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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. Airildan ordered centers of pollution. In the industrial southern Ukraine. Despite being a General Secretary Mikhail Gorba­ heartland of the republic, in the city of major agricultural producer, the Ukrai­ chev was seen taking the side of hard­ Zaporizhzhia, about 300,000 tons of nian SSR has several natural disadvan­ liners on the issue and scolding officials expelled from USSR toxic substances are released into the tages in this area. The amount of from both Azerbaidzhan and Armenia JERSEY CITY, N.J. -The lead­ atmosphere annually. unsalted water per head of population for putting regional political needs ing Armenian dissident in the Soviet The concern with the ecology has in the republic is 19 times less than the above those of the entire USSR. Union, Paruir Airikian, 39, was been a feature of Soviet discussions over Soviet average. The broadcast came on the heels of an stripped of Soviet citizenship and or­ the past year. During his speech to the Also, two-thirds of Ukrainian ter­ official TASS announcement of the dered expelled on July 20 by the Pre­ 19th All-Union Conference of the ritory lacks the necessary conditions for Presidium's decision, but the news was sidium of the Supreme Soviet for Communist Party of the Soviet Union, stable agricultural production. Over the withheld from Soviet news media until "actions discrediting the high title of on June 28, General Secretary Mikhail past 20 years, droughts have occurred in Tuesday night, when excerpts of the a citizen of the USSR and harming Gorbachev spoke of the necessity of eight. As a result, there have been Presidium debate were aired. the prestige of the Soviet Union." "drastically improving" the ecological alarming fluctuations in the gross According to New York Times cor­ situation in the country. output of grain from a high of 50.6 respondent Bill Keller, "The highly According to The New York In Ukraine, where the problems are at million hectares annually to a low of unusual presentation of the decision Times, TASS reported that Mr. their most acute, there are three main around 35 million hectares. was clearly intended to convince the Airikian was given a pardon on spheres for anxiety: nuclear power Consequently, the Ukrainian SSR public of the reasonableness of the charges of slandering the Soviet state plants, irrigation schemes and heavy formed an important component of the government position and to ward off an for which he was being held since industry. ambitious irrigation schemes that were explosive backlash by Armenians, who March. In the nuclear power industry, the devised in 1966, but expanded during have campaigned since February for Mr. Airikian's arrest on March 25 ecological question has been combined the brief general secretaryship of Kons- control of the Nagorno-Karabakh in Yerevan, Armenia, was the first with the fear of radiation and the usage tantin Chernenko. In November 1984, it region of Azerbaidzhan." known arrest of a dissident on politi­ of valuable agricuUural land to build was decreed at a Ukrainian party Mr. Gorbachev was seen on tele­ cal charges since the fall of 1986. new plants. There have been widespread plenum that the irrigated area of the vision stating: "It is the adversaries of Ekspress Khronika reported that he protests both among the Ukrainian republic be raised from 2.3 to 4-4.0 perestroika, conservative and corrupt was charged on March 28 with public and among academicians. These "million hectares by the year 2000, while elements who waxed rich in the period "circulating deliberately false fabri­ have centered on the plans to expand drained territory was to increase from of stagnation, who speculate on the cations defaming the Soviet political nuclear capacity at some stations, such 2.9 to 4 million hectares. Part of the problems of Nagorno-Karabakh." and social system." as Rivne, Khmelnytsky and South expansion was to come from the con­ Volodymyr Shcherbytsky, first secre­ Mr. Airikian is a member of the Ukraine, beyond the officially agreed struction of a huge canal linking the tary of the Communist Party of U- National Unification Party of Arme­ capacities. Danube with the Dnieper River. The kraine, in what was described in The nia, a co-founder of the Armenian In addition, media attention has been final plan for this canal was to be New York Times as "a passionate law- Committee for the Defense of Politi­ drawn to the situation at a building site completed by 1990. and-order speech," said, "We have no cal Prisoners, and editor of Rapara- for a station sanctioned in 1985, at In the summer of 1987, as part of the right to forget that everything going on kainutyan, the Armenian version of Chyhyryn, on the Dnieper River. Fol­ campaign for glasnost in Ukraine, the in Transcaucasia has a tendency to Glasnost magazine. lowing public opposition, it was offi­ newspaper Robitnycha Hazeta invited spread across the country." He had organized a press confe­ cially announced that building work its readers to mail in letters giving their He also said the disorders were rence on March 19 at which he had stopped at the site and that the opinions of the proposed Danube- "fanning national emotions, lending presented lists of victims of violence station was to be abandoned, but Dnieper Canal. Then followed a veri­ them an increasingly belligerent, anti­ against Armenians in the Azerbaid- according to a recent article, there is an table deluge of correspondence, and the social and — it can now be said — even zhani town of Sumgait. He had open dispute at the site over whether the published letters have been overwhelm­ anti-Soviet character." traveled frequently between Yerevan plant is to be built or not. ingly opposed to the plan. Two examples The vote to reject Nagorno-Kara­ and Moscow to provide accounts of The opponents of nuclear power in the may suffice to show the general picture. bakh's transfer to the Armenian re­ the dispute over the predominantly republic have been incensed by what V. Motsarenko, a scientist with the public was reportedly supported by Armenian region of Nagorno-Kara­ they perceive as insensitivity to their Odessa branch of the Institute of Grant M. Voskanyan, an Armenian bakh in the Azerbaidzhan SSR. concerns on the part of the Soviet Economics, Academy of Sciences, member of the Presidium, even though Several days after the Armenian scientific elite. The roots of this rift lie in Ukrainian SSR, wrote that on Ukrai­ he had argued that Armenia had a nationalist's arrest, thousands of the aftermath of the 1986 disaster at the nian territory, 380,000 hectares of historic right to the territory. people demonstrated in Yerevan to Chornobyl plant. While Soviet scien­ agricultural land in Kherson Oblast had The Presidium stated in its resolution (Continued on page 4) tists have insisted, by and large, that the already been salinized by the current that it "deems a-change of borders and lessons of Chornobyl have been fully irrigation schemes, and that the mouth digested, the suicide of one of their of the Dniester had been destroyed: number, Valeriy Legasov, first deputy He wrote: "One could go on. In south director of the Kurchatov Institute of Ukraine, where there are already over 2 FOUNDED 1933 Atomic Energy, and the posthumous million hectares of irrigated land, there Ukrainian Weetl) publication of his pessimistic memoirs, is not one ecologically irreproachable have convinced many sceptics that the system. And in these conditions we An English-language Ukrainian newspaper published by the Ukrainian National official attitude to nuclear power ex­ intend to go ahead with the water Association Inc., a non-profit association, at 30 Montgomery St., Jersey City, N.J. pansion has not been changed funda­ management complex Danube-Dnie- 07302. mentally by the accident. per?" Second-class postage paid at Jersey City, N.J. 07302. G. Kostak, a biologist from Volyn In Ukraine, it is acknowledged that (ISSN - 0273-9348) the expansion schemes are beyond the Oblast in western Ukraine, commented capacities of the rivers upon which they that the planners of the Danube-Dnie­ are based. The academicians who added per complex are dilettantes when it Yearly subscription rate: S20; for UNA members - Я0. their signatures in a Literatuma Ukraina comes to ecology. He had visited 11 Also published by the UNA; Svoboda. a Ukrainian-language daily newspaper. article, emphasized that local rivers in Ukrainian oblasts and had seen several the area of the three nuclear plants have rivers in their death throes. Would it not The Weekly and Svoboda; UNA; already been polluted by residue waters. be better, he wondered, to "rescue" (201) 434-0237. -0807. -3036 (201)451-2200 Ukrainian rivers are reportedly in a these small rivers rather than draw up Postmaster, send address very lamentable condition. The Dnies­ new, grandiose plans? The next gene­ changes to: Editor: Roma Hadzewycz ter River, for example, which flows ration would not thank them for such The Ukrainian Weekly Associate Editors: Marta Kolomayets thoughtless interferences with nature, through Ukraine and into neighboring P.O. Box 346 Chrystyna Lapychak Moldavia, is said to be overused for he concluded. Jersey City, N.J 07303 economic needs. A Ukrainian writer — These views necessitated high-level the most vocal critics of the ecological attention to irrigation schemes. In a The Ukrainian Weekly, July 24, 1988, No. 30, Vol. LVI situation in the republic have invariably March article, a scientist noted that the Copyright 1988 by The Ukrainian Weekly been of this profession — has stated that (Continued on page 15) No. зо THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JULY 24, 1988

Five days in Rome: celebrating t/ie IVIillennium with Ul(rainian Catholic faithful by Marta Kolomayets to host more than 7,000 Ukrainian my citadel, my God is a rock where I ask yourself, with holy trepidation, if, Catholic faithful who had descended on take shelter'(Ps. 94:22). Here before the and to what extent have you been ROME - There are few generations Rome to mark the Millennium of symbol of the 'Indestructible Wall' of faithful to your vows accepted with the who are fortunate enough during their Christianity in Ukraine. the Mother of God, the Oranta, the sacrament of baptism? Have you been lifetime to celebrate an event of such The service, at the St, Clement representatives of the Ukrainian people responsible in accepting this great gift, historic magnitude as the Millennium of Church, which is situated on a small greet Your Holiness - the Synod of both to yourself and others? There is no Christianity in Ukraine. square near St. John Lateran, was Bishops of the Ukrainian Catholic lack in your Church of martyrs and Among these fortunate were the devoted to St. Volodymyr. The church, Church, priests, members of monastic confessors, who are proof of spiritual 7,000 Ukrainian pilgrims who descend­ is one of the oldest churches in Rome, orders, representatives of three genera­ freedom, as a result of the sacrament of ed upon Rome for the Ukrainian Ca­ dates back to the fourth century. tions who have grown up in foreign baptism. An example of this is found in tholic Church's celebrations of this It is in this church that Ss. Cyril and countries, Ukrainian youth born in the person of Cardinal Josyf Slipyj, jubilee on July 8-12. Methodius laid the relics of Pope emigre communities, our church whose body rests here in this sobor. They came from all parts of the Clement; St. Cyril died in Rome a few brotherhoods and lay organizations, "The Millennium of Christianity is world; close to one thousand Ukrai­ years after their arrival, and he is also representatives of our scholarly institu­ not only the pinnacle of one event, but it nians traveled by bus from Poland to buried in this basilica. tions, prominent cultural and artistic also begins the next act. We wish to take part in these celebrations. It is The worship of St. Clement was figures, and representatives of our civic begin the next 1,000 years of your estimated that over 4,500 faithful came widespread in Ukraine since its early and social institutions which exist and Church and your people with a new from the United States and Canada; Christian days. When Prince Volo­ function for the good of our mother­ spirit of hope." hundreds of Ukrainians came from dymyr the Great returned to Kiev after land. Nearly 10 years ago Your Holiness After his kind words to all attendees, Yugoslavia, Czechoslovakia, Germany, his baptism in Khersones, he brought began this jubilee with your blessing, the pope, as well as the people Austria, Belgium, France, England, back with him part of the relics of St. and today you are celebrating it with us were presented a program of song and South America and Australia. Clemente, his head. This had been a gift and beginning it with this moleben as dance underscoring the richness of And although they could not cele­ from Pope John XVI to Volodymyr. our thanks for the great gift of Baptism, Ukrainian culture. Amidst the dry heat brate with their brethren in Ukraine, The Prince then built a special altar in 'his free gift to us in the Beloved' (Eph. (the temperature often surpassed 100 along the shores of the Dnieper River, the Church of the Tithes for the relics. 1:6). degrees Fahrenheit) of the Roman sun, where 1,000 years ago Prince V0I0- Both he and his wife, Anna, the Byzan­ "Here on Roman land, we join in a the youths, dressed in their nafional dymyr the Great baptised his people, tine princess, were buried near these special way at this sacred and joyous costumes or ensemble outfits, sang and they were spiritually united with their relics. moment with our maternal Lviv and danced for the holy father. brothers and sisters in Ukraine. Thus, the church where the service to Kiev, and together with all Christians of Serving as masters of ceremonies for Although they could not celebrate at St. Volodymyr was held has a special Ukraine we call out, 'Welcome among the afternoon events were Adrian the Sobor of St. Sophia in Kiev, they meaning for Ukrainians, as was pointed us, Holy Father!' With our traditional Hawaleshka of Winnipeg, who intro­ were joined in prayer in Rome, at the St. out in the homily delivered by Bishop greeting of bread and salt, our Ukrai­ duced the groups in Ukrainian, and Sophia Sobor modeled after the Kievan Platon Kornylak of Munich, West nian youth, to whom this day is dedi­ Borys Gudziak of Syracuse, N.Y., who fortress. Germany. cated and who will surely safeguard the introduced them in the Italian language. They celebrated the joy of such a Christian heritage of St. Vladimir for The first group on stage was the Youth jubilant anniversary and mourned the On Saturday morning, July 9, Pope the years to come, expresses its feelings Chamber Choir, based at the Home of continuing persecution of faithful in John Paul II joined the Ukrainian of loyalty. Basilian Priests from Warsaw, Poland, Ukraine. They prayed that the start of faithful on the grounds of St. Sophia "Bless us, bless our people and our conducted by Yaroslav Polanskyj. The the second millennium of this rich Sobor, the gold-domed church built by suffering Church. With your apostolic group, which was founded in 1977, Christian tradition would bring with it the late Patriarch Josyf Slipyj, located blessing, may this holy jubilee become a consists of 24 members, mostly girls of the hope for a better future, and placed on the outskirts of Rome, in the Monte- pledge to our approaching freedom. Ukrainian, Byelorussian and Polish their fate in God's hands. speccato district. 'Blessed is he who comes in the name of descent. The Ukrainian pilgrims began ar­ the Lord, the Lord God is manifest to The Orlyk Ensemble of England, The official Millennium celebrations riving early in the morning. Due to the in Rome began on Friday morning, July us.' " directed by Maria Babych and Dmytro extensive security surrounding a papal As Cardinal Lubachivsky noted, and Paradiuk, performed a "khorovid" in 8 at the Basilica of Santa Maria Mag- visit, the gates to the sobor were closed giore, one of the four patriarchal as the pope himself would later under­ Ukrainian costumes from the Kiev- an hour prior to the arrival of the score in his address to the Ukrainian shchyna, Poltavshchyna, Hutsulsh- basilicas of Rome. The church holds a prelate; each person attending the special meaning for Ukrainians and faithful, the day's celebrations were chyna and Lemko regions of Ukraine, liturgy passed a security check before dedicated to Ukrainian youth. emphasizing the Easter traditions of the other Slavic people, as was pointed out they were allowed to enter the grounds by Dr. Daria Markus, who provided These youths, who had traveled from Ukrainian people. of the church and the Ukrainian Catho­ The Tyrsa Student Choir of Winni­ background information on various lic University. all corners of the world to witness the landmarks before the beginning of each historic days in Rome, were seated in peg also had traveled to Rome service on Friday. It was in this basilica The pope emerged from his limousine close proximity to the specially con­ to perform for the faithful gathered to that the first holy liturgy was celebrated at 9 a.m. to the warm applause of the structed outdoor altar in front of the celebrate a 1,000-year-old tradition. in the Slavic language in 860, by Ss. 6,000 Ukrainians from all over the doors of the Ukrainian-Byzantine The group, conducted by Virlana Ho- Cyril and Methodius. They had arrived world who had come to celebrate the styled St. Sophia Sobor. They included lovko, has released a few albums; it is in Rome with the relics of St. Clement, majestic jubilee in the Eternal City. more than 500 members of SUM (U- also the cathedral choir in Winnipeg at who had been buried in Crimea and Pope John Paul II was greeted by krainian Youth Association), 100 mem­ Ss. Volodymyr and Olha Church. presented them to Pope Adrian II. Cardinal Lubachivsky, the head of bers of Plast, hundreds of Ukrainians Also performing from Canada - the Ukrainian Catholic Church in from Toronto - was the Vesnivka For the first time on Friday morning from Poland, as well as youths who had Canada and the United States, respec­ come to Rome privately. Girl's Choir, under the directorship of one was able to witness the multitudes tively, Metropolitans Maxim Hermaniuk Kvitka Kondratska, who has been this of Ukrainian Catholics that made the and Stephen Sulyk, and Cardinal Myro­ After the devotional service, sung by choir's leader since it was founded pilgrimage to the Eternal City to slav Marusyn, secretary of the Sacred combined choirs from England and almost 25 years ago. worship with their spiritual leaders and Congregation of Eastern Churches. Canada, concelebrated by the 18 hie­ Closing the afternoon program was a to celebrate a 1,000 year-old Christian Ukrainian youths welcomed the pontiff rarchs of the Ukrainian Catholic group of Basilian nuns from Warsaw heritage. with the traditional Ukrainian greeting Church, and witnessed by the prelates who sang a hymn to the Blessed Mother, The liturgy, concelebrated by Cardi­ of bread and salt, and Cardinal Luba­ from the Vatican's College of Cardi­ which they themselves had arranged. nal Myroslav Ivan Lubachivsky and the chivsky addressed him, stating: nals, the pope turned his attention to the As each group performed for the Ukrainian Catholic hierarchs, including "...It has come to pass that on Ro­ youth. Addressing them. Pope John pope, they looked in his direction, as he 18 bishops, was attended by more than Paul II said: sat at the altar, to the right of the 1,500 faithful; throughout the day more man soil a Ukrainian catheral has appeared, which 'gathers us who dwell "When you look to the future, in this constructed stage. He approvingly pilgrims joined the celebrations, as their year of the Millennium of Christianity, planes, trains and buses came in from all in the dispersion' and with its architec­ (Continued on page 14) corners of the world. (Only Bishops ture and name reminds us of Kiev, the Joakim Segedi of Yugoslavia and beginnings of our Christianity, in a Joseph Martenets of Brazil did not at­ wondrous way binding us exiles with A message from Ukraine tend because of old age and ill health). our native land. And for us, the place where it was built has become a piece of A message to the Ukrainian Ca­ Beatitude Major Archbishop Myro­ Bishop Robert Moskal of the Parma our native land. This was the dream and tholic pilgrims in Rome from the slav Ivan Lubachivsky; all Ukrainian diocese delivered the homily, which the desire of my predecessor, His Ukrainian Catholic faithful in U' Catholic bishops, priests, monks and focused on the Ukrainians' devotion to Beatitude Josyf Cardinal Slipyj, who kraine on the occasion of the jubilee sisters and faithful; and also all our the Blessed Virgin Mary, and under­ after his labors laid down his bones in of the Millennium of the Baptism of brothers and sisters in the faith of the scored the importance of this Marian this place. And here. Your Holiness, we, RuS'Ukraine. Spirit and the Blood living in the year, which concludes in August. the sons and daughters of the Ukrainian diaspora; we prayerfully wish you Later that afternoon, a devotional land living in foreign lands, greet you on On the occasion of the glorious bountiful divine graces, a strong service was held at the Basilica of St. this our holy jubilee of the Baptism of Jubilee of the Millennium of the faith, unwavering hope, boundless Clement at the tomb of St Cyril, once Rus'-Ukraine before this cathedral of Baptism of Rus'-Ukraine, all the love, unity, success in life and tireless again conducted by the Ukrainian Divine Wisdom, which is a symbol of Ukrainian bishops, priests, monks, labor for the Church and society, and Catholic hierarchy in the free world. our individuality and our struggles, and sisters and faithful, and the Com­ call you to common, sincere prayer, Already the crowds were getting bigger a sign of our faith in Christ's victory, in mittee for the Defense of the Ukrai­ so that in Lviv, Kiev and Rome the and bigger, as the Eternal City prepared the words of the Psalms:'Yahweh is still nian Catholic Church in Ukraine bells of the Resurrection may ring greet all participants in the jubilee out for all. All photos from the Rome Millennium celebrations, featured in the centerfold, celebrations, first of all His Holiness were taken by Marta Kolomayets and Bohdan Komarynskyj, John Paul II, the pope of Rome; his Lviv, July 2, 1988. THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JULY 24, 1988 No. 30

highly regarded among Ukrainian nitarian affairs, to intervene on Philatelic convention Hanna Sverstiuk.., rights activists and dissidents, served a Hanna's behalf during meetings with (Continued from page 1) 12-term labor camp and exile term for high-level Soviet officials in Moscow physician and his wife from Bethlehem, writings critical of Soviet nationalities during the week of July 11. marks Millennium Pa. policies. In addition to this, Orest Deycha- The toddler's mother, Maria, a kiwsky, a staff member of the U.S. WASHINGTON - The Ukrainian A limousine, donated by Delaware Ukrainian businessman John Hynan- computer operator, is the daughter of Helsinki Commission, asked for Philatelic and Numismatic Society two Kiev physicians. ranking members of that commission to (UPNS) held its seventfi^convention- sky, wisked mother and daughter to the Hanna was evidently a bright, happy intervene on Hanna's behalf. Rep. Don exhibit, UKRAINPEX/88, on May 28- Kozicky family home in Bethlehem, and active toddler until mid-May of this Ritter (R-Pa.), Rep. Steny H. Hoyer 29 at St. Andrew's Ukrainian Orthodox Pa., where the following day, July 18, year, when she began developing (D-Md.), Sen. Dennis DeConcini (D- Church hall in Silver Spring, Md. Hanna was admitted to St. Luke's Hospital, the medical institution that unusual symptoms, such as crossed Ariz.), and Sen. Alfonse D'Amato R- The United States Postal Service set invited the toddler for a free emergency eyes. On June 3 she suffered a fall, hit N.Y.) co-signed a letter to Soviet up a temporary station and applied a medical evaluation. There the attending her head, and since has been partially Minister of Health Dimitri Chazov. The special cancel commemorating the physicians, including Dr. Robert paralyzed on her right side. Her con­ State Department also helped expedite Millennium of Ukrainian Christianity Marcincin, a neurosurgeon, discovered dition quickly worsened, and the family the matter at the American Embassy in theme. the tumor on the fourth ventricle of the decided It had no other choice but to Moscow in relation to the issuance of About 70 frames of Ukrainian phi­ brain's left hemisphere, which put request medical treatment in the United American visas for mother and latelic and numismatic materials were pressure on her brain stem and visual States. daughter. exhibited. Highlights of the exhibit cortex, causing partial paralysis on the Ms. Svitlychna, a former political As a result of these and many actions, included a banquet, a video presenta­ side of Hanna's body and crossed eyes, prisoner now living in New Jersey, particularly the aid of Dr. and Mrs. tion about Ukrainian philately, and a according to Dr. Kozicky. informed members of the Ukrainian Kozicky, Hanna and her mother re­ concert by Paul Spiwak and his Dr. Marcincin contacted Dr. Louis community about the desperate situa­ ceived their Soviet exit visas and pas­ daughter, Jennifer. Schut, a nationally reputed pediatric tion of this little girl. sports in some 15 minutes and their During the annual banquet the fol­ neurosurgeon at Children's Hospital in American visas within one hour, ac­ lowing awards were distributed: Best of Members of the Pershi Stezhi and Philadelphia, who agreed to perform cording to Mrs. Sverstiuk. Show and Gold Awards for "Carpatho- Verkhovynky Plast sororities helped in delicate surgery to remove part of the The Ukrainian community has also Ukraine" exhibit to Jay Carrigan; Gold finding Dr. Kozicky, who along with his plum-size tumor on July 22. Hanna and assisted financially, particularly the Award for "Lemberg: A Postal Vig­ wife, volunteered their assistance and her mother were transported to Child­ Ukrainian National Association, which nette" exhibit to Dave Belesky; Vermeil involved St. Luke's Hospital in the ren's Hospital on July 19, according to financed the duo's flight from Moscow. and Theme Awards for "Millennium of medical sponsorship of the child. Dr. Kozicky. Without the six-hour Donations have been made by the Ukrainian Christianity'' exhibit to Because of Hanna's rapidly deterio­ surgery, the toddler had little chance of New York Orthodox Credit Union, Andrij Solczanyk; Vermeil Award for rating condition, political means were survival, stated the orthopedic surgeon. the New York branch of Selfreliance, "Ukrainian Zemstva" exhibit to Paul used to expedite the usually compli­ Dr. Kozicky said on July 21 that there Americans for Human Rights in Ukraine, Spiwak; Silver Award for "The Siege of cated and prolonged medical visa was a 50 percent chance of survival for UNA and Svoboda employees, and Vienna in 1863" exhibit to Ingert application process. Hanna with the neurosurgery, citing the many private sources. Kuzych. Katherine Chumachenko, a Ukrai­ possibility of neurological complica­ Members of Pershi Stezhi and Ver­ Also presented were Silver-Bronze nian working as associate director of the tions, including continued paralysis, khovynky have opened an account in Award for "Ukrainian International White House Office of Public Liaison, resulting from the operation. Hanna Sverstiuk's name at Selfreliance Mails" exhibit to Val Zabijaka; Bronze As of July 21, Hanna showed some requested the assistance of her former in New York. Donations may be sent to: Award for "Ukrainian DP Camp sign of temporary improvement since employer at the State Department, Selfreliance, Hanna Sverstiuk Fund — Postage" exhibit to Val Zabijaka; her arrival. According to Dr. Kozicky's Richard Schifter, the assistant secretary Account No. 14641-00, 98 Second Ave., Bronze Award for "Millennium of wife, Lilia, who has daily been at the of state for human rights and huma­ New York, N.Y. 10003. Ukrainian Christianity" exhibit to side of mother and daughter, Hanna Gregory Prymak; Bronze Award for spent a small part of the days before her York Times reported, the general strike "Millennium of Ukrainian Christia­ Supreme Soviet's... operation playing, singing and reciting continued on July 20. Typesetters for nity" exhibit to Iwan Perederyj; and (Continued from page 2) poems in her hospital room. the Russian-language newspaper So- Bronze Award for "Ukraine; Many vietsky Karabakh refused to publish an Reaction and interest by members of ensue if civil disobedience continues. Collecting Areas" exhibit to Wesley issue containing the government's the Ukrainian community spread Capar. On Wednesday, July 20, tens of decision that Nagorno-Karabakh can­ quickly as Hanna's dramatic story In addition, the following other thousands of Armenians gathered in unfolded. not be transferred from Azerbaidzhan. awards were given: President's Award their capital city, Yerevan, to consider Meanwhile, Pyotr Demichev, deputy Hanna was born on May 2, 1986, in to John Bulat for his exhibit of the possible courses of action in response to chairman of the Presidium, told a news Kiev - one week and 60 miles from the proposed "Comprehensive Catalogue the Presidium's unfavorable decision. conference that one proposal that is to site of Chornobyl nuclear disaster. of Ukrainian Philately," which is ex­ Some reports gave the number of be considered would change the status Her grandfather, Yevhen, a noted pected to appear this year, and Golden persons gathered as 100,000. The pre­ of the Nagorno-Karabakh region from literary critic during the 1960s who is Trident Award to Andrew Cronin for vious day, according to Soviet televi­ that of autonomous region to auto­ the best Ukrainian exhibit in 1987. sion, some 200,000 had gathered in nomous republic, a more prestigious The Julian Maksymchuk Award UNA opens... Yerevan when news of the decision status that would enable the region to went to Wesley Capar for the greatest (Continued from page 1) became known. have more control over its internal contribution to Ukrainian philately and everyone in the community in this In Nagorno-Karabakh, The New affairs. numismatics in 1987, while the Eugene area." Kotyk Award was presented to Jerry The office will also be staffed by an that nationalism will not be tole­ Tkachuk for the best article in the assistant director and, eventually, a Armenian... rated. society's journal in 1987. Mr. Airikian had been imprisoned secretary. Applications for the assistant (Continued from page 2) The UPNS has scheduled another twice before for his nationalist activi­ director position are currently being demand Mr. Airikian's release. convention-exhibit for this November accepted and should be sent directly to ties and had been released in Decem­ A day after the arrest Pavlo Sko- in Toronto. the UNA Home Office. Interviews for ber of 1986. chok, speaking on behalf of Ukrai­ the position are currently being sche­ nian national rights activists, issued a In 1968, after the founders of the duled. statement in support of Mr. Airikian. National Unification Party of Arme­ Since July 11, Taras Szmagala Jr., a Knights to observe Mr. Skochok was later accused by nians — which called for Armenian recent graduate of the University of Radianska Ukraina of having gone independence and the return of Virginia, has been working in the office to Yerevan to agitate the Armenians. ethnic Armenian territory to the as a special assistant. While he has been Christian 1,000th In fact, Mr. Airikian's arrest came republic — were arrested, Mr. Airi­ assisting in all aspects of the establish­ VANCOUVER, B.C. - The Knights only days after Ukrainian and Geor­ kian, then 19, became the acting head ment of the office, he is primarily of Columbus 106th annual convention gian dissidents had gathered in of the group. He was arrested in responsible for setting up the computer to be held here on August 2-4, will Yerevan for a meeting of the Inter- 1969 along with five other young program. Mr. Szmagala will be leaving commemorate 1,000 years of Christia­ National (all-union) Committee for Armenian activists and was charged in mid-August to attend law school. nity in Ukraine. the Defense of Political Prisoners. with "anti-Soviet agitation and pro­ A Marian hour of prayer in honor of The Washington office, equipped This committee evolved from the paganda." Our Lady of. Pochaiv will be held on with a computer, copier and FAX union of Ukrainian and Armenian After spending four years in a Wednesday afternoon. The knights and machine, will also serve as the Wash­ groups in defense of political pri­ strict-regimen camp, Mr. Airikian their families will participate in the ington press bureau of The Ukrainian soners headed, respectively, by Vya- returned to Armenia, where he was devotional services which will be ce­ Weekly and Svoboda. It will enable the cheslav Chornovil and Mr. Airikian. put under administrative parole. He lebrated by Ukrainian Catholic bishops UNA publications to report on Wash­ In September 1987, the two signed was arrested in 1974 for 'Violating from Canada and the U.S. ington events of interest to Ukrainian a declaration announcing the forma- the rules of parole" and then was At the conclusion of the ceremonies Americans in a timely fashion. tion of the Ukrainian-Armenian charged with "anti-Soviet agitation each of the some 65 state deputies from The office is located at the corner of Committee for the Defense of Politi­ and propaganda." As a result he was the U.S., Canada and other countries First and D streets in northwest Wash­ cal Prisoners. Georgian rights acti­ sentenced to seven years in a strict- will be presented with an Icon of Our ington. Its address is: Suite 710, 400 vists later joined the group as well. regimen camp. At the end of his term, Lady of Pochaiv for their jurisdictions. First St. N W , Washington, D.C. Soviet authorities' decision to strip new charges were brought against These icons will be used for prayer 20001. Its telephone number is (202) Mr. Airikian of his citizenship and him and he received additional terms, devotions during the ^earby some 9,000 347-UNAW (347-8629); and the FAX expell him from the USSR is seen by The New Vork Times reported suoordmate councils throughout the number is (202) 347-8631. The office is observers not only as an indication of that an Amencan official said Mr. world. Although the icons will be open during normal business hours and a tough position on the continiiing Airikian is expected to come to the identical, the recited prayers can be in is connected to an answering machine in Armenian unrest, but also as a sign United States with his famsly. languages other than English. the evenings. No. зо THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JULY 24, 1988

FOR THE RECORD Captive Nations Week Proclamation President's remarks on Captive Nations During Captive Nations Week, we honor the courage, faith and aspirations of the millions of people the world over who suffer under Soviet domination. Following are remarks by President And truly, I can think of no time in They desire, seek and deserve, as the common heritage of humanity, the Ronald Reagan during the proclama­ my adult life when the prospects for liberty, justice, self-determination and independence we Americans and all tion-signing ceremony for the annual freedom were brighter than they are free peoples cherish. Ifhe citizens of the captive nations daily hear the mighty Captive Nations Week observance. The today. The free world is strong and call of freedom and answer it boldly, sending an echo around the globe to speech was delivered on Wednesday, confident. The Communist idea is remind totalitarians and all mankind that their voices cannot be quelled — July 13, in the White House Rose discredited and, around the world, new because they are the voices of the human spirit. Garden. progressive forces are emerging as Across the continents and seas, the cry for freedom rings out and the political change and liberation sweep struggle for its blessings continues, in the republics of the Soviet Union, in the Honored guests and fellow Ameri­ the globe. America will continue to Baltic states and throughout Eastern Europe, in Cuba and Nicaragua, in cans, today we mark the 30th comme­ encourage the movement toward free­ Ethiopia and Angola, and in Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia. It also continues moration of Captive Nations Week. dom, democracy and reform by holding in Afghanistan, despite initial Soviet withdrawal, because the NajibuUah Just nine days ago, as America firm to our principles and speaking regime imposes its will upon the Afghan people. We in America, who have celebrated Independence Day, we re­ openly and truthfully about human held high the torch of liberty for two centuries and more, pause during affirmed the universal ideal on which rights and the fundamental moral Captive Nations Week to express our solidarity with those who strive at great this country is founded - a vision of difference between freedom and com­ personal risk and sacrifice to win justice for their nations. We commemorate liberty not just for one nation, but for all munism. And America shall light the as well as the many freedom fighters and individuals such as Polish Father nations. As Americans we speak out, we path as the whole world climbs out of Jerzy Popieluszko and Ukrainian poet Vasyl Stus who have given their lives work for the freedom of others, and in the dark abyss of tyranny to freedom. in the imperishable cause of liberty. We cannot and will not shirk our duty doing so we remember who we are, what And within the Soviet bloc there are and responsibility to insist on the speediest end to subjugation, persecution we have, and what America stands for hopeful signs. Just last week, a Soviet and discrimination in the captive nations. We repeat our call for all in the wprld. For we know that to stop -official speaking here at a conference on "governments to respect and honor the letter and the spirit of the United striving for the freedom of other nations Eastern Europe said that, "The Brezh­ Nations Charter and the Helsinki Accords. could soon bring our own freedom into nev doctrine is completely unacceptable Last year's Captive Nations Week Proclamation mentioned four people in question. and unthinkable," citing, "the prin­ the Soviet Union imprisoned for their struggle for national rights. Now, one Some years ago, two friends of mine ciples of sovereignty, non-interference year later, two of them, both Helsinki human rights monitors, remain in were talking to a refugee from Commu­ and mutual respect." Well, these are internal exile - Viktoras Petkus, a Lithuanian, and Lev Lukianenko, a nist Cuba. He had escaped from Castro, encouraging words that we hope will be Ukrainian. Another Helsinki monitor Mart Niklus, an Estonian, is still in a and as he told the story of his horrible proved true thrqugh deeds. There are labor camp. The last, Gunars Astra, Latvia's highly respected national rights experiences, one of my friends turned to few developments that would be more activist, was released in poor health earlier this year after 19 years in Soviet the other and said, "We don't know how compelling than true self-determination labor camps. He died several months ago at 56 years of age. lucky we are." And the Cuban stopped for Central Europe. I have spoken America is keenly aware of, and will continue to encourage, the great tide of and said, "How lucky you are? I had previously of how the Soviets can send democratic ideas that now sweeps the globe. We cannot forget decades of someplace to escape to." that message very easily — let them tear tragedy, the tens of millions of lives lost, or the enormity of the suffering Well, in the 20th century, we've down the Berlin Wall. inflicted on the innocent. We applaud the courage and faith that have witnessed nation after nation fall cap­ And while America applauds the sustained countless people and kept alive the dream of freedom against tive to a foreign power and an alien changes we are witnessing, the stan­ unthinkable odds. Despite starvation, torture and murder, the indomitable ideology. The tragic fate of these captive dards remain unchanged — and these human spirit will outlast all oppression. We continue to stand ready to nations was foretold by Lenin with this are not standards arbitrarily applied cooperate in meeting the just aspirations of the oppressed and needy of the simple instruction. He said, "The in­ from outside, but what the Soviets world. We will remain forever steadfast in our commitment to speak out for terests of socialism are above the right themselves have formally agreed to — those who cannot, to seek justice for those to whom it is denied and to assist of nations to self-determination." Well, we continue to insist on full implemen­ freedom-seeking peoples everywhere. from that belief came the forcible tation of the Helsinki Accords and the The Congress, by joint resolution approved July 17,1959 (73 Stat. 212), has occupation of the Baltic states and other Universal Declaration of Human authorized and requested the president to issue a proclamation designating lands; the subjugation of central Rights. the third week in July of each year as "Captive Nations Week." Europe; the crushing of the Berlin When I was in Moscow, one of the Now, therefore, I, Ronald Reagan, president of the United States of uprising of 1953; the Soviet invasion of most moving experiences I had was America, do hereby proclaim the week beginning July 17, 1988, as Captive Hungary in 1956, Czechoslovakia in when I met with a group of Soviet Nations Week. I call upon the people of the United States to observe this week 1968, and Afghanistan in 1979; the dissidents. They told me their remark­ with appropriate programs, ceremonies and activities, and I urge them to repression of Poland's Solidarity and of able stories. And I said to them that reaffirm their devotion to the aspirations of all peoples for justice, self- the people of Bulgaria and Rumania; while we press for human rights through determination and liberty. and the cruel Communist domination diplomatic channels, they press with In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand this thirteenth day of July, of Cuba, Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, their very lives, day in, day out, year in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and eighty-eight, and of the Angola, Ethiopia, Nicaragua and after year, risking their jobs, their Independence of the United States of America the two hundred and others. homes, their all. thirteenth. But the tide has been turned. Despite Last month, I received a letter from a decades of suffering, the will to freedom group of dissidents in the Soviet Union. Ronald Reagan is alive, it has survived its tormentors, it (Continued on page 11) will outlast the Communists. Pennsy governor proclaims week HARRISBURG, Pa. - Coinciding with the national observance, Penn­ sylvania Gov. Robert P. Casey signed a proclamation designating July 17-23 as "Captive Nations Week" in the com­ monwealth. This proclamation is especially signi­ ficant to thousands of Pennsylvanians whose native homelands are held cap­ tive by totalitarian governments and whose citizens are inhibited from full expression of their dreams and beliefs. Gov. Casey's proclamation reads in part, "The dream of freedom has long inspired oppressed people throughout the world who struggle for the right to self-determination. As Americans, we are fortunate to enjoy basic rights which we hold to be self-evident. Elsewhere, however, many suffer the degradations of bondage imposed by intolerant President Ronald Reagan signs the 1988 Captive Nations Siv, a former representative of the Khmer People National governments." Week Proclamation in the presence of (from left) Vice- Liberation Front; Anna Foultas of the Committee for the Gov. Casey urged all citizens to join Fresident George Bush, Dr. Henry Zelaya, a physician in Support of Human Rights in Czechoslovakia; Archbishop in support of the ideals of freedom of Nicaragua's resistance; Petro Ruban, a Ukrainian nationalist Abune Matthias of the Ethiopian Orthodox Church; and conscience, freedom of movement and and a former political prisoner; Petro's son, Marko; Sichan Rebecca Range, deputy assistant to the president and director freedom of speech. of White House Public Liaison. THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JULY 24, 1988 No. 30

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British documents Ukrainian Weel:lЇ on 1932-33 famine The Thoughts on Rome celebrations TORONTO - Three fellows of the University of Toronto Chair of Ukrai­ Foreign How does one celebrate 1,000 years of a Christian tradition? Does nian Studies, Marco Carynnyk, Dr. the pomp and grandeur of the occasion overshadow the sacredness of Lubomyr Luciuk and Dr. Bohdan Kordan, have published a major collec­ this historic event? Do spirituality and prayer play a leading role in the Office tion of British documents dealing commemorations? What have we achieved as a Christian people specifically with the famine that raged during our first 1,000 years and what do we hope to attain as we stand in Soviet Ukraine during the early andtiie on the threshold of our second millennium? 1930s. These are just some of the questions that crossed one's mind during Their work, titled ''The Foreign the recent Millennium celebrations sponsored by the Ukrainian Office and the Famine/' contains 85 Fknine Catholic Church in Rome on July 8-12. Some of the questions were heretofore unpublished documents answered; only time will tell with the others. from the British Foreign Office which We are a nation of believers, as witnessed by the more than 7,000 detail the nature, evolution and con­ faithful who made their pilgrimage to Rome for the ceremonies. One sequences of the 1932-1933 famine in thousand Ukrainians from Poland traveled for days on buses with no Ukraine. The documents are annotated air-conditioning to be present at the historic commemorations; our and proceeded by a lengthy critical introduction, in which the editors argue brethren from all corners of the world arrived in the Eternal City for that the famine was not a natural the celebrations. phenomenon but a political engineered piling these important primary source We were greeted by the primate of the Ukrainian Catholic Church, catastrophe. This same conclusion is materials about the famine in Ukraine, Cardinal Myroslav Ivan Lubachivsky; all of the Ukrainian Catholic noted in the foreword to the book by the editors have insured that crucial hierarchs were at his side, praying with the faithful of their Church. University of Toronto Prof. Michael R. evidence about an as yet little known Pope John Paul II shared in our jubilee celebrations, taking part in Marrus, a specialist in refugee and and understood human catastrophe of liturgies, devotional services and a concert of religious music. His Jewish Holocaust studies. unprecedented proportions will become warm words, as a Slavic pope to his fellow brothers and sisters were "The Foreign Office and the Famine" better known both in the scholarly inspiring to all present. also includes a substantive biblio­ community and among the public at It was also encouraging to see that during every service and graphy, index and three maps, one of large." celebration throughout the five-day period, the Ukrainian faithful did which is a large fold-out in full color The 524-page volume, "The Foreign that for the first time graphically Office and the Famine: British Go­ not forget to pray for their suffering brethren in Ukraine, who are indicates the geographical extent of the vernment Documents on Ukraine and persecuted for their religious beliefs. A strong spiritual bond between famine. the Great Famine of 1932-1933," is these two groups was formed during the Millennium celebrations. We Commenting on the book, Prof. Paul available from the publisher, Limestone did not forget them, nor did we forget our rich heritage which dates R. Magocsi of the Chair of Ukrainian Press, P.O. Box 1604, Kingston, Ont, back to the days of the first Ukrainian Christians, Ss. Olha and Studies noted: "Without documenta­ K7L 5C8, for S35 (paperback) or S45 Volodymyr. tion there can be no history. By com- (hardcover). But a millennium ago, as is noted in the Tale of Bygone Years, the ancient chronicle account of this event, our people marked this historic suffered during the event. event with deep reverence, rooted in their newly accepted faith. Bibliography on It contains over 175 entries, which are Christianity became a dominant force in the shaping of Ukrainian divided into periodicals, monographs, history and culture. Chornobyl accident works in languages other than English How will this Millennium jubilee be chronicled in the annals of or French, and reports and hearings. EDMONTON - The Canadian In­ Most of the entries have been collect­ history? Will future generations see this jubilee as a lost opportunity to stitute of Ukrainian Studies at the ed by the author during his work as do more for the Ukrainian Catholic Church in Ukraine? Will they University of Alberta has just published cataloguer of the Slavic Collection at wonder why no one from our Church participated in talks with the "Chernobyl and Its Aftermath: A the Library of Congress. The research Russian Orthodox Church (in Finland) about the state of the Catholic Selected Bibliography" by Juriy report also contains a foreword by Dr. Church in Ukraine? Will they question why we did not have cardinals Dobczansky as No. 18 in its series of David R. Marples. appointed on the occasion of of the Millennium to increase the Research Reports. The research report is available for S1 strength of our leadership in the Church? Will they wonder why The Bibliography is an ideal guide for from the Canadian Institute of Ukrai­ Servant of God Metropolitan Andrey Sheptytsky was not those wishing to make a study of the nian Studies, 352 Athabasca Hall, consecrated a saint? Will they ask about the first Slavic pope's role in disaster, or for those who are concerned University of Alberta, Edmonton, aiding the Ukrainian Catholic Church? Will they question why we do about the fate of Ukrainians who Alta., T6G 2E8. not have a patriarchate? Will they question our direction as we enter our second millennium? Or will this event be recorded as just a fleeting moment that brought 7,000 faithful together in the Eternal City for Historical atlas now in third edition five short days? TORONTO - In the three years Several revisions have been made in since its first appearance in 1985, the third edition, including added "Ukraine: A Historical Atlas" by Prof. boundary details and numerous new Paul R. Magocsi of the University of placenames. The atlas remains the best Toronto Chair of Ukrainian Studies, introduction to Ukrainian historical has already gone into a third edition. development. As the geographer of the TO THE WEEKLY CONTRIBUTORS: United States Department of State We greatly appreciate the materials - feature articles, news stories, The new edition of 3,000 copies George Demko pointed out when the press clippings, letters to the editor, and the like - we receive from our follows the previous total of 6,000 cloth book was first launched three years ago, readers. and paper copies that have already been this is "a beautiful, valuable, and all too In order to facilitate preparation of The Ukrainian Weekly, we ask sold. rare historical atlas of a suppressed that the guidelines listed below be followed. In the words of a reviewer writing in region and people." ^ News stories should be sent in not later than 10 days after the the Canadian Slavonic Papers, the The third edition of "Ukraine: A occurrence of a given event. '4'olume has been beautifully and Historical Atlas" with its 25 full-color ^ Information about upcoming events must be received by noon of painstakingly produced and seems maps and commentary, is available remarkably error-free... It surveys from the University of Toronto Press, the Monday before the date of The Weekly edition in which the infor­ Ukrainian history in exemplary fa­ 5210 Dufferin St., Downsview, Ont. mation is to be published. shion." M3H 5T8. 9 All materials must be typed and double-spaced. ^ Newspaper and magazine clippings must be accompanied by the name of the publication and the date of the edition. 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From Studium Papers Insight on dominant force in USSR Ukrainian-Polish relations: Russian and Soviet concepts interview with Jaroslaw Pelenski of the low and morality Studium Papers, a quarterly journal by Yaroslaw Onyschuk to understand a constitutional article or published by the North American Study a legal code." Center for Polish Affairs, recently Recently, the American Bar Associa­ Prof. M. Nikitenko, writing on the devoted an entire issue to Polish- tion announced that it was allowing its subject of justice, law and morality in Ukrainian relations and, in particular, three-year old agreement with the "Russkaya Starina"(May 1891), stated the Ukrainian minority in Poland. Association of Soviet Lawyers to lapse. that, "The Russian man knows neither The issue contains articles by Ivan The agreement had been entered into law nor justice. His morality is the Jaworsky C'Akcja Wisla"), Wlodzi' allegedly to "participate in advancing outcome of his good humor, which mierz Mokry C'A ^^У ^o Go Home," the rule of law in the world," according being neither developed nor streng­ concerning the Ukrainian minority in to a statement by Samuil Zivs, the ASL thened by conscious principles, some­ Poland), Tar as Kuzio C'The Polish vice-president. times sprouts forth into an action, but is Opposition, Ukrainian Minority and Those who know the legal system of frequently swallowed up by other and the Ukrainian Question''), Andrzej the USSR are not surprised by the more savage instincts." Ziemba ("Ukrainians and the Catholic American Bar Association action. The Church in Poland After World WarlF) Soviet aim had been to try to penetrate The above observation of Prof. and Dominik Morawski C'John Paul II the legal profession of the United States Nikitenko will help us to better under­ and Polish-Ukrainian Relations'). with its subversive propaganda and at stand the Communist legal system after Also in the issue are book: reviews, the same time to build up some respect the Communist Revolution in 1917. the texts of remarks by Cardinals Jozef in the world for cooperation with the As all previous laws were abolished, Glemp and Myroslav Lubachivsky; United States in this matter. They judges had to act in accordance with poetry by Jozef Lobodowski, "Triptych apparently did not succeed. "Orders" issued from time to time by the about a Murdered Church,"part III Communist Party. Lenin's basis of law Cover of the April issue of Studium The fact is that the institution of law dedicated to Metropolitan JosyfSlipyj; and justice was that, "Our morality is Papers, which focused on Polish-Ukrai­ in Russia and the Soviet Union has and an interview with Jaroslaw Pelen­ entirely subordinated to the interests of nian relations. always been on the lowest level among ski, a historian who has been a leading the class struggle of the proletariat and figure in Ukrainian'Polish reconcilia­ civilized nations. and present. In this, I believe, they are it is derived from the interests of the tion for more than 30 years. The inter­ correct. Indeed it is the function of Let's look at how Russia's foremost class struggle of the proletariat." His view was conducted by Marek Nowak, historians and of journalists to examine writers, philosophers and jurists looked slogan was, therefore: "Terror is a editor-in-chief of Studium Papers. the history of Polish-Ukrainian rela­ at the concept of law in the 19th century. powerful means of policy." To satisfy As noted in the introduction to the tions. By doing so, they delve into the this "morality," millions of human lives interview, Dr. Pelenski, a professor of Pyotr Y, Chaadaev, an eminent 19th negative aspects that have formed the were liquidated in the first two years of history at the University of Iowa, was century philosopher, wrote in his "Phi­ basis for the misunderstandings and the Communist Revolution, most of the co-organizer of three pioneering losophical Letter" that in Russia "the mutual animosities that have charac­ them through the so-called "extrajudi- scholarly conferences on Polish- Ukrai­ concept of justice and law was non­ terized these relations for so long. cial reprisals" of the Cheka. nian relations held in 1956 in Munich, existent." My views on Polish-Ukrainian rela­ 1977 in Canada and 1980 in Munich. tions, including the most controversial Sergey M. Kravchinsky, a Russian It was only in 1919 that the "Guiding The interview is reprinted below, with issues, have always favored detailed . dissident of the end of the last century, Principles of the Criminal Law" of the the permission of the journal's pub­ examination. Without a serious critical living in Europe and known there as S. Russian SSR were formulated. Nikolay lishers. assessment and an open dialogue about Stepniak, in his book on Russian V. Krylenko, himself a jurist and the Copies of the April 1988 issue of the tragic experiences of the past, Poles peasantry quoted Alexander Pushkin procurator-general of the Russian SSR, Studium Papers are available for S5 and Ukrainians will not be able to (1799-1837), Russia's greatest poet, as stressed that "we are creating a new law from: Studium Papers, P.O. Box 4391, embark upon a better and more fruitful considering the law to be "a wooden and new ethic norms" and the courts Ann Arbor, Mich. 48106. Cost per issue relationship. My perspective has been thing." had to be "the organs of the class for bulk orders (more than 10 copies) is presented in the journal Vidnova (Re­ struggle of the workers directed against Vladimir S. Solovyov (1863-1900), a S4. newal); volumes three and four are their enemies." leading Russian philosopher, in his Part I of two parts devoted to that specific problem. article, "Slavophilism and its Degenera­ When in May 1922 a draft code of As far as the 20th century is con­ In their pronouncements in Rome tion," wrote that "the precepts of law penal law was presented to Lenin, it cerned, one of the issues that requires this past October, the Polish primate and justice are not yet rooted in our provided the death penalty by shooting serious, uninhibited analysis is the and Ukrainian metropolitan called on minds, and because of this (as someone in six articles. Lenin requested that the undeclared Polish-Ukrainian war of Poles and Ukrainians to forget the has remarked) honest men are more death penalty be extended to six addi­ 1942-1947. The conflict resulted not tumultuous and tragic past and focus on uncommon than saints in Russia. All tional articles, and he explained the only in greater casualties than the the future. Others, like historians this is true." purpose of the penal code as follows: Polish-Ukrainian war of 1918-1919, but Roman Szporluk and Andrzej Kamin- "The legal trial is not intended to was also characterized by brutal and ski, have urged the opposite. They want Konstantin P. Pobedonostsev (1827- replace terrorism, but to base terrorism barbaric excesses, unworthy of two to examine the entire past, in as much 1907), professor of Russian law at the firrnly on fundamental principles ... civilized peoples with a millennium of detail as possible, and not shy away University of Moscow, tutor to Tsar Terror is a method of persuasion." This great cultural traditions and achieve­ from raising controversial topics. By Alexander III, and adviser to Tsar criminal code went into effect on June 1, ments. Nicholas II, several times complained publishing this issue of Studium Papers 1922. Later, the principles and word­ The two most brutal excesses of the about the situation of the Russian legal we share this latter view. An unattended ings of this code were transferred into 1942-1947 war require critical investi­ system. In his article, published in sore will fester and sometimes prove the codification of criminal codes of the gation. First, the inquiry must consider "Golosa iz Rossii" in 1959, he wrote: fatal. What is your view? Should we 14 non-Russian republics, after they the attempt on the part of the Ukrainian "There is no just case that cannot be follow the advice of the two Church became parts of the federated Soviet nationalist underground to "depolo- lost." But his own understanding of law leaders or should we delve into and Union on December 31, 1922. examine the basis for the misunder­ nize" Western Ukrainian territories, in gives another insight into the Russian standings and mutual animosities which particular Volhynia and Galicia. This mind when he wrote: "What is law? It is This criminal code, based on the have characterized Polish-Ukrainian took the form of expulsion and selective an obstacle in the path of an intelligent abovementioned principle cited by relations for so long? exterminatory actions against the Po­ executive." Lenin has been the basis of Soviet lish population living in these territories criminal law ever since. It was revised in And Konstantin N. Leontyev (1831- After reading the statements of the during the war's first phase (1942-1944). 1958, and new penalties for political 1891), another renowned Russian phi­ two hierarchs I understand their refe­ Second, the investigation must consider crimes were added. losopher, wrote in 1890: "It is no minor rences to forgetting the past are meant the massive "retaliatory action" con­ affair to teach our people the spirit of to heal wounds, not open them. The ducted by the Polish People's Republic The unusual Russian and Soviet law; such instruction might well take a primary objective of Christian (PRL) and its armed forces (with the understanding of law and morality is century. Unfortunately, the great events Churches has always been to emphasize silent consent of the great majority of almost unbelievable for people in the will not wait so long. Our people the attitude of Christian love. The Polish society), not only against the West. In accordance with Lenin's teach­ understand authority better than law. Polish and Ukrainian hierarchs, acting Ukrainian nationalist underground, but ings, it is moral for Communists to do They look at the military chief better in accordance with the teachings of their also against Ukrainians at-large living "everything that serves to destroy the and have more sympathy for him than Church, have advised their Christian in the newly constituted PoHsh state. It old social system" (Lenin's works). compatriots to look to the positive is especially important to study Akcja Yaroslaw Onyschuk, a lawyer by These are the fundamental principles aspects of the Polish-Ukrainian past Wisla, the brutal deportation and forceful resettlement of nearly the entire training, became a journalist in Ukraine of Leninism and of Soviet law. And Ukrainian populace from its ethnic with the daily newspaper Ukrainski Leninism cannot be changed — writes A clarification territories during the war's second Visti and was affiliated with that Lviv- Mikhail Gorbachev in his book "Pe- phase. based newspaper until the outbreak of restroika." Lenin's final aim will be It should have been noted that the The time has come to write, prefe­ World War II. Since then, he has been a reached, he says, although, in accor­ views expressed by William Wolf about rably as a joint Polish-Ukrainian effort, free-lance writer, and his articles have dance with Lenin's teachings, it may be the John Demjanjuk trial (July 10) are an objective history of the undeclared been published in magazines and news­ necessary to change slogans as the strictly his own and not those of any papers in Canada, Great Britain, Ger­ situation dictates or requires from time organization of which he is a member. (Continued on page 13) many, Spain and the United States. to time. 8 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY. JULY 24. 1988 No. 30 Pope John Paul II joins 7,000 Ukrainian Catholics in Rome

Members of the combined choir of nuns based in Rome under the direction of Tanya Shufl sing the responses during a devotional service to Christ Our Savior at the Basilica of !^ Clement.

Cardinal Myroslav Ivan Lubachivsky, primate of the Ukrainian Catholic Church, commences Millennium celebrations at the Basilica of Santa Maria Maggiore.

Myroslav Antonovych conducts his Byzantine Choir from Utrecht, Holland, Yaroslav Polanskyj of Warsaw and his Youth Chamber Choir perform for the during a liturgy at St. Paul's Basilica. Sophia's during the Saturday afternoon youth program.

'floMmads of faithful gather for the шоІеЬеп and candlelight \igs! in front of St, Fet-r s Basilica on Saturday e\mmg. The morr Пшп 6ІШ perfV^mer^ m Ше сожеП of Hit yifll marked the spiritual соштушоп of the Ukrainko Catliolk Church Irs the West with ilkrasiie. No. ЗО THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JULY 24,1988 celebrate 1,000 years of a Christian tradition

t. Sophia Sobor^ the seat of the Ukrainian Catholic Church in Rome, where thousands of ilgrims attended a moleben on Saturday, July 9. Pictured in front is the outdoor altar constructed for these celebrations.

Pope John Paul II, the first Slavic Pope, in a moment of prayer outside St. Sophia Sobor.

The Rev. Roman Nabereznyj shows Canadian tourists the way to the И historic landmarks of Rome. Pilgrims also had the opportunity to do ^^^P^ ^^^hn Pau^ П gjeets one of the children who traveled to Rome for the some sightseeing in the Eternal City. Millennium celebrations of Christianity in Ukraine.

us musk sing ''MnohEya Оіа'Чо Pope John Paul II Pope John РшиІ I! addresses the Ukrainian performers lEdpillgnmsatteBdlEg the concert of rdiglous music at Porv Psui ng, July Ш, VI Hall In the Vatican. 10 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JULY 24, 1988 No. 30

9,000 spectators watch 2,800 dancers perform at Festival '88

by Marco Levytsky

EDMONTON - More than 9,000 spectators at Edmonton's Northlands Coliseum were treated to a Ukrainian Dance Extravaganza of breathtaking scope on Thursday, June 30, at the opening of Festival '88. What distinguished this performance from other dance concerts was not the individual acrobatics which are usually the main attraction, but the sheer volume of numbers involved, the spec­ tacular props, and the massive coordi­ nation effort required. In fact it was a completely new style of choreography. For example, the closing Hopak featured 2,800 dancers from across the province of Alberta, who filled the entire surface area of the Coliseum — a regulation National Hockey League arena that is home to the Stanley Cup- winning Oilers — and ended the per­ formance by unfurling two 20-foot-by- 40-foot flags of Ukraine and Canada amid a cascade of hundreds of balloons, then breaking into a chorus of "Sche Ne Vmerla Ukraina" sung primarily by Marco Levytsky fourth" or fifth-generation elementary The Dance Extravaganza of Festival '88 opens with Pryvit (Greeting). school children. Over 20 different groups participated in the opening Pryvit (Greeting), alter­ nating between the stage area itself and the Coliseum surface. It started with several hundred dancers rimming the arena with fluorescent green tubes, was followed by each of the groups perform­ ing their own Pryvit, representing different regions of Ukraine, and ended with a giant tabletop being lowered on streamers from the top of the arena to the surface, where a circle of dancers took the bread and salt from the table- top to close the classic number. Other highlights included a Zaporo- zhets number with 300 Kozaks, six horses and a live cannon,as well as an Arkan also featuring 300 dancers, a Ko- lomyka with 1,700 and a girls' shawl dance with 192. Choreographers Ken Kachmar and George Chrunik let their imaginations run freely and pulled out as many stops as the show's budget allowed them. They had ideas that were beyond belief," explained the show's producer, Terry Mucha. The real story behind Festival '88's (Continued on page 11) A view of the dance stage in Northlands Coliseum. Dance Extravaganza's roots: growth of Ukrainian dance in Prairie Provinces

by Marco Levytsky dent of the Alberta Ukrainian Dance Ukrainian dance was first popula­ Among other things, AUDA pub­ EDMONTON - The fact that Association (AUDA), which coordi­ rized in western Canada by Vasyl lishes a quarterly newsletter, main­ groups in Alberta could put on such a nates their activities, is named Ted Avramenko in the 1920s. His work tains an audio and video library for massive spectacle as the Festival '88 McLeod. was continued by Edmontonian use by dance groups, has published Dance Extravaganza is largely due to Most of these are children and Chester Kuc who has become, in two English-language books on the fantastic growth of Ukrainian adolescents. They flock to Ukrainian many ways, the father figure for the Ukrainian costumes and organizes dancing in that province and across dance because it's creative, it's fun, current generation of instructors. dance workshops across the pro­ western Canada. it's an opportunity to meet members Terry Mucha, a 13-year veteran of vince. With the creation of the Ukrai­ In the prairie provinces, Ukrai­ of the opposite sex, and, frankly, in Shumka and the producer of Festival nian Resource Development Center nian dance has advanced far beyond this rural area, where farms tend to '88's Dance Extravaganza suggested at Edmonton's Grant McEwan Com­ the community halls and the commu­ be a mile apart and towns of 5,000 that the program should have been munity College, AUDA hopes to nity audience. It has become an population like Vegreville, St. Paul, dedicated to him. "Everyone at the establish courses which would train integral part of mainstream western or Bonnyville, tend to be major Dance Extravaganza had been the instructors themselves. With this Canadian culture and a million- regional centers, there is not much touched by him, directly or indirect­ Ukrainian dance will reach an even dollar-a-year industry in Alberta else for young people to do. ly," she pointed out. higher level of professionalism. alone. Many aspire to become members AUDA, which was first organized Shumka and Cheremosh are often There are approximately 10,000 of either Shumka or Cheremosh — as an umbrella organization in 1981, sent by the Alberta government to Ukrainian dancers in the three Prairie the top two groups. It is they who and became affiliated with the Al­ perform abroad as goodwill ambas­ Provinces — 5,000 of them belong­ provide the pool of instructors who berta Provincial Council in 1985, sadors. Air Canada sponsored ings to 84 groups in Alberta alone. In teach the students in other city serves as the clearinghouse of infor­ Shumka's most recent tour. This was the East Central Alberta region groups and in the rural areas. Both of mation for these groups. Run by an the first time the company had where Ukrainians originally settled them have achieved world-class executive elected from across the sponsored any dance group and that at the turn of the century, towns with status. Although their artistic direc­ province, AUDA maintains a central includes the Canadian National only 500 population will have a tors often travel to Ukraine to en­ office in Edmonton which it shares Ballet. What this demonstrates is Ukrainian dance group. hance their studies, they have begun with the Ukrainian Canadian Com­ that in western Canada Ukrainian Looking over their rosters' names, to develop a uniquely Canadian style mittee, the Alberta Parents for U- culture has gone beyond the confines one notices that there are as many of choreography even to the point of krainian Education and the Alberta of an ethnocultural minority. It has non-Ukrainian as Ukrainian sur­ creating original narrative dance Council of Ukrainian Arts, of which become part of the general culture of names on the list. In fact, the presi­ sequences. it is a constituent member. the entire region. No. зо THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JULY 24, 1988

More than 9,000... (Continued from page 10) Dance Extravaganza, however, is the massive effort and cooperation which was necessary to make it successful. In her role, Ms. Mucha was assisted by hundreds of volunteers. Her assistant producer, Lorraine Chanasyk,had the sole function of coordinating the back­ stage scene and the hundreds of runners and chaperones who, in turn, assisted her. All in all, 65 different dance groups from across the province of Alberta participated in this one show, most of whom had to travel distances of any­ where between 60 and 300 miles to come. "It seemed to follow that the farther away the group was from Ed­ monton, the more cooperative they were," said Ms. Mucha. Providing the musical accompani­ ment was a 32-piece orchestra conduct­ ed by Eugene Zwozdesky, musical director for both the Cheremosh and Shumka dancers, and made up of members of the Edmonton Symphony Orchestra combined with musicians with whom Mr. Zwozdesky regularly works. The score was especially ar­ ranged because the size of the stage area added between 35 seconds to one minute of time simply to get the groups on and Mafco Levytsky off the stage. Most of the groups have In the closing number, dancers release hundreds of balloons. their own repertoire. Arrangements since that date. were putting in eight-hour days on top rehearsed in its entirety - only in were made with all the recording artists The show's producers obtained a list of their regular daytime jobs. Some of segments. to waive royalties for this performance. of dance groups from the Alberta the groups got together three weeks The bottom line, however, is that it An overture was especially composed Ukrainian Dance Association, the co­ before the show for a one-day rehearsal. worked. The show was critically ac­ for this performance by Ted Borowiecki. ordinating body for the province. From But for the larger numbers the only time claimed by the Edmonton media and by The planning process began in Fe- there they contacted all the instructors they could get all the groups together the audience itself. briiWy^lM^^^^^w '88 and liaison people, and set about was on the day of the show. And then it "It was definitely a challenge, com­ concept was first presented to the organizing the project. The groups were had to be timed to the split second mented Ms. Mucha, "but one that was community and a group of volunteers sent the music and choreography, and because of orchestra costs, and the definitely enjoyable. Knowing that we drawn up. Ms. Mucha was asked to prepared mostly on their own. During simple logistics of feeding almost 3,000 had 50 percent of the audience choked coordinate the dance portion in April the last couple of months prior to the people — most of them children. In fact, up at the end of the show — that was 1987 and the work progressed steadily show, Ms. Mucha and Ms. Chanasyk Ms. Mucha noted, the show was never gratification enough." ragua to fight with and give medical societies and remote dungeons of the rica, we find that the bonds of language, President's remarks... care to the resistance. He said, "Central Communist world. I want to say to the faith and kinship have not been re­ America is not the target. We're just a men and women within the captive placed by a new order built on class (Continued from page 5) steppingstone." He said, "If we are nations who labor for truth the free­ struggle. The yearning for national "Mr. President," they wrote, "We can afraid to face the Communists in Cen­ dom that the American people hear you independence has not been extinguish­ hardly envisage the struggle for human tral America now, we will have to face as well. We follow your struggle, we see ed by the totalitarian state. And the tide rights without a struggle for the na­ them again later." The doctor is with us your writings, we remember you in our of history has been revealed to all tional rights of nations. And as today, here today. And again I say to the prayers, we watch what happens to you. mankind to be a rising tide of freedom so in the future, the freedom of nations Congress, isn't it time we give freedom And whether it's Poland's Solidarity or and national liberation. is one of the main guarantees for human fighters in our own hemisphere the same Czechoslovakia's Charter '77, the Jazz On behalf of Vice-President Bush and rights — we are convinced that true consistent support we give to others in Section, or Association of Friends with myself, this pledge we make to you, to history is not written on paper but in the distant lands? the United States or Hungary's Free all the peoples of the captive nations hearts of people, and the good Lord Democratic Union of Scientific around the world: America will never Now, as you may recall, on this Workers, or the Helsinki monitors, or reads these." occasion last year, I spoke of Petro forget your plight, and we will never Well, yes, true history is written in the many others, I can tell you, you're not cease to speak the truth. Your struggle is Ruban, a prisoner in one of the most forgotten. hearts of people, and today around the notorious of the Soviet gulags. In 1976, our struggle; your dream is our dream. worid anti-Communist freedom fighters the Ukrainian Helsinki monitor fa­ When we look around the world, to And one day you will be free. are making history and defining the shioned a wooden replica of our Statue Europe, Africa, Asia and Latin Ame­ Thank you, and God bless you. direction of change for the entire world. of Liberty, to be a gift to America on The Afghan freedom fighters are our Bicentennial, and for that he was authors of one of the great moments in taken away. Later he was arrested again human history, a symbol and an inspi­ for criticizing the Soviet invasion of \f\J^^тш^/^еиІ^Ш ^^ ration to freedom fighters everywhere. Afghanistan — and for demanding that By standing with the mujahideen as they his young son, who was crippled in an '^^QiCAt^HHHe^tili fight for an independent and undivided accident, be permitted to come to Afghanistan, we are reaffirming our America for medical treatment. ^anpouMfOfhb fiлacnloi>uмо^Аоаь own belief in liberty and the indivisi­ bility of freedom in this worid. Well, last January his son, Marko, ^і^и/ҐРаінське гроліа^^нсггіВо was permitted to come here for medical ao utfacnii. Ь upotucnto/Hi^ noch^^enrfl I recently met in the White House treatment. When Marko got off the with Jonas Savimbi, the leader of the plane, his first words in his new country UNITA forces that control much of were, "I want to be able to stand on my ^^^nopa^i^irolLCl^ - Angola against a Communist regime own two feet." In his hands he held propped up by over 40,000 Cuban something that he had labored on ^^n? f^^^L^f^J^njiUUf^ troops. I am proud to say that the brave during the long plane trip from the UNITA fighters have our support. Soviet Union. The boy whose father b ЮООліпітуїяІ^реш^еиуі^ршаи/іуі In Cambodia, we support the anti- had been imprisoned for making a Communist forces as they seek the total Statue of Liberty had embroidered withdrawal of Vietnamese troops, and Lady Liberty onto his towel. And I'm ^^^І^огіУаоЬершИтпСу ^2 we will work with democratic forces to happy to be able to tell you that Petro prevent the murderous Khmer Rouge Ruban was released from prison and „ Cfiy-f^^- 0- IbartJ^ti^ciki^ I a.^ACticari^ep from taking power. just last night arrived in this country to And close to our own country, the be reunited with his family. Petro and ffartAacfhabin ocoAiy^oSpU^i^ '' ^' Nicaraguan resistance is fighting a Marko are with us here. battle against communism that may I have been told by Natan Sharan­ jrorthcoiehroofs^c^yi, ^ v:<::^ foretell the future of freedom south of sky, Armando Valladares and others, our border. Dr Henry 2^1aya left his that the words we speak in America, CySomA^ 22^AunHfJ^Q8 medical work in the United States three and the words we broadcast around the cr^, /O rha райки wv^u a half years ago to return to Nica­ world, can be heard in the closed THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JULY 24, 1988 No. 30

FOCUS ON THE ARTS Lypeckyj receives fine arts award Bodnar-Balahutrak exhibits art works

WARREN, Mich. - Christina Ro- Ms. Lypeckyj, an artist of great vocai HOUSTON - A solo exhibition of mana Lypeckyj, Detroit's renowned versatility and exciting stage presence is Lydia Bodnar-Balahutrak's paintings Ukrainian mezzo-soprano was named not only an esteemed favorite among and drawings was on view at the the 1988 recipient of the Warren Cul­ Ukrainian audiences, but has perform­ Graham Gallery in Houston May 14 tural Commission's Fine Arts Award ed throughout the metropolitan Detroit through June 11. Also, several paintings for outstanding contributions in music. area and major cities of the United from her "Ecstasy" series are part of a This award is given annually to States, Canada and Italy. group exhibition, "Spiritual Aspects in selected individuals in recognition of In Michigan, she is best known from Contemporary Ukrainian Art: Com­ their artistic talents, dedication and her performances with the Michigan memorating the Millennium of Chris­ contributions to the promotion of arts Opera Theatre, the Detroit Concert tianity in Ukraine," on view at the in the city. Band, Warren Symphony, the Scandi­ Ukrainian Institute of Modern Art in The presentation was made during a navian Symphony and numerous other Chicago through August 14. classical pops concert of the Warren community orchestras and choruses, Ms. Bodnar-Balahutrak says that in Symphony Orchestra on May 15 at and from recordings. her recent work, her figural images are which Ms. Lypeckyj was one of the Her repertoire is diverse ranging from meant to be experienced as metaphors featured soloists. classical operatic arias and art songs to for rites of passage, and their psychic popular cabaret, as well as traditional and physical manifestations. The artist and contemporary renditions of Ukrai­ considers the human entity and certain nian composers. gestures and visages as "extraordinary" — as allusions to the transitional, "Neophytes" presented paradoxical, the ambiguous situations in life. in Edmonton concert She says she asks viewers to consider the state between adulthood and child­ EDMONTON - "Neophytes," an hood, the region of androgyny, the oratorio composed by Ukrainian com­ shades of human feelings from ecstasy poser Marian Kouzan of France in to despair, the overlapping areas of the celebration of the Millennium of Chris­ serious and absurd, the comic and the tianity in Ukraine, was presented here sublime, the present and the past. on June 12 at a concert in Jubilee Hall. Her work in the "Ecstasy" series has The work was performed by the been described in the Houston Post as Edmonton Symphonic Orchestra and "Caravaggio-inspired portraits, filled Lydia Bodnar-Balahutrak the Dnipro Chorus of Edmonton, with passionate color and unusual light, which is directed by Maria Dytyniak. showing a sensuous young [person] in She has been on the fine arts faculty Lileia Wolansky, Hanna Kolesnyk, various moments of ecstasy and awe." of the University of Houston at Clear Larry Benson and Yarema Cisaruk Ms. Bodnar-Balahutrak, an Ohio- Lake and has participated in a number were the soloists. Nestor Petriw served born artist, received her Master of Fine of national and local exhibitions. as narrator. Arts degree in painting from George Most recently, her work was included Also presented during the concert Washington University in 1977. That in an invitational group show "Frivolity were Ukrainian Christmas carols and year, she married and moved to Texas and Mortality," which opened at Sherry Christina Romana Lypeckyj spring songs by Valery Kykta. where she now lives and works. French Gallery in New York in De­ cember 1987, and will travel throughout 1989 to U.S. museums and universities, The Ukrainian Museum reports busy Easter season including the Noyes Museum, the Utah Museum of Art, and the University of NEW YORK - The Easter season of Manhattan. the organizer of the woodcarving Arizona Museum of Art. of 1988 was an extremely busy time In his letter of thanks, Neal Halver- course of the museum. at The Ukrainian Museum. The son, vicar of the Trinity Church, museum's current exhibitions "Mas­ wrote ... "the presentation held the The visitor's book attests to the Holowchak-Debarry terpieces in Wood: Houses of Wor­ attention of the children and taught popularity of The Ukrainian Mu­ ship in Ukraine," "Folk Costumes all of us a beautiful part of Ukrai­ seum. The visitors are from the and Accessories" and "Pysanky — nian culture"..."in this time of Easter, United States and Canada as well as pastels displayed Ukrainian Easter Eggs" attracted a so much of the mystery and grace of from such faraway places as Austra­ record number of visitors. the Resurrection is covered over by lia, Japan, South America and many SHORT HILLS, N.J. - The Ma- the Easter bunny and jelly beans. European countries. The book of maroneck Artists Guild held its 34th Over 500 persons participated in The presentation helped to bring comments carries many notes of Annual National Open Juried Exhibi­ the Easter programs which included back the real significance of the life- praise and appreciation of the mu­ tion June 5 through 30 at West- workshops in the making of pysanky filled eggs." seum's work as well as suggestions chester Community College. for school children and adults, as well The museum's courses in tradi­ for improvements: The guild, which was founded in 1953 as demonstrations by artisans and tional Ukrainian crafts such as em­ "Very Beautiful!", Santiago Pa- by seven professional artists, was screening of the Slavko Nowytski broidery and gerdany (bead-strung chano, Quito, Ecuador; formed for "mutual aid and protection" film "Pysanka." necklaces) continue to be popular "The costumes are incredible. You of people engaged in the arts. It offers - There were also many groups and and fill to capacity as soon as they are need more space so that more can be professional artists an opportunity to tours visiting the museum, including listed in the press and through the shown," Halyna Liszczynskyj; share knowledge, ideas, techniques and a tour of over 200 persons organized museum's mailings. fellowship and sponsors artists in "A visit on behalf of a friend, national exhibitions as well as presents by the Lancaster Historical Society The embroidery course, taught by Barbara Wallner of Colorado of Pennsylvania and over 50 school Mrs. Wolynetz, averages 25-30 per­ one-man shows for its members. Springs, a pilgrimage to her roots," At its 34th juried national exhibition, groups from the area public and sons with a number of participants Mary Ann Meyers, Colorado parochial schools. signing up for consecutive courses' Christina Holowchak-Debarry of Springs, Colo.; Short Hills, N.J., was awarded the thus improving and advancing their "The photographs of churches, For many of the school groups knowledge and technique. "Dick Blick Art and Education Ma­ special workshop sessions were or­ costumes and eggs are beautiful," The workshops in the making of terials Award" for her pastel "Still-Life ganized in the making of Easter eggs. Mike Edwards, National Geogra­ gerdany, taught by Tania Keis and with Shells." Her work has also recently The programs were coordinated by phic; Larysa Zielyk, have been received received recognition from the Livingston Lubow Wolynetz, the museum's with enthusiasm by the participants "Two shimmering exhibitions! Art Association, as well as the Fair director of education. Larysa Zielyk and were incorporated into the The Easter eggs are breathtaking in Lawn Art Association. was in charge of the workshop in­ museum's educational program. their diversity and craftsmanship. I Ms. Debarry, who is already well- structions and was ably assisted by The embroidery and gerdany also found the exhibition on wooden known for her original woodcuts, has Marijka Gbur, Oksana Kurowycky, courses will be repeated in the fall places of worship fascinating and been studying for the past year with the Daria Leshchuk, Tania Oberyshyn, with the addition of the woodcarving lovely — these are monumental prestigious Pastel Society of America, ?vlelasia Sonevytsky, Ksenia and course which will be taught by Yuri works of art and deserve to be under the tutelage of two master Sofia Zielyk and Chrystyna Pevny of Yanchyshyn. Mr. Yanchyshyn, who preserved for posterity," Vivian pastelists, Richard Pionk and Jo Hing the museum staff. holds a master of fine arts degree Homer, Conn. Low. The museum also participated in from the California Institute of the The Ukrainian Museum is located She has also taken part in numerous an out-reach program. A demonstra­ Arts, is a master craftsman and at 203 Second Avenue (between 12th Ukrainian American exhibitions tion in the art of dying pysanky was restorer of period furniture and and 13th streets) New York, N.Y. throughout the United States and done by Olenka and Larysa Pevny objects of art. He is a student of the 10003; (212) 228-0110. It is open Canada as well as the annual show at for school children and adults of the sculptor and master woodcarver Wednesday through Sunday, 1-5 Woodstock, N.Y., and local galleries. Trinity Evangelical Lutheran Church Mychaijlo CzereszniowsKy, vvho was p.m. Ms. Debarry introduced her pastels at Soyuzivka on July 15-17. 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has also, in a quiet but persistent way single Ukrainian journal in which this tribute meaningfully to the develop­ Ukrainian-Polish... contributed significantly to the dissemi­ could have been accomplished without ment of an open Polish-Ukrainian (Continued from page 7) nation of positive information about paying attention to the old nationalist dialogue. Polish-Ukrainian war of 1942-1947, so Ukrainian affairs in Poland and has misconceptions and prejudices, so the In his review of Vidnova for Kultura^ that both sides can finally come to an helped to remove anti-Ukrainian stereo­ necessity for establishing a new socio­ Jozef Lobodowski, a distinguished understanding of what went wrong and types from the contemporary Polish political journal became quite obvious. Polish poet and intellectual who greatly why. consciousness. Some Poles from that Poland has been of special concern to contributed to the improvement of group, in collaboration with the edito­ Ukrainians. It is the country with which Polish-Ukrainian cultural relations, has As editor of the journal Vidnova, you rial board of the Ukrainian biweekly Ukraine has had longstanding close characterized the efforts of Vidnova as have been a close observer and a Suchasna Ukraina (Contemporary relations, both amicable and hostile, it the most solid and the most honest commentator on these matters. What is Ukraine), of which I was a member, has provided not only inspiration for undertaking to familiarize the Ukrai­ your sense of the views of the Polish and were instrumental in organizing the first the development of independent Ukrai­ nian public with the difficult problems Ukrainian communities in the West on Polish-Ukrainian conference held in nian political thought, but to a certain of Polish-Ukrainian relations. this issue? Munich in late 1956. degree, a model for the conception of However, the principal reason for From the mid-70s the situation has Ukrainian national independence. establishing Vidnova has been the crisis Following World War II, the views of changed; a plateau of relative rationa­ Within the Ukrainian diaspora, Vid­ reached in Ukrainian political thought, the Polish and Ukrainian communities lity has been reached in Polish-Ukrai­ nova should be credited with initiating particularly following the purge of the in the West have been marred by nian exchanges. The negative approach Polish-Ukrainian dialogue. Vidnova P. lu. Shelest group in the Ukrainian nationalist prejudices, animosities and gave way to a more balanced and has also published a Ukrainian trans­ party apparatus in the early 1970s and resentments resulting from the tragic critical reassessment of Polish-Ukrai­ lation of Kazimierz Podlaski's excellent the subsequent suppression of the experiences of the war and its after­ nian relations, which resulted in, among political treatise "Byelorussians, Li­ Ukrainian dissident movement. An math. Living side-by-side, the two other things, two major scholarly thuanians, Ukrainians: Our Brothers or independent journal of scholarly in­ communities have avoided major con­ conferences initiated by Ukrainian Our Enemies?" because we felt that quiry and opinion seemed indispensable frontations, but also any significant scholars and intellectuals, devoted to publishing the views of a leading repre­ for discussion of critical and burning avenues of mutual cooperation. This the topic. The McMaster Conference sentative of the Polish opposition on issues in Ukrainian politics, primarily at neutral coexistence has been nurtured held in Canada in 1977, and the 1980 Polish-Ukrainian relations Could con­ home, but also in the diaspora. by the openness and relative tolerance Munich Conference held at the Ukrai­ of the Western societies in which these nian Free University elicited a positive Ukrainian National Association: 94 years of service communities reside. response both in Poland and in the Limited dialogue in the diaspora has Polish and Ukrainian diasporas. With STEFAN KACZARAJ the arrival of the new wave of Solida­ existed since the mid-'50s. The Polish CERTIFIED PUBLIC ACCOUNTANT side was responsible for its opening, rity political activists, there has been a particularly through the efforts of Jerzy marked improvement in Polish-Ukrai­ 98 Second Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10003 Giedroyc and his journal Kultura nian relations in the West. The Solida­ (212) 353-2607 [published in Parisj. During the ensuing rity generation has proved to be much SERVICES PROVIDED: ACCOUNTING Sc BOOKKEEPING ; AUDIT, REVIEW Sc COMPILATION ; years Kultura ventured to talk openly more open to Polish-Ukrainian reconci­ BUSINESS 8c PERSONAL RETURN PREPARATION ^PLANNING; COMPUTERIZED WRITE-UPS about the most troubling aspects of liation and, in general, much more Polish-Ukrainian relations and to democratic in its approach to Ukrainian HISTORICAL UPDATE criticize those elements in Polish so­ problems. But all these efforts have been limited in comparison to the need ciety, both at home and abroad, which LEIF ERICKSON DAY contributed to confrontation, conflict for genuine reconciliation. and collision in the past. 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Pope John Paul II came to his Vatican Five days in Rome... apartment window and once again (Continued from page 3) spoke to the Ukrainians, in Ukrainian, Уаіісап releases Millennium stamps nodded, clapped and thanked the youths greeting them with ''Slava Isusu for their efforts. Then, under the gui­ Khrystu," and welcoming them to ROME - On the occasion of the illustration of St. Volodymyr the dance of Archbishop Lubachivsky, he Rome on the occasion of the Millen­ Millennium of Christianity in U- Great, Grand Prince of Ukraine, as made his way to the crypt of Patriarch nium of Christianity of Kievan Rus\ kraine, which is being celebrated this depicted on a 15th century icon. The Josyf Slipyj, whose body is enbalmed in It was a long while before the faithful year throughout the world, the Go- 650 lire stamp is illustrated with the a glass coffin. Here the pope spent some dispersed from St. Peter's Square, vernatorato of Vatican City has Kievan St. Sophia Sobor, built in time praying before meeting with U- knowing full well that in less than 10 issued commemorative stamps ho­ 1037 by Prince Yaroslav the Wise. krainian community representatives hours they would be back at the solemn noring this historic jubilee. The third stamp, with a 2,500 lire and then returning to the Vatican. pontifical divine liturgy at St. Peter's to The series, issued on June 16 of value, is adorned by the ''Mother of After the pontiff left the grounds, celebrate a liturgy in Church Slavonic this year in Vatican City, comprises God in Prayer," a mosaic preserved security eased up and the Ukrainian with the holy father. three different stamps, all on a gold in the St. Sophia Sobor in Kiev. faithful present were able to shield Thus, on Sunday morning, more than background, illustrating religious The stamps, whose total printing is themselves from the heat under the trees 7,000 Ukrainians, as well as more than subject matter which bears special 500,000 (complete series) sell for a of the Ukrainian Seminary Minor, 3,000 other pilgrims, members of the significance for Ukrainians. The total cost of 3,600 lire (a little under adjacent to St. Sophia. On the grounds, diplomatic corps and the Vatican hie­ stamps have been produced on white S3). kiosks were opened by various Ukrai­ rarchy, including Cardinal Lubachiv­ paper in multicolor rotogravure nian businesses, selling Millennium sky, the Ukrainian Catholic hierarchs, print in sheets of 20 by the Poly- memorabilia and refreshments. clergy and monastics, joined Pope John graphic Institute and Mint of the They bear the inscription in Ita­ Many Ukrainian pilgrims stood in Paul И for a divine liturgy. Once again, Italian State. lian: Millennio Battesimo della the long lines down to the crypt of St. security was extremely cautious as to Rus'diKiev, and the words Poste Sophia to pay their respects to Pa­ who was let in and how close the faithful The 450 lire stamp features an Vaticane. triarch Josyf, the primate of the Ukrai­ were able to get to the prelate of the ^ ni uv<< nian Catholic Church who built Rome Catholic Church. The Swiss guards of into the seat of this Catholic Church, the Vatican inspected each pilgrim and as the "good shepherd" provided carefully before showing them to their leadership and guidance for his people designated seats. for more than 20 years after his release Droves of faithful lined up to receive from Soviet prisons until his death in holy communion from the pope; hie­ 1984. rarchs of the Ukrainian Catholic Although he was not physically Church also assisted with this duty, as present, his spirit was among all of his they stationed themselves at all corners brethren during the celebrations in of the Basilica to ensure that the faithful Rome. He was mentioned by both the had an opportunity to receive this holy holy father and Cardinal Lubachivsky, sacrament. his successor, on numerous occasions. One particularly touching moment The afternoon program at St. Sophia came when a little girl from England, more than an hour (security precau­ On Monday morning, the Millen­ included youth panels and discussions Oksana Serapuch, received her first tions), before the arrival of the holy nium festivities continued with a solemn on religious and moral topics, yet, due to holy communion from the holy father. They filled the 7,000-seat hall to divine liturgy concelebrated by Cardi­ poor organization, they were not well- father on the occasion of the Millen­ capacity; many pilgrims stood against nal Lubachivsky and the hierarchs of attended, and the youths quickly dis­ nium of Christianity in Ukraine. Re­ the walls for lack of seating. Finally, the Ukrainian Catholic Church, at St. persed. sponses were sung by the combined Pope John Paul II entered the hall and PauFs Basilica, a little farther away The youths were already preparing Millennium choirs of Europe and descended down the aisle to his re­ from Rome proper. for the evening devotional service and Canada, under the direction of Andriy served place; en route, he stopped to Although there were markedly less candlelight vigil at St. Peter's Square. Hnatyshyn, Myron Maksymiv, Myro- shake hands with the Ukrainians, hug pilgrims attending the divine liturgy, Celebrated by Cardinal Lubachivsky in slav Antonovych, Yaroslav Babuniak the children and exchange words with (many had left on excursions to the the presence of his bishops and Cardinal and Yuriy Hnatiuk. the pilgrims. south of Italy or continued their Ugo Poletti, who marked the 50th As is the custom in Rome, after the Cardinal Lubachivsky opened the journeys through Europe) the service anniversary of his ordination to the divine service, the holy father held an concert with greetings to all assembled was majestic in that the now world- priesthood, the moleben commemo­ audience with the pilgrims who had and unveiled, or more correctly, had famous Byzantine Choir from Holland, rated the spiritual bond with the suffer­ come to the Eternal City to profess their trouble unveiling, a statue of St. Volo­ under the direction of Mr. Antonovych, ing church in Ukraine. The St. Bara- faith. In his Sunday afternoon message, dymyr the Great, (the sheath would not sang the responses to the liturgy. bara Church Choir of Vienna,sang from his balcony, he underscored the drop off the statue no matter how he After the conclusion of the liturgy, a responses to the service, directed by importance of the presence of the tugged on it). However, this problem Ukrainian Millennium flag, brought Andriy Hnatyshyn, Bishop Innocent Ukrainians who were in Rome to was eventually resolved and the statue from the Lemkivshchyna region in Lotocky delivered the homily and then celebrate the Millennium of their was presented to the pope for the Poland by Ukrainian youths, was Cardinal Lubachivsky conducted a Christian heritage. Vatican collections on the occasion of blessed by the cardinal. The youths, moving ceremony of renewal of faith. In the sweltering heat of the Sunday the Millennium of Christianity in dressed in embroidered shirts and Members of youth organizations afternoon — the culmination ot the Kievan Rus\ blouses, brought the flag from their then approached the Ukrainian Catho­ homes and will carry it back to Poland religious services on the occasion of the Cardinal Lubachivsky then turned lic hierarchs with torches, which they for Millennium celebrations which Millennium — many Ukrainian faithful the program emcee duties over to Mr. symbolically lit, and formed a proces­ are continuing there throughout this stayed in the piazza to meet with friends Luciw, who conducted the ceremonies sion down the steps of St. Peter's year. and relatives who had arrived from all in the Italian language, much to the Basilica. Under the direction of Volo- The evening hours on Monday in­ corners of the world for these historic disappointment of the assembled U- dymyr Luciw of England, who coordi­ commemorations. cluded more resounding Ukrainian nated this procession, the faithful led krainians, but to the delight of Italian spiritual music, as choirs from Poland, by their clergy marched down to the On Sunday afternoon once again St. guests. England, Europe and Canada sang at Egyptian obelisk, singing religious Peter's Piazza was swarming with However, this problem was soon for­ the acoustically sound church of San hymns en route. Accompaniment was Ukrainians who impatiently waited to gotten, as the performing choirs ren­ Andrea della Valle, which is best known supplied by the Trembita SUM Or­ gain entrance to the Pope Paul VI Hall; dered the beauty of Ukrainian spiritual as the scene of the first act in the opera chestra of Montreal. The procession to here, too, the Swiss guards of the music. The choirs, including the Byzan­ ''Tosca.'' This baroque church was the obelisk took more than 15 minutes, Vatican carefully inspected each ticket- tine Choir of Utrecht, Holland, under completed in the second half of the 17th as more than 7,000 Ukrainians marched holder, scanning their persons with the direction of Mr. Antonovych; the century, and this setting for a concert of with lit candles under the evening sky in metal detectors and even confiscating Millennium Choir of England, under spiritual music was splendid. The the Piazza of St. Peter, their ranks materials which they thought could be the direction of Mr. Babuniak; the church was packed to capacity, not only forming the sign of the cross. As they all potentially dangerous (including bottles Orlyk Ensemble of England; the Homin by Ukrainians, but also by curious descended to the obelisk and con­ of hairspray). Choir of England; and the Vesnivka passers-by who heard the music and cluded singing their spiritual hymns. The faithful, once again waited fo^^r Choir of Toronto, under the direction joined the Ukrainian pilgrims for the of Ms. Kondratska; performed religious evening hours. UKRAINIAN BIBLES FOR MILLENNIUM hymns from the 15th through 18th The Millennium celebrations came to centuries, as well as "Khrystos Voskres" a solemn conclusion on Tuesday YEAR IN UKRAINE and a medley of spring ritual and Easter morning with a divine liturgy at St. songs. By the end of the concert, more Peter's Basilica at the tomb of St. than 600 performers stood on the stage, Josaphat, martyr for the unity of faith. For the first time in the 70-year history of the Soviet Union, USSR's government allows to singing "Mnohaya Lita" to the holy Cardinal Lubachivsky and the Ukrai­ import 100,000 Ukrainian Bibles. father and "Bozhe Velykyi Yedynyi." nian Catholic bishops concelebrated the The Ukrainian Family Bible Association is asking you for a gift of J25.— or more, if The two-hour concert was indeed a liturgy, Cardinal Marusyn delivered the possible, to help print and deliver Ukrainian Bibles to Ukraine by the United Bible Societies of celebration of the beauty of Ukrainian homily, and responses were sung by the West Germany. We must respond with unity to this God-given chance. religious music, and after its conclusion. Ukrainian choirs from Vancouver, Thank you and God Bless You All. Pope John Paul 11 joined the perfor­ B.C., and Newark, N.J. The event, mers on stage, bestowmg his blessing on attended by the thousands of Ukrainian all the Ukrainian people throughout the pilgrims still in Rome, commemorated UKRAINIAN FAMILY BIBLE ASSOCIATION world, to all contributors to this rich the constant unity of the Ukrainian P.O. Box 3723, Palm Dessert, CA. 922613723. Tel.: (619) 3454913 heritage which continues to thrive C:atholic Church with the Apostolic today. See. No. зо THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JULY 24, 1988 15

the writings of poet Taras Shevchenko A look at... and his concern for "harmony in ON THE 40th DAY OF THE DEATH OF (Continued from page 2) nature." "extensive" water economy schemes Ecology ranks alongside language such as the canal had now been rejected rights as the principal preoccupation of MARY BAHREY in favor of "intensive" development that many Ukrainian intellectuals today. Who passed away on June 1,1988 would reduce the deficit of Ukrainian They are concerned that the interests of The Executive Board and the Board of Trustees of AHRU - Americans for Human water resources. nautre have been sacrificed to the god of Rights in Ukraine, This view was echoed and officialized the economy as they view a future and UNCHAIN - Ukrainian National Center: History and Information Network by a meeting of the Politburo of the wasteland of polluted rivers, damaged Offer condolences to the BAHREY family; namely, Central Committee of the Ukrainian agricultural land and smoky cites^ WILLIAM BAHREY, husband; Chairman of the Board of Trustees of AHRU. ELAINE GILTNER, daughter; her husband and children Communist Party in May. Today, the Under glasnost they have belatedly ROBERT, son; his wife and children. irrigation schemes have been shelved, addressed the issue, but the damage has and to all intents and purposes, aban­ already been done. To all those who offered their donations in memory of MARY BAHREY for the defense doned. of human rights, a cause dear to the heart of the deceased, we offer our heartfelt thanks. The Politburo also expressed its Donation to AHRU: concern over industrial pollution of the SIOO.OO - The Reverend Richard S. McCarrol, pastor of First Ukrainian Presbyterian environment. This question was elabo­ Church, Irvington, N. J. rated futured by E.V. Kachalovsky, S50.00 - Theodore and Norma Dzus. S25.00 - Franklin and Gladys Giltner, Allison McCarroll, Mr. and Mrs. Sam Chornomaz, who noted "serious defects" in the Wadym Jarowenko, William Kychun, Daniel'and Marie Marchishin, Mabel Latino. matter of nature protection in Ukraine S20.00 - Mr. and Mrs. William Lemega, Mr. and Mrs. George Drebych, John Kalynowych. in 1986-1987. In particular, he was S 10.00 - OIha Kalynowych, Gertrude Lissner, Joanna Dzus. concerned that although ample funds S5.00 - Johanna Lewenec, Ann Seller, Ann Senatore Total: S430.00 were being assigned to enterprises for Donation to UNCHAIN: nature protection, these monies were S250.00 - Bozhena Olshaniwsky. simply not being used. For example, the S25.00 - Julia and Maria Demtschuk, Walter Bodnar, William Kychun, Wadym percentage of unused funds according Jarowenko. to industry who saM to be 47 percent in S20.00 - Prof, and Mrs. Mykhaylo Ciapka, John Kalynowych Total: 5390.00 local industry, 22 percent in light Grand total: S820.00 industry, 21 percent in the oil and chemical industry, and 13 percent in "ferrous metallurgy. At a rpeeting of the Ukrainian Coun­ cil of Ministers in April, Construction UKRAINIAN FESTIVAL '88 Minister V.P. Salo, was severely re­ primanded because of the slow rate of Don't Miss the Fun! construction of objects for "nature SAN DIEGO, CALIFORNIA protection." LABOR DAY WEEKEND: SEPTEMBER 2 - SEPTEMBER 4 In a variety of spheres, therefore, ecological concerns are uppermost in Join San Diego's Ukrainian community in celebration of our unique lieritage. Enjoy savory food, exciting music, Ukrainian society. The Ukrainian Writ­ spirited dance and warm iiospitality at UKRAINIAN FESTIVAL '88^ ers' Union has created an Ecological Commission within its structure, head­ Friday, September 2 WELCOME VATRA Barbecue S6.00 (AFTER July 31-S10.00) ed by Yuriy Shcherbak. The latter is A San Diego Festival tradition! Gather around the bonfire for informal fun on the shores of Mission Bay. also a member of the Ukrainian as­ sociation "Zelenyi Svit" (Green World), Saturday, September 3 A DAY IN THE PARK which has related the situation back to Visit the House of Ukraine in beautiful Balboa Park, where traditional food and folk art souvenirs will be on sale. The sports-minded may compete or just watch the golf, chess, tennis and volleyball tournaments. Sailors on FOR SALE BY OWNER TWO FAMILY HOUSE nearby Mission Bay will determine whether the "Ukrainian Cup" remains in San Diego racing in the Second Annual Jersey City, Journal Square Уг block to the Ukrainian Festival Regatta. Path Station. Excellent condition. With VECHIRNYA PROGRAMA S15.00 (AFTER July 31-S20.00) driveway, central air cond., new roof. Call: 201-420 1762 Graceful young women and limber young men-the best of Los Angeles' Ukrainian folk dance troupes-will entertain you Saturday evening in the Gasa del Prado Theater in Balboa Park. Then BULAVA ignites the stage. In a spectacular showcase of color, sound and electrifying movement, this male dance troupe from Canada recreates the boisterous KERHONKSON AREA courage of the Cossacks. by OWNER New ranch on Vk acres. Also additional Sunday, September 4 BANQUET AND BALL S40.00 (AFTER July 31-S50.00) building lots starting at 528.000. All on After cocktails and dinner, dance the night away to live music at one of San Diego's elegant resort hotels. town road. Owner financing. 914 626-4723 August 19 - September 2 UKRAINIAN DANCE WORKSHOP S100 (AFTER July 31-S120.00) HVCVIKA As part of our commitment to support Ukrainian culture, the House of Ukraine offers a five-day workshop in Ukrainian Icon 6It Souvenir's Distribution dance for all levels and ages of dancers. Instructor is Keenan Hohol, ^ member of pULAVA, who has performed 2860 Buhre Ave. Suite 2R with the Alberta Ballet and studied at the Virsky Academy in Ukraine. Bronx, NY 10461 REPRESEmATIVEandWHOLESALER of EMBRODERED BLOUSES For additional information about Ukrainian Festival '88, for ADULTS and CHILDREN including sports tournaments, dance workshop, and accommodations, please call (619) 298-9139. Tel. (212) 931-1579 UKRAINIAN SINGLES "Early Bird" BEFORE July 31. AFTER July 31. NEWSLETTER Tickets Tickets ^ S 10/each = S Serving Ukrainian singles of all ages Vatra Barbecue Meal Tickets (a) ? 6/each' = ? Saturday Vechirnya Program: throughout the United States and Canada. General Admission ^ ? 15/each = ї^ 0) ? 20/each rr ? - For information send a self-addressed Seniors 62H- and Youth 6-16 ^ j 10/each rr ж (a) Ж 20/each = ? stamped envelope to: Single Ukrainians Sunday Banquet and Ball (a) 5 40/each = s (d) Ж 50/each = S P.O. Box 24733, Phila., Pa. 19111 Dance Workshop ^ SlOO/each = ж (S) SI 20/each rz S HURYN MEMORIALS Dance Workshop: П BEGINNER П INTERMEDIATE П ADVANCED FOR THE FINEST IN CUSTOM MADE NAME TELEPHONE ( ) MEMORIALS INSTALLED IN ALL CEME­ TERIES IN THE METROPOLITAN AREA ADDRESS of New York mcludlng Holy Spirit in CITY .STATE. H^mptonburgh, N.Y., St. Andrew's in South Bound Brook, Pine Bush Cemetery in П Enclosed is S. . TOTAL for the above events. Kerhonkson and Glen Spey Cemetery in Glen Spey, New York. We offer personal service A guidance in your Please nriail your Registration Form with a check' or money order' payable to home. For a bilingual representative call: House of Ukraine and a stamped, self-addressed envelope (for return of tickets) to: IWAN HURYN P.O. Box 121 UKRAINIAN FESTIVAL '88 Hamptonburgh, N.Y. 109І6 4050-47 Porte La Paz Tel.: (914) 4272684 San Diego, CA 92122 BOHDAN REKSHYNSKYJ 45 East 7th Street 'Ukrainian Festival '88 is sponsored by the House of Ukraine, a non-profit cultural New York. NY. 10003 Tel.: (212) 477-6523 organization. Payment is tax-deductible, according to IRS guidelines. 16 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JULY 24, 1988 No. 30

пГ PREVIEW OF EVENTS At Soyuzivka July 30 24 Quincy St., Harvard University. Roberta Reeder will give an intro­ JEWETT CENTER, N.Y.: The duction. A donation of S3 is request­ Music and Art Center of Greene ed, summer school students and Weekend of July 30-31 County. Inc. will sponsor a concert, seniors may enter free. For informa­ featuring pianist Nadia Bohachew- tion call (617) 495-7835 or 495-7833. KERHONKSON, N.Y. - The York. sky, who will perform works by weekend of July 30-31 at the Ukrai­ All weekend long, an exhibit in the Bach, Mozart, Beethoven, Barvinsky August 11 nian National Association's upstate Main House Library presented by and Chopin at 8 p.m. at the Grazhda New York resort, Soyuzivka, will Myroslawa Stachiw will enlighten on Route 23A, next to the Ukrainian CAMBRIDGE, Mass.: Dr. Myron showcase the talents of pianist David Soyuzivka guests about the diverse Catholic Church. For more informa­ Kuropas will present a lecture on Bilowus and violinist Adrian Bryttan. types of embroidery found in various tion call (518)989-6479. "The Role of the Churches in the Both musicians will perform regions of Ukraine. Development of Ukrainian-Ameri­ during the Saturday evening concert For additional information about July 31 can Consciousness," at 7:30 p.m. in at the Veselka auditorium. After­ Soyuzivka accommodations or pro- . Boylston Auditorium. The lecture is wards there will be a dance to the grams, call the resort at (914) 626- ' OLIVE PARK, 111.: The Committee sponsored by the Ukrainian Summer music of Trembita. 5641. (UNA members are entitled to for the Celebration of the Millen­ Institute. Donations of S3 are sug­ A Sunday evening concert will a 10 percent discount on accommo­ nium of Christianity in Ukraine, gested, students and seniors may be feature the Dumka Chorus of New dations.) Illinois Chapter, will sponsor a admitted for free. For information united all-denominational moleben call (617) 495-7835 or 495-7833. at 3 p.m. here at Olive Park, located documents are to be made public. Democratic Front... In the meantime, Komsomolskaya next to Navy Pier on Lake Michi­ August 13 gan. Bishops, clergy and members of (Continued from page 1) Pravda has published its version of all Ukrainian Christian Churches organizations in the oblasts, raions, and what transpired in Lviv on July 7. In an BALTIMORE: A celebration of the article appearing only three days later, will participate. Representatives Millennium of Ukrainian Christia­ cities of Ukraine and beyond its bor­ from the State of Illinois, the City of ders, is being formed on the basis of the the Moscow youth organ attempted to nity will take place during the second discredit the organizers of the rally, Chicago and ethnic communities will National Slavic Convention at the Ukrainian Public Group to Promote also take part. Buses for Olive Park the Implementation of the Helsinki describing a group of them as "Western Baltimore Convention Center. The supported, previously convicted 'rights will be leaving at 1:30 p.m. from Millennium program will include a Accords and confirms allegiance to the church parking areas. For informa­ rights defense principles of the group's defenders,' some of whom were in Christian agape, a call to re-dedica­ Moscow at a reception with President tion call Walter Tun, (312) 489-0520. tion of lives to Christ, a concert of declaration of November 9, 1976." Little if anything is known about the Reagan not too long ago." August 4 traditional songs, main address and Messrs. Makar, Chornovil and their signing of resolutions asking the Jewish group. It should be noted, however, that TASS, reporting recently supporters, it claimed, conducted the CAMBRIDGE, Mass.: Dr. Lu- Soviet government to halt persecu­ tion of Christians and other believers. on a meeting in Lviv commemorating rally according to "their own scenario" bomyr Hajda, a lecturer in govern­ the 45th anniversary of the destruction and "demanded the immortalization of ment at Harvard University, will For information contact the Na­ tional Slavic Convention, 16 S. of the city's Jewish ghetto, remarked the memory of Banderites — members present a lecture on "Ukrainians in that "its participants discussed ques­ of the Organization of Ukrainian Na­ the Context of the Soviet Multina­ Patterson Park Ave., Baltimore, Md. 21231. tions of protecting monuments of tionalists." The newspaper confirmed tional Empire," at 7:30 p.m. in Jewish culture in Lviv Oblast, populari­ that "many thousands" took part in the Boylston Auditorium, Harvard Uni­ zation of the Jewish language and meeting, but made no mention of the versity. The lecture is sponsored by August 13-14 literature, and supported the opening in Democratic Front. the 1988 Ukrainian Summer Insti­ Lviv of a Jewish school and a synago­ The formation of the Democratic tute. A donation of S3 per person is BALTIMORE: The public is invited gue." It may be assumed that these Front to Promote Perestroika is the requested, summer school students to celebrate the Ukrainian heritage activists are linked to the Jewish cul­ latest development stemming from a and seniors may enter free. For with a weekend of entertainment, tural and literary group. series of recent mass meetings in Lviv, arts and crafts displays, and ethnic information call (617) 495-7835 or The Democratic Front announced The first of these, on June 16, was 495-7833. foods as the Showcase of Nations Ukrainian Festival comes to Festival that its activities will be guided by the organized by the Action Group to Establish the T. H. Shevchenko Native August 5 Hall on Saturday and Sunday, from following "main principles": noon to 7 p.m. Admission is S2 for ^ the basic objectives of the Demo­ Language Society, which reconstituted adults; seniors and children under cratic Front are to promote perestroika; itself as the Action Group to Conduct CAMBRIDGE, Mass.: The 1988 exercise public control over the demo­ Meetings, Between 6,000 and 8,000 Ukrainian Summer Institute will age 12 will be admitted free. For more information call the Baltimore cratic restructuring of government, people are reported to have gathered at sponsor a screening of "Shadows of public and party organs; cultivate the Ivan Franko monument, where they Forgotten Ancestors," directed by Office of Promotion and Tourism, (301) 837-INFO, Andrew Chorney, democratic awareness in the public; and heard speakers declare "no confidence" Sergei Paradjanov (Kiev, 1964), in propagandize the ideas of perestroika. Ukrainian with English subtitles, at 882-9422, or Orest Polisczuk, 730- in the local list of delegates to th^ 19th 7:30 p.m. in Carpenter Center B-04, 1541. ^ 2. The main thrust of the Democra­ Communist Party Conference. tic Front's activities should be partici­ The authorities responded by pro­ pation in elections and control over mising to announce a program for the their democratic conduct. Moscow conference as well as a new list ^ 3. Membership in the Democratic of delegates at a public meeting sche­ Front is open to all who agree with its duled for June 21 at the Druzhba Job Announcement principles. Collective members of the Stadium. That morning, however, the Democratic Front may be guided by city's mailboxes were filled with an­ ASSISTANT DIRECTOR their own programs and put forth nouncements urging residents not to political, social, national and other attend the gathering. On the same day, OF demands that do not contradict general Lviv's two main newspapers carried democratic principles. Representatives articles "exposing" the organizers of the GOVERNMENT RELATIONS of official organs, whose direct respon­ meeting as "nationalists," Letters to the sibility is to implement the ideas of editor labeled them "nationalist and Ukrainian National Association Washington Office perestroika, cannot join the Democratic Uniate rowdies," "dependents of the DUTIES: The Assistant Director will work at the direction of the Director of Government Re­ Front. CIA," and "paid agents of Western lations in the carrying out of the policies and programs of the Ukrainian National Association ^ 4. The Democratic Front does not special services," and the Ukrainian Heritage Defense Committee. The functions of the Director and Assistant have organs defined by its main func­ Simultaneously, authorities issued a Director include: (1) national education and research programs; (2) educational and in­ tions. Organizationally it is a coalition list of 16 "Provisional Regulations for formational programs aimed at the U.S. Government; (3)'monitoringof legislation, governmental whose organs only have consultative the Conduct of Meetings and Other policies and media reports on issues of concern to the Ukrainian American community; rights or executive functions, Mass Initiatives that Are Organized in (4) management of the Washington office; and (5) formulation of development programs on a ^ 5. The Democratic Front conducts the Cities and Other Population Cen­ national level. its work through its collective members ters of Lviv Oblast," REQUIREMENTS: Applicants should have a minimum of a bachelor's degree and at least three and support groups at enterprises, Nonetheless, on June 21 about 50,000 years experience in a responsible position. Other factors to be considered include: (1) expe­ institutions, and at the local level. people are said to have arrived at the rience in government; (2) knowledge of the workings of the Congress and the Executive ^ 6. The Democratic Front should stadium only to find that it had been Branch; (3) writing and speaking skills in the English language; (4) knowledge of the Ukrainian influence the process of perestroika "closed for repairs," A two-hour meet­ language; (5) familiarity with the workings of the media; and, (6) basic public relations skills. with the help of public committees, the ing outside of the stadium took place in SALARY: Negotiable based on experience and past salary history. press, and other democratic methods. spite of attempts to disturb the proceed­ APPLICATIONS: Resumes including salary requirements should be sent no later than July 31, ^ 7. The activities of the Democratic ings and demands by the authorities Front are guided by its statute, which is that the crowd disperse. It was decided 1988, to: based on the above principles. to hold another rally on July 7, That UKRAINIAN NATIONAL ASSOCIATION The organizers announced that meeting, as has now been learned, 30 Montgomery Street another rally is scheduled for early formed the Democratic Front to Pro­ Jersey City, New Jersey 07302 August, at which time a number of mote Perestroika. ATTN: Director of Government Relations Finalists will be interviewed prior to August 15, 1988. Insure and be sure—Join the UNA