The Ukrainian Weekly 1977

СВОБОДДІРУОВООА І І УКРАЇНСЬКИЙ ЩОДЕННИК ЩЩР U KR At N І AN D АІІЧ Щ Щ ENGLISH-LANGUAGE WEEKLY EDITION У VOL. LXXXIV ШN0.216 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, OCTOBER 2,1977 25 CENTS Norman Cafik гоіпіоAppointed п HelWeeki Snehiriov Arrestel d MOSCOW, USSR.-Heli Snehi– To Trudeau's Cabinet riov, a Ukrainian writer who urged President Carter to stand firm with Second Ukrainian Canadian to Assume Government Officeth e Soviet government on human rights, was arrested in Kiev Thurs– day, September 22. Snehiriov, 49, was charged with anti-Soviet activity, reported The Washington Post on September 27th. His wife, Halyna, said he was arrested by KGB agents in his home in the Ukrainian capital. Ukrainian press services in the West reported that they were unable to acquire additional information. They did say that an intense search of Snehiriov's apartment was conducted by the security agents prior to his arrest. Heli Snehiriov Snehiriov renounced his Soviet citizenship after Mykola Rudenko them tremble and wait, as long as Prime Minister Pierre E. Tradeau, right, congratulates, Norman Cafik, the newiy and Oleksiy Tykhy were arrested. He they do not aid the monstrosity," said appointed Minister of State of Multkuituralism. was also expelled from the Union of Snehiriov. (Photo: by Canada Press) Writers and the Union of Film Snehiriov described the Soviet TORONTO, Ont.–Norman Cafik, swept into the House of Commons on Workers. society as "an old wagon rushing a Member of Parliament from the the Trudeau coattail. "1 don't want to remain a citizen of madly downhill, out of control." He Pickering-area riding of Ontario, who While in Parliament, Mr. Cafik also a state that has destroyed the elite of also reminded Mr. Carter that when is of Ukrainian descent on his father's served as parliamentary secretary to my Ukrainian people, the best of the he greets Soviet leaders, he will be side, was appointed Minister of State Health and Welfare Minister Marc La– peasantry and intelligentsia, that has shaking "a hand that is red with for Multiculturalism in a recent cabinet londe and Consumer and Corporate denatured and slandered our past blood of millions destroyed by what reshuffle. Affairs Minister Andre Ouellet. history and humiliated our present," is called Stalinism." The appointment came on Friday, introducing him to the press after wrote Snehiriov at the time. "Those hands, from which the old September 16, and Mr. Cafik, 48, said the swearing-in ceremony, Mr. in his letter to President Carter, blood has not been washed away, art he was surprised at the promotion. Trudeau said that the Ukrainian Cana– Snehiriov said that if the American ready to shed oceans of new blood," "1 had no idea in advance that 1 was dian MP would add some "dynamism Chief Executive gives up his defense he declared. being considered for this cabinet and energy'' to the cabinet. of human rights, "the monstrosity After scoring Soviet repressions, shuffle," Mr. Cafik told Toronto re- Mr. Cafik is a Ukrainian Catholic by will take over the world." Snehiriov wrote to Kremlin officials porters. persuasion and a communicant of that "Do not yield, Jimmy Carter. Flex that he expected to be prosecuted for Mr. Cafik, who is a nine-year vet– church in Toronto. He is also a per– your muscles and exert your will. Do "the most serious crime, using the eran of the House of Commons, is the sonal friend of Bishop isidore not listen to cowardly advice. Let the right to freedom of speech against the second Canadian of Ukrainian an– Borecky. cowards crawl under the table, let interests of the state." cestry to serve in the federal govern– ment. From 1957 to 1963, Michael Starr, a Conservative MP, from Oshawa served as Minister of Labor. Canada Scores U.N. Ukrainian High Court Since coming to the House of Com– mons, Mr. Cafik, who is regarded as a Confirms Rudenko, maverick Liberal, earned a reputation On Rights ineffectiveness of being a bright, tough, abrasive and by Boris Potapenko Tykhy Sentences effective parliamentarian. '' Yisti'' international News Service He served as chairman of the stand– WASHINGTON, D.C-ТІІЄ soviet ing committee on finance, trade and NEW YORK, N.Y.—The United speech by Mr. Jamieson at the United Ukrainian Supreme Court confirmed economic affairs and was a member of Nations General Assembly opened its Nations General Assembly on Monday, Thursday, September 15, the severe the transport and communications 32nd session last week with general September 26: sentences handed down to Mykola committee. debate during which each of the 149 "1 have concluded that 1 could read Rudenko and Oleksiy Tykhy by a Born in Toronto, and raised in Pick– member states presents its views and my last year's speech again, word for Donetske obtest court, according to ering, Mr. Cafik left school at 14 to be– policies with regard to the multitude of word, and no one would notice the the "Smotoskyp" Ukrainian informa– come a tool and die maker. He moved issues which comprise the 122-item repetition nor would they care! Small tion Service. to drafting and other trades and soon agenda prepared for this year's session. wonder that our deliberations have so Rudenko and Tykhy were sentenced he acquired an interest in union activi– While most of the speeches are us– little relevance for our public back on June 30,1977, to a total of 27 years of ties. ually more rhetoric rather than sub- home or for the many millions around imprisonment and exile for allegedly At one point, Mr. Cafik served as stance, at least one government, Cana– the world whom we are committed to slandering the Soviet Union. Rudenko, president of a small union called the da, has departed from the norm by help, but who have become disillusioned chairman of the Kiev Public Group to Association of Engineers, Draftsmen providing a sober assessment of the and cynical about out ability to find Promote the implementation of the and Technical Associates. work of the U:N. answers to what are in many cases, mat– Helsinki Accords, was sentenced to He later managed and owned several Don Jamieson, Minister of External ters of life and death. seven years imprisonment and five years small businesses. Affairs of Canada, took upon himself "Let me assure you again that 1 am exile. Tykhy, a member, received a 10- Mr. Cafik became interested in poli– the unenvious task of raising issues not naive; but 1 cannot accept, Canada year incarceration and five-year exile tics in 1962, and that year he ran un– which certain member states perceived as cannot accept, that this organization sentence. successfully against Mr. Starr in the critical of the U.N. and others saw as and its member states are powerless to Rudenko and Tykhy were the first Pickering-Oshawa riding. Mr. Cafik essential for the perpetuation of the remove the root causes of those major two participants of the Helsinki moni– was also defeated the following year. United Nations system. tensions that now require all of us to live toring movement in the Soviet Union to in 1968 the riding split, and he was Following are excerpts from the (Continued on page 3) be tried and sentenced. THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, OCTOBER 2, 1977 No. 216 Olha Matusevych Cites Repressions Statement and Appeal Against Self, Husband, Friends of the NEW YORK, N.Y. - Olha Matu– Marynovych, an engineer by profes– sevych, the wife of the incarcerated sion, was forced to work as a truck Ukrainian Helsinki monitoring group driver, and then at other menial jobs. member, Mykola Matusevych, in a UNA Supreme Auditing Committee ietter to .Amnesty international, un– Repressions were not only aimed at veiled the extent of the KGB repres– Matusevych, Marynovych and their The Supreme Auditing Committee of the Ukrainian National Associ– wives. Mrs. Matusevych said that 15 ation, consisting of John Hewryk, iwan Wynnyk, Bohdan Hnatiuk, Rev. sions against herself, her husband and friends, reported the press service of relatives and friends of the family were iwan Waszczuk and 1 van Skalczuk, conducted from September 18 through interrogated on the day of their arrest. September 23, 1977, the semi-annual audit of UNA assets, operations and orga– the Ukrainian Supreme Liberation nizing status, as well as the Association's subsidiaries, the Ukrainian National Council (abroad). She believes that the reasons they Urban Renewal Corporation, the Svoboda Press and the Soyuzivka estate. Mrs. Matusevych, a 24-year-old phi– were arrested were their membership in The Supreme Auditing Committee has found the following: lologist, defended her husband and his the Kiev Public Group to Promote the friend, Myroslav Marynovych, against implementation of the Helsinki Ac- 1. As of June 30, 1977, the assets of the Ukrainian National Association KGB accusations of criminal behav– cords, and open expression of their have increased to S41,432,110.42, while the income from dues during the ior, saying that both men ar decent views. first half of the year amounted to S 1,555,849.37. persons who should not have been ar– Mrs. Matusevych said that after 2. The UNA owned Ukrainian National Urban Renewal Corporation has rested. harassments failed, the KGB began to accrued an income of 5985,824.48 as of August 31, 1977, a total that is ex– She said that the two have been spread rumors that their friendship was pected to increase to Si.5 million by the end of the year, netting S500,000. friends for a long time, and have al– based on an "immoral and inhuman The sum can be used by the Corporation to pay the interest on UNA funds ways "fostered love, respect and sym– relationship".

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