dancing was provided by the Tempo against international competition and Orchestra. winning. Volleyball activity saw SVOBODA PRINT SHOP The Sitch sports club was created to Newark Sitch representing the l`.asl and Professional typesetting and printing services. unite all Ukrainians who lived in the Ukrainians in the official United We print: Newark, to conduct cultural and States national competition against BOOKS u BROCHURES a LEAFLETS

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the Soviets for violating the provisions Students in prison garb Gingrich... 400 protest... of the Helsinki Accords. There were several creative methods (Con(inued from page 4) (Continued from page 1) As the demonstrators listened used by the demonstrators to impart colleagues that the commission would The protest was held on the eve of the quietly. Sviatoslav Paduchak, a their message. Might students from have nine members appointed hy the experts meeting on human rights which member of the Council for the Release Toronto came to the demonstration president, three of whom would be is being held as part of the review of Ukrainian Political Prisoners, delivered one of the day's more fiery dressed in black and white prison journalists, three academics and three process of the Conference on Security speeches. Mr. Paduchak said Western uniforms and bound together by chains officers or employees of the executive and Cooperation in Europe. Ihe 35- governments should bring the Soviet and leg irons. The "prisoners" were branch of the government. country meeting of Helsinki Accords government to trial for genocide at the intended to represent renowned signatories opened here on Tuesday, International Court of Justice. He Ukrainian dissidents incarcerated in Mav 7. The commission would report to the" added that national liberation Soviet prisons. After telling the crowd president no later than December 31, movements within the Soviet Union about their sentences, they led the de­ 1986. Initial funding lor 1986 would be Organizers of the protest said they should receive more support from the monstrators through busy streets to the SI.5 million. hoped the protest would prod officials West. Soviet Embassy. attending the meeting to review the Member of Parliament Andrew Before departing Parliament Hill, the Soviet Union's human-rights record. Witer delivered greetings from Prime demonstrators lit sparklers while Minister Brian Mulroney. External paying tribute to imprisoned Ukrainian The crowd ranged in age from infants Affairs Minister Joe Clarkand Minister dissident , who has in strollers to the elderly. Throughout of Finance Michael Wilson. Mr. Witer. spent 33 years in labor camps and in the march, dozens of plainclothes and a Ukrainian Canadian, represents the internal exile. Reports from informed uniformed members of the Royal Toronto riding of Parkdale-High sources in the USSR indicate that he is Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) Park. He told demonstrators that their almost completely blind and is in poor 0 health. and the Ottaw-а– Police Force kept a actions would remind conference delegates of Soviet violations of the A unique. 24-pufte chilrirvns book watchful eye on the demonstrators. Zenon Waschuk, 20. of Toronto, said written bvVeru Wodmcclvk-Kup. . Upon their arrival at the grey-stoned Helsinki Accords. he was among the 200 people from his tKautifully illustrated, in full-cole Soviet Embassy on Charlotte Street, the "Canada is host for the conference on city who made the five-hour bus trip to by Mary Trueh-Holadyk. protesters were greeted by a double human rights, which is taking place in Ottawa. Teach votir child simple t'krainia column of armed riot police. Ottawa," said Mr. Witer. "To the Mr. Waschuk, a student at the vocabulary by following lhe sum Undercover RCMP agents filmed and delegates, let this demonstration be a University of Toronto, said he was adventures of Sonut Sc Alexander. photographed several demonstrators. reminder that we Canadians are encouraged to go to Ottawa after To order: t`omplcle the eoti|X)n reading about the sentencing of below S. mail, аіоііц with your mindful of the violations of the Soviet Ukrainian dissident . cheque or money order payable і Parliament Hill program Union, as well as other nations, against AiexSon Publishing Inc., humanity." Demonstrators' messages 685;Ri)ek\v I Drive A tengthy program was held on the Christine Bidiak. another member of steps of the Parliament Buildings where the council, said delegations from the Akron. Ohio. 44313. the crowd listened to speakers, who West should press the Soviets for the Another young demonstrator Allow 4 weeks for delivery covered a variety of topics but release of imprisoned members of the marched beneath a large banner that S6 SO/Ьоок Canadians 17.80/b stressed the common theme of scoring Ukrainian Helsinki Monitoring Group. read: "The Soviet System Destroys: Ask Shukhevych." Like many others at the demonstration, he contended that such public protests are a worthwhile political tool. THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY The crowd's signs were a potpourri of protest. Some called for an end to the Soviet government's persecution of We give you the WHOLE picture. Ukrainian dissidents. Others bore messages such as: "Freedom for Ukrainian Journalists." "Freedom: A Right for Everyone. Ihe Ukrainian Cause: Tears Are Not Enough" and "The Soviet 3R's: Restrict...Ruin...Re­ move." 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Fruit and Vegetable Stillifes dissident news"commentarytpolitics"editorials"interviews'people"reviews "community news Paintings and Prints the arts"scholarshipechurch affairs"sports"preview of events"special features May 17-June 30, 1^85 ТПЕ UKRAINIAN INSTITUTE Can you afford not to subscribe? OF MODERN ART 2.120 West Chicago Avenue I would like to subscribe to The Ukrainian Weekly for. .year(s). (Subscription rates: S5 per year for UNA members, 58 for non- Chicago, Illinois 6(Ki22 members.) UNA member: П yes Name -; О no REAL ESTATE Address City State Zip D Payment enclosed О Bill me GOVERNMENT HOMES from SI. (U repair). Also delinquent tax property. Ukrainian Weekly 30 Montgomery St. m Jersey City, NJ. 07302 Call 1-805-687-6000 Ext. GH-10102 for information No. 19 THE ІШАНШЩЛІ WEEKLY SUNDAY, MAY 12, 1985 Joe Clark. articulate the problems and determine the progress which can be made here. DMYTRUS BYCHKOWSKI (Continued from page 7) Suffice it to say that Canada sees this countries share, we all have different meeting as a valuable opportunity The Department of Music which must not be lost to give impetus cultural traditions and historical of experience, and these inevitably have to the process of improving fulfillment William Paterson College affected and will affect our value of our human-rights and humanitarian systems in different ways. Ours is not a commitments. If Ottawa can provide presents monolithic world, nor should it be. momentum which will help at Bern. the But these differences do not absolve Vienna and beyond, it will indeed have us of the commitment we each made in achieved something positive. It will also SENIOR RECITAL do much to give us a positive Helsinki and Madrid. Nor can they of deter us, from our task of seeking over perspective of the 10th anniversary of the Helsinki Final Act, which we time to ensure that progress on respect observe this summer. for human rights whether civil, DEMETRIUS BYCHKOWSKI, Piano political, cultural, economic or social Before concluding, let me recall the Program - Beethoven, Chopin. Debussy, and Rachmaninov. is made in all our countries. I am deep personal interest that so many of Dmytrus is a student of Professor Gary Kirkpatrick who is a member of the inten ition our individual citizens will be taking in convinced that national boundaries can known "The Verdehr Trio". this meeting. For them the questions never and should never insulate any of The recital at the Shea Center for Performing Arts, you will be discussing are not abstruse us from the natural concern of human William Paterson College, Wayne, New Jersey being for human being. This is matters of interstate relations, but rather affect their everyday lives in the will be held on May 19, 1985 commencing at 3:00 p.m. espccialh so among a group of EVERYONE IS CORDIALLY INVITED countries whose destinies have been so most direct and fundamental ways. 1 do closely interlinked, and whose not pretend that Canadians have any populations have so many ethnic, special corner on concerns for human rights nor would I say that Canada has SECOND PRINTING BY POPULAR DEMAND. cultural, religious and intellectual itself a perfect human-rights record, LEARN TO READ. WRITE AND SPEAK UKRAINIAN. GET: traditions in common. though we do try hard. It has Nor must we forget that our journey nevertheless been very apparent to me A UKRAINIAN GRAMMAR for BEGINNERS. in search of greater respect for human in the course of our own national SELF-TEACHING rights is already well begun. There preparations for this meeting how much already exists an impressive body of By Martha Wichorek informed interest there is in this country A 334 pige(8'Zi 111) introduction to the , full of instruction and information, legally binding United Nations in the work you will undertake. instruments on human rights. We have geared especially to those who know little or no Ukrainian, in easy-to-understand English. Cost. J10.00. The only truly beginners Grammar published so far. all freely subscribed to the If it is not available in your local Ukrainian store, send J11.50 (Canadian - SU.OO) (price During your meeting I expect you painstakingly drafted human-rights includes postage and packaging envelope) to will yourselves see signs of this interest. commitments in the Helsinki Final Act Martha Wichorek, 13814 vassar Dr.. Detroit, Mich. 48235 and Madrid document. Many of the Some of the ' expressions may be participating states are members of vigorous; all of them. 1 hope, will be regional groupings which have within the bounds of legitimate self- developed their own sophisticated expression. In the final analysis. I human-rights machinery. We cannot believe it is a token of the need for this МОРСЬКИЙ ТАБІР now halt or turn back on our road, even meeting that there should be heartfelt для пластунів і пластунок if the way ahead looks long and our interest of this sort. 27-го липня до 3-го серпня visions of what the final destination Let me finish by welcoming you once Cranberry Lake, N.Y. should look like may vary. Given the again to our country and to our capital. ПРОВІД: Canada will do all it can to ensure that importance of human rights, and the ст. пл. д-р Андрій Войтович, Капітан serious concerns which our citizens this very important meeting is the пл. сен. 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East European... Dissident Tig re... There's no place like Soyuzivka (Continued from page 3) (Continued from page 3) spccificx,`ases will help the .conditions of Tigre and Eritrea from neighboring the people in the slave labor camps and countries. But the proposed program, the psychiatric hospitals." said Olaf SOYUZIVKA estimated at 100,000 tons, has yet to Tammark of the Estonian-American materialize, leaving independent, National Council. ^SU M M ER observers monitoring cross-border "We have no illusions tnat publicity relief measures puzzled. They told will free political prisoners. But it is Mr. Girardet that AID had been fully important to whittle away at the Soviet ^Ж 1985 alerted last autumn to Tigre's de­ propaganda machine," said Ms. Isajiw. teriorating condition and had expres­ sed willingness to help. Lanard Lukks, the chairman of the THIS SUMMER, One voluntary agency said that an Canadian Helsinki Group and the treat yourself to the breathtaking beauty of the Catskill Mountains at the initial agreement by AID to provide moderator of the press conference, told year-round resort of the ` 250 trucks for cross-border relief reporters that his group fears that the operations was suddenly and unex­ Canadian government will be reluctant UKRAINIAN NATIONAL ASSOCIATION pectedly reduced to 70. Some relief to score the Soviets for their human- sources maintain that, while food rights record because Canada is the host SOYUZIVKA and gasoline stocks are available, AID of the conference. has not found a "suitable independent і Newly renovated Ukrainian-style buildings/lodges nestled in the lush Catskill organization with the necessary NGO briefs Mountain estate. logistics and .expertise to coordinate such a massive operation," reported і Authentic international cuisine prepared by experienced chefs; their specialty, But Harry Jay, the Canadian am­ Mr. Girardet. bassador to the conference, later told of course: Ukrainian dishes! Other observers, however, suggest The Ukrainian Weekly that briefs і Eight tennis courts that the United States may also be submitted by non-governmental or­ moving carefully in the wake of the і Olympic size swimming pool, and toddlers' pool. ganizations outlining specific cases of overthrow of former Sudanese dissidents have been "carefully con­ і Volleyball courts. President Jaafar Nimeiry. Still others sidered" by the Canadian delegation. і Hiking trails. argue that it is the fear of Ethiopian The ambassador added, however, that attacks against supply convoys. і Top names in Ukrainian entertainment. "any development in the human-rights Another possibility is that the field is usually a painful process." і Weekly art exhibits and cultural presentations. United States wants West European і On-going program of dances, cocktail socials, outdoor luncheons, films, campfire governments to become involved, thus making the relief effort seem less sing - a longs and more! like a purely U.S. operation. Chronicle... SAME PRICES AS LAST YEAR. "As a humanitarian agency, you (Continued from page 2) RESERVE A ROOM TODAY! don't put your highest priority on the begin ю build peace and existence to political scene," said one angry SOYUZIVKA UNA ESTATE vour soul's content... Foordemoore Road, Kerhonkson. N.Y. 12446. Tel.: (914) 626-5641 Western relief official in Khartoum. "Nor do you perpetuate the myth, as some agencies are doing, that the crisis is being resolved, which it isn't... A lot of people are dying Editors note: because of it," he added. The author of the letter above was There's no place like Soyuzivka not identified by the chronicle, nor the circumstances under which it was HELP WANTED written. Also not identified was the Soviet publication in which Mr. SOYUZIVKA Kosolapov's article appeared. WANTED FRATERNAL ACTIVITIES HELP WANTED COORDINATOR Full time employment. Knowledge of 1985 SUMMER/FALL Ukrainian and English languages - in­ terested in public relations, promote Will hire for office work CAMPS 8c WORKSHOPS social, cultural, religious and educational activities among UNA members. Pay good- TEACHERS at SOYUZIVKA Send resumes to: looking for summer UKRAINAIN NATIONAL employment. TENNIS CAMP - June 23 - July 3 ASSOCIATION For information, please call: (Boys and Girls ages 12-18). Food and lodging J180.00 (UNA members), 30 Montgomery Street, 3rd floor UNA Home Office, S210.00 (non-members). Tennis fee: 560.00. Jersey City. N.J. 07302 Tel.: (201) 451-2200 tel.: (201) 451-2200

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Ukrainians... published on the same day, scored ESTATE LIQUIDATION AUCTION SALE the Soviet Union for its unwilling­ Friday, May 17,1985 starting at 11:00 AM at Apartment Й5,53 East 7th St., New York. N.Y. (Continued from page 8) ness to live up to its commitments Ukrainian community will bejoining under the Helsinki Accords. The Star Will sell to highest bidder items of personal property of the late Leo Haschak. including: officials from the World Congress of editorial, titled "Human Rights, Many paintings of famous Ukrainian painters. Free Ukrainians at meetings with Soviet Credibility," described the Many kylyms. conference delegations. Delegations case of Ukrainian dissident Oleksiy Many enamels (Shonk. Fleming). from the United States, the Vatican Tykhy. It said: Many: embroideries, inlaid and incrustated wall plates. TV. radios, washing machine, and other items and Canada met with Ukrainian "Soviet teacher Oleksiy Tykhy was of personal property. lobbyists last week and were briefed 57 when he died last May in the Perm Inspection can be made from 10 to 11 AM. Sale will begin 11:00 AM. Will accept payment on documented cases of human- forced-labor camp. Six-foot tall, he in cash or by indentified check. No credit All sales final. rights violations in Ukraine. weighed 90 pounds when they buried ESTATE of LEO MASCHAK Delegations that have met with the him. Tykhy was one of the 40 or 50 Ukrainian lobbyists have received a Soviet citizens imprisoned for being 45-page brief outlining serious monitors of the 1975 Helsinki violations of human rights in the Accord, in which 35 nations Harvard Ukrainian Studies ' USSR. The document also including the Soviet Union pledged" Journal of the Ukrainian Research Institute, describes the persecution of all to respect human rights. A founding Harvard University religions in Ukraine and recent member of the Ukrainian Helsinki attempts by the Soviet regime to group, Tykhy was arrested soon after special issue (vol. 8, no. 1/2) increase Russian-language education the accord was signed." The Kiev Mohyla Academy in Ukraine. Specific cases of persecuted Ukrainian dissidents are Commemorating the 350th anniversary of its founding included in the concluding sections Newark This issue presents new research and findings about the Kiev of the brief. Mohyla Academy, the, first institution of higher learning in the Two recently published WCFU (Continued from page 5) Orthodox Slavic world. booklets on human-rights violations participants, including Supreme Contents include eight essays on the academy's founder, its educa­ in Ukraine were distributed to Organizer Stefan Hawrysz, Supreme tional and intellectual activity, and its cultural impact; two review conference delegates: "The Soviet Auditor Nestor Olesnycky and essays evaluating recent Western and Romanian scholarship; two Persecution of Religion in Ukraine" Supreme Advisor Andrew Keybida. bibliographies annotating recent Soviet and Polish publications; and and the 1985 revised edition of A presidium consisting of Mr. a facsimile of the Eucharisterion presented to Peter Mohyla by the "Persecution of the Ukrainian Senezhak, chairman, and Roman academy's students and faculty in 1632. 288 pages, 8 illustrations. Helsinki Group." Lapychak, secretary, was erected to SI8 for the special issue alone; On Wednesday, May 15, the conduct the meeting. S28 for both issues (nos. 1/2 and 3/4) of volume 8 Ukrainian Canadian Students' Outgoing district officers' reports Order from: Harvard Ukrainian Studies Union (SUSK) will be hosting were delivered by Mr. Baraniuk, Harvard University conference delegates and the media chairman; Oleksander Liskevych, secre­ 1583 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138 U.S.A. at a screening of the documentary, tary; and Mr. Boyarsky, treasurer. "Harvest of Despair." The award- Brief addresses were given by the winning film deals with the 1932-33 members of the Supreme Assembly in famine in Ukraine and was produced attendance. The first to speak was Mr. by Slavko Nowytski and Yuriy Olesnycky, who was followed by Mr. Luhovy. The screening is to take Keybida and Mr. Hawrysz, who spoke place in the West Block of the about the UNA's activity, with special Parliament Buildings. emphasis on its organi?ing aspects. In addition to these activities, a UKRAINIAN number of people will be collecting signatures for letters to Canadian FESTIVAL External Affairs Minister Joe Clark. Share The Weekly The letters thank Mr. Clark for raising the case of Danylo Shumuk with a colleague 1985 during his recent trip to the Soviet Union. The group is also in the process of 3 DAYS OF LIVE approaching various Ukrainian Canadian academics for articles on UKRAINIAN human-rights violations in the Soviet Union. The articles are to be Aslic submitted to various Canadian ENTERTAINMENT newspapers for publication during plan for a the human-rights conference. FOLK DANCING - SINGING During the opening days of the rainy day. conference, Canada's major newspapers have devoted extensive FOLK ART SOUVENIRS ome people manage coverage to numerous incidents of Sto go through life without ever DELICIOUS UKRAINIAN FOOD human-rights violations in the Soviet having a rainy day. But moat people run into a storm now and then. Union. So it pays to ріал for a storm and In an editorial titled "In The then hope it never happens. The Payroll Savings Plan is one COME TO THE EAST VILLAGE Helsinki Spirit,"TheGlobe.andMail sure, safe, easy way to force yourself to urged the Canadian delegation to start saving. And savings arc a must to keep any financial plan from going on 7th STREET raise individual cases (of human- the skids. rights violations) "to illustrate how The little you set aside each payday for U.S. Savings Bonds will grow. And Between 2nd and 3rd Avenues the state has betrayed its help to keep you covered come rain or commitments." The editorial, which come shine. New "York City And if you're lucky enough to appeared in The Globe's National miss the rain, it might help you St Edition on Wednesday, May 8, in­ plant a few shade 4P ok cluded a "roll-call" of repression trees. HTl^l ^^– У Friday Saturday Sunday which should be raised by the Cana­ dians. May 17th 18th 19th The Globe wrote in its editorial: 4PM-11PM 11AM-11PM 1PM-10PM "In the Soviet Union, despite constitutional guarantees of freedom of religion, the Uniate Church - Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church - 35th ANNIVERSARY - BANQUET BALL and the Jehovah's Witnesses have been banned, and Churches such as U.A.S.C. "TRYZUB" - Philadelphia Ukrainian Nat's the unregistered wing of the Baptists, Come and view the history of "Tryzub" on 120 slides, mainly from the '50's and 60's. Come and see Pentecostalists. Seventh Day Adven- yourself or your friends, 30 years ago. lists and Lithuanian Catholics have suffered official persecution... These Saturday, May 18th, St. Josaphafs Hall, Frankford, Philadephia, Pa. examples are the tip of the iccflow 6, 7, 9 p.m., cocktails, program, ball to the sounds of "Chervona Kalyna". that should rise on the Rideau over the next six weeks." Donation: S30 per person, tickets may be obtained from all members of Tryzub's board of directors or A I"oronto Star editorial contact: B. Siryj, 90 Buttonwood La., Cinnaminson, N.J. 08077. 609-829 0329. 16 - THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY - SUNDAY, MAY 12, 1985 ' ; No. 19 U. of Illinois conference to focus PREVIEW OF EVENTS on Ukrainians and World War II May 17 anniversary on the Feast of the URBANA. III. - The Ukrainian Ukrainian Churches toward the Ascension with a divine liturgy at 10 Research Program at the University of occupation forces; Soviet evacuation of WASHINGTON: Marco Carynnyk a.m. followed by a banquet in the Illinois is organizing the fifth Ukrainian learned societies and will speak on the "Ukrainian Famine church auditorium. Entertainment conference on Ukrainian subjects to be institutions and their activities in exile; from Primary Sources" at The will be provided by soprano Raissa held on the Urbana-Champaign development of education and scholarly Washington Group's fifth Friday- Didow and the parish choir under the campus titled "Ukraine During World work, life of literary and artistic circles: Evening Forum. Dr. Carynnyk is direction of Leonid Charchenko. War II." The conference will be held on economical development and the currently in Washington researching June 4-8. " occupation forces' control of it; and the famine under a grant from the Forty-nine speakers, mostly Ukrainian legal and underground press Wilson School of the Smithsonian and book publications. NEW YORK: The Ukrainian professors of colleges and universities, Institution. The forum will be held at from the United States, Austria, the St. Sophia Religious institute, Student's Committee of the In addition, the conference will focus Ukrainian Free University will Canada. France. Poland, Sweden and on: Ukrainian youth in German forced 2615 30th St. NW. at 7:30 p.m. West Germany are expected to attend. Admission; TWG members, free; sponsor a program marking the 40th labor; Ukrainians in Soviet and English and Ukrainian are the official German prisons and concentration non-members, S5. A wine and cheese anniversary of the freeing of languages of the conference proceed­ reception will follow the presenta­ camps; problems of collaboration and Ukrainian political prisoners from" ings. political orientation; activities of tion. For further information, German prisons, at 3 p.m. in the contact Natalie Sluzar at (202) 363- Profs. Stephan M. Horak (Eastern Ukrainians abroad; losses in manpower Ukrainian Liberation Front and cultural and historical treasures; 8083. building, 136 Second Ave. Suggested Illinois University), Taras Hunczak (Rutgers University at Newark), Orest oral history: memoirs and personal donation: SI5. Subtelny (York University), Dmytro accounts; and conclusions of the M. Shtohryn (University of Illinois at conference proceedings. Urbana-Champaign) and Edward D. The conference will be held within the May 18 NEW YORK: "An Artist's Porfolio Wynot (Florida State University) serve framework of the Illinois Summer in Silk," a collection of hand-painted as the program committee of the Research Laboratory on Eastern CHICAGO: Branch 84 of the designs on silk created by artist/de­ conference. Europe. It will be sponsored by the Ukrainian National Women's signer Nina Bych. will be featured in Its program consists of sessions on laboratory, as well as by Ukrainian League of America along with the a fashion show to benefit the the following topics: Soviet occupation American scholarly and cultural Ukrainian Institute of Modern Art Ukrainian Institute of America, 2 E. of western Ukraine and its societies. will sponsor a poetry reading by 79th St.. at 3 p.m. Suggested tax- consequences; Na/і administration and An exhibit of publications on Yuriy Kolomyjets at 7 p.m. at the deductible donation: S35. For its attitude toward Ukrainian and non- Ukraine in World War II and Institute, 2320 W. Chicago Ave. reservations and more information, Ukrainian populations in Ukraine; documentary materials on persecutions Introductory remarks will be made call the institute at (212) 288-8660. Ukrainian administrative and relief by occupation forces in Ukraine will be by Prof. Bohdan Rubchak of the centers; national minorities and their on display during the conference in the University of Illinois, Circle relations with Ukrainians; Ukrainian university Main Library. Campus. Mr. Kolomyjets`s second liberation movement and Soviet-Nazi All those interested in attending the book of poetry was published in 1983 PREVIEW OF EVENTS,a listing of Ukrainian community events open reactions to it: and the Ukrainian conference should write to: Ukrainian by Suchasnist. For more information to the public, is a service provided Insurgent Army (UPA) and its struggle Research Program at the University of call the institute between noon and free of charge by The Weekly to the against occupation forces. Illinois. 1208 W. California Ave.. 4 p.m. (312)227-5522. Ukrainian community. To have an Also to be covered are: Ukrainians in Urbana. 111. 61801: or call Prof. Dmytro event listed in this column, please foreign armed forces; attitude of the M. Shtohrvn at (217) 333-1340. BUFFALO, N.Y.: The Ukrainian send information (type of event, Saturday School Parents' Guild will date, time, plat", admission, sponsor a graduation banquet-dance sponsor, etc.), along with the phone records of signatory states. This phase at 6 p.m. at the Holy Trinity number of a person who may be Experts meeting... will continue until May 28. Ukrainian Orthodox Church Hall. reached during daytime hours for (Continued from page 1) From May 29 through June 4, dele­ 200 Como Park Blvd. Tickets, at additional information, to: PRE­ be extended if some nations have gates will be considering proposals for SI2.50, S10 and S6.50, can be VIEW OF EVENTS, The Ukrainian statements to make. Despite efforts recommendations, and by June 14, they purchased at the door or from Ksenia Weekly, 30 Montgomery St., Jersey by the Soviet Union and other are expected to have agreed upon final Deputat, (716) 759-2729. City, N.J. 07302. East bloc nations to keep discussions conclusions and recommendations for behind closed doors, it was agreed that inclusion into the final report. The PHILADELPHIA: The School of the opening and closing sessions of the conference is scheduled to close on June the Voloshky Ukrainian Dance conference will be open to public 17. Ensemble will sponsor a Children's PLEASE NOTE: Preview items scrutiny. At a press conference held in the Folk Dance Concert at 6 p.m. at the must be received one week before Michael Armacost, the U.S. under­ conference center on May 9, Mr. Ukrainian Educational and Cultural desired date of publication. No secretary of state of political affairs and Armacost said that the United States Center, 700 Cedar Road. The Indus information will be taken over the a member of the U.S. delegation, told considers the Soviets' human rights Dance Group, under the direction of phone. Preview items will be reporters that the United States had record to be "rather grim." He added Vimala Rajagopa. will perform published only once (please note hoped that the conference would be that the Helsinki process has succeeded Ukrainian and Indian dances. desired date of publication). All more accessible to them. in raising international consciousness of Tickets available at the door: S3, items are published at the discretion "It has been our conviction that in human rights issues. adults: SI.50. children. For more of the editorial staff and in accor­ order for human rights to be more fully Mr. Armacost told reporters that the information, call Nina Pacowski at dance with available space. honored, it's important lor people to United States intends to "name names (215)457-0276, evenings. know about fhuman rightsj and to bring and raise cases" regarding human-rights the failure of a government to violations in Ea^t bloc nations. "We implement human rights to the think that that's what this meeting is all May 19 Notice attention of these governments," said about." he said. The Ukrainian Institute of America Ambassador Armacost. In response to a question from a MAPLEWOOD. N.J.: The Holy has informed The Weekly that the party "It is difficult to advance this Western reporter. Mr. Armacost would Ascension Ukrainian Orthodox announced by Club Su/.ie-Q for June I objective if meetings such as this are not not say whether the United Slates Church will celebrate its 67th at the institute will not be held due to a open." he said. would press Soviets for the legalization prior booking for that date. According to a member of the U.S. of the Ukrainian Catholic Church. delegation, most of the agreements between East and West have been Western sources have said that the hammered out in the conference center Soviet delegation already has hallways and within so-called "contact threatened to walk out of the conference group" sessions. if it becomes a forum for criticizing the A REMINDER The six weeks of meetings are being Soviet Union's human-rights record. conducted under tight security in the The chief Soviet representative, Canadian Government Conference Vsevolod Sosinsky. said before leaving TO OUR READERS Center. The media have so far had only the Soviet Union that if delegations It's that time of the year again - RENEWAL TIME. Many of you have already one opportunity to observe delegates at raise the human-rights records of other received expiration notices which were sent at the end of April. To decrease the sessions in the main hall, where they sit countries, the Ottawa meeting will only administrative cost of sending a second notice, we are giving you this gentle around a long oval table. lead to confrontation. reminder. The opening session of the conference On Friday. May 10. a U.S. If you mail your renewal today, you'll be sure to receive The Weekly - your included statements by delegations, and congressional delegation made up of Ukrainian perspective on the news - without interruption. the. first business session was dev oted to congressmen and senators was to visit We're counting on ``: to remit today. So please send your renewal, along with a remembering victory celebrations after Ottawa. The delegation was to hold a check or money order, (S5 for UNA members, S8 for non-members) to: The World War II. press conference and meet with represen­ Ukrainian Weekly, Subscription Department. 30 Montgomery St.. Jersey City. N.J. After delegations have presented tatives ol non-governmental organiza­ 07302. their opening statements, the confe­ tions, as well as to have an opportunity' rence will discuss the human-rights to talk with the Soviet delegation.