The Ukrainian Weekly 1984

Published by the Ukrainian National Association Inc., a fraternal non-profit association! - in CU x x "fV Z Л О -4 ( -i oo о о ю пі о ot о rainian Weekly vn to Vol. Lll No. 26 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JUNE 24, 1984 25 cents w Over 400 athletes to compete Sakharov kin call for "suspending" in second Free Olympiad 1975 Helsinki agreement TORONTO - The flags of free Under the Soviet regime, athletes PARIS - The stepdaughter of An have begun a hunger strike to press his Ukraine, Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia from Ukraine and the Baltic nations of drei Sakharov said on June 14 that demand that his wife be allowed to will fly July 2-7 at the second Free Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia are Western countries should consider travel to the west for treatment of a Olympiad, organized to publicize the prohibited from competing under their "suspending, denouncing or renegotiat worsening heart ailment. At the end of violation of Olympic ideals by the ancestral flags. Ukraine was forcibly ing" the Helsinki Accords to protest the May. there were rumors that Dr. Sak Soviet Union and to encourage friend occupied by the Soviets in 1920 while treatment of the Soviet physicist and harov had died. Moscow said the ship and good sportsmanship among the Baltic nations were taken over in dissident, reported The New York rumors were no^ true. athletes. "– 1940. Times. The Yankeleviches statement was According to the Free Olympaid "Since 1975, when the Helsinki expected to mark the beginning of a committee, the weeklong event wilJ Accords were signed, the overall hu broader campaign by groups critical of bring together 400 athletes from across man-rights situation in the Soviet the Soviet Union for changes in the 1975 Canada and the United States, who will Union has continued to deteriorate," Helsinki Accords on human rights and be competing on behalf of their com the stepdaughter. Tatyana Yankelevich. security in Europe. The non-binding patriots in Soviet-occupied homelands. said in a joint statement with her agreement was signed by 35 countries, During a press conference announc husband, Yefrem. including the United States and the ing the Free Olympiad, which was held "We believe that the protest or Soviet Union. It has been reviewed at at the Sheraton Center in Toronto on possibility thai the accords would be two meetings, the first in Belgrade in Thursday, June 7, honorary chairman denounced or suspended by one or 1977, and the second in Madrid, which Leo Rautins, a star basketball player for more of the signers." they went on in a began in "1980 and lasted over three the NBA's Philadelphia 76ers, dedi– statement read at a news conference, years. , cated the 1984 Free Olympaid to "all Co-sponsored by the Baltic Athletic "might be a sufficient reason for the The prospects for changing the ac Baltic and^Ukrainian athletes who have, Federation,of North Artie'iitca', the Soviet government to reconsider its cords seem limited, but the campaign done their countries of origin proud, Estonian Central Council in.Canada, position on the Sakharov case." around the accords could become part but have been forced to compete as the Latvian National Federation in The statement, the Times reported, of the broader debate in Europe on Soviets." Canada, the Lithuanian Canadian was the strongest and clearest request East-West questions, the Times said. "I ask the Canadian public not to view Community. Inc., the Ukrainian Cana for Western action the Yankeleviches Mr. and Mrs. Yankelevich also said the Free Olympiad as an unwarranted dian Committee and the Ukrainian have made since they began a campaign they believed Soviet officials had inten attempt to politize the Olympic Games. Athletic Federation Inc.. of the U.S.A. in Western Europe last month to try to tionally leaked word that Dr. Sakharov In fact the very foundation of the and Canada, this second Free Olympiad win freedom for Dr. Sakharov and his had died to "test Western reaction."Thy modern Olympics rests on national will be kicked-off by a cultural program wife. Yelcna Bonner. said they believed Moscow wanted a boundaries. Since the revival of the of song and dance on Monday July 2, at Early in May. Dr. Sakharov. who preliminary indication of Western games in 1896 by French Baron Pierre the Ontario Place Summer Gardens. won the 1975 Nobel Peace Prize for his opinion on Dr. Sakharov's fate before de Coubertin, athletes have been com The festival's entertainment program human-rights work, was reported to taking further steps. peting not so much as individuals, but will feature Violeta Pakauskas-Shtro– as representatives of their nations. The mas, a Lithuanian cabaret singer: two Baltic and Ukrainian people want that Ukrainian dance groups. Verkhovyntsi same right," he said. (Continued on page 3) Government sets July trial date for K0R activists charged with sedition Gov. Kean attends festival WARSAW - Defense attorneys for Adam Michnik. another of the four, lour detained Solidarity advisors were confirmed the trial date, the Times told on June 12 that a sedition trial of reported. the four, accused of trying to overthrow The decision comes after complicated the slate, would being July 13. reported negotiations involving the government, The New York Times. the Roman Catholic Church and United A day earlier, one of the lour. Jacek Nations Secretary General Javiar Perez Kuron. began a hunger strike to press de Cuel!ar." the group s demand lor either Ireedom Early in May. the four Solidarity- or a hearing. advisors and seven union leaders de Maciek Kuron. Mr. Kuron'sson.said tained with them reportedly spurned the Warsaw district military court had two deals worked out with the govern told the lawyers that the lour men were ment. According to sources close to the now scheduled to appear in court in 31 imprisoned men. the first deal, involv days. They have been imprisoned since ing the intercession of Mr. Perez de martial law was imposed on December Cuellar and other U.N. officials, called ІЗ. 1981. lor all 11 men to be freed and then leave The younger Kuron added in a tele Poland. Under the terms of this agree phone interview that his lather, a ment, the Times reported, the men were historian and one of the founders of the to be financially supported by the Committee to Defend Workers, better United Nations, which also guaranteed known by its acronym KOR. was their right to return to Poland after gratified with the decision to hold a periods ranging from six months to a trial and that he abandoned his fast year. when hearing about it. Lech Walesa, the The second arrangment. worked out founder of the now outlawed Solidarity with Church negotiators and govern Gov. Tom Kean of New Jersey, wearing an embroidered shirt, is free trade union, said from his home in ment officials, would have allowed the escorted to the podium by youngsters during the annual Ukrainian Gdansk that he was glad to hear about men to remain in the country once they Festival held at the Garden State Arts Center. Full story and photos in the trial and intended to attend. agreed to refrain from political activity centerfold. In a later telephone conversation. for periods ranging from six.months to Janna Nowakowska, the lawyer for (Continued on page 4) 2 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JUNE 24, 1984 No. 26 U.S. churchmen in Soviet praise Former agent says KGB . the status of religion in USSR seeks to discredit emigres JERSEY CITY, N.J. - lmants half" and causing the Latvian immi Lesinskis, a KGB agent of 23 years who grants to fight among themselves. defected to the U.S. in September 1978, Mr. Lesinskis said they did this by described his job directing the "ethnic organizing "Soviet support groups that espionage" of Latvian emigres through can invite KGB people of the native out the world as a "Soviet propaganda country into the U.S." offensive" against immigrants con Currently, these two men have put sidered by Soviet authorities to be anti- their.heads together to combat such Soviet, according to the June 14 issue of KGB attempts at breaking up the the Christian Science Monitor. Latvian emigre community in the'U.S. Mr. Lesinskis directed the "slander" through speeches and a wide circulation operation, targeted mostly at Latvian of press releases. nationalists abroad, from his native Mr. Lambergs said: "We have started Riga, the Latvian capital, where he (Continued on page 4) worked as editor of the newspaper Dzimtenes Balss (Voice of the Mother land) and served as chairman of the WSJ cites "" Latvian Committee for Cultural Rela tions, an organization that keeps in Ukrainian famine contact with Latvian immigrants. Mr. Lesinskis said that both his former NEW YORK - The Wall Street Journal, in a, June 18 editorial on RELIGIOUS FREEDOM? A group of Ukrainian Catholics gathering for prayer places of employment were KGB fronts. The Soviets gathered names and Soviet-induced starvation in Afghanis outside their church, which had been forcibly closed by the Soviets. The photo was tan, cited the Great Famine in Ukraine provided by Keston College, which did not disclose the location of the church. information about the emigres by intercepting their mail, and then they (1932-33) an an example of the Krem created files on each of them which were lin's willingness to use food asa weapon. MOSCOW - A delegation of 266 Soviet freedom of religion. updated regularly, Mr. Lesinskis said. "The Soviets invaders are working American church leaders, the largest The delegation, which broke into 10 "There are files on almost all active hard to centralize the food distribution group ever to visit the Soviet Union, smaller groups to attend Russian Or immigrants," he added.

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