Іі8И»д by the Ukrainian National Association Inc., a fraternal non-profit associationj U rainianWeekl V Vol. LXI ШNo. 8 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 1993 50 cents Ukraine moves toward convertible currency Kravchuk visits Great Britain, by Borys Klymenko of inflation) due to the various hard- signs treaty on cooperation currency exchange rates (rates for KYYIV — Amidst a cold, dreary buying and selling the karbovanets), it is by Marta Dyczok ting serious investment. Klaus Hoff­ winter of hyper-inflation and wage not wise to introduce full convertability Special to The Ukrainian Weekly man, the EBDR's senior country mana­ freezes, Ukraine's Cabinet of Ministers of the karbovanets. For example, a ger for Ukraine, said, "We expect adopted a radical decree that will lead to karbovanets sold today at a rate of LONDON — Lunch with the Queen commitment from Mr. Kravchuk and full convertability of the karbovanets, 1,000 to a dollar, will be bought in a of England and a special visit to Edin­ the government to this reform pro­ Viktor Pynzenyk, deputy prime minister month for 2,500 to a dollar. If one burgh Castle did not make up for the gram." and minister of the economy, told decides to put the dollars in the bank, lack of concrete results of the four-day Speaking to the Confederation of journalists on Wednesday, February 17. instead of selling them, the bank rate visit of Ukrainian President Leonid British Industry, the nation's industrial will not meet the rate of inflation. Kravchuk to Great Britain on February leaders. President Kravchuk explained, The decree, titled "On the Monetary The National Bank of Ukraine will 9-12. "In practice, this is a slow process that Control System and Monetary Regula­ also introduce changes in hard currency Before departing on the visit, Presi­ will not be completed in a matter of tion," is geared toward full converta­ trade. Hard currency stores will sell dent Kravchuk had told journalists in months or a year." bility of the karbovanets. However, their products in two currencies: foreign Kyyiv that, "Our immediate future Afterwards he told reporters, "We are because of the current critical economic hard currency and the Ukrainian kar­ depends on this assistance. If the West is told, 'Once you produce some results, situation in Ukraine, this process will be bovanets converted in accordance with going to give us aid, it must be now." we can provide you with assistance." gradual. a free-market rate. Despite optimistically announcing that And we say, 'Once the results are visible Thus, the Ukrainian government will The government has also begun a series of important political and the assistance will no longer be needed." now introduce partial convertability of battling the myriad traders who stand in economic agreements would be signed For this reason we have to make clear the karbovanets. This means that all front ofKyyiv's departmem .lores and between the two countries, the president which results we have in mind. If we are businessmen who trade in hard cur­ at the train stations, selling coupons and returned with only a handful of pledges talking about the transition to the rency are under obligation to sell 50 per­ rubles for dollars and Deutschemarks. for conditional support. market and changing infrastructures, cent of their hard currency profit to the The only notable achievements of the then we need help now, and I mean now. international hard currency market, at It has said that it wants to open 16-member delegation's visit were an Otherwise, it simply will not happen." the free-market price. The rest of the currency exchanges. A free-market rate offer by Britain of limited security Helping President Kravchuk convey receipts will be registered in the hard means that currency is sold freely and guarantees to Ukraine, and a promise the urgent request for economic assis­ currency account of the business; of that bought freely in Ukraine. "This is a from the European Bank for Recon­ tance were some of the top guns of the amount, the business may sell even transitional period. Once we have 100 struction and Development to esta­ new government. However, Ministers more than half. percent convertability in Ukraine, we blish a special fund to assist Ukraine in Viktor Pynzenyk, Ivan Herts, Hryhoriy Mr. Pynzenyk explained that at will forbid the circulation of hard cur­ its de-nuclearization program. Piatachenko and Orest Klympush suc­ today's current rate of inflation and rate rency altogether," Mr. Pynzenyk con­ On the second day of the visit, the ceeded only in negotiating a series of of interest (which is lower than the rate cluded. United Kingdom-Ukraine Treaty was general agreements. signed, in which Britain agreed to These modest results are not sur­ extend security assurances once U- prising in view of Britain's current Housing market looks to privatization kraine ratifies the Nuclear Non-Proli­ economic state. In the midst of a major feration Treaty. British Prime Minister recession with soaring unemployment John Major stated, "It is our belief that and a plunging currency, Britain is supporters. This is why, as stipulated by Liudmyla Nikoiaichuk Ukraine's security will be stronger if engaged in serious debate on its future in the law regulating ownership, and Viktor Zubaniuk Ukraine can meet its non-nuclear un­ relationship with the European Com­ foreigners still do not have the right IntelNews dertakings." munity and reorganization of its armed KYYIV — Though foreigners can to purchase housing directly from the A British official explained that forces. now buy cooperative flats, private state. Britain had only agreed to the standard Economic and military commitments apartments or private houses directly Opponents of Mr. Cherep's idea guarantees nuclear powers provide to to Ukraine are not a priority on Britain's from Ukrainian citizens, this situa­ believe Ukraine must first take care each new signatory of the 1968 treaty. current political agenda, despite ge­ tion will change in the near future. of its citizens — among them the They consist of a pledge by Britain not nuine interest in Ukraine's independ­ With the growing privatization of poor. But the opportunity to resolve to use nuclear weapons against U- ence as a potential stabilizing force in housing and the formation of a this problem rarely presents itself. kraine, and to support Ukraine at the Eastern Europe and a counterbalance housing market, anyone with enough At present, Ukraine is unable to United Nations in the event of aggres­ to the re-entry of Russia into the money, including foreigners, will be guarantee housing for all of its sion by another state. European balance of power. able to buy real estate at auction. citizens. Since Ukraine became in­ Throughout the visit, British leaders In Parliament the head of the Britain simply does not have the dependent over a year ago, the stressed the importance of Ukraine Committee on Construction, Archi­ resources to play a major role in U- number of families without apart­ ratifying the START I Treaty, which it tecture and Communal Housing, kraine's immediate future. However, ments has increased considerably. had pledged to do by the end of 1992. At Valeriy Cherep, defended the idea of both countries are interested in main­ According to the Committee for a press conference in London, Presi­ wealthy Ukrainian citizens and taining friendly relations, and signed a Construction, Architecture and dent Kravchuk repeated that the treaty foreigners freely purchasing real whole series of agreements on cultural Communal Housing, the number of was on the Parliamentary agenda for estate from the state. Mr. Cherep and academic exchanges aimed at "in­ families on apartment waiting Hsts this week. "The treaty is made up of proposed organizing special auc­ creasing mutual understanding." two years ago was 2.3 miUion, while eight volumes of paper and we have tions, which would offer so-called While in England, President Krav­ today that number has risen to nearly taken only two months to study the "contested" housing and renovated chuk took the opportunity to enjoy 2.8 milHon. document," he told reporters. "I have or luxury apartments built to more some of the cultural aspects of the no doubt that this matter will be lavish plans. It was proposed to use Construction of new housing, world's oldest democracy which still has resolved by our Parliament." He added, money earned from these auctions to however, is falling: six years ago a ruling monarchy. He toured the "We understand the positions of the build affordable housing for local Ukraine was building 20 million Science Museum and was shown Western countries, but ask that we are residents. square meters of apartment space around the National Gallery by the each year (both state and private), also understood." Though many observers consider­ curator of 19th century painting. After while in 1992 the figure fiad fallen This same attitude seemed to prevail ed the idea sensible, during discus­ visiting Westminster Abbey, he laid a some 30 percent. Given the economic during discussions on economic mat­ sion of the draft law on privatization wreath at the tomb of the unknown crisis, experts predict that in 1993 ters. British economic leaders expect of state housing, the measure turned soldier. tangible results from Ukraine's reform out to have more opponents than (Continued on page 18) to a market economy before commit­ (Continued on page 18) THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 1993 No. 8

ANALYSIS Newsbriefs Ukraine and the CIS: on Ukraine a troubled relationship • DEBRECEN, Hungary — On half of an inch on his first try at that by Dr. Roman Solchanyk against the draft charter. February 14, the foreign ministers of height. He was spurred on by the fact RFE/RL Research Institute First, he likened the document to an Ukraine, Poland and Hungary meeting that Rodion Gataullin, a Russian open-ended binding contract whereby CONCLUSION here signed a treaty on regional coope­ competitor, cleared 19-814 (6 meters), the parties were first asked to sign on the ration, according to an MTI report. The marking the first time that two vaulters dotted line and only later learned what agreement provided for the creation of a cleared the six-meter mark at the same Ukraine's reisponse conditions they had agreed to. He said "Carpathian Euroregion" council to meet. (Associated Press) he had spoken with Ukrainian enter­ foster continuing improvements in The Ukrainian reaction to these prise directors and had asked them if relations along the shared borders, • KYYIV — Miners from the Don- developments was predictable. On they would sign a contract to deliver particularly in the Carpathian moun­ bas region have rejected government December 17, after signing a series of goods without knowing what they tains and the Tisza River valley. Slo­ offers and have called a general strike agreements with Belarus, Mr. Krav- would be paid; the unanimous answer vakia did not send its foreign minister, for February 25. They are demanding chuk noted that in December 1991 the was that they would not. but opted to be an associate partner to higher wages and a continuation of the CIS had been formed for the purpose of The second argument was purely the accords. Catherine Lalumiere, subsidies given to the coal industry. promoting a "civilized divorce among juridical. Mr. Kravchuk pointed out secretary general of the Council of Chrystia Freeland quoted Yuriy Yoffe, the Soviet republics." Now, he argued, that as president of the country he was Europe, attended the meetings and the deputy prime minister for fuel and "the time has come to create," but the bound by a parliamentary resolution to expressed hope that the pact would energey, who blamed the managers of CIS had demonstrated that it was not give top priority to strengthening the provide stability and reduce tensions in the mines for the unrest. Mr. Yoffe said up to the task. When Ukraine met with legal status of Ukraine, which was a central and eastern Europe. (RFE/RL the managers' salaries were slashed in Belarus or Russia, he continued, both subject of international law, and "not to Daily Report) December after a government commis­ sides knew what they wanted. However, permit the transformation of the CIS sion discovered that they were paying when the CIS met, "it is difficult to find into a state formation with its own ' • MINSK — On February 11, Minsk themselves up to 100 times the average the kind of rules in accordance with agencies of power and administration." Radio quoted an article in the Russian Ukrainian wage. He also stated that the Consequently, the draft charter should which we could have discourse as a state Komersant magazine about the administration would not give in, not be signed because in essence it did within a state." The CIS, in President sale of around $2 billion in heavy because "the government has no money not correspond to Ukraine's interests Kravchuk's view, should be a "soft" weaponry allegedly offered for sale in left." (The Financial Times) and was juridically untenable. structure until that time when its Kharkiv, the large industrial center in member-states were fully developed and Having flatly rejected the draft char­ eastern Ukraine. The brokers, identi­ • KYYIV — Oleksander Yemets, an strengthened — a process, moreover, ter, Mr. Kravchuk reiterated that he fied as members of the Ukrainian- advisor to President Leonid Kravchuk, was not proposing that Ukraine aban­ that the commonwealth should help Siberian Universal Stock Exchange, appeared on Ukrainian TV on February don the CIS and commented that the and promote. apparently refused to divulge the source 14 to declare that Russia is "deliberate­ CIS was an ineffective structure and At the end of December, Mr. Krav- of the hardware, but did say that it was ly pushing" Ukraine out of the CIS. Mr. that the efforts of its members should be chuk again criticized the CIS for its Russian, However, the Russian Ministry Yemets claimed that Russian President directed at promoting the solution of ineffectiveness and, as on previous of Foreign Economic Relations, which Boris Yeltsin's recent decree aimed at common problems. In this connection, occasions, stressed the importance of oversees Russian arms sales, accused taking exclusive control over the foreign he proposed that the Minsk summit bilateral relations between the indivi­ the Kyyivan government of selling the assets of the former Soviet Union will consider an economic agreement that dual member-states. "If anyone thinks weapons while using a Russian com­ leave his country no choice but to leave Ukraine intended to put on the sum­ that after adopting the CIS charter, an pany as a cover. The materials on sale the commonwealth. (RFE/RL Daily mit's agenda. Such an agreement, he organization that had demonstrated its apparently included a MiG-27 fighter Report) maintained, would be designed to lack of vitality will change, then he is plane ($16 milUon each), T-80 tanks (at "regulate" all economic problems cur­ mistaken," Mr. Kravchuk commented. $2.2 million) and even submarines. rently afflicting the CIS member states. • KYYIV — According to an Ukrin- The hard line taken by the Ukrainian (RFE/RL Daily Report) In the absence of such an agreement, he form—TASS report of February 11, president had the virtually unanimous Ukrainian Prime Minister Leonid support of representatives of various added, "no kind of charter will, under any conditions, ever be of any use." • BUDAPEST — According to the Kuchma told a group of the country's political parties, movements, and mass Hungarian Telegraph and Information enterprise directors and businessmen organizations that met with Kravchuk President Kravchuk's apparent desire agency (MTI), The Ukrainian Foreign that although economic conditions on January 4, 1993, to discuss the to strike some sort of balance regarding Ministry announced on February 4 that have been stabilized, they are not question of Ukraine's position on the Ukraine's position on the CIS without it will be opening a consulate in improving. He said the drastic decline in draft charter and its attitude toward the compromising basic hard-line tenets Nyiregyhaza to complement its em­ Ukrainian industrial production has CIS in general. Only the representatives may well have been dictated by in­ bassy in Budapest. Hungary already has been slowed somewhat. Mr. Kuchma of two groups, the Socialist Party of creasing domestic political pressure. In a consulate in Uzhhorod, Transcar- also stated that the normalization of Ukraine and the Ukrainian Society of fact, the Ukrainian president said as pathia, where some 160,000 ethnic economic relations with Russia is one of War Veterans, came out in favor of much at the January 18 press con­ Magyars live. (RFE/RL Daily Report) the major problems facing Ukraine and signing the document. Mr. Kravchuk, ference, noting that Ukrainian society will influence its very existence. (RFE/ for his part, told the participants that was split into two camps. • LIEVIN, France — Chalk up RL Daily Report) the charter was needed by those "who One of these camps was demanding want to transform the Commonwealth another 50,000 Nike dollars for Serhiy that Ukraine immediately affix its • KYYIV — According to the Kyyiv into a new union." Bubka. On February 13, the pole- signature to the draft charter or at least vaulter from Donetske broke a world Department of Statistics, during the Explaining his position in an inter­ accept it as the basis for further discus­ record in his event for the 33rd time. He month ending on February 5 food view with Izvestiya, the Ukrainian sion; the other not only advocated bested his old indoor mark of 20^4 by (Continued on page 15) leader insisted Ukraine was not rejection of the charter but urged that interested in abandoning the CIS: "I Ukraine leave the CIS as well. The have supported, support, and will con­ former recently made its position public tinue to support the CIS. I am simply through an appeal to the Parliament against endowing it with the status of signed by a large group of people's de­ FOUNDED 1933 the Soviet Union through the 'back puties. The document set forth a series Ukrainian Weeln door.' But there should not be a schism." of interrelated demands, all of which An English-language Ukrainian newspaper published by the Ukrainian National Strictly speaking, the CIS was not a essentially focused on closer integra­ Association Inc., a non-prgfit association, at 30 Montgomery St., Jersey City, N.J. topic for discussion at the Kravchuk- tion within the CIS, specifically with 07302. 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He proposed that the CIS mem­ Interparliamentary Assembly; the co­ (201) 434-0237. -0807, -3036 (201) 451-2200 ber-states conclude an economic treaty. ordination of legislation and the intro­ Yeltsin also referred to the draft charter, duction of either dual or CIS citizen­ Postmaster, send address Editor-in-chief: Roma Hadzewycz saying that it needed more work and ship; the formation of a permanent ^^^nges to Associate editor: Marta Kolomayets that a "common document" should body to coordinate this work; and The Ukrainian Weekly Assistant editor: Khristina Lew later be adopted; but he argued that the broad regional autonomy, perhaps even P 0 Box 346 Staff writers/editors: Roman Woronowycz term 'charter' should be avoided since it the introduction of a federated structure Jersey Qity. N J 07303 Andrij Wynnyckyj had a "military connotation." for Ukraine and the establishment of President Kravchuk gave a fuller Russian as the second official language The Ukrainian Weekly, February 21, 1993, No. 8, Vol. LX explanation of Ukraine's position at a in Ukraine. press conference in Kyyiv pp January Copyright 1993 by The Ukrainian Weekly 18, advancing two basic arguments (Continued on page 19) No. 8 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 1993

Mapping Agency Toronto priests' resistance to Vatican appointment stiffens by Andrij Wynnyckyj February 17. ed, in sermons delivered at the St. plans meeting On February 9, the Rev. John Ta- Nicholas Church, the Rev. Jaroslaw JERSEY CITY, N.J. — Since late taryn, pastor of St. Demetrius Church Lewycky has been openly critical of the January, tensions in Toronto over the in Toronto, led a delegation which met Vatican's move, suggesting that it has on name changes appointment of the Rev. Roman with Papal Nuncio Carlo Curis in parallels with damaging policies to­ Danylak as apostolic administrator of Ottawa, to present a petition (signed by wards the Ukrainian Catholic Church NEW YORK — The Ukrainian the regional Ukrainian Catholic eparchy 58 priests and deacons of the eparchy) in Poland and Ukraine. Mapping Agency (Main Administra­ have continued to escalate. protesting the appointment of an The Rev. Roman Hankevych, pastor tion of Geodesy, Cartography, and In a peculiar move, the vicar general, apostolic administrator. Later that day, of the Holy Ghost Church in Hamilton Cadastre of the Cabinet of Ministers they also spoke to Archbishop Marcel and president of the Canadian National of Ukraine) in conjunction with the the Rev. Myron Stasiw, used the letter­ head of the chancery office of the Gervais, the president of the Canadian Council for the Ukrainian Catholic Ukrainian Language Institute of the Conference of CathoHc Bishops. Patriarchate, was also forthcoming. Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, the Eparchy of Toronto (bearing the ad­ dress 61 Glen Edyth Drive) to send a The Rev. Tataryn could not be The Rev. Hankevych chaired the 0.0. Potebnia Language Studies February 17 meeting, and based on the Institute, and the Foreign Philology circular to all of the eparchy's clergy­ reached for comment and did not return men and members of female and male calls. However, the Rev. Taras Lozyn- Rev. Tataryn's report on conversations Faculty of the Shevchenko State with the Papal legate in Ottawa, volun­ University of Kyyiv, will host an monastic orders. Dated January 27, the sky, who traveled with the group, circular affirms the authority of the informed The Weekly that Msgr. Curis teered that the nuncio had expressed international conference on Decem­ his concern, promised to involve him­ ber 7-9, in Kyyiv on the topic "The Rev. Danylak, informs everyone of the and Archbishop Gervais both received latter's upcoming ordination as bishop the delegation. The Rev. Lozynsky was self in the matter personally, and said Reproduction of Ukrainian Names that he would travel to Rome to convey of Nyssa on March 25, and notifies unwilling to expand on this, empha­ (Individual Names and Toponyms) the feeUngs of the priests of the eparchy. in Foreign Languages." them that all the eparchy's official sizing the delicacy of the situation. The Rev. Hankevych also said that The conference will focus on dis­ business will henceforth be handled When contacted on February 10, the from the offices of the apostolic ad­ nuncio refused to speak to The Weekly, those in attendance arrived to the cussion and adoption of standards of following consensus: since no letter transliteration for Ukrainian per­ ministrator (143 FrankUn Ave.). instructing his secretary to communi­ cate his "no comment." from Rome outlining the specific duties sonal and place names in English, However, it has become clear that the of the apostolic administrator had yet German, French, and other lan­ incumbent, Bishop Isidore Borecky, is This also reflects the mood of tight- arrived, and since Bishop Borecky had guages. Ukrainian language legisla­ not backing down. On February 5, he lipped apprehension prevalent among not received any notification of any tion adopted in 1989 mandated the countered with his own circular, which the clergy of Toronto prior to the limitations on his authority, the move to transcription of names directly from states that "the bishop's chancery February 17 meeting called by Bishop shift administrative authority by Revs. their Ukrainian original. continues to work in the same fashion, Borecky at the St. Nicholas Parish hall. Danylak and Stasiw was premature. A For more information, please and we ask that all financial and other The bishop himself, according to his statement of continued support for contact Petro Matiaszek, the Ukrai­ cathedralic matters be referred, as they secretary, Halyna Smaliukh, "is cate­ Bishop Borecky, addressed to Nuncio nian Mapping Agency's U.S. repre­ have been for 45 years without change, gorically refusing all interviews, whether Curis, was also circulated and signed by sentative,-at (212) 228-6840; or fax to the address given above [61 Glen to radio, TV or newspapers." 36 of the 44 priests in attendance. The (212)254-4721. Edyth Drive]." Some clergymen are willing to supply Rev. Stasiw was present, but did not Bishop Borecky has also continued to information, but virtually everyone sign. He could not be reached for act as the eparch of Toronto. On asks that their names be withheld. One comment. European Council February 7, he ordained the Rev. source said: "If Danylak remains in When questioned if anyone had Dimitri Pankiw, pastor of St. Nicholas place, what am I going to do? I could received a reply from the primate of the Church in Toronto, as a mitred arch- quit the Church in protest, but I've put Ukrainian Catholic Church, Cardinal concludes meetings priest. In his letter of February 5, quite a lot of work into this community Myroslaw Lubachivsky, to the petitions Bishop Borecky also called a meeting of and I'm too old to get another job." which had been sent to him on this in Ukraine the eparchy's clergy, held in the parish However, others have been less matter, the Rev. Hankevych answered hall of the St, Nicholas church on reticent. As several parishioners attest­ that nothing had as yet been received. IntelNews

KYYIV — A European Council delegation, led by its director for Kuchma meets Nixon, berates Russia political questions, Hans-Peter Furrer, on February 10 concluded its visit to by Borys Klymenko Mr. Kuchma said Mr. Nixon's visit trade would have to be conducted at Ukraine after holding meetings with was of tremendous importance to the world prices, "this change has to be Deputy Chairman of the Ukrainian KYYIV — The arrival of former U.S. course of future U.S.-Ukrainian rela­ brought about in a civilized fashion. In Parliament Vasyl Durdynets, Deputy president Richard Nixon here on tions. Mr. Nixon reminded everyone of the course of a year at least... If world Prime Minister Mykola Zhulynsky, February 18, provided Ukrainian his visits to Ukraine in 1972, 1991 and prices for petroleum and gas are intro­ Foreign Minister Anatoliy Zlenko, Prime Minister Leonid Kuchma with last year, and stated that there is a duced as proposed, then naturally, the members of the Cabinet of Ministers another opportunity to voice his strong core of support for Ukraine in Ukrainian economy will collapse com­ and the General Procuracy. government's views on poHtical and the U.S. and that the Ukrainian lobby pletely." there is "one of the best." The purpose of the visit was to economic relations with Russia. Mr. Kuchma then sharply criticized familiarize the council with Ukraine's the recent Russia decree concerning its position on human rights (Ukraine Prism of Moscow exclusive control of former Soviet recently applied for membership in the foreign assets, issued by President Boris council). Entrepreneurs' union After this exchance of niceties, Yeltsin, and claims by Russian Vice- Mr. Furrer said Ukraine must im­ both then agreed that since its attain­ Premier Aleksandr Shokhin that all oil prove in the area of guaranteeing supports Kuchma ment of independence in 1991, Ukraine and gas pipelines on Ukrainian territory human rights for its citizens before has faded somewhat from the global belonged to Russia. "We cannot agree attaining full-member status. He also IntelNews map, and that 1992 was a writeoff in with such policies," Mr. Kuchma said. suggested that Ukraine adopt a new terms of reforms. Mr. Kuchma com­ "This has nothing to do with economics, constitution, hold parliamentary elec­ KYYIV — Presidential Advisor and plained that "Ukraine is now viewed and everything to do with great-power tions, and ratify the European conven­ Chairman of the Union of Independent through the prism of Moscow's perspec­ politics. I expect that we will soon meet tion on human rights. In particular, he Entrepreneurs (UIE) Oleksander tive, not only in the U.S., but in all of with [Russian Prime Minister] Viktor referred to the statute that provides Yemelianov said at a press conference western Europe, as well." Chernomyrdin to discuss these matters." citizens with the right to appeal to the on February 9 that the UIE fully European court for mediation on hu­ supports the government's economic The prime minister expressed the The mood in Russia man rights cases. reform program. opinion that economic reforms in his country could have progressed much Volodymyr Lapynsky, head of the The UIE presently has 40 members, The Ukrainian prime minister went further if it were not for the sharp Ministry of Foreign Affairs' depart­ including entreprises, individuals and on to express concern over the "mood in worsening of conditions late in 1992, ment dealing with the Conference on foreign concerns. The goal of the Russia, which seems to prefer bad which, he believes, "were affected by Security and Cooperation in Europe, organization is to assist in the develop­ socialism to things unknown," warning our relations with Russia." Mr. Kuchma said at a press conference at the MFA ment of Ukraine's market economy and that "this could have grave conse­ explained that Ukraine is almost entire­ that it is absolutely necessary for provide financial, legal and organiza­ quences." The first result, in his opinion, ly dependent on Russia for its energy Ukraine to join the European Council. tional assistance to non-state economic might be the fall of the current govern­ supplies, and the latter's prices for He also said work on a draft structures interested in furthering the ment. The next would be that any hope petroleum and petroleum products version of a new constitution has been denationalization of Ukraine's eco­ of Ukraine's goods competing on the increased 700-fold last year. completed and that this draft has nomy. Russian market (to which 60 to 70 received a positive assessment from The UIE also plans to appeal to Reflecting on Russia's decision to percent of the country's production is European Council officials and human foreign business entities so that they charge world prices for its oil as of sent) would disappear. rights officials from the "Venice Com­ invest in the non-state sector. Other February 1, Mr. Kuchma said "you can After issuing their statements, Messrs. mission." UIE plans include the formation of a well imagine that if yesterday the price Kuchma and Nixon said they would A draft law on elections and criminal lobby within the state governmental of 1,000 cubic meters of gas stood at continue talk on "more complicated code statutes will also be sent to the structure; particular emphasis will be 2,000 karbovantsi, and today you raise problems" with only their closest ad­ commission for review to determine given to influencing the president's it to 50,000, no economy could with­ visors. Mr. Nixon was accompanied by whether they meet European standards. administration. stand the shock." While he agreed that political analyst Dimitri Simes. THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 1993 No. 8 UNA execs review 1992 activity, plan centennial events Obituaries JERSEY CITY, N.J. — Officers of The Ukrainian National Urban Re­ ment of children by publicizing new Ivanna Nyzhnyk, the Ukrainian National Association newal Corp. (UNURC) ended 1992 with members' pictures with captions and reviewed the fraternal organization's gross income of $3,084,667, or an 11.25 listing their parents and grandparents in notable artist 81 activity in 1992, approved a new or­ percent increase from last year. That Svoboda and The Ukrainian Weekly. ganizing plan for 1993 and discussed increase of $311,884, together with a Parents and grandparents are also being SARCELLES, France — Ivanna plans for the 100th anniversary of decrease in expenses of $112,000 for the encouraged to pay the total premiums Vynnykiv-Nyzhnyk, artist, died on Svoboda, its Ukrainian-language daily year, enabled the UNURC to reduce the on the new certificates to take advan­ January 10, in Mougins, France. newspaper, during a regular meeting of deficit from operations by $423,000 tage of an annual discount of 6 percent. She was 81. Born in Galicia, she the UNA Supreme Executive Commit­ from a year earlier, the supreme trea­ As of January 29, 130 applications was a student of the noted Oleksa tee on Friday, January 29. surer reported. for new members were submitted to the Novakivsky in Lviv in the 1930s. As well, the supreme officers of the The year 1992 was extremely busy. home office, Mr. Sochan continued. At She emigrated at the end of the association considered proposals for The corporation renewed, extended or the beginning of 1993 the UNA released second world war, settUng in Paris in 1948. The following year, she met celebrations of the UNA's own centen­ leased 83,408 square feet, or approxi­ new annuity certificates and the corres­ mately 34 percent of the total space ponding applications. Presently, the Volodymyr Vynnychenko and his wife nial in 1994 and discussed provisions of and was invited to live with them on a draft proposal for the Ukrainian available for rent. As a result of leasing UNA is preparing to introduce new activity, the UNA Plaza is 84 percent term insurance certificates, as well as an their estate in Mougins (in southern National Association's new by-laws. France, just north of Nice). Among the major decisions of the occupied, compared to 66 percent entirely new product, universal life. Supreme Executive Committee was the occupied only a few months ago. This will coincide with the introduction Ms. Vynnykiv gained wide acclaim in The UNURC has had to expend of the new applications, he added. the French artistic community for her approval of a $5,000 grant for Col. Ivan work in painting, ceramics and weaving. Bilas of Ukraine for a book on the funds for tenant build-out and com­ The Home Office is in the midst of missions, but its rent roll now averages installing new computers with pro­ In the 1960s, she was taken on at Pablo Soviet terror in Ukraine in the years Picasso's ceramics workshop. 1918-1950. Col. Bilas will do research $3.7 million annually, Mr. Blahitka grams designed to administer the new added. universal life and annuity policies. Her works are held by various galler­ for the volume in the newly opened ies and private collections in France archives of the KGB and its forerunner, The increase in leasing activity seems Finally, Mr. Sochan reported, the to be continuing into 1993. Bids are minutes of the May 1992 annual meet­ and by Ukrainians in Ukraine and in the the NKVD, in Moscow. The grant was diaspora. allocated from the UNA Fund for the being sought for renovating the lobby ing of the Supreme Assembly, prepared and building a canopy in order to earlier by Marta Lysko, were belatedly Ms. Vynnykiv bequeathed her assets Rebirth of Ukraine. (including the Vynnychenko estate in As well, the executives allocated present a fresh appearance. The timing published in Svoboda in January be­ seems to be perfect, Mr. Blahitka cause of the holidays. Mougins, which she inherited upon $2,000 to help support a conference of Mrs. Vynnychenko's passing) and her political leaders and scholars from the concluded. Vice-presidents' reports artwork to the Novakivsky Museum in United States and Ukraine that will be Lviv. held in Philadelphia by the La Salle and Supreme secretary's report Pennsylvania universities. Its aim is to Mrs. Paschen described the Chicago examine Ukraine's current economic Mr. Sochan reported that in 1992, stay of the Dumka State Choir of and political situation. branch secretaries and organizers en­ Ukraine and local UNA involvement Maria Trusi 58, The Supreme Executive Committee rolled 504 juvenile new members and in housing the choristers. She also meeting was chaired by Supreme Presi­ 643 adults, plus 146 adults with acciden­ noted that preparations are under way Parma activist dent Ulana Diachuk. In attendance tal certificates for a total of 1,293 new for celebrations of the UNA centennial. Mr. Olesnycky reported that he has PARMA, Ohio — Maria Luba Trusz, were: Supreme Vice-President Nestor members. The total amount of new 58, passed away at her home on Mon­ Olesnycky, Supreme Vice-Presidentess insurance in dollars was $10,195,700. spent most of his time on the draft of new by-laws for the Ukrainian National day, January 11, Ms. Trusz had been a Gloria Paschen, Supreme Secretary The average amount of a new certificate social worker for Catholic Family and Walter Sochan, Supreme Treasurer was $7,885. Corresponding figures from Association. He provided a detailed report on the proposals that will be Children's Services, later Catholic Alexander Blahitka and Supreme Audi­ 1991 showed 1,344 new members en­ Social Services of Cuyahoga County, tor Stefan Hawrysz, John Hewryk, rolled for $9,662,000; the average face considered by a specially created com­ mittee of the UNA Supreme Assembly. for 22 years prior to her disability leave Supreme Director for Canada, was value of a certificate was $7,189. in 1979. She had served the agency in unable to attend. During 1992, 230 members applied Supreme president's report the field of child welfare, foster home for annuity certificates. The UNA now care and services to single parents. Supreme treasurer's report has a total of 316 annuitants with initial Mrs. Diachuk began her report by In 1979, it was necessary for Ms. deposits of $3,634,160, the supreme Trusz to terminate active employment Mr. Blahitka reported that as of secretary said. focusing on the organizing campaign of 1992, during which 1,293 new members and go on disability because she suffered December 21, 1992, UNA assets ap­ The UNA lost less members in 1992 from rheumatoid arthritis and sclero­ proached $69 million, an increase of than in 1991. The losses for 1992 are as were enrolled for insurance coverage of $10,195,700. derma. She was a member of the Sclero­ $3,078,655 for the one-year period. follows: 664 cash surrenders, 661 en­ derma Society of Ohio, and partici­ The official total of UNA assets stood dowments matured, 993 premiums The most new members, she reiter­ ated, were enrolled by Mr. PiUpiak of pated in their support groups. at $68,982,121.73. paid-up, and 893 deaths. Despite Ms. Trusz's disability, she As was previously reported, the As of December 1992, there were Branch 496 and Mr. Bylen of Branch 17, who enrolled 38 and 36 members, continued membership in the Ladies UNA'S annuity business has exceeded 37,346 active, dues-paying members, Guild of St. Andrew's Ukrainian sales goals and $3,493,327 in annuity and 27,927 had fully paid up certificates respectively. Third place was taken by Mr. Hawrysz, who signed up 35 new Catholic Church and was an active premiums were received during 1992. or were on extended term insurance. At member of the Ukrainian Dnipro Cho­ This compares with $796,699 for 1991 the end of 1992, the UNA had a total members. They were followed by: Supreme ral Group. for a 338 percent increase in sales, Mr. , membership of 65,273 members who A graduate of Kent State University, Blahitka noted. were insured for $142,957,684. UNA Auditor William Pastuszek, with 26 members: Tymko N. Butrey, 25; and she also attended the Western Reserve He then offered some highlights of membership decreased by 1,491 mem­ University School of Social Work. the UNA finances. Dues from members' bers, while the amount of insurance in Andrew Maryniuk, 24. Among organizers in Canada, first She was a member of Ukrainian life insurance certificates increased for force increased by $2,605,489 in 1992, National Association Branch 102. the year by $44,000, and this is a very reported Mr. Sochan. place in the organizing campaign was positive sign, he said. Investment in­ The 2:1 ratio of adult members to taken by Alexandra Dolnycky, secre­ come rose only slightly, however, one juveniles that has been recorded for tary of Branch 434, who signed up 24 Natalia Drzewiecid, must take into consideration the decline years is changing, due to an increase in new members. in interest rates during the past few juvenile applications. In 1992, there Wilkes-Barre was the top UNA dis­ medical researciier, 37 years for both bonds and mortages, he were 643 adult new members and 504 trict in terms of membership enroll­ explained. juveniles, he noted. The most popular ment, having fulfilled 114 percent of its FRANKLIN, N.J. — Natalia Kraw- Cash Surrenders decreased by insurance plans among new juvenile annual quota. Next in line were Boston, ciw-Drzewiecki, 37, died Wednesday, $51,000, however, death benefits paid applicants were 20-payment life (147 90 percent, and New Haven, 87 percent. January 6, at her home. increased by $41,000 and endowments certificates), 20-year endowment (96 Newark, Montreal, Chicago and Woon- Born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, she paid out by $49,000. certificates) and endowment at age 18 socket met between 80 and 75 percent of moved to the Griggstown section of Only one $50,000 bond is in default as (93 certificates). The leading plans for their respective quotas. FrankUn in 1988. Prior to that she lived to interest, the treasurer continued. adults were 20-payment life (219 certifi­ The highest number of members — in Providence, R.I., Fribourg(Fribourg That bond, Columbia Gas Systems, cates), whole life (121) and 20-year 157 — was enrolled by the Philadelphia University) Switzerland, and Piscata- matures during 1993 and is expected to endowment (75). District. Chicago, with 120, was in way and Plainsboro, N:J. pay full principal. As further reas­ An impressive number of new mem­ second place, while New York, with 90, Mrs. Krawciw-Drzewiecki was a surance of this, the bond's market value bers were enrolled from the ranks of took third. research consultant with Intertek Re­ at the year's end was $46,500. new immigrants from Ukraine by In reference to the 100th anniversary search for St. Peter's Medical Center in All of UNA'S mortgage loans are Myron Pilipiak and Michael Kihiczak of Svoboda, which is being marked this New Brunswick in the neo-natology paying; no loans are in default or in the in Seattle, Wash., and by Jaroslaw year, Mrs. Diachuk said the UNA department for four years. process of foreclosure. The UNA ex­ Bylen in Chicago. The UNA is assisting Almanac for 1993 is dedicated to that She was a communicant of St. Mi­ pects to aggressively promote mortgage them in their campaign by offering a free centennial and that Olha Kuzmowycz chael's Ukrainian Catholic Church in loans shortly, Mr. Blahitka stated. three-month subscription to Svoboda of the Svoboda editorial staff has Manville. The UNA continues to prepare for and The Ukrainian Weekly, and a free agreed to prepare a brochure about She received a bachelor's degree in the new insurance and annuity products one-year subscription to the children's Svoboda to mark this historic occasion. biological science from Providence with training for staffers on how to use magazine Veselka to prospective mem­ As well, she noted, there have been College in Rhode Island. She received the new software and hardware neces­ bers. discussions about an anniversary recep- her master's degree in science and a sary to administer the products. The UNA is encouraging the enroll­ (Continued on page 15) (Continued on page 18) No. 8 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 1993

by Llffida Modges Special to The Ukrainian Weekly

DES MOINES, Iowa — A close bond that developed two years ago between one of the finest choirs in the world, the Shchedryk Children's Choir of Kyyiv, and the people of Des Moines was strengthened recently when the children returned for a series of con­ certs. Ranging in age from 8 to 18, the group gave three concerts in Des Moines, their home base for this, their third North American visit. They per­ formed also in 15 other cities, many of them small mid western towns. Dressed in bright red jackets and crisp white Pilgrim-style collars accent­ ed with navy bows, the group of 31 girls and two boys surprised and delighted their audiences with the beauty of their voices, their professionalism, and their extraordinary diverse repertoire. The choir was founded by Irene Sablina who was born in the small town of Baley near Chita in East Siberia. She graduated from the Glinka Conserva­ tory in Gorky in 1960 and later worked as a music teacher and a director of children's and adult choirs at the Kyyiv Pedagogical Institute, the Kyyiv Insti­ tute of Foreign Languages and the Tchaikovsky State Conservatory in Kyyiv. Ms. Sablina formed the Shchedryk Children's Choir in І971, naming it after My kola Leontovych's arrange­ ment of a folk melody that later was Americanized as the "Carol of the Bells." Ms. Sablina continues as the group's music director and conductor and it's her musical skill, vision and relation­ ship with the children who are respon­ sible for the group's world-class reputa­ tion. The repertoire includes some 150 pieces, including sacred music by Bach and Schubert, American show tunes, as well as Ukrainian and other East European folk songs. The children seem equally at home with all of their ar­ rangements, from the pure tones of the sacred music to the haunting Hutsul imager) of Zubytsky's "My Mountains, the Carpathians," to the finger-snap­ ping, toe-tapping rhythms of the Negro spiritual, "Dry Bones" or the title song from "Мате." A typical two hour The Shchedryk Children's Choir at St. Andrew's Cathedral in Kyyiv. performance includes songs sung from memory in as many as 10 different dryk Choir began in 1991 when mem­ consortium to finance the trip. The languages. bers of her church were asked to host churches, small colleges, and arts The choir is open to any child who the children in their homes during their organizations that put up the necessary Leontovych performance wants to participate. Currently, about visit to Des Moines to participate in an $50,000 were not interested in profit, 300 children are involved. They are international children's choir competi­ emphasized Ms. Stewart, but were favorably reviewed divided into three divisions, the begin­ motivated by artistic and humanitarian tion. NEW YORK — The Leontovych ners', the junior, and the concert divi­ impulses. They wanted to hear the The previous year, the group had won String Quartet's performance at The sion. Of the 60 children in the concert children sing and also wanted to bring the Grand Prix award in Vancouver in a Frick Collection on Snndav. Feb­ division, those selected for the tour were them over during the most difficult part competition against 38 adult, chamber ruary 7, 'n a '-^rograrp of '^ ^^^"ks by the healthiest and those who best and youth choruses. In Des Moines, of winter. Shostakovich Tcn^i^ ^ -'-^<у and knew all the lyrics. they also took the grand prize. "The After expenses are met, proceeds will Haydn, was reviewp/. "^ ^ ably in connection we formed was so strong," The pleasure of Hstening is enhanced go toward the children's futures. Intro­ The New Yor'< Time^ ^ "'assicai said Ms. Stewart, "They touched our by those lucky enough to sit close ducing the choir at a Des Moines Music in Fe ^^ew" secti^- 'ebruar/ souls deeply — the music was so won­ performance, Ms. Stewart pointed out enough to observe the symbiotic 9) by Allan A^zmn. derful. This is absolutely a world class that just last month inflation rose by 60 relationship between the director and Comnir^nTino on the r anon of choir, one of a handful of extremely fine percent in Ukraine, that 2 pounds of choir. The children focus intently on the worlt fe ivi r. Kozmn noied that the choirs in the world. They may be the meat now costs 7,000 karbovantsi while Ms. Sablina, whose vigorous hand and Quartet '^ПЄІ ^^CJ niav : i the higr- finest children's choir there is." the average worker earns only 4,000 arm movement and mouthing of the gloss styie ззориіаг н^чхлтг уоипц karbovantsi per month. words draws the group together in a Plymouth Church members who American jLia^ers. г'? "^ imcom- perfect union of harmonious tones. The hosted the children were touched not After the Shchedryk Choir won the monly invoivmg reaoings of the intensity of the experience is felt by the only by their sublime music but by the competition in Des Moines two years Shostakovich Eight Quartet (Op. entire audience and simply can't be severity of their lives. Coming halfway ago, it went on to perform in cities with 110) and 'lie Tchaikovsky Seconc compared to Hstening to an American around the world to perform, many had Ukrainian communities, such as Chi­ Quartet (Up. 22)...reminded a listen­ cago, Detroit, Cleveland and Philadel­ children's choir. no money and barely a change of er that although highly polished clothing. Despite a language barrier, the phia. This tour, for the most part, took "Music is a way of life for them," said surfaces may charm, the alchemy hosts became deeply attached to the the group to small towns and among Carol Stewart, music and fine arts that makes music thrive takes piac^ children; many extended their contact non-Ukrainians. Host families in Des director at the Plymouth Congrega­ at deeper levels." by sending packages to them. The Moines communicated by using Rus­ tional Church in Des Moines. "It bolH^i The Quartet's musicians, whc :• : church wanted the choir to return, but sian-English phrase books because of them together, it's spiritual food when been playing since 1971, are Yuri when Ukraine became independent, the lack of Ukrainian phrasebooks and they don't have real bread." Mazurkevich and Yuri Kharenko, funding for the tours dried up. Ukrainian interpreters. Ms. Stewart deserves the major credit violinists; Borys Deviatov, violist, for brining the group over for its 1993 Drawing upon her contacts in the and Volpdymyr Panteleyev, cellist. tour. Her relationship with the;Shdie- music world, Ms, Stewart established a (Contimied on.page 18) THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 1993 No. 8

IN THE PRESS UrrainianWeey V Ukraine needs assurances Time's shoddy journalism from Russia and tiie U.S. "Unspeakable" is the headline for a powerful article on rape as an The article below, by Dr. Oleh Bilo- from disarmament. In any democratic instrument of war that appears in the February 22 issue of Time magazine. rus, Ukraine's ambassador to the body, wide-ranging debate can be Using current events in Bosnia-Herzegovina as his starting point, Senior United States, was published in the heard, but to ascribe the views of a Writer Lance Morrow reflects on the use of rape by various military forces, February 11 issue of The New York parliamentary minority to the entire e.g. the Soviet Red Army, the Japanese army and Pakistani troops, as a Times. (The spelling of Ukraine's nation is fallacious. "policy to scorch the enemy's emotional earth." Illustrating the article are capital was changed to Kyyiv to reflect Ukraine had no say when the weap­ three photos — two of them from the war in Bosnia. The third photograph (its The Weekly's style.) ons were placed on its soil, yet as a legal source is listed as Ghetto Fighters House, Israel) shows an obviously terrified successor to the Soviet Union, Ukraine nude girl and is captioned as follows: "Traditions of atrocity: A Jewish girl If George Orwell were alive, he would owns that arsenal. It wants to rid itself raped by Ukrainians in Lvov, Poland, in 1945." That and nothing more. have a field day with news reports of this burden at a crucial moment in its Naturally, the reader is prompted to look for more information on this alleging that Ukraine is stonewalling fledgling statehood. unspeakable horror within the accompanying text. But there is none. nuclear disarmament. What Newspeak! Kyyiv seeks a substitute: security Nowhere in the article is there any mention of Ukrainian soldiers committing Ukraine willingly transferred 2,000 assurances from the nuclear powers, any atrocities. The photo and its cryptic caption stand alone. tactical nuclear weapons to Russia for primarily Russia and the U.S. We want Therefore, one takes another look at the information in the caption. What dismantling last spring. Oddly, its next a guarantee that the powers will never does it tell us? What does it imply? That there is a tradition of atrocities and final step toward nuclear freedom use nuclear weapons against Ukraine, perpetrated by Ukrainians against Jews? That Ukrainians regularly went — a farewell to 176 strategic weapons — never resort to conventional force or the around raping Jewish women? has been shrouded in suspicion. threat of force, will abstain from econo­ Furthermore, what the caption does tell us is either inaccurate or A few examples of fiction masquer­ mic pressure in a controversy and incomplete. To begin with the inaccurate: "Lvov, Poland, in 1945." As Prof. ading as truth: Ukraine wants to keep its respect our territorial integrity and the Danylo Husar Struk, editor-in-chief of the Encyclopedia of Ukraine points nuclear weapons. Moscow is worried by inviolability of borders. So far, the out in his letter to Time, "What we have in the caption is a Russian name for Kyyiv's insistence on security guarantees guarantees Moscow offers have not met the city, which is placed in Poland, where Ukrainians commit the atrocities! In from the nuclear powers. Ukraine uses our minimal demands. 1945 the city was part of Soviet Ukraine, not Poland; it is called Lviv in nuclear weapons as a bargaining chip to If security guarantees based on those Ukrainian, Lvov in Russian, and Lwow in Polish. So perhaps it really was not get more money from the U.S. The facts principles worry some nuclear power, 1945, nbr Poland, nor Lvov, nor a Jewish girl, nor Ukrainians? How does one are otherwise. A victim of Chornobyl, that will worry Ukrainian legislators, know which of the five facts in the caption are really true?" the world's worst nuclear mishap, who, in the session that starts Tuesday, Quite simply. Time is wrong. By 1945 — after the Red Army had occupied Ukraine said when it proclaimed in­ will have to vote on the START I and western Ukraine in the summer of 1944 — Lviv was part of Soviet Ukraine. dependence in 1990 that it would give non-proliferation treaties. Their deci­ Furthermore, it is well documented that these Soviet troops terrorized all up nuclear weapons; that pledge has sion will pivot on a key question: Who segments of the region's population. been repeatedly affirmed in Parliament. will pay for disarming the third largest After several frustrating phone calls to Time magazine in hopes of learning President Leonid M. Kravchuk con­ nuclear arsenal at a time of economic more about this photo. The Weekly was told by the photo editor who had firmed this commitment when he pro­ crisis in Ukraine and transition toward researched the caption that all she knew was the following: the picture is of a posed that Parliament ratify the first a market economy? This involves dis­ Jewish victim raped by Ukrainians (a mob, she explained, when asked to Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty and mantling nearly 2,000 strategic war­ specify) in Lvov, Poland (she insisted it was in Poland) towards the end of the sign the Nuclear Non-Proliferation heads and destroying missiles and silos. war. But wait, where did the date, 1945, come from? The photo editor said she Treaty (as Belarus did on February 4); We need investment that provides did not know — that was the work of another person, a writer who the legislature is studying both treaties. protection against environmental ha­ contributed to the story. zards during disarmament and that True, there are voices in the legisla­ makes possible retraining and jobs for As it appears then. Time had no more information about the photo. So why ture who suggest it would be wise to the large number of Ukrainians who then did it publish such a photo with such an inflammatory and incomplete retain part of the arsenal. Others believe have maintained the arsenal. caption? Could it be, as Prof. Struk surmises, that "someone at Time is not ratification should not take place until too keen on Jewish-Ukrainian rapprochement"? "How else can you explain Although Washington promised the Parliament addresses the web of $175 million to begin the dismantling, the apparently Ukrainophobic attitude of the person who selected a picture, national security, technical, ecological tangentially at best relevant to the text, but full of reprehensible innuendo and and social problems that would flow (Continued on page 13) inaccuracies?" he writes. Editor Marco Levytsky of Ukrainian News (Edmonton) wrote to Time: "This picture had no relation to the story, as there was absolutely no mention of Ukrainians in it. ... Bearing in mind the journalistic irrelevance of that A Russian-Ukrainian nuclear war? caption, its gross inaccuracies and its blatant slander of an entire nation, the by Dr. Roman Solchanyk Tourists beware! motivation for its publication can only be the desire to spread hatred against Actually, this is not the first time an identifiable national group and to sow discord among communities." The Moscow newspaper Den, the question of a Russian-Ukrainian As published, the photo caption is both a disservice to Time readers, who whose masthead identifies it as the nuclear conflagration has been dis­ have a right to expect journalistic integrity, and a defamation of Ukrainians, organ of Russia's "spiritual opposi­ cussed in the Moscow press. Back in who have a right to fair treatment by the media. It is also a violation of simple tion" (read self-styled Russian "pa­ October 1991, the liberal Moskov- journalistic principles and practices. For example, the Associated Press triots" and disgruntled Commu­ skie Novosti reported that, according Stylebook lists the following among questions to be asked when writing a nists), can be and has been accused of to an absolutely trustworthy source, caption: Is it complete? Does it identify fully and clearly? Does it tell what's in a variety of unpleasant things by precisely that issue had been raised the picture? Is it specific? The Time caption, quite clearly, fails this test. Russian liberals and democrats. But only a week before "in the corridors So, what would have been the ethical thing for Time to do in this case? no one can accuse its editor, the of the Russian government." Considering the lack of specific information about the photo and the writer Aleksandr Prokhanov, of The then top defense official in inflammatory and libelous nature of the caption. Time editors should have pulling any punches or lacking a Moscow, Gen. Konstantin Kobets, rejected it. The dramatic impact of the photo is far outweighed by the damage sense for the sensational and out­ immediately denied the report, say­ inflicted on Ukrainians, on Ukrainian-Jewish relations, and on Time's rageous. ing it was nonsense. Leonid Krav­ reputation. Publishing the photo thus captioned should have been In a recent issue, the newspaper chuk, soon to be elected Ukraine's unthinkable. reports on a regular session of what is president, said the same. Boris Yel­ described as Russia's shadow Cabi­ tsin also dismissed the report, but was Readers are urged to convey their opinions by writing to: Time Magazine net of Ministers following the last quoted by Izvestia as saying: "I Letters, Time & Life Building, Rockefeller Center, New York, NY 10020; or Congress of Russian People's De­ discussed this issue with the military by faxing the magazine at (212) 522-0601. puties. The opposition Minister of people. Technically, it is absolutely Foreign Affairs (unnamed), who impossible." refers to his genuine counterpart, Readers in Ukraine were probably Andrei Kozyrev, as a "traitor" (stan­ not very relieved by such an explana­ dard language in these circles), has tion. All the more so as the former this to say about a neighboring Ukrainian First Deputy Prime Turning the pages back- country, which, I suspect, is being Minister, Konstantyn Masyk, con­ visited by an increasing number of firmed that was precisely the res­ readers of The Ukrainian Weekly: ponse he had received from Mr. Viacheslav Levandovsky was a pioneering animator. He "The situation with Ukraine is Yeltsin when queried about the was born in Kyyiv on February 23, 1897. He studied at the growing ever more dangerous, and matter. Kyyiv Theater Academy (1918) and the Ukrainian State we as professionals should study the Mr. Masyk also asked then Soviet Academy of Arts (1920-1922), where he was strongly influenced by Hryhoriy possible scenarios of an unexpected President Mikhail Gorbachev about Narbut, the graphic artist who designed the first Ukrainian currency. Levandovsky nuclear war with Kyyiv, which, it and was told: "You know Kost, also designed sets for a number of theaters and worked as a commercial artist in should it break out, will be conducted don't read newspapers so much and Kyyiv. without the canons and rules pro­ you'll feel better." There's nothing duced by geopolitical thinking during like getting good advice from ex- In 1925, he was hired by the film studios of the All-Ukrainian Photo-Cinema the period of [nuclear] parity." presidents. ' (Continued on page 15) No. і THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 1993

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

example, the "Troisti Muzyky" and the communication medium of the readers. ethnic studies along with related bud­ Philadelphians "Vyshyvanka" were printed in Hungary, getary data and a published concern while the Austrian stamp was printed in Bohdan Wynnyckyj about favoritism/ discrimination might can provide help Austria. Mississauga, Ontario have a specialist puUing his hair. Ten In addition to the commemorative such requests accompanied by press Dear Editor: stamps, Ukraine issued a set of eight I was quite moved by Roman Woro- coverage would lead him/her to dance definitives — the so-called "Narbut" Ukrainians should the hopak. nowycz's December 20, 1992, article stamps, which are in very wide cir­ questioning whether we can do more to culation in Ukraine today. take on academics help our less fortunate elderly. Paul Fenchak There was a severe shortage of stamps Dear Editor: Lutherville, Md. Since I live in Philadelphia, I was in Ukraine in 1992 due to such factors especially struck by the excellent work Eugene Iwanciw in The Weekly of as poor distribution system, small January 31 advocates that more thought of Vera Lashchyk-Smulka who is em­ printings, but mostly the runaway ployed by the Philadelphia Corporation be given to how to more effectively We need an inflation. By the time a stamp ap­ utilize existing resources, realizing that for Aging. I applaud her call for emer­ peared, its denomination was usually gency help from the Ukrainian commu­ a press bureau per se in Washington action network way too small to pay for the postage. would cost "at least $250,000 a year." nity to take better care of our less Thus people tended to use literally Dear Editor: fortunate elderly. Each of us, whether This appears to be sound diagnosis. My wholehearted support goes to dozens of stamps on a single cover — I What is unclear is his statement that we are in our 20s, 30s or 40s, will one have received covers from Ukraine with Eugene W. Iwanciw (letters to the day be vulnerable to the ravages of old "monitoring and taking on" universities editor (January 31). The Ukrainian over 30 stamps attached! In addition, and colleges would have little effect. age including loneliness and isolation. the Ukrainian stamps are extremely community does not need to support We, as members of the Ukrainian The contention that the academic world another new institution. We need to popular among collectors, so a sizable reacts not to the press or a bureau but to community, must step forward in each portion of each issue simply disap­ evaluate which of our institutions are of our communities across this country others in the academic world suggests essential for our (U.S. diaspora) sur­ pears unused among the collectors (and an inadequate understanding of who to take a couple of hours each month to the inevitable speculators). vival and focus our support on them. reach out to our Ukrainian brothers and the real movers and shakers are in That will be the most effective help to sisters. It is so common in our lives to To alleviate the shortage of stamps, academic operations, there often being Ukraine now and in the years to come. attend a funeral and weep for those who the Ukrainian Post Office during 1992 a buddy system of "educrats" that led Let's save ourselves! Ukraine will need have passed. Why not celebrate those authorized various local emissions: the late Prof. Wallace Sayre of Colum­ us. overprints on covers, provisional labels, bia University to state, "Academic elderly Ukrainians who are still with us Mr. Iwanciw is absolutely right that by visiting them, calling them once a overprints (with tridents) on old Soviet politics is the most vicious form of stamps, etc. Literally hundreds of such politics because the stakes are so low." individual reactions (both, negative and month, taking them a hot meal, reading positive) to the media legislators, to them? emissions exist, making it very con­ Many academics, because they are so fusing for the layman, but simply a conscious of their status positions, pubhshers, etc., is the most effective In response to Mr. Woronowycz's way to stir pubUc opinion, which is the article, I wrote to Ms. Lashchyk- paradise for collectors. advancement of careers, and evalua­ The Canadian Bank Note Co., which tions of their institutions, act quickly moving force in a democracy such as Smulka offering to help in any way I ours. It doesn't cost us anything as a could. She told me that I was one of two printed some of the Ukrainian,stamps, and directly to a non-commending is having problems, as stated in Mr. press. That they fear a vocal group using community, plus a genuine citizen's persons in the Philadelphia area who opinion gets into the media or to the contacted her in response to this article. Guly's article — but mostly problems the press can be discerned by examining which they brought upon themselves. the content of minority/ethnic/cul­ U.S. Congress from all over the coun­ I know my community has many good try. The Ukrainian Weekly's feature hearted Ukrainian souls who have a Their prices are ridiculously high^ their tural studies courses as described in the service is slow (over two months for catalogue of most American colleges. Is "Action Item" is a very good mecha­ couple of hours to spare each month. nism for that purpose. I invite all of you who live in the delivery), and they refuse to answer any there a correlation between the scant Philadelphia area to write or call her. questions posed by collectors. In coverage accorded Soviet Americans in However, it could be useful to or­ Her address and phone are: Philadel­ addition, they failed to advertise in the college/secondary school courses and ganize workshops in different Ukrai­ phia Corporation for Aging, 642 N. philatelic press. As a result of this, there the passivity exhibited by Slavs in nian communities to help volunteers Broad St., Philadelphia, PA 19130; exists a lively market in stamps smug­ demanding their inclusion in multi­ learn the most effective techniques. In (215) 765-9000, ext. 445. gled from Ukraine and sold by dozens cultural studies? Cleveland, for instance, the Ukrainian of various stamp dealers and specu­ I well remember the politics of mone­ National Women's League of America Nicholas £. Orlyk lators — both Ukrainian and interna­ tary distribution practiced for the several years ago organized an "Action ^ Philadelphia tional. Schweiker Ethnic Heritage Studies Network" — a group of about 10 Program,which had been initiated and women who watch over the media and More info about Lubomyr S. Onyshkevych pushed through Congress by sincere, immediately grab the phone and start a Lawrenceville, N.J. hard-working ethnic groups, most of chain-reaction if there is a reason to Ukraine's stamps whom were East European, seeking to react. This activity, though, should be have studies of their cultures upgraded. more massive and spontaneous. Never Dear Editor: Someone must As a reader/judge of proposals for mind the few "old ladies from Soyuz funds, I rejected quests where no short­ Ukrainok," how about college students, I read with interest the article on be watchdog age of materials existed. Who very often older high-schoolers, Plast and SUM-A Ukrainian stamps and banknotes by received funds? Groups that already youths and their counselors? Wouldn't Christopher Guly (January 24). Very Dear Editor: had tons of materials as they were that be a perfect project of good deeds little information on this interesting Enclosed you will find my letter to staffed with grant writers, publicists, for Ukraine? After all, the old ladies are subject appears in the Ukrainian press, Ms. Margaret E. Wagner at the Library and political and professional full-time not going to live forever. thus I was very happy to find this article of Congress as per your request in the employees. In some cases the grant- Seriously, we need to involve our in your pages. January 31 editorial of The Weekly. I grabbers did not bother to change younger generation in this. This is Regretfully, the article is confusing, strongly support your efforts to expose terminologies on applications that something they can easily do and it incomplete and actually misleading on members of the American media and obviously were earlier or simultaneous­ doesn't cost anything other than a little many facts and may only further other institutions who, directly or ly submitted for other grants. The time, a little thought (perhaps a little confuse your readers. As an example: indirectly, defame Ukraine's history process for selecting recipients was "dig" in Ukraine's history or current the article states that Larissa Koren was and/or world image. You should conti­ somewhat along the lines suggested for events) and a 29-cent stamp. Practically the designer of the first nine com­ nue to publish the names and addresses determining the gender of the rabbit all our young people are heading for memorative stamps. This is wrong: Ms. of such perpetrators. Johnny brought to his third-grade class higher education — why not utilize this Koren designed only some of these I have always maintained that Ukrai­ on show-and-tell day. Not knowing tremendous existing resource? stamps. The beautiful Kozak and nians lacked an effective "watchdog" whether the rabbit was male or female, Some things are very simple and Canada-settlement commemoratives type service (i.e. one capable of trigger­ one of Johnny's classmates suggested, cost-effective, we need only to conquer were designed by A. Ivakhnenko, the ing an immediate, large-scale commu­ "Let's take a vote on it!" our indifference. Any self-respecting same artist who also designed the "First nity response to any threat, inaccuracy The bottom line is purse strings. Ukrainian would have no choice but to Anniversary of Ukrainian Sovereignty" or slander). Others, like the Jewish Ukrainians need to employ the press to react, for example, to an author, who stamp (still a Soviet stamp, issued in community, have for years utilized such the hilt (probably done best along with would describe, in 1992 at that, the area 1991). resources, and I suspect most Ukrainian others as not be judged self-serving by north of Black Sea as "southern Rus­ There were many more com­ Americans are just as capable of re­ "educrats" who are experts at stalling sia." By the way, librarians have plenty memorative stamps issued in 1992 sponding with vigor if called upon to do and sidetracking). After examining of opportunity to correct misinforma­ than the nine mentioned in Mr. Guly's so. budgets — the real pressure points — tion, such as mentioned in the January article. The following additional com­ However, until an appropriate Ukrai­ questions need to be asked (and re­ 31 Ukrainian Weekly editorial. Some memorative stamps appeared: the First nian organization is formed, the "watch­ sponses publicized): Who has been have been doing it for over 25 years, but Ukrainian Congress of Jurists, letter- dog" function will continue to be the keeping the scorecard for equal distri­ such persons are too few and too far writing week, the "Troisti Muzyky" responsibility of the community press. bution of materials, time allocations, between. Imagine all of us, in different miniature sheet, the ''Vyshyvanka" Ideally, information should be coordi­ personnel, and finances for cultural professions, especially those in the stamp, the Austrian-Ukrainian friend­ nated through various papers and studies? How scientifically qualified are humanities, doing this? We would be ship stamp, the Olympic-medals mi­ periodicals, Ukrainian as well as the scorekeepers? Have educators worthy indeed of proudly calling our­ niature sheet, and the Kyyevo- English. The former would undoubtedly worked consistently with community selves Ukrainians. Mohylianska Academy stamp. These require specific recommended wording organizations? stamps were printed not just in Canada, or a form of some kind, since the Two requests for a college's or Nadia Deychakiwsky but also in various countries: for English language is often not a fluent secondary school's curriculum guide for Brecksville, Ohio 8 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 1993 No. 8

REACTION TO FUROR IN TORONTO Kyyivan Church as a smokescreen for repeat it is Aot), applying that standard the intolerant Roman archbishop of Catholic Church needs their objections to the recognition of the would require appointing apostolic Minneapolis, and the uproar gave birth patriarchate. Father Danylak opposes administrators for the Vatican itself — to the "Russian Orthodox Greek- leaders, not followers its recognition because Rome opposes hardly known of late for its financial Catholic Church of America" — split­ its recognition. And, again, he is a integrity! ting our Church in half. Dear Editor: Bishop Isidore was baptized by Thank you for your coverage of the follower and not a leader. Another accusation is that Bishop Leaders like Patriarch Slipyj and Isidore has seen to the ordination of Father Voliansky. He knows what he is crisis in the Eparchy of Toronto doing. (January 31 and February 7 issues). Metropolitan Sterniuk were willing to (married) candidates whose training is point out that Rome's objections were deficient. Again this is hardly the kind Incidentally, those wishing to voice Allow me to express an informed their concern regarding this issue can reaction. political, based on the Vatican's need to of matter deserving the appointment of appease the "Russian bear." Patriarch an apostoHc administrator, especially as write to: The Most Rev. Carlo Curis, The Rev. Roman Danylak's state­ no one from this very small handful of Apostolic Pro Nuncio, 724 Manor ment that he has never questioned that Slipyj's and Metropolitan Sterniuk's attitude, however, was based on the candidates has caused scandal or been Ave., Rockcliffe Park, Ottawa, Onta­ "married clergy must be held in honor delinquent in his pastoral duties. Also, rio, KIM 0E3. by all in the Catholic Church" is sheer belief that even the gates of hell (not to mention Moscow) would not prevail celibate candidates are sometimes disingenuousness on his part. Time ordained in other eparchies without a P. Shashkevych again Father Danylak has told married against the Church, and that the Gol­ gotha of millions of Ukrainian Catholics complete formation, and few complain Toronto priests ordained by Patriarch Josyf then. But again, if the quality of dio­ Slipyj and Metropolitan Volodymyr should be validated by the Roman See, for which they suffered. Incidentally, cesan clergy is to be used as a criterion, Sterniuk (two men who suffered for the then scores of Roman Catholic bishops Danylak appointment not Catholic faith) that they (the priests) are the collusion between the Vatican and Moscow in this area has now become should be deprived of their jurisdiction, "uncanonical," and/or "have stained considering that more than 400 priest- the wish of the people hands," and/or "lack the full grace of quite evident as a result of open and free discussions with prominent churchmen paedophilia cases have been brought to Dear Editor: the priesthood." I could provide the trial in North America alone! names of married priests who were from the former USSR. Thank you for your excellent cover­ "honored" by Father Danylak with There are other reasons so many No, these are not the reasons Rome age of the crisis now facing the Eparchy such remarks, but it is unbecoming of people in the Eparchy of Toronto has attempted to remove Bishop Isidore of Toronto of the Ukrainian Catholic your publication to print such informa­ oppose the appointment of Father from his see. The reasons are instead the Church. The interview with the Rev. tion. Incidentally, the above-mentioned Danylak. However, because it is always same for which Father Danylak was Roman Danylak was most enlighten­ remarks are only samples of other better to be for something than against, appointed to Toronto: married clergy ing. We see a humble obedient pastor similar comments. allow me to pass instead to the question and the patriarchal rights of the Ukrai­ who is already discussing building nian Catholic Church. himself "a larger cathedral," and who Secondly, to even dare suggest that of Bishop Isidore Borecky's refusal to relinquish his jurisdiction. For more than 20 years now, Roman believes his ordination as a bishop Patriarch Josyf and Metropolitan "should" be conducted "in the Basilica Sterniuk "abused the law" as Father As Father Danylak himself admits in Catholic authorities have deplored the the interview, canon law only requests fact that Bishop Isidore almost single- of St. Peter" in Rome in order to Danylak says, is the height of effron­ accommodate "all the people who want tery! What these two heroes of the 20th- bishops to submit their resignation at handedly restored optional celibacy to age 75. It does not demand such a an Eastern Catholic eparchy in "Roman to participate." The following is my century Catholic Church did was to put reaction, as a concerned lay person into practice paragraphs 6 and 12 of resignation. As in the case of most legal Catholic territory." In fact, four years texts, the words were chosen very ago Bishop Isidore was actually sum­ (although a "follower" of the Rev. Vatican IPs decree on the Eastern Danylak has already told me that as a Catholic Churches ('*Orientalium carefully by those drafting the code of moned to Rome to face an inquisition canon law. regarding this matter. lay person I am "not entitled to have an Ecclesiarum") which state, for example, opinion") to what is happening. that the Eastern Churches are "to strive From its earliest days, the Church Also, certain circles in the Vatican to return to their ancestral traditions." has always taught that a bishop cannot tolerate the fact that Bishop The Ukrainian Catholic community is committed to his see as a husband to Isidore's eparchy stands out as a bastion of the Eparchy of Toronto greeted the The "law" regarding mandatory of pro-patriarchalist sentiment and news of the Vatican's appointment of celibacy in North America, of which his wife. A bishop is wedded to his diocese. It may be beneficial in many activity. When the Ukrainian Catholic Father Danylak to the position of Father Danylak is so enamored, is the Church is threatened either in Poland or Apostolic Administrator with shock "Cum data fuerit" of 1929, which had the cases for an elderly bishop to consider resigning from his see, however, it is Transcarpathia, to name just two ex­ and anger. This kind of appointment is "supremely beneficial" effect of causing amples, it is always the Eparchy of made for "serious and special reasons" tens of thousands of Greek-Catholics to ultimately up to each eparch to decide in conscience what is best for his own Toronto and its institutions that speak according to Canon 234 #1 of Canon convert to Orthodoxy. That "law" is out in defense. Law. "Certain extraordinary cases can contrary to the prescriptions of an diocese. Considering that the Vatican has chosen to impose such an unde­ arise which necessitate the intervention ecumenical council (Vatican II), and Finally, one might ask whether of the Roman Pontiff, who, as pastor of was therefore interpreted by Patriarch sirable successor on the Eparchy of Bishop Isidore and the clergy that Toronto, Bishop Isidore can only be the universal Church, can intervene in Slipyj and Metropolitan Sterniuk in the support him lack the spirit of Catholic any matter he deems necessary (c. 43)." light of the far weightier conciliar text. admired for remaining faithful to his obedience? No, they do not. Catholic threatened "ecclesial spouse." teaching (Vatican I) explicitly states What kind of crisis is going on in the Patriarch Slipyj and Metropolitan Eparchy of Toronto that necessitates Sterniuk were leaders, Father Danylak Note, however, that Bishop Isidore is that the bishop of Rome has been by no means a megalomaniac unwilling entrusted with absolute and immediate the intervention of the Holy Father is a follower. And the tragedy is that he is himself? The truth is that Bishop Isidore following a path that leads to the decline to relinquish power. For several years jurisdiction throughout the world for now, he has petitioned Rome and the the upbuilding of the Church. Note that Borecky i^ attempting to meet the of our Church, All of our eparchies in spiritual needs of his people and that he North America are suffering because of Synod of the Ukrainian Catholic last phrase. Pope Pius IX and the Church for an auxiliary bishop. This bishops at Vatican I knew that without is, at the same time, true to the tradi­ a clergy shortage. The exception is the tions of our Ukrainian Catholic Church. Eparchy of Toronto which, for decades, way the transition would be smooth. that clause the pope would be legally no has admitted married candidates to the The auxiliary would have to respect the different than an absolute monarch who The Ukrainian Catholic Church was priesthood with the result that it can legitimate traditions of the Eastern could make decisions by whim or cap­ guaranteed its rites and traditions in actually '^export" priests to other Church which Bishop Isidore has work­ rice. Thus, if a local Church (in this case 1596. Followers of the Ukrainian eparchies. ed so hard to re-establish in his eparchy. the Eparchy of Toronto, where CathoUc Catholic rite, especially those in North This brings us to the question of teaching also recognizes the bishop's America (and most recently those in As regards Father Danylak's attitude Poland), are only too aware of the towards the Ukrainian Catholic Pa­ Father Danylak's particular status as an absolute, immediate jurisdiction) deter­ apostolic administrator. Canon law mines that the bishop of Rome's exercise attempts that have been made to destroy triarchate, while he is correct in stating our Church and traditions. The Eastern that many Orthodox are opposed to its explicitly states that only for "serious of his jurisdiction is not for the upbuild- and special reasons" is an apostolic ing of the Church, then that local rite Churches in communion with recognition, he fails to understand that Rome are sometimes used as an example it is Rome's attitude and not theirs administrator appointed to a see. Such Church is in fact obliged to notify Rome reasons could be doctrinal error, moral of this. of the universality of the Catholic faith. which remains the ultimate problem, In fact, we have faced incredible perse­ for it is Rome that has acquiesced to impropriety, scandal or complete ad­ I personally believe that the pope has ministrative mismanagement. In the cution at the hands of the "Romans," pressure from Moscow. Father Dany­ received very questionable advice re­ who are terrified of our practices and lak overstates the case regarding Ukrai­ case of Bishop Isidore, none of these garding the situation in Toronto and holds. traditions, not the least of which is out nian Orthodox pressure on Rome in will no doubt overturn Father Dany­ tradition of ordaining married men. this area, because until last year the Accusations made against him by his lak's appointment to this see once the Vatican was oblivious to the existence It appears that the hierarchy of the detractors refer to debts incurred by the situation has been fully elucidated. Roman Catholic Church is having and concerns of the Ukrainian Ortho­ eparchy. However, none of these is Bishop Isidore and his priests are acting dox. Instead, Moscow was and remains second thoughts about the agreements significant, and the only reason they as they are only because they love the reached with the Byzantine Churches so the main Orthodox voice heeded at the exist to begin with is because the bishop Church. Personal ambition can hardly Vatican. many centuries ago, and is not being refuses to extract funds from his be their motive since they (unlike Father faithful to the basic theological prin­ Incidentally, the Ukrainian Ortho­ parishes by coercion. He is simply too Danylak) will forever be blacklisted ciples of Vatican II which specifically dox Patriarch Mstyslav attended the benign to do so. (Incidentally, the debts from Vatican "promotions." dictate respect for the traditions of transfer of Patriarch Josyf s remains to exist because Bishop Isidore bailed out In the 1880s, the first Ukrainian other rites and [respect] for the ability of Lviv last August, and repeatedly and a parish which could not meet the Catholic priest in North America, the the people themselves to understand emphatically referred to Cardinal Slipyj mortgage payments on its new church, Rev. Ivan Voliansky, consistently ig­ their own needs and to come up with as "patriarch." It was patriarchalists and because he continues to pay the nored the suspensions hurled at him by solutions to their own problems. like Patriarch Slipyj who had the mortgage on the home of a former ignorant Roman Catholic bishops — The appointment of Father Danylak respect of the Orthodox, and not Ukrainian Catholic dissident now living and our Church grew. In the 1890s the Catholic "integralists" like Father in Canada.) However, even if the Rev. Alexander Toth acquiesced to the was not the wish of the people; it was Danylak who use the lack of a united financial situation were grave (and I excommunication imposed on him by (Continued on page 9) No. 8 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 1993

REACTION TO FUROR IN TORONTO catacombs expecting to experience whom is obviously the Rev. Danyiak. Danyiak appointment... freedom and the love of their brethren. It's time to consider His last statement in the interview is Instead they have been consistently all-revealing: "I should actually go to (Continued from page 8) insulted and attacked, not by the an independent Church Rome and be ordained in the Basilica of not the wish of the clergy; and most Communists, but by the very organiza­ St. Peter to do justice to all the people importantly, it was not the wish of the tion to which they remained so true — Dear Editor: who want to participate." This is an Synod of Ukrainian Catholic Bishops the Vatican. I read with great interest The Ukrai­ insult to the memory and an injustice to who (although they are not strictly Vatican II also speaks eloquently of nian Weekly's interview with the Rev. the efforts of the late Patriarch Josyf required to) sent a list of three nomi­ ecumenism. Does the Vatican think that Roman Danyiak, the new Vatican- Slipyj and others who fought for the nees to the Vatican to be considered for the Orthodox, the Anglicans, the appointed apostolic administrator for Ukrainian Catholic Church to maintain the position of auxiliary Bishop of the Lutherans, and all others who have in the Toronto Eparchy. its rights and traditions as laid out in Eparchy of Toronto. good faith attended talks with the I am a first-generation Ukrainian the Union of Brest. Vatican are not watching what is going Canadian who, after reading the inter­ The interview conducted by The Indeed, we must ask ourselves: whose view, found the Rev. Danylak's arro­ Weekly was valuable in that it provided needs are being met by such an appoint­ on within our Church? Are they to believe that the very same Vatican which gance quite disturbing. The Rev. readers the opportunity to judge for ment? Many are afraid to tell the truth Danyiak considers himself a long-time themselves the individual who will lead (that in itself is revealing). We know speaks so eloquently of love and under­ standing and cooperation — and yet supporter of Bishop Isidore Borecky. Ukrainian Catholics into the 21st that Father Danyiak was appointed Yet, when the Vatican intervenes and century. I will have great difficulty because, he is more willing than Bishop which treats those rites within its own ranks with such disrespect and even appoints him apostoHc administrator remaining a member of the Toronto Borecky to "toe the party line," — that for the Toronto Eparchy he feels it is his Eparchy with the Rev. Danyiak as is, to try to Latinize our rite. For malice — will treat them any different­ ly? duty to accept. Why? The Vatican is leader. Maybe it's time to seriously example, it is not a well-kept secret that once again overstepping its bounds. consider an independent Ukrainian Bishop Borecky has taken qualified Members of our Church are not This is not support. This is individual Church. married men to Ukraine to be ordain­ indifferent, they are afraid. A fine political ambition. We are being driven ed. (The stranglehold of the Roman tribute to the love and compassion of towards Roman Catholicism by the Zirka Kudla Catholic Church ensures that no mar­ Christianity! Vatican and its supporters, amongst Toronto ried men may be ordained in North At one point during his interview, the America). In his interview, the Rev. Rev. Danyiak, in an effort to avoid Danyiak coyly attempted to evade the answering a question, says "I haven't issue, and it appears that the rumors COMMENTARY: Dr. Gale's taken off^ice yet." Why then is he issuing that abound about actions Father orders to the priests in the eparchy to Danyiak plans against Ukrainian change the address of the eparchial mysterious assertions Catholic married clergy may not be office, why is he already making ap­ based on groundless fears. by Dr. David R. Marples impression one gleans from his book. pointments to his own eparchial curia, But there are other questions that The Roman Catholic Church is why has he already ordered the priests The return of Dr. Robert Gale to might be raised. Most experts concur facing a severe shortage of priests, and to commemorate him during liturgy Moscow in February was the occasion that of the children most affected by at the same time is facing horrendous with the title "Vladyka"? for a press conference, and subsequent radioactive fallout, those in Russia sex-related scandals among its clergy. news items carried by the AP and UPI What has happened in the Eparchy of constitute only a small minority. Most Many inside and outside the Church on February 4. And while these agencies Toronto is but a sign. We are ignoring of the initial aid for Chornobyl victims feel this is directly related to the insis­ must bear the responsibility for non- too many of the signs — e.g. the from international sources — whatever tence on a celibate clergy and to the quoted statements, there were some treatment of Ukrainian Catholics in its intended destination — also found its Roman Catholic teaching on sexual very curious assertions indeed. One way to Moscow, though much of it Poland; the appointment of 1 bishop to matters. How are they facing their own reads these articles and emerges deeply disappeared, as though into a void. Dr. serve the Ukrainian Catholics in Poland mystified — both by the man and his crisis? By calling in question our tradi­ Gale claims that in the post-Soviet whereas 5 Roman Catholic bishops motives. tion of a married clergy and by attempt­ situation, the governments of Russia, have been appointed in Ukraine; the ing to destroy our tradition! The purpose of Dr. Gale's visit was, Belarus and Ukraine are not working treatment accorded Metropolitan Ster- ostensibly, to raise funds for a lottery to together. But Belarus and Ukraine, the The Roman Catholic Church is niuk; the treatment of Bishop Isidore be administered by the International most seriously contaminated areas, attempting to battle the loss of clergy by Borecky. Surely, the fact that the Rev. Children of Chornobyl Fund. Its goal is have recently signed a treaty agreeing to importing celibate clergy from Ireland Danyiak refused to commemorate His to provide medical equipment and coordinate their efforts. It would seem and Poland to take over parishes in Beatitude Patriarch Josyf Cardinal promote medical research for children that it is the Russian government that Canada and the U.S. Is this what we Slipyj as Patriarch and he continues to in Russia. Some of these children, the has elected to continue alone. have to look forward to? Will we have to refuse to commemorate Patriarch accounts imply, are suffering as a result choose between no clergy and imported of Chornobyl, but there are many other And why is this new campaign to be Myroslav Cardinal Lubachivsky as centered on Russia? According to a Roman Catholic priests from Poland to Patriarch is also a sign. His interview is radiation-producing agencies in Russia, "man" our parishes? We already know especially from nuclear-related sources. recent statement by Prof. Yuri Bukin of full of talk about following the law and the Cancer Research Center of the what is happening to our Ukrainian the fact that he is "a law and order Anyone who has read Murray Fesh- Catholic Church in Poland. Are we bach and Alfred Friendly's book, "Eco­ Russian Academy of Medical Sciences, priest" (in fact, in answering 6 ques­ over 660,000 children in the Republic of ready to simply turn our parishes over tions, he uses the term "rule" 5 times and cide in the USSR," would not be to the Roman Catholic Church? What disposed to disagree. So Russians are Belarus currently live in highly conta­ the world "law" 21 times!). In Matthew: minated regions. (IPS [Moscow], Feb­ are our alternatives? When the same 15, Jesus quotes Isaiah "... They do me being asked to contribute $1 a head to dilemma hit our Church in the 1920's this new U.S.-based lottery, which at ruary 3, 1993). An article carried by empty reverence making dogmas out of Moscow News (No. 5, January 1993) and 1930's in Canada, tens of thousands human precepts." present exchange rates amounts to of our people left our Church and joined about 570 rubles — hardly a small sum makes it plain that even without the the Ukrainian Orthodox and Roman The people are already talking about for the average Russian in the present impact of Chornobyl, the Belarusians Catholic faiths. I, myself, was raised switching to the Orthodox Church. day. have a health crisis on their hands. People are speculating that we should If one looks at Chornobyl clean-up and educated as a Roman Catholic, and Why another fund-raising effort at just start our own Church. Others are workers and evacuees; general morta­ only "returned" to the Church of my this stage? What relationship does the lity statistics; declining birth rates and forefathers four years ago. paralyzed with fear or ennui. We must International Children of Chornobyl economic collapse signifying the inabi­ stand up for our rights! People confuse Fund have with existing humanitarian Who should be our guide? Did Jesus lity of a government to provide its the Pope and God...We are not advo­ and non-government agencies deaUng teach that we must accept injustice if it citizens with an adequate standard of cating disobedience to God — but the with the aftereffects of Chornobyl? For comes from authority? Vatican II living, one would also posit that U- Vatican is not God! surely the name of Dr. Gale is equated teaches us that we must be faithful to kraine should be high on any priority first and foremost with victims of God, not to a hierarchy. It goes on to For years people have shaken their list, though once again the price of 1,700 Chornobyl? Yet, even on this issue there teach that the hierarchy is not God (no heads in sadness when contemplating karbovantsi for a lottery ticket would appears to be some confusion. matter what they may personally think the subtle and not so subtle ways the raise a few hackles in Kyyiv. Again one of themselves)...Jesus went to the Vatican has attempted to destroy our In his book, "Final Warning" (1988), must ask the question: Why, if the people to foment change, not to the traditions and our rite. This is an issue written with Thomas Hauser, Dr. Gale campaign is to raise money for Chor­ hierarchy. Why? Could it be because that does not only affect the Eparchy of notes that 19 Chornobyl patients re­ nobyl victims, is it based in Russia? Toronto, but it affects the very survival quired bone marrow transplants, but power brings with it arrogance? We all The press conference also heard of our Church. Let us stop shaking our six were performed by Soviet doctors know the saying that power corrupts about the other exploits of Dr. Gale, heads and take action! We must insist prior to his arrival. That would leave 13 and absolute power corrupts absolutely. including the information that he was that the Vatican show respect for our patients, all of whom, to my knowledge, When arrogance comes — love, respect, "sent" by the U.S. government to Church and honor their agreements subsequently died, leading the head of compassion, and understanding leave. Armenia to coordinate medical relief with us — and honor the teachings of the Soviet team of doctors to declare for the victims of the earthquake of I feel great personal sadness at this Vatican II. that such transplants were ineffective. December 1988. Another oddity. Why latest maneuvre to strip even more of Yet the new press reports declare that would the U.S. administration send a the traditions from our Ukrainian Dr. Gale treated 29 patients in Moscow. Gaylene Levesque bone marrow/leukemia specialist to aid Catholic rite. For forty years our The Associated Press account states St. Catharines, Ontario earthquake victims? And who precisely brothers and sisters in Ukraine suffered that Dr. Gale helped Soviet doctors care sent Dr. Gale on this mission? The unspeakable hardships including tor­ for 499 patients in Moscow. Is one to The writer of this letter is the assistant president? The U.S. Department of ture and martyrdom to remain faithful believe that all these patients were to the executive director of the St. State? One recalls that his trip to Chor- to the Holy Father and to the Catholic Sophia Religious Association of Ukrai­ actually treated by Dr. Gale? If so, one Church. They came forth from the nian Catholics in Canada. can only state that this is not the (Continued on page 16) 10 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 1993 No. 8

NEW ON VIDEOTAPE Prolog Video releases new feature films JERSEY CITY, N.J. — Prolog Video recently released three new video offer­ ings. The videos cover historial themes; two depict the Opryshky uprisings in 17th century Hutsulshchyna, the other tells the story of an undercover agent working for the Ukrainian-Insurgent Army (UPA) during the second world war. All three are Ukrainian-language, full-length features. ''Oleksa Dovbush," produced by the renowned Dovzhenko film studios, is a historical epic adventure about Oleksa Dovbush, who led an uprising of Hut- suls against the Polish nobility. A. Kochetkov plays the powerful lead role, a Robin Hood-like figure, who, with his group of "thieves," vows to steal from the corrupt rich and give to the poor peasants. His presence fills the Prolog Video's three recent releases: (from left) ''Oleksa Dovbush," "Crimson Nights" and "Vyshnevi Nochi." screen whenever he appears, reminis­ cent of a Ukrainian Yul Brynner. ponsible for Director Ihor Blazhkov's of the Carpathian morning so beauti­ for the UPA, whose cover name is The evil nobleman who earns Dov- "Soul of Stone." Blazhkov's Opryshok fully photographed by cinematogra- "Kalyna." Working as a nurse in a bush's wrath is Yablonsky, an angular leader, Dmytro Marusiak, another pher Leonid Pererva, when Marusiak, hospital, she succeeds in undermining hook-nosed sadist played angrily by M. legendary Hutsul figure, is much more in the spirit of comradeship, gives his NKVD plans by intercepting enemy Petrovskiy. arrogant than Dovbush and very self- approval for his lieutenant to have his messages there and relaying them to the Director L. Nyzertskiy and cine- absorbed. way with Marusia, whose pleas to UPA. But her days are numbered, once matographer L. Dmyterko use the He and his men brazenly rob from the protest are ignored. Before anything the NKVD discovers a microfilm mes­ gorgeous scenery of the Carpathian nobility while swigging whiskey in further happens an older, wiser Opry- sage on the body of an insurgent, Mountains to tell the story of Dov- considerable amounts. They revel in shok steps forward and condemns instructing him to "maintain contact bush's unyielding zeal to make the their success and speak viciously of the Marusiak's actions. "The nobility tor­ with Kalyna." landowners who strip from the peasants tures the Hutsuls, and you guys also corrupt nobility feel the pain they The dark cinematography and terse impart on the peasants, the cost of the bounty they bring forth from the do!" he screams at the surprised leader. soil. dialogue enhance the tension of the plot which is the love affair between him and Cinematographer Pererva uses the line in "Crimson Nights." Tight camera the beautiful Marichka. Dmytro, played by Anatoliy Khosti- darkness of the night, a misty morning shots reveal the taut expressions of the The Opryshky all have sworn loyahy koyev, seduces Marusia, the beautiful and the brilliant blue sky to represent, in freedom fighters, who are never certain and faith singularly to their brother­ young bride of a village priest, who then turn, Dmytro's brooding darkness, the whether they are meeting friend or foe. hood, leaving Marichka without her leaves her comfortable life and becomes lovers' new hope and Marusia's reveal­ beloved "Leso." But when Yablonsky's Dmytro's lover. He has her disrobe ing insight into Dmytro's true character. This thriller also stars Volodymyr wife convinces her brother to abduct the before his men as a symbol of the Finally, Prolog Video now has Shevelkov as the NKVD lietutenant in young maiden in an effort to flush out community and openness that is the "Vyshnevi Nochi" produced in 1991 by love with Kalyna, who finds himself Dovbush, the Opryshky move in. bond of the brotherhood. Although Ros Film Studio in Kyyiv. Set during torn between his commitment to the The Hutsul culture is stunningly growing more impatient with Maru- World War II in Ternopil, this tragic Soviet regime and his love for Olenka. portrayed in shots of old wooden siak's distasteful style, you will find melodrama unfolds against a historical The ending of the film is truly a churches, traditional costumes and yourself still searching for something to background depicting the UPA in battle testament to life's unpredictable for­ roaring trembitas in this visually like in the mighty Opryshok. against the forces of the Soviet Union. tunes, where loyalties and love become pleasing 1959 release. All sympathy for Mr. Khistikoyev's Inna Kapinos plays Olenka, self- true victims, caught between the forces Dovzhenko film studios also is res- character vanishes as quickly as the fog confident and daring message-runner of war. Harvard announces Ї993 summer school program Manor College CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — The Ukrai­ classroom experiences. Course work is from Ukraine participated in the pro­ seen as model nian Research Institute, in conjunction enriched by a series of guest lectures gram. with the Harvard University Summer given by prominent faculty, roundtable School, announced the 23rd annual discussions on current events in U- Applications now available for Taiwan Harvard Ukrainian Summer Institute, kraine and other special events such as to be held June 28 through August 20. films and concerts. Some of the high­ Applicants to the Harvard Ukrainian JENKINTOWN, Pa. -- After trav­ The intensive eight-week program lights for the 1992 program were a Summer Institute must be at least 19 eling throughout Iowa, California and offers accredited university instruction weeklong participative theater work­ years of age or have attended one year Florida in search of a model, doctoral in Ukrainian studies and provides an shop, a contemporary Ukrainian film of college. Admission is based on the candidates Chin-Tsao Chen and Hsin- opportunity for students to meet faculty series and a concert with the popular applicant's academic record, a letter of Yen Kuo have chosen Manor Junior and research associates and become Ukrainian musician, Vika Vradiy. recommendation and an essay. The College as the standard by which they familiar with the work of the institute. Similar events are being planned for the program is offered for a reduced fee of plan to institute a two-year college in 1993 program. $1,200 (regular Harvard Summer their native Taiwan. The courses to be offered this year School tuition for eight units of credit is The graduate students, who are are: Beginning Ukrainian, Intermediate $2,350.) Students who demonstrate completing their doctoral studies in Ukrainian (two levels) and Advanced Students are also encouraged to take advantage of Harvard's many research financial need may qualify for a further education at Wilmington College, New Ukrainian (eight credits each); and, fee reduction to $600. Students who Castle, Del., "selected Manor as their "Ukrainian Modernist and Avant- and instructional facilities, including the libraries, museums and language choose to stay in the university dormi­ example because of its academic pro­ Garde Literature," "Ukraine and the tories must pay for their room and grams, beautiful, suburban setting, Family of Rus': A Survey of Ukrainian laboratory. Field trips and a weekly Ukrainian table allow all students to board, the cost of which is $1,950. warm, friendly atmosphere and signifi­ Cultural, Social and Political History," Applications for the 1993 summer cant architectural design," said Sally and "Politics of Contemporary U- practice Ukrainian at any level of fluency. session may be obtained by writing to: Mydlowec, academic dean. The team kraine" (four credits each). Once ad­ Harvard Ukrainian Summer Institute, reviewed the college's administrative mitted into the program, students are 1583 Massachusetts Ave., Cambridge, policies and departments, toured Ma­ required to register for at least eight The program draws a diverse group of participants, including undergra­ MA 02138 or by calling (617) 495-7833. nor's campus and Dental Health Cen­ credits; they may register for as many as Admission is on a rolling basis with a ter, and interviewed staff and adminis­ 12 credits. duate, graduate and continuing educa­ tion students, government specialists final application deadline of May 28. tration. and businesspeople. In past years Candidates are advised to apply prompt­ Manor Junior College is a private. Extracurricular programs participants have come from all over the ly as there are a limited number of Catholic, co-ed college founded in 1947 United States and Canada, as wfell as dormitory rooms available and lan­ by the Ukrainian Sisters of St. Basil the The Ukrainian Summer Institute from Europe, Latin America, Africa guage classes have a restricted enroll­ Great that offers liberal arts and career- students' learning is not limited to and Australia. Last year, eight students ment. oriented programs of study. No. 8 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 1993 11 Pizza purveyor pursues Lviv's palates; initial parlor to open soon

by Roman Woronowycz man ones. decided he should take the advice he not found OP most traditional pies. In "We hope it's a bit of exposure to was giving his business clients and enter place of pepperoni, he plans to serve JERSEY CITY, N.J. — If all con­ Western living," he added. "How many into a business venture in Ukraine. With either a hard salami, which is produced tinues on schedule, on April 1 the robust times on a Sunday night did our parents an initial investment of $25,000, which in Ukraine but is very similar to the aroma of cheese, tomato sauce and say, 'Let's order a pizza*?" the pizza purveyor said has now grown, Genoese variety found in the West, or oregano and the sweet smell of rising Mr. Jejna's company has entered into he purchased, among other items, kovbasa. dough will waft from the giant ovens an interesting joint venture with Buter- mixers from Ohio and a pizza oven The pizza entrepreneur also is con­ and coolers of a Lviv storefront located brody, a sandwich shop, formerly state- from a firm in Vermont, With the oven sidering substituting mozzarella with a minutes from the city center. Customers owned, that already exists at the loca­ came several unanticipated headaches. cheese produced in Ukraine. He says it will be able to order New York-style tion. In the agreement with the Ukrai­ First, much of the machinery had to is very similar, but much less costly. The Italian American pizza with a Ukrai­ nian government, Jemar International be adapted to fit the different hardware pizza parlor will use Ukrainian flour nian flavor at a price the owner says will attained 70 percent ownership and then found in Ukraine, problems the firm is and vegetables, as well as the tradi­ be affordable to all. agreed to give the current six em­ still resolving. Then the equipment was tional pizza seasonings of oregano and Orest Jejna, 38, president of Jemar ployees at the delicatessen, who will stay air freighted to Ukraine via Germany, basil, both readily obtainable in U- International, which will open Pizza on with the new firm, the other 30 where it was lost. "We shipped it to kraine. Pronto, the first ever pizzeria in Lviv percent. Ukraine, but it went on its own voyage." "We're not modeling ourselves after and among the first in Ukraine, said he And Mr. Jejna said he definitely is It finally turned up in Lviv six weeks any pizza outfit. We're trying to mix wants parents to be able to afford to buy not thinking small time. "At some point later. Once in Lviv, a commercial-grade Ukrainian and American foods and the pie for their children. So he decided we may be franchising, depending how exhaust fan had to be brought in styles," he said. to use a mix of traditional Italian this pilot project takes off." Anti­ because his partner, Mykola Jejna, who He and his wife wanted to incorpo­ ingredients and less expensive Ukrai- cipating a large demand, he already is doubles as his father, could not find one rate a novel mix into the name of their considering adding additional em­ in the country. establishment as well. "We wanted to ployees. The older Jejna also experienced convey a European/Italian flare. We Jemar International is a two-year-old problems with red tape while working in also wanted Ukraine to identify it (the Penn State U. consulting firm speciaUzing in Western Ukraine to obtain the needed approvals business) with fast food." In Italian and business opportunities in Ukraine. and licensing. On December 25, his in common Ukrainian usage the word will focus on Before forming Jemar International, perseverance and diligence paid off pronto means "quick," hence the name Mr. Jejna was a practicing attorney in when the firm was registered in both "Pizza Pronto." Skovorodo Phoenix, Ariz., known for the work he Kyyiv and Lviv. Recently, they Mr. Jejna sees a variety of people did in 1985 attempting to help a young received verbal approval to hook into demanding the fast pizza hell soon be UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa, — Penn Ukrainian sailor, Myroslav Medvid, city gas lines. Currently, Pizza Pronto is cooking up in his American kitchen in State University here has taken a special who had jumped ship near New Orleans completing some remodeling and fi­ Ukraine — everybody from students, to interest in the work of Ukrainian and was seeking asylum in the United nalizing menu item selections. businesspeople, and from travelers to philosopher Hryhoriy Skovoroda. States. To sufficiently reduce costs and keep the Ukrainian kid, who just might The Pennsylvania State University The seed for Pizza Pronto was plant­ the pizzas affordable for the average boldly say one Sunday night, "Dad, Press will be publishing "The Selected ed in June 1992, when Mr. Jejna Yosyf, Mr. Jejna will use several items how'bout some pizza, pronto!" Works of Gregory Skovoroda" in English translation in its prestigious Literature and Philosophy Series. The volume is scheduled to appear in 1994, BIrnbaum travel guide features UlOdessa. selves divided into sparring factions in vain. In the weeks immediately Songs," five of Skovoroda's philosophi­ "...these rapid, seemingly unceas­ — managed to declare an independ­ following the tumultuous events in cal treatises, and over a hundred of ent Ukraine, but amid the chaos and ing changes have caused everyone Moscow in the summer of 1991, Skovoroda's letters. Most of the ma­ spreading anarchy, were never able who has worked on this guide to Ukraine announced that it had form­ terial will be appearing for the first time to really take control of the country. consume several cartons of Maalox. ed its own aUiance with the Republic in English translation, which will give And in the year since this book's "After the final Bolshevik victory, of Russia and declared its independ­ English-speaking scholars access to a debut, the map of Eastern Europe Ukraine became one of the four ence subject to a referendum, which large corpus of Skovoroda's works. has changed once again. It's not a original republics that formed the passed by an overwhelming majority Translators for the volume include question of what's hot and what's USSR in 1922. Later, after the on December 1, 1991." Prof. Zabuzhko, Prof. Naydan, poet not, but what still is and is not. Even Transcarpathian region (which bor­ More than 12 pages are devoted to and editor Askold Melnyczuk, Prof. on-the spot-stringers and researchers ders Romania) and the western the multicultural port city of Odessa. Eleonora Karpinich Adams, and Prof. haven't been able to keep up with the Ukraine (which includes the city of The chapter on Ukraine also alerts Stephen Scherer. Noted Ukrainian heroics (and in some instances, Lviv) were added to Ukraine, it tourists to the fact that Kyyiv is in writer Valeriy Shevchuk has been bloodshed) that seem to result in became the country's third largest close proximity to Chornobyl, add­ republic, and with its seemingly scheduled to write an introduction to immediately altered street and build­ ing, however, that "by now the endless stretch of fertile farmland, its the volume. ing names. Street numbers — and impact of that tragic event is largely primary breadbasket. Ironically, In addition, the university has an­ sometimes the streets themselves — past" (for travelers, that is). despite Ukraine's agricultural riches, nounced an international conference on suddenly no longer exist, making in 1932-33 an estimated 5 to 7 miUion The "At-a-Glance" sections for "The Impact of the Writings of Gregory directions a thornier-than-usual Ukrainians — including many in the both Kyyiv and Odessa offer ideas Skovoroda on the Slavic Cultures," dilemma. We've done the best we Kiev area — died of starvation in a for walking tours and special places which is scheduled for Friday, March can, but we hope you'll understand a manmade famine brought about by to visit, noting that although some 18-19, 1994, at Pennsylvania State level of imprecision that we usually StaUn's order to confiscate food and street signs are still in Russian, the University. The conference will be co- are able to avoid," notes the editor, grain from the countryside. Stalin's guide offers EngHsh transUteration sponsored by the department of Slavic Alexandra Mayes Birnbaum, in her aim was to force collectivization on a from the Ukrainian-language. and East European languages, the introduction to the 692-page book. department of philosophy, and the recalcitrant and nationally conscious It is also most useful in providing religious studies program at Penn State. The guide has been favorably peasantry and to finance rapid in- tourist information, such as a Usting Participants will come from through­ reviewed by such newspapers as The dustriaUzation. of local services, telephone accessibi­ Washington Post, The New York out North America and Europe, and "Kiev suffered greatly during lity, medical emergency services, etc. Times and the Los Angeles Times. will include several scholars from World War II. Many irreplaceable It provides a listing of the best hotels Ukraine. The proceedings of the con­ The section on Ukraine, which architectural and cultural treasures in town and such practical informa­ ference will be published as a separate uses some text from previous years, were destroyed, and Khreshchatik, tion as how to obtain a visa and volume. has been updated and revised by New the city's main boulevard, was blown where to eat out. The conference and publication of York-based freelance journaUst Ro­ up by retreating Soviet partisans. But Besides Kyyiv and Odessa, the this volume on Ukraine's greatest man Czajkowsky. He provided cur­ the greater tragedy was the toll the guide provides a brief section on the philosopher will cost in the vicinity of rent information on points of interest war took on the populace. More than Crimea. In 1994, it is scheduled to $30,000. A sum of $5,000 will be made in Kyyiv (the guide uses the Russian 195,000 Kievans lost their lives expand its coverage to highlight available from the Woskob Fund for - based "Kiev" spelling) and Odessa, during the war, including those killed travel tours from Kyyiv to Lviv, Ukrainian Studies for the project. as well as listings on the newest in the mass executions that took through Zhytomyr and Rivne, as Ukrainian organizations and indivi­ restaurants, museums, churches and place on the Babi Yar (Babyn Yar in well as excursions to the Carpathian duals are being asked to assist with theaters. Ukrainian) killing fields... Mountains. publication costs. All contributions will In an overview of Kyyiv and its "Ukraine's movement toward de­ "Birnbaum's Eastern Europe 1993" be duly noted in the Skovoroda volume history, which is over 20 pages long, mocracy began in the mid-1980s. The is available in most major book­ and in the conference program. All the guidebook notes: Rukh, the republic's grassroots stores; in the United States, it costs "Following the Revolution of movements for independence and $18; in Canada, $24.50. (Continued on page 18) 12 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 1993 No. 8 1992 Antonovych College professor sculpts fountain for new library's garden Prizes awarded to by Sherri Kimmel Diegel WESTIMINSTER, Md. — A for­ Drozd, Braichevsky tuitous trip on Route I, near Kingsville, WASHINGTON — The Omelan and Md., enabled Wasyl Palijczuk, profes­ Tatiana Antonovych Foundation an­ sor of art at Western Maryland College, nounced that, based on the recommen­ to strike a virtual gold mine in sculpting dations of its peer panels (juries) for materials. Passing a patch of road literary and scholarly prizes, the construction, he saw several chunks of Antonovych Literary Prize for 1992 will granite waiting to be blasted. Prof. be awarded to Volodymyr Drozd of Palijczuk, in the market for a stone to Kyyiv for his novel "Lystia Zemli" begin a fountain sculpture for the ("Leaves of the Earth") and the An­ garden of Western Maryland's newly tonovych Scholarly Prize in Ukrainian renovated and expanded Hoover Li­ Studies for 1992 to historian Mykhailo brary, pulled off to the side of the road Braichevsky of Kyyiv for his mono­ and approached the construction pro­ graph "Utverdzhennia Khrystianstva ject manager. na Rusi" ("Establishment of Christia­ "I said, 'Holy Mackerel! Look at all nity in Rus' "). this stone." The sculptor asked what the In addition, a special Antonovych charge would be to buy a few boulders. Prize for Achievements in the Fields of "You can have all you want, just so long Ukrainian Culture and Statesmanship as you don't get in the way of the will be awarded to Literaturna Ukraina, workers exploding it," the construction the newspaper of the Writers Union of boss told him. "It took me a month to Ukraine. get it," Prof. Palijczuk said, shaking his The prizes will be awarded in Kyyiv in head at the painful memory. "I kept May. marking stones to keep, and they kept exploding and covering them." But he Wasyl Palijczuk poses by eight-ton sculpture-in-progress at Western Maryland persevered, for "every sculptor has to College campus. я survive on scavenging." шшшв The idea is to represent knowledge, set around its perimeter. He brought Western Maryland Col­ which flows into students' heads from Refining the images and polishing KYYIV ^^^' * '^"- ^^• lege's president, Robert H. Chambers, professors, then is reinterpreted and them will take him three times as long as out to the blasting site to get his flows out from students to other people.* it will to rough them out, he estimates. approval on six stones, which even­ Rd Trip from Water, representing knowledge, "will "If I take 100 hours to do the roughness, $600 tually were delivered to the college. wash the stone gently, rippling down," it will take 300 hours to do the rest." All Groups from $550 "When the president saw them, he Prof. Palijczuk explained. his cutting will only reduce the weight knew right away they were the ones. He . by a few hundred pounds, he said. Minimum of 10 passengers had enough faith in me, or he could start Other images may include "an open |_V|V Monday Dep. Besides the polishing, he will have to to visualize the sculpture and see the book and an owl, the symbol of wis­ do the engineering — drilling holes possibilities. After I explained my ideas dom. It's up to the brain people here on Rd Trip from $710 through the bottom of the sculpture to to him, he saw what I saw, and said, campus to decide what words should be anchor it and to maintain access to the 'Sounds good. Let's have 'em.' " The on the books. I'm just the worker." The Groups from water pipes in case they become frozen $675 college paid $500 for delivery of the sculpture also will feature a hand, or damaged. Minimum of 15 passengers stones, which were unloaded behind a representing Western Maryland's pro­ The chance to mold such a mound former carriage house, now the new art minence in educating deaf individuals was what drew Prof. Palijczuk to the studios on New Windsor Road. and teaching sign language, and the fact project, donating his time and expertise After examining his several-ton that "without hands we have nothing. to the college. "Not too many people selection, the artist wound up with the They represent the physcial ability to do can leave an eight-ton sculpture piece LOWEST TO UKRAINE stone of his dreams. The eight-ton what we learn." & INDEPENDENT STATES somewhere. You have to be confident in boulder already had a huge hole in the For several months Prof. Palijczuk yourself to do this, and smart enough to 212-586-4545 middle, just right for a water pipe, and it sharpened his vision of the sculp­ take the opportunity." 800-998-6116 OuhideNY had a natural cranial shape — his ture mentally. Then, in June, he Prof. Palijczuk, who has just marked sculpture will feature at least two heads. began the physical labor. "I first tried a quarter century of teaching at the hand tools, but every time I hit the stone private, liberal arts college,cites another Allentown, Pa. District Committee it shattered. So I had to buy all brand reason for sculpting the stone for free. "I of the new tools, from diamond saws to grin­ feel that after 25 years I do feel connect­ ders. I score things, then cut out pieces ed to this place, like I want to do Ukrainian National Association with the saw which has tiny diamonds" something for the college." announces that ANNUAL DISTRICT COMMITTEE MEETING Share The Weekly with a colleague will be held Saturday, February 27, 1993 at 2:00 p.m. KOBASNIUK TRAVEL INC. at the Ukrainian Catholic Church 157 Second Avenue, New York, N. Y. 10003 I^^fifW^ 1826 Kenmore Avenue, Bethlehem, Pa. (212)254-8779 lP\/t /i Obligated to attend the annual meeting as voting members are District Committee (800) 535-5587 ЕгшЬ,п^Л92о Officers, Convention Delegates and two delegates from the following Branches: — 73 YEARS OF EXPERIENCE — 44, 46, 47, 48, 137, 143, 147, 151, 288, 318, 369, 438. . EASTER in UKRAINE All UNA members are welcome as guests at the meeting. V $1350.00 Sgl: $150.00 AGENDA: 18 Days via Czechair 1. 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With tance in dismantling the weapons, a fair little money to spare and scores of share of any proceeds for reclaimed domestic problems, the Parliament has nuclear materials from the warheads — to choose priorities: invest in a healthy would clear the way for ratification of EASTER in UKRAINE % economy or put bilHons in our currency, both treaties. The world would win just April 13-27, 1993 — provided by taxpayers, in a mammoth as much as Ukraine would when U- disarmament project, with few security kraine's nuclear shackles were shattered. gains. To help us solve this problem. $650.00 — AIR ONLY (April 1 - June 20) President Kravchuk suggested last week $1350.00 — AIR * HOTEL * 3 MEALS DAILY * AIR to LVIV that the nuclear powers create an Join the UNA Fly Newark, NJ. District Committee of the $600.00 TAX INCLUDED Ukrainian National Association Until March 31, 1993 announces that NY/KYYIV/NY ANNUAL DISTRICT COMMITTEE MEETING Free Roundtrip Airfare to Group Organizers will be held Sunday, February 28, 1993 at 1:00 p.m. NJ. (201) 731^1132 220 South 20fh St. 1-800-487-5324 at St. John the Baptist U.C. School Hall Phila: (215) 567-1328 Philadelphia, PA 19103 Fax: (215) 567-1792 746 Sanford Avenue, Newark, N.J.

Obligated to attend the annua! meeting as voting members are District Committee Officers, Convention Delegates and two delegates from the following Branches: 14, 27, 37, 76, 133, 142, 172, 214, 234, 306, 322, Ukrainian Ski Club KLK 340, 371, 459, 490 Invites its members and their guests All UNA members are welcomed as guests at the meeting. to their AGENDA: 1. Opening and acceptance of the Agenda ANNUAL SKI WEEK-END/SKI RACES 2. Verification of quorum 3. Election of presidium to foe held at 4. Minutes of preceding annual meeting 5. Reports of District Committee Officers Hunter Mountain on Saturday, March 6, 1993 6. Discussion on reports and their acceptance BANQUET and AWARDS CEREMONY at the XENIA MOTEL 7. Election of District Committee Officers m Race registration with lift tickets — $35; juniors — $30. (Discounted lift tickets or 8. Address by UNA Supreme Assembly Officers race registration only available as well as discounted lift tickets for Sunday) 9. Adoption of District activities program for the current year • Banquet (family style, includes appetizer) — $15; children Vi price. 10. Discussion and Resolutions H Racing to start at 12:30 p.m. (Saturday). Please register at Ski Club Table 11. Adjourment (Colonel's Hal!, Main Lodge) at 9 A.M. Meeting will be attended by: Ш Rooms may be reserved /'first come, first served) at Xenia by calling them at Dr. Nestor L OleSnycky, UNA supreme Vice-President (518) 263-4700 - Mention KLK. Alexander G. Blahitka, s upreme Treasurer • Anyone interested in donating prizes please contact Severin Palydowych Andrew Keybida, UNA Supreme Advisor (7:30 a.m. - 2 p.m.) at (201) 470-2361 DISTRICT COMMITTEE H For additional information and to register please contact Severin Palydowych {af phone number given above) or George Popel at (908) 297-0786 (before 10 p.m. ROMAN J. PYNDUS, Chairman JAROSLAV LESKIW, Vice-Chairmar, TEOFIL KLEBAN, Secretary VOLODYMYR BOJARSKY, Treasurer please). 14 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 1993 No. 8 Ukrainian National Association Monthly reports for October

Payor Death Benefits 293.18 RECORDING DEPARTMENT Reinsurance Premium Paid 984.54 Scholarships 400.00 MEMBERSHIP REPORT Total 232,532.63 Juv. Adults ADD Totals Oparating Expenses: TOTAL AS OF SEPTEMBER 30,1992 17,417 42,647 5,496 65,560 Real Estate 108,459.51 GAINS IN OCTOBER 1992: Svoboda Operation 63,183.76 New members 51 33 7 91 Washington Office 13,427.20 Reinstated 21 68 2 91 Official Publlcation-Svoboda 57,900.73 Transferred in 1 14 15 Organizing Expenses: Change of class in 3 3 — 6 Advertising 6,869.36 Transferred from Juvenile Dept, — Field Conferences 2,746.90 TOTAL GAINS: "75" TT5~ "203" Medical Inspections 85.25 LOSSES IN OCTOBER 1992: Reward To Branch Secretaries 68,053.86 Reward To Organizers 13.349.18 Suspended 18 30 18 66 Reward To Special Organizers 18,585.96 Transferred out.... 16 1 15 Supreme Medical Examiner's Fee 1,500.00 Change of class out 3 3 6 Transferred to adults Traveling Expenses-Special Organizers 5.741.53 Total Died ..... 3 72 75 359,903.24 Cash surrender 19 28 47 Payroll, Insurance And Taxes: Endowment matured 23 54 77 Salaries Of Executive Officers 18,182.86 Fully paid-up 33 62 95 Salaries Of Office Employees 58,982.66 Reduced paid-up 2 2 Employee Benefit Plan 82,217.83 Extended insurance — Taxes-Federal, State And City On Employee Wages 16.213.32 CertificatCertil e terminated - 3 8 11 Total 175,596.67 TOTAEALLL LOSSESC : 100 269 26 395 General Expenses: INACTIVACTIVE MEMBERSHIP: Actuarial And Statistical Expenses 2.100.00 GAININS IIN OCTOBER 1992: Bank Charges 51.00 Paid-uPaid- p 33 64 97 Bank Charges For Custodian Account 2,317.58 ExtendeExter d insurance 4 8 12 General Office Maintenance 2,979.17 - Insurance Department Fees 170.00 TOTAL GAINS: 37 72 109 Postage 5,646.25 LOSSEBSESS I N OCTOBER 1992: — Printing and Stationery 6,212.58 Rental Of Equipment And Services 2,370.20 Died 3 38 41 Telephone, Telegraph 2,090.24 Cash surrender 10 12 22 Traveling Expenses-General 4,615.69 Reinstated 5 5 Total Lapsed —4 7 11 28,552.71 TOTAL LOSSES: 17 62 7$ General Expenses: TOTAL UNA MEMBERSHIP — Actuarial And Statistical Expenses 2,100.00 AS OF OCTOBER 31, 1992: 17,413 42,506 5,479 65,398 Bank Charges 51.00 Bank Charges For Custodian Account 2,317.58 WALTER SOCMAN General Office Maintenance 2,979.17 Suprenne Secretary Insurance Department Fees 170.00 Postage 5,646.25 Printing and Stationery 6,212.58 FINANCIAL DEPARTMENT Rental Of Equipment And Services 2,370.20 INCOME FOR OCTOBER, 1992 Telephone, Telegraph 2,090.24 Dues and Annuity Premiums From Members $ 1,006,715.80 Traveling Expenses-General 4,615.69 Income From "Svoboda" Operation 61,828.46 Total 28,552.71 investment Income: Miscellaneous: Bonds $ 323,714.61 Accrued Interest On Bonds 12,793.06 Certificate Loans 2,415.14 Donation From Fund For The Rebirth Of Ukraine 3,452.84 Mortgage Loans 65,708.46 Donations 1,350.00 Banks 9.176.41 Exchange Account-Payroll 12,352.56 Stocks 3,117.73 Expenses Of Annual Sessions 750.00 Real Estate 60,524.87 Fraternal Activities 113.58 Urban Renewal Corporation 200,000.00 Investment Expense-Mortgages 3.126.29 ТЙЙ $ 1,733,201:^ ProfessionalFees 4,900.00 Refunds: Rent 762.75 Taxes Held In Escrow Reward To Special Organizer 491.11 2,026.89 Transfer Account Taxes Federal, State & City On Employee Wages 18,126.70 325,000.00 Ukrainian Publications 36,474.47 Operating Expenses Washington Office 1,889.27 Total 403,102.44 Taxes Held In Escrow 528.27 Employee Hospitalization Plan Premiums 1,329.46 Investments: Investment Expense 2,061.15 Bonds 3,987,335.82 Travel Expenses-General 106.00 Mortgages 241,847.91 Total 24,531.96 Certificate Loans 8,690.14 Miscellaneous: Real Estate 7,718.64 Exchange Account-Payroll 12,352.56 E.D.P. Equipment 2,495.00 Donations To Fund For The Rebirth of Ukraine 5,236.01 Loan To U.N.UR.C. 200,000.00 Donations To Fraternal Fund 700.00 Total $ 4,448,087.51 Profit On Bonds Sold or Matured 32,926.50 Transfer Account 325,062.00 Disbursements For October, 199~ j) 5,647,775.-20 Total $ 376,277.07 Investments: BALANCE Bonds Matured Or Sold $ 1,028,097.82 Mortgages Repaid 110,518.98 ASSETS LIABILITIES Certificate Loans Repaid 3,249.05 Cash $ 525,365.27 Life Insurance $ 69,217,462.01 Total $ 1,141,865.85 Bonds ~ 49,844,871.48 income For October, 1992 3,275,876.36 Mortgage Loans 4,858,783.16 Certificate Loan 635,172.99 Accidental D.D. 2,021,908.33 DISBURSEMENTS FOR OCTOBER, 1992 Real Estate 2,874,462.97 Paid To Or For Members: Printing Plant & E.D.P. Fraternal (1,506,956.95) Annuity Benefits 1,289.19 Equipment 665,935.13 Orphans 427,056.25 Cash Surrenders 28,142.01 Stocks 1,646,111.66 Death Benefits 99,060.50 LoantoD.H.-U.N.A -2,144,724.00 Dividend To Members 1.101.65 Housing Corp. 104,551,04 Old Age Home Emergency 52,419.06 Endowments Matured 99,445.00 Loan To U.N.U.R.C. _ 6,911,911.00 Indigent Benefits Disbursed 800.00 Total $ 68,067,164.70 $ 68,067,164.70 Interest On Death Benefits 1,016.56 No. 8 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 1993 15

headed by Supreme Advisor Eugene UNA execs review... Iwanciw has prepared a proposal for a ATTENTION NEW JERSEY INSUREDS!!! project to train government administra­ (Continued from page 4) Is your auto insurance presently in the JUA or MTF? tion officials from Ukraine. The pro­ gram will extend for nearly a year, and Think you're overpaying for your policy? П tion to take place at the UNA building Can't get that good service you пееб & deserve? and the Svoboda editorial offices in Mr. Iwanciw will soon travel to Ukraine to work on setting up the project. Then we are the one you are looking for!!! September. Local branches of the UNA DdN'T WAIT OR HESITATE are being encouraged to mark the At the same time, Mrs. Diachuk CALL US TODAY!!! jubilee also, Mrs. Diachuk added. continued, the UNA'S "Teaching A new division of the Svoboda Book­ English in Ukraine" project is moving ALEXANDER E. SMAL & CO. store has been opened to handle sub­ ahead. Teachers are being sought for Hordynsky, Pastushenko, Smal scriptions to newspapers and magazines assignments during the summer months INSURANCE —• REAL ESTATE from Ukraine and to sell books pub­ in various cities throughout Ukraine (201) 761-7500 FAX: (201) 761-4918 lished in Ukraine, and a catalogue is under the sponsorship of the Prosvita now being readied. In addition, the Ukrainian Language Society. The bookstore will soon be moved to the project director is Dr. Zirka Voronka. mmmmmmmmmmmm fifth floor of the UNA building in order This year the program will also offer і ^^^ ^^ DIVIStOII OIF to consolidate all its operations into a specialized courses for teachers of the ^Л^Л% IHIBAN^IU Planning a trip to 1 more inviting space. English language in Ukraine; a special JtSCii «^«»"« At the Veselka magazine there are intensive course is being prepared. The changes as well, Mrs. Diachuk report­ co-sponsor for this phase of the project Glass & UKRAINE? ed. A new editor, Luba Chasto, has is the Kyyiv Pedagogical Institute. taken over as of the February issue, as Additional funding for the project is Mirror Personalized the longtime editor, Wolodymyr Bara- being sought from the Kyyiv-based Travel Service at hura, has decided to retire after 36 years Renaissance Foundation. 1 •AUTO GLASS of service. • PLATE & SAFETY CLASS Reasonable Rates Work on the history of the UNA At the conclusion of the supreme • CUSTOM MIRRORS president's report, the Supreme ш$ийАтявиеЕмтАР§чют being written by Dr. Myron B. Kuropas • REPLACEMENT WINDOWS Executive Committee voted on several • SOLAR REFLECTIVE GLASS is proceeding according to plan, and the • INSULATED GLASS •VISAS* HOTELS* MEALS* third volume of the index of Svoboda proposals, among them disbursements Ь STORE FRONTS & from the UNA Fund for the Rebirth of ENTRANCES •TRANSFERS*GUIDES« (covering the years 1908-1914) will soon • GLASS FURNITURE TOPS be released. In addition, the supreme Ukraine. The officers also approved an • PLEXIGLASS « LEXAN •AIR TICKETS* organizing plan for 1993 which foresees • PATIO DOORS & SKYUTES president said, an index to UNA • BULLET RESISTANT •RAIL TICKETS• almanacs is being prepared by a libra­ the enrollment of 2,000 new members insured for a total of $12 million. • WINDOW • STORM & •CARS WITH DRIVERS• rian from Ukraine at the Library of SCREEN REPAIRS Congress. The UNA is funding this Organizers during this jubilee year • INTERPRETERS• endeavor. will receive special bonuses to mark Emergency BOARO-UP •SIGHTSEEING^ Service 24 Hours - 7 Day In Washington, the UNA Office Svoboda's centennial. Call for free estimates. LANDMARK, LTD nian and Taiwanese trade representa­ 575 McChesney Street Newsbriefs... tions in Taipei and Kyyiv. Taiwanese Orai^ge, N.J. 07050 toll free (800) 832-1789 1 business officials invited Mr. Kuchma Tel.: 672-2266 DC/MD/VA (703) 941-6180 1 (Continued from page 2) to visit their country next spring, after Pay only 3% N.J. Sales Tax fax (703) 941-7587 1 prices in state stores increased rapidly. his official visit to South Korea. (Intel- UKRAINIAN OWNED The price of wheat flour increased 86 News) percent; vegetable oil — 75 percent; eggs — 44 percent; pastries — 51 • KYYIV —The Kyyiv City Council percent; and bread — 47 percent. Prices has issued an order to rename 32 streets, during the same period for such items as parks and subway stations. The follow­ meat and chicken did not increase ing are a few of the most conspicious appreciably at the open air markets changes: Rosa Luxembourg Street will (IntelNews) once again be known as Lypska Street; Chekist Street has been renamed for • KYYIV — Ukrainian Prime Hetman Pylyp Orlyk; Arsenal Heroes' ENCYCLOP/^DIA 1 IKRAINE Minister Leonid Kuchma met with a Square has been demoted to Arsenal Taiwanese delegation from the "Pacific Square; Kornichuk Avenue has been L>l -A CONCISE Rim Trading Company," led by the changed to Obolon Avenue; and, in the Taiwanese president's official represen­ center of the city, Lenin Street will tative, Chu-Chung. The Taiwanese henceforth bear the name of Hetman KS";S ENCYCLOPEDIA delegation proposed giving Ukraine Bohdan Khmelnytsky. (IntelNews/ credits and investing in its economy. UIS) They also presented Mr. Kuchma with a proposal to build a high speed trans- • HORLIVKA — A conference of Ukrainian railway. 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DATE OF BIRTH: service to the additional victims. I would be the first to admit that to ADDRESS: date it has been impossible to determine (Continued from page 9) a casualty figure from Chornobyl. nobyl in 1986 was sponsored by Ar- There have been too many imponder­ BEST TIME TO CALL: mand Hammer (whose factories able factors: the health of those who have added significantly to environ­ first participated in the hazardous PRODUCT/SERVICE OF INTEREST: mental pollution in the former USSR) clean-up operation and then returned to and had nothing to do with the U.S. their homes (some as far away as government. Sakhalin Island); the disappearance of a That Dr. Gale was in Armenia is not data bank in Belarus; the classification in doubt. But many observers at that of health and radiation information by WINE time wondered why he was there and the Soviet authorities; the unexplained what exactly he was doing. deaths among young clean-up workers; & Later in the interview, the reader is the generally poor health of the popula­ given a direct quotation that 28 people tion in the region; difficult access to ROSES died from radiation sickness after sources of nutritious food, etc. Yet these Chornobyl. One recalls that in the ambiguities hardly excuse the continued summer of 1986, the Soviet authorities usage of information that is clearly released this figure and that it remained erroneous. CELEBRATE! static thereafter, even when numerous However, according to the California victims had been added to the total. doctor, there will be thyroidal abnor­ Only the most hardened supporter of malities in the future, and there could be INTERNATIONAL the old Soviet regime could seriously up to 20,000 cancer deaths worldwide believe today that there were 28 victims over the next 50 years as a result of WOMENS DAY of radiation from Chornobyl in the Chornobyl. After reading that state­ immediate aftermath of the disaster. ment, one can only lament that Dr. Gale with loved ones, friends But, according to Dr. Gale, the number continues to alight from airplanes at of those who died is "not the real issue Moscow's Sheremyetovo Airport rather and family in Ukraine today." than in, let us say, Minsk or Kyyiv. One suspects that if one is a parent, The immediate impact of Chornobyl, child, or even a relative of one of the especially from radioactive iodine, is LANDMARK, LTD deceased, then such numbers are of clearly visible today in villages that are toll free (800) 832-1789 significance. And the U.S. news agen­ 30 to 100 miles from Chornobyl. Thy­ DCIMDIVA (703) 941-6180 cies are hardly innocent in this regard. roid tumors among children in Belarus, Each time the figure of 28 (or 31, if one fax (703) 941-7587 for example, had risen six times by includes alleged deaths trom causes 1991, according to scientists, and in the unrelated to irradiation) is repeated by radiation fallout areas, it has increased the Associated Press, this does a dis- by 22 times since Chornobyl. And one does not need to be a medical doctor to recognize that cancer in the throat can soon spread to other parts of the body. I am prepared to concede that Dr. [ ^> y^ .< cofdiully invites yQU0 attend the ^ ^ . . ^^ Gale is an expert in one area that is perhaps neglected by us academics: publicity. In addition to press con­ иШШ ANNUAL CONVENTIONference s around the world, he has also been the subject of a film that had its \\^ r March 26,27, t%, 1993 p< > >\ ^ . ^ premiere in Moscow in 1991: "Cher­ nobyl: The Final Warning," starring Jon Voigt. Media attention may turn ^^" > ^ ^..f. "^ < <^^^, ^J ^^ ^ ^ ^^ out to be the palliative for the problems engendered by Chornobyl for my friends Ше КпіфегЬоскег Hotel ; m Ukraine and Belarus. And I would be happy to take a few lessons from the /> ^ . ;^ r>- . iSBKWatton Place ^.' / ^^ good doctor in that arena, because it ' . ^ \ ^ ' at North Michigm Avermei , ^ ^ seems that upon talking to U.S. press agencies, one's comments will be readily ^\:. ";/с^ 201^939^11, A bhckqfroo^i^itl be held fy^hM'jsmtmg^^ ' /Й?А ^і?^гоШ >^$0^(Uions, ptm^ 4іогйасі the hotel ІігеЩ' ai: РНОШ mh^V-$i46; FAXП2-75ї^$70. Dr, David Marples, an associate > ^ Sp€dulm^m'mesprmBAmmbmur^i7SM^^^ professor of history at the University of Alberta, is the author of two books on the Chornobyl nuclear disaster. No. 8 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 1993

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He lives in Win­ ancient medical practices reaching as nipeg and has been an orthopaedic P.O. Box 325, Beaconsfield, Quebec, Canada H9W 5T8 far back as the 10th century B.C., Dr. or call our TOLL FREE number: 1 -800-265-9858 surgeon with the Manitoba Clinic for Mayba quickly moves on to the accom­ over 20 years. plishments of physicians of this century. This book is 260 pages long and He covers the progress of Manitoba contains 115 photographs. It is avail­ organizations such as the Winnipeg able from Dr. I. I. Mayba, 790 Sher- brook St., Winnipeg, Manitoba, Ca­ nada, R3A 1M3. It costs $23 in Canada, СОЮ51ЄКА Kravchuk visits... $25 for the U.S. and $28 for oversees orders. (Continued from page 1) On the third day of his trip the SOYUZIVKA Ukrainian president was shown around Natalia Drzewiecki... the Palace of Westminster, where he met with Members of Parliament repre­ (Continued from page 4) senting all the major political parties. At Ph.D. in biomedical engineering from ATTENTION SKIERS! Buckingham Palace he was received by Rutgers University. Her Majesty the Queen for lunch. She belonged to the Ukrainian En­ Come to ''SOYUZIVKA" and enjoy our Prince Andrew, Duke of York, accom­ gineers' Society. She was a member of panied him in inspecting the Queen's the Engineers in Medicine and Biology warmth and hospitality Guard, made up of a strength of 100 Society and of the Brain Topography including 2nd Battalion Grenadier Society. • Overnight accommodations with two meals (Breakfast & Dinner): $49.80 Guards and the Band of the Coldstream Surviving are her husband; Dr. Gary per person, includes tips and taxes. Guards. M. Drzewiecki; her parents, Jaroslaw After completing his London pro­ and Ludmila Krawciw of Providence, • Go CROSS COUNTRY/SKIING at neighboring MINNEWASKA STATE PARK gram. President Kravchuk departed by R.I.; a brother, Peter of Phoenix, Ariz.; with 40 miles of groomed trails. Entrance fee: $5.00 per adult, $3.00 per a special flight of the Royal Air Force and maternal grandmother, Irene Kre- child. Ski rentals, on weekend only. Station Turnhouse to Scotland, where mena-Kaledin also of Phoenix; as well he attended a dinner given by Her as relatives in the United States and • Downhill skiing at BIG VANILLA and HOLIDAY MOUNTAIN, approximately Majesty's Government hosted by the Ukraine. 30 minutes away from "Soyuiivka". Secretary of State for Scotland at The deceased was laid to rest on Edinburgh Castle. Saturday, January 9, at the Ukrainian The following day a special sightsee­ Orthodox Cemetery in South Bound t^KT^cJinic^n |\ji5ttioncil /-\?s-ocicftion t^stcite ing tour was held, after which Her Brook, N.J. Poo.Jrno^e Ro.J Ke4^onUn, New УоЛ 12446 Majesty's Lord Lieutenant to the City of Edinburgh bid farewell to Presi­ QI4-626-564I dent Kravchuk. He departed by Housing market... special flight for Kyyiv, where he will be facing the harsh realities of Ukraine's (Continued from page 1) crumbling economy with little to offer housing construction will continue to from his first state visit to England. decline. PARTNERS Those wishing to buy their own apartment can only hope that the Shchedryk Choir oL. pace of privatization will be ex­ IN PROGRESS pedited. (Continued from page 5) In a recent sociological survey For the children, the high point of the conducted by Mr. Cherep's commit­ tour was the day they spent in Ms. Ste­ tee, in conjunction with the Ministry CANADIAN VOLUNTEER wart's hometown of Fairfax, Mo. Far of Statistics, the majority of respon­ more people than the town's population dents said they wished to privatize ADVISORS REQUIRED of 800 packed the school gym to hear their apartments. However, in the them. The children sensed the special- first three and a half months of the ness of the situation, according to Ms. privatization process in Ukraine, (For Ukraine, Russia, the Baltics, Kazakhstan, other countries in the Stewart, and felt the love of the towns­ only 1,300 apartments and cottages former Soviet Union and Central and Eastern Europe) people. were privatized. This is partially And for Ms. Stewart, the most moving because the privatization procedure experience was the choir's appearance had been registered in only six of 25 Information and Registration. Information and Registration: oblasts and in the Crimea and Kyyiv. Partners in Agri-Food Program Partners in Health Program at Holy Eucharist Ukrainian Catholic (for Ukraine and Russia) Church in Toronto. 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UNA Supreme Advisor and and a member of Parliament, and Atena Lenten kitchen, sponsored by the Ladies deliver the 28th annual Shevchenko Director of the UNA'S Washington Pashko, president of the Ukrainian Sodality of St. Michael's Ukrainian Lecture, titled, "Building an Independ­ Office Eugene Iwanciw and UNA Su­ Women's League, who will give an Orthodox Church, will serve Ukrainian ent Ukraine: Current Policies and Future preme Advisor Anya Dydyk-Petrenko overview of the current situation in food from 3 p.m.-6:30 p.m. in the parish Tasks,'* at Convocation Hall, Old Arts will be on hand to introduce keynote Ukraine. The presentation will be held at hall, 74 Harris Ave. Eat in or take out is Building, University of Alberta at 7:30 speaker Robert M. Cook. Mr. Cook will Holy Family Ukrainian Catholic Church, available. p.m. The lecture is sponsored by the outline the new products and services 4250 Harewood Road, NE at 7:30 p.m. Ukrainian Professional and Business being provided by the UNA through its Saturday, February 27 Club of Edmonton and organized by the financial services department including a Friday, February 26 Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies. discussion of the UNA's tax-deferred NEW YORK: The Shevchenko Scienti­ savings plan and the free estate and YONKERS, N.Y.: Registration deadline fic Society invites the public to a lecture Thursday, March 4 financial planning services now being for the annual volleyball tournament, by Heorhiy Potseptsov, chairman of the offered through the UNA. 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