BASKET THREE: IMPLEMENTATION OF THE HELSINKI ACCORDS HEARINGS BEFORE THE COMMISSION ON SECURITY AND COOPERATION IN EUROPE NINETY-FIFTH CONGRESS FIRST SESSION ON IMPLEMENTATION OF THE HELSINKI ACCORDS VOLUME I HUMAN RIGHTS FEBRUARY 23 AND 24, 1977 HUMAN CONTACTS: FAMILY REUNIFICATION AND BINATIONAL MARRIAGES MARCH 15 AND 17, 1977 Printed for the use of the Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe U.S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE 87-587 WASHINGTON: 1977 For sale by the Supennaeuaent of Documents, U.S. Government Printing Office Washington, D.C. 20402 COMMISSION ON SECURITY AND COOPERATION IN EUROPE DANTE B. FASCELL, Florida, Chairman CLAIBORNE PELL, Rhode Island JONATHAN B. BINGHAM, New York DICK CLARK, Iowa PAUL SIMON, Illinois PATRICK J. LEAHY, Vermont SIDNEY R. YATES, Illinois RICHARD STONE, Florida JOHN BUCHANAN, Alabama CLIFFORD P. CASE, New Jersey MILLICENT FENWICK, New Jersey ROBERT DOLE, Kansas R. SPENCER OLIVER, Staff Director and General Counsel ALFRED FRIENDLY, Jr., Deputy Staff Director ESTER Kuaz, Staff Assistant MEn DONOVAN, Staff Assistant A'NE SIEGEL, Coordinator (II) CONTENTS WITNESSES IMPLEMENTATION OF THE HELSINKI ACCORDS HUMAN RIGHTS Wednesday, February 23, 1977: Garment, Leonard, former U.S. Representative to the United Nations Page Commission on Human Rights---------------------------------- 4 Bukovsky, Vladimir, former Soviet political prisoner…-------_------- 19 Thursday, February 24, 1977: Szulc, Tad, free-lance writer and former New York Times foreign correspondent …------------------…-___--___________________42 Venclova, Tomas, Lithuanian poet and a member of the Lithuanian. Group to Promote Observance of the Helsinki Agreements_------- 53 Zwarun, Andrew, Dr., president of the Helsinki Guarantees for Ukraine Committee of Washington, D.C------------------------ 62 HUMAN CONTACTS: FAMILY REUNIFICATION Tuesday, March 15, 1977: Armitage, John A., Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for European Affairs--__________________________ 78 Michelson, Anatol, U.S. citizen seeking reunification with wife and daughter in U.S.S.R-------------------------------------------- 94 McClellan, Woodford, professor of history, University of Virginia, seeking reunification with Soviet wife since 1974_________________- 101 Nepomnyashchy, Vyacheslav and Theimer, Catherine, on difficulties. of binational marriages in the Soviet Union___ _________________ 108 Benes, Jan, Czechoslovakia-born writer seeking reunification with children still in Czechoslovakia…--…-- - --------… ------- _ 114 Faltus, Anna, liaison officer for the Czechoslovak National Council of America _______________ ------- ---_----_--_ ---_ - 114 Secu, Valerie, chairman of the American-Romanian Committee for Family Reunion------------------------------------------------ 126 Blum, Mariana, U.S. resident seeking reunification with parents in Romania------------------------------------------------------ 126 Thursday, March 17, 1977: Barnes, Clive, dance and drama critic for the New York Times active in Soviet Jewish emigration movement-------------------------- 150 Gold, Eugene, Brooklyn district attorney and chairman of the National Conference on Soviet Jewry… ________________________-_ 155 Lazaris, Esther, Israeli citizen, wife of long-standing "refusenik,", Vladimir Lazaris of Moscow. seeking reunification with her husband since her emigration from Soviet Union in 1973_----------------- 175 MIanekofsky, Irene, vice-president and Washington representative, the Union of Councils for Soviet Jews, president, Washington Committee for Soviet Jews…-------------- -------------- ------------------- 178 Aranovich, Viktor, Soviet emigrant, since his 1972 arrival in the United ,States has been seeking iSoviet permission for his brother, Felix Aranovich of Leningrad, to be reunited with him, their mother, and now Felix's wife and son, Alla and David------------------------ 188 (III) IV MATERIAL SUBMITTED FOR THE RECORD Tuesday, March 15, 1977: Additional questions submitted to Mr. Jack Armitage by Commissioner Page Pell and Mr. Armitage's responses…------------------------------ 93 Letter from Senator John Glenn, to Soviet Ambassador Anatoly F. Dobrynin on behalf of Mr. Anatol Michelson's efforts to secure exit visas for his wife and daughter in the Soviet Union, dated Febru- ary 23, 1977_-------------------------------------------------- 100 Copy of the text of "Charter 77", a Czechoslovak human-rights mani- festo, as it appeared in a New York Times article dated January 27, 1977-------------------------------------------------------- 117 Introduction to The Art of Jan Benes, a critical study, written by Milan Fryscak, assistant professor of Slavic languages and litera- tures, New York University, dated April S, 1972_----------------- 123 Copy of official reply of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, Bucharest, Romania, to Gabriela and Livin Teodorescu's request for exit visas, January 19, 1977_---------------------------------------------- 137 Copy of questionnaire U.S. citizens/residents seeking reunification with relatives in Romania must file with the Romanian Embassy to establish their status with the Romanian Government---------- 138 Copy of form issued by the Romanian Embassy in Washington, D.C. for renunciation of Romanian citizenship…------------------------143 Copy of letter from Hon. Edward Koch to Ms. Valerie Secu, regard- ing his attempts to expedite Mr. Vircol's application to the Roman- ian Government for an exit visa…--------------------------------- 145 Thursday, March 17, 1977: Appeal of Soviet activists to Soviet Government and other Final Act signatories to comply with the provisions of the Helsinki Agree- ment, particularly as they relate to the issue of family reunification_ 165 List of constituent agencies of the National Conference on Soviet Jewry--------------------------------------------------------- 166 List of Jewish prisoners of conscience, prepared by the National Con- ferenceon Soviet Jewry, Soviet Jewry Research Bureau______ Transcript of taped statements of three Soviet 'refuseniks" Evgenny Liberman, Maria Slepak, and Arkady Rabinov, detailing their efforts to be reunified with their families…1----------------------- 5I0 Plea of Mrs. Lubov Dinenzon to the U.S. House of Representatives, to help her family be reunited, as it was introduced and submitted by Hon. Sidney Yates, U.S. Representative from the State of Illi- nois, and appeared in the Congressional Record, vol. 122, dated March 18, 1976________________________________________________-191 Letter from Norton Sokol, M.D. and Richard Morris, administrator, of Sinai Medical Group, Chicago, Ill., to Soviet Ambassador Dob- rynin, certifying the failing health of Mrs. Lubov Dinenzon, mother of Felix and Viktor Aranovich, dated June 18, 1975_------------ 192 Copy of telegram from Mr. Bogdanov, Deputy Director, Institute of the U.S. in Moscow, to Alex Seith, Deputy Chairman, Foreign Affairs Task Force, Democratic National Committee, informing him that Aranovich case may be decided positively, dated July 23, 1976---- 193 Copy of birth certificate of David Ardin Aranovich, son of Alla and Felix Aranovich, born in Chicago, Ill., July 3, 1976, dated July 9, 1976_-- - ------------- 193 V STATEMENTS AND LETTERS SUBMITTED FOR THE RECORD Statements from Members of Congress: Hon. Daniel Patrick Moynihan, U.S. Senator from the State of Page New York----------------------------------------------------- 198 Hon. Edward I. Koch, U.S. Representative from the State of New York----------------------------------------------------- 198 Statements and Letters on Family Reunification: Bulgaria !Statement of Peter Todorov-------------------------------------- 200 Letter from Dimiter Inkiow to Hon. Dante B. Fascell, dated April 6, 1977_------------------------------------------------------- 200 Letter from Spas and Ivanka Marev to Hon. Dante B. Fascell, dated May 4, 1977_--------------------------------------------------- 201 Letter from Jerome J. Shestack, chairman, The International League for the Rights of Man, to His Eminence Mr. Gheorgin Ghelev, Ambassador of the People's Republic of Bulgaria, on behalf of Nicolas Chamurlisky, dated April 30, 1976_----------------------- 201 Statement on family reunification: Czechoslovakia Statement of Jan Papanek, president, American Fund for Czechoslovak Refugees, Inc.-------------------------------------------------- 202 Statements on family reunification: Romania Statement of Jacob Birnbaum, national director, Center for Russian and East European Jewry and Student Struggle for Soviet Jewry, New York City--203 Statement of the Very Reverend F. M. Galdau, chairman, The Amer- ican Romanian Committee for Assistance to Refugees (ARCAR)-._ 211 Statement of Theo Junker, president, Matthias Aringer, secretary general, and, Emil and Anna Wiedman, referents of the Danube Swabian Association of the U.S.A., Inc.--- ----------------------- 216 Statement of Dimitrie G. Apostoliu (Costin Jurea), Secretary of the Underground Romanian National Committee for Human Rights since 1965, of three Romanian hunger strikes for family reunion in the United States---------------------------------------------- 219 Letters on family reunification: Romania Letter from Constantin Rauta to Hon. Dante B. Fascell, dated Decem- ber 15, 1976____________________________________________________- 221 Letter from Dumitru D. Marin, M.D. to Hon. Dante B. Fascell, dated February 16, 1977_--------------------------------------------- 224 Letter from Alexandra Meleasa to Hon. Dante B. Fascell, dated Feb- ruary