The Ukrainian Weekly 1977, No.32
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www.ukrweekly.com І СВОБОДАХSvOBODA І І Ж Щ УКРАЇНСЬКИЙ ЩОДЕННИК ЧЩЕ? UKRAINIAN DAiLy Щ Щ UkrainiaENGLISH LANGUAGnE WEEKL Y WeekEDITION !У VOL. LXXXIV No. 187 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, AUGUST 28,1977 25 CENTS Dedicate Bust of Rev. Dmytriw Dr. Shtern Expected to Attend in Tribute to Ukrainian Pioneers New York Rally September 18th Ceremony Caps UNA Program NEW YORK, N.Y.—The UCCA Dr. Shtern was allowed to leave the executive office here has sent an Soviet Union with his wife. invitation to Dr. Mikhail Shtern, a Dr. Shtern is known for his de– During Dauphin Festival former Ukrainian political prisoner, fense of the Ukrainian culture . to attend the rally in defense of During the trial, he refused to speak Ukrainian rights here Sunday, Sep– in any other language, except Ukrai– tember 18. nian. A spokesman for the office said After settling in Paris, France, Dr. that the 62-year-old doctor has Shtern wrote in the July 2nd edition accepted the invitation to attend. of the Ukrainian newspaper "Nash Dr. Shtern, who is of Jewish Holos" (Our World) this year that he descent, was a physician in the town believes that Ukraine will someday of vynnytsia in western Ukraine. On be free. May 29, 1974, Dr. Shtern was arres– "You can be sure that Russifica– ted after his son, August, received tion will not devour the Ukrainian permission to emigrate to israel. nation. And also be sure that Uk– The KGB interrogated many wit– raine will be a free and fortunate nesses from Dr. Shtern's home town, state. Fight for that goal. Help your intimating that he was murdering countrymen in their struggle in the Archbishop–Metropolitan Maxim Hermaniuk blesses the bust of Rev. Nestor non–Jewish children. None of the native country," said Dr. Shtern. Dmytriw, after the moleben which he celebrated with area clergy. Ukrainians called to testify against After the rally, Dr. Shtern hopes to DAUPH1N, Man. - Amid the fun On Sunday afternoon, July 31, a Dr. Shtern substantiated the charges. tour the United States and speak and frolic of the 12th Canada's Na– bronze bust of Rev. Nestor Dmytriw, Nonetheless, he was sentenced on about human rights violations in the tional Ukrainian Festival, many of the the first Ukrainian priest to celebrate a charges of accepting two geese, three Soviet Union. Ukrainian Canadian and American Ukrainian Liturgy in Canada, was un– pails of apples and 775 rubles in The rally is being coordinated by festival-goers took a moment of their veiled in the course of the traditional bribes. Dr. Shtern was sentenced to the UCCA executive office, in coop– time to pay tribute to the Ukrainian pio– UNA Day festivities at the Cross of eight years in prison. However, due eration with many branches in the neers who settle in the western prairies of Freedom. to the public outcry in the West northeast. Organizers are looking Canada. (Continued on page 9) against the arrest and imprisonment, forward to a crowd in excess of 50,000 Ukrainians from 34 com– munities in New York, New Jersey, Connecticut and Pennsylvania. Soyuzivka to be Site of Tennis, Swimming Nationals The principal theme of the rally is Ukrainian American support for KERHONKSON, NY. - it'll be President Carter's policy on human "play ball" at Soyuzivka's tennis courts, rights. possibly as early as Friday afternoon Mr. ivashkiv added that the depending on the number of entries in UCCA office contacted all branches the men s division., and "on your marks, in the area to organize buses for the ready, go" in the swimming meet Satur– rally. Many other organizations, day? September 3, at the estate's Olym– among them the Ukrainian National pic-size swimming pool as the national Association, have followed suit. tennis and swimming championships get underway over the extended Labor The rally is slated to begin at 1:00 Day weekend. p.m., at 59th Street and Fifth Ave– Staged by the Carpathian Ski Club of nue. The parade will then proceed New York under the auspices of the down Fifth Avenue to Bryant Park, Association of Ukrainian Sports Clubs which is situated behind the Main Branch of the Public Library at 42nd in North America (USCAK), the tennis Players and spectators stand of attention during opening ceremonies. event is in its 22nd year, while the Street and the Avenue of the Ame– swimming meet is one year younger. until last midnight to dispatch their necessitates some matches in the early ricas. The championships are known to registration forms and fees. Only regis– round to be played in New Paltz.Players After a brief program there, the attract competitors from across the tration postmarked prior to midnight are urged to be on the premises of participants will march to Ham– U.S. and Canada, who are vying in Saturday, August 27, will be considered Soyuzivka to be informed of any chang– marskjold Plaza, opposite the United various age group events for UNA, by the tourney's chief umpire Bohdan es in plans, obviated by such factors as Nations at 47th Street and First Svoboda, Soyuzivka and The Ukrai– Rak and his committee, which meets the weather, exceptionally long match– Avenue. nian Weekly trophies and medals. This Thursday, September 1, to make up the es, and the like. The manifestation's steering com– year's meet is dedicated to the 25th draw in the varied groups. Players in the The opening ceremonies will be held mittee also announced that it will anniversary of Soyuzivka. men's division who will compete on Saturday afternoon at Soyuzivka's contact other former political pri– While the swimmers have until 9:30 Friday in preliminary rounds will be lower courts which will also be the site soners or emigres from the Soviet a.m., Saturday, September 3, to register notified to that effect by Wednesday, of the closing festivities and trophy Union to attend the rally. Among with meet director Jaroslaw Rubel and August 31. presentations after the last of the finals hopeful participants are Ludmyla his committee, the tennis players had As a rule, the large number of entries Monday afternoon. Alekseyeva and Andriy Hryhorenko. Rally in Defense of Ukrainian Rights - Sunday, September, 18,1977, New York City -Be There! f"4 -v^ THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, AUGUST 28,1977 No. 187 Protests Sentence With One Day in USSR, Writing Poetry is Punishable Hunger Strike By Five Years imprisonment NEW YORK, N.Y.—Dmytro Kvets– NEW YORK, N.Y.—imagine and was a lecturer of esthetics at testified that Horbal either ko, a Ukrainian political prisoner, pre– how many American poets would the Borshchiv technical school. showed them his poem, or quoted sently incarcerated in the Perm region be imprisoned if it was a crime to He was tried by a Ternopil it for them. concentration camps declared in his criticize the American govern– oblast court, headed by І.І. Yaro– Among the statements allegedly letter to the Presidium of the Supreme ment or the way of life here. vyi, and consisting of P.S. Hara– attributed to Horbal by the court Soviet a one-day-long hunger strike in Numerically, it would be hard to symenko, M.S. Budnyi, v.v. are remarks that there is no demo– protest of his harsh sentence, reported the determine how many poets would Zinevych, and Р.І. Darmohray as cracy in the Soviet Union. press service of the Ukrainian Supreme be incarcerated, but it is safe to say prosecutor. Horbal explained that it was Liberation Council (abroad). that many of the best and popular During what they called was an not his intention to fight against Kvetsko, a history teacher in the iva– American poets would be behind open trial, the judges determined the Soviet government by writing no-Frankivske region and a former pri– bars if such was the case here. that Horbal displayed hostility "Duma," but the judges said that soner in Stalin's camps, was arrest– This fear of the written word towards the Soviet government. the theme of the poem and the ed on March 21, 1967. He was charged does not exist in the United States, They said that he set out on a testimonies of the witnesses sub– with alleged membership in the Ukrai– but poems and ideas that do not "fight against the Soviet govern– stantiated his hostility towards the nian National Front and "betrayal of reflect the policies of the Kremlin ment by way of disseminating a USSR. fatherland", and sentenced to 15 years are banned in the Soviet Union. poem, entitled "Duma," which he "Taking into account that the incarceration and 5 years of exile. The press service of the Ukrai– authored, and which has an anti- defendant Horbal committed an initially he served his sentence in nian Supreme Liberation Council Soviet and nationalistic text." especially grave crime against the viadimir prison, but subsequently was (abroad) recently received the state, the (judicial) collegium transferred to the Perm camps. official text of the sentence hand– considers it imperative to sentence The following are excerpts from the ed down to a Ukrainian for writ– From the pages of him to a rehabilitative-work co– text of Kvetsko's protest, dated March ing a poem about life in Ukraine. lony for a term presecribed by 21, 1977, which has been circulating in Mykola Horbal, who turned 36 Soviet jurisprudence article 62, paragraph 1 of the the samvydav: last May 6th, was arrested early in Criminal Code of the Ukrainian To the presidium of the Supreme So– 1971 for writing a long poem, SSR, to be followed by exile," said viet of USSR: Statement by Dmytro entitled "Duma".