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STUDENT 1978 January ft CMdi RETURN REQUESTED STUDENT 1124(41 STREET EDMONTON, ALBERTA 3831 CANADA TSB 4A2 EDMONTON 1 §Ht I STUDENTOK 2S CENTS CANADA'S NEWSPAPER FOE UKRAINIAN STUDENTS THE BASIC ISSUES Lubko Szuch HELSINKI & BELGRADE: PART I nature of his foreign policy'. As States has no desire to lose markets some journalists have pointed out, there due to increased Soviet com- the Soviet petition. This article is the first of a Union, dependent on the for the Some political analysts believe series of articles STUDENT USA supply of necessary goods finance that the continued US-USSR con- will publish on the Belgrade and had to agree to frontation on the issue of human Conference. This month we accept all aspects of the Helsinki accords: rights and the free exchange of present a basic introduction "The Helsinki people and information i.e., to the issues being discuss- agreement provided a diplomatic cover emphasis of Basket 111, will cause ed. for the provision of Western the review meeting at Belgrade technology and consumer {which began in October, 1977, and goods, with appropriate will continue until Feb.. 1978) to end loans, in return for con- in a mud slinging match and thus cessions which were and are rendering the Final Act useless. On August 1, 1975. 35 Euro- is evidence to pean countries including Canada political. This involves However, there respecting suggest that previous U.S. attacks and the United States met in the US sphere of influence by checking the Soviet Union were only a Helsinki to sign a document that any on communist masquerade and that now the U.S. emerged only after two years of local parties who expect an actual relaxation of deliberations. The document con- might have designs on can power." tensions in Europe and a decrease tained a statement of principles of arms build up in that area. If this which all signatory States agreed to President Carter's recent letter should prove to be the case, it could implement in their relations with to Andrei Sakharov is portrayed as a he said that the U.S. has won a other states and is known as the riorin ahniit thp Sov'et victory will Final Act ol the Conlerence on Government's continued violation major political and have Security and Co-operation In Eu- of human rights. Hewrites: "Human little need to continue its human I .S.\s Arthur Goldberg (left) meets the U.S.S.R.'s Yuli Vorontsov rights agreement to rope. rights Is a central concern of my crusade. An at Belgrade's Sava Center prevent the arms race from es- In numerous articles written in administration ... You may rest isafter the North American press in 1975 states In celebrations of the biggest tifying Soviet Tyranny"; "What price assured that the American people calating to giant proportions victory for everyone. The on the topic of the Final Act (which Soviet diplomatic triumph in a freedom?"; etc. The only valid and our government will continue all a In another story, we in these governments of all countries, even was still to be signed in Helsinki), generation..." argument to be found our commitment to promote feel the the view was taken that the West read: "Russia has got what it mainly articles concerns the fact that the respect for human rights not only in the US and the USSR of continued had betrayed the Eastern European wanted: international confirmation Helsinki agreement was drafted in our own country but also abroad." financial burden build up of highly countries and was partner to a sell- of its empire in Eastern Europe, such a way as to allow for greatly To understand the United States' accelerated sophisticated equipment in Europe. out for detente. One paper carried whose frontiers are now declared to differing interpretations. This position on the violation of human whole question of U.S. support the following view of Helsinki which be 'inviolable'. The West has got means that both super powers rights in the Soviet Union, we must The dissidents must be seen in light of was echoed by many others: little or nothing in return except could use the Helsinki Final Act to not forget that the American ruling of foreign policy considerations. "Prime Minister Trudeau is off to vague promises of greater freedom further their own aims contrary to class has no interest whatever in U.S. Finland for the sugar-spun of movement and information the spirit of the Act. The idea that promdting socialist democracy in diplomatic carnival opening between East and West." the Helsinki Final Act had been one- the USSR. This goes hand in hand (BELGRADE continued that un- tomorrow in Helsinki ... Canada will Some other headlines were sided in favour of the USSR with the need on the part of on page 10) be participating with the U.S., visible just before the conference derestimated the American American firms to insure their "Sanc- 'long-run Soviet Russia andSTUDENTS32 European include: "Helsinki buried"; Secretary of State andCHALLENGEthe monopoly in Europe. The United BRITISH NUS STEPS UP ACTION BREZHNEV his of own National Union of Students (Bri- Union of Students in the United public; nor has the date of the trial represented by a counsel NOTE: At press time we were tain) president Sue Slipman has Kingdom was arrested in the been set. choice. inlormed that the Soviets have I as president written to Soviet leader Ukraine in August. NUS has already written to the am writing to you Leonid that Soviet to demand informed the British embassy Brezhnev, demanding action in the Mr. Andrij Klymchuk has now Soviet Ambassador in London and of the Supreme they will expel Klymchuk from the case been held the Student Council of the Soviet that either charges against Andrij of NUS member Andrii beyond the two-month charging with demand are dropped now, or our earlier country without him Klymchuk. Below is her letter. period of arrest after which, under Union putting forward our anti-Soviet activity and currency the Soviet constitution, charges that the date of the trial be set, that demands met. smuggling. More on this next Dear Mr. Brezhnev, must be made. charges be made, that the trial be an At present there are large be of British month. A member of the National No charges have yet been made open one and that Mr. Klymchuk doubts in the minds students over th<=t practice of the Soviet authorities in relation to those Soviet citizens who wish to express views which differ from orthodoxy organisation IN THIS If a member of our ISSUE rights, is not accorded democratic this will confirm for British students that both Soviet democracy and SUSK summer projects 1977 page 6 Soviet legality are being under- mined. More on Plyusheh page 3 In this instance, it appears that Interview with Cafik page 4 the Soviet constitution is not being Andy Suknaski, poet page implemented and that Soviet justice leaves much to be desired. News from the USSR & Eastern Europe page 5 Our 800.000 members are ex- hear your Ukrainian poetry page 9 tremely anxious to answers to the questions posed in Osereclok page 10 this letter and are waiting for a reply. On behalf of NUS. AND MORE! Sue Slipman. Leonid Brezhnev S\ie Slipman . EDITORIAL ZHYTTIA I SLOVO: STILL LIFE AND EMPTY WORDS (All the news that fits) While we welcome STUDENT The reaction of the Ukrainian liberty possible. Yet today, in its recent issues, for KYK's press in Canada to the 12th Con- allies in the movement ZHYTTIA I SLOVO pompously should be on a gress of the Ukrainian Canadian reform, the solidarity celebrates the 60th anniversary of ZHYTTIA I f Committee (held in Winnipeg, Oc- principled basis. the "Great October" and the es- all correspondence to: » Pleas* address tober 7-10, 1977) has been rather SLOVO's is not. tablishment of the Soviet Ukraine STUDENT of KYK's varied. Some accounts have been At least the discussion and praises the contemporary 11246-91 St even critical, others sycophantic; some ills is allowed to surface and regime for its 'tremendous' Edmonton, Albert* have been interesting, others bor- finds its way into the pages of the achievements. But explain, ZHYT- Ukrainian press. such parallels after sixty years Canada 42 ing. The coverage given by ZHYT- No TIA I SLOVO, why the can be found in the AUUC where 'socialism' Great Russian I (Life and Word), of STUDENT ia a national, trilingual and monthly newspaper for TIA SLOVO organ of the Association of United dissenting opinions, particularly on chauvinism continues to exist in the Ukrainian Canadian students. pabUabed by the Ukrainian Canadian Ukrainian Canadians (AUUC), is the situation in the Ukraine, are Soviet Ukraine and why the rights of Student*' Union (SUSKI. especially deserving of comment. frowned upon and information the Ukrainian nation, supposedly a ZHYTTIA I SLOVO has been detrimental to its interests (es- free associate member of the USSR, reflecting tfae interests ol STUDENT la a brum lor fact and opinion publishing a series of articles in pecially as the Soviets' mouthpiece are everywhere violated. cultural, Ukrainbn Canadian students on various topfee -social, which various aspects of the Con- in the Ukrainian Canadian com- The AUUC Is by far not as suppressed. paltkai and religious. gress are explored. Of particular munity) harmonious as ZHYTTIA I SLOVO the best of interest is the article "Zasudzhenyi Perhaps example paints it and strong divisions do (December 19, this is the Communist Party of of the rank and file, and The opinions and thought* expressed in STUDENT represent the Na Smitnyk Istorii" exist.
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