The Ukrainian Weekly 1979, No.3
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www.ukrweekly.com ГНЕ СВОБОДА^ SVOBODA ” Р'Я І ЧЛРАЇНСЬКИИ ЩОДІННИК ЧЯШ^ UUA1MU оми UkrainiaENGL1SH- LANGUAGnE WEEKL Y WeeEDlTlON k У voi IXXXVI No. 16 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JANUARY 21,1979 25 CENTS Nadia Svitlychna visits UNA building UNA closes for JERSEY C1TY, N.J. - Nadia Svit– lychna, the former Ukrainian political January 22 prisoner who was recently allowed to JERSEY C1TY, N.J. - The home emigrate to the United States, visited office of the Ukrainian National the Ukrainian National Association Association and the editorial offices and Svoboda offices here Friday, Jan– of Svoboda and The Ukrainian uary 12. Weekly will closed Monday, January in a meeting with UNA supreme of– 22, in observance of Ukrainian ln– ficers and Svoboda and The Weekly dependence Day, announced the editors, Ms. Svitlychna provided infor– UNA Supreme Executive Commit– mation about the current situation in tee. Ukraine and explained how actions by The UNA headquarters and the the Ukrainian community abroad newspapers' offices have been closed affect it. each year on Ukrainian lndepen– Ms. Svitlychna noted that informa– dence Day since 1974. That year the tion about Soviet human rights viola– World Congress of Free Ukrainians tions published by the press helps the and the Ukrainian Congress Com– dissident movement and political pri– mittec of America urged all Ukrai– soners in the USSR, because the Soviet During Nadia Svitlychna's meeting with UNA supreme officers and Svoboda and nians to observe January 22 as a government is afraid of having the The Weekly editors: seated (left to right) are Lubov Kolensky, Ms. Svitlychna, national Ukrainian holiday. Supreme Treasurer Ulana Diachuk; standing are Supreme Organizer Wasyl truth about its illegal activities known. in announcing the closing of the Orichowsky, Wolodymyr Kosyk, Eugene Fedorenko, editor emeritus Anthony The press should be careful not to UNA this year, the Supreme Execu– Dragan, Supreme President John O. Flis, Zenon Snylyk, Supreme Secretary imply that individual Ukrainian dissi– tive Committee appealed to all its Wolodymyr Sochan, Basil Tershakovec and Wolodymyr Lewenetz. і dents or political prisoners are ad– members to mark Ukrainian lnde– herents to ideologies of political groups pendence Day in their communities abroad, she said, because such catego– minal code supersedes the constitu– truth. There are, for example, persons with appropriate programs. The rization is used against these persons tion." who believe that the Ukrainian insur– UNA's executive body also urged all by the KGB. Soviet propaganda, according to gent Army (UPA) was composed of Ukrainian establishments and Speaking of the arrests and trials of Ms. Svitlychna, does have an influence "Banderite cutthroats." She admitted schools to be closed on January 22 that she herself had believed this until dissidents in contradiction to the rights over a portion of the Soviet popula– and that all Ukrainians stay home she later learned the truth. guaranteed by the Soviet Constitution, tion; there are persons who believe in it from work that day, in line with the Ms. Svitlychna observed, that the "cri– because they have no way to learn the (Continued on page 9) WCFU appeal. Daughter of political prisoner says lhor Sochan appointed to head nothing can break the Ukrainian spirit Plast in the United States NEW YORK, N.Y. - The daughter Moscow Group to Promote the imple– NEW YORK, N.Y. - lhor Sochan, of a Ukrainian political prisoner wrote mentation of the Helsinki Accords. 48, was appointed president of the in a letter to her father that nothing is in August 1978, Hel's wife, Maria, U.S. National Plast Command at a able to break the Ukrainian spirit, re- was summoned to the Lviv oblast pro– meeting of that body held here Tues– ported the press service of the Ukraini– secutor's office where she was ques– day, January 16. an Supreme Liberation Council tioned by the assistant oblast prosecu– Mr. Sochan, the first deputy in (abroad). tor, Rudenko, the brother of Roman charge pf liaison and organization until "Neither Yakuta, nor Mordovia can Rudenko, the prosecutor general of the appointment, will serve the re– break our Ukrainian spirit," wrote the Soviet Union, and three KGB offi– mainder of the term of office of the re– Oksana Неї to her father, ivan Неї, cers. They asked her to tell them about cently deceased head of the National who is incarcerated in one of the Mor– her visit with her husband in March. Plast Command, Andriy Z. Mycio. dovian region concentration camps. When she finished telling them, they Mr. Mycio died January 3 at the age of Hel's daughter, a high school stu– said that her account is exactly like the 56. dent, wrote the letter following a visit one broadcast by Radio Liberty. They The new liaison and organization to the camp by herself, her mother and asked her how she managed to tell deputy is Wolodymyr Swyntuch, for– her grandmother. The visit, held last them about her visit. merly the organization chairman in March, was abruptly terminated when Неї denied passing the information that sector of the National Plast Com– the camp officials found that one of them to Radio Liberty directly or through a mand. He is a member of the Newark had part of a pen in her possesion. go-between. She did admit to telling a Plast branch. The Неї family, which resides in number of persons about the aborted A new National Plast Command will Lviv, has recently become victim of visit with her husband. be elected at the regular biennial Na– KGB harassment. This information "That is all true. You do something tional Plast Congress scheduled for was supplied to the council's press ser– vice bv Malva Landa. a member of the i( onlinued on page 2) (Continued on page 9) lhor Sochan Observe January 22 as national holiday 2 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY. JANUARY 21,1979 No. 16 Ukrainian communities prepare for Observances of January 22 UCCA coordinates January 22 Dear Fellow Ukrainian Americans: On January 22, 1979, 61 years will have passed since the proclamation of programs in Albany and D.C. the independence of Ukraine by the Ukrainian Central Rada in Kiev and 60 years since the Act of Union whereby all Ukrainian ethnographic lands were NEW YORK, N.Y. - The head- the traditional invocation in the U.S. united into one independent and sovereign Ukrainian state. quarters of the Ukrainian Congress Congress delivered by a Ukrainian These dates belong to the most illustrious moments in the modern history Committee of America announced the priest. This year, the Rt. Rev. Mitred of the Ukrainian people, because they officially and legally reaffirmed the details of two Ukrainian independence Steven Chehansky, apostolic adminis– unbending will of the Ukrainian nation to independent national statehood. Day programs it is coordinating.this trato of the Philadelphia Ukrainian For almost three decades, the observance of January 22 has become an all- week. Catholic Archeparchy, will lead the national holiday of the Ukrainian community in the United States and in The northeast's two prominent Jan– prayers. other countries of the free world. Moreover, beginning in the early 1950s, uary 22 programs will be held in Rep. Philip Crane (R-lll.) and Rep. through the initiative and efforts of Prof. Lev E. Dobriansky, president of Albany, N.Y., on January 23 and in Christopher Dodd– (D-Conn.) will the UCCA, the observance of the anniversary of Ukrainian independence Washington, D.C, on January 24. sponsor the program in Room EF100 was also introduced in the American Congress, which fact has a great politi– The program in Albany is being held in the House of Representatives wing cal and historic significance. The official observances of Ukraine's indepen– for the fourth consecutive year, it is of the Congress. The program is slated dence Day have also been extended to various states and cities of the United being organized by the Capital District to begin at 5 p.m. States, where governors and mayors issue special proclamations in honoring Committee of UCCA branches with Prof. Lev Dobriansky, president of the anniversary of the proclamation of Ukraine's independence. the cooperation of the UCCA office the UCCA, and Msgr. Robert Moskal, We appeal to all UCCA branches and member-organizations to continue here. executive vice-president, will address and expand the observances in 1979. The two-part program in the New the congressmen and guests. We cannot for a minute curtail our activities, as the Ukrainian people are York State Legislature is being co-spon– being brutally persecuted, their intellectual and literary leaders arrested and For further information contact sored by Sens. Warren Anderson, UN1S at (202) 638-0988. put in jails and concentration camps, and Russification of Ukrainian na– Charles Cook and Joseph Bruno, and As– tional life continues rampant and unbridled. semblyman Maurice Hinchey, who is of Therefore, we all must work to help the Ukrainian people in their unend– Ukrainian descent. ing struggle for freedom and national independence. The first part of the program will Trenton to be site We appeal to all UCCA branches and member-organizations in all centers begin in the Senate at noon and will of Ukrainian settlement in America to exert their maximum efforts for the consist of an invocation, statements by of independence fete dignified and effective observance of this year's anniversary of Ukrainian lawmakers and a brief concert, which independence. will be conducted by Jaroslav Kushnir, PASSA1C, N.J. - The Ukrainian We also urge our branches and member-organizations to arrange for the president of the Capital District Com– Congress Committee of America - local American press to be adequately informed about the anniversary of mittee of UCCA branches.