lished by the Ukrainian National Association Inc., a fraternal non-profit association! rainian WeeklV Vol. LIX mNo. 25 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JUNE 23,1991 50 cents 2,000 greet Archbishop Sterniuk Ukraine's authorities register at outdoor liturgy in Toronto Ukrainian Greek-Catholic Church LVIV - The Ukrainian Greek- The act of registration was com­ Catholic Church has been registered in pleted on June 15 in Kiev by the vice- Ukraine on the republican level, report­ chancellor of the Lviv Archeparchy, the ed the Church's Lviv Press Office. Rev. Roman Shafran. Registration occurred on May 28 Having been registered, the Ukrainian following a visit to Kiev by the head of Greek-Catholic Church now has all the the Ukrainian Catholic Church, Cardi­ rights given to religious institutions in nal Myroslav Ivan Lubachivsky. accordance with the recently passed Law on Freedom of Conscience and In the Ukrainian capital the primate Religious Organizations. had met with the chairman of the In other news, Cardinal Lubachivsky Ukrainian SSR Supreme Soviet, Leo­ announced on June 11 that he will nid M. Kravchuk. They discussed remain permanently in Ukraine and will registration of the Ukrainian Greek- begin much-needed work to establish an Catholic Church and the fact that this infrastructure for the Ukrainian Greek- Church does not have its own house of Catholic Church in Ukraine. worship in Kiev. A speedy resolution to In a June 6 statement written in Lviv both matters was assured by Mr. Krav­ and released to the public on June 10, chuk and other government officials Cardinal Lubachivsky noted the follow­ present at themeeting. ing;

Toronto's Ukrainian Catholic Bishop Isidore Borecky (left) stands next to Archbishop Volodymyr Sterniuk of Lviv, at recent celebrations marking the centennial of Ukrainian settlement in Canada.

by Christopher Guly Canadian National Exhibition Grounds. Special to The Ukrainian Weekly During his homily, Archbishop Ster­ niuk paid tribute to the "confessors TORONTO - Battling a premature of the faith" who successfully fought summer heatwave and the heavy pangs Communist oppression of the faith that his 84-year-old body brings him, the since Josyf Stalin declared the Church senior bishop of the Ukrainian Catholic illegal in 1946. Church in Ukraine told stories of the His voice breaking with emotion, the old century which made his audience resident primate of the Ukrainian weep. Catholic Church in Ukraine spent Lviv Archbishop Volodymyr Ster­ almost an hour detailing his expe­ niuk, repeatedly called the patriarch of riences of imprisonment and house the Ukrainian Catholic Church by his arrest. Archbishop Sterniuk made spe­ host, Toronto Bishop Isidore Borecky, cial reference to the ardent fervor of the delivered an emotional address here on late Bishop Nicetas Budka, Canada's June 5, as part of the local eparchy's first Ukrainian Catholic bishop who centennial celebrations of Ukrainian returned to Ukraine and who died an settlement in Canada. emotionally embattled man. Today, About 2,000 attended an outdoor many consider Bishop Budka to be a Cardinal Myroslav Ivan Lubachivsky offers liturgy at St. Mykola Naberezhny pontifical divine liturgy at Toronto's (Continued on page 8) Church in the Podil district of Kiev. "A new page begins in our history. Military conversion conference held in Kiev The time for martyrdom of blood has passed and the time for the martyrdom by Ana Goshko According to Mr. Antonov, defense held in the Blue Hall of Kiev's October of living is here, which in everyday Special to The Ukrainian Weekly enterprises in Ukraine will have auto­ Palace. testimony and the constant obedience KIEV — "Ukrainian defense pro­ nomy in decision-making and will pay Volodymyr Pylypchuk, chairman of of God's and the Church's command­ duction enterprises will be transferred taxes only to the republic. In turn, the the Ukrainian Supreme Soviet's Sub­ ments we witness to God in our home­ from union control to the control of the Ukrainian government will pay a fixed committee on Economic Reform and land and among our people. Our task is Ukrainian Republic," according to amount of tax to the union government. Management of the National Economy, to renew the spiritual and moral life of Viktor Antonov, the Ukrainian state Some Ukrainian defense enterprises are said at the conference that there are four the Ukrainian people, and we will also secretary for the defense complex and also to be turned into joint-stock steps to privatization of state enter­ spare no efforts for the betterment of conversion. companies. Fifty percent of an enter­ prises: nationalization, diversification, their material state. We will especially Mr. Antonov spoke at "Conversion prise's shares will be retained by the commercialization and privatiza­ focus our attention on the education of ^1," a three-day conference, which took government, but may be later sold to tion/demonopolization. new cadres of dedicated priests and place May 27-30 in Kiev. The confe­ workers' collectives or other entities. Mr. Pylypchuk said he considers the faithful among our youth. In the very rence was sponsored by the Harvard More than 70 Ukrainian government conversion of defense enterprises an near future we will make a series of Project on Economic Reform in U- officials, Supreme Soviet members and integral part of diversification. decisions regarding the strengthening of kraine, and SPURT, an association of general directors of Ukrainian defense "Available consumer goods must be enterprises and cooperatives in Kiev. enterprises attended "Conversion ^l," (Continued on page 8) (Continued on page 8) 2 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JUNE 23,1991 No. 25 Political developments in Ukraine: Battle of Brody monument demolished TORONTO - A monument Fifty-three Galician Division an analysis of complex situation dedicated to the Ukrainian soldiers veterans, captured after the battle and killed 47 years ago in the World War II sentenced to years of imprisonment in Battle of Brody on May 26, in the village Soviet concentration camps, attended by Dr. David R. Marples heights after the issuance of a Ukrainian Radio Liberty Research of Yasheniv, Brody region, was the holy liturgy and funeral service program to deal with the disaster's demolished in a powerful explosion in officiated by Catholic and Orthodox effects, which has reduced radiation CONCLUSION the early hours of June 18, reported the clergy on May 26. norms for the population and con­ Ukrainian Central Information Service Dmytro Chdbit, a Ukrainian people's Ukrainian Inter-Party Assembly siderably expanded the territory said to based in London. deputy from Brody, and Myroslav be contaminated in Ukraine. The monument, a 10-meter white Hlubysh, head of the Drohobych City In western Ukraine, the alienation of Chornobyl continues to be an emo­ marble obelisk adorned with a black Council, delivered commemorative the three non-Communist western tional issue in Ukrainian politics that marble cross and a gold lion, the symbol addresses. The Brotherhood of Galician governments from the rest of the re­ can hardly be underrated. The Chor­ of the First, or Galician, Division of the Division Veterans was represented by public is well known. In February, the nobyl Committee and Green Party have Ukrainian Army, was unveiled on the Volodymyr Molodetsky of Toronto, three oblasts held a joint assembly to reported that the number of current anniversary of the Battle of Brody in a who was the commander of the Galician discuss cooperation and the possibility casualties to date among clean-up crews solemn ceremony attended by Division at the Battle of Brody. Mr. of forming an autonomous Galician is 7,000 to 10,000, but the all-union approximately 15,000 persons, reported Molodetsky greeted those gathered as region within Ukraine.17 While these authorities have not commented on the World Congress of Free Ukrainians. both a Galician Division commander areas have been seen as particularly these figures. On April 24, Mr. Yavoriv­ Designed by sculptor Valeriy Potiuk and representative of the World radical, extreme currents have begun to sky spoke at a press conference in Kiev, and erected under the sponsorship of Congress of Free Ukrainians. manifest themselves. at which he cited documents purporting the Lviv Brotherhood of Students, the The UCIS, in a news item One of the most publicized has been to show that the former first secretary of monument was dedicated to Ukrainian. disseminated by the WCFU, stated that the Ukrainian Inter-Party Assembly the Ukrainian Communist Party, soldiers of all armies killed in the 1944 at 4 a.m. on June 18, unidentified (Ukrayinska Mizhpartiyna Asambleya- Volodymyr Shcherbytsky (a conserva­ Battle of Brody, although it is persons detonated a bomb which UMA), (UMA), which held an unsanc- tive figure appointed in the Brezhnev unmistakedly a memorial to soldiers of destroyed the monument and shattered tioned meeting to protest the union re­ era), wanted to evacuate the city of Kiev the Galician Division, reported the the windows of 50 homes irt its ferendum on March 17. The UMA is by May 10, 1986, but was prevented WCFU. immediate vicinity. made up of several ultra-nationalist from doing so by Gorbachev personally, who informed Mr. Shcherbytsky that groups; the Ukrainian Committee of 22 Catholic Youth; the Union of Nationa­ he was a "panicker." Stepcm Khmara trial postponed, list Youth of Ukraine; the Ukrainian The point here is not the effects of National Radical Party; the Ukrainian Chornobyl per se, but the perception in Kovalchuk taken to hospital Ukraine that the disaster was a result of Popular Democratic Party; theDmytro by Marta Kolomayets The lawyers for Dr. Khmara and his Dontsov Ukrainian Nationalist Club; and the reported incompetence and callous­ ness at the union level (Mr. Yavorivsky Kiev Press Bureau co-defendants expressed their vote of the Committee for the Creation of no-confidence in the judges, stating that National Armed Forces. It is operating mentioned the party specifically), which has continued to this day to impede aid KIEV - Once again, the trial of they are members of the Communist outside the parliamentary system and is radical opposition leader Stepan Kh­ Party of the Soviet Union and thus, opposed to both Rukh and the Lviv to those suffering. Further, the republi­ can plan to shut down the Chornobyl mara and his five co-defendants was cannot provide a fair and just trial. Oblast government headed by Vyache- postponed indefinitely as Judge Vasyl During the trial proceedings on slav Chornovil. Within this govern­ station by 1995 is being contested by the USSR Ministry of Atomic Energy and Bilousenko ordered a thorough medical Monday, June 17, reported the Respub­ ment, its members have formed an psychological examination of 01eksan- lika press agency, Leonid Berezansky, Opposition Nationalist Faction, evi­ Industry, which continues to keep three Chornobyl reactors operating. The der Kovalchuk, who has been beaten one of the five co-defendants, refused to dently as a protest against the alleged and drugged during his seven-month take part in the proceedings. Another failure of Mr. Chornovil to support the republican-USSR dispute will peak in July ythbn Ukraine, і)і^иііщШу, will imprisonment. defendant, Mykola Holovach stated, strike movement ofthe miners in the The trial proceedings, which began that as a citizen of the Ukrainian Chervonohrad coalfield.18 '^ gain jurisdiction „over Chornobyl ahd ^(^hernuctea^^tUroh it^ territory^ .f r on Monday Juoe 17, ended abruptly oji National Republic he does not recog­ The UMA is seeking the ftstoratibn Tuesday^ June lW ami Mr; Kovalchuk nize a Communist court; he also asked of the Ukrainian National Republic Dr. Shcherbak has used evidence of was taken to a Kiev psychiatric hospital that an oath be delivered and refused (UNR) of 1918-1919 as the only form of industrial pollution in Ukraine, coupled for further examination. On Monday, the assistance of his lawyer. legitimate government in Ukraine. It with the impact of Chornobyl, to June 17, Judge Bilousenko introduced Co-defendant Mykhailo Ratushny also recognizes the Yaroslav Stetsko declare Ukraine a "zone of ecological his fellow judges; the judge also noted appealed to the court, citing Mr. Koval- catastrophe," a claim now echoed by government, declared on June 30,1941, 23 that during the trial, he would take a chuk's health and asking for immediate as a legal entity, and thus has accepted Ukraine's government leaders. The leave of absence from membership in medical attention. As Mr. Kovalchuk the validity of the Ukrainian govern­ Green Party has claimed that Moscow's the Communist Party of Ukraine, began to speak, once again he had a fit ment (Ukrainske Derzhavne Pravlin- economic policies have been directly reported the Press Center Respublika. of hysteria and the proceedings had to nia) led by a Detroit resident, Bohdan responsible for the current plight of the 19 The members of the procurator's be halted. Fedorak. It has created "public com­ Ukrainian environment. office, the lawyers for the defendants, During the afternoon of the first day mittees" in various oblasts of Ukraine, Union of Ukrainian Students the public defenders and the defendants of the proceedings, Oleh Batovkin, the which have begun to register citizens of were introduced to the courtroom and a last of the five-co-defendants, read a a renewed UNR. At some point, those A final group of note is the student community, which has remained active translation (from Russian to Ukrai­ letter of protest to the court which registered — a reported 2.8 million nian) was provided for Col. Ihor alleged the criminal charges to be persons to date20 — will elect a National since its strike in Kiev last October. In early April, a Union of Ukrainian Hryhoriev's lawyer. fabricated, called Col. Hryhoriev to Congress which, it is intended, will And, once again, the courtroom was take responsibility for the actions of supersede the Ukrainian Supreme So­ Students was established, which united all branches of the student movement, filled with OMON guards and close to November 7, and accused the criminal viet as the main power base in Ukraine. investigators of beating his mother including that of the Kiev State Uni­ 1,000 spectators stood outside the City Admittedly, the UMA can be con­ when they called her in for questioning versity and the very active Lviv Student Court, listening to the live transmission sidered a fringe group, but it has some 24 of the proceedings. late last year. support among the disaffected popula­ Brotherhood. The new union does not tion; basically it is looking for a short (Continued on page 12) cut to power that avoids the parliamen­ 17. Radio Kiev, February 18, 1991. tary process. Though like the URP it 18. Molod Ukrainy, April 10, 1991, A ff. FOUNDED 1933 has strongly embraced the strike move­ 19. Statement of Second Session of the Ukrainian Weelch ment, it has not been prepared to launch Ukrainian Inter-Party Assembly addressed its quest for power along the democratic to Bohdan Fedorak, head of the Ukrainian An English-language Ukrainian newspaper published by the Ukrainian National lines outlined by Mr. Lukianenko. State Government, October 7, 1990, Kiev. Association Inc., a non-profit association, at 30 Montgomery St., Jersey City, NJ. (From the files of The Ukrainian Weekly.) 07302. Green Party and 20. It is not clear from the source to what Chornobyl Commission this number refers. It does not denote active Second-class postage paid at Jersey City, NJ. 07302. members of the UI-PA. Possibly those on The Green Party (Partiya Zelenykh) the list have simply signed a paper declaring (ISSN - 0273-9348) of Ukraine arose from the informal their interest in Ukrainian citizenship. ecological association Green World 21. The weakness of the Green Party at Yearly subscription rate: S20; for UNA members - 510. (Zelenyi Svit) last year, and is headed by present in that Shcherbak, an astute politi­ Also published by the UNA: Svoboda, a Ukrainian-language daily newspaper. the physician and writer. Yuriy cian, is a member of the Supreme Soviet of Shcherbak.21 Together with the Ukrai­ the USSR and has not yet gained a seat in The Weekly and Svoboda: UNA: nian Parliament's Chornobyl Commit­ the Ukrainian assembly (he won a plurality (201) 434-0237, -0807, -3036 (2M) 451-2200 tee, chaired by Volodymyr Yavorivsky, of votes in the last election, but not enough it has mounted effective protests against to secure his nomination). He retains a Postmaster, send address Editor: Roma Hadzewycz an alleged cover-up of the full conse­ position in the Green World, in addition to changes to: Associate editors: Marta Kolomayets (Kiev) quences of the Chornobyl disaster by the Green Party, as a deputy chairman. The Ukrainian Weekly Chrystyna Lapychak 22. Radio Kiev, April 24, 1991. the central authorities and against the P.O. Box 346 Assistant editor Khristina Lew 23. K. Masyk, first deputy chairman of Jersey City, NJ. 07303 Ukrainian variant of the Soviet nuclear the Ukrainian Council of Ministers, has power program. The fifth anniversary used this same expression, Radio Kiev, The Ukrainian Weekly, June 23,1991, No. 25, Vol. UX of Chornobyl and events connected January 22, 1991. Copyright 1991 by The Ukrainian Weekly with it raised these protests to new 24. Molod Ukrainy, April 10, 1991. No. 25 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JUNE 23,1991 3

National sports in Ukraine: another sign of sovereignty, says deputy by Chrystyna N. Lapychak reputation as a great state, because Ukraine a recognized sovereign we know how popular sports are Olympic state." SHORT HILLS, N.J. - "Na­ today in the world," said Mr. "You understand that all of these tional sport is also an attribute of an Kendzior. processes are extraordinarily inter­ independent state and the movement "A single sports team, when it is related. If tomorrow we achieve toward sovereignty of Ukrainian strong and popular, be it hockey or political sovereignty, then automati­ sport is taking place within the soccer or basketball, when it will play cally all of these sports problems general context of the struggle for around the world, when it will call would be solved. On the other hand, sovereignty and statehood for U- itself a Ukrainian team and will play we shouldn't wait, these sports or­ kraine," said Ukrainian People's under its national flag, the whole ganizations shouldn't wait until all Deputy Yaroslav Kendzior during an world will resound with talk about the political problems are solved and interview here in May. Ukraine through sports," he said. the political independence and politi­ Not only is the 50-year-old Mr. cal definition of Ukraine are Kendzior a representative of the "Members of my subcommittee affirmed," he continued. Sokal region of Lviv Oblast in the and myself believe that a great and mighty sports state like Ukraine, "This means that individual sports Ukrainian Parliament, but he is also activists, directors of sports teams at the forefront of the movement which often contributes as much as a third of the members of the joint all- and the well-known athletes of U- toward sovereignty in sports for the kraine themselves, all should have a Ukrainian republic, struggling to union imperial Olympic teams, even now if a national Olympic team national spirit and understand that earn an equal place in the world of Ukraine is obligated today to be a international sports. would begin to form to participate in the Olympic Games in Barcelona, full-fledged member of the Interna­ A former physical education in­ then even at these games Ukraine tional Olympic Committee, because structor in Lviv, Mr. Kendzior serves could be in a leading position among supposedly we have all attributes of a as chairman of the Ukrainian Su­ such leading sports countries as the sovereign state, we are a member ol preme Soviet's Subcommittee on United States, Germany and others. the United Nations, we are members Physical Culture, Sports and Tou­ Right now we are making great of many other international organi­ rism. He and Yulian Kordiak were efforts...to create national sports zations, we have declared our state invited to the United States as repre­ structures, we are encouraging sports independence and now we demand to sentatives of the Ukrainian Sports federations (in Ukraine) to gain be represented in these international Association of Lviv by the Ukrai­ national status, to hold national world sports organizations." nian Sports Federation of the U.S. championships, to demand their Mr. Kendzior said that neither he and Canada to finalize plans for the acceptance into appropriate interna­ nor the other members of his parlia­ first trip of athletes from the diaspora tional organizations, such as in mentary subcommittee had any illu­ for sports competitions in Ukraine soccer the Ukrainian Football sions that Ukraine could be repre­ People's Deputy Yaroslav Kendzior this summer under the auspices of Association joining the Federation sented independently at the Olympic expect that you will welcome and both organizations. of International Football Associa­ Games in Barcelona in 1992. Ukrai­ applaud a Ukrainian national team "I have always believed that tions, and finally, the formation of a nian athletes, he said, would partici­ during the opening ceremonies, through sports organizations, national Olympic committee of pate as members of the all-union which will march in its national through individual athletes, through Ukraine and its effort to gain Soviet team. costumes under its national flag," he individual sports teams we could, acceptance into the International "In 1996, however, at the Olympic declared. Ukraine could quickly earn a Olympic Committee - thus making Games in Atlanta, here in America, I (Continued on page 16) Lev Lukianenko meets with government officials in Canada by Andrij Hluchowecky Member of Parliament John Bosley Ukrainian Information Bureau (Don Valley West), who is chairman of the Parliamentary Committee on Exter­ OTTAWA — Ukrainian Republican nal Affairs and International Trade. Party leader and People's Deputy to the The discussions focused on interna­ Supreme Soviet of Ukraine Levko tional law and the ramifications of Lukianenko met with numerous gov­ Ukrainian independence on the whole ernment officials and policy-makers in of the Soviet Union. Ottawa during a highly successful three- Mr. Bosley expressed fears that if day stopover in the Canadian capital on Canada lends it support to the indepen­ May 1-3. dence movements in the USSR, then the The highlight of the Ottawa visit was Soviet government may begin raising the warm welcome given by Ray the specter of the independence of Hnatyshyn, governor general of Ca­ Quebec. Consequently, the Toronto nada, to Mr. Lukianenko in a brief MP frankly stated that he could not meeting in the elaborate royal cham­ lend support for Ukrainian indepen­ bers at Rideau Hall, the governor dence at this time, because this would be general's official residence. viewed as meddling in the internal Mr. Lukianenko began his whirlwind affairs of the Soviet Union. But his view tour of the nation's capital with meet­ would change, once the Ukrainian ings at the Department of External people in Ukraine decided democrati­ Affairs with senior policy planning cally the fate of their nation. Mr. officials including Director General Lukianenko responded that the Soviet Rodney Irwin of the USSR and Eastern empire is crumbling and that the inde­ Europe Bureau, Deputy Director L. Governor General Ray Hnatyshyn welcomes Lev Lukianenko (left). Looking on pendence of Ukraine is inevitable. Digangi of the USSR and Eastern are Vasyl Veryhai of the World Congress of Free Ukrainians and Andrij On Parliament Hill, Mr. Lukianenko Europt Relations Division and Soviet Hluchowecky of the Ukrainian Canadian Committee's Information Bureau. also met with the Minister of Parlia­ Desk Officer Stefanie Beck. Ukrainian republic. Canadian humani­ nobyl explosion and the strength of the ment and Liberal critic for External Mr. Lukianenko, speaking without an Affairs, Lloyd Axworthy (Winnipeg interpreter in the self-educated English tarian and medical assistance for the democratic forces in the Ukrainian victims of the Chornobyl nuclear disas­ republic. He also asked Mr. Lukia­ South Center). Mr. Axworthy was told he acquired during his long years of of the developments in the Ukrainian incarceration in the Soviet gulag, ter was also discussed. nenko for the Republican Party posi­ tion on such issues as ecology and the miners' strikes including their demands briefed External Affairs officials on the From the Lester B. Pearson Building, for the dissolution of the Supreme Mr. Lukianenko with his wife, Nadia, environment, the role of women in the current political situation in Ukraine, party and the rights of minorities. Soviet of the USSR, the suspension of from the miner's strikes in the Donbas went on to Parliament Hill for a meet­ the transfer of funds from Ukraine to and the political trial of Ukrainian ing with Member of Parliament Svend The final event of the day provided Moscow and for the immediate release Parliamentarian Stephan Khmara to Robinson (Burnaby-Kingsway). A Mr. Lukianenko and his wife the oppor­ of Stephan Khmara. The liberal MP the Ukrainian government's recent lawyer by profession, Mr. Robinson tunity to meet with the Ukrainian exhibited keen interest in the Khmara move, to create a National Bank of holds the External Affairs critic port­ community of Ottawa in an event case and promised to raise the issue with Ukraine and to introduce separate folio for the New Democratic Party of sponsored by the Ottawa Branch of the his parliamentary colleagues and, if customs services. Canada. Ukrainian Canadian Congress. Ukrai­ necessary, in the House of Commons. He also stressed the need for Canada Following a detailed briefing by Mr. nian Deputy Les Taniuk, chairman of Mr. Lukianenko then met with offi­ to accelerate its opening of the Consu­ Lukianenko, the Canadian parlia­ the Commission on Culture and Spiri­ cials from the Canadian Bank Note late General in Kiev so that Canada, mentarian, having traveled to Ukraine tual Renaissance, also participated in Company to learn first-hand the pro­ home to some 1 million Canadians of on two separate occasions, posed rele­ the community meeting. cess by which the Canadian government Ukrainian descent, could begin de­ vant queries on the state of language in The next day began with an early prints its bank notes. Escorted by the veloping strong bilateral ties with the Ukraine, the consequences of the Chor- ^ morning meeting with Conservative (Continued on page 14) - 4 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JUNE 23,1991 No. 25

Jersey City councilman Kulas appointed Chicago sister cities chairman CHICAGO - Mayor Richard M. has held since 1964. Born in Ukraine in Daley has appointed prominent Chi­ 1934, Mr. Kulas was educated in the conducts workshop in Kiev cago attorney and banker Julian E. United States. He holds both a B. A. and law degree from Chicago's DePaul by Khristina Lew Kulas to serve as chairman of the newly formed Kiev Committee of the Chicago University. JERSEY CITY, N.J. -At Jersey Sister Cities International Program. Through his distinguished law and City's fifth anniversary Chdrnobyl "I am pleased that Julian Kulas has business career, Mr. Kulas has remain­ commemoration on April 26, City accepted the chairmanship of the Kiev ed an active champion of Ukrainian Councilman Jaime Vazquez handed Committee of the Chicago Sister Cities civil rights, having initiated and orga­ out the Ukrainian flag pins he had International Program," Mayor Daley nized the Ukrainian National Informa­ purchased in Kiev several days ear­ said. "Through his many civic and tion Service in Washington. Mr. Kulas lier. Mr. Vazquez, a second-term professional associations, he represents is involved with a number of national Jersey City councilman and repre­ the Ukrainian community in local and local civic organizations. He is an sentative of the International Secre­ government, civic and community executive committee member of the tariat of Nuclear Free Zones, tra­ activities. Under his leadership, the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Council; veled to Kiev April 20-25 to conduct Kiev Committee will share its rich commissioner of the Chicago Commis­ a one-day workshop on nuclear-free Ukrainian heritage with the City of sion on Human Relations; and presi­ zones and to participate in the Euro- Chicago and nations throughout the dent of the Ukrainian American Demo­ Chornobyl II Conference. world." cratic Organization. Mr. Kulas is also Invited by the Kiev City Council as The formal signing of a sister city an active member of the Ukrainian both a city councilman and a repre­ agreement between Chicago and Kiev American Bar Association and the sentative of the International Secre­ will take place this summer when Ukrainian Village Association. tariat of Nuclear-Free Zones, a Chicago hosts the 35th anniversary "I am honored to have been selected non-governmental organization Jersey City Councilman Jaime conference of Sister Cities International to chair the Kiev Committee of the comprising mayors and city coun­ Vazquez. on July 15-20. Mayor Daley and Mayor Chicago Sister Cities International Grigory Malishevsky of Kiev, will sign Program. I am proud to be able to serve cil representatives from 25 countries moderates. As a result, "It is difficult where nuclear-free zones exist, Mr. the agreement at a keynote luncheon on the Ukrainian communities both in for any party to get the majority July 17. More than 2,000 delegates from Chicago and in Kiev through my duties Vazquez met with 280 Kiev City needed to push through new legisla­ Council members and discussed the around the world are expected to attend as chairman," noted Mr. Kulas. "In my tion," explained Mr. Vazquez. the Sister Cities International Confer­ new position, I hope to facilitate oppor­ logistics of creating a nuclear-free He continued: "People in Ukraine zone in Kiev. ence, including top officials from Chi­ tunities for exchange between Chicago are grappling with a new-found cago's eight sister cities of Warsaw, and Kiev." Mr. Vazquez has long been a freedom. The same dynamic is at proponent of safe energy. In June Poland; Milan, Italy; Osaka, Japan; The City of Chicago is committed to play there, as is here — people vote Casablanca, Morocco; Accra, Ghana; furthering international exchange and 1985, as a newly elected Jersey City with their party. Representatives to councilman, he sponsored a nuclear- Gothenburg, Sweden; Prague, Czecho­ fostering an environment of cultural Kiev's City Council must learn to cut slovakia; and Shenyang, China. diversity and understanding. In keeping free zone ordinance which passed in across party lines — to agree — in September. In 1987, he and 100 other Mr. Kulas is the president and chief with this philosophy, the Chicago Sister order to avoid stagnation." executive officer of 1st Security Federal Cities Program of the Department of activists were arrested for protesting Mr. Vazquez maintains that Kiev's at the Nevada Nuclear Weapons Test Savings Bank in Chicago, a position he Cultural Affairs coordinates and or­ Communists, democrats and mode­ ganizes various international exchange Site. Annually, he meets and works rates must elect a majority party to with Hibakusha - survivors of projects. the City Council in order to imple­ Past Chicago Sister Cities exchange Hiroshima and Nagasaki. ment change. He also suggests sca- "I am against nuclear energy," said ; Scranton forges tieproject s include: sending a Chicago firig tf6wiHfc^ spurts teaim to compete in an interna­ Mr. Vazquez in an interview May 29, fives: f^QtK^e^'di^i^tduiicU "But we can't just shut nuclear power Cttervonohradtiona l tournament; organizing instruc- representative for every 50,000 per­ (Continued on page 13) plants down. The move towards safe sons would make the deliberative SCRANTON, Pa. - The city of energy must be transitional." processes smoother. Two hundred Scranton has been invited to form a Jersey City's nuclear-free zone eighty representatives make the sister city relationship with the city of ordinance prohibits the develop­ functioning of government very Chervonohrad, Ukraine, reported State senator urges ment, storage, testing, transporta­ difficult." Scranton's newspaper, The Sunday tion, disposal and components of On April 21-25, Mr. Vazquez Times. freedom for Ukraine nuclear power. It does allow for Scranton was invited to join the attended the Euro-Chornobyl II DENVER - Colorado State Sen. nuclear medicine. Conference as a participant. He was program by Bozhena Olshaniwsky, The ordinance has a built-in warn­ president of Americans for Human Bob Schaffer (R-Fort Collins) recent­ particularly concerned by several ly introduced a memorial urging Presi­ ing system which requires the U.S. remarks made by Dr. Robert Gale in Rights in Ukraine, who in a visit to Department of Transportation to Scranton in 1990 was impressed by its dent George Bush and Congress to his statement to the conference. work toward the freedom of the Ukrai­ inform the New Jersey Department "Dr. Robert Gale made several similarities to the city of Chervonohrad of Transportation, which in turn - in size and in coal-mining heritage, nian people. The measure was co-spon simplistic comments, bordering on sored by 26 state senators. informs Jersey City 72 hours prior to the irresponsible" notably that: 'Out said Vera Kowal. the transportation of waste or com­ Ms. Kowal's father, the Rev. Nestor The following excerpts are from Sen. of the 20,000 children born to Shaffer's presentation to the full Se­ ponents of nuclear power through Hiroshima and Nagasaki survivors, Kowal, is the pastor of St. Michael's the city. This is enough time, said Mr. Ukrainian Orthodox Church in Scran­ nate on March 28, during the introduc­ none had birth defects;' There is no tion of Senate Memorial 1. Vazquez, to put through a restrain­ such thing as safe or dangerous levels ton. ing order to further impede the of radiation;' and The fertility rate in Mayor Jim Connors told representa­ movement of unsafe materials. Ukraine is lower after Chornobyl tives of the local Ukrainian American "We are prepared to exercise non­ because people stopped having sex.' community that the city of Scranton "This Memorial is offered on behalf violent civil disobedience if our "Dr. Gale's statement left the would be interested in forging ties with of a very large number of Ukrainians restraining order is not recognized," English-speaking delegation squirm­ Chervonohrad in much the same way it living in Colorado, including me. I he said. ing, so I requested and was granted has with the Irish town of Ballina. wrote this on January 27, which was the Jersey City has been a nuclear-free five minutes to remark on Dr. Gale's Mayor Connors stated that, "The 73rd anniversary of Ukrainian zone for close to six years. Today, the comments." programs that will do more for World independence. My grandfather was City of Kiev is pursuing a similar He continued: "I told the confer­ peace are people-to-people rather than directly affected by the conflict with the ideal. Mr. Vazquez contends that the ence that I was very concerned government-to-government," reported Russian imperial rule in 1918 when majority of Kiev's City Council about Dr. Gale's perspective and that The Sunday Times. Ukraine denounced the Russian Czar would agree to the creation of a although I was not a scientist, I have The Ukrainian Heritage Council of and declared its independence. nuclear-free zone. studied the issue for the past 10 years Northwestern Pennsylvania has already "He left his country as a result of this. The City of Kiev is in a precarious and have visited Japan for the past taken the first step in facilitating the Ever since I was young, I have heard my situation — it has a nuclear dump site five to meet with Hiroshima and sister city program by forming a com­ grandfather talk about his wish and within its city limits. In 1961, when Nagasaki survivors. Dr. Gale's state­ mittee of representatives of the various desire to see an independent and free the dump was built, the site consti­ ment totally contradicts Japanese Ukrainian American organizations in Ukraine. That is a dream he instilled in tuted the outskirts of Kiev. As the findings on the subject. the area. his grandchildren and in the lives of his city grew and extended its limits, the "Further, I said that to claim there Scranton is being asked to commit great-grandchildren. dump site became an integral part of are no safe or dangerous radiation itself to a program which will involve "I don't think he ever dreamed that in Kiev proper, and as a result, nuclear levels was a dangerous comment to exchanges of information, reflecting the leaving a country where his very life was waste is transported through and make and that the fertility in Ukraine common interests of both cities — threatened, that I, as his grandson, disposed within the city limits. comment was simplistic and ir­ transportation, combating ecological would be afforded the opportunity to responsible. pollution, water, roads, sewage systems propose this type of measure. I am very Kiev has a population of 2.5 and city planning; facilitating ex­ million, as does the City of Chicago. "I was approached by several proud that I can offer a Memorial that physicians after the conference and changes of groups involved in sports, embodies his personal dreams so close However, Chicago's City Council cultural activities, performing arts and comprises 50 members, while Kiev's thanked for voicing my trepida­ to Easter, the greatest of holidays for all tions," he said. theater; and organizing periodic ex­ Ukrainian people. Easter represents a has 280. Of the 280, 40 percent are changes of delegations of governmental /Communists, 40 democrats, and 20 (Continued on page 15) rebirth, and this memorial embodies refke^ehtativfcs: ; that same ideal." \ , No. 25 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JUNE 23,1991 5 Children of Chornobyl Relief Fund holds first annual convention by Roma Hadzewycz Relief Fund had been granted tax- kraine, took the floor to explain that nasty words about Stalin and Brezhnev, exempt status retroactive to January affiliation with the CCAU should be be­ but now words are cheap. We have the EAST HANOVER, N.J. - The 1990 and that the organization neficial to the CCRF: the fund would opportunity to do something," he Children of Chornobyl Relief Fund must now function strictly in accor­ have a spot on the board of directors and stressed. held its first annual national convention dance with rules and regulations of the would be provided with all the latest Setting the tone for the convention, on June 1-2, electing 10 officers and a Internal Revenue Service which govern information received from Ukraine. He Prof. Hunczak continued. "We have 17-member board of directors. such bodies. especially emphasized that some of the gathered to assess our successes and our On the first day of deliberations, Toward that end, convention partici­ goals of the two groups coincide, failures, for there have been both. We convention participants - including 14 pants heard a presentation on IRS re­ especially as concerns providing help to must make plans for the future and delegates and 45 guests — also accepted, quirements by Martin L. Monaco, victims of natural and man-made dis­ elect a new executive board... But, in principle, a draft of the non-profit senior tax manager for Deloitte and asters, and supplying medical assis­ most of all, we are here because we organization's by-laws. Touche. A discussion followed concern­ tance. care." Elected as officers of the Children of ing ramifications of tax-exempt status Dr. Burachinsky cautioned, however, He then went on to castigate the Chornobyl Relief Fund were: Dr. and the relationship between the CCRF that in some cities where ad hoc com­ findings of the International Atomic Zenon Matkiwsky, president; Dr. V0I0- national headquarters based in Short mittees were set up to help Ukraine and Energy Agency whose recent report, he dymyr Hordynsky, executive vice- Hills, N.J., and its branches. its Chornobyl victims, there still are two said, stated that "people suffer from fear president; Nadia Matkiwsky, executive Mr. Mandzy reviewed the financial funds functioning under the same of (radioactive) contamination and not director; Dr. Roman Voronka, Valerie statement of the CCRF as of December umbrella. This, he said, is now "an from contamination itself." Burachinsky and Martha Andriuk, 31, 1990, noting that the fund had re­ anachronism and these funds must be Having the pro-nuclear IAEA con­ vice-presidents; OlenkaYurchuk, execu­ venue of 57,180,931 (including contri­ clearly divided." In conclusion he noted duct a report of the Chornobyl acci­ tive secretary; Maria Welyczkowski, butions of both money and supplies, that relations between the Coordinating dent and its consequences "is as absurd communication; Tanya Vena, finance; grants and interest) and expenditures of Committee and the CCRF "should be as if the U.S. government had appointed and Eugene Mandzy, comptroller. S5,530,249 (including program services, kept at an arm's length and on a representatives of the tobacco indus­ The board of directors, which will costs of airlifts to Ukraine and admi­ consultative basis" and stressed that "the try to investigate the effects of smok­ meet at least semiannually, is com­ nistrative expenses). Thus, at the end of whole rationale behind creation of the ing," he continued. "There may indeed posed of: Marian Kots, Christine 1990, the CCRF was left with a balance CCAU is to coordinate assistance to be cases of post-Chornobyl hysteria, Melnyk, Dr. Ihor Sawczuk, Lubomyr of Sl,650, 682. Ukraine and prevent needless duplica­ but the problem of nuclear contamina­ Hewko, Dr. Adrian Baranetsky, Dr. During a discussion among conven­ tion of community efforts." tion is real." Alexander Chernyk, Alexander Kuzma, tion participants on Saturday, ques­ Mrs. Matkiwsky told the assembled Speeches were then delivered by Olga Prof. Lubomyr Hajda, Ihor Wyslotsky, tions arose concerning the relationship that the acting executive had decided Korbut, the Byelorussian gymnast who the Rev. John Kulish, Lydia Chernyk, of the Children of Chornobyl Relief that the Children of Chornobyl Relief captured gold medals at the 1972 and Bohdan Czartorysky, Dr. Ihor Masnyk, Fund to the U.S. Coordinating Commit­ Fund should join the Coordinating 1976 Olympic Games and now has and Maria Motyl. In addition, as tee to Aid Ukraine that was established Committee in order to cooperate "in begun a campaign to aid the victims of provided in the CCRF by-laws, three in January of this year. There was some those matters that pertain to us." Chornobyl in her country, and by Dr. officers are automatically members of trepidation on the part of delegates that The convention elected Maria Wely­ Natalia Preobrazhenska, a leading the board of directors. the CCRF could find itself under the czkowski chairman of the conclave, member of the Green World Ecological Elected to serve on the auditing control of the Coordinating Committee however, most of the proceedings were Association of Ukraine. committee were: Bohdan Burachinsky, or that the CCRF's membership in the conducted by the CCRF's acting presi­ After noting that she had recently Walter Baranetsky, Slava Olesnycky, CCAU might be a source of conflict and dent Dr. Matkiwsky, who delivered launched the Olga Korbut Foundation Irene Holynsky and Lubomyr Hewko. confusion. opening remarks on Saturday morning at the Fred Hutchinson Research Convention participants were in­ Dr. Burachinsky, president of the during a special session dedicated to the Center in Seattle, Wash., a leading formed that the Children of Chornobyl Coodinating Committee to Aid U- fifth anniversary of the Chornobyl cancer research center known for its bone marrow transplant program that has already begun several programs to aid residents of the Chornobyl area. The foundation, she continued, will train Soviet physicians and will purchase supplies, medicines and equipment for a research center to be built near Gomel, Byelorussia. Ms. Korbut then went on to speak of Byelorussia's plight after the Chor­ nobyl disaster. "One should state with utmost openness and bitterness that only now, after four and a half years, are we breaking through the wall of indiffe­ rence, silence, lack of understanding. ...History is yet to bring a moral verdict upon those who for over three years in the republic had been hiding from the people the truth about the accident's consequences. It is difficult to say what was the primary cause in this situation: deception based on secrecy or secrecy based on deception. Whatever the reason, both are inhuman." She continued, "Seventy percent of Chornobyl's isotopes have landed Scenes from the CCRF convention: Above, Dr. Natalia on the republic. They have contami­ Preobrazhenska of Green World addresses participants. Her nated one-third of its territory. One- translator is Serhiy Kulyk, second secretary of the Ukrainian fifth of the population - that is, 2.2 SSR Mission to the United Nations. Top right, Nadia million people including 800,000 chil­ Matkiwsky bids farewell to former Olympic gold medalist dren - have become innocent victims Olga Korbut (left). Below, Dr. Zenon Matkiwsky (right) |f Roma Hadzewycz of Chornobyl, hostages of the postponed presents CCRF achievement award to Prof. Taras Hunczak. hazardous effects of radiation. Between nuclear accident. 120,000 and 150,000 residents of espe­ Dr. Matkiwsky asked delegates and cially high-risk zones are waiting for guests to "pray that no other children their relocation into settlements now are ever faced with such a crisis." He then under construction in clean zones." introduced Dr. Taras Hunczak, a histo­ The zone "is now a radiation desert: rian and community activist who had uninhabited reserves of many hundreds initiated the fund drive for Rukh soon of thousands of acres surrounded by after the Ukrainian Popular Move­ barbed wire... where it will not be ment's founding congress in September possible to live for hundreds of years to 1989. Dr. Matkiwsky called Prof. come. And, new spots of radioactive Hunczak a "founding father of the contamination are being detected," she Children of Chornobyl Relief Fund" added. and presented him with the CCRF's In conclusion, Ms. Korbut empha­ achievement award. sized that Chornobyl is "a 20th century "Whatever I did, I did because my Calvary" for her nation, and that only conscience dictated it," Prof. Hunczak together can Ukrainians and Byelorus­ responded. "We are lucky to witness the sians have any success in combatting its changes taking place today in Ukraine. effects. - In the past we could merely say a few (Continued on page 11) THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JUNE 23,1991 No. 25

NEWS AND VIEWS Glcrainian Weekly The rebirth continues Subcommittee on Postal Operations Jtfst over a month ago, when the 84-year-old senior bishop of Ukrainian hears testimony on Soviet mail Catholics in Ukraine set foot on American soil, he expressed concern that his Church "is not even legalized or registered with those rights to which a legal by Tamara Stadnychenko-Cornelison Soviet director general of posts and entity is entitled." Archbishop Volodymyr Sterniuk told Ukrainians here that press distribution, who professed to be though the Ukrainian Greek-Catholic Church as it is known in Ukraine is WASHINGTON - The House of unaware of any particular problems and now registered in three western Ukrainian oblasts, "There is no juridical Representatives Subcommittee on who indicated that there were no politi­ status that would allow us to expand our activity throughout Ukraine and the Postal Operations and Services recently cal reasons for mail interference. entire USSR." held a hearing on the interruption of According to Mr. Leavey, it was Mr. Now, we have learned the joyous news that the Ukrainian Greek-Catholic mail to and from the Soviet Union. Boutenko who proposed that U.S. Church has been registered on the republican level by Ukrainian SSR The May 2 hearing was called as a operations experts be sent to the USSR government authorities. Thus: it is entitled to all the rights and privileges result of complaints from the Baltic to examine the situation and contribute guaranteed to religious institutions in accordance with the Ukrainian SSR's states and groups and individuals in the to efforts to improve services. Mr. recently passed Law on Freedom of Conscience and Religious Organizations. United States about a renewed interrup­ Leavey noted that the U.S. plans to The registration of the UCC marks yet another step on this Church's thorny tion of mail that seemed a direct contra­ follow up on Mr. Boutenko's proposal path to, at first, survival against unbelievable odds, and, more recently, to diction to the widespread belief that in the near future and will continue to complete renewal and rejuvenation. glasnost would permit a freer exchange monitor mail traffic between the U.S. Just a few years ago, that Church emerged from the catacombs. Its bishops of views and ideas between the Soviet and the USSR. and clergy made themselves known publicly, and on January 23, 1990, Union and the United States. At this point Rep. Gilman asked Archbishop Sterniuk and four of his bishops, meeting at a synod officially Representing the subcommittee were whether mail could be sent directly to declared the 1946 "synod" invalid, and demanded the rehabilitation of the New York Rep. Benjamin Gilman (R) the Baltics rather than through Moscow. Ukrainian Greek-Catholic Church and the return of all its confiscated and Indiana Rep. Frank McCloskey Mr. Leavey replied that he had discuss­ property. (D), who presided as hearing chairman. ed this issue with Mr. Boutenko who In August of that year, the historic seat of the Ukrainian Catholic Church, In his opening statement, Rep. Mc­ strongly advised against employing St. George Cathedral in Lviv, was returned to the faithful. The first Easter Closkey indicated that there was "a such an alternative as it would set a liturgy to be celebrated in that cathedral in 46 years was offered on April 7 of growing amount of evidence that there precedent that would lead to postal this year by the primate of the Ukrainian Catholic Church, Cardinal has been a large disruption of mail to chaos in the entire USSR. He added Myroslav Ivan Lubachivsky, who on March 30 had arrived in that western the Baltic states sometime between the that sending mail directly to the re­ Ukrainian city to take up his rightful place in the Archeparchy of Lviv. months of December 1990 to March publics would be more costly and Cardinal Lubachivsky, who has made known his intention to remain in 1991." create more work for the United States. Ukraine, has now announced that he will immediately begin work on setting He stated that the Soviet Union had When Rep. Gilman responded that the up an infrastructure for his Church: seminaries, monasteries, churches. given "no satisfactory explanation" for alternative should be tried at least on an the recent disruption and, in fact, had His work will be made easier now that the Ukrainian Greek-Catholic experimental basis, Mr. Leavey an­ denied knowing that there was a pro­ swered that the system could not be Church is registered in Ukraine. However, our joy over this latest news is blem. He said that the subcommittee's tempered by the knowledge that significant interconfessional conflicts implemented without the agreement of purpose was to ascertain which areas in the Soviet authorities. continue to plague Ukraine, as, for instance, adherents of the Moscow- the Soviet Union were most affected by affiliated Orthodox Church recently blocked Cardinal Lubachivsky's Next to testify was Karlis L. Streips the mail interruption, what had caused of the American Latvian Association. entrance to St. Andrew's Cathedral in Kiev. As well, there is the problem of it, and what could be done to prevent the return of Church property and the dire need for houses of worship for Mr. Streips cited many examples of similar interruptions and problems in delayed or undelivered mail which he groups of Ukrainian Catholic faithful, forsxampte^ЛаЛаед whetlclikrainian thefUture: vr; -'^ ^ ' :'';-'v; ':л;^ Catholics have no church to meet their spipk^liieeds^lrradditiion, there istbe? v believed was evidence that the Soviet Rep: McCloskey atitfed that the Union continues to interfere with the matter of legalization in all parts of the USSR, for Ukrainian Catholics have hearing would send clear signals to the been scattered throughout that decaying empire. communications rights of its citizens. Soviet Union that the United States is Mr. Streips commented that the United Despite all this, there is reason for great hope as the Ukrainian Greek- "still very concerned about the free flow Catholic Church is revived. After surviving for decades in the underground, it States should seek a routing system that of mail and expects the Soviet Union to would not involve sending mail through is now sure to thrive as a legal entity that provides for the needs of a spiritually reaffirm its committment to glasnost by hungry populace. Moscow, citing the availibility of com­ being truthful in its dealing with the mercial flights from Copenhagen and United States Postal Service." He ended Stockholm directly to Riga. by acknowledging that the Soviet He noted that mail sent through Union had "agreed to allow United Moscow was an easy target for a Soviet States Postal Officials to go to the campaign to punish the Baltics for their Turning the pages back... USSR to advise and assist in improving independence movements. He express­ the Soviet postal infrastructure." ed great concern over the fate of the Following Rep. McCloskey's open­ letters and packages which had not been ing remarks was a statement from delivered during the early months of "At 3 a.m. on the night of June 25, seven T-27 tanks Thomas E. Leavey, assistant post­ this year and that there was no guaran­ suddenly broke into the camp. The prisoners, men and master general for international postal tee that mail interruption would not women alike, poured into the courtyard. Behind the tanks affairs. Mr. Leavey indicated that in recur in the near future. came soldiers, 1,600 men armed with pistols, rifles and machine guns. At Bychkov's their treatment of parcels from the Mari-Ann Rikken, vice-president of command, they opened fire, and the prisoners answered with rocks and explosives. United States, the Soviets seemed to be the Estonian American National Coun­ The tanks advanced on the mass of prisoners at full speed. Then the Ukrainian less restrictive than in the pre-glasnost cil, provided other examples of delayed women, in their embroidered blouses, linked arms and marched toward the tanks wperiod. He added that U.S. postal or undelivered letters and packages and with heads held high. authorities were receiving few com­ called the breakdown a "posval em­ bargo" that had caused great tra jma to "Everyone expected the tanks to halt before reaching the women. But they plaints about registered mail and that reports of items seized or returned by Estonian families and posed a gr ve risk increased their speed and passed over the hundreds and hundreds of women! There to the health and well-being of Estonian was no outcry — only the sound of bodies being crushed, of breaking bones. "("500 Soviet postal authorities were very low. Addressing the recent interruption of children and old people dependent on Ukrainian Martyred Women," edited by Stephania Halychyn.) friends and families in the United States Thus they crushed what, according to Alexander Solzhenitsyn, was "the biggest mail flow between the United States and the Soviet Union, Mr. Leavey discussed for vitamins, food and other items, mutiny in the history of the Gulag Archipelago," the 40-day prisoners' revolt at the (Continued on page 7) concentration camp of Kengir, Kazakhstan. The account comes from an his meetings with Boris Boutenko, the eyewitness, Dr. Fedir Varkony, a physician who served five years of forced labor at Kengir. In "The Gulag Archipelago HI," Mr. Solzhenitsyn offers a lengthy and somewhat different account of "The Forty Days of Kengir." But there is basic agreement on the central points. UNA Fund for the Rebirth of Ukraine The revolt was an organized response to a yearlong series of indiscriminate shootings, arrests, transfers and killings of prisoners by the camp guards. Dr. Var­ kony attributes the criminal provocation to "the attempt to discover those persons The Home Office of the Ukrainian National who belonged to an underground organization in the camp." More plausibly, Mr. Solzhenitsyn attributes the provocation to the anxiety of M VD officers uncertain Association reports that, as of June 18, the about their security careers after Stalin's death and Beria's fall. By having to quell flsA-A fraternal organization's newiy established violently the mutiny they themselves had provoked,the security men would prove Fund for the Rebirth of Ukraine has received their indispensability to the system. g^fFg 6,735 checks from its members with donations They even brought 600 common criminals into the camp hoping to provoke a totalling ^176,719.97 The contributions violent conflict between "the thieves" and "the 58У (political prisoners). But include individual members' dividend checks actually for 40 days, there emerged an unprecedented unity and solidarity among Ar and interest payments on promissory notes. criminal and political prisoners, men and women, and the various nationalities, \ races and religions in the 8,000 inmate labor camp. ^ioHS^ The precise number of victims will probably never be known. According to (Continued on page 15) No. 25 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JUNE 23, 1991 7

Subcommittee... cally sensitive material, are sometimes rerouted through Poland. One example (Continued from page 6) cited was a letter she had recently which are prohibitively expensive or received about Oleksander Kovalchuk, Faces and Places unobtainable in Estonia. a student who had been arrested and Ms. Rikken indicated that the mail incarcerated for participating in a by Myron B. Kuropas interruption was "just further proof that hunger strike protesting the arrest of the Baltic states are still under Soviet Ukrainian parliamentarian Stepan occupation, with all aspects of Estonian Khmara. The letter was агд appeal for daily life subject to the vagaries of help from Mr. Kovalchuk/s family and The rise and fall of multiculturalism Soviet politics and economics." friends in Kiev. I Dr. Tomas Remeikis, chairman of Multiculturalism, once the dream of It was during those halcyon days of the Public Affairs Council of the One example of what Ms. Mazurke­ America's enlightened ethnic leadership, the 1970s that President Gerald Ford Lithuanian American Community, vich called "a blatant case of censor­ is in disrepute. appointed a special assistant for ethnic referred to the mail interruption as a ship of politically sensitive material" Multiculturalism is being perceived affairs, the first such appointment in mail blockade much like the visa block­ was the return of a packet of informa­ as a divisive force, an ideology that has the history of the nation. ade imposed on Lithuania last spring tion on Dr. Khmara that was sent from contributed greatly to the growing the United States to Za Vilnu Ukrainu, The major objective of the "old " and summer. Dr. Remeikis expressed polarization of America's increasingly multiculturalism was to enligthen his conviction that the timing of the a daily newspaper in Lviv, which pub­ fragile social fabric. lishes an occasional column based on American citizens, to provide them with postal disruption, coinciding with For government leaders, multicul­ information about various ethnic Lithuania's move toward indepen­ materials submitted by UHRC secre­ tary Tamara Cornelison. turalism is a club which forces conti­ groups in the hope that through greater dence, was proof of political motiva­ nued support for discredited social understanding will come greater tion. He also cited examples of hard­ Because people do not trust the Soviet postal system, continued Ms. programs that should have been scrap­ appreciation for cultural diversity. ships and distress caused by Soviet ped years ago. interference with mail to and from Mazurkevich, letters to and from the Hoping to overcome the prejudice Lithuania and asked that U.S. postal Soviet Union are regularly hand-deli­ For educators, multiculturalism is once faced by all hyphenated Ameri­ officials find an alternative to routing vered through organized or casual the source of disinformation in the cans, the plan was to finally legitimize mail through Moscow. contacts. classroom. Curriculums are being re­ multiculturalism in the United States so vised to reflect not what is true, good that future generations of Polish- Ulana Mazurkevich, president of the As a specific example, Ms. Mazurke­ and beautiful but what is politically Ukrainian Human Rights Committee, vich told the subcommittee about a Americans, Italian-Americans, Ukrai­ correct. Children are not being taught nian-Americans, Afro-Americans , and testified on mail interruption to and Soviet crew which had come to Phila­ to celebrate America's cultural diversity : from Ukraine, indicating that the delphia during the week of May 5 to others would never have to feel like but to use their ethnicity to demand second-class citizens. Our aim was to disruption had been significantly longer participate in a rowing competition group rather than individual rights. in duration than in the case of the Baltic with American teams. Natalia Lu- remove the stigma associated with being republics. She stated that from Decem­ chanko, a member of the Ukrainian For the Average America citizen, ethno-nationally unique. This, too, we ber of 1990 until the middle of May 1991 Human Rights Committee who was multiculturalism has come to be asso­ believed would lend to depolarization. mail delivery between the United States working with the team and had met ciated with preferential treatment for "Persons who are secure in their and the USSR had been erratic and them at the airport, reported that many certain minorities, reverse discrimina­ identity," wrote Michael Novak in "The unreliable and at times non-existent, members of the team had brought 20 to tion, and the idea that some groups are Rise of the Unmeltable Ethnic," "act citing specific information that had 30 letters each from the Soviet Union to more equal than other groups. with greater freedom, greater flexibi­ been gathered from a variety of sources. be posted in America to people residing lity, greater openness towards others." Among these sources was Zenon in the West. It wasn't always that way. There was If one is aware of one's own cultural Snylyk, editor of the Ukrainian-lan­ Ms. Mazurkevich further cited a time when multiculturalism was heritage, we argued, there is a great guage daily newspaper Svoboda, who Christmas cards which had arrived in viewed as a healing force, a way for us to likelihood of respect for other cultures. had reported to the Ukrainian Human the United States in April and May, get to know each other better, a means What went wrong? Why did our Rights Committee a constant stream of empty envelopes from which, cards and for bringing about greater understand­ master plan fail so miserably? questions and complaints from his letters had been removed, and envelopes ing among America's diverse peoples. readers about the interruption of mail which had obviously been opened and One reason is that the radical black from Ukraine from mid-December to resealed. That was certainly my perception leadership, then the dominant force in when I became involved with the ethnic mid-May. Ms. Mazurkevich closed by stating the Afro-American community, never Svoboda subscribes to seven monthly revival of the 1960s. It was my hope in bought into the plan. Their strategy that these specific cases had been chosen helping found the Illinois Ethnic magazines, two weekly newspapers, and to illustrate the deplorable state of was one of reparation, of America two daily newspapers issued in Ukraine. Consultation (IEC) that the melting pot making up for past sins by providing postal communication between the ideal, when all of us were supposed to According to Mr. Snylyk, delivery of United States and Ukraine. She said preferential treatment for those these magazines and newspapers has divest ourselves of our ethnic heritage, classified officially as "minorities." And that she saw the disruption of a free flow would soon be a thing of the past. We been halted since mid-December. A of information between friends, fami­ who was asked to pay the price for total of 440 issues on order were not could nurture our ethno-national roots America's past mistakes? Eastern lies and colleagues as a continuation of and aspirations, I believed, and remain received in that time span. The only Moscow's decades-long policy of pre­ Europeans whose own grandchildren publication that arrived at his office totally American by living out the socio­ were just making it into the upper venting people in Ukraine from main­ political values that made this country regularly were the Russian-language taining and cultivating ties with people echelons of American society. Thus, dailies Pravda and Izvestia. great. It was not a matter of either-or while America's power structure in the Western democracies. but rather of American plus. Ms. Mazurkevich also cited informa­ "While the free world is experiencing remained essentially intact, our people tion from former political prisoner Nina instant communication by fax machine It was that philosophy that guided were asked to step aside to make room Strokata Karavansky who on May. 12, and overnight express mail, the Com­ the Ford Foundation when it funded for others. had told the UHRC about a letter munist world is regressing to the days of three individuals, two Catholic and one Another reason for the fall of she had received from poetess Irene the Pony Express. The system continues Jewish, to conduct research and to multiculturalism is that it has come to Senyk, another former political priso­ to be plagued by censorship, misma­ develop programs which would be associated with Civil Rights. It is one ner who resides in the Lviv oblast of nagement and an inefficient centralized eventually lead to greater understand­ of the great ironies of American history Ukraine. In the letter, Ms. Senyk bureaucracy which is debilitating all ing among America's citizens. that while the intent of the Civil Rights complained that of the nearly 100 letters levels of life in the republics. The center The Rev. Andrew Greeley created the Act of 1964 was to outlaw discrimina­ she had sent to Canada and the United wants to maintain total control while tion on the basis of race, color, religion, States since December, only two had the republics want to pursue an inde­ Center for the Study of American Pluralism at the University of Chicago. sex and national origin, in reality, it been delivered to the intended reci­ pendent course. The continuing pro­ promoted discrimination. As the U.S. pients. blems with postal deliveries point to a Msgr. Geno Baroni established the government rushed to enforce the new Ms. Mazurkevich added that letters, system that is unworkable," she stress­ National Center for Urban Ethnic Stu­ statute reverse discrimination became particularly those dealing with politi­ ed. dies in Washington. commonplace. Race, color, and sex be­ Irving Levine founded the National came significant determinants in Project on Ethnic America in conduc­ hiring while religion and national tion with the American Jewish Commit­ origin, the core of ethnic identity, were tee in New York City. all but ignored by government en­ forcers. At one time or another I was on the advisory board of the last two organi­ A final reason for the decline of zations and I was involved with Andrew multiculturalism is that it has been Greeley when he became a member of adopted by the elitist Left as a platform my Ph.D. dissertation committee at the for everything from militant Afrocen- University of Chicago. Having worked trism to homosexualism and decon- with all three individuals I know from structionism. According to this view of - first-hand experience that their inten­ our society, all cultures, no matter how tion was to heal rather than to exacer­ abberant, socially destructive, or bate old wounds. insignificant are equal, and worthy, therefore, of recognition and reverance. Seen during a hearing of the House Subcommittee on Postal Operations and That was also the intention of the Services are (from left): Karlis Streips, American Latvian Association; Mari-Ann U.S. Congress when it passed the Ethnic Is there anything that can be done Rikken, Estonian American National Council; Rep. Frank McCloskey; Ulana Studies Heritage bill and provided about this sad state of affairs? Perhaps, Mazurkevich, Ukrainian Human Rights Committee; Rep. Benjamin Gilman; Dr. monies for ethnic research and mainte­ 111 write more about it in future Thomas Remeikis, Lithuanian American Community. nance activities. columns. THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JUNE 23, 1991 No. 25 Lithuanian customs posts attacked FOLLOW-UP: At the Ukrainian Republican NEW YORK - After a two-week A noontime incident involving Soviet by Marta Kolomayets from running for the offices of people's reprieve, Soviet forces resumed early troops was reported by the Lithuanian Kiev Press Bureau deputies; and call for the resignation of morning raids on Baltic customs posts Ministry of Internal Affairs at the Mr. Kravchuk as the chairman of the on June 14, reported the New York- Panemune customs post on the Lithua­ KIEV - "Everyone in our party has Supreme Soviet of the Ukrainian SSR. based Lithuanian Information Center. nian-Kaliningrad (Russian) border. one ultimate goal: an independent Whereas Dr. Khmara believes that an According to the Information Bureau Uniformed soldiers threatened republi­ Ukraine," declared Levko Lukianenko, anti-Communist campaign must be the of the Lithuanian Parliament, Soviet can customs agents with automatic the newly elected leader of the Ukrai­ center of the URP platform, Mr. Lukia­ "Black Beret" troops charged at least weapons and then drove off. nian Republican Party, which held its nenko strongly opposes any platform three customs posts in Lithuania, three Prime Minister Gediminas Vagno- second annual convention here on June that is "anti." He strives for a platform in Latvia and one in Estonia, beating 1-2. that promotes the idea of liberating- and humiliating republican customs rius of Lithuania sent a telegram of protest to USSR Deputy Prime Mi­ And although most party members nationalism. However, he added that officers. agreed that this goal should be achieved the words "democratic nationalism" Early on June 14, at about 2:30 nister and Head of the Delegation on Negotiations with Lithuania Vitaliy by peaceful revolution, the strategy of still carry a negative connotation. "We a.m., a minibus and two carloads of the party's two leaders, Mr. Lukia- know the word 'nationalism' as a armed Black Berets, known in Russian Doguzhyev in Moscow. In his tele­ gram, Mr. Vagnorius warned that nenko and Stepan Khmara, differs negative idea, the word 'nationalism'as by the initials OMON, appeared from immensely. As reported earlier in the delivered by bolshevik and Brezhnevite Latvia at a border post in Germaniskes "problems arising from border econo­ mic security and customs work cannot Weekly (June 9), a split in the party had dictionaries," he said. Thus, this word on the Lithuanian-Latvian border. The been rumored prior to the convention, still scares some people, according to six or seven soldiers forcibly removed be solved by force, only through peace­ ful negotiations." but personal ambitions were set aside Mr. Lukianenko. Lithuanian customs officers and set fire and the convention ended with Mr. Mr. Lukianenko, in his opening to the post. One guard, Virginijus Border posts have been set up by the Lukianenko being re-elected chairman remarks at the URP convention also Flinderis, was beaten. Baltic governments to prevent large- and Dr. Khmara and Oleh Pavlyshyn of posed a number of interesting questions One and a half hours later, five scale export of goods in short supply. Lviv being elected vice-chairmen. to the delegates in the audience. He OMON soldiers raided another border Mr. Vagnorius noted in his telegram Both Mr. Lukianenko, 62, and Dr. asked whether the URP could increase its post on the Lithuanian-Latvian border that the customs posts in no way limit membership and, thus, its influence on economic and trade relations and do Khmara, 53, are former political pri­ in Salociai, threatening the Lithuanian soners of the Soviet gulag, who were ultraradical ideology? "And, if it is guards with automatic weapons and not obstruct travel or normal business impossible to simultaneously form an traffic. elected deputies of the Supreme Soviet forcing a supervisor to take off his of the Ukrainian SSR. However, Dr. ultraradical and large (many-mem- clothes. Two Latvian posts on the other Since May 24, at least 19 Lithuanian Khmara has not taken part in the work bered) party, then what do we choose? side of the border were burned to the border posts have been attacked. The of the Supreme Soviet since last No­ What will be more beneficial to speed ground. According to the National aggressive OMON campaign seems to vember when he was arrested within the up the movement toward independence: Defense Department, Lithuanian offi­ have tacit Kremlin approval, since it has confines of the Parliament on criminal the ultraradical approach of a small cers recognized the Soviet assault team continued for months and since Mos­ charges of assaulting a plainclothes group of people, or the balanced, as the same OMON group from Latvia cow officials no longer even bother to militiaman. He is still awaiting trial on prudent platform of a large group?" that raided this customs post on May explain or defend their troops' beha­ these charges in an affair that Dr. He also outlined his ideology, his view 24. vior. Khmara has labeled a farce and which of the URP, by asking what definition the democratic movements have classi­ it should subscribe to: a class, or Military conversion... Kennedy School of Government spoke fied as a political trial against an national ideology. "What is more of world governments' and interna­ outspoken radical opposition leader. important, for a 'partokrat' to be tional organizations' reluctance to Ukrainian, or for a Ukrainian to be a (Continued from page 1) directly aid the Soviet republics until Whereas Mr. Lukianenko believes that the only way to achieve democra­ 'partokrat ^ For a person with national the union treaty issue is resolved. consciousness, nationality is more much more diversified. So far the struc­ "It is important that the political tic evolution is to work with the Com­ ture of the economy, has only been a munists in the Supreme Soviet, Dr. important than class; for a person with situation in Ukraine be clarified in the class consciousness, his belonging to a one-way street, only for the satisfaction next few months. It is not known with Khmara calls for the dissolution of the of defense needs. Services in the civilian current government, headed by Leonid class, for example the ruling party, is whom to deal. Until there is a union more important than national con­ sector must also be much more diversi­ treaty, there will be considerable hesita­ Kravchuk, a "sovereign communist." fied," said Mr. Pylypchuk. He does not see cooperation between sciousness. Thus, because most menv tion," said Prof. Williams. bers of the URP are nationally con­ Also taking part in the conference In response to this problem, Frank democrats and Communists as a pos­ were 15 Western scholars, business- sible alternative. scious, they are able to rise above the Lindsay, an American businessman and class system and work with the repre­ people and government officials, who member of the Council on Economic Mr. Lukianenko said that the Ukrai­ shared Western conversion experiences nian Republican Party's members were sentatives of various classes in building Development, proposed that formal an independent Ukraine. And if the with the Ukrainian participants The links be established between the council elected to the Supreme Soviet to take Ukrainian attendees also studied advantage of its all-Ukrainian plat­ Communists who spent the last 70 years and the Ukrainian Association of In­ plundering Ukraine are now taking approaches to writing Western business dustry, Construction, Transport and form in order to propagate its own plans and engaged in a management ideas. steps toward the rebirth and indepen­ Communications. The Council on Eco­ dence of Ukraine, then we are ready to game designed to demonstrate the way nomic Development is a wholly private "And in this first year of the newly that conversion takes place in a market formed Supreme Soviet, the Ukrainian work with, to cooperate with these organization and can serve as a source people, because the interests of the economy. of American business contacts for Republican Party, together with other Prof. Shirley Williams of Harvard's patriotic forces, has strived for the nation for us take a higher place than Ukrainian enterprises. our disdain for separate groups that Mr. Lindsay also suggested that rehabilitation of a state, the idea of an independent Ukraine..." comprise our nation." 2,000 greet... Ukrainian enterprise associations Mr. Lukianenko also quoted a letter pursue links with the U.S. Chamber of Mr. Lukianenko noted that the (Continued from page 1) democratic forces in the Parliament Dr. Khmara wrote while in prison (on Commerce and the U.S. Association of March 27, 1991). Dr. Khmara stated martyr and a future candidate for saint­ Manufacturing, an association of were instrumental in achieving state status for the Ukrainian language. He that "There can be no talk of coopera­ hood. smaller companies. According to Mr. tion with Communists."This statement, Lindsay, "While we wait for govern­ noted that without these democratic Wearing a white goatee and markedly deputies it would have been impossible claims Mr. Lukianenko,is a typical class limping, Archbishop Sterniuk warned ments to sort things out, we can do approach, where Dr. Khmara is willing things in the private sector." to pass the Declaration on State Sover­ those in attendance to be wary of eignty of Ukraine, the law on economic to slow down the process toward inde­ glasnost as more rhetoric than action. Dr. Clark Abt, president of the pendence rather than use the Commu­ Boston-based social science consulting independence and Article 71 ton the The Redemptorist bishop thanked supremacy of republican law over nists to achieve the ultimate goal. Canada's Ukrainian Catholic commu­ firm Abt Associates, stressed the need Mr. Lukianenko also noted that this nity for their constant support and for improvement of Ukraine's infra­ USSR law, to name but a few examples. Dr. Khmara, a radical leader, feels kind of attitude toward the Ukrainian encouraged them to continue to help structure, such as roads, health care, sovereign Communists blinds people as Ukraine's estimated 700 priests and 550 and especially telecommunications in that the opposition National Council of the Supreme Soviet has to force the to who the real enemy is: the Moscow seminarians to rebuild the Church. order to attract private investment. empire. In welcoming Archbishop Sterniuk, "The building of infrastructure must be dissolution of the government and hold done by the government before private new elections which will be monitored However, during the two-day con­ Bishop Borecky referred to divine pro­ vention, there were a number of attacks vidence as responsible for reuniting the investment will come in," said Dr. Abt. by international observers. He reported that prior to this, the on the URP's cooperation with sover­ Church in the diaspora with the home­ eign Communists from supporters of land. The Toronto prelate, choking back Parliament must: revoke all of President Ukraine's authorities... Gorbachev's acts in Ukraine that deal Dr. Khmara, as well as other more tears, told the hushed crowd that they politically radical groups, among them, must not forget the previous efforts by (Continued from page 1) with taxes and the rights and duties of the KGB; revoke the acts of August 1983 the Ukrainian Inter-Party Assembly, the late Cardinal Josyf Slipyj and must the infrastructure of the Ukrainian headed by Yuriy Shukhevych. vow to support their 6 million brothers Greek-Catholic Church and its external and November 1990 that prohibit the and sisters in Ukraine. affairs. We will continue the visitations organization of peaceful meetings, Although he noted that the URP recog­ Both bishops later attended an after­ of our communities not only in the Lviv manifestations, etc. by citizens of the nizes that Ukraine is indeed an occu­ noon concert on the same grounds, as Archeparchy, but in all Ukraine. We Ukrainian SSR; declare void all anti- pied state and that independence can part of the Ukrainian archbishop's will realize our synodal structure as a constitutional acts by Communist only be achieved by peaceful means, Mr. Canadian tour. From Toronto, fully particular Eastern Church and in oblast Soviets (councils) which violate Shukhevych said: Archbishop Sterniuk traveled to ful unity with the Universal Church, the rights of citizens; prohibit draftees "I represent the 'ultra.' Ukraine was Winnipeg where he spent one week as we progress toward the recognition from serving outside the territory of occupied and deprived of its statehood visiting with Metropolitan Maxim of the Patriarchate of Kiev, Halych and Ukraine; prohibit workers in the militia in 1920. We cannot take part in bol­ Hermaniuk. of all Rus'." and other defense organizations (KGB) shevik structures. We do not recognize No. 25 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JUNE 23, 1991 rty's second congress ie invader does not have resolution calling for the immediate hold referendums an oc- dissolution of the Supreme Soviet of the ry. By acknowleding these Ukrainian SSR was not accepted by the ive ourselves of the right delegates of the convention. tion. We can be sold for During a press conference, held at the /ho. The empire is selling conclusion of the convention, Mr. Lukianenko stated: "Dr. Khmara and I I that the URP would also are of two minds as to the tactics we atform of not recognizing should use to achieve an independent ' structure, joining the Ukrainian state. I will try to pave roads, an independent, united I hope that everyone can find a place in do not promote forceful our party where he can work for the ruggle. But if tomorrow it good of our party, of Ukraine. I do not we will take up guns. We think it is in any way beneficial for us to ve in the democrats in argue." )ris) Yeltsin can become Greetings from the West omorrow, a more dan- 1 Representatives of the Ukrainian Marta Koiomayets than Gorbachev. I hope diaspora also attended this second Running the proceedings, leaders of the URP: (from left) Bohdan Horyn, Stepan Khmara, Levko we will be on the same side convention of the Ukrainian Republi­ Lukianenko, Mykhailo Horyn and Lev Horokhivsky. ide." can Party and a few even joined the js were also voiced during ranks of the URP, which hopes to prepared by Vyacheslav attract Ukrainians throughout the airman of the Lviv Oblast world who hold similar political con­ a Ukrainian SSR deputy, victions. (The URP platform also Dr. Khmara's imprison- envisions granting Ukrainian citizen­ to take part in the work of ship to people of Ukrainian heritage it as a sign of protest, scattered throughout the world.) ra was then chairing the Among those greeting the assembled rotating role (other mem- were Michael Heretz, who read a esidium included Mr. Lu- message from Mykola Plawiuk, presi­ tykhailo Horyn, Bohdan dent of the Ukrainian National Re­ ,evko Horokhivsky — all public in exile. Promising cooperation to the Supreme Soviet of and aid where needed, he wrote: "We і SSR.) As Mr. Chornovil believe that you, Mr. Lukianenko,and the podium, he was in- your co-workers will find a way out of )r. Khmara that, accord- the current crisis situation in Ukraine igram, he was allowed five and will re-establish that state which Chornovil proceeded to existed as a result of the well-known nutes, stating that he was Acts of January 22, 1918 and 1919, ginal founders of the URP. when on the territory of Ukraine, a і has no party affiliation, united and independent state was ie feels party politics may born." h his leadership role in Pavlo Dorozynski, who joined the claims that while a person URP, spoke on behalf of the Leader­ Delegates of the Ukrainian Republican Party Congress raise their cards to vote. ected office, he should ship of the Organization of Ukrainian iut a party affiliation.) Nationalists, lovil began his remarks, on various subjects, in- Cardinal Myroslav Ivan Lubachiv- attle between the "ultras" sky of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic nmunists, the democratic Church also sent greetings to the 'er in Galicia, the workers' convention delegates. Khmara has accused Mr. Other greetings read at the conven­ ti a number of occasion, of tion included telegrams from the Lon­ lilure of the strikes by not don Friends of the Democratic Move­ )orting them, but speaking ment, the Paris-based United Ukrai­ them), the differences in nian Organizations, Polish Ukrainian ween Mr. Lukianenko and democratic groups, as well as the Australian Ukrainian community re­ presented by journalist Marie Chyhryn. ng match ensued, as Dr. Democratic movements on the terri­ ted to cut Mr. Chornovirs tory of Ukraine also greeted the dele­ t, but the delegates began gates of this convention. Stepan Volko- ornovil, Chornovil." Dr. vetsky of the Ukrainian Democratic ised Mr. Chornovil of not Party and Oleksander Yemets of the letter to the Galician As- Party for the Democratic Rebirth of in the winter. The letter, Ukraine wished the assembled success ison, never arrived at the during their second annual convention. thering, Mr. Chornovil Mykola Porovsky, head of the Coordi­ nating Council of Rukh, delivered lovil did finish his remarks greetings from that organization on auditorium to depart for Sunday, June 2. er, on his way out of Kiev, ill, reportedly with a heart lospitalized in Kiev, where і in intensive care until eek. іепко also was attacked of occasions during the ention. One URP mem- : "Stepan Khmara would raveled abroad if Levko was in prison and on a " referring to Mr. Lukia- ) the United States as part ntary delegation in April. iv. Lukianenko remarked here is enough work to be rious spheres that en- z talents of Dr. Khmara, /n , and himself, and willing to work in і the radical Republican, n ended with Dr. Khmara URP Information Officer Serhiy Zhuzhko and former poli­ People's Deputies (from left) Henrykh Altunian, Mykola Porovsky and Larysa f the stage because his tical prisoner Oles Serhiyenko. Skoryk and U.S. Consular Officer John Stepanchuk. 10 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JUNE 23, 1991 No. 25

NEW RELEASES Historic return of St. George's IKA: new band on Ukrainian scene STAMFORD, Conn. - The events ^ the emotional response of the of August 19, 1990, marking the return crowd to a recording of Metropolitan' of its pre-eminent cathedral church - Andrey Sheptytsky's famous 1940 the Sobor of St. George in Lviv - to the Easter address; the addresses of Metro­ Ukrainian Catholic Church and its politan Sterniuk and Cardinal Myro- faithful, have been recorded on video­ slav Lubachivsky, major archbishop of tape, which is now available from the Lviv and primate of the Ukrainian Office of Aid to the Liberated Church of Catholic Church. Ukraine under the auspices of the The filming, by Bohdan Hundiak of Stamford Diocese. Lviv with the permission of Metropoli­ St. George Cathedral, the mother tan Sterniuk, was entrusted to the church of Ukrainian Catholics in west­ delegation of North American clergy ern Ukraine and the diaspora, had been which took part in the Ukrainian Youth confiscated by an arbitrary and illegal for Christ rally in Lviv the week of decree of Joseph Stalin in 1948 and September 7-13, 1990. given over to the Russian Orthodox The two-hour VHS videotape was Church of the Moscow Patriarchate. transcribed and edited by Rev. George Featured in the videotape are: J. Torok, president of Hallel Communi­ cations Institute of Sparkill, N.Y. 9 the celebration of pontifical divine IKA: (from left) Ksenia Kyzyk, Andrij Wowk arid Inya Bonacorsa. liturgy on the Feast of Transfiguration The cost of the videotape is S39.95. 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X FESTIVAL CLIFTON, N.J. - The Alex Chu­ dolij Dance Orchestra has released a new Ukrainian cassette recording titled \ Ukrainian American Youth Association Estate "Electric Kozak," featuring a variety of music from old favorites to several new Ellenvllle,N.Y. compositions-by Mr. Chudolij. July 4,5,6, 7, 1991 AH the selections on the tape are produced, arranged and performed by Special appearances by the "Kashtan" dance- Mr. Chudolij; Lilianna Szkafarowsky ensemble from Cleveland, Ohio, and performers is the assistant producer. from Ukraine. Billed as offering "variety, upbeat danceable music, and traditional and FOUR DANCES! contemporary styling," the recording July 4 4 5 - "Tempo" includes four compositions by Mr. Chudolij: "Gypsy Hutsul," "Kievsky ь July 5 A 6 - "Nove Pokollnnla" from Toronto Carousel;, "Cha-Cha-Cha-Sky" and I Ukrainian Arts S Crafts Exhibits, "Caucasian Creation." To order send S10 to: AC I Surprises Galore! Productions, 281 Urma Ave., Clifton, к^ааааааа^^^адіааааааааа^ач NJ 07013. No.- 25 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JUNE 23, 1991 11 Church ground-breaking Connecticut radio program cancelled after 20 years held in North Port NEWINGTON, Conn. - Radio station WRYM, which NORTH PORT, Fla. - Parishioners broadcasts programs in Spanish, Polish, Portuguese and of St. Mary's Ukrainian Catholic Ukrainian, cancelled its half-hour Saturday morning Church held a ground-breaking ce­ "American Ukrainian Show" after 20 years of airtime. remony for their new church, to be Barry Kursman, WRYM's vice-president and general constructed at the corner of South manager, said that due to program changes and business Biscayne Drive and Price Boulevard. considerations, March 31 would mark the last broadcast of The construction of the Byzantine- the show, reported the Hartford Courant. style church, designed by architect American Ukrainian Show hosts Richard andStacy Kerry Zorian J. Horodyskyj of Parma, Ohio, have entertained New Britain and Hartford area listeners is expected to start late this year at the with Ukrainian music and special radio shows from Kiev cost of SI million. Funds for the con­ since 1971. struction of the church are being raised In a letter addressed to "American Ukrainian Show" by St. Mary's parishioners and the sponsors and listeners, Mr. Kerry, who will remain at Providence Association of Ukrainian WRYM as a salesperson, thanked the American Ukrainian Catholics. Citizen Club of New Britain, Spring Brook Ice and Fuel, The ground-breaking ceremony on Stanley Provision Meat Products, People's Savings Bank of March 17 followed a 10 a.m. holy New Britain, Connecticut Furriers, Stepensky Optical, liturgy service celebrated by the Rev. Gemco Jewelers as well as the various Ukrainian churches in Ivan Tylawskyj, pastor of St. Mary's Connecticut and western Massachusetts, St. Mary's Ukrainian Catholic Church, and the Ukrainian Cultural Club, SUM-A Cooperative Gift Shop Rev. Mihajlo Pancak of the Ukrainian and the Hartford Federal Credit Union for their support Catholic Diocese of Edmonton, Al­ and encouragement. berta, at the present temporary church "Through your advertising, the program was brought into building located on an adjoining lot. Ukrainian homes each and every week," he said. Mr. Kerry The ceremony included the blessing also encouraged his listeners to support the Ukrainian Anne, Dick and Stacy Kerry of the "American Ukrainian 2 of the grounds and the erection of a Broadcasting Network aired on Channel 26 every Saturday Show" which formerly aired on WRYM Radio in Con- d cross at the location of the altar in the at 7 p.m. necticut. d new church. The placing of the cross at the location of the altar is a centuries- h old tradition as the altar is the symbolic to the U.S. public during her tour has The convention program for Sunday, representation of the heart of the Children of Chornobyl... been that, "there is no peaceful atom June 2, was devoted to presentations by church. (Continued from page 5) and that we need alternate energy Dr. Preobrazhenska and Dr. Orest sources: renewable sources such as the Vlokh, a people's deputy from Lviv and St. Mary's Parish was established in Dr. Preobrazhenska, a biologist, sun and wind." (For more information head of the Rukh organization in 1984 by Bishop Robert Moskal of St. began her remarks by noting that "Our about Dr. Preobrazhenska's views, western Ukraine. Josaphat's Diocese, Parma, Ohio. main purposes today should be to readers may refer to the June 9 issue of Dr. Vlokh, a physicist, proposed the Services for the handful of new pa­ honor the efforts of those who saved the The Weekly.) creation of a laboratory in Lviv that rishioners were initially held in St. lives of at least half of Europe; to Next to address the gathering was Dr. would examine radioactive contamina­ Andrew's Ukrainian Religious and prevent a second such catastrophe — so Yaroslav Shudrak, acting president of tion of soil, water and crops, and he Cultural Center. The present temporary that Chornobyl truly is a final warning; the Canadian ChUdjen^qf, Ghom^byJ v .appealed Ш^шгзро|-^ге,іг| the WestTox . church building was completed injyfay4 and to make the lives of human beings Relief Fund, whoMsVreaetedf to'th! ? "technical equipment as the best way to 1986. safe." У'""" IAEA report. "There are already 7,000 help Chornobyl's victims. This indepen­ Today St. Mary's Parish has grown to Reacting to the IAEA report, Dr. dead (as a result of the Chornobyl dent lab would provide information to about 200 families, and during the Preobrazhenska stated that the study is accident). Will it take decades and the Ukrainian Parliament's Chornobyl winter season serves more than 400 not complete and "it is inconceivable millions of deaths for the world to Commission. parishioners. that it was presented as such to the mass media and the public." The IAEA, she acknowledge Chornobyl's real toll, as Another speaker, Orest Tkachyk, went on, "studied only the people who was the case with the 1932-1933 famine administrator of the Medical and Re­ IF YOU WANT received low doses and lived far away in Ukraine?" search Center in Lviv that serves Chor­ from the accident site, they excluded Serhiy Kulyk, second secretary of the nobyl victims, stressed the need to work ^ Competitive Rates those people most affected: the Prypiat Ukrainian SSR Mission to the United with U.S. firms in providing assistance residents and the clean-up workers." Nations, expressed thanks to the CCRF to Ukraine. He proposed that studies of s Tax Advantages She then provided facts and figures on behalf of the mission and Ambassa­ new medicines be conducted in Ukraine dor Gennadiy Oudovenko. He then told s Complete Safety on the levels of radiation in the stricken and that results he provided to U.S. reactor's vicinity in the days imme­ the convention participants about the companies, and indicated that the diately after the accident."On May 7, in work of the Ukrainian representatives pharmaceutical company Johnson and BUY U.S. to the U.N. in disseminating the truth SAVINGS BONDS Prypiat, while people were still work­ Johnson has already expressed interest ing at the plant, the level was 1,200 about Chornobyl, and their success in in the idea. Mr. Tkachyk also stated that Where you bank. roentgens per hour," she pointed out. securing a resolution of solidarity what would be most useful in terms of She also noted the levels of radiation in signed by U.N. member-states on the long-term assistance to the people of the food supply in Germany and cited occasion of Chornobyl's fifth anniver­ Ukraine is to bring physicians from PACKAGES to UKRAINE figures on certain foodstuffs in the sary. He noted that "nine out of 10 Ukraine to the U.S. for specialized USSR, Poland and Austria - all of children in Ukraine are affected by study and work as residents. VCR's, Radios, Video cameras, them dangerously high. "Isn't this radiation and believe that Chornobyl electronics, sweaters, kerchiefs, has left them with no future." A financial consultant, Michael T. food packages. enough for an entirely different report?" Mr. Kulyk described the IAEA as Muslin of the Acacia Financial Center ALL DUTY PREPAID; RECEIVER PAYS she asked. "one of the richest organizations within of Pittsburgh, addressed the topic of NO DUTY!!!! "What we need is an independent fund-raising and charitable giving. UKRAINIAN GIFT SHOP study conducted by people who have the U.N." He stated: "We are thankful Finally, convention participants 11758 Mitchell, Hamtramck,: Ml 48212 hearts and minds. The Greens in for their help in the clean-up; their engaged in discussions regarding a plan (313) 892-6563 Ukraine have long demanded this," she knowledge was useful. But now time has of activity for the CCRF. According to stressed. passed and something has gone wrong. 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(212) 931-1579 12 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JUNE 23,1991 No. 25 IS in eastern Ukraine, i.e., the miner did Both the students and Rukh have Supreme Soviet have enabled some Political... not know his native language. attempted to make inroads into the semblance of the old order to remain (Continued from page 2) Both students and miners demanded industralized and Russophone eastern intact, but it is only on the level of a new political force that is at times alienated have a political platform; each member the release of Stepan Khmara, the Ukraine. A Democratic Ukraine move­ from the CPU outside the Parliament. is free to hold individual viewpoints. parliamentary deputy arrested on No­ ment initiated there is felt by one As noted, also, the "Group of 239" is But the Kiev authorities feared that the vember 7,1990, for an alleged assault on observer to have some chances of showing signs of splintering. newly acquired unity would be trans­ a militiaman during a fracas in an success. His view is that many eastern lated into further militant actions to underpass of the Kreshchatyk in central Ukrainians have in the past been some­ The proliferation of political parties 2 follow those of last fall, which resulted Kiev. 5 what alienated by what they regard as may preclude any immediate challenge extreme nationalist politics in western in the removal from office of the On April 23, there was a combined to the Communist leadership in the Ukraine. Yet if a movement is formed in chairman of the Ukrainian Council of student and coal miner action in the city assembly. But, as the example of the Ministers, Vitaliy Masol. that resulted in clashes with the militia. which the easterners have a major voice, Inter-Party Assembly shows, there is a it may have a better chance to unite, tendency toward polarization and Such fears were partially realized. At one point, students attempted to 28 The students played an active role in the seize the city's armory building, but democratic forces in Ukraine. To militant nationalism, particularly in the events of late April in Kiev. On April 21, were forced back by hundreds of some extent, the recent developments western oblasts. If any political party for example, Rukh convoked a rally to troops.26 Two days later, students of with the Union of Strike Committees can harness permanently the powerful noted above are already giving credence workers' movement now united in the commemorate the fifth anniversary of Kiev State University and Kiev Pedago­ 28 Chornobyl near the Dynamo soccer gical Institute held a one-day strike in to this viewpoint. All-Ukrainian Association of Strike stadium. The rally, however, focused the city.27 Neither action had the impact Committees, then the changes of serious largely on the plight of the striking or success of the student strike of last Conclusion conflict in the republic will rise signifi­ miners, and the most articulate spokes­ October, but on these recent occasions, cantly. As a strike movement com­ persons on their behalf were student the militia's presence was much more While the Ukrainian Supreme Soviet parable with Solidarnosc in Poland in activists. One went so far as to comment formidable. There is little doubt that has been preoccupied of late with the its early period, the association could that the fact that a previous speaker - a students represent one of the more details of the forthcoming union agree­ reduce the republic to an economic Donetske miner — presented his speech active political and patriotic forces of ment to be signed with Soviet President standstill very quickly. in Russian rather than Ukrainian was a Ukraine, but at present there is less Gorbachev, political activity elsewhere To date, nonetheless, it appears that demonstration of the "national repres­ unity among their groups than the new in Ukraine has often been frenzied. while the politically active population is sion" implemented by the Soviet regime union might suggest. Rukh, for example, is considering dissatisfied with the current situation, advancing the date of its third congress the focus of its discontent remains the in the light of the "acute" political "colonialization and centralist policies" situation in Ukraine. The price rises and the "administrative-command introduced in April, combined with the system" embraced by all-union minis­ miners' strike, student actions, and tries that control the Ukrainian eco­ Chornobyl's fifth anniversary have nomy from the center. All political Пласт produced a very tense situation in the elements are in agreement on this point Організація Української Молоді Ukrainian capital. The Khmara case is and concur that only a truly sovereign Запрошує Вас на... in court, but continues to elicit much Ukraine can bring about economic debate, and public concern was express­ recovery. ed following Dr. Khmara's rearrest in 29 Дата: Зго до Юго серпня Donetske on April 12. Khmara played 25. The author attended the rally on Місце: Raystown Lake, Pennsylvania a prominent role during the student April 21, 1991, in Kiev. Оплата: S50.00 реєстрація Я80.00 платне protests of October 1990. and was one 26. The comments are based on an of the few deputies from the Supreme eyewitness account related to the author by до ЗОго червня ^ілки в американських дoляpax> Soviet to participate in the students Marta Kolomayets, associate editor of The hunger strike. Ukrainian Weekly, who is based in Kiev. і The author witnessed other actions coordi­ ^Зайняття: Вітридаищтвсь Вод^Лщш'а^стіш'\ Плавання:, -Х;3 Ї In софіийопу ^s|we approach the nated by students and coal miners on this Канойкарство Вітроплавання та White Water Rafting sumirier of 1991; Ukraine has become same day. See also the report in Izvestiya, ш Табір є для членів УПЮ і УСП у віці 15 до 21. more volatile politically and there is a April 23, 1991. в Число учасників обмежене до перших 40 зголошенних, які вплатять noted tendency toward political ex­ 27. Radio Kiev, April 25, 1991. повну оплату. tremism. The Communist Party of 28. Viewpoint of Dr. Bohdan Kraw- Ukraine apparently has little influence chenko, director of the Canadian Institute of Для дальші інформації та реєстраційні матеріяли, прошу Ukrainian Studies, University of Alberta, among the public, but retains the related to the author on April І7, 1991. Задзвонити до: Greg Babiuk 100 Palisades Ave. Apt4A instruments of power: the militia, the 29. For discussions of the Khmara case, Jersey City, N.J. 07306 (201) 659-8709 KGB, the media, etc. In Ukraine, one see for example, Moloda Hvardiya, Decem­ discerns a general hostility toward the ber 4, 1990; Vilna Dumka, No. 1, December "center" (Moscow) and genuine aspira­ 1990, p. 2; Radio Kiev, January 5, 1991; and tions for sovereignty among most Molod Ukrainy, April 13, 1991. A bio­ sectors of the population. At present, graphy of Khmara, a member of the URP, is one can postulate that the efforts of Mr. carried by the URP Secretariat's newspaper, Vyzvolennyia 91, April 1991, p. 1. Kravchuk and his associates in the VWWWVWrfWA/WVWWWWWVIArtWWW^^ The Weekly: Ukrainian perspective on the news tfWWWyW^^AWVWWVWVWWWVAfWVW

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fundamental human rights issues and assistance to Poland, Hungary and current political, social and economic Lev Lukianenko... ensuring that systematic initiatives like Romania. The Task Force on Central changes taking shape in Ukraine. (Continued from page 3) employment and pay equity deliver on and Eastern Europe was also recom­ During the conversation, Mr. Flis their legislative promises. Chief director of the International Division, mended as a definite source of assistance told Mr. Lukianenko of Canada's recent Commissioner Maxwell Yalden recent­ for Ukraine. move to become a member of the. Brian Reed, and his Canadian Bank ly travelled to the Soviet Union to Note Company colleagues, Mr. Lukia­ Mr. Beamans went on to describe a European Bank for Reconstruction and conduct an information and education proven assistance scenario where Development (EBRD) based in London, nenko was shown the facilities where discourse on the work of the Human Canadian paper money is mass-pro­ through a so-called "Ukraina Founda­ whose primary directive is to help Rights Commission. A similar visit by tion" based in Ukraine, comprised of promote the economic progress of duced. Mr. Yalden to the Ukrainian republic Since this company also prints bank community, social, political and reli­ Central and Eastern Europe. Mr. Flis was discussed. gious organizations, the foundation recommended that the Ukrainian re­ notes for foreign countries, this visit The Canadian human rights meeting proved to be extremely beneficial in could seek funds from private and public apply for reconstruction and was immediately followed by an au­ governmental sources from around the development assistance from the light of the Ukrainian government's dience with the governor general of intentions to print its own currency. world. For example, Mr, Beamans EBRD. Canada at Rideau Hall After arriving explained, if Canada or the United The final event of the day for Mr. The next stop for Mr. Lukianenko at the official residence of Governor States were to provide assistance to the Lukianenko included a meeting with L. was the office of Judge John Sopinka, General Hnatyshyn in Ottawa, the government of the Soviet Union, there Delvoie, the assistant deputy minister the first Supreme Court judge of Ukrai­ Ukrainian group was escorted by the could be a stipulation in the bilateral (ADM) for policy at the Department of nian descent. After viewing briefly the governor general's charge d'affaires agreement that a certain percentage of National Defense. Mr. Lukianenko proceedings of an actual Supreme through the immaculate halls depicting the aid must go to this non-govern­ briefed the ADM on the issues of a Court case, Mr. Lukianenko was Canada's rich heritage into the brightly mental "Ukraina Foundation." separate Ukrainian military, conven­ ushered into the judge's chambers and decorated room where official meetings The final day of Mr. Lukianenko's tional weapons and a joint command was given a detailed briefing on the with heads of state take place. (among republics) for nuclear weapons. judicial system in Canada. whirlwind tour of Ottawa commenced Moments later, the governor general with a meeting in the boardroom of the Mr. Delvoie pointed out that the Justice Sopinka then hosted a lun­ arrived to welcome Mr. Lukianenko Ukrainian Information Bureau with ultimate symbol of state sovereignty is cheon at the Delta Hotel in honor of the and his wife to Ottawa and Rideau Hall. Philip Merilees, the director general the ability to call for the use of force in Ukrainian visitors. Speaking in Ukrai­ Briefly speaking in Ukrainian, Mr. of Atmosphere Research Directorate at the defense of a territory and people He nian, Mr. Lukianenko invited Justice Hnatyshyn went on to proudly describe Environment Canada, to discuss the also voiced concern over the posiibte Sopinka on behalf of the independent his Ukrainian heritage and his honor to Chornobyl nuclear disaster. Mr. scenario that if the Soviet empire Ukrainian Jurist's group to attend an have extended his endorsement and Taniuk, the Ukrainian deputy from crumbles, then at some point there international symposium for Ukrai­ patronage to the Ukrainian Canadian Kiev, was also in attendance. could be a reactionary movement nian jurists in Kiev scheduled for Centennial celebrations. The governor Mr. Lukianenko told Mr. Merilees taking over in Moscow with the full October of this year. general closed his remarks with best that to this day the Soviet authorities support of the KGB, military and Meetings during Mr. Lukianenko's wishes to the Ukrainian visitors and his have not divulged all the details of the Russian chauvinists that would attempt Ottawa visit were organized with senior sincere hope that Ukrainians in Ukraine Chornobyl tragedy. Not only are there to neutralize the break-up of the union. government officials, including func­ will someday be able to decide their own no instruments to measure surrounding The fear is, stressed Mr. Delvoie, that tionaries from the Canadian Human fate and destiny. „. radiation, declared the Ukrainian par­ this group would be more hostile than Rights Commission, Deputy Chief The Ukrainian entourage proceeded liamentarian, but there exists the poten­ the present Gorbachev government. 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from St. Peter's College. After two to discuss the political situation in situation of instability cannot con­ Jersey City,.. unsuccessful campaigns, he was Ukraine. He concluded: "The people tinue - because of the potential for (Continued from page 4) elected city councilman in 1985. in Kiev are proud to be Ukrainian. social disruption. The people in Mr. Vazquez is Jersey City's only In this capacity, Mr. Vazquez has The Communists have destroyed the Ukraine must find a political, non­ full-time city councilman (the re­ had an opportunity to travel to economy, but not the spirit. But this violent solution." maining seven have full-time jobs). numerous countries in turmoil. Mr. Born in Puerto Rico in 1942, he has Vazquez's Kiev trip was funded by lived in Jersey City since the age of 2. the Peace Council of New York. Turning the pages back... A high school drop-out, Mr. Vaz­ "I have been to a lot of places that (Continued from page 6) quez joined the Marine Corps in have been in war. I try to learn about 1966, passed the high school equiva­ violence, about war. When I travel to Dr. Varkony, "more than 500 men and women fell that night." Mr. Solzhenitsyn lency test and was sent to Vietnam in other countries I try to learn, to mentions two different figures: "about 600 according to the stories"and "more than 1967. absorb, to respect." 700" according to a later report. Surprisingly, Mr. Solzhenitsyn fails to mention He was wounded in 1968 and spent Kiev during the week of Mr. that a majority of the victims were Ukrainians, even though through his text he five months recuperating in a mili­ Vazquez's visit was an ideal class­ clearly indicates the leading role of Ukrainians in the resistance —"there proved to tary hospital. "Vietnam left a very room. Chornobyl commemorations, be many brave ones, especially among the Ukrainian girls, who were the majority in sobering impression on me. I return­ conferences, programs and striking the women's camp." "The third Camp Division fought — the division which had ed to the U.S. and became an anti­ miners filled in Mr. Vazquez's other­ started it all. (It consisted mainly of 58's with a large majority of Banderists.)" war advocate." wise busy itinerary. "Every morning The story of Kengir must not be forgotten, not only in order to honor the In the following years, he became at 8 a.m., 10,000 coal miners would memory of the victims, but also to unmask the same criminal tactics being used involved in local politics, worked as a begin demonstrating for their rights. today by Soviet security forces trying to provoke and intimidate those seeking social worker, hosted and produced They would not disband until 8 in the freedom from the "Prison of Nations." Not long ago, tanks crushed unarmed New Jersey's "Spanish Perspectives" evening," he noted. civilians in the streets of Vilnius. Only a few weeks ago, coinciding with a new on TV Channel 11 and in 1984 Mr. Vazquez also had an opportu­ military provocation in Vilnius, the official cover-up report was released, received a degree in urban studies nity to meet with numerous Kievans exonerating the murderers, blaming the victims and blatantly denying the photographic evidence and the eyewitness reports of foreign journalists.

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June 23 series of supplementary events such as NEW YORK: Lesya Suchinski, an artist PREVIEW OF EVENTS music, readings and films organized by from Argentina, will be in New York City nian settlement in Canada at the UNF to let us know if you are coming, so we the Gallery in co-ordination with the for the opening of an exhibition of her Camp Grounds on Richard Lake, nine can block off lawn space. The picnic be­ exhibition. As well, posters, post-cards paintings at 1 p.m. in the gallery of the miles south, on Highway 69 (Carol Camp gins at 6 p.m.; concert at 8 p.m. Lawn and t-shirts will be available to com­ Ukrainian Artists Association, 136 site turn off). Saturday, June 29: grounds admission is S7. The park opens at 5 p.m. memorate the exhibition. For more Second Ave., fourth floor, in New York open at noon; opening ceremonies, open- For more information and how to locate information, call Terry Aseltine or Heather Mousseau, (204) 786-6641, ext. City. Also included in the exhibit will be air concert, performances, 1 p.m.; our spot, contact Lida Shandor, (708) 211/212. works by Mychajlo Hrechen, a painter children's games, BBQ, food and drink, 234-7854. from Ukraine. The exhibit will remain 2 p.m.; dance (building number 4 if rain), ADVANCE NOTICE August 3 open through June 30. Gallery hours: 8 p.m. Sunday, June 30: grounds open, Monday - Friday, 6-8 p.m. Saturday and noon; open-air performances, concert, 1 August 1 WINNIPEG, Manitoba: The Ukrainian Sunday, 1-8 p.m. p.m.; experience "Zaporizhia," 2 p.m. June 24 - July 9 Canadian Veterans, Branch 141, has or­ Brine a tent, a frirby я Ья11- я bathing WINNIPEG, Manitoba: The Winnipeg ganized a one-day bus excursion to the NEW YORK: Lada Tatyana Lysniak suit; bring a friend. For additional Art Gallery will open an international Dauphin Ukrainian Festival. Air condi­ will have a one-woman photography information contact: Nick Nykilchuk, exhibition - "Spirit of the Steppes: 500 tioned buses, equipped with washroom exhibit — "Faces of Glasnost" at School (705) 566-0513; Walter Halchuk, (705) Years of Painting from Ukraine."This is facilities, will leave Winnipeg at 6 a.m. of Visual Arts Galleries, 209 E. 23rd St. 675-1166. a survey exhibition of some 115 paint­ and arrive in Dauphin by 10 a.m. Follow­ Opening reception is on Monday, June July 13 ings which presents the distinct stages in ing the parade, buses will provide trans­ 24 from 5-8 p.m.; gallery hours: Monday the development of Ukrainian art over port to Selo Ukraine for the festival stage CHICAGO: The Chicago Group in­ several centuries. Beginning with a group - Friday, 9 a.m. - 5 p.m. vites all members and prospective mem­ show scheduled for 2 p.m. The return trip June 29-30 of icons spanning the 15th to 18th to Winnipeg is at 6 p.m. Excursion fare is bers to picnic and listen to the Chicago centuries, the exhibition includes Symphony Orchestra play Haydn, S35, including G.S.T. Tickets can be portraiture from the 17th and 18th purchased from the Ukrainian Legion SUDBURY, Ontario: The Sudbury Mozart, Bartok and Chabrier at Ra- centuries, 19th century genre painting Branch of the Ukrainian National Fe­ vinia. Organizers advise: bring your own Branch 141, 618 Selkirk Ave., or by and early 20th century Ukrainian avant calling (204) 589-6315, 589-6676. deration of Canada Inc. will celebrate food, beverages and a blanket; garde work. An agreement to lend the the 100th anniversary of the first Ukrai- reservations are not necessary, but call work has been conducted with the State Museum of Ukrainian Art in Kiev. August 24 SSSSSSSSSSS The exhibition is presented in celebra­ SELF RELIANCE (NEWARK, N.J.) FEDERAL CREDIT UNION tion of the centenary of Ukrainian settle­ HUNTER, N.Y.: The Ukrainian Festi­ is seeking candidates for the following full time positions; ment in Canada. A fully illustrated color val, billed as part of the summer festi­ catalog. printed in English and vals held at Hunter Mountain, will fea­ ASSISTANT LOAN OFFICER Ukrainian, will be published in conjunc­ ture Alex Holub, the Yuri Furda Orches­ ban processing, underwriting and collection experience helpful tion with the exhibition. Following its tra, the Bo Lotocky Orchestra and the re­ presentation at the Winnipeg Art turn of the Chaika Ukrainian Dance En­ ADMINISTRATIVE STAFF POSITION Gallery, the exhibition will tour to two semble of Yonkers, N.Y. Tickets are: Exposure to Financial analysis and/or accounting and computer desirable other locations in Canada. There will be a adults, S9; children, S2. Send resume and salary requirements to the attention of BOARD OF DIRECTORS SELF RELIANCE (NEWARK, NJ.) F.C.U. even today to demand the member­ 734 Sandford Avenue, Newark, N.J. 07106 National... ship of Ukraine in the IOC, because it is a completely legal and logical (Continued from page 3) aspiration of every individual athlete, Mr. Kendzior discussed the diffe­ every sports activist or trainer to f BALTIMORE UKRAINIAN FESTIVAL WEEKEND і rences between two national Olympic prepare sports team, individual committees that were formed recent­ athletes to compete in the Olympic UKRAINIAN FESTIVAL ly and now appear to have joined Games. together. "It is truly a paradox that Ukraine, June 29 6\ 30 Exhibits Crafts Traditional Food "There is an Olympic Committee, that the soccer players in Ukraine are p noon — 6:00 p.m. Informational Displays Concerts Art organized by Valeriy Shutyi, as part able to form a collective soccer team of Rukh (the Popular Movement of of an exceptional level which could і Admission fl.00!!! Dance Music and Much More Ukraine).... but it really doesn't have easily represent Ukraine in world For more information please call Mr. Chorney, (301) 882-9422 much authority because it doesn't championships, in Europe or in the include any well-known sports acti­ Olympics — but now the trainers of vists or athletes, which is needed to each soccer team must exert great UKRAINIAN FESTIVAL PARY be taken seriously in the world. Soon effort to get even one or two or three afterwards, however, a National players on the all-union team. This Saturday, June 29 Live Music Olympic Committee was formed by shows that the heads of every federa­ 7:30 fo? Dancing Ukrainian DJ. official circles in Ukraine, headed by tion of every kind of snort under­ stand that it is convenient for them Admission Free!!! Beautiful Dockside Setting two-time Olympic champion and current Minister of Sport of Ukraine that Ukraine be an Olympic state Complimentary Hors d'oeuvres Valeriy Borzov. I attended the found­ because every federation could pre­ ing assembly of the National Olym­ pare its own team..." Cash Bar pic Committee and was elected a Mr. Shutyi, who headed the Olym­ Bring a Friend member...and I sensed during this pic committee associated with Rukh, founding assembly that even this has since joined the official commit­ For hotel ot other information please call (301) 243-6175 officially created Olympic Commit­ tee, but the unofficial committee has tee with its membership is capable not yet disbanded, said Mr. Kendzior.

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