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The Ukrainian Weekly 1984, No.42 www.ukrweekly.com Sroc Published by the Ukrainian National Association Inc.. a fraternal non-profit association! > і ЙОК X a? - - > (Л z x - ОКО -1 -^ oo 2 "П О - -n n DOH О z m О Д) x - M П О rainian Weekly d (Я о -S-^S Vol. Lll No. 42 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, OCTOBER 14, 1984 25 cents Fom/ne commission bi7/ ord Valeriy Marchenko dies at 37 WASHINGTON - The famine on Thursday, October II, after House NEW YORK - Ukrai­ commission bill was passed by Congress and Senate conferees agreed on an nian dissident Valeriy Mar­ omnibus spending bill to which the chenko, who on March 14 famine measure had been attached. was sentenced to a 10-year President Ronald Reagan is expected to term in a special-regimen sign the legislation into law. labor camp despite his ex­ The bill provides for the creation of a tremely poor health.died ina federally funded commission that Leningrad clinic on October would, in the span of two years, investi­ 6, apparently of problems gate the causes and consequences of the related to kidney failure. He 1932-33 Great Famine in Ukraine. A was 37. sum of 5400,000 was allocated for the According to the External 15-member commission's work. Representation of the U- As reported earlier, the bill had been krainian Helsinki Group passed by the full Senate on Friday, based here, Mr. Marchenko September 21, after that body's Foreign died while being treated for Relations Committee had reported hypertension and acute ne­ favorably on the measure (S. 2456). phritis a kidney ailment, at a House hearings on the famine commis­ special clinic for political sion bill (H.R. 4459), were held on prisoners in Leningrad. On Wednesday, October 3 -just one day September 13 he was moved prior to the scheduled closing of the approximately 840 miles to 90th Congress - by the Subcommittee the clinic from labor camp on International Operations of the No. 36-1 in the Ural Moun­ Foreign Affairs Committee. There was tains near Perm, where he no time left to report the bill out of had been in a prison hospital since July. committee to the full House. Valeriy Marchenko If the famine bill had not been acted Mr. Marchenko, a jour­ on during the closing days of the 98th nalist and philologist who was a leading stand through most of the proceedings. Congress, it would have had to be activist in the human-rights movement After being sentenced to 10 years in a reintroduced in the 99th Congress, and in Ukraine, had been ill for some time. labor camp and five years' internal During his trial, at least one court exile, he reportedly told the presiding the legislative process would have had magistrate: "you will be guilty of my to begin anew. session had to be postponed because of the defendant's poor health, and Mr. death. Citizen Judge." Bill Bradley, sponsor of the famine In order to save the famine commis- Marchenko was reportedly unable to commission bill in the Senate. (Contlnued on page 16) Earlier this month, Amnesty Interna­ tional and other human-rights sources reported that when Mr. Marchenko was moved to the labor camp hospital in Congress famine resolution condemns USSRJuly hi s blood pressure was a dan­ gerously high 240/160, which was WASHINGTON - Eighteen months approved the resolution on September House Concurrent Resolution 111 partly due to the strict work routine the after the first Ukrainian famine resolu­ 13. ailing Mr. Marchenko had to endure. tion was introduced in the Congress, an H. Con.Res. 111 was first introduced Whereas over 7 million Ukrainians in amended resolution cleared all Con­ on April 14, 1983, by Rep. Gerald the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Re­ The External Representation report­ gressional hurdles and was sent to the Solomon (R-N.Y.), and it passed the public, which was created as the result ed that even though Mr. Marchenko president, reported the Ukrainian Ame­ House on November 17, 1983. Two of direct aggression by the Russian was transferred to the special Lenin­ rican Caucus. days earlier, the Senate had approved Communist military forces against the grad clinic, he had been denied much- its own Ukrainian famine resolution, Ukrainian National Republic in 1918- needed kidney dialysis treatment. The The resolution puts the Congress on S.Con.Res. 70, which was introduced 20, died of starvation during the years group also said that Mr. Marchenko's record as condemning the USSR for its by Sens. Ernest Hollings (D-S.C.) and 1932-33; and mother had offered to donate one of her "systematic disregard for human life Pete Domenici (R-N.M.). The two Whereas Moscow, having full and kidneys for a possible transplant, but and for human and national rights and resolutions were stalled until Septem­ complete control of the entire food was rebuffed by authorities. liberties" and expresses "sympathy for ber 12, when the Senate Foreign Rela­ supplies within the borders of the Union Although Mr. Marchenko was ill the millions of victims of such policies." tions Committee amended H.Con.Res. of Soviet Socialist Republics, neverthe­ during his trial, his condition was aggravated by a rough, 55-day trip Through the resolution, the Congress 111 with a new resolution combining less failed to take relief measures to key parts of both S.Con. Res. 70 and check the disastrous famine or to from Kiev, where the proceedings took urges the president to: proclaim a day place, to Perm, a journey of some 1,050 for "mournful commemoration of the H.Con.Res. 111. The full Senate acted alleviate the catastrophic conditions on the resolution the following day. arising from it, but on the contrary used miles. Once at the camp, Mr. Mar­ Great Famine in Ukraine; urged the chenko was forced to engage in stren- The resolution is a statement by the the famine as a means of reducing the USSR to remove "restrictions on the nuous physical labor despite his ill health. Congress and does not require presi­ Ukrainian population and destroying shipment of food parcels and other Mr. Marchenko's funeral was sche­ dential signature. It is, however, sub­ Ukrainian national, political, cultural necessities" to residents of the USSR; duled to take place in Kiev on October mitted to the president with recom­ and religious rights; and "issue a warning that continued sub­ 13, according to the External Repre­ mended actions. According to the Whereas Moscow targeted the Ukrai­ jugation of the Ukrainian nation...con­ sentation, which said there have been Ukrainian American Caucus, a presi­ nian people for destruction as a whole stitutes a threat to world peace"; and, unconfirmed reports that his body has dential proclamation, as requested by by directing special draconic decrees "manifest to the peoples of the USSR... already been turned over to his mother. that the people of the U.S. share with the resolution, is expected. The pro­ against Ukrainian peasants as "an them their aspirations to determine clamation would designate a particular enemy class," against the Ukrainian Mr. Marchenko was previously ar­ their own destiny and to recover their day for commemoration of the Great intelligentsia as "bourgeois Ukrainian rested in 1973 during the massive freedom." Famine in Ukraine. nationalists," and against the Ukrainian crackdown on the Ukrainian intelli­ Autocephalic Orthodox Church as "a gentsia. He was accused of "Ukrainian The House of Representatives ap­ The full text of H.Con.Res. 111, as remnant of the old prejudiciaPopiate of and Azerbaijani nationalism" and proved the Senate-amended H.Con.Res. passed by both the Senate and the the people' " - committed on a gigantic sentenced to eight years' imprisonment 1 11 on October 4. The Senate had House of Representatives, follows. (Continued on page 3) and internal exile. 2 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, OCTOBER 14, 1984 No. 42 Badzio and Striltsiv staged fasts A gUmpse of Sovief геаГ"у to mark anniversary of Great Famine Vinnytsia is a model of bureaucratic morass by Dr. Roman Solchanyk zations, and outlined ways of eliminat­ ing these problems." In the normal course of events, a In the course of the discussion it was plenum of the Vinnytsia Oblast Com­ learned that, during the first three years mittee of the Communist Party of of the current five-year plan, "signifi­ Ukraine would probably not arouse any- cant quantities" of grain, sugar beets, special interest. Situated in Right-Bank milk and meat had not been delivered to Ukraine and with a population of the state. The conclusion that was slightly over 3 million, perhaps the only drawn: "This is a striking indication of readily apparent distinguishing feature the shortcomings in the activities of of Vinnytsia Oblast is its predominantly many party committees. They have not agricultural profile. yet fully mastered the methods of At this time of year, however, with political leadership and the Leninist the campaign to bring in the harvest in style of work." full swing, the work of local party One of the unfailing characteristics of organizations in such areas assumes the latter, said V. P. Ryabokon. first considerable importance and comes secretary of the Vinnytsia City Party under closer scrutiny by the central Committee, is "the unity of word and authorities in Kiev. Thus, it is not deed." Yet there are cases when "a surprising to find that a plenum of the genuine businesslike approach is re­ Vinnytsia Oblast Committee was re­ placed by paper shuffling." In one cently convened to discuss "the further raion, the party committee adopted improvement of the style and methods almost twice as many resolutions during of work of party organizations in light the first half of this year as in the of the decisions of the 26th Party corresponding period of the previous Yuriy Badzio Congress, the plenums of the Central year; in another, the party committee Committee of the CPSU, and the circulated almost 500 assorted docu­ statements and conclusions in the ments in the space of a six-month ELL1COTT CITY, Md.
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