www.ukrweekly.com Published by the Ukrainian National Association Inc.. ^ ^ I I c. a frattrnal non-profit assocfition| rainian WeiY Vol. LVI No. 22 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, MAY 29,1988 25 certs Ukrainian dissidents to meet Reagan Official program honors Shevchenko, WASHINGTON - Six Ukrai­ the residence of the U.S. ambassador upstaging unofficial cultural protest nian dissidents - representing na­ to the Soviet Union, on Monday, tional, cultural and religious rights May за. KIEV — What was expected to be an event" to conduct their own manifesta­ activists - are among the prominent These rights activists represent unofficial demonstration calling for tion. These Ukrainians, dressed in Soviet dissidents that have been groups including the Ukrainian "cultural autonomy" in this Ukrainian embroidered shirts and blouses, led by a invited to meet with President Ro­ Helsinki Group and its official or­ capital city on Sunday, May 22, took group of 50 to 60 university students, nald Reagan while he is in Moscow gan, The Ukrainian Herald, the the form of an official afternoon pro­ members of the UCC, held their own for the U.S.-Soviet summit meeting. Ukrainian Culturological Club, the gram honoring the poet Taras Shev- protest, an afternoon of song and International (All-Union) Commit­ chenko, reported Ukrainian American poetry readings, reported the U.S. Oles Shevchenko, Mykhailo tee for the Defense of Political tourists who returned from Ukraine on travelers. Horyn, Vyacheslav Chornovil, Lev Prisoners in the USSR, the Ukrai­ Tuesday, May 24. The group had originally planned to Lukianenko, Ivan Неї and the Rev. nian Catholic Church and its journal, The Ukrainian Culturological Club read Shevchenko poetry during the Vasyl Romaniuk have been invited Christian Voice, and the Ukrainian (UCC), based in Kiev, had organized an official program, but according to Oles to attend a reception at Spaso House, Autocephalous Orthodox Church. unofficial demonstration to protest the Shevchenko, the Ukrainian anti-nu­ Ukrainian republic's lack of cultural clear and national rights activist, they freedom and suppression of the Ukrai­ were denied permission to do this by the Sopinka named to Canada's top courtnia n language. They were, however, authorities. Mr. Shevchenko stated that OTTAWA — Ukrainian Canadian The announcement surprised many "upstaged" by the Soviet Ukrainian the officials had told him that the John Sopinka, one of Canada's best- observers because appointments to the authorities, who usurped their plans program was "totally filled." known litigation attorneys, was named Supreme Court of Canada are usually and interceded with an official pro­ "Imagine that" he responded, 'an to the Supreme Court on Tuesday, May made from the ranks of judges in gram near the Shevchenko Monument afternoon honoring Taras Shevchenko 24. provincial courts of appeal. across the way from the State Univer­ where his poetry is not permitted to be Prime Minister Brian Mulroney Nonetheless, the selection of Mr. sity of Kiev. read." made the announcement in Bonn, West Sopinka, 55, was widely praised by his According to the American tourists, Mr. Shevchenko and his group were Germany, while on a European tour. peers in the legal community, as well as about 800 people attended the official allowed to place bouquets of flowers at by political observers and representa­ program, which included performances the foot of the poet's monument. tives of Canada's ethnic communities. by local choirs and ensembles, as well as The UCC-sponsored event, which House passes The appointment of Mr. Sopinka, an opening> remarks by Borys Oliynyk, ran parallel to the official program in attorney with Stikeman, Elliott, one of chairman of the State Commission on time (tourists observed that the official famine bill Toronto's top law firms, marks the first Landmarks, who stated: "Let this be a program began at about 5 p.m.; the WASHINGTON - The U.S. House time in 12 years that a practicing lawyer joint celebration to celebrate the poet unofficial gathering began about 30 of Representatives passed a bill ex­ has been chosen to serve as one of the Taras Shevchenko." minutes later and both ran late into the tending the mandate of the U.S. Com­ nine justices on the Supreme Court. About 300 feet away from the official night, with the last people dispersing mission on the Ukraine Famine, (S- He succeeds Justice Williard Estey, ceremonies, a group of 200 to 300 after 10 p.m.), included groups of 2304) by voice vote on Wednesday, May (Continued on page 12) people broke away from the "main students and rights activists singing 24. Two-thirds of the House members Ukrainian songs, among them Vasyl voted in favor of the extension prolong­ International panel investigates famineSymonenko' s "Lebedi Materynstva." ing the life of the commission through It also included readings of poetry June 22, 1990. BRUSSELS - New York Times "He liked to chain girls up a good deal, written by the Ukrainian national bard, The extension bill, was passed in the Pulitzer Prize-winning correspondent and you're not supposed to do that in Shevchenko. According to one New Senate on April 21. It now goes back to Walter Duranty did not report about Moscow," Dr. Conquest continued. He Yorker who witnessed this May 22 the Senate, which will vote on an the 7 to 10 million deaths during the noted that this information is found in (Continued on page 2) amendment already passed by the Soviet-engineered famine in Ukraine in the second volume of former New York House providing for the commission to 1932-1933 because it is believed that he Times correspondent Harrison Salis­ select members to the body as the need was being blackmailed by Soviet autho­ bury's autobiography. Mr. Salisbury Ruban freed arises. rities, testified internationally known became Moscow correspondent for the introduced by Rep. Dante Fascell historian Robert Conquest at the May newspaper after Mr. Duranty. "But, (D-Fla.), the amendment is a small 24 session of the International Com­ this is Salisbury's implication, that they technical provision, which should not mission oi Inquiry into the Famine in (the Soviets) said 'You go ahead and affect the Senate's passage of the bill. It Ukraine 1932-1933. chain girls up and write what we like.'" will then go to President Ronald Rea­ Also that day, John Sopinka, who Dr. Conquest noted "it was a most gan for his signature. had just been named to Canada's unfortunate phenomenon that Duranty The amendment was added to assure Supreme Court and was at the hearings was able to give his authority and the that the commission remain a 15- in the capacity of legal counsel for the authority of the (New York) Times to member team during its work span. The World Congress of Free Ukrainians, these false accounts (about the existence commission will lose its chairman. Rep. urged the commission of inquiry "to of the famine)." Dr. Conquest said that Dan Mica (D-Fla.), who is running for find that the famine was deliberately Mr. Duranty "had told the American the Senate in November, as well as its caused as an instrument of (Soviet) state Embassy in Berlin that he was writing three administration members, from policy." the Soviet Hne" and that he "admitted the Departments of State, Education, "The famine was an act of genocide," his reports were false to his colleagues and Health and Human Services, who he said. "Special measures against and to the British Embassy in Moscow." will leave with the election of a new Ukraine were designed to break the Mr. Duranty was awarded the Pulitzer president during this year. spirit of the most recalcitrant of pea­ Prize for his reporting in the Soviet The bill extension, however, does not sants opposed to collectivization" under Union. provide for any additional government Joseph Stalin. Currently senior research fellow and funding, many of the representatives The commission was initiated by the scholar-curator of the Russian and East who spoke out in support of it pointed World Congress of Free Ukrainians, an European Collection at Hoover Institu­ out. Mr. Fascell stated, on the floor: organization which champions the tion, Stanford University, Dr. Con­ Ukrainian political prisoner Petro "The Ukrainian American community interests of Ukrainians both in Ukraine quest served in the British Foreign Ruban is free and back home in has donated thousands of dollars that and in the free world. Service and is considered an expert on Pryluky, in the Chernihiv Oblast of this work can be completed at no "Duranty belonged to a strange Soviet affairs. Ukraine. See story on page 2. (Continued on page 2) sexual orgy sect," Dr. Conquest said. (Continued on page 2) THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, MAY 29,1988 No. 22 Petro Ruban freed from Perm Grigoryants released from jail, JERSEY CITY, N.J. - Ukrainian there. He, along with the other inmates political prisoner Petro Ruban, whose of Camp 36-1, was transferred to camp but Glasnost office is destroyed wife, Lydia, is in the United States with 35-1, also in the Perm region. their crippled son, Marko, was released Mr. Ruban was to have completed his MOSCOW - Sergei Grigoryants, existence for a little over 10 months. from a labor camp in Perm and is back latest sentence in 1998. editor of the independent journal named It is published twice a month, and home in Pryluky, Chernihiv Oblast of Mr. Ruban is currently in very poor Glasnost, was released from jail on translations of it are circulated abroad. Ukraine. health, and he arrived in Pryluky with a Monday, May 16, only to discover that Glasnost is perhaps the most influential Mr. Ruban was thrice sentenced for high fever. The Rubans' 19-year-old Soviet authorities had confiscated his of the new unofficial, yet not clandes­ "anti-Soviet agitation and propaganda" daughter, Natalka, stayed in Pryluky printing equipment and destroyed his tine journals now being published in for, among other things, sculpting a with her grandmother, while Mrs.