Published by the Ukrainian National Association Inc I I c, a fraternal non- profit association I B±- ramian 2±ь- Vol. L No. 39 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, SEPTEMBEИR 26.1982 v 25 cents UNA Supreme Assembly meets; Reagan signs proclamation organizing strategy is main topic KERHONKSON, N.Y. - Recom­ Odezynsky, Eugene Iwanciw (newly honoring Kiev Helsinki Group mendations for solving both short- and elected), Walter Hawrylak (newly elect­ WASHINGTON - President Ro­ citizens" serves as "proof that the long-range organizing problems of the ed), Walter K was (newly elected), Tekla nald Reagan signed a proclamation Soviet Union has failed to live up to Ukrainian National Association were Moroz, Andrew Keybida (newly elect­ here on September 21 officially its pledges to honor the understand­ the main topics of discussion at an ed), Anna Haras, Taras Maksymowich designating November 9 as a day ings embodied in the Helsinki Ac­ extraordinary session of the new Su­ (newly elected), Askold Lozynskyj, honoring the members of the Ukrai­ cords." preme Assembly, elected Mt the 30th Wasyl Didiuk and William Pastuszek nian Helsinki Group, most of whom Instrumental in the passage of the Regular Convention in Rochester, (newly elected). are in Soviet labor camps or exile. resolution by both houses of Con­ N.Y., last May. The president issued the proclama­ gress was the New Jersey-based Supreme president's remarks The meeting, which was attended by tion without any special White House Americans for Human Rights in all 26 members of the UNA's highest Mr. Fib opened the meeting and ceremonies. The signing was report­ Ukraine. Members of the organiza­ governing body, was held here at the welcomed all the Supreme Assembly ed by the Associated Press the next tion kept in close contact with the UNA resort, Soyuzivka, during the members, reminding them that the day. sponsors of the resolution and urged September 18-19 weekend. positions they hold are not only a great Mr. Reagan signed the proclama­ other members of Congress to sup­ port the measure. Other topics discussed during the honor, but also a great responsibility. tion in accordance with House Con­ weekend meeting included the merger "Four hundred delegates at the 30th current Resolution 205, which called In addition to its lobbying efforts, of the UNA and the Ukrainian Fra­ Regular Convention gave us not only on the president to set aside No­ the AHRU called on Ukrainian ternal Association (UFA), and the the titles of Supreme Assembly officers, vember 9 as a day honoring the community members to write their definitive formation of the UNA Cul­ but put the fate of the Ukrainian group, which monitors Soviet com­ representatives and senators urging tural Foundation. National Association, which has been pliance with the human-rights provi­ their support, and later collected John O. Flis, the re-elected president serving its members, the Ukrainian sions of the 197S Helsinki Accords. signatures on a petition calling on the of the UNA, stated in his introductory community and the Ukrainian nation This November 9 will mark the sixth president to proclaim the commemo­ remarks that although the UNA By­ faithfully for almost 90 years, in our anniversary of the group. rative day. laws do not call for an annual meeting hands." The resolution, which was ori­ Proclamation of the Supreme Assembly during a The Supreme Assembly, Mr. Flis ginally introduced in the House on convention year, a previous convention added, must guarantee the further October 21, 1981, and was intended The spontaneous formation on had recommended this practice to help growth of the UNA. He went on to say to mark the Helsinki group's fifth November 9, 1976, in Kiev, Ukraine, newly elected members acquaint them­ that the weekend session would enable anniversary, did not pass until last of the Ukrainian Public Group to selves with the workings of the organi­ participants to hear about the UNA's May. The measure, sponsored by Promote the Implementation of the zation. difficulties and failures. By recognizing Reps. Bernard J. Dwyer aad Christo­ Helsinki Accords affirmed once Attending this first meeting of the them, and overcoming them, the Su­ pher Smith, both of New Jersey, had more that the human spirit cannot be newly elected assembly were members preme Assembly will ensure the growth to be modified to pertain to this crushed and that the desire for year's anniversary. of the Supreme ExecutivewCommittee: of the UNA, he said. - human freedom cannot be con­ Supreme President Flis, Supreme Vice Mr. Flis stated that these difficulties The Senate passed the resolution quered. President Myron Kuropas, Supreme and problems are not new; they have on June 21. The long prison terms meted out to Director for Canada Sen. Paul Yuzyk, always existed in various forms, for In addition to asking the presi­ members of the Ukrainian Helsinki newly elected Supreme Vice Presiden- various reasons. They have increased dent to proclaim the anniversary, the Monitoring Group for their coura­ tess Gloria Paschen, Supreme Secretary because of the general economic situa­ resolution called on Mr. Reagan to geous activities to secure greater Walter Sochan, Supreme Treasurer tion, the age of UNA workers and the work for the release of imprisoned freedom in Ukraine are graphic Ulana Diachuk and newly elected lack of interest shown by the younger Ukrainian Helsinki monitors, and to testimony to the inability of commu­ Supreme Organizer Stefan Hawrysz. generations, he said. demand an end to Soviet persecution nism to compete with the principles Also present were Supreme Auditors After his remarks, Mr. Flis asked the of national" and human-rights acti­ of freedom in the marketplace of Nestor' Olesnycky and Anatole Doro- Rev. Bilak to lead the assembled in vists in Ukraine. ideas. The flagrant persecution and shenko, both newly elected, John prayer, asking God for His guidance to In his proclamation, the full text of imprisonment of Ukrainian citizens Hewryk, Bohdan Hnatiuk and the Very ensure the success of the meeting. which appears below, Mr. Reagan for their attempts to exercise basic Rev. Stephen Bilak. All 14 supreme Mr. Flis then resumed conduct of the said that the "flagrant persecution human rights is an international advisors were also present: Helen Olek, meeting, informing all that the sessions and imprisonment of Ukrainian embarrassment to the Soviet Union Taras Szmagala, Andrew Jula, John and proof that the Soviet Union has (Continued oc pep 8) failed to live up to its pledges to honor the understandings embodied in the Helsinki Accords. In commemorating this sixth anni­ versary of the founding of the Ukrai­ nian Helsinki Monitoring Group, we renew our determination never to forget the valiant struggle of the peoples of Ukraine for their in­ alienable rights, and we pledge to do all we can to ameliorate the plight of those Ukrainians who have been persecuted by the Soviet authorities for attempting to assert their rights. By concurrent resolution agreed to on June 21, 1982 (H. Con. Res. 205), the Congress authorized and requested the president to proclaim November 9,1982, the sixth anniver- (Coetinotd on pap 13) Tbe. UNA Supreme Assembly 4rt Soyuzivka. THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY. SEPTEMBER 26,1982 No. 39 Dissident profile Leading Polish dissident flies home Ivan Kandyba: to face regime's sedition charges WARSAW - A lading Polish dissi­ in late spring to go to London for defiant nationalist dent intellectual flew home on Septem­ treatment of a heart condition. ber 15 to voluntarily face charges by the Shortly after the August 31 demon­ strations, which were called by under­ JERSEY CITY, N.J. - Impri­ military authorities of plotting to ground Solidarity leaders to mark the soned Helsinki monitor and lawyer overthrow the regime by force, reported second anniversary of the birth of the Ivan Kandyba, 52, a staunch Ukrai- The New York Times. movement in the Gdansk shipyard tn nian nationalist, has been intimately "My friends are all inside and I agreements, the government announced linked with Ukrainian political and should be with them," Jan Jozef Lipski, the arrest of four prominent intellectuals human-rights causes since the mid- a history professor who was receiving on charges of trying to topple the 1950s, when he and like-minded medical treatment in London, told government. activists began taking tentative steps welcomers at the airport. "I must towards the realization of Ukrainian return." The four were Jacek Kuron, a KOR statehood. And, like most of his Mr. Lipski is one of six members of leader and a prominent advisor to compatriots, he has paid dearly for the dissident group KOR to be charged Solidarity leader Lech Walesa, Adam his valor and his vision. by the government after the August 31 Michnik, a historian; Jan Litynski, a demonstrations with offenses that could philosopher and editor of an under­ On March 24, 1981, Mr. Kandyba ground newspaper, and Henryk Wujec, was picked up by Soviet authorities bring the death penalty. The charges, part of a crackdown on a mathematician and union official in in Pustomyny, a town near Lviv in Warsaw. western Ukraine. Exactly four months political unrest by the authorities, were later a Lviv court sentenced him to 10 accompanied by a campaign to blame Mr. Lipski and another leading years' imprisonment and five years' intellectuals for the country's political intellectual who was out of the country, internal exile. It was the second 15- problems. Miroslaw Chojecki, head of the dissi­ year term for the World War II Mr. Lipski labelled as "absurd" dent publishing house Nowa, were also veteran, who had been living under government charges that dissident named in the charges. administrative surveillance since his intellectuals, many of whom became release from a labor camp in 1976.