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їкЬей by the Ukrainian National Association Inc., a fraternal non-profit association! rainian WeeklУ Vol. LIX Ш THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, APRIL 21,1991 50 cents No. 16 Scientist says Chornobyl Miners, workers protest in Kiev claimed 10,000 lives Republican strike leader is arrested JERSEY CITY, N.J. - Vladimir explosion and that, "Three months ago by Marta Koiomayets arrived from all coal-producing regions Chernousenko, the scientific director in one of the people who participated in Kiev Press Bureau in Ukraine - from Volyn to Luhanske charge of the 20-mile exclusion zone limiting the damage of the accident died — on April 15 and 16 to demand that surrounding the Chornobyl nuclear in Kiev." KIEV - Dmytro Poyizd, the legal their government guarantee them and consultant for the newly formed the citizens of their republic a better power plant, said that the Chornobyl He further stated that "Some of the disaster claimed between 7,000 and Republican Strike Committee, was future — a future that includes free­ people involved in limiting the damage arrested early in the morning on Thurs­ dom for Ukraine. 10,000 lives, far more than the Soviet to Chornobyl received (radiation) doses government's official figures, reported day, April 18, just hours after he Angered upon learning the fate of one above the maximum...in fact 145 people organized a miners' and workers' sit-in of their leaders, the miners began the April 14 edition of the British came down with acute radiation newspaper Independent on Sunday. along the Khreshchatyk boulevard, planning anew strategy on Thursday sickness." Other scientists contacted at reported Bohdan Ternopilsky, vice- morning. Wearing their bright orange The Independent quoted Mr. Cher­ the conference were also skeptical of nousenko as saying that the fatalities chairman of the Political Council of hardhats, many of which identify the Mr. Chernousenko's claim of thou­ Rukh. region and mine they work in, the included miners and military men sands of deaths, reported Reuters. exposed to radiation during the clean­ Mr. Poyizd has been instrumental in miners began chanting "Shame to the up and that he had come forward, in (Continued on page 13) organizing the hundreds of miners who (Continued on page 10) part, because he himself was given two to four years to live because of his exposure to radiation. Ukrainian deputies study American democracy On April 16, at an international conference on the lessons of Chornobyl by Chrystyna N. Lapychak held in Paris, Leonid Ilyin, director of the Soviet Institute of Biophysics, WASHINGTON - "The history of refuted Mr. Chernousenko's claim and r your democracy in the United States is stated, "That does not correspond to truly a history. We are only creating our facts," reported Reuters news service. history as a democracy and we would like to make full use of all the best that Mr. Ilyin said that only 28 people was created by different Parliaments in died of high radiation doses or radia­ different countries," declared 01ek- tion burns in the two months after the sander Moroz, leader of the Communist majority in Ukraine's Parliament, last week in Washington. Stepan Khmara Mr. Moroz was one of a delegation of 13 deputies of the Ukrainian SSR Supreme Soviet who participated in an is rearrested unprecedented nine-day "Conference on the American System of Governance in Donetske for Ukrainian Legislators" that brought them to Indiana and Washington, D.C. by Marta Koiomayets on April 4-13. The seminar, as well as Kiev Press Bureau meetings with national, state and local officials was arranged by Indiana KIEV - Outspoken Ukrainian University and NKM Associates of People's Deputy Stepan Khmara was Washington, under the auspices of the rearrested as he arrived in Donetske to United States Information Agency. meet; with striking miners in this south­ "This conference has provided new eastern coal-producing region on Fri­ reasons for us to work more dynami­ day morning, April і 2. He was taken to cally and more rapidly to break Ukraine prison in the city of Sumy, northern out of its isolation and to enhance the Ukraine, and immediately declared a image of our state and of Ukrainians hunger strike on Saturday, April 13. outside its borders," said Ivan Zayets, a It was unclear why Dr. Khmara was deputy from the democratic opposition rearrested just one week after the in the Ukrainian Parliament, during a Supreme Court of the Ukrainian SSR break from one of the many panels. released him on Friday, April 5, until Most of the participating deputies, 12 his court appearance, which had been men and one woman, represented the scheduled for April 29. That date has democratic opposition organized into now been postponed until May 14. the Narodna Rada with 125 members. However, Dr. Khmara's defense Only Mr. Moroz represented the Com­ team, Rukh lawyers Yuny Aivasian and munist majority, known as the "Group Viktor Nikazakov, issued a statement of 239," while Ivan Pliushch, vice- on April 16 which discloses that Dr. chairman of the Supreme Soviet, repre­ Khmara was rearrested based on evi­ sented the "center." Six participants dence provided by Gen. Volodymyr were members of the Ukrainian Parlia­ Nedryhailo from the Ministry of the ment's Presidium, including Messrs. Interior, who chronicled every move Pliushch and Moroz, Pavio Movchan, Natalie Sluzar made by Dr. Khmara from the moment Volodymyr Pylypchuk, Oleksander Ukrainian Parliamentary delegation visits Taras Shevchenko monument in of his release on April 5. Yemets and Dmytro Pavlychko, who Washington during USIA-sponsored conference on the American system of (Continued on page 2) (Continued on page 8) governance. 2 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, APRIL 21, 1991 . No. 16

ment for the fact that he expressed his Stepcm Khmara... opinions. (Continued from page 1) Another question that remains un­ According to the lawyers, Di\ Kh- answered by the Supreme Court is why Newsbriefs from mara and the deputies under whose Dr. Khmara was taken to Sumy instead recognizance he was released guaran­ of being returned to Kiev's Lukianivka Ukraine, USSR teed only that Dr. Khmara would Prison, where he spent his first five appear in court on April 29; thus Dr. months awaiting trial on charges Khmara did not disobey any orders. stemming from a November 7, 1990, scuffle with a plainclothes officer. ^ NEW YORK - Ukrainian State ecological association) and the Kiev City People's Deputy Khmara has been Television and Radio will conduct a Council; Chornobyl hearings, April 22- accused by the Supreme Court, which Demoratic leaders, as well as citizens tele-radio-thon on April 26 called "Bells 25, sponsored by Zelenyi Svit and the issued the warrant for his rearrest, of Ukraine and striking miners who of Chornobyl" to commemorate the Chornobyl Union; and a seminar on of "espressing opinions aimed at have included Dr. Khmara's release as fifth anniversary of the Chornobyl "The Humanitarian Aspects of the creating a negative impression among one of their demands, view this case as a nuclear disaster and raise funds for its Chornobyl Catastrophe" to be held the public of the judicial system, which political set-up to silence this radical victims. concurrently with the hearings by will create obstacles to the normal opposition leader in today's Ukrainian Citizens of Ukraine, various organi­ Zelenyi Svit and the Ukrainian Peace disposition of his case." Supreme Soviet. zations in the republic and individuals Committee. As The Weekly was going to press, from throughout the world are invited Also during Chornobyl Week in Thus, the lawyers add, this rearrest of no news was available on the state to participate in the action by contri­ Ukraine, there will be what is billed as a Dr. Khmara can be viewed as a punish­ of Dr. Khmara's health. buting to a special fund set up at the "Rock Requiem," organized by the Kiev branch of the Foreign Economic Kiev City Council and Zelenyi Svit; a Bank of the USSR (Account No. conference on alternative energy sources 000700620 MFO 805119). For informa­ whose main sponsoV is Zelenyi Svit; and Khmara, at press conference, tion, interested persons may call 228-25- a conference on "The Chornobyl Ques­ 34 in Kiev; or contact the tele-radio- tion: A Global View," sponsored by the thon organizers via fax, 228-28-89, or Chornobyl Union and the Ukrainian demonstrates fighting spirit telex, 131359 Radio, also in Kiev. Academy of Sciences. (Permanent Mission of the Ukrainian April 26 has been designated a day of by Marta Kolomayets nid Berezansky and Oleh Batovkin, SSR to the United Nations) national mourning. Church services will Kiev Press Bureau who were arrested with him and be held throughout Ukraine, as will remain imprisoned at Lukianivske. demonstrations and vigils. Citizens of KIEV - "The striking miners arfe People's Deputy Khmara also ф KIEV - The 29-year-old son of Ukrainian SSR Supreme Soviet Vice- Ukraine are being asked to place can­ on the front line in the struggle to stated: dles in the windows of their homes in build an independent state," said ^ Those who had participated in Chairman Ivan Pliushch was found murdered in his Kiev apartment on commemoration of the Chornobyl Deputy Stepan Khmara, five days the Supreme Court's decision were tragedy. (ECOLOS) after his release from the Lukianivka motivated not by the law or justice, April 13. According to unofficial re­ Prison. but acted in keeping with traditional ports, Valeriy Pliushch was found dead ^ MUNICH - As of January 1, During a press conference or­ totalitarian practice. of multiple stab wounds. There were no there were nearly 10,000 registered reli­ ganized by Rttkh and the National ь The so-called criminal case signs of burglary. gious communities in Ukraine, accord­ Council at the Writers' Union build­ against him, and five other persons In a related incident on Saturday ing to a document prepared for U- ing on Wednesday afternoon, April was fabricated by the Ukrainian SSR night, April 13, Anatoliy Dotsenko kraine's Supreme Soviet deputies who 10, Dr. Khmara expressed his grati­ Procuracy in accordance with the informed the press service of the Ukrai­ are considering a new republican law on tude to the striking miners who wishes of the apparat of the Commu­ nian Republican Party that he was taken freedom of conscience. arrived from Chervonohrad in Kiev nist Party of the Soviet Union. into custody by Kiev militia who stated Among Christians, the Ukrainian on April 3 to demand his release. He e The principal and concrete or­ that he resembled the suspect in the Orthodox Church - which is under the also expressed his thanks to journa­ ganizer 6f the action against him is Pliushch murder. Immediately before jurisdiction of Patriarch Aleksei II — lists who objectively reported the Chairman Kravchuk who cymcatty his arrest, Mr. Dotsenko was attacked claims the largest number of communi­ November 7, 1990, scuffle with a trampled the law, by unknown assailants who knocked ties (5,031), followed by the Ukrainian plainclothes police officer that led to e The November 7, 1990, inci­ him to the ground and stole a bag he was Greek-Catholic Church (1,912), the his arrest. dent is a gross provocation against carrying. The bag contained tape re­ Baptists (1,059), and the Ukrainian Even after almost five months him and serves as a pretext for cordings of speeches by People's De­ Autocephalous Orthodox Church (811). in prison the radical opposition dealing with a political opponent of puty Stepan Khmara delivered at se­ Somewhat surprisingly, only 23 leader has not lost his fightingspirit ; the Communist colonial regime in veral public meetings prior to his registered and two unregistered Jewish during the two-hour press confe­ Ukraine. rearrest, as well as money and the communities were listed - far fewer rence, he attacked the Communist e His release is not the result of addresses of correspondents with whom than the number of Old Believer or system and specifically Soviet leader progress on the part of authorities; it Mr. Dotsenko works. Kiev militia held Seventh Day Adventist groups. (Radio Mikhail S. Gorbachev (whom he is the result of a broad campaign of Mr. Dotsenko overnight, then took him Liberty) to the Pechersky District police, where refuses to call president, since he was protests against the KGB and its ^ MUNICH - Citing information not chosen by the people, prefering penalapparatus, protests, organized he was questioned and released. (Res- publika) provided by the Chornobyl Society in to call him the general secretary of the by the international and Ukrainian Latvia, Radio Riga reported on March Communist Party of the Soviet public and, especially, the striking 30 that about 50 persons have so far Union), Leonid M. Kravchuk, the coal miners. Ф TORONTO - Among the com­ died in Latvia as a consequence of the chairman of the Supreme Soviet of When asked if he would partici­ memorative events scheduled in Kiev to 1988 disaster. The most frequent causes the Ukrainian SSR, as well as Procu­ pate in the plenary session of the mark the fifth anniversary of the Chor­ of death were cancer, heart malfunc- rators Potebenko and Shevchenko. Supreme Soviet of the Ukrainian nobyl nuclear accident are a rally on tibn and suicide. About 30,000 persons Of the latter two, Dr. Khmara SSR before his trial begins on April International Earth Day, to take place from Latvia participated in the clean-up said, "These are people who think 29, Dr. Khmara said he found it to be on Sunday, April 21, under the sponsor­ operations in Chornobylv (Radio Li­ like those who were in power in the a waste of time to take part in ship of Zelenyi Svit (the Green World berty) 1930s and 1940s. These are people Senseless work." who have not changed and will not He did say that he would most change." likely visit the Parliament and con­ "There can be no illusions that the sult with deputies. 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CHORNOBYL: FIVE YEARS AFTER

Cyclist's "Journey of the Heart" to help Chornobyl children by Roma Hadzewycz state of terror for decades." Such knew about Chornobyl, but thought it victims suffer from disempowerment, was being handled. Then at Urbana I JERSEY CITY, N.J. - On April 19, she added. Born in Frankfurt, on saw the situation was catastrophic." a Minnesota art instructor and volun­ January 22, 1945, Ms. Yonan knows Being, as she describes herself, "a teer children's counselor was to leave that feeling as, she grew up in a displaced doer, not a talker," Ms. Yonan said, "I the United States for Ukraine, where persons camp in Сгтяпу. felt it was important to somehow affirm she will begin a "Journey of the Heart" "As an artist I want to bring out the that I can do something." Her "some­ aimed at helping the children victimized voice of those who are not heard," she thing" evolved into the Journey of the by the Chornobyl nuclear disaster. continued. "I am not interested in Heart, an idea she came up with in July On April 26, the date of the fifth making beautiful items that will sit in of last year. anniversary of the world's worst nuclear galleries, people's homes. I want to By means of her bicycle journey, on a accident, Oksana Pawlykowych Yonan work with people to bring their talents hand-built touring bike donated by the will bicycle out of Chornobyl and thus out." Trek Corp., Ms. Yonan — who has begin a trek that will take her on a route Ms. Yonan, an instructor of photo­ cycled before for such organizations as encircling, in the shape of a heart, the graphy, sculpture, performance art, the Multiple Sclerosis Society and the sites of nuclear power plants through­ painting and drawing at the University American Lung Association — says she out Ukraine. of Minnesota, is also a volunteer coun­ hopes "to help the children of Chor­ Her "Journey of the Heart," as Ms. selor who works with abused children at nobyl transform themselves from vic­ Yonan has dubbed the project, is more St. Joseph's Home for Children in tims to rescuers with their own voices." than a publicity stunt, however. Along Minneapolis. She holds master's de­ the way, the cyclist plans to visits cities grees in sculpture and medical anthro­ Though she will essentially be tra­ and villages, large and small, and to talk pology. veling alone from Chornobyl in a with their residents and, especially, with After learning more about the Chor­ counterclockwise direction to Kiev, Ms. evacuees from Chornobyl's forbidden nobyl accident during the Urbana Yonan said she would like to get others zone. In particular, she will gather the conference, Ms. Yonan said she was to participate as well - whether it be as stories of the "children of Chornobyl" "really moved to the core and felt an photographers, support crew or fellow — capturing them on audio and video­ emotional and scholarly effect" — she cyclists. tape and in the children's own art work. did a lot of research herself and found She has established good contacts in "Children," she says, "are very articu­ that "next to nothing" was being said Ukraine with such notables as Minister late and they can tell their story best. I about the accident's consequences. "I (Continued on page 12) Oksana Pawlykowych Yonan want to lend them authority, empower­ ment." Ms. Yonan estimates that her work in Ukraine will take approximately six months. After that she will prepare traveling exhibits of the children's art work and stories that will, if all goes according to plan, journey to Germany, France, Spain, Japan, Canada and the United States, and will issue a series of postcards and T-shirts featuring the children's drawings. The final phase of the project, she notes, will be a book, a compilation of the children's stories and art that will be published in several languages. All royalties from the sale of cards, T-shirts and books will go toward the New Jersey-based Children of Chornobyl Relief Fund. Thus, Ms. Yonan hopes, the young Chornobyl victims' voices will be heard and remembered. And, the public throughout the world will come to their aid.

But just how did this resident of Falcon Heights, Minn., a town outside of Minneapolis, conceive this Journey of the Heart? Map shows route of "Journey of the Heart." Large black stars indicate nuclear power plants. As a member of Greenpeace, Ms. Yonan knew about the aftermath of Chornobyl, or so she thought. But, when she attended a June 1990 confe­ Alpinists from Ukraine on fund-raising Himalayan expedition rence at the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana sponsored by the ANNANDALE, Va. - In early help pay for the tracking by computer of health statistics of the survivors and Ukrainian Research Program, she March, some 20 mountain climbers health statistics of some 500,000 victims descendants of Hiroshima and Naga­ realized, as she herself described it, "the from Ukraine left for the Himalayas to of Chornobyl. It is generally recognized saki. horrific silence surrounding the magni­ help raise money to aid the victims of by experts that keeping such a database The Ukrainian alpinists urge contri­ tude of the Chornobyl disaster." the April 26, 1986,Chornobyl nuclear up-to-date will help communities butors outside the Soviet Union to send disaster. throughout the world better under­ their tax-deductible Chornobyl dona­ She asked herself: "Who's going to Led by Vladimir Shumikin, a 52- stand the effects of radiation on popu­ tions, in the form of a check or money tell the children's story of Chornobyl?" year-old champion Soviet mountain lations living closest to reactors. order, made out to the Chornobyl She said she also realized that "we climber, the group of Ukrainian alpi­ The Chornobyl database, which Education Trust, to a special account need to get the message out to the world nists will attempt to be the first exists in Kiev, capital of Ukraine, is created by the National Foundation via images. We are a visual society, and to scale the east face of Manaslu in apparently the only known database to Inc., Chornobyl Education Trust pro­ we need to appeal to people's hearts and Nepal (8,202 meters high). The east exist in the Soviet Union. According to ject. Address: Suite 303, 7535 Little compassion by using images." The approach to Manaslu is rather difficult news stories published in September, River Turnpike, Annandale, VA 22003; resources to achieve this, she said, were and includes a 3.5 kilometer vertical 1990, a similar set of tapes containing phone: (703) 642-8245. readily available, but the suffering wall. vital health data information on 500,000 Corporate donations have been soli­ Ukrainian nation's story simply hadn't The Ukrainian alpinists are no stran­ residents of the region surrounding cited on the basis of S50 (U.S.) per meter reached the public at large. gers to helping out when disaster Chornobyl and information on radio­ per climber. It is hoped that corpora­ "Ukrainians are so stoic. They don't strikes. They took part in the relief active contamination of 20,000 villages tions worldwide, particularly those now acknowledge the pain ripping them efforts immediately following both the and towns were stolen in Byelorussia doing business in the USSR, can spon­ asunder," Ms. Yonan explained in an Chornobyl and Armenian earthquake and destroyed. sor one or more climbers for 10 meters interview at The Weekly's offices. 'The disasters. The Chornobyl database comple­ or more, for a total of S500 per corpora­ Ukrainian people have been uprooted, The largest segment of the monies the ments the database that nearly 50 years tion. It is hoped that inviduals can con- resettled, repatriated. They've lived in a alpinists from Ukraine hope to raise will after the fact, continues to track the (Continued on page 15) THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, APRIL M, 1991 -- No. 16 Pavlychko, Pliushch, Yemets address Philadelphia community

by Tamara Stadnychenko-Cornelison Ukrainian Parliament has now been Gorbachev, President Volodymyr nitsyn, one of the most outspoken Special to The Ukrainian Weekly ratified by the Ukrainian people who, Ivashko was beginning to introduce critics of the Soviet regime. If he could by voting as they did, announced their into Ukraine some of the ideas of be so brain-washed, added Mr. Pavly­ PHILADELPHIA - The Ukrainian intent to make the principles enume­ glasnost and perestroika. According to chko, how much easier was it to con­ Human Rights Committee of Philadel­ rated in the declaration a reality. Mr. Yemets, Mr. Ivashko was driven vince lesser mortals that this was the phia on April 13, hosted an evening with Mr. Pliushch next addressed one of out by the hardliners, not by the demo­ case. Ivan Pliushch (vice-chairman of the the major points of the Declaration of cratic bloc. Now, he continued, people are ready Ukrainian SSR Parliament), Dmytro Sovereignty, that which calls for a He added that a similar power play for change. New political parties, real Pavlychko (people's deputy to the national army. He stressed that this is a was beginning to erupt against Presi­ political parties, have arisen. Rukh, the USSR Supreme Soviet and the Ukrai­ right that belongs to every sovereign dent Kravchuk who has openly declared Popular Movement of Ukraine, is the nian Parliament) and Oleksander state. The issue of nuclear arms, he his support for Ukrainian sovereignty. biggest and best alternative to the Yemets (deputy to the Ukrainian Par­ continued, should not be an issue in When Oles Doniy, the student leader of Communist Party. Like Mr. Yemets, liament). Ukraine ... "our declaration specifies the hunger strike in support of Dr. Mr. Pavlychko emphasized that the The trio had been part of a group of that we shall be a nuclear-free zone." Khmara, was arrested and held for Communist Party had never really been 13 Ukrainian people's deputies who had On the issue of a total break with interrogation, it was assumed by many a party nor for that matter communist come to the United States to partici­ Moscow, Mr. Pliushch cautioned that that Mr. Kravchuk had ordered the in nature, but an extension of the old pate in a conference on democracy and while the chains should be severed, arrest. Mr. Kravchuk, according to Mr. tsarist ambitions and motives of expan­ the American political system. some ties should be maintained. He did Yemets, was outraged at the arrest and sionist policy. And like Mr. Yemets, On April 15, members of the UHRC not specify which ties should be main­ Mr. Doniy was released at his insis­ Mr. Pavlychko stressed that the best and other Ukrainians were shocked to tained, but further advised that Ukraine tence — an act which has further weapons against these antagonists were hear that the 29-year-old son of Mr. should not follow the lead of those who alienated him from the hardliners. words, not blows that could be return­ Pliushch had been discovered dead in advocate immediately outlawing the Mr. Yemets explained that this was ed a thousandfold. his Kiev apartment. Mr. Pliushch Communist Party. When Ukraine is a but one of a number of power struggles He cautioned against moving too was notified of his son's death sovereign state, he added, this issue can between party moderates and extre­ swiftly. "Those who want everything to upon his arrival in New York where he, be more clearly and more effectively mists who are deliberately attempting to happen overnight," he said, "are either Mr. Pavlychko and Mr. Yemets were decided. provoke a violent reaction from the agents of the regime or insane. Our scheduled to meet with Secretary Gene­ The next speaker was Mr. Yemets, ral of the United Nations Javier Perez who began with a brief retrospective on de Cuellar. It is regrettable that Mr. the origins of Rukh. He recalled that the Pliushch's first visit to the United States Rukh movement had evolved from the ended so tragically. It is especially dis­ activity of members of other organiza­ heartening that the tragedy occurred tions like Zeleniy Svit, the Ukrainian while Mr. Pliushch and his colleagues Language Association and Memorial. were in America to discuss the changes Those who were active in one of those in Ukraine, the democratization pro­ organizations were likely to be active cess and the path to sovereignty. members of the others. The only real When Mr. Pliushch and the others "political" unit in those earlier times arrived in Philadelphia on the evening was the Ukrainian Helsinki Union. of April 13, no one could have foreseen Mr. Yemets next commented on the how poignant their message to the Communist Party and asserted that it community would become in light of had not been a political party for subsequent events. The program in decades, that it was nothing more than a Philadelphia was opened by Alexander government organ of control. He re­ Bilyk, president of the United Ukrai­ called the lessons learned in childhood: nian American Relief Committee, who that party membership was almost (if spoke briefly about the extraordinary not entirely) obligatory if one were to changes that have occurred in Ukraine succeed in life, that Lenin was to be in the past few years and then intro­ revered as God. When his grandmother duced Ulana Mazurkevich, president of told him of the oppression of the Stalin the UHRC. years, he responded with incredulity Ms. Mazurkevich relayed a brief and hostility: This wasn't what he had message of regret from Mykhailo been taught by his teachers at school... Ivan Pliushch (right) speaks as (from left) Oleksander Yemets, Dmytro Pavlychko Horyn who had planned to participate how could it be true? and Ulana Mazurkevich look on. in the program, but was too exhausted Mr. Yemets spoke of the years that by the group's gruelling itinerary to taught him that what his grandmother populace and then use it as an excuse for history is filled with armed struggles make the trip from Washington and had described was not invented by a a brutal crackdown. Along these lines, which we have lost... Mazepa, Petliura, then return for an early morning meet­ disgruntled "kulachka" whose wealth he commented on the arrest of six Bandera, Melnyk. This is the first time ing with Zbigniew Brzezinski. had been "justly and fairly" confiscated striking Ukrainian miners last fall. The we are choosing a peaceful path to The first speaker of the evening was by the Soviet regime. Through other hardliners were hoping to provoke a freedom." The fight for Ukraine's Mr. Pliushch, a member of the Ukrai­ sources and other channels he found full-blown revolt which they could then independence, he added, will be diffi­ nian Communist Party, who had won information and evidence that corro- crush with tanks and guns to discourage cult, long, and tedious, but it will come. some notoriety last year by his response bated the stories she told, and he other strikes and demonstrations. The goal, he continued, is not just a to several colleagues in the Ukrainian discovered other party lies buried According to Mr. Yemets, people in question of culture, of language, of Parliament whose speeches he consi­ within the party line. Ukraine have come to realize that symbols, but of economic self-determi­ dered inflammatory and not appro­ Now, he continued, the hardliners are violent reaction to oppression can only nation. "Ukraine is a colony, exploited priate for public consumption. During frightened and are struggling to main­ harm them, that they must beat the and bedraggled. Our industry is not our some heated debates in the Parliament, tain their position in a nation that has hardliners with words and from within industry. Our exports are not our it was Mr. Pliushch who called for the uncovered too many of the lies and has the political structure of the Parliament. exports for we earn nothing from them. microphones to be turned off so that rediscovered its own identity. The "Sovereignty, independence," he said, Our villagers, our intellectuals, our People's Deputy Stepan Khmara and hardline response is a new wave of "will come, but not through armed factory workers must be given back others could not be heard by those who repressive activities, many of them struggle. We must make them under­ what is theirs. Now what should be were gathered outside the Parliament currently focused on the events sur­ stand whom they are voting for and theirs goes to support the Soviet army, building to listen to the proceedings. rounding the arrest and detention of Dr. why." the biggest and most useless in the It soon became clear to the audience Khmara. The final speaker of the evening was world. This is an empire which wanted that Mr. Pliushch had traveled a long Mr. Pavlychko, who prefaced his re­ to swallow up the entire world, choked distance from that day in Kiev. While The extremists are learning, much to marks with a personal greeting to an old on it, and is in the process of vomiting it retaining his Communist Party mem­ their chagrin, that detention and inter­ friend in the audience, Prof. Miroslav up." bership, he had become one of the rogation of the students involved in the Labunka. He recalled their first meet­ The priority, he concluded, is nation­ growing number of those "non-Com- hunger strike in support of Dr. Khmara, ings in Ukraine years ago: "We didn't hood. When we gain this, we gain nist" Communists who are dedicated to are tactics that are not promoting their say much. We knew we were being economic and social self-determination. the concept of Ukrainian sovereignty position, but are backfiring by fueling listened to." He continued by stressing It cannot happen backwards. And to and who have come to understand that the nation's anger against them. As an that though the situation in Ukraine achieve nationhood, he added, we must Ukraine cannot remain part of the example of this, Mr. Yemets cited the had changed since those early cautious be united ... "east and west, Catholic Soviet Union under the conditions and position of Russians in Donetske and conversations, the foe was still strong, and Orthodox, Ukrainians and other restrictions imposed by Moscow. Kharkiv, who are responding to these the empire still mighty, the Communist ethnic groups who live in Ukraine, Mr. Pliushch spoke about the Decla­ unconscionable tactics by demanding Party and the KGB still alive and still Communist and non-Communist ... I ration on State Sovereignty of Ukraine Ukrainian sovereignty and indepen­ . operating as organs of imperalism. was a Communist, too. I left the party and about the second question on the dence from Moscow. He spoke of the Russification of because of what I saw the party was recent referendum in which 80 percent Mr. Yemets continued by explaining Ukraine, a situation induced by an doing. I ^restructured' myself. So will of the Ukrainians who voted indicated the strange case of President Leonid inferiority complex of the oppressors the others. And when Ukraine rises as a that they were in favor of sovereignty. Kravchuk's predecessor, who had re­ and the oppressed, an old mind-set that unit, no Moscow, no tanks, no KGB According to Mr. Pliushch, the docu­ placed the much despised Volodymyr the Soviet Union is all one country that will be strong enough to withstand us." ment that had been ratified by the Shchferbytsky. Hand-picked by Mikhail was recently echoed even by Solzhe- (Continued on page 13) No. 16 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, APRIL 21,1991 5

CHORNOBYL: FIVE YEARS AFTER Centennial CELEBRATE event five years ago. Each article Rally slated portrays the hardships the Ukrainian sojourn people have suffered and are still by Christopher Guly for Toronto suffering. TORONTO - In commemoration of the fifth anniversary of the Chor- COOKS CREEK, Manitoba - It's a nobyl catastrophe, the World Congress Lumberland passes bit like the multi-million-dollar basilica of Free Ukrainians, in cooperation with Pope John Paul II recently consecrated the Ukrainian Canadian Committee of memorial day law in the African Ivory Coast. Minus the Toronto and southern Ontario, will economic juxtaposition that cathedral sponsor a rally at Maple Leaf Gardens LUMBERLAND, N.Y. —The Town creates with its surrounding poverty, its on May 5 at 2:30 p.m. to remind all Board of Lumberland passed by unani­ prairie equivalent here, albeit closer to people that Chornobyl is a global mous vote a law designating April 26, home, is nearly as much out of place. tragedy, not just a disaster affecting 1991, the fifth anniversary of Chor­ Standing 110 feet at its highest point, Ukrainians and Byelorussians. nobyl, an official public "Memorial 140 feet long and 100 feet wide in the The rally will commence with a prayer Day." shape of a cross near the front, Imma­ service, to be followed by a statement by Based on a "Chornobyl Memorial culate Conception Ukrainian Catholic Lev Lukianenko, chairman of the Day Resolution" written and submitted Church is a unique tourist's find in Ukrainian Republican Party, and per­ by Andrij V. R. Szul, president of the Manitoba's Interlake. At its western formances by the "Bells of Chornobyl" Sullivan County Branch of the Ukrai­ corner stands a concrete replica of Our - a children's musical ensemble from nian Congress Committee of America Lady of Lourdes Grotto, along with the Ukraine and the Ukrainian Bandura Inc., on April 10, the local law designates 14 Stations of the Cross set into this April 26, 1991, as an official Memorial cave-like structure. CENTENNIAL OF Ensemble of Detroit. The rally will UKRAINIANS IN CANADA conclude with a march down the main Day; "joins all residents in expressing В out deepest outrage that this tragedy This now famous site, a good 45- streets of Toronto to the Parliament. minute drive northeast of Winnipeg, is CENTENAIRE DES was allowed to occur"; "calls upon all UKRAINIENS AU CANADA As Chornobyl commemorations coin­ residents to remember the victims of the brainchild of an equally unique, self- cide with the WCFU plenary session Chornobyl in their hearts and prayers"; taught architect and builder, the Rev. (May 3-4), representatives of all Ukrai­ "urges that our federal elected officials Philip Ruh. the Blessed Virgin Mary Ukrainian nians in the diaspora will participate in act to bring the parties responsible for The second of 10 children, Father Catholic Church in Portage la Prairie, the rally. this genocidal act to international Ruh was born in the Alsace-Lorraine Manitoba. The Presidium of the WCFU asks accountability"; "enters this resolution region of France in 1883. As a child, he Luckily, Cooks Creek's Immaculate that Ukrainian Churches and organiza­ into the official minutes of our town, had dreamed of one day becoming a Conception Church is too big and too tions not schedule Chornobyl comme­ and shall forward a copy of this reso­ Catholic missionary. (Both a brother popular to meet a similar fate. morations during this time in order that lution to our elected officials for appro­ and a sister had fulfilled that dream in Father Ruh began construction of the Ukrainian community may organize priate response." Africa.) As an Oblate seminarian, this church in 1930. He relied entirely on into a mass force of solidarity. All The law was debated at the monthly Father Ruh pursued an eclectic assort­ volunteer labor from the 350 families proceeds will benefit the WCFU fund to meeting of the Lumberland Town ment of disciplines, from architecture to who belonged to the two nearby treat the children victims of Chornobyl. Board and required four separate votes astronomy. churches: St. Nicholas and St. John the and roll calls of record prior to passage. He was ordained to the priesthood in Baptist. The new "Ruh" church, origi­ On April 26, a special Joint Com­ 1910 and left for western Ukraine, nally named St. John the Baptist, mittee to Commemorate Chornobyl, where he lived and worked with the would consolidate both congregations. Religious services represe^t^ eastern-rite Basilian Fathers. They taught him the Ukrainian language and Together, the group raised S4,500, оШШШШшШшШ - Шттт^ Ж Щ customs as he prepared to serve the enough to purchase materials and UCCA, the Ukrainian American Coor­ community in the diaspora. In 1913, supplies without ever having to borrow COHOES, N.Y. - On April 26, at 6 dinating Council, and the Ukrainian Father Ruh arrived in Edmonton, any money. Today, the church would p.m. at Ss. Peter and Paul Ukrainian Civic Council of Glen Spey, will spon­ where he was assigned to work with the cost somewhere in the S4 million range Catholic Church, the Ukrainian com­ sor a requiem mass at 9 a.m. in St. Ukrainian Catholic Church in Canada. to build. munity will gather to commemorate the Volodymyr's Ukrainian Catholic Three years later, he designed and built Father Ruh's own blueprints created Chornobyl anniversary with a special Church in Glen Spey. his first church in Elderina, Alberta. an interesting blend, of styles, incor­ religious service. In June, the second annual convoca­ porating a Latin-influenced interior The church service will be devoted to tion will be held at the Verkhovyna Father Ruh's lifetime legacy in archi­ with a Byzantine-styled exterior. the many lives lost in the nuclear Cultural Center of the Ukrainian Fra­ tecture includes 30 churches, 13 of Ninety-two stained glass windows disaster, as well as to recognition of the ternal Association in Glen Spey, with a which are located in Manitoba. One of adorn almost every inch of wall space hundreds of thousands, possibly mil­ program of remarks and musical selec­ his first, built in Mountain Road in inside, beneath the nine-domed struc­ lions, who are still suffering the effects tions designed to further assist the 1925, was long considered the largest of ture. of this explosion. Area pastors from all Children of Chornobyl Fund drive. its kind in North America, before Father Ruh completed his work in local congregations in Cohoes will also lightning ignited a fire which destroyed 1952. Then, two years later, he began participate solemnly with the Ukrai­ it in 1966. construction of a replica of the grotto nian people. Artists present Despite the fact that Father Ruh's dedicated to the Virgin Mary in Lour­ Following the religious service, the churches have become historic land­ des, France. That year, Metropo­ bells of Ss. Peter and Paul Ukrainian 'Five Years After' marks, the church hierarchy hasn't litan Maxim Hermaniuk of Winnipeg Catholic Church will sound for five always recognized their value. Almost rededicated the phurch to the Im­ minutes in deep commemoration for the eight years ago, the Archeparchy of maculate Conception, to mark the NEW YORK - On April 26, the Winnipeg ignored public protests and tragic loss of lives due to this disaster. fifth anniversary of the world's worst (Continued on page 14) Immediately following the church nuclear accident, artists from countries demolished the historic Assumption of service, a candlelight procession from in Eastern Europe and American artists Ss. Peter and Paul Ukrainian Catholic with Eastern European roots will pre­ Church to the steps of the City Hall will sent an evening of poetry and music to wind through the streets of Cohoes. remember Chornobyl. There, the mayor of the city of Cohoes The catastrophe that served as a will read a proclamation in recognition catalyst for disintegration of the of the disaster and the innocent lives lost Eastern Bloc has inspired artistic ex­ due to the explosion and the continued pression among all the affected nations. aftereffects, that persist to this day. Today, this art is bringing people toget­ Other political dignitaries from the her to reflect on the human and envi­ city of Cohoes, state of New York ronmental losses of Chornobyl, and Senate and Assembly, Congressman consider "disaster" in a large context. McNulty, and members of the Ukrai­ "Five Years After" is the first joint nian community will also be afforded presentation by three New York-based the chance to express a few words in arts organizations whose common commemoration of this observance and purpose is to present art and artists the Ukrainian flag will be solemnly from the re-emerging "other" Europe. flown over the City Hall. The event will include works by From April 26 to May 3, an exhibit, Ukrainian poets Ivan Drach, Natalka in dedication to the innocent victims of Bilotserkivets, Ihor Rymaruk and the Chornobyl nuclear disaster, will be Bohdan Boychuk; Polish compo­ displayed within the corridors of the ser/musician Mieczyslaw Litwinski; City Hall in Cohoes. The exhibit will Latvian poet Baiba Bicole; Estonian IChfis Guly . feature a collage of photographs and poet Tiina Aleman; Czech storyteller A view of the Immaculate Conception Ukrainian Catholic Church in Cooks Creek, newspapers articles from the tragic (Continued on page 12) Manitoba. THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, APRIL 21,1991 No. 16

Ukrainian Weekly On the Chornobyl disaster Five years after Five years ago, on April 26, 1986, at 1:24 a.m., an accident of unprecedented proportions began at the Chornobyl nuclear power plant in May Day Ukraine. The disaster spewed at least 50 tons of radioactive debris - 10 times the fallout at Hiroshima — over Ukraine, Byelorussia and western Russia. In its wake came contaminated land and water, deformed plant vegetation, and by Marta Tarnavska disease and death among the populace. Though the image most often elicited by mention of the word "Chornobyl" is that of the "dead zone" created in an 18-miles radius around the stricken Radioactive cloud over Kiev - plant, five years after the catastrophe it is clearer than ever that the effects of - a parade on Khreshchatyk street. the accident can be felt throughout the republics of Ukraine and Byelorussia and in parts of the Russian Federation. It's your holiday, workers. Some 200,000 persons have been evacuated from their homes in the danger Enjoy, be happy. zone; some 600,000 clean-up workers have been involved in what was at first Man's welfare - our proud motto: referred to as "liquidating the consequences" of the accident and now is called Soviets are in power. "diminishing" its effects. About 4 million live in contaminated regions. The official death toll continues to be listed as 31, while others have cited a Radioactive cloud over Kiev - figure of 250 to more than 300 dead, and most recently, the scientific director - a parade on Khreshchatyk street. of "the zone" was quoted as saying that between 7,000 and 10,000 had died as a result of the Chornobyl accident. At the same time, an official functionary Reactor blew up in Chornobyl, of the Soviet scientific establishment gave a figure of 29 dead - less even than the earth is burning. the official toll — and said a scant 145 persons had suffered acute radiation This fire cannot be put out by water. sickness. Asphalt's a boiling quagmire. Sickness and death rates have increased markedly, according to many accounts, including that of Dr. Dmytro Hrodzinsky of the Ukrainian SSR But on Khreshchatyk street in Kiev Academy of Sciences, who told The New York Times that 150,000 persons girls in national costume suffer from thyroid illnesses, among them 60,000 children. Others cite tittup the folk dance - hopak. increases in leukemia, and diseases of the circulatory system, kidneys and gastro-intestinal tract. Birth defects and miscarriages also are on the rise. Europe's at the mercy of winds. And yet, no reliable statistics appear to be available, perhaps because real The Geiger counters are ominous. statistics do not exist — the result of Soviet government decrees that Dnipro's waters are poisoned. mandated a cover-up, first, of the amount of radiation contamination and, But Kiev is dressed in red flags, later, of medical diagnoses. and the Kievites are in the streets - Five years after, the concrete sarcophagus encasing the disabled reactor is It is May Day! cracked, resulting in leakage of radioactive materials. Radioactivity continues to leach into the soil and groundwater from the nuclear debris and Iodine is given to Polish children, contaminated matter hastily buried without protective barriers as part of the Romanians are told to stay indoors. "clean-up" operation. The Chornobyl plant is to be shut down by 1995, but there is opposition. And, there is the continued problem of jurisdiction over Radioactive cloud over Kiev - the plant and its environs: who has authority, the central government or the - a parade on Khreshchatyk street. republics? At the same time, an enterprising agency called Kievtourist recently Cesium and strontium in the air - announced that it would conduct tours of the Chornobyl plant and a shadow of Hiroshima over Chornobyl. surrounding area — just to make a ruble. Is this another ploy to reassure the public that everything is under control? But Kiev today is a circus, During the five-year period since that fateful April 26, Soviet handling of because on Khreshchatyk street the Chornobyl catastrophe has gone from denial and refusal to accept the there is a May Day parade. truth, to wishful thinking, to selective glasnost, to many versions of the "truth." Chornobyl's victims, meanwhile, suffer from criminal neglect. Physicians are helpless. Five years later, only one thing is clear: the tragedy of Chornobyl Radiologists gain new experience. continues. Victims are isolated in hospitals.

Orchestras play marching music, and Kievites, ignorant in their bliss, step up on their road to hell.

The ancient town of Chornobyl is left empty, and thousands are homeless. Will the people of Prypiat ever go home again? April 26, 1990, was observed as a "Day of National Mourning" throughout Ukraine as hundreds of thousands of the republic's residents gathered at public meetings, But Kiev has gone insane: demonstrations and religious services. there is joy in the streets, not mourning. Just a few days earlier, on April 22, 70,000 had gathered in Kiev to mark Dance of death of those doped up, betrayed, International Earth Day. The crowd demonstrated against environmental abuses dance of death of the working masses - and protested the cover-up of Chornobyl's consequences and official disinforma­ the May Day parade. tion. April 26 was proclaimed "Chornobyl Day" by the Ukrainian SSR Supreme Soviet. The Ukrainian government did not, however, declare it a day off from work May 1986 as leaders of many informal organizations had asked, in order to allow the public to (Translated from the original Ukrainian by the author.) participate in republic-wide commemorations of the tragedy. The Ukrainian Press Agency reported that though the day had been declared "Chornobyl Day," many hardline local party officials refused to even grant permission for the holding of public meetings or requiem services. Commemorative events throughout the republic were planned and conducted by an ad hoc joint committee of informal organizations, including the ecological UNA Fund for the Rebirth of Ukraine association Green World (Zelenyi Svit), the Popular Movement of Ukraine (Rukh), Ukrainian Helsinki Union (UHU), Memorial and the Chornobyl Union. In the Ukrainian capital city of Kiev, 100,000 people attended a public meeting The Home Office of the Ukrainian National carrying Ukrainian national flags, flags of the Green movement, as well as Association reports that, as of April 18, the Byelorussian, Moldavian, Czechoslovak, Crimean Tatar and Israeli flags. fraternal organization's newly established Members of Rukh, the UHU, Green World, the Chornobyl Union and the Fund for the Rebirth of Ukraine has received Ukrainian National Democratic League picketed the Ukrainian SSR Supreme 6,642 checks from its members with donations Soviet, the Ministry of Health and other government ministries, reported the 5g! totalling 5173,023.31. The contributions j Ukrainian Press Agency. ny' include individual members'donations, as well Placards held by demonstrators stated: "Ukraine — nuclear free zone," "Ukraine as returns of members' dividend checks.and is not a nuclear dump," "We demand a Chornobyl Nuremberg" and "Long live the -JY"^ interest payments on promissory notes. Communist Party at the Chornobyl nuclear power station." Other placards called for a referendum on nuclear power in the Ukrainian republic. Ч^і -ч" ^?.^^--V" .^.'..V,.V,'.r.. :-.w-: ч No. 16 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, APRIL 21,1991 7

CHORNOBYL: FIVE YEARS AFTER The Chornobyl nuclear disaster: a Western perspective Following is the draft of a speech to with a new lifeline, but it has been along whom "one could do business." Simply the Canadian authorities with whom I be presented at the Euro-Chornobyl II a tortuous route, and a far from happy put, these prominent Western politi­ spoke as recently as December 1990. conference in Kiev on April 21-25. Dr. experience. One notes that according to cians began to moderate their stances This is not a case of ignorance, it is a David Marples, director of the Program an account in the newspaper Robit: on the Soviet Union. In doing so, their direct consequence of state policy. on Contemporary Ukraine at the Uni­ nycha Hazeta,the Soviet report to the policies became more firmly oriented The perspective runs as follows: the versity of Alberta-based Canadian IAEA in 1986 regarding the causes of toward the Soviet "center," or the Cold War is over, and Western govern­ Institute of Ukrainian Studies, is the the Chornobyl disaster represented a Soviet leadership in Moscow. And ments must not be seen to be behaving author of two books on the Chornobyl "deception" from two perspectives: the Chornobyl, like any other major Soviet as if it is still in progress. In turn, if disaster: "Chernobyl and Nuclear report prepared by the official Soviet event, began to be perceived in official republics declare sovereignty, this Power in the USSR" and the "The government commission headed by circles from the perspective of Moscow. action might be construed as a challenge Social Impact of the Chornobyl Dis­ Valery Legasov did not reveal that the Such a view had unfortunate conse­ to the center, resulting in the break-up aster. " design faults in the reactor's control quences, when for more than two weeks of the Soviet Union, Such thinking rods had been known for years among there appeared to be no official opinion might be simplistic, but it has contri­ by Dr. David R. Marples experts at the Kurchatov Institute of on Chornobyl from the center. Even buted to the astonishing and lamentable Atomic Energy, and the IAEA allowed Mr. Gorbachev's television appearance lack of information about the effects of Chornobyl, it is generally agreed, was itself to be deceived. on May 14,1986, did not advance a real Chornobyl in the West. the world's worst nuclear accident. But I lay particular emphasis on that viewpoint. Some of the speech was perceptions of the event differed phrase, "allowed itself to be deceived," devoted to promoting an official policy The media's story throughout the world. It will be recall­ because it tells us much about the IAEA of removing all nuclear weapons from ed, for example, that countries with reaction to Chornobyl. I found it sadly the face of the earth by the year 2000, The media is a different story. Ironi­ advanced nuclear power programs such paradoxical while visiting the grounds and others to attacking Western media cally, in view of what I have just stated, as France perceived the accident diffe­ of the Center for Radiation Medicine in accounts. the Western media "went overboard" rently from those without nuclear Kiev in 1989 to note the memorial trees As is now well known, official dataon on the issue of Chornobyl in the first power, or in the process of making of Chornobyl victims that had been the health consequences, the clean-up hours, but subsequently learning from decisions as to the future of that in­ planted, inter alia, by leaders of the operation and the 600,000 or so clean­ its mistakes, it became cautious to an dustry. IAEA, i.e., representatives of the in­ up workers were officially classified. It extreme. Thus in those first 48 hours, dustry that had, in effect, killed these became impossible to define the scope when the accident existed only as In addition, Chornobyl was the third young men. of Chornobyl from the official Soviet nuclear accident to have made world speculation, and had yet to be confirm­ The IAEA has since visited Ukraine account. One should point out at this ed by Sweden, it was speculated that headlines. The first was that at Wind- on many occasions, inspected several juncture, that in pursuing a course of scale (now called Sellafield) in the there were at least 2,000 victims and plants — Rivne, for example, with its secrecy, misinformation or silence, the possibly many more; or that victims had United Kingdom, a military reactor, in precarious foundations - and yet not Soviet authorities were not acting much 1957, the results of which were classi­ been buried in mass graves; or that two once recommended closure of a station. differently from Western authorities reactors had exploded rather than one. fied by the British authorities for 30 The IAEA, and many experts from faced with similar catastrophes. None­ years. The second was the accident at One need not elaborate as these stories Western nuclear power industries, have theless, what might be perceived as a are well known. Three Mile Island in the United States Western lack of concern about the in 1979, which is better known and has long maintained that the lifetime radia­ The cryptic statement that there were tion limit of 35 additional rems per effects of Chornobyl owed much to this 31 official victims was subsequently been the subject of various mono­ "centrist" approach of Western leaders. graphs. However, because of the scale person, supported by Dr. Leonid Ilyin, accepted without question by the of the Chornobyl disaster, many is quite safe. As a result, it appears to Allow me to relate one personal Western media, and continues to be Western scientists chose to use the have lost some of the trust among the example. In late 1986, I published my repeated today. Press agencies were atomic bombing of Hiroshima and being very careful. Those few Western Nagasaki by way of comparison. scientists or doctors who were allowed Glasnost on Chornobyl has existed neither in the at the Chornobyl site or at hospitals in I would argue that this comparative the first weeks after the accident were approach has been a misleading one. As USSR nor in the West. And, in the final analysis, that hardly forthcoming about the medical has been revealed over the past year, the consequences. scope of radioactive fallout from Chor­ is why Chornobyl has been transformed from an There is a further point to be made nobyl has been far greater than initially accident to a disaster and an international tragedy. here, which is that the Western public is anticipated and on a much wider scale known to have a very short attention than at Three Mile Island. It has span. Chornobyl could not retain demonstrated that Western viewpoints banner headlines for five weeks, let on low-level radiation have been opti­ public that it had initially and is re­ first book about Chornobyl (much was garded instead not as an impartial body, devoted to the history of the Soviet alone five years. Once in the past, an mistic and at times simply not based on event is largely forgotten. It has been reality. but rather as part of the nuclear "esta­ nuclear power industry, my special blishment." interests at that time) and was invited to estimated that the average Western Moreover, Chornobyl revealed that television viewer has an attention span The IAEA, like other Western groups Canada's Department of External there is such a thing as a Western of 40 seconds! The Chornobyl anniver­ reporting on the effects of Chornobyl - Affairs to discuss the issue. One of the scientific consensus on the effects of sary is commemorated by some groups such as the U.S. Department of Energy first questions I was asked was whether radiation, particularly among those in the West, but after April 26, the and U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commis­ I was representing "Ukrainian nationa­ who live and work with the nuclear whole catastrophe is quietly forgotten sion — accepted official Soviet figures lists" on this question. Evidently, the power industry and are committed to its for another year. future. It seems self-evident today to as valid from the outset. It has long been officials at External Affairs felt that the state that there are international a matter of conjecture how this could be whole affair had been exaggerated by But surely, one might ask, there organizations that have not been pre­ the case. Support for nuclear energy is Ukrainian Canadians, who were - in were people in the West who had visited pared to countenance the full effects of only one answer. In fact, in order to the words of one writer closely asso­ Ukraine or Byelorussia, or who knew Chornobyl because these consequences ascertain the significance of the Western ciated with the Canadian nuclear hv about the consequences of the accident, would prejudice the future of the response to Chornobyl, one must enter dustry — "refighting the Russian Civil perhaps even had relatives who were nuclear power industry worldwide. two other worlds: that of politics and War on the Canadian prairies." I was sick? In addition, surely Soviet visitors that of the media. forced to explain that not only was I not to the West were disseminating such The most obvious case is that of the representing Ukrainian nationalists, information? Olga Korbut, the Byelo­ International Atomic Energy Agency but in fact was not even Ukrainian. russian gymnast, recently checked into (IAEA), an organization that has be­ The political angle All the same, the reaction did not a hospital in Seattle, to have doctors come increasingly controversial in look at her thyroid, which had given her Soviet society. It has often been asserted that Chor­ change: there was nothing that Canada nobyl opened up the Soviet Union to trouble since the date of the disaster, at In 1986, during a visit to a research could do for Chornobyl victims, I was which time she was living in Minsk. the outside world as no other event informed, that had not already been facility of Atomic Energy of Canada could; that radiation "knows no bor­ Surely all these accounts must have had Limited, I inquired whether the Cana­ done by the Soviet side. Time has given some impact? ders" and that despite an initial effort at the lie to this statement. dian industry would permit an inspec­ secrecy, the enormity of the tragedy tion from an IAEA team of experts. The Like the U.S. and Britain, Canada's The answer is yes, but most often in forced the Soviet authorities to provide unofficial circles. Take, for example, question was received with derision. a full account of the event. This per­ ultimate commitment after 1986, and "Why would our industry need such a perhaps even to the present day, was to the campaigns to aid the children ception is an erroneous one, but it tells suffering from Chornobyl. There is not visit?" I was asked. "We have enough us much about the Western viewpoint the political survival and eventual experts on hand tp render such a visit success of Mr. Gorbachev. One's opi­ one coordinated campaign, but several on the early years of the Gorbachev In Canada, I know of at least three superfluous." It occurred to me then — regime. nion on this issue is irrelevant. The and my opinion has not changed with point is that the republican perspective, separate, viable organizations all work­ time - that the IAEA was struggling to In particular, two Western leaders, from Ukraine and especially from ing toward the same end. That figure in find a foothold in the world of nuclear Ronald Reagan of the U.S. and Marga­ Byelorussia, was simply ignored by the United States must be considerably power. ret Thatcher of Britain, who espoused international governments. That one- higher. In the USSR, of course, no IAEA policies of what might be called "mili­ third of Byelorussia might be contami­ A colleague of mine who is a profes­ team had set foot on Soviet soil prior to tant conservatism," saw Mikhail Gor­ nated as a result of radioactive fallout sor at Rutgers University, Dr. Taras 1985. Chornobyl provided the IAEA bachev as an enlightened politician witfa from Chornobyl was simply fantastic to (Continued on page 13) 8 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, APRIL 21,1991 No. 16

efforts on the realization Ukrainian deputies... clarations. Many republics whole series of laws...whic (Continue^ from page 1) all-union laws and signa headed the delegation as chairman of between the republics and Parliament's Foreign Affairs Com­ interests of the union and tl mittee. the republics are separate a Deputies Volodymyr Cherniak, Vya- interests...I believe the po cheslav Chornovil, Ivan Drach, Boh­ has chosen to follow is dan Horyn, Mykhailo Horyn, Larysa maintain relations with the Skoryk and Ivan Zayets, as well as Mr. simultaneously focusing ; Chornovirs wife, poet Atena Pashko, the changes in the republic rounded out the delegation. Horyn. After arriving in the Unii "I consider this journey by this group April 3, the Ukrainian Pi of deputies of the Supreme Soviet of delegation was escorte Ukraine an exceptionally significant McConnell, the project's event in the political life of Ukraine," to Indiana, where they we; said Bohdan Horyn,^a former political two days by Indiana U prisoner who now serves as vice-chair­ Bloomington and provided man of the Supreme Soviet's Foreign of how government functic Affairs Committee. Ukrainian Parliamentary delegation poses with Sen. Richard Lugar (fourth from left, front row). level in the United States "A year or two ago these meetings next week's issue). The US would have been impossible for two Ukrainian/English interpr reasons," he said. "Firstly, the Presi­ duration of the seminar. dium of the Supreme Soviet of Ukraine After spending Easter wi would never have agreed to a journey American families and a pi including members of the Supreme in Chicago, the deputie Soviet's Presidium. Second, the United Washington on April 7 fo States would not have been especially series of panels, seminars і interested in a delegation particularly focused on every possib from one or another republic inasmuch federal government. as it has developed a tradition of The intensive program, contacts with the center, with Moscow, coordinated by Robert M or only with the approval of the center the government relations with one or another republic. In the ing firm Gibson, Dunn ai past, when the Ukrainian Parliament began with an overview oft sent delegates abroad, most often these constitutional system, its p delegates were part of all-union delega­ Bill of Rights, the divisio tions. Now the situation has changed. and the system of checks a "First of all, this delegation of de­ All of these topics, presenU puties of the new Supreme Soviet of Wallison of Gibson, Dun cher and former counsel Deputies take part in panel on judiciary branch at the Supreme Court. Ukraine did not seek approval from Moscow for its journey nor aven in­ dent, incited much of tl formed Moscow about its trip. Second, interest, as the Ukrainian I the leadership of the Presidium of the in the process of writing a Supreme Soviet informed other mem­ tution. bers of the Presidium that a group of "What interests me most deputies of the Supreme Soviet, in­ mechanisms and struct cluding members of the Presidium plan divisions of power into th to visit the United States on the invi­ executive and judicial bra tation of the government and the Mr. Zayets during a break Ukrainian diaspora. There was no the seminars. "I'm inters opposition to this trip," said Mr. system of checks and baL Horyn. one branch is restrained A slight shift in U.S. policy balancing branch of power - the wo a formal relationship with the Soviet cen­ nisms of these institutions tral government in Moscow with "We have learned man greater attention to the increasingly things regarding the structi independence-minded Soviet republics in the U.S. and we will utili was the final factor that encouraged this another deputy, Mr. Che parliamentary journey, said Mr. Horyn. will help us build our Uki "The situation has changed over the although we are well aw last few months. The face of the re­ cannot take a foreign ex publics has changed after these repub­ transfer it mechanically to lics have adopted declarations of state cannot simply adopt porti sovereignty and have focused their U.S., Canada, Sweden c

Pavlo Movchan, Sylvia Bosak of USIA, Volodymyr Cherniak, Bohdan Horyn, Judge Bohdan Futey and Ivan Zayets before the Supreme Court.

Deputies and guests sing "Hey u luzi" at conclusion of Ukrainian American community dinner in Washington. Delegation lays flowers at foot of Washington Monument No. 16 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, APRIL 21,1991

country and create some mosaic and limited accent on the republics, but to transfer it to Ukraine. We can, how­ shift to direct relations with the repub­ ever, use the American experience in lics, parallel diplomacy," said Mr. solving some of our problems. Cherniak. "Keeping in mind our specifics, our Following an informal breakfast with peculiarities, we were very interested in Ukrainian Americans working in the the division of powers into the legisla­ federal government, sponsored by tive, executive and judicial. We were Ukraine 2000, Tuesday's sessions began interested in the interrelationships with an overview of the legislative between these branches...and the me­ branch by Sen. Richard Lugar (R-Ind.), chanisms for solving conflicts between member and former chairman of the the different branches of power and the Senate Committee on Foreign Rela­ different levels," said Mr. Cherniak, tions. Most of the panel discussions on who also serves as a USSR people's that day were devoted to the workings deputy, representing Ukraine. of Congress: committee operations and A Monday morning panel was de­ congressional oversight, congressional voted to these questions, moderated by floor proceedings in the House and Dr. Charles Wise of Indiana University, Senate, congressional staff and rela­ and including panelists from all three tions with American business. branches of federal government, in­ The panelists included: Ralph Everett, cluding: Larry Smith, former sergeant former chief of staff of the Senate at arms, U.S. Senate; Michael O'Neil, Committee on Commerce, Science, and foreign affairs assistant to the speaker Transportation; Cynthia Lebow, for­ of the House; Mr. Wallison; Carol mer staff director of the Senate Judi­ Dinkins, former deputy attorney ge­ ciary Committee; John Orlando, chief neral; and Judge Stephen Williams of the of staff of the House Energy and Rep. Dana Rohrabacher (left) with Vyacheslav Chornovil his spouse, Atena U.S. Court of Appeals for the District Commerce Committee; William R. Pashko. of Columbia circuit. Pitts Jr., minority door keeper in the The parliamentary delegation had House of Representatives; Larry Smith, lunch, sponsored by Gibson, Dunn and former Senate sergeant at arms; Dave Crutcher, at the U.S. Supreme Court, Hoppe, administrative assistant to Sen. where they were welcomed by Associate Dan Coats (R-Ind.); Patrick Griffen, Justice Sandra Day O'Connor and former Senate secretary; Mr. McCon- continued with a session on the judicial nell; David Bieir, vice-president of branch of government. Judge Bohdan Genentech Co.; James May, executive Futey of the U.S. Claims Court and vice-president for government rela­ U.S. Solicitor General Kenneth Starr tions, National Association of Broad­ were the featured speakers. casters; and Tania Demchuk, National The deputies spent the rest of the Association of Independent Insurers. afternoon in meetings at the Depart­ A late afternoon panel focused on ment of State, including a roundtable Ukrainian American congressional discussion with senior policy planning relations and lobbying. It featured staff, Soviet desk officials and special. presentations by Orest Deychakiwsky, assistants to the undersecretaries. Se­ staff member at the U.S. Helsinki veral of the parliamentarians had Commission, Natalka Gawdiak of the special meetings with Eugene McAlli­ Washington Community Network, ster, assistant secretary of state for Eugene Iwanciw of the Ukrainian Economic and Business Affairs, and National Association's Washington with Richard Schifter, assistant secre­ Office, Natalia Kormeluk of the Ukrai­ Rukh leader Ivan Drach gives interview to Radio Liberty and VOA correspon­ tary for Human Rights and Humanita­ nian National Information Service and dents. rian Affairs. All the deputies met with Mr. and Mrs. McConnell of Ukraine James Dobbins, assistant secretary for 2000. European and Canadian affairs. Following a meeting with Rep. Lee "During these visits we were able to Hamilton (D-Ind.), chairman of the combine our education, our learning House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee with our expressing our position every­ on Europe and the Middle East, the 13 where we went about our efforts to deputies spent Wednesday morning build our Ukrainian state. We argued touring the Congressional offices and our case with everyone we met. Very accompanying several members of often we found understanding for our Congress on their schedules of meet­ struggle, support of our struggle within ings, hearings and other events. our circumstances...We continuously Deputies Bohdan Horyn and Mr. asserted that the Americans should Yemets visited with staff members, move toward parallel diplomacy with including Mr. Deychakiwsky, at the the Soviet Union and Ukraine - in Commission on Security and Coopera­ other words not to break off relations tion in Europe. The other deputies were with (Soviet leader Mikhail) Gorba- divider5 among six House members, as " chev, with the center, with the current (Continued on page 11)

Dmytro Pavlychko presents Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor witht copy of Ukraine's Declaration on State Sovereignty.

Photos in this series by Chrystyna Lapychak and Natalie Sluzar. Bohdan Burachinsky, head of U.S. Coordinating Committee to Aid Ukraine, is flanked by Rukh leaders Mykhailo Horyn (left) and Ivan Drach. Dmytro Pavlychko addresses panel discussion. Ю THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, APRIL 21, 1991 No. 16

workers. Originally, they had hoped for militia and decided to stage a sit-in in sentatives of the Republican Strike Miners, workers... live air time on television, and the head the middle of the street, blocking all Committee were allowed to go to the (Continued from page 1) of Ukrainian State Television and traffic for more than two hours. While Supreme Soviet as the hundreds of Radio, Mykola Okhmakevych, had representatives of the strike committee miners and workers, many of whom CPU" (Communist Party of Ukraine) made such promises, but his decision went to negotiate with the board, the carried Ukrainian national flags and as they waited for their leaders, repre­ was overruled by the broadcast board of miners and workers sat on the street, banners demanding "Freedom for sentatives of the Republican Strike directors. singing the Ukrainian national anthem, Ukraine," waited near the militia's Committee, to give them further in­ "We want live air time to be able to "Oy u Luzi, Chervona Kalyna," Shev- blockade, which also included military structions. tell the people the truth; we are being chenko's "Testament," Ukrainian folk trucks. As і he Weekly was going to press, fooled by our government," said Leonid songs, as well as some miners' melodies. Representatives of the Republican the miners had decided to split into Berliant, a member of the Republican They were joined by Kievans, some of Strike Committee were ushered into the smaller groups and visit various facto­ Strike Committee and the vice-chair­ whom brought thermoses of tea and Supreme Soviet, where Supreme Soviet ries ano businesses, agitating workers to man of the Kiev Strike Committee, as loaves of bread to the demonstrators. Chairman Leonid Kravchuk advised join them in what they hope will deve­ the miners and workers planned to The songs would be interrupted by that they hold roundtable discussions lop into an all-republic strike by some picket the television and radio head­ shouts of "Glory to Ukraine" and and showed his disapproval toward any time next week, a strike that has taken quarters on Wednesday afternoon. "Freedom for Ukraine," often accom­ kind of strike. He said: "Believe me, I on a distinctly political nature. After gathering more than 2,000 panied by the gesture of raising three will fight to my last drop of blood for a To date, the miners have received the people in October Revolution Square fingers in the air in the sign of the soveriegn Ukraine." support of about 50 factories and on Wednesday morning, the miners and Ukrainian trident. During lulls in the The miners and workers listened to businesses in Kiev which employ over workers made their way across the singing, Mr. Poyizd and other members these words over loudspeakers set up on 15,000 workers. Khreshchatyk to the media building. of the Republican Strike Committee the trucks. They met these comments would supply the miners and workers with shouts of "Shame" and jeering. An all-city strike continues in Donet- There they stood, in groups ranging in size from 500 to 2,000 people from 1 with information about the negotia­ ske, where about 20,000 workers are tions, the current session of Parliament, By 3 p.m., the crowds started to out, and in Chervonohrad, the home of p.m. until 6:30 p.m. Only then were they disperse. They began heading in the told that the board had rejected their etc. radical opposition leader Stepan Kh- At 9 p.m. the representatives emerged direction of the Republican Stadium, mara, work has come to a complete request for live air time. where official unions, trade unions of The leaders of the Republican Strike from the radio and television head­ standstill. In Lviv, numerous factories quarters, accompanied by Gens. Volo- the Communist Party had scheduled a and businesses also began striking on Committee, chairman Alexander Na- meeting to protest price increases gorny, a miner from Donetske, as well dymyr Nedryhailo and Durdynets from Wednesday, April 17. the Ministry of the Interior. They told effected April 2. However, many of the miners are as vice-chairmen Oleh Karpiuk, a miner Here more than 20,000 people wit­ from Chervonohrad and head of the the miners that they would be given disappointed that they have not re­ television time for an interview on nessed an official Communist Party ceived the full support of Kiev's strike committee there, and Mr. Ber­ meeting taken over by democrats and liant, hoped that the miners would "Aktualna Kamera" (Topical Camera), a news show that airs nightly on Ukrai­ determined miners. The meeting, which disperse and begin again tomorrow. lasted over two hours, saw citizens of However, the miners, tired, hungry and nian television. "' Satisfied with this, the miners not Kiev cheering the newly arrived miners angry, began chanting "Live air time." and screaming "Shame" at Communist Join the UNA They refused to leave the headquarters only cleared the street, but cleaned it of the debris scattered by the gathered Party apparatchiks who made their of the State Television and Radio, way to the stage. which was protected by hundreds of Kiev masses. The picketing of the State Television Ukrainian SSR Deputy Hudyma -,. and Radio headquarters was not the first appealed to the citizens of Kiev: IN MEMORIAM attempt by the miners and workers to "Radioactive Kievites! You who have gain support among the masses. They known so much tragedy, you continue On the first anniversary of our departed friend and co-worker began their efforts on Tuesday morn­ to keep silent! You now have a chance ing, April 16. More than 350 miners to prove your human dignity." Do not from Chervonohrad and Luhanske think the Supreme Soviet of the Ukrai­ WILLIAM KYCHUN assembled at October Revolution nian SSR will do anything for you if you former treasurer of the AHRU Executive Board Square on that morning and were soon do not pressure them." Americans for Human Rights in Ukraine joined by miners from Donetske and The sweetheart of the miners, asking our members and supporters to pray for his everlasting peace. workers from the Lenin Forge of Kiev, People's Deputy Larysa Skoryk, also marching up the Khreshchatyk. They addressed the miners, saying that if the A REQUIEM MASS and PANACHYDA decided to march toward the Supreme Supreme Soviet of the Ukrainian SSR will be said in his memory Soviet, which had begun a plenary does not respond to their demands, and on Friday, April 19,1991 at 6:45 a.m. session that morning. turns a blind eye to the miners and workers, she, too, feels that body should in St. John the Baptist Ukrainian Catholic Church The newly formed Republican Strike be dissolved. Sanford Avenue, Newark, N.J. Committee wanted to present the go­ Oles Doniy, a student leader, pro­ For the Executive Board: vernment a list of demands that had to mised the crowds that the students BOZHENA OLSHANIWSKY, president be met before the two sides could sit would join the miners and workers in down to talk business. their demands — now solely political. "We can only sit down to talk after The miners' demands include the resig­ the Supreme Soviet of the Ukrainian nation of Soviet President Mikhail S. SSR abolishes decisions which contra­ Gorbachev, the dissolution of the dict the Constitution of the Ukrainian Supreme Soviet of the USSR, and the SSR, the Declaration on State Sove­ restructuring of the Soviet Union as a reignty of the Ukrainian SSR and the Federation of Sovereign States, as well Declaration on Human Rights," read as constitutional status for the Declara­ Yuriy Archinchuk, a vice-chairman of tion on State Sovereignty of Ukraine. the Republican Strike Committee and a The Republican Strike Committee miner from Luhanske, who heads that has proposed the release pf Stepan region's strike committee. Khmara and all people arrested in These demands include: to release connection with his case, the right to a People's Deputy Khmara and all national currency, the declaration of those who were imprisoned with him Kiev as an ecological disaster zone, and and to drop all charges associated with the salary compensation for the recent this case and to compensate all who price increases. suffered in this matter; also, to cancel A full and complete list of demands the decree of the Presidium of the by the Republican Strike Committee Supreme Soviet of the Ukrainian SSR has yet to be published and, to date, no dated August 3, 1988, which dictates representatives have been called by the rules and regulations in relation to government to begin negotiations. meetings, gatherings, marches and The miners lingered near the Re­ demonstrations and which contradicts publican Stadium for some time after Article 48 in the Constitution of the the two-hour meeting. Special forces Ukrainian SSR about assembly near (OMON) trucks had been brought in to the Supreme Soviet; and to grant the control the meeting, but no OMON Declaration on State Sovereignty of guards were visible on Tuesday evening. Ukraine constitutional status. The meeting was to have ended with a More than 2,000 marchers, led by a Communist Party functionary reading few people's deputies, including Alex­ resolutions of the meeting; however, as ander Hudyma, as well as deputies soon as the miners and workers.ob­ from the Kiev City Council, made their served that the resolutions were pre­ way up the Khreshchatyk toward Kirov pared well in advance and already Street, where the Supreme Soviet is printed up, they booed her off the stage. located. There they were met by One miner from Luhanske empha­ columns of militia that blocked their sized, "We're not leaving (Kiev) until we path near the Dynamo Stadium. Repre­ get what we want." No. 16 . THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, APRIL 21, 1991 Ц

said Mr. Cherniak one day later. "He Ukrainian Sports Federation announces Ukrainian deputies went further than us. We were moved by the fact that his position in the (Continued from page 9) Senate is that the United States should soccer team for tour of Ukraine most senators were unavailable due to forge relations now primarily with the the funeral of Sen. John Heinz (R-Pa.) republics, and secondly with the disin­ SOUTH ORANGE, N.J. - The Kuropas will represent Chernyk of that day. Reps. Richard Armey (R- tegrating center." Ukrainian Sports Federation of the Detroit. Tex.), Christopher Cox (R-NJ.), Den­ The deputies also paid a brief visit to U.S.A. and Canada has released the Other team members are: Bohdan nis Hertel (D-Mich.), Jon Kyi (R- the headquarters of the National En­ All-Star Team selection that will play in Nedilsky, Chicago, Lions; Michael Ariz.), Mary Rose Oakar(R-Ohio) and dowment for Democracy, where they Ukraine this summer. Coach Gene Hlushko, New York, Yonkers Krylati; Dana Rohrabacher (R-Calif.), hosted met with NED President CarlGershman. Chyzowych has selected top 24 Ukrai­ Michael Sloniewsky, USK of New York; the parliamentarians. Following a briefing at the USIA, the nian players from all over the United Paul Skorochod and Paul Kulas, Chi­ Following a lunch sponsored by GTE deputies were addressed by John States in preparation for the six-game cago; Dmytro Kulchycky, Warren, Corp., and a tour of the Capitol, the Osthaus, staff director of the House tournament against some of the best Mich.; Mike Lupenec, Detroit; and Ukrainian deputies visited the Taras Committee on Appropriations, on the soccer teams in Ukraine, including Taras Jaworskyj, Kryla, Chicago. Shevchenko monument, where they congressional appropriations process. Karpaty of Lviv. laid flowers. During a working lunch,members of Before departing for Ukraine, the After breakfast on Thursday hosted the delegation offered their opinions The visit will be a part of the celebra­ All-Star Team will hold a mini-training about the conference program and tion that will commemorate the 80th camp in Philadelphia, which will be by the AFL-CIO, the delegation was addressed by James Thurber of Ameri­ discussed possibilities for future semi­ anniversary of the famous Ukraina sponsored by Tryzub Sports Club. nars on more specific aspects ot govern­ Sports Club in Lviv. Coach Chyzowych From there the team will depart directly can University on the Congressional budget process and then visited the ment with organizers, Mr. and Mrs. has announced that in addition to the to Ukraine. McConnell and Dr. Wise. senior All-Star Team, two other soccer Congressional Research Center. That teams, juniors (17 and under) and The^MAM International Tours Inc. afternoon the deputies met with two The final session of the conference senior/ masters (35 years and older), will Agency is preparing the trip. Anyone members of the National Security -featured a panel discussion on the also travel to Ukraine. interested in joining this sports tour to Council: Ed Hewett, special assistant to executive branch, including speakers: U^ainer тдусаіі MAM Agency at 1 the president and senior director for George Terwillinger, associate deputy The 24 players selected to represent4 800f923-9299^^r information. Soviet affairs, and Nicholas Burns, attorney general; I. Lewis Libby, princi­ the United States are: Andy Bakun, director, Soviet affairs, in the Old pal deputy undersecretary for strategy Gene Chyzowych Jr., Zenon Luzniak, ---T^fo^yvoy The Ukrainian Sports Federation of Executive Office Building. While in that and resources at the Defense Depart­ Alex Wasylak, Daniel Wasylak, Myron building the delegation was invited to ment; Wendell Wilkie II, general coun­ Hamulak, all from Chornomorska the U.S.A. and Canada will also take a volleyball team, a swimming team, a visit the ceremonial office of the vice- sel at the Commerce Department; and Sitch. Taras Kozak, Jason Luzak, Ihor president and was addressed by William Jason Wolff, executive assistant to the Chyzowych Jr., and Orest Harmaty will tennis team and a chess team to U- kraine. Gribbin, the vice-president's assistant deputy assistant to the president for represent Philadelphia Tryzub. Chris­ for legislative affairs. policy planning. tian Shalay, Andrew Macielinski, Taras The departure date is planned for Wowk, Andrij Wowk, and Roman June 19 and the group is expected to Sen. Bob Dole (R-Kan.), the Senate The grand finale for the weeklong return around July 4. 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Funding for the Journey of the Heart, On April 25 there will be an all day Cyclist's... will come primarily from broad-based Artists... Ukrainian student demonstra­ tion/Chornobyl Disaster Awareness (Continued from page 3) American sources, mainly individuals. (Continued from page 5) However, Ms. Yonan added, she hopes Day at the University of Pennsylvania of^Health Yuriy Spizhenko; People's to generate interest also among Ukrai­ Vit Horejs and others. Poetry will be and Drexel University campuses. Deputy Volodymyr Yavorivsky, who nian Americans, who "will enable presented in the original languages and On April 26 all Philadelphia Ukrai­ heads the Parliament's Chornobyl Com­ Ukraine's children to help themselves." in English translation. nian churches will hold Memorial Ser­ mittee; poet Ihor Rymaruk; Dr. Yuriy The presenting organizations are: vices at 7 p.m. Shcherbak, USSR people's deputy and A special account has already been 9 The Arts Club Theatre, whose On April 27 a philatelic exhibit spon­ leader of the Green Party of Ukraine; as established at Selfreliance Federal director, Linda Pakri, is a second- sored by the Philatelist, Society at the well as women's activist Maria Drach. Credit Union, 2351 W. Chicago Ave., generation Estonian who presents new Gallery and Lounge will run from 10 And, Ms. Yonan has already succeed­ Chicago, IL 60622 (tax-exempt No. theater works, poetry and music by a.m. to 6 p.m. A Chornobyl Remem­ ed in attracting some media attention. 23777186981); checks should be made established and emerging Baltic and bered program will begin at 1 p.m. with The Minneapolis news media, she said payable to Journey of the Heart Fund. East European artists in Our Lady of a flag ceremony and balloon raising to are "extremely interested" in her trek, Ms. Yonan added that she welcomes Vilnius Church. be followed by prayers for victims. At and the noted children's television inquiries (please note, however, that she ^ The Yara Arts Group, directed by 7:30 p.m. the Leontovych String shows "Sesame Street'and "Mister will be in Ukraine for six months) at Virlana Tkacz, is a multi-cultural Quartet from Kiev, Sofia Maydanska, Roger's Neighborhood" have also ex­ 1892 N. Albert St., Falcon Heights, MN performing arts organization dedicated poet from Ukraine,and Steve Goldstein pressed interest. 55113; phone, (612) 646-1581. to the creation of theater that explores of the Philadelphia Inquirer will the ideas and cultures of Eastern Eu­ perform a benefit program. rope. Yara's first project, "A Light from UKRAINIAN NATIONAL WOMEN'S the East," developed and presented at La Mama ETC, examined the work of Business seminar LEAGUE OF AMERICA, INC/ Les Kurbas, a Ukrainian theater direc­ 108 Second Avenue, New York, New York 10003 tor from the 1920s. slated in Boston In solidarity with the project in Ukraine BELLS OF ^ GOH Productions, directed by BOSTON - The Massachusetts Bonnie Sue Stein, is an interdiscipli­ Soviet Trade Council and the New CHERNOBIL and in commemoration of the fifth nary performance company combining England Soviet Trade Council, a pro­ anniversary of the nuclear catastrophe, the Executive original music, dance, theater, pup­ ject of the Boston-Kiev Sister City petry, film and visual elements. The Association, will sponsor a breakfast Board of UNWLA calls upon all its branches and the main purpose is to promote interna­ and seminar, "Remember Chornobyl — Ukrainian community to continue its fund-raising tional cultural exchange from Asia and Business Opportunities," on April 26 at Eastern Europe. the World Trade Center, City View 1, efforts on behalf of the "Five Years After: An Evening of 164 Northern Ave. Registration will UNWLA MEDICAL FUND FOR CHILDREN OF CHERNOBIL Poetry and Music Commemorating begin at 7:30 a.m., breakfast and pro­ Chernobyl" will take place at the gram will commence at 7:45 a.m. A Contributions can be submitted to the Branches of Ukrainian Institute of America, 2 E. question and answer period will follow UNWLA or mailed to the Executive Office. 79th St., at Fifth Avenue. As s^ace is at 9 a.m. limited, reservations are advisable. For Featured speakers will discuss busi­ All contributions are tax-deductible. further information and reservations, ness opportunities in Ukraine and the please call (212) 777-3891. city of Boston's efforts to focus on Executive Board of UNWLA international trade in the emerging This event will follow a premiere of global economies of Eastern Europe "Johannes Dokchtor Faust, a Petrify­ and the Soviet Union. ing Puppet Comedye," presented by Speakers include Ambassador Guen- GOH Productions at Jan Hus Church, nadi Oudovenko, permanent represen­ 351 E. 74th St., on April 26 and tative of the Ukrainian SSR to the 27, and May 3 and 4 at 6 p.m. This United Nations; Sergei V. Koulik, CHERNOBYL-5YEARSAFTER f mkrionettfe play is abotit the infernal second secretary of the Ukrainian SSR powers unleashed by unbridled scienti­ to the United Nations; Christopher fic thirst and also is dedicated to the Thurlby, recent gubernatorial appointee Conference Chornobyl disaster. to the Massachusetts Office of Inter­ national Trade and Investment; and SATURDAY, APRIL 27 ' tMvERsnYOFOBrK^Gof Donald A. Gillis, executive director, Demo, fund-raiser Economic Development and Industrial Corporation of Boston (EDIC). 9 SPECIAL GUEST SPEAKERS ^ in Philadelphia The pre-registration fee is S25 for MSTC members, S30 for non-members. PHILADELPHIA - The Ukrainian At the door registration is S35. For ^ Dr. David Marples, University of Alberta ' Dr. Dmytro Hrodzinsky, Educational and Cultural Center further information contact Gerry Ukrainian Academy of Sciences, Kiev ' Dr. Len Ackland, Bulletin of the invites the Ukrainian American com­ Wright, (617) 524-5454; Qtrol Madsen, Atomic Scientists ' Dr. Yury Verlinsky and Dr. A. M Kuliev, Reproductive munity to participate in the observance (617) 628-9297; or Kimberly Shaknis, Genetics Institute at Illinois Masonic Medical Center ^ Dr. Andrew M. of the fifth anniversary of Chornobyl. (617)290-4990, ext. 4331. Davis, Rush-Presbyterian-St. Luke's Medical Center ' Dr. Gennady Grushovoy and Dr. Yourle Pankratz, Byelorussian Charitable Fund for the Children of Chernobyl, Minsk 9 Dr. Philip F. Gustafson and Dr. Gayle E. Mark Your Calendar Woloechak, Argonne National Laboratory. NATIONAL ф Ф DOCUMENTARY FILMS ON CHERNOBYL CHILDREN 9 PRESENTATIONS BY CHERNOBYL RELIEF AGENCIES 9 OF DATE: Saturday, April 27,1991

PLACE: University of Chicago, Law School Auditorium CHORNOBYL 1121 East 60th St, Chicago, IL RELIEF FUND TIME: 8:30 -9d0a.m.- Registration ft Continental Breakfast 9:00 -1:00 рлп. - Main Program CONVENTION 1.-00 -1:45 pan. - Informal Lunch with the Speakers 1:45 - 3:00 рлп. - Chernobyl Relief Agencies June 1 8t 2, 1991 Documentary Films Ramada Hotel TICKETS: S15.00 general admission; J5.00 students Route 10, East Hanover, New Jersey ^ Soviet and Western specialists from various fields will discuss the medical, environmental, social and political aftermath of the world's worst nuclear accident 9:00 a.m. — Registration and current plans for containing the damage and helping the victims. Program will 10:00 a.m. — Opening of Convention with be geared to the general public All interested persons are invited! keynote speaker For phone registration and payment by credit card, call 312/413-0459 Further information will be mailed. For more information, call Anna Mostovych at 708/359-3676 (201)376-5140 No. 16 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, APRIL 21,1991 13

of spreading information about Chor­ appealed for funds to seal reactor No. 4 The Chornobyl... nobyl. Could Zelenyi Svit, for example, Scientist... at the Chornobyl plant which he claims not publish a newspaper or monthly in still leaks radiation, reported TASS. (Continued from page 7) the English language on problems (Continued from page 1) Mr. Samoilenko said radiation was still Hunczak, has been instrumental in the resulting from Chornobyl? At present Research conducted in Ukraine, leaking from a 15,000-square-foot area U.S. Children of Chornobyl Relief only Moscow News and News from however, contradicts Mr. Ilyin's assess­ of the site and that it is feared that a Fund. A cargo planes is periodically Ukraine have attempted to highlight ment of the number of people suffering 2,000-ton piece of reactor debris hang­ filled up with medical equipment and such questions for the English-speaking from ChornobyFs effects. Dr. Yuriy ing inside the casing could fall, causing a other goods and flown to Kiev. It is a world. There is today a Press Center Spizhenko, Ukraine's minister of health, discharge of radioactive dust. commendable endeavor, but how does at the Foreign Affairs Ministry in Kiev warned in an interview with TASS that More than 10.5 million cubic feet of it relate, for example, to the Green­ that has been set up to serve interna­ the health of those affected by radia­ concrete was pured into constructing peace clinic being established in Kiev or tional journalists. Canada and the tion worsens. The disease rate among the 180-foot-tall shell enclosing the still them has grown by 45 percent as a proposed cooperative endeavor by the U.S. are in the process of opening smoldering reactor and the hundreds of compared to 1988, and the death rate- University of Toronto Faculty of Medi­ consulates. Here would be a prime rooms in the No. 4 power bloc. cine? The point here is that we have a ' means of imparting current and accu­ by 25 percent, he said. Alexander Borovi, a specialist in plethora of campaigns to aid Chornobyl rate information. About 93,500 people have been victims that has threatened to bureau­ Might it be possible, also, in the nuclear power engineering, said in an evacuated from the contaminated interview with TASS that 80 tons, or 96 crat ize the entire tragedy. future to replace Vestnik Chernobylia areas in the past five years; 1.5 million with a newspaper devoted to all ques­ percent of the original nuclear fuel, people still live in contaminated areas, remains in the reactor and that the Authority over Chornobyl tions of nuclear power in Ukraine? Is 460,000 of which are children, noted the there scope for a Chornobyl Interna­ danger of a leak "may increase as the A secondary problem is that of minister. structure grows older." authority over the Chornobyl region. In tional Center that is neither in Moscow Doctors have done a lot to fight 1989, I was given a tour of the Chor­ nor the Chornobyl zone, but which Chornobyl-related blood, thyroid and Victor Sidorenko, first deputy mi­ nobyl area of officials of the Prypiat would be in Kiev or Minsk, and provide endocrine diseases. Special clinics have nister of atomic energy and industry, Industrial and Research Association information for all those concerned been created to render outpatient told a news conference in Moscow, (formerly Kombinat). Mikhail Uma- with the effects of Chornobyl, whether medical treatment to those exposed to "There is no serious fear for the future, nets, director of the Chornobyl plant, they be nuclear physicists, environmen­ radiation. The Ukrainian diaspora in but it is too complicated to say every­ informed me that the Ministry of talists, journalists or students, Soviet, the United States and Canada have thing is O.K." He added that the Atomic Power and Industry remains in Ukrainian, or Western? provided a great amount of help, said collapse of a major portion of the control over the nuclear plant itself. The Ukraine, as we know, is swamped Dr. Spizhenko. structure would release radioactive two decrees issued by the Ukrainian with environmental problems and the dust, but such a scenario could not emphasis cannot be on Chornobyl An estimated 40,000 people are to be government in late January clearly resettled from the contaminated areas bring about anything like the original suggest that the republic intends to take alone. But at the same time there is a blast. need for a single-minded approach to of Kiev, Zhytomyr and Rivne oblasts. control itself in the near future and has The Ukrainian Ministry of Health plans established a committee for this pur­ Chornobyl. It is a unique tragedy. There Mr. Sidorenko said that the ultimate is no precedent for what occurred in to continue resettling people from pose. contaminated areas and providing safe solution will be the "green lawn" project But in the meantime — between 1991 Narodychi or Gomel; one cannot make — when the entire No. 4 power block at reference to past accidents and offer conditions for those who wish to stay and 1995, when the plant is taken out of there. Chornobyl is dismantled — in about a service, and if it happens by this time — remedies accordingly. And much of the 100 years. onus on assisting Chornobyl victims Yet the Chornobyl plant continues to the Western observer is perplexed by an function and the Soviet government apparent dual authority over the Chor­ must lie with the West, and thus the reality of a sovereign Ukraine must also plans to build second-generation nu­ BUYU.S. nobyl nuclear plant, its environs and the clear reactors of the same type as the city of Slavutych. Should a Western be made evident to Western govern­ SAVINGS BONDS ments. There is no hope to be derived Chornobyl reactor with Western safety For the current rate call... organization seeking to aid Chornobyl features, reported the Financial Times. victims deal with Moscow, through, for from continually dealing with Chor­ 1-800-US-BONDS nobyl through the avenue of Moscow. Yuri Samoilenko, general director of example the Ministries of Health and the Soviet Spetsatom organization, has Nuclear Power, or should it now deal I have seen the phrase "No More directly with Kiev or Minsk? Chornobyls" on more than one occasion. If intended as a guideline to future This is not a simple question. Many policy, it seems to me to be singularly Pavlychko, PliushcL UKRAINIAN of my associates seeking to attend optimistic. There are some 14 more MUSEUM academic functions in Kiev still have to Chornobyls in operation in the Soviet (Continued from page 4) obtain their visas through Moscow. Union, three of them in Ukraine and The program closed with the singing in New York And, according to recent Ukrainian four at Kursk, which is not so distant. of "Chervona Kalyna" and the Ukrai­ accounts, the proposed future evacua­ There will always be more Chornobyls nian national anthem. At a reception at has tions, deliveries of clean food, etc., to if one is speaking of accidents in the the Mazurkevich home following the contaminated areas as far afield as the nuclear power industry. Mankind sim­ program, guests had the opportunity to PART-TIME JOB Chernivtsi or Volyn oblasts cannot be ply cannot conceive of every possible converse privately with Messrs. Pavly­ financed entirely from the republican accident, and thus they will continue to chko, Pliushch and Yemets, who dis­ openings for budget. There is a consensus that occur. played a non-political side by leading Moscow should pay for such damage, Chornobyl itself has taught me to be those present in a number of songs, ENGLISH-UKRAINIAN having made all the decisions on nuclear skeptical; it has been a sobering expe­ including some rousing selections of the power plants in Ukraine for the past 12 rience. Perhaps the lesson to be learn­ Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA). Mr. 'clerical — to work with an years. But what does this mean in terms ed, from the Western perspective, is that Pavlychko also recited two of his j ethnographer from Ukraine of authority, temporarily and perma­ it is up to the individual scholar or poems. on the Museum's collections nently? observer to provide — insofar as pos­ On Sunday, April 14, Messrs. Pliu­ 'sales — Museum's Gift Shop Upon visiting Chornobyl, I was sible — accurate information about a shch, Pavlychko and Yemets were taken struck by the fact that the personnel at tragedy of this nature. to the Philadelphia Inquirer, where they Please call the station are adamantly opposed to It cannot be left either to govern­ were interviewed by editorial board THE UKRAINIAN MUSEUM taking the plant out of service. An ments, government agencies, or the member Trudi Rubin before departing (212) 228-0110 argument has been advanced that such a media. Glasnost on Chornobyl has for New York. step will cost the republic more than existed neither here nor in the West. And keeping it attached to the grid system. in the final analysis, that is why Chor­ So how is such authority to be asserted nobyl has been transformed from an HELP YOUR RELATIVES IN UKRAINE by a sovereign Ukraine or sovereign accident, to a disaster, and an interna­ Byelorussia, and in what time frame? tional tragedy. 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- 70 YEARS OF EXPERIENCE - Vera Kowbasnwk-Shumeyko, President begun the cause for his beatification. Today, Immaculate Conception Church serves more as a tourist attrac­ tion than a capacity-filled parish. 1991 ESCORTED GROUP TOURS According to its pastor, the Rev. An­ drew Wach, only 67 members are registered for a church which can easily PRICE EFFECTIVE MARCH 1, 1991 seat 500. Attendance skyrockets once a year, during an annual pilgrimage held during the third week of August. Mini Lviv 1 Lufthansa BUDAPEST - transit 17 Lilea Lufthansa July 18 air connex via Budapest Daily tours are held from noon to 8 KIEV May 16-29 LVIV - breakfast basis 18-27 July 18 - August 8 19-24 p.m. during the summer months. BUDAPEST 28-29 Cherkassy/Ka niv — Excursion 21/22 Sunday mass is scheduled for 10:45 14 Days 22 Days Я 730 SGL: 5175 POLTAVA 25-28 a.m. in the summer (beginning in June) KHARKIV 28-30 and 11:15 a.m. in the winter (beginning ZAPORIZHHA July 31 — August 1 Labor Day). Kashtan 1 Lufthansa BUDAPEST 21-22 KIEV 1-2 May 20 - June 3 LVIV 23-28 LVIV 2-5 KIEV/KANIV 28-31 15 Days BUDAPEST/Lake Balaton 6-8 VIENNA May 31 -June 3 53100 SGL: 5440 „ТАБІР ПТАШАТ" S2600 SGL: 5310 НА СОЮЗІВЦІ ЗАПОВНЕНИЙ Ruta 1 Lufthansa BUDAPEST - transit 23 Zirka Finnair LENINGRAD 23-25 Союзівка. - Пластове May 22 — June 5 LVIV 24-29 July 22 - August 8 LVIV 25-30 Плем'я „Перші Стежі", ор­ YALTA 15 Days TERNOPIL May 29 - June 2 18 Days July 30 - August 2 ганізатор табору для дітей KIEV/KANIV 3-5 KIEV 2-7 дошкільного віку, повідом­ S2290 SGL: 5250 HELSINKI 7-8 ляє, що „Табір Пташат-91" 52675 SGL: 5350 8 на Союзівці (перша і друга

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both students at Kiev University. Manhattan, Chelsea HUCULKA Alpinists... The Ukrainian alpinist team is Icon 8L Souvenir's Distribution coached by Sergey Bershov, 43, who FURNISHED 1 BEDROOM (Continued from page 5) 2860 Buhre Ave. Suite 2R topped Mt. Everest in 1982 and was on 800 SF co-op. Available June 1. For Bronx, NY КЩЙ tribute S15 (U.S.) per foot, per climber, all the tops of Mount Kanchenjanga in more information please call REPRESENTATIVE andWHOLESALER ofEMBROIDERED BLOUSES Donations in any amount are most wel­ 1989. Mr. Bershov's first wife died (313) 558-9202 after 4:00 p.m. for ADULTS and CHILDREN come. climbing in the Causus mountains of Tel. (212)931-1579 As the majority of the expedition is Ukraine in 1972. His second wife is also paid for in advance in rubles, admi­ a well-known USSR climber. They have UKRAINIAN SINGLES UKRAINIAN nistrative costs will be kept to a mini­ three children and live in Kharkiv, NEWSLETTER TYPEWRITERS mum. However, because the ruble is not Ukraine. Mr. Bershov authored the also other languages complete a convertible currency, the Chornobyl book, "Steps Along Vertical." Serving Ukrainian singles of all ages line ot office machines A Education Trust project has agreed that Michael Turkevich, 38, is the desig­ throughout the United States and Canada. equipment 15 percent of the first 5100,000 to be nated assistant coach for the climb up For information send a self-addressed JACOB SACHS stamped envelope to. 251 W 98th St. collected, up to a maximum of 515,000, the east face of Manaslu. Born in a New York. N. Y 10025 will be applied to help the climbers village in western Ukraine, Mr.Turke- Single Ukrainians Tel. (212) 222-6683 cover expenses. The majority of the vich topped Mt. Everest with Mr. P.O. Box 24733, Phila., Pa. 19111 7 days a week funds raised will be distributed directly Bershov in 1982 and all peaks of Mt. to at least two institutions in Ukraine Kanchenjanga in 1989. He is married, and one in Byelorussia — the two Soviet has two daughters, and also authored a republics hardest hit by the nuclear book on Alpinism. FRATERNAL accident. Dr. .Victor Pastuch, 38, a skilled 9 The Association for Medical Ser­ surgeon who is married and has a son, INSURANCE ACCOUNTANT vice, Technique and Equipment, Alex­ will also accompany the team, as will ander S. Sit пік, president. The funds Victor Grishchenko, 49, a 10-time Degreed Accountant with working knowledge of statutory accounting principles and will go to support Mr. Sitnik's efforts to winner of USSR championships on experience in putting together insurance company quarterly and annual reports. Posi­ continue computer tracking and Alpinism. tion requires knowledge of a computerized general ledger system and the ability to periodic reporting on the health of the In addition, there are many younger create and analyze management reports. approximately 500,000 Chornobyl but experienced members of the team. victims identified by the government in One climber, Mystislav Gorbenko, Salary is commensurate with experience. Good benefits. Pleasant working conditions. need of such tracking. participated in the 1990 Soviet-U.S.­ Send resume to: 9 Laboratory of the Radiology China expedition to Mt. Everest. The Research Institute of Pediatrics, youngest climber is 27-year-old Aleksey Alexander Blahitka Obstetrics and Gynecology, Dr. Makarov. Ukrainian National Association Alexander Jacovlev, chief of the labo­ Information and sponsorship in ratory. Dr. Jacovlev's nearly five-year Ukraine are being coordinated by 30 Montgomery Street effort to study the health effects of Ukrimpex in Kiev. 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April 21 WASHINGTON: The Chornobyl PREVIEW OF EVENTS Committee of Washington will screen NEWARK, N J.: The recent film from Chornobyl films at the American Uni­ Ukraine, "Chorna Dolyna," about Ko- versity's School of Visual Communica­ lie Cathedral. Assembly will take place at zak Otaman Ivan Sirko, will be shown at member Chornobyl, will be featured on tions at 8 p.m. For more information 7 p.m. at both St. Volodymyr's Orthodox 4 p.m. in the auditorium of St. John's the Janine Graf Show, WEZE 1260 AM, contact Tamara Gallo, (202) 547-0018. Ukrainian Catholic School on Sanford at 2-3 p.m. Mr. Gamota will discuss the Cathedral and Ss. Volodymyr and Olha Avenue. A meeting with the director of committee's "Earth Day — Remember­ Catholic Church. At 7:15 p.m. the the film, Boris Shylenko, will take place ing Chornobyl" event. candle-light march will proceed towards МауЗ after the showing. Adults, S6; children St. Nicholas Cathedral, where at 7:30 p.m. the moleben will begin. Clergy from under 10, S2.50. Presented by Prolog PARMA, Ohio: In commemoration of all Ukrainian churches will attend. After Video. For more information call (201) April 25 the fifth anniversary of Chornobyl, Dr. the moleben the program will be conti­ 622-0542. David Marples will be the featured ARLINGTON, Va.: Nottingham nued outdoors (church steps) where the speaker at the Cleveland City Club Elementary School children will plant a main speaker will be Archbishop Con- April 21-28 Forum, which has had a national repu­ Chornobyl tree to commemorate the fifth stantine of the Ukrainian Autocephalous tation as a citadel of free speech since anniversary of Chornobyl and Arbor Orthodox Church. Donations for the NEW YORK: An exhibit of works by 1912, at noon. At 7:30 p.m. the Ukrai­ Day at 9:30 a.m. at Nottingham Children of Chornobyl Relief Fund will two artists from Lviv, Volodymyr Stet- nian National Women's League of Ame­ Elementary School. For more informa­ be collected by Chicago women's or­ sula and Daria Naumko, will open at 1 rica, Branch 12, in cooperation with the tion contact Tamara Galio, (202) 547- ganizations. The entire community is p.m. in the gallery of the Ukrainian United Ukrainian Organizations of 0018. invited to participate. For further infor­ Greater Cleveland, will sponsor a public Artists Association, 135 Second Ave., mation, contact (312) 693-5757. fourth floor. Gallery hours: Monday- lecture by Dr. Marples titled "Chor­ Friday, 6-8 p.m., Saturday and Sunday, nobyl Legacy — Long-Term Global 1-8 p.m. For further information call April 26 NEW YORK: The Arts Club Theater, Effects" at St. Josaphat's Cathedral (212) 535-8206. Goh Productions and the Yara Arts (front building), 5720 State Road. Sug­ CHICAGO: The Chornobyl Commemo­ Group in association with the Ukrainian gested donation is S5, students free. ration Committee, sponsored by UCCA Institute of America present "Five Years April 24 and UACC, will mark the fifth anniver­ After — An Evening of Poetry and Music sary of the Chornobyl nuclear disaster Commemorating Chornobyl" with ar­ May 4 BOSTON: Alexander Gamota, event with an ecumenical moleben service and tists representing Czecho-Slovakia, director of Boston's Committee to Re- candle-light vigil at St. Nicholas Catho- " Estonia, Latvia, Poland and Ukraine at 8 PASSAIC, N.J.: The Ukrainian Ameri­ p.m. at the institute, 2 E. 79th St. Tickets can Veterans Post 17 is sponsoring its are S7. For ticket reservations, call (212) annual installation dinner/dance com­ 777-3891. memorating the 28th anniversary of Post 17 and honoring the Ladies Auxiliary on its 25th anniversary, at the Chris Club, Schedule of Tennis Tournaments Clifton, at 7:30 p.m. Admission is S20. April 27 For more information, call Eugene at Soyuzivka in 1991 Sagasz, chairman, (201) 778-7284. DALLAS, Texas: The Ukrainian Dan­ -^rdto3F353?3S^^ cers of Dallas will perform at the Dallas International Bazaar at 6:30 p.m. Over 30 May 5 July 6-7 - USCAK-East, Soyuzivka countries will be represented at the August 10-11 - USCAK Doubles, Soyuzivka bazaar with their food and craft booths, NEW YORK: The Supreme Executive August 31-September 2 - USCAK, Soyuzivka as well as performing arts groups. Committee of the Ukrainian National September 14-15 - Plast Doubles, Soyuzivka Association and the Ukrainian Institute October 12-13 - KLK Tournament, Soyuzivka of America are sponsoring a meeting and April28 reception with Myron B. Kuropas on the occasion of the publication of his book "Ukrainian Americans: Roots and Aspi­ PARMA, Ohio: Branch 8 of the Ukrai­ rations 1884-1954" at 2 p.m. at the nian National Women's League of Ame­ TORGSYN ТОРГСИН TORGSYN йЯййм. 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