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The Ukrainian Weekly 1986, No.47 www.ukrweekly.com Published by the Ukrainian National Association Inc., і щ c, a fraternal non-profit association I rainian Ш V Vol. LIV No. 47 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 23, 1986 25 cents Pope wants to visit Ukraine, Lithuania Ukrainians continue rights lobbying JERSEY CITY, N.J. — Pope John a visit to the officially atheistic Soviet Paul II flatly ruled out visiting the capital, Moscow, unless he is first during second week of Vienna review Soviet Union unless Secretary General invited to Lithuania and Ukraine. VIENNA — Representatives of the group of over a dozen from organizations, Mikhail Gorbachev first invites him to Mr. Navarro-Valls repeated the Ukrainian community in the West such as Americans from Human Rights visit Catholic communities in Lithuania papal condition several times, explain- continued their rally for national and in Ukraine (AHRU), the Smoloskyp and Ukraine, reported the Los Angeles ing that the pope wants to send a. human rights during the second week of Information Service, the External Times Wire Service. message to Mr. Gorbachev and that the the Helsinki follow-up meeting of the Representation of the Ukrainian Hel- The two countries have the largest press is the only channel that he has to Conference on Security and Coopera- sinki Group, the Ukrainian American Catholic populations on the territory communicate with the Soviet leader. tion in Europe that commenced here on Coordinating Council and others, in now occupied by the Soviet Union. Although no official plans have been November 4, reported Smoloskyp. organizing and attending press confe- The pope's position was hailed by released, it is widely expected that Mr. Working under the auspices of the rences and semi-private meetings with Archbishop-Metropolitan Stephen Gorbachev will visit Pope John Paul II World Congress of Free Ukrainians, officials from several of the 35 signa- Sulyk, leader of the Ukrainian Catholic in Vatican City when he goes to Rome representatives of up to 10 Ukrainian tory nations of the 1975 Helsinki Church in the United States, who called in January and that he will invite the organizations from Europe, the United Accords. it "absolutely appropriate." pope to reciprocate with a visit to States and Canada kept up their activity The first week of the Ukrainian "The pope, in my opinion, as the Moscow, the Los Angeles Times said. to inform delegates and the public representation's activity ended on supreme shepherd visits his faithful. His The New York Times reported that a about the human-rights situation in Friday, November 7, with a number of faithful in the Soviet Union are in senior official in the pope's entourage Ukraine and raised the issue of what events in which individual members Ukraine and Lithuania," the metropoli- said Pope John Paul II was wary of they considered to be Ukraine's right to took part. Andrew Sorokowski of tan explained in a telephone interview overtures from Moscow regarding a participate independently in forums like Smoloskyp was present at a news with The Weekly. possible visit there in 1988 because he the CSCE. conference of the U.S. delegation in the Pope John Paul told reporters on his did not want to be used by the Soviet Christina Isajiw from the WCFU's Vienna Hilton Hotel, where Secretary chartered Boeing 747 as he set out on a authorities in a "propaganda move." Human Rights Commission led the (Continued on page 16) two-week visit to Asia and the Pacific, The year 1988 marks the millennium "I won4 even talk about a trip to Russia. of Christianity in Kievan Rus', the first It would be my duty to make a trip to Ukrainian state. Ukrainians worldwide 786 teachers attend institute Lithuania." have expressed great concern about Joaquin Navarro-Vails, the pope's where and with whom the pope will spokesman later explained to reporters commemorate this historic event. on Ukraine's man-made famine that the pontiff has absolutely ruled out (Continued on page 13) by Marianna Liss for Educators," was designed to provide teachers and administrators with infor- CHICAGO — One hundred eighty- mation to teach about the Great Famine Archipenko centennial exhibit opens six teachers — 154 of them non-Ukrai- of 1932-33 that killed some 7 million nians — attended a one-day seminar on people in Ukraine. by Natalie Mason Gawdiak the man-made famine of 1932-33 in It attracted teachers mostly from Ukraine held here in the Ukrainian northern Illinois, as well as teachers of WASHINGTON — Widely regarded Village section of the city on Saturday, Ukrainian origin from as far away as during the late teens and early twenties November 8. Twenty-six participants Los Angeles, Miami, Toronto and of this century as "the world's greatest took the seminar for graduate credit Rochester, N.Y. Most of the Ukrainian living sculptor," the Ukrainian Cubist through Northern Illinois University. educators said they would try to hold Alexander Archipenko is the subject of "How many people in the audience similar seminars in their localities if a major exhibition in the ultramodern have never heard about the Ukrainian supported, as this Chicago institute East Building of the National Gallery of famine before?" Dr. Myron B. Kuropas, was, by the Ukrainian National Asso- Art in Washington that opened on the organizer of the seminar, asked the November 16. ciation. The teaching materials for the crowd of full-time teachers. One-third Chicago seminar were printed with The title of the show is proclaimed to a half raised their hands. funds provided by the UNA's Ukrainian overhead on the gallery's concourse The seminar, officially called "The Heritage Defense Committee. level in mural-size letters close to two Ukrainian Forced Famine: An Institute (Continued on page 14) feet high that stretch across an expanse nearly 80 feet in length: Alexander Archipenko (1887-1964) a Centennial Tribute. This exhibition of Archipenko's works, on view until February 16, 1987, was jointly arranged by the National Gallery of Art and the Tel Aviv Mu- seum, where, by an accident of history — to escape Nazi censorship — many of the artist's creations had been sent in 1933. The items on display fill three rooms and date primarily from the early period, many coming from the Tel Aviv collection, with others from the Smith- sonian's Hirshhorn Museum and Sculp- ture Garden, the Guggenheim in New York, and several other museum and private collections in the U.S. and abroad. The show has two curators: on the Israeli side, Nehama Guralnik, and for Alexander Archipenko's "Seated Wo- the National Gallery, Katherine Jans- man (Geometric Figure Seated)," paint- zky Michaelsen. At the exhibit opening, ed plaster, 1920. (Continued on page 14) Teachers at seminar on Great Famine. THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 23, 1986 No. 47. Three-year-old Estonian girl: Passenger trains collide in Ukraine hostage in human tug-of-war MOSCOW — An unspecified num- drowning nearly 400 people. ber of people died in a collision between TASS reported: "Two passenger two passenger trains in Ukraine earlier PHILADELPHIA — The only re- trains collided at night on November 6 this month, the Soviet news agency gret Hilja Uuskula says she has is that at a small station, Koristovka, near TASS reported, according to United she was not brave enough in the be- Kirovohrad (Ukraine)," according to Press International. ginning. Her family had wanted to The New York City Tribune. Ukrainian This is the third major accident swaddle little Kaisa in dainty clothes officials expressed "condolences to all reported in the Soviet Union in the past and make her. up like a doll so no one those who suffered, to the families and three months. would take her for a living child. But, the relatives of those who perished." she was scared that she would be caught The November 6 accident followed a "Both trains, Kiev-Donetske and if she tried to smuggle the child out of November 7 report that a Soviet cruise Kryvyi Rih-Kiev, were late and arrived the country. That was two years ago. liner with 300 schoolchildren on board, at the station Kiristovka simultaneous- Now her granddaughter, Kaisa Rand- who were on a state-sponsored holiday, ly," the news agency continued. "The pere, 3, "is a political prisoner, a hostage caught fire while sailing in the Sea of reasons for the accident are not yet in a human tug-of-war." Japan. Two crew members died while clear." The Philadelphia Inquirer recently fighting the blaze; the children were National investigators and a Ukrai- unharmed. nian government inquiry team are Another recent disaster also in- investigating the accident, TASS stated. Kaisa to leave USSR volving a passengerliner occurred on The disclosure of the accident falls August 31 when the Admiral Nakhi- under General Secretary Mikhail S. As The Weekly was going to press, mov, with more than 1,200 passengers Gorbachev's new policy of more open- it was learned that little Kaisa Rand- and crew on board, collided with ness regarding such occurrences in the pere was granted an exit visa by another Soviet ship in the Black Sea, USSR, the Tribune noted. Soviet authorities. The story was carried by Western wire services which cited the Foreign Office of the Swedish government as the source Kaisa Randpere at the age of 2. for the news. Exit visas were also behind. They even spread rumors the granted to Kaisa's grandparents, couple had been killed in an auto World Federation of Free Latvians however, they indicated that they accident in Sweden. wish to remain in Estonia. "We never regret that we defected," ROCK VILLE, Md.
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