СВОБОДА JfcSYOBODA ІЧО УКРАЇНСЬКИЙ ЩОЖІННИК ^H`r икйлгтлм втчу roinianWeeENGLISH-LANGUAGE WEEKLY EDITION k У VOL. LXXXVIIШ. No. 1 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JUNE I, 1980 25 CENTS Ukrainian Academy of Arts and Sciences Vice President Mondale visits celebrates 30 years of work in U.S. Ukrainian home in New Jersey NEW YORK - The Ukrainian Aca­ Society, the Harvard Ukrainian Re­ by Zenon Snylyk demy of Arts and Sciences in the United search Institute, Mykola Liwycky, States celebrated its 30th anniversary president of the Ukrainian National Re­ on May 17 at the Ukrainian Institute of public-in-exile, and numerous other America. Ukrainian and non-Ukrainian institu­ The program was opened by the vice- tions, organizations and scholars. president of the academy, Dr. Yaroslaw Bilinsky. The program of music and poetry The first session consisted of the reading featured, respectively, concert presentation of papers by the following pianist Juliana Osinchuk and the recent professors: Dr. Omeljan Pritsak (Har­ emigre actress from Ukraine, Evelina vard University), "The History of Beluts. A reception followed the pro­ Ukraine as an Academic Discipline"; gram. Dr. George Shevelov, acting president In his concluding remarks. Dr. Omel­ of the academy, (Columbia University), chenko noted that the two scholarly "Remarks on the Work of H. Skovo- institutions — the Ukrainian Academy roda," and Dr. Bilinsky (University of of Arts and Sciences and the Shevchen- Delaware), "The Ukrainian Helsinki ko Scientific Society — haVe taken Group.^ m upon themselves'the responsibility for In the second session, the general safeguarding the development of Ukrai­ secretary of the academy, Dr. William nian scholarship in the free world, and Omelchenko (Hunter College) reported that their efforts are all the more on the "Thirty Years of the Academy.' significant in view of the Russification Greetings were then read from the policy which is currently being imple­ following: Metropolitan Mstyslav of mented in the Ukrainian SSR. It was the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the the cooperation of these two institu­ U.S.A., President Jimmy Carter, Dr. tions which contributed to the appear­ Zbigniew Bzre?inski, Dr. Jaroslaw ance of the Ukrainian Encyclopedia, a Padoch of the Shevchenko Scientific (Continued on page 16) Dr. Paul Magocsi appointed to University of Toronto chair TORONTO - Amid a simmering the position created a furor among controversy. University of Toronto some faculty members, students and President James M. Ham confirmed the Ukrainian community members. appointment of Dr. Paul R. Magocsi of - The Toronto Globe and Mail reveal­ Harvard to the Chair of Ukrainian ed in a March 20 story that 13 acade­ Studies, the first in Canada, effective mics at the university had written a July 1. He will be an associate professor letter to President Ham protesting the with immediate tenure. nomination, alleging that the appoint­ The initial announcement concerning ment would violate standard university Dr. Magocsi's proposed candidacy for hiring procedures. Usually, an instruc­ Roma Sochan Hadzewycz tor is not considered for tenure until he Michael Stawnychy and Olya Smorodsky greet Vice President Walter Mondale has taught for at least six years in an outside the Smorodsky home. appointed position. Although he was a research fellow at the Ukrainian Re­ RUTHERFORD, N.J. - Walter This unprecedented meeting was search Institute at Harvard, a lecturer in Mondale added yet another first to the organized under the aegis of the Ukrai­ government and managing editor of history of Ukrainian settlement in the nian Committee for Carter-Mondale, the Harvard Series in Ukrainian Stu­ United States as he became the first vice headed by Dr. Bohdan Wytwycky, who dies, Dr. Magocsi has never held a president in the history of this country also joined the Smorodsky family in permanent teaching position. President to visit a Ukrainian household. greeting the vice president. The commit­ Ham refused to comment when con­ Some 250 invited guests, mostly tee hosted Mr. Mondale on behalf of fronted with the charges of hiring prominent Ukrainian Americans from Ukrainians. Poles. Slovaks, Russians irregularities. the New York-New Jersey metropolitan and Byelorussians. Children of each The University of Toronto search area, filled every nook and corner of the respective group, garbed in national committee also ignored a request from spacious home of Myroslaw and Ca- attire, were on hand inside the home to Ihor Bardyn, director of the Ukrainian mille Smorodsky here Wednesday, May welcome Mr. Mondale. The sizable Studies Foundation which supplied half 21, and greeted the vice president with a (Continued on page 14) of the 5600,000 for the chair, that a rousing round of applause, as well as the temporary solution be found until an traditional Ukrainian "Mnohaia Lita," appropriate appointee was chosen. "It after two youngsters, Olya Smorodsky INSIDE: was part of the agreement when the and Michael Stawnychy, extended the Ш More on Vice President Walter chair was granted that there would be a hospitality of the home to Mr. Mondale Mondale's stopover at the Smorod­ series of visiting professors before the by presenting him with bread and salt sky home — page 14. university makes its final decision. This on a tray adorned with a richly embroi­ Ш Scenes of Plast's "Sviato Yu- Dr. Paul R. Magocsi (Continued on page 16) dered scarf. riya" page 9. s 2й THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JUNE 1. 1980 - JfclSJnki monitors recommend Creation Of Ukrainian village stages strike body to implement Helsinki Accords after Soviets destroy church NEW YORK -The Helsinki mon­ KESTON, England - The decision For a long time they looked for a man itoring group active in places of ітргі– of the local authorities to requisition an from Zanosy and the surrounding sonment and exile in the USSR issued a Orthodox church for grain storage in villages who could do it." But even the memorandum in 1979^ to "all nations. the Ukrainian village of Zanosy pro­ atheists would not agree to this. At last - parliaments and officials of countries- voked a strike of the village's entire they found a prisoner with a 15-year participants of the Helsinki Confer- population, according to information sentence. They told him that if he would i ence " recommending that a judicial recently received by Keston College. cut down the pine trees, he would be set . body be set up for the implementation ^ЯР Keston College notes that strikes like free...He replied: `I can't! My con­ of the Helsinki Final Act, reported the this are not common in the Soviet science will not allow it. There are so press service of the Ukrainian Supreme "^ Union. Not only the believers, but the many believers here, and I would offend - Liberation Council (abroad). entire village, went on strike until the them!" Members of the group from the authorities gave in. Finally the authorities found an Sosnovka labor camp in the Mordovian alcoholic who felled the trees while "The people were shocked and of­ guarded by militia. ASSR have issued this proposal in fended, and in their offense they all. as conjunction with the case of Danylo one man. refused to go out to work on Keston College noted that the story Shumuk. a fellow member. the collective farm. The hungry cattle, of Zanosy has a final, almost medieval Shumuk`s case, as the memorandum which had not been fed for a long time, twist. "The scoundrel who cut down the points out. has been taken up by the were lowing and raised such a noise that pines, which had become sacred, has. Canadian government which appealed the authorities were shaken. The strike before the eyes of the whole village, for the release of this ill 66-year-old man was total. Even the children did not go gone out of his mind...The procurator who has spent the last 29 years in Soviet Danylo Shumuk to school. Panic seized the authorities: also has not gone unpunished. Though prisons. the lowing of the cattle was reaching as healthy and strong, he died the same the USSR, were not-stable hands, but far as the district center. They called on year." The Canadian government, acting efficient instruments in carrying out the out of humanitarian concern and on the the chairman, but he just spread his ruthless policies of Stalin's regime on hands helplessly," Keston College basis of international covenants on regional and district levels. I know that I Science magazine human rights, called for the release of reported. am in your grasp and I am well aware of Keston College noted that this inci­ Shumuk so that he could join his the fate that awaits me. Nevertheless, I publishes appeal for relatives in Canada. dent illustrates both the support for the will go on exposing your deeds until the Orthodox Church which still exists in This appeal was met with a campaign day I die." three Soviet dissidents of slander and misinformation aimed at the Soviet Union and the problems the The signatories of the memorandum, authorities face in carrying out the Shumuk on the part of the Soviet Balys Gajauskas. Aleksandr Ginzburg, JERSEY CITY, N.J. - the April 18 authorities, wrote the Helsinki mon­ Communist Party's commitment to issue of Science magazine carried an Edvard Kuzhetsov, Bohdan Rebryk, stamp out religion. When democratic itors, explaining that the Soviet govern­ Mykola Rudenko and Shumuk, state: open appeal by Scientists forSakharov, ment maintained that Shumuk, as an and administrative means fail, force is Orlov and Shcharansky (SOS) which "Having come to know the personal their only resource. alleged war criminal, was barred from history of Shumuk, one will compre­ protested the human rights violations in considerations of being granted a more hend that to accuse a patriot of war The Zanosy authorities responded to the cases of the three scientists.