www.ukrweekly.com ono Published by the Ukrainian National Association Inc., a fraternal non-profit association! rainian Weekly Vol. L No. 34 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, AUGUST 22. 1982 25 cents Bleak prospects International Plast Jamboree opens by Roman Juzeniw "novaky" (boys age 7 -11) is directed by Wsewolod Hnatczuk, commander; for Poland's Taras Kowcz, commander; "novachky" Roman Kopach, first assistant; Oleh EAST CHATHAM, N.Y. - Nearly (girls age 7 - 11) - Sonia Slobodian, Hordienko, second assistant; Andrij 1,500 Phut youths, senior members commander; "yunaky" (boys age 11 - Lastowecky, third assistant; Borys young people and parents were present at the Sun­ 17) — Petro Sodol, commander; "yu- Loza, "bunchuzhnyi"; Natalie Lon- WARSAW - Soaring unemploy­ day, August 15, official opening cere­ nachky" (girls age 11 - 17) - Maria chyna, secretary; the Revs. Bohdan ment, the unavailability of housing monies of the nine-day International Motyl, commander; "starshi plastuny" Smyk and Artemij Selepyna, respective­ and a creeping disillusionment with Plast Jamboree being held at the (members age 18 - 31) — Christine ly, Catholic and Orthodox chaplains; the Communist system following the Vovcha Tropa (Wolf's Trek) Plast camp Panchuk, commander; seniors (over Ihor Korol, archivist; Dmytro Ko- government crackdown on the Soli­ site here in upstate New York. age 31) — Theodozij Krupa, comman­ sovych, treasurer. darity free trade union has alienated The jamboree, the sixth held on the der, and Plastpryiat and guests - Petro In addition, there are over 25 other Poland's young people, leading many North American continent, continues Bokalo, commander. officers assigned various duties during to drop out of society altogether. the commemoration of Plast's 70th The largest camps are those of the this nine-day jamboree and scores of According to a recent report in anniversary, which began with a Plast teenage girls and boys, with over 480 youth counselors helping to run the The Economist, many young people jamboree in Australia in late 1981 and girls and over 420 boys participating. mammoth event have set up punk groups which will conclude with jamborees next The opening day also included an During the week, the "yunaky" and engage in activities ranging from summer in Argentina and Europe. The ecumenical moleben celebrated by "yunachky" who are the majority of the painting anti-government graffiti on Ukrainian youth organization was Metropolitans Stephen Sulyk and jamboree participants, were to go on wails to crime. Of all those charged founded in 1911 in Lviv, Ukraine. Mstyslav Skrypnyk, respectively, of the hikes in the Adirondacks on Monday, with criminal offenses during 1980 Lubomyr Romankiw, president of Ukrainian Catholic and Orthodox Tuesday and Wednesday, August 16- and 1981, 65 percent were under 30. the International Plast Command, Churches. Both prelates serve as Plast's 18. Sports events and contests of basic One of the main factors feeding officially -opeaed-the-jembepoe-OB international chaplains. scouting skills, such as orienteering, this growing discontent is the lack of Sunday, August 15. The opening pro­ Representatives of the six countries cooking, semaphore and lashing, were jobs. Reforms designed to make gram also included the reading of the where today's Plast is active — Canada, also scheduled. enterprises more responsive to market first order of the day, the lighting of a the United States, Argentina, West forces are leading to a shake-up of Germany, Great Britain and Australia See centerfold for more photos of Plast symbolic eternal flame from embers Jamboree. overmanned industries. In Poland, brought from the Australian Plast — are present at the jamboree. Also with half of its 36 million people jamboree and a flag-raising ceremony. participating are several members of the Friday, August 20, was designated under 30, this has translated into Plast group in Italy which formally "Brotherhood Day" to allow the Plast unemployment among the young. The first busload of jamboree partici­ falls under the jurisdiction of the West members from around the world to According to a Communist news­ pants arrived on. Friday afternoon, German National Plast Command. meet their peers. paper, Rzeczpospolita, 15- to 29- August 13. That bus carried Plast The official representatives of these The Saturday, August 21, program year-olds make up a third of members of all ages from Winnipeg who countries, all of whom were present on was to include a display of Kupalo Poland's working population and 42 had traveled over 40 hours to reach East the reviewing stand during the opening- traditions, scouting exhibitions and a percent of its skilled workforce. Chatham. Other buses quickly followed: day ceremonies, are: Iroida Wynnycky, closing bonfire. Already this year 40,000 university from Cleveland, Washington, Montreal president of the Canadian National graduates are unemployed and by and other Plast branches. The final bus, Plast Command; Ewstachia Hoydysh, Official closing ceremonies are sche­ 1985 57,000 could be without jobs, from Toronto, arrived on Saturday president of the U.S. National Plast duled to take place today, Sunday, along with 467,000 secondary-school afternoon, August 14, the day the Command; Onufrij Czabaniuk, Austra­ August 22, and over 2,000 persons, graduates. individual camps for various age groups lia; Jeremy Kusczynsky, Great Britain; including many representatives of Lech Walesa, the interned leader had their own opening ceremonies. Victor Agres, Argentina; and Andrij national and worldwide Ukrainian of Solidarity, had warned govern­ In all, there are seven camps in Onuferko, West Germany. community organizations, are expected ment officials about the danger of progress at the jamboree: the camp for The jamboree command consists of: to attend. unemployment at the union's na­ tional congress last autumn. The union suggested a program of earlier retirement, more adult education and shorter working hours as a way of softening the blow. But with the declaration of martial law on Decem­ ber 13, Mr. Walesa's ideas were ignored. Even those lucky enough to find work still have to find a place to live, and the housing situation in Poland is a mess, The Economist reported. In the past two years, the waiting period for an apartment has risen to 15 years. Of the 2 million people on the waiting list, half arc-under 30. Only 18 percent of the; 3 million married couples in Poland already have their own apartments. : The only other channel open to youiu/apartment-hunterrf в the black market, where apartments can be exchanged or sold for American dollars. But dollars are in short supply these days and travel restric­ tions mean that young people cannot (Continued on paff 3) Plast members parade before reviewing stand daring Jamboree opening ceremonies. THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, AUGUST 22.1982 MM Author cites KGB involvement Helsinki Watch publishes booklet in pope assassination attempt on persecution of dissent in Yugoslavia NEW YORK - A prominent Ame­ Bulgarian entry stamp, affixed long NEW YORK - The U.S. Helsinki rican specialist on terrorism charged on after he had taken up residence in Sofia, Watch Committee, a human-rights August 16 that the Bulgarian and Soviet the Bulgarian capital, was valid. watchdog group, recently published a secret police may have been involved in Ms. Sterling cited this as one of booklet on human-rights violations in the attempted assassination of Pope several indications that Mr. Agca had Yugoslavia which contains profiles of John Paul II in May 1981, reported official sponsors in Bulgaria. "To have that country's leading dissidents Reuters news service. stayed in Bulgaria for some SO days, as The 30-page illustrated pamphlet, The specialist, Claire Sterling, in a Agca did, is enough in itself to raise "Yugoslavia: Freedom to Conform," is copyrighted article in Reader's Digest, suspicions about his future actions,"she divided into three sections. The first said a four-month investigation by the wrote, charging that Bulgaria often contains 11 biographical sketches of magazine showed that Mehmet AH acted as "one of Moscow's principal dissidents already imprisoned or await­ Agca, a Turk who was convicted of surrogates for terrorism and subver­ ing appeals. The second part provides assault on the pope, was not a right- sion." 10 representative profiles of critics of wing assassin and had not been acting Of all the countries in Eastern the regime, which were chosen to on his own as was generally believed. Europe, Bulgaria has perhaps the illustrate the kinds of arbitrary reprisals Instead, according to Ms. Sterling, closest ideological and historical ties employed by authorities against hu­ author of "The Terror Network," a with the Soviet Union. The feeling of man-rights advocates. book on European terrorism, Mr. kinship dates back to the liberation of The third part of the pamphlet con­ Agca, 23, received extensive support Bulgaria from Turkish rule by the tains three profiles of Yugoslav citizens Milovan Djilas from a Sofia-based Turkish gun-run­ Russian tsar in 1877. who have been forced to live abroad for ning ring controlled by the Bulgarian Ms. Sterling, who is based in Rome, political reasons and who face the threat government until 1954, when he was secret service. said West European officials she of arrest should they return to their ousted for "revisionism" after castigat­ The head of the operation, Abuzer interviewed privately believed that the homeland. Many are regularly attacked