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LXXXV No. 6 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JANUARY 8, 1978 25 CENTS Joint Pastoral Calls Kiev, Moscow Groups For Unification ANNOUNCEMENT OF THE CONVENTION Score Druzhkivka Trial OF THE Of Churches WASHINGTON, D.C.--The Kiev UKRAINIAN NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, INC. and Moscow Groups to Promote the ROME, Italy.-A call for unity of Implementation of the Helsinki all Ukrainian Christians was the theme NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN TO THE SUPREME AND BRANCH Accords, in a joint appeal dated June of the 1978 Christmas Pastoral letter 30-July 2,1977, have castigated the So­ issued by Patriarch Josyf Cardinal Sli- OFFICERS AND TO ALL MEMBERS OF THE UKRAINIAN viet Union for its handling of the Ru- pyj and the hierarchs of the "Pomis- NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, THAT THE denko-Tykhy trial, reported the "Smo- na" Ukrainian Catholic Church. loskyp" Ukrainian Information Ser­ The pastoral letter said that the uni­ vice. fication of the Ukrainian Catholic, The appeal, which was signed by six Orthodox and Evangelical-Baptist 29th Regular Convention members of the Kiev Group, five mem­ churches into "one, holy, unified, of the bers of the Moscow Group, and 23 Apostolic 'Pomisna' Ukrainian supporters, was received by the Helsin­ Church'' would be a fitting commem­ UKRAINIAN NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, INC. ki Guarantees for Ukraine Committee oration of the millenium of Christiani­ here, the U.S. counterpart of the Kiev ty in Ukraine. will be held in body. "Today Christian Ukrainians are divided into Orthodox and Catholics, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania The statement said that the trial in and even major Evagnelical groupings. Druzhkivka of Mykola Rudenko and It would be very strange, regrettable, at the Oleksiy Tykhy was a " formidable and would serve no purpose, while threat to others." even being dangerous for posterity, if Pittsburgh Hilton Hotel, Gateway Center "It served as a warning that every­ we would celebrate this important date one could be sentenced, even a person for all of us independently, and, God Beginning May 22,1978 who sympathizes with someone who forbid, if we would initiate polemics openly defends human rights," said among ourselves by attempting to twist In accordance with the By-Laws of the UNA regarding election of the two monitoring groups. the historic truth to suit ourselves in­ delegates to the Convention, the qualifications for delegates, the num­ As an example, the Kiev and Mos­ dividually," wrote Patriarch Josyf and ber of delegates from each Branch and the credentials of delegates are cow groups cited the trial of Vasyl Bar- the other hierarchs. "That is why, bro­ as follows: ladianu in Odessa. Barladianu was sen­ thers and sisters in Christ, we, the The election of delegates and their alternates must be held within 60 tenced to three years for merely read­ Bishops, led by our Patriarch, desire days of the announcement of the Convention. Since the Convention ing the memorandums of the Kiev and strive that at least in the free was announced on January 2, 1978 the 60-day term for election of group. world, and, if God willing, in our na­ delegates and their alternates ends on March 3rd, 1978. "The trials in Druzhkivka and tive land, we observe the historic event Delegates and their alternates to which the Branch is entitled shall Odessa - both open political trials - of the millenium of Christianity to­ be elected at a regular meeting of the Branch by the members present. are a sad demonstration before the gether with our Orthodox brothers, Nominations shall be made from the floor and all candidates present­ whole world of the Soviet understand­ and most assuredly this will be of great ed to the membership for vote. The candidate or candidates receiving ing of human rights," they said. value to all of us, to Christ's Church in the highest number of votes shall be elected delegates. The next imme­ Spokesmen for the two groups said Ukraine, and to our nation." diate candidates, in order of vote, failing to qualify as delegates, shall that the trials were proof that the So­ viet Union will not heed international As mentioned in the pastoral letter, be alternates to a number equaling the number of delegates elected. All tie votes involving alternates shall be immediately resolved by an- treaties which it signed and of its dis­ Patriarch Josyf made a historic visit to respect of world public opinion. the late Archbishop John Theodoro- (Continued on page 3) vich, then Metropolitan of the Ukraini­ (Continued on page 4) an Orthodox Church in the U.S.A., to discuss such a unification. The meeting was held at the Ukrainian Orthodox UNA Announces Convention Consistory in South Bound Brook, N.J., August 6,1968. Citing the times of St. Volodymyr AtYear-End Executive Meeting and Yaroslav the Wise, the pastoral JERSEY CITY, N.J.—The official Chief Anthony Dragan. Supreme same period in 1976. As of the date of said that 400 years of polemics wasted announcement of UNA's 29th Regular Director for Canada, Sen. Paul Yuzyk, the meeting, a total of 592,714 in in­ the energies and created animosities Convention, to be held in Pittsburgh, explained his absence by citing trans­ come from dues had been recorded, a which continue to separate the Ukraini­ Pa., during the week beginning May portation difficulties. sum 5167,983 short of the total needed an Catholic and Orthodox Churches. It 22nd, the time and the amount of divi­ to meet the 1976 plateau. The Trea­ called for an end to these differences. dend payment to UNA certificate hol­ Treasurer's Report surer went on to report her efforts to It suggested that proposals put forth ders, the рге-convention membership contact Branch officers, by letters and by Metropolitans Petro Mohyla and drive and assessment of progress made Mrs. Diachuk, commencing the by telephone, who were late with the Veliamyn Rutsky in the 17th century in 1977 dominated the agenda of the Ex­ series of reports, stated that UNA's as­ remittance of Branch dues. She cited provide a working basis for a possible ecutive Committee's year-end meeting sets increased by SI, 146,118 - by Branches 257, 408, 281, 147, and 361 reunification. held Wednesday, December 28, at the S105,000 more than for the same whose secretaries are ailing and unable The pastoral said that the unification Main Office here. period in 1976 — bringing the total as to collect dues from members. Several of the Catholic, Orthodox and Evan­ Attending the meeting, which was of the end of November to smaller Branches which had been tardy gelical churches would create "a for­ opened and chaired by Supreme President 542,296,600. She said she expected the were sent assessments for several tress which will repell all hostile moves Joseph Lesawyer, were the following assets to total approximately S42.4 months in an effort to help them to against our people, whether of religious supreme executive officers: Vice-Presi- million by the year's end. catch up. or political nature." dents Dr. John O. Flis and Mary Dush- Income from dues, which reflects the "If we united, we would live evange­ nyck, Secretary Walter Sochan, Trea­ organization's growth, amounted to This was also the case with mortgage lically, as Christ wanted, and this surer Ulana Diachuk, Organizer Stefan 52,764,786.87 as of the end of Nov­ loans. Poor mail delivery — worst (Continued on page 9) (Continued on page 4) Hawrysz, as well as Svoboda Editor-in- ember, by 510,000 more than in the V

THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JANUARY 8, 1978 No. 6 Some Inmates Lose Faith, Most Remain Loyal to Ideals, Sakharovs Visit Camp, Are Barred From Says Young Ukrainian Prisoner Seeing Prisoner A young Ukrainian political prisoner trayal by friends, there are people, who "I think that communism for France told an unknown correspondent that after 25 years and longer, continue to is unavoidable, and because of it the MOSCOW, USSR.—Andrei D. Sa- years of torture and harassment in the be loyal to God and country, and there problems of Ukraine will also become kharov, the physicist turned human Soviet camps have made some political are more of these people,'' he said. inescapable for France -- the political rights advocate, spent more than a prisoners lose faith in themselves and Shovkovy is a graduate of a secondary camps, dissidents, Trench bourgeois week with his wife and stepson in the their ideals, while others, he said, con­ school, who worked as a carpenter in nationalism/ " he said. world of Soviet labor camps this tinue t9 be loyal to God and country. Pechenizhyn in the Ivano-Frankivske Shovkovy admitted that he renounc­ month, trying to visit an imprisoned Ivan Shovkovy, 28, painted for the oblast. He was arrested in 1973 for friend, reported Craig R. Whitney in ed his Soviet citizenship and has re­ The New York Times of January 1st. anonymous reporter a picture of the allegedly belonging to the Association quested an exit visa because he feels gruesome life of the political inmate of Ukrainian Youth of Halychyna, and that after he is released from incarcer­ In Zone 20, a small archipelago of and the reasons why he is being confin­ sentenced to five years severe regime ation he "cannot be useful to Uk­ camps about 250 miles southeast of ed for five years in the Perm region imprisonment. raine." Moscow, in the Mordovian Autono­ concentration camps. The full text of Shovkovy told the interviewer that "And besides that, I want to have a mous Republic, the Sakharovs found the interview was released in New York he considers himself a political pri­ family, raise healthy children, read the prison guards nearly as deprived as by the press service of the Ukrainian soner because his views are not respect­ normal Ukrainian literature and not the prisoners. ed by the authorities. He did say that f Supreme Liberation Council (abroad). 'literature' in the Ukrainian language "They drink to fight boredom,' Dr. In response to a question about what his views are "rooted in the Ukrainian All this, regrettably, can be accom­ populace." Shovkovy said that acts of Sakharov said after having lived with was his most agonizing experience in plished outside of Ukraine. In this lies them in a dormitory in the settlement the camp, Shovkovy said that it was the Ukrainian people are the result of the tragedy of Ukraine," said Shov­ their convictions. of Sosnovka for 12 nights. "There is seeing prisoners lose faith in their kovy. no meat or sausage in the stores, the The young inmate, who was consid­ ideals as a result of years of torture and If he is lucky enough to be allowed black bread is terrible, and there's no ered by the reporter as a "typical Uk­ oppression. to emigrate from the Soviet Union, place at all to have a bath." "I saw the decay of live people, I rainian dissident," said that he is not a Shovkovy said he would like to settle saw how the human spirit can be injured. political activist but a normal person down in Holland because "it is a country In Moscow, he and his wife, Yelena People who once actively fought for who wants to freely take advantage of of traditional democracy.'' Bonner, are targets of a campaign of his culture. harassment and denunciation. But in God, country, justice are now con­ What about his parents' feelings? demned to a slow death in the Soviet Using an example of a Frenchman, the isolated world of the camps, they who was born in France and has the de­ Shovkovy said that they know about said officials treated them politely, and prisons and camps. They are sick, tir­ his feelings and they know that for him ed, dejected, they begin to serve the sire to use the language, attend French a little boy - perhaps the child of one schools, and read French periodicals "there can be no normal life in the of them — greeted the baldish stranger enemy, they begin to betray, knowing USSR." well what they are doing, they do not and literature, Shovkovy said that be­ in the snowy streets with a friendly believe in Communist ideals. Not all do cause he is Ukrainian these desires are "My parents are Ukrainians; they "Hello, Sakharov!" this, not even many, but some do be­ equated with "nationalism." realize where they lvie, I am sure they tray," said Shovkovy. "I am that same kind of normal per­ understand me and they agree with me Unimpeded in Visit When asked what was his most son, but because I was born a Ukraini­ that only by leaving can I lead a life heartwarming experience, Shovkovy an, in the USSR this means that I am a worthy of a human being," said A glimpse into the camp system is replied that it was seeing older political nationalist," said Shovkovy. Shovkovy. impossible for a foreigner, but the Sa­ prisoners remain loyal to God and Shovkovy used the example of a The young political prisoner said kharovs were unimpeded when they country. Frenchman, because on the basis of that in Holland he does not plan to un­ got off the train from Moscow at Pot- "Despite circumstances, after living everything he learned about France dertake any political activity, and that ma, in western Mordovia, on Decem­ through the suffering of Stalinist from Soviet sources, he feels that he would channel his energies into ber 16th. They walked half a mile to a camps, tortures, hunger, killing, be­ France is headed for communism. study. narrow-gauge track and rode in a three-car train pulled by a steam engine toward the north. Outside Sosnovka, surrounded by a double barbed-wire Report Repressions in Ukraine Exist on All Levels fence patrolled by dogs, was the camp where Eduard S. Kuznetsov is serving a Mykola Rudenko, Oleksa Tykhy, " Students in Kiev fear that their cir­ rently expelled from the Soviet Union. 15-year sentence. Lev Lukianenko, Oksana Meshko are cles have been infiltrated by KGB in­ ^ The UIS learned through dissident He was one of 11 persons, nine of just some of the more well known Uk­ formers. Last year during the tradi­ sources that Mykola Matusevych and them Jews, who were convicted in rainian human and national rights acti­ tional student Christmas caroling, the Myroslav Marynovych, two members Leningrad in December 1970 of trea­ vists, but the list of dissidents in Uk­ place and time of the event was known of the Kiev Public Group to Promote son for planning to hijack an airliner raine does not stop nor begin with to the secret police and the group was the Implementation of the Helsinki to leave the country. The case aroused them. The "Smoloskyp" Ukrainian disbanded before the ceremony could Accords, were arrested as a result of a interest abroad for its overtones of Information Service released a list of begin. Organizers of the caroling, Ya- KGB informer. The informer's name is anti-Semitism. Mr. Kuznetsov was sen­ harassments and arrests against Ukrai­ shchenko, Biriukovych and Kovalenko known in Ukraine, but the UIS does tenced to death, but the judgment was nians throughout 1977. were detained and interrogated. not want to reveal his name in the later commuted to 15 years, the maxi­ Below are excerpts from the UIS re­ ^ In June 1977, Kievite, Ivan Rusyn, West, yet. Apparently Matusevych, mum Soviet term of detention. port: was sentenced to seven years in prison Marynovych, met with the informer in Politely but firmly, a major of the ^ In January 1977, Taras Vasylo- for allegedly stealing government pro­ the office of Dr. Obertas in Kiev, along camp administration denied the Sakha­ vych Melnyk was expelled from the perty. The UIS states that since 1965, with Kiev University student Karpo- rovs permission to visit the prisoner, Kiev conservatory for allegedly posses­ Rusyn has been the victim of harass­ niuk, and his friends Hertsyk and Han- who lived in the same house with Mrs. sing nationalist views. The 23-year-old ment for his national consciousness. na Kovalenko. They discussed the role Sakharov and her son, Aleksei Semyo- youth was born in the Transcarpathian Rusyn was born on November 8, 1937, of the Ukrainian monitoring commit­ nov, in Moscow 10 years ago and wrote region of Ukraine. His explusion was in the village of Burtal in the Lviv tee and the events which led to the a postcard in October' asking her to preceded by harassment during a meet­ oblast. In 1959 he completed the Lviv arrests of Rudenko and Tykhy. Soon come to see him. ing of the Communist Youth League. Polytechnic Institute. He worked in after one of these meetings, Matuse­ "All he would say was that it was the In addition to allegedly having nation­ Kiev originally, where he was arrested vych and Marynovych were arrested, right of the authorities to decide who in 1965 and sentenced to one year in a alist ideas, Melnyk was accused of as­ (Continued on page 4) (Continued on page 4) sociating with nationally conscious concentration camp in Mordovia. persons. " On May 12, 1977, 22-year-old ^ That same month, Bohdan Viktor Ivanovych Borovsky was Mykhaylovych Hulchyi, a student at arrested by the KGB at the Kharkiv air­ the Kiev Medical School, was expelled port and placed in a local psychiatric CB ОБОДА mSYOBODA because of his friendship with Melnyk. hospital. Several days earlier, Borov­ УКРАЇНСЬКИЙ ЩОАІННМК TJHST l/lltlWIK ОДНУ The student's family comes from the sky telephoned Raisa Rudenko to tell FOUNDED 1893 her he was planning a demonstration in Ternopil region. Ukrainian newspaper published by the Ukrainian National Association, Inc., at 30 Montgomery ^ Serhiy Mykolayovych Shevchen- front of the building of the Ukrainian Street. Jersey City, N.J. 07302. daily except Mondays and holidays. ko, a 25-year-old agriculture student, SSR Supreme Soviet in defense of her TELEPHONES: U.N.A. has experienced KGB harassment be­ husband Mykola, head of the Kiev Public Group to Promote the Imple­ (201)434-0237 (201)451-2200 cause of his religious convictions. (201)434-0807 Shevchenko, a Baptist and member of mentation of the Helsinki Accords. from New York (212) 227-5250 the unrecognized Council of Churches, The telephone conversation was appa­ from New York (212) 227-4125 (212)227-5251 has been frequently followed by the rently overheard by the secret police. secret police and detained for questiori- He was arrested as he prepared to Subscription rates for THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY S6.00 per year UNA Members -- - - - ing. The youth is a friend of the Vins board of Kiev-bound flight. He was S2.50 per year family. He was threatened with expul­ subjected to injections of haloperidol as soon as he was placed in the hospi­ THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY Editor: Zenon Snylyk sion from school if he does not P O. Box 346, Jersey City, N.J. 07303 Ass't Editor: Ihor Dlaboha denounce the activity of the Baptist tal. As a result of protests by his mo­ Editorial Ass't: Roma Sochan dissidents. ther, Borovsky was released and appa­ No. 6 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JANUARY 8, 1978 3 Former Political Prisoner Tells Moscow to Release Klymchuk MOSCOW, USSR.-The Soviet than put him on trial was taken in re­ Of Moroz's Life in Vladimir Prison Union said Tuesday, January 3, that it sponse to repeated appeals from Bri­ TORONTO, Ont.-Ukrainian histo­ cell-to-cell communication for two was releasing British student Andriy tain for clemency and to his own "sin­ rian Valentyn Moroz was locked up by years by a method, Vudka said he can­ Klymchuk, who has been held by KGB cere repentance'' in a letter to the So­ his Soviet jailers with criminals, sexual not reveal because the Soviet authori­ since last August on charges of anti-So­ viet government. psychopaths and secret police who con­ ties would stamp it out. viet activity, reported Reuters. After his arrest on August 1, 1977, in tinually slashed him with knives, beat He said Moroz confided in him be­ British embassy officials here said Lviv, which he was visiting as a tourist, him and tried to rape him, a former fel­ cause the Ukrainian believes the Soviet they were informed that Mr. Klym­ Mr. Klymchuk fully admitted his guilt, low prisoner has revealed. Jews and the Ukrainian people have chuk, a 22-year-old student at the Hull TASS said. The agency quoted the The physical torture ended when a the same goals of "freedom and inde­ Teacher's Training College, would be Lviv prosecutor's office as saying that hunger strike in 1974 brought his plight pendence from Moscow." flown to London Thursday morning, Mr. Klymchuk had tried to distribute to world attention, and he was put in a "Moroz told me that the Jews and January 5, aboard a regular Soviet written appeals for the struggle against cell by himself. But he was then subjected the Ukrainians are naturally allied in Aeroflot flight. the Socialist system and had smuggled to regular doses of drugs that shifted their fight," said Vudka in an interview The official TASS news agency said 520,000 .to organize anti-Soviet sub­ his mental state from euphoria to deep with Arnold Bruner of The Globe and that the decision to release him rather version. depression and at times left him listless Mail. "He said Moscow is the first enemy and without an independent will. of the Ukrainian and Jewish peoples. The The first-hand account of the impri­ Soviet aim is to destroy both." sonment of the leading Ukrainian, Vudka and his wife, Hannah, who ANNOUNCEMENT... which appeared in the December 19th now live in Israel, were brought to (Continued from page 1) Canada for a lecture tour by the Cana­ edition of The Toronto Globe and other ballot for the candidates involved. Each member shall be entitl­ Mail, was related by Yuri Vudka, 30, an dian League for the Liberation of Uk­ raine. He made his first public speech, ed to one vote for each delegate authorized to the Branch. Delegates Orthodox Jew also from Ukraine, who and their alternates must be elected at the same regular Branch meet­ became a Soviet political prisoner at in Ukrainian, on December 18th. During the next three weeks he spoke in St. Ca­ ing. In the event that a delegate fails or is unable to attend a Conven­ about the same time and was released tion, an alternate shall be seated in his place, and remain seated for the last year after serving seven years of tharines, London, Hamilton, Ottawa, Montreal, Winnipeg and Edmonton. balance of the Convention. If a Branch has more than one delegate the strict regime incarceration on charges seats of the absent delegates shall be occupied by alternates in the of anti-Soviet activity and propaganda. Vudka said that 90 percent of the order of the highest number of votes received in the election. political prisoners in the Soviet Union are non-Russians, that is, natives of the rNeveiNevei; Sasaw Hinim are non-Kussians, шаі is, nauves ui uic Only UNA members in good standing may be present at the meeting other republics that make up the Soviet other republics that make up the Soviet and vote for delegates and their alternates. A member in good stand­ The two men have never seen each Union. ing is one who has a certificate of insuarnace in the UNA on which otherThe. Butwto the meyn wer have eengage neverd seein intensn eache Union. Other. But they were engaged ІП intense (Continued on page 15) dues are being paid. A member who has transferred to extended insur­ ance, or paid-up insurance, or is suspended, may not be present at the meeting nor can he (or she) vote. Members in good standing may vote for delegates and their alternates only in that Branch where they pay Paradzhanov Released from Incarceration dues to the fraternal fund. HELSINKI, Finland."Serhiy Pa­ Nava," was banned in the Soviet radzhanov, internationally renowned Union. Voting for delegates and their alternates shall be by the raising of Ukrainian cinematographer of Since 1968, Paradzhanov was active hands, unless the majority of those present prefer a vote by ballot. No Armenian ancestry, has been released in the defense of imprisoned Ukrainian vote by proxy shall be allowed. from incarceration by Soviet authori­ dissidents. His name appeared on a Only those members may be elected as delegates or alternates who ties, reported the "Smoloskyp" Ukrai­ petition to Leonid Brezhnev in defense are in good standing and have all the qualifications for an officer of nian Information Service. of Vyacheslav Chornovil. the Branch, i.e., have been members of the UNA not less than one Paradzhanov was supposed to have In 1974, Paradzhanov was arrested year and of their Branch not less than six months and in which they been released sometime during the on charges of allegedly buying and sel­ pay dues to the fraternal fund, are over 18 years of age, are of Ukrai­ final week of December last year. ling icons. He was also accused by the nian nationality or descent and are not supreme officers or assembly KGB of moral crimes. officers, agents or salesmen of any other similar fraternal organiza­ Paradzhanov was born in 1924 in Originally, it was believed that Pa­ tion or life insurance company, and are fulfilling all obligations to­ Tbilisi, Soviet Georgia, to an Armeni­ radzhanov was involved in the theft of ward the UNA, in particular, have shown active participation in orga­ an family. In 1951 he graduated from icons, which were used in his "Sha­ nizational and promotional work for the UNA. No person shall be eli­ the Moscow Film Institute. dows of Forgotten Ancestors," from gible for delegate or alternate who at any time unjustifiably or malici­ By 1964, Paradzhanov completed the town of Kosmach. Moroz, in his ously instituted or caused to be instituted any suit, action, or proceed­ five Ukrainian movies, most known essay, "Chronicle of Resistance/' ing against the UNA either on his own behalf of any other member. among which is "Shadows of Forgot­ alluded to his involvement. ten Ancestors/' which received inter­ Later, it was revealed that Parad­ Every duly established Branch in good standing in the Association, national acclaim. These movies were zhanov had nothing to do with this having 75 or more members who pay in such Branch dues to the fra­ produced through the Dovzhenko Film theft, and that the KGB attempted to use ternal fund of the UNA, shall be entitled to representation and vote on Studio in Kiev. this rumor to turn Paradzhanov all matters to be acted upon at the Convention as follows: Branches One of his Armenian films, "Soyat against Moroz. having 75 to 149 members inclusive, one delegate; those having 150 to 299 members inclusive, two delegates; those having 300 to 999 mem­ bers inclusive, three delegates; those having 1,000 or more members, four delegates. Each delegate shall be entitled to one vote. No Branch National Fund Drive shall be entitled to more than four votes. A Branch having less than 75 members, for the purpose of represen­ Concludes Next Saturday tation at the Convention, may unite with another Branch also having NEW YORK, N.Y. (UCCA Spe­ This year so far there are 65 Ukraini­ less than 75 members and if, when combined, the aggregate of the two cial).-The overall objective of the an communities under the guidance of Branches shall be no less than 75 members who pay dues in these 1977 fund-raising campaign for the the UCCA Branches which contributed Branches to the fraternal fund, they shall have the right to elect one Ukrainian National Fund is 5150,000. substantially to the successful collec­ delegate. Unless otherwise agreed by the mutual consent of both As in previous years, the closing date tion in December 1977. It is hoped Branches, the Branch having the greater number of members shall be of the campaign is the end of the that they will be equally so energetic entitled to elect the delegate, and the Branch having the lesser number second week of the new year, which is and effective in the first two weeks in of members, the alternate. January 14,1978. January 1978 so that the UCCA can achieve its quota of 5150,000. A Branch which has not paid all dues and arrears to the UNA shall Progress Report By January 14, 1978, a total of not be entitled to elect a delegate or delegates. By December 31, 1977, the total 543,000 must be collected if the Ukrai­ Credentials of delegates and their alternates must be sent to the donations to the UNFund amounted to nian National Fund is to meet that Home Office of the UNA within ten days of the election, but no later S107.065.10. This sum was collected as quota. than sixty days prior to the Convention. follows: 563,994.60 in the months of Following is the list of major metro­ Jersey City, N. J. January 2, 1978 January-November, 1977, and politan communities which contributed 543,070.50 in December, 1977. by December 31, 1977, 51000 or more SUMPREME EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE OF THE This figure comprises the following to the Fund: UKRAINIAN NATIONAL ASSOCIATION: contributions: Philadelphia"56,950; New York- JOSEPH LESAWYER—Supreme President Individual donations 593,005.10 54,600; Chicago^54,100; Newark-Irv- DR. JOHN O. FLIS—Supreme Vice-President Contributions by organiations 513,305.00 ington, N.J.—54,050; Rochester, SENATOR PAUL YUZYK—Supreme Director for Canada Special conations 5755.00 N.Y.—53,397; Buffalo, N.Y.—53,301; MARY DUSHNYCK—Supreme Vice-Presidentess In 1975 a total of 576 organizations Hartford, Conn.-52,522; Youngs- WALTER SOCHAN—Supreme Secretary remitted 517,115, and in 1976, 627 or­ town, 0.-52,160, which surpassed its ULAN A DIACHUK—Supreme Treasurer ganizations contributed 521,536. Indivi­ collections in 1975 and 1976; Southeast STEFAN HAWRYSZ—Supreme Organizer dual donors contributed 5110,627 in 1975, and 5118,986 in 1976. (Continued on page 6) 4 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JANUARY 8, 1978 No. 6 UNA 1978 Almanac Is off the Presses UNA'ers Pay Last Tribute JERSEY CITY, N.J.—The 1978 MAHANOY CITY, Pa.-Over 300 as well as scores of members. Mr. Calendar-Almanac of the Ukrainian persons, among them a large contin­ Lesawyer delivered a eulogy at the National Association, a book contain­ gent of UNA'ers led by Supreme Presi­ gravesite. ing over 300 pages of print, is off the dent Joseph Lesawyer, paid their last The services commenced in the presses and will be mailed to all Svoboda respects to the late Michael Hentosh at morning at the Trazkowsky Funeral subscribers in the first half of January. the funeral services held here Wednes­ Home and continued at St. Nicholas This year's Almanac was edited by day, December 28. Mr. Hentosh, a Ukrainian Catholic Church. The re­ Leonid Poltava who was commission­ long-time UNA and community acti­ mains of the late Mr. Hentosh were ed for this assignment by the UNA vist, died here Sunday, December 25, buried at St. Nicholas cemetery. Supreme Executive Committee. at the age of 86. Officiating at the funeral services The Almanac is dedicated to the 60th In addition to Mr. Lesawyer, other were the following clergy: Rev. John anniversary of the Fourth Universal, Soyuz officers in attendance were: Bura, pastor of St. Nicholas Church; the 60th anniversary of the November Tymko Butrey, chairman of the UNA Rev. Raymond Revak, pastor of the First Act, as well as other anniversa­ Anthracite Region District Committee Ukrainian Catholic Church in Bristol, ries, notably Svoboda's 85th, The Uk­ which was headed by Mr. Hentosh for Pa.; Rev. Hilary Wroblewsky, pastor rainian Weekly's 45th, "Veselka's" 25 years until his voluntary retirement of Ss. Peter and Paul Ukrainian Orth­ 25th. The material is contained in such a few years back; John Petruncip, sec­ odox Church in Freeland, Pa., who is chapters as History, Literature and retary of Branch 78; Joseph Sedor, sec­ also president of UNA Branch 429. Poetry, Articles, and others. retary of Branch 90; John Kudrych, A wake was held following the burial president of Branch 164, and his wife, More than thirty persons penned Cover page of the UNA Almanac at the Village Inn here. articles for this year's Almanac, 1978, designed by Ukrainian Canadian among them: I. Kedryn, I. Durbak, artist Petro Sydorenko. R.S. Holiat, I. Wernyhora, Dr. M. Kushnir, Dr. I. Huryn, two recent provided at the end of the book. Many Aliquippa Youth Dies of Car Crash Injuries emigres from Ukraine: W. Lechter and illustrations supplement the text. PITTSBURGH, Pa.-An 18-year- John Molnar Jr., 37, Church Lane, Y. Kuzma, L. Poltava, V. Barka, V. Despite rising costs of printing and old Aliquippan, injured in an auto Ambridge. Avramenko, I. Swit, L. Kolensky, W. mailing, the price of the book remains Matiash was home on leave from Lewenetz, B. Tershakovec, R. Sochan, accident, Thursday night, December S5.00. Each person receiving the Alma­ 22, in Center Township died Friday, Sheppard Air Base in Texas, where he Z. Snylyk, E. Skaskiw. There are several nac is also asked to contribute to the was serving in the U.S. Air Force. English articles and for the Ukrainian December 23, in Presbyterian Univer­ Press Fund and thus help defray the sity Hospital here. Born May 13, 1959, in Aliquippa, he articles-English-language resumes are costs of publication. Michael Matiash of Grand Avenue, was a member of Ss. Peter and Paul Aliquippa, sustained a fractured skull in Ukrainian Catholic Church, UNA the crash. Branch 120, and other organizations. B'nai B'rith Bulletin Surviving are his parents, Eli and He was a passenger in a car driven by Ann Luschkowski Matiash; his mater­ Cites Ukrainian Dissidents James Raab, 19, of Kennedy Boulevard, nal grandmother, Mrs. Iulinka Lusch­ Aliquippa. MAPLEWOOD, N.J.—The Decem­ fically to the cases of Vyacheslav Chor- kowski; one brother, Peter; and three ber 1977 issue of the Bulletin of the novil, Semen Gluzman, Ihor Kalynets, Center Township police said the sisters, Mrs. John (Marie) Ayers, Mrs. South Mountain Lodge of the B'nai Valentyn Moroz, Yuri Orlov, Vasyl Raab auto was stopped on a local Marino (Linda) Refice and Christine, B'rith published here, recently carried Romaniuk, Mykola Rudenko and road just south of the entrance to the at home. an example of a letter which could be Oleksa Tykhy. Six of the eight political Gee Bee Plaza, waiting to make a left Funeral services were held, Monday, sent to President Jimmy Carter or prisoners mentioned are Ukrainians. turn onto Wagner Road, when it was December 26, to Ss. Peter and Paul other U.S. officials calling on them to Short biographies of the political struck in the rear by a vehicle driven by Cemetery, Ambridge. appeal through Ambassador Arthur prisoners were also printed in the Goldberg to the signatories of the Hel­ Bulletin. sinki Accords to honor its human The South Mountain Lodge is re­ rights provisions. Sakha rovs... portedly one of the largest lodges of (Continued from page 2) The sample letter also referred speci­ the B'nai B'rith in the world. could visit a prisoner," Dr. Sakharov amnesty that was announced Nov. 5," said. Protesting, the three visitors took Dr. Sakharov said. The amnesty, Kiev, Moscow Groups... beds in a dormitory used by visitng signed by Leonid I. Brezhnev in his (Continued from page 1) camp administrators, at 75 cents a capacity of President, did not benefit (Pyotr Grigorenko), Malva Landa, The arrests and trials in the Soviet night. They traveled to the end of the political prisoners bur applied to wo­ Vladimir Slepak, Naum Meiman, and Union, they said, reveal the govern­ rail spur to Yavas to appeal but there, men, war veterans and older prisoners Elena Bonner; and (supporters) G. ment's fear of the growth of rights-ori­ too, the acting deputy administrator of serving sentences of less than five Syerykh, A. Lavut, A. Sakharov, Yu. ented citizens and defense groups. Zone 20 was adamant. years. Hrymn, H. Yakunin, V. Kapitanchuk, The full text of the appeal will be "They told us that 200 of the 1,500 V. Komarova, Z. Hryhorenko (Gri­ published by the Vasyl Symonenko 20 Camps people in Zone 20 were eligible, and gorenko), O. Podrabinek, A. Yas- publishing house. that a special commission had been set trauskas, T. Velikanova, L. Poluek- The statement was signed by: (Uk­ "All up and down the railroad," Dr. up to determine which ones should go tova, N. Strokata, V. Mashkova, K. rainians) Lev Lukianenko, Oksana Sakharov said, "there are camps in the free," Mrs. Sakharov said. "So far Liubarsky, H. Salova, I. Danyliuk, V. Meshko, Olha Heyko, Petro Vins, Oles woods, all barracks-type buildings in­ they have not freed anyone, but they Bakhmyn, I. Zholkovska, I. Valitotsa- Berdnyk, and Ivan Kandyba; (Moscow side barbed wire - about 20 camps have decided that 10 may go free in Orlova, V. Turchyn, Yu. Hastev. Group members) Petro Hryhorenko altogether. Three of them are for poli­ February," concluded Mr. Whitney's tical prisoners, and Kuznetsov is in an report. isolation camp with 42 others." Report Repressions in Ukraine... The prisoner refused the 50-pound (Continued from page 2) package of canned meat, bouillon, Hertsyk was thrown out of the party, soners made plans to kill Cherednychen- orange juice, chocolate, tea and coffee Joint Pastoral... that Aleksei had backpacked in his Karponiuk was expelled from the uni- ko for his betrayal, but the officials dis- (Continued from page 1) versity, and searches were conducted in covered the plot and transferred him rucksack. The Sakharovs concluded the apartments of Kovalenko and out. The inmates thought he was that Mr. Kuznetsov had begun a would bring greater glory to God, and Obertas. The seventh person, the infor- placed in another camp. Later it was hunger strike to protest the authori­ what a great accomplishment this mer, was left alone, and given a pro- revealed that since that time, Chered- ties' refusal to allow the visit. would be for our people," said the pas­ motion in his job. Reportedly, the in- nychenko was in Kiev living a life of lu- "I knew Eddie very well," Mrs. Sa­ toral. "This unification is possible and former was to be used again, but since xury. He became a teacher, lived in a kharov said, "and he was always it depends on us and God's will." his identity was revealed, he will only spacious apartment, drove a "Zhy- against hunger strikes because they The pastoral said the culmination of be used as the principal witness against guli" auto, and had a larged salary. In- sapped a prisoner's strength. He did the 10-year effort to re-unite the Matusevych and Marynovych at their dications are that he still continues to seven years after he was arrested in churches would be the "best commem­ trial. supply the KGB with information 1961 for reading poems in Mayakovsky oration and a lasting monument" to the ф Dissident circles in Kiev also dis- about dissidents in Ukraine, Square in Moscow," she recalled, 1,000-year jubilee. covered the identity of another KGB " Vasyl Stus, a Ukrainian political "and it was the camp that made him an The pastoral voiced hope that on informer. Yevhen Cherednychenko has prisoner in the Magadansk oblast, suf- enemy of the system. If he is on a August 1, 1988, the anniversary of the been cooperating with the secret police fered broken heals on both feet after hunger strike, he will continue until he christening of Ukraine, clergy of the three since the end of the war. At that time jumping from a second story window dies." principal Ukrainian faiths would he was sentenced to death, but later it to save himself from an armed attack. Before they left Camp 385-16 last "stand around one altar, with one was commutted to 15 years in prison. The incident took place in August 20, week, the Sakharovs' fellow boarders voice and one heart culminate the In Vorkuta, Cherednychenko learned of 1977. He spent two months in a hospi- revealed to them something else about Bloodless Sacrifice in thanksgiving and an underground prisoner's group and ta^- On October 18, 1977, he was taken the way prisons work in the Soviet glory to God and the Holy Trinity." reported this to the officials. Many of back to the same compound, where he Union. "We desire this for ourselves and for the prisoners involved with this group is jivipg, without any security precau^ ,: ;'Щіеу told us that not a single: pri­ all Ukrainian faithful, we pray for were severely punished. Other pri- tions. і soner had yet been released tin the this," the pastoral concluded. No. 6 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JANUARY 8, 1978 5 Canadian Institute Helps Foster Ukrainian Identity

(The following article about the Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies at the USSR - the location of Soviet Uk­ dian community's court, and it is up to University of Alberta was written by Ihor Osakiwsky. It appeared in the January raine, the ancestral home of Ukrainian these people to demonstrate they are 7th edition of the Ukrainian Echo.) Canadians. interested in their ethnic survival in Its operating funds also represent the Canada, says the Harvard-educated EDMONTON, Alta.-During the cept historical documents in the ortho­ largest sum of public monies ever given professor. 1870's Tsarist Russia decided it was graphy of the original and "belles-let­ by a government to any Ukrainian pro­ finally time to rid the world of Ukraini­ tres" in the Russian alphabet. ject in the free world. Figures collected in the last full-scale ans. The 50-year-old director, himself a national census in 1971 show there are The arbitrary order also forbade the approximately 581,000 Ukrainian The plan didn't work - a hundred importation from abroad of Ukrainian third generation Canadian of Ukraini­ an ancestry, notes that despite Alberta Canadians living in Canada, out of years later the Alberta government be­ publications, and theatrical or musical which about 136,000 are Alberta resi­ gan funding a ''pilot'' project which is performances in Ukrainian. government financing, the institute is both promoting and testing the will of national in scope and not confined to dents, or close to nine percent of the Ukrainians as an ethnic group in Cana­ The Ems Ukase and the active Russi- this province. province's population. fication of the Ukrainian people, da. Dr. Lupul says he places his hopes which was its purpose, lasted two gen­ Predicts Success The project, supported annually erations and resulted in an increase of on the second generation of the third Ukrainian immigration — the chil­ with S350,000 of Alberta taxpayers' the number of illiterates in Ukraine to Although it is still too soon to pre­ money, is the Canadian Institute of 80 percent. . dren of those people who arrived in dict, Dr. Lupul has no doubt that Canada after the Second World War Ukrainian Studies (CIUS) set up at the Tying in the two historical events CIUS will be a success. University of Alberta last year. spread 100 years apart, Dr. Manoly R. - to take up the challenge offered by According to the Alberta-born direc­ the institute. Designed to serve the academic Lupul, CIUS director, says the cre­ tor, the institute is seen as the cap on needs of scholars in Ukrainian and Uk­ ation of the institute shows it is not go­ the Ukrainian educational dimension But if this young group of Canadi­ rainian-Canadian studies throughout ing to be as easy as some people might within the state school system from ans of Ukrainian descent does not the country, the institute was officially think to rid the planet of Ukrainians, grade school to university levels. come through, the future of the insti­ approved by the U of A's board of go­ as was the case in 1876. And Edmonton is envisaged as a re­ tute is "fairly uncertain", says its vernors on June 18, 1976, exactly 100 Dr. Lupul, who is also a professor at source center for the Ukrainian lan­ director. years to the day Russia's Tsar Alex­ the U of A's department of educational guage in Canada, with the institute as ander II signed the infamous and secret foundations, notes that with the insti­ CIUS is subject to review after the the most important information center first three years of operation and only Ems Ukase. tute at their disposal, Ukrainian Cana­ in that resource. dians can now do in Canada what was the inability to produce could result in Dr. Lupul stresses that the institute the cut-off of government funds. Forbade Publication impossible for anyone to do back in is concerned that Ukrainian studies in Ukraine during the dark period of the Canada prosper from the "cradle to The institute offers no courses or de­ The ukase - an arbitrary edict of Ems Ukase. the grave" and hopes to promote, co­ gree programs but endeavors to initiate the Russian emperor and government Since it is a public-funded rather ordinate and guide their development programs at Canadian universities in - forbade in Ukraine the printing in than a private institution, the CIUS at all levels. underdeveloped areas of Ukrainian the Ujcrainian language of anything ex- ranks as the first of its kind outside the The ball is in the Ukrainian-Cana­ studies.

Canadian Instituterfe Offers Grants To Stage Solidarity Day in PhiladelphiPhiladelphiaa EDMONTON, Alta.-Applications secondary level of education. The In­ PHILADELPHIA, Pa.-The Com­ From 7:00 to 8:00 that evening are invited for grants for research on Uk­ stitute supports the preparation of text­ mittee for the Defense of Valentyn Mo- a candlelight service will be held at the rainian Canadian and Ukrainian sub­ books, anthologies, readers, manuals roz here is staging a Day of Solidarity Ukrainian Catholic Cathedral of the Im­ jects in the disciplines of education, of instruction, bibliographies, collec­ with Ukrainians incarcerated in the So­ maculate Conception. history, the humanities, law, the tions of documentary or primary viet Union, on Thursday, January 12, The Day of Solidarity has been library sciences and the social source materials and inventories of at the City Hall. observed since January 12, 1974, by sciences. archival materials which are intended Joining the Committee in this de­ Ukrainian prisoners in Soviet camps on Research grants are intended to sup­ primarily for use at the post-secondary the appeal of Vyacheslav Chornovil in port Independent research on publish- level of education. fense action are Ukrainian youth or­ commemoration of the onset of arrests able projects conceived and carried out ganizations, TUSM, SUMA and Plast. in Ukraine on January 12, 1972. The by a scholar or a group of scholars. An Grants are not given to subsidize At noon there will be a one-hour prisoners stage a one-day hunger strike applicant for a research grant must be publications which the Institute has not vigil. The program includes the reading in protest against the "day of infamy," either a Canadian citizen or a landed commissioned or approved, or for of the City Council's resolution and a as Chornovil described it. He said that immigrant. work commissioned by a commercial letter of concern from Philadelphia's he would stage the hunger strike each The Institute welcomes proposals publisher. Nor are they awarded for judges to Leonid Brezhnev in behalf of year until he is released from incarcer­ whose primary focus is the develop­ work intended primarily for use in the the incarcerated Ukrainians. ation. ment or preparation of specialized ma­ public schools. JL terial for teaching purposes at the post- For applications please write to the Manor Hosts Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Stu­ Manor Personnel dies, 335 Athabasca Hall, The Univer­ Attend Convention Board Chairman Jersey City Is sity of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta T6G 2E8 or phone (403) 432-2972. JENKINTOWN, Pa.-Sr. Miriam JENKINTOWN, Pa.-Sr. Miriam Looking For Teachers Claire, OSBM, president, members of Claire, OSBM, president, hosted an JERSEY CITY, N.J.— The Jersey the administration, staff and faculty, afternoon reception for Thomas J. City School District is accepting appli­ attended the 91st Middle States Associ­ Lynch, vice-president of IVB and cations for teaching positions for the J.C. State College ation of Colleges and Schools Conven­ newly elected chairman of Manor 1978-79 school year, announced the tion, held at the Marriott Hotel in Phi­ Junior College's board of trustees, in local Board of Education. Continues Ukrainian Course ladelphia, Pa., December 7-9. the Seminar Room of the Basileiad Applications in the following sub­ The program of the convention was Library, from 3:00 to 5:00 p.m., on jects are being accepted: JERSEY CITY, N.J.—Jersey City highlighted at the opening ceremonies Sunday, December 4. Elementary schools (1-8); State College has announced that it will by a concert performed by the 40-mem- High schools: English, General Busi­ continue Conversational Ukrainian II ber Wind Symphony of the West Ches­ Some 60 guests came to extend their ness, Mathematics, Secretarial Studies, during the spring semester beginning ter State College, conducted by its di­ good wishes to the new chairman, and Science, Social Studies; Tuesday, January 17. rector, Kenneth L. Laudermilch. to renew acquaintances in a relaxed at­ The keynote address at the general mosphere, as they enjoyed hors Specials area : Special Education, The course, numbered 2940, will be Bilingual (Spanish), English as a session on "Articulation or Strangula­ d'oeuvres, champagne and fruit offered Thursdays from 5:30 to 8:15 tion" was presented by Clarence W. punch, as well as other gourmet foods, Second Language, Art, Health Educa­ p.m. It will be taught by Prof. Eugene tion, Home Economics, Industrial Blount, Maryland State Senator. served bouffet style. Fedorenko and it is given within the The Middle States Association of Col­ Arts, Physical Education. College's Ethnic Studies Program, co­ Applicants must be in possession of leges and Schools is a non-profit inde­ Among the guests present were Mr. ordinated by Prof. Thaddeus Gro- pendent membership organization a standard New Jersey Teacher's Cer­ mada. Lynch's parents and family, Mother tificate in one of the subjects listed or established in 1887 for the improve­ Theodosia, Provincial Superior of the be eligible for such a certificate by Students from area schools of higher ment of educational institutions and Sisters of St. Basil the Great, Mr. September 1,1978. learning, as well as non-students, can for the development of effective work­ Charles Bruderle, former chairman of Application forms are available at register for the course Tuesday, Jan­ ing relations among schools, institu­ the board, and Mrs. Bruderle, Brother the Personnel Office, Jersey City uary 10, from 8:30 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. tions of higher education and educa­ Patrick Ellis, FSC, President of Board of Education, 30 Montgomery and from 4:00 to 9:00 p.m., and Wed­ tional agencies in the Middle States re­ LaSalle College, members of the board St ., 9th floor, Jersey City, N. J. 07302. nesday, January 11, from 4:00 to 9:00 gion. Its commission on higher educa­ of trustees, and the advisory board, ad­ A standard self-addressed and stamped p.m. For further information inter­ tion is the responsible agent for the ministration, faculty and staff at Man­ envelope should be sent along with the ested persons can call Prof. Gromada accreditation of member institutions in or, and friends of Mr. Lynch and the request for the application form. at (201) 547-3252. this region. college. 6 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JANUARY 8, 1978 No. 6

Letter io the Editor THE I CBOBOAA^SVOBODA I Ukrainian Weal Inaccuracies Exposed (The letter below was sent by Dr. Lev E. Dobriansky, UCCA President to The New York Times in response to Craig R. Whitney's article, entitled "Jews in the Prepare for Our National Holiday Ukraine Charge that the Age-Old Anti-Semitism Persists." Dr. Dobriansky re­ In two weeks Ukrainians in the free world will be observing the 60th leased copies of the letter to the press, specifying that it can be published if The anniversary of the proclamation of Ukraine's independence, an event of vast N. Y. Times does not print it by December 31, 1977. Scores of other Ukrainian significance in the history of our people's struggle to regain liberty, it assumes Americans have also written letters to that newspaper. None of them have been added significance in the light of the current situation in Ukraine, notably the published thus far). spreading resistance movement and the defense of human and national rights. Dear Mr. Siegel: national disease. Wielding a double- Considering also President Carter's accentuation of human rights, In the interest of the best Jewish and edged sword, both Moscow and its beginning with his inaugural address through most recent statements during Ukrainian American understanding puppet government in Kiev seek the de­ his six-country visit, the climate is becoming increasingly propitious for our certain critical points deserve to be sired political effect of such an associ­ people's case to be heard. raised with reference to Craig R. Whit­ ation, and Whitney's article is a perfect And it is a valid case, constituting both a resounding expression of a ney's article of December 1st on "Jews example of how easily one could fall people's will sixty years ago and the crasses of violations of those people's in the Ukraine Charge that the Age- into the trap. The countervailing fact is rights by means of aggression. What followed in subsequent years was Old Anti-Semitism Persists." It con­ that thousands of non-Jewish Ukraini­ planned, willful cultural and physical genocide that only the stout fabric of tains a number of inaccuracies and ans have also been deprived of employ­ the Ukrainian soul sustained the nation over the years. But Moscow is misleading innuendoes which, if left ment at various universities, scientific relentless in its determination to annihilate Ukrainiafmm in all of its unanswered, could adversely affect the institutes, etc., because of disloyalty to manifestations and is not choosy about its means. The archipelagos of working understanding and cooper­ imperialist Moscow. As the Israeli ation that have been achieved since concentration camps is filled with prisoners, the majority of them - specialist on Jewish-Ukrainian affairs, World War II by Americans of the two Leo Heiman, observed years ago, "By Ukrainians. heritages. holding up the traditional Jewish Appropriately, the accent during the past few years in our observances of First, his unqualified statement that scapegoat, Moscow hopes to provide a the January 22nd anniversary has been on human and national rights in 4'anti-Semitism...was a powerful force ready-made emotional outlet for all the Ukraine. in the Ukraine for centuries before the pent-up hate and resentment against It is in this vein that we should continue the observances this year with an Nazis came" serves to revive the old the regime and conditions of life. But even stronger emphasis of Ukraine's right to freedom and independence. This myth of Ukrainian anti-Jewishness, the Ukrainians of 1961, according to is what we are being asked to do by our people in and out of jails. with its unfounded imputation of some all authoritative reports, are not the This year January 22nd falls on a Sunday. Let us make it a veritable sort of a national disease. In addition Ukrainians of 1941, just as the Jews of national holiday, with flags and other meaningful displays in our to its false insinuation, such an asser­ 1961 are not the Jews of 1941. This is neighborhoods, which tell our non-Ukrainian fellow citizens of our pride and tion does grave injustice to the cumula­ the reason why Moscow gets contrary of our concerns for our persecuted kin. tive efforts and deeds of all Jewish and results in Ukraine" ("The Ukrainian non-Jewish Ukrainians who have Quarterly", Summer 1961). The Wedge is Widening fought against this divisive instrument These phenomena of difference and of foreign Russian Czars, Russian contrary results are even more marked One of most salient yardstick's of a political system's success or failure is the Communists and German Nazis. now. Somewhat naively, and again number of people it keeps in jails. By that count, the Communist totalitarian Scholarship in this field has firmly with the same innuendoes, Whitney system that prevails in the Soviet Union, enslaving, as it does, entire nations, established the close correlation be­ makes much of a press campaign in So­ is totally bankrupt. tween the politicized anti-Jewishness of viet Ukrainian organs against Mr. Kis- Recent reports from Ukraine illustrate more than adequately, if relatively few lackeys and imperialist lik. But these same organs are also re- poignantly, the aberration that communism and party dictatorship has wrought on generations of people behind the Iron Curtain. There was a group of young students in Kiev at Christmas time last year, First, his unqualified statement that "anti- who wanted to sing Ukrainian carols, only to be disbanded and later arrested by the secret police. Semitism...was a powerful force in the Ukraine for University and even high school students are being thrown out of schools centuries before the Nazis came" serves to revive the on charges of "nationalism" and "anti-state activity." This was the case with Rev. Vasyl Romaniuk's son who was expelled from an institute, probably as old myth of Ukrainian anti-Jewishness, with its punishment for his incarcerated father's appeals to the Western world for unfounded imputation of some sort of a national help. disease. Another youth by the name of Serhiy Shevchenko was harassed and threatened with expulsion from an institute in Kiev because he is a Baptist. He was accused of having associated with the family of Georgi Vins, the authoritarianism or totalitarianism. As plete with scathing attacks against the Ukrainian Baptist pastor who is in a concentration camp. evidenced by the short-lived Ukrainian Ukrainian Catholic Church, the Ukrai­ These people, like their incarcerated predecessors, are products of the National Republic in the 1918-20 nian liberation movement and Ukrai­ system. They were born into it and raised within its confines. But the fact of period, a free, independent and demo­ nian American leaders. Significantly, the matter is that the system is a failure. It is inhuman because humans rebel cratic Ukraine would certainly pre­ World Zionism and Ukrainian "bour­ geois nationalism" are consistently against it. clude any breeding ground for such political instrumentation. Mr. Whitney viewed in these organs as being in an At the same time, it is obvious that the resistance to the system is spreading would do well to read the documented evil alliance. vertically and horizontally, and that even young people find its tenets work "Ukrainians and Jews" (New Furthermore, the article is inaccur­ unbearable. York, 1966). ate on the exclusion of Jews from the Hinging on the above point, my Ukrainian dance or choral ensembles National Fund Drive... second criticism centers on his treat­ in Ukraine. For instance, the Ukraini­ ment of the Babi Yar massacre in 1941. an "Yatran" Dance Company, which (Continued from page 3) Though he mentions the crime was visited the U.S. recently, had several Michigan-S2,000 (the campaign is in more, Md.-51,176; Yonkers, N.Y.— committed by the Nazis, he fails to young men and women of Jewish iden­ tity. In pursuit of its divisive policy the full swing in Detroit and UCCA offi­ 51,110, and Milwaukee, Wisc.-51,035. state specifically that along with the cials reports that Detroit (Southeast) Jews a sizable number of Ukrainians regime rarely operates by rule of sharp will surpass S5,000); Boston, Mass.- There are several Ukrainian com­ and Russians was also annihilated in exclusion. Sl,850; Jersey City, N.J.—Sl,835; munities which have yet to send their that massacre. More serious, in the full In conclusion, the writer stumbled Cleveland, 0.—SI,550; Syracuse, contributions, and it is hoped that they context of the article, featured as it is on a most delicate and complex subject N.Y.—51,535; New Haven, Conn.- will do so promptly. by "the age-old anti-Semitism" and which evidently he could not manage 51,470; Heamstead, N.Y.—51,375; In the next report on the progress of corollary assertions, the impression with perspective and critical acuity. Washington, D.C.—51,285; Bridge­ the fund-raising campaign the UCCA some readers might have obtained is The subject requires open and fair dis­ port, Conn.-51,275; Brooklyn, will publish the names of all individual that the Ukrainian people as such cussion. Toward this end the recent lec­ N.Y.—51,250; Elizabeth, N.J.— donors who contributed 550 or more to shared in the responsibility for this ture tour in the U.S. by Dr. Mikhail 51,220; Passaic, N.J.—51,200; Balti- the Fund. heinous crime. Nothing could be far­ Stern, a Ukrainian Jew and author of ther from the truth. "The USSR vs. Dr. Mikhail Stern" (New York, 1977) was a salutary con­ The 1977 fund-raising campaign for the Ukrainian National Fund ends Insufficient care in handling facts is tribution. It is regrettable that some of January 14, 1978. The goal of the campaign is 5150,000. This money is used shown, too, in the writer's account of our Jewish communities feared open­ for all UCCA operations, including administration, contribution to the the desperate state the Jewish scientist ing their doors to him. World Congress of Free Ukrainians, publications, defense of human rights Vladimir Kislik presently finds himself Lev E. Dobriansky in Ukraine, schools, youth programs, and so forth. If you have not as yet in. Considering all aspects of Mos­ Professor of Economics, contributed to the Fund, please remit your 525 to the UCCA: Ukrainian cow's barbarous emigration policy, it Georgetown University Congress Committee of America, 203 Second Avenue, New York, N.Y. is grossly erroneous to imply that his President, Ukrainian 10003. loss of employment can be attributed Congress Committee of to the Ukrainians and their mythical America No. 6 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JANUARY 8, 1978

Superb Recreation Wasn't He Lucky? (The review below, penned by Vickie Babenko of the College of William and by Roman J. Lysniak Mary, appeared in the Autumn 1977 issue of" World Literature Today," a literary quarterly of the University of Oklahoma). The church which counted among its parishioners our Uk­ Bohdan Antonych, "Square of An­ Ukraine. The Russian Communists are rainian American hero, John Subota, was having a raffle to gels," Mark Rudman, Paul Nemser, doing everything they can to keep the raise money, and was giving away a car, a color television set with Bohdan Boychuk trs., Ann Arbor, cultural life of the Ukrainian people at a and an expensive stereo set. Mich., Ardis, 1977, 69 pages. mediocre level. The earlier master poets John Subota worked extremely hard selling tickets, in fact, After Russia, Ukraine is the most and writers are only slowly emerging he sold more than his share. populous of the Soviet Republics. from oblivion. When the raffle was over, John Subota dropped in on his Although it is more closely guarded and This is the case with Bohdan Anto­ best friend, Dan Nedilia, who also served as president of the controlled by the KGB than is any other nych, who died in the 1930's at the age of parish council. The following conversation took place be­ national region, it enjoys certain privi­ twenty-seven. An unusually original, tween the two friends: leges: its representatives attend the totally apolitical poet, he left a body of John: "Good evening, Dan. By the way, who won the United Nations, and just recently an poetry which elevated him to the level of stereo set, John." American Embassy is being planned in the greatest Ukrainian artists. Needless Dan: "The secretary of our parish council won the stereo set, John/ Kiev. to say, his name is not even mentioned John: "And how many tickets did he have?" While Ukrainians are the second in contemporary Soviet Ukrainian Dan: "Only one, John. Wasn't he lucky?" largest Slavic nation, the study of the anthologies, and until 1967 he was never John: "That he was, Dan. And who won the color television set, Dan?" Ukrainian language and literature has republished. Dan: "The treasurer of our parish council won the color television set, John." been and still is greatly neglected at "Square of Angels" presents 49 John: ' 'And how many tickets did he have? " most American universities and col­ poems selected from different collec­ Dan: "Only one. Wasn't he lucky, John?" leges. The majority of American scho­ tions and translated into English. The John: "That he was, Dan. And who won the car?'' lars of Slavic studies are quite unfami­ book is divided into seven supposedly Dan: "Well! Ahem! I won the car, John, my dear friend." liar with the cultural and literary life of thematic chapters. The division appears John: "And how many tickets did you have, Dan, my dear friend?" the Ukrainian people. Due to this somewhat confusing and arbitrary, Dan: "Only one. Wasn't I the luckiest one among them all, John?" ignorance, many of them dismiss Ukrai­ however, since it does not correspond John: "That you were, Dan, that you certainly were." nian as a dialect of Russian; and with the original collection published in Dan: "By the way, John, my dear friend, how many tickets did you have?" Ukrainian history is regarded as a part Kiev in 1967. While some chapter titles John: "Not a single one, Dan, my dear friend. Wasn't I lucky?!" of Russian culture. However, through­ are preserved unchanged, the poems out centuries of struggle for indepen­ have been rearranged; a poem originally dence, and in spite of intense Russifica- from one chapter appears in a different tion since the Soviet occupation of place. This could mislead the student of Keeping Children Warm Ukraine, Ukrainians have retained a Antonych, who may look for some strong sense of national identity. Their meaning in the particular distribution from the desk of Pat M. Englebrecht, Home Economist language, which developed in a differ­ of poems under certain chapters. ent way from Russian, their original The poems selected represent differ­ literature and their history make up an ent periods of Antonych's life, reflecting With many school thermostats set at Knee socks worn over tights will help independent national heritage. his growing maturity. This poetry will 65 degrees to conserve energy in the un­ keep legs warm. Pants should be made During the post-revolutionary years impress the reader with its magic spell of seasonably cold weather, children's of a warm fabric and worn with acrylic Ukrainian intellectual life and literature imagery and Antonych's enchantment clothing must be chosen for warmth in­ or cotton socks to keep feet and legs experienced a spiritual revival which with life. doors as well as out. warm. Flannel backed jeans are a good produced outstanding poets and writ­ The subject of Antonych's poetry The answer to greater clothing choice for cold winter days. ers. If given a chance, they would have centers primarily on the world's crea­ warmth is in the selection of suitable fi­ Thermal underwear will also add in­ directed Ukrainian literature to the tion, on nature with all its visible and bers and fabrics and garment styling. sulation from the cold. T-shirts worn world's highest artistic achievements. invisible elements. The forces of nature Wool is the warmest natural fiber, underneath blouses and shirts can help Unfortunately, this national renais­ radiate light, color and music, which the and cotton also helps to maintain body save body heat, too. sance appeared as a threat to the poet catches with his senses and shapes warmth. Man-made fibers, which are Coats are important in maintaining Russian Communists and was destroy­ into Orphic metaphors, absolute and not good insulators when worn next to body heat on the way to school. ed. Although since Stalin's death Rus­ universal, which "taught trees to walk the skin, are nylon, polyester, triace­ Warmth without weight or restriction sian literature continues to enjoy a and stones to speak." Antonych's tate and acetate. Acrylics are the of movement is a necessity. Materials certain freedom, Ukrainian poets and original imagery conveys a timeless, warmest man-made fibers. such as leather, vinyl, suede and plastic writers are tried for "conspiracy," "pagan" philosophy, especially a love are naturally cold unless they have a "national chauvinism" and "modern­ for life: "Having sold my days to the Fabrics which give warmth are flan­ quilted or fleece lining. Wool coats and ism." The most talented of them are not sun/For hundred dukats of madness,/I nels, corduroy, fleeces and those knits coats with a lining are the best choices allowed to publish their works in Soviet (Continued on page 8) which have pronounced surface tex­ for keeping children warm. tures. Overheating the body can make chil­ Shoes which have an inner lining of dren more susceptible to illness. If your laminated tricot are potentially warmer child is generally more warm-blooded Lithuanian-Ukrainian Declaration than those where the foot is directly than others, be sure he isn't over­ against natural or man-made leather. dressed. Thicker soles are warmer, also. Tennis Clean clothing is essential in cold (The following is the full text of the Lithuanian-Ukrainian declaration, shoes are not a good choice for winter signed November 12, 1977, by Dr. J.K. Valiunas, president of the Supreme weather. Dirty clothing is not as warm weather because the flexible rubber as clean clothing because dirt fills the Committee for the Liberation of Lithuania, andMykola Liwycki, president sole allows cold to pass through. And air spaces in the fabric cutting down on of the Ukrainian National Republic in Exile.) the canvas allows body heat to be lost the ability of the clothing to keep the Having thoroughly examined the contemporary national situation and from the top of the shoe. child warm. considering the recent increase in Soviet repressive measures, directed against the people of Lithuania and of Ukraine, which stand in gross Bicycle Buying Guide contradiction to the pledges assumed by the Soviet Union in the Final Act of the Helsinki Conference in 1975, Many children are being injured un­ ally slower, but comfortable for Recalling the traditional friendship that has always linked the Lithuanian necessarily by bicycles, tricycles and straight riding because of its low riding and the Ukrainian nations, and mini bikes. Not just from misuse, but position. It is built to withstand rough Reverently remembering the 60th anniversary of the decisive events esta­ as a result of mismatching bicycle de­ handling. blishing the foundation of the statehood of our nations: the decision of the signs to the rider's skill and size. Buy­ The Lightweight bike is designed for Ukrainian Central Council, on January 22, 1918, substantiated by the exis­ ing and using a bicycle requires a bit speed rather than a soft ride and is an tence of the Ukrainian independent state in the form of the Kievan Grand more preparation than just mounting excellent choice for touring and racing. Duchy during the 10-12 centuries, to proclaim Ukraine as an indepen­ the saddle and pedaling off. Pat Engle­ It has narrow, high pressure tires, and dent sovereign republic, and the decision of the Lithuanian State Council, brecht, Home Economist for the usually comes with hand brakes and 3 on 16 February 1918, to restore the Lithuanian State established by Min- Cooperative Extension Home Econo­ to 15 gears. The different gear speeds daugas in the year 1253. mics Department in Broward County allow for adjustment to road and rid­ The Chairman of the Supreme Committee for Liberation of Lithuania says no matter what brand you choose ing conditions. Both American and Eu­ and the President of the Ukrainian National Republic in Exile, in virture of for safety and joy, make certain the bi­ ropean models are available. the decisions of the appropriate executive organs, have agreed: cycle is the right size and style for the The rider who wants a good Light­ 1. to seek closer collaboration in the sacred struggle against the Soviet rider. weight bicycle, continues Pat Engle­ oppression of our nations, through the intensification and coordination of Bicycles come in three basic styles: brecht, will be wise to try out models our endeavors, aimed at the restoration of complete independence for the Middle Weight, the Lightweight, with different conditions before select­ Lithuania and Ukraine, and and the High Rise. The Middle Weight ing the model that best suits his need 2. following the restoration of independence, to go on cultivating the tra­ is recommended for the younger child and pleasure. ditional friendship between the Lithuanian and Ukrainian people, to deepen who lacks skill and maturity in control­ The High Rise has high handlebars, cultural collaboration, and to base mutual relations between the states of ling the bicycle. It has a sturdy frame, an enlongated saddle and rear saddle Lithuania and of Ukraine on irrevocable friendship. heavy wheels, and wide soft-pressure support behind the seat. This bike may tires. The Middle Weight bike is gener­ (Continued on page 15) THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JANUARY 8, 1978 No. 6 Plishka to Appear UCCA Representatives Visit Bishop Losten In Independence Concert STAMFORD, Conn.-Representa­ tives of the UCCA Executive Board, the New York City UCCA Branch and the St. George's Ukrainian Catholic Church Building Committee paid a New Year's Eve visit to Bishop Basil Losten Saturday afternoon, December 31, at St. Basil's College here. The community activists also greeted the newly installed Bishop of the Stam­ ford Eparchy on the occasion of his name day the following day and pre­ sented him with an icon of the Ma­ donna, painted by Ukrainian artist Bohdan Bozhemsky.

Greeting Bishop Losten on behalf of the UCCA Executive Board was Joseph Lesawyer, Vice-President, while Ivan Bazarko and Roman Huh- lewych greeted Bishop Losten on be­ Joseph Lesawyer, left, presents Bishop Losten with an icon of the Madonna, half of the New York UCCA branch while Ivan Bazarko, right, looks on. Also seen are, left to right, Dr. Weresh, Mr. and the Building Committee, recpec- Wynnyk, Dr. Snihurovych and Mr. Huhlewych. tively. Present were: (UCCA Executive Board) J. Lesawyer, Dr. Michael Sni- hurovych, Dr. Walter Dushnyck, I. Bazarko, Prof. John Teluk, Askold Lozynskyj, Ihor Dlaboha, Iwan Wynnyk and Dr. Wolodymyr Nester- czuk; (N.Y. UCCA Branch and Build­ ing Committee) Rev. Dr. Wolodymyr Gavlich, pastor of St. George's; R. Paul Plishka Huhlewych, chairman of the Building Committee; George Wolynetz and his IRVINGTON, N.J.—Paul Plishka, wife, Lubov, who represented the the leading bass with the Metropolitan UNWLA Museum and Soyuz Ukrai- Opera Company in New York City, nok; Bohdan Lastowecky ; irena Kuro- will headline the jubilee concert dedi­ wycky, Plast; Kornel Wasylyk, cated to the 60th anniversary of Ukrai­ SUMA; Daria Stepaniak, WADFFU; nian independence here at Irvington Michael Luchuf, M. Huzar and P. High School Sunday, January 22, be­ Switnicki, Ukrainian Catholic War ginning at 4:00 p.m. Veterans; Dr. Wasyl Weresh, Carpa­ thian Research Center; Dr. Roman, This is the first time that Mr. Plishka Holiat, and Roman Krupka, ODWU. will appear at a Ukrainian Indepen­ man Krupka, ODWU. UCCA activists visit Bishop Basil Losten at St. Basil's College. dence Day Program. Mr. Plishka, who is an internation­ ally renowned opera singer, recently re­ turned from appearances in Toronto, Houston Club Shows "Yalynka" at Museum Ont., where he received superb re­ views. HOUSTON, Tex.-During the month of December, the Museum of Also appearing in the program, Natural Science here featured 9 beau­ sponsored by the Newark-Irvington tifully decorated Christmas trees for UCCA Branch, will be: Valya Kalyn, the thousands who pass through the Ukrainian stage actress; Raphael museum to gaze upon. Wenke, violinist; Laryssa Krupa, pia­ The Ukrainian Social and Cultural nist; and the "Dumka" chorus and Club of Houston was privileged to "Young Dumka" chorus directed by have been chosen to show a bit of Uk­ Semen Komirnyj. The keynote address rainian culture in dressing the ' 'yalyn­ will be delivered by Dr. Jaroslaw ka." This was the third consecutive Padoch. year that the club was invited to parti­ cipate in this exhibition. Lidia Earl, Lydia Balahutrak, Oksa- na Danylyk, Sonia Tymniak, Helen Kichtan, Justyna Uschak and Daria Superb Recreation Byrd worked diligently, hand-making a huge assortment of ornaments with (Continued from page 7) which to bedeck the 15-foot spruce. shall stay an enchanted pagan,/ A singer of heady Mays." Nature, as a center of The theme of the tree was "Faces of his poetry, encompasses also the cre­ Ukraine," and it was laden with many ative process: pain, joy, danger, death handcrafted dolls in colorfully embroi­ and ecstasy. dered Ukrainian costumes, glittering stars, beaded eggs, frosty icicles and a Ukrainian poetry is rarely translated variety of tubular strawlike ornaments. into English, while there are many Beneath the trees was an assortment of translations from Russian. Yet none of packages, all decorated with embroi­ them even comes close to this superb dered bows and ribbons. There were recreation of the poet's world and work. also two 2-foot tall dolls, attired in Uk­ The translators should be congratulated rainian costumes amid the various for their achievement. Thanks to them, packages. The tree was topped with a the scholars and the public alike can large silver and gold shining star, which on one side had the inscription enjoy the work of this outstanding poet - and representative of a so-called minor "Khrystos Rozhdaietsia" and on the nationality. Such "minor" nationalities, other "Slavite Yoho." in their artistic achievements, are not at The club choir presented a melodi­ all inferior to their "older brothers," the The Ukrainian '"yalynka" at the Houston Museum of Natural Science. ous program of Ukrainian Christmas Russians. (Photo by Robert Palmer) carols on December 18th. No. 6 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JANUARY 8, 1978 UNA Announces Convention... (Continued from page 1) from Quebec - did not help the mat­ The newly-introduced TP-65 juve­ Minutes of the 1977 annual meeting invested into the 15-story structure, and ters, said Mrs. Diachuk. nile certificate brought in only six of the UNA Supreme Assembly are now that last year income from rent She went on to report on interest applicants in November, but December being published in Svoboda. amounted to 51,532,536.33. With ex­ payment to holders of UNA promis­ enrollments already number 25 and are All members of the Supreme Assem­ penses totalling 51,142,318.97, net pro­ sory notes and siad that a payment in expected to rise. It should become a bly will receive letters requesting their fits from the Ukrainian Building the amount of some S90,000 was being popular class in 1978. The current slow convention reports, to be mailed to the amounted to 5390,217.36. Income readied for mailing to persons holding enrollment in this class can be attribut­ Home Office no later than March 31, from the UNA headquarters is ear­ notes in the amount of S5,000 and ed to the pressure of secretaries and or- 1978, because all reports must be print­ marked for repaying loans on the higher. A total of 5271,866 was paid in ganziers in signing up more new adult ed in book form and mailed to all dele­ building, he said. interest on promissory notes in 1977, to members, in order to fulfill Branch re­ gates prior to the Convention. Mr. Lesawyer also informed the the banks - S162,115, and to the UNA quirements for eligibility to a delegate UNA executives about certain admin­ - S241,400. Funds from promissory at the forthcoming UNA convention. istrative problems faced by Soyuz, and notes reached the total of 55,116,000, Class TP-65 is expected to become Organization told them of the plan to implant a pla­ of which 52,691,000 came in 1977, at­ more popular in the future than the 5 que with the names of UNA Supreme testing to the confidence members have and 10-year term certificates introduc­ Mr. Hawrysz reported that as of Officers of 1974, the year the building in Soyuz. She said she expects more re­ ed 10 years ago. December 27, 1977, the UNA had was opened, on the wall of the struc­ quests in early 1978, which will help gained a total of 3,475 new members ture. pay off the sum of 51.13 million in The Recording Department has insured for a total of 58,879,000, with During the past 11 months, said Mr. bank loans. mailed forms to all Branches for re­ December until the day of the meeting Lesawyer, Soyuzivka's income increas­ Mrs. Diachuk also reported that spe­ porting their Branch officers for 1978, bringing in a total of 400 new members ed by some 550,000, but expenses con­ cial lists were sent out to all UNA whose election, according to UNA by­ insured for a total of S934,000. He re­ nected with the renovation of the Branches in the U.S., asking for contri­ laws, must take place at the annual ported that four Districts, Winnipeg grounds and buildings at the UNA butions for the maintenance of the Uk­ Branch meeting before March 31, (John Hewryk, chairman), Shamokin estate also rose during the same time. 1978. rainian National Information Service (Tymko Butrey), Wilkes-Barre (Ro­ Svoboda income was highter by in Washington. Six Branches have Formal announcement of the 29th man Diakiw), and Cleveland (Ivan 532,000 last year, while expenses in­ already returned their quite generous Regular Convention will be published Fur), have attained 100 percent or creased by 527,000. A new offset ma­ contributions. The four Ukrainian fra- in the first 1978 issue of Svoboda, with more of their annual quota of new chine was purchased for the printing ternals have pledged to raise a total of the notice that delegates to this conven­ members. He also cited the following shop, but it is still inoperable because 55,000 for the Washington bureau. tion must be elected at a meeting held Districts which have attained 75 per­ electricity has not yet been switched on sometime between January 2nd and cent of their quotas or more but short in that portion of the work area. Membership Movement March 3rd. Two copies each of creden­ of 100 percent: Allentown (Anna Mr. Lesawyer also added that he has tials for delegates and alternates will be Haras, chairman), Montreal (Tekla been receiving complaints from In eleven months of 1977, reported mailed to Branches, for as many dele­ Moroz), Philadelphia (Petro Tarnaw- UNA'ers about lack of Soyuz material Mr. Sochan, UNA Branch secretaries gates and alternates as the Branch is sky), Pittsburgh (Andrew Jula), Jersey in Svoboda. and organizers have enrolled 3,075 new entitled to, according to the total num­ City (Stephan Ostrowsky), Boston (W. Mr. Lesawyer concluded his report members, which number should be in­ ber of voting members in the Branch as Mihowan), and Syracuse-Utica (Myko- by informing the executive officers creased by over 600 by the end of the of December 31, 1977, that is, as listed la Pawiiw). Leading among Districts about the joint meeting of the four Uk­ year, from all indications to date. This on the January 1st assessments. ^ with the largest number of new mem­ rainian fraternals in Scranton, the pub­ gives promise that 1977 will end with­ Ten days after the election of the bers organized were: Philadelphia with lication of the 1978 UNA Almanac, out a loss in total membership. delegates, Branches must return to the 407, followed by Chicago with 389, Dr. Mikhail Stern's visit to the United Active UNA membership as of Nov­ Home Office one copy each of the Cleveland with 325, and Detroit with States, and matters relating to the ember 30, 1977, numbered 67,462, delegates' and alternates' credentials, 171. UCCA and the World Congress of after an 11-month loss, totalling 867 completed and signed. Each delegate In Canada, which has a quota of 700 Free Ukrainians. active members. Total membership will then receive an acknowledgement new members, a total of 420 were or­ Mr. Dragan stated that since the last stood at 87,464 and included 22,661 ju­ of approval of his or her credentials, ganized thus far. meeting of the Executive Committee veniles, 58,319 adults and 6,484 hold­ plus a hotel registration form for the Among leading organizers were: M. little transpired in the publishing ing ADD certificates. Pittsburgh Hilton Hotel. Olshansky with 100 new members, J. department requiring the Committee's Hewryk with 68, Charles Kobito with special attention. 57, John Petruncio with 53, Tekla After a brief discussion on the re­ Moroz and Theodore Duda with 50 ports rendered and their adoption, Sushko Brothers Receive each. Mrs. Diachuk reviewed the dividend Both Vice-Presidents, Dr. Flis and payments since the last convention in Baltimore Awards Mrs. Dushnyck, reported on their or­ 1974. In that year, Soyuz paid out a BALTLMORE, Md.-In 1976 it was superior contribution of devotion, ganizing efforts and representative total of 5426,000 to certificate holders; Jaroslaw G. Sushko, and in 1977, his bro­ pride, support and promotion of the functions. Mrs. Dushnyck also described in 1975 the amount was 5475,000, in ther, Wolodymyr, was selected as one Baltimore community." material prepared by her in both 1976 - 5471,111, and in 1977 - of Baltimore's best citizens. Last year his brother received a simi­ English and Ukrainian for UNA pro­ 5505,000. She moved and Mr. Sochan Wolodymyr Sushko was nominated larly worded citation. motional purposes. seconded the motion that the 1977 for the award by his brother. Wolodymyr Sushko is chairman of Dr. Flis rendered brief reports on the amount be also paid out in 1978. After In a letter to Mr. Sushko, dated the Department of Education Grounds work of two committees that he heads, a brief discussion the motion was December 8, 1977, Samuel J. Palmi- Division. He developed a nature center one designated to iron out misunder­ adopted. sano, chairman of the Baltimore is Best for inner city youths. standings, the other charged with the After Mr. Sochan reported on the Committee, the civic minded Ukraini­ Jaroslaw Sushko is in charge of city preparation of a new method of elec­ convention announcement, Mr. Hawrysz outlined the convention year an American was told that he was plant nurseries and helped his brother tions at the convention. If the delegates membership campaign whose goal was also selected as one of the nominees to develop the nature center. approve, balloting machines will be receive the "Best of Baltimore's Best" employed. set at 5,000 new members insured for Both Sushkos are active in the Balti­ 510 million. The convention, the 85th award. more Ukrainian community and are Mr. Lesawyer began his report by expressing satisfaction at the steady anniversary of Svoboda, the 45th anni­ The certificate was given to Mr. members of UNA Branch 320, of financial growth of the UNA with versary of The Ukrainian Weekly, and Sushko this year "in recognition of the which John Malko is secretary. higher income and interest. He also the 25th anniversary of "Veselka" noted increased expenses, but said that (The Rainbow) will be the main themes they were within the limits of the bud­ of the campaign. A N.Y.C. Commissioner get. After discussing matters relating to The Recording Department has been organization and Ukrainian communi­ quite efficient, said Mr. Lesawyer, ty life, Mr. Lesawyer adjourned the Is of Ukrainian Heritage despite being undermanned. During meeting and the executive officers NEW YORK, N. Y.—One of the new town of Elmira, N.Y. At 21, he began the past year, the UNA received joined UNA and Svoboda employees, commissioners selected by New York his career in the New York State penal approval from insurance commissions their families, as well as some invited City Mayor Edward I. Koch to serve in ficilities, first as a guard. to introduce three new plans, among guests, at a Christmas party hosted by the municipal administration is of Uk­ them the youth TP-65 certificate which Soyuzivka manager Walter Kwae and rainian heritage, said the Daily News Mr. Ciuros married at 18 his high has already been made available to the his assistants. school sweeheart, the former Martha December 30, 1977. Ukrainian community. Season's greetings were impr by Maines, and the couple now has five ( William C uros (pionoimced q-rus), The Organizing Department a\sc Mr - ^sawyer, Мгь. Diachuk, K' i s a son of 'V Mr 'діпіап laborer father children, three of whom are married, Пігд ,4d:^in^tfative dlor! -\ and three grandchildren. showed gams :!tis y^a^ eomp-д -ed re the лпс! U?i ль dinner, was appointed I -cvious ^ear. M'. Lr-aw.^e; -ь'і ^at !^'. - , M M^^laBO^:.' "Готп^с^о ' 4 the Corrections At 43, the six-foot, 240-nou-i Mi. ^rcar^r cmphp-L r-.i.o. I t ^ :u 5 ^ ^-j Dep; rtm r Ciuros said that the new post ^ ^ Crc ' " "jl z .. Studio si ri , Tl^ r ,м \ ;ng Mi. Ciiiros was "ultimate in his career/' which saw hamper pj'jgffs in ьіі^ respeu. 4 selected ^ a tough position, but his him rise from a high school drop-out ,o Mr. Lesawyer continued his ^:jsii -'Г /t^eKa", Pi of, iVJ L^on. i\ life has taught him how to be tough. deputy commissioner of the New York by providing statistics on the status and Kwas and Andrij Lesiw, boy їх.., ка He fought ds a light-heavy weight in State Department of Correction and operation of the Ukrainian Building. employee. Caroling by all addea ro the amateur boxing matches in his home­ now to a City Hall post. He said that 513,981,949.90 has been warmth of this annual get-together. 10 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JANUARY 8, 1978 No. 6 The Rudenko-Tykhy Trial (4) (The trial of My kola Danylovych Rudenko, born in 1920, and Oleksiy I committed no crime against Soviet vestigators there fabricated a case Ivanovych Tykhy, was the first court proceeding against members of the Helsinki rule. All my activities were directed against me. The prosecutor there also monitoring movements in the Soviet Union, The trial was held in the small town of against bureaucratic distortions. All demanded a sentence of 10 years for Druzhkivka, near Donetske, from June 23, 1977, to July 1, 1977. The court was my civic passions... were aimed at eli­ me. There I dismissed my lawyer and I presided over by Edvard Mykolayevych Zinchenko, deputy chairman of the minating (these distortions) and not at did not have defend myself against Donetske Oblast Court of Criminal Cases, The people's assessors were Perush, overthrowing Soviet rule. him. The main point there was also the Lukashenko and Bezverkhnyi, alternate. The secretary was Nadia Hryhorivna I do not consider myself guilty of fact that I had graduated from Mos­ Susidko. The prosecutor was Arzhanov from Kiev, Rudenko's counsel was Fedir any charges in the indictment... As cow University. The prosecutor at that Ivanovych Aleksyevin, and Tykhy's counsel was Koretsky. The proceedings of the Tykhy said, "(they've) sentenced a bull trial need not have made his remarks, case comprise 4/ volumes. The following account of the trial was translated by the for eating hay." as he need not have made them here. Committee for the Defense of Soviet Political Prisoners in New York City.) Oleksiy Ivanovych Tykhy's The court did not prove a single charge (born 1927) Final Statement. of the indictment, but on the basis of The Defense of Oleksiy ation the reasons why Tykhy chose this Abbreviated. "internal convictions" sentenced me to Ivanovych Tykhy path. He did so under the influence of 7 years' imprisonment and 5 years' loss Attorney Koretsky said that the people like Lukyanenko and others. I must declare (at the outset) that my of rights. I was not the only one con­ Court, acting in accordance with Art. final statement will concern itself only victed . I recall others Ill of the Constitution of the USSR, with the case at hand. I ask that my words be recorded. I believe that I will JUDGE: Tykhy! Tykhy! There's no had assigned him to defend O.I. need to list the sentences of all those with Tykhy. Koretsky said: Mykola Rudenko's Final Statement need from 4 to 6 hours for the pre­ Citizen judges! sentation of my final statement. whom you were imprisoned. That way In my opinion, the judges have taken you could talk 6 or even 8 hours... a questionable position in this case, Standing before you today is the word. JUDGE: If you repeat yourself or and I wish to express my active defense mock the Court, we will interrupt you. (TYKHY) I wrote to every depart­ of I.I. Tykhy, who is charged under In the beginning was the Word, ment and always received the same And the Word was with God You, Tykhy, know too much. It would Art. 62, Sect. II and Art. 222, Sect. II be better if you knew less. reply: "convicted justly". Why do I in­ of the Criminal Code of UkSSR. And the Word was God! sist upon a stenographic or taped re­ Let me refer to Art. 222 - "con­ (The Gospel according to St. John, (TYKHY) As I have already stated, I cord, that is a scrupulous record, of the cerning the possession of firearms". Chapter I) do not consider myself guilty of a proceedings? Because after 20 years I single charge in the indictment. I am had the opportunity to acquaint myself An old German rifle, almost complete­ No matter how we might deny ideal­ ly eaten away by rust, was found in the forced to defend myself not only be­ with my old "case" and what did I ism... The Word found itself in Man, fore the investigators who fabricated find? The record omits many of the house of Tykhy's mother, in a storage in Logos... This is the knowledge of space under the straw roof. These cir­ my "case", and before the prosecutor, questions I asked witnesses; my final the Universe about itself. From this it but also before my lawyer. His profes­ statement is missing. The testimony, cumstances should draw our special at­ follows that you are in the position of tention. In order to find Tykhy (guilty) sional duty is to defend, not to accuse. on the whole, is recorded accurately, having to judge the Universe for hav­ of possessing firearms we need proof. He should have stated that in accor­ but all it contains is that "the school What proof did the prosecutor pre­ ing embodied itself in Man (in the form dance with Article 62 the presence of a has reached a blind alley". What con­ sent? The rifle was found in Tykhy's of) the Word... The Universe knows no lawyer is not compulsory, and left. stitutes my crime against Soviet rule in house, i.e...he must have hidden it. No boundaries. The Word must freely That is what my lawyer did during my this? further evidence was presented. Many transcend the boundaries of hearts and first trial. But Koretsky went ahead witnesses were questioned during the states. Information which does not and spoke. And what is more, just as I The case record contains three docu­ preliminary investigation, and they all emanate from the mind destroys it­ expected, he devoted half his speech to ments. The first is dated 1958, in which said that during the war, Tykhy's older self... In order to determine whether a the matter of the rifle. The case con­ Sudarev, the same prosecurator who brother, Mykola, collected weapons society is progressive or regressive, tains not a single proof concerning this appeared at the trial, declared that: abandoned by the Germans as they re­ there must be freedom of the Word, matter, and he knew this. further action in this case in the form treated and himself was a partisan freedom of information... As Tykhy of surveillance is to be discontinued against the Germans. Later he was wrote: "The language of a people — is I am forced to describe my life. I am and the records sent for safekeeping to drafted into the army and died at the the people."... What is the role of the citizen of the USSR, a Ukrainian, and the Donetske KGB". The document is front, without having an opportunity writer and philosopher? It is the ex­ have never belonged to any parties. labelled "secret". Nine years later, to tell anyone about this rifle. There is pression of his beliefs. Article 19 of the The CPSU would not accept me, but I Yu. Ya. Noskov writes an identical do­ convincing evidence that Tykhy had no Universal Declaration of Human would not want to be a member of it cument, also labelled secret. The third connection with this rifle. Rights states: "Everyone has the right anyway, since (I disagree) with certain document is once more signed by Pro­ to freedom of opinion and expression; articles in its constitution. When I was secutor Noskov. Of a more serious nature is the this right includes freedom to hold charge brought against Tykhy under 18 or 19 years old I read the collected JUDGE: Why are you telling us opinions without interference and to works of Lenin. I have always viewed Art. 62, Sect. II of the Criminal Code seek, receive, and impart information about that case? Proceed with the pre­ of the UkSSR. It deals with anti-Soviet life through my own eyes. I remember sent case. and ideas through any media regardless 1933, the famine; I remeifiber the war, agitation and propaganda. I am not of frontiers." (TYKHY) Why am I speaking about able to prove that he is innocent of this the fascists; I remember how they hung that case? Because on the basis of that charge, for his guilt has been esta­ people, the round-ups, the refugees, etc. I studied at the Transportation and "case", they want to add on from blished here, but not fully. There mere The Universal Declaration of Hu­ Agricultural institutes, worked on con­ three to eight years to my sentence. I fact that Tykhy signed the Declaration man Rights has been legalized by our struction in Zlatoust. Even then my consider it wrong that the court does and the Memorandums of the so-called government's ratification and must be credo was: "The road to freedom leads not even have a copy of the verdict Ukrainian Public Group To Promote law for our government... In my case through prison." from my first trial. I asked that it be in­ Implementation of the Helsinki the Word was never expressed, because Accords in itself constitutes a crime. In cluded in this case, but my request was no one has read (my) works. They con­ Afterwards I graduated from Mos­ denied. Can I expect a just sentence these documents, the Group accuses stitute an archive... you are not jud­ cow University and worked in a school, the government of deliberately creating from the court given these experiences? ging me, you are judging the Word... where I discovered my vocation. I Who is it then that is undermining the a famine in Ukraine in 1933 and uses You are judging the Universe, because worked in a village school, saw the vil­ such terms as '"genocide" and "ethno- authority of Soviet rule? Only the pro­ it is not what the KGB would like it to lage up close, from the inside. It was secutors, the judges, and the KGB, and cide" - terms that can be used only in be. then that I had my first encounter with conjunction with Hitlerite fascism. It not people like myself or Rudenko. the MVD. At that time, they only ob­ The records of the 1957 trial have been has been said that Tykhy began his Millions of Soviet citizens, writers served the "rebel" and did not con­ destructive activities in 1972. Tykhy hidden away, and nothing can be and scholars have been condemned for clude that "an unaccomodating atti­ learned about it. completed the sentence imposed on having said that there is no democracy tude towards bureaucrats" warranted him in 1957 in February 15, 1964. This in our country. For this they were arrest. Everyone recalls the 20th Con­ A search was conducted in Tykhy's means that by February 15, 1972, eight thrown behind barbed wire. The Soviet gress of the CPSU. During a confer­ (that is, my) home. They were looking years had elapsed, and in those 8 years government will not convince anyone ence held at my school, I presented a for "material goods stolen from Store Tykhy had not committed a single that this is not so in this fashion... My paper about the necessity of changing No. 7". Instead, they found articles, crime. For this reason, the present con­ crime consists in expressing my convic­ our educational system had reached a letters and a typewriter. Everything viction cannot be qualified as reci­ tions. How can the KGB prove that it is blind alley and that it needed to be re­ was confiscated. I was also taken in divism, since it is covered by a term of not violating Article 19 of the Univer­ organized according to Makarenko's and placed in the investigation deten­ 8 years' prescription. sal Declaration of Human Rights? views. I said that everyone has a right tion cell. I wished to speak to the pro­ Article 26 of the Criminal Code of Without the right to be a person... The to his own opinion, but in mine, we secutor, but this was denied. I an­ UkSSR states that a conviction that has Russian tsar, Nikolai I, was the most were not building communism. Then nounced a hunger strike. Then Melni- been rescinded or extinguished cannot ruthless of all the tsars, yet he punished began (a sereies of) questions from kov from the Donetske KGB visited me form the basis for qualifying a person Lermontov by exiling him from St. secretaries of the rayon party organiza­ and showed me the opuses of Stebun an especially dangerous recidivist. And Petersburg to the Caucasus to serve as tions. This was followed by a letter (I and others, and tore up two files in Tykhy's first conviction has been ex­ an officer in the imperial army. Even might add, in Russian, which I am front of me. A year later, a document tinguished by an 8-years' prescription. he did not deal with writers and poets accused of hating) to the Presidium of appeared showing that the files were I ask the Court to take into account in as brutal a manner as is done in our the Supreme Soviet - "I can no longer not torn by Melnikov, but by another that Tykhy is an elderly person and has country... In Russia a poet was always remain silent". The two groups KGB KGB officer, and that in the presence an old mother, whom he must support. a prophet... Nothing weakens despot­ agents took me to Donetske, where I of witnesses. I also ask you to take into consider­ ism more than jail... told them everything I thought. The in­ (To be continued) No. 6 ____ THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JANUARY 8, 1978 11 Survival of a Patriot

(The following article about Alex Tatomyr's experiences in the Organization offro m the north, invaded, no one was est-tost to me I lift my lamp beside the Ukrainicn Nationalists and the Ukrainian Insurgent Army was written by Ann left alive. When no word was heard Golden Door..." Leyland. It was published in the Accent magazine supplement of the Bucks from Kiev for many months, the Pope America. How beautiful. So many County Courier Times Sunday, December 25. Miss Leyland is a freelance writer sent an emissary from Rome to investi­ churches. All kinds of churches. And and frequent contributor to Accent.) gate. He found empty houses through churchmen, free men, proudly wearing which only wolves roamed. But, says the robes of their faiths. And smiling. He is a true Ukrainian. His eyes downfall, and with Russia in the throes Tatomyr, even Genghis Khan respected How beautiful. grow bright and his voice is strong of war, Ukrainians declared themselves the churches. Russians, he vows, do In March, 1948, the Tatomyrs began when he speaks of his beloved birth­ an independent state. It didn't work. not. a new life. They settled at first in Phila­ place; his roots go deep into its rich, Adolph Hitler ordered the arrest of the delphia, and in 1949, son George Ostap black soil and his heart beats high with new government, and they were sent to was born. Alex worked as a machine pride in its principles and its culture. concentration camps. Resistance grew operator. In 1950 his family moved to But he is a true American. His allegi­ rapidly. Almost every Ukrainian had The line of wagons moved slowly Bucks County and bought a house just ance to this land that embraced him some family member in the under­ through Carpatho-Ukraine, through two doors away from Alex's brother, and bestowed its boundless freedom ground, and a "very effective" guerril­ Slovakia and into Austria. Since they John. Alex worked for a time as a car­ upon a small family of uncertain immi­ la army was formed — the UPA. So were fleeing the Russians, the Germans penter on the new Levittown homes. In grants is beyond question. And you active was Alex's family in the fight for assumed the refugees to be Nazi sym­ 1953, his youngest child, Alexandra know the depth of his emotion and the Ukrainian freedom, a section of the pathizers and allowed them to pass. completed the family. The following breadth of his devotion to his adopted country bears the name Tatomyr. Alex and the others let them think what year Alex proudly became an Ameri­ country has the very same fervor of It is always amazing to discover in they pleased - America was still a long can citizen, and took a position with America's founding fathers; his spirit the midst of conflicts and plagues, hu­ way off. General Motors, where he remains. is that of our early pioneers, whose man struggles and national tragedies, It was difficult to count just how "Where but in America," he asks, bravery withstood the Spanish, the that one quiet emotion cannot be many weary miles they rode the wa­ "can a working man own his own French, the Indian and the British and denied — love, Alex was no exception. gons or walked, pushing little Christina house and see all his children graduate brought forth a nation that would light He fell in love with beautiful Sophia, a in her baby carriage. Past unbelievable from college?" He answers himself. up the v/orld. teacher in his agricultural school, and destruction, the shells of houses, bodi- "Nowhere." And no matter how blase and sophisticated we Americans think we are, our immigrant forebearers have left this spirit of freedom immutably in our souls. This is the story of such a patriot.

His name is Alex Tatomyr. He was born in Western Ukraine when it was a component part of the Austro-Hun- garian empire. In 1918, young Alex witnessed the creation of the Indepen­ dent Ukrainian Democratic State, which was soon to be forced into war against two invaders - Communist Russia and Poland. Both his father and grandfather were priests in the Ukrainian Catholic Church. (Until 1933, priests were per­ mitted to marry and raise families.) Alex prepared to continue the family's religious tradition, but it was not to be. The end of independent Ukraine came after three years of bloody war, and the nation was divided: western Ukraine was occupied by Poland - eastern Ukraine by Russia. Now living under die Polish government, Tatomyr never forsook his dream of a free coun­ try. In 1929 he joined the OUN, a Uk­ rainian underground organization, and Alex Tatomyr at home today...... and in the mountains with underground leaders in 1940 was frequently arrested over the next 10 years. He was a durable and con­ they were married. In early 1944, a es lying at the roadside, heads bashed "And where but in America can a stant patriot, and with tenacity and daughter, Christina, was born. in and brains spilling out. Sophia was man speak the truth without fear?" dedication managed to complete his The war was going badly for the sickened and had to look away. Alex's Again he answers himself. "No­ theological studies at the Ukrainian Germans; they retreated from the in­ father was shocked most of all by the where." University in Peremyshl despite the re­ vading Russians. Villagers besieged SS troopers. It was hard to realize the And speak he does. Wherever and current impositions on his freedom. Alex's father to leave — both for his Germans had come to this. whenever he can. He speaks for his be­ But in 1938-39 he was imprisoned for sake 2nd their own — for when the In May, 1945 Germany fell, and in loved countrymen who cannot speak 15 months because of his political acti­ Russians again sought to persecute reli­ St. Georgen in the Austrian Alps the for themselves. He tells without hesita­ vism, and for this reason, and the sub­ gious leaders, as they surely would, the Tatomyrs greeted the first American tion of the murders, the mindless cruel­ sequent outbreak of World War II, villagers would be forced to defend units. The family remained in Austria ty, the oppression of Ukrainians. young Alex was never to be ordained a him. The decision was made to leave. for three years, as Alex worked with "In 1931-33, Russian Communists priest. The Tatomyrs — Alex, brother John, the Ukrainian Relief Committee and created an artifical famine by export­ Perhaps it was just as well. The their mother and father, Sophia and later as a mason on construction. ing all the wheat grown in Ukraine. Six clergy in those perilous times were the infant Christina - climbed aboard There was much to construct. His fa­ million Ukrainians died of starvation; forced to conduct Mass with a ' 'cross horse-drawn wagons and joined thou­ ther died in Austria and was buried in an additional three million were de­ in one hand, and a rifle in the other." sands of other Ukrainian emigrants to Salzburg. It was 1946. ported to Siberia." In time, Poland succumbed to the the West. Two years later, the dream came "Of the three hundred gold-domed Nazi regime, and the Western Ukraine Thus did Alexander Tatomyr leave true. Their transportation paid by the churches, only perhaps 20 remain. The was occupied by a new master - the forever his homeland; a land that once American Catholic Action, the Tato­ pride of Kiev — St. Sophia's still ex­ German army. Alex was 23. He pur­ boasted three hundred gold-domed myrs sailed for New York. ists, but only for propaganda purposes sued a course of higher education and cathedrals. A land where the black soil and as a museum." studied agriculture. He began a new is 40-feet deep in some places. And a It was dark when the ship entered "Russians are trying to destroy our career as principal of a Ukrainian agri­ land in which stands the old city of New York harbor. The little family culture. Young people are taken from cultural high school. He remained a Kiev. It was here the hordes of Genghis stood at the railing; behind them were Ukraine and forced to live elsewhere. freedom fighter. He journeyed often Khan descended in the early 13 th Cen­ years of despair, narrow escapes, hun­ Thus does the population become a to the mountains on the Polish border tury, surrounding the walled city. So ger and darkness. And now before mixture, old ideals are forgotten." to confer with deported Ukrainians as thunderous was the sound of horses them - millions of lights! And the Sta­ "Cardinal Josf Slipyj, head of the to military strategies, meeting always and camels and his thousands of warri­ tue of Liberty! Ukrainian Catholic Church, was impri­ at a huge wooden cross implanted in a or barbarians that the inhabitants of "...Give me your tired, your poor, soned for many years. Through the rock base. A symbolic retreat, certainly, the old city within the walls could not your huddled masses yearning to efforts of President Kennedy and Pope for those seekers of religious freedom. hear one another speak. And when breathe free. John XXIII, he was released at last, Taking advantage of Poland's Genghis Khan, joined by Russians ...Send these... the homeless, temp- (Continued on page 14) THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JANUARY 8, 1978 No. 6 Leo Мої Profiled in Winnipeg Daily

The article below was written by Cathy Schaffter, and appeared in the December 10th edition of The Winnipeg Tribune. Just a few blocks from Loch Gallery nonetheless demonstrates the versati­ — which is showing a stunning exhibit lity of his art. of cast bronze sculptures, landscape Yet another small-scale version of a paintings and pastels, and figure draw­ monument can be seen in the exhibit. ings by sculptor Leo Мої - lives the His tribute to Tom Lamb, with the pio­ artist himself, in a modest, comfort- neering Manitoban aviator reaching up able home in St. Boniface where he has to spin the propellor of a bush plane, is lived off and on for over 20 years. a brilliant composition that captures in It is unmistakably an artist's house. one gesture the lifework and energy of Window panels in the front door are the man. set with stained glass with a leaf motif. And, in many ways, the sculpture in­ His work in stained glass is the least cludes so much of what Мої has done, known aspect of Mol's multi-faceted and is striving to do in his sculpture. career, even though he has designed There is his unusual, unexpected over 80 windows in Winnipeg alone. treatment of monuments; his corn- In the dining room area, there's a mand of the human figure - as amply low wooden model's stand, and a demonstrated in his lovely nude draw- chest-high sculpture stand for Мої. He ings and cast bronze nude figures that is currently working on a small female pOSe in countless, easy positions; and peasant figure with a duck in her lap. his inclusion of the motifs of his As for all his bronze sculptures, he mo- adopted country (as in Lamb's parka, dels them first in plastecene before which he would have worn on northern casting them in a revised version of the journeys). "lost wax" method. Мої has an exceptional gift for let- On top of the stereo in the living ting the strength and personalities of room is a row of hand-built, clay, ani- sitters for bronze portraits shine mal-shaped whistles from Ukraine. through. He will adapt his style to their Though seemingly out of place in the faces to do this, which is one reason for room, they remind Мої of the part of his success. Ukraine where he was born in 1915, And so his portrait of former U.S. and where members of his family were President Eisenhower, commissioned potters. by thq Ukrainian Memorial Committee of Anierica, is rather smoothly finished European Training compared to the crusty surface of his portrait of A.Y. Jackson, one of his He trained at the Berlin Academy studies of members of the Group of and later at academies in the Hague Seven. and Vienna. In 1948, he and his wife in the mid-sixites, Мої was commis- left the unrest of post-war Europe to sioned to do the bust of Cardinal Josyf come to western Canada, where Мої Slipyj, head of the Ukrainian Catholic arrived as a farm laborer. Church in Rome. The cardinal was so They were soon drawn to the largest pleased with the results he arranged for center on the prairies, where Мої Мої to do a bust of Pope Paul VI. He worked for a time at Providence was given a studio in the Vatican, Church Goods Shop in Winnipeg, where he could observe the pope for an painting small church figures and hour a week for three months. church murals. The reaction to his portrait of the Then Мої earned a commission for a pope as a stern but compassionate man window in St. Jude Anglican Church. was so favorable that he was allowed to Other commissions followed, and he work from unpublished photographs began entering international competi- of Pope John XXIII to create tions, where he eventually earned his posthumous portrait. international reputation. Mol also does portrait heads of Artist Leo Мої, with his sculpture "Surprise" Some of the pastel and oil land- friend SQme Qf which fest Qn the floor 4 scapes that line walls in the Mols home ^^ exhibit of his sculptures at the Winni­ 'If you only make art for yourself Qr Jn Ms home - ke a few and don't care what people think, peo­ are pleasant reminders of places where frQm hQt mementos of peg Art Gallery in 1975 drew one of the he has gone for work on commissions. faVorite oeoole largest crowds ever to its opening - ple can recognize that." P P A colorful boat scene was drawn in s aid frankly that the reason demonstrating his wide appeal to the By the time the Loch Gallery show y pastels near Мої s studic) олІ Staten Is- SQ repr esentationaI sculp, public, which is the audience he feels opened officially, most of the pieces land ш the early I960 s^A^f^ . Canada /the lack of traini responsible to. had been bought up. was working on his memorial to Ukrai- , , A. r .r. nian poet-liberator Taras Shevchenko and production faciht.es. to stand in a square on Embassy Row , "^ Pu J"8 young sculptors to ab- in Washington strac a ' y e pieces to- THE UKRAINE, 1917-1921: A STUDY OnelookatMorsphotographofthe gether because there's no other way IN REVOLUTION

14-foot memorial stored in an album avajteWe^ Edited by TARAS HUNCZAK that the artist pulled out, is enough to of Js isn4^ork. with the assistance of JOHN T. von der HEIDE see how he won over other entries. Its ^ as well^s the Eur way of Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute 1977 a strikingly assymetncal tribute to the C(fmmissioni artists to do ific 424 pages - hard bound. Price: J15.00 man - the bronze figure of the poet works Postage and handling one dollar. New Jersey residents add 5Уо sales tax. stands to one side, and a lower, stone Qnce an anist is given a direction . plaque placed to the other side is knows the place a work must go, how "SVOBODA" BOOKSTORE sculpted with a symbolic relief figure much he wiU recdve for k and for what 30 Montgomery Street Jersey City. N.J. 07302 of Prometheus purpose - he can arrange for the ma- Early m this decade, he won another teriak and costs involyed in large жжжхххжххжжхзсжхзс^^ competition for a memorial of the w such as scul ture otherwise, same Ukrainian poet to stand in it,s very difficult t0 raise the funds for THE USSR vs. DR. MIKHAIL STERN Buenos Aires. expensive materials before the work SOVIET "JUSTICE" vs. HUMAN RIGHTS Dynamic Evocation " can be started' as any sculptor knoWS' Мої says he ''doesn't give a damn The only tape recording of a trial smuggled out of the Soviet Union. A small-scale model of Haydamaky about art trends," preferring to con- Edited by AUGUST STERN. is included in the Loch Gallery exhibit tinue work in the classic tradition. He Translated from the Russian by MARCO CARYNNYK — a dynamic, rough evocation of bru- doesn't even care to exhibit much, and ;67 paces - hard bound. Price: S9.95 tal war, with human figures in the would rather work on commissions, Postage and handling one dollar. throes of violent action crowding the Recognition by fellow Winnipeggers New Jersey residents add 54 sales tax. piece. has been growing over the years. The "SVOBODA" BOOKSTORE Uncharacteristic among the serene University of Winnipeg awarded him 30 Montgomery Street Jersey City, N.J. 07302 figures and drawings of the show, it an honorary .L.L.D, a few years ago. An No. 6 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JANUARY 8, 1978 13 Kindrachuk Stars Against Czechs by Ostap Tatomyr PHILADELPHIA, Pa.-Ukrainian period but by the middle of the second The game, while not as emotionally nian hockey players of NHL past and center Orest Kindrachuk of the Phila­ period it was quite evident that the Fly­ contested as the Soviet classic, provid­ present, plus old-timer Ukrainian play­ delphia Flyers has fine memories from ers and Kindrachuk would prevail. ed an interesting comparison of Euro­ ers from Lviv to Mittenwald, West international hockey confrontations. Orest scored his second goal of the pean versus Canadian playing styles. It Germany, are all covered in a book As a matter of fact, Orest played one night in the opening three minutes of is evident that the physical style of play now in print entitled "PRO HOCKEY: of his best games against the Soviet the final period taking a faceoff near and the Canadian pressure hockey is THE UKRAINIAN INVASION" Red Army Team back in 1976. His as­ the Czech goal and pushing it in one far more effective in gaining points on which will be available through Kos- sist on a Joe Watson goal in that parti­ motion past Crha. "They play a wide the board. European teams, such as the mos in Philadelphia and West Arka in cular game had put the Reds in the hole open style of hockey and their defense Czechs, are attempting to add this Toronto within a month. Inquiries and assured the Flyers one of the most was shabby tonight," added the Ko- phase to their game and, with their should be directed to these two fine emotional sports victories in NHL his­ zak-type skater. "We tried to postion- stickhandling abilities, will shortly Ukrainian business establishments... tory. ally contain them man to man, to match the Canadians. Bucyk and Kindrachuk were voted by In a similar fashion but with a bit throw them off balance, and it Hockey Notes: The game was broad­ patrons of the "Tryzyb" Sports Center less emotion the Pardubice, Czecho­ worked." cast over national Canadian televi­ in Philly as the two best known Ukrai­ slovakia, hockey club squared off In post game activities following the sion... Kindrachuk was interviewed in a nian players in the NHL during 1977... against the Flyers, Monday, December 6-1 Flyers victory general mananger postgame show with the Molson Cup The NHL has announced that in Jan­ 26, in the opening contest of the 1977-78 Keith Allen presented the Molson's in hand...Kladno of Czecho-Slovakia uary two Games of the Week will be international hockey series, featuring Most Valuable Player of the game could not hold off a Rangers rally to tie aired on TV in the U.S., Monday even­ one Soviet and two Czech clubs playing award to one player from each team. at 4-4 the same evening in N.Y....Spar- ing and Saturday afternoon. Sixty to against several NHL clubs. The Czech honors went to Vladimir tak is the Soviet touring club...The seventy percent of the stations in the In the early going the Czechs demon­ Martinec, while the Flyers' Kindrachuk Flyers have yet to suffer a loss in inter­ U.S. will carry the games. 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THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JANUARY 8. 1978 No. 6 Olga Pavlova Cited by UNWLA Branch Women's Clubs'LUC Hold Dwof Recollection WALLINGFORD, Conn.-The Uk­ Catholic Church, Stamford. MIAMI, Fla.-Olga Pavlova, Ukrai­ rainian Catholic Women's Clubs of The day began with confessions fol­ nian soprano who has been populariz­ Connecticut joined the League of Uk­ lowed by the Divine Liturgy celebrated ing Ukrainian music with her appear­ rainian Catholics of Connecticut held by the Rev. Stephen Pinchak, guardian ances and records, was honored by their first "Day of Recollection" Sun­ of the Holy Protection Monastery. A UNWLA Branch 17 here as the group's day, October 30, at the Holy Protec­ continental breakfast followed. Fr. first "Woman of the Year." She was tion Monastery in New Canaan, Pinchak addressed the group at the cited for having directed the Branch's Conn., with a large representation. first conference. His topic was "Chris­ choir "Veselka." The Ukrainian Catholic Women's tian Marriage and Communication." Clubs included following groups: the Following lunch the second address The second place winner was Irena Immaculate Conception of St. Rakush. The Branch, which has Olena was given by the Rev. John Squiller, Michael's Ukrainian Catholic Church, instructor of religion at St. Basil's Pre­ Teliha as its patron, intends to make New Haven; the Altar Society of St. the awards an annual event. paratory School in Stamford. He Michael's Ukrainian Catholic Church, spoke on "Attaining Heaven". The Miss Pavlova led the chorus in a con­ Terryville; the Sisterhood of St. Mary's day was concluded by a Moleben cele­ cert of Ukrainian carols on Sunday, Ukrainian Catholic Church, Bridge­ brated in the Monastery's chapel. December 4, at the Bayfront audito­ port: the Sisterhood of St. John the Bap­ The day for the Ukrainian Catholic rium. The program, sponsored the tist Ukrainian Catholic Church, Glaston- Women's Clubs was coordinated by Cancer Association of Miami, is an an­ bury; the Ukrainian Catholic Sacred Mrs. Gloria P. Horbaty of the Imma­ nual event here. Each of the participat­ Heart Guild of St. Michael's Ukrainian culate Conception Society of St. Mi­ ing ethnic groups also had a Christmas Catholic Church, Hartford; and the La­ chael's Ukrainian Catholic Church in tree appropriately decorated. dies Club of St. Josaphat's Ukrainian New Haven, and for the League by Mary The "Veselka" chorus also appears Catholic Church, New Britain. Hlywa of Ss. Peter and Paul Ukrainian each year, under the baton of Miss The League of Ukrainian Catholics Catholic Church in Ansonia. Pavlova, at the International Folk Fes­ Olga Pavlova had representatives from the parishes The two groups have planned to tival here. Music Service. She also belongs to the of Ss. Peter and Paul Ukrainian Cath­ make this event an annual affair. The Miss Pavlova is a member of the Miami Music Club. Membership in olic Church, Ansonia; St. Michael's date for next year's "Day of Recollec­ Coral Gables, Fla., Music Club, and these organizations gives her an Ukrainian Catholic Church, New Ha­ tion" has been set for Sunday, October chairman of the International Music opportunity to popularize Ukrainian ven; and St. Vladimir's Ukrainian 29,1978. organization and of the Community music. 4 ЯЗ^^І^з^ї^^^^^^^^ Survival of a Patriot UKRAINE: (Continued from page 11) but in such poor health he was not ex­ Daughters Christina and Alexandra pected to live. Miraculously, the Patri­ are grown up and married now, after A CONCISE ENCYCLOPAEDIA arch recovered at Castel Gondolfo, the several years spent in teaching. Son Pope's private retreat, and was event­ George, a physical education teacher in Volume I and II ually allowed to come to America. He the Bensalem School District, has just lives on, at 85, only by the hand of completed a book on the Ukrainian in­ The First Volume: General Information, Physical God." fluence on American hockey. He tra­ Geography and Natural History, Population, Ethno­ "No republic in the USSR volun­ veled with the Flyers in press relations, teered to be a part of the Soviet Union. and worked with them in their condi­ graphy, Ukrainian Language, History of Ukraine, Ukraine was part of the earlier, demo­ tioning programs. Ukrainian Culture, and Ukrainian Literature. cratic revolution in March, 1917, but were not in favor of the Bolshevik re­ Price: 945.00 volution that took place the following October against the Tsar. The Second Volume: Law, The Ukrainian Church, "The commonly used maps of the Alex and Sophia are happy and con­ Scholarship, Education and Schools, Libraries, Ar­ USSR were made to deliberately elimi­ tented. They have a lovely home, free­ chives, and Museums, Book Printing, Publishing and nate the true boundaries of the pro­ dom and security. Today, it is Christ­ vinces. Russia wished to appear su­ mas. They will drive the blue car to the the Press, The Arts, Music and Choreography, preme, bigger than she really was." Ukrainian Catholic Church in Trenton Theater and Cinema, National Economy, Health "Priests in Ukraine today dress as to share the Christmas Mass with their and Medical Services and Physical Culture, the Ar­ civilians and hold services in private friends and family. They have been med Forces, Ukrainians Abroad. homes or in the woods. No religion is lucky, and life has been good. Yes. He openly practiced." nods. Life has been good. But he wish­ He is a veritable walking history es... that аІГ Ukrainians could openly Price: 960.00 book. But his intent is clear. and proudly attend a Christmas Mass. "I am not so important. 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(212) 227-5250-1 5 No. 6 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JANUARY 8, 1978 15 Former Political Prisoner... WORD JUMBLE 'Continued from page 3) "The Russians are oppressing other and he was moved to a single cell, after The jumbled words below represent the names of new Ukrainian faces in Pro nationalities,'' he said. "The oppres­ protests from other parts of the world. Hockey. The names are spelled in the manner they themsleves chose. They can be identified by rearranging the letters. Letters underlined with a double line form the sion continues in the prisons and the The Canadian Government made an mystery word. labor camps, which are very similar to official inquiry about his health. the Nazi concentration camps, except Vudka was in the next cell. "Physi­ for the crematoria. The authorities try cally he (Moroz) was in a terrible posi­ New Ukrainian Faces in Pro Hockey to stir up enmity among the political tion," he said, "but he was morally un­ prisoners, mainly by provoking anti- broken and strong. He knew of world­ KDOREEF - „ Semitism/' wide activity in his support and so he Vudka said he learned while he was considered his hunger strike a victory." in Vladimir Prison near Moscow that When Vudka was about to be releas­ CUKHOBLON ^ - the authorities planned a slaughter of ed in the spring of 1976, he asked Mo­ Jewish dissidents, a pogrom, at Camp roz if he had any messages. RHAZOAK ^ 36 in Perm. "He told me of the drug tortures," - "The Ukrainian partisans when they he said, "and he asked me to relay the found out, told the KGB that 'if you experience of the visit of his wife and ORUSZ J ^ ^ - touch a single Jew, we will fight back.' son. The prison authorities forbade Because of their help, the Jews were them to speak Ukrainian. They said it not killed." was against prison regulations. It's MESOKEN ^ _ Vladimir Prison, where Mr. Vudka something new when it is forbidden for spent the final three years of his impri­ a father to speak to his son in his own sonment, and where Mr. Moroz has language." UZEK „ ^ , spent the last seven years, is a maxi­ Vudka said it was also forbidden for mum-security institution for criminals him to speak Yiddish with his wife. BUCHIK who are especially uncooperative, where The daily diet consisted of watery political prisoners are sent to be "tortur­ bread and water, a thin porridge, rot­ ed" by fellow inmates, Vudka said. ten fish and rotten cabbage. In the UGNASKIA ^ "They would use the criminals to labor camps, such as Perm, the diet is torture and kill," he said. "They bribe watery bread once a day. them with drugs; in some cases they are Because the food is barely sufficient The only Ukrainian goalie in the majors: even given chocolate for such things. to sustain life and the prison treatment Yes, they would kill for a piece of sets up extreme conditions of tension, chocolate. But some of them would kill bleeding stomach ulcers are common, just for the pleasure." he said. Answers to last week's jumble: Plyushch, Plishka, Cafik, Stern, SHpyj, War- Moroz went on a three-month hun­ After Vudka was released in the wariv, Paslawsky, Rudenko, Radchuk. ger strike in 1974 at Vladimir with a summer of 1976, Moroz was declared sincere wish to die rather than endure insane and was to be moved to a psy­ Mystery word: St. Nicholas. life at the hands of his cellmates, chiatric hospital. However, he was left Vudka said. at the prison following another world HAVE AN INTERESTING JUMBLE? SEND IT IN. protest which included a special mo­ Pleaded for Solitary tion passed unanimously in the Cana­ dian House of Commons calling for Western reports said he was protest­ medical treatment. Ukrainism National Association? Inc. ing against solitary confinement, but in Mr. and Mrs. Vudka were married in fact he had pleaded with the authorities a long-distance Orthodox ceremony P.O. Box 76 - 30 Montgomery Street to put him in a solitary cell or send him while he was in prison, she was in their Jersey City, N.J. 07303 to a "slave labor camp for political pri­ Ukrainian home town of Chernivtsi GENTLEMEN: soners," Vudka said. and Chief Rabbi Shlomo Goren, who Please send information on UNA insurance. The prison authorities force-fed him, officiated, was in Jerusalem. Mrs. Vudka was given 24 hours to Name get out of the Soviet Union or face pri­ son herself. She went to Israel. After Address Vudka joined her, they were married Youngest UNA'er again by Rabbi Goren. City ...... State . Zip Code Vudka says that any anti-Semitism in Ukraine is provoked in a deliberate MY DATE OF BIRTH IS: campaign directed by Moscow, against which there is little defense because "the elite of Ukraine is in prison." day month year

Bicycle Buying Guide (Continued from page 7) have hand brakes and multi-speed Although non-inflatable tires never go tic sleeves which are found in some gears or coaster brakes. Because, it is flat, they make pedaling very hard, poorly made models frequently caus^ less stable and more maneuverable, it is give a rough ride, wear rapidly, and binding in the steering. This makes used more for fun and stunt riding. provide poor braking traction. handling and steering difficult. The National Safety Council recom­ The seat should be of conventional For the younger rider, conventional mends the High Rise bike only for the design, spring-mounted with padding handlebars with hand grips are recom­ more experienced rider because its safe for comfort. Avoid the banana seat for mended. Pedal operated coaster brakes use requires more skill. the young rider. The range of adjust­ are much safer for the beginner since To find a suitable size, Pat Engle- ment in seat and handlebars largely small children usually lack strength brecht says, let the rider sit on the bike determine how soon the child will out­ and coordination needed to use the and grasp the handlebars as though grow the bike. The seat post should hand-operated brakes. riding. Adjust the pedal to the lowest have at least four to five inches adjust­ And, lastly, says Mrs. Englebrecht, point and the saddle parallel with the ment with two inches remaining within when selecting a bicycle for a child or ground. The handle bars should be the frame for sure, safe support. an adult, adequate safety equipment level with the top of the saddle. such as bell or horn, red reflectors, and Christine Alexis Stacer looks like she He should be able to touch the pedal A steering axis that has ball bearings white for night riders should be includ­ is 9 few months away from taking her with the ball of foot while his knee is enables safer and easier handling. Plas­ ed. steps, but her family made certain slightly bent. If the rider cannot try the Ш he take the first big step — join bicycle for size, manufacturer's suggest VA. Perhaps that's why she's al! for a child of average weight and ATTENTION HOUSEWIVES! in the photo above. Christine height, the small frame with wheels SALE!!! Oval and round casseroles oven-tempered with covers, rolled in UNA Branch 200. Her 20" in diameter will fit the 5 to 7 year with Ukrainian design at 20Уо of regular price. mother, Genia Motiuk Lebda, old; the 24" wheel to the 7 to 9 year DELTO EUROPA CORP. old; and the 26" to 27" wheel to the 9 le, Wayne A. Lebda, her mo- Roman Iwanyckyj is. Linda Ann Stacer, and her to 12 year old and all adults. w- Ь 146 First Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10009. Tel.: ( 212) 228-2266 чг, Laryssa Alexandra, are also Quality varies greatly, for any mo­ ^ members of the same Branch. del, inflatable t\r- ШйШШмш^^ 16 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JANUARY 8, 1978 No. 6 UCCA Washington News With the end of 1977 the UCCA Pre­ D.D., as the Metropolitan"Archbishop ^ Received from the Republic of UCCA President spoke on December sident and his associates extend of Philadelphia for Ukrainian Cath­ China is the volume of the 23rd confer­ 8th on the role of Ambassador Gold­ warmest greetings to every supporter olics. He was unable to remain for the ence proceedings of the Asian Peoples berg at Belgrade. On December 12th he of UCCA for the merriest Christmas- reception. The Philadelphia police pro­ Anti-Communist League. The UCCA commented on the Crown of St. tide and the happiest New Year. vided an escort for the UCCA Presi­ President attended the conference last Stephen. And on December 14th he re­ dent to 30th Street Station. Mentioning April. The volume lists him as a rally viewed the 60th anniversary of the Bol­ "On November 18th the UCCA Pre­ the event, he sent a letter of grateful speaker and participant. shevik Revolution. The commentaries sident addressed the guests at the appreciation to Commissioner Joseph are carried over 300 stations across the UCCA opening of the new office of ^ Appearing again on the Washing­ F. O'Neill. ton Newsline radio network, the nation. UNIS (Ukrainian National Informa­ tion Service) in Washington. He gave an account of the nature and functions of UCCA and emphasized "this new office will be geared to intensify the flow of ideas and information on Uk­ raine and U.S.-USSR relations." The office is located in the National Press Building. Warren Rogers, past presi­ dent of the National Press Club, also addressed the gathering, which consist­ ed of representatives from numerous organizations. That evening the UCCA President attended the reception at the Latvian Legation on the occasion of the Latvi­ an National Holiday. He conveyed the respects of UCCA to Minister and Madam Dinbergs. He had a long talk with Dr. Guillermo Sevilla-Sacasa, the Nicaraguan Ambassador and dean of the diplomatic corps. He also met with numerous other friends, including Lloyd Henderson and Baltic states hu­ man rights advocates. "On November 22nd the UCCA Pre­ sident expressed views on the Goldberg leadership at the Belgrade Conference. In a press release issued by the Ameri- an Council for World Freedom he commended Ambassador Goldberg for his leadership and proposed human rights cases for U.S. action. The re­ lease included the exchange of cables between the UCCA President and the Ambassador. UCCA is a member of ACWF, and the UCCA President heads the organization. The UCCA President attended and addressed the banquet of the Organiza­ tion for the Defense of the Four Free­ doms of Ukraine at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in New York. He and Mrs. Dobri- ansky met with the invited guests and delegates at this November 26th event of the organization's convention. In his remarks the UCCA President offered as the theme of our forthcoming efforts, "Human Rights Know No Boundaries - Human Rights for Uk­ raine.' ' Mr. Ignatius Billinsky and Mrs. Ulana Celewych, the presidents, have our warmest congratulations. ф In continuing action on the Bel­ grade Conference, the UCCA Presi­ dent received a letter from Ambassa­ dor Arthur J. 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