TOC_Sunday, May 26, 1985

Sunday, May 26, 1985

Republicans Broomfield, Gilman named to famine commission

U.S. scores Soviets' religious repression at Ottawa human-rights conference
by Mykhailo Bociurkiw

Underground religious activist captured; faces "anti-Soviet activity" charges

Underground publication
Kobryn sentenced
Persecuted since 1976

Zisels sentenced for "slandering" USSR

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.

Thirty years

Chornovil released from labor camp, sent to work camp in Yakutsk

Bakhmin sentenced for "hooliganism"

Ottawa experts meeting on human rights
NGOs, citing sessions' secrecy leave Ottawa rights meeting
by Mykhailo Bociurkiw

CSCE members write to Gorbachev on behalf of Soviet Jews, "others"

Reagan appeals for Sakharov

Correction

Famine commission profiles

Rep. William S. Broomfield
Rep. Benjamin A. Gilman
Rep. Dennis M. Hertel

Shevchenko stamp proposal rejected

Ethnic groups score Canadian government for multiculturalism parley's closed doors

Mark 40th anniversary of hierarchy's arrests

Discounts available on famine memoirs

Ukrainian quits curriculum council, citing deletion of famine section

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

Famine commission staff director
Rumanian arrests of OUN members
7.5 million victims of Nazism
Pysanka famous in Florida, too

BOOK NOTES

Booklet focuses on Uniate Church
Hrushevsky is topic of sourcebook

NEW RELEASE
Institute publishes religious newsletter

EDITORIAL
Memorial Day

NEWS AND VIEWS
A response to World Jewish Congress: Ukrainians fear of defamation, not truth
Following is the full text of a letter to the editor of The Star-Ledger, New Jersey's largest daily newspaper, as it appeared in that paper on Saturday, May 18. The letter was written by Dr. Bohdan Vitvitsky, president of the Ukrainian American Professionals and Businesspersons Association based in South Orange, N.J. We reprint the letter here as a source of information that might be used by readers to refute allegations against Ukrainians that have been disseminated in the media.

Manville parish to publish history

Ottawa experts meeting on human rights

International Helsinki Federation reports on worst offenders of human rights

Bulgaria
Czechoslovakia
East Germany
Hungary
Poland
Rumania
Turkey
USSR
Yugoslavia

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 II

Religious persecution
Psychiatric abuse

U.S.: Helsinki monitors "deserve our special attention"
Text of May 15 plenary statement on freedom of expression by U.S. Ambassador Richard Schifter to the experts meeting on human rights.

Ivan Kaszczak ordained priest; celebrates first liturgy in Yonkers

Sports arena
15 teams compete in volleyball tourney

Cleveland women take championship

PREVIEW OF EVENTS
May 31 - June 9
ONGOING
UPCOMING