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1NS1DE: ^ More on President Leonid Kuchma's state visit to Canada - pages 3-5. e Embassy of Ukraine protests "60 Minutes report - page 8. - Community leaders react to CBS coverage - page 9. THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY Published by the Ukrainian National Association inc., a fraternal non-profit association vol. LXII No. 44 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, OCTOBER ЗО, 1994 75 cents CANADA WELCOMES PRES1DENT KUCHMA OF UKRA1NE by Christopher Guly Special to The Ukrainian Weekly OTTAWA — The Canadian government pulled out all stops to welcome Leonid Kuchma. Unlike his predecessor, Leonid Kravchuk, who visited Canada in September 1991, before Ukraine declared its independence from the former Soviet Union, President Kuchma was welcomed to Ottawa on October 23 with full state honors. Mr. Kuchma became the first Ukrainian head of state to visit Canada; that country also is the first to be visited by the newly elected president. However, little attention was focused on the president's arrival by the local and national media in Canada, ironically, the largest Ukrainian-related media story came through an American ТУ program, CBS's "60 Minutes," which focused on alleged anti-Semitism in independent Ukraine. in Ottawa, security was especially heavy for the Ukrainian president's arrival at Uplands Military Air Base, in addition to several Royal Canadian Mounted Police p!ainclothes officers, the Ukrainian delegation itself included 1 1 security personnel to the president. Foreign Affairs Minister Gennadiy Udovenko arrived with his own security guard. The Ukrainian delegation itself numbered 65, includ– ing President Kuchma and his wife, Ludmyla, Mr. І Christopher Gulv Udovenko and his wife, Dena, four other ministers, a bevy of Ukrainian bureaucrats - including Mr. Kuchma's Governor General Ramon Hnatyshyn (at podium) welcomes President Leonid Kuchma of Ukraine to Canada. personal physician - businesspeople and journalists. An overcast sky that threatened rain forced the wel– entire downtown section of the city was covered in minded Ukrainian president for his "courageous action" to coming ceremony into Rideau Hall, the official resi– Ukraine's blue-and-yellow flags. move Ukraine in its reform program, both within the G-7 dence of Governor General Ramon Hnatyshyn, a After reviewing a full military guard, President and with international financial institutions." Ukrainian Canadian. Kuchma, who succeeded Mr. Kravchuk in July, was A couple of hours later, following a private meeting Thirty-five minutes after landing in Ottawa, the presi– officially welcomed to Canada by Governor General between the two, both heads of state re-emerged for a media dent and his wife arrived at Rideau Hall, by open lan– Hnatyshyn, the official representative of the British photo opportunity, along with Prime Minister Jean Chretien. dau, led by an RCMP escort. Two busloads of well- crown in Canada. wishers waved miniature Ukrainian flags, in fact, the Mr. Hnatyshyn also commended the economic reform- (Continued on page 22)

Shcherbak named '60 Minutes' reports on 'Ugly Face of Freedom' in Ukraine ambassador to U.S. Broadcast reaches 17.5 M households Community reaction is swift and angry KYYiv - Dr. Yuriy Shcherbak, a JERSEY C1TY, N.J. - "Ukraine barely acknowledges by Khristina Lew physician and writer who now serves as its part in Hitler's Final Solution." Western Ukraine "is on a Ukraine's ambassador to israel, has been binge of ethnic nationalism" and "is fertile ground for JERSEY C1TY, N.J. - With a precision both swift and named ambassador to the United States. hatred." crystalline, Ukrainian institutions and Ukrainian communi– The appointment came in an October ties in the United States and Canada lashed out at CBS and 21 presidential decree issued by "Thousands of Ukrainians joined the SS and marched off its news program "60 Minutes," jamming CBS telephone President Leonid Kuchma. to fight for Nazism," and "Many of the Ukrainian men of lines, writing letters, demonstrating and scheduling meet– Dr. Shcherbak replaces Ambassador Lvov (sicj, who marched off as members of the SS never ings with CBS corporate and affiliate officials in reaction to Oleh Bilorus, who returned to Ukraine returned, killed fighting for Hitler." an inflammatory "60 Minutes" segment on anti-Semitism in on September 12, having served as These are some of the messages conveyed on Sunday, western Ukraine titled "The Ugly Face of Freedom" that envoy to the U.S. since April of 1992. October 23, to a worldwide audience by the CBS News aired on October 23. As reported by the Ukrainian news television program "60 Minutes," the top-rated ТУ news- Ukraine's Embassy to the United States was quick to media, the ambassador-designate noted magazine in the country and a show that consistently rates react, in a letter to CBS News Division President Eric W. that his priorities as envoy to the United in the top 10, according to Neilsen Media Research. Ober dated October 25, Уаіегу Kuchinsky, charge States will be to prepare for the visit of That particular "60 Minutes" show was rated number d'affaires, relayed the Ukrainian government's "utter President Kuchma, scheduled for late five among the most-watched television programs for the resentment at the stridently biased segment on the alleged NovemberZearly December, to find week of October 17-23, earning a rating of 18.4 and an rise of anti-Semitism" in western Ukraine, demanding that investors interested in Ukraine and to audience share of 31. in layman's terms, that translates into CBS carry a retraction and "present an official apology for work toward nuclear disarmament based more than 17.5 million households, and means that 31 per– its gross injustice to Ukraine and its people in the highly on strong security guarantees for cent of the homes then watching ТУ were tuned to "60 abusive report" (for full text, see page 8). Ukraine. Minutes" the evening it aired a segment called "The Ugly Embassy Press Counselor Dmytro Markov added that After graduating in 1958 from the Face of Freedom." Ukrainian government officials in Kyyiv have communicat– Medical institute of Kyyiv, Dr. An advertisement for that evening's program published ed with the Jewish Council of Ukraine, the Jewish commu– Shcherbak worked at the Scientific (Continued on page 6) (Continued on page 7) (Continued on page 6) 2 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, OCTOBER ЗО, 1994 No. 44 INTERVIEW: Oleh vitovych, leader NEWSBB1EFS of Ukrainian National Assembly Kuchma, irish PM meet at Shannon Minister volodymyr Radchenko; Foreign by Yarema Bachynsky Affairs Minister Gennadiy Udovenko; KYYiv - President Leonid Kuchma Economy Minister Roman Shpek; This is the conclusion of an interview discussed nuclear disarmament and trade Minister for Nationalities, Migration and with Oleh vitovych, leader of the links with the prime minister of ireland Cults Oleksander Shulha. The members Ukrainian National Assembly-Ukrainian on Sunday, October 23, during a brief of the presidium of the National Security National Self-Defense (UNA-UNSO); a stopover in that country en route to Council are President Kuchma, Prime radical nationalist organization with a Canada. During a meeting at Shannon Minister Masol, and Messrs. Horbulin, small but vocal parliamentary delegation international Airport, the Ukrainian pres– Marchuk and Shmarov. (Respublika) of three in the Supreme Council. ident told Prime Minister Albert Reynolds that Ukraine wants security Cholera epidemic is stabilizing Has your organization's position on guarantees before its Parliament accedes Ukraine's nuclear status been affected to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty. KYYiv - As of October 25, there were 828 persons ill with cholera in by the often slow and certainly incon– President Kuchma also asked the irish Ukraine; another 203 who are suspected sistent manner in which Western prime minister to help speed ratification countries, particularly the United to have the disease are hospitalized. of a cooperation accord between Ukraine States, have acted in response to Ukrainian medical authorities have noted and the European Union. The Ukrainian Ukraine's security and other prob– that nearly 14,000 persons have had con- president noted that there are no obsta– lems? tact with the registered cholera patients. cles to the development of relations There is good news, however. According between Kyyiv and Dublin. (Reuters) Much hope has been placed in our Oleh vitovych to the Ukrainian Health Center, the epi– country on United States government aid, demic is stabilizing. Fewer persons are National Security Council named which supposedly would be available to its national interests, gain access to SS- being hospitalized, and during the past help Ukraine disarm its nuclear weapons. 22 technology and experience some sort KYYiv - The members of the two weeks there have been no deaths Let me give you just one interesting of psychological satisfaction in putting National Security Council of Ukraine from the disease. (Respublika) example of how U.S. aid has been dis– down a new member of the nuclear club. were named by presidential decree on tributed. Recently, a visiting U.S. But we are talking here about a potential October 22. They are: President Leonid Lithuania helps Ukraine fight cholera Congressional delegation to the for ecological disasters on an unprece– Kuchma; Prime Minister vitaliy Masol; Parliament released information regard– KYYiv - The Lithuanian govern– dented scale, resulting from U.S. insis– volodymyr Horbulin, director of the ing the building of living quarters for sol– tence on securing what are perceived ment ha given Ukraine S3,000 to assist in National Space Agency; Yevhen diers of the 43rd Strategic Rocket Army. national interests. The ecological security the battle against the cholera epidemic Marchuk, deputy prime minister in According to the U.S. source, of the of the entire world is at risk as a result of that has taken hold in recent weeks. The charge of security and the battle against 3,000 apartments to have been built such U.S. actions. The question should funds were transferred with the assis– organized crime; Defense Minister using this aid, aid has been released suf– be: is American and world ecological tance of Ukraine's Embassy in Lithuania Уаіегіу Shmarov; Dmytro Tabachnyk, ficient to complete only 300 of these. security less important than the interests to the Ukrainian Ministry of Health for head of the presidential administration; And construction of these will only be of certain segments of the U.S. military- the purchase of much-needed medicines Finance Minister Petro Hermanchuk; able to begin in October of this year. industrial complex? and supplies. (Respublika) Environment Minister Yuriy Kostenko; That is, of 3,000 apartments to have There are only two alternatives here. Уаіегіу Malikov, head of the Security Dniester guns in the Crimea been funded by the aid, only some 300 Our position is clear. We are not mili– Service of Ukraine; Justice Minister T1RASPOL - Col. Mikhail Bergman, have been funded? tarists or hawks, we seek only to secure vasyl Onopenko; Minister for Foreign commandant of the Russian 14th Army our national interests. We are all for Economic Relations Serhiy Osyka; That's correct, however, it is paradoxi– in Tiraspol, told the press that his soldiers nuclear disarmament but, unlike some Minister for the Military71ndustrial cal that a representative of your govern– romantics, realize that today's world and Complex Yiktor Petrov; internal Affairs (Continued on page 23) ment is giving us, who understand the our country's particular circumstances do domestic situation somewhat better, not presently allow for Ukraine to go assurances that these 300 apartments non-nuclear. will, indeed, be completed. Ukraine acts on 1MF requirements Another example. Of the Si76 million You mentioned earlier the "more bang for the buck" theory, e.g. that promised for the removal of nuclear mis– by Marta Kolomayets able at currency exchanges and black nuclear powers spend less of their bud- siles from Ukraine, only some S3 million Kyyiv Press Bureau market rates. has been spent. Not a single penny has gets on defense than do non-nuclear countries. How would nuclear disar– The National Bank issued a resolution been spent on the Ukrainian side of the KYYiv — in anticipation of an on October 24, which ties the karbo– equation. Money has been spent on an mament affect Ukraine's economy, international Monetary Fund vote on especially in view of its limited bud– vanets rate to basic foreign currencies American company which is to provide whether to disburse part of its promised and liberalizes the currency market. tire rubber for the transport vehicles slat– getary resources and large budget S360 million loan to Ukraine by the end deficits? As of October 22, the Kyyiv interbank ed to move the missiles to Russia, as well of the year, Ukrainian authorities have Currency auction sales every week will as for such sundry equipment as walkie- Adoption of non-nuclear status and apparently taken certain steps to meet the determine one rate for the karbovanets. talkies, protective clothing and the like. nuclear disarmament would mean the iMF's requirements. The NBU's resolution is an accordance The entire point here is that no serious total collapse of the Ukrainian military Among those prerequisites are: over- with President Leonid Kuchma's edict of funds have been released, a rather sad indi– industrial complex as well as the institu– hauling the tax system, freeing prices, August 22, "On Perfecting Currency cator of American reliability. We under– tion of such large sums for conventional reducing state subsidies, cutting the deficit Regulation," which directed the govern– stand the U.S. State Department's fervent defense, which the Ukrainian economy and pushing ahead with privatization. ment and the National Bank to provide a wishes to access and exploit the technology and people simply could not bear. І hope Another requirement was to bring the mechanism for connecting the market and behind the SS-22, which, 1 might add, corn- that readers of this material understand National Bank's official karbovanets official exchange rates of the karbovanets clearly that this question is not one of pares very favorably with major Western exchange rate into line with that avail- to foreign currencies by the end of the year. nuclear systems. 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December 2,1991 Canada becomes the first Western country to recognize Ukraine's indepen– dence, voted a day earlier. January 27,1992 Canadian and Ukrainian foreign ministers sign a joint declaration in Kyyiv, establishing diplomatic relations. The status of Canada's Consulate General in Kyyiv, which opened in December 1990, is raised to an Embassy but continues to be headed by Consul General Nestor Gayowsky. February 18,1992 Canada becomes the first Western country to provide Ukraine with a line of credit, allocating S50 million. May 1992 Ukraine's Embassy in Ottawa opens for business, c June 16,1992 Ukraine's first ambassador to Canada, Levko Lukianenko, presents his cre– President Leonid Kuchma of Ukraine speaks as Canadian Prime Minister Jean dentials to Governor General Ramon Hnatyshyn. Chretien (second from right) listens. July 7,1992 by Christopher Guly always wanted to close Chornobyl. But Canada's international Trade Minister Michael Wilson and Government you have to understand that it is impossi– OTTAWA - The day after being House Leader Harvie Andre head a trade and investment delegation to ble to just turn it off. This issue is very Ukraine, where a joint declaration on economic cooperation is signed. exalted as Ukraine's economic savior by complicated both from the economical Governor General Ray Hnatyshyn, and technological point of view. We are July 31,1992 Ukrainian President Leonid Kuchma was ready to discuss this issue any day." Ambassador Francois Mathys is appointed Canada's first ambassador to offered financial incentives by Prime On Ukraine's nuclear situation and Ukraine. Minister Jean Chretien. demilitarization, Prime Minister Chretien September 22,1992 The two met privately for 15 minutes said that the Canadian government wants in Mr. Chretien's office, and then signed to work with Ukraine to "make sure there Canada's new Embassy in Kyyiv opens. a Friendship and Cooperation Agreement is peace around the world." He referred September 23-October 2,1992 that establishes regular consultations to the two countries' involvement in between Canada and Ukraine, and out- peacekeeping in Bosnia as an example of The foreign ministers of the two countries sign a memorandum of under- lines areas of cooperation in trade and cooperation in that arena. standing, setting up a framework for political consultations between the investment, science and technology, and But the prime minister's and presi– governments of Canada and Ukraine. The memorandum provides for a the environment. dent's emphasis was clearly on joint annual review of the main issues in Canadian-Ukrainian relations. The agreement also reaffirms arms Ukrainian-Canadian relations. "The cen– September 30,1992 control obligations and commits the two terpiece of our relations is the principle Governor General Ramon Hnatyshyn visits Ukraine and addresses the countries to working within the United of special partnership which today is Ukrainian Parliament in Kyyiv. There he announces the S3.7 million Nations system, and to develop bilateral sealed with an agreement on friendship "Partners in Progress" initiative with Ukraine. military contracts and exchanges. and cooperation," said Mr. Kuchma. Responding to a journalist's question Prime Minister Chretien said that not December 1,1992 during a joint news conference, President only Ukraine benefits from Canada's The Ukrainian Embassy in Ottawa officially opens. Kuchma said he favors closing the generosity, "it's our international respon– Chornobyl site. "1 have a 3-year-old sibility to ensure that a country like January 29,1993 grandson and 1 live not far from Canada and Ukraine sign an agreement on cooperation in the postal and Chornobyl," he asserted. "That is why І (Continued on page 19) communications sector. March 21,1993 Foreign affairs minister announces Ukraine officially opens its Consulate-General in Toronto. January 1994 Ukraine signs an accord with the governments of the United States, Canada S23.8 M technical aid package and Sweden to establish a Science and Technology Center in Kyyiv.

by Christopher Guly place senior Canadian policy advisers February 7,1994 and technical experts in Ukraine to help Ukraine's second ambassador to Canada, viktor Batyuk, presents his cre– OTTAWA - As predicted, Canada's with President Kuchma's economic dentials to Governor General Ramon Hnatyshyn. Foreign Affairs Minister Andre Ouellet reform package. made good in keeping Canada one of March 30-Aprii 1,1994 The second major element of Ukraine's best friends. Canada's package concerns security and Canada's Foreign Affairs Minister Andre Ouellet visits Ukraine, where he During President Leonid Kuchma's nuclear safety initiatives. Mr. Ouellet signs a Joint Declaration on Special Partnership between Canada and visit to Ottawa on October 24, Mr. said that Canada will contribute S5 mil- Ukraine, and initials a Friendship and Cooperation Accord between the two Ouellet announced a new Canadian tech– lion over two years to support Canadian countries. The minister also announces a S15 million nuclear-dismantling nical assistance package worth S23.8 participation in the recently established package and a Si 1.8 million technical and humanitarian package to Ukraine. million, designed to support economic Science and Technology Center in A delegation of Canadian observers monitors Ukraine's elections. and political reform in Ukraine. Kyyiv, a four-country military conver– March 31,1994 About half of the package targets sion project. (The United States, Ukraine Canadian assistance efforts to the top pri– The Canada-Ukraine Chamber of Commerce and the Ukrainian Chamber and Sweden are the other three founders of Commerce sign an Agreement on Trade and Commerce. orities of economic reform and private of the center.) sector development. Among the initia– Dr. Ostap Hawaleshka, professor of July 8-9,1994 tives are a SlO million strategy to support industrial engineering at the University Canada persuades its G-7 partners to establish a S200 million (U.S.) fund to Ukraine's emerging private sector, with of Manitoba, will become the center's assist Ukraine in ensuring the safety of its nuclear reactors, and Canada is an emphasis on business advisory and first executive director. tapped to host a Conference on Partnership for Economic Transformation in training services for small– and medium- Canada will also kick in S3.3 million Ukraine (the special G-7 summit on Ukraine in Winnipeg on October 27). sized business. for a three-year nuclear fuel manage– Two World Bank projects, totaling ment project managed by Ontario Hydro August 23,1994 S'2.2 million, will assist economic international inc. of Toronto. The pro- Canadian Foreign Affairs Minister Andre Ouellet announces the launching management training for more than gram, part of Mr. Ouellet's S15 million of a S2.5 million Canada-Ukraine Partners Program to promote democratic 500 private and public sector officials package announced in April, will transfer development and support Ukraine's transition to a market-based economy. from Ukraine and other former Soviet Canada's high-density concrete (HDC) October 23-27,1994 republics, and provide technical canister technology for the interim dry President Leonid Kuchma becomes the first Ukrainian head of state to visit expertise on external debt manage– storage of spent nuclear fuel to power Canada. ment. plants at Chornobyl and Rivne– in north– Also included is a two-year, Si mil- — Compiled by Christopher Guly lion Policy Advisors Fund, which will (Continued on page 19) THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, OCTOBER ЗО, 1994 No. 44 Ukraine's ministers kept busy signingBackground : technical assistance accords with Canadian counterpartsprovide d to Ukraine by Canada by Christopher Guly of funds in convertible currency and a by Christopher Guly dispute settlement process. OTTAWA - While President Leonid The two also signed a Memorandum OTTAWA — Ukraine's President Leonid Kuchma will leave Canada this week Kuchma was office-hopping on of Understanding on the Canadian armed with S23 million more in Canadian government assistance and an extension of Parliament Hill, his ministers were busily Cooperation Program, which exempts Ukraine's line of credit with Canada. Ukraine has already used a previously allocated signing accords with their Canadian Canadian personnel and firms working S50 million line of credit. counterparts. on assistance projects in Ukraine from All of that is in addition to the 70 technical assistance projects worth S41 million that Foreign Minister Gennadiy Udovenko, local income tax, import and export Canada has already committed to Ukraine since 1991. No wonder Ukraine's Foreign who had served as Ukraine's ambassador duties and customs tariffs. Minister Gennadiy Udovenko refers to Canada as one of Ukraine's best friends. to Poland until his new appointment last Ukraine's Foreign Economic A S15 million nuclear safety assistance package focused on nuclear waste management, month, signed a Foreign investment Relations Minister Serhiy Osyka, who is environmental restoration and enhanced civilian nuclear safety systems, announced by Protection Agreement with Canada's responsible for Ukraine's negotiations on Canada's Foreign Affairs Minister Andre Ouellet in April, remains untouched. Foreign Affairs Minister Andre Ouellet. the General Agreement on Tariffs and Before President Kuchma arrived in Canada, the status of Canadian technical assis– it establishes a legal framework for reci– Trade (GATT), signed an Economic tance to Ukraine, distributed through the transfer of Canadian knowledge, expertise procal Canadian and Ukrainian invest– Cooperation Agreement with Mr. and technology, was as follows. ment, including protection, compensation Ouellet, which will target energy, agri- in democratic development and good governance: for losses or expropriation, free transfer culture, construction, aerospace and telecommunications as future trade initia– Ukraine's institute of Public Administration and Local Government: a three-year, tives. The accord also struck an inter- S4.7 million project, managed by the Canadian Bureau for international Education, in And for Mrs. Kuchma: governmental economic commission to which 50 Canadian experts will work at the Kyyiv-based institute to assist in public consider bilateral economic issues. administration, faculty training, curriculum design and in the development of educa– sightseeing, ceremonies Meanwhile Deputy Prime Minister tion materials. Canadian Bohdan Krawchenko heads the institute. valeriy Shmarov, who also serves as Twenty Ukrainian deputy and assistant deputy ministers are currently attending an by Christopher Guly Ukraine's first civilian defense minister, executive development program at the Canadian Center for Management signed a Military Cooperation Agreement Development; 20 other senior Ukrainian government officials took the course last OTTAWA - While her husband and Memorandum of Understanding on year. A component geared to women will be introduced this year. signed agreements with Prime Military Cooperation with Canada's Sixty graduates from the institute have also completed one-month working intern- Minister Jean Chretien and met Defense Minister David Collenette. Under ships with Canadian public sector organizations over the past two years. with senior officials on Parliament the ongoing program, the Canadian Armed Canada-Ukraine Partners Program: A S2.5 million program, run by the Ukrainian Hill, Ludmyla Kuchma, a former Forces will continue to help modernize Canadian Congress, that supports the implementation of smaller projects designed to engineer like her husband, spent the and democratize the Ukrainian military strengthen Ukrainian public and private sector organizations in the areas of public day sightseeing. through exchanges and seminars on legal administration, health, agriculture and civil society. Up to 160 Ukrainian Canadian Following a wreath-laying cere– and policy issues, language training, as volunteers will be sent to Ukraine on assignment for one year. Another 40 Ukrainians mony at the National War Memorial well as technical and operational training. will be brought to Canada. attended by President Leonid A Double Taxation Agreement, signed Kuchma, Mrs. Kuchma visited the by Canada's Secretary of State for Private sector development: National Gallery of Canada and took international Financial institutions Credit Union Network: The Canadian Co-operative Association, with the Council a drive through the national capital. Douglas Peters and Ukraine's Economy of Ukrainian Credit Unions of Canada, is implementing a two-and-a-half-year project Minister Roman Shpek - the man credit– She was later hosted by Gerda worth Si.4 million to assist Ukraine with the development of a national credit union ed with negotiating Ukraine's recent Hnatyshyn, wife of the governor gen– system. Some of :he activities include establishing up to 12 model credit unions, twin– agreement with the 1MF - will prevent eral, at a luncheon in her honor ning Canadian and Ukrainian credit unions, and drafting new credit union legislation individuals and companies of either before leaving for Toronto with her for Ukraine. Twelve Ukrainian managers are currently participating in six-week country who run businesses or earn husband and the rest of the Ukrainian internships in Canada to gain practical experience. delegation. income in the other from being double taxed. Economic Management Training: Canada has contributed S480,000 to the World Bank's Economic Development institute to support training programs in the areas of market economics, enterprise structuring and privatization, and banking institutions and systems in Ukraine. Three hundred Ukrainian enterprise and bank managers, gov– ernment officials and trainers are expected to participate in the project. Economic reform plan in hand, Renaissance Eastern Europe: The Canadian government has funded 30 projects worth almost S2 million to Canadian firms toward the development of business and Ukraine's president to woo G-7 investment opportunities in Ukraine. The project also supports bilateral business councils and trade fairs, seminars and missions. by Christopher Guly Among Ukraine's recommendations for G-7 assistance are: Health: OTTAWA - At this year's Group of 9 help with establishing a new national Seven summit in Naples, G-7 leaders urged Osvita (Education! Medical Project: Ukrainian physicians are receiving maternal currency; and infant health care training under this two-year, S2.5 million project managed by Ukraine to become a nuclear weapons-free m lines of credit for Ukrainian exports; state through the Nuclear Non-Proliferation ф the University of Alberta's Faculty of Medicine, in cooperation with the City of Kyyiv support for Ukraine's admission into Treaty and committed themselves to assist– Health Department and three children's hospitals. During the project, 120 volunteer the General Agreement on Tariffs and ing Ukraine in developing its economy. Canadian physicians will have completed the four-month internships. Trade (GATT) and The World Trade if Ukraine showed a commitment to Organization; (Continued on page 14) comprehensive market reform, the offi– ' permanent status as a beneficiary cial G-7 communique stated: "Ukraine under the General Preference System; could gain access to international financ– ^ establishing an anti-dumping code ing of over S4 billion in the course of a for Ukraine; two-year period following the com– 9 preferential customs conditions for mencement of genuine reform." Ukrainian goods: As a result, a S200 million fund was - financial aid for military conversion; established to assist Ukraine, the world's 9 establishment of the Small Private third-largest nuclear power, to ensure the Business Promotion Foundation; and safety of its nuclear reactors, and it was - joint ventures in starting new med– agreed that a special Conference on ical facilities. Partnership for Economic Transformation So far, the G–7 has responded to in Ukraine - the first-ever G-7 special eco– Ukraine's plea for help in post-Chornobyl nomic summit - would be held in Canada. clean-up and improving the safety of Canada, the first Western state to rec– nuclear reactors. ognize Ukraine's independence in That could become a test to determine December 1991, and the first country to the seriousness of Ukraine's commitment send its head of state, Governor General to reform. Although the Ukrainian govern– Ramon Hnatyshyn, to visit Ukraine, was ment has voiced i;s commitment to shutting a natural choice. down the Chornobyl nuclear power plant, As the historical center of Ukrainian site of the world's worst nuclear accident in Canada, Winnipeg, where the meeting is 1986, Kyyiv wants more money. being held, was an even better fit. The West has offered S200-million. That close friendship, President Leonid Ukraine says it will cost S6-billion to Christopher Guly Kuchma hopes, wil! translate into some clean-up Chorno"Dyl. And President luck at the special G-7 conference. At Kuchma has complained that the West is President Leonid Kuchma during official welcoming ceremonies in Ottawa, in press time, the Ukrainian delegation was the background (from left) are: Governor General Ramon Hnatyshyn, LudmySa wondering how the G-7 will treat Ukraine. (Continued on page 22) Kuchma and Gerda Hnatyshyn. No. 44 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, OCTOBER ЗО, 1994 5 Ontario's premier Business is focus of president's visit to Toronto welcomes Kuchma by Nestor Gula TORONTO - The premier of Ontario, Bob Rae, and the president of Ukraine, Leonid Kuchma, got along so well that they hugged each other after the former's speech at a dinner hosted by Member of Parliament Jesse Flis at the Royal York Hotel in downtown Toronto on Monday, October 24. President Kuchma's warm relation- ship with Premier Rae began when they met at a state dinner hosted by Canadian Governor General Ramon Hnatyshyn and his wife, Gerda. it was here that Premier Rae suggested to the Ukrainian president that he make a late change to his busy schedule and visit Future Bakery in Toronto's Bloor West village, where many Ukrainians live and work. Premier Rae said he had arranged sever– al similar informal visits with other digni– taries and they were all very successful. Later, Mr. Rae said that President Kuchma "is enough of a politician to say that he would be delighted to do this." Following the sojourn to the Bloor West village, the Ontario premier offi– cially welcomed President Kuchma to A view of the luncheon for President Leonid Kuchma hosted by Toronto's business community. the province of Ontario and to the city of Toronto. At a brief ceremony conducted by Nestor Gula Hotel, was organized by the Canada- Terry Soltys of Ault Foods, a relative in the Ontario Legislative Building at Ukraine Chamber of Commerce. newcomer to Ukraine, cautioned that you Queen's Park in Toronto, President TORONTO - "1 would not have The conference was divided into four cannot expect an investment in Ukraine Kuchma was welcomed by a choir of come to Canada if it would not have been segments: an overview of the "Political to give you a quick turn-around. He Ukrainian school children from Swansea worth it," said Ukrainian President and Economic Climate" in Ukraine; added that Ukraine's potential is great Public School. Leonid Kuchma at a news conference on "Making it Work," a sometimes anecdo– and that being in Ukraine for a long peri– After President Kuchma signed the Monday, October 24, in Toronto. tal account of the trials and tribulations od is not undesirable. official dignitaries' guest book, Premier President Kuchma's trip to Canada - of various Canadian businesses and their The luncheon was attended by over beginning Sunday, October 23, in Ottawa (Continued on page 15) work in Ukraine; a luncheon for 800 people, in his speech Mr. Kuchma and ending Thursday, October 27, in President Kuchma, hosted jointly by the reiterated that there will be reform in Winnipeg - is intended to give a boost to Canadian Club, the Empire Club of Ukraine. He repeated his four-point plan Ukraine's dysfunctional economy. Canada and the Board of Trade of to reform the Ukrainian economy: A brief visit in the five days that he is in Canada, Metropolitan Toronto; and an opportuni– change the banking system; allow private the Ukrainian president will visit four ty for Canadian businesspersons to meet property and privatization; create a sound to Bloor Street provinces, Ontario, Manitoba, Sas– members of the government of Ukraine structural policy to guide the national katchewan and Alberta, meet Canadian in one-on-one meetings. economy; and implement an agrarian by Nestor Gula Prime Minister Jean Chretien and the four The first two sessions focused on the reform package. provincial premiers, Canadian Governor current business environment in Ukraine. President Kuchma noted that he will TORONTO - Ukrainian General Ramon Hnatyshyn, members of Most speakers, who represented compa– try to build a national consensus of sup- President Leonid Kuchma, accom– the Canadian government, various busi– nies with considerable investment in port for these reforms. He said he knows panied by his wife, Ludmyla, made nesspeople and leaders of the Ukrainian Ukraine, said a "traditional Western busi– that these reforms will not be a easy for a brief visit to Toronto's Little community. He will also attend a special ness practices" do not apply in Ukraine average Ukrainians to handle, but Ukraine - Bloor West village. G-7 meeting titled "Conference on but that the potential rewards are very stressed that the end result will be it is in this southwestern part of Partnership for Economic Transformation good. stronger and more independent Ukraine. Toronto that many Ukrainians live in Ukraine." Bruce Emonson of the Winchester After the luncheon, the president held and run businesses. President His trip to Toronto was important for Group underlined that one has to "stay a brief press conference before departing Kuchma and his entourage arrived President Kuchma as a conference on with it, have great patience and have for Edmonton. President Kuchma said his here at roughly 5 p.m. on Monday, "Doing Business with Ukraine" was good Ukrainian partners." He has been trip thus far was very successful; he October 24, just a half hour after his organized to coincide with his presence doing business with Ukraine and the added that he believes his good fortune airplane landed at Lester B. Pearson in that city. The one-day conference, held Soviet Union since the 1970s when he will last through the end of his stay in Airport. He had arrived in this city Tuesday, October 25, at the Royal York imported Lada cars to Canada. Canada. following meetings in Ottawa on Sunday and Monday morning. As news spread that the president of Ukraine would be in the area, a large crowd gathered, blocking traffic 1,200 toast Ukraine's president at gala banquet on Bloor Street. Most of the people by Nestor Gula that there are many areas in which explaining the role of the World on hand were of Ukrainian descent. Ukraine and Canada can cooperate. Congress of Ukrainians and emphasizing The president was greeted at Future TORONTO - Over 1,200 people Maria Szkambara, head of the the importance of maintaining close ties Bakery with the traditional welcome crowded into the grand ballroom of the Ukrainian Canadian Congress (UCC) among all Ukrainians. of bread and salt and a rendition of Royal York Hotel in Toronto to toast the Toronto Branch, gave an emotional President Kuchma then reiterated that the Ukrainian anthem. President president of Ukraine on Monday, speech about Ukraine, quoting Taras there will be reform in Ukraine and he Kuchma lingered in the bakery cafe October 24. Shevchenko, Lesia Ukrainka and ivan repeated his four-point plan for reform– for only a few moments before con– The dinner was officially hosted by Franko. Ukrainian Catholic Bishop ing the Ukrainian economy. tinuing on with his busy schedule. Jesse Flis, parliamentary secretary to isidore Borecky led the assembled people The last speaker was Bohdan Maxymec, President Kuchma's brief coffee Canada's minister of foreign affairs. in the prayer, "Our Father." president of the Ontario UCC, who pre– break at Future Bakery was a last- Those in attendance not only saw Ontario Premier Bob Rae gave a rous– sented President Kuchma with an original minute change to his agenda. The stop President Leonid Kuchma on his first for– ing speech that was frequently interrupt– paintingAnap of the Dnipro River. was made at the suggestion of the eign visit, but heard several speeches ed by applause. He started the speech by Near the end of the program, business- Ontario premier, Bob Rae, who had about the need for reform in Ukraine. greeting President Kuchma in Ukrainian man Erast Huculak made a surprise ges– met President Kuchma the previous Mr. Flis, a Liberal member of and concluded his remarks in Ukrainian ture. it was Mr. Huculak who bought the evening at a state dinner hosted by Parliament for the riding of Parkdale– with the phrase "Long Live Ukraine." it building that houses the Ukrainian Canadian Governor General Ramon High Park, spoke first. He made several was learned later that the speech, outside Embassy in Ottawa which is leased to the Hnatyshyn and his wife, Gerda. references to the special relationship that of the Ukrainian-language phrases, was Ukrainian government for S1 a year. Just The owner of Future Bakery, exists between Canada and Ukraine, and not prepared, but had been ad libbed by before the dinner was to conclude, Mr. Borys Wrzesnewskyj, said the visit mentioned that Canada was the first the premier. Huculak announced he was donating the was a chance for the average person Western country to recognize Ukrainian The master of ceremonies for the dinner building to the people of Ukraine. tc greet the Ukrainian president on independence. He spoke also about his was Bohdan Pedenko, head of the Canadian Referring to these gifts, President an informal level. experience when he was in Ukraine as an Association for Democracy in Ukraine. Kuchma said, "1 will take the painting to election monitor. Finally, MP Flis noted Dr. Dmytro Cipywnyk gave a speech Kyyiv, but Г1І leave the building here." 6 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, OCTOBER ЗО, 1994 No. 44

last summer. "Nowhere, certainly not in Leaders of C1S countries form Broadcast reaches... Germany, are the SS so openly celebrat– (Continued from page 1) ed," Mr. Safer intones. The segment goes on to speak of atrocities allegedly commit– in The New York Times highlighted the ted by Ukrainians both before and after the supranational economic body three feature stories. The text read in Nazi occupation. Shown as part of the part: "Does freedom deter anti- by Marta Kolomayets The second bloc of questions con– report are what CBS says are "remnants of Semitism? Not in the tsicj Ukraine, Kyyiv Press Bureau cerned the protection of national minori– a film the Germans made of Ukrainian bru– where it's as strong today as it was dur– ties, which could strengthen Moscow's tality" and a still photo once published by KYYiv - Leaders of 12 former Soviet ing Hitler's 'final solution.' " efforts to speak for millions of ethnic Time magazine. (That photo's authenticity republics formed the interstate Economic Russians living outside the territory of Committee in Moscow on Friday, The broadcast was questioned, causing Time to issue a Russia. Russia succeeded in winning clarification that stated in part: "Despite October 21, thereby forging closer eco– approval of an agreement on protection For those who missed the October 23 our best efforts, we have not been able to nomic ties between the countries of the of national minorities, but many states, edition of "60 Minutes," The Weekly pin down exactly what situation the photo- Commonwealth of independent States, including Ukraine, appended reserva– offers the following synopsis of the graph portrays.") but rejecting a new political union in any tions to that document. report (quotations are taken from a tran– The camera then focuses on the form. The third bloc of issues, raised by the script provided to The Ukrainian Weekly Janowska Road Camp, where Mr. Safer After the one-day summit in Moscow, Consultative and Coordinating by CBS News). says 200,000 Jews from Lviv and environs Ukrainian President Leonid Kuchma Committee of the OS, concerned ways Correspondent Morley Safer begins were killed. He adds, "Nothing marks what expressed his satisfaction with the meet– to honor the memory of those who gave his report seated in the studio with a still happened here." in fact, however, a monu– ing. "What's important is that we have their lives for the former Soviet Union. photo featuring uniformed marchers with ment erected in 1992 commemorates the finally begun to work," said the a blue-and-yellow Ukrainian national Also on the agenda were military victims of the Lviv ghetto and mentions Ukrainian leader, who attended his first flag in the foreground. The title of the issues, including the matter of the OS the tactics used by Nazi invaders to exter– C1S summit in his capacity as president. border guards - an idea Ukraine does not segment, "The Ugly Face of Freedom," minate the local Jewish population (see The leaders at the summit agreed that support. also appears on the backdrop, as does the The Weekly, September 11). no real economic integration had occurred Ukraine also refrained from signing a name of the producer, Jeffrey Fager. Next comes an interview with Rabbi and each state retains the option to bow OS document concerning OS represen– Next viewers see footage of the city Yaakov Bleich, who says, "They're saying out if not satisfied with the mechanism tation in international organizations, center of Lviv, near the opera house, that they want the Jews out. They want the provided by the interstate Economic extending the length of time for C1S where, as the veteran correspondent tells Jews out and they want the Russians out. Committee. The new body provides an peacekeeping forces in Tajikistan and his audience, "just about every day of the And they want everybody else out that's opportunity to encourage mutual trade sending OS troops into the Georgian- week the sounds of freedom can be heard. not an ethnic Ukrainian." it is never made and investment among the former Soviet Abkhazian trouble spots. Men and women giving voice to their par– clear, however, who "they" are, as no con- republics. ticular view of how the new independent Kuchma–Yeltsin meeting text is provided for these remarks made by 'There were discussions, objections Ukraine should be governed." the chief rabbi of Ukraine. and compromise decisions. Not all states "They disagree about plenty," he con– President Kuchma expressed his satis– Later in the broadcast, Rabbi Bleich are equally ready to take part in an eco– tinues, "but do have two things in com– faction with a one-on-one meeting he reappears, commenting on recent inci– nomic union, although all voted for it," mon: their old enemy, Russian commu– had with Mr. Yeltsin while in Moscow. dents of violence against Jews. Again, no noted Russian Federation President Boris nism, and their old, old enemy, the Jews." He said the Russian leader had offered context or detail are provided. Yeltsin. "The Jews of Lvov fsicj have reason full confirmation of Ukraine's territorial The CBS crew also visits the editor- "But, this should not be seen as some to be concerned. These are the kinds of integrity and inviolability of borders dur– in-chief of the newspaper "Za vilnu kind of split or crisis in the C1S. We scenes they've been seeing lately, ing a one-hour meeting at the end of the Ukrainu" (For a Free Ukraine). Never fully respect the will of each individual Ukrainian ultra-nationalist parties, OS summit. identified by name, the editor makes dis– state," he added. asserting themselves, now that Soviet "A completely different atmosphere paraging remarks about Jews and notes 'There are two paths we can follow," communism is gone," the senior corre– now prevails in Ukrainian-Russian rela– that the Ukrainian government should be President Kuchma told reporters in spondent says, as footage of a torchlight tions," said Mr. Yeltsin. He told interfax– concerned first and foremost with the Moscow. "We can continue doing what march by members of the Ukrainian Ukraine, "it is pleasant to work with Mr. Ukrainians of Ukraine. we have done until now - that is nothing, Kuchma, which could not be said about National AssemblyAJkrainian National Another aspect of the segment deals or we can take the radical path. That's a the former Ukrainian president." Self-Defense (UNA7UNSO) is shown with, as Mr. Safer puts it, "the heroes and long-term program, but l'm counting on with their leader, Oleh vitovych, shout– Mr. Kuchma informed interfax-Ukraine symbols chosen by this new nation." What the sound minds of all the countries of ing "Slava natsiyi" (Glory to the nation). that Mr. Yeltsin had agreed to omit the follows is a series of scurrilous statements the C1S, in forming one economic Mr. Safer goes on to comment to Simon issue of dual citizenship in Ukrainian- about Symon Petliura, commander of the space." Wiesenthal, described as "the world's Russian talks, and that he had agreed to army of the Ukrainian National Republic; "Let's face it; no one is waiting out number one Nazi hunter": "1 get the sign a letter offering guarantees for Roman Shukhevych, commander-in-chief there in the foreign market for us. Of impression from people that the actions of Ukraine's national security if Ukraine of the Ukrainian insurgent Army; and course, there are certain areas that we the Ukrainians, if anything, were worse accedes to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Stepan Bandera, leader of the Organization can pursue to break through to the mar– than the Germans." Mr. Wiesenthal Treaty. of Ukrainian Nationalists. responds: "About the civilians 1 cannot say ket, for example, the military industrial President Yeltsin is now scheduled to Then the report switches to footage of this. About the Ukrainian police, yes." complex," he explained, "but a lot of this visit Ukraine before President Kuchma peasants tilling fields and riding on horse- is dependent on external factors," said leaves for the United States on November Next the camera shows footage of drawn carts. Meanwhile, Mr. Safer states: Mr. Kuchma. 28. it is expected that a Ukrainian-Russian members of the Galicia Division, past and "The tsicj western Ukraine is fertile During the OS summit, three blocs of treaty will be signed at that time. present, including a reunion held in Lviv ground for hatred, independence only questions were discussed and 10 docu– мтжттттттжтттшттт^шжт^ж underlined its backwardness. Uneducated ments were presented. The first bloc of peasants deeply superstitious in possession issues concerned the integrational devel– Shcherbak named... of this bizarre anomaly. Nuclear weapons oprnent of the OS, and Kazakh President capable of mass destruction..." Nursultan Nazarbayev presented a plan (Continued from page 1) "The Ugly Face of Freedom" also fea– for the transformation of the OS into a Research institute of Epidemiology, tures interviews, apparently heavily edit– new Eurasian union with powerful inter- Microbiology and Parasitology until the ed, with the primate of the Ukrainian state bodies. However, that proposal was late 1980s, when he took up writing. Greek-Catholic Church, Cardinal rejected by many of the leaders. Dr. Shcherbak is a prize-winning nove– Myroslav Lubachivsky, and Msgr. ivan The summit also considered the for– list and the author of many publicistic arti– Dacko. The former is heard to state that mation of the international Economic cles, and served as chairman of the Ukrainians under the Germans had to do Committee, known as MEK (Mizhnarod– Ecological Committee of the Ukrainian whatever the Germans wanted, while the nyi Ekonomichnyi Komitet). Writers' Union. latter attempts to explain why there may "Of course there were doubts among Dr. Shcherbak also is a former USSR be animosity towards Jews in Ukraine. some about the MEK; there were differ– people's deputy, having been elected in in conclusion, Mr. Safer states: "The ent opinions about where it should be 1989 in Kyyiv to the new Congress of Church and the government of Ukraine based, in Moscow or in Minsk, but final– People's Deputies. With the advent of have tried to ease people's fears, suggest– ly we agreed the MEK was needed," Mr. glasnost under the regime of Soviet ing that things are not as serious as they Yeltsin told Reuters in Moscow, where leader Mikhail Gorbachev, Dr. might appear: that Ukrainians, despite the the body will be based. Shcherbak spoke out about the 1986 allegations, are not genetically anti- The committee will have a weighted Chornobyl nuclear accident, the Great Semitic. But to a Jew living here, or to one voting system, where Russia will have Famine of 1932-1933, the Russification who only remembers the place with horror, 50 percent of the votes and the decisions of Ukrainian culture and other issues. Dr. Yuriy Shcherbak such statements are little comfort among have to be approved by an 80 percent He served as Ukraine's minister of the flickering torches of Lvov tsicj." majority. the environment in 1991-1992, and in 1986 he was awarded a special prize by A final question is posed to Mr. According to Ukrainian Prime October 1992 was named envoy to israel. Literaturnaya Gazeta for reporting as a Wiesenthal as footage is shown of Minister vitaliy Masol, Ukraine did not He is the former leader of the Green special correspondent from Chornobyl. UNA7UNSO marchers as well as a group sign a document on forming a payments World ecological movement and served as He is the author of "Chornobyl: A of unidentified youths (who, according union, because "conditions are not ripe chairman of the Green Party of Ukraine. Documentary Story" (Edmonton: to Oles Kryskiv, head of the National for this." He explained that Ukraine must Dr. Shcherbak, 60, is known also for Canadian institute of Ukrainian Studies, Plast Command in Ukraine, belong to a first introduce its own currency before it his work in reporting on the effects of the 1989). The book was originally pub– faction that broke away from thejscout– can think about this union. Accustoms Chornobyl nuclear accident, writing from lished in the Moscow-based journal ing organization): "What's your reaction union was also discussed, but no details the perspective of both a medical doc– Yunost (1987) and in the Ukrainian jour– to this?" His response: "They have not about it were available at press time. tor7epidemiologist and a journalist, in nal Yitchyzna(1988). changed." No. 44 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, OCTOBER зо, 1994 і

lNTERviEW: AJC'S David Roth on CBS portrayal of anti-Semitism in Ukraine by Andrij Wynnyckyj "seriously" means "looking into it" and leaders! is to give them a better understand– is your reaction to the tenor of the show? also, very centrally, "with great respect ing of the concerns of the Jewish communi– in that show, there were several charges The following is an interview withг for their leadership as Jews in a new, free ty, to stand by it when necessary, and to brought by members of the Jewish leader- David Roth, director of the American2 and democratic society." underscore, to the society and to the world ship in Ukraine with which 1 am not Jewish Committee's Chicago-based This is precisely jjhe reason why the at large, that Jewish Ukrainians are a peo– familiar. Before 1 make any comment institute for American Pluralism, in July- AJC has been making, for several years ple of the Ukrainian land, entitled to the about the show as a whole, 1 want to con- August, Mr. Roth organized and led a joint1 now, a simultaneous two-tiered effort on rights that are extended to all Ukrainians. suit with Ukrainian Jewish leadership to Jewish-Ukrainian expedition to Ukraine, this issue. First of all, we have been The third reason we're in Ukraine is to get their view of the show as well. І think which constituted phase two of an effort1 deepening relations with the Ukrainian encourage the government to enforce some that's critically important. known as "Project Ukraine. " The inter- community through our various chapters of the most extraordinary laws protecting view was conducted on October 26. here in the U.S., and increasing our pres– national minorities in Eastern Europe. This The charges in and of themselves are What is your reaction, as a represen– ence in Ukraine itself — by mounting is a part of the world that is full of tension. not necessarily a difficulty. When these tative of the American Jewish1 "Project Ukraine." Ukraine is a land portrayed in general manifestations of anti-Semitism appear, Committee (AJC), to the program "The- We are in Ukraine for several reasons. as suffering severe economic stress, it is charges need to be made in accordance Ugly Face of Freedom," aired as a seg– First, we want to strengthen the ability of rather slow to go through some political with the "extraordinary legislation," as ment of CBS's "60 Minutes" on Octoberr the local Jewish leadership to battle anti- transformations, it is our goal to help you put it, to confront and deal with 23? Semitism. These are skills that Jews have Ukraine cope with tensions that flow them. The problem is that the program j developed in the West. Under communism, from these problems, because it will goes beyond the testimony or charges The AJC is profoundly concerned provided by the Jewish leaders. with the portrait of anti-Semitism in1 it was impossible for the local Jewish com– strengthen their democracy and their Ukraine. We take seriously charges ofp munity to do anything like this, other than ability to protect the country's minorities, The "going beyond" is in part what anti-Semitism that are brought anywhere. to do something underground or to get out. including the Jewish community. has become a problem for our communi– We do this in this country (the U.S.J andj That is not the case today. So we are in Ukraine because we take ties jointly. That is, the charges of anti- we do it throughout the world. We are working with local Jewish seriously the challenge of helping Ukrainian Semitism are so serious and so extensive By taking the charges seriously, Іl leadership in Ukraine to strengthen their Jewry achieve a more secure place in that they create a problem and a chal– mean to say that we must speak to the ability to deal with the government, to Ukrainian life. lenge for each of us. many contacts we have among Jewish position themselves honorably as cultur– You are someone who has gone to One problem is that the current presi– leadership in Ukraine, and to address ally distinct citizens of the land, and to Ukraine, and now is faced, in this CBS dent has not been as forthcoming, to the them on an up-to-date basis. For us, battle anti-Semitism. report, with a portrait that is drawn in best of my knowledge, with Jewish !ead– Secondly, we're in Ukraine to work a particular light, of a society that con- ers in Ukraine, Jewish leaders outside of with friends of (the JewishJ community, tains deplorable manifestations of big– Ukraine. This might be in the works. leaders of other national minority and reli– otry, such as that symbolized by the it is extremely important for the govern– Philly community gious groups who care about the place of march of the UNA7UNSO cadres, and ment of Ukraine to take this as a serious Jews in Ukraine, and who understand the such as the statements of the newspa– issue, and to take seriously some of the tragic history, who are prepared to deal per editor who appears in the show. charges made in the show. That would go organizes protest honestly and frankly with these issues. What is your reaction, as someone One of our goals in working with (these who has visited the land depicted? What (Continued on page 15) by Ulana Baluch Mazurkevich

PHILADELPHIA - Some 100 nation with Kaganovich, who organized the demonstrators assembled on Monday, institute is drafting a letter to CBS detail– Community reaction... Ukrainian famine, who organized the October 24, outside the CBS office ing the historical inaccuracies in the seg– repressions of the 1930s. His efforts here to protest the airing of the seg– (Continued from page 1) ment, and a HUR1 representative will destroyed millions of Ukrainians. ment on "60 Minutes" titled "The nity's largest association in Ukraine, and attend a meeting of community organiza– Ugly Face of Freedom." The Council of Ethnic Associations of "But we do not do this today, because tion heads scheduled for October 28 at the Protesters carried placards stating, Ukraine, and that joint action will be this has remained in history. Today we UNA headquarters in Jersey City. That "CBS is racist," "Don't kill our new taken. "We found understanding on issu– understand that we do not have the right meeting will focus on further action by the democracy" and "CBS defames ing a joint statement. We believe that the to identify Kaganovich in general with community in response to the segment. Ukrainians." Jewish community in Ukraine would be the Jewish people, even though he was a in light of Ukrainian President Leonid The demonstration was organized very active in making their voice heard Jew by nationality. We would expect that Kuchma's October 23-27 visit to Canada, by the Ukrainian Cultural Center, here," he stated. Mr. Wiesenthal and these leaders (inter- the World Congress of Ukrainians and the with area organizations participating. Mr. Markov also said Ukraine's newly viewed in the segmentj of the Jewish Ukrainian Canadian Congress have been Organizers of the demonstration appointed ambassador to the U.S., Dr. community in Ukraine would act honor- unable to organize a concerted action from expressed their outrage and concerns Yuriy Shcherbak, currently Ukraine's ably in this situation." their respective organizations, individual to victor Rocha, producer at the local ambassador to israel, has been apprised Mr. Kendzior called on Ukrainian Ukrainian Canadians, however, are com– CBS affiliate, and to Stephen Doerr, of the situation. organizations in the diaspora to protest municating with CBS affiliates. The station director. Both assured the The Ukrainian-Greek Catholic the segment. The community needed no Canadian institute of Ukrainian Studies at assemblage that they would contact Church, too, has reacted, issuing a state– prompting. the University of Alberta is preparing a Don Hewitt, executive producer of ment by its primate, Cardinal Myroslav On October 24, 100 Ukrainian brief on the historical inaccuracies present– "60 Minutes," and relay the demon– ivan Lubachivsky, on October 26 from Americans demonstrated before the CBS ed in the segment for the UCC. strators' outrage and demands, which Rome, in his statement, the cardinal said affiliate in Philadelphia, demanding a meet– WCU President Dmytro Cipywnyk, included a call for a meeting with that the producer of the segment, Jeffrey ing with "60 Minutes" executive producer who has not had an opportunity to view Mr. Hewitt. Fager, had misrepresented the thrust of Don Hewitt (see sidebar on this page). That the segment, did comment on its timing, That same evening, at the the report, claiming that piece would demonstration and the subsequent flurry of which coincided with President Ukrainian Cultural Center, 200 peo– focus on "post-Communist Ukraine." letters and telephone calls to CBS prompt– Kuchma's first state visit to the West. ple assembled at a community "if the reasons why such anti-Semitic ed Mr. Hewitt to agree to a meeting with "The segment certainly got the ear and meeting chaired by Boris sentiments exist in Ukraine were of inter– members of the Ukrainian American com– the sight of many people. People are most Zacharczuk, president of the center. est," wrote the primate, "they could have munity scheduled for October 31. disturbed by it because it happened to The ensuing discussion focused been discussed and debated. І can only The Ukrainian Congress Committee of coincide with President Kuchma's visit to on ways to remedy this defamation deduce that the goal of the report was to America and the Ukrainian National Canada, and 1 think that was probably of Ukraine and Ukrainians. present all western Ukrainians as rabid Association have advised their branches to unfortunate. І don't know to what extent Prepared letters of protest were dis– anti-Semites." telephone7fax CBS in protest and demand this thing was contrived to deliberately tributed for participants' signatures. People's Deputy Yaroslav Kendzior of the dismissal of correspondent Morley coincide with his visit. We can speculate People wishing to write individual Lviv, in the United States to commemo– Safer. The UCCA has tasked its branches about the motivations for that." letters were assisted in this process. rate the 50th anniversary of the United with communicating with CBS affiliates, in past months, CBS has raised the ire in response to the numerous tele- Ukrainian American Relief Committee, many of whom are fleeing CBS for the of the Asian American community, airing phone calls and faxes from the pro– viewed the segment a day after it was Fox network, to request a meeting with a report in May about Chinese spies in the ducer and station director of the CBS aired on October 24, and voiced his the Ukrainian American community. U.S. The Organization of Chinese affiliate in Philadelphia, Mr. Hewitt indignation over its "brutal insinuations." Representatives of the Rochester area Americans, the Committee of 100 and the contacted Ulana Mazurkevich, presi– He said, "Today, to portray Ukraine and community are scheduled to meet with a Asian Pacific American Bar Association dent of the Ukrainian Human Rights its people in such a light, to suggest that CBS affiliate on October 28. protested, claiming the report may have Committee. The producer of the New Ukrainians are somehow genetically anti- The UCCA and the Ukrainian stirred anti-Chinese feelings. York-based program stated: "if there Semitic, to portray us as destroying Jews American Coordinating Council are also According to The Washington Post, is any truth to these letters, we made a on our territory, this is an all-encompass– urging Ukrainian Americans to contact CBS refused to meet with representatives terrible error — a capital error." ing lie." the sponsors of the "60 Minutes" seg– of the organizations for four months. Mr. Hewitt has scheduled a meet– Mr. Kendzior called the segment a ment, the Democratic State Committee Following an October 12 letter from the ing for Monday, October 31, with a "gross political provocation geared at com– for Cuomo and Sprint, in protest. U.S. Commission on Civil Rights to CBS small group of Ukrainian community plicating Ukrainian-lsraeli relations" and Bishop Basil Losten of the Ukrainian expressing its concern over the issue, representatives. According to the "60 criticized Simon Wiesenthal's motives, "if Catholic Church's Stamford Diocese has CBS met with the Chinese organizations Minutes" executive producer, corre– we were to take the '60 Minutes' segment alerted all pastors in the diocese to advise in New York. That meeting was followed spondent Morley Safer also is and Mr. Wiesenthal's behavior in it as an parishioners to telephone, fax, write and by a letter of apology from Mr. Ober and expected to attend the session. example, then the Ukrainian people could telegram CBS. a public apology from Connie Chung on identify the Jewish people and the israeK The Harvard Ukrainian Research the "CBS Evening News." 8 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, OCTOBER ЗО, 1994 No. 44 Embassy of Ukraine protests THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY "stridently biased" CBS report We're not gonna take it any more Reprinted below is the letter sent by the Within the short three years of Ukraine's Embassy of Ukraine to Eric W. Ober, presi– independence, Jewish life and cultural Does freedom deter anti-Semitism? Not in the Ukraine, where it's as dent of the CBS News Division, in response activities have been on the rise in Ukraine, strong today as it was during Hitler's "final solution." to the report airedby "60 Minutes." and dozens of new synagogues have been This was the text of an advertisement that appeared in The New York Times on opened with the vigorous support of the Sunday, October 23 — the day that "60 Minutes," a highly popular news show, broad- As an official representative of Ukraine Ukrainian government. The nation pays cast a segment on anti-Semitism in independent Ukraine. Called "The Ugly Face of І wish to convey my government's utter special tribute to hundreds upon hundreds Freedom," and reported by Morley Safer and produced by Jeffrey Fager, the piece was resentment at the stridently biased segment of Ukrainian "Righteous Gentiles" who, filled with innuendoes, half-truths and outright lies, it manifested a blatant disregard on the alleged rise of anti-Semitism in the risking their own lives, saved Jewish fami– for facts, gave no meaningful context for the few bits of information provided and Ukrainian city of Lviv, in western Ukraine lies from Nazi terror during the time of the used dramatic images unrelated to the matter at hand for pure visual effect — or worse and Transcarpathia (October 23, CBS, "60 Nazi occupation of Ukraine. yet, to frighten the audience about just where this "big, bad Ukraine" is heading. (After Minutes"). all the backward, hateful peasants of Ukraine, CBS would have us believe, have their The segment is not only far from When he visits the United States in late fingers on the nuclear button!) being objective and impartial, it is word– November, the President of Ukraine The end result: Ukrainians were portrayed to an audience of more than 17.5 million ed in tone and essence as a classic exam- Leonid Kuchma plans to present a list of households as anti-Semites, from generation to generation, and Ukraine was depicted pie of "cold war" journalism, hardly at least 200 Ukrainian "Righteous as a place where Jews face grave danger. Mr. Safer's concluding statement, a "non- befitting a major U.S. network which has Gentiles" to the U.S. Holocaust Memorial denial denial," added fuel to the fire: "The Church and the government of Ukraine a sizable audience in Ukraine. Museum to internationally commemorate have tried to ease people's fears, suggesting that things are not as serious as they might CBS co-host Morley Safer has abused their exploits. Therefore, we regard as appear: that Ukrainians, despite the allegations, are not genetically anti-Semitic..." his position with a large international audi– absolutely inadmissible and openly it was a report unworthy of American journalism — indeed, unworthy of the "60 ence to insinuate that a newly born inde– provocative the statements by Morley Minutes" that once was almost universally respected and much emulated. Alas, today pendent and democratic Ukraine is "hardly Safer, which draw a parallel between the CBS News, instead of being copied, is copying the techniques of tabloid ТУ. it has a unified entity" and that Ukrainians are current inter-ethnic situation in Ukraine drifted a long way off from the days when it was the most esteemed network, the days "genetically anti-Semitic." and Nazi genocide atrocities during when it was home to the most trusted man in America, Walter Cronkite. in the last three years since Ukraine has Hitler's "Final Solution." As evidence of this we can cite not only "The Ugly Face of Freedom," but two been officially recognized by the U.S. We expect that CBS's "60 Minutes" other recent examples of the how the network now handles news. government rarely have we witnessed will carry a retraction of those statements According to a report in The Washington Post, a CBS News report aired in May such a blatant case of public irresponsibil– and present an official apology for its left the impression that many of the legitimate Chinese students and immigrants to this ity and insult to a nation which is building gross injustice to Ukraine and its people in country are in fact spies. Four months after the Chinese community began its protest its own free and democratic society on the the highly abusive report mentioned about this anti-Chinese bias, and after the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights joined in, ruins of a more than 300-year-old empire, above, if your staff is unable to do an the "CBS Evening News" broadcast a "clarification," and CBS News President Eric where anti-Semitism was often a state pol– impartial, well-researched report on the Ober apologized in a letter to the Organization of Chinese Americans inc. icy. Ukraine has put an end not only to the state of inter-ethnic relations in Ukraine More recently, the CBS network demonstrated what it considers to be news, it empire itself but to the practice of anti- and prefers to resort to trite generalizations broadcast an interview with Faye Resnick, author of an explosive new book about the Semitism and all other expressions of based on sound bites by "unidentified relationship between Nicole and OJ. Simpson. Even after Judge Lance ito respectfully chauvinism which are officially outlawed men," we strongly advise that you should asked the media not to air Resnick interviews because this would harm Mr. Simpson's in Ukraine. Ukraine has enacted and provide air time to a Ukrainian Embassy right to a fair trial, CBS went ahead and ran the piece on "Eye to Eye with Connie enforces the most liberal and just legisla– representative who will present an accurate Chung," yet another of its "newsmagazine" shows. As Newsweek appropriately point– tion which stands guard over the rights of account of those relations in Ukraine. ed out, if the story was indeed news, it could easily have waited until after jury selec– Ukrainian Jews and other minorities. Sincerely, tion in the case was completed. However, as Newsweek writer Jonathan Alter notes, Ukraine's record on the protection of Charge cP Affaires of Ukraine the book "is the definition of trash." He notes, "The old CBS News didn't air trash." minorities and minority rights has been Уаіегу Kuchinsky But just what today's CBS News thinks is illustrated by the statement issued by Mr. acclaimed internationally. Washington Ober, who said broadcasting the interview was "consistent with responsible journal- ism." Mr. Alter commented: "A more honest statement would have called it consistent with ratings journalism." So just what is responsible journalism at CBS? Frankly, we aren't sure what yard- stick the network uses to make that determination. ACTION ITEMS But, we are sure that "The Ugly Face of Freedom" - to which so much space is On Sunday, October 23, "60 Minutes" aired a segment titled "The Ugly Face of devoted in this issue of The Weekly — is not responsible journalism, it is hate-mon– Freedom" in which, among other things, Ukrainians were slurred as "genetically anti- gering. it is inflammatory, it is sensationalistic. it is racist. We can only guess about Semitic"; Ukrainian history was distorted; and Petliura, Shukhevych and Bandera the motivations of the people who prepared that segment for "60 Minutes," but we were depicted as anti-Semitic. This maliciously racist segment of "60 Minutes" was cannot help but wonder whether the timing had anything to do with the state visit of defamatory and journalistically irresponsible. President Leonid Kuchma to Canada, as the report was aired on the very day of his 1. We urge all Ukrainian Americans to telephone and fax CBS headquarters in New arrival in Ottawa. York to express their indignation and demand that correspondent Morley Safer be dis– Our community reacted swiftly and confidently to this biased report, by phoning, missed. faxing and writing to CBS officials. Some organized public protests. The Embassy of Following are useful telephone7fax numbers and the CBS News address: Ukraine issued a powerful and well-thought-out statement. The message was loud and - CBS comment line, (212) 975-3248. clear: We're mad as hell and we're not gonna take it any more! We demand a retrac– - CBS fax number, (212) 975-1893. tion and an apology; we demand that appropriate action be taken against the persons - "60 Minutes" fax number, (212) 757-6975. responsible for putting "The Ugly Face of Freedom" on the air. - Eric W. Ober, President, CBS News Division, CBS inc., 524 W. 57th St., New York, NY 10019. Suggested comment or letter: Your blatantly defamatory segment on anti-Semitism in the Ukrainian city of Lviv attained new levels of journalistic irresponsibility and inaccuracy. You should dismiss Mr. Safer for his unprecedented expressions of racism, bigotry and journalistic irresponsibility, in particular for his remarks impugn– Turning the pages back.. ing Ukrainians as "genetically anti-Semitic." Hate speech of this type is unacceptable in civilized society, particularly in America. Please issue an updated, corrected "60 Minutes" report on ethnic relations in present-day Ukraine. 2. Those who reside in locations with CBS affiliates should communicate with the Aieksandr Rigelman was a descendant of a German aristo– affiliates directly, requesting a meeting with the Ukrainian American community. At cratic family that settled in Russia in the early 18th century. A the meeting, representatives of the community should insist on the affiliates pressur– native of St. Petersburg, he completed his training as a military ing CBS in New York and "60 Minutes" to air a retraction and an apology, and to dis– engineer and topographer at the Cadet Corps there, and later was stationed in miss Morley Safer for racism. Zaporizhzhia (1741-1743) to work on the demarcation of the border between the 3. Should affiliates refuse to meet with community representatives, picketing may Russian and Turkish empires. be used to apply additional pressure. Rigelman was then engaged to draw plans for Ukrainian cities and participated in — submitted by the Ukrainian National information Service the construction of a series of fortifications extending along the Azov Sea coast, through southern Ukraine, and around the periphery of Kyyiv. He also built the St. Dimitriy Fortress, and the settlement that grew around it is now known as Rostov-on- The Ukrainian Congress Committee of America and the Ukrainian American Don. Coordinating Council are informing the Ukrainian American community and its friends Rigelman also worked as a historian and ethnographer, producing studies of that the two sponsors of the anti-Ukrainian racist segment of "60 Minutes" were the Ukraine, particularly of the Don region and the Don Kozaks, most of which were pub– Democratic State Committee for Cuomo, (212) 754-1994, and Sprint, (913) 624-6000. lished posthumously. We urge all Ukrainian Americans and our friends to telephone the above, advising After his retirement in 1782, he settled on the estate of his Ukrainian wife (a mem– them of our disappointment over their sponsorship of this racist program. ber of the Lyzohub family of Kozak officers of the Pereyaslav region), and died in Furthermore we urge everyone to make their disappointment felt both at the ballots Andriyivka, near Chernihiv, on November 3, 1789. and in choosing their long-distance carrier. Source: "Rigelman, Aieksandr," Encyclopedia of Ukraine, vol. 4 'Toronto: University of - submitted by the Ukrainian Congress Committe of America Toronto Press, 1993). - and the Ukrainian American Coordinating Council No. 44 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, OCTOBER зо, 1994 9 Reaction to "60 Minutes" broadcast Following are the full texts of letters sent to Eric W. Ober, president of the CBS faces and Places News Division, by Askold Lozynskyj of the Ukrainian Congress Committee of America and Ulana Diachuk of the Ukrainian National Association. The letters are in reaction by Myron B. Kuropas to the "60 Minutes" segment reported by Morley Safer and titled "The Ugly Face of Freedom, " which aired on Sunday, October 23.

uted the atrocities to the Ukrainian The ugly face of "60 Minutes" Letter from UCCA Police. However, the film and photo date is from the Soviet occupation of Your blatantly defamatory segment on By now, all of us are aware of the ly called the 14th Waffen-Grenadier Lviv! This arrogant, even amateurish anti-Semitism in the Ukrainian city of scurrilous treatment of Ukraine by the Division der "Galizien") fight for disregard for truth was pervasive Lviv ("60 Minutes," October 23, "The October 23 CBS production of "60 Nazism? Absolutely not! As explained in throughout the segment, as exemplified Ugly Face of Freedom") attained new Minutes." a capsule history of the division by by your references to Symon Petliura, levels of journalistic irresponsibility and Was this outrage merely the result of Richard Landwehr, the proclamation that Roman Shukhevych and Stephan inaccuracy. Morley Safer's statement sloppy reporting or a conscious attempt established the division made it clear that Bandera as anti-Semites, in actuality, as impugning all Ukrainians as "genetically to defame an emerging and still vulnera– it was created "to fight the Communists" commander-in-chief of the Ukrainian anti-Semitic" was so maliciously racist ble nation? first and foremost, and that it would Army in 1919, Petliura issued an emer– that it may be unique in the recent annals І believe this CBS opprobrium was a become "the nucleus for an eventual gency decree making anti-Semitic activ– of television. Hate speech of this type is knowing, willful and malevolent attempt national army..." The division fought the ity a capital crime. As commander of the unacceptable in a civilized society, to deceive the American people, it had Red Army and later, on April 25, 1945, Ukrainian insurgent Army during World whether uttered by a David Duke, a "KGB" (still alive and well and function– was sworn in as the 1st Division of the War 11, Shukhevych simultaneously Louis Farrakhan, a viadimir Zhirinov– ing, thank you) written all over it. Ukrainian National Army under the lead– fought both the Nazis and Soviets, there– sky, or by Morley Safer speaking to a Every Soviet shibboleth - the ership of Gen. Pavlo Shandruk. by attaining a level of heroism not even national ТУ audience under the guise of Ukrainian Catholic Church, the Was the Ukrainian SS Division attempted by our own Allied Forces. journalistic objectivity. Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists involved in the killing of Jews? Bandera, the leader of the Ukrainian (OUN), "genetic" Ukrainian anti- impossible! The division was established Allow us to correct only a few of the national liberation movement OUN, Semitism, mis-translations of "Zhyd" in the summer of 1943, long after segment's inaccuracies: You aired clips which was branded in your report as a (now expanded to mean "kike" rather Holocaust historians agree Ukraine was of youth scouting groups in Lviv, falsely "notorious army of murderers," lost two than the old mistranslation "Yid"), the "Judenfrei." implying a renewed "Hitlerjugend." You brothers in Auschwitz and himself spent SS Division Galicia and, of course, the Mr. Safer ominously points out that showed footage of Jewish residents the war years under German arrest. prescribed Holocaust film footage was many "Galicia" veterans live in Canada being rounded up and a Jewish rape vic– examined. CBS even used the discredited and the United States. Are they war crim– tim decrying her attackers, and attrib– (Continued on page 21) photo of the "gutter girl" that Time mag– inals? The division was thoroughly azine has admitted is impossible to investigated by both the Deschenes The facts are that, under Russian authenticate. Commission, Canada's Nazi– hunting Letter from UACC Communist rule, 7 to 10 million Throughout the program, the facts unit, and the Royal Canadian Mounted Ukrainians died in 1932-1933 during a The over 60,000 members of the were twisted to fit a pattern. Police (RCMP), Canada's FB1, following man-made famine and an additional 6 mil- Ukrainian National Association are in a dark and menacing voice, the nar– allegations by Mr. Wiesenthal that lion Ukrainians perished at the hands of shocked at the defamatory story on rator, Morely Safer intoned: "Thousands Canada was harboring 217 veterans of the Nazi and Red armies during World of Ukrainians joined the SS and marched Ukraine which you aired on October 23. it the Ukrainian Division. The list of "war War H, including over 1 million in off to fight for Nazis, in the process they violated all principles of journalistic ethics: criminals" was supplied to Mr. 9 German work camps. Historic facts helped round up Lvov's Jews, helped Wiesenthal by the Soviets. On March 12, Morley Safer accused Ukrainians of demonstrate that Ukraine is a victim and march more than 140,000 of them to 1987, the Canadian Parliament received a being "genetically anti-Semitic" which not a victimizer as portrayed in your story. extinction...virtually every Jew in Lvov report which concluded: demonstrates a bias unacceptable in While it is true that the German govern– fLvivJ. Among those who watched in responsible journalism. "Of the 217 officers of the Galicia ment did organize Ukrainian military horror was a young man who was to 9 No evidence, not even a victim of Division denounced by Mr. Wiesenthal forces under its command, this was also become the world's number one Nazi anti-Semitism, was produced to confirm to the Canadian government, 187 never the case in every other nation occupied by hunter Simon Wiesenthal." the allegation of anti-Semitism. 9 Nazi Germany, in the case of France, the Did the Ukrainian SS Division (initial– (Continued on page 20) The translator continually translated whole French government worked for a historic term for Jews as "kike," an Germany. Yet, CBS does not portray inaccurate translation. France as anti-Semitic. The Ukrainian 9 LETTER TO THE ED1TOR No national, regional, local or city military did not fight for Germany but government official of Ukraine was against Communist Russia. given an opportunity to respond to the good government, in the upcoming elec– The fact is that there has been less eth– Why Lautenberg allegations made by CBS. tion, the choice is abundantly clear for nic, racial and religious violence in whom we should cast our vote, in addi– ^ The history of Ukraine under Ukraine during its three years of inde– German occupation was distorted. deserves our vote tion to his current actions on increasing pendence than there is on any single day aid to Ukraine and asylum for Ukrainian - The integrity of historic Ukrainian Dear Editor: on the streets of New York City, it is as religious refugees, Mr. Lautenberg has a leaders was questioned not with facts but The interview with Sen. Frank long record of legislating and voting for with accusations and innuendos. (Continued on page 21) Lautenberg (D-N.J.) published October 16 issues of importance to the community reveals a lot about the person, the record and to Ukraine. and the current political atmosphere. To be Our dealings with Mr. Haytaian have A New York rabbi's response more specific, the question at hand, been less extensive and even less cordial, addresses the senatorial race in New Jersey especially the Assembly speaker demon– Following is the text of a letter sent us who know today's Ukraine. between the incumbent, Sen. Lautenberg strated his lack of flexibility by insisting on October 25 to the CBS program it really is time for us to enjoy the and his Republican challenger, Garabed on excluding the teaching of the 1932- "60 Minutes" by Rabbi David H. resurgence of Jewish life in Ukraine "Chuck" Haytaian, speaker of the New 1933 Ukrainian famine in New Jersey Lincoln of the Park Avenue Synagogue. after the horrors of the German occupa– Jersey State Assembly. public schools in curriculum legislation The letter is reprinted here with the tion and communism, and to appreciate Once again we are facing an election that he sponsored. Even after Sen. permission of Rabbi Lincoln, who last the heroic efforts of the Ukrainian peo– and the need to make an earnest decision Ronald Rice's amendment (adding the year traveled to western Ukraine. ple and government to assist the Jewish - one that benefits America as a whole study of the Ukrainian famine to the community in all their endeavors. and one whose record is acceptable to the Holocaust7Genocide bill) passed the New Ukrainian American community. Park Avenue Synagogue The history of Jewish-Ukrainian Jersey State Senate by a 27-0 vote, Mr. As president of Americans for Human 50 East 87th Street relations often tragic is a complicated Haytaian stubbornly refused to accede to Rights in Ukraine (AHRU) during the New York, N.Y. 10125 one, but you would have done well to the wishes of the populace and blustered Gorbachev years, and also prior to that, І have informed the public of the better until the bill died in committee. This had a chance to observe first hand the Mr. Jeffrey Fager, Producer- aspects of those contacts. For instance, clearly demonstrated a narrowness of workings of government and the people CBS "60 Minutes" Ukraine was the sole independent perspective on Mr. Haytaian's part and who make it run while doing extensive lob– 524 West 57th Street nation that had complete Jewish nation– also his responsiveness to only a select bing in Washington for passage of the New York, NY 10019 al autonomy (1917) and had Yiddish- few special interest groups - an attitude Ukrainian famine bill, defending the rights Dear Sir: speaking ministers in the government that does not bode well for a public ser– of dissidents in the Ukrainian Helsinki representing the rights of minorities. vant. І feel that your program on Lviv Group, making attempts at closing down Today, when Russian Jews send From the platform of the League of and Ukrainians was most unfair. Chornobyl and helping to put some cracks their children to Ukraine for safe keep– Ukrainian voters, 1 am urging New To show boy scouts and say they are in the Kremlin Wall. Sen. Lautenberg sup- ing in times of danger, no good can Jerseyans of Ukrainian heritage to go to Nazis marching, to translate "Zhyd" as ported all of these issues, in addition, he come from distortions such as those the polls and vote for Mr. Lautenberg as kike (in western Ukraine Zhyd is the made personal appearances, included state– portrayed in your program. the viable choice for U.S. senator on ments on Ukraine in the Congressional word for Jew), to infer that the word for November 8. nation — "natsiya" — might mean Nazi Yours faithfully, Record and served as a member of the U.S. etc., etc. - is most upsetting to many of Rabbi David H. Lincoln Helsinki Commission. Bozhena Olshaniwsky Getting the right people is essential for Newark, NJ. 10 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, OCTOBER ЗО, 1994 No. 44 JOURNEY TO SOKAL: Realizing an "impossible" dream by Lesia and Myron Kuropas it was not until Air Ukraine Flight 106 touched down in Kyyiv's Borispil Airport that we realized that our 12-year-old "impossible" dream was about to be real– ized. At long last we were ready to present Ukraine's first-ever Ukrainian-language Worldwide Marriage Encounter (WWME) weekends. With the world celebrating the 'international Year of the Family," the timing, it seemed, was perfect. Our dream began in 1982 when we first experienced our WWME weekend. We decided then that someday we would pre– sent weekends in Ukraine, a country that at that time was under atheistic Soviet rule. The Ukrainian Catholic Church was outlawed and religious services of any kind were forbidden. An underground Church, however, was flourishing. Despite the threat of beatings, exile in Siberia and even death, clandestine priests celebrated divine liturgies and baptized, married and confessed the faithful in secret locations, often in the dead of night. Ukraine's Catholic Church was truly a Church in the catacombs. Our dream lived on as others came to Participants of the second Ukrainian-language Marriage Encounter in Ukraine held August 12-14 in Sokal, Ukraine. share it. Father Browar, Boris Kyba, a Ukrainian WWME presenting team priest grew, new bishops were consecrated, blessed a cross and rosary we had journey to Sokal (no gasoline stations in Canada, joined us in our quest as did among them Bishop Michael Koltun of brought with us. The cross was given to were functioning while we were in Andrew and Taisa Browar, a WWME team Zboriv. A short time after assuming his us by the Boylans and Father Coulter to Ukraine). For all but one of the lay cou– couple from the Chicago community. Both new ecclesiastical responsibilities, Bishop wear during our presentations and to ples, it was, without a doubt in our mind, the American and Canadian WWME secre– Koltun visited Ukrainian Catholics in bring back to America. The rosary was a great weekend, equal to any we had tariats became part of our dream, encourag– Canada. He became excited about pieced together by WWME couples and experienced in the United States. ing us whenever our spirits would flag. WWME during a visit with Father Kyba. their children in the Rockford Diocese On the return flight to America, the five To prepare for our journey, we present– A dynamic man of visionary wisdom and during a weekend campout. The plan of us wondered aloud if it was all worth it. ed Latin-rite WWME Catholic weekends great hope for the Ukrainian Catholic was to leave it in Ukraine so that couples Were the two WWME weekends in in the Rockford diocese in lllinois. We also Church, Bishop Koltun wanted his there could pray for successful WWME Ukraine worth the expense^ the years of presented weekends for Ukrainian eparchy to be the site of Ukraine's first weekends in the future. hoping and praying, the months of translat– Americans in Rockford, Chicago, Detroit, Ukrainian-language WWME weekends. That evening, the nuncio's chauffeur ing, the weeks of preparation, the heat (it Pittsburgh and Philadelphia. Returning to Ukraine, Bishop Koltun drove us to the Kyyiv train station for an was 90 plus degrees in Ukraine), the primi– And then, in 1991, the first of a series sent two couples, ivan and Sophia overnight train ride to Ternopil, where tive facilities, the lack of air conditioning, of miracles happened. Ukraine became Liskewych of Lviv, and Josef and we spent the weekend with the ice, water on occasion, the bureaucratic an independent state, and the Ukrainian Myroslava Hrycenko of Ternopil, to Hrycenkos. Later we were driven to hustles and hassles, the constant weekend Catholic Church was legalized. Churches Chicago to experience a WWME week- Lviv, where we met the Liskewyches. interruptions from hundreds of children were open again, seminaries were filling end. Having translated all of our talks, we A few days later all of us drove to ivano– playing and screaming, and dozens of dogs up, and new eparchies were created to presented the world's first Ukrainian-lan– Frankivske to meet the Browars, who were barking and howling 24 hours a day? Were meet the spiritual needs of the spiritually guage WWME weekend along with Father flying in from Chicago. We then drove to the small number of Ukrainian couples who hungry tide of believers. Kyba and the Browars on March 18, 19, Sokal, a small community northwest of participated somehow a betrayal of the hun– We shared our dream with Patriarch and 20, 1994, in Chicago. The Hrycenkos Lviv, to inspect the site of the weekends. dreds and hundreds of American and Myroslav Lubachivsky who kept inviting had to return to Ukraine almost immediate– Located in a wooded area in the heart of a Canadian Catholics who had prayed for us, us to come to Ukraine with the WWME ly, while the Liskewyches remained behind children's summer camp, the site was not raised money for us, and kept faith with us weekend. for workshops. ideal but it was as good as could be expect– in our darkest hours? To help us realize what was now a not- The road to Ukraine had been long, ed in present-day Ukraine. After some on– Only God knows the answer to those so-impossible dream, Bill and Mary Anne but we had arrived at last. We were met again, off-again negotiations between our questions. As for us, we are convinced Boylan and Father Charlie Coulter, the at the airport by the personal chauffeur local contacts and the camp management that we planted not only seeds but American Secretariat team, helped con– of Archbishop Antonio Franco, papal (the latter suddenly quadrupled the price seedlings in Ukraine, and these will vince the Raskob Foundation to partially nuncio in Ukraine. After showing us when they smelled American dollars), we grow. The hardships we faced are fading fund our efforts. Other monies were made some of the sites in Kyyiv, he brought us were able to finally agree on a fair payment from memory and already we're planning available through the WWME American to the nuncio's residence and office for meals and lodging for two weekends. our next steps. We learned much during and Canadian networks. "Follow your where the Ukrainian sisters who worked The first Ukrainian-language "week- our journey to Sokal, and we now know dream," the Boylans told us. "The money there treated us-to a tasty lunch. Later, end" in Ukraine began on Monday what has to be done from here on in. will be there." the nuncio came by to wish us well. evening, August 8, and ended on Bishop Koltun wants us back and As the Catholic Church in Ukraine During our visit, Archbishop Franco Wednesday afternoon, August 10. Eight we've already hand-picked the couples priests and their wives (Eastern-rite we plan to bring here to experience a Catholic priests in Ukraine are allowed to deeper weekend and workshops. They marry prior to ordination if they wish) and and some priests are already forming a one lay couple participated. Despite some WWME community in Ukraine that will clerical doubts about those presentations serve as the foundation stone of our that touched upon sex (the Ukrainian movement. When we send these couples Catholic Church remains in a pre-vatican back to prepare for the next set of week- П mode), the open expression of feelings ends, We know things will be different. (40 years of Soviet rule have taught every– Financially we're on our own now, one to suppress their feelings) and our but we still need the prayers and moral many reminders that we and other couples support of the WWME community. We throughout the world really loved them, the deeply appreciate all of the personal and weekend was a success, at least by financial sacrifices made by the many Ukrainian standards. Bishop Koltun greet– friends and supporters who made our ed us on Wednesday evening and informed journey possible. We're especially grate– his priests that weekends would continue ful to those who kept reminding us that in Ukraine despite their misgivings. the work of apostles is never easy nor The second Ukrainian-language week- always immediately productive. end began on Friday evening, August 12, As one WWME told us upon our and ended on Sunday, August 14, with return: "What did you want? The USSR four couples. Twelve couples didn't was the devil's workshop for 70 years. make the weekend because the cars they You can't expect everything to change in were to take either broke down or their two weekends!" True enough. But Satan During a visit to the papal nuncio in Ukraine: (from left) Myron and Lesia owners couldn't beg, borrow or steal had better watch out. We've established Kuropas, Archbishop Antonio Franco and the Rev. Boris Kyba. enough gasoline to make the round-trip a beachhead and we're not retreating! No. 44 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, OCTOBER ЗО, 1994 11 U.S.-Ukraine Foundation receives UCC helps Ukraine's Embassy Si00,000grant from the NED purchase new building in Ottawa WASHINGTON - The u.s.-ukraine Foundation and the U.S. information by Christopher Guly by Toronto pharmacy chain owners Erast Foundation, which has made a signifi– Agency. and Lydia Huculak for S615,000 in late OTTAWA - Just two years after the cant investment in the democratization of in February of this year, the U.S.- 1992. The Huculaks defied the UCC, Ukrainian Canadian Congress (UCC) Ukraine through its Kyyiv-based Pylyp Ukraine Foundation received a S78,000 which had vociferously objected to the wrangled over a gift-office building a Orlyk institute for Democracy, has been grant from the Eurasia Foundation for sale. Toronto couple made to the Ukrainian awarded a Si00,000 grant from the the support of the Pylyp Orlyk institute Embassy, the UCC has gone ahead and To be sure, the couple had originally National Endowment for Democracy and became a subcontractor to indiana helped the mission purchase another, for been scouting around for locations with (NED). The award represents the third University's three-year Parliamentary Si.8 million, in downtown Ottawa. the UCC. But while Mr. Huculak was consecutive year of NED funding for the Development Project for the Supreme away in Ukraine on a business trip in The three-story building, located on Pylyp Orlyk institute, an independent, Council, funded by a S3.45 million grant Ukraine, Oleh Romaniw, who had served Somerset Street West, served as the non-partisan public policy center estab– from the U.S. Agency for international as legal counsel to the UCC prior to his national headquarters for the New lishedin 1991. Development. election as the congress' national presi– Democratic Party (NDP), which stands The grant allows the U.S.-Ukraine in highlighting the foundation's suc– dent, pulled the plug on the deal, claim– fourth out of five in the House of Foundation, a not-for-profit organization cess in receiving American institutional ing the sale price was too high. Since Mr. Commons in terms of elected members. promoting democracy and free market support, Mrs. McConnell stated, "it Huculak's name appeared on the promis– The NDP bought the building in 1991 for economics in Ukraine, to further provide proves that with persistence, worthwhile sory note, thus putting him at risk for more than S2 million. Selling it to the national policy-makers in Ukraine with projects and effective proposals, it is being sued for default, he signed the deal Ukrainian Embassy marked the largest accurate and timely information from the possible to procure grants for Ukraine in on September 10, 1992, and ended up real estate deal involving a foreign gov– West, opportunities for education and this critical period of her development." gifting the property to the Ukrainian gov– ernment in the Canadian capital's history. added research materials on policy issues. John Falconer, program manager at the ernment. "We are very happy to receive this new foundation, echoed Mrs. McConnell's sen– Andrij Hluchowecky, director of the UCC information Bureau in Ottawa, says On September 18, Ukrainian Ambas– funding from the NED as it validates our timent: "Grant proposal writing is time- sador viktQr Batyuk told The Ottawa important work in Ukraine," said Nadia consuming, requiring meticulous prepara– that most of the funds to buy the building will come out of an estimated S1.2-S1.5 Citizen that if the embassy can't sell that Komarnyckyj McConnell, president of the tion on the part of the applicant and often building, it will use that first mission as a U.S.-Ukraine Foundation. several attempts before a grant is awarded. million raised to help out the Ukrainian Embassy. Although the UCC had assist– consulate." in the past two years, the mis– For three years, the Pylyp Orlyk However, each proposal, whether accepted sion's diplomatic staff has doubled from institute has been supplying critically or not, exposes funding organizations and ed with some mission operations and kicked in some cash, partnered with a four to eight. Mr. Batyuk succeeded Levko needed resources for the promotion of their board members to the problems and Lukianenko in February. democracy in Ukraine. The institute needs of an independent Ukraine. For S450,000 estate donation, to buy the Ambassador Batyuk told the Citizen established and maintains a Biblioteka instance, this grant proposal to NED took ambassador's S668,000 residence, the resource center, now holding 1,500 vol– several months to research and write, cul– fund had never been used, in fact, the that Canadian investment in Ukraine this umes on public policy topics. minating in nearly 50 pages of submitted UCC had first planned to rent space for year - largely through construction, the ambassador's official residence for hotels, oil and gas projects, and food dis– Through the Democracy Hotline, an documents." S3,900 a month, in the city's exclusive tribution - is S50 million, larger than any electronic communications link between Added Mrs. McConnell, "We are excit– Rockcliffe diplomatic district. other nation. Two-way trade was S44 Kyyiv and Washington, Director ed and committed to help Ukraine on the Markian Bilynskyj and a 12-member difficult road to a full democracy. The Meanwhile, the Ukrainians still have million in 1993, with Canadian exports professional staff prepare daily news quality of a democracy is directly depen– their Metcalfe Street property, purchased almost double the imports from Ukraine. briefings on American media coverage dent upon an informed electorate. Our job of Ukrainian affairs for key government is to make sure that the people in Ukraine, officials. With a circulation approaching from deputies down to the person on the 1,500 copies, the institute's regular pub– street, are accurately informed." Lviv, Odessa officials head for U.S. lication, The West: Window on Ukraine, The U.S.-Ukraine Foundation, staffed by Daria Markus where the group will participate in a provides Ukrainian translations of with four full-time employees as well as series of seminars on legislative and exec– Westerns news articles, reports on key interns and volunteers in its Washington KYYiv - A 12-member delegation of utive branches at the federal, state, and U.S. Congressional hearings and analy– office, actively seeks additional funds representatives from the Lviv and local levels. They will also visit various ses of American government activities from both institutional and individual Odessa municipal governments departed government offices and special meetings. donors to empower Ukrainian organiza– pertaining to Ukraine. on October 20 from Kyyiv for the U.S. On October 28, the group will depart tions and citizens in democracy-building The institute also analyzes issues and for a four-week study trip in local gov– to Reading, Pa. where they will be the activities such as non-governmental trends of Ukraine's government via an ernment. The program is funded by the guests of the city government. There, operations and environmental protection, English-language bulletin, Update From U.S. information Agency (US1A) and the they also will be hosted by the Ukrainian and in further researching issues such as Ukraine, which is distributed by the international Research and Exchanges community. human rights, crime, corruption and the Board (1REX). U.S.-Ukraine Foundation to key policy- Other cities that the delegation will rule of law. makers and experts in the United States. The first stop will be in Washington, visit are Harrisburg, Pa., (November 1-6) The institute has helped to organize and Philadelphia. The delegation will fly numerous conferences both in Ukraine and back to Ukraine on November 16 from the United States covering topics such as Washington. the American systems of governance, eco– Graduates in North America Prior to departure on October 10-11, nomics, defense conversion and the role of 1REX sponsored a two-day orientation the legislative branch in American rule of session in Kyyiv where the Lviv and law. Conference participants have included help high schools in Poland Odessa groups had a chance to meet such public leaders as vyacheslav by Nestor Gula 400 students attending Ukrainian high before their arrival in the U.S. And on Chornovil, 1 van Drach, Mykhailo Horyn, schools in Poland right now. Two new the eve of their departure, 1REX held a Yuriy Kostenko, Kostiantyn Morozov, HAM1LTON, Ont. - Ukrainian high schools opened in the last two years, one farewell dinner for the delegation attend– ivan Pliushch and Dmytro Pavlychko. schools in Poland are receiving financial in Peremyshl (Przemysl) and one in ed by the head of the U.S. information To broaden the public debate in and moral support from graduates now Bialy Bor. He said the Polish govern– Service at the U.S. Embassy in Kyyiv, Ukraine, the institute has translated, pub– living in North America. The graduates ment does not give enough funding to Robert Heath and cultural attache James lished and distributed 10,000 copies of of Ukrainian high schools in Legnica and support these schools, and so the gradu– Seward, as well as Ukrainian Parliament Bernard Siegan's book "Drafting a Gorowo ilawecki held a dance on ates try to do what they can to raise Deputies valeriy Evdokimov, Yaroslav Constitution for a Nation or Republic October 9 to raise funds for the two money for their alma mater. Kendzior and Oleksander Shandriuk. Emerging into Freedom." Translations of Ukrainian schools in these Polish towns. He stressed that all the fund-raising Both the Lviv and Odessa groups Henry Hazlit's "Economics in One Over 200 people attended the dance held work is voluntary and that all money include deputy mayors - Ostap Semkiv Lesson" and Charles Epping's "Guide to at the Ukrainian Cultural Center in raised goes to the schools to pay for ren– and Aleksandr Prokopenko, respectively. the World Economy" have also been Hamilton. ovations, heating, textbooks, and other The Lviv delegation also includes completed. One of the organizers, Michal teaching aids. Last year, he said, a simi– Tatiana Krushelnytska, municipal deputy, The work of the Pylyp Orlyk institute Werhun, said the organization's purpose lar dance raised S2,100 (Canadian). Halyna Kupovych from the city adminis– has been made possible by the U.S.- is to raise funds for the Ukrainian Entertainment at the dance was pro– tration; Zynoviy Kurylo, head of the Ukraine Foundation's success in obtain– schools in Poland and "so all of us vided by Cafe Kyyiv, a four-piece band Shevchenkivsky Raion; ivan Levytsky, ing funds from government, and non– (graduates of these schools) remember from Toronto. Two of the members, head of the Lychakivsky Raion; and goverment institutions. Early financial who we are and where we came from." Roman Sokolicz, keyboards, and Boris Roman Tsiatsiak, acting head of the support for the Foundation's programs He said about 400 graduates of these two Kowalski, bass guitar, are graduates of Zaliznychnyi Raion. came from the United Ukrainian schools now live in North America — the Ukrainian high school in Legnica. The Odessa group's other members are American Relief Committee and the approximately 30 percent of all gradu– They started a rock band there and later Dimitry ivanov, deputy director of the Coordinating Committee to Aid Ukraine. ates in the 57 years of the schools' exis– played in the fusion group Orden. Mr. Legal Control Department; Sergei The NED has previously awarded six tence. Some 300 of them reside in the Sokolicz met guitarist Roman Lajkosz in Kivalov, chairman of the Deputies' grants representing over S400,000 to the Toronto-Hamilton area. The majority of Munich when they were living in the Commission on Legal issues; and three foundation. Funds of over S100,000 have graduates now in North America came local Ukrainian boarding school while municipal deputies, volodymyr Kurrenoy, also been procured from the Bradley over in the early 1980s, according to Mr. waiting to emigrate to Canada, it was at Yuriy Liushnenko and Lubov Remen. Foundation, Earhart Foundation, Free Werhun. that point that they established the first Congress Research and Education Mr. Werhun said there are perhaps incarnation of Cafe Kyyiv. (Continued on page 21) 12 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, OCTOBER ЗО, 1994 No. 44 Judges, attorneys Siena College program continues teacher training ALBANY, N.Y. - For the past three 200 new teachers, organized themselves as before, but his vision could not be correct– in Ukraine focus of years, the Siena College Teacher Training a Sumy Teachers Association, and applied ed until he arrived here. The community institute and Americans for Democracy in for funding to the international joined together, collected the necessary Ukraine have joined together on an educa– Renaissance Foundation for a new money, and with the help of this doctor, education program tion project with Prosvita in Ukraine. This resource center in their region. This the teacher returned to Ukraine with his WASHINGTON - state Supreme past summer eight teachers of English Teachers Resource Center will begin oper– eyesight greatly improved. arrived from Chernihiv to participate in a ation in January 1995 and will be a valu– The Ukrainian teachers have returned Court Chief Justice Thomas J. Moyer and total immersion six-week English la.n– able resource for all teachers in the area. to Ukraine having seen and learned from Ohio's courts will launch a comprehensive guage program held in Albany, N.Y. at both worlds, and having experienced legal education program for judges and The eight participants of the summer Siena College. American enthusiasm and drive. attorneys in Ukraine, under terms of an of 1994 session have returned to They have returned proud to be agreement signed on September 28. The teachers attended eight hours of Chernihiv, are each expected to hold 60- Ukrainian. The Americans also have The agreement calls on Ohio's courts classes each day, and in the evenings and hour seminars to train new teachers in returned to their everyday lives. They, "to strengthen the role and performance" on weekends interacted with their their city, have already attended and pre– too, have been changed. They not only of Ukraine's judicial system by provid– American host families, did homework and sented papers at a national conference in have been educated by the visiting teach– ing legal training. Sen. John Glenn CD- toured the area. The cultural information Ukraine for teachers of English, and are ers in Ukraine's history and culture, but Ohio) presided at the ceremony. they accumulated from living in Albany soon to meet with teachers of Sumy in have found the Ukrainian commitment to "in my many discussions with Ukrainian and interacting with American host fami– regard to joint workshops and seminars survive truly impressive. judges, one issue always surfaces: The lies would become conversational material in the new resource center in Ohterka. Americans for Democracy in Ukraine commitment to establish an independent for their classes in Ukraine, in their courses Among the projects of each program and the Siena College Teacher Training judicial system. The challenge of the they learned the latest methods of teaching has been the development and writing of institute are continuing this program in Ukraine-Ohio project is to help them reach reading, writing and listening skills, and a Teachers Resource Manual which the 1995, bringing eight new teachers of their goal," Justice Moyer said. used the most modern audio-video and Siena graduates take back to Ukraine. English from another oblast in Ukraine. computer technology. Their American This then serves as a model for manuals Noting that the work of building a Ukraine can only become part of the world instructors included university professors, to be written by the newly trained teach– democracy is the primary responsibility of economic community, if it is understood. English as a Second Language specialists ers in Chernihiv and Sumy. These manu– the Ukrainians, Sen. Glenn said the legal if you are interested in additional infor– and visiting lecturers. als include chapters on teaching, method– program is a good example of U.S. assis– mation about the program or making a Despite the academically intensive ology, lesson plans and activities to be tance."l am pleased that the excellent Ohio donation, please write to: Americans for program at Siena, the teachers from used in the classrooms. judiciary will be making its expertise and Democracy for Ukraine, P. O. Box 3874, Chernihiv visited New York City and Not only have these Ukrainian teach– experience available to develop a judicial Albany, N.Y. 12203-3874, or call Michael Washington. Ukrainian families in ers been making a strong impact on the training program with the Ukrainian Heretz, President, at (518) 456-2119. Ministry of Justice," Sen. Glenn said. Albany and in New York City hosted the educational system in Ukraine, they have teachers for the first week after their Ohio court officials will oversee the made an impact on the Ukrainian arrival in the States, which helped accli– training program that will include seminars American and American communities mate the teachers to the language, culture and classes on property law, contracts, here in the United States. and customs of the U.S. This provided an Librarians selected basic trial procedure and judicial ethics. One American professor, for example, easy transition for their move into the The program will be funded by the Agency not only trained the visiting teachers, but homes of American host families. for international Development (A1D) sent them home with cassette players to as visiting fellows be used in the classroom. "They can't through a contract with ARD7Checchi, a The program, founded by Dr. Lydia WASHINGTON - The Library of Washington-based firm specializing in Tarnavsky, was directed this summer by learn English unless they hear English," Congress and the Soros Foundation have international issues. Helen Ulitsky and assisted by Dr. she said. Her husband arranged with two made final selections for the 1994 class The training program is the result of more Patricia Wheeler, it brings together the opticians in Albany for four of the teach– ers to receive free eye exams and glasses. of the visiting Fellows Program for than two years of meetings and discussions best teachers from Ukraine and connects them with professors, families, and vo– Doctors worked with program organiz– librarians and information specialists between representatives of Ohio and from Central and Eastern Europe and the Ukrainian courts, in 1992 Justice Moyer lunteers in New York. ers to help these Ukrainian teachers with Each year the program has targeted a their medical problems. For example, an countries of the former Soviet Union. played host to a delegation of top officials This is the third year for the program, from Ukraine's Supreme Court, lawyers' different oblast in Ukraine. The 13 partici– eye surgeon performed a delicate operation pants of the summer 1993 program have on the eyes of one of the Ukrainian teach– funded by the New York foundation to (Continued on page 21) returned to Sumy Oblast, trained well over ers. He had surgery in Ukraine years promote intercultural relations. The group includes nine librarians, s s ' ^ ;-',^:s^v ^ one library director, one university stu– dent and one professor of information science. The class of 1994 also repre– Ukrainian officers train at Canadian army base sents different types of libraries - nation– by Nestor Gula After a brief introduction of each officer should be applied there. al, university, public and special - as the floor was open for questions from the "Everything we learn here, the method– well as different functions within them. TORONTO - Five military officers sizable crowd. The officers were asked ology and the technical knowledge, we The fellows are to participate in a from Ukraine, four from the Ukrainian about their daily routine at CFB Borden, will take with us to Ukraine, use it on a three-month program introducing them Armed Forces and one from the Ukrainian about the oath they had to take to be a personal level and try to teach others and to the mission, organization and opera– National Guard, are taking training courses part of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, and incorporate the knowledge into the tions of the Library of Congress. A at a Canadian army base north of Toronto. the state of the Ukrainian Armed Forces machinery of the Ukrainian Armed month devoted to general orientation will The five officers arrived in Canada on in Ukraine, among others. Forces," said Col. Kozak. He mentioned be followed by five weeks of specialized July 17 at the invitation of the Canadian Col. Kozak did most of the talking for that he particularly liked the way Canadian work assignments within the library Department of National Defense. They the group and said that their training con– servicemen interacted with each other. designed to meet the fellows' profession– will be in Canada for five months, leav– ditions at CFB Borden were excellent. At the end of the meeting it was al needs and to coincide with the goals of ing on December 17. They are stationed He said he enjoyed Canadian methods of announced that it was Cap. Yachisin's the library, in November the class will at Canadian Forces Base Borden and are training, noting that they are different birthday and the crowd sang a rounsing visit the Online Computer Library Center studying at the Canadian Forces than in Ukraine, and that some of them "Mnohaya Lita." in Dublin, Ohio. Academy of Leadership and Language. The Library of Congress-Soros Attending the training sessions in Foundation visiting Fellows Program Canada are Col. Yuri Kozak, Col. Уаіегу was initiated in 1992 by James H. Svirdenko, Lt. Col. Dmitry Lenov, Capt. Billington, librarian of Congress, and Sergei Yachishin and Lt. Andriy Zhukov. George Soros, president of the Soros Col. Kozak is the senior officer for the Foundation. group. They were selected to attend the The competitive selection process training courses because of their knowl– begins at the local Soros Foundation edge of the English language and their offices throughout Central and Eastern individual fields of expertise. Europe and the newly independent Col. Kozak is the first assistant to the states, where staff members initially head of the Odessa institute for infantry, screen applications from librarians and professor and doctor of Technical Studies. information specialists of the region who Col. Svirdenko is an officer of the National are fluent in English. Local staffs also Guard. Lt. Col. Lenov is in the field of mil– conduct interviews and English profi– itary education. Capt. Yachishin graduated ciency examinations. The final selection as an engineer with the Anti-Aircraft of 12 visiting fellows is made by a Forces of the Ukrainian Armed Forces and Library of Congress selection team. holds a diploma in military translation. Lt. Among the 1994 visiting fellows is Zhukov is a student in computer studies. Olena Garaschenko, Regional Universal The five officers had an opportunity to Research Library, Kirovohrad, Ukraine. meet the Ukrainian community in Other fellows are from Bulgaria, Toronto on Sunday, September 25, at the Albania, Croatia, Kyrghyzstan, Slovenia, Canadian Ukrainian Art Foundation, and Officers of Ukrainian armed forces during a presentation at a Canadian army Russia, Hungary, Poland, Estonia and nearly 200 people came to meet them. base north of Toronto. Slovakia. 13 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, OCTOBER ЗО, 1994 No. 44 !гг:::г::::!:;:::г:г^^ f Ш'з Teaching English in Ukraine program hosts instructors reunion

by Yarema Bachynsky KERHONKSON, N.Y. - Those lucky enough to have participated in the Ukrainian National Association's Teaching English in Ukraine program during the summer of 1994 were treated to a weekend on Batko Soyuz. On September 17-18, Soyuzivka played host to some 20 of this summer's volunteer teachers of English as a Second Language (ESL). Participants took the opportunity to reminisce about good times and bad, exchange teaching tips, discuss ways to improve the program and just have a good time in a familial spirit. The reunion started on Saturday atler– noon, with registration and opening remarks by UNA President Ulana Diachuk. After being introduced by Oksana Trytjak, special projects coordi– nator for the UNA, Mrs. Diachuk gave a brief assessment of this year's program, in which she noted the ever-developing and progressive nature of the program, which, for the fourth straight year, has sent approximately 100 teaching volun– teers to locations throughout Ukraine. in particular, Mrs. Diachuk expressed her thanks to the volunteers, "without whom the implementation of the pro- cram would not be possible"; Mrs. Trytjak for "her tireless efforts on the program's behalf"; and, last but not least, Dr. Zirka voronka, the program director, who oversees the program and travels to numerous teaching locations and ensures that serious problems are quickly and effectively solved. Recollections of experiences Following Mrs. Diachuk's opening remarks, several instructors briefly recounted some of their experiences ^^^^^ After the film, some "reunionists" while "on the hustings." Orysia Hladio, Christine Brodyn of the UNA Home recounted having been asked by repaired to their resting places, while a who taught a beginners' course in Office meanwhile, provided commentary illichivske locals why high Ukrainian small minority retired to the Trembita Kolomyia (in the Carpathian mountains), on the program and its implementa– officials, supposedly serving the Lounge. There again, the tendency was noted that she perceived a "greater sense tion When taken together with the photo of freedom" among the populace during Ukrainian state, as well as many foreign– to recount the glorious and inglorious montage arranged by the reunion coordi– experiences of the past summer. this summer's teaching tour than she had ers fluent in the language, continue to use nators, the afternoon's sessions provided On Sunday, following divine liturgy felt in 1992, during her previous visit to Russian instead. the perfect opportunity for reaffirming Other volunteers mentioned timeless and a quick breakfast, reunion partici– Ukraine. the achievements and potential of the pants gathered for a group picture near One example of this sense of freedom personal experiences while teaching in Teaching English in Ukraine program. Ukraine. Dennis Stachiw, who taught in the Main House. Passers-by were recruit– was the increase in complaining by the Following dinner in the Main House Lviv, put on a marvelous slide show, ed to snap numerous photographs, as it locals. Mrs. Hladio said that people corn- dining room, reunion participants where which featured breathtaking shots of the seems that almost every reunionist had plain more now, both because they have treated to a special screening of Oles brought along a camera. lost their fear of the state and because Carpathians and enough arboreal photos Yanchuk's "Famine 33," a searing drama they have begun to learn about the true to turn even the dispassionate observer about Stalin and Kaganovich's genocide Suggestions for improvements nature of life in the West. Quite likely, into a closet environmentalist. . against Ukraine's hardy peasants. After the photo-ops, there was a con- Daria Semegen and UNA volunteer Mrs Hladio believes, the increase in eluding discussion aimed at focusing on complaints serves as a stimulus towards ways to improve the program. action, whether it be selling wares at a A number of participants suggested bazaar or eventually opening a small pretesting potential Ukrainian students in business. order to ensure their proper classification Atanas Kobryn, a second-year volun– as beginning, intermediate or advanced teer who taught at lllyichivsk, Odessa ESL students. Mrs. Trytjak pointed out Oblast, seconded many of Mrs. Hladio's that while this would be desirable, it is remarks, adding that despite all the nega– frequently impossible to do, owing to the tivism about the extent of Russification unevenness of the English instruction in today's Ukraine, there is much provided the students during the school progress to celebrate. year. Mr. Kobryn recounted the experience Lena Onyshkewych, a young volun– of another volunteer, Kristina Rak– teer who taught in Romny, Sumy Oblast, Brown, on her first day of classes in remarked that attention needs to be illichivske. Ms. Brown, a law student focused more on the in-country whose work load prevented her from (Ukrainian) English teachers, with an attending the reunion, took a firm stand eye towards radically changing their in support of the Ukrainian language teaching methods. ESL-type programs right at the outset of her teaching tour. with their emphasis on conversation and When, having told her student body that the fluidity of situations in general, are the language of instruction would be an excellent way of reaching not only English and, in the worst case students, but teachers as well, said Ms. Ukrainian, Ms. Brown noticed some ot Onyshkewych. her students talking among themselves in The reunion ended with a farewell Russian, she immediately left the class- from Mrs. Diachuk and Mrs. Trytjak, room, in a flash, her students ran after who expressed hope that reunion partici– her brought her back to the room and pants would take part in the program promised to speak only English and once more and encourage others to be Ukrainian from thereon in. S^SS^f^f^^ part of Teaching English in Ukraine. 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100 Years of Dedicated Soccer coach Eugene Chyzowych Service to Ukrainians and Ukrainian 1894 Nationhood! reaches milestone 500 victories by Nestor Olesnycky is ranked ninth in the state of New Jersey The Cleveland District of the Ukrainian National Association is sponsoring a and is a serious contender for the Group 4 NEWARK, N.J. - The renowned State Championship, and the top seed in the JUBILEE BANQUET Ukrainian-born soccer coach, Eugene ongoing Essex County Tournament. to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the Ukrainian National Association on Chyzowych of South Orange, N.J., Coach Chyzowych's teams are always Sunday, November 6,1994 recently became the first high school soc– ranked in the top 20 in the state of New at 2:00 p.m. cer coach in New Jersey, and only the Jersey, and he has already brought Holy Trinity Ukrainian Orthodox Church Hall third nationally, to coach 500 soccer Columbia High School several state wins in his career. 9672 State Road championships both in boys' soccer and North Royalton, Ohio On October 18, Mr. Chyzowych won girls' volleyball. He retired as volleyball game number 500 as his Columbia High coach without ever having lost a match! Keynote Speaker School Cougars beat West Morris High Mr. Chyzowych said his plans for the WALTER SOCHAN School by a score of 2-1 in Long valley, future include winning 600 games and Honorary Member of the UNA General Assembly N.J. watching his beloved soccer develop into He now boasts a record of 500-96-42, a major league sport in the U.S. He said Tickets at S20.00 may be purchased from Branch secretaries, at and trails only Ebbie Dunn and Bob Cleveland Selfreliance Credit Union, or at the U.N.A. District Office he particularly enjoys coaching against at 5691 State Road, Parma, Ohio, tel. (216)888-4919 Horgan of Missouri, who won 578 and many of his former players, all of whom 571 games, respectively. picked up the game as youngsters in the Having recently lost his younger brother, Cougar Soccer Club of Maplewood-South 100th Anniversary 100 Ліття Walter, to a premature death due to a heart Orange, which has sent many excellent Українського Ukrainian attack, Mr. Chyzowych has dedicated this players both into his and other high school Народного season to the memory of his brother. His soccer programs and into major college National team, currently boasting a record of 12-1-1, programs where they also excelled. Союзу Association

Округа Українського Народного Союзу Великого Клівленду влаштовує Parliament. That's hardly a massive The ugly face... reflection of the Ukrainian will! This ЮВІЛЕЙНИЙ БЕНКЕТ (Continued from page 9) lunatic group has about as much influ– ence in Ukraine as the Ku Klux Klan in для відзначення 100 ліття засновання Українського Народного Союзу set foot in Canada, 11 have died in the U.S. в залі Св. Тройці УАПЦ Canada, two have left for another coun– в неділю, дня 6-го листопада 1994 року try, no prima facie case has been estab– Rabbi Bleich's statement appears о год. 2-ій по полудні lished against 16, and the last one could especially disingenuous, in view of the not be located." fact that the good rabbi met with mem– Головний промовець bers of the American Jewish Committee- The scenes picturing members of ВОЛОДИМИР СОХАН sponsored Ukrainian7Jewish good will Ukrainian ultranationalist parties (later Почесний член Головного Уряду УНС tour last summer and his comments to Ukrainian scouts) marching in Lviv with them were mostly positive. Квитки вступу no S20.00 можна набувати від секретарів відділів, у torches (which are meant to conjure up Кредитовій Кооперативі „САМОПОМІЧ" або у Клівлендському б'юрі У.Н.С. images of torchlight parades in Nazi The final outrage of the CBS calum– ny, however, is the way the Ukrainian Germany) and the reaction of Rabbi Catholic Church is mangled and manipu– Yaakov Bleich, chief rabbi for Ukraine, 100 Років Служіння lated into a posture of seeming anti- are another blatant example of dissimula– Semitism. At no time does CBS mention Українському Народові tion. The views of the marchers, mem– the work of Archbishop Andrey й Українській Державі! bers of political parties who want Jews 1994 Sheptytsky who, as David Kahane in his out of Ukraine, are presented as if they book "Lvov Ghetto Diary" underscores, represent mainstream thinking in saved the lives of countless Jews, includ– Ukraine. 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Ship NOW for,.. CHK1STMAS лий NEW YEAR ЬСЬУСГЦ has agreed to decontrol prices on certain Newsbriefs commodities — this in keeping with (Continued from page 2) President Leonid Kuchma's economic reform program. Ukrainian Television had intercepted a shipment of 150 auto– reported on October 24 that the goods and matic weapons destined for Symferopil in services singled out for price decontrol the Crimea. Reuters reported that a senior include coal, gas, electricity, rent, bread officer of the Dniester Republic's interior and baby food. (RFE7RL Daily Report) Affairs Ministry was caught with the shipment and arrested by the army. The Sevastopil in arrears to Kyyiv military command has previously noted " PACKAGE and FOOD Parcel Service ^ covert contacts between Dniester and KYYiv — Sevastopil will not pay Crimean secessionists. (RFE7RL Daily taxes to Kyyiv, reported Ukrainian ZAKARPATSKA, ivANO-FRANKlYSKA Report) Television on October 21, quoting viktor Semenov, head of the Sevastopil City LVIVSKA and CHERNIVTSI OBLAST M1LLER Baby Furniture RAHWAY Travel Steven MUSEY EL lNCA l.P.S. israel helps Ukraine's cholera victims Council, who said the city is in such a Brooklyn, NY Rahway, NJ Millville, NJ Union City, NJ grave economic situation that it cannot KYYiv — Heeding a request from 718 438-3290 908 381-8800 609 825-7665 201 974-2538 Ukraine's Embassy in israel, the govern– afford to hand over tax revenues to the rnent of that country has approved assis– national government. Mr. Semenov also AUTHORlZED AGENTS tance to Ukraine for its battle against the said the city is exploring the possibility cholera epidemic. Nearly 300 kilograms of receiving credits from Russia. Thus of antibiotics worth S20,000 were sent far, Sevastopil, located in the Crimea, has aboard an israel і airplane to Kyyiv. The failed to pay 1 trillion karbovantsi to UKRAINE VIDEOS І Jewish agency Sokhnut has also pledged Kyyiv. (RFE7RL Daily Report) Educational - Travelogues ІЩШШІЇЙ^ to aid cholera victims in the Crimea, Lubachivsky greets Patriarch volodymyr .л SPECTACULAR ft BREATHTAK1NG " reported Ukraine's Ministry of Foreign Over 55 minutes each. Affairs. (Respublika) Lviv — The primate of the Ukrainian 827.95 each plus S3 shipping and handling Greek-Catholic Church, Cardinal for each video ordered. Parliament committees review CPU vote Myroslav ivan Lubachivsky, on October To order please send check or money order to: KYYiv — Several committees of the 25 sent a telegram to Patriarch volodymyr Gyratron Dev. Ltd., 151 Bayview Drive Supreme Council of Ukraine, including of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church — Point Roberts, Washington 98281 UKRA1NE- those that deal with the legislature's Kyyiv Patriarchate. The telegram Tel: (604) 662-8668 THE LAND AND Allow 2 - 3 weeks for delivery on all orders. 1TS PEOPLE rules, deputies' ethics and judicial-legal expressed greetings on the occasion of the reform, are looking into the voting on first anniversary of the patriarch's installa– . October 1.8 that lifted the Parliament's tion. (Press Office of the Ukrainian previous ban on the Communist Party of Greek-Catholic Church) Ukraine. The validity of the vote has SELF REL!ANCE (NEWARK, NJ) been questioned by democratic bloc Germany to help destroy missile silos FEDERAL CRED1T UNlON deputies who charge that some members BONN — Ukraine and Germany have 734 SANOFORD AvENUE, NEWARK, NJ 07106 of Parliament voted on behalf of absent agreed to work together to destroy Tel (201) 373-7839 - Fax (201) 373-8812 colleagues and thus brought the vote total "underground nuclear missile silos in over the necessary number needed for the Ukraine," Reuters said on September 13. measure to pass. (Respublika) A German government spokesperson said Bonn would "immediately" allocate Ukraine to decontrol prices some S650,000 for the project. (RFE7RL KYYiv — The Ukrainian government Daily Report) MORTGAGES ^ Re: Mail delivery of The Weekly Ctll es fir tome tf fkt ltW0tt rttet in H.J.l it has come to our attention that The Ukrainian Weekly is often deliv– ered late, or irregularly, or that our subscribers sometimes receive sever– As low as al issues at once. We feel it is necessary to notify our subscribers that The Weekly is 4.999Ь mailed out Friday mornings (before the Sunday date of issue) via second- class mail. "0" Points on ALL Mortgages if you are not receiving regular delivery of The Weekly, we urge you to Call the Loan Department for details file a complaint at your local post office. This may be done by obtaining the U.S. Postal Service Consumer Card and filling out the appropriate New Jersey Residents Only - 1 to 4 Family owner occupied Rates subject to change sections. і^шттшжтшшш 24 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, OCTOBER ЗО, 1994 No. 44

Sunday, October 30 will be the Surma Choir of Rochester. Tickets, PREVIEW OF EVENTS at S10, can be purchased at the Ukrainian JERSEY C1TY, N.J.: The 1994 New Credit Union, "The Mosaic" and at the door. Jersey Ethnic Festival, the official multi-eth– p.m. The dance will feature the Tempo orches– lyrics by Bohdan Lepky, with Daria nic celebration of the state of New Jersey, ENC1N1TAS, Calif.: internationally tra, under the direction of ireney Kowal. Hordynsky Karanowych, piano accompa– will be held, rain or shine, at Liberty State acclaimed concert pianist Mykola Suk will Tickets S10, adults; S5, students. For reserva– nist; Alex Kuzma, biographical sketch of Park's Central Railroad Terminal, 11 a.m.-6 perform a solo recital for the Lake Marcos tions and additional information contact Stella Metropolitan Andrey; Olha Stahchyshyn, p.m.; free admission. The festival program Chamber Music Society in the San Dieguito Maciach, (201) 963-0936. bandura performance; as well as recitations will feature continuous entertainment, foods, by school children from various parishes United Methodist Church, 170 Calle crafts, arts, special exhibits and educational Sunday, November 6 throughout the deanery. The Rev. Joseph Magdalena, at 3 p.m. Featured will be a pro- displays. The festival opened Saturday, Szupa, pastor, St. Nicholas Ukrainian gram of works by Mozart, Beethoven, Liszt October 29, with the governors' Freedom NEW YORK: An exhibit by artists of the Catholic Church, Passaic, will serve as mas– and Skoryk. Admission: S14; S12, seniors; Parade and opening ceremonies. The festival Ukrainian Artists' Association of Canada ter of ceremonies. The program is a culmi– S7, students. For further information call is sponsored by the New Jersey Department opens at the gallery of the Ukrainian Artist' nation of prayer services and tributes that (619) 744-7516 or 471-2118. of State and the New Jersey Ethnic Advisory Association of America, 136 Second Ave., at are being held in the individual parishes of Council. For additional information call 1 p.m. Gallery hours: Sunday, 1-6 p.m.; Saturday, November 12 Tuesday-Friday, 6-8 p.m.; Saturday, 1-5 p.m. the deanery beginning November 4. Free (609)777-4134. PHILADELPHIA: The voiosnky The exhibit runs through November 13. admission; donation is requested. For further NEW HAvEN, Conn.: St. Michael's information contact Deacon Arthur Ukrainian Dance Ensemble will hold its Ukrainian Catholic Church and the Holy UNlON, N.J.: A commemorative program Dochych, (908)381-3943. annual autumn dance at the Ukrainian Name Society will celebrate their anniver– in observance of the 50th anniversary of the Educational and Cultural Center, 700 Cedar ROCHESTER, N.Y.: The Rochester Road, Jenkintown, Pa., at 9 p.m. Music will saries. the 85th and 35th, respectively, with death of Metropolitan Andrey Sheptytsky, Ukrainian Community Committee invites the be provided by the Crystal Orchestra. a pontifical divine liturgy celebrated by organized by the Deanery of the Ukrainian Catholic Archdiocese of Philadelphia, titled public to a commemorative concert honoring Admission (includes voloshky performance, Bishop Basil Losten at 10:15 a.m., to be fol– "Portrait of a Prince," will be held in the the 80th anniversary of the Ukrainian Sich canapes and dessert table): adults, S20; stu– !owed by a banquet in the church hall, 569 Union High School Auditorium at 3 p.m. Riflemen, the 50th anniversary of the Battle of dents Si5. To reserve a table call vira George St. For additional information con– Keynote speaker at the program will be Kurt Brody, the 50th anniversary of the Ukrainian Borys-Humick, (215) 379-3374. ;act Bohdan Sowa, (203) 297-5905. 1. Lewin, international management consul– Supreme Liberation Council and the 76th COATESviLLE, Pa.: Holy Ghost Tuesday, November 1 tant, president, К.І. Lewin's Associates inc., anniversary of the November 1 st Declaration Ukrainian Orthodox Church, 339 Charles and author, "A Journey Through illusions;" of independence. This event will take place at WASH1NGTON: The Washington Group, St., will hold its annual holiday bazaar at 10 in conjunction with Johns Hopkins Mr. Lewin address is titled "Reflections of St. Mary the Protectress Ukrainian Orthodox a.m.– 2 p.m. in the church hall. Home-made University's School of Advanced A Holocaust Survivor." Taking part in the Church auditorium, 3176 St. Paul Blvd., at 4 varenyky, holubtsi, nut rolls, baked goods international Studies, presents a lecture by commemorative program are the combined p.m. Prof. Taras Hunczak, Rutgers University, and ethnic crafts will be available. rK. Orest Subtelny, professor of history, choirs from the parishes of Newark, Passaic will be featured speaker. Featured in the con- " ork University, on "The Ukrainian Crisis and Jersey City, under the direction of cert program will be Oleh Krysa, world Sunday, November 13 in Historical Perspective," to be held at the Mykhailo Stashchyshyn, in the performance renowned violinist and professor, Eastman SAKS-Kenney Auditorium, 1740 Mas– of the cantata "in the Cathedral of St. School of Music, Rochester, and his wife, KERHONKSON, N.Y.: Ukrainian National Women's League of America Branch 95 sachusetts Ave. NW, 6-7:30 p.m. For addi– George," composed by Sr. Laura Palka with pianist Tatianna Tchekina. Also appearing 4 :;onal information call (202) 663-5795. invites the public to a "Hutsul Dinner,' fea– turing a traditional Hutsul menu and program. Saturday, November 5 PLEASE NOTE: Preview items must be received one week before desired The dinner will be held at the Holy Trinity NEW YORK: The Ukrainian institute of date of publication. No information will be taken over the phone. Preview Ukrainian Catholic Church hall, Foordmore America, 2 E. 79 St., is holding a concert items will be published only once (please indicate desired date of publication). Road, beginning at 12:30 p.m. program titled "The Poetry of Lesia All items are published at the discretion of the editorial staff and in accor– WOONSOCKET, R.L: The Ladies Ukrainka in Song and Recitation," to be dance with available space. Sodality of St. Michael's Ukrainian held at the institute at 8 p.m. Featured will Orthodox Church will sponsor its annual PREviEW OF EvENTS, a listing of Ukrainian community events open to be artists from Kyyiv: Svitlana vatamaniuk, Christmas bazaar in the parish hall, 74 recitation; Nadia Petrenko-Matviychuk, the public, is a service provided free of charge by The Ukrainian Weekly to the Harris Ave., at 10:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m. soprano; and Svitlana Hlukh, piano. Ukrainian community. To have an event listed in this column, please send Featured will be the Ukrainian restaurant JERSEY C1TY, N.J.: Ukrainian National information (type of event, date, time, place, admission, sponsor, etc.) — typed (eat-in or take-out), a giant Santa's attic, Women's League of America Branch 71 will and in the English language — along with the phone number of a person who craft items and a pastry table. For further r,o!d its traditional Fall Dance at the Ukrainian may be reached during daytime hours for additional information, to: Preview information contact the rectory, (401) 762- National Home, 90-96 Fleet St., starting at 9 of Events, The Ukrainian Weekly, 30 Montgomery St., Jersey City, N.J. 07302. 3939, or Sandra Hreczuck, (508) 883-4327.

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