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о - о о г о ramian Ї si -: vol. LI No. 28 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, HJULY 10,1983 25 cents Soviets reported ready July 4 festivities open Soyuzivka season to accept compromise at Madrid Conference MADR1D - The Soviet Union announced on July 1 that it was now ready to negotiate "an immediate and successful conclusion" to the long- deadlocked Madrid Conference on security and human rights in Europe, reported the Los Angeles Times Wire Service. The Soviets said that they were prepared to accept "as the framework of negotiations" a Spanish compromise proposal put forth on June 17 at the 35- country conference reviewing the 1975 Helsinki Accords on security and co- operation in Europe. The Western powers accepted the Spanish proposal on June 24, and Max Kampelman, head of the U.S. delega– tion, said he welcomed the Soviet move. "We maybeneareragreementthanwe have been since our meeting began here two years and nearly 10 months ago," Mr. Kampelman said. He cautioned, however, that "some issues of consequence still appear to divide us," and noted that the Soviets had accepted the Spanish proposal only as a framework for negotiating a final agreement. The view fromabove : guests enjoy the firstday s of the summer season at Soyuzivka. The Soviet delegation also passed the word that Foreign Minister Andrei by Marta Kolomayets converge upon the UNA estate for So it was this past July 4 weekend. Gromyko was ready to come to Madrid conventions, meetings, banquets or Guests began arriving as early as Thurs– for a final signing ceremony between weddings. day evening in order to take advantage July 10 and July 15. KERHONKSON, NY. - Foorde– early the next day of the hot sun, fresh air and scenic view of the mountains. The Soviets'abrupt acceptance of the moore Road, the route leading up to Foordemoore Road becomes quite a Soyuvizka, is silently still for most of Spanish initiative appeared to be a busy thoroughfare, however, in the Friday, July 1, was a relatively complete turnaround from the position the year. Occasionally, during the summer, and it all starts July 4 week- winter months, a car will go by; during peaceful day at the resort as the tennis they took when it was presented to the end as thousands of people gather at the campers wound up their two-week conference by Prime Minister Filipe the spring and fall months, the road UNA resort nestled in the Catskills for becomes a bit more worn as people training and guests arrived throughout Gonzales. At the time, Soviet delega– the summer season-opener. the day. The weekend officially began tibn leader Anatoly Kovalev said his that evening with a dance on the veselka government had gone "to the limits of terrace. The Alex and Dorko Band, compromise," and was rejecting "each Reports on Shukhevych's transfer are unconfirmed now expanded to include two more and every one of the proposals made by musicians — saxophonist Levko Strot– countries that are members of the JERSEY C1TY, N.J. - There reportedly was exiled. Sources have sky and trumpet player Alex Soyfer, Atlantic Alliance." have been persistent but unconfirm– been unable to confirm Mr. provided music for the Soyuzivka The first to accept the Spanish pro– ed reports from Ukraine that exiled Shukhevych's exact whereabouts guests. posal were the so-called neutral and political prisoner Yuriy Shukhevych since he Was released from Chistopol non-aligned countries, which had pro- was recently transferred to a nursing Prison in March 1982. On Saturday morning, Soyuzivka was posed a draft of a concluding document home and may soon be allowed to There were also unconfirmed re- bustling with activity. Early morning that was rejected by the NATOal!ies for return to Ukraine. ports that his wife and daughter were swimmers waited for the pool to open, being noncommital in such areas as Mr. Shukhevych, 53, who is al– allowed to visit him at the hospital, competitors in the USCAK-East tennis human rights. Moreover, Rumania had most completely blind following eye and that he would shortly b'" per– tournament readied themselves for broken ranks with the Warsaw Pact surgery in a Leningrad prison hospital mitted to be transferred to a similar play, and guests and parents made their powers when it, too, accepted the last year, is not scheduled to com– facility in Lviv. Such a move could be way to the far end of Soyuzivka, to the Spanish proposal after agreeing to plete his exile term until 1987. The made under the provisions of a Lviv villa, to witness the closing cere- approve Western amendments to the son of the late Gen. Roman Soviet government ukase issued last monies of the girls' camp. Former neutral and non-aligned draft. Thus, the Shukhevych, commander of the U– year allowing first– and second- Soyuzivka manager and present UNA Soviets were almost completely isolated. krainian insurgent Army, Mr. category invalids to be moved from Supreme Advisor Walter Kwas and Late in June, Mr. Kovalev was Shukhevych was sentenced in 1972 to exile for medical reasons. honorary UNA Supreme Assembly recalled to Moscow for consultations. 10 years' imprisonment and five Although the reports have not member Mary Dushnyck spoke to the At the same time, the Warsaw Pact years' exile, it was his third 10-year been substantiated, the persistence of girls before they bid farewell to their heads,of government were hastily term. the rumors and the fact that they camp with the traditional singing of convened in Moscow on June 29. Mr. According to the rumors, Mr. reached the West indicate that, at the "Dobranich." Kovalev returned to Madrid on June Shukhevych was moved on July 12to very least, there have been fresh During the afternoon, guests and 30, and the following' day the Soviet an invalid hospital, probably in the developments in Mr. Shukhevych's visitors were able to view an exhibit of delegation began a series of bilateral iomsk region ot Siberia, wherehe case. oils, watercolors and graphics by vitally (Continued on page 3) (Continued on page S) THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JULY 10,1983 No. 28

Dissident profile Symchych, former OUN-UPA member, vasyl Lutskiv: sentenced to additional term JERSEY C1TY. N.J. - A former defendant in Jurists Case member of the Ukrainian insurgent Army (UPA) and the Organization of JERSEY C1TY, N.J. - The case an independent Ukraine. Ukrainian Nationalists who was due to of Ukrainian prisoner of conscience The defendants countered that be released from a Soviet labor camp vasyl Lutskiv, 48, currently incar– agitating for a right guaranteed in the late last year has been rearrested and cerated in a Soviet psychiatric constitution cannot be deemed in any sentenced to an additional term. hospital in Ternopil, is a particularly way criminal. They also introduced Reports from Ukraine reveal that tragic one. One of the seven original as evidence a draft program written Myroslav Symchych, 60, first arrested defendants in the famous Jurists by Mr. Lukianenko, which clearly in 1963 and sentenced to 15 years' Case in 1961, he was threatened with advocated "an independent Ukraine imprisonment for his part in the Ukrai– physical abuse, forced to denounce with a broadly developed Socialist nian liberation struggle, was sentenced his co-defendants and then sentenced state system." to two and a half years of imprison– to 10 years in a labor camp. Released But a major setback to the defense ment in January, reported the Smolo– in 1971, he was arrested and sentenc– came when it was revealed that Mr. skyp Ukrainian information Service. ed sometime before 1976 to an un– Lutskiv had signed a statement that He had previously served a 15-year term determined stretch in a mental hospi– said he had urged the others to armed from 1948 to 1963. tal after being convicted of "anti- struggle against Soviet rule and that The trial, which Mr. Symchych Soviet agitation and propaganda" Mr. Lukianenko had supported him. demanded be conducted in Ukrainian, under Article 62 of the Ukrainian it became apparent that Mr. Lutskiv was held in the city of Orikhov. The Criminal Code. had been bribed by the KGB, which presiding magistrate was identified as vasyl Stepanovych Lutskiv was offered him freedom for his testi– Judge Meshchanin. The prosecution, born in the village of Pavlov in the mony against his co-defendants. headed by a man identified only as Lviv region in 1935. His parents were However, despite his cooperation, Matusenko, charged that Mr. Sym– peasants. According to records of his Mr. Lutskiv was sentenced to 10 chych engaged in "nationalist propa– Myroslav Symchych trial, he finished nine years of school years in a labor camp. Mr. Lukia– ganda" while in labor camp. and managed a village club in Pavlov nenko was sentenced to be shot, but propaganda to sway them toward his Two Russian prisoners testified that views, in reply, Mr. Symchych re– before his first arrest. it was later commuted to 15 years' Mr. Symchych had used anti-Soviet Some time in the late 1950s, he imprisonment. Mr. Kandyba also portedly stated that he would have became acquainted with several received a 15-year term. Mr. virun chosen to direct his propaganda at young Ukrainian activists whoshared got 11 years, while Messrs. Libovych, Ukrainians, in his final statement, he the ideal of the eventual secession of Borovnytsky and Kipysh each got 10. Barladianu, Melnychuk said he was being tried as a member of Ukraine from the Soviet Union, a the UPA and the OUN, which he said right guaranteed by the Soviet Con– in a petition to the Central Com– recently released fought all occupiers of Ukrainian, be stitution. Among these men were mittee of the Communist Party of the they Russians, Germans or Hungarians. three young lawyers, lvan Kandyba, Ukrainian SSR drafted in 1965, Mr. JERSEY C1TY, N.J. - Two Ukrai– Lev Lukianenko and Josyf Borov– Lutskiv revealed that he had been nian political prisoners finished their nytsky. threatened by the KGB before sign– terms and were released from imprison– ing the confession, which he said was Two dissidents By 1959, these young activists, ment in the last few months, reported totally fabricated by police officials. the Smoloskyp Ukrainian information along with Stepan virun, a 27-year- He said that during his conversations old Communist propagandist, Olek– Service. "recant" after trial with KGB officials, he could hear the vasyl Barladianu, a 41-year-old art sander Libovych, a 24-year;-old agri– horrible moans of a man being s 'cultural engineer, andfvih' Kipysh, a ' historian and critic, was released from a ELL1COTT C1TY, Md. - Two 1 mercilessly beaten in an adjoining criminal camp after completing a three- Soviet dissidents sentenced last April in 'W^da'r'-joltf^m'rrtoye-e-of militia! room, and that he was warned that a agencies in Lviv, began discussing year sentence for "slandering the Soviet Leningrad to labor-camp terms re– similar fate awaited him if he did not state." He was arrested in 1980 while portedly recanted their activities on the possibility of forming a group to cooperate. represent their ideas. They drafted a serving the last year of a previous three- television shortly after their trial, program of principles on which the "1 became frightened and agreed to year term for his activities in conjunc– said the Smoloskyp Ukrainian group would be based, among them present handwritten testimony which tion with the Ukrainian Helsinki Group. information Service here. the democratization of life in U– the KGB administration supposedly The other prisoner to be released was Rostyslav Yevdokimov, 35, and kraine, the guarantee of basic civil needed because it lacked sufficient poet Taras Melnychuk, 50, who was vyacheslav Dolinin, 35, were arrested and human rights and the possible (proofs for its) charges against sentenced in 1979 to four years in a after Soviet customs agents found their formation of an independent Ukrai– Lukianenko," Mr. Lutskiv said. labor camp for "hoologanism" under writings in the luggage of a foreign nian state along Socialist and Com– He added that he signed other Article 206 of the Ukrainian Criminal citizen leaving the country, according to munist lines. records "fabricated by the same Code. The charge stemmed from his TASS, the Soviet press agency. They in November 1960 fivemember s of investigator" which said that UWPU activities with the Ukrainian national were convicted of disseminating "false the unofficial group, which by then was anti-Soviet, nationalist and movement. He had served a previous and slanderous materials" about the was known as the Ukrainian Workers' clandestine. term from 1972 to 1975 for alleged Soviet Union. and Peasants' Union, met to discuss Mr. lutskiv continued: "Later, "anti-Soviet agitation and propa– But several days after the trial, both the aims of the organization, in investigator Denisov forced me to ganda," Article 62 of the Ukrainian men appeared on separate television addition to Mr. Lutskiv, the meeting sign records in which he had written Criminal Code. broadcasts and made public confessions. was attended by Messrs. Kandyba, that on November 6,1960, lsupposed– The exact whereabouts of both men are An Associated Press story about the Lukianenko, virun and Mykola ly urged Lukianenko, virun, Kan– not known. Mr. Barladianu has a wife trial reported that Mr. Yevdokimov was vashchuk, a student at the Higher dyba and vershchuk to an armed and daughter in Odessa, and Mr. sentenced to five years in a labor camp, Party School and a KGB informer. struggle against Soviet rule and to Melnychuk lived in lvano-Frankivske while Mr. Dolinin got four years. Both At the meeting it was decided to activity in the Army, and that sup– before his arrest. (Continued on page 15) revise the objectives of the union, posedly Lukianenko had also spoken instead of a complete secession of in favor of an armed struggle, which Ukraine, the new goal was to achieve in reality neither 1 nor Lukianenko legal status for Ukraine within the had done." USSR through official recognition He also denied government charges over and above what was already in that the group was planning subver– the constitution. sive activity in the ranks of the afmy. Ukrainian WeeH On January 20, 196Ц the KGB in concluding his petition, Mr. Y arrested Messrs. Lutskiv, Lukia– Lutskiv also asked that his case be FOUNDED 1933 nenko, Kandyba and virun. Five reviewed along with those of his co- days later they picked up Mr. defendants. Ukrainian weekly newspaper published by the Ukrainian National Association inc., a fraternal Libovych. Mr. Kipysh was arrested After his release in 1971, it is non-profit association, at 30 Montgomery St, Jersey City, NJ. 07302. on March 23, and Mr. Borovnytsky believed that Mr. Lutskiv, who is (The Ukrainian Weekly - USPS 570-870) was taken into custody the next day. unmarried, went to live with relatives Also published by the UNA: Svoboda, a Ukrainian-language daily newspaper. in May 1961 all seven were tried in near Ternopil. The exact date of his secret on charges of treason and 1 or arrest is not known, but it is believed The Weekly and Svoboda: UNA participation in an anti-Soviet or– that he was taken into custody for (201) 434-0237, 434-0807, 434-3036 (201) 451-2200 ganization. The government accused producing and distributing leaflets, them of recruiting former members and then committed to a mental Yearly subscription rate: S8, UNA members - (5. of the Organization of Ukrainian hospital. Unlike a labor-camp term, Nationalists (OUN) to struggle which is of a definite duration, a Postmaster, send address changes to: prisoner may be held in a mental THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY Editor Roma Hadzewycz against the Soviet state and the P.O. Box 346 Afbciaf editor. George Bohdan Zarycky Marxist-Leninist system, and ad– institution for as long as officials Jersey City, NJ. 07303 Assistant editor Marts Ko!omiyets vocating insurrection by calling for deem necessary. No. 28 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JULY 10,1983 Western editorials University conference analyzes Ukrainian history by Stephen M. Horak Laboratory on Russia and Eastern plishments. Us place and role vis-a-vis strongly support Fl'rnpe. the present situation in Ukraine and in URBANA, ill. - A conference The social aspect of the conference the United States, and recommended to Madrid Conference dubbed "History of Ukraine: Con- culminated in a banquet emceed by publish the papers presented in the form temporary Perspectives and Analyses" Stephan M. Horak and attended bv of a symposium with the University of JERSEY C1TY, N.J. - A sampling was held here at the Urbana-Cham– over 120 participants from as far as lllinois Press. of editorials from several leading paign campus of the University of Australia, as well as guests from Chi– Among the scholars of non-Ukrainian Western publications indicates a strong lllinois on June 15-18 with the partici– cago. Brief addresses were given by- origin, the following professors contri– measure of support for the East-West pation of scholars from U.S., Canadian Maurice Friedberg, head of the depart– buted to the conference proceedings: conference on security and human and Australian universities, in all. ment of Slavic languages and litera– Prof. Ransel, University of lllinois; rights in Europe, which has been meet– 66 papers and reports were presented at 20 tures, who for a number of years has James A. Duran, Canisius College; ing in Madrid since 1980. parallel sessions attended by an average supported courses in Ukrainian lan– Robert H. Burger,University of lllinois: The 35-country conference, which of 40 to 50 persons. guage and literature; and David L. Andrew B. Pernal, Brandon University; was convened to review implementation Last year, the University of lllinois. Ransel, member of the executive com– Edward D. Wynot, Florida State Uni– of the 1975 Helsinki Accords, has been as part of its summer research program, mittee of the Russian and .East Euro– veristy; June E. Pachuta, University of deadlocked over such issues as human held the first conference on "Ukrainian pean Center, which most generously lllinois; Michael MacQueen, rights and the character of a post- Literature in the 20th Century." Both assisted Prof. Shtohryn in preparing for University of Michigan (Ph.D. cand.); Madrid disarmament conference. The conferences were marked by high scholar- the conference. History Prof. David B. Miller, Roosevelt University; United States and the NATOallies have ship, large attendance and effective Ransel is the current editor of the Edward C. Thaden, University of llli– insisted that a concluding document organization. For this year's conference, prestigious journal Slavic Review. nois at Chicago; Kenneth C. Farmer. contain unequivocal language on hu– credit is due to Dr. Dmytro M. Shto– Marquette University; Patricia K. man rights, a position which has thus At the banquet, special tribute was hryn, a member of the University of Grimsted, Harvard Ukrainian Research far been rejected by the Soviets and paid to Prof. Britsky, professor emeri– lllinois faculty who is primarily respon– institute; Christa Kamenetsky, Central other Warsaw Pact states. The Soviets tus and the university's first Ukrainian sible for one of the largest collections of Michigan University; and Harold M would like to see a follow-up conference professor, who immediately after Ucrainica in American universities - Leich, University of lllinois. on nuclear arms , but a working agenda World War 11 was among initiators an estimated 40,000 volumes. for such a meeting remains a point of of relief assistance to Ukrai– Also notable was the presence of controversy. nian intellectual refugees. Trrose younger Ukrainian experts, including A highlight of the conference was a present at the banquet were pleasantly Marian J. Rubchak, Martha Bohachev– Nevertheless, the conference has Ukrainian exhibition set up in the lobby entertained by the ODUM bandurist sky-Chomiak, Alexander Sydorenko, made tentative progress in such areas as of the main library by the Slavic and ensemble of Chicago. Zenon E. Kohut, Roman Serbyn, family reunification and trade, and it East European Library, visitors and The scholarly aspect of the confe– George D. Knysh, Yury Boshyk, Orest has shown that, despite a chill in East- conference participants were shown rence centered on contemporary per– Subtelny, Stella Hryniuk, Marco West relations, a dialogue — however Ukrainian rare publications and original spectives and analyses. Within this Carynnyk, Myroslav Yurkevich,as well strained - remains possible. editions of works published by the approach the sessions dealt' with as Alvin Kapusta from the U.S. Depart– in a June 5 editorial, The Washington Shevchenko Scientific Society and the themes pertaining to the most underly– ment of State. Post said that, in addition to keeping a Ukrainian Academy of Sciences. ing issues of Ukrainian history such as The conference's success was due also line of communication open between Of special attention was another Ukrainian historiography, Ukrainian- to sponsors such as the Summer Re- Moscow and Washington, the Madrid exhibition commemorating the Great Russian and Ukrainian-Polish rela– search Laboratory on Russia and talks have shown that "the United Famine in Ukraine in 1932-33, with tions, research, library holdings and Eastern Europe, Shevchenko Scientific States has done its job and produced a pictures, reports and publications under bibliographical problems essential to Society, Security Savings and Loan sustained demonstration of allied politi– the headline — "The 'Other' Holocaust the studv of historv. Association in Chicago, Ukrainian cal cooperation." - Russian' Style." it was arranged by Other sessions were devoted to con- American Freedom Foundation in The paper also said that the negotia– Profs. Nicholas Britskytand temporary research and interpretation Rochester, Ukrainian Free University tions have been a huge propaganda plus Shtohryn. Both exhibitions were open of Kievan Rus', cultural, intellectual Foundation in New York, Ukrainian for the West, which has let the Soviet to the public through the end of June. and economic aspects of Ukrainian American Association of University Union know that if it continues its The conference's opening on June 15 history, Ukrainians outside of Ukraine, Professors, and the Self-Reliance Federal egregious violations of human rights, included welcoming addresses by Prof. the Kozak State, famines in Ukraine, Credit Union in Chicago, as well as the "there is a way to make it pay a price in Shtohryn on behalf of the program and and Ukraine under Soviet and German following supporters: Ukrainian Na– Western opinion." organizational committees, vice Chan– occupations. tional Aid Association of America, But the main reason for keeping the cellor Edwin L. Goldwasser; Prof. The concluding panel composed of Federal Credit Union of the Ukrainian talks alive is that they are a continua– Hugh Atkinson, the university libra– Lubomyr R. Wynar, Prof. Horak, Home Dnipro in Buffalo and Provi– tion of the so-called Helsinki process, rian; and Prof. Marianna Tax Choldin, Marian J. Rubchak and Prof. Shtohryn dence Association of Ukrainian which calls for the periodic review of director of the Summer Research summarized the conference's accom– Catholics in America. compliance with the original accords, the fundamental purpose of which, according to The Post, "is not simply to make propaganda but to improve Trenton area residents learn Soviets reported... conditions for people." "if the Soviet bloc is not really a freer lc place than it was when the so-called about Ukraine's Great Famine m TZ'ZZ'L w„, Helsinki process began, then for all the by Michael Dziubas displayed by the local SUM-A branch. Germans, the French, the Canadians frustration it causes, continuation of the However, the visitors were also con- and others to prepare the way for the process at least lets the West keep faith TRENTON, N.J. - Over 200,000 fronted with an unpleasant view — a July 1 aboutface. with those in the East it seeks to aid," residents of the Greater Trenton area large three-panel billboard depicting the The Spanish compromise will require the paper said. were informed about the 1932-33 Great famine-holocaust in Ukraine. the Western allies to drop a demand that the final document include a The Post was also guardedly opti– Famine in Ukraine while visiting the The billboard, which consisted of provision that all 35 governments that mistic about the ultimate outcome of Ukrainian booth at the Trenton Heritage three wood panels measuring eight-by- signed the Helsinki Accords respect the the talks despite the apparent stale- Days Festival. four feet each, was erected to inform freedom of foreign broadcasts. That mate. The Heritage Day Festival, which those present of the forced starvation of was unacceptable to the Soviet Union. The editorial concluded: "At Madrid, took place on June 4-5, is an annual over 7 million Ukrainians by the Soviet On the other hand, the Spanish nonetheless, there are grounds for event at which ethnic groups and civic Russian Empire. Almost everyone who compromise will require the Soviets to thinking an agreement with Moscow is associations of Greater Trenton set up passed by the display stopped to read sign the 38-page final document which in sight, it would be a Reagan first, it booths in center-city Trenton and boast copies of the original newspaper ac– includes new commitments on human would also be an Andropov first. Watch their heritage and contributions to the counts of the famine which made up the rights, the movement of journalists, the Madrid." community. majority of the billboard. The importance of maintaining an right to form trade unions, cooperation One of the largest booths was that of The billboard was topped off by a East-West dialogue was also the theme in dealing with international terrorism, the Trenton branch of the Ukrainian large banner which read: "Ukrainian of a recent editorial on Madrid in The the right of religious worship, and many Congress Committee of America. Holocaust — 1933." A poster depicting Christian Science Monitor. The paper other additions to the original Helsinki Among the organizations represented a starving man, woman and starving said that even with the existing impasse pact. at the booth were the Trenton branches children was placed in the center with at the conference, "Helsinki has con– The final document commits the of the Ukrainian American Youth the words "Russia should be put on trial tinued to serve European security in the Western powers to a special European Association (SUM-A), the Women's for the starvation of over 7 million sense that its participants continue to disarmament conference of the 35 Association for the Defense of Four Ukrainians in the 1933 famine." talk rather than fight." Helsinki signatory states in Stockholm Freedoms for Ukraine, the Ukrainian Many of those who stopped by the early next year to discuss confidence- it noted that certain compromises National Women's League of America have already been reached in such areas display asked questions about the building measures. The conference was and the Sisterhood of St. Josephat's famine and expressed their shock and a principal Soviet objective when the as easing emigration standards in the Ukrainian Catholic Church East and the wording of a provision on disbelief that such a genocide could Madrid meeting began in November radio jamming in a proposed conclud– This year as in previous years, thou– have taken place without the interven– 1980. ing document put forth by the neutral sands of festival-goers stopped by the tion of the governments of the free Probably the most contentious pro– and non-aligned countries. Ukraiman booth to sample delicious world. Accompanying the billboard blem to be resolved is a Western de– But despite these cautious strides, the Ukrainian cuisine and admire the were leaflets explaining the reasons that mand for a special, experts-level confe– beautiful Ukrainian ceramics, embroi– the Soviet Russian regime perpetrated rence on human contacts tentatively (Continued on page 15) dery and woodcuttings which were this horror. slated for Ottawa. 4^^^^^^^^^.^^^^ THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JULY 10,1983 ^' ";"3 'JNo. 28

UNA district committees meet Fraternally yours by Marta Korduba Syracuse revealed that the district had fulfilled its UNA fraternal activities coordinator membership quota by 132 percent, and thanked those who helped make the SYRACUSE. N.Y. - lvan Hvozda enrollment campaign a success. Paiti– was re-elected chairman of the Syracuse cularly effective were branch secretaries Funds to foster fraternal ism UNA District Committee during its John Hawryluk (Branch 360). 43 mem– annual meeting here on April 10 at the bers; Ms. Harawus (Branch 127), 16: After introducing the Fraternal Acti– seemed that my productivity would be Ukrainian National Home. and Mr. Swystun (Branch 40); six. vities Fund program in this column maximal in areas to which 1 had im– Mr. Hvozda welcomed Supreme Enrolling one member each were several weeks ago, it occurred to me that mediate access. Advisor Walter Kwas, Senior Field Branches 149, 299 and 304. it was especially important to address Thus came the genesis of such pro– Organizer Wasyl Orichowsky, and all The chairman said that the organiz– those UNA branches and districts in jects as the UNA-U1A Performing the UNA'ers present to the meeting. He ing efforts were impressive in Buffalo, places like Sydney, N.S.. Wheeling, W. Artists Group (a UNA-initiated circle of then asked for a moment of silence to which has only about 4.000 Ukrainians, va., and Jeffersonville, lnd. After all, performing artists who use the Ukrai– honor the deceased of the district. in addition, he singled out the or– the FAF was a result of the UNA's nian institute of America's facilities to A presidium composed of Deacon ganizing and community work of effort to spread fraternal activities pursue contemporary performing art Orest Tkach, chairman, and lvan Branch 40 in Erie, Pa., thanks largely to beyond the UNA home office vicinity, forms), the Media Action Workshop (a Pavliv, secretary, was elected to con- cooperation between Mr. Swystun and and to quell the concern that the U NA is workshop held at Soyuzivka to discuss duct the meeting. Messrs. Kwas and the local branch of the Ukrainian increasingly becoming an U.S. East– the problem of misinformation about Orichowsky, honorary Supreme Ad- National Women's League of America. Coast-based organization. Ukraine and Ukrainians in U.S. govern– visor Wolodymyr Zaparaniuk and in his brief report, Mr. Sharwan Heretofore, 1 had concentrated the mental agencies). Panorama of Young honorary district committee chairman spoke about his participation as a majority of my efforts as fraternal Ukrainians (an annual summer event at Oleksa Shmokaliuk were also asked to delegate in the 30th Regular UNA activities coordinator in the New York- Soyuzivka which features the accom– be members of the presidium. Because Convention, held last year in Rochester, New Jersey-Soyuzivka areas because it (Continued on page 16) the secretary of the district was not and his work in propagating a positive present, minutes from last year's meet– image of the UNA on his radio show. ing were not read." Treasurer Harawus reported that the A report on-the district's activities district had S3S6.69 on account, while National UNA Bowling Tourney held was presented by Mr. Hvozda; no other Ms. Hnatyk, speaking on behalf of the reports were given because neither the ROCHESTER. N.Y. - Twenty- The women's competition saw the auditing board, moved that the execu– eight teams from UNA branches on the team of Lorraine Geraga and Anne secretary or treasurer were present. tive be given a vote of confidence. Mr. Kwas was then invited to speak. East Coast and Chicago squared off on Troicke continue Rochester's domi– Following the election of officers, the hardwood at the 17th Annual UNA nance with a top score of 1,225, edging He extended greetings from the Supreme Mr. Sochan spoke ona variety of UN A– Assembly and thanked the Syracuse– Bowling Tournament held here at the out Barbara Sidor and Faith Couturier, related topics, including its financial B.LC. Bowl during the Memorial Day also of Rochester, by one pin. The Utica UNA members for their work for and organizing affairs, publishing the good of trie organization. He report- Weekend, May 28 and 29. winners got 550 and the runners-upS35. operations, Soyuzivka, the UNA Build– Bowlers from Derry, Latrobe and The 525 third prize went to Romanna ed thai the UNA has 83,000 members ing in Jersey City, N.J., the Paulus and S48 million in assets. Ambridge, Pa., as well as Chicago and Bareis and Ms. Daszczyszak with a Hook apartment complex and other Rochester vied for trophies and prize 1,200. Mr. Kwas spoke about the UNA matters. publications Svoboda. The Ukrainian money supplied by the UNA. Following the day's play, bowlers He especially thanked the district Singles and doubles matches got flocked to the Ukrainian Civic Center Weekly and veselka. as well as the executive and branch representatives many donations the UNA has made under way on Saturday, May 28. for an evening of dancing, food and for their fruitful work in the last year, in the men's division, B. Hryniw of drink. toward various causes in the Ukrainian and congratulated them on their ex– community. Mr. Kwas stated that last Rochester won the single's title trophy On Sunday, the tournament resumed cellent organizing efforts on behalf of and 565 with a combined score of 755. with the team events. Twenty men's year the UNA granted S45.000 in the UNA Supreme Executive Commit– scholarships and donated 530.000 for D. Blidy of Chicago took second with a teams took part in the competition, tee. 716, good for the 550 prize. W. K uchy of which was won by the Ukrainian Civic publications on the Great Famine. in his remarks, Mr. Orichowsky also Soyuzivka was another topic dis– Rochester came in third with a 690. in Center No. 4 team from Rochester with praised the district's organizing cam– the women's division, Barbara Erny of a combined score of 3,196. The top prize cussed by Mr. Kwas: he encouraged paign. and offered practical organizing youth to travel to the UNA resort for Derry rolled a 638 for the first-place was 5900 and a trophy. Just four pins suggestions. trophy and 535, with Mary Daszczy– behind was the Ukrainian Civic Center- summer jobs and gain interest in the During the discussion period which UNA. szak coming in second just eight pins No. 3 team, which took home 5450, with followed the reports, participants com– behind. ShewonS25. Mary Kozemchak third prize and 5160 going to the Mr. Orichowsky thanked the UNA mented on several UNA matters, parti– of Derry won the third prize, 518, with a Ukrainian American Club No. 1 of secretaries for their work in organizing cularly the need to bring young people 625. Rochester, which rolled a 3,101. members, with a special commendation into the organization and its work. Mr. for lvan Chopko. secretary of Branch in men's double's play, Mr. Hryniw in the women's event, the Perzik team Sochan answered questions from the teamed up with P. Pryslock of Roches– from Rochester won the first-place 271, who is often an organizing leader in floor. the district. He also mentioned the ter for a combined score of 1.330, good trophy and 5400 with a 2,984, followed After the question-and-answer ses– for first place and the 5100 top prize. by Ambridge's UNA Branch 161 (Team anniversaries of the three UNA publica– sion. Mr. Konotopskyj spoke on the tions that should be observed this year. Taking the 575 second prize were J. 1), which rolled a 2,920 and picked up district's plans for the rest of 1983, Daszczyszak and J.W. Daszczyszak, 5200. Third place and 5100 went to A lively discussion followed the speeches. which included the organizing cam– The meeting was closed and Mr. Kwas also of Rochester, who were 12 pins off Derry Delights, which came in with a paign. as well as observances of the the pace. Third place went to N. 2,872. then presented a showing of the anniversaries of Svoboda. The Ukrai– UNA film "The Helm of Destiny." Ewanow and J. Kuchmy, who com– in the all-events category, Ms. Dasz– nian Weekly and veselka. pleted the Rochester sweep with a 1.285 czyszak garnered the top trophy and After the meeting was adjourned, on their wav to the 550 prize (Continued on page 13) participants informally discussed UNA Buffalo and district concerns over refresh– BUFFALO. N.Y. - The Buffalo ments. UNA District Committee held itsannual meeting here on Sunday, April 24. Roman Konotopskyj was re-elected Troy chairman. WATERVL!ET. N.Y. - The Troy Others elected to the executive were: UNA District Committee, (which is Wasyl Sharwan and Roman Swystun, composed of the Troy, Amsterdam, vice chairmen: Joseph Hawryluk. secre– Hudson. Watervliet. Kerhonkson, tary; Mary Harawus. treasurer: and Cohoes and Pittsfield UNA branches) Mary Hnatyk. Dmytro Machiw and held its annual meeting at the Ukrainian Dmytro Hanuszczak. members of the Club hall on Saturday, April 9. auditing board. At the meeting it was decided to The meeting was opened and con- rename the district the Albany District. ducted by Mr. Konotopskyj. with Mr. A presidium consisting of R. Hal– Hawryluk acting as secretary. Also in kewych, chairman, and lvan Durbak, attendance was Walter Sochan. UNA secretary, conducted the meeting, which supreme secretary, who was asked to be re-elected Michael Sawkiw district - an honorary member of the presidium chairman. along with Wasyl Orichowsky, UNA .Other members of the executive senior field organizer. board include: R. Harasymiak, first vice Following a moment of silence for chairman; S. Hawryluk, second vice Committee of the 17th National UNA Bowling Tourney: (seated from left) Beverly deceased members of the district, John chairman; Mr. Durbak and W; Kolodiy. Daszczysack, secretary of women's bowling; John O. Flis, UNA supreme president; Hawryluk, acting secretary of the last secretaries; Wolodymyr Warshona, and Helen Olek Scott, supreme advisor; (standing from left) Walter Hawrylak, meeting, read the minutes, which were treasurer; and Е. Nabolotny, organizing supreme advisor; Edward Brown, treasurer; Frank Kubarich, general chairman; accepted without changes. chairman. The auditing committee Walter Chaptiony, vice chairman; John Kuchmy, secretary of men's bowling; in his report, Mr. Konotopskyj (Continued on page 13) Myroslaw Blahyj, toastmaster; and Bill Gerega, chairman of hospitality night. No 28^^^^^^^^^^ .. THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JULY 10,1983 5 40 compete in first tourney of 1983 Soyuzivka tennis season KERHONKSONKFRHONKSON . N.YN Y. - FnrtFortvy SnvlvkSnylyk. 6-3., 6-0. in semifinals. MrMr. -," ., . avid tennis players, grouped into four Olynec beat Consiantine Ben. 6-0, 6-І divisions, competed in the first Soyu– and Mr. Snylyk won over Borys Kuchy– zivka tennis tournament of the season nsky, 6-3, 6-3. under the scorching sun of the July 4 weekend. The women's division, which had six participants, saw Tanya Sawchak beat The tourney, sponsored by the Car– Cathy Taraschuk 6-1, 6-2. Miss Saw– pathian Ski Club for the USCAK-East chuk eliminated Myroslava Bohachev– championships, was plagued by heat- sky in the semi-finals, 6-0, 6-0, and Miss related injuries which caused a few Taraschuk beat Lida Sawchak 6-4, 1-І. players to forfeit their games. This game was called off because of the in the men's division finals. Andrew women's physical exhaustion. Charchal is won the title, after Adrian Kutko was forced to forfeit due to Six young men competed in the stomach cramps. Mr. Kutko beat Denys junior boy's games. Eugene Olynec Czorny in the semi-finals, 6-3, 7-6, while followed his father's example, winning Mr. Charchalis defeated his former first place. He beat Paul Teluk. 6-3,6-2. tennis instructor George Sawchak. who in the semifinals, E. Olynec beat played only one set because of humid Mark Nadberezny 6-0, 6-2, while Mr. weather. Teluk beat lhor Nadberezny 6-4. 2-6. 6- in the quarter finals. George Wal– 1. chuk who played Mr. Kutko and Kor– On Monday, in the early afternoon, nylo Czorny who played Mr. Char– all the finalists received their trophies chalis, could not complete their games from UNA Supreme President John O. because of the oppressive heat. Flis and Supreme Advisor Walter in the younger senior men's division. Kwas. Oleh Bohachevsky emerged the winner The tourney was organized by a four- over George Hrabec 7-6, 6-І. Third man committee consisting of Roman place was captured by Alex Popovych. Rakoczyj Sr., Jaroslav Rubel and in the older senior men's division, the Messrs. Sawchak and Sny!yk. Soyuzivka Cup and the volodymyr The next tennis tournament at Soyu– Lenec Memorial Trophy were won by zivka is the doubles championship UNA Supreme President John O. Flis offers congratulations to Andrew Alexander Olynec. who beat Zenon slated for the weekend of August 6-7. - Charchalis. Supreme Advisor Walter Kwas (right) hands trophy to Adrian Kutko.

Bezkorovayny. The last section of their language selections. He began the show called out for an encore and performed July 4 festivities... program included works by 1. Poklada with the title song of his soon-to-be- another Ukrainian melody. (Continued from page 1) and Y. Rybchynsky, titled "The Magical released album of Ukrainian opera Following the concert, the dance Lytwyn, who recently emigrated from violin" and "Quiet Waters." arias, "My Native Land" from the opera terrace was crowded with hundreds of Ukraine. The exhibit was on display all Tumuitous applause called the trio "Bohdan Khmclnytsky"by Dankevych. people. The bands entertaining the weekend in the lobby of the Main back for two encores. The album was recorded in Edmonton guests were the Chervona Kalyna Or– House. Many just strolled around the During the program Ms. Dydyk with the Edmonton Symphony Or– chestra, which played outside, and the grounds, sat by the pool, watched the welcomed the audience to the 30th chestra and a bandurist ensemble, and is Alex and Dorko Band, which played tennis games or played volleyball. summer season of programs at Soyu– the first album of its kind, according to inside the auditorium. zivka. She introduced UNA Supreme Mr. Evanko. By 8:30 p.m., the temperatures had Sauna-like conditions did not stop dropped to the relief of the many guests President John Flis and his wife Mary; Ukrainians of all ages from dancing Quickly establishing a rapport with who ventured into the veselka Pavilion Supreme vice-President Myron Kuro– until way past 2 a.m. to see the first show of the summer pas and his spouse Lesia; as well as the audience, Mr. Evanko related some season. Emceed for the 12th consecu– Supreme Advisor Kwas and honorary of his experience traveling with the On Monday, guests watched the tive year by Anya Dydyk, the newly UNA Supreme Assembly member Mary Koshetz Choir to Ukraine last summer. presentation of tennis trophies in the appointed Soyuzivka program director, Dushnyck. He continued his Ukrainian portion of early afternoon. While guests began the program featured the 31-year-old Among others present in the audience the program with a song from the opera checking out. the boy's camp, under the verkhovyna Ensemble from Toronto, were the Rev. Dr. Bohdan volosin, "Natalka Poltavka " and two other direction of Lieda Boyko. got into full which first appeared on the Soyuzivka UNA Shamokin District Chairman selections. swing after greetings were extended to stage at the 1982 Miss Soyuzivka Tymko Butrej, Svoboda editor-in-chief the 14 participants by Supreme Presi– weekend. The musical group, formerly Zenon Snvlyk. various UNA branch Miss Hawryluk then presented a dent Flis, who quizzed the bovs about a quartet and now a trio, is currently secretaries, and Boston Bruins hockey melodic Ukrainian-language program the'UNA. composed of Nadia Kochansky, so– star Mike Krushelnyski with his fiancee with such selections as "Love Me. Don"t prano. Oksana Makohon. second Areta Rakotchyj. a tennis player well- Leave Me." lyrics by Tkach. music by At exactly 4 p.m.. the weekend came soprano, and Bohdanna lhnatovych. known on the Soyuzivka courts and a Bilash: "Уоііа Songol Freedom,""О. 10 a meteorological climax after the alto, along with piano accompanist former Miss Soyuzivka. Shine Moon." a Transcarpathian folk constantly hot and humid conditions all song, and finally a newly written piece weekend, a summer storm cooled the Adriana Radelytsky. With mest peoples' feet already of music by Olcs Kuzyshyn of the lskra resort off. Finally. Soyuzivka became tapping from the lively concert. Ms. Orchestra, titled "Grant Me." calm as carloads of visitors from all over Their musical director. Olena Hli– Dydyk invited them to enjoy the two bowycz. also entertained the audience Mr. Evanko continued the program the United States and Canada began dances that followed the program. 1 with a satirical poem she had written, in English, featuring tunes by l.crner their homeward journeys do n Foorde– The Chervona Kalyna Orchestra covered subjects ranging from the and Loewe. and Jacques Brel. He was moore Road. entertained the audience in the enclosed World Congress of Free Ukrainians to and air-conditioned veselka Pavilion, U.S.-Canadian relations, and the while the Tempo Orchestra performed hospitality of Mr. Prokopec and Soyu– on the outdoor terrace. zivka. Sunday morning liturgies were held The musical trio went through four at both St. vo!odymyr's Chapel costume changes, beginning the show in where the 10:30 Orthodox service was robes of the Ukrainian artistocracy, and celebrated by the Rev. Constantine later changing into the traditional wear Kalynovsky and at the Holy Trinity of the Poltava and Hutsul regions of Ukrainian Catholic Church at 9 and 11 Ukraine. They ended their appearance a.m., celebrated by the Rev. volosin. in evening gowns. They presented as much variety in The day was hot, humid and hazy, their musical selections as they did in and temperatures on the tennis courts their costumes. During the course of the rose to an unbelievable 115 degrees, two-hour concert they sang classical, causing many a game to be cancelled. religious, Ukrainian regional, humorous At 8:30 p.m. a standing-room-only and contemporary songs. Among the 16 crowd greeted tenor Edward Evanko, songs they presented were: "Prayer to his able accompanist, pianist Thomas the Mother of God," music by Dmytro Hrynkiw, and soprano Lidia Hawryluk Bortniansky; "My Memories,"musicby with her accompanists Yuriy and Oles 1. Nedilsky and lyrics by lvan Franko. Furda. They also performed a medley of folk During the program dedicated to the songs arranged by Andriy Hnatyshyn, 207th birthday of the United States of followed by Carpathian melodies such America. Ms. Dydyk read excerpts as "Girl Named Marichka." arranged about democracy. by Anatole Kos-Anatolsky and "Car– Mr. Evanko's two-part program pathian Reminiscences." music by v. featured both Ukrainian– and English– The rear of the Main House seen from an altitude of 500 feet. THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JULY 10,1983 No. 28 Effective media relations Re: preparation, coordination, continuity by Andrij Bilyk Continuity means taking the "long view." The long view involves develop– Ukrainian Week! The 50th anniversary of the Great ing a local-national five-year media у Ukrainian Famine has elicited from all strategy that will have us talking about of us a great desire to organize, locally the Great Famine for the rest of 1983, and nationally, what can only be des– pushing the story of Taras Shevchenko cribed as the greatest public relations in 1984 (the 20th anniversary of the effort in the history of the Ukrainian Shevchenko Monument in Washing- The meaning of Madrid immigration. We want the entire world ton), hyping Ukrainian independence to know about the Great Famine, and Day in 1985 (January 22, 1985, through we want feedback to assure us that the January 22, 1986, can be declared National Ukrainian independence Year After nearly two and a half years of hard-boiled and often rancorous world cares - feedback in terms of news stories and exposes of the Soviet or something similar), and, in 1986, negotiations marked by East-West differences on such issues as human system. beginning to talk to the media about the rights and European security, the 35-country Madrid Conference to There are two ways of accomplishing 1,000th year of Christianity in Ukraine, review compliance with the 1975 Helsinki Accords could be nearing a our objective - expensive and relative– two years before the actual celebration. conclusion. The breakthrough came last week when the Soviet Union ly inexpensive. Both require a lot of our These are just examples. agreed to accept "as the framework of negotiations" a Spanish own "sweat equity" and -cooperation Coordination means planning a compromise aimed at breaking the deadlock. among our organizations. media strategy in such a way that first The expensive way is through the the cities conduct their own campaigns The Soviet decision to accept the Spanish proposal, which includes medium of advertising. We would and then there are one or two national a concluding document that contains new commitments on human purchase space and time in newspapers, or regional demonstrations. Specifi– rights, the right to form trade unions and the right of religious worship, on television and radio, and tell our cally with reference to hyping the Great means that the conference may wind up as early as this week. story week after week until, through the Famine, coordination means focusing So why have the Soviets, who as late as last month indicated that sheer force of repetition, our point of our time and resources along theTollow– they would unequivocally reject all Western compromises, suddenly view is absorbed by the public. An ing three critical paths. changed their minds? effective advertising campaign would " We need to develop a standard press cost nearly Si million. Even if we had kit with the following common ele– One possible answer is that an agreement now would fit neatly into the money, we would need to pick an ments: a map of Ukraine and a one-page the Kremlin's so-called "peace offensive," a high-powered and appropriate agency, develop and ap– fact sheet which gives vital demo- sophisticated campaign to turn public opinion in the West to the prove copy, and in the case of Tv, shoot graphic 1 historical facts; a list of experts notion that the Soviet Union is genuinely concerned about the arms and edit the film. By the time we were and, with their agreement, their phone race, while Western governments are not. ready to launch our advertising cam– numbers; a list of cities where eye- paign, the main focus of all of this witnesses to the famine can be found Since the Madrid Conference convened in November 1980, one of activity, the October 2demonstration in (possibly even names); a bibliography the Soviet Union's main objectives at the talks was to get a Washington, will have come and of scholarly and general sources, a press commitment from the signatory states to a special post-Madrid gone. release and so on. in fact, the media European disarmament conference. The Western powers, led by the The second, more realistic approach relations section of the National Com– United States, were having none of it, and for months the Madrid involves a public relations (media) mittee to Commemorate Genocide meeting dragged on in limbo. With the West finally relenting, and the campaign. Under ideal circumstances, a victims in Ukraine is finalizing such a disarmament parley tentatively scheduled for Stockholm early next campaign such as this would be co- press kit and will happily share it with year, the Soviets may have felt that their primary goal in prolonging ordinated through a national office with any organization. the talks had been reached. key individuals in the various cities ' Equally important, we need to serving as official spokespersons for develop a network of spokespersons, What gives this argument credence is that, politically, Madrid had their communities. Each community representing bona-fide organizations, become something of a white elephant for the Kremlin, with the could have two or three spokespersons, ideally, these spokespersons, working NATO allies picking apart the Soviet Union's woeful human-rights depending on the activity of local with the media relations section of the record, the invasion of Afghanistan and its role in Poland in the glare organizations, ideally, these individuals national committee, will be available of the international spotlight. Undoubtedly another reason Moscow would work together, exchanging infor– and prepared to give media interviews, decided to sit tight and endure the excoriations had to do with the mation about media contacts, and their in fact, these spokespersons, when they successes and frustrations with those arrive in Washington on October 1, Kremlin's reluctance to pull out of the conference and be blamed for contacts. The operating philosophy should make it a point to seek out the driving the last nail into the coffin of detente. But the Soviets also might be: "Well, Stephan, if you representatives of the Washington wanted to come away with something and, apparently, the couldn't get through to such and such a bureaus of the media in their cities (e.g., disarmament conference is that political plum. ТУ assignment editor with that ap– most newspapers belong to chains such proach, ill try this approach — mean- as Gannett, Newhouse, etc., each of As to the Spanish proposal's guarantees concerning human-rights while, here's one l"ve been frustrated whom have large Washington staffs and social freedoms, the Soviets realize that one unavoidable with, perhaps your approach will work with responsibility for feeding their drawback of the original Helsinki agreement is the problem of with her." local affiliates; the same is true of some verification. Even as the Madrid meeting was in progress, they showed There have been stories about the television stations). a cynical disregard for Helsinki human-rights provisions by launching Great Famine in many local papers and ' Finally, we need to develop a list of a massive drive to crush domestic dissent, one that even rivaled the on some local television stations. But the questions the media has asked or brutality of the widespread crackdown in the late 1960s and early for the most part, in most cities, our may ask about the famine - and we 1970s. This led many Western newspapers to conclude that, in a sense, media approach needs to be better need to write down and learn our a protracted Madrid meeting was better than no meeting at all because directed. For example, one recent responses. This preparation serves two at least it provided an effective forum for Western objections to Soviet famine demonstration witnessed four objectives: first, it provides us with one behavior. ТУ camera crews at work, but the basic storyline and allows us to face the So what happens now that the meeting seems about to end and that organizers were ill-prepared to deal media prepared and, second, being forum is eliminated? This is perhaps the most important question with this sudden media interest. As a prepared, we are able to talk more result, minutes that could have been directly and get x5Qr story out more raised by the prospect of adjournment. For one thing, the West must spent interpreting the events for each quickly, in the case of а ТУ interview, demand that the concluding document clearly commit the signatories camera, were spent scrounging around this means our rioint cif view has a better to another review meeting in four years, thus ensuring that the so- for individuals who knew how to be– chance to make it on Whe air intact. called Helsinki process will continue. This may seem like a small have in front of a camera. Fortunately, Without preparation, the chances are reward for 33 months of difficult and tedious negotiations, but a two were found and theydidagoodjob. our best words wHJ-dfe on the cutting continuation of the Helsinki process, as The Washington Post said But with better preparation, and two room floor. recently, at least lets the West keep faith with those in the East it seeks more trained spokespersons, the job The media relations section of the to aid. would have been accomplished better National Committee to Commemorate No one really expected that the Madrid Conference would result in and faster — fast enough, perhaps, for Genocide victims in Ukraine is moving two of the stations to run the story on an appreciable change in Soviet attitudes or that it would make life on all three fronts: getting together a the early evening news in addition to the press kit; with your help, putting easier for the courageous men and women in the Soviet Union being late night news. punished for defending human dignity. But it represented a together a national list of famine eyewitnesses (who are willing to tell commitment to the principle that human dignity ought to be respected The time has come for better prepara– tion, coordination and continuity in their story on their own or through an anddefended by civilized societies everywhere.lt is this that should be our relations with the news media. interpreter); andialso with your help, viewed as the legacy ol Madrid, and it is the spirit that informs the putting together a list of possible media original Helsinki pact. For this reason Madrid, should it conclude Andrij Bilyk, a former reporter, questions and our best answers. sometime soon, must be looked at as a success because, if anything, it magazine editor and public relations To obtain your copy of the press kit, provided an opportunity for the free world to put tyrants in the dock. director, is currently employed as a to send in your advice or names and marketing analyst at MCf Telecommu– phone numbers of eyewitnesses, please nicaiions Corp. in Washington. (Continued on page 13) No: 28 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JULY 10,1983 7 Eyewitness accounts recall horror of famine THE GREAT FAM1NE The following eyewitness accounts were first ordered the guards to take them on and they did. published in the second volume of "The Black Deeds From Balaklaya the tram went to Kharkiv, and then of the Kremlin: A White Book." published in 1955 by returned to Osnova. The head guard, Onopko, and the the Democratic Organization of Ukrainians Formerly head of the workers' committee, Svinariov, started Persecuted by the Soviet Regime. The first volume proceedings against me. 1 was accused of organizing appeared in 1953. The acronym N KvD used in many the illegal transportation of passengers and was of the accounts refers to the Soviet secret police as it dismissed from work. My pay was withheld. was known before it became the KGB. This ban on free travel by starving farmers was an added cause of the deaths of hundreds of people in the Step an Dubovyk recalled this story of trying to flee surrounding districts. For example, 400 people died of the famine. starvation in the village of Borshchivka, 350 in the On May 13, 1930, my father and 1, after being village of Blahodyrivka. 300 in virbiuka, an un– This year marks the 50th anniversary of one of dekurkulized, were confined in Kharkiv prison. All accounted number in Savyntsi, 1,000 in Balaklaya, 600 history's most horrifying cases of genocide — the our possessions, our home, grain, horses, barns, in Andriyivka, 700 in Henkvka, 1,200 in the collective Soviet-made Great Famine of 1932-33, in which orchards were given to the poor. farm "Red Star," 1,800 in the small town of Boromlia, some 7 million Ukrainians perished. І escaped from prison and for a time hid with a and so on in all the villages, hamlets and towns Relying on news from Svoboda and, later, Bulgarian in Kharkiv, at 36 ivanytska St. After some throughout Ukraine. All these figures are approxima– The Ukrainian Weekly (which began publica– time 1 secured work on the railroad in Balaklaya where І tions. tion in October 1933), this column hopes to had a chance to see how, every night, hundreds of Graves could not be dug fast enough to bury all the remind and inform Americans and Canadians of people were brought to the station, loaded into freight dead, so they were simply dumped in wells or any holes this terrible crime against humanity. cars and shipped to the north. A little later 1 became a or pits that could be found, and covered with dirt when By bringing other events worldwide into the reserve train conductor, stationed at Osnova. they were full. picture as well, the column hopes to give a At the peak of the famine, 1933,1, as head of a train, perspective on the state of the world in the years had occasion to help people, which 1 did as much as of Ukraine's Great Famine. possible. For instance, on May 15,1 received an order The following was recalled by Panas Kovalyk. Toward the end of April 1933, the starving of the from the personnel director, Petro Shapozhnik, to Part XX! take passenger train No. 315-316 from Osnova to village of Novo-voznesenka in the district of voront– Balaklaya on the Kharkiv-Levada route. This was an siv, of the region of Mikolayiv, made an attack on the order at a time when tickets were sold only to holders grain stockpile at Maliy Hirla, where there was corn June 1933 of official documents, which meant only those who rotting in the open. The distance to the stockpile was 18 kilometers. Twenty-three persons fell dead along were employed. This ruling barred farmers from in mid-1933. Svoboda received eyewitness the way, but the rest managed to reach their destina– travel. reports about the famine in Ukraine. On June 3, tion. Our train reached Balaklaya in the evening and Svoboda printed a news item from Warsaw; it remained there until 4 a.m. the following morning. Two NKvD men, Kuznetsov and Sablukov. met related the experiences of visitors to southern Many people, their hands and feet swollen from these hungry people with machine-gun fire. Yakiw Ukraine and the Crimean region. The news starvation, were milling about the station trying to get Husynsky, a sailor from Simferopil, happened to stated that the people fleeing the famine would on the train to seek bread in the cities and towns. They come upon this scene. He stole up from the side, killed wait at train stations for weeks, trying to find begged and pleaded, but were refused tickets for the Kuznetsov and Sablukov with his pistol, pulled the room on the trains passing through their journey, it was a pitiful, distressing scene. Finally І machine guns down from the corn ricks, and trained villages. The stations were overcrowded with one of them on the door to the office... Later he people dying from hunger, or suffering from compelled them to take a count of the dead... There typhoid and physical exhaustion. The eye- were 697. There were only a few wounded, because in witnesses reported they saw corpses of dead this weakened condition many died even though only children lying on the station platforms. slightly wounded. According to the.reports from Poland, the desperate circumstances led to wide-scale An unidentified source provided an account of banditry, to the point that it was unsafe to be cannibalism in one district. outside after 7 p.m. Cases of cannibalism were At the settlement of Tokari in the Reshetyliv district also reported, according to the eyewitness a woman killed her husband with an ax and began to accounts. cook him. The husband was a brigade leader at the On June 8, Svoboda carried a commentary collective farm. When his absence was noticed, they titled "in the Claws of Hunger." The unsigned started to look for him and in due course came to his article stated that the reason for the famine in own house. There they smelled the odor of cooking Ukraine was the Soviet regime's introduction of meat. They became suspicious - where at that time collectivization, which it said had stifled political could a person get any meat? They dashed to the oven and cultural growth in the country. The article and pulled out a small earthenware pot. from which said that the peoples' struggle for economic the fingers of a huinan hand protruded. The rest of the freedom and social equality continued in order to victim, hacked to pieces, lay under the bed. save the people from famine, death and dena– in the village of Fedyivka, Motnya Chercwko used tionalization. to entice in any children she found beside her fence On June 12, Svoboda ran a story based on in– under the pretext of hiring them to tend her cow while formation from the Ukrainian Bureau in Geneva, it pastured. She used that ruse to kill Pavlo lvanovych which reported on the latest Soviet-issued decree Babych's daughter, making her flesh into sausage directed at miners in the Donbas region in which she sold at the Fediyivka market. Demid Ukraine. The ukase declared that if miners left Hnatovych Fediy. the head of the cooperative, seized their jobs, their meal tickets would be taken her with these sausages. She was arrested and sent to away and they would not be able to obtain the district town, but she died before she arrived there. foodstuffs from the state-run stores. The reason Likewise in Fedyivka, Pavlo Atamanels used to seize many of the miners were leaving their jobs was children at the station, kill and eat them until Demid because of physical exhaustion, the bureau Hnatovych Fediy rescued a little girl from under his reported. The decree also claimed that the knife, in 1942 the girl, now a grown woman, visited supervisors of the mines had the right to raise the Demid Hnatovych Fediy to thank him for saving her daily quota of coal. The bureau noted that the life. Atamenets, together with the rest of his family of miners had had a difficult lime mining enough five, later died of starvation. coal to meet the quotas set earlier. Whenever a dead horse was taken to the animal On June 14, Svoboda carried an article based burying ground, the entire village followed. Even on news from Berlin, stating that Pavlo Posty– though the veterinarian doused the animal with shev, a minister in Stalin's government, had carbolic acid before throwing it into the pit, all the begun still another crackdown in Ukrainian people fell upon it. hacking it wherever they happened schools. The article noted that in his opposition to light on it. On one of these occasions vasyl Lukych to Ukrainian separatism, he issued statements Fediy chopped off Nadezhda Borysivna Fediy's decreeing that it was unnecessary to teach fingers in the scramble, took them home, and ate them Ukrainian in the schools, and that Jews and along with the horsemeat. other nationalities living in Ukraine needed to There was also the following occurrence. Panko learn Russian, not Ukrainian. Fedorovych Lytvyn received a small food parcel from That same day the paper ran a story from the his son in the city, who was a member of the NKvD. Ukrainian Bureau in London, which reported His neighbor, Oksana Honta, heard about it and that it had recently learned that the Soviet wanted to kill him. She stuck a knife into his throat government had exported foodstuffs to other while he was sleeping but was not strong enough to cut countries, while people on its own territory were it entirely. The neighbors took Panko to the hospital, dying of hunger. but he was supposed to have run away from them. On June 20, Svoboda carried a story datelined A mother searches for food. Photo from the February Later it was rumored that he had been thrown down a (Continued on page 10) ravine. 19, 1935., issue of the New York Evening Journal. THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JULY 10,1983 No. 28

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Sports enthusiasts enjoy a game of volleyball despite the hot and humid weather.

Boston Bruins hockey star Mike Krushelnyski enjoys the Soyuzivka sun with his fiancee Areta Rakoczyj (center) and Marta Popovych. A bird's-eye view of Soyuzivka. This summer a licensed pilot, Olga Cehelska offers tours of і

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Soprano Lidia Hawryluk performs Ukrainian selections during Sunday evening's program.

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Ed Evanko on the Soyuzivka stage; Thomas Hrynkiw is і The girl campers show their parents what they learned during two weeks at Soyuzivka. the piano. 10 . THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY JULY 10,1983„^„^No. 28 interview: Winnipeg's singer– actor Ed Evankoon his"calling" by Mykhailo Bociurkiw Ukrainian1,, lor non-Ukrainians,at Massey Hall. But І what do 1 do when 1 meet the governor general's wife? and Liana Plawuszczak found that when you sing Ukrainian music with a it was like we never ceased knowing each other. She Ukrainian instrument — a truly Ukrainian instrument came up and we said hello — it was back in the school CONCLUSION - there's something that is so right about it. So much days, it was wonderful; 1 met her family for the very of Ukrainian music is full of rubato - you know, you first time, it was really very exciting. During your musical growth, what different musical go a little faster, you go a little slower, it's not styles have you gone through? metronomic - and with a bandura. because it has this What is the response to your Ukrainian record kind of blanket of sound, you can just take all the time album? You name it. This is another thing that has been very in the world, or move on quicker — which a piano confusing for me. І grew up in a family where classical doesn't do as easily. - Good, it's not a top-40 seller - 1 never anticipated music was unknown. We sang koliady; we sang that, but it's something that l'm proud of. 1 would do it liturgical music - 1 was a member of the Blessed What was it like performing at The National Arts differently now of course, it's already three years since virgin Mary Choir - but 1 didn't really have any Centre in Ottawa in front of the Queen — especially we recorded that album. There are certain things 1 background in classical music, although 1 played the when you sang the song about baby Elizabeth? would change; certain things 1 would sing differently. violin as a youngster. But that's sort of part of our You take that chance - you put it down and there it is family. І have cousins who play the violin, people in That was a very exciting evening! І had sung for her for posterity. the Winnipeg Symphony, and various other people before back in England in 1961, and 1 met her then. l'm planning on doing another one. in fact, we were across Canada who play violin. She was much younger and 1 was much younger; in going to do it this summer and 1 just didn't get the time So 1 had no role model in terms of my family to rely fact, 1 was a real kid then, it was very excitinjjr 1 to plan it properly. So it's in the works and it will be a on and guide me in a career in theatre or music. So 1 wondered about the song, because the producer of the little different, ltll be possibly a little more classical, kind of embraced whatever came my way. 1 started (National Arts Centre) Tv show had seen me in a it's not going to be a record of operatics or anything singing classical music or non-pop music when 1 was Broadway show by Richard Rogers, in which 1 had like that, but 1 have a feeling it's going to be a little growing up as a teenager. But then the more popular sung that song of the baby Elizabeth 1. And when he more classical. And l'm even toying with the idea of field beckoned and 1 thought: "Oh, hey - lean do this. got this commission to produce this show for maybe doing a combination of Ukrainian music and Let's do this; let's go into this." To the point where 1 Elizabeth 11, he said the first thing he thought of was non-Ukrainian music. made a pop ablum; and 1 did a lot of that 1 have to sing. Ed Evanko has to sing that song. television work in which 1 sang pop songs. And, 1 thought it's so specific — it's about a baby But something in the back of my head was saying: and he used nicknames when trying to find out how to What is your opinion of the Ukrainian music this is temporary; this is not forever. And 1 got tired of call here: Lizy or Betty or Betsy or whatever. And І produced in North America today? For example so many people saying - they would either say: "your thought is she (Queen Elizabeth H) goingto think that Kvitka Cisyk і new album — that was an unprecen– voice is too good for this, or your voice is wrong for this is a little familiar? There's protocol that must be dented Ukrainian recording? this" - which is a negative way of putting it. it observed, and 1 was a little nervous about it. bothered me to find out what it is that 1 do best. І hate And he (the producer) said: "please, don't be Yes, l'm very impressed with it; it's a beautiful album! to use an anology like this, but it's like putting a nervous...it'll be fine." And apparently, she was very For the longest time, 1 think we were selling thoroughbred to work in the fields. You know, it's touched by it. in fact, 1 had a letter from her secretary ourselves short, and making records that were sort of better to put a horse that's suitable for that, and you saying how touched she was by this. hastily put together — not taking time to worry about use a thoroughbred for what he's suitable for. And l've never seen the show; ;t was live, and then they sound quality, balance and instrumentation. Records that's sort of what 1 was given - this voice that doesn't re-broadcast it the next day. І was working in the that people would listen to once and then talk the next really fit pop music. І could make it work — 1 mean middle of an opera season in Kansas City, so 1 was time they heard it, or have it as a background music. that thoroughbred could pull a plow, too - but it's not back in Kansas City by the next morning. So, 1 gather And 1 think that's changing a lot. There still is a place best for him to do that. they cut to a shot of her applauding after the song and for that kind of music and that kind of record — as So, it's been a process of elimination. І found there was sort of animation in her face, it was a very background music or as dance music. But that's not myself, three or four years ago, saying: "1 would really exciting evening. where 1 am, and that's not what 1 do best. like W'serioTisry'pursuevocal studies." Arid it's been a See, even though we talk about being Ukrainians, І don4 know of anybody who's doing exactly what very interesting, difficult and at times frightening thing and 1 talk about being Ukrainian, and my Ukrainian l'm doing, which is why 1 think 1 can't look to someone to make this decision - to paint yourself into this heritage - 1 was raised in Canada and the queen and and say: "Oh, they made a record like that and that's corner and say: "OK, here 1 am!" the royal family are our heads of state. And then 1 had what 1 must do." Paul Plishka comes to mind. He does sing in opera, This is what 1 really want to do, and l'm not going to spent six years in England, and 1 had become and but he has not done Ukrainian folk and popular music accept work in the fields that 1 used to do anymore, continue to be very respectful of the form of to the same extent that 1 have. Nor has Andriy because 1 can't keep fragmenting like this. government that we have. 1 think that it's a very effective form of government. 1 think they do a (Dobriansky), for instance, who made a recording of wonderful job. І think the Schreyers, or whoever Ukrainian classical art songs. So. 1 can't look to their Do you have colleagues on this continent that sing occupies that position (of governor general of Canada) recordings for my inspiration. І have to make my own in your style that you can comment about'' demands a certain kind of respect. path and hopefully what 1 do — if 1 really enjoy it and if 1 feel really confident about it - then people will like І can think of one specific person who is a very close What's very amazing and exciting to me is that І it. Some people may not, but 1 have to take that friend now in New York - Andriy Dobriansky - went to school with Mrs. Schreyer and know her now chance, i'd rather have a smaller group of people say who is a bass baritone at the Metropolitan Opera for as the wife of the governor general, it's quite that they really like it, than a huge group of people say 10 or 12 years. He's been very encouraging and remarkable! And yet when 1 did a show there last that it's OK. supportive. We do a lot of Ukrainian classical music December for Christmas - we did a (television) which i've never been exposed to before...Lysenko, special called "Christmas at Rideau Hall" - 1 thought (Continued on page 15) Nyzhankivsky — composers that l've never explored before. And so he's been very valuable to me in finding these things. Now we've done duet material, solo the Russian Revolution, had published a letter in material, trios - it's been really very interesting. June 1933 the English press, which stated that the London 1 also have many non-Ukrainian colleagues that 1 (Continued from page 7) Economic Conference currently taking place either work with, study with, or perform with. And l'm Moscow under the headline "Communist should form a commission and send its members starting to get contracts in opera companies in the mobilization" which dealt with a decree that had to the Soviet Union to check on economic United States. been issued calling for workers to be conditions in the country. He said that he was transported to the Donetske region lor mining. aware that thousands of people in Ukraine were During the process of your career, do you have a Many factories did not want to let their skilled dying. Their only source of food was dead particularly memorable moment that you can recall - workers go. and the ones who did go south could animals, horses, cats and dogs, and that cases of either positive or negative? not find accommodations or food to survive, the cannibalism were also spreading in Ukraine, he story said. said. There are so many! Earlier on — without being non- On June 22, Svoboda carried a story datelined ttt specific — it was so easy to perform, because you had Moscow stating that over 100,000 political Around the world: no fear and just went out and did it. Everybody loved prisoners were being released from prisons. The London Conference of І933, titled "The it, and you didn't know what the pitfalls were. And While these prisoners were being granted World Monetary and Economic Conference," then it becomes increasingly difficult, and more amnesty, many Ukrainians were being arrested began its meeting on June 12. The conference difficult, and more difficult. Until there comes a time for non-production of foodstuffs. had as its objective to check the world depression when you think: "1 can't do this anymore." it's not just On June 23, O. Snovyda, a frequent contri– by means of currency stabilization and economic stage-fright, it's as if a paralysis grips you. Then you butor to Svoboda, wrote a commentary titled agreements. The conference would result in have to push that stone away and go beyond that. And "The Direction Russian Politics is Taking in unbridgeable disagreements among the partici– that's sort of what's happening now. it's very exciting! Ukraine." He stated that the Soviet regime was pants, as the final outcome saw increasingly To answer your question about specific things - І aiming for depopulation of Ukraine and the stringent trade and currency restrictions. remember when 1 sang "Stepom, Stepom" with the elimination of Ukrainian nationalism. He wrote President Franklin D. Roosevelt announced Koshetz Choir — we did it at the Centennial that the fields were barren, peasants were dying that by October 1 there would be 1 million new Auditorium here in Winnipeg, it was my first concert of hunger, and typhoid had hit large portions of jobs for the unemployed in the United States. vith them, and it was so exciting to sing that. And l've the population. Many people were being re- The American Federation of Labor had report– always wanted to sing it again. settled in Siberia, he added. ed that unemployment fell by 12 percent in the l've done some very nice work with a bandurist from Citing several London newspapers. Svoboda first months of the year. Toronto, Petro Kosyk. And that's been very exciting. reported on June 26 that Alexander Kerensky, The Ukrainian Pavilion at the Chicago We've done Ukrainian music and non–Ukrainian former head pf the provisional government after World's Fair opened. music accompanied by bandura in various places: for No. 28 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JULY 10, 1983 11 Panorama of Ukrainian culture in the Big Apple by Helen Perozak Smindak in the news cultivated land in the Soviet Union, Dancers of Philadelphia and the Morrosine. 1 saw the show a couple of provide 25 percent of the total farm Ukraina Dancers of Chicago. Demon– weeks ago and certainly agree with the " During every season of the New production — a powerful free-market strations of precision parachuting will critique given by Marilyn Stasio of the York City Ballet, dance critics never fail force that, he said, doesn't dovetail with be given by the Black Knights United New York Post: "George de la Pena to note the grace of corps de ballet Marxist economics. States Military Academy Parachute smoothly melds balletic grace and member and demi-soloist Roma So– " While attending the Potsdam Con– Team. Broadway razzmatazz." Mr. de la Pena, senko. Reviewing Balanchine's "Ballo ference, the last of the Big Three summit ' valentyna Percyaslavec of the originally a soloist with the American della Regina," Times critic Jennifer conferences in 1945, President Harry American Ballet Theatre, John Taras of Ballet Theatre, made a change in career Dunning cited the "steely delicacy" Truman wrote to his wife Bess about the the New York City Ballet and Taras to actor! dancer since his film debut in displayed by Miss Sosenko as soloist in music played by a piano and violin Kalba of the New York City Opera's the title role of "Nijinsky." He also the ballet's first variation. Anna Kissel– quartet at "Joe's dinner" in Berlin on ballet troupe are on the roster of guest appeared in the movies "The Turning goff of the Times, who wrote about the July 21. He described the Hungarian instructors expected at this year's dance Point" and "Personal Best." Prior to the City Ballet's closing night on June 26, Rhapsody and the Russian, Ukrainian workshops at the verkhovyna resort, March opening of Rodgers and Hart's described Miss Sosenko's debut in the and Polish folk dances as "real along with Yaroslav Klun of Hamilton, "On Your Toes," he appeared in the Balanchine-Mendelssohn "Scotch music." The letter was one of several Ont. Assisting will be Rick Wacko of Broadway production of "Woman of Symphony." Miss Kisselgoff said that printed by The New York Times follow– Edmonton, Tom Mokry of Winnipeg the Year," starring Lauren Bacall. A Miss Sosenko, as the soloist in the red ing the death of Mrs. Truman at the age and Roxana Pylypczak of Chicago. graduate of the High School Perform– kilt, had "all the energy, precise leg of 97. Classes for advanced students have ing Arts and the School of American beats and sparkling swagger that the already begun, while those for beginners Ballet, Mr. de la Pena will soon be seen role requires." On July 5, the " Long island's leading daily news- paper, Newsday, recently carried an will be held from July 24 to August 6 in the PBS television special "The City Ballet and Miss Sosenko began a and for intermediate dancers from Merry Widow" with Peter Martins and three-week summer stint at the Sara- article and illustration about the ban- dura by Tania Kopystianskyj, but an August 7 to 20. The workshops are Patricia McBride. toga Performing Arts Center in Sara- directed by Roma Pryma-Bohachev– toga Springs, N.Y. Performances of editorial revision located Ukraine in о Andrij Dobriansky, back at his "southeastern Russia." sky, whose New York dance school will administrative post at The Ukrainian John Taras's "Souvenir de Florence" celebrate its 20th anniversary next year. are scheduled there for July 7, 9 and 14. " Writing about the 300th anniver– institute of America after touring with sary of vienna's most characteristic Mrs. Bohachevsky recently served as the Met Opera national company, " Nobel Prize-winning Yiddish writer institution, the cafe, R.W. Apple Jr. adjudicator of ballet, modern and reports that the institute's spring season lsaac Bashevis Singer believes that reported that a great moment in character dance at the Dance Manitoba ended on June 14, Flag Day, with a many "dead languages" — including vienna's gastronomic history occurred Festival in Winnipeg and stayed on for special presentation by the Flag insti– Hebrew, Lithuanian, Czech and Ukrai– on September 12, 1683, when the another three days to conduct, work- tute of America. Outstanding programs nian — have been resurrected after long Turkish Army surrounding the city was shops for the Rusalka Dance Ensemble. at the Ukrainian institute in recent periods of oblivion. Mr. Singer made routed by a force of 80,000 Austrians, weeks included the staging of Laryssa the point while addressing the 77th ' During July and August, the Olha Poles, Saxons and Bavarians led by Sonevytsky Art Gallery moves to its Lauret's one-act comedy "The Exhibit," annual convention of the American Duke Charles of Lorraine. The victory a concert by the Echo of the Steppes Jewish Committee, according to a story summer home in Hunter, N.Y., not far established the authority of the Austrian from the Ukrainian Catholic church on bandurist ensemble, and a recital by the by Richard Bernstein in The New York Empire and led to the establishment of virtuoso bandurist from Australia, Times. He spoke about the importance Route 23A. Among other New Yorkers the first coffeehouse. As Mr. Apple trekking up to the Ukrainian artists' victor Mishalow. The 22-year-old for Jews to reaffirm their Jewishness in recounted the story in the Times'Travel bandurist, who toured with the Ukrai– the face of pressures and temptations to colony at Hunter this summer are section of June 26, bags of dark-brown Lavrentia Gerulak, Ulana Liubovych nian Bandurist Chorus in May, enter– melt into the secular, assimilationist beans left behind by the Turkish in– tained a large audience with his unique culture. and humorist ivan Kerntysky (lker), vaders were given by the viennese to who were scheduled to take part in this artistry and spoke of his plans to revive ' The June issue of Glamour maga– Franz Georg Kolschitzky, supposedly weekend's Saturday soiree of poetry, the old Zinkiwskyj method of playing zine gave readers a tip on how to turn for spying on the Turks. Kolschitzky, prose and bandura music at the Ksenia the bandura, whereby the musician uses traditional borshch into a refreshing actually a Ukrainian, Yuriy Kulchyt– Motel. both hands equally rather than restric– main course. For "Cool, Creamy Soup," sky, opened vienna's (and Europe's) ting the left hand to accompaniment on a pureed, chilled borshch can be first coffeehouse - Zur Blauen Flasche the bass strings and using the right hand garnished like gazpacho: surround it (The Blue Bottle) - in an alley behind Around town to play the melody on the remaining with bowls of hard-boiled eggs, potato St. Stephen's Church. Kulchytsky and " virlana Tkacz was the production strings. cubes, fresh dill, cucumber and sour the Ukrainian Kozaks played a promi– stage manager of Beatrice Manley– cream. The recipe which accompanied nent role in the liberation of vienna. Brown's one-woman play, "Conjra о Organist Michael Kaminski of the idea, intended to serve 10, was by Woman," during its three-week run at Brooklyn received a master of music degree from the Juilliard School during Martha Stewart, contributing editor of Summertime the La Mama E.T.C. on East Fourth House Beautiful and author of "Enter– Street. Directed by George Ferencz, the graduation ceremonies in May. Mr. taining," published by Clarkson A e Tenor Edward Evanko last weekend play included music composed and Kaminski, who will give an organ recital Potter, inc. gave a rousing sendoff to the performed by the internationally at St. Patrick's Cathedral on August 14, is very busy right now - he's on first " The Wall Street Journal made summerful of events and activities known jazz bassist Cecil McBee. Miss planned at Soyuzivka, the UNA's Tkacz, who recently directed a reading call for all the weddings and gradua– mention of Ukrainians in two recent tions at his church, St. Rose of Lima front-page stories, one on the revival of summer resortd at Kerhonkson, N.Y. of an indian faith-healing play "Three With Thomas Hrynkiw at the piano, Moons" at the CCNY Graduate Center, Roman Catholic Church in Brooklyn, klezmer music in the United States, the and serves two other churches as well. other on free enterprise in the Soviet Mr. Evanko gave a concert at 8:30 in received a master of fine arts degree Union. Bob Davis's article on klezmer the air-conditioned veselka audito– from Columbia University this spring ' Lyric soprano Svetlana vasilaki music, the music of Jews from Eastern rium. Among other New York concert after completing a paper on Les Kurbas, recently performed with the Wagner Europe and immigrant neighborhoods artists appearing on weekends will be the artistic director of the Berezil Society in Manhattan and the National in the United States, pointed out that Met Opera stars Paul Plishka and experimental theater in Ukraine in the Lyric Opera Company in Maryland and klezmer musicians incorporated "lively Andrij Dobriansky, pianist Juliana early 20th century. virginia. She sang the role of Marianna freylekhs" from Ukraine in their reper– Osinchuk, the Dumka Chorus, the in the premiere performance of Wagner's toires along with sad doinas from Kalyna Chamber Ensemble (Halyna "Das Liebesverbot" in this country, Rumania, Russian dance tunes called Strilec, Thomas Hrynkiw and Nestor given at the Kosciusko Center in Man– shers, and other melodies. Among Cybriwskyj) and Oles Kuzyszyn. A hattan on May 20. in the fall. Miss musicians featured in the story was the panoply of weekend art exhibits, vasilaki will team up with singers clarinetist Dave Tarras, who has played beginning on July 10 with an exhibit of Jeanne Distell and Tamara Bering to klezmer in Ukraine and the United work by young Ukrainian artists, will give a series of concerts as a trio at States for 75 years and made thousands close on August 28 with an exhibition of Manhattan's Rachmaninoff Hall. The of records, in the story on free enter- works by master woodcut artist Jacques programs will include Ukrainian songs. prise in the Soviet Union — the farmers' Hnizdovsky. As in previous years, the e Newark-born Andrew Tkacz, now a markets that can be found in every summer agenda includes girls'and boys' resident of the Big Apple, received a major city of the Soviet Union - David camps, tennis instruction, Ukrainian master of journalism degree at Colum– Brand wrote about the farmers who cultural courses and a dance workshop. bia University in May. Last fall Mr. come to the markets in Leningrad from e New York's own iskra Orchestra, Tkacz won a prize for his video docu– Armenia, Georgia, Azerbaijan and led by Oles Kuzyszyn, will be among the mentary on indo-Chinese refugees in Ukraine. Prominently mentioned were featured artists in this year's verkho– Pennsylvania. two women from Ukraine, one selling vyna Ukrainian Youth Festival, from ' Learning Ukrainian with Logo is red currants, and another who– came July 15 to 17, at the UFA's verkhovyna the brain child of lhor Charischak, a from vinnitsia with 500 kilos of dried resort center in Glen Spey, N.Y. The Manhattan resident who works for a apples, which she was selling for one program will include appearances by the George de la Pena computer company. Mr. Charischak is ruble a kilo. She comes by car twice a Namysto women's ensemble of Wash– ' Although Natalia Makarova and working on program requirements for year and sells everything she brings, Mr. ington the Solovey male quintet from Dina Merrill have left the exciting learning Ukrainian by computer, using Brand wrote. According to Mr. Brand, Toronto and three dance groups - the Broadway show "On Your Toes," a learning environment called Logo the Soviet Union's private farmers, verkhovyna Dancers coached by Roma George de la Pena continues in his role invented at the Massachusetts institute working with only 3 percent of the Pryma-Bohachevsky, the Yoloshky as the premier danseur Konstantine of Technology. -r' 12 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JULY 10,1983 No. 28

Ukrainian hockey update Y^ji by lhor N. Stelmach ^ ^X

Gretzky, Bossy winners third straight Hart award — he is Selke Trophy (best defensive for– Wing performer of the year. John almost unanimously and automatically ward): Bobby Clarke, Philadelphia, 125 Ogrodnick. Give him a strong support– The 1982-83 winners of the six annyal recognized as the supreme player in points...This columnist questions this ing cast on the same forward line, add a National Hockey League awards were North American (perhaps world?) choice - it seems as if some sentimen– few solid defenders, and watch this guy recently announced at the league's professional hockey. Never a doubt tal writers got together and decided to end up future first– or second-team all- amateur draft meetings. Plus, the three years running. honor Mr. Flyer with an award for his star! As the valley Girls put it: "For year's all-stars are honored as writers Lady Byng Trophy (gentlemanly play remarkable season just completed at sure." from North America gather to select the and ability): МІКЕ BOSSY, NY. age 33. Fourth in the tabulations for the Right Wlnt: M1KE BOSSY. NY. top two players at each of six positions. islanders, 191 points...Another Bruin, Selke was our own Tom Lysiak, he of islanders, and McDonald, Calgary. Among our Ukrainian hockey stars, Rick Middleton. finished second in the Chicago Black Hawks. This about Mike "The Boss" totalled 243 votes, there were two award winners, three voting with 181 points, making it a real says it all - who would have ever even compared to 207 for Lanny McDonald, players receiving award votes (aside close race. This is the second Lady Byng imagined the big scorer Atlanta Flames he of the biggest and best moustache in from the winners) and five skaters who in last two years for Ukrainian Bossy, drafted and signed many years ago the NHL. Back among the^other six were considered for all-star status. Let's super sniper pj"the Stanley Cup champs. would turn into such an all-around wingers who got votes here was our Mr. take a look at the awards and the top 12 He is today as well noted for his goal successful centerman. Today he can still Canuck of 1983, Captain Stanley Smyl. performers of '83 Ukrainian-style. scoring as for his outwardly honest get you goals, set up wingers with 'Tis an honest shame (and sham!) Hart Trophy (most valuable player): stance against violence in hockey. uncanny blind passes, kill opposing Steamer only earned one vote. Maybe WAYNE GRETZKY. Edmonton. 266 Norris Trophy (best defenseman): power plays, orchestrate his own power he does rate as the league's seventh-best points...Only four players received any Rod Langway, Washington. plays, win key face-offs and forecheck right winger, but goua' give him more serious consideration with Pete Peelers, C alder Trophy (rookie of year): Steve the living daylights out of the other than a single solitary vote, folks! Come superb Bruin goaltender. coming in as L.armer. Chicago. team's top center. Who would have ever on, 1 love you guys, but get outta here, runner-up with 159 points in the ballot– vezina Trophy (top goaltender): Pete thought... you crazy knuckleheads! Be serious! ing. For Ukrainian Gretzky it is his Peelers, Boston. Gretzky, Bossy all-stars Ukrainian award winners

Ukrainian all-star teams Gee, doesn't this headline look in the tradition started on these very familiar? Our two super heroes of the pages a couple of years back, Ukrainian F1RST TEAM SECOND TEAM hockey world earned 1982-83 selection pro hockey update presents its version to the first team All-Stars at center and of the 1982-83 annual hockey awards. C. Malarchuk Goaltender G. Stefan right wing, respectively. Three other Our awards are presented strictly to the D. Babych Defense - Ukrainians received mention as best of top Ukrainian players, where deserving. E. Hospodar Defense - the rest. Examining the voting by Here we go: W. Gretzky Center T. Lysiak position: Most valuable Player: WAYNE J. Ogrodnick Left Wing M. Krushelnyski Goalie: Peeters, Boston, and Melan– GRETZKY, Edmonton. The best Uke M. Bossy Right Wing S. Smyl son, N.Y. islanders. happens to be the best in the league, too. Defense: Howe, Philadelphia, and Langway, Washington, Bourque, Bo– Most Gentlemanly Player: МІКЕ ston, and Coffey, Edmonton. Ninth in BOSSY, N.Y. islanders. The least the voting at defense was Winnipeg hulk violent and best Ukrainian performer David Babych. Now three years in the happens to be the most gentlemanly and league, big Dave is starting to get more best in ability in the league, too. WHAT W1LL and more notice and acclaim as one of Top Defenseman: Dave Babych, the best blueliners in the entire circuit. Winnipeg. Not much of a contest here He received 20 votes and ranked higher - we lack good Ukes at the backline than notable NHL'erslike Larry Robin- position. YOUR NEW CAR son, Borje Salming and Barry Beck, three representatives of the old Rookie of the Year: Mike Kru– top garde in the league. Babych is a shelnyski, Boston. "Cruisin' K" was COST YOU? representative of the new generation — definitely the best - no doubt here. the new elite — a breed of big, yet Remember, though, there were others mobile defenders, future Norris Trophy this year who impressed as first-year winners. performers, including Steve Ludzik. Gord Kluz.ak (in playoffs) and Clint Center: WAYNE GRETZKY. Ed– Malarchuk. Although not officially a monton. and Savard. Chicago. No. 99 rookie, don't forget Walt Poddubny in was picked 307 times, a long way from Toronto. Unofficially he impressed a Denis Savard's 148 votes for center. whole lot of people in his first full Don't need to say anything else about season of NHL action. And there are league's premier pivotman. more rookies to come next year. There is Left Wing: Messier. Edmonton, and no dearth of young Ukrainian talent in Goulet. Quebec. This is definitely the the amateur and minor league ranks. position boasting the least amount of talent, both on an entire league-wide Most inspirational Player: Tom basis and team by team. There are so Lysiak. Chicago, and Stan Smyl, van– many good;great goalies, defensemen, couver. Maybe our award — we cannot centers and right wingers, but so few overlook this type of rare breed, who quality left wingers. A glance at the plays 110 percent Kozak intense, gutsy, MON І НІ Y І OAN PAYMENTS' voting for this position on the All-Star with pain and wreckless abandon. Our teams indicates this very point to be token humanitarian award is a tie AMOl'NT OF LOAN 2 YEAKS 3 YEARS 4 YEARS quite accurate. Darcy Rota (who?), between two extremely deserving young John Tonelli (good in playoffs, dis– men. Enough has been said of the 52,000 S93.69 565.96 S52.18 appointing regular season), Ryan seasons recently enjoyed by both Tom Walter (inconsistent first year in Mon– and Stan. They performed as an inspira– S3.000 Si 40.53 S98.93 S78.27 treal). Mats Naslund (really now!) and tion to their teammates and their fellow Brian Propp? What? Who? Whom? Ukrainian hockey fans throughout S4,000 S187.37 S131.91 Si 04.36 Meritoriously garnering a whole three North America. votes at this position was the top Red (Continued on page 15) S5,l".'0 S234.21 S164.89 І S130.45

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(312) 489-0520 Dale Derkatch Regina 84 95 179 Roger Kortko Saskatoon 62 99 161 Ken Yaremchuk Portland 51 109 160 SELFRELIANCE Darren Boyko Winnipeg 49 81 130 FEDERAL CRKD1T UNlON Rich Chernomaz victoria 71 53 124 Doug Kostynsk Kamloops 57 59 116 2351 vv, CHICAGO AVE.. CHICAGO, H. 60622 No. 28 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JULY 10,1983 із

Scon. UNA national chairwoman tor National UNA... sports. Mrs. Scott said that plans for (Continued from page 4) next year's tournament have not been There's no place like Soyuzivka ЯО with a 1.826. Ms. Couturier's 1,817 finaliyed. and that information will be was good for second place and 59. forthcoming in The Weekly and Svo– Marge Ewanow (1,803) look third. boda. in the men's division. Mr. Hryniw came out on top with a 2,154. winning a сгж trophy and S30. P. Sabatowich of Needed: preparation... Rochester came in second with a 1,989 (Continued from page 6) for S24. The third-place prize of Я8 write to tne National Committee to soYUZIVKA went to E. Lylak of Rochester, who Commemorate Genocide victims in rolled a 1.958. Ukraine. Media Relations Section. Weekend Entertainment The trophy for the high-scratch single 2615 30th St. NW, Washington, D.C. score in a team event, along with S50, 20008. Friday. July 15, 9:30 p.m. - DANCE: ALEX and DORKO BAND went to R. Nowak of Rochester for his it's not too late for an effective media Saturday, July 16, 8:30 p.m. - CONCERT 253. relations campaign, -in fact, we've got 1YA MAC1UK-HRYTSAY, soprano Following Sunday's bowling, the three whole months. Our timing is tournament awards banquet was held at perfect. But we - you in your commu– DAR1A KARANOWYCZ, pianist St. Mary's Protection Ukrainian Ortho– nities and we in the nation's capital - 10:00 p.m. - DANCE: ALEX and DORKO BAND dox Church Hall. Among those in have got to get started today. Together, attendance to congratulate the bowlers well get that press coverage. Sunday. July 17 - ART ЕХНІВІТ: DR. BOHDAN KONDRA was UNA Supreme President John Flis Next week: a media relations strategy Mistress of Ceremonies: ANYA DYDYK and Supreme Advisor Helen Olek checklist. SOYUZivKA UNA Estate members. Foordemoore Rd. m Kerhonkson. N.Y. 12446 m (914) 626-5641 Troy in 1982, the Troy Branch lost 47 (Continued from page 4) members; Amsterdam, three; Cohoes, consists of M. Demchar, O. Bilinsky seven; and Watervliet, four. The senior and P. Shewchuk. field organizer stressed the need for Нема то як НАД Союзівкою Mr. Sawkiw opened the meeting and more younger members and cited the welcomed Supreme Advisor Walter example of the Elmira UNA Branch which recently organized 29 new mem– Kwas and Senior Field Organizer Daily tours from Ellenville Airport Wasyl Orichowsky. During a moment bers, all members of a sports team, after of silence, tribute was paid to deceased the UNA purchased new sports equip– members of the district. ment for the team. The district chairman then read his After a lengthy discussion, a list of annual report which informed the proposals for the Supreme Executive meeting participants that in 1982, the committee was passed. Among the district had organized 31 new members, suggestions were; to invite all UNA members to the annual organizing which was 44 percent of the quota. The interested parties please notify meetings, especially Ukrainian youth; Amsterdam branch organized nine; the main office. to encourage youth to participate in Watervliet. eight; Cohoes, seven; Pitts- Cost of 20 minute tour: 515.00 per person field, three; and Troy, two. UNA activities; to list obituaries and During the year, the district also held photos of UNA activists in the UNA YOUR P1LOT: an organizing meeting. Mr. Sawkiw calendars; to list all Ukrainian activities attended a district chairmen's confe– in the UNA publications, including ОЛЬГА ЦЕГЕЛЬрЬКА rence at Soyuzivka as well as various those organized by the UCCA; to головна інструкторка петунського вишкопу community functions throughout the publish reports of the Supreme As– на Союзівці, 1975 year. sembly meetings and conventions soon директорка Летунсько-Украінського Кпюбу Mr. Warshona reported that the after the events and to shorten these в Америці district had S312.78 in the bank as of the reports; to publish articles of interest on end of 1982. Mr. Bilinsky then proposed the happenings in the Ukrainian, UNA QUALlFlCATlONS: to grant the outgoing board a vote of and WCFU organizations and inter- Private Pilot 1970 confidence; this proposal was accepted views with interesting individuals; to Commercial Pilot 1972 unanimously. organize field trips to Soyuzivka for Certified Flight instructor 1973 young people. instrument Rated 1974 Mr. Kwas was then asked to speak. He spoke about the S48 million the After the unanimous approval of Each participant receives a 1983 UNA has in assets and the 83.000 these proposals, Mr. Sawkiw closed the -SOYUZIVKA AVIATOR CERTIFICATE' members in the organization. He in- meeting and invited all participants for Suitable lor tramint formed the'meeting participants of the a repast. 90th anniversary of the Svoboda Daily, the 50th anniversary of The Ukrainian Weekly and the 30th anniversary of ORB1S invites you to veselka. He spoke about the donations the UNA makes toward Ukrainian institutions, the aid it grants in scholar- ships as well as the benefits offered at Soyuzivka. especially summer employ– menl for students. iU,KRA!NE Mr. Orichowsky spoke about the plus ... Austria, Poland, various UNA branches which comprise the Troy (Albany) district of which the Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Kerhonkson Branch is the largest with 423 members and 27 newly organized Belgium, U.S.S.R., Rumania in 1983 UKRA1NE extends the warmesAst k for our special tours to REAL ESTATE welcome and will greet you with all California, Hawaii and Mexico. its traditional hospitality. We have created a unique selection of tours ORB1S EFFlClENCY APARTMENTS as well as a wide range of F1T ser– POLISH NATIONAL TOURIST OFFICE FOR RENT, vices. Our 1983 tours are extremely Sf 500 FIFTH AVE.. 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RECORDING DEPARTMENT DISBURSEMENTS FOR APRIL i983 Paid To Or For Members: Cash Surrenders 546,042.84 JUK AOD Totals Adults Endowment Matured 52.866.17 Death Benefits 46,964.00 20.163 54,908 6.735 81,806 TOTAL AS OF MARCH 30 1983 interest On Death Benefits 43.58 Payor Death Benefits - 603.86 GAINS IN APRIL і9вз Reinsurance Premiums Paid 2,495.76 indigent Benefits Disbursed 1,720.00 New members 49 102 12 163 Trust Fund Disbursed 2,760.75 Reinstated 17 53 3 73 Transferred in 7 15 4 26 Total^–„.-„-–,„^–---–-- -- - S153.496.96 Change class in 2 9 - 11 Transferred from Juv Dept. - - 3 3 Operating Expenses: Real Estate 531.811.40 TOTAL GA1NS: 75 182 19 276 "Svoboda" Operation 93,747.67

LOSSES IN APRIL i983 Official Publication-"Svoboda" 45,000.00

Suspended 14 52 30 96 Organizing Expenses: Transferred out 7 13 4 24 Advertising 53,716.65 Change of class out 5 9 - 14 Medical inspections 215,70 Transferred to adults Reward To Special Organizers 5,049.00 Died 1 72 - 73 Reward To Branch Secretaries 95,533.87 Cash surrender 24 65 - 89 Reward To Branch Presidents And Treasurers 2.00 Endoqment matured 24 40 - 64 Reward To Branch Organizers 2.665.00 Fully paid-up 28 51 - 79 Traveling Expenses-Special Organizers 1,462.27 Reduced paid-up Field Conferences '. 867.82 Extended insurance . „ 3 10 13 Total. 4109,512.31

ТОТАІ LOSSES" 103 305 44 452 Payroll, insurance And Taxes: Salaries Of Executive Officers 410,624.98 INACTIVE MEMBERSHIP Salaries Of Office Employees ...30,173.34 Employee Hospitalization Plan Premiums 7,659.18 GAINS IN APRIL i983 Taxes-Federal, State and City On Employee Wages .25,924.61 Tax-Canadian Witholding and Pension Plan Paid up 28 51 79 On Employee Wages 455.43 Extended insurance 7 18 - 25 Total .S74.837.54 TOTAL GAlNS- 35 69 - 104 General Expenses LOSSES IN APRIL i983 Books And Periodicals 571.50 General Office Maintance 3,034.02 Died insurance Department Fees 453.00 Cash surrender Operating Expense Of Canadian Office 125.00 Reinstated Postage .1,554.74 Lapsed Printing And Stationery .3,718.52 Rental Of Equipment And Services .2,683.37 TOTAL LOSSES - .– . - 14 50 - 64 Telephone, Telegraph 192.95 Traveling Expeneses-General ..3.228.80 TOTAL UNA MEMBERSH1P AS OF APRIL ЗО, і9вз 20.156 54.804 6.710 81.670 Total 415,061.90

Miscellaneous: WALTER SOCHAN investment Expense-Mortgages 5200.00 Supreme Secretary Loss On Bonds .6,014.24 Ukrainian Publication .10,000.00 Youth Sports Activities 400.00 Donations .25,300.00 FINANCIAL DEPARTMENT Accrued interest On Bonds .5,896.86 iNCOME FOR APR1L 1983 Marketing And Research Development ...1,600.00

DUES FROM MEMBERS 5227,123.13 Total 449,411.10 income From "Svoboda" Operation 92,944.34 investment income: investments: Bonds 5321.024.56 Bonds 5478,875.00 Real Estate 34,402.29 Stock 1,862.18 Mortgage Loans 23,946.43 Certificate Loans 9,495.83 Certificate Loans 2,900.83 Real Estate 7,836.41 Stocks 3,862.18 E. D. P. Equipment .....T 184.20 Banks 3,978.11 Printing Plant And Equipment 4,16859

Total ...–.„„ .5390.114.40 Total. 4502,422.21 Refunds: Disbursements For April 1983 41,075301.09 Taxes-Federal. State S City On Employee Wages S13.555.70 Taxes - Canadian Witholding S Pension Plan „ 375.33 BALANCE Employee Hospitalization Plan Premiums 810.45 insurance Group RT'd 17.00 ASSETS LIABILITIES Fund: Total 414.758.48 Cash 5924,116.07 Bonds 34,483,408.30 Life insurance 547,908,234.77 Miscellaneous: Stocks 544,907.32 Donation To Fraternal Fund 48.00 Mortgage Loans 2.686,955.48 Fraternal 186,621.76 Certificate Loans 801,932.94 Total, 48.00 Real Estate 643,734.39 Orphans J286.886.30 Printing Plant t E.D.P investments: Equipment .222,725.66 Old Age Home 238,339.15 Bonds Matured Or Sold 4180.107.72 Loan To U.N.U.R.C 8,400,000.00 Mortgage Repaid 20.123.05 Copyrights 1200.00 Emergency 88398.18 Certificate Loans Repaid 5,883.89 Printing Plant 150.00 Total .S48.708580.16 Total —S48.708.980.16 Total .S206.264.66 ULANA D1ACHUK income For April 1983 4931.213.01 Supreme Treasurer No. 28 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JULY 10,1983

recantation on Leningrad television. Two dissidents... There have also been unconfirmed (Continued from page 2) reports that the Rev. vasyl Romaniuk. men had been affiliated with the Rus– a member of the Ukrainian Helsinki SOYUZIVKA TENNIS SEASON sian National Labor Alliance and the Group, had repudiated his dissident unofficial labor union SMOT. activities. A letter purportedly written 1983 Smoloskyp reported that Mr. Yev– by the Orthodox priest appeared in an dokimov, who had looked vigorous and April issue of News From Ukraine, a Doubles August 6-7 defiant at the opening of the four-day Soviet propaganda publication available USCAK Nationals September 2-5 trial, appeared on television looking only in the West, in the letter, he ashen and ill. During the last few days of allegedly asked that his name not be UNA invitational September 17-18 trial, Mr. Yevdokimov appeared to be used by Western groups for "anti-Soviet Doubles for Plast senior men September 24-25 drugged. His complexion was waxen, propaganda." his hair appeared to have turned grey, KLK October 8-9 and he could barely speak. Although sources in Ukraine had The public confessions came just over reported in January that the Rev. a month after another dissident, valery Romaniuk and his family had been Repin, 32, charged on a Leningrad under tremendous pressure from the television broadcast that he had been KGB to recant, the fact that the alleged manipulated by Western intelligence confession referred to a non-existent agencies while administering the so- defense campaign indicates that official called Solzhenitsyn Fund, which pro– state organs had a hand in drafting the vides assistance to political prisoners letter. and their families. Mr. Repin, who was Although the use of "public recanta– initially charged with treason, a capital tions" had been used by the KGB in the offense, was sentenced on May 24 to the past in order to demoralize the resis– comparatively light term of two years' tance movement, the recent spate of imprisonment and three years of inter– such confessions suggests that the An– nal exile, form of enforced residence. dropov regime has decided to make in another case, a dissident identified them a prominent weapon in its cam– as B. Manylovych also made a public paign against dissent.

An editorial on Madrid in the May 28 Western editorials... issue of The Economist also noted that (Continued from page 3) the conference would probably not editorial said that Moscow must be substantially effect Soviet domestic willing to "ease Madrid's credibility pro– policies in the area of dissent, but added blem in the U.S." by backing up con– that a continued commitment to the ciliatory words with conclusive deeds. Helsinki pledges by the West would "Not that the Kremlin leaders are keep Soviet human-rights violations in likely to cry mea culpa and begin the public spotlight. feeding caviar to dissidents," the edi– it said that although to "haggle over torial said. "But they could let it be words" with the Soviets may appear known privately that their intentions "pointless," the conference serves the are to follow constructive tendencies." broader purpose of supporting Soviet The editorial concluded by noting dissidents and keeping the Soviets to SUMMER at SOYUZivKA... that viewing the conference with un– their word. qualified pessimism would be both "Until Russia's rulers, who talk so They'll never forget it. counterproductive and wrong. much of peace, perceive that respect for "it will be remembered that, for all human rights and free contacts is 'an YOUTH CAMPS AND WORKSHOPS: the cynicism about Helsinki in 1975, it essential factor for peace' (in the words BOYS' CAMP - (7-12 years) July 3 - July 16 was followed by such steps as improve– that Brezhnev signed in 1975), the UNA members - SlOO.OO per week, non members - S120.00 per week. ments for Western journalists in the Helsinki process cannot amount to UKRA1N1AN CULTURAL COURSES - (Teens 14-18 years) July 17-30 Soviet Union," the paper said, adding: much more than nagging," the editorial "Perhaps cynicism about Madrid is said. "But this nagging matters. Ask the DEADLlNE FOR REGlSTRATlON: JULY 1st 1983 worth keeping in abeyance, too." Sakharovs. Or even the Andropovs." UNA members - J220.00, non-members - J250.00 DANCE CAMP - July 31 - August 13 well as we had a chance to. Food and lodging - J195.0O - UNA members. 1205.00 - non-members, interview... That's good to do, but there's also a instructors fee - 160.00. . (Continued from page 10) necessity to preserve our music in its For applications and more information, please write or call the management of Soyuzivu What do you think of Taras Shipo– original forms, too. Some people SOYUZivKA UNA Estate wick 's work, where he adapts a lot of should be doing that; some people Foordemoore Rd. " Kerhonkson. N.Y. 12446 " (914) 626-5641 Ukrainian music in order to market it to should be doing what Taras is doing. To a non– Ukrainian audience as well? take all of our music and homogenize it or change it and not keep the original He's done very well. He's done a lot of intentions is not a good idea. There's no place like Soyuzivka good in exposing our culture and music to non-Ukrainians, to the people who І would never take a really truly probably never would have heard it, or classic song like "Chuyesh Braty Miy " SOYUZIVKA to people of Ukrainian heritage who and try to do something with it. І mean don't know our language — they were it is perfect. You don't meddle with The Ukrainian National brought up not learning the language as something as classic as that. Association RESORT Ukrainian hockey... Joining Derkatch on the No. І all- in the Catskil Mountains, star squad was New Jersey Devil farm- near Kerhonkson, N.Y. (Continued from page 12) hand Rich Chernomaz, right winger. Chernomaz finished out his junior WHL All-Stars eligibility in victoria, where he capped SUMMER - 1983 Regina's young Ukrainian future off the year as the league's 12th top star, Dale Derkatch, led the way all the scorer. SUNDAY ART EXH1B1TS way in the very violent junior league out Last but not least around here, west — very violent because the Western Winnipeg's Darren Boyko walked away July 10 PANORAMA OF YOUNG UKRA1N1ANS. 1983 Hockey League has a much worse with the 1982-83 Most Gentlemanly reputation than the other junior ranks in Player Award in the WHL, based on his July 17 DR. B0HDAN K0NDRA (oils) Ontario and Quebec. Derkatch ended 49 goals, 81 assists for 130league points. July 24 LARYSA MARTYN1UK (oils) up as the top scorer in the entire circuit, July 30 8 31 ANAT0LE K0L0HAYETS (water colors) which in turn earned him first-team all- August 7 1RENA FEDYSHYN (oils) star status as top center in the WHL. August 14 MYCHAJL0 M0R0Z (oils) interestingly enough, a Ukrainian INSURE AND August 21 1RYNA H0M0T1UK-Z1ELYK (oils) also earned the second-team all-star slot August 28 JACQUES HNJZDOvSKY (woodcuts, oils) at center ice — Ken Yaremchuk of The large air conditioned Hall "vESELKA" Portland, Chicago Black Hawk pro– SOYUZivKA: (914) 626-5641 perty and fifth-top point-getter this past BE SURE junior season. іб^^^ ^^^^^^ ^^^ THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JULY 10,1983^^^^No. 28

Week of July 10-17 New Jersey's many ethnic commum– PREVIEW OF EVENTS ties; ethnic craft instruction and NEW YORK:Captive Nations Week displays; and a hundred tables of will be observed here with a pro- of special events and speakers fea– Office Building 106. ethnic foods, crafts, and folk art for cession at 9a.m. from 59th Street and turing vice President George Bush. Rep. Solomon and Gen. Singlaub. sale. There is no charge for admit– Fifth Avenue to St. Patrick's Cathe– Representatives Gerald Solomon who have been instrumental in the tance to the park, for parking, nor for dral. At 10 a.m. high mass will be (R-N.Y.) and Samuel Stratton (D– planning of CN Week, will be join– table and booth rental to participat– served; at 11 a.m., there will be a N.Y.) will host a luncheon in the ed by many other dignitaries at a ing ethnic group vendors. ' ifth Avenue parade to Central Park Cannon Building, Caucus Room dinner with keynote address by vice This year for the first time cere- 11. with noon-lime ceremonies, 345. with a reception preceding it at President Bush. The dinner, to be monies will commence with a Grand і or more information on the 11 a.m. This will also be an obser– held at the Hyatt Regency Capitol March of the Nations on Saturday entire week's programs, please write vance of the 40th anniversary of the Hill at 7 p.m., will be hosted by September 10 at 1 p.m. Many groups to: Captive Nations Committee, P.O. Anti-Bolshevik Blo"c Of Nations. Sen. Jeremiah Demon, with dressed in native costumes and carry– Box 540. New York, NY. 10028. Following the luncheon, Major State Department Counselor Ed- ing flags of their nations of origin or General John K. Singlaub, chairman ward J. Derwinski, former congress- national color banners will march Monday, July 18 of the U.S. Council for World Free– man and one of the drafters of the through the Terminal Building where dom and chairman of the Steering Captive Nations Resolution, serving most of the venders will operate, WASHINGTON: The National Committee planning the Captive as master of ceremonies. thence before a reviewing stand of Captive Nations Committee will Nations Commemoration, will mo- state and ethnic officials as the commemorate the 25th observance derate a 2:30 p.m. conference on the The National Captive Nations official opening of the festival. of Captive Nations Week with a day Captive Nations in Dirksen Senate Committee was founded on the basis Applications for performing of the Captive Nations Resolution groups, food booths, craft booths, (Public Law 86-90) passed in 1959. it and Grand March participation will is its intention to inform the Ameri– be accepted through July 15 by" can public and its elected officials of writing or telephoning the office of the plight of the peoples and nations Ethnic Affairs, New Jersey De– in the Soyuzivka spotlight: of the world who are presently being partment of State. State House CN– held captive by Russian imperialism 300, Trenton, N.J. 08625 or calling and of the danger posed by further T.R. Zochowski, director, or Juhan communist expansion. Simonson, coordinator, at (609) 984- July 16-17 7145 or Carl B.S. Pedersen, festival Saturday, July 23 chairman, at (201) 738-9466. K.ERHONKSON, NY. - The weekend of lya Maciuk-Hrytsay WAUKEGAN, ill.: The 11th annual July 16 and 17 at Soyuzivka will feature a Ukrainian National Association Saturday evening program beginning at 8:30 PREviEW OF EvENTS, a listing Golf Outing will be held today at the of Ukrainian community events open p.m. with soprano lya Maciuk-Hrytsay and Midlane Country Club, Yorkhouse pianist Daria Karanowycz. to the public, is a service provided and Delaney Roads. Tee-off will be free of charge by The Weekly to the at 10 a.m. and will cost Sll; the Ukrainian community. To have an At 10 p.m. there will be a dance to the dinner will be at 6 p.m. at a cost of sounds of the Bohdan Hirniak Orchestra. event listed in this column, please Si4. For reservations and informa– send information (type of event, tion please call any of the following date, time, place, admission, spon– On Sunday, an exhibit of oils by Dr. persons at area code 312: Jerry sor, etc.), along with the phone Bohdan Kondra will be on display at the Mychalczuk, 843-1847; Stephanie number of a person who may be UNA resort's veselka hall. Daria Karanowycz Evanchuk, 965-4247; John Gawa– reached during daytime hours for luch, 692-2412; Gloria Paschen, 823- additional information, to: PRE– 2064; Lee Pankow, 823-0554; George viEW OF EvENTS, The Ukrainian Mychalczuk. 358-8675. Weekly, 30 Montgomery St., Jersey A Ukrainian perspective City, N.J. 07302. ADVANCE NOTICE PLEASE NOTE: Preview items on the news... JERSEY C1TY, N.J.: The fifth must be received one week before annual Liberty Park Festival, New desired date of publication. No Jersey's official multi-ethnic celebra– information will be taken over the tion, will be held at Liberty State phone. Preview items will be publish– Park on Saturday and Sunday, ed only once (please note desired date September 10and 1 l,from 11 a.m. to of publication). All items are publish– 6 p.m. ed at the discretion of the editorial The festival features performers, staff and in accordance with available singers, and dancers from dozens of space.

Funds to foster... Perhaps the first step is for branch and for district officers to call a meeting (Continued from page 4) devoted to the topic of fraternalism. All plishments of young Ukrainians via a too often this topic is treated as a mere series of performances, exhibits, presen– afterthought once the electionsof new tations and discussions) and a variety of officers are held and dues are collected. pilot projects to incorporate fraternal Make a point of involving those who dissident news"commentaryepolitics"editorials"interviews programs in UNA branches in close have "dropped out of the scene." invite proximity to the UNA main office. reviews "community news"the arts"scholarship"church non-members. This will ensure more 1 had hoped that these projects might input and at the same time acquaint new sports^preview of events"special features inspire UNA branches and'districts to people with the UNA. implement fraternal projects of their Can you afford not to subscribe? own. it became apparent, however, that introduce the concept of the Fra– branches and districts which had not ternal Activities Fund. Elect a branch or already developed their own fraternal І would like to subscribe to The Ukrainian Weekly district fraternal activities chairperson programs face obstacles — such as a or committee to explore various frater– for—- year(s). lack of funds - in doing so. nal projects. (Subscription rates: S5 per year for UNA members, in order to allocate UNA funds more Other fraternal organizations have S8 for non– members.) equitably among all UNA'ers, the found that similar funding programs Name Supreme Assembly approved the Fra– were received enthusiastically, and Address — ternal Activities Fund program. Now, a consequently they increased their allott– City State Zip branch in Kansas City, Mo., has the ment for funding such programs. same chances of receiving fraternal The FAF program has the potential UNA member: D yes П Payment enclosed funds as does one in Jersey City. to improve the fraternal life of UNA D no П Bill me The ball is now in the court of the branches and districts. The success of UNA branches and districts, it is up to this program, however, depends upon them to respond with proposals for the initiative of local branches and local fraternal projects. Hopefully, this districts. So let's hear from you UNA'ers Ukrainian Weekly column will have the opportunity to in Peoria. ill., Omaha, Neb., Beamsville, feature especially creative projects of Ont. - and New York City. 30 Montgomery St. m Jersey City, N.J. 07302 branches and districts which receive a The UNA has its fraternal checkbook financial boost from the home office. poised.