www.ukrweekly.com 1 z THE I CBOEOAAXSVOBODA I I " ШШ^Ш Ш УКРАЇНСЬКИЙ ЩОДЕННИК ^ШЕ? UKRAINIAN DAtLV Щ Щ UkrainiaENGLISH^ LANGUAGnE WEEKL Y WeeEDITION k у VOL. LXXXV No. 113 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, MAY 21, 1978 25 CENTS Welcome Delegates to UNA's 29th Convention in Pittsburgh! Assemblage Begins Weeklong Session Tomorrow; Religious Services, Festive Concert Set for Today PITTSBURGH, Pa.-A total of 406 tions; its sixth was held here in 1900 delegates and 26 members of the Su­ and its 21st in 1946. preme Assembly will be on hand to­ Coinciding with UNA's Convention morrow for the formal opening of the is the centennial of Ukrainian settle­ 29th Convention of the Ukrainian Na­ ment in Pittsburgh and western Penn­ tional Association at the Pittsburgh sylvania. It was in 1878 that the first Hilton here. The assemblage, which Ukrainian immigrant, Andrew meets quadrennially, will meet through Andreyczyn, arrived in this one-time Saturday, May 27. steel capital of the world. His daugh­ Scores of distinguished American ter, Mrs. Mary Reyda, who was the and Ukrainian political and civic lea­ first Ukrainian child to be born in ders are expected to appear in the Pittsburgh, lives at the present time in course of the Convention to extend McKees Rocks, Pa. greetings to the representatives of the In respect to the early Ukrainian pio­ largest and oldest Ukrainian organiza­ neers and in conjunction with the UNA tion in the free world. Pittsburgh was Convention, the week of May 21-27 the site of two previous UNA Conven­ (Continued on page 13) Richard T. Davies, U.S.- Ambassador to Poland, To Address Convention Banquet JERSEY CITY, NJ.—Richard T. Davies, United States Ambassador to Poland, will be the keynote speaker at the UNA Convention Banquet Thurs­ day, May 25, in the Grand Ballroom of the Hilton Hotel in Pittsburgh, Pa. Mr. Davies will represent the Carter Administration at the banquet. The banquet is slated to begin at 7 p.m. Prominent Ukrainian and non- Ukrainian dignitaries have also been invited to address the delegates and guests. The prominent Ukrainian Canadian singer, Anna Chornodolska, will entertain at the banquet. Tickets for the banquet are priced at Photo courtesy of the Pittsburgh Convention 8, Visitors Bureau. S20. FORT PITT BLOCKHOUSE: Built in 1763, the Fort Pitt Blockhouse is a Pitts­ Richard T. Davies is a career foreign burgh landmark dating back to the Revolutionary War. It is located in Point service officer who has spent nearly 31 State Pairk. The blockhouse will be the site of a special wreath-laying ceremony years in the service, more than 24 of Sunday, May 21, at 3:30 p.m. Joseph Lesawyer, UNA Supreme President, will them in assignments involving United lay a wreath at this spot in memory of the American Continental soldiers who States relations with the Soviet Union gave their lives for America's freedom and in memory of the Ukrainians who first and Eastern Europe. Fourteen of those Richard T. Davies settled in the Pittsburgh area 100 years ago. 24 years have been spent in assign­ ments involving Eastern Europe, with particular emphasis on Poland. During their two assignments there, Ambassa­ Helsinki Commission Reports on CSCE dor and Mrs. Davies have lived in War­ WASHINGTON, D.C.—The re­ of human rights as an integral aspect of sinki pledges and agreement to hold saw for a total of more than 7 years. cently concluded Belgrade meeting detente. This is an important step on another Belgrade-type meeting in Mad­ Born in Brooklyn, N.Y., on May 28, which reviewed the Helsinki Accords set the road toward making Europe a rid in 1980 to again review implementa­ 1920, Ambassador Davies obtained his an important precedent in human place where human rights are univer­ tion of the accord. As for the conclud­ undergraduate degree from Columbia rights diplomacy according to a report sally respected in all countries.'' ing document's brevity, the report University in New York City. He issued May 17 by the joint executive- But the report warned that this deve­ stressed that, in the absence of genuine served in the army in World War II and congressional Commission on Security lopment ' 'carried no guarantees of East-West dialogue on issues including was a member of civil-affairs and mili­ and Cooperation in Europe. speedy remedies for existing abuses." human rights, "it was unlikely from tary-government teams in Belgium, the The commission, headed by Rep. The 105-page report noted that the the beginning that Belgrade would end Netherlands and Germany. After the Dante B. Fascell (D-Fla.), said Bel­ meeting's concluding document i're­ with a concluding document which was war, he taught German at Brooklyn grade produced "a new ingredient in presents a significant, positive result," detailed, or which would contain a (Continued on page 13) East-West diplomacy, the recognition including a reaffirmation of the Hel­ (Continued on page 9) THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, MAY 21, 1978 No. 113 Dissident Workers Renew Activity Orlov Receives Maximum Sentence (The story below was reported by the little in common with the intellectual MOSCOW, USSR.-Yuri F. Orlov, day, May 17. Mr. Orlov's summation Los Angeles Times Wire Service.) dissidents. According to the coal one of the founders of the Moscow was interrupted many times by the judge MOSCOW, USSR.—A movement miner, he had met some of the better- Group for the Implementation of the and the prosecutor and by spectators of disaffected Soviet workers, seeming­ known dissidents but found that "they Helsinki Accords, was found guilty of who shouted "traitor" and "spy." consider themselves above us." "anti-Soviet agitation and propagan­ ly crushed two months ago with the Mrs. Orlov and her husband's two Dissident physicist Andrei D. Sakha- da" by a Moscow court and was sen­ arrest of the leaders of a free trade sons from a previous marriage, Dmitri, rov reportedly refused to become in­ tenced to the maximum seven years in a union formed here, has resurfaced on 25, and Aleksandr, 23, were allowed to labor camp and five years of internal the eve of the big May Day labor volved with Klebanov and his group be present at the trial, but were warned exile on Thursday, May 18, reported holiday. last year, fearing among other things not to take any notes. The sons had tried the Western media. The movement's re-emergence just that some of the 200 people the coai to smuggle tape recorders into the court­ Academician Dr. Andrei Sakharov before May Day — International miner was claiming as prospective room, but these were confiscated and his wife, Yelena Bonner, were Workers Solidarity Day - apparently members of his union did not under­ during a search of the family conduct­ arrested on the same day after a scuffle marks a new willingness by the workers stand what they were getting into. ed by authorities. to align themselves with the better- Within a month of announcing for­ with Soviet police as they tried to get known intellectual dissidents here. mation of their free trade union, Kle­ into the courtroom where Orlov was The courtroom, reported Mrs. If the alliance works out, it could banov and most of his colleagues were being tried for publicizing human rights Orlov, was filled with some 50 persons selected by authorities, while friends make workers as much a part of the arrested. Of the 43 who originally violations in the USSR. The Sakharovs and supporters of Orlov, including Dr. battered, but still deeply entrenched signed an appeal asking for recognition were released five hours later, by the International Labor Organiza­ Orlov's wife, Irina, the main source Sakharov, were barred from entering dissident movement here as Jewish because there was no room. Orlov's sup­ "refuseniks" campaigning for free­ tion, the majority are reportedly either for Western news reports, called the in jail or psychiatric hospitals. trial which began Monday, May 15, "a porters kept a constant vigil outside the dom to emigrate, religious believers courthouse. Klebanov is reportedly being held in show" and "a circus," noting that the and social democrats. A U.S. observer, diplomat Richard The remnants of the free trade union Donetske in Ukraine. Valentin Poplav- handpicked audience laughed at her hus­ sky, a former factory worker, is believ­ band on several occasions. E. Combs, was also denied entrance group headed by imprisoned ex-coal into the courtroom. miner Volodymyr Klebanov have join­ ed held near Moscow on a charge of The 33-year-old Mrs. Orlov said that ed with members of the democratic "parasitism." Gavriil Yankov, she was stripped and searched on Wed­ Orlov, a 53-year-old physicist and a movement to form a Committee for another leader of the group, is report­ nesday, May 17, by three women while member of the Academy of Sciences of the Free Trade Union of Workers of edly in jail in Moscow for breaking in­ three young men watched. The search Armenia, was arrested on February 10. the USSR, according to committee ternal passport regulations. was considered a retaliation against At the trial he contended that he has spokesman Vsevolod Kuvakin. A vocal group of complaining Mrs. Orlov for having given detailed a right to criticize the government and Formed in mid-April, the committee workers is both an embarrassment and information about the progress of her a right to circulate such criticism under has already received letters from a cause of apprehension here in what is husband's trial to Western reporters. the freedom of information provisions several people wanting to join, the 35- billed as the workers' state.