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ubhshed by the Ukrainian National Association inc., a fraternal non-profit association! :rainian Week!v vol. LVIII No. 10 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, MARCH n, 1990 50 cents Election week in Ukraine: winners, losers and new hopes Rukh announces intention Democratic Bloc candidates to form political party score some major victories

JERSEY C1TY, N.J. - Leaders of Rukh Chairman Drach told Reuters Rukh, the Popular Movement of U– reporter Peter Conradi in Kiev on kraine for Perebudova, on March 6 March 6 that during campaigning declared their intentions to create a "people asked us why we did not form a formal opposition party to press for an party." independent republic. "And at the last plenary meeting of The draft declaration, issued by ivan the Ukrainian Communist Party, we Drach, Rukh chairman, and Mykhailo were asked how Rukh people like Horyn, Rukh secretary, who were both myself could continue to be Commu– elected people's deputies to the republi– nists. So finally, we told ourselves that can parliament on Sunday, March 4, we should make up our minds and form representing districts in the western a party for the national, social and Ukrainian city of Lviv, challenges the spiritual renaissance of Ukraine," Mr. ruling Communist Party of Ukraine, Drach told Reuters. requiring it to take full responsibility for "Our party will stand for the indepen– "the famine of 1932-33, the destruction dence of Ukraine, for its political and of Ukrainian intelligentsia, deporta– social sovereignty. And at this stage the tions and repressions, the policy of only way to achieve this is to leave the Russification, economic decline and the Soviet Union," Mr. Drach said. ecological tragedies of Ukraine." A vote on the endorsement of this Buoyed by initial election results, proposal will be held on Sunday, March Former political prisoner vyacheslav First Secretary volodymyr ivashko, of which showed successes for reformers, 25, when the 96-member Grand Council Chornovil was among the Democratic the Communist Party of Ukraine, failed including progressive Communists, and of Rukh convenes. According to Mr. Bloc candidates elected to the new to win election and is headed for a run- put Rukh in a position to provide 25 Drach, if the plan is endorsed, a found– Supreme Soviet of the Ukrainian SSR. off with a Democratic bloc opponent. percent of the new parliament's mem– ing congress of the new party will be bers, prompted Mr. Drach to urge the held "as soon as possible." He thinks conversion of Rukh's loose alliance of this is no major problem because the Run-offs for 273 of seats to define parliament human rights activists, Green World prevailing mood is for independence, members and radical Communists into reported Canada's Globe and Mail on JERSEY C1TY, N.J. - in unpre– Election Commission has not yet pub– a full-fledged political party. March 7. cedented multi-candidate elections to iished the final results of the elections to The declaration, signed by 15 Rukh in the declaration, the signatories the Supreme Soviet of the Ukrainian the 450-seat Ukrainian parliament and activists calls for political pluralism, state: "it has become clear: as long as SSR held on March 4, Communist local councils, it was clear that candi– democratization and "real final inde– one party exists, with one center for all Party apparatchiks were soundly de– dates from the national-democratic pendence." (Continued on page 12) feated by candidates of the Democratic movement faired very well, winning Bloc in a number of districts, while the virtual landslide victories in two majority of seats' have been forced into western Ukrainian oblasts, Lviv and run-off elections in two weeks, reported ivano-Frankivske, reported the Ukrai– various sources last week. nian Press Agency, (in accordance with Although the Ukrainian Central (Continued on page 5) Rukh reports elections violations LONDON - The Popular Move– voting officially began. There were ment of Ukraine for Perebudova also reports of ballot boxes not being (Rukh) has reported that the elec– properly sealed and of some that tions to the Ukrainian SSR Supreme were not sealed at all. Soviet and local Soviets which took The Ukrainian Press Agency based place on March 4, were plagued with in London relayed the following list numerous violations of the electoral of violations in Kiev compiled by law. Rukh. in one Kiev constituency, for і in electoral district No. 2 (Kiev example, election leaflets belonging ward No. 9^9) there were reports that to the Communist Party had been sealed boxes which contained com– pinned to the walls of ballot booths pleted ballot papers of people who in direct contravention of the elec– had cast their vote ahead of the toral law, which states that no cam– election day, had been tampered paigning is to be conducted on with. election day. ^ Observers were not allowed into in some districts of Kiev, Rukh some voting stations. This happened had been prevented from registering in electoral district No. 8 (ward No. its observers and in others there were 55-7^55 and 6i;61) claiming that Two of Rukh's leading activists, chairman ivan Drach (left) and secretary not enough ballot papers to go they had not been registered with Mykhailo Horyn, captured seats in the city of Lviv as deputies to the new Ukrainian around. Rukh spokesmen claimed regional electoral commissions. parliament, inspired by Democratic Bloc candidates' successes, the two leaders that ballot papers had either been ^ independent observers were not drafted a document which calls for the formation of a political opposition party in destroyed or had been filled in before (Continued on page 16) Ukraine. 2 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, MARCH II,1990 NO. 10

A GLIMPSE OF SOVIET REALITY Rukh protests idea of USSR presidency LONDON - The branch of the Ukrainian SSR Supreme Soviet from Popular Movement of Ukraine for ivano-Frankivske, wrote the following The economic outlook Perebudova (Rukh) in ivano-Frankiv– statement: ske, western Ukraine, on February 28 "1 am categorically opposed to the organized a demonstration which introduction of a presidential form of for Ukraine in 1990 adopted a resolution opposing the government because this kind of go– by Dr. David Marples percent of the total population - are establishment of the position of presi– vernment, in contrast to the parliamen– said to be in "extreme" need of housing. dent of the Soviet Union as long as the tary, is more centralized. The Ukrainian republic is facing a As part of the over-all plan of "Resi– USSR remains a one-party state and "in democratic states, such as the particularly difficult economic year. dence-2000," in accordance with which until a new all-union treaty is nego– U.S.A. and France, the presidential With a high budgetary deficit, a every Soviet family is supposed to be tiated between the republics of the form of government guarantees immu– shortage of basic supplies of food and provided with an apartment by the end USSR. nity for countries from government consumer goods, an uncertain mood of the century, the building program for The London-based Ukrainian Press crises. There exists (in those countries) a among the labor force, and electric 1990 anticipates a total of 105.1 million Agency also reported that a telegram mechanism of controlling the presiden– power cuts predicted, 1990 promises to square meters of residences, more than with the same resolutions was sent to tial government as well as over-all be an extremely complex transition 17.5 million square meters over the total the Committee to Review the Constitu– democratic traditions, in the USSR, year, before the republic embraces constructed in the 12th Five-Year Plan. tion and Ukrainian deputies to the all- under a one-party system, there is no "economic sovereignty" in the year The "older" Ukrainian industries are union Supreme Soviet, Messrs. Tka– tradition of a relationship between the 1991. The need for a convertible ruble clearly in trouble. Coal output, for chuk and Dmytro Pavlychko. supreme government and democratic has been emphasized by Ukrainian example, fell to 179 million metric tons More than 2,000 members of the parties and organizations, in other economists as has the importance of in 1989, the lowest total in more than a ivano-Frankivske Rukh branch called words there is no mechanism worked holding down wage increases this year. decade. Moreover, while a gradual upon other informal groups in Ukraine out to control the presidential (posi– in addition, the costs of eliminating reduction in coal output has been to organize protests against the intro– tion). the effects of the Chornobyl accident anticipated over the next few years, this duction of a presidential system. "in sum, in our conditions the amal– have become one of the biggest single sudden drop was 9.4 million tons below On March 2 the ivano-Frankivske gamation of the functions of head of impediments to any economic recovery, the anticipated total. The alleged reason branch of the Ukrainian Helsinki Union state and government in one person is and costs in this sphere are continuing for this shortfall was not the coal strike (UHU) adopted an analogous resolu– very dangerous, as it could lead to a to rise as a result of major building work of last summer, but rather the fact that tion. severe dictatorship. Therefore to place required for residences and other build– the Ukrainian coal mines are now being Lev Lukianenko, head of the UHU, one's trust in an individual like Gorba– ings for present and future evacuees. worked only six days per week instead and newly elected people's deputy to the (Continued on page 10) Moreover, the measures being intro– of seven. duced to alleviate the current predica– A similar story is to be found in the ment appear, at best, cosmetic. steel industry, where there is said to be a Students strikers are imprisoned LONDON - Eleven members of the demanding the release of the students. Chornobyl and its consequences remain the independent Ukrainian Student's Union Among the those protesting was Ukrai– (USU) have been sentenced to varying nian SSR People's Deputy Mykhailo major economic headache. ... Some 3.5 million periods of 10 to 15 days'administrative Horyn of the Rukh Secretariat; Bohdan arrest for taking part in the all-Ukrai– Ternopilsky, also of the Popular Move– hectares of agricultural land, along with 1.5 nian student strike that was held Fe– ment of Ukraine for Perebudova; USSR bruary 21-22. People's Deputy valeriy Hryshchyk; million hectares of forest, have been contami– The USU was formed in the autumn and Larysa Skoryk, a candidate in the of 1989 and held its inaugural congress runoffs for the Ukrainian SSR Supreme nated. ... More than 7,000 towns and villages in Kiev in early December. Soviet. have been affected by radiation. in an appeal smuggled out of prison by the USU dated February 23 and Some 100 members of the Ukrainian released by the Ukrainian Press Agency Students Union and the Association of independent Ukrainian Youth (SNUM) The state of the economy has been considerable "lagging" in the recon– in Kiev they demand to be allowed to meet: and Lviv student activists also partici– elucidated by v.P. Fokin, the chairman struction and technical retooling of pated. of the Ukrainian Gosplan. He noted enterprises. For almost all indicators, t democratic candidates to the U– Among the banners was one an– that the living standards of the popula– the ferrous metallurgy industry has krainian Supreme Soviet; tion have fallen as a result of hidden nouncing: "Ukrainian Helsinki Union failed to attain the anticipated technical ^ journalists from the official youth supports the student strike." price rises. At the same time, wage progress, in other words, the Ukrainian press which has been covering the increases have doubled the comparable industry remains geared toward the student strike (Molod Ukrainy, Kom– The authorities invited Messrs. rise in the national income in 1989. open-hearth converters that are not somotske Znamya and Moloda Hvar– Horyn, Ternopilsky and Hryshchuk A key problem area remains the only inefficient, but have also been diya); inside for negotiations, which lasted output of consumer products, or Group responsible for the pollution of the ^ the representative of the London- two hours. The meeting concluded with B. Consequently, their production is to major steel centers, such as Dniprope– based Ukrainian Press Agency who is a promise that the five students still be raised by 5.3 percent in 1990, corn- trovske. currently in Kiev; and being held at that time would have their pared to a rise of only 3 percent for Electric power output in the republic ^ the Kiev city procurator, because cases reviewed. The picketers vowed to commodities in Group A, namely pro– in 1989 rose to 315 billion kilowatt the trial of the 11 students was "abso– return if the students are not freed. duction goods. About 320,000 manual hours, compared to 301 billion in 1988. lutely unlawful." Meanwhile, in Moscow, on March 5, laborers are to be released from their But in 1990, it is not expected to rise at On February 27, it was reported that Ukrainian students picketed outside the jobs. Several enterprises in Group A are all. Two new nuclear reactors are an additional 12 students had been hotel Moskva, where USSR people's being reprofiled in an effort to increase expected to bejadded to the grid system arrested in Kiev. deputies from Ukraine are housed, to goods such as footwear, knitwear and this year. Zaporizhzhia-6 and Khmel– The Kiev City Council building was demand the release of fellow students fabrics, currently in short supply. nytsky-2. Both are 1,000-megawatt picketed on March 6 by protesters arrested in Kiev. Mr. Fokin emphasized his desire to water-pressurized (WER) reactors. put the financial and economic situa– However, the abandonment of the tion of Ukraine onto a normal footing. Crimean stations and the fourth unit at Financial resources could be raised, in the South Ukrainian station in 1989 are FOUNDED 1933 his view, through reducing the cost of indicative of a general public hostility ulcrainian Weeicn production and cutting down the num– toward the industry, Mr. Fokin report– ber of administrative personnel in ed. An English-language Ukrainian newspaper published by the Ukrainian National various sectors. instead, electricity production has Association inc., a non-profit association, at 30 Montgomery St., Jersey City, NJ. However, there remains the problem of had to be raised at thermal power 07302. the centralization of Ukrainian in– stations, which will result in the expen– dustry. Most of its potentially lucrative diture of 5.6 million tons of conven– Second-class postage paid at Jersey City, ' jilj. 07302. sectors are under all-union control tional fuel in addition to the original (1SSN- 0273-9348) (steel and coal, for example), and critics plan. Because of these problems, strict of the current structure of the Ukrainian limits are being placed on electricity Yearly subscription rate: S20; for UNA members - Sl'O. economy have pointed out that this has usage and certain areas can expect Also published by the UNA: Svoboda, a Ukrainian-language daily newspaper. led to some glaring anomalies, such as power cuts in 1990. the fact that the price for a ton of sugar Chornobyl and its consequences, The Weekly and Svoboda: UNA: beets in Byelorussia is double that in however, remain the major economic (201) 434-0237, -0807, -3036 (201) 451-2200 headache, and one that has intensified Ukraine, or the fact that in the latter Postmaster, send address republic, which has the biggest concen– as more effects of radiation become changes to: tration of heavy industry in the Soviet known. Some 3.5 million hectares of Editor: Roma Hadzewycz Union, the average wage in 1987 was agricultural land have been contami– The Ukrainian Weekly Associate Editors: Marta Kolomayets P.O. Box 346 Chrystyna Lapychak considerably lower than in Byelorussia, nated, along with 1.5 million hectares of Jersey City, NJ. 07303 Russia and the Baltic republics. forest, which represents about 12 per– Ukrainians are short of food, basic cent of the territory of the republic. More The Ukrainian Weekly, March 11,1990, No. 10, vol. Lviil commodities and housing. Some 2.4 than 1,000 towns and villages have been Copyright 1990 by The Ukrainian Weekly million families — approximately 14 (Continued on page 14) No. Kb THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, MARCH 11,1990 3 Helsinki Commission members criticize Ukrainian Orthodox in U.S.A. holdsobor SOUTH BOUND BROOK, N.J. r– The extraordinary sobor did pass 19 Soviet officials for denial of visas An Extraordinary Sobor of the resolutions, and two appeals, one by John Кіш noted, "to send a strong message that Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the addressed "To the clergy and faithful of U.S.A., called to discuss the current a Church reborn after prolonged en– UNA Washington Office this (denial of visas) is not a positive step between the peoples of the Soviet Union status of the Ukrainian Autocephalous slavement — the Ukrainian Autoce– WASHINGTON - sen. Dennis De– and the United States." Orthodox Church in Ukraine and phalous Orthodox Church in Ukraine," Concini (D-Ariz.) and Reps. Steny Hoyer Sen. DeConcini also expressed con– examine ways the diaspora can assist it, and the second addressed to its (D-Md.) and Don Ritter (R-Pa.), all cern over an Associated Press report convened here at the seat of the "Greek-Catholic Brethren in Ukraine." members of the U.S. Commission on that Soviet troops leaving Czechoslo– Ukrainian Orthodox Church in the The resolutions, which included Security and Cooperation in Europe vakia were heading for the Baltic U.S.A. in South Bound Brook, N.J., on gratitude to God Almighty for the (Helsinki Commission), strongly criti– nations. Beside the military implica– Friday, February 2. events that are occurringj — the rebirth cized the Soviet Union's denial of visas tions^ the fact that Soviet soldiers can The daylong sobor which was attend– of the Ukrainian Autocephalous Ortho– to three Congressional delegations vote in elections where they are sta– ed by Metropolitan Mstyslav, head of dox Church in Ukraine — after pro- planning to observe elections in U– tioned raises the possibility of voting the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the longed periods of suppression, com– kraine, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania. shenanigans by Soviet authorities in U.S.A, Archbishop Constantine, mendations to courageous pioneers upcoming runoff elections. Bishops Antony and Paisiy, also in– who initiated and continue to promote The American legislators were joined cluded 46 delegates from the clergy and the movement of the UAOCin Ukraine, during the March 6 press conference at Rep. Ritter, who was to lead the 66 lay delegates. The sobor, which was among them the founding members of the U.S. Capitol by Rep. Richard delegation to Ukraine to view the first announced as an unscheduled meeting the initiative Committee for the Rene– Durbin (D-lll.), who headed the Lithua– contested elections under Soviet rule, of delegates, was to assemble for at least wal of the UAOC in Ukraine, Arch- nia-bound delegation that was left stated that he was "deeply disappointed two days. bishop loan, who converted from stranded in West Germany. and frustrated" over the Soviet actions. However because of the untimely Russian Orthodoxy to lead the newly Sen. DeConcini, Helsinki Commis– He pointed out that the invitations were death of Archbishop Wolodymyr Di– reborn Church, and priests and faithful sion chairman, stated that the USSR's from four elected Ukrainian legislators dowycz of the Australia; New Zealand who have supported this Church in refusal to allow American congressmen and that the early indications from eparchy of the Ukrainian Autocepha– Ukraine. to witness their elections was a "strange Soviet officials in regard to the trip were lous Orthodox Church, the sobor was The resolutions also expressed grati– retrogression" in Soviet policy. He positive. limited to one day and on Saturday, tude to Metropolitan Mstyslav for his noted that the Soviets have made only Said Rep. Ritter, "Soviet officials February 3, the delegates participated coordination and input into this re– one official response thus far and that have paraded through the halls of in funeral services and burial rites for newal of the Church in Ukraine and was by Yevgeniy Primakov, chairman of Congress. This action indicates to me the late Ukrainian Orthodox hierarch, pledged its unyielding faithfulness to the Supreme Soviet's Council of the that the Soviet organs of authority, who died on January 20 at the age of 65. ecumenical Orthodoxy and its spiritual Union, who stated the U.S. congress- especially the KGB, have taken a hard center, the Church of Constantinople. men would not permitted to view the line contrary to glasnost...Soviet refusal The sobor had as its original aim to elections. to allow our delegates to observe these discuss the status of the Ukrainian Resolutions passed by the extraordi– U.S. efforts included Secretary of elections is incongruous with the steps Autocephalous Orthodox Church in nary sobor also condemn the negative State James Baker's meeting with being taken toward democratization. І Ukraine and its relationship to Metro– disposition of the Soviet press toward Foreign Minister Eduard Shevard– simply do not understand what the politan Mstyslav's Church in the free the reborn Ukrainian Autocephalous nadze, and letters written from Sens. Soviet authorities fear that warrant world as well as examine the current Orthodox Church, "a disposition which DeConcini and Frank Lautenberg (D– keeping us out. What are they trying to constitution and consider updates and manifests itself in the denial to legalize N.J.) and Rep. Hoyer to Soviet offi– hide? Are they trying to keep the people changes for the Church in the diaspora. the UAOC, to register its parishes and cials. of Ukraine isolated, as they tried so However, because of time restraints the priests, as well as in the harassment and These actions and the press confe– often to do in the past? it's a throwback latter was not discussed at this extraor– persecution of its activists, along with rence were intended, Sen. DeConcini (Continued on page 15) dinary sobor. The sobor of the Ukrai– other malicious attacks and disinforma– nian Orthodox Church in the U.S.A. is tion campaigns." scheduled to meet once every three The sobor also lends complete sup- Rep. Don Ritter's statement years and the current regular sobor is to port to the quest of Orthodox Ukrai– convene in 1991. (Continued on page 10) Following is the full text of a incongruous with the steps being statement issued by Rep. Don Ritter taken toward democratization. І (R-Pa.), ranking House minority simply do not understand what the Ukrainian Catholic bishops summoned member of the Helsinki Commission, Soviet authorities fear that warrants who was to lead the commission's keeping us out. What are they trying to Kiev by vatican commission members delegation of elections observers to to hide? Are they trying to keep the Ukraine. The statement was issued people of Ukraine isolated, as they ROME - Ukrainian Catholic that the Ukrainian delegation would be on March 6, at a press conference tried so often to do in the past? it's a Church officials in Rome have learned tired for the first days of talks. The convened by the Helsinki Commis– throwback to the old days, and it that the vatican members of the Catho– mixed commission is composed of undermines the confidence of our lic-Orthodox Commission for dialogue representatives of the Ukrainian Catho– people and theirs in the reform on the status of the Ukrainian Catholic lic Church in Ukraine, the Holy See, the 1 am deeply disappointed and process. Church in Ukraine sent a telegram to Moscow Patriarchate and the recently frustrated by the refusal of the USSR Ukrainian Catholic bishops in Lviv to announced Ukrainian Orthodox Supreme Soviet to allow a Congres– Soviet legislators do not need come to Kiev for talks with Filaret, Church, its purpose is to facilitate official invitations, or any invita– sional delegation, which 1 was to Orthodox metropolitan of Kiev and normalization of the status of the tions, to observe U.S. elections, in lead, to visit Ukraine for last Sun- Halych. Ukrainian Catholic Church in Ukraine. day's republic elections. Our delega– the Soviet case, invitations are re- it is unclear if these talks signify the quired. But, ladies and gentlemen, Archbishop Marusyn, secretary of tion had hoped to witness Ukraine's first meeting of the mixed commission. the Congregation for Eastern Churches first contested elections under Soviet even invitations from members of the The first meeting of the mixed commis– national legislative body — the and a Ukrainian Catholic, and Arch- rule. All of us were greatly looking sion was to have been held in Lviv, the Congress of People's Deputies —are bishop Stephen Sulyk of the Ukrainian forward to meeting with future Ukrainian Catholic Church Press Bu– Catholic Archdiocese of Philadelphia not deemed to be sufficient. We had reau noted. parliamentarians, and learning such invitations. and metropolitan of Ukrainian Catho– about the current political situation Sources in Ukraine reported that lics in the United States, compose the in the largest non-Russian republic. These invitations from four elected Yuri ResrWtylo, head of the Council for vatican delegation to the Commission. І have a long-standing interest in Ukrainian deputies to the Supreme Religious Affairs of the Lviv region, The Moscow Patriarchate is repre– Ukraine. The Helsinki Commission Soviet gave us hope that we could came to the home of Archbishop volo– sented by Metropolitan Mefodiy of sponsored delegation, which in– witness these historic elections, and dymyr Sterniuk, the Lviv representative voronezh. A second delegate from the cluded six of my House colleagues, we are extremely frustrated to have of the head of the Ukrainian Catholic Moscow Patriarchate has not yet been was invited to observe the elections this opportunity taken from us for Church, Cardinal Myroslav ivan Luba– announced. The representatives for by four leading Ukrainian members what appears to be no good reason. chivsky and head of the Ukrainian what is now known as the Ukrainian of the USSR Congress of People's The Soviet authorities handled this Catholic delegation to the commission, Orthodox Church in Ukraine are: Deputies Soviet authorities refused whole matter poorly. at 5 p.m. on the evening of March 6. Archbishop iriney Seredny of Lviv and to recognize their invitation to us. in sum, this situation does not Mr. Reshetylo had with him two train Drohobych and Archpriest Oleksander After a week of sending us mixed serve to foster improved relations tickets and a telegram from Archbishop Shvets, Orthodox dean of the Lviv signals, they indicated that the dele– between the U.S. Congress and the Miroslav Marusyn, head of the vatican region. gation would need "official permis– Supreme Soviet. delegation to the commission. The At the last synod of the Moscow sion"from the Supreme Soviet or the І strongly urge the Supreme Soviet telegram informed 83-year-old Arch- Patriarchate of the Russian Orthodox Central Elections Commission. to consider the signal their decision bishop Sterniuk that he and the other Church, it was decided that the name of І would like to thank Chairman sends to friends of Soviet reform and, member of the Ukrainian Catholic the Russian Orthodox Church in Dennis DeConcini and Co-Chair– in the future, allow legislators to delegation, Bishop Sofron Dmyterko of Ukraine would be changed to the man Steny Hoyer, as well as the State freely witness elections as a result of lvano-Frankivske, were to travel to Ukrainian Orthodox Church. The new Department, for their repeated at– invitations from their peers as op- Kiev on the night train for talks the next Church is still subject to the jurisdiction tempts to secure official invitations posed to being subjected to demands day. of the Moscow Patriarchate. This ! for the delegation. for permission from the "official" Ukrainian Catholic Church officials Church is not to be confused with the Soviet refusal to allow our delega– organs, isn't that what democratiza– in Lviv expressed concern that the Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox, tion to observe these elections із tioh is all about? location of the first mixed commission Church which is independent of the meeting was changed so suddenly and Moscow Patriarchate. 4 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, MARCH n, Ш) NO. 10 lsraeli court agrees Ukrainian Deputy Bratun makes Washington rounds to seek new evidence WASHlNGTON - Rostyslav Bra- tun, Ukrainian deputy to the USSR Congress of People's Deputies visited in Demianiuk case Washington at the invitation of Rep. Mary Rose Oakar (D-Ohio) during the JERSEY C1TY, N.J. - israel's week of February 26. Supreme Court agreed on February 21 His five-day visit included meetings to seek new evidence in West Germany with members of Congress, administra– that could help John Demjanjuk in his tion representatives, the press, and final appeal. Washington's Ukrainian American Mr. Demjanjuk had been sentenced community. to death two years ago after the Jeru– The visit began at the Washington salem District Court found that he was Office of the Ukrainian National Asso– "ivan the Terrible" of Treblinka. ciation (UNA), which organized and co- Mr. Demjanjuk's attorney, Yoram ordinated Mr. Bratun's schedule in Sheftel, said new information from a Washington. At the UNA office, the German witness, Josephina Dolle, Ukrainian deputy from Lviv was brief– could force a review of his client's alibi ed on the major issues being addressed when the Supreme Court hears his by Congress. appeal beginning on May 14. Upon meeting Rep. Oakar, Mr. Mrs. Dolle, is a former resident of Bratun thanked her for the invitation to Stettin, a town near the Nazi prison visit the U.S. capital and discussed the camp Heuberg, where Mr. Demjanjuk need for the opening of the U.S. Consu– claims to have been in 1944. late in Kiev as soon as possible. The two israel will ask an "authorized judicial legislators also discussed economic ties body" in West Germany to take testi– between Cleveland and Lviv. The Ukrainian deputy also met with Rostyslav Bratun (right) meets with Richard Schifter (left) at the State mony from Mrs. Dolla, who refused to Department. George Sajewych serves as interpreter. come to israel to testify. Rep. Dan Schaefer (R-Colo.) and Meanwhile, in the United States, the Dennis Hertel (D-Mich.), both of Demjanjuk defense's case against the whom were scheduled to travel to Justice Department suffered a setback Ukraine for the March 4 elections. The when Judge Louis Oberdorfer of the elections were tne major topic in both U.S. District Court for the District of discussions. Columbia on January 26 rejected a With Rep. Schaefer, Mr. Bratun also request by Edward Nishnic that the talked about the environmental pro– department produce additional docu– blems facing Ukraine. The Colorado ments regarding the case against his Republican suggested that Ukraine father-in-law brought by the Office of could benefit from the U.S. experience Special investigations. with pollution clean-up. Judge Oberdorfer said Mr. Nishnic Mr. Bratun thanked Rep. Hertel for "did not meet the burden of providing his work on the Famine Commission, some evidence that relevant documents which he chairs. He pointed out that the exist" that were not listed in the OS1 U.S. lead on studying the famine has index to the case, in April 1987 the forced the Soviet government to ac– judge had ruled that the OS1 had to knowledge that the famine did occur. provide such an index to the Demjanjuk in a meeting with Ambassador Ri– defense. (Continued on page 13) Friends of Rukh branch in Winnipeg begins work WINNIPEG - The founding meet– satellites are permitted to leave the ing of Winnipeg Friends of Rukh was Soviet bloc and reject the Communist held on Sunday, January 28, here at the Party, the national republics enjoy no Rep. Mary Rose Oakar welcomes Rostyslav Bratun, as Andrew Bihun looks on. Prosvita Reading Association. Dr. privileges of such democratization. The Michael Tarnawecky chaired the meet– speaker emphasized the need for assis– Obituary ing attended by approximately 300 tance to Ukraine, in spiritual unity, in individuals representing the spectrum moral support and in material support of Winnipeg's Ukrainian community. to a country where living and economic Gregory Luznycky, church historian, Dr. Jaroslav Rozumnyj presented a standards are that of the third world. short talk on "Rukh: Restructuring or Food, medicine, educational supplies literary scholar, journalist, 86 Building" (Perebudova chy Budova). (for example, paper supplies for pub– He expressed the opinion that in order iishing in Ukraine have been cut 30 PHILADELPHIA - Dr. Gregory Canada, and was affiliated with the to have restructuring, a damaged struc– percent), these are all desperately Luznycky, a retired professor from the Philadelphia Branch of the Ukrainian ture must exist. For building, one must needed. University of Pennsylvania and a noted Catholic University of Rome. start from the beginning, because the Moral support is provided especially Ukrainian church historian, literary He was co-founder and first presi– structure is demolished, totally ruined. through the news received via radio scholar and journalist, died on March dent of the Association of the Ukrainian For that reason, while the satellites can from the West, Dr. Rozumnyj said. He 3, in Cinnaminson, N.J., at the age of 86. Catholic Press and vice-president of the consider rebuilding, Ukraine (as a na– also expressed the wish that the chain of Born on August 27, 1903, in Lviv, Shevchenko Scientific Society. tional republic of the USSR) needs unity, a permanent symbol of our Ukraine, son of the Rev. Prof. Leonid in addition to authoring numerous building, not restructuring, Dr. Ro– solidarity, never tarnish. The displayed Luznycky and Clementine nee Kuzma, scholarly works, such as "The Ukrai– zumnyj said. Rukh emblem, a stylized tryzub, is part daughter of the imperial Austrian nian Church between East and West" in Ukraine, the very basis of a nation, of that legacy from our ancestors, he councillor and vice-president of the (1954, in Ukrainian, 725 pp.), "Bishop its language, had been liquidated time noted. Supreme Court in vienna, he com– Soter Ortynsky" (1963, a study of the and again since the last century. Other A lively question and answer session pleted his secondary schooling in Lviv first Ukrainian bishop in the United aspects of nationhood, such as culture followed, with concrete and practical and received a doctorate in philosophy States) and "Ukrainian Literature and national awareness, also had been methods of organization and aid dis– from Charles University, Prague, Cze– within the Framework of World Litera– destroyed and exist on a very provin– cussed. Dr. Tarnawecky stated that choslovakia, in 1926. ture" (1961), he edited a number of cial, low level. an umbrella organization of all Friends Following World War И, he received collections (e.g. on Ukrainian theater, ivan Drach, the leader of the Popular of Rukh units throughout Canada will a post-graduate degree (Habilitation) 1975, and Ukrainian American church Movement of Ukraine for Perebudova, be established soon, for coordination of from the University of Graz, Austria, life, 1988), and published several novels has stated that Rukh "must unite all all activity. The local organization had where he subsequently taught the and plays, among them an adaptation who strive for the rebirth of Ukraine," sprung up spontaneously, as a reaction history of the Eastern Church and of H. Sinkiewicz's masterpiece "Quo and that forces are attempting to to the immediate need for support, but Slavic literatures (1947-1949). vadis." foment discord among Ukrainians. Dr. all are supported by a resolution of the Upon his arrival in the U.S. in 1949, Among his unfinished works are an Rozumnyj said that in the 1960s the last Ukrainian Canadian Committee he served as editor of the Ukrainian encyclopedia of the Ukrainian Church motto was "if you're not part of the congress in October 1989. Catholic Daily America (1950-1959) and a catalogue of Ukrainian icons. solution, you're part of the problem." The initiative for the Winnipeg and was a visiting professor of Ukrai– He is survived by his daughter, This phrase applies just as well to the Friends of Rukh began after the visit to nian studies at the University of Penn– Christine Kulchycky of Cinnaminson, Ukrainian situation there and abroad. that city of ivan Drach on October 9, sylvania (1959-1964). N.J., and son, Dr. Alexander Lushny– Two standards exist for what is 1989. As of the date of the founding Upon his retirement, he lectured cky of Moylan, Pa., and five grand- occurring in Eastern Europe: while the .. лі2оЩще4 on page J0)^4,.,^ extensively, щ ,the^ united States .and children. 'v„ И ,4.^ No. 10 - THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, MARCH n, 1990 5

and strike committees, environmenta– shylovhrad. Only one people's deputy nist Party apparatus vied best in rural Democratic Bloc... lists and progressive Communists that was chosen in both Kiev and Kharkiv. constituencies. Among the winners (Continued from page 1) formed the Democratic Bloc coalition. The run-offs are scheduled to take were Ukrainian Prime Minister vitaliy the Ukrainian SSR law on elections, the in contrast, Ukrainian Communist place on March 18 in accordance with Masol, Second Secretary of the CPU results must be published by the fifth Party leader volodymyr ivashko, a the law on elections, in multiple- Central Committee Stanislav Gurenko day after the balloting, that is, by March member of the ruling Soviet Politburo candidate races where no candidate and CPU Central Committee Secretary 9.) who stood against 11 other candidates won the required 50 percent plus one Leonid Kravchuk. The winners here included former in a hotly contested Kiev race, will face a vote to win, the two candidates who Despite predictions of voter apathy in political prisoners and leaders of the run-off against Democratic Bloc candi– received the highest number of votes Ukraine by Communist Party spokes- Ukrainian Helsinki Union, vyacheslav date Oleksiy Kvas. automatically move into the run-offs, in persons, as reported in some Western Chornovil, the brothers Mykhailo and Reuters reported on March 6 that which the candidate who receives the press, some 78 percent of voters re– Bohdan Horyn, Stepan Khmaraand three Communist Party secretaries in most votes wins (a majority is not re- portedly turned out to choose among Ukrainian Catholic rights activist iryna Donetske suffered humiliating defeats quired in the run-offs). the approximately 3,000 candidates Kalynets in Lviv Oblast, and UHU in that mining city, where miners on New elections will be held within a vying for seats in the new parliament. president Levko Lukianenko and Boh– strike since early March have been two-month period in seven districts in Democratic Bloc candidates have dan Rebryk in the city of ivano-Fran– demanding the resignations of all local five oblasts, where only two candidates also advanced into 20 of the 21 run-off kivske. Communist Party secretaries. were slated and neither drew the needed elections to be held in Kiev, where only Also winning seats were leaders of the According to TASS, only 112 depu– majority vote, according to TASS. one people's deputy was elected, vitaliy Popular Movement of Ukraine for ties were elected last Sunday out of the These include the chairman of the Karpenko, editor of the newspaper Perebudova, or Rukh, ivan Drach in 450 seats in the Ukrainian parliament. Dnipropetrovske and Kherson regional vechirniy Kiev, a progressive Commu– Lviv and volodymyr Yavorivsky in Run-off elections will have to be held in party executive committees, wrote nist supported by the Democratic Bloc, Kirovohrad Oblast, as well as represen– 331 districts, mostly in Kiev, Donetske, TASS. won in the Pryrichnyi District No. 14 in tatives of other public organizations Dnipropetrovske. Kharkiv and Yoro– Candidates backed by the Commu– the Ukrainian capital. Only limited results from the March 4 elections to Tysmenytskyi, Bohdan Rebryk (UHU) 12. runoff between Oleksander Serhiyenko (UHU) the Ukrainian SSR Supreme Soviet were provided by Nadvirnyi, Zinoviy Duma (DB) and Kondratiev (CPU) the Ukrainian Press Agency of London because the 13. runoff between Hryhoriy Musienko (DB) and complete results had not been provided by the Central ivano-Frankivske Oblast: ivan Saliy (progressive CPU) Election Commission in Kiev. Here is a list of winners 14. vitaliy Karpenko (editor of vechirniy Kiev, DB and run-off candidates by city and oblast: Rohatyn, Lubomyr Pyrih (DB) supported) Kalush, Mykola Holubets (DB) 15. runoff between Pavlo Kysliy (DB)and Kirichenko Lviv city: Kolomyia, Stepan Pushyk (DB) (CPU) Dolyna, Stepan volovetsiy (DB) 16. runoff between Oleksander Kotsiuba (DB) and District No. Sniatyn, Dmytro Zakharuk (DB) Tishchenko (CPU) 258, Orest viokh (leader of Lviv Rukh) 17. runoff between ivan Zayets (DB) and Nazarchuk 259, ivan Drach (president of Rukh) Ternopil city: (CPU) 260, Mykhailo Horyn (head of Rukh secretariat, UHU 18. runoff between Serhiy Holovaty (DB) and Borys leader) 363, Maria Kuzemko (oblast Memorial and Rukh Oliynyk (USSR Supreme Soviet) 261, Stepan Khmara (Lviv strike committee),67 per– leader) 19. runoff between ivan Palamar (DB) and Mokrusov (CPU) cent of vote Ternopil Oblast: 262, runoff including Bohdan Kotyk (mayor of Lviv, 20. runoff between volodymyr Shovkoshytny (DB) DB) and Chebunin (CPU) 263, ihor Yukhnovsky (Rukh representative) Berezhany, Levko Horokhivsky (head of oblast UHU) 21. runoff between Solopenko (DB supported) and 264, vyacheslav Chornovil (UHU leader, head of Pidvolochyske, Bohdan Boyko (oblast Rukh leader) voloshin (CPU) UNviS), 68.6 percent of vote Zboriv, Kateryna Zavadska (Rukh) 22. runoff between Yuriy Kostenko (DB) and Dro– Chortkiv, Myroslav Motiuk (Shevchenko Ukrainian botun(CPU) Lviv Oblast: Language Society)

Drohobych, Roman ivanychuk (Ukrainian Writers' Kiev city: Kharkiv city: Union) Sambir, ihor Derkach (UHU representative) District No. Batiushkov (Red Army) Chervonohrad, Bohdan Koziarsky (Democratic 1. runoff between Dmytro Poyizd (Rukh) and runoff between Sukhorukov (DB) and General Smyk Bloc) Larysa Skoryk (Rukh) (Red Army) Brody, Dmytro Chobit (DB) 2. runoff between Pavlo Movchan (Rukh) and Pish– runoff between Shcherbyna (oblast Rukh leader) and Drohobych, runoff including Yevhen Hryniv (head of chuk (CPU) Rakovsky (oblast Memorial leader) regional Memorial) 3. runoff between Les Taniuk (Memorial) and runoff between vovchenko (Rukh) and Levchenko Zhydachiv, Bohdan Horyn (head of Lviv UHU) viktor Teren (DB) runoff between Yurchenko (head of oblast Shev– Zolochiv, Mykola Shayka (DB) 4. runoff between Yuriy Zbigniev (DB supported) cher?ko Ukrainian Language Society) and Moskov Mykolayiv, iryna Kalynets (Myloserdia Society) and Dubinsky (CPU) runoff between Henrykh Altunian (Rukh) and ivantsov Mostyska, run-off between ivan Gel (Ukrainian Ca– 5. runoff between Oles Shevchenko (UHU) and runoff between Procurator Haysinsky (DB supported) tholic Church) and Stetskiv (UHU) Panova (CPU) and Lavrinenko Nesteriv, ihor Hryniv (DB) 6. runoff between Oleksiy Kvas (DB) and volo– runoff between valenia (progressive CPU) and Krol Pustomyty, Mykhailo Kosiv (Rukh) dymyr ivashko (CPU leader) runoff between Kushnarev (progressive CPU) and Sokal, Yaroslav Kendzior (UHU) 7. runoff between Yevhen Proniuk (UHU) and Starunov (Rukh) Staryi Sambir, ivan Makar (DB) Omelchenko (CPU) runoff between Zdorovy (UHU) and Bondarenko Turkiv, run-off between Yakiv Pohrebniak (oblast 8. runoff between Yuriy Hnatkevych (DB) and runoff between Kravtsiv (DB) and Sanin CPU first secretary) and Taras Paviuk (DB) Kozhanov (CPU) runoff between Hranev (DB) and Bozhensky 9. runoff between valeriy ivasiuk (DB) and Solda– runoff between valeriy Semyvolos (UHU) and Holo– ivano-Frankivske city: tenko (CPU) borodko 10. runoff between volodymyr Kryzhanivsky (DB) Zaliznychyi, Levko Lukianenko (UHU president), 54 and Salnikov (CPU) Kirovohrad Oblast: percent of vote 11. runoff between vegera (CPU) and Kaluzhny Tsentralnyi, Markian Chuchuk(DB) 56 percent of vote (CPU) ' Kyslovodsky, volodymyr Yavorivsky (Rukh)

Among those already elected ito Ukraine's new Supreme Soviet are Democratic Bloc candidates: Levko Lukianenko, Ukrainian Helsinki Union; volodymyr Yavorivsky, Rukh; Bohdan Horyn, UHU; iryna Stasiv Kalynets, Myloserdia Society; and Stepan Khmara, Lviv Strike Committee. 6 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, MARCH n,. 1990 No. 10

Ukrainian WeeHy NEWS AND viEWS Baltic model in Ukraine? Polish Ukrainians' congress Buoyed by early election returns in Ukraine that showed some major victories for the Democratic Bloc and a strong chance for many more in the revamps social-cultural society run-offs, the leaders of Rukh, the Popular Movement of Ukraine for Perebudova, on March 6 announced "to members of Rukh and to all citizens of by Bohdan Nahaylo The congress turned into a manifesta– Ukraine" their intention to create a formal opposition party that will press for tion of the resilence and vitality of the "real and final independence of Ukraine." WARSAW - Galvanized by the Poland's indomitable Ukrainians. With in an interview with a Reuters correspondent. І van Drach, chairman of democratic changes in Poland, the so many of them victims of the forcible Rukh, elucidated this point: "Our party will stand for the independence of 300,000-strong Ukrainian minority in deportations of 1947, hostility and Ukraine, for its political and social sovereignty. And at this stage the only way that country is finally raising its head. discrimination, the congress revealed to achieve this is to leave the Soviet Union." On February 24-25 an extraordinary that their spirit has not been broken. congress of the Ukrainian Social and What they seek is elementary justice Rukh's declaration that it intends to convene an extraordinary congress to Cultural Society, the main Ukrainian formulate a concept of Rukh as a political party, stated that, "Supported — condemnation and redress of the organization in Poland, took place in injustice committed against them - by Ukrainians and non-Ukrainians, by all honest citizens of the republic, the Warsaw, it was called by an initiative Popular Movement of Ukraine for Perebudova at this historic moment respect for their national rights, and the group of activists dedicated to demo– opportunity to live in harmony with should assume responsibility in the struggle for the fate of the Ukrainian cratizing and revamping the society. nation and all nations that live on its lands." their Polish neighbors. "it has become clear: as long as one party exists with one center for all the The spirit of renewal and democracy Quite a few of the speakers complain– nations of the USSR, there will exist national, social and spiritual oppression. was evident from the candid and vi– ed about the way that the authorities in ...A multi-party system ...is the sole guarantee of a democratic state and the gorous debate, from the number of Kiev have ignored the Ukrainian сопь development of society," says the declaration signed by 15 Rukh leaders. The guests from the Polish side, from munity living in Poland. The deputy proposal to transform Rukh, currently registered as a public political Ukraine and from the Ukrainian dias– head of the Ukraina Society, Stanisiav organization, into a full-fledged party, will be put to a vote at a March 25 pora, from the ubiquitous blue and Lazebnyk, acknowledged that this had meeting of its Grand Council yellow flags and tridents, and the indeed been the case. He asked for is Rukh — and with it Ukraine — headed down the Baltic path with trail- presence of so many young people, forgiveness and understanding, pledging blazer Lithuania leading the way? especially student activists. that from now on things would be it was Sajudis, a popular front reform organization, that captured the Among the numerous guests who different. hearts and minds of the citizens of Lithuania and rapidly grew into a spoke were the veteran Polish democra– tic activist and now Poland's minister of The congress decided to change the formidable force. Next, it must be recalled, came the establishment of an name of the society to the Association independent Lithuanian Communist Party. The same may happen in labor, Jacek Kuron; Rukh's deputy leader vitaliy Donchyk: the secretary of of Ukrainians in Poland (Obiednannia Ukraine. As Mr. Drach pointed out, "1 think the formation of a Rukh party Ukraintsiv v Polshchi). it elected a new might well influence radical Communists to push towards building a the Ukrainian Language Society, Yuriy Ohulchansky; the poet Natalka Poklad leadership headed by Dr. Yuriy Reyt, a Communist Party independent from Moscow, as they have done in veterinary surgeon. Lithuania." from the Ukrainian Writers' Union; Askold Lozynskyj from the World A rousing concert on the theme of the Sajudis thus far has 90 of 116 seats in Lithuania's new Parliament (run-offs Congress of Free Ukrainians; and Sichovi Striltsi by the celebrated Ne are to be held this weekend), and it is expected that the Parliament will declare volodymyr Mokry, a Ukrainian scho– Zhurys theatre group from Lviv pro– the republic's independence as early as today, March 11. in Ukraine, the lar and publicist, who last year was vided a fitting end to what might well Democratic Bloc, which includes Rukh members, will not have a majority in elected a deputy to the Polish Sejm on turn out to be a historic turning point the Ukrainian SSR's new Supreme Soviet. Eventually, however, it is expected the Solidarity state. for Ukrainians in Poland. to have a significant minority — some 25 to 30 percent of the seats. That minority, coupled with reformist Communists and others who have begun to hear the ever louder voice of the people in Ukraine will play a crucial Polish Parliament member Mokry role in determining the future course of Ukraine — a future that may now include independence in the foreseeable future. addresses D.C. prayer breakfast WASHINGTON - volodymyr flowers. Let us not trample each others' March Mokry, a Ukrainian national rights new gardens. Let us have compassion Turning the pages hack... activist, who was elected a member of for all people, especially the suffering, the Polish Parliament last year and a without regard for nationality, race or long-time member of Solidarity, was creed. As a Slav, one of 50 million recently invited to the National Prayer Ukrainians, and a member of the Polish Ukraine's greatest poet, Taras Shevchenko, whom many Breakfast in the nation's capital Parliament, who has a particular re– hail as not only a literary genius, but also as a national hero The 1990 National Prayer Breakfast, sponsibility to defend universal values, І who gave voice to a nation's aspirations for freedom, died on held on February 1, was attended by ask your prayers for the victims of March 10, 1861. representatives from over 140 nations. totalitarianism: According to Pavlo Zaitsev's "Taras Shevchenko: A Life," the conditions of The honored guests were President ^ for the martyrs of the Ukrainian Shevchenko's life were not conducive to good health: he had been a free man for George Bush and his wife, Barbara. Autocephalous Orthodox Church, only 12 and a half years, and his life was full of traumas, both physical and spiritual, This year's meeting numbered 3,000 destroyed in the 1920s, for those of the and tragic experiences. While "Shevchenko emerged from his suffering participants, including delegations Russian Orthodox Church, and of all psychologically unbroken," the biographer writes, "his physical health was severely from Poland, Hungary, Yugoslavia, other Churches in the Soviet Union; undermined." Romania, Estonia and Russia. ^ for the executed writers and leaders Zaitsev gives the following account of Shevchenko's last days. No representatives from Ukraine of the Ukrainian cultural revival of the were present, however, Dr. Mokry 1920s- 1930s. underscored the plight of Ukrainians in ^ for the 7 million peasants who a message he passed along to President starved to death in the artificial famine By the end of December i860 the poet was quite ill. On doctor's orders he Bush, the text of which follows. during the forced collectivizatic a cam– remained at home, and reconciled himself to his "imprisonment." ... paign in Ukraine in 1932-1933; Although he felt very ill, the poet continued to welcome visitors. The Russian 9 for the Polish officers executed in writerLeskov, who came from Kiev, found him in great pain. He was unable to leave Katyn; his small bedroom. "His whole being," wrote Leskov later, "was terribly sick." Please accept an expression of my ^ for the murdered who lie in the Shevchenko complained of pain in his chest and heavy coughing. "1 shall perish," reflections and hopes that have been mass graves discovered in Kuropaty in he said to Leskov, "but enough of that - tell me what's going on in Ukraine." He inspired by the preliminary fellowship Byelorussia; was still talking of going there, "for П1 perish if 1 stay here."... meetings and the National Prayer ^ for the 10 martyred bishops, 400 Saturday, February 25, was both Shevchenko's birthday and his name-day, Breakfast. І trust that you understand priests and 800 nuns, and tens of Mykhailo Lazarevsky was the first of the well-wishers to arrive, early in the deeply and support these aspirations. thousands of faithful who perished after morning. He found Shevchenko in great pain: he had not slept the entire night, and І will always return to these moving Stalin's attempted liquidation of the because of chest pains he was unable to lie down. Now he was sitting up in bed, days which we have shared, mutually Ukrainian Catholic Church in 1946. Let leaning on the mattress with his hands and breathing heavily.... Soon Dr. Bari ap– warmed by the love of Christ, so us pray that this Church that has peared. He examined the poet and told Lazarevsky that there was no hope left: fluid typified in Washington by our multi- tenaciously survived with 5 million had entered the lungs. ... lingual rendition of the ageless carol members wins the right for a legal ...At six o'clock a Polish doctor, Kruniewicz, came. He had known Shevchenko "Silent Night." New hope for the existence. in exile. This excellent physician was unable to help the poet, whose condition had fruitfulness of our shared efforts is Let us pray that the Lord born for again deteriorated. He found it difficult to speak. At nine o'clock the two doctors called forth by the image of the multi- all peoples and received by volodymyr held a consultation but could not think of any remedy. Fluid was flooding the colored garden that bloomed during in Kiev 1,000 years ago arise amidst the lungs. ... our historical spring of 1989, which on Chornobyl of Ukrainian culture and T)ie night passed agonizingly slowly. At five in the morning Taras called the May 3 in Krakow, on the anniversary of ecology, so that in the words of the servant and asked for a cup of tea with milk. After drinking it he said to the servant: the Polish Constitution, 1 called a Ukrainian carol "earth and heaven may "Freshen up my bed and ill walk downstairs." On the stairs, he fell His last hour spring of free nations in Central- become one." had come and his heart stopped beating. The twenty-sixth of February (March 10 Eastern Europe. May the bounty of God be known in according to the new calendar) became a day of national mourning in Ukraine. God gives growth and tends to all (Continued on page 15) No. 10 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, MARCH n, 1990

Orthodox-Roman Catholic dialogue and evaluating Eastern Catholicism

by Borys A. Gudziak model of "sister Churches" in one precipitated a massive exodus of faith– elaborated throughout almost a century universal catholic communion centuries ful from their Church but also contri– of systematic and persistent spiritual, A subcommission of the interna– ago, the Eastern Catholic Churches buted to the predominance of Wester– intellectual, pastoral and ecumenical tional Orthodox-Roman Catholic dia– fully intended to preserve their ecclesial nizing currents in the Byzantine Catho– effort and forged by adversity unpa– logue recently met in vienna, Austria. A identity and thereby bring to life preci– licism, the very phenomenon implicitly ralleled in Christian history, contri– main topic on the agenda of the delibe– sely the model of unity suggested by the condemned by the subcommission. buted greatly to the consciousness rations, held on January 26-31, was the Roman Catholic-Orthodox subcom– To be sure, Western influences also embodied in the ecclesiological and status and role of the Eastern Catholic mission (rather than the integrating contributed to the life of the Eastern ecumenical documents of vatican П Churches in Orthodox-Catholic rela– model). Catholic Churches. The rich Roman and to the renewal of the Eastern tions. The subcommission, chaired Because of relative institutional, Catholic experience in the pastoral Catholicism. jointly by Greek Orthodox Archbishop intellectual, and yes, at times moral ministries and education and the well- Though not yet fully studied and Stylianos of Australia and Archbishop weaknesses, exacerbated in turn by very developed social consciousness of We– appreciated, Sheptytsky's and Slipyj's Edward 1. Cassidy of the Pontifical complex political, economic, and social stern Catholicism galvanized the concepts and principles constitute a Council for Promoting Christian Unity, factors, the Eastern Catholic Churches, Eastern Catholic Churches. The endu– blueprint for the future life not only of studied the historical and theological became a veritable minority within the rance of the Ukrainian Catholic Church the Ukrainian Catholic Church but development of Eastern Catholic Catholic Church, with all of the conse– despite decades of relentless persecu– also, mutatis mutandis, for the life of Churches. The subcommission state– quences of such a status. They have not tion and the fact that throughout the other Eastern Catholic Churches. No ment issued in preparation for the always succeeded in maintaining their post–World War 11 period up to one serious Catholic-Orthodox dialogue international dialogue commission traditional spirituality, liturgical life, fifth of all of the Orthodox Churches in can ignore this blueprint. meeting in Munich, West Germany, in and canonical discipline and have often the whole Soviet Union and 40 percent in vienna, Roman Catholics and June said that "the search for unity failed in articulating a clear and cohe– of all seminarians in the three Orthodox Orthodox met to discuss and evaluate should have as its model that of sister rent ecclesial consciousness and vision. seminaries (Moscow, Leningrad and the Byzantine Catholic experiment. Churches" as opposed to the integrated A hybrid theological and liturgical Odessa) came from regions which until Would it not be wise to ask the Byzan– model of the Eastern Catholic Churches. identity has burdened some of the the suppressions of 1946 were Eastern tine Catholics what they think of their Much progress has been made Eastern Catholic Churches for a good Catholic, demonstrate that religious life historical road, present situation and through the systematic and careful part of their history. in the Ukrainian Catholic Church was future role? One can be sure that having work by specialists in ecumenical rela– At different times the weakness of strong, notwithstanding the lack of a endured the horrors of Stalinist perse– tions. it is on the basis of the work of Eastern Catholic Churches was passive– fully articulated and theoretically con– cution, Eastern Catholicism will not be such commissions that far-reaching ly or actively exploited in the Catholic sistent ecclesial identity. simply opined out of existence by a policy decisions are made, it is in light communion, further escalating Ortho– Like all Christian communities, commission of periti, neither now nor in of its importance that two points in this dox fears. Organic and life-giving theo– Eastern Catholics must continually the future. The strength and resilience dialogue are particularly dissonant and logical, liturgical and even cultural reflect on the mystery of the Church. gained during a half century of unmiti– merit further reflection. The first is the traditions and canonical disciplines, not One issue with which many of the gated oppression, if nothing else, will fact that Roman Catholics and Ortho– in disharmony with the Catholic faith Eastern Catholic Churches are still carry Ukrainian Catholics for a long dox are meeting to discuss Eastern and in many cases adopted by Roman struggling is "how is an Eastern Church time. Catholic Churches without participa– Catholics during the Second vatican to be Catholic and maintain an Eastern tion of Eastern Catholics in the dialo– Council (the ecclesiology of particular identity in the Catholic communion, so But spiritual momentum is not the gue. The second is the call of the or individual Churches within the dominated numerically and theologi– only asset of this Byzantine Catholic Orthodox delegates, refering to a state– Catholic communion, episcopal colle– cally by Roman Catholics?" They have Church, it has come to know itself more ment of the Pan-Orthodox Conference giality, priestly concelebration, just to been struggling with this question for a deeply and this well-grounded self of Rhodes, for the abolition of Eastern name a few) were thoughtlessly ridi– long time, it behooves all who approach awareness will gradually emerge when Catholic Churches and their amalgama– culed, discouraged, or suppressed in this issue not only to observe and the drama and euphoria of the present tion into the Roman Catholic or Ortho– order that Byzantine Catholics might evaluate the experience of the Eastern upheavals has passed. Already, the dox Churches. assimilate to their Western brothers and Catholics but also to ask them about it underground Church has spoken un– Many Orthodox leaders are worried sisters. This approach extended to most directly. equivocally about two fundamental about the recent resurgence of an spheres of church life. The realizations and self-criticism ecclesiological points, in effect express– evidently vibrant Ukrainian Catholic in the 18th century even a "Roman here expressed are painful for any ing a clear if not fully elaborated Church, the largest of the Eastern Catholic" (Polish) language came to be Eastern Catholic, especially for a com– ecclesiological identity: 1. it recognizes Catholic Churches, which the Ortho– used in sermons in Ruthenian or mitted one. They are not, however, the pope as its head. 2. it considers itself dox consider brothers and sisters ab– Ukrainian Catholic Churches. The original. For most of this century such a an Eastern Church, one of the many sorbed into the Catholic Church, in results of such well-intentioned but critique, forthright but always loving, Churches in the Catholic communion. 1946 Stalin unsuccessfully tried to frequently misguided assistance ren– has catalyzed the work of two visionary it may not be surprising that this abolish the Ukrainian Catholic Church dered to the backward Easterners were leaders of the Ukrainian Catholic adamant proclamation falls on deaf by imprisoning the hierarchy, forcing often not very positive, in this country, Church, Metropolitan Andrey Shep– ears of some American and European some clergy and faithful into the the forcible imposition of general tytsky (metropolitan 1900-1944) and Roman Catholics and Orthodox. The Russian Orthodox Church, and driving celibacy of Byzantine Catholic clergy at Patriarch and Cardinal Josyf Slipyj underground Church has not had the the rest into the underground. the beginning of this century not only (1944-1984). Their ideas and reforms, (Continued on page 12) Although the Ukrainian Catholic Church still has no legal status, a few dozen of its parishes have been officially Pssst, freedom: an editorial cartoonist's view registered and hundreds of others, many which for 40 years had been under Russian Orthodox jurisdiction, are effectively functioning and recognize the underground hierarchy. The Ortho– dox world perceives the rebirth of the Ukrainian Catholic Church not only as a threat to numerical and fiscal strength but also as a revival of a Catholic- Orthodox miscellany. Many Ukrainian Catholics them– selves recognize and have long agonized over the problems and even paradoxes that have been part of the history of the Eastern Catholic Churches. (Ukrainian Catholics constitute the largest Eastern Catholic Church. They, along with Melchites, ltalo– Albanians and a num– ber of smaller groups, are Catholics of the Byzantine Rite. There are other Eastern Catholics -– Maronites, Arme– nians, Chaldeans, and others — not of the Byzantine Rite.) Separated from their Orthodox brothers with whom they have so much in common, Eastern Catholics suffer acutely the divisions among Christians. Having recognized Rome with the hope of following the Borys A. Gudziak, a doctoral candi– date in East Slavic cultural and eccle– siasiical history at Harvard University, is currently a fellow at Dumbarton . Oaks in Washington^ The cartoon-"above?, which appeared in The Ottawa Citizen, is reprinted with permission of the artist, A!an King. 8 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, MARCH І І, 1990 No. 10 "Thank you for not forgetting us," citizens of Ukraine tei

by Roma Hadzewycz

JERSEY C1TY, N.J. - Recently returned from a good will mission delivering medical supplies and foodstuffs to Ukraine, three representatives of the Children of Chornobyl Relief Fund say they are overwhelmed by their emotional meetings in Kiev, Lviv and towns near the site of the 1986 Chornobyl nuclear accident. Prof. Taras Hunczak and Dr. Zenon Matkiwsky, chairman and first vice-chair- man, respectively, of the fund, and Nadia Matkiwsky, one of the fund's public relations committee volunteers, told editors of The Ukrainian Weekly and Svoboda that peo^– in Ukraine had been awaiting assistance f their kinsmen abroad and that they repea, ly said, "Thank you for not forgetting us." Traveling with Prof. Hunczak and Dr. and Mrs. Matkiwsky were irene Labenskyj, also of the CCRF, and Dr. Jaroslaw Shudrak, vice- president of the Canadian Friends of Rukh. Their cargo plane, an Antonov-124 pro– vided by the government of the Ukrainian SSR - carried 93 tons of medicines, vita– mins, medical equipment, food, clothing and soap. Some 30 tons of that total had been collected in Canada and trucked to New York's Kennedy international Airport by two tractor-trailers. Upon arrival in Kiev at Boryspil Airport on Monday, February 12, the transport was greeted by a couple of hundred persons Children of Chernobyl Relief Fund and Canadian Friends of Rukh representatives, Nadia Matkiwsky, irene Labenskyj and waving blue and yellow flags and bearing the Dr. Jaroslaw Shudrak, during a visit to a Kiev orphanage. traditional Ukrainian welcome of bread and

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Youths greet the relief transport at Kiev's Boryspil airport. Dr. Jaroslaw Shudrak address press conference at the airport. Seated on the right is Prof Taras Hunczak salt. Among the crowd were many children, as well as officials of the Ukrainian SSR government and the Popular Movement of Ukraine for Perebudova, or Rukh. Official greetings were proffered by Kon– stantyn Masyk, vice-chairman of the Ukrai– nian SSR Council of Ministers; Yuriy Spi– zhenko, the republic's minister of health; І.Н Usichenko, head of the Red Cross Society; USSR People's Deputy volodymyr Yavoriv– sky; ivan Drach, chairman of Rukh; and Dmytro Pavlychko, head of the Taras Shev– chenko Ukrainian Language Society. A press conference followed at the air with many correspondents of the republic ь all-union press, as well as reporters from France and Austria attending. That evening, both Ukrainian and USSR television aired footage about the arrival of the relief trans– , port. Other press conferences followed at the Ministry of Health and at the Rukh head- quarters in Kiev. Distribution of relief supplies The 93-ton cargo, valued at S4 million, was transferred from the Antonov aircraft to warehouses in Kiev where it was sorted and divided into five parts, each headed for a different destination. Relief supplies were then taken to Narodychi and Ovruch, two Welcoming committee in Lviv, led by Mayor Bohdan Kotyk, including citizens and peopled deputies! areas most severely affected by radiation due No. 10 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, MARCH І І , 1990 9 lief effort organizers Children of Chornobyl' depict tragedy

Chornobyl accident, Kiev, Lviv and the Costs of relief transport region, which also is suffering the of above-normal levels of radioacti– Prof. Hunczak stressed that the relief transport thus far has cost only 533,000 - the 1F and Friends of Rukh representa– bulk of that amount, S21,000, being spent on md Minister of Health Spizhenko all 20 tons of powdered milk purchased at a great )d with the relief supplies to ensure that discount. Other expenses were 55,000 for ere properly distributed. However, due syringes, 53,000 for vitamins, 53,000 for distance and lack of time, the American shipping and 51,000 for hotel accommoda– madian Ukrainians did not accompany tions for the crew of 19 required on the ipment to the Rivne area. Antonov-124. ) ultrasound diagnostic units brought To date, he underlined, neither the Chil– the U.S. were presented to the areas dren of Chornobyl Relief Fund nor the they were most needed: Narodychi and Canadian Friends of Rukh has paid any fuel iernihiv Oblast. costs, though it had been previously indi– le i– 4he Ukrainian capital, the group cated by both Ukrainian SSR representatives S No. 170, half of whose student and CCRF spokespersons that fuel would itiv . 1,000 includes children re- cost approximately 552,000. out of areas affected by fallout from hornobyl accident. They learned also The CCRF chairman said that, in fact, the total of 8,000 children from affected five persons who had traveled with the relief have been relocated to Kiev and transport did not have to pay for their return ns. As well, the group visited a Kiev airfare to the U.S. in addition, food for the nage that cares for orphaned and crew and passengers flying aboard the cargo oned children. plane was donated by Stuyvesant Meats. Prof. Hunczak emphasized the coopera– Children of Chornobyl tion of the Ukrainian SSR Ministry of Health and the republic's Supreme Soviet on this Matkiwsky explained that the "chil– project initiated by Rukh. He added that of Chornobyr suffer from various Minister Spizhenko had pledged to make its, ranging from cataracts and pan- statistics on ailing children available and is to leukemia, and display symptoms noted, "He stated to us that the cover-up of s nosebleeds, bloody stools and general Chornobyl is a thing of the past." iess and malaise. He cautioned that the ies now being observed are just the Next shipment ling, as the peak effects of the Chor– nuclear accident are expected to be seen in conclusion, the CCRF spokesperons years after the accident, that is, in 1993. noted that another relief shipment is planned further noted that statistics on the for April, which will mark the fourth anni– er of persons ill as a result of Chornobyl versary of the Chornobyl nuclear accident. it are not available, for the Soviet iment had ordered a cover-up of the Mrs. Matkiwsky expressed appreciation to ent's consequences. Now, however, all who had helped make this first relief nian Health Ministry officials have shipment a reality, in particular, she cited a sed be forthright about the true crews of office volunteers for the CCRF, tv he disaster. And, realizing that Martha Andriuk, Lesia Baranetsky, valerie nsc -xes of the accident are so grave Burachinsky, Tanya vena, Olenka Yurchuk, he Ukrainian SSR alone cannot deal Yara Snylyk, Mary Stasiuk and Katherine hem, Dr. Matkiwsky said the govern– Wolowodiuk; Diana Hynansky for financial is now willing to accept outside assis– and organization support; Orest Lebed for invaluable assistance in facilitating shipping of cargo; Phil Abbate of Circle Air and Mike m example of its inability to respond to iwanoczko of Bonafide Delivery; as well as eds of the ailing populace, Dr. Matkiw– "countless other people too numerous to list." ted the government's allocation of a 15 vitamin pills per year for each child. How to help j. Matkiwsky added that she found :rs of ailing children were most thankful Persons interested in helping the Children Ї assistance from the United States and of Chornobyl Relief Fund financially or la, and the visit by representatives of the otherwise may contact the CCRF at 272 Old ren of Chornobyl Relief Fund and Short Hills Road, Short Hills, N.J. 07078; lian Friends of Rukh. Mrs. Matkiwsky (201) 376-5140. Donations to the CCRF may 4 They told us, We knew ail along that also be sent c^o Ukrainian National Asso– Drawings made by pupils of Kiev School No. 170 depict the Chornobyl tragedy. anted to help but the government would ciation, 30 Montgomery St., Jersey City, N.J. The captions say: (Top) Let us live peacefully. We want to live, not die. (Center) low it.' " 07302. Evacuate Narodychi. (Bottom) We want to live.

Dr. Zenon Matkiwsky, first vice-chairman of the Children of Chornobyl Relief Father, infant daughter in U.S. for treatment Fund, returned from Ukraine with two traveling companions: 37-year-old vasyliy Kavasiuk and his 6-month-old daughter, Maria, who are both ill as a result of the Chornobyl nuclear accident. Mr. Kavasiuk, a composer and orchestra conductor, has been suffering from eye ailments he developed after being forced to work 91 days on the Chornobyl clean-up crew. His baby daughter is believed to have leukemia. Both are currently undergoing tests and treatment at New Jersey hospitals - Mr. Kavasiuk at Union Hospital in Union, where Dr. Matkiwsky is chief of surgery, and Maria at Beth israel Hospital in Newark, where she is under the care of a pediatric oncologist. Dr. Matkiwsky told The Star-Ledger, New Jersey's largest newspaper, about the circumstances surrounding the Kavasiuks' arrival in the U.S. for medical treatment. "When 1 arrived (in Kiev), 1 met with a lot of mothers, fathers and children. He (Mr. Kavasiuk) was one of them who told his story, and 1 sort of thought that since the (baby's) leukemia was in the early stages we could do something," he said. Dr. Matkiwsky also reported that Mr. and Mrs. Kavasiuk had lost their first daughter to leukemia at the age of 16 months. Mr. Kavasiuk and Maria have been granted permission for a 42-day visit, but they may extend their stay if needed. Meanwhile, Dr. Matkiwsky and his wife, Nadia, who are hosting the Kavasiuks, are currently attempting to bring Mrs. Kavasiuk to the United States. Soviet authorities did not want to allow Mrs. Kavasiuk to make the journey to the United States with her family, even though Mariais only 6 months old and is still being Yasylly and Maria Kavasiuk with Dr. Zenon Matkiwsky. breastfed, Mrs. Matkiwsky pointed out. THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, MARCH І І , 1990 No. 10

who struggle for the renewal of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic for the issued by the All-Ukrainian Orthodox Ukrainian Orthodox... Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox legalization of their Church, a Church Ecclesiastical Brotherhood on an anni– (Continued from page 3) Church - sanctions which have mani– forcibly liquidated by Stalin in 1946. versary of the unification of Ukrainian nians in Ukraine to have returned to fested themselves in prohibitions to We rejoiced when, after a prolonged territories: them all those churches which had perform pastoral functions, the de– period of complete suppression, the 'Our descendants will not forgive us, been confiscated during the Stalin frocking of individuals from their Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox if we cease to preserve the national and regime, especially the Kievan St. Sophia priestly offices, as well as in their Church, a Church also brutally liqui– spiritual unity bequeathed to us by our Cathedral. anathematization. dated by Stalin in this century, began to forefathers. Let us not sow dragon's The sobor, which is the highest go– ^ The delegates of the extraordinary spring to new life. We have been and teeth nor the seeds of hatred, but in verning body of the Ukrainian Auto– sobor deplore the inter-confessional continue to be hopeful that these two fraternal Christian love let us apply cephalous Orthodox Church, called on conflict which broke out between the Ukrainian Churches, having reclaimed ourselves to the task to establishing our the leadership of the UAOC in the Ukrainian Catholics and Orthodox their right for legal existence, will nation and our Ukrainian Churches! United States to centralize its efforts in Ukrainians of Galicia last year. The peacefully dispense the Word of God's And may there be no geographical assisting the movement for the renewal sobor denounces all efforts exerted by Truth to their faithful. partition between our native Churches, of the UAOC and keep its parishes and the Soviet authorities not only to We, Orthodox Ukrainians, have re– so as not to enable Rome and Moscow faithful informed of the situation in sustain but to enhance this conflict by mained faithful to a declaration issued to divide Ukraine amongst themselves... Ukraine, and when the need arises and disseminating provocative statements during the first holy Sobor of Bishops of Let us remember the ^Ukrainian) pro- when conditions are favorable to dis– about the members of the clergy and the Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthe– verb: if coercion enters through your patch an official delegation from the faithful of the UAOC. The sobor dox Church outside of Ukraine, which door today, you may be certain that the UAOC in the West to the representa– furthermore condemns the undelibe– was held fin GermanyJ in 1947, where, enemy will be in your house tomorrow tive body of the reborn UAOC in rate steps taken by some Ukrainian at the motion of His Grace Bishop Therefore, let us united.' Ukraine for the purpose of gathering Catholic groups geared against the Mstyslav, the sobor adopted the follow– May the all-unifying grace of Divine first-hand information on its life, renewal of the UAOC in Galicia. Our ing resolution: Love be with us all! activities and needs. position, however, is equivalent to the "We express our deepest sympathy to The Presidium of the Extraordinary Other resolutions issued at the sobor position taken by international confe– the hierarchs, priests and faithful of the Sobor of the Ukrainian Orthodox include a statement on the relationship rences an questions relative to the Ukrainian Greek-Greek Catholic Church of the U.S.A.: between the Russian Orthodox Church freedom of one's conscience; this posi– Church on the occasion of the forcible and the UAOC in Ukraine, and the tion maintains that everyone has at any liquidation of the Ukrainian Greek- tMstyslav, Metropolitan, Ukrainian Greek Catholics and the place and at any time the right to profess Catholic Church in Galicia and the tConstantine, Archbishop, f Antony, UAOC in Ukraine, which state: that faith and belong to that Church incorporation of said Church into the Bishop, tPaisiy, Bishop, ^ The Extraordinary Sobor of the which is most agreeable to him. structure of the Russian Orthodox very Rev. Archimandrite Andriy Ukrainian Orthodox Church in the Concentrating on more technical Church. Partykevich, very Rev. Protopresbyter U.S.A. condemns the imperialistic and plans for the Ukrainian Orthodox "To those of our brothers and sisters Bohdan Zelechiwsky, chauvinist policies of the Russian Church in the U.S.A. the sobor also who found themselves outside of our valentyna Kuzmycz, president of the Orthodox Church, which for over 300 issued resolutions commending the homeland enslaved by Moscow we United Ukrainian Orthodox Sister- years had held captive the Orthodox operations of the radio program "Уоісе declare our fraternal Christian love." hoods of the USA, Church of the Ukrainian people and of the Ukrainian Autocephalous Ortho– However, our joy over the Great Emil Skocypec, president of the which stubbornly declines to accord dox Church," which provides spiritual Rebirth was quickly stifled by the Ukrainian Orthodox League of the Orthodox Ukrainians the right to pray in support for faithful in Ukraine and unexpected outbreak of an inter-confes– USA, Jurij Hiltajczuk. their native Church with its age-old which is scheduled to grow into a sional conflict between Ukrainian principles of independence, synodality Ukrainian Orthodox Broadcasting Greek-Catholics and Orthodox Ukrai– February 2, 1990 and service to the people; with peculiari– Center in Washington, transmitting nians in Galicia. Unfortunately, this Center of St. Andrew the First-Called ties in its liturgical services, spiritual from a more powerful broadcasting conflict does not subside, but continues Apostle, South Bound Brook, N.J. culture, and tradition that were formed station, as well as the establishment of a to irritate the wounds on the already over many centuries. The sobor partici– Ukrainian Orthodox information Bu– maimed body of Mother Ukraine. pants condemn, as contrary to the spirit reau in Washington. We are convinced that the majority of Rukh protests... of Christian teachings, the sanctions in addition, resolutions were passed the Ukrainian people would like to see (Continued from page 2) which, the Holy Synod of the Russian expressing gratitude to Archbishop an end put to this conflict. We are chev is not possible. Orthodox Church enacted against those Constantine and the very Rev. Frank convinced that this conflict was insti– "Consequently, until a number c Estocin for formulation of new amend– gated and is being fueled by a handful of political parties are formed and ttk ments and additions to the Constitu– fanatics, whose cause is supported by tradition of inter-party struggle and the tion of the UOC of the U.S.A. The attacks, provocations and disinforma– solving of conflicts are learned, 1 believe sobor also discussed the intention to tion emanating from the atheist regime that the introduction of a presidential establish a global Ukrainian Orthodox and the Russian Orthodox Church, form of government is inopportune." Clergy Fund for future needs, and which is hostile to us. it is widely expected that Soviet appealed to the very Rev. Archiman– Do not fall prey to these insidious leader and party chief Mikhail Gorba– drite Andriy Partykevich to agree to provocations! Disregard all appeals chev will be elected president of the accept episcopal consecration. calling you to go against your Orthodox USSR. in conclusion, the Extraordinary brethren! Do not give any credence to Sobor of the Ukrainian Orthodox the misleading and slanderous untruths Church in the U.S.A. honored the being disseminated about the Ukrainian Friends of Rukh... memories of the recently deceased Autocephalous Orthodox Church. Fight (Continued from page 4) Archbishop Wolodymyr, Protopres– for your rights, but do not trample upon meeting, S20,000 had been collected for byters Jurij Huley and Andrew Beck, as the rights of those who voluntarily and Rukh, including a S 1,000 donation by well as Petro Cholodny, co-designer of out of personal conviction decided to Petro vtorak. the Memorial Church in South Bound join the reborn Ukrainian Autoce– Sophia Kachor of the nominating Brook. phalous Orthodox Church. Let us keep committee presented a slate of officers Below, is the appeal of the extraordi– to the principle to which all civilized who, with additional committees and nary sobor to the Greek Catholic people adhere, namely the principle individuals nominated from the floor, brethren in Ukraine, titled "A House regarding religious freedom which was were elected to the board as follows: Dr. Divided Cannot Stand." adopted by many international confe– Rozumnyj, president; Dr. Jaroslaw rences and ratified by the legal codex of Barwinsky and Dr. Tarnawecky, vice- SM^ many countries — a principle, accord– presidents; Ms. Kachor, secretary; Dr. ing to which everyone has the right to Ostap Hawaleshka, treasurer. Dear Brothers and Sisters: profess his faith and pray at any time Committee chairpersons are: Oksana Last year was a year of great up– and at any place in a fashion dictated by Shulakewych (information); Stephan heaval in the life of the Ukrainian his conscience. Korbutiak (events); Nestor Mudry (fund-raising); Yurij Hwozdulycl people in their homeland. Most promi– A house divided cannot stand1 All of (planning); Dr. Barwinsky, (medical); nent among them was the irrepressible Ukraine should be shared by all Ukrai– Dr. Tarnowecky (ecological); Dr. national and religious rebirth. We, nians regardless of their opinions, Oleh Gerus, (culturaiyeducational); Orthodox Ukrainians in the free world, inclinations and religious beliefs. And Petro Danyliuk, (Ukrainian press ex– rejoiced in the courageous struggle of may we all adopt as our motto an appeal charige); Lydia Hawryshkiw and, Marko Suprun (students and youth). Board members are: Andrij Kachor, Orysia Tracz, Marko Minenko. Zenon Krucko. Auditing committee members are: Dr. Yuriy Knysh, the Rev. Dr. A. Baran, the Rev. Dr. S. Jarrmis. GLASNOST Dr. Rozumnyj closed the meeting with appreciation to those who had contributed to its success, and thanked W. Cap, president of Pros vita Readmg Association, for providing the facilities gratis. The meeting closed witi the members of Winnipeg Friends of Rukh singing the Ukrainian national-anthem. No. 10 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, MARCH H, 1990 11 Kozaks and cowboys: the story of Ukrainian Dancers of Dallas by Anne Andriaschko and Erica Nakonechnyj

DALLAS — imagine a country where Kozaks rode wildly across prairies and open land. Where the wind blows swiftly across fields that stretch for miles, imagine a river flowing vigorously through mountainous ter– rain. Think of a place where the Kozaks are fearless, carry swords, wear boots, belts, and hats...cowboy hats, imagine: cowboys and Kozaks? Look no further han Dallas, Texas: Texas, a state jnger than the Dnieper River; Texas, where the summers are hotter than baba's kitchen; Texas; home of the Ukrainian Dancers of Dallas.

Roots in Bicentennial

The idea of forming a Ukrainian dance group in Dallas was first conceived in 1976 by a Ukrainian American gentle- man named Alex Bezney. Mr. Bezney worked with several youths of his church parish to present a program of authentic Ukrainian dances. The 1976 American Bicentennial year was the debut of the group at the annual Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. They were received with such enthu– siasm that he continued his work. A Ukrainian dance number - Texas-style - reflects the belief of the Ukrainian Dancers of Dallas that Kozaks and cowboys The dance group attracted many had much in common. talented dancers, including those of Ukrainian as well as non-Ukrainian heritage, in fact, today only 50 percent .of the entire group is actually Ukrai– nian. The other dancers are involved because of their love and respect for the nationality and its dance. in 1980, the group became known as he Ukrainian Dancers of Dallas. This ms the best way of emphasizing that the group was, and still is, the only Ukrainian dance group in Dallas, and one of two known to exist in Texas. The Ukrainian Dancers of Dallas perform mainly in the Texas area. Their performance schedule includes such respected functions as the State Fair of Texas, the Dallas international Bazaar, Fort Worth Oktoberfest and the Texas^ Folklife Festival, where they are now considered to be one of the premier performing groups. The group would also like to extend its performing area out of the state, and by doing so, become ambassadors for all Ukrainians in other areas of the country. The current director of the group is Erica Nakonechnyj, a first-generation The Ukrainian Dancers of Dallas perform at.,.Oktoberfest. American and has been a member of the dance group since its inception in 1976. "The Ukrainian Dancers of Dallas charter is very simple: To educate our community about the Ukrainian heri– tage in the best manner we possibly can - and that is through dance. Even 'hough the majority of the dancers are ot from Ukrainian backgrounds, there is a constant sense of respect for the heritage; it is almost as if we are an extended family striving for the same cause," says Ms. Nakonechnyj. The group consists of approximately 22 senior members and 12 junior mem– bers ranging in age from 4 to 44. Unlike many Ukrainian dance group members in Canada and the Northeastern United States, most of the dancers have not grown up with Ukrainian dance. Some have ballet backgrounds, but the majo– rity do not have any formal dance training. Love for the heritage and the exciting and energetic movements of Ukrainian dance is really what bonds the different dancers. The average age of the senior member is also older than that of a (Continued on page 15) Dancers, ranging in age from 4 to 44, in an official troupe photo. THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, MARCH її, 1990 No. 10

travelled the wide path but, sadly, Plast's annual ski camp in Quebec Orthodox-Roman... contributed to the tribulations of those (Continued from page 7) treading the narrow one. occasion to present itself before critical in our days, more so than ever before, focuses on current events in Ukraine observers in elegant and learned docu– the proclamation of the Gospel needs to ments, so important in our word- be a positive one. it is incumbent upon by Tania Bardyn The campers learned about the aspi– oriented Western society. Ecclesiastical Christian Churches to base their mis– rations of youth in Ukraine and listened self-advertisement was not a high sion not on the negative characteriza– ST. JOviTE, Quebec - The 26th to and sang the songs of Ne Zhurys. priority for an underground Church tions of other Churches and fearful annual Plast Ski Camp took place on Symvolika and Metaleva Shkola be– struggling to survive from day to day. enumerations of the threats that these the slopes of Mont Tremblant and came favorite camp songs. When they did address the often Churches may pose, but on a joyful Mont St. Sauveur, Quebec, under The campers enthusiastically agreed affirmation of the salvific and evangeli– excellent skiing conditions. Eighty- indifferent outside world, the martyrs to name their camp Leshchatarsky and confessors were compelled to cal (in the etymological sense) kerygma eight skiers and 18 counselors from Rukh, and collected over S300 for they have come to understand, expe– Canada and the U.S. camped at Chalet exchange the medium of measured Rukh. As well, they recorded several and soothing discourse for a very rience, and hopefully live. Churches as Base de Plein Air in the Laurentian songs to be sent with their greetings to well as individuals can learn much from Mountains. different idiom, one we not only fail to Ukraine. understand but also find strangely the parable about the splinter in the eye The "otaman" was Oles Hordienko repulsive. Their message has been Now is not the time to pontificate ana from Toronto, a member of the vovku– At Mont St. Sauveur all campers joined in spelling out in gigantic letters written in blood. Plain and simple. To judge the Eastern Catholics. laky Plast fraternity. Mr. Hordienko people far removed from witness even Having gone through a trial by fire in has been the organizer of this camp for "Rukh" on the mountainside facing the main chalet. Counselors as well as other onto death this fact remains abstract or, their recent history, Ukrainian Catholic the past six winters. at best, recalls the melodrama of movies themselves are capable of judging their The 26th annual camp was a camp skiers took photographs of this unique human sculpture which was created on like "Quo vadis?" Yet if we want to deal more remote past. Neither is it time to with a difference. The daily program with Eastern Catholics as they are, we judge the official Russian Orthodox included day skiing at Mont Tremblant the mountain to show solidarity with must adjust our receptors, and learn to Church, so wounded by the corn- and night skiing at Mont St. Sauveur. the youth of Ukraine. The focus of ski camps has been to read and listen in a new way. promises that it made "willingly or The traditional camp activities of skiing unwillingly" (in the words of the Byzan– competitions, uPopys Skovorody" and spend a week in the great Canadian For every Christian Church the outdoors and to share in the camara– bottom line is its competence in an– tine liturgy). Russian Orthodox will fireside talks were this year enriched by themselves have to come to terms with discussions about the Popular Move– derie of friends from many cities of nouncing the Gospel of Christ. No less North America. But this year the events than any Church, the Ukrainian Catho– their past. Too much time and energy ment of Ukraine for Perebudova, or has been wasted by Christians criticizing Rukh, and the Chervona Ruta Festival. in Ukraine and the Chervona Ruta lic Church must measure itself by this Festival gave the campers a fascinating criterion. Like every Church, it has each other. Given the extreme spiritual, Head counselor and lead singer of the moral and social problems in the Soviet Raging Hutzuls Andrij Holowaty new focus for their fireside talks and gave come far short of the ideal put before it them new and original songs to sing in by its Founder. There is at the same time Union the inter-Christian struggles are shared the experiences of his recent trip deplorable. to Ukraine and the impact of the first the chalet and on the mountains. much in its legacy that is a source of a festival of Ukrainian pop music, Cher– On Saturday, December 30, the healthy Christian sense of gratification. Throughout the persecutions the vona Ruta, which took place in Cher– campers departed for their distant The celebration of the Millennium of Ukrainian Catholic Church has taken nivtsi this past September. homes in Canada and the United States, Christianity and the recent events in the the moral high road, it has paid a dear The festival brought together Ukrai– with a commitment to expand their Soviet Union show that Ukrainian price for the pearl of great worth. nian groups and singers from Europe, interest in events in Ukraine and to Catholics know and take pride in their Emerging lacerated and hobbled from North and South America, and Austra– expand their repertoire of songs from identity. The same is true for other its battle onto death with the powers of lia. At the festival everyone of the Ukraine. One cannot predict, but may- Eastern Catholic Churches. this world, the Ukrainian Catholic groups and singers sang, in Ukrainian, be, just maybe, the next ski camp will be Despite the problems that have been Church is not necessarily a pretty sight, songs with a message and songs with a in Ukraine, in the Carpathian Moun– discussed, the Eastern Catholic it is, however, noble and beautiful, it difference. ains. Churches have proclaimed and helped has looked death in the eye and having build the Kingdom of God. There have put its faith in the God has been saved speed up the process of democratiza– been periods when they have witnessed by his "mighty hand and outstretched Rukh announces... tion in Ukraine. to the truth creatively and propheti– arm." (Continued from page 1) Mr. Drach commented that "it would cally, such as during the long tenure of be wrong to say that the party is Sheptytsky or heroically, as under the Those who have gone to the point of the nations of the USSR, there will exist no return have much to teach us. Now is national, social and spiritual oppres– collapsing, but it is clear that its popula– leadership of Slipyj. Throughout the rity has sunk," in an interview with Mr. last decades of persecution, Eastern the time to listen closely and patiently to sion. in order to dismantle this com– the fresh message of the martyr Church mand-administrative system, it is neces– Gonradi. He added: "1 think the forma– Catholic Churches have set a truly tion of the Rukh Party might well outstanding example for Christians and and learn the idiom in which it is sary not only to democratize one party, expressed (the Passion account is the it is necessary to form a multi-party influence radical Communists to push other Churches, some of which not only towards building a Communist Party basic reference grammar), it is crucial system; this is the sole guarantee of a for us all to listen to the Ukrainian democratic state and the development independent from Moscow, as they HUCULKA have done in Lithuania." icon St Souvenir's Distribution Catholics' own story and extract from it of society. the many constructive, edifying, and, The Baltic models of government are 2860 Buhre Ave. Suite 2R "Many industrial and farm collec– indeed, prophetic episodes. No evalua– tives, with which we meet in recent the kind of system Rukh leaders have Bronx, NY 10461 REPRESEmATivE and WHOLESALER ofEMBR01DERED BLOUSES tion of the Eastern Catholicism can be envisioned. Yet for a rich industrial and for ADULTS and CH1LDREN times, demand to create a party on the credible unless it has taken this story agricultural republic such as Ukraine, Tel. (212) 931-1579 basis of the program and charter of the into account. Popular Movement of Ukraine for with a population of almost 52 million, Perebudova. To have Ukraine undergo growing demands for secession pose a a rebirth willed by the conservative much greater threat to the Soviet majority of the Central Committee of Union's survival than those in the Baltic THE UKRAINIAN NATIONAL ASSOCIATION the Communist Party of Ukraine, as republics. announces was proposed at the party's last plenum, To date, Rukh's platform was con– would be impossible, and to work for an sidered moderate in comparison to the imperialistic Moloch, masked by false demands of national groups in the SCHOLARSHIP AWARDS words about a renewed federation is Baltic republics, as Rukh has called for unthinkable.v greater economic and political auto– FOR THE ACADEMiC YEAR 199071991 Mr. Horyn also called for full indepen– nomy, but within the existing federal According to the June 1988 eligibility requirements dence for Ukraine, reported ajournalist structure of the Soviet Union. for the Guardian of London, on March This newest declaration, which in– a) the scholarships will be awarded to FULL-T1ME UNDERGRADUATE 6, quoting Mr. Horyn as saying: "in- cluded the signatures of Messrs. Drach STUDENTS (studying towards their first bachelor's degree) attending dependent republics create better condi– and Horyn, as well as vitaliy Donchyk, accredited colleges or universities and to H1GH SCHOOL GRADUATES who tions for stability" ,n the Soviet Union. Haiyna Antoniuk, Borys Tymoshenko, will be attending such institutions of higher learning in the filing calendar Mr. Drach was also quoted favoring 'Serhiy Holovaty, Dmytro Pavlychko, year independence, adding, (in the elections) and Bedzil, issued in Kiev, declares that: b) the candidate must have been an ACTWEDUES-PAYlNG UNA MEMBER for "not everybody voted for the idea of "Great unity is a guarantee of victory. at least TWO YEARS by the end of March of the filing year. independence, people mostly voted The Popular Movement of Ukraine for Applicants will be judged on the basis of: Rukh to vote against the system." Perebudova, supported by Ukrainians Rukh leaders, who still await results and non-Ukrainians, all honest citizens 1. financial need from run-offs in over 330 districts of U– of the republic, at this historic time 2. course of study kraine, on March 18, hope that this should take upon itself the responsibi– 3. scholastic record election will represent a transition in lity to fight for the fate of the Ukrainian 4. involvement in Ukrainian community and student life people and all people who live on our power from Communist Party appara– DUE DATES for applications and documents: tus leaders who have ruled in hardline land. We must defend democratic style, and many of whom have recently principles, using peaceful dialogue, with Your completed, signed 8. dated application due by MARCH 31, 1990. been resigning under a wave of popular all political parties and groups, based All required documents u photograph due by MAY 1, 1990. protest, to Rukh activists and Demo– on the will of the people, to build real cratic Bloc supporters, who want to and final independence lor Ukraine." For application form write to: UKRAINIAN NATIONAL ASSOCIATION The Weekly: Шанш perspective on the news " 30 Morttgortiery Street, Jersey City, N.J. 07302 No. ю THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, MARCH 11,1990 13

Ukrainian Deputy... (Continued from page 4) chard Schifter, assistant secretary of KOBASNIUK TRAVEL INC. state for human rights and humanita– 157 Second Avenue, New York, N. Y 10003 rian affairs, and Myron Wasyiyk, who works for the ambassador, a range of (212) 254-8779 topics was discussed, including develop– ments concerning the Ukrainian Catho– (800) 535-5587 Established 1920 lic Church and both Ukrainian Ortho– - 70 YEARS OF EXPER1ENCE - Yera Kowbasniuk Shumeyko, President dox Churches - official and auto– cephalous. Mr. Bratun, who is responsible for the re-opening of the first Jewish 1990 ESCORTED GROUP TOURS synagogue in Lviv, met with David Leningrad 23 - 26 12.789.00 Leningrad Apr. 30 - May 3 July 22 53,439.00 April 29 Lviv 26 - 30 Harris and Nisha Shrier of the Ameri– Finfiair Moscow May , 3 - 5 Finnair Z1RKA Jalta July 30 -- Aug. 2 can Jewish Committee. The discussion CARAVAN 18 Days Kiev ' 5 - 8 . 21 Days Ternopil 9-11 Kiev 2 - 6 focused on the position of Rukh toward Lviv 11 - 14 Moscow 6 - 9 inorities in Ukraine. He also met with Budapest 15 - 16 Helsinki 9 - 11 ;r. Brewster Chamberlain, Martin SGL S340.00 Smith and Jacek Nowakowski of the SGL S500.00 U.S. Holocaust Museum. They dis– Kiev 4 - 9 cussed the possibility of providing May 10 52.350.00 Budapest 11 - 12 Aug. 3 S2.500.00 Air France Poltava 10 - 12 artifacts from Ukraine for the museum. Swissair Lviv 13 - 18 L1LEA 16 Days Kharkiv 12 - 15 VESNA 15 Days Kiev 18 - 22 Economic development in Ukraine Zurich 22 - 24 Zaporizhia 15 - 16 was the major topic at a series of Kiev 17 - 18 meetings organized by Andrew Bihun, SGL S389.00 Paris 18 - 22 director of the Market Analysis Divi– SGLS400.00 sion of the U.S. Commerce Depart– Budapest 8 - 9 ment. Mr. Bratun met with Mr. Bihun May 24 S2.299.00 Budapest 25 - 26 Aug. 7 S2.500.00 to discuss the possibility of business Lviv 27 - 31 Swissair Lviv 10 - 14 RUTA1 May 31 - June 4 S0P1LKA 19 Days Kiev 14 - 17 development in western Ukraine in the 16 Days Ternopil Kiev 5 - "6 Chernivtsi 18-22 food, health care, and environmental Bucharest 22 - 25 industries. SGL 5345.00 SGL S400.00 To discuss the upgrading of the food- processing capability of Ukraine, Mr. May 29 S2.200.00 Budapest 30 - 31 Aug. 10 S2.980.00 Leningrad 11 - 14 Bratun met with Dr. George Melnyko– Swissair Lviv June 1 - 6 Lufthansa Lviv 14 - 19 MAR1CHKA 1 i6 19 - 23 vich, president of the Food Processing Days Ternopil 6 - 11 PANORAMA 21 Days Yalta Budapest 12 - 13 Kiev 23 - 27 Machinery and Supplies Association. Berlin 27 - 30 George Kuzmyczof the U.S. Commerce SGL S340.00 Department briefed the Ukrainian SGLS499.00 deputy on U.S. export controls. June 4 S2.599.00 Budapest 5 - 6 Aug. 14 S2.325.00 Budapest 15 - 16 Mr. Bratun also met with Joseph Bell Lufthansa Lviv 7 - 11 Swissair Lviv 17 - 22 and Alex Frishberg of the law firm of KASHTAN 1 is Days Kiev 11 - 15 MAR1CHKA 2 16 Days Ternopil 22 - 27 Hogan and Hartson to discuss the vienna 15 - 18 Budapest 28 - 29

concept of forming a free trade zone in SGL S350.00 SGL 3340.00 Lviv. At the law offices, he had the )portunity to meet with former Sen. June 14 S2.499.00: - Budapest 15 - 16 Sept. 6 S2.499.00 Budapest 7 - 8 Lviv 9 - 14 ,'illiam Fulbright, long-time chairman Lviv 17-22 ZHURAvELl 17 Days'" Kiev 22 - 27 ZHURAVEL 2 17 Days Kiev 14 - 19 of the Senate Foreign Relations Com– Lviv 27 - 28 Lviv 19 - 20 mittee. They discussed their legislative Budapest 29 - 30 Budapest 21 - 22 experiences and Mr. Fulbright express– SGL 3350.00 ed his regret that he could not legisla– SGL S350.00 tively participate in these exciting times. June 19 S2.890.00 Budapest 20 - 21 Sept. 10 S2.679.00 Budapest 11-12 At a press meeting organized by Lufthansa Lviv 22 - 27 Lviv 13 - 17 PROM!N 21 Days Kiev June 27 --Julv 1 KASHTAN 2 15 Days Kiev 17 - 21 Cathy Cosman of the Helsinki Watch Yalta 1 - 5 Уідппа 21 - 24 Group, Mr. Bratun had an opportunity Prague 6 - 9 to meet Charles Fenyvesi, senior editor SGL S480.00 SGL S350.00 of U.S. News and World Report, in June 28 S2.150.00 Budapest 29 - 30 Oct. 2 Sl.600.00 Budapest - in transit 3 separate meetings Mr. Bratun was Lviv Jul І і - ь Lufthansa Lviv 4 - 10 interviewed by Martin Sieff, the foreign OREL 14 Days Krakow 5 - 8 MINI-LVIV 11 Days Budapest 11 - 12 desk editor of The Washington Times, Warsaw 8 - 11 Lviv - Breakfast basis POLAND EXTENS10N ON REQUEST POLAND -- Breakfast basis and by syndicated columnist Cord SGL S240.00 SGL S200.00 Meyer. He also visited The Washington Budapest 6 - 7 Budapest 2 - 3 Post to meet with Al Kamen and six July5 S2.359.00 Nov. 1 Sl.699.00 Lviv 8 - 12 Lufthansa Lviv 4 - 9 other editors. RUTA 11 16 Days Ternopil 12 - 16 0S1N 15 Days Ternopil 9 - 13 Mr. Bratun's meeting with Washing– Kiev 17 - 20 Budapest 14 - 15 tion's Ukrainian American community Lviv - Breakfast basis SGL S345.00 SGL S190.00 was organized by The Washington Krakow 20 - 25 Group. He also visited with Bohdan July 19 S3.300.00 Budapest - in transit 20 June 19 S2,350.00 Uzhorod 21 - 23 Lufthansa Lviv 25 - 771 Yasinsky of the Library of Congress Kiev July 1 - 5 HOPAK 27 Days Lviv 23 - 27 ZUSTR1CH 17 Days and with Mykola Francuzenko, the Chernivtsi 27 - Л SGL S300.00 Ukrainian Branch chief of the voice of Odessa July 30 - Aug. 2 America (УОА). At УОА Mr. Bratun Zaporizhia Aug. 2 - 4 KRAKOW: Conference on topic "Metropolitan Andrey Sheptytsky 8. the Kharkiw 4 - 6 Spiritual Culture of the Peoples of Eastern Europe Yesterday fc Today" at was interviewed for broadcast to U– Poltava 6 - 7 Krakow University. Sponsor - Polish Academy of Sciences. ^aine. Kiev 8 - 14 Conference held under Sponsorship of his Excellency Bishop Basil At a breakfast meeting organized by SGL S599.00 Losten. George Chopivsky of the Chopivsky Corporation, Mr. Bratun met with a 1T1NERAR1ES AND PRiCES SUBJF^T TO CHANGE W1TH0UT PR10R N0T1CE number of Ukrainian Americans in– volved in business to discuss the possibi– To: KOBASNIUK TRAVEL INC. lities to investment in Ukraine. The Enclosed is S250.00 per person 157 Second Avenue exchange provided a better understand– LAND P0RT10N DEP0S1T for 1990 TOUR ing of the realities of doing business in New York, N.Y. 10003 Ukraine and will be followed up by Tour Name: Departing USA on . future meetings. Name,'s: During his hectic five-day visit to Washington Mr. Bratun was escorted Address: Street City by Eugene iwanciw and John Kun, director and assistant director, re– Zip Code . spectively, of the UNA Office. Orysia Pylyshenko, who hosted Mr. Bratun, provided invaluable logistical assis– TOUR CREDIT BONUS tance. Translating for Mr. Bratun's S50.00 S50.00 were George Sajewych and Andrew This BONUS CRED1T to be returned to K0BASN1UK TRAvEL 1NC. together with your 1990 Ukraine Tour Metil, with assistance from Mr. Bihun Registration coupon BEFORE February 28, 1990 for per person credit toward your final tour payment and Mr. iwanci^ . , 4. m W v і "И, Ції i– 14 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, MARCH її, 1990 No. 10

evacuated must be supplied with clean Chornobyl has contributed more for 1990. "Preserving natural resources" The economic... supplies of food. Since 1987, it was than other factors to the current Ukrai– and raising labor productivity have (Continued from page 2) indicated, 13,500 tons of meat products nian budget deficit, and raises questions become familiar watchwords. Self- affected by radiation. More than 100 and almost 80,000 tons of dairy pro- about the economic future of the re- financing and self-accounting were new villages have already been built for ducts from the state plan have been public. Will it be possible for the introduced into the Ukrainian econo– evacuees, and a new city, Slavutych, for assigned for the population of affected republic alone to deal with the known my in 1989, but have had no appreciable Chornobyl operatives, in 1989, agricul– areas of Kiev, Zhytomvr and Chernihiv and unanticipated costs that lie ahead? effect. tural work was restieted or prohibited oblasts. Yet, massive costs lie ahead. Further, Mr. Fokin focused briefly The Council for the Study of Pro– over an area of about 500,000 hectares. Simply to deal with existing questions on what he called a "weakening of labor ductive Forces in Ukraine, affiliated Large sums have been spent on the of decontamination work, new evacua– discipline." The miners' strike reflected with the Ukrainian SSR Academy of manufacture of individual geiger coun– tions, medical services and aid with the general discontent among the U– Sciences, has long complained of the ters and other radiation-measuring clean food, a sum of 5 billion rubles of krainian workforce, which has object– injustices done to the republic as a result equipment, but these remain in short capital investment has been assigned, of ed in particular to the state prices for of its service to the all-union economy, supply. which 3 billion will be spent in the 1991- coal and other goods. Wage rises in the it has been maintained, for example, Those territories that are not to be 1995 plan period. latter part of 1989 have not only exceed– that the "dictatorship" of union mi– ed labor productivity, but in addition nistries has led to a situation whereby a vast amount of concentration of pr Ukrainian institute of America, inc. have still lagged behind rising prices for basic goods. While no figure for the duction has been centered in large citi inflation rate was provided by Mr. with negative social and economic "Music at the institute" Concert Series Fokin, plainly it has become unac– consequences, with a consequent low ceptably high. rate of development of smaller and medium-sized towns. Centralization, it presents Also, because of the political uncer– tainty — it was anticipated indirectly in is maintained, has reduced the econo– the report that public opposition might mic rights of Ukraine and lowered the prevent the operation of the two new standard of living of its people. UKRAINIAN nuclear reactors, for example — plan– The republic, in brief, has been ning has become a risky and uncertain exploited by the central authorities and CONTEMPORARY MUS1C FESWAL business in Ukraine. the result has been the emergence of an Finally, there appears to be a dearth economically powerful but unbalanced of original ideas in the economic plan region, large, polluted and grimy in– Saturday, March 24, 1990 at 8 p.m. dustrial centers, a woeful shortage of Alice Tully Hall, Lincoln Center housing, and an economic future that is APARTMENT for RENT blighted by a growing shortage of non- PROGRAM: 4 Rooms, walk up, near.train PATH renewable reserves and the continuing Grove Station. 10 min. to N.Y.C. costs of eliminating the results of the No pet. No fee. S600 Mo. Chornobyl accident. 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ANNUAL D1STR1CT СОММІТТЕЕ MEET1NG at St. Michael's Ukrainian Orthodox Church Parish Hall will be held 74 Harris Avenue, Woonsocket, R.l. Sunday, March 18, 1990 at 2:00 p.m. Obligated to attend the annual meeting as voting members are District Committee Officers, at Hall of St. volodymyr Ukrainian Catholic Church Convention Delegates and two delegates from the following Branches: 87 Zerbey Avenue, Edwardsville, Pa. 73, 93, 122, 177, 206, 241 Obligated to attend the annual meeting as voting members are District Committee Officers, All UNA members are welcome as guests at the meeting. Convention Delegates and two delegates from the following Branches: AGENDA: 29, 99, 164, 169, 223, 236, 282, 333 1. Opening and acceptance of the Agenda All UNA members are welcome as guests at the meeting. 2. verification of quorum AGENDA: 3. Election of presidium 1. Opening and acceptance of the Agenda 4. Minutes of preceding annual meeting 2. verification of quorum 5. Reports of District Committee Officers 3. Election of presidium 6. Discussion on reports and their acceptance 4. Minutes of preceding annual meeting 7. Election of District Committee Officers 5. Reports of District Committee Officers 8. Address by GL0R1A PASCHEN, Supreme vice-Presidentess 6. Discussion on reports and their acceptance 9. Adoption of District activities program for the current year 7. Election of District Committee Officers 10. Discussion and Resolutions : 8. Address by UNA Supreme President DR. JOHN 0. FL1S 11. Adjournment 9. Adoption of district activities program for current year Meeting will be attended by: 10. Discussion and Resolutions 11. Adjournment Gloria Paschen. UNA Supreme vice-Presidentess Alexander Chudolij, UNA Supreme Advisor Meeting will be attended by: DISTRICT COMMITTEE Dr. John 0. FliS, UNA supreme President Leon Hardink, Chairman DISTRICT COMMITTEE Theodor Klowan, Secretary - English Helen Trinkler, Secretary - Ukrainian Roman Diakiw, Honorary President J3"et Bardell, Treasurer Anna Molner vice-chairman Helen Holak, Secretary No. ю THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, MARCH її, 1990 15

in addition, the group has added a but cautioned that left unattended the Kozaks and... regional flavor to its repertoire, with a Helsinki Commission... situation could seriously worsen and (Continued from page 1)1) salute to the state of Texas. A dance (Continued from page 3) damage US-USSR ties. typical Ukrainian dancer. The dancers aptly named "The Texan" is performed to the old days, and it undermines the Sen. DeConcini was also upset by the are dedicated and conscientious about to a well-known western tune — "The confidence of our people and theirs in "discrimination" the U.S. legislators practices and do it for the pure enjoy– Orange Blossom Special" — and is the reform process." have been subjected to by the Soviets. ment that they receive. choreographed with a blend of tradi– Maryland's Rep. Hoyer was similarly Canadian parliamentarians were Each dance performance includes a tional and non-traditional steps, there– stinging in his statements. He characte– allowed to travel to observe the Lithua– mixture of traditional dances inter- by adding a Southwestern flair to a rized the situation as a "denigration" to nian elections on February 24. mingled with original choreography. Ukrainian tradition. Here the tradi– the CSCE-Buriatskiy Commission (the Questioned as to the future of U.S. Traditional costumes of the Poltava tional headgear is set aside for cowboy Supreme Soviet's human rights group delegations being invited to the Soviet and Hutsul regions are designed and hats and bandannas. led by Fyodor Burlatskiy) relationship. Union, the Arizona senator remarked sewn by the group. The dancers' style The cowboys of the old days in Texas Stating that retaliatory action is not that the issqe would "not die here at this and costumes represent geographic were similar to the Kozaks of Ukraine, planned, Rep. Hoyer did assert that the press conference." location, climatic conditions, and spiri– and the Ukrainian Dancers of Dallas Soviet visa denials constituted "irra– tual and traditional beliefs of the have tied these two histories together tional" policy. He described this as a nrious regions of Ukraine. through dance. This salute to Texas is "small glitch" in a relationship that has Join the UNA always a crowd pleaser, and one of the substantially improved over 18 months, . ulish Parliament... group's favorite dances, it always elicits a standing ovation. !! Songs YOU'LL WANT to sing (Continued from page 6) The group's show typically begins all lands, so that every man might have with a traditional welcome dance СПІВАЙМО РАЗОМ his daily bread. May He grant that the (Pryvit), using traditional embroidered (LETS S1NG TOGETHER) symbol of my spiritual homeland, the ritual cloths (rushnyky), bread, salt and golden ear of wheat, touch the blue sky Let us make your THE MOST POPULAR wheat. The show then breaks for an wedding a "day, affair UKRAINIAN SONGS so that it may again become the "bread- appearance by the junior group, plays Melody - Chords - Lyrics basket of Europe." to the audience with a demonstration Elegant, fully equipped^ Edited by Michael Koziupa Lincoln Heartened by the torch of the New skit on Ukrainian history and dance Stretch limousines York Statue, let us have internal liberty types, and closes with a spectacular volume 1 S15.00 Professionally trained volume 11 S15.00 and solidarity in our struggles for the Hopak finale in which the dancers try to chauffeurs serving alt volume 1 ft1 1 triumph of good over evil in Asia, out-perform each other. the metropolitan агей. SPECIAL INTRODUCTORY PRICE Europe, Africa, Australia and the The current Ukrainian Dancers of (PURCHASED TOGETHER) S20.00 Americas. 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March 11 STAMFORD, Conn.: A slide presenta– PREVIEW OF EVENTS tion of "Planting the Ukrainian Flag on WH1PPANY, NJ.: Students of Lesia Mount Kilimanjaro - An African Jour– Ukrainka Ukrainian School will perform the Lviv literary journal Dzvin, Dr. March 17-22 ney" will be given by Dr. Jurij Savyckyj, in a program in tribute to Taras Shev– Jaroslav Rozumnyj of the University of at St. viadimir's Cathedral hall, 24 Wezel chenko at 4 p.m. in the main hall of Manitoba at Winnipeg, Dr. George NEWARK, N.J.: The Redemptorist Terrace. The program will describe the St. John's Ukrainian Catholic Church, Grabowicz of Harvard University and Fathers' parish of St. John the Baptist highlights of the August 1989 Club Suzy– Route 10 at South Jefferson Road. The Dr. viacheslav Briukhovetsky of the Ukrainian Catholic Church will host a Q sponsored trip to Kenya and Tanzania, program is being sponsored by the. Academy of Arts and Sciences of the "Mission"; the Rev. Bernard Panchuk and the climb to the top of Mount Ukrainian Congress Committee of Ame– Ukrainian SSR in Kiev. Saturday's OSBM, the provincial of the Basilian Kilimanjaro, at 19,000 feet the highest rica's Ridna Shkola. sessions will begin with a panel on 'The Fathers, will conduct this spiritual mountain in Africa. The event is being Contemporary Ukrainian Press," 9-11 renewal in both Ukrainian and English in sponsored by SvOYA, the St. viadimir's March 16 a.m. with Borys Rohoza, editor of light of the renewal and revival of the Organization of Young Adults. For more Literaturna Ukraina in Kiev, Bohdan Ukrainian Church in Ukraine. The Rev. information call Mary Frycz, (203) 329- NEWARK, N J.: Americans for Human Nahaylo of Radio Liberty in Munich and Panchuk will preach on Saturday at 6 8693. Rights in Ukraine will present a public Dr. Alexander Motyl of Columbia Uni– p.m. and at all Sunday divine liturgies, 8 meeting with Hanna Mykhailenko of versity. "The Current State of the Ukrai– a.m., 9:30 a.m.. and 11:30 a.m., as well as PHILADELPHIA: violinists oieh, Odessa, former prisoner of Soviet psy– nian Economy" will follow at 11:15 a.m. - Monday through Thursday at 9 a.m. in Petro and Taras Krysa and pianist chiatric hospitals teacher and human 1:15 p.m. featuring Oleh Bilorus of the Ukrainian, and Sunday through Wed– Tatyana Tchekina will perform in con- rights activist, who will speak on "Psy– Academy of Sciences of the Ukrainian nesday at 7 p.m. in both Ukrainian and cert at 4 p.m. in the Ukrainian Educa– chiatric Abuses in Soviet Prisons" at 7:30 SSR, Dr. ivan Koropeckyj of Temple English. For more information call the tional and Cultural Center, 700 Cedar p.m. in the hall under St. John the Baptist University in Philadelphia and Fyodor parish, (201) 371-1356. Road. General admission is Si5 per Ukrainian Catholic Church, Sanford Kushnirsky of Temple University. Dr. person, S10 for senior citizens and 55 for Avenue. For more information call Serhiy Bilokin of the Ukrainian SSR students. For more information call the AHRU, (201) 373-9729. Academy of Sciences in Kiev, Dr. Orest March 18 UECC, (215)663-1166. Subtelny of York University in Toronto TRENTON, N.J.: Branch 19 of the and Dr. Taras Hunczak of Rutgers will WASHINGTON: piast win sponsor a March 22 Ukrainian National Women's League of participate in a panel on "Glasnost and 40th anniversary commemoration of the America is planning a bus trip to Atlantic the Problems of Ukrainian Historio– death of Ukrainian insurgent Army CH1CAGO: The Ukrainian Studies City at 6 p.m. The cost is S15 per person graphy," 2:30 - 4:30 p.m. This will be (UPA) Gen. Taras Chuprynka, fea– Center, a branch of the Ukrainian Catho– and will be reimbursed upon arrival at followed by the last panel on "The turing a lecture by Major Petro Sodol, at lic University, will hold a seminar on the casino. For more information call Ecology of Ukraine since Chornobyl," 2 p.m. at the Ukrainian Catholic Na– culture and economic problems in con- (609) 259-2763. All proceeds will benefit 4:45 - 6:45 p.m., featuring Dmytro tional Shrine, 4250 Harewood Road NE. temporary Ukraine featuring ivan the Children of Chornobyl Relief Fund. Hrodzinsky of the Ukrainian SSR Aca– Major Sodol is doing research and is also Dzyuba, Kiev literary critic, and Borys demy of Sciences, Dr. David Marples of a published author on the history of Rohoza, editor of Literaturna Ukraina, YEN1CE, Fla.: The Soniashnyk Ukrai– the Canadian institute of Ukrainian UPA. For more information call Yuri at 7 p.m. in the Cultural Center of Ss. nian Dance Ensemble will perform at 7 , Studies at the University of Alberta in Gawdiak, (301) 622-2338. volodymyr and Olha. For more informa– p.m. at the venice Community Center. Edmonton, and Zenon Stakhiv of the tional call (312) 478-3587. For more information call Marusia U.S. federal government in Washington. MINNEAPOLIS: An open meeting for Boyer, (519) 736-5297. For more information call Dr. Hunczak, initiation of a chapter for assistance to March 24 (201) 648-1051 or 648-5410. Rukh will be held at 4 p.m. in the auditorium of St. Michael's Ukrainian CH1CAGO: Friends of Rukh will spon– March 16-17 Orthodox Church, 505 Fourth St. NE. sor a panel discussion on "The problems March 17 For more information call Dr. Anatol of Ukraine Today and Tomorrow," fea– NEWARK, N J.: Rutgers University, the Lysyj, (612) 377-4031. turing Borys Rohoza, editor of Litera– Office of the Provost, the Office of the CH1CAGO: Renowned cellist Maria turna Ukraina who will speak about the Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences- Tchaikovska from Ukraine will perform Ukrainian press; Oleh Bilorus of The Newark, the Ukrainian National Asso– in concert at 7:30 p.m. at the Ukrainian NEW YORK: The 10th annual Shev– Ukrainian SSR Academy of Sciences ciation and Shevchenko Scientific So– institute of Modern Art. The Lviv-born chenko Conference sponsored by the who will speak on economic issues; and tiety will co-sponsor "The Contempo– artist, who studied under Mstislav Shevchenko Scientific Society will take Kiev literary critic ivan Dzyuba who will rary Ukraine," a two-day conference at Rostropovich, will perform works by place at 2 p.m. in the Tishman Audito– speak about the Ukrainian cultural Rutgers-Newark, Engelhard Lecture Mozart, Beethoven, Stankovych and rium of New York University's Law renaissance, at 6 p.m. in the auditorium Hall, Engelhard Hall, 92 New St. The Barber to the accompaniment of Ukrai– School, 40 Washington Square, corner of of Ss. volodymyr and Olha Church, conference will feature two panel discus– nian American pianist Juliana Osinchuk. MacDougal and West Fourth streets. Oakley and Superior. Admission is S10 sions on Friday, and four on Saturday. A Donations of 515 are suggested. For Among the participants will be literary for adults, S5 for students. For more panel on "The National Minorities in more information call Oleh Kowerko at critics and members of the Ukrainian information call (312) 489-1339. Ukraine and Rukh," featuring Kiev U1MA, (312) 227-5522. SSR Academy of Sciences: ivan Dzyuba, literary critic ivan Dzyuba, Dr. Roman Roman Fedoriv, Serhiy Bilokin and PALAT1NE, Ш.: The Suburban Council Solchanyk of Radio Liberty in Munich, Yaroslav isayevych, as well as scholars of Ukrainian voters will host a fund- and Dr. Roman Szporluk of the Univer– TAMPA, Fla.: The Soniashnyk Ukrai– from the United States and Canada: raising reception for Walter Dudycz, sity of Michigan at Ann Arbor, will begin nian Dance Ensemble will perform at George Shevelov, Jaroslaw Rozumnyj candidate for U.S. House of Representa– the conference on Friday, 1-3 p.m. it will Tampa-St. Petersburg's new Sundomeat and Leonid Rudnytsky. The conference tives at the Ukrainian Center, 136 East be followed by a panel on "Contempo– 2 p.m. for the "Festival of Worlds." For is co-sponsored by the Ukrainian Aca– Hlinois Ave. Donations of 525 per person rary Ukrainian Literature," 3:15 - 5:15 more information call Marusia Boyer, demy of Sciences in U.S.A. and the are suggested. For more information call p.m. featuring Roman Fedoriv, editor of (519) 736-5297. Harvard Ukrainian Research institute. (708) 358-3582 (evenings).

district (No. 209). ^ in certain districts completed one ballot. Rukh reports... ^ The representative of the ballots were distributed to persons The Ukrainian Press Agency also (Continued from page 1) Ukrainian Press Agency in Kiev was who did not even have to show their reported that the Democratic Bloc, told the number of people who had invited to observe district No. 83 identification before receiving them. an alliance of such forces as the cast their vote ahead of the election where campaign leaflets belonging to о Some citizens who showed their Ukrainian Helsinki Union, Rukh, day. This happened in a number of the party had been stuck to ballot identification were nonetheless not Green World (Zelenyi Svit) and districts such as districts No. 20 booths, in the same polling station allowed to cast their ballots. other movements, had succeeded in (ward No. 9^24) and No. 14(18752). the lid of the ballot box could be e Ballots with the names of registering only 30 percent of its raised 30 to 40 centimeters, i.e., it was Democratic Bloc candidates already candidates in Ukraine with the ma– ^ in many polling stations pencils not properly sealed. crossed out were distributed in some jority standing in Western Ukraine were used to fill in the ballot papers Similar violations were reported in districts. and Kiev. This situation had arisen instead of pens. This contravenes Lviv by Rukh spokespersons: ь in some areas, the nota– because of the Communist Party's instructions issued by the Central ^ Authorities refused to allow tion "withdrawn" was written next to manipulation of the electoral corn- Electoral Commission. One such representatives of candidates to the names of certain Democratic missions which had the power to incident was recorded in Borispil participate in the ballot counting. Bloc candidates. reject candidates. , Also in Lviv, ivan Gel, who is a in Kiev, for example, the commis– Democratic Bloc candidate for the sion rejected every single candidate Teachers conference in Rochester Supreme Soviet and leader of the from Green World, the ecological Committee for the Defense of the movement which has over half a Ukrainian Catholic Church, spoke of million members. to focus on Eastern Europe a campaign of misinformation and The Democratic Bloc is cam– ROCHESTER, N.Y. - A teachers' State Department will speak on human slander against him by the party and paigning for economic and political conference on "Eastern Europe: The rights in the Soviet Union with high- KGB. Mr. Gel's campaign posters sovereignty for Ukraine, a multi- Nationalities issue and Human Rights" lights on Ukrainian dissidents, and Dr. had been overwritten with mislead– party system and the cancellation of will be held on March 19-21, here at the James Mace will speak on the nationali– ing information that Mr. Gel had Article 6 of the Constitution, which Rochester institute of Technology. ties issue with a case study of Ukraine. withdrawn from the election. provides for the leading role of the The program provides an overview of All Ukrainian–American teachers are in the Zakarpattia region, too, Communist Party. recent events in Eastern Europe and invited to attend. there were reports of ballot counters Because Rukh was registered only areas to be covered include the Soviet For further information contact the not being allowed to participate, of three weeks ago it was denied access satellite countries and the republics of project director: Dr. Christine Hoshow– ballots being distributed to voters to the official media and prevented the Soviet Union. sky, 240 Rosemont Drive, Rochester, not having produced the necessary from publishing its program. Rukh, University and government officials N.Y. 14617; (716) 544-1397. identification, and of voters receiving therefore, was unable to get its will fill the speakers9 list. Dr. Taras This conference is made possible more than one ballot. message across to the electorate and Hunczak will speak on conditions in through a New York State legislative From Donetske came reports of had to rely on unofficial publications Ukraine, Myron Wasylyk of the U.S. grant sponsored by Sen. John D. Perry. individual voters receiving more than which have a limited circulation.