The Ukrainian Weekly 1977
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!. L– W СВОБОДА XSvOBODA І І УКРАЇНСЬКИЙ щоденник ^ВР^ UKRAINIAN DAILV В Н ENGLISH-LANGUAGE WEEKLY EDITION У VOL. LXXXIVШ NO. 256 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 20,1977 25 UNA Executive Committerainioe nUkrainia Weeln Supreme cCour t Reviews Progress at Meeting Sustains Rudenko, Tykhy Sentences JERSEY. C1TY, N.J.—Assessment income from dues amounted to ;– . ' J J of progress over the first nine months of 52,526,897 through October inclusively, As reported earlier, the Soviet Uk– September 15,1400 hours. the current year and the diverse areas of a total by 522,716 higher than for the rainian Supreme Court ruled on Thurs– Many friends and supporters of My– Soyuz activity dominated the agenda of same period last year, income from day, September 15, not to reverse the kola Rudenko and Oleksa Tykhy UNA Supreme Executive. Committee investments in bonds amounted to sentences handed down to Mykola Ru– gathered outside the Supreme Court meeting held here Thursday, November 51,190,669, by 5169,342 higher than last denko and Oleksa Tykhy by the building of the Ukrainian SSR. All of 10. year, thanks to higher interest rates and Donetske oblast court. them, without exception, were permit- The meeting was opened and chaired higher amounts invested in bonds, The two Ukrainian Helsinki wat– ted into the courtroom. by Supreme President Joseph Lesaw– interest on mortgage loans yielded chers were the first two participants of The chief justice reads the sentence yer, with all other supreme executive 5166,615, by 524,485 less than for the the Helsinki monitoring movement in handed down by the Donetske oblast officers present: vice-President Dr. nine-month period in 1976. the Soviet Union to be tried and sen– court on July 1,1977: John Flis, Director for Canada Sen. income from rentals amounted to tenced. On July 1, 1977, the Donetske Mykola Danylovych Rudenko, bora Paul Yuzyk, vice-President Mary 5412,501. Soyuzivka accrued an income oblast court sentenced Rudenko, chair- in 1919, is accused of anti-Soviet agit– Dushnyk, Secretary Walter Sochan, of 5401,924, by 534,060 higher than last man of the Kiev Public Group to Pro- ation and propaganda under article 62 Treasurer Ulana Diachuk and Organi– year. The printing shop's income was mote the implementation of the Helsin– of the Criminal Code of the Ukrainian zer Stefan Hawrysz, as well as Svoboda 5431,415, higher by 528,432 than last ki Accords, to seven years in prison SSR. Editor-in-Chief Anthony Dragan. year. The sale of bonds and real estate and five years exile, and Tykhy was From 1972, Rudenko systematically Also taking part in the meeting were property netted a total of 546,943. sentence to ten years incarceration and prepared and disseminated slanderous Supreme Auditors Prof. Bohdan Hna– five years in prison. fabrications, which denounced the So– Expenditures for the first nine Recently the press service of the Uk– viet society and political order. tiuk and Dr. ivan Skalczuk, who along months of 1977 amounted to 53,937,236, with Dr. Flis and Supreme Advisor rainian Supreme Liberation Council in his slanderous diatribes, entitled by 5250,359 higher than last year (abroad) received an unofficial tran– "Farewell Marx, Greetings Keynes", Taras Szmagala comprise a special for the same period. committee elected by the Supreme script of the hearing, which is being cir– "Economic Monologues" and others, Assembly at its last annual meeting for The breakdown shows that the UNA culated in samvydav in Ukraine. Rudenko lied about the Soviet people, the purpose of preparing a set of paid out a total of 5204,497 to its "The Supreme Court, having re- the Communist Party, and the Soviet guidelines, normalizing relations and members, by 15,793 higher than last viewed the case of Rudenko and Ty– way of life. delineating authority between the Su– year: 5546, 724 in death benefits (higher khy, does not find any reasons to re- Having contacts with the West, Ru– preme Executive. Committee and the by 528,000), 515,000 for ADD certifi– verse the sentences handed down by the denko transmitted information to the West, which was later used by subver– Editor-in-Chief. cates (higher by 512,500), 5664,679 in oblast court," the judicial body said. paid by certificates (higher by 518,193) Below is a translation of the unoffi– sive foreign radio stations. At the conclusion of the meeting, Dr. cial transcript: (Contiiaed он page 13) Flis, chairman of this special commit– (Continued on page 13) tee, presented each officer and the Editor-in-Chief with a copy of the committee's recommendations. Each Myroslaw Shmiegel Re-elected Executive. Committee member should submit his and her remarks to the special committee by November 24th, Head of SUMA at 15th Congress which will then present the full report to ELLENviLLE, N.Y.—Myroslaw States. He suggested camps, performing the Executive Committee meeting in a Shmiegel, a longtime SUMA activist ensembles, and youth publications as special session. At that time, the special and instructor, was re-elected to head important factors in this field. committee will also submit its proposed the national executive board of the Mr. Shmiegel said that inroads have abbreviated version of the report of the Ukrainian American Youth Associa– been made for tighter cooperation Svoboda Editor-in-Chief submitted to tion at its 15th congress held at the between SUMA, Plast and ODUM. the Supreme Assembly at its annual SUMA camp here Saturday to Sunday, Mr. Shmiegel called the assemblage meeting last May. November 12-13. to order in the morning hours, and asked Rev. Roman Mirchuk, a SUMA Finances The deliberations were attended by member himself, to deliver the invoca– 125 delegates representing 34 branches tion. Rev. Mirchuk, a longtime SUMA in rendering the financial report, first from as faw away as Minneapolis, instructor, is a parish priest in the on the agenda of the meeting, Mrs. Minn. Some two dozen guests also sat Philadelphia area. Diachuk, Treasurer, provided compar– in on the discussions, among them was The congress was dedicated to the ative data for the first nine months of Omelan Kowal, head of the world 60th anniversary of the Ukrainian the current year in the light of income executive board of SUM, who arrived National Revolution, the 35th anniver– and expenditures for the same period here from Brussels, Belguim. sary of the creation of the Ukrainian last year. insurgent Army, and the 70th anniver– The principal activity of the first day sary of the birth of the UPA com– in the income column, the total of the congress was the reports of the Re-elected SUMA head, Myroslaw through the end of September 1977 mander-in-chief Gen. Roman Shukhe– outgoing members of the executive Shmiegel. ^ vych-Taras Chuprynka. amounted to 54,676,478 by 5120,880 board. higher than for the same period last youths have been among the most active At the start of the deliberations, the year. Considering that last year the Reporting last, Mr. Shmiegel gave a in initiating protests against human and participants honored the memory of UNA collected a total of 5263,017 in general overview of the work of SUMA national rights violations. key SUMA members and Ukrainian' interest on loans to its subsidiary, the over the past three years, emphasizing in regards to youth training, Mr. civic and political leaders, who died Ukrainian National Urban Renewal three areas of concentration: actions in Shmiegel stressed that it is imperative since the previous congress. Among Corporation, and in the current year defense of human rights in Ukraine, for SUMA, and other similar organiza– them: Peter. Chas, Wolodymyr Hon– only 510,000, the income was higher by internal training and education, and tions, to develop a viable education chara, Yuriy Kononiv, Prof. Stephan 5283,897. in November an additional cooperation with other Ukrainian program for its members, in or to insure Lenkawsky, Hryhoriy Drabat, and 5125,000 was accrued in interest from youth organizations. its growth and the prosperity of the Mrs. Jaroslawa Bandera. the UNURC. Mr. Shmiegel underlined that SUMA Ukrainian community in the United (Continued on ppgt 8) THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 20,1977 No. 256 Hryhorenko to Arrive Terelya Confined in "Psych-Hospital" in U.S. for Surgery NEW YORK, N.Y.—Yosyp Terel– "1 am forced to leave by native MOSCOW, USSR.—Petro Hry– at the Frunze Military Academy, in ya, 34-year-old Ukrainian poet and country only because it was wounded horenko, the former Red Army general 1960, he began criticizing the then So– political prisoner, who became known by a foreign oppressor," he wrote. "1 turned dissident, was granted an exit viet leader Nikita Khrushchev for re- in the United States through a column have no place here, because 1 am not visa by Soviet officials and is soon ex– turning to Stalin-era rights repressions. written by Jack Anderson, was incar– the kind of person the KGB would like pected to arrive in the United States, Hryhorenko was demoted to private cerated last June in the Sychovka psy– me to be." reported The Washington Post Friday, and sent to the Chinese border. chiatric asylum, reported the press ser– November 11. He was arrested by the KGB in 1964, vice of the Ukrainian Supreme Liber– While scoring Soviet policies, Terel– The 70-year-old Hryhorenko, who is and spent 14 months in the infamous ation Council (abroad). ya expresses belief in the future of the liaison between the Kiev Public Group Serbsky institute of Forensic Psy– Ukraine. to Promote the implementation of the chiatry for What was officially describ– Terelya, who was released from pri– "But 1 believe that we will return to Helsinki Accords and the Moscow ed as "temporary insanity." son on April 7, 1976, was re-arrested Ukraine, to a free Ukraine, which will Group, received permission from So– Western analysts see the action by on April 26,1977, after denouncing the be glad to accept all, who wish it good viet authorities to travel for six months the Soviet government of ridding the Soviet system and demanding permis– and prosperity," he said.