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The Ukrainian Weekly 1984 Vol. Ul No. 38 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 16,1984 25 cents House committee sets hearings for Faithful mourn Patriarch Josyf famine study bill WASHINGTON - The House Sub­ committee on International Operations has set October 3 as the date for hearings on H.R. 4459, the bill that would establish a congressional com­ mission to investigate the Great Famine in Ukraine (1932-33), reported the Newark-based Americans for Human Rights in Ukraine. The hearings will be held at 2 p.m. in Room 2200 in the Sam Rayburn House Office Building. The chairman of the subcommittee, which is part of the Foreign Affairs Committee, is Rep. Dan Mica (D-Fla.). The bill, which calls for the formation of a 21-member investigative commission to study the famine, which killed an esUmated ^7.^ million UkrdtftUllk. yif ітіІДЯДІШ'' House last year by Rep. James Florio (D-N.J.). The Senate version of the measure, S. 2456, is currently in the Foreign Rela­ tions Committee, which held hearings on the bill on August I. The committee is expected to rule on the measure this month. In the House. H.R. 4459 has been in the Subcommittee on International Operations and the Subcommittee on Europe and the Middle East since last November. According to AHRU, which has lobbied extensively on behalf of the legislation, since one subcommittee has Marta Kolomaysls scheduled hearings, the other, as has St. George Ukrainian Catholic Church in New Yoric City and parish priests the Revs, Leo Goldade and Taras become custom, will most likely waive was but one of the many Ulcrainian Catholic churches Prokopiw served a panakhyda after a liturgy at St. the right to hold hearings. which held memorial liturgies and panakhydas on George's. The services were attended by Ukrainian In addition to Rep. Mica, the Sub­ Thursday, September 13, the day of Patriarch Josyrs Catholic faithful of all ages. (The church interior is being committee on International Operations funeral in Rome. The Rev. Tarciziy Zaiutskey of Brazil decorated, as is evident from the scaffolding seen in the includes five Democrats — Reps. Gus photo.) Yatron of Pennsylvania, Stephen Solarz of New York, Larry Smith of Florida, JERSEY CITY, N.J. - Thou­ Sources in Rome reported that respects to Patriarch Josyf on Satur­ George W. Crockett Jr. of Michigan sands of Ukrainian Catholics through­ Pope John Paul II had paid his last day, September 8, before departing and Peter Kostmayer of Pennsylvania out the free world mourned the death on his pastoral visit to Canada. The (Continued on page 13) of Patriarch Josyf I with memorial Full coverage of the funeral of pontiff visited St. Sophia Sobor, services on Thursday, September 13, Patriarch Josyf I will appear in the where the earthly remains of the the day of the patriarch's funeral in next issue of The Weekly. Ukrainian Catholic primate were Rome. (Continued on page 13) Report reveals Soviets violate arms accords WASHINGTON - The Reagan release. established in 1961 under the jurisdic­ administration will shortly release a In January, President Ronald Rea­ tion of the Senate Foreign Relations study charging multiple violations of gan sent to (Tongress a secret report on Committee, currently consists of 12 arms-control agreements by the Soviet nine cases of possible Soviet non- presidential appointees. They include Union, the White House said on Sep­ compliance with arms-control treaties. Colin S. Gray, former director of tember II. The report had been mandated by national security studies at the Hudson According to The New York Times, Congress and was the product of exten­ Institute; Donald Rumsfeld, secretary the report, prepared by the President's sive interagency review. By contrast, the of defense under President Gerald General Advisory Committee on Arms advisory committee's study was pre­ Ford; John P. Roche, professor at Tufts Control and Disarmament, covers 17 pared independently for the president University's Fletcher School of Law purported violations dating back to and not approved by relevant federal and Diplomacy; Robert B. Holz, former Rep. Mica, chairman of the House 1958. Since it was completed last fall bureaus such as the State Department editor of the trade journal Aviation subcommittee that will hold hearings on conservative Republican members of or the Central Intelligence Agency. Week and Space Technology; and the famine bill. Congress have campaigned for its The advisory committee, which was (Continued on page 13) THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 16,1984 No. 38 Dismissal of Soviet senior officer attributed to military policy dispute Soviet press reacts with vitriol MOSCOW - The official Soviet "You do not have to be a military to this year's CN Week proclamation press agency TASS recently announced man or a scientist to realize that a that Marshal Nikolai V. Ogarkov, the further build-up is becoming senseless," JERSEY CITY. N.J. - To those calling for annual presidential pro­ Soviet Union's senior military officer, he said in the interview, adding that who believe that no. one pays any clamations of Captive Nations Week was relieved of his post and replaced by "with the quantity and diversity of attention any more to annual presi­ "was planned as a provocation his deputy, Sergei F. Akhromeyev, nuclear missiles already achieved, it has dential proclamations of Captive against the Soviet people and the according to The New York Times. become impossible to destroy the Nations Week, wc say: just take a population of other socialist coun­ enemy's systems with a single strike." look at the Soviet press. tries whose rights are guaranteed by Although the announcement gave no constitution and are implemented by details about the future of the 66-year- He went on to point out that "rapid For example. News from Ukraine, changes" in conventional weapons, an English-language newspaper the governments of the people, by the old marshal who had been chief of staff people and for the people." since 1977, it said that he had been such as unmanned aircraft, cruise printed in Kiev, Ukraine, but targeted missiles with conventional warheads and for readers abroad, said the 1984 CN Mr. Sheremet charged that thq^igh replaced "in connection with a new the CN Week resolution stated that appointment." A senior Soviet diplo­ new electronic control systems, had Week was held "in the most rabid enhanced "the destructive potential of anti-socialist spirit ever." during the third week of July Ameri­ mat later said in Washington that the cans should pray for the "liberation dismissal was prompted by a display of conventional weapons, bringing them In its July issue, the newspaper closer, so to speak, to weapons of mass noted: "Sponsors of subversive of the subjugated peoples," the "unpartylike tendencies" by Marshal liberation referred to in the resolu­ Ogarkov. destruction in terms of their effective­ actions against the Soviet Union ness." He also said that the military tion was "obviously selective." U.S. government officials believe the spare no effort to discredit the should increase its development of these "No mentioning (sic) was made." comment reinforces the possibility that CPSU's (Comminist Party of the high-technology non-nuclear arma­ he wrote, "about the plight of really Marshal Ogarkov was dismissed because Soviet Union) nationalities policy, ments, a view that immediately intri­ captive nations, say in South Amc- of disagreements with policy-makers on employing to this end bourgeois gued some Westerners, who pointed out ' rica or South Africa. The 'week'was military appropriations. If, in fact, it nationalism and its proponents. that it ran counter to that of an en­ not dedicated to the problem of was a policy dispute that led to the Under the present U.S. administra­ trenched hierarchy closely linked with improving the position of millions of dismissal, officials said, a manifestation tion a veritable pandemonium breaks the Soviet defense industry. black Americans either." of it might have been an interview with loose during the so-called "Captive At least half a dozen Soviet experts in One can only conclude from read­ him published May 9 in Krasnaya Nations Week.' " the United States agreed that the TASS ing accounts such as this that the Zviezda, the armed forces newspaper. In an article titled " 'Advocates of statement suggested that Marshal freedom' trampling down freedom," Soviet bloc still takes Captive Na­ In the interview. Marshal Ogarkov Ogarkov had been either demoted or Yevhen Sheremet wrote that the law tions Week seriously. seemed to argue that the deployment of dismissed, a move that would signal a American medium-range missiles in major shuffle in the military. "P Western Europe did not increase the chances of a "first strike" against the "If he was being promoted or given a Rumanian priest released Soviet Union because the two sides job of equal importance, such as a recognized that neither superpower Warsaw Pact commander-in-chief," BUCHAREST, Rumania - Ruma­ celebrated on August 23 at which time could .escape a retaliatory strike. (Continued on page 15) nian authorities on August 20 unex­ Rumanian President Nicolae Ceau- pectedly released the Rev. 'Gheorghe sescu traditionally pardons prisoners. Calciu from prison, reported Christian The Rumanian Embassy in Washing­ Recent arrests may signal Response International. ton has declined to comment. The 57-year-old Orthodox priest had Before his 1979 arrest, the Rev. served five years of a lO-year sentence Calciu, a professor at the Orthodox campaign against Jewish activists and was considered by human and Seminary in Bucharest, played key roles religious rights groiips to be the most in inspiring the formation of both the NEW YORK - The arrest of Yuli significant case in Rumania. Rumanian Christian Committee for the Edelshtein on September 4 was the In 1979, the Rev.
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