www.ukrweekly.com у Iі5Ье(1 by the Ukrainian National Association Inc.. a fraternal non-prof it association| Шrainian WeekI Y Vol. LV No.36 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 6, 1987 25 cents Volodymyr Ivasiuk is remembered: UIVA's modernized insurance pIans glasnost moves forward in Ukraine offer reduced rates for members by Roman Solchainyk mysterious circumstances." Updated mortality value of the class T23 certificate is According to samizdat sources that S5,00O. But application may be made Glasnost has taken a step forward in reached the West, his body was found tables adopted for face values of S10,00O, S15,000and Ukraine. A recent issue of the monthly by soldiers on May 18, 1979, hanging higher in multiples of S5,00O. The Sotsialistychna Kultura carries a short from a tree in a restricted zone of a JERSEY CITY, N.J. - The Ukrai­ annual premium for the first S5,00O of memoir of the popular composer and forest outside of Lviv. It was badly nian National Association, which con­ insurance is S7.5O, while each additional lyricist Volodymyr Ivasiuk by his mutilated. stantly seeks to expand and improve its S5,00O costs only S5 annually. father, himself a fairly well-known Shortly thereafter, rumors attributed insurance service to members, as of * Annual Renewable Term Insu­ writer. to the Lviv prosecutor's office and the September 1 has introduced new classes rance — Class ART — is a certificate There is nothing sensational in the KGB began to circulate, particularly and new certificates for present classes available to applicants from 16 to 65 memoir itself. It exposes no scandals, among university students, to the effect of insurance, with low premiums based years of age. T1ie face value on Class makes no daring demands, reveals no that Mr. 1vasiuk was a drunk and on I980 mortality tables. ART remains the same as at issue date,, suppressed statistics. 1t simply recounts mentally unstable. As a result, his The new classes include three certifi­ but the premium increases each year the short life of a talented young man parents lodged a formal protest with the cates of term insurance, with unusually with the age of the insured. The UNA whose music, grounded in the national prosecutor's office, where they were low premiums which easily compete issues Class ART in amounts of525,000 folklore and culture, was immensely told that an investigation would be within the general life insurance market. or more. popular in Ukraine, and whose death at undertaken. The new classes of term insurance ^ Decreasing 30-Year Term Certifi­ the age of 30 was seeen by many as If and when such an investigation was provide special insurance advantages to cate - Class DT30 - is intended nothing short of a national tragedy. ever conducted reinains unknown. members: primarily for persons who have mort­ The fact that a Soviet journal has What is known is that thereafter Mr. ^ Term insurance to age 23 - Class gage ioans. They are advantageous to published such a memoir is reason Ivasiuk's name was rarely mentioned in T23 — is a certificate with very low them because the premiums are very enough to register the event in the the Soviet press. premiums under which children age 0 to low and remain the same for 30 years, context of glasnost. The explanation? The now-defunct samizdat journal, A 15 can be insured and which remains in while the face value of these certificates Mr. 1vasiuk died, as they say, "under (Continued on page 13) force until age 23. The minimum face (Continued on page 12) |Canada hosts PIast's international jamboree Surveying the scene | by Marta Kolomayets The diamond jubilee, which was host­ the organization established in 1911 by at one canfipsite ed by Canada's National P1ast Com­ Dr. Alexander Tysovsky, Ivan Chmola OTTAWA - P1ast Ukrainian Youth mand chaired by 0rest Dzulynsky, and Petro Frank0 in Galicia, Ukraine. in Algonquin Park Organization celebrated its 75th birth­ commenced on Saturday, August 8, as Patterned after the Boy Scouts of day this summer with a party — a jam­ youths and young adults age 1l-3l from Great Britain, which were established by Michael Bociurkiw boree that lasted two weeks and toured Argentina, Australia, Belgium, Brazil, by Sir Robert Baden Powell in 1908, more than 800 scouts from all over the Canada, France, Germany, Great Bri­ the P1ast program of activities aims at WHITEFISH LAKE, Ont. -| free wor1d through the scenic country­ tain and the United States arrived at threefold development: mental, moral ; Home must have seemed like a million | sides of Quebec and Ontario, and various campsites throughout Ontario and physical. Phase one of this two­ \ miles away to some of the 4(Ю P1ast | Canada's capital city - Ottawa -- and and Quebec for nine days of camping, week celebration, thus, concentrated on \ members from around the wor1d who | culminated with a grand finale at the or­ hiking, swimming, canoeing, rafting outdoor knowledge and skills, nature I came to the shores of this lake in | ganization's campsite, "PIast0Va Sich" and sailing. This first phase of the three­ 1ore and survival in the wilderness. \ Algonquin Park for a one-week | in Graf ton, Ont. part jamboree reflected the core of P1ast, (Continued on page 16) \ camp that is part of the youth organi* | \ zation's international jamboree. | But no one seems to mind the| \ isolation. Cloudless skies, a casual | I schedule and a new concept which | I brings campers from different parts | I of the wor1d closer together has left | I few of the young campers homesick. | The campers here, members of the | I P1ast Ukrainian Youth Organization | \ age 15-17, were part of an interna-| \ tional jamboree of P1ast scattered | \ throughout campsites in eastern | \ Canada. The hundreds at Whitefish Lake, | \ almost З00 kilometers northwest of| і Ottawa, came from Australia,| Europe, Canada and the United| I States. Camp organizers said this camp is | I unique because the youths are placed | \ in randomly selected groups of young | \ people from different countries. One group, for instance, included | P1ast members from Canada, the| United States, Germany and Austra- | \ lia. The idea, camp officials said, was | і to encourage the youths to learn to | Ж>:^:^:^:^:^:^^^^:^>:^:^:^:^;<W^:^:^:^:^:^^^:^:^:<^-::::-^:^:^:^:^:^:^::::^^^ ^^'^^^ К0І0тЗуЄІ5 \ work and socialize with young U- | PIast members from around the wor1d brought their countries' flags to the jamboree. The flag of free Ukraine (Continued on page 16) waves front and center during a manifestation on Ottawa's Parliament Hill. THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 6,1987 No.36 A GLIMPSE OF SOVIET REALITY Congressmen appeal for Petkus NEW YORK - Over 100 Congress­ concern about the confiscation of his men have called for the release of a literary work by Soviet labor camp Roman Catholic activist and founder of officials. Construction in "wretched state" the Lithuanian Helsinki Group, Vik- Noting that August 23 marked the toras Petkus, reported the Lithuanian end of the prison camp portion of Mr. at nuclear facility in Ukraine 1nformation Center. Petkus's sentence and the beginning of In a letter dated August 24, the his five-year term in exile, the congress­ by David Marples situation at Netishyn. members of Congress appealed to men suggested that it was an approp­ Earlier evidence suggests that the Vladimir Karpov, first secretary of the riate time for Soviet officials to release A recent article in Mo1od Ukrainy, problems there are particularly acute. USSR Writers' Union, to intercede on Mr. Petkus and allow him to return to the organ of the Central Committee of The Khmelnytsky station is a CMEA behalf of fellow writer Mr. Petkus, a his home in Lithuania. They also urged the Ukrainian Komsomol (Communist (Council for Mutual Economic Assis­ literary historian who is said to have Mr. Karpov to work with other of­ Youth League) focuses on the lamen­ tance) enterprise in which the USSR compiled, while in prison and labor ficials in Moscow to ensure that Mr. table state of work at Netishyn in and Poland have the largest stake (there camp, a 3,000-page encyclopedia of Petkus's encyclopedia was restored to Khmelnytsky 0bIast, the construction are at least 2,700 Polish workers on the wor1d writers containing 45,000 entries. him. site for a nuclear power plant. The site), but in which Hungary and Cze­ The 108 congressmen expressed their In an exlusive interview with the account, written by 01ena Talayeva, is choslovakia are also involved. Ultima­ dismay over the fact that the 57-year­ Lithuanian 1nformation Center last bitterly sarcastic in tone and is the latest tely, it will furnish 4,000 megawatts of old former Nobel Peace Prize nominee May, Natan Sharansky of Israel, who of several criticisms of the state of electrical capacity for Ukraine and its has spent 24 years in the gulag for his had shared a cell in Chistopol prison for affairs at Netishyn, which have been East European neighbors. Each country religious activism and advocacy of 16 months with Mr. Petkus, confirmed described as "wretched" in the Ukrai­ will receive electricity generated in human rights, and also voiced their that the Lithuanian writer began to nian press. proportion to the %mount of invest­ work on his encyclopedia in I978, with ment. The articles describes a bureaucratic (Continued on page 15) foul-up that occurred in establishing Building work was started in 1978, Demonstrations banned which particular department had juris­ partly to alleviate a potential electricity diction over a broken crane that was shortfall caused by the delay in building badly needed for building work. On the Poland's only nuclear power plant at from central Moscow Lithuanians cite one hand, writes the author, the crane is Zarnowiec in the Gdansk region.