www.ukrweekly.com SYOBODA I 2 ОЖ U Л В Л I N I tin О ЛІ IM O"^O reunion ENGLISH-LANGUAGE WEEKLіY EDITIOWeeN k Ї VOL. I.XXXVII. No. lOx THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY. AUGUST 3. 1980 25 CENTS USSR and its allies Exiled physicist relates plight of Moscow Helsinki group violate Helsinki pact, Story and photo City councilman; and Bob Giordano, by Ika Koznarska Casanova member of the U.S. Olympic weight- says Helsinki Commission NEW YORK - Dr. Yuri Yarym- lifting team. Agayev., the recently exiled physicist Also present were Ludmilla АІехеуе– WASHINGTON - The Soviet Un­ and member of the Moscow Helsinki va, official representative abroad of the ion and its East European allies have group, appeared at a press conference Moscow Helsinki watch group, and failed to live up to their commitments sponsored by the United States Helsinki Aishe Seitmuratova. representative of under the Helsinki Final Act - parti­ Watch Committee on July 24 here at the the Crimean Tatars. cularly m-the area of human rights, offices of Harper A Row. Bob Giordano, a member of the U.S. according to the report submitted to In his statement. Dr. Yarym-Agayev Olympic weightlifting team who would Congress by the U.S. Commission stressed that "the crackdown against have competed for the first time at the Security and Cooperation in Europe, dissidents, while accelerated by plans to Olympics this year, welcomed Dr. also known as the Helsinki Commis­ clear Moscow for the Olympic Games, Yarym-Agayev and said, "While not sion. is in fact part of a long-range program 'going to the Olympics has been a deep The report, titled "Implementation of to suppress political dissent in the disappointment to me, I hope to have the Final Act of the Conference on Soviet Union, a campaign which is other opportunities. On the other hand, Security and Cooperation in Europe: stepped up or toned down according to Yuri Yarym-Agayev's whole life has Five Years after Helsinki," was to have party directives at a given time." changed: he has been forced to abandon been released here at a press conference Dr. Yarym-Agayev noted that the his home, family and friends." on July 31. last time one could speak of a let-up in In reviewing the current-status of the The Helsinki Commission noted in the repressive, campaign, was in 1978, arrested` raembers-of -the Moscow Hel­ an advance press release that in several when activity in the West oh behalf of sinki group. Dr. Yarym-Agayev in­ Warsaw Pact countries internal re­ Aleksandr Ginzburg, Yuri Orlov and formed that: Yuri Orlov, the founder pression has continued — even intensi­ Anatoly Shcharansky contributed to and leader of the group, staged a hunger fied — during the past Five years. The some extent in checking the intensive strike on May 12-15, demanding amnes­ report points out that in Czecho­ repression. ty for all political prisoners in the USSR slovakia, the official campaign against Present at the conference to welcome and calling for an end to the harassment human-rights activists has been unre­ Dr. Yarym-Agayev were: Robert L. of the Helsinki monitors; Anatoly lenting, dramatically demonstrated by Bernstein, chairman of the Helsinki Shcharansky`s sentence of 10 years in the 1979 show trial of six prominent Watch; Dr. Edward Gerjuoy, professor strict-regime labor camp, was not Charter '77 members. Last year, the of physics at the University of Pitts­ known until recently and there was German Democratic Republic passed burgh; Dr. Sidney Borowitz, executive never any real proof of Shcharansky`s stringent new laws designed to bring director of the New York Academy of alleged espionage activities; Vladimir domestic critics to heel. Sciences; Henry J. Stern, New York (Continued on pagr І в) Yuri Yarym-Agayev The report shows that since 1978, Soviet authorities have embarked on a brutal crackdown on free thinking in the USSR.. Commission Figures indi­ ODUM marks 30th with jubilee congress cate that from 1978 to July I. over 280 human-rights activists have been impri­ by Andrij Shevchenko recovery of Metropolitan Mstyslav The new ODUM National Command soned:.in 1978, 113 activists were jailed: SOUTH BOUND BROOK, N.J. - Skrypnyk, who was unable to attend the consists of the following: Mr. Shev­ in 1979. 112 were imprisoned: and 57 The Ukrainian Democratic Youth convention due to illness. chenko, president; Mr. Wojtychiw, first individuals have been jailed this year for Association (ODUM) held its 30th The congress was conducted by a vice president and organizational chair­ trying to exercise the basic human ri^i.ts anniversary convention here at St. presidium consisting of: Andrij Shev­ man; Miss Pawlenko, second vice guaranteed them under the Helsinki Andrew's Ukrainian Orthodox Center chenko, chairman; Anton Filimon- president and coordinator of youth Accords. Arbitrary and inhuman re­ on July 4-6. Some 600 persons from chuk, vice-chairman; and Vera Копо– affairs and summer camps; Mr. Fili- strictions on the reunification of fami­ ODUM branches in the United States wal, secretary; with the Very Rev. monchuk, secretary; Evhen Kalman, lies still exist. and Canada took part in the three-day Estocin and Victor Pedenko, president financial secretary; Iwan Pawlenko, As the 1980 CSCE review conference event, the first of its kind held in this of the World Central Committee of external affairs director; Iryna Smyk, in Madrid approaches, the report will Ukrainian center. ODUM, joining the presidium as ho­ internal (branch) affairs director; Jurij be useful to the U.S. delegation to On Friday. July 4, in the museum norary members. Krywolap Jr., cultural affairs director; Madrid, the Congress and to the public beneath St. Andrew's Memorial Alex Poszewanyk, press and informa­ by providing information on the situa­ Church. ODUM senior counselors During the day's proceedings, each tion director; and Jurij Ichtiarow and tion five years after Helsinki. To a very convened for the 25th ODU M Congress member of the outgoing ODUM Na­ Taras Konowal, members-at-large. large extent, the atmosphere at Madrid in the United States (or. according tional Command reported on his activi­ ty over the past two years. The reports The newly elected auditing commit­ and the prospects for achieving progress to the organization's new constitution, tee includes: Volodymyr Hryhorenko, in security, trade, cultural exchanges the 4th Congress of ODUM Senior pointed out both shortcomings and successes of the National Command's and other areas will be determined by Counselors in the United States). (( ontinued on page X) the present international situation, said work and prompted serious discussion The congress was officially opened by over the future work of ODUM in the the Helsinki Commission. Many Hel­ Victor Wojtychiw, outgoing president sinki signatories believe that if Soviet United States. Special emphasis in the of the ODUM U.S. National Com­ reports and ensuing discussions was troops are still in Afghanistan, if mand, who made a few brief opening INSIDE: Sakharov is still banished in Gorky, if placed on the coordination of youth M Part 1 of an extensive interview remarks in commemoration of affairs and the summer camps which members of the Helsinki monitoring ODUM`s 30th anniversary. with Leonid Plyushch conducted by groups in the USSR remain imprisoned play the strongest role in ODUM`s Ika Koznarska Casanova - page 3. After a moment of silence in honor of educational work. or in exile, then the prospects for a ODUM members who had recently Ш Dr. Roman Solchanyk reports on Kiev's sensitivity to charges of successful meeting in Madrid will be passed away, an opening prayer was Late Friday afternoon, the nomina­ linguistic Russification - page 7. diminished. delivered by the Very Rev. Frank tions committee submitted a slate of Ш Sviatoslav Karavansky in Los The commission noted that it hopes Estocin. rector of St. Sophia's Ukrain­ officers for the new ODUM U.S. Na­ Angeles, story by Andrew Sorokow- its report will, at the very. least, ian Orthodox Seminary, who prayed tional Command for the next two years. ski: Raissa Moroz in Syracuse, contribute to a fiank. thorough review for the Lord to bless all ODU^I mem­ The slate was unanimously elected by N.Y. - page 4. of the Final Act's implementationY` bers with success aVid for' the speedy the delegates. THH UKRAINIAN WEEKLY, SI М).лі. ЛІ (II SI ^. ічм; No l()\ Pamphlet documents persecution Three founders of feminist journal Of Ukrainian women, 1975-80 expelled from Soviet Union BALTIMORE - A pamphlet com- VIENNA Three Soviet women gist who produced the final two issues of piled by Or. Nina Strokata-Karavan- who founded their country's first the journal, told The New York limes 'sKy,-titled "Ukrainian Women in the feminist journal arrived here on July 20 that "there are no purely feminist issues 'Soviet Union: Documented Persecu­ after being expelled from the Soviet (in the Soviet Union) just issues in tion 1975-1980," has been published in Union along with members of their which women should be involved." England by Smoloskyp. families, reported Ihe New York adding that in the Soviet Union "all are .' The 64-page pamphet, translated and Times. slaves, but women arc slaves of the edited by Myroslava Stefaniuk and slaves." Volodymyr Hruszkewych, was publish­ Tatyana Mamonova. Tatyana ed in conjunction with the World Gorichcva and Natalia Malakhovskaya She also noted that Club Maria was Conference of the United Nations were members of a group known as founded on the principles of the Rus­ Decade for Women, held during the last Club Maria which published The Wo­ sian Orthodox Church. two weeks of July in Copenhagen. man and Russia, an almanac-style Many observers were surprised at the The pamphlet is composed of 12 journal which printed articles, state­ Soviet decision to ex pell the three documents, written by female Ukrain­ ments and poems addressing the prob­ women at a time when the World ian dissidents, citing the national and lems of women in Soviet society.