www.ukrweekly.com УКРАЇНСЬКИЙ ЩОДЕННИК UKRAINIAN DА ІLУ VOL. LXXXIV No. 35 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, FEBRUARY ІЗ, 1977 25 CENTS Pittsburgh Community Raises Major Arrests Conducted in Kiev Si7,760 for Harvard Center PITTSBURGH, Pa.–More than here. We are citizens who have both Rudenko, Tykhy incarcerated 100 persons, including some out of rights and responsibilities. One of the town, took part in a S25-a-plate han– fortresses of Ukrainian power in Ameri– quet staged here by the local branch of ca is the Ukrainian Research institute at Other Kiev Group Members Harassed the Ukrainian Studies Fund for the Harvard University." benefit of the Ukrainian Research One after another, the guests rose to announce their contributions and WASH1NGTON, D.C.-A major crack-down by the KGB has been Center at Harvard University, raising in conducted against the members of the Ukrainian Public Group to Promote the course of the evening a total of pledges to the current drive designed to raise Si million in the course of three the implementation of the Helsinki Accords, in Kiev Saturday, February 5, S8,000. which resulted in the arrests of Mykola Rudenko, the group's leader, and The event, held at the Chartiers months to complete the funding of the Country, Club, was staged in conjunc– already functioning institute. Mrs. Oleksa Tykhy, member, reported the wire services. tion with the observances of the 59th Anne Komichak, local USF branch's The first reports also said that other group members were harassed by the secret anniversary of the proclamation of treasurer, duly recorded the donations police and their apartments were ransacked. Ukrainian independence in Kiev. in the course of the evening. Setting the tone for the evening was Pittsburgh's total for the year, in United Press international reported This is' the tirst major crack-down Michael Korchinsky, veteran com– commemoration of America's Bicenn– early last week that the Moscow Group against the Ukrainian Public Group in munity and USF activist, stating in his tennial, amounted to Si7,760. in ten to Promote implementation of the its almost three-month existence. opening remarks that demonstrations years the Pittsburgh community raised Helsinki Accords told a news confer– immediately upon receiving news of alone are insufficient to help the Ukra– a total of S75,000 for the Harvard ence Monday, February 7, that Ruden– the arrests, the Washington Helsinki inian people in their current struggle project. ko's wife, Raisa, had been stripped Guarantees for Ukraine Committee, against Russification. The banquet was opened by Dr. naked as an act of humiliation while the headed by Dr. Andrew Zwarun, sent "We must strengthen our real power George Kyshakewych, president of the KGB searched their home. letters and telegrams to heads of base here in America,"" said Mr. Kor– USF chapter here, and introduced Mrs. Rudenko was reportedly releas– governments which signed the 1975 chlnsky. "After all, we are not guests Michael Komichak as the evening's ed by the secret police after questioning. Helsinki Accords, and congressmen master of ceremonies. The invocation Also during the search of Rudenko's and parliamentarians, asking them "to was offered by the Rev. M. Hlynsky, apartment, Oleksander Berdnyk, a intercede now in behalf of Ukrainian pastor of the Ukrainian Orthodox member of the group and a poet, walk– human rights activists by protesting Dr. Kuropas Church in McKees Rocks, Pa. ed into the premises and was bodily arrests and repressions which violate Speaking in the course of the banquet searched by the KGB, He was not the spirit and letter of Helsinki." on various phases of the Harvard arrested, however. The full text of the telegram, also To Tour for HURl project, its past accomplishments, The wire service also reported that signed by Bohdan Yasen, secretary, is as current work and future plans, were: especially brutal searches were conduct– follows: Roman Procyk, a doctoral candidate ed in the apartments of Oksana Mesh– We earlier voiced to you our fears of from Philadelphia and a member of the ko, mother of Oleksander Serhiyenko, possible repressions by the USSR (Continued from page 3) and Nina Strokata-Karavansky. (Continued from page 5) Think about Freedom for Ukraine" Urges Andriy Hryhorenko Says Search for National identity Will Be Empire's Deathknell by lhor Dlahoha NEW YORK, N.Y.— Andriy Hryho– compatriots in the West for the eventual answer period, and his mother is Rus– renko, son of the noted Soviet Army fall of the Soviet empire and the re- sian. Dr. Myron Kuropas General and recently human rights establishment of sovereign states. He He feels that a person's nationality CAMBR1DGE, Mass.–Dr. Myron activist, Petro Hryhorenko, urged emphasized, however, that in striving does not depend on his birth, but on Kuropas, former Special Assistant to Ukrainians in the West to continue "to for the independence of Ukraine, Ukra– spirituality and language. President Gerald Ford for Ethnic think about freedom for Ukraine." inains in the West should not forget "For that reason, 1 hope that some Affairs and UNA Supreme Advisor, in his first speech before a Ukrainian about the other captive nations and day 1 will also become an American," he will embark in March on a cross- audience in the United States, the young include all of them as equals in the said. country speaking tour for the Ukrain– Hryhorenko re-ignited the hope of his independence movement. Reiterating statements made by ins Studies Fund. Hryhorenko's speech here at the other former Soviet political prisoners, The Ukrainian Studies Fund is cur– Ukrainian National Home. Sunday, such as Leonid Pliushch, Hryhorenko rently in the midst of a fund-raising February 6, before an overflow crowd said that Ukrainians on both sides of campaign earmarked to raise Si million A, Gritchenko of some 500 persons, was sponsored by the iron Curtain should be in the fore- for the institute within a period of 90 the Committee for the Defense of Soviet front of the human rights and national independence struggles for all nations. days. Dies political Prisoners. 4 Dr. Kuropas will speak about his He was introduced by Marusia Pro– 'Ukrainian Americans should think experience as the White House ethnic skurenko-Welhash, a member of the also about the freedom of other na– As we were going to press, news tions in the Soviet Russian empire, in– affairs adivsor. He will attempt to show reached us that Alexis Gritchenko Committee. that it is essential for the Ukrainian Miss Proskurenko and Oleh Kolodij cluding the Russian," he said. (Hryshchenko), world famous Ukra– According to him, the national American community to establish a inian artist, died Saturday, January served as moderators for the program. financially strong and reputable center rights of the individual republics in the 299 1977, in France at the age of 94. USSR can be resolved only after full of Ukrainian studies at Harvard. Burial was held Tuesday, February 2. Bi-national Heritage Among the cities he will visit are human rights are guaranteed for all An obituary will appear in next people. Detroit, Cleveland, Buffalo, Rochester, week's issue. Hryhorenko, 32, claims a bi-national Syracuse, Philadelphia, New York and heritage. His father is Ukrainian, a fact While independence is vital for ail others. he underlined during the question-and– (Continued from page Ї0) Anti-Soviet Graffiti Seek Exit visas from USSR on Basis Appears in Leningrad Of Economic, Political Hardships HELS1NK1, Finland.-A grassroots exit visa to Canada, but the officials Uprisings Seen in non-Russian Republics movement to acquire emigration visas denied it, suggesting israel as a second from the Soviet Union on the basis of choice. NEW YORK, N.Y.—The Soviet Union has fallen victim to the scourge of the economic and political hardships began Syvak agreed to it, and soon after- New York subway system–graffitti. According to the press service of the Sup– surfacing in the USSR, according to the wards he was confined in the ivano- reme Ukrainian Liberation Counil (abroad), anti-Soviet graffitti has plagued "Smoloskyp" Ukrainian information Frankivske psychiatric asylum. Leningrad. Service, citing the Moscow Public "For 30 years 1 have been living in the Group to Promote implementation of Soviet Union, though not really living, On April 6, 1976, the day of Andrei destroying cultural monuments, and the Helsinki Accords. Tverdokhlebov's trial, the press service consciously destroying government or but existing," wrote Syvak to Leonid Living in utter poverty, many Ukra– Brezhnev. said, signs reading 'Tree Political Pri– public property. Rybakov and volkov inians and others in the Soviet Union soners" and "Free Andrei Tverdokhle– were also charged with "disseminating He said that during that time the lot have applied for permission to leave the of the worker hardly improved. bov" were secretively painted on three false ideas." country in hopes of earning a living in trolley buses. The press service also reports that "1 live in misery and poverty," he said. the West, said document no. 13 of that "1 am barely able to make ends meet The following day, similar phrases opposition to the Soviet government is group. with my salary." were painted on the walls of the conser– rising in non-Russian republics. The Moscow group cites the cases of vatory, the Lesgaft Phys-Ed institute, Last year in Latvia a leaflet was cir– four families, two Ukrainian and two Referring to the Helsinki Accords, and on the vasylevsky island. culated calling on Latvians to fight for Russian, who have made the initial Syvak accused the Soviet government On August 4, 1976, signs reading democratic rights guaranteed by the steps in seeking exit visas.