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libel and All signed letters ot reasonable length which comply with Canadian this column- We stander laws will be printed unedited (save lor purposes of clarity} m contributors wish to will not print anonymous letters, but lor personal reasons however, withhold their names or use a pseudonym, this can be arranged. In all cases, The upcoming SUSK congress, being held in Gimli, Manitoba we require both a genuine signature and a return address. August 25 - 28. should be an interesting affair. SUSK has

experienced its most dormant period in the last year. Nothing was accomplished and no new programs were initiated. Communication between the various member clubs and the the 20th annual SUSK congress. (A executive was non-existent. Although communication is a two More on Moroz good article on this subject appears way street, and the member clubs could have leaned on the and "Ivan M." in STUDENT in the September - executive more, the national executive must bear the brunt of the

I read with interest last issue's October 1979 issue.) His views and blame since it should initiate the communication. The year was (May-June) letter to the editor, by ideas have very Utile place in North so abysmal, the question of the year was where is SUSK? Andrii Krawchuk, which commented American society, if not even in For this reason alone the SUSK congress shall be interesting. It on the article by an "Ivan M." that general society, and this fact is bom is the First and only sign of life which SUSK has shown all year. appeared in the March-April issue. 1 out by ihe arms length treatment he This congress will have to be used to reevaluate SUSK. For too felt that many of the issues brought is receiving from the established long SUSK has existed in the shadows of its past. No new ideas touched on Ukrainian nationalist groups. His were brought forward which outlined SUSK's direction and up in this letter were not "Ivan article. too felt that attitude, "if you are not with me (i.e. shape. in M.'"s I the article was "wallowing in my follower) then you are against the This new direction must be addressed and examined. In the last generalities" instead of focusing on Ukrainian nation state," has left most few years there have been many changes, both culturally and specifics. of his original supporters, including politically, in Canadian society, in the Ukrainian Canadian However there is one point which students, disillusioned. community and in Ukraine. To remain a dynamic organization,

I felt was not addressed in Andrii Another point that comes to mind SUSK must reflect these various changes. If SUSK will not Krawchuk's letter. The question is, is why did the UWO Ukrainian reflect the society it exists in then it is in danger of becoming an are Students' Club not invite other obsolete organization, like so many other Ukrainian why, in this day and age students still asking Valetyn Moroz to speak. dissidents to their millenium organizations, becoming irrelevant and eventually falling apart.

I had grown to believe that students activities? Terelya would have been At the upcoming SUSK congress this matter must and will be nowdays had escaped the Cold War be apropos, Shumuk would have debated at length- This is why it is important that as many mentality and have little official been invigorating, to name a few. representatives from the various member clubs be present at this contact with individuals or These two live in Southern Ontario, congress as possible. There should be as many people as organizations live in and and should have been invited. possible giving their input into this debate on SUSK. which perpetuate the Cold War myth. It Mikhaylo Samavem Everybody's opinion is important. From this wide ranging students Montreal debate a consensus should be reached and next years executive makes me sad to hear that these days are reverting to extremist can build a new era of SUSK from the various opinions raised at the congress. dogma, especially when there is openness Ukraine and lies Besides the general "SUSK building" discussion, this years greater in students congress should also touch on some specific subjects. At the lop can be established between Ukraine. of the list is to establish contacts with Student groups in here in Canada and those in Ukraine, especially the massive "Club Lev". Since Ukraine has An extremist, anli-Soviet attitude become slightly more open in the last few years, these kind of blocks off all chance of meaningful links can be established and maintained. These links will serve constructive dialogue.

to provide SUSK with a new vitality and purpose. All parties It is especially strange to hear of will gain by establishing contacts on both sides of the imaginary students inviting Moroz to speak

line. since he is on record for berating

will be a great deal of interesting debate at this congress, students, Ukrainian Canadian

to supplement the usual good lime. It is imperative that students, in a speech he delivered in everybody who has ideas about SUSK should show up. We Montreal on the 26th of August at cannot stress this enough. SUBSCRIBE! DON'T BE DISAPPOINTED!

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1988 PAGE 3; STUDENT, JULY-AUGUST, Stephan Darkomot Ukrainian Refugees Stranded in Alps donations received. CUIAS During 1987 over 146,000 when the first wave of Ukrainian from refugees was (CU1AS) immediately contacted the The amount of from Poland needed would also like to caution donors External Affairs immigrants, 22,000 government- immigrants originally 197. but new information Canadian there will be 40,000 help, SUSK was the first to take that, as in the past, with the request that sponsored refugees and received by the Canadian Ukrainian Department individuals who into action. In months, SUSK's several groups and that the illegal refugees were allowed Society has placed they advise the Austrians Immigrant Aid $60,000. will be collecting funds for the yet the present Conservative campaign had gathered over refugees would be sponsored in due Canada, this number at 250. refugees effort. In many instances the monies cannot see its way to With the number of course. External Affairs was very government are used to sponsor almost triple that of the 1982 wave, collected not and this allowing a mere 250 Ukrainian Presenntly, thousands of cooperative in this matter that SUSK can apply its refugees. refugees were refugees into the country. By way let's hope tourists are travelling in was done. The hundred Ukrainian meet this new critical Il has been nearly one contrast, in 1984 we had a similar experience to to remain in and of . 250 are running scared. allowed first Ukrainian 120 refugees situation. SUSK could launch a years since the have now been transferred to a hotel occurrence where While North American Ukrainian pioneers founded a Ukrainian the Immigration national fundraising campaign. outside Vienna. escaped. pilgrims sip their Camparis awaiting USC's could hold community that has flourished an Department, then under a Liberal Local Italian-soil Millenium Mr. Nowicky is arranging for the pubs/socials, or similar events, to throughout the decades. This new along with English administration, accepted the refugees 250 young Ukrainians, English tutor will celebrations, sponsor an individual refugee. Our group of young Ukrainians language tapes. CUIAS has already the very next day. travelling on their way to Rome from our continued growth and stands, the alumni's could donate directly to insure cover this cost. As the situation now busses in Vienna forwarded funds to Poland left their CUIAS. vibrancy. The second step taken was to CUIAS is faced with the prospect of and requested asylum. With the be forwarded to: this The Canadian Ukrainian Donations can Immigration Canada to financing the sponsorship of of Mr. Jaroslaw Nowicky approach assistance Society is a people brought latest group. An appeal is being Immigrant Aid they were directed to have these young of Vienna, formed with Ukrainian Immigrant Aid government-sponsored made to people of goodwill to charitable organization Traiskirchen refugee camp and with under the help specific purpose of sponsoring 120 Runnymede Road, quota. Despite all donate to this cause and CUIAS the were officially registered. East European his help Toronto, Ontario, get these young refugees to Canada refugees. It has been designated by As Austria has hardened its efforts to date, the official of Barbara Canadian Committee Canada M6S 2Y3 the Immigration as soon as possible. the Ukrainian position regarding refugees, there McDougall, the plea SUSK has a long tradition of to coordinate the sponsorship of was some danger that the 250 Minister, has rejected students that into Canada. The Society the quota of 3,400 for coming to the aid of refugees refugees would be returned to Poland advising that and and the group find themselves in less fortunate annually sponsors between 250 within four days. The Canadian 1988 has been filled, situations than our own. In 1982, 300, covering their settlement costs Ukrainian Immigrant Aid Society will just have to wail its turn.

OHYX AT HARVARD 22 1988

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IDEST UKRAINIAN (TORONTO) CREDIT UNION LIMITED Gifts Ukrainian Handicrafts anua Ceramics LOCATIONS: Art, Books, FOUR CONVENIENT Records, Typewriters 3635 Cawthra Rd Jewelry, Newspapers 225 The East Mall College St 2397 BloorSt. W. St. West 295 Mississauga 2282 Embroidery Supplies Etobicoke Toronto Toronto Toronto, Ont. Canada 272-0468 762-6961 233-1254 M6S 1N9 922-1402 Tel: (416)762-8751 JULY-AUGUST, 1988 PAGE 5; STUDENT, Federation The Ukrainian Studies programme at Harvard had its beginnings in 1957, when the of Ukrainian Student Organizations of America (SUSTA) proposed to endow a chair in Ukrainian studies at a leading American university, as a means of preserving and advancing Ukrainian scholarship. On January 22, 1968, a chair in Ukrainian history was established at Pritsak: His Memori< Chairs in Ukrainian literature and language were endowed in January Harvard University. belief that Harvard the MD: Is it an active policy of the The was MD: 1973, and the Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute (HURI) was established in June of that Institute to foster and promote best university on this year. Ukrainian Studies at other continent, was at least in the Seven years after the establishment of a chair in Ukrainian hisy at Harvard, the Board of consciousness of the Americans. Overseers confirmed the appointment of Professor Omeljan Pritsak as the first Mykhailo Universities and provide a Hrushevskyi Professor of Ukrainian History, effective July 1, 1975. One of the primary support system for other groups Therefore, we reasoned that, if objectives of the Ukrainian Research Institute at Harvard, is to publish scholarly works who would like to establish Harvard was seen to be doing international scholarly dealing with Ukrainian disciplines. Harvard Ukrainian Studies, an Research Centres? something, this would serve as a Library's Ukrainian collection is journal, began publication in 1977. The Harvard University stimulus, something to take the largest beyond Eastern Europe. The Ukrainian Summer Institute is an eight-week OP: This is a little more complicated. seriously. programme, organized by the Harvard Summer School and the Ukrainian Research Institute, We certainly could act as a sort It was the end of the sixties, of OP: and has been part of the Harvard Summer School curriculum since 1971. Special projects of of catalyst for creating course, and the vistas of the Institute include the Millenium Project, an ongoing examination of the Chris tianization programmes. For this, however, American academta were very of Kievan Rus', and the Famine Project, which supported the study and documentation of the more money, as open. Famine in Ukraine 1932-33. we would need you know. It would be necessary them working efforts differ from MD: In the publication, Chomu our programme. Many of to have a few people on MD: How do your in the possible. have, your academic counter- Kaledra Ukrai inoznav stva y_ had been employed this. This is We those of Harvardi?. the tasks of the automobile industry, which of of course, no limitations imposed parts in Ukraine? Committee on Ukrainian Studies course, started to have on us, as far as our activities are are were listed as: considerable problems. concerned. But, what we OP: We are concentrating on the 1. To develop the resources at Our current situation can be doing at this time, is acting problems of Ukraine. From that various Harvard libraries in described as follows: we were through osmosis. point of view, we are dangerous order to serve the needs of the able to purchase a Rolls Royce Everything started in 1957, to the Soviets, because we are growing Ukrainian discipline; for Ukrainian cause. For this, when the idea first came into doing what the Soviets had not 2. To prepare and introduce we recieved recognition from all existence to establish a centre begun to do until recently. We courses in Ukrainian into the quarters, but our problem now, for Ukrainian Studies in the are involved in restoring the University curriculum. is in getting sufficient gas and United Slates, mainly to enable Ukrainian memory. We are doing 3. To create a basis for scholarly parts to maintain it. We can Ukrainians to get information basic work. research in Ukrainian Studies. travel only very short distances about themselves. At that time, Take for instance, our Harvard Looking back over the first because there is not enough oil. however, Ukrainian matters were Library. It tries to do what Kiev twenty years, how would you The Ukrainian community has a non-existent in the cannot do: to create something evaluate success of the nominalistic vies of the world. consciousness of the Western that every cultured nation Committee and the Institute in Once the word is pronounced world. This, of course, had a should have. acheving these tasks? that the Institute exists, the terribly detrimental impact on Imagine, if you will, if there community believes that the Ukrainians in Ukraine.They were no collected works of

OP: There is no doubt that we can Institute will always be there, simply felt that nobody was Shakespeare. The goal of an regard the past twenty years as a why should anyone care about it. interested in what they were emigre English academic

great success. First of all, we The community fails to doing, and thus, felt that they institution abroad would be to put Ukrainian Studies on the understand that the Institute can had no future. first collect his works, and then map, which was not an easy task. properly develop only if there is The creation of our Centre was edit them, if academics in

Twenty years ago, it was possible enough, as I said, gas. meant to change the situation. England itself were not able to to initiate such a thing. I doubt do so. We have to the things for the that it would be possible now, in M D How is the Ukrainian Institute MD: How was the location that, under normal 1988. The situation has changed different from the Russian Centre decided upon? circumstances, the Ukrainian and the perception of the people Institute or other Institutes at state institutions should do. We discussion responsible for the University Harvard University, in terms of OP: In the beginning, in a are still in a situation in which at has changed. It is not that they receiving funding? over a suitable university we do not know what has been are anti-Ukrainian, but simply which to establish a Ukrainian created in the past, because that now many elements of the OP: I will tell you a simple story. We Chair, some were of the opinion nobody took care of the past. to a American curriculum are more live in America and Americans that we should turn No one seems to understand that ^rj> ; parochial, and administrators are very down to earth people. If provincial university ( for you cannot create a national idea of are not interested in expansion. they can make deal, if they can example, the University which does not have roots. On interested in Nowadays, it is much more trade with country X and make Minnesota was the other hand, this is exactly set difficult to include courses on money, they will most certainly Ukrainian studies) and up what we are trying to construct. Western European civilization in recognize the existence of that shop in a place where the For example, Ukrainian have the curriculum, let alone such country, and will support Ukrainian community would populists of the nineteenth my exotica as Ukrainian. research concerning that something to say. However, century identified things OP: country. Russia exists in the view prevailed, I am very happy Ukrainian only as those that had were too MD: Would you see this as part of a American perception, and one to say, namely, that we to do with the peasantry. enough conservative trend in should not forget that Imperial poor, that we did not have Today, the peasantry has almost resources waste money to Universities and society in Russia was one of the first to ceased to exist, and it is very establish in a place of general? countries to recognize the US as a centre difficult to try to find the traits had to be an independent nation. Today, no impact. So we of a peasant in a kolhosp worker. OP: Well, I think that this is a result the Soviet Union is perceived as realistic. Thus, there appears to be no of the unalphabetization of Russia, with whom they can trade basis for Ukraine. American society. 1973, the and make money. But there is no Nobody cared to Ukrainiantze year of the oil crisis, played an Ukraine which they can identify the city, and so urban extermely important role in our as a business partner. Ukrainians lack a Ukrainian efforts. By 1973, the first part Therefore nobody will do urban culture. of our plan was fulfilled, and something for Ukraine. Our past has been manipulated money was given to the throughout the ages for ad hoc University to endow three Chairs MD: The non-existence of a Ukrainian purposes by whoever was active political of Ukrainian Studies. The state has influenced on our territory; be it positive climate (as far as the government funding or private nationalist or communist or Ukrainian community was donors? whatever. They simply dredge concerned) at that time was such, up some cultural detail as a that one could expect that the OP: Yes, both government and private basis for their convictions, and second part of the plan would be funding. When the American believe that the rest should fulfilled within the next five government needs information, remain in oblivion.

years. This phase was the they turn to the Russian Therefore, it is necessary that endowment of the Institute and Research Centre, which supplies somewhere on this planet there the establishment of library them with data, be it in matters be an institution whose aim sources. This, unfortunately, of industry, or what have you. would be to restore everything has not been accomplished to There is no government agency which was created by Ukrainians date. interested in the data we are in the past, and then create a After the oil crisis, the greater supplying, because Ukraine, as basis for an evaluation of this part of our patrons were no an independent political factor, heritage. longer in the position to support does not exist. OP: I am not so sure that it is such MARTA DYCZOK an important issue. For most Ukrainian families, it is imperative to provide their ories and Directions Part 1 of 2 progeny with the so-called s the MD: There has always been a degree Institute by creating some Basically, the Ukrainian "better life." This better life of controversy over the tenured positions. This has emigration, as they were in the means Americanisation. The standardisations of Ukrainian proven to be impossible. We old country, are more interested children of Ukrainian leaders place names. Would it be have been granted only three in the practical. They would usually don't speak Ukrainian. possible to effect a change from tenured positions by the like their children to study There are two reasons: one is the Russian-based system, a administration, because of the medicine, law, and so on. And that their parents want them to change similar to that effected limited endowment accorded us so, it happens that only a few be rich and happy and so on, and

by China? by the community. intelligent young people decide the other is that their parents Gradually however, due to the to study the humanities. There are so busy with their Ukrainian This concern is typical for impact of our Institute, were some who did not get affairs that they don't pay Ukrainians, because they are Ukrainian studies became accepted into the professional enough attention to that aspect of nominalists. They believe that popular, particularly in Canada, faculties and decided subse- their children's education. They transcription, or a simple and many of our excellent quently to study the humanities. also consider them as not grown definition of the problem at scholars went there, to do, so to However, they were often not of up enough to involve them in hand, will solve everything. speak, missionary work. the caliber we were interested what they are doing. Ukrainians believe that if they in. This results in complete are able to write "Kyiv" instead alienation between generations. of "Kiev", or "Kieff" or whatever The Ukrainian emigration was spelling, the city and nation will MD: Why is there so little contact never prepared for this somehow be rendered with organised Ukrainian situation. They did not know independent. student bodies? In my days in how to keep their children in the

However, it is only once that SUSK , I had hardly heard of the community. Ukraine becomes an independent existence of the Harvard The Institute would be very state that anyone can seriously Institute. happy to help them, if we were consider the question of such given the possibility, that is, questions. People are practical. Well, Ukrainian Studies at funding for such efforts. On one hand, many nations have Harvard have two fathers. One as However, the Ukrainian know, was lack the accepted the use of anglicised you may SUSTA, the community seems to American student organisation. Jewish or forms of names of their cities. horizons of say the They first came up with the idea communities, and it On the other hand, you have Armenian of being able to study Ukrainian problems of newly independent states who does not realise the matters at an Assimilation is an have trade and political American assimilation. university. The other father was for which there should be relations with the rest of the illness myself, since I proposed the world, and thus they have the a cure. creation of a scholarly centre. have addressed Ukrainian authority to impose changes on I We were able to join forces and bishops countless times with those who have relations with achieve the goal. that they send an them. petitions intelligent Ukrainian priest to This of course leads us to MD: started off well chaplain for the students at another problem: that Well, you be a together, then what happened? Harvard, comparable to the Ukrainians have long disagreed counsellors the Jewish over the production of something OP: As you know, there was a community has provided their as essential as a basic struggle in the emigration I students. orthographic dictionary. They whatever was between rival political parties have decided that It is interesting that you should for domination of student bodies. MD: produced in the Soviet Union was take issue with members of the What resulted was a bad, but could not agree on an community, church leaders, and and then a very politicisation intelligent alternative. MD I'm sure that Canadians are so on, who view the Harvard decapitation of the leading grateful they've all been sent up Institute with uncertainty, and student groups. Recently, there there many such understand that next year you there. Are think that it is not something I been a revival, but choose from? has be stepping down as the scholars to that they can use, and yet the will apparently they have not been Who will carry your research of the Institute tends to Director. contact the Institute the number of able to vision into the future, and whatOP Unfortunately, be very specific and channelled. because they are involved with we had at our will you be doing when you are young people their own problems. and probably is not is part relieved of the Directorship? disposal was OP: The Institute, of course, a sufficient. For instance, it has of Harvard, and as such it deals turn to Canadian students. find a young MD Let's highest I will be alive for a been impossible to with matters on the : I hope that his or deal years. As long as I am person who would devote scholarly level. We do not few more My knowledge of Canadian time to such an important OP: political. are not I will help the new her with the We alive, very limited. I hope language. students is carry out his role. field as the Ukrainian agitators. Director they are better organised express an that the claim step of the activity of The ones who did There is some truth to The first and independent, and are not the preparation interest were not gifted enough that we deal more with the old the Institute was for some dying accident just an arena generation of scholars to survive. It is not an period than with the modern, but of a new political parties. million Ukrainians do Ukrainian simple reason that Ukrainian disciplines, who on that SO this is for the in These parties are unfortunately not want to speak Ukrainian. We there are better sources, and the one hand, would receive the development, Ukrainian not interested in preparation at just don't regard the also because many other best theoretical power. They would be language with necessary dignity. only in such as those in level of European and institutions, the quite happy to kill whatever on We would all apparently rather Soviet Ukraine, concentrate on American shcolarship; and long as this another language. movement existed as hand, would be given a switch to modern issues. the other furthered their domination of Every nation has a certain Studying the starting point of thorough knowledge of Ukrainian the scene. percentage of talented people, our culture is very important, matters. Lastly, I had hoped that seem not to be one generation of scholars and Ukrainians because without roots, this new students who have not interested in young MD Is it the cannot the new techniques sufficiently cannot build, and would apply effort to contact the willing to pursue made the to Ukrainian Ukrainians understand the entire structure. and methods Institute? Ukrainian Studies. This is quite Ukrainians lack the vision disciplines. We as Ukrainian young, energetic a pitiful situation. of a normal nation. A nation This demanded they should take an apparently give OP: Of course, orchestra. individuals. It parents will needs a symphony and courageous It is easier for disallow their interest. need to find such people. anything to Different instruments is not easy to students to find Harvard, than children from wasting their lives play together in harmony at all are few courageous people the students. There matters. for Harvard to find and particularly and studying Ukrainian times. There should be at least in the world, As for all of the organisations, They want an independent permanent scholars working Ukrainians. list of 20 among indenpendent we have not been given a what to Ukraine and on Ukrainian studies. Then came the problem: them. Ukrainian culture, but don't Otherwise, scholarship cannot with this ingenious new do most who went want to give Ukraine what it proceed at a high enough level. generation of people What is the role of assimilation? children. MD: for the process. needs: their own It is important to plan through the academic Has this affected the number of but a would have Ukraine is not just a map future and use human resources The ideal situation students in your programme? at the living organism. well. been to keep them . 1 ,(, ...) , - ,,? ,? , . , "All . talk, no:action." .., ,. ,. — . ,,,.— . .. . — . , . . ., ..— ,, . . "". , ,. . : "".,. , . . — , , , , . . '[: ] Jim McKay, , . - ( 1988.) , Pope highlights:,- . — pope pulls up in mercedes for moleben . , , — pope signs guest book — pope shakes hands with dignitaries and organizers , , — pope visit Slipyj's . body . , — pope leaves moleben in mercedes , — pope looks out his window during candlelight procession — . talks - pope , , some more . — pope does mass in St. Peter's "". , — pope speaks from his window after mass . . — pope attends concert . . pope kisses , — small children and shakes some hands — pope speaks at concert (in Italian) — . more of the same: my people, , suffering, etc. etc. , ,. . , — gets pope picture taken with choir . — pope waves bye bye ., - , , . .? . Jim McKay:, . — , , ,, — . .. . — . — , . — ' , — ;;; . — , — — , — — — : .. — , —

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20,000 Demonstrate CULTURAL ANDREI SAKHAROV

(UPA-) - On July 7, the fourth tried to drown them out with DEMANDS demonstration in less than one megaphones. However, the crowd FIGURES month took place in Lvjv and was agreed to organise a "Democratic LEGALISATION OF attended by 20,000 people. It was Front" whose core will be comprised CRITICISE next to a monument, dedicated held of all the unofficial groups in Lviv. UKRAINIAN to the nineteenth century Ukrainian These in turn, formed an "Organising poet, Ivan Franko. Prior to the Committee for the Democratic NEGLECT OF demonstration, the local Communist Front". At the next meeting, to be CATHOLIC Party organized numerous meetings held on the first Thursday of to prevent unofficial groups and August, CULTURE the Committee will read out dissidents from gaining control of, new programmic documents before CHURCH an official gathering. those who attend. LANGUAGE (UPA) The growing chorus of Although the demonstration was Members of the "Democratic Front" (UPA) The newspaper of the those demanding the legalisation scheduled to begin at 7pm, party are the local Political Discussion Ukrainian Writers' Union, of the Ukrainian Catholic Church activists took their positions next to Club, the Trust Group {an unofficial Literaturna Ukraiina . has now includes the noted Russian the monument an hour earlier. The group), the peace Committee in published an open letter signed physicist and dissident, Andrei meeting began at 6:30pm, and the Defence of the Ukrainian Catholic by 16 Ukrainian cultural and Sakharov. During a remarkable first to speak was a journalist from Church, the Ukrainian Helsinki literary figures, addressed to the press conference, held on June 3, the local newspaper Leninska Molod Group, the Society Lev (a semi- Ukrainian Supreme Soviet, Sakharov condemned the , author of an earlier article which official ecology and cultural group), Ministry of Education, and the "archaic" ban on the Church, and critisized a June 16 demonstration. the Society "Ridna Mova" (Native people of the Ukrainian republic. stated that it violated the rights When Ivan Makar arrived at 7pm he Language), the Society for Jewish The authors claim they took of Ukrainian believers. declared that what had been said Culture and Literature among others. such a step because of the abuse Sakharov declared that it was until then was null and void, as the The "Democratic Front in Support of of the environment, and a decline time for the Russian Orthodox meeting did not officially begin Perestroika" outlined its main aims in respect for Ukrainian cultural Church to show initiative in until 7pm. The authorities as follows: heritage, history, literature, the securing the legalisation of this demanded that the sole purpose of 1) To support perestroika, citizens arts, music and language. They Church that "would correspond to the demonstration should be to control of the democratisation put forward a proposal to the statements on the equality of decide the location in Lviv of a new process taking place in Soviet organise a "social campaign for all religions which [the Moscow monument of Taras Shevchenko. society and the Communist Party spiritual renewal." Patriarchate] has made." After half an hour, the crowd realised and education of citizens in the They also called for the Such a legalisation, however, that within the audience there were democratic spirit. restoration of the Mykhailivskyi would entail a significant loss of individuals whose sole purpose was 2) The "Democratic Front" should Sobor, the Uspenskyi Sobor and influence for the ROC. On May 3, to disrupt the meeting and they strive to take part in elections and other architectural masterpieces TASS stated that there are 4,000 ostracised them. When a local ensure that they are held which have been damaged or ROC churches open in Ukraine, University professor came to the democratically. allowed to deteriorate over the compared to the total of 6,800 for microphone, Ivan Makar introduced 3) Membership is open to all those years. According to the letter, it the entire USSR. In addition, him as one of those who during the who agree with the principles of the is "necessary to set up a 1,006 of the 4,000 are in the 1970's attended trials of dissidents "Democratic Front". Collectively republican museum of lost largest Russian Orthodox eparchy as an expert. The entire crowd members of the "Democratic Front" Ukrainian art treasures," which — Lviv and Ternopil. Thus, a full refused to allow him to speak an can organise their own programmes would contain copies and quarter of the total number of shouted, "Shame! Shame!" at him. on political, social and national photographs of national treasures ROC churches are located in the The demonstration had turned into a problems. either destroyed, damaged, or heartland of Ukrainian spontaneous gathering against the 4) Members of official exported from Ukraine. Catholicism. local Communist Party and organisations cannot join the bureaucratic "mafia". Ivan Makar "Democratic Front" because they then introduced the local Konsomol should be already involved in Secretary by stating that he was the supporting perestroika anyway. FOR COURTEOUS FRIENDLY SERVICE one who, at an earlier meeting of the 5) The "Democratic Front" is Political Discussion Club, had stolen organised as a collective of various the list of signatures to an appeal by groups and individuals. the "Ukrainian Committee in 6) The "Democratic Front" should Defence of Political Prisoners" have influence upon the process of addressed to the Supreme Soviet of perestroika with the help of citizens the USSR, demanding the Telcase of commissions, the press and other

prisoners still in the Gulag. He was democratic process. also greeted with shouts of "Shame!

Shame!" by the crowd. At this point the authorities and local Communist Party were completely compromised, losing any measure of authority among the populace that they may have possessed.

When the two editors of the samizdal journal, Ukrainian Herald, organ of the re-launched Ukrainian Helsinki COMMUNITY TRUST Group, Bohdan Horyn and Vyacheslav Chornovil, and

Mykhailo Horyn began to tell the

crowd that there was a need for a

"Democratic Front", since in Lviv 2271 BLOOR STREET WEST, TORONTO, ONTARIO, M6S 1P1 and Western Ukraine perestroika had made little headway, Party activists

STUDENT, JULY-AUGUST, 1988, PAGE 10 It seems lhat competition for documentation on the Famine heating up to a fever pilch. When a member of the Vladimir Institute's research team was casually walking around in Toronto's Robart's Library with a bibliography in his hand recently, he was , accosted by a bearded man he mistook for an ally in the cause. The , , ' friend grabbed the paper grail and made '. off - with it at a high rate , of speed. Subsequently, new rules of ., . ' " 1977- , engagement were issued for all Famine researchers. Everyone expects . , . ', there might be casualties, and definitely, more lawsuits. 3-, 4- 5- -, 1988- : Armenian poet, Ravir sez: "You cannot break a wall with your . , . - , head." , , Gimli, Manitoba, the site of this years SUSK congress was . , visited by unexpected phenomenon somewhere in early June. , 3- Checking out the actual site for SUSK's congress, the tornado 350 - , destroyed the building which " . , was to house the plenary sessions. This was believed to be some sort of omen. However don't you . fret. The latest word is , , , that the congress site shall be restored to , . its full glory before congress starts. . - , ,, ', , , , CIMLIFACT: , . - Gimli, Manitoba, is the largest settlement of Icelanders outside . , . of their native country. How do we know this? Why, because Canada and Iceland . . recently signed a pension pact there. If you it's strange that Icelanders, who should be driven by nostalgia for '- , volcanoes, sweaters and fishing boats, would want to live in the , prairies, ask yourself why Ukrainians like to - go to Florida. To . complete this glorious passage of non-sequiturs, we would like - , , to inform you lhat Canada has similar pension agreements wilh . . Austria, Barbados, . , Dominica, Finland, " , France, West , Greece, , Jamaica, Luxembourg, .' , : , , Holland Norway, Portugal, Saint Lucia, Spain, , and the USA. In all of these, their pension is our pension and vice versa. . . . . A doctor's note on Nestor's Progress: "Intellectually , ' has made a ' recovery, " . , good but has residual deficits." . , , A feature length movie, based on Globe & Mail ace journalist ," , , Victor Malarck's book Hey Malarek.' is currenUy being filmed in Montreal. The movie shows Victor Malarek in a tavern, , - , discussing a story he completed for the Montreal Star about three . , suicides in a Montreal detention center for boys. Throughout the . ,. , discussion there are numerous flashbacks to Victor Malarek's childhood, which was spent in similar boys homes and detention ,— , centers. Victor Malarek has a small role in the movie. He .. ." , appears as one of the Patrons of the tavern. — "", " , STUDENT has recently acquired an important piece of 9 , ' information from Indoor Pollution News, an important American ,, - ,. ' bulletin concerning "the environmental worry of the future". A - . , Colorado researcher theorizes that the environmental concern of , the future would be ozone-layer destroying methane gas - . . generated by termite flatulence and cow burps. It's a dangerous . . , ,. world we live in. , . . , . - , 6vb f = - - ~ ... , . . Grande Prairie, 56 . ' . , . . 6,232 .-., "", , . ,

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