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Ukraine's Communist Party taices stoc/c Lukianenko arrives in Brussels of its position after election losses To travel to Paris for Helsinki Accords meeting by Kathleen Mihalisko Zhytomyr, Poltava and elsewhere for Americans for Human Rights in Ukraine not understanding the mood of the On May 16, at a plenum of the electorate, he also felt that they had BRUSSELS - Lev Lukianenko, Ukrainian Communist Party's Central erred in treating "unhealthy, anti-social former Soviet political prisoner and Committee devoted to "the tasks of manifestations" too leniently. Mr. current head of the Ukrainian Helsinki republican party organizations in the Shcherbytsky had in mind the various Union, set foot in the West for the first strengthening of party and political citizens' support groups and campaign time on Friday, June 9, in Belgium at work in current conditions," Ukrainian staffs of candidates who were opposing the invitation of Amnesty International party leader Volodymyr Shcherbytsky local authorities in the elections. in Brussels. provided some insight into how the The Ukrainian Communist Party A press conference attended by 45 highest echelon of the republican leader­ first secretary appeared to excuse people, followed at the International ship views the failure of a number of officials whose behavior drew the Press Center at 11 a.m. of the same day, important Ukrainian officials to be attention of the Central Electoral conducted by AI representative and elected to the Congress of People's sponsor Albert Nebott, who spoke in Deputies. Commission, pointing out that during campaign meetings they often had to French. Mr. Shcherbytsky also revealed his face "so-called 'support' groups and At his press conference, Mr. Lukia­ attitude toward the political awakening informal associations, including some nenko thanked Amnesty International of the Ukrainian public in the wake of and those in the audience for efforts in the country's first multicandidate elec­ of anti-party orientation. These resort­ ed to obstructionism and the public his behalf and that of other political tions, leaving the impression that the prisoners in the Soviet Union. He talked Ukrainian party leadership not only insult of candidates they disliked, as well as threats; they provoked dis­ of the sufferings of many in their efforts remains largely unchastened after the to effect change in the Soviet Union. defeat of several of its key candidates, orders." Mr. Shcherbytsky mentioned Kre- He noted that millions of people in but is as determined as ever to stamp out the Soviet Union that have been ex­ the sources of popular challenge to its menchuk, Melitopil and, once again, Rivne and Zhytomyr as areas where the ploited by a dictatorial power structure authority. that has resisted change and a sharing of Throughout his address to the ple­ situation was tense enough to warrant the intervention of the Central Electoral power. The present leaders, he said, num, Mr. Shcherbytsky harshly con­ would like to see the population combat demned the Ukrainian Helsinki Union Commission. It seems not to have bureaucracy but not turn against the and the Popular Movement of Ukraine occurred to Mr. Shcherbytsky that, for party itself. This has created a contra­ for Perestroika (Rukh) for harboring instance, the movement in support of diction in the Communist Party unacceptable positions. He was also the successful candidacy of Alia Yaro- methods. disturbed by the activities of informal shynska in Zhytomyr was a broadly based one that drew momentum from Recent changes in the Soviet Cri­ citizens'groups that did not necessarily minal Code, he pointed out, are diver­ have any relation to either of these two the machinations of officials during the (Continued on page 10) sionary tactics that retain a reactionary Lev Lukianenko in Brussels. organizations. character. Methods of repression such For instance, although he mildly For a story on Alia Yaroshynska, see as 15-day arrests and threats of job loss seemingly less harsh than in the past, criticized party committees in Rivne, "A Glimpse of Soviet Reality" page 2 or expulsion from a university are but are merely newer methods to pro­ duce the same result - conformity to the dictates of the party. In spite of continued psychiatric Aeroflot changes baggage rules for returning Sovietsabuse, suppression of student activity and confiscation of unofficial publica­ NEW YORK - Travelers return­ limited number of rubles for Western burden for the visitors or their tions, the process of democratization ing to the Soviet Union and the currency. The amount has been American hosts, especially since the will not be stopped, Mr. Lukianenko occupied Baltic states from the approximately S600 per traveler, new demand for extra dollars comes underlined. Despite various forms United States via Aeroflot are being however, this was recently reduced literally at the departure gate. The of harassment, the Ukrainian Helsinki told that due to a new rule which by about half. problem is especially accute for Union continues to move forward in went into effect March 26, they are In practice, this means that Soviets returnees who have already left their this process of democratization. Sup­ being permitted to take back only and residents from Soviet-occupied hosts in distant American cities, port from the West is imperative for this one piece of baggage if they are countries can travel to the West only arriving at Washington's Dulles or process to succeed. holding economy excursion tickets, if they have friends or relatives who New York's Kennedy airports — the National freedom in Ukraine pre­ reported the Estonian American will provide housing, food and other only U.S. departure points for Aero­ sents a complex situation in a country National Council. financial support for them during flot - without any more dollars in that has been under a dictatorship for Whether they originally arrived their stay. In fact, those Americans their possession. the past 70 years, Mr. Lukianenko said, with two pieces of luggage or not inviting Soviets for visits must sign a One elderly woman burst into adding that a renaissance of culture, does not matter. The choice the document guaranteeing that they will tears at Dulles Airport recently: "I language and tradition is needed as a travelers are being presented with as assume all costs connected with the have no dollars! What do I leave prelude to ultimate freedom. they attempt to check in for their trip before the potential visitor can behind, the gifts for my grandchil­ He called upon Western nations to flight is: leave behind your extra even obtain a Soviet exit visa. dren or the warm boots for my press the USSR to comply with the baggage or pay Я08 for the second While here, Soviet visitors nor­ husband?" Helsinki Accords. piece, noted the New York-based mally stock up on electronics, clothes Another passenger took the new Following the press conference, Mr. EANC. and other Western commodities in rule as further proof of the imminent Lukianenko met with the Ukrainian Due to the unavailability of hard short supply in the USSR. These collapse of the Soviet economy:"That participants from the Conference on the currency, Soviet travelers are forced VCR s, tape recorders and jogging a so-called superpower needs to Human Dimension taking place in to fly Aeroflot; rubles will not buy shoes are usually paid for by the extort dollars from its own citizens Paris as part of the Helsinki Accords them a ticket on any other airhne. in American host. shows the depths to which the USSR review process. addition, the ordinary Soviet tourist The new surcharge may present an has sunk. This is a great embarrass­ Among those greeting him were: Vera is permitted to exchange only a insurmountable additional financial ment for Mikhail Gorbachev." Eliashevska, Maria Zarycky and (Continued on page 15) THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JUNE 18, 1989 No. 25

A GLIMPSE OF SOVIET REALITY GLASNOST DIARY: Zhytomyr crusader Alia Yaroshynska: recording changes in the USSR

from journalist to people's deputy Hitting the jackpot The lottery organizers made 2,400 rubles (S3,800) by giving away prizes, by Kathleen Mihalisko slander against Ms. Yaroshynska that Ira, a Ukrainian schoolgirl from sortie of which cost less than the tickets. seemed to originate with Tkach and her Stakhanov, recently won the lottery. It is not known where the organizers One of the success stories of the chief editor. Yetunlike the West's multimillion dollar obtained the goods that were given elections to the USSR Congress of Subsequent attempts by Mr. Panchuk standards, she went home with some­ away. People's Deputies belongs to 35-year- and the Zhytomyr City Executive Com­ thing more precious - several rolls of old Alia Yaroshynska, a correspondent mittee to keep Ms. Yaroshynska and toilet paper, a towel and a small bowl, Scholarly exchonge for the Ukrainian regional newspaper perestroika at bay boomeranged in wrote John lams of the Associated Radianska Zhytomyrshchyna, who similar fashion. When Ms. Yaroshyn­ Press. The Soviet Ministry of Foreign trounced four other candidates in her ska wrote a piece on how some officials Literaturnaya Gazeta reported that Affairs and a group of U.S. universities bid to become people's deputy by and their relatives jumped the queue for Ira bought three tickets for 50 kopeks signed an agreement to allow for the capturing 90.4 percent of the vote in the housing and were assigned prestigious each (81c) which was actually more exchange of scholars and diplomats to Zhytomyr territorial district. apartments, the story was "spiked" at than the actual prices of many of the study the history and discuss the future As a specialist in industrial and social the last moment by Radianska Zhyto­ prizes. But, the newspaper wrote: of relations between the two super­ problems who became known for her myrshchyna - yet the same incrimi­ ''Don't forget that there are great powers, UPI recently reported. articles about corruption and abuse of nating information appeared in an shortages. In the city of Stakhanov, The exchange, scheduled to begin in power of officials in Zhytomyr, Ms. article she prepared for Pravda in except for the lottery, one cannot get 1990, was announced by Andrei Ivano- Yaroshynska's lopsided victory over the August 1988, and made all the more these goods." vich Stepanov of the Ministry of For­ candidates favored by the targets of her embarrassing because it included the Other lucky tickets holders in that eign Affairs and James Millar, repre­ exposes was an indication that demo­ names of people who had tried to city won hens, pigs, goats, toilet paper, senting the Association of Professional cratization had reached the Soviet prevent her investigation from seeing detergent and bath soap. The lottery, Schools of International Affairs. ''provinces." the light of day (such as L.M. Khom- which sold 20,000 tickets, was held in The agreement will allow 13 U.S. The arrival of democracy did not, chuk, chairman of the City Executive honor of the 175th anniversary of universities with departments of inter­ however, come about without first Committee, and Vasyl Kobliansky, Stakhanov, 500 miles south of Moscow national affairs to work with the Foreign turning Zhytomyr into a political second secretary of the Zhytomyr in the Don Basin coal mining region of Ministry in exchanging scholars, diplo­ battlefield whose impact will be felt in Oblast Committee). Ukraine. mats and economists for the study of the Ukrainian city for a long while to Other all-union publications took an American-Soviet diplomatic relations. come. interest in this journalistic tug-of-war It will include mutual exchanges of Ms. Yaroshynska's celebrity dates to between the "provinces" and Moscow. Petro Sichko arrested, lecturers and political figures, and joint the period following the plenum of the In the summer of 1988, Zhurnalist sent research projects. Central Committee of the Communist Mikhail Zherebkin to look into the son Vasyl threatened Party of the Soviet Union in January accusations and counter-accusations LONDON - Petro Sichko was 1987, which ushered in the era of the surrounding Ms. Yaroshynska. Al­ arrested on June 7 in the village of Shcherbytsky, others wholesale restructuring of Soviet so­ though Mr. Zherebkin found Radian­ Dolyna, Ivano-Frankivske oblast, and ciety and the organs of power. ska Zhytomyrshchyna to be lacking in later sentenced to 10 days' administra­ must go, says Yeltsin commitment to perestroika, he con­ tive arrest in Kalush. From there he was After the editors of Radianska Zhy- MOSCOW - Maverick Soviet cluded that "Confessions of a Provin­ taken to the western Ukrainian city of tomyrshchyna refused to print stories deputy Boris Yeltsin, speaking after a cial Journalist" contained several im­ Ivan-Frankivske. that she and a colleague, Ya, Zaiko, had day of deliberations of the recently portant inaccuracies and that Izvestia's His son, Vasyl Sichko, also is being written concerning corruption among concluded session of the Congress of Ms. Savelieva, for her part, had also threatened with arrest, reported the industrial and city authorities, Ms. People's Deputies, said that six of the distorted the facts. First Secretary of the London-based Ukrainian Press Agency. Yaroshynska sent off a piece called 12 members of the Politburo - in­ ^'Confessions of a Provincial Journa­ Zhytomyr Oblast Party Vasil Kavun Sources in Ukraine report that the and chief editor Mr. Panchuk wrote to cluding First Secretary Volodymyr list'' to Izvestia, where it was published reason for the elder Sichko's arrest was Shcherbytsky of the Communist in June 1987, and eventually judged by Zhurnalist to express gratitude for an appeal to the Congress of People's setting the record straight on Mmes. Party of Ukraine - should be dis­ the newspaper to be one of the best Deputies in Moscow which was passed missed. articles in that year. Yaroshynska and Savelieva. at a demonstration held to protest Others who should be removed, environmental damage in Ukraine on "Confessions'' must have had several Izvestia did not take this impugning according to Mr. Yeltsin, are: Yegor June 4 in the town of Kalush. The merits from 1/vestia's point of view: on the integrity of its correspondent K. Ligachev, the highest ranking appeal called the environmental da­ first. It brillantly exposed the arrogant lightly, reminding Mr. Kavun on its conservative; Viktor M. Chebrikov, mage in Ukraine a "crime." and irresponsible behavior of the type pages of the resolution taken by his own former KGB chief, Vadim A. His son, Vasyl, is head of the newly of local official whom Mikhail Gorba­ Buro in June 1987, and asking if he Medvedev, president of the Russian formed Ukrainian Christian-Democra­ chev wanted to rout - and in V0I0- disavowed the obkom's previous posi­ SFSR; Vitalyl. Vorotnikovand Lev tic Front, a nationalist organization dymyr Shcherbytsky's Ukrainian fief- tion on "Confessions." N. Zaitsev, Moscow city party boss. based primarily in western Ukraine dom, no less; second, Ms. Yaroshynska Mr. Zherebkin's article also spurred ''Their time is past," said Mr. which campaigns for an independent posed highly pertinent questions about the ordinary citizens of Zhytomyr into Yeltsin, a populist from Moscow and democratic Ukraine. the role of the local press in the evolu­ action. An initiative group to defend who is seen as a leader of the oppo­ tion of perestroika. Among the people Ms. Yaroshynska against the "enemies The Sichkos have also been active in sition within the smaller standing she identified directly as standing in the of perestroika" was formed and nu­ relaunching the Ukrainian scouting or­ legislature, the Supreme Soviet. ganization Plast, which was founded in way of restructuring was her own chief merous letters were sent to Zhurnalist, Mr. Yeltsin's observations were Lviv in 1911 and later was established in editor, D. Panchuk. Izvestia, Pravda and the Commission of reported by The New York Times. Ms Yaroshynska's bold move in Party Control of the CPSU Central diaspora. drawing national attention to local Committee. Two of the city's major problems served to aggravate the pro­ enterprises, Avtozapchast and Promav- fessional and personal difficulties she tomatyka, began a drive to nominate the already had as a result of her investiga­ crusading journalist as a candidate for FOUNDED 1933 tive reporting. On June 24, the Buro of people's deputy. иІ:гаіпіапУееУі the Zhytomyr Oblast Communist Party Quite characteristically, Zhytomyr's admitted that he/ critique of the work of city and oblast party and executive An English-language Ukrainian newspaper published by the Ukrainian National party committees and certain economic committees did themselves much more Association Inc., a non-profit association, at 30 Montgomery St., Jersey City, NJ. leaders was justified, reprimanded Mr. harm than good by opposing the nomi­ 07302. Panchuk and upbraided the secretary nation and using a wide variety of of the primary party organization at tactics, some of them plainly childish, to Second-class postage paid at Jersey City, NJ. 07302. Radianska Zhytomyrshchyna, S. prevent Ms. Yaroshynska's registration (ISSN - 0273-9348) Tkach, for shortcomings. as a candidate. In the weeks preceding Nonetheless, although the minutes of the March 26 elections, two fiercely Yearly subscription rate: S20; for UNA members - JIO. the June meeting showed that the opposed camps arose: one consisting of Also published by the Шк Svoboda, a Ukrainian-language daily newspaper. paper's editorial board had approved Ms. Yaroshynska supporters, Litera- the resolution of the Buro, Mr. Tkach turnaya Gazeta correspondent Lidia The Weekly and Svoboda: UNA: got 19 people at the newspaper to sign a Grafova, Central Television (which (201) 434-0237, -0807, -3036 (201) 451-2200 letter to the Central Committee of the accompanied Ms. Grafova on a foray to Postmaster, send address CPSU expressing disagreement with Zhytomyr) and most of the city's inha­ changes to: Editor: Roma Hadzewycz "Confessions" and defaming Ms. bitants; and the other composed of the Associate Editors: Marta Kolomayets Zhytomyr authorities and the full The Ukrainian Weekly Yaroshynska's character. Following a P.O. Box 346 Chrystyna Lapychak visit to Zhytomyr by Izvestia correspon­ weight of the Ukrainian media. jersey City, N.J. 07303 dent L. Savelieva, Yaroshynska's ver­ As chronicled by Literaturnaya Ga­ sion of events was supported by the zeta, the campaign against Ms. Yaro- The Ulcrainian Weelcly, June 18,1989, No. 25, Vol. LVII goуегдщеяі, n^W^'Pap.^r, in August, shз^Jl^Jcд.^,,v^ДЗ^.vengeful indeed. Th?, Copyright 1989 by The Ukrainian Weekly 1987. Izvestia also pointed out the petty (Conthiued on page 15) No. 25 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JUNE 18, 1989

Baltic American organization protests Ukrainian students support Chinese bias in Associated Press news story NEW YORK - A delegation of 25 Ukrainian students joined the march Ukrainian students participated in the from the U.N. to the Chinese Consu­ ROCKVILLE, Md. - Baltic Ameri­ institute" based in Boston as saying the Chinese freedom rally held in New York late on the Upper West Side near 44th can groups preparing to commemorate pro-democracy movements include City on Friday, June 9. Street. Soviet atrocities perpetrated in the "Nazi sympathizers," a charge which The daylong program denouncing Numerous groups of onlookers, some Baltic states during World War 11 have the Baltic groups term "ludicrous." the Communist regime's slaughter of leaning out of oflice windows, applaud­ been targeted with ^^Soviet-style" pro­ The story notes: democratic student activists in Beijing ed the Ukrainian marchers who were paganda in the Associated Press, ac­ "Before World War 11, the Baltic on June 4, began in New York's China­ the only non-Chinese national group cording to a statement issued by the states and numerous nationalist groups town at 10 a.m. and was followed by a marching in solidarity with the Chinese groups today. ranging in ideology from democratic to march to Dag Hammarskjold Plaza American community. A June 13 AP story, which the Baltic fascist, said Chip Barlet of Political across from the United Nations com­ groups term "suspicious" and "possibly Research Associates, a research insti- pound where numerous city and state Many participants approached the a plant" seeks to associate the groups tue based in Cambridge, Mass., that politicians including Mayor Ed Koch students, thanking them for their sup­ and their stand for Baltic independence studies issues related to authorita­ and Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan(D- port. As one Chinese student emphati­ with anti-Semitism and fascism. rianism and fascism. N.Y.) addressed the gathering at 1 p.m. cally stated, "We're all in the fight for The story's lead reads: "Sen. Donald "After the Soviet Union absorbed the Despite steady rain, an estimated freedom. Communism is dead - let's Riegle of Michigan and two House Baltic nations, the emigres sought to 15,000 people took part in the demon­ bury it together." members arranged for a Capitol Hill bury their differences in a common anti- stration. The Ukrainian student delegation reception sponsored by Baltic Ameri­ Soviet cause. 'There is a range of Carrying several blue-and-yellow was organized by the New York branch can groups that oppose deportation of participation from sincere democratic Ukrainian national flags and posters of the Ukrainian Students Association suspects in Nazi war crimes to the nationalists to outright Nazi sympa­ reading "Freedom for China-Freedom of Mykola Mikhnovsky (TUSM), re­ Soviet Union." thizers,' Berlet said. 'Everybody keeps for Ukraine" and "Ukrainian Students sponding to an invitation by the rally These accusations are commonly their mouth shut, with an eye toward Support Chinese Democracy,'' the organizers. leveled by Soviet authorities at pro- the common purpose.' " democracy nationalists in the Baltic The story also attempts to cast suspi­ Republics, according to the statement cion on the Baltic American community U.S. Statement on religious freedom issued by the Joint Baltic American for its stand on deportation of alleged National Committee. Nazis to the Soviet Union, as well as for Following are excerpts of a state­ 1946, and the Ukrainian Orthodox The AP story, which appeared under its demand that such defendants receive ment on religious liberty made by Church was banned in the 1930s - the byline of AP writer Tim Bovee criminal trials in the U.S. The same Ambassador Morris Abram of the Stalinist times, Stalinist thinking. quotes a representative of a "research reforms which they seek, the Baltic United States delegation at the In April 1988, General Secretary organizations point out, have been Conference on the Human Dimen­ Gorbachev acknowledged to reli­ adopted in Canada and Australia, and sion on June 12 in Paris, gious leaders that "mistakes had been Latvian groups have been widely endorsed in U.S. Among other things, the Vienna made in the past." Present-day Soviet circles, including editorially in the Los Concluding Document commits the authorities, however, have been slow meet in France Angeles Times and The Washington participating states to allow indivi­ to correct this remnant of Stalin's (Continued on page 13) dual believers and communities of legacy. Local authorities continue to HUISMES, France - Leaders of the believers: refuse to register Ukrainian Catho­ world's largest Latvian organizations, ^ to establish and maintain freely lics, and clergy and lay activists representing major democratic and Latvian Front leaders accessible places of worship and as­ continue to be harassed, detained independence movements in both So­ sembly; and fined for their activity in the viet-occupied Latvia and the West, ^ to organize themselves; Soviet Union, despite glasnost. On concluded a historic five-day meeting at Canadian symposium ^ to give and receive religious Sunday, April 9, for instance, the on May 18 at the Latvian cultural center ROCKVILLE, Md. - Leadersofthe instruction in the language of their Rev. Petro Zeleniukh was reportedly Abrene near Chinon, France. Latvian Popular Front (LPF) recently choice; held and beaten by police as he tried This was the first formal meeting ever visited the West for the first time to ^ to allow religious training; to celebrate a liturgical service for between the elected leaders of these participate in an unprecedent sympo­ ^ to allow the production, the Ukrainian Catholics in a village in groups. sium in Gananoque, Canada, where importation and distribution of western Ukraine. The participants discussed possibili­ they met with over 100 North American religious publications and materials; Although it is easier for faiths to ties of joint cooperation in political, Latvians, including Western Latvian ^ to give the religious communi­ register in the Soviet Union today economic and cultural activity. They organization representatives, scientists, ties a greater role in public dialogue; than it was in the past, state policies also discussed the development of a legal experts and business leaders. and which are inconsistent with the coordinated global campaign to pro­ The symposium kicked off a one- ^ to grant upon their request commitments of Vienna remain. For mote sovereignty, self-determination month LPF tour of Canada and the recognition of the status provided for example, two historic Roman Catho­ and democratic reforms in Soviet- United States. them in their respective countries. lic Churches in Kiev remain closed occupied Latvia. The symposium, taking place in the ...To some extent we have seen despite the appeals of 1,500 believers. Participants from Latvia included of the LPF's overwhelming election implementation [of these provisions!, And because its members refused to board members of the Latvian popular victories in Latvia, shattered several as the level of tolerance has in­ register, a Baptist church in Rostov Front (LPF) and leaders of the Latvian previous Soviet-imposed taboos and creased. We see many examples of was demolished in April of this year. National Independence Movement signaled a new era in relations between this in the Soviet Union and some Imagine, demolishing a church be­ (LNNK) and the Latvian Rebirth Party. the two Latvian groups. other East European countries. De­ cause its members refuse to register, The Western delegation was headed by Prior to the advent of glasnost, velopments between Poland and the because its members refuse to render the board of directors of the World contacts with organizations such as the Holy See have been especially en­ under Caesar what is not his. Federation of Free Latvians (WFFL), American Latvian Association (ALA) couraging. However, there is still a And how do we explain the fact which included leaders of Latvian and the World Federation of Free considerable distance to go before that the Jewish community in Khar- organizations from the United States, Latvians (WFFL) often led to arrest there is full religious freedom in these kiv, reportedly around 75,(ІЮ0 strong, Canada, Australia, West Germany, and charges of "anti-Soviet agitation countries. continues to be refused permission to Great Britain and Sweden. and treason." As recently as last Decem­ Perhaps the most obvious sign that open the city's only synagogue? The WFFL, which advocates politi­ ber, two LPF Jnembers were criticized some states persist in regulating what These are some examples of non- cal independence for Latvia, has in in the Soviet Latvian press for meeting its citizens believe is the requirement compliance with the Vienna docu­ previous years been condemned by with the ALA in Washington. for church congregations to be re­ ment. The simple solution is let those Soviet authorities for promoting "anti- As the Gananoque conference, or­ gistered officially. Imagine, a state who wish to worship and build Soviet activities" within Latvia. Prior to ganized by the Latvian Popular Front saying a system or belief must be churches and synagogues do so the advent of glasnost, residents of Support Groups and the Canada-based registered. Even in those states where without hindrance from the state. Soviet-occupied Latvia had been sub­ Latvian Arts Trust Society, LPF Presi­ registration is not difficult, why And the state will not then fall as a ject to arrest for having contacts with dent Dainis Ivans announced that it was should the practice of a religion or a result, but will be strengthened. the WFFL and its member-organiza­ the LPF's goal to "open all channels of. belief exist outside the law unless it We hope that the new laws and tions, including the American Latvian communications between East and first bows to the power of the state regulations regarding religious prac­ Association (ALA). West" and "legalize within Latvia, the through required registration? Sure­ tices promised by the Soviet authori­ In April 1989, Dainis Ivans, presi­ ALA, WFFL and other Western Lat­ ly the right to worship is not Caesar's ties - which we will carefully look at' dent of the Latvian Popular Front vian organizations" so that they could business. in Copenhagen - will eliminate the announced the the LPF was seeking to fully participate in the rebuilding of And even when a faith is forced to requirement for registration and ''legalize" WFFL and ALA activities Latvia. accept the requirement of registra­ other restrictive practices. We also within Latvia, so that Western Latvians The April 6-9 symposium featured tion, why must some denominations hope that the Soviet authorities will could actively participate in events there. workshops on ecology, economy, law be denied recognition, in violation of incorporate into these laws and The Abrene Symposium was viewed by and academic exchanges. The LPF the Vienna Concluding Document? practices their commitment in the the participants as a historic first step members met with representatives of 11 For example, the Ukrainian Ca­ Vienna Concluding Document re­ in this process. recently formed LPF support groups in tholic Church and the Ukrainian garding the right to give and receive Although ALA and WFFL represen­ the U.S. and Canada, as well as ALA Orthodox Church continue not to be religious education for all ages, tatives had established contacts with the and WFFL spokesmen. recognized by Soviet authorities. The including the liberty of parents to LPF earlier this year, the meeting in The workshops produced a series of Ukrainian Catholic Church was ensure the religious and moral educa­ France was the first formal, public projects for extensive joint cooperation forcibly merged into the Russian tion of their children in the language meeting jointly sponsored by all the between the LPF and the Western Orthodox Church - forcibly - in they choose. ... groups involved. Latvian community. THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JUNE 18, 1989 No. 25

Vancouver residents recall Chornobyl Restored Ellis Island facilify by Stefan Lemieszewski Vancouver media as well. Prior to the memorial he gave interviews to CKVU to honor immigront experience VANCOUVER - A Chornobyl TV, BC TV, CKN W Radio, the Swedish press and the University of British memorial was held on April 16 at the Special from the Statue of Liberty'Ellis the Ellis Island restoration project Robson Square Media Centre in down­ Columbia Radio. Both CBC News TV Island Foundation was started. A fine-arts conservator town Vancouver, it was dedicated to and CBC News Radio covered the event covered large sections of graffiti- those who lost their lives as a result of and held interviews with Dr. Marples. NEW YORK - They are mes­ inscribed walls in the main building the Chornobyl nuclear disaster - the The Chornobyl memorial also in­ sages of brightest hope and deepest with protective materials, while world's worst such disaster emitting cluded a piano/violin recital performed despair, of joy, of anguish, and, in a construction crews devoted their skill radioactive iodine in amounts exceed­ by the Ukrainian composer Lubomyr few cases, of mere restlessness, and effort toward reversing what the ing Three Mile Island by 3 million times Melnyk and by Frederick Nelson, A few hundred yards away the years of neglect had done to the rest and being equivalent to 90 Hiroshimas. violinist for the CBC Vancouver Or­ Statue of Liberty beckoned and the of the building. The program was organized under chestra. The recital was from Mr. worid tlocked to Ellis Island, the As the main building restoration the auspices of the Ukrainian Canadian Melnyk's album "Concert-Requiem," gateway of the new world and a new project is now well under way, the Committee, British Columbia Provin­ which was composed specifically for the life for 17 million immigrants. These graffiti has been uncovered, so that cial Council. After a moment of silence, Ukrainian Famine Genocide of 1932- individuals would later leave their the art restoration and conservation opening remarks were delivered by 1933. marks on that world. But first, while expert and her assistants can perform Benno Friesen, member of Parliament In addition, the program included the pausing at the threshold in anxiety their meticulous and time-consum­ for Surrey-White Rock, and by Cliff presentation of a ceremonial check to and anticipation, some left their ing work. Serwa, member of the Legislative the British Columbia Cancer Founda­ marks as graffiti on the walls of the The work of the conservator blends Assembly for Okanagan South. Mr. tion to be used towards the purchase of Ellis Island immigration facility. ancient artistic skills with the latest Serwa is of Ukrainian descent and flew a mobilizer stretcher at the Radio­ Now, nearly 100 years after it scientific methods. The tools of her in from Kelowna specially for the event. therapy Department of the province's opened as an immigration depot, trade include everything from camel's The keynote address was delivered by Cancer Control Agency. This will be of Ellis Island is being prepared to re­ hair brushes and clay to dimethyl- Dr. David R. Marples of the Canadian benefit to cancer patients in the general open as a museum that will tell the tluoride or epoxy resins But the Institute of Ukrainian Studies, Univer­ community and serve as a reminder of story of immigration to America. conservator's most important tool is sity of Alberta. His speech was titled "A Chornobyl through an engraved plaque. The graffiti exhibit is just one of patience. Look at Chornobyl: Three Years Later" Funds are raised through the Chor­ many exhibits that will make up the Patience is required in all as­ and brought much new information nobyl Memorial Cancer Project or­ Ellis Island Immigration Museum, a pects of the job, from the initial about Chornobyl and stimulated the ganized by the Ukrainian Canadian 220,000-square-foot museum dedi­ analysis of the conservation mea­ audience into asking many questions. Professional and Business Association cated to telling the 400-year-plus sures needed, to the painstaking Dr. Marples is fast becoming the of Vancouver. To date, over S11,000 has saga of "the peopling of America." measures taken to remedy the da­ world renowned expert on the Chor­ been raised. Some of the graffiti is flowing mage and prevent continued decay. nobyl disaster. His second Chornobyl Also during the day, special memo­ script, some crabbed handwriting, "This project is among the mos^ book, titled "The Social impact of the rial prayers were said in churches some wordless. But each is a message challenging I have undertaken," said Chornobyl Nuclear Disaster," met with throughout the Vancouver lower main­ of emotion from the soul of some Christy Cunningham Adams, the brisk sales and had the audience cla­ land. They included Roman Catholic faceless transient traveling between head conservator on the project. moring for his autograph. and Anglican churches, and Ukrainian an old shore and a new one, between Mrs. Adams has removed graffiti Dr. Marples was in demand by the Catholic and Orthodox churches. a life left behind and a new one that is hundreds of years old from waiting ahead - a message written fine arts paintings and objects that to some equally faceless viewer living are themselves many hundreds of Canadian businessmen to visit Ulcrainetoday , tomorrow, a hundred years years old. from now, who might see and who "We have developed excellent by Marco Levytsky and North America and also to deter­ .may understand. methods for removing graffiti, but Editor, Ukrainian News of Edmonton mine what problems there are in form­ Though the pencilled, chalked, there are no established techniques ing these joint venture businesses and and sometimes scratched inscrip­ for preserving it. I have to adapt the EDMONTON - The first-ever trade examining the Ukrainian economy tions have been dulled by time and modern and the traditional techni­ delegation of business people from the sector by sector to determine where the mistreatment, the messages ring loud ques of preserving paintings to the Ukrainian community in Canada will best opportunities for economic and clear. One person, in an exulta­ problems of preserving graffiti, be visiting Ukraine at some point in the development are." tion of patriotism for the nation that fall, says Andriy Semotiuk, Edmonton which we ordinarily consider a form Recent developments in the USSR was about to adopt him, drew a of damage to be removed." liaison for the group. have opened up trade possibilities with figure waving a cloud of American One problem is that the graffiti at The group, which was organized by the West, and Alberta International ilags. Ellis Island was created with techni­ Toronto lawyer Bohdan Onyschuk, was Trade Commissioner Horst Schmid has No doubt overwhelmed by frustra­ ques developed to last. Fortunately, originally scheduled to visit this month, been travelling there on average once a tion and fear, one wrote "Maledetto however, one of those fine-arts but the trip was cancelled because hotel month to examine possibilities for il giorno...": "Damned is the day that techniques is at work here: during accommodations could not be ar­ Alberta businesses. ranged. I left my homeland." Another, who their many years of destitution, the perhaps had no written words to No date has been set for the new visit Following the conference the delega­ buildings were unheated and win­ command, recorded with equal but "the suggestion from Toronto is tion will proceed on a tour of Ukraine dows broken. The resulting climatic power his presence and need to leave that it will take place at the same time as which will mclude stops ш Kharkiv, conditions caused the carbonates of some mark by pencilling the outline the prime minister visits the Soviet Odessa, Lviv and Ternopil, the plaster to break down and then of his hand. Union," explained Mr. Semotiuk. The tour will probably be accompanied recrystallize around the graphite and pigments of the graffiti, forming a "The idea is to hold a two-day by Mr. Schmid and Roy Campbell, a The first steps in the preservation (Continued on page 13) conference in Kiev to discuss the senior officer of the Alberta Depart­ of this graffiti began in 1985, when possibilities of joint venture businesses ment of Fraternal and Intergovern­ for the benefit of Ukrainians in Ukraine mental Affairs. Pennsy Heritage Commission adopts agenda

HARRISBURG, Pa. - At a recent e produce a comprehensive directory meeting, the Pennsylvania Heritage of ethnic resources in Pennsylvania; Affairs Commission established an ^ sponsor a statewide conference on agenda for promoting and enhancing ethnicity in Pennsylvania, tentatively the state's ethnic cultures. scheduled for May 1990; ^ establish the ''Candid Culture'' Four policy areas were established by photographic competition as an annual the commission for in-depth committee project; focus, including the delivery of human ^ engage in a joint venture with the services in ethnic communities, preser­ federally funded American Industrial vation of Pennsylvania's cultural heri­ Heritage Project; and tage resources, the development of ^ collaborate on the writing of a multi-cultural education programs and publiction under the working title the encouragement of productive inter- "Pride of Pennsylvania," a collection of ethnic relations. essays written by commissioners to Lt. Gov. Mark S. Singel, commission showcase their own ethnic and cultural chairman, praised commissioners and pride. staff tor ''taking "^ht historic step to For more information on any of the make the commission proactive and activities of the Pennsylvania Heritage dynamic with a full plate of policy Affairs Commission, please copMct Dr. Conservator at Ellis island works on uncovering and preserving graffiti found responsibilities and programs." Shalom, Staub, executive direc. or of the inthe complex's main building. The commission also took action to: cojT^Tii;/'')п, at CM) 7S^-Ho25. : - No. 25 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JUNE 18, 1989 Seminar focuses on Office of Special Investigations

by Rasa Razgaitis the West cave m to a cojiceilecf KGB ef)on. not onh todiscied'^ ^^^ \ ^пя^: FART I but abo \o make the CLSC a pi' lUcal ''sbowpicce'" \і!и(^ ьіюиіс c'cate a schism hctxucr the Jev^isb атчі ) ^to- man resislaiice to ihe Scnjcls Mr. Iwanciw. an experienced professional in political affairs, ex­ plored some oi the motivauons lor the 10 )ears of support which the OSI has leceixed. Along with those \^ ith a legitimate desire to bring war criminals to justice, there are others who are using the cases to educate a younger genera­ tion about the Holocaust. Also, left-wing groups which seek to discredit ethnic supporters of a conser­ vative policy iiave made use of the issue. The Soviet Union has reaped benefits as well. The impact of OSi prosecutions has been felt not only by individuals who are impoverished by the prosecu­ Attorney John Broadley (right) describes the Demjanjuk defense's Freedom of tions, but by the ethnic communities as Information Act suit against the Office of Special Investigations. At left is seminar well, who have had limited funds di­ chairman Uldis Klauss of Americans for Due Process. verted from human rights issues, Mr. Iwanciw observed. She stressed that communism is the that at an\ time m the near past. The Defamation has occurred in the enemy in the entire Soviet Union, newest cases have been those against media and the press, sometimes inno­ including Russia. The Russian Ameri­ Volksdeutsche, who are alleged to have cently, sometimes intentionally, he can community was exposed to defama­ been guards at Auschwitz, Birkenau, continued. There ha\ e been a number of tion with the case of Vladimir Sokolov, Dachau, etc. These cases are being publications defamatory towards entire who was accused of collaborating with brought and settled very quickly by the Ms. Rikken noted that human rights ethnic groups. "It is difficult to promote the Nazis in the Russian city of Orel. OSI, either by having a person give up issues can be undermined and discre­ human rights issues, emigration, etc., Ms. Ordynsky also brought up the fact his citizenship, or by having him leave dited by the negative connotations of when you are on the defensive to prove that the Holocaust Museum in Wash­ the country. There isalsoaconsideraible possible association with "fascists." She that you are not anti-Semitic,"asserted ington will use archival material from number of cases against Latvian mem­ felt that the East European community Mr. Iwanciw. He noted the establish­ the USSR, which it will then pass on to bers of the security police. must take the OSl problem seriously as ment of a "selective guilt complex" in the OSI. There is a good chance that this it is a "Damocles sword which hangs Two Lithuanian individuals have the U.S. regarding the Holocaust. There Soviet-generated material will also be over the liberation issue." She recom­ been ordered deported to the Soviet is no such comparable phenomenon defamatory. mended a strong offense as the best Union and are awaiting decisions from concerning slavery, the treatment of defense and noted that interest in the the Board of Immigration Appeals. American Indians or Japanese intern­ crimes of the Stalin era have dramati­ Mrs. Razgaitis also recapped cases ment during World War II. cally increased in Estonia. Also, that Cases in court which she defined as "gone, but not Estonians, both under Soviet rule as Mr. Iwanciw concluded by noting forgotten." Among them those of John Rasa Razgaitis, ADP coordinator, well as in the West, have begun docu­ that just because the biological end of Demjanjuk, Andrija Artukovic, Vale­ acquainted the participants with some menting the history of that time, which the OSI is nearing, does not mean that rian Trifa. Ukrainians who have left the of the publications and work of Ame­ is sorely needed to correct the record. the issue is over. "The battle is still on. country and have eventually settled ricans for Due Process. She recapped She concluded: "Truth is a weapon Defamation will continue," he said. elsewhere in the past few years are: the OSrs major current cases, pro­ which can and must be used in the era of Eugenia Ordynsky spoke of the Bohdan Koziy in Costa Rica, which viding their legal status. She estimates glasnost." unique problems which face the Rus­ denied the USSR's request for his that there are currently only 16 cases Mr. Madisson described the disap­ sian American community in the area of extradition, Sergei Kowalchuk and which are being actively pursued by the pointment and depression of Estonians defamation. Most publications, the George Theodorovich in Paraguay. Nazi-hunting arm of the U.S. Depart­ in Estonia when the United States media, etc. do not differentiate be­ ment of Justice. deported Karl Linnas there in 1986 to tween the term "Russian"and "Soviet." Canadian situation stand trial for alleged war primes. He She felt that this is an important point She noted that the number of current John Gregorovich, an attorney with said it was especially disturbing to see to remember. active OSI cases is considerably smaller the Ford Co. in Canada, is president of the Civil Liberties Commission of the Ukrainian Canadian Commission, which has collaborated with Americans for Due Process on a number of pro­ jects. According to Mr. Gregorovich, the war criminals issues was raised spora­ dically in the Canadian press through the years after the world war. How­ ever, in the spring of 1984, serious allegations were beginning to surface that Joseph Mengele had at some point in time entered Canada. This assertion was made by Sol Littman oi the Simon Wiesenthal Center. He based his asser­ tion on a New York Times article written by Ralph Blumenthal. The information for the article was given to Mr. Blumenthal by Mr. Littman. Mr. Gregorovich used this as an example of how the media can be exploited in these cases. After the formation of a royal com­ mission to examine this and other related allegations that thousands of war criminals entered Canada after World War II, the head of the commis­ sion. Justice Jules Deschenes, issued his report on the matter. It was released to the public in March of 1987. The results were that the government decided to go forward with criminal legislation and changes were made to the citizenship and immigration acts to exclude war Seminar speakers included: (seated from left) Brian Gildea, Rasa Razgaitis, Eugene Iwanciw, John Gregorovich, criminals in the future who attempt to (standing, from Ш) S. Paul Zumbakis, Ivars Berzins, John Rogers Carroll, jo^ ?i Broadley, Eugenia Ordynsky, E. enter Canada. Randolph Tucker and Neil Hartell. (Continued on page 14) THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JUNE 18, 1989 No. 25

1 Ukrainian Weetly WASHINGTON UPDATE from the UNA Washington Office Democracy in China ll їВшн. Sfaiement update Rep. Hoyer spoke about the Confe­ ''The momentum for freedom,,.comes from a single powerful idea - rence on the Human Dimension taking democracy. This one idea - is sweeping across Eurasia. This one idea is whv UKRAINE SPOTLIGHTED: The place in Paris during June. It is the first the Communist world, from Budapest to Beijing, is in ferment. Of course, for third anniversary of the tragedy of of three conferences; the others to take the leaders of the East, it's not Just freedom for freedom's sake. But whatever Chornobyl was remembered in Con­ place in Copenhagen in 1990 and in their motivation, they are unleashing a force they will find difficult to channel gress with statements in the Congres­ Moscow in 1991. During his remarks he or control - the hunger for liberty of oppressed peoples who have tasted sional Record by Rep. David Bonior stated that "last week, three Ukrainian freedom."- President George Bush, in his address in Mainz, West Germany. (D-Mich.) on April 26 and by Rep. Catholic bishops and three priests, Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) the following including Bishop Pavlo Vasylyk and At the time President Bush delivered this address to the German people on day. On May 24, Rep, Duncan Hunter Father Hryhory Simkailo, whom I met May 31, democracy was on the march. Poland was preparing for its first (R-Calif.) informed his colleagues that in November, began a hunger strike to competitive elections in 40 years, while Hungary was moving toward multi­ he met with members of the Anti- call for the legalization of the Ukrai­ party elections. In the Soviet Union, the Congress of People's Deputies was Bolshevik Bloc of Nations and then nian Catholic Church. the scene of the unprecedented venting of myriad concerns and passions by submitted into the Record a memo from U.S.SOVIET TRADE: On April 18, hundreds of deputies. In China, tens of thousands of students and workers the ABN about Ukraine. Sen. Dennis DeConcini (D-Ariz.) sub­ were in the streets and squares to press their demands for democracy. UKRAINIANS SPOTLIGHTED: mitted to the Record a recent statement Four days later, on June 4, there were astonishing developments both in On May 1, Sen. Pete Domenici (R- by Helen Jackson, wife of the late Sen. Poland and in China. N.M.) informed his colleagues that Henry Jackson, on the Jackson-Vanik In Poland, the Communist Party candidates went down to a crushing Maria Olijnek Chopek, mother of Amendment. In her remarks, Mrs. defeat at the polls. Solidarity's candidates won 92 of the 100 seats in the upper former Supreme Advisor Anna Cho­ Jackson disagreed strongly with former house of the Sejm (parliament), with the remaining eight seats, where no pek, celebrated her lOOth birthday on Rep. Vanik's proposal for a two-year candidate earned 50 percent of the votes, to be decided in a runoff election on April 15 and gave a brief biography of waiver of the Jackson-Vanik provi­ June 18. In voting for the lower house. Solidarity won 160 of the 161 seats for her life. On June I, Rep. WiUiam sions. That same day. Sen. Alfonse which it was allowed to compete and a runoff will be held for the lone unfilled Hughes (D-N.J.) paid tribute to Ste­ D'Amato (R-N.Y.) submitted to the seat. In contrast, all but three of the 264 seats reserved for Communist and phen Romanik of St. Nicholas Ukrai­ Record an article from The Wall Street Commuhist-alHed candidates are subject to runoffs since no one won a nian Catholic Church in Millville, N.J., Journal of April 14 titled "Don't Waive majority in the first balloting. In addition, only two of the 35 unopposed on the occasion of his retirement. Mr. Jackson-Vanik Yet" written by Sen. Communist Party and party-allied candidates garnered the requisite 50 per­ Romanik played professional football DeConcini. Sen. Helms spoke out on cent of the vote. Thus the ruling Communist Party had been deah an em­ for the Chicago Bears and Chicago May 12 against any waiving of Jack­ barrassing blow - one that obviously presents a serious question about the Cardinals between 1950 and 1954. On son-Vanik until '4hey [Soviets] are legitimacy of the party's control over that proud nation. June 5, Rep. Paul Kanjorski (D-Pa.) committed to a free society." paid tribute to Rev. Stephen Adamiak, POLAND: The recent elections in In China, meanwhile, the forces calling for democratization - students pastor of St. Nicholas Ukrainian Ca­ Poland attracted comments by various and workers - were crushed on June 4 by the party. China's leaders saw the tholic Church in Nanticoke, Pa., who members of Congress including Sens. freedom-hungry people as a threat to their absolute power and sent in troops on June 4 celebrated the golden anni­ Robert Dole (R-Kansas), Arlen Specter and tanks to brutally rout the protesters from Tiananmen Square in Beijing. versary of his ordination into the priest­ (R-Pa.) and Frank Murkowski (R- The Beijing massacre, directed against a democratic and patriotic hood. Ark.), as well as Reps. Ritter and mpvement.coniposed primarily of students - which resulted in the deaths of SOVIET UNION: On May 25, Rep. Bonior. hundreds, perhaps thousands - has elicited expressions of outrage around Don Ritter (R-Pa.) discussed the issue the globe. of the so-called Soviet legal reforms and Legislation update But the pro-democratic revolt was not confined to the capital city. In other inserted into the Record the comments of cities, too, the troops of the People's Liberation Army engaged in a bloody Sergei Grigoryants, editor of Glasnost COMMEMORATIONS: On April suppression of peaceful demonstrators. The people's army - on the magazine, the May 7 editorial of The 13, Rep. Helen Bentley (R-Md.) intro­ command of the Communist Party leadership - had turned against on its Ukrainian Weekly, and a translation of duced H.J. Res. 2:8 which would people. The death toll, to date, is unknown. the hew law. The following week Rep. designate the week of September 24, as Now the party has begun to arrest leaders and participants of the pro- Ritter submitted to the Record his "Religious Freedom Week." A similar democracy protests. Hundreds have already been seized, and the people of recent op-ed piece titled "Cloud Over resolution, S.J. Res. 145, was intro­ China are being asked via the news media to turn in others. The country, Glasnost," which appeared in the May duced in the Senate on May 1^1 by Sen. according to Western news reports, is now gripped by fear. 26 issue of The Washington Post (and Claiborne Pell (D-R.I.) and 55 other At the same time, the Communist Party has set its propaganda gear in was reprinted in The Weekly on June senators. On June 7, Sen. DeConcini, motion to transform the story of the peaceful and patriotic demonstrators П.) for himself and 64 colleagues, intro­ who sought democracy into a tale of counterrevolutionary vandals and thugs On May 8, Rep. Dante Fascell (D- duced S.J. Res, 150, which would who wanted to overthrow the government. The Beijing massacre, the party Fla.) discussed the recent elections in designate August i, 1989, as "Helsinki line states, did not happen; it is all rumor and hyperbole. the Soviet Union and, the following day. Human Rights Day." On June 8, Rep. Rep. Donald Pease (D-Ohio) talked Nick Rahall (D-W.V.) introduced Simply put, the Communist leadership is engaging in the Big Lie. It is about the proposed Soviet labor laws. H.Con. Res. 146, which would designate rewriting history, but rewriting it so soon after the events in question that On May 31, Sen. George Mitchell (D- January 25, 1990, as "American Coal world public opinion is incredulous at this blatant disinformation. M?iine), the majority leader of the Se­ Miner Day." Around the world, people and governments are speaking out in support of nate, shared his views on U.S. policy U.S.SOVIET TRADE: On May 4, the murdered Chinese rights activists. We add our voice to those protests. toward the Soviet Union. On June 1, Sen. Steve Symms (R-Idaho) intro­ But, at the same time, we are hopeful because, though the symbol of the Rep. Guy Vandcr Jagt (R-Mich.) sub­ duced S.Res, 121, a resolution express­ democratic movement m China, the "Goddess of Democracy," was smashed mitted to the Record the recent remarks ing the sense of the Senate that the to bits in Tiananmen Square, we know that the spirit behind it is far from of Rep. William Broomfield (R-Mich.) president should instruct the secre aries eradicated. on the Soviet Union. of the Treasury, Defense and Com­ On May 18, Sen. Jesse Helms (R- merce to consult with allies on the N.C.) submitted certified copies of the impact on Western security of various Nazi-Soviet Non-Aggression Pact and types of private and public sectoi credit its secret protocols, German Foreign to the Eastern bloc. In his remarks, the Turning the pages back.,. Ministry documents of that period, and senator expressed his concern about the expert testimony to the authenticity of failing economies of the Eastern bloc the documents. The 1939 secret proto­ and the potential impact on Western cols, whose existence the Soviets have security of their debts to Western banks On June 22, 1941, Nazi Germany launched its attack on consistently denied, divided Eastern and countries. the Soviet Union, and by the end of the year, the Germans Europe between Nazi Germany and the On May 18, Sen. Symms introduced controlled 80 million people, or 42 percent of the Soviet Soviet Union. a similar resolution, S.Res. 132, which Union's population. Over 3 million German and allied troops stormed Soviet forces DEMOCRACY IN CHINA: On expressed the sense of the Senate that numbering over 2 million, forming a 2,000-mile front stretching from the White June 8, Rep. Bob McEwen (R-Ohio) the president should consult with allied Sea in the north to the Black Sea in the south. congratulated Reps. Dante Fascell leaders during the NATO Summit and and William Broomfield for their the Economic Summit meetings in The largest faction of the invading troops, the German army under Field resolution supporting the movement for Brussels and Paris about loans and Marshal Karl von Rundstedt, captured Ukraine, where the Germans won their democracy in China and condemning credits to the Soviet bloc. The resolu­ early successes. The ease with which the Germans took prisoners - among them the massacre of Chinese students. In his tion was immediately considered and 1.3 million Ukrainians - revealed Soviet weaknesses and the lack of popular remarks, the congressman pointed out passed by the Senate. support for the Soviet regime, especially in Ukraine. that "there was a time when the Soviet On May 10, Rep. Donald Pease Lack of support for the Soviets was even more pronounced among Ukraine's Union could destroy 14 million Ukrai­ introduced H.R. 2307, the East- civilian population, writes Orest Subtelny in his "Ukraine: A History." "In Western nians by starvation, and yet the left West Trade and Human Rights En­ Ukraine where Soviet rule was especially unpopular, the Germans were often praised the revolution that was going on hancement Act of 1989. The bill would welcomed as liberators. In Eastern Ukraine, the general reaction to the Germaiib in the Soviet Union." authorize the president to grant most- (Continued on page 13) HELSINKI PROCESS: On Mav 2^ (Continued on page 1^^ No. 25 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JUNE 18,1989

LETTER TO THE EDITOR A view from Conodo monopolism and totalitarianism Best solution: should be applied to all opponent orga­ by Orysia Paszczak Tracz nizations as weii. exist separately As for negotiations about one central Dear Editor: organization, such an organization A special woman The exchange of mutual accusations cannot be created by monopolistically in the letters of Alexander Sich, his oriented organizations. Why start these Dr. Irena Lubinsky died on Palm for her friends, and would devote much opponents and supporters (The Ukrai­ negotiations, if none of participants Sunday, April 23. A lengthy obituary in time to selecting a particular design for nian Weekly, Nos. 16, 20) is an example wants to abandon the desire to impose the Winnipeg Free Press listed her many each person. of polemics about nothing. his strategy on all the others? academic achievements; these were also The best solution, in my opinion, is to She did not care for the intricate, Mr. Sich's accusation that the Libera­ mentioned during her funeral services. fancy ones, but liked the simpler two- tion Front is a monopolistic and totali­ exist separately and do whatever each She was a recognized international organization considers is relevant. This and three4:olored ones of the Kiev and tarian organization is unfair because all authority on mollusks of the Canadian other regions of central Ukraine. It was the opponents to the Liberation Front will be much better than to start mutual Arctic. accusations in the style of the Soviet a pleasure to write pysanky for some­ organizations are actually twins to the one who loved and appreciated them so Liberation Front. 1 don't know any newspaper Pravda, affixing labels on What was not mentioned, or just each other, and not doing any real glanced over, was her galant, fierce much. Just last year I brought her some, organization - either opposed to or and one of my '4intraditionar' ones supporting the Liberation Front - work. battle with the cancer that destroyed her body - but this illness did not touch her moved her very much. This was a very whose Tuling body has changed in the Sviatoslav Karavansky simple floral motif taken from ceramics, last 15 years. So, the accusation of Denton, Md. spirit, her mind and her soul. For me, she will remain a very special person, an one that I had written for myself. It example of courage and determination I reminded her of her grandfather's tiled will remember whenever my minor stove. Shevchenko Ukrainian Language Society's aches and pains act up. As a scientist, she understood the Irena Lubinsky was born in Zhy- cancer invading her body. But she did appeal to Ukrainians worldwide tomyr in 1905. She was from an old not let it take her over. At times, she noble Kozak family, the Syniehuby, would be sad, knowing that death Below we publish, for the record, language in the Ukrainian SSR, for would come sooner rather than later. the appeal of the Tar as Shevchenko its priority functioning on the terri­ and was very proud of her heritage. Her father was a medical doctor, and served She talked about it, she planned, and in Ukrainian Language Society to the tory of the republic. her positive attitude she fought it. citizens of the Ukrainian SS Rand to We call to study Russian as a in the Volhynia region as well as Kiev. all Ukrainians living in Ukraine and means of communication between Once she reminisced about the year Even during her very last stay at the beyond its borders. the USSR nations. 1918 — when she was a child — remem­ hospital, there were books and news­ We representatives of Ukraine's We call to respect and support the bering being in a city square watching papers on the night table. Often, even working people, peasants and intelli­ cultures and languages of all na­ the city fathers announce that a free when she could barely speak, she would gentsia, united by our common tionalities living in Ukraine. Through Ukraine had been proclaimed in Kiev. ask, "Orysenko, rozkazhit, shcho no- concern over the future of the Ukrai­ our entire activity we'll help them They crossed themselves and bowed to voho?" [Orysia, tell me, what's new?J nian language as a major basis of the develop their own cultures and lan­ each of the four directions of the earth. Dr. Lubinsky always wanted to know original character and spiritual po­ guages, and encourage them to Everyone present wept with joy. This about a new book, an interesting article, tential of Ukrainian nation, gathered master the language of the Ukrainian moment remained with her. a lecture. people. in Kiev for the constituent confe­ She was there during the famine of It saddened me that she had no rence and established the Ukrainian Dear compatriots! Workers and children to be with her,especiaily new, peasants, workers of culture and the 1930s. She wouldn't talk much Language Society named after Taras about that, except that she remembered but then, she and George married late in Shevchenko. science, party and state figures, life. I was very happy for her when her teachers, servicemen and workers of the people's faces, and had heard about The withdrawal from the Leninist individual cases of cannibalism. When I niece from Kiev visited with her for a nationalities policy in the period of law-enforcement bodies, medics and whole month in I)ecember. That gave engineers, believers and pastors! We called her about attending the premiere Stalin's rule and Brezhnev's stagna­ of the film "Harvest of Despair," she Dr. Lubinsky new energy and hope. tion resulted in the catastrophic address you with an appeal to show When a friend and I yisited them for your understanding of historical said she wouldn't go. "I lived through it situation, when the language of one once, and my heart wouldn't be able to lunch, she struggled off the couch — but of the largest nationalities of the responsibility and contribute to the sat at the head of the table. The conver­ patriotic cause of our people. take seeing it again" (this was soon after world lost its state, uniting and social a heart attack). sation was about literature, art and functions. Lack of cons4;itutional We address our kinsmen living in other interesting subjects. Then she protection of the Ukrainian lan­ other republics, in the socialist and She finished her studies in zoology at began reciting from memory a very long guage, estrangement of administra­ capitalist states, as well as in the Kiev University, and became a member passage of a poem, and seemed almost tive bodies from the people and developing countries. We call them of the Ukrainian Academy of Sciences. irritated that I did not recognize im­ disregard of the native language led to help and give our effort not just During the second world war, know­ mediately an early Pavlo Tychyna to a decrease in the people's intellec­ moral support but concrete aid. We ing how her family had suffered under work. tual potential, became a factor of realize that cultural activity of all the Soviets, she went West. Dr. Lubin­ esthetic and ideological unscrupu- Ukrainians, irrespective of their sky worked at Poznan University in At other times, she liked to read lousness. Purity of the language place of residence, must be part and Poland, and later walked from there to Yevhen Malaniuk, especially his poems means lucidity of mind, conscience parcel of all-Ukrainian culture — a Austria. She was in Berlin for part of the on the autumn of one's life. To the end and the life ideal. unique and valuable gain in the war, and her dissertation was lost in a she lived in her own house, surrounded world spiritual treasure-trove. fire after an air attack. Later, in Ca­ by the paintings, the Oriental rugs, the There are theorists and ideolo­ Tibetan urns and other fine objects gists wishing to impute to people Dear brothers and sisters! Let's nada she had to write her doctoral work together so that Ukrainian be dissertation all over again, and she did. which she appreciated so much. indifference to the language pro­ Even though she had no family here, blem , an ideology of national nihi­ widely used in families and kinder­ After the war, Soviet citizens were gartens, at schools and institutes of she had many friends who cared for her. lism, indifference to national history being hunted and forcibly repatriated. Her funeral showed how she was loved and lack of historical memory. But higher learning, at enterprises, state Dr. Lubinsky again walked to escape, and party establishments, in cinema, and respected by her friends, colleagues this is not true. Restructuring creates this time across all of Germany, south to and students. Her close friends are to be the best possible conditions for the radio and TV programs. Let's revive north. But in seeking out fellow acade­ the feeling of national pride and commended for their care and concern. people's spiritual resurgence, for mics she still lived in fear, waking up She will be especially missed by mem­ granting the Ukrainian language full dignity as high moral criteria. Let's before dawn and moving on, because revive respect for our ancestors, who bers of the Ukrainian Academy of Arts rights. even among them there were those eager and Sciences in Canada, for whom she The Taras Shevchenko Ukrainian had been nurturing and preserving to betray a fellow scholar. our language for the centuries of was a spiritual and actual link to the Language Society, guided by the original Akademia Nauk in Kiev. documents adopted at the consti­ social and national oppression. In Germany she met her husband, tuent conference, is resolute to bolster Let's be active in responding to the George, a medical doctor from Kiev, I regret that she never got around to the revival of Ukrainian through its success of restructuring in all aspects and together they went first to Italy, recording her reminiscences. At first she concrete activity, which will add to of life in' Ukraine and the Soviet then to Rawalpindi, Pakistan, where he was afraid of repercussions against her the revival of real fraternity of Union. worked in a military hospital. In Ca­ family in Ukraine. She always worried peoples of our multinational coun­ Let's take an active part in elec­ nada first they lived in Montreal, then about them. Later, she said, "Who try. We need energy and effort on the tions to the highest body of state settled in Winnipeg. They were mem­ would be interested in my life, lam just part of the Ukrainian nation and all power, vote for those who will bers of the faculty of the department of an ordinary person?" And then, it was those showing respect for it and selflessly serve the people, protect zoology at the University of Manitoba. just too late. Maybe her story will still wishing it good. their land, songs and language, as Dr. George Lubinsky died in 1981. be told from what can be collected from We call on all Ukrainians and well as the songs and languages of I met Dr. Lubinsky in the University her friends. representatives of other nationalities, fraternal peoples. Library. Even though her field was who linked their destiny with the Join the Taras Shevchenko Ukrai­ Arctic mollusks, she would visit the I learned very much from her ex­ Ukrainian people, to support the nian Language Society. Set up the Slavic Collection to get books and ample — not to let the aches of the body demand of constitutional protection society's primary organizations in periodicals on literature, poetry, cur­ interfere with life itself, to stay interest­ of the Ukrainian language, to come localities - at industrial enterprises, rent events, the arts and antiquity.Then ed, constantly to learn. She was an out for granting if the status of state (Continued on page 11) she learned that I wrote pysanky, she elegant, dignified lady. It was a pleasure would order some from me every spring and a privilege to have known her. THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JUNE 18, 1989 No. 25

BOOK NOTES BOOK REVIEW Historical essays by Rudnytslcy English version of Zaitsev booi^ 'EDMONTON - Recently the Cana­ Taras Shevchenko: A Life by Pavlo Zaitsev; George S. N. Luckyj, tr,, ed. SL intro. dian Institute of Ukrainian Studies Toronto'Buffalo'London: University of Toronto Press, 1988. xi ^ 284pp, x 4 color published "Essays in Modern Ukrai­ plates. nian History'' by the late Ivan L. by Dk. Wolodymyr Zyla texts. Thus Shevchenko's works written Rudnytsky, a leatling historian of in Russian should not have been trans­ modern Ukraine noted for his original In 1988, anticipating by a year the lated into Ukrainian as Dr. Zaitsev did interpretations. The volume, which 175th anniversary of Taras Shev- in his original in order to please readers brings together Dr. Rudnytsky's chenko's birth (1814), the Shevchenko who knew no Russian. If we want truly English-language essays, was edited by Scientific Society honored its great to please the readers, then such transla­ the author's son, Peter L. Rudnytsky, patron — and Ukraine's greatest poet tions should have appeared in the foot­ assistant professor of English and - with an abridged translation of notes, while the texts themselves should comparative literature at Colur bia "Zhyttia Tarasa Shevchenka" by the have been left in the original language. University. distinguished scholar Pavlo Zaitsev. There moreover arises, in conjunc­ The U.S. edition of the book was Dr. Zaitsev's work as a scholar in the tion with the Russian language itself, published by the Harvard Ukrainian field of Shevchenko studies began the painful question of the validity of Research Institute. before the revolution of 1917 with his Dr. Luckyj's frequently having relied Dr. Rudnytsky (1919-1984) taught publication of some valuable and pre­ on Soviet sources. I submit that, in fact, history at La Salle College, American viously unknown materials. Later, as a to do so is invalid. We know quite well, University and the University of Al­ lecturer at Warsaw University, he was for example, that, precisely because berta. He edited several important authorized to edit Shevchenko's collect­ they control all access to Shevchenko's historical volumes, and a collection of ed works ""Povne Vydannia Tvoriv manuscripts, the Soviets can and do his Ukrainian-langi^ge essays appear­ Tarasa Shevchenka." Vols. 2-15. War­ continue to falsify the poet's work in ed in 1973. ?i ^ in his introduction, a number of Dr. saw: Ukrainian Scientific Institute, order to obscure the fact that he is a "Essays in Modern Ukrainian Rudnytsky's essays have become firmly 1934-1938). Because no modern bio­ great Ukrainian national poet instead of History," which includes several pre­ established in international historio­ graphy of the poet had been published the "revolutionary democrat" that viously unpublished works, ranges over graphy as definitive treatments of their in either Soviet Ukraine or western would conform with their ideological major problems of political and intellec­ subjects. This collection, which repre­ Ukraine under Poland, the Ukrainian requirements. We also know that they tual history: Ukraine's place in Europe, sents the full range of Dr. Rudnytsky's Scientific Institute decided to include systematically removed from circula­ its relations with Russia and Poland, interests, offers a brilliant analysis of this biography as the first volume of the tion within the Soviet Ukraine-when the development of a national identity Ukrainian history sirfce the 17th cen­ collected works, and Dr. Zaitsev was they did not rewrite or destroy — the and its regional variants, and conflict­ tury. chosen to write it. We do not know gains made by Shevchenko scholarship ing trends in socio-political thought. The book, 522 pages in length, is exactly when he began to do so, but, in in the relatively liberal 1920s. It there­ Particular attention is paid to the available in cloth only at S39.95 from September of 1939, when the Soviets fore becomes clear that Dr. Zaitsev's socialist Mykhailo Drahomanov and the following distributors: University of occupied western Ukraine and Lviv, the edition, in and of itself, is a more the conservative Viacheslav Lypynsky, Toronto Press, 5201 Dufferin St., biography was in the final stages of reliable source and to be preferred in whom Dr. Rudnytsky considered the Downsview, Ontario, M3H 5T8; or printing. It was confiscated and its fate those instances where other sources outstanding Ukrainian political thinkers Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute, remains a mystery until today. Luckily, cannot be found in Western libraries. of the modern era. 1583 Massachusetts Ave., Cambridge, the proofs were saved and the author Furthermore, with all due respect for As Qmeljan Pritsak of Harvard notes Mass. 02138. was able to revise and publish them in Dr. Luckyj's skills, I have to disagree Munich in 1955. with his decision "to give prose transla­ The work was an immediate success. tions of quotations from Shevchenko's Catalogue of Ukrainian newspapers As M. Hlobenko states in his introduc­ poems," particularly when excellent tion, "Without exaggerating, we have verse translations already,exist for most EDMONTON - The Canadian In­ The reports are as follows: No. 25, reason to assert that this book, which selections. Dr. Luckyj's assertion that stitute of Ukrainian Studies announced "Catalogue of Prerevolutionary News­ incorporates a wealth of all previous "Shevchenko's poetry is untranslatable the reprint, by special arrangement with papers Published in Ukraine (1822- free-world research concerning bio­ and all the existing English translations the Central Academic Library of the 1916)" (S13); No. 26, "Soviet Ukrai­ graphy of Taras Shevchenko, forms a are in one way or another unsatisfac­ Ukrainian SSR Academy of Sciences, nian Newspapers 1917-1920" (S9); No. phenomenon of great importance not tory" is, very simply, incorrect. Both the of four important Ukrainian-language 27, ''Soviet Ukrainian Newspapers only in Ukrainian literary scholarship, Rich and Andrusyshen-Kirkconnell catalogues of the library's newspaper 1921-1925" (S16); No. 28, ''Soviet but also in the history of Ukrainian translations achieve real merit and holdings. Ukrainian Newspapers 1926-1929" culture in general." The translator of could well have been employed. These catalogues, issued by the (S20). this volume, the well-known literary It does not help, either, when Dr. library in small press runs between 1971 The reprints may be ordered from the scholar, George S. N. Luckyj, considers Luckyj insists that his translation of Dr. and 1985, are indispensable to scholars following distributors: Canadian Insti­ that "under the circumstances, Zaitsev's Zaitsev's original is about Shevchenko's working in Ukrainian studies and to tute of Ukrainian Studies, 352 Atha­ biography remains the most balanced life and not about his poetry. The poet research libraries. basca Hall, University of Alberta, and scholarly." Shevchenko's life has interest only They have now been made available Edmonton, Alberta T6G 2E8; or Ukrai­ Originally Dr. Zaitsev's work consist­ because of Shevchenko's poetry and in large, easy-to-read format at CIUS nian Academic Press, 6931 S. Yosemite ed of 16 chapters. The translator has may not meaningfully be separated Research Reports 25 through 28. St., Englewood, Colo. 80112. organized them into five parts: "Child­ from it. - hood and Youth, 1814-1838," ^'The The translator has abridged the Maturing Artist, 1838-1843," "The original considerably and rendered the Religious publications are available Ukrainian Journeys, 1843-1847," "Ar­ 389 pages of Ukrainian in 266 pages in rest and Exile, 1847-1857," and "Back English. Here I would like to congratu­ to Freedom, 1858-1861." Each part late him because his abridging is per­ from Ukrainian eparchy in Stamford consists of one or more chapters, and formed very skillfully and only by the the new organization clearly reflects the STAMFORD, Conn. - The books illustrating the history of careful comparing of the original with major stages of Shevchenko's life. Stamford Eparchy of the Ukrainian Ukraine's Christianity (S5), as well as the translation can one find the hand of Catholic Church has Ukrainian- copies of the New Testament and the As far as the content is concerned. the editor-translator. The abridging as a language religious publications Pilgrim's Prayerbook (free). Pur­ Dr. Luckyj has acted as an editor as well whole is thus not only useful but available for purchase by tourists chasers, however, must pay postage as a translator. He has not diminished justifiable. traveling to the USSR or persons costs on mail orders. Shevchenko's love for his country. It A great asset of "Taras Shevchenko: who want to mail religious materials still remains as central and undeniable A Life" is the translator's introduction. to the Soviet Union. For further information and to as it is in Dr. Zaitsev's original. The It is scholarly and contains a short but Available from the bishop's chan­ order these religious publications, national sentiments, however, although very useful survey of the original and of cery are: Bibles (SI5), children's interested persons may call the chan­ expressed directly and forcefully, come the translation itself. It begins with Bibles (S20), Millennium comic cery at (203) 324-7698. across in a rhetoric which will seem Shevchenko's statement from his auto­ normal to the English reader unaccus­ biography submitted to editor of St. tomed to Dr. Zaitsev's typically Ukrai­ Petersburg journal in 1860: "The history nian hyperboles. This is certainly one of of my life is a part of the history of my Shevchenko coin issued in USSR Dr. Luckyj's great achievements as a homeland." What could depict better A commemorative coin marking inscriptions "USSR,""1 ruble" and translator. He is absolutely right in the character and the importance of the 175th anniversary of the birth of "1989." saying that "language has a great deal to Ukraine's greatest poet and his work? Ukrainian poet Taras Shevchenko do with it. It is possible to say certain The publication has nine pages of On the reverse side are a rendering has been issued in Ukraine. things in Ukrainian without sounding illustrations, all connected with Shev­ of Taras Shevchenko and his signa­ According to News from Ukraine, sentimental, while in English a different chenko's life. In the text there are also ture. The inscriptions are ''T.H. the coin is worth I ruble, is made of form of expression is required if the four color plates of Shevchenko's Shevchenko" and "1814-1861." white brass-nickel alloy, and is 31 reader is not to be put off." artistic works. There is a useful one- millimeters in diameter. Three million of the coins, issued Dr. Luckyj is likewise correct when page glossary, a selected bibliography of The coin features on its obverse on March 2, are in circulation. News he adds that, in a scholarly publication, biographical studies, and an index. A side the USSR state emblem and the from Ukraine noted. we should not attempt "to be more clear modified Library of Congress translife- for readers" than the poet's original (Continued on page 13) No. 25 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JUNE 18,1989 9 British pop record: The Wedding Present's gift to Ukrainians

JERSEY CITY^N.J.-ThCITY, NJ. -The Wedding Ukrainian and acquainted themselves Present, a British pop group, which with Ukrainian culture. made a name for itself with the release What resulted was an album that of such songs as "My Favourite Dress,'' British critics label "a pop group doing a "You Should Always Keep in Touch little pan-cultural slumming in another With Your Friends," and "Everyone country's backyard."Offbeat magazine Thinks He Looks Daft," recently hit the wrote: ..."Unlike so many cultural British rock charts, peaking at No. 19. adventures which often appear con­ On the independent charts, the group's trived or stilted, here is an offshoot built latest album climbed to No. 9. on nothing more than candid enthu­ If you're not keen on British indie siasm which not only sounds splendid as (independent) bands, these facts may a whole but also offers insight into the not impress you, but the fact that the Wedding Present's heart and soul. Wedding Present's newest release is ...The Weddies are left to toy with the titled: "Ukrainski Vystupy v Ivana Pila," devices for which they are most adored... just might. The 10-inch mini-album fast, rhythmic thrashing, joyfully fuled consists of nine Slavic melodies, among beatings and searing, overloaded layers them, three are described as Russian of noise." songs, one is labeled as having Jewish Candy Patrick of Offbeat writes that: influence, but the majority of the songs "To most Ukrainian folk music is a are Ukrainian and include such classics hitertho unexplored section of world as "Yikhav Kozak Za Dunay," "Tiu- music misguided knowledge of which tiunnyk" and "Verkhovyno." extends no further that repeat showings The record jacket, as noted in the of Tiddler on the Roof,' every Boxing credits, is "designed by hitch" and Day." contains not one word in English. The She adds, "Ukrainian puritans may album cover and the contents listing on balk at the infiltration of Western the back are all written in Ukrainian, influences into what has historically that is using the Cyrillic alphabet. The been a culturally pure music — just as album is so brill (brilliant) that British some did with the crossover of Bhangra youth, punksters and metalists have to the dance floor. This is the first taken to wearing T-shirts with the (known) time that electric guitars have Ukrainian album cover design. Jacket of the new record ''Ukrainski Vystupy v Ivana Pila." been used alongside traditional Ukrai­ Listed as album of the month in Although he is not the Weddies' (as explained that about three years ago, nian instruments and one of the rare Offbeat Magazine's April issue, the The Wedding Present is referred to) "for some reason," he started getting occasions that recording facilities have album was the brainchild of the group's lead singer or composer, Peter is the into Ukrainian folk music and began been available to Ukrainian enthusiasts. half-Ukrainian guitarist Peter Soiowka. inspiration for this latest album. buying all the records he could get his Similarly the mixture of opposing Because of his interest in his family Included in the album is an educa­ hands on. The son of a Ukrainian political sentiments (from a highly heritage, Peter began exploring Ukrai­ tional booklet which not only explains father, he had attended Ukrainian polarized political country) on one nian music. something about Ukraine, but outlines school in Leeds, run by the Association record may be viewed with some suspi­ For the album's production he was the origins of the songs and fills in some of Ukrainians in Great Britain, but cion. For such diehards the only conso­ assisted by a fellow Leeds musician and background cultural detail. It also never graduated from the 10-year lation is that this is just one interpreta­ Slavic student Len Liggins, who did provides a thank you to the people who program. As he started listening to tion which revives a little known and vocals and played the skrypka,^ bala­ assisted in the making of the record, Ukrainian songs, he played some for the diminishing culture. For the rest of us, laika and sopilka and band member particularly the Bradford Ukrainian band, and the members loved 'em. it's a windfall, temporarily taking the Roman Remeynes, who played the Club, for "their advice and encourage­ According to Melody Maker maga­ spotlight of David Gedge and proving mandolin and provided back-up vocals. ment." The group also supplies a few zine's Ian Gittins: "Push came to shove, that there is life and rhythm" in the The other members of the band who addresses that sell Ukrainian records, a Peel session gave them a chance to air Wedding Present. performed on the album included including the Ukrainian Bookshop on a few and the idea of a record soon Soon after the album came out in Shaun Charman on drums, David Linden Gardens in London, and states followed." The punksters had done a April, the Wedding Present went on Gedge, who is the band's leader, and that for further cultural information on few John Peel sessions, and the D.J. tour Great Britain, including Edin­ who played electric and acoustic guitar Ukrainians, listeners and Weddies' from BBC Radio 1 has long been a burgh, Newcastle, Birmingham, Bris­ and supplied back-up vocals. Keith followers are encouraged to write to the supporter of their music. Thus, with the tol, London, -Leeds, Norwich, Middle- Gregory played bass guitar and Simon Bradford Ukrainian Club, the Man­ help of Volodymyr Demchyk, a mem­ ton. (The boys come from Leeds, Brad­ Smith played drums. Peter is credited chester Ukrainian Club and the Not­ ber of the Association of Ukrainians in ford and Manchester areas). According with performing on the bayan, man­ tingham Ukrainian Club. Great Britain, and the principal of the to an interview with Peter in Melody dolin, bubon and adding backing In an recent interview conducted by School of Ukrainian Studies, Bohdan Maker the stuff was easier to record vocals. Johnny Dee of Offbeat magazine, Peter Sveryda, the group began learning (Continued on page 15)

Members of the British pop-punk group The Wedding Present. THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JUNE 18, 1989 No. 25

This period of catharsis was capped On a larger scale, young veterans, conducting himself in a manner un­ Ukraine's... by the victories of several intellectuals reservists and officers are known to worthy of a party leader and displaying (Continued from page 1) who had the support of the organiza­ have given their support to "anti-esta­ political immaturity, the implication blishment" civilian candidates - in­ being that Mr. Saliy sided with nationa­ nomination process and revelations tions ostracized by Shcherbytsky and curring, at least in Ukraine, an occa­ list and "anti-Soviet agitators" during about corruption among Zhytomyr's by the official press, for example, the sional brutal response from their com­ the campaign in the Ukrainian capital. authorities. economist Volodymyr Cherniak, a co­ manders. Therefore, in contrast to those oblast Instead, in the opinion of the Ukrai­ author of the economic portion of and city authorities throughout U- nian first secretary, measures should be Rukh's program, won the Kiev-wide The republican leadership can be expected to take this unprecedented kraine who were rejected by voters, but taken in the future to prevent the public seat on May 21; the writer Rostyslav challenge quite seriously. Mr. Shcher­ whom Mr. Shcherbytsky essentially from harming the dignity of leading Bratun became people's deputy from a bytsky urged the military command and pardons, Mr. Saliy and several un­ Communists. Lviv electoral district with the backing the party organizations of military units named others are due to be called to Nowhere is this point made more of the Ukrainian Helsinki Union. (Mr. and formations to draw good lessons strict account for their breach of party clearly than in Mr. Shcherbytsky's Bratun reportedly pledged to raise the from the experience of the elections and discipline. recommendations to the Lviv Oblast question of the legalization of the to work at alleviating the social pro­ Precisely what did Mr. Saliy do? As Party Committee, whose first secretary, Ukrainian Catholic Church at the blems of their present and former one of many candidates for the Kiev- Yakiv Pohrebniak, suffered an embar- Congress of People's Deputies; as of personnel. wide seat that was eventually won by rassmg defeat on March 26. this writing, however, he had not Mr. Cherniak, Mr. Saliy seems to have Far from questioning the reasons addressed the Congress.) In spite of the failure of numerous run a campaign a la Boris Yeltsin. In his behind Mr. Pohrebniak's unpopularity On the eve of the May 21 election, workers to secure deputy mandates, interviews with the media, Mr. Saliy hit with residents of Lviv Mr. Shcher- Pravda Ukrainy, in an article titled workers' collectives throughout the "Ninety Minutes of Demogogy and hard on the republic's ruling circles for bytsky gave the party committee a republic also showed a willingness to having lost the confidence of the people mandate to crack down on '4he activi­ Irresponsibility," took the writer Volo­ enter on a collision course with local dymyr Yavorivsky to task for procla­ and for insufficient commitment to ties and plans'' of the Ukrainian Hel­ officialdom. To take but one example, perestroika and glasnost. At one point sinki Union, which was instrumental in mations he made during a campaign the largest enterprise in Kremenchuk rally and for his rather wishy-washy he suggested that the party apparat take organizing mass demonstrations in the went on strike to protest the arrest in a few lessons from the "informals" in the city and encouraging voters not to elect attitude toward the Ukrainian Helsinki February of Mykola Kutsenko, a candi­ Union - "those informants of foreign art of reaching the people^ and made a candidates backed by the party. date for people's deputy from the number of remarks to the effect that the Indeed, in reviewing the reasons that centers of Banderism and the CIA-run Ecological Initiative association. Mr. Radio Liberty." Mr. Yavorivsky none­ apparat "controls everyone, but no one the head of the Ideology Department of Kutsenko was quickly released (and controls it." the Central Committee (Leonid Krav- theless went on to win a seat in the ultimately won the election), but not Furthermore, one of Mr. Sally's chuk, who lost his race in Chernivtsi), Minsk territorial district of the Ukrai­ before the strike resulted in losses of selling points was his commitment to nian capital. several hundreds of thousands of rubles. four oblast first secretaries (from Lviv, the preservation of Kiev's historic Voroshylovhrad, Chernihivand Zakar- Mr. Shcherbytsky's address to the Curiously, Mr. Shcherbytsky had buildings: this, possibly, brought him pattia) and the head of the Kiev party plenum set down very strict limits on the little to say about the role of workers in into close company with people regard­ and executive committees (Konstantyn types of informal organizations that the election campaigns, merely com­ ed by Mr. Shcherbytsky as nationalists. Masyk and Valentyn Zgursky) were youth may join: professional, hobbyist plaining in his main speech and closing It appears, then, that by developing a unable to secure seats in the Congress and political groups "whose goals address to the plenum of the low repre­ platform with broad popular appeal, of People's Deputies, Mr. Shcherbytsky coincide with those of the party." sentation of workers in the Ukrainian Mr. Saliy committed unpardonable lays much of the blame on the current Whether, in practice, these limits of delegation to the new parliament (26 offenses against party unity. state of the economy and on a press with acceptability will have any conse­ percent, as opposed to 40 percent from too much freedom. quences for Ukraine's increasingly the artistic, scientific and economic General crackdown on horizon It is difficult not to detect Mr. feisty university population remains to management fields). Mr. Shcherbytsky Shcherbytsky's exasperation with four be seen. took care not to give the impression Mr. Shcherbytsky, essentially, has years of reform, made all the more Singling out Kiev University (where that he was criticizing the logic of the called for an abrupt end to a period of sharp by the harrowing experience of the "Hromada" informal association is new election laws. In all likelihood, he is unusually free expression in the Ukrai­ holding multi-candidate elections (Mr. extremely active and outspoken) the probably more worried that not all of nian republic. His numerous admoni­ Shcherbytsky, it will be recalled, ar­ Ukrainian party leader enjoined party Ukraine's blue-collar deputies will tions to the organs of power "to deal a ranged to run unopposed in Dnipro- aktivs and the organs of power to pay prove to be the malleable allies of the timely, convincing, open and most petrovske). Accordingly, the aforemen­ close attention to the activities of the party hierarchy. decisive rebuff" to "demagogues and tioned officials were at a disadvantage informal groups now thriving in the extremists" may be an ominous signal because of the "general atmosphere." university milieu. He did not publicly Breaking ranks to Ukrainian activists that their heyday "People are dissatisfied with growing specify the forms that such pressure is over. shortages, inflation and crime. A large might take, but it is worth pointing out First Secretary Shcherbytsky pointed I role was played by certain tendentious In the past several months, in accor­ that in an interview with the Associated to a couple of trends causing "alarm" publications that try to give people the dance with the new Soviet electoral Press, Mr. Shcherbytsky denied that within the Ukrainian Communist Party. idea that public leaders are bureaucrats, Taws, officials have had to tolerate a stipends are being withheld from stu­ First, in the first three months of this remote from their concerns, and un­ stream of public meetings and demon­ dent activists. year, there was a sharp rise in the principled careerists. All kinds of strations or face being denounced to the Yet, if students, the press, intellec­ number of members quitting the Com­ demagogues and extremists opened fire Central Electoral Commission in Mos­ tuals and dissidents are all quarters munist Party: 1,299 people in Ukraine on party cadres. Under the pretense of cow. With the all-union elections over from whom the Ukrainian leadership turned in their party cards in this period criticizing the administrative-command and those for republican legislatures has more or less come to expect trouble, alone, as compared to 1,862 "dropouts" system and struggling against the bu­ postponed by Mikhail Gorbachev until the amount of agitation carried out in the whole of 1988. According to Ivan reaucratic apparatus, in essence they led next year, the more prohibitive laws against party-backed candidates by Perekhoda, the head of the Depart­ an attack on the party and its leading regulating public gatherings are back in people in the military seems to have ment of Organizational, Party and role," he said. effect. taken Ukrainian officials by surprise. Cadre Work of the Kiev City Party Mr. Shcherbytsky decried the situa­ Mr. Shcherbytsky explained that the Committee, the number of members in Future developments in the republic tion that arose in Kiev and Lviv after the "many complaints" heard from service­ Kiev who quit the party in the first will no doubt depend on the relation­ failures of Messrs. Masyk, Zgursky and men during the election campaign quarter of 1989 - 170 people - has ship between thedeputies, the electorate Pohrebniak to obtain and necessary resulted from poor communication already exceeded the figure for 1988. and republican officials, centering on number of votes on March 26. "Several with the men and their families and the the question of who has the legitimate groups and independent organizations critical shortage of housing for them in Certainly, the Ukrainian party has no right to speak in the name of the people. of various types stepped up their activi­ Ukraine. need to fear that its membership is Unfortunately, Mr, Shcherbytsky ties," he noted, which demonstrated a Approximately 50,000 officers and shrinking - with some 3,304,000 people has not yet shared his thoughts on the lack of resolve on the part of authorities ensigns have no apartments, he stated, in its ranks, the republican organiza­ victories of people like Mr. Bratun, Mr. in Kiev and Lviv to put the situation with particularly severe problems in tion constitutes a small nation unto Cherniak or Ogonyok editor Vitally under control. Vinnytsia, Crimea and Odessa oblasts. itself. Messrs. Shcherbytsky and Pere­ Korotich, who was elected in Kharkiv The Ukrainian leadership has reason The matter was also raised at the khoda are disturbed, however, that the together with the Russian poet and to be dismayed by events in the two plenum by one V.P. Plekhanov, the majority of those leaving the party are political radical Yevgeni Yevtushenko. cities before the bye-elections and by the head of the Political Directorate of the workers, and just under 50 percent are The party hierarchy, although clearly results of the voting. Since so many Odessa Military District. members of more than 20 years' stand­ desirous of a crackdown on the Rukh, nominees in Kiev and Lviv had been Judging by what Messrs. Shcher­ ing. Neither attempts to explain why the the dissidents, independent youth asso­ prevented from getting their names on bytsky and Plekhanov had to say, the dropout rate rose so suddenly this year, ciations, liberal editors and nationa­ the ballot during the March round of "complaints" came from veterans of the but it is reasonable to speculate that lists, may find itself using the carrot- elections, scores of candidates vied in war in Afghanistan as well as those who Ukrainian leaders cost the party a great and-stick approach to rule Ukraine, both places for the handful of seats up have recently been released from active deal of credibility by putting up stiff with all the contradictions and potential for grabs on May 14. duty "in connection with cutbacks [in opposition to multi-candidate slates for conflicts this implies. Meetings and rallies, sometimes the armed forcesj." during the election campaign. attracting many thousands of people, In Ukraine and elsewhere in the A more serious dilemma was present­ UKRAINIAN SINGLES became a frequent site in the capital and Soviet Union, a number of "Afgantsi" ed by the sight of leading party members NEWSLETTER in Lviv, and, as might be expected, there captured seats in the Congress of wooing the electorate by distancing were few kind words at these events for People's Deputies with pledges to themselves from the hard-line positions Serving Ukrainian singles of all ages Ukraine's reform-resistant bureau­ struggle against social injustice and of the Shcherbytsky leadership. Signifi­ throughout the United States and Canada. cracy. Numerous causes, such as human bureaucratic tyranny. One such Afghan cantly, one official who appears to be in For information send a self-addressed and national rights, protection of the veteran, Yuri) Soroch\k, managed xo genuine trouble with Ukraine's ruling stamped envelope to environment, and historical preserva­ defeat the well-known writer ana Rukh circles - Ivan Saliy, tirst secretary of tion, among others, were widely and the Podil Raion Committee of Kiev - Single Ukrainians leader Ivan Drach m the I viv na­ P.O. Box 24733, Phila.. Pa. 19111 ^ candidly debated. tional-territorial district No. 50. was accused by Mr. Shcherbytsky oi No. 25 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JUNE 18, 1989

New York theater NEW RELEASES Critics praise Ukrainian director M^: Wolanska was also the soprano Lilea Wolanska records solist in the recording of George Fiala's by Oles Kuzyszyn - which plays Peter's menacing "Millennium Liturgy'' (1988), and in the thoughts(!) - create nightmarish an­ classics, folk songs Canadian premiere of Marian Kouzan's NEW YORK - This April wit­ xiety. Along with Watoku Ueno's stark oratorio "The Neophytes" (1988). nessed yet another success story for a lighting and brilliant pop-up set — Her recordings are available in a Ukrainian in the arts, this time in the pieces of a raw wooden platform stage number of record stores as well as on a theatrical field. The place was La rise into walls, railings, a tilted head­ directly from L.W. 189 Productions' Mama, a downtown theatre specializing board, skewed desks — Tkacz's staging 11319-46th Ave. Edmonton, Alberta in contemporary drama; the subject gives power to Iredynski's tired de­ T64 0A4; (403) 436-3081. Price is "An Altar Unto Himself" by Polish vices." SI 1.50 (U.S.) or SI3.50 (Canadian), playwright Ireneusz Iredynski (1939- David Kaufman, in the April 26 issue postage included. 1985), directed by the talented Virlana of Downtown states: "As directed by Tkacz. Virlana Tkacz, the ingenious but simple The central thesis of the play is a conception of an elaborate stage floor Cherkassy ensemble situation with which those of Eastern — composed of a grid or wooden slats European descent can easily identify. that fold into shape to evoke various releases cassette Iredynski's "Faust," Piotr M,, a talen- settings — becomes the perfect anti­ ed young writer, signs a "pact with the dote to the staging excesses that Zizka deviP' - a government censor, in employed" (Here Tkacz's production is exchange for his own career as a censor. being compared to Jiri Zizka's direction In doing so, he betrays everyone, but of Vaclav HavePs "Temptation"). most of all himself and his personal In Newsday's review article (March convictions. This pact is the final crisis 30), columnist Joseph C. Koenenngave in Piotr's unenviable life which included Ms. Tkacz a good deal of space to ex­ his father's imprisonment, his mother's pound upon some of the dramatic de­ affair with the man who jailed his vices she employed in her staging of the father, as well as his own deficiencies of work. character. By all accounts, "An Altar Unto The major culprit is the "system" Himseir seems to have been a major which manages to squelch any aspect of success for the young Ukrainian direc­ EDMONTON - Lilea Wolanska, a individuality, creativity or other devia­ tor: one which, hopefully, will open Canadian soprano with an extensive tion from the prescribed "norm." It is no many doors for future accomplishments background of performances in Canada surprise that after the play was first in the theatre. as well as in the U.S., has released her produced in Poland (1981), it was first recording of Ukrainian romances, closed immediately with the declaration folk and art songs. of martial law. The hourlong cassette contains 20 The director of the recent U.S. Millennium video available Ukrainian classics sung by Ms. Wolan­ premiere, Ms. Tkacz, was praised by ska and accompanied by prominent two reviewers for her staging of Iredyn- TORONTO - Videotapes of "Mil. Edmonton pianist-conductor Michael ski's play. l^nnium," the CBC documentary pro­ Massey. In the May 23 issue of the Village duced by Halya Kuchmij, are available The selections chosen by the singer LAKEWOOD, Ohio - The music Voice Alisa Solomon writes: "Director for S29.95 (Canadian) from the Na­ tional Film Board of Canada. include art songs from the first two on "Mamyna Vyshnya,"a new cassette Virlana Tkacz gives this flashback form decades of this century by composers release, is truly the sound of the soul of surprising energy. Brisk pacing and the To order, write to: National Film Barvinsky, Liudkevych, Lysenko, Ste- Ukraine as performed by the Cherkassy statuesque choreography of the chorus Board, Customer Service (D5), P.O. Box 6100, Station A, Montreal, Quebec povy and others. Song and Dance Ensemble considered As well, there are well-loved folk H3C3H5. by many to be superior to Kiev's HURYN MEMORIALS The tape is available in VHS or Beta. songs arranged in the 1940s by Liato- Veriovka Choir. shynsky and Revutsky. Many of the 20 FOR THE FINEST IN XUSTOM MADE songs have never before been recorded. The title song on the cassette, MEMORIALS INSTALLED IN ALL CEME­ "Mamyna Vyshnya'' may be compared TERIES IN THE METROPOLITAN AREA Ms. Wolanska studied voice with the of New York includJRg Holy Spirit in late D. Berezenets of the Kiev Opera as to such renowned songs as "Ridna Maty Moya" or "Maty Synovi." H^mptonburgh, N.Y., St. Andrew's in South well as with D. Astor and t. Perillo of Bound Brook. Pine Bush Cemetery m Edmonton. She also holds a master of "Mamyna Vyshnya" is reported to be Kerhonkson and Glen Spey Cemetery arts degree from Hunter College in New the most requested song in Ukraine in Glen Spey, New York. York. today. We offer personal service A guidance in your Under the baton Wolodymyr The songs in this premiere release are home. For a bilingual representative call: Kolesnyk, Ms. Wolanska has sung the strictly Ukrainian national folk. Cassettes of "Mamyna Vyshnya" IWAN HURYN title role in "Natalka Poltavka" in P.O. Box 121 Toronto (1984) and was one of the may be obtained from алу Ukrainian Hamptonburgh. NY. 109І6 soloists in the premier recording of the store or by sending SI 1.48 U.S. or S14 Tel.: (914) 4272684 Sacred Concertos of Bortniansky(1985- Canadian (includes shipping and BOHDAN REKSHYNSKYJ 1987) handling charges) to: Trident Group 45 East 7th Street Corp. 1601 Warren Road, Lakewood, New York, NY. 10003 Ohio. 44107. Shevchenko.. 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GLASSBORO, N.J. - The Third Southern New Jersey Ethnic Festival, sponsored by the state s Oil ice of Ethnic Affairs, Department of State and the Ethnic Advisory Council, in coopera­ tion with Glassboro State College, took place on Saturday, April 8, at the college s Student Center Building. Ethnic crafts and educational dis­ plays were on exhibit at 11 a.m. and the Glassboro State College Band, under the direction of Sal Scrapa, rendered a variety of selections in the lounge area. Promptly at 12:30 p.m. Carl B.S. Pedersen, council member, greeted the audience of 300, who were gathered in the ballroom area, and introduced George M. Pappas, chairman ot the N.J Ethnic Advisory Council, who read greetings from Gov. Thomas H. Kean and Secretary of State Jane Burgio. The participating groups, who dis­ played their ethnic crafts, arts and educational programs, and provided continuous entertainment with 18 ethnic performing groups, represented the Asian Indian, Chinese, Estonian, Italian, Japanese, Kalmyk-Mongolian. Latvian, Middle Eastern, Persian- Bedouin and Polish communities. The music of Ireland, Italy, Norway, Po­ land, Scotland and Ukraine was per­ formed by vocalists and instrumenta­ Participants of the Cantors' Institute held recently at St. John the Baptist Ukrs:inian Catholic Church in Newark, N.J. Seen lists of those respective backgrounds. In front row are the Rev. Bohdan Lukie (left) and institute director Joseph Roll and Bishop Michael Kuchmiak CSsR There was a demonstration of Tae Kwan Do by Korean martial art stu­ (right). dents. by Laryssa Matiash-Folk in these programs and have profitted many of Ukrainian church services was The festival was a success as hundreds much from his expertise and experience. presented. Other lectures dealt with of people enjoyed the ethnic exhibits in NEWARK, N.J. - A major concern In addition, Mr. Roll is the author of religious architecture, the liturgical the lounge area; the dancers, vocalists for many of Ukrainian Catholic pa­ the book: "Music of the Ukrainian calendar and especially, the develop­ and instrumentalists in the ballroom rishes is a desperate need for trained Catholic Church for Congregational ment of the Ukrainian liturgical musical area and the international cuisine in the cantors to promote and provide con­ Singing," which was the basic text for heritage, focusing mostly on chants, cafeteria area. gregational singing for liturgical ser­ the institute. He also shared his pub­ hymns and tones as they have histori­ Dr. Ivan Kujdych, chairman of the vices. lished article: "The Liturgical Music of cally and currently developed. Ukrainian Community Committee of In light of this, St. John the Baptist the Ukrainian Catholic Church: Rich­ The purpose and goal of offering such South Jersey, arranged to have Ukrai­ Ukrainian Catholic Church in Newark ness in Tradition.'' Mr. Roll prepared a an intensive course is to teach and nian groups from Williamstown, Cherry hosted the first Cantors' Institute for the new musical adaptation of the most further inspire candidates interested in Hill, Trenton and Vineland participate northern Jersey Deanery over the last current official translation of the Divine leading congregational singing. This in the exhibits of Ukrainian arts and two weekends in April, Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom, pub­ important revival of congregational culture, as well ao prepare and sell lished by the Bishops' Synod in 1988. Ukrainian foods and pastries. Twenty candidates representing Ss. singing in many parishes is much Roman Lewycky, a prominent direc­ Peter and Paul Parish, Jersey City, St. The candidates participating in the needed. Currently, many parishes de­ tor of Ukrainian choral groups, played Mary's Carteret Assumption of the institute thus experienced musical pend solely on a parish choir to provide the bandura and sang Ukrainian songs Blessed Mother, Perth Amboy, Imma­ adaptations not only to the Old Sla­ liturgical responses, rather than a full to the delight of the large audience. culate Conception, Hillside, and St. vonic text, but especially to the new participation of all the worshippers. Chief Roy Crazy Horse, member of John the Baptist, Newark, attended this official Ukrainian and English texts. The beautiful tradition of congrega­ the council and leader of the Powhatan institute with the hope of becoming tional singing in Ukrainian churches Renape Nation in the Delaware Valley cantors. They consisted of a good The institute normally is conducted has diminished and must be revitalized area, was festival chairman; Juhan representative cross-section of young over the course of a full week. However, to enhance the Christian renewal of all Simonson, director of the Office of and old, male and female, from within a in order to accommodate those who the people. Ethnic Affairs, was festival coordina­ radius of 50 miles. have working responsibilities and can­ An important aspect of the institute is not allow for consecutive free days, the to actively participate and lead all the tor; Fred Week, council member, was The Cantors' Institute was conduct­ new arrangement called for evening responses of the various liturgies ceie- festival producer; and Andrew Key- ed by Joseph Roll of St. Basil's College hours on Thursday and Friday, and full trated over the weekend. The candi­ bida, council member, was master of Seminary in Stamford, Conn. Over the days on Saturday and Sunday for two dates, therefore, provided the leader­ ceremonies. past 11 years, this dedicated young man successive weekends. ship for the Saturday and Sunday has conducted numerous institutes The material covered m class was divine liturgies. They also celebrated a throughout Canada and United States. highly informative and truly very in­ very prayerful parastas for all their Over 400 individuals have participated teresting. The history and evolution of beloved deceased and for martyred brothers and sisters in Ukrame. YOU ARE CORDIALLY INVITED TO JOIN The Rev. Bohdan Lukie CSsR, pas­ tor of St. John's, was instrumental in THE WASHINGTON GROUP organizing the Cantors' Institute. Bi­ (An Association of Ukrainian American Professionals) shop Michael Kuchmiak CSsR, who ON A was making a pastoral visitation in the area came to encourage all the candi­ SPECIAL AUTUMN TOUR TO UKRAINE dates. October 12-26, 1989 The participants in the Cantors' Institute were: Deacon Arthur Do- Focus of this special tour is to e^blish contacts with professional counterparts m Ukraine. chych, Sean Breheney, Roman Shev- TOUR COST is S2,550 and includes; m All transportation (originating in Washington, D.C.) chuk. Brother Joseph Kanski CSsR, Ш Lodging: 1 night in Moscow, 3 nights in Odessa, 4 nights in Kiev, and 5 nights in Lviv. m 3 meals Omelan Helbig, Gregory Hywel, Wes­ daily m AND MUCH MORE. ley Czap, Theodore Shatynski, Taras Registration deadline is July 1, 1989 Shevchuk, Taras Wasylyk, Eugene Bratach, Linda Kleban, Olga Masa- for further information and to register, contact TWG Special Projects Director kowska, Deborah Ann Bishop, Kath­ leen Kornas, Gerard Muench and LARYSSA LAPYCHAK CHOPIVSKY Laryssa Matiash-Folk. Bandurist Roman Lewycky performs at 3624 Brandywine St. NW, Washingtpn, D.C. 20008. Tel.: (202) 363-3964 Future cantorslirtstitutes are already the Southern New Jersey Ethnic Fes­ being planned. tival. No. 25 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JUNE 18, 1989

forces in Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania Turning the pages back... Baltic American... as a result of the Nazi-Soviet Pact (Continued from page 6) (Continued from page 3) signed August 23, 1939. Post. The other sponsors of the Baltic was more guarded, but the feeling was widespread that their coming would lead to Ginta Palubinskas, public relations Freedom Day reception are Rep. Den­ improvements over the Stalinist regime." director of the Joint Baltic American nis Hertel of Michigan and Rep. Don Ukrainian nationalists greeted the Germans as a promising opportunity to National Committee, said, "We have Ritter of Pennsylvania. establish an independent Ukrainian state. Although both the Germans and the come to expect attacks of this type from Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists shared the Soviets as a common enemy, the Soviets. They usually coincide with their goals and interests were contradictory. This conflict came to light early on the major commeniorations of genocide German invasion. According to "Ukraine: A History," Alexander Dallinn and perpetrated by the Soviets. However, it other specialists on World War 11 on the eastern front, note that "of all the Eastern is regrettable when such stories appear areas conquered by the Third Reich, Ukraine was by far the most important. It was in the U.S. press and cast suspicion on the largest Soviet republic which the Germans occupied in full... as a provider of Americans of Baltic heritage." food and manpower, its was second to none." Ms. Palubinskas said efforts and The arrival of the Germans in Ukraine did signal a more civilized approach to the being made through Associated Press to populace after the brutality of the Soviet Union, and Ukrainian nationalists took clarify the story, but that "stories of this NEW RELEASE advantage of this, organizing nationally conscious Ukrainians in Eastern Ukraine. type will inevitably appear," she added, YEVSHAN RECORDS 8. TAPES "But, after the hasty departure of theSoviets,East Ukrainians usually did not need "This is the Soviet strategy for dealing the OUN groups to prod them into action," writes Dr. Subtelny. Because German with the independence movements in military authorities were relatively civil in their treatment of Ukrainians, during the Eastern Europe." early months of German occupation, many Ukrainians spontaneously established Baltic Freedom Day is being comme­ local administrations. morated in the U.S. with ajoint resolu­ But as over 100 non-Communist newspapers appeared through Ukraine, and tion of Congress as well as by a presi­ literary, scholarly and social groups were organized, the Nazis had different plans. dential proclamation and related events. Annoyed that the nationalists kept pushing for their own government, the Nazis Meanwhile, residents of the Soviet- arrested and executed many Ukrainians, a lesson that they had already given to the occupied Baltic States have begun a OUN-B when it established its own government on June 30, 1941, in Lviv. week of mourning. By fall of 1941, the honeymoon was over as Ukrainian nationalists went June 14 marks the 48th anniversary underground and the Nazis began dividing Ukraine into separate administrative of the first wave of mass deportations of units. thousands of innocent men, women and The Reichskommissariat Ukraine, which included the right bank and a great part children carried out by Soviet invasion DARKA 8t SLAVKO ENSEMBLE of the left bank, was to be ruled by Erich Koch, a brutal man who was known for his Volume 2 hatred of all Slavs, people he referred to as subhumans, (untermenschen). Arriving English version... in Ukraine in September, 1941, he told his staff: "Our task is to suck from Ukraine "The album we've all been (Continued from page 8) ail the goods we can get hold of, without consideration of the feelings or the waiting for" property of the Ukrainians.Gentlemen, I am expecting from you the utmost severity ration of Ukrainian and Russian has towards the native population," he said. been used. Records/Cassettes S 8.98 In conclusion George S. N. Luckyj Compact Discs Я4.98 has, on balance, produced a useful Postage S^ Handling S 2.50 Restored... leave their own unique mark. The English version of Shevchenko's bio­ US Funds American immigrant Wall of Honor graphy. No translation of any work, Yevshan Corporation (Continued from page 4) is a permanent exhibit that will regardless of how skillfully one, is a Box 325, Beaconsfield durabFe structure similar to the fine- display the names of thousands of substitute for the original, but Dr. Quebec H9W 5T8 arts technique of fresco. This actually Americans who wish to honor their Luckyj's translation will certainly make Canada served to preserve the graffiti. immigrant ancestry. It will enable its mark. "This museum is devoted to all people to have their names inscribed American immigrants, all people at the very same building where who came here to leave their mark by writings were, perhaps, left by their helping to build America,"explained ancestors. Participating in the wall Stephen Briganti, president of The - with contributions starting at S100 Statue of Liberty-Ellis Island Foun­ - will also endow and help complete dation. 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UKRAINIAN BIBLES TO UKRAINE Praise The Lord! God opened the door through "Voice of America" and "Radio Liberty" for direct mailing of the Ukrainian Bibles to Ukraine. The Ukrainian Family Bible Association is asking for a generous gift of S25, JSO, JlOO, or however God leads you,to help direct maiiingto our believers in Ukraine,of the Ukrainian Bibles of their Faith. It is permitted now to send by direct mall two Bibles per parcel. The Russian Orthodox Church is NOT included in this God-given project. Praise The Lord! Another door God opened to provide "UKRAINIAN CHILDREN BIBLE" to the Ukrainian Family. Our Chiidren are a heritage of the Lord and are the life and future of the Ukrainian Nation. For the first time in the history of the USSR, the Soviet authorities have given permission for the import of "150,000 Ukrainian Children Bibles" to Ukraine, which will be printed in Stockholm, Sweden. Please help us in getting God's V\ford to these little ones and send a generous contribution to the Ukrainian Family Bible Association. UEBA is a non-profit and non-denomination association Thank you and God Bless You Ail.

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nary criminal courts and are entitled to Bogdanovs, Vladimir Sokolov and prominent law firm of Jenner and Seminar... legal representation if they cannot Antanas Bernotas, explained that the Block, which represented John Dem- (Continued from page 5) afford it. Swedish Consul in Florida contacted janjuk in a Freedom of Information Act The government is currently trying a him about Mr. Fedorenko's case when lawsuit against the U.S. Justice Depart­ The legislation, which was passed in Hungarian. I. Finta. under the new bw he was unable to find a lawyer in ment, took on the case after the Ralph September of 1987, rejected the United They have also initiated a denaturali7.a- Florida to represent him. Nader group contacted him. He noted States as a model. It provided Cana­ tion trial against another individual. "It was a fascinating issue and I that the litigation was "unusual." dian courts with jurisdiction over decided to take it on. I felt that he Mr. Broadley described the legal crimes committed outside the country Prosecution without persecution deserved his day in court and that he efforts involved in trying to obtain by individuals who later became Cana­ had been taken advantage of by the important documents from the OSI and dian citizens or who took up residence Brian Gildea was the first of the Immigration and Naturalization Ser­ the ways in which they attempted to in Canada. Mr. Gregorovich felt it defense attorneys to speak. All of them vice/' he said. block those efforts. The documents important to note that the law did not were asked to preface their remarks by which most interested the Demjanjuks Mr. Gildea focused his presentation create any new offenses, but kept those explaining why they got involved in OSI were the reports dealing with investiga­ on the case of Mr. Sokolov, a former which are defined by Canadian criminal cases. Mr. Gildea, who represented tions and the questioning of witnesses. professor at Yale, who resigned after law, i.e. murder, kidnapping, con­ Feodor Fedorenko, (the first OSI case Ultimately, most of these were pro­ charges of alleged collaboration were spiracy. Defendants a e tried in ordi­ to reach the Supreme Court), Boleslavs tected by the OSTs pleading "attorney published in the Yale Daily News in the work product." Although the OSI also 1970s. Mr. Sokolov was charged with HUCULKA attempted to prevent the release of 15 EARN MONEY authoring anti-Semitic articles in the Icon 8L Souvenir's Distribution Soviet reports, the court ordered them READING BOOKS! 2860 Buhre Ave. Suite 2R Nazi-controlled newspaper Rech in the released. The OSI had argued, albeit J30,000Zyr income potential. Bronx, NY 10461 Russian city of Orel during the German indirectly, that the KGB had conducted Details. REPRESENTATtVE and WHOLESALER ofEMBROIDERED BLOUSES occupation. 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Among the items thus obtained whatsoever to show that one single Jew was the ''Danielchenko Affidavit," 1989 tennis season at Soyuzivka was ever persecuted as a result of his which placed Mr. Demjanjuk in a writings in the newspaper." different location than that alleged by Mr. Gildea stated that the OSI is Treblinka camp survivors at the Israeli probably running out of solid cases USCAK East (Juniors A and B) July 8-9 trial. because they were looking at the writ­ Doubles August 12-13 The Demjanjuks appealed to the USCAK Nationals September 1-4 ings of Mr. Sokolov as an advocacy of persecution. The term "advocacy" was attorney general for the release of other Plast Chornomortsi (Doubles) September 16-17 never defined during the proceedings. investigative reports made by the OSI KLK October 8-9 "In my opinion," said Mr. Gildea, "the and were successful. At least three of writings themselves, while they may these were clearly exculpatory. The OSI have been anti-Semitic to some extent, had redacted the names of the inter­ were certainly not an advocation of viewees and refused to release them to persecution." the defense. UNIQUE EXCURSION TO UKRAINE After being denaturalized, Mr. Soko­ Mr. Broadley concluded: "It (the lov left for Canada, where he has asked FOIA case) was a real eye-opener on (To coinci(Je with Pop-Music Festival in Chernivtsi) for political asylum. The OSI has what you Ye dealing with at the OSI... I think it's a tragedy what's happened: 1. 12 days (Я,879) 15-27 September. pursued the deportation case in the U.S. that office has been allowed to run 2. 14 days (S 1.989) 17 September - 1 October and has obtained an order to have him deported to the USSR. amuck and get away with things for which most lawyers would end up dis­ Price includes: Airfare. Intinerary: Kiev - Lviv - Chernivtsi. Hotel (double occupancy). 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Yaroshynska's adversaries might have British pop... Washington... Zhytomyr crusader... learned by that point, they could not (Continued from page 9) (Continued from page 6) (Continued from page 2) forgive being criticized in Pravda and than normal Wedding Present music. favored-nation (MFN) status to im­ initiative group supporting the journa­ Izvestiva by a journalist who was not It's great party music, according to ports from cooperatives in communist list complained to the Central Electoral even a member of the Communist Party many critics, and the live shows were countries, contingent on the co-ops Commission that the Zhytomyr City (and who included in her campaign projected to be a "riot/' According to abiding by internationally recognized Executive Committee would not allow a platform a point calling for an end to some concert attendees, the group worker rights provisions. The bill would meeting of nomination to take place. discrimination against non-party mem­ sounds much better live doing this also retain the Jackson-Vanik amend­ Forced by Moscow to designate a bers). Ukrainian caper than they do on the ment provisions in that it would allow time and place for the meeting - Therefore, falling back on past ha­ record. the withholding of M FN status from the January 20 at the Zhytomyr Oblast bits, they began to use more sophisti­ All the group had hoped for was that country as a whole while granting it to Philharmonic hall - the executive cated and repressive measures. Several this record would be fun, for critically, certain co-ops in that country. committee then scheduled a gathering of her supporters and campaign ma­ nagers were fined or detained by police the Wedding Present "mimicked the On May 16, Rep. John Miller (R- of the party aktiv of city planners at frenzied spirals and huge comic precisely the same hour and same after an officially sanctioned election Wash.) introduced H.R. 2366, a bill to rally of 18,000 people on February 19. rhythms" of the original folk songs. But, encourage trade which promotes libera­ venue, sending mounted police and fire because of the booklet that is included engines to control the 3,000 Yaroshyn- The printer responsible for making her lization inside the Soviet Union and the campaign leaflets was harassed to such in the LP, the record serves a greater Baltic States. The following day, Sen. ska supporters who stood outside for purpose in introducing Ukrainian melo­ six hours. Inside the Philharmonic, the an extent that he ended up in the cardiac John Heinz (R-Pa.), with Sen. DeCon- ward of the hospital. dies to a wider audience. The Wedding cini, introduced S. 1018, the Slepak city fathers nominated as candidate to Present, has over the years achieved a the Congress of People's Deputies an Principles Act. The bill sets forth Meanwhile, Mr. Kavun, the first following of grand proportions, which assistant professor at the Polytechnic principles for United States nationals secretary of the Zhytomyr Oblast Com­ includes a groupie club and an annual involved in industrial cooperation Institute, M. Bilodid. munist Party, managed to become the newsletter, complete with mail-order projects in the Soviet Union and the The next day, the locks to the audito­ sole candidate for election in nearby offers. Baltic States. It is based on the prin­ rium door in the Polytechnic Institute Berdychiv. Two military officers who Peter said that in the show, the group ciples outlined by Soviet emigre and were changed so that Prof. Bilodid's own opposed him were expelled from the will also be doing half a dozen of their human rights activist Vladimir Slepak. colleagues and students could not, as party and sent away. own songs, written in Ukrainian style. they were expected to do, gather there to "To get ideas for words, IVe read story WARSAW PACT NATIONS: On vote instead for Ms. Yaroshynska. In Incidents of this sort continued right books and history books. But, they're May 16, Rep. Fascell, for himself and another example of trickery, a "mole" until the eve of the election. When Ms. mostly folk songs, popular tunes for 150 three colleagues, introduced H.R. 2356, planted at a nomination meeting in a Yaroshynska granted an interview on years. We can't pretend ours are of the a bill in support of the people and pro-Yaroshynska factory tried to re­ March 23 to Susan Cornwall of Reuters, same ilk. That's arrogant," he told nation of Poland, and to amend the arrange the placement of ballot boxes. leaflets were distributed in the city the Melody Maker. Trade Act of 1974 and the Foreign The Central Electoral Commission following day caUing on citizens not to Assistance Act of 1961. On June 6, Rep. "And we thought of taking this music was kept informed of events in Zhy­ vote for the "traitor candidate." Ms. Lee Hamilton (D-Ind.),for himself and to Ukraine, to play there, which would tomyr, either directly or via Literatur- Yaroshynska's stated support for free­ eight colleagues, introduced H.R. 2550, be great. But it's hard to find the time to naya Gazeta. (The latter, for instance, dom to emigrate from the USSR was a bill to provide for certain forms of do it. And I think it would be quite passed on a petition it had received on also used against her in this regard. assistance to Poland and Hungary to strange, us playing Ukrainian pop songs January 30 with thousands of signa­ But her overwhelming victory on encourage the process of democratic in Kiev. It would end up just like a tures expressing no confidence in the March 26 demonstrated that the more reforms in those countries. Russian band coming to London and chairman, secretary and other members the authorities in Zhytomyr sought to trying to play Greensleeves." MISCELLANEOUS: On May 18, of the Zhytomyr Region Electoral discredit her, the greater the support she Sen. Bill Bradley (D-N.J.), with five Commission.) Thus, not only were city drew from the public. As people's The album, which had some difficulty colleagues, introduced S.Res. 130, a and oblast authorities faced with a deputy she can be expected to continue getting off the ground, (it was due out resolution recognizing the May 25 determined mass of popular support for pursuing populist goals. last November) is now soaring the convening of the USSR Congress of Ms. Yaroshynska, but they also brought charts. However, the label that was set People's Deputies. The resolution states upon themselves a cloud of adverse to release it. Red Rhino, folded and the that the Senate "welcomes these initial publicity from the central press and group spent five months waiting before steps toward institutionalizing a demo­ Central Television. Ultimately, five The Ukrainian Weekly the record was released on Reception cratic process in the USSR" and "ex­ enterprises and two institutes, including Records in April and is now available presses its hope that this process will the Polytechnic, were able to І nominate read it and share it on RCA. The Wedding Presents hopes continue to go forward." The Senate Ms. Yaroshynska. to release another album of Ukrainian considered and passed the resolution. In spite of the lessons that Ms. songs in the near future, but currently the new release is experiencing a lot of radio play and even one performance on the British telly. In the meantime, Peter's Ukrainian Запрошуємо Вас! dad, thinks all this is great news and as Candy Patrick put it: "If this album doesn't have you clapping your hand, (We Invite You!) slapping your thighs and whooping with delight at least once, then, I'm afraid your spirit is dead from the ears downwards." East Meets West For A World First! The first time ever that a trade and cultural show Lukianenlco... from Ukraine has travelled outside the Soviet Union -a v^orld premiere and only at Edmonton's (Continued from page 1) Klondike Days Exposition! The Ukraine Trade and Odarka Polansky from Americans for Cultural Exhibition v^ill feature dancing, music, Human Rights in Ukraine, Christina fashions, artworks, made-in-Ukraine products Isajiw from the World Congress of Free and more. Ukrainians, and Tatiana Plyushch, wife of former political prisoner Leonid Join us for 10 days of Klondike fan.

Plyushch from Paris. There's lots to see and do for the whole family For more information- They made plans for a press confe­ including big name concerts, outstanding Edmonton Northlands Box 1480, (Dept, F.F.) rence to be held Thursday, June 15, at entertainment, the Klondike-Crafts and Country Edmonton, Alberta the International Conference Center in Fair, the Horse Palace, Klondike Casino, Canada T5J 2N5 (403) 471-7210 Paris at 10 a.m. with the Belgian Thoroughbred Racing, and Canada's Conklin delegation acting as hosts and Ms. Midway. Don't miss out on all the fun! Isajiw as moderator. A luncheon for the delegates and press corps with costs covered by AHRU was to follow. E ! D ! M! O' N ! T T O ! N'T S In a separate statement, Mr. Lukia- nenko wrote that a period of "admi­ nistrative surveillance" awaits him if he deviates from anything other than health reasons in his stay in Belgium. He was notified of such a threat prior to his departure from the USSR. This was reported to the head of the U.S. delegation to the Paris conference, Morris Abram, Mr. Lukianenko has already received a visa from the Belgian government to travel to Paris to hold a press conference. THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY. JUNE 18, 1989 No. 25

Sikafarowsky to sing in Central Park NEW YORK - Bass Stefan Szkafa- Stivanello. PREVIEW OF EVENTS rowsky will be featured in Verdi's The performance will take place at Central Park's Band Shell on the Mall, ''Nabucco/' during the New York June 19 June 26 Grand Opera's opera evening in Central on the 72nd Street entrance from Fifth Avenue or Central Park West. All Park on Thursday evening, June 29 at YONKERS, N.Y.: Branch 30 of the SASKATOON, Sask.: A public 7:30 p.m. performances are free to the public. The New York Grand Opera held its Ukrainian National Women's League reception will be held to recognize In the new production of "Nabucco/' first annual vocal competition this of America will hold a workshop on the publication of "The Monograph staged by Vincent La Selva, artistic and March where Mr. Szkafarowsky was the art of cutting and sewing Ukrai­ Collections of the Ukrainian Mu­ music deliver of the Opera, Mr. Szkafa- one of the winners. nian embroidered shirts at 7 p.m. in seum of Canada: An Integrated rowsky will perform the role of Zac- During the past two years, the bass St. Michael's Ukrainian Church on Catalogue," at 7:30 p.m. at the caria. The cast will also include baritone has made debuts with the National North Broadway and Shonnard Ukrainian Museum of Canada, 910 Lee Roisum in the title role and so­ Symphony, the Spoleto Festival USA, Place. A donation of S3 is suggested. Spadina Crescent E. The Mono­ prano Pamela Kucenic as Abigaille. as well as the Dallas Opera and the New Proceeds will go toward a scholar­ graph Collections Catalogue is the Franco Gentilesca will direct; the sets Orleans Opera. He has also performed ship fund for theologians in Brazil. culmination of a two-year project, will be by Mary Burt and costumes by with the Chicago Opera Theatre. which was initiated to produce a June 19-24 catalogue listing of library materials held by the Ukrainian Museum of URBANA, III.: '^lasnost, pere- Canada in Saskatoon and its four UAVets plan annual convention stroikaand Ukraine''will be the topic branches in Vancouver, Edmonton, of the eighth annual conference on Winnipeg and Toronto. For more by George A. Miziuk held. The UAV has invited Rep. James Ukrainian subjects at the University information call (306) 244-3800. Florio (D-N.J.), original sponsor of the of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. SOMERVILLE, N.J. - The Ukrai­ bill to create the U.S. Commission on The conference, organized jointly by June 27-JuIy 18 nian American Veterans (UAV) Na­ the Ukraine Famine, to appear as the the Ukrainian Research Program at tional Convention Committee met with keynote speaker. N.J. State Sen. Fran­ the University of Illinois and the REHOBOTH BEACH, DeL: Ilona the UAV National Ladies Auxiliary at cis J. McManimon, who sponsored Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Sochynsky will exhibit her oil paint­ the Holiday Inn on Saturday, May 6, to legislation to elevate the Veteran's Studies at the University of Alberta, ings and pastels at the Back Porch discuss plans for the 42nd annual UAV Department to the state cabinet level in will be held within the framework of Cafe here through July 18 Rehoboth convention, scheduled to be held here New Jersey, has also been invited. the well-known Summer Research Beach can be reached by ferry from July 13 through 16. Convention chair­ Laboratory on the Soviet Union and Wildwood, N.J. For information man Atanas T. Kobryn led the meet­ After the banquet, a dance will be Eastern Europe all week long. about hours, call the cafe, (302) 227- ing. held, featuring the music of the Chu- Twenty sessions with 52 papers and 3674. Registration for the convention will maky, directed by Walter Kieba. Ti­ two panels will concentrate on the commence Thursday, July 13. For ckets for the banquet and dance are S40 theoretical concepts of glasnost and SASKATOON, Sask.: A series of registration information, contact Mr. per person, S75 for couples. Banquet perestroika and their practical imple­ four noon-hour film/video presenta­ Kobryn, (718)356-8514. reservations may be made through Ted mentation mainly in Ukraine. tions will be held at the Ukrainian The convention will formally open on Dusanenko, (914)634-5502. Among the scheduled speakers will Museum of Canada, 910 Spadina Friday, July 14, when the outgoing The convention activities will close be scholars and experts from Austra­ Crescent E. The screenings are free national executive board officers will on Sunday, July 16, when the new lia, Canada, China, Great Britain, and open to the public. Brown bag present their annual reports and review board conducts its first meeting of the Israel, Rumania, Ukraine, the United lunches are welcome. "Reflections of the accomplishments of the UAV from term. States and West Germany. For more the Past" will be screened at 12:10 the previous term. After the day's After the convention committee information call (217) 333-1958. p.m. on June 27; "Laughter in My convention activities, the Ladies Auxi­ meeting, UAV National Commander Soul" will be shown at 12:10 p.m. on liary plans to hold a hospitality night at July 4; "River of Joy: A Celebration Jaroslaw Fedoryczuk called a special June 23-25 the Holiday Inn. session of the executive board. The of Ukrainian Christianity" will be screened at 12:10 p.m. on July 11; Saturday's convention activities will purpose of the meeting was to validate FRACKVILLE, Pa.: The 1989 include the election of the executive applications for new membership, and "Teach Me to Dance" will be Sports Rally of the League of Ukrai­ shown at 12:10 p.m. on July 18. For board for 1989-1990. Several commit­ received from the Washington/Silver nian Catholics will be held at the tees will also present reports, including: Springs, Md., area with a request to more information call (306) 244- Holiday Inn in Hazleton, Pa. For 3800. constitution and by-laws, auditing com­ form a new post. A single application adults, competition will include mittee, resolutions committee, welfare was alscy received from Akron, Ohio. bowling, golf, trap shooting and committee, ways and means committee, After UAV Judge Advocate Bohdan horse shoes. Children will compete in PREVIEW OF EVENTS, a listing and membership committee. A tour of B. Bezkorowajny determined that the bowling, swimming and field events. the St. Andrew's Ukrainian Orthodox applications were in order, the board of Шгаіпіап community events open The three-day event will also include to the public, is a service provided Museum in South Bound Brook was voted to accept the applications to form a "hostyna" on Friday evening, a proposed to take place that day after a new post, tentatively designated as free of charge by The Ukrainian grand ball on Saturday and an Weekly to the Ukrainian commu­ convention sessions. UAV Post 26 for the Washington area. awards brunch on Sunday. Divine In the evening, the annual convention For information on joining Post 26, nity. To have an event listed in this liturgy will be celebrated at St. column, please send information banquet for the installation of the board interested persons may contact Stefan Michael's parish. and Ladies Auxiliary officers will be Maksymjuk, (301) 593-7423. (type of event, date, time, place, admission, sponsor, etc.)) -' typed June 24 and in the English language - along with the phone number of a person PHILADELPHIA: The Ukrainian who may be reached during daytime JOHN DEMJANJUK SPEAKS: Educational and Cultural Center, hours for additional information, to: 700 Cedar Road, will hold an out­ Preview of Events, The Ukrainian door auction, flea market and picnic, Weekly, 30 Montgomery St., Jersey "YOU HAVE JUDGED...A PERSON WHO IS NOT GUILTY 10 a.m. to 7 p.m., featuring the sale of City, N.J. 07302. OF ANYTHING, AN INNOCENT HUMAN BEING." office furniture, filing cabinets, bicycles, tools, records, books, as PLEASE NOTE: Preview items "I AM NOT ^IVAN THE TERRIBLF AND THEMOST JUST well as fine arts and crafts. For must be received one week before information call (215) 663-1166. desired date of publication. No WITNESS IS GOD HIMSELF WHO KNOWS THAT I AM information will be taken over the INNOCENT." phone. Preview items will be pub­ NEWARK, N.J.: Pre-School Music, lished only once (please indicate "IDONOTDESERVETHIS. I AM INNOCENT, INNOCENT, "Musichne Doshkillia," under the desired date of publication). All INNOCENT. AND GOD IS MY WITNESS." direction of Marta Sawycky will items are published at the discretion present the fairy tale, "A New Doll," of the editorial staff and in accor­ PLEASE HELP SUPTORT THE APPEAL OF AN INNOCENT at 3 p.m. in the gymnasium of St. dance with available space. John's Ukrainian Catholic Church MAN. on Sanford Avenue. Refreshments will be served after the performance. Prayers and financial support desparately needed. Proceeds will be orphanages in South BUYUMiTEDSmnS Please send donations to: America. For enrollment in the 1989- 90 school year call (201) 276-3134. SAVINGS BONDS For the current rate call... THE JOHN DEMJANJUK ROEBLING, N.J.: The Roebling J-800-US-BONDS DEFENSE FUND Ethnic Festival will be held I to 7 p.m. at St. Nicholas'Picnic Grove on North and Hamilton avenues. Ad­ mission for adults is S2. For more information call (609) 499-0058.