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vol. LVIII No. з THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JANUARY 21,1990 50 cents Ecological issues become focus Toward the legalization of the UCC of public concern in Ukraine Ukrainian Catholic delegation from Lviv by Dr. David Marples "our national and social disgrace" that at the approach to the end of the present meets with vatican, ROC leaders in Moscow Ecology has become one of the most century, life expectancy in Ukraine for ROME - Five bishops of the Ukrai– the Ukrainian Press Bureau reported^ important and emotional issues for men is seven to 8 years and for women nian Catholic Church in Ukraine met the Russian Orthodox participants did Ukrainians over the past year. The four to six years less than in developed simultaneously with high-level delega– admit that the stories of "violent- founding congress of the ;ecological countries. tions from the vatican and the Moscow takeovers" of churches in western U– . association Zelenyi Svit (Green World) The republic has a high rate for Patriarchate of the Russian Orthodox kraine by Ukrainian Catholics in late held in Kiev on October 28-29, 1989, "mutilated" births of 6-13 per 1,000 Church in Moscow on Tuesday, Ja– 1989 may have been inaccurate. Ukrai– provided a new focus by first high- newborn, and also the lowest birthrate nuary 16, to discuss the current status of nian Catholic bishops denied the allega– lighting some of the major environ– in the union. Women make up over 80 the Ukrainian Catholic Church in the tions of violence both privately with the mental hazards facing the republic, and percent of those involved in heavy Soviet Union. vatican delegation and in the talks with then relating these hazards to present physical labor which has led to a rise in This was the first meeting between the vatican and Moscow Patriarchate sicknesses, the birth and death rates. sicknesses during pregnancy, and a 400 bishops of the Ukrainian Catholic delegations. The Russian Orthodox did The main concern is the area known to 600 percent rise in the number of Church and representatives of the not debate the Ukrainians' assertions, as "Donetske-Prydniprova" economic "spontaneous abortions" in recent Moscow Patriarchate and the first joint and attributed earlier statements to region that consists of the industrial years. On average, he noted, every year meeting between these officials and a misinformation. On the issue of heartland of Ukraine: Dnipropetrov– 40,000 women in Ukraine do not carry delegation of the Holy See, reported the churches, the Ukrainians stated that ske, Zaporizhzhia and Kirovohrad their pregnancies to term. These sick– Ukrainian Catholic Press Bureau based they were not forcing any parishes or oblasts. nesses can be related directly, in his in Rome. communities to become Ukrainian Zelenyi Svit, an association that (Continued on page 2) During this meeting, on January 17 Catholic; that the people themselves arose as a result of the Chornobyl were asking for the change. Ukrainian ^disaster, has been obliged to turn its bishops also reported that additional attention to an increasing host of other meetings, with and without vatican projects and the predicament is report– representation will be held in the ed to have worsened over the past year. coming months in Lviv and Moscow. in his speech to the Congress, Dr. An official comrmfnique released on Yuriy Shcherbak examined some of the January 17 reported that the vatican– successes achieved by the association in Moscow-aiid-Lviv delegations conduct– almost two years of existence, it played ed their discussion in the spirit of a major part, he declared, in the stop– brotherly love and confidence, and that K page of work on the Danube-Dnieper topics included the prospects of norma– Canal; the third "stage" of the Chor– lization between the Ukrainian Catholic nobyl nuclear power plant (reactors 5 Church, which was given de facto and 6); the abandonment of the Odessa, recognition by the Soviet authorities Chyhyryn and Crimean nuclear plants, when they granted its congregations the unit 4 of the South Ukrainian nuclear right to register on December 1, 1989 plant, and a chemical combine in the and the ROC. Crimea. This first historic meeting took place These triumphs have been dwarfed, гл the offices of the Moscow Patriar– however, by the stark reality of the chate's Department of External Church degradation of the natural environ– Relations at the Danilov Monastery. ment in the Donetske-Prydniprova Ukrainian Catholic bishops attending economic region, the single most pol– the meeting were: Filemon Kurchaba, luted region in the entire Soviet Union. auxiliary bishop of the archeparchy of These observations by Dr. Shcherbak Lviv; Sofron Dmyterko, bishop of are supported by other evidence, in a lvano-Frankivske; Pavlo Yasylyk, recent article, v. Popov, the first deputy bishop coadjutor with right chairman of the Ukrainian State Plan– succession of lvano-Frankivske; lvan ning Committee, maintained that there Margitych, auxiliary bishop of had been a slight improvement in Uzhorod and Mukachiv; and Julian reducing the number of harmful by- Yoronowsky, auxiliary bishop of the products released into the atmosphere archeparchy of Lviv. lvan Gel, head of in the first half of 1989 when compared the Committee for the Defense of the with the safne period ofj 1988, but he Ukrainian Catholic Church in Ukraine, acknowledged that the level of conta– was also a member of the delegation as mination of the atmosphere was "im– were Ukrainian Catholic priests permissibly high." Hryhony Simkailo, Yolodymyr Yity– Ukraine has 11 cities among the 65 shyn and Mykhailo vashko„ most polluted in the USJSR including Archbishop Yolodymyr Sterniuk Dniprodzerzhynske, Donetske, Zapo– archbishop of Lviv and Ukraine and rizhzhia, Krivyi Rih, Kommunarske, representative of the head of the Kremenchuk, Mariupii and Cherkasy. Ukrainian Catholic Church, Cardinal it is becoming increasingly difficult to Myroslav lvan Lubachivsky, was unable find clean supplies of drinking water, to attend the meeting and Earned largely because most of the projects for Bishop Kurchaba as head of the water cleansing in the locations of steel delegation to Moscow. energy and chemical enterprises remain Photo above shows the scene in Lviv's centra! square, "Rynok," where Representing the H.oiy See were: largely on paper. thousands gathered to mark Christmas. For details, see centerfold. Cardinal Johannes Wxllebrands, oro– Dr. Shcherbak also stated that it was (Continued on page 10) 2 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JANUARY 21,1990 r No. з

known biologist, included the loss of Ecological issues... agricultural land from production, Chernihiv party leader released (Continued from page 1) primarily as a result of industrial view, to the degree of ecological damage expansion. Thus over the past 25 years, after public demands resignations inflicted by heavy industry. Ukraine has "lost" 1.25 million hectares Thus, in polluted zones such as of arable land. The coal industry alone JERSEY C1TY, N.J. - A full-scale newspaper accounts summarized by Zaporizhzhia, Dniprodzerzhynske, has accounted for the ruination of meeting of the Chernihiv regional Radio Moscow, and the volga was Rubizhne and Kremenchuk, the num– 260,000 hectares, most of which cannot committee of the Communist Party of overturned by the crowd, then dragged ber of oncological sicknesses among be returned to agricultural production. Ukraine, upon the insistence of the to oblast party committee headquar– children is five to eight times the Turning to the state of the water in public, released the first secretary of the ters. Residents held a public meeting national average. Similarly, the highest the republic, the contamination of the regional committee from his duties, there until 3 a.m. number of deaths from cancer today are major river systems, especially the reported Radio Kiev on January 17. On Sunday, January 7, the first secre– to be found in these same areas. Dnieper, Dniester and South Bug, is The public had demanded that the tary of the party oblast committee, Leo– Cities such as Zaporizhzhia, Dnipro– well known. Zelenyi Svit is also con– entire buro of the Chernihiv Regional nid Palazhchenko, announced that Mr. petrovske, Odessa, Cherkasy and Se– cerned about the state of the Azov and Party Committee should resign in the Zaiko had been fired from his job and verodonetske can already be called Black seas. wake of a traffic accident that led to stripped of his party membership; the "zones of economic calamity," Dr. Recent accounts indicate that the discovery that party officials in the area driver faces criminal charges. Shcherbak asserted. State Nature Protection Committee is enjoyed goods and foodstuffs simply But this did not mollify the angry A related article by Grigorii Sh– under fire for its failure to take appro– unavailable to the public. citizens, who demanded not only the matkov, the chief ecologist of the priate steps to protect the former, in Radio Liberty reported that residents wholesale resignation of the oblast Prydniprova Research Center at the Mariupil, a Public Committee to Pre– of the Ukrainian city of Chernihiv have leadership but also the "liquidation" of Ukrainian Academy of Sciences elabo– serve the Azov Sea has been created, gone on the warpath against their local the Komsomol and raion-level party rates on this information. Dr. Shmatkov partly as a consequence of the Nature leaders, following an incident on Satur– and executive committees, plus the points out that the center tested a group Committee's inaffectiveness. day, January 6, when two private Zhi– transformation of administrative build– of mothers breastfeeding new babies, it is important, it was stated, to guli cars crashed with a volga owned by ings into schools and hospitals. and discovered that 80 percent of them ensure that the Azov Sea does not go the the oblast executive committee, report– Radio Kiev reported on Tuesday, were producing milk that had chemicals route of the Aral Sea. According to ed Radio Liberty. January 9, that Ukrainian ideological in it that were harmful to their children, journalist volodymyr Kolinko, the The trunk of the volga was found to secretary Leonid Kravchuk arrived in "it hurts to look at those kids," he author of the film "Mi-kro-fon!" how– contain a stash of "deficit" goods like the city the previous day. Judging by his remarked. ever, the Black Sea may already have sausage and spirits — and indeed, both statements to the radio, Mr. Kravchuk This same center also sent a commis– reached a similar stage. the driver and his passenger, an execu– seems to have been shaken up by the sion to the Petrovsky steelworkers in Mr. Kolinko has noted that 90 per– tive committee cadre named Zaiko, reception he got in Chernihiv. He Dnipropetrovske, an old enterprise that cent of the Black Sea can now be were apparently inebriated. complained that the crowd refused to-let "spews out tons of toxic gases." Here, declared dead, a victim of hydrogen "Passions flared," said RL citing (Continued on page 13) and at the nearby Prydniprova thermal sulfide, a gas that is continuing to rise electric stations, the air is said to be so from the depths of the sea, contami– poisonous that "the human organism nating its upper layers. He points out Thousands vie for 450 seats cannot adopt to it." The circulatory and that at the end of the 19th century, this in Ukrainian Supreme Soviet JERSEY C1TY, N.J. - The nomi– Perebudova or Rukh in Kiev, the so- Ukraine has 7 7 cities among the 65 most pollutednatio n of candidates for the March 4 called Democratic Bloc of independent elections of the 450-seat Ukrainian SSR candidates, mostly representatives of in the USSR. Supreme Soviet and local councils informal associations, managed to have officially ended on January 3, reported at least a single candidate nominated in nluseuiar systems are adversely affect– "dead zone" could be found at a depth the press service of the Ukrainian every electoral okruh in the Lviv and ed. Thus in Dnipropetrovske, birth rates of 200 meters; by the 1940s it had risen Helsinki Union. Іvano-Frankivske. Oblasts of western ШУЄ ttbt risen for a decade, but the to 125 meters; arid more recently it is at The next step, the registration of Ukraine. Candidates from the Demo– mortality fate has increased constantly. the level of 70 meters, in his view, the candidates by district election commit– cratic Bloc were also nominated in all The Prydniprova region has acted as sea will be totally destroyed by the year tees, will continue through February 5. but one electoral district in the Ternopil an employment magnet, emptying 2040 if the present trend continues. Some 3,650 individuals were nominated Oblast. villages of their populations for indus– As to the sources for such degrada– as candidates, according to the UHU Some 35-40 percent of all electoral trial needs, and then subjecting these tion of a major vacation area for Soviet press service, in the 450 electoral okruhs okruhs in the Khmelnytsky Oblast are same people to pollution levels that citizens, Mr. Kolinko points to the or districts throughout Ukraine. from the Democratic Bloc; 30 to 35 significantly increase the cases of high industrially developed Crimean penin– percent of the total number of okruhs in blood pressure, cancer and^diabetes sula: the Sivash aniline works, the According to UHU statistics 23 the Dnipropetrovske Oblast; and 25 among them. Crimean factory for pigment titanium percent of the nominated candidates percent in the Odessa and Crimean While there have been isolated re- dioxide, the Perekop bromine factory were representatives of the Communist Oblasts were representatives of the?? ports of shutdowns of dangerous plants and the Crimean soda factory. Party and republic apparatus, and 21 Democratic Bloc, reported the Ukrai– - such as three sections of the "Azot" Given such alarming problems, it is percent consisted of directors of enter- nian Press Agency citing Mr. Odarych. production association in Dniprodzer– hardly surprising that Zelenyi Svit has prises and collective farms. Between 10 Of all the elctoral districts in the Kiev zhynske — clearly the environment has become a thriving and much-valued and 15 percent of the nominated candi– Oblast, 35 percent have candidates from reached a critical level. organization. Dr. Shcherbak and his dates were representatives of indepen– the Democratic Bloc, in the city of Kiev, associates, after all, are speaking of dent public organizations or the Demo– as well as the city of Lviv, all electoral Dr. Shcherbak commented briefly on cratic Bloc, 12.8 percent were non- the tragic case of the children in the city current dangers that have already okruhs have at least one Democratic affected the health of the Ukrainian Communists, while 9.8 percent were Bloc candidate. of Chernivtsi, who had suffered hair workers and farmers. loss as a result of chemical poisoning. population. One could point to environ- The registration of these candidates While there have been few major ac– mentally dangerous objects in every According to Serhiy Odarych, a by election committees is likely to counts of the situation in this city over major city in Ukraine. spokesman for the Secretariat of the decrease these figures since candidates the past few months, those that have The industrialization of the republic Popular Movement of Ukraine for may only run in one electoral okruh. appeared indicate that the problem is began in the past century, and present far from resolved. problems have been acerbated both by Major conflicts have taken place the expansion of industry without between informal groups and the party proper cleaning mechanisms or nature FOUNDED 1933 and government authorities. No undis– protection objects, and by the concomi– Ukrainian Weelch tant expansion of cities that has meant puted source for the poisoning has An English-language Ukrainian newspaper published by the Ukrainian National been located. Moreover, from October that industries formerly on the peri– phery of cities such as Dnipropetrovske, Association inc., a non-profit association, at 30 Montgomery St., Jersey City, NJ. 1, 1988, to October 1,1989, 343 cases of 07302. alopecia have been registered in Cher– are now located in major residential nivtsi and 494 in Chernivtsi Oblast as a areas. in 1989, Ukrainians became acutely Second-class postage paid at Jersey City, N.J. 07302. whole. 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The Ukrainian Weekly Associate Editors: Marta Kolomayets Other areas of acute anxiety featured But it exists in spite of strong opposi– P.O. Box 346 Chrystyna Lapychak in speeches of the congress by Dr. tion from the outset, particularly from Jersey City, N.J. 07303 Shcherbak and by Zelenyi Svit's deputy the State Nature Committee, the func– chairman, Dmytro Hrodzynsky, a tions of which it has largely usurped and The Ukrainian Weekly, January 21,1990, No. 3, vol. Will corresponding member of the Ukrai– expanded, it has become an authentic Copyright 1990 by The Ukrainian Weekly nian Academy of Sciences and a well– popular voice. No. З THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JANUARY 21,1990 з

Rukh ideologue Briukhovetsky speaks on popular movement's goals

by Tamara Stadnychenko-Cornelison editorial board, and Fane Montagne authorities responded with such strong While the traditional view of Ukraine who is the inquirer's new correspon– negative criticism that many people as the land of "chornozem" and the PHILADELPHIA - For the past із dent to Moscow. with little or no interest in the new breadbasket of Europe is a popular one, years, the Ukrainian Human Rights After brief introductory remarks by movement were immediately intrigued Dr. Briukhovetsky noted, Ukrainians Committee of Philadelphia has hosted Mrs. Mazurkevich, Dr. Briukhovetsky and began to take great interest in the should be aware of the fact that 48 Solidarity Day programs to commemo– spoke at some length about the Rukh organization and its ideas. percent of Ukrainian land is no longer rate the community's spiritual alliance and its goals, about the current political Copies of that issue of Literaturna arable. Erosion, flooding, the Chor– with Ukrainian political prisoners. The situations in Ukraine and about U– Ukraina in which the Rukh platform nobyl nuclear accident and widespread traditional January 12 gathering, which kraine's future. first appeared were passed from one chemical pollution have taken their in recent years has been held at Phila– He described the Rukh as a "grass– reader to another; people sat in libraries toll both on the soil and on the idea of delphia's City Hall, was held on Ja– roots movement" with a diverse mem– for hours, hand copying the entire relying on agriculture for Ukraine's nuary 9 at the Ukrainian Educational bership as well as a broad and diverse platform for themselves and others, and economic well-being. and Cultural Center, where members of support base in Ukraine, a movement as word of Rukh's ideas spread, so did instead, Ukraine must begin to de– the Ukrainian community were able to which began amorphously and which the number of its adherents. velop technologically and more em– meet with Dr. viacheslav Briukhovet– had to develop specific and precise goals Dr. Briukhovetsky cited one concrete phasis should be placed on educating sky, who recently arrived from Kiev. and objectives. manifestation of this interest. Soon and training Ukrainians in law, busi– Dr. Briukhovetsky, a professor of He described some of the difficulties after the publications of the Rukh ness, politics, engineering and other philology, a literary critic and author of of defining these objectives and in platform, Rukh members were deluged areas long left untapped. six books, is the chief ideologue of the establishing a platform, not least among by nearly 300,000 letters, many voicing it is here, continued Dr. Briukhovet– Popular Movement of Ukraine for these the determined efforts of the active support for the Rukh, many re- sky, that the Ukrainian emigration can Perebudova (Rukh). Soviet government to promote dissen– questing more information. Some ex- provide the most important assistance Dr. Briukhovetsky arrived at the sion among Ukrainians and the cyni– pressed strong opposition, but Dr. Briu– to Ukraine. He recommended that a Ukrainian Educational and Cultural cism of the Ukrainian people who have khovetsky indicated that even those joint venture between the Rukh and Center directly following meetings with grown accustomed to react with distrust negative letters can be viewed in an Ukrainian organizations in the West be reporters and editors at the Philadel– and disbelief to any political rhetoric. optimistic light by the very fact that the established with the goal of bringing writers considered the movement a phia inquirer, which had been sche– According to Dr. Briukhovetsky, one Ukrainian farmers, engineers, factory significant entity that could not be duled by UHRChead Ulana Mazurke– of Rukh's earliest and most unexpected managers, etc. to the United States for summarily dismissed and ignored. vice. interviews were conducted by allies was government opposition. training and education in their respec– Trudi Rubin and Donald Kimmel– When the Rukh platform was first On a more somber note, Dr. Briu– tive fields. mann, both members of the inquirer published in Literaturna Ukraina, the khovetsky addressed some of the practi– According to Dr. Briukhovetsky, cal problems facing the Rukh and sending computers to Ukraine is effec– Ukraine. He recalled the terror of the tive, but training Ukrainians to build 1930s when so many members of U– their own computers would be immea– February and March: fund drive kraine's intelligentsia were murdered by surably more productive. Stalin. He indicated that these deaths Several specific points on imple– for Ukrainian Community Fund left a void that has only recently begun menting the program were discussed, Esteemed community members, Ukrainians in the United States: to be filled. most importantly the selection of candi– With its second convention, held October 21-22, 1989, the Ukrainian But he stated that the tradition of dates and the establishment of a scho– American Coordinating Council began its second four-year term of activity. Ukrainian political thinkers who are larship program. Dr. Briukhovetsky The convention was conducted under the motto of "Contacts with Ukraine," writers and Ukrainian writers who are promised to send the Ukrainian Human and the participation and presentations of representatives from Ukraine was political thinkers has never truly dis– Rights Committee a detailed proposal the best evidence of this. The convention and its resolutions were well received appeared and that this phenomenon is packet in the near future. by a broad spectrum of our community, especially those who support becoming more increasingly evident in Several members of the Ukrainian democratic principles. recent years. As an example, Dr. community had follow-up questions on Briukhovetsky cited former political Affirming the necessity of having one central Ukrainian organization in the various issues that had been raised by prisoner, writer and poet Yevhen Sver– United States and supporting the UACCouncil's struggle to make this a Dr. Briukhovetsky. One question dealt stiuk, who was in the audience. reality, the convention approved the position of the executive regarding with the possibility of establishing an negotiations with representatives of the Ukrainian Congress Committee of He added that one of the major exchange program that would permit America and the Conference of Neutral Organizations, though these difficulties for Ukraine lies in access to Ukrainian professionals to visit U– negotiations, through no fault of the UACCouncil, were not successful. information, in a dearth of communica– kraine as instructors or trainers in their The convention approved the activity of the executive: participation in tions technology that makes dissemina– respective areas of expertise. commemorations of the Millennium of Christianity in Ukraine and in tion of vital information problematic. Dr. Briukhovetsky agreed that this celebrations of the 175th anniversary of the birth of Taras Shevchenko; Another point raised was the traditional was a good idea and indicated that financial assistance to our rights advocates in Ukraine, Ukrainian refugees Ukrainian preoccupation with the past. funds could be made available for from Poland, the U.S. Commission on the Ukraine Famine (which is studying While we should be proud of the paying such individuals. He stated, the causes and consequences of the 1932-1933 Great Famine in Ukraine), the achievements of our historical per– however, that such a program would foreign language department of the State University of New York (for sonages and of our cultural treasures, have to be organized and approved by Ukrainian language courses, and other actions. noted Dr. Briukhovetsky, we should the government as the Rukh has no All of this was made possible thanks to UACCouncil members and not dwell on them to the exclusion of legal right to implement it. supporters who through their dues and donations enabled the executive to current needs and future potential. The Dr. Briukhovetsky ended by thank– conduct this activity as well as to pay the UACCouncil's dues to the World question that should be paramount is ing the Ukrainian community for re– Congress of Free Ukrainians, a sum of 572,500 per year. "What and where will we be tomor– ceiving him and by saying how happy he row?" Addressing this question, Dr. At the convention, much attention was focused on events in Ukraine and was to see that young Ukrainians were Briukhovetsky focused on the practical ideas of how we living beyond the borders of Ukraine can best help those in interested in the homeland that many of problems of Ukraine's economic future. Ukraine struggling for their human and national rights. them had never seen. The convention directed the new executive to focus still more attention on assistance to Ukraine and on schools of Ukrainian studies; to establish contacts with organizations in Ukraine that support democratic principles and with various nationalities in the United States; to support both American political parties in order that the community has an influence on them; to defend the Ukrainian community from slanderers; to interest our youth in Ukrainian issues; to help refugees from Communist countries who await our help in Austria and italy; to protect the good name of Ukrainians and to react immediately and effectively to inaccuracies in the press and broadcast media. A very important matter which the executive was directed to undertake is"to compile, in consultation with appropriate democratic organizations and activists in Ukraine, a list of criminals within the Communist system who attempted to destroy the Ukrainian nation, in order to demonstrate to the whole world the true state of affairs and to bring to justice those responsible for such atrocities, no matter where they may be. in order to enable the executive to fulfill these directives as well as to meet the UACCouncil's financial obligations to the WCFU, the executive appeals to community members to support the Ukrainian Community Fund with generous donations. Annual dues are as follows: 5250 for national organizations, 550 for branches, 525 for individual members; 515 for retired persons and 55 for students. Payments should be mailed to: Ukrainian American Coordinating Council 142 Second Ave. New York, N.Y. 10003

UACCouncil Executive Dr. Yiacheslav Briukhovetsky with Ukrainian Human Rights Committee. 4 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JANUARY 21,1990 No. з

UKRA1NE AND POLAND: An interview with Adam Michnik by Dr. Roman Solchanyk This second issue is a question of changing the Just as Poles did. The same problem exists in attitude of public opinion towards people of a Poland. Adam Michnik — historian, publicist, human rights different nationality. This issue, when it comes to activist, and former political prisoner - has been one Polish-Ukrainian relations, is difficult. Yes, the same. And for this reason it is a difficult of the leading figures in the Polish opposition move– 's?w And to make matters worse, for many years one ment since the mid-1960s. He was one of the leaders of І would like to return to this. One issue, if І of the elements of official Polish propaganda was anti– the student protests in 1968, a member of the Workers' understand you correctly, is the question of views of Ukrainian propaganda. This is also true. EJanJ Defense Committee (KOR), and an adviser to people like yourself, from the democratic forces of Orhard's Ukrainophobic book "Luny w Bieszcza– Solidarity and Lech Walesa, in May, he became chief Solidarity, it's a question of democracy and a liberal dach" was a school textbook, a film was made from editor of Gazeta Wyborcza, the largest circulating approach to the problem. But the reality is that the this book. This is a book in which Ukrainians are newspaper in Poland, and in June he was elected a elite is one thing and... depicted as bandits and murderers. And if you add to deputy to the Sejm (Parliament). this that there were no other books, or that the others Mr. Michnik addressed the founding congress No, no. You've misunderstood me. One issue is the were not so widely advertised, then you have a picture (September 8-Ю) of the Popular Movement of question of rights. What sort of rights Ukrainians have of the situation. Ukraine for Perebudova or Rukh, which he attended in Poland, what they are free to do and what is The second issue is the entire question of the along with several other guests from Poland. On forbidden. And now these things have to be changed. Ukrainian insurgent Army (UPA). in Poland, one and November 23, Mr. Michnik participated in a forum on Up to this point, things looked bad. Ukrainians did only one view was obligatory on this topic - i.e., that "Ukraine and Poland" sponsored by the Ukrainian not have the rights they wanted to have, and this is a this was simply a band of murderers, a band that People's Home in Toronto. The following interview question of law and administration. Whereas the joined up with Hitler in order to butcher Poles, if was conducted the same day. second issue is a question of opinion. someone has this sort of mindset, he not only understands nothing, but is also unable to carry on a CONCLUSION Mindset. discussion with Ukrainians. The fundamental problem is to explain to Poles just І know that leaders of Rukh like ivan Drach want to Yes. what the drama of the Ukrainian situation was at the develop ties with Poland, with the Polish intelligent– time - i.e., that Ukrainians were wedged between sia, and with democratic forces in Poland. Do you, Are you optimistic on this score? About the mindset Russia, Hitler and Poland. Neither of these countries either personally or as a representative of Solidarity, of Polish society? recognized their right to an independent state, while also have such intentions? Hitler recognized - or pretended to recognize - that І am always an optimist. І am always an optimist Ukrainians could have this right. Yes, absolutely. because 1 believe that pessimism is something The misfortune of the Ukrainians was that Hitler's paralyzing. Гт one of those people who is capable of Germany was the one country that told them they had Will this have some concrete forms? telling Polish opinion very disagreeable things, very the right to independence. Ans this must be seen as the unpleasant things. And 1 must say ive never regretted great misfortune of the Ukrainian nation. But, up to Yes. We want to have a Polish-Ukrainian round- this, under the single condition that these things were this point, few people in Poland thought in these table. І aim convinced we will do this, and in the near said honestly and reflected what 1 really think. categories. future, in the coming months. Both the democratic it's the same here. This is a very difficult question; in Further. Poles have the sense that they havj been forces in Ukraine and the democratic forces in Poland the same way that it is a difficult issue in Ukraine. wronged by history, by fate, and for this reason they need this. This is necessary because our nations are There are many people in Ukraine who remember that really do not like to admit that not only were they faced with a simple choice. their parents, their older brothers suffered at Polish wronged, but that they also wronged others. And this Either we choose the road of constructing some sort hands. (Continued on page 10) of community that would resemble Western Europe, and this will not be an anti-Russian community. There is a place for the Russians, and it is an important place, Ukrainian member of Polish Sejm seeks reconciliation but tHe Russians must understand that they must now by Roma Hadzewycz Ukrainians known as "Akcja Wisla" was unjust, mab a break with the habit of Great Russian and that the government should allow resettled chauvinism. І believe that a great part of the Russian JERSEY C1TY, N.J. - Dr. volodymyr Mokry, persons to return to their homes and reclaim their intelligentsia has already made this break. So this is a historian and researcher of Ukrainian literature possessions. Thus the committee recognized, Dr. not an anti-Russian idea. who was elected last year to the Polish Parliament, Mokry said, that both moral and material compen– Or, on the other hand, nationalist, chauvinist or Sejm, sees as his primary task the fostering of sation should be granted to the victims of this brutal orientations will gain the upper hand in our countries. Polish-Ukrainian reconciliation. action. And then we will be doomed to a bloody conflict that Dr. Mokry, 41, was elected as a Solidarity will bring only harm to our nations, in history, neither candidate in Gorzow Wielkopolski in western Dr. Mokry added that among the committee's the Ukrainians nor the Poles4jiave ever gained Poland in the June 4, 1989, elections. Since then he other recommendations was that Ukrainians be anything from a Polish-Ukrainian conflict; a third has been named to a Sejm committee on national allowed to set up their own schools and organiza– party has always won. Whereas in concord, agree– minorities, a committee that the Communist tions, and that signs in ethnically Ukrainian areas ment, we will win together. Party at first did not want to approve. should be bilingual, that is, Polish and Ukrainian. As Dr. Mokry told The Weekly during his visit to But while the past needs to be examined, Dr. І would like to move on to a slightly different but the United States last autumn, previously he was a Mokry stressed, "We must look toward the future, related topic. There is a new situation in Poland now. member of the roundtable of Poles, Ukrainians because the past is a school, but the future is hope." For the first time in the history of postwar Poland, a and others organized under the aegis of Solidarity Ukrainians and Poles, he noted, have been Ukrainian, volodymyr Mokry, was elected a Sejm to discuss nationalities issues in Poland. neighbors for centuries, and at this point in history deputy, and from a predominantly Polish region at That committee, he noted, had agreed, while the they have three choices: to ignore each other, to that. How do you view the very complex problem of a regime of Wojciech Jaruzelski was still in control, argue bitterly, or to attempt to establish normal solution to the Ukrainian question in contemporary that the Polish government should acknowledge relations based upon mutual respect. Poland? that the forced resettlement and dispersion of Dr. Mokry, of course, opts for the third choice, and he noted that one way to encourage respect is to І think that up to this point, whatever was acquaint Poles with Ukrainian culture. independent in Poland, whatever was not within the framework of the nomenklatura system, was destroyed To that end, as well as to provide Ukrainians with and repressed. Now a new era has arrived. One a much-needed center of their own, Dr. Mokry last fragment of that new era, in my view, is also a new June established the Foundation of St. volodymyr, status for the non-Polish citizens of Poland, be they Baptizer of Kievan Rus.' The St. volodymyr Ukrainians, Lithuanians, Byelorussians, Jews - there Foundation, he explained, has officially been are very few of them, practically none, and also registered and has a building in Krakow. Germans. it will house a library and archives, exhibit and You see, 1 think that this issue has two sides. First, meeting rooms, a publishing house and apartments the administrative side. І think that Ukrainians who for visitors to the city, it will also be home to the St. are Polish citizens should have the same rights to volodymyr Christian Brotherhood. Dr. Mokry develop their culture, language, religion and so forth hopes that it will lead to a spiritual renewal for as do all other citizens of Poland. The only criterion Ukrainians. must be loyalty to the Polish state. To help establish the foundation, Dr. Mokry And the same applies to Poles living in Ukraine; in donated money he had received as the winner in the sense that Ukrainians should have the right to 1987 of an award from the Pope John Paul H Ukrainian schools, to the Ukrainian theater and so Foundation for his workin promoting understand– forth, and we expect the same rights for Poles in ing between Ukrainians and Poles, and for his Ukraine. This, it seems to me, is extremely important. scholarly research and publications on the Chris– On the other hand, the second issue is not an tian roots of Ukrainian culture. administrative one. it is a question of a certain under- The foundation, Dr. Mokry said, is based on an standing by the Polish elites, by the Polish people that idea he had while still a student at the Jagiellonian the fact that Ukrainians or Byelorussians or Lithua– University in Krakow, when he realized that nians live in Poland is not bad, that in fact this is good, Ukrainians in that city had no place to call their because it enriches Polish culture, it enriches Polish І111ІІІ1І Roma Hadzewycz own. The 1987 award, he believes, "came from public discourse, it leads to our becoming spiritually Yoiod у my r - Mokry (Continued on pugs 10) richer than we would be without it. -...... No. З THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JANUARY 21,1990 5 ішщшітттттмшмхямнтштті DISTRICT COMMITTEE MEETINGS George W. Drance is named 305), six; Walter Salak (Branch 9), five; Anthracite Helen Slovik (Branch 7), four; Michael UNA director of marketing Chomyn (Branch 389) and Mary Pe– MCADOO, Pa. - The Anthracite truncio (Branch 78), three members JERSEY C1TY, N.J. - UNA District of the Ukrainian National each; Tymko Butrej (Branch 164) and Supreme President John O. Flis Association held an organizing meeting Katherine Harbest (Branch 382), two announced the appointment of here at St. Mary's Ukrainian Catholic members each; and Marcia Bobersky George W. Drance to the position of Church hall on November 5, 1989. (Branch 333), one. director of marketing for the Ukrai– The meeting began with a prayer led by Ten of the district's branches have nian National Association. Msgr. H. Wroblewsky, followed by a - been enrolling new members, while His primary function will be to greeting from Joseph Chabon, district seven had enrolled none, she added. help branch secretaries increase chairman, who welcomed the main The supreme treasurer also reported membership and to promote the speaker, UNA Supreme Treasurer that the district's members had received many fine insurance products of the Ulana Diachuk. scholarships as follows: Branch 247, six; UNA to the people of Ukrainian Mrs. Diachuk reviewed UNA mem– Branch 305, three; Branches 9 and 333, communities in North America in a bership status, noting tht the Anthracite two each; and Branch 164, one. mariner compatible with the realities District's quota for the year is 75 Mrs. Diachuk also told the assembled of the 1990s. members, in addition, she noted that that the Ukrainian National Associa– Mr. Drance brings many years of each delegate to the convention is tion is constantly seeking full-time sales, marketing and management expected to enroll 10 new members organizers. experience to the UNA. He has held prior to that conclave. Following a question and answer several positions with leading life Mrs. Diachuk reported that the session, a repast, prepared and served insurance companies as well as mar– keting positions in other industries. following secretaries of the district had by Mary Postupack and her daughters, George W. Drance enrolled members: Mr. Chabon (Branch Joanne and Mary Price, was enjoyed by He has been a member of the Sales 242), nine; Peggy HentQsh (Branch all. and Marketing Executives Club of Mr. Drance was instrumental in New York for 25 years and is a establishing regional area councils then introduced the main speaker for graduate of New York University's and local UCYL chapters in New New Haven the evening, Mr. Flis. School of Commerce, Accounts and York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, in his remarks, Mr. Flis spoke about Finance. He is also a director of NEW HAvEN, Conn. - The or– Ohio and Connecticut. This was an all facets of UNA activity. He especially Lions international in Babylon, early manifestation of his interest in ganizing meeting of the New Haven focused on the organizing status of the Long island. promotional and sales activities. District of the Ukrainian National UNA and reminded all present of the in addition to his professional Association took place on November He was an officer of the Long pre-convention organizing campaign. experience, Mr. Drance has partici– island branch of the Ukrainian 12, 1989, at the Ukrainian National Finally, Mr. Flis presented a certifi– pated in Ukrainian community and Home in nearby New Britain. Congress Committee of America and cate to the District Man of the Year, national affairs since his youth. A was a frequent spokesman for the Thirty persons participated in the Mr. Slevinsky, to the applause of all member of St. George's Choir in New Ukrainian cause before state, county meeting. Also in attendance were John present. York for 10 years, he was active in and township officials. He was active O. Flis, UNA supreme president, Prof. During the question and answer civic and cultural affairs and fund- in St. viadirriir's Parish in Hemp- John Teluk, honorary chairman of the session, the supreme president provided raising functions, as well. stead, Long island, for over 20 years. district; Dr. Michael'Snihurovych, detailed answers to a variety of queries. He served on the national board of Mr. Drance is a member of the district chairman; and Taras Slevinsky, The meeting was adjourned by Dr. directors of the Ukrainian Catholic Ukrainian institute of America and district secretary. Snihurovych, who invited all to partake Youth League of the United States is working with the U1A board of Dr. Snihurovych delivered a report of refreshments prepared by the ladies (forerunner of the present League of directors in building an ,endow– on the district's organizing activity and of the district. Ukrainian Catholics), first as direc– menty bequest fund for the institute. tor of public relations and then as He is a member of UNA Branch 327 UNA. As well, she noted the UNA's membership director. in Hempstead.^^^^^^^^^ Buffalo assistance to various community groups, BUFFALO, N.Y. - The Buffalo and its diverse activity, which includes UNA District held its organizing meet– publishing two newspapers and other Are you a student ing on November 19, 1989. The meeting publications, sponsoring a government was chaired by Roman Konotopsky, relations office in Washington and seeking financial aid? who heads the district, and the principal supporting cultural, scholarly, religious speaker was UNA Supreme vice-Presi– and other endeavors. dentess Gloria Paschen. Among those present at the meeting was Onufriy Biloholovsky, head of the A report on the district's organizing Patriarchal Society in Buffalo, who activity revealed that the 1989 quota has expressed thanks to the UNA for its been met by 57 percent, with 27 new financial assistance. members being enrolled. Mr. Kono– A question and answer session topsky noted that he believes the quota followed, after which the meeting was Find out how the Ukrainian National Association can help you assigned to the district was too high. adjourned by Mr. Konotopsky, who Next, Mrs. Paschen spoke about the again urged all UNA'ers to help increase realize your dreams. For information, write to the UNA Home Office, organizing and financial status of the the UNA's membership. 30 Montgomery St., Jersey City, N.J. 07302.

The!7 . . The Ukrainian National Association: ci^c Fraternal Corner by Andre J. Worobec Fraternal Activities Coordinator useful phone numbers, addresses

Fraternal activities for the new year UNA Home Office UNA Washington Office First, 1 would like to thank all readers one and combine this activity with a 30 Montgomery St, (third floor) 400 First St. NW — Suite 710 who responded to our invitation to membership drive aimed at signing up Jersey City, N.J. 07302 Washington, D.C. 20001 provide us with addresses of Ukrainian youngsters who would qualify in two (201)451-2200 (202) 347-UNAW servicemen and women. The response years. FAX (202) 347-8631 was large. All cards were mailed put as There are other activities which have Svoboda Ukrainian Daily UNA Estate Soyuzivka promised, and 1 am sure that the men been created in response to the pressing 30 Montgomery St. (mezzanine) Foordemoore Road and women in U.S. and Canadian needs of our brothers and sisters in Jersey City, N.J. 07302 Kerhonkson, N.Y. 12446 armed forces appreciated receiving Ukraine. These activities were precipi– (201) 434-0237, -0807, -3036 (914) 626-5641 Ukrainian Christmas and New Year's tated by recent changes and movements wishes from the UNA. in Ukraine. As space does not permit me The Ukrainian Weekly if your branch is wondering how to to mention all of them, let me mention 30 Montgomery St. (mezzanine) start its fraternal activity this year, two areas of activity. These are: Jersey City, N.J. 07302 many options are open for you. a) sending medical help and other (201) 434-0237, -0807, -3036 You can always encourage your necessities to the children and other younger members, who qualify for a victims of the Chornobyl nuclear acci– UNA scholarship this year, to apply for (Cominued on page 15) б THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JANUARY 21,1990 No. з

Ukrainian Weeicly JANUARY 22 ANNIVERSARIES IN UKRAINE An act of unity Rukh appeal to Ukraine's citizens "Henceforth, on all the lands of Ukraine which for centuries have been divided — Galicia, Bukovyna, Carpatho-Rus' and Dnieper regarding Kiev-Lviv "human chain' (central) Ukraine, there shall be one Great Ukraine. That dream for which the finest sons of Ukraine have lived and died has come true. The Secretariat of the Popular Move– Seventy years ago the independent From this day forward there will be one, independent Ukrainian ment of Ukraine for Perebudova, or Ukrainian states - the Ukrainian National Republic. Henceforth, Ukrainians, having gained freedom Rukh, has issued several appeals to the National Republic and the Western through their own efforts, will unite the strivings of all their best sons citizenry of Ukraine calling on them to Ukrainian National Republic — rose for the strengthening of one independent Ukrainian state for the well- form a human chain between Kiev and out of the ruins of the Austro-Hunga– being and happiness of the working people." Lviv on Sunday, January 21, reported rian empire. the Ukrainian Press Agency (UPA) On January 22, 1919, they became a With these words of the Act of Union, announced on January 22, based in London. single united state under the name of the Ukrainian National Republic. 1919, in Kiev at St. Sophia's Square, western and eastern Ukraine This act, modelled on the highly That same day in the capital of our became joined in one Ukrainian National Republic. According to successful Baltic human chain which marked the signing of the Molotov– country, Kiev, in the crowded square of eyewitness accounts, the reading of the Act of Union was witnessed by St. Sophia's Cathedral with the festive a crowd of hundreds of thousands: government officials, clergymen, Ribbentrop Pact on August 23, 1989, will commemorate the reunification of sounds of the Kiev church bells in the members of political organizations, workers. A moleben was offered. Ukrainian lands on January 22, 1919, background, the declaration of the A military parade and a procession of the throng through the city took into a single independent, democratic reunification of Ukrainian lands into place. Significantly, the Act of Union was proclaimed on the first state. The distance between Kiev and one independent state was triumphantly anniversary of the proclamation of the Fourth Universal of the Lviv is some 300 miles, which will read out. Ukrainian Central Rada (Council), which declared that the Ukrainian require half a million people to form the This was the final national will of National Republic was the "independent, free and sovereign state of human chain, reported the UPA. Naddniprianshchyna (central Ukraine), the Ukrainian people." Galicia and Subcarpathia. The cen– The following is a UPA translation of turies-old struggle of Ukraine for Together, the Fourth Universal and the Act of Union are testimony the Rukh appeals regarding the human national freedom reached its logical of the fact that a nation without its own state cannot feel fulfilled. For chain and celebrations of the 71st conclusion. it is only within its own state that a nation can fully and freely anniversary of the reunification of However, fate even on this occasion develop; only an independent state can safeguard the myriad rights of Ukrainian lands. (Continued on page 7) the people. This year, on the initiative of the Popular Movement of Ukraine for Perebudova, a mass organization founded only last September which now boasts some 500,000 members, the 71st anniversary of the Act of Union will be celebrated as a true national holiday. The unification of all Ukrainian lands into one, independent, democratic state will be marked with a symbolic "human chain" linking Kiev and Lviv - Ukraine's two historic centers — and points in between. Along the 300-mile route, some 500,000 people are expected to clasp hands in a show of unity and national consciousness. Rukh has asked that all citizens of Ukraine, Ukrainians and non-Ukrainians alike, , participate to demonstrate their support for a free Ukraine–- a Ukraine concerned about all its residents, their rights, prosperity and lives. As well the human chain will demonstrate to the world a unity of purpose in today's Ukraine at a time that the country's democratic traditions are being rediscovered and, hopefully, renewed. The human chain will provide new meaning to our annual Ukrainian independence Day observances. And, it is fitting that such an act of unity will celebrate the historic Act of Union.

Turning the pages back...

ХУо9 ЦІНІ ^ast Уеаг' the anniversaries of the proclamation of Ukraine's independence and the reunification of all ^^ ^ Ukrainian lands into one Ukrainian National Republic were celebrated!n Kiev and Lviv, Ukraine, for the first time in many years. in Lviv, the Ukrainian Helsinki Union reported, thousands of believers attended a religious service celebrated by Ukrainian Catholic clergy in front of St. George's Cathedral, a former Ukrainian Catholic Church which is now a functioning Russian Orthodox Church. The moleben was unauthorized, though not for lack of trving by local activists and faithful who had sought permission from the authorities. A group of Lviv women who had formed a Marian society called Myloserdia (Compassion) had wanted to meet with Metropolitan Nikodim of Lviv and Ternopil to hand him a written request to hold a moleben commemorating the historic events of January 22, 1918 and 1919, in St. George's Cathedral. The Russian Orthodox prelate refused to meet with them and sent a complaint to city and regional officials, requesting protection from "these various near-extremists." in Kiev, the branch of the Ukrainian Helsinki Union decided to mark the independence and reunification anniversaries by holding a manifestation on the square in front of St. Sophia Sobor. The UHU appealed to authorities for permission to told the public meeting on the very square where on January 22,1919, the Ukrainian Directory's Act of Union of all Ukrainian lands was first read. Permission was denied on the grounds that UHU was not a registered organization. . Thus, the event was marked in a private apartment just outside of Kiev, in the village of Buch, by some 60 people. The UHU reported that police swarmed the area and repeatedly tried to enter the apartment, banging on the door for the duration of the four-hour meeting. Even after police turned off the lights in the building, the people lit candles and continued their commemorative meeting. UHU reported: The meeting occurred in an unusual atmosphere was the forgotten national symbols - the blue and yellow flag, the trident, as well as the portraits of Ukrainian leaders ranging from hetmans to Mykhaiio Hrushevsky, president of the Ukrainian^ National Republic; Wefrt displayed to candlelight and to Graphic art by Antfriy Tyjpych commemorates the January 22,1919, Actof Union the accompaniment of the cdnstunt knocking of "police kt the door. 'of eastern and western Ukrainian lands. No. З THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JANUARY 21,1990 7

National Republic (UNR) and the Rukh appeal... Western Ukrainian National Republic (Continued from page 6) which emerged as a result of the revolu– Faces and Places betrayed us. it once again threw our tionary process in Europe at the be– people into the whirlwind of historical ginning of the 20th century — the experiments, into the whirlwind of the break-up of the Russian and Austro– by Myron B. Kuropas stormy 20th century, which has written Hungarian empires — became one veritable tragic pages into the history of united sovereign state. Following many Ukraine. years of injustice and servitude after Moscow correspondents Adjacent powers forced upon us a centuries of oppression and degrada– fraticidal civil war; the new division of tion, the Ukrainian people, together І was in Moscow for the first time in didn't have a chance, 1 thought. Ukraine between various powers; the with representatives from other nations 1963. Although 1 often wondered what exhaustive race for industrialization for whom Ukraine was their native І had just spent three weeks in became of the guy, 1 really didn't find and collectivization; millions of victims land, became once again the sole Ukraine with my dad and our return out until last year when 1 read "The of the artificial famine of 1932-33; the masters enjoying full rights on their SAS flight was booked out of that gray, Moscow Correspondents: Reporting on complete annihilation of Ukrainian, land from time immemorial. dismal city. Russia from the Revolution to Glas– national-political patriotic cadres; the A friend of mine gave me the phone nost" by Whitman Bassow, himself a We read in paragraph 2 in section 1 of number of Sam Jaffe, then an ABC terrible pogrom of the intelligentsia; the the Constitution of the UNR: former Moscow bureau chief of News- colonizing pressures by the occupiers of correspondent stationed in the Russian week. According to Mr. Bassow, News- "Citizens in the UN R are equal within capital. "Call him up," 1 was told. "He's Galicia and Carpathian Ukraine; the their public and political rights. Birth, week found out about their correspon– severity of the second world war, which always eager to meet with visitors who dent when the State Department in- faith, nationality, education, property know the local language." also blazed on our lands; the dramatism and taxation do not provide any pri– formed the magazine that it "would be of the national-political self-proclama– Sam was easy to reach. He suggested well-advised to recall its correspondent vileges. No titles may be used in acts and we meet in his apartment the following tion of western Ukraine during and in the business of the UNR." because his carousing with women, after the war; the increase in the Russifi– evening along with other American drinking and unseemly behavior would "From today, Galicia, Bukovyna, cation of Ukraine during the so-called correspondents in the city, "ill dear inevitably result in explusion... Subcarpathia and the Dnieper region, period of stagnation; and finally the you with the KGB guy at the entrance which have been divided from one 9 Within a few weeks, Newsweek ordered Chornobyl catastrophe. and you can come right up, ' he said. another for centuries, are merging in The next evening 1 found myself in the correspondent to return to New All this is the tragic result of our one greater Ukraine. The centuries-old York and fired him, not only because of national captivity and the loss of state Sam's apartment along with a native- aspirations for which the best sons of born Russian woman, whom 1 naively his behavior but also because he was not independence. Ukraine have lived and died have been covering his beat and was failing to file Today we are experiencing the revo– presumed to be his wife, and two other realized. From today there is only one correspondents, one from McGraw- stories. When his successor arrived in lutionary renewal of this country and of independent Ukrainian National Re- Moscow and began to drive Newsweek's Europe. The spirit of freedom is spread– Hill, and the other from Newsweek. public. From today the Ukrainian Sam listened to my impressions of red Mercedes around town, he was ing to our people, it gives rise to hopes people, who have been freed by the frequently accosted by blowsy women and reawakens our dormant repressed Ukraine under Khrushchev and then mighty impulse of its own forces, has the shared his own frustrations with trying who rushed into the street expecting to historic memory — the memory which ability to unite all the efforts of its sons find the former correspondent behind also reminds us of a great event in our to write meaningful stories. "They only in order to establish one indivisible tell us what they want us to know," he the wheel." modern history — the act of the declara– independent Ukrainian state for the Whitman Bassow's book was a fas– tion of reunification of Ukrainian lands. said. "They exaggerate, lie and keep good and for the fortune of the Ukra– information from us. І speak some cinating read, the result of interviews Dear Compatriots! nian people" — confirms the act on the Russian but 1 rarely get to talk with an with 76 former Moscow correspondents This year on the initiative of Rukh, reunification of Ukraine, dated January ordinary Russian, the man in the street. and some 3,500 pages of transcriptions. the Act of Union Ukrainian lands 22, 1919. Even in public restaurants, the head- He begins with John Reed, author of on January 22, 1919, will be cele– Could a state which has set as its waiter segregates me from otter people." "Ten Days That Shook the World "and brated by the Ukrainian public as an objectives above all freedom and one of the few foreign writers with important historical event, as a national As the evening progressed, 1 gravi– justice, despite objective reality being tated towards the Newsweek man and access to viadimir Lenin. Obviously remembrance day of the Ukrainian far removed from humanism, survive in well-researched, chapter four of the people. On January 10, in honor of this was soon deep in conversation. Young such a world? What are the objective and newly assigned, he was facing his book is titled "Concealing Stalin's day, the supreme council of Rukh will reasons that the young Ukrainian state Famine." The chapter exposes the lies conduct its commemorative session. On first winter in Moscow, a prospect he collapsed,unable to unite the awakened viewed with some trepidation. His main of the infamous Walter Duranty and the eve of this jubilee, January 21, there people's will, which resulted in Ukraine suggests that by 1933 New York Times will be an all embracing, all-Ukrainian concern seemed to be with the gin being once again cynically divided supply. "The American Embassy has publisher Adolph S. Ochs was aware of celebration: "a human chain" between among its neighbors? Mr. Duranty's mendacity but was Kiev and Lviv and festive meetings with plenty," Sam kept telling him. "Don4 For these, and for many other ques– worry." reticent to fire him because of the religious services (molebens) in Kiev in tions, there must still be an answer for Pulitzer Prize Mr. Duranty received the St. Sophia's square and in Lviv by the Who is this guy, 1 remember thinking. the purpose of historical study. But (to І soon found out. year before. statue of 1 van Franko. We ask you all, us) it is obvious that: With an M.A. degree in Russian "who lives, whose thoughts have arisen" He started his journalistic career in "The ideals of the UNR are also our Chicago as a Sun-Times crime reporter. studies from Columbia University and a (Lesia Ukrainka), to join on the main ideal today. The cause for which our doctorate in Russian history from the Kiev-Lviv highway on January 21 and Later, he became the fashion page grandfathers and fathers fought is also editor. Unhappy with his prospects, he Sorbonne, Mr. Bassow takes a dim view to link these two historical centers of our cause. Today the hot yellow sun of of Moscow correspondents who were our fatherland as tightly as possible. moved east and took a job with The freedom rises once again on the blue New York Times. A friend helped illiterate in Russian affairs. "Assign– Ukrainians! History is looking at us; horizon of Ukraine." him move to Newsweelt and he was ments " he writes, "were often based not On January 21 let us demonstrate our soon assigned to the London office. on language skills, knowledge of the developed national consciousness, our Then let us reach for it, brothers and "How did you end up in Moscow?" І Soviet Union, or any special qualities togetherness, our public activity and sisters, Ukrainians! Reach for it, our asked. that could enhance the reporting but, discipline! Today, as never before, we Russian brothers and sisters, Jews, "1 applied," he answered. "There were especially in the wire services, on purely need the consolidation of our nation on Poles, Bulgarians and all for whom three vacancies for Newsweek bureau economic considerations..." a platform of democracy and sover– Ukraine is their homeland. Let us chiefs," he told me — Cairo, Jakarta The networks were notorious for eignty — regardless of social status, struggle for freedom and independence, and Moscow. І chose Moscow." failing to send fully ^qualified corres– work position, party membership and (Continued on page 15) "Do you speak Russian?" І asked. pondents, Mr. Bassow argues. "With religion. Rukh expects that Ukrainians He didn't. Nor was he familiar with rare exceptions such as Marvin Kalb of from the ranks of the party and state in– the history, culture and national cha– CBS, Ann Garrels of ABC, and Stuart stitutions will turn their face towards racter of Soviet peoples. Loory of CNN, they did not assign their people and will join its ranks. "How do you get information?" І reporters who could speak fluent Rus– Non-Ukrainians of Ukraine! Join us! wondered. sian forcing them to rely on official Demonstrate to us on January 21 that "Easy," he responded. "The Soviets interpreters." This assessment is fully you understand the righteousness of supply me with English-language press supported by one-time Newsweek bu– Ukrainian aspirations, fee) as though releases and 1 have an English-speaking reau chief Andrew Nagorski, who accused you are citizens of the Ukrainian re- Russian secretary who takes care of his colleagues of being "overly reliant public, whose fate concerns you. Let other matters. She's Soviet and she's on TASS...deriving up to 90 percent of Ukraine be for us a common, sheltered, 4 great." their stories from these official "hand- home - a home of freedom! - "Newsweek must take good care of outs' and transmitting this information Citizens! On January 21, display a you," 1 declared increduously. as 'news' to an unsuspecting American high level of discipline and restraint! "Oh they do," he said. "Our office has public." - Avoid anything which could harm the a red Mercedes and 1 practically have to Mr. Bassow concludes his book with festive mood of the people and violate beat the girls off, if you knbw what І a list of qualifications for Moscow civil obedience! Let us take thiSTespon– mean." correspondents including Russian lan– sible historical examination of public И1 never forget that night or that guage fluency ("indispensable"), Soviet maturity! . correspondent. There he was, the Mos– background studies, energy and matu– Dear citizens of Ukraine! cow bureau chief for a major U.S. rity. Given the present media inclina– The great remembrance day of our weekly news magazine read by millions, tion to trust everything the Soviets do, people, the day of the reunification of and he was nothing more than a glori– astute correspondents are needed now Ukrainian lands, is approaching. fied press agent for the Kremlin. With more than ever. Qn January 22, 19J9, two indppeib Emblems of Kiev and Lviv appear on people like that helping fonn popular AncJ that's precisely why we probably dent Ukrainian states - the Ukrainian graphics by Andriy tytyycli. public opinion about the USSR, we, won4 get them. ^ THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JANUARY 21,1990 No. з

A historic Christmas Day in Lviv: throngs No. З THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JANUARY 21,1990

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шшшжжшшшжшшжштжш trucks, was the site of vertep performances. Commencing in the morning, the vertep plays continued for hours, as, eyewitnesses report, more than 100 various plays were staged. The vertep players included professional ensembles, such as the city's theater groups and choirs, as well as amateur groups who performed for the attentive crowds. The costumes ranged from elaborate, stage costumes to home-made, improvised outfits. The plays ran anywhere from five- minute presentations to half-hour dialogues. As each vertep ensemble concluded its stage presentations, it would then wander through the crowds, presenting each play to smaller groups of people. By the afternoon, all the vertep ensembles paraded past the Lviv Opera Theater, where Mayor Bohdan Kotyk, along with his grandson and family, reviewed the actors and actresses. The vertepy were city-sanctioned and a local television crew filmed the day's events. THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JANUARY 21,1990 N0.3

right? Ukrainians are supposed to be the ones who do emigre community invited me, then 1 simply could not An interview... the killing. What is more, here various things are even refuse to come. All 1 wish to accomplish is that we (Continued from page 4) invented. For example, it has already been docu– come to understand each other even better. І discuss applies, for example, to the "Akcja Wisla" (Operation mented that there were practically no Ukrainian things, as you've noticed, very frankly; 1 speak very vistula).1 This was so despicable tdranstwoj, such formations tputting down) the Warsaw Uprising. openly about various things, so it seems to me that disgraceful business fswinstwoj, that this must be said However, when something is published it says only in this way, through discussion, will we be able to once and for all. "Ukrainians." These were not Ukrainians. communicate. But here there is, 1 would say, a certain Polish Finally, 1 want to say that this applies not only to complex — i.e., that the Poles want to show that we A final question. You were in Kiev at the invitation are still not yet a free nation. The Poles react with this Poles and Ukrainians; this also applies to Poles, of the Ukrainian community. And now, in November, Ukrainians and Russians. We have to be able to complex, in general, they listen only unwillingly when you are, so to say on a second tour, in Toronto on the someone tells them that someone else besides Poles communicate, because understanding generates invitation of the Ukrainian community. І assume that understanding, whereas conflict generates hatred. suffers. The entire argument with the Jews about the you accepted this invitation in order to pursue the Carmelite fconvent at Auschwitz! is, in essence, an same motives as in Kiev, is that right? argument precisely about this, about who suffered 1. "Akcja Wisla" was the mass deportation of Ukrainians most. The Jews say that Auschwitz is a Jewish matter, Absolutely. in 1947 from their traditional homeland in the southeastern while Poles say that Father Kolbe perished in part of the country to the so-called "recovered territories" in Auschwitz. And this is a discussion in which it is What do you hope to achieve here in North the west and north, in a recent roundtable on Polish- basically very difficult to come to an understanding. Ukrainian relations organized by the Catholic weekly Lad, America? one of the participants, noting the important role played by І suppose that it will be like this with the Ukrainians Soviet "advisers" in Polish security organs in the immediate as well. Ukrainians also died at Auschwitz. Why is И1 tell you. І don't really want to accomplish a great postwar period, stated that the decision to deport the there no plaque in the Ukrainian language at deal here. І just think that Polish-Ukrainian relations Ukrainians "was not made by Poles," although "Poles bear Auschwitz saying that Ukrainians perished here? are so important, there is so much to be done, that if the responsibility for the way the decision was carried out." Because this changes a certain image of Ukrainians, such outstanding representatives of the Ukrainian See "Ukraincy a Polska," Lad, September 29, 1989.

Christianization of Ukraine, about Polish anti– passport, having been elected to the Sejm. Ukrainian member... Ukrainianism and stereotypes of Ukrainians. "From the time of the congress 1 have become a j (Continued from page 4) Most recently, literally on the eve of the founding completely different person," Dr. Mokry stated. He heaven," as it allowed his dream to become congress of the Popular Movement of Ukraine for wrote about his impressions of the historic reality. Perebudova, or Rukh, Dr. Mokry wrote an article founding congress in Tygodnik Powszechny, a about the Rukh for Gazeta Wyborcza, the most Catholic weekly newspaper. (An English translation popular newspaper in Poland, which has a circula– of that article appeared in The Weekly on October j Dr. Mokry was born in 1949 in Drawie, Olsztyn tion of 500,000 and is edited by Adam Michnik. 22, 1989.) dounty; his parents were originally from the That issue of the Solidarity newspaper carried an Dr. Mokry, it should be noted, has been a ^eremyshl area in eastern Poland, an ethnically entire page about Ukraine, including an interview member of Solidarity since its birth in Gdansk. "As Ukrainian area. At the age of 13 he traveled 630 with Ukrainian Helsinki Union and Rukh activist a Ukrainian who personally experienced how a :ilometers from home in order to be able to learn Mykola Horbal. common person can be wronged, how Ukrainians fhe Ukrainian language. in 1947 were resettled and dispersed," he said he saw j He entered the pedagogical institute in Bartoszyce Dr. Mokry was invited to attend that founding Solidarity as an "expression of empathy with iand later completed his studies in Legnica. He congress by ivan Drach, whom he has known since another person." attended the Jagiellonian University and graduated 1979. (Mr. Drach was subsequently elected to head Concluding his interview at The Weekly by once in 1972. Since his graduation from the famed the Rukh.) A group of eight Solidarity members, again turning to the issue of Ukrainian-Polish institution, he has been teaching the Ukrainian including Mr. Michnik, and Dr. Mokry's wife, relations, Dr. Mokry said: "Let us be heirs of language there. As well, he conducts seminars on Chrystyna, a Solidarity activist at the metallurgical (Adam) Mickiewicz who wrote that, whoever Ukrainian history and culture, and is one of the factory in Nowa Huta, traveled to Kiev by car to thinks only about the interests of one nation is not a chief organizers of the Days of Ukrainian Culture attend the Rukh congress. supporter of freedom. And let us be heirs of (Taras) held at the university each year. "This was my firstvisi t to Ukraine; for 16 years І Shevchenko who in his letter to the Poles urged, He has written about the Christian elements in was not allowed to travel to Ukraine," he told The extend your hand to the Kozak and together, in the Ukrainian literature, about the fruits of the Weekly. And, he traveled there on a diplomatic name of Christ, create a quiet paradise."

for the Ukrainian Greek-Catholic continue in a spirit of justice (and) However a spokesman for the ROC Ukrainian Catholic... delegation, which left Lviv on Monday, reconciliation," he added. had reported that the "conference had (Continued from page 1) January 15, on the 10 p.m. flight for A scheduled visit by a vatican been postponed for technical reasons." president of the Pontifical Council for Moscow, where they arrived after delegation to Moscow in November to News stories at that time had speculated the Promotion of Christian^Unity; midnight. discuss the legalization of the that the Orthodox change was connect– Archbishop Edward Cassidy, president The following morning, Tuesday, Ukrainian Catholic Church had been ed to delicate vatican-Soviet and of the Pontifical Council for the January 16, the Greek-Catholic delega– postponed at short notice by the Catholic-Orthodox talks about the Promotion of Christian Unity; Arch- tion first met privately with the vatican Orthodox patriarchate in Moscow. future of the Ukrainian Catholic bishop Miroslav Marusyn, secretary of delegation, and then together met with vatican officials had then said that Church and on November 29, 1989, the Congregation for Eastern Churches the Russian Orthodox representatives. the delay for the meeting was needed in Archbishop Kirill confirmed that and a Ukrainian Catholic prelate; The Ukrainian Greek-Catholic order to allow the new Orthodox because of the October 29 Ukrainian Bishop Pierre Duprey, secretary of the hierarchs also met informally with official in charge of external Church Catholic "takeover" of the Transfigura– Pontifical Council for the Promotion of Russian Orthodox Archbishop Makariy relations, Archbishop Kirill, to tion Church in Lviv, the ROC called off Christian Unity; and the Rev. Salvatore of ivano-Frankivske and Kolomiya, become acquainted with his new re– a conference with vatican cardinals in Scribano, expert of Eastern Church who has abandoned his hunger strike. sponsibilities. Moscow. Affairs for the Pontifical Council for Following the negotiations Metro– the Promotion of Christian Unity. politan Yuvenaliy and Archbishop Representing the Moscow Patriar– Cassidy held a news conference for chatepf the Russian Orthodox Church Soviet and foreign journalists, reported New stats on UCC were:JFilaret, metropolitan of Kiev and TASS, the Soviet news agency. ROME - Ukrainian Catholic Catholic Church and have been Haly^ft and exarch of all Ukraine; The reporters were told that the Church officials in Rome have re– accepted by a Ukrainian Catholic Yuverialiy, metropolitan of Krutitsky delegation met with representatives of ceived updated statistics from Ukrai– bishop.. - and Kplomna; ireney, metropolitan of Eastern Catholics and with Orthodox nian Catholic Church sources in These statistics are representative Lvivi;land Kirill, archbishop of Christians who arrived in Moscow from Ukraine regarding the number of of larger cities and towns. Figures for Smolebsk and Kaliningrad and head of western Ukraine and listened to parishes which are currently func– smaller towns and villages are still the Jloscow Patriarchate's Depart– their judgements. tioning as Ukrainian Catholic and being compiled, noted the Ukrainian mentHf External Affairs. The participants in the conversation the number of priests who formerly Catholic Press Bureau. were of the opinion that relations ^meeting between Ukrainian served in the Russian Orthodox The above reported activity has between believers of the two confessions Church and have now asked to join occurred since the Council for Reli– Be and Russian Orthodox in western Ukraine should be its was arranged on one day's the Ukrainian Catholic Church. gious Affairs of Ukraine announced resolved in the light of the Gospel and in on December 1, 1989, that Eastern щ On Friday, January 12, a the spirit of a dialogue between sister in a January 16 telephone conver– "1 delegation arrived in Moscow, sation with Ukrainian Catholic bi– Rite Catholics in Ukraine had been churches. This was said in thecommuni– granted the right to officially register, Bng to meet the Russian que of the meeting. shops who were in Moscow for Jdx representatives for one day meetings with representatives of the their congregations. id then go to Lviv, for separate Both delegations expressed the wish to continue the contacts to widen and Holy See and the Moscow Patriar– in some areas, (i.e. the city of is with the Ukrainian Catholic chate, it was reported that an esti– ivano-Frankivske) there are no jp; However, as talks in Moscow deepen their consensus. "1 believe this is a first positive mated 600 churches in Ukraine are longer any functioning Russian Or– append to be making further progress, currently functioning as Ukrainian thodox churches. Those which are not it was^ecided to invite the Ukrainian meeting. І am happy that the Moscow Patriarchate has agreed to continue Catholic, 700 congregations have open and functioning as Ukrainian Greefc^Catholics to come to Moscow so applied to register with Soviet Catholic are closed (including the that tbe three parties could all meet talks with the Ukrainian Catholic hierarchy," the exiled head of the omcials and an estimated 350 priests cathedral in ivano-Frankivske). As together, reported Keston College, who formerly served in the Russian well, the Cathedral of St. George in based in England. Ukrainian church, Cardinal Lubachiv– sky, said. Orthodox Church have asked to be Lyiv is currently closed, the press The Soviet government's Council for "1 am confident that these talks will accepted as priests in the Ukrainian bureau reported. Religious Affairs provided air tickets v ""v ^"^""'"^^'vi^ijiyr–' .-?y No. З THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JANUARY 21,1990 Ukrainian village marks five years Ukrainian committee recognizes New Haven mayor

by Marie Zarycky songs. The Rev. Christopher Woytyna, pastor of St. Josaphat Ukrainian Ca– WARREN, Mich. - The fifth anni– tholic Church in Warren, intoned the versary of the Ukrainian village Corp. invocation. After the dinner, Mr. Wi– was celebrated by over 150 members, char invited all who enjoyed singing to residents, family and friends gathered join Mrs. Solovey at thepiano,and the recently in the social hall of the Ukrai– entire hall resounded with cheerful nian village complex, beautifully songs in the Ukrainian and English lan– adorned in burgundy and rose hues, guages. festooned with balloons and streamers. The formal program continued with The festivities began to the joyous the introduction of guests seated at the melodies of the piano graciously pro– main table: members of the board of vided by Olga Solovey. The partici– directors; Nich Pastor, the village pants had the opportunity to mingle architect; Harvey Wolf of Wingate with the guests of honor, Mayor Ro– Management Co. and his management nald Bonkowski and his wife, Christine, staff, Lida Wroblewski and Christine as well as Cathleen Peralta, represent– Shumeyko. Justine Nelligen, Ukrainian ing the temporarily hospitalized Rep. village first vice-president, was then Dennis Hertel, while sampling delicious introduced and she provided informa– hors d'oeuvres and cocktails, and view– tion on new projects, particularly the ing artfully displayed Ukrainian hand- low-cost lunches for village residents. crafts. She concluded her remarks with a very Stephanie Dub, member of the board humorous poem of "unknown" author- of directors in charge of all displays and ship, regarding life in the Ukrainian New Haven Mayor Biagio Dilieto (center) receives the Ukrainian Political Action chairman of the banquet committee, village through a "crooked looking Committee's plaque from Michael Mowchan (right) and Wasyll Gina. very amiably opened the proceedings by glass." welcoming everyone and introduced the The next segment of the program was NEW HAvEN, Conn. - The Con– cut Housing Finance Authority. Hew- master of ceremonies,Stephen Wichar, dedicated to honoring persons who necticut Ukrainian Political Action ever, Mr. Dubno could not attend he president of the corporation. With his made significant contributions to the Committee recently presented a plaque presentation. usual ease and aplomb, Mr. Wichar Ukrainian village Corp. The first award to outgoing Mayor Biagio Dilieto of The plaque reads: "Ukrainian Poi ti– addressed the gathering, underscoring was presented to the Blendl Family by New Haven, who has been mayor for 10 cal Action Committee of Connectk jt the tireless efforts of the board of Anastasia volker, honorary president, years and has decided to leave public life Presented to Biagio Dilieto, mayor of directors and their success in providing in memory of Paula Blendl, who very and not seek re-election. New Haven, in grateful recognition or such high quality housing and care for charitably donated an acre of land to The Ukrainian Political Action Com– his strong and active support a id the residents of the Ukrainian village. this project. mittee has presented only two plaques friendship for the Ukrainian - Aim ri– He enjoined the participants to stand Olga Adamak, corresponding secre– to date: one to Gov. William O'Neill and cans of Connecticut. 'Mnohaya lita„ " and honor the departed residents and tary and board member, presented the another to State Sen. Joseph Harper. board members with a respectful mo– next award to Pauline Budzol, longtime Chosen to present the plaque to The Ukrainian Political Action Co n– ment of silence. member of the board of directors and Mayor Dilieto were Michael Mowchan, mittee is based in Newington and its Subsequently, he called upon Mayor one of the original activists of the village director of the action group, and mem– function is to make the Ukraini in Bonkowski,who read the City of War– project. bers Wasyll Gina of New Haven and community aware of public officiils ren proclamation on the occasion of the Zenon Wasylkevych, third vice- Orest Dubno, director of the Connecti– who support Ukrainian causes. fifth anniversary of the Ukrainian president, presented the last award to village and who congratulated the Hala Tatarsky, in memory of her board of directors for winning so many husband, Roman, past president and annual beautification awards. tireless community activist. At this time, Mr. Wichar introduced The benediction was offered by the soloist Jerome Cisaruk, baritone, and very Rev. Mykola Newmerzyckyj, his daughter, Lida, who accompanied pastor of St. Mary Protectress Ukrai– І JKRAiNE him on the piano in a rendition of three nian Orthodox Cathedral. Of -A CONClSE ENCYCLOPEDIA ,KRAlNE Buffalo veterans celebrate 10th jubilee -A CONClSE BUFFALO, N.Y. - Wolodymyr of Soviet Russian oppression seek their UNIVERSITY OF - Holynskyj Post No. 23 of the Ukrainian human and national rights. TORONTO PRESS American veterans celebrated its 10th The national commander of the ENCYCLOPEDIA anniversary and commemorated vete– Ukrainian American veterans, Dmytro rans Day with a banquet and ball on Bykovetz Jr., then installed the newly November 11, 1989, at the Pellamwood elected officers of Buffalo's Wolodymyr House in West Seneca, N.Y. 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The play, directed by Deirdre Kelly Named utility's president Notes on people Lavrakas, opened October 6, 1989, in the Theatre Lab. it is the 1989-1990 season^opener for the Kennedy Center's 1985, she was named director of de– Theater for Young People Program. mand planning. Ms. McFadden, daughter of Wolo– Prior to joining New England Elec– dymyr and Tania Demchuk of Burke, tric, Ms. Pastuszek was a senior econo– Уа., received her bachelor of fine arts mic and environmental analyst for the degree in theater from Southern Metho– Massachusetts Energy Facilities Siting dist University's Meadows School of Council and an energy data analyst at the Arts in Dallas. the New England Regional Commis– A resident of Washington, Ms. sion. McFadden has been active in local Ms. Pastuszek was graduated cum theater and teaching in Kennedy Cen– laude from Clark University, where she ter's "Program for Children and Youth." received a bachelor of arts degree in During the summer of 1989, she government. She also holds a master's played the role of Stephanie McGee in degree in citv and regional planning "Three Tits," a new comedy directed by from Harvard University. Ms. Pas– her husband, Michael McFadden. The tuszek also is a graduate of the public play by California playwright Ellen utility executive program at the Univer– Anderson premiered at the Source sity of Michigan's graduate school of Theater's monthlong Washington business administration. Theater Festival featuring the work of Ms. Pastuszek was chairman of the 68 directors, it took five top awards at Lydia Pastuszek New England Power Pool (NEPOOL) Christina Pawl the festival, including best new play, demand side management committee LEBANON, N.H. - Lydia M. Pas– semble of "Meet Me in St. Louis." best production and outstanding direc– and served on various other NEPOOL tuszek has been elected president of A native of Fergus Falls, Minn., Ms. tor. Granite State Electric Co. and vice- committees, in addition, Ms. Pastuszek Ms. McFadden is a former member has been a member of the Electric Paul (Pawlyszyn) holds a BFA from president of New England Power Co., Texas Christian University, which she of Plast and studied Ukrainian folk effective January 31. Power Research institute's demand- dance with Roma Pryma-Bohachevsky side planning task force, and a member achieved through a trumpet playing Granite State Electric is a retail scholarship — something which comes at the summer verkhovyna Ukrainian electric company that serves 33,000 of Edison Electric institute's economics Dance Workshops in Glen Spey, N.Y. committee. During 1988 and 1989, she in mighty handy, especially in "Meet Me customers in 21 New Hampshire com– in St. Louis." Ms. McFadden and her family are all munities in the areas of Lebanon and also was a member of the executive members of UNA Branch 15. committee and board of directors of the She is the daughter of Ukrainian Salem. New England Power (NEP) is a immigrants, Dr. Julian and Myroslawa wholesale generating company that sells Northeast Region Demand Side Ma– nagement Data Exchange (NORDAX). Pawlyszyn. She is fluent in English and power to Granite State Electric and its Ukrainian. affiliated companies in Rhode island She is a former director of the New England Economic Project (NEEP). Ms. Pawl toured Europe twice as and Massachusetts. velma in "West Side Story." in addition to overseeing Granite "Meet Me in St. Louis" is based on State Electric's operations, Ms. Pas– Ms. Pastuszek also is a member of Clark University's Alumni Council and Sally Benson's "The Kensington Stories" tuszek will be responsible for over- and the 1944 MGM film of the same seeing NEP's 14 hydroelectric stations member of the nominating committee. A native of Pennsylvania, Ms. Pas– name. The musical opened at the Ger– along the Connecticut and Deerfield shwin Theater on November 2, 1989. rivers. tuszek and her husband, Brian Mona– han, reside in Newton, Mass. Ms. The Pawlyszyns are members of Prior to her election, Ms. Pastuszek UNA Branch 385. was director of demand planning for Pastuszek, the daughter of UNA Su– New Power Service Co., a subsidiary of preme Advisor William and Theodozia New England Electric System, the Pastuszek, is a member of UNA Branch Acts at Kennedy Center parent company of Granite State Elec– 231. tric and New England Power. WASHINGTON - Luba ivanna Ms. Pastuszek joined New England McFadden was chosen to play Electric in 1981 as a senior analyst in the Debuts on Broadway the role of Princess Astrid in the company's load and revenue forecast– Princess and the Pea," playwright Paul ing department. She was promoted to NEW YORK - Christina Pawl has Lavrakas' adaptation of the Hans manager of the department in 11)82. in made her Broadway debut in the en– Christian Anderson classic. Luba ivanna McFadden

ALLENTOWN, PA. D1STR1CT C0MM1TTEE BUFFALO, N.Y. D1STR1CT C0MM1TTEE of the UKRAINIAN NATIONAL ASSOCIATION of the UKRAINIAN NATIONAL ASSOCIATION announces that announces that ANNUAL D1STR1CT C0MM1TTEE MEET1NG ANNUAL D1STR1CT C0MM1TTEE MEET1NG will be held

Saturday, February 3, 1990 at 2:00 P.M. will be held at Ukrainian Catholic Church 1826 Kenmore Avenue, Bethlehem, Pa. Sunday, February 4, 1990 at 2:00 P.M. Obligated to attend the annual meeting as voting members are District Committee Officers, 1 at the Ukrainian American Civic Center, inc. 205 Military Rd., Buffalo, N.Y. Convention Delegates and two delegates from the following Branches:

44,46,47,48,124,137,143,147,151,288,318,369,438 Obligated to attend the annual meeting as voting members are District Committee Officers, All UNA members are welcome as guests at the meeting, Convention Delegates and two delegates from the following Branches: AGENDA: 40,87,127,149,304,360 1. Opening and acceptance of the Agenda All UNA members are welcome as guests at the meeting. 1 2. verification of quorum AGENDA: 3. Election of presidium 1. Opening and acceptance of the Agenda 4. Minutes of preceding annual meeting 2. verification of quorum 5. Reports of District Committee Officers 3." Election of presidium 6. Discussion on reports and their acceptance 4. Minutes of preceding annual meeting 7. Election of District Committee Officers 5. Reports of District Committee Officers 6. Discussion on reports and their acceptance 8.^Adress by ULANA M. D1ACHUK, UNA Supreme Treasurer 7. Election of District Committee Officers 9. Adoption of District activities program for the current year 8. Adress by UNA Supreme President Dr. JOHN 0. FL1S 10. Discussion and Resolutions 9. Adoption of District activities program for the current year 11. Adjournment 10. Discussion and Resolutions Meeting will be attended by: 11. Adjournment

Ulana M. Diachuk, UNA Supreme Treasurer Anna HaraS, Honorary Member UNA Supreme Assembly Meeting will be attended by:

DISTRICT COMMITTEE Dr. John O. FliS, UNA Supreme President Anna Haras, Chairman DISTRICT COMMITTEE Stefan Mucha, Secretary Ukrainian Anna Strot, Secretary English Roman Konotopskyj, Chairman Wolodymyr Zagwockyj, Treasurer ! WasyJ Sywenky, Secretary Maria Harawus, Treasurer No. з THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JANUARY 21,1990 13

Chernihiv... the first secretary, where banners in– of April 1989. reported the Ukrainian Press Agency. cluded "Away with the CPSU!" and Nevertheless, two meetings were held ttjt (Continued from page 2) "Away with Palazhchenko Г The da– on January 10 in the stadium and near An earlier Radio Liev report on the him take the microphone. maged volga was used as the tribune. to the party headquarters. Some 30,000 He called on oblast officials and The crowd dispersed at 4 a.m. after people attended the rally in the stadium. incidents in Chernihiv, aired on Ja– judicial organs to take the situation into listening to Second Secretary vysyk, The organized march to the stadium nuary 12, reported the following. their own hands in order not to let whose explanation failed to appease was led by members of Rukh and the For several days a tense situation has certain "forces" exploit the situation. Mr. them. UHU, with numerous Ukrainian na– prevailed in Chernihiv. Several spon– Kravchuk did not comment on Mr. The UPA also reported that the next tional flags and placards reading: "KGB taneous meetings have been held there Zaiko's behavior, but noted that there are day, January 7, at 2 p.m. next to the and CPSU - twin brothers!", "Better since January 6. ; still healthy and well-intentioned ele– party headquarters a meeting was held to have an unsanctioned meeting, than a The participants demanded the resig– ments in the oblast party organization. attended by 30,000 people with nume– sanctioned impoverishing of the nation of the local party leadership. rous blue and yellow national flags. The people!", "Away with the party dicta– At yesterday's January 10 meeting, meeting was led by a member of the torship!", "Away with compulsory which was sanctioned by local jauthori– Rukh ruling council, ivan Panchenko. military service!", "The empire - ties, the same demand was voiced once The London-based Ukrainian Press - Members of Rukh, Memorial and the release the nations!" and others. The again. Nearly 20,000 people attended Agency reported that the passengers Ukrainian Helsinki Union (UHU) all meeting was led by a Rukh member, the meeting. were drunk and driving very fast. When spoke. They demanded the removal of Mr. Panchenko, and the head of the We contacted Dr. Kotenko by phone. the passers-by opened the trunk of the First Secretary Palazhchenko and his local party executive, Litvinov. He took part in yesterday's meeting. car they were amazed to find many entire executive council, the removal of Here he is: luxury items they had not seen in the Article 6 from the Soviet Constitution Mr. Palazhchenko, the party first "The main reason for this upheaval is shops for years: salami, ham, honey, (which guarantees the "leading role of secretary, tried to appease the crowd that people are dissatisfied with their vodka, cognac, samohon (moonshine) the CPSU in Soviet society") and per– and told them that a "Hyde Park" is social and material condition. and Kievan tarts, in the suitcase was an mission to print unofficial newspapers. being opened in the town, that one of "it has become impossible to get imported shirt and the official letter- A resolution was passed which called the streets will be named after Andrei foodstuffs and industrial goods such as heads of the local electoral commission for the formation of a strike committee. Sakharov, that one of the car's passen– socks, underwear and other items. At (for the republican elections on March Speakers spoke of the need for an gers, Mr. Zaiko, is removed from office the meeting the main demand was that 4). The passengers included Mr. Zaiko independent Ukrainian state to halt the and expelled from the CPSU, whereas the oblast party leadership should be and valeriy Maksymovych, a deputy of colonial, discriminatory policies of the editor of Desnianska Pravda has replaced; First Secretary Palazhchenko the oblast council. Moscow. They also called for the gone into retirement. He also promised and the entire buro must go. The passers-by increased and became removal of the editor of the local that the public would now be in control "Further, the meeting demanded very angry at what they had found, newspaper Desnianska Pravda, ivan of the central medical complex which facilities for informal organizations and demanding that the first secretary of the Muzychenko. until then had been reserved for the simpler methods of their registration. Chernihiv Oblast Communist Party, A speech by the first secretary of the nomenklatura. The meeting demanded that all privi– Mr. Palazhchenko, as well leaders of party did not appease the crowd and leges be removed, it was said at the the local branch of the Popular Move– was often interrupted by catcalls and Speakers from the Rukh, UHU and meeting that in the party obkom's ment of Ukraine for Restructuring whistles. The crowd shouted back other informal groups all gave heavily garage a foodstuffs store is situated and (Rukh) come to the scene. Leading "Away with Palazhchenko!" and critical speeches of the party. The personal chauffers deliver these edibles Rukh activists very quickly arrived on "Away with the CPSU — we want to resolutions adopted by the meeting to bosses' addresses." the scene, but there was still no sign of live like people!" called for the removal of Article 6 from Radio Kiev went on to note: What the first secretary. The crowd began to On January 8 the shops were full of the Soviet Constitution, a complete does Leonid Palazhchenko, party push the damaged volga in the direc– what had been deficit goods: color purge of the local party apparatus and obkom first secretary, think about tion of the party headquarters, but televisions, indian tea, boneless meat, the formation of a committee to look this crisis? We phoned to the Chernihiv halfway to the party headquarters the shoes and other items. On that day the into the liquidation of privileges of the Obkom to ask him this question but an way was blocked by the militia, riot local party apparatus held a meeting nomenklatura. The situation in the interview did not materialize. Leonid police and buses parked across the road. with the ideological chief of the Com– town as of January 11, as reported by ivanovich said that he has no time. According to the UPA, the people munist Party of Ukraine, Leonid Krav– the UPA's sources, is that it is in control Well,, maybe people are right, they then pushed the damaged volga to the chuk. Mr. Kravchuk also held meetings of informal groups. have had enough words. Time is siich that deeds are needed. center of town, where 3,000 people with members of unofficial groups, the The party apparatus has forbidden gathered. They demanded the removal Rukh, UHU and the Ukrainian Lan– local television and radio to report on of the first secretary Mr. Palazhchenko, guage Society. He promised them the meetings held on January 7 and 10. HUCULKA icon 8c Souvenir's Distribution an end to special shops for the party and permission and a place to organize their On the initiative of informal groups 2860 Buhre Ave. Suite 2R a complete purge of the town and oblast planned meeting on January 10. another mass demonstration was held party apparatus. At around midnight The UPA noted that rumors were Bronx, NY 10461 on January 14. Some 5,000 people REPRESEmATWondWHOLESALERofEMBROlDEREDBLDLlSES the crowd moved towards the party circulated in the meantime that rein– attended the rally and resolved to hold for ADULTS and CHlLDREN headquarters and home of the first forcements of the militia had been their next gathering on January 26, Tel. (212)931-1579 secretary, surrounding both. A meeting brought in and that there was likely to was called again outside the residence of be a repetition of the Tbilisi massacres DETROIT, MICH. DISTRICT COMMITTEE of the UKRAINIAN NATIONAL ASSOCIATION FIVE REASONS WHY YOU SHOULD announces that SUPPORT JOHN DEMJANJUK ANNUAL OlSTRlCT C0MM1TTEE MEET1NG 1. "1 must say 1 am more than ever convinced that the decision of the judges in will be held israel was unjust.." - Rt Hoa Lord Thomas Denning Sunday, February 11, 1990 at 3:00 P.M. at U.N.W.LA. Detroit Regional Council 2. "1 know of no other case in which so many deviations from procedures 27040 Ryan Road, Warren, Mich. internationally accepted as desirable occured" Obligated to attend the annual meeting as voting members are District Committee Officers, - Professor Willem Wagenaar, author of identifying ivan: A Case Study in Convention Delegates and two delegates from the following Branches: Legal Psychology, Harvard Press 1988. 3. "if John Demjanjuk - whom 1 believe to be an utterly innocent man - hangs 20, 75, 82, 94, 110, 146, 165, 167, 174, 175, 183, 235, on Eichmann's gallows, it will be israel that will one day be in the dock'' 292, 302, 303, 309, 341, 463, 504, 506 - Patrick J. Buchanan AH UNA members are welcome as guests at the meeting. 4. "1 believe this case stinks...І am asking for an investigation into the John AGENDA: Demjanjuk American citizen case, and also into the actions of the Special 1. Opening and acceptance of the Agenda Office of investigation in this country." 2. verification of quorum -Congressman James Traflicant, Congressional Record, June 20, 1989. 3. Election of presidium 5. " 1 believe the Demjanjuk case will no more be forgotten by history than was the 4. Minutes of preceding annual meeting Dreyfus case." 5. Reports of District Committee Officers - Count Nikolai Tolstoy 6. Discussion on reports and their acceptance 7. Election of District Committee Officers Twelve years of tireless efforts have brought us this far. Mr. Demjanjuk's defense 8. Adress by ULANA D1ACHUK, UNA Supreme Treasurer is on the brink of financial ruin. Without your immediate financial assistance, Mr. 9. Adoption of District activities program for the current year Demjanjuk's appeal to the Supreme Court will not be possible. Please help us suc– 10. Discussion and Resolutions cessfully complete the final chapter of this twelve year nightmare. 11. Adjournment

Please send donations to: Meeting will be attended by: John Demjanjuk Defense Fund Ulana Diachuk, UNA Supreme Treasurer P.O. Box92819 Cleveland, Ohio 44192 DISTRICT COMMITTEE Dr. Alexander Serafyn, Chairman Roman Lazarchuk, Secretary Jaroslaw Baziuk, Treasir 14 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JANUARY 21,1990 No. з

UKRAINIAN NATIONAL ASSOCIATION Monthly reports for November

RECORDING DEPARTMENT DISBURSEMENTS FOR NOVEMBER, 1989 Paid To Or For Members: MEMBERSHIP RECORD Cash Surrenders... 126,608.39 Endowments Matured 116,969.98 Juv. Adults ADO Totals Death Benefits 59,150.00 TutAL AS 6Г ddTOBER 31. ld8d 17,911 46,351 5,995 70.257 interest On Death Benefits 101.23 Payor Death Benefits 64.68 GAINS IN NOVEMBER 1989 „ „^.^-– Reinsurance Premiums Paid 4,582.02 New members... 48 77 7 132 Dividend To Members 391.27 Reinstated 40 93 1 134 Dues From Members Returned... 493.82 Transferred in... 18 36 24 78 indigent Benefits Disbursed 1,700.00 Change class in.. Trust Fund Disbursed 2,205.20 Transferred from Juv. Dept - 31 - 31 Scholarships 1,000.00 TOTAL GA1NS: 106 245 32 383 Total... S213.266.59 LOSSES 1N „..„ ....^^^^^^-^^^.^– Operating Expenses Suspended 5 6 9 20 Washington Office S13,252.82 Transferred out 18 36 24 78 Real Estate.... 225,021.73 Change of class out — 8 — 8 Svoboda Operation 106,925.26 Transferred to adults... 31 — — 31 Official Publication-Svoboda 60,000 Died — 77 - 77 Organizing Expenses Cash surrender 31 45 - 76 Advertising 15,210.08 Endowment matured.. 34 131 — 165 Medical inspections 652.92 Fully paid-up 47 128 175 Reward To Special Organizers.... 1,346.14 Reduced paid-up - Field Conferences 5,524.32 Extended insurance 1 1 Cert, terminated — 1 22 23 Total... S12.733.46 TOTAL LOSSES: 166 433 55 654 Payroll, insurance And Taxes: INACTIVE MEMBERSНІР : Salary Of Executive Officers Si 5,428.75 GAINS IN NOVEMBE R 1989 - Salary Of Office Employee's 39,970.33 Employee Benefit Plan 31,698.29 Paid-up 34 132 166 insurance-General 500.00 4 2 - 6 Taxes-Federal, State And City On Employee Wages- 40,979.56 Extended insurance Canadian Corporation Premium Tax 28.34 TOTAL GA1NS: 38 134 172 — S128.605.27 LOSSES IN NOVEMBER 1989 Total...

Died 37 General Expenses: Cash surrender 26 25 Actuarial And Statistical Expenses Sl,074.00 Reinstated ...' 2 9 Books And Periodicals 3,950.38 Lapsed 5 5 General Office Maintenance 2,338.63 insurance Department Fees 255.00 TOTAL LOSSES: 33 76 JW Operating Expense Of Canadian Office- 162.21 TOTAL UNA MEMBERSHIP 3,091.14 AS OF NOVEMBER зо, 1989 17,856 46,221 5,972 70.049 Printing And Stationery ^.. 608.05 Rental Of Equipment And Services 276.01 WALTER SOCHAN Telephone, Telegraph..... 1,773.62 Traveling Expenses-General Supreme Secretary 4,413.21 FINANCIAL DEPARTMENT Total- S17.942.25 Miscellaneous: investment Expense-Mortgages S450.00 INCOME FOR NOVEMBER 1989 Loss On Bonds 1,825.32 Dues From Members S215.493.03 Youth Sports Activities 300.00 income From "Svoboda" Operation 107,417.45 Fraternal Activities 408.75 investment income: Donations 3,000.00 Bonds... S350.423.47 Transfer Account 765,103.00 Certificate Loans,.. 2,656.32 Mortgage Loans.... 42,186.08 TotaL S771.087.07 Banks 6,491.19 Stocks... 4,182.18 investments: Real Estate 211,834.79 Bonds S189.226.85 Mortgages 100,000.00 Total... Ш7.774.03 Stock 4,157.18 Certificate Loans 5,356.32 Refunds: Real Estate 2,303.19 Taxes Federal, State 8 City On Employee Wages.. 137,462.40 Telephone Ret'd 1.50 Total. S301.043.54 Taxes Held in Escrow.., 1,500.00 Disbursements For November, 1989... Sl.849.877.99 Employee Hospitalization Plan Premiums 1,133.67 Official Publication "Svoboda" 34,615.17 Endowment Matured Ret'd 1,500.00 investment Expense Ret'd 200.00 BALANCE Postage Ret'd 20.50 Printing and Stationery Ret'd 15.00 Refund of Secretary Exp. Ret'd.. 72.00 Scholarship Ret'd 1,057.00 ASSETS LIABILITIES Cash Sl.213,689.81 Life insurance S62.926,152.59 Total... S77.505.96 Bonds 47,473,104.11 Accidental D.D 1.762,444.86 Mortgage Loans 5,434,447.38 Fraternal (297,480.19) Miscellaneous: Certificate Loans 611,089.26 Orphans 392,327.64 Profit On Bond Sold Or Matured.. 1188.13 Real Estate 2,309,972.86 Old Age Home (680,592.85) Transfer Account 765,237.00 Printing Plant S E.D.P. Emergency 69,848.59' Equipment 307,698.18 Tf "L. S765.425.13 Stocks 1,398,148.00 Loan To O.H. - U.N.A. lr ?tments: Housing Corp 104,551.04 Bonds Matured Or Sold 5485,341.77 Loan To U.N.U.R.C 5,320,000.00 Mortgages Repaid : 19,549.66 Certificate Loans Repaid 8,978.60 Total S64,172,700.64 Total 164,172,700.64 No. З THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JANUARY 21,1990

St., Winnipeg, Manitoba R2v 1У7. in all cities adjacent to the chain, there Fraternal activities... ^ Ukrainian Family Bible Associa– Rukh appeal... will be brief meetings and religious (Continued from page 5) tion, P.O. Dox 3723, Palm Desert, (Continued from page 7) services for Ukraine. І dent; Calif both economic and political, because The human chain will siretch along- b) sending religious books to U– You can also contact each of the only a sovereign Ukrainian state can side the highway Kiev — ^hytomyr — kraine. Several articles have been chancery offices of your local eparchy rescue us from radioactive death, and Rivne — Ternopil — Lviv. in Kiev it printed on this subject in the UNA both in the U.S. and Canada, or other return to us our lost rights, safeguard will stretch from St. Sophia's square press. The articles included addresses of organizations in your locality, involved the honorable life of man, fortune and along volodymyr Street, j Taras Shev– organizations to contact in order to in this activity. prosperity for our children. chenko Boulevard and Prospect Pere– contribute. To send money for medical supplies The popular movement (Rukh) calls mohy. Everyone who is concerned These areas of activities can be under- and other items to help Chornobyl on all citizens to take part in the about the fate of Ukraine, about their taken by UNA districts, branches or victims: celebration of the day of the reunifica– own fate and the fate of their children, individual members. Districts, branches 9 Children of Chornobyl Relief tion of Ukrainian lands. On Sunday, will be there along the roiite in order to or members, can act individually, or Fund, 272 Old Short Hills Road, Short January 21, at noon, we propose to jointly, with clasped handb, feel that the cooperate with anchor support other Hills, N.J. 07078 (201) 543-2918; or to form a human chain of unification force which could divide us, will no organizations that have already ini– the fund clo Ukrainian National Asso– between the former capitals of both longer be there. tiated action in this area. The amount ciation, 30 Montgomery St., Jersey Ukrainian states — Kiev and Lviv. At 4 of effort and contribution can very City, N.J. 07302. p.m. in the square of St. Sophia's HURYN MEMOR1ALS according to the organization's or To donate money specified for reli– Cathedral in Kiev, and simultaneously gious books to Ukraine or for victims of FOR THE F1NEST 1N CUSTOM MADE individual's means and ability to contri– MEMORIALS INSTALLED IN ALL CEME– bute both effort and money. Chornobyl, contact the Ukrainian S1NCE 1928 TER1ES 1N THE METROP!OLiTAN AREA credit union in your local area for The activity can range from the SENKO FUNERAL HOMES of New York including Holy Spirit in district organization's holding a lengthy information. Many Ukrainian credit H^mptonburgh, N.Y,, St. Andrew's m South drive which results in raising thousands unions have established accounts to New York's only Ukrainian family owned 4 Bound Brook, Pine Bush Cemetery in operated funeral homes of dollars, to an individual member's ensure that funds are channeled to the Kerhonkson and Glen Spey Cemetery donating just enough money to cover right agencies. ^ Traditional Ukrainian services personally in Glen Spey, New York. the purchase of and postage for a S4 By following the above suggestions conducted We offer personal service 8, guidance in your religious song book. you will be doing your part in helping ^ Funerals arranged throughout Bklyn, Bronx, home. For a bilingual representatives call: other Ukrainians. As a member of New York, Queens, Long island, etc. We urge you to get involved in one or ^ Holy Spirit, St. Andrews Cem. 6 all others 1WAN HURYN more of the above activities. You may Batko Soyuz you will join other mem– international shipping P.O. Box 121 contact various Ukrainian organiza– bers in extending a helping hand to 9 Pre-need arrangements Hamptonburgh. N.Y. 10916 tions, who are already involved the those in need. Tel.: (914) 427-2684 This is what fraternalism, and what Senko Funeral Home Hempstead Funeral Home BOHDAN REKSHYNSKYJ above-mentioned activities. Here are 213 Bedford Ave. 89 Peninsula Blvd. some organizations you can contact: the Ukrainian National Association, is 45 East 7th Street Brooklyn, N.Y. 11211 Hempstead. 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Metropolitan Archbishop, 235 Scotia Please help us in giving God's Word to our brothers and sisters in Ukrainian by UKRAINIAN UKRAINIAN SINGLES sending generous contributions to Ukrainian Family Bible Association which is non-profit and NEWSLETTER non-denominational Association. TYPEWRITERS Thank you, God bless you all. ' also other languages complete Serving Ukrainian singles of all ages line of office machines A equipment. throughout the United States and Canada. UKRAINIAN FAMILY BIBLE ASSOCIATION JACOB SACHS For information send a self-addressed P.O. Box 3723, Palm Desert, CA 92261-3723. (619) 345-4913 251 W 98th St stamped envelope to: New York. N. Y 10025 Tel. (212) 222 6683 Single Ukrainians 7 days a week P.O. 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January 26 filmmaking in Ukraine today, fea– PREVIEW OF EVENTS turing festival coordinator Prof. NEWARK, N.J.: Americans for January 27 dents, are suggested. For more infor– Roman Bahry, film director Olek– Human Rights in Ukraine will spon– sander Koval of Kiev, Canadian PH1LADELPH1A: The Ukrainian mation call Laryssa Krupa, (201) sor a lecture by Olha Horyn, former 539-4937, or the church, (201) 539- documentary film maker Ariadne Soviet prisoner of conscience and Hutsul Society Cheremosh will hold 2141. Ochrymovych and Kiev film director Ukrainian Catholic Church activist its annual malanka at 9 p.m. at the Evhen Shabotenko, at 7 p.m. The on uThe Ukrainian Church in De– Ukrainian Educational and Cultural January 28 program will also feature a screening fense of the Ukrainian Nation, Past Center, 700 Cedar Road. There will of the films, "Mi-kro-fon" on Chor– and Present" at 7:30 p.m., St. John be a performance by the Cheremosh WH1PPANY, N.J.: A Ukrainian nobyl, and "Where is the Well– the Baptist Ukrainian Catholic dance school and the music group independence Day program will be Spring?" on volodymyr ivasiuk. Church hall, Sandford Avenue and Khloptsi zi Lvova (Boys from Lviv) held at 4 p.m. at St. John the Baptist will provide music for dancing. For Other screenings will take place at 7 ivy, Street. This is the seventh in Ukrainian Catholic hall, Route 10. it p.m. on January 30 and February 1, more information and table reserva– will feature an address by Olha AHRU's Friday night series on 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. and then again at 2 current events in Ukraine. A wine tions call Roksolana Luciw, (215) Horyn, former political prisoner and 635-5109, or Dmytro Fedorijchuk, Ukrainian Catholic Church activist p.m. on February 3. Admission is S5 and cheese reception will follow the per person, S3 per seniors and stu– question-and-answer period. For (215) 725-0429. from Lviv, on "Ukrainian Churches in Defense of the Ukrainian People: dents. For more information call more information call AHRU, (201) MORR1STOWN, N.J.: The Nova Prof. Bahry, (416) 736-2100, ext. 373І-9729. Past and Present." For more infor– Chamber Ensemble will present the mation call (201) 543-4024. 33792, or Olga Cirak, (416) 736-5132, second concert of their performance ext. 77305. WASHINGTON: The Ukrainian season at 8 p.m. in the Church of the January 29-February 3 Association of Washington and the Assumption, 91 Maple Ave. The February 3 Copimittee for the Defense of Free– program will feature the first perfor– TORONTO: York University's dom of Religion in Ukraine will mance of David Sampson's "Permit Stong College will host the "Ukrai– CH1CAGO: The Ukrainian institute sponsor a talk by Andrew Sorokow– Me voyage" for cello and piano, The nian Glasnost Film Festival 1990," of Modern Art, branches 101 and 84 skij, director of the research and work was written in 1972 originally featuring the screening of 20 new of the Ukrainian National Women's documentation of the Ukrainian for viola and piano. The program documentary, animated and feature League of America invite the public Catholic Church in Rome, on "The will also include Frank Bridge Phan– films and panel discussions on pere– to an evening of poetry featuring Role of Religion in Ukrainian So– tasie Trio No. 1, and Gabriel Faure budova and film, Chornobyl and Lina Kostenko, prominent Kiev ciety" at 7:30 p.m. at the St. Sophia Piano Quartet No. 2 in G minor. The ecological problems, Stalinist repres– poet, at 7 p.m. in the hall of Ss. Religious Association House, 2615 performers will include violinist sion and the famine, poetic cinema volodymyr and Olha parish. Dona– 30th St. NW. A donation of S5 is Christopher Lee, violist Michael Ste– and cinema-verite, at the Curtis tions of S10 per person, S5 for suggested. For more information call wart, cellist Erick Friedlander and Lecture Hall "L", Ross Building. The seniors, are suggested. For more Natalka Gawdiak, (301) 622-2338, pianist Laryssa Krupa. Donations of festival will begin on January 29 with information call Chrystyna Taran, after 7 p.m. 510 for adults, S7 for seniors and stu– a panel discussion on documentary (708) 439-8499.

Pavlo Zaitsev: TARAS SHEVCHENKO A L1FE Edited and translated by George S. N. Luckyj

Published for the Shevchenko Scientific Society by University of Toronto Press, Toronto-Buffalo-London, 1988, printed in Canada, pages 284. Hard cover, price S30.00. Pavlo Zaitsev tells extraordinary life-story of Ukraine's greatest literary genius and national hero. Taras Shevchenko not only survived ^w Jto Пі"' an incredible odyssey of misery in prisons and exile, but managed to transform his suffering into poetry that expressed the aspiration of his enslaved nation.

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