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LVIII No. n THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, MARCH IS, 1990 50 cents Soviet officials begin to reveal Second stage set for elections Chornobyi's medical consequences Democratic Bloc holds Kiev rally by Dr. David Marples had discussed an eventual repopulation LONDON - Figures recently re- the entire USSR will be taking part in of the 30-kilometer zone. leased by the secretariat of the Popular the exercises and expressed fear that up A new phase has begun in the pro– Finally, in February 1988, Mr. ilyin Movement of Ukraine for Perebudova, to 200,000 soldiers could take part in the tracted repercussions of the Chornobyl had written in the newspaper Soviet– or Rukh, in Kiev indicated that a total voting because there is no residency disaster, now approaching its fourth skaya Rossiya that the population of of 43 out of 112 deputies elected to the requirement for Soviet soldiers. He also anniversary, with an acknowledgment Prypiat had been given potassium Supreme Soviet of the Ukrainian SSR called for all candidates to be given air on the part of the Ukrainian minister of iodide tablets immediately after the on March 4 were from the Democratic time on television. health, Yuriy Spizhenko, that many of disaster. Bloc, reported the Ukrainian Press Borys Tymoshenko of the Rukh the problems that have arisen today are The two authors ridicule these state– Agency based here, last week. Another secretariat described violations of the a direct result of either official secrecy or ments by describing scenes of barefoot 124 Democratic Bloc candidates will electoral law, which he said, occurred in falsehoods uttered by the medical doc- children scampering around Prypiat on stand in 331 election run-offs scheduled every Kiev electoral district during the tors and health authorities regarding the morning after the explosion. Not on March 18. March 4 elections, reported the UPA. the nuclear accident's consequences. only were potassium iodide tables not The UP A also reported that some Oles Shevchenko, a leading member in addition, in the wake of the distributed, they assert, but citizens 30,000 people gathered in Kiev on were informed of the accident only three March 9 for a rally organized by the of the Ukrainian Helsinki Union and a meeting of the Ukrainian Supreme candidate to the Ukrainian parliament Soviet on ecological issues, the chair- hours before the evacuation of the city Democratic Bloc, led by Rukh, to mark in the run-offs, spoke against the new man of th Ukrainian ecological asso– took place on the following day. the next stage in the election process. ciation Zelenyi Svit, Yuriy Shcherbak, As for the absence of health effects on Mykhailo Horyn, a newly elected more powerful Soviet presidency. When appealed for the immediate shutdown those at the accident scene, they refer deputy to the Ukrainian SSR Supreme he posed the question of who would of the Chornobyl nuclear plant, with a Mr. ilyin to the report of the Kiev Soviet and Rukh executive secretary, support Ukrainian Communist Party five-year moratorium on the building of Oblast department of internal affairs, spoke about reports of military ma– leader volodymyr ivashko as president nuclear power plants across the Soviet which has cited radiation-related sick– neuvers planned for March 16 in U– of the Ukrainian republic to the crowd, Union pending the construction of nesses among over 6,200 people in– kraine by the Red Army, the UP A very few people raised their hands, the "foolproof reactors." (Continueri on page 10) wrote. Mr. Horyn said that units from (Continued on page 2) in a forthright and searching article, which takes into account the opinions of Mr. Spizhenko, who was appointed Quadripartite Church commission meets in Ukraine Ukrainian health minister last Novem– ber, journalists У. Skoropadska and v. Kolinko take to task the Soviet medical Begins to resolve questions of property and congregations authorities for nurturing an almost total ROME - Sunday, March 11, mark– of Lviv. This is the first public ap– by Bishops Kurchaba and voronovsky lack of trust among both the general ed a historic day in the life of the pearance of Bishop Sapryha. He had and ivan Gel, head of the Committee public and those affected directly by Ukrainian Catholic Church in western remained in the underground until this for the Defense of the Ukrainian Catho– radiation from Chornobyl. Ukraine, as representative bishops of time. lic Church, who presented the represen– They cite, for example, a question– the Holy See celebrated divine liturgy in his address to the faithful during tatives with the traditional Ukrainian naire among the 400 regular patients at with Ukrainian Catholic bishops at the the liturgy, Archbishop Marusyn asked greeting of bread and salt. the Center for Radiation Medicine in Church of the Transfiguration in Lviv, the crowd to "have faith in the Holy See The delegations traveled to the Kiev (affiliated with the Soviet Aca– reported the Ukrainian Catholic Press and in its delegation. We understand the Church of the Transfiguration and the demy of Medical Sciences), conducted Bureau here. suffering you have undergone and we motorcade was greeted by thousands of by psychotherapist lgor Kalinauskas, The ceremony, attended by an esti– have your concerns in our hearts." faithful along the streets of Lviv. The which revealed that 399 respondentsdid mated 30,000 faithful who were inside The delegation of the Moscow bishops were greeted at the church by its not believe the information provided the church and in the streets, followed Patriarchate, Metropolitan Mefodiy of pastor, the Rev. Yaroslav Chukhniy. there by doctors. They note a "crisis of five days of talks between members of voronezh aad Lipetsk and Bishop BothArchbishopsMarusynand Sulyk trust" generated by the accident, largely the mixed Catholic^Orthodox Corn- Feodosiy of Khmelnytsky and Ka– spoke to the faithful who had as– as a result of contradictions, mistakes mission on Normalization of Relations mianets-Podilsky, was present at the sembled. Archbishop Marusyn re– and direct "untruths" issued by osten– Between the Orthodox and Catholics of liturgy and sat in a place of honor at the minisced that "over 44 years ago, 1 was sibly competent bodies. the Eastern Rite in Western Ukraine in side of the altar. The Ukrainian Ortho– in this church as a seminarian and His As examples of "untruths" are pro– view of the Legalization of the dox Church, formerly the Russian Beatitude, the late Cardinal Josyf vided three instances from the first two Ukrainian Catholic Church. Orthodox Exarchate in Ukraine, was Slipyj, was celebrating liturgy. Today, post-Chornobyl years. First, on May 9, Archbishop Miroslav Marusyn, se– represented by only one delegate, through the good efforts of our faithful 1986, a group of foreign journalists cretary of the Congregation for Eastern Archpriest Oleksander Shvets, Ortho– in Ukraine, we are again in this church." arrived in Kiev and asked about the Churches and a Ukrainian Catholic, dox dean of the Lviv region. The second in related news it has been reported radiation levels close to the nuclear and Archbishop Stephen Sulyk of the delegate, Archbishop ireney Seredny of that Mykola Kolesnyk, chairman of the plant. Yuriy lzrael, the chairman of the Ukrainian Catholic Archdiocese of Lviv and Drohobych did not attend. Council of Religious Affairs for the State Committee for Hydrometeoro– Philadelphia and metropolitan of Ukrainian SSR, also arrived in Lviv on logy, had reportedly replied that in the Ukrainian Catholics in the United Delegate v arrival March 8. it is unclear whether he was to "majority of raions" of the fallout zone, States,compose the vatican delegation participate in talks last week. the levels did not exceed the permis– to the commission. The various delegations arrived in sible norm. The two bishops celebrated divine Lviv on Thursday, March 8, following Concern on talks' direction Second, in April 1987, the chairman liturgy with the members of the Ukrai– one day of meetings with Orthodox of the USSR National Commission on nian Catholic Church delegation to the Metropolitan Filaret of Kiev and one But Ukrainian Catholic Church Radiation Safety, Leonid ilyin, who is commission, Archbishop volodymyr day of commission meetings in Kiev on sources expressed concern over the also the vice-president of the USSR Sterniuk, the Lviv representative of the March 7. The commission released a direction of the talks. They noted that Academy of Medical Sciences, an– head of the Ukrainian Catholic Church, document following this meeting. representatives of the Moscow Patriar– nounced that despite the fact that and Bishop Sofron Dmyterko of ivano– The delegates then went to Lviv on chate and the Ukrainian Orthodox thousands of specialists had passed Frankivske. Also concelebrating were. March 8 for additional talks. An esti– Church in Ukraine have taken a less through Chornobyl and its environs, Bishops Filemon Kurchaba, Julian mated 2,000 persons jammed the small than conciliatory position. At one not one had suffered any damage, to his voronovsky and Mykhailo Sapryha, all Lviv airport to greet the delegations as point, sources reported, when the health. On this same occasion, Mr. ilyin of the Ukrainian Catholic Archeparchy they arrived. The group was welcomed (Continued on page 10) 2 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, MARCH IS, 1990 No. 11 the Ukrainian parliament," "A presi– Democratic..