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INSIDE:• Participants comment on World Forum of Ukrainians — page 3. • New Yorkers bid farewell to Ambassador Anatolii Zlenko — page 4. • Pittsburgh recalls Akcja Wisla of 50 years ago — page 9. Published by the Ukrainian National Association Inc., a fraternal non-profit association Vol. LXV HE No.KRAINIAN 41 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, OCTOBER 12, 1997 EEKLY$1.25/$2 in Ukraine UNAT moves UThousands mourn at funeral of ArchbishopW Volodymyr Sterniuk its Home Office JERSEY CITY, N.J. — The Ukrainian National Association is moving into a new Home Office in Parsippany, N.J., located some 30 miles west of its current headquarters in Jersey City. The UNA’s move is scheduled for Friday, October 10, through the week- end, and operations will formally begin at the new site on Monday, October 13. The building was pur- chased for $4,931,250; the closing was held on August 28. The UNA’s new address is 2200 Route 10, P.O. Box 280, Parsippany, NJ 07054; telephone, (973) 292-9800; fax, (973) 292-0900. (Additional fax numbers for the UNA’s newspapers will be announced at a later date.) The new UNA headquarters is a 10- year-old, two-story building comprising 65,750 square feet of office space. The UNA and its subsidiary operations will occupy the second floor of the building, while the first floor will be rental space. Formerly known as Executive 10, the building is located in Morris County on Route 10 westbound, just Roman Woronowycz past the Route 10-Route 202 intersec- The funeral procession leaves St. George Cathedral as thousands gathered throughout Lviv to mourn the passing of Archbishop tion and near routes 287 and 80. Volodymyr Sterniuk. Nearby are St. John Ukrainian Catholic Church and the Self Reliance (N.J.) by Roman Woronowycz papal nuncio to Ukraine, Archbishop streets, bells tolled throughout the city Federal Credit Union, both situated on Kyiv Press Bureau Antonio Franco. Following the casket and people going about their daily busi- Route 10 in Whippany, several miles were the bishops of the UGCC. Also pre- ness stopped to look and at times to join east of the UNA’s new home on that LVIV — More than 10,000 people sent was Archbishop Petro Petrus of the the procession. same suburban highway. Also in the lined the streets of Lviv, while 3,000 Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox After circling the city center and pass- vicinity is the Ramada Hotel of East overflowed St. George Cathedral on Church and Avhustin Markevych of the ing Prospect Svobody and the statue of Hanover, where many Ukrainian com- October 2 to pay their last respects to a Ukrainian Orthodox Church — Moscow Taras Shevchenko, the procession made munity functions are held. man who led the underground movement Patriarchate. Patriarch Filaret of the its way back to St. George’s, where the The new building will house the of the Ukrainian Greek-Catholic Church Ukrainian Orthodox Church — Kyiv final ceremony took place. Among the UNA’s insurance operations as well for many of the 45 years it was outlawed Patriarchate sent condolences. as the editorial and administrative by the Soviet regime. As the casket moved through the (Continued on page 8) offices of its two newspaper the Archbishop Volodymyr Sterniuk, Ukrainian-language daily Svoboda who spent five years in Soviet prisons and The Ukrainian Weekly. Although and labor camps after the UGCC was A world leader of Ukrainian Baptists, typesetting and layout operations will outlawed in 1946 and absorbed by the be moved to Parsippany, the Svoboda Russian Orthodox Church, died on Press print shop will continue to oper- September 29 after having been given the Rev. Olexa Harbuziuk, dead at 77 ate at the previous headquarters the last rites of the Church. The 90-year- old prelate died of natural causes. building at 30 Montgomery St. in ELMHURST, Ill. – The Rev. Olexa R. for 18 years of the worldwide All- The funeral ceremony at St. George Jersey City. Harbuziuk, a world leader of Ukrainian Ukrainian Evangelical Baptist Cathedral, the seat of the UGCC, was As previously reported, the UNA’s Baptists and a champion of religious Fellowship, president and general secre- attended by all the Ukrainian Greek- Jersey City headquarters building was freedom for Ukraine, died on Saturday, tary of the Ukrainian Evangelical Baptist Catholic bishops of Ukraine and led by sold on August 14 by the Ukrainian October 4, at home in Elmhurst, Ill. Convention of churches in the U.S. for Bishop Lubomyr Husar, auxiliary to the National Urban Renewal Corp. to Pastor Harbuziuk, 77, had suffered from 28 years, and director of “Voice of the primate of the Ukrainian Greek-Catholic Montgomery Associates for $21.2 lymphoma for four and a half years. Gospel,” a shortwave radio broadcast Church, Cardinal Myroslav Ivan million. The Rev. Harbuziuk was pastor emeri- beamed into Ukraine from 1966 to 1993. The purchase and sale of the UNA Lubachivsky, who was not present due to He was also radio pastor of the church’s illness. Also in attendance were bishops tus of the Ukrainian Baptist Church in headquarters buildings was approved Berwyn, Ill. He came to the United program in Chicago for about 40 years. by the special committee established by from Canada and the United States. The Rev. Harbuziuk was actively The UGCC Press Office’s spokesper- States from Germany in 1949 and the UNA General Assembly, whose became pastor of the Ukrainian Baptist involved in the Ukrainian community. members are: the five members of the son, Halyna Umblad, explained that He was elected to the presidium of the because the death occurred only days Church of Chicago that fall. He served UNURC board of directors, Ulana until 1955, then served again as full-time World Congress of Free Ukrainians in Diachuk, Martha Lysko, Alexander after the worldwide Synod of Bishops pastor from June 1982 to December 31, November 1978. He was a member of Blahitka, Alexander Serafyn and had ended, many could not make it back 1992. The congregation moved from Ukrainian National Association Branch Walter Korchynsky; auditors William to Lviv. Damen Avenue in Chicago to the 17 and Ukrainian Fraternal Association Pastuszek and Anatole Doroshenko; After the divine liturgy the casket was Assembly 83. Berwyn location in December 1985. and Honorary Member of the General carried through the streets of Lviv, led by He visited Ukrainian churches in Assembly John O. Flis. veterans of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army He held many leadership positions in (UPA), priests, nuns and the Vatican’s church organizations, including president (Continued on page 2) 2 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, OCTOBER 12, 1997 No. 41 Chornobyl on agenda of meeting NEWSBRIEFSNEWSBRIEFS between Ukraine and Group of Seven Disaster predicted due to harsh weather take a 30 percent stake in the venture on Eastern Economist It is hoped that the remaining sum will behalf of the state company Energo-atom, be raised at a special conference to take GENEVA — The International Red KYIV — The regular meeting between while Russia’s OAO TVEL, which is the place in November in New York. Ukraine Cross announced at a press conference on delegations of Ukraine and the G-7 took sole supplier of fuel for Ukraine’s nuclear is ready to start work on the station from October 7 that more than 1 million people place in Kyiv on October 7 to discuss plants, will have a 35 percent share. The the end of 1997. Work is expected to take could die from starvation or freezing tem- problems related to the shutdown of the remaining 35 percent will be divided peratures in the former Soviet Union this Chornobyl nuclear power station. The seven years and will focus on extracting between Ukraine’s VA-Bank, Russia’s winter based on weather predictions of an main issue on the agenda will be prepara- the remnants of nuclear fuel still lying Inkombank, and the Ukrainian-Andorran unusually harsh season. The relief organiza- tions for the international conference in underneath the sarcophagus. joint venture AMP. The venture is due to be tion has launched an appeal to governments New York whose aim will be to attract Ukraine signed three documents at the finalized in December and will allow most around the world to raise approximately private funds to finance work on the 41st session of the International Atomic payments through barter of food and met- $16 million, which would go toward pro- Chornobyl sarcophagus and Shelter Energy Agency on September 29- als. Under a 1994 deal between Ukraine, viding emergency relief in Russia, Belarus, Implementation Plan. October 4. The documents covered the Russia, and the U.S., Ukraine transferred all Moldova and Ukraine. According to Red Yurii Kostenko, minister of environ- safe handling of nuclear waste and fuel, strategic nuclear warheads to Russia for Cross spokespeople, one of the most severe mental protection and nuclear safety, additions to a convention on nuclear destruction in exchange for free fuel. That winters in Russia and adjoining countries is revealed on October 6 that Ukraine safety and a protocol on the level of deal is due to expire by year’s end. forecast, partly due to El Nino, the weather requires $750 million (U.S.) to trans- fines imposed for releasing nuclear (RFE/RL Newsline) form the Chornobyl plant into an eco- waste. pattern that is disrupting climates world- logically safe system. Mr. Kostenko Mr. Kostenko said that “the signing of wide. Even in typical years in the former Corruption cuts state revenue confirmed that G-7 countries will con- these documents shows that the govern- Soviet Union, temperatures can plunge to 58 degrees below zero Celsius and tempera- KYIV — Prime Minister Valerii tribute $300 million and that Ukraine ment understands its responsibilities and Pustovoitenko announced on October 1 that will provide appropriate technical and the Cabinet is controlling the situation in tures of minus 20 degrees Celsius are com- mon.