Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - March 7, 1972, Winnipeg, Manitoba 20 Winnipeg free press tuesday March 7, 1972 the Ukraine stirring London special the economist a wave of police interrogations House searches and arrests is taking place in the soviet Union. This new police Campaign apparently Sterns from a secret Central commit tee Resolution of dec. 30. One of its Aims is to silence the human rights movement in rus Sia proper and especially its sturdiest offspring the underground chronicle of current events which has been a Thorn in the soviet leaders flesh Ever since it first appeared in 1968. But the fact that so Many arrests have been made in Ukraine and Lithuania suggests that the soviet government feels a special need to Clamp Down on the non russian Dis Senters in the soviet Union whose Aims and tactics have been converging with those of the russian ones. Soviet pre Mier Leonid Brezhnev must fear that the whole dissident movement May be about to acquire a wider base. But it is in the Ukraine that there has been most National ferment in recent years. The ukrainian dissidents have produced the largest amount of Samizdat underground literature. So far 21 ukrainian intellectuals have been rounded up. Five of them have been subsequently released presumably because there is insufficient evidence against them. What kind of evidence of Bourgeois nationalism the Kab Russia s Security police is now trying to compile against the other 16 re Mains seen. If past experience is any guide it will be no More convincing than what was mustered in order to incarcerate More than 20 ukrainian intellectuals in a series of secret trails in 1965-66 for example the Possession of certain Docu ments vaguely described As the Only three arrested individuals who have so far been mentioned by the official press Are Ivan Svi Tychny Yevgen Sherstyuk and Vyacheslav Chor Novit none of them could possibly be accused of saying or writing anything against the soviet political order. Sver St Yuk a 43-year-old literary critic has been attacked for writing Ess ays romanticizing the ukrainian past. Svi Tychny another critic has been much harassed by the authorities he once spent eight months behind bars without trial for such crimes As smuggling poems out of the country. This charge was never and the poems were never shown to be anti soviet. And demanding More cultural and political autonomy for their 40 million fellow ukrainians in the soviet Union All in Accord with provisions Laid Down and guaranteed by the soviet Constitution. Although they Are slavs like the russians and speak a language closely Akin to russian the ukrainians have always Felt themselves to be different from their Northern neighbors who first attempted to Russity them under the tsars. What is More than Likely is that the arrests in Kiev Lvov and other ukrainian cities Are aimed at stifling the most impressive product of the demo cratic ukrainian Samizdat the ukrainian Herald at least five issues of which have appeared since 1970. Strikingly similar to the chronicle of cur rent events the ukrainian Herald has set out to provide information on violations of Freedom of speech and othe democratic freedoms Guaran teed by the Constitution on judicial and extra judicial repressions in the Ukraine on violations of National sovereignty on the condition of ukrainian political prisoners in prisons and Camps on various acts .01 czechs keep Friendly faces Best known As for Chornobil probably the beit known of the three he had an exemplary record As a dedicated communist until 1967 when he was sentenced to three years imprisonment for com piling and sending to the authorities an expose of judicial Vio lation perpetrated by the Kab in the Ukraine in 1965-66, per haps the most thorough Docu ment of its sort Ever to come out of the soviet Union. Now he is apparently accused along with the other two of conducting activity hostile to the socialist in col Lusion with a Young belgian Stu Dent who was arrested in Jan uary on charges of criminal activity on behalf of foreign anti soviet organizations. On the basis of All the information available so far it is patently absurd to accuse these three men of anything except Milting forcible a ossification Prague special owns the mild faces and manner of the people of Prague remain no matter what else has changed. In the ancient Tram that rattles Over the Bridge Span Ning the Vltava River the passengers exude a warmth that has been extinguished in most cities. 01 d acquaintances spy each other and Are soon deep in conversation. De spite the press of the crowd there is no shoving or coarse words. Young or old intellectual or worker All radiate mellowness and balanced emotions. Often one sees that characteristic slight smile on the lips of the passengers the smile of a philosophical people who have Learned to live with and eventually moderate outside forces they Are unable to change. The be whiskered weath ered face of a Man from the country blends with the angelic Beauty of a Young girl in a Maxi coat who is absorbed in a Book. These Are the same open czech faces that captivated foreign painters who came to Bohemia in the Middle Ages. Czechs and slovaks unlike the Peoples of larger nations have an easy relationship with foreigners. This applies also to their contacts with germans and austrians who dominated economic and cultural life Here until the end of the first world War. Tourists from West Germany and Austria flood into Prague Over the weekend dining at the Best restaurants and buying the choicest wares with czech crowns bought on the Black Market. They Are served by old world waiters and shop assistants who speak German with a lilting austrian accent. The foreigners Are guests who Are treated As such. The other the soviet troops in the country since 1968, Are scarcely in evidence Here in the Capi Tal. They to their Camps emerging Only for group Tours and Friendship meetings with selected the Long Dis Tance admiration Many czechoslovak Felt for their slav Brothers to the East was extinguished in August 1968. Today the czechoslovak feels no hatred for the russians Only a yawning Lack of interest. No longer Are there Heady newspaper articles and stir ring television debates with Reform politicians to stimulate Pra Guers. The vendors of rude Provo the communist party newspaper Are left sitting on stacks of in sold papers each Day. Crawling Back into their apolitical protective Shell the citizens of Prague had turned with a vengeance to e m u 1 a t i n g the material ways of the West. They surge through Wen Ceslas Square in search of the Good life. Saving for a trip to the West is senseless now that All trips have been banned. Immedi ate gratification is put above All else sales of expensive furs imported liquors i i sets and luxury foodstuffs Are soaring. Even on weekdays night spots Are filled with Young people stomping to beat music and soaking up the accent free English of the vocalists. Apart from half hearted attempts by party officials to Stem the most blatant Western Isis hav ing English pop lyrics translated into czech or so v a k before broadcasting them on radio and television Prague today leaves More of a superficial West Ern impression on visitors than a few years ago. Meeting some Prague friends from the past can be a trying experience. Telephone Calls often elicit the reply that or. A. Is out of or if overtime work brings v London up the weird Workings of overtime rates in Britain have left a television production assistant Richer by More than for 15 Whir wind Days on the Job. I was working in a Haze o fatigue and Only had a couple of hours sleep each said to assistant Sandra Howard Money was the last thing was thinking but for her employer associated television the main concern is to make sure the bizarre incident is not repeated. Producers Are thus being told to keep a strict watch on the cumulative effects of overtime payments for employees who Don t take their full rest Breaks. That s How. Miss Howard 23, who ordinarily earns a week piled up her Small for tune since reduced somewhat by tax payments. It All started when she came to London from her Normal work Centre in Birmingham to help with an ice show program Here. Her Normal work Day was 9 . To 6 . But because she was unable to have at least a 10-hour break before beginning her first round of duties on a saturday her Normal hourly rate of 75 new Pence was Dou bled. Each time she missed a lunch night miss Howard went on to break or worked after mid night miss Howard went on a double or treble the hourly rate by tuesday of the second week the cumulative buildup of overtime rates arid other additions for late working and eruptions with her lunch periods had increased the earning rate to 27 times the Ordinary a matter of an hour. By the end of the hectic 15 Days this had risen to More than an hour. T at first at declined to pay the resulting sum of. Which miss Howard after a mathematical expert from her Union had the complicated work Bill. But at she was fully entitled to the claim which tax payments finally left at the company and other com Mercial to firms in Britain Lave Union contracts providing or what Are termed Progress Ive overtime rates until a 10 one catches him in he apologetically explains that it would be better if we did t meet this time but please Call the next time you re Here and things May be Bel even a meeting with a Chance acquaintance who wants to talk with the Visi Tor again at Home has its moments. Although the czech May be politically uninvolved with no ties to opposition elements reports of mass arrests of people meeting westerners have made him very cautious. The foreign visitor is told to take a Tram to the end of the line and to wait for about 10 minutes. Then he is not to show recognition of the Man but to follow him at a distance. A Telephone Call to a czechoslovak Reform communist report arrested and then released produces the following explanation it must have been a mistake that is All i can say. I can Only believe in the ultimate goodness of people. There is nothing else left. I m an in person and i Only Hope the almighty will let me die in peace. Everything can t be said so briefly except that i Hope it was a general autonomy and National self de in the termination for non russians wine sales up san Francisco a California sold More than 226 million Gallons of wine in 1971, protest at the same and in the past it May have i a record for the state the Cali the Herald has affirmed its Joy been justified. Yet the charge is fornia wine Institute reported Alty to the soviet system the not justified now. Saturday. It was the sixth con ukrainian Herald is neither the chronicle of current i Secu Tive record sales year. An anti soviet nor an anti Corn events reprinted in december Monist publication. Critic a Long portion of that Herald cism of individuals organs and editorial. Over the past year institutions up to the highest the chronicle has devoted a lot level for errors committed in of space to the struggle of the the solution of internal political crimean tatars the moslem problems is not seen by the Meketi the jews and the other Herald As an anti soviet a non russian groups. The soviet committee on human rights led the Herald has produced a by prof. Sakharov has fre comprehensive record of illegal Quentlyn protested against the arrests and persecutions of let persecution of jews and other ers of protest signed by More minorities. Than 200 ukrainian scholars All this testifies to the grow writers artists and civil ser ing awareness of the russian vants of persecution of writers democrats thai human rights who have discussed the soviet embrace the right of cultural nationality policy in n d soviet policies Ukraine in particular of Dis-1 the greater this awareness the the Ukrain sooner soviet dissent will As Ian language such As its Virtu sume the character of a Genu Al Banning from schools in one Jne mass movement. It is the proper Omsk and of suppression spectre of such a movement of ukrainian traditions and Cus that must be frightening or. Toms. It has also protested Brezhnev into sending so Many against local anti semitism. Brezhnev upset or. Brezhnev and his col leagues Are naturally concerned about the growing National sentiment in the Ukraine As Well As in other parts of the so Viet Union. Any form of particularism presents an implicit Challenge to a centralized authoritarian regime perhaps even Moje dangerous from the Loviet government s Point of new Are the growing links be Ween the e various National democrats and the russian democratic movement. True the ukrainian Herald complained in an editorial in its fib. Issue that the russian Dis dents have not paid enough attention to the non russian nations. Its sensitivity n this Point is understandable i action on such a Broad front. Bomb scare delays plane Melbourne Reuter a plane carrying 51 new York policeman wives to a Goodwill tour of Australia Cir cled the Melbourne Airport for nearly an hour monday after a bomb scare. A Man with a Strong american accent phoned a. Newspaper and said the policemen s plane would on Landing. It turned out 1 to be a hoax and the aircraft landed safely. Wilderness journey an adventure for the whole family a Rainbow adventure film plus a special Featurette starts Friday one week Only Hyland main St. 5i4.j055 Ond . Grant Park cinerama 1150 Oron 4s3-40h daily and . Sat a and our break is taken by the pm Loyee. Then the employee re urns to Normal time rates. Painting slashed Montevideo Uruguay a someone made a four Inch razor Cut in an Oil painting by Marc Chagall on loan from a French gallery authorities re ported sunday. The painting the red tree is part of an Art exhibit sponsored Here by the French embassy. Officials said the painting was insured for about alright everyone Chicken out wednesday at King s for of her previous shift. As she was never Able to take her full 10 hours rest break each Day at the overtime rate on which she had finished the previous night by tuesday of the first week she Waff earning times her usual rate and by the end of that week this earning rate be come 19 times the usual level. The following sunday and monday should have been rest Days but she worked through them. Diplomatic ties established Vatican City Vatican and Algeria have established diplomatic ties to encourage Mutual and Friendly re the Vatican announced monday. The diplomatic Exchange is at the ambassadorial level. J of Laryl and Pattie Aaka Pattie Calm bakun Man Bate in cake Fatt at am Peak Altitude Manchester it Washington in new Hampshire rises to an Altitude of. Feet above the level of the sea. Kow appearing March 1 March 1 1 club Taffy Maryland motor Theta Misc Mon. Fri. 5-9 pm papa tar or Prim exotic Dancyk Spanish Rose Prii new yen can learn the k a i t 5 at Tecc kei1 mar views Way at the lowest club Taffy if All the latest Steps Cha Cha Fox Trot wait2 swing Mesa Nova Kambo tango Mere not David Kati do. 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