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Where there is no law, but every man does what is right in his own eyes, there is the least of real liberty
Henry M. Robert

WEEKLY ROUNDUP 

27 April, 1999 - 00:00

Locals Clean Rivers and Brooks,

While the Party Leads Them Somewhere
The people in Zakarpattia are seriously worried about landslides and about
their fellow countrymen Hungarians and Ruthenians in Yugoslavia's Vojvodina.
As a newly admitted NATO member, Hungary promised to make its air space
and airfields available. Jozeph Kaza, the Hungarian mayor of Subotica,
cautioned the Hungarian government against victimizing the Hungarian community
of Vojvodina in its allied zeal.

In the Slovak city of Presov, a number of Transcarpathian cultural figures
attended the Second Ruthenian Language Congress. According to Volodymyr
Fedynyshynets, a Transcarpathian writer, a letter from the Vojvodina Ruthenians
was read out, stating that their delegation would not be able to attend
due to certain circumstances, and that they were grateful to the Ukrainian
people for not supporting the NATO action in Yugoslavia.

The political vacuum in the region after the Soviet Communist Party's
disappearance is being quickly filled by the SDPU(u). By aptly using the
Social Democratic idea, which is close to the Transcarpathian populace,
during the last parliamentary elections, Mr. Medvedchuk, Transcarpathia's
majority People's Deputy, declared last week in Uzhhorod that his party
will support Leonid Kuchma in the presidential campaign. The party leader
apparently believes that clever occurring in Ukraine over the past five
years have been truly Social Democratic and Uniting...

Others think differently. Petro Skunts, poet, winner of the Taras Shevchenko
State Prize, is ironic: "Leonid Kuchma would have long surrendered Ukraine,
except that the smart Leonid Kravchuk had the time to assert Ukraine in
the world arena so much Mr. Kuchma had to recall his native Ukrainian language.
And he is having a hard time using it."

There is a month of sanitary cleanup in the region. A total of 215 populated
areas have been tidied up, along with 440 km. of river banks. The Oblast
Council allowed industrial development of mineral water bore holes at a
number of local resorts. The opposition paper RIO marked the first anniversary
of the Council and its Chairman Ivan Ivanch, writing April 17 that this
power structure "is just a 'legalizer' of the activities - mostly inactivity
- of the oblast state administration as a mouthpiece of the SDPU(u) organization
wielding real power in this region."

By Vasyl ZUBACH, The Day, Uzhhorod

 

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