www.ukrweekly.com СВОБОДА 4^ SVOBODA І І rainian Week! PUBUSHED BY THE UKRAINIAN NATIONAL ASSOCIATION INC. A FRATERNAL, NON-PROFIT ASSOCIATION V Vol. t ШNo. 5 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JANUARY 31, 1982 25 cents U.S. said to plan long Madrid recess Svitlychny suffers second stroke; to protest martial law in Poland AI requests urgent action NEW YORK NY. - The United resolution condemnirg the crackdown SAN FRANCISCO - Amnesty States is planning several measures, in Poland when the 42-member U.N. International, which monitors human- including a prolonged recess of the Human Rights Commission meets rights abuses worldwide, has recently Madrid Conference on East-West secu­ February 1 to March 12 in Geneva. placed exiled Ukrainian dissident Ivan rity and cooperation, to demonstrate its The principal American gesture, Svitlychny on its urgent action list, and opposition to the imposition of martial however, will be made at Madrid, where has called for his immediate release law in Poland, administration officials 33 European countries, Canada and the after learning that he is desperately ill. disclosed on January 23, reported The United States have been negotiating Mr. Svitlychny, 52, reportedly suffer­ New York Times. since November 1980 to enlarge the ed a stroke on December 17, just four The Madrid Conference, which is in Helsinki process. months after undergoing emergency recess, is scheduled to reconvene on Last December, they appeared to be surgery to remove a blood clot on his February 9. The United States is urging close to an agreement that would brain which left his left side partially the Western allies to adopt a plan under expand "confidence-building measures" paralyzed. He is said to'be in critical which the talks would concentrate for a which would require the Soviet Union condition, and AI has learned that his week to 10 days on Western charges of to give advance notice of troop move­ wife has expressed concern that he is not Soviet breaches of the 1975 Helsinki ments and maneuvers as far east as the getting the proper medical attention"in Accords on security and human rights, Ural Mountains and impose a similar his place of internal exile in the Gorno- then would recess until September or obligation on NATO forces as far west Altaisk region; some 3,640 kilometers' October. as the air and sea space adjoining east of Moscow. It would make no sense for the West Europe. ' „ A leading literary critic and scholar, to negotiate new agreements at Madrid, Even before the declaration of a state Mr. Svitlychny was one of a group of American officials said, While the So vie t of .emergency in Poland by Gen. Woj- young intellectuals who spearheaded bloc was violating existing agreements, ciech Jaruzelski on December 13, the revival in the public and cultural life Inn Svitlychny the Times reported. several Western delegations .urged of Ukraine in the 1960s. Under conference proceedings, a suspension of the talks because of After a long period of harassment by followed by five years' internal exile. unanimous vote is required to suspend continued Soviet violations of human the authorities for his dissenting activi- While in internal exile, Mr. Svitly­ the negotiations. American officials are rights, the Afghanistan invasion, fies^ Mr. Svitfychny was arrested on chny suffered from kidney ailments and confident, however, that agreement by threatening war games on the Polish January' 12, 1972, during a major high blood pressure. On August 20, the Western allies would leave the East border and the jamming of Western crackdown on Ukrainian dissidents. 1981, he suffered his first stroke. bloc no choice but to suspend the talks. broadcasts into East Europe and the Convicted of "anti-Soviet agitation AI has previously campaigned for At the same time, the Times reported, USSR. and propaganda," he was sentenced to Mr. Svitlychny's release as a prisoner of the administration intends to seek a (Continued on page IS) seven years in a labor camp to be conscience, but because of the gravity of his illness, it is urging the Soviet government to release him immediately under Article 100 of the RSFSR Cor­ Kowalchuk trial stirs hostility and "residual hate" rective Labor Code. The article states PHILADELPHIA - As the de- that prisoners suffering from mental At times, Jewish spectators in the vestigations, which is charged with illness "or other serious illness prevent­ naturalization trial of Serge Kowal­ gallery — some members of the the investigation of alleged war ing the serving of their sentence, can be chuk draws to a close, open hostility militant Jewish Defense League - criminals and collaborators. freed by a court from serving their and bitterness between members of threaten Mr. Kowalchuk. In her column, Ms. Storck com­ sentence..." this city's Ukrainian and Jewish Ms. Storck describes the scene: ments: "It is startling to watch while communities continue to run high " 'Murderer!1 shouts one man as burly men in those tapes, some of AI recommends that telegrams or over the question of whether the frail, Kowalchuk, gray, bespectacled, them needing translators, accuse a letters be sent before February 19, 61-year-old tailor is indeed, as the stoop-shouldered but immaculately man they haven't seen for 40 years of urging Mr. Svitlychny's release to the Justice Department contends, guilty groomed, enters the room, if they hideous inhumanity. You have to Soviet minister of internal affairs, the of collaboration with the Germans don't get you, we will!' the man wonder, along with the Ukrainian procurator-general of the USSR and during World War II. shouts, and a bailiff edges close." Anti-Defamation League, what kind the Soviet Embassy in Washington. In an article published in the of justice this is, to place Soviet tapes The addresses are: January 19 issue of the Philadelphia These may not be idle threats. Six in an American court." Minister of internal affairs: USSR Inquirer, columnist Dorothy Storck months before Mr. Kowalchuk was Ms. Storck concludes her piece by (SSSR), 103009 Moskva, Ui. Ogarieva describes the palpable rancor and brought to trial on October 19, 1981, saying that whatever the decision of 6, Ministerstvo Vnutrennikh Del SSR, "residual hate" permeating the court­ the JDL picketed his house and the judge, Mr. Kowalchuk's life "has ,Ministru N.A. Shchelokov; room. Prosecution and defense law­ burned two Nazi flags. At the time, been scarred once again, after all this Procurator-general of the USSR: yers presented their closing argu­ Ed Ramov, a spokesman for the time, with the residue of old hatreds." USSR (SSSR), Moskva, Ul. Push- ments on January 18. JDL, warned that if the government To her, the" open antipathy bet­ kinskaya I5A, Prokuratura SSSR, Ordinarily, a citizenship trial did not bring Mr. Kowalchuk to ween Ukrainian and Jew, stemming Generalnomu Prokuroru, A. Rekun- would draw few spectators, Ms. trial, his group would "bring tjuV fronv events^ which happened nearly kovu; Storck wrote, but the proceedings man to Jewish justice." A similar 40yearSHigo, is somewhat tragic in The Embassy of the USSR, 1125- before Judge John P. Fullman are incident in 1980 led to the conviction that it sows the seeds of hatred for 16th N.W., Washington, D.C. 20036. filled to capacity. of three JDL members for aggra­ future generations. "In the second row, behind the vated assault after they attacked and She illustrates this theme in a Kowalchuk family, sit the Ukrai­ beat two of Mr. Kowalchuk's neigh­ poignant final passage: "A small boy INSIDE: nians, determined to protect the bors. sits by his father in a back row. The Kowalchuks as much as possible The Ukrainian community's main father is wearing a yellow armband, from the calumny directed at them objection to the Kowalchuk trial is and so is the child. Ш Interim report on the Madrid from the members of the Jewish that the bulk of the evidence against " 'Look,' the father hisses. 'There Conference - page 7. organizations who fill the back rows, him consists of alleged eyewitness he is, the killer of Jews.' And the boy Ш Ukrainian pro hockey update by many of them wearing the yellow accounts videotaped in the Soviet hunches forward to look. Ihor N. Stelmach - page 9. armband of the Holocaust," wrote Union and leased to the Justice "And you wonder when it will ever Ш A young hockey player's account Ms. Storck. Department's Ottice of Special In­ end." of a visit to the USSR - page 13. 2 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JANUARY 31. 1982 No. 5 Two Pentecostals pontinue АРА reports Soviet doctors hunger strike in JL).S. Embassy continue psychiatric abuses MOSCOW - Two of the seven plight to the hunger strikers, and the NEW YORK - An alarming unofficial monitoring group set up Soviet Pentecostals who took refuge in essential response has been that the number of Soviet citizens continue to after the 1977 Hawaii meeting, has the U.S. Embassy here three and a half problem is an American one. be declared mentally ill and com­ been vitiated through systematic years ago abandoned a total hunger The seven Pentecostals — five Vash- mitted to psychiatric prison hospi­ harassment and arrests. Today, not strike on January 26 after two days chenkos and two members of the Chmy- tals, often being confined with the one member of the group remains without nourishment, reported The khalov family - have been holed up in criminally insane, the American free, most serving long labor-camp New York Times. the embassy since they burst into the Psychiatric Association reported at a terms. press conference before the opening Augustina Vashchenko, 52, and her building past Soviet guards on June 27, Among those testifying about eldest daughter, Lidia, 31, had taken 1978, in a desperate attempt to get the of World Psychiatric Association Soviet violations of the 1977 Hawaii meetings held here in late fall, report­ only tea and high-calorie fruit juice for a Americans to help in their long cam­ resolution were Soviet emigre Victor month, before they decided to begin a paign to leave the Soviet Union.