The Ukrainian Weekly 1987

Published by the Ukrainian National Association Inc.. a fratTnal non-profit association| rainianWeel;lY Vol. LV No.5 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 1,1987 25 cent3 Supreme Court denies Linnas' petition Buchanan honored in Chicago JERSEY CITY, N.J. - The Su Meese could stop the deportation. preme Court on Tuesday, January 27, Ms. Razgaitis also told The Weekly as Man of the Year denied Karl Linnas' petition for a that ADP is currently lobbying mem rehearing, thus clearing the way for his bers of Congress and showing an ADP- by Marianna Liss deportation to the Soviet Union, where produced videotape on the Linnas case Mr. Linnas faces the death peanlty. The in an effort to block his deportation. CH1CAGO ~ Patrick J. Buchanan, court did not disclose the vote break Various East European groups are special assistant to the president and down. supporting the effort by phoning the White House director of communica Death was the sentence handed down White House and asking that Mr. tions, received the Man of the Year in 1962 by a Soviet court after Mr. Linnas, an Estonian, not be sent to face Award from the Ukrainian Congress Linnas was tried in absentia and found a certain death. Committee of America, lUinois Divi guilty of Nazi war crimes. The verdict Among the groups opposing Mr. sion, during the annual Ukrainian was announced in the Soviet press even Linnas'deportation to the Soviet Union 1ndependence Day dinner. The event before the trial had begun. is Amnesty International, a worldwide took place in Rosemont, a suburb of Final approval for deportation to the human-rights organization that has Chicago, on January 25. USSR, however, still has to be given by spoken up on the Linnas case because of Chicago attorney Julian Kulas acted Attorney General Edwin Meese, said its opposition to the death penalty. as master of ceremonies. He comment Rasa Razgaitis, national coordinator of The Supreme Court first turned ed, in introducing Mr. Buchanan, that Americans for Due Process (ADP). She down Mr. Linnas' appeal on December the communications director was an added that President Ronald Reagan, 1, 1986, by a vote of 6 to 3 (one vote expert on the history of Russian Com Secretary of State George Shultz or Mr. (Continued on page 15) munism and shared the aspirations of Ukrainians and other enslaved nations. Presenting the award was Dr. Myro- Ukrainian EvangeliGal Alliance leader, slaw Charkewyczv state pFesident x)f the UCCA. He expressed appreciation for Pastor VVladimir Borowsky, dies Mr. Buchanan's public stands against questionable agreements with the DUNWOODY, Ga. - The Rev. and served as editor-in-chief of Evange Soviet Union and for supporting the Wladimir Borowsky, executive secre lical Morning (Evanhelsky Ranok), the president. Mr. Buchanan was given the Patrick Buchanan tary of the Ukrainian Evangelical periodical pubHshed by the Ukrainian award for his courage in bringing up blinka, the death camp were Mr. Dem Alliance of North America, died here on Evangelical Alliance of North America, issues of controversy and concern to all January 25. He was 80 years old. as well as its English-language supple janjuk \yas supposed to have been, do Americans, and Ukrainian Americans not have his name on them; some He was also a pastor in the Ukrai ment, The Ukrainian Christian Herald. in particular. nian Evangelical-Reformed Church He was born on January 18, 1907,in witnesses say that a camp guard named Mr. Buchanan, in accepting the 1van died in 1943; and the Polish Zinkiv, western Ukraine. He comp1eted award, shared his personal views on the theological studies in 1931 in Viensburg, government has not allowed the defense use of Soviet evidence in American attorney to interview witnesses. Alvin Kapusta, western Poland. In 1932 he was or courts, specifically in the John Demjan- dained a pastor of the Ukrainian Evan Expressing his own opinion on the juk case. Mr. Demjanjuk is now await matter, and not that of the U.S. govern gelical-Reformed Church in western ing trial in 1srael on war crimes charges. Soviet specialist, Ukraine. ment or the Reagan administration, he He was persecuted by Polish authori Stating that Mr. Demjanjuk is inno urged Ukrainians not to abandon Mr. dead at 57 ties in western Ukraine for his involve cent, Mr. Buchanan said, "He is a tragic Demjanjuk and his family. He appealed ment in P1ast, a Ukrainian youth victim of American gullibility and of to the mass media to keep an open mind Soviet malice." He reviewed the evi about the case, and not to assume the WASH1NGTON - Alvin Kapusta, organization, as well as other Ukrai nian organizations. dence against the man, repeating some man to be guilty. the U.S. State Department's first special of his previous arguments: he contends assistant for Soviet nationalities, who His pastoral work was interrupted by Referring to other sensational cases the Soviet invasion of western Ukraine, that many of the eyewitness accounts of suspected war criminals suchas those retired in 1985 after 30 years of service have been contradictory; the Soviet for the U.S. government, died here on and he and his family fled the country. of Polish-born Chicagoan Frank After Wor1d War 11 he resumed his supplied 1.D. card is in question; camp Walus; Ivan Stebelsky a Ukrainian January 25. He was 57. transfer lists from Trawniki to Tre- Mr. Kapusta organized the Soviet (Continued on page 12) (Continued on page 9) Nationalities Division in the Office for Analysis of the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe. Koryagin describes prison conditions in smuggled notes Mr. Kapusta was born January 13, JERSEY C1TY, N.J. - Notes appa to the Working Commission on the 1930, in Max, N.D., to a family of rently written by imprisoned Soviet Abuse of Psychiatry for Political Pur eastern Ukrainian emigrants who had psychiatrist Anatoly Koryagin detailing poses. He was sentenced to seven years f1ed tsarist Russia to escape persecution the harsh conditions of his incarcera in a strict-regimen labor camp and five for their Baptist beliefs. 1n North tion were reportedly smuggled out of years' internal exile for "anti-Soviet Dakota he comp1eted his undergra the Soviet Union and reached the West agitation and propaganda" and was duate education in secondary education late last year, reported The New York sent to the Perm prison system in the and taught school there for two years. limes. Urals. 1n January 1986 his sentence was After returning from service in the extended by two years for "resisting Korean War, Mr. Kapusta comp1eted The notes, which were reportedly representatives of authority who are his graduate studies at the University of written by the 48-year-old dissident designated to preserve public order." California at Berkeley where he re from Kharkiv, Ukraine, who is well The notes containing the description ceived a master's degree in Slavic known for his opposition to the use of of his imprisonment were received languages and literatures. psychiatry for political purposes, des through the Bukovsky Foundation Prior to his entry on duty at the State cribed how he has been in solitary based in Amsterdam and were trans Department, he had served two years confinement for three years, on a lated into English by Freedom House in with the U.S. Army, including an hunger strike for two years and con New York, the Times reported. assignment with the 302nd Military fined to a punishment cell for half a "1 am waging my struggle for the Intelligence Company, a prisoner-of year, the Times wrote. rights of political prisoners, for their war interrogation unit. Mr. Koryagin was arrested on Feb human dignity, for their lives and (Continued on page 12) Anatoly Koryagin ruary 2, 198 i, for his work as consultant (Continued on page 2) THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 1987 No.5 A GLIMPSE OF SOVIET REALITY З00 LatvJan youths demonstrate ROCKVILLE, Md. - Approxima the Soviet occupation in 1940), passed tely З00 Latvian youths marched down the Latvian Monument of Liberty and Ukrainian writers continue push the main street of Riga, Latvia, at headed northeast along the three-lined midnight, December27,1986,shouting, boulevard toward a Soviet-built statue "Down with Soviet Russia! Freedom in of Lenin. The entire path of the march for status of native language a Free Latvia." could be seen from the 27-story Hotel by Roman Solchanyk confronted him with the "testimony" of Western tourists, who witnessed the Latvija, which is located across the one of the witnesses for the prosecution, demonstration from their Intourist street from the Lenin statue. Picking up where they left off last who confidently asserted: "I knew right hotel windows, reported that a police June at their congress, Ukrainian away that Stus is a nationalist because car was overturned with passengers Eyewitnesses report that the local writers are continuing to push for an he always spoke Ukrainian." inside. It is believed that the youths were police kept a low profile during the improvement in the over-all status of The difference now is that the current returning from a rock concert in the Old demonstration, although it is believed the native language in Ukraine. The campaign for glasnost has made it Town section of the city. The youths that at least four arrests were made. venue this time was a plenum of the possible for such "negative phenomena" marched down Lenin Boulevard After reaching the Lenin statue the board of the Ukrainian Writers'Union to be discussed on the pages of the (known as Freedom Boulevard prior to crowd dispersed into the city streets. convened in Kiev on November 18, Soviet press.

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