The Ukrainian Weekly 1977, No.21
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LXXXIV No. 123 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, MAY 29,1977 25 CENTS UNA Supreme Assembly 10 Political Prisoners Meets in Annual Session Begin 100-Day Hunger Strike KERHONKSON, N.Y., May 25- Treasurer, Stefan Hawrysz, Organizer, The Supreme Assembly of the Ukrain– Advisors - Dr. Bohdan Futey, Taras ian National Association, the organiza– Szmagala, Anna Haras, Wasyl Didiuk, vyacheslav Chornovil Joins Protest tion's governing body, began its annual Anatole Doroshenko, Dr, Anne Cho– meeting at Soyuzivka Monday, May 23, pek, Myroslaw Kalba, Tekla Moroz, NEW YORK, N.Y.—Ten Soviet and was scheduled to hold daily sessions Eugene Repeta, Wolodymyr Zapara– political prisoners of various nationali– through Friday, May 27. niuk, Andrew Jula, John Odezynsky ties began a 100-day hunger strike late The meeting was opened by Supreme and Eugene iwanciw, Auditors, John in April to draw the attention of the President Joseph Lesawyer in the Hewryk, iwan Wynnyk, Prof. Bohdan participants of the Belgrade review presence of the following supreme Hnatiuk, Rev. iwan Waszczuk and Dr. conference to the plight of human, officers: Dr. John Flis, vice-President, ivan Skalczuk, and Svoboda Editor-in- national and religious rights activists Mary Dushnyck, vice-President, Wal– Chief Anthony Dragan. behind the iron Curtain, reported the ter Sochan, Secretary, Ulana Diachuk, Unable to take part in the session locally-based Committee in Defense of were Sen. Paul Yuzyk, Supreme Direc– Soviet Political Prisoners. tor for Canada, who was attending the The names of all the protesters have UNA Thanks Dole, NATO Parliamentary Assembly meet– not yet been identified, but the Commit– ing in Brussels, Belgium, as a member of tee reported that vyacheslav Chornivl, Fenwick on Helsinki the. Canadian delegation, and Dr. a Ukrainian journalist, is among them. Myron Kuropas, Supreme Advisor, Besides wanting to underline human who had urgent assignments in Wash– rights violations in the Soviet Union, Resolutions ington as Sen. Bob Dole's legislative the strikers also want to stress their KERHONKSON, NY ;–in the assistant. attempts to be officially declared politi– course of the annual Supreme Assem– Preceding the opening session Mon– cal prisoners. vyacheslav Chornovil bly meeting here, the UNA?s governing day morning was a traditional cere– Among those protesters whose iden– body sent a letter of thanks to Sen. Bob mony at the foot of the Taras Shev– tity is know are Paruyir Ayrikian and down in Ukraine in 1972. He was Dole (R-Kan.) and Rep. Millicen Fen- chenko statue in what was a tribute to Markosian Razmik, Armenians; Mi– sentenced to seven years incarceration wick (R-N.J.) for introducing resolu– the Association's patron. After the chail Kheyfyts, a Jew, and viadimir and five years exile. tions calling for a strict review of hu– playing of trip American and the Cana– Osypov, a Russian. He is currently confined in the Mor– man rights at the upcoming Belgrade dian national anthems and the joint . Chornovil, 39, is one of the leading. dovian concentration camp No. 19. conference. singing of the. Ukrainian national Ukrainian national and human rights . Ayrikian is serving a seven-year strict The full text of the statement anthem; Mrs; Diachuk spoke briefly activists. He was first arrested in 1966 -regime sentence in the Mordovian camp follows: about poetess Lesia Ukrainka, whose for refusing to testify during the trial of. no, 19; Razmik is serving seven years for The Ukrainian National Associa– monument opposite the Shevchenko Mykhaylo and Bohdan Horyn and. allegedly belonging to the National Unit– tion, representing 88,000 Americans of statue was unveiled last year. Mrs. Mykhaylo Osadchy. ed Party of Armenia; Kheyfyts is serving Ukrainian descent organized in 400 Morbz recited Ukrainka's "Contra A year later he was arrested again and';. a fourryear sentence in Mordovian camp branches throughout the United States, Sperh Spero.'' Flowers were placed at sentenced to three years in prison. ." Л no. 17, to be followed by two years exile; congratulates you on the introduction the foot of both statues. Chornovil was arrested for the third ' and Osypov was sentenced to 10 years (Continued on page 13) (Continued on page 8) time during the infamous KGB crack– . imprisonment. JJ.S. Foreign Policy, Stand on Rights Assessed at Conferee WASHINGTON, D.C. (UCCA spe– (Ukrainian information Bureau), and the conference was to provide informa– said that Secretary of State Cyrus cail),-Ukraine and the Ukrainians Andrew Fedynsky, (Ukrainian Helsinki tion to concerned citizens and to receive vance in his address at the University of were the subject of discussion and Committee in Washington). their own suggestions and advice. They Georgia mentioned only these two commentary by both U.S. officials and Moderator of the program was Wib stated repeatedly that the date of June categories of rights. Mr. Potapenko participants at the two-day conference Ham J. Dyess, Deputy Assistant Secre– 15, 1977 is designated as a preparatory spoke in the same vein. for nongovernment organizations, tary, Bureau of Public Affairs, while the meeting for official delegates who will in reply, Mr. Nimetz said that the held here by the Department of State panelists included Matthew Nimetz, work on the agenda and a series of Department of State is "aware of the Tuesday and Wednesday, May 17 and Counselor of the Department; Ambas– technical problems; they also declared struggle of Ukrainians for their national 18. sador Albert W. Sherer, Jr., Head of the that a substantial, that is, the main rights." Preceding the conference on the first U.S. Delegation to the Belgrade Prepar– conference of the Helsinki signatories in response to Mr. Lesawyer's ques– day was a special meeting on "The U.S. ratory Talks; Patricia M. Derian, may be held in the fall. All of them tion on the "difference between Eastern Role at the Belgrade Conference," Coordinator for Human Rights and stressed that the "going might be rough" and Western values," Mr. Dyess replied attended by some 80 specially-invited Humanitarian Affairs; Nicholas G. mainly because of a new U.S. course on that he "considers Ukraine to have representatives of the non-government Andrews, Director, Office of Eastern human rights and also some political Western values." organizations and the press. European Affairs, Bureau of European problems such as the recognition of the The destruction of the Ukrainian Affairs; Mark Garrison, Director of status quo of political boundaries in churches was also mentioned as "a great Ukrainians in Attendance Soviet Union Affairs, Bureau of Euro– Europe. crime" by Sister Agnes of the lnterrli– pean Affairs; John J.Maresca, Officer All U.S. officials contended exten– gious Task Force on Soviet Jewry, Among the attendees at the confer– in Charge of Political Affairs, Office of sive consultations are going on between while Prof. J. Mikus of the Slovak ence were Prof. Lev E. Dobriansky NATO and Atlantic Political Military the U.S. and its NATO allies as well as World Congress underscored that Uk– (UCCA), Joseph Lesawyer (UNA), Dr. Affairs, Bureau of European Affairs, with some neutral and third-world pow– raine is the second largest nation in the Alexander Bilyk and Mrs. Stephania and Guy. Coriden, Senior Consultant, ers regarding the conference. USSR and it fights for her freedom and Wochok (Providence Association of Commission on Security and Coopera– Prof. Dobriansky, during the ques– national independence. Ukrainian Catholics), Dr. Walter Dush– tion in Europe. tion-and-answer period, voiced criti– The were also large representations nyck (The Ukrainian Quarterly), An– All these officials reported exten– cism of the official definition of human from the Polish, Czecho-Slovak, Lithu– thony Dragan (Svoboda), lgnatius M. sively on the forthcoming meeting in rights, which include only personal and anian, Estonian, Latvian, Jewish and Billinsky (America), Borys Potapenko Belgrade and stated.that the purpose of civil rights, but not national rights. He (Continued on page 10) h Г No. 123 ж THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, MAY 29.1977 ^ Ukrainian Laborer Says Soviet Republics are Russian Colonies Describes Russification of Ukrainian People in Letter to AFL-C10 President NEW YORK, N.Y.— in a letter to AFL-ClO force weapons-radar school. that my nation is on the verge of genocide," said President George Meany, a Ukrainian laborer He was injured in the line of duty in 1962 and lost Rebryk. wrote that the 15 republics comprising the Soviet 70 percent of his sight. He was subsequently He began to speak out in defense of the Ukrain– Union are in fact "colonies of Russia", according to discharged from the army. ian nation, and was subsequently sentenced to three information received by the press service of the Rebryk returned to Ukraine, and, seeing the years in a concentration camp. Ukrainian Supreme Liberation Council (abroad). rampant Russification, began to realize that his Following his release, Rebryk could not find Bohdan Rebryk, a veteran, blue-collar worker, nation "is on the verge of genocide." suitable employment. and presently a political prisoner, told Mr. Meany He told Mr. Meany that since his first days back "Only after 10 months of a beggar's life, was І that Russification is rampant throughout Ukraine. in Ukraine, he noticed the persistent use of the able to find a job in a furniture factory," he wrote, "Soviet propaganda trumpets around the world Russian language in administration agencies and only to be arrested again in May 1974. that every republic in the USSR is an independent stores.