їііШ by the Ukrainian National Association Inc., a fraternal non-profit association! Шrainian Weekl У Vol. LIV No. 25 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JUNE 22, 1986 25 cents UNA allocates UNA seniors residence dedicated at Soyuiivka $110,000 for student scholarships JERSEY CITY, N.J. — The Ukrai- nian National Association's Scholar- ship Committee has allocated $110,000 of scholarships to 226 students for the 1986-87 academic year. The amount represents a new record for the sum of scholarship aid awarded in a single year by the UNA. Last year, the UNA provided grants totalling $100,000 to 158 students, At its June 14 meeting here at the UNA Home Office, the Scholarship Committee met to review applications for scholarships submitted by UNA members from the United States and Canada and to select scholarship reci- pients. The two largest scholarships award- ed, for $2,500 each, went to two Ukrai- nian priests working on projects asso- ciated with the upcoming Millennium of Christianity in Rus-Ukraine. They Roma Hadzewycz are the Rev, Peter Galadza of the Hie new seniors residence between the chapei and the Chernivtsi villa at Soyuzivka. Ukrainian Catholic Church and the Rev. fey Roma Hadzewycz N.Y., and the Rev. John Kulish of Andre Partykevich of the Ukrainian first phase of its housing for elderly Hudson, N.Y., as hundreds of persons, Orthodox Church. UNA members. ` KERHONKSON, N.Y. — The pro- The 10-room building, situated on a most of them seniors, looked on. The newly established Anthony Dra- mise of Soyuzivka became reality as the hill between the chapel and the Cher- gan Memorial Scholarship for Journa- Ukrainian National Association estate, nivtsi villa, was blessed on Sunday, In an address delivered later in the lism was awarded to Natalia A. Fedus- purchased in 1952 to serve, it was then June 15, Father's Day, by Ukrainian day on the occasion of the realization of chak, an assistant editor at The Ukrai- thought, as a senior citizens home and Catholic and Orthodox priests, Msgr. what UNA Supreme President John O. nian Weekly. The $2,000 scholarship is center for youth activities, dedicated the Peter Fedorchuk of Hamptonburgh, Flis has said is his top-priority project, a tribute to Mr. Dragan, longtime the UNA's top executive officer stressed editor of Svoboda, the Ukrainian- that the seniors housing is a thank-you language daily newspaper published by "Sobor" to be reissued in Russian to all those elder UNA'ers who have the Ukrainian National Association. made the UNA what it is today: "a Alexander Sich received the Roman by Roman Solchanyk novel will appear together with Mr. mighty giant" that provides for the Slobodian Memorial Scholarship for Honchar's more recent work "Tvoya welfare of all Ukrainians. $2,000; Walter Honcharyk received the MUNICH — A recent issue of the Zoria" (Your Star) in this year's first Ukrainian literary monthly Kyiv re- Joseph Wolk Memorial Scholarship for supplement to Druzhba Narodov. Busloads of UNA'ers $1,500; and Ulana Plawuszczak was ports that Oles Honchar's novel "So- The fact that after almost 20 years of awarded the Bohdan Zorych Memorial bor" (Cathedral), which caused a politi- virtual silence "Sobor" will now become Among the crowd were busloads of Scholarship for $1,000. cal storm when it was first published in available to a mass readership in the UNA'ers from Philadelphia and Allen- Of the 226` scholarship, two were for Ukraine in 1968, will shortly be reissued Soviet Union is a significant develop- in Moscow in Russian. town, Pa., Passaic, N.J., and Woon- $2,500, three for $2,000, one for $1,600, ment that reflects political and cultural socket, R.I. six for $1,500, 20for $1,000, 14for $700, The statement was made by Sergei trends that have come to the fore in the Most of the 1,500 persons in atten- wo for $600, 44 for $500 and others for Baruzdin, chief editor of the Moscow aftermath of Mikhail Gorbachev's dance toured the building during the ,400, $300, $250 and $200. literary monthly Druzhba Narodov, election as general secretary of the open house before and after the dedica- The annual UNA scholarship awards which specializes in the publication of Communist Party of the Soviet Union tion ceremony. Built in the Hutsul style are one of the UNA's many services to non-Russian writers in Russian transla- From the standpoint of nationalities that has become so popular at the UNA (Continued on page 14) tion. According to Mr. Baruzdin, the policy, the most important of these is resort, the seniors home includes a the unmistakable revival of interest — stately front porch that extends the particularly among the Russian intelli- length of the building and a large Australia launches Nazi probe gentsia — in everything that impinges community living room and kitchen. SYDNEY, Australia — The Austra- Australia to "go easy' on Nazi war on national history and culture. Over all, the building exudes warmth lian federal government launched a criminals, AP reported. Although it is still too early to pass and cordiality from the moment one formal investigation on June 5 into The Executive Council of Australian (Continued on page 4) (Continued on page 5) charges that Nazi war criminals settled Jewry requested several weeks ago that in Australia after World War II, report- the government set up an inquiry after Ш Chomobyl accident in the press of Ukraine — page 2. ed the Associated Press on June 6. it obtained information on 150 Ш Ba tic Freedom Dav CSCE Forum a e Andrew Menzies, a 67-year-old for- INSIDE' ' ' — P 9 3- suspected war criminals and coliabora- Ш Garden State's Ukrainian Festival U.S.A. — centerfold. mer bureaucrat who retired in 1984 tors among some 700,000 refugees from from the attorney general's department, Germany, the Baltic States and Ukraine was appointed by Special Minister of that settled in Australia after the second State Mick Young to head the investiga- world war. tion. Labor Party legislator Gerry Hand Mr. Menzies will have full access to said several weeks ago that he had government and immigration depart- obtained documents showing that the ment files. Sources said that he will also British government in 1948 asked travel to the United Status and Canada. THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JUNE 22, 1986 No. 25 Nuclear disaster in Ukraine Top management dismissed at Ukrainian SSR newspapers' accounts Chornobyl plant for "irresponsibility" JERSEY CITY, N.J. — The director door. provide details on accident and chief engineer of the Chornobyl Peasants cannot sell milk or leafy by Larissa MX. Onyshkevych dymyr Pravyk. Automatically, the nuclear power plant were dismissed last vegetables from their private plots neighboring fire station in Prypiat was week for exhibiting "irresponsibility directly to the public in Kiev's markets. Since April 28 we have read about the notified, too, and their group arrived and mismanagement" during and after Everything they do sell to middlemen is Chornobyl nuclear power plant acci- with Lt. Victor Kibenok. the April 26 reactor accident, which has checked by a dosimeter. dent. In addition to sporadic accounts It was initially assumed that it was reportedly claimed 26 lives and exposed Yet some things have gone back to from countries surrounding the Soviet only a fire they were fighting. It was thousands to high levels of radiation. normal, The Washington Post said. Union, the main sources of information spreading over the control room build- News of the firings was giving in a June Outdoor stands selling ice cream, for the American media were Moscow's ing. The height of that building as well 15 report in Pravda, reported The New vegetables and meat pies, which were newspapers, about 500 miles away. as the next one housing the reactor was York Times and The Washington Post barred from the streets in mid-May, are Had our reporters been based closer 71.2 meters. The roof over the 500- on June 16. back in business. Local fish are being to the area immediately affected by the square-meter area was on fire within At a recent meeting of the Kiev sold again and swimming in the Dniepe catastrophe, we might have had earlier seven minutes after the explosion. The Communist Party, plant director A. is also allowed now, although people and slightly more detailed reports. firefighting installations inside the Bryukhanov and chief engineer N. are advised not to play soccer or volley- Somewhat more complete stories of building were then damaged. Fomin, as well as other individuals and ball on the sand or lie directly on the the Chornobyl disaster were carried in At 1:45 a.m. Lt. Kibenok led the fire- organizations, including the Commu- sand when sunbathing. the newspapers of Kiev, the ancient fighting over the reactor building by nist Party itself, were criticized for (Continued on page 15) capital of Ukraine. In this city of 2.5 means of an aerial ladder. Since many failing to take charge of the situation, million, three widely read newspapers chemicals were then on fire, poisonous both during and after the accident. are Radianska Ukraina, Molod U- gasses were in the air. Firefighters had Mr. Bryukhanov and Mr. Fomin Drug addiction krainy and Pravda Ukrainy. (They are to work at heights of 32 to 70 meters. were fired, according to the Pravda available on this continent 10 days after Soon Lts. Pravyk and Kibenok and report, because "in the difficult circum- publication, and we can read them at Major Leonid Teliatnykov were taken stances of the accident, they were not new Soviet problem least a week before the U.S.