The Ukrainian Weekly 1983

co XJ Published by the Ukrainian National Association Inc., a fraternal non-profit association! X`c a ХПД о -і я or`c Z > 1 v О o-r ozc rainian Weekly P 2 Vol. LI No. 18 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, MAY 1, 1983 ЇБ cents Neutrals protest Madrid inaction Ukrainian rights group cautions MADRID - A group of countries concern of the neutral and non-aligned that consider themselves neutral or non- countries, but did not respond with any bishops on disarmament letter aligned on April 27 protested the lack of specific suggestions, Reuters said. progress at the Madrid talks on East- The Norwegian delegate, Leif Mevik. JERSEY CITY, N.J. - Americans Enclosed with the letter, the AHRU KWest relations in Europe, reported speaking for his Western colleagues, for Human Rights in Ukraine has sent the bishops an article on the receni SButers. said the West would soon come up with written a letter to the 276 members of arrest in the USSR of Ukrainian Catho jOne of the countries, the tiny island a "well-considered, serious and respon the National Conference of Catholic lic activist Yosyp Terelia, which ap SlKte of Malta, openly questioned the sible position." Bishops cautioning them to examine peared in the February 27 issue of The point of continuing the meeting, which He said'Western delegates were Soviet violations of numerous inter Ukrainian Weekly, as well as a copy of is in its third year, delegates said. working on some moderate ideas to national agreements when considering Jack Anderson's August 1977 column The smaHtr countries at the 35- improve the neutral and non-aligned the final draft of a pastoral letter on on Mr. Terelia's plight. There was also a country conference, which first con draft to meet the "legitimate require disarmament. copy of Amnesty International's July vened in November 1980 to review ments and concerns" of Western go The AHRU's.April II letter, which 1982 appeal on behalf of Ukrainian compliance^with the 1975 Helsinki vernments. was also mailed to 95 retired bishops, political prisoner Yuriy Shukhcvych. Accords, called a special session of the "These last hurdles will be difficult to was sent on the eve of a special recon "Your call for action and assistance talks on April 27 to voice their concern. cross," he said. vening of the bishops' conference in regarding these religious and political Eight of the nine neutral or non- What matters, Evarist Saliba of Chicago on May 2 and 3. The meeting prisoners would be invaluable to the aligned countries had proposed ending Malta said, is the implementation of the will review for approval the third and cause of humanity and world peace," the conference on that day. The pro document, not its wording. final draft of a pastoral letter on nuclear (Continued on page 5) posal was in a compromise final docu "Bearing in mind that more than one disarmament. ment that they submitted in March in state can, justifiably in their own view, The first draft of the pastoral letter, hope of winning the required consensus point an accusing finger at another state presented to the conference when it met of all participating states. in this respect, what future is there?" he in Washington last fall, was drawn up Polish government "1 said we believed this an achievable asked. "Seeing that implementation is by a committee of five bishops chaired and realistic date," Rodoif Torovsky, something which takes place outside by Chicago Archbishop Joseph Louis calls U.S. broadcasts the Austrian delegate, told reporters. these walls, what are we doing here? In Bernardin, since appointed cardinal. It The document softened or dropped a these conditions, can any attempt at urged a U.S. nuclear freeze, called for 'aggressive, slanderous' number of key Western demands for redefining a concluding document be unilateral disarmament and condemned improved human rights in the Soviet considered worthwhile?" as immoral the possession of nuclear arms by the United States to counter WARSAW - The Polish govern bloc, and Western reluctance to accept Mr. Saliba said the shadow of failure Soviet aggression. ment told the United States on April 27 it was the main reason for the continued loomed over the meeting, and all parti stalemate. Although the final draft of the pas that U.S. radio broadcasts beamed into cipating states would be the losers if the Poland were "aggressive and slan Western delegates acknowledged the talks collapsed. toral is expected to be more moderate in tone, including references to Soviet derous," reported The New York Times. responsibility for an escalation in the A formal protest note, made public arms race and accepting the necessity of by PAP, the government press agency, maintaining U.S. nuclear deterrence, the said Polish-language broadcasts by Kean sets famine commemoration day AHRU warned the bishops that the Radio Free Furope and Voice of Ame TRENTON, N.J. - New Jersey Gov. tion that May 15 had been designated Soviet Union should not be viewed as rica were intended to "destabilize the Thomas H. Kean has designated Sun by all Ukrainian Churches in America "an equal partner." situation in Poland." day, May 15, the Official Commemora as a day of solemn commemoration of "Can we state without reservations ` Herbert Wilgis, the U.S. charge tion Day of the Great Famine in U- the 50th anniversary of the Great that we are prepared to negotiate the d'affaires, was summoned to the Foreign kraine for the state of New Jersey. Famine. It is on May 15 that memorial fate of mankind with a state that has Ministry, where an official read him the In the proclamation announcing the service: for the 7 million famine victims violated all the international agree note, which also called for an end to the day, the governor calls upon the state's will be held in South Bound Brook, ments that it ever signed, including the broadcasts, the Times said. citizens to "join in a moment of prayer N.J., at the Ukrainian Orthodox Center Universal Declaration of Human Rights Mr. Wilgis later told the Times by for the heroes and martyrs of the of St. Andrew the First-Called Apostle. and the Helsinki Accords?" the AHRU telephone that he had denied the accusa Ukrainian nation and to reflect upon The full next of the proclamation asked. tions, but that he w uld pass the the immense privileges of freedom that follows. The group said it "wholeheartedly" message on to his government. we all enjoy in this great country of supports "initiatives for the betterment Radio Free Europe and the Voice of ours." Gov. Kean signed the proclama Proclamation and preservation of the world," but America, which have a wide audience in tion on Thursday, April 21. noted that the first step in achieving that Poland, have often been the target of The governor noted in the ргосіата– Whereas, this year marks the 50th goal should be "a concerted effort by all attacks in the official press. But Western anniversary of a genocide with few peoples of the free world, and especially diplomats said this was the first time parallels in recorded history - the their spiritual leaders, to wage a relent that accusations against the govern artificially created famine in Ukraine; less campaign for the implementation of ment-funded radio stations had been and human rights in the Soviet Union and put in a formal protest note. Whereas, in 1932-1933 Ukrainians its satellites." The Polish note said the government were sentenced to a horrifying slow The letter said in part: "Demands for "reserves the right to apply measures it death from starvation in an attempt to freedom of religion, freedom of speech, will consider necessary in accord with destroy the power of the Ukrainian freedom of assembly and other univer the sovereign right and duty to protect nation and to erase in the people the sally accepted freedoms, should come as the state against unlawful hostile activi very dream of freedom; and a prerequisite to demands for a reduc ties of the authorities of the United Whereas, during this period over 7 tion or elimination of nuclear arma States of America." million Ukrainians died in an unprece ments. The response to these demands PAP later announced that the U.S. dented mass resistance to tyranny and will determine the extent to which we Embassy's libra?y would have to stop oppression; and ran realistically expect positive results." its "external activities," a reference to Whereas, this experience has inflicted Alluding to the Soviet Union's alleged the screenings of films and American a deep and lasting scar upon the Ukrai involvement in the plot to assassinate television programs open to Poles, the nian community through the world and Pope John Paul II, the letter urged the Times said. in New Jersey and has established this bishops "to defend religious and politi The press agency said some of these tragic event as an everlasting memorial cal prisoners incarcerated in the Soviet films "slandered the Polish People's of infamy to human crueltv and in- Union who are the present-day martyrs Republic" and were "an abuse of good Gov. Thomas H. Kean (Contlnued on page 4) for the liberation of the human spirit." will" shown by Poland. THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, MAY 1,1983 No. 18 Dissident prattle. Community groups defend Shukhevych JERSEY CITY, N.J. - Two Ukrai States, for medical treatment. Enclosed nian community organizations have with the letters were copies of the Serhiy Babych: undertaken actions in defense of Ukrai concurrent resolution, an appeal by nian political prisoner Yuriy Shukhevych, Amnesty International asking medical who is currently in the first year of a associations to intervene with Soviet 30 years' imprisonment five-year exile term.

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