The Ukrainian Weekly 1978, No.21

www.ukrweekly.com ( CBOFOAAXSVOBODOBODAA І І УКРАЇНСЬКИЙ ЩОДЕННИК ^йВЙР^ U К R АА І N І AN D А І IV В Щ І І ГОІПІОENGLISH^ LANGUAGEП WEEKL Y WeEDITION e V VOL. LXXXV No. 119 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, MAY 28,1978 25 CENTS UNA's 29th Convention Opens in Pittsburgh PITTSBURGH, Pa., May 24.-A opened at 9 a.m., Monday by Mr. Lesaw Jaroslaw Padoch, former Supreme The initial report of the Credentials total of 432 delegates were on hand for yer, who welcomed the delegates and Secretary, honorary member of the Committee, headed by Judge Bernard the opening of the 29th Regular Con thanked Supreme Advisor Andrew Supreme Assembly, and president of L. Korchinski, specifically its revoca vention of the Ukrainian National As Jula and Michael Komichak, both the Shevchenko Scientific Society. tion of Dr. Padoch's delegate's rights, sociation Monday morning, May 22, at members of the UNA Convention The presidium also included Leonid provoked a long and heated discussion. the Pittsburgh Hilton here, launching a Committee, for their efforts in prepar Fil, head of the Ukrainian National Following the debate, the committee weeklong session that is assessing the ing the assemblage and other events Federation, a Canadian-based organi reviewed its position and reported that progress of the organization over the which were held here in conjunction zation, and Prof. John Teluk, former it withdraws its recommendation, past four years, making plans for the with it. Supreme Vice-President, co-chairmen; which was unanimously accepted by next four, and electing a new slate of Mr. Lesawyer also paid tribute in his Tamara Kuropas, English-language the delegates. officers to the Supreme Assembly. opening remarks to the late Taras secretary; and Ivan Skochylas, Ukrai The Credentials Committee also in Proclaimed as "Ukrainian Week in Shpikula, Supreme Advisor who died in nian-language secretary. cluded: Nicholas Chomanczuk, Walter Downtown Pittsburgh'' by Mayor his first term of office, the late Nicho Before the opening gavel of the Con Raft, Walter Wasylenko and Roman Richard Caliguiri, the entire week saw las Dawyskyba, and all UNA'ers who vention, Atty. George Oryshkewych, a Tatarsky. daylong sessions of the delegates and passed away since the 28th Conven delegate, sang the American and Uk During the opening day of the Con several events that were staged in con tion. rainian national anthems. Msgr. Russel vention the members of Elections and junction with the Convention and the The proposal by the ad hoc By-laws Danylchuk delivered the invocation, Petitions committees were elected, but local community's observance of the Committee to change the method of and Mr. Jula, as chairman of the Con the results were not announced until centennial of Ukrainian settlement in voting to the usage of voting machines vention committee, greeted the dele the next day. Pittsburgh and western Pennsylvania. was adopted by the delegates at the gates on behalf of Pittsburgh's Also elected in the course of the first On Sunday, May 21, UNA Supreme start of the deliberations. UNA'ers. day was the Press Committee, which President Joseph Lesawyer led a group Following this procedure, the dele Mr. Jula also introduced Pittsburgh consisted of Anthony Dragan, Wolo- of delegates and area Ukrainians in a gates elected the presidium of the Con Mayor Caliguiri, who also addressed dymyr Lewenetz, Wasyl Sharvan, wrea:h-laying ceremony at the Block vention, which was headed by Dr. the delegates. (Continued on page 5) house of nearby Fort Pitt as a tribute to those Americans who died in the struggle for the country's indepen dence and thus enabled Ukrainian New York's Ukrainian Street Fair immigrants to settle in America in sub sequent years and begin a new life. Later a "Moleben" and a requiem Becomes Permanent in "Little Ukraine n were offered under the open skies at the Gateway Plaza in memory of the byIhor Dlaboha Ukrainian pioneers. Concelebrating NEW YORK, N.Y.—No matter the services were area Ukrainian Cath what you call it - a street fair, a festi olic and Orthodox deans. val, a bazaar — the Ukrainian happen After the services a concert was held ing on the Lower Eastside here has be at the Hilton's main ballroom, featur come a permanent fixture of "Little ing Metropolitan Opera soloist Andrij Ukraine." Dobriansky, concert pianist Thomas For the third year in a row, the Hrynkiv, the League of Ukrainian aroma of "varenyky" and "holubtsi," Catholics choir under the direction of the sound of Ukrainian music and the Irene Vladuchick, the Ukrainian strumming of banduras filled the air Orthodox League choir under the around East Seventh Street Friday to direction of Lesya Andrews and the Sunday, May 19-21, during the street group's dancers, the "Self-Reliance" fair sponsored by the building commit choir under the direction of Isidore tee of St. George's Ukrainian Catholic Lukowsky, and the "Poltava" dancers Church. under the direction of Luba While the first festival in 1976 was Hlutkowsky. dedicated to the Bicentennial and Cen The concert, emceed by Michael Ko- tennial, and was organized by a special michak, attracted many area Ukraini Ukrainian Bicentennial committee, the ans, in addition to delegates, some of following two street fairs were held to whom had already arrived here on that raise funds for the recently dedicated day or earlier. The program opened St. George's Church. Roman Huhle- with the singing of the American and wych, chairman of the building com Canadian anthems by Mrs. Mary mittee, said that the festival raised The "Young Verkhovyntsi" dancers round out their performance with a whirl Lesawyer. some S25,000 this year. A major por wind Ukrainian folk dance. On Tuesday, May 23, some of the tion of the money has been earmarked spearheaded by a special committee corner between Second and Third delegates and guests took advantage of for the church, he said, and the re under the auspices of the United Ukrai- avenues, was decked with blue and an evening cruise along the Ohio River mainder will be donated to St. nian American Organizations of yellow banners, red, white and blue and took in some of Pittsburgh's his George's school. Greater New York. ornaments and American and Ukraini- toric sites. A dinner was served aboard This year's festival had two extra The second attraction came on Sun an flags. Police reports estimate that the Liner. dimensions. day morning. The New York Daily some 30,000 people visited the fair The convention banquet was to be New York Ukrainians' almost two- News of May 21 published a long since it opened Friday at 7 p.m. held Thursday evening, May 25, at the year effort to rename Hall Place to article about New York Ukrainians, Several dozen booths lined the Hilton. Richard Davies, U.S. Ambassa Taras Shevchenko Place ended suc entitled "Ukrainians - The Little Na street, each showing or selling some dor to Poland, was scheduled as the cessfully. The New York City Council tion on Second Avenue." The article Ukrainian artifact — embroidered principal speaker, representing the approved the change and a makeshift was illustrated by two full-color draw blouses or placemats, wooden Carter Administration. street sign reading 'Taras Shevchenko ings by Yaroslava Surmach Mills. cassettes, ceramics or "pysanky." The Convention was officially Place" was put up. The campaign was East Seventh Street, from corner to (Continued on page 2) THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, MAY 28,1978 No. 119 Kfev Group Sought Gamsakhurdia, Kostava Sentenced to Three Years Legal Recognition MOSCOW, USSR.—Two Georgian Gamsakhurdia also said, "I am ready NEW YORK, N.Y.—The Ukrainian As is evident from the very name of members of a Helsinki monitoring to accept my punishment," according Public Group to Promote the Imple the organization, the group has taken group, Zviad Gamsakhurdia and to the Times account. mentation of the Helsinki Accords upon itself the goal of promoting the Merab Kostava, were each sentenced petitioned the Council of Ministers of implementation in the Ukrainian SSR on May 19 by a Tbilisi court to three The broadcast was not live and the Ukrainian SSR for official recogni of the humanitarian provisions of the years imprisonment and two years exile Gamsakhurdia seemed to be reading a tion in accordance with the provisions Final Act of the Helsinki conference. for "anti-Soviet agitation," reported written statement. of the newConstitutionof the USSR. A The group is not registered and it the Western news media. Friends of Gamsakhurdia said that copy of the document, dated October exists unofficially. 14, 1977, was recently received in the Gamsakhurdia, a writer who advo most of his televised "confession" was West by the Ukrainian Supreme Liber In light of Article 4 of the Constitu cated Georgia's secession from the fabricated by Soviet authorities, The ation Council (abroad). tion of the USSR, we believe that it is USSR, and Kostava, a musicologist, Times reported on May 25. The full text of the petition appears necessary to give the group an official were founders of a committee to moni Relatively lenient sentences were below. status. tor the implementation of the Helsinki handed down in the cases of the two To the Council of Ministers of The Administrative Code of the Uk Accords. They pleaded guilty to the Georgian dissidents because, as TASS The Ukrainian SSR rainian SSR does not stipulate rules of charges. explained, they had admitted their guilt Petition registration for non-governmental The New York Times reported that and Gamsakhurdia had repented. Article 39 of the Constitution of the public organizations, therefore, we ask according to family members who at But Mrs.

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