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ООТІ О z n О Я я - М "О о wo Ukrainian Weekl у іл W — г-х vol. LI No. 27 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY JULY З, 1983 25owits Congressional resolution on famineSoviet s release vashchenkos; needs additional co-sponsors Pentecostals arrive in lsrael WASHINGTON - A congressional Fish request letters to their colleagues viENNA, Austria - Fifteen mem– chenkos, Lidia and sisters Luba and resolution to commemorate the 50th encouraging co-sponsorship of this bers of the vashchenko family arrived Lilia, along with Maria Chmykhalov anniversary of the Ukrainian famine strong statement on the Soviet threat to here from the Soviet Union on June 27, and her son Timothy dashed past Soviet that killed at least 7 million is in need of human rights and world peace, accord– exactly five years after five of its guards at the embassy and asked for additional sponsors, reported the U– ing to the UN1S. members burst into the U.S. Embassy in political asylum. They told U.S. offi– krainian National information Service Moscow in a desperate bid to gain cials that, as Penetecostals, they were here. The resolution describes the plight of emigration rights from the USSR, persecuted for their religious beliefs and House Concurrent Resolution 111 Ukrainian peasants, the intelligentsia reported the Association Press. had been trying to gain permission to was introduced on April 14 by Rep. and the Orthodox Church during this The family, accompanied by their leave the Soviet Union since i960. Gerald Solomon of New York; its co- period of genocide. The act goes on to German shepherd, vulcan, then flew on When Soviet officials refused to sponsor is Rep. Hamilton Fish Jr., also convict the Soviet government of ignor– to lsrael, arriving on June 28. They were allow the seven to emigrate, they took of New Tork. ing pleas from charitable organizations warmly welcomed at Ben-Gurion lnter– up residence in two cramped rooms in it was Rep. Fish's father who in 1934 and free countries to help the starving national Airport. the embassy basement. Late in 1981, introduced a resolution in the U.S. millions, it also points out the ironic Petro vashchenko, 55, his wife Lidia and her mother went on a hunger House of Representatives calling on the fact that while Ukrainians were being Augustina, 54, their 12 children and a strike to draw attention to the families' USSR government to "alter its policy in murdered by the Soviets the United daughter-in-law, Ludmila, reached plight, in January 1982 Lidia was respect to the famine in Ukraine, take States chose to formally recognize the vienna after a flight from Moscow. transferred to a Moscow hospital after active steps to alleviate the terrible USSR government. Waiting for them was the couple's her condition had deteriorated, and consequences arising from this famine, oldest daughter, Lidia, 32, who traveled from there she returned to her family's and undo so far as may be possible the The resolution closes by calling on from lsrael, where she settled in April hometown of Chernogorsk in Siberia to injustices to the Ukrainian people." President Ronald Reagan to "issue a after being allowed to emigrate from the join other members of her large family. warning" that atrocities in and enslave– Soviet Union. Last March, Lidia was suddenly Constituents are urged to write their ment of nations like Ukraine "consti– The tearful reunion marked the end summoned to the visa office in Cher– congressmen to ask their support for H. tutes a threat to world peace and normal of a diplomatic drama which began on nogorsk and told to fill out an applica– Con. Res. ill, and Reps. Solomon and relationships." June 27, 1978, when the elder Yash– (Continued on page 2) Congressmen, senator question 0S1 about its use of Soviet-suppliedevidence

JERSEY C1TY, N.J. - Several congressmen The AHRU initiative is just part of a growing suspected collaborators which appeared in non- - and at least one senator - have recently opposition to OS1 methods among East European Soviet sources, such as Nazi-hunter Simon Wiesen– asked the Justice Department's Office of Special emigre communities that feel their members are thal's documentation center in vienna, were in fact investigations to comment on charges that it is being singled out by the Soviets for their anti- garnered from various Soviet newspapers and using KGB-supplied evidence in its denaturaliza– Communist activities. A similar letter urging an propaganda publications, which frequently vilify tion proceedings against American citizens suspect– investigation of the OS1 was recently sent to emigre groups and community leaders. ed of collaborating with the Germans during World Congress by Americans Against Defamation of But the real basis for concern among emigre War 11. Ukrainians inc. (AADU), based in Jenkintown, Pa. groups is the contention, supported by former The requests, by Reps. Bernard Dwyer (D-N.J.), The issue has been simmering since the fall of Soviet dissidents now in the West, that the Soviet Joseph Addabbo (D-N.Y.) and Sen. Ernest Holl– 1979, when then-Attorney General Benjamin procuracy is inextricably linked with the KGB ings (D-S.C), were in response to a June 3 letter Civiletti returned from the Soviet Union and (secret police), and that by cooperating with the from Americans for Human Rights in Ukraine that announced that Soviet officials had "made a firm Soviets, the United States is inadvertantly using the called for a congressional investigation of OS1 and explicit commitment" to assist the United American legal system to discredit and intimidate procedures. The AHRU, as well as other emigre States to "locate, investigate and deport proven the emigre communities in this country. This last groups, have maintained that testimony and participants in the Nazi atrocities." Almost point was recently made by journalist William evidence proffered by the Soviet Union is unreliable, immediately Ukrainian activists in the West Rogers in an article published in the Philadelphia is not being subjected to the safeguards of the realized the implication of having the Soviets inquirer, in which he asserted that Soviet witnesses American judicial system, and should be inad– involved with investigating East European emigres, are often subpoenaed by the KGB, a fact ofien missible. and a delegation of Ukrainian American lawyers, deleted in testimony transcripts. in a June 16 letter to Allan Ryan, head of the among them UNA Supreme President John Flis, Mr. Rogers also noted that several judges OS1, Sen. Hoilings referred to the AHRU letter and met with Justice Department officials on December involved with the denaturalization cases have asked Mr. Ryan for his assessment. 7, 1979, to discuss the implementation of the so- found fault with the process, citing prejudicial "Most particularly, 1 would like to hear your called Civiletti-Rudenko agreement. language by Soviet officials, the restricted right of views as to the reliability of evidence supplied to us But when the OS1 was formed in 1980 and cross-examination and the intimidatingatmosphere by the Soviet Union, and the basis of our confi– charged with finding and bringing to trial suspected during the proceedings, factors they say impede the dence in the veracity of the information supplied," war criminals and collaborators, it sOon became court's ability to obtain relevant information. wrote Sen. Hoilings. clear that the reservations voiced by emigre groups Another aspect emigre groups find disturbing is Rep. Dwyer, who had previously contacted the were virtually ignored. Under the terms of the the suspicion that U.S. officials may be relying on Justice Department after complaints from consti– Civiletti agreement, taped depositions were taken Soviet propaganda organs for information about tuents about OS1 tactics, told the AHRU in a letter in the Soviet Union, which also supplied what it defendants or suspects. When asked at last year's that he had written a letter to Robert McConnell, said were pertinent documents and other physical meeting of the Ukrainian American Bar Associa– assistant attorney general, asking "for a further evidence. tion whether the government considers Soviet press accounting of the activities of the Office of Special Although OS1 officials continued to assert that accounts in its investigations, OS1 Director Ryan investigations." American legal safeguards were being maintained said that the OS1 does not use Soviet newspaper The AHRU also received a reply from Rep. in the procedures and that the Soviet government articles as a basis to go to court, but added that "if Addabbo, who enclosed a copy of an interim report did not explicitly tell them whom to prosecute, we determine that the person who is named is alive he had requested from the Justice Department after emigre groups insisted that the closed nature of the and living in the United States, we might say. look, being contacted by the AHRU. He said that the Soviet legal system precluded a determination as to is there anything specific about this." AHRU could be assured of his "continued interest the veracity of Soviet-supplied testimony, in Emigre leaders have expressed concern that Mr. in this matter." addition, they argued that many of the names of (Continued on page 7) 2 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY JULY З, 1983 No. 27

Dissident profile Estonian Communists protest intrusion of Solidarity's "ideological subversion"

Dmytro Kvetsko: TALL1NN, Estonia - High level republic has decreased from 74 percent Estonian Communist officials have to 64 percent out of a total population National Front organizer recently expressed concern about the of some 1.5 million, in the same period, intrusion of what they consider "new the Slavic population, mainly Russian, types of ideological subversion" from has jumped to 32 percent. JERSEY C1TY, N.J. r– in late abroad, according to the Estonian in the Kommunist article, Mr. vaino 1964, Dmytro Kvetsko, then a 29- American National Council in New also accused Estonian youth of "politi– year-old history teacher, organized York. cal naivete and immaturity" for what he the Ukrainian National Front in in an unusually frank article in a said was an uncritical attitude concern– lvano-Frankivske. He envisioned the ing Western influences. He proposed organization as an extension of the recent issue of Kommunist, the Mos– cow-based theoretical voice of the that the government make an effort to Organization of Ukrainian Nationa– produce more ideologically oriented lists (OUN) whose main objective Soviet Central Committee, First Secre– tary of the Estonian Communist Party products for young people, such as T– would be a free Ukraine. Today, Mr. shirts with political slogans, and or– Kvetsko is in exile, having completed Karl Yaino acknowledged that the government has found it difficult to ganize competitions or festivals with an incredible 15-year prison and political themes. labor-camp term. Now 48, he is due stem the impact of Poland's Solidarity to be released in 1987. movement, particularly among the republic's young people. Dmytro Mykolayevych Kvetsko was born in lvano-Frankivske in He faulted weak links in official 1935. Although details of his early attempts at ideological "education" for Charter 77 members life are sketchy, it is known that as a the persistence of anti-Soviet attitudes, university student he became inten– which he said are prevalent in the small meet Westerners sely interested in the concept of an labor collectives which account for 42 independent Ukraine. His views were percent of all collectives in the republic. PRAGUE, Czechoslovakia - shared by a number of like-minded He went on to say that it is in the small Western European activists young activists, among them Zinoviy labor collectives where "most frequent– held a public meeting with Krasivsky and Yaroslav Lesiv, both ly various rumors and misinterpreta– members of Czechoslovakia's Charter currently imprisoned for their mem– Dmytro Kvetsko tions spread and doubtful judgements 77 human-rights movement on June 23 prevail." and signed a manifesto proclaiming that bership in the Ukrainian Helsinki and propaganda," Articles 62 and 56, Group. Turning to the issue of Estonian "peace and human rights belong to– respectively, of the Ukrainian Crimi– gether," reported the Associated Press. nal code. nationalism, Mr. vaino wrote that the in late 1964, Messrs. Kvetsko. About 20 people signed the statement Krasivsky and Lesiv, along with six Mr. Kvetsko was accused of being "objective process of shaping the multi- the organizer of the national front. national structure of the Estonian SSR" in a park on the outskirts of Prague. others, formed the Ukrainian Na– About 50 policemen photographed the tional Front. The group openly After a brief trial, he was sentenced has been misconstrued in the West as to a total of 20 years' imprisonment cultural assimilation. meeting and seized film of it from advocated Ukrainian independence Western reporters. through non-violent, constitutional - 10 years in a labor camp, five in "The natural process of legitimate and legal means. prison and five in internal exile. He internationalization of economic, social, Czechoslovaks said it was the first spent his prison term in the notorious cultural aod other areas in our society is time so many Charter 77 signers had The activities of the group were met openly with so many Westerners. limited to a memorandum sent to the viadimir Prison. presented as an alleged loss of'national originality' and a consequence of the The group was formed to monitor the first secretary of the Communist Mr. Krasivsky, who was also Prague government's compliance with Party of the Ukrainian SSR and the charged under both articles, was 'course of coercive merger of nations' and their Russification," wrote Mr. the 1975 Helsinki Accords on security publication of a journal. Freedom sentenced to five years in prison, and human rights in Europe, and many and the Fatherland. seven in a labor camp and five in vaino. Yet, a newspaper in Helsinki, llta of its 1,100 members have been jailed or Between 1964 and 1966, 15 issues internal exile. Mr. Lesiv received a forced into exile. of the journal camp out, which six-year labor-camp term and five Sanomet, recently published photo- included articles, c. iques and years' internal exile. copies of secret directives signed by Mr. The Westerners are among 2,000 poetry, issue 14, which reached the Another member of the group, the vaino which called for the Russian delegates from 140 countries attending West in 1982, contained such articles late vasyl Diak, received a 12-year language to be promoted over Estonian an "international peace congress" spon– as "Ukraine under the Heel of its term. The others, lvan Hubka, an in all sectors of life in Estonia. sored by the government. The meeting Occupier" and "Enough Suffering," economics graduate who had pre– Moreover, the National Council has in the park was arranged after govern– as well as Ukrainian news. The tone viously served a sentence in the 1940s revealed that.between 1959 and 1979, ment authorities barred Charter 77 of the articles was highly nationalis– and 50s; vasyl Kulynyn, a laborer; the proportion of Estonians in the from the congress. tic, calling on Ukrainians to work for Myron Melen, a folk choir con– a peaceful secession of Ukraine from ductor; Hryhoriy Prokopovych, who the USSR. served a previous eight-year term; tiated with the Soviets in order to enable and Mykola Kuchar, each got 11- Soviets release... the family to leave, many feel that The group also published a literary Moscow's decision was an attempt to anthology titled Mesnyk. year labor-camp and exile sentences. (Continued from page 1) tion to leave. Two weeks later, she was show a humane side of the Soviet The Soviet authorities cracked Mr. Kvetsko was scheduled to system. down on the organization in 1967. being his exile term either last year or on a flight to vienna and israel. On March 27 the organization was early this year, but his exact where– On April 12, the vashchenkos and in announcing the decision on June disbanded by the KGB. and its abouts are unknown. His sister Chmykhalovs unexpectedly left the 26, the Soviet news agency TASS made members were arrested on charges of Maria and a cousin live in lvano- U.S. Embassy and returned to Siberia, no mention of the Chmykhalovs - "treason" and "anti-Soviet agitation Frankivske. fueling speculation that they would be Maria, 60, and Timonthy, 21, - but a permitted to emigrate. Although Ame– U.S. embassy spokesman said the rican diplomats have refused to com– embassy diplomats were hopeful that Jewish activist's daughter seeks his release ment on reports that a deal was nego– they would be allowed to emigrate soon. LOS ANGELES - The 12-year-old in a letter, and you answered her. So lj daughter of jailed Jewish activist Yuri decided to write you a letter, too. Tarnopolsky has written a letter to "My father, Yuri Tarnopolsky, is in– Soviet leader Yuri Andropov asking prison now. He is accused of slandering: him to release her father and the Soviet system and soon he will be allow the family to emigrate to !srael, tried. But my papa is an honest man. He j Ukrainian Weelcl Y reported the Los Angeles Times. has never lied. He is under arrest only lrina Tarnopolsky, a fifth-grader because we are Jewish and want to leave ' FOUNDED 1933 who lives in the Ukrainian city of for israel. Ukrainian weekly newspaper published by the Ukrainian National Association inc., a fraternal Kharkiv, got the idea for the letter after "Already four years we have waited non-profit association, at 30 Montgomery St, Jersey City, NJ. 07302. watching a Soviet Tv: reporter in the for permission to leave. Now. papa is (The Ukrainian Weekly - USPS 570-870) United States interview Samantha arrested and we don't know what will Also published by the UNA: Svoboda, a Ukrainian-language daily newspaper. Smith, a fifth-graderfro m Maine who happen with us. І beg you to release my corresponded with Mr. Andropov papa and let us leave for israel." The Weekly and Svoboda: UNA: asking him to work for peace. Unlike the letter from Samantha. (201) 434-0237, 434-0807, 434-3036 (201)451-2200 lrina's father, a 46-year-old scientist, which had obvious propaganda value, was arrested in March on a charge of lrina's has not been published in the Yearly subscription rate: S8, UNA members - S5. slandering1 the Soviet state. He is Soviet press and is not likely to be. The currently awaiting trial. Times said that the family has received Postmaster, send address changes to: "Respected Yuri viadimirovich," no reply. THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY EdltoK Roma Hadnwycz lrina's letter began. "Not long ago, І P.O. Box 346 Associate editor: George Bohdan Zcrycky Mr. Tarnopolsky was one of a small Jersey City, NJ. 07303 Assistant edKon Marts Kolomayets came to know that an American school–' number of Jewish academics in Kharkiv girl, Samantha Smith, appealed to you (Continued on page 15) No 27^^^^^„^^^^^^^THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY JULY З, 1983 ^„„.„„„„.^1 Bishop distributes Ukrainian groups testify at NYC tax hearing NEW YORK - Representatives o! testifying on the first day of the hear– ranging from large museums to small the Ukrainian institute of America, the ings, Thursday, June 16. ethnic centers, was detrimental to the tamine materials Ukrainian Academy of Arts and He was quoted in The New York city. STAMFORD. Conn. . Bishop Basil Sciences and the Shevchenko Scientific Times as saying: "These organizations The report .said that the mayor was Losten of Stamford has mailed infor– Society were among the 51 speakers would have to curtail their activities wrong to tax cultural, educational and mation packets on the Great Ukrainian testifying at a special two-day hearing substantially" and "whatever forms art institutions because the sum that Famine of 1932-33 to 386 U.S. Catholic on New York City's plan to levy pro– they take, these cutbacks will be at the would be collected by taxing them bishops, according to the diocesan perty taxes on traditionally exempt expense of individuals and ultimately at would be S15 million per year, an chancery. institutions. the expense of the city," he said. insubstantial amount when one corn- The envelopes were stuffed with a The overwhelming majority of the Matin E. Segal, chairman of the pares it to the contributions the organi– letter from the bishop dated June 1, the witnesses at the June 16-17 hearing in board of Lincoln Center, testified that: zations make to the city. special issue on the Great Famine City Hall urged that art, cultural and "visitors dbn4 come to New York City Some of the organizations now being published by The Ukrainian Weekly on educational institutions be exempt from to look at our scenery. They come taxed are contesting the city's actions. March 20, a booklet authored by Dr. real-estate taxes because imposing such because of the amenities of this city - City Council President Carol Bellamy Walter Dushnyck and published by the taxes would probably drive these insti– and highest on the list of those are our is among the opponents of the mayor's World Congress of Free Ukrainians, tutions out of the city, or cause their cultural res6urces." tax plan, in her testimony on June 16 and a copy of the May 23 Time maga– downfall. Former U.S. Secretary of State Cyrus she strongly scored the mayor's tax zine essay. "The Morals of Remember– Mayor Edward Koch's decision on vance noted that these institutions policies and thrice mentioned the Ukrai– ing" by Lance Morrow, who mentions the property-tax exemptions is expect– provide jobs and attract people to the nian institute of American, which, she the famine as an example of a forgotten ed shortly, since the mayor had pro– city. "These institutions are priceless said, would be gravely hurt by the city's holocaust of the 20th century. mised to deliver a judgement within 10 assets, and we must treasure them," he insistence on collecting taxes on its Bishop Losten has asked the Ameri– days after the hearing. was quoted in the Times as telling the Fifth Avenue property. cans for Human Rights in Ukraine to Walter Nazarewicz, vice president of hearing. Among the persons testifying on the follow up on the mailing by informing the Ukrainian institute of America and The hearing had been called by second day of the hearing, Friday, June the bishops about the current state of chairman of the recently established Mayor Koch after the release of a 17, were Walter Baranetsky, U1A exe– affairs in the Soviet Union, especially Non-Profit Coordinating Committee, a previously squelched report which had cutive board member and financial the persecution of the Churches and the group organized to oppose Mayor concluded that the mayor's plan to tax advisor; Stephen Jarema, attorney for mistreatment of dissidents. Koch's tax plan, was among those many previously exempt institutions. (Continued on page 15) Plast members (comes prefect for Eastern Congregation thank Time St. Mary's parish welcomes prefect for Eastern Congregation M1SS1SSAUGA, Qnt. - The clergy recent decades; the prevention of forced ing the labors of the pioneers and the NEWARK, N.J. - Over 100 mem– and lay delegates of eparchal and repatriation of Ukrainian displaced present cadre of priests under Bishop bers of the Plast Ukrainian Youth parochial organizations officially wel– persons following World War 11, the Borecky. Organization signed a letter thanking comed Cardinal Wladyslaw Rubin, publication of traditionally authentic Bishop Borecky concluded by refer– Time Magazine for a May 23 essay on prefect of the Sacred Congregation for liturgical texts, the founding of two ring to the beginnings of the Ukrainian genocide by Lance Morrow which made the Eastern Churches, at St. Mary's seminaries in Rome for Ukrainian Catholic Church in Canada. He spoke reference to the Great Famine in Ukraine Ukrainian Catholic Church here on priests, the confirmation of a synodal of the Rev. lvan voliansky, who or– (1932-33). Thursday, June 9. form of government for the Ukrainian ganized a total of 67 parishes in North The letter, which was initiated by Church, and many other projects. and South America. The Rev. volian– Newark Branch 17 of the national Accompanied by his secretary, Msgr. sky had baptized Bishop isidore as an organization, thanked the magazine R. Bruni, the cardinal was greeted at in conclusion, the Rev. Berko renewed ^ infant, and was responsible for sending editors "for bringing to the attention of the church doors by the Rev. Canon the clergy's pledge of loyalty and respect Patriarch Josyf to the seminary in Lviv. Matthew Berko, pastor of the church, toward the holy see, then added: "Your . your reading public the 50th anniver– Following the moleben, the clergy and Tamara Zazula, president of the eminence, please do not construe our sary ofvthe genocide of some 8 to 10 and guests proceeded to the parish hall Parish Council. An honor guard was repeated efforts to obtain official million Ukrainians and Cossacks by the for the banquet. Dr. Peter Hlibowych provided by the Sheptytsky Council of recognition of Patriarch Josyf as an act Soviet reigime through an enforced was the master of cermonies for the the Knights of Columbus. of disloyalty. His beatitude has merely famine." 1 event, which was conducted entirely in renewed the work of his illustrious Although most of the signatories Ukrainian. The paschal moleben was sung by the predecessor, the Servant of God Andrey were fromj the New York-New Jersey parish Liturgical Choir (krylos) and 10 Sheptytsky, who attempted to create a During the banquet, entertainment area, there were signatures which bore priests of the eparchy headed by Bishop patriarchate for all Ukraine in 1919, a was provided by the Yasmyn Women's add resses7 from Philadelphia, Boston, isidore Borecky. project begun long before and dating to Choir, Barvinok Dance Ensemble, St. Washington and several cities in Following the reading of the holy the days of St. Josaphat. For, in our Sofia School Quintet, and a recital by Connecticut. The signatures were collect– gospel, the Rev. Berko greeted Cardinal hearts, your eminence, his beatitude is nine children from St. Sofia School. ed at the annual "Sviato Yuriya" (St. Rubin on behalf of the eparchy's clergy. our patriarch!" ,A concluding greeting was given by George Feast) held in East Chatham. He acknowledged the appreciation of Dr. Julian Pelech, president of the N.Y., during the Memorial Day week- the clergy and people toward"the holy Following the moleben, the cardinal Ukrainian Catholic Council, on behalf end. see for its many benevolent acts in spoke in fluent Ukrainian, acknowledg– of the laity. Enclosed with the Plast letter was a copy of The Ukrainian Weekly's special issue on the Great Famine.

Famine remembered at "Sviato Yuriya" EAST CHAT nAM. N.Y. - Mem– bers of Plast Ukrainian Youth Organiza– tion gathered here at the "vovcha Tropa" campgrounds to celebrate their annuaJ "Sviato Yuriya" (St. George's Feast Day). j This year's Memorial Day Weekend celebration was dedicated to the me– mory of the 7 million victims of the Great Famine in Ukraine. The three- day program, organized by the "Chor– topolokhy" and "Khmelnychenky" Plast units, concentrated on the 50th anniver– sary of the famine and the need to "let us remember and make others aware" of this crime against humanity. A special magazine, edited by Cathe– rine Panchenko. included both Ukrai– nian– and English-language material on the famine, including photo reproduc– tions and articles published in the 1930s. The magazine also included articles and poems by Plast members and an outline of the three-day pro- rom right) is escorted into the church by (from left) the Rev. E. Halitski, the Rev. gram. . . ,v.'.'.-.v. -'. thew Berko. Bishop isidore Borecky and Msgr. R. Bruni. THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY JULY З. 1983 No 27

Aid campaign continues fo Obituaries needy Ukrainians in Polan lsydore H!ynka, Shevchenko Foundation head WINNIPEG Dr. isydore ніупка. presidium of the Ukrainian Canadian PHILADELPHIA The aid international Catholic aid group. an executive member of the Ukrainian Committee and the board of directors program lor needy Uktainians in Caritas. Canadian Committee and president of of St. Andrew's College. His most Poland, established by the Ukrainian As reported earlier, the goods aid the Taras Shevchenko Foundation, notable community contribution was as Catholic hierarchy in the United Ukrainians in lour communities in died here on May 18. He .was 74. president ol the Taras Shevchenko States in January 1982. continues to Poland Wroclaw. Koszalin. Olsz– Dr. Hlynka was born in Ukraine in Foundation, a body of the Ukrainian function, the metropolitan's tyn and Peremyshl. For every ship– 1909. He came to Canada at the age of І Canadian Committee which makes chancery reported recently. ^ ment received, letters of thanks have and received most of his education in grants available to Ukrainian organiza– For over a year and a half, gener– arrived from parish priests and Edmonton, in 1939 he obtained a Ph.D. tions and individuals. He was also a ous Ukrainians have contributed grateful parishioners. in biochemistry from the California member of the Ukrainian Professional money in order to help their needy І he Rev. Dzerowycz recently institute of Technology. and Business Club of Winnipeg and the brothers and sisters in Poland. Collec– wrote to the metropolitan telling him He was a research chemist in Ottawa Ukrainian Cultural and Educational tions have taken place in Ukrainian that a transport car. only three- until 1947. when he accepted a position Centre (Oseredok). parishes, through the Ukrainian quarters full, had been readied tosend at the Grain Research Laboratory in As a stalwart supporter of multicul– National Association (which has to three northern cities. Caritas came Winnipeg. He'worked there as a cereal turalism. Dr. Hlynka prepared and contributed over 533.000. including to the aid of the Ukrainian Catholic chemist and administrator until his presented briefs to the Royal Commis– S8.660 collected at the 1982 conven– shipment by filling up the transport retirement in 1972. sion on Bilingualism and Biculturalism. tion); the Providence Association car. using its own money and also As ,a scientist. Dr. Hlynka earned the Canadian Radio. Television and (51 1,000); and the Ukrainian Frater– contributing goods to a transport car international acclaim for developing Telecommunications Commission nal Association (56.000). individual for the Peremyshl Ukrainian com– new ideas and techniques in cereal (CRTC), and the Joint Senate and donors have also contributed toward munity. chemistry. He is author of several House of Commons Parliamentary the more than 585.000 that has been The metropolitan's chancery has reports which have appeared in scienti– Committee on the Canadian Constitu– collected during this drive, the reported that all the m,oney received fic journals and which have been pre– tion. metropolitan's office reported. in the fund drive has gone directly to sented at international symposia and Dr. Hlynka often spoke at confe– At the start of the aid program, the aid Ukrainians in Poland for the conferences. rences and community events in Winni– metropolitan's chancery sent pack- buying of goods and transportation He was the editor of the book "Wheat. peg and across Canada. He also pro– ages to individual addresses, how– charges. All other costs have been Chemistry and Technology." Dr. duced a weekly commentary for the cver. the cost of these mailings handled by the metropolitanate's Hlynka also served as an adjunct CKJS Ukrainian radio program. From became too expensive. So. when budget fund. professor in graduate studies at the 1971 to 1983, Dr. Hlynka wrote a Metropolitan Stephen Sulyk traveled A press release recently issued by University, of Manitoba. He was a column "Behind the Official Languages to Rome, he established contact with the metropolitan's chancery states member of numerous Canadian and Curtain" for the weekly newspaper the Rev. Dr. Alexander Ostheim– that this humanitarian action has international scientific bodies, and Ukrainian voice, under th^pseudonym Dzerowycz. pastor of St. Barbara's great meaning for our brothers and served on several committees and lvan Harmata. Ukrainian Catholic Church in sisters in Poland: the financial help editorial boards. For his contributions to the Ukrai– vienna. The Rev Dzerowycz agreed encourages them and reminds them For many years. Dr. Hlynka was an nian community and to Canada, Dr. to supervise the purchase of needed that there is someone in the world executive member of the national (Continued on page 15) goods for the people in Poland and who cares - Ukrainian brothersand deliver them with the help of the sisters. Constantine Andrusyshen, scholar-editor W1NN1PEG - Dr. Constantine Dictionary and his English translation Karavanskys take part in Andrusyshen, Slavic studies depart– of the complete poetic works of Taras ment chairman at the University of Shevchenko. Dr. Andrusyshen edited panel discussion on OSl Saskatchewan, died here on May 13. the Ukrainian version of the New Dr. Andrusyshen was born in Winni– Testament and Psalms and served as NEW YORK Former Ukrainian Participants also adopted two resolu– peg on July 19, 1907. After receiving an editor and translator of the works of dissidents Sviatoslav and Nina Kara– tions at the panel. One, signed by 73 honors B.A. in 1929, and an M.A. in Ukrainian prose author vasyl Stefanyk. vansky took part in a panel discussion participants, was addressed to Presi– 1930 from the University of Manitoba, Dr. Andrusyshen is the recipient of titled "Office of Special investigations dent Ronald Reagan and charged the he traveled to France where he studied several notable awards, in 1964 he was Against American Citizens" held here OSl with violating several judicial at the Sorbonne. in 1940 he received a named a fellow of the exclusive and on May Г. principles. Ph.D in Romance languages from the highly prestigious Royal Society of University of Toronto. Mr. Karavanskys topic was "An it said that the OSl employs testi– Canada, and in 1971 he was appointed Examination of the Activities of the mony of perjured witnesses, allows for Between 1940 and 1944 Dr. An– the first Simpson Professor of Slavic Office of Special investigations of the unlawful procedures in American legal drusyshen edited the now-defunct Ca– Studies at the University of Sas– U.S. Justice Department." while his proceedings, utilizes materials supplied nadian Farmer — one of Canada's first katchewan. wife spoke on "The Use of Soviet by the KGB and limits the rights of the Ukrainian newspapers. During the After his retirement in 1975, Dr. Testimony in American Courts." accused. 1944-45 academic year. Dr. Andrusy– Andrusyshen occupied himself with shen received a Rockefeller Foundation "For this reason we urge you to creative writing, in recognition of the award to study as a research fellow in Attorney Askold Lozynskyj's topic examine the facts Supplied to you in a important role he played in the Ukrai– Slavic studies at Harvard University. was "Some Legal Aspects involving the letter from former political prisoners of nian community, he received the Shev– Cases Prosecuted by the Office of the USSR Sviatoslav Karavansky and in 1945 he returned to Canada, chenko Medal from the Ukrainian Special investigations against Ameri– Nina Strokata — and to.utilize necessary where he joined the Slavic studies Canadian Committee, and in 1982 the can Citizens." The.piinel discussion was measures to restore a democratic, department at the University of Saskat– Saskatoon Centennial Medal - award– initiated by two branches of the Or– independent and impartial judicial chewan. From 1950 until his retire– ed by the city to citizens who have made ganizalion for the Defense of Four system in America." the resolution ment in 1975, he held the position of de– outstanding contributions to the com– Freedoms for Ukraine. stated. partment head. During his tenure at munity. the University of Saskatchewan, he Dr. Andrusyshen is survived by his published several significant scholarly wife Anne; his sister Olga Dutka; two works in the field of Ukrainian studies. brothers; two nieces; and a nephew. WSJ publishes Solchanyk article His greatest contributions in this field Funeral services were held May 20 in were the widely used Ukrainian-English Saskatoon. NEW. YORK An article by Dr. but otherwise anonymous 'well-inform– Roman Solchanyk, senior research ed sources' and 'close observers' in analyst for Radio Liberty in Munich Moscow." and contributing writer to The Ukrai– Sister Mary Markianna Hasey, OSBM Dr. Solchanyk goes on to provide nian Weekly, recently appeared in the background information on the "fusion, PHILADELPHIA - sister Mary students and people with whom she Wall Street Journal. Titled "Andropov of nations" concept and on the nationa– Markianna (Hasey) OSBM died at the worked. Many still remember her for Tries an Old Plan to Unity his Many iities question in the USSR. Basilian Sisters Motherhouse,at the age teaching them how to pray to rosary. Nations," the article was published in of 88, on Friday, May 27. The last 10 years of her life were spent the June 7 issue of the newspaper on its He concludes that the revival of this She had entered the Basilian Order in convalescing from an accident that left editorial page. concept "means that the national ques– Philadelphia on May 20. 1920. The late her handicapped. in the article. Dr. Solchanyk analyzes tion remains a highly sensitive problem Metropolitan Constantine Bohachev– Bishop Robert M. Moskal, assisted the ramifications of the Andropov for which the present Soviet leadership, sky received her final vows of religious by the motherhouse chaplain, the Rev. regime's return to the concept of "the like its predecessor, lacks a real solu– profession on August 15, 1929. Stephen Pinchak OFM, led the parastas fusion of nations." an idea originally tion,"and adds that this provides "Food Sister Markianna spent the greater service on Tuesday, May 31, at 7 p.m. in propagated by Khrushchev. He for thought that should prove more part of her religious life teaching in the the convent chapel. The requiem divine points out that the acceleration of this rewarding then irrelevant speculation Ukrainian parish schools of the pro– liturgy was offered by the chaplain at І Soviet-style "melting pot" notion "has about whether Mr. Andropov isreallya vince. A pious religious, she was able to p.m. on June 1. The Sisters'Choir sang passed virtually unnoticed by Western nice guy who somehow got mixed up inspire this love of prayer, and espe– the responses at both services, lnter– experts both in and out of the govern– with those nasty fellows from the cially of the rosary to the Blessed ment was at the convent cemetery in ment, to say nothing of the ubiquitous KGB." Mother of God in the hearts of her Fox Chase. , ,, .,. No. 27^„„„.„„^„^;„„^THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY JULY З, 1983 „„^5 Greetings, resolutions and recommendations of Supreme Assembly

The Ukrainian National Association's Supreme Assembly elected at the 30th RESOLUTlONS ON ORGAN1Z1NG MATTERS Convention in May 1982 held its first regular annual meeting at Soyuzivka during the week of June 6 and, on the recommendation of its committees, approved the (Approved on the proposal of the Organizing Committee.) following greetings, resolutiqns and recommendations. The UNA Supreme Assembly charges the Supreme Executive Committee with: GREETINGS 1. Setting the goal of this year's organizing campaign at 3,000 new members, insured for a general sum of S10 million; (Unanimously approved on the proposal of the Resolutions Committee.) 2. Making all possible efforts to hire at least two regional organizers for the United States and at least one for Canada with the recommendation that at least The Supreme Assembly of the Ukrainian National Association gathered at its one be a woman; annual meeting at Soyuzivka during the week of June 6.1983: 3. Seeing to it that the fraternal activities coordinator's work should be planned 1. Once again extends its fraternal greetings to the Ukrainian nation which, and carried out keeping in mind that one of the coordinator's main responsibilities though enslaved by Communist Russian imperialism, continues its heroic struggle ought to be to help the Organizing Department in its work; for national self-determination and independence and even in the most difficult 4. Ensuring that regional organizers work with Supreme Assembly officers in circumstances of this struggle creates lasting values in many aspects of life. The their respective regions and that they jointly plan their activities;' UNA Supreme Assembly calls on all its members to continue and intensify their 5. Galvanizing and broadening organizing efforts in the following ways: active participation in all actions aimed at helping the Ukrainian nation in its a). Showing the UNA films "insurance Plus" and "Helm of Destiny" at district struggle. meetings and at similar UN A and community functions. (For this, enough copies of 2. Greets the governments, the Congress and the Parliament, and the nations of the films should be made.). their countries, the United States of America and Canada, and expresses its b). By preparing new advertising brochures and posters,and circulating them in gratitude for all their decisions and actions aimed at defending the human and Ukrainian establishments and shops. national rights of all nations of the world, especially the Ukrainian nation, and c). By including attractive UNA pages in Svoboda and The Ukrainian Weekly. appeals to all governments to continue and intensify such actions. d). By ensuring that district and branch executive boards maintain contacts with 3. Greets with respect the hierarchs of our Churches and leaders of our church community organizations, particularly professional groups, in order to inform organizations, greets our world community organization, and our'national central members of these organizations at their meetings or other functions about the representations, greets the leaders and members of our national and local multifaceted benefits of UNA insurance. charitable, scholarly, youth, women's', business and all other institutions, and calls e). By advertising the UNA during larger community functions with posters, on all UNA members to actively join in their actions conducted for the good of our radio spots, etc. community and our nation. 0. By preparing new and original radio advertising, making sure that they are 4. Especially greets our oldest Ukrainian scholarly institution, the Shevchenko being aired and determining which programs are worth advertising on. Scientific Society, on the occasion of its 110th anniversary, and calls on UNA g). By resuming the practice of sending congratulatory cards to branch members to actively join in all actions aimed at appropriately observing this jubilee. secretaries for distribution to members on appropriate occasions. 5. in accordance with the appeal of the hierarchs of our Churches and the leaders 6. Taking advantage of the publications and commemorations of the of our religious organizations, and keeping in mind the brutal destruction by the anniversaries of Svoboda, The Ukrainian Weekly and veselka as a means of godless invader of our religion and Churches in Ukraine, calls on all UNA members bolstering organizing activities. to actively participate in preparations for the commemoration of the millennium of 7. Raising by .5 percent the reward given to branch secretaries in light of rising Christianity in Ukraine in 1988. expenses, particularly gasoline and postal costs. 8. including the TP-65 insurance policy in the life insurance category. RESOLUTION ON UNITY IN THE COMMUNITY 9. Assigning the following bonuses to districts: S3 each for every new member purchasing a life insurance policy if the district meets 100 percent or more of its Unity of the Ukrainian community has been the foundation of the existence and quota; S2 each if 75 to 99 percent of the quota is met; Si if less than 75 percent of the activity of the UNA for nearly 90 years. The situation which arose after the 13th quota is met. UCCA Congress created divisiveness in the Ukrainian community in the United 10. Setting aside a room at the Soyuzivka resort to display informational States, and it is now spreading to the entire Ukrainian community in the diaspora. material about the UNA, its work and benefits to members, the community and the Therefore, we approve all efforts to date of the UNA Supreme Executive nation, and inviting Soyuzivka guests to visit the room. Committee and charge it with continuing these efforts until the successful re- establishment of a representative institution that would satisfy the goals and wishes of the Ukrainian community in the United States. RESOLUTLONS AND RECOMMENDATLONS FOR THE GOOD OF THE ORGANIZATION RESOLUTION ON OBSERVANCES OF THE 50TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE GREAT FAMLNE 1N UKRA1NE (Approved on the proposal of the Supreme Auditing Committee.)

The Supreme Assembly of the Ukrainian National Association commends all Resolutions: efforts to date of the Supreme Executive Committee to appropriately "remember and makeNrthers aware" of the Communist Russian famine inflicted on Ukraine 50 The UNA Supreme Assembly charges the Supreme Executive Committee with: years ago and its millions of Ukrainian victims. 1. increasing dividends to UNA members. The UNA Supreme Assembly especially commends the decision of the Supreme 2. Revising membership dues and certificates for term insurance in accordance Executive Committee to, jointly with the Ukrainian Research institute at Harvard with plans of the supreme secretary. University, ensure the publication of the documentary history of this famine 3. installing a new computer system for UNA operations as mentioned in the written by Dr. Robert Conquest, as well as the active involvement of the Ukrainian supreme secretary's report. National Association in the actions of the National Committee to Commemorate 4. Actualizing plans to create a UNA foundation. Genocide victims in Ukraine 1932-33. 5. Hiring full-time organizers for the United States and Canada in accordance The Supreme Assembly of the Ukrainian National Association calls on all its with the plans of the supreme organizer. members to support every action to "Let us remember and make others aware" of 6. Paying per diems and travel expenses in accordance with provisions of the this famine, and it especially calls for their mass participation in the demonstration UNA By-laws. and memorial concert planned and organized by the National Committee for 7. Reviewing implementation of convention resolutions. Sunday, October 2, in Washington. Recommendations: RESOLUTlON ON UNA-UFA MERGER 1. Make available to members funds of Я million in the United States and Whereas, a proposed merger of the Ukrainian National Association and the 5500,000 in Canada for mortgages. Ukrainian Fraternal Association has been discussed at this meeting; and 2. introduce new insurance certificates in accordance with the plans of the Whereas, the Supreme Assembly of the Ukrainian National Association at its supreme secretary. session on June 8, 1983, deems it to be in the best interest of this fraternal 3. investigate the possibility of introducing the accumulation of dividends for organization and of its members that the merger be tentatively approved and that members. the Ukrainian National Association and the Ukrainian Fraternal Association be 4. involve youths in organizing work as instructors, secretaries or organizers. merged; and 5. install in a prominent place at Soyuzivka a plaque listing the members of the Whereas, the Supreme Assembly of the Ukrainian National Association Supreme Assembly. recognizes that the Ukrainian Fraternal Association is a fraternal benefit society organized in a manner similar to that of the Ukrainian National Association, inc., with aims, purposes and designs which parallel those of this organization, but RESOLUTlON ON UNA CULTURAL FOUNDATlON recognizing that the Ukrainian National Association inc., has the added advantage of a greater breadth and depth of membership and greater financial (Approved on the proposal of Supreme President John O. Flis.) resources, including a surplus numbering in the millions; Now, therefore, be it resolved that the Supreme Executive Committee of the The UNA Supreme Assembly resolves that the Supreme Executive Committee Ukrainian-National Association is directed to prepare a proper contract of merger take all actions necessary in order to organize a non-profit corporation to finalize and take all other steps it deems necessary in order that said merger can be duly the formation of a Ukrainian National Association Cultural Foundation inc., in adopted and effectuated at the 1986 Convention of the Ukrainian National which foundation the Ukrainian National Association would be guaranteed Association inc., and of the Ukrainian Fraternal Association inc., or at a special control by a majority of the board, provide for transfer of appropriate funds from convention to be held by autumn 1984. the Ukrainian National Association to the foundation, and provide for the Be it further resolved that the Supreme Assembly directs the Supreme Executive acceptance of funds through gifts and bequests from UNA members and friends to Committee to keep the members of the Supreme Assembly informed of the the foundation. progress and general agreements reached in the negotiations on a timely basis. (Continued on page 12) X - . - - Ns

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News and views Lydia Demjanjuk responds to Holtzman; Ukrainian Week!v protests OSl's use of Soviet evidence

Celebrate democracy CLEVEI.AND Lydia Demjanjuk, ments. None of these witnesses has ever Social philosopher Jean Jacques Kousseau oncesaid. rather cynically, that whose father. John, is facing deporta– appeared in a U.S. court in person and "democracy is so perfect a form of government that it is not suitable to man." tion for allegedly misrepresenting his all of their testimony has been video- A quick look at a map of the world may lead some to the disquieting war-time activities when applying to taped in the USSR. Depositions of conclusion that he may have been right. Today, democracy is. in a sense, enter this country, recently wrote an Soviet witnesses are conducted under under seigc. The score or so democratic countries arc girded by authoritarian article to the Cleveland Plain Dealer the Soviet Criminal Code, which regimes, police states, totalitarian governments, petty dictatorships. For responding to an earlier article bv restricts the right of the defense to every freely elected head of state there are dozens of Andropovs. Jaruzelskis. Ettzabeth-Holtzman. a former member interrogate prosecution witnesses. Pinochets or Khomeinis. For ever ballot cast freely there are countless coups, of Congress largely responsible for the in this context, it is notable that the putsches, military takeovers, rigged elections. For every smooth political creation of the Nazi-hunting Office of OSl is the only agency of the federal transition, imbued with bipartisanship and magnanimity, there is Special investigations. government that places unquestioned assassination and political violence. in her article, published in the April faith in Soviet-produced material. The So. was Rousseau right? is democracy, government freely elected by the 28 issue of the Plain Dealer. Ms. callousness of the OSl even goes as far people to serve the people, too sophisticated a concept for mankind? Are its Holtzman, now the Brooklyn district as providing the Soviets with names of demands too great? attorney, charged that the U.S. govern– individuals still living there, who at one Perhaps. We in the West, complacent in our democratic traditions, often ment aided former Nazis after World time or another have been associated question the applicability of democratic principles to other countries, War 11, including Klaus Barbie, known with the accused in anti-Soviet activi– particularly in the Third World, it is often said that these countries, poor, as the "Butcher of Lyons." ties. underdeveloped and often making the difficult transition from colonial rule She said that in 1978 the General Ac- To compound the problem, Ms. to self-government, are somehow not ready for democracy. Their non- counting Office found that more than Holtzman is on record as being a Christian traditions, economic backwardness, indigenous socio-political 20 alleged Nazi war criminals living in leading advocate for the introduction of factors all preclude democratic development. Or so the argument goes. the United States had been employed in Soviet "eyewitness testimony" into the This line of thinking, tinged with Western arrogance, does have some merit. such government agencies as the State American judicial system when con– But the lack of democracy in much of the Third World should not be so Department, the Central intelligence siderable testimony and documentation readily accepted as permanent and inevitable, in many places around the Agency and Radio Free Europe even has been presented by the СІА, Con– globe the lack of freedom and democracy has less to do with cultural though the government knew of the gress and the State Department on underdevelopment than it does with the bayonets and torture chambers of allegations against them. Soviet information, forgeries and other those that govern without mandate. And this applies"to Eastern Europe as Ms. Holtzman further charged that deception tactics. Either Ms. Holtz– welPas Africa, Asia and Central America, it is those that would abuse power, the U.S. government compounded the man's memory has suffered"or the word those that rule without legitimacy, those that keep a jackboot on the backs of problem by failing to "act against "contradiction" does not exist in her the people that are the real enemies of democracy, it is also the "liberators" suspected Nazi war criminals living in lexicon. Surely, she must remember fighting in the name of outmoded ideologies who would replace one form of America, thus providing them with a that in 1977 she wrote the following: tyranny with another. haven." "Eyewitness testimony is notoriously On July 4, we in the United States will be commemorating independence Noting that, with the establishment unreliable...the annals of law are rife Day - 207 years of freedom and democracy. We will be celebrating that of the OSL a mechanism now exists to with instances of mistaken identity...a unique interdependence, that built-in reciprocity between the government fully investigate the connection between witness may have identified a defendant and those it governs the people -– which has marked and continues to the government and alleged war cri– under confusing or highly suggestive mark this country's greatness, it is a special relationship, one may argue, that minals. she urged that a special corn- circumstances, but upon reflection may no other people in the world enjoy. This great republic, then, grounded in the mission, authorized by Congress, be realize that the identification was genius of the U.S. Constitution, testifies that democracy is indeed suited to established to determine the extent of mistaken...highly prejudicial and man. the government's role in allegedly suggestible identifications are still But as we pause to give thanks for the bounty that is America, we must also assisting former Nazis. admissible in evidence...which may be pause to consider all those living in, oppression and terror, those that are "The officials who brought Nazis to the sole basis for conviction..." suffering under the boot-heel of repression, it is somewhat comforting to this country - and the process by which Ms. Holtzman does reveal that "the know (as all Ukrainians do), that America has always been a haven for the this was permitted to occur — must be General Accounting Office (GAO) persecuted. But it is not enough. America must be more than a beacon of exposed," she wrote. found that more than 20 alleged Nazi liberty, it must aggressively export its principles, its democracy. Too often in Ms. Demjanjuk's response, which war criminals living in the U.S. had its history it has supported the oppressors, the strongmen, the despots, was printed in the May 30 issue of the been employed by government agencies thereby leaving the door open for those that march under the red banner of Plain Dealer, was edited for publica– that knew of the allegations against Marx or Che or Castro. We must, as a nation, be sensitive to the character and tion by that paper. Below is the full text them." This is less than true. Apparent– the needs of all those that seek to be free. of the article without those deletions. ly, Ms. Holtzman only remembers what This idea is not new. it marked the early years of the Kennedy she prefers the reader to know. administration and found voice in President Carter's noble if erratic human- The subcommittee of which Ms. rights policies. We must be perceived as a country of compassion and Holtzman was a member initiated the understanding, as a suitable manifestation of a form of government suitable in response to Elizabeth Holtzman's GAO investigation for the express to all men. opinions ("Time to hose out American- purpose of determining whether a Nazi collaboration." PD Forum. April "conspiracy" existed between federal 28. 1983), permit me to state that Ms. agencies which prevented investigation Response to famine issue Holtzman was not just "a member of of alleged Nazi war criminals residing in Congress from 1973 to 1981." in. fact, the United States. No evidence of she was chairwoman of the enormously "conspiracy" was found in four investi– Dole salutes famine observances powerful Subcommittee on lmmigra– gations including that of the GAO. The Below is the lex і of a letter corner n– knows so liitle about one ol history's tion. Naturalization and international response of the C1A, for example, is ing the Great Famine that was sent by foremost examples of man's bestiality. Law. She is no longer in Congress. typical of those found in the GAO Sen. Bob Dole (R-Kans.) to UNA it is vitally, important that this tragedy Under the leadership of Ms. Holtz– investigation: Supreme President John O. Flis. be brought to the attention of the world man. Congress' enacted a retroactive "Gustav Hilger, mentioned by Ms. community, so that its victims may be amendment to the immigration and Holtzman, entered the United States "at remembered by all free people. І am Naturalization Act (Public Law95-549) a time when there was an acute shortage Dear Mr. Flis: encouraged to see that the Ukrainian which defines as "excludable alien" of intelligence on the Soviet intentions 1 salute you for commemorating the National Association is channeling its anyone who: "From March 23, 1933, to and developments in Eastern Europe... tragic events of 1932-33, when millions efforts in this direction, and wish vou May 8, 1945, ordered, incited, assisted The question of early warning against a of Ukrainians perished as a result of success in your efforts. or otherwise participated in the persecu– Soviet attack was pressing, particularly Stalin's deliberate famine. There can be in focusing on the Great Famine, we tion of any person because of race, in the period following the blockade of no doubt that the Great Famine was must also not forget those whose rights religion, natural origin or political Berlin ... The record shows that this politically motivated. The wholesale are violated by the Soviet government opinion." The Office of Special lnvesti– individual left the U.S. in 1953 and the confiscation of grain from the Ukrai– today. The Commission on Security gations (OSl) was specifically created earliest record of an allegation against nian peasant, and its collection by non- and Cooperation in Europe, on which within the Criminal Division of the him was not received by the lmmigra– Ukrainians, was designed not only to 1 serve as co-chairman, continues Justice Department to implement this tion and Naturalization Service (1NS) finance industrialization and to ensure to voice its deep concern over the Soviet civil law. until years later... in no way did the C1A collectivization, but also to break the government's continued violations of On the surface, such prosecutions make use of anyone against whom will of a nationally conscious and the human-rights provisions of the appear to serve a worthy cause. The allegations of war crimes were well- independent-minded Ukrainian people Helsinki Final Act. Only by continuing realities are somewhat different. Ukrai– founded...the СІА had not intervened Above all, the Great Famine, with its our efforts on behalf of those who are nians and Baltics, the nemesis of the in or obstructed any 1NS investigation countless examples of untold human oppressed today can the occurrence of Soviets, are targeted almost exclusively or prosectuion..." suffering, illustrates the cynical depth of tragedies such as the Great Famine be for OSl investigations as "Nazi colla– Section 8 of the 1948 СІА Act per– the Stalin dic'-.torship's contempt for prevented in the future. borators." Although the OSl has world- mits. with the concurrence of the human life. Bob Dole wide access to pertinent files, they rely Departments of Justice and State, the it is disappointing thai the world - .n -i'– US Senate heavily on Soviet witnesses and docu– (Continued on pgge 15) No. 27^^THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY JULY З, щез

Media reporis on famine very late; my husband, after his return from prison, was ill; and my mother also could not help because of an illness so grave that she could not even get out of THE GREAT FAM1NE bed. І fed him, gave him some food for the road, Gwiazda Polarna dressed him in my own jacket, which reached down to STEVENS POINT, wise. - A letter to the editor of his heels, and with a heavy heart and tears in my eyes, 1 Gwiazda Polarna, a Polish-language newspaper led him back to where 1 found him — the streets. І published here, revealed the horror of the famine as never saw him again. seen by an eyewitness. 1 saw corpses scattered on the streets of the cities. 1 The letter, by Ludwika Czerska of Stevens Point, saw dying children and mothers. І saw the famine that was published in the May 7 issue of the newspaper, it killed people like flies — and this in a country that was was written in response to Gwiazda Polarna's front- known for its fertile land and was once the bread- page article on the Great Famine of 1932-33. basket of Europe. This tragedy of the Ukrainian The full text of Ms. Czerska's letter (in English nation was premeditated and executed with precision. translation) follows. Will the criminals be prosecuted? When? This year marks the 50th anniversary of one of mtm history's most horrifying cases of genocide — the Soviet-made Great Famine of 1932-33, in which The article about the famine in Ukraine, which was some 7 million Ukrainians perished. published in Gwiazda Polarna on April 23 ("Ukraine: London Telegraph Relying on news from Svoboda and, later, The Forgotten Crime"), awakened horrible memories. LONDON - The Great Famine in Ukraine (1932- The Ukrainian Weekly (which began publica– On the streets of Kiev 1 saw people who had come from 33) was briefly alluded to in The Sunday Telegraph on tion in October 1933). this column hopes to the villages in the hope that in the city they would be April 17 by book critic Ronald Hingley in his review of remind and inform Americans and Canadians of able to save their lives. The village women left me with actor Peter Ustinov's "My Russia." this terrible crime against humanity. a horrifying impression: they hadn't even the strength After criticizing the apologist tone of the book and By bringing other events worldwide into the to hold their dying children in their arms. A cold wind picture as well, the column hopes to give a blew, and they sat immobile on the sidewalks, staring its glaring lack of scholarship, particularly in Mr. Ustinov's reference to "4 million ethnic Russians" in perspective on the state of the world in the years straight ahead. Perhaps they did not understand what of Ukraine's Great Famine. was happening to them. Next to them lay the dying, or inter-war Poland (Mr. Hingley writes that the figure already dead children. І stopped near one of these "must apply to Ukrainians and Byelorussians"), Mr. PART XX women. She softly whispered: "God, help us. God. Hingley chided Mr. Ustinov for downplaying the help us." She did not even have the strength to remain in terrors of Stalinism. a sitting position; she fell on the cobblestone street and "Most grievously of all. the author misleads by fell silent. Shaken by this, 1 fled. writing as if the worst horrors of the Soviet period had May 1933 never occurred," wrote Mr. Hingley. "Collectiviza– We were not allowed to show sympathy for "such tion, the terror of the late 1930s, the Gulag Archipe– On May І, 1933, Svoboda received news from people." lago: it would have been better to say nothing at all a German newspaper, Koelnische Zeitung, in various locations throughout the city women sat about such things than to allude in passing to the which reported that the famine in "all of Russia" with their children in tatters. They were afraid to speak sufferings which Stalin caused in thousands' of was growing worse and worse. According to out loud - they silently extended their hands, begging individual cases... One might debate whether millions reports, the populace ate dogs, cats and other for some food. Everything was takenaway from them: or scores of millions would be the proper unit of animals, searching for salvation from hunger. land, property, supplies. When 1 got up enough measurement." The German correspondent said people courage and asked an acquaintance whose husband swelled from hunger and collapsed during work was a party activist why these people must die of from physical exhaustion. He wrote that hunger, she looked at me as if 1 was stupid and Maine Telegram although the Communist regime had tried to indignantly replied: "Why, they themselves are to carry out its grain-planting campaign, it could blame. They did not want to work on the collective GARD1NER, Maine - The Maine Sunday Tele- not force the peasants to work in the fields "with farms. They wanted their own land. And so, this is gram on June S ran a letter from area resident Michael enthusiasm" when they had no grain to plant. what they got. They need a lesson like this." Semenec citing the Great Famine in Ukraine . Also on May І, Svoboda received a letter from І met a six-year-old boy who was sitting alone and Noting that 7 million Ukrainians died during the one of its readers who had corresponded with his was unsuccessfully begging for food with an out- famine, orchestrated by the Soviet regime to break the family in eastern Ukraine. The family wrote: stretched hand. І took him to my flat on the third floor. resistance of an independent-minded peasantry, and "We inform you that we are all alive. You ask if He clung to me, as if to his own mother. We stole home that 6 million Jews were murdered during the we are healthy. How can one be healthy when carefully so that, God forbid, no one would see us, Holocaust, Mr. Semenec called on Americans and "all one works every day from morning until night because it was forbidden to help, to take any of the freedom-loving people of the world" to support and never eats?" The author of the letter goes on starving into one's own apartment. The poor child was democracy and remain willing to defend their to say that the family purchased baskets of frighteningly skinny and sick. І wanted very much to freedom. potato peelings for 12 rubles and boiled this take care of him, but the circumstances of our lives "The victims of Communism and Nazism call us to into a soupy mixture. absolutely did not permit us to do this: 1 came home readiness," he wrote. "No more Holocaust." Jobs were available in the Soviet Union but these jobs paid very little, and there was no food to purchase. Congressmen, senator... Mr. Stebelsky vociferously denied the charges, On May 6, the Ukrainian Bureau in London and told The Weekly that he can produce non- reported that bloody battles raged throughout (Continued from page 1) Ukrainian witnesses who can prove that he was Ukraine as peasants struggled to obtain bread. Ryan's position suggests that the Justice Depart - never a member of either of the two brigades and, in According to the reports, peasants robbed the ment appears willing to at least consider informa– fact, helped Jews during the war. in addition, he state grain storage houses, often getting into tion printed in such propaganda papers as News revealed that former Soviet political prisoner and battles with secret police guards. Soviet authori– from Ukraine, published by the Soviets and Jewish activist Jakiv Suslensky, now living in ties called the peasants' rampages "bandit available only outside the USSR. For years, the israel, wrote a letter in his defense to Mr. Wiesenthal attacks" and responded to them with physical paper, both in its Ukrainian– and English-language after first checking with the documentation center force. editions, has smeared Ukrainian emigres in the in Jerusalem and finding no mention of Mr. On May 10, Svoboda carried news from the West - particularly those active in the Ukrainian Stebelsky. Soviet newspaper Komsomolska Pravda, which liberation struggle — with unfounded charges of .Mr. Stebelsky, who is a member of the AHRUin wrote about counterrevolutionary activities in Nazi collaboration or fascist sympathies. Denver, said that although, to his knowledge, he is Ukraine and especially attacked the publications Last year, for example, in an obvious attempt to not being investigated by the OS1, he decided to of the ethnographic commission at the All– drive a wedge between Ukrainians and Jews, News speak out about the accusations because he wanted Ukrainian Academy of Sciences, calling these From Ukraine ran a series of articles attacking to publicize the fallaciousness of Soviet pro– studies "kulak nationalism." Ukrainians active in commemorating the murder paganda, and because he was angered by what he The ethnographic studies included.Ukraine by the Nazis of thousands of Jews and Ukrainians said was the OSl's willingness to uncritically accept within the boundaries of the Western world, not at Babyn Yar outside Kiev. One man singled out for Soviet-supplied information in its investigations. within the boundaries of Moscow-controlled abuse was lvan Stebelsky, chairman of the Ukrai– He said it was clear that the Soviets were lands and the Eastern world. The newspaper nian Babyn Yar Committee in Denver, who has unhappy with Ukrainian involvement in the Babyn commented that the Communist Party must worked with Jewish groups on a fitting memorial to Yar project in Denver, and were trying to alienate discourage this Ukrainian separatism and the victims of Babyn Yar. The memorial is him from Jewish groups by labelling him a Nazi stressed that Ukrainian academics, literary scheduled to be dedicated October 2. sympathizer. He added that the Jewish leaders with writers, publicists and even the Ukrainian in a June 27 interview with The Weekly, Mr. whom he has been working have been supportive common folk (in their songs) must achieve unity Stebelsky said that he became that target of Soviet and have told him to ignore the Soviet smear between Ukraine and Moscow. accusations shortly after becoming involved in the campaign. On May 11, Svoboda received news from Babyn Yar project. He said that since 1981, News Mr. Stebelsky suggested that Ukrainian or– Moscow that the Communist Party was once From Ukraine has run a series of articles charging ganizations continue to press for a congressional again purging Ukrainians — nationalists and that he was a member of the German-backed review of the OS1 and its relationship with the separatists, throwing out anyone who partici– "Roland" and Nachtigall" brigades, and that he Soviet legal apparatus, particularly in light of what pated in counterrevolutionary activity, belonged participated in mass executions of civilians. he sees as a concerted attempt by the Kremlin to to any Ukrainian professional, cooperative, What's more, he said, the accusation also disgrace the Ukrainian community. He praised the agricultural or other organization. actions of the AHRU and the AADU, but added appeared early in 1983 in Mr. Wiesenthal's On May 12, the headlines in Svoboda read: Dokumentationszentrum bulletin in language that other groups should become involved with the which strongly suggests that the information was effort to ensure that OS! procedures do not violate "The War of the Hungry Populace for Bread based on the News From Ukraine articles. the rights of naturalized American citizens. (Continued on page 11) THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY JULY З, 1983 No. 27 Soyuzivka begins summer season with tennis and girls' camps

KERHONKSON. NY. Although llie camp was conducted by George the Soyuzivka summer season does not Sawchak. Zenon Snyhk. editor- officially begin until the July 4 week- in-chief of Svoboda and Areta end, this resort of the Ukrainian Na.– Rakoczy. Assisting them were three tional Association, nestled in the Cat- younger tennis players. Adrian Kutko. skills, has been buying with activity and Tanya and l.eda Sawchak. since Memorial Day weekend. The two-week camp included a During the last three weeks. Soyu– rigorous regimen of running, calis– zivka has played host to a conglomera– thenics, tennis instruction as well as lion of young and old. lectures and films on the theory and After a successful UNA Seniors strategy of tennis, it concluded with a convention in late May early June, tennis tournament and the distribution UNA district chairmen gathered to of certificates and trophies. discuss organising matters at the resort. The annual week long meeting of the During this two-week period, a girls' UNA Supreme Assembly followed. camp directed by Stephanie Hawryluk Hundreds of people arrived at Soyu– also took place. Twenty-one girls, age 7- zn ka the weekend of June 18-19 to 11. attended this camp which ended commemorate the 40th anniversary of Saturday, July 2. The program included the founding of the first division of the such activities as singing, dancing, Ukrainian National Army. swimming and story-telling. The coun– Then on Sunday, June 19. 56 youths, .selors for the young girls were: Lesia age 1 1-17. arrived at the resort for the Kaleny, Tammy Kaminsky, Natalie and start o( tennis camp. Among them were Marianne Hawryluk. and Olenka Pid– students from 12 states and Ontario. horecky.

The 56 youths who participated in the two-week tennis camp, in the photo on the left are the girls; right, boys.

volleyball victory: USA vs. USSR Youth leaguers plan reunion WASHINGTON Ah, how sweet participate in the games. The.bad guys MIAMI BEACH. Fia. - soyu– interest in the reunion has already revenge can be. The U.S. State Depart– won that round. zivka will play host to a reunion of been aroused, and youth leaguers are ment volleyball Team defeated the former members of the Ukrainian urged to take note of the Cleveland Soviet Embassy Team earlier this year This year the U.S. State Department Youth Leaeue of North America on area's intention ofcharteringabusto in Washington to become the cham– team was on the road to victory with not Friday, through Sunday, November bring interested persons to Soyu– pions of the Embassy volleyball League. one, but two Ukrainians officially listed 18-20. zivka for the weekend. Readers may remember the antics on the roster. Mr. Sajewych, an em– Sparked by Eugene and Estelle Former youth leaguers are asked during the games last year when the ployee of the voice of America Ukrai– Woloshyn and Mike and Jennie to send any convention photos they Soviet team protested the prowess of nian desk and Zenon Stakhiv of the Bochar, the weekend will be dedi– can spare to the housing and registra– volleyball star George Sajewych, stating Army Corps of Engineers helped the cated to celebrating the 50th anniver– tion coordinator, Taras Maksymo– that he was not officially listed on the U.S. team serve up a first-place finish sary of the UYLNA, which had its wich,at 1318 18th St., Miami Beach, U.S. roster, and therefore could not with scores of 18-16, 9-15 and 15-13. beginnings at the 1933 "World's Fair Fla. 33139. in Chicago. All former youth leaguers Mr. Maksymowich is also accept– are invited to participate. ing registration for the weekend. Preliminary plans call for a S100 Space at Soyuzivka is limited, and a weekend package that includes Fri– deposit of S50 per person is required day dinner, complimentary cocktail (make check payable to Youth party at 9-Ю p.m., followed by music League Reunion). and dancing; Saturday breakfast, lunch and banquet and ball (to be When registering, youth leaguers held at the veselka pavilion): and arc asked to provide the following Sunday breakfast and lunch. information: name, address, area A business session may be sche– code and telephone number, date dulcd for Saturday, if deemed de– and time of arrival; they are also sirablc by former youth leaguers. asked to indicate the number of The weekend will feature a Mrs. persons staying in their room and UYLNA Contest, a collage of whether they arc willing to share a UYLNA convention photos and room. For further information in– other events still in the planning terested persons mav call Mr. stages. Maksymowich at (305) 534-2118.

Winnipeg's Oseredok offers scholarship

W1NN1PEG The Ukrainian Cul– arts or archival science at any accre– tural and Educational Centre (Oscre– dited university or other institution in dok) is offering a scholarship for Canada or the United States. approximately S700 from the Wladimir Kossar Memorial Scholarship Fund. Application forms are available The scholarship shall be awarded to from: Ukrainian Cultural and Educa– The victors: (standing from left) George Sajewych, Dale Goddard, Joe Ryan, students who have completed a bachelor tional Centre. 184 Alexander Ave. E.. Zenon Stakhiv, Thomas Macklin, (sitting from left) victor Litwinski, Charles of arts degree and are enrolled in an Winnipeg. Man.. Canada, R3B 0L6. Sampson, Michael Farbman, Stephen Palmer. accredited course in museology, fine Deadline for applications is August 1. No. 27^^^^^„^^^^^^^^^^^^ THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY JULY З, 1983ir, - . . '? interview: Winnipeg's singer– actor Ed Evankoon his"calling"

by Mykhailo Bociurkiw special talent and what 1 really most enjoy doing." it and liana Plawuszczak takes a lot of courage to do that because you have to leave behind other things and in this business - and it Ed Evanko. one of Canada's finest singer-actors was is a business, the entertainment business - you start born and raised in the Ukrainian neighborhood of out by doing everything you can. so that you can make North Winnipeg. Since then, he has starred in a living and get employed. But after a while. І think it's concerts, nightclubs, operas, television specials and essential to start saying no to certain things, because plays. His appearances range from Canada's National you have no core to yourself: you become whatever Ukrainian Festival in Dauphin to major Broadway other people want you to be. plays in New Yolk City. The Winnipeg native has become popular with І find now that l've settled into singing more. 1 find a Ukrainian and non-Ukrainian audiences throughout certain freedom - a great feeling of freedom — North America. After graduating from the University because it's my choice. 1 do it because 1 want to do it; of Manitoba. Mr. Evanko furthered his studies in not because someone's telling me. singing and acting at England's Old vie Theatre School. During his six-year stay in Britain, Mr. Due to that attitude, would you say that you 've Evanko worked with the Old vie company and toured achieved a type of security in your choice of music? England and Scandinavia. in 1966. when he returned t6 Canada, he appeared Yes, absolutely, it's nof a financial security, because on CBC Radio as a dramatic actor and on stage in that's something you can strive for and strive for, and several musicals. These appearances eventually led never really get. The only really true security comes him to stardom with his own television special on from knowing that your talent is growing and getting CBC's national network. better and stronger and richer. And once you start doing that, it doesn't matter to you how much you get Mr. Evanko has played roles in myriad produc– paid; who pays you; whether anybody pays you. Quite tions, including: "South Pacific," "My Fair Lady," frankly. І would sing for nothing. 1 have to pay the "The Sound of Music," "The Fantasticks,""A Funny rent, and 1 have to eat, but 1 would sing because it's my Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum." "Okla– expression. 1 don't do it for money — except it is also homa." "The King and 1." "Fiddler on the Roof," my livelihood and it's nice to get paid for something "Camelot,""King Lear," "Richard il"and "Candide." Ed Evanko you realty have to do, whether you got paid or not. Mr. Evanko has two record albums to his credit, a pop album on the DECCA label, and an album of as receptive to you as Ukrainian audiences'? Ukrainian songs titled "1 Dedicate This Song to You." Would you say being a Ukrainian has been a benefit in Canada, he was a featured guest soloist on CBC's or a detriment in your career? І would hope so. So far. l've come in for my share ol anniversary special to celebrate 25 years of television bad reviews from critics, as well as good reviews І broadcasting in Winnipeg. More recently, in the A benefit, definitely, it was a confusion at some think the good have probably.outweighed the bad. spring of 1982. he performed in'a nationally televised time, because growing up in Canada, you grow up in a command performance for Queen Elizabeth 11 in primarily Anglo-Saxon world. And if you are an You start out in this business thinking the sky is the Ottawa's National Arts Centre. artist, singer or actor, you find yourself taught by limit: tomorrow Hollywood and instant stardom and people who arc in the Anglo-Saxon mold. You find Last summer. Mr. Evanko joined Winnipeg's lame. And then you start to realize what you yourself reading literature and looking at music that is renowned Koshetz Choir in a performing tour of eventually really want is not necessarily to be known primarily Anglo-Saxon. Ukraine. He now lives in New York City and continues and famous with a lot of people whom you don't to be active in the entertainment industry. So it was confusing to me that my heritage was not know. When you're growing up that sounds like a The following is Part 1 of a transcript of an interview Anglo-Saxon, and 1 almost resented it probably at one performer's heaven. What you start to realize conducted by Multicultural Media Skills Dcvelop– point. І thought: "Why can't і be in the middle of a eventually is that you really have to satisfy yourself ment Project members Mykhailo Bociurkiw and culture? Why do 1 have to embrace a culture that's and the few people that arc your severest or your most honest critics. And then all those other people out Ulana Plawuszczak. They had an opportunity to Canadian, but have this other thing that is drawing there in the world: if they enjoy it. fine: if they don't, speak with Mr. Evanko during a rehearsal with the me. but 1 don't know what it is? What am 1? i'm not that's their choice. But you can't be concerned alwavs Koshetz Choir in Winnipeg's North End. in the Ukrainian, because 1 was born in Canada. But i'm not about their reaction. interview, he describes the road to stardom, and gives Canadian, because 1 have Ukrainian blood in me, and his impressions of the entertainment industry and my parents came from Ukraine. What am 1?" being Ukrainian. І mean, it's wonderful to hear applause, or to hear it was very confusing, and in that way, 1 thought it laughter if you're doing something funny, or to see The Multicultural Media Skills Development was a detriment. What in fact it is, it's a huge plus faces that are bright and sparkling and listening. But Project is sponsored by the Ukrainian Canadian because it gives you a feeling — just off the top of my you can't be looking to that only. You have to look Students' Union (SUSK) and is made possible by head — a feeling for languages alone. And 1 sing in inside yourself, it's taken me a longtime to realize this, grants from the following sources: Multiculturalism French and German and ltalian - several languages. though. Canada: the Ministry of Citizenship and Culture of the So just having learned Ukrainian and spoken Province of Ontario; viA Rail Canada; and the Ukrainian at home, that in itself was a great value. How important do you think Ukrainian music is to Taras Shevchenko Foundation. 'Ukrainian culture in Canada? Also, 1 think when 1 sing in Ukrainian, 1 sing better than 1 sing in any of the languages, including English. PARTI Being a singer, 1 would want to say that it's There's something about the directness of your mother extremely important. 1 would think that it's very, very tongue - the language that you spoke with your important. When did you first gel that "calling" to the musical mama at home - that you can't replace. field? We are a nation that has always suffered some sort At the rehearsal when we were singing "viadyko of...being overcome by other nations around us. And І 1 started singing when,lwas a little baby. They tell Neba і Zemli," those words: "O balkivschyno v think that's given rise to a lot of music, and certainly a me - 1 don4 remember - that 1 was singing almost chuzhyni...syny Koyi v zhurbi zmarnily." There's lot of vocal music. We've always been an agricultural before 1 spoke. But as far as making a career out of it, І nothing that 1 fi-.i as strongly in any other language nation, and historically, that's the thing we've don't know exactly when that started happening, it that makes me fee! as strongly as these words. occupied ourselves with. And 1 think that's led to a lot kind of comes upon you. of vocal expression to alleviate thii pain of being if vou look it objectively, rather than subjectively, donn'.r'jdden and conquered by various people be they Taiars, Turks. Poles or Austrians. When did it all come together? When did you find could you r ite the Ukrainian language among the yourself more and more involved in vocal music? most musical languages in the world' As a musical artist, you lead a hectic and very Well, it's gone sort of back and forth for me — from - 1 think it's a very poetic language as we!i ;.s musical. unpredictable life. Has it left you time to lake part in being primarily a singer to an actor. Singing always ltalian is probably the most musical language. Ьіч it anything else in the Ukrainian community? came very easily to me when 1 was growing up. І was a doesn't lend itself to the same kind of shadinus that the boy soprano and then my voice changed, and then І Ukrainian language lends'itself to as does the Well, that's m). main contribution to the Ukrainian sang again and won awards at the local festival here in German language in a way. communitv 1 lived in England forsix years and 1 never Winnipeg. We have a certain afinily - 1 don't know German as — І don'i know why. because there are Ukrainians there br.i ! didn't find out about them. І was so 1 was interested in acting, which 1 knew nothing well as 1 know Ukrainian, of course but lht,ri aic concerned abou'l rrn training in F;iylish-speaking about, and 1 wanted to find out. So 1 went to England lots of colorations, it's not as easy to sing maybe. The theatre or non-Ukrainian music. to study. And that was so much harder for me. because ltalians have this vocal ease, because they arc taught it was something 1 knew so little about, it was not from childhood to have these pure. pure, pure vowels. something that came easily. And we have quite pure vowels — they're relatively But now in New York, where '.'v lived for 11 years, And so 1 pursued that for a little while, and then 1 pure but there's a little bit of things that happen in i'm a member of the Ukrainian institute. We have a found 1 wanted to sing, so 1 combined both for our throats that are not ideally beneficial to a pure beautiful mansion right on Fifth Avenue jnd 79th quite sbme time by doing musical theatre and by doing vocal production. We have "ch" sounds and things like Street. And 1 do concerts there from time to '.me. І plays as well, and television, it's only been in the last that which are not as conducive to easy vocal entertain with lighter music as well. But 1 would "ay three or four years when i've really decided that it was production — but it's much better than English, which that's the limit of my contribution in terms of time. time to stop being a jack-of-all-trades and satisfying a is deadly. That's what 1 do best, so why should 1 push myself into lot of people who wanted me to do a lot of things and something 1 don't do so well. 1 should do the best that 1 really just saying: "1 want to do what 1 really feel is my Would you say that your non– Ukrainian audience is do and present that. 10 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY JULY З, 1983 No. 27 Ukrainian hockey update 9fik by lhor N. Stelmach ^ ^Nk

islanders deserve He especially figured as chief goal- with strong two-way play and gutty manage to win a game, their first ever. scoring killer in the semis and finais, aggressiveness (witness 54 penalty Dennis Maruk, for many years Mr. dynasty description when his several multiple goal games minutes), indeed, Kluzak rated fourth Capital, sees himself on way out of town squashed any Bruin and Oiler chances worst in PlM's during the playoffs. (story upcoming in future hockey The New York islanders rode behind for comebacks. Bossy absolutely excell– Remember defenseman Larry Melnyk? update) due to continuing change in the inspirational goaltending of Billy ed when it was most needed - his goals He spent the bulk of '82-83 toiling for team's chemistry. Dennis, big scorer for Smith, the underrated contributions of put the isles ahead and kept them there. the Skipjacks of Baltimore, but was many seasons, only netted 1-1-2 in four Bob Bourne, John Tonelli and the A decisive performance by a decisive beckoned to Boston when the hurts hit a games, most of which spent skating at Sutter brothers, plus the clutch solid performer. All in all. probably out– couple of Boston backliners. They used left-wing, instead of valuable center ice play of veteran stars Bryan Trottier, shined Gretzky in the finals. him in 11 games and he played not spot. Denis Potvin and super-Uke Mike Bossy great, yet not shabby. VANCOUVER: Went from 1981-82 to capture their fourth straight Stanley EDMONTON: Came a lew steps further than last year, making it all the CH1CAGO: Black Hawks played finals to barely made-it-in participants Cup. past their potential until coming up this past year - Ukrainian Stan Smyl it was a surprisingly easy battle way to the final round. Of course, the competition is considerably stiffer out versus Gretzky's Oilers. Rookie coach notwithstanding, folks. Mr. Canuck against the wunderkind from Edmon– Orval Tessier did wonders with well- kept it going right up to the last whistle ton and his supporting cast of Oilers. here in the East. Nonetheless, were it not for the second-winded strength of disciplined defensive style of hockey in with scoring, hitting and hustle (3-2-5 Billed as the Bossy-Gretzky Showdown Windy City. Main man was Ukrainian and 12 PlM in four games). on these very pages, this year's cup the islanders, the Oilers would have easily been crowned champs. Their Tommy Lysiak (6-7-13 in 13 games) To wrap it up, tops in goals was a finals were entertaining, exciting and who scored, checked, set up, inspired Ukrainian (Bossy); tops in assists was a quite eventful. The champions proved firepower was, is and will continue to be second to none. Gretzky, Messier, Kurri and led his team from day one last Ukrainian (Gretzky); tops in total to one and all that the regular season in October. Giving good aid was old points was the same guy who was tops in the NHL does not necessarily bring out and others can shoot, score, shoot, score - better than all the rest. Their rookie Steve Ludzik, who earned a assists (a Ukrainian); tops in being a bad the best among the circuit's more super greater role in Chicago's scheme of guy was a Ukrainian (Semenko, most clubs. Coming off a rather complacent regular season and playoff season stats proved this point. Gretzky, of course, operations as the season went on. penalty minutes). Not too bad! A clean regular campaign, the defending champs Ludzik scored surprisingly well in sweep of the 1983 Stanley Cup playoff of the past three years roared into high led all scorers in total points and assists (12-26-38 in only 16 games). His 12 playoffs (3-5-8 in 13 games) and scrap– statistical top spots by our very own gear once Lord Stanley's Cup became ped his way to 20 minutes in penalties. Ukrainian artists. the issue at hand, and those islanders goals were good enough for fourth over all. The key contribution here was the BUFFALO: Rated as another over-all maintained a high-geared performance Tkaczuk gives up post until the Stanley Cup was very much in assist column — notice he accounted for surprise simply because of extreme their hands for yet another year. goals scored by mates at an almost two- youth. Rookie Dave Andreychuk, a a-day clip. Unheard of, especially in Uke, scored his first Stanley Cup play- A New York Ranger era has ended. A This hockey writer had it billed as a post-season play. Fellow Ukrainian and off goal ever. link with the past has been broken. For Boston-Edmonton finale with the^Ed– Wayne's personal bodyguard;enforcer M1NNESOTA: Disappointed right the first time in 15 years, Ukrainian montonians coming out on top. Sorry Dave Semenko led all NHL'ers in straight through. Tough rookie de- Walt Tkaczuk no longer will be a part of Wayne, Dave (Semenko) and Oiler penalty minutes during the playoffs, fender Dan Mandich played in seven the Ranger organization as player or fans. Sorry 'Cruisin' K', Gordie (Kluzak) managing to accumulate 69 minutes in playoff games. coach. and Bruin fans. Way to go all you 15 matches. Amid all the hoopla and ST. LOU1S: Lasted four games into "ill be leaving. 1 won't be coming Ukrainians out on the island — your controversy over stick-swinging goalie post-season competition, playing on back next season," assistant coach faith and perseverance rivaled those of Billy Smith going after Oilers in front of despite not knowing where or if team Tkaczuk said on Thursday, May 19. coach Al Arbour and his crew from the net, the promised confrontations will even exist next year. Bernie Walt was Herb Brooks' bench assis– Uniondale. Today the New York lslan– with tough-guy Semenko never came to Federko led the Blues' way with 2-3-5 tant for the last two seasons after an eye ders are being compared in the same be. Just as well, for it would have points in the four contests, valuable injury forced him to end his playing breath with the Toronto Maple Leafs in detracted from the over-all quality of Mike Zuke garnered a goal. Wayne career in 1981. "it's not a case of me not their heyday and the recently legendary hockey play and attracted additional Babych didn't even see any playoff liking the Ranger organization any Montreal Canadiens - both teams bad ink on unnecessary goonery in the action. more or them not wanting me-any perennial NHL champions for a whole already besmudged NHL. TORONTO: Somehow made it in, more," the former Ranger captain said, lot of consecutive years during their "l'm leaving because 1 want to keep an respective glory seasons. and Walt Poddubny, a sure-bet future BOSTON: Seemed destined to at Maple Leaf star, notched three goals eye on my business activities outside Another dynasty? Well, to win the least make the final twosome. Unfor– and four points in four games for fellow hockey, the farm 1 have in Canada and cup four years in a row, basically tunately, the top team during the Ukrainian head coach Mike Nykoluk. my hockey school." playing with the same cast of characters regular season couldn't overcome the Like the way Harold Ballard has stuck The 35-year-old Tkaczuk wants to each year, sounds like a dynasty to me. lateblooming coming-together of the with Nykoluk during his complete coach again. "1 want to try my hand at No other professional sports franchise islanders. Still, a major surprise and rebuilding of his Toronto squad. Here's coaching, try to get a job coaching a has managed to put together anything definite future force to be reckoned with one case where the coach isn't or wasn't junior team in Canada," he admitted, remotely comparable. And don't forget around the league. Did suffer several fired automatically because his team "l"ve been a Ranger a long time, been our own Mike Bossy, Ukrainian ls– crippling injuries among blue-line was totally inept. through a lot and still love the Rangers, lander, rates pretty high up (if not personnel right at beginning of playoffs. it's going to be strange not being with highest) as a key family member of this Received scintillating efforts from WINNIPEG: speaking of inepmess, them anymore, but 1 have to get my life dynasty. Without his goal scoring, rookies Mike Krushelnyski(8-6-l4in 17 rated along with Minnesota as big flop; together in other ways." leadership and now, defensive fore- games) and Gord Kluzak (1-4-5 in 17 this year. Morris Lukowich was out hurt for ail of last couple of months. Good luck, Walt Tkaczuk! We say checking, it probably would have been games). Krushelnyski merely continued you'll make a great juniors coach, and Gretzky A Co. skating around in circles, amazing play as carry-over from strong Dale Hawerchuk was top Jet playoff scorer (1-4-5 in only three games) while some day wouldn't be surprised to see hoisting the Stanley Cup in their arms. regular season of rookie year. Kluzak, you back behind an NHL bench as top however, really showed his true value big Dave Babych managed no points Let's take a final look at how NHL while on ice. honcho for, who knows, maybe even clubs fared in the 1983 Stanley Cup when called upon to skate a regular turn your dear New York Rangers! playoffs, Ukrainian-style. on defense when the injuries hit. Held WASHINGTON: inaugural playoff Still to come: annual awards issue N.Y. 1SLANDERS: Bossy led every– back all season due to inexperience of year came to abrupt hault at hands of and more. one with 17 goals and finished fifth in youth, this rookie rearguard justified champion islanders, though Caps did total scoring (17-9-26in only 19games). his top amateur selection in the '82 draft Final Ukrainian Stanley Cup scoring

PLAYER TEAM GP G A PTS РІМ W. Gretzky Edmonton 16 12 26 38 4 SOYUZIVKA TENNIS SEASON M. Bossy N.Y. islanders 19 17 9 26 10 M. Krushelnyski Boston 17 8 6 14 12 T. Lysiak Chicago 13 6 7 13 8 1983 S. Ludzik Chicago 13 3 5 8 20 D. Hawerchuk Winnipeg 3 1 4 5 8 USCAK East July 2-4 S. Smyl vancouver ' 4 3 2 5 1? B. Federko St. Louis 4 2 3 5 0 Doubles — August 6-7 G. Kiuzak Boston 17 1 4 5 54 USCAK Nationals September 2-5 W. Poddubny Toronto 4 3 1 4 0 D. Maruk Washington 4 1 1 2 4 UNA invitational Septem ber 17-18 D. Semenko Edmonton 15 1 1 . 2 69 Doubles for Plast senior men September 24-25 D. Andreychuk Buffalo 4 1 0 1 4 M. Zuke St. Louis 4 1 0 1 4 KLK October 8-9 D. Babych Winnipeg 3 0 0 0 0 D. Mandich Minnesota 7 0 0 0 ? L. Melnyk Boston 11 0 0 0 9 No. 27 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY JULY З. 1983 u Bishop Losten, 300 faithful, honor the Rev. Sharanevych on 50th

HEMPSTEAD. NY. Some 300 Andrey Shcptytsky at St. George's Pawluk, chairman of the Banquet guests joined Bishop Basil Losten and Cathedral in Lviv. Committee, welcomed parishioners and other clergy in honoring the Rev. Emil After serving as pastor in the town of guests. The toastmaster for the evening Sharanevych ol St. viadimir's Ukrai– Horodek. he taught religion at a secon– was parishioner Walter Atlas, president nian Catholic Church here on the 50th dary school in Ternopil and later in of the church committee. anniversary of his ordination on May Berezhany. During World War 11, he Among the speakers honoring the 22. went to Bavaria to meet the religious jubilarian were Bishop Losten. Mykola Observances began at 3 p.m. with a needs of Ukrainians sent to Germany as Kurczak, a member of the Banquet divine liturgy celebrated by Bishop forced laborers. After 18 months, how– Committee; Msgr. Leon Mosko. rector Losten and the Rev. Sharanevych. ever. he was barred from exercising his of St. Basil College Seminary in Assisting were the Revs. Emil Mo– priestly duties by the German authori– Stamford, Conn.; and the Rev. Wojnar. nastersky. Malelius Wojnar. Taras ties. A papal blessing honoring the Rev. Galonzka. Roman Golemba and Dea– When the American Army occupied Sharanevych for 50 years of devoted con Bohdan Karas. The Revs. Galonzka Germany, the Rev. Sharanevych re– service was presented by Tessie Paw luk. and Golemba were former altar boys at sumed his work as a priest, and in l')49 chairlady of the banquet committee. the Boston church where the Rev. he emigrated to the United Slates with Entertainment for the evening was Sharanevych was once pastor. his wife Daria and two daughters. Dada provided by the church choir under the Responses for the liturgy were sung and Marta. direction of soprano Deni.se Marusevych by St. viadimir's Church Choir directed His initial assignment was in Shamo– Magyar. Parishioners Leon and Lesia by Stephen Marusevich. kin. Pa., and he later served in parishes Shmorhun then performed a violin Father Sharanevych was born in 1907 in Detroit, Boston and Auburn, N.Y. duet, which was followed by a recitation in Ukraine. His father, the postmaster When his wife passed away, he rcquest– by Motria Mac. The Skomorokhy The Rev. Emil Sharanevych general of Mosty velyki, was the son ed a transfer and was assigned to St. dancers, directed by Roma Pryma Hempstead Supervisor Thomas of a Ukrainian priest. The Rev. Sha– viadimir's on November 1, 1968. Bohachevsky. capped the evening's Gulotta and Mayor George Milhim ranevych's grandfather on his mother's in his 14 years as pastor, the Rev. program. presented the Rev. Sharanevych with side was also a priest. The honoree also Sharanevych has dedicated his efforts Congratulatory letters from relatives special citations. A special citation from had a sister, the late Natalia Smerecky, to improving the parish. He has com– and friends were then read by Messrs. Patriarch Josyf Slipyj was also read and and a brother, volodymyr, now a pletely renovated the church and rectory, Kurczak and Atlas, as well as by presented to the jubilarian. retired teacher in Ukraine. as well as the church grounds, and he Bohdan Kurczak and Walter Szpaczyn– The Rev. Sharanevych then thanked After graduating from the local oversaw the building of a beautiful sky.– Citations and proclamations honor– those present for helping him celebrate school in Mosty velyki and high parish center. ing the Rev. Sharanevych were received the occasion. The festivities closed with school, the Rev. Sharanevych entered After the liturgy, a jubilee banquet from Gov. Mario Cuomo of New York a benediction by the Rev. George the Theological Academy in Lviv. He was held at the center. After the invoca– and Nassau County Executive Prancis Binkowsky of Brooklyn, and the sing– was ordained a priest by Metropolitan tion by Msgr. Peter Skrincosky. John T. Purcell. ing of "Mnohaya Lita."

collective and slate farms, in the libraries and the Soviet Union and, in the fall of communism. May 1933 schools, Ukrainian nationalists are established. Ukraine expects her freedom." (Continued from page 7) Thanks to the neglect of the Commissariat for On May 17, Svoboda reported: "The Moscow Spreads." The news reports had come from Agriculture and Education, the Ukrainian Campaign Against Ukrainian Nationalism Moscow to Berlin and then were passed on to nationalists have succeeded in receiving influen– Expands." This new report spoke about the Svoboda. The reports stated that Soviet pea– tial posts in the party machine and in this way arrests of Ukrainian intelligentsia, calling them sants were more and more adamant in their exercise influence on the Communist Party in "Petliurist intellectuals." battle for bread. The battle was more organized, Ukraine. These tactics of the Ukrainian nationa– with leaders organizing riots at Soviet food lists are very similar to those of the kulaks." The On May 20, Svoboda ran the news that the stores and peasants robbing food transport cars Soviet village correspondents continued: 18th Convention of the Ukrainian National to get at least a few morsels of food, the German "The Ukrainian nationalists are using the Association wrote letters to the Russian govern– press reported. Peasants caught stealing were crisis in agriculture which has been in existence ment and all European ambassadors, "protcst– executed, both clandestinely and in broad for such a long time to try to persuade the ing the exile of Ukrainians from Russia," to daylight! Often the homes of the peasants were peasants that this crisis has only come about Siberia. The news item stated that the letters ransacked while they were out in the fields. from collectivization and that collectivization represent І.5 million Ukrainians in the United The news reports also stated that the general leads to catastrophe in agriculture. Criticism of States. belief was that the peasants' revolts would grow Stalin's agricultural policy is very clearly On May 23, the Chicago Tribune office in larger and more spontaneous in character; it intermingled with nationalist Ukrainian propa– Riga, Latvia, reported that Mikhail Kalinin, would be more difficult to suppress the move– ganda against the Moscow authorities." chairman of theCcntral Executive Committee of ment of millions of the masses, if there was even The Ukrainian Bureau commented on this the USSR, and vyacheslav Mblotov, premier of a mediocre harvest, the state would see none of news, saying: the USSR, had traveled through the Soviet the. grain until after the peasants were fed, the "The people have been starving for many Union and witnessed the extent of the famine. German newspaper reported, it added that the months and even leading Communist circles The newspaper reported that the two Soviet most catastrophic situation faced by the Soviets have lost faith in the regime. That Ukraine is hit leaders saw cannibalism and the spread of was in Ukraine, where the population "refuses to particularly hard by famine is understandable. typhoid throughout the country. die as quietly as it did in 1921-22." The Moscow government was anxious in the first place to make provision for the workers and On May ІЗ. news from Prague, Czecho– the Red Army as these elements are the main slovakia. reached Svoboda. it stated that the supports of the Soviet regime. Therefore Around the world: і Soviet regime was once again readying itself for everything was taken from the peasants in the President Franklin D. Roosevelt issued a court trials against Ukrainian academics, and conviction that the peasants could always worldwide appeal to 54 countries to unite and to writers. The Soviets were scheduled to bring to manage somehow. And even if 100,000 peasants strive toward better economic conditions. His trial members of what they called a "newly perish, that, according to the Communist appeal was met with great favor by almost all uncovered nationalist organization which had outlook, is not a great misfortune. nations. One nation wary of this statement was recently published a Ukrainian dictionary "Such a system could last one, two. three years France, which questioned whether the United exclusive of words with Russianj"oots." The without catastrophe. The reports of the English States would remain on the sidelines, or get Soviets stated that this was done intentionally to and American correspondents who have traveled actively involved in this worldwide struggle for separate the Moscow "brother language from in Ukraine and gotten in touch with peasants economic stability. the Ukrainian language, thus causing a split give us a picture of need before which all As Hitler's attacks on the Jews intensified, the between the two nations." The Soviet regime previous accounts pale. For many months on American Jewish Congress organized protests also reported that the Ukrainians advocated end the people have no bread. Acorns and the and demonstrations in the United States, in mid- switching to the Latin alphabet in order to bring roots of various plants and at best oil cake May. Jews and their sympathizers, marched in Ukraine closer to the rest of Europe. provide the daily fare of the Ukrainian people. New York (100.000 people), in Chicago (50.000) On May 16. Svoboda published an article in But even these substitute foods are coming to and in Philadelphia (20.000). English from the Ukrainian Bureau in London. and end and it is still a long time to the next Asking fora halt to lndia's pacifist waragainst Following are a few excerpts from the article. harvest. Great Britain. Mohandas Gandhi once again "Moscow (so it is said in the Soviet press) has "Every alteration in the international situation went on one of his numerous hunger strikes, taken up a ruthless fight against Ukrainian awakens in Ukraine a new hope that it might severely endangering his health. nationalism which, in spite of repression, was cause the fall of the Soviet government. For that On May 7, 150.000 Ukrainian youths from able to assert itself in the most varied forms and reason also Hitler's seizure of power in Ger– western Ukraine marched through the streets of is opposing Moscow's efforts toward unifica– many has made a very great impression. For. Lviv, participating in the "Youth for Christ" tion. in the most recent issue of the newspaper apart from his attitude towards the Ukrainian convention organized by Metropolitan Andrey Komsomolska Pravda. letters were published question, they see him an enemy of communism Sheptytsky. The youths, dressed in Ukrainian from village correspondents in Ukraine in which who has all but succeeded in dealing the death- embroidered shirts and carrying blue and gold a picture of the real situation may be found. blow to communism in Germany. The downfall banners, marched through the city, sending the Everywhere in Ukraine - so it is said in this of communism in Germany means at the same Polish officials into a rage over the massive news from the village correspondents - in the time a great weakening of communism in the demonstration. mmm 12 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY JULY З, 1983 No. 27

level by making funds available to branches and districts for the purpose of Greetings, resolutions... establishing fraternal activities programs. The UNA Fraternal Activities Fund can (Continued from page 5) be patterned after the grant concept used by universities, institutions and RESOLUTION ON CULTURAL MATTERS governments to promote desirable activities, such as research, cultural endeavors, etc. For the first experimental year, a sum of 55,000 would be allocated for subsidies (Approved on the proposal of the Cultural Affairs Committee.) to districts and branches that apply, clearly delineating objectives. 2. Simultaneously establish a matching-fund program through which the UNA The UNA Supreme Assembly obliges the Supreme Executive Committee to: will match the sum raised by a branch or district for fraternal activities. Branches l„Finalize in the near future the creation of a UNA Cultural Committee in and districts would be awarded aid from the Fraternal Activities Fund or matching– accordance with previous resolutions. funds program on the basis of an agreement which would obligate them to: a) spend 2. Empower the committee to review existing cultural obligations, needs and the funds in accordance with the proposal or return the funds should the proposal possibilities and prepare a basic plan to actualize them in the long or short term. not be implemented; b) submit a semiannual activities report to the UNA main office. RECOMMENDATIONS ON EDUCATIONAL-RESEARCH MATTERS 3. Examine possibilities of forming a separate UNA structure of members (Approved on the proposal of the Educational-Research Committee.) between the ages of 25 and 40. 4. See to it that a fraternal activities handbook is compiled and published. The UNA Supreme Assembly recommends that the Supreme Executive 5. Once again examine the possibility of purchasing a Soyuzivka-type resort in Committee: the Midwest. 1. See to it that American citizens, especially national, state and local government leaders, are informed about the problems and matters that are of RECOMMENDATIONS ON SPORTS concern and importance to Ukrainian Americans. 2. Prepare, publish and disseminate printed materials on topics of interest to the (Approved on the recommendation of the Sports Committee.) Ukrainian American community. 3. Coordinate research into problems that affect the Ukrainian American The Supreme Assembly recommends that the Supreme Executive Committee: community. 1. Allot a budget of S 10.000 to the Sports Committee for 1983. 4. Cooperate with other American ethnic groups in support of matters of mutual 2. Continue sponsoring sports events at Soyuzivka, such as tennis and swimming concern. competitions, and to award trophies and medals to deserving athletes and UNA T– shirts to all competitors. RECOMMENDAT10NS ON WOMEN'S AFFAIRS 3. Continue material and financialsuppor t for various tournaments - both local and national — such as bowling, golf, soccer, volleyball, basketball, baseball, chess (Approved on the proposal of the Women's Committee.) and others, organized by members, branches, districts and the UNA Sports Committee. The UNA Supreme Assembly recommends that the Supreme Executive 4. Continue to cooperate with and assist sports and youth organizations, whose Committee: members are UNA'ers, and in particular, those that have separate UNA branches. 1. Encourage UNA branches and individual members to actively participate in 5. Prepare T-shirts with UNA emblems for distribution to UNA sports activists. actions to commemorate the SOth anniversary of the Great Famine and the memory of the millions of victims who perished in Ukraine. Plan, when and where needed, RECOMMENDATIONS ON SOYUZIVKA proper solemn programs, making use of accessible publications on the subject, in particular The Ukrainian Weekly's March 20 special issue on the Great Famine. (Approved on the proposal of the Committee on the Expansion of Soyuzivka.) 2. Remind members to enroll and insure their children, grandchildren, relatives and friends in the UNA. The Supreme Assembly recommends that the Supreme Executive Committee: 3. Continuously remind branches of their responsibilities toward widows, 1. Establish family rates for stays at Soyuzivka; adjust the costs for the third and widowers, orphans and the needy; and to remember the needs of and visit the fourth members of a family, as well as children, and especially for families with infirmed. many children. 4. Continue , to sponsor two needy children, members of the UNA between the 2. Establish directives for work at Soyuzivka and determine the exact ages of 7 and 11, for participation in summer camps at Soyuzivka. Costs will be responsibilities and powers of the Soyuzivka manager. covered by the UNA. 3. Set up a UN A room at Soyuzivka, which would display information about the 5. To see to it that branches collect names and addresses of preschool children UNA. and send them three-month complimentary subscriptions to veselka. 4. Negotiate with the Shevchenko Scientific Society as to the purchase of its land which borders Soyuzivka. RECOMMENDAT10NS ON UNA SEN10RS' AFFA1RS 5. Study the possibilities of expanding such buildings as Odessa and others. (Approved on the proposal of the Seniors' Committee.) 6. Prepare a long-range plan for Soyuzivka as soon as possible, and no later than bythe 1984 annual meeting of the Supreme Assembly. The Supreme Assembly recommends that the Supreme Executive Committee: 7. Once again look into the possibility of establishing a Soyuzivka-type resort in 1. Promptly begin the building of UNA seniors' housing at Soyuzivka, a the Midwest states. recommendation approved years ago by the Supreme Assembly, and do everything possible so that this building is completed no later than 1984. RECOMMENDATIONS ON CANADIAN AFFAIRS 2. Appeal to the UNA Seniors' Association, district executive boards and branches to unite all UN A senior members in order to assure their material, medical (Approved on the proposal of the Canadian Affairs Committee.) and social well-being and to foster their activity in the UNA and Ukrainian The UNA Supreme Assembly recommends that the Supreme Executive community. Committee: 3. Aid, financially if need be, the Seniors' Committee and the UNA Seniors' 1. in view of the fact that the 30th UNA Convention in 1982 approved an Association in their tasks. appropriate recommendation in regard to the preparation of amendments to the 4. Support the resolutions approved at the ninth convention of the UNA Seniors' UNA By-Laws concerning the status of the UNA in Canada, and in view of the fact Association held in May 1983 and help achieve tRe convention's proposals. that, in conjunction with the merger of the UNA and the Ukrainian Fraternal Association, there is a possibility that an Extraordinary UNA Convention may be RECOMMENDATIONS ON YOUTH AFFAIRS convened in the fall of 1984 in order to bring about this merger and that a joint by- (Approved on the proposal of the Youth Affairs Committee.) laws committee will be established to prepare a proposed constitution and by-laws, and rules and regulations of the united Ukrainian National Fraternal Association, The UNA Supreme Assembly recommends that the Supreme Executive the proposals prepared by the UNA's Canadian Representation should be turned Committee: over to this joint by-laws committee. 1. Continue moral and financial support to all Ukrainian youth, student and 2. Continue work on the preparation and publication of an illustrated almanac professional organizations, all academic, cultural, sports and social clubs; and give on the UNA in Canada, as proposed earlier by the Canadian Representation. direct and indirect support, for example, the use of Soyuzivka facilities and space 3. Review the proposal of the Canadian Representation in regard to the on the pages of Svoboda and The Ukrainian Weekly. participation of all its members in the October 1983 congress of the Ukrainian 2. Provide moral and financial aid for the Panorama of Ukrainian Youth Canadian Committee. programs which take place at Soyuzivka and this year's program slated for July 7- 4. Review the proposal by the Canadian Representation regarding meetings of all 10. its members at least three times per year. 3. Begin a program to identify the characteristics and needs of Ukrainians between the ages of 25 and 40; utilize U.S. Census Bureau statistics. RECOMMENDATION REGARDING BOHDAN ZORYCH 4. initiate new fraternal activities programs for young Ukrainians. 5. Encourage youth to participate in cultural courses at Soyuzivka and to (Approved on the proposal of Supreme Advisor Wasyl Didiuk.) support these courses. 6. Support all actions aimed at commemorating the 50th anniversary of the Great The UNA Supreme Assembly recommends that the Supreme Executive Famine in Ukraine, and encourage youth participation in these programs. Committee take into account the salary paid to Bohdan Zorych as a UNA organizer 7. Formulate a program of awarding full scholarships to needy students, and later as chief agent of the UN A in Canada and include this in the pension fund, members of the UNA, who study business administration or journalism. on the basis of which Mr. Zorych can receive a regular pension or a lump-sum pay– ment. , RECOMMENDATlONS ON FRATERNAL ACTiviTlES RECOMMENDATlON REGARDiNG THE PURCHASE OF LAND (Approved on the proposal of the Fraternal Activities Committee.) (Approved on the proposal of Supreme Advisor Walter Kwas.) The UNA Supreme Assembly recommends that the Supreme Executive Committee: The UNA Supreme Assembly recommends that the Supreme Executive 1. Establish a UNA Fraternal Activities Fund Program, if possible effective July Committee reach agreement with the Shevchenko Scientific Society regarding the 1. The objective of this fund would be to revitalize fraternal activities on the local price of its land that borders on Soyuzivka and that this land be purchased. No. 27 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY JULY З, 1983 Fund-raising continues for Tucson church New Ukrainian church in Solon slated to be finished in October

SOLON, Ohio The RON. Steven complete the details of the selected Zarichny, pastor of St. Man's Ukrai– design. nian Catholic Church here, recent!) The new church will have a seating signed a construction contract with capacity ol 250 people. The church Capitol Contractors lor the new church interior will be designed to maintain the and Social Hall Complex religious traditions ol the Ukrainian Construction is targeted for comple– Byzantine Rite and will include mosaic lion by the end of October. icons of Jesus Christ and the Mother ol The building project for the new St. God. Provisions have been made lor the Mary's Ukrainian Catholic Church and installation .of a future icon screen or Social Hall complex began with the iconostas. A gold dome, also in the purchase of 7.7 acres al land on Aurora tradition ot the Ukrainian Byzantine Road by then pastor, the Res. James Rite, is planned lor (he bell tower and Melnic. in June 1980 with the proceeds will be visible from Auro: і Road. from the sale of the old St. Mary's The social hall will have complete properly on East 105th Street in Cleve– kitchen facilities and will seat 300. A land. parking lot will accommodate 100 cars Л historic event in the life ol St. St. Mary's bingo, hall rentals, pyrohv Mary's Church occurred on September sales and.other activities will help 7. І980. when groundbreaking cere- generate income. The parishioners of St. Michael's Ukrainian Catholic Church in Tucson, monies were performed by the Rev. Al present. St. Mary's holds divine Ariz., have been actively fund raising during the spring months. They are Michael Fedorowich. dean of Ohio, liturgy daily at 9 a.m. in the parish steadily working toward their goal of a new church, in the photo above: Mrs. representing Archbishop Myroslav chapel located on the parish property. T. Tkachyk presents the Rev. A. Mykyta a check in the sum of S3,500. l.ubachivsky. then metropolitan of Sunday divine liturgy is celebrated at Donations for the building of the first Ukrainian church in southern Arizona Ukrainian Catholics in the United 11:30 a.m. at St. Eugene's Byzantine may be sent to: St. Michael's, P.O. Box 12745, Tucson, Ariz. 85732. Stales Catholic Church. 264 Warrensville A building committee was formed Center Road in Bedford, Ohio. and the process ol selecting a design and St. Mary's has been served by the an architect was initiated. A simple Revs. Walter Kachmar. (founding HURl accepting Cenko Prize entries functional design lor a single structure pastor of St. Mary's). John Orysh– containing both a church and social hall kewych. Michael Rewtiuk (temporary was selected to meet the needs and administrator). James Melnic and CAMBR1DGE, Mass. - The Har– graphical scholarship. means of a small parish. The building Steven Zarichny. vard Ukrainian Research institute is The committee retains the right to committee, after interviewing several Donations mav be made to St accepting entries for the fourth award of award the prize individually or jointly architects and reviewing their proposals Mary's Building f-und. 27275 Aurora the Cenko Prize in Ukrainian Biblio– or to withhold the prize until the next and philosophies, chose Richard A Road. Solon. Ohio 44139. lor lurther graphy. The Si,000 annual prize, esta– academic year. The winner or winners Beck A Associates of Willoughbv. information contact the Rev Zarichn) blished by Mykola and volodymyra will be announced at Harvard Univer– Ohio, as the architect best suited to al (216) 248-4549. Cenko of Philadelphia, will be given for sity no later than June 1984. the best bibliographical work on a topic Entries should be sent by registered of Ukrainian studies. mail to: Cenko Prize in Ukrainian Looking for a second income? Entries - in English or in Ukrainian Bibliography, Harvard University, - must be submitted in four copies by Ukrainian Research institute, 158І- March l, 1984. Manuscripts must be in 1583 Massachusetts Ave., Cambridge, Become their final pre-publication form, with Mass. 02138. AN 0R6AN1ZER names and addresses of authors. Published works and late submissions for the will not be considered. Ukrainian National Association Examples of solicited entries are: Share descriptive bibliographical essays or FULL or PART ТІМЕ annotated bibliographies of a subject or For information write to: author; index of a Ukrainian periodical; Ukrainian National Association or more general works which discuss the The Weekly Organizing Department impact of the printed book on Ukrai– 30 Montgomery St. nian culture. 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JTHE ANN U A L STAMFORD. Conn. - Bishop Basil H. Losten оґіЬе Stamford Diocese of Ukrainian Catholics, officiated at and TENNIS AND SWIMMING COMPETITION delivered the commencement addressat the graduation exercises of Mother of . at SOYUZIVKA God Academy on Saturday afternoon. June 4. September 2, 3, 4, and 5, 1983 (Labor Day Weekend) The bishop also presented the diplo– mas and awards to the graduating class. Assisting at the prayer service to the TENNIS TOURNAMENT THE INTERNATIONAL Mother of God, which is a part of the for individual CHAMPlONSHlPS of USCAK SWIMMING COMPETITION exercises, were Msgr. Leon Mosko. and trophies of the rector, and the Rev. John Terlecky, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER З, 1983 at 11 a.m. UKRAINIAN NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, SOYUZIVKA, librarian, procurator and bursar, both (INCLUDING THE B. RAK MEMORIAL TROPHY), for INDIVIDUAL CHAMPIONSHIPS, of St. Basil's College in Stamford. The SVOBODA, THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY and the spons– UNA TROPH1ES and R1BBONS academy A Capella Choir sang the manship Trophy of MRS. MARY DUSHNYCK responses. in the folloving events for hoys and girls: Qualifications: This competition is open to any player Josephine Fusaro was valedictorian, whose club is a member of USCAK. - Singles matches are 8-Ю and 11-12 age groups and Elizabeth lleczko was salutatorjan. scheduled in the folloving division: Men, Women, Women (35 25 m. freestyle Awards given at the commencement and over). Junior vets (35-44). Senior Men (45- and 55), Junior 50 m. freestyle (Boys and Girls). exercises included: Bishop Basil Losten 25 m. breaststroke Award in Memory of Archbishop Juniors are persons aged 18 and under, while seniors are 25 m. backstroke those over 45 years of age. Ambrose Senyshyn to Miss Fusaro; F. 25 m. butterfly G. Brady Music Award to Micheline Registration for tennis matches, including name, age, 4 x 25 m. freestyle relay divisions and the fee of S!O.OO should be send to: Marie Baptichon; Hubbard Heights Drama Award to Miss Fusaro; Stam– UKRAINIAN NATIONAL ASSOCIATION ford Police Anchor Club Branch 25 c7o Miss Anya Dydyk 13-14 age group 30 Montgomery St., Citizenship Award to Misses lleczko Jersey City, N. J. 07302 50 m. - freestyle and Fusaro; Corinne Boccuzzi 100 m. - freestyle Award for Merit to Katherine Theresa Registrations should be received no later than August 25. 50 m. - breaststroke 1983. No additional applications will be accepted before the Elizabeth Kenefic; Deegan Memorial 50 m. - backstroke Yearbook Editorship Award to Miss competitions, since the schedule or matches will be worked out 50 m. butterfly lleczko. ahead of time. 100 m. - individual medley . Earlier in the day a divine liturgy was SCHEDULE OF MATCHES: 4 x 50 m. - freestyle relay celebrated at the academy chapel by the 15 and over age group FR1DAY, September 2, Soyuzivka, 1:00 p.m. Men's pre– Rev. Terlecky. A communion breakfast liminary round. Players who must compete in this 50 m. - freestyle for the graduates and faculty was round will be notified by the tournament committee 100 m. - freestyle tendered by the class of 1984. bv Thursday. August 25. 50 m. — breaststroke SATURDAY, September 3, soyuzivka. 8:30 a.m. First 50 m. - backstroke round junior girls (all age groups), junior vets, senior men. 50 m. - butterfly women and women 35 and over. New Pallz. 8:30 a.m. 100 m. - individual medley New Perspectives Men's first round. Soyuzivka. 10:30 a.m. Juniors (all age 4 x 50 m. - medley relay groups). New Paltz. 10:30 a.m. Men's consolation round. Soyuzivka. 3:30 p.m. Senior men 55 and over. Time and Swimmers can compete in 3 individual events and one gets federal grant place of subsequent matches will be designated by relay. tournament director R. Rakotchyj, Sr. Registration will be held at the poolside on Saturday, Sep– Players in men's division, scheduled tocompete Friday but lember 3. starting at 9:30 a.m. Registration fee is S2.00 per TORONTO - Tuesday, May 24, unable to arrive on this day. as well as losers in the prelimenary person. marked the initiation of the training week of the 1983 New Perspectives round, can compete in the consolation round. Swim Meet Committee: R. SLYSH. O. NAPORA. G. Cultural Development Project. Spon– Because of limited time and the large number of entries. HRAB. J. RUBEL. C. KUSHN1R. 1. SLYSH. M. KRYSZ– sored by the Ukrainian National Youth players can compete in one group only they must indicate their TA1.SKY. B. and J. YAC1W. 1. SOCHAN. choice on the registration blank. Federation, the project is funded to a Players who fail to report for a scheduled match on time Swimmers should be members of sport and youth orga– large degree by the Ministry of Employ– will be defaulted. nizations which belong to the Ukrainain Sports Association ment and immigration - Summer (USCAK) Canada Student Employment Pro- Reservations should be made individually by the competitors by writing to: gram, it runs from May 16 to Septem– Soyuzivka, Ukrainian National Ass'n Estate, Kerhonkson, N. Y. 12446; (914) 626-5641 ber 2, 1983. The three students hired — project REGISTRATION FORM - TENN1S ONLY manager, journalist, and artist'type– Please cut out and send in with reg. fee of 510.00. setter - will be responsible for helping І N;imc: to enhance the content of the New Perspective newspaper and actively 2. Address: participating in the full production of a special August issue in addition to 3. Phone: regular monthly issues. 4. Date of birth: The S9,150 grant will be used to provide the three students with greater 5. Event age group: .... media skills and a further understand– ing of multiculturalism, the ethno– 6. Spurts club membership: cultural press, cthno-cultural affairs, Check payable tp; Kl K American Ukrainian Sports Club. Ukrainian Canadian endeavors and views.

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of witnesses, trick photos and totalita– that Tscherim Soobzokov, also exone– American resident began in Soviet Lydia DemjanjuL rian-type police methods totally un– rated has initiated a S10 million lawsuit Latvia? (Continued from psge e) acceptable by American standards..." against a subsidiary of The New York annual entry of up to 100 individuals 1 am in total agreement that the Times (the sponsor of her PD article) situation calls for an immediate Con– (such as Soviet defectors) if deemed Will Ms. Holtzman dispute or deny that Judge Roettiger also condemned for publicly defaming him as a "Nazi gressional investigation. Only by such necessary for the purpose of national war criminal"? Perhaps, this is only the an inquiry and by full disclosure can we defense or security. Surely, Ms. Holtz– the incredible sums of money that the OS1 is spending per case: "Never...has first of many such lawsuits for public understand the known and unknown man remembers this, inasmuch as she defamation. relationship of the OS1 with Soviet conducted Congressional hearings in an the court seen the government indulge in such expenses...Such expenses of the Will Ms. Holtzman dispute or deny authorities. Common sense dictates unsuccessful attempt to revoke Section that Dr. Hubertus Strughold, "The that the funds allocated to the OS1 that 8. taxpayer's treasure and talent have not occurred in this court's serious prosecu– Father of American Space Medicine," are wasted on these dubious ventures in the same vein, Ms. Holtzman tion." and Bishop vincentas Brizgys of Chi– could be better used in fighting Soviet speaks of a "centralized, professional cago were also investigated, and that subversion in the United States. prosecution team at the Justice Depart– Will Ms. Holtzman dispute or deny "for unclear reasons and in some cases ment" which investigates alleged Nazi that Frank Walus was exonerated of for no reason at all" were cleared of war- in conclusion, to equate the notorious war criminals. Obviously, she is re– war-time criminality after 11 non- time criminality allegations? Auschwitz doctor, Josef Mengele, with ferring to the OS1, the same office that American witnesses had testified that he Will Ms. Holtzman dispute or deny "American aid"as Ms. Holtzman has,is South Florida Federal Judge Norman was a Gestapo murderer in Poland? that the editor of a Soviet law journal a ludicrous, insulting and fictional C. Roettiger condemned for using "...des– m Will Ms. Holtzman dispute or deny published the statements of the prose– innuendo directed against my country potic tricks, paid informers, hearsay cutor, the defense and the final verdict that is not even worthy of a serious as evidence, lack of documentation, before the "in absentia" trial of an reply. blatantly perjured testimony, coaching lsydore Hlynka... (Continued from page 4) WANTED WANTED Hlynka received the Canadian Centen– Ukrainian groups... nial Medal in 1967 and the Shevchenko TYPESETTER Medal in 1968. PASTE-UP PERSON (Continued frompag e 3) He is survived by his wife Olga; two the Ukrainian Academy of Arts and sons, Myron of Edmonton, and Denis, NEWSPAPER EXPED1TORS Sciences; and Dr. Jaroslaw Padoch, with his wife Patricia and their sons to work 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. shift at SvOBODA PRESS. president of the Shevchenko Scientific Markian and Anthony, all of Winnipeg; Society. Good working conditions and benefits. Typing skill and knowlegde of English language his brother Kass; and two sisters, required. Apply in person at Also testifying that day, Kitty Carlisle Stephanie and Johanna. Funeral ser– Hart, chairperson of the State Council vices were held May 21, at Holy Trinity SVOBODA on the Arts, said that "all of us would Ukrainian Orthodox Cathedral in 30 Montgomery Street m Jersey City, N.J. 07302 ш (201) 434-0237 suffer in the long run" if these institu– Winnipeg. tions were taxed. However, Allen G. Schwartz, former corporation counsel for the city, said that these art, cultural and educational І There's no place like Soyuzivka institutions should not be exempted from property taxes, since the people The Ukrainian National who are active in such organizations SOYUZIVKA "can well afford to support them." Association RESORT The present corporation counsel, SUMMER Frederick A. O. Schwarz Jr., disagreed, in the Catskil Mountains, however, and sided with the over 100 1983 near Kerhonkson, N.Y. institutions represented at the hearing that opposed the mayor's policies. і SEASON OPENER: Saturday, August 20, 1983 8:30 p.m. - CONCERT. Jewish activist's... І Friday. July 1. 1983 І 10 p.m. - DANCE. Band: ALEX and DORKO NUSHA MARTYNUK. CARTER MCA0AMS, modem dancers (Continued from page 2) KATRYA ORANSKY-PETYK.. singer-actress who organized an unofficial "univer– І Saturday. July 2, 1983 10:00 p.m. - DANCE. Band; vODOHRAY sity" for the sons and daughters of other E 8:30 p.m. - CONCERT "refusenik" families barred from higher І "VERKHOWNA" vocal Ensemble from Toronto Saturday. August 27, 1983 education institutions because they had І 10:00 p.m. - DANCE. Bands: CHERvONA KALYNA. TEMPO 8:30 p.m. - CONCERT applied to emigrate. ANDRU OOBRlANSKY, bass-baritone in August 1982, police raided the І Sunday, July 3,1983 CHAMBER MUS1C TRlO: KALYNA, - Tarnopolsky apartment and those of І 8:30 p.m. - CONCERT HALYNA STR1LEC, THOMAS HRYNK1W, two other Jewish families and confis– і EDWARD EVANKO, tenor THOMAS HRYNKlW,accompanist NESTOR CYBR1WSKY І L1D1A HAWRYLUK. soprano cated books and papers. Cm March 15 10:00 p.m. - DANCE. Band: 1SKRA of this year, police again raided the Ш 10:00 p.m. - DANCE. apartment, this time arresting Mr. LABOR DAY WEEK-END: 5 Bands: CHERvONA KALYNA. ALEX and DORKO Tarnopolsky and confiscating letters Friday. September 2,1983 from relatives abroad. 8:30 p.m. - CONCERT Mrs. Tarnopolsky has said that І Saturday. July 9.1983 І 8:30 p.m. - CONCERT BULAvA - Kozak Entertainers from Toronto neither she nor her daughter have been І PANORAMA of YOUNG UKRA1N1ANS 1983 allowed to contact Mr. Tarnopolsky since his' arrest. 1 "THE ЕХНІВГГ, a one-act comedy І 10:00 p.m. - DANCE. Band: ALEX and DORKO 10:00 p.m. - DANCE

ATTENTION ATTENTION І Saturday. July 16, 1983 Saturday, September 3, 1983 ASK for these fine Ukrainian records and tapejatall І 8:30 p.m. - CONCERT 8:30 p.m. - CONCERT Ukrainian boot stores and fift shops. І 1YA MAC1UK HRYTSAY. soprano JOY BR1TTAN, singer from Las vegas Lubomyra vol. 2 - Luba Kowalchuk І DAR1A KARANOWYCZ. pianist JULIANA OSINCHUK. pianist Bandura - instrumental - 1 10:00 p.m. - DANCE. Band: BOHDAN H1RN1AK 10:00 p.m. - DANCE. Bands: TEMPO. vODOHRAY victor Mishalow І Saturday. July 23.1983 Snizynka - Trio Troyanda from Toronto Sunday,'September 4. 1983 і 8:30 p.m. - CONCERT 8:30 p.m. - CONCERT І dedicate this song - Ed Evanko І CHOlR and DANCE ENSEMBLE "S.U.M.K." from Edmonton Sviato Rizdva - Christmas JOY BR1TTAN. singer from Us vegas І 10:00 p.m. - DANCE. Band: TEMPO "SYZOKRYLT - Ukrainian Dance Ensemble Ballad of Zoryana - folk 8. love songs ROMA PRYMA-BOHACHEVSKY. choreographer Zoloti vorota - folk 8. love songs І І Saturday, July 30. 1983 Cheremosh Ensemble - dance music І 8:30 p.m. - CONCERT 10:00 p.m. - DANCE. Bands: TEMPO, ALEX and DORKO Byzantine Choir - Utrecht Holland І OLES KUZYSZYN Zoria - Lubomyra Kowalchuk vol. І і SOYUZIVKA ENSEMBLES -MISS SOYUZIVKA" ...Look for our new listing every month... І 10:00 p.m. - DANCE. Band: 1SKRA Saturday. September 17. 1983 Or order by Mail: Send S8.98 ' tl 25 postaft to 8:30 pjn. - CONCERT Ш Saturday. August 6, 1983 Yevshan Communications inc.. P.O. Box NAMYSTO, vocal Ensemble І 8:30 p.m. - CONCERT. DUMKA Choir 125. Station St Michel. Montreal. Quebec, 1RENA PELECH. pianist Canada H2A 3L9.^^^^^^^^' І 10:00 p.m. - DANCE. Band: ALEX and DORKO 10:00 p.m. - DANCE. Band: CHERvONA KALYNA Also: Subscribe to the only Ukrainian Musk Maga– І Saturday, August 13.1983 Program subject to change zine - Ukrainian Mmyka. (Quarterly). Sand 56 U.S. І 8:30 p.m. - CONCERT funds to the above address... Reviews, eom– І PAUL PUSHKA. bass The large air conditioned Dance Hall "TfESELKA" І THOMAS HRYNK1W. pianist nentaries. new artists, new records and everything SOYUZivKA: (914) 626-5641 you ever wanted to'know about musk. І 10:00 p.m. - DANCE. ІІІІІІІШІІШІІІІІІІІШІІІІІІІІІІІІІПІІІІШІІІШІІІНІІІІІІШІІІІІМІІІ" 16 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY JULY З, 1983 No. 27

Saturday .hrough Monday, July 30 time the exhibit will be displayed - August 1 PREVIEW OF EVENTS because of the great interest it gene- days at 5p.m Displays of Ukrainian different styles and forms of Ukrai– rated during the first showing from SUDBURY, Ont.: The Sudbury arts and crafts will be on view all nian dance. December 20. 1982. to January 18. Ukrainian Centennial Festival will weekend. Classes will be conducted in the The exhibit will be up during the be held this weekend at the Ukrai– On Sunday there will be cultural large verkhovyna recreation hall in month of July for the benefit of the nian National Federation Camp. displays including Ukrainian em- the mornings and afternoons. Mon– students attending Harvard's Ukrai– -7 iporizhzhia. in Richard Lake, it will broidery demonstrations. Ukrainian days through Saturdays. This curri– nian Summer institute. lea .ure games, swimming, Ukrainian Easter egg demonstrations as well as culum will also include a series of foods, ceramic and embroidery dis– a performance of Ukrainian dances lectures-demonstrations, not only in PREviEW OF EvENTS, a listing plays and an outdoor bake oven. by the Sacred Heart Ukrainian dance but in arts and crafts and art of Ukrainian community events open Performances will include the Dnipro Dancers at 4 p.m. All are welcome to appreciation. to the public, is a service provided Choir and veselka Ensemble of enjoy two days of Ukrainian food, free of charge by The Weekly to the music, dancing, fun and games. .dbury. the Kalyna Dancers and in addition to the daily class Ukrainian community. To have an Orchestra of Toronto and guest sessions, the dancers will also enjoy a event listed in this column, please soloist Oksana Rohatyn Makohon ADVANCE NOTICE number of recreational activities send information (type of event, of Toronto. A dance will highlight such as volleyball, soccer, swimming, date, time, place, admission, spon– Saturday evening, with the Zirka GLEN SPEY, N.Y.: Roma Pryma picnics, bonfires and a field trip. For sor, etc.). along with the phone Band providing dancing music. Bohachevsky will conduct two dance more information please write to: number of a person who may be For additional information please camps in the months of July and Ukrainian Dance Camp and Work- reached during daytime hours for write to: Ukrainian National Federa– August at the verkhovyna resort of shop, су о Roma Pryma Bohachev– additional information, to: PRE– tion, 130 Frood Road, Sudbury, the Ukrainian Fraternal Association. sky, 523 E. 14th St. Apt. 3B, New Y1EW OF EvENTS, The Ukrainian Ont., Canada; or call (705) 673-0890 The dance camp for beginners will York. N.Y. І0009; (212) 677-7187. Weekly, 30 Montgomery St., Jersey or 566-2899. run from July 24 through August 6; it City, N.J. 07302. will be for dancers age 7 to 13. The Saturday and Sunday, July 9 and 10 intermediate dance camp will be for ONGOING ages 10 through 16 and will run from PLEASE NOTE: Preview items CAMBRlDGE, Mass.: An exhibit must be received one week before CASTLE CREEK, N.Y.: Sacred August 7 to 20. highlighting the 350th anniversary of desired date of publication. No Heart Ukrainian Catholic Church The dance camp is designed to the Kiev Mohyla Academy will be on information will be taken over the will hold its annual Ukrainian Festi– attract youth from all parts of the display at the Widener Library lobby phone. Preview items will be publish– val Saturday, 2 to 10 p.m., and United States and Canada, which has of Harvard University from July 5 to ed only once (please note desired date Sunday, noon to 9 p.m., at the beginning or intermediate know- 30. Over 120 items, including 40 old of publication). All items arepubHsh– Sacred Heart Ukrainian Picnic ledge of Ukrainian dance. The camp Ukrainian printed books, one manu– ed at the discretion of the editorial Grounds on Brooks Road here. will provide the dancers with an script and three 17th century maps, staff and in accordance with available Ukrainian foods such as pyrohy. interesting program of intensive train– will be on view. This is the second space. holubtsi, kovbasa and kapusta. as ing. well as hamburgers, hot dogs and Emphasis will be placed mainly on fries will be served both days. Live developing the students'dance tech– music for dancing will begin on both nique and dancing ability by utilizing Panorama schedule is altered KERHONKSON, N.Y. - There has by the Western Press." been a schedule change in the program After a lunch break, presentations of Panorama of Young Ukrainians '83, will continue. At 2:30 p.m. Oleh in the Soyuzivka spotlight: July 7-10 which will take place July 7-Ю at Wolowyna of the University of Wiscon– Soyuzivka. sin will give a presentation titled "After KERHONKSON. N.Y. The which was produced by Slavko The panel discussions which were the Ukrainian Neighborhoods are Black Sea Kozaks, a cabaret trio Nowytski. The film, scheduled to be slated for Thursday and Friday, July 7 Gone: Demographics of the Ukrainian from Rochester, will lead off the shown at 3 p.m., documents the and 8, have been rescheduled for Fri– Community." At 3:45, he will speak on Panorama of Young Ukrainians settlement of Ukrainians in America. day and Saturday, July 8and9. "Ethnic and Religious intermarriage weekend on Thursday evening, July "The Exhibit." a one-act comedy The Panorama weekend will begin among Ukrainians in Canada." 7. at 9:30 p.m. The Kozaks. Andrij written in English by Laryssa Lauret, with a cabaret show performed by the The last lecture on Friday, at 5 p.m., Cehelsky, Myron Koval and Slavko will be presented at 8:30 p.m. it will Black Sea Kozaks of Rochester, N.Y., will focus on Ukrainians in U.S. and Wirlo, will perform an act that be performed by members of the on Thursday evening at 9:30 p.m. The Canadian politics, it will be given by combines folk songs, acrobatic U– Ukrainian National Association- panel discussion schedule for Eugene lwanciw, member of the U.S. kraiman dancing and humor. They Ukrainian institute of America Per– Friday. 10-11:30 a.m.. is: "The Ukrai– Senate Select Committee on lntelli– will be accompanied by accordionist forming Artists Group. nian Media and Communications," gence, and Andrii Krawchuk of Ottawa. Eugene Hryhorenko. The play depicts an artistic with speakers: Mykhailo Bociurkiw, On Saturday morning presentations dilemma faced by a kind-hearted On Friday at 8:30 p.m., the Black CKCU radio, Ontario; Oksana Dragan. will begin at 10 a.m. From 10 a.m. to Ukrainian American exhibit curator Sea Kozaks will once again enter- voice of America; Andriy Metil, 12:30 p.m. Oleh Myskiw of Career whose integrity forces him to reject tain the Soyuzivka audience. The WFUZ radio New York; Walter Lewy– Development Services will speak on the work of mediocre artists despite cky, New Perspectives newspaper, "The Untapped Goldmine: Networking evening program will also include an community pressure to do otherwise. appearance by vocalist Bohdan An– Ontario; Jurij Klufas, Ukrainian Tv Career Contacts in the Ukrainian A dance to the sounds of the Alex Community." drusyshyn, who will present a reper– Magazine, Ontario. and Dorko Band will begin at 10 p.m. toire of international folk songs, in From 11:30 a.m. until noon, Zenon At 3 p.m., "The Helm of Destiny," a On Sunday. July 10, at 2p.m. there І977, he released an album. "Dan– Onufryk of the Media Action Coalition 55-minute documentary on Ukrainians will be a "Meet the Artists Exhibit," will speak on "Why They Can't Get it in America produced by Slavko Nowyt– chyk," and has since given perfor– featuring a group of young Ukrai– mances in New York's Carnegie Straight — Misinformation about ski for the UNA, will be presented. nian American and Canadian artists. Ukraine in American Schools." Oksana Lukasewycz-Polon and Recital Hall, France, Poland and the At 3 p.m., the Panorama program Garden State Arts Center in New A 45-minute presentation by Thomas Lavro Polon will screen an original will present the lskra Orchestra in an audio-video production titled "An Jersey. Oleszczuk of Rutgers University will outdoor concert. follow. Prof. Oleszczuk will speak on Artist in His Own Time" at 4 p.m. Following the program, there will From 4 to 5 p.m., guests will be "Human Rights in Ukraine as Perceived At 5 p.m. a survey oh Ukrainian be a dance to the sounds of the able to enjoy the Canadian Ukrai– studies programs will be conducted with Soyuzivka Orchestra. nian Film Festival, featuring three Olya Andriewsky of Harvard Univer– Highlighting Saturday afternoon. movies, "The Strongest Man in the Surmach to appear sity, Petro Goyand Soniaezeregof the July 9, will be a showing of the UNA– World," "Streetcar "and "Ted Bary– Ukrainian Free University and Roman sponsored film "He4m of Destiny," luk's Grocery." Waschuk of the Canadian Ukrainian on "Today" show Studies program. The Black Sea Kozaks (left) and NEW YORK - NBC-TV'S "Today- Bohdan Andru– show will focus on Myron Surmach Sr. Seminary clean-up syshyn. and another senior citizen, irena Spross, in a July 4 segment on Ellis island and the immigrants who passed through slated by LUC that clearinghouse when they arrived in this country. WASHINGTON - ciean-up weeks Producer. Penelope Fleming was in at St. Josaphat's Seminary will be held the Surma Shop on East Seventh Street the last week in July and the first week with a camera crew last week, taking in August, the League of Ukrainian pictures of Mr. Surmach in the familiar Catholics executive board announced. surroundings of the store he founded. All persons interested in doing their Then the group went to Ellis island for share. LUC members and non-mem– an on-the-spot recording of Mr. Sur– bers, may contact Msgr. Walter Paska mach's reminiscences of his arrival. at St. Josaphat's Seminary, 201 Taylor The "Today" show airs at 7 a.m. on St. NE. Washington D.C.. 20017; or'call NBC. (202) 529-1177.

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