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LVIII No. 4 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JANUARY 28,1990 50 cents Human chain links multitudes across Ukraine JERSEY C1TY, NJ. - Multitudes we are a nation united against the first person in the chain was Kiev poet Church Synod: first of smiling, flag-waving Ukrainians, problems of Chornobyl, economic and Rukh head ivan Drach, followed estimated by various sources at up to problems, ecological problems and the by members of Rukh's Secretariat, then since liquidation half a million, joined hands on January party apparatus," Mr. Yavorivsky, a clergy and laypeopJe from the All- ROME - The first council of the 21 for 300 miles between Kiev and Lviv USSR people's deputy from Kiev, was Ukrainian Orthodox Brotherhood, Ukrainian Greek-Catholic Church since in a symbolic human chain commemo– quoted as saying. followed by activists from regional the Church's liquidation in 1946 con– rating the brief period of Ukrainian The day's events began in the Ukrai– Rukh organizations and various infor– vened in Lviv on Tuesday, January 23, unity and independence over 70 years nian capital, Kiev, with a moleben mal associations from all over Ukraine, and declared the 1946 synod invalid and ago, reported the Associated Press, the celebrated by priests from the Ukrai– Kharkiv, Poltava, Odessa, the Crimea, uncanonical, reported the press office of Ukrainian Press Agency and St. Sophia nian Autocephalous Orthodox Church Donetske, Dnipropetrovske, Myko– the Ukrainian Catholic Church based of Canada. at 11 a.m. in front of St. Sophia's Sobor, layiv and ivano-Frankivske. in Kiev the here. The human chain, organized by the reported the UPA of London. Since 8 route extended from St. Sophia's The council meeting, held at the Popular Movement of Ukraine for a.m. thousands of people had come to square down volodymyr Street, Shev– Church of the Transfiguration also Perebudova or Rukh, appeared to have the square in front of St. Sophia's and chenko Boulevard and victory Pros– declared that the Church will now successfully linked hundreds of thou– all along the planned route of the pect toward the main westbound high- function as a fully legal entity within the sands of people across the 300-mile human chain by bus, train, trolley, way linking all the cities. Smiling Soviet Union. stretch from St. Sophia's Square in Kiev private car and foot. Special busloads of militiamen were extremely helpful in Archbishop volodymyr Sterniuk of westward through the cities of Zhy– people were organized by Rukh and keeping order to make the occasion a Lviv, ranking prelate of the Ukrainian tomyr, Rivne, Ternopil and Lviv, and other informal organizations, such as success, reported the UPA. Catholic Church in Ukraine and the even made a loop to ivano-Frankivske. the Ukrainian Helsinki Union and the The hour-long human chain was official representative of Cardinal The St. Sophia Religious Associa– Ukrainian National Democratic followed by public rallies in cities along Myroslav 1 van Lubachivsky, presided tion reported that 500,000 people League, to fill in gaps along the route. the route, and other cities of Ukraine, over the meeting. Other bishops present participated, while the UPA reported The human chain began at noon as including Kharkiv and Dnipropetrov– were Sofron Dmyterko, bishop of the 250,000 and the AP said 100,000 people, church bells rang in Kiev and Lviv. The (Continued on page 2) eparchy of ivano-Frankivske; ivan waving Ukrainian blue-and-yellow Semediy, bishop of Uzhhorod and flags and banners proclaiming, "For a Mukachiv; Pavlo vasylyk, coadjutor United, independent Ukraine," ga– and bishop of the eparchy of ivano- thered for this peaceful demonstration Human chain manifestation; Frankivske; and Julian voronovsky, of national unity and pride. auxiliary bishop of the archeparchy of Rukh organized the officially-sanc– a triumph for the Rukh Lviv. tioned chain, commemorating both the An estimated 200 Ukrainian Catholic January 22, 1918 proclamation of by Bohdan Nahaylo affirm Ukraine's desire for sovereign priests attended the meeting along with Ukrainian independence and the act of statehood, promote unity around faithful of the Ukrainian Catholic re-unification of Ukrainian lands one "A success that went beyond all this principle, and in doing so to Church who were represented by ivan year later, because "we felt the hunger expectations." "Ukraine has finally legitimatize the brief period of Ukrai– Gel, head of the Committee for the for unity," volodymyr Yavorivsky, a awoken." "We have renewed our nian independent statehood which Defense of the Ukrainian Catholic leading Rukh activist, told the AP. sense of national statehood." "Spring until now has officially been off (Continued on page 10) "We needed to feel we are a people, has finally arrived in Kiev." This is limits. how the organizers of the human Although some of the organizers chain linking Kiev and Lviv des– later admitted that they had their cribed Sunday's impressive manifes– doubts about whether the manifesta– Ukrainian orthodoxlirchbishop' tation of Ukrainian national unity tion would receive mass support on and assertiveness to mark the 72nd the more Russified eastern section of of Australia7New Zealand dies anniversary of Ukrainian indepen– the route, their call drew an enthu– dence and the 71st anniversary of siastic response throughout the re- SOUTH BOUND BROOK, NJ. Ukraine's unification. public and even beyond its borders. - Archbishop Wolodymyr Didowycz, The peaceful demonstration, The human chain was not only prelate of the Australia^ New Zealand which was supported by hundreds of completed, in the west it was extend– Eparchy of the Ukrainian Autocepha– thousands, was called by the Popu– ed in a loop from Lviv to ivano- lous Orthodox Church, died on Satur– lar Movement of Ukraine for Re- Frankivske. Manifestations of soli– day, January 20, at the age of 65. News structuring — Rukh, the Ukrainian darity were organized from Kharkiv of his death was released here by the Helsinki Union, and other indepen– in the Russified eastern part of Metropolitan's Chancery at the Ukrai– dent Ukrainian organizations, in Ukraine to Mukachiv ш the ext– nian Orthodox Center. their appeals to the inhabitants of reme west, by Ukrainian societies in Funeral services for the deceased Ukraine, the organizers called on all Moscow, Riga and vilnius, and archeparch will take place in Munich, who regard Ukraine as their home- throughout the Ukrainian diaspora, West Germany, on Saturday and Sun- land, regardless of nationality, reh– from Canada to Australia. day, January 27-28. Burial, however, gion or political affiliation, to unity During last week, Radio Liberty's will be at St. Andrew's Ukrainian around the platform of democracy Ukrainian Service received reports Orthodox Cemetery in South Bound and Ukrainian sovereignty. from Kiev, Ternopil, Rivne and Lviv Brook, NJ. The idea of forming a 500-kilo– and other cities about the prepara– Services at St. Andrew's Ukrainian meter-long human chain from Kiev tions for Sunday's action. Thousands" Orthodox Center will be held as follows: to Lviv (respectively, the former of Ukrainian blue and yellow flags Friday, February 2, 7 p.m. archepisco– capitals of the shortlived Ukrainian and armbands were prepared, and pal panakhyda; Saturday, February 3,9 National Republic and the Western many hundreds of buses and private a.m. archepiscopal divine liturgy and Ukrainian National Republic), was cars organized to transport people to funeral liturgy, followed by interment. evidently borrowed from the highly locations along the route of the The traditional post-funeral dinner successful Baltic example set last human chain. During the week and (pomynky) will be held afterwards at August on the 50th anniversary of on Sunday itself, the authorities are the Home of Ukrainian Culture, also the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact. The reported not to have interfered. located at the Ukrainian Orthodox aim of the manifestation was to (Continued on page 8) Center. Archbishop Wolodymyr Didowycz 2 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JANUARY 28, їмо NO.4

A GLIMPSE OF SOVIET REALITY Russian Bible Society is formed in Moscow Zhytomyr residents express concern LONDON - On the initiativeof the Rudenko as general director of the Baptist-based "Protestant" publishing Russian Bible Society and Aleksander over Chornobyl's radioactive fallout group, a Russian Bible Society was Semchenko as treasurer. Both are formed on January 13, in Moscow, Baptists and founding members of the by Dr. David Marples Brovchenko, a correspondent for the Keston College recently reported. Protestant publishing group, which is newspaper, observes that when he The inaugural meeting, attended by an independent organization formed by Over the past two years, the Soviet attended a meeting in Luhyny, attended 20 members representing various Chris– members of registered Baptist churches. authorities have revealed that the effects by both Mr. Chumak and local resi– tian denominations, also hosted non- Protestant has been critical of the of radioactive fallout from the 1986 dents, it was as though an invisible Christian intellectuals, academics and (Continued on page 10) Chomobyl accident were much more barrier lay between the two sides: "One members of the Congress of People's widespread than was initially acknow– attacked, the other defended." The Deputies, as well as the former chair- ledged. The name of the town and raion correspondent "sympathized sincerely" man of the Council of Religious Affairs, Azerbaidzhan refugees of Narodychi have gained international with the population of Luhyny Raion, Konstantin Kharchev. attention as areas in which the popula– especially in a situation where no The society has been registered as an arrive in Ukraine tion has been found to be living in a definitive conclusions have been reach– independent organization under the JERSEY C1TY, N.J. - More than zone of high radiation background and ed about the situation. umbrella of the Soviet Charity and in which clean food supplies are in short All views on the question of the 3,500 people have been resettled in the Health Fund (Miloserdiye). it will be Kiev okruh from war-torn Azerbaid– supply. More recently there have e– Chomobyl fallout, he concluded, must giving a proportion of its income from merged reports from other parts of have as their common denominator, the zhan, Radio Moscow reported on Bible sales to the fund. The society plans Wednesday, January 24. Zhytomyr Oblast, indicating an equally truth. However, the problem has been to open an office in the near future and severe predicament. that those investigating the radiation the publish the number of a bank According to Maj. Gen. Kurdakov, As the year 1989 draws to a close, conditions in Zhytomyr Oblast have account to receive donations to enable it chief of the tactical headquarters and there have been few signs that these rarely been willing to publicize the to place its work on a firm foundation. chief of the okruh's rear services, the effects of Chomobyl are approaching a results. tactical headquarters helps provide the resolution, instead, the local residents in Korosten Raion, in this same The society hopes to be able to set up arrivals with the barest essentials and appear to be at loggerheads with virtually region, the outlook if anything appears a printing press. According to the puts them up in military sanatoria, rest all those authorities dealing officially to be even bleaker. Korosten, with a po– information Service of the Evangelical houses and hotels. A one-time money with the effects of radiation. pulation of about 75,000, is one of the Alliance in West Germany, the society grant is given to each family along with in late November, S. vasiliuk, a many "new villages" that have now ap– intends to publish both Bibles and a document certifying that its members radiological engineer from the Luhyny peared on the "map" of radioactive fall- Christian books at affordable prices are refugees. raion of Zhytomyr Oblast, wrote an out. The problems were discussed and wishes to see the Bible available in The Soviet media has also reported angry letter to Radianska Ukraina, in during a visit here of К.І. Masyk, the the minority languages of the Soviet that the port city of Odessa has also which he complained that the situation chairman of the Permanent Extraordi– Union. taken in a large number of refugees in that raion had been misrepresented nary Commission with the Ukrainian The council has appointed Anatoliy from Azerbaidzhan. by v.K. Chumak, the director of the government, which is investigating the Center for Ecological Problems of effects of Chomobyl. refuseniks, in a show of unity, reported Atomic Energy with the Ukrainian As in Narodychi, the people are short Human chain... the AP. Representatives of various Academy of Sciences. Mr. Chumak and of clean food supplies, particularly fruit (Continued from page 1) nationalities living in Ukraine also a team of scientists had visited the raion and vegetables, it was also reported that ske. The 4 p.m. mass meeting in Kiev participated, including Russians, Poles, and established that only nine of 50 local villagers are obliged to wipe their drew between 80,000 and 100,000 to St. Jews, Armenians, Bulgarians and villages were suffering from cesium hands in c:lay since there is no soap Sophia's square, where they were ad- others. contamination of the soil of over five available, nor are there public baths. dressed by Kiev poet and head of the in Lviv, where the chain was re– curies per square kilometer. Data from v.M. Benyo, the first party secretary Taras Shevchenko Ukrainian Language portedly three columns deep, a moleben a research station in Zhytomyr, he of Korosten Raion, stated, "Our pro– Society Dmytro Pavlychko and heard a was celebrated by Ukrainian Catholic pointed out, revealed that more than 50 blems cannot be put off until tomor– reading of the full text of the Fourth clergy at 11 a.m. at the so-called rock, percent of the raion's arable land row." Children's health is the primary Universal of January 22, 1918, which the site of the planned Taras Shev– exceeds this figure, encompassing 27 concern, but the raion does not even proclaimed Ukrainian independence. chenko monument in the city's center. population points. Before the human chain began at noon, have a hospital. Those who work in Among the 32 speakers who address– A similar discrepancy has emerged Korosten, in his view, should be per– vyacheslav Chornovil, a UHU activist, ed the banner and flag-waving crowd reportedly addressed the crowd at the also with the radionuclide content of mitted to take 60 days of vacation, and were Kiev writer Oles Honchar, UHU milk. According to the Chumak in– in villages where radiation levels pose a site of the Shevchenko monument, president Lev Lukianenko, Messrs. where the chain was to end, but was quiry, only in two villages did tests of health hazard, then the population must Drach and Yavorivsky, Mykhailo milk indicate levels of contamination be evacuated. spontaneously extended southeast to Horyn, as well as activists of the ivano-Frankivske. of more than 50 percent, while the І.М. Chyryk, the first secretary of the Ukrainian Catholic Church and the average for the remainder was said to be city party committee, commented that Up to 100,000 people reportedly Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox attended a mass meeting at 5 p.m. in 36.8 percent. all of the people are bringing their Church. Yet the raion's bacteriological labo– problems to the authorities, "but we are Lviv, which was addressed once again ratory has conducted probes which not all-powerful." The party itself is During the Kiev rally, the militia, to by Mr. Chornovil, Lviv Rukh head indicate that 80 percent of milk samples basically ignorant about the true situa– the disappointment of the crowd, took Orest viokh, Lviv writer Roman Lub– from the private sector were found to be tion, and dare not mislead citizens for down from the roof of a building a large kivsky, and representatives of Jewish over the maximum limit for radionu– fear of being unable "to look them in the banner with the slogan, "Out with the and Armenian cultural societies, and clide content, in some cases by more eye" the next day. occupiers!" guests from Lithuania. The crowd in Kiev reportedly in– than 24 times. The correspondent reporting on this Reports indicated that the human cluded children and the elderly, handi– chain was solid all throughout the The cesium content of vegetables and meeting, v. Skoropadska, provides a capped, Hari Krishnas and Jewish potatoes was said to be below normal, personal footnote to the effect that such route. but according to Mr. vasiliuk, the difficulties have been dismissed as procurement office has refused to emanating from "radiophobia." She accept such crops from local farms recalled, however, the haunting words because they are unfit for consumption. of a woman at one of the many meetings Ukrainian Week! FOUNDED 1933 Most controversial is the individual in affected villages of Zhytomyr Oblast: internal and external irradiation of "1 am still young, 1 want to live, and І An English;language Ukrainian newspaper published by the Ukrainian National Luhyny residents. Mr. Chumak pro– want my children to live. But when І Association inc., a non-profit association, at 30 Montgomery St., Jersey City, N.J. vides an average figure of 0.28 rems per give my children a glass of milk, 1 feel 07302. year, which is below the official limit of treacherous, because 1 dp not knowhow 35 repis per person over the course of a much cesium it contains. І have already Second-class postage paid at Jersey City, N.J. 07302. 70-year lifespan. in contrast, laborato– been in the hospital three tirries, and so (1SSN - 0273-9348) ries under the jurisdiction of the Ukrai– have my children. Yet before the Chor– nian Ministry of Health Protection nobyl tragedy, we were all healthy." Yearly subscription rate: S20; for UNA members - Щ. have established that resident of this As he quotation indicates, the latest Also published by the UNA: Svoboda, a Ukrainian-language daily newspaper. raion will likely receive on average 2 to 3 revelations have fueled the psychologi– rems per year, or up to six times the cal tension prevailing in these villages of The Weekly and Svoboda: UNA: maximum permissible. northern Ukraine. Ms. Skoropadska (201)434-0237, -0807, -3036 (201) 451-2200 Mr. vasiliuk maintains that the real maintains that simply to blame the local population for the onset of radiophobia Postmaster, send address figure is considerably higher than this changes to: level, and notes that the local residents is offensive. Rather the Ukrainian Editor: Roma Hadzewycz have begun to complain only now republic, and quite possibly the entire The Ukrainian Weekly Associate Editors: Marta Koiomayets P.O. Box 346 Chrystyna Lapychak rather than earlier because it has finally country must be mobilized to resolve Jersey City, NJ. 07303 been made evident that the measures the crisis, not sparing expenses. TTie taken thus far to alleviate their predica– latter, in her view, become immaterial The Ukrainian Weekly, January 28,1990, No. 4, vol. mil ment have been woefully inadequate. when one is speaking of the health of Copyright 1990 by The Ukrainian Weekly f in а сбЙйтеМагубп this fetter, L. 'r .. TCdntinued on page 14) "„ '" No. 4 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JANUARY 28,1990 з Chornobyl fund's second shipmentCanada' s Ukrainians join in to leave for Ukraine in February symbolic link with Ukraine JERSEY C1TY, N.J. - On Fe– will also include both new and used by Andrij Hluchowecky which protects the leading role of the bruary 10, a chartered 727 cargo children's clothing and toys. Шгаіпіап information Bureau Communist Party. plane will leave Newark interna– The goods were donated by phar– in related news, Canadian Parlia– tional Airport in New Jersey, carry– maceutical companies, charitable OTTAWA— A human chain to mark mentarian, Dr. Rey Pagtakhan, repre– ihg medicine, vitamins, bandages, organizations and private indivi– the 71st anniversary of the reunifica– senting the riding of Winnipeg North, powdered milk and juices, peanut duals, or purchased using monies tion of Ukrainian lands, drew close to commemorated the January 22anniver- butter and dry soups for the young donated to both funds. 100 Ukrainian Canadians to the Eternal sary with a timely statement delivered in victims of the Chornobyl nuclear The cargo plane will fly from Flame on Parliament Hill in Canada's the House of Commons calling upon accident in Ukraine. Newark, N.J., to Toronto, where it capital on Sunday afternoon, January the Canadian government to take Organized by the New Jersey- will pick up additional cargo, arid 21. appropriate steps to sustain the pro– based Children of Chornobyl Relief then on to Kiev and Lviv, where the Coordinated through the offices of gress of freedom in the Ukrainian Fund and the victims of Chornobyl supplies will be distributed. (Ori– the Ukrainian information Bureau in republic. Ottawa, the rally, responding to appeals Relief Fund in Canada, the transport (Continued on page 13) Dr. Pagtakan stated: issued by the Popular Movement of Ukraine for Perebudova (Rukh) and "Mr. Speaker, today marks the 71st the World Congress of Free Ukrainians anniversary of a very special event in (WCFU), was organized to show solida– Ukraine, the creation of a united Ukrai– rity with the half million people in nian National Republic. However, the Ukraine who formed a similar human decades following that event were tragic chain along a 300-mile stretch between ones. the cities of Kiev and Lviv. "But today we are witnessing an unprecedented revival of independence in its appeal, the Rukh called on the in Ukraine. So it is a particularly fitting Ukrainian population to join in a time for everyone to celebrate with human chain, beginning at noon on special optimism one of the greatest January 21, that would stretch east to moments in the history of that country. west from Kiev, the historic capital of "To commemorate that event, Ukrai– the Ukrainian National Republic, to nians formed a human chain between Lviv, the capital of the Western Ukrai– Lviv and Kiev. Also yesterday, Cana– nian National Republic, which were re- dians of Ukrainian origin formed a united in a single sovereign state on similarly symbolic human link by the January 22, 1919. For its part, the eternal flame on Parliament Hill to WCFU called for separate actions in the reaffirm their quest for independence West to be taken to signify solidarity for their country of birth and heritage. with Ukraine. "Today 1 call on the prime minister in an open letter to Secretary of State and his government to commemorate for External Affairs Joe Clark, the rally this special Ukrainian day by taking participants urged the Canadian go– bold and determined steps to sustain the vernment to respond favorably to the progress of freedom in Ukraine. We in national aspirations of Ukrainians and Seen with a poster urging "Help Ukraine," are volunteers affiliated with the Parliament shall keep the flame of that other nationalities comprising the great national event forever burning in Children of Chornobyl Relief Fund: Prof. Roman Уогопка, Nadia Soviet Union and to ask Mr. Gorba– Matkiwsky and the Rev. Bohdan Lukie. the hearts and minds of all freedom chev to renounce the USSR's Article 6 loving Canadians." AFL-СЮ extends a hand to struggling coal miners from Ukraine Strike committee forms and other technical equipment, and thus have a in an interview with The Washington Post, another communications network between the coal miners not miner, Oleg Butrov, from inty near vorkuta sum– independent trade union only in Ukraine, but throughout the Soviet Union, the marized the delegation's plans for a union that, like delegation to the United States is composed of men Solidarity, will ease the workers'plight, and be open to by Marta Kolomayets with a mission willing to tackle this difficult challenge. accepting financial aid yet will not seek to overthrow They were the leaders of the strikes in the summer the government. He sees that "the role of the indepen– JERSEY C1TY, N.J. - 1990 started off on a and now they have emerged as the leaders in workers' historic note at The Ukrainian Weekly as four coal dent union is to create a parallel structure to the offi– rights, inspiring them to develop relations with the miners from Ukraine, representing the first unofficial, cial Soviet trade unions, if we succeed, we will open AFL-СЮ and American labor unions, which can help informal group of democratic workers to travel to the the road for other trade unions in other areas. Unions West on official business, visited the editorial offices them receive financial and technical aid. in our country do not defend workers, they defend the on Tuesday,0 January 2. "Our membership in the new, independent union is government from workers. That is no longer satisfac– limited (estimates include up to 15,000 workers) The four men, Borys Hrebeniuk, Serhiy Naydenov tory," Mr. Butrov told Frank Swoboda of The Post. because few know of our existence. We don't have the and Gennadiy Sharov of Donetske, and Oleh Kul of "Currently, Ukraine is seeing a lot of change; the Chervonohrad, part of a nine-man delegation partici– newspapers, the copiers, the equipment for communi– people, they are no longer passive. Earlier, they were pating in an international visitor program co- cation between ourselves, to spread the news of our passive because they believed that nothing would sponsored by the AFL-СЮ and the United States union to other workers. We'd like to reach the level of change, but now with upcoming elections, the people information Agency, began their monthlong trip the official unions, so that we can be worthy partners see that they may be able to change their lives. They are discussing their hopes: to establish an independent in competition for cooperatives,"said Mr. Naydenov, actually thinking who they are voting for and how trade union, to form cooperatives that would focus on 30, a miner and pit foreman at the Donetskugol mine. (Continued on page 10) workers' needs and provide better conditions in the coal mines of the Soviet Union, as well as to seek material aid to help them obtain such results. They first met each other this summer during the coal miners' strikes that shut down the Siberian coalfields in July and spread to the Donets Basin closing eight mines in the Soviet Union's richest coalfield. Complaining about food shortages, as well as soap shortages, 10-year waiting lists for apartments, dangerous and outdated mine technology, insufficient pay and vacation time, to name but a few grievances, the Ukrainian miners saw problems that bind. "When you have 300,000 workers expressing mistrust in the government, in the ministry, and you demonstrate your loss of faith in those people and their policies, yet over a period of time, you see that nothing has changed, no one has been removed from their positions, you begin to look for alternatives, said the 34-year-old Mr. Hrebeniuk, who is currently the chairman of the Donetske Territorial Trade Union Miners' Organization, and the cooperative firm Saturn. Realizing that they are have stiff competition from na'Hadzewycz the government's official trade unions, which have Coal miners from Ukraine who visited the offices of The Weekly are (from left) Gennadiy Sharov, Serhiy access to government funds, use of printing facilities Naydenov, Oleh Kul and Borys Hrebeniuk. 4 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JANUARY 28,1990 No. 4

Kulchitsky is elected in Warren Toys for Children of Chornobyl to Michigan State House seat campaign ends, shipments begin

by Marianna Liss by Khristina Lew dren's hospital in the Minsk raion of WARREN, Mich. - A cheering Kiev by Nadia McConnell and Andrew election-day crowd greeted D. Roman WASHINGTON - The "Toys Futey of Washington. Kulchitsky, a Republican, after he won for Children of Chornobyl" cam– Accompanied by Yavorivsky a seat in the Michigan State House on paign initiated by schools of Ukrainian January 16. The newly elected state studies concluded in a flurry of gift Mrs. McConnell and Mr. Futey were representative won by a moderate 53 wrapping and toy packaging during the accompanied by volodymyr Yavoriv– percent margin in the 25th District, first week of January. The campaign sky, a representative from Ukraine to which covers the northern section of collected both toys and money to the Soviet Congress of People's De– Warren, a near suburb of Detroit. purchase toys for the young victims of puties and leader of Rukh in Kiev. Mrs. Out of a total vote of 16,626 Mr. the Chornobyl nuclear power plant McConnell and Mr. Futey were warmly received by the doctors of the children's Kulchitsky won 8,906 votes. His rival, catastrophe. hospital where children are being treat– Councilman Charles Busse, a Demo– Toys and donations were received ed for radiation-related sicknesses crat, had 7,340 votes, and the Liberta– from numerous cities in the United resulting from the Chornobyl accident. rian candidate, Ronal Burcham, got States - Washington, Boston, Chi– 393. cago, Cleveland, Detroit, Los Angeles, Mrs. McConnell, who is visiting Mr. Kulchitsky, a Ukrainian Ameri– Morris Plains and Newark, N.J., Phila– family in Ukraine, queried doctors can originally from Pennsylvania, was delphia, Phoenix, Ariz., Sarasota, Fla. about the problems of treating children asked what his election meant to Ea– — as well as from Ontario. with radiation-related sicknesses, and in stern Europeans and Ukrainians in the Roman Kupchinsky of Orange, N.J., turn was asked questions about U.S.– largely Eastern European district. who donated space for storage of the Canadian efforts to help victims of "Гт going to make sure our Eastern toys prior to their shipment to Ukraine, Chornobyl. Mrs. McConnell noted the European brothers are well represented. doctor's questions and promised to Mr. Kulchitsky's win was soon clouded estimated that the campaign amassed But the bottom line is that Гт here to half a ton of toys. direct them to the appropriate people in represent...the people in our district," by Mr. Dutko's apparent suicide, two the United States and Canada upon her he said. days after the election. Shipment to Ukraine return. Republicans were ebullient at the The scandal and the off-year cam– The toys will accompany a shipment win. The State House minority whip, paign may have played a part in his As for the "Toys for Children of of vitamins, medicines and medical Rep. Dave Jaye, happy to have one election, but Mr. Kulchitsky is not Chornobyl" campaign itself, Marika equipment being organized by the Chil– more Republican in the House, corn- home free. Within six months he has to Jurach, the director of Ridna Shkola in dren of Chornobyl Relief Fund based in pared Warren to Eastern Europe. again campaign for the same seat when Washington, which initiated the "Toys New Jersey. According to Prof. Taras "No longer will we (Eastern Euro– regular elections will be held. Not only for Children of Chornobyl" collection Hunczak, one of several people over- peans) be ... taken for granted by the is the remaining term short, as a fresh- campaign, stated, "For a project that seeing the coordination of the ship– tax-spend liberal Democrats. We want man legislator Mr. Kulchitsky is limited lasted for only a month, 1 am pleased ment, "There will be a substantial a choice," he declared. in what he can do. with its excellent results and with the amount of vitamins and medicines in Will the Republican Party pay more involvement of so many children from Mr. Jaye said he believed that one this shipment, whose collection is being attention to ethnics after this election, such a variety of cities." man can make a tremendous difference organized with the assistance of the he was asked. "You bet!"said Mr. Jaye in the Michigan House, even in such a Catholic Medical Relief Mission." Plans for next drive emphatically. short time. Macomb County Republican chair- She added, "Although the toy collec– Mr. Kulchitsky, on the other hand, A shipment of vitamins, medical man, Dean Ausilio echoed Mr. Jaye, ting aspect of the campaign is over, we wants to do as much as possible. He equipment, children's clothing, canned but stated that Republicans had an are examining options for next year's hopes to work on property tax reform, food, and implements for the handi– excellent record on Eastern Europe, Christmas season, which will include education and anti-crime measures. For capped is being organized by the and "1 look forward to the continuing expanding the number of cities parti– Mr. Kulchitsky the bottom line is the Friends of Rukh - victims of Chor– relationship throughout the years." cipating, and seeking corporate spon– bottom line: he wants waste cut and nobyl Relief Fund in Canada under the sors and contributions, in the mean- Democrats were more subdued. good programs promoted. But he did direction of Erast Huculak, and will be Asked what the win means for the De– time, we will concentrate on the pen-pal not give many specifics about his combined with the shipment organized component of the campaign." mocratic Party, Carmell Sabaugh, the education and property tax proposals. in the United States. The combined Warren City Clerk remarked: "1 think it shipment of medical equipment, chil– showed that the people in Warren will However, Mr. Kulchitsky did go into dren's clothing and toys is scheduled to vote for the person and not so much for some detail about his anti-crime pack- be delivered to Ukraine in early Fe– the party ... A lot of Democrats voted age, it includes pushing for the death Alexander Oryshkevych, 4, a student bruary, where it will be met in Kiev by of Ridna Shkola in Washington, joined for Roman Kulchitsky." penalty in Michigan, a "no-knock" law representatives of Rukh, who will This was Mr. Kulchitsky's second which would allow police to force their his friends one evening in early January distribute the collected items to hospi– to wrap toys. He later told Ms. Jurach attempt at the 25th District seat, in way into a home without announcing tals. 1988, he campaigned against the incum– their presence, limited wiretapping, a that he thought that he would be bent Rep. Dennis M. Dutko, and lost. property forfeiture in drug-suspect meeting children from Ukraine that However, Mr. Dutko was convicted cases. On January 22, a small shipment of evening to exchange gifts. on a drunk driving charge the following He does not have long to wait in toys, as well as numerous boxes of bulk Ms. Jurach concludes, "The notion of year and resigned his seat. beginning his work. The day after vitamins collected by Nadia Matkiwsky giving a toy to a child in Ukraine has not of the Children of Chornobyl Relief The campaign was colored by the elections he was at the Michigan State only created a means for the children to Fund, the Ukrainian Medical Associa– scandal, and even Republican joy over Capital Building. better relate to one another, but has also tion of Cleveland, and individuals in increased their desire to meet each Cleveland Museum begins membership campaign Washington, was delivered to a chil– other." CLEvELAND - The Ukrainian -- the institution, and reviewed the high- Museum-Archives, located in Cleve– lights of the previous year, including the land's Tremont area, kicked off its 1990 lengthy features about the museum in membership drive during a Friday, the Cleveland Plain Dealer and The evening, January 12 reception. Ukrainian Weekly. He also discussed Andrew Fedynsky, the museum's the highly successful Shevchenkiana director, greeted close to 100 friends of exhibit which won an Ohio Arts Coun– cil grant. During the reception, Ukrainian Philadelphia continues National Association Supreme Advisor Taras Szmagala presented Eugene soap drive for Ukraine Apostoluk, museum treasurer, with a PHILADELPHIA ^ The Ukrainian UNA check for S500. Human Rights Committee is con– TheUMA is now preparing a major tinuing its soap drive for Ukraine show on the Ukrainian community in through mid-February. Cleveland from 1900 to the present and Thus far, according to the UHRC, intends to work on building up its the response from Ukrainian communi– membership drive. Membership dona– ties nationwide has been overwhelming, tions are S100 for sponsors; S50, sus– and communities are urged to keep up taining; S25 regular membership; and their efforts. S10 for retirees. Anyone who would like For further information, interested to support the work of the museum is persons may contact the UHRC presi– encouraged to contact the UMAat 1202 Washington area children fbottom from left; Alexander Oryshkevych, Andrij dc" !7'ar.a Мл --, : 'jh ^''215)^82- Ч-р''ч."-'- ^ - , C" -є' -n „ Ohio -Garbev?.. Ad^:mi Oryshkew^ im,j Homa^f--?:f^v:"(top),stiidentsof ^he local SchorA JOi ik i^raku;iM Smu^^ wrap gy c–..: i:. children in Шгь;....^ No. 4 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JANUARY 28,1990

Metropolitan discovers spiritual and family ties in Ukraine

Three Ukrainian Catholic Redemptorist bishops concelebrate the divine liturgy in Metropolitan volodymyr Sterniuk's apartment. From left are: Metropolitan- Archbishops Maxim Hermaniuk of Winnipeg, Sterniuk of Lviv,and Auxiliary Bishop Philemon Kurchaba, also of Lviv. Metropolitan Maxim Hermaniuk is greeted by his 80-year old sister Maria, while greeted me with flowers. І said to her, was a Sunday. І wanted to visit the 62-year old Natalka looks on. "Would 1 know you, dear lady?" She cemetery where my parents and brother said, "Fm your younger sister, Na– are buried. My father died while 1 was by Chris Guly and the United States, Metropolitan talka." studying in Belgium. (Metropolitan Hermaniuk visited Lviv, Kiev, the mira– When 1 left home, she was 12. Now Hermaniuk's mother died when he was it took him 51 years, but Metropo– culous shrine at Pochayiv and the Taras she's 62 with children and grandchil– a boy.) litan Maxim Hermaniuk finally return– Shevchenko monument at Kaniv with dren. Of course, she started to cry and When 1 asked permission from the ed home last fall when he spent 10 days 14 U.S. tourists. so did 1. Beside her was another woman hotel, 1 was told that if granted in Ukraine. The metropolitan recently spoke with crying as well. So 1 said to her, "Do І permission, 1 would have to travel by The 78-year-old Ukrainian Catholic this correspondent about his impres– know you, dear lady?" "i'm your older car with a (Soviet) driver and pay all of archbishop left Lviv following his sions and memories of his historic trip sister, Maria," she said. She's now 80. the expenses in U.S. dollars. The next ordination to the priesthood in 1939. He back to his homeland. Here are some it was very hard to describe. After 50 day, 1 was told that permission had been went on to Belgium to pursue academic excerpts. years, after what they went through, the denied because my village is in a "prohi– studies at the University of Louvain. persecution and all the terrible things bited" zone. That's absolutely false, it's Until September 10, 1989, he had not On seeing his family: that one can imagine could happen in in the midst of farmland. returned to Ukraine. the Soviet Union. І promised them that І learned later that the whole village Accompanied by the Rev. Michael І was leaving the Hotel Dniester (in І would go to my native village, Nove had organized to receive me and offi– Bzdel, provincial superior of the Ukrai– Lviv) to go out and saw a group of Selo (about 200 kilometers east of cials didn't want that kind of manifesta– nian Redemptorist Fathers in Canada people. І was approached by a lady who Lviv), on Tuesday. When 1 met them it (Continued on page 13) Special "vertep" staged in Toronto by students who visited Lviv even city buses were pasted with signs The vertep, written in rhymed happiness has arrived). by Oksana Zakydalsky "Rizdvo v Lvovi" (Christmas in couplets, would be difficult to trans- The group and its vertep were Lviv). late, it featured a goat — who brings warmly received in all the homes. TORONTO - it was mid-Decem– Arsen Stepaniuk, grandfather of good wishes and prosperity but People asked about the youths' trip ber and time to start thinking of one of their friends, gave instructions whom King Herod wants to murder to Ukraine, about their plans for the "koliada." On January 7, the first day on how to build a traditional ca– because he is not happy when there is return visit of their friends from Lviv. of Christmas according to the Julian rolling star. Roman Lysiak wired no misfortune in Ukraine. A Kozak calendar, many organizations, youth together the light bulbs and batteries; threatens the King with his sword in several homes there were visit– associations and schools go carolling Tania Sochaniwsky pasted tissue and protects the goat. Good news ing relatives from Ukraine who were in Toronto. As this happens regular– paper on the eight prongs so that the about the birth of Hope and a new touched to see how the revival of ly every year, it has become almost light could be seen from the inside, Messiah in the Carpathian lands, is traditions in Ukraine was sparkling a routine - a few carols are rehearsed, Katrusia Horich volunteered to write brought by a caroller. All join in new interest in them among young maybe someone gets more ambitious the vertep. singing "Nova Radist Stala" (New people in Canada. and finds an old carol rarely heard, but mostly its "Boh Predvichnyi" or "Dobryi vechir" and on to the next house. But for one group of young people, it was not just an ordinary year. Last summer they had been to Ukraine, invited to Lviv by the Junior Aca– demy of Sciences for a three-week joint summer program with the students of the academy and had lived with the families of the Lviv students. When in Lviv they had found out that the previous Christmas, for the first time in living memory, carollers had appeared on the streets of the city eight-pronged carolling stars were made and verteps, short plays on Christmas themes, were staged. They had invited the Lviv students to come to Toronto this summer, on a return exchange visit. Funds are needed to organize an interesting program for their friends, so they reasoned: Why not go carolling to raise some funds and why not do it the traditional way — as it was now being done in Lviv all over Ukraine -- with a vertep? They had received Staging a vertep are (from left) Roma? Lysiak, Oksana Lypowecky, Zenon Duvalko, Roma Luciw, Boris Petrusiw, letters from Lviv telling them how Larissa Snihura, Katrusia He:rich, Tania Sochaniwsky and Bohdan Horich. 6 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JANUARY 28,1990 l:rrr No. 4

UKRAINE TODAY A Canadian visitor's view Ukrainian WeedY of perebudova in Ukraine by Dr. J.R. Wynnyckyj indiscriminate deportation of innocents to populate the Gulag camps in the During a four-week visit to the Soviet 1930s and 1940s, the bloody purges of Hands across Ukraine Union in October of 1989 — time spent the Communist Party and army hie– entirely in Ukraine — 1 became con– rarchy in the same years, the Molotov– vinced that perestroika and glasnost are Ribbentrop Pact with Nazi Germany, Let us demonstrate our developed national consciousness, our absolutely genuine. At the same time І the brutal killings of political prisoners togetherness, our public activity and discipline! Today, as never am left uneasy and very concerned. Will in the prisons of western Ukraine in glasnost and perestroika last long anticipation of the German advance in before, we need the consolidation of our nation on a platform of enough in Ukraine to be irreversible, as 1941, the incarceration of dissenters in democracy and sovereignty — regardless of social status, work it seems to be in some East European psychiatric hospitals, labor camps, etc., position, party membership or religion.... Let us struggle for freedom countries? Will the people regain confi– etc. and independence, both economic and political, because only a dence in themselves? Will they again My realization that such changes sovereign Ukrainian state can rescue us from radioactive death, and believe that they as individuals can were indeed happening was euphoric. return to us our lost rights, safeguard the honorable life of man, matter and can change things? Will, in Not more than a few months ago the full fortune and prosperity for our children. short, the changes become lasting? Are might of the government's propaganda the old terrible days over forever; or will machine was used to brand people, like they return tomorrow? myself, who talked about such things, as The above quotation from the Rukh's appeal to Ukraine's citizens, My visit took me to universities, traitors, war-mongers and liars. And, of all national backgrounds, urged the people to come out and factories, collective farms, private remember, we got it from two sides, in demonstrate — through a massive joining of hands stretching from Kiev to Lviv — a unity of purpose in today's Ukraine. The people really believe their system is back- Some half a million did heed that call and on Sunday, January 21, marked the 71st anniversary of Ukraine's historic Act of Union and ward..., (yet) very few believe that things will ac– expressed a re-emerging hope for a better future within a democratic tually change. The system, they believe, is too en- and independent Ukraine by forming a symbolic Mhuman chain." Unity was the principal theme of the day, for, as volodymyr trenched for that. Yavorivsky, a leader of the Popular Movement of Ukraine for Perebudova and a representative to the all-union Congress of People's homes and city squares full of people Canada, and in the West in general, the engaged in debate. Traveling by air, likes of us were, if not liars, then biased Deputies, stated: "We felt the hunger for unity.... We needed to feel we train, railway and on foot 1 visited eight Soviet baiters; spoilers of noble at– are a people, we are a nation united against the problems of cities. І had been there before, both tempts to ease international tensions, Chornobyl, economic problems, ecological problems, and the party literally and figuratively speaking. The etc. - but not any more, indeed, this isa apparatus." Soviet scene and the dynamics of the curious fallout of glasnost. The chain was an unqualified success (except of course from the Ukrainian "problem" have been, lite- As to the promise of the Communist perspective of Western media coverage) as it demonstrated the Rukh's rally, an obsession of mine for most of paradise, 1 found literally no one that growing strength. Participants included all segments of society, my adult life. І was born in Ukraine but believes in it. Most were openly scorn– children and the elderly, Communist Party members and former, left as a child. What is being described ful of their system, though the mocking political prisoners, Catholics, Orthodox,Hare Krishnas, Jews, here are impressions of a visit after 46 of it became more muted the higher the Bulgarians, Armenians, Poles, Russians and other nationalities. years of absence. However, 1 speak the person's position. Only the professional language like a native. This helped party hacks mouthed the party line. Represented were residents not only of cities along the route, but immeasurably in getting to know people persons who had traveled from north, south, east and west. Western This struck me as absolutely incre– in all walks of life; to exchange view- dible. The people really believe their Ukrainians were so enthused that they formed an additional link to the points and share information. system is backward and that whatever it chain, extending it to ivano-Frankivske. Past visitors to the USSR tell us that does is inefficient or outright wrong. A Along the route, the people waved blue and yellow Ukrainian flags, if one wanted to find out what a Soviet manager in a steel mill blames the held banners proclaiming "For a united, independent Ukraine," and citizen was really thinking one had to system for the fact that the preventive greeted each other by stating "Long live Ukraine," while raising three get to him or her alone, where there was maintenance which was contracted out fingers in what appears to be a new national greeting that recallsthe no possibility of anyone overhearing the damaged his plant, and he can find no three-pronged national emblem, the tryzub. conversation or of a "bug" that might recourse. An academic administrator RadiiHEfSerty reported that organizers said the chain was "a pick up what was being said. That is in blames the system for the fact that his success that went beyond all expectations," that it "renewed our sense no way the case today, in most instances five-year-old buildings are falling apart people say what they feel, and it does of national statehood." One activist put it quite succinctly: the mass and that the plumbing never worked in participation proved "the people are with us." indeed, the people manifested their unity and, even though ...the reason for the lack of faith is the all-pervasive organizers had made no effort to make the human chain stretch to the eastern, more Russified part of Ukraine, among the crowd were stifling influence of the professional party hacks. residents of many points east of Kiev. Next year, on the 72nd anniversary of the 1919 Act of Union and the not seem to matter if there is a roomful the first place. of others listening. A particularly telling A professor blames the system be– 71st anniversary of the re-establishment of Ukrainian statehood in experience: as the conversation around cause he has to use a textbook which he 1918, let us hope that a second human chain is organized. May that the table in an intourist restaurant finds inappropriate or worse. A nother chain extend eastward - in an even greater expression of unity — to begins to touch on the potentially complains because he can't pub ish (or the historic city of Poltava, to Kharkiv, to Dnipropetrovske and sensitive, a distinguished scientist blurts discuss with me) his research results. Donetske. out; "There is a KGB bug under this Someone in Moscow has ruled that they table somewhere. They still hunt and are secret, whereas he knows they are listen. Let them, it does not matter." not. The Communist world seems to have come full circle. People talk freely about All of them, of course, blame the Soviet reality and the "blank spots" of system for the fact that there is no food, Turning the pages back... Soviet history. Nowadays Soviet autho– clothing, or other goods in local stores. rities openly admit that horrible things (One could not buy soap during all of indeed were done in the past by their October in any of the cities 1 visited). AH government: the artificial genocidal were quite vocal and frank about this, A battle near Kruty took place on January 29,1918. The famine in Ukraine in 1932-33, the in short, everyone believed that changes Encyclopedia of Ukraine writes: in the system are essential, and needed "As a Bolshevik force of about 4,000 men commanded by Dr. J.R. Wynnyckyj is a chemical urgently, if perestroika means change, M. Muravev advanced toward Kiev, a small contingent of 500 men was hastily engineering professor at the University then everyone is for it. Tliere is, how– organized and sent to the front, it consisted mainly of a company of the Student of Waterloo. His visit to Ukraine was ever, a serious "but." Kurin of Sitch Riflemen, a company of the Khmelnytsky Cadet School, and a coordinated by the deputy minister of Yery few believe that things will Haidamaka detachment. scientific affairs of the Ministry of actually change. The system, they "Commanded by Captain A. Honcharenko, this force attempted to block the Higher Education of the Ukrainian allege, is too entrenched for that. Thus, Bolshevik advance on the capital at Kruty, a railroad station 130 kilometers SSR. He lectured to large audiences at І was struck by a certain tentativeness in northeast of Kiev, in an bitter battle about half of the Ukrainian soliders were universities in Dnipropetrovske, Kiev, the commitment to perestroika. There kilied, but their resistance delayed Muravev's capture of Kiev a id enabled the vinnytsia, Chernivtsi and Lviv, and was a lack of interest in personally Ukrainian government to conclude the Peace Treaty of Brest-LitovsL visited several nearby industrial plants, doing something for it within the "The battle is commemorated as a symbol of patriotic self-sacrifice and is collective farms and numerous private uniyersity or the factory. This revoiu– immortalized in numerous literary and publicistic works." homes. (Continued on page 12) No. 4 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JANUARY 28,1990 7

NEWS AND viEWS A western Canadian perspective

Festival of Freedom counters by Orysia Paszczak Tracz San Diego's Soviet arts fest lvan Drach in Winnipeg by Ludmilht Rowimsky Many Ukrainians had been irritated by the public relations packets distri– Translating is easy. You can take collected that evening, with a S2,000 your time, rethink, rewrite, and look up buted by the city for the Soviet Arts donation from Mykola Stryzhak, and in the autumn of 1989, San Diego's words in a dictionary. You сапЧ trans- Festival. Approximately 10,000 curri– 51,000 from Уега Hrycenko. (Winni– Ukrainian community joined members late verbatim. The grammar and style of peg's Rukh fund then stood at approxi– culum guides on the Soviet Union were of other ethnic groups in a Festival of the particular language into which the mately 59,000.) shipped to both elementary and secon– Freedom, in answer to San Diego's text is being translated must be correct. Then it was back to the question-and– Soviet Arts Festival. dary schools. The very superficial answer session. Some of the people As plans for the city's festival portrayal of Ukraine celebrated our interpreting is difficult. The same language rules apply, but no time, no asking questions already had set an– emerged, many former residents of country for Gogol, two soccer players, swers in mind, and weren4 too pleased Communist-controlled countries were autumn fairs, varenyky, borshch and dictionary, no erasers. There usually is a critical audience and a terrifying per– that the speaker had his own opinion. disappointed and angered at the exclu– sunflower seeds. Others wanted to give their own sion of their ethnic or cultural groups The city budgeted S2.9 million for the sonal fear that a misinterpreted phrase can cause international havoc, or that speeches. But there were questions of from representation in the mayor's Soviet Arts Festival. Against all odds genuine interest and support. festival. The city seemed neither to and after much pleading, the city the simplest word will draw a blank. No wonder United Nations interpreters A University of Winnipeg student in a know nor to care that the Soviet Union council voted 525,000 for the Freedom political studies course on the Soviet was composed of 15 republics, each Arts Festival — with only one month face years of training before daring to step into the booth. Union didn't listen to the speaker at all, with its own vibrant culture and history. left to organize. All public exhibition because his question was about "con– The "Russian Arts Festival,"as it was areas were booked, so the committee So with an hour's notice, recently І tinuing anti-Semitism" in Ukraine. Mr. called by the media, was to consist of had to scramble to find venues in which found myself interpreting for lvan Drach had spoken eloquently about the artists from Leningrad and Moscow, to hold its own festival. Drach, the head of the Rukh in front of cooperation and unity of various na– icons from Georgia, a circus clown, The festival of Freedom board of a full auditorium in Winnipeg. The tionalities within the Rukh. Movement. Soviet Georgian dancers and chefs, and directors included former citizens of the evening was sponsored by the Depart– І had the impression that the student the Georgian State Marionette Theater Philippines, Mexico, a former member ment of Slavic Studies of the Univer– decided upon the question even before from Tbilisi, as well as the famous of Poland's Solidarity Union, a Cuban sity of Manitoba and the Ukrainian he came — and the speaker's talk and Faberge jeweled eggs from various community leader, a vietnamese com– Academy of Arts and Sciences in reply - the complete Rukh statement collections. poser^ conductor, and representatives Canada. against anti-Semitism — probably did As one observer noted, however, of San Diego's Czech, Hungarian, Mr. Drach's talk was most interesting not sink in, either. "Neither the Georgians nor Carl Fa– Afghan, Latvian, Lao-Hmong, Cambo– — but 1 could not absorb the full For a reply to a question about why berge are Russians. As a matter of fact, dian and Chinese communities. meaning the way a member of the au– Rukh is not more aggressive, or is not there is no 'Soviet' art. There is Ukrainians were represented by dience would, while at the same time doing this or that, Mr. Drach replied art from different cultures and nationa– Nadja Cham, a retired educator, mem– trying to remember the three to 10 or that it is easy for those here to criticize. lities. Each country in the Soviet Union ber of the House of Ukraine and the more sentences to be interpreted at a But it is the people there who have to has uniquely individual arts and crafts. Ukrainian Congress Committee, a time. When he remembered, the spea– survive, literally, the consequences of These can't be mixed together and Fulbright scholar and translator. Mrs. ker would stop after a few sentences. their actions. They must survive not just called Soviet Art." (Continued on page 15) But often he forgot himself and just kept for themselves, but continue the work going. Then, for self-preservation, І begun. found myself beginning with his last xl І was pleased to see in the audience LETTER TO THE EDiTOR sentence and working backwards; the full spectrum of Winnipeg's Ukrai– A few times, after listening intently, nian community — all the "—ivtsi," the member of the UNA, І am hurt. Why as 1 opened my mouth to speak, for a "progressives" (i.e., the old Ukrainian On treatment of would you choose to bury the epistle of split second 1 couldn't remember a Communists),"cW^y of both faiths, our bishops on page six of your news- single one of his words. The brain felt as young, old and everyone in-between, archpastoral letter paper? Why would you choose to so if the whole memory disk was erased. And, people who would have been treat the spiritual words during the Right after the end of Mr. Drach's talk, picketing anyone or anything from Dear Editor: festive time of His Beatitude Metropolis І felt as if 1 had done a poor job and let Ukraine, just a few years ago, now came Christ is Born! tan M styslav, a man who gives his life them down, and was quite amazed to and listened with genuine interest. І am very disappointed at the way the for the entire Ukrainian nation, not just hear Dr. Jaroslav Rozumnyj thanking The best moment — for me — was editors of The Ukrainian Weekly have the Orthodox portion of that nation, me for the "brilliant" interpretation. when Drach called upon all Ukrainians treated the Ukrainian Orthodox Church but ail of the children of Ukraine, for During intermission there was an outside of Ukraine to unite, to forget on the pages of their newspaper. among many Ukrainian Catholics there interview with a reporter for the Winni– their differences for a common cause. Both Svoboda and The Ukrainian may be found those who call him peg Free Press. Donations for support He also wished for the unity of our Weekly have made it a policy that on the "viadyko." of Popular Movement of Ukraine for Churches, saying that he envies those major feast days of Christmas and Recently the words of volodymyr Perebudova were collected during nations which have a national faith that Pascha (whether on the old or new Yavorivsky have been repeated over intermission also. Some 54,500 was unites all. Was anyone listening? calendars) the archpastoral epistles of and over in the Ukrainian community: the Ukrainian bishops appear on page "Unity, unity, unity!" Before unity, І BOOK REVIEW one. These words from the spiritual call for mutual respect. leaders of our community are usually found accompanied with appropriate Archimandrite Andriy Partykevich festive art work. Jamaica Plain, Mass, Grammar text fosters easy learning On the front page of the December 24, 1989, issue оППіе Ukrainian Weekly Standard Ukrainian Grammar by Yar Slavutych. Edmonton: Slavuta Publishers, one finds the "Christmas Pastoral 1987. 296 pp. Letter of Archbishop Metropolitan As an official publication of the by D.B. Chopyk teachersyiearners to study both lan– Stephen,Sulyk on the Ukrainian Catho– Ukrainian National Association, The guages on the comparative foundation lie Church..." And yet, on the front page Ukrainian Weekly was required to carry "Standard Ukrainian Grammar" by (which is being advised now by many of "The Ukrainian Weekly" for January the announcement of the organization's Yar Slavutych is a learning grammar, it methbdologists interested in second 7 one does not find the epistle of the quadrennial convention on the front provides a variety of exercises, para– language teaching). synod of bishops of the Ukrainian page of its first issue for 1990 - which digm drills, dialogues and short read– To help the teachers, this manual is Autocephalous Orthodox Church. this year happened to coincide with ing sections (o foster an easy learning of Did the synod not issue an epistle this Christmas, Due to the required format prpyidedwith a series of graded reading the Ukrainian fengllge 1 while fW thfe ШШЩіП Ukrainian whiclfStart with year? Yes, but The Ukrainian Weekly of that announcement, our usual layout same time absorbing its grammar. lesson 11 and cover tojpie^ of interest to chose to print that epistle not on page for the Chn tmas front page had to be students in the area of geography, one, or page two, or page three or page it is designed to dovetail with the first amended so iewhat. As a result, the travel, history as e.g.: the Black Sea and four or page five but on page six. And year university course in the study of Christmas archpastoral letter that Odessa, a trip to Ukraine, Ukrainians in what was so important news for the normally would have appeared under Ukrainian and may also be used for self- education by adults as well as senior North America, the art of printing in January 7 edition, that the epistle of the the Christmas art work on the front Ukraine, space travel, Ukrainian humor bishops of the UAOChurch could be page was moved to the second most high school students. The book's phonetic and orthogra– for the young, riddles, sayings, and printed on page one... "UNA announces prominent spot in a newspaper: the three interesting history lessons. The St.5 million in dividends" and an editorial page. We regret the misunder– phic explanations (adjusted to the 1929 orthography rules) together with its 20 topics in these lessons could serve as announcement of 32nd Regular Con– standings that this may have caused. conversational stimulators in informal grammar-conversational lessons can fit vention of the Ukrainian National Space and news considerations may classroom settings, guided by the tea– very conveniently into a yearly program Association, necessitate the printing of all future chers. As a priest of the Ukrainian Ortho– pastoral letters on the editorial or op-ed of Ukrainian studies in public or pri– dox Church and as a member of the pages. vate schools. The arrangement for the funding and Ukrainian National Association, who All explanations within this manual the publication of this manual (for has benefited widely from being a T– The editor. are given in English and should help the ^Continued on рш^я W) THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JANUARY 28,1990 No. 4 CONCERT REviEW: Oleh Krysa, Tatiana Tchekina at Carnegie Hall

by Oles Kuzyszyn

On Sunday afternoon, January 21, Carnegie Hall concert-goers eagerly awaited the return of virtuoso violinist Oleh Krysa, who had made his debut at the hall in 1971, and after 18 years would once again grace this venerable stage. Before him and pianist Tatiana Tchekina, his wife and musical partner, was as diverse a program as one could hope for, spanning some 170 years of violin repertoire with myriad techni– cal challenges to be tackled along the way. However, neither the imposing legacy of lsaac Stern's newly refurbished hall nor the difficulty of the musical chal– lenge could succeed in unsettling this remarkable duo. Quite the contrary. What followed was as marvelous a display of virtuosity as one is apt to witness at any of the great halls around the country. The first half of the program was dedicated to two of Romanticism's greatest masters, Schubert and Brahms, in the former's Duo for violin and Piano in A major, Op. 162, the corn- poser's penchant for lyricism was fully exploited by Mr. Krysa, especially in the ebullient first movement (Allegro moderato), where songlike themes are violinist Oleh Krysa and pianist Tatyana Tchekina. spawned one after another in an out- burst of melodic inspiration, in the final program would imply, it was in their Krysa's deliberately restrained playing Krysa's fiery passagework: and Ms. movement (Allegro vivace), Mr. Krysa hands that Liatoshynsky's Sonata for proved to be hypnotic. Tchekina's tasteful articulation of showcased his uncanny ability to shade violin and Piano, Op. 19, was recently The Russian composer Alfred Sch– Szymanowski's coloristic harmonic and articulate contrasting thematic revived here in the West — a work that nittke is considered to be one of the underpinning, along with theii usual material for dramatic impact. certainly deserves more widespread giants of contemporary composition. synchronization and complementation in Brahms' Sonata for violin and attention. His recent work "A Paganini" was once again served the work well. Piano in В minor, Op. 108, the corn- Regarded as the father of contem– written especially for Mr. Krysa, and as The highly enthusiastic audience, poser's last, Mr. Krysa and Ms. Tche– porary Ukrainian music, Liatoshyn– the title would imply, is, among other after a standing ovation, was granted ^jrina displayed such a keen sense of sky's significance can in part be under- things, a showpiece for solo violin. Mr. two encores: David Oistrakh's arrange– ensemble and unity of artistic concep– stood by realizing that although he lived Krysa not only rose to the challenge, but ment of a Schubert Waltz, and Ravel's tion, that one couldn't help but imagine and worked in a part of the world that seemed to revel in it, painting a collage Perpetuo mobile from Sonata for that somehow one performer was play– was traditionally retrospective with of stylistically diverse compositional violin and Piano in G major. ing both instruments at once. The ssnsi– regard to musical style, his own compo– units and performance techniques, tively worked out phrasing details and sitions were in fact idiomatically con– interspersed with fragments of Paga– if there were any in the audience who the linear precision of the two almost sistent with the output of such ground- nini's fireworks. had not had the opportunity to hear overshadowed their sure-handedness breakers as Berg, Bartok, Koda!y and Oleh Krysa since his Carnegie Hall de– and confidence in rendering what, others, The program closed with the legacy but in 1971, the 18-year wait was especially in the Presto agitato finale, is The pervading mysticism and subli of Paganini as well, this time vested in certainly worth it. Those of us, however, an extremely formidable work. minal character of the Sonata were: the Polish composer's Karol Szyma– who had heard him more recently Mr Krysa and Ms. Tchekina have poignantly present tnroughout tnt nowski s arrangements of Caprices No would no doubt agree that as far as this always championed contemporary re– duo s interpretation, in the Sostenuto e 20, 2! and the ever popular No 24 in A great artisi is concerned, we can neve'– pertoire as the second half of their tranquillo section especially Mr. minoi. Here tne combination of Mi. hear enough.

a.m. and l p.m. Later on m the meeting approved a resolution He also stressed how impressed he Human chain... afternoon and evening, meetings during that January 22 be made a was by the fact that so many young., і (Continued from page 1) were held throughout Ukraine to national holiday in the republic. people had supported the manifesta– і mark the anniversaries of Ukrainian tion despite the fact that they "have І On Sunday, January 21, Radio Some of the meetings on Sunday been deprived of the historical truth Ц independence and unity, in Kiev, a afternoon and evening were held in Liberty's Ukrainian Service formed about their nation's past." huge rally estimated at anywhere eastern and southern Ukraine, in– its own chain of telephone reports from over 50,000 to 100,000 people from all along the route, in Kiev, cluding Kharkiv (where 5,000 people Not concealing his elation, Mr. iff gathered, it was addressed by the are reported to have turned out), some 30,000 people are reported to leaders of Rukh and the Ukrainian Pavlychko told Radio Liberty's і have gathered in center of the city at Zaporizhzhia (3,000), Donetske and Ukrainian Service shortly after Sun– if Helsinki Union, numerous democra– Odessa. the place where the chain began. tic deputies to the USSR Congress of day night's rally in Kiev that the day's Ц People's Deputies, prominent Ukrai– events in Ukraine were the highpoint Ц The chain stretched to Zhytomyr, Other rallies in Europe of his life, "it is a great day in our Ц where tens of thousands of people are nian cultural figures and scholars, and representatives from all over the history," he declared, "a great day for Щ reported to have joined it. All along in Poland, 2,000 people attended a Ukraine, for the Ukrainian people, Ц the route, villagers turned out to republic, especially from Ukraine's rally in Wroclaw, and there were eastern and southern oblasts. Ukrainian culture, Ukrainian so– Ц support the action. Further west in smaller meetings in Warsaw and vereignty; a great day of brother– Ц Ternopil, around 15,000 people are According to the poet and people's Gdansk. hood, of unity in l9ve, mutual respect reported to have come out onto the deputy Dmytro Pavlychko, who ran in Western Europe, over 1,000 and joint labor; a great moment of streets. the Kiev meeting and who was also Ukrainians in London held a demon– healing: a day that will live forever in Similarly, in Rivne, "tens of thou– the main organizer of the human stration in front of the Soviet Em– our national consciousness." sands" gathered, and there was also chain, this was the biggest mass rally bassy to express their support, and yet seen in Kiev since the inaugura– mass support in Lviv, where the there were smaller manifestations in tion of glasnost. its main theme, he "People are with us" chain was three-deep. What is more, Brussels, Paris and Munich, in many of Lviv's inhabitants travelled told the Ukrainian Service of Radio Liberty in an interview, was the Sydney, some 1,000 Australian U– Sunday's human chain in Ukraine far beyond their city to reinforce krainians also organized a human "weak links" in the chain. restoration of Ukraine's sovereignty was clearly a triumph of Rukh and its and independence. chain in front of the Soviet Consu– democratic allies. As Уаіегіу Kolo– late. Many nationalities participate Another speaker at the meeting, siy, a Ukrainian Helsinki Union Rukh's leader 1 van Drach, told the Mr. Pavlychko hailed Sunday's activist in Zhytomyr, put it: until Ц According to the organizers, the Ukrainian Service that he doubted action as a great victory and said that yesterday we were not quite sure how г manifestation was supported by whether Kiev had seen so many blue it was a day on which "a genuine strong our support was. "Now we many Russians, Jews, Poles, Hunga– and yellow Ukrainian flags even rebirth of the Ukrainian nation know. The people are with us." it rians and representatives of U– during the period of Ukraine's in– occurred." He pointed out that its also gave Ukrainians throughout the -, kraine's other national minorities. dependence as were on display in the organizers had been virtually de– world a new sense of unity and The chain was formed between 11 Ukrainian capital yesterday. The prived of access to the Soviet media. purpose. No. 4 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JANUARY 28,1990 9 Exhibition of art by valerij Hnatenko to open at Ukrainian Museum NEW YORK - On February 18, The learned the principles of academic shed the ideologically oriented, restric– after his wife and son had left for the Ukrainian Museum will open an exhibi– drawing, the technique of using color tive and narrow confines of "socialist United States, the artist's friends orga– tion of paintings and drawings of the and the elements of composition. The realism." in pictorial art there emerged nized a posthumous exhibition of his late Ukrainian artist valerij Hnatenko, predominant focus in the school was on a polyphony of styles and trends. Many works at the Lviv Museum of Ukrai– who worked in Ukraine in the 1970s and realism and naturalism, providing a artists reached to their heritage for nian Art. The visitors' book contains 1980s. On view will be oil paintings, strong background in human anatomy, inspiration and direction. the following entry by Hnatenko's watercolors, pastels, drawings and still-life and landscapes. Hnatenko's paintings and drawings colleague Orest Yavorsky: "He did not prints. in 1970 Mr. Hnatenko moved to have no hint of conformism or compro– die, he was killed. He was killed by the Mr. Hnatenko was born in 1947 in Lviv, in western Ukraine, a city that mise. His personal creative work is system of ministries, departments,, Reni in the Odessa region. He began his became his creative sanctuary, a posi– contemporary in its forms, in the committees, unions, and the general formal art studies in 1964 in Odessa, a tive force in the development of his treatment of subject matter and in apathy of society which this system port city on the Black Sea, abundantly talent and a major influence in his philosophy. cultivated." rich in history and culture. At the artistic and personal life. Here, he Outstanding in Hnatenko's body of The major portion of valerij Hna– Odessa Art School young Hnatenko enrolled in the Lviv institute of Applied work is a group of portraits which are tenko's art work was brought to the and Decorative Arts to continue with rich and varied — both in types of United States by his wife, Stefania, who his studies. people representedand in the expressive has permanently settled here. Mrs0 Concurrently, he worked at the Lviv stylistic range with which they are Hnatenko, an art historian, is currently interoblast Special Scientific Restora– rendered. Common to them all is the on the staff of The Ukrainian Museum. tion Workshop. Together with other artist's keen and poignant characteriza– The exhibit is curated by Dr. Jaro– artists he restored a number of historic tion of his subjects. slaw Leshko, associate professor of art art monuments in western Ukraine Hnatenko's paintings and draw– at Smith College in Massachusetts, who which included iconostases, frescoes, ings also reflect his enchantment with specializes in the 19th and 20th century murals and paintings. His work as a the folk art of Ukraine.Hewas an expert painting and sculpture. Dr. Leshko also restorer helped Mr. Hnatenko immea– in folk art and deeply appreciated these wrote the text to the accompanying surably as a creative artist. treasures left for posterity by countless catalogue. The bilingual catalogue He developed his expertise as a nameless craftsmen. consists of 42 pages with 11 color and 1S colorist and learned different art styles. Fate was not kind to valerij Hna– half-tone photographs. The proximity of the best examples of tenko. He lived most of his adult life in conjunction with the exhibit, the Ukrainian artistic heritage also had with a debilitating illness. For 10 long museum will offer lectures on Ukrai– great influence on Hnatenko, deve– years the Hnatenko family sought nian art of the 20th century,,with loping a pride and love for the cultural permission to emigrate to the United emphasis on the non-conformist period. achievements of his people. On the States so that valerij could receive The lectures will be in Ukrainian and practical side, the job as a restorer proper medical treatment. For 10 years English. allowed the artist to support his family. the Soviet authorities refused to allow The Ukrainian Museum is located at in Ukraine the 1960s and 1970s the family to leave. Two weeks before 203 Second Avenue, New York, N.Y. spawned a complex generation of artists valerij's death at the age of 40, permis– 10003; phone number: (212) 228-0110. who made brave strides to find new sion to emigrate was granted. it is open Wednesday through Sunday Yalerij Hnatenko expressions for their art, attempting to After Hnatenko's death in 1987 and 1-5 p.m.

Triptych by Yalerij Hnatenko titled "Landscapes of Ukraine" (1973, ink on paper). Artist elected to Pastel Society Marenych Trio of Ukraine plans by Cami Huk memDership in the society, and the privilege of distinguishing her signature 42-city tour of North America SHORT H1LLS, N.J. - Christina with the initials P.S.A. JERSEY C1TY, N.J. - The well- Ukrainian Cultural Club, (203) 223- Holowchak Debarry, familiar to most To date, the Pastel Society of Ame– known Marenych Trio together with 9829. Tickets may also be purchased at Ukrainian Americans for her graphic rica has 325 full members! carefully one of Ukraine's leading composers the door one hour prior to the perfor woodcuts, has been elected to the selected from the thousands of applica– Olexander Zlotnyk will arrive at Ken– mance. membership of the prestigious Pastel tions received over the past dozen years. nedy international Airport in New On Friday, February 16, the en– Society of America. Ms. Debarry has also been appointed a York on Friday, February 9 for an semble will perform in Clifton, N.J. at member of the board of the society, to The Pastel Society of America is a unprecedented 42- city North American the Senior High School auditorium, 333 chairthePSA Scholarship Fund and concert tour, sponsored by the Trident Cofax Ave., at 8 p.m. professional association of elected will be co-chairing the society's annual artists, who all work in the pastel Group Corp. of Lake wood, Ohio. exhibit in September 1989. After several days of rest and rehear– On Saturday, February 17, a concert medium, whose goals include setting a featuring the Marenych Trio will take standard of excellence in pastel as well Ms. Debarry has also shown her sals, the Marenych Trio will travel to works at the Hudson valley Art Asso– Hartford, Conn, for their premier place in Union, N.J,5 at the Burnet High as to unite outstanding pastelists School auditorium, Caldwell and through membership in the society. ciation National Juried Show, was one concert at 7:30 p.m. on Thursday, of the selected 14 pastelists among 160 February 15, at the Bulkeley High Morris avenues, at 8 ржі, All artists are juried for membership artists exhibiting at the Salmagundi School auditorium, 300 Wethersfield in New York, two performances will and those meeting the standards of Non-Member Art Show, and she parti– Ave. Tickets may be purchased in be held at 2 and 7 p.m. on Sunday, excellence set by the jury of admissions cipated in the American Artist Profes– advanced at the SUM-A Co-op in the February 18, at the High School of the are elected to full artist membership; sional League of New Jersey. She will Ukrainian National Home, (203) 246- Fashion industries, 225 W. 24th St. those running a close sScond become participate in an Award Winners' lnvi– 6955. They are also available in New Advance tickets may be purchased at associate artist members. tational Show at the Nabisco Brand Haven from Christine Melnyk, (203) the Surma Ukrainian gift shop in Ms. Debarry has been awarded full Galleries in the spring of 1990. 397-2083, and in New Britain at the Manhattan, (212) 477-0729. 10 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JANUARY 28,1990 No. 4

We've taken a different route, not via Rukh, but by visitors program, they continued their monthlong tour AFL-ClO... forming cooperatives and a free union, and we accept spending the Christmas holidays with Ukrainian (Continued from page 3) those workers that have been fired, that the official American families and traveling to virginia, West they will vote," said Mr. Kul, a 27-year-old native of union does not take care of," said Mr. Hrebeniuk. virginia. Georgia. Texas and Colorado, where they Chervonohrad, where he is a member of the Chervo– Their independent trade union has developed a toured American mines. They also met with union nohrad Strike Committee, the vice-chairman of the social charity and insurance fund, where dues from leaders in Washington and New York City. Ukrzapadugol Union and a member of the Strike miners are applied to aid invalids, pensioners, miners in need, as well as cultural causes. During a visit to Consolidation Coal Company Committee's Ukrainian Commission for Monitoring mines in West virginia, arranged by the United Mine Economic uncertainty and a fear that is almost implementation. Workers of America and the AFL-ClO, Mr. Hrebe– inbred are still two hurdles to conquer if we want to "Half of our strike committee was composed of niuk remarked that he wished some Soviet official had members of Rukh (Popular Movement of Ukraine for move on with our independent union in Ukraine, Mr. come along to look inside the mine. "1 would have Perebudova) had now our working committee (once Hrebeniuk noted. liked to have someone from our government take a called the strike committee) has united with Rukh in "However, when we return to Ukraine and tell the look at the wonderful working conditions at this mine, pre-election campaigns, nominating three candidates, people of the Donbas about the strength of the if they could have, they wouldn't be saying our to the Supreme Soviet of Ukraine." Ukrainian emigration here in the United States, and demands are unreasonable." Although this particular delegation of coal miners the fact that they want to assist us in various ways, І from Ukraine did not attend the founding congress of know that this will lift the spirits of the Donbas coal interviewing the coal miners as they visited the the Rukh last September for at the time they were miners," he added. 3esides monetary aid and assis– Appalachian coalfields of Clinchco, va ., Felicity going through their own strike committee negotiations tance with technical equipment, Mr. Hrebeniuk thinks Barringer of The New York Times observed that the in Moscow, the four men did state that they had re– that a management course and trained managers from Soviet miners were in a state of bewilderment touring presentatives from their strike committees at the the West would contribute to their future plans in the the mines, while the American miners expressed shock congress. Donbas. at the primitiveness of the Soviet technology, as Mr. Sharov, a 36-year-old miner and machine described by the visitors. operator fromDonetske,is running as a candidate for He also explained that his cooperative is already a local oblast elections in March. "Fm a worker and І functioning cooperative, which has been recognized According to Ms. Barringer's article, which know the needs of workers in my region," he said by the authorities and which has been assisting miners appeared in the Monday, January 22, issue of The confidently. Besides voicing economic concerns in his that are looking for alternatives to the official trade Times, the Soviets' labor-intensive coal industry platform he is also concerned with the ecological union. He feels that through this cooperative many employs 2.5 million miners and they produce about future of Ukraine. inroads for an independent trade union could be 800 million tons a year, while in the United States made, and that it could be a link between unions in 140,000 miners and a highly mechanized industry Admittedly, the national consciousness may not be Eastern Europe and the West. produced about a billion tons in 1989. in 10-year as strong in eastern Ukraine, as it is in western Ukraine, period, 1979-1989, more than 10,000 Soviet miners yet here too, the coal miners attest to the fact that After the coal miners visited The Weekly offices, died on the job, eight times more than U.S. losses in people are looking for change. "People are also a stop arranged by Adrian Karatnycky, director that same time frame, in the United States, coal miners beginning to think for themselves in the Donbas. (A of international relations at the AFL-ClO, and live to be 70 years old and in the Soviet Union, a miner's region, theminers claim, that has 96 nationalities) Douglas Brooks of the AFL-ClO's international life expectancy is 49 years of age.

^ The government (of the USSR) Ukrainian Catholic... should fully rehabilitate the Ukrainian ANYTHiNG CAN HAPPEN. (Continued from page 1) Catholic Church as a social institution; it should compensate the Church and You can read about it first in Church in Ukraine, and ivan Hrechko,a return to it all churches and properties committee member. including the archives and library of The Ukrainian Weekly. The primary resolutions of the meet– Metropolitan Andrey Sheptytsky. ing were: Cardinal Lubachivsky made the і The so-called Lviv Synod of 1946 is following statement: Popular Movement for Perebudova founded in Ukraine uncanonical and illegal. "1 welcome the actions taken by our ^ This so-called synod was held hierarchy, clergy and faithful in U– under the threat of loss of life of the kraine. This historic meeting demon– participants. strates that our Church in Ukraine sees ^ The resolutions of this synod were itself as a legal body and will not be invalid from the start. constrained by the 1946 pseudo-Synod ^ This meeting of January 23, 1990, of Lviv. І am confidently hopeful that in effect, establishes the Ukrainian the government of the USSR will soon Catholic Church in Ukraine as legal. fulfill the requests of our Church and will expand our current right to register to full legal status." Russian Bible Society... Following the Lviv meeting, a memo- (Continued from page 2) rial service was held in the Church of the Transfiguration for the repose of the Baptist Union leadership for lack of souls of Metropolitan Sheptytsky and initiative in the face of new opportuni– Cardinal Josyf Slipyj. ties for Christians that have opened up under perestroika. in view of the lack of recognition of Grammar... the group by the Baptist Union it is a considerable achievement to get the (Continued from page 7) Russian Bible society established with Ukrainian schools) was made by the such widespread support, noted Keston Ukrainian Catholic Women's League of College. Canada and by several grants from the The Russian Orthodox Church last Alberta Cultural Heritage Foundation. year reached an understanding with the Under their instructions the book was United Bible Societies, the world body published. to which most national Bible societies Those interested in obtaining the belong, about setting up some kind of "Standard Ukrainian Grammar"by Dr. "Bible instrument" in the USSR. The Slavutych should send their orders to: At this time of perestroika and democratization in the previous Russian Bible Society, found– Ukrainian Catholic Women^s League of ed during the reign of Tsar Alexander 1, Canada, Edmonton^ Eparchy, 9645 USSR, can you afford not to be informed? was closed down by his successor, 108th Ave., Ediponton, Alberta T5H Nicholas i,in 1826. 1A3. , r Keep informed by reading the English-language news- paper published by the Ukrainian National Association, a fraternal, non-profit association. Notice to publishers and authors

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university or professional school of ber Donates to HURl Notes on people choice. She is a biology major with a 3.75 grade point average and plans to тшттшштшшшттшшшшшшш^^^^atten d medical school. TRENTON - Jerry M. Kupchynsky, and master's degrees in electrical en– The 10 candidates are selected on the supervisor of music and performing gineering from NJ1T in 1955 and 1957, basis of grade point average, class rank, arts, received a Governor's Award in respectively, and a doctorate in electri– athletic performance, citizenship and Arts Education as a result of being cal engineering from Columbia Univer– the intention to pursue advanced studjy. named Distinguished Leader in Music sity in 1965. Four scholarships are awarded to Divi– Education by the New Jersey Music He is a member of UNA Branch 172. sion 1 players, four from Division Hand Educators Association. ill, and the remaining two are chosen He was among the seven distin– Gets Army commission from any division. guished New Jersey educators honored Ms. Klachko has been a four-year at the Ninth Annual Governor's Awards UPPER DARBY, Pa. - Edward A. starter at FDU-Madison. She is the in Arts Education ceremony held at the Dubyk of Upper Darby, Pa., has been campus's second all-time leading scorer State Museum last year Gov. Thomas commissioned a second lieutenant in with 1,248 points - behind Wendy Kean, Commissioner Saul Cooperman the U.S. Army Reserve. Waters, (1987), with 1,393 - and she is and Secretary of State Jane Burgio He enlisted in the U.S. Army Reserve the leader in career rebounds with 828. presented the awards. in October 1988 with the 330th Engi– This past season, Ms. Klachko averaf ed Mr. Kupchynsky has been a staff neering Battalion, Worcester, Pa. He 18.0 points, 11.4 rebounds and .5 member in the East Brunswick Public completed basic combat training at blocked shots per game. Schools since 1958. He became music Fort Dix, N.J., in June 1989 and then supervisor in 1964 and conducted the entered Officer Candidate School at in her final collegiate game agai 1st" East Brunswick High School Orchestra Fort Benning, Ga. New Rochelle, she completed a trif e– until 1979. Under his leadership, stu– After being commissioned as a se– doublewith 14 points, 10 rebounds, id dents have won many honors in music. cond lieutenant, he was assigned as a 10 bloHked shots, in post-season, ae For many years more students have heavy equipment officer with Head- was named first-team ALL MAS ІС been chosen for All-State Orchestra quarters Company, 330th Engineering (Middle Atlantic States Athletic Cor fe– from East Brunswick than from any Battalion. rence) and second team College D n– other district. Dr. Myron Wojtowycz Mr. Dubyk is employed as a civil sion Academic Ail-American. Mr. Kupchynsky has conducted the engineer with the Pennsylvania De– All-State Orchestra in New Jersey as An outstanding scholar, this T ;w MAD1SON, Wis. - Dr. Myron partment of Transportation in St. well as in Maine, Maryland, New York, Providence High School graduate as Wojtowycz, an associate professor of Davids, Pa. He is a 1984 graduate of the New Hampshire and West virginia. recognized for Outstanding Acade uc radiology at the University of Wiscon– Pennsylvania State University, Capitol He has been both state and national Achievement in Biology by FD ?'s sin (Madison), recently donated S25,000 Campus, where he earned a bachelor of president of the American String Tea– College of Arts and Sciences. She ^s to the Ukrainian Research institute at science degree in construction engineer– chers Association (ASTA), national also selected to be a recipient of he Harvard University. ing technology. Dr. Wojtowycz made the donation in president of the National School Or– FDU Alumni Association's 1989 Set br Mr. Dubyk, the son of Mr. and Mrs. honor of his father, Dr. Stepan Woj– chestra Association (NSOA) and the Leader Award. r Nicholas Dubyk of Reading, Pa., at– towycz, on the occasion of his 70th founder of the New Jersey unit of . І tended camps of the Ukrainian Ameri– birthday. NSOA. He also is the founder ^director She is president of the Florha ii– can Youth Association (SUM-A) as Dr. Wojtowycz, 37, was born in New of the New Jersey ASTA Summer Madison chapter of Omicron Dtfta well as Roma Pryma Bohachevsky's York. He earned a B.S. in physics from Conference, in 1970, he was cited by the Kappa, a national leadership ho for Ukrainian Dance Workshop at the Northwestern University in Chicago, New Jersey Council on the Arts for society, tutors students in orgs lie verkhovyna Resort in Glen Spey, N.Y. and then completed Rush Medical raising standards of music performance chemistry and biology, and is a resea ih Since 1985 he has been a member of the College earning his M.D. in 1978. in the county and state through his assistant in a science lab. f pioneering efforts in the schools and his voloshky Ukrainian Dance Ensemble Ms. Klachko was a member of USA He specialized in diagnostic radio- of Philadelphia. logy at the University of Wisconsin and personal musicianship. He is currently a Branch 27. Her sister Marta, a medJ then studied angiography, compute– member of the Board of Directors of the Mr. Dubyk is a member of Ukrainian student, graduated from FDU in 198! rized tomography and magnetic reso– New Jersey Music Educators Associa– National Association Branch 48. and her father, Dr. ууиїимутуг T nance imaging in West Germany. tion. chko, is a professor of economics 1 in 1982 he was certified by the Mr. Kupchynsky came to the United Wins athletic scholarship finance at the university. American Board of Radiology. He was States in December 1946 as a Ukrai– assistant professor of radiology from nian displaced person. He is a member Notes on People is a feature geared 1983 to 1987 at the University of Utah, of the Ukrainian National Association MAD1SON, N.J. - Daria Klachko, toward reporting on the achieve and since 1988 he been associate pro– Branch 233. a senior at Fairleigh Dickinson Univer– ments of members of the Ukrainiqft fessor of radiology at the University of sity's Florham-Madison campus, has National Association. All submi^– Wisconsin. been named the recipient of one of the sions should be concise due to spa^e Dr. Wojtowycz is a member of the Receives research award 10 NCAA postgraduate scholarships limitations and must include the Ukrainian Medical Association of awarded nationwide to 1989 women's person's UNA branch number, items North America and other professional NEWARK, N.J. - Walter F. Koso– basketball players. will be published as soon as possible organizations, and is the author of nocky of Skillman, N.J. and was one of Ms. Klachko, a resident of Murray after their receipt, when space рф- numerous medical papers. two persons receiving awards for re- Hill, N.J., will receive a S4,000 scholar- mits. 1 He is a member of Ukrainian Na– search, and institute and public service ship for postgraduate study at the tional Association Branch 25. during the fall 1989 convocation held by New Jersey institute of Technology. Dr. Kosonocky received the Harlan Cited for teaching J. Perlis Award for Research. Pre– The Ukrainian National Association! sented by the Board of Overseers of the Foundation at NJ1T, the Perlis Award is named for the late professor of useful phone numbers, addresses І electrical engineering and outstanding research Harlan J. 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Presently a distinguished (201) 434-0237, -0807, -3036 professor of electrical engineering and (914)626-5641 holder of the Foundation Chair in Optoelectronics and Solid State Cir– The Ukrainian Weekly cuits at NJ1T, he is a fellow of the 30 Montgomery St. (mezzanine) Technical Staff at the David Sarnoff Jersey City, N.J. 4)7302 Research Center where he earned 54 (201) 434-0237, -0807, -3036 patents during a 30-year career. A pioneer in the development of the modern video camera, he earned pa– tehts for advancements in semiconduc– tor technology and had developed new . concepts for photonic switching devices BUY u.s. SAVINGS BOND? and for visible and infrared image For the current rate call... 1-80H-US-BONf sensors. Jerry M. Kupchynsky Dr. Kosonocky earned bachelor's 12 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JANUARY 28,1990 No. 4

chart"; they receive instructions from to prevent; to find and punish any violence, and as nationalist in a negative A Canadian... above and report upwards, all through deviation from the party line; to neutra– sense. Nothing, of course, could be (Continued from page 6) their own channels. lize any free thinker; to liquidate the further from the truth. tion is decidedly from the top; everyone, These separate chains of command kulaks, the anti-party cliques, etc. in a The movement 1 encountered in the manager, the professor and the are in addition to the normal staffs of an word, to stifle all individual initiative. Ukraine is particularly interesting, it is administrator, is awaiting instructions. industrial enterprise, government de– Make no mistake, the degeneration especially mindful of not being pro– This gave me an eerie feeling of partment or scientific institution. As a of public life into primitivism, the voked into violence, something the pessimism, a feeling which would pro– rule they also have a "direct line" to the economic stagnation, the perpetual authorities are constantly trying to do bably be shared by most Westerners. local KGB operation. All business shortages of consumer and other goods, (for example the ill-fated beatings of However, is any other state of affairs policy, all management decisions must the shoddy quality of industrial produc– protesters in Lviv on October 1). This logical, given the tragic fate of those be scrutinized and agreed to by the local tion, exist not because of the incom– restraint is notable because the move– who, in the past, had dared to buck the ment is, no doubt, driven by the pent-up system or had second-guessed it resentment of the decades-long discri– wrongly? As previously noted, glasnost The partkom (party committee) and their cronies mination and violence perpetrated has now permitted discussing the fate of don't create anything. For two generations their jobagains t Ukrainians by the Soviet state. these unfortunates. No one has as yet The Memorial Society seeks rehabili– called for atonement or punished the has not been to conceive, to produce, to innovate.tatio n of Stalin's victims, it also de– perpetrators. Many of them are still in mands restoration of cultural and power; most are still alive. The budget On the contrary, their function has been to control,historica l legacies of the nation which of the KGB has not been reduced. have been debased or destroyed by the to prevent; to find and punish any deviations fromSoviets ' policies of Russification. This question, as to the reason for the Earlier this month, Ukrainian was lack of faith in the likelihood of change, the party line; to neutralize any free thinker; to restored as the republic's official lan– did come up in many discussions. guage. The Taras Shevchenko Ukrai– Among many minor ones, one major liquidate the kulaks, the anti-party cliques, etc. in niaa n Language Society which nearly message came through clearly: the every day is forming new chapters all reason for the lack of faith is the all- word, to stifle all individual initiative. over the country, has as its main aim the pervasive stifling influence of the pro– return of Ukrainian to all institutions of fessional party hacks. (The term bu– party committee. The secretary's signa– petence of individuals, it is not that higher learning, to all schools, and reaucracy is often used — there, as well ture must appear on a multitude of people at large are not capable of industry, commerce and public admi– as in the West - but this generalization pieces of administrative paper. No anything better. nistration. is only partly correct.) signature — nothing happens. The population of Ukraine is as well The Ukrainian Helsinki Union, the Every scientific institution, every The "partkom" party committee educated as is ours in Canada; so is that unofficial monitor of Soviet human factory or plant, every city department secretaries (and their cronies) don't of the rest of the USSR. Typically 20 rights violations, is well-known. So is or collective farm has its party commit– create anything. For two generations percent of the age group which usually the "Green" movement, embodied in tee. These are headed by their secreta– their job has not been to conceive, to attends institutions of higher learning Zelenyi Svit, which has had tremendous ries, the professional party hacks. They produce, to innovate. On the contrary, is, in fact, attending. The people 1 met, impetus given to it by the recent Chor– have their own "organizational flow their real function has been to control, the professors, researchers and stu– nobyl tragedy. (Note that industry in dents, the engineers and managers in Ukraine, whose territory is the size of factories, were as knowledgeable and as Manitoba, discharges more toxic wastes bright, neat and organized, as any here into its rivers and atmosphere than all of or anywhere else. No, the quality of the the U.S.) people is not the reason for the failure of The largest underground Churches in the Communist states. the world, the Ukrainian Catholic and Those in Ukraine who lamented the the Ukrainian Autocephalous Ortho– Soviet reality are right, it is their system dox, are still illegal, but are demanding which is rotten. І add to this my more legalization. specific verdict: the single most impor– The Popular Movement of Ukraine tant cause of the rot is the parallel for Perebudova, or Rukh (literally network of party committees, and their "movement"), has more than 500,000 secretaries' confounded signatures. registered members and hundreds of They have been frightfully effective in chapters throughout the country, it has stifling all individual initiative, without united all of the above groups, and which nothing moves. There will not be many others, and has proposed effec– much real perestroika, real revival of tive, democratic solutions to perceived the stagnant Communist monolith and problems, in a word, Rukh has become у its economy, until this legacy is re- a potent popular forum with strong moved. political potential, not unlike Poland's The issue then is the release of the Solidarity, it is growing rapidly. creative drive of individuals - within Through mass meetings, letter-writ– the educational institutions, within the ing campaigns, protest marches and ranks of engineers in industry, among public interventions, Rukh, and all of managers in business and public admi– the other aforementioned organiza– nistration, and not the least among tions, are exerting that essential daily high-level officials in the ministries. pressure for bringing about real change. This, in turn, can happen only if the Their activities are involving more and arbitrary power of the party committees more individuals, and must thereby be and their notorious party hacks is having a healthy animating effect on the curbed, and their stifling grip loosened, pessimistic rank-and-file intellectuals in introduction of private enterprise the educational institutions, industry, capitalism, major investments, etc., are commerce and government. important, but perhaps overempha– Make these YOUR resolutions by sending Rukh's present objective and concern sized at the moment in the Western seems to be to make the elections to the S20 C$10 for members of the Ukrainian media. 0 Ukrainian SSR Supreme Soviet, National Association, a savings of 50 7o) to: The trouble, of course, is that the coming up in March, feature "al– The Ukrainian Weekly, Subscriptions De– party hacks and their whole hierarchy, ternative" candidates, in the part a the nomenklatura, are the ones who partment, 30 Montgomery St., Jersey City, single list of official party nominees was least want real change, it is not clear simply rubber-stamped by the ballot. NJ. 07302. whether Mikhail Gorbachev has not Rukh fully intends to see its own candi– wished, or has not dared to challenge dates running against the Communist their power. The nomenklatura has Party in all constituencies. We are Please enter my subscription to THE UKRA1N1AN WEEKLY for -.–^ years nothing to gain and everything to lose, witnessing the emergence of an alterna– Subscription rates: S10 per year for UNA members, S20 for non-members (U.S. funds). if challenged too openly, it certainly tive political force capable of playing a Please bill me. would make an attempt to topple him. serious role in government, if a multi- Their power will weaken only over time, party system were to emerge, certainly as a result of continual pressure specifi– the Communist Party committees cally directed against them, it will not would become anachronisms. dissipate voluntarily. Will this be allowed to happen, or will A hopeful source of pressure on the the terrible days of violence and terror nomenklatura's power comes from a return? The passive mood of the in– sector of society which has had much tellectuals 1 spoke of, unfortunately scorn heaped upon it in the Soviet suggests that things could go either way Union, and has been approached with at the moment. Given more time how– much suspicion in the West. These are ever, the popular movement could the national movements in the non- make things irreversible, and we might Russian republics. They are variously yet see real perebudova in Ukraine. This derided as reactionary, as promoting is certainly my hope. No. 4 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JANUARY 28,1990 13

On attending a public liturgy: Over 100,000 were expected to attend chev. Yet, people are still afraid in case Metropolitan's... perestroika would fail. That would Liturgy is still said in private homes to show their solidarity to the world and (Continued from page 5) destroy everything. Many priests still or on the streets. When 1 was in Lviv. І to tell (President Mikhail) Gorbachev continue to use only their first names. tion on this occasion. attended one of those liturgies on a main that the Ukrainian Catholic Church So 1 asked my family to come visit thoroughfare, Pidvalnyi Boulevard. should be free. Metropolitan Sterniuk is now only me in Lviv. І never did see Nove Selo. Thousands of people attend these Mr. Gel told me that Archbishop acting in the name of (Archbishop- Sterniuk would not be able to attend Major Myroslav) Cardinal Lubachiv– On meeting with Metropolitan volo– public liturgies. Since it was raining, only 2,000 attended this one. because of problems with his legs. So he sky. Should the Church be allowed to dymyr Sterniuk, acting archbishop of worship openly and there is a vacancy in There were tears in my eyes to see asked me if 1 would preside over this Lviv: manifestation, that would also include a the archbishop-major's position, the these people praying with such faith, synod of Ukrainian Catholic bishops І had met him in Ukraine before 1 left such deep conviction. Thev had no mass. in 1938. He's doing an excellent job. His But before 1 arrived in Ukraine, the would select three candidates. The holy liturgical books and had to rely on sing– father would then choose a successor. A one-room apartment serves as his ing by heart. Liturgy was said in front of secret police (KGB) came to see Metro– bedroom, chancery and reception room. politan Sterniuk and thought that 1 was permanent synod would also then have a Latin-rite Catholic church, run by the to be formed, composed of various When 1 visited with him, 1 concele– Carmelites and now closed. An icon was coming from Winnipeg to attend this brated a liturgy with him and his manifestation. І told Mr. Gel that 1 was commissions: canonical, liturgical and placed on the wall of this church and so on. auxiliary, Bishop Philemon Kurchaba. some women had put flowers around it sorry but could not accept, 1 would (All three are Redemptorists.) to decorate it. (have put) Archbishop Sterniuk and me At the moment, there are 10 bishops After liturgy, the Basilian priest who in a difficult position. in western Ukraine. celebrated the mass, held a special it did turn out well. І was in Kiev that Chornobyl fund's... devotion to the sacrament. Men, wo– day but 1 saw coverage of it on Soviet HURYN MEMOR1ALS television. There were over 200,000 (Continued from page 3) men and children knelt down on the wet FOR THE F1NEST 1N CUSTOM MADE people, praying and singing religious ginally the transport was scheduled ground, praying again with such faith, MEMORIALS INSTALLED IN ALL CEME– it's hard to describe. and nationalist songs, waving Ukrai– TERIES IN THE METROPOLITAN AREA to leave in late January, due to nian and religious flags. technical difficulties, however, it was Someone told them afterwards that a of New York including Holy Spirit in postponed to February 10.) Ukrainian metropolitan from Canada On the future of the Ukrainian H^mptonburgh. N.Y., St. Andrew's in South Catholic Church: Bound Brook Pine Bush Cemetery in The U.S. organizers of the relief was visiting. A few approached me, Kerhonkson and Glen Spey Cemetery asking for my blessing. Soon, they came transport are urgently appealing to Things are much better under Gorba– in Gien Spey, New York. by, what seemed like, the hundreds ... Ukrainian Americans to donate new We offer personal service 8, guidance in your and used children's clothing and kissing my hand, my coat. UKRAINIAN SINGLES home. For a bilingual representatives call: toys. Permission has been received І was in the crowd as a tourist and NEWSLETTER 1WAN HURYN from Metropolitan Mstyslav of the never publicly celebrated a liturgy. My P.O. Box 121 Ukrainian Orthodox Church, the daily liturgies were held in my room. Serving Ukrainian singles of ail ages Hamptonburgh, NY. 10916 chancery of Ukrainian Catholic One of the Redemptorist priests who throughout the United States and Canada. Tel: (914) 427-2684 Metropolitan Stephen Sulyk and was with me told them, "Good people, For information send a se!f-addressed BOHDAN REKSHYNSKYJ Ukrainian Protestant denominations our guest from Canada cannot meet stamped envelope to: 45 East 7th Street with all of you personally. Hell give his New York, N.Y. 10003 to gather these goods at local pa– Single Ukrainians Tel: (212) 477-6523 rishes. blessing and then go home." P.O. Box 24733, Phila., Pa. 19111 The final gathering point for all As 1 gave my blessing, they would ask U.S. donations will be St. John's me, with tears in their eyes, "Bishop, Ukrainian Catholic Church, in Ne– please help us. Ask the people in the YURU KOSSACZ 12-10-09 to 01-11-90 wark, N.J., whose pastor, the Rev. Western world that the Church be Bohdan Lukie, has agreed to utilize recognized." the parish's resources to prepare the This kind of faith is like that of the NO MAN 1S AN 1SLAND, ENT1RE OF 1TSELF; donated goods for shipping. first Christians. Many of them, some of EVERYMAN IS. A PIECE OF THE CONTINENT, A PART OF THE MAIN; Local collection points are re- them my schoolmates, went to prisons, 1F A СЦШ FE WASHED AWAY BY THE SEA, ЕЩЮРЕ 1S THE LESS, quested to ship all donated clothing concentration camps and faced torture AS WELL AS 1F A PROMONTORY WERE, AS WELL AS 1F A MANOR OF and toys by February 4 to: St. John's and starvation for their faith. THY FR1ENDS OR OF TH1NE OWN WERE; Ukrainian Catholic Church, 719 ANY MANS DEATH D1M1SHES ME, BECAUSE І AM LNVOLVED 1N MANK1ND; Sandford Ave., Newark, N.J. 07106. On the strength of the laity: AND THEREFORE NEVER SEND TO KNOW FOR WHOM THE BELL TOLLS, Donations to the Children of ІТ TOLLS FOR THEE. Chornobyl Relief Fund may be sent 1 met with lvan Gel (the most promi– to the fund at 272 Old Short Hills nent lay organizer and defender of the Road, Short Hills, N.J. 07078; ore;о JOHN DONNE 1572 to 163L rights of the Ukrainian Catholic Sheila Mackie Stewart Cunningham Zahajkewycz. Ukrainian National Association, 30 Church) who was in the process of Montgomery St., Jersey City, N.J. organizing the September 17 (1989) 07302. manifestation in Lviv. BUFFALO, N.Y. D1STR1CT C0MM1TTEE of the UKRAINIAN NATIONAL ASSOCIATION FIVE REASONS WHY YOU SHOULD announces that SUPPORT JOHN DEMJANJUK ANNUAL DlSTRlCT C0MM1TTEE MEET1NG 1. " 1 must say 1 am more than ever convinced that the decision of the judges in israel was unjust.." - Rt Hon. Lord Thomas Denning will be held Sunday, February 4, 1990 at 2:00 P.M. .2. "1 know of no other case in which so талу deviations from procedures at the Ukrainian American Civic Center, inc. internationally accepted as desirable occured" 205 Military Rd.f Buffalo, N.Y. - Professor Willem Wagenaar, author of identifying lvan: A Case Study in Legal Psychology, Harvard Press 1988. Obligated to attend the annual meeting as voting members are District Committee Office:: 3. " if John Demjanjuk - whom 1 believe to be an utterly innocent man - hangs Convention Delegates and two delegates from the following Branches: on Eichmarm's gallows, it will be israel that will one day be in the dock" 40, 87, 127,149, 304, 360 - Patrick J. Buchanan All UNA members are welcome as guests at the meeting. 4. "1 believe this case stinks...І am asking for an investigation into the John AGENDA: Demjanjuk American citizen case, and also into the actions of the Special 1. Opening and acceptance of the Agenda Office of investigation in this country." 2. verification of quorum -Congressman James Trafficant, Congressional Record, June 20, 1989. 3. Election of presidium 4. Minutes of preceding annual meeting 5. " 1 believe the Demjanjuk case will no more be forgotten by history than was the 5. Reports of District Committee Officers Dreyfus case." 6. Discussion on reports and their acceptance r– Count Nikolai Tolstoy 7. Election of District Committee Officers 8. Address-by UNA Supreme President Dr. JOHN 0. FL1S Twelve years of tireless efforts have brought us this far. Mr. Demjanjuk's defense 9. Adoption of District activities program for the current year is on the brink of financial ruin. Without your immediate financial assistance, Mr. 10. Discussion and -Resolutions Demjanjuk's appeal to the Supreme Court will not be possible. Please help us suc– 11. Adjournment cessfully complete the final chapter of this twelve year nightmare.

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math of Chornobyl. already received 10 rems." Oblast, which possessed a population of Zhytomyr... Mr. Korbetsky provided a bitter Zelenyi Svit offered several propo– about 300,000 people, including 59,000 children. On the other hand, he exhi– (Continued from page 2) critique of what he called the "ilyin sals. First, that any residents in conta– theory" of the effects of Chornobyl. minated areas who wished to leave bited the same attitude toward un– future generations. official observers as the Center for One group that has taken an active Leonid ilyin, the vice-president of the should be permitted to do so, providing Radiation Medicine. The "Greens" and unofficial role in investigating the USSR Academy of Medical Sciences, that cesium contamination of the soil members of the Ukrainian Popular extent of the radioactive fallout is the has predicted that Chornobyl will have exceeded five curies per square kilo- ecological association Zelenyi Svit a minimal impact upon the health of the meter. Second, those families with Movement in Support of Perebudova (Green World); in the late summer of people living in the path of the radio- children should be evacuated "in the (Rukh) he remarked, were actively 1989, it commissioned a group of its active cloud. He also also supported the current year." involved in destabilizing the situation members from the institute of Nuclear view that a total dosage of radiation of Third, that those wHo remained in the by spreading rumors and raising emo– Research to visit the affected raions. 35 rems over a lifetime falls well within Narodychi Raion who were working in tions and anxieties in affected areas. According to one member of this the boundaries of safety for the affected areas where the soil contamination was Neither the Ukrainian party leaders group; Ye. Korbetsky, upon hearing of population. over 2 curies per square kilometer (and nor the Government Commission for the impending visit, one of the leaders of Mr. korbetsky stated that this view - with the addition of pensioners) should Extraordinary Situations led by v. the Kiev-based Center for Radiation point had far too many loopholes, not be placed on the same footing as Doguzhiyev have thus far provided a Medicine at once made a telephone call least the ignorance about how much professionals who work regularly with solution to the mounting health pro– to the institute, in which he demanded radiation these Zhytomyr residents ionizing radiation. This provision was blems in northern Ukraine. Moreover, to know who had given permission for actually received in 1986. Moreover, partly in response to the impoverish– as recent evidence indicates, the number employees of the institute "to interfere Dr. Llyin was assuming that inhabitants ment of villagers , preventing them from of affected raions has increased steadily, in places where they were not needed." had consumed only clean food products purchasing clean food supplies at so that one logically must ask whether There could hardly be a more apt over the past 44 months, which was cooperatives and other outlets. such investigations have yet to reach the indicator of official paranoia over the untrue. "We consider," he ended, "that in November, at a session of the heart of the problem. release of information about the after- the residents of Narodychi Raion have Politburo of the Communist Party of in Ukraine, the likelihood of similar the Soviet Union devoted to the pro– conditions existing in northern Rivne btems of Chornobyl, Н.І. 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San Diego and vocalists Lesya Balinger Thanks are due to those who loaned proper display of the art in Symphony Festival... and Bohdan Klymkowych. The very works of art: Marta Baczynsky, Mrs. Hall. (Continued from page; 7) talented and enthusiastic Ukrainian Walter Balas, Olga Gerega, Maria Although television and the press Cham became involved through the Dance Company of Los Angeles thrilled Ritachka, Dennis Torzeski and Anna were, at first, reluctant to publicize the efforts of The Washington Group. the audience. Wowk, as well as to those individuals Freedom Arts Festival, they finallygav e it was overwhelmingly clear she had a The Freedom Festival Exhibit in who donated embroidery and wood- quite generous coverage of the event. tough job ahead of her to involve the San downtown's Symphony Towers on carvings from various private collec– Diego area's 2,500 Ukrainians, who are October 14 to November 14 recognized tions. Dr. and Mrs. ihor Galarnyck S1NCE 1928 scattered all over the county. Even– the ethnic diversity and wealth of personally delivered beautiful pysanky SENKO FUNERAL HOMES tually, she received help to express artistic talent that many people feel the from Wisconsin. something of Ukrainian art and cul– Soviet Arts Festival ignored. Besides New York's only Ukrainian family owned 8t ture, and Ukraine's ongoing struggle for Ukraine, the Baltic countries, vietnam, The Ukrainian Art Center of Los operated funeral homes freedom. Mexico, the Philippines, Poland and Angeles generously loaned its beautiful ^ Traditional Ukrainian services personally collection and its directors, Daria Freedom Festival activities included Afghanistan were represented. High- conducted lights included rugs, jewelry and art Czaikowsky and Zenia Wrzeznewsky, ^ Funerals arranged throughout Bklyn, Bronx, an exhibition at San Diego State Uni– were invaluable consultants on the New York, Queens, Long island, etc. versity which previewed the artistic and from Afghanistan, Polish paintings, 9 Holy Spirit, St. Andrews Cem. A all others Ukrainian pysanky, ceramics, embroi– cultural displays of San Diego's inter- HUCULKA international shipping national community in September. dery and paintings by Americans of ^ Pre-need arrangements Ukrainian descent. icon 8L Souvenir's Distribution More than 44,000 persons viewed the 2860 Buhre Ave. Suite 2R Senko Funeral Home Hempstetd Funeral Home exhibit. Mrs. Cham expressed her gratitude Bronx, NY 10461 213 Bedford Ave. 89 Peninsula Blvd. to the owners of the still-unfinished fEPRESENTATtrt(mdmOL2SALERofEMBRODEREDBLOUSES Brooklyn, N.Y. 11211 Hempstead, N.Y. 11550 As a token of the Ukrainian commu– for ADULTS and CH1LDREN 1-718-3884416 1-516481-7460 nity's appreciation, the library received Symphony Towers for donating the Tel. (212) 931-1579 24 HOURS 7 DAYS A WEEK Ukraine: A Concise Encyclopedia, space for the Freedom Festival exhibit donated by the Smetana family. completely rent-free. Over 3,000 per– sons visited the Ukrainian art and crafts ^ УКРАЇНСЬКЕ БЮРО On October 29, over 300 people saw exhibit. Hundreds of informative pam– the showcase of art and culture of phlets about Ukraine were distributed. ОТІІ) ПОДОРОЖЕЙ refugees forced from their homelands Lectures on Ukrainian history and "^” Марійки Гельбіґ by Soviet leadership in the War Memo- current events were given by Mrs. Cham rial Building in Balboa Park. to visiting classes. One class traveled all Ukraine was ably represented by the the way from McPherson College in scope tRaoeL їгас Ukrainian Children's Dance Group of Kansas. 1605 Springfield Ave., Maple wood, N.J. 07040 (201) 378-8998 Toll Free (800) 2427267 SCHOLARSHIP FOR GRADUATE STUDENTS AND SCHOLARS The Ukrainian Academy of Arts and Sciences announces that the Scholarship in the name of Professor ANTON STEPANOWGH SYN1AWSKY for the academic year 1990-91 of Si,500 each are available for two qualified students or scholars whose doctoral or scholarly work is in the area of Ukrainian Studies (history, economics, language or literature). Recipients must acknowledge the financial support of the Ukrainian Academy of Arts and Sciences Prof. Anton Stepanovych SYN1AWSKY Scholarship in their dissertations or scholarly works. Other scholarships or grants do not prevent applicants from receiving this scholarship. Applicants must send: 1. Autobiography 2. Copy of University degree 3. Recommendations from two Professors who know well applicant' work. The Selection will be made on March 20, 1990. Applications should be sent to: Prof. Wasyl Omelchenko Ukrainian Academy of Arts and Sciences 206 West 100 Street New York, N.Y. 10025

ALLENT0WN, PA. D1STR1CT C0MM1TTEE of the UKRAINIAN NATIONAL ASSOCIATION announces that ANNUAL D1STR1CT C0MM1TTEE MEET1NG

will be held Saturday, February 3, 1990 at 2:00 P.M. at Ukrainian Catholic Church 1826 Kenmore Avenue, Bethlehem, Pa. Obligated to attend the annual meeting as voting members are District Committee Officers, Convention Delegates and two delegates from the following Branches: 44, 46,47,48,124,137,143,147,151,288,318,369,438 All UNA members are welcome as guests at the meeting. AGENDA: 1. Opening and acceptance of the Agenda 2. verification of quorum 3. Election of presidium 4. Minutes of preceding annual meeting 5. Reports of District Committee Officers 6. Discussion on reports and their acceptance S50.00 discount for eariy registration for 7. Election of District Committee Officers 1990 UKRAINE TOURS 8. Address by ULANA M. D1ACHUK, UNA Supreme Treasurer 9. Adoption of District activities program for the current year 10. Discussion and Resolutions 11. Adjournment Meeting will be attended by: lour NiiimviXito:----–^–----„ Ulaiia M. Diachuk, UNA Supreme Treasurer (Only one coupon per person, v'dlid ONLY if' accom– Anna HaraS, Honorary Member UNA Supreme Assembly ponied bv completed iind signed registration coupo with DI:POSIT) DISTRICT COMMITTEE Must reach SCOPE TRAvEL by February 15th Anna Haras, Chairman Stefan Mucha, Secretary Ukrainian Anna Strot, Secretary English Wolodymyr Zagwockyj, Treasurer 32 TOURS то UKRAINE ^ SPECIAL YOUTH TOURS ^ WORKSHOP^ 16 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JANUARY 28,1990 No. 4

February 2 February 10

NEW YORK: The Arts Club Theatre PREVIEW OF EVENTS CH1CAGO: A coalition of Ukrai– will sponsor a fund-raising benefit to nian women's organizations of the promote East European Cultural dancing, beverages and snacks, at NEWARK, N.J.: Kobza lnterna– greater Chicago area will host an Exchange, prior to the group's tour Our Lady of vilnius Church hall, 570 tional will sponsor a benefit concert evening with Olha Horyn, a Ukrai– of the Baltic states. A rock for Broome St. Admission will be 52 per by folk singer vasyl Nechepa from nian Catholic Church activist and freedom dance will begin at 8:30 p.m. person. For more information call Ukraine at 8 p.m. in St. John's former political prisoner at 6 p.m. at and will feature entertainment, Tiina Aleman, (212) 807-7788. School gym, Sandford Avenue. All Ss. volodymyr and Olha Ukrainian proceeds will aid Chornobyl disaster Catholic Church hall, Oakley and victims in Ukraine. A kobza and Superior. Admission is S10 for adults, Washington to mark Ukraine's independence hurdy-gurdy player, Mr. Nechepa is S5 for seniors and students. a soloist at the Chernihiv Regional WASHINGTON - The annual ob– This is the annual commemoration of Philharmonia and has won many ANN ARBOR, Mich.: The Depart– servance of Ukrainian independence Ukrainian independence Day orga– prizes. Cassettes of his performances ment of Slavic Languages and Lite– Day will take place in Washington on nized by the Ukrainian Congress Com– will be available at each concert. For ratures at the University of Michi– January 31 in the Rayburn House mittee of America in keeping with the more information call Kobza, (416) gan will sponsor a symposium on Office Building, Room B338 at 6 p.m. UCCA's commitment to the restoration 253-9314. "Lina Kostenko, the Poet and the Co-sponsoring the observance are of Ukrainian independence. Thinker," 9 p.m. to noon, and 2 to 5 p.m. at the Rackham Amphitheatre. Sens. Alfonse D'Amato (R-N.Y.), Paul February 3 Simon (D-lll.), Steve Symms (R-ldaho) Persons interested in participating in Lina Kostenko will hold a poetry and Reps. Frank Annunzio (D-lll.), the observance should contact the reading at 8 p.m. For more informa– Ukrainian National information Ser– NEW YORK: The Slavic Heritage tion call (313) 764-5355. William S. Broomfield (R-Mich.), Council of America, inc. will present Bernard J. Dwyer (D-N.J.), Mary Rose vice in Washington, (202) 547-0018. Admission is S15; S10 for UCCA mem– a Slavic Festival with performances Oakar (D-Ohio), Don Ritter (R-Pa.) by ethnic performers at 2:30 p.m. and February 11 bers. and Dana Rohrabacher (R-Calif.) 8 p.m. at Alice Tully Hall, Lincoln SANTA BARBARA, Calif.: The Center, 65th Street and Broadway. University of California at Santa Among the entertainers will be the Barbara Arts and Lectures will Chicago professionals organize group Syzokryli Ukrainian Dance En– sponsor a screening of the film "The semble and folksinger Bohdan An– Eve of ivan Kupalo" at 8 p.m. by Roman G. Golash letter as well as hold a "Career Day and drusyshyn. Matinee and evening Campell Hall, UCSB campus. For Job Fair." To encourage friendships, tickets will be S15 per person. Seniors CH1CAGO - The Ukrainian Ameri– more information call (805) 961- business contacts and networking, the and children under 12 may be ad– can Business and Professional Club of 3535. club plans to organize a series of social mitted for S10 to the matinee perfor– Chicago (UABPCC) will hold its inau– events. On March 9-11, UABPCC is mance. All tickets are available at the gural meeting on February 9 at Ss. organizing a three-day ski trip to Big Alice Tully Hall box office. volodymyrand Olha Ukrainian Catho– Powderhorn Mountain in Bessemer, PLEASE NOTE: Preview items lic Church Cultural Center at 6:30 p.m. Mich. Networking^ social hours are must be received one week before "The UABPCC is a service organiza– planned to be held on March 16, April February 5 desired date of publication. No tion for Ukrainian Americans and their 20andMayl8. information will be taken over the friends from all sectors of the economic ANN ARBOR, Mich.: Ukrainian phone. Preview items will be pub– community who wish to promote a mu– A steering committee formed in early poet Lina Kostenko will speak at 7 lished only once (please note desired tually supportive environment for December consists of Omelan Рук, p.m. at 2231 Angell Hall as part of a date of publication). All items are personal and professional growth while Pfcter Beswerchij, Anthony Koltuniuk, minicourse on "Lina Kostenko and published at the discretion of the effectively contributing their business Nicholas Pavlenko, Roman Salij, Anya the Ukrainian Cultural Renaissance editorial staff and in accordance with and professional skills to worthy com– Mostovych and Roman Golash. The of the 1960s," offered by the Depart– available space. munity causes," states the club's mar– UABPCC invites all who are interested ment of Slavic Languages and Lite– keting letter. to attend the February 9 inaugural ratures at the University of Michi– PREviEW OF EvENTS, a listing The UABPCC plans to publish a meeting. For more information, please gan. For more information call (313) of Ukrainian community events open membership directory, a monthly news- contact Mr. Salij, (312) 337-1702. 764-5355. to the public, is a service provided free of charge by The Weekly to the February 7 Ukrainian community. To have an j Forestburg - Glen Spey, N.Y. UKRAINIAN event listed in this column, please TYPEWRITERS ANN ARBOR, Mich.: Lina Kos– send information (type of event, . COTTAGE also other languages complete tenko will deliver a speech at 7 p.m. date, time, place, admission, sponsor etc.),along withthe phone number of with 50 ft of lake front, 2 bedrooms, living line of office machines fc at 2231 Angell Hall, University of equipment. a person who may be reached during room, new eat-in-kitchen, remodeled bath- Michigan campus, as part of a mini- JACOB SACHS course on her literary work in rela– dayime hours for additional infor– room. 16 ft x 16 ft ^ new roofed porch. 251 W 98th St. tion to the Ukrainian cultural rebirth mation to: PREviEW OF EYENTS, Owner asking S?S,OOO. New York. N. Y 10025 Tel. (212) 2226683 of the 1960s. For more information Tlie Ukrainian Weekly, 30 Montgo– (914) 638-2181 7 days a week call (313) 764-5355. mery St., Jersey City, NJ. 07302.

THE UKRAINIAN NATIONAL ASSOCIATION announces СОЮЗІВКА SCHOLARSHIP AWARDS Ф FOR THE ACADEM1C YEAR 199071991 SOYUZIVKA According to the June 1988 eligibility requirements a) the scholarships will be awarded to FULLT!ME UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS (studying towards their first bachelor's degree) attending accredited colleges or universities and to H1GH SCHOOL GRADUATES who ATTENTION SK1ERS! will be attending such institutions of higher learning in the filing calendar year Come to "SOYUZivKA" and enjoy our b) the candidate must have been an АСТІУЕ DUES-PAY1NG UNA MEMBERfor warmth' and hospitality at least TWO YEARS by the end of March of the filing year. ш Overnight accommodations with three meals: S48.89 per person, Applicants will be judged on the basis of: includes tips and taxes. 1. financial need 2. course of study м Go CROSS COUNTRY7SK11NG at neighboring M1NNEWASKA STATE 3. scholastic record PARK with 40 miles of groomes trails. Entrance fee: S5.00 per adult, 4. involvement in Ukrainian community and student life S3.00 per child. Ski rentals, on weekend only. m Downhill skiing at B1G vANlLLA and HOL1DAY MOUNTA1N, DUE DATES for applications and documents: approximately 30 minutes away from "Soyuzivka". Your completed, signed fc dated application due by MARCH 31, 1990. All required documents u photograph due by MAY 1, 1990.

For application form write to: Ukrainian 1 National ^Association tr^tate UKRAINIAN NATIONAL ASSOCIATION PoorcJmor-e RocJ Ker-tanbon, New YoA 12446 30 Montgomery Street, Jersey City, NJ. 07302 9І4-626-564І