Published by the Ukrainian National Association Inc.. I I c, a fraternal non-profit association| rainian Ш у Vol. LV No.50 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY. DECEMBER 13,1987 25 cents Dissidents detained in Lviv Over 1,000 demonstrate in D.C. on day of Gorbachev's arrival en route to IV!0SCOW seminar by 01ena Stercho Hendler After opening remarks by Mr. Wasy­ MOSCOW - While Soviet leader pate in the international human rights lyk, who noted that several hundred Mikhail Gorbachev met with President seminar, sponsored by the unofficial WASHINGTON - More than 1,000 Afghan refugees and freedom fighters Ronald Reagan at a Washington sum­ Press Club Glasnost, the meeting's Ukrainians participated in a stirring were actively participating in the pro­ mit on December 8, local authorities in organizer, Lev Timofeyev, told Western and highly publicized rally and march ceedings, Rep. Coughhn led off the list two Soviet cities moved to disrupt an reporters on December 8. on Monday, December 7, protesting of speakers. He opened his speech by unofficial seminar on humanitarian The three Ukrainians, Vyacheslav Soviet policies in Ukraine. The rally, referring to the impending arms accord affairs set to begin on Human Rights Chornovil, Mykhailo Horyn and Ivan which was held in Lafayette Park — in to be signed by the United States and Day, December 10, in the Soviet capi­ He1, were detained on board a Moscow­ full view of the White House - oc­ the Soviet Union and emphasizing that tal, according to the seminar's organi­ bound train in the western Ukrainian curred only hours before Soviet leader an arms agreement was not enough to zers. city of Lviv and charged with narcotics Mikhail Gorbachev arrived on Ameri­ create a better relationship with the Four former political prisoners, possession. Paruir Airikian, an Arme­ can soil. Soviet Union without concomittant including three Ukrainians and one nian dissident, was arrested at the Four congressmen — Reps. Law­ political freedom in Ukraine and else­ Armenian, were arrested for possession airport in Lviv on the same charge, rence Coughlin (R-Pa.), Benjamin where behind the Iron Curtain. of drugs en route to Moscow to partici­ (Continued on page 3) Oilman (R-N.Y.), Steny Hoyer (D- Pointing to the much-trumpeted Md.) and Donald "Buzz" Lukens (R- changes of the Soviet policy of glasnost, Metropolitan Mstyslav appeals forRomaniuks Ohio) addressed the crowd, along with Rep. Coughlin said, "Those changes, Dr. Nina Strokata Karavansky, Sviato- however welcome, are inadequate. We SOUTH BOUND BROOK, N.J. - The Rev. Romaniuk, 61, a Ukrainian slav Karavansky and several speakers cannot be satisfied with such changes so Metropolitan Mstyslav, leader of the Orthodox priest and former political representing Afghan and Ethiopian long as thousands of political prisoners Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the prisoner, had expressed a desire to freedom fighters. The rally and highly remain in the gulag, when the free U.S.A, and Diaspora, has written to emigrate to Canada in an appeal ad­ charged march were covered by scores practice of religion remains proscribed, President Ronald Reagan asking his dressed to Ukrainian Canadians, and of reporters from local, national and when the diverse cultures of the various help in securing the emigration of the especially to the Ukrainian Orthodox international television, radio and print peoples of the Soviet Union are threa­ Rev. Vasyl Romaniuk and his son, community there. media. tened with extinction, and when past Taras. In a letter dated October 22, the Rev. The rally, which was chaired by truths continue to be hidden by artificial labyrinths, sad rationalizations and Romaniuk explained that both he and Ulana Mazurkevich, head of the Ukrai­ tired lies." Ukrainian intellectuals his 21-year-old son are being harassed nian Human Rights Committee of by the authorities and cannot lead Philadelphia, and Myron W. Wasylyk, Rep. Coughlin then noted that "10 of form independent group normal lives. The Rev. Romaniuk is a director of the Ukrainian National the 16 prisoners of conscience im­ resident of Kosiv, a village in the Ivano~ Information Service of the Ukrainian prisoned in the barbaric prison regime to promote culture Frankivske 0blast of Ukraine. Congress Committee of America, was of the Perm special-regimen labor camp opened with a rousing rendition of 36-1 are Ukrainian. Four of those sons "I feel conscience-bound to respect­ of Ukraine — Vasyl Stus, Valeriy by Bohdan Nahayllo "God Bless America." fully request your intercession in behalf Marchenko, 01es Tykhy and Yuriy of the Very Rev. Father Vasyl Roma­ News has recently reached the West Rally participants, most of whom Lytvyn — have succumbed to the niuk, a Ukrainian Orthodox priest, and carried colorful placards of dramatic ruthlessness of this camp in recent about the formation of an unofficial his son, Taras," wrote Metropolitan group of independently minded mem­ bundles of black balloons, were led in years." Mstyslav in his December 4 letter to the singing by Halya Porytko and her Rep. Coughlin emphasized that U- bers of the Ukrainian creative intelli­ President Reagan. gentsia. Calling itself the Ukrainian Ukrainian Club Singers from St. Basil's krainian Americans understood the "We are prepared to accept him and Academy in Fox Chase, Pa. (Continued on page 16) Association of Independent Creative his son into our hearts, to embrace them Intelligentsia (UANTI), its aim is to and to provide that which is required for promote the development of Ukrainian their moral, spiritual and material culture outside Ukraine's official cul­ welfare," he added. tural structures. The association's inaugural declara­ The metropolitan also noted the tion is signed by 14 well-known Ukrai­ upcoming summit meeting between nian dissenters, who include poets, President Reagan and General Secre­ writers and artists, the majority of tary Mikhail Gorbachev, and cautioned whom are also former political priso­ the president that "any compromises ners. They are for the most part victims suggested by the Soviet Union... are of crackdowns on Ukrainian national made for the primary purpose of insur­ assertiveness in 1965 and 1972-1973. ing its own interests and not that of the The UANTI appears to have been free wor1d." The summit sessions "will founded sometime at the beginning of be days which test the very moral fiber October, that is before the series of of America, and the principles of recent attacks in the Soviet Ukrainian freedom, justice and equality for which press on nationally minded intellectuals our country stands," wrote Metropoli­ engaged in unofficial cultural and social tan Mstyslav. activity. "Therefore, 1 beseech and implore It is the second "informal" group to Almighty God to guide your every step, have been established in Ukraine by to be with you and to strengthen you in Ukrainian dissenters concerned with your resolve, for the task set before you injecting glasnost and "democratiza­ will most certainly determine the future of not only America ... but the future of tion'' into Ukraine's cultural and all God-fearing and freedom-loving public life — the first being the Ukrai­ people everywhere," he pointed out. nian Culturoiogical Club, which was organized in Kiev at the beginning of The full itxX of Metropolitan Msty~ August, Slav's letter follows. (Conlinued on page 3) (Contimied on page 4) Ukrainians demonstrate in Lafayette Park. (For more photos, see page 9.) THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, DECEMBER 13,1987 No. 50

A GLIMPSE OF SOVIBT REALITY Congressmen appeal for Gajauskas WASHINGTON - A total of I08 tion of "Gulag Archipelago." "Infofmal" patriotic Byelorussian groups congressmen have appealed to Soviet The signers of the letter note that Mr. leader Mikhail Gorbachev to release Gajauskas suffers from various medical hoi(I politicai demonstration in Minsl( from internal exile a Lithuanian pri­ ailments, including high blood pressure soner of conscience who has spent 35 and ulcers, and that he spent two months by Bohdan Nahaylo .seems rather unusual in a Soviet news­ years in Soviet prisons and labor camps. in a hospital last year after being The Byelorussian daily Sovetskaya paper: "What about the Georgians then, In a November 24 letter, the legisla­ stabbed by a criminal prisoner. Belorussiya for November 17 has re­ who suffered far more in those dark tors also urge Mr. Gorbachev to allow Even while in prison, Mr. Gajauskas vealed that at least 200 nationally years? And the Ukrainians and Rus­ 6I-year old Ba1ys Gajauskas to emi­ has resisted efforts to silence him. In minded Byelorussians took part in an sians? Who has added up their losses?" grate with his wife and daughter to the 1977, before his trial, he joined the open-air public meeting in Minsk on The author goes on to argue that to call United States, where he has relatives, Lithuanian Helsinki Monitoring November 1 that turned into a political StaIin's policies genocidal is a "gross The letter says that Mr. Gajauskas, Group. The Soviets revoked his visiting demonstration. perversion of history." It is ridiculous, jailed by both the Nazis and, later, the rights because he spoke out against The gathering was organized by he claims, to think that Stalin, "despite Soviets for resisting their occupations efforts by labor camp officials to block young people belonging to two "infor- all the complexities of his personality ... of his country, is currently serving the religious observances and promoted the таГ' patriotic associations and drew consciously conducted a policy aimed at llth year of a I5-year sentence for idea of unity among prisoners of diverse well-known members of the Byelorus­ the annihilation of his own people." disseminating anti-Soviet literature and ethnic backgrounds. sian creative intelligentsia. Mr. Maisenya also criticizes the providing material assistance to the 1n addition, he has smuggled political Among other things, participants contents of an appeal that was read out families of political prisoners. Charging writings out of labor camp, which have referred to the mass repressions against by one of the speakers and which was that Mr. Gajauskas is being punished found their way to the West. 1n 1981, Byelorussians in the I930s as "geno­ presumably going to be addressed to the "for providing humanitarian aid and the U.S.-based Rothko Foundation cide," and called for the identification of authorities from the meeting's partici­ exercising his right to free speech," the presented an award to him in absentia all those responsible for the "crimes" of pants. It urged that the full truth about congressmen call the Soviets' treatment for his defense of truth and freedom. this period. the past be uncovered, and, among of him "incomprehensible." The letter on behalf of M r. Gajauskas According to the newspaper's detail­ other things, that "a11 the names not Among the anti-Soviet literature in was circulated by Reps. John Miller(R- ed two-part account written by a cer­ only of the victims of the years of Mr. Gajauskas's possession, for which Wash.) and Edward Feighan (D-Ohio), tain A. Maisenya (only the first part of repression, but also those who were he was sentehced in I978 to 10 years' co-chairmen of the Lithuanian Catholic which has so far been received in responsible for the 'crimes,' " be pub­ special-regimen camp and five years' Religious Liberty Group in the U.S. Munich), the meeting took place on the lished, and that the latter be identified internal exile, was a Lithuanian transla­ House of Representatives. morning of November 1 in Minsk's as "criminals, with all that this implies." Yanka Kupala Square. It was organized The appeal also included the follow­ by two unofficial associations of patrio­ ing demand: "To ensure that there is full Congressional resolution seeks return tic youth in order to revive the Byelo­ knowledge about the underlying me­ russian tradition of Dzyady, whereby chanism which made it possible before on the first Sunday in November the the eyes of the entire nation to trans­ of historic cathedral in Vilnius dead are honored. One of these "infor­ form its best sons into'enemies,'and the WASHINGTON - A member of including St. Casimir, Lithuania's mal" groups is made up of young literati remainder into 'a terrorized mass.'" Congress has submitted a resolution patron saint, and Grand Duke Vytau- and calls itself Tuteishyya, which means The author argues that today it is asking the Soviet government to return tas, the leader of Lithuania in the late literally '4he locals," and was the impossible to name all those who were a cathedral it seized from the Catholic 14th and early 15th centuries at the pejorative term used for Byelorussians responsible for the repression during Church in Lithuania 37 years ago. apogee of its power, were once interred in the czarist Russian Empire. The other the Stalin era. Many of those who House Resolution З00, introduced by in the cathedral. '^^ ^ ч Rep. Robert A. Borski (D-Pa.), notes is called Talaka, a Byelorussian term for carried out Sta1in's orders were acting in Since the cathedral was founded at self-help. Mr. Maisenya points out that good faith; they genuinely believed that that 1988 marks the 600th anniversary the same time as the Lithuanian people this "informal c1ub" has become a focus what they were doing was for the good of the erection of the cathedral in the were being converted from paganism, it for a substantial number of "patriotic of the cause of socialism, and one can Lithuanian capital, Vilnius, on the site is often referred to among Lithuanian youth." therefore hardly call th^m criminals. of a pagan temple. Catholics as '4he cracjle pf Litl^^a,aian The resolution criticizes the Soviet The meeting called to commemorate Mr. Maisenya also challenges the Christiainity.'" ' ^--^- V,­ government for refusing to feturn the idea that during the Stalin era the In the predominantly Roman Catho­ Byelorussia's dead attracted '*many cathedral, now an art gallery, despite population was reduced to a terrorized lic republic of Lithuania, return of the young people," particularly students. petitions by hundreds of Lithuanian cathedral and two other churches — St. But it also drew "well-known poets and mass. Somewhat lamely, he points out clergy. It urges the Soviets to allow Casimir's in Vilnius (now a museum of writers, scholars, artists, theater workers that there were "hundreds of thou­ Roman Catholics to worship in the atheism) and Our Lady, Queen of Peace and party and Komsomol officials." sands" who put up with all the hard­ cathedral and to return it to Catholic in Klaipeda (currently a concert hall) — - There was a formaI opening part during ships and "with their daily heroic labor" control before 1989. worked for "the radiant future," and has been one of the rallying cries of which a stirring verse by Byelorussia's The resolution also calls on U.S. that at the beginning of the war with activist Catholics, In 1985 a Church national poet, Yanka Kupala, was read government leaders, iricluding the out. This was foilowed by readings of Nazi Germany, "hundreds of thou­ committee headed by Bishop Juozas president, to press the issue with the Preiksas to commemorate the 600th poems by members of the Tuteishyya sands" threw themselves into the Soviets and exhorts members of Con­ association, improvised statements struggle with the invaders. anniversary in 1989 of Lithuania's gress to do likewise during their visits to Christianization called upon the Soviets from some of the participants, and, Although the second part of Mr. the USSR. evidently, lively discussion and debate. to relinquish the three churches. Maisenya's article has not yet reached Over the objections of Catholic From Mr. Maisenya's account it Munich, the first part of his account leaders in Lithuania, the Vilnius cathe­ On July 23 of this year Soviet autliro- appears that the main theme of the suffices to make several additional dra1 was placed under state control in rities finally agreed to return the Klai­ poems and statements was the repres­ observations. First, it is clear from the 1950 and converted into an art gallery in peda church within two years, despite sion of the 1930s and their great damage information provided by Sovetskaya 1956. It is regarded as an important earlier vows that none of the churches to the Byelorussian nation. "Dozens" of Belorussiya that the recent resurgence religious and national shrine — the would ever be given back to the Catho- names of prominent Byelorussians who of Byelorussian national assertiveness remains of many Lithuanian notables, lic community. perished during the 1930s were recalled, has affected not only the nation's and "the worthiest representatives of writers, and that the concerns of na­ the Byelorussian intelligentsia," "the tionally minded Byelorussians go much pride of the Byelorussian nation," further than the issue of the status of the FOUNDED 1933 honored. Byelorussian language. This is particu­ ul(rainian Wee(I) Significantly, the author himself is larly significant because Byelorussia until recently was regarded as a republic very tactful in describing the proceed­ An English-language Ukrainian newspaper published by the Ukrainian National ings, and he not only emphasizes his where national sentiment was weak and Russification had made its greatest Association Inc., a non-profit association, at 30 Montgomery St., Jersey City, N.J. support for such a meeting, but also 07302. stresses how important it is that the inroads. "entire bitter truth" be told about those The demonstration in Minsk also Second-class postage paid at Jersey City, N.J. 07302. 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Chrystyna N. iapychak speakers who described what happened The Ukrainian Weekly Sovetskaya Belorussiya, the existence Midwest Correspondent: Marianna Liss in Byelorussia during the I930s as P.O. Box 346 "genocide." of the two "informal" patriotic youth Jersey City, fi.J. 07303 Responding that the Byelorussians associations which it mentions was not were not singled out by Stalin as a known. The Ukrainian WeeIdy, December 13,1987, No. 50, Vol. LV national group, as gepppide would have Y^t, acco,rding to unverified and Cppyright 1987 by The Ukrainian Weekly entailed, he goes anktp make a point that (Continued on page 4) , No.50 THE UKRArNIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, DECEMBER 13,1987

former political prisoners Zorian Popa- Senators, representatives call for release Dissidents... diuk and Vasyl Barladianu, announced (Continued from page 1) its formation in an October 3 state­ reported Mr. Timofeyev. ment. of women political prisoners, Perm inmates All four men, who have served sen­ Messrs. Chornovil and Horyn were WASHINGTON - Forty-two sena­ of five women who are imprisoned or in tences for human and national rights most recently attacked for their activity tors and 10З members of the House of psychiatric hospitals in your country. activity, were released after several in a November 13 article in Radianska Representatives, in separate letters to They are: Sirvard Avagyan (Armenian), hours, but forbidden to attend the Ukraina. Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev, have Valentina Pailodze (Georgian), Hanna Moscow seminar, said Mr. Timofeyev, Mr. Airikian, a 38-year-old Arme­ urged the release of five women priso­ Mykhailenko (Ukrainian), Elena San- a co-founder of Press Club Glasnost nian national rights advocate who ners of conscience and the 16 political nikova (Russian) and Anna Chertkova who was freed from labor camp in served 17 years in Soviet camps and prisoners remaining in a brutal Soviet (religious activist).*' February. Messrs. Chornovil, Horyn exile, has formed an "association for labor camp. The representatives' letter expressed and He1 were forbidden to leave Lviv, national self-determination" in Arme­ Both letters were prepared in re­ "deep concern for the status of the while Mr. Airikian's airplane ticket to nia with other activists this fall in sponse to actions by Americans for prisoners held in special-regimen labor Moscow was replaced by a ticket back Yerevan, according to USSR News Human Rights in Ukraine. The letter camp 36-1 in Permskaya 0blast. to his hometown, Yerevan, the Arme­ Brief. The association has reportedly regarding women prisoners was ini­ "Sixteen political prisoners remain in nian capital. published an information leaflet titled, tiated by Sens. Dan Quayle (R-Ind.) Perm camp 36-І, including several well­ Mr. Timofeyev reportedly told mem­ Nezavisimost (Independence). and Daniel K. Inouye (D-Hawaii), known Ukrainian Helsinki monitors. bers of the press that he spoke for the 15 The organizers of the seminar on while the one about Perm camp 36-1 in The names of the political prisoners in members of the seminar's organizing human rights scheduled for December Kuchino was initiated by Reps. Louise camp 36-1 are: Gunars Astra, Mykola committee in protesting the arrests in 10-13 in Moscow told New York Times Slaughter (D-N.Y.) and William Horbal, Vitaliy Kalynychenko, Ivan Lviv. correspondent Felicity Barringer that Broomfield (D-Mich.) Kandyba, Lev Lukianenko, Vasyl Ma- The human rights activist said that they fully intended to continue with Sent on the eve of the U.S.-Soviet zurak, Mart-Olav Niklus, Vyacheslav the organizing committee, which in­ plans to hold the meeting, which is summit, the senators' letter stated: Ostroglyad, Vasyl Ovsienko, Hryhoriy cludes himself and Larysa Bogoraz, expected to draw international partici­ "An important issue on the agenda is Prykhodko, Boris Romashov, Petro widow of the late Anatoly Marchenko, pation. Two staff members of the U.S. the discussion of human rights. We are Ruban, Semen Skalych, Ivan Sokulsky, was warned on December 8 by Moscow Helsinki Commission flew to the Soviet bringing to your attention the situation Enn Tarto, Fyodor Trufanov." authorities that the event would violate Union last week to attend the meeting, temporary regulations against demon­ as did Bozhena 01shaniwsky, president strations, even though all the meetings of Americans for Human Rights in Task Force leader denied permission are set to take place in private apart­ Ukraine. ments, reported the New York Times. to attend rigfjts seminar in l\/loscow "The authorities are trying to create MORRISTOWN, N.J. - Patience Though Ms. Huntwork had hoped to an atmosphere around it, to give the T. Huntwork of the Independent Task attend the unofficial seminar on De­ impression that our seminar is against Force on ABA-Soviet Relations, who cember 10 through 13 as a representa­ the law," Mr. Timofeyev was quoted by had hoped to travel to Moscow to tive of her Task Force, she said she had the Times as saying. participate in the unofficial seminar on been planning to speak on behalf of One of the four dissidents detained, human rights organized by Press Club several Baltic organizations, as well as Mr. Chornovil, 50, was scheduled to Glasnost, was denied permission to to raise Ukrainian issues. head the seminar on nationalities apply for a visa. When Ms. Huntwork had begun the during the four-day event. An award­ process of obtaining a visa from Soviet winning journalist and Helsinki moni­ Ms. Huntwork, whose group has tor, who served some 14 years in Soviet been the main opponent of an agree­ authorities, she was denied permission by Intourist to be in Moscow on the camps and exile, Mr. Chornovil re­ ment of cooperation signed by the newed publication and resumed editor­ American Bar Association and the dates she specified. Thus, she could go no further in applying for a visa and, in ship of the samvydav journal, The Association of Soviet Lawyers, said she Ukrainian Herald (Ukrainskiy Visnyk), had hoped to attend the seminar sessions effect, had "no permission to apply for a visa," she explained. in August. on nationalities problem1s and human The 57-year-old Mr. Horyn, a psy­ contacts, as well as those dealing with She later tried to exert pressure on chologist who spent 12 years in Soviet Soviet Jewry. Soviet authorities through Sen. Dennis DeConcini's office, the White House camps for Ukrainian national rights Ms. Huntwork, a Phoenix, Ariz., Public Liaison Office and the State activities, has contributed several ar­ lawyer, told The Weekly in a telephone Department, but was not successful. ticles to the newest issue, No. 7, of the interview, "the nationalities seminar Ms. Huntwork told The Weekly that Herald, which came out in August. was my top priority." she had prepared for participation in Mr. He1, a 50-year-old national rights She said she was even more deter­ the seminar by reading scholarly works advocate who was incarcerated for 17 mined to attend that panel after she on nationalities issues, years, joined Messrs. Chornovil and heard about the arrests of Vyacheslav She commented that she came to the Horyn and two other dissidents this Chornovil, Mykhailo Horyn, Ivan He1 conclusion that in Baltic as well as October in forming an unofficial Initia­ and Paruir Airikian while en route to Ukrainian history Soviet policies tive Group for the Release of Ukrai­ Moscow. Mr. Chornovil was to have boiled down to "deception, armed nian Prisoners of Conscience in U- led the nationalities panel. aggression and genocide." kraine. The group, which includes mitment to these national goals "in the signatories — Messrs. Sverstiuk, Svitly­ inian intellectuals... context of general human ideals." chny and Chornovil, all of whom are (Continued from page 1) The signatories of the UANTFs first honorary members of the International Explaining the reasons why they have declaration, who describe themselves as writers' organization - request that the set up the UANTI, its founding mem­ an "initiative" or "action" group, include International PEN Club and UNESCO bers state: the following honorary members of the observe the forthcoming 15th anniver­ "It is our firm conviction that the International PEN Club: Ihor Kalynets, sary on January 6 of the birth of the official unions for writers, artists, a poet; Mykhaylo Osadchy, a writer and Ukrainian poet Vasyl Stus. Before his theatre workers and cinematographers poet; Mykola Rudenko, a writer, poet, death in September 1985 in a Soviet of Ukraine do not represent the fullness and the first chairman of the Ukrainian labor camp at the age of 47, the Inter­ of the spiritual, literary, cultural and Helsinki Monitoring Group; Yevhen national PEN Club had campaigned on public processes that are spreading and Sverstiuk, a literary critic and essayist; his behalf. gathering increasing momentum among Ivan Svitlychny, a literary critic and It is worth noting that text of this the intelligentsia in Ukraine. They are in poet; Iryna Senyk, a poet; and Vyache­ appeal was also approved by a meeting fact being braked for extraliterary slav Chornovil, a writer and journalist, of the Ukrainian Culturological Club reasons by the formal unions for people who is also the chief editor of the held in Kiev on October 18. active in culture." samvydav journal, the Ukrainian He­ The formation of the UANTI, like Announcing the formation of the rald. that of the Ukrainian Culturological "new voluntary association" of Ukrai­ The other signatories are Vasyl Bar- Club, attests to the revitalization of nian writers, artists and cinema and ladyanu, an art historian; Mykhaylo Ukrainian cultural and public life theatre people, the signatories of the Horyn, a psychologist and philologist; brought about by glasnost. In both inaugural declaration declare that they Panas Zalyvakha, an artist; Iryna cases, dissenters who were formally intend to publish the works of the Kalynets, a poet; Mykhaylyna Kot- persecuted because of their Ukrainian UANTFs members (all of the authors siubynska, a literary critic; Pavlo patriotism have sought to work within in the association are still proscribed) as Skochok, a former journalist with the new limits ostensibly offered by the well as literary-cultural periodicals and Radyanska Ukraina, now on the edito­ Gorbachev leadership's policies of almanacs, organize art exhibitions, rial board of the Ukrainian Herald; and "openness" and "democratization." publicize the association's activities, Stefaniya Shabatura, an artist and The fate of these "informal" associa­ and "support all those who desire to put designer. tions will be an important litmus test of their talent and civic courage at the The sort of activity that can be how seriously the authorities take service of the gQod and the spiritual expected from the UANTI can be seen glasnost and democratization in a Arrested for purported possession of development of the Ukrainian people, from a recent appeal by three of its republic where manifestations of na­ drugs: (from top) Vyacheslav Chomovii, and the national life of Ukraine." They members to the president of the Intpr- tional assertiveness have rarely been Mykhailo Ногупу Ivan He! and Faruir a,iso elaborate^that they ^e their. com-^ па!іо*шЬРЬ;М Ciub, Francis Kingr-The tolerated,: ^ -, i-:'-^-"':^'^ b THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, DECEMBER 13,1987 No.50

Catholic tiierarchs' pastoral letter Ol3ituary on Millennium of Christianity in Ukraine The Rev. Sam Evanochko, CSsR Very Rev. Clergy, Venerable Members of Religious Orders and Faithful of NEWARK, N.J. - The Rev. Sam Over the years he was appointed to the Ukrainian Catholic Metropolitan Province of Philadelphia: Evanochko CSsR, after a serious heart serve in Yorkton, 1tuna and Wynyard. *'IVhen (he completion of time came, God sent His Son,., so that we could operation in Winnipeg, passed away on Sask.; RobIin, Man.; Toronto; and receive adoption as His children." Galatians 4:4-5 November23 at the age of 66and in his Newark, N.J. He held the positions of 40th year in the priesthood. superior, pastor and associate. We cannot help but recall the words of the Apostle Paul as we commence Father Sam was born on November His ability to organize and motivate the historic celebration of the Millennium of Christianity of Kievan Ukraine. 16, 1921, in Ituna, Sask., to Stephen and his parishioners may be easily seen in We have been seriously preparing for this mo,mentous occasion for some 10 Anna Evanochko. Having compIeted the number of churches and rectories he years. During this preparation, we have committed the entire Ukrainian high school studies in his home town, he was instrumental in constructing. Each Church and people to the protection of the Mother of God, the Queen of entered the Redemptorist Fathers novi­ beautiful edifice is remarkable Ukraine. tiate and professed his religious vows at tribute to his dedication and love of the During this forthcoming jubilee year, I988, our people and our Church, St. Mary's Seminary in Yorkton, Sask., Ukrainian Church. standing in the bright light of this monumental event, will institute a new era on August 28, 1945. In his early years, Father Sam was in our history. An entire people, some enslaved and some free, will observe Upon fulfillment of his theological renowned for his dynamic work among this monumentous and glorious jubilee of the birth of the Church of Christ on studies, he was ordained into the holy youth. Father Sam will be well-remem­ Ukrainian soil - the l,000th anniversary of the baptism of Kievan Rus'- priesthood by Bishop Basil Ladyka bered as a prayerful, caring and com­ Ukraine. OSBM in the Ukrainian Catholic Ca­ passionate priest -- one who deeply One thousand years ago, one of Ukraine\ greatest rulers, St. Volodymyr thedral of St. Volodymyr and St. Olha loved his priesthood and enjoyed serving the Great, officially welcomed Christianity as the faith of an entire nation. in Winnipeg on January 4, I948. the Ukrainian Church. The wise prince clearly realized that only Christianity could provide his vast nation with the highest spiritual ideals and with the strongest of moral Metropolitan Mstyslav... his native Ukrainian Orthodox Church principles. With that one act, he inaugurated a golden era in the history of without fear or reprisals. We are pre­ Kievan Rus'-Ukraine. (Continued from page 1) pared to accept him and his son into our Christianity not only brought a new spirit to its national souI, but it also Dear Mr. President: hearts, to embrace them and to provide provided a new and powerful nourishment for the life of Ukrainian people As we approach the season in which that which is required for their moral, during these past 1,00О years. Perhaps never in wor1d history has the fabric Christians throughout the wor1d honor spiritual and material welfare. Father of a people been so affected by the Christian Gospel! Every aspect of life -~ the Prince of Peace and Redeemer, I Romaniuk*s address appears at the familial, community, political and national - has been touched by its power. take this opportunity to convey to you conclusion of this letter. Perhaps never in history has Christianity so wonderfully touched the very in advance, my most sincere, prayerful I realize that you are extremely soul of a nation. and heartfelt greetings and best wishes burdened with matters pertaining to the This was due to the immense foresight of St. Volodymyr about whom the for a joyous Christmas and propitious summit. 1 am extremely grateful for the great Metropolitan of Kiev Ilarion wrote: "Rome commends with the voices New Year. attention which you have given to this of praise Peter and Paul whose ministry brought them the faith of Jesus I am deeply aware of the monumen­ sincere letter of best wishes and my Christ, the Son of God: Asia, Ephesus and Patmos owe their faith to the tal task which you face by virtue of the fervent appeal in behalf of Father Vasyl Evangelist John; India to Thomas; Egypt to Mark. Every nation, city and impending December 7 summit ses­ Romaniuk and his son, Taras. people honor and praise the apostle who proclaimed to them the true faith. sions with the General Secretary of the May God be with you, Mr. President, And so, with all our strength, weak as it may be, we honor the great apostle Soviet Union, Mikhail Gorbachev. as you carry the light of truth and and leader Volodymyr who ignited so great and wonderful a beacon in our They will be days which test the very freedom into the summit sessions, and land." (Sermon on Law and Grace) moral fibre of America, and the princi­ may He, the light of righteous|^|s^ The Ukrainian Church with its beautiful rite and glorious traditions so ples of freedom, justice and equality for bless you and your beloved wife, Naiic;^^ impregnated the life of the people that Church and nation became which our country stands. Therefore, 1 during this Christmas season and synonymous. No one has understood this fact better than our enemies, and so beseech and implore Almighty God to throughout the New Year of 1988. they prevent the Church from openly carrying out her mission in her native guide your every step, to be with you With love in Christ, and gratitude for land. Nevertheless, despite its temporary, fabricated liquidation, or its and to strengthen you in your resolve, the leadership which you provide in contrived decline, the Ukrainian Church has remained a vital part of the sou1 for the task set before you will most often difficult and trying circumstances, and experience of our people. While the enemies continue their attacks on the certainly determine the future of not I remain Church, we are obliged to defend and protect her, even as did our ancestors. only America, as the bastion of demo­ Let us not forget that every attack against the Church is an attack against the cracy and defender of human rights, but Devotedly yours in the Lord sou1 of a people. the future of all God-fearing and free­ (Most Rev.) Mstyslav We must remember that the Ukrainian Church is the spiritual sou1 of a once dom loving people everywhere. Archbishop of Philadelphia independent Ukrainian nation. She is "like the spiritual fatherland amidst My own experience with the Soviet Metropolitan of the Ukrainian Orthodox foreign nations,"affirmed the holy father, Pope John Paul II, in his Pastoral Union, experience based upon, prior to Church of the U.S.A, and Diaspora Letter of 1979 in anticipation of our Millennium. The first immigrants to the my consecration as archbishop-metro­ shores of the United States of America we1I understood this fact. When they politan of the Ukrainian Orthodox arrived in this great land over I00 years ago, the major factor that enabled Church of the U.S.A, and Diaspora, "Informar' patriotic... them to shoulder poverty and other hardships was their faith in God as well as my being a member of the Polish Parliament and a member of the Office (Continued from page 2) their love for and attachment to their Church. This longing for the familiar unpublished samizdat documents which and most directly, the yearning for their native rite and Church inspired them of Foreign Affairs, and also experiences shared with my uncle, the president of have been received by Byelorussian to appeal to Sylvester Cardinal Sembratovych, metropolitan of Halych, to emigres, an unofficial association of send Ukrainian priests to the United States. the Ukrainian National Republic, Si­ mon Petlura, a defender of democratic patriotic Byelorussian youth called And so the seed which St. Volodymyr sowed some l ,00О years ago in Kiev, principles and a staunch anti-Commu­ "Spadchyna ("Heritage'') was:active in spread to the Americas as well, maturing into the Metropolitan Sees in nist, convince me that any compromises Minsk until it was broken up by the Canada and the United States, as well as into eparchies in Brazil and suggested by the Soviet Union, are authorities in Decernber l986and seems Argentina. With further encouragment from Cardinal Sembratovych and made for the primary purpose of insur­ to have been the precursor of Talaka. In from his successors, the Servant of God Andrey Sheptytsky and the ing its own interests and not that of the other words, it is still extremely diffi­ Confessor of the Faith Josyf Cardinal Slipyj continued growth was enjoyed free wor1d. Therefore, dear Mr. Presi­ cult to know what is happening beneath here in the United States. We now have a Metropolitan See with three dent, 1 pray that the summit be fruitful the surface in many of the union repub­ eparchies, hundreds of priests and religious, as well as hundreds of thousands for you and our beloved United States lics. of faithful. of America. With you, I also fee1 the Finally, it is worth comparing the All Ukrainians rejoice on this occasion of our Millennium. Our Church in pain inflicted upon our country by those sympathetic and sensitive tone of the the United States, to whose friendly shores both our ancestors and some of us who are blinded to the sacred mission article in Sovetskaya Belorussiya with have immigrated, especially rejoices. For our Church, in the image of a good which God has entrusted to America for recent attacks in the Soviet Ukrainian mother, has faithfully attempted to "gather her children, as a hen gathers her both the present and future. press on the unofficial activities of chicks under her wings." (Mt. 23:37) Our Church in this land has seriously Finally, dear Mr. President, in the nationally minded Ukrainians. For tried to gather all her children from every corner of this vast Iand through past I have not troubled you with instance, when at their public discussion various ecclesiastical, cultural and national undertaking^. We must be matters of a personal nature. Yet, on October 4 members of the "infor~ particularly aware of this factor during our jubilee celebration. during this crucial and significant time таГ' Ukrainian Culturological Club Pope John XXIll called the Church "Mother and Teacher" ("Mater et in history, I feel conscience-bound to raised the question of the man-made Magistra"). And so she should be to each one of us. Our Church is a true respectfully request your intercession famine in Ukraine in l932and l933,and mother. She gives us spiritual birth through the sacrament of baptism: "Those in behalf of the Very Rev. Father also used the term "genocide," they were who believe and are baptized will be saved"(Mk. I6:I6) She nourishes us Vasyl Romaniuk, a Ukrainian Ortho­ denounced by name in the pages of with the Word and with the Bread of Life: "when the Spirit of truth comes, He dox priest, and his son, Taras. They are Vechirnyi Kiev on October 19 as "re­ will lead you to the comp1ete truth."(Jn. 6:51) She cleanses us, reconciling us victims of Soviet religious persecution translators of hostile radio voices" and through the sacrament of penance: "If you forgive anyone's sins, they are and prisoners of conscience who desire creators of a "demagogic shadow thea­ forgiven." (Jn. 20:23) "She clothes us in virtue:" Let us put on faith and love to come to America. Father Vasyl ter." Mr. Maisenya does not even name for a breastplate, and the hope of salvation for a helmet. God destined us not Romaniuk's fervent desire is to raise his the most outspoken speakers at the for retribution, but to win salvation through Jesus Christ."(I Th. 5:8-9) She son among free people who value the meeting with whom he takes issue. searches for us should we lose our way (d. Parables of the Lost Sheep, the sanctity of life, and to be able to E\idently, glasnost means onething in Lost Coin and the Prodigal Son~ Lk. 15). And lastly, as a solicitous mother, outwardly profess his Orthodox Chris- Byelorussia, and something different in (Continued on page 15) , і\щ faith апД exprci.sf h^s priesthpod in гіСІдЬЬогіпд Ukraine.

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THE UKRAINIAN NATIONAL ASSOCIATION FORUM 5SSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS^ The Fraternal Corner | Bociurkiw leaves Weekly staff JERSEY CITY, N.J. - Michael investigation of war criminals in by Andre J. Worobec Ш Bociurkiw, Canadian correspondent Canada, was published in December Fraternal Activities Coordinator Ж for The Ukrainian Weekly, has left 1986. More than 60 articles have sSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSsS the newspaper effective November appeared in the newspaper under his 30. He had been on staff since Sep­ byline. Fraternalism at Christmastime tember 1985. A l986graduateofCarleton Uni­ What activities can a branch still hold praise to branches which have made In I983, Mr. Bociurkiw worked in versity in Ottawa, Mr. Bociurkiw at this time of the year? Three sugges­ commitments to hold St. Nicholas The Weekly's editorial offices as a earned credits towards his degree tions come to my mind: parties. summer intern and later as an assis­ from George Washington University * Third suggestion: Combine the St. tant editor. and Columbia University. He parti­ * First suggestion: Hold a fund­ Mr. Bociurkiw, 26, is now based in raising or a clothing dr;ive for needy Nicholas/Christmas party with an cipated in a 1987 summer workshop affair to help the needy. Ottawa and will be writing business at Columbia University's Graduate people in your community, Ukrainians news and feature stories for The abroad, in countries like Brazil, etc. Hold a St. Nicholas/ Christmas party, School of Journalism. but invite other needy children and have Globe and Mail, Canada's national * Second suggestion: There is still presents for them. Or hold your party, newspaper. Recently, he comp1eted a A multiple UNA scholarship win­ time to hold a St. Nicholas/Christmas but set aside a number of presents for six-month assignment as a weekend ner, Mr. Bociurkiw is a member of party. Letters regarding the holding of needy children in the community and reporter in The Globe's head office in UNA Branch 492. St. Nicholas/Christmas parties were deliver these presents to the needy Toronto. Mr. Bociurkiw will continue writ­ sent out to all branches in October. The children on another date. Remember, Mr. Bociurkiw's first article for ing for The Weekly on a free-lance UNA has traditionally encouraged its where there is a will, there is a way. The Globe, a page-one story on the basis. branches to sponsor the,se parties for If any branch is still considering children of its members and their holding such an activity and wishes to friends. Partial financial aid and other find out what assistance is available to it assistance is available to branches who from the main office, please contact the hold this event. fraternal activities coordinator with­ At this point I must give words of out delay. The Insurance Corner by H.P. Floyd National Sales Director BOOoeoQosooooooeooeeo90oooeosooeoeooececeooeoooooooo% Why do people buy insurance? Why does a man buy life insurance? outsider to care for her family so that * Ask a young man who has sudden­ she can go out and earn a living. ly found himself financially responsible A man buys life insurance, or a for his mother and younger brothers woman buys life insurance, because and sisters. someday someone important to them is * Ask a man who is old enough to going to need money. That someone retire but can4 afford to. may be their spouse or it may be the * Ask a widow who had to move out person himself/herself in old age. of her home because she could not keep up the mortgage payments. People may buy life insurance to meet Ф Ask the man who saw the collapse many needs - but they do so for only of a business he'd worked at most of his one reason — because they care. life, because he didn't have the money to Your beneficiary will not be your buy out his partner's heirs. spouse, but your widow(er). And wi­ * Ask a young mother who hires an dow(er's) never object to life insurance.

n Wood/Globe and Mail UNA supports Orthodox camp Michael Bociurkiw on the job ... somewhere in Canada. AMBRIDGE, Pa. ~ The executive Prior to the opening of the meeting, board of the All Saints Ukrainian Mr. Hryshchyshyn introduced Su­ Orthodox Church Camp met at the St. preme Advisor Andrew Jula for brief UKRAINIAN HERITAGE DEFENSE COMMITTEE remarks. Vladimir Orthodox Church recreation and the hall here on Sunday, November 22. On behalf of the Ukrainian National Secretary Bohdan Hryshchyshyn of Association, Mr. Jula presented a check SUPREME EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE UNA Branch 264 and the president of in the amount of S50O to the camp. of the During four weekly encampments the camp executive board presided at UKRAINIAN NATIONAL ASSOCIATION the meeting. The Rt. Rev. Andrew Beck this past summer, nearly 400 children, is president of Branch 264 and spiritual participated in Ukrainian culture and call upon you to advisor of the camp. crafts courses. DONATE FUNDS for their work and actions: 1. To promote the Ukrainian Story 2. To counter inaccuracies about Ukrainians 3. To proteq| the civil rights of Ukrainians Please mail donations by check or money-order to: UKRAINIAN HERITAGE DEFENSE FUND c/o Ukrainian National Association 30 Montgomery Street. Jersey City. N.J. 07302 and mclude the followmg form. compIeted with the amount of donation, your name and address. Amount of donation ...:

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UIkrainian WeeIdV A VIEW FROM CANADA New thinking? Bilingual program in the prairies: As General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev and his wife, Raisa, were being welcomed in this country for the start of the U.S.-Soviet summit some criticisms, some suggestions meeting, there were ominous signs back in the USSR. by Orysia Paszczak Tracz school board. For, even as U.S. and Soviet flags flew side by side or even from'the To my way of thinking, the solution same flagpoles in Washington — proclaiming a new era of friendship This spring, The Ukrainian Weekly should lie at the beginning, before, and carried an interesting three-part series and cooperation between the two superpowers — in Lviv, Ukraine, at the point of graduating as a bachelor^ by Mykhailo Bociurkiw on the Ukrai­ of education, or at certification. During' four national rights activists were prevented from attending a nian-English Bilingual Program in the the learning process, someone in autho­ conference in Moscow. public schools of Alberta, Saskatche­ rity should inquire what the future As the U.S. president and Soviet leader were exchanging wan and Manitoba. As a parent who teacher intends to teach. If it is a pleasantries in one capital city, in the other, human rights activists who had two children in the program here in language, rigorous control should be in­ had organized an unofficial meeting on humanitarian concerns were Winnipeg, one son from grade one to stituted to be sure that the future teacher being warned that their conference would violate temporary local six, the other from kindergarten to really 1earns how to speak. This means regulations against demonstrations - even though the conference grade two, and now have the youngest speak properly, grammatically, fluent­ was nothing of the sort and was scheduled to take place mostly in in kindergarten, I have suggestions for ly. How many out there passed French private apartments through6ut the city. At the same time Jewish improving the program. and yet can4 put a sentence together? protesters were being detaiiied as they gathered to demonstrate against Since its beginning eight years ago, Once out of university, when that and in spite of a few ups and downs, the teacher applies for certification from emigration restrictions. bilingual program has been a success. the Department of Education, there While the gospel of glasnost according to Gorbachev was being Credit for most of it goes to the enthu­ should be another rigorous examina­ proclaimecT throughout the United States by members of the Soviet siasm and support of the parents and tion, oral and written, to scie if the ^ntour^ge engaged in a public relations offensive, three Ukrainians teachers. I remember the principal of person can actually speak, write' and and one Armenian -~ alj of them natip^alists - were charged with the school remarking that he had never teadh that Mngimgei ^ drug possession as they attempted to travel from Lviv to Moscow seen parents as keen and supportive as In the case of Ukrainian, ther provin­ VyacheslavChornovil,Mykhailo Horyn and Ivan He1 were taken off the Ukrainian ones were. The enthu­ cial consultant should have stronger a train and charged with drug possession. ParuirAirikian was not siasm spills over to the children^ espe­ powers. The supportive organization of allowed to board 'a flight to Moscow and also was charged with drug cially if tjiey are in the program from the parents, the Manitoba Parents for possession. After several hours' detention, the four were released. The beginning. A special cpmraderie grows Ukrainian Education, should also have three Ukrainians were told they could not leave Lviv, and Mr. Airikian among them. The teachers give more a say. After all, it is their children and than 1GO percent, and make the extra was given a ticket to Yerevan; Thus, they were prevented from their efforts which make the program effort to prepare new material. the success it is. But even in this attending the unofficial seminar organized in Moscow by Press Club What is remarkable is that most of organization, some of the parents who Glasnost. Mr. Chornovil, it should be pointed out, was to head the the children in the program are many are encouraging their children to learn seminar's session on nationalities problems. generations removed from Ukraine. the language of their ancestors, often Meanwhile, in Moscow, Lev Timofeyev, a co-founder of the press Many parents no longer speak the through no fault of.their own, them­ club, protested the arrests and Soviet authorities'attempts to portray language, and only "baba" and "dido" selves never learned. the gathering as illegal. "They don't want dialogue among independent still remember, maybe. Many come While the childreniti I^feu8fi-itfnfei-^ groups," he explained. from families where only one parent is sion may be learning the language we1I, At press time, the fate of Press Club Glasnost's unofficial seminar on Ukrainian. There are some with no I have my doubts about the kids taking humanitarian concerns was uncertain, and many questions remained Ukrainian connection at all. Those who it for an hour a day. The control over unanswered. Not the least of them was: What do all these speak Ukrainian at home are in a very the quality of the languages taught in cJevelopments tell us about the Soviets' "new thinking"? small minority. Manitoba, be they French, Ukminian But, in spite of all the enthusiasm, or whatever, must be centralized. We good will and support, there is a pro­ cannot depend upon separate school blem with the bilingual program. I boards to do this. Some of them already strongly suspect that it also exists in resent the Ukrainian program being as other language programs. Some tea­ popular as it is. The problem may arise chers should not be teaching in a that there may not be enough teachers language other than English, be it to teach Ukrainian, even badly, if the Ukrainian, French, etc. Even if the controls are established. But the cultu­ teacher is totally certified, he or she just ral benefits the children in the bilingual doesn't speak the language well enough. program receive on top of a very good And somewhere along the way, there is general education make it all the more no authority to say, "Hey, wait a necessary to improve the quality of the minute, let's hear you talk a bit." Ukrainian language as it is taught in our There are a few such teachers in the schools. Ukrainian program. Their Ukrainian Another way of improving the teach­ just isn't good enough - not only their ing of the language is to be sure the pronunciation, but their grammar as guidelines are right. What kind of well. Their declensions and conjuga­ Ukrainian do we want our children to tions are something else. From parents learn? There must be a solid middle in a few school divisions, I have heard ground to satisfy most. If there are comments that a child's language has Ukrainian words, they should be taught. deteriorated since he or she began For example, the word "litak" (air­ school, or that it deteriorated between plane) already exists. Why teach "aero­ one class and another, because of the p1an" instead? I do not want my chil­ teacher's pronunciation. dren to p1ay "voleibol" and "basketbol" Where is the root of the problem? in physical education. I want them to When I asked individuals involved in play "vidbyyanka" and "koshykivka," the program, I received a few different good Ukrainian words which have been answers. The principal of each school in the language since the sports arrived. does his or her own hiring. At the No matter what the dictionary from interview, not a word of Ukrainian need Kiev says, I do not want my son to think be spoken. There is no requirement for about being a "kozmonavt," I want him someone qualified to interview the to think about being an "astronavt." applicant in the language of future In first grade, eight years ago, tie instructioIn. There have been cases children were taught to answer to the where the much less qualified teacher ~ question: "yak j[sic] tvoye imia?" Not when it 45ame to langua^ ^ Ш5 hired 1, "yak ty nazyvayeshsia," or *'yak tebe over a very qualified, fluent teucheri zvut," or even "yake tvoye imia.'* After Once the teacher is hired, he or she' I raised a stink about it, the answer was continues to teach in that language. The that is what the handbook from Ed­ Ukrainian language consultant to the monton said. I wonder how many other Provincial Department of Education such "correct" literary phrases are being can only advise or suggest, and even taught. No matter how well the teachers then not always, because in some speak, if the material they are to teach is schools that is considered interference. incorrect, the children's 1earning will The consultafit is not required to sit in suffer. And the teachers do have to on interviews because hiring is within foliow the curriculum. With a11 the the juris ctioa of each individual (Continued oh page 15) No.50 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, DECEMBER 13, 1987

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

Museum board's attention possible from us, his specific gration's "pervasive negativism." done it better. criticisms of the Washington commu­ Invariably, in response to any effort My wife and I are building a new president responds nity's reception of Mr. Shumuk are by a group of Ukrainians involved in home in northern New Jersey and ever inaccurate and unfair to the many building some project for the general since we had read Mr. Mazurkevich's Dear Editor: people here who willingly and eagerly good, a self-appointed critic emerges letter, my entire family has become Zen Mazurkevich is entitled to have did their best to welcome Mr. Shumuk from his cave to bash it. He takes a few severely guilt-ridden for not having his opinion about the projected building fittingly. wild swings with his club, how1s at the selected a Ukrainian architect. for The Ukrainian Museum and about As president of The Washington moon, and disappears again without its architect, Cesar Pelli. However, I I am confident that Mr. Mazurkevich Group, An Association of Ukrainian making so much as a token constructive would equally find my new home's would like to point out that the selec­ American Professionals — one of the contribution. Motivated by embarras­ tion of Mr. Pelli was not at all arbitrary. design to have a "me too" architecture groups that was responsible for Mr. singly transparent self-interest, this and lacking a "Ukrainian tradition of The museum's Building Committee, Shumuk's appearances in Washington approach disregards our nation's past among whose members were two Ukrai­ rhythmic exuberance." This lack of — I am familiar with at least part of and has no hope for its future. It is professional expertise by anyone other nian architects, interviewed some of the Shumuk's situation while he was in devoid of any sense of citizenship. most prestigious architects in the than a Ukrainian architect is most Washington, and feel that it is necessary The Ukrainian Museum in New York revealing. I wish I was aware of this United States and Mr. Pelli impressed to set the record straight on several is a laudable institution. It reflects our us as the builder who approached our critical fact before we naively embarked issues. cultural national identity. It can serve as on constructing our new home. project most seriously (and not at all First, it is highly misleading for Mr. a unifying element for Ukrainians condescendingly, as Mr. Mazurkevich My family did experience some Fylypovych to state that, in Washing­ everywhere, of every political and psychological guilt reduction and im­ implies). ton, Mr. Shumuk, "spent several nights religious bent. The time is long past due He made a point of becoming ac­ provement in social standing when in unfamiliar institutional surround­ to abandon these obstructive tactics in much to our surprise we discovered our quainted with the museum's collection ings, without the benefit of that warm our community relationships. We must and studied books about Ukrainian electrician to be half Ukrainian. Thank family hospitality we always pride aspire to become useful citizens, put God that our home construction project architecture. The information that we ourselves in." The "institution" to which aside personal ambitions, and join in gathered about him corroborated our can at least be partially saved from total Mr. Fylypovych refers is St. Sophia's the effort of building a museum in New ruin. first good impression. Religious Society, a beautiful mansion York that we shall be proud of, that our "Newsweek" (August 4, 1986) pub­ When will Mr. Mazurkevich and in one of the best neighborhoods in children will be proud of, and that even other members of the "old guard*'stop lished an article under the title "The D.C. Mr. Mazurkevich'8 children will be New Master Builder" and subtitled embarrassing and alienating the Most importantly, Mr. Shumuk was proud of. "Pelli's lyrical design pleases on many younger generation? housed in St. Sophia according to his I, for one, am firmly convinced that in levels." own express wishes because it would this generation of Ukrainians, the The article reads: "In the past few Amir9 Terpaiisky provide him more warmth than a hotel "builders" will far outnumber the months the most visible name in archi­ Mahwah, N.J. room and more freedom to recuperate, "destroyers." tecture has not been that of I.M. Pei or prepare, and rest than would have Philip Johnson - the expected stars - Thank you to staying with a family. And Mr. Shumuk George Saj but Cesar Pelli. The already formidable was not alone at St. Sophia's. There are reputation of the 59-year old designer, Montclair, N.J. Frank Sysyn three young Ukrainians living there. recently dean of architecture at Yale, is Dear Editor: One of them, Markian Bilynskyj, a rising as high as one of his elegant sky­ Ukrainianism Thank you, Prof. Sysyn, for your graduate student in Soviet relations scrapers." conclusive and thorough presentation from England, was a wonderful and The author of the article, Douglas and guilt on the sore subject of our Millennium. interesting host for Mr. Shumuk, and Davis, went on to mention a few of Dear Editor: This is probably the first so out­ made sure that he was comfortable and Pelli's achievements: the "radiant" I got a big kick out of Zen Mazur­ spoken but indispensable exposition of provided for. Winter Garden, at the heart of Battery kevich's letter printed in The Weekly this event that is so tangled by all Park, a 57-story Norwest Center in Moreover, many other individuals recently. Mr. Mazurkevich's letter parties. Minn1eapolis (commissioned by the willingly took the time to help Mr. strongly criticized the architectural Society of Fine Arts)i the extensions of Shumuk out and make his stay in design of The Ukrainian Museum's new Ostap Tarnawsky the Museum of Modern Art; and Car­ Washington pleasant. At the certain building and hinted that he could have Philadelphia negie Hall in New York. risk of leaving out some names, I would "His large, active office in New nonetheless like to thank those whose NEWS AND VIEWS Haven spews out a stream of lyrical, names I can now recall who did provide technically sophisticated buildings that the warmth and hospitality that Mr. are neither 'modern' nor *postmodern.' Fylypovych claims was lacking. Each attempts to please on many levels Dr. and Mrs. Starosolsky invited Mr. Documentation center grateful to Kapusta at once, captivating clients and public Shumuk to their home and provided by Lydia Wasylenko-Smyk throughout the diaspora in various but frustrating critics. Over and again, him with food at St. Sophia as well. Theodosia Kichorowsky did likewise, private sources. The intention of the Pelli's buildings defer - despite their The Ukrainian Institute of America URDC is to assimilate such archives ingenuity — to their sites and to their and drove him around town to take care of various appearances and matters. established its Ukrainian Research and and documents in order to provide a context. His architecture is unfailingly Documentation Center with the aim of central base of accessible information. humane and courtly." Osyp Zinkewych also ensured that Mr. Shumuk had meals and transportation, collecting archives and documents The URDC is honored to announce Mr. Mazurkevich may prefer M. and met Ukrainian Washingtonians. pertaining to Ukrainians in the 20th the donation of an excellent research Graves, and consider Pelli his imitator. Katya Chumachenko made several century. library which had belonged to the late However, this opinion is not borne out important appointments for Mr. Shu­ The URDC is meant to serve as an Alvin Kapusta. The establishment of a by any architectural critics. The New muk with officials in Washington, and information center accessible to both documentation center had been the York Times repeatedly Hsts Mr. Pelli she and George Sajewych took him the public and English-language media. objective of Mr. Kapusta. He was the among three or four of America's most around town to his meetings and to see The UIA is fortunate to be in an U.S. State Department's first special distinguished architects. some of our memorable sites. excellent location for such a center. assistant for Soviet nationalities, and he Thus, Mr. Pelli was selected by the I would like to thank these indivi­ Located within Manhattan's presti­ organized the Soviet Nationalities Building Committee of The Ukrainian duals and the others who provided gious Museum Mile near the Metropoli­ Division iii the Office for Analysis of the Museum because of his reputation and hospitality to Mr. Shumuk during his tan Museum and across from scenic Soviet Union and Eastern Europe. An his great experience in building mu­ visit to Washington. These individuals Central Park, the UIA is amidst a avid scholar who knew Ukrainian, seums. did so not to receive any public credit, constant influx of tourists. As Prof. Russian, French, German and Afghan but because of their hospitability. This Hunczak, director, mentioned at the Dari, Mr.I Kapusta had compiled an Bohdan Y. Cymbalisty is not the kind of issue that I think center's opening: "It is time for Ukrai­ extensive library in his home. President should be fought out on the pages of a nians to stop telling other Ukrainians Board of Trustees After serious surgery in 1985, un­ national Ukrainian newspaper, but I do about themselves and to start telling the daunted, he began studying towards a The Ukrainian Museum believe that the record should be set Western wor1d about Ukrainian com­ New York master's degree in library science. His straight. munity life here and the situation in objective of preparing a handbook on Soviet Ukraine today." Soviet nationality archives, repositories TWG president DaHa M.sIec The primary focus of the URDC is and private collections began to deve­ Washington collecting material pertaining to: Ukrai­ lop. As well, he planned to locate reacts to article nian involvement in the first and second institutional repositories for material worid wars, the famine of 1932-33, the which needed preservation. When one Dear Editor: Saj comments on anti-Nazi, anti-Soviet underground of walked into Mr. Kapusta's home I would like to respond to the article 1939-1945, the history of the dissident library, one immediately realized the by Andrew Fylypovych in the Novem­ IVIazurkevich letter movement since the 1960s and the ber 15 issue of The Ukrainian Weekly, amount of labor and research which establishment of Ukrainian organiza­ resulted in his collection. The abun­ in which he criticizes the handling of Dear Editor: tions and institutions in the diaspora. Danylo Shumuk's visits in the West, Zen Mazurkevich's response to my dant catalogues and materials could There is a great deal of material on not be contained in one room. including in Washington. article about The Ukrainian Museum these subjects which is scattered Although I agree wholeheartedly was a concrete example of one of the Consequently, the URDC is fortu­ with Mr. Fylypovych that Ukrainians themes discussed at the Leadership Lydia Wasylenko Smyk is adminis' nate to have the beginnings of an who have emigrated to the West should Conference sponsored by The Washing­ trative directive of the Ukrainian Re­ excellent research library, thanks to a receive the warmest and most personal ton Group last fall, namely: our emi­ search and Documentation Center. (Continued on page 13) THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, DECEMBER 13, 1987 No.50

LEADERSHIP CONFERENCE: Ukrainians and tIie media liave poor relationsliip

by Victor Malarek We have a lot of work - and growing editors who are not willing to simply confusion. up - to do before we have any hope of take their news offering. Questions will No doubt in the ethnic community Transcript of remarks by Victor Ma­ being taken seriously. That work, I am be asked, statements are challenged and the leaders of the group think tank have larek, reporter for The Toronto Globe glad to say, is finally beginning - weaknesses are looked for in argu­ to be the Ukrainians. They can get on and Mail, at The Washington Group*s slowly, but it is beginning. ments. Biases are sought out in claims. any issue as simple and as straightfor­ Leadership Conference, on October It has begun in Canada, not in the As I see it, there are a number of ward as the issue is, and by the time they 10, in Washington. kind of earnest that I would like to see it, mistakes people and individuals and get it to the media, the media has the and it is beginning here. We are finally organizations from all segments of entire history of Ukraine sitting in a I have a reputation for being a little beginning to be listened to. It is getting, society make when trying to get their tome in front of them saying, "but I bit outlandish and challenging, and a bit I guess, in the United States a slower message into the newspaper or onto the thought this press release was originally of a street fighter with my remarks. start, but the struggle here, I think will television screen. on Chornobyl?" When I got the invitation to speak here be much, much, much greater com­ The first major failing as I see it is News treats the most complex event I wrote a very calm, relaxed, very un- pared to Canada because American what I refer to as overrationalizing this simplistically. The initial selection of Victor Malarek type speech — until I Ukrainians as opposed to Canadian most irrational of undisciplined. It is a what the news media choose to consider got into a discussion with Jim Sawchuk Ukrainians do not have the numbers or problem that may lie perhaps in apply­ as news gravitates towards the simple this morning and sort of rewrote it a bit the political clout or the organization ing too much logic to something that at things that adapt rather easily to the to sound more like me. that we do in Canada. times requires more patience, feeling structural and space limitations of the My remarks are specific remarks. Over a11 though, one of the things that and intuition. media. They are supposed to address the topic we must keep in mind always when No one here will get any argument This holds true even more so for the of how your brains are used by the dealing with this whole thing called the from me that the wor1d of news is a bit electronic media. The message here is mainstream news media, and if I basi­ news media hammer image is that the unreal at times. Just look at the head­ this: To accommodate the simplifying cally stick to those specifics, this would news media over all is a very lazy and a lines everyday in the newspapers or mechanisms of the press and above a11 be a very terse and a very depressing very pathetic group of people. watch television or listen to the radio. the public you want to reach, and to dissertation. I see things, as I said, starting and I It makes you wonder just who is out assure that your message has the best I will touch on how I think we are hope it continues. In my 17 years as a to lunch. The people out there or the chance of running in the news media viewed by the mainstream media before reporter ~ the last 12 for The Globe people in the newsrooms of the nation. more or less as designed, the material launching into a more general discus­ and Mail ~ I have learned one very One of the key difficulties in the news should be presented in a simple, straight­ sion on dealing with the bizarre creature important lesson. That is, basically, that wor1d is defining just what is news. forward, readable form, from beginning called "the news media." most people do not understand how the Sure, there are a variety of defini­ to end. How are we seen? Not in any order of news media works. Some have vague tions. Some of them are the events out Reporters, and I am one of them, priority I think we are seen as screamers, notions, but most simply do not have a of the ordinary. For example, I do not often boast at hdw quickly a press beggars, pleaders, reactors. We are seen clue. think this event is out of the ordinary, so release can make a garbage can. Repor­ as those quaint people in red boots who Ido not expect NBC, CBS, ABC or Fox ters and editors do not and will not paint Easter eggs. We are seen as those So when something goes wrong, and networks to be here. bother trying to figure out what some­ bizarre people demonstrating in front of when something does not go according Topical and timely events significant one else is trying to say, particularly if the Soviet Embassy and chanting slo­ to your idea or the organization's idea in terms of human progress, conflict the lead paragraph is obscure or the gans about a free Ukraine and one, of how everything should go when and disputes, crimes of people, disasters, main news element is buried in para­ dissident or another. dealing with the news media, people get current social and political issues, and graph nine of a press release. We are seen also as Jew bashers and upset and angry. of course, the novelty - the novelty like One serious cla:nger ip smotheririg the Jew killers, anti-Semites, Nazi colla­ Some people become so enraged that the 1,100-pound blimp that you saw on press with bafflegam is that you risk borators and general all-around nasty they end up making all sorts of accusa­ television recently trying to go on a diet, falling victim to being taken out of people. tions about the news media which, when or Michael Jackson wanting to buy the c6ntext. I get so many people calling me Chornobyl put us on the map. We you examine those facts, are based elephant man's skeleton, for what saying, '4hat is not exactly what I meant now glow in the dark. I guess the news solely on their misconceptions. reason God only knows. to say, what I meant to say was this." media can soon blame all our peculiari­ What I am going to try to do, or try to One thing that gets so many indivi­ I can tell you from experience, the^ ties on radiation poisoning of the mind. explain to you this morning is why duals and organizations into trouble longer and more complicated the mate­ With the Millennium coming up we individuals, why corporations, why with the news media — and professional rial the more chance it has to being are now soon to garner another reputa­ bureaucrats, why community and eth­ groups are the worst offenders - is the taken out of context. Television and tion among the news media as "hold­ nic groups, and organizations, and bizarre tendency to complicate the radio reporting is even more ruthless to outs. " We were pagans, or the last of the politicians, enter various states of simplistic. context than print. pagans in Europe before we took on narcoplexy when dealing with the news If the prime objective of communica­ One or two minutes of coverage, Christianity. media. tion is to convey a clear, concise, simple which would be extraordinarily long In other words, our forefathers For the most part the answers really and understandable message, then most coverage for most events, would not simply did not want to trade away our are not that easy to come by. It may be community leaders, most politicians include more than З00 words of the total fertility ri^ghts for Christ without a that the news, the press, television are and public relations people, bureau­ context of a 40-minute speech, and better deal so they allowed our Catholic murky and very unscientific and gene­ crats, different leaders and profes­ reaction to it on television. priests to get married. rally unpredictable and can easily sionals, seem to have a special talent for This is why I stress over and over What I am saying by all of this is that intimidate outsiders who are unfamiliar dispensing absolute confusion for what again, that anyone considering sending we have had, and we still have, hor­ with the peculiar workings. I tend to refer to now as bafflegam. material to the news media present it in rendous relations with the press, with The end result is that peopletune out Doctors, scientists, social workers, as concise and straightforward a man­ the news media. We are not getting our and turn off before giving themselves a everyone wants to get into the act of ner as possible — in a form which offers story out. We are not being taken chance to understand it. Frustrated being misunderstood and bafflegam is the reasonable prospect of being report­ seriously, We do not have a credible because they cannot get their message now in. Simple communication is out. ed in its entirety and in context. voice. We are still a backwater in press out to the public, so many individuals Even the police now are getting into it. No doubt the single issue which and news relations, both in Canada and and so many groups and organizations They no longer arrest the man and causes the most fist~waving , gnashing of the United States. have turned to unfounded accusations put him in jail for a fight: they appre­ teeth and muttering of ancestral curses and some pretty nasty name calling hend the Caucasian, suspect, and incar­ is the access to the media — the right of which cuts into areas, 1 think, of libel, cerate him for an altercation. a reply, fairness, equal time, and so on. slander and downright racism. When I get police chiefs coming to the The compelling single fact about For the so-called ethnic community, Globe I look at them and I wonder who news that many people tend to brush it is easy to label the so-called esta­ the hell ever wrote some of this stuff and aside when obsessed with the impor­ blishment press as anti-ethnic and racist whether, you know, how they even tance of their own news offering is that than to dig into just what makes this found out how to spell some of the the competition for space is limited. The strange animal tick and how to best use words, and I am not insulting cops. If space is limited. The time in the news the news media to their advantage. your goal is to get the message into the media to get on television and radio is It is for this same reason that the anti­ press with the least risk of being routed brutal. nuke groups, the pro-nuke groups, in the to the garbage can,then I wonder why it The news media system has often United States the Republicans and the is that most people go out of their way been likened to a great big sieve. The Democrats, big business - for all of to create monstrous problems in com­ survey of our newspapers show that 80 them it so often seems that the reporters munications for themselves. percent of the so-called news coming and the news media are the enemy of all. What should be kept in mind is that into an editorial office is rejected. The The fact is, that the average person]s the news process is a relentless process rejection rate in the electronic media is simply not equipped to deal with or of progressive simplifiction. Yet, as I far, far higher. cope with the mind-boggling fast-paced have pointed out, for some strange Every morning when I walk into the communications scene of today. reason people seeking news space tend newsroom the first thing I do is I flip on No matter how gutsy or action­ to overcomplicate their statements and the computer and I start reading the oriented or powerful certain individuals press releases with this mindboggling wires — Reuters, AP — what is coming or organizations are, they can quickly painfully undecipherable prose. over from Europe, and what is coming find themselves stymied in their en­ One common stumbling block to over from the States, and what is counters with reporters and editors. putting out a clear and concise message coming over from Central America and 1n this bizarre worId of news, they is getting trapped into the group think what not because I know the majority of will find themselves trying to impose tank that tries to cover all flanks with what I am going to read in the Globe the their will on thick-skulled reporters and the end result being nothing but a pile of (Continued on page 12) No.50 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY. DECEMBER 13.1987

PHOTO REPORT: Ukrainians' pre-summit demonstration in D.C.

Rep. Benjamin Gt!man takes the mike. TIJSM members with *'Soviet °busters" sweatshirts. Photos in this series by Natalie Sluzar and Olena Stercho Hendler. 10 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, DECEMBER 13, 1987 No.50

NEW RELEASES

home town, he started his professional (in both VHS and Beta) of concert Academic Press career in 1971, performing with the Trio appearances by Alex has also been Marenych, and later with the groups released. issues catalogue Zbruch from Tem0piI, and Vatra from "My Land, My Beloved Country" ENGLEWOOD, Colo. - Ukrainian Lviv. features compositions by Ukrainian Academic Press (UAP), a publisher of In 1975 Alex married Maria, a Polish composers Bilash, Dutkovsky, Ivasiuk, scholarly works on Ukrainian topics in tour guide, and in 1976, moved to Mozhovy, Poklad, Shamo and Zarem- English, has issued its new catalogue of Warsaw, where he performed with the ba. publications. symphony orchestra conducted by Alex has received the critical acclaim The 32-page full-size catalogue con­ Stephan Rachon. The orchestra was of many admirers during his singing tains a listing of 70 titles published by affiliated with Polish radio and televi­ career in Europe and North America. UAP and several other institutions. For sion. Alex also worked for the Warsaw Ron Cahute, teacher, musician, com­ the first time, UAP brings the publica­ Strada Concert Co. which toured in poser, and leader of the leading Ukrai­ tions (in English and Ukrainian) of the Poland. nian band Burya, sums it all up: Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Stu­ In 1979 Alex was contracted to "I have worked with many famous dies in Edmonton, Alberta, to the perform in Paris, at the Rasputin and entertainers, and Alex H0Iub is the United States, as the exclusive distribu­ Scheherezade nightclubs. In the same most profoundly professional Ukrai­ tor for this country. year he received political asylum in nian singer there is. 1n addition to being Another special addition is the presti­ France. a gentleman, he is a polished performer gious multi-volume alphabetical Ency­ 1n 1982, the H0Iubs came to the who works very well with audiences, clopedia of UKraine published by Uni­ under the following subject headings.­ United States, and presently reside in and has an excellent stage presence. versity of Toronto Press and e^ittd by history, language, literature and ethno­ New Jersey. Alex has been consistently Alex's performances are equal in rank the 1ate Volodymyr Kubijovic and a graphy, memoirs, political science and performing in night clubs and concertiz- with those of Englebert Humperdinck, distinguished editorial board. This is economics, and Ukrainians in Canada, ing throughout the U.S. and Canada. Charles Aznavour, Barry Manilow and indisputably the most important refe­ Also found in the catalogue are the His diverse repertoire is performed in Julio Iglesias. His singing is dramatic, rence work in English on Ukraine. Canadian Journal of Ukrainian, Stu­ nine languages. and has a definite European sound, yet Volume I (letters A-F), which was dies; Map of Ukraine (by V. Kubijovic 1n April 1986, Alex was the featured is possesses a distinctly individual and published in I984, is now available from and A. Zukovs'kyj); CIUS Research artist at the first concert in the U.S. to contemporary style. In the recording studio his work is adept and efficient — UAP. Volume II (G-K) will appear early Reports; author/title index; order form open and establish the "Volodymyr he is a true pro." in I988, but may be ordered now. and ordering information. Ivasiuk Scholarship Fund.*' The richly illustrated two-color cata­ The UAP catalogue was designed and "Tribute40 Ivasiuk," his first album For information concerning Alex's logue is divided into 10 sections, in­ produced by Tatianna Gajecky-Wynar. in North America, was released in 1985, appearances or recordings, write to: La cluding the introduction, which pro­ Its cover features woodcuts by the 1ate and his second, "My Land, My Beloved Mer Record Co., 111 Huntington Park, vides background information and Jacques Hnizdovsky. (Permission to Country," in 1987. A composite video Rochester, N.Y. 14621. explains the publishing profile of UAP. reprint these and others inside was Other sections include a two-page kindly granted by the artist's widow, spread on the Encyclopedia of Ukraine Stephanie Hnizdovsky.) Yevshan Records reaches milestone and four pages of new and forthcoming To receive a free copy, write to.­ books. Books in print, which comprises Ukrainian Academic Press, 6913 S. the bulk of the catalogue, lists titles Yosemite St., Englewood, Colo. 80112. AlexSon releases sequel to "Lit0" AKRON, Ohio - "When is "Osin" coming?" That question was often asked of Vera Wedmedyk-Kap after her first children's book "Lito" was pub­ lished. Thus AlexSon Publishing was very proud to announce that, finally, "Osin" is out. The format of "0sin" is the same as are the characters, Sonia and Alexan­ der. "WeVe also included a verse for memorization, as we plan to do in a1I the books," said Mrs. Кар. Mary Trach-Holadyk of Hamilton, Ont., is responsible for the full-color illustrations; the principle language consultant was Professor Petro Odar- chenko of Washington. and weVe formed a committee of U.S. Has it been easier to publish A1ex­ and Canadian educators and we're 8on's second book? "By far it's a lot working closely on drawing up a good easier," said Mrs. Кар, "but no such educational too1 for primary grade undertaking is hassle-free. Being school children. Hopefully, this book more knowledgeable about printing, will be out in the next six months." knowing the right questions to ask and AlexSon Publishing has compiled its developing enough trusted advisors is to second children's catalogue of books, our advantage. 1t's exciting to start out games, records and cassettes. It features with ideas jotted down, watching the over I00 items — "everything that a book take shape and develop and finally parent might want to buy for a child," to watch it come hot off the press." Mrs. Кар noted. Mrs. Кар said she's got another book For a catalogue, contact; AlexSon on the drawing board now. "No, it's not Publishing, 685 Rockwood Drive, *Zyma' yet. Eut it's a book that is needed Akron, Ohio, 44313; (216) 864-5828. Alex H0Iub cuts Bohdan Tymyc proudly displays the 100 cassettes that are now available s8fond LP record from Yevshan Corp. The company attained the 100 mark by releasing several new cassettes, including "A Ukrainian Wedding" (V0Is. 1 and 2); "I ROCHESTER, N.Y. - The popular Never Wrote to You" by the Yaseny ensemble of Saskatoon, Sask.; "Chaika" Ukrainian vocalist Alex has released a by the Toronto ensemble of the same name; newly found tape recordings of new LP record, "My Land, My Be­ live performances by the late humorist Мук0Iа Ponedilok; and Ron Cahute*s loved Country." "Ukrainian Generic." The Yevshan Corp. has also re-released some old A1lbx H0Iub was born in 1949 in favorites, among them two children's recordings, "Kurochka," which Rivn^, Volhynia, the birthplace of both contains songs and stories, and "Kachechka Prachechka," sung by children his father, Wolodymyr Holubosh, a from Ukraine; the Verkhovyna Quartet's "Album of Ukrainian Songs"; and construction foreman, and his mother, "20th Century Ukrainian Violin Music," featuring works by Liatoshynsky, Nadia Susko, a housewife. Kosenko, Hrabovsky and Stankovych. The cassettes are available for $8 per Upon completion of his music stu­ tape, plus S2.5O postage for each order. Write to: Yevshan Corp., Box 125 dies in voice and conducting in his Station St. Michel, Montreal, Que. H2A 3L9. No.50 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, DECEMBER 13, 1987

Performs in Jordan PASADENA, Calif. - Pianist David Notes on people Michael Bilowus gave a benefit perfor­ mance for the AI Hussein Society for the Rehabilitation of the Physically resort, Soyuzivka, for 19 years, has Handicapped at the Royal Cultural lived in the area since I952. He lives in Wins gold medal Center in Amman, Jordan, on October Kerhonkson with his wife, Anna, and is l2and 13. PARMA, Ohio - Rick 01eksyk the owner of Mother Goose Children's returned from the Pan American Games The concert was presented by the Shop in Ellenville. held recently in Indianapolis with a gold Ambassador Foundation under the Mr. Slobodian is a WorId War II medal. He was a member of the U.S. patronage of Prince Raad. The AI veteran and a member of Post 8959 of national men's handball team. Hussein Society was founded in 197I to Veterans of Foreign Wars. He is a past The team's victory at the Pan Am care for orphaned children and in 1979 president, secretary, treasurer and Games earned it a berth in the 1988 opened its doors to the physically director of the Kerhonkson Lions Club Olympics in Seoul, South Korea. handicapped. and is a chairman and Wawarsing Mr. Bilowus is a faculty assistant in Zoning Board of Appeals of which he Mr. 01eksyk, a first lieutenant in the the music department of Ambassador has been a member for 19 years. U.S. Army, took up handball while College in Pasadena, Calif. He is a He is active also in the area's Ukrai­ studying at the U.S. Military Academy singer (bass-baritone) and composer, as nian community and is a former trustee at West Point, N.Y. well as a solo pianist and accompanist. of Holy Trinity Ukrainian Catholic Mr. 0Ieksyk was born and raised in Parma. He, his brothers, and his pa­ He has a master's degree in piano and Church. He is a member of Ukrainian rents, Elaine and Steve, are a11 members a bachelor of fine arts in voice from the National Association Branch 88. of UNA Branch 22 in Chicago. In fact, State University of New York at Buffalo. Members of the Ellenville Commu­ Mr. 0Ieksyk is a nephew of Helen 01ek He has studied also at the Eastman nity Hospital board of directors serve Scott, a UNA supreme advisor and a School of Music and the Chautauqua without remuneration as a public ser­ longtime activist in UNA sports affairs. Rick 0Ieksyk Music Institute and has taught piano at vice and represent the many communi­ SUNY-Buffalo. ties served by the hospital, Mr. Bilowus has performed in Los Help Wanted THE HOME OFFICE Help Wanted Angeles, Paris and Lviv, as well as many Appointed vice-president other cities. He was invited to give his of the first piano recital in Amman in Septem­ JERSEY CITY, N. J. - Basil Iwanyk UKRAINIAN NATIONAL ASSOCIATION ber of I985. was recently appointed a vice-president has two іглтес1іа1е openings for Mr. Bilowus, his parents and siblings of the CIT Group of Manufacturers are all members of Ukrainian National Hanover Bank. CIT is the largest bank­ CLERICAL WORKERS Association Branch 127. related financial company in the coun­ IN ITS RECORDING DEPARTMENT try. Applicants should have knowledge of the Ukrainian and English languages. Salary commensurate with 8x- Mr. Iwanyk earned a B.S. in mathe­ perience. Good benefits, includmg Blue Cross/Blue Shield, major medical, group life insurance, pension pIan matics from St. Peter's College in Jersey Apply by cali,mg (201) 451-2200, ext. 18; City, an M.B.A, in quantitative analysis or by sending resume to: from Fairlcigh Dickinson University in Teaneck, N.J., and attended the docto­ UKRAINIAN NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, INC. ral program in computer science at the P.O. Box 17A, 30 Montgomery St., Jersey City, N.J. 07303 New Jersey Institute of Technology. He resides, along with his wife, Janis, and their three children, in Monmouth County, N.J. Mr. Iwanyk is a member HELP WANTED of UNA Branch 70. Editorial assistant/assistant editur

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the ro1e of importance in determining Who knows where our guys were — legitimate groups, organizations and Ukrainians and the... news worthiness. they were running around trying to see individuals have had such terrible (Continued from page 8) For example, and I have caught if they can get their face on some TV relations and still do with the news screen, yelling *'see, I told you so." next day is not going to get in and Ijust myself and you have probably caught media. In my closing remarks I want to leave want to background myself a little yourself asking, why did not our story The have cried wolf too often. They you with a few thoughts. Most people better. get in when it was far more important do not work at making the news media than most of the clap-trap that made it? tend to have a very primitive grasp of On top of all of this wire copy coming work for them. Those individuals and You could be right. the ro1e of the newsman in a free society organizations that do work at it, spend in, hundreds of government depart­ Any reasonably logical mind would or for that matter the function of a free ments, political parties, corporations, the time and the effort cultivating the lead to the simple conclusion regarding press in a democracy. news media are very successful and are community groups, professional orga­ the ro1e of importance in news that the nizations, lobby groups and individuals Even if the press is the enemy and that highly visible. material which survives the weeding is a sentiment which has been cultivated They know the machinations of the pummel the newsroom every day with process is far more important than that press releases. since the time of the ancient Greeks, in media, its needs, its wants, its limita­ which made the garbage can. other words, kill the messenger — and A great majority make the circular tions and its deadlines. It is hard work In a word, wrong. There is one there are a lot of people who would like file - the garbage can. I will give you an that gets results; not time to time unsettling — unsettUng and sobering — to kill me. example of just how much material can queries into a fog. Good, sound and definition of news, and that is that in hit one desk. The evidence gathered on the so­ solid press relations are the key. many instances "news is what the editor Occasionally I fill in as city editor. called enemy is rather sparse. There are decides is news,"" what he chooses to still fools out there who send press Everything that is done should be Last week I was on the desk to assign print or broadcast and not much else carried out with the aim of developing a reporters and in that morning I received agents to reporters to find out the matters. It is what he may be interested source of an embarrassing story or, as good public relations image with the 28 press releases. in — a particular national editor, a media. More importantly, correcting I assigned reporters to cover only two the Mulroney government recently did particular foreign editor, a particular with me, put two RCMP officials to try bad relations. of the press releases. The rest went in the city editor, or sports editor. The cornerstone on which public garbage. The main reason that Ichucked to find out the source of leaks to me. In other words, importance in the relations are built are information and the others out was they were sent in the They spent S18,00O in six weeks trying news is important to the extent that the trust. Information enables reporters mail. to find it out when they could have given editor or news director thinks it is me the S18,000 and I would have spent it and through them hopefully the public Canada's mail system does not hold a important, and what the editor thinks is much more happily, because they never to relate to your organization or your beacon of hope in my heart. Itarrives, in important is not necessarily important. found out. community group with knowledge, most instances, way after the event took understanding and hopefully compas­ place. If your event is that important do One aspect that many people fail to There are bigger fools who still send sion. Trust is built on the accuracy of not trust the mail. Or it arrives after the appreciate is just how artificial much of columns to reporters bearing the gift of that information along with openness announcement has been made by a news is. News making has become a a 40-ouncer. I do not know why people and easy access to information. pohtician in Ottawa, or in Winnipeg, or production of a great deal of technique keep giving me vodka bottles, unless I cannot emphasize this too much in New York, or God knows, wherever today. they think that all Ukrainians drink but, a message can only get out through he wants to make the announcement so In other words, the better packaged vodka and get drunk or something. hard work by putting together a master I do not find it that important. the news, the better chance it has of Then there are the biggest fools of a11. p1an and not taking a shot in the dark. Also, the city editor - the city desk ~ making news. Packaging includes such Those are the ones - those are the very is not the fashions editor; he is not the basics as enough lead time because, if embarrassing ones that phone the You should know who the key people food editor; he is not the sports editor; the material arrives too late in the day or newspapers and make wild enuncia­ are in the media - the experts on key and he is not in charge of the daily the events are staged too late in the day, tions which are extremely racist to­ issues. The editors responsible for a horoscope. it may fail the community. wards one group or another, who have variety of departments in a newsroom As I mentioned briefly earlier, the There are a few sound, simple mecha­ managed to get maybe their side of the such as foreign affairs, city^ national, odds of getting on television are even xnics to this, and those who ignore them story in while complaining our group entertainment, editorial bbarcis, sports, mc Ч catastrophic than compared to the risk getting shut out. Nowhere are the was ignored. whatever. pn-i media. simple basics more important than There is nothing worse for public Within your own organizations and : \t average half-hour network news having informed spokesmen who could relations than being seen as a bigot. By community groups you should know pr yr. m contains at most 18 to 20 speak effectively and concisely and that, and I will score points, all that who the key spokesmen are ,pBsi?5cific itI ri: The total translates to about two- knowledgeably to the issue at hand. results is a great deal of damage for the issues and make sure that Ше^issuelis th ,\ of the total content of the front So often it is difficult to find out who organization or community or cause dealt with clearly and concisely. It is pau: The New York Times; or The to contact for an informed statement in that individual represents. important to know that your message is G.ij.' \1\d Mail. time for a deadline. We recently had the In dealing with the press on any issue, heard and it is up to you to make sure, v^ y^ \ Cronkite, who was America's report of the Royal Commission on what has to be determined in advance is that message is heard. mcf^ :asted newsman, once, said that War Criminals (the Deschenes Com- the objective. We have a problem with In closing let me leave you with one '*peo. f who rely on television tor news . mission) in Ottawa. determining objectives in our own word and a few thoughts about that are * , ?ting themselves and are sorely The Jewish Congress and B'nai Brith community. What is the reason for word, glasnost, the new Soviet open­ misi^itormed." had rented a hotel room and had a full­ calling a reporter? What is the reason ness. Glasnost is a test for the Soviet To get back to my original point, fledged "you go get 'em press confe­ for issuing a press release? Calling a Union both domestically and interna­ those of you who keep askmg why rence," which anybody, any public press conference? tionally. didn't our story get coverage are not relations official, would be proud to Because at this point you have to For so many, many important rea­ really thinking the problem through. have put together. remember you have only two things to sons glasnost, I believe, is also a test for To buck against these odds the story Ukrainians, on the other hand, or offen Your issue and your image. Issues Ukrainians and Ukraine. Both in U~ has to have something special going for what I call the ballot of the unprepared, come and go. Issues wrap fish and kraine and also for Ukrainians outside, it, something different, something versus the ballot of the prepared, could garbage, and Hne the bottom of bird particularly in Canada and the United visual if it is for the television media not be found. As a matter of fact, our cages the next day. States. especially. reporter had to call all the way up to Your image is what has to be main­ Glasnost says to me that we Ukrai­ A truly, truly stunning contradiction Edmonton and Winnipeg to get an tained. Our image is what has to be built nians in Canada and the United States in news really involves importance - informed comment. on over a long period of time. So many have the golden opportunity to chal­ lenge the Soviet Union on so many, many important issues of concern to us — human rights in Ukraine, political oppression, language and culture, ENCYCLOPEDIA OF UKRAINE freedom to emigrate, freedom of ex­ pression. In the name of glasnost our voice may Edited by Volodymyr Kubi]ovyc finally be heard by the news media and we should make sure that is heard by the VOLUME I (A-F): First of Five Volumes media; If the only if we take a pro-active ro1e in making sure that our voice is S115.0O + shipping & handling S4.5O heard. Thank you. 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' base. We should remember to be con­ Documentation center... cerned Ukrainians first, and put any (Continued from page 7) political affiliations second. U.K. RECORD PRODUCTIONS great Ukrainian American. The URDC Fund-raising is crucial to our success. is pleased to present the new wishes to take this opportunity and Documents and archives need to be express heartfelt thanks to Carolyn assimilated, preserved and catalogued. ВЕСЕЛІ НОЧІ (HAPPY NIGHT) Kapusta, the late Mr. Kapusta's wife, Microfiche and computer equipment RECORD ALBUM for her assistance with the collection. are crucial for preservation. All these Get your album autographes at the New Years Eve Dance The development of such a center is factors are costly and donations are at the Holiday Inn of Somerville. long overdue. However, community appreciated. Albums will be available at your Ukrainian store or order directly from us. involvement and dedication can make At present, there is a great deal of Send S7.0O plus S3.00 shipping and handling for record or cassette to: up for lost time. At present, in Detroit activity which is historically pertinent to U.K RECORD PRODUCTIONS an interested group of individuals has all Ukrainians. What is happening now P.O. Box 297, Liverpool, N.Y. 13088 organized a support group to assist the will soon be our past. Our past is our Please allow 6-8 wks, delivery. Money Orders only. URDC. The group, under the direction heritage. 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Ukrainian National Association Monthly reports for October

RECORDING DEPARTMENT DISBURSEMENTS FOR OCTOBER 1987

MEMBERSHIP REPORT Paid To Or For Members: Cash Surrenders S33,179.15 Endowments Matured 61500.00 Death Benefits.. 68,000.00 Interest On Death Benefits 46.65 Juv. Adults "ЯЯГ Totols Payer Death Benefits 455.48 Reinsurance Premiums Paid 2.462.50 TOTAL AS OF SEPTEMBER 30.1987 18,623 49,471 6,592 74.686 Dues From Members Returned.. 1.098.08 GAINS IN OcrOBER Indigent Benefits Disbursed.. 1350.00 New members Scholarships 1300.00 Reinstated sr 47 -m Transferred in 26 13 75 То5ї: Change class in 3 3 17 Transferred from Juv./Dept 4 1 7 Operating Expenses: TOTAL GAINS: ' ir 1W 2A51 Real Estate |57Л7.92 LOSSES IN OCTOBER Svoboda Operation 119.537.03 Suspended 24 34 22 80 Official Publication-Svoboda...... 75,000.00 Transferred out 4 16 1 21 Organizing Expenses: Change of class out 4 3 — 7 Advertising S2.056.91 Transferred to adults.... 1 — — 1 Medical Inspections.. 44025 Died — 67 — 67 Reward To Special Organizers.... 8,076.93 Cash surrender 34 45 — 79 Reward To Branch Secretaries ., 84,505.45 Endowment matured 38 61 — 99 Reward To Organizers..... 10.393.80 Fully paid-up 47 72 - 119 Traveling Expenses-Special Organizers 1,666.66 Reduced paid-up Field Conferences 5.980.30 Extended insurance Cert terminated - . - 23 23 То5ї: S113.1i0.3U TOTAL LOSSES: 152 2d8 46 496 INACTIVE MEMBERSHIP: Payroll. Insurance And Taxes: GAINS IN OCTOBER Salary Of Executive Officers S12,916.68 Paid up .^.. 47 72 - 119 Salary Of Office Employee 49,42421 Extended insurance 4 11 15 Employee Benefit Plan 13,833.82 TOTAL GAINS: 51 83 134 Taxes-Federal. State And City On Employee Wages 18,651.31 LOSSES IN OCTOBER — Tax-Canadian Witholding And Pension Plan On Employee Wages 62422 Died 23 23 16 12 - 28 То5ї: S95,45O24 Reinstated 2 1 3 - Lapsed 5 5 10 General Expenses: TOTAL LOSSES: 23 41 64 Actuarial And Statistical Expenses S500.00 TOTAL UNA MEMBERSHIP — Bank Charges 85.00 AS OF OCTOBER 31,1987 18,S86 49,359 6,358 74,503 Books and Periodicals 236.00 Dues To Fraternal Congresses 35.00 WALTER SOCHAN Furniture And Equipment 2232.03 Supreme Secretary General Office Maintenance 1,690.99 Operating Expense Of Canadian Office... 16031 2323.44 Printing And Stationery 2,126.41 FINANCIAL DEPARTMENT Telephone, Telegraph 3.709.35 Traveling Expenses-General 1.341.70

INCOME FOR OCTOBER 1987 То5ї: Si4,44073

Dues From Members S2O3,65L37 Miscellaneous: Income From "Svoboda" Operation.... 117596.98 Loss On Bonds S46652 Investment Income: Fraternal Activities 25.42 Bonds... 1404,670.98 Donations.... 1,600.00 Certificate Loans 2,388.44 Accrued Interest On Bonds 35,609.93 Mortgage Loans 33,79758 Taxes Held In Escrow 3031 Banks 8596.84 Professional Fees 6,000Л Real Estate..: 76,048.16 Loan To Ukrainian National Urban Renewal Corporation.. 350.000.00 T55L S43.732.18 Stocks 5,698 То5ї: Ш1,йійіб Inveshnents: Bonds S1311,628.75 Stock 5,698.84 Refunds: Certificate Loans... 2388.44 Taxes Federal, State & City On Employee Wages.. S17304.54 Real Estate 1,ll035 Taxes-Canadian Witholding & Pension Plan 509.91 Taxes Held In Escrow 1,623.00 Т55І: S132032638 Employee Hospitalization Plan Premiums 492.14 Disbursements For October 1987.. S2,0092ly4 Official Publication "Svoboda" 34.615.17 Scholarship Refd 200.00 Rental of Equipment Ret'd 415.52 BALANCE Т55І: t55.t60.J8

Miscellaneous ASSETS Liabilities Ukrainian Heritage Defense Fund Donations... S6.94 Cash S2306.448.50 Life Insurance S58391.665.05 Prom Oh Bonds Sold Or Matured... 11,658.03 Bonds 43,494,030.77 Accidental D.O 1.579206.79 Sale of "Ukrainian Encyclopaedia" 93250 Mortgage Loans.... 4290,73128 Fraternal 103,731.08 Certificate Loans 701.592S8 Orphans 364,090.76 Т55І: Sl2,5^7,4y Real Estate... 1,197320.42 0Id Age Home 132516.02 Printing Plant & E.D.P. Emergency ...,.... 90,87954 Equipments 335,787.39 Stocks 1201,126.86 Investments: Loan To D.H. - U.N,A. Bonds Matured Or Sold... S959.143.62 Housing Corp..: 104,551.04 Mortgages Repaid 113.382.97 Loan To U.N.U.R.C 6530.000.00 Certificate Loans Repaid.. 4592:01 LoanToU.N.U.R.C 470.000.00 Total ,. '. S60.662,089.24 Total.^ S60.662,089.24

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that together with our Holy Father and our entire hierarchy under the Catholic hierarchs' pastoral... leadership of the head of our Church, His Beatitude Myroslav Ivan Cardinal (Continued from page 4) Lubachivsky, we might all comrnemorate this monumental happening in the she ministers to our needs from the cradle to the grave. And once we have most special way. passed on to the Lord, she ever remembers us in her prayers: "may the Lord May these few thoughts move each of you to deep reflection as we stand on God remember the founders and benefactors of this hoIy Church.,.*'(Prayer the threshold of the Millennium of Christianization of Kievan Rus'-Ukraine. of the Great Entrance). "He cannot have God as a father who does not have We implore our Lord Jesus Christ and His Most Pure Mother, Mary, the the Church as a mother/' says St. Cyprian (Unity of the Church, 6). Mother of the Church and the Mother of Ukraine, for their assistance in Our Church is an authentic teacher as well. She teaches us the truths of the helping us rise above our spiritual, human weaknesses, and in strengthening faith, "Go, make disciples 0faII nations... and teach them the commands I our Church with fresh ranks of clergy, so that the next thousand years may gave you." (Mt. 28: 19-20) From infancy she prepares us for the sacraments, commence with a renewed and reborn Christian spirit. We also pray that the always reminding us of the principles of spiritual living, and often supporting sacrifices of our ancestors who were so imbued with genuine Christian our human weaknesses with the help of God's grace. virtues, qualities so lacking today, might move us to a truly Christ-fi1led Servant of God Metropo!litan Andrey Sheptytsky writes: "To belong to the spiritual, religious and national regeneration. Mystical Body of Christ, of whom Christ is the invisible Head, and the Vicar "We wish you happiness: try to grow perfect: help one another. Be united: of Christ its chief Preacher, Pastor and Teacher, is the surest way of live in peace, and the God of love and peace be with you''(2 Cor. 13:II). fellowship and unity with Christ the Savior Himself." (Sermon on the anniversary of the coronation of Pope Pius X1I) t Stephen In observing the Millennium of Ukrainian-Kievan Christianity, we must Metropolitan-Archbishop recognize the importance of belonging to our native Ukrainian Church. We Philadelphia must value her and her magnificent rite. We must benefit from her ministry, t Basil t Innocent, OS В M stand in her defense and support her with all our strength. For in the words of Bishop of Stamford St. Nicholas Diocese-Chicago the holy father, Pope John Paul II, which he spoke during his visit to our t Robert Metropolitan Cathedral in Philadelphia: "All who are heirs to the Ukrainian Bishop of St. Josaphat-Parma tradition, possess a very important task within the bosom of the Catholic Church." to himself, my son piped up, "Mr. D..., Since we are so privileged to live in this period 0f0ur Millennium we must Bilingual... you should sign up for our class so that give thanks to the Lord for all the gifts Christianity has endowed us with (Continued from page 6) can you learn something." during these past 1,0(Ю years "those benefits known and unknown, seen and literary advisors listed on all the texts I wonder if Mr. D. did learn some­ unseen" (Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom). and workbooks, surely someone there thing about Ukrainians in the years We must undergo a renewal of the Spirit of Christ; we must strengthen our knows a proper Ukrainian language, before he retired — and if he really faith; and in order to move into the next 1,0(Ю years with renewed fervor, we with a grammar and vocabulary that wanted to learn. Over the past nine "must put on the New Person that has been created in God s principles, in the make sense. years the children did, and are conti­ uprightness and the holiness of the truth." (Eph. 4:24) When the Ukrainian-English bilin­ nuing to 1earn. They and their parents We must come to a richer understanding of our beautiful rite, a rite which gual program began at our Winnipeg have caught the spark of interest in has so captured the imagination of other peoples. We must hold it in high school, our son Boyan began with things Ukrainian. While it is a sad esteem, for it is the heritage of the Millennium! The universal Church charges grade one (as they say here — not "first comment from Soviet Ukraine that with us with this task in its extensive decree on "The Eastern Catholic Churches" of grade"). The principal was a Mennonite the rate of Russification, western the Second Vatican Council. In that decree we read: "The Catholic Church who had lived in Ukraine. He knew Canada may be the only place where the language survives, it is a compliment to has as its goal the constant and inviolable preservation of every particular some Russian, but not Ukrainian. Also, the pioneers and their descendants. By Church, that is to say, rite." (Decree on the Eastern Churches, p. 2) he didn't think there was any difference between the two. One day he came into improving the program, we can ensure We must also attempt to find means to search out the hundreds and my son's class and wanting to show off that the Ukrainian language in western thousands of feII0w Ukrainians who have abandoned our ecclesiastical his linguistic talents, said a few words in Canada not only survives, but im­ - tommunities in order to encourage them to experience with renewed interest Russian. Not one to keep his opinions proves. the Church of their ancestors. Above aII, we must employ every means possible to assist our Church in Chains, our Mother in Ukraine, so that she might rise from those modern YEVSHAN RECORDS catacombs and once again shine in the g1ory of the treasure of those first NEW RELEASES FALL ^88 centuries of Her Christianity, a g1ory which she enjoyed in the final years of her freedom, prior to her cruel liquidation. A UKRAINIAN WEDDING Vol. 2 And so in our jubilee year we appeal to the entire people of God to actively Cassette CYFP 2031 join in these jubilee celebrations. Let every parish observe this historic event Featuring 1van Sheremeta and his orchestra. with a spiritual renewal and with fitting observances. We invite all of you, in Guest vocalyst Michael Boyko. (Montreal) so far as you are able, to join in diocesan and intra4li0cesan festivities. 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December 18 NEWARK, N.J.: St. John's Ukrai­ PREVIEW OF EVENTS nian Catholic School will present a NEW YORK: Come celebrate Christ, Volodymyrovi Monakha Yakova," chaers Ukrainian Catholic Church Christmas concert of koliady and mas Around the Wor1d at the Ukrai­ in Ukrainian, at 5 p.m. in the so­ 510 N. Broadway. There will be a shchedrivky in St. John's Church at nian Institute of America at 7 p.m. ciety's headquarters, 63 Fourth Ave. liturgy at 9 a,m. and at 11 a.m. the 719 Sanford Ave. at 1 p.m. Everyone Featured will be caroling by the This is the final public lecture this fall students will present a program of is invited. Coffee and refreshments Promin Ensemble and the Echo of on early Christianity in Ukraine. All songs, poems and a p1ay. The chil­ will be served by the Mothers' Club the Steppes Ensemble under the are welcome. dren will be greeted by St. Nicholas after 11 a.m. divine liturgy. direction of Bohdanna Wolansky, as and gifts will be supplied by the well displays of traditional Christ­ WASHINGTON: An icon exhibit SUMA Federal Credit Union. For NEW YORK: The Ukrainian chorus mas tables and foods. A donation of and sale, featuring the authentic further information call Oksana Dumka of New York, conducted by S1O is suggested. For more informa­ (gold-leaf, egg tempura) icons of Kulynych, (9І4)965-6467. Simon Komirny, will sing Christmas tion call the UIA, (212) 28S-866O. iconographer Adele Morris, will carols in St. Patrick's Cathedral, The UIA is located at 2 E. 79th St. open at 7:30 p.m. at the St Sophia Fifth Avenue and East 51st Street, at Religious Association House, 361S December20 4:45 p.m. The concert is in comme­ I December 19 30th St., N,W. The exhibit is spon­ moration of the Millennium of sored by the Holy Trinity Particular WASHINGTON: The Holy Trinity Christianity in Kievan-Rus. NEW YORK: The Shevchenko Ukrainian Catholic Church. For Particular Ukrainian Catholic I Scientific Society is sponsoring an more information call (301) 622­ Church will sponsor a Christmas ELIZABETH, N J.: Branches 37 and academic lecture by Dr. Myroslav 23З8. bazaar and art sale, 12:30-3 p.m. at 234 of the Ukrainian National Asso­ Labunka, professor of history at the St. Sophia Religious Association ciation will sponsor a St. Nicholas LaSaUe University, titled, "Slovo о YONKERS, N.Y.: The School of House, 3615 30th St., N. W. For more Day ршіу for children at 3 p.m. in St. I Zakoni і Blahodati by Metro|)olitan Ukrainian Studies will celebrate the information call (301) 622-2338 or Vladimir's Ukrainian Catholic \ Ilarion" and *Tamiat і Pokhvala Feast of St. Nicholas at St. Mi- 439-7319. Church hall on Grier Avenue.

* legalization of all Ukrainian The promises of the Helsinki Final Act freedom fighters of the Ukrainian nation; Over ЇМ0... Churches; remain to be fulfilled," Rep. Hoyer those who died at Perm Camp 36-1; (Continued from page 1) * cessation of the Russification of noted. and the nuclear disaster at Chornobyl. inadequacy of glasnost because they Ukraine; and After pointing to the continued Upon arriving at the police barri­ know of the continuing repression of * disclosure by the Soviet govern­ imprisonment of Ukrainian human cades a half block from the Soviet Ukrainian Churches '\.,even as the ment of the artificial famine in Ukraine rights activists, particularly those in Embassy, the crowd sang "Ne Pora," Soviet government seeks to take advan­ of 1932-33. Perm Camp 36-1, Rep. Hoyer focused "Bozhe Vyslukhay Blahannia" and tage of the upcoming Millennium of Dr. Strokata Karavansky and Mr. on the case of Ms. Mykhailenko. "Bozhe Velykyi." After the initial Christianity in Kievan Rus' for its pro­ Karavansky, both prominent Ukrai­ "Numerous other individuals, such as singing and early chants of "Freedom paganda purposes" and because they nian political dissidents who now re­ Hanna Mykhailenko, whose case I have for Ukraine" and "Svoboda," Rep. know of "...the demonic excesses that side in the United States, addressed the raised in Vienna at the CSCE follow-up Gilman addressed the crowd. He con­ were unleashed on the people of U- crowd, in Ukrainian, after Ms. Mazur- meeting, also suffer for seeking to gratulated the marchers for their dedi­ kraine in the form of an induced famine kevich's presentation. exercise their rights to freedom of cation to the cause of human rights and by the dictator, Joseph Stalin, a famine Dr. Strokata emphasized the folly of expression. Hanna, a defender of U- pledged his personal assistance. which today remains unacknowledged signing an arms accord with the Soviet krainian cultural freedom, who has Amid a very heavy police presence, by the Soviet government." Union - a country which hasrepeat^ly been confined in a special psychiatric one of the march's most dramatic and Rep. Coughlin's speech was followed broken treaties and promises it has hospital since 1980, has yet to benefit heavily photographed events came with by remarks from Henry Regal of the made. from the hopes engendered by glasnost the burning of a "Soviet-buster" T-shirt, Committee for a Free Afghanistan, who Mr. Karavansky made an appeal to and perestroika — from the hopes Although the police threatened to move spoke forcefully about the Soviet geno­ the Ukrainian community, in this arising from commitments freely under­ in on the demonstrators after this cide in Afghanistan and who urged that Christmas season, to support political taken by the Soviet Union when it occurrence, no action was taken. no arms treaty be signed until the prisoners and their families by contri­ signed the Helsinki Final Act," Rep. The march was marked with a "sit­ atrocities in that country end. He buting heavily to a special fund for Hoyer said. down" by some 30 students directly in invited Ishar Janareef, a representative dissidents set up by the United Ukrai­ The chairman of the U.S. Helsinki front of the police barricades. The of one of the seven parties comprising nian American Relief Committee. Committee ended his speech by pledg­ students vigorously chanted for Ukrai­ the Afghan niujahideen, to join him on Rep. Lukens next roused the crowd ing that the commission will be vigilant nian freedom for over half an hour the podium for a brief statement. with an impassioned speech about the in asking for answers to questions about without cessation. Also standing at the fight for freedom in the wor1d. He told the freedom of political prisoners, the police barricades were a number of After a presentation of various politi­ the assembled, "The results of this rally repression of religion in Ukraine, women dressed in full Ukrainian na­ cal and geographical facts about U- will not be today in this Lafayette freedom of movement, the Jamming of tional costume, holding a reproduction kraine by Mr. Wasylyk, Ms. Mazur- square; the resuhs of this rally will be in Radio Liberty and about restrictions on of the "Nuclear Madonna," in comme­ kevich read a message to the assembled the few of us becoming the many of us. cultural freedoms. moration of the catastrophe at Chor­ from Pennsylvania Sen. John Heinz ... It is critical that every time two The rally closed with a short speech nobyl. and excerpts from a letter which had people gather in the name of free people by a representative of an Ethiopian The march ended with an impas­ been sent to President Ronald Reagan that you never worry that there are only group, who drew a historical compari­ sioned rendition of "Shche Ne Vmerla by the Human Rights Committee of two, only 200,only 2,000. It is what you son between the artificial famine in Ukraina," the Ukrainian national an- Philadelphia. do with what you have. Ukraine and the present famine in then, by all those assembled and the Sen. Heinz's message stated in part: "We must never be discouraged, Ethiopia, and a speech by another release of black balloons into the "Across Pennsylvania Avenue, two never be dejected. We must never feel as Afghan representative. The Afghan Washington sky. wor1d leaders will soon be settling though people don't care. Our lifelong spokesman spoke on behalf of the The rally and march received exten­ matters of great importance,... But one objective is to remain free and to see to it children of Afghanistan who have been sive coverage nationwide. It was carried area — human rights — remains a field that freedom is available to every man mutilated by the Soviet military. Parti­ on the CBS, ABC and NJBC national where the Soviet Union and the United and woman who wants it. That's our cularly touching was his introduction to news, as well as on CNN. States still stand far apart. And there is pledge until we die." the crowd of a little boy who lost both In addition, local television stations no part of the Soviet human rights Rep. Lukens' speech was punctuated arms V/hen the Soviets bombed his from Washington, Philadelphia and record darker than the decades-old several times by shouts of "We want native village and of a little girl whose New York showed excerpts during their repression of the Ukrainian nation, freedom" from the crowd. hair had been set on fire by Soviet evening news programs. Also, the ...We will continue to march, to speak Rep. Hoyer, a long-time advocate for soldiers. march was written up in numerous out, to rally in protest so long as the Ukrainian poHtical prisoners and chair­ The assembled left Lafayette Park, American newspapers, most notably, Soviet government continues to keep man of the United States Helsinki walking four abreast, in a defiant march on the front pages of The Washington heroes like Lev Lukianenko, 1van Commission, immediately followed to the Soviet Embassy. The air was Post and Washington Times. Kandyba and Petro Ruban in the Rep. Luken's remarks. Rep. Hoyer filled with shouts of ''Freedom for The rally and march were organized barbaric conditions of the Perm labor built his speech around the questions Ukraine" and "Soviets out of Ukraine." by the Ukrainian Human Rights Com­ camp. We will never be silent when which need to be asked about human The marchers were joined in their mittee of Philadelphia and the Ukrai­ figures like Hanna Mykhailenko are im­ rights issue in view of the Reagan­ chanting by Rep. Gilman, who walked nian Congress Committee of America, prisoned in torture chambers the So­ Gorbachev summit. with the procession as an act of solida­ with the cooperation of numerous other viets call special psychiatric hospitals. "Many of you gathered here today rity, wearing a "Soviet-busters" sweat­ Ukrainian American organizations, We will not stand by while the KGB have questions of Mr. Gorbachev, shirt provided by a group of demonstra­ including Americans for Human Rights continues to attack the Ukrainian perhaps the most significant of which is tors from New York. in Ukraine and the Ukrainian Student Catholic Church and any activity that whether or not glasnost, or hlasnist, as it The marchers were led by a group of Association of Mykola Michnowsky. keeps the Ukrainian identity alive." is called in Ukrainian, has come to the students carrying seven black coffins. Rally organizers recorded partici­ The UHRC's letter to President Ukrainian people," he observed. The coffins represented seven decades pants from the following communities: Reagan, which was also sent to his "Unfortunately, despite some limited of Soviet repression and seven examples Washington: Philadelphia: Pittsburgh; appropriate aides, asked the president positive steps, such as the release of of its effects on the Ukrainian nation: Baltimore, Md.; Wilmington, Del.: to take up Soviet policies in Ukraine several Ukrainian prisoners of con­ the artificial famine; the liquidation of Newark, Passaic and Trenton, N.J.; fact-to-face with Mr. Gorbachev and science and a loosening of restrictions the Ukrainian Orthodox Church: the New York, Yonkers, Syracuse, Buffalo contained the following demands: on the discussion of the status of the liquidation of the Ukrainian Catholic Rochester and Long Island, N.Y.; * a general amnesty for all political Ukrainian language and culture, glas­ Church: the martyrs who died in Sibe­ Cleveland: Chicago: Detroit: and prisoners; nost remains to be realized in Ukraine. rian camps and prisons; leaders and Berkeley, Calif.