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www.ukrweekly.com Vol. LI No. THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY FEBRUARY 20, 1983 25 cents USSR quits world psychiatric body Bishops' synod continues; VIENNA - The Soviet Union has Vienna headquarters in December. quit the World Psychiatric Association, She added that the government pro Patriarch Josyf honored raising speculation that the move was bably vetoed Soviet psychiatrists' plan made to head off its possible expulsion for a visit from Western specialists and ROME - Ukrainian Catholic Australia and Platon Kornyljak of West when the association congress meets decided that pulling out of the associa hierarchs continued their deliberations Germany. The Rev. Dr. Ivan Dacko here in July, reported the Associated tion was the least embarrassing way to during the second week of the Synod of served as deacon, and the Rev. Petro Press. cancel the psychiatrists' offer. Ukrainian Catholic Bishops, here in the Steciuk was also a celebrant. The congress had been expected to Prof. Kenneth Rawnsley, the presi chambers of the Vatican, reported A panakhyda took place afterwards take up American and British resolu dent of Britain's Royal College of America, the Ukrainian Catholic daily. in the crypts of St. Sophia, where tv/o tions to expel or suspend the Soviets for Psychiatry, told the Associated Press in The synod, which began Sunday, memorial plaques, dedicated to Ukrai abuse of psychiatry to suppress dissi London that he thought the Soviet January 30, took place behind closed nian Insurgent Army Gen. Roman dents. contingent withdrew because it "would doors with Archbishop-Coadjutor Shukhevych (Taras Chuprynka) and But some sources thought that the have found it difficult to have coped Myrosiaw Lubachivsky presiding over the fallen UPA soldiers, were blessed. Kremlin might have ordered the with with the possibility of a humiliating the meeting and the Rev. Dr. Ihor Metropolitans Maxim Hermaniuk and drawal to rein in the Soviet psychiatric defeat in the full glare of public debate" Monchak acting as secretary. Stephen Sulyk took part in the cere association, which said it would try to at the congress. On Saturday, February 5, a moleben mony as did Bishops Basil Losten, arrange for a foreign panel to visit the On August 31, 1977, the World was served in St. Josaphat's Papal Robert Moskal and Demetrius Gres- USSR and investigate long-standing Psychiatric Association meeting in Seminary, where the main celebrant was chuk. charges that psychiatry is being used Honolulu, narrowly voted to censure the newly consecrated bishop for Ukrai Afterwards, at a reception. Patriarch against dissidents. the Soviet Union for its psychiatric nian Catholics in France, Michael Josyf Slipyj accepted greetings from Ellen Mercer, the director of the abuses. The measure passed 90 to 88. Hrynchyshyn. Following the ceremony, representatives of various organiza American Psychiatric Association's Former Ukrainian dissident Leonid a dinner was held for the new bishop, tions. The guest speakers included office of international affairs in Wash Plyushch, who spent several years in the which was attended by Ukrainian Jaroslav and Slava Stetzko and Theo- ington, said she thought the withdrawal notorious Serbsky Institute for Forensic representatives from Rome and the doziy Kudlyk. Patriarch Josyf received was ordered by the Soviet government Psychiatry, joined a group of human- prefect of the Sacred Congregation for a Gold Cross of Servjce from the 1st because it thought such recent concilia rights activists in calling for the censure. Oriental Churches, Cardinal Wladislaw Division of the Ukrainian National tory gestures had gone too far. Dr. Harold Visotsky, the chairman of Rubin. The Rev. Sophronius Mudrij Army. She said the Soviet association, — the American association's committee was the master of ceremonies. Speeches Sessions of the synod continued called the All-Union Society of Psy on international abuse of psychiatrists were given by Archbishop Lubachivsky during the week and included dis chiatrists and Neuropathologists — after and psychiatry, said in a statement and Cardinal Rubin. Entertainment cussions about the proposed by-laws of ignoring three requests for information issued in Washington that though the was provided by the newly ordained the synod. On Tuesday evening, about 20 cases of alleged abuse, sub Soviet withdrawal "would seem to be an Rev. Roman Choly, who performed on February 8, in Rome's Columbia Hotel, mitted data on seven of the cases to the (Continued on page 13) the violin. an elegant banquet was held in celebra On Sunday, February 6, Bishop Neil tion of the patriarch's 91st birthday Savaryn celebrated an archepiscopal (which falls on February 17) as well as liturgy in the St. Sophia Sobor. Con- the 20th anniversary of his release from Freedom House rep, after Afghan visit, celebrants included Bishops Isidore the Soviet Union. says prisoners want to come to U.S. Borecky of Toronto, Ivan Prasko of (Continued on page 3) NEW YORK - Seven soldiers of the Freedom House is a 42-year-old non- Soviet Union held by the Afghanistan partisan organization that monitors resistance have been interviewed in political rights, and issues advisories on Russian by an American woman who foreign-policy questions. traveled this month to a guerrilla John Richardson, president of the stronghold inside the beleaguered organization, urged Secretary Shultz to' country. facilitate the transfer of the Soviet Several prisoners who had defected prisoners to a non-governmental Ame to the freedom fighters pleaded to come rican immigration group. "A private to the United States. In a handwritten agency could arrange for the resettle note to Freedom House's representative ment of the prisoners in the United the soldiers wrote: "Help us make our States," said Mr. Richardson, who was, way to America...Help us in our striving for eight years, assistant secretary of to come to America. We would like to state for educational and cultural become American citizens." affairs. Their pleas are supported by Freedom Ms. Thorne was born in the USSR of House whose appeals director, Lud- Russian parents, and educated in the milla Thorne, entered Afghanistan for United States and Europe, Freedom two days in order to interview Soviet House has repeatedly condemned the prisoners. Freedom House believes the Soviet Union's invasion of Afghanistan Afghan resistance will release the in December 1979. For the past two prisoners if the United States will accept years, however, Ms. Thorne and the them. The organization on Tuesday, organization have sought to assure February 15, formally asked Secretary proper treatment under the Geneva of State George P. Shultz to arrange for Convention for captured Soviet soldiers. the transfer. Some have been reported killed after Ms. Thorne, director of the Center being captured when Soviet forces for Appeals for Freedom of Freedom threatened the security of Afghan House, was accompanied to Afghanis resistance fighters holding the pri tan by an ABC-TV camera crew which soners. filmed the interviews February 3-5. Ms. Thorne arranged the precarious lliey were to be shown February 17 on nighttime border crossing for herself Newly consecrated Bishop Mkhae! Hrynchyshyn (right) celebrates the littirgy ai ''20,'20ч" the network news-magazine and the camera crew, 'i wanted to St. Sophia Sobor with (from left) Bishop Neil Savaryn, ArchbishopsCoadjiitor program. (Coiitiisiied ОЙ page 2) Myrosiaw Lisbaclilvsky тій Archblshop-Meiropolltan ЛІЛІІІШ Шгїііййшк. THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY FEBRUARY 20, 1983 No/i Dissident profile Shcharansky ends long hunger strike MOSCOW - The mother of im to that effect from Yuri Andropov, the prisoned Soviet dissident Anatoly Soviet leader. But Mrs. Milgrom re Yosyp Terelia: Shcharansky said on February 15 that fused to put faith in the account until she had received a letter from him she heard from her son. confirming that he had abandoned a Mr. Shcharansky, an activist in the the torment continues hunger strike after four months, report human-rights and Jewish emigration ed The New York Times, movements, was arrested in March 1977 JERSEY CITY, N.J. - Former According to Ida P. Milgrom, the and sentenced to three years in prison to Soviet political prisoner Yosyp Tere dissident's mother, Mr. Shcharansky be followed by 10 years in labor camps. lia, now 40 years old, has lived under said in a letter dated February 7 that he After he was transferred to a camp, he three occupations of his native had resumed eating on January 14. He was repeatedly incarcerated in a punish Boikivshchyna in the Transcarpa- wrote that he was gaining weight and ment cell 'for failing to work at thian region of Ukraine. A nationa that headaches and dizziness were rehabilitation and continuing to con list and activist in the underground abating, but that he was suffering from sider himself innocent." Ukrainian Catholic Church, he has heart pains, she said. already served 19 years - nearly half Mr. Shcharansky, who is completing his life — in Soviet prisons, labor the fifth year of a 13-year sentence on a camps and psychiatric hospitals. His fabricated conviction of espionage for Polish junta defers last term, four years in a mental the United States, went on a fast hospital, expired late in 1981 and he September 27 — Yom Kippur — to releasing detainees was released. protest the interception of letters and Early last summer, his brother, the suspension of visiting rights. Mrs. WARSAW - The Polish junta will Borys, was fatally wounded in a gun Milgrom subsequently learned that he not consider releasing any more politi battle with Soviet security forces in was being force-fed and that his health cal prisoners until sufficient domestic the rugged Carpathian Mountains. had deteriorated. stability has been achieved, a govern Shortly after, Yosyp and his wife She said Mr. Shcharansky wrote that ment spokesman said on February 8. Olena, a physician, were visited by Yosyp Terelia he had ended his hunger strike after According to a report by Reuters, the KGB.