А iir fc "V"^ л^ "3""\ -i"^. ^ і ENGLISH" LANGUAGE WEEKLY EDITION VOL. LXXXV No. 68 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, MARCH 26,1978 25 CENTS piDtK ""ПІ ^e Khrystos Voskres — Christ Is Risen ^ "Greatest Tenet of Our Faith" Hierarchs of "Pomisna" Church (Easter Greetings of Archbishop-Metropolitan Joseph Schmondiuk) Issue 1978 Easter Pastoral "Why do you seek the living among the dead? He is not here, hut has arisen!" ROME,Italy.-The hierarchs of the (Luke 24, 5-6). ''Pomisna'' Ukrainian Catholic Church have released the 1978 Easter Beloved in Christ: Pastoral letter in which they underlined Khrystos Voskres! Christ has Risen! the need for suffering in God's name, This truth resounds today through­ love of neighbors, unity in the Ukraini­ out the world: "Christ rose from the an community, and the establishment dead, by His death He conquered of the Patriarchate. death, and granted life to those who The letter, dated February 7, 1978, were in the graves/' Have we ever was signed by Patriarch Josyf Cardinal meditated upon this great truth? Have Slipyj and the hierarchs of the "Pomis­ we ever sounded the depths of meaning na" Church. of this event and the meaning it has for The yearly message said that Christ's the whole of mankind and each one of resurrection was a "shining victory of us? truth over untruth, love over hate,.life There is no doubt that Jesus Christ over death." It is a "holiday of holi­ arose from the grave. All the evangel­ days, feast of feasts," because Christ ists mention this fact; Paul, the "attained God's plan to save man­ Apostle of the Gentiles, writes at kind." length about it and underscores the Stressing that suffering is an impor­ consequences of the Resurrection on tant aspect of Christ's Church, the pas­ all men; the enemies of Christ — the toral said that it is a sign of love for Sanhedrin, the Pharisees, Saducees, God and neighbor. the Roman government, were forced to admit that Christ had risen; the past "Suffering) is a part of life, and it two thousand years despite many cannot be avoided. Since it was Christ denials of rationalists of the seven­ Our Lord, who suffered" the members teenth and eighteenth centuries and the of his Church must also accept suf­ modernists of our age, proved the truth fering. of this Christian belief. And Ukraini­ "Suffering becomes beneficial to us an ^ accepted this as a historical icict when we accept It as proof of our kwe vV\\ ±w\ deceive '-eaffu-mation: n^JJfl for God." SP3 The pastors1 points out thar ' ^?, i- ІЩЙ su/fem^ zoh.C evoke -- t;^ ^ їГПлП iJ lO'\ ZW: KHRYSTOS VOSKRES! . шіІь-Sovkf uelh'liy. Caose iekUvos ! John Chrysostom, in his resu'.rec- | of file defendants were banted /гота ; iio'^Hy, writer "Come you 'JA: ' attending ?AefnaL ; -J 2 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, MARCH 26,1978 No. 68 Osadchy Asks Kiev Group President Liwycki Calls for New Rada MUNICH, West Germany.-Mykola Citing his and the government's Liwycki, President of the Ukrainian Na­ decision, the Bulletin said that the To Investigate Death of Brother tional Republic-iri-exile, by a decree of Rada was composed of six political NEW YORK, N.Y.—Mykhaylo his brother was interrogated by the March 7, 1978, disbanded the Ukrainian parties with 36 mandates, but Osadchy, a Ukrainian political pri­ KGB and was offered a job with them. National Council (Rada) and called for a that three more parties have agreed to soner confined in the Svoboda concen­ He refused and that instigated KGB new composition in accordance with join the body since the seventh session, tration camp in the Mordovian ASSR, harassment against him, wrote the decision of the Council adopted upping the total to 48 mandates. If asked the Kiev Public Group to Pro­ Osadchy. at its seventh session three years ago. three more political parties were to join the Rada, it would result in the total of mote the Implementation of the Hel­ Osadchy's brother was born in 1941. The decision at that time called for sinki Accords to investigate the death He is a botanist and was involved with 112 representatives from the political the admission of representatives of the and 112 from the community sector. of his brother, Volodymyr, on April 5, the Sumy oblast consumer's cooper­ community at large on par with those 1975, reported the press service of the ative. Osadchy said that his brother de­ representing the political parties within Considering such a number to be too Ukrainian Supreme Liberation Council fended his innocence at every corner, the Rada. large, said the government's decree, (abroad). and added that his only connection in the number of representatives is being Osadchy feels that his brother was what could be "dissidentism" was re­ Mr. Liwycki, in making his an­ lowered to three for each member killed, allegedly on orders by the KGB. writing the files of the cooperative in nouncement as reported in the Coun­ party. He wrote in his letter to the Kiev the Ukrainian language. cil's Bulletin of March 8, 1978, cited The announcement did not set a group on November 20, 1977, that the After Volodymyr refused to cooper­ Article 18, paragraph 8 of the Temp­ specific date for the elections of com­ first medical examiner's report on his ate with the KGB, some unknown per­ orary Law, giving him the power to munity representatives and the convo­ brother's death disappeared. People son acquainted him with a group of disband the Council and call the com­ cation of the new Council. The current who saw the first reports said that it convicts, wrote Osadchy. These con­ position of a new one. term of the Rada expires in 1979. differed from the second one, which victs in March 1975 robbed his apart­ listed the cause of death as alcohol ment , and on April 2 Osadchy's bro­ and heart failure, said Osadchy. ther was called before a judge and Urges Firmness in Dealing with USSR Osadchy said that he learned of his afterwards relieved of complicity with brother's death one month after it hap­ the crime. He was to be a witness dur­ ST. LOUIS, Mo.-The United Archbishop Elko, former spiritual pened. He said that his investigation up ing the trial. States should stand up more often to head of the Byzantine Diocese of Pitts­ to now points to KGB involvement in Osadchy wrote that he learned that the Soviet Union, Archbishop Nicholas burgh and currently Auxiliary Bishop the incident. on April 5 the group of convicts threw T. Elko told members of the Cardinal of Cincinnati, said that the Helsinki The incarcerated Ukrainian writer his brother's body out of a passing car Mindzenty Foundation at the organiza­ pact is irritating the USSR "more than said that about three months after his in Sumy. tion's leadership conference here, re­ many people realize," and that he was brother was killed, the KGB implied Since learning of his brother's death, ported the Religious News Service. encouraged by recent U.S. charges that that something may happen to him. Osadchy held 39 hunger strikes and The Cardinal Mindzenty Foundation the USSR is failing to live up to the Osadchy said that he was transferred wrote numerous appeals for an irP was founded 20 years ago to fight com­ Helsinki agreement. from Sosnovka to a KGB prison in the quest. All of them have been turned munism. It is named after the late Car­ He urged that boycotts and other fall of 1974 and was asked by Lts. Shu- down on the basis of the second medi­ dinal Joseph Mindzenty, primate of economic sanctions be used against the meyko and Yermolenko for a favor. If cal examiner's report. Hungary. Soviet Union. he complies, they promised to have his "I sincerely ask you (members of the sentence reduced to time served. Kiev group) to investigate this matter "I angrily refused - and as a person or attain an official inquest," he Rep. Fenwick Aids Gen. Grigorenko illegally persecuted and as a citizen asked. who condemned the repressions in Uk­ Osadchy told the Ukrainian Helsinki SOMERVILLE, N.J,-Rep. МІ1И- not speak out, he did not hold press raine in 1972," he wrote. watchers that prior to his brother's cent Fenwick (R-N.J.) asked the Soviet conferences and he did not vilify his Osadchy said that he was threatened, death, he was the target of frequent government to restore Soviet citizen­ country," said Rep. Fenwick. "It is a his 70-year-old mother was beaten, and KGB harassments. Many people were ship to Gen. Pyotr Grigorenko, the mystery why the Soviets decided on finally Yermolenko told him to prepare interrogated in connection with his Ukrainian human rights advocate, re­ this random cruelty.'' his brother for "an incident that will case, said Osadchy. In addition, KGB ported George Wirt in the Friday, The Somerset County legislator said shock you." officers were present during the funeral March 10 edition of The Newark that the action contradicts everything of Osadchy's brother and wrote down Star-Ledger. agreed to at the Conference on Security In the concentration camp, Osadchy and Cooperation in Europe in 1975. told of several attempts by inmates to the names of all persons persent. Rep. Fenwick described the Soviet decision as a "cruel and vicious slap" "I have written to Soviet Ambassa­ rape and beat him. Osadchy said that he also requested dor Dobrynin and asked his govern­ He wrote a letter to his brother war­ the Moscow group, International As­ at the former Soviet military leader.