The Ukrainian Weekly 1987
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f,KAI IS W N I [HRAR-I 01 L0NI3RI :SS .,, ,,vir: HE A1)1N(, K0OM WASHING ION DC -P-O-i IS Vol. LV No. 39 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 27,1987 25 cents U krainian delegation discusses Terelia family arrives in Amsterdam pressing iSSUeS With Mulroney Expected in Canada next week by Michael Bodnririw Nations General Assembly in New - AMSTERDAM — Ukrainian Ca York. tholic lay leader and former political OTTAWA — Prime Minister Brian The meeting was the result of a "long prisoner Yosyp Terelia and his family Mulroney and three members of the standing commitment'* made by Prime spent their first week in freedom in the federal Cabinet met with a delegation of Minister Mulroney to meet with Ukrai Netherlands after arriving here on a Ukrainian community leaders here on nian community leaders, said Vera flight from Moscow on September 18, September 22. Holiad, a spokesman for the prime reported several sources. The 90-minute meeting, held in the minister's office. The 43-year-old dissident left the prime minister's Parliament Hill office, Dr. Cipywnyk and the prime mi Soviet Union with his wife, Olena, and was requested by the Ukrainian Cana nister's office refused to disclose details three children, Marianna, Kalyna and dian Committee to help smooth rela of the meeting. But sources said the Pavlo, on a Dutch visa after the go tions between the federal government discussions included five main points. vernment's help in efforts on the and the Ukrainian community. The They were: Terelias* behalf ended in their emigra delegation also presented a list of • The prosecution of war criminals tion, according to the Rev. Walter Ukrainian community concerns, sources in Canada. Legislation making it easer Dacko of the St. Sophia Religious said. to prosecute war criminals was recently Association in St. Catharines, Ont. passed by the'House of Commons and After some delay, the Canadian Dmytro Cipywnyk, president of the Yosyp Terelia the Senate. The UCC wants to present a government last week granted Mr. UCC, said the meeting achieved "signi camp in February, the religious leader ficant results." He would not elaborate. list of Soviet*war criminals for prose Terelia a ministerial permit, a rene has repeatedly requested permission to Members of the federal Cabinet at the cution. wable document allowing the family immigrate to Canada with his family. meeting were: Justice Minister Ramon • Access to the prime minister and residence in Canada for a year, accord Mr, Terelia, who spent some 20 years Hnatyshyn; Fisheries and Oceans Mi ing to Len Westerberg, press secretary (Continued on page 16) in Soviet prisons, camps and psychiatric nister Thomas Siddon; and Multicul- to Minister of State (Immigration) turalism Minister David Crombie. ^ Gerry Weiner. hospitals for his religious activity, is (Continued on page 16) External Affairs Minister Joe Clark Since his early release from labor was expected to attend but cancelled at Demjanjuk trial the last minute because of a scheduled Rumors about release of Shukhevych not true speech at the opening of the United resumes October 26 JERSEY CITY, N.J. — As The to transport prisoners is a special JERUSALEM — The Nazi war Ukrainian Weekly was going to one, and not the most direct route, so Pope addresses crimes trial of John Demjanjuk will press, it was learned from highly that transit may last an unusually resume here on October 26. The trial reliable sources that rumors about long time. has been in recess due to the illness of the early release of Yuriy Shukhevych, At this lime Mr. Shukhevych kindred Ukrainians one of three judges hearing the case. known in the West as "the eternal remains in his place of internal exile, Judge Zvi Tal, 57, suffered a heart prisoner** are not true. Lesnaya Dacha, in the Tomsk oblast in Hamtramck attack on September 2. The trial had Mr. Shukhevych was recently told in Siberia. Mr. Shukhevych has spent 35 HAMTRAMCK, Mich—During been set to resume on September 7after by Soviet authorities that his term years of his life in Soviet prisons, his September 19 visit to the largely a 19-day recess. ends on January 10, 1988. His term, labor camps and internal exile. He Slavic enclave of Hamtramck, just At a September 16 meeting between as handed down by a Soviet court was first arrested at the age of 15 for outside Detroit, Pope John Paul II, presiding Judge Dov Levin and lawyers was due to expire in March 1988, but, refusing to renounce his father, Gen. addressed the Ukrainians present in Yoram Sheftel of the defense and in accordance with Soviet law, time Roman Shukhevych of the Ukrai the Ukrainian language. Michael Horowitz of the prosecution, it spent in transit from a camp to the place of exile is subtracted from the nian Insurgent Army. He prefaced his remarks with was decided that the proceedings would term of exile. Each day in transit While imprisoned Mr. Shukhevych several words in Polish: resume on October 26, reported The counts as three days. The route used joined the Ukrainian Helsinki Group. "I extend a word of cordial greet Jerusalem Post. ing to all our brothers and sisters Due to Judge Tal's recuperation, from other Slavic nations and, in sessions will be held in the mornings particular, from the kindred Ukrai only, with afternoon sessions being Miss America is of Ukrainian descent cancelled for the time being. nian community who are always ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. — Kaye Press. present at such gatherings in large Before the resumption of the trial, Lani Rae Rafko, 24, of Monroe, Mich., The exotic name did foster Ms. numbers." representatives of the defense and has been chosen the new Miss America Rafko's interest in the dance. During Then, in Ukrainian, the pontiff prosecution will travel to Germany to for 1988. She is of Ukrainian descent. the talent part of the Miss America take testimony of two defense witnesses, said: Miss Rafko was named the new Miss competition, Miss Rafko performed a Rudolf Reiss in Hamburg and Rudolf "In a special way, I cordially greet America on September !9 in Atlantic Hawaiian-Tahitian dance in traditional Ritter in Mannheim. Both men were in the entire Ukrainian community of City, N.J. garb. Detroit. You are close to my heart as the SS and were part of the Trawniki A green-eyed brunette, Ms. Rafko is you solemnly celebrate the Millen camp administration. a registered i uise and received her nium of Christianity in Kievan Rus' The Jerusalem Post also reported INSIDE: diploma in i985 from St, Vincent and in Ukraine. From the depths of that defense lawyers John Gill and Paul Medical Center. The media has report • Son. Bill Bradley's speech at my Slavic heart, I bless all the sons Chumak were in Poland where they ed that she hopes to use her pageant the Chautauqua Conference on and daughters of St. Volodymyr the questioned witnesses. Mr. Sheftel, winnings to get a master's degree in U.S.-Soviet relations — page 5. Great and St. Olha, as well as all the meanwhile, is scheduled to go to the oncology after her tenure as Miss • A Ukrainian lawyer speaks out faithful of the Church in Ukraineand United States to locate eyewitnesses. America and to eventually open her about the ABA convontion and the diaspora." The defense will reportedly call own hospice. unsuccessful resolution to abrogate Detroit correspondent Myrosia British documents expert Julius Grant its agreement with the Association Stefaniuk's detailed coverage of the when the trial reopens. Mr. Grant, who Although she is of Ukrainian descent, papal visit to the Detroit area, with is Britain's foremost documents expert, with some Irish and Welsh thrown in of Soviet Lawyers — page 7. photographs, will appear in the next was in Israel earlier this month to her name is not. Her mother borrowed • Mits Soyuzivka 1988: and issue of The Ukrainian Weekly examine the Trawniki identification the name Kaye Lam from a high school the winner is... — page 9. (Continued on page 13) friend, according to the Detroit Free 2 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 1987 No. 39 A GLIMPSE OF SOVIET REALITY Three religious dissidents reported dead in USSR Workers are leaving sinking ship JERSEY CITY, N.J. — The deaths Ms. Germaniuk had worked since the of three Soviet religious dissidents, early 1970s as a member of the unre including two Ukrainians, were report gistered Baptists* Council of Prisoners' at Slavutych construction project ed recently by two Western human- Relatives, which provides information rights watch groups. about Baptist prisoners and gives aid to by David R. Marples had shown "an irresponsible attitude Ulyana Germaniuk, a 56-year-old their families. toward the timely construction of unregistered Baptist from the Kharkiv The religious dissident was arrested The July 1987 Plenum of the Kiev social-domestic structures." region in Ukraine, died of cancer on on July 23, 1985, and charged with Oblast Committee of the Communist By this time, however, other articles July 3, only three months after her "anti-Soviet slander" under Article 187- Party of Ukraine, which was addressed about Slavutych were focusing on the release from labor camp, according to 1 of the Ukrainian SSR Criminal Code. by Ukrainian First Party Secretary deplorable state of affairs both in Keston College in Keston, England. Consequently she was sentenced to Volodymyr Shcherbytsky and Kiev construction work and in the provision three years* oridinary-regimen labor First Party Secretary Hryhory Re- of social amenities for the workers camp. venko, pointed out the "serious miscal involved. The Kiev Oblast Komsomol Stcpan Germaniuk, the dissident's culations" in the plans for the building Committee organized a "raid" on the husband, reported in the spring of 1986 of the city of Slavutych in northern city of late June 1987 to ascertain what that his wife was extremely ill and.