The Ukrainian Weekly 1977, No.17
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Marynovych, 28, was born in the vil– COPENHAGEN, Denmark.–The Sakharov Human Rights Committee here Monitor the implementation of the lage of Kalynivka in the Kiev oblast. announced that the government of Chile is prepared to release 13 more jailed Helsinki Accords were arrested in the He is an electrical engineer but was un– Chilean Communists in exchange for the same number of Soviet political pri– Ukrainian capital Saturday, April 23, able to find employment in that field. soners, according to an April 22nd Reuters dispatch. according to the Helsinki Guarantees for Ukraine Committee. He was fired from work three times confined in the women's zones of the No reasons were given why the two, for allegedly associating with nation- Mordovian ZhKh 385^3-4 concentra– Mykola Matysevych and Myroslav ally conscious Ukrainian intellectuals. tion camp near Barashevo; Moroz and Marynovych, were arrested. Prior to his arrest, Marynovych was Karavansky are incarcerated in the an employee in the editorial offices of men's zone of Morodian camps, while The Helsinki committee here also "Tekhnika". Chornovil is held in strict regime in its learned that the apartments of all The arrests of Matusevych and ZhKh 385^3-5 camp; and Shukhevych members of group were searched the Marynovych raises to four the number is imprisoned in the viadimir Prison. same day. of persons arrested for their connec– Matusevych, 31, a native Kievite, is a Last December, the committee, tion with the Helsinki monitoring com– historian by profession. He was barred named after the patriarch of the Soviet mittee in Kiev. from attending institutions of higher human rights movement, Dr. Andrei Early in February, Mykola Rudenko, education for his activity on behalf of Sakharov, and the Chilean government head, and Oleksa Tykhy, were arrested. Ukrainian culture. were successful in the first such historic They are currently awaiting trial in prisoner exchange. The Soviet Union He was also detained by the police Donetske. then released viadimir Bukovsky in ex- for 15 days for caroling. Oles Berdnyk was also detained by change for Chilean Communist leader Matusevych was also unable to hold the KGB in mid–April, but was released Luis Corvalan. a steady job because of his views, and after three days of interrogations. tfalentyn Moroz, currently in the Mordovian Plast Leadership Elected At Biennial Congress concentration camp, is one of nine Ukrainians included on prisoner exchange list. by Roma Sochan The list, which was received in the KERHONKSON, N.Y.—Plast Uk– United States by Amnesty interna– rainian Youth Organization held its tional, among other organizations, in– Xlllth National Congress here at the cludes nine Ukrainian incarcerated in– UNA estate, Saturday and Sunday, tellectuals. April 23-24, with the participation of The Sakharov Committee said that it 295 delegates, representing 334. votes, had acquired the offer from the and 40 registered guests. Chilean government. Andrij Mycio and Eustachia Hoy– The Chilean Embassy in Washing- dysh were reelected as heads of the ton, D.C., however, denied the report National Plast Command and the and proposal, National Plast Council, respectively. A press aide for the embassy told "Nachalnyi Plastun" Dr. Yuriy Star– Svoboda by telephone Monday, April osolsky was awarded the "Order of the 25 that the story was completely false. Eternal Flame" by Yaro Hladky, head He said that the only political prisoner of the Supreme Plast Council, for his they are attempting to exchange for is a outstanding work in the fields of culture Cuban dissident. and scholarship Delegates to the XllUh Congress A spokeswoman for Amnesty Jmer– v from Plast branches across the United ПЗЕІОПЛІ "n New or:s Ciry told Svobo ,4 f с Suites included 153 nlastuny seniory", ia h^ лггіе day that the offer is -:or тгігЛеть of 19 Plast units: U8 "starshi -eCv '.:vi !^e Гшіе?.п Embassy office. :п^'П'хЛ rricrr.ocrs oi 12 "tost units, voourjii ueniec І e.J .^ colvca' л^': аїні іч тетЛктз of Ptostor^at аїр! "Шиї-к Jf 'u -ic -4- ч)т^ т '.is о eiec^d :c "ho Natu-nal Plast пс SaKhar^ on:, ліе - S-J : і І o:i.mand were ih^r Sochan, first the ;3 polLuv–; расист -isied Wv-u fi^mlj "n c^iai^e of liaison and organi– .POStb seriously hi. z^iion, Wolodymyr Swyntuch, organi– "Nachalnyi Plastun" Yuriy Starosolsky, left, who received the "Order of the l'he list includv-s: Ukrainians -– zation ivan Panchenko. Plaslpryiat, Eternal Flame", congratulates Andriy Mycio on his re-election to head the Nation Oksana Popovych, lryna Senyk, Yalen– Oleksandia juzeniw, pres^, Taisa Tury– Plast Command. tyn Мої07, Yuriy Shukhevych, lryna ansky, publications, Nestor Kolcio, -(Photo R. Sochan) Stasiv-Ka^nets, Yyacheslav. Chorno– liaison with scouts; Natalia Koropecky, membership dues. Petro Nakonechny, vii, Georgi vins and Semen Gluzman, second deputy in charge of education stvo", Oka Hrytsak, training of "novat– Svyatoslav Karavansky; and Russians and training, Yarka Komorowsky, stvo", Lubomyr Bilyk, physical educa– financial reports; Neonila Sochan, - Sergei Kovalev, lgor Ogurtsov commander of "plastunky", Yuriy tion; Petro Nakonechny, third deputy fourth deputy and general secretary in viadimir Osipov; and Edward Kuznet– Tarasiuk, commander of "plastuny", in charge of administration and financ– charge of administration and archives, sov, the sole Jew. ihor Rakowsky, camps committee, es, Mykhailo Belendiuk, assets and Eugene Kotyk and Zina Rakowsky, Popoyych, Senyk and Kalynets are lvanna Hankewych, training of "yunat– administration, Wolodymyr Knysh, - (Continued on psge 3) -^ f THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, MAY I, 1977 No. 99 See Shiftjn vatican Pliushch to Head Exiled Human Rights Policy Helsinki Monitoring Group vATlCAN C1TY italy.–Both Pope movement, the Pope asked prayers for Paul vi and the vatican are edging "those who are blocked from exercizing NEW YORK, N.Y.—Leonid man rights provisions of the Helsinki away from their cautious behind-the- religious freedom." Pliushch, a former Ukrainian political Accords. prisoner now living in the West, will be scenes diplomacy toward a more public The Pontiffs words may be serving as Pliushch, who was released from the the chief spokesman for Helsinki defense of human rights and religious a prelude to the vatican's intervention Dnipropetrovske psychiatric asylum Monitoring Committees in the Soviet freedoms, according to John Muthig of at a conference in Belgrade, Yugoslavia, and allowed to emigrate to the West in Union at the upcoming Belgrade con– the Catholic News Service. this June to review progress made in January 1976, was appointed to head ference, reported the Committee for The new public stress on human enforcing the Helsinki agreements. the group by the Kiev, Moscow and the Defense of Soviet Political Pri– rights, which one vatican diplomat For several months before the 1975 Lithuanian Public Groups to Monitor soners. termed a "change in policy," probably Helsinki conference,. Communist na– the implementation with the Helsinki stems from several international events: tions courted the vatican with certain Accords. diplomatic concessions in efforts to get Pliushch will lead a five-member ^ The Carter Adminstration's strong its signature on the Helsinki pact. group of former Soviet dissidents at The delegation will also include emphasis on human rights issues in the talks which will be held in June in Lyudmyla Alekseyeva, viadimir Bu– foreign policy, coupled with the new Besides assuring respect for human rights, the accords also recognized Belgrade, Yugoslavia. The conference kovsky, valeriy Chalidze and Andrei militancy of Eastern European dissi– will review implementation of the hu– Amalrik. dent: Soviet domination in Eastern Europe. ^ The upcoming review of the pro– Moral persuasion can be a significant gress made on the Helsinki accords, in factor in diplomacy. And lately, forti– which nations pledged to respect funda– fied by the current pro-rights climate in Freed, Dr. Mikhail Shtern mental rights, including religious free– U.S. foreign policy and by the dissident doms; movement ia Communist nations the '" Stepped-up violence against vatican has proven itself ready to speak Lauds President Carter Church personnel and escalating religi– out publicly — though still somewhat ous persecution in several nations. cautiously - in support of human liberties, wrote Mr. Muthig. For Stand on Rights The new vatican emphasis on human rights declarations began to surface in AMSTERDAM, Hoiland.–Dr. prosecutor that the Ukrainian language early January when vice President Mikhail Shtern, who was released from that he uses in communicating with his Walter Mondale called on Pope Paul. Hryhorenko is Ailing Soviet incarceration last March 16th, patients is the language of a an over 40- Soon after Mr. Mondale's visit, a and arrived in the West on April 13th, million nation and his second langu– series of editorials in support of the MOSCOW, USSR.-Gen. Petro credited pressure form the West and es– age. Carter policy were transmitted by Hryhorenko, well known Ukrainian pecially President Carter's firm stand dissident and liaison member of the At the press conference, Dr. Shtern vatican Radio. on human rights for his freedom. An even more notable shift has Kiev based Group to promote the confirmed that he was arrested and appeared on the pages of the vatican implementation of the Helsinki Ac- Speaking at his first news conference tried because his sons, viktor and Av– daily newspaper, L'Osservatore Roma- cords, is reported to have been hospita– at the Amsterdam airport on Thurs– gust, had applied for exit visas to israel no.