The Ukrainian Weekly 1978, No.23
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www.ukrweekly.com f СВОБОДАІРУОВООА І І УКРАЇНСЬКИЙ ЩОАЄННИК Щ^ UKRAINIAN DAILV Щ Щ ENGLISH-LANGUAGE WEEKLY EDITION у VOL. LXXXVШ No. 130 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JUNE 11,1978 25 CENTS Soviets order Trial of Lukianenko expected to begin soon roinian WeelcAfter hils releas e he settled down in expulsion of two NEW YORK, N.Y.—The KGB investigation into the activity of Lev Chernihiv and eventually joined the Lukianenko, a member of the Kiev Kiev group. The Ukrainian human exhibit guides Public Group to Promote the rights advocates wrote that his Implementation of the Helsinki membership in the group prompted MOSCOW, USSR.-The Soviet Accords, is nearing an end and dissident continued repression against him. government demanded on June 5 the sources in Ukraine expect him to be "We never thought that the signing of immediate withdrawal of two American brought to trial soon, reported the press the Helsinki Accords would be a mere guides connected with the U.S. agricul service of the Ukrainian Supreme formality, and people who attempted to tural exhibit for what it called "incen Liberation Council (abroad). diary activity slandering the Soviet state implement its provisions and fought against violations of human rights and social system," reported Western In view of his impending trial, would be placed in the defendant's news agencies. members of the Kiev group issued last chair, though not all at once, but all Among the two Americans asked to April an urgent appeal to Ukrainians in individually," they wrote. leave was Walter Lupan of Washington, the West for help because Helsinki After a five-month-long investiga D.C., who is of Ukrainian descent. watchers in Ukraine fear that he may be sentenced to 10 years incarceration and tion, they expect that Lukianenko's trial Mr. Lupan, formerly of Philadelphia, five years exile. will soon begin in Chernihiv. They fear Pa., was in the Soviet Union only for the that he may be sentenced to the full Kiev segment of the yearlong exhibit, Lukianenko was arrested on extent of the law. said an embassy spokesman. At the time December 12, 1977, and charged under Lev Lukianenko "It stands to reason that when one the Soviet Foreign Ministry protested article 62 of the Criminal Code of the importance, of our group," wrote the considers what Ukrainians are being to the U.S. Embassy the alleged anti- Ukrainian SSR — "anti-Soviet Kiev group members. sentenced for, that people, whose hearts Soviet activities of the two exhibit agitation and propaganda." He was The letter went on to praise are alive, will not be able to remain guides, Mr. Lupan had already left the released from his earlier 15-year Lukianenko as a person who has no silent," wrote the Kiev dissidents. "So USSR. imprisonment for advocating the equal, "a talented lawyer, publicist, who far, little is heard about Lev TASS, the Soviet press agency, secession of Ukraine from the USSR on wrote a theoretical treatise about the Lukianenko beyond Ukraine. We are claimed Mr. Lupan "viciously de January 10, 1976. secession of Ukraine from the Soviet losing hope that there are people across nounced the Soviet electoral system and "Lukianenko is the sixth member, Union on the basis of constitutional the oceans who can help us in this (Continued on page 4) and second after Mykola Rudenko in guarantees." uneven and difficult fight." 6,000 attend fourth NJ. Ukrainian Festival HOLMDEL, N.J.—Some 6,000 per gram of Ukrainian music and dancing sons, undismayed by intermittent rain that saw even the skies stunned into that cut short the afternoon outdoor dryness. program, feasted their eyes, ears and The downpour held off long enough appetites on some marvelous samples of - perhaps in deference to the enthu Ukrainian culture at the fourth Ukrai siasm of the crowd and the performers nian Festival held here Saturday, June — for the outdoor program to run its 3, on the spacious grounds of the near course, with only "Chervona Garden State Arts Center. Ruta" orchestra unable to show off its No sooner did the gates open at 11 musical prowess. a.m., festival-goers from near and far Emceed by Nestor Holynskyj, the began to make their way to the elevated plaza program had the following parti grounds of the Center from buses and cipants: a group of pre-schoolers, under cars that they had just parked to the left the direction of Martha Sawycky, and below. They viewed exhibits of fine performing pantomimes, skits and and folk arts, watched as nifty hands dances; the New York School of Ban- produced carvings, embroidery and dura ensemble under the direction of "pysanky," arid virtually besieged the the Rev. S. Kindzeriavy-Pastukhiv; the tents for some tasty tidbits of Ukrainian Ukrainian Folk Dance Ensemble from food. New York under the direction of Ulana The crowds continued to swell des Kunynska-Shmerykovska; the "Zore- pite the ominous clouds that for the first pad" Dance Ensemble from Albany time threatened to shed some wet stuff under the direction of Roma Pryma- on what has been the most grandiose Bohachevsky; the "Chaika" Folk Dan Festival photos by Osyp Starostiak Ukrainian event in the state. They cers from Millville, N.J.; the "Sonia- The opening "Pryvit" (Welcome) dance performed by the "Echoes of Ukraine" shnyk" Ensemble from East Brunswick finally did at about 3:30 in the after Dance Ensemble. noon, forcing the throng to scurry back under the direction of O. Martynovych; to their cars or hide under the tents. the "Kobza" Plast girl ensemble from the festival committee, stressing that cent renditions of Ukrainian songs and Some began to flock to the roofed Passaic under the direction of Andrew this event is yet another attestation to dances. amphitheater and take their seats a Farmiga; and the "Izmarahd" orchestra "our growing presence in this land of the . Cecil Semchyshyn, the impeccable good hour before the stage program was from Passaic. free and a reaffirmation of our unbreak master of ceremonies from Winnipeg, to begin. A few of the pessimists, who The latecomers were still making able bond with our captive yet never Man., preceded the program with the had planned to watch the program from their way to their seats inside the conquered people in Ukraine." renditions of the American and the the grassy knolls surrounding the amphitheater when Frederick F. Week, For the next three hours and forty Ukrainian national anthems to the theater, took off for home. Those of the liaison officer of the New Jersey High minutes the huge stage, adorned with a accompaniment of the "Tempo" or optimists who did stay were rewarded, way Authority which is in charge of the large trident, was a veritable panorama chestra and of the entire throng, for that along with the over 5,000 who had seats Arts Center, welcomed the throng as of Ukrainianism, with individual artists matter. He then moved the show inside the theater, with a superb pro did Michael Chaikivsky, chairman of and ensembles offering truly magnifi (Continued on page 16) 2 \ THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JUNE 11,1978 No. 130 Musevych, Marynovych trialiermedDr . Matthew Stachiw, 'pitiful spectacle'' by eyewitnesses scholar, editor, dies at 82 JERSEY CITY, N.J.—Dr. Matthew Stachiw, a noted Ukrainian scholar, writer and community leader, died at his son's California home Friday, June 2. He was 82 years old. Dr. Stachiw was born in the Zboriv region of western Ukraine on Nov ember 30, 1895. Before becoming active in the politi cal and civic spheres of the Ukrainian community in western Ukraine, Dr. Stachiw served as a lieutenant in the Ukrainian Galician Army from 1918 to 1920. In 1924, he received his doctorate of law from the University of Prague, where he also studied philosophy. Dr. Stachiw was also the recipient of the President T.G. Masaryk Scholarship. Returning to Ukraine, Dr. Stachiw Mykola Matusevych Myroslav Marynovych became editor of the weekly "Hro- HELSINKI, Finland. - Eye For example, the UIS said, when madskyi Holos".(Community Voice) in witnesses at the trial of Myroslav Matusevych tried to prove that he was Lviv in 1925. That year he also became Marynovych and Mykola Matusevych expelled from school not for poor general secretary of the Ukrainian have described the courtroom antics of academic standings, as the prosecutor Socialist-Radical Party. the judge and public as a "pitiful hoped to show, but for his convictions, From 1930 to 1939, Dr. Stachiw was spectacle," reported the "Smoloskyp" the audience's laughter drowned out his the director of the Ukrainian National Information Service. remarks. University in Lviv and for eight years Dr. Matthew Stachiw Marynovych and Matusevych are Marynovych bravely defended his during that time he conducted a private two members of the Kiev Public Group activity with the Kiev group and his law practice there. UCCA executive board, founder and to Promote the Implementation of the beliefs, said; the Baltimore-based He was also a member of the Associa member of the Secretariat of the World Helsinki Accords who were each sen information service, despited jeering to tion of Ukrainian Lawyers and the Congress of Free Ukrainians, president tenced in Vasylkiv, a town outside of the audience. The prosecution hopes to Association of Ukrainian Writers and of the Shevchenko Scientific Society in Kiev, on March 29 to seven years impri prove that the alleged anti-Soviet Journalists, both Lviv-based organiza the United States, the Council of sonment and five years exile. documents found in Marynovych's tions. Shevchenko Scientific Societies and the The UIS reported that the courtroom parents' apartment and the quarters of Emigrating from Ukraine in the mid- Association of Ukrainian Journalists of was filled with local residents who Oles Berdnyk and Yevhen Obertas were 1940's, Dr.