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Ukrainian dissidents to meet Reagan Official program honors Shevchenko, WASHINGTON - Six Ukrai­ the residence of the U.S. ambassador upstaging unofficial cultural protest nian dissidents - representing na­ to the Soviet Union, on Monday, tional, cultural and religious rights May за. KIEV — What was expected to be an event" to conduct their own manifesta­ activists - are among the prominent These rights activists represent unofficial demonstration calling for tion. These Ukrainians, dressed in Soviet dissidents that have been groups including the Ukrainian "cultural autonomy" in this Ukrainian embroidered shirts and blouses, led by a invited to meet with President Ro­ Helsinki Group and its official or­ capital city on Sunday, May 22, took group of 50 to 60 university students, nald Reagan while he is in Moscow gan, The Ukrainian Herald, the the form of an official afternoon pro­ members of the UCC, held their own for the U.S.-Soviet summit meeting. Ukrainian Culturological Club, the gram honoring the poet Taras Shev- protest, an afternoon of song and International (All-Union) Commit­ chenko, reported Ukrainian American poetry readings, reported the U.S. Oles Shevchenko, Mykhailo tee for the Defense of Political tourists who returned from Ukraine on travelers. Horyn, Vyacheslav Chornovil, Lev Prisoners in the USSR, the Ukrai­ Tuesday, May 24. The group had originally planned to Lukianenko, Ivan Неї and the Rev. nian Catholic Church and its journal, The Ukrainian Culturological Club read Shevchenko poetry during the Vasyl Romaniuk have been invited Christian Voice, and the Ukrainian (UCC), based in Kiev, had organized an official program, but according to Oles to attend a reception at Spaso House, Autocephalous Orthodox Church. unofficial demonstration to protest the Shevchenko, the Ukrainian anti-nu­ Ukrainian republic's lack of cultural clear and national rights activist, they freedom and suppression of the Ukrai­ were denied permission to do this by the Sopinka named to Canada's top courtnia n language. They were, however, authorities. Mr. Shevchenko stated that OTTAWA — Ukrainian Canadian The announcement surprised many "upstaged" by the Soviet Ukrainian the officials had told him that the John Sopinka, one of Canada's best- observers because appointments to the authorities, who usurped their plans program was "totally filled." known litigation attorneys, was named Supreme Court of Canada are usually and interceded with an official pro­ "Imagine that" he responded, 'an to the Supreme Court on Tuesday, May made from the ranks of judges in gram near the Shevchenko Monument afternoon honoring Taras Shevchenko 24. provincial courts of appeal. across the way from the State Univer­ where his poetry is not permitted to be Prime Minister Brian Mulroney Nonetheless, the selection of Mr. sity of Kiev. read." made the announcement in Bonn, West Sopinka, 55, was widely praised by his According to the American tourists, Mr. Shevchenko and his group were Germany, while on a European tour. peers in the legal community, as well as about 800 people attended the official allowed to place bouquets of flowers at by political observers and representa­ program, which included performances the foot of the poet's monument. tives of Canada's ethnic communities. by local choirs and ensembles, as well as The UCC-sponsored event, which House passes The appointment of Mr. Sopinka, an opening> remarks by Borys Oliynyk, ran parallel to the official program in attorney with Stikeman, Elliott, one of chairman of the State Commission on time (tourists observed that the official famine bill Toronto's top law firms, marks the first Landmarks, who stated: "Let this be a program began at about 5 p.m.; the WASHINGTON - The U.S. House time in 12 years that a practicing lawyer joint celebration to celebrate the poet unofficial gathering began about 30 of Representatives passed a bill ex­ has been chosen to serve as one of the Taras Shevchenko." minutes later and both ran late into the tending the mandate of the U.S. Com­ nine justices on the Supreme Court. About 300 feet away from the official night, with the last people dispersing mission on the Ukraine Famine, (S- He succeeds Justice Williard Estey, ceremonies, a group of 200 to 300 after 10 p.m.), included groups of 2304) by voice vote on Wednesday, May (Continued on page 12) people broke away from the "main students and rights activists singing 24. Two-thirds of the House members Ukrainian songs, among them Vasyl voted in favor of the extension prolong­ International panel investigates famineSymonenko' s "Lebedi Materynstva." ing the life of the commission through It also included readings of poetry June 22, 1990. BRUSSELS - New York Times "He liked to chain girls up a good deal, written by the Ukrainian national bard, The extension bill, was passed in the Pulitzer Prize-winning correspondent and you're not supposed to do that in Shevchenko. According to one New Senate on April 21. It now goes back to Walter Duranty did not report about Moscow," Dr. Conquest continued. He Yorker who witnessed this May 22 the Senate, which will vote on an the 7 to 10 million deaths during the noted that this information is found in (Continued on page 2) amendment already passed by the Soviet-engineered famine in Ukraine in the second volume of former New York House providing for the commission to 1932-1933 because it is believed that he Times correspondent Harrison Salis­ select members to the body as the need was being blackmailed by Soviet autho­ bury's autobiography. Mr. Salisbury Ruban freed arises. rities, testified internationally known became Moscow correspondent for the introduced by Rep. Dante Fascell historian Robert Conquest at the May newspaper after Mr. Duranty. "But, (D-Fla.), the amendment is a small 24 session of the International Com­ this is Salisbury's implication, that they technical provision, which should not mission oi Inquiry into the Famine in (the Soviets) said 'You go ahead and affect the Senate's passage of the bill. It Ukraine 1932-1933. chain girls up and write what we like.'" will then go to President Ronald Rea­ Also that day, John Sopinka, who Dr. Conquest noted "it was a most gan for his signature. had just been named to Canada's unfortunate phenomenon that Duranty The amendment was added to assure Supreme Court and was at the hearings was able to give his authority and the that the commission remain a 15- in the capacity of legal counsel for the authority of the (New York) Times to member team during its work span. The World Congress of Free Ukrainians, these false accounts (about the existence commission will lose its chairman. Rep. urged the commission of inquiry "to of the famine)." Dr. Conquest said that Dan Mica (D-Fla.), who is running for find that the famine was deliberately Mr. Duranty "had told the American the Senate in November, as well as its caused as an instrument of (Soviet) state Embassy in Berlin that he was writing three administration members, from policy." the Soviet Hne" and that he "admitted the Departments of State, Education, "The famine was an act of genocide," his reports were false to his colleagues and Health and Human Services, who he said. "Special measures against and to the British Embassy in Moscow." will leave with the election of a new Ukraine were designed to break the Mr. Duranty was awarded the Pulitzer president during this year. spirit of the most recalcitrant of pea­ Prize for his reporting in the Soviet The bill extension, however, does not sants opposed to collectivization" under Union. provide for any additional government Joseph Stalin. Currently senior research fellow and funding, many of the representatives The commission was initiated by the scholar-curator of the Russian and East who spoke out in support of it pointed World Congress of Free Ukrainians, an European Collection at Hoover Institu­ out. Mr. Fascell stated, on the floor: organization which champions the tion, Stanford University, Dr. Con­ Ukrainian political prisoner Petro "The Ukrainian American community interests of Ukrainians both in Ukraine quest served in the British Foreign Ruban is free and back home in has donated thousands of dollars that and in the free world. Service and is considered an expert on Pryluky, in the Chernihiv Oblast of this work can be completed at no "Duranty belonged to a strange Soviet affairs. Ukraine. See story on page 2. (Continued on page 2) sexual orgy sect," Dr. Conquest said. (Continued on page 2) THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, MAY 29,1988 No. 22

Petro Ruban freed from Perm Grigoryants released from jail, JERSEY CITY, N.J. - Ukrainian there. He, along with the other inmates political prisoner Petro Ruban, whose of Camp 36-1, was transferred to camp but Glasnost office is destroyed wife, Lydia, is in the United States with 35-1, also in the Perm region. their crippled son, Marko, was released Mr. Ruban was to have completed his MOSCOW - Sergei Grigoryants, existence for a little over 10 months. from a labor camp in Perm and is back latest sentence in 1998. editor of the independent journal named It is published twice a month, and home in Pryluky, Chernihiv Oblast of Mr. Ruban is currently in very poor Glasnost, was released from jail on translations of it are circulated abroad. Ukraine. health, and he arrived in Pryluky with a Monday, May 16, only to discover that Glasnost is perhaps the most influential Mr. Ruban was thrice sentenced for high fever. The Rubans' 19-year-old Soviet authorities had confiscated his of the new unofficial, yet not clandes­ "anti-Soviet agitation and propaganda" daughter, Natalka, stayed in Pryluky printing equipment and destroyed his tine journals now being published in for, among other things, sculpting a with her grandmother, while Mrs. files and manuscripts. various parts of the USSR. Such publi­ replica of the Statue of Liberty as a gift Ruban took Marko to the United States Mr. Grigoryants, who spent a week in cations deal with topics as diverse as the to the American people on the occasion for medical treatment. jail after he was arrested on May 9 as he environment, the arts and religious of the U.S. Bicentennial. Immediately upon his release Mr. waited at his editorial office for a rights. Most recently he was arrested while Ruban expressed serious concern about delegation representing the newly While Mr. Grigoryants was in jail, he serving an exile term and sentenced to three inmates of Camp 35, Ivan Kandyba, formed Democratic Union, which con­ said police and plainclothesmen had nine years of labor camp and four years' Ivan Sokulskyand Mykhailo Alekseyev, siders itself an alternate party, said that ransacked the house outside Moscow exile outside of Ukraine for writing who are in very poor health and are in he had indications he would be charged that serves as Glasnost's editorial office. various appeals and letters. solitary confinement. with slandering the Soviet state. The He said he was kept from entering the He was imprisoned in the notorious Mr. Ruban was told as he was freed punishment for this crime is up to three house on Tuesday, May 17, the day Perm Camp 36-1, which has become that if in the next three years he violates years in prison or "internal exile." after he was released from jail, but was known as a "death camp" because any Soviet laws he will be returned to Thus, the future of Glasnost maga­ able to look inside through the win­ several prominent dissidents have died the labor camp to complete his sentence. zine is doubtful, reported The New dows. York Times. The dissident journalist also told the this chilling tragedy to light. The work Meanwhile, in an interview with The Times reporter that officials had told House passes... of the commission is especially timely Washington Post, General Secretary him to file documents proving that the (Continued from page 1) given greater discussion in the Soviet Mikhail Gorbachev described Mr. house and equipment inside it belonged additional cost to the government. It is Union of the so-called blank spots in Grigoryants as an "alien phenomenon to him, a procedure that could take a felt, however, that the authority of the Soviet history, including a tentative but in our society, sponging on the positive year or more. U.S. government is necessary to ensure increasing discussion of the famine. aspects of perestroika." the credibility and integrity of the Indeed, it is may hope that the work of In The New York Times, Bill Keller Mr. Grigoryants previously served commission's work..." this commission will contribute to the wrote of Mr. Grigoryants: "The dissi­ eight years in prisons and labor camps James Florio (D-N.J.), who was the discussion taking place in the Soviet dent editor, who has grown increasingly for "anti-Soviet agitation and propa­ original House sponsor of the legisla­ Union today to come to terms with the disillusioned about the prospects for ganda" for his work on a samizdat tion that created the commission in past." change, charged that the crackdown on journal. He was one of the political 1986, said: "The commission has been President Reagan signed the original his magazine and other recent police prisoners released early last year under working diligently over the past few bill into law on October 12, 1984, and moves against dissent were a deliberate a partial amnesty. years, holding hearings, compiling the Commission on the Ukraine Famine pre-summit message to President Ro­ After he was arrested on May 9, Mr. statements and information, and work­ was established on December 13, 1985, nald Reagan from Soviet police and the Grigoryants said he was taken to a ing on a curriculum guide which will to conduct a study of the famine of KGB that they, not Mikhail S. Gorba­ hearing at which the only question enable our children to learn about this 1932-33 in Ukraine, to expand the chev's liberal supporters, still control asked of him was his name. He was great tragedy in their classrooms. world's knowledge of the famine and to the rights environment here." found guilty of resisting arrest and was However, the commission's work is not provide the American public with a The journal Glasnost has been in ordered to serve seven days in jail. yet completed and additional time is better understanding of the Soviet other result but famine, and he knew it necessary to compile and publish the system by elucidating the Soviet role in international panel... at the time." the Ukrainian famine. report this summer, translate and (Continued from page 1) The commission is made up of the analyze eyewitness accounts, publish Dr. James Mace became the execu­ following jurists: Prof. Jacob Sund- tive director of the commission, which, His testimony was presented on May correspondence relating to the famine, 24 to the International Commission of berg, Sweden (commission president); complete the curriculum guide and over a period of two years, collected Prof. G.I. A.D. Draper, United Kingdom; various testimonies of eyewitnesses, Inquiry into the Famine in Ukraine 1932- conduct curriculum workshops on the 1933. The commission is examining Prof. John Peters Humphrey, Canada; findings of the commission. S-2304 will gathered all available information Prof. Georges Lavasseur, France; Prof. about the famine and examined the evidence that the Soviet government enable this important effort to come to deliberately starved 7 to 10 million Ricardo Levene, Argentina; Prof. fruition." causes of the genocide and its effects. A Covey T. Oliver, United States; Prof. full report to Congress is due out in Ukrainians to death during the period Rep. William Broomfield (R-Mich.), of collectivization. Dr. Conquest's Joe Verhoeven, Belgium. who along with Reps. Mica, Dennis June. The next two years of work will allow book, "The Harvest of Sorrow," sup­ The commission had invited the Hertel (D-Mich.), and Benjamin Gil- ports the theory that the Soviets engi­ man (R-N.Y.) comprise the four-mem­ the commission to transcribe original- Soviet Union to send a representative to language oral histories, with short neered the famine in order to destroy its hearings, but no Soviet official has ber House of Representatives contingent the Ukrainian peasantry fighting against of the 15-member commission, added, summaries in English, totalling more attended the sessions. than 2,000 pages. It will also allow for collectivization. The International Commission of in the Congressional Record: "But more In continuing his testimony. Dr. Inquiry into the Famine in Ukraine work must be done to meet the congres­ the dissemination of the commission's findings through contacts with scholars Conquest explained that the famine in 1932-1933 will continue to hear tesfi- sional mandate. Equally important is Ukraine was a conscious and deliberate mony from experts and eyewitnesses at the need to disseminate the results of the and historians, the media and curricu­ lum packages for elementary and secon­ action by the Soviet government. the Brussels Europa Hotel through commission's research. The realities of "Clearly, the high grain requisition Friday, May 27. the genocide and the role of the Soviet dary schools. The commission's by-laws provide targets were intentional," elaborated Dr. James E. Mace, staff director of Union policy should be known to Dr. Conquest, "Stalin was told that they everyone..." for additional funding, over the the United^tates Commission on the 5400,000 government-granted monies, were too high, but they were enforced Ukraine Famine was to testify on Wed­ Adding his thoughts on the extension nevertheless. There could have been no nesday, May 25. of the bill. Rep. Steny Hoyer (D-Md.), to come from private sources. The stated: "Despite the significant work to Ukrainian community to date has date, there is more that needs to be done raised more than 5170,000 for the com- in order to bring the full dimensions of FOUNDED 1933 Mykhailo Slobodian, to name but a few Ukrainian WeeLI^ Official program... of the better known dissidents. (Continued from page 1) According to the Ukrainian Ameri­ An English-language Ukrainian newspaper published by the Ukrainian National manifestation, Oles Shevchenko read cans who attended the demonstration, Association Inc., a non-profit association, at 30 Montgomery St., Jersey City, N.J. with great feeling Shevchenko's "Yuro- the organizers and participants of the 07302. dyvyi" (The Feeble-Minded.) When it afternoon "unofficial" protest did not began getting dark, this group of Second-class postage paid at Jersey City, N.J. 07302. ' experience any immediate repercus­ (ISSN - 0273-9348) demonstrators held a candlelight vigil. sions because of their participation in Among the Ukrainian human, na­ this event. tional and religious rights activists and Yearly subscription rate: S8; for UNA rnembers - 55. former political prisoners who had May 22 remarks the anniversary of Also published by the UNA: Svoboda. a Ukrainian-language daily newspaper. traveled to Kiev for the Sunday after­ the transfer of Taras Shevchenko's noon event were: Bohdan, Mykhailo body from St. Petersburg to Kiev and The Weekly and Svoboda: UNA: and Olha Horyn, Maria Неї, Vyache- then to its final resting place in Kaniv, in (201) 434-0237, -0807, -3036 (201)451-2200 slav Chorriovil and his wife Atena 1861. During the days of Petro Shelest, Postглasteг. send address Editor: Roma Hadzewycz Pashko, Oles Shevchenko, Opanas Ukrainian Communist Party leader in changes to: the 1960s and eariy 1970s, Ukrainian Associate Editors: Marta Kolomayets Zalyvakha, Evhen Sverstiuk, Oles The Ukrainian Weekly patriots commemorated May 22 by Chrystyna Lapychak Serhiyenko, Vitaliy Kalynychenko P.O Box 346 (who was recently released from prison holding demonstrations and poetry Jersey City. N.J 07303 Midwest Correspondent: Marianna Liss and currently resides in Kharkiv), Petro readings near the Shevchenko monu­ Rozumny, Serhiy Naboka, Alia Mar- ment. The tradition was banned when The Ukrainian Weekly, May 29, 1988, No. 22, Vol. LVI chenko (widow of Valeriy), Olha Volodymyr Shcherbytsky came into Copyright 1988 by The Ukrainian Weekly Heyko-Matusevych, Evhen Proniuk, power in 1972. No. 22 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, MAY 29,1988

Demjanjuk trial judge speaks in II.S. Much ado about Kiev Consulate by Walter Bodnar of AHRU, had previously enlisted on Israel's duty to try war criminals the support of Rep. Bernard Dwyer SOUTH ORANGE, N.J. - Judge "One of the means to prevent Holo­ WASHINGTdlsf - News about (D-N.J.) of the Hous'e Appropria­ Dov Levin, presiding judge at the Nazi caust is by punishing war criminals," he the opening of a United States Con­ tions Committee, pointing out the war crimes trial of John Demjanjuk, went on. That is why Israel tries, and sulate in Kiev, Ukraine, is generating desirability of an American presence spoke here at Congregation Sharey must try, war criminals, he explained. much interest at summit time. in Kiev by means of establishing a Tefilo-Israel on May 3 on the topic He described the Israeli courts as A letter to President Ronald consulate. She also appealed to "Should Israel Continue to Prosecute "careful courts" - "if there is any -Reagan, signed by 45 U.S. senators, Senate Majority Leader Robert C. Nazi War Criminals?" doubt, they will acquit anyone, even if it was hand-delivered to the White Byrd (D-W. Va.) and Speaker of the Judge Levin, a justice of the Supreme is a suspected war criminal." House on Wednesday, May 25 — House James C. Wright (D-Texas), Court, is currently on a speaking tour of He concluded, by stating that "it is hours before the president's depar­ and leaders of the committees who the United States as an official of the the right, it is the duty" of Israel to ture for Helsinki later in the after­ had jurisdiction in the issue. Maccabi World Union, which brings punish war criminals if the charges noon. As far back as 1983, Rep. Don together young athletes who compete in against them are proven. At departure time it was not Ritter (R-Pa.), Brian Donnelly (D- the International Maccabiah Games in After the judge's speech, the audience entirely clear whether all of the Mass.) and Ben Oilman (R-N.Y.), Israel. The judge told The Star-Ledger was invited to submit questions in obstacles regarding the consulate co-chairmen of the Ad Hoc Commit­ of New Jersey that he is not in the U.S. writing. A number of these, however, between the American side and the tee on the Baltic States and Ukraine, to speak about the Demjanjuk trial, but dealt directly with the Demjanjuk case, Soviets had been resolved. stated that opening a consulate in to talk about the Maccabi youth move­ and the judge declined to answer since Sens. Howard M. Metzenbaum Kiev would "assist our government ment. the case is "sub judice." (D-Ohio), Frank Lautenberg (D- and the many human rights groups in He was at Temple Sharey Tefilo- Although he could not speak about N.J.), Peter Wilson (R-Calif.) and the U.S. in better monitoring Soviet Israel as a featured speaker during its the Demjanjuk case in his public re­ Dennis DeConcini (D-Ariz.), ex­ compliance with human rights agree­ Northern New Jersey Israeli Fair which marks. Judge Levin did comment on it, pressed hope that the opening of a ments." The consulate would also this year marked Israel's 40th anniver­ in general terms, in an interview with consulate "will be placed high on "serve the needs of the many Ameri­ sary. The Star-Ledger. your agenda for the upcoming Mos­ can tourists who travel to Ukraine Judge Levin told his audience that it He told reporter Herb Jaffe that the cow summit." every year." "^ is "only natural" for Israel to try war trial of "Ivan the Terrible" was "un­ The letter went on to state: "We William Broomfield (R-Mich.), criminals. "It would be abnormal if the questionably the most wrenching, ...the advocate an office for informational ranking, member of the House Fo­ Jewish nation that lost half of its people most difficult experience" of his life. and consular purposes only. This will reign Affairs Committee, wrote to would do nothing to punish, to try those "In order to write the 440-page obviate the need to station a large AHRU, saying: "I am a strong who were war criminals or collaborated verdict, we (the three judges) had to number of personnel in Kiev, or to supporter of opening a consulate in in war crimes," he said. remain calm and formal, and we had to construct a costly secure facility Kiev and believe that it would pro­ He continued by pointing out that in put aside any emotions. But afterwards, there." vide an important American pre­ Israel there is no statute of limitations when I began to think of what I heard in Rep. Dan Mica (D-Fla.), chair­ sence in Ukraine." It would "serve as on war crimes, "because we are not that courtroom, at times I became man of the Subcommittee on Inter­ a window for the West for emerging dealing with a normal situation or emotional," Judge Levin told the news­ national Operations in the House democratic groups." normal crimes," but with people '4vho paper. Foreign Affairs Committee and Rep. Rep. Louise Slaughter (D-N.Y.) slaughtered millions." This is "not for­ He explained that "the main question Olympia Snowe (R-Maine), ranking telephoned her support to the secre­ gettable and not forgiveable," he said. in this case was identification of the minority member of the subcomittee, tary of state. In a similar vein. Rep. "I am not allowed to speak as to the accused," and he stressed, "I can tell you wrote to Secretary of State George Gus Yatron (D-Pa.) offered his verdict in this (the Demjanjuk) case, but we were convinced, each of us, from the Shultz reiterating full support for a support via letter to the secretary. I should refer to some of the facts so that evidence that was produced, and the new consulate in Kiev, but noting that Rep. Dean Gallo (R-N.J.) wrote: everyone should understand what we pleadings that were argued, that Dem­ new consulates should follow the "The consulate would help to pro­ are speaking about," Judge Levin janjuk is 'Ivan the Terrible.' There is no guidelines that call for permanent mote international recognition of explained. mistake." and secure facilities as stated in both the accomplishments and con­ He noted that between July 1942 and He continued, "If our court had any section 153-b of the Foreign Rela­ tinuing struggles of the Ukrainian February 1943, 800,000 were killed at reasonable doubt, whatsoever, about tions Authorization Act of Decem­ people." Treblinka. "Who were the perpetra­ the identity of this man, the case would ber 1987. In the Senate, Foreign Relations tors?" he asked, proceeding to answer have been dismissed." In a letter to Americans for Hu­ Committee Chairman Claiborne Pell the question. They were, according to "We relied on the authenticity of man Rights in Ukraine, Rep. Lee (D-R.I.) and minority spokesman Judge Levin, 20 Germanf, officers and documents and the credibility of wit­ Hamilton (D-Ind.), chairman of the Richard Lugar (R-Ind.) signed on to 120 collaborators. nesses. In our written opinion of 440 Subcommittee on Europe and the the Metzenbaum letter to the presi­ He then went on to say that of these pages — and L wrote most of it — we Middle East, gave a brief history of dent. Sen. Lautenberg wrote to collaborators, one Ukrainian was extra­ concluded that this is 'Ivan the Ter­ the oft-postponed facility: Ernest HoUings, chairman of the dited to Russia and executed, and one rible.' The public in Israel accepts that. "President (Richard) Nixon and Committee on Appropriations in the Ukrainian was sent to Israel and was There is no doubt," Judge Levin told his General Secretary (Leonid) Brezhnev Senate: "Ukraine is comparable in convicted, but his case is now under interviewer. agreed to the establishment of con­ size and population to France, and appeal. No other nationality was men­ He added, "If there are any doubts, sulates in New York and Kiev in Ukrainians are the biggest and most tioned by the judge. the court of appeals will have every 1972. Various problems of imple­ important non-Russian nationality Explaining why Israel tries war opportunity to explore them," which is mentation coupled with U.S. sanc­ in the USSR." There were many criminals — first Adolph Eichmann and why an appeal could take, according to tions in January 1980 against the other congressional calls and letters. most recently Mr. Demjanjuk — Judge Judge Levin, two to four weeks, "or as Soviet Union in response to the Several other groups joined in the Levin said, "We have to think about long as necessary." Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, de­ Senate joint letter, namely^ the why such a thing (the Holocaust) As regards the death penalty. Judge layed the opening of the Kiev Consu­ Union of Councils for Soviet Jews happened and whether it could happen Levin commented, "I'm against it from late. and the National Conference on again. "And, he added, "There is a feeling a philosophical point of view. Our "The Chornobyl nuclear disaster Soviet Jews. Orest Deychakiwsky that it could happen again. Anti- Knesset (Parliament) abolished the in Ukraine in April 1986 further offered his generous counsel and Semitism is growing in enlightened death penalty in 1954 with two excep­ delayed this project. The question of support as did the AHRU represen­ countries - France, Germany, some of tions." Those are war crimes and security at the U.S. Embassy in tatives in their lobbying efforts both South America and the United States — treason in time of war. Moscow, and problem of funding for in the Congress, and the exe­ these days. .,. Zionism, a pure move­ The Israeli Supreme Court justice U.S. missions overseas (the U.S. at cutive departments. An editorial by ment, is being likened to racism by the was in Connecticut for two days prior to the present time is closing missions The Ukrainian Weekly stating rea­ United Nations." his South Orange appearance. On Sun­ abroad, not opening new ones) are a sons why a consulate should be He hypothesized that "if in 1939 there day, May 1, he spoke at the fourth an­ continuing problem. established was used in the lobbying had been a Jewish state to protect our nual Israel Symposium at Beth El "The Kiev Consulate project has efforts. In addition, an extensive people, the Holocaust would not have Temple in West Hartford. The next day not gotten off the ground for 15 petition campaign by AHRU netted happened." He noted that the United he was one of the speakers at Law Day years. I share your judgment about many responses from various parts States, Britain and France were fighting U.S.A. ceremonies in New Britain Su­ the importance of opening this new of the United States. the Germans, knew what was going on preme Court. window and having a listening post With a stopover at Helsinki and a in the death camps and had the ability to In Hartford, the judge's remarks in the most populous of the non- speech on human rights, the presi­ bomb the camps, yet they stood aside." focused on the impact of the Demjanjuk Russian republics of the Soviet dent, with his mandate from the trial, and here, too, the speaker said he Union... I would urge you to use your people, was armed for putting his "Only a strong Jewish state," he was not allowed to speak about a case influence and organization to press best foot forward at the summit said, "could then, and would be able in that is still pending. for an early opening of the consu­ meeting in Moscow. the future, to prevent such an event." late." An authoritative source for the Relating the Holocaust to current As in New Jersey, Judge Levin said that the trial of Mr. Demjanjuk on war Americans for Human Rights in State Department told an AHRU events. Judge Levin said Israel's 4 Ukraine proceeded to write to the spokesman as late as Thursday, May million Jews are surrounded by 120 crimes charges was necessary in order to prevent another Holocaust. entire Congress, calling upon con­ 26, that although the discussions on million Arabs, "most of them terrorists gressmen and senators to contact the Kiev Consulate are in a less than who are not ready to allow Israel to "If there are war criminals, they should be brought to court," he was President Reagan and Mr. Shultz to ideal atmosphere for both the Ameri­ exist. ...Heaven forbid that we should finalize plans in time for the summit cans and Soviets there is, neverthe­ lose any war. The end of the state of quoted in a local newspaper. The Herald, as saying. "Everybody should meeting. less, a "reasonable chance for suc- Israel would lead to the end of the Bozhena Olshaniwsky, president Jews," he commented. (Continued on page 16) THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY. MAY 29,1988 No. 22

League of Ukrainian American VotersManitob a elects new government; holds fund-raiser for N.J. candidateUkrainian s win some, lose some ORANGE, N.J. -^ Donald Payne, she became a vocal supporter for the by Orysia Tracz her style, no-nonsense approach and Democratic candidate for the House revival of the area. Mr. Rice had the slogan "Competence with Heart." seat being vacated by the retiring Rep. explained to members of the New Jersey WINNIPEO - Manitoba is orange She is now the most powerful woman Peter W. Rodino Jr. in the 10th Con­ Senate how his district was comprised in the north, blue in all rural areas, and in provincial politics in Canada, be­ gressional District in New Jersey, of not only blacks but other ethnics - red in Winnipeg, according to the cause she holds the balance of power. attended a lawn party in his honor here including one of the largest settlements banner colors of the three major politi­ Political commentators daily ruminate at the home of Roman and Oksana of Ukrainians in the state. cal parties. After the provincial elec­ on how long the present minority Kupchinsky on Saturday, May 14. During the course of events at the tion of April 26, Manitoba's political government can stay in power, with or The sponsor of this cocktail party was soiree, Mr. Payne conducted a special make-up changed dramatically. without the support of the other two the jLeague of Ukrainian American interview with Lydia Ruban, who The ruling New Democratic Party parties. Votenj (LUV) in New Jersey, a biparti­ introduced her wheelchair-ridden son, (NDP) was defeated badly, electing Candidates of Ukrainian origin fared san citizen's group seeking support for Marko, and asked for help in freeing her only 12 out of 57 members of the both well and badly. Some new faces issues of concern to the Ukrainian husband, Petro Ruban, presently incar­ Legislature. Northern Manitoba re­ won, some prominent ones lost. Among American community. The league is cerated in Perm Camp 35-1 in the Ural mains NDP, with a few representatives the defeated NDP Cabinet ministers headed by Ted Romankow. region in the USSR. left in Winnipeg ridings. The Progres­ were Wilson Parasiuk (health), John In addition to issues of defense, She explained that her husband, a sive Conservatives (PCs or Tories), who Buklaschuk (transport) and Len Hara- peace, education and the plight of the sculptor, was imprisoned for "anti- were expected to win big, managed to piak (agriculture). Mr. Harapiak nar­ homeless, Mr. Payne highlighted the Soviet agitation and propaganda" — become a minority government with 25 rowly lost the election for leader of the drug problem as a menace to American including the fact that he wanted to seats. While not winning the election NDP a few weeks earlier. society. present a replica of the Statue of Liberty itself, the big winners were the Liberals, Remaining as members of the Legis­ He also came out strongly in support that he had carved to the U.S. president who achieved Opposition status with 20 lature, but now in third place behind the of opening the U.S. Consulate in Kiev, during the Bicentennial celebrations in seats. Tories and the Liberals, are former extending the mandate of the U.S. 1976. The candidate vowed to do What was so remarkable about the NDP Cabinet ministers Harry Hara­ Commission on the Ukraine Famine everything possible for her husband. Liberal win of 20 seats and Opposition piak, Judy Wasylycia-Leis and Bill freeing political and religious prisoners The translator for Mrs. Ruban was Dr. in the Legislature was that in the pre­ Uruski. Darren Praznik and Leonard in the Soviet Union, and upholding the Roman Voronka. vious sitting, there was only one Liberal Derkach (named to the Cabinet as sister-city concept between the U.S. and Master of ceremonies for the gather­ member, the leader of the party, Sharon minister of education) won from the PC the Ukrainian SSR. ing was Bohdan Vitvitsky who intro­ Carstairs. She joked that she used to Party. From the Liberals, Bill Chor- Accompanying Mr. Payne was New duced Mr. Payne as a widely traveled caucus by looking in the mirror. Mrs. nopyski, Richard Kozak and Mark Jersey State Sen. Donald W. Rice, who person — he has been to over 80 Carstairs and her party won because of Minenko will sit in Opposition. is йЬйз Wefst Ward councilman in the countries while an executive with the city of Newark. ЙЄ spoke of the need to Young Men's Christian Association clean up the city of Newark, expand (YMCA) — who is interested in issues Newcomer Minenko defeats minister homestead programs destined to in­ for improving the quality of life and is by Orysia Tracz crease property values in this "re­ an advocate of Ukrainian concerns. naissance city," and maintain stability The MC noted the numerous consti­ WINNIPEO - Mark Minenko, a with the various ethnic groups in tuents in the audience, including Sister 31-year-old lawyer, made political Newark and surrounding areas. Marie and Sister Damian from St. history in a north Winnipeg consti­ His wife, Shirley^fc^ner resident of John's Ukrainian .C^boliq ^chqol in tuency in the ,Manitoba provincial California, tojS f^jj|f^ djilfiAui|yIinJ Newark; Nadi^ ,S\5tiychna fcCQtn Ще election of April 26 by defeating the adjusting to Newark initially and how (Continued on page 12) prominent Minister of Finance Eu­ gene Kostyra by 335 votes (3,867 to 3,532). Mazurkevich festifies on violotions Marko, as he is known in the Ukrainian community, was the Li­ beral candidate in the Seven Oaks of postal accords by the Soviets constituency. Until this Liberal WASHINGTON ^ Ulana Mazurke. case, Lidia Ruban, wife of noted politi­ sweep, the north end of the city vich, chairperson of the Ukrainian cal prisoner Petro Ruban, after arriving traditionally was NDP (New Demo­ Human Rights Committee based in in New York for medical treatment for cratic Party) territory, with Liberal Philadelphia, testified before the Com­ her son, wrote to her husband who is j support perceived as minimal. But mittee on Post Office and Civil Service. currently serving his 10-year prison this time four out of five Liberal The hearings, held on March 29, were term in a Perm camp. The letter ad­ candidates won in this section of the chaired by Rep. Ben Oilman (R-N.Y.). dressed to Mr. Ruban was returned city, with the fifth coming in a decent Rep. Constance Morella (R-Md.), a marked "addressee unknown"although, second. member of the postal commission, also prior to her departure to the United Member of the Legislature Mi­ attended the hearing. States, Mrs. Ruban visited her hus­ nenko is associated with the law firm Mark Minenko Rep. Oilman has been spearheading band in the camp. of Glowacki and Libitka. He gra­ He serves as a captain in the an investigation of the interruption of Rep. Oilman questioned the panelists duated from the University of Mani­ Canadian Armed Forces Reserves, international mail addressed to reci­ on ways to improve communication to toba Law School in 1985, and also and is the deputy commanding offi- pients within the Soviet Union. That the Soviet Union. Ms. Mazurkevich holds a bachelor of education degree cer of the 17th Medical Company at investigation climaxed in 1984 with a responded that holding hearings such from the University of Manitoba and Minto Armory. dramatic presentation by Rep. Oilman as this forces the Soviet government to bachelor of arts from the University He is the son of the Very Rev. of the committee's findings before the pay attention, especially "in light of this of Winnipeg. (Continued on page 13) Universal Postal Union convention in era of glasnost." Hamburg, Oermany. In the wake of But, Ms. Mazurkevich continued, Rep. Oilman's presentation, that con­ "the most pressing problem facing Kulchitsky announces bid for office vention adopted a series of resolutions Ukrainian Americans is the exhorbi- condemning the Soviet government for tant duty that the recipient must pay on WARREN, Mich. - D, Roman its systematic interruptions of the mail. parcels sent to the Soviet Union." Kulchitsky on April 15 opened his Testifying at the hearings, in addition campaign for state representative with a She asked the committee to press the kick-off event here at the Ukrainian to Ms. Mazurkevich were: Vladimir and Soviet government to try to reduce the Mali Slepak, noted Jewish dissidents; Cultural Center. He is running on the excessive duty, since in many cases Republican Party ticket in the 25th Bill Johnson, assistant postmaster relatives in Ukraine cannot afford to general; Dennis Braham, vice-chair of State Legislative District, located in the accept the parcel sent because of the city of Warren. the National Council on Soviet Jewry; expensive duty. Ms. Mazurkevich also and a representative of the American brought up cases of parcels not being The Rev. Bernard Panchuk OSBM, Postal Workers Union. delivered to addressees in the Soviet pastor of Immaculate Conception U- Ms. Mazurkevich stated in her testi­ Union, although mailers followed all krainian Catholic Church in Ham- mony that "although the right to the regulations stipulated by Soviet tramck, opened the event with a moving communicate is one of the basic rights authorities. invocation. He compared the night's which is guaranteed in the Postal ceremonies with the Old Testament Convention as well as in the Hel­ Ms. Mazurkevich suggested the So­ custom of annointing leaders when they sinki Accords, this right," she con­ viet authorities be pressured to: reduce fought in the cause of their nation. tinued, "is still not a right but a the excessive duty; stop censorship Bohdan Fedorak, president of the privilege which the Soviet government of postal material; reduce the time of Ukrainian Cultural Center, next briefly dispenses on its citizemy depending on delivery and clarify the lists of restricted welcomed the guest І on behalf of the its particular mood/' and prohibited items. Cultural Center. Ms. Mazurl." icb f^ t"^ weal on to She also asked that violations OL inc. Attorney Aiidrew Hallvv ^'^ovjed illustrate various cases '^ tnatant r -'.^ pottal accords be brou|?:: up at the Mr. Kulchitsky, a local busine^ іл\ап у violation by Sov'ec ь .^ncs, in one Мсч :ov summit. (Contir.. u oi page 15) D. Roman Kiilslsitsky No. 22 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, MAY 29,1988

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5SSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS^ The Fraternal Corner After 45 years, Andrew Jula by Andre J, Worobec Fraternal Activities Coordinator retires as Branch 161 secretary 5SSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS^5SSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS^ AMBRIDGE, Pa. - Andrew Jula, who served for 45 years as A potpourri of fraternal ism secretary of the Ukrainian National Association Branch 161 in Am- There are several separate items I gowns and dresses worn by mother and bridge, Pa., retired from that posi­ would like to touch upon in today's daughter in their day. tion on December 31, 1987. The column. ^ Third: The UNA is eager to publi­ longtime UNA activist remains in­ ^ The first: some of our secretaries cize in Svoboda and The Ukrainian volved in the fraternal organization and members are asking: "What do you Weekly information about its members. as one of its supreme advisors. mean by fraternal activity?" As a starter, it will print articles about a Branch 161 in Ambridge will be 70 To answer this question I have to UNA member entering the armed years old on September 30, and reach back and reprint some of the ideas forces, and will accept short stories during that time it has had only three from earlier articles appearing in this about each serviceman and woman. secretaries. Its first secretary, who column. Photos would be very much appre­ served since its founding in 1918 until Fraternal activity is a term used to ciated. December 1, 1941, was the late Anthony Podufaly. Mr. Jula took describe the good deeds a fraternal The branches and districts are further benefit society, such as ours, does for its over on January 1,1942, at the young encouraged to honor members on the age of 30 and served as secretary members, its community and its coun­ occasion of the anniversaries of their try. through the end of 1987. His succes­ membership and activity in the UNA. sor is John Tyro Jr., who assumed As far as the UNA is concerned, it can Again, stories about such events to­ the post on January 1. The ever-youthful Andrew Jula. be something as simple taking up a gether with photos will be appreciated. Mr. Jula was honored upon his collection to help a sick member of your Do you know a particular member of retirement by more than 250 persons cate of appreciation to the retired branch or visiting him or her, getting your branch or district who has distin­ who attended a surprise party held in branch secretary. The certificate your members to take advantage of the guished himself or herself in any parti­ his honor by Branch 161 at the honored Mr. Jula 'for more than 40 UNA scholarship program, to partici­ cular field, study, activity or business, V.F.W. Hall on April 16. years of dedicated service to the pating in the Millennium celebrations or who has become a celebrity? We Among those present to pay tri­ Ukrainian community, to the mem­ as a UNA branch or district, teaching would like to devote more space to bute to the pioneer UNA'er was UNA bers of Branch 161 as s^creta^y, and the children in your parish or local stories about our UNA members and Supreme President John O. Flis, who school safety, or collecting funds to to the Ukrainian National Associa­ focus on them as persons. Please send said in his speech that Mr. Jula was tion as a member of the Supreme support the U.S. Commission on the U- such stories to the fraternal activities among those devoted UNA'ers who kraine Famine. Assembly in grateful appreciation of coordinator, together with a photo. "made the UNA what it is today,'' his untiring and dedicated fraternal Fraternal activity, if done through an Let us not forget that the UNA press Mr. Flis also presented a certifi- service." organized effort of the local UNA is there to serve its members. Help us to branch p^strict, jp|p^lhe sanie as a serve you better, by writing. Obituary volunti^i^^lffort to^j|i6lcJ a cultural, educatidnal, charitable ^etivity;^one that promotes involvement with our Michael Wityshyn, 106-year-old UNA'er youth, йІШш^ c^r helping your local What works in your branch? How - CAMPBELL, Ohio - Michael church. It means being a good and Mr. Wityshyn had returned. Even­ have you overcome problems related to Wityshyn, who emigrated to this coun­ tually, Mr. Wityshyn brought his son, active Christian, a responsible citizen of fraternal activity or lack of it? Please, let try from Ukraine in 1912, died of your community and your country, John, to Campbell; two daughters us know. We invite you to forward your penumonia here at St. Elizabeth Hospi­ remained in Ukraine. while promoting the Ukrainian cause comments to the Fraternal Corner and tal Medical Center on April 26. He was and heritage. share your ideas and experiences with Mr. Wityshyn retired in 1949 and 106 years old. moved to Patchogue, N.Y., after marry­ The aim of the UNA fraternal activi­ Mr. Wityshyn was a member of the ing Paraska Chromitski in 1950. ties coordinator is to encourage each Ukrainian National Association, Twenty-six years later the Wityshyns one of our branches and districts to be Branch 218 in Campbell. moved back to Campbell. Mrs. more active in fraternal activity. He was born in Makhniv, Rava Wityshyn died in 1986. Reminder: Send your nominations Ruska, Ukraine, on May 6, 1881, to ^ Second: Another activity that the (along with a summary of the candi­ Andrew and Paraska Wityshyn. In Mr. Wityshyn was a founding mem­ executive committee and this office date's activities) for the 1988 UNA order to earn more money to purchase ber of the Holy Trinity Catholic would like to encourage among the Fraternalist of the Year Award, The land in Ukraine he arrived in Ohio in Church, and a funeral liturgy was members of every branch and district, deadline for the receipt of nominations 1912 and began working in the power­ offered at the church on April 29. is for branches and districts to organize is June 30. Send them to: Ukrainian house of the Pittsburgh and Lake Erie Surviving are his son; two step­ banquets where fashion shows are held, National Association Fraternal Acti­ Railroad. He worked there for 32 years. daughters, Jo Ann Funaro and Mary and where national, historical and folk vities Coordinator, 30 Montgomery St., He married Eva Kopynska in 1903 in Polak; seven grandchildren and 11 dress are exhibited, including wedding Jersey City, N.J. 07302. Ukraine. She died there in 1923 before great-grandchildren. Dunal folk troupe to dance at Father's Day Festival at Soyuzivka JERSEY CITY, NJ. - The Ukrai­ the Dunai troupe was formed by the and New York State. Place, Detroit's Edsel Theater, Chi­ nian National Association's annual Ukrainian youth of St. Catharines, Since the group's formation, the cago's Concert Hall and also on the Father's Day Festival at Soyuzivka, the Ont., as a Centennial project. Growing Dunai Dancers have performed in NBC Today Show. fraternal organization's upstate New from its original 20 members, the group numerous shows in the Niagara region They have been honored in their York resort, will feature, among other now consists of approximately 100 and have traveled to Halifax, Nova performances for the late Patriarch performers, the Dunai Dancers of members and musicians ranging in age Scotia, Philadelphia, Chicago and Josyf Slipyj, Queen Elizabeth П, and Canada. from 7 to 22, from all Ukrainian or­ Hartford, Conn. They have appeared at Canada's former Prime Minister Pierre This year, it will be over 20 years since ganizations in the Niagara Peninsula Toronto's O'Keefe Center and Ontario (Continued on page 12)

The Dunai dancers of St. Catharines, Ont. THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, MAY 29,1988 No. 22

Insight on dominant force in USSR UrrainianWeeHy The much misunderstood Russia by Yaroslaw Onyschuk in tsarist Russia, among the revolu­ Day of Prayer tionary intelligentsia, in the Orthodox Today, May 29, has been designated as a "Day of Prayer and Unity" by the One of the most surprising facts Church, or among the Communists. National Committee to Commemorate the Millennium of Christianity in about contemporary society is that Another Russian, Georgi P. Fedotov, Ukraine. It has been denoted as "Suffering Church Sunday" by Keston Russia remains so poorly understood in a historian and philosopher, who also College, a religious rights organization based in London, with the hope that the Free World, and especially in lived in the Western world during this on this day. Western Christians will think, pray and celebrate with believers in America. century, in his article, ''Rossiya і the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe. Gerhart Niemeyer, a Sovietologist, Svoboda," printed in Novy Zhurnal in On this day, across the free Western World, the National Committee has reminded Westerners in 1956 that the 1945 in New York, came to the conclu­ asked that chimes ring for freedom - that for 1,000 seconds beginning at reason they do not understand the sion that in Russia there was no place noon, all over the world, Ukrainian Christians and their friends will mark a Russians is that they always try to judge for freedom. Freedom was considered thousand-year-old tradition by joyously ringing their church bells. The them by Western standards. And this as abhorrent idea, synonymous with resounding peals will be dedicated to the 50 million Ukrainians — Orthodox, wrong orientation, he said, brings only license, wantonness and infamy. Catholic, Baptist, Methodist, Pentecostal — in the Soviet Union who misfortunes for the Western World. Thus, the Russians throughout their continue to live under an oppressive system, one that does not allow them to Many other experts on Russian and history had a very unusual perception of worship freely. Soviet affairs agree with Niemeyer. For freedom and liberty. This Sunday, by the Julian calendar, is also observed as the Sunday of the the Russians have a specific individual Neither could one find in Russian Ascension of the Holy Spirit, a holy day during which Ukrainians have and national psychology which is a world society an understanding for human traditionally remembered their dead and honored them — believing in the apart from the psychology of the na­ dignity, honor, truth and morality. Resurrection, in the rebirth. tions of the Western world. And the Peter Chaadayev, as a young Russian Thus, as we pray for our loved ones on this Sunday, let us take time to pray most characteristic features of the soldier in the Napoleonic War, came for our Churches in this year of the Millennium, and remember that the day of Russians are their peculiar understand­ with Russian troops in 1814 to Paris. their Resurrection also will come. ing of the concepts of freedom, man's Seven years later he returned to France Jane Ellis of Keston College writes: "This Sunday is an opportunity for all dignity, honor, truth and morality. and stayed there for about five years. In of us to share in this — the grief and the joy, the pain and the promise, the Hght Andrei Amalrik, a prominent Soviet 1829 he wrote in French an essay, titled and the dark. intellectual and historian, in 1969 wrote "Philosophical Letter," about the diffe­ "The most striking example of this journey from death to life has been that an article on the Soviet Union that rences between European nations and of the Ukrainian Catholics. For years we have known that they existed — but found its way to the Free World and for Russia. no one knew exactly where, how many, who they were. Now, under glasnost, which he was sentenced to three years of "Russian history is the development they have broken the surface. They are telling us that a Church exists — a imprisonment. In this article he stressed of serfdom and autocracy," he wrote. In Church outlawed over 40 years ago. They want to come out into the full light that the ideas of freedom and self- Europe there are common institutions, of day and live a normal Church life. government are incomprehensible to ideas of everyday life. The Russians do "A Church is arising from the ashes. We still mourn for the suffering it has the Russian people. Freedom, for them, not have such ideas. Chaadayev asked: undergone even as we rejoice that it is finding new life. Its members face many is synonymous with "disorder." Histori­ "Do you know what kind of ideas" (the problems. On Suffering Church Sunday, let us pray that they will find fresh cally, Russian society has had a very Russians have)? The ideas of duty, law, hope for the future. And may that be our prayer for all believers in antipathetic attitude toward liberty and truth and order." Communist countries." freedom. In 1936, this essay appeared in Rus­ If we go as far back as the 16th sian in a Moscow periodical. But this century, Sigmond von Herberstein, the periodical was suspended, the censor The famine commission German ambassador to Moscow, wrote who had passed the article was dis­ A little more than a month ago, the U.S. Senate passed a bill extending the in his book about the Russians: "These missed, the editor exiled^and the author mandate of the U.S. Commission on the Ukraine Famine for another two people enjoy slavery more than free­ was declared insane by the tsstf^ order. years. Now the House has acted likewise. Only one small step remains: the dom." He was compelled to write an "Apology Senate must now pass an amendment that has already passed in the House, The Russian poet Alexander Pushkin of a Madman." one which provides for the smooth succession of members on the commission thought the lack of freedom in Russia Dostoyevsky, while writing in 1877 in when vacancies arise. was not at all a tragedy. In a letter from his "Diary" about his observations in The Senate and House votes to extend the life of the famine commission are abroad, to his wife, he wrote in 1834: Europe, was wondering why in Europe gratifying, for they reflect on the inestimable value of the commission's work. "Without political liberty, it is also there were common values in the under­ Already the commission has prepared its final report (that is, it was to be its possible to live." standing of law and order. They were final report, until its mandate was extended), and in that report it revealed 19 And other Russian writer, Ivan laid down and formulated very precise­ findings that are sure to affect the way the Great Famine of 1932-1933 is Turgenev, expressed this view in a letter ly. Evil and good were defined, weighed treated in the history books. to Alexander Herzen, a Russian thinker and measured. This was strange for The findings debunk the notion that the famine was caused, as widely held, Hving in London, on December 13, Dostoyevsky; he felt that nobody could by a natural drought, as well as official Soviet allegations that "kulak 1867: "Of all the European nations, be a final judge of what is evil and what sabotage" can be blamed to a large degree for the famine. Russia needs freedom least." is good. The famine commission also found that the U.S. government and the Moreover, the Russian writer Fyodor In his "Diary" we find also interesting international news media, foremost among them The New York Times, Dostoyevsky (1821-1880) developed a remarks about the perception of honor indeed knew that a famine was raging in the Ukrainian countryside; and that whole philosophical system to prove by Europeans and Russians. The per­ the former extended diplomatic recognition to the USSR despite the ongoing that freedom for mankind, and not only ception of honor was introduced into genocide, while the latter assisted the Soviets in covering up the atrocities for Russians, was not needed. His Russia with European clothing, but, he being committed. reasoning was as follows: If a man is says, it "was adopted mechanically, so In addition, the U.S. Commission on the Ukraine Famine has heard free, he may do whatever he wants and to speak, whereas spiritually we forgot testimony from 57 survivors of the famine and is now preparing for he may commit any crime he wants, in what honor meant." publication over 200 interviews with eyewitnesses. As well, the commission the name of some "higher principles." And Dostoyevsky repeats his state­ was intimately involved in developing curriculum materials for schools, and Freedom degenerates into self-will and ment more precisely through one of his several guides that have benefitted greatly from the commission members' it leads to evil and crime, Dostoyevsky characters (Shatov in the novel "Pos­ input have already been accepted by some states of the union. Teachers' believed. sessed"): "For a Russian a sense of conferences on the famine have been held, and are continuing to be organized, And Nicholas A. Berdyaev (1874- honor is only a superfluous burden, and throughout the country; they are invaluable in instructing educators on how 1948), one of the greatest Russian it has always been a burden through all best to teach their students about one of the 20th century's genocides. thinkers of this century, who lived and the nation's history. All of the foregoing — the commission report, its collection of oral history, died in France, in his book on Dosto­ This brief information about the the teachers' seminars and curriculum guides — have demonstrated how yevsky, wrote that the author was Russian perception of the permanent much more remains to be done in bringing the famine into the consciousness "specifically Russian," and the most spiritual human values shows us how of the public — and why we Ukrainians must continue to support it Russian of all Russian writers — the key far apart the Russian mentality is from financially. to understanding "the Russian soul and the mentality of the Western world's We commend all those senators and congressmen who realized that the the mystery of Russia." nations. This abysmal difference can U.S. Commission on the Ukraine Famine can still contribute so much more Berdyaev wrote that he himself could be better illustrated by a quote telling us toward realizing one of its principal goals: "to expand the world's knowledge not find understanding of liberty or what "morality" means for the Russian of the famine." freedom in Russia. He could not find it Communists. In the Short Philosophi­ cal Encyclopedia (Moscow 1934) we Yaroslaw Onyschuk, a lawyer by read: "From the point of view of ACTION ITEM training, became a journalist in Ukraine Communist morality, 'moral'is only that Individuals wishing to express their disappointment and disapproval of with the daily newspaper Ukrainski which facilitates the destruction of the President Ronald Reagan's visit to the Danilov monastery scheduled to take Visti and was affiliated with that Lviv- old world and which strenghtens the place as part of the Moscow summit events this week, should make their based newspaper untH the outbreak of new. Communist world." opinion known by calling the White House's Public Comment line at (202) World War IL Since t hen, he has been a The undeniable fact is that we in the 456-7639. free-lance writer, ana his articles have Free World do not understand the The trip to the monastery is scheduled to take place on M^-nday, Ma;^ 30. been published in mai^azines and news­ Russian mentality. We like to listen to Ffapne calls should be placed after the.event is reported in loe mtdia. papers in Canada, G^'eat Britain, Ger­ fairy tales abaut. Russia and Russians many, Sprin а^й the bnited States, — the dominant force in the USSR. But — submitted by Т^шаш Horodysky, V^S ^. 8erkeley, чхи.. Above i^ t '.грі a. of a series of columns such an attitude may sometime^ lead to by Mr. Gnyschuk, tragic consequences. No. 22 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, MAY 29,1988

BOOK REVIEW: Dr. Robert Gale speaks on Chornobyl nuclear disaster Final Warning: The Legacy of Chernobyl by Dr. Robert Peter Gale and Thomas survivors of such transplants did not familiar with the various Soviet re­ Hauser. New York: Warner Books, 1988. 230 pp. justify the costs involved, such a public assessments of the post-accident scene, negation of their value smacks of the evacuation and the psychological by Dr. David Marples The equation of Chornobyl with the ingratitude. As Dr. Gale mentioned in impact on the population. Ironically he danger of nuclear weapons was not lost the spring of 1988, at least two lives were was photographed in the summer 1987 Dr. Robert Gale, an associate profes­ on the Soviets either. As early as May saved. issue of Yunost with one man who could sor of medicine at the University of 14, 1986 the general secretary of the Dr. Gale entered center stage during a have enlightened him considerably California at Los Angeles, found him­ Central Committee of the Communist large press conference about the disaster about such matters, the Ukrainian self in a unique position after the Party of the Soviet Union, Mikhail held on May 15 in the Soviet capital, but writer Yuriy Shcherbak.^ Chornobyl disaster of April 1986. With Gorbachev, in his first major speech as the text makes plain, his knowledge Hence Dr. Gale's judgments are the financial backing and political clout about the disaster, on Soviet television, about the events at that time was based largely on initial Soviet accounts, of industrialist Armand Hammer, he made such an analogy. Thereafter it was restricted. He was unaware, for ex­ which lead him to devote only a few was permitted to go to Moscow to carry repeated regularly in Soviet sources. ample, of how many patients there were sentences to what he sees as a smooth, out bone marrow transplants on some Chornobyl also gave a considerable in Moscow, let alone in other cities such well-organized evacuation. of the most seriously contaminated impetus to the anti-nuclear movement, as Kiev. Therefore, despite his access to Today, such conclusions would be victims. and halted or postponed several of the some of the doctors and patients. Dr. unacceptable to Western and Soviet Thereafter, he not only became one of European nuclear programs (Yugo­ Gale could not add appreciably to the scholars alike. What the author might the few authorities in the West on what slavia, Sweden, Austria, for example.) official Soviet reports, although as he have done, however, is provide more was happening in Moscow regarding More interesting to the reader, how­ acknowledges in the text, he and his details about many of the personalities those people who had been transferred ever, is Dr. Gale's account of his time in colleagues from Los Angeles and Israel he met, and indeed, even the area to Hospital No. 6, but he also became a Moscow. What emerges from a reading decided initially not to make public around the damaged nuclear plant. He familiar spokesperson at press confe­ of the text appears to be slightly at odds statements in the first place. was acquainted, for example, with the rences, on television and on the radio with the author's own perception of his There is much to admire in Dr. Gale's controversial Ukrainian minister of about the medical implications of Chor­ general reception. Thus with a few enthusiasm and dedication for his work. health, Anatoliy Romanenko, who had nobyl. reservations. Dr. Gale speaks warmly of He describes himself as one committed so patently failed to issue a health "Final Warning" was written by Dr. his hosts and was quite impressed with to finding a cure for leukemia and, like warning for 10 days after the accident Gale with the assistance of Thomas the standard of Soviet medicine and the any doctor, to saving lives, anywhere at and who today is the director of the Hauser, a Pulitzer Prize-winning industriousness of Soviet personnel at any time. In "Final Warning,"however, Center for Radiation Medicine in Kiev author. There are basically three dis­ the radiation hospital. he has taken upon himself a larger role; that is responsible for monitoring about tinct parts to this book. First, Dr. Gale's Yet there is little doubt that he was one, moreover, that in his position it 200,000 persons exposed to levels of experiences in Moscow are related. never (and perhaps could not have been would have been very difficult to fulfill. radiation considerably higher than the Second, there is an autobiographical under any circumstances) treated as an He met Mr. Gorbachev and thus natural background. Minister Roma­ section regarding the author's life and insider. His hosts regularly dispatched offers his assessment of the Soviet nenko is mentioned in the text, but very career. Third, as the title of the book him on sightseeing tours of Moscow, or leader in the light of U.S.-Soviet rela­ briefly. suggests, there is a warning to the reader back to his hotel room for a rest that he tions. Most important, he was allowed It is perhaps because of the dearth of about the dangers of the atom; Chor­ did not, in his view, require. to visit the Chornobyl station on several information about such people and nobyl is thus the final warning of a Further, at the August 1986 meeting occasions and on this basis offers an because the author did not have the nuclear conflagration. in Vienna, the head of the Moscow account of what happened in the imme­ chance to converse with the local Of the three parts, the latter may be hospital. Dr. Angelina Guskova, was diate aftermath of the accident. He (Continued on page 13) dealt with somewhat summarily. The quick to denounce the value of the comes close, therefore, to speaking as material therein will not be unfamiliar bone-marrow transplants, much to the an authority on Chornobyl. I. Yuriy Shcherbak's accounts of Chor­ to those who have read Jonathan chagrin of the author. While the Soviet Herein lies the main weakness of the nobyl in Yunost of June and July 1987 are to Schell'3 "F^te of the Earth" or even medical authorities may have decided book. The author was not in the area at be published in English by the Canadian attended an anti-nuclear rally. retrospectively that the number of the time, and for obvious reasons is not Institute of Ukrainian Studies in early 1989. FOR THE RECORD: A fair trial for Demjanjm? Nonsense! Below is the full text of an article Held in a converted theater, the trial judges didn't stop their personal attacks by the United States Justice Depart­ written in response to a commentary by began on the day the Israeli justice on his character. "It was I who was on ment earlier couldn't identify John attorney Alan Dershowitz on the case of minister went on national radio and the dock," Mr. Tolstoy stated later, Demjanjuk in any of the photos. The John Demjanjuk. Dr. Kuropas's re­ declared: "Today begins the trial of "and not the issues upon which I was Israeli court ruled that "all of the sponse (in a slightly edited version) was Nazi murderer and war criminal John called to testify." horrific scenes" the survivors witnessed published in the Chicago Sun-Times on t Demjanjuk." As the trial progressed, Demjanjuk trial judges also attempt­ "are as a fire imprisoned in their bones, May 7. Dr. Kuropas was identified in thousands of Israeli schoolchildren ed to lead witnesses. During testimony etched deep in their memories." the Sun-Times as a director of the were brought to the hall to view the by Shmuel Krakowski regarding Ukrai­ All this after testimony by Yad Ukrainian American Justice Commit­ proceedings (which began with a com­ nian collaboration with the Nazis Vashem Holocaust archives director tee. plete review of the Holocaust despite during Worid War II, Judge Zvi Tal Dr. Krakowski that many survivors defense objections), while spectators stated: "You noted that the Germans wanting "to be part of history" may by Dr. Myron B. Kuropas freely yelled epithets against Mr. Dem­ expected collaboration or cooperation have let their imaginations run away janjuk from the gallery. Even The from the Ukrainians because of the with them. "Many were never in the A syndicated series of articles by Jerusalem Post editorialized that if Mr. national aspirations of Ukrainians for places where they claim to have wit­ respected Jewish American jurist Alan Demjanjuk is acquitted, it might some­ independence. Now when it comes to nessed atrocities, while others relied on Dershowitz applauding the "fairness" how diminish the Holocaust in the eyes cooperation in the annihilation of Jews, second-hand information given them by of the Israeli trial of John Demjanjuk is of the outside world. "Many Israelis will were there or not additional reasons friends or passing strangers," he said. an affront to the wit and wisdom of be waiting to be convinced that the why the Germans expected the Ukrai­ One is reminded of the 11 "survivor informed Americans. holding of this war crimes trial was not a nians to cooperate? For example, the witnesses" who testified under oath — The trial was a travesty of justice, a mistake," the Post wrote. tradition, the long-lived tradition of and falsely — that Polish-born Chica- government-orchestrated drama de­ Not to worry, Ukrainian-born John hatred and hostility vis-a-vis the Jewish goan Frank Walus was the Nazi butcher signed to keep alive the memories of the Demjanjuk was convicted and con­ population, ever since the times of of Kielce, when the man was really a Holocaust and to settle accounts with demned to death. As the deputy Khmelnytsky in the 17th century, farm worker in Germany during the an old and hated enemy. speaker of the Knesset, Dov Ben Meir, wasn't that one of the factors involved?" war, both too short and of the wrong The verdict was rendered before the wrote to the president of Americans for he asked. nationality to be a Gestapo officer. trial began. Appearing on CBS news on Human Rights in Ukraine on the eve of In the end, the Israelis decided to Many forensics experts provided the day Mr. Demjanjuk was extradited the trial, "Since the days of Bogdan hang John Demjanjuk largely on the evidence that the Soviet-supplied Traw- to Israel, then Israeli Prime Minister Chmelnitzky, the Jewish people have a basis of testimony by five Treblinka niki LD. card was a forgery. One was Shimon Peres affirmed Mr. Demjan- long score to settle with the Ukrainian survivors (all of whom had heard each Dr. Julius Grant, the renowned Briton juk's guilt by announcing: "He's a Nazi; people" (Bohdan Khmelnytsky was a other's stories many times and had who proved that the Stern magazine he's a killer." Noting that 25 years had 17th century Ukrainian military com­ identified John Demjanjuk before) and Hitler "diaries" were a fake. Another passed since the Israelis had hanged a mander). an identification card supplied by the was William Flynn, chief documents Nazi, Gideon Husner, chief prosecutor The trial, held in what Barbara Amiel Soviet Union. examiner for the State of Arizona, who in the Eichmann case, later intoned: "A of the Toronto Sun aptly described as "a The judges treated the testimony of was responsible for uncovering a series new generation has arisen. It is impor­ lynch-mob atmosphere," was also survivors as sacrosanct. Never mind of documents fraudulently attributed to tant that the young generation in Israel attended by Ukrainian American law­ that one of them, Eliyahu Rosenberg, Mormon leaders. When Mr. Flynn and in the world be able to get a grasp of yers who reported what they learned in testified in 1947 that he saw "Ivan the attempted to present the results of his the atrocities of the Holocaust." the Ukrainian American press. One of Terrible" "fall for all eternity" during iron ion migration test, a procedure them, Walter Anastas, a former law the 1943 Treblinka uprising. (Shown his important in determining the age of a Oops! professor, was shocked by the brutal sworn statement at th^ trial, Mr. Rosen­ document, the Israeli court refused to manner in which the three Israeli judges berg replied that he was certain "Ivan" hear the testimony on the grounds that In the conclusion of Dr. Iwan Z. intimidated defense witnesses. "Such was dead until he saw Mr. Demjanjuk.) it was "irrelevant." Holowinsky's article about Antin Ma- judicial behavior would never be tole­ It didn't matter that Pinchas Epstein, And so it went. While the prosecu­ karenko (May 22), a typographical rated in other free world courts," he another eyewitness, never even men­ tion had access to Department of error changed the sense of a quotation. stated. One defense witness, the re­ tioned an "Ivan the Terrible" in his Justice files, the defense had to sue the The quote should have read: "I resolu­ nowned historian Nikolai Tolstoy, sworn 1947 statement. So what if 12 of Department of Justice to obtain them. tely decided to be the dictator." threatened to leave the courtroom if the the 17 Treblinka survivors interviewed (Continued on page 12) THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, MAY 29.1988 No. 22 Detroit high school stages "The Great Prince Volodymyr" annual productions is the High School Chorus under the direction of Larysa Stasiw-Hnatiuk. Dressed in finery of Kievan nobility, this 26-voice ensemble enriched the action and displayed fine talent. Mrs. Hnatiuk's arrangements of Borys Kudryk's epic "bylyna" and fanfare, plus her own compositions, included an interesting blend of quar­ tets, trios and duets interwoven with the full ensemble. Andrew Stasiw provided the musical accompaniment and, to­ gether with Jaroslaw Petrashchuk, was responsible for the audio system and lights. The final musical number was the "Millennium Hymn" written by IC's own poet-in-residence, Zoreslaw, the Rev. Sebastian Sabol OSBM, with music by M. Fedoriw. No worthy project is ever possible without the support, cooperation and helping hands of many individuals. Prof. Maria Harasevych wrote the introductory prologue and assisted as language consultant. Andrij M. Laty- shewskyj and Damian Kozak contri­ buted their own theater expertise to bring out the best in the novice perfor­ mers. The stage sets were designed and constructed by Yuri Krus with assis­ tance from Halyna Cisaruk-Konopada and crew. The costumes, designed by Prince Volodymyr and his entourage sing praises to the cross of Christ at the conclusion. Natalia Hryhorchuk, were sewn and embellished by the mothers and grand­ by Myrosia Stefaniuk man Malusha, who was played by Bema- commander of the Varangian forces; mothers of the cast members. Jarema dette Kopytko with a nice balance of Katherine Bartkiw as Stavro, the ar­ Kozak illustrated the commemorative DETROIT - In keeping with the motherly concern for her son's welfare cher; Christine Cieply as Dymytrij, a poster and program book cover. spirit of the Millennium, the annual and wary reserve toward her new Greek emissary; Daniel Stachursky, a theatrical production at Detroit's Im­ daughter-in-law. The male role of Greek messenger; Diane Czerkes, the Funding was provided by the Ukrai­ maculate Conception Ukrainian Catho­ Dobrynnia, Malusha's brother and the prince's sage; and Judy Nawrocki, a nian Selfreliance Federal Q^ditUi|ipn, lic High School was the premier perfor­ role of Suchan, the noble warrior from Greek slave. the Ukrainian Cultural Center and the mance of Volodyslav Kovalchuk's "The Ovruch, were ably handled by Tanya Future Credit Union of Detroit, and an Great Prince Volodymyr." This histori­ Clark and Valentina Paquette, respec­ It should be pointed out that the elegant "After-Glow" reception was cal drama, penned in 1938 on the tively. The narrators, who provided a majority of these students have had prepared by the ICHS Parents Club. occasion of the 950th anniversary of synopsis of the historical events as a little experience on stage and several The encouragement, understanding and Ukraine's baptism, was to have been prelude to each act were Lysa Gudz, had no knowledge of the Ukrainian patience of the school's faculty and staff performed in the Lviv Theatre under the who doubled in the role of the palace language prior to their studies at ICHS. made the work easier and more enjoy­ direction of the renowned Volodymyr guard, and Kristina Maritczak who also Their ability to learn lengthy, difficult able. Blavatskyj. However, because of the played a Greek emissary. parts and express them fluently within the dramatic context is a great credit to But those who reaped the greatest outbreak of war, the play never reached benefits were the student-actors them­ the stage. The supporting cast of characters them and to their teachers. This was not were Gregory Woloszczuk as the By­ selves. They learned some important To stage it 50 years later in the United zantine Emperor Constantine; Markian a new challenge for Mrs. Andrushkiw lessons not only about theater and States with a group of high school Karpinsky as Sadko, the nobleman and Mrs. Kozak. Their many years of working together, but a good deal of students was no small undertaking. But from Novhorod; Thomas Lucas, Yaro- commitment and perseverance in teach­ Ukrainian history as well. once again, the dedication, stamina and polk's nobleman Blud; John Szajenko ing and instilling their students with a sheer determination of the school's as Mychajlo, a Greek emissary; Tanya love for their Ukrainian culture and Ukrainian teachers, Vera Andrushkiw Krupiak as Tur, a young soldier in language has made its mark on every and her assistant, Chrystyna Kozak, Volodymyr's army; Daniel Zarewych as aspect of the school's program and met with great success. The members of MyrosiaV, Yaropolk's army comman­ curriculum. the senior class, supported by the school der; Zenon 2^rewycz as Ragnar, the A very important component of the choir, captivated the audience as Prince Volodymyr showed the wisdom and strength of a great leader in overcoming obstacles, betrayal and treachery in the struggle to unite his lands and his people. The final act concluded with Volodymyr's historic decision to accept Christianity for the people of Rus'- Ukraine. Although the play itself was a diffi­ cult work, containing numerous cum­ bersome dialogues and complex histori­ cal references and subplots, the young actors projected the events and flavor of 10th century Kievan Rus' admirably well Roman Los as Volodymyr Sviato- slavych played the central character with dignity and stature. Michael Jewicz, cast as his opponent Yaropolk Sviatoslavych, delighted the audience with his contrasting portrayal of the hot-tempere,d brother who placed his own ambitions and sword above the well-being of the people. Lesia Iwany- cky displayed beauty, grace and royal bearing in the role of Princess Anna of Constantinople who initially opposed Volodymyr but, in time, proclaimed her love and loyalty, and became his wife and most valuable cohort. Volodymyr's mother, the noblewo­ The cast and producers of "The Great Prince Volodymyr." No. 22 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, MAY 29,1988

SUM-A teams win in three divisions at Plast volleyball tourney by Ihor Stnitynsky Command of the United States. Ihor were introduced to the tournament's A Yonkers. A win by either team would Sochan, president of the National Plast rules and system of play. The tourna­ have secured a spot in the championship NEW YORK ^ The Third Annual Command and himself a volleyball en­ ment was composed of four divisions - National Open Volleyball Champion­ game. SUM-A New York, however, thusiast, welcomed the athletes, wished men's, women's, boys'and girls'-and could have lost and still advanced to the ships of Plast were held on Saturday, them well and officially opened the was played in a round-robin format. April 23, at the Hunter College Sports- finals if Plast Philadelphia lost the tournament. Having familiarized themselves with following game to SUM-A Passaic. In a plex in New York City. Twenty-six Bohdan Hajduczok served as the how the tournament would be run, teams registered for this year's tourna­ seesaw game, SUM-A New York finally tournament's head referee and was ably teams began their preliminary rounds at prevailed 15-13, thus assuring itself of a ment, but due to time constraints, the assisted by five referees: Fermin Pena, 9:30 a.m. organizing committee was forced to spot in the finals against Plast Phila­ Bohdan Kramarczuk, Mr. Sochan, The boys' division was composed of delphia. reduce the field to 21 teams. Danylo Dziadiw and John Leshchuk. five evenly matched teams. Highlight­ The tournament, open to all Ukrai­ Having been humiliated by SUM-A Following the opening ceremonies, ing the division, as most spectators New York in the preliminary round by a nian organizations, was organized team captains were escorted to the would attest, was the preliminary game under the auspices of the National Plast score of 15-2, the Plast team hoped to school's Hospitality Room, where they between SUM-A New York and SUM- ^Continued on page 14)

"^ MMichaelChudyk Winners of the women's division, SUM-A Yonkers. Oksana Lototzka, second from the right, was selected as the women's MVP.

The Khmell, champions of the men's division.

Г FINAL STANDINGS OF PLAST'S 1988 NATIONAL OPEN || VOLLEYBALL CHAMPIONSHIPS Men: Boys: 1 1. Khmeh 1. SUM-A New York 2. SUM-A New York 2. Plast Philadelphia 3. SUM-A Yonkers 3. SUM-A Yonkers 1 4. Injecto Mold 4. Plast Newark 1 5. Plast Passaic 5. SUM-A Passaic 6. Plast Cleveland 1 7. Chervona Kalyna 1 8. Rochester Girls: Women: 1. SUM-A Passaic 1. SUM-A Yonkers 2. Plast Newark 1 2. Spartanky 3. SUM-A New York і 3. Ukrainian Sports Club of New 4. SUM-A Yonkers 11 York. 5. Plast New York 1

Led by Alex Reshitnyk (standing, second from the right), the boys'MVP, SUM-A New York defeated Plast Philadelphia to capture the boys' title.

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John BilynskyJ of SUM-A New York, the men's MVP, spikes against Irtjecto Mold SUM-A Passaic, for the third consecutive year champions of the girls' division. during the men's semifinals. Christine Kocz, kneeling on the extreme left, was named the girls' MVP. 10 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, MAY 29,1988 No. 22

/UKRAINIANV Auburn slates Festival W AUBURN, N.Y. - Festival '88, a concert in an enclosed ice rink at the celebration of 1,000 years of Christia­ park, with special lighting and sound Who, what, when, nity in Ukraine, will be held on June 10- systems integrated into the program to 12 here in Casey Park. The event will create a theater atmosphere. Admis­ complement the many Millennium cele­ sion is SIO and includes free parking. where and why... brations being held throughout the The concert will showcase renowned ІІїШі country this year in commemoration of Ukrainian tour performers. the baptism of the Ukrainian nation in Scheduled to perform at the evening Л 988-1988 988 under the leadership of Prince concert are: Vladimir the Great, ruler of Kievan ^ Syzokryli, a Ukrainian folk dance Rus\ ensemble from New York City under Plast fraternity prepares parade floatSponsore d by the Shevchenko Cul­ the direction of choreographer Roma tural Association of New York Inc., the Pryma-Bohachevsky; cultural event will feature a parade, 9 Alex Holub, Ukrainian vocalist dances, concerts, arts and crafts dis­ from New York City; plays, and traditional Ukrainian foods. ^ Burlaka Men's Chorus from To­ Proceeds will benefit the Shevchenko ronto; Scholarship Fund, which provides 9 Yarko Antonevych, bandurist scholarships to Ukrainian youth or­ from Toronto; ganizations, such as Plast, SUM-Aand ^ Chaika, a Ukrainian folk dance ODUM, to continue studies in the field ensemble from Burlington and Hamil­ of music, arts, theater or academics. ton, Ont,; and Festival '88 will kick off Thursday, 9 Troyanda, vocalists from Toronto. June 9, at Springside Inn with a banquet. Saturday's festivities also include a A dance on Friday, June 10, at 9 p.m. in dance beginning at 9:30 p.m., featuring Casey Park, will feature Grammy the Tempo Orchestra from New Jersey. Award winner Jimmy Sturr and his Admission is S8. orchestra from Florida, N.Y. Admis­ On Sunday, June 12, the festival will sion is S8 and includes free parking. begin at 12:30 p.m. with an ecumenical A parade will be held on Saturday, church service in Casey Park. June 11, from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m., Sunday's activities will culminate in leading from downtown Auburn to an evening concert, from 6 p.m. to 8 Casey Park. In addition to participation p.m., at Casey Park, featuring Syzo­ The Millennium float prepared by the Pobratymy Plast fraternity of Chicago as it by Auburn dignitaries, and civic and kryli, Mr. Holub, Burlaka, Mr. Anto­ appeared in the St. Patrick's Day parade. community organizations, the parade nevych and Chaika. Admission is S8. will have participation by various ethnic The master of ceremonies will be Cecil CHICAGO - Billboards are not the thousands of parade enthusiasts and groups from the Central New York Semchyshyn, a professional entertainer only effective way to publicize the those numbers can reach into the area, including Rochester, Buffalo, from Winnipeg. Ukrainian American community's ob­ millions through televised broadcasts Syracuse, Binghamton and Elmira. The In addition to the dances and concert servances of the Millennium of Chris­ scheduled on both national and cable parade will culminate in free outdoor performances, throughout both days tianity in Kievan-Rus', as the Chicago networks. concerts at Casey Park, featuring Festival '88 will showcase Ukrainian branch of the Plast fraternity Pobra­ The members of the fraternity hope performances by parade participants, arts and crafts displays and will include tymy has proven. that exposure will be great, for every­ from 3 p.m. to 5 p.m. the sale of favorite traditional Ukrai­ On the initiative of the fraternity's one loves a parade. On Saturday evening, there will be a nian ethnic foods. member, Andres Durbak, the fraternity members rolled up their sleeves and began working on a Millennium float, Advertising firm donates Millennium billboards which was funded by the Selfreliance Federal Credit Union of Chicago. The Pobratymy, whose work, to a great extent, includes the counseling of younger scouting members, decided to make their project a Ukrainian youth community project, involving members of various youth organizations and youth church groups. Together they planned, constructed and displayed the float. The building process took four weeks and the float was ready to roll for St. Patrick's Day. To draw even more attention to the Millennium float, which was adorned with blue and yellow tissue paper, blue lettering and a trident designed with gold tinsel, the float also prominently displayed a sign that read: "Saluting our Irish Neighbors on the Millennium of Dublin." This year, that Irish city also marks its 1,000 year anniversary, and Chicago, home of the Irishman, the late Mayor Richard J. Daley, claims to have some Irish blood as well. (It is in the Windy City that the Chicago River is dyed green every St. Patrick's Day.) However, this was not the only parade on the agenda for the Millen­ nium float. It's already been entered in the "Say no to Drugs," Mexican Day, Polish Day, Puerto Rican Day and Independence Day parades scheduled on the city's calendar this year. On the float rides a Ukrainian youth dressed as Prince Volodymyr the Great, and other youths dressed in national costumes. llie noat's main objective, according In recognition of the 1,000th anniversary of Christianization of Ukraine a^^ to the Pobratymy fraternity members, Millennium committees, Patrick Media Group Inc. has posted a Millennium billboard in Scranton as a public service is, of course, to convey the message of to the community. The international advertising firm, headquartered in Scranton, Pa., has donated similar space the Millennium, to make others aware throughout the United States particularly where there are heavy concentrations of persons of Ukrainian heritage, of the 1,000-year tradition of the An identical billboard is also planned for the Wilkes-Barre area. Seen in the photo above are: (from left) the Very Chnstian faith in Ukraine, which is Rev. Mitred Nestor Kowal, pastor of St. Michael's Ukrainian Orthodox Church, Scranton; BillRoditski, co-chair- currently oppressed under the Soviet man, Millennium Committee of Ukrainians of Northeastern Pennsylvania; Charles Gahwiler, vice-preside^nt/ge^ government. The fraternity members neraПАГОІl managerтапапАГ , PatricO^^rir^l^k MediкЛ^Міґлa Group Ґ1^Ґ\І ш^'; Sophi ^^.^Ul^e Soniak^^.^l^l^, committe^^ :xx^^e treasurer± ; Paur-k l іSл. Ewasko^ i , committe.^ ... e chairman^t'" ; feel that the float will be seen by and the Rev. D. George Worschak, pastor of St. Vladimir's Ukrainian Catholic Church, Scranton. No. 22 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, MAY 29,1988

Parish welcomes Chicago mayor Who, what, when, where and why...

Cleveland buses carry message

Chicago Mayor Eugene Sawyer speakers at Ss. Volodymyr and Olha Ukrainian Catholic Church's blessing of Easter baskets. Clergy seen in the photo are (from left): Deacon Andrij Onuferko, the Rev. Mitred Marian Butrynsky (pastor), the Rev. Andriy Chirovsky and Deacons Mykola Oryschuk and Marian Ivakhiv. CHICAGO - Parishioners of Ss. Millennium celebration by the Ukrai­ Since May 1, the Cleveland metropolitan area has had 200 buses, (like the Volodymyr and Olha Ukrainian Catho­ nian community in Chicago to take one above) one-third of the fleet, carrying their "One Thousand Years of lic Church on the Near West Side of place in Olive Park. Christianity in Ukraine: Celebrate With Us" advertisement. This and over 20 Chicago welcomed Mayor Eugene Also present at the day's events were billboard signs over Ohio, as well as letters to all Cleveland area parishes Sawyer for a traditional Easter basket members of the Commemorative Mil­ and other projects, has raised the public awareness about the Ukrainian blessing on April 9. lennium Committee, Illinois chapter. Millennium of Christianity. The parish's faithful celebrate Easter according to the Julian calendar in order to remain united with their Millennium billboards seen by 75 million nationwide brothers and sisters in Ukraine. Saturday's celebration began with a NEW YORK - Fifth Street and Seattle, Rochester, N.Y., Phoenix, this plan was put into action, the grocesjsipn from the church at 4:30 p.m. Oxford in Philadelphia, 1501 Jefferson ordered the eye-catching billboard organizers of this project came up in which Mayor Sawyer participated. Highway in New Orleans, Kane Street posters picturing the golden domes of against red tape. For example, they The procession then proceeded to the and Eastern Avenue Road in Baltimore, St. Sophia Cathedral in Kiev, glistening were told, that soipe state's сщуігоп- ІЩГ of the church where rows and rows Sierra Highway and Sierra Cross in Los against a sky of rich blue. The design, mental protection laws prohibit the of Easter baskets were laid, Angeles, Hanes Road and 31st Avenue positioned diagonally on a space appro­ display of advertisements on billboards; In the baskets were the traditional in Tampa, Elston and Campbell in ximately' 22.6 feet by 10.4 feet, was such was the case in Colorado. Easter foods such as; ham, roast lamb, Chicago, Telephone at Griggs in Hous­ created by artist Luba Maziar of New However, they put their plan into sausage, butter, cheese, horseradish, ton and Westside Highway and West Jersey. action and the final billboard count paska (a special bread) and also tradi­ 14th Street in Manhattan — these are Various city Millennium committees, throughout the United States was 212. tional hand-painted Easter eggs called just a few of the more than 200 bill­ as well as Ukrainian organizations, The purpose of the project was to pysanky. board locations throughout the United parishes, businesses and private indivi­ inform the largest possible number of The blessing of the Easter baskets States that carried the message, "1,000 duals, ordered the billboards for their Americans, travelers and pedestrians, began at 4:40 p.m. and the parishioners Years of Christianity in Ukraine, Come regions. They were not responsible in of the 1,000 years of Christianity in provided Mayor Sawyer with an Easter Celebrate with Us, 988-1988." The naming the locations for the posters; Ukraine and to invite all to celebrate basket filled with traditional foods. billboards appeared throughout either this was in the hands of the various with the Ukrainian American commu­ Mayor Sawyer thanked the parishioners the month of April or May. billboard companies contracted. Re­ nity. as he participated in the blessing cere­ quests for locations were accepted and It is estimated that more than 75 mony. Initiated by the public relations close proximity to particular streets, million people have seen the billboard The mayor also announced the accep­ division of New York Metropolitan thruways, bridges, etc. were observed messages in the one-month period they tance of the date of July 31 as the Committee to Commemorate the Mil­ when space permitted. were displayed. lennium, and implemented by Barbara Many organizations funded bill­ So, if you were recently driving Bachynsky, the idea caught on quickly boards for locations outside populous through Reno, Nev., Richmond, Va., LA. station to air in all of the states, as Ukrainian com­ Ukrainian community centers, as the Oklahoma City, or Pittsfield, Mass., munities in such cities as Hartford, original goal was to have at least one and thought you saw a Millennium bill­ lll(rainlan compositions Conn., Jersey City, N.J., Cleveland, billboard in every state. However, as board, you were not dreaming. LOS ANGELES - In response to the efforts by the Millennium of Chris­ tianity in Ukraine Jubilee Committee of Los Angeles, public radio station KUSC 91.5 FM has expressed a keen interest in broadcasting Ukrainian classical music. During this month of June, KUSC will broadcast several selections of Ukrainian classical sacred music. The selections and approximate air times are: e Sunday, June 5, 7-10:30 a.m.: "Sunday Morning L. A. with Mary Ann Bonino," Bortniansky concertos. ^ Wednesday, June 15, midnight-5 a.m.: "Music through the Night with Laura Brodian," Ukrainian high mass sung by St. Barbara's Church of Vienna with Andrij Hnatyshyn, conductor. ^ Thursday, June 16, midnight-5 a.m.: "Music through the Night with Laura Brodian," Jerusalem Matins, by M. Fedoriv, Miisicus Borntianskii with M. Maksymiw, conductor. ^ Friday, June 17, midnight-5 a.m. "Music through the Night with Laura Brodian," various Ukrainian liturgical Maria Kolomzjcts musical selections. A МІІ1шпІ?і^лі foillboard Ш Queens. 12 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY. MAY 29.1988 No. 22

His law practice has included corpo­ Court justice. Dunai folk... Sopinka named... rate cases, federal-provincial disputes The Toronto Star quoted Ontario (Continued from page 5) (Continued from page 1) and service as counsel to various royal Attorney-General Ian Scott as sayingpf Elliot Tnideau. who announced his retirement last commissions. Mr. Sopinka, "He's extraordinary Orest Samitz of Niagara Falls, Ont., month. Among the most celebrated cases Mr. competent, he has wide interests, and I a member of UNA Branch 468, is The Ukrainian C:anadian Committee Sopinka has represented are that of think he will make a very interesting Dunai's choreographer. noted in a press communique that it nurse Susan Nelles during a judicial contribution to the court." No strangers to the UNA, Dunai applauds Prime Minister Mulroney's inquiry into baby deaths at Toronto's Mr. Scott said he was consulted performed last year at Soyuzivka on decision to appoint Mr. Sopinka to the Hospital for Sick Children and Cabinet about the appointment by Justice Father's Day and in August on another Supreme Court. Minister Sinclair Stevens during an Minister Ray Hnatyshyn, and said ''I occasion. They also performed at the Mr. Sopinka, a Canadian-born U- inquiry into conflict of interest charges. think hell be an excellent appointee." Ukrainian Festival in New York City krainian, is the flrst person of Slavic He represented the Ukrainian Cana­ The Star summed up reaction to Mr. later in the year. descent to be named to the top court, dian community before the Deschenes Sopinka's selection thusly: ''John So- The Millennium of Christianity in according to William Werbeniuk, direc­ Commission of Inquiry into Nazi war pinka's appointment to the highest Ukraine-Rus' will be this year's theme tor of the Ukrainian Canadian Commit­ criminals in (Canada. court in the land has surprised many but during the annual Father's Day Fes­ tee in Winnipeg. Mr. Werbeniuk told Most recently, as legal counsel to the apparently pleased all." tival, which will take place on the the Winnipeg Free Press, ''We are de­ World Congress of Free Ukrainians, weekend of June 18 and 19 at Soyu­ lighted he has been appointed; and we Mr. Sopinka told the Internatioiial zivka. The program will begin on think he will be doing a good job.'' Commission of Inquiry into the Famine League... Saturday evening with a concert by the "I think not only for Ukrainians, but in Ukraine 1932-1933 that the famine (Continued from page 4) Dumka Choir from New York followed for all minorities as well, this is quite was genocide and urged the commission External Representation of the Ukrai­ by a dance. welcome," he added. members "to find that the famine was nian Helsinki Group; Bozhena 01sha- The main event of the celebration will The president of the Clanadian Multi- deliberately caused as an instrument of niwsky, president of Americans for be on Sunday afternoon. It will consist culturalism Council, an advisory body (Soviet) state policy." Human Rights in Ukraine; Marijka of an ecumenical moleben, celebrated to the Multiculturalism Department, In fact, as his appointment was Demtschuk, trustee of UNCHAIN; jointly by Ukrainian Catholic and also praised the Sopinka appointment. announced, Mr. Sopinka was in Brus­ George Tarasiuk, a LUV spokesman Ukrainian Orthodox clergy, followed Dr. Louis Melosky told the Free Press, sels, where the international commis­ and aide to Mr. Rice; and the host, Mr. by a program of music and dance, "We're happy — happy that it's a sion was holding its hearings. He Kupchinsky, president of the Ukrainian featuring the Dunai Dance Ensemble Ukrainian and over-all an ethnic com­ immediately caught a flight back to Professionals and Businesspersons of and Trio Verkhovyna from Toronto. munity representative." Toronto, where he will finish up his New York and New Jersey. In addition, there will be an exhibit of The Ukrainian C^anadian attorney's work at Stikeman, Elliot so that he can Members of the planning committee photographs of Ukrainian churches appointment follows a request made take up his new position. from LUV for the party were Mr. from the Lemko area, taken by Odarka last year by the Canadian Ethnocul- Mr. Sopinka was offered the Su­ Romankow, Mrs. Olshaniwsky, Ms. Figlus and recently exhibited at The tural Council that the next Supreme preme Court position on Saturday, Demtschuk, Oles Cherin, Dan Mar- Ukrainian Museum in New York, and Court justice to be named should be May 21, and he accepted it. His salary chishin, Mr. Tarasiuk and Marie Kow- photographs of Ukrainian churches in from an ethnic minority. will be S 125,000 (Canadian) per year, blansky. U.S. and Canada taken by Bohdan Mr. Sopinka was born in Broderick, and this represents a substantial cut in New Jersey's 10th District encom­ Pol^nsrkyj. The exhibit will be open on Sask., to Ukrainian immigrant parents. pay for Mr. Sopinka. passes the Vailsburg section of Newark, both days^ Saturday and Sunday. He was raised in Hamilton, Ont. In add- "It was suggested by some that I Irvington, Orange and East Orange. Call Soyuzivka, (914) 626-5641, for tion to English, Mr. Sopinka speaks соиМііЧ afford to take this appointment Citizens were urged to vote in the June 7 room reservations. French and Ukrainian. because I was making too much money," primary. A display table featured While attending the University of he told the news media. "The practice of documents of Ukrainian American HUCULKA Toronto law school in the late 19S0s, law has been good to me and to the activities in governmental affairs plus Icon 8L Souvenir's Distribution he played professional football for the limited extent that I'm able to serve the registration forms for voting. (Regis­ 2860 BuhreAve. Suite 2R Toronto Argonauts and the Montreal country, I have a duty to accept what I tration blanks may be рЬіаіпеД by Bronx, NY 10461 fSPRESEtnAWEand WHOLESALER of EMBRODEREDBUOUSES Alouettes. consider to be the most important legal writing to: lUV, 43 KiidM(^^ Йасе, for ADULTS and CHILDREN He was called to the Ontario^JbaT-in job in the country," he said. Newark, NJ. 07106.) ^^ fel. (212) 93Ш^9 i960 and, according to The Globe and Mr. Sopinka was described by The The candidate's entourage stayed Mail, "has consistently tackled some Globe and Mail as "a hard-nosed trial well beyond the appointed hbiirahd HURYN MEMORIALS of the toughest and most controversial lawyer," who is praised by the Ontario mingled freely with the assembled FOR THE FINEST IN CUSTOM MADE cases." legal community and opposition justice guests. MEMORIALS INSTALLED IN ALL CEME­ The Globe and Mail also noted, "Mr. critics for his "intelligence, courtroom TERIES IN THE METROPOLITAN AREA Sopinka has argued such a broad range experience and his progressive ap­ of New York including Holy Spirit in of cases that few people in the legal proach to the legal profession." A fair trial... H^mptonburgh, N.Y., St. Andrew's In South community know where to place him The Toronto Star cited experts as (Continued from page 7) Bound Brook, Pine Bush Cemetery in ideologically. They can say little more saying that Mr. Sopinka is expected to The prosecution had full access to Kerhonkson and Glen Spey Cemetery than that he is relatively "conservative." be a great defender of the Charter of Soviet and Polish files, the defense did in Glen Spey, New York. Rights and Freedoms and a progressive not. The prosecution had unlimited We offer personal service A guidance in your on issues involving human rights and funding. The defense, financed almost home. For a bilingual representative call: equality rights. entirely by private donations (approxi­ IWAN HURYN Liberal justice critic Robert Kaplan mately a million dollars has already P.O. Box 121 told The Globe and Mail, "He is a very been spent) was always in a financial Hamptonburgh, N.Y. 10916 Aum distinguished counsel. I have a very high bind. Tel.: (914) 4272684 regard for him." Most Americans, of course, are BOHDAN REKSHYNSKYJ insurance policy University of Ottawa law professor unfamiliar with these facts because 45 East 7th Street Edward Ratushny said the appointee is American correspondents in Israel, New York. NY. 10003 is an investment a good lawyer, and has the potential to many of them of Jewish heritage, Tel.: (212) 477-6523 be a good, perhaps even great, Supreme generally reported the prosecution side, in t/ie Ukrainian losing interest once the defense began its presentation. 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Dershowitz when he wrote that "even a University of Toronto Press, Toronto, Buffalo, London, 1988, published for the Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies, the Ukrainian can get a fair trial in Israel." Shevchenko Scientific Society (Sarcelles, France) and Canadian Foundation of Ukrainian Studies, pp. 737. Not true. Israeli courts are little better than Soviet courts in trying Ukrainian Edition is richly illustrated with many color plates, black- and white pictures, and maps. nationalists. In both countries the verdict is in before the trial begins. SVOBODA BOOK STORE Canada and the United Kingdom 30 Montgomery Street, Jersey City, NJ. 07302 now plan to hold their own trials of New Jersey residents add 6^/0 sales tax alleged Nazi war criminals. It's time the United States did the same. No. 22 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, MAY 29,1988 13

Chornobyl would have been to combine ment's losses of taxpayers' money, as Dr. Robert Gale... knowledge about the Soviet Union with Newcomer... were revealed in the MTX and Auto- (Continued from page 7) a medical practice. Dr. Gale was not (Continued from page 4) pac affairs. "I just could not remain villagers (language difficulties would such a man and indeed, one suspects Tymofiy and Anastasia Minenko. on the sidelines any longer. I just had have prevented such communication that such a person could not have been He was active in SUM (Ukrainian to get involved," he said. even had the authorities permitted Dr. found who would at the same time have Youth Association) and SUMK Gale such liberty) that this work seems been acceptable to the Soviet authorities. During the six-week campaign, (dlanadian Ukrainian Youth Asso­ Mr. Minenko said he found that somewhat thin. Aside from his work As a final point, over the past two ciation) and completed the School of "people and government had drifted with the early victims of the accident, an years, it has become evident that the Ukrainian Studies. Mr. Minenko apart. All levels of government made account of which has already appeared acclaimed openness about Chornobyl taught Ukrainian and Sunday school decisions without the people." In in Life magazine, the amount of new in the Soviet Union is as much myth as at the Ukrainian Cathedral of the knocking on over 3,000 doors in the information is limited. reality. Dr. Gale and his colleagues were Holy Trinity. constituency, he found he gained One suspects that Mr. Hauser had permitted to go to Moscow, but they As an active SUMK-ivets, he was much experience and knowledge much to do with the biographical part saw little, had few Soviet contacts and head of the Manitoba Provincial from the people themselves. "I of the book, which makes for interesting were not given a frank account of non- Council of SUMK. At present, he is thought I could bring back the reading, particularly Dr. Gale's rela­ medical affairs; the Soviet report to the on the advisory board of the Pro­ cynical people," he said, referring to International Atomic Energy Agency in tionship with Dr. Hammer, who flits vincial Council, a member of TUS those who had given up on the Vienna was followed a year later by a through the pages like a pollinating bee (Tovarystvo Ukrainskykh Samo- political process. moving from flower to flower. At one report of stultifying opaqueness and stiinykiv), and a vice-president of the Mr. Minenko noted that he plans stage. Dr. Gale relates, he CGaleJ seemed lack of new information; and the anti- Provincial Council of TUS. He is the to continue visiting his constituents, merely to be following Dr. Hammer's nuclear power protests in the Soviet general secretary of the national knocking on more doors, art exhibitions from one city to another. Union continue to be ignored by several executive of the Ukrainian Cana­ Mr. Minenko is married to Roma Dr. Gale himself relates his experiences scientists in the nuclear industry. dian Committee. Blashchuk, a social worker with the in Moscow, his personal traits (early We await information on the fate of Mr. Minenko grew increasingly Central Winnipeg Child and Family morning jogs in Moscow, while listen­ the contaminated victims. We await concerned about the NDP govern­ Services. ing to stereo headset) and his political information even on the cause of death, views (a strong commitment to the at the age of 51, of Academician Valeriy ATTENTION: future of Israel partly as a result of his Legasov, who headed the investigative PHOTOGRAPHY upbringing and partly from family commission on the Chornobyl disaster EXCELLENT INCOME WEDDINGS, ADVERTISING, EDITORIAL attachments, his wife being an Israeli). and led the Soviet team in Vienna. It FOR HOME ASSEMBLY WORK. ROMAN IWASiWKA One's view of the book may well would be helpful to know the current INFO. CALL 5046461700 depend upon one's initial approach. As tally of accident victims, since even Dept. 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Yet as a Ages 6-16 articles about the topic — including Dr. work on Chornobyl itself, the book, in 1969 Place: "Verkhovyna" Resort, Glen Spey, NY. fairness, adds little to our current Gale and the Canadian Ray Silver - 1988 When: July 24 - August 20, 1988 knowledge. too readily accept the official Soviet line "^^^tor^OTJeiolbgist^^ the author's con­ on Chornobyl. HHB Register now - Capacity It limited - For Information write to: ception of the Spvkt ДДпіоїт^ піду ^Jsp Unfortunately, the legacy of Chor­ 5Я Ukrainian Sitch Sports School appear naive. One does not expect to see nobyl lies beyond the realm of nuclear BB 600 Sanfbrd Avenue Ш Newark ^I.J. 6^166 " stateiripiits like the one questioning weapons or international cooperation. why, since life in the Communist Party It falls rather into the sphere of free­ is so privileged, all Soviet citizens do not dom of information. 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SUM-A New York. tournament's four divisions. This is New York team, having lost a game it SUM'A teams... Gary Wohlstetter, coach of the men's quite an accomplishment considering had all but locked up, never really (Continued from page 9) volleyball team at Hunter College, the amount of resources, in terms of recovered and looked sluggish in losing redeem itself in the finals. Hard as they runner-up in the 1988 Eastern Inter­ time, manpower and finances, that were the second game 15-7. tried, the Philadelphians simply could collegiate Volleyball Association Cham­ utilized to bring this to fruition. By winning, the Khmeli not only not overcome the strength and balance pionship, played an instrumental role in Unequivocally, the men's division defended their men's title, but at the of SUM-A New York. Led by Alex helping put together this year's tourna­ provided the majority of the tourna­ same time, prevented SUM-A from Reshitnyk, the boys' MVP, the New ment. Favorably impressed with the ment's most exciting games. Eight sweeping all four division titles at this Yorkers prevailed 15-6, 7-15 and 16-14. quality of play of the two previous teams competed in a round-robin for­ year's tournament. John Bilynskyj, SUM-A Yonkers captured third place. tournaments, Mr. Wohlstetter took mat to determine the four semi-finalists. from SUM-A New York, was honored SUM-A Passaic, champions in 1986 advantage of the 1988 Plast tournament The Plast Passaic team, although it as the men's MVP. SUM-A Yonkers and 1987, dominated the girls'division to recruit Jarko Koziar of the SUM-A could have competed in the boys' captured third place. this year as well. Including this years' Yonkers men's team. Mr. Koziar will division, and in all probability success­ results the Passaic team has compiled begin playing at Hunter College next fully defended its title, decided instead Plast's 1988 National Open Volley­ an amazing 16-1 won-lost record,"the year. to compete in the older division. Even ball Championships were financially lone defeat coming in the 1986 cham­ The Pepsi-Cola Bottling Company of though it did not make the playoffs, supported by: New York Plast, the pionship match against the Ukrainian New York and the American Bakeries finishing in fifth place, the young Ukrainian American Coordinating Sports Club (USC) of New York. Company (suppliers of Taystee dough­ Passaic team put on an admirable show. Council, Self-Reliance Federal Credit Passaic lost the first game of that match nuts), two of the tournament's many With continued growth and proper Unions of Passaic, New York, Jersey but came back to win the gold medal sponsors, also played a major role in coaching the Plast Passaic team is likely City, Newark and Hartford, Ukrainian against the New Yorkers 12-15, 15-8 assuring the tournament's success. to emerge as a future powerhouse in Orthodox Federal Credit Union of New and 3-11. Depleted energy levels of athletes and Ukrainian volleyball. York, Ukrainian National Association, The 1988 Passaic team, living up to its officials alike were quickly restored After six and one-half hours, the four Ukrainian Fraternal Association, U- high standards, breezed through the thanks to their generous support. men's semifinalists were finally deter­ krainian Sports Club of New York and preliminaries and entered the cham­ The women's division, which began mined. The first match featured SUM- the Chervona Kalyna Sports Camp. pionship game against Newark Plast play at 2:30 p.m., was dominated by the A Yonkers against the Khmeli, a Plast In addition to the aforementioned undefeated and unchallenged. Andrij SUM-A Yonkers team. Piloted by fraternity. The team from Westchester institutions the organizing committee Holynskyj, Newark's coach, although Oksana Lotozka, the women's MVP, County, albeit well-balanced, tended to also acknowledged the support and ecstatic about reaching the finals, SUM-A Yonkers had a relatively easy rely on one individual, Ivan Fecz, to assistance of the following individuals: realized that a gold medal would require time in the finals against the Spartanky, score the bulk of its points. Whether in Michael Chudyk, the tournament's a perfect game from his girls. It did not a Plast sorority, winning 15-7 and 15-6. the forecourt or in the backcourt, Mr. official photographer, Andrij Bidiak, happen. Newark fought hard but was The Ukrainian Sports Club of New Fecz's teammates would always try to designer of the official tournament T- set him up. His hits, powerful as they simply overmatched by the defending York took third place. shirt, and Anna Pena and Leandro champions 15-10 and 15-6. Christine It should also be noted that SUM-A may have been, were not enough. The Khmeli advanced to the finals with a 15- Lopez for their unsolicited help after the Kocz of SUM-A Passaic was named the Yonkers was the only organization to tournament. girls' MVP. Third place was awarded to enroll at least one team in each of the 10 and 16-14 win. In the other semifinal SUM-A New The tournament, which began at 8:45 IN LOVING MEMORY OF MY DEAR HUSBAND York defeated Injecto Mold 15-8 and a.m., came to a conclusion at 8:30 p.m. 13-15. Along with team trophies for the top Things looked extremely bleak for three teams in each division and MVP WALTER MAZUR the Khmeli, the defending champions, trophies, each member of the four win­ ON THE FIRST ANNIVERSARY OF HIS DEATH JUNE 4th, 1987. when SUM-A New York jumped out to ning teams received a gold medal. The a 14-9 lead in the first game. But the organizers — Iko Danyluk and Ihor LOVED AND MISSED BY YOUR WIFE VIOLA, YOUR SON LEONARD Khmeli, after having played nine games Strutynsky, graduates of the Chervona AND WIFE, YOUR STEPSON MICHAEL GRAMIAK AND WIFE, just to advance to the finals, were not Kalyna Sports Camp - thanked every­ THREE GRANDCHILDREN AND TWO GREAT GRANDCHILDREN about to give up. Led by Pavlo one for their participation and express­ "VICHNAYA YOMU PAMYAr Hunczak, Bohdan Novakivsky and ed their interest in expanding the WITH ALL MY LOVE Bohdan Iwaskiw, the Khmeli rallied to tournament in the not too distant YOUR WIFE VIOLA MAZUR take the first game 16-14. 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Graduating with a degree in political Kulchitsky... science and a solid foundation in "UKRAINIAN MILLENNIUM VIDEOTAPE" (Continued from page 4) economics and community relations, Two-hour VHS tape of May 15,1988 Liturgy at Buffalo Convention Center. Eastern and Western recounting his previous political expe­ Mr. Kulchitsky moved to Washington Rite Bishops and priests celebrating. rience. In 1984 Mr. Kulchitsky was the to intern for Democratic Congressman Send check or money order for S29.00 (includes tax and postage) to: National Youth Coordinator for Ukrai­ Dante Fascell. He participated in J. 8. D. SERVICES nian Americans for Reagan-Bush. He research on human rights abuses and S 1021 Lyndale Lane, Elma, N.Y. 14059 has also worked for the Commission on served the Commission on Security and Security and Cooperation in Europe Cooperation in Europe. and for Rep. Christopher Smith on This led to a position in the office of UKRAINIAN BIBLES FOR MILLENNIUM Capitol Hill. Rep. Smith on Capitol Hill. His respon­ YEAR IN UKRAINE His campaign experience includes sibilities involved legislative research Richard Viguerie's race for lieutenant and correspondence. governor of Virginia and presidential Attracted to Michigan by business For the first time in the 70-year history of the Soviet Union, USSR's government allows to candidate Jack Kemp's campaign. He opportunities, Mr. Kulchitsky decided import 100,000 Ukrainian Bibles. has also been active locally as the to live in Warren. Today he is the sole The Ukrainian Family Bible Association is asking you for a gift of S25.— or more, if finance director for the Oakland County proprietor of DRK Enterprises, possible, to help print and deliver Ukrainian Bibles to Ukraine by the United Bible Societies of Republicans. He is a member of the Warren Jay- West Germany. We must respond with unity to this God-given chance. The candidate gave a brief speech in cees, the Warren Chamber of Com­ Thank you and God Bless You All. which he thanked his parents for their merce, the Ukrainian Cultural Center encouragement, and asked them to and the A.C. Italia soccer team. He stand beside him as spoke of the coming worships at St. Josaphat Ukrainian UKRAINIAN FAMILY BIBLE ASSOCIATION campaign. He thanked the Ukrainian Catholic Church. P.O. Box 3723, Palm Dessert, CA. 92261-3723. Tel.: (619) 345-4913 community for its support, and the He is currently pursuing a master's guests for contributing to making the degree in economics at the University of occasion such a success. Detroit, and is a member of the Detroit Jaroslav Duzey, a businessman and Economic Club. ATTENTION vice-president of the Cultural Center, Members of "Eugene Konowaletz" UNA Branch 423 in Chicago, III. ended the night's program, speaking on Beginning May 31, 1988, all duties of the importance of the Ukrainian com­ munity's support for one of its members BRANCH SECRETARY in his campaign for political office. have been assumed by Mr. Kulchitsky was born in Philadel­ VERA GOJEWYCZ phia on September 6,1961. His parents emigrated to America from Europe Please make all UNA dues payments and refer all membership and insurance matters to: after World War П. He is the oldest VERA GOJEWYCZ of their three sons. 2210 W. Cortez, Chicago, III. 60622. Tel.: (312) 489-2342 Studying at LaSalle College on an athletic scholarship, he worked to earn money for a semester of study abroad. The Ukrainian American Veterans There he expanded his horizons by studying international relations and 41st Convention Committee foreign languages. 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June 3-5 PREVIEW OF EVENTS a.m., served by the clergy, with a sermon by the Rev. John Bruchok. WARREN, Mich.: SUSTA will hold Kalyna Band. For tickets and infor­ selection process will be held at 1 to 4 Responses will be sung by the chil­ its national congress here at the mation, please call Virginia Hladun, p.m. at the Basileiad Library Build­ dren's choir. Activities, planned Ukrainian Cultural Center. The (215) 664-6555. ing at Manor Junior College, Fox include talks on the Millennium, agenda for the congress includes Chase Road and Forrest Avenue. children's games and a birthday officers' and club reports, committee WATERVLIET, N.Y.: Mykola and For more information, please con­ party. Following the luncheon, a meetings and discussions on various Raisa Rudenko will be the guests at a tact the Continuing Education Divi­ Softball game and barbecue will be topics. On Saturday night, the dele­ reception at the Ukrainian Club here, sion, (215) 884-2218. held for the teenagers. gates will dance to the tunes of The 3 p.m. The event will follow a press Raging Hutsuls. For more informa­ conference scheduled with the dissi­ JERSEY CITY, N.J.: A special BUFFALO: The Coalition of Ukrai­ tion call Ulana Remeniuk at (313) dents at 2 p.m. Members of the ecumenical prayer service, marking nian Organizations of Buffalo will 754-6152. Ukrainian communities of Albany, the Millennium of the Christianiza- sponsor a public meeting with My­ Cohoes, Troy and Watervliet will tion of Ukraine, will be celebrated at kola and Raisa Rudenko at 7 p.m. at June 4-5 have an opportunity to meet the Ss. Peter and Paul Ukrainian Catho­ the Ukrainian Holy Trinity Ortho­ honored guests during the afternoon lic Church, corner of Bentley and dox Church Hall, 200 Como Park CLIFTON, N.J.: Holy Ascension affair. Bergen avenues at 3 p.m. Presiding at Blvd., Cheektowaga, N.Y. For more Ukrainian Orthodox Church will the service will be the Most Rev. information, please call Zenon Bod- observe the Millennium of Christia­ June S Jerome Pechillo, Roman rite epis­ narskyj, (716)681-8889. nity in Ukraine with a two-day copal vicar for Hudson County; celebration, which includes a hie- TROY, N.Y,: Mykola and Raisa concelebrating will be local Catholic, June 17-19 rarchal divine liturgy celebrated by Rudenko will unveil and dedicate a Orthodox and Protestant clergy; the Metropolitan Mstyslav of the Ukrai­ Taras Shevchenko monument here homilist will be the Rev. Roman BENSALEM, Pa.: The St. Pius X nian Autocephalous Orthodox at noon. Afterwards, a banquet will Mirchuk of Ss. Peter and Paul Council of the League of Ukrainian Church on Sunday morning at 9 a.m. be held at the Italian Community Church; singing the responses will be Catholics will host the 1988 Sports The weekend festivities will feature a Center, which will feature the Ru- the Ss. Peter and Paul Church Choir. Rally at the Days Inn Suites here. Ukrainian Fair on Saturday from 10 denkos as the guests of honor, and Coffee and cake will be served after­ Activities include golf, bowling, a.m. to 7 p.m. at the church grounds, the Homin Stepiv Bandurist En­ wards in the school cafeteria. swimming and a mini-Olympics for 645 Broad St. Free to the public, the semble providing entertainment. youngsters. The activities grounds fair will include cultural exhibits, Walter Litynsky and Christine Chel- June 11 are seven miles south on Route 13 continuous performances by folk sey will serve as masters of cere­ from Exit 29 on the Pennsylvania artists and ethnic foods. Following monies. PARMA, Ohio: St. Vladimir's U- Turnpike. (If traveling on 1-95, take the Sunday liturgy, a banquet will be krainian Orthodox Cathedral will the Street Road exit.) held at the Wayne Manor in Wayne, JENKINTOWN, Рал A free open sponsor a Youth Celebration in t^g^v^^'x.^^t.^?^ t^i?^ N.J., featuring guest speaker Dr. house to acquaint high school stu­ honor of the Millennium. The events Frank E. Sysyn of Harvard Univer­ dents and parents with the college planned include a moleben at 9:30 ONGOING sity. Tickets for the banquet and more information may be obtained PREVIEW OF EVENTS, a listing of Ukrainian community events open to WARREN, Mich.: An exhibition by calling (201) 473-8665. the public, is a service provided free of charge by The Ukrainian Weekly to the commemorating the Millennium of Ukrainian community. To have an event listed in this column, please send Christianity in Ukraine will feature June 4 information (type of event, date, time, place, admission, sponsor, etc.), - original icons by Ukrainian artists typed and in the English language - along with the phone number of a person from the United States, Canada and PHILADELPHIA: The Parents' who may be reached during daytime hours for additional information, to: Europe. The show, held at the EKO Committee of the 1988 graduating Preview of Events, The Ukramian Weekly, 30 Montgomery St., Jersey City, Ukrainian Art Gallery, 26795 Ryan class of Ridna Shkola will sponsor a N.J. 07302. Road, runs through June 17. Gallery dinner-dance at the Ukrainian Edu­ PLEASE NOTE: Preview items must be received one week before desired hours are Monday through Friday, cational and Cultural Center, 700 date of publication. No information will be taken over the phone. Preview 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. It is closed on Cedar Road, Abington. Dinner be­ items will be published only once (please indicate desired date of publication). Wednesdays. For more information, gins at 6:30 p.m. and dancing at 9 All items are published at the discretion of the editorial staff and in please call (313) 755-3535, or 755- p.m. to the sounds of the Chervona accordance with available space. 1575. Ці Levin's response to a question from a easy way and quickly, the death of the verdict. Demjanjuk trial... member of the temple audience, who 800,000 Jews." The judge charged that the Ukrai­ (Continued from page 3) identified himself as a Polish Jew and "In our judgement, in our verdict we nian people are "incited" by the Dem­ know that whoever committed these said the majority of Ukrainians, more can say, and we have done it, that a janjuk family, who do not like the crimes, or supported the criminals, he than any nation in any other occupied number of Ukrainians were supporters verdict. The verdict is now being ap­ will be punished whenever he will be country, joined the Germans in slaugh­ of the Nazis and sometimes, as it pealed, he noted, and protesting is not caught. There is no mercy in such tering Jews. He asked the judge, "how happened in the case of 'Ivan the the way to appeal. "The verdict is not cases." can we tell the world" about what the Terrible,' did it even more than they against the Ukrainian people," he Ukrainians did? were requested to." added. "The verdict is against 'Ivan the A tape recording of the judge's West Terrible.' " Hartford speech was provided to The Judge Levin said that the judges had This verdict, if it withstands appeal, Ukrainian Weekly by Americans for learned from testimony at the Demjan­ He continued, "There were Ukrai­ will be circulated. Judge Levin explain­ nians who collaborated with the Ger­ Human Rights in Ukraine. juk trial that 120 Ukrainians helped the ed. "The public everywhere will know Perhaps most interesting was Judge Germans at Treblinka "to achieve, in an mans. There were Ukrainians who what was the part of the Ukrainians in refused to collaborate with the Ger­ this terrible thing." mans. There were Ukrainians who Nova to premiere Millennium composition The judge cautioned, however, "that killed Jews. There were Ukrainians who we cannot speak in a general way," saved Jews." NEW YORK - The Nova Chamber (201) 539-4937. Suggested donations noting that "some of the witnesses Ensemble will give the world premiere for the concert are S10, and S6 for senior admitted that there were also other "It is a pity that from this Ukrainian of a new work by contemporary Ameri­ citizens and students. The Ukrainian Ukrainians who acted nobly" and nation came out one who was known as can composer Carlos Rausch on Sun­ Institute is located at 2 E. 79th St. refused to serve the Germans. 'Ivan the Terrible,' " he said. day, June 5, at 5:30 p.m. at the Ukrai­ (corner of Fifth Avenue.) nian Institute of America. In an interview with The Herald Some 100 local Ukrainian commu­ Judge Levin again was more outspoken nity activists, many of them from St. The new work, titled "Variations on a than during his public appearance. He Ukrainian Folk Song," was written for Regents examination Mary's Ukrainian Orthodox Church, stressed that Mr. Demjanjuk had re­ led by their pastor, the Rev. Jakiw the Nova Chamber Ensemble in cele­ ceived a fair trial. "I don't know anyone bration of the Millennium of Ukrainian offered in Ukrainian Norton, marched outside the New who has been in that court and learned Britain courthouse where Judge Levin Christianity (988-1988). It is written for YONKERS, N.Y. - The New York the facts who can say anything (against) violin, cello, piano and soprano. spoke about the Israeli justice system. State Ukrainian-language Regents the proceedings," he said. Among them was John Demjanjuk Jr., The program will also include Ravel's examination will be held here at Sacred Asked to comment on local protests who was interviewed by the news media. Sonata for Violin and Cello and the Heart High School on Monday, June Security around the courthouse was Brahms' Piano Trio in C Major, Op. 87. by Ukrainians who carried placards 20, at 12:30 p.m. saying that Mr. Demjanjuk is innocent tight and all persons entering the The performers will be Laura Seaton, High school students who can speak, building had to pass through a metal violinist, Erik Friedlander, cellist, and that he did not get a fair trial, the read and write in Ukrainian are eligible judge said he wished they would read detector. Laryssa Krupa, pianist, and guest to take the exam for which they will soprano Elena Heimur. This concert receive three credits. In addition, the concludes the fifth season of concerts of Ukrainian Regents exam will satisfy the the Nova Chamber Ensemble at the students' foreign language require­ BUY U.S. SAVINGS BONDS Ukrainian Institute in New York. ments. For more information about the Those who are interested in taking 52^^Fo,r the current rate call... I-800-IIS-BONOS premiere, the concert or the NCE please the exam should contact Oksana Kuly- call Laryssa Krupa at (212) 260-3891 or nych, (914)965-6467.