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Published by the Ukrainian National Association Inc.. a fraternal non-profit association! I I rainian ї Vol.L No. 52 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, DECEMBER 26, 1982 Patriarch's Christmas pastoralProvidenc e president announces pjjnderscores unity through lovemediatio n efforts in UCCA rift ROME - In their Christmas pastoral leads through love. Without love there PHILADELPHIA - Msgr. Stephen letter released here, Patriarch Josyf is no unity in family life, or community, Chomko, supreme president of the Slipyj and the hierarchs of the "Po- national, or even church life. Without Providence Association of Ukrainian misna" (particular) Ukrainian Catholic deep Christian love, which is the fruit of Catholics, a fraternal organization Church stressed the need for unity the Holy Spirit, all church life limits based in Philadelphia, has announced through love. itself to exterior religious practices, the that he has begun and will continue The patriarch begins his letter by keeping of written rituals, cults. In mediation efforts to resolve the current saying thai- Ukrainians greet the new­ church centers where there is only split within the U.S. Ukrainian commu­ born infant with adoration by singing exterior religious life and no love of nity that occurred at the 13th Congress koliady Which remind us that in be­ God and fellow men, there is no God, of the Ukrainian Congress Committee coming тяп the Christ Child turned because God is love — according to the of America in October 1980. unhappiness into happiness. words of St. John," the letter stresses. Msgr. Chomko made the announce­ The patriarch writes: "The source of This Christmas, as we get approach ment in a statement published in the Christian happiness and joy is the love the celebration of the millennium of December 22 issue of America, the of God and one another - toye which Christianity in Ukraine, the patriarch official publication of the Providence Christ brought down to earth. As stresses that we should renounce self- Association. Msgr. Chomko's state­ without fire there is no warmth, so love and strive for the fruit of the spirit ment was datelined Hartford, Conn., without love a person does not have real which is "love, joy, peace, long-suffer­ December 20, and headlined "Announce­ happiness, mirth, contentment. Jesus ing, gentleness, goodness, faith, meek­ ment about steps toward mediation by the supreme president of the Providence himself says that with. His birth as a ness, temperance" (Galatiahs 5:22)1- Msgr. Stephen Chomko human, he brought to Earth the divine The patriarch also recalls the year Association." fire of love, and He only wishes that it 1933, the year that marked 1,900 years In the statement, Msgr. Chomko National Women's League of America would be kindled." since Christ died for our sins. He recalls noted that he plans to call a meeting of - the founding member-organizations "St? John, the Evangelist is also youth rallies in Lviv that year; "Ukrai­ representatives of the UCCA. the Com­ of the UCCA - and a representative of quoted iu the pastoral letter. He, as a nian Youth for Christ," was their motto, mittee for Law and Order in the UCCA the professionals, in order to more beloved student of Jesus Christ, the he notes. Now it is time once again for and.other organizations, and, if this precisely define the positions of those apostle of Christian love, talked about youth to be the hope of the future, he meeting shows that there is a founda­ parties that could participate in any the need for love of God and one's says. tion for settling the current dispute, he mediation activity. This meeting was fellow man. "Our older generation looks into its will propose the creation of an arbitra­ held Monday, December 20, at the The patriarch goes on to say that "in past, relives it, gets caught up in it and tion board to prepare a plan for action UNA building in Jersey City, N. J., and, today's world of progress, technology, often even locks itself in the past." Now for resolving dispute within our com­ at the meeting, a general plan for further prosperity, luxury and lost love, self- SO years later the young generation sees munity. mediation attempts was formulated. love has been created. With the loss of an open road in front of itself, and The full text of the announcement (in In the very near future I plan to invite love, today's man has lost happiness, wants to be the creator of something English translation prepared by The representatives of the UCCA executive mirth, satisfaction — the fruits of love." new, something big, wants to be the Weekly staff), follows. board, the Committee for Law and In these times of need, modern-day creator of a happy life for itself and for Order in the UCCA and leaders of other apostles of Christian love have emerged, future generations, he writes. The organizations to special meetings, and, he writes, and these include Pope John patriarch goes on to say that youth if these meetings demonstrate that there XXIII, Pope Paul VI, Pope John Paul I should search for God in its own During the past two months 1 have is a basis for understanding, I plan to and Pope John Paul II. Church. met with various key persons in attempt­ propose the establishment of an arbitra­ In the following two sections of the There is also strength in numbers, ing to ascertain if there is a basis for tion committee that would be charged letter, Patriarch Josyf speaks of love Patriarch Josyf says in a section de­ expanding my attempts at mediation with preparing a concrete plan of action as the foundation for achieving unity. voted to group prayer. As he points out aimed at preventing a permanent rift for the settlement of the misunderstand­ "Besides individual happiness, mirth from the Gospel of Matthew (18:20): within the Ukrainian community in the ings within our community. and a healthy satisfaction from life, love "For where there are two or three United States. These discussions, in my While informing the membership of gives us the wish for general unity and gathered together in my name, there am opinion, were useful and constructive, the Providence Association of Ukrai­ brotherhood which the Ukrainian com­ I in the midst of them." In the Church, and, therefore, I decided to convene a nian Catholics and all our community munity desperately needs. We constant­ Jesus Christ Himself unites us with His meeting of representatives of the Ukrai­ members about the above, I ask for ly plead: 'God grant us unity.' But let us love, and unity in Christ will help us nian National Association, Ukrainian^ further support of my mediation at­ remember that the only road to unity overcome all our difficulties because He Fraternal Association, the Ukrainian tempts. will be our strength, says the letter. The last section of the letter is devoted to the patriarch's pastoral INSIDE: greeting to the Synod which will take Madrid Conference recesses until February place in early 1983. He asks for guidance MADRID - The two-year-old on delegates to conclude their meeting in the Synod through prayer. Madrid Conference on European secu­ by spring. ' Special pull-out section, Patriarch Josyf ends his letter by rity and human rights adjourned on Edouard Brunner, the Swiss delegate, "1982: a look back" - pages saying: "On the occasion of Christmas December 17 amid warnings that it was told reporters he demanded a March 25 5-12. and the New Year, 1983, we extend to headed for crisis unless an East-West deadline at a closed-door session as all of you priests, monks, all faithful of deadlock was broken during the recess, delegates prepared for another seven- the 'Pomisna' Ukrainian Catholic reported Reuters. week break in the meeting, which has c Dissident profile: Yuriy Church in Ukraine and the diaspora, "Should we fail to agree on a balanced lasted 25 months and made little tan­ and in exile and in prisons, our heart­ gible progress. Shukhevych - page 2. and substantive document in February felt greetings and we ask the Child bom or March, a serious crisis must be The 35-state conference has been in Bethlehem and his Virgin Mother to envisaged," said Franz Ceska, the chief reviewing the 1975 Helsinki Accords. о Adaptation of women's confe­ grant us all love, unity, peace and joy of Austrian delegate. The meeting has been deadlocked rence keynote address by Dr. Christmas. 'Peace be to the brethren and He was speaking at the conclusion of because of major differences between Marta Bohachevsky Chomiak - love with faith from God the Father and the final full session of the current the West and Soviet-bloc countries on page 4. the Lord Jesus Christ. Grace be with all round of the conference, which is human rights and the format of a post- who love our Lord Jesus Christ in scheduled to resume on February 8. Madrid European disarmament confe­ sincerity' " (Ephesians 6:23-4). On December 15, Switzerland called rence. І THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, DECEMBER 26, 1982 No. 52

Dissident profile. Fedorchuk. named MVD chief, Chebrikov fills KGB post Yuriy Shukhevych: MOSCOW - Vitaly Fedorchuk, 1966, but was not a member of the who headed the KGB in his native Politburo. the eternal prisoner Ukraine for 12 years before being The KGB post will be filledb y Viktor named to succeed Yuri Andropov as all- Chebrikov, 59, a deputy chief during union head of the KGB last May, has much of Mr. Andropov's KGB tenure. Mr. Shukhevych in exchange for been chosen to head the Ministry of Mr. Andropov, who assumed the Soviet special privileges. As a result, Mr. Internal Affairs, according to a Decem­ leadership following the death of Mr. Shukhevych was sentenced to a ber 17 release from the official Soviet Brezhnev in November, directed the second 10-year term at hard labor. news agency TASS. agency from 1967 to 1982. After the trial, the defendant was Mr. Fedorchuk, 64, will replace As head of the internal affairs mi­ approached by an officer of the Nikolai Shcholokov, 72, a close asso­ nistry, or MVD as it is known by its KGB, Klementiy Halsky, who pro­ ciate of late President Leonid Brezhnev Russian acronym, Mr. Fedorchuk will posed that Mr. Shukhevych write an and who had been the minister since oversee the maintenance of public article denouncing Ukrainian na­ order, the militia and uniformed police, tionalism and the activities of his criminal investigations, riotsuppression , father. He was told that if he co­ traffic control and the enforcement of a operated, the sentence would not be Nobel laureates seek wide range of regulations having to.do enforced. Again, Mr. Shukhevych with the right of residence in different refused to go along. As a result, he political prisoners'release places, internal travel and issuance of was sent to a labor camp in the emigration permits. Mordovian ASSR. NEW YORK - Seven Nobel Peace The appointment of a career KGB , Prize winners, including exiled Soviet officer to head the MVD is seen by In 1967, one year before his term physicist Andrei Sakharov, helped many as an attempt to shore up along- was due to expire, Mr. Shukhevych launch a worldwide signature drive by time rift between the two agencies with wrote a declaration to the Supreme Amnesty International for the release of many overlapping security functions Yuriy Shukhevych Soviet of the Ukrainian SSR pro­ political prisoners. requiring a measure of coordination. testing illegalities in his case, parti­ The drive was opened on December (Continued on paje 15) JERSEY CITY, N.J. - On Sep­ cularly the refusal of the court to call 10, which is International Human tember 12, 1972, Yuriy Shukhevych, 12 witnesses who would have testi­ Rights Day, and will continue through then 38 years old, was sentenced to 10 fied on his behalf. 1983. Petitions asking for the release Kremlin announces years in a prison and labor camps of prisoners of conscience will be In the declaration, he also foresaw circulated, collected and presented to all and five years' internal exile. Incre­ his fate. "I turn to you," he wrote, dibly, it was the third 10-year term in heads of state and the president of the new penalties "because it may happen that a new U.N. General Assembly. 24 years for Mr. Shukhevych, whose crime will be perpetrated against me. father, the late Gen. Roman Shukhe­ In addition to Mr. Sakharov, who is MOSCOW -The Kremlin announc­ They will again fabricate a new case confined in the Soviet city of Gorky, the ed on December 18 harsh new fines and vych, was the commander of the to get me sentenced for a third time." Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA). other Nobel Peace Prize laureates to prison terms, including forced labor, for a Of all the members of the Ukrainian For a while, it looked like Mr. support the drive were former German wide range of crimes, reported .the Helsinki Group, which Mr. Shukhe­ Shukhevych's fears were groundless. chancellor Willy Brandt, England's Associated Press. The announcement vych joined in 1979, only Yuriy Released in 1968, Mr. Shukhevych Mairead Corrigan, Sean MacBride of came just one day after a reshuffling of Lytvyn has been sentenced more was forbidden to return to Ukraine. Ireland, Alva Myrdal of Sweden (the the leadership of the Soviet security times (five), but his terms were Sent to the Caucasus, he married 1982 recipient), Adolfo Perez Esquivel systems. shorter ( a total of 23 years at the Valentyna Trotsenko and found a of Argentina and the.late Philip Noel- The criminal penalties and the leader­ expiration of his latest sentence.) If job'as an electrician. The couple had Baker of Great Britain. ship'changes' in the KGB and the and when Mr. Shukhevych, who is two children. Also signing was Coretta King, Ministry of internal Affairs announced reported to be 99 percent blind, widow of assassinated civil-rights leader in the five weeks since Yuri Andropov completes his full term, he will have But in 1972, with a massive crack­ Martin Luther King Jr., who won the took power are part of a government served a mindboggling 35 years in down on Ukrainian intellectuals and Nobel Peace Prize in 1964. campaign aimed at tighter control over Soviet prisons, labor camps and activists under way in Ukraine," the The petitions call for the release of all officials, and also signals a harsher life exile. And he will be but 53 years old. fears that he had expressed to the prisoners of conscience - men and for the country's 270 million citizens. Supreme Soviet were realized. women imprisoned solely for their The government newspaper Izvestia political or religious beliefs, race or In a sense, Yuriy Shukhevych is Arrested in March, he was sen­ reported on December 18 that a Central the eternal prisoner, the embodiment ethnic origin and who have not used or Committee decree effective January 1 tenced six months later to a third 10- advocated violence. of Ukraine's struggle against Soviet year term — five years in prison and imposes fines ranging from the equiva­ oppression. Born in Ukraine on five years in a labor camp — to be The petition declares: "None of these lent of S240 (well over a month's pay for March 28, 1934, he was sentenced in followed by five years' internal exile. people should be in prison. The fact that most Soviet workers) to SI,400.for 1948 - when he was just 14 years of The charge was "anti-Soviet agita­ they have been arrested and punished economic crimes such as profiteering. age - to 10 years at hard labor tion and propaganda" based on a because of their beliefs or origins is an The newspaper also said that judges merely for being the son of a Ukrai­ copy of his memoirs that had pre­ affront to humanity." have been ordered to assign more nian nationalist leader. viously been confiscated during a Moreover, the signers attest their convicts to forced-labor brigades for up search of his home. belief that "there is an indissoluble link to two years instead of sending them to In the spring of 1956 he was between human rights and peace." prison. amnestied after serving eight years, Other Nobel laureates signing the It said the decree imposed stiffer primarily because he had been im­ In 1979, Mr. Shukhevych joined the Ukrainian Helsinki Group while first petitions were Heinrich Boll (litera­ prison terms for crimes ranging from prisoned while still a minor. But later ture, 1972), Gunnar Myrdal (economics, in Chistopol Prison. auto theft to stealing public property — thbt year, Roman A. Rudenko, the 1974) and Elias Canetti (literature, a provision apparently aimed at corrupt notorious prosecutor-general of the This summer, letters from Ukraine 1981). officials. USSR, repealed the release, arguing by persons close to Mr. Shukhevych that Mr. Shukhevych was dangerous ^revealed that he was nearly blind because he was the son of Gen. following eye surgery in a prison Shukhevych, who had been killed in hospital. Former Soviet political battle in 1949. prisoners Sviatoslav Karavansky As a result, Mr. Shukhevych was and Nina Strokata insist that Mr. forced to serve the remaining two Shukhevych was intentionally blind­ Ukrainian Week V ed by authorities. years of his sentence. FOUNDED 1933 While serving the term, he was The sickening torment of Mr. Ukrainian weekly newspaper published by the Ukrainian National Association Inc., a fraternal approached by agents of the KGB Shukhevych by Soviet authorities is non-profit association, at 30 Montgomery St, Jersey City, N J. 07302. f who demanded that he publicly unquestionably one of the starkest (The Ukrainian Weekly - USPSі 570-870) denounce his father. Mr. Shukhevych examples of inhumanity in modern Also published by the UNA: Svoboda, a Ukrainian-language daily newspaper. refused. Oa the day of his release, times. They continue to brutalize and August 21, 1958, he was re-arrested torture Mr. Shukhevych because The Weekly and Svoboda: UNA: and- charged with "anti-Soviet agita­ they cannot forgive him his courage (201) 434-0237, 434-0807 (201) 451-2200 tion and propaganda." 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NJ. 07303 Assistant editor Marta Koiomayeta No. 52 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, DECEMBER 26, 1982 3 Rubin, siipyj exchange indicates Law and Order Committee execs meet NEW YORK - The executive com­ Dr. Roman Baranowsky reported on Vatican warning to Ukrainians mittee of the Committee for Law and his visit to Cleveland, where he spoke at Order in the UCCA met here on Mon­ an evening of discussion organized by VATICAN CITY - An exchange of Pope John Paul II. Copies were sent to day, November 29, to discuss the most the Organization for the Rebirth of letters between the prefect of the Holy all Ukrainian Uniate bishops reminding recent developments within the Ukrai­ Ukraine. The topic of the November 6 Eastern Congregation, Cardinal Wla- "all concerned of their grave obligation nian community in connection with event was the state of the Ukrainian dislaw Rubin, and Patriarch Josyf to abide by the directives issued by the appeal of the U.S. Ukrainian Catholic community in the United States in the Siipyj of the "Pomisna" Ukrainian Holy See." hierarchy to the faithful and the leaders aftermath of the 13th UCCA Congress. Catholic Church during the summer Cardinal Rubin also criticized the of community organizations. Also at the meeting, the Committee months reveals that the Vatican has pastoral letter written on the occasion In his report to the meeting partici­ for Law and Order reiterated its position apparently issued a warning to the of the patriarch's 90th birthday, which pants, the committee's president, Dr. that if the hierarchs' appeal yields no Ukrainian Church. was addressed, in the first place, to the Bohdan Shebunchak, said that there positive results in restoring unity within Cardinal Rubin made three main faithful in Ukraine. had been response to the appeal on the the Ukrainian community, it will pro­ points in his letter to the chancery of the The patriarch's response to Cardinal part of the Committee for Law and ceed with plans to convene, in the spring primate of the Ukrainian Catholic Rubin, written six days later, includes Order in the UCCA, the fraternal of 1983, a national convention for the Church: a Ukrainian Patriarchate has the following statement: "As shepherd organizations and Patriarch Josyf purpose of establishing a new central not been established, and to maintain of my Church - having been impri­ Siipyj. The Ukrainian Congress Com­ organization of Ukrainian organiza­ that one does exist is a distortion of the soned for many years - 1 realize what mittee of America and the Organiza­ tions in the United States. truth; the Synod of Bishops can be the suffering and persecuted children of tions of the Ukrainian Liberation The next meeting of the executive convened only with the consent of the my Church want; it is my right and duty Front, however, have not reacted in the committee of the Committee for Law pope, and it cannot elect bishops- it can to come to their aid. I find myself two months since the appeal's issuance, and Order in the UCCA is scheduled for only present a list of candidates; the astonished that you seem to be under­ he said. January 10. successor to Cardinal Siipyj as arch­ mining my pastoral care." bishop of Lviv has already been select­ The patriarch also noted that the tone ed in the person of Archbishop-Coad­ of Cardinal Rubin's letter is offensive to jutor Myroslav Lubachivsky. the Ukrainian Catholic Church and to Taxi" episode slanders Orthodox Patriarch Josyf asserted in his reply: him personally as head of that Church. CHICAGO - In a sharp letter to sleazy sacrilege was humorous?" "Even when I am no longer here among Excerpts from Cardinal Rubin's NBC Chairman Grant Tinker, UNA Dr. Kuropas is advising UNA mem­ the living, no power in this world and no letter (in English translation, as published Supreme Vice-President Myron B. bers familiar with the episode to write institution.will have the force to stop in The Herald of Winnipeg on Decem­ Kuropas protested a recent episode of their letters of protest directly to the that irreversible process which will lead ber 1) follow. "Taxi" during which the wife of an NBC chairman, 3000 Alameda Ave., to the recognition of the Ukrainian "1. First of all, as regards the unfaithful husband is advised by a priest Burbank, Calif. 91523. Patriarchate/This patriarchate is neither that the only way she can expiate the sin According to the Rev. Dr. Miltiades B. a gift, nor c concession, nor an effect of establishment of a patriarchate in the Catholic Church: it is common know­ of her husband in the eyes "of the Efthimiou of the Greek Orthodox any politic?!, diplomatic or alchemic Orthodox Church" is to commit adultery Archdiocese of North and South Ame­ machination. The patriarchate is a holy ledge that the right to establish a patriar­ chate is reserved to an Ecumenical with one of his friends. rica, who spoke with the NBC vice thing and a sacred right of the Parti­ president regarding the matter, only a cular (Pomisna) Ukrainian Church, Council and to the Holy See. Now it is Condemning the episode as "a evident that the proposal to establish a blasphemous insult to the religious "visible protest" would assure the which is an organic part of the Mystical Orthodox community of America that Body of Christ." Ukrainian Patriarchate has been ac­ beliefs" of Orthodox UNA'ers, Dr. cepted neither by an Ecumenical Kuropas demanded to know what NBC similar incidents were not repeated in Cardinal Rubin's letter, dated July 6, Council nor by the Holy See. To planned to do to rectify the slur. the future. was written on the recommendation of maintain, therefore, as some do, that a "Most distressing to me," concluded Among the groups demanding an Ukrainian Patriarchate exists is a Dr. Kuropas, "is the fact that such a apology from NBC is the Illinois Con­ forcing or a distortion of the truth, blatant attempt to denigrate the faith of sultation on Ethnicity in Education,, Pope approves which can only serve to generate confu­ millions of Americans escaped'the which is chaired by Edwin Cudecki oF sion and division in people's minds. On attention of responsible people at NBC the Copernicus Foundation. The UNA this point clarity and objectivity is prior to airing. What motivated your is one of the ethnic organizations Synod meeting (Continued on page 16) program directors to believe that such affiliated with the ICEE. ROME - An unofficial phone call from Rome has informed the Ukrainian Catholic Archeparchy in Philadelphia that, on the proposal of Patriarch Josyf ODUM senior counselors hold conference, elect officers Siipyj, Pope John Paul II has approved Victor Hushcha, Paul Hajowyj and the next meeting of the synod of DETROIT - The Association of chairman, and Mr. Konowal, secretary, Mark Sydorenko, all of Minneapolis- Bishops for January 30through February America Youth of Ukrainian Descent was elected to conduct the conference. St. Paul; Natalie Prytula, Vera Holo- 12, 1983 in the Vatican. (ODUM) in the United States held its Also elected during the opening fifth biennial conference of senior session were the nominating, verifica­ waty and Michael Wasylenko of Detroit; The date of the synod was established counselors here at St. Mary's Ukrainian tions and resolutions committees. and Mr. Neprel of New York. during a private audience with the holy Orthodox Church Hall during the The delegates also reviewed and The business session continued with father and a delegation consisting of November 26-28 weekend. reports by members of the outgoing Archbishop-Coadjutor Myroslav Lu­ approved applications by candidates Some 40 delegates representing 10 applying for senior counselor status in executive board' and presidents of bachivsky, secretary of the synod ODUM branches in the United States ODUM branches throughout the United Bishop Andrew Sapelak of Argentina the ODUM organizational system. The attended the conference and re-elected applications were reviewed on the basis States. and business secretary of the synod'the Andrij Shevchenko president of the Friday evening's session concluded Rev. Dr. Ihor Monchak. of qualifications required by the ODUM national executive board for the next by-laws. with the keynote speech of the confe­ The date was chosen because it is two years. Receiving new senior counselor status rence titled "ODUM Today and during the time the pope will be in Joining Mr. Shevchenko on the new were Natalia Lysyj, Valentine Yarr, (Continued at pap 14) residence at the Vatican; he plans to executive board are Taras Konowal, visit Poland in March. The program of first vice president and organizational the synod had not yet been formulated, chairman; Natalia Pawlenko, second but sources reveal that one of the topics vice president and coordinator of Youth to be brought up at the synod will be the affairs; Wolodymyr Hryhorenko, secre­ naming of candidates for bishop to tary; Evhen Kalman, treasurer; Alex­ replace the late Bishop Andrew Robo- ander Neprel, camps coordinator; Iwan recki of Saskatoon, Sask. Pawlenko, external affairs director; Mykola Francuzenko, cultural affairs director; George Smyk, press and Senate confirms information director; Bohdan Lysyj and George Krywolap Jr., members-at- Dobriansky nomination large. WASHINGTON - The Senate voted The newly elected auditing committee on December 10 to confirm the nomina­ consists of: Dr. George Krywolap, tion of Dr. Lev E. Dobriansky as U.S. chairman, and Vera Konowal and ambassador, to the Bahamas. Helen Bachnivsky, members. Dr. Dobriansky, 64, a Georgetown The first session of the conference University economics professor and was officially opened on Friday even­ president of the Ukrainian Congress ing, November 26. After opening re­ Committee of America, was nominated marks by Mr. Shevchenko, the Very for the position by President Ronald Rev. Nestor Stolarchuk, pastor of St. Reagan on October 25. Mary's Ukrainian Orthodox Church in The Senate Foreign Relations Com­ Detroit, delivered the invocation. The newly elected ODUM executive board: (from left): Bobdan Lysyj, Tans mittee voted to support his nomination A presidium consisting of Oleksij Konowal, Andrij Shevchenko, Natalia Pawlenko, Alex Neprel, Yevhen Kalman on December 6. Shevchenko, chairman, Mr. Smyk, vice and Yariy Sayk. 4 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, DECEMBER 26, 1982 No. 52

M -j-J Women's conference keynote address ainianan Weekween!y Women: Ukrainian society's Mending fences pragmatists and doers by Dr. Martha Bohachevsky-Chomiak Ukrainian womanhood." In the December 22 issue of the Catholic newspaper America, Msgr. Ukrainian women — and by that I Stephen Chomko disclosed that he will attempt to mediate the two- Following is an adaptation of the mean any woman who has someconnec- year-old rift in the Ukrainian community brought on in the aftermath Ukrainian-language keynote address tion with some aspect of Ukrainianism, of the oft-discussed 13th UCCA Congress. In making the announce­ delivered by Dr. Martha Bohachevsky- regardless of the language in which she ment, Msgr. Chomko, who is president of the Providence Association Chomiak at the Ukrainian women's communicates — do not know the of Ukrainian Catholics, revealed that on December 20 he had met with conference, "Ukrainian Woman in Two history of Ukrainian women. They cannot know it, for it has not been leaders of the Ukrainian National Association, the Ukrainian Worlds,"on Saturday, October 2. Dr. studied. Relatively little has been done Fraternal Association and the Ukrainian National Women's League Bohachevsky-Chomiak, professor of history at Manhattanvi'.le College, is on the social history of Ukraine, vir­ of America, three founding members of the UCCA who led the completing a book on the Ukrainian tually nothing on the history of women. walkout at the fateful congress, as well as with a representative of women's movement from the 19th Women have been studied either within professionals. He also indicated that he plans to meet with current century to the present. women's organizations, or from an UCCA leaders in an effort to set up a basis for constructive dialogue. idealized perspective of preconceived Clearly, Msgr. Chomko's initiative is welcome and much needed. Ukrainian women are, and have notions of motherhood — seen mainly Since the UCCA split, brought on largely by the opprobrious behavior always tried to be, an integral part of as care for children (tell that to the of one political grouping that need not be named, the Ukrainian their societies. But, they have not woman working in the fields), preserva­ community has slumped into a dormancy laced with suspicion and always been as conscious of the impor­ tion of national heritage (in ravioli-like varenyky, more frequently called distrust. Where once we could mobilize thousands of protesters to tance of their position. Nor have their societies always appreciated their genuine pyrohy, made by women, eaten by men) demonstrate for Ukrainian independence or the release of Ukrainian or struggle against the invader (on those political prisoners, now we're lucky to get 50. roles. In this respect they share the major problems of perception and self- occasions the woman's conduct is What's more, certain government officials have made it plain that perception with the rest of the women in described in terms of manly valor and they would rather deal with a unified community or organization — the world. overcoming feminine weakness). which the UCCA was before the coup — than have various political Women have historically either been Genuine study of the Ukrainian delegations streaming into their offices with the same cause. confined to women's ghettos or have women's movement and the history of The rift in our community has also alienated our young people, put been socialized by the men to think in Ukrainian women forces one to tackle such problems as assimilation and other pressing social issues on the categories created by men. The irony is issues of the whole societyln which the back burner, and made the active concern for the Ukrainian liberation that this allows men to better under­ women lived, and also some essential struggle secondary to emigre political squabbling. stand women than women understand issues in Ukrainian history. Let me Meanwhile, it doesn4 take a whole lot of political gumption to themselves. Only rarely do women see touch on a few issues in which nationa­ realize that the Soviet leadership and, it can be argued, a measure of themselves in realistic terms. lism and feminism — both attempts to the 45 to 50 million Ukrainians in Ukraine, find the situation rather Take, for instance, the so-called assert human dignity — intersect for Ukrainians. amusing, but for different reasons and to differing degrees. For the "women's issues" or even the whole "women's question." The issue was Soviets, the rift represents a tactical victory. A dispirited and bickering Ukrainianism, ethnicity, nationa­ formulated almost 100 years ago by the lism, patriotism — are as much our Ukrainian community serves their purposes well. Anyone who thinks writer Olha Kobylianska. She wrote: characteristics, part of us, as is the that the Soviets did not have a hand in picking the scab off of a 40-year- "Nature, in creating women, did not biological fact that we are women. It is old OUN wound isnt up on KGB methodology. ask, 'Is it a man or a woman, so that I not some externally defined concept Our brothers in Ukraine, particularly the well-informed and those might endow them with suitable apti­ that some of our fellow Ukrainians, active in the Ukrainian cause, find it amusing that an emigre tudes?' No — nature only said, 'Here wherever they might be, choose to foist community, cut off from the homeland for some 40 years, has come to you are — now live!' " upon us. We have a right to Our own blows over so-called ideologies that, out of their historical, social and Life, for all members of society, is individual definition of what it is that geographic context, have absolutely no bearing on modern-day determined to a greater or lesser degree characterizes us. Ukraine. It should be noted that they also find the situation deeply by society, along with the roles the Men talk much about the preserva­ disturbing because they are aware that a divided Ukrainian individual chooses or is expected to tion of ethnicity, the preservation of the play. Role juggling is a fact of life; for community can do very little practical good for the Ukrainian cause. nationality, but somehow the nitty women, however, it is viewed as a gritty of the preservation often devolves For all these reasons and more, we hail Msgr. Chomko and the problem, an issue, a "question." Even a upon the women. The Ukrainian Mu­ hierarchs of the Ukrainian Catholic Church, for their efforts to get the glance at aspects of the women's issue seum of the UNWLA in New York is warring parties together. We only hope that both sides grab the peace- shows that what is at stake is central to but an obvious case in point. pipe firmly in hand, agree to bury the hatchet in the ground rather than the whole society, and not only to A nation as adept in having symbols each others' skulls, and get on with the business that should be women. as is ours overlooked an obvious one in paramount in our concerns — the business of working together to help Child and family care, welfare, even the case of Olena Pchilka, the mother of our brothers and sisters in Ukraine, and working to preserve our folk art are some of these issues central the poet Lesia Ukrainka and the sister community in the diaspora. It would be a useful way to start the year. to society. Because societies have tradi­ of Mykhailo Drahomaniv, the political tionally not paid as much attention to thinker and essayist. She was an influen­ them as to other matters, and precisely tial woman in her own right, but rubbed because the children, the sick and the many people the wrong way. Perhaps needy had to be taken care of, they that was the reason many of her accom­ Setting the record straight became women's issues. plishments have been overlooked. For the most part, Ukrainian women In 1876, in the year in which the tsarist Former Ukrainian political pri­ Brief later retracted the information have not questioned the system. In government outlawed the use of the soner Sviatoslav Karavansky has printed in its original news item modern times they defined the family as Ukrainian language in print, Pchilka brought to our attention an error about the Helsinki camp group, the building block of society, a burden to published a book on the ethnographic that was made in the issue devoted to noting that it had been full of in­ be shared with other duties expected by ornaments used by the Ukrainian pea­ the Ukrainian Helsinki Group on the accuracies. society. Work in and outside of the sants. It was as if the nation, now made occasion of its sixth anniversary. Mr. Karavansky brought this fact home has always been a part of the lives mute, found an alternative language in According to Mr. Karavansky, it is to The Weekly's attention, along of most Ukrainian women. The stan­ the folk ornament, which no power of not true that the Ukrainian mem­ with" another more recent item taken dard of living of most Ukrainian families the Russian tsar could stifle. The bers of the Helsinki monitoring from the USSR News Brief which did not allow for the luxury of the symbolism is clear, and unused. Strange, group in the camps are not members stated clearly that Oksana Popovych, woman being only a mother and a wife. is it not, that this symbolism was of the Kiev-based Ukrainian Hel­ Bohdan Rebryk, Danylo Shumuk Many women worked in the fields and overlooked? Yet, lesser proclamations sinki Group. and Yuriy Shukhevych had joined in cottage industries. Those women who have been duly recorded by their The error arose when Nadia the Kiev-based Ukrainian Helsinki acquired a position of authority in makers, and revered by readers. S. r'vchna, another former Ukrai- Group. society frequently denied both the Pchilka fostered the folk arts, but did -ta political prisoner.provided The So, to set the record straight, the relative merits of feminism and their not stop there. Her goal was to adapt Weekly with information.on the five Ukrainian dissidents The Week­ own feminism. Ukrainian life, culture, language, chil­ "krainian Helsinki. Group, and the ly and Ms. Svitlychna had listed as Rarely is there a discussion of feminist dren, peasants to the world, to all that "amp-based Helsinki Group. Her members of the camp-based group,' concerns among Ukrainians today. was new in it; to таки certain that information, taken from USSR News but not as members of the Ukrainian Such discussions as do occur involve the Ukraine kept in step with progress. She Brief (published in Munich under the Helsinki Group — Oksana Po­ sacred duties of the mother and the would have understood us well, in our editorship of Cronid Lubarsky), povych, Bohdan Rebryk, Yuriy woman's role as wife. Women do not attempts to hold on to some type of indicated that Ukrainian camp group Shukhevych, Danylo Shumuk and even object when Iryna Knysh — one of Ukrainianism while at the same time members were not Ukrainian Hel­ Sviatoslav Karavansky — are, in the few contemporary Ukrainian wo­ being in step with the world. Just as it sinki Group members. Ms. Svitly- fact, members of the Ukrainian men social historians, publicists and was 100 years ago, today Ukraine is still chna was not aware that USSR News Helsinki Group. journalists — is characterized, rather largely cut off from the main Currents of/ flippantly as "the only ideologue of (Continued oo paje 13) No. 52 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, DECEMBER 26, 1982 5

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Dissent in Ukraine Madrid Conference continues This was truly a difficult year for 1982 marked another year of frus­ internal and external political status human-rights activists in the Soviet tration and futility for the two-year- and to pursue as they wish their Unjon, particularly Ukraine. With 26 old Madrid Conference to review political, economic, social and cul­ of the original 37 members of the compliance with the 1975 Helsinki tural development." Ukrainian Helsinki Group behind Accords on security and human Needless to say, the Eastern bloc bars or in exile, the Soviets launched rights in Europe. When the confe­ countries did not like the new pro­ a campaign to wipe out dissent in rence agreed to recess on March 12, posals at all. Ukraine. the 35 participating states were still The conference was further com­ The KGB, first under Yuri An­ unable tp hammer out a final com7 plicated by the death in November dropov and later under Vitaliy munique, as East and West re­ of Soviet President Leonid Brezhnev,' Fedorchuk, began a two-pronged mained at loggerheads over such an event which left the negotiations assault on human-rights activists key issues as human rights and the suspended in mid-air. It soon be­ and nationalists, particularly former particulars of a post-Madrid dis­ came clear that the Soviets would members of the Organization of armament conference. The impasse offer no new initiatives until Yuri Ukrainian Nationalists and the U- was further exacerbated bydevelop- Andropov, Mr. Brezhnev's apparent krainian Insurgent Army. ments in Poland and the continued successor, stabilized his position. A new tactic adopted by authori­ Soviet presence in Afghanistan. Unable to break the deadlock, ties saw the re-arrest and sentenc­ Just prior to the recess of the delegates agreed on December 17 ing of dissidents just prior to the conference, then-Secretary of State to yet another adjournment, this expiration of previous terms. Alexander Haig outlined the basic time until.February 8,1983. position of the NATO allies when he Many delegations are running out Early in the year, Yaroslav Lesiv, a told delegates: "Business as usual of patience. Just before this latest : 37 year-old physical education in­ here at Madrid would simply con­ recess, the Swiss delegation re­ structor and member of the Ukrai­ done the massive violations of the quested that a timetable be set for nian Helsinki Group, was sentenced Final Act now occurring in Poland." the negotiations, asking that they to five years in a labor camp on the When delegates returned to the conclude by the spring. eve of his scheduled release. He had bargaining table on November 9, Yet, neither the Soviets nor the served three years after being ironically the sixth anniversary of NATO allies want to be blamed for charged with possession of nar­ the suppressed Ukrainian Helsinki scuttling the conference and there­ cotics. Group, both sides continued to by putting a formal end to detente. haggle over the direction the talks Moreover, the West sees the confe­ Vasyl Sichko, 25, and Vasyl Striltsiv, should take. rence as a huge propaganda defeat both sentenced in 1979 to three- Yuriy Lytvyn: a fifth term of imprison­ ment, courtesy of the Kremlin. The Western allies began by for the Soviets, and is willing to sit year labor-camp terms, were given making fresh demands that martial tight. new sentences. Mr. Sichko was Paradjanov had been accused of law be lifted in Poland and called for In a sense, the conference has sentenced to an additional three being a Ukrainian nationalist be­ the Warsaw Pact countries to accept become an elaborate and protracted years, while Mr. Striltsiv got a six- cause of his Ukrainian-language free trade unions and the right to staring contest, with each side year term. films. , , . . . political self-determіnatioiv.' waiting for the'other to blink first.. In April, Petro.Sichko, 56, VasyTs : A European Economic Commu­ Meanwhile, Soviet citizens who set гйгйг,' and Yuriy Lytvyn, a 48-year- The scope of the anti-dissident nity proposal also would havecom- up groups in several republics to poet, were given new sentences. Mr. campaign also (deluded former mitted the signatory states to allow monitor compliance with the Hel­ Sichko got three years in a labor political prisoners and those seek­ citizens to freely monitor com­ sinki agreement are either in prison camp, while Mr. Lytvyn was sen­ ing to emigrate. Volodymyr An- pliance with the human-rights provi­ or in exile. tenced to five or six years. Incredibly, drushko, a Ukrainian patriot who sions of the Helsinki Final Act. The If anything, 1982 showed that the it was Mr. Lytvyn's fifth term. had been imprisoned In the 1960s, new proposals would also insert into Helsinki process, although tattered, A similar fate befell Vasyl Ovsienko, was arrested and sentenced to 10 a concluding document criticism of remains durable. But for just how a member of the Ukrainian Helsinki years' imprisonment for "anti-Soviet "actions hindering the effective long is a question that will have to be Group. agitation and propaganda." During exercise of the right of all peoples to answered next year when the con­ The campaign against former the summer, Yeyhen Antonenko- determine, in full freedom, their ference resumes. nationalists was even more brutal. In Davydovych, the son of poet Borys May, news reached the West that Antonenko-Davydovych, was sen­ five former members of the OUN tenced to four years' imprisonment. Poland were executed for membership in that brganization. Also arrested was Oleksander In 1982, the Polish nation suffered Mykola Dufanets, Artem Bubel Shatravka, 32, an author who tried to its first full year in the vise-grip of and Pylyp Rubachuk were shot in escape to Finland in 1974. In Sep­ martial law. It was the year that 35 the town of Lutske in the Volhynia tember, the KGB arrested Iryna people died in clashes with police region. The others - Ivan Rumyha Ratushynska, a Kiev poet, charging and the dreaded ZOMO militia, and (a.k.a. "Sokil") and Yuriy Butnytsky her with "anti-Soviet agitation and at least 100,000 were either arrested, ("Burlaka") - were executed in propaganda." fined or interned as.the junta of Gen. Horodenka in the Ivano-Frankivske Wojciech Jaruzelski tried desperate­ oblast. It was also reported that Halyna ly to make Poland safe for socialism In addition, it was learned that Maksymovych, 50, and her son, 23- again. month that former UPA member year-old Oleksander, were each sentenced to two years' imprison­ Perhaps more disturbing was Vasyl Mazurak ("Buriy") had been Western reaction to all this. Presi­ ment for trying to emigrate to the sentenced early in the year after a dent Ronald Reagan's sanctions three-day trial to 15 years in a West. against Poland were more cere­ special-regimen labor camp for na­ Dissident sources also reported monial than effective, and his deci­ tionalist activities. He had pre­ that several imprisoned Ukrainian sion to order a ban on parts for the viously served an eight-year term dissidents were gravely ill. It was Soviet natural-gas pipeline met with from 1946 to 1954. learned that Yuriy Shukhevych, who such vociferous opposition from the fierce riots there in 1956 which left has served over 30 years in Soviet NATO allies, that he was forced to 75 dead. In Wroclaw, 275 people Among better-known dissidents scrap it altogether. arrested and sentenced in 1982 were prisons and labor camps for refusing were arrested after a crowd of several Mykola Plakhotniuk, who was sen­ to renounce his father, the late But perhaps the most wimpish act thousand workers tried to lay a tenced in the spring to four years' Roman Shukhevych, leader of the was left to the Western banks which, wreath at a plaque commemorating imprisonment on a phony homo­ UPA, had lost 99 percent of his after some perfunctory hemming- the founding of the local chapter of sexuality charge; Mykhailo Horyn, eyesight while imprisoned, in and-hawing, agreed to reschedule Solidarity. 52, sentenced in June to 15 years' addition, it was learned in 1982 that Poland's staggering debt to the But the largest demonstrations imprisonment and exile; and Olena Ivan Svitlychny is near death follow­ West, a move that flew in the face of occurred on August 31, the second Antoniv Krasivska, 45, who was ing two strokes, the latest in Decem­ the NATO governments' decision anniversary of the founding of Soli­ arrested in Lviv in September. In ber 1981. not to do so. darity in Gdansk. Tens of thousands addition, Soviet filmmaker Sergei It was also reported that Ukrainian In Poland itself, the year saw the of Poles in at least 11 Polish cities Paradjanov, whose "Shadows of political prisoner Yuriy Badzio, who trials of hundreds of Solidarity took to the streets in a massive show Forgotten Ancestors" is considered was sentenced in 1979 to a total of members, priests and intellectuals. of defiant support for the free trade a cinema classic, was sentenced to 12 years' imprisonment and exile, There were also violent clashes with union and its interned leader, Lech five years' imprisonment for asso­ began a hunger strike, vowing not to police. In late June, 4,000 workers in Walesa. Over 4,000 people were ciating with "undesirables." An eat until authorities restore his the industrial city of Poznan battled reported arrested nationwide. Armenian from Soviet Georgia, Mr. visiting privileges. police on the 26th anniversary of the Finally, aware of Solidarity's broad 6 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, DECEMBER 26, 1982 No. 52

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support, the military regime decided decided not to return to their native from Eastern Europe and the Soviet himself, without having a thorough to outlaw the suspended union in land. Union. knowledge of the facts. mid-October and establish in its In a desperate bid to reverse On October 30 Mr. Ryan spent They also found it interesting that, stead government-controlled trade Poland's economic and social slide, nearly three hours answering ques­ in his memo recommending that the unions. A "parasitism" law was also Gen. Jaruzelski announced his tions posed by Ukrainian lawyers at government not appeal the case, Mr. adopted to discourage workers from intention to suspend martial law, a meeting of the Ukrainian Ame­ Ryan implied that the government getting out of line. and the government freed Mr. Walesa. rican Bar Association. He defended had failed to prove individual perse­ Among the important political But it was a hollow gesture. Less the OSI's methods, noting that he cution. However, during his meeting trials of 1982 were those involving than four weeks after being released, was satisfied that the defendant's with the UABA, Mr. Ryan, in an members of the dissident groups Mr. Walesa was detained by police rights were being safeguarded by apparent shift, said that, by defini­ KOR and the nationalist KPN. In just before he was to deliver an the American legal system. He also tion, all concentration-camp guards September, KOR leaders Jacek address to workers in Gdansk. More­ said that, to date, the OSI has yet to were guilty of persecution simply Kuron, Adam Michnik, Jan Litynski over, the announcement easing prosecute anyone merely for being because of their jobs, and that even and Henryk Wujec were arrested martial law included enough vague a member of any proscribed group though Mr. Fedorenko was cleared while in internment and charged clauses which would allow the go­ - such as the Organization of U- of committing individual acts of with treason. All were advisors to vernment to reimpose all martial-law krainian Nationalists - unless it was atrocity, he was still culpable. Mr. Walesa. restrictions at the slightest hint of convinced that individual acts of Moreover, despite the entreaties In addition, four members of the unrest. persecution could be verified. of several Ukrainian organizations, KPN - Confederation for an Inde­ As the year draws to a close, there In addition to meeting with Ukrai­ Mr. Ryan and the OSI still seem pendent Poland -'went on trial is no sign that Gen. Jaruzelski plans nian lawyers and community repre­ reluctant to accept the notion that September 13 on charges of sedi­ to restart the dialogue with the sentatives, Mr. Ryan has also made the Soviets have a stake in dis­ tion and undermining Poland's people whom Solidarity used to himself accessible to the Ukrainian crediting the Ukrainian community alliance with the USSR. The four represent, the vast majority of ordi­ press. and, therefore, Soviet evidence were Leszek Moczulski, Romuald nary Poles. The military crackdown But his commendable actions should be inadmissable. Realizing Szeremietiew, Tadeusz Stanski and by the junta, stage-managed by notwithstanding, several issues why the Ukrainian community hates Taduesz Jandziszak. Moscow, succeeded only in splinter­ remain murky. Why, for example, in the Soviets is not the same thing as Meanwhile, a growing number of ing the myth of Communist legiti­ the Fedorenko case, did Mr. Ryan understanding why the Soviets hate Polish citizens, including many macy in Poland once and for all. reverse his earlier assessment, made the emigre community., Ukrainians, applied for exit visas to Until the generals realize this, and while he was with the solicitor But the OSI and its investigations the West. Many Poles who found reinstate many of the freedoms won general's office, that the govern­ were not the only source ef concern themselves in the West when martial in Gdansk rn-1981, the agony of ment not appeal the case because, in this area. In November, The law was imposed last December Poland will continue. in his view, Mr. Fedorenko "may be Washington Post ran a story about a the unfortunate victim of innocently new book by former OSI staffer mistaken identification, or indeed, John Loftus in which the author Denaturalization and Soviet evidence he may be the target of a group of accuses the Organization of Ukrai­ Treblinka survivors who are deter­ Although 1982 saw no new cases nian Nationalists of active colla­ mined to bring vengeance on any boration with the Germans. Al­ brought by the Justice Department Treblinka guard, guilty or not." against Ukrainians suspected of though the book, "The Belarus collaborating with the Germans During the UABA meeting, Mr. Secret," makes only a few references during World War II, several on­ Ryan said that he had rescinded his to the OUN, the bulk of the Post's going cases resulted in defendants memo after reading the transcript of article dealt with the nationalist being stripped of their U.S. citizen­ the case and concluding that the group. ship. trial judge did not accurately convey As the year draws to a close, the On February 4, Michael Derkacz, the evidence in the case. miasma of collaboration still hangs a 73-year-old retired window- But several lawyers at the UABA over the Ukrainian community, and washer from New York, had his meeting said privately that it seemed remains a source of frustration and citizenship revoked after a federal implausible for Mr. Ryan to ask the concern. Unfortunately, with the judge ruled that he had withheld government not to appeal the first- community divided, coordinated information about his service in a ever denaturalization case, which action in this urgent matter has been German-controlled police unit. was argued by the attorney general made more difficult. The following month, on March 30, BohdanKoziy, 59, was stripped of The political scene his naturalized citizenship. On Oc­ tober 22, the Justice Department's 1982 will perhaps be best re­ Ukrainian Helsinki monitors on the Office of Special Investigations, membered, in terms of Ukrainian occasion of the sixth anniversary of which is charged with locating and influence on the political scene, as the establishment of the Ukrainian bringing to trial suspected war the year the Congress and the presi­ Helsinki Group. criminals and collaborators, moved dent honored the Ukrainian Public President Ronald Reagan did so to have the Florida hotel-keeper Group to Promote Implementation on September 21. deported. of the Helsinki Accords, a.k.a. the The resolution, sponsored in the Ukrainian Helsinki Group, on the Deportation proceedings were House by Reps. Bernard J. Dwyer occasion of its sixth anniversary. also initiated against Cleveland (D) and Christopher H. Smith (R), autoworker John Demjanjuk, 62, Thanks mostly to the lobbying both of New Jersey, also called on who lost his citizenship in March efforts of Americans for Human the president to work for the release 1981 after a federal court ruled that Rights in Ukraine and groups work­ of imprisoned Ukrainian Helsinki he had not disclosed his service as a ing in concert with the organization, monitors and to demand an end to guard at the Treblinka concentra­ the House of Representatives, act­ Soviet persecution of Ukrainian tion camp when applying to enter of Soviet-supplied evidence. ing on May 4, and the Senate, follow­ national" and human-rights acti­ the United States under the Dis­ ing suit on June 21, passed House vists. placed Persons Act. try and allay the fears of the Ukrai­ Concurrent Resolution 205 calling Ukrainian Helsinki Group Day nian community. On January 3, Mr. At the heart of the Ukrainian on the U.S. president to proclaim was marked with special programs Ryan and Lowell Jensen, assistant November 9, as a day in tribute to and demonstrations in New York community's opposition to the de- attorney general, met with represen­ naturalization proceedings is the tatives of six East European groups, Justice Department's continued use including the UABA. of Soviet-supplied witnesses and material evidence in most of the In the spring, East European com­ cases. Several Ukrainian groups, munity leaders and lawyers met with most notably the Ukrainian Ameri­ several congressmen, presenting can Bar Association, had a busy them with a 10-point list of recom­ year meeting with officials from the mendations and grievances which Justice Department and Congress included a demand that the govern­ in an effort to ensure that the de­ ment review the OSI's use of Soviet fendants receive a fair trial and full information. protection of their rights under the It must be said that Mr. Ryan law. showed a particular sensitivity to the For their part, officials of the concerns of this country's East Office of Special Investigations, European communities, which have particularly its director, Allan A. been especially affected by the Ryan Jr., made themselves available denaturalization proceedings, be­ Three supporters of Ukrainian causes were defeated in 1982 elections: to explain the OSI's position and to cause many of the defendants come Reps. Edward J. 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City and Washington, as well as that day, both President Reagan and Churches other cities throughout the country. Vice President George Bush spoke. State and municipal governments Mr. Bush told his audience that the The Ukrainian Catholic hierarchs followed in the federal government's United States will not forget the in the United States started work footsteps and issued resolutions or plight of captive nations in Eastern early this year. After issuing an proclamations of their own. The Europe, from the Baltic States to appeal on the eve of the New Year New Jersey Senate on November 8 Ukraine to Uzbekistan. that called on all Ukrainian Ameri­ passed a resolution calling on Gov. ж On July 19 President Reagan cans of good will to contribute Thomas Kean to proclaim Novem­ signed the Captive Nations Week toward a special fund to aid needy ber 9 Ukrainian Helsinki Group Day proclamation at a Rose Garden Ukrainians in Poland, they turned to in the Garden State. The governor, ceremony. fraternal societies, financial institu­ however, did not act, according to о On May 28, at the Ukrainian tions as well as individuals to send his press office, because of the time National Association convention in contributions to the fund. The re­ factor involved. Sacramento Mayor Rochester, N.Y., Vice President sults were phenomenal; to date the Phillip L Isenberg proclaimed No­ Bush delivered what the administra­ hierarchs have sent over 585,000 vember 9 Ukrainian Helsinki Moni­ tion described as "a major policy worth of parcels and supplies to Po­ toring Group Day in the California address" on U.S.-Soviet relations. land. capital. Canadian government officials, No sooner did this project get A Ukrainian Human-Rights Aware­ too, expressed their concern about under way than the hierarchs began ness Week was held in Washington the fate of Ukrainian political pri­ planning celebrations in obser­ beginning June 21 through the soners. vance of Patriarch Josyf Slipyj's efforts of the Ad Hoc Committee on "In the beginning of theyear, four 90th birthday. Forming an ad-hoc the Baltic States and Ukrainechaired Ontario federal and municipal offi­ committee, comprised of represen­ by Reps. Charles Dougherty (R-Pa.) cials joined Bishop Isidore Borecky tatives of 35 Ukrainian American and Brian Donnelly (D-Mass.). The of the Toronto Ukrainian Catholic organizations, the hierarchs of the goal of the week was to call atten­ Eparchy in announcing that they Ukrainian Catholic Church in the tion, through special programs and would sponsor Yuriy Shukhevych's United States sponsored a concert exhibits, to Soviet oppression of immigration to Canada in an attempt that paid tribute to the patriarch. It Ukraine and persecution of Ukrai­ to secure his release from Soviet was held in Philadelphia on February nian human- and national-rights prison. The four officials were: 28. The. concert was preceeded by activists. Federal MP Michael H. Wilson, To­ weeklong festivities in Rome for the Among other actions of the U.S. ronto Mayor Art Eggleton, Etobi- primate of the 'Pomisna' Ukrainian Congress on issues of concern to coke Mayor Dennis Flynn and Catholic Church, which attracted Ukrainians were the following. former Labor Minister Michael Starr. over 500 persons - clergy and e On May 20 the House of Com­ laity - the week of February 13-20. " On April 1,104 U.S. senators and mons passed a resolution calling on Faithful unable to attend the cele­ representatives sent a letter to Soviet the Soviet government to release bration in Rome, or the concert in President Leonid Brezhnev asking Ivan Svitlychny and allow him to Philadelphia, sponsored other con­ for the release of ailing Ukrainian emigrate to the West for medical certs and programs to mark the political prisoner Ivan Svitlychny. treatment. 90th birthday of the patriarch as well The letter was initiated, by Rep. " On November 9 the Senate as ttiil 65th anniversary of his ordi­ Smith of New jersey. passed a resolution paying tribute to nation in their own communities. " On June 21 the Senate passed the Ukrainian Helsinki Group on the Senate Resolution 326 urging the sixth anniversary of its establish­ In 1982, Patriarch Josyf was also release of Ukrainian political pri­ ment and calling for an end to Soviet named to the papal academy of St. soner Yuriy Badzio and an end to persecution of all human-rights Thomas Aquinas. The academy's Patriarch Josyf (top) and Metropoli­ Soviet authorities' harassment of his activists. membership is reserved for those tan Mstyslav: anniversary celebra­ wife Svitliana Kyrychenko. The Back in the United States, on the persons who, through their studies tions. resolution was sponsored by Sen. state level, there was not much a/id works, have advanced the philo­ Paul E. Tsongas (D-Mass.) ado about anything. sophy of St. Thomas. " Also on June 21, the Senate The patriarch, unfortunately, re­ passed House Concurrent Resolu­ ceived bad news as welt in the form tion 111 calling for the release of However, New Jersey Gov. Thomas of a letter from the head of the Holy veteran human- and national-rights Kean, acting during the summer Eastern Congregation, Cardinal activist Yuriy Shukhevych, the eter­ months, did announce the forma­ Wladislaw Rubin, which issued a nal political prisoner, and the grant­ tion of an Office of Ethnic Affairs warning to the Ukrainian Catholic ing of permission for theShukhevych and the expansion of the New Church. The three points under­ family to emigrate. The resolution Jersey Ethnic Advisory Council lined in the letter included: the had been passed by the House on from 16 members to 19 members denial of the establishment of the September 21,1981, and was spon­ plus six department heads from the Ukrainian Patriarchate; the fact that sored by Rep. Joel Pritchard (R- state government. Two Ukrainians the synod of bishops can be con­ Wash.). were named to the council: Zenon vened only with the consent of the Onufryk as the Ukrainiaarepresen­ " On September 30 the House pope and that it cannot elect bi­ tative and Andrew Keybida as a shops; and the reminder that Arch­ passed Senate Concurrent Resolu­ member at large. tion 18whichcalledforthe resurrec­ bishop-Coadjutor Myroslav Luba- tion of the Ukrainian Orthodox and chivsky has already been named Catholic Churches liquidated by the the successor to Cardinal Slipyj, as Soviets in Ukraine. The resolution archbishop of Lviv. had been introduced in the Senate The most recent news from Rome by Sen. Barry Goldwater (R-Ariz.) indicates that the pope has approv­ and in the House by Rep. Edward J. ed a meeting of the Synod of Ukrai­ Derwinski (R-lll.). It had been pass­ nian Catholic Bishops to take place ed by the Senate on June 19,1981. in early 1983. e In the autumn, Rep. Bill Green The Catholics were not the only (R-N.Y.) initiated a letter to Soviet ones observing anniversaries and Ambassador Dobrynin, which called birthdays this year. The head of the for the release of Ukrainian dissi­ Ukrainian Orthodox Church in the dent Zlnoviy Krasivsky from internal U.S.A., Metropolitan Mstyslav exile. The letter was signed by 55. Skrypnyk, celebrated his 84th birth­ members of the House. day and the 40th anniversary of his In the executive branch of the U.S. episcopacy. Celebrations in his government, the following were honor were held in May in South notable actions, as far as Ukrainians Bound Brook, N.J. were concerned. Throughout the year, Pope John " President Ronald Reagan pro­ Paul II appointed several Ukrainians claimed March 21 Afghanistan Day to positions in the Ukrainian Catho­ and called on the citizens of the lic Church. United States and the world "not to On September 25, Bishop Myro­ forget the struggle of the Afghan slav Marusyn was named the titular patriots" fighting Soviet invaders. At New Jersey Gov. Thomas Kean: archbisnop of Cadeun. in addition, an official White House ceremony creates Office of Ethnic Affairs. he was appointed secretary of the 8 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, DECEMBER 26, 1982 No. 52

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Sacred Congregation fortheOriental Over 1,500 faithful from various as Hetman Ivan Mazepa, and citing reflected in the hierarchs' appeal." Churches by Pope John Paul II. The countries, including Poland and historical examples, the lengthy However, the committee commu­ pope also appointed the Rev. Myron Yugoslavia, attended the historic treatise expounded on the impor­ nique added, if the appeal yielded Daciuk as auxiliary bishop to Arch­ event. tance of unity and love of neighbor. no concrete results, the convention bishop-Metropolitan Maxim Her- Back in the United States, once On September 27, the Providence would be held in the spring of 1983. maniuk of Canada. again the Ukrainian Catholic hie- Association of Ukrainian Catholics, A joint statement by the UNA and In November, the Rev. Michael rarchs issued an appeal. Dated Sep­ in a communique signed by its the Ukrainian Fraternal Association Hrynchyshyn CSsR of Saskatoon tember 8, this one called for unity supreme president, Msgr. Stephen followed on October 11. The two was nominated exarch for Ukrainian within the Ukrainian community. The Chomko, announced that effective fraternals acknowledged the hie­ Catholics in France. He will replace hierarchs said that if their appeal September 29 it was withdrawing its rarchs' appeal and stated that they Bishop Volodymyr Malanczuk CSsR, was not successful, they would representatives from UCCA central fully supported its aims and would who is unable to continue serving as withdraw their parochial and epar- bodies and branches, and at the do their utmost to bring' about their apostolic exarch because of his age chal representatives from the cen­ same time called on Providence realization. and poor health. tral and local organizations that do representatives not to participate in Patriarch Slipyj was next to re­ Bishop Andrew Roborecki of the battle with one another. The appeal the Committee for Law and Order in spond to the hierarchs' appeal. In a Saskatoon Eparchy died at the age said that "representatives of the the UCCA. letter to UNA President John O. His of 71 on October 23. Ordained into organizations and institutions will Msgr. Chomko stated in his com­ (a similar one was sent to Dr. Lev E. the priesthood in 1934, the late stand aside and they may perform munique that he was acting in ac­ Dobriansky, president of the UCCA), bishop served Ukrainian Catholic the role of mediators in this great cordance with the hierarchs'appeal, the patriarch said that he joins in the parishes throughout Canada. In cause of unity." (See "A community which, in addition to exhortations appeal of the hierarchy in asking for 1948 he was appointed auxiliary still divided.") for unity, had asserted that the unity and asked that Mr. Flis use his bishop of the Ukrainian Catholic December 5 marked the first anni­ Church cannot be party to the divi- authority "to help return the spirit of Eparchy of Winnipeg and was con­ versary of the launching of the siveness within the Ukrainian com­ mutual respect and cooperation to secrated in Toronto. He was subse­ "Guardian Angel Children's Prayer munity and. that if unity is not our community." ^., quently appointed exarch of Saska­ Book," published by St. Demetrius achieved the Church would be forced The Ukrainian Orthodox Church toon in 1951 and eparch in 1956. Ukrainian Catholic Church and the to withdraw the representatives of of the U.S.A. reacted to the Catholic A notable event within the Ukrai­ Office of Religious Education of the all organizations operating under its hierarchs' appeal in the November- nian Catholic Church in 1982 on Toronto Eparchy. The prayer book, aegis from "those central and local December issue of The Ukrainian August 28 was the solemn blessing published in both Ukrainian" and organizations that do not adhere to Orthodox Word. A commentary of the recently built Assumption of English-language versions, has been the principle of Christian love and signed with the initials MSM praised the Blessed Virgin Mary Ukrainian a best-seller. It is currently in its do battle with one another." the appeal but at the same noted Catholic Church in Lourdes, France second printing. Msgr. Chomko, noting that he had that it was deficient because it did made his decision "with a heavy not state who had caused the rift in heart," said that the decision re­ the Ukrainian community. The article flected the Providence Associa­ went on to say that the responsible A community still divided tion's desire "to stand aside and thus party was "leaders of the so-called be instrumental in bringing about Liberation Front." the recuperation of our community Meanwhile, the Ukrainian com­ life." munity awaited a response to the In October, Patriarch Josyf re­ hierarchs' appeal from the UCCA leased a pastoral letter on the occa­ and the Ukrainian IJberatiort Front. sion of the Feast of St. Mary the Msgr. Chomko of the Providence Protectress and the 40th anniver­ Association took the initiative once sary of the Ukrainian Insurgent again on December 22 and an­ Army (UPA). In it he called for the nounced in a statement published Christian and national maturity that that day in America, the official was so lacking among U.S. Ukrai­ publication of the association, that nians. He urged his flock "to unite in he would spearhead efforts at the spirit of brotherly love and mediation between the two parties forgiveness." in the community dispute - the Then, in a statement released organizations that had withdrawn after its October 6 meeting, the from the UCCA and the present executive of the Committee for Law UCCA leadership. He said he hoped and Order in the UCCA said that it he would find a foundation on which was cancelling the national conven­ he could establish an arbitration tion it had already scheduled for committee that could finally settle November 19-21 "in order to pro­ the matter. vide another opportunity for the We can only hope that the new settlement of our present conflict in year will bring Msgr. Chomko Will the twain e'er meet? the Christian and national spirit success. 1982 brought no relief from the rift The Ukrainian National Associa­ within the Ukrainian community tion, at the first meeting of its newly over the fateful, and perhaps fatal, elected Supreme Executive Com­ The UNA... 13th Congress of the Ukrainian mittee on July 22, released a state­ 1982 was a banner year for the Stefan Hawrysz. Congress Committee of America ment asserting that it would work Ukrainian National Association as The convention also voted several held in October 1980. toward the formation of a represen­ its 30th Regular Convention was by-laws changes, the most impor­ In March of 1982 the executive tative community organization in held in Rochester, N.Y., on May 24- tant of which eliminated the position committee of the Committee for Law the United States - the type of 28. of supreme organizer effective July and Order in the UCCA released a entity that the UCCA once was. It was a banner convention, too, 1, 1986, and instead provided for a statement announcing that it had Things were quiet through the as the vice president of the United chief organizer to be hired by the begun preparations for a national summer months, and then the States, George Bush, delivered a Supreme Executive Committee. convention of Ukrainian organiza­ hierarchs of the Ukrainian Catholic major policy address on U.S.-Soviet Another highlight of the conven­ tions whose aim would be to create a Church in the United States decided relations on the concluding day of tion was the premiere of Slavko coordinating center for Ukrainian that they could keep silent no longer. the convention, and as delegates Nowytski's documentary film on the Americans. On September 8 the hierarchs - voted overwhelmingly (295 to 46) to Ukrainian experience in the United The committee also announced Archbishop-Metropolitan Stephen continue negotiations with the U- States from the first immigrants to that it was opening an office in New Sulyk, and Bishops Innocent Lo- krainian Fraternal Association to­ the present. The hourlong film, two York City and that representatives tocky, Basil Losten and Robert ward a merger of the two largest years in the making, had been com­ would visit Ukrainian communities Moskal - released their "Appeal to Ukrainian fraternal organizations. missioned by the UNA in April 1980. throughout the country in order to the faithful and especially to the The convention re-elected Su­ According to Mr. Nowytski, who inform them of the committee's leaders of all organizations" in preme President John O. Flis, Su­ introduced his film to UNA conven­ activity and progress in convention which they called on Ukrainian preme Vice President Myron B. tion participants, the film is not a preparations. Americans to "throw off the shackles Kuropas, Supreme Director for Ca­ chronology and it "addresses the Branches of the Committee for of disunity and the cancer of mis­ nada Paul Yuzyk, Supreme Secre­ heart rather than the mind." Law and Order in the UCCA were understanding, intractibility and tary Waiter Sochan and Supreme hatred." With the UN A convention success­ established in several cities, and the Treasurer Ulana Diachuk. Supreme fully completed, the new Supreme committee executives met a number Quoting the Bible, Metropolitan Vice President Mary Dushnyck and Executive Committee held its first of times during the year to assess Andrey Sheptytsky and Patriarch Supreme Organizer Wasyl Orichow- meeting on July 22 at the main the situation at hand and plan the Josyf Slipyj, Princes Yaroslav Mudry sky were narrowly defeated by, office, and the Supreme Assembly convention. and Volodymyr Monomakh, as well respectively, Gloria Paschen and met in an extraordinary session No. 52 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, DECEMBER 26,1982 9

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...and other fraternaIs The news at other Ukrainian fra­ brated its 70th anniversary in 1982 ternal organizations also included with special programs in several elections erf supreme officers. U.S. cities, including New York, and Msgr. Stephen Chomko took over with a divine liturgy, reception and in 1982 as the new supreme presi­ presentation of Hulak-Artemovsky's dent of the Providence Association opera "Zaporozhets beyond the of Ukrainian Catholics, the third Danube," in Philadelphia, the site of largest Ukrainian fraternal society. Providence headquarters. Ivan Oleksyn was re-elected su­ preme president of the Ukrainian 1982 was also the year the Provi­ Fraternal Association at the asso­ dence Association withdrew its ciation's 20th convention held at representatives from central and Verkhovyna, the UFA Resort Center. local UCCA bodies, citing the U.S. Also at the UFA convention, dele­ Ukrainian Catholic hierarchs' ap­ gates unanimously approved con­ peal which stated that the Church tinued talks about the proposed cannot become party to the divisive- merger of the UNA and UFA. ness of the Ukrainian community. The Providence Association cele­ (See "A community still divided.")

George Bush: delivering a major policy address on U.S.-Soviet relations at the. UNA convention.

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Three supremes (supreme presidents, that is): Msgr. Stephen Chomko of ДіЮ " і the Providence Association, John 0. Flis of the UNA and Ivan Oleksyn of the ll^lfSrYHi UFA. ШШШРАМІ '' f Я в ш В Ukrainians and Carpatho-Rusyns - Узг^Щш ' "5 йН Г' ' ''^ї""^У^..?йв1 шт/ЩвВШл Шл \ ' ВІЇ If 1981 was the year of Ukrainian- Passaic and John Y. Hamulak of the ЩПШ - а! Шг Jewish relations, 1982 was the year Ukrainian Engineers' Society were ІД 11 шйА of Ukrainian/Carpatho-Rusyn rela­ later elected interim chairman and ;v : tions. secretary, respectively, of the ш ш - - "^T - Throughout the year, commen­ groups. A meeting of all groups that HIRomi taries, historical background pieces, was scheduled to take place in late Swearing in of UNA supreme officers (from left): Sen. Paul Yuzyk, Gloria letters to the editor and news items 1982, however, was not held. Paschen, John 0. Flis, Dr. Myron B. Kuropas, Ulana Diachuk, Walter Sochan by many an author made their way To be sure, Ukrainian-Jewish and Stefan Hawrysz. Stephen Kuropas administers the oath. onto the pages of The Weekly. relations were still an issue as a The news, of course, was that conference held in Washington on (since the by-laws do not provide for On July 31, Soyuzivka was hit by a initiative groups for the promotion September 21 further explored the an annual session during a conven­ tornado that knocked out power and of communications and coopera­ matter, and various speakers broach­ tion year) on September 18-19 at toppled several huge trees. Thank­ tion between the Ukrainian and ed the subject in several U.S. cities. Soyuzivka. Organizing strategy was fully, the worst of the damage was Carpatho-Rusyn communities were The Weekly did its part here, too, the major topic of the assembly merely the cancellation of that even­ established following meetings of by publishing, in six parts, the meeting. ing's outdoor dance. activists representing both groups. research paper on "Jewish-Ukrai­ As usual, the UNA awarded Also of note in 1982 was The Such meetings were held in New nian relations: two solitudes," by scholarships to qualified students of Weekly's answer to the oft-asked York City (May 1) and Cleveland Profs. Peter J. Potichnyj and Ho­ Ukrainian descent in the United question: "Why are UNA executives (June 12) after an initial meet­ ward Aster of McMaster University States and Canada. A record S48.000 'supreme'?" The answer, "tradition, ing was held in Pittsburgh in No­ in Hamilton, Ont., as well as com­ was awarded to 149 students in tradition," appeared in an article in vember of 1981. mentaries by such authors as Dr. 1982, thus bringing the total amount the July 4 issue. Msgr. Raymond Misulich of the Myron B. Kuropas and Dr. Israel of scholarship aid distributed to Byzantine Catholic Diocese of Kleiner. students since the formal institu­ tion of the UNA program to nearly Highlights S280.000. In addition, the Ukrainian National 1982 was a year of firsts. Among concentrated on the science policy Association announced the esta­ the notable events this year was of the Reagan administration and blishment^ the Roman Slobodian the first-of-its-kind women's confe­ the exchange of information on Scholarship Fund in memory of the rence, the first world conference of science and technology between long-time UNA treasurer who had Ukrainian youth organizations, the the United States and the Soviet passed away on May 20, just four first Ukrainian engineers' confe­ Union. Such speakers as Dr. George days before the convention. rence on science and technology A. Keyworth II, science advisor to There was news at the UNA'S to be held at the White House the president, Dr. Norman Bailey, estate, Soyuzivka, too, as Walter and the first purchase of a National Security Council policy Kwas, manager for over 25 years, radio station in the United States by chief, as well as notable Ukrainian announced his retirement in Ja­ a coalition of ethnic groups. American scientists and engineers nuary. In April a new face arrived at " The conference on "Science and participated in the conference. Soyuzivka - Georg9 Prokopeccame Technology in the 1980s," organized " Probably the most unique event to take over the Soyuzivka ma­ by the Ukrainian Engineers' Society of 1982 was the women's confe­ nager's duties under the direction of Walter Kwas: legendary hospodar of America, was held in the White rence sponsored by the Ukrainian legendary hospodar Mr. Kwas. retires. House on May 15. The conference National Women's League of Ame- 10 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, DECEMBER 26, 1982 No. 52

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rica Billed as a conference to ex­ the community, the home of the first The first brotherhood formed at plore the vital issues facing the new Ukrainian immigrants of the late the parish, St. Nicholas Brother­ generation of Ukrainian women in 19th and early 20th centuries, began hood, was later to become one of the North America, the "Ukrainian Wo­ planning for a new church imme­ brotherhoods which united to form man in Two Worlds" conference was diately. the Ukrainian National Association. a year in the planning. A bit stalled in " Another notable event of 1982 the preparatory stages because St. Michael's Ukrainian Catholic took place in August in upstate New of the tragic death of the Church, the first Ukrainian Catholic York at the Vovcha Tropa (Wolfs first head of the organizing Church in America was built in 1885, Trek) Plast campsite. Over 1,500 committee, Olenka Savyckyj, a year after St. Michael's parish, the Plast youths, young adult and senior planning once again picked up first Ukrainian parish in the United members, and parents were present in the summer, when the committee States was established by the Rev. at the opening ceremonies of the was taken over by Anisa Handzia" Ivan Voliansky, the first priest ever nine-day International Jamboree Sawyckyj and as an overwhelming appointed for Ukrainian Catholics in which commemorated the 70th an­ number of women expressed an this country. It was rebuilt in 1908. niversary of the founding of Plast. interest in the conference. The conference commenced on October 1 at Soyuzivka as hundreds Nofables of women arrived from all parts of the United States and Canada. By FdremOst among the Ukrainians Sunday afternoon, the registration in the news during the year were two showed that over 600 women and men who were chosen to make their some men had taken part in the respective marks in the fields of conference, whose purpose was to education and diplomacy. increase the awareness of the U- On July 6, Peter Savaryn, 55, an krainian women's valuable input Edmonton lawyer, was installed as into the Ukrainian community. chancellor of the University of Al­ The weekend conclave touched berta, his alrriamater. Elected chan­ upon some interesting topics not cellor by the 62-member University often brought up in the Ukrainian of Alberta Senate, he thus became community. Such issues as "The charged with the responsibility of Ukrainian Singles Scene," "Ukrai­ representing the public interest at nian Schools and Youth Organiza­ the university. tions," "Intermarriage," "Women in As Mr. Savaryn explained, he Crisis," "The Ukrainian Male," aspired to become chancellor, a "Working Women," were among the voluntary position that is filled by a 13 panels, several presentations and representative of the community at three art exhibits covered during the large, for two reasons: first of all, weekend. he, like Maimonides, a 12th century " Another first, although not as Jewish rabbi and philosopher, be­ widely publicized as the women's Dr. Martha Bohachevsky Chomiatc lieves tfiat "The advancement of conference, was the world confe­ keynote speaker at the "Ukrainian learning is the highest command­ rence of youth organizations held in Woman in Two Worlds" conference. ment"; and he wanted to "-pay back" Toronto the weekend of October 8- his alma mater with his time, know­ 10. This conference was in the and Urban Development awarded ledge and experience. He had pre­ planning stages since 1979 and was S6.7 million to the Ukrainian Village viously served on the university's affiliated with the World Congressof Non-Profit Housing Corporation for Senate and board of governors. Free Ukrainians. Fifty-nine dele­ the building of housing for the gates representing such organiza­ elderly. This was the largest grant News of Mr. Savaryn's election tions as Plast, SUM, ODUM, ever awarded in Michigan. was hailed by the Ukrainian commu­ MUNO. TUSM, USCAK, Zarevo, " The year also included ground­ nity, which knows Mr. Savaryn as a SUSTA, SUSTE and SUSK, were breaking ceremonies for the new St. tireless community activist who is represented. Michael's Church in Shenandoah, involved in many organizations ' In November, 18 ethnic groups Pa., on Monday, April 12 (Easter including the Ukrainian Canadian of Metropolitan Detroit joined forces Monday), in which Metropolitan Committee, the Ukrainian Profes­ to purchase a radio station to broad­ Stephen Sulyk took part. The church sional and Business Club and Plast Dale Hawerchuk: Rookie of the Year cast their ethnic programs, marking community in this coal-mining town Ukrainian Youth Organization. for the 1981-82 NHL season. the first time a coalition of ethnic suffered a great tragedy on Easter groups purchased a station in the Monday 1980 when its church burn­ Several Ukrainians made their United States. ed to the ground. Lost in the blaze marks in a completely unrelated " Also in Michigan, on September were priceless icons, religious ob­ A professor of economics at field (or should wesay rink?). Hockey 22, the U.S. Department of Housing jects and stained glass. However, Georgetown University, Dr. Lev E. seems to be the sport of Ukrainians Dobriansky, was nominated by Pre­ these days, especially in 1982 when sident Ronald Reagan to become we finally learned that, yes, The U.S. ambassador to the Common­ Great One, superstar Way neGretzky wealth of the Bahamas. News of the of the Edmonton Oilers, does indeed nomination was released on October have some Ukrainian blood cours­ 25, and Dr. Dobriansky appeared at ing through his veins. a hearing on December 6 before the Senate Foreign Relations Commit­ Gretzky was the leading scorer in tee, which later that day voted to the NHL in the 1981-82 season and support his nomination. was the winner of the Hart Trophy given to the NHL's most valuable The full Senate voted to confirm player. Dr. Dobriansky's nomination on December 10, thus making him the Moving from the top scorer to the first U.S. ambassador of Ukrainian second-place finisher, we found descent. another Ukrainian, Mike Bossy of the Stanley Cup champion New Dr. Dobriansky, 64, is known for York Islanders. Bossy, too, received his involvement in the Ukrainian an MVP award - this one for the Congress Committee of America playoffs' best - the Conn Smythe and the National Captive Nations Trophy. Committee, and he has served both organizations in various executive Rookie of the Year (Calder positions. He is the 1964 recipient of Trophy) honors went, of course, to the Shevchenko Freedom Award. another Ukrainian: Dale Hawerchuk The Georgetown professor has of the Winnipeg Jets. also acted as adviser to the U.S. The 1981-82 season was also a Department of State and as faculty good one for Ukrainian Dennis member of the National War College. Maruk of the Washington Capitals. The International Plast Jamboree celebrated the youth organization's 70th He is active in thV Republican Na­ He finished fifth among the NHL's anniversary. tional Committee. top scorers: No. 52 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, DECEMBER 26, 1982 11

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Our E.T. 5 Roman Slobodian, 92. former long-time UNA supreme treasurer When Michael and Ester Bilon and honorary member of the UNA walked into The Weekly offices on Supreme Assembly - May 20; July 2 and calmly told us that their " Wolodymyr Kirshak, poet, essa­ son was E.T., frankly our first in­ yist, literary critic, who wrote under stinct was to call for the truck with the.pen name Wadym Lesytch - the padded walls. After all, for all we August 24; knew, the star of Steven Spielberg's i| Thomas Shepko, free-lance blockbuster movie "E.T. - The illustrator, designer and art director Extraterrestial," was a mechanical for leading New York art studios and device, a robot and not a live actor. advertising agencies - September How wrong we were. .25; ';- ; 'A . ' The Youngstown, Ohio, couple " Bishop Andrew Roborecki, 71, explained that their son, 34-year-old of the Saskatoon, Sask., Eparchy - Pat Bilon, is a dwarf whostands2feet October 23; 10 inches, and who had played in " George Lopatynsky, 76,-a former several movies. What's more, they lieutenant colonel of the Ukrainian said it was him the audience was Insurgent Army and member Of the seeing inside an E.T. costume. board of directors of Prolog Re­ Now here was a scoop! Not only search - November 16; were newspapers and. magazines reporting that E.T. was nothing ' Dr. George B. Kistiakowsky, 82, internationally known chemist who more than an elaborate mechanical Pat Bilon: in "Under the Rainbow" device, Mr. Spielberg himself never helped pioneer the atomic bomb (above) and as E.T. mentioned that an actor was in­ and later advocated the banning of volved at all. What's more, E.T. was a nuclear weapons - December 7. third-generation Ukrainian who Also in 1982, news about the spoke the language and was a mem­ deaths in late December 1981 of ber of UNA Branch 119 in Youngs­ three prominent Ukrainians was town. reported: " Frank Mural, 87, Cleveland U- The rest, as they say, is history. krainian businessman who spon­ The Weekly was the first paper in the sored over 100 Ukrainian families country to report the true identity of who arrived in the United States the actor employed in many of E.T.'s after World War II - December 15, most notable scenes, such as the 1981; one in which he gets drunk and falls down in Elliot's kitchen. (Some e Wasyl Werhun,72, journalist and publications incorrectly reported former editor of Narodna Volia, the that the real E.T. was another dwarf, newspaper of the Ukrainian Fra­ Tamara DeTreaux^ ternal Association - December 25, 1981; The movie has made a celebrity of " Petro Andrusiw, 75, artist and Mr. Bilon, who is active in Ukrainian illustrator perhaps best known for organizations, including theXeague his monumental murals of Ukrainian of Ukrainian Catholics and St. Anne's historic and religious scenes, in­ Ukrainian Catholic Church. Back in cluding "Baptism of Ukraine-Rus' " Youngstown, where Mr. Bilon guest - December 29, 1981. Roman Slobodian hosts the hourlong Ukrainian radio the real E.T. program he started, he is a favorite So yes, the real E.T. is Ukrainian, among children who want to meet and remember, you read it here first. At The Weekly Deaths 1982 was a rather eventful year for In otherЛМеекІу news, George B. The Weekly's unholy editorial troika Zarycky and Marta Kolomayets In 1982, a number of prominent author and journalist, who wrote as we did our best to provide you, were promoted in April. Mr. Zarycky Ukrainians passed away. Among under the pen name Daria Yaroslav- dear readers, with - to coin a is now an associate editor and Ms. them were the following: ska - January 13; phrase - "a Ukrainian perspective Kolomayets is an assistant editor. " Vassyl Yemetz, 91, bandurist- " Victor Prychodko, 96, Ukrainian on the news." She still gets the coffee, however. virtuoso, music educator, bandurist political activist and former minister After Ika Koznarska Casanova On July 4, The Weekly adopted a chorus organizer, the "insuperable of justice of the Directorate of the jumped ship in December 1981 to new flag - the nameplate at the top kobzar" - January 6; Ukrainian National Republic and hook-up with Suchasnist, the we'll- of our front page. Excised was the о Daria Emilia Stolarchuk, 76. assistant minister of finance of the come-out-when-we-want-to Ukrai­ word Svoboda, hopefully clearing Ukrainian National Republic-in- nian-language magazine, her posi­ up any misunderstanding as to the exile - February 6; tion at The Weekly was taken up on paper's editorial independence from " Dmytro Kuzyk, 75, editor for 14 January 18 by Marta Kolomayets, its Ukrainian-language older brother. years of the Ukrainian-language who blew in from the Windy City The move was the result of last monthly Our Voice and editorial ready to leave her mark on Ukrai­ year's UNA Executive Committee board member of various Ukrainian nian journalism. She didn't even decision to liberate The Weekly. newspapers in Ukraine and Ger­ bristle when told that all newcomers In the area of new features, this many - February 13; to the staff have to fetch coffee for year's Weekly launched the "Dissi­ ' Nestor Chylak, 59, former Ame­ the others for two whole years. dent profile" series, which explains rican League umpire who worked This was also the year that our itself. We also moved "Preview of five World Series, three American editor Roma Sochan Hadzewycz Events" to the back page to make it League championship series and went through something of an iden­ somewhat easier for our readers to four all-star games - FebruaryH7; tity crisis. And who could blame her. decide if they're going to spend their ' Constantine Warvariv, 57, high- She kept receiving mail addressed weekend at a concert in Carteret, ranking U.S. diplomat who served as to Mr. Roma Sochan Hadzewycz, or N.J., or at a bandura workshop at director of UNESCO affairs at the Roman or Mr. Hadzewycz. By far the Soyuzivka. What's more Yuri My- Bureau of International Organiza­ worst offenders were the high­ skiw of Chicago's Ukrainian Insti­ tion Affairs at the U.S. Department brows uptown at the Ukrainian tute of Modern Art offered a number of State, and also as U.S. delegate to Institute of America, who insisted on of excellent art reviews to bolster UNESCO, as well as social officer in calling her - now get this - MR. our culture coverage. the office of Multilateral Policy and ROMAN SOCHAN HADKEVYCH! In addition, we provided several Plans, Bureau of Educational and With a 51,000 per annum member­ special issues, such as those on Cultural Affairs at the State Depart­ ship fee, you'd think that someone at Patriarch Josyf Slipyj's 90th birth­ ment - April 6; the UIA would know the name and day and the pull-out section on the " Olenka Leskiw Savyckyj, 36, sex of the editor of the newspaper Ukrainian Helsinki Group. There community activist who chaired the that publicizes and covers many of was also the extra edition featuring "Ukrainian Woman in Two Worlds" its events. UNA scholarship winners. conference organizing committee So, please, people, the editor is a Although this year no one issue - April 26; Vassyl Yemetz lady. seemed to stir the reading public 12 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, DECEMBER 26, 1982 No. 52 1982: a look back

like last year's "folly of mixed In the way of self-promotion, this marriages," we got substantial feed­ year The Weekly staff decided to back on the role of our "elite" aca­ send a free copy of the paper to ail demic societies. The mail ran solidly Svoboda subscribers, even the few against our "pan doktors." Another who were already Weekly subscri­ hot topic seemed to be the "the" bers, in an effort to remind them of Ukraine debate, with most readers all they lost when Svoboda and lined up firmly against the the. Weekly circulations were separated. Well, the response, we are happy to As to headline grabbers, this report, was encouraging. But the year's winner has to be Metropolitan move appeared to create some panic Mstyslav of the Ukrainian Orthodox among those who suddenly found Church. His picture appeared on two copies of The Weekly, in their page 1 of The Weekly no less than mailboxes. Talk about looking a gift four times. Interestingly enough, horse in the mouth. We can only last year's winner was Metropolitan guess that, perhaps, sometimes you Stephen Sulyk. Some inter-Church can get,too much of a good thing. rivalry, perhaps?

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Nor were Pchilka and Kobrynska the witticisms, and will probably continue society which fosters the growth of the Women... only Ukrainian women to fall victim to. to do so. Humor is a defense mechanism individual, for any society which ham­ (С11ІІ— іАмрМ'О misrepresentation by Ukrainian males of the endangered. pers individual growth is not only a modernity, and Pchilka's program is and even some women historians. What is it that we women want? Not limiting society, but a limited one. still a valid task. Before World War I, Ukrainian the equality the Ukrainian men have т- or We want a society within the Ukrai­ The conference theme was "Ukrai­ authors commonly stressed the similari­ profess to have — with its inequality, nian community without double stan­ nian Woman in Two Worlds," as if ties between Ukrainian and Russian bickerings, innuendos, cross-purposes. dards - sexually, linguistically, geo­ there were two separate worlds! If only women, overlooking the crucial forma­ We want the same two things for graphically. The community is us, and there were just two worlds in our lives tive Kozak and frontier experience which our predecessors had striven. We without us the community is neither which we needed to balance! Our lives which the Russian women lacked (not want the right to be ourselves, and the truly representative, nor can it be truly — the lives of each one of us - are to mention the differences stemming freedom to determine, each and every effective. intricate feats of juggling various roles, from the different nature of the Tatar one of us, what it is we are, without We want to strive to achieve our full careers, functions, worlds, existences. yoke - something that was stressed by anyone dictating what we should be and potential as individuals, as women, as We function simultaneously on many Lesia Ukrainka, who was educated by how to be it. Ukrainians, as Americans. And we levels. We perceive many multi-hued her mother and not by the Ukrainian or We want individual autonomy in a want it on our own terms. reflections through the single prism of Russian intelligentsia). our fife. Our lives are fluid permeations That, combined with the democratic from one role, from one compartment and progressive nature of Ukrainian TO MARK THE MILLENNIUM OF CHRISTIANITY IN UKRAINE to another. That has been a fact of nationalism, predisposed the Ukrai­ CROSSES-PINS human existence, of which women were nians in the tsarist empire to write off specially designed in 10,14 and 18 carat cold, more aware then men. Society has feminism as a middle-class pheno­ are now available to churches, organizations and individuals continually confronted women with the menon and to deny its existence among HOLIDAY GIFT ITEMS INCLUDE: "double burden" — work and family. Ukrainians. Thus, the significant con­ Gold watches discounted 3096 And the women have stubbornly in­ tributions of the Ukrainian women to Chains, rings, earrings, etc. discounted 2096 sisted on yet a third level, keeping the establishment of higher education ,- A large selection ofjewelry made of 14 and 18 carat gold, silver and enamel, crafted themselves, their egos, their own aspira­ courses for women and various philan­ f to your specifications or in our own designs. tions, in the picture. thropic societies in Kiev and Kharkiv ' я Ukrainian tryzubs (tridents) in various styles and sizes. The first woman who openly raised have been overlooked, mainly because ' m Bulk orders are accepted from shops as well as individuals. the issue of the double burden was they reflected achievements of women \ я During the holiday season, we are open until 9 p.m. every night. Natalia Kobrynska, a daughter and wife who did not readily fit into the pro­ І я PRICES ARE VERY REASONABLE. of Catholic priests, who lived in western gressive intelligentsia mold. 1 ІІДІ/АО'Є ІПАЇЕГІ DU We muM ІІкЄ t0 take th'S 0РРогіипі(У to Ukraine in the last decades of the An extremely important chapter in ' МАКАК S JEWELRY thank our dear customers for their patronage previous century. She, as many leading both women's history in general and in intellectuals of the time, was a con­ Ukrainian history in particular was I STORE 8. SHOP , andwishthem vinced socialist. Early in her public life contributed by the Soyuz Ukrainok, \ 2022 MorriMorris AvenuAvenue she also became a convinced feminist. Ukrainian Women's Union, in the UNION, N J. 07083 and She was probably the first thinker in interwar years on the territories of (201) 686-1931 HAPPY HOLIDAYS Europe to argue openly that socialism western Ukraine. Even here, however, A JOYOUS NEW YEAR in itself would not be a factor in the the women tended to downplay their \ liberation of women unless the women, roles. The Ukrainian women's organi­ while working for social reforms, would zation on the territories of interwar ИЖ THE UKRAINIAN also specifically work for sexual equa­ Poland alone was proportionately the lity. She maintained that sexual equality largest women's organization in Europe. U\ INSTITUTE would not emerge automatically with a The policies of modernization it pur­ more equitable economic or social sued —effective, moderate, yet ones OF AMERICA INC. system. that did not challenge the traditional SPECIAL NEW YEAR'S DAY She also argued against revolutionary values of society — foreshadowed rhetoric in Galicia, maintained that the similar effective policies used by the PROGRAM road to progress lay through peaceful, Third World women. effective reform. She predicted that The western Ukrainian women offered NEW 8. EXCITING - CHICAGO'S BEST revolutionary upheavals would lead to an example of women with some degree violations of individual liberty. She saw of autonomous status of pre-industria- V0D0HRAY BAND women as yet another emerging consti­ lized societies trying to preserve and tuency in the changing configuration of expand that autonomy while helping to January 1st, 8 p.m. - 1 a.m. Galicia. better their economic position. The very NEW YEAR'S DAY The men who understood her, how­ real threats to the existence of the ever, did not support her; the women en Ukrainian nation in the interwar years, YOUNG PROFESSIONALS EVENING masse were not in a position to under­ however, led most of the participants, stand her, since they could not even and the few persons who write on the We Invite You To Celebrate the Premiere of a New Concept For Making attend high schools. Her potential was subject, to concentrate on the patriotic Friends 8, Business acquaintances not utilized; and she remains known importance of the work of women. INFORMAL GET-TOGETHER, REFRESHMENTS, SNACKS only as an early organizer of Ukrainian I am not denying the patriotism of the 512 per person women and a minor writer. Her theore­ women — far from it! I am, however, tical views on feminism and socialism, saying that it went beyond rhetoric, and especially the manner in which she was effective because it was practical For Reservations 8. Information: (212) 288-8660 integrated them, remain largely un­ and because it was suited to the needs, explored. the problems at hand. As usual, women, In part, Kobrynska fell victim to the without much talk, got down to the ideological exclusiveness that is so tasks that had to be done. frequently a characteristic of the male Today, in the organized community HOLIDAY SEASON at S0YUZIVKA intelligentsia. Since she refused to life of Ukrainians and of Ukrainian accept unquestionably the dictates of women in the New World, there is a her male colleagues, although, God bifurcation in the perception of women. Вжсілих Cfram knows, she was deferential to them, they We seem to function differently on criticized her and accused her of being Ukrainian-language and English-lan­ petulant and petty, and, in the final guage planes. Ukrainians tend to be Friday, December 31,1982 analysis, a lady and a feminist. Her uneasy about terms like liberation and NEW YEAR'S EVE plans for day care centers were accepted people's struggle in English. Yet, in WITH THE SPECIAL PROGRAM without crediting her with any origina­ Ukrainian, these terms, full of justified NEW YEAR'S EVE SUPPER lity. Her ideas on communal kitchens patriotic attraction, are proudly used. were not seriously discussed. Her argu­ Words like feminism and women's by reservations only. ment that the conveyor belts of new rights, however, make most Ukrainians DANCE to the tiines of Alex Chudolij, ideas into the villages were the wives uncomfortable in any language. Dorko Senchyshyn Orchestra and daughters of priests were laughed Few of us are aware of the non- Thursday, January 6,1983 out as a theory, while used effectively traditional activities of. other Ukrai­ without discussion in practice. nian women. A gathering such as the CHRISTMAS SUPPER Kobrynska's pragmatic approach to women's conference, women meeting' CHRISTMAS SPIRIT and CAROLS issues of feminism and socialism actually as women, regardless of age, profession, 1 ш This is the ideal way to give the marital status, political convictions and reflected the pragmatism that is fre­ housewives a Christmas treat! quently a characteristip ці women and language used for communication,, women's organizations. Women, not makes most Ukrainian men uneasy — a Mttty Cftuinas being conditioned to ideological think­ traditional response to demonstrations ing, did not exhibit the ideological of women's power. UKRAINIAN NATIONAL ASSOCIATION ESTATE exclusiveness that often plagued — and The topic of the conference - "U- continues to plague — many Ukrainian krainian Woman in Two Worlds" - Kerhonkson, NY. u Ul.:(914)620-5641 community organizations. has already generated a number of. 14 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, DECEMBER 26, 1982 No. 52

pagating and informing youths about You'll lose the mid-January blues at the ODUM senior... contemporary Ukraine. This would (Continued from page 3) make them more keenly aware of their MALANKA BALL Tommorrow — Directions for the heritage. Future," which was delivered by Mr. A. Echoing this sentiment, Mr. Shev­ OF THE UKRAINIAN ASSOCIATION OF WASHINGTON Shevchenko, outgoing president of the chenko argued that the Ukrainian Saturday, January 15, 1983 national executive board. In bis address, community had become far too em­ broiled in old emigre party politics and at the Rouse Building Ballroom in Columbia, Maryland Mr. Shevchenko analyzed ODUM's role vis-a-vis the Ukrainian community had thus steered its energies away from Reservations and names of debutantes: Natalka Zacharchenko - (703) 978-2871 in the United States, specifically touch­ today's Ukraine. Such political blind­ ing upon ODUM's relations with the ness caused boycotts of Kobza's recent Ukrainian Congress Committee of tour of Canada, the Ukrainian Helsinki America (UCCA), the Committee for Monitoring Group and individual Law and Order in the UCCA, the Ukrainian dissidents, exactly those Ukrainian Orthodox Church, Ukrai­ entites which represent the Ukraine of Deck the halls with Melody Night, nian Democratic Movement and other today, he said. Such actions had alie­ Ukrainian youth organizations, most nated many Ukrainian youths from the fa la la la la la la la....HEY! notably Plastand SUM-A. Ukrainian community, he noted. After lunch the conference's business The Perfect The speech also analyzed the internal sessions continued with a question-and- Christmas problems of ODUM, particularly its answer and discussion period pertain­ organizational structure, which, Mr. ing to the reports of the outgoing Gift Shevchenko argued, needed to be officers of the national executive board. professionalized and updated in order The auditing committee then gave its for ODUM to meet the needs of today's report recommending that a vote of Ukrainian youth. Mr. Shevchenko confidence be bestowed upon the out­ AVAILABLE IN RECORD. emphasized that ODUM should initiate going executive board for its work over CASSETTE AND 8-TRACK programs, including ODUM-sponsored the previous two years. This was un­ trips to Ukraine, which would bring its animously approved by the delegates. Send (7.98 plus S1.00 members to a closer understanding of Next on the agenda was the report of shipping and handling the Ukraine of today. the resolutions committee and subse­ to He also stressed the need for pro­ quent adoption of the resolutions. grams which would make ODUM Some of the more noteworthy general MELODY NIGHT attractive to potential new members, resolutions adopted by the conference: P.O. Box 17205 particularly the youths who are not a called for cooperation and work Rochester, N.Y. 14617 members of any Ukrainian youth or­ among the Ukrainian community in or call (716) 544-8366 ganization. accordance with democratic principles; Saturday morning's session began a reaffirmed ODUM's strong support Canadian orders please add SI.00 with a panel discussion on "Politics, for the Committee for Law and Order in ODUM and the Ukrainian Commu­ the UCCA: nity," which was moderated by Ms. a reaffirmed ODUM's active support Volumes 1, 2 8 3 are also available through. Melody Night Pawlenko. Panelists Mr. G. Smyk, Mr. of the enslaved peoples in Ukraine, or at your local Ukrainian stores. . A. Shevchenko and Dr. Anatol Lysyj especially, its youth, in light of the analyzed the role of politics in ODUM dictatorial rule of the Soviet regime; and the Ukrainian community. a called on ODUM members to Dr. Lysyj contended that there was safeguard the Ukrainian language, an unfounded fear of politics among culture and traditions in light of Russi- many Ukrainian parents, causing them fication policies being pursued in A truly unique gift can.be yours to become alienated from the Ukrainian Ukraine; 55 community. This type of apathy has a called for ODUM's active support, carried over to their offspring, causing through donations and other means, of ABSOLUTELY FREE " both parents and children to become the erection of the monument in honor Selfreliance lost not only to ODU M, but to the entire of Metropolitan Wasyl Lypkivskyj of Ukrainian community, as well. Kiev, first Metropolitan of the reborn Federal Credit Union in Chicago Mr. Smyk emphasized that ODUM Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox is offering its members a solid sterling silver І'Л-inch should spend less time living in the past Church in 1921 (The monument is to be апл Tvnrentrate its energies on pro- built on the grounds of the Ukrainian TRIDENT PENDANT Orthodox Center in South Bound along with a sterling silver chain packaged in an attractive jewelry box. Brook, N.J.); REAL ESTATE a called for ODUM's active prepara­ tion for the commemoration of the FLORIDA'S High Country) millennium of Christianity in Ukraine Orange tree lots, from S3.950.00 and the Ukrainian Orthodox Church Homes, from J21.500.00 which is to occur in 1988; SUNNYLAND REALTY REALTORS Rosalie Kowalchuk Hand Associate . a called on ODUM to actively partici­ 855 North Park Avo., Apopfca. Па. 32703 pate in the commemoration of the 50th For appointment call anniversary of the Soviet-made famine (305) 886-3060 or 886-4644 in Ukraine of 1932-33. The report of the nominating com­ mittee and election of the new execu­ tive board followed. RETIREMENT FUTURE In his closing remarks, Mr. Shev­ IN S.W. FLORIDA! chenko thanked the delegates for allow­ ing him the opportunity to serve as Tho growing communities near St Andrew's Ukrainian Religious and Cultural Centor. ODUM's president for the next two years. He promised an active and NICK 8. ELOISE POPOVICH aggressive tenure of the executive board Reartor-Associate/Broker-Salestnan over the upcoming term and briefly Hotline phone: 1-813-629-3179 outlined his plans for the next two TARAS BARABASH years. Realtor-Associate The conference ended with the sing­ Deposit and Pay Eves: 1-813-6254011 ing of the ODUM youth march by the S1.000 SlS RANDOL REALTY, INC., delegates. 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any Soviet book without a special Fedorchuk... permit. Rusalka ensemble celebrates 20th (Continued from pete 2) Mr. Fedorchuk was born in Ukraine Over the last 30 years the Kremlin in December 1918. He served in the WINNIPEG - The Rusalka Dance Although there are, at present, 48 leadership has kept the two agenices at a Soviet armed forces in World War II Ensemble celebrated its 20th anniver­ dancers in the group, ranging in age careful distance, according to The New and has belonged to the Communist sary on Saturday, October 23, with a from 17 to 32, about 400 dancers have York Times. Party since 1940. concert at Centennial Concert Hall passed through the ranks of The separation of the functions was a The new minister is a member of the here, which attracted 2,270 spectators. the ensemble. All the dancers are strictly amateurs, devot­ protective measure ordered by the Central Committee of the Communist Rusalka, described by the Winnipeg Kremlin a few months after the execu­ Party of the Ukrainian SSR, but he has ing seven hours or more a week to Free Press as "Manitoba's premier' perfecting their skills while juggling tion in 1953 of Lavrenti Beria, a loyalist not been elevated to a similar post in the Ukrainian dance company," was first of Stalin who used his control of the national party's central committee. university studies or working careers organized by Peter Hladun. With the with tours. secret police and their uniformed coun­ TASS reported, however, that he has cooperation of other members of the The dancers reflect the cultural terparts to further the dictator's reign of been promoted from the rank of colonel Ukrainian community, and under the heritage of all areas of Ukraine: they terror. In recent years, the KGB has general to that of general of the army. auspices of the Ukrainian National have learned a variety of styles of become the more powerful of the two Federation, the group began to flourish. agencies. Less is known about Mr. Chebrikov, dancing from different regions, and who is said to be a close associate of Mr. A career intelligence officer, Mr. Judge Benjamin Hewak, a firm sup­ wear costumes that are authentic to the Andropov. Also born in Ukraine, Mr. regions they represent. Fedorchuk held the post of KGB head Chebrikov was graduated from a metal­ porter and determined fund-raiser for in Ukraine from 1970 until 1982. He lurgical institute as an engineer after the group, helped the group achieve the gained a reputation there as a ruthless serving five years in the army. financial footing it needed to start Besides the concert program that opponent of political dissidents and as a touring. The group often travels with­ Mr. Chebrikov, who joined the party included an all-dance program of 17 hard-liner on issues such as Communist out the funding of Canada Council or in 1944, served for many years after the wdrks and a slide presentation honoring ideology and the rise of the Solidarity Manitoba Arts Council grants. Judge war as a party activist in his home town the Rusalka's 20th anniversary, the free labor union in Poland, which he Hewak began aiding the group over 10 of Dnipropetrovske, where Mr. Bre^ .group was also scheduled to perform an attributed to "anti-Soviet" agitators. years ago. Since that time it has been to zhnev was once party chief. hourlong special on CBC-TV, on Since taking over the chairmanship Mexico, Scotland, England, Ukraine, October 21. A banquet and.awards of the KGB in Moscow, this reputation In 1967, he moved to Moscow to take Italy, the United States and throughout presentation in honor of the Rusalka has been confirmed. There has been a over personnel matters in the KGB. One Canada, dancing for Queen Elizabeth, Dance Ensemble was held at the Winni­ nationwide crackdown of dissidents; year later, he was appointed by Mr. Prince Phillip, Princess Margaret, peg Holiday Inn on Saturday, October international telephone calls have been Andropov as one of six deputy chair­ Prince Charles and Pope John Paul II. 30. sharply cut back, and a range of other men. measures curbing contacts between The recent appointments are inter­ Soviet citizens and foreigners have been preted by Western analysts as signaling adopted. One of these, instituted in an attempt by Mr. Andropov to con­ j DMYTROBORTNIANSKY BRANCH SIX-UKRAINIAN FRATERNAL ASSOCIATION I recent weeks, was a ban on the export of solidate his power. MIKE ELKQ, Secretary A

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Thursday and Friday, December 30 "Malanka" ball and banquet with the and 31 PREVIEW OF EVENTS presentation of debutantes at the Rouse Building Ballroom in Colum­ ELLENVILLE, N.Y.: SUSTA's bia, Md., between Baltimore and Outlook for 1983 Conference will PHILADELPHIA: The Tryzub WEST PALM BEACH, Fla.: The Washington on Route 29. This event take place during these two days. Sports Club and the League of Ukrainian American Club of the is also a fund-raiser for the cultural This is an opportunity for Ukrainian Ukrainian Catholics in Frankford Palm Beaches will hold its second and charitable projects of the Ukrai­ students to get together and discuss are sponsoring a New Year's Eve annual "Malanka" dance tonight at nian association. plans for ther New Year. The confe­ Dance in the St. Josaphat School St. Mary's Church hall, Florida rence will feature an open forum and Auditorium. Dancing music will be Mango Road. The S10 admission workshops. It will be held in con­ provided by the Melody Night band includes dinner, live music from 9 ONGOING junction with the weeklong SUM- of Rochester, N.Y. Tables may be p.m. to 1 a.m. and special entertain­ TUSMcamp. For more information, reserved by calling Oleh Woloshchuk ment by local artists. CHICAGO: The Ukrainian Institute please call Ronya Stojko-Lozynskyj (215) 533-7697 or Yuriy Lesiuk (215) of Modern Art will have a Christmas at (212) 260-7888 or Michael Mulyk 824-2491. PITTSBURGH: The Western Penn­ Bazaar of drawings, paintings and sylvania region of the Ukrainian at (212) 854-8030. 824-2491. Proceeds from the dance sculpture by Ukrainian artists. All Orthodox League will sponsor its will go toward the construction of the the works, moderately priced, will be 25th annual "Malanka" at the Green- Sports Club in Horsham, Pa. on sale. The bazaar will be open from tree Holiday Inn. Music for dancing December 11 through January 9. Friday, December 31 will be provided by the Corsairs Saturday, January 1 recording artists. NEW YORK: The Mayana Gallery, SOYUZIVKA: A New Years Eve Highlighting the event will be the 21 E. Seventh St., is holding a Dance featuring the Alex and Dorko NEW YORK: To start off the New selection of Miss UOL of Western Christmas exhibit of Slava Gerulak Band will be held at the Ukrainian Year, the young professionals of the Pennsylvania. Each chapter of the works. The exhibit runs from De­ National Association estate. For Ukrainian Institute of America will region is permitted one candidate cember 17 through January 15. more information call (914) 626- present an informal get-together. who must be single and between the Gallery hours are from 1 to 6 p.m. S641. The evening, geared toward making ages of 16 and 25. The winner will be Tuesday through Sunday; closed new friends and business contacts, crowned by Susan Woznak, last Monday's. will feature live music by a new and year's winner. NEW YORK: The Ukrainian Insti­ exciting band from Chicago, Vo­ tute of America will hold a special Elizabeth Mitchell is serving as PREVIEW OF EVENTS is a dohray. The evening begins at 8 p.m., committee chairperson. The Rev. service provided free of charge by New Year's Eve program tonight, lasts until 1 a.m., and includes snacks beginning at 9 p.m. The black-tie Andrew Beck is the advisor to the The Ukrainian Weekly to the Ukrai­ and refreshments. Admission is S12 "Malanka" committee. The planning nian community. To have a Ukrai­ affair will include cocktails, dinner/ per person. For more information refreshments and live music provided and organization of the "Malanka" is nian community event listed in this call the institute, 2 E. 79th St., (212) being handled by the Ss. Peter and column please send information by the Vodohray band of Chicago. 288-8660. The celebration will continue through Paul Senior UOL Chapter of Car­ (type of event, date, rime, place, 2 a.m. Cost is S45 per person, S20 for negie, Pa. admission, sponsor, etc.) - along students. Please call the institute for Sunday, January 9 with the phone number of a person reservations, (212) 288-8660. Saturday, January 15 who may be reached during daytime PHOENIX, Ariz.: The Sisterhood of hours for any additional information the Blessed Virgin Mary Ukrainian COLUMBIA, Mdj The Ukrainian - to: PREVIEW OF EVENTS, The SOMERVILLE, NJ.: The Cher- Catholic Church here is holding a Association of the Washington Me­ Ukrainian Weekly, 30 Montgomery vona Kalyna Band will ring in the traditional Ukrainian Christmas tropolitan Area will hold its annual St., Jersey City, N J. 07302. New Year at the Holiday Inn of Dinner and the celebration of the Somerville. (U.S. Route 22 East) The 35th anniversary of the ordination of celebration begins at 9 p.m. with a their pastor, the Very Rev. Andrew order to "prove that I personally am still prime-rib dinner. Admission is S7G Mykyta. The afternoon event will be Rubin, 5/ipyj... capable of giving a reply and not my per couple. Please make reservations held after high liturgy at the church (Continued from pare 3) chancery," the Patriarch Josyf respond­ as soon as possible by calling (201) hall, 4318 W. Clarendon. necessary, if it is desired to restore peace ed with the following. 526-9500. and concord in the Ukrainian commu­ "The tone of your letter seems to nity. insult and offend my Church and myself EAST HANOVER, NJ.: The New Saturday, January IS "Moreover, the non-acceptance of a as its head and father. Really, does this Jersey branch of the Ukrainian decision of the Holy See, expressed constitute a gift on my 90th birthday? Engineers' Society of America and FORKED RIVER, N J.: The Ukrai­ either by word of mouth, in writing or in Further, your letter was addressed to the Chornomortsi Plast Unit are nian American Club of Ocean County deed, is an act of insubordination and, my chancery - this I find offensive; sponsoring a New Year's Eve ban­ is sponsoring its second annual as such, is to be refused by anyone who after all, it insinuates that I am only an quet and ball at the Ramada Inn, 130 Ukrainian New Year's Eve dinner- professes himself a loyal Catholic. instrument in its hands. Do you assume Route 10. The evening includes a dance at the Oyster Bay Restaurant Every Catholic must keep himself from that I am already a living corpse? cocktail hour at 8 p.m., banquet at 9 on Route 9. Hors d'oeuvres will be taking up positions damaging to the "Because of the importance of your p.m., and ball at 10 p.m. Music will served from 7 to 8 p.m., followed by a authority of the Holy See and from letter, which contains the accusation of be provided by the B. Hirniak Or­ dinner (choice of prime rib of beef or assuming attitudes calculated to sow insubordination and unloyalty to the chestra. flounder stuffed with crabmeat). discontent or to provoke indiscipline. Apostolic See of Rome, I find myself Admission prices are: S75 per Committee advises BYOB. "2. As regards the Synod of In addition to the meal, Ukrai­ answering it not in every particular couple for banquet and ball, S40 per Bishops: this institution represents a aspect but confine myself to a more person. Cocktails are not included in nian desserts will be served later in special concession of the Holy Father to the evening. The well-known Ukrai­ detailed reply which may take the form these prices. Tickets, including open the Ukrainian Church. But it is necessary of: bar from 9 p.m. to 2 a.m., areS55 per nian group "The Kolomeykas" will to stand by the terms of the concession, person. For reservations and more provide entertainment from 8 p.m. for it is on the basis of these terms that "a. rejection of your letter — fine information call J. Bihun at (201) throughout the evening. Tickets are the Synod of the Ukrainian hierarchy de non recevoir - in order to defend my 763-1732, V. Javorenko at (201) 752- S15 per person. For more informa­ has a well-defined character. In parti­ personal honor and the dignity of the 7520; Daria Twardowsky or Orest tion and tickets call Marie Meehan at cular, it can be convoked only with the Ukrainian Church, and also the dignity Fedash at the Ramada Inn, (201) (201) 341-4127 or Ann Lichko (201) consent of the holy father, which is to be of the congregation which you head; or 887-9100 or (201) 386-5622. 240-0354. obtained each time a meeting is contem­ "b. direct intervention to the holy plated; and it cannot elect bishops but father. It would be a complaint of a only present a list of candidates, as person who, for his loyalty to the occasion arises. Apostolic See of Rome, has spent 18 Yevshan dancers put on "spectacular show" years of his life in the prisons and "3. As regards a successor to His internment camps of that atheistic SASKATOON, Sask. - The Yev­ cluded England's Queen Elizabeth, Eminence Cardinal Slipyj in the See of shan Ukrainian Folk Ballet Ensemble performed three Hutsul dances, "ha- regime. to which your letter, regrettably, Lviv: such a successor has already been renders a service. put on what one critic called "a specta­ hilky," the Yevshan Zillia, the Hopak provided in the person of the coad­ cular show" during a special two-day and the Kozak Dance. jutor, His Excellency Msgr. Myroslav "It pains me that my personal confi­ concert program of the Saskatoon Ivan Lubachivsky. Any reference, dence in Your Eminence has been Symphony Orchestra here on Novem­ In his review, Wilf Popoff of the therefore, to the possibility of another undermined by this unfortunate letter. ber 20-21. Star-Phoenix called the performance hierarch having rights equal to, or It pains me even more, Eminence, The weekend event, held in Cen­ "overwhelming," labeling the dancers' higher than, those of the holder of the because we are both inflicting mutual tennial Auditorium, was part of the enthusiasm "infectious." Major Archepiscopal See of Lviv, is harm; for I fear that this letter will "Century Saskatoon" Festival. "During six folk ballets and dances without value." become a stumbling'block in the rela­ The 22-member ensemble that has they never once failed to maintain a tions between our Churches and our entertained audiences which have in­ high level of entertainment," he wrote. Writing the letter in his own hand in peoples — Ukrainian and Polish."