Published by the Ukrainian National Association inc., a fntornal non-profit association) rainian Weekly vol. LIII No. 31 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, AUGUST 4,1985 25 cerjts Helsinki Accords signatories mark Soviet press alleges recantation international pact's 10th anniversaryb y 'eternal prisoner" Shukhevych HELS1NK1. Finland Foreign Foreign Minister Eduard Shevard– Purported excerpts published in News from Ukraine ministers of the 35 states signatory to nadze, who met on Wednesday. July 31. the Helsinki Accords, including the Secretary Shultz called their meeting by Roman Solchanvk United States and the Soviet Union, "a good first step" toward preparing the gathered here on July 29-31 for three- summit meeting between President MUNICH July issues oi the КІСЛ day observances of the international Ronald Reagan and General Secretary weekly visli 7 Ukrainy and its English- agreement's 10th anniversary. Mykhail Gorbachev scheduled for language counterpart. News from The 1975 Final Act of"the Conference November. Mr. Shevardnadze said that Ukraine, w hich are nublished for Ukrai– , on Security and Cooperation in Europe the talks were "serious and good." nians abroad, contain an article citing committed its signatories to respect Mr. Shultz said that the topics dis– what purport to be excerpts from a human rights, avoid interference in each cussed covered the "full range of issues letter to the editor by one of the best- others' internal affairs, respect post- and problems" that characterize known Ukrainian political prisoners. World War 11 borders and work toward U.S.-Soviet relations. "While we see Yuriy Shukhevych-Berezynsky.1 Mr. the free flow of information and ideas. progress in some areas, there are some Shukhevych is the son of the comman– -Hie -anniversary-observances were very deep differences," he said. der of the Ukrainian insurgent Army overshadowed, however, by the private Messrs. Shultz and Shevardnadze (UPA). Roman Shukhevych (Taras meetings of foreign ministers, most, had clashed a day earlier, when, in Chuprynka). who was killed in action notably U.S. Secretary of State George ' prepared speeches.delivered to the against Soviet security forces in 1950. Shultz and newly appointed Soviet - opening session of the 10th anniversary The article quotes Mr. Shukhevych gathering of Helsinki Accords signa– criticizing "Ukrainian nationalism" and tories, each accused the other's country the activities of his father: praising the of violating the agreement. Communist Party ofthe Soviet Union and the Soviet regime; and renouncing Promises not kept his own "mistaken path." The obvious Yuriy Shukhevych intention is to convey the notion that Mr. Shultz charged that the USSR one ofthe senior Ukrainian veterans of ofthe Ministry of State Security (MGB) had violated the accords' human-rights the Soviet gulag has recanted. to 10 years for no apparent reason other provisions, noting that "the most im– Mr. Shukhevych. 52. has completed than the fact that his lather was the portant promises of a decade ago have his third 10-year term in Soviet prisons leader of the armed anti-Soviet rc– not been kept." and labor camps and is currently com– (Continued on page 12) Mr. Shevardnadze, who spoke before pleting a five-year term of internal exile 1. Olexunder Savchuk. "l'rozrinnia." the U.S. representative, scored the in Tomsk Oblast. He has spent virtually United States for discarding "what has visli і Ukrainy. No. 2K. July 19X5. Лп his entire adult life as a political pri– English-language translation of the article been accumulated through great effort soner. lsas primed in News from Ukraine. No. 2X. in curbing and restraining the arms Mr. Shukhevych was first arrested in July 19X5. All the quotations cited herein race." 1948 at the age of 15 and sentenced by are given as they appear in News from The Soviet representative also said the OSO (the Special Board or "troika") Ukraine. that the Helsinki pact's humah-rights t provisions arc honored in the Soviet Union, where there is no "unem'ploy– "Recantation" raises questions ment. poverty, homelessness or discri– (Continued on page 11) Secretary of State George Shultz JERSEY C1TY. N.J. - Sources ailments, according to the U.S. intimately familiar with the human- Helsinki Watch Committee. rights movement in the Soviet Union Nina Strokala. a former member Heritage Defense Committee meets and the machinations of Soviet of the Ukrainian Helsinki Group authorities have raised questions and a member of the group's Exter– concerning the recantation alleged to nal Representation since her emigra– with Canadian and U.S. activists have been written by Yuriy Shu– tion to the United Slates, told The JERSEY C1TY. N.J. - Members of The UHDC meeting was attended by khevych, the veteran Ukrainian Weekly that there is no way of the Ukrainian Heritage Defense Com– UNA Supreme President John O. Flis, political prisoner who has come to be knowing at this point whether the mittee created by the Ukrainian Na– Supreme vice-President Myron Kuro– known as the "eternal prisoner" by letter is genuine. "We do not have tional Association's Supreme Assembly pas. Supreme vice-Prcsidentess Gloria virtue of having spent over 30 years enough information on this." she- met on July 20 with representatives of Paschen. Supreme Director for Canada in Soviet imprisonment and internal said. She cautioned. "We should not the Civil Liberties Commission of the Sen. Paul Yuzyk. (who is also a member exile. consider this a sensation, since there Ukrainian Canadian Committee and of of the Civil Liberties Commission). Mr. Shukhevych has been the may be tragedies behind it." Americans Against Defamation of Supreme Secretary Walter Sochan. focus of many defense actions or– She explained that she could not Ukrainians to discuss how Ukrainians Supreme Treasurer Ulana Diachuk, ganized in the West by Ukrainians comment on the article published in should respond to the recent defama– Supreme Organizer Stefan Hawrysz, and non-Ukrainians alike. Most both the Ukrainian-language visli ' tion of the Ukrainians who have been and Supreme Advisors l'aras Szmagala recently. 136 members of the U.S. Ukrainy and the English-language labelled Nazi collaborators. and Eugene lwanciw. Another member Congress had urged General Sccrc– News from Ukraine, since she herself After the joint meeting, the Ukrai– of this ad hoc committee of the UNA, tary Mykhail Gorbachev of the hail not yet seen the article but had nian Heritage Delense Committee Supreme Auditor Nestor Olesnycky. Communist Party of the Soviet been told about it. members met alone and agreed to lend was unable to attend. Union to release Mr. Shukhevych She pointed to a similar case, that moral and financial support of both the from internal exile and allow him to ol the alleged recantation by another CLC and AADU.as well as to designate The Civil Liberties Commission of travel to the West for much-needed member ol the Ukrainian Helsinki a specific sum of its Si00.000 budget the vec was represented in its chair- medical treatment. Mr. Shukhevych Group. Yasyl Sokulsky, in March of toward research and the dissemination man, John Grcgoravieh. and member is nearly blind and suffers from ulcers last year, stating that "to this das І of information on Ukraine during and Jaroslaw Sokolyk. І he AADU was heart disease and other chronic (Continued on page 11) after World War 11. (Continued on page S) THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, AUGUST 4,1985 No. 31

7 million moved from Moscow Osipova receives additional sentence MUN1CH - Tatyana Osipova, a member of the Moscow Helsinki Group, for World Youth Festival has recently been transferred to an investigation prison from a women's MOSCOW - in preparation for brer h .-.Hi?rr vvei Montand. political camp and charged with "mali– the current World Youth Festival, who has since denounced commu– ciously disobeying the orders of the some 1 million people, including nism and who is viewed here as a administration of a corrective labor school children, juvenile delinquents traitor - was the big hit of that institution." and ordinary workers, have been festival. Other hits were such novel- She was later sentenced to two years' temporarily moved out of Moscow, ties as Western blue jeans, chewing strict-regimen camp plus five years in the Baltimore Sun recently reported. gum and rock records. exile, reported USSR.News Brief. The article by Anlcro Pictila cites The Sun also noted that people Ms. Osipova, a computer programmer, S. Smirnov, first secretary of the was arrested in May 1980 and sentenced Moscow City Komsomol (Commu– here say that the dissident movement of the 1970s was born out of the to five years' camp and five years' exile nist Youth League) Committee, as for "anti-Soviet agitation and propa– saying that 600.000 children were excitement and restlessness that followed the first Moscow Youth ganda." sent out of the city along with 160.000 According to the U.S. Helsinki Watch high school students and 9.000 juve– Festival. That festival, like the 1975 Helsinki agreement, was seen by Committee. Ms. Osipova had been in nile delinquents, for the duration of nonconformists here as a sign that danger of receiving an additional sen– the two-week festival which began communism with a human lace tencc because she organized work July 27. Most of the young people might be possible in the Soviet stoppages and hunger strikes while allowed to remain belong to the Union. But as festival guests gather serving her term. Tatyana Osipova cream of the Komsomol organiza– here and representatives of 35 states tion. convene in Helsinki, little of that Meanwhile, many of the city's optimism can be detected in Mos– Sakharovs shown on French W factories have scheduled their vaca– cow. The Sun added. tions to coincide with the festival and PAR1S - Excerpts of a color video- Accords. have dispatched more than 100.000 The human-rights movement, for The Reagan administration said last one. has been severely restrained, in tape showing Andrei D. Sakharov. the workers out of the city. Asa result of exiled Soviet physicist and human- week that it would use the meeting to these measures. The Sun noted, long Moscow. 18 of the 20 persons who, assail the Soviet Union on its failure to after the signing of the Helsinki rights advocate, leaving a clinic in lines that often are seen outside Gorky, apparently in good health, and abide by the human-rights clauses of the Accords, formed a group to monitor Helsinki agreements. Moscow stores have largely dis– Soviet compliance with them, have being reunited with his wife. Yelena G. appcared. and many stores also seem been imprisoned, banished to Siberia Bonner, were broadcast on a French The West German newspaper Bild better stocked than usual. or exiled abroad. television network on July 29, Reuters said on J uly 29 that it also had obtained Some 18,000 mostly Communist reported. the same film,bu t it did not say wherethc and left-wing delegates, and 10.000 Limited contacts The Antenna-2 network said the film, videotape had come from, in the past invited guests from 150 countries are which showed 64-year-old Dr. Sakharov Bild has normally obtained such expected for the celebration of "anti- The authorities also.clearlyare4ioi chatting. wilb–a.-doctor before being material from victor Louis, a Soviet imperialist solidarity, peace and going to allow the kind of relatively driven in an ambulance to meet his wife, journalist who has been used as a , friendship." which began only days free contact between foreigners and had come from Moscow, but it did not conduit for information, Reuters said. before European and North Ameri– Soviets that is so fondly remembered reveal how it had obtained it, Reuters The Nobel laureate was exiled to the can political leaders were to meet in here about the previous festival, said. closed city of Gorky in 1980. apparently neighboring Finland on the occassion noted the Sun. The couple, who seemed to be un– in an effort to isolate him from the of the 10th anniversary of thesigning For one thing, not many Soviet aware of the camera filming them, was foreign community in Moscow and thus of the Helsinki Accords. young people arc allowed to partici– then seen shopping and going to a prevent him from issuing statements pate in festival events. movie. A wall poster in the background critical of Soviet policies. Show for visitors For another, foreigner-sanctioned gave the date as July 11. At first, his wife was free to travel and contacts with Soviet young people The videotape appears concurrently to carry messages between Moscow and To make sure the visitors do not have been carefully prepared. Ac- with the arrival in Helsinki, Finland, of Gorky, but in May 1984, she, too, was see the secmy side of Soviet life, all cording to a source, who has seen 35 foreign ministers from East and West confined to the volga River city of І vodka sales on Saturday and Sun- instructions from Komsomol head- for ceremonies marking the 10th anni– million. days have been ended and strict sales quarters, each organization was versary of the signing of the Helsinki (Continued on page 15) hours arc in force on weekdays, in asked to select "typical" young addition, thousands of uniformed Soviet families that could be visited police -– beefed up by regular army by foreign guests. 300 Latvian students arrested units and civilian vigilantes in red "The instructions said.that it was Soviet occupation, and in some cases, armbands patrol streets and keep JERSEY C1TY, N.J. - More than very important that people, who are 300 Latvian high school students in Latvian youths attacked Russianyouths all unauthorized persons out of allowed to invite foreigners, should who objected to the Latvian protests. festival areas, where admission is only Soviet-occupied Latvia were arrested not serve alcohol, only soft drinks recently in a series of riots, spurred by by a special pass that carries the and tea." the source told the Sun. bearer's photograph. the Soviet celebration of the 40th Rumors of the "executions" of several ' anniversary of the end of World War 11, Russian soldiers by young Baltic acti– Normally, about 8 million people Press restrictions live in the city, which also is visited reported the Chicago Latvian News- vists have also spread throughout letter. Latvia reportedly because the Baits every day by an estimated 2 million Meanwhile, employees of the go– out-of-town shoppers arriving by The newsletter said that student vowed to kill one Russian soldier for vernment-operated Soviet television protests and some cases of violence each year of occupation since the war. buses and trains. Now, however, covering the event reported that they police roadblocks ensure that an spread throughout the Baltic country, Whether true or not. Western ob– had been told they would be sum– occupied by the Soviets since 1940. servers believe these reports indicate order, allowing only vehicles with marily fired if seen at festival kiosks permits entry into the city through Students distributed leaflets in schools stepped-up anti-Soviet sentiment and or book stalls. throughout the country protesting the activity in Latvia, the newsletter said. August 11 is obeyed. The reason, it was speculated, was The Sun also reported that passen– that the authorities do not want long ger traffic through Moscow, the lines at those outlets or Soviets USSR's rail hub. has been cut back grabbing souvenir items and books drastically, and only people with city specially made for foreigners. FOUNDED 1933 residency permits can buy tickets Ukrainian Weekb back to the capital. in an apparent movetodiscouragc To the visitors, gaily decorated Western correspondents from covcr– An English-language Ukrainian newspaper published by the Ukrainian National Moscow will be shown as the orderly ing the event, the festival organizers Association inc., a non-profit association, at 30 Montgomery St., Jersey City, N J. capital of the world's first socialist are charging a fee of S50 — payable 07302. state, which, the Soviets maintain, is in hard currency - for journalists the most advanced political system in wanting to be accredited. Such fees Second-class postage paid at Jersey City, N.J., 07302. the history of humankind. are almost unheard of in journalism. (1SSN - 0273-9348)

First festival These restrictions have not gone Yearly subscription rate: 18; for UNA members - S5. unnoticed by Muscovites, who re- Also published by the UNA: Svoboda, a Ukrainian-language daily newspaper. According to The Sun. the first member the freer atmosphere of the Moscow Youth Festival, in 1957. is previous festival, reported the Sun. The Weekly and Svoboda: UNA: remembered here as a period of Said one. "in 1957. there was real (201) 434-0237,-0807,-3036 (201)451-2200 excitement and as a time the Soviets enthusiasm. People wanted to see opened their doors to a mass influx foreign people and we believed thai Postmaster, send address changes to: of visitors from abroad since the days new things were coming. Now every - The Ukrainian Weekly of Stalinist terror. hody knows how it is." P.O. Box 346 Editor Roma Hadzewycz Jersey City, N.J. 07303 No. зі„.„„„„„„„„„„„„^THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, AUGUST 4,1985^„^^^,^1 Congressional delegation returns White House meeting commemorates from fact-finding trip to Rumania 10th anniversary of Helsinki Accords by Mykhailo Bociurkiw session during the second half of the meeting. WASHINGTON - white House The meeting was held in advance of and State Department officials asserted ceremonies which began earlier this last week that the administration is week in Helsinki marking the 10th justified in not abandoning the Helsinki anniversary of the signing of the Final Accords despite complaints from rights Act of the Conference on Security and groups that more Soviet dissidents are Cooperation in Europe.. being jailed than ever before. The final act that came out of the І n a series of statements made here on Helsinki talks in 1975 was signed by the July 24 at a public meeting to comme– late Soviet leader, Leonid 1. Brezhnev. morate the 10th anniversary of the U.S. President Gerald R. Ford and the accords, the officials told the some 200 representatives of 33 other states, it rights groups representatives that the pledged the signatories to show more United States will continue to hold the respect for individual rights and funda– Soviets to the promises they made in mental freedoms. Helsinki in 1975. But the rights activists at the Wash– The officials were invited to talk to ington public meeting complained that members of human-rights groups by the the Soviet Union's human-rights record White House Office of Public Liason. has worsened in the decade since the The speakers included: Mark Palmer, agreement was signed. deputy assistant secretary of state for European affairs; James E. Good by. the Soviets eliminate critics chief U.S. delegate to the Stockholm Conference on Confidence-Building indeed, KGB and Soviet Foreign Scene from a service in the Baptist church in Oradea. Measures and Disarmament in Europe; Ministry officials have recently been Richard Schifter. a Washington lawyer the Washington-based Christian Re– quoted as saying that the Soviet Union WASHINGTON - A delegation of and the chief U.S. delegate to the sponse international (CR1). "The three will eliminate citizens who criticize its three U.S. congressmen and l2congres- Ottawa Human Rights Experts Meet– congressmen and other participants human-rights record. : sional aides and human-rights activists ing: and Michael Hathaway, the staff were able to see for themselves the The Soviet human-rights record is returned on July 2 from a five-day fact- director ol the Commission on Security finding trip to Rumania where partici– problems Rumanian Christians are to be "a number-one concern" of Secre– and Cooperation in Europe. tary of State George P. Shultz during pants say they saw first-hand evidence facing." The Rev. Collins says Evange– The two-hour meeting was opened by his talks with the Soviet Foreign of religious persecution. lical churches are being bulldozed in l.inas Kojclis. associate director of the Minister. Eduard A. Shevardnadze, Rep'. Chris Smith (R-N.J.). Rep. record numbers while pastors and lay White House Office of Public Liaison, said Mr. Palmer." The highest on our list Tony Hall (D-Ohio) and Rep. Frank leaders are often jailed or heavily fined who chaired a queslion-and-answcr (Continued on page 12) Wolf (R-4'a.) led the delegation in for unauthorized preaching or evan– meetings with the president of the„ gelizing. - " Rumanian Parliament. NicolaeGiosan. The CRl delegation also visited and other high-level Communist leaders. churches in Oradea. Alexandria and According to trip organizer the Rev. Bucharest. There the three congress– Jeffrey A. Collins, executive director of (Continued on page 14) Woman who jumped ship returns to USSR

OSLO. Norway - A 29-year-old it was not immediately clear if the female Ukrainian crew member of a woman, a waitress on the ship Maxim Soviet cruise ship who jumped over- Gorky, intended to seek political board near, the Norwegian island of asylum. She was taken to a hospital and Spitsbergen has returned to the Soviet was to be flown to the mainland when Union, reported Western newsservices, her condition improved. on July ЗІ. Later the woman told Norwegian The woman, whose named was not officials that she wanted to leave the released, reportedly jumped overboard USSR. She changed her mind, how– Mykhailo Bociurkiw and swam several hundred meters to ever. after meeting the Soviet consul, Speakers (from left) Mark Palmer, Richard Schifter, James E. (ioodby and reach Spitsbergen and then walked for viktor Jurgens. on July 30 in Long– Michael Hathawav. four days before being found suffering yearbyen on Spitsbergen. from frostbite and exposure. The island, which lies in the Arctic A Norwegian official'said she met Moscow Helsinki Group member Circle, includes several mining towns. with the consul in the presence of One of them, a coal-mining settlement Norwegian authorities, but the official called Barentsburg. has been ad- declined to say why she had changed her interviewed by The New York Times ministered by the Soviet Union since mind. He did note, however, that she 1932 under an international agreement. has relatives in the Soviet Union. MOSCOW "1 like to believe gedv a seemingly hopeless quest to that all we did was not in vain." gain medical treatment abroad for Naum Meiman a member of the his wile, who is dying of cancer. Moscow HelsinkiGroupwhich moni– "After my years of working for the Report highlights persecution of Catholics iorcd Soviet compliance to the 1975 rights of others." he told the reporter. Helsinki accords, recently told re- "1 feel 1 have earned the right to plead WASHINGTON - The catholic centralizing information and resources porter Seth Mydans of The New for help lor my own case." Study Council (CSC), a project of the on the persecution of Catholics within York Times. National Center for Public Policy the Soviet Union: changing the classifi– "But. of course. І feel a great Small victory Research, has prepared a report detail– cation of State Department prisoners of heaviness and distress both for my ing the persecution of Catholics within conscience to include classification by friends personally and for society." Mr. Neiman's concentration on his the Soviet Union, reported the Ukrai– nationality and religion; supporting he added. own problems is another small victory nian National information Service diplomatic efforts of the U.S. govern– Now, a decade after the signing of for the authorities here, who through- (UN1S). ment through grass roots and public the Helsinki Accords that touched out the 1970s successfully dcllccted The report, which highlights persecu– lobbying. off that flurry of dissident activity. 18 the energies of the Helsinki group of the 20 people who joined the away from broad social issues to a tion against the Ukrainian Catholic The report is a result of recent efforts Moscow Helsinki watch group have narrow defense of their own asso– Church, was presented to President by prominent Catholics such as Ed been imprisoned, sent into internal ciatcs. noted Mr. Mydans. Ronald Reagan on July 14, several days Fuelner. president of the Heritage exile or have gone abroad. The heady activism of that time before the president met with Cardinal Foundation, a Washington-based think- Mr. Meiman, a 74-year-old mathe– spread from the Moscow group to Myroslav Lubachivsky. head of the tank, to highlight persecution of fellow Ukrainian Catholic Church. malician. is one of the two group Helsinki watch groups in Lithuania. Catholics who are suffering in the members who are in the Soviet Recommendations to-the president Soviet Union. Armenia. Georgia and Ukraine and included: focusing diplomatic efforts to Union and not in prison or in exile. was reflected in groups that publi– pressure the Soviet regime to legalize Highlighted in the report is the emcr– He has given up agitating for the cized purported abuses of psychiatry the Ukrainian Catholic Church and to gence of the samvydav journal. Chro– rights of others and appears to be and religious oppression. But that remove all restrictions on candidates for niclc of the Catholic Church in Ukraine. preoccupied with his personal lra– (Continued on page 14) the Lithuanian and Latvian seminaries: -(Continued on page 12) - THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, AUGUST 4.1985 No. 31 Community continues to pressure Project receives Sf 0,000 from Sulyk New York education officials JERSEY C1TY. N.J.. - Ukrainian studies of the Cambodian and Ukrai– communities throughout New York nian genocides. state are continuing to react to the Michael Heretz, chairman of the Ad recent decision of state education Hoc Committee on Education About officials to delete a section on the the Famine-Genocide in Ukraine, wrote Ukrainian famine of 1932-33 from the the following in a letter to,the editor of first volume of a teaching guide titled the Times-Union of Albany: "Teaching About the Holocaust and "The decision to transfer the 17-page Genocide." chapter on the forced famine in Ukraine The section on the man-made famine from volume 1 to some future volume of was deleted from volume 1 of the guide. "Case Studies of Genocide" - for all where it was to have been included in a practical purposes — is elimination ol section titled "Precursors to the Holo– that chapter from the holocaust, geno– caust." and moved to a third volume of cide studies. Teachers would not be able the teaching guide, which contains case to devote any time to "Case Studies of Genocide" because there is already a problem of fitting into the teaching schedule 600 pages of information on Columnist cites the Nazi Holocaust. "The transfer of the very modest holocaust guide section on the famine in Ukraine into the obscurity of the future case studies Metropolitan Stephen Sulyk is flanked by Bohdan Robak (left) and Dr. Stephen BUFFALO. NY. - Columnist volume is the equivalenfof covering up Woroch. Mike vogel of the Buffalo News the crime against humanity committed PHILADELPHIA - Metropolitan published as a keepsake to preserve devoted his July 24 column to actions by the government of the Soviet Union, Stephen Sulyk of the Ukrainian Catho– great Ukrainian literary treasures. He of the New York State Education it is unimportant whether this cover-up lic Church in the United States recently added that the works should be trans– Department which alienated the is done intentionally or unintentionally. donated S 10.000 to the Harvard Project lated into English so that non-Ukrai– state's Ukrainian American com– What is important is that the students on the Millennium of Christianity in nians could also benefit from the munity specifically the decision to– will not learn-about 4he-nature-of-the Ukraine. richness of the Ukrainian spirit. delete a section on the Ukrainian Soviet totalitarian system, that it was This money has already been ear- famine of 1932-33 from the first capable of murdering by starvation 7 marked for the publication of the first Metropolitan Sulyk met with Har– volume of the teachers' guide titled million people in order to achieve its three volumes of a 40-volume collection vard Project committee head Dr. Ste– "Teaching About the Holocaust and goals and that the Soviet goals are the of Ukrainian literary works dating from phen Woroch and finance committee Genocide." same now as they were in 1933." the eighth through the 18th centuries. member Bohdan Robak at the lmmacu– "Education Department spokes- Mr. Heretz concluded his letter by According to the hierarch. such a late Conception Ukrainian Catholic men have been busy explaining that pointing out: "The position of the New collection is invaluable it must he Cathedral in Philadelphia. the man-made famine and the deaths York State Education Department is of anywhere from 7 million and 15 inconsistent with the precedent set by million Ukrainians will still be in– the U.S. Congress which in 1984. cluded in the guide... it's just, they established a commission to study and Hermaniuk gives $ 10,000 to project say. a matter of location." wrote Mr. report on forced famine in Ukraine. NEWARK. N.J. Metropolitan vogei. , Meanwhile, local Ukrainian com– Maxim Hermaniuk of the Ukrainian "instead of its originally planned munity organizations statewide have Catholic Church in Canada recently spot in volume 1 of-4jie three-volume been conducting a letter-writing cam– pledged S 10.000 to the Harvard Project series." program development di– paign aided at securing the rein- on the Millennium of Christianity in rector Edward T. Lalor explained. statement of the Ukrainian famine Ukraine. "it'll be -contemporized' and used in section in volume 1. During a visit ю St. John the Baptist volume 3 - a volume still being The Buffalo branch of the Ukrainian Ukrainian Catholic Church in Newark. prepared for the printers and tar– American Coordinating Council, in a N.J.. the Ukrainian Catholic hierarch geted for distribution in December, letter to Edward T. Lalor, director of met with the Harvard Project commil– some three months after teachers get program development,for the New tee head. Dr. Stephen Woroch, and a volume 1 and 2." the columnist York State Education Department finance committee member. Bohdan reported. noted: Robak. They discussed the significance Originally the section on the Ukrai– "The Ukrainian community of west– of this historic event and the need for nian famine, along with the Arm– ern New York, which strongly objects to substantial funding to properly comme– cnian genocide, was part of the the deletion of the section 'Forced morate the millennium. chapter titled "Precursors to the Famine in Ukraine' from volume 1 of І he metropolitan expressed hope Holocaust." Now, according to what the 'Teaching Guide About the Holo– that Ukrainians throughout the free the scries planners told Mr. vogel, caust and Genocide.' upon receiving world would contribute generously to the Ukrainian famine will be covered your recent explanations as to the the millennium fund and participate in in a "separate but equal" third above-mentioned deletions, finds your observances scheduled duringthejubilee volume. arguments vague, arbitrary and totally year. 1988. However, many Ukrainians still lacking in conviction. The Harvard Project committee ask: "Why was it deleted from vol– "To state thet you have decided to members thanked the metropolitan for ume 1 in the first place?" noted Mr. move (this section) to a third volume is a both his moral and financial support. Metropolitan Maxim Hermaniuk Yogel. curious statement, since we had been (Continued on page 13) Millennium committee schedules meeting

Gov. Cuomo does not reply JERSEY C1TY, N.J. - The Na– by-laws and projects under considera– tional Committee on the Millennium of tion. Group representatives - each. to Metropolitan Mstyslav's letter Christianity in Ukraine, chaired by Dr. organization is allowed one delegate - Yuriy Starosolsky, has called a plenary are asked to study these proposals, SOUTH BOUND BROOK, N.J. - Famine-Genocide in Ukraine, protested meeting to be held on Saturday, August which will be discussed at the August 17 Metropolitan Mstyslav Skrypnyk of the the lack of response to the metro– 17, at the Ukrainian National Associa– meeting. Organizations that have not Ukrainian Orthodox Church, in a June politan's letter. tion headquarters, 30 Montgomery St., received this information or that have 16 letter to New York Gov. Mario "ignoring the letter of the spiritual here. not been informed of the meeting are Cuomo, appealed for the restoration of leader of any ethnic group — including The meeting, which is scheduled to asked to contact Mr. Soltys at (516) a section on the Ukrainian famine of Ukrainian — is poor policy." he said, begin promptly at 11 a.m., will include a 538-4913 so that they can be added to 1932-33 in the first volume of the adding: "it is inconsistent with Gov. reading of the last minutes, reports from the committee's mailing list. curriculum guide called "Teaching Cuomo's vision, who sees all people of the workingcommittee, which is headed About the Holocaust and Genocide." the state of New York as one family. by George Soltys, and a vote on the Hierarchs of the Ukrainian Churches, One and a half month's later, Metro– The plight of one member of the family proposed committee by-laws. Also on Metropolitan Mstyslav of the Ukrai– politan Mstyslav. the leader of Ukrai– should not be ignored by others and - the agenda is a vote on the official name nian Orthodox Church, Metropolitan nian Orthodox in the United States and least of all - by the head of that family. of the committee and the formation of Stephen Sulyk of the Ukrainian Catho– the diaspora, has yet to receive a reply Gov. Cuomo." two additional subcommittees public lic Church in the United States and or acknowledgement of his letter. Mr. Heretz asked that Mr. Nikloslook relations and manifesiation-demonstra– Pastor Wolodyrnyr Borowsky of the in a letter to John Nikos, the gov– into the matter. tion. Ukrainian Baptist Church -all hono– ernor's liason for ethnic groups, Mich– Metropolitan Mstyslav's letter stated All Ukrainian organizations that are rary members of the committee's presi– ael Heretz. chairman of the Ad Hoc that "Ukrainian Americans everywhere currently on the committee's mailing list dium - have been invited to the mcct– Committee on Education About the (Continued on page 13) have been sent cupi^–. ol the proposed ing. No. зі :-–. .'., - - . . - -, .' ;THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, AUGUST4,1985, . ' '. '-'v ; ' :–. , . 5

THE UKRAINIAN NATIONAL ASSOCIATION FORUM

UNA bids adieu to Zarycky U.S. тraterrials to retain their tax-exempt status JERSEY C1TY. N.J. - The U– ciations were not business organiza– krainian National Association has tions. but existed for the sole benefit been informed by the National Fra– of their members. Evidently, this ternal Congress of America (NFCA) argument was convincing and the of which it is a member, that the U.S. tax-exempt status of the fraternals Treasury Department's recommen– were retained. dation that fraternal societies be The Treasury Department's plan taxed has been defeated, at least for to tax certain endowment policies the time being. sold on or after January 1 is not This means that the Ukrainian Na– affected by the above decision, and tional Association will not be taxed fraternals will have to annually as a business corporation as had been report the amount of the taxable recommended in the Treasury De– value of such policies of the internal partment's original plan. Un– Revenue Service. The Ukrainian doubtedly, this change in the Trea– National Association anticipates Supreme Organizer Stefan Hawrysz and Supreme Secretary Walter Sochan with sury Department's recommenda– that the investment income on its George Zarycky at farewell luncheon. tions was brought about through the endowment certificates shall be efforts of the National Fraternal taxed approximately 10 years from JERSEY C1TY. N.J. - After work– behalf of the Ukrainian National Asso– Congress Law Committee, by the the date of issue. ing for five years on the staff of The ciation, and Roma Hadzewycz. editor National Fraternal Congress and by The Supreme Executive Commit– Ukrainian Weekly, first as an assistant of The Weekly, spoke on behalf of Mr. all fraternal societies and their mem– tee of the Ukrainian National Asso– editor and most recently as the asso– Zarycky's co-workers. Mr. Zarycky, in bers, who deluged President Ronald , ciation wishes to extend its thanks ciate editor, George Zarycky was given turn, thanked the UNA and his co- Reagan, the secretary of the Trea– ''-" and appreciation to its many branch a farewell party on Friday, July 19, by workers for a good five years. sury and members of the U.S. Seriate secretaries and members who re– the newspaper's publisher, the Ukrai– Afterwards, Mr^ Zarycky personally and House of Representatives; with sponded so massively to its appeal to nian National Association. bid farewell to colleagues and friends at letters and telephone calls protesting participate in the letter-writing cam– The luncheon was attended by UNA a final get-together in The Weekly's the plan to tax all fraternals as if they paign to retain the tax-exempt status executives and employees, the Svoboda editorial office. were business corporations. of all fraternal associations, among and Weekly editorial staffs, and em– Mr. Zarycky began his new job as The NFCA and all fraternal socie– them the Ukrainian National Asso– ployees of the Svoboda Press. research director at the A. Philip ties. maintained that fraternal asso– ciation. UNA Supreme Secretary Walter Randolph JnstituteJo JJeiv.York„the Sochan bid farewell to Mr. Zarycky on following Monday, July 22. dian government. They also noted that Heritage Defense... the Ukrainian community in Canada - District committee meetings voloshchuk, auditors. (Continued from page 1) especially youths and professionals Afterwards Mr. Hawrysz, speaking represented by its president. Halyna born in Canada — has acted in unison on behalf of the UNA Supreme Execu– Kozak. and is prepared to oppose the defama– Boston tive Committee, addressed the gather– tion of Ukrainians. ing. Canadian activity Ms. Kozak, gave an overview of the BOSTON - The Boston District work done by the AADU and outlined Committee of the Ukrainian National The situation in Canada, since the its plans. Describing the activity of the Association re-elected Walter Hetman– Rochester first instance of attacks on Ukrainians J usticc Department's Office of Special sky its chairman at the annual elections in the press based on information from investigations, Ms. Kozak emphasized meeting held at the local Ukrainian ROCHESTER, N.Y. - The Ro– the Soviet Embassy in Canada and the that Ukrainians and other East Euro– Catholic church hall on Sunday, May 5. chester District Committee of the Simon Wiesenthal Center in Los pean ethnic groups must demand that The meeting was chaired by ivan Ukrainian National Association held its Angeles through the time of the foirma– Congress investigate OS1 activities, Didiuk, and the minutes were recorded annual elections meeting here at the tion of the Deschenes Committee, was which have established new legal prece– by Dmytro Galonzka. Mr. Hetmansky Ukrainian National Home on Sunday, discussed at length by Messrs. Gregoro– dents in American courts of law with the introduced the guests in attendance, March 24. vich and Sokolyk as well as Sen. Yuzyk. use of Soviet-supplied evidence. including the Rev. Peter Ohirko and Walter Hawrylak was re-elected to who as a member of the Canadian Ms. Kozak commended the UNA UNA Supreme Organizer Stefan head the district, which encompasses 10 Senate and of the Progressive-Conser– committee and expressed her belief that Hawrysz. He also welcomed all branch branches. Also elected were: Kon– vative Party which is currently in the UNA will stand in the vanguard of representatives in attendance. stantyn Shewchuk, honorary chairman; control in Canada, is lobbying in those defending the Ukrainian nation, The following outgoing officers Dmytro Prystay, secretary: Stefan defense of the good name of Ukrai– against defamatory attacks. delivered reports to the meeting: Mr. Pryjmak, treasurer: Maria-Kovalchuk nians. After an exchange of ideas. Mr. Flis Hetmansky, chairman; Mr. Galonzka, and Maria Svedyra, members-at-large. The Canadian representatives listed thanked all present for their ideas and secretary; Dmytro Melnyk, treasurer. The auditing committee includes M. countcrmeasures already taken, rcport– suggestions, and assured everyone that The voting was then held and the Malynivsky. chairman; Peter Leschy– cd on plans for publicatians on the post- the UNA will work closely with the following slate of officers was elected: shyn and vasyl Popovych. members. World War 11 history of Ukraine and other organizations as well as take its Mr. Hetmansky, chairman: vasyl The meeting was called to order and Ukrainians, and reported on measures own initiative in defending its members Mihovan. vice-chairman; Mr. Galon– conducted by Mr. Hawrylak. while the taken to obtain justice from the C'ana– and the entire community. zka. secretary: Mr. Melnyk, treasurer;' minutes were recorded by Mr. Prystay. Dr. Didiuk. chairman of the auditing Mr. Hawrylak noted that among the committee; Anne Remick and Michael meeting participants were Mr. Shew– chuk, the honorary chairman of the district; UNA Supreme Organiser Stc– UNA, UACC send fan Hawrysz and Wasyl lwanciw, su– premc advisor of the Ukrainian Fruter– mailgrams to Reagan nal Association. Reports of outgoing officers were JERSEY C1TY. N.J. -Two Ukrai– delivered by Mr. Hawrylak and by the nian organizations - the Ukrainian district secretary, Mr. Prystay. National Association and the Ukrai– Also on the agenda of the meeting nian American Coordinating Council was a brief address by Mr. Hawrysz. — were among the thousands who sent who represented the Ukrainian Na– get-well wishes to President Ronald tional Association's Supreme Executive Reagan after his recent cancer surgery. Committee at the meeting. "We pray for your full recovery so that America can continue to reap the benefits of your capable leadership," Albany said the UNA in its mailgram message. The UACCouncil wrote: "Our mem– ALBANY. N.Y. Paul Shewchuk Seen during a recent meeting of the UNA's Ukrainian Heritage Defense Committee bers pray to God lor your full and was re-elected to chair the Albany are (from left): John Gregorovich of the Civil Liberties Commission of the complete recovery– America must con– District Committee of the Ukrainian Ukrainian Canadian Committee: Sen. Paul Yuzyk, UNA Supreme Director for tinue to benefit from the course you National Association at the annual Canada and a member of the CLC; Halya Kozak of Americans Against have ;,el." elections meeting held on Anril 2S at Defamation of Ukrainians; UNA Supreme President John O. Flis; and Jaroslaw Both mailgrams were ^ent on .1 uly Г9. (Continued on page 15) " Sokolvk of the CLC. - 6 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, AUGUST 4,1985 No. зі

Faces and Places Ukrainian Week Y by Myron B. Kuropas

The Shukhevych case Research needed to fight defamation

The circumstances oi the alleged recantation by Yuriy Shukhevych, it was a quiet coference. Quiet but and "Literan Works on War Events in powerful. the "eternal prisoner." are unknown to all but the Soviet authorities. Ukraine." Prof. Taras Hunczak was there. .So The conference ended on Friday with Thus, it is not for us here and at this time to comment on whether the were Profs. Petro Stercho and Nicholas sessions devoted to "Occupation Forces recantation is a genuine one. Bohatiuk. All segments of the Ukrai– in Ukraine." "Soviet-German Policy nian American political spectrum were But, let's assume, just for the sake of argument, that Mr. Towards Ukraine." "Atrocities of the represented in just those three gentle- Occupation Forces in Ukraine.""Ukrai– Shukhevych, a man who has spent 33 of his 52 years in Sov iet prisons, men. nians in American and Canadian Arm– labor camps and internal exile, did write the recantation. What does Joseph Lesawyer was there and so ed Forces.""Ukrainian Authorized and the excerpted recantation, as it appears in the Ukrainian language in was !. Even Bohdan Futey made a brief Underground Publications and Press." visti 7 Ukrainy and in the Knglish language in News from Ukraine, tell cameo appearance to address theThurs– "Education and Relief Work." "Car– us about the Soviet system? day evening banquet. pathian Ukraine. Bukovina and Ukrai– But this wasn't a political debate or a nians Abroad" and "Historical Ac- Headlined "He saw the light." the article in News from Ukraine is replay of the 1980 UCCA congress. This counts. Gains and Losses." prefaced by an introductory statement printed in boldface type: "A was a conference of scholars, rcsearch– As impressive and as timely as the story about how ruthlessly the Ukrainian bourgeois nationalism ers and community activists addressing lllinois conference was. it made me maims the life and soul of a person who professes this ideologv, and perhaps the single most relevant topic in keenly aware of how much homework how much suffering he has to take in order to see the light." our community todav: "Ukraine During we Ukrainians still have to do. in my World War 11." opinion, the three most significant areas This succinct statement tells the reader at least two things: Mr. The conference lasted a week and that need to be developed by scholars Shukhevych has indeed been suffering for his beliefs; Ukrainian included 94 participants and 22 guests. immediately are Ukraine under Nazi nationalism is still the enemy in the Soviet Union, and it appearsto be Some 45 separate presentations were occupation and the degree of colla– alive despite all claims to the contrary. The latter point is buttressed bv made by scholars from Sweden. boration. losses during World War П. the article itself in which the author conducts a lengthy diatribe against France. Austria. Canada and the Unit– and Ukrainians in the Allied forces. Ukrainian nationalism and its proponents. ed States. The first is a painful topic that needs The article further notes that "nationalist organizations abroad" Organiser? Prof Dmytro Shlohryn, head of the Slavic library catalogue at to be handled dispassionately by a have attempted to prove that Mr. Shukhevych was "subjected to the University of 1 llinnois for the past 25 person who is not of East European 'groundless repressions' on the part of Soviet authorities because he years and a lecturer in Ukrainian ancestry. As Prof. Frank Golczewski of did not repudiate his father, former commander-in-chief of the literature since 1969. h is largely Buddeswehr University in Hamburg Ukrainian insurgent Army." through Prof. Shtohrv n's efforts that pointed out during the conference, there are too few scholars "who ever worked on And yet. the articlesheds no light on just why Mr. Shukhevych was the University of lllinois library today has one of the finest Ukrainian col- the problem without being of Ukrai– punished by Soviet authorities. There is only this relerence: "in the lections in the United States. nian origin or having one or another end, he was punished for his crimes." ironically, the "crimes" remain personal link to the problem." An unnamed in an article appearing within a column titled "Setting in writing about Prof. Shtohryn. І am independent scholar intimately familiar Things Straight." reminded of yet anotherof his claims to with East European history but with no fame, a biographical directory of Ukrai– ties to either Ukrainians or Jews would Underneath the surface of the article, whjQse allegccLpuFposcTs to —піатсїп North America which heedited be the best candidate for what could show the tragedy of a person whose "life has gone awry," one senses, and published in 1975. Although some– ultimately be a thankless task that above all, a tone of gloating, as if to say: we've done it. we've finally what dated, it's the only thing that even satisfies neither group. destroyed a hero of the Ukrainian nation. comes close to a Ukrainian Who's Who. A second neglected research area that in fact, there is nothing here for the Soviets to gloat about, no reason Want to know how old Mr. Lesawyer needs to be addressed is the enormous for boasting, it took 33 years of prisons, labor camps and internal exile suffering of the Ukrainian people for the Soviets to "succeed" in obtaining a recantation, it took really is. or where Anatole Doroshenko was born, or where Manoly Lupul went during the war. According to an article persecution since the age of 15. it took the destruction of a family, the to school? it's all there in Prof. Shto– by Andrew Gregorovich in the spring issue of Forum: "Ukraine's loss in physical, emotional and spiritual ruin of a man. and the utter hryn's directory. World War 11 of 7.5 million people is degradation of a human being. The week went by quickly at Cham– among the greatest loss of any nation in paign with talks that were challenging is the Shukhevych case cause for the Soviet government and the war. The Ukrainian tragedy is all the and provocative. Communist Party to gloat? Surely, it is not. greater because the world is so com– Following a Monday evening re– pletely unaware of the immense sac– it is, instead, yet another example of the inhumanity of a system that ception during which Chancellor rifice of Ukraine which remains to this does not hesitate to use any means to "break" a person that stands in Thomas E. Everhart and other uni– day a missing page in the history of the its way. it reveals the brutality of a system that would not allow a 15- versity dignitaries welcomed every– world." year-old to have a life. one. the conference opened on Tuesday Our tragic history is a tribute to And, it raises many questions, not the least of which is: even if Mr. with a session titled "Ukrainians in Foreign Armed Forces." Three papers Ukraine's ability to endure and recover. Shukhevych did recant of his own free will, how free is this act of a man were presented during the session Any nation that can lose 15 million who has not known freedom for two-thirds of his life? devoted to "Ukrainians in the German people in 15 years and still retain its Armed Forces," "The First Division unique identity is a nation that will 'Galicia': its Origin. Development and never perish. Demise" and "Ukrainians in German The last topic that needs to be re- POW Camps in World War H." searched is that of Ukrainian parti– Notice regarding mail delivery Other sessions that day were devoted cipation in the war against fascism in to "Ukrainian Churches During World the armed forces of the Soviet Union, of The Weekly War H" and the "Social Aspects of the United States and Canada. Our World War 11 veterans won4 be around it has cometo our attention that The Ukrainian Weekly is often Ukraine During World War 11." Wednesday's four sessions were forever, and if we don't record their delivered late, or irregularly, or that our subscribers sometimes devoted to "Jews. Poles and Ukrainians heroic story soon, there won't be any- receive several issues at once. in World War 11." "Problems of Col– one around to tell it. We feel it is necessary, to notify our subscribers that The laboration and Political Orientation." І felt good after Prof. Shtohryn's Weekly is mailed out Friday mornings (before the Sunday date "Nazi-German Policy and Plans Toward conference because, like an earlier of issue) via second-class mail. Ukraine" and "Oral History: Memoirs conference on the same topic organized if you are not receiving regular delivery of The Weekly, we and Personal Accounts." at the University of Toronto by Prof. urge you to file a complaint at your local post office. This may be Yuriy Boshyk. І was able to observe done by obtaining the U.S. Postal Service Consumer Service Thursday was devoted to "Ukrainian first-hand both the dedication and the Card and filling out the appropriate sections. Political Movements." "lkrainian academic excellence of our scholars. - The editors Resistant-insurgent Forces." "Ukrai– That should serve us well in the struggle nian Cultural Activities. 1939-1945" that is just beginning. No. 31 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, AUGUST 4,1985 7 For the record: U.S. report on implementation of Helsinki Accords Following is an excerpt of the 18th Semiannual December 10 (Human Rights Day) to four years in a of anti-Soviet slander. He was still languishing Report by the President to the Commission on labor camp for allegedly resisting militia. After his incommunicado in prison at the close of the review Security and Cooperation in Europe on the lmple– trial. Berenshtein was savagely beaten and stabbed period. Another group member. Yosyp Terelia. was mentation of the Helsinki Final Act. The report covers while in detention, which resulted in his losing 99.4 also arrested on February 8 on charges of anti-Soviet the period of October 1, 1984. to April 1 of this year. percent of his vision in both eyes. On February 19 activity. Both of these men circulated samizdat The excerpted section refers to the Soviet Union's Moscow religious Jew Natan vershobsky was arrested appeals in defense of an independent Ukrainian implementation of Principle У11 of the Helsinki in Kiev on the false charge of stealing books from the Catholic Church and a sovereign Ukraine. They Accords' Basket 1, Principle У11 deals with respect for svnagogue. in Odessa. Hebrew teacher Mark brought to the attention of westerners the fact that human rights and fundamental freedoms, including Nepomnushchy was sentenced to three years in a hundreds of Ukrainian Catholics had renounced their the freedoms of thought, conscience, religion or belief labor camp lor anti-Soviet slander after he made citizenship in protest of religious persecution and appeals for the release of his would-be son-in-law Soviet subjugation of Ukraine. Another group PARTI Yakov Levin. Levin, himself a cultural activist, was supporter. 80-year-old Uniate priest Hryhoriy sentenced on November 19 to three years in a labor Budzynsky. was kidnapped by local authorities in late The Soviet Union has continued to violate both the camp for anti-Soviet slander. Another Odessa cultural October and forcibly held incommunicado in a local letter and spirit of principles guiding relations between activist. Yakov Mesh, was arrested in October, only to hospital for more than six weeks. states as set forth in the Helsinki Final Act: The Soviet be released in December when he nearly died from Furthermore. Ukrainian activists have suffered Union persists in its occupation of Afghanistan and in liver deficiency caused by lack of proper medical particularly severe treatment while in Soviet its efforts to eradicate national opposition, in attention, in western Ukraine, in the town of detention. Ukrainian dissident poet valeriy conducting its ruthless war against Afghanistan, the Chernivtsi. the crackdown continued. Cultural Marchenko, who was sentenced in 1984 to a lengthy Soviet Union has used chemical weapons, bombed activists Leonid Schrcier and Yakov Rosenberg were term in labor camp, died after being denied proper civilian targets, used ground and air forces to destroy sentenced to three years and two and a half years, medical treatment, one of several Ukrainians, villages and crops, and employed weapons intended to respectively, in labor camp for anti-Soviet slander. including Helsinki monitor Yuriy Lytvyn. to die in cripple or maim non-combatants. The Soviet Union Jewish dissident Yosyf Zisels. who was arrested on detention in 1984. also supports the vietnamese occupation of October 19 in the same town, is still awaiting trial on Attempts to further "Russify" Ukraine continued Kampuchea and vietnam's war against the the same charge. during the review period. Although 75 percent of the Kampuchean resistance. These actions are in direct in the Baltics. Jewish cultural activist viadimir Ukrainian SSR is Ukrainian, only 25 percent of and willful violation of the general principles set forth Frankcl was arrested on January 15 on charges of available books are in Ukrainian. Ukrainian cultural in the Helsinki Final Act, including respect for the slandering the Soviet system after helping with a and historical objects have been neglected and Uniate inviolability of frontiers, territorial integrity of states samizdat journal on Jewish affairs. Other cultural churches burned. Ukrainians account for 20 percent of and self-determination of peoples. activists, such as Boris Shtimclman and Bronislav the Soviet population, but 40 percent of all Soviet ' Soviet performance in the field of human rights Tutelman, were detained by Ukrainian authorities for political prisoners. (Principle vil) showed no improvement since the last several days without charge. Donetsk Hebrew teacher The Baltic Republics of Lithuania, Latvia and six-month review period despite the fact that Aleksandr Stupnikov was forcibly committed to a Estonia have traditionally been a locus of national and preparations were under way in CSCE signatory states psychiatric hospital for three weeks for no apparent religious opposition to the Soviet regime. Forcibly for the 1985 Ottawa human rights experts meeting. reason. у incorporated into the Soviet Union during World War Mandated by the 1983 Madrid concluding document, in response to this accelerating campaign against 11. the Baltic peoples had never developed firm this meeting addresses questions concerning respect Hebrew teachers and Jewish cultural activists, the cultural ties with the Slavs despite having once been for human rights and fundamental freedoms, "in all Department of State issued a report on January 29 part of the Russian empire. The Soviet authorities their aspects," as embodied in the Helsinki Final Act. calling on the Soviet Union to end its harassment ol have over the years undertaken a deliberate effort to On the eve of this meeting, the unsatisfactory record of Soviet compliance with the Madrid commitment to respect "the universal significance of human rights and Attempts to further "Russify" Ukraine continued during the-review period. fundamental freedoms" was fully evident. Not only Although 75 percent of the Ukrainian SSR is Ukrainian, only 25 percent of was there no let-up in the persecution of dissidents, rcfuseniks and religious activists: but suppression available bpoksjjrein Uksxiinlan. Ukrainian cultural and historical objects of national minorities and harassment of political prisoners and their families continued unabated. have been neglected and Uniate churches burned. Ukrainians account for One of t he most dramatic confrontations over basic 20 percent of the Soviet population, but 40 percent of all Soviet political rights occurred in the Soviet Far East. An entire ethnic-German Pentecostal community (more than 20 prisoners. families) in the village of Chuguevka banded together in two-month-long hunger strikes protesting their inability io worship freely and to gain Soviet exit these individuals and live up to its commitments as "Russianize" the population, mov ing numerous ethnic "permission to join relatives in the Federal Republic of defined in the Helsinki Final Act. However, on March Russians into the Baltic slates and forcibly evicting Germany. 19 Ukrainian authorities arrested another Jew (and many ethnic Baits. Knowledge ol the Russian After years of harassment, community members student of Hebrew), Evgcniy Eisenberg. in Kharkiv on language is becoming ever more necessary loi decided to forbid their children to attend local schools, charges of anti-Soviet slander. educational and professional success in the Baltic where they were habitually taunted and beaten; they Soviet persecution of Jews was not limited to republics. also renounced Soviet citizenship, an act which Hebrew teachers and cultural activists. Nadezhda The Soviet regime is especially sensitive to any form brought about persistent conflict with local Fradkova, a Leningrad refusenik seeking nothing of independent expression in the Baltic states. On authorities. On December 10, international Human more than emigration, was sentenced on December 19 January 18 Lithuanian Catholic priest 1 onus Rights Day. authorities arrested the community's to two years in a labor camp for failing to find a job. Matulionis was sentenced to three years in a labor pastor, viktor valter for anti-Soviet activities. Three Prior to her trial she had been held in Leningrad camp for allegedly disrupting public order while he other community members were arrested two weeks psychiatric hospitals for live months. Another was leading prayers in a cemetery on All-Saints Day. later while demonstrating for valter's release. On Leningrad refusenik. Mikhail fsivin. was jailed twice A co-believer at the prayers. Romas Zhemaitis. was February 26 another three members (Nikolay vins, during the review period for 15-day periods on the also sentenced at the same trial to two years in a labor Anatoliy Khokha and Gennadiy Maidaniuk) were grounds that he had disobeyed authorities. camp for allegedly striking a militiaman. Another sentenced to one year in labor camp for living without Even Jewish activists already in labor camp were Lithuanian religious activist. 79-year-old viadas internal passports (having sent them in when they not immune to further maltreatment, losil Begun Lapienis. was arrested on January 4 and sentenced renounced their citizenship). Pastor valter remained completed a term of six months' punishment in labor March 29 to lour years in labor camp plus two years incarcerated as the community completed its second camp prison, after which he required hospitalizalion internal exile for anti-Soviet agitation and monthlong hunger strike (including more than 20 due to his broken health, in February he was propaganda after he circulated to some friends copies children) in February. AH members of the community denounced as a Zionist criminal on national television of a draft of his memoirs, in Latvia, religious have lost their jobs, but have vowed to continue their in a "documentary" film about plotters against the dissidents also came under attack. Zofiya Bclyarchuk struggle to depart the Soviet Union in search of USSR. Another Jewish prisoner. Zakhar Zunshain. and a colleague named Sanderos were arrested in religious freedom, even if all die in the struggle. was placed in the punishment cell at his labor camp on December after they tried to form a Franciscan church two occasions, after which he was sentenced to a six- group. Another Latvian. Mikhail Bombin. was Another major development during the current month period in the labor camp prison, apparently for threatened with arrest for reportedly engaging in review period has been the concerted crackdown on not weaving his quota of mesh baskets. unsanctioned activities in support of peace and Jewish (primarily refusenik) cultural activists and Numerous other groups have similarly been detente. teachers of Hebrew. Moscow observers cannot subjected to.systematic efforts on the part of the Soviet During the . review period Soviet authorities remember a recent period in which there have been so authorities to-stifle if not eradicate expression of persisted with an anti-religious campaign that to some many unfounded political arrests of Jewish activists. independent views and beliefs. These include religious degree affected all denominations. Even Hare Krishna Moscow Hebrew teacher Aleksandr Kholmianskiy believers of all denominations, independent peace disciples.about wiiom'information in the past was was sentenced in Estonia on February 1 to labor camp activists, proponents of greater regional autonomy, scanty, came under the KGB spotlight, in the village ol on the contrived charged of possession of pistol and those who simply want to emigrate from the Kurdzhinovo. where many disciples moved duringthe cartridges. Another Moscow Hebrew teacher. Yu!iy Soviet Union. , past three years in order to escape persecution, Edclstcin. was sentenced on December 19 to three in Ukraine, a campaign was also launched against authorities conducted numerous searches and arrests. years in a labor camp lor alleged possession of drugs. defenders of the independent Ukrainian (Uniate or On October ЛІ disciples Aleksey Bayda and Yuriy Moscow Hebrew teacher Dan.Shapiro was arrested on Eastern Rite) Catholic Church, vasvliy Kobryn. Іedchenko were arrested and subsequently beaten. January 22 and laces charges of anti-Soviet slander. chairman of an unofficial initiative Group of the Disciples viadimir Kustrya and Sergey Priborov were The campaign was not limited to Moscow, however, Committee for the Defense of Believers of the Catholic arrested on November 12 and December 28. and took on special vehemence in Ukraine. Kiev Church, was arrested on November 12 and sentenced respectively, in all lour cases authorities continued to Hebrew teacher losil Bercnshtein was sentenced on to three vciis in a labor camp on March 22 mi charges (Continued on page 10) THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, AUGUST 4.1985 No. 31

Campers stage annual program at East Chatham Plast camp

by Natalka Yoronka two bonfires. The first bonfire, which began at 8 p.m., was for the younger EAST CHATHAM. NY. - The camper's and their guests; the older annual "Den Plastuna"(Day ofthe Plast campers' bonfire began an hour later. Member) program was held here at the Both campfires were highlighted by vovcha Tropa (Wolf's Trek) camp humorous skits and sing-alongs. during the weekend of July 20-21. On Sunday, July 21, a divine liturgy The program, traditionally held was celebrated at the chapel that stands following two weeks of camping at the on the hill overlooking the athletic field. site, is presented by the campers, boys Official closing ceremonies of the "Den and girls age 7 to 17. Hundreds of Plastuna" program were held imme– parents, relatives and friends -came to diately afterwards. view this year's program, and the Leisure time that day was from 11 attendance was no doubt enhanced by a.m. to 5 p.m.. and this time the campers the beautiful weather. were allowed to go into town with their The opening ceremony was held on parents. Many opted for a snack in a Saturday. July 20. at 2 p.m. The com– local restaurant. mander-in-chief of the weekend pro- Although the number of participants gram was Halyna Kutko, and the vice- in this year's camp was smaller than in commander was Andrij Hankewycz. previous years, the camps were well- Marko Jakubowycz was "bunchu– organized. The camp for "novaky" zhnyi": Laryssa l'evny was secretary. which is called "The Story-like Sea," is Eustachia Hoydysh. the president of led by Mr. Hankewycz and consists of the U.S. National Plast Command, 66 boys and 15 counselors, vera Popel participated in the opening ceremonies is camp director for the "novachky." and briefly addressed the campers and There are 79 girls and 19 counselors, counselors. and the name of their camp is "Splash. An entertainment program followed, Splash." with each camp performing on the "in the Footsteps ofthe Heroes ofthe sports field before an audience com– UPA" is the name of the camp for posed of family, friends and fellow "yunaky". which is led by camp direc– campers. The"novaky"and"novachky" tor Petro Sodol. There are 64 partici– (children age 7-11) danced to the melo– pants and 11 counselors. Mrs. Kutko is dies of their camp songs, while the the camp director of the camp for "yunachky" (girls age 11-17). who were "yunachky" called "The Sparkling "Novachky" (left) and dressed in embroidered blouses, pre– Flame." There are 61 "yunachky" and sented "hahilky" (spring songs), and 10 counselors. the "yunaky"(boys age 11-17) perform– ed the Arkan and other dances to in addition, there arc two nurses who Ukrainian music. care for sick campers: Maria Amaro During leisure time from 4 to 6 p.m.. and Luba Chornodolsku. The pcrma– the campers were visited by their families. nent chaplain of this year's camps is the Due to the extremely hot and humid Rev. lvan K,aszczak. weather, man) campers and visitors During the final week of camping, all gathered at the pool to swim and four camps organized hikes and field sunbathe. trips. Closing ceremonies were held for The evening program consisted of all camps on Saturday. July 27.

'Novak) " march bacl imp :nter closing ceremom ' Yu.iai;.io" perform' hahilky Juri;:'; Saturday progran.. No 31 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY bUNDAY, AUGUST 4, 1985 9 10 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY–. AUGUST 4,1985 No. 31

FOCUS ON THE ARTS

her master's degree was aired by the She is now working on a composition Young Ukrainian composer wins voice of America throughout South for the oboe with electronic effects America. which was commissioned for a recital at international new music competition lndiana University. She is also awaiting Although her specialty is contem– the performance by the lndiana Univer– porary chamber music. Ms. Kuzmych sity School of Music Orchestra of her BLOOM1NGTON. lnd. - The ln– National Public Radio, it was also has composed three works for a full doctoral composition, "Ashtoform," ternational League of Women Corn- performed at a concert series of vander– symphony orchestra, and they were which is scored for a full symphony posers recently announced the winners bilt University Blair School of Music, performed by orchestras at lndiana orchestra. Ms. Kuzmych is presently of its sixth annual Search for New where it received an excellent review by U niversity School of M usic. Often she is employed in the classical music pro– Music Competition. The first prize was critic John Bridges of The Tennessian. commissioned by individual musicians gramming department of WF1U. a awarded to a young Ukrainian corn- Mr. Kuzmych's style of composition and ensembles to compose works for National Public Radio affiliate at poser, Christine Kuzmych. for her requires performers who are trained recitals and music conventions. lndiana University. contemporary classical composition and experienced'in the techniques of titled "Shapes and Sounds iv." 20th century classical music and who Her most recent work, titled "To This work, composed for alto-saxo– are willing to experiment with the Dust," is composed for soprano-saxa– Although she resides in Blooming- phone and soprano-voice, is the fourth composer in the production and nota– phone. soprano-voice and piano, and ton, lnd., the young composer was in a series of compositions by Ms. tion of new sounds. This contemporary was commissioned by Ms. Lansing and raised in Denver, where she attended Kuzmych based on the texts of leading style was reflected in "Shapes and Ms. Crum. it premiered at the National the School of Ukrainian Studies and 20th century American poet E.E. Cum– Sounds iv which required the soprano Conference on Women in Music held in was an active member of Plast. She is March of this year at Kansas University mings. This original piece was selected and saxophonist to perform in techni– also a member of? Ukrainian National in Lawrence, Kan. by a panel of professional judges from ques beyond those of the classical Association Branch 226. among several hundred entries sub– repertoire. mitted by experienced women corn- Ms. Kuzmych distinguished herself in posers of classical music from around contemporary classical composition for New release: "The lskra Songs" the world. a number of years. A graduate of the The international League of Women prestigious lndiana University School CARTERET. N.J. - Duma Music "The lskra Songs." volume one of the Composers was founded in 1975 with of Music, she earned a bachelor of inc., and newly established Ukrainian Ukrainian pop series, is available from the purpose of promoting high quality music in piano performance, followed music publishing firm, recently released Duma Music inc., for S6 plus Si for works by female composers in the field by a master of music in composition. its first volume of sheet music, titled postage and handling by writing to: of contemporary classical music, its "The lskra Songs." Duma Music inc.. 27 Leick Ave., membership rolls contain the names of Upon completing her master's degree, The publication includes six songs Carteret, N.J. 07008. New Jersey resi– many prominent women composers the young Ukrainian composer began written by Oles Kuzyszyn. a member of dents are asked to add 6 percent sales who are leaders in the area of classical to work toward her doctor of music in the lskra vocal– instrumental ensemble. tax to each order. composition. The Search for New composition degree. At the same time, The book includes notes, lyrics, a piano я Music Competition is sponsored once she enrolled in the MBA program in version either for accompaniment or a year as a means of providing recogni– arts administration at the lndiana solo playing, and chord charts, making . Jfw lskra Sfiugs the songs suitable for all levels of : gp tion and international visibility to the University Graduate School of Busi– O!– v Kn:rsryri . winning entires. ness. Completing both programs has musicianship, from beginner to ad– 5 Ms. Ku-Tnych's award-winning corn- made her capable of combining the vanced. m SN position was originally commissioned academic knowledge at a doctoral level The songs, made popular by the lskra " Xfr "'2? W by two prominent musicians, saxopho– with the practical business expertise Band and available on their released nist Jean Lansing and soprano Dorothy required in administering performing records, include "Ту Moya" (You are іШі Crum. who are on the faculty at Wichita arts centers and companies. Mine). "Sumerk" (Dusk), "lskra" (The Slate University in Kansas, it premiered She is listed in the Who's Who in Spark). "Day Meni Sense" (Give Me rf n :. -і in 1983 at the Conference for Women in American Music and in the upcoming Your Heart). "Liudy" (People), and w Music at the University of Michigan edition of the international Encyclopc– "Ukraino Moya Charivna" (My En- School of Music, where it received high dia of Women Composors. chanted Ukraine). Ш t ШЙШ acclaim. Ms. Kuzmych's catalogue of corn- Duma Music plans to release sheet it was later performed at the Austin positions contains over 20 works, most music for Ukrainian songs, concenirat– Peay State University's "Dimensions" of these being commissions fromsoloists ing on new songs written by Ukrainian і w^iM^::w series of recitals of contemporary and ensembles. Many of her works were writers living in North America, en– і ifhffr compositions and at a special concert broadcast by National Public Radio abling the Ukrainian public to become series sponsored by Nashville radio affiliates throughout the United States, familiar with works by Ukrainian song- ШШ station WPLN. an affiliate of the and the recital of the composition for writers and composers. 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for the record... years on November 24. viadimir Baklazhansky and Pentecostal pastor Afanasiy Melnik was arrested on lvan Kara were each sentenced in Moldavia on November 14 in vinnitsia. Another Ukrainian (Continued from page 7) November 27 to two and a half years in labor camp for Pentecostal, viadimir Franchuk, was arrested around hold the individuals incommunicado through the end violation of the laws of separation of church and state, the same time in Zhdanov on charges of anti-Soviet of the review period, not even specifying the charges in Belgorod, Baptist Mikhail Azarov was sentenced in slander. Franchuk was reportedly the leader of an on which the Krishna followers were being held. late 1984 to five years in a labor camp. Baptists Eduard interdenominational youth camp. Spouses were told the investigations were secret. Ewert, Nikolay Loeven (a minister) and lvan Religious persecution also extended to adherents of Meetings with those arrested were forbidden. Tkachcnko, whose arrests were reported in the 17th Russian Orthodoxy. Russian Orthodox priest Pyotr Seventh Day Adventists also felt the heavy hand of Semiannual CSCE implementation Report, were all Lysak was sentenced on December 4 to 10 months in a oppression, in October the Soviet daily newspaper convicted of anti-Soviet slandcr^iring the fall and labor camp on the charge of spending too much time in Komsomolskaya Pravda announced the arrest in sentenced to several years in labor camp. Mikhail Moscow, where he had no residence permit. Russian Central Asia of at least seven Seventh Day Adventists, Khorev, a Baptist due to complete a term of labor Orthodox activist viadimir Poresh became the first charging that they led parasitic lifestyles and engaged camp on January 28, was rcarrcstcd and sentenced in person to be convicted under the new article 188-3 of in a variety of illegal activities. While details remain January to an additional two years. The number of the RSFSR Criminal Code, described in the W!tTK scanty, it is known that the authorities arrested (and Baptists who have been arrested and are still awaiting Report on CSCE implementation, to an additional ^"^ tried) Gennadiy Bedarev. viadimir vasilchenko, trial is also long, it includes David Thiessen. veniamin three years in labor camp for "malicious" violation of Aleksey Murkin and his brother M. Murkin on Abashin, Aleksey Kurkin, viadimir Pilipchuk. vitaliy labor camp rules. And religious dissident Feliks charges of anti-Soviet slander. Two other Adventist Bozhko. vasiliy Slyusar, viadimir Romaniuk, Svetov was arrested on January 23 on the charge of activists, R. Chernolikova and lvanCheremisov, were Mikhail Yurkevich, viadimir Okhotin. viadimir circulating religious literature. His wife is presently in sentenced for violation of internal passport Korov and viktor Pikalov. All were arrested during labor camp for editing a religious journal in 1982. regulations. The son of Adventist leader viadimir the autumn. Boris Artiushenko,a Baptist from Kursk, Finally, Boris Razvcyev, a Russian Orthodox activist Shelkov. who died in 1980 in labor camp, was also ' died on December 12 after four months in an in UFA, was arrested in January for anti-Soviet sentenced to labor camp and denounced in the investigative prison. agitation and propaganda. He was arrested after he Komsomolskaya Pravda article. Pentecostal followers suffered not only in the Far sent a manuscript on theology to the West for Members of the Baptist faith did not escape the anti- Eastern village of Chuguevka,as mentioned earlier, in publication. religious crackdown, as numerous arrests and trials Rostov-on-the-Don, Pentecostal activist valentina Other religious activists were swept upas the regime took place during the reporting period. While certain Golikova was sentenced on January 27 to three years intensified its efforts to counter growing interest in details remain unclear, it is known that many Baptists in a labor camp for anti-Soviet slander. Her husband, religion among Soviet youth. Baptist rock musicians were charged with religious crimes (e.g.. conducting who wasarrested in 1982 for anti-Soviet activity, is not valcriy Barinov and Sergey Timokhin were both "illegal" religious services) and political crimes (often due for release until 1989. Pentecostal Bishop lvan sentenced to several years in labor camp in November lor possessing religious literature), while others were Fedolov, who was sentenced to five years in labor on trumped-up charges of trying to leave the country Ncntcnced on trumped-up criminal charges. Moscow camp in 1981, was placed in the punishment cell of his illegally. Religious activist Andrcy vasilicv was Baptist veniamin Napriyenko was sentenced on labor camp for a period of three months starting in sentenced in Leningrad to four years in a labor camp. October 11 to two years in a labor camp. Kan December after he was found in possession of a three- Finally. Catholic priest losif Svidnitskiy was arrested l"imchuk, u Baptist from Donetskc. received three ruble note that was planted on him by another inmate. in December in Novosibirsk. No. 31 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, AUGUST 4,1985

Cardinal Lubachivsky meets with clergy, nuns "Recantation"... (Continued from page 1) am convinced that Sokulsky has not written any statement recanting." Mr. Sokulsky's statement also was published in News from Ukraine and was reported by the Ukrainian press abroad. "He did not make a state– ment," reiterated Dr. Strokata, adding that he is imprisoned to date, recently having been transferred from the Chistopol prison to a Perm labor camp in accordance with his sentence. Roman Kupchinsk;, of the New York-based Prolog Research Corp., though saying that he can't make a judgement on the authenticity of the alleged recantation, told The Weekly thai there are reasons to doubt its veracity. He noted that there is no date on the letter purported to have been written by Mr. Shukhevych and that only excerpts arc printed in the Ukrainian– and English-language editions of News from Ukraine. Cardinal Myroslav Lubachivsky (center) poses with Katrij (far left) and the Rev. Patrick Paschak, pastor of He also observed that nothing has several Basilian Sisters and clergy, including Bishop St. George's Church. The cardinal's visit was part of his been written about the alleged recan– Basil Losten of Stamford (at right), during his recent recent tour of Ukrainian communities around the tation by the press distributed within visit to New York City. Also pictured are the Rev. Julian country. the USSR, but only in two news- papers published strictly for foreign consumption. Usually recantations Liturgy recalls leader of Carpatho– Ukraine are played up within the Soviet Union as well, he said. in her conversation with The Weekly, Dr. Strokata also spoke about the situation of the Shu– khevych family. She cited the in- human treatment and insidiousness of Soviet authorities and noted that Mr. Shukhevych "is in an extraor– dinarily tragic situation, and no doubt his enemies use this fact to their advantage." She said that he is almost com– pletely blind, his personal life has been shattered to the point that relations with his wife are severely strained and that his children, Ro– man (born in 1970) and lryna (born in 1971), are virtual strangers to him. A particularly poignant example of the Shukhevych situation is seen in a recent letter to friends in which Mr. Shukhevych described a visit by his wife and son. He wrote that he was very pleased to become acquainted with his son, said Dr. Strokata. "There is no end to the suffering of the entire Shukhevych family," con– tinued Dr. Strokata, "if only there Seen above are participants in the pontifical requiem by Bishop Basil Losten of Stamford ; Basilian Fathers was an end in sight, it all might be divine liturgy celebrated in memory of Msgr. Auhustyn Patrick Pashchak, Sebastian Sobol, a native son of more bearable." voloshyn, president of Carpatho-Ukraine in 1938- Carpatho-Ukraine, and Meletius Wojnar; and the Rev. Dr. Strokata also revealed that 39, on the 40th anniversary of his death. The liturgy took Matthew Berkoof Stamford. Following the liturgy, a about a month or two ago, Mr. place in St. George's Ukrainian Catholic Church in New memorial luncheon was held at a nearby Ukrainian Shukhevych had written what she York City, on Saturday, June 22, and was concelebrated restaurant, where appropriate tributes to the memory of described as a "profound, courageous the deceased were heard. and noble" letter to a person in the United States. She said she had no the promises made at Helsinki 10 years and the policy of Russilication being doubt that this letter was genuine. Helsinki Accords... ago. "Those who have tried to exercise implemented in their countries. Some She added that, from persons who recently met with Mr. Shukhevych's (Continued from page 1) freedoms of religion, thought, con- 2,000 persons attended the demonstra– mother, she has learned that Mr. mination based on race or nationality." science and belief have often paid a tion, thoueht to be the first anti-Soviet Shukhevych was facing threats of Commenting on Western criticisms of tragic price." demonstration in Finland since the 1968 being confined to a psychiatric insti– the USSR's human-rights performance, He continued: "As we mark this 10th invasion of Czechoslovakia, it was all tution. he said that Moscow "has not allowed anniversary and reflect on the hopes the more unusual since Finland is the and will not allow anyone to interfere in initially raised, it is time to renew our only Nordic country with a friendship Speaking in general about human its internal affairs." efforts to ensure that those hopes were treaty with Moscow. nature. Dr. Strokata said that "there He scored the United States and not totally without foundation. We Many of the demonstrators arrived in are moments when a person can other Western countries for violating rededicate ourselves to the code of Finland from Stockholm aboard a ship, suffer no more." the economic provisions of the Helsinki conduct embodied in the Helsinki Final the Baltic Star, that had made a protest Accords through "sanctions and embar– Act. We call upon those who participate cruise, dubbed the "Baltic Peace and goes, and discrimination and arbitrary with us... to fulfill their pledges." Freedom Cruise," along the coastlines refusal to abide by the deals and agree– of the three Baltic states. A spokesman ments concluded." Baltic protest for the cruise organizers said the ship Mr. Shultz stressed that "pious was tailed by two Soviet torpedo boats declarations arc cheap. Real progress On the eve of the anniversary gathcr– on Saturday. July 27. can only be seen in its effect on human ing. the Lithuanian, Latvian and Esto– Helsinki police permitted the demon– beings." He added that "tensions will nian communities staged a demonstra– strators to march to a downtown exist so long as some persist in violating tion protesting the annexation of the churchyard for a demonstration, but the most fundamental human rights." three Baltic states by the Soviet Union blocked streets to prevent a second He stated that the Soviets and several at the end of World War 11, as well as demonstration outside the Soviet Em– other signatories have not lived up to the USSR's human-rights , violations bassy. 12 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, AUGUST 4.1985 No. 31

religious groups. Throughout this entire Mr. Palmer expanded on Mr. Schif– Report... period, the dominant historicaldynamic White House- ter's comments and said that the United (Continued from page 3) is the continual efforts of the Russian (Continued from page 3) States has repeatedly made it clear to which has recently made its way to the state (first under the tsars and later the of problems to solve( with the Soviets) is .the Soviet Union that improved bila– West. Communists) and the Russian Ortho– human rights," he added. teral relations between the two super- dox Church to subjugate and unify the The CSC report refers to Ukrainians Because of the Soviet Union's non- powers is linked to performance in the as the most "vigorous, militant and even varied peoples of the region, it is field of human rights. The State Depart– important to note that even the actions compliance with the human-rights violent opponents of Soviet rule." The provisions of the Helsinki Accords, the ment official noted that the United CSC further estimates that "Ukrainians and policies of the present atheistic States expressed concern about viola– Soviet government are still influenced 10th anniversary commemoration in comprise upwards of 40 percent of the the Finnish capital cannot be looked tions of human rights in the Soviet political prisoners in the gulag. by these age-old religious conflicts as Union during recent trade talks in much as by the ethnicy national con– upon as a celebration, said Oksana Moscow. He pointed out that Secretary flicts." Hewka, a member of the Philadelphia- Reviewing the history of organized based Ukrainian Human Rights Com– of Commerce Malcolm Baldrige told religion– in Russia and Ukraine, the The report further states that "there is mittee. "The 10th commemoration is the Soviet trade minister and General report states that "the turbulent history a growing Ukramian Catholic r,evival more in the order of a wake...of a Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev that of this region, from the 16th century on, fueled by Pope John Paul U's special funeral for human rights," she added. broad-scale improvements in U.S.– is the product of complex conflicts sensitivity to the plight of Catholics in Soviet trade depends on improved among its multitude of ethnic and The Soviet's human-rights record the Soviet Union!' was characterized as "depressing" in a human rights in Eastern Europe. speech delivered by Mr. Palmer. He "it's not a message that the Soviets break with Ukrainian nationalism and said that one indicator used to measure wanted to hear," said Mr. Palmer. Soviet press alleges... condemn any kind of nationalist acti– human-rights conditions in the Soviet Mr. Palmer confirmed a statement (Continued from page 1) vity no matter where and by whom it is U nion is the rate of Jewish immigration, made earlier in the week by Richard sistance He was released in 1956 by conducted." He is also quoted as writing which has been rapidly declining in Burt, the former assistant secretary of order of a v ladimir court on the basis of the following: recent months. state for European affairs, that the having been illegally arrested as a "What 1 am writing here is not a "The (human-rights) trends today." United States would focus attention in minor, but was forced to complete his payment for the freedom 1 was granted... said Mr. Palmer, "are almost univer– Finland on the Soviet human-rights term alter the intervention of USSR My break with nationalism was caused sally negative, in fact, there are some record. Procurator-General Roman Rudenko. by the profound evolution in my world areas in which it is objectively fair to The Commission on Security and Mr. Rudenko argued that: Mr. Shu– outlook and convictions, which began say that, since Stalin died, things have Cooperation in Europe, the bipartisan khevych had attempted td establish long ago under the influence of Soviet not been worse." U.S. body which monitors the imple– contacts with the Organization of reality and in connection with the mentation of the Helsinki Accords by Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN) abroad, collapse of nationalist doctrines and Helsinki monitors punished the participating states, will undertake a and that"THis father was the leader of the attempts at their practical application, series of initiatives to mark the 10th Ukrainian resistance. as well as with the general hostility of Mr. Schifter told the audience that anniversary, said Mr. Hathaway. Be– Shortly before his scheduled release, the Ukrainian people to the ideas of mounting criticism of the value of the sides drumming up support for the Mr. Shukhcvych was visited in viadimir nationalism." Helsinki Accords is the result of Soviet Helsinki process in the West, the corn- Prison by Klymentiy Yevhenovych According to the article, Mr. Shu– citizens receiving prison sentences for mission, he said, will hold public hear– Halsky (Klym Dmytruk). ah officer of khevych wrote that "nationalist terror simply publicizing human-rights viola– ings with non-governmental organiza– the Lviv K.GB. who suggested that Mr. got smashed against the moral and tions. He singled out Yuri Orlov and tions and publish a 10th anniversary Shukhevych publicly denounce his political unity of the Ukrainian people, Anatoly Shcharansky among scores of report. lather. The suggestion was rejected. On who... are utterly devoted to the ideas of Soviet citizens who had "put faith in the Mr. Hathaway told the audience that the day of his release. August 21. 1958. the CPSU." The article ends with the Helsinki Accords" and publicly scruti– a joint resolution commemorating the Mr. Shukhevych was rearrested on following quotation: nized the Soviets' human-rights record. 10th anniversary of the accords was to' fabricated charges of "anti-Soviet "1 got convinced that my road was a Mr. Shcharansky. a member of the have been introduced in both Houses on agitation and propaganda" among wrong one... І often remember my unofficial Moscow Helsinki Moniior– July 29. prisoners in viadimir. Although his father... 1 can see clearly now that he, as ing Group, is in his ninth year of "crime" was committed in the Russian one of the OUN leaders, bears the confinement and Mr. Orlov. a founder Public support declining responsibility for the blood of thou– l. Mr. Shukhevych was transferred of the group, is in internal exile in У sands of innocent people shed in those to Lviv. where a closed session of the Siberia. Many of the comments made by years. His death and the deaths of many oblast court sentenced him on Decem– Mr. Schifter. who earlier this summer members of the audience during the like him were in vain." bcr І. 1958.to a 10-year term. testified before a Congressional hearing latter part of the meeting indicated that if the statements attributed to Mr. Several weeks later, he received about the Ottawa human-rights meet– public support for U.S. involvement in Shukhevych are confirmed as genuine another visit from Officer Halsky. who ing, lauded the Helsinki Accords as an the Helsinki process is declining. Several by other sources, the authorities in Kiev made it clear that Mr. Shukhevych's effective tool for the West to publicize rights activists told the panel that the may well have some justification for case would be reviewed if heiproved his the extent of violation of human rights United States would do better to aban– harboring a feeling of self-satisfaction loyalty" by denouncing his father and by the Soviet Union and its allies. don the Helsinki process. for having dealt a blow to the bogeyman the OUN. The offer was refused once Criticism of the value of the Helsinki of Ukrainian nationalism. By the acci– again. On at least two subsequent Linkage questioned Accords prompted Mr. Hathaway to dent of birth, Mr. Shukhevych has occasions, in 1961 and 1964,;theautho- explain the consequences of unilateral symbolized Ukrainian resistance to the rities advanced similar proposals but in response to a reporter's question, U.S. action. Soviet regime for almost 40 years. without success. Mr. Schifter played down his highly "if we cease to participate unilaterally indeed, in his July 16, 1984, pro– Mr. Shukhevych was released in publicized statement in Ottawa in which in the Helsinki process...all the people clamation commemorating Captive - August 1968 but was barred from he was quoted as sayingthat theconclu– who are presently behind the iron Nations Week, President Reagan returning to Ukraine for a period of five sion of an arms control agreement and Curtain — who depend upon us for singled out Mr. Shukhevych as an years. He settled in Nalchik in the other improvements in relations are hope for the future - will feel aban– "imprisoned Ukrainian patriot" who Kabardino-Balkar ASSR, where he was linked to Moscow's performance on doned," he said. "One of the principal represented the struggle for freedom, in arrested on March 26, 1972, for "anti- human rights. concrete results of a unilateral aban– fact, this is noted by the author of the Soviet agitation and propaganda." On "1 was misunderstood by some of the donment by the United States of the article in visti z Ukrainy. September 9, he was sentenced to 10 media representatives that were there process would be to give the Soviets the Finally, one must ask why readers of years of special-regimen camp followed (in Ottawa)." said Mr. Schifter. "The European security conference they've the newspaper were treated only to by five years' internal exile, in February media representatives understood me been seeking since 1955. Without Am– selected and fragmented quotations, 1979. Mr. Shukhevych. while impri– соґкшу, but. as 1 understand it. their bassador Good by's presence in Stock- from the alleged letter, and an equally soned. joined the Ukrainian Helsinki editors changed it around a little bit." holm, the Soviets would have an un– fractured facsimile purporting to show Group. Shortly before he was released, Mr. Schifter went on to explain that meshed opportunity to drive a wedge the statement in Mr. Shukhevych's in February 1982. he underwent an any agreements at the arms control between the United States and our handwriting, rather than the usual unsuccessful operation on his eyes talks in Geneva should not be linked to NATO allies with very bad conse– ' Soviet practice ol reproducing complete which left him almost completely blind. the status of human rights in the Soviet quences for Western security as a texts or conducting so-called inter- The article in visti t. Ukrainy quotes Union. He added, however, that Con– whole." views. Mr. Shukhevych as stating, "1 finally gressand the White Houseshould"takc Mr. Schifter added that the United human-rights performance into States cannot afford to drop its support account" before granting trade con- of the accords because of the negative MAKAR'S JEWELRY cessions to Moscow. signal such an action would send, to STORE 8. SHOP other Western nations and to dissidents 2022 Morris Avenue m Union. N. J. 07083 behind the iron Curtain. (201) 686-1931 HELP WANTED U.S. support of the Helsinki Accords on wide variety of beautiful chains imported from ltaly and gold "strengthens the backbone" of other (14 and 18 carat) watches. Also large selection of earrings and Western countries in the fight against many other items at discount prices. communism, said Mr. Schifter. He Oiamond rings and earrings POSITION AVAILABLE added: "We believe that communism is A large selection of jewelry made of 14 and 18 carat gold, silver and enamel, crafted Part-time or full-time accounting clerk - a threat that everyone in this room experience, knowledge of UkrainianXEnglish. і your specifications or in our own designs. and references necessary. Forward applica– understands it to be. if we abandon the m krainian tryzubs (tridents) in various styles and sizes. tions to Ukrainian Educational and forum that is available to us. the people' і 3ulk orders are accepted from shops as well as individuals Ь churches. Cultural Center, 700 Cedar Road, that arc going to be left there, including a Write for free cataloRues. Philadelphia. PA 19111, Attention: the democracies, will simply not stand ^n: Monday, Tuesday. Wednesday - 10-6 o'clock. Thursday Ь Friday - 10-8:30 p.m. Ann Palczuk-Harris. up (to the Soviets) the way they do w hen Saturday - 10-6:30 p.m. we are there." je ' итщт—ттттіЩ . l , . Jin .-.ww^wv.vw4w.444vncrtv.vj- n^wwvwwii ІММЧИХі' No. 31 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNOAY. AUGUST 4,1985 13

the 7 million victims of the 1932-33 nian Famine Commission has been end of World War 11. seem to have quite Gov. Cuomo... famine were Orthodox Christians The formed by the U.S. Congress for the a few friends in the free world who (Continued from page 4) after-effects of the famine that de– purpose of investigating and studying continue to cover up the heinous crimes consider the removal of the chapter on stroyed almost a quarter ol my people the 1932-33 government-induced fa- of this regime. Please, let us not become the Ukrainian holocaust... to be an act contributed heavily to the destruction mine in Ukraine, its causes and its their accomplices! of great injustice." of my Church - the Ukrainian Ortho– effects. During the hearings of this Ukrainian Americans consider the The myropolitan appealed to Gov. do.x Church in my homeland. commission. Mr. David Roth of the removal of the chapter on the Ukrai– Cuomo "on behalf of the people en- At the time of the famine (actually American Jewish Committee made the nian holocaust from the guide "Teach– trusted to my spiritual care, on behalf of from 1911 to l4Wlh.-nvHas;,m-mhcr following statement: "As a Jew 1 cannot ing About the Holocaust ant Geno– the victims of this atrocious genocide of the Polish Parliament. We in the say that the loss of six million Jewish cide"to bean act of great injustice. And who can no longerspeak for themselves, Parliament were well aware ol the hor– lives was more important than the death so. on behalf of the people enti ^sted to and on behalf of their surviving family rendous famine that was destroying of seven million Ukrainians." There is my spiritual care, on behal of the members" to have the deleted section on lives in Soviet-occupied Eastern Ukraine, no question in my mind that you. Gov. victims of this atrocious genoi je who the Ukrainian famine restored to the and endeavored to help the victims. Cuomo, would agree with Mr. Roth's can no longer speak for themsc es.and teaching guide. Through my efforts, a special corn- statement, as do we. on behalf of their survivinj family The full text of Metropolitan Msty– mission was formed in the Parliament in terms of human suffering, this members 1 appeal to you. Gov. uomo. slav's letter follows. for the purpose of organizing relief Soviet crime is only rivaled by the to intercede in this matter and :o have Dear Gov. Cuomo: assistance for the starving people of Holocaust of World War 11. However, the stricken chapter on the Ukrainian An incident has been brought to my Ukraine's affected regions. An en– because Hitler lost his war. his crimes holocaust restored to the aforcmen– attention which gives me great cause for ormous amount of food (grain) was have been revealed for the whole world tioned guide. concern: it seems that the N.Y. State collected, loaded onto freight cars and to know. But the Soviets, aside from May the lord guide you in this, as in Education Department is about to brought to the Soviet border. However, having been on the winning side at the all your decisions! publish, or has recently published a the Soviet authorities — cynically book (teachers guide) titled "Teaching denying the existence of a famine — About the Holocaust and Genocide." refused to accept this aid. And so the While the original 500-page draft of the food, which could have saved hundreds HELP WANTED guide, developed by Edward T. Lalor. of thousands of lives, rotted in the director of the State Education De– freight cars on the Soviet border, while partment. Division for Program Dc– only miles away innocent human beings Editorial assistantXassistant editor velopment. some time ago had con– were dying of starvation. tained a small section — only 17 pages The memory of the victims of this Requirements: training in journalism or related field, writing — devoted to the 1932-33 famine in my Soviet genocide is still vivid in my mind, experience, knowledge of Ukrainian language. native Ukraine, this section has for it remains alive and haunts those who. some reason been dropped from the by the grace of God. survived the Salary commensurate with experience and qualifications; good final version. genocide. Many of them were fortunate benefits. The point.at issue is of immense enough to come to the United States significance to all Ukrainians living in and to settle here, a good number in the Send resume, reference and clippings to: The Editor, The Ukrainian Weekly, 30 the United States of America, and state of New York. To them, and to Montgomery St., Jersey City, N.J. 07302. especially to those of the Orthodox their children, it was of exterme im– faith, as the overwhelming majority of portance that a Congressional Ukrai–

their objections to education officials. Community continues... The Ukrainian National Women's Announcing . . у (Continued from page 4) League of America, Kerhonkson branch, A Major Work on informed that the Board of Regents asked: "How much can you write listing had approved only two volumes a holocausts and not include such a major Genocide 6- Terrorism in third was never considered." holocaust as the deliberate man-made The letter went on to state: "As tax- starvation of 7 million Ukrainian farm– payers of New York State, we must ers by the Soviet Communists?" Ukraine: demand that the section on 'Forced A letter signed by 30 residents of the Ewald Ammende's HUMAN LIFE IN RUSSIA is the Famine in Ukraine' be reinstated in Kerhonkson area protested that the long unavailable history of the "Hidden Holocaust" deletion of the Ukrainian famine volume 1 as originally planned and and the cover-up which prevented news of the star– approved by the Board of Regents, and section is "discrimination." not be moved to a third volume." For further information regarding vation of nearly 7,000,000 Ukrainians from being The letter was signed by Leonid the Ukrainian community's protest reported in the West during 1931-1934. Ammende, Caryk, chairman, and lrene Doro– contact: Ad Hoc Committee on Educa– a professional humanitarian whose career is szczak. secretary, of the Buffalo tion About the Famine-Genocide in markedly similar to that of Raoul Wallenberg a branch of the UACCouncil. Ukraine. P.O. Box 12651, Albany, N.Y. 12212; (518) 456-2119. decade later, gathered eye-witness testimony on the Ukrainians in Kerhonkson. voiced Famine as a means of exposing the awful truth of the genocide and terrorism then occuring in Ukraine. As such, his work is one of the earliest histories of the Gulag, wherein the Archipelago ТООЛГЛСТЮ ЧЛПІНСЖЛ Cry^i"CKWoi НОЛОЛІ consisted of an entire nation to be punished for its opposition to totalitarianism. Human Life in Russia їй. M. Міинооеьлзгз (Q has long been unobtainable; we make it available

C"T.jllCA укрвТкскоТ ИОЛС^І АЛЄРІЛКЦ with the hope that the lesson of the Ukrainian осемдек rfbcmpoonr Famine will not be lost on our times. The book, 330 pages in a cloth binding and striking jacket, is well сул illustrated and documented; it belongs in every col- lection of books on Ukraine.

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'jp^W"^w^ J AREE YOU US1NG YOUR SUMMER W1SELY? period of detente. LEARN UKRAINIAN! - GET: Moscow Helsinki... After Mr. Orlov's arrest, leader- A UKRAINIAN GRAMMAR for BEGINNERS, (Continued from page 3) ship of the group was taken over by activism appears to have been crush– Gen. Petro Grigorcnko. who was SELF-TEACHING ed with a thoroughness nobody also a member of the Ukrainian By Martha Wichorek seems to have expected at the time. Helsinki Group. When Gen; Grigo– A 338 page (8'Л x 11) introduction to the Ukrainian language, full of instruction and information, When Mr. Meiman remembers renko left the country later that year. geared especially to those who know little or no Ukrainian, in easy-to-understand English. Cost, і 10.00. those days in the late 1970s, he said, Mr. Meiman. described in the article The only truly beginners Grammar published so far. his thoughts turn to the friends who as a "somewhat absent-minded pro- if it is not available in your local Ukrainian store, send S11.50 (Canadian - S14.00) (price- are now suffering lor their participa– lessor" of mathematics, was asked to includes postage and packaging envelope) to: tion - people such as Anatoly run the group. Martha Wichorek, 13814 vassar Dr., Detroit, Mich. 48235 Scharansky, Tatyana Osipova. L viktor Nekipelov and Yuri Orlov, Noisy scenes who founded the Moscow Helsinki Group in May 1976. Mr. Meiman laughs when he re- All these are in prison, in labor members the noisy scenes in his There's no place like Soyuzivka camps, or in a harsh exile, and most apartment, where groups of dissi– are in deteriorating health. Mr. dents used to gather with western Meiman told the reporter. Thus far. reporters in the heyday of the human ' authorities have ignored campaigns rights movement, noted the reporter. SOYUZIVKA on behalf of these activities and "There was certainly humor in it." others, proving, as Soviet govern– he said. "Everybody with his story to ment spokesmen have insisted all be told, nobody waiting for anybody along, that they will not bow to else." pressure on what they consider their' "it was funny, me trying to tell all internal affairs. these people what to do and 1 asked to step down after a year." he added. Final news conference ART PROGRAM AT SOYUZIVKA Mr. Meiman said that at those in September 1982. the last three new^conferences. in the course of the Saturday. August 10 Friday, August 30 free members ol the Moscow watch group's six years of existence, the 8:30 p.m. - CONCERT 10:00 p.m. - DANCE group who remained in the Soviet organisation, whose official name "verthovyntsi" SUM, NY. dance Orchestra "Nova Chvyla" Union. Mr. ivleiman. Yelena Bonner was the PublicGroupto Promotcthc ensemble and Sofia Kalistratova. held a final Observance of the Helsinki Agree– Olya Chodoba, bandurist Saturday, August 31 news conference to say: "The group ments in the USSR, issued l95state- 8:30 p.m. - CONCERT 10:00 p.m. - DANCE cannot fulfill its duties and is forced, ments on topics ranging from lree– Orchestra "Khloptsi zi Lvova" Alex, vocalist under pressure from the authorities Orchestra "Tempo" dom of travel to the rights of minori– to discontinue its work." ties. from the abuse of psychiatry to 10:00 p.m. - DANCE Saturday, August 17 Last August Mrs. Bonner. the wife (he difficulties of retired people. 8:30 p.m. - N1GHT OF CANAD1AN Orchestras "Tempo" 8. "lskra" of Andrei Sakharov, was convicted As the months passed, more and HUMOR of "anti-Soviet slander" and sen– Sunday, September 1 more of the statements began to "Hryts Zazulia" (v. Dovhaniuk) and tenced to five years ol confinement humorists program (in three parts) 8:30 p.m. - CONCERT center on the harassment of the Paul Plishka, bas baritone with her husband in Gorky. Mrs. Helsinki watch group members fhem– 10:00 p.m. - DANCE Thomas Hrynkiw, pianist Kalistratova. a 78-year-old lawyer, selves. Orchestra "lskra" was threatened with criminal prose– 10:30 p.m. - DANCE "1 realise that we represented only cution. but the prosecution was a thin layer of the intelligentsia." Saturday, August 24 Orchestras suspended because of her ill health, 8:30 p.m. - CONCERT "Tempo" Si "Nova Chvyla" Mr. Meiman said. "But 1 want to leaving her the only other grtfup believe that the fact of these people Martha Andriuk, soprano member not in exile or prison. Bohdan Chaplynskyj, tenor existing, speaking up for human Mr. Orlov was arrested in the first rights and risking their freedom had 10:00 p.m. - DANCE months of 1977. us were Mr. Shcha– Orchestra Alic 8. Dorko an effect on the minds of the people ransky and Alexsandr Ginzburgj in our country." Their trials in the spring and summer But. he said. "There's no way of Master of ceremonies Roman Lupan of 1978 marked the climax of the knowing what good we may have crackdown on human riuhts in the done." Club Suzie-Q will hold its events during the week of August 17-24, not August 10-17, as originally scheduled.^^^^^^^^ Nicolae Gavrilescu, placing in his hands SOYUZIVKA UNA ESTATE Congressional... a letter signed by the three political (Continued from page 3) leaders and addressed to Rumanian Kerhonkson, N.Y. 12446 Tel.: (914) 626-5641 men gave their testimonies and boldly Foreign Minister Stefan Andrei. The expressed their concern about harsh letter pinpointed more than 35 human- measures being implemented by the rights violations that delegates want to government against Rumanian see immediately resolved by Rumanian UKRAINIAN HERITAGE DEFENSE COMMITTEE Churches and Christians. J authorities. and the At the Second Baptist Church of "While we acknowledged that there is Oradea more than 3.000 Christians a semblance of some religious liberty in SUPREME EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE crowded the 1,500 seat auditorium. No Rumania," the letter stated, "it is clear of the standing room was left inside the church that the 14 denominations permitted by UKRAINIAN NATIONAL ASSOCIATION and more than 500 believers listened to the government are largely circum– the four-and-a-half hour service over scribed. it is our view, based on authori– call upon you to loudspeakers set up in the street. tative reports and our own personal As the congressmen spoke, hundreds observations, that religious practice DONATE FUNDS ^ of notes pleading for prayer and help puts some individuals at great risks." were passed to the platform. Some men– for their work and actions: Rumania's most-favored-nation tioned imprisoned relatives while others (MFN) trade status is now being re- 1. To promote the Ukrainian Story spoke of lost jobs and housing simply viewed by the U.S. Congress. MFN 2. To counter inaccuracies about Ukrainians because of faith in Christ. While speak– gives Rumania an edge on trade with ing, one of the congressmen was so 3. To protect the civil rights of Ukrainins the United States, permitting this moved by the proceedings that his eyes Please mail donations by check or money-order to: Warsaw Pact nation to export textiles filled with tears; he was unable to and other products to the United States continue. UKRAINIAN HERITAGE DEFENSE FUND at prices competitive with American The pastor. Dr. Nicolae Ghcorghita, c7o Ukrainian National Association manufacturers. The net result is a profit led the congregation in prayer as most 30 Montgomery Street, Jersey City. N.J. 07302 of S500 million annually to the Ruma– of the crowd of 3.000 wept openly. nian economy. and include the following form, completed with the amount of donaiion, your name "Christ was honored at that service," and address. said the Rev. Collins. "The Communist According to the Rev. Collins, more officials who were present saw the love and more Christians are voicing their Amount of donation that we Christians have for one another, concern on Capitol Hill regarding it is through such unity and love that the nations that benefit economically from Name world will realize that Jesus is Lord and American trade and at the same time are that the Father sent the Son to be the imprisoning and persecuting Christians Savior of the world." because of their faith in Jesus Christ. No. and Street Since returning to Washington, the Several initiatives are now under way in congressmen and the Rev. Collins have Washington to end MFN trade status Gift , State . Zip code met vrrth -Rumanian' "Ambassador for Rumania. f No. 31 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, AUGUST 4,1985 15 Sakharovs... (Continued from page 2) Two videotapes obtained last month by Bild indicated that Dr. Sakharov was THE CARPATHIAN SKI CLUB OF NEW YORK being treated at a clinic in Gorky for under the auspices of the heart problems and symptoms of UKRAINIAN SPORTS ASSOCIATION OF I;SA and CANAOA a SCAM Parkinson's disease. in the film screened on July 29, the will hold physicist waiked unaided and appeared relaxed, Reuters said. THE ANN U AL Dr. Sakharov was shown discussing his family and health with Dr. Obukhov, TENNIS AND SWIMMING COMPETITION director of the Semashko Clinic, who asked the Soviet dissent to return for a at SOYUZIVKA check-up in a few weeks. in other film excerpt. Dr. Sakharov August 30 and 31 September 1 and 2, 1985 (Labor Day Weekend) and his wife embraced briefly when reunited, and then entered their home accompanied by a female nurse, the wire service reported. TENNIS TOURNAMENT Miss Bonner was also shown with a for individual CHAMPlONSHlPS of USCAK SWIMMING COMPETITION private car and shopping in a market. and trophies of the The Nobel laureate is still a member of the Soviet Academy of Sciences and. as UKRAINIAN NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, SOYI;ZIVKA. such, is entitled to various privileges. (1NCLUD1NG THE B. RAK MEMORLAL TROPHY), SATURDAY, AUGUST 31, 1985 at 11 a.m. SVOBODA, THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY and the spons– Reuters said. for INDIVIDUAL CHAMPIONSHIPS, manship Trophy of Mrs. MARY DUSHNYCK UNA TROPH1ES and R1BBONS Albany and PR1ZE MONEY Qualifications: This competition is open to any player (Continued from page S) whose club is a member of USCAK. - Singles matches are Soyuzivka in Kerhonkson. N.Y. scheduled in the following division: Men, Women, Women (35 in the following events for hoys and girls Nearly 30 representatives of the dis– and over). Junior vets (35-44). Senior Men (45- and 55). Junior trict's branches, as well as district (Boys and Girls). 8-Ю and 11-12 age groups officers attended the meeting, which Juniors are persons aged 18 and under, while seniors are 25 m. freestyle was chaired by E. Nabolotny. 1. Durbak those over 45 years of age. 50 m. freestyle served as recording secretary. Registration for tennis matches, including name, age. 25 m. breaststroke 25 m. backstroke Among the UNA Supreme Assembly divisions and the fee of S1S.00 should be sent to: 25 m. butterfly members in attendance were Supreme President John O. Flis and Supreme 4 x 25 m. у freestyle relay Advisor Walter Kwas. Mr. Roman Rakoczy, Sr. Outgoing officers' reports were de– 158 Manor Avenue, Cohoes, N.Y. 12047 livered by Mr. Shewchuk, secretary. 13-14 age group Mr. Durbak,– treasurer volodymyr Registrations should be received no later than August 22, 50 m. -– freestyle Warshona and organizing director Mr. 1984. No additional applications will be accepted before the 100 m. - freestyle Nobolotny. competitions, since the schedule of matches will be worked out 50 m - breaststroke After a vote of confidence was grunt– ahead of time. - 50 m. - backstroke ed the outgoing officers, elections 50 m. - butterfly were held with the following results: TOURNAMENT СОММІТТЕЕ: 100 m. individual medley Mr. Shewchuk. chairman; S. Hawryluk. R. Rakoczy, Sr., Z. Snylyk, G. Sawchak, Dr Z. Matkiwsky, 4 x 50 m - freestyle relay O. Kyzyk, O. Popovych. first vice-chairman: E. Mochulsky. second vice-chairman; 1. Durbak and P. SCHEDULE OF MATCHES: 15 and over age group Urban, secretaries; Mr. Warshona. 50 m. - freestyle treasurer; Mr. Nabolotny, organizing FR1DAY, August ЗО, Soyuzivka. 1.00 p.m. Men's preliminary 100 m. - freestyle director: A. Urban. Z. Zcndran, R. round. Players who must compete in this round will be 50 m. - breaststroke Harasymiak and Y. Kushnir. members notified bv the tournament committee by Thursday. 50 m. - backstroke of the board. August 22. 50 m. -– butterfly The new auditing committee is com– SATURDAY, August 31, Soyuzivka. 8:30 a.m. First round 100 m. - individual medley posed of M. Sawkiw, v. Koshvkar and junior girls (all age groups), junior vets, senior men. 4 x 50 m. - medley relay S. Kohut. women and women 35 and over. New Paltz, 8:30 a m.– Swimmers can compete in 3 individual events and one men's first round. Soyuzivka. 10:30 a.m. Juniors (all age Mr. Flis briefly addressed the meet– relay. groups). New Paltz, 10:30 a.m.-men's consolation round. ing participants in his capacity as the Soyuzivka, 3:30 p.m. Senior men 55 and over. Time and Registration will be held at the poolside on Saturday. representative of the UNA Supreme place of subsequent matches will bejesignatcd by tourna– August 31. starting at 9:30 a.m. Registration fee is 52.00 per Executive Committee. ment director R. Rakoczy. Sr. (J) person. P—–-–""– - - І-M–і"–-1 Players in men's division, scheduled tocompcte Friday but Swim Meet Committee: R. SLYSH. O. NAPORA. G. Я vec vnn mm і UCAD 0 unable to arrive on this day. as well as losers in the prclimenaiy YES, YOU W1LL HEAR round, can compete in the consolation round. HRAB. J RUBEL. C KUSHN1R. 1. SLYSH. M KRYSZ– Ukrainian language short wave І Because of limited time and the large numer of entries. TALSKY. B. and J YAC1W. 1. SOCHAN. broadcasts on our radios, if you players can compete in one group only they must indicate their live in Eastern U.S. or Canada. І Swimmers should be members of sport and youth orga– Send J8.00 (U.S.) for our infor– І choice on the registration blank. Players who fail to report for a scheduled match on time nizations which belong to the Ukrainain Sports Association mation packet. This S8.00 is re– І (USCAK). fundable if you buy a short wave will be defaulted. radio from us. Reservations should be made individually by the competitors by writing to: FALA ELECTRON1CS P.O. Box 1376-2 Soyuzivka. Ukrainian National Ass'n Estate. Kerhonkson, N. Y. 12446; (914) 626-5641 Milwaukee. Wl 53201 (Serving short wave listeners since 1962)

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At Soyuiivka PREVIEW OF EVENTS August 10-11 August 4 Maripoch Monastery here. The festi– val, which begins at noon, will KERHONKSON. N.Y. The JOHNSON C1TY, N.Y.: St. Johns feature door prizes, games for chil– Saturday evening concert this week- Ukrainian Orthodox Church is spon– dren and adults, Ukrainian music end will feature the verkhovyntsi soring a Ukrainian Festival at St. and various Ukrainian foods.Tickets dance ensemble of SUM-A and John's Memorial Center off Route are S7.50 for adults. S3 for children. bandura soloist Olha Choboda. 17 here. The festival will include a 3 For more informaticfh call John The program begins at 8:30 p.m. in p.m. concert, featuring a choir di– Lucyk at (201) 747-2845. the veselka auditorium and is rected by the Rev. Frank Lawryk and followed by a dance to the music of Ukrainian dancers, food, arts and August 11-30 the Boys from Lviv band. Olha Chodoba crafts booths, and a dance at 5-Ю p.m. For further information call EDMONTON: The Canadian U– Anne Petras at (607) 729-0909. krainian Youth Association(CYM K) will hold its annual SELO cultural immersion camp at Camp Barvinok August 7 near Edmonton. The three-week camp fee is S350. For infor– CAMBR1DGE. Mass.: The -award- mation and an application write to: winning film. "Harvest of Despair." Selo '85 c,'o CYMK. National, ft 15, on the Ukrainian famine of 1932-33 H024-82nd Ave., Edmonton. Aha. will be shown at the Science Center. T6G 0T2. Theater D, at Harvard University at 7 p.m. Free parking will be available ONGOING at the Harvard Ukrainian Research institute's parking lot at 1583 Massa– CH1CAGO: The Ukrainian lnsti– chusetts Ave. The screening is free; tute of Modern An is holding a The Yerkhovyntsi dancers donations would be appreciated. Student Photo Show through Sep– tember 1. featuring photographs by August 8 Jennifer Bogardus. J. Doll, Natalie Yale slates literature colloquium R. Domchenko. Diana Fedoriw. J.B. WASH1NGTON: The Washington Letchingcr, Elizabeth Nelson, Nigel, NEW HAvEN, Conn. - The Yale versity of illinois–Chicago Circle), Group of Ukrainian American Pro– and Ann Ternenyi. The institute, Department of Slavic Languages and Myroslava Znayenko (Rutgers Uni– fessionals is sponsoring the Washing- which is located at 2320 W. Chicago Literatures will hold a colloquium, versity—Newark), Franklin Sciacca ton premiere of "Harvest of Despair" Ave., is open Tuesday through Sun- "Russo-Ukrainian Literary Relations," (Hamilton College), vitaly Keis (St. at the Holy Family Parish center, day, noon - 4 p.m. on Friday and Saturday. November 15 Peter's College), Oleh ilnitzky (Uni– 4250 Harewood Road NE. at 7 p.m. and 16. in the Whitney Humanities versity of Alberta), John Barnstad Admission is S10 for non-members PREviEW OF EvENTS, a listing Center on the Yale University campus. (Dalhousie University), George Gra– of the Washington Group. S7 for of Ukrainian community events open The colloquium is co-sponsored by bowicz (Harvard University), and members, and S5 for students and to the public, is a service provided the Canadian institute of Ukrainian Omry Ronen (University of Michigan). senior citizens. free of charge by The Weekly to the Studies and the Yale Conferences in Ukrainian community. To have an Slavic Literatures and Culture series, For further information, contact: WARREN, Mich.: Ukrainian Ame– event listed in this column, please Robert L. Jackson, director. Michael M. Naydan. assistant profes– rican veterans. Michigan Post 101, send information (type of event, Among the current list of speakers sor. Department of Slavic Languages invite all Ukrainian Americans to a date, time, place, admission, spon– arc Paul Bushkovitch(Yale University), and Literatures, P.O. 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