www.ukrweekly.com 33 3333 tt H 0003^06 0066А ROMA -UOZEWYCZ 24 CONKLIN AVE. ^ORRlSTOWiNi NJ 07960 Published by the Ukrainian National Association Inc., a fraternal non-profit association rainian Weekly Vol. LX No. 31 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, AUGUST 2, 1992 50 cents Battle-weary Trans-Dnistrians pessimistic about new ceasefire Ukraine's Olympians by Marta Kolomayets golden in Barcelona Kiev Press Bureau TYRASPOL, Trans-Dnister Moldo- by Andrij Wynnyckyj van Republic — "I just want peace, I want peace," lamented Matrona Кугу– JERSEY CITY, N.J. - Checking livna Lapuha, walking through her the progress of athletes from Ukraine bombed-out garden. The blue-and- at the XXV Olympiad in Barcelona, white walls of her home, once framed by one finds Tetiana Lysenko of Kher­ lush grapevines, are now shattered by son and Tetiana Hutsu of Odessa on bulletholes. Over 30 mines have ex­ the roster of the Unified Team corps ploded on her property located in the that took the gold in women's team village of Korzhyvo, along the front gymnastics. They placed fifth and lines of the ongoing bloody conflict ninth, respectively, with 79.122 and between Moldovan and separatist 78.848 points. Trans-Dnistrian forces. Ukrainian men were particularly impressive in team gymnastics. Hry- "We lived together side by side for horiy Misiutyn was third (116.975 many years," said Ms. Lapuha, "and I points) Ihor Korobchynsky, fifth lived to see this," she added, pointing to (116.500), and Rustam Sharipov the spot on her bed where a mine 22nd (114.950), as they helped the exploded in early May. But, this ethnic Unified Team roll to gold, besting the Ukrainian woman who has lived in this Chinese contingent by almost five region her entire adult life does not points — a very large margin in this blame inter-ethnic tensions for the war Marta Kolomayets sport. Messrs. Misiutyn and Koro­ that has destroyed her homestead and "I want peace/' says Matrona Kyrylivna Lapuha, as she stands outside her bullet" bchynsky are from Luhanske, while sent her children to live with family in riddled home in Korzhyvo, a town near Dubossary. Mr. Sharipov hails from Kharkiv. Ukraine. Oleh Kucherenko, a world wrest­ Her home had been caught in the "We were told the war would end in will be a recognized autonomous state ling champion for the last two years, crossfire — the shots came from both April," said Col. Vasyl Kalko, comman­ within Moldova. "It is unlikely that is taking a gold medal home to sides, and now, neither side has been der of the Trans-Dnistrian militia in Trans-Dnistria will be recognized as an Luhanske (105.5 lb) competition. able to assist her in rebuilding a life in Bendery. "But on June 19, open independent state because this would He defeated Italian Vincenzo this region. She, like most residents on aggression began here," he said. "So, we set a precedent for other regions,such as Maenza in the final bout of the 48 kg. this sliver of land along the Dnister have little hope that this cease-fire will the Crimea, Donbas, western Ukraine," Valeriv Statsenko (Kiev), an entry River, near Ukraine's southern border, change anything." observed the pragmatic leader, who has in the three-meter springboard diving began fearing that Moldova may unite Unlike some of his colleagues who seen the bloodshed here since the competition, came in eighth with with Romania after the break-up of the seek total independence, Col. Kalko beginning of the fighting early this year. 577.920 points. Soviet Union and that the Trans- hopes that eventually Trans-Dnistria (Continued on page 10) Oleksander Honchenkov (Lviv), Dnistrians, mostly Russians and Ukrai­ was knocked out of the 4,000-meter nians, would become second-class individual pursuit event in cycling, as citizens in this republic of 4.3 million. Ukrainian sailors, citing abuse, he was overtaken by Jens Lehmann And although Moldovan President of Germany. Mircea Snegur has promised the people In the ongoing boxing competi­ of this river-bed region that if the issue jump ship and request asylum tion, Rostyslav Zaulichny of Lviv of reunification with Romania is raised by Roman Woronowycz a break from the ship. The night before, was given a bye into the next round in in the future, the Trans-Dnistrians will be th two mariners decided they would the 81 kg (179 lb) class. allowed to determine their own fate, the JERSEY CITY, N.J. - Two Ukrai­ leave their vessel and seek refuge in the fighting that has devastated Dubossary ftftft nian sailors have requested political U.S. But, having sneaked on deck and destroyed Bendery continues. asylum in the United States after having they vacillated when they saw ship In a related story, some U.S. media A cease-fire agreement signed by jumped into the waters off Portland, guards. are continuing their irritating habit Maine, from a Russian commercial The Ukrainian sailors ended up in the of bemoaning the demise of the Russia and Moldova on July 22 in Moscow is viewed by the leaders of the fishing trawler docked there on July 17. custody of Immigration and Naturali­ Soviet Union. The sports section of zation Service (INS) agents after being the July 29 edition of The New York feuding lands, Presidents Snegur and The two sailors, Serhiy Mikulin, 24, Igor Smirnov of the Trans-Dnistrian from Pervomayske and 19-year-old picked up in a rubber dinghy by shore- Times carried an article that des­ bound sailors from another ship. Bare­ cribed the "almost heartbreaking" Moldovan Republic, as an initial step in Kyrylo Turta of Mykolayiv, claim the peace process. However, it is the officers and sailors aboard the Mur­ foot and soaking wet, they trudged final triumph of a soon-to-be-dis­ through town exclaiming, "Police, united CIS gymnastics team. fifth attempt at a cease-fire. mansk-based ship Dauriya discrimi­ nated against them because they are police," to anyone they met. Finally, Michael Janofsky's article, "A In late June, after the presidents of two boys understood their pleas and Glorious Conclusion to a Gymnastics Moldova, Romania, Russia and U- Ukrainian. Mr. Mikulin said the two were verbally and physically harassed to obtained the help the grounded sailors Dynasty," recalled the halcyon days kraine signed a joint communique requested. of the system that produced the likes calling for an immediate and uncondi­ the point they felt their lives might be tional cease-fire, a United Nations fact- endangered. The case closely resembles the situa­ of Olga Korbut, Nelli Kim and tion in New Orleans in October 1985 Lyudmilla Turishcheva. finding mission was caught during an According to their translator, Ukrai­ exchange of gunfire in Bendery. when Myroslav Medvid escaped from a Given the revelations about the nian American Mykola Arkas, the Soviet ship only to be returned after training system made by the first star Although the newest cease-fire, a sailors said, "Either they were going to U.S. officials refused his pleas for help. on that list (even if we leave politics military agreement, guarantees a multi­ kill us, or we were going to kill them." In the Medvid case, representatives out of it), such an attitude is per- national peacekeeping force — in­ They landed on U.S. shores with no from the ship on which he was sailing, plexingly blinkered, to say the least. cluding six Russian battalions pa­ shoes on their feet and only the clothes the Marshall Koniev, claimed Mr. Ms. Korbut's decision to act as a trolling a neutral zone along the Dnis­ they were wearing because they decided Medvid had become drunk and had coach and promoter of gymnastics in ter River — commanders on botn sides to jump on the spur of the moment. fallen from the ship's deck into the the U.S. is particularly telling. are sceptical about its success. However, they had previously planned (Continued on page 11) 2 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, AUGUST 2, 1992 No. 31 NEWS ANALYSIS: Ukraine moves toward the rule of law Newsbriefs by Bohdan Nahaylo new constitution was adopted in the on Ukraine RFE/RL Research Institute summer of 1991.25 As long as the Soviet Union existed, most of the specialist CONCLUSION literature on legal and constitutional ^ KIEV - President Leonid Krav- 9 KIEV - Ukraine now has 13 Democracy and independence questions in Ukraine was based on the chuk's representative in Kiev, Ivan political parties, with the addition of the theories of Moscow and Russian ex­ Saliy, has directed that all signs and new Liberal Democratic Party of U- In the second half of August the perts; but now, Ukrainian legal specia­ announcements in Kiev must be in kraine. That party has joined the attempted coup in Moscow by Com­ lists are able to look to the West for Ukrainian by August 1. By October 1, opposition coalition New Ukraine and munist hard-liners suddenly seemed to advice and to learn from its experience. all forms and rubber stamps are to be in says that its major goal is the struggle place in jeopardy everything that had In the spring of 1992, members of the Ukrainian. According to the 1989 for human rights. Party leader Volo- been achieved and to demonstrate the Constitutional Commission sought the census, Kiev was 72.4 percent Ukrai­ dymyr Klymchuk stressed that this fragility of both Ukraine's new sover­ opinion of European and American nian and 20.9 percent Russian. party has nothing to do with the Rus­ eignty and incipient democracy. Para­ constitutional law specialists on the (RFE/RL Daily Report) sian Liberal Democratic Party headed doxically, the failed coup actually draft of the new Ukrainian Constitu­ 9 MUNICH - Mustafa Dzhemilev, by Vladimir Zhirinovsky.