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dium of the Supreme Soviet of the original co-founders of the Ukrai Repression in Ukraine Ukrainian SSR had ruled to "pardon" nian Helsinki Group, completed his Mr. Berdnyk, who in 1979 was sen labor camp term in early February 1984, the Orwellian year, was nian intellectuals. tenced to nine years' labor camp and was transferred into exile in characterized by continued suffer Another activist who died in 1984 and exile. In his alleged recanta Gorno-Altayskaya Autonomous Ob ing and repression for dissidents was Aleksei Nikitin. whn tnwimb- tion, Mr. Berdnyk referred to his last, a remote and mountainous and religious activists in the Soviet ed to stomach cancer at age 47 shortly dissident activities as "crimes against region on the Mongolian border. Union, which the author almost after being released from a Soviet the fatherland," arid labeled the Last week, it was reported that certainly used as a model in his mental hospital. Though not a Ukrai human-rights movement in the Ukrainian Helsinki monitorand poet scathing indictment of totalitaria nian, Mr. Nikitin first gained pro USSR as little more than a front Vasyl Stus was in extremely poor nism. In Ukraine, the year was mark minence for exposing unsafe work organized by Western intelligence health with tuberculosis and a heart ed by the deaths of six prominent ing conditions in the Donbas mining agencies to stir up what he called ailment. Friends of the 46-year-old activists, public recantations by at region of Ukraine. For his efforts on "anti-Soviet hysteria." activist fear that he may not live out least two others, death sentences'" behalf of the miners, as well as his It should be noted that both re the harsh winter in a Perm labor for four former members of the advocacy of independent trade cantations echoed themes common camp, where he has been since Organization of Ukrainian Nationa unions, Mr. Nikitin served a total of in recent such renunciations. The being sentenced in 1980 to 10 years' lists (OUN) and new charges against 10 years in psychiatric institutions. official Soviet line on dissidents is imprisonment and five years exile several leading figures in the hu Late in the year, the Soviet news that they are motivated by selfish for "anti-Soviet activities." man-rights movement. A number of paper News From Ukraine, a pro ness and ego, and that they are in addition tothe personal travails imprisoned activists completed paganda organ available only out encouraged by forces outside the of dissident acbvjsts. the year also their terms and were released. The side the USSR, announced that four country. saw the adoption of severai mea year also saw the adoption of several former members of the OUN were sen While two well-known activists sures aimed at tightening official new laws aimed at making life more tenced to death for alleged atroci supposedly renounced theiractions, control over Soviet citizens. In difficult for dissidents and their ties against civilians during World others continued to face hardship March, it was reported that a new families. War II. The four were identified as and persecution. amendment to a Soviet law made it Perhaps the most disheartening Oleksander Palyha, Mykhailo Levyt- In July, news reached the West illegal for Soviet citizens to receive news concerned the deaths of U- sky, Nil Yakulchuk and Vasyl Bon- that 34-year-old Stepan Sapeliak, material aid or goods from foreign krainian activists. In May, word dar. The three-week trial reportedly who spent five years in a labor camp organizations. The amendment con reached the West about the death of took place in the village of Maria- in the 1970s for flying the outlawed cerned Article 7 of the USSR Code imprisoned Helsinki monitorOleksiy nivtsi in the Horokhiv area of the blue-and-gold Ukrainian flag in a of Law, "anti-Soviet agitation and Tykhy, who died atage57 following Volhynia oblast, an area where the small village in western Ukraine, propaganda," better known as Article surgery for stomach ulcers. At the OUN was particularly active. was facing new criminal charges. By 70 in the Russian SFSR Criminal time of his death, Mr. Tykhy, a The paper did not say when the year's end, nothing more was heard Code and Article 62 of the Ukrai founding member of the Ukrainian trial took place or give the date the about the case. nian one, under which many dissi Helsinki Group, was serving a 15- sentences would be carried out. More recently, sources in Ukraine dents are tried. year labor camp and exile term he If the rash of deaths and execu reported the arrest on October 19 of The decree, which prescribed a10- received in 1977. He was incar tions was not dispiriting enough, Yosyf Zisels, a 37-year-old engineer year labor camp term for violators, cerated in labor camp No. 36-1 near 1984 also saw recantations by two of and former political prisoner who is has broad political implications, Perm in the Urals. the most prominent members of the a member of the Ukrainian Helsinki since many families of political Another Ukrainian dissident to dissident movement in Ukraine, Group. Another member of the prisoners depend on aid from pri perish in Soviet custody was 37- author Oles Berdnyk and activist group, Mykola Horbal, 43, is also vate sources in the West or from year-old Valeriy Marchenko, who Ivan Sokulsky. said to be facing fresh charges. Mr. philanthropic organizations. died of kidney failure on October 6. Mr. Sokulsky, a 44-year-old poet Horbal, who was due to complete a Later in the year, the Soviet Union Mr. Marchenko, who had been ill and member of the Ukrainian Hel five-year labor camp term on implemented a change in its policy since serving an eight-year term in a sinki Group, reportedly confessed October 23, was moved the day on the shipment of parcels to the labor camp from 1973 to 1981, was that his political activism was the before to an investigative prison in USSR, no longer accepting prepaid sentenced on March 14 to another product of "egoism" and self-ag Nikolayev, site of the labor camp packages sent through private com term, this time to 10 years. grandizement. His alleged remarks where he had been imprisoned panies after August 1. The Soviet On October 22, the State Depart were published in a March issue of since being convicted of a trumped- decision seriously jeopardized the ment announced the grim news that News From Ukraine, which did not up charge of "attempted rape." Mr. small parcel businesses in Ukrai imprisoned Ukrainian activist Yuriy disclose any details about the inter Horbal was apparently charged with nian neighborhoods whose busi Lytvyn, 50, had committed suicide in view. Mr. Sokulsky, who in 1980 was "anti-Soviet slander." It was also ness depended on packages being labor camp No. 36-1. A member of sentenced to a total of 15 years' reported thai his wife was recently sent to Ukraine. Under the new the Ukrainian Helsinki Group, Mr. imprisonment, was one of the defen detained by authorities. arrangement, goods from the West Lytvyn had spent 20 years in Soviet dants in a celebrated 1970 case in Some political prisoners com would have to be sent through the penal institutions. Dnipropetrovske. He was sentenced pleted their sentences in 1984, while mail, and the duty and other costs Other prominent Ukrainian acti to three years for a letter defending others began terms of exile after would have to be paid by those vists to die during the year were Ukrainian culture against Russifica- serving their labor camp terms. receiving the goods in the Soviet author Borys Antonenko-Davy- tion. Yosyp Terelia, an activist in the Union. dovych, who was 84, and Volodymyr Two months after Mr. Sokulsky's underground Ukrainian Catholic The new arrangement makes it Horbovy, 85, an attorney who de alleged recantation, the paper Church, completed a one-year sen difficult for hard-pressed Soviet fended Ukrainian nationalist leader Literaturna Ukraina, the official tence for "parasitism." Members of citizens, many of whom cannot Stepan Bandera following the organ of the Ukrainian Writers' the Ukrainian Helsinki Group Iryna afford the high duty and handling assassination of a Polish official in Union, published a 1,700-word state Senyk and Bohdan Rebryk both charges, which often run into hun 1934. Mr. Antonenko-Davydovych, ment attributed to Mr. Berdnyk, a completed exile terms and returned dreds of dollars. best known for his 1928 masterpiece 56-year-old science fiction writer to Ukraine. Writer Yevhen Sverstiuk Over all, the situation of Ukrai "Smert" (Death), was considered by and co-founder of the Ukrainian was released from exile in late 1983, nian dissidents and activists in 1983 many to be the spiritual godfather to Helsinki Group. but confirmation did not reach the was grim. The heart of the human- the dissident movement and a guid In an introduction to the state West until early in 1984. rights movement — the members of ing force for many younger Ukrai ment, the paper said that the Presi Mykola Rudenko, one of the 10 the Ukrainian Helsinki Group-
Ukrainian activists to die in 1984 were (from left): Oleksiy Tykhy, 57; Valeriy Marchenko, 37; Yuriy Lytvyn, 50; Borys Antonenko-Davydovych, 84; and Volodymyr Horbovy, 85. 6 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, DECEMBER 30, 1984 No. 53
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remained, for the most part, in labor denominations continued to be state in St. Sophia Sobor. "a still-secret instruction from the camps or exile Messrs. Tykhy and harassed or impnsoneo. In 1984, One of the highlights of the pon Vatican" forbade Ukrainian Catho Lytvyn died, while Mr. Rebryk and the news from Ukraine was particu tiff's 12-day tour of Canada was his lics from calling the head of their Mrs. Senyk were released. Religious larly sorrowful, indicating that the September 16 stopover at Winni Church a patriarch and ordered the activists from the Ukrainian Catholic nation continues to suffer terribly peg's Ss. Volodymyr and Olha U- suspension of married priests. Church or from the many Protestant under Soviet domination krainian Catholic Cathedral, where Newsweek wrote: "Ukrainian Catho he was greeted by 4,000 faithful lics the world over might suspect outside the church. that Pope John Paul II wants their News in Ukrainian Churches In his 1,500-word speech delivered Church to wither away as a distinct in Ukrainian inside the cathedral, entity within the Catholic fold." Reacting to the Newsweek report, It was a year of sorrow for both the referred to him as such. the pope praised Ukrainian Chris 12 Ukrainian Catholic bishops from Ukrainian Catholic and Ukrainian Upon Patriarch Josyt's death, a tians for what he called "heroism" in around the world, who met in Phila Orthodox Churches because of the 40-day period of mourning was keeping their faith in Communist- delphia on November 19-20, denied passing of two revered churchmen. declared by the hierarchs of the occupied Ukraine. "In you I em knowledge of any secret instruc Patriarch JosyfSlipyj of the Ukrai Ukrainian Catholic Church in the brace in the charity of Christ all the tions from the Vatican and said that nian Catholic Church died on Sep United States. It was especially people of your homeland, together the news item was but another tember 7 at the age of 92. The prelate interesting to note that the hierarchs' with their history, culture and the attempt to cause dissent among the had resided in Rome for the last 21 Ukrainian-language statement re heroism with which they lived their faithful of their Particular ("Po- years after his release from the ferred to the patriarch as "Major faith," he said. misna") Church. Soviet Union, where he had been Archbishop Josyf" and mentioned He also noted that the Ukrainian But rumors of the secret letter imprisoned for 18 years for refusing that he had struggled for a patriar Catholic Church, a Byzantine rite refused to be squelched. to betray the Ukrainian Catholic chate for the Ukrainian Catholic Church, could serve as a bridge to Catholic New Times reported on Church and the Holy See. His re Church. The hierarchs' correspond the Russian and Ukrainian Ortho December 9 that, although the hie lease from Soviet imprisonment had ing English-language statement dox Churches, saying that Ukrai rarchs denied knowledge of a secret been secured through the interven made no reference whatsoever to a nian Catholics were in a position to letter, the newspaper had learned tion of President John F. Kennedy patriarch or a patriarchate. help "bring about the reconciliation "from reliable sources close to the and Pope John XXIII. Leadership of the Ukrainian Ca between Eastern and Western Chris Ukrainian Church" that a "letter of Patriarch Josyf had been secretly tholic Church was assumed by tians." censure" had in fact been sent. The consecrated an archbishop by Me Archbishop Nlyroslav Lubachivsky, Pope John Paul II referred also to newspaper published an English- tropolitan Andrey Sheptytsky of who had earlier been named coad the death of Cardinal Slipyj, calling language translation of the Septem Lviv, and he succeeded the metro jutor with the right of succession to him a man "who had suffered hard ber 17 Italian-language letter re politan after his death. He was the head of the Church. Though ships not unlike those of Christ at ceived by Bishop Borecky. named a cardinal by Pope Paul VI in many faithful and clergy began to Golgotha." The letter called attention to three 1965. call the archbishop patriarch, they After his address to the 1,200 "shortcomings and abuses that have Seeing the establishment of a wondered about the fate of the faithful inside the cathedral, the been happening in the Ukrainian patriarchate for the Ukrainian Ca Ukrainian patriarchate. pope blessed the statue of St. Volo eparchy for quite some time and are tholic Church as the only way to The funeral for Patriarch Josyf I dymyr the Great, the work of re greatly preoccupying the Holy See." ensure the Church's survival, he was held September 13 as hundreds nowned sculptor Leo Мої, that will It demanded a list of all "illicitly" began urging the Vatican to recog of mourners from all around the mark the millennium of Ukrainian ordained priests who were previous nize a patriarchate and began to use world paid their last respects. The Christianity in 1988. ly suspended and nonetheless con the title of patriarch. body was interred in the crypt of St. Meanwhile, during the pope's visit tinue to carry out their pastoral Though the Vatican never did Sophia Sobor. On September 8, on to Canada and 10 days after the ministries, underlined the limits of recognize the patriarchate, most the eve of his trip to Canada, Pope death of Patriarch Josyf, a letter the Ukrainian patriarchate and re Ukrainian Catholics considered John Paul II prayed for the repose of from the Vatican's Secretariat for the ferred to dangerous "pseudo-pa Cardinal Slipyj their patriarch and the primate's soul as the body lay in Sacred Congregation for Eastern Churches was sent to at least three triotism" and a "lack of discipline" Ukrainian Catholic bishops, includ among the clergy of the eparchy. ing Bishop Isidore Borecky.of the Catholic New Times reported that Toronto Eparchy, according to Ca the illegally ordained priests in tholic New Times, a biweekly news question are three married men paper published in Toronto. ordained in Toronto in 1975 by The first sign that all was not OK Auxiliary Bishop Michael Rusnack. as regards the Vatican's relationship News of the letter received by the with the Ukrainian Catholic Church, Toronto Eparchy was carried also which enjoys certain rights as a by The Globe and Mail on Decem Byzantine rite Church within the ber 13. Roman Catholic Church, was a brief The letter was signed by Cardinal item published in the November 5 Wladyslaw Rubin, prefect, and Arch "Periscope" section of Newsweek. bishop Myroslav Marusyn, secre The newsmagazine reported that tary, of the Secretariat for the Sacred
Pope John Paul II listens attentively while Archbishop-Metropolitan Maxim Hermaniuk preaches at Ss. Volodymyr and Olha Ukrainian Catholic Cathedral in Winnipeg. The pontiffs stopover at the cathedral was a highlight Hierarchs pray over the open coffin of Patriarch Josyf. of his 12-day visit to Canada. No-53 -- THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, DECEMBER 30, 1984 7
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Congregation for Eastern Churches. Ukrainian Catholic Eparchy of St. Catholic New Times pointed out Josaphat in Parma. Ohio. in its story that many Ukrainian For the Ukrainian Orthodox Catholics view the Vatican's at Church.the year was relatively quiet. tempts at minimizing Ukrainian Faithful mourned the passing on Catholic Church authority as means August 5 of Archbishop Mark to maintain dialogue with the Rus Hundiak, who had been pastor sian Orthodox Church. of St. Demetrius Ukrainian There were some positive deve Orthodox Church in Carteret, lopments, too, on the Ukrainian N.J., since 1932. Archbishop Mark Catholic Church scene. died at the age of 89 following a In early October, the Ukrainian lengthy illness. He had been active Catholic hierarchs of the United in Church and community affairs. States announced a campaign aim He was elected a bishop of the ed at raising S500.000 for the print Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the ing of 1 million prayer books, cate U.S.A. in 1970, and four years later chisms and bibles for Ukrainian was elevated to the rarfk of archbi Catholics in Poland. shop and named vicar to Metropoli The Transfiguration of Our Lord tan Mstyslav, primate of the Ukrai Ukrainian Catholic Church, the first nian Orthodox Church. Greek Catholic rite parish in Ame rica, celebrated its 100th anniver sary. The parish celebrated its cen tennial by blessing a new church that replaced the one destroyed Sen. Dennis OeConcini testifies on behalf of the famine commission bill by fire in 1980. before the House subcommittee. He is flanked by the measure's sponsor, There was good news about U- Rep. James Florio, and Rep. Marcy Kaptur. krainian Catholic seminaries, as version of the bill, S. 2456, was 'Somewhat surprisingly, opposi well. introduced by Sen. Bradley on tion to the bill camejrom the State On September 23. the Holy Spirit March 21. Department. Testifying at both hear Ukrainian Catholic Seminary in The measure asked for the crea ings, Deputy Assistant Secretary of Ottawa was blessed and officially tion of a commission to study the State Robie M.H. Palmer said the opened. The seminary had been circumstances of the famine, which proposed commission was bureau- founded three years earlier with was instigated by Soviet govern cratically top-heavy, too expensive eight seminarians and was located ment policies ordering the confisca and redundant in light ot private and in a historic mansion on the banks of tion of grain and foodstuffs from academic studies of the famine. the Rideau Canal. As the 1984-85 peasants and farmers in Soviet- Despite the administration's re academic year began at the semi occupied eastern Ukraine. An esti servations, the Senate passed the nary's new quarters, there were 30 mated 7 million Ukrainians starved famine commission bill by voice seminarians. to death in the ensuing holocaust. vote on September 21. The entire The St. Basil College Seminary The Senate Foreign Relations House never got the opportunity to Endowment Fund exceeded S1 mil Committee, chaired by Sen. Charles act on the measure because of the lion as of November 30. The goal of Percy (R-lll.). held hearings on the deadline crisis and the subsequent the fund is S1.5 million for a perma bill on August 1. Testifying in favor joint omnibus spending bill. nent trust fund that would support of the measure were lhorOlshaniw- In the final version, the commis the seminary located in Stamford. r sky-of Americans for Human Rights sion was trimmed from 21 to 15 Conn hanks to the generosity of in Ukraine, a New Jersey-based members and a sum of S400.000 contributors throughout the coun group instrumental in gaining Con was allocated for its activities. try, the fund was well on its wav. gressional support for the bill; Myron It must be noted that while there Anotner fund-raising drive was Kuropas, UNA supreme vice presi was some vocal early opposition to initiated by Manor Junior College, a dent and a noted community acti the bill in the Ukrainian community, two-year, liberal arts college in vist; and Sen. Bradley. Over .on the support for the measure grew tre suburban Philadelphia run by the House side, the Foreign Affairs mendously, thanks largely to the Sisters of St. Basil the Great. A Committee's Subcommittee on In efforts of the AHRU, which lobbied Capital Campaign aimed at gather ternational Operations chaired by both in Washington and in Ukrai ing S2 million for the construction of Rep. Dan Mica (D-Fla.) held a hear nian centers around the country. a new student center, improvement ing on October 3, just one day prior But the famine commission bill of the college grounds and build to the scheduled close of the 98th wasn't the only piece of legislation ings, and establishment of a trust Congress. Legislators testifying on '-concerning the famine that passed fund, was announced on December behalf of the bill were Reps. Florio Congress in 1984. On October 4, the 2 at a special reception. Archbishop Mark: dead at 89 and Marcy Kaptur (D-Ohio), and House approved the Senate-amend- 1984 also saw the installation of Sen. Dennis DeConcini (D-Ariz.). ed House Concurrent Resolution two new Ukrainian Catholic bishops. The Ukrainian Orthodox Church After being consecrated a bishop held two sobors during 1984. The on February 27, Bishop Basil File- Ukrainian Autocephalic Orthodox vich was installed on March 4 as the Church Sobor was held in London new eparch of the Saskatoon Ukrai on August 17-19 with representa nian Catholic Eparchy. The position tives of the Church from around the had been vacant since the death in world in attendance. The Ukrainian October 1982 of Bishop Andrew Orthodox Church of the U.S.A. held Roborecki. Bishop Robert Moskal its own sobor on October 11-14. was installed on February 29 as the Both conclaves were chaired by first eparch of the recently created Metropolitan Mstyslav. Political activities For Ukrainian Americans, un the continuing resolution, the omni doubtedly the biggest story out of bus funding measure that grants the Washington this year was the pass- government spending authority. On ageof the famine commission bill by October 11, House and Senate con Congress on October 11. The mea ferees agreed on an omnibus spend sure, which calls for the creation of a ing bill which included the famine federally funded commission to measure. investigate the Great Famine in The famine bill had a long legis Ukraine (1932-33), was adopted lative history. It was first introduced after some clever 11th-hour maneu in the House by Rep. James Florio vering in the waning hours of the (D-N.J.) on September 27, 1983, as Marta Kolomayets 98th Congress by Sen. Bill Bradley House Resolution 3393. It was rein- (D-N.J.), who sponsored the bill in troduced in November, this time AHRU's Ihor Olshaniwsky (left) testifies at subcommittee hearings. With him the Senate. The senator attached with 59 co-sponsors and the de are David Roth (center) of the American Jewish Committee and John the measure to the Senate version of signation H.R. 4459. The Senate Kromkowski from the National Center for Urban/Ethnic Affairs. 8 ; THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, DECEMBER 30, 1984 No. 53
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111, which asked the president to UACCouncil and the UCCA. The fall of 1984. proclaim a day for "mournful com composition of the delegation turn The position paper also noted that memoration of the Great Famine in ed out to be a matter of controversy, the UACCouncil considered the Ukraine." The Senate had approved however, as certain UCCA repre formation of an ad hoc committee to the resolution on September 13. sentatives attempted to change the commemorate the 20th anniversary The measure was actually a com agreed-upon formula for selecting of the Shevchenko monument as a pilation of two resolutions, the delegation members, namely that positive step toward the eventual original H. Con. Res. 111, intro six representatives each be desig reunification of Ukrainians in Ame duced in the House in early 1983 by nated by the UACCouncil and rica, and that the joint commemora Rep. Gerald Solomon (R-N.Y.) and UCCA. To make a long story short, tion provides hope for a positive passed by the House in November of the delegation finally included six conclusion to Bishop Losten's me that year, and Senate Concurrent UACCouncil representatives, five diation. Resolution 70, which was intro UCCA representatives and two In July, the UACCouncil an duced by Sens. Ernest Hollings (D- Shevchenko Scientific Society nounced that it would heed the S.C.) and Pete Domenici (R-N.M.) members. Pity that the Ukrainian appeal of the president of the World and approved by the Senate on American community's infighting Congress of Free Ukrainians, Peter November 15, 1983. Also noted in had to be demonstrated for the Savaryn, and would postpone the the final compromise was S. Con. White House. convention it had planned to hold in Res. 101, a measure identical to the During 1984, the Ukrainian Ameri the fall. The UACCouncil also called original Solomon resolution, which can Coordinating Council continued on the UCCA to cancel its congress was introduced in the Senate on its community activity, first, by that was already scheduled to take Marcfi 30 by Sen. Alfonse D'Amato pledging to make 1984 a year to (R-N.Y.). place November 23-25 in New York focus on the Russif ication of Ukraine City. The WCFU president had made The compromise resolution in by the Soviet regime; and second; his appeal to the two groups in the corporated key elements of both by forming several more local hope that if the organizations' res original House and Senate versions. branches throughout the United pective conclaves were postponed, In addition to asking the president to States. negotiations between the two would proclaim a day to commemorate the Sen. Charles Percy: defeated in re Also, the UACCouncil on May 19' resume and bear fruit. Great Famine, the measure called election bid. issued a position paper "regarding By August, it ^became clear that on him to urge the USSR to remove time friend of Ukrainian causes did the present state, needs and poten not only would the UCCA not post "restrictions on the shipment of go down to defeat - Sen. Percy, tial of our community," in which it pone its congress, but that the food parcels and other necessities" chairman of the Senate Foreign welcomed the designation of Bishop Liberation Front-controlled group to Soviet residents; to "issue a Relations Committee. Basil Losten of the Stamford Ukrai had no intentions of negotiating in warning that continued subjugation The 65-year-old liberal Republi nian Catholic Eparchy to continue good faith toward the reunification of the Ukrainian nation...constitutes can, who was seeking his fourth six- the Church's efforts at mediating the of the Ukrainian American commu a threat to world peace"; and "mani year term, was edged out by Rep. dispute between the two U.S. central nity in one central organization fest to the peoples of the USSR.. that Paul Simon, a five-term congress organizations. Previously, the me representing all Ukrainians in the the people of trie U.S. share with man and former lieutenant gover diation efforts were led by Msgr. United States. them their aspirations to determine nor. Stephen Chomko. their own destiny and to recover The Liberation Front press con In September, Sen. Percy had The UACCouncil asserted that it their freedom." tinued to publish scathing attacks been awarded the first Humanita would begin serious negotiations on the UACCouncil and its presi In heeding the famine resolution, rian Award to be presented by the with the UCCA as soon as the UCCA dent, John O. Flis, while simulta President Ronald Reagan declared Ukrainian National Association for agreed to four basic preconditions: neously the UCCA continued to give Sunday, November 4, as a "Day of his many years of supporting Ukrai participation in the negotiations of lip service to the notion that it was nian causes, including the famine Commemoration of the Great Fa representatives of the Churches of interested in conducting serious bill. mine in the Ukraine in 1933." The all faiths of Ukrainians in America; negotiations toward the establish president signed the proclamation Also in the sphere of government creation of a joint by-laws commit ment of one central community on Tuesday evening, October 30. action, the Voice of America in the tee for the purpose of preparing a organization. In addition to being the year of fall began broadcasting to Ukrai draft of new by-laws; agreement on Finally, the UCCA crossed the famine legislation, 1984 was also a nians in the Soviet Far East. The a new name for the central organiza Rubicon, so to speak, by holding its federal election year. Although both one-hour broadcasts in the Ukrai tion of Ukrainian Americans; and 14th Congress. The Ukrainian com nian language are taped in Wash sponsors of the famine bill won re cancellation of the 14th UCCA Con munity, it now appeared, was ington and heard in the Zelenyi gress that was to take place in the election, as did a large percent of the doomed to divisiveness. The com- co-sponsors in both the House and Klyn, Khabarovsk and Vladivostok Senate, one key supporter and long- regions. U.S. Ukrainian community life
Static is perhaps the only way to the Unveiling of the Shevchenko describe the status of Ukrainian Monument in Washington. Thank community life in the United States fully, the name was later changed to during 1984, as the rift that had the much more succinct National occurred during the 13th UCCA Committee to Protest the Russifica- Congress continued to exist a full tion of Ukraine. four years later. If there was any For a while, preparations for the movement at all in the U.S. commu September 16 observances of the nity, it certainly was not in the anniversary kept everyone occupied, direction of healing, and by the end although there were, of course, of the year the rift seemed to have some behind-the-scenes rumblings. become a canyon. The September 16 observances, The year started off on a bright which .included a demonstration at note in the aftermath of the Fourth the site of the Shevchenko monu World Congress of Free Ukrainians, ment, a march to the Soviet Em at which both the Ukrainian bassy, a rally a! Lafayette Park American Coordinating Council (directly acre :-..i from the White and the Ukrainian Congress Com House) and a concert at the Ken mittee of America were recognized nedy Cents', were months in the as central organizations of Ukrai planning Ultimately, the events nian Americans. These two organi were a success as 10.000 partici zations, plus the Shevchenko Scien pated in the Ukrainian community's tific Society, on March14announced protest against the ongoing Russifi- the formation of an ad hoc commit cation of the Ukrainian nation and tee to plan and direct commemora the news media provided ample tions of the 20th anniversary of the coverage. unveiling of the Taras Shevchenko On theVlay after the anniversary monument in Washington. observanc ss, that is, on Monday, The group gave itself the cumber -Sefltembt r 17, President Ronald some name Committee for Defense Reagan mst with a delegation of -- ---.t.j...... Maria Kotemiyct; of National Rights for Ukraine Com represaqtajtives of the two Ukrainian. Demonstrators at D.C.'s Shevchenko monument: an emotional return 20 memorating the 20th Anniversary of American centra! organizations? tf".e f years later. No. 53 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, DECEMBER 30, 1984
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Those who did respond to the couragement for the years ahead. Supreme Executive Committee's Official greetings were also received appeal made back in January to from many senators: Joseph R. "recall this glorious past and to Biden (D-Del.), Bill Bradley (D- glean from it practical conclusions N.J.), Alfonse D'Amato (R-N.Y.), for our present and for our future" Alan Dixon (D-lll.), John Glenn (D- chose various modes of celebration. Ohio), Edward Kennedy (D-Mass.), In Shamokin, Pa., for example, Frank Lautenberg (D-N.J.), Howard where the UNA was founded in 1894 Metzenbaum (D-Ohio), Daniel by priests and community activists Moynihan (D-N.Y.), Claiborne Pell as an organization with S220 and (D-R.l.), Charles Percy (R-lll.), Paul 439 members, executive officers Sarbanes (D-Md.) and Aden Specter and local UNA'ers attended a "tra (R-Pa.). ditional" self-catered banquet and Greetings also came in from scores church service at one of the oldest of members of the U.S. House of Ukrainian Catholic parishes in Ame Representatives and over one-fifth rica. of this country's governors. Italmost In New York a few months later, goes without saying that more Carnegie Hall was filled with well- scores of greetings were sent by wishers who attended a matinee Ukrainian cultural, political, religious, jubilee concert given by the Ameri youth and educational organiza can Symphony Orchestra and the tions from all over the world. Ex Canadian Ukrainian Opera Chorus, cerpts from many of these appeared President Ronald Reagan surrounded by Ukrainian community activists under the direction of Wolodymyr on The Ukrainian National Associa during their visit to the White House. Kolesnyk, and pianist Lydia Arty- tion Forum page in successive munity was effectively dissected continued their activities on their miw. With true Ukrainian anniversary issues of The Weekly. into three: the UCCA,theUACCoun- own. spirit, one of the numbers perform; Meanwhile, Canadian UNA'ers cil and those organizations that A nagging question remains: who ed was dedicated to the 170th anni celebrated just a few weeks ago chose not to join either group and stands to benefit? versary of the birth of the Ukrainian when they attended a gala concert bard, Taras Shevchenko. After in Tbronto, planned by the UNA's wards, performers, guests and Canadian Representation and the The Ukrainian National Association leaders of some 20 Ukrainian or Toronto District Committee. Cana ganizations retired to the Ukrainian dian Prime Minister Brian Mulroney The Ukrainian propensity for of the UNA this year. Institute of America for a UNA- wrote to say that he was "delighted" anniversary celebrations, whether it For UNA'ers, 1984 was the year of sponsored buffet reception. to be sending his "warmest greet be 20 years since the unveiling of a the Great 90th Anniversary Cele In Chicago this October, Sen. ings and sincere best wishes to monument or 1p0 years since the bration, with districts and branches Charles H. Percy flew in by heli Canada's Ukrainian community as establishment of the first Ukrainian all over the United States and Ca copter to the UNA anniversary ban (it celebrates) the 90th anniversary Catholic parish, was confirmed by nada jumping on the bandwagon to quet, where he received from UNA of the founding of the Ukrainian virtually every branch and member rejoice and commemorate. President John O. Flis the first UNA National Association." Humanitarian Award "for his extra Our own president, UNA Supreme ordinary commitment to thestruggle President John Flis, in his success for human and national rights in ful attempts to garner support for Ukraine." A few days before the the famine commission bill, was award was presented, the Senate kept busy writing letters to U.S. Foreign Relations Committee chair senators and congressman. Shortly ed by Sen. Percy released S. 2456, before the Senate Foreign Relations the bill that would establish a fede Committee hearings on the bill in rally funded commission to study early August, he sent members of the 1932-33 Great Famine in U- the committee telegrams, appealing kraine. for their support of the bill, on behalf And today in Philadelphia, over of the UNA Supreme Executive 120 bandurists from all over the Committee. The UNA execs also world are performing in a gala con urged all UNA members to write cert for that district's anniversary their legislators and ask for their celebrations. support of the bill. Everybody, it seemed, wanted to And for their effectual efforts Sen get in on the anniversary, even Bill Bradley and Rep James Florio, President Ronald Reagan and Vice- both Democrats of New Jersey, who President George Bush, who sent were the principal sponsors of the letters of congratulations and en- famine bill in their respective houses,
UNA Supreme President John 0. Fiis at Shamokin's monument to the UNA'S founding. Shamokin was the site of a 90th anniversary celebration of the UNA'S establishment there in 1894.
- -' Geotge B. Zarycky Sen. Bill Bradley gets a plaque from AHRU's Ihor Olshaniwsky as UNA Maria Kolomayets Supreme President John Flis and Supreme Treasurer Ulana Diachuk look The UNAs 90th anniversary concert at Carnegie Hall. on. 10 " THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, DECEMBER 30, 1984 No. 53
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were honored by the UNA in co activities coordinator, finally suc it got from Soviet athletes. rence, the Soviet news agency TASS operation with Americans for Hu cumbed to marriage. She left the Members of the Smoloskyp bureau attacked what it called "Ukrainian man Rights in Ukraine (AHRU), the UNA's employ in late spring and also discussed their controversial emigre rabble" for stirring up anti- organization tht initiated and spear became a bride in September. Con assertions on local radio and tele Soviet hostilities at the Games. At headed the drive for the famine bill. gratulations. vision programs. They also pressed the conference itself, a man identify Both legislators received AHRU In 1984, two long-time UNA acti demands that Ukraine, as a member ing himself as a Soviet journalist humanitarian awards and accolades vists died. On March 12, Bohdan of the United Nations, be allowed to accused Ukrainian organizations of during receptions held at the UNA Zorych, a former UNA vice-president compete as a nation and send its collaborating with the Nazis during Home Office in their honor. Among for Canada and an honorary mem athletes to international sports com World War II. The charges were the speakers who expressed thanks ber of the Supreme Assembly, pass petitions. summarily denied by Smoloskyp were Ihor Olshaniwsky of AHRU ed away in Toronto at the age of 72 Soviet reaction to the Smoloskyp representatives, who countered that and Ulana Diachuk, vice-president after a lengthy battle with lung presence at the Olympics was pre the Soviet accusations were made of the National Committee to Com disease. He was the first director of dictable. On August 1, one day only to draw attention away from memorate Genocide Victims in U- the UNA's Canadian Office, and he before the Smoloskyp press confe Soviet sports abuses. kraine. enrolled over 3,000 UNA members. Two changes took place at the On November 17, John Odezynsky, UNA resort. Soy uzivka, this summer. a UNA supreme advisor, died in Scholarship and academia Anya Dydyk, who has been the Philadelphia at the age of 59 of a 1983 was a year filled with evi dated computerized data base of emcee for the last 13 seasons, an heart attack. He was the founder of dence of the interest Ukrainians in archival repositories and detailed nounced her retirement. A real UNA Branches 153, 216 and 32 in the diaspora have in scholarship inventories and checklists of their trooper, Ms. Dydyk who has also Philadelphia and was one of the and scholarly publications. A fair collections; acquisition of primary been the resort's program director UNA's top organizers. for the past two seasons, says she number of book reviews appeared source materials; summer intern on The Weekly's pages'over the ships at leading archival institu wilf have lined up next season's The UNA scholarship program months, various Ukrainian institu tions; scholarships for archival entertainment by the time she leaves was singled out for commendation tions were awarded government science students interested prima the UNA Home Office for her new by President Reagan. In his congra grants, and symposia on Ukrainian rily in working on ethno-cultural and job in February. We at The Weekly tulatory note the president wrote religious topics were hetd at two specialized collections; a major wish her the best in her position as that the program has been "espe universities. publicity and education program an international radio broadcaster cially instrumental in furthering the within the community; and an oral for the Ukrainian division of Voice of educational goals" of those in your Among the books The Weekiy history dimension. America. community. The UNA awarded received was the first volume of the At the University of Illinois at Soyuzivka visitors may have S48.700 in student scholarships for English-language Encyclopedia of Champaign-Urbana. the Ukrainian noticed a change in operations as the 1984-85 academic year to 162 Ukraine edited by Volodymyr John Rabkevych took over the ma students across the United States Kubijovyc. The impressive tome, Research Program was established nager's position on January 16. and Canada. The awards bring the covering the letters A to F, back in February. It will function as Before making his career change, total of scholarship aid distributed represents 25 years of "re an autonomous institution with its Mr. Rabkevych, who holds a degree to 5388,000 since the formal institu search by more than 100 scholars. own executive committee research from the Chicago School of Traffic tion of the UNA's scholarship pro Also published was an accompany advisory council and associates. Management, was in the transporta gram in 1964. The details about the ing map and gazetteer. It was pub The program will concentrate main tion business in Cleveland scholarship awards were featured in lished at a cost of 51 million by the ly on: organizing scholarly confe University of Toronto Press for the rences and publishing their pro Late this spring, wanderlust hit at a special issue of The Ukrainian ceedings; supporting its associates least one UNA employee. Marta Weekly dated December 15. Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies, the Shevchenko Scientific and other scholars, as well as gra Korduba, who was consistently UNA assets grew in 1984. topping duate students in research on Ukrai mistaken for a Weekly staffer but S50 million. Not bad for a 90-year- Society based in Sarcelles, France, nian subjects: supporting courses was actually the UNA'S fraternal old. and the Canadian Foundation for Ukrainian Studies. on Ukrainian subjects at the Uni In August, the Canadian govern versity of Illinois, and further de ment announced that grants totalling veloping the Ukrainian collection at Summer Olympic Games S100.000 were approved for re the university library. 1984 was the year the Soviet the exclusion of Ukrainian and other search projects on tne Great Famine Some weeks later, the Ukrainian Union and its allies boycotted the nations within the Soviet Union from in Ukraine (1932-33). Half the monies Canadian Committee committed Summer Olympics in Los Angeles. the Olympic Games. The bureau, were allocated to the Toronto-based itself to establishing a 5100.000 For Ukrainians, the Soviet decision which opened on July 16, provided Ukrainian Research Committee for endowment fund at Toronto's York to stay home was doubly disappoint background information on Ukraine completing production of the film University. The fund was created to ing. For one thing, Ukrainians and and on the contributions of Ukrai "Harvest of Despair," which pre ensure the permanent availability of their fellow Americans were de nian athletes to past Olympics, data miered there in the fall. The other Ukrainian history courses at York, to prived of seeing world-class Ukrai on the various forms of national half went to the Lachine, Que., make the study of Ukrainian politics nian athletes compete, men such as discrimination practiced against Foundation to Commemorate the an integral part of the university's pole-vaulter Sergei Bubka. More Ukrainian athletes, as well as ma 1933 Ukraine Famine and is ear curriculum and to appoint to York's over, the boycott also undercut terials on Soviet abuses in Ukraine. marked for the production of a faculty a leading specialist in that plans by several groups to protest Undoubtedly the most startling project to record on videotape the field. The fund will also allow for Soviet human-rights abuses, the information released by Smoloskyp personal experiences of Canadian research and publication in Ukrai continued occupation of Afgha was the charge, made at an August 2 citizens who survived the famine. nian studies, public lectures, con nistan and the subjugation of the press conference, that 59 Soviet The tapes will eventually be de ferences, student scholarships, captive nations. Olympic athletes had died prema posited in the Public Archives of library acquisitions, the initiation of Nevertheless, the Smoloskyp U- turely from the cumulative effects of Canada and other educational insti refresher courses for teachers of krainian Information Service went performance-enhancing drugs and tutions, where they will be accessible Ukrainian and for the preparation of ahead with plans to open a bureau in other abuses of sports medicine. to researchers, academics and stu teaching materials In what should Los Angeles to distribute informa Smoloskyp said it based its informa dents. bean encouragementtothe scholars tion concerning, among otherthings, tion on a list of the dead athletes that Meanwhile, the New Jersey-based in Toronto, the UCC announced Ukrainian American Professional that student enrollment in Ukrainian and Businesspersons Association history courses tripled since last and the journal Suchasnist spon year. sored over 50 interviews with famine Then in April, after nearly a year survivors living in the United States. of preparatory activity, the Commit Information compiled for the oral tee on the Millennium of Chris history project (some 90 hours of tianity in Rus'-Ukraine for the Reali interviews have been taped and are zation of the Harvard Project was awaiting transcription) will be made officially established in New York. available to the yet-to-be-formed The committee's goal is to imple Congressional Famine Commis ment the Harvard Project for the sion. millennium which includes: the Four universities, two in the United establishment of a Harvard States and two in Canada, stepped University chair devoted to research up efforts to reinforce Ukrainian on religious thought in Ukraine; the studies. publication of a mammoth 120- The Canadian Institute of Ukrai volume collection of Ukrainian lite nian Studies at the University of rary treasures through the year Alberta launched a project that will 1798; and the publication of a three- Smoloskyp encompass: the preparation of a volume work on 1,000 years of Speaking at the Smoloskyp press conference were (from left): Andrew published guide to archival/manu Ukrainian Christianity. Sorokowski, fvtona Snylyk and Andrew Karkoc script materials; a constantly up In October, LaSalle University in No. 53 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, DECEMBER 30, 1984 11
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Philadelphia hosted an interna In November, a three-day confe Preserve a Heritage: The Story of ' Mykola Movchan, a 20-year-old tional symposium on "Ukrainian rence focusing on the life and works the Ukrainian Immigration in the Ukrainian sergeant who deserted Christianity on the Threshold of Its of Metropolitan Andrey Sheptytsky United States." The exhibit, whose the Red Army in Afghanistan, arrived Second Millennium." The proceed of the Ukrainian Catholic Church guest curator is Dr. Myron B. Kuro- in the United States in August. ings of the symposium will be pub was held at the University of To p'as, gives an overview of the four ' Ray Hnatyshyn of Saskatoon lished in a special volume by the St. ronto. Over 250 registrants from all waves of Ukrainian immigration to was named in September toserveas Sophia Religious Association of over the world and 25 speakers from this country. minister of state in the Cabinet of Ukrainian Catholics. eight countries attended. ' A 15-foot granite and bronze Canada's new prime minister, Brian monument to the Great Famine Mulroney, a Progressive Conserva victims was unveiled in Winnipeg, in tive. front of City Hall, on June 24. The " Walter W.Dudycz, a 34-year-old Changing Ukrainian neighborhoods memorial was a gift to the city from Chicago police detective, was elect the Winnipeg branch of the Ukrai ed to the Illinois State Senate in the This was the year of the chang tional Home, which housed a bar, nian Canadian Committee. November elections. He represents ing Ukrainian neighborhood in restaurant and some 20 Ukrainian " A memorial to the famine vic the 7th District on Chicago's North many of this country's older organizations and businesses. tims was also dedicated in Bridge west Side. urban centers, and some of the Although most large Ukrainian port, Conn., at Sacred Heart Univer " John Hnatyschak, the 28-year- changes were not necessarily for organizations have their own sity on July 7. The memorial con old bodybuilderfrom Bayonne, N.J., the better. In New York, the his buildings - such as the UCCA, sists of a pin oak tree and a black who first appeared in The Weekly in toric Lower East Side, long the the Liberation Front, Plast, the granite monument with the inscrip 1983, went on this year to capture hub of Ukrainian life in the Big Ukrainian Institute of America - tion: "May this oak live in the me the Eastern regional and Mr. Apple, suddenly became very the loss of the Ukrainian National mory of the 7 million Ukrainians America titleds in his weight divi trendy and the hottest area in Home dealt a profound psycholo forcibly starved on theirown land by sion. In October he earned the ulti town. Long a haven for artists, gical blow. the Soviet regime in the Great Fa mate title, Mr. Universe, at the in musicians and immigrants at Although plans are currently in mine of 1932-33." ternational bodybuilding cham tracted by the area's low rents, the the works to either repair the The following were among the pionships held in Las Vegas. і East Village (as it was dubbed, home or replace it with a new, notable Ukrainians of 1984. ' Pavlo Stokotelnyj, husband of Ц doubtlessly by clever real estate modern complex, New York's ' Bohdan Futey, a Cleveland former Soviet political prisoner I developers) found itself in the Ukrainians are being forced to lawyer, was tapped in April to be Nadia Svitlychna and brother-in-law I feverish throes of gentrification, ponder long and hard their future chairman of the U.S. Foreign Claims of imprisoned Ukrainian Helsinki I which threatened to alter the in a rapidly changing neighbor Settlement Commission. Later in Group member Mykola Horbal, went I character of the area and its hood that some had taken for the year, in July, he was appointed on a two-week hunger strike in || Ukrainian businesses. granted. Decimated by suburban national chairman of Ukrainian November in order to protest the flight, business closings and the Americans for Reagan-Bush '84. new charges levelled by the Soviets Emblematic of the neighbor- steady onslaught of gentrifica I hood's changing face was the fate ' Dr. Myron B. Kuropas, supreme at Mr. Horbal, and Yosyf Zisels, tion, the city's "Little Ukraine" is vice-president of the Ukrainian another Helsinki monitor. The site of I of the Orchidia Restaurant, own- facing perhaps its most serious I ed by Maria Pidhorodecky and National Association, was elected Mr. Stokotelnyj's hunger strike was crisis. vice-chairman of the board of direc Ralphe Bunche Park near the United I long a gathering place for young A similar scenario is being і Ukrainians and local artists and tors of the National Center for' Ur Nations complex in New York. played out in other cities, includ ban/Ethnic Affairs, it was announced " Robert McConnell, a Ukrainian actors. Mrs. Pidhorodecky was ing downtown Detroit, where the forced to close her doors early in in May. by marriage (his wife is Nadia Ko- Ukrainian American Centerclosed " Arn Kritsky, a Ukrainian weight- marnyckyj McConnell), was ap the year when her rent jumped its doors in August after 69 years from S950 per month to 55,000, an lifter from Vienna, Va., qualified for pointed CBS vice-president for of activity. Reasons cited for the the U.S. Olympic team in May. The Washington, effective December 1. incredible increase of some 526 closing were mounting opera percent. Despite massive com 22-year-old went on to place ninth in Mr. McConnell previously served as tional expenditures, decisions by his division at the Olympic Games, assistant attorney general for legis munity support, the former Ukrai several Ukrainian organizations nian immigrant, who owned the while the U.S. team.finished second lative affairs at the Justice Depart to locate in modern, suburban to Canada's first place. ment. restaurant for 27 years, could not surroundings and declining in win her battle with the landlord. terest by what was left of the inner The demise of the Orchidia was city's younger Ukrainians. not the only business closure in Yet, the future of Ukrainian the area, as other smaller and neighborhoods need not be com lesser-known Ukrainian busi pletely bleak. The over-all re nesses quietly ceased to exist. In naissance of American cities a little over a year, the Eko Gift promoted by young professionals Shop and Karpaty Shoes, both on choosing an urban rather than the same block as the restaurant, suburban lifestyle may also keep were forced to close because of young Ukrainians in their neigh astronomical rent increases. borhoods. But plans must be But perhaps the most serious made soon for such things as blow to a continued Ukrainian condominiums, seniors' housing presence in the area was the and modern community centers October 23 fire that destroyed a in order to secure the future for large part of the Ukrainian Na our declining "Little Ukraines." Notable: events, people Certain notable Ukrainian events fied that henceforth they would have and persons of 1984 defy classifica to qualify for such exemptions on an tion under any other heading, ergo, annual basis. this section. " Studies about the 1932-33 First, the notable happenings of Great Famine in Ukraine will be part 1984. of the curricula in Manitoba and ' In March, the historic Ukrainian Toronto schools, it was announced Institute of America breathed a sigh in 1984. In the province of Manitoba, of relief as it learned that the City of the famine will be covered in a world New York had decided to grant it an issues course, part of a new grade 12 exemption from real estate taxes for social studies curriculum. The fa the years 1980 through 1984. The mine studies were to be tested in ruling removed a major financial seven Manitoba schools beginning burden from the Ukrainian cultural in September. In Toronto, a short and educational center located on course on the famine will be taught New York's Museum Mile, more to high school students beginning in specifically in a landmark building the fall of 1985. The course was on Fifth Avenue and 79th Street. prepared by Dr. Orest Subtelny, a Without the exemption, the UIA professor of Ukrainian history at would have owed the city 5300,000 York University. in back taxes. The institute, and " The Ukrainian Museum in New other non-profit educational or York City on May 20 opened its ganizations in New York, were noti mammoth photographic exhibit "To Winnipeg's monument to famine victims. 12 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, DECEMBER 30, 1984 No. 53
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Dramatic defection from Poland ' Luke Luciw, 89, noted literary e Joseph Andrushkiw, 79, mathe critic and author; editor staff mem matician and professor at Seton Hall ber of Svoboda; author of several University and former chairman of books and monographs on Ukrai its department of mathematics - nian literary greats - December 1. December 17. Meanwhile, at The Weekly
1984 was the year of milestones at as "The Washington Connection," a The Weekly, some solemn and others column concerning goings-on in happy. Perhaps our most important the nation's capital that was com stop/ - and the saddest - was the piled by the Ukrainian American death in September of Patriarch Caucus. The "Book notes" feature Josyf Slipyj of the Ukrainian Catho was expanded, and Andrew Bilyk lic Church. We at the paper felt the continued to provide his "Effective loss of this great and saintly man, Media Relations" column, started whose death at age 92 left a huge last year in preparation for the vacuum in the Church and in the commemorations of the 50th anni Ukrainian nation. versary of the Great Famine in
,. Nadia Odette Diaktin Ukraine. The "Dissident sketch," On a happier, more personal note, Which spotlighted lesser-known Some of the Ukrainian defectors from Poland with Canadian MPP Yuri our editor-in-chief, Roma Hadze- dissidents, was dropped due to lack Shymko. wycz, gave birth in April to a healthy of new information. Perhaps the most dramatic story defectors, and groups of the Ukrai baby boy, Markian Andrew. There were other milestones as well. In The Weekly retained most of its of 1984 was the mass defection on nians began arriving in Canada in regular features, such as Helen July 19 of 119 Ukrainians from late October - thanks to the efforts November, Assistant Editor Marta Kolomayets left the paper to ply her Smindak's "Panorama" and Roman Poland while on a religious pilgri of the Canadian Ukrainian Immi trade for a trade publication in Sawycky's "Sounds and views." As mage to the Vatican. The refugees, grant Aid Society. Manhattan. Natalia Dmytrijuk, who fer those who may be wondering who said the reason for their defec The first group of 30 arrived in joined the staff in July as a cor about what ever happened to Ihor tion was discrimination against the Toronto on October 25 and was respondent, moved up a notch to fill Stelmach's "Pro hockey update," so Ukrainian minority in Poland, were enthusiastically welcomed by area in the gap. Associate Editor George are we. Mr. Stelmach seems to have on their way to Rome by bus when Ukrainians, including members of Zarycky, who filled in as editor while dropped from sight. So, Ihor, if you they made a detour to Austria's main the University of Toronto Ukrainian Mrs. Hadzewycz was on maternity read this, do give a call. refugee camp in Traiskirchen, some Students Club. leave from April to September, made Also noteworthy this year were 25 miles south of Vienna, and asked The rest of the group of defectors his television debut this summer, articles contributed by Dr. Roman for political asylum. arrived in small groups during appearing on WOR-TV's morning Solchanyk, who continued his ex The group consisted of young October and November. The Cana talk show, "Straight Talk," to dis cellent analysis of Soviet reality; men and women in their 20s and 30s, dian Ukrainian Immigrant Aid So cuss the ethnic press. The staff was Leonard Leshuk, who wrote a two- most of whom expressed a desire to ciety did its utmost to acquaint the helped out ably in the summer by part article recounting his trip into emigrate to Canada. newcomers with life in Canada, and Chrystyna Lapychak, a journalism war-torn Afghanistan; Christine Canada agreed to accept the provide jobs and housing. student at Rutgers. Unlike her im Demkowych, who covered the clos mediate predecessor, the peripatetic ing of the Orchidia in New York; Mykhailo Bociurkiw, Chrystyna an Nadia Odette Diakun, who provided Deaths in the community tagonized no one. several features from Canada; and In 1984, Ukrainians mourned the " Ivan Lysiak-Rudnytsky, 64, young Mr. Bociurkiw, who sat still deaths of several important commu history professor at the University of Another 1984 milestone was the long enough to give us several nity leaders. Among them were the Alberta; formerly on faculties of La- 90th anniversary of our publisher, stories this summer on Ukrainian following. Salle University in Philadelphia and the Ukrainian National Association, festivals and such. at American University in Washing which we noted with a special, " Anthony Zukowsky, 79, a physi Dr. Roman Szporluk of the Uni ton - April 25. picture-filled section in our February cian; veteran of the 1st Division of 19 issue. versity of Michigan also contributed the Ukrainian National Army; mem " Andrij Priatka, 27, activist in a lengthy article on the fate of non- Ukrainian youth and student organi The issues that most concerned us Russian publications in the Soviet ber of the White House Committee this year were the passage of the on Aging who received the Public zations; former president of TUSM Union. and member of SUSTA; vice-presi famine commission bill and the Service Award from Presidents continuing onslaught of Russifica- To these and others who have Dwight D. Eisenhower, Lyndon B. dent of CeSUS - May 21. contributed to making The Weekly ' Andrij Bandera, 38, editor of the tion in Ukraine. Much of ourenergies Johnson and Richard M. Nixon; were focused on following the pro informative and interesting, our Ukrainian Echo; son of Stepan Ban recipient of the UCCA'sShevchenko gress of the famine legislation and deepest gratitute. dera; involved in the Committee for Freedom Award in 1970 - January alerting our community as to the As for our readers, the issue that the Defense of Valentyn Moroz; 8. importance of the measure, which seemed to fuel the most emotions editor of Student newspaper and on " Ivan Kernytsky, 70, a writer and was ultimately passed by Congress was, inexplicably, the whole Car- editorial staff of Homin Ukrainy - humorist; editorial staff member of in October. In the area of Russifica- patho-Rusyn/Ukrainian fandango. July 19. the newspapers Nash Prapor and a tion, we provided a series of articles Judging from the number of long correspondent for other Ukrainian " Wasyl Fedoronchuk, 69, Ukrai on the subject, including extensive and exhaustive letters we received newspapers, including Svoboda: - nian political activist in charge of pieces from dissident writings, on this one subject, we can only February 15. programming on Italy's national culminating with full coverage of the conclude that the issue is of great radio station; writer for Ukrainske anti-Russification demonstration in concern to the community, although ' Ivan Smoley, 68, an editor and Slovo; former Rome representative Washington in September. we must confess we don't really author; editor-in-chief of Narodna for the Organization of Ukrainian know why it is bigger than, say, the Volya, the official newspaper of the Nationalists; former Italian repre It also seemed to be the year of the future of our community. Ukrainian Fraternal Association - sentative of the executive branch of centerfold at The Weekly. We had And speaking of the future, we ask February 24. the Ukrainian National Rada and pictorial centerfolds showcasing all our readers tocontinue to support " John Kushnir, 60, Canadian head of foreign affairs for the coun Ukrainian Olympic athletes, the the Weekly in the coming year We federal MP former member of AI- cil's executive body - early Novem dedication 20 years ago of the Shev need your input, not only in terms be'ta Provincial Legislature: former ber. chenko Monument in Washington, of money . but in terms of ideas, city alderman in Calgary - March 2 ' Boris Lewytzkyj, 69. well-known the life of the late bandura virtuoso suggestions, news stories and " Boris Yakowkewych, 82, arch Ukrainian Sovietologist; professor Hryhory Kytasty, the life of Patriarch photos. Any future cohesiveness in bishop of the Ukrainian Greek Or of sociology at the Ukrainian Free Josyf and, of course, summer at the community will inevitably rely thodox Church in Canada; professor University in Munich; author of Soyuzivka. heavily on the character and content of theology at St Andrew's College several books on Ukraine and Soviet As far as new features The Weekly of the English-language Ukrainian - March"24 politics - October 28. added Myron Kuropas s "Faces ano press. ' Hryhory Kytasty. 77. conductor " Ivan Majstrenko, 85, noted U- Places." a column on subjects of That said, we wish everyone a very of the Taras Shevchenko Bandurist krainian journalist, author and poli interest to the Ukrainian commu Merry Christmas and a Happy New Chorus for over 40 years, who did tical figure; leader of the Ukrainian nity and other ethnic groups, as well Year. more to popularize the melodic Revolutionary-Democratic Party; combination of Ukrainian choral author of books in English on Bol music and bandura-playing than shevism, Borotbism and newspapers any one person in the 20th century; in the USSR a frequent contributor evidence of his influence on young to UKramian publications, including Ukrainians will no doubt resound in Svoboda; rector of the Ukrainian this weekend's bandura concerts - Technical and Husbandry institute April 6 ,n Munich — November 18.