www.ukrweekly.com Published by the Ukrainian National Association Inc.. a fraternal non-profit association! rainian Weekly Vol. UN No. 13 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, MARCH 31.1985 25 cents Albany boy, 2, needs new liver; Millennium committee formed; special fund created in New York Starosolsky elected president JERSEY CITY, N.J. - A fund to Pittsburgh making arrangements for a PHILADELPHIA - One hundred cover the medical expenses of a two- transplant which, if and when an organ sixty-five representatives of 74 year-old Albany.boy in need of a liver is found, will take place at the Ukrainian community organizations transplant was recently established in University of Pittsburgh Children's and institutions in the United States New York. Clinic. Two of the couple's three other gathered here at the Ukrainian The boy, Jaroslaw Shumylo, was children, Natalie, 5. and Lessia, 4, are in Educational and Cultural Center on born with an underdeveloped liver and, Pittsburgh with their parents, and their Saturday, March 23. to establish the according to his doctors at the Albany oldest child, Roman. 12, is staying with National Committee on the Millennium Medical Center where he is currently his grandmother in upstate New York. of Christianity in Ukraine. Dr. Yuriy hospitalized, will have an 80 percent In the meantime, Jaroslaw, who is Starosolsky, a noted Ukrainian chance to live if a suitable donor organ nearing his third birthday and weighs a community activist who is best known is found. However, the tremendous mere 11 pounds, is being constantly as the chief "plastun" of the Plast costs of the operation will not be monitored at the Albany Medical Ukrainian Youth Organization, was covered by insurance companies, Center. His grandmother told The elected to head the ad hoc committee. because liver transplants are still Weekly that his skin is brown, he is The 1,000th anniversary of Ukrainian considered to be experimental being intravenously fed and requires 20 Christianity is in 1988. procedures. hours of dialysis a day. He recently had The special meeting had been Maria Shumylo, the boy's a series of blood transfusions in order to convened by the hierarchs of the grandmother, estimated that by the time build his strength in preparation for a Ukrainian Orthodox and Catholic Jaroslaw is recovering from the transplant. Churches, respectively. Metropolitan operation, medical fees will amount to Local radio, television and Mstyslav and Metropolitan Stephen between 5250,000 and 5300,000. newspapers have reported on his Sulyk. The hierarchs had invited all "My son is already completely condition, and NBC News is standing by Ukrainian organizations and broke," she said. "Now we just pray to in case of any new developments, added institutions to send their representatives God." Mrs. Shumylo. to the meeting. Jaroslaw's parents. Anton and The special fund was set up at the Both metropolitans, as well as Bishop Christine Shumylo, were unavailable Self-Reliance Credit Union in New Robert - Moskal of the Ukrainian for comment because they were in (Continued on page 12) Catholic Eparchy of St. Josaphat in Parma. Ohio, attended the meeting. Dr. Yuriy Starosolsky The meeting was called to order by committee. Metropolitan Sulyk, and the The following arc members of the UCC concludes annual conference invocation was offered by Metropolitan National Committee on the Millennium by Mykhailo Bociurkiw on Saturday, March 16. Mstyslav. The Catholic metropolitan of Christianity in Ukraine, as adopted The Ukrainian Canadian Committee then delivered an opening address in at the special meeting. WINNIPEG - Two days of is the national umbrella organization of which he exhorted all present ю forget Honorary presidium: metropolitans lobbying, grandstanding, voting and Canada's 600,000-member Ukrainian past grievances, to forgive one another, of the Ukrainian Catholic and behind-the-scenes wrangling ended here community. Besides coordinating the and to testify before God and the enure Orthodox Churches in the United as the annual conference of the work of its member clubs and world that Ukrainians are a mature States, all bishops of Ukrainian Ukrainian Canadian Committee closed subcommittees, the UCC prepares nation united in purpose. Churches in the United States, pastors briefs and position papers, listens to Both metropolitans then spoke about of Evangelical denominations (groups grievances from groups and individuals their expectations regarding the ad hoc that do not recognize the baptism ol in the community, and hands out committee, and Metropolitan Sulyk Ukraine in the name of the Holy Spirit New UCC committee money from grants and donations for stressed that the committee should not (Continued on page II) various cultural and academic projects. interfere with Church celebrations of will deal with The UCC holds a conference each year the millennium and that it should clear and a congress every three years in any planned events with the leaders of D'Amato now heads war criminals issue Winnipeg, where the organization is Ukrainian Catholic, Orthodox and headquartered. Evangelical denominations. Helsinki Commission by Mykhailo Bociurkiw Delegates to this year's conference The meeting was then taken ever by a came from places as diverse as Toronto, presidium proposed by Metropolitan WINNIPEG - The national which Statistics Canada says has about Sulyk and composed of the Rev. WASHINGTON - Sen. Alfonse executive of the Ukrainian Canadian 80,000 Ukrainians, to St. Catharines, Martin Canavan and the Rev. Michael D'Amato (R-N.Y.) was named on Committee (UCC), responding to Ont., with about 500 Ukrainians, and Borysenko, co-chairmen; Bohdan March 27 to head the Congressional pressure from its members, announced from Vancouver, which has over 12,000 Katamay and Bohdan Futey, vice- Commission on Security and here on Saturday, March 16, that it Ukrainians. chairmen; and Ihor Koszman and Cooperation in Europe, a group of would establish a special committee to And yet, in some ways, this two-day Ulana Diachuk. secretaries. senators and congressmen that prepare a major submission to the gathering of Ukrainian community Ivan Skoczylas, a representative of monitors Soviet human-rights abuses in Canadian government's Royal leaders is like conferences of other the Philadelphia Ukrainian Catholic the Soviet bloc, reported The New York Commission on War Criminals. groups. Participants come to see old Archeparchy, proposed a list of Times, The committee, called the Civil friends, look for new ideas to revitalize members of the millennium committee, Sen. Bob Dole (R-Kansas), the Liberties Committee of the UCC, held their communities, keep up with the noting that his proposal was based on Senate majority leader and former co- its first major meeting on Monday, latest news and share stories of success discussions with representatives of chairman of the CSCE, announced that March 26. in Toronto. The unit is to be and defeat. many community organizations and Sen. D'Amato would replace Rep. headed by John B. Gregorovich. a But even as the some 75 delegates to institutions. He stressed, however, that Dante Fascell (D-Fla.) as chairman. 1 oronto lawyer and a national director the conference prepared to depart the committee membership was open President Ronald Reagan signed of the Ukrainian Professional and Busi­ Winnipeg after spending an exhausting for discussion and amendment. A long legislation on March 27 requiring that ness Federation. The`executive of the 18 hours in a meeting room in the discussion and a recess followed, after the head of the commission alternate Toronto branch of the UCC will Marlborough Hotel, critics aimed shots which the delegates returned to vote on between House and Senate members (Continued on page 11) (Continued on page 13) the composition of the millennium every two years. 2 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, МЖСН 31,1985 ,. Np. 13 Baptist leader, sentenced FRAMINGH AM, Mass. - A leader of unregistered Baptists in the Soviet Chronicle of Union who was due to complete a five- year labor camp term in January was the Catholic Church instead sentenced to an additional two years, for presumably violating camp regulations, reported Keston News. in Ukraine Mikhail Khorev, a 53-year-old leader of the unregistered Baptist Council of Churches in the USSR, was arrested last November in`a labor camp near Omsk and apparentlv charged under The following excerpts are from Religious Affairs of the Council of Article 188-3 of the Russian SFSR Issue So. 4 of і he Chronicle of the Ministers of the Ukrainian SSR`Y.Y. Criminal Code, a new law that allows Catholic Church in Ukraine, an Reshetylo. All the speakers smeared labor camp authorities to extend the underground publication which the Ukrainian Catholic Church and terms ol inmates who have broken made its appearance in January 1984 its hierarchs with furious hatred. camp rules or are considered especially nut has onl\ recently reached the And this at a time when the dangerous recidivists. Hew. Thus far, eight issues have authorities are supposedly seeking He was due to be released on January much their way out of Ukraine. The some sort of "dialogue" with 27. but was sentenced the next day to Chronicle is published in samvydav representatives of the Ukrainian the additional term. In 1980, Mr. Mikhail Khorev form by the Initiative Group for the Catholic Church. Comment, as they Khorev was given a five-year term after Defense of Believers and the Church, say. would be superfluous... The being convicted on several charges, disrupting the public order. which was founded in 1982 to pro- newspaper Victory was sprinkled including violating laws on the According to Keston. the new case molt the legalization of the Ukrai` with an article about the meeting separation of Church and state, began in November, when Mr. Khorev таї Catholic Church, which has described above, where there took defaming the Soviet state and was arrested after money was been'outlawed since 1946.