www.ukrweekly.com IIshed by the Ukrainian National Association Inc.. a fraternal non-profit associition| Шrainian WeeI:I у Vol. LV No.30 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JULY 26, 1987 25 cents Pope invited Horyn freed from notorious Perm camp No. 36-1 JERSEY CITY, N.J. - AiUng U- men camp in May. to visit Kiev krainian dissident Mykhailo Horyn was Ms. Svitlychna said the dissident, a freed on July 3 from labor camp, nine psychologist, returned to his hometown for IVIіIIеппіит years before his term was due to expire, of Lviv on July 5. Both he and his wife, JERSEY CITY, N.J. - The Kiev Ci­ savs the External Representation of the 01ha, are reportedly very ill. ty Soviet Executive Committee has in­ Ukrainian Helsinki Group. He is Mr. Horyn was arrested on Decem­ vited Pope John Paul II to visit Kiev apparently the second of some 20 ber 3, 1981, and sentenced on Jun"e 14, next summer, reported Vatican Radio's political prisoners, labelled by the I982, to 10 years'special-regimen labor Lithuanian language service on July 13. Soviets as "especially-dangerous recidi­ camp and five years' internal exile for The invitation was given to a Floren­ vists" (repeat offenders), to be released "anti-Soviet agitation and propaganda" tine delegation visiting its sister city - early from the notoriously harsh Perm under Article 62 of the Ukrainian SSR Kiev - in mid July. The delegation was special-regimen labor camp No. 36-1. Criminal Code. instructed to pass on a letter to Arch­ The first, Leonid Borodin of Mos­ The dissident, who was previously bishop Silvano Piovanelli of Florence, cow, was freed June 25. incarcerated from 1965 to 1972, was who, in turn was to extend an invitation The circumstances surrounding the born in the Lviv 0blast. He studied in to the pontiff to visit Kiev, the birth­ release of the 57-year-old Ukrainian the philology faculty at Lviv University place of Christianity in Ukraine, for the national rights advocate are yet un­ and later taught Ukrainian literature Millennium celebrations. known, reported Nadia Svitlychny, and language as well as logic and leader of the External Representation. psychology. The invitation from the mayor of She said it is not known whether he was He was also director for high schools Kiev comes as a surprise in light of the freed by official decree or was forced to for the Drohobych region. From 1961 fact that Moscow has twice said in sign any statements, as had been re­ until his first arrest, he worked as an recent weeks that it has no plans to quired of many of the political dissi­ industrial psychologist in the USSR's Mykhailo Horyn invite the Pope for religious observan­ dents freed by decree since February. first experimental psychology/ physio­ Ukrainian collective farm workers. ces scheduled for next year, reported Mr. Horyn suffered a heart attack logy lab at a Lviv truck factory. During his imprisonment in Mordo­ Reuters on July 22. this spring and was transferred to a In 1965, he was arrested during a via, Mr. Horyn wrote several pieces on "We are ready for dialogue with a11 prison hospital in his place of arrest, crackdown on the Ukrainian intelli­ the colonization of Ukraine which religious organizations but it is well­ Lviv, Ukraine, for treatment, reported gentsia. Later, he was sentenced to six appeared in samvydav, underground known to everyone that the Vatican USSR News Brief in April. In Lviv, he years in a labor cxamp after being found dissident publications. As a result, does not recognize the state frontiers of was asked to write or sign a statement guilty of "anti-Soviet agitation and prison officials placed him in solitary our country and constantly empha­ promising to refrain from national propaganda" during a closed trial. confinement several times. sizes this,'' said Konstantine Kharchev, rights activities in return for his release. At his trial, he spoke out aginst After his release, Mr. Horyn was only chairman of the Soviet Union's Council Mr. Horyn reportedly refused and was Russification, official discrimination allowed to work at several manual­ (Continued on page 16) promptly returned to the special-regi­ against Ukrainians and the fate of labor jobs. O'Connor fired in shake-up War crimes legislation withdrawn OTTAWA - Justice Minister Ra­ Mr. Hnatyshyn said he needed the of Demjanjuk defense team mon Hnatyshyn has unexpectedly with­ new law to prosecute certain "particu­ drawn legislation that would have lar" cases under investigation by the JERUSALEM -JohnDemjanjuk,oh resignation lu the israeii court on made it easier to prosecute suspected Royal Canadian Mounted Police that trial in Israel on charges that he commit Sunday, July 19, after he had been Nazi war criminals still alive in Canada cannot be prosecuted under the existing ted war crimes at a Nazi death camp, notified that Mr. Demjanjuk wanted to and closed Canada's borders to war Criminal Code. formally dismissed his chief legal coun­ dismiss him. He will be replaced by his criminals. The campaign to generate support for sel just one week before the defense is assistants, Yoram Sheftel, an Israeli the bill brought protests from two lawyer originally hired to give Mr. The legislation was withdrawn in the scheduled to present its case. last few minutes before the House of Ukrainian members of Parliament, who O'Connor advice on Israeli legal proce­ planned to break the all-party agree­ Mr. Demjanjuk, who had five days to dures, and John Gill, an American. Commons adjourned for a two-month make a final decision on the matter, summer recess on June 30. There were ment that would have given speedy The hearing on whether or not Mr. decided to replace Mark J. O'Connor, only five minutes left until the deadline passage to the war criminals bill. O'Connor would be dismissed only despite a judge's warning that the trial when Mr. Hnatyshyn presented his The two MPs, Andrew NViter and lasted 15 minutes, but Mr. Sheftel would not be postponed to give his legislation for a second reading. Alex Kindy, both of whom have sizeab­ other extra counsel time to prepare his earlier had spent an hour-and-a-half le Eastern European communities in defense. The trial will resume on July behind closed doors with the judges. Mr. Hnatyshynobtained an all-party their constituencies, said the bill re­ 27. "The decision to replace the counsel is agreement to speed the legislation quired more discussion before it is enac­ Mr. O'Connor had given his letter of in our hands " The New York Times through the House of Commons. He ted. reported presiding Judge Dov Levin as was also urged by Jewish groups to The actions of the two MPs angered saying at the hearing. "We can accept it, introduce the bill as soon as possible. (Continued on page16) and we can refuse to accept it, especially if it is contingent on postponing the rest of the trial." Lubachivskyto take part in synod Mr. Demjanjuk shook hands with JERSEY CITY, N.J. - Ukrainian church officials from around the wor1d Mr. O'Connor when he entered the Catholic Cardinal Myroslaw Luba- will take part in the month-long synod. court, but stated, "1 want to announce chivsky will join 12 church leaders from The synod is scheduled to discuss the that I am interested in replacing Mr. Eastern Europe in a synod of bishops in ro1e of lay people in the church and on O'Connor, regardless of the continu­ Rome in October, according to a Vati­ ways to deal with political, economic ation of the trial." can statement. and social justice issues. Mr. Demjanjuk has been accused of Cardinal Lubachivsky, who is arch­ The synod will include church offi­ being "Ivan the Terrible" the sadistic bishop major of Lviv, but lives in Rome, cials from Poland, Rumania, Hungary, camp guard at the Treblinka death was named by Pope John Paul П on Bulgaria and Czechoslovakia. A Lat­ camp in Poland. Mr. Demjanjuk has July 23 as one of the three delegate" pre­ vian cardinal and Lithuanian arch­ asserted that he was never at the camp sidents to moderate the debate. bishop will also participate. and he is a victim of mistaken identity. The synods are held every three years In addifion to Cardinal Lubachivsky, Prescni aI mc ncarmg were ivir. iJe- to inform and counsel the Pontiff on two Ukrainian Catholic church leaders mjanjuk's wife, Vera, his son John, Jr., issues facing the church. More than 230 from North America will be at the Mark O'Connor and his son-in-law Ed Nishnic. Catholic cardinals, bishops and other meeting. THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JULY 26, 1987 No.30 Unofficial youth groups featured A GUMPSE OF SOVIET REALITY in Soviet Ukrainian press LONDON - Two recent Soviet strong, we will apply to join the Komso­ L VІV journal demands publication Ukrainian newspaper reports in Ra- mol as a group." Danko members also dianska Ukraina and Kultura і Zhyttia complained about the high level of of missing historical materials have highlighted the activity of unof­ bureaucracy that made them less in­ by Roman Solchanyk Specifically, V. Kliuchevskii treated the ficial groups of teenagers in Ukraine. clined to join the Komsomol. reunification of the Ukraine with Rus­ The authorities are worried at their Radianska Ukraina described the If the Russians can publish Kliuchev- sia from chauvinist positions. S. growth and are unsure how to tackle the divergent objectives of the Komsomol skii, who viewed Ukrainian-Russian Soloviev was a protaganist of the rising problem of youth discontent, and unofficial youth groups, such as relations from a chauvinist stand­ Norman theory of the origins of Rus' reported the Ukrainian Press Agency Danko.