www.ukrweekly.com INSIDE: • Ukraine's search for security by Dr. Roman Solchanyk — page 2. • Chornobyl victim needs bone marrow transplant ~ page 4 • Teaching English in Ukraine program is under way - page 1 1 Publishfd by the Ukrainian National Association inc., a fraternal non-prof it association rainianWee Vol. LXI No. 23 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JUNE 6, 1993 50 cents New York commemorates Tensions mount over Black Sea Fleet by Marta Kolomayets Sea Fleet until 1995. 60th anniversary of Famine Kyyiv Press Bureau More than half the fleet — 203 ships — has raised the ensign of St. Andrew, by Andrij Wynnyckyj inaccurate reports carried in the press," KYYIV — Ukrainian President the flag of the Russian Imperial Navy. ranging from those of New York Times Leonid Kravchuk has asked for a summit NEW YORK — On June 1, the New None of the fleet's Warships, however, reporter Walter Duranty written in the meeting with Russian leader Boris have raised the ensign. On Friday, May York area's Ukrainian Americans com­ 1930s, to recent Soviet denials and Yeltsin to try to resolve mounting ten­ memorated the 60th anniversary of the Western attempts to smear famine sions surrounding control of the Black (Continued on page 13) tragic Soviet-induced famine of І932- researchers. Sea Fleet. 1933 with a "Day of Remembrance," "Now the facts are on the table," Mr. In response, Russian Foreign Minister consisting of an afternoon symposium Oilman said. "The archives have been Andrei Kozyrev is scheduled to arrive in Parliament begins held at the Ukrainian Institute of opened in Moscow and in Kyyiv, and the Ukraine on Friday morning, June 4, to America, and an evening requiem for the Ukrainian Holocaust has been revealed arrange the meeting between the two debate on START victims held at St. Patrick's Cathedral. in all of its hoiTor to everyone." He also presidents, rumored to be slated for The American Committee to Honor said the process of uncovering "this sometime between June 15 and June 20. by Bohdan Nahaylo Ukraine's Victims sponsored the sympo­ RFE/RL Research Institute heinous crime" was difficult. "I am Over the past two weeks, relations sium, whose participants included Viktor proud to say/' asserted Mr. Oilman, have been strained between Ukraine and Batiuk, Ukraine's ambassador to the "that the U.S. Congress played a role in Russia, as the states have accused each WASHINOTON — Ukraine's United Nations, Congressman Benjamin exposing it." He also commended fel­ other of violating the Yalta agreements Parliament opened its long-awaited Oilman (R-N.Y.), Dr. James Mace and low panelist James Mace and historian of August 1992, which provided for joint debate on the ratification of START I Lyubov Drazhevsky. Robert Conquest for their tenacity and Ukrainian-Russian control of the Black and Ukraine's adherence to the Nuclear Prof. Taras Hunczak of Rutgers tireless work on the subject. Non-Proliferation Treaty on the morning University was the master of ceremonies of June 3. The first portion of the debate The congressman mentioned that and moderator for the afternoon. The was broadcast live on Radio Ukraine, these commemorations bring to mind his presence of dignitaries in attendance, Stalemate continues and the proceedings were to continue recent attendance (on April 22) at the Turkish U.N. Ambassador Imal Baiii and into the evening in closed session. opening of the Holocaust Museum in Ukraine's Consul General in New York Washington, dedicated as it is to making over economic reform Foreign Minister Anatoliy Zlenko, Viktor Kryzhanivsky, was announced. certain that this type of crime will never who along with President Leonid Prof. Hunczak then introduced Rep. by Marta Kolomayets Kravchuk and Defense Minister occur again, or, as in the case of the Kyyiv Press Bureau Oilman, an active participant in the atrocities in Bosnia, that it will not pass Konstantyn Morozov, has consistently Congressional Commission on the without censure. KYYIV — Ukraine's economic situa­ supported Ukraine's adherence to its Ukraine Famine (1986-1990). proclaimed intention of becoming a non- Mr. Oilman concluded his remarks by tion remains stalemated as no one body Congressman Oilman said it is now nuclear state, opened the debate. saying that those who seek to honor the — be it the president, the government or possible to look to Ukraine with satisfac­ victims and reveal the truth about the the Parliament — has yet to take respon­ Setting the tone for what promises to tion in the knowledge that it has famine now have a powerful ally, the sibility for the current chaos and the be a lengthy debate, Minister Zlenko achieved its independence and that the newly independent Ukrainian state. future of reforms. strongly urged Parliament to approve the famine of 1932-1933 has been given "Progress to a fully democratic society To be sure, there are political losers in START and NPT treaties and rid some of the attention it deserves, but with a market-based economy will be this game, but, the biggest losers are the Ukraine of nuclear weapons. However, reminded everyone of the long period citizens of Ukraine, who are facing a he also emphasized that Ukraine contin­ when "many in fthe U.S.] accepted the (Continued on page 9) future of hyperinflation that is likely to ues to insist on certain conditions, that result in the introduction of ration cards is, "juridically binding" security guaran­ for everything from milk to bread, from tees from the nuclear powers and com­ soap to toothpaste. pensation to offset the high costs it will Ukrainian Famine Memorial Day After the turbulent events of May 18- incur in the process of eliminating the 21, the Supreme Council resumed its nuclear weapons on its territory. Fallowing is the full text of President Bill Clinton's statement on Ukrainian work on June 1, only to hear Prime The opening of Parliament's debate Famine Memorial Day. (The message, dated May 21, was received at The Minister Leonid Kuchma reaffirm his on the nuclear treaties coincided with the Weekly on June L) resignation as the head of government. announcement that U.S. Secretary of On Christmas Day of 1845, the poet Taras Shevchenko imagined an era in Defense Les Aspin is expected in Kyyiv the distant future, an era in which Ukraine would join the nations of the world (Continued on page 12) next week. as an independent country. In the last lines of the poem "Testament," he asked the citizens of this newly independent land to remember those born in a less for­ tunate era: "In the great new family, the family of the free/with softly spoken, kindly word, pray men, remember me." Supreme Court refuses to halt Demjanjuk inquiry For nearly 150 years, these lines offered inspiration to the Ukrainian people. WASHINOTON — The Supreme should have sent the Demjanjuk case Today the words take on a different meaning. They call on us to remember and Court has approved the 6th Circuit Court back to a federal judge in Cleveland. honor those who suffered in the past for Ukraine's freedom. of Appeals investigation into the U.S. An Israeli District Court had found The poem is never more powerful and appropriate than it is now when we government's extradition and denatural­ Mr. Demjanjuk guilty of the Nazi war join the people of Ukraine in observing Ukrainian Famine Memorial Day. This ization case against John Demjanjuk. crimes committed by "Ivan the Terrible" observance marks one of our century's most tragic events: the deliberate The Washington Times reported on and sentenced him to death. He is now attempt to destroy a nation by hunger. May 25 that two former officials with awaiting an Israeli Supreme Court deci­ We cannot recall the famine without sorrow and anger. But we must under­ the Justice Department's Nazi-hunting sion on his appeal. stand that it did not achieve its goak Ukraine endured the famine, as well as the unit, the Office of Special Investigations However, many observers have noted war that followed, and four more decades of oppression, re-emerging as a free (OSI), had sought a Supreme Court that Israel's Supreme Court appears to and independent country. Many survivors live today as witnesses to Ukraine's order halting the investigation. be waiting for the outcome of the U.S. rebirth. Former OSI attorneys Oeorge Parker Circuit Court's inquiry. The court's spe­ I join America's Ukrainian community in observance of Ukrainian Famine and Norman Moskowitz argued that the cial master, Judge Thomas Wiseman, Memorial Day, and I assure you of my commitment to strengthening democracy Circuit Court had no jurisdiction once last month completed his hearings into and defending human rights in Ukiaine. Mr. Demjanjuk was extradited to Israel whether the Justice Department's prose­ Bill Clinton in 1986. The OSI staffers said that even cutors had withheld exonerating evi­ if the Circuit Court had such authority it dence irom the Demjanjuk defense. THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JUNE 6, 1993 No. 23 NEWS ANALYSIS Newsbriefs Ukraine's search for security on Ukraine by Dr. Roman Solchanyk necessary to become nuclear-free, it has RFE/RL Research Institute begun to take concrete steps to promote Sevastopil Ukrainians hold congress Crimean Peninsula since the break-up of PARTI the idea of what might be termed a new "security space" in Central and Eastern the Soviet Union in 1991. (Reuters) • SEVASTOPIL — Some 700 per­ At the end of April, 162 Ukrainian Europe. sons participated in a congress of this legislators made public a statement This initiative has been dictated large-, Constitutional Democratic Party registers city's Ukrainians held May 29, Among addressed to President Leonid Kravchuk ly by two factors.