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Famine bill goes to State Department; Aleksei Nikitin is dead; gains more co-sponsors in Congress fought for workers' rights in USSR WASHINGTON - House Resolu­ In the Senate, Sen. Bradley on May 7 tion 4459, known as the "Ukrainian sent a "Dear Colleague" letter to all by Bohdan Nahaylo Famine Bill," has received more co- members asking them to co-sponsor S sponsors and was recently referred to 2456. MUNICH - The recent death has the State Department for study and Recent co-sponsors of the bill in the been reported of the leading Soviet comments, according to Americans for House are Reps. Howard Berman (D– workers'-rights campaigner and poli­ Human Rights in Ukraine. Calif.), Lawrence G. Smith (D-Fla.), tical prisoner Aleksei Nikitin. A The bill, which was introduced in the Bill Young (D-FIa.) and Benjamin long-standing victim of the political House by Rep. James Florio (D-N.J.) Gilman (R-N.Y.), bringing the total abuse of psychiatry, the 47-year old and in the Senate as S 2456 by Sen. Bill number of sponsors in the House to 84. former coal-mining engineer from Bradley (D-N.J.), calls forthe establish­ On the Senate side, Sen. Dennis De– Ukraine had apparently been releas­ ment of a congressional commission to Concini (D-Ariz.), has agreed to co- ed from forcible confinement in a investigate the Great Famine in Ukraine sponsor the bill. He joins Sen. Bradley, mental hospital only weeks before he (1932-33). which killed 7 million people, as well as Sens. Gary Hart (D-Colo.). died of stomach cancer. and the Kremlin's role in perpetrating and Walter D. Huddleston (D-Ky.). in He had spent 10 years in mental what has come to be known as the supporting the measure. hospitals because of his defense of" "Ukrainian holocaust." According to AHRU. it is significant workers' rights, advocacy of inde­ that three out of the four congressmen pendent trade -unions and exposure For more on N. J. politicians 'in voive– supporting the bill are members of the of working conditions in the Donbas ment with the famine hill, see box on House Foreign Affairs Committee to mining region. page 3. ^ which the measure has been referred. Of Together with Vladimir K!ebanov, The State Department, is expected to the 19 members comprising the two Л"8ІЗОТІ coal miner fromthe Ukrainian review the measure and offer its recom­ subcommittees which were commis­ Donbas region, Nikitin will be re­ mendations regarding the ad visibility of sioned to review the bill and submit membered as a courageous pioneer Aleksei Nikitin establishing such a commission. - recommendations to the House, nine of free trade unionism in the Soviet In other developments regarding the are already co-sponsors. Union even before the remarkable he was born into a peasant family, legislation. Rep. Florio has called on The Bradley letter coincides with emergence of the Polish independent the youngest of. 10 children. One Reps. Dan Mica (D-Fla.) and Lee similar letters sent to all members of trade union organization Solidarity. ot his sisters died during the famine Hamilton (D-lnd.), chairmen, respec­ Congress by Dr. Petro Stercho, chair­ While at the end of 1977 Klebanov of 1933, and two of his brothers were tively, of the House Subcommittee on man of the National Committee to was the first to organize an indepen­ killed during World War II. A natural Asian and Pacific Affairs and the Commemorate Genocide Victims in dent trade union organization in the leader, he was good in school, held Subcommittee on International Security Ukraine (1932-33). In his letter. Dr. USSR — the Association of Free important positions in the Komso­ and Scientific Affairs, to schedule Stercho urges law-makers to back the Trade Unions of Workers in the mol, and graduated in electro-me­ hearings on the bill. famine commission bill. Soviet Union — Nikitin was the first chanics from the Donetske Technical Soviet workers'-rights activist to School. He was drafted and served in actually take Western journalists to a the Northern Fleet. After his dis­ major Soviet industrial center and let charge from the armed forces in Soviets quit Olympic Games them see for themselves the condi­ 1962, Nikitin returned to his former tions in which Soviet workers have to job as an electro-mechanic at a coal MOSCOW - The Soviet Union mounted in playing host for the Games live. Although in recent years he had mine in the Donbas. announced on May 8 that it would not and considerably weakened competi­ been treated with massive doses of At this stage he became active in take part in the Olympic Games in Los tion in many sports, creating deep drugs and as a result of this was in protesting on behalf of workers' Angeles this summer. resentments. danger of losing his eyesight, he rights. He opposed the unjust distri­ The following day. East Germany refused to capitulate and remained to bution of bonuses, apartments and and Bulgaria said that they would not Concerns about defections the end true to his beliefs. other perquisites by the manage­ be sending teams to the Games, and ment. Nikitin became a member of similar announcements are expected The possibility of defections was Early years an "initiative group of workers and shortly from other Soviet satellite another sensitive issue that may have Communists" which succeeded in countries. According to his personal history, achieving the dismissal of the direc­ A statement issued by the Soviet related by Nikitin to the Soviet tor of the mine and his expulsion National Olympic Committee said the psychiatrist Dr. Anatoliyi Koryagin, (Continued on page 10) participation of Soviet athletes was impossible because of "the gross flout­ ing" of Olympic ideals by the United States. In particular, the statement, distributed by the press agency TASSv cited plans by groups to stage anti- Soviet demonstrations during the games and the American refusal to ban such protests. contributed to the Soviet decision, Although the Soviets insisted that although only one Soviet citizen was their action was not a boycott. man\ defected since the USSR entered the experts said they believed the Soviets Olympics in 1952 — and he voluntary decided to withdraw from the Games in returned to his country later. In Los retaliation for the U.S. boycott of the Angeles, however, several citizens' Moscow Olympics in 1980 in response groups, including the Ban the Soviets to the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. coalition, have publicly stated that they Others thought the Soviets hoped to planned to encourage defections among emoarrass the Reagan administration. Soviet and East European athletes. The Alma-Ata Special Psychiatric Hospital where Aleksei Nikitin was held Despite official statements mocking The coalition, which was formed before his death. the boycott of 1980, it seriously under­ after the Soviets shot down an unarmed mined the efforts that the Kremlin had (Continued on page 12) THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, MAY 13, 1984 No. 20 Sakharov declares hunger strike Estonian prisoner beaten as ailing wife faces prosecution for speaking native language MOSCOW - Yelena G. Bonncr, the MUNICH - Estonian political pri­ wife of exiled Soviet human-rights soner Mart Niklus was badly beaten activist Dr. Andrei Sakharov, is under recently after being dragged' from the investigation for "defaming the Soviet visiting room of Chistopol Prison for system" and has been barred from ignoring an order that he stop speaking leaving the closed city of Gorky, a friend to his mother in their native Estonian. of the couple reported on May 9. According to USSR News Brief According to a story in The New published here. Mr. Niklus declared a York Times, the friend said that Dr. hunger strike shortly after the incident, Sakharov, who was banished to Gorky which reportedly took place in March. four years ago, has begun a hunger He said that he would continue the fast strike to demand medical treatment for until authorities allow him to use his his wife abroad. native language during visits. Ms. Bonner, who has had several Mr. Niklus, 49. was an English heart attacks, was one of the founding teacher and zoologist before his arrest members in,1976 of the Moscow Hel­ in 1980 on charges of disseminating sinki Group, an unofficial citizen's anti-Soviet materials and listening to committee that monitored Soviet com­ Voice of America broadcasts with his pliance with the human-rights provi­ students. He was subsequently sen­ sions of the 1975 Helsinki Accords. The Yelena G. Bonner tenced to 10 years in a labor camp and group was intensely persecuted and five years' internal exile, a form of disbanded in 1982. Russian republic's criminal code, which forced residence. The friend, Jrina G. Kristi, a matha– carries a maximum sentence of three He previously served a term from metician who managed to talk to Dr. years in a labor camp for first offenders. 1958 to 1966 under provisions of the old Sakharov and his wife May 6 for three She said she had also been threatened Article 58section of the Criminal Code Mart Niklus minutes in Gorky, said the couple told under Article 64, the treason statute, of the Russian SFSR, "betrayal of the Niklus was ordered to stop speaking her Ms. Bonner, 61, had been put under which carries a maximum penalty of motherland." Estonian. When he answered that he investigation and barred from leaving death. The beating, incident occurred when had a legal right to speak the language, the city. She said Ms. Bonner had also The charges against Ms. Bonner and his mother. Elfrieda, came to visit him he was forcibly dragge"d from the been threatened with charges of trea­ the hunger strike seem to explain some in Chistopol, some 800 miles east of her visiting area and beaten. There is son. of the accusations that were published home town of Tartu, Estonia. Shortly nothing in Soviet law that forbids the Dr. Sakharov, Mrs. Kristi said, prominently in the Soviet press on May after the beginning of the visit. Mr. use of any non-Russian language. began a hunger strike on Wednesday, 4. May 2, to seek help for his ailing wife. TASS, the Soviet news agency, said She quoted Dr. Sakharov as saying of that Dr. Sakharov and his wife had his wife that he would "fast to the very plotted with diplomats in the U.S. Thousands protest in Poland end if they do not let her go abroad for Embassy to start an anti-Soviet cam­ medical treatment." paign using a hunger strike by Dr. WARSAW - Thousands of riot yet more caravans of reinforcements Mrs. Kristi said Ms. Bonner told her Sakharov, but that the operation had policemen and hundreds of armored were stashed intrucksand busesaround that an investigation had been opened been "foiled" through "timely mea­ vehicles surrounded the capital's Old the nearby university and on the river against her under Article 190-1 of the sures" taken by Soviet authorities. Town on May 3, but protesters never­ road, where most demonstrators were theless managed to stage an impromptu eventually driven. Horse-mounted Solidarity demonstration, reported The police waited there, too. New York Times. Authorities brutalize jailed poet Several thousand mostly young de­ monstrators rallied in the picturesque ФІ JERSEY CITY, N.J. - Imprisoned market square after an evening liturgy, poet Irvna Ratushynska recently had a chanting "Solidarity!" and "Down with bout with pneumonia after contracting the junta!" the disease while in a punishmcnl cell (Meanwhile, prosecutors have filed for her part in a hunger strike in the criminal charges against at least 28 of women's labor camp in Mordovia 100 people detained in May Day distur­ The cathedral, which holds 5.000 where she is being held. bances in the Gdansk area, according to people, overflowed onto the street, and Ms. Ratushynska, 29, was part of a press reports.) the crowd defiantly held up the V sign of group of women political prisoners who Long before the liturgy in the Old resistance and sang the church hymn. staged a lengthy hunger strike late last Town began. 20 police vehicles, includ­ "Fatherland and freedom restore to us. year to protest campconditions. Autho­ ing two water cannon, were packed in О Lord." over the loudspeakers' orders rities finally decided to force-feed the Castle Square at the entrance to the to disperse and over the wailing sirens. inmates, and Ms. Ratushynska was said reconstructed Old Town. Before the Before the police finally arrived, to have suffered a concussion during the liturgy ended, there were nine water thousands of people sang the national procedure. cannons in the vicinity, lines of police anthem and shouted "Lech Walesa." She was placed in a punishment cell vehicles encircled the square and rows "Free the political prisoners"and "Long on December 7. 1983. and was not of hclmetcd riot police blocked off the live the Pope." released until December 23. Earlier this narrow cobblestone streets, the Times They waved Solidarity banners and year, she again was put in a punishment said. tore down the official flags put up by the cell, where she caught pneumonia. The side streets for five blocks away government for May Day, the Times Ms. Ratushynska. a Ukrainian-born were filled with more police vans and said. Iryna Ratushynska poet of Polish descent, was sentenced in March 1983 to seven years in a labor camp and five years' internal exile after Dissident sketch being found guilty of "anti-Soviet agitation and propaganda." After her trial, she was held fora lime Ukrainian Weekly S. Huzey in a Kiev prison, where authorities confiscated exercise books in which she FOUNDED 1933 had copied works by Shcvchcnko. BORN: 1928. Pushkin and other writers. She had Ukrainian weekly newspaper published by the Ukrainian National Association Inc., a fraternal OCCUPATION: Unknown. obtained the book from the prison non-profit association, at 30 Montgomery St, Jersey City, NJ. 07302. LATEST ARREST: 1974. library. (The Ukrainian Weekly - USPS 570-870) CHARGE: "Treason" under Article Ms. Ratushynska later received a Also published by the UNA: Svoboda, a Ukrainian-language daily newspaper. 56 of the Ukrainian Criminal Code letter from prison officials informing for membership in the Organization her that the poems she had copied had The Weekly and Svoboda: UNA: of Ukrainian Nationalists. "an ideologically harmful, slanderous (201) 434-0237, 434-0807, 434-3036 (201) 451-2200 SENTENCE: 10 years in a labor character." camp. Before her arrest in 1.982, Ms. Yearly subscription rate: S8, UNA members - S5. CAMP ADDRESS: Mr. Huzey. Ratushynska, a physicist, had her who is from the Rivne region in poetry published in samvydav, Soviet Postmaster, send address changes to: Ukraine, is being held in a political underground publications, and her THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY Editor Roma Hadzawycz P.O. Box 346 Araoettta editor Geone Bohdan Zirycky camp. signature had appeared on numerous Asadftant adttoi: Malta KokxnayaU appeals on behalf of imprisoned hu­ Jersey City, NJ. 07303 man-rights activists. No. 20 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, MAY 13,1984 ."' . 3 Soviets intensify Afghan push Prof. Hunczak defends Ukrainians NEW YORK - An Afghan insur­ have landed light tanks from heli­ gent spokesman said on May 7 that the copters, the Times said. against "collaborationist" label Soviet Union's spring, offensive in Mr. Rahim said he was in frequent MONTREAL - Nazi-hunter Simon, Afghanistan, although more intense in a touch with Burhammudin Rabbani. the Wiesenthal is "highly irresponsible" to key valley north of the capital, had leader of the rebel organization, and accuse many Ukrainians of having expanded into heavy attacks against Ahmed Shah Masood. commander of "collaborated" with the Nazis during guerrillas around the country, reported the guerrillas in the Panjshir Valley. World War II, according to Prof. Taras The New York Times. Hunczak. who was quoted in the April The spokesman, Abdul Rahim, a Battle for tunnel 14 issue of The Gazette here. і political officer for the Islamic Society Prof. Hunczak. a Ukrainian history rebel organization, said at a news - The rebel spokesman also said that, scholar at Rutgers University, said conference in Manhattan that the in fighting around thi^Salang Pass and "collaboration with the Germans was. Soviet objective appeared to be to wipe tunnel north of Kabul, on one of the for many Ukrainians, a necessity of out resistance in the Panjshir Valley, 50 main roads to the Soviet Union. Soviet life." forces, lost 35 tanks, 15 armored per­ miles north of Kabul, and in otherafeas He was in Montreal on April 13 to sonnel carriers, 90 fuel-tank trucks and of north-central Afghanistan. speak on Ukraine and Germany —"The 100 other vehicles. He said 250 Soviet Question of Collaboration" — at Mc– "This is the time for the American troops and 60 Afghan government Gill University. Prof. Hunczak said in people to press Congress for more aid soldiers were killed, the Times reported. an interview that "collaboration" is a for our cause," Mr. Rahim said at He added that in other recent action Freedom House, the human-rights much abused term which must be north of the tunnel and pass. 30 tanks, understood within the context of the group based here. He said the insur­ five armored personnel vehicles and 50 gents did not have the heavy weapons situation in which it occurs. fuel-tank trucks had been destroyed. In the case of Ukraine in the early needed to shift from the defensive to the French medical teams in Afghanistan offensive. 1940s, the German Army was well- have given some credibility in their received by many Ukrainians who Mr. Rahim said that Jalalabad, on reports to the insurgents' statements. the main road from Kabul to Peshawar. thought "even the devil must be better One team said it had counted at least than the Soviets." under whose rule Pakistan, was surrounded and that the 600 destroyed Soviet tanks since it highway was cut. Elsewhere, airborne thousands of Ukrainians had perished started work in the country. The teams the previous decade. troops have been used to encircle and are sponsored by Amite Franco-Af– Prof. Hunczak said Mr. Wiesenthal, Prof. Taras Hunczak cut off villages believed to harbor ghane. a Paris-based organization that insurgents. In some cases, Soviet forces who recently asked the Canadian go­ supports the insurgents' cause. vernment to investigate two Ukrainian the Poles, have the distinction of never immigrants believed to be in Quebec, is having collaborated for the victory of "smearing Ukrainians" in making such the Third Reich." Set up endowment fund for requests. Prof. Hunczak praised Mr. Wiesen­ "To call them Nazis," Prof. Hunczak thal for having done a "credible job in Ukrainian studies at York University said, "is not to know the history, or to be the past." by said that when the legen­ irresponsible." dary Nazi-hunter takes aim at Ukrai­ TORONTO - An endowment fund nian history and comparative studies on "There was never a fascist party in nians, "he is hunting headlines rather for Ukrainian studies has been esta­ Eastern Europe. He is also the recipient Ukraine." he said. "The Ukrainians, like than criminals." blished at York University here, the of the Antonovych Foundation inter­ Ukrainian Canadian Committee recent­ national award for the best scholarly ly reported. work in the field of Ukrainian studies in The fund, which was launched by the 1981-82 for his work entitled "The N.J. politicians especially active UCC. will ensure the teaching of Ukrai­ Mazepists: Ukrainian Separatism in the nian history courses at York on a Eighteenth Century." Prof. Subtelny is in promoting the famine bill permanent basis. York University has an editor and translator with complete also agreed to make the study of Ukrai­ fluency in not only Ukrainian and JERSEY CITY, N.J.-NewJersey nian politics an integral part of its English but in Polish. Russian and politicians, including Gov. Thomas curriculum arid to appoint to its faculn, German; he also has a knowledge of Kean. have been lining up in support on a permanent basis, a leading specia­ (Continued on page IS) of a bill that would establish a list in the field. congressional commission to investi­ The UCC has also committed itself to gate the Great Famine in Ukraine establishing a S 100.000 endowment (1932-33). „ fund solely for Ukrainian studies. This UACC Chicago branch The bill, introduced in the House will allow not only the teaching of by Rep. James Florio (D-N.J.) as Ukrainian subjects at York, but it will holds meeting H.R. 4459 and in the Senate by Sen. enable research and publication in Bill Bradley (D-N.J.) as S 2456. has Ukrainian studies, preparation of teach­ CHICAGO - Oleksiy Konoval was -received support from both ing materials and the initiation of elected head of the Chicago branch of houses of the state legislature, as well refresher courses for teachers df Ukrai­ the Ukrainian American Coordinating as from the Newark City Council and nian, public lectures, conferences, Council at its general meeting held here the Essex County Board of Free­ student scholarships and library ac­ on April 12 holders, which passed resolutions quisitions. In his remarks. Mr. Konoval called backing the legislation. The establishment of the fund began for unity in the Ukrainian community, If passed, the bill would create a as an experimental program in Ukrai­ noting that continued divisiveness has special 21-member commission to nian history and politics in 1981, under forced many young people away from examine events surrounding th.e the auspices of the UCC, the Canadian organized community life. Great Famine, which killed an esti­ Institute of Ukrainian Studies and the Also elected to the executive were– mated 7 million Ukrainians and was Tom Kean Faculty of Arts at York University. Prof. Vasyl Markus, Andriy Ivaniw, the result of a deliberate political will enable the American public and According to the UCC, the number of Mykhailo Olshansky and Oresta Fedy– policy orchestrated by Stalin to U.S. politicians to better assess students taking Ukrainian history niak, vice chairmen: Mari Ripeckyj, destroy the Ukrainian nation. Soviet behavior in the future. courses has tripled since last year. In secretary; Yaroslaw Hankewych, finan­ The resolution was signed by view of this success. Dr. Petro Hli– cial secretary; and Marian Chamiw. Governor's letter Jerome D. Greco, president of the bowych, president of the UCC-Ontario treasurer. Essex County Board of Freeholders, Council and Prof. Juriy Darewych of In his remarks. Prof. Markus said In an April 18 letter to The Week­ and several freeholders - Pearl York initiated negotiations (in the name that those who left Ukraine had an ly, Gov. Kean strongly endorsed the Beatty, Angelo Tifelli. Arthur L. of the UCC) with the university with the "obligation" to the homeland, while legislation. Clay, Adrianne Davis, Thomas aim of transforming the temporary Myron Kuropas. UNA vice president, "It is important for the world over Giblin, Corrina A. Kay, Monroe arrangement into a permanent one. stressed the need for Ukrainians to to realize the Soviet Union's role in Lustbader and Joseph F. Parlavec– In November 1983. a special search become involved in the American this gciiot.ilo v4 liiv.ii the) have been chio. committee appointed by the university, political process. so careful to keep hidden." the Gov. The Newark Council resolution, nominated Prof. Orest Subtelny. the Dr. Roman Baranowsky, who at­ wrote. He called Soviet actions was introduced by Councilman Ro­ current visiting professor in Ukrainian tended the meeting as a representative leading up to the famine, such as the nald L. Rice. studies, as its choice for the projected of the central UACC executive, also confiscation of grain from the pea­ According to Americans for Hu­ permanent position. emphasized the need for greater in­ sants, "another example of the Soviet man Rights in Ukraine (AHRU), a Prof. Subtelny holds a doctorate in volvement in non-Ukrainian politics. Union's policy to gain territorial Newark-based national human- history from Harvard University and is The meeting approved the by-laws control through inhumane tactics." rights group that initiated the coun­ the author of several books and nu­ for the branch and adopted a series of The freeholders' resolution noted cil's action, similar resolutions were merous scholarly articles on topics, resolutions outlining UACC efforts the importance of a special famine introduced in the New Jersey State ranging from Ukrainian history of the toward creating one, national central commission in revealing "pertinent Assembly by James Zangari. and in Kozak era, relations between Ukraine organization representing the interests facts about the Soviet system" which the State Senate by John Caufield. , І , , ,лц ,л and the Islamic world to modern Ukrai­ of all Ukrainians/ - ---'– "--v--.v.v..V. УгГ.УІУ.У- ЛУ'---''"- - '-'' - "- THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, MAY 13. 1984 No. 20 WCFU announces fund drive Activists meet Kansas governor TORONTO - The Presidium ol the promote the political, cultural religious, Secretariat of the World Congress of national and social-economic rights of Free Ukrainians recently announced the Ukrainian nation in its struggle for that it will conduct a fund drive during independent statehood. Mav. which has been designated as In addition, the WCFU announced it WCFU month. will continue to inform the world at According to the presidium, all large about the Great Famine in U– monies donated will go toward the kraine (1932-33); its defense of Ukrai­ needs of the Ukrainian community, nian national– and human-rights acti­ specifically toward activities reflecting vists and to focus on the defense of the resolutions passed during the Fourth Yuriy Shukhevych. WCFU held last December in Toronto. The resolutions put forth at the world For these as well as numerous other body's congress were primarily con­ causes for the good of the Ukrainian cerned with the fateof Ukrainians living community throughout the world, the in Ukraine. Because the WCFU has Presidium of the Secretariat of WCFU declared 1984 as the year against Russi– has appealed to the Ukrainian commu­ fication. the WCFU has pledged to nity to send donations to: 2118A Bloor fight the Russification of Ukrainian St. West. Toronto. Ont. Canada M6S culture bv Soviet authorities and to IM8.

Plans now under way for On March 30, a group from the Ukrainian community in Kansas City paid a visit to Gov. John Carlin and his wife at the Kansas Capital. The group 1985 Youth for Christ conclave brought Easter greetings from the Ukrainians in Kansas, and presented them with decorated Ukrainian Easter eggs and literature on Ukraine. SIAMFORD. Conn. - When the Pictured (frpm left) are: Bill and Helen Zaraska, Luba and Dr. Michael Palij, Youth lor Christ Convention drew to a Tonia Husar, the governor and his wife, Anna and Stanley Proski, Nadia and close in Chicago last November 13, Paul Stevko. man\ of the participants were already making plans for the next convention, scheduled lor I9N5 in Stamford. Now. plans lor that convention arc Yonkers parish raises S22,000 moving along quite smoothly, accord­ ing to the convention committee. The for St Basil Seminary endowment first general meeting was held at St. Mary's Villa in Sloatsburg, N.Y. on YONKERS. N.Y. - The St. Michael Richard Kotele/. Basil Kinal. Dr. Yar Saturday. April 14.and wasattended by Church parish here has raised S22.000 Mociuk. Gloria Anna Smolen and 52 young adults who are ready to roll up for the St. Basil College Seminary Bohdan Witiuk. their shirt sleeves and get to work. Endowment Fund in less than six The committee is continuing to work During this first meeting, the date of months. intensively throughout the Yonkers the convention was sent for June 28-30. Bishop Basil Losten. president of St. area and all the members are pleased 1985 and the Marriott Hotel in Stam­ Basil College, in making the announce­ and encouraged by the generous support ford was chosen as the convention site. ment on April 30. praised the local given by the community. Contributions The honorary head of the convention is Fund Raising Committee for this splen­ and pledges have ranged from'SlOO to Bishop Basil H. Lostcn. eparch of did effort for the seminary. SI.000 and over. Stamford, and the diocesan coordina­ The Bishop of Stamford also stated The Youth for. Christ logo, designed by The National Fund Raising Commit­ tor is Sister Dorothea Mihalko. that the total cash received to date from tee, chaired by Joseph Lesawycr. has The aim of the convention is for Andrij Hanuszczak for the 1985 Con­ all sources was S560.000. Pledges and vention. established other local fund raising young adult Ukrainians between the bequests in wills amounted to an addi­ committees in Rochester. N.Y.. Parma. ages of 18-35 to grow in a personal director. Other committee heads in­ tional S200.000. Ohio, St. Petersburg, Fla, and New- relationship with Christ, according to clude: Pavlo Hayda, public relations: The Yonkers committee, with Msgr. York City, and is planning more. the planning committee. . Taras Hankewich, accommodations: Peter Fedorchuck as honorary chair­ During the meeting, executive officers Joseph S/upa. booklet: Philip Weiner. man, is composed of Sviataslov N. The present goal of the Seminary were elected and assignments were liturgical: Olha Shcvchuk. sessions and Kocybala. chairman: Walter Kozicky. Endowment Fund is SI.5 million. It will distributed among the participants. The program: Ihor Mid/ak. social/hospita­ vice chairman: Eleanor T. Choly. secre­ be a permanent fund with the income executive officers arc: Kristinc Kaluk. lity: and JohnMichalczyk. registration. tary; Helen Patrick, treasurer: and only dedicated to the maintenance and convention chairperson: Patricia For more information about the members Paul Bobay. Roman Fedirka. operation of St. Basil College Seminary. Mokrycki, recording secretary: Irene convention please contact: Ukrainian Zolobko. corresponding secretary; Youth for Christ Committee, P.O. Box Mark Moro7owich. treasurer and head 2311, Stamford. Conn. 06906-031 I; of finances: and Rev. Basil Juri. spiritual (203)655-6310. North Dakota college gets grant Hot Чапта: Ukrainians to study Ukrainian immigrants DICKINSON. N.D. - The Ukrai­ photograph the persons interviewed in flourish in Georgia's capital nian Cultural Institute of Dickinson their present life style. These will be State College has been awarded a grant enlarged and displayed as part of the ATLANTA — Steps are being Americans in the Atlanta area have to conduct a study of the North Dakota symposium. In addition old photo­ finalized in Atlanta for the arrange­ been gathering, at various limes, to Ukrainian immigrants and settlers. The graphs will be copied for UCI's per­ ment of an organizational meeting to maintain their heritage, traditions grant in the amount of S 10,025 was manent file. investigate the feasibility of creating and culture. In the spirit of the early made by the North Dakota Humanities and establishing a Ukrainian Cul­ Ukrainian pioneers to the Americas, Council, an affiliate of the National I'ha.v. thtee provides lor a sympo­ tural Center for the area. efforts have been successful in pre­ Endowment for the Humanities. , sium to be held at Dickinson State May According to a representative of senting Ukraine to the public. How­ 3 and 4. 1985. The symposium will the Chamber of Commerce. Atlanta ever, to date, the Ukrainian commu­ The project title is North Dakota interpret the interviews and the ethnic is one of the major growing metro­ nity has not really had a place to call Ukrainian Oral History and is under the communities that the settlers founded. politan areas of the Southeast, with its own. Two newcomers to the area, direction of Dr. Michael T. Sopcr. The panelists will discuss the similarities over 75 percent of the major Fortune first separately, then by a chance professor of history at Dickinson. The and differences of past experiences with 500 companies having operations meeting in February, began investi­ project began in April and continues those of the present. Dr. Soper said. there. Ukrainian migration into gating the idea of initiating such a through November 1985. Georgia has been steady over the project. To this end. all are invited to The Ukrainian Cultural institute will publish a volume of abridged versions years, with the I980's showing more attend a gathering on June 3 at 3 p.m. According to Dr. Soper. the project of the symposium presentations, some promise due to career advancement in the main conference auditorium encompasses several phases. Phase one photographs, an essay of the informa­ opportunities, pleasant weather and of the DeKalb Federal Bank Build­ is the interview project, involving 33 tion gathered and several abridged overall economic growth presenting ing. Dunwoody Village. Chamblec– North Dakota Ukrainian immigrants interviews. themselves to the Ukrainian Ameri­ Dunwoody Road. and settlers. The interviews will be can family. At present. Ukrainians For further details please contact transcribed and made available to The enlarged photographs will be here estimate that their community is lreneus Harasymiak at (404) 396- scholars for interpretation. made available to the Northern Plains nearing 250 families. 5866 or. Stephen P. Hallick. Jr.. at Ethnic Festival held yearly at Dickinson. For almost two decades Ukrainian (404) 476-0351. Phase two is the'photograph collec­ and will later be placed in the archives of K, fJAf. ,-л..-" --. - . -'-У:' -– .' 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UNA'ers attend ceremony naming Greetings on the UNA'S 90th anniversary Robert Cheloc municipal judge Ukrainian National Republic (government-in-exile) ШЯШШШЛІ-–" - :'ШІІІІ1 Bw^ - ДВР "Upon my return from a three-month trip around the world, 1 am met with a ^кг о. \шА most pleasant task - to greet you, the president of the Ukrainian National Association, on this unique occasion, the 90th jubilee of your organization. Ш^ ^^Шк Ьшшшк ” 'ш. "The UNA, in the past 90 years of its existence, has performed colossal work, and Щ пг іхЯШШшк -щг ' Ш," its accomplishments for the Ukrainian people in Ukraine and throughout the world ^к^Шк will always be a lasting monument which will shine like a'beacon for future JV; generations of UNA'ers in the United States and Canada. "It is especially pleasant for me to greet you and on this occasion to underscore the all-Ukrainian statesman-like approach of your organization to matters of Ukrainian reality which is geared toward the rebuilding of the now-occupied-by- Moscow communist-imperalists. Ukrainian National Republic of 1918-20: and Щ your attitude toward the government-in-exile of this Republic - the legitimate heir and the representative of the mandates of January 22, 1918 and 1919 — deserve praise and sets an example for others to follow. "May the future decades, in particular your centennial, be witness to the realizing of our mutural goal - the shining of Ukraine among nations of the free world.

Dr. Yaroslav Rudnytsky 1 Premier of the Ukrainian National Republic (government-in-exile) Jersey City Mayor Gerald McCann (at left) stands beside Robert Cheloc, whom he appointed a permanent muncipal judge on April 30. Next to Mr. Cheloc, a prominent attorney who had been the acting judge, is Harold Zielaznicki, councilman-at-large. Following the ceremony, a Ukrainian Institute of America reception was held at the Ukrainian National Home. Among those attending both events were Supreme UNA President John Flis and Walter Sochan, UNA supreme secretary and 13-year "The Ukrainian Institute of America greets and salutes the Ukrainian National member of the Jersey City Board of Adjustments. Also there were Ulana Diachuk, UNA Association on its 90th anniversary. From its very inception, the Ukrainian ' supreme treasurer, and Alexander Blahitka, UNA Building manager and a nine-year veteran National Association has been a bulwark of the Ukrainian-American community, a of the Jersey City Rent Leveling Board. Present, too, were Joseph LeSawyer, honorary friend to those who sought new lives on these shores and a principle defender of the member of the UNA Supreme Assembly, and Daniel Warchol, a newly appointed member of just cause of our brethren in Ukraine. the rent board. "The Ukrainian Institute of America which shares many goals of the UNA wishes you continued success in working for the common good of our community and Chicago bowling tourney slated looks forward to continuing cooperation between our two organizations."

CHICAGO - Chicago's Ukrainian Admission for a Saturday night social is Walter Nazarewicz National Association district will spon­ S5. and the gala banquet, scheduled for President of the Board of Directors sor its 18th annual national bowling Sunday evening, is S25. Many prizes tournament here on Memorial Day and trophies will be awarded. The first- weekend. place men's team will receive S750: the The tourney for men and women, will first-place women's team will be award­ Ukrainian American Veterans be held on the far west side of the city, at ed S500. The second-place men's team the Town and Country Bowling Lanes prize is S500, and second-place women's "Your mission of service to your membership and commitment to preserving and on North Avenue in Northlake, III..and team is S250, fostering our rich Ukrainian heritage has earned you the respect and gratitude of will feature both singles and doubles the Ukrainian community. play. Bowling headquarters for partici­ For further information, contact Dan "On the occasion of your 90th anniversary the Ukrainian American Veterans pants and spectators will be nearby at Bardygula. 4940 W. Parker St.. Chi­ joins the many organizations who recognize and appreciate the UNA contributions the Country Club Motel also on North cago. 60639. (312) 622-6639: or UNA to the growth and development of free Ukrainians everywhere." Avenue, east of First Avenue. Supreme Advisor Helen Olek Scott, The cost of the bowling tournament is 7644 W. Rosedaie Ave.. Chicago, Edward A. Zetick S27 per person, plus SI. 50 for all events. 60631. (312)631-4625. National Commander Dmytro Bykovetz, Jr. Mecca for young professionals? Adjutant "Club Suzy-Q," of course Educational Council by Eugene Iwanciw August 11-18. It is a vacation plan developed by young Ukrainian pro­ "The executive board of the Educational Council greets the Ukrainian National The month of May has arrived and fessionals for young Ukrainian pro­ Association on its jubilant 90th anniversary of great work and success on behalf of as the weather warms up, thoughts fessionals. Ukrainians in the United States and Canada. turn to summer and vacation, is it The week's events will include "The UNA has always been and continues to be attentive to the needs of our going to be the same old routine of tennis lessons, swimming, lectures on youth and our schools, supporting and rewarding deserving students, upholding going to the beach? Or is it the contemporary topics, sports events, the preservation and development of our Ukrainian language and culture..." mountains? Or does one spend a daily aerobics, rafting, movies (for small fortune for a vacation plan rainy days), and our own Olympics. Dr. Evhen Fedorenko such as Club Med? The evenings will involve cocktail President What is a young Ukrainian pro­ get-togethers followed by a theme fessional to do for vacation? Why night including a "50s night", a Lina Andrienko Danchuk can't there be some place that offers traditional "vatra," a Ukrainian Secretary an opportunity for young pro­ dance, etc. But don't get nervous, you fessionals to meet in a relaxed setting don't have to participate in all the with a variety of activities such as activities. In fact, you can just sit boy for Roma tennis, swimming, movies, dances, around the pool and relax all week. parties, rafting, etc.? Well, now there The purpose, of "Club Suzy-Q" is is such a vacation plan. It's called to get young professionals from JERSEY CITY, NJ. - It is only appropriate that on this Mother's Day "Club Suzy-Q". around the country together so that (and on the UNA page) wehailthearrivalonApril24ofMarkianAndrij(orisit Anuny?) Had/ewyc/, who — all 5 pounds,'9.5 ounces of him:— provided "Club Suzy-Q" will be taking place all friends can see each other and make new friends.' It is designed for what last year we called a "dramatic rcaffirmation of gender" for bur editor- at Soyuzivka in the Catskill Moun­ in-chief, Ms. Roma Hadzewycz. tains of New York during the week of singels and marrieds. Basically, everyone is invited to come together Put another way, Roma had a baby. Mom and the young kozak are doing Mr. Iwanciw a a UNA supreme to relax and have a good time. fine and resting at home. (We had to talk Roma out of setting up a bassinet in advisor. (Coatinmd on page 15) her large desk drawer.) So. Roma, enjoy your first Mother's Day. 6 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, MAY 13,1984 No. 20

In observance of The Weekly's 50th Ukrainian Weelcl У From our pages in 1961 Soviets pull out "The voice of modern Ukraine," September 2, 1961. So, after much caterwauling about the overt "commercialization" of During the past two weeks the press of the world has carried the news of defections from under the Soviet regime. First there was Michail Klochko, a the Olympics and the alleged inability of the United States to scientist in the field of chemistry, who was granted asylum by Canada. A week later guarantee the safety of its sportsmen, the Soviet Union has decided not another defection was revealed - that of Mykola Sereda, electronics expert, who to send its professional athletes to Los Angeles. The primary motive, defected in Vienna. Last Sunday, Vsevolod Kravchenko, a writer on a tourist trip to of course,is to inflict revenge on the United States for boycotting the France, jumped from a third-floor window to freedom, and death, in Caen. 1980 Moscow Olympics, while at the same time inflicting political All three had this in common: they all opposed the Communist regime, and damage on President Ronald Reagan by implying tha,t his policies are interestingly enough all were Ukrainians. responsible for poisoning East–West relations and making Soviet Much is said about the continous struggle against the Moscow-directed regime in participation impossible. Ukraine but very often doubtful Moscow-directed regime in Ukraine but very often Already, some have compared the Soviet action to America's 1980 doubtful voices are heard which say. "Yes. the resistance was active once, but it is boycott. Yet, it should be noted that we boycotted the Games as a impossible for it still to exist." Others say simply. "Show us proof." direct response to 105,000 Soviet troops overrunning the sovereign And from time to time proof is shown. In 1947to 1949 entire groups of soldiers of nation of Afghanistan. The Soviet reasons for pulling out are hardly the Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA)accompiished planned crossings through the Iron Curtain to the West as living proof of the resistance movement. News, that compelling. They are withdrawing for purely political reasons, 1 dispatches of sabotage or trials of members of the revolutionary movement in not in response to any aggression, or in the face of a serious strategic or Ukraine seen through to the Western press every so often. In the 1956 Hungarian diplomatic crisis. In this election year, the Soviets hope that their uprising cases were noted where Ukrainian members of the Red Army aided the action will have an adverse effect.on the president's re-election rebels. Now. we have the recent defections and the most stirring of those is that of campaign by making it appear that his tough stand on such issues as 24-year-old Mykola Sereda. nuclear arms, defense and U.S. missiles in Europe has deprived the This young man's statement as reported by the press services, was plain and U.S. "people of Soviet participation in the L.A. Olympics. The strategy unequivocal. "As a Ukrainian 1 reject Russian rule over the other peoples of the betrays not only a flagrant ignorance of the American political process Soviet Union...," he was. to have said. but also of the American psyche. Clearly, the virulent hatred of a We do not pretend to know all the details and reasons behind Mykola Sereda's mean-spirited regime that tortures the Sakharovs, shoots down defection, because very little is still generally known. The fact is that this statment is unarmed civilian aircraft and endorses the bayoneting of children in unmistakably the voice of present-day Ukraine, the voice of a young person, born Afghanistan can only help a candidate such as Mr. Reagan, not hurt and reared under the Moscow-supported regime in his native country, but who"is him. not cowed by it, but instead reacts to it in a dramatic way. Moreover, this modern Ukrainian, one of those in whose hands the destiny of Ukraine will surely be placed And this brings us to a final point — the future of the Olympic does not speak in narrow terms which prevailed in the early days of Ukraine's movement. In simpler times, when nations lived and fought under national awakening. Instead, Mykola Sereda clearly states that as a Ukrainian he some sort of codes of honor, the idea of an international sports meet to rejects Russian rule over the other peoples of the Soviet Union, not just over bring out the purity of sports and competition may have been feasible. Ukraine. But today, do we really need a sports competition to show the This is the thinking of the modern statesman, and the nation-builder. This should superiority of our ideals — and our system of implementing them — also serve as the answer to those who wonder about the self-determination of over a marginally civilized country that is petrified of free expression, Ukrainians, and those who advocate the preservation of Russian Empire, be it that keeps its people oppressed in an Orwellian world of totalitaria­ White, Red. or what have you. nism, that locks people away in mental hospitals or dungeons for demanding that most fundamental of rights? Should we lend even a smattering of legitimacy to a regime by competing withacountrythat News and views will not allow an ailing old woman to leave for medical treatment, that shoots down a crowded jetliner, that keeps athletes virtual prisoners of their abilities, that maintains a stranglehold on Eastern Europe? Do Demjanjuk's attorney strongly criticizes we gain anything by competing with the Soviets, the Libyans, the Cubans, the Vietnamese, or is it they who gain by implying through KGB link in denaturalization cases athletic prowess that they can be counted among the countries of the The following are excerpts from an not as the Ukrainian traitor and war civilized world? address by Mark J. O'Connor delivered criminal of Sobibor, as the Russians In this light, we say good riddance to the Soviets and their teams. at the mid-year meeting of the Ukrai­ had charged, but as the Ukrainian mass While feeling sorry for the individual athletes of the Soviet Union and nian American Bar Association held in murderer "Ivan Grozny" of the Tre– its allies, life must go on. The Games will be played anyway, and it may East Hanover, N.J.. on April 28. Mr. blinka death camp. They said "Ivan be just as well because without the socialist professionals, the ideal of O'Connor is an attorney for John Grozny" was known to the five sur­ Demjanjuk. a Cleveland resident who amateurism that identities the Olympic ideal will prevail. As to the vivors only by this nickname. No last was stripped of his U.S. citizenship in name was recalled by any survivor. future, we would have nothing against a quadrennial sports 1981 for allegedly concealing his activi­ The photograph on the Trawniki I.D. competition for Western countries and their friends. After all, the ties as a concentration camp guard card, supplied by Moscow, was identi­ Olympic movement did without the Soviets until I952and can survive during World War II. fied by the Jewish survivors as resembl­ without them now. ing the Treblinka "Ivan." Chief Judge It was a great pleasure to receive the Frank Battisti closed the evidentiary Mother's Day invitation of the Ukrainian American loop by declaring that John Demjanjuk Bar Association to address the mid-year was the man depicted in the 45-year-old meeting on the issue of the ordeal of She's the one who answers our first cries, nurtures us from the start, Soviet-produced photograph. A deci­ John Demjanjuk. sion denaturalizing Mr. Demjanjuk was tends to our first bruises and most likely heard our first word, which The genesis of this case began in 1977 was probably "mama." quickly rendered by Judge Battisti. A with an article in the Soviet Way, a curiously weak appeal to the Circuit Mom is usually our biggest, most loyal fan and our harshest critic as publication known well as an organ of Court was dismissed and certification to well. She is the one who shares our joys and triumphs and our failures Moscow. Mr. Demjanjuk was accused the Supreme Court was denied. and disappointments with equal dosages of patience and understand­ in that article of the crime "betraying The case then went to a deportation ing. A mother's love is selfless; it knows no limits and endures all tests. the motherland" and with serving in a hearing as a nice, neat OSI-prcpared Mom invented the 25-hour day. No matter that she has a million and concentration camp in Sobibor, Po­ package, needing only a quick order of one things to do, she always has the time to make the "ouch" feel land. deportation and an appeal denial for better, help conjugate verbs for the next day's lesson, bake chocolate When the denaturalization case came John Demjanjuk to be delivered, as chip cookies — the chewy kind, of course. to trial, the Office of Special Investiga­ promised, to Moscow for "justice." tions (OSI) presented into evidence, a And so many of us are what we are today because of our mothers. certified-true copy of an I.D. card from Evidence altered "All that 1 am or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother,"are the words the Trawniki Training Camp, allegedly of Abraham Lincoln, but the sentiment rings true for so many of us. once in the possession of Mr. Dem­ The course of events, in this case, Mothers have been immortalized by so many artists, poets and janjuk. This evidence was supplied by began to change when a new defense writers. They have received honorable mentions on various awards the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the team discovered that the Russian evi­ shows by their celebrity children. USSR. The Embassy of the USSR in dence had been materially altered prior Their rewards have ranged from the handful of dandelions offered Washington attested that the original to its use against John Demjanjuk. The by the smallest of tots to the indelible tatooes on the arms of the I.D. card had been located in an archive West German witnesses used by the OSI biggest, brawniest of sons. in Vynnytsia. Ukrainian SSR. since then changed their testimony in favor of On this, her day, let us take an extra moment to tell her how much 1945. the accused." Despite the blatant at­ she is appreciated, how much her smile and her outstretched arms have Videotaped testimony of two wit­ tempts to cover up by representatives of nesses from the Federal Republic of the OSI. this fraud began to be exposed meant to us over the years. Let us also remember all the mothers who Germany and five viva voce survivor to the public. Immediate action was have passed on. witnesses from Israel were combined by thereafter taken by the OSI to convince the OSI to,"identify" John.Demjanjuk. ", ' (Continued on page 13)' ' No. 20 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, MAY 13,1984 7

Russification The Washington Connection from THE UKRAINIAN AMERICAN CAUCUS P.O. Box 23546. Washington, D.C. 20026 Mykhailo Horyn scores 'Russian messianic idea" The following excerpts are from a In an effort to keep the Ukrainian S.D.) introduced S.J.Res. 253 which statement made in 1967by Ukrainian American community informed about requests the president to designate political prisoner Mykhailo Horyn the policies, the issues, and the politics September 16 as "Ethnic American to the foreign affairs minister of the of Washington which affect the commu­ Day." The resolution is before the Ukrainian SSR. Mr. Horyn was nity, the Ukrainian American Caucus Senate Judiciary Committee and has 17 sentenced in 1982 to 15 years'impri­ (UA C) is inaugurating this column as a co-sponsors. A similar measure, sonment. regular feature in The Ukrainian Week­ H.J.Res. 535, was introduced in the ly. It will include timely information on House by Rep. Marcy Kaptur (D– It is not by chance that 1 address subjects of interest to the community at Ohio). It has 23 co-sponsors and is myself to you. Several thousand large including issues" of concern to pending in the House Post Office and kilometers from Ukraine, in the particular groups and organizations Civil Service Committee. remote political camps of the Rus­ within the community. Rep. Benjamin Gilman (R-N.Y.) sian Federation, events are taking The items which will b,e focused on introduced H.Con.Res. 294on April 26. place which directly concern you as include hearings, statements, bills and The resolution addresses the Soviet minister of foreign affairs of the resolutions in the Congress as well as interception of mail and the cost of Ukrainian Republic (SSR), of the policy decisions and statements made sending parcels to the USSR. It calls Ukrainian nation. by the administration. The purpose of upon the president to take certain ...On the day of victory over fascist "The Washington Connection"is infor­ actions against the Soviets to force Germany, Stalin raised a toast in mational, but individuals and groups compliance with international agree­ honor of the exceptional services are encouraged to express their views to ments on protection of mail. Rep. rendered by the Russian nation in the their elected representatives on any Gilman pointed out in his statement victory over the enemy. Thus the Mykhailo Horyn items of interest or concern. that the House Post Office and Civil green light was given to those who important means of strengthening The UA C welcomes any comments, Service Committee has been holding had for a long time been propagating unity among peoples on the inter­ suggestions, or questions about the hearings on this issue and has accumu­ the Russian messianic idea and national plane. items in the column or about the lated over 2,000 exhibits documenting preaching Russian chauvinism. He who advocates the endeavor to activities of the UA C. Our purpose is to Soviet interference with mail. The resolu­ In a sweeping move typical of promote the development of lan­ serve as an information source for the tion has 18 co-sponsors and was.referred Stalin, he declared entire nations to guages is very often branded a na­ community. to the Post Office and Civil Service be anti-Soviet and deported them to tionalist. Various means are used to Committee. Siberia. Within a few days the foster a new morality according to In a slight twist. Rep. Don Young (R– Crimea was cleared of Tartars, and which renouncing one's native lan­ Congressional statement Ark.) introduced H.Res. 448 on the Chechens, Ingush, Karachais and guage and switching to Russian as the update February 28. It calls on the president to others were deported. language of communication is not an bring before the General Assembly of At the end of the 1950s and begin­ amoral act, but, on the contrary, a the United Nations the question of the ning of the 1960s Russian chauvinists manifestation of international aware­ Yuriy Shukhevych was the subject of eligibility of the Byelorussian SSR and went further and began to provide a ness worthy of imitation. National two congressional statements recently. the Ukrainian SSR for membership in theoretical basis for their policies. consciousness is conditioned in this The first was on March 28 by Rep. the U.N. and seeks their expulsion. The The Agayevs, Desheriyevs, Kammaris way, while factories and a large Dante Fascell (D-Fla.) who also serves resolution is before the House Foreign (all writers who encouraged non- proportion of establishments of as chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee and has 12 co- Russian writers to use Russian) came higher education are Russified, and Affairs Committee and chairman of the sponsors. in droves as if on special order. They an artificial mingling of nations is Commission on Security and Coopera­ began by tackling problems of lan­ effected. Who would believe that the tion in Europe (Helsinki Commission). Administration update guage policy. Language is the spiri­ Rozdol sulphur combine (in the Lviv Rep. Fascell called upon the USSR to tual treasury of a nation, the source region) needs imported labor? It is allow Shukhevych to emigrate with his of its power and strength. As a rule. imported nevertheless. And along family. Rep. William Gray, III (D-Pa.) According to The Washington Post submitted a copy of a resolution passed of April 30, the administration has by the Philadelphia City Council in initiated talks with the Soviet Union support of Shukhevych on April 24. regarding the establishment of a Soviet consular office in New York in ex­ "And when Ukrainian intellectuals stood up 'The famine in Ukraine has not been change for a U.S. consular office in forgotten in the Congress. On April 4, Kiev. The Carter Administration closed against the stranglehold of Russian chauvi­ Sen. Willjam Proxmire (D–Wise.) made the Kiev office in 1980 in protest to the a statement in the Senate comparing the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. This is nism... the doors of KGB investigation Soviet brutality against the Afghan the first report that discussions are rebels with its treatment of Ukrainians underway to re-open that office. prisons opened before them..." during the famine. He quoted extensive­ ly from a recent George Will column in Dr. Roman Szporluk, professor of The Washington Post which served to history at the University of Michigan, participated in an April 24 "Confe­ the rebirth of a nation always began with the Russian immigrants come remind people that Soviet policy today with a renaissance of the language. the Russian schools and theaters, is no different than that of 50 years ago. rence on Soviet Foreign Policy" at the Kennan Institute for Advanced Russian The improvement of the language and the percentage of the Russian On April 24, Rep. Gray also submitted a and its enrichment have always population in Ukraine grows to a copy of a Philadelphia City Council Studies sponsored by the United States Information Agency (USIA). The provided a reliable immunity against dangerous extent, having more than resolution commemorating the Ukrai­ assimilation, while interest in the doubled by comparison with the pre­ nian famine. following day. Dr. Szporluk discussed the history of Ukrainian studies in the native language and in its cultivation war period. The situation of over 3 last 20 years at the Department of State. increased national consciousness. On million Ukrainians who live on the Legislation update the other hand, those who attempted territory of the Russian Federation is to assimilate nations have always incomparably more tragic. Deprived The Ukrainian famine is the subject begun with language assimilation. of native language schools, cultural Ukraine has known the Ems Ukase of three separate resolutions and two 1 (Continued on page 14) bills. S.Con.Res. 70, which passed the and the Valuyev circular; Estonia, Count Rosen's declaration.2 And Senate on November 15, 1983, with 64 1. Count P. Valuyev (1814-90) minister co-sponsors, is now pending before two now Agayev suggests that some of the interior (1861-8), the author of the House Committees (Foreign Affairs languages have future possibilities 1863 circular banning the publication of and the Post Office and Civil Service while others have no prospects. And books in Ukrainian, "both religious and Committees). S.Con.Res. 101, recently can one imagine a better service to educational, and books generally intend­ introduced, has 15 co-sponsors and is Russian chauvinism than if, for ed for elementary reading by the people. " before the Foreign Relations Commit­ instance, Ukrainian were to be in­ The 1876 secret Ukase signed by Alex­ tee. H.Con.Res. 101. which passed the cluded among those without pros­ ander II in Ems (Germany), banned the pects? printing in Ukrainian of anything except House on November 17, 1983, is pend­ historical documents in the orthography ing in the Foreign Relations Committee Other "theoreticians" criticize in of the original and belles-lettres in the of the Senate. 4 every way the endeavor to promote Russian alphabet; it also banned the H. R. 4459 is still in the House Foreign the development of national lan­ import of Ukrainian publications, as well Affairs Committee and its counterpart, guages and regard it as harmful to the as theatrical or musical performances in S.2456, is before the Senate Foreign interests of the international commu­ Ukrainian. Relations Committee. The House bill nist movement, while expansion of 2. In 1887 the Russian government has 84 co-sponsors and the Senate the fields in which Russian is used is prohibited the use of Estonian in all version has three co-sponsors. accepted as being one of the most schools. On April,2, Sen. Larry Presskr (R– Rep. Dante Fascell 8 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, MAY 13, 1984 No. 20 Two exhibits on Ukrainian culture Belgium hosts Petryshyn exhibit open at N.J. State Museum in Trenton TRENTON. N.J. - Two exhibits firmly in America. "the other in the focusing on Ukrainians and their cul­ traditions and customs of the home­ ture recently opened here at the New land." Jersey State Museum as part of a The exhibit officially opened with a continuing museum series on "The reception on Friday evening April 27. Peoples of New Jersey." Over 200 people attended, including The primary exhibit, "Folk Art from Ukrainian Museum president Dr. the Ukrainian Museum." is on loan Bohdan Cymbalisty and various New from New York's Ukrainian Mu­ Jersey state officials. It is scheduled to seum. Curated by Maria Shust. it run through Saturday, June 16. encompasses full festive folk costumes The impressive exhibit has been well- from various regions in Ukraine, 10 publicized in the New Jersey press. kylyms, 20 ceramic pieces, eight wood- "This varied representation, ot the carved items, 25 rushnyky (ritual cloths) Ukrainian folk art tradition contains and about 200 pysanky, as well as pieces so detailed and beautiful, so samples of embroidery showinga variety painstakingly handcrafted, so capable of stitches and ornamental composi­ of moving even the jaded 1980s ob­ tion. server, that we wince at the thought that The second exhibit was curated by the life which produced and cherished it Lorraine Williams who is the state is gone forever." wrote Ms. Schlegel in museum's curator.of archeology and her review. ethnology. It consists of over 30 photo­ graphs which trace the arrival of Ukrai­ The photographs on display have nian immigrants on American shores, been gathered from family albums of through their years as early citizens and New Jersey Ukrainian Americans and onto their activities in Ukrainian Ame­ picture the arrival of ancestors on Ellis rican community life. Island and later their work in New Reporter Sharon Schlegel, who re­ Jersey's textile mills. viewed the exhibit for The Sunday The Ukrainian Museum in New Times - The Magazine, wrote of the York, which lent out its folk art collec­ exhibit: "Mingling costumes, decora­ tion to the spacious facilities of the New tive pieces and folk art with photo­ Jersey State Museum, received partial graphs which serve almost as stark funding for this exhibit from the Geral– historical documentation, the current dine R. Dodge Foundation, the New exhibits focus on the fascinating dua­ York State Council on the Arts and lity of the New Jersey immigrant ex­ private contributors. perience, lived with one foot planted The State Museum of New Jersey, a division of the Department of State, is open Tuesday through Saturday from 9 l a.m. to 4:45 p.m..and on Sunday from I The large environmental cacti paintings of Arcadia Olenska Petryshyn will to 5 p.m. Admission is free and weekend be on view in Antwerp, and Brussels, Belgium during the months of April, parking is available behind the museum. May and June. The artist's exhibits, sponsored by the Belgian representa­ tion of British Petroleum, include 24 works portraying the vegetation of the American Southwest. Embroidered shirts on display CLEVELAND - As part of its institution's centennial in I9S6. The "John Carroll Celebrates Cleveland" series will "celebrate Cleveland" by series of exhibits, John Carroll Univer­ highlighting the cultures of its many sity will hold a display titled "Em­ peoples. broidered Ukrainian Women's Smocks An opening reception for the Ukrai­ and Shirts from the Early 20th Cen­ nian exhibit will be held on Saturday, tury," from Saturday. May 12 through May 12 from 2 to 5 p.m. Gallery hours the end of the month. are Monday through Friday from 9 The exhibit will be presented by the a.m. to 9 p.m. and Saturday and Sun­ Ukrainian Heritage, Inc., a division of day from I to 5 p.m. the Ukrainian National Women's A videotape of the exhibit will be League of America (Ohio Regional produced by John Carroll University Council). The chairperson of the or­ and the recording will be available for ganization is Jennie H. Bochar, while educational purposes. For more infor­ Daria Horodysky is project director of mation please contact Ms. Bochar at the exhibit. (216) 886-5555 or Ms. Horodysky at The Ukrainian Heritage, Inc. was (216) 351-4534 (work) or 659-4753 formed in 1974 for the purpose of (home). locating, registering and documenting objects of Ukrainian folk art and other articles with historical significance. Outstanding and unusual examples of handiwork, embroidered, drawn- work and cutwork on homespun linen, from the later 19th and early 20th Centuries will be exhibited at the Fine Arts Gallery, Grasselli Library of the university. These selections will depict examples of articles worn from different regions of Ukraine. A few accessories usually worn with these garments will also be displayed. This collection of unusual apparel is being loaned.from private sources as well as those belonging to the Ukrainian Heritage, Inc..' in order to share the beauty and intricate detail of very fine handiwork with the general Embroidered Rushnyk (78 x 16 inches), Woven Rushnyk (95. x ЛУА inches), public. Poltava region, central Ukraine, first Krolevets, Sumy oblast, northeastern The series of exhibits at John Carroll 1 quarter of the 20th century, Ukraine, circa 1900. University is in celebration of the Traditional smock on display No. 20 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, MAY 13, 1984 9

Panorama of Ukrainian culture in the Big Apple by Helen Perozak Smindak

A slide tape presentation in English May flowers the Saturday and Sunday night stage ; programs. and Ukrainian will run continuously The Big Apple is living, glowing As a benefit for St. George Ukrai­ during exhibition hours, providing proof of the truth of that popular nian School, a "Trip of Your Choice'4 background commentary. saying, "April showers bring May raffle will offer three main prizes, with Slavko Nowytski's film "At the Helm flowers." After all of last month's winners to be announced on Sunday at of Destiny." narrated by Jack Palance, downpours, Ukrainian cultural events 6 p.m., plus chances for other winnings will be shown at 4 p.m. on May 20, the are bursting into full bloom all over over the festival's three days. first day of the exhibition. town, bringing color, ethnic spice and a Saturday's festivities will include a The museum is open Wednesday good deal of Ukrainian talent to the special program at 4 p.m. by the Lydia through Sunday from I to 5 p.m. (228- city's medley of visual and aural delights. Krushelnytsky Drama Studio in the 0110). Admission is SI for adults, 50 This weekend offers a variety of school auditorium. Here the young cents for senior citizens and children. events: the May 11 dance party at the thespians may find useful the 54,000 On other fronts. The Ukrainian Ukrainian National Home, 144 Second public address system recently donated Museum continues to make headlines. Avenue, with two Ukrainian-staffed by Anthony and Vera Kowbasniuk The museum's recent exhibit of pysanky rock bands supplying music for dancing; Shumeyko in memory of St. George's was given prominent space and photos a special event on May 12 at 4 p.m. at former pastor, the Very Rev. Volo­ in the April 20 issue of the Daily Journal the Shevchenko Scientific Society's new dymyr Gawlich. in Elizabeth, N.J. The April 22 maga­ quarters, 63 Fourth Ave., dedicated to The Rev. Patrick Paschak, pastor of zine section of the Sunday Times in the Ukrainian poet Mykhailo Dray– St. George's church for almost three Trenton, N.J., feature pysanky and Khmara; an appearance by Svetlana years, will open the festival officially at other folk art treasures of Ukraine, now on display in two related exhibits at the Vasilaki this afternoon at 3 p.m. at Elena Heimur the start of Friday's 8 o'clock stage Hunter College in "The Gypsy Baron." program. New Jersey State Museum. "Ukrainian and Paul Plishka's performance as Taras Pavlovsky, and the Promin Folk Art," on loan from the Ukrainian Zaccharia in the Opera Orchestra of vocal ensemble led by Bohdanna Wo– Ukrainian immigration Museum, and "The Peoples of New New York's concert version of "Na– lansky. The New York Bandura En­ Jersey: An Historic Photographic Pro­ bucco" at Carnegie Hall tonight at 8. semble will perform under the direction An overview of the four waves of file of the Ukrainians"mingle costumes, Anya Farion's exhibit of sculptures and of Julian Kytasty and the Homin Ukrainian immigration to the United decorative pieces and folk art with drawings, which opened last Sunday at Bandurist Ensemble of New Jersey will States will be presented in an exhibition photographs gathered from the family the Ukrainian Artists' Association be directed by Volodymyr Yurkewych. that opens May 20 at The Ukrainian albums of New Jersey Ukrainian Ame­ gallery, 136 Second Ave., (4th floor), Dance troupes include the SUMA Museum. 203 Second Ave. Consisting ricans, such as the family of Andrew continues through May 18. Verkhovyntsi Ukrainian Dance En­ of 200 photographs supplemented by Keybida of Clifton. N.J. The New Still more excitement is forthcoming semble, with musical accompaniment archival materials, pamphlets and Jersey State Museum, located at 205 next weekend, with a host of events on by Stanislav Kosiv and Volodymyr objects of material culture, the exhibi­ West State Street in Trenton, will tap. The annual three-day Ukrainian Kira; the Ukrainian Dancers of Astoria, tion documents the history, contribu­ continue the two exhibits through June Festival staged by St. George's Ukrai­ directed by Elaine Oprysko; the Chil­ tions and heritage of Ukrainian Ameri­ 17. They may be seen Tuesday to nian Catholic Church on East Seventh dren's Dance Group led by Nancy cans over the past 100 years. Saturday 9 a.m. to 4:45 p.m.. and Street will begin on Friday, May 18. Porterfieid, and the St. George Aca­ Organized by museum director Maria Sundays from I to 5 p.m. Sunday's festival-goers will be able to demy Dancers and St. George children's Shust, guest curator Dr. Myron B. The museum's exhibit "The Lost take in two major functions in Little hahilky dancers, both directed by Daria Kuropas and museum archivist Chry– Architecture of Kiev." now on tour, Ukraine on one day, since The Ukrai­ Genza. : styna Pevny, the exhibition is titled "To opened at Chicago's -Institute of Mo­ nian Museum (as it turns out) will Ulana Kekish, Oksana Kurowycky, Preserve a Heritage: The Story of the dern Art on May 4. unveil its long-awaited exhibition on Varka Bachynska, Roman Wasylyk Ukrainian Immigration in the United TSO at Carnegie Ukrainian immigration in the United and Laryssa Lauret-Lysniak will put in States." Zenon Feszczak, art director of States that day. stints at the microphone as program the Philadelphia's Port of History Violinist Stephen Staryk and several Uptown, at Carnegie Hall, the To­ announcers. Throughout the festival, Museum, is thecxhibition dcsigner,and other Ukrainians will appear at Car­ ronto Symphony Orchestra with its piano accompaniment will be provided Areta Buk designed the 100-page negie Hall with the largest number of large Ukrainian contingent will give by Dozia Sygida. catalog (published in English and Canadian musicians ever to perform in concerts on May 19 at 8 p.m., and the Teodor Rozumiyko's "Vechirnia Ukrainian) which contains some 270 the famous concert hall. On May I9at8 following day at 3 p.m. The Ukrainian Pisnia" orchestra will play Ukrainian photographs and a text prepared by Dr. p.m., the Toronto Symphony Orchestra Institute of America, Fifth Avenue and melodies– for dancing or listening after Kuropas. (Continued on page 15) 79th Street, will feature the work of School of Visual Arts students Marko Shuhan and Terry Hrechniw in an exhibit opening on May 19 at 4 p.m. Later the same day, the Volcanos rock band will play for dancing at a private club on West 24th Street. For fans of the popular ABC-TV daytime soap opera "General Hospital," there's an unexpected Ukrainian twist on episodes that will be aired on May 16, 17. 18 and 21. Later in May, during the Memorial Day weekend of May 26-28. the Ukrai­ nian National Women's League of America will hold its 20th annual con­ vention at the Grand Hyatt Hotel in Manhattan, complete with business meetings, dinners and seminars like the one scheduled for May 27 on "The Future of the Ukrainian Community." Further details of these Maytime. activities will be given later in this Panorama. St. George Festival Vocal soloists, choral groups, bandu– risi ensembles and folk dance troupes have been lined up by Edward Kamin– sky, program director for the Ukrai­ nian Festival on East Seventh Street on May 18, 19 and 20. They include sopranos Laryssa Ma– gun-Huryn, Diane Zole and Elena Heimur, mezzo-soprano Tatiana Hry– nyshyn, alto Anne Plagionos"basso Stefan Szkafarowsky, the SUMA Zhai– Ukrainian choir in Jersey City, 1919, is just one of the 200 photographs of early immigrants on display at The Ukrainian voronky girls' chorus, directed by ! , Museum. . -Ми. 10 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, MAY 13, 1984 No. 20

ing because of the disregard fo.i sion to Investigate the Use of In November 1981 it was reported Aleksei Nikitin... safety measures. As discontent^ Psychiatry for Political Purposes. that he was once again being treated (Continued from page 1) among the miners grew, Nikitin's In September t"JeOiie WuvfeXiimiiicd with massive doses of drugs, that his from the Communist Party. warnings were remembered and his by Dr. Anatoliy Koryagin. a health had deteriorated sharply, and In 1965 Nikitin married, and under unjust treatment openly discussed. professional consultant of the group. that he was losing his sight. the influence of his wife, eventually In April 1972, however, he was The psychiatrist concluded that In early 1982, Nikitin was reported joined the Communist Party. By now arrested and charged with "anti- Nikitin was mentally sound. to have been transferred to the he had become a foreman in the Soviet slander." Without having On November 3, 1980. Nikitin remote Talgar Special Psychiatric coal mine but continued to support undergone any forensic psychiatric addressed an appeal to the British Hospital in Ka/akstan. making it the workers in their disputes with examination, Nikitin was ruled to be trade union movement asking for its even more difficult for his family to management. Consequently, he was mentally ill and ordered to be con­ support for an "action group in the maintain contact with him. A year victimized by the mine's administra­ fined indefinitely in a special psychia­ USSR to organise an independent later there was news that he had been tion, being forced to take cuts in his tric hospital, the most severe cate­ trade union." Recalling the 'Tine moved from there to an unknown salary and inferior housing. Un­ gory of psychiatric internment in the traditions of trade unions—developed destination. As it turns out, he had daunted by this he continued to USSR, designated for the "especially in the struggle for workers' rights," been freed so that he could die at speak out on behalf of the workers dangerous." he called on organized British labor home. and was instrumental in achieving to offer Soviet workers' rights cam­ During the last years of Nikitin's the removal of several directors who Placed in mental hospital paigners "directions, practical life, his sister Ludmilla Poludniak had embezzled government funds. advice, and solidarity." Unfortuna­ played an active role in his defense. In December 1969, Nikitin headed Nikitin was sent to the notorious tely, Nikitin's appeal fell largely on He is also survived by a daughter and a delegation of workers in a protest Dnipropetrovske Special Psychiatric deaf ears. several brothers. to the director of the Butovka mine Hospital. He was isolated from his Nikitin's case not only highlighted against his refusal to pay bonuses. relatives who were told that he "does Meets Western reporters workers'grievances in the USSR and Faced with an intransigent official, not recognize people and soils the the failure of Soviet trade unions to Nikitin and 1129 other workers ad­ walls with his excrement." In fact, he Shortly after his examination by protect their members' interests, but dressed a complaint to the Central was put to work on a building site Dr. Koryagin, Nikitin met in also provided one of the best docu­ Committee of the Communist Party within the hospital and later allowed Moscow with Western correspon­ mented examples of the continuing of the Soviet Union. The matter was to work as an orderly. During his dents, David Sattcr of the Financial Soviet practice of placing dissenters referred to the Donetsk Region Party confinement in Dnipropetrovske he Times and Kevin Klose of the in mental hospitals. As such it played Committee and resulted in Nikitin's met another hospitalized workers' Washington Post. Intrigued by his an important role in persuading the expulsion from the party, and in rights campaigner, Vladimir Kle– story they accepted his invitation до 1LO and the international psychia­ February 1970, his dismissal from banov. travel to Donetsk to investigate tric community to condemn Soviet work. a After two years and nine months in conditions in the Donbas mines. abuses of workers rights and psychia­ Nikitin Unsuccessfully sought rein­ the special psychiatric hospital, Three days after Messrs. Satter try. statement to his job. His wife was Nikitin was transferred to an or­ and Klose left Donetske, Nikitin pressured by the authorities into dinary psychiatric hospital in Donet­ was once again arrested. On denouncing her husband and even­ sk e. In May 1976. he was released. January 6, 1981, a court ordered tually Nikitin divorced her. In 1971, Unable to fine work, in February him to be confined in a special Finally it should be pointed out he appealed in vain to the Party 1977 he once again succeeded in psychiatric hospital and he was that more than six years alter his last Congress. After over a year without a entering the Norwegian Embassy, taken back to the Dnipropetrov­ arrest, Mr. Klebanov may still be job Nikitin decided to publicize his only this time he asked for political ske hospital for the criminally insane. forcibly confined in a Soviet psychia­ case outside the USSR. In April 1971 asylum. On leaving the embassy he Just over a month later. Dr. Koryagin tric hospital because of his attempt to he managed to enter the Norwegian was arrested and sent for examina­ was arrested in Moscow only two form an independent trade union Embassy in Moscow and hand over tion to the Donetske city psychiatric days after meeting with Western organization in the USSR. In April documentation about his case. He hospital. Nikitin managed to escape correspondents to discuss Nikitin's 1982. he was reported to have been also attempted to contact the U.S. but after a month and a half was case. In June 1981 he was tried in transferred from Dnipropetrovske Embassy but was thwarted by the recaptured and returned to the Dni­ Kharkov, convicted of "anti-Soviet Special Psychiatric Hospital and his KGB, confined briefly in a psychia­ propetrovske Special Psychiatric agitation and propaganda" and subsequent fate is unknown Dr. tric hospital and returned to Donet– Hospital. There, he later claimed he sentenced to seven years in labor Koryagin is at present held in Chisto– was "treated" for two years with ske. camps and five years' internal exile. pol prison near Kazan where condi­ massive doses of neuroieptic drugs tions arc known to be especially In December 1971, there was an until he was transferred back to For the first two months in Dni­ explosion at the mine where Nikitin propetrovske Special Psychiatric harsh. In January, together with five Donetske. He was released in March other prisoners, he is reported to had formerly been employed. Seven 1980. Hospital. Nikitin was kept in isola­ people died and many were injured. tion and given multiple injections have "launched a hunger strike to Nikitin had previously warned of the On his release Nikitin contacted with unknown drugs which caused protest beatings and poor food danger of such a catastrophe occurr– the unofficial Working Commis­ him severe pain and disoricntation. rations."

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furniture outlet, radio spots fora home- Pianist to tour security firm and Is pictured on count­ Notes on people less posters and newspaper ads for everything from Shoppers' Drug Mart to the Special Olympics. Spreads culture hardly be wider. The Calder Trophy and Molson Cup Mr. Bojarzuk works on large can­ winner recently signed a promotional PUERTA PR1NCESA, Philippines vases, using pencil and paper on acrylic. contract with Gillette Canada Ltd. - Myra Wichorek Basso has intro­ According to the revi.ew, his works are duced Ukrainian culture to the people mostly abstract, "gracefully blending of the Philippines, according to her ideas borrowed from Mark Rothko. Reassigned to State mother, Martha Wichorek. Helen Frankenthaler and other expres­ Mrs. Basso and her husband Richard sionists." Mr. Bojarzuk studied painting and WASHINGTON - Roman Popa– currently live on Palawan Island here, diuk was recently reassigned to the where he received an assignment as printmaking at"the Art Institute of Chicago. State Department here, after finishinga resettlement counselor for the Viet­ two-year tour as a foreign service officer namese refugee camp to process Vietna­ in Mexico. mese boat people who escape from Hockey's homebody He served as a consular and political Vietnam across the South China Sea officer at the U.S. Embassy in Mexico into the Philippine Islands. and as a special assistant to Ambassa­ Mrs. Basso began teaching Filipino dor John Gavin. He will now be sta­ and Vietnamese children English and tioned in the department's operations cultural orientation, before their emi­ center, which deals with political crises gration to the United States. In addi­ around the world. The center is part of tion, she teaches Ukrainian cross- Secretary of State George Shultz's stitching, Ukrainian dancing and py– office. sanka-making. This year, she tried to Once a resident of Brooklyn. N.Y., Pianist Roman Rudnytsky serve a traditional Ukrainian Christ­ Mr. Popadiuk was an active member of mas Eve dinner, but many of the Holy Ghost Ukrainian Catholic Church YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio - Concert necessary ingredients were not available there arid took part in many Ukrainian pianist Roman Rudnytsky will spend in the Islands. She made do with what organizations in the Greenpoint sec­ the three-and-a-half month period from she could get to give the people a tion. He is a member of UNA Branch June 14 until September 30 giving sampling of Ukrainian foods. 293 in Brooklyn. approximately 35 recitals on an inter­ Earlier this year, Mrs. Basso was national concert lour. assigned as social worker with the He will spend June through August Community Mental Health Services Administers grant giving recitals on four cruises from (CMHS) in Bataan on Manila Island. England of the P ft О ships Canberra Here she teaches Vietnamese refugees "Intensive English and Cultural Orien­ BRONX, N.Y. - Prof. Ivan Durbak and Sea Princess. Two of these cruises has been named administrator of a will travel up the west coast of Norway, tation." Later this year, she will take Dale Hawerchuk over the casework position at the S23.750 grant awarded to Manhattan through some of the fjords, up beyond WINNIPEG - Winnipeg Jets' College by the United Hospital Fund of the Artie Circle, and the other two will Vietnamese Refugee Center on Pala­ wan Island. Currently she commutes by hockey star Dale Hawerchuk is a New York for special computer re­ be to Atlantic and Mediterranean ports. homebody at heart, according to a search on the topic of health care in New During September, Mr.' Rudnytsky plane from Puerta Princesa to Bataan. On the days she is on Palawan Island, recent profile in the Winnipeg Free York. will fulfill his fourth tour of India, Press. The research project, which began in giving recitals in New Delhi, Calcutta, she has been developing a special program for unaccompanied minors in The 20-year-old is the proud owner of March and runs through the end of the Madras, Darjeelingb Mussoorie, Poona, a house in Winnipeg's southwest year, was awarded to Manhattan Goa, Mangalore, Bangalore, Calicut the Vietnamese refugee camp. The work is similar to work she did in Detroit as Tuxedo district, which is complete with College partially as the result of a and Kodaikanal. While in Goa, he will a pool table with a red velvet carpet, an similar project carried out by Mr. also conduct masterclasses at the Kala coordinator of services for the uncom– panied minors of Laos. Vietnam and expensive stereo and a Jcnn-air in the Durbak. The Quadrangle, Manhattan Academy in Panjim. the capital of that kitchen. College's newspaper reported. state. On his return trip from India. Mr. Korea. While developing this new program Outside stands a white Corvette and This first project was part of the .Rudnytsky will give two recitals in the in the backyard he was a swimming pool Computer Literacy Project and in­ Gulf State of Bahrain and conclude his in the Philippines, she met with the director of the World Relief Corpora­ with a huge Jets emblem emblazoned cluded the establishment of a com­ tour with a recital at St. Laurence on the bottom. puterized, data base using information College in Ramsgate, England. tion, who is a Ukrainian from Brooklyn. Serge Duss. Mr. Duss remarked. "Since It's a comfortable place for Mr. froiri a census survey. Mr. Rudnytsky's concerts in Guate­ Hawerchuk who says that "I'd rather The new grant will enable project mala in mid-April elicited such response I myself have been a refugee. I want to spend some of my life helping other hang around the house with friends," workers to develop and analyze a scries that the 2.600-seat National Theatre in than go out. of computerized reports on hospital use Guatemala City was virtually sold out refugees." Now both-Mrs. Basso and Mr. Duss Although the young hockey star has by residents of New York, especially in for his appearance with the Orquesta been described as a "quiet, almost aloof the low-income areas. Sinfonica Nacional there, as was the are spreading the word about Ukrai­ nians throughout the Philippines. young man who has learned from Mr. Durbak is affiliated with the hall where his recital was held the next experience to keep to himself," his face managerial sciences department at day. . Mrs. Basso is the daughter of Michael and Martha Wichorek of Detroit. Mr. is'one of the most familiar in Winnipeg. Manhattan College. He was not only reinvited for con­ He does television commercials for a He is a member of UNA Branch 191. certs there next season but was also Wichorek is a Ukrainian community asked to design the requirements for the activist. He co-authored "Ukrainians in first Guatemala National Piano Com­ Detroit" with his wife. Mrs. petition, to be held in early 1985. and to Wichorek is a former Detroit public come and serve as the president of the school teacher and author of such HELP WANTED jury for this competition. books as "How to Make Ukrainian Pysanky"and "A Ukrainian Grammar Editorial assistant/assistant editor for Beginners, Self-Teaching." The entire family belongs to UNA full time Sings in opera Branch 183. (part-time position possible) TORONTO - Ukrainian Canadian Requirements: training in journalism or related field, writing experience, soprano Irena Welhasch recently play­ Shows art work knowledge of Ukrainian language. ed the part of Musetta in Puccini's "La Salary commensurate with experience and qualifications; good benefits. Boheme" here, the Toronto Globe and ORLANDO, Fla. - An art exhibit Mail reported. featuring new works by James Bojarzuk Send resume, reference and clippings to: The Editor, The Ukrainian Weekly, 30 Ms. Welhasch. who performs with was recently reviewed in The Orlando Montgomery St., Jersey City, N.J. 07302. the Canadian Opera Company and the Sentinel. Canadian Opera Company Ensemble, The critic. Laura Stewart, wrote: "In gave a "lively interpretation" in the nearly every case, Bojarzuk s subject is opera, the paper said. art itself - specifically, the act of Help wanted According to reviewer John Kra– painting. Like Jackson Pollock, who glund, her performance in the second became famous 30 years ago fordripping SEEKING IBM SYSTEM 34, act "was convincing, if not spectacular." pigment over canvases spread on studio SYSTEM 36 OPERATOR "Musetta's Waltz captivated the floors, Bojarzuk is more interested in audience as much as it did her fellow the process of making art than in the Minimal experience required. Will train. celebrants at Cafe Momus," he wrote, - end product of artistic activity." .Call adding that "there was a fiery element in The exhibit was on view at the her third act quarrel with Marcello.". Galleries International in Winter Park THE UKRAINIAN NATIONAL ASSOCIATION Ms. Welhasch, who hails from Win­ and featured 16 new works, which the (201) 451-2200 nipeg, has been with the Canadian critic said were similar in technique and Opera Company for two scasonss style, but the emotional range could THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY. MAY 13, 1984 No. 20

"blatant political action for which there Soviets nuit.. was no real justification." Democratic SOYUZIVKA TENNIS SEASON (Continued from page 1) Sen. Alan Crunsiori of California, a Korean airliner last tail and was made frequent critic of the administration, 1984 up of a number of emigre and ethnic said he did not blame the actions of the USCAK East July 7.8 groups, said ii had as many as 500 "safe Reagan administration lor causing the Doubles - - August. 11-12 houses" around Los Angeles in w hieh to Soviet protest.) USCAK Nationals' August 31-September 3 harbor possible defectors. UNA Invitational ^– September 22-23 Separate Soviet bloc games Out to hurt Reagan Plast Seniors Doubles September 8-9 One day after the Soviet announce­ KLK - October 13-14 Vtost analysis, however, expressed ment, a Soviet journalist in London was the belief that the So\ieis decided to quoted as saying that plans are already pull out of the Olympics to punish under way to stage an athletic meet for Washington, not only for the 1980 Soviet-bloc countries, suggesting that boycott, but also for the wider disputes the Soviets may have been planning to SPRING between the two countries over nuclear pull out of the games for some time. weapons and other issues. Another indication that the move READING In its reference to the Reagan ad­ may have been in the works'were the ministration's using the Los Angeles long list of charges and counter-charges Games for its "political aims." the leveled by the Soviets at the LosAngcles from HURI Soviet statement implied that part of Organizing Committee and the U.S. Moscow's thinking was to hurt Presi­ government since the beginning of the dent Reagan in his bid for re-election. year. In addition to voicing displeasure George Grabowicz. THE POET AS MYTHMAKER: A STUDY In several recent commentaries on the at security arrangements and the "com­ OF SYMBOLIC MEANING IN TARAS SEVCENKO. Olympics, the Soviet press has said Mr. mercialization" of" the Games, the Reagan and his advisers hoped to use S12.50 cloth Soviet had hinted on several occasions the Games to foster support in the that they might boycott the competi­ election, in which the Kremlin strongly tion. On April 15. for example, a John-Paul Himka. SOCIALISM IN GALICIA: THE EMERGE­ favors a Democratic Party victory. journalist from the Soviet government NCE OF POLISH SOCIAL DEMOCRACY AND UKRAIN­ (In Washington, the Reagan admi­ daily; Izvestia called a Soviet decision nistration called the Soviet action a not to go to Los Angeles a "possibility" IAN RADICALISM (1860-1890) S15.95 paper in an appearance of the CBS news program "Face the Nation." James Mace. COMMUNISM AND THE DILEMMAS OF NA­ Although some diplomats said that TIONAL LIBERATION: NATIONAL COMMUNISM IN Share the phrase "in these conditions" that preceded the Soviet announcement SOVIET UKRAINE, (1918-1933) S21.50 cloth implied that a change in circumstances Enclose payment with order. We pay postage. The Weekly might cause the Kremlin to alter its HARVARD SERIES IN UKRAINIAN STUDIES stand, the prevailing opinion is that the 1583 Massachusetts Avenue m Cambridge, MA 02138 with a friend Soviet decision is probablv irrever­ sible.

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berg. Germany, ended 30 years ago. The curious and inquiring about all develop­ should be to inform the people of the Demjanjuk's... purpose of this multinational body was ments which bear upon the common United States about the quiet work ol (Continued from page 6) to render justfee to major war criminals. good — our national welfare. This the Office of Special Investigations. To the State of Israel to extradite Mr. The choices facing the Western allies in tradition reaches back to our founding illuminate its conduct and in particular Demjanjuk to East Jerusalem for trial the administration of post-war justice days as а пяііоп. Alexis dc Tocqueville. its relations to the Office of the Pro­ before the truth could become more were as follows: I) execute criminals in his historic work. "Democracy in curator of the USSR and the Soviet widely known in the United States. immediately upon capture: 2) trial America" (1839), devoted particular Committee for State Security. Chief Judge Battisti. refusing to before Summary Military Court, on the attention to this unique American This national commission should be disqualify himself, seized control of the spot, with execution almost certain to cultural characteristic. He rated it as made up of genuine authorities and extradition hearing. In a pre-hcaring follow: 3) creation of a body of proce­ one of the great protectors of individual scholars, multinational in makeup conference. Judge Battisti admitted he dure (not law) based upon the shared liberty and freedom within the society in including representatives of all captive knew that the Soviet evidence, which beliefs of the allies about punishment of general. This active responsibility non-Russian nations. ' was the documentary foundation for his criminal leaders. towa,rd the common good has been This Committee should make Sep­ denaturali/ation decision, was altered, In this post-war climate, a tightly carried on and embodied in the codes of tember 30 as a target date for filing it: but he insisted that the finality of his organized cry was raised to punish the bar associations at local, state and report to the American public. judgment was more important. entire German people, reducing them to national levels. Attempts at objective diplomacy and The U.S. Attorney, representing permanent servitude, the practice of the I submit to you. therefore, that the passive acceptance of the Holtzman Israel in the extradition, is now assert­ barbarians and despots, in general. Ukrainian American Bar Association doctrine have rewarded Ukrainian ing that the altered Russian evidence The so;called Morganthau Plan for a should, this day. take the initiative to Americans with an image of infarm cannot be questioned by the defense in defeated Germany quietly embodied organize a national commission of before your fellow Americans. Youi the extradition hearing nor can the just such a blood thirsty scheme for inquiry on the impact of the Holtzman children and grandchildren will suffc recanted West German witnesses'testi­ revenge and retribution. The Morgan­ doctrine. the legacy of this dark image if you faii mony even be brought up. Thus bound thau Plan would have been effectuated, . The objective of the commission to act now. and gagged, the defense is expected to causing even more severe damage to the sit. passively by as фе "OSI Battisti cause of civilization than the infamous Final Act" takes place. Yalta Agreement, had not a handful of The duplicity of the OSI in these men in the United States raised the UKRAINIAN INSTITUTE of AMERICA proceedings is exemplified by the fact alarm which exposed the scheme to is looking for an experienced, bilingual that they arc both demanding that John open, public scrutiny and debate. ADMINISTRATIVE DIRECTOR People of intellect and conscience are Demjanjuk be deported to the USSR for the management of office, premises and programs. for a show trial and at the same time well aware that the spirit and act of requesting, in extradition, that he be revengence leads inevitably to turbu­ Remuneration by agreement. Applications to be sent to: shipped off to East Jerusalem for a lence, terror and war. During our time, UKRAINIAN INSTITUTE of AMERICA genocide war crime trial, in which all the continuing conflict has taken various 2 East 79th Street m New York. N.Y. 10021 Ukrainian nationalists will hang along forms: the ideological conflict of the with this"innocent patriot. 20th century (Marxism vs. the free A foreign agent of the OSI was society); the Cold War. including mili­ recently dispatched to the homes of the tary and para-military action in brush C^Tfv) УКРАЇНСЬКЕ БЮРО West German witnesses who changed wars, proxy wars and.guerrilla-terrorist wl-l , , , ПОДОРОЖЕЙ their testimony in favor of the defense. warfare: and finally, ethnological war­ scope.tRarx?L IIJC– Марійки Гепьбіґ Т7-ч,. The OSI then reported that after their fare. The later category encompasses Tel (201)371 4004 .845 Sanloril Avenue Newjik NJ 07106 visit in the night, the West German the non-Russian aspiration for freedom 1984 ESCORTED GROUP TOURS 1984 witnesses were no longer willing to and self determination vs. the relentless CIIROPC 3W.OT топ lu. nil 1Д.МІ ,? їй, testify. Similarly, three Polish eye­ assault on freedom by the imperial CUnUrC ui uSpSruuw n. mrus ш^- ікл ьмикЛммчМма. ?мнаиим v^v^ witnesses to the real identity of "Ivan" Russians. This was the secret or hidden Ілкиит її Mm. сіяшгт. ялтгхжцио. иотшші, ішиї, :тш. иі L V V \ from Treblinka were first granted then war which was the basis of World War НОШ), КЖШ). ЛЦКХ ми DCU0. ^ t denied visa to come to the United II. The aspirations for national libera­ скот, цш. дві , шя.оо States to reveal the truth in this case. tion from the Muscovites resulted in the 1 г OSI assumed the power of the court and formation of the Ukrainian Division. BALKAN TOUR т^”'П'^?^'"" """'^'"'" '' ВЙЙ ” ''''"" " ” "” SEPT 2-17 ^^^S^^^^S^"^S^!^Sh– instructed the United States consul Baltic legions, the Turkestanian Divi­ г general in Warsaw to suppress this vital sion, the Cossack legions, the Byelo­ ^"^"” "” ' "" .ІГГ хі evidence by cancelling the visas. "OSI russian brigades, etc. Those who sur­ also urged the Polish government to vived this secret war of liberation from SPAIN ІмЬЯТмШ І' "^ IMUtUtWIW Т.Л П. If Пай игііа... ЙШЯХ ^ Яз assist in the further suppression of the imperial Russia became displaced per­ SEPT 20-30 -и.-И.-,м^кь-и-,. ь-,-..-и.-4-^g^ . JJj, witness testimony. As bounty hunters sons. Many served, as did John Dem­ MOROCCO ?5g.li:.rc;r„-^,.t; ЇЇ" . ^.. L „ „^., with a federal license and unlimited janjuk, with the Labor Service Corps of SEPT 23-29 !SSiS!i Tl"tL ЧИЯ iiLST,i'L"I.S–" "” public funds, the OSI is now acting with the United States Army in Germany. гота випгтаї

ST. GEORGE UKRAINIAN WELCOME CATHOLIC CHURCH TO THE UKRAINIAN MAY 18 FRIDAY 4PM-11PM FESTIVAL 19 SATURDAY 11AM-11PM 1984 20 SUNDAY 1PM-10PM EAST 7th STREET' NEW YORK CITY - BET. 2nd and 3rd AVENUES UKRAINIAN FOLK DANCERS - CHORUS-BANDURYSTY RAH^S^HO^MADIvFOODS ftPASTRIESj ^ ШГFOR'ALL.FREE ADMISSION 1^ wijrV,fww^ffriwYwnnlwi^^^^ 14 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, MAY 13, 1984 No. 20

guarantees (the right to undertake) IN HONOR OF ITS 20th ANNIVERSARY Mykhailo Horyn... propaganda for one's ideas by every 1ST SECURITY FEDERAL SAVINGS BANK (Continued from page 7) method, we were tried for defend­ institutions, a periodical press, ahcT" ing the lawful rights of Ukraine, all information about the fate of their while the Constitution provides not countrymen in neighboring regions, only for the equality ol all the nations the Ukrainians living in Vorkuta. of the USSR, but also for secession UKRAINIAN Chita the v.xjg?. region, on the from the USSR. Kuban, in Siberia and the Far East, Who profits by such an absolute SYMPHONIC CONCERT arc doomed to complete assimila­ disregard of legality? Who stands up tion. Not so long ago the Kuban for the ideas of the obscurantist Л Repertoire of Rarely Performed Works Ukrainians erected a monument to Shulgun?–' Only the Russian chauvi­ Wolodymyr the founder of the Kuban Cossacks nists. We have been deported far Kolesnyk in recognition of their blood bond beyond the borders of Ukraine, Conductor with the Ukrainian nation, but today although it was not noted in the judgment that we were being handed Rom;in the percentage of Ukrainians on the over to the government of a neigh­ Rudnytsky Kuban is falling catastrophically. That is how the Ukrainian question boring republic to serve our punish­ I'liino Canadian - stands in one socialist state — the ment. The Polish public would hard­ Ukrainian Russian Federation - which builds ly have ullowed its government.to Chorus its relationships on the basis of the send prisoners to Bulgaria, or that of American Festival Marxist-Leninist nationalities po­ Rumania, to Czechoslovakia. They Symphony would have thought it absurd. But Orchestra licy, which criticizes Chinese chauvi­ nism with regard to the Uighurs. this sort of thing has been done in t'tMturing Kerfa Of HT hWWr prrfurmrd in ChlCMgo. Mongols. Kazakhs and other na­ Ukraine for 50 years now. And not tionalities, and which proclaims the only in Ukraine. In addition to most humane principle of the equa­ Ukrainians, you will meet Byelo­ Sl.,\ VOSIC COSCERT (for pem, jnd ,,r, /i,vr.u lity of nations. russians. Moldavians. Lithuanians, Bons IJatnshynskt Latvians. Estonians, Cherkess, In­ rut: CAUC:ASVS gush, Bashkirs. Tartars and others in I.Vvmprnn.i i-jnuu tor chm'r and onln^tnii SUin\sla\ Ijudkt'vvch the Mordovian camps of the Russian Federation. SUNDAY, MAY 20, 1984 ...What have the Ukrainians of the In short.' the Russian Federation AT 4:00 P.M.. ii Volga Region or of the north to boast has taken all political prisoners of? Nothing! The Ukrainian soul is under its reliable wing. Violence arid CIVIC OPERA HOUSE fast asleep throughout Russia's vast disregard of law await them far from CHICAGO, ILLINOIS spaces, oppressed by fear and lulled their native land. The period of TirkrK S25. S20. S15 by chauvinist incantations. This confinement of a political prisoner in Bov Scats WO silence of the more than 3 million the camps has been turned into a Aiailahlc al the Civic Opera House Box OITicc Ukrainians of Russia is a heavy process of continuous investigation. Лімі available at 1st Security Rank. Sclfreliancc. indictment of Russian chauvinism, Contrary to all the laws, people are Delia .Store, and sour Parish ОГПсе. and there is no possible excuse for it. sent from camps to prisons where, by And when Ukrainian intellectuals means of psychological pressure, (the for more information please call (312) 772-4500 stood up against the stranglehood of authorities) try to achieve what the AU. PROCEEDS FROM T1CKKT SAIJES TO HENEtTT ST. NICHOLAS UKRAINIAN CATHEDRAL SCHOOL Russian chauvinism, in many cities investigation or the trial failed to do: of Ukraine, the doors of KGB in­ breast-beating, repentance, (and) an vestigation prisons opened before admission of guilt... them, and trials in camera were There's no place like Soyuzivka organized for them at which they 3. V. Shulgin (1878): a leader of the were charged with slander of Soviet pre-Revolutionary right-wing extremist reality and propaganda of the ideas Union of the Russian People (founded in of nationalism. Despite the article of 1905), then an anti-Bolshevik emigre. SOYUZIVKA the Constitution on freedom of Having spent 1944-56 in a Soviet labor speech and of the press, and despite camp, he now occasionally wrote in the Declaration of Human Rights Communist Party (cf. l/vestia. Decem­ ber 17. I960, and Pravda, October 1. put forward by the United Nations 1961: CDSP. xiii 39. October 25. 1961. and adopted by the USSR, which 29-30. щішціїшіїїиішш'шівшіржайяай 1984 SUMMER/FALL UKRAINIAN FESTIVAL USA Garden State Arts Center j CAMPS fe WORKSHOPS E"tt 116 Moimdd. New Jersey щ at SOYUZIVKA: Saturday. June 16. 1984 DON'T WAIT TO TENNIS CAMP - June 24 - July 3 START A BATTLE! (Boys and Girls ages 12-18). Food and lodging J170.00 (UNA members),. ORDER YOUR TICKETS TODAY! S200.00 (non-members). Tennis fee: S60.00. BOYS' CAMP - June 30 - July 14 Call Mary Yurcheniuk Recreational camp for boys ages 7-12. featuring hiking, swimming, games, at (201) 473-4811 Monday Ukrainian songs and folklore. UNA members: 3100.00 per week; non-members through Friday 9 a.m. - 8 p.m. 5120.00 per week. or write to: Ukrainian Festival, USA P.O. Box 3421. GIRLS' CAMP - July 1529 Wallington. N.J. 07057-9998 Similar program to boys' camp; same prices. UKRAINIAN FOLK DANCE WORKSHOP - July 29 - August 11 Traditional Ukrainian folk dancing for beginners, intermediate and advanced dancers. Limit: 60 students. Food "and lodging: 5195.00 (UNA members), AN APPEAL 5205.00 (non-members.) Instructor's fee: 560.00. UKRAINIAN ART COURSES - August 11-25 Hands-on experience in woodcarving, weaving, embroidery and easter-egg To all concerned people decorating, under the supervision of experts. UNA members: 5200.00. Non- members: 5220.00. Your support is ,needed for passage of a bill to establish a U.S. UKRAINIAN AND INTERNATIONAL COOKING COURSES - government-funded congressional commission to study the causes л and consequences of the 1932-33 famine in Ukraine. \ September 30 - October 5 A massive letter-writing campaign toUS. legislators is being initiated Baking, cooking, meat and fish preparation and nutrition instruction for men by AHRU. Get involved! Your financial and active help is essential for and women. UNA members: 5225.00. Non-members: 5250.00. the success of this effort. Send your contribution and/or write for additional information to: ; - For more information, please contact the management of Soyuzivka: SOYUZIVKA UNA ESTATE Americans for Human Rights in Ukraine Foordemoore Rd.. Kerhonkson, N.Y. 12446 в (914) 626-5641 43 Midland Place Newark, N.J. 07106 No. 20 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, MAY 13, 1984 15

book store and Roksolana Leathers. Chicago chapter A.G.O. Competition HELP WANTED Panorama... Norm Enamel Art shop has been in March. He plans to undertake further (Continued from page 9) shuttered for months since the death of graduate studies at Yale University next its owner, artist Konstantin Szonk– HOUSEKEEPER and the Toronto Mendelssohn Choir, year. His Ridgewood program will Adult family seeks nonsmoking English with soloists Margaret Cheek, Alfreda Rusych. Roma Pryma-Bohachevsky's include compositions by Cesar Franck–^ speaking, responsible, intelligent woman Hodgson. Kenneth Riegel and John School of Ballet, unable to find quarters Charles Marie Widor, Marcel Dupre lor long term live-in position. Cleaning, cook­ ing, laundry, shopping. Must have recent Cheek, will be conducted by Andrew in an East Village Ukrainian center, is and Louis Vierne. checkable refs. S driver's license prelerred. Davis in Elgar's "The Kingdom." holding classes at Holy Trinity Ukrai­ Only qualified persons need apply. Call Mon. nian Orthodox Church in the Soho thru Fri. after 9:30 am The next day's concert, beginning at 3 (212) 5945300 p.m., will feature Beethoven's Sym­ district. Set up endowment... phony No. 9. with soloists Esther Hins. Two new businesses with a part- (Continued from page 3) Gabriclle Lavigne, Jon F. West and Ukrainian emphasis will probably be French, Swedish. Turkish and Arabic. REAL ESTATE Victor Braun, conducted by Mr. Davis, included in thq next East Village map. His teaching experience reaches back to and two a capclla works conducted by One is Ikon Jewelry and Antiques (140 courses at Harvard and Hamilton Second Avenue), whose stock of East Dr. Elmer Iseler. College in New York. FOR SALE - З'Л ACRES Saturday evening's concert will be European enamel, crystal, silver and Ukrainian courses in language and Ellenville. N.Y. Urge mobile home on founda­ attended by the new Canadian Consul wooden items is referred to as "a small literature have been taught at York tion, central heating. 2 bedrooms, large General in New York, Robert John- Macy's"by Odessa-born manager Oleg since 1972 by Prof. Romana Bahrij– living room, dining room, kitchen, bathroom. Added large den with wood burning stove. stone. Mr. Johnstone succeeded Ken­ Kabalcvsky. The other is Lonnie's Pikulyk, who hoids a doctorate from Kitchen, a tiny country-style bake shop Large garage divided into 3 rooms. 2 miles neth Taylor in February as Consul the University of Toronto in Ukrainian from Center of Ellenville. General of Canada in New York and is at 32 East Seventh Street run by Kim and Russian literature and language. Day - (212) 594-0666 concurrently Commissioner for Canada and Karol Pan. Lonnie's Kitchen is Since 1972, over 300 students have Evenings - (212) 884-4308 to Bermuda. Earlier this, month, while open 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. Monday through taken Ukrainian courses. HELEN DANKO Thursday, and 9 a.m. to 10 p.m. on attending the annual cocktail-dinner Donations for the endowment fund Friday, Saturday and Sunday (674- gathering of the McMaster University may be sent to: Ukrainian Studies 2169). PETRENKO PROPERTIES Alumni Association's New York branch, Fund, York University, 120 Runny– 725S Maple Place Annandale. VA. 22003 Mr. Johnstone gave his attention for a Kaminski recital mede Road, Toronto, Ont., Canada, (703) 750-2336 (703) 321-7332 time to a copy of The Ukrainian Week­ M6S 2Y3; (416) 767-4595. Please make General Real Estate Brokerage - N. VIRGINIA BUYER'S-BROKER REPRESENTATIVE arranged. ly, presented to him by a McMaster Michael Kaminski, organist and checks payable to York Ukrainian let us assist YOU in locating your next property! alumnus. The Weekly was the April 29 director at St. Rose of Lima Church and Studies Fund. AH donations are tax- Write for mon information. issue, in which Panorama spotlighted assistant organist at Our Lady of Angels deductible. Member: UNA Br. 0171 Notary Canada's Royal Winnipeg Ballet. Church, both in Brooklyn, will give an organ recital on May 20. at 8 p.m., at East Village Baedeker Ridgewood United Methodist Church in Ridgewood, N.J. Mr. Kaminski, who Visitors to the East Village can easily holds a master of music degree from the UKRAINIAN SITCH SPORTS SCHOOL rind help in getting around an area Juilliard School, was a finalist in the An Unforgettable Learning Experience that's described as "one of the most LEAHNaOCCER. VOLLEYBALL. SWIMMING or TENNIS FROM AN OUTSTANDING STAFF THAT HAS SEEN intriguing and varied neighborhoods in HANDPICKED TO WORK WITH All AGES 4 ABILITY GROUPS. Manhattan." The assistance comes Place: "Verkhovyna" Resort. Glen Spey, N.Y. m When: July 22 - August 26.1984 from the East Village Map A Baedeker, Mecca for... Ages - 6-16 published earlier this year by Vermilion, (Continued from page 5) Register now - Capacity is limited - For information write to: an East Village service organization, While plans are beind developed Ukrainian Sitch Sports School and available in Surma, Arka and other for the weeklong event, the organiz­ 680 Sanford Avenu a Newark. N.J. 07106 East Village stores. ing committee is open to suggestions One side carries a graph presenta­ for other ideas. The week is for you tion of the area, bounded by 14th Street and your imput is valued. and East Houston Street on the north Young professionals arc urged to and south and Fourth Avenue and the start planning to attend "Club Su?y– МОРСЬКИЙ ТАБІР'84 East River on the west and east. The Q" and to start making plans. To для пластунів і пластунок other offers a list of community or­ attend, you should contact Soyu– 28-го липня - 4-го серпня ganizations, including a do/en or so zivka directly for room reservations. Ukrainian centers, churches (including The address is: Soyuzivka UNA Stillwater Reservoir, N.Y. All Saints Ukrainian Orthodox Church. estate. Foordemorc Road, Kerhonk– ПРОВІД: St. George's Ukrainian Catholic Church, son. N.Y. 12446.(914)626-5641. You ст. пл. Влодко Темницький, капітан the First Ukrainian Assembly of God may also contact the committee at: and the Ukrainian Adventist Mission Club Suzy-Q. co Marta Korduba. пл. сен. Андрій Гадзевич, заступник капітана Station).landmarks and historic sites Ukrainian National Association. 30 ст. пл. Лнрко Чолган, 1-ий асистент such as the Ukrainian Museum and Montgomery St.. Jersey City. N.J. ст. пп. Богдан Поритко, 2-ий асистент commercial establishments, among All ideas and information should ст. пл. д-р Ігор Савчук, медична опіка them Arka and Surma bookstores. be directed to the above address. Kurowycky Meat Products. Jarema Anyone interested in helping to Кошт: S125 Funeral Home. Mayana Art Gallery organize the program or to publicize Реченець зголошень: 13-го липня and Kobasniuk Travel. Inc. the vacation plan is also urged to Число учасників обмежене до перших 36 зголошених, Quite surprisingly, since the Vermi­ contact us. які вплатять повну оплату. lion organization has no Ukrainian You can go to the beach or to the relationship, the map is printed in the islands anytime. This is the first time За дальшими інформаціями звертатися до: Ukrainian national colors of yellow and a vacation is being planned exclu­ Romana Shypailo blue. sively for young Ukrainian pro­ 216 Peabody Ave. The 1984 edition of the East Village fessionals. We hope to sec you at Lyndhurst, N.J. 07071 map will undoubtedly list fewer Ukrai­ Soyuzivka in August. nian establishments. Within the past (201) 460-7761 year, excessive rent hikes have forced the closing of the Orchidia Restaurant, the Diadem and -Roman tailoringshops. The UKRAINIAN NATIONAL MEMORIAL CEMETERY of USA the Eko gift store and Karpaty Shoes. 4111 Pennsylvania Avenue, S.E., Washington. D.C. 20746 Also gone are the Bandura Restaurant INVITES ALL UKRAINIANS, THEIR RELATIVES AND FRIENDS TO PURCHASE BURIAL CRYPTS and Natalka European Deli, Howerla AND BECOME BUILDER-OWNERS OF THE UKRAINIAN NATIONAL MONUMENT A UNA MAUSOLEUM insurance policy Please send FREE detailed information with NO OBLIGATION - on burial As of January 1,1984 is an investment spaces at the Ukrainian National Memorial Cemetery of U.S.A. Level I - S2365, Levels II and III - S2750 in Washington. D.C. Prices include Perpetual Care a/so in the П in Mausoleum In-ground burial sites, vaults, monuments, markers e. t. c.... ini О in ground services available. (Pre-need and At-Need) Ukrainian Name '. 1 burial site - 5720, including Perpetual Care. For further information mail this coupon to: ' community Street , UKRAINIAN MEMORIAL, INC. City State Zip P.O. Box 430 m Dunkirk. Md. 20754 or call collect: Tuesday through Saturday 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. (301) 568-0630 Сл. 16 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY MAY 13, 1984 No. 20

ррм Tuesday, May 15 PREVIEW OF EVENTS Tuesday, May 22 JENKINTOWN, Pa.: A free com­ St. George Cathedral Greek Folk Melodiyi." a reminiscence about JENKINTOWN, Pa.: The first even­ puter demonstration will be offered Dance Group is under the direction Mykhailo Soroka; "Persecution ol ing session of classes at Manor by Manor Junior College from 4:30 the Ukrainian Helsinki Monitoring Junior College will be offered be­ to 6 p.m. of Nina Argerskis. The Voloshky School Ensemble is under the direc­ Group" and "Alia Horska is No ginning Tuesday, May 22 until The free demonstration will cover tion of Nina Pacowski. More." The filmswer e conceived and Thursday, June 28. The courses such topics as basic definitions, home Tickets, which can be obtained at directed by Yuri Myskiw and techni­ offered during this session will meet and business application of the cally produced by Andres Durbak of from 6:10 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. every microcomputer and careers in com­ the door, are S3 for adults and S 1.50 for children. For further informa­ Chicago. The program will be held at Tuesday and Thursday for six weeks. puter science. Also featured will be a Courses offered are: Principles of visit to the Manor Junior College tion, call Nina Pacowski at (215) 457- 7:30 p.m. at Immaculate Conception 0276. Grade School in Warren, Mich. Marketing; Fundamentals of Com­ Information Processing Center and a position; Religions in America; micro-computer demonstration. Sunday, May 20 Keyboarding; Intermediate Type­ Registration is required for this BINGHAMTON, N.Y.: An Eastern writing and Advanced Typewriting. demonstration and may be made by Slavic Heritage Festival will be held NEW YORK: In conjunction with Registration for this session of calling the Office of Continuing today at the Roberson Center, in the Ukrainian Museum's exhibition, evening classes will be held Wed­ Education at (215) 884-2218 or 884- honor of the exhibition "Three nesday, May 16 from 1:30 to 4:30 2219. Reservations are on a first- "To Preserve a Heritage: The Story Generations." The festival, free of of the Ukrainian Immigration in the p.m. and from 6 to 8 p.m. Interested come, first-serve basis, so early charge, will include a lecture by Dr. students may register in person on registration is advised. United States," which opens today, Paul Magosci on the "East Slavs in the UNA-commissioned film, "The this day may or they may write Manor America: Problems and Perspec­ Helm of Destiny," by Slavko Nowyt– Junior College Office of Continuing tives." a performance by the Pan ski will be shown today at 4 p.m. For Education. Fox Chase Road and Weekend of May 18-20 Orthodox Choir, entertainment by more information please call the Forrest Avenue, Jenkintown, Pa. the Sacred Heart Ukrainian Dance museum (212) 228-0110. 19046 or call (215) 884-2218 or 884- NEW YORK:Thc annual St. George Group, and arts and crafts displays 2219. Festival will be held this weekend on by members of the St. John Ukrai­ nian Orthodox parish. The center is NEW YORK: Dr. Robert Sullivant. Seventh Street. The three-day festivi­ a Sovietologist from the University Thursday, May 24 ties will include entertainment, arts located at 30 Front St. The festival begins at I p.m. of Toledo will present a lecture on and crafts booths, raffles, foods and "The Future of Ukraine in the Light MONTREAL: The Ukrainian Cana­ pastries. Festival hours are Friday of New Developments in Soviet dian Professional and Business Asso­ from 4 to 11 p.m.: Saturday. 11 a.m. ciation of Montreal will hold a book- NEW YORK: Branch 104 of the Nationalities Policy." Dr. Sullivant to 11 p.m.: and Sunday, 1 to 10 p.m. recently returned from a visit to the launching of "Hey. Malarek", by Ukrainian National Women's League author, journalist and former Quebec of America will sponsor its annual Soviet Union. The talk, part of the Ukrainian Institute of America Lec­ Bureau Chief of The Globe and Mail, spring dance at the Ukrainian Na­ Victor Malarek. It will be held at Friday, May 18 tional Home. 140 Second Ave. The ture Series, begins at 4 p.m. at the institute. 2 E. 79th St. Westmount Victoria Hall, 4626 Sher– dance will begin at 9 p.m.: admission brooke St., West, at 7:30 p.m. For NEW YORK: The Ukrainian Insti­ is SI0. Music will be provided by further information please call tute of America will present ihe third Vodohrav. EASTPORT, N.Y.: St. Marys U– Zorianna Hrycenko-Luhova at (514) of its three-part synopsis of the krainian Orthodox Church will hold 481-5871. Hunter College accredited course. its annual traditional Easter dinner NEWARK, N.J.: The Chornomof– (sviachene) today at 5 p.m. in the "Ukrainian Culture I." It will be held Memorial Day weekend May 25-28 ,at 8:30 p.m. at the institute. 2 E. 79th ska Sitch Association will sponsor church hall on Old Montauk High­ St. For more information please call the 27th annual North American way. The dinner will include holubtsi. EMLENTON, Pa.: The Ukrainian (21-2) 288-8660. Ukrainian Volleyball Champion­ kovbasa. kapusta. ham. sweet pota­ ships at Rutgers University and the toes, potato salad, home-made Orthodox League will host its na­ New Jersey Institute of Technology babka. cakes and other goodies. tional basketball tournament at the LOS ANGELES: Recent works by All Saints Ukrainian Orthodox REM Bahautdin will be on view at gymnasiums. The tournament will Tickets are S8.50 for adults, S4 for feature some of the leading Ukrai­ children under 12. No tickets will be Camp this weekend. the Ukrainian Art Center Gallery. Sponsored annually, this tourna­ 4315 Melrose Ave.. from May 18-28. nian volleyball players on the North sold at the door. A raffle will also be American scene in men's, women's held. For more information please ment has brought young people An artist's reception will be held on together from New Jersey to Cali­ Friday. May 18 at 8 p.m. Gallery and junior's divisions. Participating call (516)325-0988. teams will include: SU M-A - Chicago: fornia. Planned events include a hours are 11 a.m. to 3-.p.m. Saturday welcome gathering on Friday even­ through Monday. 1 SUM - Toronto; Plast - Toronto. NEW BRUNSWICK, N.J.: Branch 4 Passaic, N.J. and Chornomortsi of the Ukrainian National Women's ing. The tournament will be held on The present exhibit shows his Saturday, followed by a banquet and newest works, compositions in metal, Plast Unit: KLK-Chicago: l.viv - League of America will host a chil­ Cleveland; Tryzub - Philadelphia; dren's masquerade party featuring a trophy presentation. The Sunday focusing on historical and religious divine liturgy will be served at Ss. themes. His figures are elongated, U.S.T. Ukraina - Toronto; USK - fairy tale, prizes, games and lots of New York and Sitch - Newark. The fun at the church hall, 21 Gilden St., Peter and Paul Ukrainian Orthodox always subjected to a rhythmic play Church in Lyndora, Pa. of forms, with a marked symbolic tournament will begin at 8:30 a.m. new Brunswick, N.J. Hours are 2 to 4 An awards presentation and dance p.m. For more information please The tournament is being hosted by character. His symbolism is pro­ the Ss. Peter and Paul UOL chapter found, concerned with man's funda­ will be held in the evening at the call (201)679-5771. Ukrainian Co"rtynunity Center in of Lyndora. The president of the mental problems and deeply rooted chapter is Karen Shcptak, spiritual Irvington. N.J. CARNEGIE, Pa.: The Ukrainian in the art and traditions of Ukraine. advisor is the Very Rev. William Technological Society of Pittsburgh Diakiw and tournament chairman is will hold its annual scholarship Steve Shcptak. Saturday, May 19 TOMS RIVER, N.J.:The Ukrainian dinner at Ss. Peter and Paul Church American Club of Ocean County will hall. The cocktail hour will begin at 4 PLEASE NOTE: Preview items PHILADELPHIA: The School of sponsor a spring dance, beginning at p.m. and dinner will be served at 5 must be received one week before the Voloshky Ukrainian Dance En­ 8 p.m. at the Knights of Columbus p.m. Tickets are S7.50 for adults and desired, date of publication. No semble will hold its annual concert at Hall. 209 Tennyson Ave. A hot/cold S5.50 for children under 12. Light 6 p.m. at the Ukrainian Educational information will be taken over the buffet dinner with beer and soda will entertainment will follow the dinner. phone. Preview items will be publish­ and Cultural Center, 700 Cedar be served. Donation: SI0. For more Net proceeds will go toward the Road, Abington Township in Phila­ ed only once (please note desired date information please call (201) 341- scholarship fund. For more informa­ of publication). All items are publish­ delphia. The children's concert will 0917. tion please call (412) 279-3458. take on international flair with three ed at the discretion of the editorial cultural dance groups performing - staff and in accordance with available DETROIT: The Committee for the WOONSOCKET, R.I.: St. Michael space. Greek. Irish and Ukrainian. The Defense of the Human Rights in the Archangel Ukrainian Catholic McDade Irish Dancers are under the Ukraine will present three informa­ Church. 394 Blackstone St., will PREVIEW OF EVENTS,a,lisiing direction of Maureen McGrory. The tive films (slide montages): "Tverdi observe its 75th anniversary today of Ukrainian community events open with a pontifical divine liturgy cele­ to the– public, is a service provided brated by Bishop Basil Losten and free of charge by The Weekly to the assisted by various members of the Ukrainian community. To have an AADU and ADP schedule lobbying efforts clergy. The liturgical music will be event listed in this column, please WASHINGTON A lobbying effort come to Washington lor this effort. The provided by the choir of Christ the send information (type of event, to protest the U.S. Department of Justice's ADP has agreed to coordinate the King Church, Boston, under the date, time, place, admission, spon­ Office of Special Investigations use of setting ol appointments with legislators. direction of O. Kuzma. The anniver­ sor, etc.), along with the phone evidence supplied by the Soviet Union Americans Against Defamation of sary banquet will be held in the number of a person who may be in the denaturalization trials of U.S. Ukrainians in "Philadelphia is working Marriott Inn Hotel in Providence. reached during daytime hours for citizens accused of concealing their with ADP and will organize buses to K.I. ine ooston choir will also additional information, to: PRE­ collaboration with the Nazis, is sche­ travel down to Washington on May 21. perform at the dinner and music will VIEW OF EVENTS, The Ukrainian duled for Monday. May 21. For more information please call be provided by I. Matiash Orchestra Weekly, 30 Montgomery St., Jersey Americans for Due Process has urged Halyna Kozak Lewyckyj at (215) 763- of Hartford. Conn. City, N.J. 07302. all organizations and individuals to 3440. .