U.S. delegation scores USSR for violations of human rights
by Mykhailo Bociurkiw

Ukrainian Catholic minority faces religious discrimination in Poland

Ukrainian lawyers detail methodological abuses of OSI

Chronicle of the Catholic Church in Ukraine
Following are excerpts from Issue No. 7 of the Chronicle of the Catholic Church in Ukraine, an underground publication which made its appearance in January 1984 but has only recently reached the West. The Chronicle is published in samvydav form by the Initiative Group for the Defense of Believers and the Church, which was founded in 1982 to promote the legalization of the Ukrainian Catholic Church, which has been outlawed since 1946. The excerpts below are translated by the staff of The Weekly from the original Ukrainian.

Statement
- Yosyp Terelia, Dovhe, July 12, 1984

An open letter to friends of Ukraine in China
- Yosyp Terelia, Dovhe, December 1984

Polish farmers call for revival of Rural Solidarity

Orthodox Church asks Kremlin to revise law dealing with "cults"

Ottawa experts meeting on human rights

• Helsinki Watch releases status report
  
  
• International rights group presents proposals to delegates
  
  
• Ukrainian group lobbies delegates

Sen. D'Amato says U.S. has "moral imperative" to aid Afghan rebels

Reagan urged to back freedom fighters

Serious medical problems plague Soviet armed forces

Baltic group demands NBC apology

150 attend New York City premiere of award-winning famine documentary

Rev. Husar elected St. Sophia president

N.J. panel examines defamation of Ukrainians in the media
by Chrystyna Lapychak

THE UKRAINIAN NATIONAL ASSOCIATION FORUM

Flis writes Reagan about taxation of fraternals

Supreme Assembly annual session begins at Soyuzivka May 20

District committee meetings

Syracuse-Utica
Baltimore
Jersey City
Montreal

EDITORIAL
Which rights policy?

FACES AND PLACES
by Myron B. Kuropas
The Ukrainian community at risk

Defamation of Ukrainians: what can we do as a community?
by Ihor Olshaniwsky

Ottawa experts meeting on human rights

• WCFU Human Rights Commission on Soviet violations of Helsinki Accords
  Following is the full text of a brief submitted by the Human Rights Commission of the World Congress of Free Ukrainians to the participating states of the experts meeting on human rights being held in Ottawa May 7 through June 17.
  PART I

Background
Arrests and trials
Deaths of prisoners of conscience
Introduction of new restrictive laws

• U.S. ambassador: respect for human rights is critical
  Text of introductory statement delivered on May 10 by U.S. Ambassador Richard Schifter to the experts meeting on human rights of the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe.

L.A. exhibit features church architecture of Lemkivshchyna
by Taras Kozbur

Notes on people

Elected president of art chairpersons
Competes exams for business Ph.D.
Invited to take part in Slavic seminar
UNA'er gets business award
Postupack profiled in Florida paper

Museum offers genealogy advice

PREVIEW OF EVENTS
May 19 - June 4
ONGOING

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