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VOL.LXXXV No. 50 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, MARCH 5,1978 25 CENTS Sen. Yuzyk Cited by UCCA Rudenko's Wife Fears for His Life For 75-Year Service in Senate Seeks Support from Belgrade Conference NEW YORK, N.Y.—Raisa Ruden- of individual peoples, then there will be ko, wife of Mykola Rudenko, the in­ no peace." carcerated leader of the Kiev Public She said that her husband best ex­ Group to Promote the Implementation emplifies the fate of man. of the Helsinki Accords, warned the Mrs. Rudenko said that she was participants of the Conference on given the opportunity to see her hus­ Security and Cooperation in Europe band in the Donetske prison, but only that true peace on earth will not be at­ through a double-glass partition. The tained unless human rights are guaran­ meeting was restricted to talks about teed for all people, said the press ser­ his health. vice of the Ukrainian Supreme Liber­ She also wrote that other visitors ation Council (abroad). were able to see Rudenko without a barrier and the discussion was not re­ She specifically asked the delegates stricted. of the 35 governments reviewing com­ Correspondence between the two is pliance with the 1975 Helsinki Accords not forwarded, she said. Mrs. Ruden­ to raise the case of her husband, who ko wrote that he is not receiving her let­ was arrested for seeking implementa­ ters and that one of his letters to her tion of the accords in Ukraine. was not mailed by the prison authori­ ''You are in the process of discussing ties because it was written in Ukrainian. Sen. Paul Yuzyk, third left, holds the plaque he just received from the UCCA the most important aspects of peace and security. All people welcome your She said that Rudenko continues to Executive Board. Standing, left to right, are Ivan Bazarko, Joseph Lesawyer, Sen, face pressure to recant. Some visitors, Yuzyk, Mrs. Jaroslawa Rubel, Dr. Walter Dushnyck and Boris Potapenko. efforts and wish you success in this most important endeavor of the cur­ she said, have urged him to publicly NEW YORK, N-Y.—The Executive The plaque was given to Sen. Yuzyk rent era, wrote Mrs. Rudenko on announce the dissolution of the Kiev Board of the Ukrainian Congress here at the Ukrainian Institute of Ame­ November 1, 1977. "But in addition to group and denounce its activities. He Committee of America presented Sen. rica Sunday, February 26, by Joseph these important problems you cannot was told that if he complies he will be Paul Yuzyk, noted Ukrainian Canadi­ Lesawyer, UCCA Vice-President and a overlook what may be considered released, and, if not, then his wife an statesman, scholar and community longtime friend of Sen. Yuzyk. ^ small, but actually is the most impor­ would face similar tortures, wrote Mrs. leader, with a plaque commemorating The plaque reads as follows: tant. That is the problem of the fate Rudenko. his 15-year service in the Canadian 4 Tor his dedication to the cause of and rights of man. Even if you concur The prison officials are taking ad- Senate. (Continued on page 5) on peace, and omit the rights and fate (ContinuedonpageS) Kiev Group Scores Moscow Policies Memorandum No. 18 Charges Discrimination (Below is the full text of Memorandum No. 18 of the Kiev - based Helsinki according to the dictionary of foreign silently to 10-15 year sentences in the monitoring group, translated into English by the Helsinki Guarantees for words, "is (1) a mass resettlement of GULAG Archipelago. Ukraine Committee based in Washington, D. C). population from one country to an­ In the 1970's the situation has other, caused by various reasons: eco-, changed. As a result of wider interna­ The question of emigration from as the intellectual heirs of the Com­ nomic, political, religious and others; tional contacts, it has become impos­ the USSR has always'been a sensitive munist Manifesto, the Paris Commune an unavoidable consequence of an ex­ sible to secretly lock people away in one for the leadership of the CPSU. and the First International, they ploitative society/' (State Publishing prisons. In dictionaries, a new defini­ They have portrayed the Bolshevik re­ viewed their victory and their social House of Political Literature, Kiev, tion for the word "emigration" volution to all the world as that event order as the paradigms for all other na­ 1955.) appeared. It is now "departure to nations have striven toward since ancient tions of the world and (according to Because the Soviet Union is not an another country for permanent or times and which finally had its realization the ideas of proletarian internation­ exploitative society, emigration is not temporary residence." ("Political Dic­ in the defunct Russian Empire. alism) yearned to endow others with endemic to it. tionary," Kiev, 1976) which no longer According^to^its own claims, for the their bounty. To accomplish this, they There is also no reason for emigra­ contradicts the right enunciated in first time in the iii.i^iy of mankind, implemented immediately after the re­ tion for national reasons, because the international law for a citizen to freely the Bolshevik revolution brought to volution a systematic, urgent and ever- nationality question has been resolved leave his country and then return. life those higher ideas of philosophers, widening campaign boasting of their in the most just manner once and for The present regime no longer labels economists, social reformers of yester­ efforts following the restructuring of all. as treason the desire to emigrate and no day and destroyed that ancient evil, the all aspects of social and family life and This is how matters looked accord­ longer tries people for merely expres­ exploitation of one person by another, the Soviet order. In dozens of develop­ ing to Communist propaganda. So that sing such wishes, but does employ vari­ shattered social antagonisms, secured ed countries, Communist parties were living witnesses could not contradict it, ous means to lessen emigration and to the optimum pace for economic created, which in turn helped to create the borders were sealed tight. destroy the sentiments favoring emi­ development, created the proper envi­ the myth of the ideal nature of Soviet For half a century, while the West gration. We can discern different ronment for the multi-dimensional society. And the fact that people did heard odes sung to the glory of the approaches to three different catego­ development of the individual, and so not emigrate from the Soviet Union great achievements of the free Soviet ries of citizens who are potential emi­ on and so forth. In a word, the revolu­ served to reinforce the idea of the per­ nations and citizens, brave individuals grants: Jews, Russian dissidents and tion created on our sinful Earth what fection of the Soviet order. within the Soviet Union attempting to non-Russian individual thinkers. until then had only been a dream. Indeed, no one flees paradise. Peo­ flee would get caught at border traps For Jews who have expressed the de- Since the Bolsheviks saw themselves ple leave bad places. "Emigration," and on barbed wire fences and go (Continued on page 13) 2 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, MARCH 5,1978 No. 50 Ukrainian Accused of Stealing Weapons Rudenko Faced Pressure to Recant NEW YORK, N.Y.—Mykola Ru­ In a letter to the decorated Soviet Gets 15-Year Sentence denko, a co-founder of the Kiev Public military leader-turned dissident, Ru­ HEW YORK, N.Y.—A former Uk­ On August 4, 1976, the Zhytomyr Group to Promote the Implementation denko detailed the KGB attempts at rainian political prisoner, who spent oblast court sustained the sentences. of the Helsinki Accords, faced stern pressuring him to recant. Grigorenko 15 years in prison and concentration Babych originally worked as a car­ KGB pressure to recant his views, wrote that after the trial, Rudenko was camps, was sentenced to another penter in Ternopil. In 1960, when he revealed former Red Army Gen. Pyotr taken to Kiev where he met with his two 15 years for allegedly stealing weapons was 21 years old, he was arrested for Grigorenko in a letter written before his oldest sons. Grigorenko said that under from a high school, reported the press protesting against Russification, poor arrival in New York City in December KGB pressure they told the elder Ru­ service of the Ukrainian Supreme living conditions and low pay. He was 1977, reported the press service of the denko: "Recant, father, or you will die Liberation Council (abroad). sentenced that year to three years Ukrainian Supreme Liberation Council and ruin our lives." (abroad). Serhiy Babych, 39, was accused of severe regime incarceration. The first Grigorenko wrote in his letter to the Grigorenko said in the letter that breaking into the weapons room of the two years he spent in one of the Mor­ Rudenko is an invalid as a result of a Hulske High School in the Zhytomyr dovian concentration camps and the participants of the . Conference of Security and. Cooperation in Europe wound he received during World War oblast with Mykola Radchuk on May last year he was confined in the Vla­ II. He said that any length of incarcera­ 26, 1976, and stealing two rifles and dimir Prison. and Amnesty International that the Soviet secret police first suggested to tion for the 56-year-old Ukrainian poet^ one automatic rifle. He was released on April 13, 1963. would mean death. The court determined that Babych Rudenko to renounce his beliefs during The following September 27th Babych the pre-trial investigation. and Radchuk came to Hulske on May was again arrested for disseminating a "I appeal to the participants of the 22nd and questioned the students there letter critical of the late Soviet Premier Taking advantage of Rudenko's poor Belgrade Conference on Security and about weapons at the school. On May Nikita Khrushchev. On February 19, state of health, the KGB told Rudenko Cooperation in Europe, to Amnesty 26th they forced the night watchman, 1964, he was sentenced to 10 years. that if recants he will be able to lead a International and to all decent people Bakal, to show them the weapons On August 14, 1964, Babych man­ comfortable life. on earth: demand the immediate room. aged to escape from camp, but was "If you do this, all your sufferings will cessation of physical and mental tor­ Babych then chopped a hole in the caught two days later. He was then cease. You will return home to the tures that are inflicted on an invalid of door and Radchuk crawled in and took placed in solitary confinement. loving care of your wife. You will be the war, demand the release from the weapons, said the court. Bakal was He again tried to escape by tunneling able to resume your daily physical imprisonment of the falsely convicted forced to go into the room and cover out of the cell, but he was caught therapy and your walks in the forest," Ukrainian poet, Mykola Rudenko, and up the hole with tables from the inside. again. In October -that year he was the secret police said according to his colleague, Oleksa Tykhy," wrote Babych denied all the charges, claim­ given a three-year sentence. Grigorenko. Grigorenko. ing that he was at home that night En route to the Vladimir prison, Ba­ asleep. Radchuk, 21, admitted to steal­ bych again tried to escape but was ing the weapons and requested wounded in the leg. This unsuccessful leniency. attempt resulted in another three-year Last Medical Journal in Ukraine The people's court in Novhorod- sentence. Volynske found both guilty. Babych On January 27, 1975, Babych was Converted to Russian was labeled an " extremely dangerous released. recidivist'' and was given a 15-year sen­ While incarcerated, Babych was the JERSEY CITY, N.J.—The sixth Palladin Institute of Biochemistry in tence. Five years will be spent in prison author and signer of many petitions in issue of "Ukrainskyi Biokhemichnyi Kiev, carried 17 articles, all in Ukraini­ and 10 years in concentration camps defense of the rights of political pri­ Zhurnal." (Ukrainian Biochemical an. The news section appears in Russi­ with the confiscation of all personal soners in the USSR. Journal), the last medical journal in an. Previous issues of the journal, which effects, said the court. Radchuk was Dr. Andrei Sakharov wrote letters in Ukraine to appear in the Ukrainian began appearing in 1926, did contain sentenced to three years in concentra­ defense of Babych to Leonid Brezhnev language, will no longer be published in some articles in Russian. tion camp without the confiscation of and former President Richard Nixon that language, having been converted like others before to Russian. The Academy did not see fit to personal effects. on June 25, 1974. explain its decision to change the The last issue of the bimonthly to ap­ language of the journal from Ukrainian pear in 1977 carried a notation on the to Russian. last page to the effect that "According to Dissident Workers in USSR the decision No, 13793 of the Academy A spokesman for the Ukrainian of Sciences of the Ukrainian SSR, of Medical Society of North America said Pledge Continued Struggle August 9, 1977, the Ukrainian Bio­ that this conversion into Russian of the chemical Journal will be published in last medical magazine in Ukraine "de­ MOSCOW, USSR.—Despite the working conditions and higher wages. the Russian language as of January 1, monstrates that Moscow is bent on total arrest of five dissident workers here last He said that some workers have 1978." Russification of Ukraine, while the month, the remaining members of the lost their jobs after complaining about This last issue of the journal, which is West is sitting timidly and parleying unofficial union pledged that they injustices and safety violations, but the being published by the Academy's away concessions." would continue their struggle, reported group does not "have such a narrow The New York Times on Tuesday, goal." February 28. "We want to help people whose rights "We don't intend to stop now," have been violated," he said. Valentyn Poplavsky told Craig Whit­ Mr. Whitney wrote that while some Canadian Al Scores Vladimir Prison ney of The Times. of the union's goals are similar to the WINNIPEG, Man.-The Canadian soners frequently suffer physical Poplavsky, a former construction ones proposed by other dissident section of Amnesty International punishment and that medical assistance is engineer from the Donets coal region in groups, he said that workers have devoted two pages of the January edi­ unsatisfactory. banded together partly "as a result of Ukraine, said that the five arrested tion of its Bulletin to the notorious Over the years, AI has adopted class divisions and personality clashes workers had dissappeared and two Vladimir Prison near Moscow. between disaffected workers and dissi­ many political prisoners in the Soviet others have been confined in psychiatric The international humanitarian or­ Union. Among them were Zynoviy An- asylums. He added that Vladimir Kle- dent intellectuals." ganization said that the daily diet in the toniuk, Vasyl Fedorenko, Zorian banov, the leader of the group, had not He said that despite certain efforts prison is sub-standard. AI reported that Popadiuk, Yuryi Shukhevych and the been heard from since his arrest Tues­ over the past year, Poplavsky revealed in 1975 there were 50 political prisoners Rev. Borys Zalyvayko, Ukrainian pri­ day, February 7. that there is no coordination between Poplavsky told Western correspon­ his group and other dissidents. confined in the Vladimir Prison. soners incarcerated in the Vladimir Pri- dents here that he could not confirm Poplavsky and another member of the group said that political pri­ whether Klebanov, a former coal miner the group, Varvara I. Kucherenko, were from Ukraine, was being detained in a "disdainful" of support from dissident psychiatric hospital in Donetske, his intellectuals. home town. Speaking at a recent meeting of a СВОБОДАМ SV0B0DA A union charter, which was signed by human rights body, Yelena Bonner, УЛРАІНСЬКИЙ ЩОДІНПИК U ft it A I N I AN 0А/ІУ 43 dissident workers on Monday, Feb­ wife of the Soviet human rights advo­ FOUNDED 1893 ruary 1, and since then was made cate, Dr. Andrei Sakharov, expressed Ukrainian newspaper published by the Ukrainian National Association, Inc., at 30 Montgomery available to Western reporters, states support for the principle of a free union. Street. Jersey City, N.J. 07302, daily except Mondays and holidays. that membership in the union is open to Mrs. Kucherenko said of this: "Those TELEPHONES: anyone "whose rights and interests have people are swindlers." Svoboda U.N.A. been unlawfully violated by administra­ "We're a union of free workers," (201)434-0237 (201)451-2200 tive, governmental, party or judicial added Mrs. Kucherenko, who was (201)434-0807 agencies." from New York (212) 227-5250 arrested on February 6th and kept at a from New York (212) 227-4125 (212)227-5251 Poplavsky said that he has been psychiatric hospital for observation receiving letters of support from citizens until February 10th. Subscription rates for THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY S6.00 per year of the Soviet Union, and he added that Members of the Free Trade Union of UNA Members - S2.50 per year the group numbers some 200 workers. the Soviet Union feel that their group is The former construction engineer a legal entity and they express confi­ THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY Editor: Zenon Snylyk said that the union, which is called dence that it will be supported by the P.O. Box346, Jersey City, N.J. 07303 Ass't Editor: Ihor Dlaboha "Free Trade Union of the Soviet International Labor Organization and Editorial Ass't: Roma Sochan Union," will not concern itself with by other foreign labor unions. No. 50 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, MARCH 5, 1978 Soviet Envoy Scoffs TUSM Creates Shukhevych Defense Fund At Nobel Nominations Intensifies Effort on Behalf For Helsinki Watchgroups Of Ukrainian Political Prisoners UNITED NATIONS.—The Soviet United States, and this enabled the go­ NEW YORK, N.Y.—The national of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army Mission to the United Nations called a verning body to meet with many Ame­ executive board of the Ukrainian Stu­ (UPA). press conference Tuesday, February rican "public groups" concerned with dent Organization of Michnowsky The TUSM Jeaders said that they felt 21, to discuss the work of the United the promotion of international peace, (TUSM) has announced the creation of that disseminating information about Nations Scientific and Technical Com­ detente and cooperation, he said. a "Yuriy Shukhevych Defense Fund." violations of human rights in Ukraine mittee on Outer Space, and to discuss During the question and answer The purpose of the fund, said repre­ and about the plight of incarcerated the work of the World Peace Council. phase of the press conference, attended sentatives of the Ukrainian student Ukrainian human and national rights The press conference was conducted by over 100 U.N. correspondents. body, will be to widen the scope of advocates would best serve the political by Dr. Fyodorov, USSR delegate to the Boris Potapenko of "Visti" Interna­ actions in defense of Ukrainian political prisoners. committee and member of the govern­ tional News Service asked the fol­ prisoners, notably Yuriy Shukhevych, The student body plans to publish a ing board of the World Peace Council. lowing question: "Concerning the the son of Gen. Roman Shukhevych- series of brochures and pamphlets on Dr. Fyodorov discussed the recent work of the World Peace Council, you Taras Chuprynka, commander-in-chief the opposition movement in Ukraine crash of the Soviet satellite in Canada, indicated that you had the opportunity which will be distributed among Wes­ claiming that additional international to meet with many American public cated that the USSR is not a member of tern government leaders and scholarly safeguards proposed by the Canadian groups. Would you care to comment the Nobel Committee, and that the institutions. Mission to the United Nations for on the report that Belgian, Norwegian USSR is convinced that anyone who en­ objects in outer space are not neces­ and United States parliamentarians are gages in anti-Soviet activity in the The TUSM,board said that it hopes sary. proposing for the Nobel Peace Prize USSR is automatically made a hero by that this program will lead to the release He also elaborated on the USSR members of your country's public the West, and because of this the USSR of Shukhevych from imprisonment. space program in mapping the natural groups for the promotion of the Helsin­ does not participate in the selection of Shukhevych, 45, was arrested for the resources of the world from space and ki Accords, notably My kola Rudenko candidates or any other phase of the first time when he was 15 years old. He on the progress of the Soviet version of and Oleksa Tykhy of the Ukrainian Nobel prizes. was sentenced to 10 years for not the space shuttle program. group, and 13 other members of He went on To say that the World succumbing to KGB pressures to re­ Concerning the World Peace Coun­ watchgroups in the USSR, who have Peace Council also does not participate nounce his father. He has since been cil, he said that the governing body has been arrested? And would you indicate in the Nobel selection process since it sentenced to two additional ten-year recently completed its meeting in the position of the World Peace Council has its own annual award for indivi­ prison terms. Washington. This was the first time on this matter?" duals who have made a significant con­ that such a meeting was held in the In his response, Dr. Fyodorov indi- tribution to world peace. "The case of Yuriy Shukhevych calls to all people who believe in the right of a son not to renounce his father," said the TUSM Jeaders in their appeal. UCCA Asks Ukrainians to Protest USIA Brochure The student organization is also NEW YORK, N.Y.—The UCCA 1750 Pennsylvania Ave., Washington, the language of the oppressive alien planning a nationwide demonstration executive board here has appealed to all DC. 20547. ruler." in defense of Shukhevych for April. its branches and member-organizations The draft letter calls the Russian "We urge you to reconsider your The TUSM, board also said in the urging them to participate in a letter- pamphlet "an insult to the 50-million decision and publish the pamphlet in appeal that funds will be needed to writing campaign reproaching the Ukrainian nation and to the two- ч Ukrainian for Ukraine, and in whatever undertake successfully its plans. The United States Information Agency for million American citizens of Ukrainian other languages are necessary. If you Ukrainian students asked that dona­ its decision to prepare Russian-lan­ descent." leave the pamphlet in Russian, Ukraini­ tions be sent to their headquarters at: guage brochures for an upcoming U.S. It also points out that "the use of the ans will conclude that the U.S. govern­ Ukrainian Student Organization of agricultural exhibit in Kiev, Ukraine. Russian language has been and is oppos­ ment is supporting the Russification Michnowsky (TUSM), National Ex­ ed most vigorously in Ukraine, because policy by ignoring their native Ukraini­ ecutive Board, 136 Second Ave., New The New York Times reported on the Ukrainian people consider it to be an," the letter concludes. York, N.Y. 10003. February 15th that the exhibit of farm machinery is scheduled to open in April, and that a 57-page brochure written in Russian will be distributed. The UCCA has prepared a draft letter State Department Parley Treats Rights Questions to John E. Reinhardt, director of the by Boris Potapenko USIA, protesting the use of the Russian language. Copies of the draft have been '' Vistiy' In ternational News Service sent to all UCCA branches and mem­ ber-organizations, who are urged to WASHINGTON, D.C.—The first kept their introductory remarks to a to say what else the U.S. planned to send similar letters to the USIA and National Foreign Policy Conference on minimum to allow for a maximum do. their representatives and senators in Human Rights was held at the State amount of input by the NGO's. Askold Lozynskyj asked for clarifi­ Congress. Department Monday and Tuesday, Mr. Christopher enumefated the cation of a statement made by Edward February 27-28. The two-day confer­ Letters to the USIA should be mailed various mechanisms available to the Mezvinsky, head of the U.S. delega­ ence brought together over 300 mem­ State Department for advancing hu­ tion to the U.N. Commission on Hu­ to: Hon. John E. Reinhardt, Director, bers of non-governmental organiza­ U.S. Information Agency, Room 7000, man rights. He indicated that behind- man Rights in Geneva, who in a tele­ tions, representing a broad spectrum of the-scenes negotiations with foreign phone interview told "Visti" News human rights concerns, to discuss and leaders were helpful, but that symbolic Service that the U.S. planned to raise recommend to the State Department acts such as public criticism of regimes the cases of the arrested Helsinki moni­ proposals for improving the human accused of human rights violations also tors at the U.N. The panelists were un­ Migus Gets Post rights policy of the Carter Administra­ helped. He said that the U.S. „ has able to confirm or deny the statement. tion. A host of high-ranking State already taken concrete steps with re­ Department officials responsible for Mr. Vest told the participants that gard to four Latin American countries, the U.S. had made some gains at the With Minister Cafik implementing American human rights in which there exist human rights viola­ OTTAWA, Ont.-Paul Migus, a policy were on hand to hear recom­ Belgrade conference such as advancing tions, by reducing military assitance the principle of a full review of human former Ukrainian National Youth mendations and to clarify U.S. policy programs to these countries, but that Federation activist, was recently ap­ decisions. rights implementation in the Com­ the cultural, economic and political munist countries. He also said that the pointed press secretary to Norman The conference consisted of two difference of various countries makes problems in drafting a final document Cafik, Minister of State for Multicul- plenary sessions and eight workshops. it difficult to assess where to apply will probably result in a short com­ turalism, according to "New Perspec­ The first plenary session, chaired by sanctions. He also said that President munique with little or no reference to tives,' ' an English-language supplement Hodding Carter III, assistant secretary Carter had submitted to the Senate for human rights and that the next review of The New Pathway. for public affairs and department ratification the U.N. covenants on conference will be held in 1980 in spokesman, included Warren Chris­ In the past Mr. Migus served as Civil and Political Rights and Econo­ Madrid. programs coordinator within the de­ topher, deputy secretary of state, who mic, Social and Cultural Rights and partment of the secretary of state and in spoke of foreign policy priorities for also the U.N. Convention on Discri­ The two sessions of concurrent various posts at the Public Archives of 1978, Patricia Derian, assistant secre­ mination. workshops centered on regional pro­ Canada. tary for human rights and humani­ Miss Derian was asked by Andriy blems of human rights and specific hu­ tarian affairs, Charles Maynes, assis­ Karkoc what the U.S. was doing to man rights issues. The participants With UNYF, Mr. Migus headed the tant secretary for international organi­ help gain the release of the imprisoned broke up into smaller groups to discuss organization's Toronto and Ottawa zation affairs, who dealt with human Helsinki monitors in the USSR. She re­ human rights in Africa, Asia, Europe branches and served as executive vice- rights and international organizations, ferred to statements made by the Ame­ and Latin America, and topics such as president on the national board. and George Vest, assistant secretary rican delegation in Belgrade in defense "Advocacy and Action," "Citizen Mr. Migus and his family are mem­ for European affairs who spoke on the of Shcharansky, Orlov, Ginzburg, Education," "Role of Dissident Acti- bers of UNA Branches 492 in Ottawa. Belgrade conference/All the panelists Rudenko and Tykhy, but was unable (Continued on page 4) THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, MARCH 5, 1978 No. 50 Congressman Drinan Intercedes Scholar Cites Terror in Ukraine EDMONTON, Alta.- The simply to learn what not to write in his For Rudenko with Shcherbytsky speaker's throat tightened a little as he training to be a poet. spoke of the plight of the Ukrainian "They didn't believe me. They WASHINGTON, D.C.— Rep. Congressman Drinan concluded his poets trapped in Soviet j ails. wanted obedience and the annihilation Robert F. Drinan (D-Mass.), in a letter February 18th letter with the request For Dr. Yar Slavutych, his seminar of Ukrainian literature," he said. to V. Shcherbytsky, first secretary of that he be informed of the progress of on the muse in prison — Ukrainian Stalin's purges of the Ukrainian the Communist Party of the Ukrainian the case. authors in Soviet concentration camps writers ended with his death in 1953, he SSR, requested that he "do all that is Mr. Drinan was apprised of the - was bringing back memories of his said. But it is not known how many possible to see that Mr. Rudenko is re­ student days in Ukraine, said the Ed­ poets saw their work and lives leased" from the harsh sentence he and arrest of Rudenko and other members of the Ukrainian Public Group to Pro­ monton Journal of February 15th. destroyed. Oleksa Tykhy received at a trial last Speaking to about 20 people at the For a short time under Khrushchev, July. mote the Implementation of the Hel­ sinki Accords by the New Jersey discussion sponsored by the division of some authors saw their work rehabili­ Citing the fact that Mykola Rudenko East European studies at the University tated, but only poems that had no politi­ is an invalid as a result of wounds he branch of the Committee for the De­ fense of Valentyn Moroz, which has of Alberta Tuesday, February 14, he cal overtones. sustained while serving in the Red told of the middle-of-the-night knock Then a new wave of arrests started, Army during the siege of Leningrad, been instrumental in providing initi­ ative in numerous cases before. on his own door in 1938. said Prof. Slavutych. In the early Congressman Drinan said that he is "In the 1930's over 200 writers were 1960's the secret trials of Ukrainian particularly concerned with the sen­ In his letter to the Committee, Con­ imprisoned, 40 of them executed, 10 writers started. They continued when tence Rudenko received — "seven gressman Drinan said that he will con­ committed suicide. Another 150 were Brezhnev came to power. years of hard labor and five years of in­ tact the group immediately upon re­ deported to concentration camps Though these trials were carried on ternal exile." ceipt of any information in this matter. where they disappeared," he said. in secrecy, some of the writings and trial One day Dr. Slavutych, now a pro­ transcripts were smuggled out of the fessor of Slavic languages at the Uni­ Soviet Union and printed in Paris. Goldberg Says U.S. to Continue versity of Alberta, went to class to find The English translation of this book his instructor was missing. was called "The Chornovil Papers" after The next day eight of the 40 students the writer who managed to compile Defense of Rights at CSCE were missing. them. NEWARK, N.J.—Ambassador conference to defend Ukrainian politi­ "These incidents made me very "It is the works of 20 Ukrainian in­ Arthur Goldberg, chairman of the Uni­ cal prisoners. eager to start reading some of the tellectuals imprisoned for their pro­ ted States delegation to the Conference "My delegation has made represen­ banned literature. I went out and ob­ gressive ideas in liberating Ukraine on Security and Cooperation in tations, both public and private, here tained a book. As soon as I started from the yoke of Soviet oppression," Europe, recently replied to a letter in Belgrade on behalf of Ukrainian dis­ reading, a knock came at the door," he said Prof. Slavutych. from Ihor Olshaniwsky, coordinator sidents, and you may be assured that said. He outlined the biographies of four of the Committee for the Defense of we will continue to pursue this matter He shoved the book under his pil­ Ukrainian poets, all now in jail or con­ Valentyn Moroz here, and assured him which is of great concern both to the low. It was discovered and he was put centration camps for their advocacy of that steps were being taken by the dele­ American government and to me per­ in jail for three weeks. human and national rights. gation at the Belgrade Helsinki review sonally," the ambassador wrote. "At that time my mother bribed the "We all know the horror stories authorities. She saved my life," said from the prisons These writers are put Prof. Slavutych. in with criminals." State Department Parley... While in prison he had tried to con­ The story above appeared in the vince police he had bought the book (Continued frompage3) Edmonton Journal on February 15, vists" and "U.S. Domestic Human ulations of the denial of cultural and Rights." national rights in the USSR. " The two most heavily attended ses­ The workshop on "Dissident Acti­ Denver Ukrainians sions were "Europe" and "Dissident vists" resulted in the adoption of two Activists," which included 20 represen­ resolutions proposed by Ukrainians de­ Form Defense Committee tatives from the Ukrainian community spite the fact that the panelists were DENVER, C0I0.—A committee has coordinate the different campaign organizations. The workshops adopted disproportionately concerned with hu­ been formed here as a subsidiary of the efforts. specific recommendations to the State man rights problems in right-wing re­ Ukrainian Research Foundation, The letter-writing campaign has Department which will be circulated in gimes. The panel consisted of Olga which will serve as a coordinating body already been launched. For the next the department. The panelists for the Talameta, human rights coordinator and an information center for the de­ two months, Bohdan Rebryk is an Europe workshop included Dr. for the American Friends Service Com­ fense of human rights in Ukraine. "adoptee" of the group and in that Thomas Bird, professor of Slavic lan­ mittee; Sister Janice McLaughlin from The group consists of thirty residents time the letters will be directed in his guages at Queens College; Sister Ann the Washington Office on Africa; Isa­ defense. Gillen, executive director of National of the Colorado area and has chosen a bella Leterier from the Chile Human 5-member executive board. The chair­ Membership of the group will be ex­ Inter-Religious Task Force on Soviet Rights Committee and Ludmilla Alek- panded to include all who are inter­ Jewry; Leonard Sussman, executive man is Ivan Stebelsky; the board mem­ seyeva of the Moscow Helsinki group bers are: Zhdana Fedushiak, Odarka ested in joining, including non-Ukrai­ director of Freedom House; and Prof. (she was included in the panel after the nians and those outside of the Denver Bohdan Raditsa of Farleigh Dickinson Figlus and Prof. Bohdan Wynar. session had already begun). Xenya Odezynskyj is the executive area. Efforts will be made to establish University. contacts with groups working in de­ Mr. Dyess, assistant secretary of All of the panelists are former politi­ director. cal prisoners or dissidents and spoke of fense of Ukrainian prisoners. state for public affairs, was asked to A basic program of activity was pro­ For further information interested clarify U.S. policy towards nations in their experiences in Rhodesia, Argen­ tina, . Chile and the USSR. The dis­ posed and approved. It includes: press persons should contact: Xenya the USSR. After confering with other and letter-writing campaigns; sponsor­ Odezynskyj, Committee for the De­ department officials he returned to the cussion focused on whether President Carter had given more attention to hu­ ing public forums to inform the general fense of Human Rights in Ukraine, conference and reported that the U.S. public of the present conditions in Uk­ Ukrainian Research Foundation, Inc., human rights policy is sensitive to the man rights violations in left-or right- wing regimes. Some felt that the Presi­ raine, and publishing an English-lan­ 6931 South Yosemite St., Englewood, interests of ethnic groups, but that the guage newsletter to inform of, and Colo. 80110. focus is on individual rights. He con­ dent should invite a former political cluded by saying that he felt that this prisoner from a right-wing regime, like answer was inadequate. he did Vladimir Bukovsky, while partment to raise in the U.S. Commis­ can agriculture signed by the President. The most significant statement on others felt that the U.S. has done more sion on Human Rights and appropriate The exhibit is to open in Kiev on April the USSR came from Prof. Bird, who for political prisoners in South Ame­ international forums the cases of the 15th. The State Department has receiv­ said that the USSR is an empire and rica by cutting back foreign aid to arrested membes of the Helsinki moni­ ed hundreds of calls and letters protest­ that the State Department should those countries. toring groups in the USSR and all hu­ ing the use of the Russian language.At oppose Russification and the integra­ A compromise resolution was man rights violations rather than wait first officials said that Russian was tion of non-Russian republics into one adopted which calls on the President to until Madrid in 1980 where the next used because the exhibit would be go­ Soviet monolith. He maintained that invite all political prisoners to the Helsinki review conference is to be ing to other cities in the USSR and be­ the cultural exchange programs were White House. Two resolutions propos­ held. cause of "budgetary considerations." positive, but that the U.S. should ed by Mr. Lozynskyj and Boris Pota- Between sessions many of the Ukrai­ By the end of the conference the Ukrai­ arrange them with each republic rather penko were unanimously adopted by nians present, such as Bohdan nian delegation was informed that than through Moscow. the participants. The first one said that Fedorak, Joseph Lesawyer, Andriy there will be a full-scale review of the Mr. Lozynskyj asked Prof. Bird if the State Department should review Karkoc, Boris Potapenko and others, brochure and that the Ukrainian lan­ the cultural exchange program was not and head the main issues involving na­ discussed with high-ranking State guage may be included. in fact being used by Moscow to mis­ tional and cultural rights which are the Department officials the upcoming Other Ukrainians attending the con­ lead Western public opinion on the basis of many human rights move­ American Agricultural Exhibit in Kiev. ference, were: Halyna Hirniak, George denial of cultural and national rights in ments throughout the world and pre­ This project has infuriated the Ukraini­ Nesterczuk, Tanya Nesterczuk, Ulana the USSR. Prof. Bird agreed that this sent a human rights policy geared to an community since the brochure to be Celewych, Walter Masur, Bohdan could be one of the results of cultural monitor the implementation of na­ distributed at the exhibit is written in Kazaniwsky, Taras Zakydalsky, the exchange, but said that such programs tional and cultural rights as well as hu- Russian. The 57-page brochure in­ Very Rev. Myroslav Charyna, George should not stop and .that the West, rn^n rights throughout the world; and cludes a two-page lay-out on President Wqloshyn, Adrian Karatnytsky, Julian should do more to inform, their pop- trie second one called on the State De- Carter ?md. an introduction to Ameri­ Kulas and Stephan Welhash. No. 50 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, MARCH 5,1978

Harvard Publishes Latest Obituaries "Samvydav" Bibliography Oksana Gengalo, Community Activist CAMBRIDGE, Mass.-The Har­ materials and articles in the Soviet PHILADELPHIA, Pa.-Oksana Poland, and studied in Prague, Czecho­ vard Ukrainian Research Institute is press, and reprints of articles published Gengalo, a prominent Ukrainian com­ pleased to announce the publication of abroad. slovakia. munity activist, died here Sunday, She taught at the Academy of Com­ the first comprehensive bibliography February 26. of '"samvydav" materials from the More than 1,200 items are register­ merce in Carpatho-Ukraine. Since her Mrs. Gengalo was a member of the Ukrainian SSR, ''Nonconformity and ed, dealing with a wide spectrum of youth, she belonged to the Organization executive board of the Ukrainian Gold Dissent in the Ukrainian SSR, dissent, as expressed by members of of Ukrainian Nationalists. Cross, chairman of Gold Cross Branch 1955-1975: An Annotated Biblio­ the Ukrainian national movement, the A requiem service was held at the 20, and a counselor at many of the graphy," compiled by George Liber Jewish movement for emigration to Nasevitch Funeral Home Friday, organization's camps in Lehighton, Pa. and Anna Mostovych. Israel, the Catholic, Orthodox, and March 3. Funeral services were held the Protestant religious movements, and These materials, which circulated in She was also a longtime secretary of next day, Saturday, March 4, at Christ the Russian civil rights movement in the United Ukrainian American Relief the King, Church. The remains were Soviet Ukraine between 1955 and 1975, the Ukrainian SSR. were published in the West in Ukraini­ Committee, a member of the UCCA interred in the Fox Chase cemetery. an, Russian and English. They include The bibliography is available in a and SFUZhO (World Federation of Mrs. Gengalo is survived by her letters, appeals, declarations, political paperback edition and may be ordered Ukrainian Women's Organizations) husband, Petro, and brother, Dr. My- executive boards, as well as an active tracts, reports, accounts of political by sending a check for S8.50 (U.S.) to roslav Holubinka, and near and distant member and youth counselor in Plast. events, analytical articles, mono­ the Harvard Series in Ukrainian Stu­ relatives in the U.S., . Canada and graphs, novels, poetry, literary dies, 1581-83 Massachusetts Ave., Mrs. Gengalo was born in. Cracow, Ukraine. criticism, reviews of "samvydav" Cambridge, Mass. 02138. Rev. Andreychuk, Astoria Pastor Harvard Institute Plans ASTORIA, N.Y.—The Rev. Bessa- monastery in Dawson, Pa., and later rion Andreychuk, OSBM, longtime sent to parishes in Binghamton, St. Summer Program pastor of the Holy Cross Ukrainian George's in New York City, and finally Catholic Church here, died unexpect­ to Holy Cross in Astoria. He became CAMBRIDGE, Mass.--The Har­ All students admitted will receive tuition scholarships from the Ukraini­ edly of a stroke Monday evening, Feb­ pastor of this parish in 1957. vard Ukrainian Summer Institute is an ruary 20, at the age of 63. academic and extracurricular program an Studies Fund, the non-profit or­ Under his leadership a new church The Rev. Andreychuk, one of eight offered in intensive session from June ganization that sponsors Ukrainian was built and blessed in 1967. In addi­ children of Mykola Andreychuk and 26th to July 24th. studies at Harvard. Applicants must tion to caring for his parish, the Rev. Tekla nee Dmytrash, was born January The program is organized by the submit copies of their academic re­ Andreychuk-aided the local com­ 24, 1915, in Alberta, Canada. At the Harvard Summer School and the Har­ cords and must enroll for credit in one munity and youth organizations and age of 15, he entered the Ukrainian vard Ukrainian Research Institute. Its of four courses: Beginning Ukrainian, church brotherhoods. He left uncom­ Catholic monastery of the Basilian purpose is to offer university instruc­ Intermediate Ukrainian, Ukrainian pleted his project to decorate the interi­ Fathers. tion in Ukrainian studies and supple­ Literature, or Modern Ukrainian or of the church. mentary lectures and presentations on History. On July 23, 4939, after completing Ukrainian art and culture, sociology, Contact: Harvard Summer School, his studies of theology and philosophy, Funeral services commenced Wed­ economics and other areas to large Holyoke Center, 1350 Massachusetts he was ordained into the priesthood by nesday, February 22, at the Holy Cross numbers of students. Ave., Cambridge, Mass. 02138 Archbishop Vasyl Ladyka. At first, Church, and continued the next day Rev. Andreychuk served parishes in with the participation of Bishop Basil Canada, but after 1940 he came to the Losten and clergy from area parishes. United States. He was assigned to St. The remains were interred at the Holy Schedule Memorial Nicholas parish in Chicago, then was Ghost Cemetery in Hamptonburgh, St. George's Academy named hegumen of the Basilian N.Y. Lecture at HURI Announces Registration CAMBRIDGE, Mass.-The second NEW YORK, N.Y.—St. George's Bohdan Krawciw memorial lecture will Ukrainian, Catholic Academy here Sen. Yuzyk... be delivered by Andrew S. Gregoro- announced that registration of new (Continued from page 1) vich, bibliographer and head of the students for the 1978-79 school year will Ukraine's freedom and national inde­ Both panelists attended the CSCE at Scarborough and Arendale College be held Wednesday, March 8, beginning pendence and his untiring service to the various times. Sen. Yuzyk was present Libraries at the University of Toronto. at 1 p.m. Ukrainian community of Canada; there as part of the Canadian parlia­ The topic of Mr. Gregorovich's The Academy is located at 215 E. "For his championing the human mentary group, while Mr. Potapen- illustrated lecture will be "Carto­ Sixth St. For information parents may rights of the Ukrainian people in their ko attended the conference as a corres­ graphic and Photographic Sources for call (212) 473-3323. captive homeland, in the Canadian pondent for "Visti" International the Study of Ukrainian Culture.'' Senate, at innumerable national and Newsservice. The lecture will take place at 4 p.m., Rudenko's... international conferences, in NATO Sen. Yuzyk prefaced his talk about Friday, May 5, in the Seminar Room (Continued from page 1) and at U.N. sessions; the CSCE by describing for the some of the Harvard Ukrainian Research In­ vantage of Rudenko's poor state of "For his authorship of scholarly 200 persons in attendance the life of stitute. health. She said that besides being an books and his academic lectures deal­ Ukrainians in Yugoslavia. Following the lecture, a reception invalid, he is plagued with other ing with the history of Ukrainian immi­ Sen. Yuzyk said that the Belgrade honoring Mrs. Bohdan Krawciw and maladies. Mrs. Rudenko also said that grants and their contributions to the conference, despite its shortcomings, is daughter, Mrs. Maria Jawny, her husband, who is blind in the left growth and development of Canada; a moral boost for political prisoners in will take place. Mrs. Jawny recently eye, is slowly losing his sight in the "For his steady and constructive co­ the Soviet Union. He said that the con­ donated the Krawciw library to the Uk­ right one. operation with the Ukrainian Congress ference is a source of hope for the in­ rainian collections of the Harvard Uni­ "Each day of incarceration threa­ Committee of America at the forum of carcerated human rights advocates versity library. tens My kola Rudenko with death. His the World Congress of Free Ukrainians throughout the USSR. confinement is virtually a death sen­ and elsewhere in advancing the cause Mr. Potapenko, who received his tence," she said. of Ukrainian liberation; press accreditation at the CSCE with Mrs. Rudenko believes that the So­ "This Certificate of Recognition is the help of the American delegation, SUSTA Holds viet secret police are "slowly and presented in New York City on Feb­ found the conference not to be overly frightfully killing" her husband, who, ruary 26, 1978, on the 15th anniversary successful, because the question of hu­ Presidents' Councilsh e said, did not commit any crime. of his lifetime appointment to the man rights violations was not raised NEWARK, N.J.—The Federation "I appeal to all the participants of Canadian Senate." sufficiently to warrant changes in So­ of Ukrainian Student Organizations of the Belgrade conference - do not let The Ukrainian Canadian senator, viet policies. He did praise Ambassa­ America (SUSTA) is holding a Council the cry of my spirit disappear in an in­ who also serves as UNA Supreme dor Arthur Goldberg, head of the of Presidents this weekend at Manor different vacuum,'' she wrote. Director for Canada and holds numer­ American delegation, for his strong Junior College in Jenkintown, Pa. The She asked the CSCE delegates to de­ ous posts in other Ukrainian organiza­ stand in defense of Ukrainian political purpose of the council is for the execu­ mand the immediate release of Ruden­ tions, was in town to participate in a prisoners. tive and the heads of student hromadas ko and his colleagues. panel on the Conference on Security Both panelists concurred that the in communities along the Eastern sea­ "The fate of individual people is in­ and Cooperation in Europe underway next review conference, which is sche­ board to discuss the problems of each terwoven with peace and security of na­ in Belgrade, Yugoslavia. Also appear­ duled for Madrid, Spain, in 1980 will hromada, plans, the future of the Uk­ tions. Listen to their voices, to their ing on the panel, which was organized have better results. rainian student movement, and to en­ suffering, because only then your at­ on the initiative of the UCCA Confer­ The panel was conducted by Mrs. sure closer cooperation. tempts will not dissipate in a vacuum ence of Central Ukrainian Youth and Jaroslawa Rubel, UCCA Vice-Presi- Urgent matters for the council in­ of honorable intentions, but will be­ Student Organizations, was Boris dent in charge of youth affairs. The clude the 25th anniversary of SUSTA, come the basis for building a true, Potapertko, director of the Informa­ presentation ceremony was presided and the communication gap between strong and mutual peace of all man­ tion Bureau of the World Congress of over by Ivan Bazarko, Administrative member hromadas and SUSTA. kind," concluded Mrs. Rudenko. Free Ukrainians in New York City. Director of the UCCA. THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, MARCH 5,1978 No. 50

THE І СВОБОДА4.SV0B0DA I I A Multicultural Society

(The article below on Canadian multiculturalism appeared in the January 1978 Ukrainian Weekly edition of the monthly letter of The Royal Bank of Canada,)

There is tea from China, shortbread common interests. Yet they stayed Our Great Bard from Scotland, canned salsifs from identifiably different, as they are to this Belgium. There is couscous from Mo­ day. It is safe to say that with the possible exception of the January 22nd and the rocco, taco pastry from Mexico, feta The perpetuation of separate French November 1st anniversaries no other secular holiday in the Ukrainian cheese from Greece. At the meat coun­ and English identities in defiance of calendar is as meaningful for our people as the anniversary of Taras ter you find Polish, German and Itali­ historic animosities formed the foun­ Shevchenko's birth. Indeed, were it not for the Great Bard and his inspiring an sausages arid beef butchered in the dation of the great Canadian modus Vi­ word our people may not have experienced the 1918 events which saw French fashion. Delicatessens like this" vendi. The principle that citizens of Ukraine's freedom reborn. flourish in all of the larger cities of different national origins should main­ By word and by his personal example that stretched out over his entire Canada, and people of practically tain their own ways of life without de­ lifespan of 47 years, Shevchenko led his people out of the morass of what was every racial origin under the sun come tracting from their rights was enshrin­ certainly one of the darkest periods in Ukraine's history. Born a serf, the son to choose among their multifarious ed in Canadian political philosophy of a serf, Shevchenko fought against serfdom all of his life, yet did not live even before the Canadian nation was long enough to see it abolished in the Russian Empire. Because of his Here the richness of Canada's multi­ born. Following the first discussion in profound concern for the fate of the Ukrainian people and his total dedication cultural society gleams through among 1864 among the British North Ameri­ to his people's struggle for human and national rights, Shevchenko's life the colorfully packaged foodstuffs can colonies on the founding of the Do- from scores of nations. These crowded minon of Canada, one of the Fathers of reflects to a large degree the plight of Ukraine. Chained to the Big Brother, its shelves are an unconscious celebration Confederation, Hector Langevin, ex­ land and natural resources exploited mercilessly, its culture mutilated, and of all that Canada has gained by offer­ plained: even its language barred by heinous ukazes, Ukraine was on the verge of being ing a home to people from around the "In Parliament there will be no eradicated from the map as a separate entity. But for Shevchenko, it might world, Canada traditionally has been question of race, nationality, religion have come to be. regarded in other nations as an essen­ or locality...The basis of action adop­ He minced no words with his people in his determination to reawaken them tially dull place of diligent but plod­ ted by the delegates to the Quebec Con­ and to reinstill the confidence lost. He spoke of past glories to inspire them to ding inhabitants - grey figures on a ference in preparing the resolutions rise once again and throw off the yoke of oppression. But he also soothed grey landscape. There may have been was to do justice to all - justice to ail them with words of understanding, compassion and encouragement, sharing some truth to this impression long ago; religions, to all nationalities, and to all with them the dismal lot as no other man. And they listened, as did the thanks to the zest infused into this interests." subsequent generations of Ukrainians until this very day. It was none other country by millions of immigrants and The respect for national and reli­ their descendants over the years, it is gious identities smoothed the way for than Shevchenko who inspired the present generation of men and women anything but true now. who are standing up once again for the very rights that he espoused more the settlement of large numbers of Contemporary Canadians, no mat­ Scottish, Irish, German, Ukrainian, than a century ago. It is his immortal legacy that continues to nourish the ter what their mother tongue, are the Polish and Scandinavian immigrants to hearts of all Ukrainians and guides them in the struggle for liberty. The most beneficiaries of a world of cultural in­ Canada in the nineteenth and early meaningful of tributes that we can make to Shevchenko is to abide by that spiration. More than they usually twentieth centuries. While William legacy and to strive to speed the day of its consummation. realize, they have incorporated the Howard Taft, President of the United ways of other nations into their own States from 1909 to 1913, would boast, way of life. This shows in their cloth­ "We have taken millions of foreigners ing, housing, furnishings, ' pastimes, into our civilization, but we have amal­ A Major Difference cuisine, and attitudes. Nor have they gamated them all, we have made them partaken uniformly of the same influ­ all Americans," there was little taste Memorandum No. 18 of the Kiev Helsinki monitoring group, the latest in a ences; on the contrary, the range of for such thorough-going assimilation series of documents that made their way to the West, makes a number of choices is so broad and Canadian tastes here. "We have bred a type," Taft salient points with regard to the ongoing struggle for human rights in the so diffuse that it is often lamented that jubilated; for a variety of reasons, Soviet Union. Canadians have no distinctive national none wholly unselfish, there was no Addressing themselves specifically to the right of emigration, the members culture of their own. great interest in breeding a typical of the Ukrainian group point to the fact that while Moscow allows at least In a sense, though, this diffusion Canadian. Instead, Taft's contemp­ some Russian dissidents to emigrate to the West and grants exit visas to the and amenability to the unfamiliar is the orary of government, Sir Wilfrid Lau- more persistent of Jews, as far as Ukrainians are concerned, totally different Canadian culture. The tradition of rier, echoed a popular sentiment when measures are applied: they are thrown behind bars at the mere expression of absorbing the best from various cul­ he compared Canada to a gothic cathe­ tural sources goes to Canada's roots. dral made of marble, oak and granite. the desire to leave the Soviet Union. The memorandum cites specific cases of As a native Indian leader has pointed Ukrainians who have been thus punished. "This is the image I would like Canada out, the original Canadians formed a to become," he declared. "For here I Apart from the fact that this constitutes gross discrimination, members of multicultural and multilingual society want the marble to remain the marble; the Ukrainian group point to the root cause of this unconscionable long before the first white man ever the granite to remain the granite; the ambivalence, that is, to the nature of the human rights struggle in Ukraine and came to the country. The upper part of oak to remain the oak; and out of all in Russia. In the latter country, they say, it is directed against illegal North America was occupied by tribes these elements I would build a nation restrictions on the civil rights of citizens. In Ukraine, however, it is more than as different from one another as great among the nations of the world." that: it is a struggle for the very survival of Ukrainianism in the light of Swedes are from Corsicans, with all the But if politicians may build nations, Moscow's methodical pressure of Russification. It is, therefore, a struggle for strains in between. they are only upheld by the will of ordi­ the most essential of human rights, for national rights, which have been Despite the violence that marred re­ nary citizens. Had the people of repeatedly violated by Moscow since its forcible occupation of Ukraine. lations between the Indians and whites Canada allowed their cultural and reli­ It is this aspect of the human rights struggle in Ukraine that we must in the early years of European settle­ gious differences the cathedral would constantly accentuate here and make it an inseparable element of the total ment, the two groups went ahead and have collapsed in ruins. That people did pooled their lore and artifacts. From struggle. not do so in Canada's pioneering days, the Indians the French Canadians when racial discrimination was rife learned woodcraft and adopted snow- elsewhere, seems partly due to the ex­ shoes, moccasins and canoes. While igencies of the land and its climate. In a Utter to the Editor they brought alcohol and strange situation where one's survival might diseases to the Indians, the white men well depend on the aid of a neighbor also brought iron pots and axes, woven regardless of his race or religion, it was Keep the Canal fabrics and firearms. On balance, the prudent at least to keep one's preju­ (The letter below, written by Soyuzivka manager Walter Kwas, appeared in intermingling of these contrasting peo­ dices to oneself. four newspapers in townships surrounding the UNA estate.) ples may have done more harm than Conditions in the primarily agrarian good - but it did do some good never­ Canada to which more than 3 mil­ Through ;this letter I wish to express dealt with insignificant aspects, name­ theless. lion immigrants came between the mid- my views about the proposed Panama ly, that keeping the Panama Canal would In later years the French and English 1890's and World War I often threw Treaties and my fear of what may hap­ spoil our relations with Latin Ameri­ forged alliances with Indian tribes as members of different national groups pen if we do not respond speedily to ca. In fact, we were even accused of they battled for control of North Ame­ unexpectedly together. "Now the Uk­ our government's plans. colonialism. rica. When the war for Canada finally rainians were used to the cold and I was pleased to read in our local It should be remembered that it was ended, the victorious "English" (many knew how to build good houses, but we newspapers that some citizens are con­ the United States that built the canal of whom were actually Gaelic-speaking didn't" one of the first Black American cerned about the proposed canal trea­ when others could not succeed. And Scots) joined in a marriage of conveni­ settlers in northern Alberta recalled re­ ties. However, we can do much more who reaped great rewards because of it ence with the Indians and "Canadiens" cently. "They had a way of plastering by expressing our concern about what if not Panama? I ask you, how can the to probe the wilderness and fight off in- their houses with something they mixed will be involved if we relinquish the United States give up something which sions from the newly created United out of clay and dirt and other things canal to the Panamanians. is the creation of her people? States. An interchange of crafts and and could plaster up a house just as Much of the debate about this issue The most important issue here, how- customs ensued between French- and nice as stucco. Sometimes the colored in various government committees has (Continued on page 10) English-speaking. Canadians in their (Continued on page 15) No. 50 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, MARCH 5,1978 7 Taras Shevchenko - Hero-Poet by John Panchuk This year marks the 140th anniver­ rights, an eternal protagonist and pro­ has a Dante is bound together as no sary of Taras Shevchenko's emancipa­ phet of Ukraine's social and national dumb Russia can be." tion from serfdom. His dramatic freedom. Obviously, Carlyle was not aware of emancipation at age 24, an event attri­ His only weapon was his pen. His Pushkin and Shevchenko, but his ex­ butable solely to his accidentally dis­ spirit, like his poetry, is a legacy that ample of Dante illustrates his thesis covered talent for drawing and paint­ inspires the hearts and minds of suc­ admirably. Shevchenko's voice was ing, soon revealed an even greater gift, ceeding generations of his countrymen. that of a genius "to be heard of all men that for poetry. Ukrainians everywhere acknowledge and times." No poet voiced a greater him as their national hero, their na­ "appeal from tyranny to God," to Early romantic verses soon gave way tional genius. His forceful challenges quote a line from Byron's "Prisoner of to exciting ballads and epics which re­ and his fiery crusades in verse, his Chillon." Shevchenko ranks among vealed, as never before, the melodically forthright denunciation of wrongs, his the foremost champions of human expressive beauty of the Ukrainian lan­ sage prophecies in the ultimate triumph rights, social, economic, political and guage, the stark degradation of the of right and justice are as valid today national justice and freedom, in the people under serfdom, the ruthless ex­ for our generation as they were for his. nineteenth century. ploitation of Ukraine by the rulers of Though the system against which his His creative role in Ukraine's na­ Russia, the past glories and exploits of poetic muse inveighed so mightily tional rebirth and development was Ukrainian Kozak freedom fighters. crumbled to dust in 1917, the hammer even more vital than Dante's was with The woes of his enserfed people found and the sickle which supplanted the respect to Italy. His poetry awoke an in him a mighty voice that pointed an double-headed eagle of the tsars do not "amorphous mass," alerted an "en­ accusing finger at the tsar and the bru­ symbolize Shevchenko's concept of a dangered ethnic species" against na­ tal socio-economic system over which "new and free" society envisioned in tional extinction. Without Shevchen­ he presided as an absolute autocrat. his "Testament." ko's poetry, even the very name Uk­ Thomas Carlyle's view of a poet as a raine might have remained as legen­ Within two years after Shevchenko's hero in his famous 1840 lectures dary as that of the fabled unicorn. In return to Ukraine as a graduate of the applies most fittingly to Shevchenko: the process of assimilation of subju­ Academy of Arts in St. Petersburg, the "Yes, truly, it is a great thing for a Na­ gated peoples, Ukraine might never security police arrested him for investi­ tion that it get an articulate voice; that have shed its invidious, Moscow-forged gation of membership in a secret so­ it produce a man who will speak forth label of "Little Russia." ciety in Kiev, for writing anti-govern­ melodiously what the heart of it Shevchenko left a permanent and en­ ment inspired poetry, and glorifying means! Italy, for example, poor Italy during legacy of Ukrainian national Ukraine's lost freedom. The tsar ba­ 1814-1861 lies dismembered, scattered asunder, consciousness. He planted "the word nished him into Siberian military penal not appearing in any protocol or treaty to stand on guard" over the aspirations form of bondage or another, destiny servitude for life, ordered strict surveil­ as a unity at all; yet the noble Italy is and the continued existence of his peo­ lance, and imposed absolute prohibi­ assured him a secure niche in the shrine actually one: Italy produced Dante; ple as a nation. His immortal "Testa­ tion against writing and painting. of those who belong to the ages, Italy can speak! The tsar of all Russias, ment," a requiem anthem, charged his crowned him with immortality, and a he is strong, with so many bayonets, With the ascent of a new tsar to the 4 soul to keep vigil at his tomb on the century later, acclaimed him as 'one Cossacks and cannons; and does a high mound overlooking the Dnieper throne ten years later and the influ­ of the greatest masters of world great feat in keeping such a tract of until Ukraine regains her freedom. No ential intervention of his friends at the poetry," and "the outstanding incar­ earth politically together; but he can­ poet, not even Shakespeare, has ever Academy of Arts, Shevchenko was re­ nation of a national genius." not yet speak. Something great in him, made such a sublime commitment. leased from exile. His death came only Under whatever country's flag Uk­ but it is a dumb greatness. He has no Certainly not any warrior, king or three years later. rainians may find themselves today, the voice of genius, to be heard of all men potentate has given his people such an Yet. such was the "divinity that figure of Shevchenko looms as the un­ and times. He must learn to speak. He inspiring legacy. Only the symbolic shaped his ends" that in the brief inter­ daunted champion of justice and free­ is a great dumb monster hitherto. His cross on Mt. Golgotha matches the ma­ lude of nine years of freedom from one dom, a flaming crusader for human cannons and Cossacks will all have gic appeal of Shevchenko's poetry to rusted into non-entity, while Dante's strive for freedom, justice and voice is still audible. The Nation that humanity. Tips onm Tax This column of questions and answerss on federal tax matters is provided by the Intelligent Complaining New Jersey District Office of the U. S. Internal Revenue Service and is published as a public service to taxpayers. 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You also have the responsibility product, its model number, brand Q-I haven't received my W-2 form to be sure your complaints are justified name, price, and what is wrong with it. A-If you itemize your deductions yet. Should I go ahead and file my re­ and are not the result of your negligence you will still use Schedule A with the Let the facts speak for themselves. If turn without it? or abuse. you are returning the product, send it 1040. However, before going to the tax For effective results, return defective tables you will subtract the zero brac­ A-You should contact employer who insured and in the original carton if merchandise to the store where you possible. If you do not hear from the ket amount (S3200 for married and is obligated by law to make the W-2 bought it and to the department where it S2200 for single) from your total available within 30 days of the close of company, send a second letter. Most was purchased. Re-read the instructions companies try to acknowledge com­ itemized deduction amount. This "ex­ the year. If the problem is simply one on care and use. cess" is then subtracted from your in­ of delivering the W-2 you and your em­ plaint letters within two or three weeks. . Carry copies of all information such If there is no acknowledgement, refer come. After this has been done, you ployer can make arrangements. If your as warranties, sales slips, price tags, will go to the tax table. Since the zero employer refuses to give you a W-2, the matter to your local Better Business instruction books, and copies of any Bureau or a regulatory agency. bracket amount is already built into the contact the IRS. letters which may have been written about the product. Do not leave these Making a ' complaint does require with the salesclerk. courtesy, courage, and sometimes If you leave the item for repairs, or if a patience. It also requires keeping Prepare Book on Ellis Island refund will be mailed to you, be sure to accurate records of purchase dates, get the receipt for the item.. Contact prices, use and care instructions, and CHAPPAQUA, N.Y.—A book employees. people who can help you. If you know model numbers. This is one way to be a tentatively titled "Island of Hope: An the name of the salesperson who sold good consumer and to contribute A letter in this regard was written to toward the goal of better products and Oral History of Ellis Island" is Iwanna Rozankowsky, president of the you the merchandise, contact this scheduled to be published here next person first. Some businesses have better services, as well as a way of Ukrainian National Women's League getting the best value for your dollars. spring. The book's authors, David M. of America, by David Brownstone. customer relations departments to Brownstone, Douglass Brownstone handle complaints. Don't get smart. Most retailers and manufacturers and Irene Franck, hope to contact per­ Mr. Brownstone wrote that persons Sarcastic or abusive remarks are easily agree that complaints keep them on sons who emigrated to the U.S. and whose experiences might contribute to ignored by the complaint manager. Be their toes, but they say these can also came through Ellis Island, and persons such a book may reach him at 201 Mill friendly but firm. lead to increased sales by developing who worked there as immigrant aid so­ Road, Chappaqua, N.Y., 10514, or at If you write a company, or return an consumer confidence and customer ciety representatives or government (914)238-3524. item by mail, try to find the proper loyalty. THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, MARCH j, 1978 No. 50 Ukrainian Communities Observe Independence Day Albany, N.Y.

On January 24th, for the third year in a row, the New Hudson, N.Y., who represented Bishop Basil Losten, York State Senate was the site of the Ukrainian Inde­ delivered prayers during the program. Photo, above pendence Day program. The annual event is left, shows State Sen. Edwyn Mason, holding flag, organized by State Sen. Edwyn Mason, whose district with a group of Ukrainians in the Senate. Left to includes the Catskill Mountains area which is heavily right, are Olha Seneta, George Moklak, Roma populated by Ukrainian Americans. This year's Pryma, whose dance group performed, Walter Kwas, program was attended by Lt. Gov. Mary Ann manager of Soyuzivka, Ivan Romanyshyn and Krupsack, who addressed some 700 persons in the Mykhailo Seneta. Seated are Yaroslav Kushnir, audience during the commemorative program in the president of the Capital District UCCA branch, and Legislative Building. The Very Rev. Alexis Limon- Mary Dushnyck, UNA Supreme Vice-President who chenko of St. Nicholas Ukrainian Orthodox Church served as master of ceremonies for the program. in Troy, N.Y., and the Rev. Theodore Humenitzki of Photo right, shows Lt. Gov, Krupsak addressing the the St. Nicholas Ukrainian Catholic Church in audience during the Independence Day program.

San Francisco, Calif. Chicago, III.

Senator Robert Dole (R-Kan.) was honored as "Man of the Year" by the Chi- The Ukrainian flag was lown from the San Francisco City Hall here in cato Ukrainian community at a banquet commemorating Ukrainian Indepen­ commemoration of Ukrainian Independence Day. Left to right, in the photo above, dence Day at the Pick-Congress Hotel Sunday, January 22. Photo above shows are: Pastor Lubovych, the Rev. Piano, M. Nedashkivsky, M. Csar, chairman of the Sen. Dole receiving the "Man of the Year" plaque from UCCA branch president UCCA branch, the Rev. Canon Andrew Mykyta, Mrs. Nedashkivsky, San Michael Panasiuk. Standing between them is emcee Atty. Julian Kulas; seated is Francisco Mayor George R. Moscone, the Rev. Symon Szumakow, V. Vdovych, Bishop Jaroslav Gabro. The "Ukrainian of the Year" award was presented to and Mrs. O. Sydorak. Roman Zavadovych for his work in children's literature. No. 50 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, MARCH 5,1978 1978 Debutantes Detroit, Mich. Philadelphia, Pa.

Seventeen girls made their debuts at the 20th annual ball sponsored by the Detroit (photo by Meva Studio) chapter of the Ukrainian Engineers' Society of America at the Northfield Hilton Inn in Troy, Mich. The photo above shows the debutantes and their escorts, left Debutantes and their escorts at the annual Ukrainian Engineers' Bali at the to right: Sonja Julia Antoniuk and Andrew Mychalowych, Olga Zacharij and Sheraton Hotel in Philadelphia. Left to right in the first row are: Ulana Harvanko Steven Stasiw, Mary Ann Kniahynycky and Borys Senyk, Motria Ryzyj and and Marko Murowany, Tamara Pawiichka and Borys PoSatayJko, Haifa Nestor Halicky, Donna Nestorowich and Bohdan Hreczny, Lesia Pryjma and Halushchynsky and Dorko Lytvyn, Dr. O. Bilyk, Mrs. Andreychuk, E. Paul Dyhdalo, Natalie Charewych and Roman Kolodchin, Sonya Stelmach and Fylypowych, Mrs. L. Buhay, L. Kalynych, Aneta Hewko and Yarema Maryniiik9 Bohdan Mereniuk, Christine Pateryn and Borys Mychalczak, Daria Chapelsky Elena Rudawsky and Jack Wills, Bohdanna Lazor and Andriy Dzerovych. and Markian Fedorowych, Barbara Percowycz and Oleh Lawrin, Petrysia Second row: Oksana Ilchyshyn and Marian Slaviatynsky, Vera Mackjw and Sobkiw and Paul Temnyk, Lidia Serafyn and George Duzey, Daria Nestorowicz. Yuriy Kociuba, Liusia Prasicky and Roman Hryciw, Christine Bohachevsky and and Conrad Imirowycz, Roma Kruczak and Jaroslaw Stetkewycz, Roma Rohacz Yaroslav Kurowycky, Sophia Mackiw and Wasyl Balas, Marta Nimylovych ший and Andrew Sysak, Lydia Tustaniwskyj and Roman Kalytiak. Flanking them are Orest Kyzyk, Natalka Kovalyshyn and Serhiy Kowalchuk. Mrs. Iryna Senyk and Evhen Korduba, chairman of the ball committee (left), and Mrs. Zenia Serafyn and Oleksander Serafyn, president of the engineers' society chapter (right). Mmes. Senyk and Serafyn chaperoned the debutantes. New York, N.Y.

Newark, NJ.

Debutantes and their escorts at the Debutante Ball held annually by the Metre politan New York branches of the Ukrainian Engineers' Society of America шт the Ukrainian Medical Association of North America at the Hotel Pierre. Left t , right are: Ariadna Gliut and Roman Fedorciw, Irena Senyk and Stephen Bodnarenko, Adriana Rohowsky and Andriy Kyzyk, Ulana Klufas and Oleh Kowblansky, Orysia Hanushevsky and Borys Gudziak, Roksana Wolosenko and Julian Brittan, Zoriana Demchuk and Borys Bych, Ulana Leskiw and Yuriy Goy? Christine Salak and Hryhoriy Geba, Oleksandra Pleskun and Marko Kryshtalsky, Laryssa Omelchenko and Hilary Choihan, Ruta Cholhan and Andriy Bohatiuk, Ksenia Mokriwsky and Roman Wasiczko, Mariyka Yakhnytsky and Roman Wasylyk, Christine Klufas and Borys Mochula. Seated in the center are: Mmes. Stephania Stepaniuk, Vera Kushnir, Lydia Cholan and Ulana Bohachevsky.

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Metrinko Shier Weds

NEW YORK, N.Y - Michele Betti- Mcrsha, an achorising director fo^ na Mcirinko. the dang net of Mr and ^гьелсап Wa\ inagaztne, and M- - л' о Michael Metr'iiko ecentlv k,r ^ ' ь agnci' fu d N^oruist v лі\ /r; v- nhi' W Rv,h^s J MHniiKoL ^ . ;iat' Сі . ic cx^oraie secret?i\ ^ j. мі Co Ar ', .\.сЛ^ .і la? Mlb', lW ' 1 - rl "onipany iieadj^d i^red m R: , C iy n\pif KJ Mnaikatockt Oils iw Гк' т?-ь Fluffs ''Кгіуїт" group n?de their aebuis this yeur at the not. Pa. Mr. Rolhns is the chahnbo M,sr 3 C Worle f^:e m the lQ^j M^ tradiH^r^' Ьд"! s^nsored yearly by !Ьг Nevarr; Fiesl branch at the Club Nsvajo and chief executive ofticer of RL J U,-A-WorId pa seam ти Michde v,un Minor. M^?Gmg І2ЇІ to right In tlic first row are: Genia Hywel find Roman Corp. iac iMiss USA crovn in the Miss W^rlrl Wasic^kfv, StiiiQi Hiratlak and Roman Burtyk, Christine Wolowodiuk and contest in 1963 Markian Tytla, Second ^ow: Christine Miz and Roman Pyndus, Diana Holubec Mr. Metrinko is a member of the New and Myron Dytiuk, Moksolana Popowych and Nestor Portyko, Irena PasSawsky York Stock Exchange, Mr. and Mrs. The Metrinko family belongs to and Andriy Fedun. Metrinko have two other daughters, UNA branch 88. 10 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, MARCH 5,1978 _ No. 50

Kupchynsky Cited for Contributions Plishka Performs wiih Success By String Teachers Association in New York CRANFORD, N.J.—Jerry Kup­ NEW YORK, N.Y.—Paul Plishka, Writing about this performance in chynsky, a music teacher and national highly acclaimed bass of the Metro­ the Tuesday, February 21, edition of president of the American String Tea­ politan Opera, has again made success­ The New York Times, critic Harold chers Association, was honored here at ful appearances in New York and Schonberg felt that "Mr. Plishka's well- the 1978 general membership meeting Washington, performing in both con­ centered bass was a pleasure to hear." of the New Jersey chapter of ASTA for certs and the Met's opera productions. his contributions on the state and na­ Saturday and Sunday, February tional levels to music education and the On Monday, February 20, Mr. Pli­ 11-12, the second generation Ukrainian association. shka joined soprano Galina Vish- bass sang the part of Raphael in "A Tribute to Jerry Kupchynsky" nevskaya, mezzo-soprano Julie Ha- Haydn's "Creation" staged at the also appeared in String Tones, the mari and tenor Seth McCoy in Verdi's auditorium of the Metropolitan Mu­ newsletter of the N.J. ASTA. "Requiem" which the quartet sang seum here. He appeared with the Mr. Kupchynsky came to the United with the National Symphony Or­ "Musica Eterna" orchestra and States shortly after World War II as a chestra, under the baton of Mstislav chorus, under the direction of P. displaced person. Rostropovich, and the University of Waldman. He received B.M.E. and MA de­ Maryland Chorus under the direction of PaulTraver. A group of area Ukrainian music grees from Murray State University in lovers attended the performances and Kentucky, and an M.E. from Rutgers Mr. Plishka rendered all parts ex­ met briefly with Mr. Plishka backstage University. tremely well, his voice sounding parti­ to congratulate him on his continued Mr. Kupchynsky played the cello cularly vibrant in "Confutatis." rise to stardom. with several symphony orchestras and with the 8th Army String Quartet in Korea while he was in the service. Jerry Kupchynsky After directing bands in Shawnee- town, 111., he came to East Brunswick, Conference which he has directed for UNFederation Concert Gives N.J., where he built a string instrument 13 years since. program which became recognized When the ASTA national president Audience "Their Money's Worth" throughout the country as a model of resigned in 1975, Mr. Kupchynsky outstanding instruction and supervi­ accepted on short notice his appointment Combine a nationally acclaimed "Song of the Sichovi Striltsi," and the sion. to the office. Under his leadership the 70-voice choir, a troupe of talented and tongue-in-cheek "The Jovial Monk." He founded and co-directed the association has prospered and grown. disciplined young dancers, add a dash When listening to the Koshetz Choir Middlesex County Youth Symphony, Mr. Kupchynsky also writes pedago­ of lively music, and you have a recipe perform, one has to remind oneself and was elected the first president of gical articles for music publications. for an evening's great entertainment. that these singers are not professionals. the Middlesex County Music Educa­ He was awarded a citation by the The Ukrainian National Federation Their singing is so polished, their re­ tors Association. Mr. Kupchynsky also N.J. State Council on the Arts in 1970 proved it with a concert, featuring the pertoire so varied, and all 70 members directed the 1969 All-Central Jersey for "raising the standards of music O. Koshetz Memorial Choir, the Or- obviously sing for the sheer love of Regional Orchestra and has been guest performance in the country and in the lan Ukrainian Folk Ensemble and the making beautiful music. More power conductor of groups in several states. state through his pioneering efforts in "Bereza" Orchestra, staged at the to them! He is an active member in organiza­ the schools and his personal musician­ Centennial. Concert Hall on Sunday tions such as the N.J. Music Educators ship." evening, February 19. The Orland Ukrainian Folk En­ Associations, the N.J. School Music In 1974 he received the gubernatorial semble dancers aren't professionals In a well-balanced program, the either, but they're top-ranking ama­ Supervisors Association, the N.J. Alli­ commendation as "an outstanding in­ capacity audience enjoyed traditional ance for Arts Education, the N.J. Teen dividual in the service of the arts and teurs! Like their older counterparts, folk dances of various regions of Uk­ the well-known "Rusalka" Dancers, the Arts Festival, and the N.J. All-State education in N.J.," and the ASTA ser­ raine, a selection of traditional and Orchestra Procedures Committee. vice award. modern songs, and musical interludes. Orland group interprets traditional As president of the N.J. chapter of Mr. Kupchynsky and his family are Ukrainian dances. ASTA, he initiated the Summer String members of UNA Branch 233. The Koshetz Choir, under the direc­ Choreographer Dr. Taras Babick tion of Walter Klymkiw proved, once and director Dianna Bryk-Grabinski again, that they are unparalleled. The can be very proud. 70-member choir sings as one voice, N.Y. Museumurn Opens and, as a friend of mine put it, the Ko­ The whole evening was a success. shetz basses can hit notes other basses I'm just sorry it's not going to be re­ Easter Egg WorkshopsWorkshops only dream about. Singing both with peated. At least, not for a while. It accompaniment and a capella, the seems such a shame that entertainment March 19th (2 to 5 p.m.) and April 2nd choir treated the audience to moods of the caliber provided by Orlan and NEW YORK, N.Y. - A special the Koshetz Choir doesn't run for at Easter program for adults and children and 16th from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. and ranging from wistful to rollicking, from 2 to 5 p.m. solemn to spirited, gentle to frivolous. least three days, to give more than is being presented at the Ukrainian 2,500 people a chance to see a show Museum, 203 Second Ave., here start­ . Children's workshops are slated for And all with clarity, style and superb shading. My special favorites on the that really gives them their money's ing Saturday, March 4. The program Saturdays of March 11th, April 1st and worth! consists of a workshop on the art of April 15th from 9:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Koshetz program were the delightful Ukrainian Easter egg decorating; a and from 2:30 to 4:30 p.m. "The Shepherd," which conjures up The review above by Rene lies appeared screening of and award-winning short Attendance at the Easter program mental pictures of misty mornings in in the Monday, February 20th edition color film entitled "Pysanka"; a display workshops is by reservation only. the Carpathian Mountains, the lively of The Winnipeg Tribune. of Ukrainian Easter eggs; a lecture on Interested groups or individuals may the history of "pysanky." call the museum at (212) 228-0110. In addition to attending the work­ shops, visitors to the Ukrainian Muse­ Keep the Canal um will be able to view the current (Continued f rom page 6) major exhibit entitled "Traditional ever, is the right of the United States to viet Union and Panama signed a Designs in Ukrainian Textiles." On exist. Many countries, but especially treaty, which received little publicity in display are 18 complete costumes as those which are ruled by dictators such the U.S. Under its provisions, the So­ The workshop will be taught by well as over 80 embroidered, printed as Panama's Torrijos, hate the United viets would have stores in the Free professional artisans who will demon­ and woven articles from the mid- States because our people uphold the Trade Zone in Panama and a branch of strate the art of "pysanka" making, nineteenth century to the 1930's. good moral values which these dicta­ the Soviet bank in Panama City. using wax, a stylus and several dyes. This workshop is made possible with tors have destroyed. Let's not be blind­ Participants will be able to decorate public funds from the New York State ed by our leaders' anxiety to have But one of the most serious aspects of their eggs using old Ukrainian tradi­ Council on the Arts. friends everywhere. If we give up the this agreement is the Soviets' interest in tional patterns. All necessary materials canal, we will satisfy the envy and hos­ developing the harbor of Vacamonte, will be provided at the workshop at fees tility of the destructive forces in the only a few miles from the U.S. Howard of S3.00 for adults and 50c for children Dr. Subtelny to Speak world. Also, by giving up the canal we Air Force Base. Do we want another (6 to 12 years of age). will help create another Soviet military Soviet military base next door? Or do "Pysanka," the award-winning 10- At Douglass base like Cuba. we want to exist and maintain our minute color film by Slavko Nowytski, NEW BRUNSWICK, N.J. - Dr. It should be remembered that in values and our way of life? will round out this special Easter Orest Subtelny will give a lecture at the 1974, Panama and Cuba re-established In my opinion, our letters could con­ program, which will provide all partici­ Eagleton Institute, Douglass. College, diplomatic relations and Castro be­ vince our Senators and Congressmen pants with an opportunity to learn New Brunswick, N.J., on Friday, came the "great leader" to Panama's not to give up the Panama Canal so about one unique aspect of Ukrainian March 10, at 8:00 p.m. This event Torrijos. In fact, much of Panama's readily. We can and must force them to folk culture. is being sponsored by the Rutgers governmental structure is copied from do some homework before making any Adult workshops, which started Ukrainian Student Hromada of New Cuba, including the political police. hasty decisions. I say, WE MUST yesterday, will be offered on Sundays of Brunswick. All are invited to attend. In addition to this, in 1977, the So- KEEP THE CANAL. No. 50 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, MARCH 5,1978

Blessing of St. George's Church Set for April 23rd by Roman S. Holiat NEW YORK, N.Y.—On April 2, organizations, Roman Catholic 1976, work began on the new St. clergy, and political leaders of New George's Ukrainian Catholic York City. Church at Seventh Street and Hall Ukrainians of the Greater New Place in New York City. This de­ York area as well as those from the cade-long desire of Ukrainians here neighboring states will have an will be fulfilled this year. The new opportunity to participate in this church will replace the existing celebration. structure, built in 1836, which has The banquet will be held at the been used by Ukrainians as a house Waldorf-Astoria Hotel. of prayer since 1911. Roman Huhlevych, head of the At the "prosphora" held on Jan­ building committee, gave a report uary 22, 1978, at St. George's Aca­ stressing that there is much to be demy auditorium, with carols, done, notably in collecting material choral singing and a ballet perfor­ for a book in which the history of mance by the parish school children, the parish and names of all donors the parishioners heard reports on will be published. the progress of construction. I wan Wynnyk, financial chair­ The Rev. Dr. Volodymyr Gav- man of the committee, underlined lich, OSBM, pastor and Superior of in his report the fact that donations to the Basllian Fathers, extended the building fund from the beginning Christmas greetings and thanked all of the campaign were so generous that parishioners for their contributions it was not necessary to acquire a to the new church building fund and mortgage. The final payment to the architect Apollinaire Osadca for his contractor amounts to S300,000, a thorough checking of the sum which has to be raised by the construction. end of March. He said that tickets The new St. George's Church, the to the consecration banquet at the Rev. Gavlich announced happily, Waldorf-Astoria Hotel are S35 will be ready for the opening -cere- per person. (Students and children monies on Sunday, April 23, 1978. - S7.50. They will have seats in the There will be a solemn blessing, balcony and will have a different Divine Liturgy and a banquet. menu). Invited to this event will be hier- Contributions to the church archs of the Ukrainian Catholic building fund may be sent to: St. Church, including Patriarch Josyf George's Ukrainian Catholic Photo by R.S.H. Cardinal Slipyj, clergy and members Church, 33 E. 7th St., New York, A recent photo of the soon-to-be dedicated St. George's Ukrainian Catholic of religious orders, all Ukrainian N.Y.10003. Church.

Ukrainian Artist's Microscopic Painting Earns Him a Mention in Guinness WINNIPEG, Man.-Dimitrij Far- "Madonna at Lake Winnipeg," encas­ was the end of slavery. It was real free­ "The Prairies in Canada are unfor­ kavec was forced to study farming, ed in a delicate glass bottle half filled dom." tunately too cold toward art. People escaped into mechanical engineering, with water. "In this little bottle," said After an army stint, he became a will come, they like it, they give (ver­ became a journalist and found refuge Mr. Farkavec, holding it gingerly, journalist in Prague. Mr. Farkavec still bal) appreciation and they go. In other in art. "there is a whole symbol of this writes poetry and short stories - in countries...people will appreciate art Last year in Winnipeg the writer- earth." Ukrainian, Russian and Czech. much more. It has meaning for every­ sculptor-painter made headlines with The popular enamel-on-copper But art always had occupied free body. Once you are an artist, they care the world's smallest painting. The oil, paintings began in 1974. With a hand- time. Since he had limited English, about you more." painted under a high-powered micro­ built kiln completed last summer, he "paintings came to me in Canada be­ scope with a brush holding a single can produce pieces up to 42 by 28 cause of lack of communication." Decorative art is more bane than sharpened hair from a boar or Mr. Far- inches — mammoth by enameling Now art has overtaken even the blessing to a serious artist. "It is not kavec's arm, is no larger than the standards. creative writing aspirations. "In my enough to say, 'Oh, I like it because it period at the end of this sentence. His latest heavily layered oils have a life I would like to put art in first place reminds me of my farm.' Lots of peo­ 'The Guinness Book of World Re­ three-dimensional quality.^ and base it on all my experience from ple will pay big money just because it reminds them of grandfather's farm." cords" will list his accomplishment in The ink and watercolor drawings are all schools. I will harvest from that." its next edition; it easily beat the previ­ a tribute to his earliest artistic experi­ Art must first communicate. "Any A creative person "has something ous title-holder (about the size of an ences. The first show the 35-year-old work of art is no work of art if it has burning inside his soul that he must put ''o" in this article). Ukrainian-born Mr. Farkavec had was no message. It may not be pleasing... into a message for other people. Fm The smallest painting has attracted of "cartoons" drawn as a 16-year-old but it must be." always looking for something new to considerable attention, but Mr. Farka- student in Czecho-Slovakia. And dedication is essential. Many contribute. If people don't like it, may­ vec said he wasn't just looking for sen­ Then and now, he parodies his most artists "are getting in a panic and look­ be it is not your fault. But if you don't sationalism. and least favorite things - chickens ing for jobs instead of create, create, burn for ideas, it will be lousy; it won't His inspiration came from the 18th and horses. create. You have to have a little bit of be creative." century Ukrainian philosopher Hryho- Horses are caricatured as "re­ suffering to be a good artist. You have riy S. Skovoroda, who - the story venge." "When I was seven years old a to live on bread and potatoes alone The article above was written by Pat goes — looked at an acorn he held and horse kicked me here," he said, strik­ sometimes. That is no joke." Zanger. It appeared in the Wednesday, said ''there's a whole forest in my ing his chest. "I almost died." Mr. Farkavec is not starving, but he February 8th edition of the Winnipeg hand." Growing up on his father's farm, he is frustrated. Free Press. 'He said, 'What is invisible is the was fascinated by chickens. Birds, gen­ most powerful - and the most beauti­ erally, "are special in this world...they ful.' " Mr. Farkavec explained. "I are beautiful...they have fantastic eyes. UKRAINIANS IN PENNSYLVANIA said, why not go down into more de­ And they fly. 1 hey go where they want tail, into the micro world...Why not to go." A CONTRIBUTION TO THE GROWTH OF THE COMMONWEALTH put science and art together? And work That was denied Mr. Farkavec until Prise: ^6.00 (hardbound), S4.00 (softbound). to make such a small painting that you architect, Vasylij, fled Czecho-Slova­ cannot appreciate it with the naked Postage and handling S075. kia in 1970 because of the Soviet inva­ New Jersey residents add 507o salex tax. eye." sion. The prolific Mr; Farkavec works, in miniature and larger, with many media Until then, he'd been maneuvering SVOBODA BOOKSTORE — stone, oil, watercolor, pen and ink, around the intentions of the state. A 30 Montgomery Street Jersey City, NJ. 07303 enamel on copper. farmer's son, his destiny was farming. A generous sample of his drawings "I was forced to be in the school of and paintings was on display at agriculture only; it was law. So I Eaton's Gallery of Fine Arts. went...but I disliked it very much." Space permits only a few stone Strings were pulled and he was Join the Ukrainian National Association sculptures - including the limestone accepted at a technological school. "It 12 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, MARCH 5,1978 No. 50 Lidia Mostovy Cited IN FOCUS By Professional Women ІІШІІ1ІВ" IRVINGTON, N.J.— Lidia Mos­ Manor Offers tovy, the top-ranked student in the senior class at Irvington High School, was selected February Girl of the NSSSF Career Counseling Month by the Business and Profes­ sional Women here, according to the Irvington Hearld. JENKINTOWN, Pa-Manor Ju­ directors and executives of various She and her mother, Daria Mostovy, nior College is hosting a Career Coun­ industries, as well as doctors, lawyers, were guests of the BPW at a dinner seling Night on Wednesday, March 15, dentists, court reporters, allied health meeting at Club Navajo Manor on at 7:30 p.m., in the college auditorium professionals, businessmen and secreta­ February 8th. of Mother of Perpetual Help Hall. ries. Some notable industrial represen­ Coordinator of the program is Bart tatives who will participate in the Lidia is a graduate of St. John the Lofgren, vice-president of Executive Counseling Night are: Jerry Downie, Baptist Ukrainian Catholic School, and Recruiting at Main Line Personnel in Industrial Relations Manager,. Com­ a recipient of its Ukrainian Award. She Balacynwyd. bustion Engineering. Company; Peter also graduated with honors from the Warenski, Personnel Manager, NL Saturday School of Ukrainian Subjects. Mr. Lofgren, a graduate of Cardinal Industries, Joseph Owen, Personnel Dougherty High School, holds a B.A. At Irvington High School she is Manager,. Cooper Hospitalr Camden; treasurer of the National Honor So­ degree from LaSalle College, and an Paul Rucinski, Plant Manager, Wessel M.A. degree from Penn State Univer­ ciety, vice-president of her homeroom Lidia Mostovy Hardware Corporation; Will Hart and for the second consecutive year, and a sity. He will be available for consulta­ Walt Wisely, Management Consul­ tion. member of the Latin Club, Agorians. preparation for a career in medical tants. Updated facts on the job market, research. High school students and the general educational requirements needed for Lidia belongs to Plast, and last year public who are searching for a career, or Lidia is the daughter of Daria and various positions and careers, and other was a youth counselor. Orest Mostovy of Irvington. undecided about what to do with their information pertinent to one's choice of future, are invited to participate, and Her main interests are writing, and Lidia's sister, Lubov Ratych, 20, is a field, will be available to those who will junior at Rutgers-New Brunswick and a speak personally with professionals participate in the program. reading books. about their field. former Miss Soyuzivka (1975). Her For further details, write or call: Lidia has applied to Drew University, brother, Oleh, 11, is a sixth-grader at St. . Chaired by Mr. Lofgren, the Coun­ Manor Junior. College, Fox Chase Rutgers-New Brunswick School of John's. seling Night will include a wide variety Road, Jenkintown, Pa. 885-2360, Ext. Pharmacy, and Douglass College. She The family belongs to UNA Branch of executive representatives, personnel 18. plans to major in science or math in 25.

Kiev Group... (Continued from page 1) sire to leave to their historic homeland, expressed his desire to leave the USSR After the Ukrainians Rudenko and flicts between the government and the the government has created many diffi­ following his imprisonment. Released Tykhy were sentenced to 12 and 15 individual, priority be given to the wel­ culties and at times completely unbear­ in the spring of 1976, he immediately years imprisonment, respectively, Bar- fare of the individual and not the go­ able living conditions, but in the end renewed his efforts: he renounced his ladianu (another Ukrainian) was sen­ vernment. We believe, therefore, that releases the truly persistent ones. ''In­ Soviet citizenship, wrote appeals, con­ tenced and Terelya was arrested, while considerations of a propagandists corrigible" Russian dissidents are ex­ ducted a hunger strike from October Moscow group members, V. Turchin (prestige-oriented) order cannot be a pelled from the Soviet Union, while 17 to October 26, but so far has and T. Khodorovych, and the Russian satisfactory basis for the forced deten­ non-Russian dissidents are put behind not received permission to leave. Legal Defense Movement activist, K. tion of a person within a country. bars. Yevhen Hrytsak and the prominent Liubarsky were sent into emigration. Peace in Europe cannot be built on The Soviet government has signed Ukrainian writer Oles Berdnyk have re­ Further: Snehiriov, a Ukrainian, was the lies and secret designs of the rulers the Universal Declaration of Human quested permission to emigrate for arrested while Moscow resident Podra- of individual countries; peace cannot Rights and the Helsinki Final Act. close to four years now. binek was offered exit from the USSR. be built on the suppression of nations, Both of these well-known documents Also requesting permission to exit, confirm the right of citizens to emigra­ Twelve and 15 years of imprisonment for such a peace does not bring happi­ with no results so far, are Nadia Svitly- tion regardless of their nationality, and emigration - obviously these are ness to the oppressed and legally help­ while the government of the USSR chna, Nina Strokata, Ivan Kandyba, two different punishments. There is an less, and they will yearn to destroy it. treats the statements on emigration Levko Lukianenko, Volodymyr Zat- enormous difference, caused by differ­ A strong and lasting peace is possible arbitrarily and according to (a citi­ varsky, Hryhoriy Prokopovych, Pavlo ent circumstances, between the human only with a just approach to the indivi­ zen's) nationality. Kampov, Mykhailo Lutsyk, Yosyp rights movement in Russia, on the one dual, including respect for the indivi­ Terelya, Vasyl Ovsiyenkb, Vadym We are outraged when the natural hand, and in Ukraine, on the other. In dual's right to emigrate. The latter can Fedorenko. yearnings of Jews toward the home­ Russia it is directed against the illegal serve as a solution for the conflict be­ land of their ancestors are perverted by For requesting emigration from the restrictions on the democratic rights of tween society and the individual when the government into a difficult ordeal; USSR for religious reasons, Yuriy citizens. In Ukraine it has the same the individual cannot accept the exist­ we are outraged when the expulsion of Dziuba is now serving a four-year goals in mind plus our nationality ing order and society does not want to Russian dissidents from the Soviet sentence. question. This plus is what makes the change to satisfy the individual's de­ Union is depicted as cleansing the Because of gross Soviet violations of Ukrainian human rights movement, in mands. Society has the right to remain country of undesirables; but we are the Universal Declaration of Human the eyes of the powerful ruling bureau­ as it is, but the individual has his own most outraged by the discrimination Rights and by creating for individual crats of the chauvinist Great Russian right to his opinions and their dissemi­ because of national origin, which as­ thinkers such difficult living conditions agents, especially dangerous because it nation. The situation where a person is sumes the form of total deprivation of that make impossible even minimal threatens to destroy the old propa­ permitted neither the dissemination of non-Russian individual thinkers of public activity in civic, national, lit­ ganda myth about the most just settle­ his viewpoint nor the right to leave his their right to emigrate from the Soviet erary, religious or other aspects of life, ment of all nationality problems (for the country is the acme of injustice, for the Union. a whole series of Ukrainian political rest of time) and begin the disscussion person, denied his individuality com­ Apart from discrimination against prisoners, currently incarcerated, have anew, by a new generation of Ukraini­ pletely, is sentenced to spiritual death. us, Ukrainians, in other areas of life, already declared their intention to emi­ ans amid new historical circumstances. Sadly many Ukrainian individual grate following the completion of their thinkers have found themselves in such we make note of the fact that in the Because the "sovereign" Ukrainian question of emigration this discrimi­ prison terms. They include Yuriy a predicament. This has forced us to Romanovych Shukhevych, Ivan Oiek- SSR has not established diplomatic re­ appeal to the Belgrade conference nation is manifested by the fact that so lations even with major European far not one Ukrainian individual siovych Svitlychny, Vasyl Omelano- which is reviewing the implementation vych Romaniuk, Dmytro Basarab, countries and the Ministry of Foreign of the Helsinki Accords with the re­ thinker has received permission for Affairs of the Ukrainian SSR does not emigration and permanent residence Dmytro Verkhovlak, Oleksander quest that it discuss the question of dis­ Fedorovych Serhiyenko, Hryhoriy conduct normal business abroad, the crimination against Ukrainians in con­ abroad. Even in those cases where an emigration of a few dozen Ukrainian individual has completed a prifeon term Herchak, Volodymyr Vasyliovych nection with the right to emigrate, in Vasylyk, Zinoviy Mykhailovych individual thinkers would contribute to order to contribute to the fair resolu­ for an attempt to leave the Soviet the apprisal of Western society of Uk­ Union and following release continues Krasivsky, Ivan Shovkovy, Andriy tion of this question by the government Markovych Turyk. rainian problems. The government of of the USSR. to demand the right to emigrate, the the USSR knows this and, as we can government does not offer that oppor­ Observe: following the arrest of see, does not wish to permit such an Members of the group: O. Berdnyk, tunity. Here are a few examples. three members of the Moscow public apprisal. But inasmuch as a higher crite­ I. Kandyba, V. Kalynychenko, L. Vitaliy Vasyliovych Kalynychenko group - Orlov, Ginzburg, Shcharan- rion of. well-being and justice for the Lukianenko, O. Meshko, V. Striltsiv, tried to cross the Soviet-Finnish border sky and two Ukrainians, Rudenko and people of Western civilization is not to N. Strokata. illegally. He was captured and sentenc­ Tykhy - in Ukraine two more тетк Ьме found inthe, wett-teing-.of -іЬедог. ч Address aP the group: 252086t ed to 10 years imprisonment. While im­ bers of the group were arrested, MatUr vernment but of individual people, we Kiev-86, vul. Verbolozna, 16. \ prisoned he persistently and officially sevych arid Matyhovych. duttatricf that in the resdlutioft of coif/ 3Вес(ШеЛ^7У/'"' ,i.....w,,...., No. 50 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, MARCH 5,1978

зоооогею^хх^диіаойооибхза^^ Sports Briefs SOYUZIVKA TAKES by Ostap Tatomyr A VACATION! Chess DUE TO EMPLOYEES HOLIDAYS, THE UKRAINIAN NATIONAL ASS'N ESTATE PHILADELPHIA, Pa.-Boris Ba- kers, the New York Threats, the Wash­ czynskyj is building quite a respectable ington Plumbers, the Long Island WILL BE CLOSED DURING MARCH. name for himself in the chess world. His Beach Boys, the Berkley Riots and the achievements continue to mount. Con­ Ramada Rooks, just to name a few. See You in April, sider the fact that Boris has played in Recently, Boris, who plays fourth board THE MANAGEMENT exhibitions where he challenges 12 to 20 for the Quakers led his team to a 3 1/2- players at one time and only rarely 21/2 victory over the Threats. The most жзооваааааовооаежхжзсж^ loses. He is currently considered the interesting side note about this league is Ukrainian national chess master. In that there are no road trips. All the addition Boris is rated high among all matches are played via telephone. In the U.S. chess minds. So what is he up spring, national team championships to now? Well, Boris is currently involv­ will be held. It will feature three divi­ ed with a totally new idea in the game — sional winners plus a wild card team a semi-pro league. vying for the top national honors. The The National Chess League includes site and the prizes have not yet been such teams as the Philadelphia Qua­ made public.

Pro Ice Hockey LONG ISLAND, N.Y.—The NHL hold his ground. After a stand off both Patrick Division's top team thus far wound up in the penalty box. this season seems to be the New York Hoyda's parents are due in Philly Islanders. With the Flyers production soon to take a look at their son's at a three-year low, the Islanders are a progress. "Both my parents are very good bet to take the divisional flag. active in the Ukrainian community Most hockey experts do not dispute the back home and I am sure they will scout fact that the Rookie of the Year honors out the Ukrainian sector here." Al­ will go to Ukrainian rightwinger Mike though himself not very active because Bossy of the Islanders, who can be best of pro hockey Hoyda still remembers UKRAINE: described as the kid who seems to be in Ukrainian ways, "My Ukrainian isn't the right place at the right time around too bad, eh? Just make it known to all the the nets. 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The trade appears to have game which is almost never related in It was a cold Sunday afternoon in next closest, Vancouver — more than worked out well for both of them. the Western press: "I was speaking with late November, when I finally managed 1,300 miles away," he said. one of the players and was told that the to obtain the interview. Dennis Maruk, Bad news followed the Seals. Shaky The trade also led to his marriage to Joanne, who was a nursing student at Soviets, fearing that goaltender Vladi­ the fiery mainstay of the Cleveland Ba­ financial backing eventually led to the slav Tretiak would defect, placed his rons hockey club is not the easiest per­ transfer of the Oakland franchise from London's University of Western Ontario. They were married in 1976, wife and parents under detention until son to track down. It was only after the the Bay area to Cleveland, a one-time he returned from the tournament." intervention of Alan Eagleson, the ex­ hockey hotbed. There the situation, and Joanne now works as a nurse in ecutive director of the NHL Players although somewhat better, had all the the Akron City Hospital. Maruk is obviously aware of the Association that I was able to travel to earmarks of a fly-by-night operation. Dennis is very much aware of his political dimensions of what hockey means to the Iron Curtain countries, and Timberland, a new development on the "When the old Cleveland entry in Ukrainian origins. As one of eight outskirts of Akron, Ohio, and meet children who grew up in the Rexdale is greatful for-what the sport has done the American Hockey League was in its for him in Canada. He had to make a Dennis and his beautiful wife, Joanne. heyday," said Maruk, "the stadium area, he had little contact with the Uk­ Everything fell into place for Dennis rainian community.- "I regret that I choice at the age of 15: concentrate was in the center of town, by the river­ on school or on hockey. His decision in Maruk during the 1976-77 hockey sea­ front. Today we have one of the most don't speak the language. When we son. His 78 - 28 goals and 50 assists - were young, our parents didn't teach favor of hockey paid off and now he extraordinary arenas ia the league, but wants to upgrade his formal education put him among the twenty top scorers the location is killing us. Richfield, us and it's only now that I realize how in the National Hockey League. At the important it was to have learned Ukrai­ by correspondence, as he has no time Ohio, home of the Barons, is 20 miles for full-time courses and lectures be­ time of the interview, Dennis had south of Cleveland and the people just nian language,'' said Maruk. found the net thirteen times in only 16 tween September and April. aren't coming." He does, however, maintain a wide games of the current season. Maruk's Barons are the youngest Maruk was candid and open about However, the financial situation of circle of friends of Ukrainian back­ the Barons is assured for at least the ground, and one of his closest among team in the NHL and just a couple of his rise to stardom. "When I broke players short of being a contender. into the league, I was told by the team next three years due to the backing of these is teammate Ken Kuzyk. hotel mogul George Gund, and Maruk The last season was a satisfying one Even at 22, Dennis is respected by all management that I wouldn't make the his teammates; his attitude and per­ team. I hadn't played a single shift and signed a long-term contract with the for Dennis in more ways than one: Barons last year. aside from his scoring success, he and sonality are making him a prime candi­ already was given no chance." That date for advertising endorsements in his teammates Ralph Klassen, Al was at the beginning of the 1975-76 cam­ Dennis Maruk showed great promise the Cleveland area. In hockey circles paign when he was a second-round during his junior career in Toronto, MacAdam and Wayne Merrik were Maruk is a household word. draft choice of the now-defunct Oak­ where he played for the Toronto Marl- selected to Team Canada for the World land Seals. boros. His hometown affiliation Hockey Championships in Vienna last Its just a matter of time before "Playing in Oakland was a chore; ended, however, when the Marlboros April. Although the Canadian team Cleveland will realize just how great a when we went on a road trip, the mini­ traded Dennis to another Major Junior fared rather poorly in that tournament, spectator sport hockey is — with mum it took was a week. Our nearest "A" club, the London Knights. The Maruk was one of the few bright lights, players like Maruk, that time should be hockey neighbor was Los Angeles, the Marlies hated to give up a player of gaining international respect for his very near.

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JULY 8 to JULY 22, 1978 THE UKRAINIAN NATIONAL ASSOCIATION Musical Workshop ANNOUNCES AUGUST 6 to AUGUST 19, 1978 SCHOLARSHIP AWARDS Ukrainian Cultural Courses AUGUST 6 to AUGUST 26, 1978 FOR THE ACADEMIC YEAR 1978-79 The scholarships are available to students at an accredited college or university, who have been members of the Ukrainian National Association for at least two years. Applicants are judged on the basis of scholastic record, financial need and involvement Name „ in Ukrainian community and student life. Applications are to be submitted no later than March 31,1978. For application form write to: Address . UKRAINIAN NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, INC. 30 Montgomery Street " Jersey City, NJ. 07302 UKRAINIAN NATIONAL ASSOCIATION ESTATE Kerhonkson, N.Y. 12446 Tel.: (914) 626-5641 No. 50 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, MARCH 5,1978 15 A Multicultural Society (Continued from page 6) WORD JUMBLE folks would hire the Ukrainians to help "melting pot." The desire among cul­ with their homes." tural groups to assert their distinctive The jumbled words below represent the names of'Shestydesiatnyky," a group of intellectuals active in Ukraine during the 1960's. They can be identified by rearranging Through contact of this kind, the in­ identities has only grown stronger in the letters. Letters underlined with a double line form the mystery words. nate barriers of suspicion among racial recent years. As a result, Canadians are groups were breached. "Ignorance now at the point where they must come alone makes monsters and bugbears," to terms with their nation's multicul­ „Shestydesiatnyky" wrote William Hazlitt; "our actual tural character if it is to survive as a co­ acquaintances are very commonplace hesive working democracy. That great people." It is difficult to hate for no student of democracy, Lord Acton, ORHYN good reason a man who shares a mid­ wrote in 1836, "A State which is in­ day meal with you after you have both competent to satisfy different races put in a hard morning's work. In an condemns itself; a State which does not STOKONEK age of intolerance, Canadians came to include them is destitute of the chief practice the paradoxical brand of selec­ basis of self-government." How aptly tive tolerance typified by Jonathan these words apply to the case of HRADC Swift's statement: "Principally I hate Canada today. and detest that animal called man; The policy of official multicultur- LHUSOTA although I heartily love John, Peter, alism will only succeed if there is a full Thomas and so forth." There was still awareness of its inherent dangers. One much intolerance; yet it is evident there of these has been pointed out force­ MYSOONNKE was sufficient plain human goodwill to fully by spokesmen for French Cana­ permit a multicultural society to germi­ da: that multiculturalism might be nate. employed as a trojan horse to promote SHORKA Its growth over the decades since has the English language md English not been without its difficulties and Canadian culture, thereby threatening RYHN setbacks. Yet again, at least a suf­ the status of French Canadians as one ficiency of tolerance has prevailed. As of Canada's founding peoples, and the more and more people from more and survival of the French Canadian way VALAZHAYK more countries streamed in looking for of life. Another is that the policy might a new life in the years following World lock ethnic citizens in their existing so­ War II, a spirit of casual generosity cial and economic positions, reserving THERAE overrode intergroup bickering, racial the top of the heap for its traditional occupants, who are mostly of British prejudice and recurring complaints SCODYHA that immigrants were taking away jobs origin. Yet another is that multicultur­ from Canaidans. As a result, well over alism might be exploited for partisan 4 million newcomers from approxi­ ends, pitting one group against another This is the title (translated into English) mately 100 nations and colonies have for the sake of political power. of a well-known poem by one of the above: settled in Canada in a general atmo­ Perhaps the greatest danger of all is sphere of goodwill since 1945. that the multicultural policy could be W This mass influx of people from so distorted to further the evils it is de­ many different lands has wrought signed to eliminate. Rosemary Brown, Answers to last week's jumble: Goldstein, Orlov, Shcharansky, Petkas, Sera- striking changes in Canadian life, a former British Columbia cabinet bov, Ginzburg, Gamsakhurdia, Kostava, Marchenko. mainly for the better. The economy minister of West Indian birth, has and the arts and sciences have been warned: "Multiculturalism should not, Mystery words: Malva Landa. strengthened greatly by the contribu­ and must not, be a situation where eth­ HAVE AN INTERESTING JUMBLE? SEND IT IN. tions of "new Canadians" from far nic groups maintain their cultural and wide. They have brought the world identity because they are alienated, iso­ to Canada and brought Canada into lated, oppressed, ostracized, categoriz­ almost 50,000 died - in a war to eradi­ an Gray — not to be examined too the world by adding a cosmopolitan di­ ed or manipulated on account of a cate the unspeakable racialist scourge closely for fear of being confronted mension to the outlook of their native- particular cultural background." of Nazism not so long ago. In this con­ with the unsightly facts underlying the born compatriots. They have made the In these demanding new circum­ text it is instructive to consider the ele­ face shown to the world. Canadians of Canadian scene immeasurably stances it would be self-defeating to ments of intolerance run wild: the dominant Anglo-Celtic group con­ brighter as well. pretend, as in the past, that intolerance jealousy, suspicion, cruelty, ignorance, gratulated themselves for their toler­ vindictiveness, and a contempt for the ance while they expected members of The cumulative effect of immigra­ is an insignificant factor in Canadian society. Racial violence lately has dignity of one's fellow human beings. other ethnic groups to be good sports tion in the 20th century has been Intolerance, then, is an amalgam of and keep in their subordinate places. to turn Canada into a nation of minori­ reared its truly ugly head in Canadian cities which contain large numbers of the worst of human emotions. It The door was opened no more than a ties. At the beginning of the century should be beneath civilized people; but crack to non-white immigration until people of British origin made up about non-white people. While overt racial conflicts make headlines, there is civilization is a fragile state, as the peri­ only a few years ago. The false face has 57 percent of the population - odic plunges by mankind into barbar­ since melted in the heat of democratic although it should be noted that this ample evidence that covert racial dis­ crimination is practiced in Canada ism still prove. Let no one be deluded dissent, and now real injustices must be group was a composite of English, that civilization is inviolate in Canada. corrected in a spirit of real tolerance. If Scottish, American, Irish and Welsh. daily. Certainly intolerance on both sides has envenomed the national Our national woodwork has at least its not, the multicultural society could The 1971 census showed that, even share of bigots, bullies and related one day turn into a cockpit for multi­ when all these disparate Anglo-Saxons debate over bilingualism and the political future of Quebec. rabble ever alert for an opportunity to cultural strife. and Celts of different religions and come crawling out. tenure in Canada were classed as a Yet Canadians, of all people, should Politicians may erect elaborate insti­ So the time has come to replace rhe single racial entity, they comprised appreciate the value of tolerance. Their tutional structures to support the spirit toric with reality. It must be mad less than 45 percent of the population. history and their surroundings should of multicultural tolerance, but again it manifest that the remarkable multicu) People of French origin made up the teach them how little it costs in relation is up to ordinary citizens to uphold it. tural community which has grown u second largest group at 28.7 percent; to its rewards. The tolerance of ethnic Government-sponsored folk festivals in Canada is not a political mirage the rest originated in all parts of the diversity in Canada has led indirectly and ethnic conferences are worth little that it really does offer the best hope c world. to a tolerance of eccentricities and if they do not advance the mass public equality for all concerned. To achie\ This new demographic pattern has alternative lifestyles - of "doing your understanding needed to sustain the this, individual Canadians must sho presented a challenge to Canadians in own thing," as the current expression multicultural ideal. that they are capable of rising abo\ their quest for unity. Can such a loose­ has it. A sbciety which tolerates a the antagonistic tribalism which hi diversity of cultures is also capable of Up to now, Canada has been a na­ ly knit patchwork of ethnic groups tion in which everyone is considered always blighted the human condition ever hold together in a common cause? tolerating a diversity of opinion, and They must prove the unlikely propos so it does in Canada. equal, but some are more equal than Few nations in the world have no others. For many years the picture of tion that there can be unity in diversit homogeneous majority or pervasive The consequences of a break-down Canadian democracy presented by go­ In so doing, they may also prove th; national culture. Canada is unusual in of tolerance are all too obvious. Wa­ vernments and educational institutions there are such things as enlightenmei having two official languages, English tching the news from other parts of the was something like the picture of Dori- and human progress left in this world. and French. All this makes the nation world, Canadians must find that they are a fortunate few, Northern Ireland vulnerable to the forces of parochi­ Г GLASSES! GLASSES! alism and divisiveness. Thus, when in and Lebanon provide the most recent GLASSES! 1971 Canada was officially declared a and conspicuous, but not the only, ex­ WITH UKRAINIAN DESIGN "multicultural society within a bi­ amples of what happens to people PACK OF б or 12 IN A BOX. WE SEND BY MAIL lingual framework," Canadians enter­ when intolerance predominates. Many (Can be obtained in all Ukrainian stores in USA) ed into an experiment in human rela­ present-day Canadians know the DELTO EUROPA CORP. tions which tests the goodwill of them oppression and terror of intolerance Roman Iwanyckyj all. first-hand, having fled from it else­ 136 and 146 First Avenue New York, N.Y. 10009 There can be no turning back to the where. And lest we forget, more than a (Bet 8th and 9th Sts) Tel. (212)228-2266 homogeneity of the American-style million Canadians served ;ч- and THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, MARCH 5,1978 No. 50 UCCA Washington News ' On January 25th, the UCCA Pre­ UCCA President. The prestigious ^ Well after the 60th celebration of Drinan of Massachusetts said: "I have sident joined with the top leadership in "Green Book" lists names from Presi­ Ukrainian independence proclamation, long been an advocate of the protection the U.S. House of Representatives to dent. Carter down through our offi­ congressmen and senators have ex­ of human rights in all parts of the world, observe the 60th anniversary of Ukrai­ cialdom, the embassies and other insti­ pressed their support to the UCCA including Ukraine." Another, Senator nian independence. The Speaker of the tutions and circles in the nation's President. Though for one reason or Howard M. Metzenbaum of Ohio, House, Thomas P. O'Neill, Jr., receiv­ capital. It is a primary source for another they weren't able to participate assured the UCCA President that he ed the delegation in his office. Joining invitations and contacts in the Wash­ in the functions on the Hill and in will do everything "to encourage our in the celebration were Reps. Daniel J. ington area. Congress, they have conveyed their government to use its influence to Flood (D-Pa.), minority leader, John і On February 16th, the UCCA feelings to the UCCA President. For protect and extend human rights in J. Rhodes, (R^Ariz.), Frank Annuzio President attended a reception given at example, Representative Robert F. Ukraine." (D-Itt.), Philip^ Crane (R-IU.) and the Lithuanian Legation in Washing­ leading conservattvetjspokesmen in the ton. The occasion was the Lithuanian jattaaacsxxxsxssssttB^^ U.S., the Rev. Dftv Edward G. Latch, National Holiday and the 60th anniver­ THE USSR vs. DR. MIKHAIL STERN chaplain of the House, and Yaroslav sary of Lithuania's independence. In SOVIET "JUSTICE" vs. HUMAN RIGHTS and Slava Stetzko of the ABN. behalf of UCCA, he paid respects to Dr. m In the evening of the 25th, the Stasys and Madam Backis. The UCCA The only tape recording of a trial smuggled out of the Soviet Union. UCCA President attended the recep­ President met also with numerous Edited by AUGUST STERN. friends from USIA and the diplomatic tion sponsored by the local UCCA Translated from the Russian by MARCO CARYNNYK branch in the Senate wing of the U.S. colony, including the dean of the ;67 paces - hardbound. Price: S9 95 Capitol. He met and talked with Sens. diplomatic corps, Dr. Guillermo Sevil- Postage and handling one dollar. Helms, Case, Jugar and several Con­ la-Sacasa of Nicaragua, Minister Dr. New Jersey residents add 5^о sales tax. gressmen, as well as many represent­ Tai-Chu Chen of the Republic of China atives of national organizations. In the and others. Talks with Lithuanian "SVOBODA" BOOKSTORE Americans centered on the Belgrade 30 Montgomery Street Jersey City, NJ. 07302 formal part of the program the UCCA Лжжжххххжхжхххххххз^ ^ President spoke on the meaning and conference. significance of the "60th ,? Stetzko and UNR President Mykola Liwycki also addressed the participants. - ^ On January 27th; the UCCA Pre­ sident was invited to join the National Advisory Council of the American Council for Free Asia. The council is composed of national leaders concern­ ed with the overall strategy of the U.S. in Asia. The UCCA President accepted the invitation. Future plans of AGFA will include examination of Moscow's moves from Korea to the Australian sub-continent. m On January 31st, the UCCA Pre­ sident was appointed consultant to the U.S. Catholic Bishops' Conference for study of Marxism-Communism, deal­ ing particularly with the USSR. A meeting was held in Washington with several of the highest dignitaries of the conference. Fundamental subjects of principles and practices were discussed. A program for future meetings and practical considerations was initiated. The full-day conference was produc­ tive and augurs well for the year-long program. і On February 3rd, UCCA Presi­ dent Dr. Lev Dobriansky was inter­ viewed over radio station WABS in Arlington, Va. The one-hour interview and talk-in covered a wide field of topics relating to Ukraine and the USSR. Neil Carr conducted the interview. Both George Nesterczuk and George Wolo- shyn of UNIS participated in the pro­ gram and spoke about UNIS's oper­ ations. і The UCCA President has initiated a protest to The New York Times for its failure to publish letters criticizing the outrageous Whitney article in December. The article was rampant in its allegations of so-called Ukrainian anti-Semitism. Copies of the."Congres- sional Record" issue of January 25th, in which the UCCA President's letter appears, were sent to the editors of the paper. A response has been made to the protest and the matter is being presently negotiated. і The 1978 social list of Washing­ ton again contains the registry of the

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