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The Ukrainian Weekly 1988, No.30 www.ukrweekly.com --j I Published by the Ukrainian National Association Inc.c.. a fraternal non-profit association| rainian Ш V Vol. LVI No. 30 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JULY 24, 1988 50 cents Democratic Front to Promote Hanna Sverstiuk, Z arrives in U.S. Perestroika formed in Ukraine Surgery seen as only hope for dissident's grandchild by Dr. Roman Solchanyk Mr. Makar was singled out as '4he conductor and master of ceremonies" News has reached the West that a and a "chairman" of the rally, which Democratic Front to Promote Pere­ was held on June 16. stroika has been formed in the western In spite of the efforts of the authori­ Ukrainian city of Lviv. The new or­ ties, public sentiment supported the ganization, which represents a federa­ representatives of the informal groups. tion of several "informal" groups, was A resolution was adopted rejecting the launched at a public rally on July 7 on officially approved site for the Shev­ the initiative of an "Action Group to chenko monument. At the same time, Conduct Meetings." Between 10,000 the decision was made to establish the and 20,000 people are said to have taken Democratic Front, whose collective part in the gathering. membership includes, among others, Earlier it had been reported that a the Lviv Political Discussion Club; the similar group, the Popular Union to Lviv branch of the Trust Group; the Promote Perestroika, had been formed Public Committee of the Ukrainian in Kiev on June 9. Little is known of its Catholic Church; the Ukrainian Hel­ activities. Similar ''popular fronts" have sinki Union; the Levy Society; the recently surfaced in the Baltic republics Native Language Society; and the of Estonia, Lithuania and Latvia. Jewish Cultural and Literary Society. The information that has become The Levy Society and the Native Lan­ available thus far indicates that the Lviv guage Society have been referred to rally — the latest in a series of recent positively in the Soviet Ukrainian press. mass public gatherings in that city — The Ukrainian Helsinki Union is a was a heated affair that witnessed verbal new organization. Its declaration of 20 |||||||Ш|І^^^^Щ|| OIha Kuzmowyw sparring matches between officially founding principles is dated July 7. The Two-year-old Hanna Sverstiuk, in the arms of tier mother, Maria, is greeted upon approved speakers and representatives first paragraph of the preamble states: arrival in the U.S. by Nadia Svitlychna. of the informal groups. "The Ukrainian Helsinki Union From the very start, the authorities [Spilka], as a federative association of by Chrystyna N. Lapychak These were the tragic words voiced attempted to gain the upper hand by self-ruling rights defense groups and JERSEY CITY, N.J. - "Some kind by Maria Petrivna Sverstiuk upon her of curse has fallen on our family." July 17 arrival in New York from limiting the meeting's agenda to public (Continued on page 16) Moscow with her desperately ill 2-year- discussion of only one topic — namely, old daughter, Hanna. the location of the proposed monument to the Ukrainian national poet Taras UNA opens a Washington office Indeed, it appears as if a plague of Shevchenko. This has emerged as a accident and illness has beset the family highly controversial local issue, in­ To serve as two-way information center of Yevhen Sverstiuk, a former political volving charges that the Lviv officials prisoner and prominent Ukrainian are intent on downplaying the monu­ WASHINGTON - Strategically The office is also prepared to assist national rights campaigner, who resides ment's significance by refusing to site it located on Capitol Hill, just three Ukrainians and Ukrainian organiza­ in Kiev. on the city's main thoroughfare. blocks from the U.S. Congress, the tions in their relations with the govern­ A brief, but intense effort by a small In order to steer the discussion in the Washington office of the Ukrainian ment. Educational programs about group of concerned Ukrainian Ameri­ desired direction, the "authorized" National Association officially opened government are being planned for the cans brought Hanna Andrievna Sver­ speakers are reported to have opened on July 1. The establishment of the community. stiuk, the dissident's only grandchild, to the meeting earlier than scheduled. office, an initiative of the UNA's Ukrai­ According to Mr. Iwanciw, "The the United States for emergency me­ Observers noted the less than in­ nian National Heritage Defense Com­ purpose of the UNA office is not to take dical treatment last week after hospitals conspicuous presence of specially se­ mittee, was ratified by the 31st UNA the place of existing work being con­ in Kiev and Moscow refused to treat her lected "enthusiasts" in the crowd; their Convention in 1986. ducted by individuals and organizations when their diagnoses revealed she sole function appeared to be shouting The office's first director is Eugene in the community. Rather, we seek to suffered from a brain tumor. down speakers from the informal Iwanciw, a three-term UNA supreme coordinate and work with existing Hanna's father, Andriy, a 30-year-old groups. advisor and a veteran of American groups both in and outside of Washing­ hematologist and Mr. Sverstiuk's only Among the latter were Vyacheslav politics. After working for five U.S. ton. There is enough work for a half son, is a bedridden quadriplegic since he Chornovil a former political prisoner senator5 over a IQ-year period, he spent dozen such offices and only by working broke his spine in a bad accident in the and now chief editor of the unofficial the last three years working in various together can we benefit the Ukrainian spring of 1987. Efforts by Ukrainian journal Ukrainskyi Visnyk (Ukrainian capacities for the Reagan Administra­ American community and assist our Americans to bring Hanna's father to the Herald); the former political prisoners tion. Mr. Iwanciw left his position at the people in Ukraine." United States for therapy had begun in Mykhailo and Bohdan Horyn, both of Social Security Administration to serve In addition to informing members of May, upon request of the 59-year-old whom are active in several unofficial as director of government relations for Congress about Soviet human rights Ukrainian activist, but have been over­ groups, including the Inter-National the UNA. violations in Ukraine and defamation of shadowed by the desperate nature of the Committee in Defense of Political The establishment of the office creates Ukrainians, the goal of the office is to little girl's illness, whose symptoms Prisoners; and Ivan Makar, a design a permanent UNA presence in the assist Ukrainian American organiza­ began appearing only some six weeks engineer at the Institute of Applied nation's capital. Its purpose is to serve tions in their applications for federal ago. Problems of Mechanics and Mathema­ as an information center for Ukrainian funding. Hanna arrived at JFK International tics of the Ukrainian Academy of Americans as well as government offi­ "Our people have been good, tax- Airport, accompanied by her 23-year- Sciences. cials. paying, self-sufficient citizens for many old mother, Maria, at 2:50 p.m. aboard Mr. Makar, together with Mr. Chor­ Working through the office, the UNA years," stated Mr. Iwanciw. "It is time Pan Am flight No. 31 from Moscow. novil, the Horyn brothers, Iryna will keep legislative and executive that our people avail themselves of They were met at the airport by a small Kalynets, and several others, was named officials aware of issues of concern to those federal grants for museums, dance group of well-wishers, including Nadia in recent articles in the Lviv dailies the UNA and the Ukrainian American groups, language schools and youth Svitlychna, an exiled Ukrainian dis­ Vilna Ukraina and Lvovskaya Pravda community. These issues include hu­ organizations to which they are entitled. sident and close family friend, and Dr. that characterized the organizers of an man rights, tax and regulatory policy, We look forward to working with and Mrs. Peter Kozicky, the sponsoring earlier rally in Lviv as "nationalists"; defamation and U.S.-Soviet relations. (Continued on page 4) (Continued on page 4) THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JULY 24, 1988 No. 30 A GLIMPSE OF SOVIET REALITY Supreme Soviet's Presidium rejects transfer of Nagorno-Karabakh region A look at glasnosf s effects MOSCOW - The 39-member Presi­ an ethnic-territorial division of Azer­ dium of the USSR's Supreme Soviet on baidzhan and Armenia, on a constitu­ on ecology in Ukrainian SSR Monday, July 18, rejected appeals from tional basis, impossible." Nagorno-Karabakh, a predominantly However, Soviet authorities pro­ by Dr. David R. Marples not one of the numerous installations Armenian region that is part of the mised enhanced self-government and operating or being built on its banks is Azerbaidzhan SSR, that it be allowed better living conditions in Nagorno- The perilous ecological situation in based on "concrete, reliable, ecological to secede from that republic and join the Karabakh. They also threatened that the Ukrainian SSR was highlighted in and economic grounds." The actions of Armenian SSR. arrests and dismissals from jobs will late June by a Kiev newspaper. In "economic managers" are said to be of The unanimous decision was made at (Continued on page 4) Pravda Ukrainy it was pointed out that an increasingly aggressive and senseless an emergency session of the Presidium. Ukrainian industry was being run nature. A special three-hour broadcast was without due regard for the protection of The Dniester, like the Dnieper River, shown on Soviet television on Tuesday, Armenian nationalist the natural environment. is the target of several ambitious sche­ July 19, revealing sharp top-level de­ Many Ukrainian cities have become mes to irrigate the arid areas of bates.
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