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Vol. LVJ! No. 27 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JULY 2, 1989 50 cents Chornovil accuses Shcherbytsky Tour of Chornobyl plant enmom of crimes against Ukrainian people provides insight into 1986 tragedy JERSEY CITY, NJ. - During his from a prison cell in Zolochiv, Lviv On June 9-18, Dr. David Marples, by Dr. David R. Marples IS^day incarceration last month, Ukrai­ region, was released by the UHU's press author of two books on the Chornobyl nian Helsinki Union activist and Ukrai­ service after Mr. Chornovil's release nuclear accident, visited the Chornobyl I have returned from a most re­ nian Herald editor Vyacheslav Chorno­ from prison on June 6. He was arrested area and Kiev, courtesy of the Ukrai­ markable journey to Ukraine. My vil penned a stingmg open letter to on May 21 on charges of "petty hooli­ nian Ministry of Foreign Affairs. In intention at the outset was to visit Volodymyr Shcherbytsky, accusing the ganism" for participating in an April 26 addition to holding interviews with Chornobyl; something that I had been first secretary of the Communist Party Chornobyl demonstration. leaders of the Kombinat production granted permission to do, and to exa­ of Ukraine of "criminal" deeds against Titled "Don't try the people's pa­ association based at Chornobyl, he mine other areas of Ukrainian life as far the Ukrainian people, and called for his tience: an open letter to V. Shcherbyt­ interviewed the plant director, Mikhail as possible. I did much more than that. immediate resignation. sky," the letter is a strong condemnation Umanets, and visited the control room In 1989, of course, there are regular The letter, dated June 1 and written by the longtime political prisoner for a of ChornobyVs No. 2 reactor. contacts between Soviet and Western long list of "unforgivable sins against Later he visited the experimental academics. It is not unusual to find the Ukrainian people," Ukrainian hothouse in Prypiat and the abandoned articles by or about familiar Ukrai- culture and history, and the republic's city itself During the same visit. Dr. nianists in some of the Soviet press. ecology that rest on Mr. Shcherbytsky's Maples was a guest at the Center for What is unusual is for the Soviet "heavy conscience." Radiation Medicine in Kiev, where authorities to allow a Westerner, such Beginning with the question of lan­ those who suffered high levels of irra­ as myself, who has specialized on guage, culture and history, without diation after the Chornobyl accident are Ukraine and worked for Radio Liberty, which, Mr. Chornovil wrote, "a na­ being monitored. not merely to go to the Chornobyl nu­ tion...is not a nation, but only an He also held numerous interviews clear power station, but to peruse at will amorphous mass, ready for all kinds of with newspaper editors and social- and photograph the premises of the experiments," the author accuses the cultural groups, including with Litera- Center for Radiation Medicine in Kiev, Ukrainian party leader of destroying turna Ukraina, Radio Kiev, Vechirniy event to go into rooms where sick fire­ "everything Ukrainian in Ukraine." Kiev, the Shevchenko Ukrainian Lan­ men are still recuperating. "Already at the beginning of your guage Society and Zelenyi Svit. The But rather than digress, I will begin rule, you demonstratively switched over following is a four-part series about this this tale chronologically. to the Russian language for communi­ unique visit to Ukraine. (Continued on page 12) cating with the Ukrainian people and fully converted it (for use) by the party, state and economic apparatus all pver Ukraine, even in Galicia. "This terrible devastation, which during the years of your rule was inflicted upon the Ukrainian school system, higher education, science, culture, the full spiritual potential: of our large nation, is addressed often enough today from rostrums and by the official press." However, "these have blamed only the nameless forces of stagnation, afraid to point their fingers in the direction of the Chekist cabinet, in which, for some reason, you have retained your seat. They are afraid to name the chief inspirer of this witch hunt, which you unleashed as soon as you obtained from dear Leonid Ilyich the title of Kievan prince." In addition to this, "you picked up for yourself a worthy team of collabora­ tors. One shouM mention at least one soch odious figure, the one sent by Ш Blue end yellow Hag of free \ Moscow to replace his more liberal Ukraine waves in the sfreefs of Lviv: \ predecessor, the chief KGB agent of a photo report — centerfold. the republic Vitaliy Fedorchuk, well- Ш Ukraine's party boss, Volodymyr \ known master of terror and provoca­ Shcherbytsky, is interviewed by the \ tion, who today, due to illegal efforts, Associated Press — page 2. enjoys a personal pension in a luxurious ei Theater director Les Taniuk from і Moscow apartment. It is you who Ukraine and colleagues form lnter- I brought him to the office of the CPU Central Committee and made this notional Kurbas Society — page 2. \ Ukrainian Beria of the 1970s your ^ Soyuzivka gears up for summer \ closest companion. season — page 5. "Just how many people's fates have 1^ О rest Deychakiwsky, U.S. \ the two of you mangled! You put delegation member, speaks about hundreds of Ukrainian patriots through Paris Conference on the Human prisons, camps and exile. You hurled Dimension — page 8. into the hell of closed special psychiatric David Marpks (left) withYuriy Rissovanny, leading engineer of Kombinat pro­ (Continued on page 11) duction association, with Chornobyl's damaged reactor No. 4 In the backgroundo THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JULY 2, 1989 No. 27

A GLIMPSE OF SOVIET REALITY GLASNOST DIARY: Ukrainian party boss Shcherbytsky recording changes in the USSR interviewed by AP correspondent A resfricted screening against those... who cleared up after the accident," he said. by Dr. Roman Solchanyk (rather than as a candidate from the party) was taken in accordance with Nikolai Mashchenko, a Soviet film Mr. Mashchenko's film was shown to Ukrainian Communist Party leader the recommendations of the CPSU director, has complained to General a restricted audience in October 1988, Voiodymyr Shc.ierbytsky, responding Politburo announced by Mr. Gorba­ Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev that but since then has been refused permis­ to questions froci an Associated Press chev at the January plenum of the authorities ordered cuts in a film he sion for a wider screening unless the cuts correspondent, says that he supported CPSU Central Committee - i.e., that made about the 1986 Chornobyl nu­ were made, according to the director. Mikhail Gorbachev's election as general Politburo members and candidates clear disaster, Reuters reported recently. 'it is criminal in the fourth year of secretary of the Communist Party of the based outside of Moscow as well as In an interview with the newspaper perestroika to create zones of the Soviet Union (CPSU) in March 1985. other republican party leaders should Sovietskaya Kultura, Mr. Mashchenko Chornobyl tragedy closed to criticism," Asked whether he agreed entirely with agree to stand in the districts if they said that the Atomic Energy and Health he said. He also added that another Mr. Gorbachev's program and if there have been put forth as candidates. ministries objected to sequences detail­ director was already making a film on were any differences between the two, The question of Chornobyl, specifi­ ing the doses of radiation suffered by the disaster. (Voiodymyr Shevchenko Mr. Shcherbytsky avoided a direct cally the dearth of information on the those who cleared up after the accident directed a film, about the tragedy, response, saying instead that the policy consequences of the nuclear accident, at the nuclear plant. "Chornobyl: A Chronicle of Difficult of perestroika is the product of "the was also raised by the Associated Press. "They said the showing of corpses Weeks." He died in March 1987. collective wisdom of the party''and that Mr. Shcherbytsky again disagreed, and people with burns was aimed to To date, Mr. Mashchenko has gotten "there have not been and are no. dis­ maintaining that if the Ukrainian media turn public opinion not only against the no response to his complaint addressed agreements on questions of principle" was to be blamed for anything in this development of nuclear power but also to the Kremlin. among members of the Politburo and regard it would have to be for its Central Committee during "creative "somewhat superficial" coverage of the discussions" of policy. Chornobyl issue. Now, he said, this has First Secretary Shcherbytsky's an­ changed. He referred to various articles New stats on Ukraine's population and interviews that have appeared in the swers were forwarded to the Associated Ukraine still occupies the No. 2 Tadzhikistan, with a 34 percent rise, press, saying: "Well, judging by the Press on April 12 and the interview has spot among Soviet republics in terms followed by Uzbekistan with 29 question, you are not familiar with now been published in Pravda Ukrainy. of population, with 51.7 million percent, Turkmenia with 28 percent them." It is prefaced by a statement from the people, but its numbers have in­ and Kirghizia with a 22 percent Ukrainian party chief, where he cha­ Queried about the mass graves at creased by only 4 percent since 1979, increase. racterizes some of the correspondent's Bykivnia near Kiev, Mr. Shcherbytsky according to recently released data A/erbaidzhan, the only predo­ questions as "somewhat one-sided and replied that the investigation of the furnished by the Soviet State Com­ minantly Mosk Ti republic in the even biased." government commission proved that mittee on Statistics. Soviet Caucasus, had a 17 percent Asked to provide examples of pere­ those buried in Bykivnia were victims of The population increase in the increase in population, followed by stroika in Ukraine, Mr. Shcherbytsky "repression at the end of the 1930s" and Ukrainian republic is the lowest in Kazakhstan in Central Asia with a 13 recited a list of statistics intended to that these findings would be published. the Soviet Union, which is expe­ percent increase. show the republic's economic successes The Ukrainian party first secretary riencing its fastest population in­ These were the only republics that during the past three years. He also claimed not be aware of any cases of crease in traditionally Moslem areas, registered more than a 10 percent jeferred to "the complex and delicate individuals having been fired from their reported John-Thor Dahlburg of the increase. The Russian republic, sphere of internationality relations," jobs because of political activism and Associated Press. Over all, the coun­ which is the largest of the 15 Soviet pointing to the ^ creation of- the Com­ rejected charges that students at Kiev try is growing too slowly for its republics, remains the most populous mission on Questions of Patriotic and University have been denied stipends economic good, according to ex­ with 147.4 million inhabitants, yet International Upbringing and Inter- because of membership in informal perts, who see the demographic this constitutes only a 7 percent Nationality Relations of the Ukrainian groups. center of the Soviet Union gradually increase in the last 10 years. The Supreme Soviet and a corresponding The correspondent then noted that in shifting from the European Slavic population of Byelorussia also grew unit within the party Central Commit­ Estonia party leaders are members of heartland (Ukraine, Byelorussia, by only 7 percent, as did Estonia. The tee. Measures are being taken, said Mr. the Popular Front and that its leaders Russia) to Central Asia. other two Baltic republics, Lithuania Shcherbytsky, to further broaden the are members of the party and govern­ Over the last decade, the popula­ and Latvia, increased their popula­ sphere of utilization of the Ukrainian ment, while in Ukraine the deputy head tion in the USSR has increased by 9.3 tion by 9 and о percent, respectively. language, guarantee it the status, of a of the Helsinki group has been dismiss­ mjllion, now totaling 286.7 million This low growth has worried Baltic state language, and establish the har­ ed from the party. Mr. Shcherbytsky people. In the census, the country's activists, who fear that the republics' monious development of national- conceded that, indeed, in February, "a first since 1979, the figures point out native populations w'll one day be Russian bilinguaHsm. certain Nahirniak" was dropped from that flight irom rural areas to urban outnumbered by migrants from Rus­ The success of perestroika, con­ party membership at an open party centers continues. This is trouble­ sia and other parts of the Soviet tinued Mr. Shcherbytsky, requires the meeting of his institute because of some data for the Soviet leadership Union. turnover of cadres at all levels. And activities violating the Party Program which has been trying to keep the Over the last 10 years, the Soviet during the last three years four new and Statutes, stressing that this was country's peasantry on the farm and rural population has decreased from Central Committee secretaries have done on the initiative of the local party has acknowledged that it cannot 38 to 34 percent, with a total of 10.6 been chosen, a new chairman of the group. create jobs fast enough in Central million Soviets migrating from Council of Ministers, and five of his "As for the so-called Popular Move­ Asia to keep pace with the popula­ villages to cities. However, high deputies. Further, every second minister ment of Ukraine for Perestroika, on the tion growth. population growth rates were regis- and department head and every third whole the republic's toilers do not The fastest growing republic is (Continued on page 13) oblast executive comnriittee chairman support the idea of its creation. Speri- have been replaced together with more fically, this was demonstrated by the than half of the secretaries of the oblast broad discussion of its draft program in party committees and the Kiev-City the press. Our people consider any Party Committee. kinds of attempts by specific individuals FOUNDED 1933 Mr. Shcherbytsky registered his to use democratization for their own Ukrainian Weevil disagreement with the correspondent's narrow personal interests, and often claim that the republican press was with nationalistic aims, as completely An English-language Ukrainian newspaper published by the Ukrainian National avoiding controversial issues, arguing unacceptable," he said. Association Inc., a non-profit association, at 30 Montgomery St., Jersey City, N.J. that foreign newsmen had little idea Mr. Shcherbytsky was asked his 07302. about what unpcared in the periodical reaction to the "criticism" made by Mr. literature because most of it is publish­ Gorbachev during his visit to Ukraine in Second-class postage paid at Jersey City, N.J. 07302. ed in Ukrainian. February concerning the need for more (ISSN - 0273-9348) In response to the many complaints attention to nationality policy and noted by the correspondent with regard democratization and cooperation with Yearly subscription rate: S20; for UNA members - |10. to one-candidate electoral districts in reformists in the Ukrainian Writers' Also published by the UNA: Svoboda, a Ukrainian-language daily newspaper. Ukraine during the recent elections, Mr. Union. He responded: Shcherbytsky replied that during the "I find it necessary to make the The Weekly and Svoboda: UNA: first round of elections alone 650 following clarification: the general (201) 434-0237, -0807, -3036 (20П 451-2200 candidates were put forth for the 175 secretary of the Central Committee of Postmaster, send address mandates and that 312 candidates were the CPSU did not broach the matter in changes to: Editor: Roma Hadzewycz registered. Moreover, he argued, the this way either in his Kiev speech or in Associate Editors: Marta Kolomayets situation with one-candidate districts in his meeting with the intelligentsia in The Ukrainian Weekly P.O. Box 346 (^irystyna Lapychak Ukraine was no dificrent than in other Lviv and a group of writers in Kiev in Jersey City, N.J. 07303 republics. the Central Committee of the Commu­ As for his own election campaign, nist Party of Ukraine. But he did make The Ukrainian Weekly, July 2, 1989, No. 27, Vol. LVII Mr. Shcherbytsky noted thai the deci­ other critical remarks and [offered] Copyright 1989 by The Ukrainian Weekly sion to stand in an electoral district (Continued on page 13) No. 27 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JULY 2, 1989

For the record New group opposes MFN status WCFU communique at Paris conference for trade with Soviet Union Follomngy for the record, is the and serves as a model for other by John A. Kun vered to the White House on June 20. communique of the World Congress delegations. UNA Washington Office Paruyr Hayrikian, long-time Arme­ of Free Ukrainians released at the The record of compliance of the nian activist and former Soviet political organization 5 press conference held USSR with its human rights commit­ WASHINGTON - Taxpayers A- prisoner who is currently president of on June 7 in Paris in conjunction ments is subjected to our scrutiny eainst Subsidizing the Soviets (TASS) Democracy and Independence, the with the ongoing Conference on the and criticism not because of politics hosted a news conference on June 30 at coordinating body for all democratic Human Dimension. or ideology. Our conscience does not the National Press Club to urge Presi­ movements in the Soviet Union, stated allow us to remain silent when we dent George Bush to withhold proposed that "only you Americans can ensure The World Congress of Free U- witness the brutal massacre by spe­ "most favored nation" (MFN) trade that your government does not make a krainians is headquartered in Ca­ cial army units of innocent men and status from the Soviet Union until it mistake which might undermine the nada and represents over 3 million women holding a peaceful demon­ meets basic conditions of freedom and efforts for democracy, reform and the citizens in 36 countries. Its aims and stration - as happened in the capital democracy for its people. protection of human rights there (in the activities are carried out in accor­ of Georgia in April of 1989. Further­ Martin Colman, chairman of TASS, Soviet Union)." [Previously, this rights dance with the goals and guiding more, our roots lie in Eastern Europe indicated that this action supports the activist's name was spelled Paruir principles of the United Nations. since we share a common heritage pro-democratic forces in the Soviet Airikian - ed.J Through its Human Rights Commis­ with a people whose country, U- Union and willprevent U.S. banks and "We depend on the United States to sion, the WCFU has participated in kraine, a founding member of the American taxpayers from underwriting encourage us in our democratic struggle different capacities at all the follow- United Nations, has been excluded Soviet debt. He added that the Soviets — to show us how to build liberty and up meetings of the Helsinki Accords. from the CSCE process, along with are not credit-worthy and American not to exploit our people and under­ We welcome the Vienna Con­ its journalists, media and non-go­ hard currency would allow the Soviets mine our movements." cluding Document's recognition of vernmental organizations such as the to continue running their empire while "If President Bush does grant MFN the role of NGOs in promoting Ukrainian Helsinki Union, whose repaying interest only. status to the Soviet Union, do not be human rights and the commitment to very existence stems from the Hel­ Key public policy, political and surprised if there is a reaction from the respect the right of all citizens to sinki Accords. ethnic leaders participated in the news democratic movements, such as demon­ actively participate in the protection Our memorandum, distributed to conference to demonstrate support for strations in front of the U.S. Embassy in and monitoring of human rights. all the signatory states, outlines in the TASS position and the ргочіето- Moscow," said Mr. Hayrikian. Canada's special consultative and detail some of the most flagrant cratic movements in the USSR. Mr. Edward Gudava, founder of the cooperative relationship with NGOs violations of human rights in U- Colman announced that petitions Georgian Helsinki Group and co-foun­ is well illustrated by this conference (Continued on page 13) to President Bush to withhold MFN der of the Independent Political Party status from the Soviets would be deli­ (Continued on page 11) Theater director LesTaniuk, colleagues form International Kurbas Society QUEBEC CITY, Quebec - Les productions, starting with such early while Mr. Taniuk and Ms. Kornienko Later in the week Mr. Taniuk and Taniuk, noted Ukrainian theatre direc­ work as his staging of Shevchenko's have been instrumental in the recent Ms. Kornienko visited Prof. Rubin at tor, and his wife, Nelli Kornienko, a "Haidamaky" to his last production at revival of interest in Kurbas's work in the encyclopedia offices, and were theatre historian and a member of the the Berezil Theater, Mykola Kulish's Ukraine. shown the theatre studios at York editorial staff of Courier UNESCO in "Maklena Grasa." Ms. Kornienko was the first to write University, which is the largest theatre Moscow, arrived in Canada at the end She also included in her discussion a dissertation on Kurbas, and she department in the Commonwealth. of May to attend the conference of the Kurbas's work on "King Lear" with the has published many seminal articles on They met with theatre students and even Canadian Association of Slavists held actor Solomon Michoels in Moscow Kurbas's work. She has also written a watched a theatre fencing class. They at Laval University in Quebec City on which was interrupted by Kurbas's book on theatrical theory and together were welcomed to York by the master of June 2-4. arrest in 1934. with her husband, has also co-edited a Stong College, Prof. Allen Koretsky. They were invited by Dr. Romana In the final presentation Mr. Taniuk translation of Gordon Craig's book "On Bahry of York University in Toronto, spoke about Kurbas's productions in the Art of the Theatre." Both Mr. Taniuk and Ms. Kornienko who organized a special two-part ses­ the various labor camps to which he was are members of the USSR Theatre sion on the work of Les Kurbas (1887- sent after his arrest. Mr. Taniuk vividly Mr. Taniuk has written numerous Union, which has sponsored their travel 1937), the founder of modern Ukrainian described scenes from these produc­ articles on Kurbas and co-edited the to Canada. Their lectures in Toronto theatre. tions and related eyewitness accounts of collection of Kurbas's writings and are being sponsored by Stong College of The session on Kurbas was held on Kurbas's work in the camps. He also reminiscences of co-workers which was York University and Kobza Interna­ Sunday, June 4. In the first part of the related the stories surrounding Kurbas's published in Moscow in 1987. tional. session Prof. Bahry spoke on Kurbas death in 1937. The members of the newly formed The couple will also be traveling to and the Expressionist influence on Prof. Danylo Struk chaired the ses­ Kurbas Society set to work immedia­ America this summer where they will My kola Kulish's "Sonata Pathetique." sion. tely. On June 10, a week after the speak at the Ukrainian Institute of Afterwards, Virlana Tkacz, a theatre Following the session the partici­ conference in Quebec, the four activists America in New York and at the Har­ director from New York, described pants decided to form the International presented lectures on Kurbas at a vard Ukrainian Summer Institute. symposium at York University's Stong Kurbas's use of film language in two Kurbas Society to promote the study Later this summer Mr. Taniuk will be and publication of works on Kurbas. College in Toronto. The speakers were theatre productions he staged, "Jimmie conducting rehearsals with the Avant- Higgins" and "Macbeth." The participants have all been very introduced by Prof. Don Rubin of York garde Ukrainian Theatre in Toronto at In the second part of the session, Ms. involved in promoting Les Kurbas's University's Theatre Department, who Kornienko traced the development of work and ideas. is the editor of the "World Encyclope­ the Samuel Beckett Theater of York the ethical aspect in Kurbas's theatrical Prof. Bahry and Ms. Tkacz have dia of Contemporary Theatre." University. work. The speaker outlined her ideas published articles in English on Kurbas using examples from Kurbas's major in leading North American journals.

les Taniuk speaks about Les Kurbas at York University, while the previous Prof. Don Rubin and Romana Bahry of York University welcome Nelli Kornienko speakers, (from left) Romana Bahry, Nelli Kornienko and Virlana Tkacz, listen. and Les Taniuk. THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JULY 2, 1989 No. 27

Antonovych Prizes presented at Washington ceremony Sheftel's attacker himself as a son of the Ukrainian receives sentence nation. He spoke of the many unfinished JERUSALEM - The 71-year-old projects that agonize him. He second Holocaust survivor who hurled acid at volume of memoirs is 80 percent com­ an Israeli lawyer defending John Dem- plete, he revealed, but many other janjuk, was sentenced by the Jerusalem literary enterprises lie ahead. District Court to three years in prison. Mr. Kostiuk concluded by quoting Yisrael Yehezkeli also was sentenced lyrics of a traditional Ukrainian song to two years' probation and ordered to about a widow who has no time to stop pay SI 1,000 in compensation to his for death, guests are arriving. Amend­ victim, Yoram Sheftel. ing the song's last line, he said he, too, Israel radio quoted Mr. Yehezkeli as hasn't got time to die - he has memoirs saying after the sentencing that he did to complete. not regret the attack and that he would Dr. Fizer introduced Dr. Shevelov, appeal. who was feted for his "Ukrainska Mova The acid-throwing incident took V Pershiy PolovyniDvadtsiatohoStO" place in Decemberof last year while Mr. littia, (1900-1941)," (The Ukrainian Sheftel was attending the funeral of Language in the First Half of the 20th fellow Demjanjuk defense attorney Dov Century (1900-1941-). Throughout his Eitan, who, according to Israeli police, career. Dr. Shevelov has traced the committed suicide. development of the Ukrainian language Mr. Sheftel suffered eye damage from from its roots in the sixth and seventh the acid. centuries. Dr. Shevelov, who is 80 and Obituary I Natalie Sluzar professor emeritus of linguistics at Seated are winners of the 1988 Antonovych Prizes in Ukrainian literature and Columbia University, New York, also Ukrainian studies (from left) Hryhoriy Kostiuk, John-Paul Himka and George conveyed thanks to the Antonovych ie Osenenko, 71, Shevelov. Standing are Tatyana Antonovych, Omelan Antonovych, Bohdan Foundation for marking his contribu- Rubchak, Jaroslaw Pelenski, John Fizer and Roman Szporluk. fion to Ukrainian studies. He took to sisted of John Fizer, professor of task sectors of Ukrainian American and folk dance director by Maria Rudensky literature, Rutgers University, New other non-Soviet Ukrainian society for WASHINGTON - Three awards Brunswick, N.J.; Jaroslaw Pelenski, indulging in some non-objective think­ worth a toia\ of 515,000 have been professor of history, University of Iowa, ing. For example, Ukrainians eagerly conferred on leading scholars of Ukrai­ Iowa City; and Bohdan Rubchak, glorify the nationalist struggle of the nian issues. The awards were presented professor of literature at the University early 20th century, he said, but they do at a ceremony attended by some 60 of Illinois at Chicago Circle. In intro­ not readily admit that some Ukrainian people at Georgetown University in ducing the winners. Dr. Szporluk said governments lasted virtually only a day. Washington, to Hryhoriy Kostiuk, that a culture can only continue its Introducing Dr. Himka, who just George Shevelov and John-Paul development if it is continuously aug­ turned 40 and is assistant professor of Himka. mented by new creations, such as the history at the University of Alberta, Mr. Kostiuk won the 1988 Anto­ distinguished works being honored. Edmonton, Dr. Szporluk noted that the novych Prize in Ukrainian literature, Mr. Kostiuk, 87, won for the first author already has two completed and the latter two won prizes in Ukrai­ volume of his memoirs, "Zustrichi і books behind him. In September, Dr. nian studies. ;^ Proshchaiinia" (Encounters and Fare­ Himka begins one year on the faculty of Each Antonovych prize carries'a sum wells); as an outstanding work of "belles Harvard's Ukrainian Research Insti­ of 55,000, and this year Drs. Shevelov lettres" in Ukrainian. Dr. Rubchak, tute. and Himka are each being honored with who delivered a lecture about Mr. Dr. Himka expressed surprise and Millie Osenenko the full prize in the Ukrainian studies Kostiuk's entire creative corpus, des­ delight at being named a winner for his category. This marks the eighth year of cribed the founder of the literary book, ''Galician Villagers and the OCALA, Fla. - Millie Osenenko. Antonovych Prizes, funded by the organization "Slovo," and his early Ukrainian National Movement in the director of St. Vladimir's Ukrainian Omelan and Tatiana Antonovych days in Kamianets' Podilskiy. Mr. 19th Century." He paid tribute to Dancers of Long Island for neariy 20 Foundation, a Washington-based en­ Kostiuk merits recognition first and authors of other noteworthy books that years, died on April 8 in Florida, where tity promoting the study and apprecia­ foremost as a writer. Dr. Rubchak said. also appeared in 1988. In his opinion, she had retired in і 982. She was 71. tion of the culture of Ukraine. The Active in the early 20th-century intellec­ any of these works could have merited Mrs. Osenenko was born in New foundation recognizes outstanding tual life of Kiev and Kharkiv, Mr. the Antonovych Prize, and he described York on March 4, 1918. She and her work in Ukrainian literature and Ukrai­ Kostiuk was sent into exile under his own speculation at which ont was husband, John, who died in 198J. had nian studies, including history, religion Stalin. going to be the winner. His book did not moved to Florida in 1982, after he and the humanities. In his memoirs, Mr. Kostiuk displays figure in the prognostication. retired from his position as an execvitive The May 21 event, conducted entire­ his skill in fashioning lifelike - and In outlinging the seeds of his book. with The New York Times following a 38- ly in Ukrainian, was co-sponsored by lively — depictions of hundreds of Dr. Himka spoke movingly of his year career in the newspaper industry. The Washington Group, an association characters from his youth and early beloved grandmother who emigrated Mrs. Osenenko built her life around of Ukrainian American professionals adulthood. He paints portraits of many from Ukraine after World War I. She her Ukrainian heritage, as a Ukrainian based in the nation's capital, as a benefit members of the vanguard of authors had raised him from the age of 2, folk dance choreographer, musician for the group's Fellowship Fund. and academics whom' he knew well, following the untimely death of his and artist. As director of St. Vladimir's Fellowship winners come to Washing­ particularly Mykola Khvyliovyi and mother from cancer. It was she, an Ukrainian Dancers, she instructed ton to take advantage of the area's Volodymyr Vynnychenko. WYiiQTdiic Ukrainian barely speaking hundreds of youths in traditional unique resources for research into Mr. Kostiuk's vivid descriptions of English, who insfilled in him an identity Ukrainian folk dance. Her students Ukrainian-related matters. The third the harrowing suffering of many of "other than" American. ranged in age from 5 to 30. Many stayed annual round of TWG Fellowship these exceptionally gifted people is She created a thoroughly Ukrainian with the ensemble for decades. winners will be announced this fall. unparalleled. Dr. Rubchak said. When home in a Detroit neighborhood not The Long Island-based dance troupe The afternoon began with introduc­ writing of his own hardships, however, heavily populated by Ukrainians. While was invited to perform before bishops, tions of the winners by Roman Szpor­ Mr. Kostiuk indulges in no self-pity, other children ate hamburgers or heads of state and other dignitaries. The luk, professor of history at the Univer­ and manages to add a dose of self- chicken pot pie, in his house it was dance group's graceful and acrobatic sity of Michigan, Ann Arbor, director deprecating humor. borshch, pyrohy and holubtsi. The style paid tribute to an expression of of the Center for Russian and East In his acceptance speech, in which he Ukrainian spirit, with its traditions and Ukrainian culture that is centuries-old, European Studies, and chairman of the thanked the Antonovych Foundation stories, was carefully perpetuated. His noted a local newspaper in Florida that jury that recommended the winners to for the high honor it had bestowed upon grandmother's grandmother remem- published on obituary. the foundation. him, Mr. Kostiuk demonstrated some -bered serfdom, and young Himka Mrs. Osenenko's direction of the dance Besides Dr. Szporluk, the jury con- of that tendency to poke fun at himself. eagerly listened to the tales his grand­ group won her. numerous awards. She He expressed gratitude for Dr. Rub- mother spun of a bygone era. For him, was widely recognized as a major in­ Correcf/on chak's "possibly beautiful words" about the 19th-century Ukrainian village took fluence in sustaining culture in the New him. Mr. Kostiuk explained that due to on the aura of "sviashchennycha zem- York area. In Part I of the article, "Two-day a hearing loss, he was unable to hear all lia," loosely translated - "God's coun­ Mrs. Osenenko was Catholic and a conference examines positives and the words, but suspects they were nice. try." member of numerous Ukrainian or­ negatives of trade with Ukraine," which Mr. Kostiuk also cited the myriad As he launched his academic career, ganizations, including Branch 5 of the appeared in the May 21 issue of The contributions of Osyp Zinkewych, the he was fascinated by the roots of these Ukrainian Nadonal Association. Ukrainian Weekly, Dr. Bohdan Hawry- Ellicott City, Md.-based publisher of manifestations of a national identity. In addition to her love of Ukrai­ lyshyn, one of the speakers at the Smoloskyp, featuring Ukrainian works He traced the role of the written word nian dance, she was an accomplished conference, was incorrectly identified as of literature from Ukraine and the and the press, especially as literary mandolin and violin player, and en­ owning a consulting firm on trade with diaspora. reached more and more Galician joyed painting. Ukraine in Geneva, Switzerland. Dr. Mr. Kostiuk, who last set foot in villagers. Surviving M ^ Osenenko are ivv a Hawrylyshyn is a scholar-in-residence Ukraine in 1934, said that while tech­ A successful political revolution must sons, Ronald and Derek, both ofOcahi, at the International Management Insti­ nically he is an emigrant, the label does be preceded by an intellectual upheaval. and a sister, Helen Ste!machuk. of New tute in Geneva. not suit ігіт. Rather, he continues to see (Continued on page 16) City, N.Y. No. 27 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JULY 2, 1989

UNA resort Soyuiivka geared up for 35th summer season

KERHONKSON, N.Y. - The sum­ mer season at Soyuzivka, the upstate TSew York resort of the Ukrainian National Association, kicks off this weekend with entertainment programs and dancing. Next weekend, July 8-9, the resort's tennis season will begin with the first of the tournaments held yearly - the Eastern championships of the Ukrainian Sports Federation of the U.S. ana Cc^ada (USCAK). 1 he opei:іng weekend at Soyuzivka \^as slatec ^^ 'nclude dances on Friday evening. J У1С ?0, to the Music of CnvNjia: i^i^anirday, July I,toChvylia and lempc r.nd cm Sunday, July 2, to Tempo. Ihc two ''' ;crtainment programs weM- 1.0 fei:;. vc comedienne Luba Goy and [eno' "^ :s^vi Melnychyn on Satur­ day cycr'v-r, and soprano Marianka Sucnenko-Kotrei, with, accompanist Sopl.hi Be:yk Schultz. on Sunday even- iLg. Ihe cc'icrts begin at 8:30 p.m., while the music for dancing commences at 10. During the course of the summer season, that ^s. between now and Labor Day weekend the traditional culmina­ tion of the resort s season, Soyuzivka will present a variety of entertainment. Among the headliners will be: the Dumka Choir of New York, the Ves- nivka Girls' Choir of Toronto, the Troyanda and Verkhovyna vocal trios, both of Toronto, the Echo of the The walk leading from the Veselka pavilion to the Main House at Soyuzivka. Steppes Bandurist Ensemble, the Kazka In addition to entertainment and ensemble of singers and dancers, and dancing, Soyuzivka's summer of 1989 soloists Lilea Wolanska, soprano, and will feature tennis tournaments: the B. Vasylyshyn, bass. USCAK Eastern Championships on A special program will be performed July 8-9, the doubles tourney on August by the Roma Pryma-Bohachevsky 12-13 and the USCAK Nationals on ensemble of dancers from the resort's September 1-4. Ukrainian Folk Dance Workshop on Camps, too, will take place at the Saturday, August 19 - which inciden­ resort, as follows: tennis camp, June 24, tally is the same evening that a new Miss to July 5; boys' and girls' camps, July 8- Soyuzivka will be crowned. Music that 22; a pre-schoolers' day camp, or­ weekend will be provided by the Akula ganized by the Pershi Stezhi sorority of Band. Plast, July 8-15; and the Ukrainian Folk The program for Labor Day weekend Dance Workshop, August 6-20. will be headlined by the Syzokryli Dancers, directed by Ms. Pryma-Bo­ According to John A. Flis, manager hachevsky, and will include other of Soyuzivka, the resort this year is entertainment as well (to be announced). making an all out effort to focus on All entertainment programs will be better service and improved amenities conducted by Marichka Hlibowych of for guests. Last year during the spring, Toronto, the resort's mistress of cere- the Soyuzivka management concen­ monies-in-residence. trated to a large extent on beautifying Music for dancing — both outside on Soyuzivka, modernizing its dining the Veselka patio and inside the Veselka room and gift shop,for example, as well auditorium - will be performed by as updating the Soyuzivka menu to such bands as Crystal, Khloptsi zi include not only old favorities, such as Lvova, Alex and Dorko, Zelene Zhyto, traditional Ukrainian dishes, but new Walter Kwas on the steps of the new Karpaty lodge. Raging Hutsuls and Novi Chasy, in cuisine as well. style residence that will accommodate the United States - was constructed addition to the aforementioned Tempo, During the 1989 pre-season period, the resort's summer employees - who and named Sich. Chvylia and Akula. Mr. Flis noted, a brand new dormitory- come to work at the resort from all over In addition, the former Yasinnia building is now the luxurious Karpaty lodge, featuring air conditioning, TVs and telephones in each of its seven rooms. "Tiiis is a step in the right direction, and I trust that additional renovations will follow in other buildings patterned after this project," Mr. Flis said. This year, each building at Soyuzivka will be wired for cable television, since "our expectations are to have television in every lobby and, eventually in every room," he added. Mr. Flis also noted, "We will be installing floodlights at the pool so that guests may enjoy nighttime swim­ ming at Soyuzivka, as they had once in the past." As well, new lounge chairs have been purchased for the pool area, and new tables and chairs now grace the balconies of guest rooms. Making up the team that will help make the guests' stay more pleasurable, Mr. Flis said, are office manager Sheila Zahajkewycz andJohn Kutzer, a former Soyuzivka employee who has returned Key employees of the resi Shelia Zahajkewycz (right) and Sofia Soyuzivka manager John A. Flis. Szpak. (Continued on page 15) THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JULY 2, 1989 No. 27

Ukrainian WeeHУ WASHINGTON UPDATE All men are created equal from the UNA Washington Office "We hold these truths to be self-evident that all men are created equal, that P иВш they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that Washington Update is compiled and the Senate on February 28, which was among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. That to secure published to provide the readers of The signed into law by the president the these rights, governments are instituted among Men deriving their just Ukrainian Weekly with a summary of following day. powers from the consent of the governed, that whenever any form of government actions of interest to Ukrai­ EASTERN EUROPE: On June 6, government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the right of the people to nian Americans, Readers are encou­ Sen. Christopher Dodd (D-Conn.) alter or to abolish it, and to institute new government, laying its foundations raged to contact their elected represen­ introduced S.Con. Res. 42, to express on such principles and organizing its powers in such form as to them shkll tatives to express their opinions — "sincere respect for the memory of Imre seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness." either positive or negative - on issues Nagy and all the martyrs of the Hun­ It is with these words that the Declaration of Independence begins, the since members of Congress formulate garian revolution of 1956" on the document that this Fourth of July celebrates its 213th birthday. This their positions on issues with the views occasion of the public funeral of Nagy. document, one of the greatest political documents of the Western world, of constituents in mind. Readers are The Senate, under unanimous consent uniquely combines general principles and abstract theory of government with also invited to contact the UNA Wash­ agreement, immediately considered and a detailed enumeration of specific grievances and injustices, which has given it ington Office for more details on any passed the resolution. enduring power over more than two centuries. items reported, On June 13, Sen. Larry Pressler (R- Based on the theory of natural rights which maintains that an individual S.D.) introduced, for himself and three enters into society with certain basic rights and that no government can deny Sfatemeni update colleagues, S.Con.Res. 43 expressing these rights, the Declaration of Independence has given the strength, will and the concern of Congress regarding inspiration for many an individual to strive toward a better life in a On May 31, Sen. Edward Kennedy human rights violations in Yugoslavia. democratic society. (D-Mass.) spoke about the increased Rep. Tom Lantos (D-Calif.), for him­ And now, more than 200 years later, our Ukrainian brothers and sisters number of refugees being admitted to self and two colleagues, introduced a strive to achieve these same inalienable rights, as they take an active and vocal the United States. President Bush, similar resolution, H.Con.Res. 152, in role in establishing nationaWemocratic movements, such as the Memorial under emergency refugee authority, has the House that same day. Society, the Popular Movement in Ukraine for Restructuring (Rukh), the revised the fiscal year 1989 ceiling from On June 14, Sen. Kennedy, for Ukrainian Christian-Democratic Front, the Taras Shevchenko Ukrainian 94,000 to 116,500 refugees, 50,000 of himself and seven colleagues, intro­ Language Society, as well as the Qtizens' Committee in Defense of the Rights whom are from Eastern Europe and the duced S. 1183 to provide for certain of Believers of the Ukrainian Catholic Church, and the Initiative Committee Soviet Union. The senator submitted forms of assistance to Poland and in Support of the Revival of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church. for the Congressional Record the Ad­ Hungary to encourage the process of And each day, these movements are gaining supporters, as citizens realize ministration's Report to Congress on democratic reforms, a bill identical to that it is only natural that they are individuals first, and that they, as the refugee situation. H.R. 2550, introduced by Rep. Lee individuals, have rights that cannot be violated by anyone or by any society. On June 7, Rep. Steny Hoyer (D- Hamilton (D-Ind.) on June 6. It is the Ukrainian Helsinki Union, in this era of glasnost and perestroika in Md.), vice-chairman of the Commission On June 20, the House Committees Ukraine, that is the forerunner of all of the above-mentioned national- on Security and Cooperation in Europe on Foreign Affairs and Ways and democratic movements, underscoring the importance of the individual. This (Helsinki Commission) spoke about the Means reported H.R. 2550 to the full is highlighted in the preamble of the Ukrainian Helsinki Union's Declaration London Information Forum which took House. The House proceeded to consi­ of Principles: place in April and May of this year. He der and pass the bill which authorizes, "The Ukrainian Helsinki Union considers it vital to define as the principal pointed out that 'for the first time, two in fiscal year 1990, SI.5 million for the aim of its activity the defense of national rights, firstan d foremost the rights of East European delegations (Poland and U.S.-Poland science and technology a nation to self-determination; provided in Article і of the international pact Hungary) included truly independent agreement, S2 million for medical ratified by the Soviet Union on civil and political rights ('All peoples have the representatives expressing their own supplies, hospital equipment, and train­ right to selfKletermination. On the strength of this right they can freely points of view rather than those of the ing in Poland, and S2 million for establish their political status and freely safeguard their economic, social and governments." developing democratic institutions and cultural development.'), for without national freedom, it is impossible to On June 14, Rep. James Florio (D- activities in Poland and Hungary. A obtain true human security. If a person is not a means for the realization of N.J.), the Democratic nominee for similar amount was authorized for some, or other ideological concept, but the aim and crown of creation, then a governor, brought to the attention of fiscal year 1991. The House voted to nation is the only natural social environment in which a person can his colleagues the upcoming Ukrainian suspend the rules and pass H.R. 2550. completely open his talents and accomplish his destiny on earth." Festival at the Garden State Arts Center Rep. Bob Dornan (R-Calif.) intro­ on June 17. He pointed out that the duced li.R. 2686 to allow the importa­ festival will commemorate the 10th tion of certain defense articles from anniversary of the death of Volodymyr Poland and Hungary. Ivasiuk and the 175th anniversary of the U.S.-SOVIET TRADE: On June 15, birth of Taras Shevchenko and extend­ legislation was introduced in both Turning the pages back... ed his best wishes to the chairman of the Houses of Congress supporting "a festival, Luba Siryj. presidential waiver of the Jackson- On June 16, Sen. Robert Dole (R- Vanik amendment with respect to the Kansas), the Senate minority leader, Soviet Union." Such a waiver would Oleksandra Bilozerska Kulish — better known under her commended Sen. Daniel Patrick Moy- give the USSR most-favored-nation pen name, Hanna Barvinok - died on July 6, 1911. nihan (D-N.Y.) for introducing legisla­ (MFN) trade status. The Senate resolu­ She was born May 5, 1828, into a landowner's family in tion supporting waiver of the Jackson- tion, S.Con.Res. 45, was introduced by Vanik Amendment. the village of Motronivka, Borzna Sen. Moynihan, with 11 co-sponsors, county of the Chernihiv gubernia. On June 20, Rep. James Traficant and the House resolution, H.Con.Res. She was the wife of Panteleimon (D-Ohio), speaking about John Dem- 153, was introduced by Rep. Tom janjuk, stated that "this case stinks." He Downey (D-N.Y.) with eight co-spon­ Kulish, prominent writer,historian, pointed out the irregularities about the sors. ethnographer and translator. They were case, including the "suicide" of the married in 1847. defense attorney, and called the actions Hearings update According to the Encyclopedia of of the Office of Special Investigations Ukraine, Hanna Barvinok began her (OSI) "a dangerous precedent." He On June 14, the Subcommittee on literary career at the age of 30 in 1858. called for an investigation of the case Europe and the Middle East and the She wrote stories based on themes from and OSI and concluded by stating "I do Subcommittee on International Econo­ peasant life - concentrating on the life not know the truth, but America should mic Policy and Trade of the House of the peasant woman. Her stories were find out." He also wrote to Rep. Jack Foreign Affairs Committee held a joint published in the almanac Khata and Brooks (D-Texas), chairman of the hearing on U.S.-Soviet trade relations. various journals, including Pravda and House Judiciary Committee, with a Among those testifying were Sen. Literaturno-Naukovyi Vistnyk, request for an investigation of OSI. Dennis DeConcini (D-Ariz.), an oppo­ In addition, she was a contributor to nent of waiving the Jackson-Vanik the St. Petersburg monthly called Legislation update Amendment, and Rep. Donald Pease Osnova (Foundation), which in 1861- (D-Ohio), who introduced H.R. 2307, 1862 was the center of literary life at that COMMEMORATIONS: On June which would authorize the president to time. Other contributors included Taras 13, Rep. Hoyer introduced, for himself grant most-favored-nation (MFN) Shevchenko, Mykola Kostomarov and and eight colleagues, H.J.Res. 292, status to imports from cooperatives in Panteleimon Kulish, members of the which would designate August 1, 1989, Communist countries, contingent on Brotherhood of Ss. Cyril and Metho­ as "Helsmki Human Rights Day." the co-ops abiding by internationally dius. Another brotherhood member, Hanna Barvinok That same day, the House, by un­ recognized workers' rights provisions. Vasyl Bilozersky, was the monthly's Hanna Barvinok's works were pub­ animous consent, discharged the Com­ 1 he following day, the Senate Judi­ editor. Younger contributors to Os­ lished also in collections such as "Opo- mittee on Post Office and Civil Service ciary Subcommittee on Immigration nova, along with Hanna Barvinok, were vidannia z Narodnykh Ust (Stories from further consideration of S.J.Res. and Refugee Affairs concluded hearings Marko Vovchok, Oleksa Storozenko, Tpld by the People), 1902; Opovidannia 63, a joint resolution designating June on proposed legislation to modify Stepan Rudansky, Leonid Hlibiv and (Stories), 1919; and "Vybrani Tvory" 14, 1989, as "Baltic Freedom Day." The immigration and naturalization re- Petro Kuzmenko. (Selected Works) 1927. House enacted the resolution, passed by (Continued on page Щ No. 27 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JULY 2, 1989

LEHERS TO THE EDITOR

thanks to the efforts of one individual or issue of alleged plagiarism by Mr. trust. It is a well-known fact that among Time to reassess some small, grass-roots organization. Karpenko is accused of having con­ Ukrainians there are individuals who These types of activities have their time tributed to the electoral defeat of the cannot accept gracefully the success of our potential and place, but it is not now. latter. any project unless they are in control. Dear Editor: Are we doing anything productive The implication of the article is that These strange people have a simple It is with increasing concern that I that takes into account the implications this outcome was rather a loss to the motto: "I will rule; if not, I will ruin,"and have been following the seemingly of the current situation? I fear not, present national movement in Ukraine. then they devote all their energy and endless bickering among various Ukrai­ because surely any positive, practical, My contention is that the movement strength to destroy that which is the nian American organizations and indi­ and far-sighted actions would be report­ might have gained by the victory of Mr. object of their blind hate. viduals on the pages of The Ukrainian ed to and published in The Weekly. Karpenko's opponent, Volodymyr When the final word on the travails of Weekly over the past several months. I Do any of our organizations have a Cherniak. Ukrainian education is written, it will be have been left with the impression that working program in place to help, Initially, there were registered over 30 noted that the establishment of the - at this time of unprecedented oppor­ economically and otherwise, the wave candidates to the Congress of the studies fund was a turning point for the tunity for positive changes in Ukraine of immigrants and visitors from U- People's Deputies in Moscow in Kiev better in the unhappy history of Ukrai­ - our community has reached the nadir kraine? We fought for years for free .electoral district No. 33. In addition to nian higher education. Prof. Pritsak of ineffectivness and even self-destruc­ emigration for Ukrainians - now that Messrs. Karpenko and Cherniak, among laid broad plans for the future course of tion. the door has been slightly opened, how the candidates there were such well- the program. He insisted on training Incredible events are taking place in have we responded? Haphazardly and known personalities as singer Dmytro young scholars who would be in tune the Soviet Union right now, events erratically, at best. Hnatiuk, theater director Les Taniuk, with the Western scholarly procedures which I believe have created the most Are any of our organizations work­ one-time soccer star Oleh Blokhin, and and be compatible with the growing realistic possibility for freedom and self- ing to establish regular contacts with a popular coach of the soccer team generations of young people of Ukrai­ determination for Ukraine in recent those journalists who have been writing Dynamo (whose name escapes me). In nian descent. He demanded adherence history. Those of us who were already so frequently and favorably about the elections, Mr. Cherniak received to the truth and verification of facts in born outside of Ukraine after World Ukraine, to ensure a continuation of the more than one-third of all the votes and every facet of research and publication. War II grew up dutifully commemo­ coverage that is so crucial to bringing Mr. Karpenko came in second. In the Practically singlehandedly he raised our rating Ukraine's past glory and har­ about greater public awareness of run-off election a week later, Mr. Cher­ educational standards to the highest boring an ever-present but vague illu­ Ukraine's strategic role in today's niak with 56 percent of all the votes level of the world's educational stan­ sion that it would one day again be free. political arena? Or have we limited defeated Mr. Karpenko. dards, thus assuring respect and admi­ ourselves to reacting to negative press Yet it is only now that this dream may Who is Mr. Cherniak? He is a pro­ ration from the worldwide scholastic and to the misidentification of Ukraine actually be within our grasp. fessional economist, holding a doctoral community. His bull-dog tenacity and as Russia? Ukrainians in Ukraine seem to think degree, and presently the head of the ability to overcome obstacles, from so: greater numbers than ever are Are any of our organizations work­ political economy department of the certain segments of our own community risking their lives and well-being to this ing to influence the Congress and the Institute of Economics, Academy of as well as from the vested Russophile end. American journalists stationed in administration to recognize Ukraine's Sciences, in Kiev. He is the author of cabal within the Harvard University ad­ the Soviet Union seem to think so: the importance to U.S. interests? Do any of some books and many articles (one ministration, marks him as one of the same publications that effectively them have a viable, concrete program to recently published in Literaturna U- ablest scholars of the 20th century ignored the issue of Ukraine for years establish communication and coordina­ kraina) and one of the most prominent Ukraine. are now at every opportunity high­ tion with, and aid to, the activists in economists in Ukraine today. This lighting its role as the greatest of ail Ukraine? Or does our idea of a "struggle Like a great majority pf scholar^, the native of Yolhynia is 48 years old, father :,^qi^(J^|ie^ajyl .d^U^^ga^ | threats to the continued existence of the for national liberation" stop at the bf t\v6 dztughters, db^s Ш singing of "Shche ne Vni6rla Ukfaina^' 1 not.hi^ forte. Prone to human failings Soviet Uniom - - Communist Party antd supppttsi the. And how are our major Ukrainian at yearly "akademiyi"? :' Ш^Ь^Юе^|^^щ^Ь05Ьа8^Ьееп,кп0^щ, o| Movement for Restrucfliririg in tJ-' occasion, to shoot from the hipAyithoul American organizations responding to I, and many other Ukrainian Ameri­ kraine (Narodnyi Rukh Ukrainy). His events during this potentially explosive cans are desperately looking to our taking aim. It does not make him less of candidacy was endorsed by Literaturna a scholar or patriot if from time to time and historically pivotal time? A review major organizations for leadership and Ukraina. guidance at this crucial time, are eager he ruffles some feathers within the of contributions to The Weekly leads to It is important to emphasize that the to contribute to positive efforts. hostile Ukrainian extremist sector. the conclusion that at least four of our election of a Ukrainian economist to the To this end, I propose that all of our I had the privilege of working with a major organizations are fighting over highest councils in the Soviet Union is and pursuing meaningless, unproduc­ working organizations begin to fill the group of dedicated people who were an important step in the quest toward tive issues, as if nothing had changed in pages of The Weekly with something mainly responsible for soliciting funds. the regaining of Ukraine's national the past 40 years. They are playing one- constructive and relevant for a change Mr. Golash is grossly inaccurate by rights. Until now the most vocal pro­ upmanship about who was responsible - I challenge them to submit not implying that the student hromadas ponents of such a movement have been for the first distribution of information rhetoric, not rationalization, but com­ raised "millions" for Harvard. Less than writers, various creative artists and packets to Congress; they are discussing prehensive, action-oriented programs I percent of the students were engaged some scholars. Often these individuals, a rift that they have made little progress concerning their response to current in minimal fund-raising activity. The although undoubtedly well-meaning, towards healing in the past eight years; events and opportunities in Ukraine. other 99 percent followed the usual do not understand and are quite re­ they wax eloquent with rhetoric about It is high time for us to re-assess the route of receiving their degrees, build­ moved from the problems, primarily their "assistance to the national libera­ great potential of our Ukrainian Ameri­ ing their careers, acquiring wealth, economic problems, of everyday life. A tion struggle in Ukraine''without giving can community in light of current purchasing summer homes, pleasure dose of realism and the inclusion of us so much as a hint of what that events in Ukraine, and to discard boats and other creature comforts. In economic considerations in the ongoing assistance is, except, parodoxically, to outdated and ineffective approaches for their pursuit of personal pleasure they condemn virtually all contacts with the new strategies. It is time to shed our debates could be quite helpful to the have steadily distanced themselves from citizens of the very nation that they are underdog, victim mentality and to grow success of national movement in the community and their roots. In their supposedly "liberating." up. This may be the best, if not the only, Ukraine. It is hoped that Dr. Cherniak yearly list of charitable contributions will supply these missing ingredients. the needs of the studies fund at Harvard In addition to these patently counter­ chance in our lifetimes to work towards or any other worthy project are the last productive efforts, they are pursuing what we all claim is the ultimate goal — I.S. Koropeckyj on their list. also the merely ineffective. Listed on a self-determination and independence - Moorestown, N.J. weekly basis are scores of remarks made and the opportunity may not last for long. Of the 12,000 contributors who in Congress to commemorate some created "the Harvard miracle," 99 event or other relating to Ukraine or percent were people of modest means, Daria Stec some other Eastern European nation. the "clock punchers," and only 1 per­ Washington (Anyone with even a passing acquain­ Re: Harvard's cent of the generous contributors could tance with the workings of Congress is be labeled wealthy. It was only in the aware of the limited practical worth of Ukrainian studies final stages of the fund-raising cam­ these remarks and can only say "so paign that the "big money" began to what?") Cherniak's victory Dear Editor: trickle in. In general it was a landmark These organizations also continue It would be too much to enumerate achievement in Ukrainian education. with a vengeance to expend limited may be good news the achievements attained by U- It stimulated other programs to attain funds and resources for marking anni­ krainian studies at Harvard. To an and perhaps surpass our achievements. versaries of albeit important but past Dear Editor: enlightened person the record is like a Presently Lfkrainian studies at Harvard events with demonstrations and con­ shining beacon for all to follow and stand on a solid foundation and will certs. These demonstrations and con­ Drs. Roman Solchanyk and David emulate. Only time will tell how wise stand for generations unless some certs consistently do little but provide Marples relate the hot polemic between and far-seeing the Ukrainian community unforeseen cataclysm overtakes the an opportunity for a get-together with Vitaliy Karpenko, chief editor of Ve- had been in its benevolent and whole­ United States. The record is impressive old friends and serve as conscience chirniy Kyiv and Mykola Shybyk, head hearted support. After 20 years skeptics and the programs are expanding and appeasers, because they attract little of the Ukrainian Union of Journalists still question the wisdom of this project improving. Those of us who have pride press, no non-Ukrainian participants, (The Ukrainian Weekly, June 11). Mr. and no amount of factual evidence will and faith in it need no convincing, and and no influential officials as speakers Karpenko is correctly presented as a change their rigid minds. those opposed to it will not be con­ or guests. committed proponent of national rights Roman Golash (May 7) is hurling vinced. And, once in a while, to be sure, there in Ukraine. Mr. Shybyk, on the other accusations that some evil conspiracy is a story about some qne-time positive hand, personifies the forces of stagna­ exists and some unknown dark forces Joseph Iwaniw action that did make a difference. tion ("zastoyu"), who by raising the are hoodwinking and betraying oiir Venice, Fla. THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY. 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INTERVIEW: U.S. delegation member speaks about Conference on the Human Dimension Thebl In the interview below, Orest Deychakiwsky, a staff raised via the mechanism. Among the many issues member of the U.S. (Helsinki) Commission on discussed at the meeting were religion, including the Security and Cooperation in Europe, who was a Ukrainian Catholic and Orthodox Churches, national member oftne U.S. delegation to the Paris meeting of rights and national minorities, freedom of expression the Conference on the Human Dimension, provides an and assembly, imprisonment and harassment of insider's view of that international conference. human rights activists and members of independent The CHD was held as part of the Helsinki Accords groups, and human contacts, including family visits review process on May 30 to June 23. In addition to and emigration. Mr. Deychckiwsky, there was another Ukrainian Among specific human rights violations that member of the U.S. delegation to that 35-state received considerable attention were the plight of the meeting: Paula Dobriansky, deputy assistant secretary Turkish minority in Bulgaria and the continuing of state for human rights and humanitarian affairs. flagrant abuse of human rights in Rumania. PART I Speaking of responses, we understand that the Soviet Union was apparently more responsive at the Can you tell us something about the Paris Confe­ meeting than it has been in the past. rence on the Human Dimension - its purpose and objectives? Yes, but it also depends how one defines "respon­ As part of the Helsinki process, the 35 signatory sive." The Soviets are much more willing to discuss states participating in the Conference on Security and cases and issues and not simply reject Western Cooperation in Europe agreed to convene a Confe­ criticism as interference in internal affairs. They have rence on the Human Dimension covering the entire clearly recognized the legitimacy of human rights as a range of humanitarian issues under the CSCE. The topic of discussion on the international arena. first of three four-week meetings of this conference just In terms of actual human rights performance, they ended in Paris last Friday. The second meeting will be have also come a long way relative to their dismal pre- held in Copenhagen next year, and the third, which, as Gorbachev record, although there has not been as you know, has elicited some controversy, is scheduled much in the way of concrete improvements since to be held in Moscow in 1991. Vienna, especially in the way of institutionalizing Our delegation's main goals for this meeting were to human rights reforms. As in past CSCE meetings, we throughly review human rights implementation since reaised all the areas in which we feel they are not the Vienna Follow-up Meeting, which concluded this complying with their human rights obligations, both past January and to improve the operation of the publicly in speeches, and privately in bilateral human dimension mechanise set forward in the meetings. Vienna Concluding Document. We did not feel it was Publicly, the Soviets did not react anywhere near as particularly useful to have a final document so soon vehemently to our criticism of their human rights after the Vienna Document, which contained excellent violations as they used to in the past. In private language and with which there is not yet full meetings, they also had a more forthcoming attitude. compliance. To give you one example: during one meeting our delegation had with the Soviet delegation the first What exactly is this ''human dimension mecha­ week of the meeting, we transmitted a list of 130 nism/' and what is its potential? political prisoners and over 600 unresolved emigration The mechanism, established by the participating cases. During the second week of the meeting, four of states in the Vienna Concluding Document, is us on the U.S. side met with a fairly high-ranking designed to provide a structured course of action by Soviet team which included Yuri Reshetov, the which any CSCE country may raise human rights director of humanitarian relations at the Soviet cases or issues with another CSCE country and be Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and Rudolf Kuznetsov, entitled to a response. It is designed to be used the chief of the Office of Visas and Registration selectively and differs from normal bilateral meetings (OVIR). They presented relatively detailed responses in that it is specifically prescribed under an agreement to many of the individual cases we had previously made in the context of the Helsinki process. transmitted. This is something in the past that would This mechanism has already been utilized by many have been unthinkable. At the 1985 Ottawa Human of the participating states, particularly with the Soviet Rights Meeting, for instance, they did not even want to Union, Rumania, Czechoslovakia and Bulgaria, and look at our case lists, let alone act on them. has produced some concrete responses, if not The flip side to this, however, is that while they did necessarily substantive improvements. Rumania, inform us of the releases of nearly 20 political unfortunately, rejects the very notion of the mecha­ prisoners or people incarcerated in psychiatric nism. hospitals, some 110 still remain imprisoned and still too many longstanding refusenik cases remain Can you be more specific on the issues that were uftresolved. discussed and/or resolved by the delegates to the CHD? What issues were raised at the Paris meeting that pertain specifically to the human rights situation in First, I should say that there were many human Ukraine? rights issues raised besides those that had been formally Among the issues that have received attention have been the plight of the Ukrainian Catholic and Ukrainian Orthodox Chruches. Several delegations, including the U.S., United Kingdom, Canada and the Holy See have brought up the issue of the legalization of the Ukrainian Catholic Church. Other delegations, including ours, have also raised the continuing harassment of Ukrainian Helsinki Union and other activists. The U.S. delegation has also spoken about the importance we attach to freedom of expression and assembly, and the right to self-determination through genuine and contested elections. Indeed, in a speech delivered on June 19, Helsinki Commission Co-Chairman Steny H. Hoyer intro­ duced a proposal on behalf of the U.S. delegation which, among other things, calls upon the partici­ pating states to allow fre^ elections and permit individuals to establish and maintain, without outside interference, their own political parties and other poHtical organizations. Of course, there have been other issues raised which affect Ukrainians, such as excessive procedural obstacles to private travel. Wh^t can you teli us about the participation of non^ Ores! Deychaklwsky' (Continued on page 14) No. 27 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JULY 2.1989

? and yellow Ukrainian flag waves in the streets of Lviv

LVIV -- A pre-election meeting in this western Ukrainian city on Friday, May 19, witnessed tens of thousands of Lviv residents marching from the Druzhba Stadium, site of the meeting, to the designated Shevchenko monument location. The pictures on these pages, taken by professional photographer Yuriy Rudenko of Lviv, and disseminated by the London-based Ukrainian Press Agency, illustrate from top left, the blue and yellow flags waved by meeting participants; poet Ihor Kalynets, chanting: "Procurator...procurator"; and marchers, including a young Ukrainian patriot, riding on the shoulders of another and enthusiastically waving the blue and yellow flag -- until recently, not a common site in Ukraine. The bottom photo depicts the crowd walking toward the Shevchenko marker. Marching in support of the Popular Movement in Ukraine for Restructuring (Rukh) and for the candidacy of Ivan Drach, who ran in the Lviv district and lost,the Ukrainians carry a ban ner that reads: "Do not go to the elections." Notice the Ukrainian trident drawn on the right hand side of the banner. The last photo on this page is a close-up of Orest Karelin, also taken on May 19, in Lviv, during a 40th day commemoration of the Georgian tragedy in Tbilisi, which left more than 40 people dead. Mr. Karelin has a "Pilgrim's Prayer- book" (Molytovnyk Palomnyka) in his hands. This was is­ sued I n 1988 і n Rome during the Millen­ nium ceiebrations of Christianity of Kiev- an Rus'-Ukraine. While Lviv resi­ dents took part in the meeting and the 40th day memorial services, individuals, such as Ivan Makar, Vasyl Barladianu, Yaroslav Putko and Mykhailo Horyn, were interrogated by the KGB. 10 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JULY 2, 1989 No. 27 ART REVIEW: Slavko Nowytski Documentary Film Festival in Chicago by Yuri Myskiw subject matter of the films. set in the historic places of Grand Portage, Minnesota "Kung-Fu Master: Gin Foon Mark" is a biographi­ and Fort William, Ontario. It rings with the voices of Friday, June 2, commenced a threenlay Docu­ cal film about Gin Foon Mark, the contemporary the voyagers and others who dominated the fur trade mentary Film Festival of award-winning films Sifu-Master of the Southern Praying Mantis style of during the 18th century. by Slavko Nowytski, Minneapolis-based filmmaker Kung-Fu. Centering around the fifth successor of this The opening shorts are particularly exciting as the and producer of such acclaimed films as "Pysanka" ancient Chinese self-defense system, the film delves voyagers emerge out of the mist on the waters as if they and "Harvest of Despair," at the Ukrainian Institute of into its history, its techniques and probes the deeper were appearing out of a page of history. The script by Modern Art in Chicago. meanings of the Kung-Fu way of life. Here the Kristi Duckwall is interwoven with voices from the The event was sponsored by the newly formed cinematic style complements the mellifluous, graceful past all accompanied by the songs of the voyagers. Ukrainian Media Services of Chicago and the movements of the master's exercises. Mr. Nowytski Mr. Nowytski's vision of the past is well served by tTkrainian Institute of Modern Art. shows himself in full control of technique. Once again Thomas Ramsay's cinematography. The festival was organized by a special committee the chosen musical score complements the visual "Forever" is Mr. Nowytski's lyrical, non-narrative headed by Jarina Antonovych and consisted of the imagery. There is a contemplative atmosphere evocation of boyhood, as two boys and their dog glide following members: Oryna Hrushetsky, vice-chair­ throughout the whole film, which underlines the in a boat and discover the wonders of the natural person; Maria Chychula, director of Ukrainian media world -- tiny ecosystems that border on each other as services; Yuri Myskiw, director of the UIMA Audio- water merges on land. The poetry inherent in the Visual Department; Oleh Kowerko, president of the images is heightened by the original score by Mark UIMA; John Olshansky, production coordinator; Bryn. Alexandra Mudry, press secretary; Halyna Hrushet­ The Sunday screenings added "Reflections of the sky, community relations person; and Svitlana Past" and "That Bells May Ring." "Reflections" is Kochman, publicity person. Nowytski's earlier equivalent to the same subject On Sunday, June 4, Mr. Nowytski was present at matter as "Helm of Destiny"; this earlier film is all the screenings and offered valuable insights toward concerned with the immigration of Ukrainians to an understanding and interpretation of his films. On Canada. As the later film about the United States, Monday evening the festival culminated with a ''Reflections" is valuable for its interviews with reception at Galan's Restaurant and Lounge where Ukrainian pioneers and their vivid descriptions of the Mr. Nowytski discussed his latest production, "The struggle for survival in a new land. Icon." He explained his concept and proposal with a "That Bells May Ring," the only film at the festival sneak video preview of iconography as well as excerpts with Ukrainian narration, documents the erection and from his latest film "Religious Art in Ukraine." consecration of the St. Andrew Memorial Church in "The Icon" is to be a one-hour documentary, South Bound Brook, N.J., and gives the viewer a presented from a historical, artistic and theological chance to see the many historic and priceless objects in perspective. It will be the first such film of its kind. The its museum. The trip through the many headstones in proceeds from the three-day festival are to be donated the cemetery, where many known members of the for the production of the film, which has a proposed Ukrainian diaspora lie buried, is a history lesson in budget of 5600,000 to SI million. itself. As in "Shevchenko in Washington," Nowytski's narrator is Mykola Francuzenko, whose diction and Mr. Nowytski hopes to start preliminary location narrative skills are a joy to the ear. scouting this fall (trips to Europe and possibly Ukraine) and to start full production in the spring of Mr. Nowytski's presence at all the sessions on 1990. Sunday offered the audience an insight into the mind ?.Ttoe 14 films shqwit; during the three days of; the of a creative filmmaker. Mr. Nowytski attracts the festival attest to .th^^aetsth^t fM^,. ^Nowytski is our listener with his knowledge of the dnematic medium unique national treasure. Ukrainiaa emigre cinema and captures him with his wit. As associate editor of would be non-existent without him. He alone has the quarterly Cinema and Television Digest and an propagated the cause of our culture with films like the associate with Radio Liberty, Mr. Nowytski makes his recent "Harvest of Despair" about the famine of 1932- Slavko Nowytski speaks about his films. presence felt with his skills as a communicator. 1933, the Ukrainian immigrations to the United States philosophical content inherent in this system. On Monday evening, Mr. Nowytski was present at and Canada in "Helm of Destiny" and "Reflections of The evening finished with "Pysanka," by now, Mr. Galan's Restaurant and Lounge to sneak preview his the Past," the art of Jacques Hnizdovsky in "Sheep in Nowytski's most famous short film. It has gathered latest undertaking, "The Icon." He illustrated his Wood," and the art of the Ukrainian Easter egg in awards from all over the world and, according to the concepts with footage from his latest film, "Religious "Pysanka," as well as films in-Ukrainian about the filmmaker has been dubbed into several languages, Art in Ukraine." In his own words he explained his unveiling of the Shevchenko moriument in Washing­ including Japanese. "Pysanka" impresses the viewer aims: ton, or "That Bells May Ring"about the consecration with its poetic narration by Shirley Diercks, its artistic " The Icon' film will allow us, uniquely, to view the of the St. Andrew Ukrainian Orthodox Memorial cinematography by Thomas E. Ramsay and its icon from the inside, from the way the believer regards Church in South Bound Brook, N.J. original score by Mark Bryn. icons. We will see how the believers see themselves, how powerful icons are in shaping peoples' lives and Such films, exhibited in the media or at interna­ It is a lesson on how a film ought to be done — well illustrating the cinematic adage of every image telling a how they impact on the world, for at the heart of icon tional film festivals, give the foreign viewer a powerful veneration is the worship of God. The film is also message about who we are through a medium that is story. In fact, ^aken without narration, the film could quite well illustrate the craft of Easter egg decoration. concerned with the central.teaching of the Church: contemporary and exciting. The countless awards that love of fellow man predicates the sacredness of the Mr. Nowytski has collected around the world indicate On Saturday morning several films were shown to the students of the Ukrainian Saturday school. human being and calls us to respect each individual, that he has used sight and sound in a masterful, artistic the highest form of life on earth. style to communicate his message. Saturday also brought a viewing of Mr. Nowytski's On Friday evening the festival began, appropriately, "Helm of Destiny." Of interest to our younger "The film will also examine the art of the icon, with several short films. In capsule form they generation'and to the foreign public, the film traces the tracing the development of technique from the wax demonstrate perfectly Mr. Nowytski's aesthetic and roots of Ukrainian immigration in the United States. encaustic to egg tempera to the media of today; it will technical mastery of the medium. The nine-minute Commission by the Ukrainian National Association, examine the development of symbolism of line, color, "Kite Magic" is a good example of film being a finely the film is a valuable document for all of its interviews content and form; it will examine the question of orchestrated system of images flowing into structured of older generation Ukrainian immigrants and their modern art, symbolic versus naturalistic representa­ montages where the visual and aural are perfectly stories of the hardships they had to endure when first tions in iconography. Examining icons from various fused into a coherent whole. settling the land and the prejudice they had to endure historic periods and from many lands, this documen­ On the literal level, "Kite Magic" is about the from those around them. It is also important for the tary, through its film medium, will preserve for future making and flying of three basic types of kites, but this younger generation because of the portraits of generations these perishable treasures which are brief film lifts the viewer to another level - where the successful Ukrainians who have made important scattered throughout the world, often inaccessible to spirit lifts and soars to the heavens and "Kite Magic" contributions to American society in many fields. the average person." becomes a metaphor for flights of fancy or the Four new films were added to the program on Mr. Nowytski is proposing an impressive produc­ imagination, or the liberation from the earthly toward Saturday evening. "Faces of the Forest" is a documen­ tion team for the icon project. With himself as the sublime. tary covering the four themes of Minnesota's North producer-director, he has gathered his most talented 'Sheep in Wood" and "Immortal Image" are two Country and its forests as they were to the Indian, the collaborators from other endeavors. Thomas E. films about the creative process. The former is a step- logger, the settler and as they are today. The film is Ramsay, award-winning director of photography, by-step documentation of the late Hnizdovsky interesting because of its fine editing, demonstrating pupil of internationally known cinematographer working on the woodcut "Two Rams." The latter Mr. Nowytski's ability to depict the different periods Vilmos Zsigmond, nature cinematographer, involved presents sculptor Leo Мої creating a portrait in in Minnesota's history. with Time-Life, ABC, BBC, CBC and PBS, will direct bronze of composer Mykola Lysenko. The narration The "Last of the Jacks," one of the best films of its the cinematography. The writer and poet Kristi is interwoven with comments by Mr. Мої about art type, evokes the logging days in Northern Minnesota Wheeler, whose focus on historical subjects has won and ?n explanation of the lost-wax method of at the turn of the century and into the last log drive of her recognition and several prestigious fellowships, as sciiL/xure, from plasticene through casting. 1937. The film tells about Poles, Finns, Norwegians, well as awards for several filmscripts, will author the H Гг. films are valuable posthumous documents of Swedes and Slovaks who were the backbone of their screenplay. Mark Bryn, composer-conductor, trans­ tv ^ tfists in the very act of composition. They also profession. Especially unique and valuable are the criber of early 20th century music, will compose the \ '\i Mr. Nowytski's ability to select appropriate interviews with the old timers and survivors of this musical score. siitrr^rack music. Both "Sheep in Wood," with a colorful and rugged time. "Northwest Passage - The The three-day festival was sponsored by the c\ 5 O'^dot original score by Marian Kouzan, and Story of the Grand Portage," traces the history of the following patrons, benefactors and friends in "^гії')ч- tal Image," with piano music by Ireneus Zuk, Northwest Company from 1789 to і 803. The narra­ Chicago: First Security Federal Savings Bank, Self- ptrkc^ у enhance and add dimension to the visual tion is taken from the journals covering that time. It is (Continued on page 14) No. 27 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JULY 2,1989

He declared the Soviet economy a Summer season to open New group... 'disaster" and indicated that MFN (Continued from page 3) status would "encourage U.S. busi­ nesses to lose their shirts." Mr. Wheeler at Music and Art Center in Soviet Georgia, declared that "Ame­ also mentioned that the Soviet economy rica must choose what side to be on — JEWETT, N.Y. - The Music and Easter egg-making, ceramics, bead- will only worsen if democracy move­ making, embroidery, traditional baking, the side of the repressor or the side of ments in the Baltics and Ukraine are Art Center of Greene County will kick the repressed." off its seventh consecutive summer bandura playing, folk dancing and folk repressed. season with an inaugural opening of a singing Dr. John Lenczowski, former direc­ Rep. Dana Rohrabacher (R-Calif.) permanent exhibit museum at the Instructors will include Sofia Zielyk, tor of European and Soviet affairs at the urged the U.S. to continue the success of "Grazhda" on Sunday afternoon, July Laryssa Zielyk, Luba Wolynetz, Jaro- National Security Council from 1983 to the Reagan administration by pushing 16. slava Stasiuk, Olia Chodoba, Oksana 1987, stated, "There is no good policy the Soviets to the negotiating table for The rest of the summer season will be Bazylevsky and Natalka Sonevytsky. reason why MFN status should be military spending reductions and insti- filled with classical Ukrainian music, As an added attraction, on Sunday, granted to the Soviet Union given the tional reform. "There is reason for including special performances by August 20, a special modeling of Ukrai­ various types of actions that Moscow hope, but not reason for us to be stupid musicians from Ukraine, violinist Oleh nian historical costumes from the 10th continues to take against its own people in granting the Soviet Union MFN Krysa with his wife pianist Tatiana to the 19th century, will be held under and against U.S. security interests." status," stated Rep. Rohrabacher. Tchekina and pianist Alexander Slobo- the sponsorship of Branch 64 of the Jack Wheeler from the Freedom Other featured speakers included dyanik, respectively, on Saturday, Ukrainian National Women's League Research Center explained that it Paul Weyrich, national chairman of August 26, and Sunday, September 3. of America. would be "irresponsible for the U.S. Coalitions for America, and Howard The Music and Art Center, which has The Music and Art Center for Greene government to encourage American Phillips, chairman of the Conservative Dr. Ihor Sonevytsky as its music direc­ County is fast becoming one of the business to go into the Soviet Union." Caucus. tor, to date has over 150 members. leading arts organizations in the Greene Besides funding received by member­ County area. Its events are covered Chornovil accuses... Mr. Chornovil continued: "As Brezh­ ship subscriptions, the center is sup­ regularly and enthusiastically in the nev's companion in arms and one of the ported also by Ukrainian federal credit local press, and are well attended not (Continued from page 1) architects of stagnation, you remain unions in New York, Detroit, Yonkers only by Ukrainian vacationers, but by hospitals tens of activists of the Ukrai­ enemy number one against any kind of and Rochester, N.Y., and Jersey City, the local residents of Hunter, Wind- nian renaissance. You baited and broke social progress in Ukraine. You bring to N.J., as well as the Ukrainian National ham, Lexington and other nearby thousands of Ukrainian scholarly and a halt, using all your might, even those Association. towns. cultural activists, and forced them to positive beginnings that, having no The non-profit organization also This year, for the first time, the MAC lick the dogmatic dirt off your ser­ other choice, Moscow dared to com­ receives funding froni a Greene County chamber music series was listed in the geant's boots, with which you kicked mence." Council on the Arts, with public funds Sunday, May 14, edition of The New the living body of Ukraine. "So, what are you waiting for? Con­ from the Greene County Legislative and York Times along with other summer "On your conscience, burdened with vulsively holding on to power, you have the New York State Council on the music festivals in New York State. For unforgivable sins, rest those murdered already missed the moment when you Arts. Ukrainian classical music, always well or maimed in prison, secretly killed, could have painlessly disappeared from represented in the Art Center's pro­ driven to suicide, talents prematurely the political horizon...Mikhail Gorba­ Besides the music concerts, which will grams, MAC has become a permanent driven to their graves, as a result of chev is not an almighty emperor, as be held on Saturday evenings, July 22 and important venue, serving as a key which even the richest culture on earth were his predecessors," who could through August 26, and feature perfor­ "grass roots" link between this update would glow — Vasyl Stus, Ivan Svit- protect you. "Today, the people, who mances by soprano Lilea Wolansky, community, and a musical culture still lychny, Volodymyr Ivasiuk, Volody- are waking up from a lethargic sleep and accompanied by George Cybriwsky, the struggling to break into the main­ myr Ivanyshyn, Hryhir Tiutiunnyk, shaking off fear, are speaking out. So, duo of cellist Nestor Cybriwsky and stream. Ivan Mykolaichuk, Mykola Lukash... go away, because you will see the day pianist Oresta Cybriwsky Mueller, a MAC invites all summer visitors of These are only the better known from that the wave of people's anger will blow chamber ensemble under the direction the Hunter area to frequent the concert thattragie list." you away like a feather." of Thomas Hrynkiw as well as Mr. series and the folk art seminars and join Hrynkiw's solo piano concert, a special MAC'S growing membership list. Those fund-raising concert highlighting the unable to attend can still help the ensure vocal ensemble Promin under the direc­ the success and development of the Art tion of Bohdanna Wolansky will be held Center with their contribution. All on Saturday, August 19. This concert tickets purchases, tuition fees, member­ will also conclude the music center's ship dues and contributions are tax I IKRAINE celebration of the Millennium, which deductible. began in August 1988. A -A CONCISE For more information please write to: ENCYCLOP^SEDIA iKRAINE Tickets for all regular concerts will be Music and Art Center, c/o Ihor So­ S5 for members and senior citizens, S7 nevytsky, 62 E. Seventh St., New York, for all others. Children under 12 years N.Y., 10003, or P.O. Box 20, Jewett, ^. ^CONCISE of age are admitted free. The fund- N.Y. 12444; or call (518) 989-6479. UNIVERSITY OF raising concert and two special concerts TORONTO PRESS featuring performers from Ukraine will ENCYCLOP/LDIA cost SIO for members and senior citi­ zens, S15 for all others. Children are The Ukrainian Weekly admitted free of charge. The center has also expanded this read it and share it year's program to include workshops in Volume I and II Ukrainian folk art. Among these will be You can obtain both volumes for only S 170.00 Guests from Ukraine Including Postage. ORDER NOW Poet PAVLO MOVCHAN from Kiev Theater director LES TANIUK Fill out the order blank below and mail it with your check or money order. from Kiev/Moscow USE THIS COUPON!

and theater scholar NELLI KORNIENKO To: UKRAINIAN NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, Inc. from Moscow 30 Montgomery Street, Jersey City, N.J. 07302 I hereby order Ukraine: A Concise Encyclopaedia a Volume I - (95.00 WILL SPEAK TO THE UKRAINIAN COMMUNITY П Volume II - W5.00 IN HUNTER, N.Y. a Volumes I 8. II - Я70.00 Enclosed is (a check, M.O.) for the amont 5 on Saturday, July 1, at the Grazhda, St. John the Baptist Please send the book (s) to the following address: Ukrainian Catholic Church, at 3:30 p.m. Mr. Movchan will address the current situation in Ukraine. N.ame Mr. Taniuk will speak on the elections and Ukrainian national democratic movements. I Ms. Kornienko will speak about the paradoxes of perebudova. No. Street I I I On Sunday, July 2, at 7:30 p.m., at Carpathia House in Lexington, N.Y. I I I City State Zip Code I Mr. Movchan will read his poetry. Mr. Taniuk will speak about the Berezil Theater. Ms. Kornienko will talk about Les Kurbas THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JULY 2, 1989 No. 27

allegations of plagiarism. And yet he Tour of Chornobyl... looked and sounded like a typical ap­ (Continued from page 1) paratchik. There was no enthusaism to his My scheduled arrival in Kiev coin­ ritualistic support for the conclusions of cided with one of the most violent the 19th Party Conference, no energy in storms in the history of the region. I had his admission that two-thirds of the flown from Toronto to Paris, and then mail reaching his newspaper is in to Moscow's Sheremetyovo airport. I support of the Narodnyi Rukh and only was taken by an Intourist car to Vnu- one-third opposed - surely a startling kovo airport for the short flight to Kiev, admission. and remained there in stupefying bore­ Before the interview, the newspaper's dom for 10 hours, without any expla­ photographer had taken some snaps of nations as to why the flight was de­ me, and an article about my visit duly layed. Arriving in Boryspil airport at appeared in Vechirniy Kyiv on June 14. 3:30 a.m. the reasons for the delay In the evening, I received a phone call became apparent. Winds reaching 60 from Yuriy Shcherbak, who asked me miles an hour had felled trees in every over to his apartment, though it was direction. Power lines were down. already 10:30 p.m. I made the mile-long Many roads were flooded. 1 later dis­ walk down the Kreshchatyk and on to covered that the storm had affected also Chervonoarmiyska Street were Dr. the Chernihiv and Cherkasy oblasts. Shcherbak was awaiting me. After the In the control room of СЬогпоЬуГв No. 2 reactor, which was restarted on After the 31 hours of travel, the next' formal introductions to his wife (who is November 1, 1986, five months after the accident. day was a virtual write-off. It was Po^'sh), son (adorned in a University of supposed to have been the day that I Alberta sweatshirt) and daughter (who went to Chornobyl, but I had slept until curtsied), he told me about the events at noon. It was insufferably hot. I wan­ the recent Congress of People's De­ dered down the Kreshchatyk watching puties and at the Supreme Soviet (at the summer scenes and looking for which he was obliged to sit with Mr. drinks, drinks and more drinks. Shybyk). Through the Intourist office of the We then watched a remarkable new Dnipro Hotel the next day, I tried to video filmed in the Narodychi Raion reorganize my Chornobyl visit. After called "Zapridel" (Beyond the Limits). some time, I was informed that I was Following the path taken by the earlier expected there, but that Tuesday (the film "Mi-kro-fon!," it shows deformed next day) was inconvenient. Would livestock, and meetings in the village Wednesday be appropriate? I replied center of both residents and, on another that Wednesday would be fine. How­ occasion, medical personnel. ever, on the following morning, Valeriy The entire film was made on May 16, Ingulsky, the first secretary of the 1989, and represents another attempt to Ukrainian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, show the authorities that people in the arrived at the hotel at 8:30 a.m., and raion are sick, and that radiation levels asked me what I wanted to do in Kiev. there, three years after the Chornobyl "Who do you want to talk with?" he accident, remain alarmingly high. asked. "Make me a list."' Young children with hugely swollen Needless to say, I complied quickly. thyroid glands and cataracts are de­ The main turbine room at the Chornobyl nuclear power plant. Looking it over, he noticed that the picted, and it is claimed that there are right through without pausing. I ima­ newspaper Vechirniy Kyiv was in­ Foreign Relations Department of Kom­ some 460 such cases. gined that Mikhail Gorbachev must cluded. He said that it might be possible binat. Although the film was taken to have been accorded similar treatment to go there today. He then began to Mr. Pokutny is a big man of about 30, Moscow, it was not shown there. How­ during his February visit, but I had make phone calls, smoking constantly. built like an American football player. ever, Italian correspondents had made by now some slight doubts about the In between calls, this rather portly man He was friendly. Although he also asked 12 copies and taken them back to Italy nature of my reception. Already, very would pace up and down the hotel about Radio Libery, adding that in 1985 where they had caused a media sensa­ young reservists in brown overalls were foyer. it would have been impossible for tion. seen at the roadsides. Some were sitting someone who had worked there to visit But within an hour, we were in a On the next morning, a wet and dull in the undergrowth smoking. Road signs the Soviet Union, he had evidently read taxicab heading for Vechirniy Kyiv, a day, I was met at the hotel entrance at 8 carried radiation danger warnings. On my first book on Chornobyl which, he journey that necessitated driving across a.m. by Yuriy Risovanny, a chief our left appeared a truck station and said, was a great deal more accurate and most of the city to some drab offices, engineer from the Kombinat produc­ also one for buses, with the clean non- realistic than most other accounts. that also contain the editorial boards of tion association that has had the task of zone buses parked on the left, and the He then provided a brief account of two other newspapers, Prapor Komu- directing the Chornobyl clean-up ope­ "dirty" zone buses on the right. nizma and Kyivska Pravda. We were the work of Kombinat, and over coffee ration. He is in his 30s and I was taken The scenery was somewhat similar to greeted by Vitally Karpenko, editor-in- and candies, I plied him with questions. aback by his wonderful English, which that of Ontario, with forests that chief, and Oleksander Bilyk, deputy We then discussed the details of my day is almost accent-less. Shortly, a black seemed to go on for miles. Almost editor-in-chief. Mr. Karpenko is a in the zone, and I told him that it was Volga arrived, and our driver took the without warning, we arrived at the city somewhat shambling figure in his 50s, satisfactory. He gave me a geiger road northward. of Chornobyl at 10:15 a.m. Here people while Mr. Bilyk is much younger. counter to take around. Once in the countryside, the road in brown overalls were walking around Then, Mr. Risovanny and I got into I was interested in finding out what quickly deteriorated. It was crammed in large numbers. Mr. Risovanny said Mr. Karpenko was like, first because an evil-smelling bus, obviously stinking with trucks, tractors and other vehicles. that the city has a population of about from the overalls of clean-up workers, from the beginning of my visit, the great At one point, the road was literally filled 6,5(Ю today, all shiftworkers. However, popularity of Vechirniy Kyiv among accompanied by the Kombinat photo­ with cattle and our impatient driver there was at least one old lady who grapher, Sasha, and headed northward Kievans was evident, and second, went right into the ditch to circumnavi­ looked like a local resident. because Roman Solchanyk and I had once again. gate them. The headquarters of Kombinat is just written an article about an incident The countryside became bleaker. The We drove at breakneck speed, while located close to the southern entrance to during the election campaign that first major viewpoint was of the in­ Mr. Risovanny asked me, in his mild the city, it is a wooden building, a cross involved him and the chief editor of complete cooling towers for the now manner, why I had worked for Radio between an army barracks and residen­ Robitnycha Hazeta, Mykola Shybyk. abandoned fifth and sixth reactors, Liberty. Was it for ideological reasons? tial housing. We entered to meet Pavel followed by those two reactors them­ This is not the place to describe the And if so, why, since I was not a Pokutny, head of the Information and selves. details of the interview (which will be Ukrainian? I replied, honestly, that 1 dealt with separately). Generally, how­ went there because I wished to do ever, my impression was as follows. Mr. research. Karpenko is not by nature a reformer. We approached Ivankiv (inciden­ However, as a political candidate and as tally, all the road signs are in Russian, I one who wishes to expand his news­ am simply citing the Ukrainian form of paper, he has proved adept at moving each name for accuracy). There, was a with the times. Therefore he has, over sort of traffic circle — without an island the past three years, raised the circula­ - with signs pointing east to Zelenyi tion of the Ukrainian edition from Mys (the shift settlement) and north to 85,000 in 1986 to 130,000 in 1989, while Chornobyl. the Russian edition remains stable at Awaiting us was another black Volga, 330,000. In addition, he showed me a with a blue police light on top. This was sheaf of files on the language question our escort into the zone. I had no time awaiting the attention of Ivan Dzyuba. to be impressed, since what had seemed Mr. Karpenko was still quite bitter a reckless speed on the bumpy and about the election, less about losing to gravelly road before now became al­ Volodymyr Cherniak, whom he seemed most suicidal. At Vechirniy Kyiv, editor-in-chief to respect, than the way his own cam­ At Hornostaipil, the entrance to the Mikhail Umanets, director of the Chor­ Vitally Karpenko (left) and deputy paign had been knocke -' course by 30-kilometer zone, our cars were waved nobyl nuclear power plant. editor-in-chief Oleksander Bilyk. No. 27 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JULY 2, 1989

have gotten to the point of talking about "Constitutional law on the inviola- Ukrainian party... quite absurd things cannot be allowed WCFU communique... bility of the individual has been (Continued from page 2) to get in with perestroika." The party, having initiated this process, is respon­ (Continued from page 3) consistently trampled by mass pre­ suggestions, and we are taking them ventive detainment and short-term sible for it. kraine by the USSR government in into consideration in our work/' arrests... This may well be the first time that Moscow. Among these are the conti­ According to Mr. Shcherbytsky, First Secretary Shcherbytsky has uti­ nued severe restrictions of religious "We now have a strange phenome­ democratization in Ukraine has been lized the format on an interview with a freedom faced by the Ukrainian non: amidst loud promises of re­ and will continue to be carried out in Western correspondent to publicize his Catholic and Orthodox faithful; the forms in the Soviet Union towards a accordance with the decisions of the views on political issues, including his continued use of slave-labor camps government conforming to the rule CPSU. This, he said, applies fully with attitude towards Mr. Gorbachev and and psychiatric asylums to repress of law, there has developed in U- regard to the creative intelligentsia, the perestroika process. The latter has political dissenters; the recently kraine especially a singular streak of from whom the party and the people been the subject of widespread specula­ introduced repressive draconian arbitrariness and lawlessness initiated expect "talented works, competence, tion in the West. laws, which in the past gave rise to by the party bureaucracy and the and political realism and wisdom." administrators of law, order and Stalinist terror and have now turned The party, continued Mr. Shcherbyt­ The question obviously arises as to justice, who loyally serve the party. the country into a military camp, sky, is interested in the intelligentsia the purpose of this exercise. It cannot be virtually under martial law; and "The Coordinating Council of the contributing further to the joint effort; excluded that some Kremlinologists finally, the plight of over 8 million Ukrainian Helsinki Union and the it is also in favor of cooperation with will discover something so devious Ukrainians, a minority in the Rus­ Committee in Defense of Political informal groups. "But under one condi­ behind the interview that it cannot be sian SFSR, who face cultural and Prisoners want to draw attention to tion: cooperation and consolidation clearly explained, even by themselves. linguistic ethnocide. this paradox and to alert both the must be conducted on the political Others may take it at face value, arguing Yet, the best judges of the human citizens of the USSR and the world platform of perestroika.'' that, in the absence of a disclaimer from dimension in Ukraine are the Ukrai­ community. Those who are blinded Mr. Gorbachev, there appears to be nian people themselves, whose pleas by the slogans of the Soviet leaders Referring to Mr. Shcherbytsky's near harmony between Moscow and to the participants of the Paris about perestroika glasnost and de­ address at the Kiev City Communist Kiev. Conference are best expressed by the mocratization, will see evidence of Party conference last December, in Wherever the truth lies, readers of the following Appeal of the Coordi­ the lawlessness taking place in U- which he noted the broad discussion of interview will surely note Mr. Shcher- nating Council of the Ukrainian kraine. We propose to systematically the language question, blank spots in bytsky's self-confidence and assertive- Helsinki Union, dated March 27, document all forms of repressions Ukrainian history, and ecological and ness, perhaps even aggressiveness, in 1989: "In the last one-and-a-half and to prepare a white book on cultural issues, the Associated Press handling the questions that were posed, years, there have been a series of administrative terror in Ukraine asked the Ukrainian party leader what which should provide additional mate­ meetings, public gatherings, demon­ during 1988 and 1989." he saw in these four areas that was "anti- rial for further speculation on the strations and mass religious services Soviet or national-egoistic." Mr. Sh­ Shcherbytsky phenomenon. in Ukraine, all as a result of the This white book will be forwarded cherbytsky responded with a quotation initiatives of individuals and com­ to the 35 signatories of the Helsinki from that speech, which emphasized a munities in response to glasnost and Accords at such time when the differentiated approach to informal UKRAINIAN perestroika. government of the USSR will comply groups depending upon whether they TYPEWRITERS "The nation's display of and par­ with the Vienna Final Document and posed issues "correctly" or exploited also other languages complete taking in freedom of expression have allow its people to fully participate in glasnost for "the propaganda of the line of office machines 8i been violated by the use of the army, the CSCE process. The time is now. ideas of national egoism and even anti- equipment. militia and special forces — units This press conference should really Sovietism, which are alien to us." JACOB SACHS 251 W. 98th St. formed expressly for this purpose. have been held by the Ukrainian Setting the national against the inter­ New York, N. Y. 10025 Hundreds of people in all parts of Helsinki Union with the participa­ national is unacceptable, asserted Mr. Tel (212) 222-6683 Ukraine wanting to express their tion of the Ukrainian delegation 7 days a week Shcherbytsky, and "individuals who support of and solidarity with the representing Ukraine as the 36th restructuring of a stagnant system, signatory of the Helsinki Concluding met with severe beatings, detentions, Act. Should this challenge be met in ATTENTION UKRAINIAN ARTISTS: administrative arrests and monetary the near future, we will be on the road fines... to a better world. THE UKRAINIAN FESTIVAL nity is strongly opposed to it. in Baltimore, Maryland Washington... Another possible amendment is the - takes place on - language of S. 893, which would esta­ (Continued from page 6) blish certain categories of nationals of the 12th and 13th of August, 1989 quirements. Among those testifying the Soviet Union and Indochina to be We invite Ukrainian artists to take part and exhibit their artwork at our festival. was Alan Nelson, commissioner of the presumed to be subject to persecution There is no exhibition fee, only 15"7o on sales. Immigration and Naturalization Ser­ and qualified for refugee status. While vice (INS). the bill specifically designates Jews and For more information and registration please contact Evangelical Christians from the Soviet HALYNA MUDRA Upcoming octivity Union and residents and nationals of 1500 Hazel Street Baltimore, MD 21226 (301) 355-5244 Vietnam as categories subject to perse­ Upon return from the July 4 recess, cution, the office of Sen. Frank Lauten- the Senate is expected to consider the berg (D-N.J.), the sponsor of S. 893, has State Department Authorization Bill informed the UNA Washington Office Sen. John Heinz (R-Pa.) may propose that he is willing to also include Ukrai­ WAS IT A CRIME his bill S. 1013, the Slepak Principles nian Catholics and Ukrainian Ortho­ Act, as an amendment which would dox in his amendment. to repatriate 2,000,000 Ukrainians from Western impose certain human rights provisions The provisions of S.Con.Res. 45 on U.S. industrial cooperation projects indicating support for the waiver of the Europe to Soviet Russia to be murdered by in the USSR and Baltic states. While Jackson-Vanik Amendment as regards Stalin or die in his concentration camps? East European ethnic communities trade with the Soviet Union may also be support the bill, the business commu­ proposed as an amendment. Lord Aldington says "NO" TASS reported that among Soviets Nikolai Tolstoy says "YES" New stats... 30 years of age and older, women (Continued from page 2) outnumber men. It said that the tered in Central Asia's rural regions. imbalance has been caused by The country's urban population higher mortality rates among men, An English court will decide if it was a crime at the grew by 25.2 million, equalling 15 which Soviet officials have blamed in trial of Aldington v. Tolstoy if the ^600,000 for the percent. According to TASS, this has part on drinking and alcoholism, and aggravated an already serious by the tremendous manpower losses defence can be raised. housing problem, for in the Soviet suffered during World War 11. Union, one of every five urban The State Statistics Committee residents lives in dormitories or in will publish a more detailed census communal apartments with common later this year, including a break­ kitchens, bathrooms and other facili­ down of the Soviet population by If you believe it was a crime, send your contribution to ties. age, sex, educational level, profes­ Although there are now more men sion, ethnic group, language, marital "Forced Repatriation Defence Fund" age 18 to 29 than women living in status, family size and living condi­ c/o J. B. Gregorovich, Trustee rural regions of the Soviet Union, tions, reported TASS. (telephone: 416 767 1350) 28 Riverview Gardens The Weekly: Ukrainian perspective on the news Toronto, Ontario, Canada, M6S 4E5 14 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JULY 2,1989 No. 27

Union by distributing to the delegation a chart, Monitor; Philadelphia attorney John Elliott; Alice U.S. delegation... prepared by his wife, Tamara, which illustrated the Hencken, a vice-chairman of Helsinki Watch, and numerous bureaucratic obstacles involved in bringing Frank Koszorus of the International Human Rights (Continued from page 8) a family member from the Soviet Union to the United Law Group. Yuri Orlov, who came to the Paris governmental organizations at the Paris meeting? States. meeting on his way back from Moscow (he was Our delegation certainly believes that NGO permitted to go back there for the first time since he The role of non-governmental organizations in the presence helped make Paris a success and we look left the Soviet Union in 1986), was also made a meeting was very important. U.S.-based NGOs forward to a strong NGO presence in Copenhagen and member of the delegation and delivered a statement on included Soviet Jewry, and groups representing in Moscow, assuming that we attend the Moscow his assessment of the changes taking place in the Soviet Lithuanian, Estonian, Ukrainian, Turkish, Hungarian meeting, of course. I might add that efforts are being Union. and Russian groups, as well as NGOs such as Helsinki made by several delegations, including ours, to ease Watch and VISA (Visits International for Soviets and NGO access to future conference sites and, to have Americans). The U.S. delegation maintained close larger meeting halls that can more easily accommo­ Slavko Nowytski... contacts with NGOs, holding briefings, press confe­ date NGOs, some of whom, unfortunately, had to (Continued from page 10) rences and frequent meetings. On the eve of the watch the proceedings on closed-circuit TV in nearby reliance Ukrainian Federal Credit Union, Ukrainian meeting, Helsinki Commission Chairman Sen. Dennis rooms. Cooperative Agency Inc., Little Bip's, Oakley DeConcini hosted a reception for NGOs at which they Another, I think, very important element in NGO Pharmacy, Pepe's Hot Dogs, Star Litho Art Co., had an opportunity to interact with the many delegates participation was the presence on the official U.S. Wicker Realty, Sak's Ukrainian Village, Selfreliance from the participating states who were present. delegation of so-called public members — prominent Ukrainian American Cooperative Association, Ann's NGOs held seminars, press conferences, colloquia, individuals from the private sector. Besides the Bakery and Best Florist. demonstrations in conjunction with the meeting, and governmental members of the delegation led by Many Chicago area residents made donations to the also came to the conference center to press their Ambassador Morris Abram; the delegation included icon project. concerns with our and various other delegations, Jane Fisher, Sam Wise, Bob Hand, Erika Schlager, The fund raising for Slavko Nowytski's "The Icon" including the Soviet delegation, which met with a fair Cathy Cosman, Ann Banchoff and myself from the is being coordinated by a non-profit organization. number of NGOs. Helsinki Commission and Rudy Perina, John Evans, Intermedia Arts, which is based in Minneapolis. NGOs were able to make their point in various Paula Dcbriansky, Rick Becker and Susan Rich- Readers who wish to contribute may send a check ways. Dan Horodysky of VISA, for instance, was wagen of t:ie State Department, and Pat McMahon payable to: The Icon Film Project/Intermedia Arts at: quite effective in raising the consciousness of various from USIA, the delegation included public members Intermedia Arts, The Icon Project, 425 Ontario St. delegations on the issue of family visits from the Soviet Ludmilla Alexeyeva, a former Soviet Helsinki SE, Minneapolis, Minn. 55414.

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(Continued from page 5) to the resort for the summer to serve as assistant to the manager. Jaroslav Hrechka and OHa Strusie- wicz are the chefs, while Sofia Szpak is the dining room coordinator. In addi­ tion, there is an emergency medical technician on the premises, Serge Nalywayko. ; , Concluding his discussion; with The Weekly, Mr. Flis noted that Soyuzivka is, slowly but surely, being brought into the 20th century with the conveniences and improved services that are expected of a modern hotel/ resort establishment. And, he said, he is looking ahead to the 100th anniversary of the Ukrainian National Association, when, he hopes, the UNA'S centennial convention will be held at its own, thoroughly updated, resort. A view of the Veselka pavilion, site of Soyuzivka's concerts and dances. The Ukrainian National Association: 95 years of community service

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Pl^ewatcli for further announcements of this ехсШ SUMMER 1989 ENTERTAINMENT UKRAINIAN BIBLES TO UKRAINE at SOYUZIVKA Praise The Lord! God opened the door through "Voice of America" and "Radio Liberty" for direct mailing of the Ukrainian Bibles to Ukraine. Master of Ceremony MARICHKA HLIBOWYCH, Toronto The Ukrainian Family Bible Association is asking for a generous gift of ?25, S50, ?100, or however God leads you, to help direct mailing to our believers in Ukraine, of the Ukrainian Bibles of their Faith. It is permitted now to send by direct mail two Bibles per parcel. The Russian Friday, June 30 Saturday, August 5 - 8:30 p.m. Orthodox Church is NOT included in this God-given project. "Chvylia" Band Lilea Volanska - Soprano Praise The Lord! Another door God opened to provide "UKRAINIAN CHILDREN BIBLE" to B. Vasylyshyn, Bass, Edmonton Saturday, July 1 - 8:30 p.m. DANCE - 10:00 p.m. the Ukrainian Family. Our Children are a heritage of the Lord and are the life and future of the Luba Goj - Comedienne "Zelene Zhyto" Band Ukrainian Nation. For the first time in the history of the USSR, the Soviet authorities' have given Mr. Wasyl Melnychyn, Tenor permission for the import of "150,000 Ukrainian Children Bibles" to Ukraine, which DANCE - 10:00 p.m. Saturday, August 12 - 8:30 p.m. will be printed in Stockholm, Sweden. "Chvylia" Band "Verhovyna" - Trio, Toronto Please help us in getting God's Word to these little ones and send a generous contribution "Tempo" Band DANCE - 10:00 p.m. to the Ukrainian Family Bible Association. UEBA is a non-profit and non-denomination Sunday, July 2 - 8:30 p.m. "Hloptsi zi Lvova" Band association. Marianka Suchenko-Kotrel - Soprano, Thank you and God Bless You All. former Miss Soyuzivka Friday, August 18 Sophia Beryk-Shultz - Accompanist "Akula" Band DANCE - 10:00 p.m. Saturday, August 19 - 8:30 p.m. UKRAINIAN FAMILY BIBLE ASSOCIATION "Tempo" Band Roma Prima Bohachewsky Ensemble P.O. Box 3723, Palm Desert, CA. 92261-3723. (619) 3454913 DANCE - 10:00 p.m. Saturday, July 8 - 8:30 p.m. "Akula" Band Choir "Dumka" from New York DANCE - 10:00 p.m. Saturday, August 26 - 8:30 p.m. "Crystal" Band Choir "Vesnivka" from Toronto EMLENTON BANDURA CAMP DANCE - 10:00 p.m. Saturday, July 15 - 8:30 p.m. "Raging Hutzuls" Band August 13th to the 27th "Kazka" - Ukrainian Songs 8i Dances DANCE - 10:00 p.m. Friday, September 1 "Zelene Zhyto" Band "Nowy Chasy" Band Sponsors: Ukrainian Bandurlst Chorus Saturday, September 2 Society of Ukrainian Bandurists Saturday, July 22 - 8:30 p.m. "Tempo" Band Hryhory Kytasty School of Bandura (Cleveland) Bandurystky "Homin Stepiw" "Nowy Chasy" Band DANCE - 10:00 p.m. Program will appear in the upcoming "Hloptsi zi Lvova" Band issue Location: All Saints Ukrainian Orthodox Church Camp (Emienton, Pa.) Sunday, September 3 - 8:30 p.m. Saturday, July 29 - 8:30 p.m. Balet of Roma Prima Bohachewsky - "Syzokryli", New York staff: M. Farion, J. Kytasty, M. Deychakiwsky, V. Mishalow, 0. Mahlay 'Iroyanda'' - Trio from Toronto DANCE - 10:00 p.m. DANCE - 10:00 p.m. "Alex a Dorko" Band "Tempo" Band For further information please contact: Dr. Marko Farion - (216) 932-9016

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July 9 at 10 p.m. Cost per person is SIO. For PREVIEW OF EVENTS reservations and more information NEW YORK: The Captive Nations call Marie Kaneski or Vera Kowal, Committee Inc., will begin its com­ July 14-16 July 15 (717)563-2275. memorations of Captive Nations Week, July 9-15, with a Captive GLEN SPEY, N.Y.: The 14th annual SAN FRANCISCO: The Ukrainian NEW YORK: The Captive Nations Nations parade up Fifth Avenue. Ukrainian Youth Festival will be Medical Association, Nortern Cali­ Committee Inc. will hold the closing Representatives of ethnic organiza­ held this weekend at the Ukrainian fornia Branch, will sponsor its an­ ceremonies and prayer service of tions will gather at 9 a.m. at 59th Fraternal Association resort center, nual lecture on "Genetic Engineering Captive Nations Week in the Ger­ Street and Fifth Avenue and will Verkhovyna. Appearing in the pro­ — Commercialization Issues" by Dr. man Evangelical Lutheran Church, march down Fifth Avenue to St. gram will be: the Ukrainian Dance Zachary Wochok, president of Cal- 125-131 Henry St. in Brooklyn Patrick's Cathedral, where there will Workshop of Glen Spey, N.Y.; the gene Inc. in Davis, Calif., at the Heights, at 3 p.m. Refreshments will be a memorial mass at 10 a.m. The Ukrainian Youth Ensemble's March­ Marines' Memorial Club, 609 Sutter be served after the service. mass will be followed by a 11 a.m. up ing Band from Toronto, the Chaika St. The evening will begin wit4i Fifth Avenue to the Band Shell on dance ensemble from Yonkers, N.Y.; cocktails at 6:30 p.m. on the 12th Central Park Mall near 72nd Street, the Ukrainian orchestras Chervona floor, while dinner will be served at 7 July 19-23 where a noontime ceremony with Kalyna, Solovey and Odnochasnist; p.m. on the 10th floor. Cost is S23 per guest speakers and folk entertain­ the Lileya Trio; and comedienne person. For more information Сс4І1 PARMA, Ohio: St. Vladimir's U- ment will take place. Luba Goy. Roman Brittan of Ed­ Dr. Andrew Iwach, (415) 673-8685. krainian Orthodox League Chapter monton will serve as master of of Parma, Ohio will host the 42nd ceremonies. Orchestras will provide SCRANTON, Pa.: The Ukrainian annual Ukrainian Orthodox League July 13 music for dancing on Friday and Heritage Council of Northeastern convention, beginning with a hospi­ Saturday evenings. Over 50 exhibi­ Pennsylvania will sponsor a bus trip tality night on July 19. Also featured NEW YORK: The Captive Nations tion booths, displaying Ukrainian to the 14th annual Verkhovyna in the program will be a visit to the Committee Inc., will hold a freedom arts and crafts, books, records and Ukrainian Youth Festival at the circus, a fish/ varenyky fry, a concert, demonstration in front of the United tapes, and food will be featured Ukrainian Fraternal Association banquet and ball, and hierarchal Nations, 42nd Street and First Ave­ throughout the weekend. For more resort, departing at 10 a.m. from the divine liturgy and farewell brunch. nue, in commemoration of Captive information call the Verkhovyna UFA'S headquarters, 440 Wyoming For more information call Martin Nations Week, July 9-15. resort, (914)856-1323. Ave. The bus will leave Verkhovyna Trembly, (216) 656-0055.

the other. Besides the many Washington-area BUirUNfTfD STATES Antonovych Prizes... Now Dr. Himka has begun the pro­ Ukrainians and guests gathered at (Continued from page 4) cess of inculcating the Ukrainian spirit Georgetown for the ceremony, Mykola SKimesBOHus This is illustrated clearly in the expe­ in his son and daughter, as reflected in Zhulynsky, a literary critic and deputy rience of colonial America. In 1776, Dr. the book's beautiful dedication to them. director of the literature division of the Forthe current rate call... Himka said, the majority of would be He concluded by saying he hopes his Ukrainian Academy of Sciences, in J-800-US-BONDS Americans read, but most Ukrainians work will soon be published in Ukrai­ Kiev, attended the event. He has spent and Russians were illiterate in 1917. His nian. several months in the United States and book also underscores the symbiotic The afternoon ended with an amiable Canada, and March 28 spoke at a link between patriotic publications and reception at which the three authors TWG-sponsored evening in Washing­ patriots — they each foster creation of autographed copies of their books. ton.

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