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The Ukrainian Weekly 1987 Ґ7 IIshed by the Ukrainian National A5s0ciati0n Inc.. a fraternal non-profit association| Шrainian WeeI:I V Vol. LV No.3 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JANUARY 18.1987 25 cent3 Mulroney government prepares for furorHelsink i group formed in Latvia ROCKVILLE, Md. - Documents spiritual values, including those against over Deschenes report recommendationssmuggle d out of Soviet-occupied Latvia our nation itself." by Michael B. Bociurkiw absence of discussion on the report and received by representatives of the It also cites the Latvian SSR constitu­ among senior members of the govern­ Wor1d Federation of Free Latvians tional right "to secede from the Soviet OTTAWA ~ The Prime Minister's ment. (WFFL) in Vienna indicate that a new Union" and asks General Secretary Office is "paranoid" about the potential There are approximately 20copies of Helsinki watch group has been formed Gorbachev to "permit us in our fallout from the soon-to~be-tabled the report in circulation among govern­ in the city of Liepaja. nation to speak and to be understood in report of the Deschenes Commission of ment officials, and all copies are num­ John Finnerty of the Commission on the Latvian language. Permit us, our­ Inquiry on War Criminals and can't bered, the source said. Security and Cooperation in Europe selves, to determine our destiny by decide how to respond to the report's It is known that Justice Jules Desche­ (CSCE) in Washington said, "We are referendum." recommendations, according to a well­ nes has recommended that the govern­ treating it as valid" and indicated this Most of the statements are signed by p1aced government source. ment either convert his commission into development would be brought to the Linards Grantins, Raimonds Bitenieks "There are people in this government a permanent war criminals investigative attention of the delegates at the CSCE and Martins Bariss, while the letter who are surprised at the rfp^ort's recom­ body, or create a special unit within a review meeting in Vienna. addressed to the Soviet and Latvian mendations and don't know how to government department. The documents, dated July 1986 and Communist Party Central committees, handle it," said the source, who express­ Although Justice Deschenes says in signed by a group calling itself "Helsinki includes 15 additional names. Accord­ ed apprehension about the apparent the report that he does not favor the '86" include letters addressed to Pope ing to the source of the documents, Mr. creation of a permanent Nazi-hunting John Paul П, USSR General Secretary Grantins was arrested shortly after the body such as the American Office of Mikhail Gorbachev, Soviet and Latvian formation of the group. Grantins' Special Investigations, sources say it is Communist Party Central Committees, present fate is unknown. clear that he has given the government the United Nations, the U.S. delegates to the option of creating a unit similar to the September 1986 Chautauqua Con­ While individual Latvian human­ the controversial body within the U.S. ference in Latvia and Latvian "country­ rights activists have joined with Soviet Justice Department. men in foreign nations." dissidents in supporting the principles The group protests official Soviet espoused in the Helsinki Final Act, this Meanwhile, there are strong indica­ discrimination against the Latvian is the first time an independent Latvian tions that the Mulroney government is people and their language, stating, Helsinki watch group has been formed. bracing itself for a major political "God has not given such an authority to The WFFL, which monitors human­ imbroglio that is expected to erupt anyone to deny a people their own when the report is released to the public. rights activities in occupied Latvia, language in their own country." It vows states that none of names signed on to Deputy Prime Minister Don Mazan- to "inform international organizations the Helsinki '86 documents have been kowski and Justice Minister Ramon about violations that are being carried associated with dissident activity in the Hnatyshyn have met privately with out against our people's material and past. Ukrainian leaders in recent weeks - apparently to determine the impact the report will have on East European UNA executives hold yearend meeting groups in Canada. Mr. Hnatyshyn quietly convened a Dividends of S825,00O to be paid to members meeting with Ukrainian Canadian Committee officials in Saskatoon on JERSEY CITY, N.J. - The Ukrai­ Dues collected in 1986 tota1led Justice Jules Deschenes (Continued on page 12) nian National Association will pay S2,455,165 (an amount that is greater by dividends of S825,00O to its members S43,625 than in the previous years), and during 1987 in accordance with a investments brought in S5,238,581 Widely acclaimed famine documentary decision of the Supreme Executive (S1,2i5,593 more than in 1985). Committee at its end-of-the-year meet­ questioned on footage authenticity ing on December 29, 1986, at the UNA Soyuzivka income tota1led S958,9O5, headquarters here. but this includes UNA assistance for a sum of S330,000. Svoboda Press income TORONTO ~ An internationally Mr. Tottle urged officials from the The dividends proposal was unani­ acclaimed Ukrainian film which is being Toronto Board of Education to inde­ was S1,O57,662, or S221,334 more than mously passed after a recommendation in the previous year. UNA assistance to considered to teach students here about pendently evaluдte the film before to that effect by the UNA's supreme Soviet ''disinformation," has itself approving it for classroom viewing. His the Svoboda Press operations equalled treasurer, Ulana Diachuk. S640,00O. become the subject of disinformation. remarks caused an uproar at the meet­ The meeting, which was chaired by ing and prompted a stern reply the The film, *'Harvest of Despair," Supreme President John 0. FHs, was Among expenses during 1986, the following day from the film's producers. attended by the following: Supreme increase in death benefits paid out was produced by the Toronto-based Ukrai­ A statement released by the Ukrai­ nian Famine Research Committee, docu­ Vice-Presiderit Myron B. Kuropas, notable. The total paid out was nian Famine Research Committee assert­ Supreme Vice-Presidentess Gloria Pas- S781,881 (an increase of S130,843 over ments the events of the 1932-33 famine ed that the pictures in the film were in Ukraine in which as many as 8 million chen. Supreme Director for Canada the previous year). Matured endow­ taken primarily from newspapers, John Hewryk, Supreme Secretary Wal­ ment certificates also paid more in 1986 people are believed to have di^d. The private archives and a book published authenticity of some of the footage in ter Sochan and Mrs. Diachuk. Also than in 1985, tota1ling S849,214 (an in 1936. Pictures used in the film which present was Zenon Snylyk, editor-in­ increase of S123,273 over the previous the film was questioned in November were not verified, the statement said, 1986 at a Toronto meeting for interested chief of Svoboda. year). Cash surrenders, on the other were used only in cases where "they did The first item on the agenda was hand, decreased by S74,629. citizens and educators on teaching not affect the narrative." The statement about the Ukrainian famine. officers' reports,and the first to speak Soyuzivka expenses yielded a sum of continued: "Despite the limited availa­ was the supreme treasurer, S1,190,513 (an increase of S432,508 over Douglas Tottle, a former editor of a bility of photographs, we have tried to last year). Svoboda Press expenses also Winnipeg labor magazine who claims to be as scrupulously accurate in the use of Supreme treasurer's report grew; they tota1led S 1,056,992 (S22O,648 have spent three years researching the the photographs as possible." more than in 1985). famine, told the November meeting that "Harvest of Despair," released in The supreme treasurer reported that as much as 90 percent of the still photo­ 1984, has garnered several international as of October 31, 1986, UNA assets had The final costs of the UNA senior graphs in the film are of a 1921 famine in awards and has been broadcast by PBS grown to nearly S57 million - to be citizens building at Soyuzivka were paid Ukraine that is believed to have been and the Canadian Broadcasting Corp. exact, S56,939,96O. During the 12­ out. Builders' costs were S273,449; caused by bad weather. He said the The heated debate over the authenti­ month period ending on October 31 architect's fees, S20,00O; other costs not origin of the photographs was a 1922 city of the film continues to this very assets had increased by S3.1 million; included in the building contract, report from Geneva on the Interna­ day, primarily on the letters to the during 1986 alone that sum grew by S2.4 S23,664; carpeting and furnishings, tional Committee for Russian Relief. (Continued OfI page 12) million. (Continued on page 10) THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JANUARY 18, 1987 No.3 A GLIMPSE OF SOVIET REALITY Americans for Human Rights in UIkraine: Statement on deatli of Anatoly Marclienl(o Ukraine's Donets Basin faces Issued on January 12, the Day of Solidarity with Ukrainian Political Prisoners, a day that has been observed since 1974 when former political dilemmas of an old coalfield prisoner Vyacheslav Chornovil went on a hunger strike in memory of the 1972 by David R. Marples past decade had tripled.^ mass arrests of Ukrainian intellectuals, The accidents in the Donbas coalfield Part I0fa two-part article, have not been limited to methane 1t is with great sadness that wc learned about the unfortunate death of a explosions, however. Early in 1985, founding member of the Moscow Helsinki Group, Anatoly Marchenko, in The methane gas explosion that work was under way on reworking the Christopol prison on December 8, 1986, as a result of a hunger strike.
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