www.ukrweekly.com v.1 СВОБОДАЛ^УОВООА І І УКРАЇНСЬКИЙ ЩОАІННИК ^Ш^ UKBAl N 1AN ОЛІІУ Щ Щ ENGLISH LANGUAGE WEEKLY EDITION У VOL. LXXXIV ШNO. 198 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 11,1977 25 CENT? Over 1,200 Youths Tennis Nationals at Soyuzivka Attendroinio SUMA Rallyn Week ELLENviLLE, N.Y.—Two months arch Josyf 1, primate of the "Pomisna" Draw Record Entries of summer activities at the Ukrainian Ukrainian Catholic Church. American Youth Association camp The rally officially opened on Satur– here came to an end last weekend with day morning when Jaroslaw Petryk, Swimming Meet Enters 3rd Decade the traditional SUMA Labor Day commander of the rally and sports Weekend "Zdvyh". chairman of the SUMA Executive Over 1,200 youths representing 16 Board, called to order the columns of branches in the east, and another 12,000 youths. guests took part in the three-day pro- All day Saturday and Sunday, the gram, which included concerts, reviews, sports field was teeming with activity of sports meets and dances. youthful athletes, as sports fans The theme of this year's rally was watched the annual volleyball matches. "Freedom for Ukraine is Our Goal," A highlight of the sports events was a and the activities were conducted in soccer game between the SUM "Strila" observance of the 70th anniversary of team from Montreal, Que., and the the birth of Gen. Roman Shukhevych– SUMA "Krylati" team from Yonkers, Taras Chuprynka, commander-in-chief N.Y. "Krylati", which competes in the of the Ukrainian insurgent Army second division of the New Yprk-New (UPA), the 35th anniversary of the Jersey based German American Soccer creation of the UPA, and the 60th League, blanked "Strila" 3:0. anniversary of the ordination of Patri– (Continued on page 4) Tennis players and swimmers line up on the lower courts for the opening ceremonies. KERHONKSON, N.Y.– With entry A record of 153 players registered for records falling to the wayside and this year's tourney, forcing the comrnit– competition the keenest ever, the 22nd tee, composed of Bohdan Rak, chief annual national tennis championships, umpire, Roman Rakotchyj, Sr., direc– held at Soyuzivka during the Labor tor, George Sawchak and Zenon Day weekend, September 2-5, produced Snylyk, members, to pre-empt the new winners in eight of the 12 groups accepted method of seedings and plac– and a host of outstanding players who ings and add nine others to that select are bound for stardom on the Ukrainian group in the men's division. Priority tennis scene. was given to those players who could With crowds in excess of 3,000 hover– not make it on Friday, in line with the ing on the grassy malls above the format adopted in 1971, thus ensuring estate's six hard courts and milling that all players would be able to take around the swimming pool Saturday, part in what is an open tournament. September 3, to watch 71 youths strok– Consequently, 28 men had to battle it ing their way to UNA medals in 16 out Friday at Soyuzivka in two rounds. events and three relays, the meet got The seven that were left joined the 25 for underway Friday, September 2, with a field of 32, which played two rounds A segment of the participants of the 1977 SUMA "Zdvyh" during the opening the preliminary round in the men's on the courts of the New York State ceremonies. division of the tennis tourney. (Continued on page 8) Communities Mobilize For September 18th Rally NEW YORK, N.Y.– With seven days to go before the September 18th The UCCA headquarters, the coordinator of the manifestation, also urged manifestation in defense of the rights of Ukraine here, Ukrainian its branches in 34 cities in New York, New Jersey, Conneticut and communities in the northeastern section of the country are well into Pennsylvania, to charter buses for the trip to New York. mobilizing their residents for the rally, learned the UCCA headquarters here. Branches in Philadelphia, Newark-lrvington, New Haven and Hartford, in addition to local organizations which are spearheading the mobilization, among others, are already organizing buses for the rally. several national bodies have issued appeals to their membership to attend the A highlight of the manifestation will be the appearance of Dr. Mikhail manifestation. Shtern, a former Ukrainian political prisoner. Dr. Shtern, who is of Jewish heritage, was a physician in vynnytsia before The Supreme Executive Committee of the Ukrainian National Associa– he was arrested by the KGB. He was sentenced on trumped up charges of tion, in an appeal titled "Freedom Has No Pricetag," called on its members to bribery to eight years in prison because his sons wanted to emigrate to israel. take part in the rally to show Ukrainian American solidarity with the Ludmyla Alekseyeva and Andriy Hryhorenko, Russian and Ukrainian, dissi– persecuted human rights advocates in Ukraine. dents, respectively, will also attend. Other appeals were made by the executive offices of the Organization for The rally is slated to begin at 1:00 p.m., at 59th Street and Fifth Avenue. the Defense of Four Freedoms of Ukraine, the Organization for the Re-birth The crowd will then move down Fifth Avenue to Bryant Park at 42nd Street of Ukraine, Plast, the Ukrainian American Youth Association, the and Avenue of the Americas. Federation of Ukrainian Student Organizations of America, and the After a brief program there the participants will march to Hammerskjold veterans of the First Division of the Ukrainian National Army. Plaza, opposite the United Nations at 47th Street and First Avenue. Rally in Defense of Ukrainian Rights - Sunday, September 18,1977, New York City - Be There! THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER І I, 1977 No. 198 Rudenko indicts Russian Chauvinism Says Fate of Ukrainian Helsinki Watchers Rests with West Probably foreseeing that the ex- tenced to seven years incarceration tent of Russification in Ukraine will and five years exile.) increase before it will die down, My– "And then someone wanted to kola Rudenko appealed in mid- make a correction in my life, im– November last year to "people of mediately after the establishment goodwill'9 for assistance. of the Group, on the night of in a statement written by the head November 10th, someone hurled of the Ukrainian Public Group to several large bricks through the win– Promote the implementation of the dow of my apartment," wrote Helsinki Accords on November 14, Rudenko. 1976, just five days after the crea– He said that the bricks were tion of the group in Kiev, Rudenko "sharp and heavy", and they were wrote that the fate of the Ukrainian meant for'' my head''. Helsinki watchers rests with the Rudenko was not at home that West. evening, but Oksana Meshko, the A copy of Rudenko's strong in– mother of Oleksander Serhiyenko, a dictment of Russian chauvinism in political inmate in the viadimir Pri– the Soviet Union, which was clan– son, was wounded in the attack. destinely circulated in Ukraine, was "Neighbors said the house shook made public in the West by the press for several minutes during the bar- service of the Ukrainian Supreme rage. They thought it.was an earth- Liberation Council (abroad). quake," recounted Rudenko. "From under the thick iceberg of Rudenko wrote that the police did chained spirituality a child of free– not catch the perpetrators and did dom fearfully raises its head. Will not file a report of the incident. One they destroy it in a barbarian-like officer said, Rudenko wrote, that method, or will it survive - this de– "not much attention should be paid pends on you, people of goodwill," to this little incident, after all, no The 57-year-old Ukrainian one was killed." human rights advocate began his "1 live in the suburbs, in the charges against Russification by The photo above shows some of the bricks which were thrown through the woods. Many times viP's come stating that the Ukrainian language windows of Mykola Rudenko's apartment in a Kiev suburb. through the area hunting for wild is rarely heard on the streets of Kiev. boars. І certainly hope that a situ– He said that Ukrainian is also infre– the creation of the Ukrainian repub– Russian language." ation, which, according to the Kiev quently heard in schools and lic, which had the right to join or "if that is not so, then the idea of militia, would warrant attention, scholarly institutions. withdraw from a union with Russia. 'Soviet' becomes unnatural and un– does not occur. That is why 1 appeal "We are told that that is the way While admitting to his belief in favorable," wrote Rudenko. to you, people of goodwill, support it must be, that a 'new nation' - the the sincerity of the Russian people, The Ukrainian poet explained us with your words," wrote Soviet nation was created. And for Rudenko scored the Russian chauvi– that the Helsinki watchdog group Rudenko. some reason this 'new nation' must nists "who turned the sacred treaty was formed in Kiev because Ukraine He said that the Kiev group does not speak either Lithuanian, Byelo– between Ukraine and Russia into a was being omitted from international not have any political goals. Their russian or Ukrainian," wrote worthless piece of paper." gatherings and treaties. only goal, wrote Rudenko, is hu– Rudenko. "We are being told that "Soon Svyatoslav Karavansky, He said that Ukraine is con– manitarian. He wants to see the the Soviet language is the Russian who is my age, will complete his 13- sidered a sovereign state within the "implementation of the Helsinki language, and only the Russian lan– year-sentence.