www.ukrweekly.com І НІ" published by the Ukrainian National Association inc.. a fraternal non-profit association j Ukrainian Weekly vol. LIII No. 40 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, OCTOBER 6,1985 25 cents East European protesters "welcome1 400 honor vasyl Stus Shevardnadze to White House WASHINGTON - An estimated Service. at Toronto memorial service 150 protesters "greeted" Soviet Foreign "if Mr. Shevardnadze is sincere ШШШШШ Minister Eduard Shevardnadze at the about 'reducing' strategic nuclear White House on Friday, September 27, missiles and warheads by 40 percent, he with a rally on the White House would also propose reducing the sidewalk. persecution of human– and national- The group included Ukrainians, rights activities. Russification and Lithuanians, Etonians, Latvians, ethnic genocide in Afghanistan, Afghans, lranianj, Hungarians, Poles, Estonia, Lithuania, Latvia and Ukraine as well as individuals from are prime examples of the real public organizations such as the Save the relations campaign Mr. Gorbachev and Oppressed Peoples Committee (STOP), Mr. Shevardnadze are conducting in Americans for Religious Freedom and the USSR," Mr. Wasylyk noted. the Coalition for Jobs, Peace and The demonstration was organized by Freedom in the Americas. They the Committee to Welcome Eduard demonstrated in front of the White Shevardnadze to Washington, a House, calling attention to Mr. venture sponsored by the Washington Shevardnadze's atrocious record while offices of the Joint Baltic-American internal minister of the Georgian SSR. National Committee and the Ukrainian Mr. Shevardnadze, like most of the Congress Committee of America. Politburo members, has a history of The "welcoming committee" was personal brutality and torture of instrumental in providing pertinent political dissidents. "We are outraged information on Mr. Shevardnadze's that a man of this caliber is even record to Washington-based newspaper admitted to the White House, let alone correspondents. As a result. The given the red-carpet treatment," said Washington Times carried an editorial Ojars Kalnins, acting chairman of the condemning Mr. Shevardnadze's Joint Baltic-American National record, columnist John Lofton wrote Committee and demonstration an extensive expose on Mr. organizer. Shevardnadze, and ^the "Morning "We know the president will keep Mr. Bulletin" of Friday's Washington Times Shevardnadze's past actions in carried a small announcement perspective when he meets with the encouraging participation in the White foreign minister at the White House," House demonstration. said Myron Wasylyk. director of the The "welcoming committee" said it Ukrainian National information (Continued on page 3) Deschenes hears testimony on Soviet evidence by Mykhailo Bociurkiw 'commission said it heard "serious allegations" about eight alleged war JERSEY C1TY, N.J. - The Cana– criminals residing in Canada. The one- dian government's Commission of man commission of Justice Jules inquiry on war criminals is holding Deschenes said that evidence concern– hearings in Ottawa to decide if it should ing the eight people may be available in travel abroad, including to the Soviet the United States, the United Kingdom, Union, to collect more evidence. the Netherlands, Poland and the Soviet The hearings are being held after the Union. JHiiary Celiim Cook The hearings, held in a federal go– Canadian actor Christopher Britton reads poetry by the late Yasyl Stus. vernment complex in Hull, Que., heard arguments on September 23 from a TORONTO - A commemorative human-rights activist to die in a Polovchak turns 18, Ukrainian veterans' group and the ceremony honoring poet and Ukrai– Soviet labor camp in the last 18 League for Human Rights of B'nai nian dissident vasyl Stus was attend– months. B'rith. ed by some 400 people on September The afternoon commemoration files for citizenship On October 3, Judge Deschenes 29. was emceed by Halyna Benesh, a CH1CAGO - Walter Polovchak, listened to John Sopinka, the lawyer The one-hour ceremony, orga– member of thcstudents'c!ub. A stage the Ukrainian boy who came to the representing the Ukrainian Canadian nized by the University of Toronto bearing a large photo of Mr. Stus was United States with his parents in 1980 Committee. Ukrainian Students' Club, included the center of activity in the down- and later refused to return, turned 18 on The Ukrainian Canadian Committee, readings of Mr. Stus's works and a town square that frequently serves October 3. the League for Human Rights of B'nai memorial service (panakhyda). it as the site of demonstrations, festi– Declaring Walter "a free man," B'rith and the Canadian Jewish Con– was held in Nathan Phillips Square vals and other public events. Chicago attorney Julian E. Ku!as, told gress have special standing, which near Toronto's City Hall. Marco Carynnyk, a writer and The New York Times that Mr. Polov– allows them to cross-examine witnesses Mr. Stus, a member of the Ukrai– translator, was the first guest speaker chak's birthday marks the end of the subpoenaed by the commission to nian Helsinki Monitoring Group, of the afternoon. He told the crowd youth's legal battles. He added that appear at public hearings. died on September 4 at the age of 47 about Mr. Stus's background and Walter's U.S. citizenship papers were to Both hearings attracted large groups while serving the fifth year of a 10- work. have been filed on the morning of of Canadian reporters, as well as a year labor camp term in the Soviet Organizers of the event said they October 3. Soviet reporter-cameraman ar.ua і ASS Union. He is the fourth Ukrainian (Continued on page 10) (Continued on page 11) (Continued on page li) 2:.--: .У ...:д ;– . ;- -' , : ; ,. -: ' : THE UKRA1N1AN WEEKLY SUNDAY, OCTOBER 6, 1985^^No. 40 A GLIMPSE OF SOVIET REALITY Georgian Helsinki monitor re-arrested JERSEY C1TY. N.J. - Georgian Helsinki Group member Merab Kos– Ukrainian SSR's energy performance tava, 46, was arrested in a Soviet prison camp in June. He was charged under analyzed by Central Committee member Article 188-3 of the Russian SFSR Criminal Code and sentenced to two by David Marples levels, albeit speculative ones at this years in a strict-regimen camp, reported stage. USSR News Brief based in Munich. in a major article in Radianska Mr. Kachura indicated the lamen– Article 188-3 covers "malicious dis– Ukraina, BY. Kachura, a secretary of tablc state of some of the electro- obedience of the demands of the admi– the Central Committee of the Commu– transmission lines in the republic. At the nistration of a corrective labor institu– nist Party of Ukraine, reviewed the beginning of 1985, 26 per,cent of the0.4- tion." performance of the Ukrainian SSR in 10 kilovolt force lines were in need of Mr. Kostava. a musicologist, was the l!th five-year plan (1981-1985) and either major repair or replacement. The first arrested in 1972 for his political outlined prospects for the forthcoming 359 million rubles allotted for this activities. He helped organise the plan (1986-1990) in the principal purpose in the current five-year plan Georgian initiative Group for the branches of the. energy field: nuclear have already been used up. There has Defense of Human Rights and. later, energy, coal, oil and gas. been a considerable outlay within the the Georgian Helsinki Group. His role it should be stated at the outset that Ministry of Energy and Electrification in forming the group.led to his arrest in Merab Kostava Mr. Kachura's articles are notably more of the Ukrainian SSR on the dismantl– 1977 and a period at Moscow's Serbsky balanced than those of some of his ing of obsolete and "shabby" equip– institute for Forensic Psychiatry, where health and required hospitalizaiion colleagues. They generally lack the ment. he underwent an examination. several times while in camp. He was verbosity of a Shcherbytsky speech or According to Mr. Kachura. the in May 1978, Mr. Kostava was rearrested in exile in November 1981 on article and avoid dramatic overstale– capacity of the republic's nuclear power sentenced to three years in a strict- a fabricated charge of "hooliganism" ments. At the same time they are usually stations is to be increased by several regimen camp and two years of internal and sentenced to five years and one detailed and lengthy. As a result, Mr. times in the 1986-1990 plan. Further, exile for "anti-Soviet agitation and month in a camp. He was due to be Kachura's remarks merit serious atten– nuclear heating plants, such as those propaganda" under Article 71 of the released in December 1986 but now tion. Moreover, as a member of the pioneered at Odessa and under con– Georgian SSR Criminal Code. faces imprisonment until December Energy Commission of the Soviet struction at Kharkiv will "have been Mr. Kostava is reported to be in poor 1988. Union and as first secretary of the mastered in principle." The main goal Doneiske Oblast Communist Party behind these plants is to economize on organization, the 55-year-old engineer fuel. During the current plan, over 690 has considerable first-hand experience high fuel-consumption "boiler-houses, Zelichonok pleads not guilty to slander of the main branches of Ukraine's with "threadbare equipment" have been JERSEY C1TY. N.J. - A Jewish trial. Mr. Zelichonok's wife appealed to energy industry. closed down, enabling a saving of scientist pleaded not guilty to charges of the world scientific community "to do Taken over-all, the 1 lth five-year 350,000 tons of conventional fuel per "slandering the Soviet state and social everything possible" to help her plan in Ukraine's energy sector has not annum and the release of 3,500 workers. system" at a trial in Leningrad on husband. been a disaster. But neither has it been a Energy-saving is in fact the main August 8.