The Ukrainian Weekly 1985, No.46
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www.ukrweekly.com ^„^Ш . 1 Published by the Ukrainian National Association inc.c. a fraternal non-profit association! l ramian Weiї vol. LIH No. 46 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 17,1985 25 cent! Myroslav Medvid headed back to Soviet Union Protesters bid sailor sad farewell Reactions to case continue in D.C. by Mykhailo Bociurkiw tive for a Chicago-based corporation WASHINGTON - Days after a and president of the local branch of Soviet grain freighter with would-be JERSEY C1TY, N.J. - With a load Americans for Human Rights in U– defector Myroslav Medvid aboard left of American com stored in its hold and kraine, was among the group of Ukrain– the Mississippi and U.S.. waters, the a young Ukrainian sailor still aboard, ian Americans that witnessed the de– Medvid case continued to make head- the Marshal Koniev pulled out into the parture of the Marshal Koniev from lines as U.S. government officials and Mississippi River on the morning of Reserve, La. members of Congress continued to November 9 and headed for inter- Ms. Eliashevsky told The Weekly react to the incident. national waters in spite of protests and a that the group did not expect the Soviet President Ronald Reagan, during a Senate subpoena. ship would be allowed to leave the Tuesday, November 12, briefing with About 100 people stood on shore United States until Mr. Medvid was Congressional leaders, promised to watching with disbelief as the 750-foot taken off the freighter. Up until the eve quietly raise the Medvid case with Soviet freighter headed downriver, of the ship's departure Senate aides as– Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev at the escorted by a fleet of U.S. Coast Guard serted that the Coast Guard would U.S.-Soviet summit meeting on No– patrol ships. prevent its departure until Soviet vember 19-20. He said he would urge A boat hired by a group called Save officials complied with a Senate sub– that the young Ukrainian sailor not be The Oppressed People was supposed to poena ordering Mr. Medvid to appear mistreated. have made the Marshal Koniev's trip before a U.S. Senate Agriculture Corn- The president's statement came in down the Mississippi a difficult journey, mi t tee hearing on November 12. response to remarks by Rep. Mary Rose but the Coast Guard thwarted the According to Ms. Eliashevsky, the Oakar (D-Ohio), who brought up the group's protest, Staging an– im– group received word that the ship would "dismay" of the people overthe handling promptu 90-minute safety inspection. be allowed to leave only a few hours of the Medvid case. A threatened blockade by a "freedom before the Marshal Koniev pulled away That same day, the Senate Agricul– flotilla" of small boats organized by from its dock on Saturday morning. ture Committee chaired by Sen. Jesse STOP failed to materialize. "We witnessed the ship leaving and Helms (R-N.C.) went ahead with its Myroslav Medvid in photo released by instead the Soviet ship — reportedly the U.S. Coast Guard giving it an hearing on the Medvid case without the Senate committee. with 22-year-old Myroslav Medvid escort," said Ms. Eliashevsky. "1 felt star witness after Soviet officials refused below deck drugged and shackled - hurt as an American and 1 felt that my to comply with the committee's sub– the Reagan administration's handling steamed past New Orleans without soul had just left my body." poena of Mr. Medvid. Administration of the incident and raised questions incident as hundreds of curious on– As the Marshal Koniev slipped its officials allowed the Soviet freighter about whether there is a "secret agree– lookers tried to catch a glimpse of the moorings, Tv" cameras recorded the Marshal Koniev to leave the United ment" between the United States and Marshal Koniev. reactions of the Ukrainian American States on Saturday, November 9, des– the Soviet Union regarding the cases of Yera Eliashevsky, a sales representa– (Continued on page 14) pite a subpoena that required Mr. defectors. Medvid's presence at the Tuesday, The senator said that the Soviets near November 12, hearing. New Orleans acted as though the Mar– Jacques Hnizdovsky dead at 70 During the hearing Sen. Helms scored (Continued on page 14) UNA Supreme Assembly votes funding for encyclopedia, Statue of Liberty projects JERSEY C1TY, N.J. - The immigrants to the United States, Ukrainian National Association's including Ukrainians, among them Supreme Assembly, meeting at an pioneers of the Ukrainian National extraordinary session on Saturday, Association, in voting to make this November 9, voted to donate 550,000 to donation of 525,000, the UNA Supreme the Ukrainian Encyclopedia project and Assembly stated that it was calling on 525,000 to the renovation of the Statue all UNA members to contribute to this of Liberty. worthwhile project. The Ukrainian Encyclopedia is' The Supreme Assembly session was planned as a four-volume English- held at the UNA headquarters building language edition, the first volume and in Jersey City and was chaired by gazeteer of which have already been Supreme President John O. Flis. published and are currently being sold. in attendance were: Supreme vice– The Supreme Assembly's decision to President Myron B. Kuropas, Supreme allocate 550,000 to this project is a vice-Presidentess Gloria Paschen, continuation of the UNA'S support Supreme Director for Canada Sen. which began years ago when the two– Paul Yuzyk, Supreme Secretary Walter volume Ukraine: A Concise Sochan, Supreme Treasurer Ulana Encyclopedia was published by the Diachuk and Supreme Organizer Jacques Hnizdovsky at work on a woodcut. University of Toronto in 1963 (volume Stefan Hawrysz. NEW YORK - internationally Although perhaps best known for l)and 1969 (volume 2). Also present were Supreme Auditors acclaimed artist Jacques Hnizdov– his woodcut prints. Mr. Hnizdovsky The decision to participate in John Hewryk. Nestor Olesnycky, sky, master of the woodcut art, died was also a painter and worked in the nationwide efforts aimed at supporting Anatole Doroshenko and Dr. Bohdan on Friday, November 8, at a New field of book illustration and book- the renovation of the Statue of Liberty, Hnatiuk, as well as Supreme Advisors York hospital following a stroke. He plate design. which will mark its centennial on July 4, Helen Olek-Scott, Taras Szmagala, was 70. (Continued on page 11) DO., was oaseu on me (act that Lady Andrew Jala, Eugene lwanciw, Walter L:bcrtv is a svmbol of freedom for all (Continued on page 11) 2^^„^„^„.^^„„.^^^^„„THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY,NOVEMBER 17,1985 „„„„„„„-^---.No-^ A GLIMPSE OF SOVIET REALITY Letters from prison reveal Terelia pressured to recant Minister of coal industry This article will appear in the next issue of Keston News Service. in Ukraine is replaced by Andrew Sorokowski by David Marples in the Donbas. a clear sign that the Ukrainian industry was in trouble. Mr. KESTON, England - Two letters Radio Kiev has announced the're– Grinko's response was that Ukrainian written by imprisoned Ukrainian Cath– moval of Nikolai Grinko from the post metallurgists were studying the tech– olic Yosyp Terelia to his family reveal of minister of the coal industry of the nique of insufflating coal dust from that Soviet authorities are pressuring Ukrainian SSR. Mr. Grinko, a 57-year- hard coal into furnaces, thereby re– Mr. Terelia to recant, reported Keston old Byelorussian, has held the position ducing consumption of coking coal, in News Sevice. since 1978, following eight years as first other words, within a short period, The second letter also reports on a deputy minister of the coal industry of Siberian coking coal would no longer be conversation between Mr. Terelia and a the USSR. needed in the European part of the KGB officer about the fate of Raoul The past few years have seen the country. Wallenberg, the Swedish diplomat stagnation of output in the main U– Mr. Grinko was very much an opti– credited with saving the lives of some krainian coalfield in the Donbas be– mist, but recently it became evident that 100,000 Hungarian Jews during World cause of a variety of geological and the Soviet authorities no longer shared War 11. Mr. Wallenberg was arrested other factors. According to Radio Kiev, his conviction that the Donbas coal and imprisoned by the Soviets in 1945 Mr. Grinko has been "released from his industry had such a promising future. after Soviet troops entered Nazi– oc– duties in connection with his transfer to Whereas, its output in 1975 stood at 222 cupied Hungary, and has never been other work." million tons, since 1980 it has consis– heard from since. The United States and The Supreme Soviet of the Ukrainian tently fallen below 200 million tons a Sweden have been unsuccessfully seek– SSR has awarded its Scroll of Honor to year, in July of this year, USSR Mi– ing information from the Soviets about Mr. Grinko for his efforts in developing nister of the Coal industry Boris Brat– Mr. Wallenberg's fate ever since then. the Ukrainian coal industry and his chenko noted that 25 percent of the coal The two letters were written by Mr. "active social-political work." Yet the mines in Ukraine were producing less Terelia in February, and copies of them dismissal comes a month after public than 300 tons of coal daily (a very low were received by Keston College, which criticism of Mr. Grinko's style of figure) and declared that this was a specializes in the study of religious leadership in the Ukrainian press by a result of the "low technical level of communities in the Soviet Union and Yosyp Terelia mining engineer and a brigade leader machinery, ineffective organization of Eastern Europe.