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INSIDE: • Ukraine's labor force and unemployment — page 2. • Natalie Jaresko: economics officer finds her dream in Ukraine — page 3. • Victor Malarek teaches investigative journalism in Ukraine — page 8.

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Vol. LXIII No. 34 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, AUGUST 20, 1995 $1.25/$2 In Ukraine Filaret reiicts Ukrainian Ш¥§ шіивііГ leips «pare for І у II mm І^вкп^ї І *Ц* її SH- *** fe І $ P v ІЖЙСИІТЙЙ ;- fff^ % Ьл'вИ* by Kbristlna Lew followed by a pecceiul procession al 11 Kyyiv Press Bureau a.m. *o St. Sophia Cainedrai. CARROLLTON, Ga. — KYYIV - The Ukrainian government The procession "will take the form of This quiet southern city, sur­ on August 16 proposed three sites to re- a Christian procession and a demonstra­ rounded by Georgia pines bury the head of the Ukrainian Orthodox tion" and be composed of two parts, said rooted in the fabled Georgia Church - Kyyiv Patriarchate one week Mr. Tsymbaliuk. "Clergy will lead the red clay, seems about as far before UOC-KP faithful are scheduled to procession, followed by a procession of removed from anything commemorate the 40th day of Patriarch people's deputies," he said. At St. Sophia Ukrainian as one could get. Volodymyr's death with a peaceful pro­ Cathedral, a funeral service will be con­ By mid-summer of next year cession to St. Sophia Cathedral. ducted, followed by a rally. Though there has been speculation it will be the hub for a IIK^^ According to the vice-chairman of the rl ; about President Leonid Kuchma's partic­ Ukrainian Olympic contin­ TRAINING $S lay committee organizing 40th day com­ gent bent on mining the gold ipation in the memorial services, it is memorations, however, no re-burial is known that he is on vacation in the of the 1996 Olympic Games in qualifying competition in Savannah, scheduled for August 23. "We are plan­ Atlanta, one hour's ride east. Crimea through August 24. approximately 300 miles east on the ning a purely peaceful procession, fol­ Representatives of the organizing com­ Although banners line Carrollton Atlantic coast. lowed by a political meeting," Viktor mittee and the UOC-KP, in the presence city streets welcoming the Olympic The 80 visitors from Ukraine Tsymbaliuk told a press conference on of Ukraine's procurator general, were athletes, besides the town's movers included the athletes, coaches and August 16. scheduled to receive written permission to and shakers most residents seem associated trainers, physicians and The government has approved the conduct 40th day commemorations from unaware that next year an influx of support staff, as well as a group of Vydubytsky Monastery (11th-18th cen­ the Kyyiv City Administration at 5 p.m. Ukrainians will occur. Or that researchers from the Institute of tury), the St. Michael's Golden-Dome on August 16. Carrollton will play host to several of Physical Culture in Kyyiv here to Cathedral (12th century) and the St. On August 18-20, the organizing com- the biggest names in Olympic sports: study how the athletes respond to the Feodosiy Pechersky Church as sites for Bubka, Taimazov, Kravets. warmer climate and different sur­ the re-burial of Patriarch Volodymyr. (Continued on page 17) "I don't really keep track of what's roundings. Another option, according to Deputy going on," said Robert Daughtry, a Anatoliy Pucey, weightlifting team Prime Minister for Humanitarian Affairs student who is an employee at a local physician, said the teams are very Ivan Kuras, is for the body of the late restaurant. "...What did you say, focused. "Our main goal here is to patriarch to remain were it is. Karbovanets falls; Albanians?" train, to get used to the environment. Mr. Kuras told a press conference By My 19, 1996, when the Games We really haven't seen much, just that, according to Metropolitan Filaret of begin, Mr. Daughtry should be famil­ some of Carrollton and a quick excur­ the UOC-KP, the body of Patriarch NBU intervenes iar with the name and the team, sion to Atlanta to see the facilities Volodymyr is in fact buried within the KYYIV — The value of the karbo­ because between 175 and 200 there." confines of the St. Sophia Cathedral vanets fell from 152,000 to 167,700 to $1 Ukrainian athletes will be in town complex, as earlier the boundaries of the (U.S.) on the National Bank's Interbank along with scores of trainers, adminis­ Organizing the effort complex were wider than they are now. Currency Exchange in the past week, trators, interpreters and journalists Laryssa Barabash-Temple, United "Things could remain as they are: noted the Open Media Research Institute, This, ostensibly, will also bring a States representative of the National Patriarch Volodymyr is buried at the citing a Ukrainian Television report of stream of tourists. For now, however, Olympic Committee of Ukraine walls of St. Sophia Cathedral," the news August 14. On the black market, it the town maintains its slow southern (NOC-Ukraine) has been the driving agency Interfax-Ukraine quoted the plunged to a record low of 200,000 kbv pace. You can walk the city's main force in coordinating Ukraine's partic­ deputy prime minister as saying. to$l. thoroughfare and see barely a dozen ipation in the Games with the Atlanta Metropolitan Filaret told a press con­ Officials blamed the devaluation on people on the street on a Saturday Committee for the Olympic Games, ference the following day that the sites panic-buying of dollars by enterprises afternoon. which is organizing the pre-Olympic proposed by the government are "unac­ and individuals following the govern­ Ukraine's Olympic team, which is trials as well as the Games them­ ceptable for re-burial." ment's announcement that monetary still being shaped by the coaches and selves. The body of the late patriarch was reform and the introduction of a new ten­ in qualifying trials, first began arriving She said she sees her work as organi­ buried in the sidewalk of St. Sophia der, the hryvnia, are imminent. The in this town of 18,000 in late June. zational and financial, although it seems Square on July 18 after riot police violent­ National Bank of Ukraine moved quickly They are here to train, to generally to include every aspect of bringing a ly clashed with participants of Patriarch to buy up karbovantsi in an effort to sta­ acclimate themselves to the hot, humid Ukrainian team to the 1996 Olympics, Volodymyr's funeral procession. bilize the falling provisional currency, Georgia weather, and to compete in including providing transportation, According to the lay committee orga­ Ukrainian Television and a Radio Liberty pre-Olympic qualifying events. housing, equipment, training and prac­ nizing the August 23 commemorations, correspondent reported on August 15. Sixteen Ukrainian sports federations tice venues for the athletes, and devel­ 137 people, including 25 clerics, were The move caused the tender to rise slight­ will send teams here before the pre- oping a network of sponsors, contribu­ injured in the confrontation. Government ly from the previous day's record low of Olympic events are completed in mid- tors and fund-raisers to ease the finan­ figures site only 59, 42 of whom are 167,700 kbv to 167,000 to $1. November cial load on the NOC-Ukraine. She is members of the Berkut special forces. Bank Chairman Viktor Yushchenko Bob Watkins, landscape director at involved also in setting up a ticket sales According to the Ukrainian National said the central bank would continue its the college where the Ukrainians are network for Ukraine. Assembly-Ukrainian National Self- intervention for three to four days to sup­ staying, said the athletes have kept a Ms. Temple, who has fund-raising Defense Organization (UNA-UNSO), port the karbovanets, which has been rela­ low profile. "We see the signs about the and organizational experience in there were two fatalities on July 18; tively stable over the past half year due to Ukrainians being here, but most people working with the arts in Atlanta, however, no names were released. the government's tight fiscal and monetary really haven't seen much of them." became involved with the Ukrainian The organizing committee, which has policies. Deputy Prime Minister Anatoliy The latest detachments, the Olympic effort after being contacted been registering those injured in the July Kinakh told Ukrainian Television that the wrestling, weightlifting and synchro­ by Minister of Sports and Youth 18 confrontation, plans to publish the government and National Bank would not allow the karbovanets to decline below the nized swimming delegations, were Valeriy Borzov, who had obtained her names of the injured in a "White Book" level of 180,000 to $1 as agreed with the staying at the West Georgia College name from his contacts in the on the events of "Black Tuesday." International Monetary Fund. He said that campus, the Olympic team's home Ukrainian-American community. Commemorations of the 40th day of base in Carrollton, the week of July Patriarch Volodymyr's death are sched­ while a devaluation was inevitable, the 30, while yachters were preparing for (Continued on page 10) uled to begin with a requiem service at sudden plunge of the karbovantes this 8:30 a.m. at St. Volodymyr Cathedral, week was unexpected. THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, AUGUST 20, 1995 No. 34 The labor force and unemployment in Ukraine's economy: an analysis Ethnic Ukrainians majority in military who do not approve of the Russian and by Volodymyr Zviglyanich 50 percent of the unemployed are work­ Ukrainian presidents' position on the ers between age 28 and retirement age KYYIV — Ethnic Ukrainians now con­ PARTI Black Sea Fleet." The telegram also said (i.e., 55 for women and age 60 for men). stitute 59 percent of the Ukrainian armed that aid to Sevastopil in repairing railways In the process of transition to a market Women's unemployment is rather high, forces as opposed to 45 percent in 1993, after the recent accident (caused by a land­ economy, such macroeconomic indices constituting some 65 percent of the total. the acting head of the Defense Ministry's slide) came only from the Ukrainian side. as employment and unemployment are Women up to age 35 with technical edu­ personnel directorate told reporters on (OMRI Daily Digest, Respublika) manifesting dramatic changes. The cation who have young children are August 14. UNIAN quoted Col. Ivan employment situation in Ukraine shows more likely to lose their jobs. Khomiak as saying the percentage of eth­ Charitable organizations no longer taxed dismissals among the labor force and Official statistical data show that nic Russians had dropped from 48 percent today's unemployment in Ukraine is, in 1993 to 37 percent. He added that five KYYIV — President Leonid Kuchma part-time employment increasing, while, exempted from taxes all donations to juridi­ ^officially, the unemployment rate first and foremost, that of white-collar of the six new generals appointed in 1995 workers with university and high school were also Ukrainian. Col. Khomiak cal persons or individuals whose activity is remains low. not aimed at making a profit. Interfax- education. This type of unemployment stressed, however, that Ukrainian citizen­ Dismissals among Ukraine's labor Ukraine reported on August 15, that, in reflects the fact that the demands of ship and not ethnic origin was the main force increased in 1994. The,number of accordance with the presidential decree, the industry are changing rapidly, and the criterion in the formation of Ukraine's lays-off (106,800) in January-June 1994 total income of juridical persons and indi­ educational system has yet to adapt to armed forces. (OMRI Daily Digest) increased 72.5 percent in comparison to viduals received in one year does not these changes. the corresponding period in 1993. In the include voluntary donations received in Unemployment hits hardest among Black market alive and well in Ukraine second quarter of 1994 it was 2.3 times monetary form or in kind. Voluntary dona­ 1 young people, as 80.7 percent of those more than in the first quarter. A 57.6 per­ KYYIV — Deputy Interior Minister tions are exempt from mandatory payments unemployed are between the ages of 20 cent increase in dismissals among the Yuriy Vandin told Respublika on August to budgets or government funds, while vol­ and 30. Among those who are 18-20 years labor force was predicted for 1995, com­ 14 that some $4 billion was in circulation untary donations to non-commercial organi­ old, 19.3 percent are looking for a job. pared to the corresponding period in 1994. on the black market. Volodymyr zations in foreign currencies are not subject Regions recording the highest levels of Volodymyr Yerasov, director of the Radchenko, chief of Ukraine's security ser­ to mandatory sale on Ukraine's Interbank unemployment are: Rivne (48 percent); Ukrainian Republican Center of Employ­ vice, said the black market serves as the pri­ Currency Exchange. Goods sent by non­ Chernihiv (45.4 percent); Lviv (45 per­ ment,'in an article published in the May mary source of income for some 2.5 million residents to non-commercial organizations 23 issue of Holos Ukrainy, stated that in cent) and Khmelnytsky (44.4 percent). In people, including up to 40 percent of youths in Ukraine are exempt from value-added Ukraine some 200,000 individuals out of general this level is higher in western in big cities. (OMRI Dally Digest) tax, excise duty and import tax. (Reuters) a labor force of 22 million are now offi­ Ukraine. In Kyyiv unemployment is 18.5 cially classified as unemployed. percent, whereas in Kharkiv and Kharkiv Coal miners' strike averted Lukashenka wants Soviet text books back districts it reaches 20 percent.2 The worsening economic conditions KYYIV — A pledge from the coal State policy regarding unemployment MIENSK — Belarusian Television affecting Ukraine's enterprises caused industry minister to settle miners' wage has changed. Several years ago the gov­ reported on August 15 that President hidden unemployment to reach 35 per­ arrears averted a scheduled miner's rally in ernment of Ukraine had tried to pursue a Alyaksandr Lukashenka has ordered the cent and, in some regions, up to 40 per­ the Ukrainian capital, reported UNIAN and policy aimed at combating unemployment Ministry of Education to stop using text cent of the workforce. Radio Liberty on August 14. Organizers books printed between 1992-1995 in the via creation of additional jobs. Now the called off the strike after Minister Viktor Among the unemployed, 49 percent tactics have changed from creating jobs to coming school year, and begin using are white-collar employees, 48.1 percent Poltavets ordered the managers of coal Soviet-era text books instead. Mr. retraining and requalifying the workforce. enterprises to pay wages owed for May, are blue-collar workers, and 29 percent Mr. Yerasov thinks that economic restruc­ Lukashenka made the decision based on are unskilled. By educational level, 39.6 June and July by August 21. Mr. Poltavets the findings of a special commission which turing in Ukraine requires dismissal of also ordered the directors of the still mainly percent of the unemployed are workers some 25 percent of the workforce, or near spent two months studying text books pub­ with a higher education (university or state-owned coal mines to submit proposals lished from 1992. The commission 5.5 million workers. to the ministry by August 15 on where to college); 33.1 percent - secondary (high The government is reducing unem­ declared that the books tended to be written school level) education; and 26.5 percent find money to raise coal miners' wages. with political overtones which were inap­ ployment benefits. Currently they pro­ Miners rank second after teachers in the - with vocational education. More than vide subsistence levels in the sum of propriate for educating youth. The ministry amount of back pay owed to them, accord­ has one year to write new text books which 1,450 million karbovantsi, or about $10 ing to the Ministry of Statistics. (OMRI would be considered acceptable. (OMRI Dr. Volodymyr Zviglyanich is adjunct monthly. The maximum term for receiv­ Daily Digest) Daily Digest) professor of East European studies at ing unemployment benefits so far is George Washington University. three years. It is foreseen that this will be Sevastopil protests Russian broadcast EBRD credit to Ukraine reduced to two years. The payment of benefits would be made by local social SEVASTOPIL — The deputy chairman KYYIV — The European Bank for security offices rather than by enterpris­ of the city executive, Borys Kucher, sent a Reconstruction and Development will pro­ Border bandits es, as they do not have any funds for message to the head of Russian Public vide a $13 million credit line to the First such payments. Television protesting a newscast of August Ukrainian International Bank to develop hit tourist buses Regarding financial support for the 11 which claimed that municipal leaders Ukrainian agricultural enterprises, reported unemployed, Mr. Yerasov stressed that in had applied to the International Court of Interfax-Ukraine on August 14. Under the BUDAPEST — Police have Justice in The Hague to confirm Russian fiscal year 1995 the state budget allocated agreement signed in London last week, the launched a dragnet for a seven-man status for the city. Ukrainian Radio report­ some 18.6 trillion kbv or $124 million. FUIB will offer medium-term credits for Ukrainian gang that has robbed a ed on August 14 that several lines from According to the December 28, 1994, special projects to agricultural enterprises. string of tour buses in eastern Mr. Kucher's telegram were left out when edict of then President Leonid Kravchuk, This is the first bank-to-bank credit line the Hungary, reported the Budapest it was broadcast by Russian Public the government reduced an appropriation EBRD has opened for Ukraine. (OMRI Sun on July 29. Television. The telegram stated: "The to the Employment Fund from 3 percent to Daily Digest) The most recent attack occurred Sevastopil city administration would have 1 percent, which cannot extend support to at Nyiebogdany. The seven suspects regarded the broadcast by Russian Public Village children's teeth destroyed some 600,000 to 700,000 part-time work­ followed the bus in two cars across Television as just an April fool's joke if it ers as was planned. the Ukrainian-Hungarian border, did not have such far-reaching conse­ KYYIV — The teeth of almost all chil- The lack of serious governmental and then forced it off the road in a quences. This concerns some hotheads (Continued on page 14) strategy in the sphere of unemployment rural area. challenges the implementation of the The bus, full of Ukrainian and Kuchma team's reform program and the Russian tourists, was stopped by creation of a social safety net. 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However, 10 (Continued on page 14) Jersey City, N J 07303 and Andrij Kudia Wynnyckyj (Toronto) passengers fought back and the sus­ The Ukrainian Weekly, August 20,1995, No. 34, Voi. LXIil pects were forced to flee. 1 Pratsia ta Zarplata, No. 17, 1994. Copyright © 1995 The Ukrainian Weekly 2 Holos Ukrainy, November 11,1994. No. 34 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, AUGUST 20,1995 Natalie Jaresko: Embassy's economics officer finds her dream in Ukraine by Martta Kolomayets Deputy Prime Minister Lanovy - both men light years ahead of such government leaders as Vitold Fokin and They were the pioneers: the first ones to come to Vitaliy Masol. Ukraine to work for the U.S. government. And, they She credits former U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine were unique because they were Ukrainian Americans Roman Popadiuk, also a Ukrainian American, with coming to their ancestral homeland after Ukraine understanding early on how important Ukraine was declared independence in 1991. going to be. Therefore, he was committed to making the Although there have been other Ukrainian Americans Embassy grow. who have worked at the U.S. Embassy in Kyyiv, the four By the time Ms. Jaresko left in May, there were eight who are being profiled in this series over the next few people working in the Embassy's economics section weeks saw it grow from a small outpost to a full-scale (four U.S. officers with Ms. Jaresko at the helm of this embassy in 1992. hard-working team, and four Ukrainian nationals). Maria Rudensky, Wolodymyr Sulzhynsky, Natalie "We worked hard to understand what was happening Jaresko and Stephen Wasylko all came to work in Kyyiv in Ukraine - if anything - on the economic front, identi­ during the first few months of 1992, just as the fledgling fying who's who and what's what, and finding out how state began emerging as a significant country on the the U.S. could assist the reformers both morally and map of Europe. financially with technical assistance monies. But we As they conclude their assignments at the U.S. also could use our influence with the G-7 countries and Embassy in Kyyiv, leaving jobs they defined, and to a other global forums," said the tireless Ms. Jaresko. large degree created, they shared their experiences, "Back in the early days, we would take whatever their adventures and their insights. impetus there was for reform and push it along. And in The youngest of the Ukrainian Americans profiled in the first few years, the reformers were few and far this series, Natalie Jaresko, 30, made the decision to between. They were probably losing more battles than work in Kyyiv when she was not quite 27. they were winning," she recalled. But, even at that young age, she already had quite a So, in some ways, she played more of a moral sup­ lot of experience under her belt in the sphere of post- porting role for these reformers. Soviet economic issues. A native of Chicago, she gradu­ In early 1993, the United States changed its policy ated from De Paul University in the Windy City, major­ toward the NIS, and for the first time Ukraine got its ing in accounting and political science. own country budget. Ms. Jaresko went straight to graduate school in "And once you have a budget, it serves as a tool, an Marta Kolomayets Cambridge, Mass., where she attended the John F. element of negotiation, discussion," she said. Now, the Natalie Jaresko Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University, United States and Ukraine could begin to talk and have and received a master's degree in public policy with a discussions of substance. she explained. concentration in international trade. "We could sit down at a table and talk about what we Although Ukraine is not totally out of danger — it In 1989, she did a Presidential Management could give them, and they could tell us what they need­ needs to raise its hard currency earnings and diversify its Internship at the State Department, in the economics ed. No longer were we getting requests for $500 million energy supplies so it is not totally dependent on Russia section of the Soviet desk. It was an exciting time, she in cash to keep a steel plant going; now we were getting — it is now engaged with the West, which gives it some recalls, as perestroika was at its peak, and it was the specific requests for helping to establish a stock balance. beginning of the end of the Soviet Union. exchange - realistic proposals," she said. "They can't disengage from Russia, but getting others When Ukraine declared independence in 1991, the Ms. Jaresko dismissed the idea that there was direct to talk with you — that's crucial," she said. U.S. was looking to establish an Embassy in Kyyiv, and linkage between Ukraine giving up its nuclear arsenal Ms. Jaresko said she thinks the Ukrainian American Ms. Jaresko, fluent in Ukrainian with over two years' and economic aid from the United States. pioneers at the Embassy played a big role in developing experience in Soviet economic issues at the State "The people who worked in economics never focused a strong U.S.-Ukrainian relationship. Department, was a natural for the economic section. on the nuclear question. None of us ever talked nukes. If She was tapped by then undersecretary of state for eco­ "We had people like Vlodko (Suzhynsky), Stephen a Ukrainian official asked us about it, which they often nomic issues, Robert Zelick, for the post. (Wasylko), Maria (Rudensky), working day and night did, we said, all we care about is the rate of inflation, On May 15, 1992, she arrived in Kyyiv with her hus­ at the Embassy in those early days when life was hell­ production and GNP growth," she said, while acknowl­ band, Ihor Figlus, to take on a civil service assignment ish in Kyyiv," she said, adding that she and her hus­ edging that, indirectly, there was a relationship between that changed her life. band, who lived in a hotel room the size of some the two issues. Three years later - almost to the day - she concluded Westerners' bedrooms during their first four months in "If 70 percent of the attention at a high-level meeting her mission as the chief economics officer at the U.S. Kyyiv. is devoted to the nuclear issue, then of course, only 30 Embassy. She has opted to stay in Ukraine. "The Ukrainian Americans wanted to see it happen percent can be devoted to other topics. So, once the Today, she is the country director for the newly creat­ for Ukraine, they wanted to be a part of making it hap­ nuclear issue disappeared, the talking field became wide ed Western Newly Independent States Enterprise Fund, pen, and they wanted it to happen during their tour of open, and we would concentrate on economics." established with funds from the USAID to attract duty. So, often they would sit at meetings with Ms. Jaresko added that this happened to coincide with Western investment to Ukraine. Ukrainian officials until they reached an understanding, President Leonid Kuchma's election and his focus on until they got some results," she added, tears welling up economic reforms. KYYIV - "My three years at the Embassy were up, in her eyes. "It was perfect timing, a great marriage," she com­ but I wasn't ready to leave Ukraine," said the energetic "As a Ukrainian American, I could understand cultur­ mented, and laughed at mentioning marriage. In a and businesslike Natalie Jaresko, sitting in her modern, al differences, and worked with the Ukrainians until sense, Ms. Jaresko saw her mission in Kyyiv as trying spacious office at the Western NIS Enterprise Fund, both sides got it," said Ms. Jaresko, who during her to get the United States and Ukraine to date - with the near Kyyiv's main street, the Khreshchatyk. three years at the Embassy helped negotiate more than hope that the two would bind into a partnership, a mar­ one meeting. "I stayed in Ukraine because I was enjoying it riage. immensely. It had gotten easier to live here, and things "That's not to say that there are no Americans as "We worked so hard at the beginning," recalled Ms. were looking up for Ukraine. And I felt I had to finish committed to seeing U.S. Ukrainian relations work," she Jaresko, who, according to her colleagues, continues to what we came here to do. said, offering as a prime example the current U.S. work hard in everything she undertakes. ambassador to Ukraine, William Green Miller. "Everything I had done for three years was very "You give your life, your soul, to make these two "The ambassador is an exceptional case, he heads the diplomatic, very theoretical. I spent my time relation- countries understand and appreciate each other. As a Embassy and cares so very much about bilateral rela­ building," said Ms. Jaresko, who indeed often rubs Ukrainian American, I knew the union would work," shoulders with such top government officials as Viktor she explained. tions. He doesn't believe in failure, and he really believes Ukraine can succeed," said the woman, who Pynzenyk and Roman Shpek, and economist Volodymyr "We like it, we live with both of these halves, we Lanovy. know the conflicts, we understand the difference. But it served as Ambassador Miller's aide and assistant, inter­ "What I really care about is the economy, and the can work, and here I was in Ukraine trying to marry the preter and adviser during his first year in Ukraine. only way the economy is going to grow is, not through two off - and at the beginning they didn't even want to Ms. Jaresko, too, believes Ukraine will succeed technical assistance money, but through investment. I date," she added jokingly. and, if things continue along this positive track, she wanted to try my hand at trying to make that happen," "This had to work, and we all tried to make it work. could live in Ukraine, have children here, send them she added. At times it was miserable and I tried not to lose hope, to school here, and grow old here. But, she is realistic The visit of President Bill Clinton to Kyyiv was the because I thought, if Ukraine can't make it with the in noting that this will not happen in the next year or pinnacle of success for U.S.-Ukrainian relations, she U.S., then Ukraine really can't make it in the Western two. commented. world," she continued. "The U.S. was just too important 'Ukraine holds a special place in my heart," she said, "I couldn't do much more at the Embassy. I could of a country for Ukraine not to have a relationship with. explaining that she enjoyed the small community in have maintained, helped to maintain what is right now a Who was Ukraine going to have as a friend: Iran or Kyyiv, the people, the places and the family she discov­ fantastic relationship in economics between the two Iraq?" ered only after her airival in Ukraine. governments," she explained. While Ukrainian Americans were looking at separate She goes back to Chicago to see her family. Her par­ That's a far cry from three years ago, when Ms. borders between Ukraine and Russia or the blue-and- ents, she explained, live the American dream. "They Jaresko arrived in Kyyiv as the sole economic officer at yellow flag as signs of statehood, Ms. Jaresko was look­ swallowed the American dream whole - it worked for the Embassy, and tried to cultivate a relationship ing at economic relations. them, it made them what they are today, and they are between the United States and Ukraine on economic "If you don't own anything in your own country, you proud of it." issues. don't have a country. And, at times, it was touch and go "Now we first-generation Americans are one step Back in 1992 there were no real reformers in the with Russia," she said. away from having lived the American dream. We are Ukrainian government, and she worked with pioneers: "Russia was moving forward so quickly, and Ukraine products of the American dream, so we are already Member of Parliament Volodymyr Pylypczuk and was economically needy from its northern neighbor," searching for a new dream. I found it here," she said. THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, AUGUST 20, 1995 No. 34 Bishops' draft letter on Toronto Eparchy's problems creates a few more by Andry Wynnyckyj 1989. Bishop Borecky had submitted his Metropolitan Bzdel said the hierarchs Eparchy." The Toronto eparch's rebuttal, Toronto Press Bureau pro forma offer to resign in 1987 upon held a meeting following the ceremonies, dated June 27, challenges the authority turning 75, in accordance with newly and began to discuss the situation in the of the New Westminster letter, given that TORONTO - The leaking of an adopted Vatican rules, but then rescinded Toronto Eparchy at Bishop Danylak's ini­ three of its signatories have resigned: attempt by the hierarchy of the Ukrainian the offer and refused to step down. tiative. He added that Bishop Borecky was Archbishop Hermaniuk and Bishops Catholic Church in Canada to solve juris­ The stand-off became a confrontation present for the discussion and agreed to Daciuk and Filevich. dictional and other problems convulsing within the eparchy after the appointment of sign a joint declaration, but left and could Bishop Borecky wrote that, "A conse­ the Toronto Eparchy has produced the Bishop Danylak as administrator, a conflict not be found after it was drafted by Bishop quence of their resignation is that they opposite: an escalation of acrimony. that has become increasingly bitter as Danylak. have given up all of their jurisdiction and The draft of a letter, addressed to "The Bishop Danylak (ordained in March 1993), Archbishop Hermaniuk said Bishop authority as eparchs and... have no inher­ Reverend Clergy, Sisters and Faithful in has attempted to impose his authority, while Danylak initiated the discussion "as it ent power or authority to rule the Christ of the Toronto Eparchy," was a segment of the eparchy's clergy resists. involved him personally," asked the bish­ eparchy and Church." drawn up in March at a meeting pf the ops to issue a joint declaration on the mat­ Bishop Borecky rejected the assertion country's Ukrainian Catholic bishops and Questions surround the leak ter, drafted the letter and collected signa­ signed by six senior clergymen. It has that Bishop Danylak had been granted Months after the letter was written, it tures. Archbishop Hermaniuk and Bishop exclusive jurisdiction in the eparchy by the been circulating since, although it is Filevich confirmed that Bishop Borecky uncertain who released it. remains unclear who released it in the first Vatican. Bishop Borecky wrote that the place. The Revs. Petro Hrytsyk and had initially appeared to agree with the papal bull appointing Bishop Danylak as The missive's stated intent was to sentiments expressed in the letter, but dis­ "resolve existing tensions." Its signatories, Eugene Halitsky of Ss. Vladimir and Olga apostolic administrator gave Bishop Parish in Windsor, Ontario, said it was appeared during a break as it was being Danylak powers "restricted and limited to including Archbishop-Metropolitan drafted. Michael Bzdel, Archbishop Emeritus mailed to them from Toronto in a plain a 'participation' in as opposed to 'assump­ Maxim Hermaniuk, Bishop Myron Daciuk envelope with no return address. The Rev. Bishop Filevich dismissed the errors in tion' of the governance of the eparchy." of Edmonton, Bishop Basil Filevich of Taras Lozynsky at St. Demetrius Parish in dating as "technical errors." He said, In his rebuttal, Bishop Borecky accused Saskatoon, Bishop Roman Danylak of Toronto said he received it by fax with no "There were a number of such mistakes in the signatories of the New Westminster let­ Toronto and Bishop Severian Yakymyshyn point of origin noted. The Rev. Myron it, it was a draft." Bishop Filevich would ter of trying to "out-Rome" the pope in try­ of New Westminster, affirmed that Bishop Stasiw of the St. Mary the Protectress not elaborate on what other mistakes the ing to give Bishop Danylak more power Danylak, appointed apostolic administrator Church in Toronto said Bishop Borecky letter contained, but he did stress that such than the pontiff had granted. in the eparchy in December 1992, "possess­ personally gave him a copy of the letter. a draft should not have been made public. He points out that two clarificatory es full and exclusive jurisdiction" there and Bishop Filevich told The Weekly on Bishop Borecky, reached at his letters" - one to Bishop Danylak and one urges its "clergy and faithful to submit to August 10 that the letter should not have chancery, would only say, "It's a very sad to Bishop Borecky - actually dated June and obey" his authority. been released, since Bishop Borecky had situation." He refused to comment further. 28, 1993, were sent by Cardinal Achille The controversial document was erro­ not signed it. Archbishop Hermaniuk, Bishop Danylak, who drafted the New Silvestrini, prefect of the Vatican's neously dated "March 26, 1996," and contacted the following day, said the let­ Westminster letter, refused all requests Congregation for the Eastern Churches, also mentioned "clarificatory letters," ter, while authentic, was "obviously not for interviews and comment through a and Archbishop Myroslav Marusyn, the addressing the appointment of Bishop ready for publication." secretary. congregation's secretary. Danylak as apostolic administrator, of According to Metropolitan Bzdel, con­ Bishop Borecky replies But Bishop Borecky asserts these let­ "June 28, 1995." tacted by telephone in Winnipeg on ters clarify little, in that they differ con­ Bishop Isidore Borecky's name appears August 10, the Church's senior clergy­ However, Bishop Borecky did issue a siderably in their interpretation of the on the letter, but his signature does not. men had gathered in New Westminster (a sharp four-page retort to the joint decla­ papal bull appointing Bishop Danylak as Tensions have been running high since suburb of Vancouver), British Columbia, ration, addressed not to his fellow bish­ apostolic administrator. the Vatican attempted to force Bishop at the ordination ceremonies of Bishop ops, but also to "The Reverend Clergy, Bishop Borecky pointed out that in Borecky to resign as Toronto's eparch in Yakymyshyn on March 26. Sisters and Faithful of the Toronto their letter to Bishop Danylak the Congregation's officials affirm he had been "invested" with "all the rights and duties pertaining to an eparchial bishop," Canadian metropolitan recuperating from heart surgery while in their letter to Bishop Danylak by Christopher Guly hood last October. But, with 11 other male they say only that the bull of appoint­ non-celibates occupying clerical spots in ment "implies" Bishop Danylak has been OTTAWA — Canada's Ukrainian Canada, the Holy See did not seem to blink. invested with such authority. Catholic archibishop-metropolitan under­ This year, Bishop Filevich, 77, marks Both letters refer to Bishop Danylak's went quintuple-bypass surgery at his 11th anniversary as eparch of rights and duties in "both spiritual and Winnipeg's St. Boniface Hospital on July Saskatoon. Bishop Daciuk, 76, succeeded temporal matters," while noting that 27, after suffering two heart attacks earli­ Bishop Demetrius Greschuk, who died in Bishop Borecky retains only "the prerog­ er in July. A week later, a hospital 1990, as Edmonton's third eparch three atives of a liturgical character." spokesperson reported that 65-year-old years ago, after serving as Metropolitan Bishop Borecky asserted that the two Archbishop Michael Bzdel was in "fairly Hermaniuk's auxiliary bishop in hierarchs "cannot confer authority on the good" condition. Winnipeg for 10 years. administrator that the bull does not confer." The Rev. Jaropolk Radkewycz, vicar- Bishop Daciuk is a former provincial Bishop Borecky, who headed the general of the Winnipeg Archeparchy, superior of the Basilian Fathers in Canada, eparchy since its formation in 1956, told The Ukrainian Weekly that while Bishop Filevich was a mitred arch- accused Bishop Danylak of a conflict of Metropolitan Bzdel would be convalesc­ priest from the Toronto Eparchy. interest and of having failed in his duties as ing for the next three months. "He will be Some 40,000 Ukrainian Catholics live chancellor. Bishop Borecky alleged that he staying with family around Winnipeg," in Alberta, about twice as many as those had sent Bishop Danylak to the Vatican in said the Rev. Radkewycz, who will be living in neighboring Saskatchewan. order to defend the eparchy against various administering the archeparchy during the Meanwhile in New Westminster, British accusations, but that he "[dealt] with the metropolitan's absence. Columbia, newly consecrated Bishop representatives of Rome in a manner that There are close to 50,000 Ukrainian Severian Yakymyshyn, who was installed may have contributed to Rome's appoint­ Catholics living in Manitoba and about Metropolitan Michael Bzdel in March after a two-and-a-half year vacan­ ment of an apostolic administrator." 200,000 throughout Canada. Winnipeg is In Toronto, the tussle between Bishops cy, watches as priests leave his eparchy. Bishop Borecky further charged that the historic center of the Canadian One church official told The Weekly that Roman Danylak and Isidore Borecky con­ "Bishop Danylak has provided little pub­ Ukrainian Catholic Church. Nicetas Budka, some members of the clergy are exiting lic evidence of his attempts to fulfill the who was based in the city, became the tinues. Although Bishop Danylak, 64, was because of the 65-year-old bishop's insis­ consecrated two years ago to assume mandates set out in the bull, of safe­ country's firstprimat e in 1912. tence that Ukrainian be the language of guarding the eparchy from evil." Born in Saskatchewan, the Most Rev. administration of the Toronto Eparchy, the practice in Canada's youngest eparchy. Bishop Borecky added a catalogue of Bzdel succeeded Archbishop-Metropolitan country's longest-serving prelate refuses to Fellow Basilian, Bishop Jerome wrongs allegedly committed by Bishop Maxim Hermaniuk as head of the relinquish control. Named a bishop by Pope Chimy, was named the first eparch of Danylak in the two hierarchs' two-year tug Ukrainian Catholic Church in Canada in Pius ХП in 1948, Bishop Borecky, 83, was New Westminster, which includes British of war over their jurisdictions. Among oth­ March 1993. Prior to his appointment, he the first bishop named to the Toronto Columbia and the Yukon, in 1974. He ers, Bishop Borecky mentioned two issues served for nine years as provincial superior eparchy in 1956. Bishop Danylak served as died in 1992 at the age of 73. involving Bishop Danylak's confrontation of the Ukrainian Redemptorist Fathers in Bishop Borecky's chancellor for 27 years Before accepting his new West Coast with a large group of priests (a majority of Canada and the United States. prior to his elevation to the episcopacy. duties, Bishop Yakymyshyn had served as the active clergymen in the eparchy), who Metropolitan Bzdel entered the With more than 80,000 members, the bursar general and superior of the Toronto Eparchy remains the largest of five have refused to recognize his authority. Congregation of the Most Holy Redeemer, Ukrainian-rite Basilian Generalate in Rome. Each instance has made headlines in the or the Ukrainian Redemptorist Fathers, in Ukrainian Catholic dioceses in Canada. Metropolitan-emeritus Hermaniuk, 83, The other Ukrainian Catholic bishops in Canadian press. Bishop Borecky alludes to 1948, and was ordained a priest six years continues to serve as editor-in-chief of the "[Bishop Danylak's] comments about later. He is only the second Ukrainian western Canada, meanwhile, are awaiting theological review that he established 45 approval for their retirement. Edmonton's 'satanists' among the priests," which pro­ Catholic metropolitan named for Canada. years ago, Logos, which is now published voked a civil libel and slander suit, filed in Archbishop Hermaniuk was the first,whe n Myron Daciuk and Saskatoon's Basil by the Metropolitan Andrey Sheptytsky Filevich, both over Rome's prescribed Toronto in December 1993, against the he and the Winnipeg archeparchy were ele­ Institute for Eastern Christian Studies at St. Vatican's administrator by 12 clergymen. vated to metropolinate status in 1956. retirement age of 75, have submitted their Paul University in Ottawa. The retired, resignations. Stories about this issue were carried in the The Winnipeg archbishop's poor Winnipeg-based archbishop also spends a Toronto Star and the Catholic New Times. health is the latest blow to a Church beset Bishop Filevich ordained a married man, lot of time overseas in his native Ukraine bv manv oroblems. the Rev. Ivan Nahachewsky, to the priest­ conducting spiritual retreats. (Continued on page 15) No. 34 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, AUGUST 20, 1995

by Stephen M. Wichar Sr. DETROIT - The Detroit/Toledo/ Windsor District Committee of the Ukrainian National Association called a special summer meeting on July 12 for the purpose of establishing a summer agenda. Part of the meeting was focused on plan­ ning the annual UNA Fraternal Day at the Dibrova Estate in Brighton, Mich. A plan for showing the popular video "Helm of Destiny" was discussed. It should be noted that several Detroit groups have already viewed this film on Ukrainian immigration, and others are requesting a showing. In addition, recent UNA cost-cutting measures were vigorously discussed. The closing of the UNA Washington Office caused a great deal of consternation and dismay among the attendees. On July 27, approximately 50 Members of the Detroit/Toledo/Windsor UNA District at their annual picnic. UNA'ers assembled at Dibrova for the annual fraternal picnic/meeting. After tant to Ukraine, Dr. Serafyn underscored. early cocktails and dinner, Dr. Alexander Dr. Serafyn noted that eastern Serafyn, chairman of the UNA Detroit Ukrainians are indeed proud of their District Committee and a UNA advisor, Ukrainian heritage. He said he found this Young UTiA'ers opened the program by welcoming all to be true during a cruise to Sevastopil officers, spouses and friends. In his and in visits to cities like Kharkiv, introductory remarks, Dr. Serafyn pre­ Poltava and Zaporizhzhia. In Poltava, sented the UNA's growth statistics, Dr. Serafyn added, there are 38 schools, acknowledging also those who had of which 35 are Ukrainian. The speaker enlisted new members since last January. emphasized that Ukrainian nationalism is The principal talk for the afternoon omnipresent in eastern Ukraine. was delivered by Dr, Serafyn, who After many questions were fielded by recently visited Ukraine, mostly its east­ the speaker, Olha Marusczak was called ern oblasts. He pointed out that even if upon to give her literary interpretations Halychyna has a 98 percent Ukrainian- of life in Ukraine, using excerpts from speaking population, this should not Pawlo Hlazowyj's book "Humor and mean that Russian-speaking Ukrainians Satire." Wasyl Leschuk joined a singing should be vilified, or even discounted. In group, accompanying them on his accor­ Odessa, for example, an international dion. city and one of the largest seaports in the After a series of photographs was world, a visitor cannot hear the taken, Dr. Serafyn extended thanks to all Ukrainian language. Western Ukrainians participants for making the 1995 UNA cannot dismiss Odessa as being unimpor- district reunion a success.

Paul Michael Pylypyszyn, son of The UNA and you Larysa Wysznewskyj and Peter Brittney Koch, daughter of William Pylypyszyn, became the youngest and and Patricia Koch, is a new member of newest member of UNA Branch 361 in UNA Branch 137 in Allentown, Pa. New York. He was enrolled by his by Stephan Weihasch She was enrolled by her grandparents paternal grandmother, Uljana Pyly- Oleh and Patricia Balaziuk. pyszyn of Syracuse, N.Y. As many financial analysts predicted, the Federal Reserve recently lowered the interest rate - perhaps marking the beginning of the end of its war on infla­ tion. Some economists, like James K. Galbraith, argue that the risk of a recession is now rising. Our economy is more fragile than Alan Greenspan of the Federal Reserve has been willing to admit.. Many major indicators of growth, like industrial produc­ tion and sales of big-ticket items, appliances and cars, are down partly because of higher interest rates over the last 18 months. Many lenders were hit hardest by last year's rising adjustable-rate mortgage loans and falling stock prices. When interest rates rise suddenly, stock prices tend to fall. Many consumers have drifted back to fixed-rate mortgages, and a jump in the number of new home loans has given rise.to more positive earnings in the last three months. Last year's climbing interest rates dampened growth drastically, forcing Mr. Greenspan to re-evaluate the Federal Reserve's policies. Since mortgage loan interest raies have fallen from well over 9 percent to just a little over 7 percent, many home buyers and homeowners have been flocking to get new loans. Perhaps, as some economists believe, the Federal Reserve should have left well enough alone last year. Leaving lower short-term rates alone may have gen­ erated stronger growth, higher investments, lower long-term rates and lower deficits - and may have kept inflation at bay. Whatever the case may be, it's definitely a great time to get a first mortgage loan on your new dream home or to refinance your existing home loan and maybe do a little work on the house that you've been meaning to do for the last few years, but couldn't afford to. Four generations of UNA'ers are seen in the photo above. Hannah R. Weingartner, Don't wait too long, however, becasue rates can always shoot up again as happened daughter of Anthony and Alice Weingartner is held by her great-grandmother Sophie David. On the left is her grandmother Nacema McGinn; on the right is her mother, (Continued on page 14) Alice Weingartner. Hannah is a new member of UNA Branch 238 in Boston. She was enrolled by her great-grandmother. THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, AUGUST 20, 1995 No. 34

NEWS AND VIEWS THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY The fourth anniversary New Jersey-based AHRU promotes Perhaps it's reassuring that as we mark the fourth anniversary of Ukraine's inde­ study of famine in state s schools pendence, our commemorations have become well-established and low-key, dare we say, almost a matter of routine. Ukraine, it is clear, is making further progress, slow by Walter Bodnar a curriculum. AHRU asked that materials but steady, in buttressing its independence — something that four years ago was so on the Ukrainian famine of 1932-1933 be The opening of a new school term is included in studies of genocides. fragile, so tenuous, that one barely dared to breathe. Today we can dare to actually fast approaching with curriculum materi­ celebrate Ukrainian Independence Day; in Ukraine and elsewhere, there are now The teaching aids sent to Dr. Winkler al being readied by teachers in their included: "traditional" observances of the day, as August 24 is our national holiday. respective school districts. In addition to Four years ago, Ukraine's Supreme Council boldly declared the Soviet • "Curriculum and Resource Guide for the traditional study guides, public republic's independence in the face of "the mortal danger surrounding Ukraine Educators" (Teachers' and Students' schools in New Jersey will be equipped in connection with the state coup in the USSR on August 19, 1991." The his­ Guide) by Dr. Myron Kuropas, funded toric Act of Declaration of the Independence of Ukraine made reference to the with a curriculum guide for the teaching and printed by the Ukrainian National thousand-year tradition of state-building in Ukraine, the universal right to self- of the Holocaust and genocides, prepared Association; determination and the 1990 Declaration on State Sovereignty of Ukraine. by the state's Holocaust Education • "Case Studies: Persecution/Genocide" The USSR, meanwhile was crumbling. Dr. Yuri Shcherbak, then a USSR Commission. by Walter Litynsky, funded and printed by people's deputy from Ukraine (today Ukraine's ambassador to the U.S.), told The Holocaust Education Bill, signed the State University of New York; his fellow deputies in the Supreme Soviet in Moscow: "What has happened is into law in April 1994, provides for . * "Execution by Hunger" by Miron the collapse of the central empire, the full destruction of the structures of impe­ teaching about the Holocaust and other Dolot; rial power. There can be no illusions: the Soviet Union no longer exists." genocides in history. This has special • "Harvest of Despair" videotape. Ukraine's citizens and Ukrainians around the world rejoiced over Ukraine's meaning for Ukrainians in New Jersey, The activists of AHRU have a special independence and the end of the Soviet empire. And diaspora activists got since the curriculum could include the interest in the dissemination and utiliza­ busy, assuming the essential task of persuading their governments to recognize information about the 1932-1933 Great tion of information on the Ukrainian the fledgling state. (Their dedication and hard work paid off, as Canada Famine in Ukraine. famine, since it was they who spearhead­ became the first Western state to grant diplomatic recognition to Ukraine; later Following up on a newspaper account ed the drive between 1982 and 1984 on the U.S. as well as other countries recognized the new independent state.) in the Morris County Daily Record about the occasion of the 50th anniversary of Ukrainian People's Deputy Ihor Yukhnovsky, a member of the Parliament's teaching of the Holocaust in primary and the 1932-1933 Great Famine, to have Presidium and leader of the parliamentary opposition, the National Council, wrote secondary schools, a spokesperson of bills passed in the U.S. Congress to cre­ in The Weekly just days after the August 24 declaration: "Independence for us Americans for Human Rights in Ukraine ate a United States congressional com­ means that we finally have a chance to establish a free and open society." (AHRU) contacted Dr. Paul Winkler, mission to study the causes and effects of With one bold stroke, Ukraine had assumed both its place among the free states executive director of the New Jersey that famine. of the world and the formidable twin tasks of state- and nation-building. Defying Holocaust Commission on Education, Although the Reagan administration great odds, newly reborn Ukraine survived a most critical period of threats from which has the responsibility of compiling came out against establishment of such a without and from within. Ukraine succeeded during the first years of its indepen­ commission, the famine bills were passed dence in establishing its identity as a democratic, nuclear-free and market-oriented by both the House of Representatives and Walter Bodnar is vice-president of state; today it is a country recognized as a major player on the world scene. So, as we celebrate its Independence Day, we proudly say: Viva Ukraina! Americans for Human Rights in Ukraine. (Continued on page 16) Detroit's Ford Hospital focuses on improving care in by Adrian Sfieremeta Another significant focus is on neona­ tology to help improve the care of new­ DETROIT - In 1993, Henry Ford born infants in Lviv and surrounding Health System entered into a partnership areas. Under the leadership of Dr. with the Regional Clinical Hospital in Sudhakar G. Ezhuthachan, director of the Lviv, through a program sponsored by Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, and the U.S. Agency for International Christine Newman, R.N., clinical nurse Development and coordinated by the specialist, Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, American International Health Alliance. health care workers have developed an The hospital was chosen because it is aggressive work plan with the staff in the referral center for all county hospitals Lviv. in the region. The exchange has enabled Objectives for next year include the health care workers from Henry Ford establishment of a transportation system Health System to help not only the peo­ to bring sick babies from county hospi­ ple in the city of Lviv, but those through­ tals to the Regional Clinical Hospital for iChrystyna LapychaK out much of western Ukraine. The major focus of this program is the further treatment. The jubilant scene outside the Ukrainian Parliament on August 24,1991. education, prevention and treatment of In the past year, Dr. Ezhuthachan and rheumatic fever - a major cause of illness •Ms. Newman collected about $75,000 in Ukraine. Dr. Zirka Kalynych, senior worth of equipment and supplies. They staff physician, Department of Internal assisted in training the neonatology staff Medicine, is coordinating this project. - physicians and nurses - in all aspects Henry Ford Health System volunteers of newborn care including using ventila­ will determine the scope of the problem, tors to help the sick infants in Lviv. assist in education and treatment pro­ The Henry Ford Health System health grams throughout the region, and treat the care workers returned to Ukraine in May most severe complications of the disease. to continue the project and develop sev­ Four years ago, Ukraine's Supreme Soviet stunned Moscow eral other educational and advanced and its own republic with a declaration of independence on training sessions. August 24, 1991. One of its first acts on the international stage Dr. Adrian Sheremeta, is physician Under the leadership of Dr. Aaron was to assert in reality, what existed only on paper. coordinator, HFHS/Ukraine Hospital Partnership, Henry Ford Hospital (Continued on page 16) The Ukrainian ambassador to the United Nations (this year celebrating its 50th anniversary), was Hennadiy Udovenko, presently the country's minister of foreign affairs. According to The Weekly of September 1, 1991, on August 26, 1991, Mr. UNR Fund for the Rebirth of Ukraine Udovenko "informed the office of the U.N. Secretary General that his Permanent Mission to this international assembly will be officially designated as representing The Home Office of the Ukrainian National Ukraine, effective August 24." Association reports that, as of August 11, the fraternal Two days later, Mr. Udovenko told reporters, "At the United Nations, legally and organization's Fund for the Rebirth of Ukraine has technically [the declaration of independence] does not change our status in the U.N., received 20,121 checks from its members with dona­ because since 1945 [Ukraine] has been a sovereign state of the United Nations." tions totalling $493,182.03 The contributions include To underscore the coup-de-grace that was being delivered to the moribund colossus individual members' donations, as well as returns of of the USSR, Mr. Udovenko added: "We welcome any country to recognize our inde­ members' dividend checks and interest payments on pendence, as soon as possible, but for the time being we are recognizing the indepen­ promissory notes. dence of others, for example, the Baltic nations." Please make checks payable to: UNA Fund for the Rebirth of Ukraine. Source: The Ukrainian Weekly, September 1, 1991 (Vol. 59, No. 35). %н^ No. 34 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, AUGUST 20,1995

COMMENTARY faces and Places A third enemy for Ukraine? by Myron B. Kuropas by Paul A. Goble simply puts off costs into the future. And the UNA will discover that without the As svery Ukrainian and friend of active support of Kyyiv, Ukrainian Ukraine knows, Ukraine and its people Americans will lose that which now have not had an easy time of it. For cen­ defines them: a proud and independent End of the ethnic era turies, they have suffered between the country from which they sprang. hostility of Russia and the indifference of For me, the sudden and untimely death Chicago beginning in 1989, and estab­ lishing Project Ukraine in 1992. In the the West. But, until very recently, Ukraine Equally compelling to many is the notion of David Roth, director of the American field of ethnic relations, David was a pio­ had an ally it could always count on: the that the Ukrainian diaspora has done its job. Jewish Committee's Institute for American After all, Ukraine is now free. But as won­ Pluralism, marks the end of the ethnic era. neer, one of the first of those who in the nearly 1 million Americans of Ukrainian 1970s kicked off the ethnic crusade. heritage. Unfortunately, for reasons under­ derful as that is, the situation is quite differ­ Although the "age of the ethnic," which During the 1970s, a period that Michael standable and not, one recent decision ent than those who tell themselves that they began during the late 1960s has long since been pushed aside by the philistine mili­ Novak called "The Decade of the Ethnic," suggests that Kyyiv may have lost the need to do no more believe. Even today, Ukraine is far from free of threats — partic- tancy, revisionist pretensions and pompous the Ford Foundation also awarded grant enthusiasm of the one force capable of posturing of the so-called "multicultural- monies to Msgr. Geno Baroni (another preventing the hostility of the East from ularly Russian ones of hostility and American ones of indifference. Conse­ ists," as long as David was alive there was civil rights veteran) and his National overv/helming the indifference of the hope that the chasm which currently Center for Urban Ethnic Affairs, and West. quently, Ukrainian Americans have a larger responsibility now than they did when divides America's white and black ethnics Andrew Greeley (a Catholic intellectual I refer of course to the judgments could somehow be bridged. and sociologist) and his Center for the behind the Ukrainian National Ukraine was under Soviet rule. What Washington says and does now is of critical David, who always preached dialogue Study of American Pluralism. Association's decision to close its In announcing the grants, McGeorge Washington Office. The reasons for this importance for the survival of an indepen­ and "bridge-building" as a way to better dent, democratic and prosperous Ukraine. understanding and appreciation of cultural Bundy, president of the foundation, step are easy to enumerate — a sense that observed: "In the last year, a great deal has the UNA must focus on the immediate No one can speak for Ukrainians better to differences, represented a more genteel, less strident approach to intergroup relations. been said and written about the 'blue-collar needs of its own members at a time of an American audience than those who have Throughout his professional life he was American,' the 'ethnic white,' and 'the budge- stringency, a belief that the a foot in both camps: the Ukrainian Americans. more interested in the similarities between lower middle-class' worker. He is said to be Ukrainian diaspora has done its job, a 'alienated,' 'forgotten,' 'troubled,' 'disillu­ And finally, the notion that the groups rather than differences. "Once we conviction that Kyyiv has an Embassy in can focus on what unites us," he told me sioned' and 'angry'...The organizations Washington that can defend the interests Ukrainian Embassy can do it all needs to receiving these grants are seeking to deal be dispelled. Not only is an Embassy once, "our differences will become less sig­ of Ukrainians by itself. Upon examina­ nificant." with some of the problems of white work­ tion, none of these reasons are com­ limited in what it can do as far as lobby­ ing-class American communities through pelling, however. ing is concerned, but given the economic David's mentor in the area of intergroup relations was Irving Levine, described by constructive action and through research on We live in an age of diminished stringencies referred to already, only which effective policies and programs may those countries that have either important Perry Weed in his 1973 book "The White expectations, of a sense that we no longer Ethnic Movement and Ethnic Politics" as be based. The grants also are intended to can do things that we had done in the domestic constituencies or obvious widen our understanding of the continuing strategic value to the United States are the "prime initiator and the most influential past and thus must concentrate on what is spokesman for white ethnics since 1968." role of ethnicity in American life..." most important. That is true for going to receive the necessary support in the future. Ukraine, happily, has both. An American Jewish Committee staffer As Mr. Weed points out, each of the Americans in general, who have retreated and a veteran of the civil rights movement three major spokesmen had a slightly differ­ behind the oceans in the past, and true for There are a large number of members of Congress who will remain in their cur­ of the 1960s, Irving became concerned ent focus regarding the term "white ethnic." Ukrainian Americans, who feel much the with the resistance of white ethnics to the Mr. Levine's use of the phrase represented same about their own lives. As we decide rent post only to the extent that they are responsive to Ukrainian interests, but black agenda of the 1960s and sought to "a deliberate, conscious effort to refocus that we can do less, we will be able to do public attention on the needs of the white there is a far larger group that does not bring the two groups together. His goal was even less. Moreover, in a nation living "depolarization" and to achieve it he found­ working class and to affirm their legitima­ yet understand that Ukraine is central to morally as well as financially on plastic, ed the National Project on Ethnic America. cy." Black progress, however, remained we are going to discover that such down­ European and American security. That In 1971, Irving's project received a two- "his first priority." sizing does not save us money, but rather leaves a major job for Ukrainians, for the year grant from the Ford Foundation. UNA, and for the UNA office in For Msgr. Baroni, the term "white eth­ Washington. I first met Irving and David, then the nic" encompassed "the most prominent seg­ Paul Goble is director of research at project's Midwest coordinator, in ment of the white working class - first-, the Jamestown Foundation and editor of Yes, Ukraine's flag now flies from the November of 1969 at a conference on eth­ second- and third-generation Americans of its daily Monitor and weekly Prism, whichEmbass y on Washington's M St. It nicity and education at the Chicago Circle European ancestry who live in the Northern track events in the former Soviet Union. would be a tragedy if the UNA strikes its Campus of the University of Illinois. It metropolitan areas." The neediest white eth­ Earlier he served as special advisor on flag on Capitol Hill. The UNA should was the third such national conference nics were those who traced their roots to Soviet nationality problems and Baltic reverse its decision "for your freedom convened by Irving since 1968. The con­ Eastern, Central and Southern Europe, a affairs at the U.S. Department of State. and ours." ference resulted in the creation of the group the monsignor occasionally referred Illinois Consultation on Ethnicity and to as "PIGS" (Polish, Italian, Greek and Education which, under David's leader­ Slovak). ship, organized another conference in The Rev. Greeley was quick to advise IN THE PRESS: Operation Keelhaul Chicago focusing exclusively on education American elite groups that not all white eth­ The letter below, written by Dr. Orest be told what was happening when the GIs as a vehicle for ethnic depolarization. nic groups were blue-collar workers. Popovych, was published in the July 19 started herding the camp's residents and Today the Consultation is known as the Substantial numbers were college graduates issue of the Asbury Park Press (Asbury loading them onto the trucks. Illinois Ethnic Coalition. and professionals. Father Greeley's primary Park NJ.) in response to a letter about In the ensuing scene of utter despair and A highpoint of my involvement with the interest was in tracing the contributions of "Operation Keelhaul" published in that pandemonium, my late mother, Olha, a project (I had the pleasure of serving on the white ethnics to American life rathertha n in paper on July 10. born leader, did not lose her head. She board of advisors for many years) and the mobilizing them for political action. called on all the women to join hands, form­ Consultation came in 1981 when David What has happened during the past 24 Dear Editor: ing human chains, and then to lie down on arranged to have a number of Chicago's years? Mr. Levine has retired; Msgr. Baroni "Don't forget Russian sacrifices" by the pavement in the path of the trucks, ethnic leaders travel to Israel for a 10-day and Mr. Roth have passed away; and the Ludmilia M. Palmer (letter, July 10) is a blocking their exit. In desperation, the tour. Calling ourselves "David's Ethnic Rev. Greeley has left the ethnic arena to timely reminder about the infamous women cooperated instinctively, covering Flying Circus," the group included Julian write novels. In some circles, the term "Operation Keelhaul" - the forcible repa­ the ground around the tracks with their bod­ Kulas and Luba Markewych of Chicago's "white ethnic" is a pejorative. And some triation of Soviet citizens who found ies, hands interlocked, several chains deep. Ukrainian community, as well as represen­ analysts are telling us that today, it's not themselves in the West at the end of Fortunately, in this case the GIs were tatives of the Greek, Japanese, Black, only white ethnics who are "angry," "trou­ World War II. I must stress, however, humane enough not to attack the human Hispanic, Korean, Polish, Italian, Jewish bled," "alienated" and "disillusioned". It's that this crime, perpetrated with the help barriers, nor to move their trucks. Their and Lithuanian communities. practically everybody! of British, French and American troops, human cargo was eventually released. It was in Israel that we met Yakiv Of the three centers funded by the Ford was directed against Soviet citizens of all "Operation Keelhaul" was thwarted this Suslensky, head of the Society of Jewish- Foundation, only the Center for Urban Ethnic Affairs is still around. Under the nationalities, not just against the time in this one place, and thanks to that, a Ukrainian Relations, and Israel Kleiner, a Russians, as emphasized by Ms. Palmer. member. Both were working on behalf of leadership of Dr. John Kromkowski it has few years later, my parents and I were lucky found a new home at Catholic University. Even people who had never been Soviet enough to emigrate to the United States. improved Ukrainian-Jewish relations. citizens, but happened to come from the Mr. Suslensky came to the United States And what about David Roth's "Ethnic However, many other Ukrainian individuals Flying Circus"? Many of the original mem­ territories recently occupied by the USSR as well as whole DP camps were not that a few weeks after our return and was warmly welcomed by Ukrainians bers were at his funeral - Ross Harano, were caught up in this dragnet. fortunate. throughout the United States. Andrew Kopan, Paul Gibson, Mitchell In 1946, as a teenager, I witnessed While not forgetting Russian sacri­ "Operation Keelhaul" in action at the In the years that followed, David Kobelinski, Isidro Lucas, Tony Fornelli. fices, let us also not forget those of the became more intimately involved with We all greed that David had a tremendous Ukrainian Displaced Persons' Camp in Ukrainians and of all the other peoples of Ftissen, in the American Occupation Zone the Ukrainian community providing con­ impact on our lives, that we are all different the former USSR who were victimized gressional testimony in 1984 in support people today because we knew David yes­ of Germany. In a surprise move, our camp by "Operation Keelhaul." was surrounded by a tight ring of U.S. of establishment of a U.S. commission terday. Army vehicles, while a column of empty Orest Popovych on the Ukrainian famine, coordinating We also agreed that we will all miss trucks entered the camp. We didn't have to Howell Township, N J. the Ukrainian-Jewish dialogue in David very, very much. THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, AUGUST 20,1995 No. 34 INTERVIEW: Victor Malarek on teaching investigative journalism in Ukraine by Nestor Gula Who taught Victor Malarek the techniques of investigative journalism? From June 17 to July 1, Victor Malarek traveled to Ukraine to conduct seminars on investigative journal­ I learned the basics of it in Montreal at the Montreal ism for professionals in the country. His airfare and Star. It really came from the desire to be a detective. I accommodations were provided for by the Canadian just didn't want to go into the police force. When I Bureau for International Education, one of the agencies joined the Globe and Mail in 1976, a lot of it started that administers the federal government's Canada- there with people like Warren Barton, who was my city Ukraine Partners Program. editor, who really said do it. Clark Davey, who was the One of Canada's pre-eminent journalists, Mr. Malarek, managing editor, a really superb managing editor, who 47, has been an on-air co-host and investigative journalist said get out there and do it. They wanted investigations, for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation's (CBS) they wanted to break stories. They wanted to be on the leading edge. "Fifth Estate" program since 1990. Born in Lachine, Quebec, Mr. Malarek started out as These people wanted to do more than accept the offerings of politicians or press releases. They wanted a copy boy for The Montreal Star in 1968. His first taste to go out there and make news, instead of just waiting of investigative journalism came in 1971 when, working for it to happen or waiting for something to come apart as a police reporter for the Montreal Star, he wrote a at the seams and then you go out and basically report on series of investigative articles on Quebec's juvenile jus­ what happened. tice system. The series prompted a provincial inquiry. So we'd go to the senior citizens' homes and see the Mr. Malarek joined the staff of the Toronto-based abuse. You would go to the group homes and investi­ Globe and Mail in 1976, and won three prestigious gate the abuse of children. You would go to factories, Michener Awards for his meritorious public service and look at the effluent that they were throwing into the journalism. While at the Globe, he reported on matters lake. We would follow the trucks and find out who was involving immigration, the environment, occupational dropping the sludge onto the streets. You would follow health and safety, and narcotics smuggling. the buck. You would find out who the sleazy lawyers Over the course of his 26-year career in journalism, he were. You would find out who was breaking the law. has reported from various points in North America, as well These editors were on the leading edge of that. as from Afghanistan, Iran, Ethiopia, Kurdistan, Somalia, The state of investigative journalism is very poor Austria, Italy, Brazil Cuba, Mexico and Ukraine. Victor Malarek right now. Most of the newspapers have cut back the Mr. Malarek is the author of three books, "Hey news hole. They want the best bang for the buck. Malarek!," an autobiography that was turned into a have a good approach to it. Investigations take a long time. The Globe and Mail, for movie in 1988; "Haven's Gate," a critical commentary What is investigative journalism? example, when I worked there from 1976 to 1990, we on Canada's immigration policies; and "Merchants of were constantly being quoted. The CBC would say: "In Misery," dealing with Canada's illegal drug scene. Investigative journalism for me is at the end of the the Globe and Mail today..." The House of Parliament Nestor Gula spoke with Mr. Malarek prior to his depar­whole journey of your investigation when you look at would not start Question Period without saying "In the ture and upon his return. Excerpts of that interview follow.accountability . There is an accountability for everything. Globe and Mail today this is what was found. What You need to answer: Why did this happen? How did this What will you be doing in Ukraine? does the minister responsible have to say?" ever happen? You want answers. You want explanations. Today you never hear that. They are just not interested Lubomyr Luciuk and myself looked at wh^t the jour­ I look at an issue and look at how important it is to the in serious investigative reporting anymore, and that is the nalists of Ukraine would need if journalists from human condition. If it is an environmental issue, if it is a bent of most newspapers now. You see the odd glimmer in Canada or from the United States went to Ukraine. They business issue, if it is a justice or legal issue, an education the Toronto Star. They do some good stuff every so often. know how-to basic journalism, the who, what, where, issue, a medical issue, health, whatever, scientific. You In the States you see glimmers of it in some good newspa­ when, why and how. One of the most difficult things to look at it and say something went wrong here. Why did it pers, but again you are not getting much of it. do, and I know this from my own experience even with go wrong? And I want to see if we can get some answers. The only investigative journalism in Canada that is seasoned journalists in Canada and in the United States, You go into accountability. I want to know why this r being done on television is "Fifth Estate." It is the only is investigative journalism. is allowed to happen. serious investigative journalism, and it is the only seri­ What I'm going to do is to set up seminars based on a Even in a medical issue: People here are sick. A bunch ous constant investigative journalism in the country. 23-page report that I've prepared on what I think inves­ of medicine was sent in, and there's no medicine. There's tigative journalism is, from a historical point of view. I a whole bunch of investigations like that. Politically. Are Ukrainian editors going to support investiga­ wrote about how investigative journalism in North Politicians always make promises, and then you suddenly tive journalists? America got started with the young journalists going to discover that none of the promises were adhered to. You You can't do investigative journalism without the sup­ cover the Vietnam War and the big, big, big story, which go up to the person and you state: "You made a promise port of your executive producer, in the case of television, was Woodward and Bernstein breaking the Watergate here and you made a promise there. What happened? I or without the support of your editor, in the case of news­ story. After that, everybody wanted to be an investigative want an answer." And you make them accountable. papers. If they are not interested, you may as well hammer journalist. The problem was that once Watergate was bro­ For me, when I do the "Fifth Estate" or when I was at your head against the wall. They have to say, "We are ken it showed how few journalists were actually prepared the Globe and Mail, the bottom line of investigative jour­ interested in going ahead and pursuing these investiga­ to do solid investigative journalism. Even today. nalism, the absolute bottom line, was accountability. Why tions, and we are going to allocate a team to do it." In Ukraine, in Russia and places like that, the press is did you allow this to happen? How did this happen? We Without this, you can do all the investigations in the in a stage of infancy of objective reporting —it's been know what, we know where, we know when. The really world. Where are you going to publish them? Where are all party press. You did not report; you were told what tough journalism comes in not just taking pat answers, but you going to broadcast them? Nowhere. Nowhere! to write. Now they're getting to a stage of getting a getting the proof, because proof is important. Unless you have an independent press somewhere, sense of objectivity and being able to report objectively, no one is going to read it. If you do not have your news­ however you want to interpret objectivity. paper's, or your television's current affairs department For journalists in Ukraine to jump directly from a party solidly behind you 100 percent of the way, it's useless. press to investigative journalism is a quantum leap. You This is a comment on the state of journalism in just can't do it. Ypu have to have the basic tools of jour­ Fe$reting Out The Facts Canada, North America and the world. This is the dam­ nalism solidly iifjplace, and then from there you can get The №??«**# ami PiW&w? tiffav?Sti$№W Jmtmitiffi age that is done by the control of the media in a few into the big investigations, corruption, fraud, crime, envi­ hands. These people simply want money. "What's the ronmental issues, business issues, that are far beyond the bottom line here? How many ads can we get? Can we reach of just who, what, where, when, why and how. stuff in more ads?" An investigation digs a big hole in Where are your seminars going to be held, and the newspaper. If they are not behind you, and they just how can one be part of them? want a quick hit here and a little bit of news there, then all they are interested in is money. I'll be in Kyyiv, Kharkiv, Odessa and Lviv. We've Most times you'll get involved in litigation, and that been in touch with several journalists in each city. The costs money. They come after you. They do it to frus­ Union of Ukrainian Journalists is helping us out. They trate you. Litigation scares people, so they come after have set up the places where we will be holding the the journalist. They tell you that you are on notice, they seminars and who we are going to meet with. I have are going to sue you and they start the procedures. several names of independent journalists who are aware You're stuck with it. And the editor is saying, "This is that I am coming and going to be there for the seminars. costing money"; the publisher is saying, "This is costing It's open to all journalists. If I find out that any journal­ money, and I don't want to see another friggin investi­ ist has been refused entry I'll be really ticked off. If they gation." I think once you can prove that you've done find out that I'm there, they can come, they can listen, ask your homework, then they're stuck. Nobody will come questions. What I'm going to do a lot of is not just pontifi­ after you. It's just a scare — we call it libel chill. cate on the North American style of doing things, but Til get them to talk to me about projects that they have in Is there a physical danger for investigative jour­ mind, and how best to approach them, how best to attack nalists in Ukraine? them. A lot of journalists in Canada and a lot of journalists I'll outline how to do the searches, the paper search­ in America have been threatened. They have been beat­ es, how to get contacts, how to work those contacts, all en up and have had things happen to them. Ї have been of those kinds of things. Once they come up with an Cover of Victor Malarek's bilingual (English- idea, we can have a talk until they are satisfied that they Ukrainian) booklet on investigative journalism. (Continued on page 18) No. 34 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, AUGUST 20, 1995 Modeled on 17th century church, Brampton's St. Elias is "domed" by Andrij Wynnyckyj tect. Prof. Greenberg was referred to the Toronto Press Bureau two clergymen by a student who learned the academic had a passion for wooden BRAMPTON, Ontario - About "40 church architecture. parishioners and friends of the Rev. The church was conceived from the Roman Galadza gathered on location to ground up. According to Deacon Kennedy, witness an increasingly rare sight: the "We presented [Prof. Greenberg] with a "doming" of a church. The shrine in floor plan based on liturgical needs of the question is St. Elias's, a Ukrainian parish and of the [Ukrainian Greek- Catholic parish headed by the Rev. Catholic] tradition so it could be celebrated Galadza in a town of 270,000, about 15 in its fullness." miles northwest of Toronto. In their pursuit of traditional design, On the initially hazy morning of July the two clergymen insisted on minimiz­ 25, three cedar-shingled domes were lift­ ing the amount of metal used in building. ed into place by crane. One by one, they These problems were worked out with a were suspended from a 60-foot cable that Markham-based company, Timber was passed through the top of their cupo­ Systems, which has used a heavy timber las and attached to an interlocking sys­ structure, made out of the giant Douglas tem of eight harnesses. fir. When the 15 tons of the first and The deacon said the parish has saved largest dome settled into its slot in the about 10 to 15 percent on the estimated church's structure, cheers from the work­ $1.1 million project because the two cler­ ers on the site mixed with shouts and gymen acted as the general contractors. arplause from the 40 or so parishioners The Rev. Galadza said the local and friends of the Rev. Galadza who had municipality was alsc very generous in goc'.'iered on the adjoining plain. And the rezoning prime ap-rioiiUural tend for the sun came out. on cue. The beaming priest said: "What a sight! What a glorious, God-g="en moment!" 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Parishioners hold crosses that will top the church's domes as they are blessed. The pastor, the Rev. Roman Galadza, inspects construction inside the church. 10 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, AUGUST 20,1995 No. 34 Weightlifters and wrestlers train by Roman Woronowycz CARROLLTON, Ga. — The big boys of the Olympics arrived in Carrollton on June 30 to acclimate themselves to the heat and humidity of a Georgia summer. Ukrainian weightlifters and wrestlers were here until August 11 to train and to take part in pre- Olympic trials. Both teams are among the favorites for medals next year when the 1996 Olympic Games come to Atlanta. A powerful Ukrainian weightlifting team, world champions in Melbourne, Australia, in 1993 and European champions last year in Sofia, Bulgaria, are ready to continue their dominance at the inter­ national level. "We have come here with one goal, to get used to the climate and the area so that we will win in Atlanta," said the head coach of the weightlifting contingent, Yasyl Kulak. Their No. 1 weapon is the current champion in the super heavy­ weight class (108 kg, or 242 lbs.), Timur Taimazov. He has won two world championships and three European ones in the last three years and currently holds world records in the snatch at 440 lbs. and the clean and jerk, having lifted 518 lbs. He was also one of nine weightlifters from around the world invited to compete at the Paul Anderson Memorial Weightlifting Invitational held in Atlanta on August 13. Belying his international superstar standing and playing down his team's accomplishments, Mr. Taimazov said, "We have nobody right now who is close to Alekseyev (the legendary Soviet I Roman Woronowycz weightlifter of the 1970s), but I'm telling you that we are working Wrestler Mirab Valeyev (heavyweight division) stretches before workout. to get back what we had." The eight-man team, and its two coaches, certainly has the talent once again. Besides Mr. Taimazov, they have Oleksander Blyshchyk, also a gold medal winner at the 1994 European champi­ onships in Sofia. In addition, their 1993 world championship team took three gold, five silver and five bronze medals in Melbourne. Small Georgia town helps... (Continued from page 1) "they mentioned me probably because I live in Atlanta," she said. "I took me two months to determine if I could put it together." In January 1993, she became NOC-Ukraine's U.S. representative. Hers is an admittedly daunting task. "The most difficult part is that it requires so many elements, it is a very wide breadth of responsibilities," explained Ms. Temple. "If I look at it all at once, it seems overwhelming. So I concentrate on one thing at a time." The Carrollton contribution Ms. Temple played a key role in marrying Ukraine with the city of Carrollton. J. Thomas Vance, head of the Carroll County Chamber of Commerce, which worked to bring the team here, said the Ukrainian Olympic team simply did not fall into their lap, but that a concerted effort had been put forward to secure a team to train in Carrollton. "We're close to Atlanta, we have terrific facilities — the city's recreation facilities and the university," he explained. "We wanted to participate in the Olympics." Mr. Vance said he met Ms. Temple through a mutual friend, and the two engineered the path by which the Ukrainian Olympians Stanislav Rybalchenko prepares to finish a clean and jerk during training. reached Carrollton. "We knew they were available," said Mr. Vance. "We knew they had good athletes and competitive teams. But the bonus was that they were a team from Eastern Europe, an emerging region of the world." Securing an agreement with the NOC-Ukraine to use Carrollton as base camp was only the beginning of the effort. Mr. Vance said the entire outlay for "Carroll '96" (as the Carroll County effort in support of the Ukrainian Olympic team is called) will run the city, the Chamber of Commerce and West Georgia College $100,000, with local corporations also involved. The college is defraying the costs of room and board and some training facilities. Other expenditures include purchases of Olympic-level training equipment, injury insurance for the com­ petitors and transportation. In addition, the college's running track, which has lain dormant for years, is being given a complete overhaul at a cost of nearly $250,000 to bring it to world standards. The price tag, to be cov­ ered by the county Board of Regents and state grants, will give Ukrainian track athletes an eight-lane, 400-meter oval with the most modern running surface. Ron Young, current Carroll County Olympic Initiative Committee chairman, said all the equipment and updated facilities paid by the Carroll '96 effort will be transferred to public use after the Olympics are over. "The track, the weights we bought, which are exactly like the ones to be used in Atlanta, will go to the public, the school and for the city's recreation department," he assured. What the team still needs Ms. Temple said that in addition to the almost $400,000 in total that Carroll '96 is coughing up, the NOC-Ukraine needs another $85,000 to $90,000 to cover costs for the team this year and FeUow champions Timur Taimazov (left) and Oleksander Blyshchyk show the soli­ approximately $250,000 for 1996. The money is in addition to darity of their cause. what "Carroll 96" will pay and which is not being subsidized by No. 34 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, AUGUST 20,1995 • gold in Atlanta weightlifters, but attempting to move into ainian wrestling team. In 1994, the squad e European championships and at the just pic 1995 World Freestyle Wrestling Atlanta on August 10-13, Elbrus Tadeyev medal for Ukraine, although the team fin- ;th over all. ised on their training to such a degree that Atlanta and the surrounding area. Anatoliy >' team physician said the only real relax- as the August 6 banquet thrown by the і of the city of Carroll ton in honor of 100 /eightlifing Federation, 'kraine's Ambassador to the United States )v. Pierre Howard of Georgia, State Rep. r Minister for International Affairs Viktor J'S Ministry of Sports and Youth, and most lers. The boys really enjoyed themselves," said he weightlifters, were seated on the lower ans and organizers. At the center sat the ik and his superstar super heavyweight, Mr. e center of attention during and after the to have photos snapped with him. eightlifting federation official, gave the jars of Ukrainian weightlifting, which was trst "modern" Olympics held in 1896 in George Jarosewich six Ukrainian Olympic gold winners, men- The women's synchronized swimming team enters arena during Nations Bank World Cup competition. mpion of the 1956 Melbourne Games and winner in Tokyo in 1964 and in Mexico ers. ifting tradition in Ukraine "a long and glo- іе boys" hope to continue.

proximately $27.50 a day per person and oundtrip flights to Atlanta from New York, urive in the U.S., and transportation to off- r about 200 persons from 16 [Ukrainian] >r training and pre-Olympic trial events (in burden is airfare for the squad. "One prob- air transport costs," continued Ms. Temple, npliment the Lewczyk Interport Travel ch is coordinating travel arrangements, for lowest available costs, sts will go up because many of the teams training prior to the Olympic Games. "The > oppressive that in any outdoor sports the high-altitude training," she explained. She cycling and canoeing-kayaking, among is training at sites in the U.S. prior to the >n period immediately before the Olympics e if not the same as Atlanta's, таї corporations have subsidized portions of ympic Team, including Adidas, which is sup- : Ukraine's sports federations. Also contribut- liaspora organizations. Fund-raisers currently tie Ukrainian Sports Federation of the U.S.A. ident Ukrainian Olympic sports committees 50, Buffalo, N.Y., Cleveland, New York, nonton, Vancouver, Saskatoon and Regina, inancial initiative in the U.S. and Canada has "Each city has its own account in the local credit union]," she explained. "We have no ses. We are accountable to the community, lunity trusts us." unteers her efforts, explained that when she NOC-Ukraine expenses, she contacts the inances. d Ms. Temple agree that the real test for xt summer when the whole effort must come month-long period. "The problem is that fore, there are no books to read," explained ve are going to have hundreds here, all arriv- l all practicing at the same time." ien the spotlight and the real pressure will e athletes of the Ukrainian Olympic squad, al labeled "a dark horse to finish in the top ices medal-winners like Florida turns out team will include the greatest pole-vaulter >ka, super-heavyweight weightlifter Tiniur iper Inessa Kravets, high jumper Inga ilya Pidkopayeva, shotputter Oleksander present world class medalists, as well as shooting, weightlifting, rowing and canoe- t know about Ukraine yet, it will by next Chris Howard, son of Lt. Gov. Pierre Howard, hands the wrestling team commemorative mementos with the help of Ron Young, director of the "Carroll <96" initiative. 12 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, AUGUST 20, 1995 No. 34

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For most choir members the tour LABOR DAY WEEKEND with the Homin and Prometheus Male will be their first trip to Ukraine. Some Choirs of Lviv at the Ivan Franko Opera older singers have not seen their families Friday, September 1,10 p.m. Dance - "Lviviany" Theater. or friends since the end of World War II, Saturday, September 2, 8:30 p.m. Concert On Thursday, August 24, Prometheus while others, the second or third genera­ Ukrainian Youth Ensembles from Toronto will sing at the outdoor Independence tions bom in the United States, long to Male Choir "Orion" Day concert and rally to be held in see the land of their parents and grand­ Female Choir "Levada" Lviv's Freedom Square, which is parents. Concert-Marching Band "Vanguard" expected to draw over 75,000 partici­ Persons wishing to contribute to the Musical Director and Conductor - Wasyl Kardash pants. choir's fund-raising drive may do so by 10 p.m. Dance 'Tempo"; "Fata Morgana" For Prometheus this is the culmination writing to: Prometheus Choir, Ukrainian of a long-time dream of performing in a Educational and Cultural Center, 700 Sunday, September 3,2:15 p.m. Concert free and independent Ukraine. For over Cedar Road, Jenkintown, PA 19046. Ukrainian Youth Ensembles from Toronto 33 years, the choir has been one of the (Checks should be made payable to 8:30 p.m. Concert - Vocal-instrumental Ensemble "Lviviany" premier performing groups in the United Prometheus.) 10 p.m. Dance 'Tempo"; "Fata Morgana" States, and has appeared in hundreds of Mistress of Ceremonies - Olya Chodoba-Fryz concerts and festivals throughout the Dance every Friday night to the tunes of "Lviviany" United States and Canada. Rudnytsky tours... In 1980 and 1984, the choir completed successful concert tours of Europe, per­ (Continued from page 12) EXHIBITS - SUMMER 1995 forming in England, France, Germany, Melbourne suburb). On August 6, he was September 1-4 Oleksander Tkachenko - Mixed Media; Holland and Switzerland, where the to give a recital for the Sydney-area Water Colors, Ink, Gouache and Oil. choir participated in the prestigious Ukrainian community. Marika Sochan -Tymyc - Jewelry. International Choral Competition in Mr. Rudnytsky returned home at the Yevshan - Music. Montreaux. Both tours of Europe were end of May after a two-week tour in Ihor Diachenko - Koolzak Grafiks - Apparel warmly received by critics and audiences Britain, during which he played seven Elia and Ihor Bilinski and other artists - Glass Paintings alike, and the choir was often featured on recitals (two of these on Tresco and St. the front pages of the European press, Mary's, Isles of Scilly) and performed the which invoked great interest in and Rachmaninoff Concerto No. 2 in C minor respect for the rich Ukrainian heritage with orchestra in London. In November of Notice to publishers and authors and culture. this year, he will make another tour of On the eve of the choir's first visit to Britain, playing 10 concerts. It is The Ukrainian Weekly's policy to run news items and/or reviews of newly published books, book­ lets and reprints, as well as records and premiere issues of periodicals, oniy after receipt by the editorial Ukraine, one could sense an atmosphere Mr. Rudnytsky remains a member of offices of a copy of the material in question. of keen anticipation and excitement the piano faculty of the Dana School of News items sent without a copy of the new release will not be published. building as final preparations were made Music of Youngstown State University Send new releases and information (where publication may be purchased, cost, etc.) to: The for the tour. Not only was the choir hon­ in Youngstown, Ohio. Editor, The Ukrainian Weekly, 30 Montgomery St., Jersey City, NJ 07302.

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For further information p.m., and are sponsored by the Ukrainian call Patience Huntwork, vice-president, American Veterans, Post 19, Spring Valley, UCCA Phoenix Branch, (602) 253-3263. N.Y. For more information call (914) 356- TORONTO: The Ukrainian Canadian 4359. Soyuzivka Photo Contest Congress, Toronto Branch, invites the COLUMBIA, Md.: The Washington Group Amateur photographers only Ukrainian community to celebrate the and Self-Reliance Baltimore Federal Credit fourth anniversary of the independence of Union will sponsor the fourth annual Rules and regulations: Ukraine at St. Volodymyr Cultural center, Independence Day picnic at Centennial Park 1. Only non-professional photo buffs can participate. 1280 Dundas St. W. and Fourth Line, East. The picnic, commencing at noon and Oakville. The program commences at 11 concluding at 7 p.m. (rain or shine), will fea­ 2. Photo must be taken at Soyuzivka in 1994 or 1995. a.m. with an ecumenical service; concert ture free admission, cash bar and picnic bas­ 3. All photos must have a "people theme." to follow at 2:30 p.m. The keynote speaker ket platters. Tennis and volleyball, tot lot and a) Each photo must be dated, people should be identified (on the reverse of photo) will be Permanent Representative of soccer round out the activities. Call (301) a model release signature must be obtained. Ukraine to the United Nations Anatoliy 854-2062 for information and to sign up for b) Name, address and telephone number of the entrant should be typed Zlenko. Tickets are $5; children (under the tennis tournament. on a label on the reverse of photo. 12) admitted free. Parking fee, $5. For 4. Selected photos will be published in Svoboda and The Ukrainian Weekly. more information call (416) 762-9247. ADVANCE NOTICE: 5. Photos will not be returned and will become the UNA'S property and will be filed in Soyuzivka's HORSHAM, Pa.: The Ukrainian NEW YORK: The Foreign Language photo archives. American Sports Center Tryzub will host Department of the School of Continuing 6. Prints only/no slides: color or black/white, at least 4 X 6 up to 11 X14. an Independence Day festival to commem­ Education at New York University is 7. All photo entries will be exhibited at Soyuzivka. orate the fourth anniversary of Ukrainian pleased to announce the following courses Dates of exhibition and announcement of winners will be announced independence on the grounds of in Ukrainian during the fall semester: in Svoboda and The Ukrainian Weekly. Tryzubivka, located at Lower State and Elementary Ukrainian Conversation 8. All entries will be judged solely on their merit; decisions of judges will be final. County Line roads. Scheduled attractions X25.9452 / $380, Mondays, 6:10-8:05 9. Employees of the UNA, Svoboda, The Ukrainian Weekly and Soyuzivka are not eligible. include skydiving parachutists, moonwalk- p.m., October 2-December 18 (12 ses­ 10. All entries must be postmarked no later than September 8,1995, and mailed to: ing for youngsters, a performance by the sions); Intensive Elementary Ukrainian I Ukrainian dance ensemble Voloshky and X25.9461 / $515, Saturdays, 1:20-4:15 UNA - Soyuzivka Photo Contest music by the Lviviany and Karpaty bands. p.m., September 30-January 6 (12 ses­ 30 Montgomery Street Traditional Ukrainian and non-Ukrainian sions). For information on any of these Jersey City, NJ 07303 picnic fare and beverages, arts and crafts offerings or for a copy of the current bul­ Attn: 0. Trytjak and souvenirs will be available. Admission letin, please (212) 998-7030. Prizes: 1st prize: $100.00 cash and room for two nights for two persons at Soyuzivka (based on A day earlier, Interfax-Ukraine reported 2nd prize: One year's subscription to Svoboda or The Ukrainian Weekly. Filaret rejects Ukrainian,. that the UOC-KP diocese of Ivano- 3rd prize: Dinner for two at Soyuzivka. (Continued from page 1) Frankivske had sent Metropolitan Filaret an mittee plans to distribute 100,000 flyers appeal requesting that he give up any claim at Kyyiv's metro, bus and railway sta­ to the patriarchal throne "for the sake of tions to announce the commemorations. unification of Orthodoxy in Ukraine." TO ALL UNA MEMBERS: Mr. Tsymbaliuk reiterated that the The appeal urged Metropolitan Filaret to committee and the UOC-KP have "complete the dialogue between the UOC- Kindly be reminded that your dues (premiums) for insurance coverage are requested that UNSO members partici­ KP and the Ukrainian Autocephalous payable on the first day of the month, and not at the end, as some assume. pate in the commemorations only as indi­ Orthodox Church and step up the dialogue By paying promptly to your Branch Secretary, you will help him/her remit the viduals, not as an organized group pro­ with the Ukrainian Orthodox Church - monthly collection to the Home Office in a timely fashion. tecting the procession. On August 17, the Moscow Patriarchate with the aim of unify­ Starokyyiv Court began hearings on ing the three Orthodox Churches into a sin­ HOME OFFICE OF UNA. revoking the registration of the Ukrainian gle Ukrainian Orthodox Church - Kyyiv National Assembly as a political party. Patriarchate." 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of accounting, of forensic accounting, of Victor Malarek... how to find documents. I mean, what's (Continued from page 8) the point? What's the guy going to do? Trip all over himself? threatened several times. If you want do do an investigation on We, at the "Fifth Estate," do crime environment and you have no idea of what stories. We do them on the mafia. We do the chemicals do. Give them ideas of them on the Chinese Triads. I've had where to contact people in North America Triads come after me. These people, you for analysis of chemicals, the EPA in the don't know what they are going to do the United States or here, Environment next day. Are they going to put a con­ Canada, to get good resource material, so tract out on you? I mean that's just one they can carry out their investigations. of the occupational hazards of journal­ When I leave, I guess I want them to ism. It doesn't matter whether it is in say, "Hey, I got something solid out of Ukraine, or Russia, or Germany, or this that I didn't know — how to go France, or Hong Kong, Canada, or the about doing it." It's very simple to say, United States. The bottom line is you "Hey I know this is going on." Proving it have to be very careful when you are is completely different. And this is a doing investigative stories on organized technique of proving it. If they can get crime. These people play rough. down some of the solid techniques and It's dangerous as hell in the ex-Soviet avenues of pursuing an investigation I'll Union right now. One, always let your feel good. other partners know what the hell you are doing. It's a bit of protection because * * * the story won't die with you. Know that Now that you've returned, what can you have the support of your newspaper, you tell us about how your project of your television station. You have to be went? ready for the ultimate — that you are The project was successful. I did not going to get a death threat. expect to meet as many people as I did. If you are going to be an investigative We met with at least 250 journalists from journalist, be careful out there. Don't put all fields, print, radio and television. yourself in a position where you are We were going full tilt, I mean two going to get shot. meetings a day. Meeting with 250 indi­ What is the ultimate objective of viduals in small sessions and individual­ these seminars? ly. I met a hell of a lot of people. So from that point of view I was really sur­ I hope that when I'm finished talking prised and quite happy with the turn-out. with the various journalists in Ukraine At one point I was getting really tired that they'll have in their arsenal a num­ of meeting old hacks — Communist ber of techniques that they could use, Party hacks. It was really interesting to that could help them in pursuing good see the difference between the two solid investigations that will stand up to groups, the younger reporters who want the rigors of scrutiny among other jour­ do go out there and really do something, nalists and among crown attorneys or versus the old hacks who in fact still prosecutions when the lawyers will have control the papers. a look at it. That their investigations I considered it a total waste of time to HURYN MEMORIALS stand up. That it's not just hearsay; that talk to old commies, because I figure that it's not anecdotal. That they have a sense For the finest in custom made memorials installed in all cemeteries in the in time their newspapers will be wrap­ of what kinds of tools are out there, also ping fish and garbage and that's about it. New York Metropolitan area including Holy Spirit in Hamptonburgh, N.Y., what kinds of investigations they can go As I said, we met 250 journalists in St Andrew's in South Bound Brook, N.J., Pine Bush in Kerhonkson and after. the cities I went to. Maybe a half-dozen Glen Spey Cemetery, Glen Spey. I'm going to talk to a lot of journalists impressed me. That is a really sad state­ and ask them what they are interested in ment. What surprised my in Kyyiv was We offer personal service and guidance in your home. For a bilingual rep­ doing. Tell me what you're interested in that the Union of Journalists there, which resentative call: doing. Let's see if we can come up with is basically nothing more than a bunch of HURYN MEMORIALS an attack plan to do that investigation. old Communist Party hacks, readily Whether you need a team, two or three P.O. Box 121 admitted to me that 90 percent of the reporters to do that story, what kind of Hamptonburgh, N.Y. 10916 reporters in the country took bribes. expertise do you need to do that kind of That really shocked me. I said, "What Tel. (914) 427-2684 story. I mean, its pretty silly of these Fax. (914) 427-5443 the hell do you mean, take bribes?" They reporters to go out to do an investigation said they take money from people to get on fraud and they have no understanding stories written to put in their various newspapers, and on television or radio. Later I spoke with politicians and they IN LOVING MEMORY OF MY FATHER, WALTER CHOLODNY, his right-hand man in said the number was more like 98 to 99 WHO WAS TAKEN SO SUDDENLY AUGUST 14,1994. heaven. I heard God only percent. So at each meeting I asked this takes the best, so please question, "How many of you take It was a rich and joyful experience to know my Dad. He was an entre­ treasure him Lord. bribes?" Of course no one would raise preneur at work and at life. Real estate may have been on the shingle, but і stood by the hospital their hands. my Tato was a race horse breeder, livestock trader, pigeon fancier, miner, bed and hoped you could Well, I told the audience that the Union financial advisor, guidance counselor to troubled teens and friend to many. hear me say, al love you of Journalists told me that 90 percent of Forced out of school in grade 3, he had to get up early to grab the Daddy." How heart-wrench­ the journalists take bribes, and the politi­ one pair of dress pants he shared with his brother to get out to wheel ing not to be able to say cians say the number is higher. I ask them, good-bye. Part of my heart "Do any of you know somebody that and deal in the market. He grew from nothing to a streetwise young doesn't take bribes?" They all shake their businessman in Ukraine. After the war in a German internment camp went with you — for so heads. Some of them will say, "You have his impeccable taste and genius led him to marry my mother. much of what і am, I am to understand that we are paid a really rot­ Shortly after he arrived in Toronto, my Dad befriended a govern­ because of you. Please ten salary." For me, if that is a justifica­ ment official and together through the years they found jobs for most of help me take care of Mama, tion, that is a pathetic justification. my Dad's friends. Never taking this opportunity he continued on his road walk beside her and give of entrepreneurship. He fiercely loved Canada and was proud to be a her strength. I love you forever, I miss you. I wasn't ready Daddy! What was Ukraine like for you per­ Canadian. Dad was a combination of Fred Astaire, Rhett Butler, Archie sonally? Bunker (in the huggable sense), Charles Branson and a touch of Maurice Do not stand at my grave and weep The one fascinating thing for me was Chevalier. He could peak your interest, make you laugh, infuriate you and I am not there, I do not sleep seeing ^ites of stories that I had written always melt you with his impish grin and childlike tinkle in his eyes. I am a thousand winds that blow, I am the diamond about, particularly the Ukrainian famine He made my brothers' lives and mine interesting and exciting — for glints on snow of 1932-1933.1 was in Kharkiv, standing how many kids got the rewards of combining city and country life. Dad I am the sunshine ripened grain, I am the gentle honest rain on a mass grave there. It now has a park always did things his way. Only with creativity and perseverance could you When you awaken, in the morning hush over it. And the mass grave in Kyyiv change his mind. My life with my Dad was a turbulent but loving one. I trea­ I am the soft uplifting rush where all those intellectuals were killed. sure the sad, painful, angry memories along with the many joyous ones. (I Of quiet birds in circles flight These were the very deep and chilling never wanted memories, I only wanted you.) The rest of my life -1 will I am the soft stars that shine at night moments for me. I looked at these places, never forget. I hope he knew in day-to-day life how much I loved him. Do not stand at my grave and cry and I thought to myself that if my grand­ God probably needed my sharp, fast-thinking, soft-hearted Dad as I am not there, I did not die parents hadn't split, my father probably (Continued on page 19) No. 34 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, AUGUST 20, 1995 19

change happen. remember one editor in Kyyiv told me power structure. Every multimillionaire Victor Уаіагек.., You are going to see that politicians that when his paper tried to do hard-hit­ is connected to the power structure, polit­ (Continued from page 18) will know they can't get away with it, ting stories, they started having problems ically. I mean, they give to the slush would have been under one of those these crooked businesspeople will know acquiring paper and ink. funds of each of the parties. The point is mounds. they can't get away with it, crooks and In Lviv, one editor said he fully sup­ not whether the publisher or owner is criminals will know that there will be ported his journalists and that they are connected to the power structure, but Over all, I think it was a fascinating someone looking over their shoulder. engaging in investigative reporting. I was what happens in the newsroom and if the experience. It was a tough slog, but it And that's what you have to work for. totally surprised when one woman jour­ newsroom is strong enough to fight that was worth it in the end. A lot of time you will not see a single nalist stood up and just tore him to off. That is the key. If you do not have a In addition, Lubomyr and me each solitary reaction. Other times you will shreds. strong newsroom that is saying, "We came back $1,000 poorer. The expenses see a huge government inquiry launched She said that this statement from the edi­ want to do this, give us the support to do in Ukraine are far higher than we had the next day. tor was an absolute lie. That they had never this — forget it." anticipated. We ended up double bunk­ done any investigative pieces, and that But things change, who'd a thunk five ing in hotel rooms. That's happened with me. And that's part of reality. But the primary function there is no support from the editors. The years ago that Ukraine would be indepen­ The prices there are crazy. They are of a journalist is to inform the public, not editor looked at his watch and asked the dent. I just never dreamed about it. I gouging foreigners. To pay $120 (U.S.) to create government inquiries. woman if she had an assignment to work thought it would be an appendage to for a crap room in the hotel Dnipro is If such things happen as a result of a on. She replied, no, she had nothing to Russia forever. Okay, now it's free. annoying to say the least. We ended up story, that's gravy. But the first job is to tell work on and that she had more to tell me. There's a lot of peop^ connected to the having to pay $40 (U.S.) a day for inter­ the public what is happening. The public She was great. She had the courage of party, but you car et around those preters, for people to just help us out, for will make its voice heard at election time or her convictions, and that is the kind of things. Eventually j will fade out any­ drivers, for cars. You know, all these with complaints to the elected officials. person that I want to meet. I put the chal­ way. A lot of the d guard is going to things we had to pay out of pocket. lenge out to every editor to support the fade out. Right no , what we're seeing is What did you observe regarding the What was your experience with the journalists in their convictions. that a lot of young reporters are going to relationship between editors and jour­ current state of Ukrainian journalism The fact that editors in Ukraine are come in and say this is what we want to nalists? as you saw it? connected with high-ranking government do. And it's the young people with their A lot of editors and publishers told me officials is really the same as in Canada, own thinking that are going to change From what I've seen, they are still they support their journalists. But I where every owner is connected to the everything. Newsrooms will change. weaning themselves from the party press. A lot of young journalists are out there waiting to bust the big story. To really make the bad guys pay. Whether it is organized crime, the KGB, the politi­ cians, or companies. It was an experience. The journalism there is very Neanderthal-like. The reporters there are just coming out of party control. The)' have been spoon-fed for so long that I think it's very hard for them to get beyond that to asking questions indepen­ dently. They seem to be afraid, or nervous, or hesitant to ask.independent questions. Stuff is just shoveled at them, and they dutifully report it. I think that kind of journalism is nothing more than stenography. So, while I was there to talk largely about an aspect of journalism that is very important to me, very close to my heart, they were nowhere, anywhere near the level of trying their hand at it. 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The thing is that you keep on plodding along because our responsibility is to inform the public — not to keep on writing stories that get massive reactions in order to build your ego up. After a while when you keep nailing something, going after something, going after sleazeballs, then you will see 20 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, AUGUST 20,1995 No. 34 Air Ukraine PREVIEW OF EVENTS Saturday, August 19 Massachusetts and Boston. For more infor­ UKRAINE'S NATIONAL AIRLINE mation call Orest Szczudluk, (617) 325- IRVING, Texas: The Ukrainian 0237 (evenings). The observance is spon­ American Society of Texas invites the sored by the Ukrainian Congress Committee public to its Ukrainian Independence Day of America. picnic, to be held at St. Basil the Great Byzantine Catholic Church, 1118 E. Friday, August 25 Union Road. Enjoy the bocce tournament, volleyball tournament, croquet, horseshoe PHILADELPHIA: The city Department toss and organized games for children. of Recreation in conjunction with the festi­ Lunch will be served at 3-4 p.m. Church val committee of the Ukrainian Community tours at 3:30 and 5 p.m. A Recognition of of Metropolitan Philadelphia presents the Special UAST Member Award will be Ukrainian Festival of Music, Song and presented during the picnic. Tickets : Dance "Echoes of Ukraine," to be held at adults, $10; children (12 and under), $7; Robin Hood Dell East, Ridge Avenue and UAST members: adults, $8; children, $6. Dauphin Street, in Fairmount Park. The fes­ Proceeds to benefit St. Basil's and the tival, dedicated to the fourth anniversary of Chicago • Lviv UAST Endowment Fund. For additional Ukrainian independence and the "Welcome information call Susie Sobchak, (214) America" celebrations will feature: 380-4809. Yarosiav Hnatiuk, baritone, soloist of the Kyyiv Opera; Svitlana Hnatiuk, piano New York * Ivano-Frankivsk Thursday, August 24 accompaniment; Olena Heimur, soprano; Volodymyr Vyimytsky, pianist; Larisa JENKINTOWN, Pa.: A special Ukrainian Bairamova, cello; Oksana Lassowsky, Independence Day radio broadcast spon­ piano accompaniment; and the Voloshky PREMIUM BUSINESS CLASS sored by the Ukrainian Educational and Ukrainian Dance Ensemble. Admission is Cultural Center will be aired at noon on free. Tickets are available at: Department of AT AFFORDABLE PRICES WNWR AM 1540. Ukraine's ambassador Recreation ticket office, Parkside and to the United States, Dr. Yuri Scherbak, Belmont avenues; Ukrainian Educational will deliver an address to the community on and Cultural Center, 700 Cedar Road, (215) the air. Also in the program are Embassy 663-1166; and at other locations (call the Press Attache Dmitro Markov and Prof. center for their locations.) For reservations and information please call Taras Hunczak of Rutgers University. Following their remarks, listeners will have Saturday, August 26 the opportunity to call in to the panel to ask questions on the current situation in WILD WOOD CREST, N.J.: Plast 1-800-UKRAINE Spartanky are sponsoring the 10th annual Ukraine. The call-in number is: (215) 263- 1540. For additional information call the Mixed Triples Volleyball Tournament on 1-800-857-2463 or call your travel agent. Ukrainian Educational and Cultural Center, the beach in front of the Pan Am Hotel. (215)663-1166. Registration is $30 per team; early regis­ tration is recommended. For more infor­ SOUTH TROY, N.Y.: The Ukrainian mation please contact Chris Gnoy-Staciuk, Congress Committee of America, Albany- (201) 625-1467 (evenings). Capital District Council, is very pleased to EAST MEADOW, N.Y.: The Ukrainian invite the community for observances of Congress Committee of America, Long the fourth anniversary of the independence Island Branch, invites the community to of Ukraine, at Taras Shevehenko Plaza, Ukrainian Nighty to be held at the Harry intersection of Third and Fourth streets. Chapin Theater, Eisenhower Park, starting Observances begin at 9 a.m.. The public is at 8 p.nv The evening will include perfor­ invited to present brief remarks or read mances by the Voloshky Dancers of proclamations or resolutions. To help the Philadelphia, The Wave Ukrainian Band committee register participation in the pro­ of Long Island and vocalist Olya gram, please confirm attendance by calling Chodoba-Fryz. The evening is sponsored (518)459-5510. by the Nassau County Department of Meest-America Inc. of Linden, N.J division of MEEST Parks and Recreation; admission is free; BOSTON: The commemoration of the Corporation Inc. of Toronto, Canada, seeks an energetic lawn chairs and blankets are suggested. fourth anniversary of Ukraine's indepen­ For more information, call (516) 931-5563 person with a knowledge of accounting. Fluency in dence will be held at noon at the Boston or (516) 781-8072. The rain date for this City Hall Plaza. The program will include event is Sunday, August 27. English language is required. Knowledge of Ukrainian the raising of the Ukrainian national flag, language would be an asset. Please send resumes by fax brief remarks about Ukraine's independence CARTERET, N.J.: The St. Demetrius and greetings from invited state, city and Sisterhood of the Blessed Virgin Mary is or by mail to: Meest America Inc., 817 Pennsylvania Ave., civic representatives. An invitation was sponsoring a trip to Sight and Sound in Linden, N.J. 07036. For more info call: (908) 925- 5525; extended to Boston Mayor Thomas M. Strasburg, Pa. Buses depart the St. Demetrius Menino. The day has been designated as fax: (908) 925-7898. Ask for Adam. "Ukrainian Independence Day" in (Continued on page 17)

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