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The Ukrainian Weekly 1990 О' І Нг 1 Published by the Ukrainian National Association inc., a fraternal non-profit association! Ukrainian Weeklу 50 cents vol. LVIII No. 30 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JULY 29,1990 Metropolitan loann of Ukraine Communist Party secretary Leonid Kravchuk welcomed by Orthodox in U.S. elected chairman of Ukraine's Supreme Soviet JERSEY C1TY, N.J. - Leonid Kravchuk, the second secretary of the Communist Party of Ukraine, was elected chairman of the Supreme Soviet of Ukraine on Monday afternoon, July 23, carrying 239 votes, reported Rukh Press international. The new elections were necessitated by the resignation from that post of volodymyr ivashko, who on July 11 was elected deputy general secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, second in command to Commu– nist Party chief Mikhail Gorbachev. On July 18, the Supreme Soviet of the Ukrainian SSR voted to relieve Mr. ivashko of his presidential duties and began nominating candidates for the post of chairman of the Supreme So– viet (which is equivalent to the republic's 1 Kolomayets president). By day's end, 27 candidates Leonid Kravchuk addressing a session were nominated, among them Commu– of the Supreme Soviet of the Ukrainian nist Party leaders Mr. Kravchuk and SSR, Stanislav Hurenko, as well as Democra– tic Bloc activists Levko Lukianenko, volodymyr Yavorivsky and Larysa Kiev at a standstill Skoryk. During the preliminary round of as drivers stage strike voting, the deputies narrowed the field JERSEY C1TY, N.J. - A one-day of candidates; the two major candidates strike organized by tram, trolley and were Mr. Kravchuk and ihor Yukhnov– bus drivers in the capital of Ukraine, Metropolitan loann of Ukraine (left) with Patriarch Mstyslav of the sky, a Democratic Bloc leader from paralyzed Kiev on Tuesday, July 24. Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church (right) and Archbishop Lviv, who is the director of the institute According to an Associated Press Constantine in South Bound Brook, N.J. of Physics, and who ran against Mr. report given by Kiev journalist SOUTH BOUND BROOK, N.J. slav of the Ukrainian Orthodox ivashko this past June for the chair– Yukhim Lukotsky, more than 30,000 — Metropolitan loann of the reborn Church of the U.S.A. at the Church's manship of the Supreme Soviet. Mr. workers took part in this strike, Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox center in South Bound Brook, N.J. Kravchuk received 224 votes and Mr. (Continued on page 11) Church, which held its First All- Nearly 1,000 faithful gathered at (Continued on page 11) Ukrainian Sobor on June 5-6 in the center, despite very short notice Kiev, has arrived in the United States of Metropolitan loann's appearance, І for a brief visit. to greet the hierarch from Ukraine Soviet "disunion" and nationalities On Sunday, July 15, he was a who is the metropolitan of Lviv and special guest of Metropolitan Msty– (Continued on page 3) are topic of landmark Senate hearing UNA Washington Cffwe policy, but in scholarship." As a result, Sergei Paradjanov, film director he claimed, many drew an equation WASHINGTON - The subcom– between the Soviet Union and Russia. mittee on European Affairs of the He pointed out that "unlike the repressed in 1970s, dead at 66 Senate Foreign Relations Committee United States, differences in the Soviet JERSEY C1TY, N.J. - Sergei on July 24, held a hearing on "Soviet Union are not ethnic differences but Paradjanov, considered by many a Disunion and the Growing Nationali– national differences" and that the brilliant film director of the postwar ties Problem." The hearing was chaired "nationalities problem is most central period in the Soviet Union, died after a by Sen. Joseph Biden (D-Del.), sub- to the Soviet Union." long illness, reported the official press committee chairman, and was attended Dr. Brzezinski predicted that the agency TASS on July 21. He was 66 by Sens. Frank Murkowski (R-Alaska) "existence of the Soviet Union is doom– years old, and reportedly suffered from and Daniel Patrick Moynihan (D– ed; it will not endure and will probably cancer. N.Y.). cease to exist as we know it in a few The memory of Mr. Paradjanov was Sen. Biden convened the meeting with years. Even Soviet leaders acknowledge honored with a minute of silence at the an opening statement in which he stated it. Even Russified republics such as July 23 session of the Ukrainian Su– that this is the first ever congressional Byelorussia and Ukraine have asserted preme Soviet. hearing on the break-up of the Soviet themselves." in Ukraine, he pointed to The 1990 international Critics Prize Union. He went on to state that the the Declaration of Sovereignty and in winner at the Cannes Film Festival "principle of self-determination is the Byelorussia the recall of its soldiers "Swan Lake. The Zone," was based on a most dynamic force" in the world today. from other republics. story written by Mr. Paradjanov, loose– The first witness to testify was Dr. Stating that "imperial Russia cannot ly relating his own experience in labor Zbignew Brzezinski, national security be a democratic Russia, and a democra– camps during the 1970s. The film is advisor in the Carter administration. tic Russia cannot be an imperial Rus– directed by Yuri lllienko. Dr. Brzezinski began by stating that the sia," the former national security advi– "Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors," nationalities "issue has been neglected sor pointed out that "democracy and Sergei Paradjanov (Continued on page 12) over the years, not only in foreign (Continued on page 11) 2 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JULY 29,1990 No. зо A GLIMPSE OF SOVIET REALITY Lithuania appeals for humanitarian aid WASH1NGTON - Lithuanian lea– ly concerned over the coming harvest." ders have sent a letter to Senate Ma– The Lithuanian leaders urge senators The background to July jority Leader George Mitchell urging to approve "at the earliest possible time" the U.S. Senate to pass legislation a bill introduced June 19 by Sen. Daniel earmarking 510 million in humanitarian Moynihan (D-N.Y.), which would coal strike in the USSR assistance to Lithuania, reported the provide Lithuania with S10 million in by Dr. David Marples no major splits over the final document. Washington office of the Lithuanian medical and other humanitarian relief. Radio Liberty Research Similarly, Yuriy Boldyrev, a member information Center. The Moynihan bill was reported out of of the Union of Strike Committees, "Although the economic blockade the Senate Foreign Relations Commit– The coal miners9 strike that took stated that it was essential to prevent the imposed upon our country by the Soviet tee June 28 and is awaiting considera– place on July 11 hardly came as a August congress, as the latter was Union has been officially lifted, its tion by the full Senate. surprise, it was well known that miners organized by a committee appointed by practical limitations remain in effect," A similar emergency relief bill, intro– from across the Soviet Union were the ministry. Now that Coal Minister says the July 21 letter, signed by Lithua– duced July 12 in the House of Repre– dissatisfied with the way that the Soviet Mikhail Shchadov had been "com– nian Supreme Council President vytau– sentatives by Rep. Christopher Smith government has fulfilled its side of the pelied" to recognize the validity of this tas Landsbergis, Prime Minister Kazi– (R-N. J.), has been referred to the House agreement reached one year ago, signed first congress organized by the strike miera Prunskiene, and Health and Foreign Affairs Committee. by L. Ryabev, deputy chairman of the committees, future congresses would Social Security Minister Juozas Olekas. USSR Council of Ministers. provide more positive results. According to the three leaders, the Statistics released While coal miners were granted A factor in the subsequent militancy blockade "has disrupted virtually all higher wages and lengthier vacations, of the miners may have been the occur– efforts to maintain a consistent flow of on Latvia's deputies the housing and food situation has rence during the First Congress of yet medical products to the Lithuanian evidently deteriorated over the past another coal mining accident in the people. Antibiotics, insulin, syringes, ROCKviLLE, Md. - The Supreme year. Many miners feel that they are Donetske region. On June 11, at 9:18 anesthetics and other crucial products Council of the Latvian Republic has worse off than before. p.m. a sudden release of methane gas are in critical supply." provided data on the ethnic back- Yet the 1990 strike differed from its caused an explosion at the "Zasiadko" The letter says that Lithuania's grounds of its deputies, most of whom lengthier predecessor because of its mine, causing the deaths of five miners agricultural sector — a mainstay of its - 138 - are Latvians. political nature, because of the ma– all between the ages of 26 and 38. economy — "has been endangered due in addition there are 42 Russians, neuvering among official and unofficial Several others were seriously injured. - to lack of adequate supplies of fuel,, eight Ukrainians, three Jews and two mining organizations that preceded it, Methane gas explosions have become motor oil, various parts and new machi– Byelorussians. A Pole, a Liv, a Greek and also because it took place amid a common in the mines of the Don Basin. nery." The "slow recovery" of Lithua– and a German also are deputies. virulent and persuasive campaign on Last February, for example, there was a nia's oil industry from the blockade is Among the Supreme Council de– the part of the authorities to convince similar tragedy in this region which causing farn^s to become "increasing– puties nine are women. the miners and the general public that a caused the deaths of 14 miners.
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