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chych, who was due to complete his Church included the sentencing in intensified repression in Ukraine second 15-year labor camp term in late 1982 of two Ukrainian Catholic October 1982, was re-arrested and priests, vasyl Kavaciv. 49, and Ro– 1983 was yet another woeful year was learned that Mr. Popadiuk was sentenced in January to an addi– man Esip, 32, both of whom received for dissidents and religious activists sentenced to 15 years' imprison– tional two and a half years' impri– eight-year labor-camp and exile in Ukraine. The mantle of power in ment for "anti-Soviet agitation and sonment. The 60-year-old nationa– terms. There were also persistent the had earlier been propaganda." list had served terms from 1948 to reports of KGB harassment of Ukrai– passed on to Yuri Andropov, the in February, reports from Ukraine 1963 and 1968 to 1982. nian Catholic believers and the former KGB chief who was the revealed that Ukrainian economist Also on the dissident front, Petro sacking of several churches. But scourge of the dissident movement Zinoviy Antoniuk, 50, was sentenced Ruban began serving a three-year despite the repression, which in– during the truculent years of the to one year in a strict-regimen camp exile term after completing a six- cluded the suppression of Mr. Brezhnev era. The year saw an for "parasitism." He had been re- year labor-camp sentence for activi– Terelia's initiative Group for the intensification of repression against leased in 1981 after completing a 10- ties with the Ukrainian national Defense of Believers and the Church, human-rights and religious acti– year labor-camp and exile term for movement. The 43-year-old wood- several samvydav sources reported vists, new executions of former "anti-Soviet agitation and propa– carver had previously served two a widespread resurgence in the members of the Organization of ganda." terms, the last being from 1965 to Church's popularity. Ukrainian Nationalists and the U– Also arrested was well-known 1973. Samvydav sources also published krainian insurgent Army and the Ukrainian Catholic Church activist it was also reported that two secret Soviet documents which adoption of new criminal statutes Yosyp Terelia, who had already Ukrainian political prisoners, Yuriy indicated Moscow's plans to expand aimed at curbing dissent. spent nearly 14 of his 40 years in Badzio and vasyl Striltsiv. staged its Russification policies in Ukraine, various camps, prisons and psychia– One such statute, instituted on one-day hunger strikes in late 1982 particularly in education. tric hospitals Mr. Terelia, perhaps October 1, allowed authorities to to coincide with the 60th anniver– best known in the West for his book. The documents included minutes impose additional labor-camp terms sary of the formation of the Soviet "Notes from a Madhouse," a detail– from a June 29 meeting of the Colle– of up to five years for prisoners who Union. Mr. Badzio. a 48-year-old ed report of his life in a Soviet mental gium of Education of the Ukrainian were punished for opposing labor socialist theorist, is currently serving institution, was arrested in the early SSR, which detailed measures to camp administrators. The law deal– a 12-year labor-camp and exile term part of theyearafterannouncingthe improve Russian-language studies ing with "parasitism" was also which began in 1980, while Mr formation of an initiative Group for in Ukraine in accordance with a May amended, making it easier for Striltsiv. a 54-year-old member of the Defense of the Rightsof Believers 26 resolution of the Central Com– authorities to prosecute both dissi– the , was and the Church. The group called mittee of the Communist Party of dents who cannot find work (usually sentenced in 1981 while imprisoned for official recognition of the Ukrai– the Soviet Union and the Council of because they are effectively barred to a six-year labor-camp term. from employment) and religious nian Catholic Church, which was Ministers of the USSR. The resotu– activists not engaged in it what the outlawed in 1946. The year also saw incidents of tion called for the upgrading of Russian-language instruction in all law terms "socially useful labor." Earlier in the year, reports reach– violence against dissidents and their union republics. Some dissidents were released in ing the West revealed the death of families, as well as reports that at 1983. Perhaps the most dramatic Mr. Terelia's brother, Borys, who least one dissident's wife had been A correspondent resolution was case involved two Pentecostal fami– was killed in a shootout with KGB attacked in the Soviet press. adopted on June 10 by the Central lies - the vashchenkos (who are and police forces in June 1982. in January, the wife of Ukrainian Committee of the Communist Party Ukrainian) and the Chmykhalovs - There were also reports that Yosyp historian Yaroslav Dashkevych was of the Ukrainian SSR and the Coun– who were granted permission to Terelia's wife had been harassed hospitalized after she was brutally cil of Ministers. emigrate in June after spending five prior to her husband's arrest. beaten by men while on her way to Among the recommendations years in the U.S. Embassy in Mos– Another prominent dissident to be work in Lviv. it marked the second were raising the level of Russian- cow. They had sought refuge there re-arrested in 1983 was Olha Heyko, time that Liudmyla Dashkevych, language teaching in schools with in 1978 after Soviet authorities a member of the Ukrainian Helsinki who is active in Lviv cultural circles, Ukrainian or other languages of continued to refuse them permission Group and wife of imprisoned Hel– had been assaulted. A similar inci– instruction; teaching Russian to to leave the Soviet Union. sinki monitor Mykola Matusevych. dent occurred in 1979. non-Russian children in pre-school institutions and preparatory classes; in January, lvan Svitlychny was Ms. Heyko, 29, was arrested one There was also a report that a making Russian a "compulsory released from exile, in 1972, the month prior to her scheduled re- young Ukrainian Catholic nun was subject" in curricula for students of well-known literary critic and poet lease from a labor camp, where she beaten to death by a gang of youths non-language departments of peda– was sentenced to seven years in a was completing a three-year term in Lviv late in 1982. According to gogical institutions; and introduc– labor camp and five years' internal for "anti-Soviet slander." sources in Ukraine, Maria Shwed, a 29-year-old member of the outlawed ing an entrance exam in Russian exile for "anti-Soviet agitation and Also arrested was Ukrainian hu– Ukrainian Catholic Church, was language and literature for persons propaganda." Now 54, Mr. Svitly– man-rights activist valery Mar– attacked and murdered by members beginning post-graduate study, as chny is partially paralyzed and other- chenko, a 36-year-old writer-trans– of a Komsomol vigilante group well as a final examination in this wise disabled as a result of a stroke lator and former political prisoner. known as "druzhynnyky." subject as a requirement for a candi– and brain hemorrhage he suffered in He was taken into custody in Kiev on date's degree. 1981 while imprisoned. October 20. He was previously im– in February, Svitliana Kyrychenko. wife of Yuriy Badzio, was the subject Two. other dissidents released in prisonedfrom 1973 to 1981 for"anti– The measures, which will affect of a sardonic article in vechirnyi 1983 were vasyl Barladianu, a 42- Soviet agitation and propaganda." virtually all educational institutions Kiev, a Soviet paper, which accused year-old art historian, and Taras 1983 also marked the intensifica– in Ukraine, were seen as an attempt her of "egoism" and getting material Melnychuk, 51. Mr. Barladianu com– tion of the regime's campaign to Russify the villages, long con– support from persons in the West. pleted a three-year term for "slander– against former members of the sidered strongholds of Ukrainian The lengthy article, headlined "A ing the Soviet state," while Mr. Organization of Ukrainian Nationa– culture, while at the same time lady with ambition," charged that Melnychuk, a veteran of the Ukrai– lists and the Ukrainian insurgent preventing any Ukrainian backlash Ms. Kyrychenko sought to exploit nian national movement, finished a Army, in March, the Soviet paper in the cities, where the Russian her husband's imprisonment and four^year stretch for "hooliganism." visti z Ukrainy reported that three language, though dominant, may the attention it has received in the not be as dominant as Soviet officials But for most dissidents, the year former OUN members - M. Oho– West for personal gain. would like. was marked by persecution, vio– rodnychyk, P. Shpachuk and v. lence and repression. Stasiv - were sentenced to be shot Two other developments that did Over all, the situation of Ukrai– in January, dissident sources for being members of, as the paper not bode well for the Ukrainian nian dissidents and religious acti– reported the arrest of Zorian Popa– put it, "bands of Ukrainian bour– nation were the stepped-up perse– vists in 1983 was bleak. The nucleus diuk, a 29-year-old activist who was geoise nationalists." The date of the cution of the Ukrainian Catholic of the Ukrainian human-rights in the second year of a five-year executions was not disclosed. Church and an increase in the go– movement - the members of the exile term following a seven-year in addition, it was revealed that vernment's Russification campaign. Ukrainian Helsinki Group– remain, labor-camp sentence, in August it former UPA member Myroslav Sym– The regime's efforts against the for the most part, either in labor

Sent to the gulag were (fromleft)? Myroslav Symchych, valeriy Marchenko, Otha Heyko, Zorian Popa'cHuk,'YtTsyp Terelia and Zinoviy AfffinTUR.v' THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, DECEMBER 25,1983 No. 52

1983: A LOOK BACK camps Jr exile Many were re-arrest– faced intense persecution, as did ed while still serving their terms. members of the Ukrainian Catholic Great Famine observances Religious activists, particularly U– Church. Sadly, 1984 promises more it was a year during which solemn Peter G. Stercho of Philadelphia. krainian Baptists and Pentecostals, of the same. commemorations of the 50th anni– The conference at which the com– versary of the Great Famine of 1932- mittee was formed was called on the 33 overshadowed all else in the initiative of Ukrainian Orthodox Marathon Madrid Conference Ukrainian community as Ukrainians Metropolitan Mstyslav who had on the local, state or provincial, organized a preparatory committee After nearly three, often frustrat– accepted the Spanish compromise. national and international levels to mark the famine anniversary five ing years of deliberations, the Ma– Mr. Reagan called it the "best agree– concentrated their energies on or– years earlier. drid Conference to review imple– ment attainable" because it ad– ganizing various events in order to The national famine committee mentation of the 1975 Helsinki Ac- vanced "efforts of the West to hold ensure that the world would become organized two major events to mark cords came to a close on September out a beacon of hope for those in aware of this unknown holocaust. the 50th anniversary of the Great 9. Burdened throughout by a sharp East who seek a more free, just and Dozens of local committees were Famine during 1983. The first, a deterioration of East-West relations secure life." formed from San Francisco to De– memorial service at the Ukrainian - the result of the Soviet invasion of Although the final document left troit to Albany, NY., in order to Orthodox Center of St. Andrew the Afghanistan, the imposition of mar– out many of the Western amend– commemorate the tragic anniver– First-Called Apostle, was held on St. tial law in Poland and continued ments, such as those dealing with sary; scores of feature articles and Thomas Sunday or "Providna Ne– Soviet human-rights abuses - the the right to strike, the banning of news stories appeared in the press dilia" (Seeing Off Sunday), a day meeting did serve to focus inter- radio jamming and the freedom of throughout the United States and traditionally set aside by Ukrainians national attention on Soviet viola– journalists to move about, it did Canada, as well as in England, to honor the dead. tions of the accords. support workers' rights to join free France and Australia; hundreds of Some 13,000 persons participated Even the formal closing week of trade unions as well as the rights of events - demonstrations, rallies, religious and ethnic minorities. in the day's events which began with the marathon meeting was marred memorial services, food drives, an archpastoral divine liturgy inside by yet another Soviet atrocity - the The formal close of the meeting lectures, seminars - were held; St. Andrew's Memorial Church and shooting down of a Korean com– did not take place until September many special publications, ranging continued with an outdoor ecu– mercial jetliner with the loss of 269 because Malta stubbornly insisted from leaflets to books, appeared to menical requiem service on the lives. on a special meeting on Mediterra– memorialize the 50th anniversary; church's steps offered by Ukrainian The road to a concluding docu– nean security. and countless public officials on all Orthodox, Catholic and Protestant ment was a difficult one. When the The final three days of the meet– levels of government recalled the hierarchs and clergy. A memorial meeting resumed on February 8 ing, September 7-9, were devoted to famine's 7 million victims in ad- concert at the Home of Ukrainian following a Christmas recess, there closing speeches delivered in all but dresses, resolutions and proclama– Culture capped the commemora– was little hope that either side was a few cases by the foreign ministers tions. tion. willing to alter positions that would of the 35 signatory states. Because Details of the myriad obser– The national famine committee's break the long-standing deadlock. of the Korean airliner incident, the vances and press coverage could fill long-awaited meeting between Se– second major event, held in Wash– The NATO countries, led by the volumes. What follows is a brief run- ington on October 2, attracted 18,000 United States, introduced a number cretary of State George Shultz and down of the major events. Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Ukrainians from all over the United of amendments to the draft con- in the United States, anniversary States and Canada. They came to eluding document which took into Gromyko dealt mainly with U.S. objections to Soviet behavior. commemorations got rolling with attend a rally at the front of the account the Polish situation, the the formation on January 29 of a Washington Monument, a march continued occupation of Afghanis- The concluding document itself І national famine committee called through the nation's capital, a de– tan and the Warsaw Pact countries' has been criticized by human-rights ! the National Committee to Comme– monstration near the Soviet Em– dismal human-rights record. The groups as too vague and general. morate Genocide victims in Ukraine bassy and a memorial concert at the Eastern bloc rejected most of the The External Representation of the 1932-33, whose motto became "Let Kennedy Center in order to mourn amendments, while offering mini– Ukrainian Helsinki Group said that us remember and make others the 7 million famine victims and to mal concessions on the others. the final document "does not gua– aware." The committee included renew their pledge to never allow in March, the neutral and non- rantee the protection of the Helsinki representatives of over 50 Ukrai– the world to forget the holocaust aligned countries proposed a corn- monitors,'.' private citizens who nian organizations and local com– inflicted upon the Ukrainian nation promise draft which omitted im– formed unofficial groups in several munities and was headed by Dr. by the Soviet regime. The rally portant Western demands, particu– Soviet republics to monitor Soviet larly in the area of human rights. The compliance with the original ac– Soviets accepted the proposal on cords. Most of the members are May 6, but U.S. Ambassador Max either imprisoned or in exile. Kampelman, speaking for the NATO The document did make provi– alliance, said the Western delega– sionsfor six specializedor"experts'" tions would hold out for a "solid and meetings on a variety of subjects, meaningful" final document.' including sessions on human rights Finally, on June 17 Spain pro- (Ottawa, 1985), human contacts posed a compromise which cut (Bern, 1986) and disarmament most remaining issues down the (Stockholm, 1984). These meetings, middle but which met the key U.S. hopefully, will provide a framework demand for an experts meeting on for future consideration of a range "human contacts." The Soviets of East-West issues. accepted the compromise on July 1. On the whole, the results of the On July 15. the Reagan admi– Madrid meeting were mixed. The nistration announced that it had concluding document did commit signatory states to follow-up meet– ings on such issues as human rights. At the same time, it failed to pro– duce any credible sign that the SovieJ Union intends to regard its new commitments as an obligation to cease or diminish the pattern of internal repression and brutality which characterized Soviet behavior throughout the entire meeting. But, for the moment, the so-called Helsinki process, though somewhat frayed, remains intact, if anything, it allows the West to continue to focus the international spotlight on egregious Soviet violations of hu– man rights. Although that spotlight has yet to force the Soviets to appre– ciably alter their behavior, its glare has served to illuminate Soviet reality and counterbalance the Soviet- Union's propagandistic claim that it Max Kampelman, U.S. ambassador belongs among the civilized coun– Scene of the memorial service in commemoration of the 50th anniversary of to marathon Madrid Conference. tries of the world. the Great Famine held on May 15 at trie Ukrainian Orthodox Center. No. 52 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, DECEMBER 25,1983

1983: A LOOK BACK participants were addressed by bishops' conference. various government officials, reli– Meanwhile, in Canada, the first gious and ethnic leaders, and Ukrai– international symposium on the nian community leaders. Great Famine in Ukraine was held in The October 2 events were the Canada at the University of Quebec culmination of a series of events at Montreal on March 25-26 with 14 held in the capital during the Great top scholars from Canada, the Famine Memorial Week beginning United States and France participat– September 25. Other events were: ing. Seventeen papers weredeliver– candlelight vigils near the Soviet ed at the symposium which was Embassy, exhibits about the far .ine sponsored by the inter-University and the destruction of Ukrainian Centre for European Studies, which churches by the Soviet government, encompasses the University of Que– a scholarly symposium at the Ameri– bec, the University of Montreal, can Enterprise institute, a press McGill University and Concordia conference 'eatunng eyewitnesses University and the Canadian insti– and scholars, a special order in the tute of Ukrainian Studies based in House of Representatives, a recep– Edmonton. tion on Capitol Hill, statements in The Ontario Council of the Ukrai– the U.S. Senate, special liturgies nian Canadian Committee marked and a ceremony before the Taras the famine anniversary with a five- Shevchenko monument that stands day, 230-mile bike-a-thon from To– in Washington. ronto to Ottawa. Thirty-seven Ukrai– On November 17, the bishops of nian students pedaled the distance the Catholic Church in the United in order to draw public attention to States gathered at their national the Great Famine of 50 years ago meeting issued a condemnation of and to raise.funds for refugees from the 1933 forced famine, in a state– Afghanistan and Kampuchea. Along ment endorsed without opposition the way the students, clad in highly by some ЗОЮ bishops, the National visible blue and yellow T-shirts Catholic Conference of Bishops emblazoned with the wprds "in said that the Stalin-perpetrated Memory of the Millions" and "Arti– The commemorative card issued in Edmonton for the unveiling of a famine was motivated "by the desire ficial Famine in Ukraine 1933," of the Soviet Union to destroy the distributed leaflets outlining the monument to famine victims features the memorial's circular design. national identity of the Ukrainian purpose of their trek. The bike-a- tional Red Cross during a luncheon and editor, and Marco Carynnyk as people." The statement was sub– thon concluded with a demonstra– at the Fourth World Congress of chief researcher. The project was mitted by Bishop Basil H. Losten of tion organized .by the Canadian Free Ukrainians. initiated by Mr. Carynnyk, and the the Stamford Ukrainian Catholic Ukrainian Students' Union (SUSK) Edmonton's Ukrainian commu– committee operates under the Eparchy, who had earlier sent near the Soviet Embassy in Ottawa. nity decided to observe the Great auspices of the Ukrainian Canadian letters and information packets The bikers raised over 13,000 and Famine anniversary by erecting a Committee. about the famine to members of the presented this sum to the lnterna– monument to its victims. A design At the end of the year, there was called "The Broken Life Cycle" by more good news from Canada, as artist Ludmilla Temertli, whose the Toronto Board of Education mother had survived the famine, was announced that it was preparing a selected; dedication ceremonies teaching unit on the Ukrainian fa- took place on October 23. The mine. Directed at students in grades monument stands on city land in 11 to 13, the unit will be prepared by front of Edmonton City Hall. Dr. Orest Subtelny of York Univer– Canadians also led the way in sity. preparing documentaries about the An international commemoration Great Famine of 1932-33 Radio- of the Great Famine anniversary was Quebec Tv, Quebec's educational held in conjunction with.the Fourth television network, presented a World Congress o' Free Ukrainians documentary titled "10 Million vic– in Toronto f mammoth ecumenical tims: Ukraine 1933 - The Unknown service ana : а' і у ware nelc at Maple Holocaust" on its "Planete" series. Leaf Gardens on December 1 with Researcher-consultant Taras Hu– some 10,000 persons - Toronto kalo, director Claude Caron and area residents and WCRJ delegates "Planete" executive producer Karel from around the wono - r atten– Ludvik were each given awards for dance The requierr ervce was r their outstanding work on !he half- offered by some 20 ' era ^hs and hour film by the Ukrainian Cana– clergy of the Ukrair.in -'holic, dian Committee. , Orthodox and Protestant C hurches. CBC-Tv"s award-winning series The keynote address was deliver– "The Fifth Estate" presented a 20- ed by Brian Mulroney, leader of the minute probe into thp events sur– Progressive Conservative opposi– round;rg the Ukrainian famine of tion in the Canadian Panament, 1932-33 on its April 27 broadcast. who scored the Soviets for sating The producer of the segment was the famine that killed 7 mil' on men, Oleh Rumak. women and children in Ukraine The The Ukrainian Famine Research Soviet Embassy responded to Mr. m Committee in Toronto was in the Mu'roney's speech by filing an offi– process of preparing a one-hour cial protest with Canada's Depart– documentary film on the famine. ment of External Affairs and calling The committee engaged Slavko Mr Mulroney's statement that 7 to 8 Nowytski as Droducer-director, million had died in a man– nade Yuriy Lunovy as associate director famine a "hundred percent lie " SKK к K'Iv s v s x News in Ukrainian Churches

19f 3 was a year of expansion and Bishop Robert Moskal. activity for both the Ukrainian Ca– An extraordinary sobor of the tholic and Ukrainian Orthodox Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church Churches. of Canada took place on November Pope John Paul ll on December 26-27 during which the membership 20 announced the formation of a of the sobor increased to five. Two new eparchy for Ukrainian Catholics priests were elevated to bishops, Partial view of the crowd gathered near the Washington Monument on in the United States, with its seat in Bishop Wasyl was elevated to arch- October 2 at the Great Famine memorial rally. Parma, Ohio, it will be headed by bishop and a bishops' cathedral was THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, DECEMBER 25,1983 No. 52

1983: A LOOK BACK designated in vancouver. the Metropolitan See of the Ukrai– Earlier in the year, Patriarch Josyf nian Catholic Church in the United Slipyj opened the Synod of Ukrai– States. On September 11, the Ukrai– nian Catholic Bishops in Rome. nian Catholic Seminary on the The synod opened on January 30 grounds of St. Basil's College, cele– and ran through February 12. During brated its 50th anniversary during this time the Rev. Michael Hrynchy– the annual Connecticut Day Festi– shyn was consecrated bishop for– val. Both jubilee events were attend– Ukrainian Catholics in France, a ed by the Ukrainian Catholic htgr–' post vacated by Bishop volodymyr rarchs of the United States. Malanchuk because of poor health. Probably the most impressive The patriarch's 91 st birthday and the number of clergy and nuns from 20th anniversary of his release from all over the United States the Soviet Union were also marked and Canada gathered in Chi– during the synod. cago during a three-day "U– On March 25, the Feast of the krainian Youth for Christ" Conven– Annunciation of the Blessed virgin, tion held on November 11-13. The the Rev. Slavomir Miklovs was con– convention, initiated by the Rev. secrated bishop of the Krizevci Marian Butrynsky under the patron- Eparchy for Ukrainian Catholics in age of Bishop innocent Lotocky, Yugoslavia. He succeeded Bishop was planned by youth, for youth. Joachim Segedi who had held the The convention was organized to post after the death of Bishop Ga– mark the 50th anniversary of the briel Bukatko. "Youth for Christ" march held in Lviv Metropolitan Maxim Hermaniuk in 1933 under the auspices of Metro– of Canada was selected as an ex– politan Andrey Sheptytsky, and it officio member to represent Ukrai– attracted over 400 youths, both nian Catholics at the international Catholics and Orthodox. During the Synod of Bishops held in October in weekend convention, participants Rome, it was during this synod that attended workshops on such themes Archbishop-Coadjutor Myroslav as religious persecution in the Lubachivsky delivered an address to Soviet Union, Christian moral ethics the bishops about the Ukrainian and religious themes in contempo– Catholic Church of Silence. He rary films. spoke about the annihilation of the They also took part in the 50th Ukrainian Catholic Church by the anniversary manifestation to mark Soviet regime and noted that this the first such gathering and, along Church lives on "amid unbelievable with the Chicago-area community, in difficulties and hardships." During a solemn rally and prayer service his address he also cited the case of held at Holy Name Cathedral to Yosyf Terelia, a layman who heads commemorate the Great Famine in the Committee for the Defense of Ukraine. Cardinal Joseph Bernardin the Ukrainian Catholic Church in of Chicago attended the service, Ukraine. along with Ukrainian Catholic Earlier in the year, on July 7, Pope Bishops Lotocky, Basil Losten, lsi– Hierarchs at Holy Name Cathedral in Chicago during famine commemora– John Paul ll met with a group of dore Borecky and Miklovs and tions. Ukrainian Catholic University numerous other representatives of to Washington on October 2 to take appealed to the WCC members to summer students, during which the all denominations. part in the national famine comme– raise "their voices in protest against pontiff, speaking in Ukrainian, pro– The leaders of the Ukrainian Or– morations attended by over 18,000 the crass and inhumane persecution mised thegrouptodoallhecouldto thodox and Ukrainian Catholic Ukrainians. of all religions in Ukraine, particu– help Mr. Terelia and assured them Churches took part in famineobser– During the week prior to the na– larly the Ukrainian Catholic and the that the Ukrainian people and the vances throughout the year. Metro– tional commemorations of the fa- Ukrainian Orthodox Churches, Ukrainian Catholic Church are al– politan Mstyslav of the Ukrainian mine, a Ukrainian Catholic priest which have been outlawed in con– ways in his prayers. Orthodox Church, who marked his from Chicago, the Rev. Peter Ga– travention to all written committ– This year was also a year of anni– 85th birthday this year, hosted the ladza along with Lutheran Pastor ments of the USSR, including the versary celebrations and comme– South Bound Brook commemora– John Shep and the Rev. Taras Lon– Soviet Constitution, which assures morations. tidns at St. Andrew's Memorial chyna. a Ukrainian Catholic priest all citizens their inalienable rights to The Ukrainian Catholic faithful on Church, the seat of the Ukrainian from Washington, staged a five-day practice the religion of their choice." November 12-13 marked the 25th Orthodox Church in the United fast and prayer vigil for the 7 million During the Fourth World Con– anniversary of the establishment of States, on May 15. He also traveled victims of the famine in Ukraine. gress of Free Ukrainians just recent– Toward the end of the week, the Rev. ly concluded in Toronto, represen– Galadza and Pastor Shep were ar– tatives of Ukrainian Churches issued rested at the Soviet Embassy gate after a statement in regard to celebra– performing a memorial service there. tions of the millennium of Christia– They were charged with disorderly nity in Ukraine. They decided to conduct and fined S10. They did, hold jubilee molebens on the inter- however, manage to slip a Bible national, national and local levels at under the embassy gate. midnight (Kiev time) on August 13, 1988; to hold an ecumenical Ukrai– U.S. Ukrainian Catholic bishops nian commemoration of the millen– issued an appeal to their faithful to nium during the Fifth WCFU; and to commemorate the 50th anniversary jointly prepare a Ukrainian edition of the holocaust in Ukraine. All of of the Gospels, Epistles and daily them later joined the national famine prayers. committee as part of its honorary presidium. This was also the year that the Ukrainian Catholic Church accept– Many Ukrainian parishes through- ed the painting "Baptism of Rus'– out the United States and Canada Ukraine" by the late Petro Andrusiw took part in famine commemora– as the official millennium painting. tj^ns this year, holding memorial An illustrated Bible for^children, prayer services and panakhydas, as published in Yugoslavia, became well as organizing food drives and available in the United States, and "A buses to travel to the commemora– Byzantine Rite Liturgical Year," tions in Washington. published by the Basilian Fathers, The World Congress of Free U– was translated into English. krainians sent a lengthy memoran– All in'-all. the year was full of dum to the World Council of activity. The Ukrainian, religious Churches, which held a three-week were visible in the community as Newly consecrated Bishop Michael Hrynchyshyn (right) celebrates liturgy in congress in vancouver in mid- shepherds tending their faithful Rome. summer. The WCFU document flock. No. 52 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, DECEMBER 25,1983 9

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Activity on Capitol Hill vietologist and the author of an Reps. Don Ritter (R-Pa.), Brian upcoming book about the famine. Donnelly (D-Mass.) and Benjamin in addition, the CSCE and the Gilman (R-N.Y.). The letter was also 1983 was marked by an unusual Soviet use of forced labor. House Foreign Affairs Subcommit– signed by Sen. Donald Riegte (D– flurry of activity on Capitol Hill in the The measure, which was spon– tee on Human Rights and lnterna– Mich.). area of Ukrainian affairs, most sored by Rep. Christopher Smith (R– tional Organizations held a joint Another letter, initiated by Reps. notably the 50th anniversary of the N.J.) and had over 150 co-sponsors, hearing on September 20 examining Smith and Bernard DwyeY (6-N.J), Great Famine and human rights. expressed the "sense of the Con– psychiatric abuse in the Soviet urged the president to set aside a Much of the activity was the result of gress" that Soviet forced labor Union. day honoring the Ukrainian Helsmki an intensification of lobbying efforts practices were "morally reprehen– Group. The letter was signed by 68 by Ukrainian community groups, sible." On November 9, Sen. Charles Percy-(R-lll.) convened a field hear– congressmen and five senators. most notably Americans for Human Earlier, on November 9, a joint Rights in Ukraine and representa– ing of the Foreign Relations Com– Other activities on the Hill in– hearing on forced labor sponsored mittee, which he chairs, to examine cluded the cdmmemoration of the tives of the National Committee to by the House Foreign Affairs Sub- Commemorate Genocide victims in the state of human rights in Eastern 65th anniversary of Ukrainian ln– committee on Human Rights and Europe and the Soyiet Union. Testi– dependence Day, which included a Ukraine, and by the presence in international Organizations and the Washington of an increased number fying was an 11-member panel of special order in Congress intro– Commission on Security and Co- ethnic and religious leaders that duced by Rep. Samuel Stratton (D– of young professionals in govern– operation in Europe, concluded ment. included Dr. Myron B. Kuropas, N.Y.) and Rep. Ritter. There wasalso with most witnesses, among them UNA supreme vice president. a special reception. representatives of several govern– On November 17, the House un– This year also marked a resur– ment agencies, expressing support After the hearing, Sen. Percy animously passed House Concur– gence of sorts for Captive Nations for the tfmith resolution. announced the formation of an rent Resolution 11-1, which asked Advisory Council on Religious Week, which of late had been mark– President Ronald Reagan to issue a Meanwhile, the Senate Agricul– Rights in Eastern Europe and the ed by perfunctory presidential pro– proclamation concerning the Great ture Committee held a November 15 Soviet Union. Among the council clamations and diminishing official Famine and which criticized Soviet hearing on Soviet agriculture which members is Dr. Kuropas. and media interest. The week - July involvement in the famine. The focused on the artificial famine in 18-25 - was kicked off by two major resolution, which was sponsored by Ukraine. Assisting in the prepara– in other congressional action, 100 congressmen signed a joint letter to addresses, one by vice President Reps. Gerald Solomon (R-N.Y.) and tion of the hearings were members George Bush, who spoke at a CN Hamilton Fish Jr. (R-N.Y.), had 84 of the newly formed UkrainianAme– Soviet leader Yuri Andropov urging him to release 78-year-old Helsinki Week banquet, and one by U.N. co-sponsors. The measure was sub– rican Caucus, made up of young Ambassador Jeane Kirkpatrick, who mitted to the House by Rep. Cle– professionals and government monitor Oksana Meshko, who is currently in exile. The initiator of the addressed a Capitol Hill luncheon. ment Zablocki (D-Wisc), Foreign workers in Washington. The hear– The following day, July 19. Presi– Affairs Committee chairman, who ings, chaired by Committee Chair- letter was Rep. Smith. in addition, 42 members of the dent Reagan addressed some 100 died of an apparent heart attack 16 man Jesse Helms (R-N.C), heard persons, including many ethnic days later. testimony from the Rev. Wolodymyr House signed an August 4 letter urging President Reagan to open a leaders, at a White House ceremony Two days earlier, on November Bazylewsky, a famine survivor, and marking the 25th anniversary of from Dr. Katherine Kochno, also an U.S. consulate in Kiev, capital of 15, the Senate passed Senate Con- Ukraine. The letter was initiated by Captive Nations Week. current Resolution 70, which asked eyewitness. Also testifying were Dr. the president to set aside May 28, James Mace of the Harvard Ukrai– 1984. for commemorations of the nian Research institute, and Dr. Great Famine; The measure, which Robert Conquest, well-known So– World Congress of Free Ukrainians was approved by a voice vote, passed the Senate Foreign Relations Com– The quinquennial World Con– mittee on November 8. it was spon– gress of Free Ukrainians took place sored by Sens Ernest Hollings (D– in Toronto on November 30 through S.C.) and Peter Domenici (R-N.M.) December 3 with some 600 dele- and had 60 co-sponsors. gates representing Ukrainian com– in other legislative action, Rep. munities in North and South Ame– James Florio (D-N.J.) introduced a rica, Europe and Australia in atten– bill calling for the formation of a dance. special commission to study the The Fourth WCFU got mixed re- Great Famine. The measure, which views at best, however. Those who was initially introduced as H.R. 3993 foresaw the impending doom of the on September 27, was reintroduced organization - a la 13th UCCA on November 16 with a total of 62 Congress — emerged from the con– co-sponsors, it called for the esta– gress satisfied that at least the blishment of a 21-member commis– congress did not break up and the sion composed of members of the existence of the world body was House, Senate, various government probably guaranteed for another departments, as well as Ukrainian five years. community and human-rights For those who came to the con– groups. gress hoping to discuss at least in addition, the House on Novem– some of the concrete problems that ber 18 approved a resolution, House face the Ukrainian nation in the Concurrent Resolution 100, which Reps. James Florio (above), Christo– diaspora, the congress was a dis– Peter Savaryn, new president of called on the president to express pher Smith (below, left) and Don appointment since, thanks to "poli– WCFU. the government's opposition to the Ritter (below, right) promoted Ukrai– tical" conflicts among squabbling The best news was that the newly nian issues. nationalist organizations and the elected president of the World Con– continuing rift in the Ukrainian gress of Free Ukrainians, Peter American community, there was no Savaryn of Edmonton, a lawyer, time left over to discuss the real longtime community activist and issues. chancellor of the University of Al– The good news was that by ac– berta, is not a political animal as far cepting the Ukrainian American as Ukrainian party politics arecon– Coordinating Council intotheWCFU cerned. His election has already as a national central representation been hailed by many sectors of the of the U.S. Ukrainian community - Ukrainian community, and the De– that is, on the same level of mem– cember issue of Lys Mykyta, the bership as that held by the Ukrai– Ukrainian-language humor maga– nian Congress Committee of Ame– zine depicted Mr. Savaryn in a rica - the WCFU delegates saw to it manger (messianic hopes?). that all segments of the.disunited Whether Mr. Savaryn turns out to і U.S. Ukrainian community would be be the savior that the WCFU needs ! represented within the world body. to revitalize its activity remains to be Furthermore, many community ob– seen. But, at least he has five years servers believe that by having both to put the WCFU machinery into the UACC and the UCCA within the 1 gear - not two and a half like his two world congress the first step toward predecessors who shared the pre– the eventual reunification of the vious five-year term because of a Ukrainian American community has compromise deal between two poli– already been taken. tical factions. 10 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, DECEMBER 25,1983 No. 52

1983: A LOOK BACK

The UCCA-UACC dichotomy

1983 was the year that the Com– was) grew daily. mittee for Law and Order in the Meanwhile, the Ukrainian Ameri– UCCA was reorganized as the U– can Coordinating Council held its krainian American Coordinating first national conference on October Council. 1 in Washington, on the eve of the The UACC was established at the Great Famine memorial observances. May 14 meeting of the Committee A total of 122 delegates, represent– 'or Law and Order in the UCCA, and ing 30 national organizations, at– its creation reflected the sad fact tended. The national conference 'hat an attempts at negotiations with unanimously approved the creation the current leadership of the Ukrai– of the UACC. approved the acts of nian Congress Committee of Ame– incorporation and by-laws already r ica had been unsuccessful and that filed її і the state ot Delaware; and e- it Committee for Law and Order in t elected the U^CC executive board :he UCCA had merely deeded to get with John o. F'is as chairman. Mr. on with the business o' community Flis said at the conference that the activity UACC's first objective would be tc However, the new organization unite all Ukrainian Democratic or– noted, the door to negotiations was ganizations that do not approve of still ajar, provided that the UCCA the one-party hegemony that now accepted the preconditions pre– exists within the UCCA. viously delineated by the Commit– The newly re-elected executive of Members of the Babi Yar Park committee stand before the entrance to the (ee for Law and Order. the UACC held its first meeting on memorial park. These prerequisites, presented by October 19 in New York and de– misunderstandings. separate the two peoples - Ukrai– 'he Committee for Law and Order at cided that among its first assign– When the Babi Yar Foundation nians and Jews - and remarked on a meeting with UCCA representa– ments was to plan the 20th anniver– first proposed the park project in the fact that Jews played a part in tives on January 10, included two sary celebrations of the unveiling of 1971, no mention was made of the the Ukrainian republic during the key provisions: that representatives the Taras Shevchenko Monument in 70,000 Ukrainians killed at the ra– war for independence. He empha– of Ukrainian Churches be invited to Washington. The anniversary is in vine or other non-Jews. Moreover, a sized that cooperation between participate in the negotiations; and May 1984. proposed inscription actually impli– Ukrainian and Jewish dissidents in that both sides examine the UCCA Both the UACC and the UCCA cated Ukrainians in the killings, in the USSR is reflected in the common By-laws and create a by-laws com– were represented at the Fourth 1980, the Ukrainian Babyn Yar Com– memorial to two peoples fighting a mittee for this purpose. They were WCFU in Toronto on November 30 mittee, headed by lvan Stebelsky, common enemy. rejected by the UCCA representa– through December 3. The UCCA which had been pushing for recog– The display of Ukrainian-Jewish tives, however. tried at first to block the UACC's nition of Ukrainians murdered at the cooperation in the actualization of The Committee for Law and Order membership in the world body, but ravine, joined the foundation in a the memorial park is encouraging, also noted that the UCCA had re- then, seeing that the numbers were common effort after foundation but not to the Soviets. When it fused to accept it as an equal partner simply not in their favor, retracted its officials agreed to commemorate became clear that Ukrainians and in any negotiations toward commu– opposition. As a result, the UACC non-Jewish victims. Jews were willing and able to work nity unity and a return to the pre– was granted membership in the The gateway to the park is formed together on the project, Soviet news- 13th Congress status. WCFU and, what's more, was re- by a pair of huge granite monoliths. papers began writing slanderous Once the Ukrainian American cognized as the second central An inscription honors the memory articles accusing Mr. Stebelsky of Coordinating Council was esta– representation of U.S. Ukrainians. of the victims, it also has brief collaborating with the Nazis during blished, the new organization ap– Thus, the UCCA and UACC are now inscriptions in Hebrew and Ukrai– World War ll. Mr. Stebelsky said the pealed to the World Congress of equal members of the WCFU with nian. charges were ridiculous, and that Free Ukrainians for recognition as the same number of representatives The keynote speaker at the dedi– they did not hamper his committee's the representative of those U.S. on all WCFU bodies. cation was former Ukrainian dissi– efforts, in fact, he said Soviet re- Ukrainian community organizations Many hope that the fact that the dent and Red Army general Petro action proved that the Kremlin fears that had walked out of the 13th two organizations are now on an Grigorenko, who reviewed some the prospect of wide-scale Ukrai– Congress and had since declared equal footing will spur moves to– historical events that served to nian-Jewish cooperation 'hat the UACC - not the UCCA - ward the eventual reunification of was its representative. As the Fourth the U.S. Ukrainian community. The World Congress of Free Ukrainians cautious words of the UACC chair- approached, the number of organi– man perhaps reflect reality best: "Do The OSl's questionable methods zations making official declarations not expect this (unity) will happen that the UCCA was no longer their tomorrow. But will begin talking 1983 saw attempts by several in a November 4 response to Rep. representative (and the the UACC tomorrow." Ukrainian community groups to Florio, Deputy Assistant Attorney persuade Congress to launch a General Mark Richard defended the review of the methods employed by OSl's procedures, saying that they the Justice Department's Office of were "in accordance with sound Special investigations in its pro– American prosecutorial practices ceedings against East European providing full protection to the emigres suspected of collaborating accused." with German occupying forces in a more positive development, during World War ll. OSl methodology was rejected by a in a June 3 letter to all senators federal district court judge in New and congressmen, the New Jersey- Jersey on September 28 when he based Americans for Human Rights ruled that the U.S government and in Ukraine asked for a "thorough the Soviet Union had "collaborated" review" of the OSl's continued use in efforts to prosecute a Lithuanian of Soviet-supplied evidence in de- emigre accused ot Darticipation in naturalization proceedings against Nazi war crimes. East European emigres. A similar U.S. District Court vjdge Dickin– letter was written by Americans son Debevoise, in clearing 67-year– Against Defamation of Ukrainians, oid Juozas Kungys. said the charges inc. against the defendant were based Still poles apart: John Flis (at left), head of the UACC, and lgnatius Billinsky Responding to the requests, Reps. on "unreliable" 'estimony from (at right), acting president of the UCCA, at the WCFU congress Bernard Dwyer (D-N.J.), Joseph witnesses who were "prepared" by ^– . f Adaaobo (D-N.Y.), James Florio (D– the KGB. in his ^04-page written N.J.) and Sen. Emest Hollings (D– opinion, he ruled that the proce– Babyn.Yar memorial park S.C.) in June asked the OSl to dures used in the case, including the comment on charges that it was methods used to gather evidence The long-awaited! dedication of a 200,000 views. І ;krainians ana others using KGB-supplied evicteпсе in its and testimony, raise "serious memorial park in Denver dedicated massacref л: Babyn r"ar in 1941, investing iions. A similar request was doubts" about the credibility of the to the victims murdered by tr^lazis was the culmination of a three-year made in October by Rep. Don Rrtter information. at Babyn Yar near Kiev took place on joint effort t "Denver's Jewish and (R-Pe. in a ,ietter to Rep. Peter it should be noted, however, that Octobleu?. The 27-acre park, set Ukrainian ,J nmunilies, a colla– Rooino. chairmar or the House Judge Debevoise did not rule that aside Ufa memorial to the some bo"atiyv, EiMt' overcame some early Judiciary Committee Soviet evidence was inadmissible 33feb No. 52 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, DECEMBER 25, шз її

1983: A LOOK BACK per se. He merely stated that under groups and the OSl is as wide as The Supreme Assembly meeting UNA'ers, Soyuzivka guests and the totality of the circumstances in ever. The OSl, now directed by Neal did not pass without incident, how– employees, and local politicians the case, he could not admit it in the Sher, who replaced Allan Ryan, ever, as Supreme Advisor Askold who had come to salute one of their Kungys case. continues to insist that its methods Lozynskyj resigned, citing diffe– own, since Mr. Kwas is an Ulster fully protect the rights of the ac– rences with the Supreme Executive County legislator (incidentally, he in a disturbing development, John cused. Emigre groups continue to Committee and especially Supreme Demjanjuk, who was stripped of his was re-elected legislator in the argue that another method must be President John O. Flis. The diffe– 1983 elections). citizenship in 1981, now faces found to bring collaborators to rences were in the realm of the possible extradition to lsrael to justice given the unreliability of UNA's position vis a vis the Ukrai– Soyuzivka marked anothe; nile– stand trial, it marked the first time Soviet evidence, the insidious rela– nian Congress Committee of Ame– stone this year as Chef And riy І esiw lsrael had sought the extradition of a tionship between the KGB and the rica. The Supreme Assembly acted celebrated 25 years of slaving over a defendant denaturalized by the Soviet judicial system and proven quickly and replaced Mr. Lozynskyj hot stove - all to please thou. 3nds United States. Soviet attempts to discredit anti- with Roman Tatarskyj, chairman of of Soyuzivka guests throug! the As it stands, the gulf between East Communist emigre groups in the the Detroit UNA District Committee years. European and Baltic community West. and secretary of UNA Branch 94. The UNA awarded a re1 ord The Supreme Assembly also ap– 150,700 in student scholarship:; for proved further steps toward a merger the 1983-84 academic year U 178 7 980 census tabulations of the UNA and UFA. students across the United Slates UNA Supreme Advisor Walter and Canada. The awards bruvg to This was the year that the Ukrai– Kwas, the former manager of Soyu– S340,000 the total of scholarship aid nian community in the United States zivka, was honored for 28 years of distributed since the formal institu– learned more about itself thanks to service to the UNA resort at a testi– tion of the UNA'S scholarship pro- newly released tabulations of the monial banquet held, of course, at gram in 1964. The details about the 1980 census. Census results show– Soyuzivka during the Supreme As– scholarship awards were featured in ed that there are 730,056 Ukrainians sembly meeting. Among those a special issue of The Ukrainian in the United States - not 2 million gathered to honor Mr. Kwas were Weekly dated December 3. as some sources claim - and that Census of they constitute a mere .39 percent of Population the total U.S. population. moving away from large communi– A Ukrainian boy from Poland Further analysis of these new ties increases the chances of lan– statistics was provided by demo– guage loss. it was quite a y^ar for a 3-year-old grapher Oleh Wolowyna of the Uni– Ukrainian boy frum Poland. Rostyk versity of Wisconsin at Madison. Because the 1980 census asked Cylupa, whose leftjjmnd was crippled in response to the census ques– questions about ancestry and lan– as a result of aivaccident, needed tion concerning ancestry, 47.8 per– guage spoken at home other than surgery if he was ever to regain use cent of the total number of Ukrai– English, our demographer was able of the hand - such surgery was not nians listed Ukrainian and at least to learn that out of the three-quarters possible in„J?oJahd, however. one other ancestry group, while 52.2 of a million Ukrainians in the United The Ukrainian National Women's percent listed Ukrainian only as States, 17 percent, or about 123,000, League qf America took up Rostyk's their ancestry. These figures reflect speak Ukrainian. However, among case and4contacted doctor in the the high number of mixed marriages those Ukrainians who listed Ukrai– United States tqdetermine thefeasi– among Ukrainians. nian only as their ancestry, close to bility of susivan operation and one-third speak Ukrainian. The Ukrainian community also conducted a fund-raising campaign learned that its members are highly Analysis of the statistics on lan– in order to bring Rostyk and a parent concentrated in certain regions of guage retention showed that among to the United States. the United States, with almost half of East European ethnic groups U– Through the efforts of the UNWLA, krainians have the highest level of them living in the Middle Atlantic the United States Catholic Confe– region that encompasses New York, language retention and, thus, are the rence and the American Red Cross, New Jersey and Pennsylvania, and least assimilated in this group. another 20 percent in the East North Rostyk and his father, Emil, arrived Therefore, though assimilation in New York on July 15. Arrange– Central region that includes Ohio, among Ukrainians is high in abso– ments had already been made for lndiana, lllinois. Michigan and Wis– lute terms, in relation to other East consin. Europeans Ukrainians fare quite surgery at St. Barnabas Medical well. Center in Livingston, N.J., with Dr. The statistics also showed that Lubomyr Kuzmak serving as the language retention is closely corre– As Mr. Wolowyna suggests, care– boy's primary physician and Dr. J.J. ful analyses of the 1980 census lated with residence in areas with Keyser of the Peer Group for Plastic Rostyk Cylupa: doing fine after sur– statistics would go a long way in large Ukrainian communities. Thus, Surgery as the main surgeon. All gery. the percentage of Ukrainians speak– aiding the Ukrainian community in j medical services were rendered free ing Ukrainian is higher in states like planning activities for schools, youth from the hospital and went to the j of charge and Rostyk underwent home of Anna Korenec to recupe– New York than in. say, Arizona. The organizations, churches and other і complicated reconstructive surgery figures clearly demonstrate that organizations. rate. The operation made Rostyk's j on September 1. left hand functional, but further While Rostyk was in the hospital surgery will be required for the boy і he became the darling of the press to have a normal left hand. Mean- The Ukrainian National Association j and was interviewed by both The while, Rostyk began a program of ! New York Times and the Daily News. physical therapy and went sightsee– of the "Ukrainian Liberation Front Being a post-convention year, On September 3 he was released ing in t^ew York City 1983 was a relatively quiet year for representatives in the UCCA," the the Ukrainian National Association. UNA executive noted that "the con– The annual Supreme Assembiv and tinuation of this state of affairs is district committee chairmen's meet– only an unnecessary waste of time Notables and achievers ings were held at Soyuzivka during that is injurious to our community" June; the yearly grants of scholar- and charged its representatives Ukrainians left their mark in a it was a vear of mhestones. in ships to deserving Ukrainian stu– within the Committee for Law and variety of fields during 1983 They FeDruary he marked the 20th anni– dents in the United States and Cana– Order in the UCCA with working made valuable contrioutions in such versarv of nis appointment to Cana– da were announced: and merger toward the formation of a represen– areas as politics, education, science- da's Senate, in June he celebrated talks with tne Ukrainian Fraternal tative Ukrainian community orgam– medicine, military se'vice, sports his 70th birfnday. A retired pro– Association continued. zation in the United States. and mjsic. tessor, he aiso marked the 50th The hot issue 'his year was the The annual meeting of the Su– in politics Stephen Terlecky, a anniversary of service in academics. The senator was also made a Knight UNA'S position in regard to commu– preme Assembly approved tnis po– member of the Conservative Party, sition of the Supreme Executive won a seat in the British Parliament. of St Gregory by Pope John Paul ll, nity disunity in the United States. one of the highest honors that can The UNA Supreme Executive Com– Committee by adopting a resolution On June 9, he Decame the first that stated: "We approve all efforts Ukrainian to win a seat in the House be conferred on a iayman by the mittee, at its regular meeting on pope. April 6, unanimously decided to to date of the UNA Supreme Exe– of Commons. in Canada, Laurence Decorewas in the acaoemic world, Prof. Frank support actions aimed at realizing cutive Committee and charge it with r "the formation of a representative continuing these efforts until the eiected mayor of Edmonton A U– Sysyn jf he Harvard Ukrainian community organization" that would successful re-establishment of a krainian lawyer and businessman, Researcr institute, was promoted function in the tradition of the pre– representative institution that would he defeated incumbent Cec Purves from assistant to associate professor of history, clearing the way for him 13th Congress UCCA. Pointing to satisfy the goals and wishes of the uy a landslide on October 17. Ukrainian community in the United For Canadian senator and UNA to succeed Prof. Omeljar, Pritsak as the absenceof willingness to com– the Mykhailo Hrushevsky Professor promise and of good will on the part States." Supreme vice President Paul Yuzyk, 12 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, DECEMBER 25,1983 No. 52

1983: A LOOK BACK of History. bestowed upon him this year. He responsibilities by young Bociur– Of course The Weekly retained in the fields of science and medi– had a mineral named after him: kiw, represented The Weekly at a most of its regular features such as cine, a few Ukrainian Americans jarosewichite, which is a basic man– 50th anniversary celebration spon– Helen Smindak's "Panorama," lhor were honored for their breakthrough ganese arsenate of the chlorophoe– sored by the UNA District Commit– Stelmach's "Pro hockey update" work. nicite group, found in Franklin, N.J. tee in Chicago, where it seemed she and Roman Sawycky's "Sounds and Michael Onufryk, a retired Kodak in the military Col. Nicholas Kraw– spent as much time as at her desk. views." Dr. Roman Solchanyk also engineer from Rochester, N.Y., in- ciw was nominated for promotion to For Editor Roma Hadzewycz, who continued to provide first-rate re- vented a device that uses the image- the rank of brigadier general in the last year had something of an iden– ports on Soviet reality. shifting power of a glass prism to United States Army, becoming the tity crisis, nature provided a re- help people who have only periphe– highest-ranking .Ukrainian Ameri– sounding and dramatic reaffirma– Also noteworthy this year were ral vision. Mr. Onufryk, who is not a can officer in the armed forces. tion of gender, but more on that in articles contributed by Dr. James physician, tests people and submits in sports, Dan Nahirny, a 16-year- about four months, give or take a Mace, who wrote on the famine; the information to doctors, who then old tennis star, captured first place few weeks. Marco Carynnyk, who provided make final checks. His device is in the U.S. Tennis Association 18s in a more serious vein, the bulk of interviews with Malcolm Muggeridge patented and although it is only an National indoor tournament, while our labors focused on the 50th and Prof. Robert Sullivant as well as engineering model," he hopes to Gerald Pylypchuk finished seventh anniversary of the Great Famine in an article on The New York Times make it available to eye clinics. in the men's archery world cham– Ukraine, in March, we put together a and the famine; Dr. Robert Con- quest and Dana Dalrymple, who Dr. Andrew Lewicky, a Chicago pionships. special issue on this tragic event. also wrote on the famine; Dr. Frank jphthalmologist, developed a The biggest surprise came to Over 20,000 additional copies were Sysyn on the Orthodox Church; Dr. Chamber Maintainer System (CMS) Ukrainian audiences when they ordered by our readers, and the Jaroslaw Padoch on the 110th anni– and an accompanying surgical tech– learned that Men without Hats, a edition went to four printings. We versary of the Shevchenko Scienti– nique that makes cataract extrac– rock group from Montreal, whose also edited an 88-page booklet on fic Society; Nestor Olesnycky on the nons and intraocular lens-insertion songs have recently soared to the the famine that will soon be mailed Kungys case and denaturalization; surgery safer and easier. top of the rock charts, are three- to subscribers, in addition, we put Andriy Eilyk, who contributed a fourths Ukrainian. Three members out our annual scholarship issue as Eugene Jarosewich, chief che– column on effective media relations; of the four-man group are the well as a 50th anniversary issue. nist of the Department of Mineral Christine Demkowych on the Kozaks Doroschuk brothers, lvan, Stefan Sciences at the Smithsonian lnsti– But, if our exhaustive coverage of and the liberation of vienna; lvan - and Colin. ute, had quite a distinctive honor the October 2 famine commemora– Hvat on the Ukrainian Catholic tions in Washington and of the Church in Ukraine; Dr. Bohdan WCFU caused a stir, it was nothing Cymbalisty on community matters; Deaths in the community like the sensation caused by our Lydia Demjanjuk on the Office of uncoverage of sultry actress Kelly Special investigations and its tactics; Danyluk (September 25) and muscle- in 1983, a number of Ukrainians University of Saskatchewan, edited the Rev. Thomas Sayuk on commu– man John Hnatyschak (October 30.) who had left their marks on the the Canadian Farmer newspaper, nity divisiveness; and Dr. Myron The picture of the statuesque and Ukrainian community passed away. and translated the poetry of Taras Kuropas, who wrote about the fa- scantity-clad Ms. Danyluk certainly Among them were the following. Shevchenko into English; recipient mine, the Ukrainian community in raised eyebrows and prompted one " William B. Choly, 64, Ukrainian of the Shevchenko Medal - May 13. America, the history of Svoboda and reader to request a copy of the Catholic Church activist whose " Dr. lsydore Hlynka, 74, inter- The Weekly and the efforts of Ukrai– photo, while Mr. Hnatyschak's bulg– service to the Church was corn- nationally known research chemist nian Americans to help displaced ing biceps and washboard stomach mended by the pope who bestowed who hea"fled the Taras Shevchenko persons after World War 11. moved one reader to write that her Foundation and served on the exe– upon him the title of Knight of St. elderly aunt felt so rejuvenated by cutive committee of the Ukrainian To these and others who have Gregory - January 20. the picture that she threw away her Canadian Committee; publicist who contributed to helping us make The " Michael Patrick (Pat) Bilon, 35, medicine. Clearly, the combination wrote under the pseudonym lvan Weekly informative and interesting, the 2-foot-10-inch actor who played of cheesecake and beefcake sells Harmata; recipient of the Canadian a heartfelt thanks. the title character in the box office papers. smash movie "E.T."; a former radio Centennial Medal and the Shev– As another year comes to a close This year's Weekly also show- show host - January 27. chenko Medal - May 18. and we reiterate our commiiment to cased some new features, including " Catherine Yasinchuk, 86, who " Konstantyn Szonk-Rusych, 68, provide the community with a win– a column providing 1930s Svoboda was wrongly committed to a psy– enamel artist and editor of several dow on itself, we also ask our readers accounts of the famine and a page chiatric institution for 48 years books on Ukrainian arts and crafts to recommit themselves to The devoted to current media reports, on because no one understood her - July 3. Weekly. We don't mean only in famine-related subjects. The "Dissi– "babbling" - she spoke only Ukrai– " The very Rev. Dr. Samuel Saw– terms of subscriptions, although we dent profile" feature became "Dissi– nian - February 14. chuk, 88, founder of the Ukrainian certainly appreciate them. We need dent sketch" to spotlight lesser- " Walter Steck, 59, attorney, first Orthodox Seminary and St. Andrew's other types of feedback: letters, known dissidents about whom there vice president of the Ukrainian College; first Ukrainian Orthodox comments, articles, photos. The І is little information. The UNA page chaplain to Canada's armed forces; three of us need your input to help Fraternal Association and director і was reorganized as "The Ukrainian one of founders of the Ukrainian us become even better. of the verkhovyna Youth Festival -' І National Association forum." We Canadian Committee, its vicepresi– March 21. і also included a "From our pages" dent and president; publisher and On that note, we wish one and all a " Dr. Constantine Andrusyshen. column to mark our 50th anniver– 77, scholar and editor who headed editor of visnyk and publisher of very Merry Christmas and a healthy l sary. and prosperous new year the Slavic Studies Department at the The Ukrainian voice - October 28.

Meanwhile, at The Weekly

1983 was a productive if some– the UNA, was pictured alongside what strenuous year at The Weekly. Ronald Reagan in a photo published We turned a sprightly 50 this year, in the April issue of MAD magazine. but there was little time for fanfare, The caption should have read su– what with the famine anniversary, preme president meets supreme special issues, the WCFU and the president-to-be. tike. 1983 was also the summer of Mykhailo Bociurkiw, the peripatetic There were some important mile- Canadian summer intern who liter- stones Awiida Arzola, our invaluable ally traversed the Northeast in search ;ypesetter ',nd morale boos er, of a storv. Trouble was, he used narked K" third anniversary of somebody eises car. in more ways "hankiess toil. The only Puerto than one we got г lot of miieageou: Rican men– er of UNA Branch 25, o? Bociurkiw. When he wasn't ои; she continued to be an "-:cis,perfsable making enemies, ne filed an im– asset to our staff, it was also the yeai cressive r-jmber of good stories. that our paste-up person. Hilary Zarycky, let: і з find himself in Rome. As far as the staff itself was ron^ There was : іе talk !^ai he would cerned. Associate Editor George B. return a bishop, but las; we heard he Zarycky was inconsolable after was searching for himself in the hitting his 30th birthday in June. He seedier underbelly of tne Eternal bounced back briefly after we let City. him cover this year's Miss Soyu– We rny^t also noie that John Fl,is, . ziyka pageant. Assistant EditorMarta supreme pre'sid'erit'bf our'publisher. Kbtomayets, refieved of her coffee