www.ukrweekly.comШГ- i/i ca < Published by the Ukrainian National Association Inc.. a fratwnal non-profit association X Л - - > u Z Д) - о -t c M Г^< О t"' rainian Wee wi W- Vol. Lll No. 41 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, OCTOBER 7,1984 25cenb UNA honors Sen. Charles Pqrcy House subcommittee hears testimony with first Humanitarian Award on U/crainian famine commission bill State Department again opposes measure by Marta Kolomayets other ethnic groups to follow, thereby costing the taxpayer exorbitant amounts WASHINGTON - Members of the of money. House Foreign Affairs Committee's Stating that he was "disturbed by the Subcommittee on International Opera­ report given by the State Department tions listened to testimony on H.R. 4459, the legislation to establish a government-funded commission to study the causes and effects of the 1932- Status of bill 33 famine in Ukraine, on Wednesday, October 3, just one day prior to the close JERSEY CITY, N.J. - As The of the 98th Congress. Weekly was going to pre:s, the Although the State Department, following was the status of the represented by Deputy Assistant Secre­ famine commission bill. tary of State Robie M.H. Palmer, The bill, which had been passed by recommended "against favorable con­ the full Senate, was attached by Sen. sideration of the bill at this time," Sen. Bill Bradley to the continuing resolu­ Dennis DeConcini (D-Ariz.), Rep. tion, that is, to the omnibus funding 1 Olshansky Marcy Kaptur (D-Ohio) and Rep. bill that grants the government Sf D. Charles Percy display; the Humanitarian Award he has just received from the James Florio (D-N.J.), the bill's spon­ spending authority. The House had UNA. With him are UNA executives (from left): John O. Fib, Gloria Paschen and sor, stressed the need to iftforna the passed its own version of the funding Myron B. Kuropas. general public about this "forgotten bill on September 25. (The famine holocaust" through the "legitimacy of a bill was not attached to that version government report." since the hearing on the bill took by Natalia Dmytrijuk his many years of dedicated service to place on October 3.) the Ukrainian American community The famine bill has already been On Thursday afternoon, October CHICAGO - Charles Percy, the and his extraordinary commitment to passed by the full Senate. The measure 4, the Senate passed the continuing senior senator from Illinois, received the the struggle for human and national has 121 sponsors in the House. resolution with the attached famine first Humanitariari Award to be pre­ rights in Ukraine," the senator said "Ya Also testifying at the House sub­ bill. sented by the Ukrainian National vsim vam diakuyu"(I thank all of you). committee hearing, which was chaired House and Senate conferees were Association during a banquet held here The first annual UNA Humanitarian by Rep. Dan Mica (D-Fla.), were Ihor to meet to reconcile differences on Sunday, September 30, to celebrate Award was presented by UNA Supreme Olshaniwsky, coordinator of Ameri­ between the two versions of the the 90th anniversary of the UNA'S President John O. Fiis. cans for Human Rights in Ukraine; funding measure. founding. In his remarks before presenting the David Roth, national ethnic liaison of Accepting the plaque citing him "for (Continued on page4) the American Jewish Committee; and John Kromkowski, chairman of the person," Mr. Roth testified that such a board of the National Center for Ur­ bill would "prove the integrity of the ban/Ethnic Affairs. government" and added that the State Valeriy Marchenko gravely ill Both Mr. Roth and Mr. Kromkowski Department would never offer these JERSEY CITY, N.J, - Ukrainian writer is suffering from serious heart countered the State Department's view reasons if the commission were dealing political prisoner Valeriy Marchenko is and kidney problems and that at the that the bill is too narrow, that such a with the Jewish people. so gravely ill that he was recently moved time he was admitted to the camp clinic study should be conducted by the He said that a government commis­ to a labor camp infirmary where he is in late August his blood pressure was private sector, and that the passage of sion would lend "visibility and credibi- receiving blood transfusions, according a dangerously high 240/160. this legislation would set a precedent for (Continucd on page 13) to several sources. The German daily. Frankfurter Amnesty International, the London- Allgemeine, reported in its September based human-rights organization, 22 issue that Mr. Marchenko, who was reported that the 37-year-old Kiev sentenced in March to 10 years in a labor camp and five years' internal exile, is so ill that he can no longer move. The paper, citing information provided by the Frankfurt-based International Society for Human Rights, said that Mr. Marchenko's mother has reported that neither of her son's kidneys is able to function. Mr. Marchenko, a journalist and philologist, was arrested in October 1983 and charged with "anti-Soviet agitation and propaganda." He is being held in labor camp No. 36-1 in the Ural Mountains near Perm. According to ЛІ and the German newspaper, the penal camp administration has repeatedly denied requests by Mr. Marchenko's mother that her son be moved to a regular iMirti Kolonuyets hospital in Leningrad. Because the Testifying before the Subcommittee on International Operations are: (from left) Valeriy Marchenko (Continued on page 15) Rep. Marcy Kaptur, Sen. Dennis DeConcini and and Rep. James Florio. THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, OCTOBER 7,1984 No. 41 A glimpse of Soviet reality Studies reveal U.S. outpaces Moscow newspaper confirms shootout Soviet Union in innovation by Roman Solchanyk BOSTON - Two recently re­ work in another area of the country. MUNICH - A recent issue of the leased studies on the state of research A third factor is the lack of sophis­ Moscow newspaper Sovietskaya Kul- and development in the Soviet Union ticated equipment and scientific tura confirms that the brother of Ukrai­ reveal why the United States out­ instruments as well as shortages of nian religious activist Yosyf Terelia was paces the USSR in innovation. simple supplies like nuts, bolts and involved in a shootout with the police in The studies are based on informa­ photographic plates. Dr. Loren western Ukraine. Previously, samizdat tion gathered from Soviet scientists Graham, an MIT expert on Soviet sources had reported that Borys Terelia and engineers who have emigrated to science who was involved with both was killed in the incident, which took the West. One, conducted out of studies, stated that the supply and place on June 10, 1982, and which in­ Harvard University, surveyed some distribution problem was one of "the volved not only policemen but also 200 emigres, and the other, spon­ most significant drawbacks in Soviet members of the KGB. sored by the Ford Foundation, was .science and technology." based on a series of seminars with In the context of an article warning Soviet and U.S. scientists at the The final factor cited was "spiri­ against Western "bourgeois ideas." the Massachusetts Institute of Techno­ tual exhaustion." During the period first secretary of the Zakarpattia Oblast logy. An article about the studies of Marxist industrialization in the Party Committee, Henrikh Yosypovych appeared in a rc-ent issue of The 1930s, science and technology flou­ Bandrovsky, writes that Borys Terelia Christian Science Monitor. rished. But, says Dr. Mark Kuch- resisted detention but refrains from ment, a Soviet emigre and co-direc­ stating explicitly that he was killed in The studies examine why the tor of both studies, there is nothing to the ensuing exchange of fire. According Soviet Union, which maintains the stir such enthusiasm now. "They (the to Bandrovsky: Yosyf Terelia, Ukrainian religious largest scientific establishment in the Soviet scientists) still take high pride "Terelia, a common criminal, com­ activist whose brother was killed in a world and has outpaced the United in their professional abilities, and mitted murder during an attempted shootout with Soviet police. States in R and D spending (com­ there is an enormous drive to excel," robbery. When detained, he offered Terelia was in fact killed in the gun pared to the total GNP of each he said. "But there is no idealism or resistance to the militiamen, seriously battle. country), is surpassed by U.S. re­ revolutionary fervor." wounded one of them, refused to searchers. The emigres cited several surrender to the authorities and con­ Brother is Church activist factors which they believe impede Nevertheless, Soviet scientists do tinued firing. Even earlier, criminal scientific innovation in the Soviet enjoy certain advantages that their proceedings had been instituted against It is extremely rare for the Soviet Union. U.S. counterparts don't. Unlike U.S. Terelia for concealing firearms and for press to discuss such incidents. Mr. Ban- Foremost is the lack of economic scientists, Soviet scientists don't robbery and hooliganism. The degene­ drovsky's revelations are all the more motivation. According to the studies, always have to look over their rate, having terrorized the citizenry, interesting in view of the fact that Mr. weighty reports frequently supersede shoulders to see if money will be placed himself outside of society." Terelia's brother, Yosyf, is a prominent practical applications of scientific there for a long-term project. Once The tone of Mr. Bandrovsky's des­ activist in the underground Ukrainian work because there is little financial set up, Soviet research institutions cription of the shootout suggests that (Contiaued on page 15) incentive for researchers to turn ideas and projects aren't likely to be shut into concrete results.