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Expelled Latvian dissident says, Reagan's challenge to Gorbachev: ''no one should trust Gorbachev" legalize Ukrainian Catholic Church NEW YORK - "Latvians will never organized this year to commemorate WASHINGTON - President Ro­ President Reagan noted that "just accept their incorporation into the the forced annexation of the Baltic nald Reagan has called on the Soviet last August, over 200 underground USSR," said Rolands Silaraups, former republics by the USSR. government to demonstrate the since­ Ukrainian Catholic Church leaders and head and now, after his deportation Mr. Silaraups assured the audience rity of its reform policy by legalizing the laity fearlessly and for the first time from Soviet-occupied Latvia in July that KGB efforts to destroy Helsinki 86 Ukrainian Catholic Church. disclosed their names in an appeal to the official foreign representative have continually failed. Before his General Secretary Gorbachev to lega­ In a speech before the Heritage lize their Church. of the Latvian? Helsinki 86 monitoring deportation, a replacement head was Foundation on November 30 - one group. selected. week before his summit meeting here "Yosyp Tereha, the brave Ukrainian Catholic human rights activist, recently Mr. Silaraups appeared at "Voices of The Byelorussian presentation, given with Soviet party chief Mikhail Gor­ released from the Soviet Union after 21 Hope," a program highlighting current by Vitaut Kipel, centered around the bachev - Mr. Reagan said glasnost was years in Soviet labor camps, prisons and Soviet opposition literature, sponsored issue of heightened Russification of the "a promise as yet unfulfilled." by the Ukrainian Students Association Byelorussian language and culture. psychiatric hospitals, delivered the of Mykola Michnowsky (TUSM) on Mr. Kipel used two letters sent in "One of the truest measures of glas­ appeal personally," Mr. Reagan said. November 14 here at the Ukrainian December 1986 to Mikhail Gorbachev nost will be the degree of religious In the speech that covered most of the Institute of America. from nearly 150 of Byelorussia's leading freedom the Soviet rulers allow their points scheduled to be discussed in his Mr. Silaraups, who spoke with the intelligentsia in defense of their lan­ people — freedom of worship for all, talks with Mr. Gorbachev, President aid of a translator, provided interesting guage which they say has experienced including Protestants, Jews, Catholics, Reagan criticized the Soviet leadership glimpses into Mikhail Gorbachev's new the "destructive process" of Russifica­ Orthodox and followers of Islam," the for neglecting the economic well-being glasnost policy, stating, "No one should tion which in the "last two decades...has president said. of the Soviet populace while squander­ trust Gorbachev. There is nothing new accelerated." They concluded that "the "Few moves on the part of the Soviet ing billions of dollars to impose and in the Soviet Union, except, perhaps, Byelorussian language is one of the government could do more to convince maintain Communist rule in Eastern less persecution of free thought.'* foundations upon which the statehood the worId of its sincerity for reform than Europe, Cuba, Afghanistan, Angola, He also commented on the mass of the Byelorussian people rests." the legalization of the Ukrainian Catho­ Nicaragua, Ethiopia, South Yemen and demonstrations which Helsinki 86 (Continued on page 2) lic Church," the president stressed. Cambodia. Canadian investigators Ukrainian Culturological CIub under attack may travel to USSR by Bohdan Nahaylo problem as it exists in Ukraine. These ference in religious life. At the are the circle in Lviv headed by the gathering it was also decided to One of the more promising results former political prisoners Vyache- create several specialized sections for war crimes evidence in Ukraine of the Gorbachev leader- slav Chornovil and Mykhailo within the club, including one to deal OTTAWA - Within the next few ship*s emphasis on glasnost and Horyn, which has resumed publish­ with linguistic questions. months, Canadian investigators may "democratization" has been the ing the samvydav journal, the Ukrai­ The club's four subsequent meet­ visit the Soviet Union to collect evi­ formation this summer of an "infor­ nian Herald, and established an ings dealt with "The Ukrainian dence and testimony against suspected mal" group in Kiev to serve as a Action Group for the Release of Philosopher Hryhoriy Skovoroda" Nazi war criminals believed living in discussion club for nationally mind­ Ukrainian Prisoners of Conscience, (August 20), "Pressing Ecological Canada. ed citizens. Known as the Ukrainian and in Kiev the Ukrainian Culturolo­ Problems" (August 27), "Problems A senior Justice Department official Culturological Club, it has organized gical Club, which held its inaugural of the Preservation of the Historical has already visited Moscow to clear the several public meetings on questions meeting on August 6. and Cultural Monuments of the way for a fact-finding tour by Canadian connected with Ukrainian history The main organizers of the Ukrai­ Ukrainian Nation" (September 11), investigators. In addition, the Soviets and culture. nian Culturological Club also appear and "Blank Spots in the History of have agreed to honor a set of standards Last month, however, the club was to have been a group of former Ukraine" (October 4). for gathering evidence. The standards denounced on the pages of the local Ukrainian political prisoners. They On October 19, the local news­ are the same six drawn up by Justice newspaper and its organizers warned include: Serhiy Naboka, Leonid paper, Vechirnyi Kiev acknowledged Jules Deschenes, the head of a two-year, that it would no longer be tolerated Milyavsky and his wife, Larysa that the club's membership was "in S3 milHon commission of inquiry on unless it effectively put itself under Lokhvytska, who in early 1981 were the dozens" and that its discussions war criminals. official control. Members of the club arrested for pasting up leaflets in were attracting respected members of According to published reports, the have resisted this pressure and are support of Ukrainian political priso­ the Ukrainian intelligentsia, includ­ Soviet offer was made to the Canadians insisting that the existence of their ners; 01es Shevchenko, a former ing "authorities in the areas of more than five months ago. Justice informal organization is a test case journalist who was tried in 1980 for literature, archeology and culture," Minister Ramon Hnatyshyn told The for glasnost and perestroika in U- his involvement in the publication of such as the writer Serhiy Plachynda Globe and Mail that negotiations have kraine. a samvydav journal (also called the and the historian Mykhailo Brai- been going well with a number of other Like other areas of the Soviet Ukrainian Herald); and 01ha Matu- chevsky. East European countries, including Union, the inauguration of the poli­ sevych, who was imprisoned in 1980 At first the local authorities appear Poland, Czechoslovakia and Hungary. cies of glasnost and "democratiza­ for her association with the Ukrai­ not to have obstructed the c1ub. Although the government has made tion" brought a "mushrooming," as nian Helsinki Monitoring Group. Encouraged by verbal assurances no announcement about a fact-finding Radianska Ukraina put it, of unoffi- The club seems to have gotten off that their group would be registered mission behind the Iron Curtain, obser­ cial, or *4nformaF' (as they are to a good start and to have generated with the local administration of vers say a trip will take place shortly. officially referred to), groups and considerable interest in Kiev's cultu­ culture, the Ukrainian Culturologi­ "WeVe acted very swiftly and I expect organizations in Ukraine. While ral circles. Its inaugural meeting and cal Club's organizers managed to we will make an announcement before most of them appear to be concerned first public discussion, on the theme overcome the problem of finding a too long," Mr. Hnatyshyn told The with pop music or sport, some are of "Ukrainian Culture: Facade and hall suitable for each of the meetings Globe. "WeVe made good progress." evidently concerned with the preser­ Reality," is reported to have drawn and went about publicizing their Recently, Justice Deschenes told a vation of the Ukrainian historical 200 people. activities. The official attitude to­ Montreal conference marking the 40th and cultural heritage, ecology and Among the issues that are known to wards the club seems to have har­ anniversary of the Nuremberg war peace and disarmament. have been raised during it was the dened, though, after the candid crimes trials that he has grown im­ At least two unofficial groups are question of relations between Church discussion about blank pages in patient with the s1ow pace of war known to have been formed that seek and state, with Mr. Shevchenko modern Ukrainian history. criminals prosecutions in Canada. to apply glasnost to the nationalities speaking out against the state's inter­ (Continued on page 15) (Continued OIil page 10) THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, DECEMBER 6, 1987 No.49

A GLIMPSE OF SOVIET REALITY The Rev. Sas-Zhurakovsky and wife Ukrainian language issue seek to emigrate to West Germany NEW YORK - The Rev. Myron plenipotentiary for religious affairs in Sas-Zhurakovsky and his wife, Hanna, Ivano-Frankivske. He had earlier been produces verbal sparring have written a letter of appeal to Soviet suspended by Archbishop Makari of leader Mikhail Gorbachev requesting Ivano-Frankivske for **excessive reli­ by Roman Solchanyk primarily on language matters, it omitted altogether any reference to the permission for their family to emigrate gious activity," wrote Keston. to West Germany, reported the Exter­ Of all the controversial issues-that issues that had been raised by the In the coup1e's written appeal to Ukrainian intelligentsia. nal Representation of the Ukrainian General Secretary Gorbachev, the have been raised in the Soviet Ukrai­ Helsinki Group here. nian press under the impact of glasnost, Surprisingly, Ukrainian writers have priest requests permission to emigrate the discussion about the ro1e and status chosen to ignore the party's warnings The 53-year-old Orthodox priest to the Federal Republic of Germany on of the Ukrainian language has received and continue to press for changes that from Kolomyia in western Ukraine has the basis of his pre-war German citizen- by far the greatest attention. Those who have already been ruled out. Thus, a repeatedly been harassed by Soviet ship, reported the UHG's External have addressed the issue during the past recent session of the Presidium of the authorities for *'excessive religious Representation in New York. two years — for the most part writers, Board of the Ukrainian Writers' Union activity," according to Keston College. The Rev. Sas-Zhurakovsky claims in but also scholars, teachers, journalists, adopted a resolution that ostensibly is He has twice been detained for religious the letter that he has official documents and others — have focused on three devoted to the implementation of the activity as well as for claiming he was a that prove his citizenship and papers points: Central Committee decree, but that in German citizen before Wor1d War П that reportedly assure him that West * the right of parents or guardians to fact essentially repeats previous de­ and refusing to accept Soviet citizen­ Germany will accept the family for determine whether their children will be mands albeit in a more moderate tone. ship. residence there. taught in their native language or in The resulting situation is something The Rev. Sas-Zhurakovsky was re­ In their letter the coup1e appeals for some other language of the Soviet in the nature of a standoff between the moved by secular authorities a year and emigration in light of years of harass­ Union, most often Russian; two sides that, if nothing else, should a half ago from his post as parish priest ment by authorities that have left both provide Sovietologists with food for in Kolomyia, in the Ivano-Frankivske unemployed and **unemployable" be­ * the voluntary nature of studying a 0bIast, reported Keston in late October. second language of the Soviet Union; thought about the impact of Mikhail cause of their beliefs, and have made it and Gorbachev's policies on politics in the A source in Ukraine reportedly said impossible for them to continue living * the question of special legislation national republics. Without overstating this was done on the initiative of the in the Soviet Union. the case, it would seem that glasnost, defining the status of the Ukrainian Anatoliy Koryagin to describe the language, preferably in the form of an perestroika and the "new thinking" — Expelled Latvian... in short, Mr. Gorbachev's policies of continued use of psychiatric medicine article in the republic's constitution that (Continued from page 1) for punitive purposes. would give Ukrainian "state status." democratization — have injected an Specifically, it has been argued that element of uncertainty into the political Sirje Ainso of BATUN (Baltic Ap­ Mr. Karavansky spoke about Zino- the voluntary choice of schools is process. In any event, the rules that peal to the United Nations) spoke on the viy Krasivsky, who was forcibly ad­ anything but voluntary, given the govern this process appear to be in a tragic plight of Mart Niklus, Estonia's mitted to a psychiatric hospital for his dominant ro1e of the Russian language state of flux. leading human rights activist who, now Ukrainian nationalist activities. in virtually all forms of public life in An article on the national question in in failing health, "hangs on only to Volodymyr Kurylo concluded the Ukraine. Conditions in the republic are the current issue of the Ukrainian hope; our hope and prayers are with program by tracing the life and writings such that parents who opt for Ukrai­ Communist Party's main theoretical him, too." of well-known Ukrainian poet and nian-language schools for their children and political monthly, Komunist U- Excerpts from the letters of Lithua­ patriot Vasyl Stus, who succumbed to (assuming that these are readily avai­ krainy, reflects the change in style if not nian nationalist activist Viktoras Petkus physical torture inflicted in a Soviet lable) are in fact condemning them to substance. The author, Volodymyr Y. were read by Ginte Damusis, director of concentration camp in September 1985. unnecessary hardships. Melnychenko, deputy director of the the Lithuanian Information Center. The approximately 150 guests attend­ Institute of Party History in Kiev, goes Formerly incarcerated Ukrainian ing the program joined the speakers in a A case in point is higher education, reception afterwards. "Voices of Hope" which is almost exclusively conducted to great lengths to explain how the party activist Sviatoslav Karavansky used the gradually came to realize that all was testimonies of recently released Ukrai­ was sponsored in association with the in the Russian language. According to Ukrainian Institute of America. critics, it is the state not parents that not well in its past approach to the nian dissidents Yosyp Terelia and should play the deciding rule by deter­ national question. He repeats what has mining the language of instruction in now become the established line on the schools in accordance with the national non-Russian languages: composition of the school population. "It is especially necessary to substan­ Furthermore, there have been repeat­ tially strengthen explanatory work ed demands that Ukrainian language among pupils and their parents regard­ and literature be made an obligatory ing the study of the Ukrainian language subject of study in Russian-language and literature in. schools with Russian schools. language of instruction. Ignorance of As for a constitutional guarantee for the language of the people among the Ukrainian language, proponents of whom one lives testifies to spiritual such a move have pointed to the consti­ poverty and the low culture of inter- tutions of the three Transcaucasian nat1onality relations." republics, which define Georgian, Ar­ What follows is basically a polemic menian and Azeri as the state languages on the issues of granting Ukrainian the of the given republics. status of a state language and rescinding The official reaction to these propo­ the parents' right to determine the sals has been decidedly negative, both in language in which their children will be Moscow and in Kiev. In a speech to the educated. Mr. Melnychenko notes that Rolands Silaraups speaks about the Latvian Helsinki group during a program on party organization of Kiev writers those who support these demands often dissident Uterature in the USSR. earlier this year, the Ukrainian ideologi­ base their arguments on the resolution cal secretary, Yuriy N. Yelchenko, "On Soviet Rule in Ukraine" that was made it clear that the parental choice of adopted in December 1919 by the schools was not subject to change. Eighth All-Russian Conference of the FOUNDED 1933 "This right is determined by law," said Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks), Ul:rainian WeeI:I1 Mr. Yelchenko. "Whether one likes it or which was one of the first Ukrainianiza- tion decrees of the party. He tries to not, it is democratic in its very essence." 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Permission for Moscow trip inian American Coordinatinq Councirs surprises AHRU president clarification on investigative commission by Chrystyna N. Lapychak Below is the text of a clarification of the Ukrainian American Coordinating CounciVs position on an international investigative commission on the JERSEY CITY, N.J. - When Bo- famine proposed by the Ukrainian Congress Committee of America (UCCA) zhena 01shaniwsky first applied on to the World Congress of Free Ukrainians (WCFU). November 11 to travel to the Soviet After the establishment of the government-funded US. Commission on the Union for an unofficial human rights Ukraine Famine, the UCCA proposed that an international tribunal, seminar in December, she never composed of lawyers and jurists from various countries, be called to study dreamed she would be packing her bags and condemn the man-made famine perpetrated in Ukraine by the Soviets, At this weekend for a flight to Moscow on first, the UCCA promoted this idea only on the territory of the U S.; later the Decenr.ber 8. UCCA proposed that the WCFU undertake this project. "I was very surprised," said Mrs. The WCFU agreed and a special committee was created to realize this plan. 01shaniwsky in a December 2 telephone However, it was soon learned that the lawyers and jurists who were to serve on interview, "with the relative ease I got this tribunal would not agree to have their names announced, and then that permission for my first trip to the Soviet these lawyers and jurists did not want the body to be called a tribunal, but Union and my first trip to Ukraine since merely an international investigative commission. In addition, the costs of I came to the United Sta1tes in 1949." funding this commission*s work were not foreseen to be as high as now Mrs. 0Ishaniwsky was indeed asto­ estimated - over S750,00O. nished because she felt the very nature The WCFU Presidium decided at one 0fits meetings this year to make no of her trip and whom she would be re­ commitments toward this project until the sum needed to begin this presenting would normally have pro­ commission's work is raised. voked a flat denial from the Soviets. The UACCouncil, at its October 9 meeting, discussed this proposal and For this resident of Newark, N.J., announced its decision to withdraw its support of this project, citing as applied for a Soviet visa not as an reasons the changes in the original tribunal project and the immense costs ordinary tourist, but as president of Bozhena 01shaniwsky associated with this endeavor. Americans for Human Rights in U- the West, "our organization, AHRU, The statement below is a clarification to the UACCounciVs earlier kraine, a nationwide grass roots lobby supported their appeal." announcement that it was withdrawing support for this project. The group founded in 1979 and known to This '*first of the kind" international clarification was presented by John 0. Flis, UACCouncilpresident, at the members of the Ukrainian community conference for non-governmental WCFU Presidium meeting on November 14 in Toronto. as AHRU. The purpose for applying groups was planned, she said, "in order was to express support to the organi­ to change the climate for a possible Our efforts to commemorate and honor the victims of the Great Famine in zers, Press Club Glasnost, of an inter­ CSCE (Conference on Security and Ukraine and to remind the free world about this brutal crime committed by national non-governmental seminar on Cooperation in Europe) conference in Moscow against the Ukrainian nation, were begun long before the 50th humanitarian affairs scheduled for Moscow." anniversary of the famine. The Ukrainian National Association, a member of December 10-13 in Moscow. The Soviet delegation at the Vienna the Ukrainian American Coor:dinating Council, published a special issue of "I applied as the president of AHRU, Helsinki review conference, which The Ukrainian Weekly with materials exclusively about this crime going for the specific purpose of attend­ began in November 1986 and is still in perpetrated by Moscow and sent this issue to all members of the Senate and ing the seminar," Mrs. 01shaniwsky progress, had proposed that a CSCE House of Representatives. Over 22,000 copies of this special issue of The told The Weekly. meeting on humanitarian affairs, in­ Ukrainian Weekly have been disseminated throughout the United States, When the September 2 appeal by cluding human rights, be held in Mos­ Canada and other countries of the free world. Press Club Glasnost, a Moscow-based cow next year. Their proposal is cur­ Afterwards, the Ukrainian National Association, a member of the group of former political prisoners from rently under discussion at the review UACCouncil, published an English-language book about the Great Famine all over the Soviet Union, calling for an meeting. in Ukraine and sent this also to U.S. senators and representatives with international rights conference for non­ Most Western members of the 45­ appropriate cover letters. governmental organizations reached (Continued on page 14) Together with the organization Americans for Human Rights in Ukraine the UNA conducted an intense campaign through these publications and letters, which resulted in a great success: the establishment of a congressional Three Ukrainian groups appeal for commission to study the Great Famine in Ukraine, the activity of which was funded by U.S. government funds tota1ling S400,00O. We then sent letters of thanks to all legislators who had supported this effort. Sen. Bill Bradley and persecuted Ukrainian Catholic Church Rep. James Florio, both of New Jersey, who were the prime sponsors of the PHILADELPHIA - Three organi­ Patriarchal Federation, the Ukrainian bill, were honored with separate receptions at the UNA headquarters. zations representing the Ukrainian Patriarchal Society in the United States During the entire time we were engaged in these efforts, we did not have the Catholic laity in the United States have and the St. Sophia Religious Associa­ support for this important project from the Ukrainian Congress Committee sent a joint memorandum to President tion of Ukrainian Catholics. of America or its member-organizations. On the contrary, the UCCA and Ronald Reagan, Vice-President George Based on testimony by recently these organizations took a negative attitude toward our efforts and in fact Bush, and members of the U.S. Con­ released prisoners of conscience and proposed their own resolutions to the Senate and House of Representatives gress, urging them to put pressure on data on the persecution of believers - resolutions that were limited to making declarations and required no Secretary General Mikhail S. Gorba­ obtained by the St. Sophia Institute in action on the part of the U.S. Congress or the president. chev during his Vl&it to the United States Washington, the memorandum, titled The UCCA also did not support the activity of the National Committee to to ease the plight of the Ukrainian "A Statement Concerning the Status of Commemorate Genocide Victims in Ukraine, which culminated in a Catholic Church which had been out­ the Ukrainian Catholic Church in the demonstration in Washington attended by 22,000 persons. lawed in the Soviet Union since 1946. Soviet Union," describes the unfa­ After our successful efforts in securing the establishment of the U.S. The organizations are the Wor1d vorable conditions which continue to Commission on the Ukraine Famine, which is to study the causes and results prevail in the Ukrainian SSR despite of the famine, the UCCA leaders came out with a proposal to create an "glasnost" and "perestroika." international tribunal to condemn Moscow for this crime. And we gladly Baltic protest 1t sets forth six demands on behalf of agreed to support this project when it was presented to tfie*VCFU, expecting the Catholic faithful in Ukraine, one of that this would bolster the successes achieved in the U.S. Congress, whose planned for D.C. which is that all Ukrainian Christians be commission had already begun its work. However, after some time we learned that those international lawyers or WASHINGTON - The Joint allowed to mark the Millennium of Christianity in Ukraine during the jurists proposed to serve as members of the tribunal did not wish to have their Baltic American National Commit­ names announced. Then came another disappointment when these lawyers tee (JBANC) is planning a mass rally jubilee year 1988. The other demands are: that the and jurists decided that their tribunal would not be called a tribunal, but only on Tuesday evening, D1ecember 8, at an investigative commission, whose report probably would never be 6-10 p.m. in Lafayette Park, across Soviet government legalize the Ukrai­ nian Catholic Church; that all property published in the world press. from the White House. Finally, the last disappointment was that the costs of the meetings or As diplomats arrive there for the confiscated from this Church be return­ ed; that all martyrs who have been hearings of this commission would amount to S750,00O or more. All this led state dinner, they will be reminded to a re-evaluation of this matter and the conclusion that one thing was that Estonians, Latvians, Lithua­ defamed, including Metropolitan An- drey Sheptytsky, be "rehabiliated"; that proposed, but another was being offered - and that offering was much less nians and many others have had valuable than originally envisioned. The expected successes of this enough of oppressive Soviet rule. all prisoners of conscience in the USSR be freed and their persecutors be pu­ commission's work, whose decisions or conclusions will not be reviewed by It is time to en-"lighten" Mr. the International Court in the Hague, are far from commensurate with the Gorbachev about the continued nished; and that Ukrainians who need medical care that cannot be obtained in great costs of this action. deprivation of civil, political, econo­ This is especially important for us now, at a time when we are promoting mic, national and religious rights to the USSR be allowed to travel to the West for treatment. more important efforts among our generous community, that is, actions the general population in Estonia, aimed at celebrating the Millennium of Christianity in Ukraine, which has to Issued on the eve of the upcoming Latvia and Lithuania, noted a be defended from usurpation by Moscow; the Harvard Project comprising JBANC press release. summit meeting, the statement asks "all members of the United States govern­ publications about our 1,000-year culture; actions in defense of the good The JBANC asks that individuals name of Ukrainians; as well as many other efforts that merit our work and bring flashlights, lanterns and other ment to urge Mr. Gorbachev to elimi­ nate all religious discrimination in the financial support. The Ukrainian community knows about these efforts and forms of portable lights to the De­ their importance; it knows also that the UNA, in conjunction with Harvard, cember 8 rally. USSR," as provided by the Soviet Constitution under Articles 50^ and 52. ,, . (Contm^^ THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY. DECEMBER 6, 1987 No.49

Detroit educators host teachers' symposium on Great Famine of 1932-33 by Myrosia Stefaniuk starvation as a political too1. In this regard, it is imperative to insist today DETROIT - On November 7, coin­ that foreign aid and food supplies be ciding with the 70th anniversary of the controlled and distributed by factors Bolshevik Revolution which claimed outside of the totalitarian authorities that one of its aims was to abolish that receive them. starvation, Detroit educators held an Dr. Serbyn also called attention to the all-day teachers' symposium on the recently created Soviet commission that 1932-33 genocidal famine in Ukraine, is to study the crimes of Stalin, and how titled "A Missing Page in History." we can capitalize on it. Dr. Mary V. Beck, mistress of cere­ '*We have many survivors of the monies of the morning sessions, greeted famine, backed by cadres of qualified the educators, introduced special guests specialists on the subject, who can and speakers, and stressed the impor­ testify about Sta1in's crimes...With this tance of setting the record straight. "It commission, [General Secretary Mik­ behooves us as descendants of Ukrai­ hail] Gorbachev has opened a door for nian people who suffered that unpa­ us and supplied a forum which can be ralleled tragedy to supply the missing used to bring the famine issue to the page of history and place it in its proper attention of the media and the wor1d." place in the history books of the wor1d," A viewing of the documentary "Har­ she said. vest of Despair" was followed by brief But the lesson to be learned from the interviews with survivors, the Rev. famine in Ukraine goes beyond printed Alexander Bykowetz, 01ena Liskiwska, pages in history books, and beyond the and Wasyl Karpenko, who spoke on borders within which millions perished behalf of his ill mother. These intensely at the hands of Sta1in's ruthless political moving personal accounts brought machinations. The lesson to be learned home the real horrors of the events and and taught in schools today is that gave the proceedings immediacy and Members of the teachers' symposium committee: (from left) Stephen M. Wichar Ukraine provides a tragic example of a validity. Sr., Maria Zarycky, Slavko Pryjma and Doris Duzej. nation which fell victim to a sophisti­ Dr. James E. Mace, executive direc­ cated political weapon that continues to tor of the U.S. Commission on the be used today by totalitarian regimes Ukraine Famine, keynote speaker throughout the wor1d, namely, the during the luncheon, defined the com­ manipulation of food and deliberate mission's goals, reviewed its accom­ starvation as a very effective means for plishments to date, and delineated the eliminating opposition. This message famine not only as a Ukrainian issue, was repeatedly drilled home by a11 the but as one of wor1d significance in speakers who addressed some 1GO which a deliberate act of state policy participants from Detroit's tri-country resulted in the planned destruction and school districts. victimization of millions. Dr. Roman Serbyn, professor of He then traced the repercussions of history and famine researcher at Soviet disinformation practices on the McGill University in Quebec, ^ave a famine. The genocide was denied ini­ capsulized^survey of ykraine's history, tially, despite rej)ort5^ to Ф? 5^oritrary етрЬа8шй|^ thoste MMts wftfdh'ulti­ ^rfee!vedby the u!S: State15dp^tment, mately led to the famines of the 1920s, through manipulation of the Western the 1930s and the 1940s. He pointed out press, particularly American news that by focusing on the Ukrainian media, the story continued to be con­ Dr. Roman Serbyn (left), Dr. James Mace (center) and Dr. Myron В4 Klirpp9s famine within a more universal global tained during the decades that followed; (right) address participants of a teachers' symposium on the Great Famine of 1932­ 33 in Ukraine. context, we would not only preserve the and today, in the midst of a major disinformation campaign under the about the price of disinformation and other social sciences, as well as journa­ memory of those who perished, and lack 0faction is yet to be learned. "If we lism and related subject areas. And he avenge the suffering of those who guise of Nazi collaboration, the at­ tempts at denial continue. allow ourselves to view the wor1d only dealt with anticipated problems that survived but, even more importantly, through our own ideologies, by refusing teachers might encounter in teaching we could help eliminate the use of But the deeper, more profound lesson to look evil in the face, and by not the famine unit, such as skepticism and opposing it, we will reap the wor1d doubt, and accusations that the ap­ which we have sown,'V Dr. Mace con­ proach is "one-sided" and therefore LupuI, Pritsak receive awards cluded. biased. WINNIPEG~ The Canadian Foun­ western Canada (Department of Edu­ During the afternoon session, Dr. "Don't fee1 threatened by trying to Myron Kuropas conducted the tea­ dation for Ukrainian Studies, at its cational Foundations) and the history teach this, and be prepared that some chers' workshop in which he suggested annual meeting in Oshawa, Ont., pre­ of Ukrainians in Canada tDepartment won't like it," he told the teachers. approaches and applications of the sented Awards for Scholarly Excellence of History). "There is no 'balanced view' of what in Ukrainian Studies to Dr. Man0Iy materials included in the teaching happened because it was horror. To In 1976, Dr. Lupul became the found­ packets distributed at registration. teach it from the 'other side,' the Soviet Lupul of Edmonton and Dr. Omeljan ing and first director of the Canadian Pritsak of Cambridge, Mass. He pointed out the versatility of the side, would be analogous to teaching 1nstitute of Ukrainian Studies, Univer­ the Holocaust from the Nazi point of The prestigious S5,00O award, recog­ curriculum guides and handouts, appli- sity of Alberta, a position be held until cable not only to the study of history but (Continued on page 12) nizes international scholars who have 1986. Under his directorship, the insti­ contributed significantly to the ad­ tute becan^e an important center of vancement of Ukrainian studies. scholarship with an annual operating /sAagocsi speaks in Eastern Europe Recipients of the Award for Scho­ budget of over S600,00O. larly Excellence in Ukrainian Studies Dr. Lupul served as the chairman of TORONTO - The Chair of Ukrai­ promoting knowledge in Canada about are chosen upon the recommendation the editorial b0ard of the Encyclopedia nian Studies at the University of To­ little-known European cultures. of the Canadian Institute of Ukrainian of Ukraine prbject from 1983 to 1986. ronto was recently represented in three In Yugoslavia, Prof. Magocsi was Studies which carefully evaluates the This five-volume project is prepared by East European countries - Poland, hosted by the Chair of Rusyn Language works and contributions of each nomi­ the Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Hungary and Yugoslavia. and Literature at the University of Novi nee. The award is presented biennially Studiesy along' with the Shevchenko In September, Prof. Paul R. Magocsi Sad, where he spoke about receht in conjunction with the biennial meet­ Scientific Society and the Canadian delivered lectures in Cracow, Budapest, scholarship on the Carpathian region in ing of the Ukrainian Canadiari Profes­ Foundation for Ukrainian Studies. and Novi Sad. Soviet, East European and Western sional and Business Federation; -M Dr. Pritsak was instrumental in At Jagiellonian University in Cracow, publications. The awards of S5,00O each, were establishing the Ukrainian Research Prof. Magocsi was part of an official presented by CFUS President John Institute at Harvard University. Under Canadian delegation at a conference on Finally, in early October, Prof. Ma­ Stashuk at a banquet luncheon at th^ his directorshipV the institute has Poles and other ethnic groups in Ca­ gocsi spoke at an all-day session at the Holiday Inn. The new CFUS president, emerged as an important center of nada from historic Poland. Prof. Ma­ University of Michigan that dealt with Dr. Louis Melosky, and his Winfiipeg scholarship. Dr. Pritsak was a key gocsi spoke on ^immigrants from the contemporary Central European reli­ executive members who were also player in a campaign to raise S15 million Lemko region. ; gious movements. Among the partici­ elected at this general meeting, congra­ to create three chairs in Ukrainiah In Budapest, Prof. Magocsi was the pants were the Nobel prize-winning tulated Dr. Lupul and Dr, Pritsak for studies at Harvard University. guest of the Institute of History and the author Czeslaw Milosz, the East Euro­ their important work through scholarly Dr. Pritsak's work in the publication newly founded Institute of Hungarian pean religious specialist Prof. Jaroslav studies. 0fV0Iume 1 of his study, "The Origi|T of Studies at the Hungarian :Academy of Pelikan, and the Polish theologican and Dr. Lupul, a third-generation Ukrai­ Rus' " reviews in depth a wi|ie range of Sciences, where he spoke on the area of philosopher from Cracow, the Rev. Jan nian Canadian, was born in Willingdon, sources and seeks to settle with a finality ethnic studies chair program of the Tischner. Prof. Magocsi was invited to Alta. a questio^^ that has been disputed by Canadian Secretary of State's Multicul- speak specifically on the problem of ^|ta.^ Qurrently,..Dr,^J^yp.ul .?peQ^|i?Ps:,, . great ,.SLiiholaiF5; f9dw0 and anerhalf turalism Directorate;and how that religion and national identity in western ИнШЬ54^^*^АЯ*^^^*^.^^йй Mm :M' 0^-c,ejlCu^i^S^H ift'si іп-?га vv#.'^^ .'^',^fi^?MS. prog*^rn^ #a^^^hB^.iav^ositi'kf^ se^^ ик^гаігіШтІ^УМ1^ -^"^І',:^] ^^ ^^''^!^^'! ,^j^'^. ^ .*Kw! 'МЛ '^''f'/jryp?-^J'll лСі #*/#)ї Г,^Ї5Л ?^'f,. /Xv'-^-'^ No.49 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, DECEMBER 6, 1987

Applied Ukrainian arts center opens at Edmonton's Grant MacEwan College

EDMONTON - With a S100,00O branches and provincial councils of the donation from the Alberta Provincial UCC. Council of the Ukrainian Canadian The community's money may be Committee, the first higher educational matched two-to-one under a provincial facility to teach applied Ukrainian arts foundation program and one-time in North America has been officially grants from both the federal and pro­ opened here. vincial governments would provide the The donation, which the UCC pro­ S3 million needed for a permanent vided through the auspices of the operation, operated from the interest federal secretary of state, will cover the on the endowment. pilot project stage of the Ukrainian Speaking at the center's opening on Resource Development Centre (URDC) October 14, Peter Savaryn, president of at Grant MacEwan College in Edmon­ the Wor1d Congress of Free Ukrainians, ton — a teaching, publishing, commu­ called the URDC the most important nication, resource and consulting center step in the development of multicul- devoted to the development and sharing turalism since the creation of Ukrainian of Ukrainian culture. bilingual schools in the prairie pro­ A fund-raising drive in the Ukrainian vinces and the establishment of the community has been launched to collect Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Stu­ S350,000 by December 31, 1988, in dies (CIUS) at the University of Al­ order to set up an endowment which berta. would provide a permanent base of Andrij Semotiuk, endowment chair­ Holding a huge check symbolizing the Ukrainian Canadian Committee Alberta support for the center. man of the national Implementation Provincial Councirs donation of S100,00O toward the Ukrainian Resource Development Centre at Grant MacEwan Community College, from left are: Dr. Honorary chairman of this Imple­ Group for the URDC, drew the analogy Roman Petryshyn, URDC director; Dr. George Naylor, dean of performing arts; mentation Group is Dr. Dmytro Сіруw- with the CIUS, noting that the URDC would accomplish in the cultural field Lydia Shulakevych, Alberta Provincial Council president; Yarko Skrypnyk, UCC nyk, president of the National Council vice-president; and Andrij Semotiuk, endowment chairman for the project. of the Ukrainian Canadian Committee. what the CIUS has done in the aca­ It is foreseen that the fund-raising will demic. the success of the Ukrainian Resource tury," the community development be carried out through the local He termed the center a laboratory Development Center." blueprint accepted by the national which will serve "as an incubator for Special guests also included Peter congress of the UCC in October I986. cultural development in Canada." Kossowan, chairman of the board of The document called for the esta­ U. of Virginia Lydia Shulakewych, president of the directors of Grant MacEwan College; blishment of such a center to serve as an Alberta Provincial Council of the Dr. Gerald Kelly, president of Grant instructional and coordination base for Ukrainian Canadian Committee, urged MacEwan College; and YaroslavSkryp- the development of Ukrainian arts in professor studies support from all quarters for this nyk, vice-president of the National Canada and received enthusiastic project. Council of the Ukrainian Canadian support from the Alberta and Manitoba Ukrainian dumy "We believe that through commu* Committee. Councils for the Ukrainian Arts. nity resources and through the assis­ The URDC arises out of the recom­ by Taras Sznmgala Jr. On September 20, the National tance of the federal and provincial mendations included in **Building the Council of the UCC accepted it as a governments we will be able to assure CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. - Al­ Future - Ukrainians in the 21st Cen­ (Continued on page 12) most all Ukrainians are familiar with dumy, or Ukrainian epic folk songs. But, due to the work of a University of Ukrainian studies at Australian university enter fourtli year Virginia professor, Natalie Kononenko bySerUICIpko whole. Australian cities, the Ukrainian weekly Moyle, they may become interna­ Eventually, the Ukrainian Studies Vi1na Dumka, the foundation itself, and tionally k^own among anthropologists SYDNEY, Australia - As students Foundation in Australia Ltd. was various members of the community, and musicians alike. at Macquarie University here busily formed, which in 1975 was registered as playing catalyst ro1es. By the beginning Having won a grant from the Inter­ occupy themselves with exams, the trustee for the Australia Shevchenko of 198I the foundation's Shevchenko national Research and Exchanges Ukrainian Studies Centre at the univer­ Trust Fund. The foundation remains Fund was approaching the S300,000 (IREX) Board to research Ukrainian sity will shortly enter its fourth year of the financial backbone of the Ukrainian mark. It was time to begin negotiations. dumy, Prof. Moyle is currently in existence. Studies Centre (financial support from Several universities were approached, Ukraine to continue her work on the Ukraiian Studies at Macquarie Uni­ state or university sources are mini­ of which Macquarie was eventually subject. Her six-month visit will enable versity have come a long way since their mal). All donations to the fund are tax­ selected as the most appropriate. By the her to publish the first comp1ete collec­ official inception in March I984. Be­ deductible. spring of 1983 an agreement was tion of Ukrainian dumy every compiled ginning with an enro1lment of 34 stu­ From 1975 the fund-raising cam­ reached and the Ukrainian Studies - a formidable five-volume set. dents, to date there have been 305 paign began in earnest, with Prof. Centre, as it officially became known, What makes this project even more students who have taken Ukrainian Rudnyckyj, who in 1976 toured 10 (Continued on page 13) special is the fact that the entire set will studies courses at the university. be computerized - enabling folklorists The number of courses also has to compare and contrast dumy with expanded: from four in 1984(Introduc­ much greater ease. Using the computer tion to Ukrainian Language, Ukrainian search, *'characteristics such as regional Language I, Ukrainian Literature I, variations in dumy or opening formulae Ukrainian Reading Course) to 12 in can be compared," Prof. Moyle said. 1987 (apart from Ukrainian language The Ukrainian epic songs will be the and literature courses at the 100, 200 first group of such songs to be cate­ and З00 levels, the center since 1986 gorized in its entirety. *The set of dumy offers courses on Ukrainian Civiliza­ is just right in size - not too big, and tion and 19th and 20th Century U- not too small," she stated. kraine). All this may have a positive effect on The idea of a Ukrainian Studies the study of Ukrainian as an academic Centre originated with Prof. Jaroslav endeavor. According to Prof. Moyle, Rudnyckyj, founding head of the De­ the anthropologists who want to study partment of Slavic Studies of the the only comp1ete searchable group of University of Manitoba. At a student folk songs must learn the Ukrainian gathering in Sydney on January 14, language. She feels growth of interest in 1971, he urged those present to investi­ the Ukrainian language can occur as a gate the possibility of starting up Ukrai­ result of this collection. nian studies at the tertiary level. His But what do the Soviets say to all proposals were favorably received, and this? So far, their response has been members of the Australian Ukrainian positive. Prof. Moyle has been given community began to seek ways of clearance to personally see documents putting theory intro practice. in Ukrainian archives - a rare occur­ Shortly after Prof. Rudnyckyj's visit, rence indeed. In addition,, the head of a Student Committee was set up to the folklore section of the Soviet Mi­ conduct inquiries at various universi­ nistry of Culture, 01eksandr Dem- ties. In the meantime, the prospect of a chenko, has been most cooperative. Ukrainian Studies Centre generated Technology will be an aid, too. While much interest in the community as a in Ukraine, Prof. Moyle will be making use of a Ukrainian lap-top briefcase Serhii Сірко of the University of computer. Designed by Prof. Moyle's Alberta is visiting lecturer in Ukrainian Teaching staff of the Ukrainian Studies Centre at Macquttrie Univcr8ity fai husband, Peter, it will be an invaluable History and CiyiUmtionMt Macquarie Australia: (seated from left) Halya Kocharskij and MarIa Harasowska, (standing help in data collection. University, from left) Luha Kaye, Dr. Ihor Gord|few Mid Sefhli Сірко. THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, DECEMBER 6, 1987 No.49

UIkrainian VIееУ Y Faces and Places by Myron B. Kuropas Human Rights Day Sister cities: testing glasnost togetfter When the Universal Declaration of Human Rights was adopted by the United Nations General Assembly 39 years ago on December 10, For Chicago, it was another first. Chicago. Other AHRU requc5ts includ­ 1948, it was proclaimed as "a common standard of achievement for all There we sat. A cross-section of ed the reunification of families between peoples and all nations." Ukrainian Chicago's religious, political, Kiev and Chicago, the free exchange of The document stated that "recognition of the inherent dignity and of human rights and cultural leadership family visits between Kiev and Chicago, the equal and inalienable rights of all members of the human family is testifying before a fact-finding group and the granting of permission to physi­ the foundation of freedom, justice and peace in the wor1d" - and it appointed by the late Mayor Harold cians from Chicago to travel to Kiev to help with the care and study of Cher­ went on to enumerate in 30 articles the rights and freedoms that were Washington to study the feasibility of a sister-city relationship between Kiev nobyl victims. to be promoted and achieved by member states of the United Nations. and Chicago. It was hoped that by adopting this declaration "every individual and There were Catholic, Orthodox and Citing passages from the Helsinki every organ of society, keeping this declaration constantly in mind, Baptist leaders sitting next to a univer­ Final Act regarding the improvement of shall strive by teaching and education to promote respect for these sity professor, a bank president and working conditions for journalists and rights and freedoms and by progressive measures, national and leaders associated with the Ukrainian the increase of quantities and the 4nternationalv4o secure their universal recognition and observance^ National Association, the Ukrainian number of titles of newspapers and both among the peoples 6f member states themselves and among the Congress Committee and Americans publications imported from partici­ for Human Rights in Ukraine. pating states, I requested that Svo- p6pMT)f territoties ійітйеґ tMf juri boda be permitted to open a press office The importance of this historic document ,has been recognized Althpugh the views presented were in Kiev with full access to government annually with International Human Rights Day commemorations often diverse, no one became upset. No officials and freedom of travel within throughout the wor1d. оіїе ridiculed anyone, ^fo one inter­ the city. This year's Human Rights Day comes at a crucial juncture in U.S.­ rupted. Everyone respected everyone Daria Markus pushed for a free Soviet relations, as the leaders of the two states will meet at a summit in else's right to express their opinion exchange of scholars and artists between Washington. It comes also at a time when the USSR's "new thinking" freely and openly. Chicago and Kiev. is being tested by a group 0frights activists in Moscow who are holding We did ourselves proud. Significantly, none of our demands an unofficial human rights seminar that is to be attended by members Drs. Myroslaw Charkewycz and were viewed as unreasonable by mem­ of human rights groups from around the wor1d. It is, of course, too Julian Kulas of the Ukrainian Congress bers of the mayor's Kiev Study Group. soon to tell whether human rights will make progress as a result of Committee opposed any Chicago rela­ On the contrary, they tended to nod these two events. tionship with Kiev. their heads in agreement when we spoke However, on the eve of International Human Rights Day and in "We hope," stated Dr. Charkewycz, and seemed to be genuinelysympathe­ view of the aforementioned current events, it is worthwhile to recall "that freedom-loving Americans parti­ tic. some of the provisions of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights cularly Chicagoans, will not approve any sistership relation between free At the same time, none of the Ukrai­ and to take a 16ok at hbw they are applied in the USSR, a U.N. Chicago and enslaved Kiev, the holy nian participants were naive enough to member state that supposedly subscribes to its tenets. Ukrainian city in which the Communo- believe that Kiev's city fathers are going * Everyone has the right to a nationality: Ukrainians, Lithuanians, Russian imperialists place their tempo­ to immediately accept all of our de­ Latvians, Estonians, Byelorussians and other nations subjugated by rary occupation." mands. What we and the members of the Soviet Union face the constant threat pf Russification and the the Kiev Study Group believe is rea­ destruction of their national cultures. After pointing out that the Ukrainian sonable might be perceived as outra­ * Everyone has the right to leave any country, including his own, Catholic Church was banned in Kiev, geous by Soviet authorities in Kiev. and to return to his country; or to seek asylum from persecution: the Rev. Andrij Chirovsky argued that And if that happens then the argument that glasnost is a fraud will gain Thousands and even hundreds of thousands of Soviet Jews find it any sister-city relationship in the future validity. If by some miracle, the Soviets impossible to apply this simple right. would have to include a means for advocacy of religious rights, a guaran­ do acquiesce to our requests, then * Everyone has the right to freedom of movement and residence tee that Ukrainian Catholics from Ukrainians in both Chicago and Kiev within the borders of each state: Crimean Tatars driven from their Chicago could make group pilgrimages will benefit. In either case, no one can ancestral homeland have found Soviet authorities intransigent on to religious shrines in Kiev, could accuse us of being obdurate in our their request to return home. openly celebrate the Ukrainian Catholic approach to the Soviets. * Everyone has the rights to freedom of thought, conscience and liturgy in Kiev, and could exchange religion... to manifest his religion or belief in teaching, practice, religious leaders and religious literature Today, there are sister-city relation­ worship and observance: The Ukrainian Catholic and Ukrainian with Ukrainian Catholics in Kiev. ships between Gainsville (FIa.) and Orthodox Churches were liquidated by Soviet authorities and their Novorossiisk, Salem (Oregon) and Symferopil, and Seattle and Tashkent. faithful have been persecuted for pra[cticing their beliefs. Dr. Vasil Truchly asked that the City * Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expressioa ...to of Kiev permit the opening of St. The Seattle-Tashkent relationship is ho!d opinions without interference, and to seek, receive and impart Andrew's in Kiev as a Ukrainian Ortho­ the most developed and has thus far dox Church with services in Ukrainian. information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers: included exchanges of physicians, If finances were a problem, Dr. Truchly university professors and students, high The Helsinki monitoring groups in Moscow, Ukraine, Georgia, stated, he offered the assistance of Armenia, Lithuania and, most recently, in Latvia, have been school teachers and students, artists, Chicago's Ukrainian Orthodox com­ and mountain climbers. relentlessly repressed to the point that some of them have all but been munity. Following a brief historical disbanded. overview of the annihilation of Ukrai­ There is no doubt that the Soviets * Everyone has the right to form and to join trade unions for the .nian Orthodoxy by the Soviets, Dr. want the sister-city relationship between protection of his interests: Vladimir Klebanov tried to do just that in Truchly concluded that the opening of a Chicago and Kiev to develop along the Donbas region of Ukraine when he formed the Free Trade Union Ukrainian Orthodox Church in Kiev similar lines. It was mentioned in News Association of the Soviet Working People. He remains in a special "would be a great gesture on the part of from Ukraine last summer (June 1987) with special emphasis on the fact that psychiatric hospital as a result of exercising this right. the Ukrainian Soviet regime,.." Chicago has a large Ukrainian popula­ ^ Parents have a prior right to choose the kind of education that The Rev. Olexa Harbuziuk demand­ tion. That population has now let its shall be given to their chiMren:Pentecostals and Ba|)tists thrbu^hout ed that the City of Kiev permit full wishes be known and the ball is in the the USSR have been repressed for transmitting their beliefs to their freedom of religious activities, freedom Soviets' court, own c:hildren. to establish Sunday schools for children * No one shall be subjected to torture or to cruel, inhuman or as well as a Baptist Theological Semi­ No one knows what the Soviets will degrading treatment or puiushment: Inmates of the notorious special­ nary, freedom for believers to obtain a do, but no matter what happens, one tbing is certain, Ukrainians in Chicago regimen Gamp No. 36-1 in Kuchino, Perm, find themselves in what has higher education, freedom to conduct religious worship services in the Ukrai" are bec6ming more tolerant of each come to be known as a "death camp." Several in their ranks have died nian langixage, and the release of four other and that is good. In our presenta­ in that camp in recent years; Baptist ministers from Soviet incarcera­ tion to the Kiev Study Group, we were These are but a few of the examples that one could cite to tion. able to discuss our differences without demoosfrate how the Soviet Union promotes the principles embodied Speaking on behalf of the Chicago rancor and to demonstrate that given in the l^iiversar Declaration of Humaii Rights. Perhaps on this branch of Americans for Human Rights the opportunity, we can present our 1nternationaI Human Rights Day tbe '*new thinking" Soviet leader in Ukraine, Vera Eliashevsky asked that views in a rational, succinct and impres­ will see fit to really apply his perestroika, demokratizatsia and glasnost all impriso!ied members of the Kiev- sive manner. 4n the. i;e^lm,pf,Ьцщац,righl:s.^ ^,. ^,,,..,.^,,, ....,, ^ ^based ,Ukraii^ifii. 1Jel&inki Moaiioring Here'^jiiOpiii^ttet whatever it is that, . Ог9|ір,Ь^і ^і;с;е4сДіу|'?РШ^ to,tiweUo, , Chks^g9ls -Uk|:ai^ifips^av9^4S.catcbyr..V No. 49 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, DECEMBER 6, 1987 LEADERSHIP CONFERENCE:Giasnost does exist,but in restrictive context by Richard Schifter operations of our economy and of the various public tion in the Western sense. The Soviet leaders have institutions that are in direct contact with the people. again and again stated emphatically that they are Below is the text of the keynote address delivered on It is important to note that glasnost is, therefore, not devout Leninists and that their democratization is, as October 10 at The Washington Group's Leadership derived from the precepts of the philosophers of the they put it, of the socialist variety rather than the Conference by Richard Schifter, assistant secretary of 18th century Enlightenment that freedom of speech is Western bourgeois kind. On this issue there is no state for human rights and humanitarian affairs, a goal in itself, an essential element of a free society. reason why we should not believe that they mean what That, we must understand, is not the way the new they say. If there is one Russian word that a good many Soviet leadership seems to see it. Freedom of speech, Lenin, we must keep in mind would speak disdain­ Americans have learned in the last year or so, it is as they see it, is useful when it is exercised for a specific fully of bourgeois liberalism but would appropriate glasnost. And it is in connection with glasnost that the utilitarian purpose, namely to expose, as I noted the word "democratic" for his own semantic use. Thus, question is often asked: is it a sham, or is it for real? To before, inefficiency, ineptitude and corruption in the "democratic centralism" became the term used to be able to answer that question, we need to ask lowest layers of the Soviet bureaucracy, where the describe the dictatorship of a small circle of all­ ourselves what the term really means. What, in fact, is leadership might otherwise not be able to identify powerful leaders. Demokratizatsia, as the term is used today, means allowing citizens some say in the glasnost? And, for that matter, to use the term now existing problems. What the leadership itself does, operations of the lowest level of government, but most well-known in the Soviet Union and less well-known whether the Soviet troops stay in or withdraw from assuredly not allowing them to influence the policies here, what is perestroika? Afghanistan, what weapons systems are built, who should be elected to the Politburo, none of these adopted by the top leadership of the party. Let me tell you at this point with what conclusion I questions are appropriate subjects for public discus­ want to leave you. It is that it would be equally wrong And how can it all be held together, how can people sion. Glasnost, as you can see, has its limits. be made to obey the orders of the leadership? The to say that Soviet society under Mikhail Gorbachev Just as certain wrongs of the present can now be answer is, of course, clear: by continuing to concen­ remains unchanged or, conversely, to suggest that exposed, so can wrongs of the past be subjected to trate control of all the levers of power in the hands of "demokratizatsia" under Gorbachev really means public scrutiny and criticism. In that case, it is even that leadership. It is with that leadership that the democratization, as we know it. The fact is that a great permissible to criticize personalities at the highest level ultimate power of appointment 0faII officials rests. It many changes are occurring in Soviet life, some of of government, if they were also guilty of inefficiency, is that leadership which determines the political line to which are exhilarating and exciting, but they all are ineptitude or corruption, such as Brezhnev's crew. be reflected in all the country's media on any issue taking place within a highly restrictive context. Beyond that, going back to the Stalin era, one can which it chooses. It rs that leadership which decides Comparisons between Gorbachev's "glasnost" and Khrushchev's '4haw" often (Come to mind. Some of the comparisons are valid. But there are also significant ...just as glasnost does not mean free speech, demokra~ differences. Let me suggest one very critical difference. The tizatsia IS most assuredly not democratization in the thaw of the SOs was the product of the utter revulsion of a significant number of Sta1in's heirs against the Western sense. sadism and mindless brutality of Sta1in's rule. Their concern was indeed a deeply felt longing for at least expose irrationality, the punishment of loyal followers what is taught in the schools and how it is taught. It is some semblance of respect for human rights. They had of the Communist system who had been falsely that leadership which, through the operations of the themselves feared the knock on the door in the middle denounced for disloyalty. There is nothing wrong, as secret police, can listen in on any telephone conversa­ of the night, the possibility of ending their lives in the the present leaders see it, with the use of the force of the tion, on many other private conversations, and which basement of Lubianka prison. But none of them had state to have suppressed dissent that might threaten can read anyone's mail. And, finally, it is that any doubts about the validity of their economic the system, as Lenin did. But it is certainly wrong and leadership which can cause persons whom it deems a precepts, about the brighter tomorrow that the utterly irrational to have punished supporters of the threat to the system to be carted off to prison. coUectivist, centrally planned system would bring system, as Stalin did. | My point is that the basic system of repression about. And then, more recently, the new Soviet leadership remains in place. The shackles have been loosened, in When Nikita Khrushchev told us that the Soviets took another step in its emphasis on rationality: some respects substantially so. But they remain in would bury us, and it was explained that he used this sanctions imposed by the state should be propor­ place. They can be tightened again, at the will of the phrase to predict the Soviet Union's economic tionate to the nature of the threat. Dissenters who leadership. triumph over capitalism, there was no question that he constitute danger must indeed be severely punished. When I was in the Soviet Union last April, I had the truly believed what he said. Today, close to 30 years But those who express dissenting views in a way which opportunity of being present at a meeting between later, we can fairly say that there are not many such merely makes them a nuisance can be tolerated. The Secretary of State George Shultz and a group of Soviet believers left in the Soviet Union, not among the distribution of a few hundred copies of a samizdat intellectuals. They all were telling us that the new general population, which continues to suffer short­ publication such as the magazine called Glasnost need openness was "irreversible." They were making the ages, nor, and that is critically significant, among the not land the authors in jail. Harassing the writers and point so frequently and so fervently that it soon leaders. It was in the late 70s that it became in­ otherwise interfering with their work will do. Besides, became clear that this was really an incantation. By creasingly clear that the Soviet economy had run tens of millions of readers of Western publications are saying it often enough, they hoped they would make it aground and that no quick fix was available to get it to informed of the new phenomenon of the publication come true. float again. and distribution of a new magazine of dissent and, as a We, too, should hope that the present changes are This was the setting in which Mikhail Gorbachev result, think more kindly of the Soviet Union. The not reversed. We should be interested in an end to attained power. There is no indication that he was small number of copies produced and the difficulties repression in the Soviet Union, both for the sake of the concerned, as Nikita Khrushchev had been, about the encountered by the persons who publish them are Soviet citizens directly affected and because an open, men and women suffering in the gulag, nor that he was overlooked. Glasnost thus produces significant democratic Soviet Union would most certainly be less deeply interested in allowing freedom of expression benefits, not only within the country but beyond its inclined to engage in military adventurism than one for its own sake. What he seemed to see, above all, was borders as well. which continually makes war on its own people. an economy which was operating, year after year, ever And so, we get glasnost in literature, in the theater, While we should be hopeful, we must also be more sluggishly, and a society which, with apologies to and even in the movies. Heretofore forbidden topics, realistic. Thirty years ago we witnessed, as I noted President Carter, was suffering from a very serious forbidden thoughts may now be freely expressed in earlier, the thaw under Khrushchev, some of us malaise. He saw the problem, and as distinct from his print, on the stage and on the screen. It is all new and thought then that the genie of freedom was out of the immediate predecessor, was eager to do something exciting, and enlists many members of the intelligentsia bottle and couldn't be stuffed back into it. But we were about it. At first, he too tried a quick fix: a campaign in support of the regime. wrong. It was. against drinking. That there are limits to this new openness is at the What would it take to make the process truly It was not long before Gorbachev realized that same time clear. These limits are of concern to some irreversible? In the 50s the preceding leadership, that temperance alone was not going to cure the ills that intellectuals in the Soviet Union. But a great many of Stalin, was clearly repudiated, the gross inhumani­ beset the Soviet economy, nor of Soviet society others are quite understandably excited about the ties perpetrated in the name of the state were exposed generally. Though convinced that the basic theories on difference between what was and what there is now. and regret was expressed for them. The secret police which the system rested were correct, Gorbachev and For them, the malaise is gone. They are fascinated by was removed from the center of power. And yet, after his colleagues agreed that the system was facing what they are now allowed to read, to hear and to say. Khrushchev had been deposed, a good many features serious operational difficulties which had to be They are not, at this time, paying attention to what it is of Stalinism crept back into the Soviet system of identified and dealt with. That is how glasnost was that they still may not read, hear or say. government. born. As I have already noted, there are nevertheless some It is obvious that if there is to be a chance of making What Mikhail Gorbachev and his colleagues fully members of Soviet society who are more aware of the the progress of the last year irreversible, more will have understood and recognized was that not even the limits of glasnost than are many others. None are as to happen in the way of basic change of the system vaunted KGB could be expected to unearth a11 the aware of these limits as are those who consider the than happened in Khrushchev's times. What would be ineptitude, inefficiency and corruption that so clearly nmintenance of minority language or culture as central required, in the first instance, is a far more significant plagued both public administration and the economy to their life. And there are the dissenters about whom reduction in the power of the secret police than in the Soviet Union. They reached the logical the Soviet leaders prove to be most neuralgic, a occurred under Khrushchev. And with the relaxation conclusion that the only effective way in which these neuralgia so clearly reflected in the extraordinarily in police control there would have to come an serious deficiencies could be dealt with was to have severe prison sentences imposed on them: seven years acceptance of true pluralism in all aspects of societal them fully exposed. That, in turn, meant that members at hard labor followed by five years of internal exile. interaction: political pluralism, religious pluralism, of the public would not only have to be allowed to Let us keep in mind that there are persons in the Soviet cultural and ethnic pluralism, the presentation of denounce the wrongs they observed, but would have to Union who are now serving sentences of that length for divergent views in the media and in education, and so be encouraged to do so. writing poetry (in Ukrainian), for having translated on. And so, the word went out all across the country: and distributed George Orwell's "1984" (in Latvian) Will it come to that? Only tihie will tell. All that we Speak up! Tell us what's wrong! Let's all get together and similar heinous crimes. can say at this time is that only if such basic changes so that we can root out the bribe-takers, the alcoholics, For just as glasnost does not mean free speech, occur will demokratizatsia really be the equivalent of the incompetents! And let's try thereby to improve the dem6kratizatsia is most assuredly not democratiza- ^ democratization. . . THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, DECEMBER 6, 1987 No.49

St. Andrew Ukrainian Orfhodox Church consecrated in Bloomingdale by Marianna Liss

BLOOMINGDALE, 111. ~ Built to commemorate the Millennium of U- krainian Christianity, the recently comp1eted St. Andrew Ukrainian Or­ thodox Church in Bloomingdale, a suburb of Chicago, was the center of a three-day celebration in honor of its consecration. On Friday, November 6, an exhibit of Ukrainian religious art was shown. On Saturday, November 7, several choirs performed Ukrainian sacred music, and on Sunday, November 8, three hierarchs consecrated the altar and sanctuary, and served a divine liturgy. Metropoli­ tan Mstyslav, head of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the United States of America, led the services on Sunday with Archbishop Constantine of Chi­ cago and Bishop Antony of New York concelebrating. In his sermon, the metropolitan congratulated the congregation on a job well done, acknowledging the hard work and dedication in building the over S2 million structure. He called St. Andrew's a legacy for generations to come. God has granted the Ukrainian na­ tion many treasures, he went on to say, among which is the miraculous survival of its religious life - Christ is the focus of Ukrainian settlements all over the The newly consecrated St. Andrew's Ukrainian Orthodox Church in Bloomingdale, I1L, a suhurh of Chicago. wor1d. Other nations are amazed at the tion of the Millennium of Ukrainian Steven Repa. Prometheus, both conducted by Nadia Church's survival, he noted — even Christianity. The deacons at the altar were the Rev. Sawyn; the Metropolitan Andrey Russian Orthodoxy can no longer The metropolitan also reminded his Protodeacon Mykola Bryn, the Rev. Sheptytsky Choir, a combined choir afford to ignore the existence of Ukrai­ audience that, "In singleness of spirit, Protodeacon Volodymyr Polischuk, of the parishioners of St. Nicholas nians. there is such power." Ukrainian Chris­ the Rev. Deacon Yurij Korsun and the Ukrainian Catholic Cathedral and St. The reason for his trip, the metropoli­ tians, he emphasized, could not afford Rev. Deacon Slavko Nowytski. Joseph Ukrainian Catholic Church in tan said, was to see the congregation to celebrate the Millennium divided and Many area Ukrainian Catholics came Chicago, conducted by Jurij Jary- and the church with his own eyes. He separate. "It would be the height of to the events and the consecration movych; and finally the Choir of St. felt this may be his last opportunity to criminality if in the following year service that weekend. The Rt. Rev. Andrew, conducted by Vasily Truchly. visit. And having seen the new structure Catholics would be on their (separate) Marion Butrynsky, the pastor of Ss. he called it beautiful, honoring the hill, and the Orthodox on theirs," he Volodymyr and 01ha Ukrainian Catho­ Mykola Francuzenko recited poetry parishioners and the Truchly brothers said passionately. He considers all lic Church in Chicago, attended the during the evening and Ludmyla Ma- — Drs. George and Vasily — for the Ukrainian Christians as brothers, "from luncheon and reception after the ser­ ziar was the Ukrainian master of cere­ self-sacrifice of time and money that the same blood, stemming from the vice. monies with George Demchenko as the was an example to the community. Dr. same ancestor." Present as well were the area con­ English MC. George Truchly contributed S200,00O Finally, he called to mind the results struction specialists who helped build Especially interesting was the Exhibit to the building fund and Dr. Vasily of past divisions upon the Ukrainian the church. of Religious Art in which various Truchly headed the building committee. nation and said he does not want a At the same S50-a-plate luncheon Ukrainian artists participated. The structure with two cupolas and a similar national disaster to befall the Ukrainians from ail faiths contributed 1 here were two slide lectures as well, golden-domed belfry was patterned Ukrainian diaspora. to the ongoing building fund. Lubomir which showed the rich cultural heritage after the famous St. Sophia Cathedral Along with the metropolitan and the Cepynsky in his humorous poem about of Ukrainian Christian art, Halyna in Kiev. Taking several years to build, hierarchs, serving at the altar was the the project said that the church accepts Kolenskyj gave a historical perspective much of the work was done by pa­ pastor of St. Andrew's the Very Rev. ail contributions no matter how small, and exhibited slides of churches in rishioners with some outside help from Sergei Holowko, and other Ukrainian though what the church really needs is Ukraine. Marko Zubar, a church archi­ professionals. Like many new Ukrai­ Orthodox priests from the Chicago area to win the Illinois Lotto. tect and artist, also showed slides of nian parishes in the Chicago area, it was - the Very Rev. Mitred Dr. 0rest At the head table at the luncheon, icons explaining styles and types used in paid for by a combination of institu­ Kulick of St. Sophia Ukrainian Ortho­ along with the Church hierarchs, were Ukrainian iconography. With them, but tional loans, given by Selfreliance dox Church in Chicago, the Very Rev. the head of the church council, Ivan not lecturing was Iwanna Holowaty, Ukrainian Federal Credit Union, pri­ Stephan Zencuch, pastor of St. Vladi­ Kozacky; the dean of the Chicago collector of Ukrainian icons, who vate contributions and varenyky sales. mir Ukrainian Orthodox Cathedral of deanery, the Rt. Rev. Dr. Kulick; displayed part of her collection in the The church has been the center of Chicago, and Archmandrite Damian, the pastor of St. Andrew's, the Rt. Rev. hall much local attention, with reporters pastor of Ss. Peter and Paul in Palos Holowk; the head of the Chicago Lesya Palij, the curator of the event, and neighbors inquiring about the Park, area Millennium Committee and organized the evening, comp1ete with building. Also serving were Ukrainian Ortho­ head of the Selfreliance Ukrainian exhibit books which she edited that But the main theme of Metropolitan dox priests from the Minneapolis area, Federal Credit Union^ Roman Mycyk included artist biographies and a list of Mstyslav's sermon was a call to unity, to Hammond, Ind., and the East Coast - and Mr. Cepynsky. the works shown. Adrienne Kochman, a sensitivity among various faiths within the Very Rev. Mitred Michael Kudano- St. Andrew's Church Choir sang the Ph.D. student of art history at the the Ukrainian community to each vich, the Very Rev. Serhij Neprel, the prayers at the banquet. Along with University of Chicago, wrote the intro­ other's concerns and to include all Very Rev. Nicholas Metulynsky, the choir members from Ukrainian Ortho­ duction to the exhibit book. Christian faiths in the coming celebra- Rev. Eugene Meschisen and the Rev. dox parishes of Minneapolis/St. Paul Local and out-of-town artists contri­ area, the two groups formed a well­ buted to the showing, with the works of rehearsed combined choir which sang Rem Bahautdyn and Themistocles the responses and hymns during the Wirsta on display. Mr. Zubar, Andrij services. Kowalenko, Anatole Kolomayets, Ale­ The night before, Saturday, Novem­ xandra Diachenko-Kochman and ber 7, five choirs gave a c,oncert of Maria Harasowska-Daczyczyn dis­ sacred music by Ukrainian composers played their works and were present to to an audience of 800 people at the Ivan answer questions about their art. Truchly Auditorium which is located on The series of programs and events left the St. Andrew's Church plaza. Both people with a sense of community and singers and audience were in such good renewed interest in things religious and spirits that many lingered on, singing Ukrainian. And the participation of folk songs after the concert was over. young adults gave the celebration a The program included the Millennial vibrant air. Choir of the Ukrainian Orthodox The new St. Andrew's Church pro­ Churches of Minneapolis and St. Paul, mises to become a new focal point of directed by Kira Tsarehradsky; Irmos Ukrainian Orthodoxy and Ukrainian The head table at the parish's banquet. Seen in the center is Metropolitan Mstyslav, Men's Choir of Ss. Volodymyr and life in the northwest suburbs of Chi­ head of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the U.S.A. Oiha Ukrainian Catholic Church and cago. No.49 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, DECEMBER 6, 1987 Museum exhibit focuses on wooden ciiurches NEW YORK - "Masterpieces in vernacular architecture is that, parallel Wood: Houses of Worship in Ukraine" with the evolution of new styles, old — a photographic exhibit emphasizing ones continue to be used. The church the wooden architecture of churches in building was designed as a three­ Ukraine — will open on December 16 dimensional and symmetrical work of here at The Ukrainian Museum. It will art to be viewed from any vantage point. consist of over і00 photographs and The main compositional elements of will be supplemented by four scale church architecture were the subordina­ mode1s. tion of the roofs of the side compart­ With this exhibit the museum will ments to the central one, symmetry, and inaugurate its program of exhibitions to the expression of the interior space of commemorate the Millennium of Chris­ the building's exterior. Close harmony tianity in Ukraine. between plan and elevation is perhaps There will also be an accompanying unique. The urge to express on the photographic exhibit (through January exterior each element of the interior 24, 1988) of churches of the Lemko space is a characteristic of Ukrainian region shot by Odarka Figlus, who and especially ecclesiastic architecture. traveled throughout the region and The picturesque quality of Ukrainian took exceptional photographs of these wooden architecture was achieved unusual churches. The photographs through the variety of roof designs. will be for sale, which will allow the Although the creative genius of master visitor to take home a memento of the carpenters reached its peak in the exhibit. innovative and daring structures of The exhibition will present to the eastern Ukraine, the western regional public the ingenuity and beauty of the variants were characterized by a wealth folk architecture in Ukraine and its and diversity of forms and the preserva­ reinterpretation in North America. tion of archaic features. Numerous houses of worship have Ukrainians' profound attachment to survived the vicissitudes of time until timber architecture can be seen in their the 20th century. The masterpieces of desire to perpetuate in their new wooden architecture reviewed in this settlements the building traditions of exhibit evolved from the indigenous their forefathers. Thus, it is not surpris­ Collegiate Church of the Holy Trinity (1773-1778, rebuilt in 1888) in Novoselytsie, log construction heritage of Eastern and ing that not only the early Ukrainian Zaporizhzhia. (Irma and Woiodymyr Pylyshenko collection.) Central Europe. settlers in the United States but also Until recent times, in forest-covered contemporary Ukrainian Americans Ukraine the primary building material have striven to maintain in their eccle­ was timber rather than brick or stone. siastical architecture the traditional Simple dwellings as well as grand images of their specific cultural group. edifices were built out of wood. The This exhibit has been guest-curated wooden construction was perfected and by Titus Hewryk, director of facilities has been preserved in the form of village development of the University of Penn­ churches and be11 towers throughout sylvania. A 112-page catalogue, written Ukraine. The basic type of timber by Mr. Hewryk and illustrated with 200 church consisted of a sequence of three photographs, drawings and a map, will square units; antechamber, the main accompany the exhibit. The catalogue is hall of worship and the presbytery. published in separate English- and Each unit was separately roofed. The Ukrainian-language editions. church buildings, belfry, gate and fence The intricately detailed scale mode1s around the church yard formed an were built by the artist Bohdan Pevny. architectural composition. The exhibition was designed by Zenon Although small in comparison to Feszczak, art director of the Port of urban places of worship built of brick History Museum in Philadelphia. and stone, the wooden houses of wor­ A s1ide/tape presentation in English ship of Ukraine impress сше through and Ukrainian languages will also be their adherence and unity of parts that presented. merge into a semb!ence of a large-scale The Ukrainian Museum is located at sculpture. They have been described 203 Second Ave., at 12th Street, New as the highest achievements of master York, N.Y, 10003; (2I2) 228-0110.It is carpenters and woodcarvei's. open Wednesday through Sunday, I~5 The miilermium-old Ukrainian tim­ p.m. Admission is SI; seniors and ber architecture evolved on the basis of students, 50 cents; children under age 6 indigenous building traditions, accept­ free. ing those !iifiuences- and styles that This exhibition is funded, in part, by suited timber building material and the the New York State Council on the Arts tastes of the master builders and their and New York City Department of patrons. One of the peculiarities of Cultural Affairs.

Church of the Ascension (1738) in Chortkiv, Galicia. (Sophia K, and Titus D. Volume II of encyclopedia is available Hewryk collection.) JERSEY CITY, N.J. - Volume П were borne by the Saskatchewan of the English-language Encyclope­ government in tribute to Ukrai­ Ukrainian American Coordinating Council's... dia of Ukraine that will eventually nian pioneers. (Continued from page 3) consist of five volumes, is now in Meanwhile, work is continuing on published a book by Dr. Robert Conquest about the famine in Ukraine, and print and available for purchase. volumes HI through V of the Ency­ that this book has done much to publicize Moscow's crimes against Ukraine Volume П (G-K) comprises 800 clopedia of Ukraine, and the entire and to promote the Ukrainian cause. pages containing approximately project is expected to be comp1eted In addition to all the actions enumerated above, just recently word came 3,000 entries. It includes some 450 by 1992. about the critical need to raise funds to comp1ete the work of the U.S. illustrations, three color plates and In the U.S., the Encyclopedia of Commission on the Ukraine Famine. The S400,00O allocated for its work are 40 maps. Among its features are Ukraine, Volumes I and П, may be running out and it is essential to publish the results of the commission's color reproductions of icons. ordered from: Libraries Unlimited, research and its conclusions about who was responsible for the famine and the It is available until December 31 at 6931 S. Yosemite St., Englewood, purposes of this criminal act - the creation of an artificial famine in Ukraine. a special price of S100. As of January Colo. 80112; in Canada, orders may Taking into account all these actions of our patriotic community and the 1, 1988, the price will increase to be placed with: Canadian Founda­ great need for, not only contributions of time and effort, but also for funds in S125. (The dollar amount is the same tion for Ukrainian Studies, 500-433 order to successfully comp1ete them, the U ACCouncil has decided to tell the in the U.S. and Canada.) Main St., Winnipeg, Man. R3B 1B3. truth to our community by taking a clear position on the matter of the A special collector's edition may The Encyclopedia of Ukraine is international investigative commission on the famine. We repeat: the altered be purchased for S50O. published by the University of To­ plans regarding the creation of this commission (not tribunal), the very Volume I (A-F), published in 1984, ronto Press and prepared under the slim chances of its success, as well as the now increased estimate of its costs, is still available for S115 (collector's auspices of the Shevchenko Scienti­ are the reasons that the Ukrainian American Coordinating Council is edition - S50O). fic Society, the Canadian Institute of withdrawing its support for this project. At the same time the UACC calls on The printing costs of the second Ukrainian Studies and the Canadian our community to intensify its efforts and financial support of the above­ volume of this encyclopedia project Foundation for Ukrainian Studies. mentioned projects that are so much more important. 10 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, DECEMBER 6, 1987 No.49

BOOK REVIEW Canadian investigators...

markable thoroughness, and a truly (Continued from page 1) Slavutych in Russian translation open mind: Since the Deschenes Commission identified about 20 suspects who could '4zbrannoje'' (Selected Poems) by Yar Slavutych, Translated hy Yurij Togda ja tebja bogodanno voz'mu - be prosecuted and about 200 more who Pustowojtov et aI. Jerusalem: Society of Jewish^ Ukrainian Relations. 1986. 99 pp. Kak solntse, chto v serdtse leleju! deserved further investigation, the 1 smelo tebja na Petra podnimu government has laid no charges. by Dr. Wolodymyr T. Zyla '4zbrannoje" includes 77 poems from 1 krov'ju tirana sogreju! Judge Deschenes also urged in his nine collections published by Mr. (p. 60) report to the government that war The past few years have witnessed a Slavutych over the years since 1945.The crimes trials be held in Canada. Such a surge of interest in Ukrainian poetry in author of the introduction sees in What we see here is the translator's law was adopted and finally proclaimed the West among Russian-speaking Jews Slavutych a great master of verse and ability to probe deeply into Mr. Sla- this month. who have left the Soviet Union. One especially stresses the musicality of his vutych's verse and to achieve results "I am justifiably impatient," Judge recent example is the appearance of poetry, that quality so difficult to that flash with an intuitive insight which Deschenes told reporters. 'The minister "1zbrannoje" by Yar Slavutych — a convey in any translation but so es­ touches the spirit and inner form of the (of justice) knows it." collection of poems easily of interest to teemed by the composers who have set original. A joint Royal Canadian Mounted all readers with a command of Rus­ some 50 of his pieces to music. In 1t is of interest to note in passing that Police-Justice Department team of 40 sian. addition to four already published Mr. Slavutych's selected poetry has was formed in the spring to continue the Working within a literary framework musical collections, a fifth ~ '*Snjatsja appeared also in English (two books), work of the Deschenes Commission. of larger proportions, the author of the Nivy^'(He Had a Dream of Cornfields) German, French and Hungarian. Forth­ If the Justice Department team 1ntroduction, hidden behind the initials by the Jerusalem composer Ephim coming is a collection in Polish. Some travels to the Soviet Union, it will V.Z., addresses himself to Yar Sla­ Wolf — has appeared concurrently with individual poems have also been pub­ almost certainly provoke a repeat of the vutych's life and creativity. He views "1zbrannoje.'' lished in Byelorussian, Lithuanian, angry protests from Ukrainian and Mr. Slavutych as a spiritual inter­ Most of the translations of this Spanish and Portuguese. One never other East European communities who nationalist who respects the artistic collection are by Yurij Pustovojtov, need question the time and energy spent oppose the use of Soviet-supplied merits of Russian literature but who who presents them with a far-reaching on such translations. The exchange of evidence. rejects the Kremlin's enslavement of inquiry into the most essential issues of literary masterpieces among nations Last year, the Ukrainian community many nations within the Soviet Union. Mr. Slavutych's literary ability. His contributes not only to broadening alone spent an estimated S30,000 As a fighter for Ukrainian independ­ central object of inquiry is thus neither cultural horizons but also to mutual placing full-page ads in Canadian ence, Mr. Slavytych condemns the the literary approach nor the texts understanding and cooperation. newspapers. The ads, along with a low­ kind of chauvinistic Russification themselves but, rather, the condition *4zbrannoje'' is a well organized, key lobbying campaign, were used to which has led in Ukraine to the under which communication of the interesting and useful book. 1t gives a publicize the negative aspects of Soviet­ restriction against use of the national translated verses can be related to^ clear picture of Ukrainian poetry in supplied evidence. language. Thus he appears once more textual properties. This produces excel­ diaspora, a body of works with which Jewish groups in Canada, which are as the bearer of truth, evoking the title lent results by giving us a sensitive most Russian-speaking readers are urging the government to move quickly of one of his early poetry collections. translation with a gentle touch, re­ unfamiliar. on war criminals prosecutions, say they have no objections to evidence-gather­ ing behind the Iron Curtain. "The Canadian government is staffing A UNA insurance policy == and that is why this protocol of agree­ ment with the Soviets has remained unsigned by Canada," So1 Littman, an investntent in the Ukrainian community Canadian representative of the Simon Wiesenthal Center, told The Globe.

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sive work yet written on this subject. (It Honored for service is available from the Performing Arts Book Club at 27 Union Square West, PHILADELPHIA - Bonni H. Ze- Notes on people New York, N.Y. 10003.) tick received Pennsylvania Hospital's first annual D. Bruce Yoppi Award for In a letter dated September 4, Joseph her outstanding work in developing Banowetz mentions his next major programs for the mentally retarded. project, the recording of the comp1ete Mrs. Zetick is director of advocacy works of Anton Rubenstein for Hong for ARC/RAINBOW, where she has Kong Records. "It will take about four been employed since 1978. She is years, and is a huge project. But it's working toward a Ph.D, at Bryn Mawr important, since I think he's one of the College's Graduate School of Social very much overlooked composers of the Work and Social Research. 19th century. We only remember him as The award was presented to Mrs. Liszt's major rival!" Zetick at the IIth annual Philadelphia Conference on Developmental Disabili­ According to Ms. Cehelska, Mr. ties for Parents and Professionals. Banowetz has also edited over 21 Mrs. Zetick, her husband, Edward, a editions of piano music. In a letter to Philadelphia attorney, and their chil­ Mr. Banowetz dated September 19, Ms. dren, Marian, Alexander and Lydia, are Cehelska writes: "It is up to each one of all members of UNA Branch 422. us, to do whatever we can, to bring our rich Ukrainian heritage out of our dark Promotes Ukrainian music closets and musty shelves. This is especially true in the upcoming year, as MARIETTA, Ga. - 01ga Cehelska, we prepare10 celebrate the Millennium Atlanta pianist, presented one of her of Christianity in Ukraine. In 988, r top students at the 1987 Piano Work­ Kievan-Rus' (present-day Ukraine) shop sponsored by the Greater Atlanta rivaled Constantinople in terms of Music Alliance the week of August 24. Pianist and music teacher 01ga Cehelska and her student, Heidi Parcharsky, with government and culture. Today, you This year's workshop featured the inter­ internationally known pianist Joseph Banowetz at the 1987 piano workshop held would be hard-pressed to find Ukraine nationally recognized piano virtuoso, by the Greater Atlanta Music Alliance. on a wor1d globe, so comp1ete have been Joseph Banowetz, termed by Fanfare mances in Asia and New Zealand of logist Roman Sawycky, Ms. Cehelska the Russification programs of the Magazine as one of "the pre-eminent Liszt's newly discovered "Concerto in continues to correspond with Mr. Soviet government. Yet, in spite of the 4hree B*s' of Liszt playing." the Hungarian Style." Banowetz was Banowetz concerning the use of Ukrai­ 'greatest silencer of a11' we continue to In a personal conversatiori, with Mr. not familiar, however, with Liszt's nian melodies in the music of Liszt and sing — and in our own language. Banowetz, who at one time studied with "Ballade of Ukraine" with it's haunting Bartok. Music is the very sou1 of a nation, so it the noted Hungarian pianist and pupil "Oh, Don't Go, Hryts" motif, nor with gives me great joy when I have an of Bartok, Gyorg Sandor, Ms. Cehelska Liszt's "Complaints" which includes the Following the workshop, Dr. Bano­ opportunity such as this to perhaps touched upon Ukrainian influences in melody of "The Winds, They are wetz personally autographed his latest make a difference in the way a the music of both Bartok and Liszt. Blowing" from the Ukrainian opera book "The Pianists Guide to Pedaling" nationally renowned pianist, educator During the past several seasons, Mr. "Zaporozhets za Dunayem." published in 1985 by Indiana Univer­ and editor, views the very sou1 of іяу Banowetz has given premiere perfor- With assistance of Ukrainian musico­ sity Press. That this is the most inten­ nation." UNWLA anniversary fete features young performers

by Zirka Derlycia

NEW YORK -- A Gala Musical Festival was held at the Ukrainian Institute of America on November 8 to celebrate the 25th anniversary of Branch 72 of the Ukrainian National Women's League of America. An overflow audience attended, and Margarite Leskiw Pierce; pianists delaying the proceedings somewhat as Ulana N. Pinkowsky Senchyshyn and extra chairs were added to accommo­ Nadia Bohachewsky; the popular enter­ date everyone. The event, a benefit for tainer Oieksander Kuzyszyn; and the The Ukrainian Museum Building Fund, bandurists* trio of Lilya Pavlovsky, 01ya was co-chaired by Mary Lesawyer and Chodoba and Daria Leschuk. The Rosalie Poiche. Because of the heavy accompanist for the afternoon was attendance, many in the audience John Kolody. rejoiced that the proceeds were going to The audience rewarded the perfor­ The Ukrainian Museum's Building mance of each artist with enthusiastic Fund, and comments were heard that applause and the general consensus higher donations might perhaps have afterward was that the Gala Musical been requested in view of the unique­ Festival had been an unusual and very ness of the event and the museum's great satisfying experience. need. The program featured a cross-section At the end of the program, noted of young Ukrainian musicians, and leaders of the Ukrainian community while most of the music was by noted who were in the audience were recog­ West European composers, Ukrainian nized with applause, and Mmes. L,e­ composers such as Stepovy, Liud- sawyer and Poiche made closing re­ kevych, Fomenko, Ivasiuk, Kos-Ana- marks. tolsky and Barvinsky were also repre­ A buffet supper was served in the sented. reception area and guests lingered for a Performers at the UNWLA Branch 72 musicftie: (beginning from top row, from Featured in the program were singers long time afterward, discussing the high left) Nadia Bohachewsky, Kalyna Cholhan, 0Ienka Heimur, John Kolody, Laryssa Magun-Huryn, 01enka Hei- points of the musical program as well as bandurists Daria Leschuk, 01ya Chodoba and Lilya Favlovsky, Oieksander mur, Maria Wolansky and Kalyna reminiscing about the productive 25 Kuzyszyn, Magarit6 Leskiw Fierce, Laryssa Magun-Huryn, Ulana Pinkowsky Cholhan; harpists Odarka Polanskyj years of UNWLA Branch 72. Senchyshyn, Odarka Polanskyj Mid Maria Wolansky* 12 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, DECEMBER 6, 1987 No.49

Detroit educators... seminating the truth through education. Ukrainian language... Applied Ukrainian... The teachers' symposium was spon­ (Continued from page 4) sored by the Education Division of the (Continued from page 2) (Continued from page 5) view." Ukrainian Famine Committee of Mi^ but nonetheless the same problem, then national project for all Canada. A very viable method for implement­ chigan, an extension of the 1982-83 what is the discussion all about? Recent surveys indicate that over ing famine information in a classroom Community Committee that had con­ An even more glaring example of the 10,000 young people participate in 150 situation was demonstrated by Imma­ ducted the 50th anniversary famine difficulties facing party spokesmen is dance groups throughout the prairie culate Conception High School stu­ observances in metropolitan Detroit. the recent article by Borys M. Babiy, region. In Alberta alone, there are over dents, Zenon Zarewych and Roman director of the Institute of State and 80 dance groups, two dozen choirs and Los, using a prepared dialogue written Co-chairmen and executive officers Law of the Academy of Sciences in several hundred artists and artisans in by Dr. Beck. were Dr. Beck and Stephen M. Wichar Kiev, in the party and government daily music, literature, theatre, visual and Sr., with Doris Duzej as project coordi­ Radianska Ukraina titled "Language in fiber arts. A variety of Canadian writers In closing, the general concession of nator. The symposium committee, com­ the symposium organizers was that the Mirror of the Law." He, too, focuses and performers have emerged to be­ posed of about 20 Ukrainian educators on what he describes as the proposals come leaders in their arts disciplines. while teachers' workshops are a valua­ plus committee officers, Irene Pryjma, ble and effective option for getting for "constitutional protection" of the However, the Ukrainian arts still Mrs. Wasyl Karpenko and Maria Ukrainian language, the parental right accurate information on Ukraine into Zarycky, brought to fruition the curri­ suffer from a lack of instructional the classroom, they are not enough. to select schools for their children, and programs, educational coordination culum project initiated in 1984 with the the optional study of a second language. Ukrainian educators need to develop a Detroit Public Schools. both within and among disciplines, and strong teacher organization and a net­ With regard to the latter, Mr. Babiy insufficient outreach educational pro­ working system in local, state and The event was held at the Ukrainian admits that there are some difficulties gram opportunities. Consequently the national boards of education. They Cultural Center in Warren, Mich., with here because, strictly speaking, pupils majority of Ukrainian cultural activity need to participate actively in teachers' the cooperation and financial support could theoretically opt out of studying occurs internally, within the commu­ conventions and develop contacts with of numerous Ukrainian community Russian. Nonetheless, he argues against nity, inaccessible to the general public curriculum resource people. Finally, organizations. any changes in the existing legislation, for the purposes of tourism, public they need to reach publishers of text­ limiting himself to the accepted recogni­ education or creating employment books at every educational level in The curriculum guides used at the tion that conditions need to be created opportunities. order to promulgate information not seminar were prepared by Dr. Kuropas that would promote more profound It's these issues the URDC intends to only about the famine, but about every and funded by the Ukrainian National study of the Ukrainian language by address: aspect of Ukrainian history and culture, Association. Supplementary materials young people in the republic. and its ro1e within the Soviet Union and were provided by various other institu­ On the other hand, he criticizes the * examining the establishment of the wor1d. Disinformation and decep­ tions, including the Harvard Ukrainian reformers for unwarranted accusations accredited courses in Ukrainian dance tion can be counteracted only by dis­ Research Institute. to the effect that the deplorable situa­ and music arts; tion of the Ukrainian language is the * fostering a communication net­ result of a policy decision: work via newsletters, workshops and UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA "Some of those who have joined the conferences between Ukrainian arts has an open position of discussion with polemical fervor try, for disciplines and the college; example, to assert that the narrowing of ^ offering outreach (non-credit) PROJECT C00RDINAT0R/INDEXER the use of the Ukrainian language was education programs to professional and 'sanctioned' by someone, that 'anti­ voluntary community organizations; The Immigration History Research Center, a research facility and special collection de­ constitutional deeds' were ostensibly * establishing print and audio-visual dicated to the study of American immigrant and ethnic groups from Eastern, Central, and allowed in this matter. These kinds of archival and arts resource library Southern Europe and the Near East, seeks a qualified individual to coordinate the Svoboda assertions are outright inventions, they services tailored to community conve­ Index Project. This project is a joint venture of the IHRC and the Ukrainian National Association have a purely emotional character and nience and needs; to publish a retrospective index to the Ukrainian American newspaper Svoboda. are not based on any kind of legal * acting as the vehicle to coordi­ DUTIES: Selecting terms from newspaper for index; supervising computer data entry of documents. I, as a professional jurist, nate provincial councils for the Ukrai­ !П(іеx terms; coordinating index publication production; proofreading and editteg; preparing know very well that such documents nian arts on behalf of the UCC. budget and status reports; assisting in project publicity efforts. simply do not exist. QUALIFICATIONS: Required - BA; fluency in written Ukrainian and English. During the past summer, the URDC Highly desired ~ professional indexing experience (related library cataloging Stated differently, Mr. Babiy is offered a 10-day program which drew experience may be considered). assuring Ukrainian writers that neither 32 Ukrainian dance instructors from Desired - Masters degree in History, Slavic Studies, or Library Science; knowledge of the Central Committee of the Commu­ across Canada. It also offered facilities Ukrainian and/or Ukrainian American history; publication editing and production experience; nist Party of the Soviet Union nor the to an international Ukrainian choral word processing background; supervisory experience; self-motivation and problem solving Central Committee of the Communist directors workshop. ability. Party of Ukraine ever adopted resolu­ The URDC is part of the larger Office SALARY: Negotiable: S20.0O^ minimum. tions aimed at eliminating the Ukrai­ for Multicultural and Native Pro­ APPOINTMENT TERM: One year, vylth possibility of renewal depending upon funding; nian language from public life. gramming run by the college which available tmmediately. The point, however, is not whether TO APPLY: Send letter of application, resume, and names, addresses and phone numbers offers 42 different programs to 19,000 the party's arguments are logical or students across four campuses in Ed­ of three references by October 30, 1987 to: illogical, serious or amusing, but the JOEL WURL monton. SVOBODA Search Chair fact that party spokesmen have been Through its connection with the Immigration History Research Center forced to engage in inane verbal sparring college, the URDC provides a link with 826 Berry Street, St. Paul, MN 55114 with opponents. The political leader­ Grant MacEwan's 450 instructors in ship in Kiev finds itself in the unenviable fields such as fund-raising, volunteer The University of Minnesota is an equal opportunity educator and employer position of having to justify the fact that management, design, advertising, tele­ and specifically invites and encourages applications from women and the democratization of Soviet life has vision, radio, music, dance and many minorities. thus far left the national question others. relatively untouched. During its pilot stage, the center will be run by Dr. Roman Petryshyn with a support staff consisting of Marie Le- soway, outreach supervisor, and Lida Somchinsky, secretary. The team will ENCYCLOPEDIA OF UKRAINE work in consultation with dance and music organizations under the umbrella of the UCC in various provinces of Edited by Volodymyr Kubijovyc Canada. As well, the services of the center will VOLUME I (A-F): First of Five Volumes extend from Grant MacEwan to other colleges and universities across Canada. S115.0O + shipping & handling S4.5O Together with its own staff, the First volume of a major work of Ukrainian scholarship in the diaspora URDC will utilize advisors, visiting 968 pages containing approximately 2,800 entries lecturers and contracted employees to provide a range of programs which will Illustrated throughout facilitate the public's pursuit of Ukrai­ Over 450 illustrations in black and white; 5 color plates nian cultural development in the prai- 83 maps, 6 of them in color ^ ries, Canada and abroad. 1n time the center will also be able to sponsor Large color fold-out map of Ukraine with 32-page gazetter bound separately in same courses and activities that draw on . binding as book, courses from the business, community services, community eduction, acade­ ORDER NOW AND SEND A CHECK FOR S119.5O TO: mic services and health sciences divi­ sion, located at the college. SVOBODA BOOK STORE For more information, or to make a 30 Montgomery street, Jersey City, N.J. 07З02 donation, contact; Ukrainian Resource New Jersey residents add 6% sales tax Development Centre, Grant MacEwan Community C6llege^ Box 1796, Ed­ monton, Alta., T5J 2P2; (403) 483-4474 No.49 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, DECEMBER 6, 1987 13

wider Australian public. Ukrainian studies... Students may enro1l in Ukrainian (Continued from page 5) studies courses as degree or non-degree participants, thus making the courses HELP WANTED was incorporated into the Slavonic flexible and accessible to mature stu­ Section of the School of Modern Lan­ dents. Furthermore, the center has Editorial assistant/assistant editor guages at Macquarie University. The supervised and conducted intensive foundation agreed to fund Ukrainian short-term courses in Ukrainian stu­ Requirements: training in journalism or related field, writing studies, while the university would dies. establish both a teaching and research experience, knowledge of Ukrainian language. component for the center. The future of Ukrainian studies at Salary commensurate witI1 experience and qualifications; good The formal inauguration of Ukrai­ Macquarie University looks bright and benefits. nian studies at Macquarie took place on auspicious. With teaching on a firm March 9-10, 1984. Dr. Natalia Pazu- footing, the center is ripe for expan­ niak, formerly adjunct professor in sion. The achievements thus far, for an Send resume, reference and clippings to: The Editor. The Ukrainian Weekly, 30 Ukrainian language and literature at the "outsider" like myself, are truly impres­ Montgomery St., Jersey City, N.J. 07302. University of Pennsylvania, was ap­ sive. As a person of Ukrainian origin pointed as the first lecturer in Ukrainian born and raised in the Ukrainian com­ studies and head of the Ukrainian munity in Britain, who at various times Section in the Slavonic Department, a has visited the Ukrainian communities Ukrainian National Association position she held until 1986. in France and the U.S., and who is SEEKS TO HIRE PART TIME AND FULL TIME Visiting lecturers at the Ukrainian currently a Ph.D, student in Edmonton Studies Centre have included Prof. specializing in the Ukrainian commu­ Experienced Vsevolod 1sajiw (Ukrainian Civiliza­ nities in Latin America, I cannot but tion, second semester I986) and Prof. praise and admire those members of a INSURANCE AGENTS or GENERAL AGENTS Theodore Mackiw (Ukrainian Civiliza­ community — that numbers about - fluent in Ukrainian and English; tion and 19th Century Ukraine, first 34,000 — whose efforts have resulted in Toronto, Montreal, Edmonton, Winnipeg and other areas semester 1987). the establishment of Ukrainian studies Leads suppI1ed -salary not draw - plus override - aII benefits. In addition, the center has had tutors courses at two Australian universities. Write or telephone: and other staff at various stages: Luba (Monash University in Melbourne has Mr. JOHN HEWRYK Supreme Director for Canada Kaye (Kwasnycia), Rosa Kloczko and been offering courses in Ukrainian 327 Mc Adam Ave. Oksana Smereszuk among the tutors, language and literature since 1983.) Winnipeg, 4, Man. Canada R2W OB3 Orysia Borec and A1la Dubyk as the More importantly, these members of Tel.:(204)582-8895 part-time secretaries, and T. Korinets as the Australian Ukrainian community the part-time librarian. have demonstrated that numbers in this Ukrainian National Association, inc. Currently the teaching staff at the case do not count; dedication and 30 Montgomery Street, Jersey City, N. J. 07302 Ukrainian Studies Centre includes commitment do. Tel.: (201) 451-2200 Halya Kocharskij (lecturer in Ukrai­ nian literature and head of the Ukrai­ Those wishing to know more about nian Section), Marta Harasowska this "success story" should write to: (lecturer in Ukrainian language) and Ukrainian Studies Centre, School of Mazepa Foundation Presents visiting lecturer Serhii Сірко (Ukrai­ Modern Languages, Macquarie Uni­ nian Civilization and 20th Century versity, North Ryde, N.S.W. 2113, Under the patronage of the Natiorial Millenium Comnnittee -1Ікгаіі^Г^^і^^тк:и;о^ .,; Ь'г-,:.;;г.і ^-yr^'—. Australia. to Commemorate Millenium of Christianity in Ukraine Special mention should be made of Naturally, any academic institute is with the cooperation of the Ukrainian National Association the indefatigable director of the Center, always in need of further funds to Dr. Ihor Gordijew. Dr. Gordijew, who extend its work. FUSA currently needs occupies a post at Macquarie University S27,00O (Australian) to reach the S1 as senior lecturer in economics, is also million mark. Contributions to a con­ 988 1988 (cUrectorpfthel^ structive cause would be most welcome. '(cJa(ioh in Aiistriuia 1рру8Д) to which he Please send all donations to: Ukrainian cievotes much time on a voluntary basis. Studies Foundation in Australia Ltd., He has acted as a bridge between the P.O. Box 270, Lidcombe, N.S.W. 2141, |Religious university and the Ukrainian commu­ Australia. nity. Undoubtedly, without his self­ sacrifice (Dr. Gordijew could have UKRAINIAN SINGLES diverted his energies to furthering his NEWSLETTER Music of career, for instance)someof the gains of Serving Ukrainian singles of aII ages the center would not have been possible. throughout the United States and Canada. The staff at the Ukrainian Studies For information send a self-addressed Centre does not limit itself to teaching. - stamped envelope to: Ukraine Each lecturer has presented papers Single Ukrainians outside the section to other departments P.O. Box 24733, Phil3.. Pa. 19111 within the university, to other universi­ A Concert Commemorating 1000 Years ties and to the Ukrainian community. of Christianitv in Ukraine Ms. Harasowska has initiated a very UKRAINIAN NATIONAL successful ongoing series of monthly ASSOCIATION gatherings of Sydney students interest­ seeks to hire ed in practicing their Ukrainian and furthering their knowledge of Ukrai- FULL-TIME CAREER SALES Avery Fisher Hall, Lincoln Center nica. REPRESENTATIVES Sunday, February 14, 1988 8 pm Ms. Kocharskij, an active member of various Australian Ukrainian orgiani- fluent in Ukrainian and English zations, has been instrumental in pro­ for CLEVELAND, NEW YORK, moting Ukrainian studies within the UPSTATE NEW YORK. NEW Conductor William No^ community, assisting in application JERSEY, PHILADELPHIA and procedures, and in handling the admi­ LEHIGH VALLEY AREA Soloists Gilda Gruz-Romo soprano nistrative work of the center in general. insurance experience not required, we Furthermore, each teaching member Marta Senn mezzo-soprano will train and assist with a full price pac­ of staff actively pursues her/his re­ Vyacheslav M. Polozov search and publication interests, contri- kage and full financial backing. tenor A tremendous potential exists be­ buting articles to local Ukrainian PaulPfishka bass publications and schoiarly journals. cause of the Ukrainian National The structure of Ukrainian studies at Association's commitment to the Andrij Dobriansky bass-baritone Macquarie is such that it permits most modern Fraternal Insurance students as far afieW as Perth, on the and Service it can provide. Members of the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra west coast, to pursue the courses by ChoraI Guild of Atlanta correspondenee. This is done through If you fe^l that you are the type of person Performing music of Bortniansky,Vedel,Lysenko the university's Center for Evening and who can grow with the UNA please send a WorId Premiere of ''Neophytes". Music by Marian Kouzan External Studies. resume or contact: based on the poem of Taras Shevchenko. It is interesti^ to note that a large H. P. Floyd, FIC. proportion of students who have en­ National Sales Director ro1led in Ukrainian studies are not of Ukrainian National Association Inc Ukrainian descent, and have had no 30 Montgomery Street, Tickets at Box Office (212) 874.2424 links with the Ukrainian community Jersey City, N. J. 07302. or call: Center Charge (212) 874.6770 whatsoever. This reflects The broaden­ Tel.: (201)451-2200 ing ]appea1r of ,\lki'4mtvy%tudk^io^.the' 14 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, DECEMBER 6, 1987 No.49

"Unless the Soviet government eased challenge glasnost, according to their Of the 10 seminars planned by the Permission.,, very restrictive regulations on freedom September 2 statement. t organizers, which will most likely be (Co -stinued from page 3) of expression, freedom of movement held in members' apartments since they nation CSCE would agree to such a and freedom of demonstration, dele­ Mrs. 01shaniwsky received a Soviet were unsuccessful in obtaining permis­ conference only if certain conditions gates of the NGOs could not attend this visa two weeks after applying through sion to rent a hall, the AHRU president were met by the Soviets, involving type of a conference," said Mrs. Olsha- Scope Travel Inc. in Newark, N.J., and said she would definitely attend the one improvement of their human rights niwsky. will spend one week in Moscow attend­ concerning the nationalities issue head­ record and facilitation for the atten­ Thus, members of Press Club Glas- ing the various seminars and one week ed by Ukrainian dissident Vyacheslav dance of non-governmental groups, nost decided to attempt to hold an un­ in Kiev as a tourist. She is so far the only Chornovil. including unofficial dissident groups in official conference to test the possibili­ representative of any Ukrainian Ameri­ "I very strongly believe that Ukrai­ the USSR. ties for an official meeting, as well as to can group set to attend the seminar. nians should be represented at such an international forum and stage our demands,'' she stated. ATTENTION! ATTENTION! HURYN MEMORIALS FOR THE FINEST IN CUSTOM MADE As far as the other nine seminars go, MEMORIALS INSTALLED IN ALL CEME­ she added, "I11 have to play it by ear." TERIES IN THE METROPOLITAN AREA "I think that I will be able to contri­ THE UKRAINIAN MILLENNIUM of New York including Holy Spirit in bute something to the seminar and I will H^mptonburgh, N.Y., St. Andrew's in Soutti do a good job representing the Ukrai­ SPORTS OLYMPIAD and YOUTH Bound Brook, Pine Bush Cemetery in nian human rights movement in the Kerhonkson and Glen Spey Cemetery United States." RALLY in GIen Spey, New York. Mrs. 01shaniwsky said there has been in Commemoration and Celebration of the We offer personal service & guidance in your "hardly any reaction" so far from the MILLENNIUM OF CHRISTIANITY 1N UKRAINE home. For a bilingual representatives call: Ukrainian community to news of her will be held over the Memorial Day weekend IWAN HURYN trip. Of those who have reacted, most of P.O. Box 121 "the younger, professionals, who under­ May 27th, 28th, 29th and 30th, I988 Hamptonburgh, N.Y. 10916 Tel.: (914) 4272б84 stand the reality of the Soviet Union," LOCATION as she called them, have expressed BOHDAN REKSHYNSKYJ approval and support. "The older UKRAINIAN AMERICAN SPORTS CENTER „TRYZUB" 45 East 7th Street and New York, N.Y. 10003 people, who survived the oppression of DELAWARE VALLEY COLLEGE Tel.: (212) 477-6523 the Soviet Union, were against it," she Philadelphia, PA said. The sports program will be run under the auspices of the Ukrainian Sports Central of America and Canada HOST Ukrainian American Sports Center of Philadelphia "TRYZUB" A Christmas gift idea: CO-COST Subscriptions to Ukrainian Educational and Cultural Center, Inc. of Philadelphia PARTICH*ATION THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY Competition open to all Ukrainian athletes, men and women residing for your family, friends and aquaintances. in U.S.A., Canada and the Free Wor1d One-year subscription: S8.0O LIST OF COMPETITIVE SPORTS EVENTS For UNA Members: S5.0O : * Soccer ^ Volleyball ^ Basketball * Swimming * Tennis * Golf To order, please send check or money order to; ^ Ping Pong ^ Chess * Track & Field THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY * Track - 100 meter, 400 meter, 1500 meter * relay — long jump, high jump 30 Montgomery Street a Jersey City, N.J. 07302 * Field events — discus,, shot ,put, javelin REGISTRATION Get in touch with your local Ukrainian Youth Organizations, Help Wanted THE HOME OFFICE "*'P Wanted Sports Clubs, Religious, Community and Student Organizations. of the Find out if they are representing participants. 1f not, get in touch with the Olympiad Committee who will assist you. UKRAINIAN NATIONAL ASSOCIATION has two immediate openings for Ukrainian Millennium Sports Olympiad and Youth Rally 700 Cedar Road, Philadelphia, PA 19111, U.S.A. CLERICAL WORKERS AWARDS IN ITS RECORDING DEPARTMENT 1st, 2nd and 3rd Place Medals will be awarded in each sports event. Applicants should have knowledge of the Ukrainian and English languages. Salary commensurate with ex­ perience. Good benefits, including Blue Cross/Blue Shield, major medical, group life insurance, pension p!an GENERAL INFORMATION Apply by calling (201) 451-2200, ext. 18; Additional information will be forthcoming at a later date. or by sending resume to: EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE OF UKRAINIAN NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, INC. THE UKRAINIAN MILLENNIUM SPORTS OLYMPIAD P.O. Box 17A, 30 Montgomery St., Jersey City, N.J. 07303 and YOUTH RALLY Ihor Chyzowych .. Committee Chairman Jaroslaw Kozak Chairman of Sports Committee Walter Ihnatowycz Sports Coordinator for Canada Ukrainian IMusic Institute of America John Skira Chairman of Finance Committee New York Branch 0rest Lesiuk President of "Tryzub" - Chairman of || Facilities Committee presents a Bohdan Katamay . Press Releases and Information Olga Kuzewycz .., Secretary 35th ANNIVERSARY

Registration Application GALA FACULTY CONCERT Featuring New York Faculty Members: Name Address: ANDRiJ DOBRIANSKY, bass ROBERT DURSO, piano LAURAN FULTON-CORSON, soprano Tel. (area code): Date of Birth: . THOMAS HRYNKIW, p/ano Sports event(s) you would like to participate in: . TATIANA HRYNYSZYN, mezzo-soprano LARYSSA KRUPA, p/ano RAPHAEL WENKE, i//o//n Organization which you are representing: .. Sunday, December 13,1987 at 3:00 p.m. in P.S. 40, East 19th street, 1wtween 1st & 2nd Avenues. New York City Admission: |!2, Students.and Senior Citizfcris:SS. . No.49 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, DECEMBER 6, 1987 15

Ukrainian... statutes to include a commitment to YEVSHAN RECORDS (Continued from page 1) Marxist-Leninist ideology and an NEW RELEASES FALL '88 An impression of what occurred at undertaking to combat "Ukrainian this meeting was provided by 01ek- bourgeois nationalism." According to the most recent sandr Shvets in his attack on the VERKHOVYNA QUARTET Ukrainian Culturological Club that reports, members of the club have Cassette CYFP 2034 appeared in Vechirnyi Kiev on Octo­ refused to yield to this pressure and have appealed to the USSR Supreme Featuring Vera Bayrak, Vera Ivashko, Evhenia ber 19. The main presentation was Kotysh, Oiena Hlibovych (Toronto) made by Mr. Milyavsky who focused Soviet. Mr. Shevchenko is reported on, among other sensitive topics, to have written an open letter ad­ Selections: Spomyny z hir, Yak striltsi ishly, Ne khoctiu spivaty, Chereshenka, Na vulytsi skrypka "the notorious year of 1933," "the dressed to leading Russian cultural hraye, Hutsulski valtz, BUIG kolys, Khto, Zagalno, man-made famine in Ukraine " and and political figures, titled "The Rich znana, Mathiola, Koiomeyka. the simultaneous assault on Ukrai­ Restructuring is in Danger," in which An album of Ukrainian songs performed by the nian culture. What Mr. Shvets he claims that the efforts of Ukrai­ Verkhovyna Quartet and directed by Olena Hlibovych. Musical director Ellis McLintock. Featuring Bill found objectionable was Mr. Mil- nian intellectuals to support pere­ Richards - violin; and, Bohdan Wyshniowsky - bass. yavsky's use of terms like "genocide," stroika are being thwarted-by the fact "the system of totalitarian rule," "the that "conservatives have transform­ struggle for human rights and the ed Ukraine into a reserve of Brezhne- rights of nations," "regime" and even vism." "Mordovian camps." Copies of this letter have appa­ Cassette tapes S8.5O -*^ S1.5O shipping. The author also castigated the rently been sent to, among others, Total S10.0O. organizers of the meeting for caUing Sovetskaya Kultura, Literaturnaya NOW AVAILABLE AT ALL UKRAINIAN BOOK STORES & GIFT SHOPS! on the audience to observe a minute's Gazeta, Politburo member Alexan­ silence in memory of Ukrainian der Yakovlev and Academician Dmi­ . YEVSHAN SAMPLER CASSETTE Vol. 2 political prisoners who have died in try Likhachev. Л ONLY S2.99 WITH EACH ORDER! LIMIT ONE PER CUSTOMER VV** Features 12 compIete Ukrainian selections from new releases! Available only by Mail. the camps in recent years. Mr. Shvets' Members of the club have conti­ Total with sampler: Sampler S2.99 + S10.0O. Total |12.99 U.S. complains that the atmosphere was nued to meet in small groups, though such that he expected at any moment on November 15 a large open-air MAIL ORDERS TO: YEVSHAN CORPORATION to hear over the loudspeakers: "You gathering of some 150 people is are listening to the Voice of America reported to have taken place. The from Washington," or "This is Radio police apparently did not break up Liberty speaking." the meeting. In his full-page-length article Mr. On November 17 another attack A GREAT UKRAINIAN CHRISTMAS GIFT! Shvets does not deny the need for an against the Ukrainian Culturological informal club or society in Kiev Club appeared in the daily, Robitny- UKRAINIAN ТРИЗУБ POL0 SHIRTS concerned with the Ukrainian cultu­ cha Hazeta. What is particularly 100% cotton for S25.0O - Can. S31.00 ral and historical heritage. Instead, interesting about this piece is that it UKRAINIAN ТРИЗУБ POL0 SHIRTS he concentrates on attempting to reveals that Mr. Shvets' article in discredit the organizers of the Ukrai­ Vechirnyi Kiev promptly drew over 50/50% blend for S19.18 - Can. S25.18 nian Culturological Club, arguing 100 letters to the editor. While most UKRAINIAN ТРИЗУБ SWEAT PANTS & SHIRTS that they are simply "retranslators of of them are described as having 50/50% blend for S19.2O - Can. S25.2O (each) hostile radio voices" who have expressed support for the line taken or pair of sweats S33.20 - Can. S39.20 created a "demagogic shadow thea­ by the newspaper, some of the people UKRAINIAN ТРИЗУБ WINDBREAKERS W/LINING Nylon shell for S47.5O - Can. S59.5O tre." Mr. Naboka, Mr. Milyavsky, who wrote in are said to have treated TRYZUB EMBLtM OVER LEFT PORTION OF CHEST Ms. Lokhvytska and Inna Cherniav- the diatribe against the Ukrainian CoIlors: royal blue, navy, and yellow ska, he points out, have already been Culturological Club as signaling "the Sizes: S, M, L and XL in trouble in the early 1980s for end of democratization." MADE IN THE USA forming a dissident "Kievan Demo­ The article in Robitnycha Hazeta ORDER EARLY FOR CHRISTMAS DELIVERY cratic C1ub'' dwells on the fact that an American Please add S3.00 for postage and handling California residents add б% sales tax Behind them, he claims, stand Ukrainian working for the Voice of Send check or money order to: representatives of the older genera­ America attended one of the club's discussions, and concludes by stress­ TRIDENT APPAREL CO. tion of Ukrainian dissidents such as P.O. Box 91837, Long Beach, California 90809 1837 Mr. Shevchenko, Yevhen Sverstiuk, ing that representatives from another Please allow 3-4 weeks for processing. THANK YOU. and Stepan Khmara, who see in the informal club - "an association of formation of the Ukrainian Culturo­ reserve soldiers-internationalists" — logical Club a way of reviving their have written urging that youth be "former illegal activity" through the protected from the "harmful in­ exploitation of the new opportuni­ fluence" and "anti-people activity" of ties offered by glasnost. 11ieir aim, the leadership of the Ukrainian according to Mr. Shvets, is to rally Culturological Club. of 2 watches . patriotic youth imbued with the There is at present no further spirit of perestroika "under their information on the fate of the Ukrai­ political flags." nian Culturological Club and its Mr. Shvets also emphasizes that struggle to uphold glasnost in Ukrai­ representatives of the U.S. Informa­ nian cultural and public life. Judging S22.o6 tion Agency and the Voice of Ame­ by the old-fashioned-style denuncia­ Value Free rica who were in Kiev with an tions in Vechirnyi Kiev and Robit­ MAN MAN American exhibition "found time to nycha Hazeta though, and a similar LADY'S LADY'S attend meetings of the 'Ukrainian attack in Radianska Ukraina on Culturological C1ub.' " He gives this November 13 against Messrs. Chor- a sinister ring by insinuating that the novil and Horyn, and the Ukrainian club's organizers "know" very well Herald, the outlook both for the c1ub why their activities are of interest to and similar independent activity in "certain" Americans. Ukraine suddenly appears to have The author also mentions that become very bleak. ^ Pavlo Skochok, a former political THE FIRST OF A SERIES OF prisoner who is now one of the 202 editors of the Ukrainian Herald, . collectable T-shirt prints celebrating a openly called on those assembled to Millennium of Ukrainian Chris­ contribute to this unofficial journal. tianity is now avaiiabie! The day after the appearance of Printed blue on yellow, in sizes S, M, L, XL; 5О% cotton ~ S8.5O each, in Canadian Mr. Shvets' article, the council of dollars - 11.80each. \ the Ukrainian Culturological Club issued a protest to the editors of Vechirnyi Kiev. They described the attack on their club as a repudiation of the entire tone of perestroika and 302 402 demanded the right to reply on the ЗО1 401 pages of the newspaper. Soon afterwards, the local autho­ Wholesale quantaties and prices rities forbade the club to hold any available. Send check or money order to: more meetings until it was formally Zenko Kobasa registered. As a precondition of 26 Chestnut St. registration, however, the authorities Salem, N.J. 08079 demanded that the c1ub amend its Ailow 2-3 weeks for delivery. 16 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, DECEMBER 6, 1987 No.49

IIIIHi December 7 Organization for the Defense of Four PREVIEW OF EVENTS Freedoms for Ukraine, Yonkers NEW YORK: For those interested in branch, will present an art exhibit of science department at Dominican attending the Ukrainian demonstra­ Scientific Society is sponsoring an Ukrainian American artists: the late College, on "Rus'ka Pravda and the academic lecture by Dr. Gregory tion in Washington to protest Mik­ Jacques Hnizdovsky, Chrystyna U.S. Constitution." Leonid Ru~ Luzhnytsky, professor emeritus of hail Gorbachev's visit to the United Holowczak-DeBarry, Luboslav Hut- dnytzky, professor of German and Graz University, Graz, Austria, and States and voice their concern about saliuk and Slava Gerulak, 9 a.m.-2 persecution of Ukrainians by Soviet Slavic languages at LaSalle, will a noted author of various works, on chair the panel discussion, which will p.m., in St. Michael's Ukrainian authorities, buses will depart from "The People's Christology of U- be followed by a commentary by Catholic Church hall, 5І0 N. Broad­ the Ukrainian Liberation Front kraine," at 5 p.m. in the society's Miroslav Labunka, history professor headquarters at 63 Fourth Ave. This way. Also featured will be variety of building, 136 Second Ave. at 7 a.m. at LaSalle. Later that afternoon at 4 is one of the lectures on early Chris­ Ukrainian folk art. Proceeds will be Tickets are S2O per person and may p.m., Jaroslav Padoch, president of tianity in Ukraine that the society is donated to the Millennium Commit­ be purchased at the Liberation Front the Shevchenko Scientific Society in offering this fall to mark the up­ tee and to a children's orphanage in in Dibrova. Transportation has been the U.S.A., will speak in Ukrainian coming Millennium. All are wel­ Brazil. arranged by the New York branch of on '*The Kozak Law as a Precursor of come. the Ukrainian Congress Committee the U.S. Constitution," in 01ney NEW YORK: The New York branch of America. Hall, Room 215. Both events are free NEW BRITAIN, Conn.: St. Mary's of the Ukrainian Music Institute of and open to the public. For more America will hold its 35th anniver­ December 10 Ukrainian Orthodox League will information call LaSalle's news hold its annual Ukrainian and sary gala faculty concert, featuring bureau, (215) 951-1081. Christmas craft fair, 9 a.m.-6 p.m., at bass Andrij Dobriansky, pianist WEST HARTFORD, Conn.: A 54 Winter St. Admission is free. Robert Durso, soprano Lauran Ful- region-wide teachers' conference on NEW YORK: Tania D'Avignon, a Featured will be Ukrainian foods ton-Corson, pianist Thomas Hryn~ "The Terror-Famine: A Case Study photographer who spent several and baked goods, as well as various kiw, mezzo-soprano Tatiana in Stalinist Communism," will be months traveling through Ukraine as craft items for sale. For information Hrynyszyn, pianist Laryssa Krupa held from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the an interpreter for National Geogra­ call Daria Plishko, (203) 665-3745 and violinist Raphael Wenke, at 3 University of Hartford, Konover phic in 1986, will take her audience (days) or 721-0796 (evenings). p.m. in P.S. 40 on East 19th Street Campus Center. Non-teachers are on an audio-visual journey through between First and Second avenues. invited to participate. A registration the Ukrainian countryside and urban Admission is S12 per person, S8 for fee of S13 is requested. The event is TRENTON, N.J.: The Trenton students and senior citizens. For centers as she presents slides from branch of TUSM will hold a discus­ being sponsored by the National this experience. The presentation will information call Donna Wolansky, Conference of Christians and Jews sion on "Violations of the U.S. Con­ (212)530-7270(days). begin at 7 p.m. in the Ukrainian In­ stitution by the OSI," at 6 p.m. in St. and co-sponsored by the Hartford stitute of America, 2 E. 79th St. A do­ branch of Americans for Human Joseph's Ukrainian Catholic Church nation of S6 per person is suggest­ hall, 1195 Deutz Ave. in Hamilton NEW YORK: The Ukrainian Mu­ Rights in Ukraine. For information ed. For more information call the seum will open an exhibit, "Master­ ca1l(203)243-403l. Township. The discussion will be UIA, (212) 288-8660. conducted in English and Ukrainian pieces in Wood: Houses of Worship in Ukraine," along with an accom­ December 11 by Orysia Stanko, Wasyl Nezowy December 12 and Lew Iwaskiw of the Philadelphia panying photographic exhibit of chapter of the American Friends of churches of the Lemko region by FHILADELFHIA: LaSalle Univer­ NEW YORK: Smoloskyp Publishers the Anti-Bolshevik Bloc of Nations. Odarka Figlus, with a reception at sity will host a panel discussion on present an evening dedicated to For more information call Michael 1:30 p.m. in the museum, 203 Second **The Constitution of the United Ukrainian national churches on the Dziubas, (609) 588-282і (days) or Ave. For information call (212) 228­ States: A Comparative Perspective," occasion of the upcoming Millen­ 393-1677 (evenings), or Marko Ho- 0110. І sponsored by the Ukrainian Con~ nium of Christianity in Kievan-Rus' lowczak, (609) 392-0437 (evenings). "" gress Committee and the Ukrainian and the publication of the ''Marty- December 29 Commumty of Greater Philadelphia rology of the Ukrainian Churches," ІГІС. in conjunction with "We the CHICAGO: The Sisterhood of the volumes I and II (the Ukrainian Protection of the Most Holy Mother ST, CATHARINES, Out,: The Tri­ People 200," at 12:30 p.m. in La- Orthodox Church and the Ukrainian Salle^s 01ney Hall, Room 100, on of God at Ss. Volodymyr and 01ha dent Fishing Club invites the public Catholic Church). Featured speakers Parish is sponsoring a traditional to its Christmas dinner/dance, be­ campus at 20th Street and 01ney will include Olexander Voronyn on Avenue. Participants will include: "Hungry Luncheon" in honor of ginning with dinner at 7 p.m. in the the Ukrainian Autocephalous Or­ Yosyp Terelia, beginning with vespers Ukrainian Black Sea Hall Inc., 455 Volodymyr Bandera, professor of thodox Church and the German economics at Temple University, at 5:30 p.m. and the luncheon at 6:30 Weland Ave. Tickets at S15 per occupation, the Rev. Taras Lon- p.m. at 2245 W. Superior St. Mr. person and S30 per coup1e are avai­ who will discuss **National and chyna on the martyrs of the Ukrai­ Economic Rights under the Soviet Terelia is scheduled to address the lable at the Black Sea Hall bar, (416) nian Catholic Church, and Osyp audience at the beginning of the pro­ 682-3044, Ukrainian St. Catharines Constitution"; Jaroslav Bilinsky, Zinkewych on how and why these professor of political science at the gram. All members of the Ukrainian Credit Union, 684-5062, and from two vohimes came to be. The event community are invited to participate. Hanya and John Schudlo, 935-3868, University of Delaware, on '*The begins at 7 p.m. in the Ukrainian Constitution of the Ukrainian SSR"; A donation of S1O is requested. or Sonia and Danny Hawrylyshyn, Institute of America. A reception will 934-7500. Robert J. Courtney, professor of follow. A donation of S1O is sug­ political science at LaSalle Univer­ gested. For information call the UIA, WASHINGTON: The Ukrainian sity, on '*The Ma^na Carta and the (212) 288-8660. Catholic National Shrine of the Holy ONGOING U.S. Constitution"; and Vasyl Kaly- Family choir will sing a capella at the novych, chairman of the political Christmas Pageant of Peace in the PHOENIX, Ariz,: The seventh an­ NEW YORK: The Shevchenko President's Park at 6:30 p.m. For in­ nual International Christmas tree formation call the parish, (202) 526­ exhibit featuring 36 different ethnic 37З7. cultures is on display here at the Ukrainian Philatelic/Numismatic Society Valley Bank Center. A tree decorated PHILADELPHIA: The Ukrainian with a collection of angels from announces 44th worldwide mail auction Educational and Cultural Center will around the wor1d and display cases hold its traditional Christmas bazaar filled with hand-made Christmas WASHINGTON - The Ukrainian Mail Auction, which will close on in the center's auditorium from 9 characters enhance the exhibit. Philatelic and Numismatic Society January 15, 1988, and will feature more a.m. to 8 p.m. both days. Christmas Booklets with information about the (UPNS), with about З00 members than 600 lots of Ukrainian philately and Eve dishes, tortes, pastry and dry worldwide, had announced its 44th numismatics. traditions and celebrations of Christ­ goods for the holidays will be avail­ mas holidays by the various groups As customary with these auctions able. Items for sale will include are available courtesy of Valley which have been in existence for more ceramics, gold jewelry, fine arts, National Bank. Noontime programs than 15 years, they feature exclusively records and tapes, tree ornaments add to the interest and excitement of wm Ukrainian material and offer selections and other gifts. A photo session with learning about Christmas celebra­ oimm^m of scarce and seldom-seen material, St. Nicholas will also be featured. tions around the wor1d. This free including uncommon tridents applied The center is located at 700 Cedar exhibit is open to the public through by hand-made wooden handstamps. Road in Abington. January 1, 8 a.m. - 8 p.m. daily, pWEPsi^pN-^KlEl^i weekends included. Featured in this The 44th sale will feature not frequent­ December 13 exhibit is a Ukrainian tree prepared і^аФ^7ек ly seen Poltava overprints, local trident by the Ukrainian Women's League issues, a nice selection of Carpatho- YONKERS, N.Y.: The Women's for the Valley of the Sun. SWITZERLAND Ukrainian varieties, interesting postal Swissair^ history, and the usual extensive assort­ PREVIEW OF EVENTS, a weekly listing of Ukrainian community events MARCH 17-26 1988 ment of Western Ukraine. There will open to the public, is a service provided free of charge by The Weekly to the also be very generous offerings of Ukrainian community. To have an event listed in this column, please send Ukrainian Cinderella stamps and an information (type of event, date, time, place, admission, sponsor, etc.), along WJ>^^S AKfP S NiOHTS extensive numismatic selections. with the phone number, including area code, of a person who may be reached '^10&0.-AVI ЇМСIШ ^Ш^\ To obtain this illustrated and well­ during daytime hours for additional information to: PREV1EW OF MR?ftMATiObJ-KESERV%rieH described auction catalogue along with EVENTS, The Ukrainian Weekly, 30 Montgomery St., ,Jersey City, N.J. the society's newsletter Trident, send 39 07302. 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