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The Ukrainian Weekly 1983 (ЛОХ з: aj - - ^ (Л Published by the Ukrainian National Association inc., a fraternal non-profit association! z Д) - О ^ о -1 z о о z -ч О о О "О О Z п О я 3) - Ю по и W О rainian Weekly чл W - vol. LI No. 30 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JULY 24,1983 25 cents Chmykhalovs arrive in St. Louis Reagan administration OKs compromise ST. LOU1S - The last two Siberian rical, and some of us are nearly hysteri– Pentecostals who spent five years cal." at 3-year-old Madrid Conference cloistered in the U.S. Embassy in The New York Times reported that MADR1D - The Reagan admini– and the 1981 imposition of martial law Moscow and 13 of their family mem– pastors of the Pentecostal churches met stration announced on July 15 that it in Poland. bers arrived in St. Louis on July 19, thus for hours on July 20 at the Church's has accepted a broad compromise to Mr. Kampelman also said that "the ending a 20-year quest to leave the world headquarters, working out de- end the nearly three-year-old Madrid repression of human beings in the USSR. tails for the settlement of the Siberian Conference on compliance with the Soviet Union is greater than at any time Penetecostals in the United States. Maria Chmykhalov, now 60 years 1975 Helsinki Accords. since the Helsinki Accords were signed old. and her son. Timothy. 21, had There are about 15 Pentecostal congre– "in an ideal world, agreements such in 1975." accompanied five members of another gations in the St. Louis area. as this would not be necessary," Presi– Midway in the speech, the Soviet Penetecostal family from Siberia — the Of the group, at least one young dent Ronald Reagan said in Washing- delegate. Sergei Kondrashev, interrupt– vashchenkos — in rushing into the U.S. couple wanted to move to the Los ton, adding he would sign the agree– ed. calling Mr. Kampelman's statement Embassy in June 1978. The five v"ash– Angeles area. Most of the others ment in principle worked out among the "the most unworthy speech ever heard chenkos, plus 10 members of their however, are expected to settle in or 35 countries at the conference. in Madrid." family, were allowed to emigrate to near the St. Louis area. He said it was the "best agreement The Soviet delegate said the head of lsrael some three weeks ago. The emigration of the Chmykhalovs attainable" because it advanced "efforts the American delegation was "casting Some 300 well-wishers, most of them brings to a close a diplomatic drama of the West to hold out a beacon of hope the nastiest possible aspersions on a members of the United Pentecostal that had dragged on for five years. for those in the East who seek a more participating state" and termed the Church based here, gathered at the When the seven Siberian Pentecostals free, just and secure life." speech "confrontational, unworthy, city's Lambert Field to greet Maria, her burst into the U.S. Embassy, Soviet A senior administration official said falacious. injurious and an insult to the husband, PyotrChmykhalov, hersister, officials insisted that they would con– the proposed agreement represents a pan-European process." Anna Makarenko, and her six children, sider their applications for emigration "significant improvement" over the He demanded that Mr. Kampelman age 21 to 31. With them were Timothy's only after they had returned to their Helsinki Accords because it provides be ruled out of order on the grounds wife of 10 weeks, Tatyana, and his hometown of Chernogorsk. The Pente– '4he basis to enable us to judge and that he was not discussing the final brother's pregnant wife and four chil– costals refused to leave the embassy evaluate Soviet and Eastern European document of the conference. dren. unless they were given guarantees that performance in the human-rights area." But the chair, held by France, recog– they and family members in Cherno– The family was accompanied by nized Mr. Kampelman's argument that gorsk would be allowed to leave. The chief U.S. delegate, Max Kam– Lidia vashchenko, 32, who staged a 34- the speech was germane to the question day hunger strike while in the U.S. The stalemate dragged on for almost pelman, said the agreement produced advances on Soviet compliance on of compliance with the document, and Embassy and was allowed to emigrate five years, with the Pentecostals taking he was allowed to continue. up residence in two cramped apart– human rights and increased chances of a to lsrael last April. Despite the tone of bitterness, dele- ments in the embassy basement. The summit between Mr. Reagan and Soviet Among the greeters at the airport was gates said the exchange did not indicate break came late last year when one of the leader Yuri Andropov. the Rev. Nathanial A. Urshan, a that the compromise was under any refugees, Lidia vashchenko, was re- minister whose father preached Pente– ' Although the text of the final docu– threat, instead, the speech was read as a moved from the embassy and taken to a costalism in Tsarist Russia in 1911. ment leaves out many of the Western political sign from the Reagan admi– hospital following a lengthy hunger "This is a historical event, unpre– amendments' proposed in November, nistration that agreement in Madrid did strike. After leaving the hospital, she cedented in my life, for Christians to such as those dealing with the right to not mean U.S.-Soviet relations were joined family members in Chernogorsk come in a group from oppression to strike, the banning of radio jamming automatically going to improve, or that and was allowed to emigrate to lsrael on freedom," said the Rev. Kenneth and the freedom of journalists to move Washington was going to L-t up its April 6. Reeves, pastor of the Pentecostal about, it does support workers' rights to pressure on Moscow on human rights. Church in Granite City. "This is histo– (Continued on pate 2) form and join free trade unions as well as the rights of religious and ethnic minorities. Mr. Kampelman said the agreement Shultz calls Rostyk, 3, in U.S. for medical treatment calls for a full review of compliance with the Helsinki Accords in 1986 and Helsinki guarantees NEW YORK - Representatives of accident severely crushing his left hand scheduled a separate disarmament the Ukrainian National Women's and completely deforming two fingers. meeting in Stockholm next January to milestone act League of America and the United Details of the accident reveal that try to ease East-West tensions by States Catholic Conference waited Rostyk slipped under a bus while on his providing notification on troop move– WASHINGTON - secretary of impatiently for the arrival of Swissair sled. ments and other confidence-building State George Shultz, speaking before Flight 100 at Kennedy Airport on The American relatives of the Cylupa measures. the Senate Foreign Relations Com– Friday, July 15. neighbors in Poland contacted the Delegates said the agreement oc– mittee on June 15. called the nego– When the flight did arrive, they UNWLA after receiving this letter curred after both Moscow and Wash– tiations of the Helsinki Final Act, searched anxiously for the disembark– about Rostyk. The UNWLA turned the ington accepted a Swiss compromise on "with its pledges concerning human ing three-year-old Rostyk Cylupa, a case over to its social services depart– the issue of "human contacts." Earlier, rights and national independence in little Ukrainian boy from Poland and ment and Ulana Lubowych, editor of on June 24, the West accepted a Spanish Europe, one of the most important his father, Emil. Our Life, took an active interest in the proposal for negotiating a final agree– recent achievements in East-West it was through the combined efforts boy and spread the word about him in ment. The compromise was accepted by relations." of the two groups, along with the help of the press. the Soviets on July 1. According to the Commission on the American Red Cross, that little Procedures to bring the boy over Despite the agreement, the U.S. Security and Cooperation in Europe Rostyk and his father were able to make started immediately; Lydia Savoyka, delegation and the Soviets exchanged Digest, the secretary's statement was the trip to the United States, and more who is the supervisor of immigration accusations at the July 18 session at a comprehensive description of the importantly give Rostyk the opportu– counseling services. Migration and Madrid, with Mr. Kampelman charging Reagan administration's Soviet nity to have highly specialized recon– Refugee Services of the United States the Soviets with continuing violations policy, and it made several references structive surgery done on his left hand. Catholic Conference was contacted. of human rights. to the 1975 Helsinki Accords and the Madrid Conference to review the The UNWLA had established a Miss Savoyka personally called the visa The exchange was triggered by Mr. agreement. "Help Rostyk" fund earlier this year. Office of the Department of State and Kampelman's speech at the closed The drive began just this past Christ- the American Red Cross to expedite session in which he recited examples of The 35-country conference, first mas when a neighbor of the Cylupa Rostyk's entry into the United States so what he called repressive actions against convened in 1980, was expected to family in Poland wrote to his relatives in that he could quickly begin special human-rights and peace activists conclude shortly after both NATO medical treatment. The UNWLA re– the United States about this unfortu– throughout the Soviet bloc, condemned (Continued on page 13) nate child who had been involved in an (Continued on page 2) the 1979 Soviet invasion of Afghanistan 2 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JULY 24,1983 Helsinki Watch Committee releases Dissident profile report on Hungary's human rights Petro Rozumny: NEW YORK - The U.S.
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