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LVIII No. 17 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, APRIL 29,1990 50 cents Chomovil chosen Lviv 0blast chief The Chomobyl anniversary as party, new councils square off 70,000 in Kiev demonstrate JERSEY C1TY, N.J. - Former sessions in Lviv's Opera Theater in mid- political prisoner and leading national April, reported various news sources. against environmental abuses rights activist vyacheslav Chornovil Mr. Chornovil's election came as the by laroslav Trofimov The rally also greeted a speech by was elected chairman of the new Lviv new regional council, dominated by Rukh Press international Leonid Plyushch, former Ukrainian Oblast Council during its first series of representatives of the Democratic Bloc political prisoner, who is now a French and Popular Movement of Ukraine for KlEv - The city center of the citizen and an elected member of the Perebudova, or Rukh, called for the Ukrainian capital was paralyzed on the European Parliament. region to take the lead in the struggle for afternoon of Sunday, April 22, as an Long applause followed the speech an independent Ukrainian state and estimated 70,000 people marched to by ilvans Erdmans, senior official of the legalized the outlawed Ukrainian blue– commemorate the Chornobyl nuclear Latvian Popular Front, who read the and-yellow flag, reported the Ukrainian disaster's fourth anniversary. The march Latvian declaration of independence independent Publishing and informa– began after a two-hour-long rally in the adopted a day earlier. Mr. Erdmans tion Association (U1P1A) and Reuters. huge Stadium Square. said, "Latvia will always be a good in its opening session on April 10, the The day's events also marked inter- neighbor of Ukraine, and the people of council declared the Lviv Oblast is national Earth Day. Latvia hope that soon the people of "becoming a kind of island of freedom volodymyr Yavorivsky, people's Ukraine will decide their fate on their in which we must put an end to the deputy of the USSR and chairman of own, instead of listening to Moscow." totalitarian regime...a faulty economic Rukh's Kiev branch, called for criminal After the rally the protesters marched mechanism and the usurpation of power charges against President of U– through the city center, carrying hun– by the Communist Party." kraine valentyna Shevchenko and dreds of Ukrainian blue-and-yellow This statement, as well as the coun– former Minister of Health Anatoliy flags as well as several banners of cil's first resolutions, prompted harsh Romanenko for "criminal misinforma– independent Latvia, Lithuania,Estonia, criticism from the top echelons as well tion of the population in 1986, which Georgia and also Poland, Czechoslo– as the local Communist Party appara– resulted in mass irradiation." vakia and Hungary. tus. A statement by the Central Com– The march was headed by several EReuters reported from Moscow that horsemen and a choir in national mittee of the Communist Party of Pravda had observed that the people's Ukraine, the Presidium of the Supreme costumes singing the anthems of the complaints to President Shevchenko Ukrainian Sich Riflemen, (the indepen– Soviet and the republican Council of "had not received the proper under- Ministers, published on April 18, as– dent Ukrainian army defeated by Bol– standing," and that it was not a coin– shevik forces in 1920. serted that "certain political forces, cidence that she had come under criti– having secured a majority in the elec– The marchers shouted "indepen– cism.J dence," "Down with communism,"and tions to local councils in some towns Dr. Yuriy Shcherbak, also a member and raions, have begun openly to "Down with Leninism"as they marched of the USSR Parliament, read out the by two monuments of Lenin and one implement their ambitious intentions," Manifesto of the Green Party of U– according to the U1P1A. Lenin museum. The demonstrators kraine, a pro-independence ecological threw books by Lenin and shouted The party leadership accused the movement, the founding congress of "Bastards" and "Shame on you."Coin– Yyacheslav Chornovil (Continued on page 11) which is to be held in October. cidentally that day was the birthday of Lenin. Several Soviet soldiers also joined in Easter services in Ukraine mark rebirth of UAOC the procession, chanting anti-Commu– SOUTH BOUND BROOK, N.J. - ing at 11 p.,. Mr. Katelnytsky reported Orthodox Church had always refused nist slogans. The Ukrainian Autocephalous Ortho– that although the church overflowed to do this for Ukrainian bandurists; The chairman of the Rukh Secreta– dox Church, banned by Stalin in 1930, with faithful, order was kept at all times. they had even refused to hold memorial ries, Mykhailo Horyn, commented on is re-emerging throughout Ukraine, as He told the Consistory that among services for Ukrainian kobzars mur– the fact that an ecological rally had evidenced by the numerous Easter these numbers were many young dered under the Communist regime of (Continued on page 11) celebrations held on Sunday, April 15. students. One young man remarked to the 1920s and 1930s. Only over the past According to new reports from the Mr. Katelnytsky: "1 heard prayers to year and a half have such organizations Consistory of the Ukrainian Orthodox God in my own native language; 1 heard as the Ukrainian Helsinki Union and 1N51DE: Church of the U.S.A., based in South the people pray here not for the Rus– the Ukrainian Autocephalous Ortho– t Columbia University conference Bound Brook, N.J., Ukrainian sian state, but for Ukraine." dox Church supported the revival of on relations among Jews, Poles and Autocephalous Orthodox believers at– After the liturgy, the Rev. Yuriy deli– kobzar workshops. Ukrainians — page 4. tended holiday services of that Church vered a sermon, in which he pointed out Thus, after Easter services, groups of Ф Uke-eye: the public recalls the in such cities as Kiev, Lviv, Zhytomyr, that although the church in which the kobzars, bandurists and other musi– Chornobyl nuclear accident — page 7. Dnipropetrovske, Cherkasy. faithful had gathered to pray was not cians began to sing outside the church, a Ф Part 11 of Dr. David Marples' in a telephone interview with the theirs, the spirit oi Ukraine is festivity which lasted until evening. A fourth anniversary look at the Chor– Consistory, volodymyr Katelnytsky, a resurrecting. He then read Metropo– collection to erect a monument in nobyl disaster — page 8. spokesperson for the Ukrainian litan Mstyslav's Easter pastoral, as well memory of the persecuted kobzars was. Ф A volunteer clean-up worker Autocephalous Orthodox Church in as taster greetings irom Arcnoisnop also taken up. speaks about the Chornobyl cata– Ukraine and the chairman of the Kiev loan of Lviv, Ukraine's first Ukrainian Afterwards, the celebrations moved strophe and the Chornobyl Union — branch of St. Andriy's Brotherhood, re- Autocephalous Orthodox hierarch. to the court in front of St. Sophia's page 8. ported that not one, but two churches in Easter celebrations continued in that Cathedral, where many Ukrainians Ф Dr. James E. Mace, staff director Kiev, Ukraine's capital city, held Easter church and included the ceremonious sang Easter songs, celebrating the of the U.S. Commission on the Ukraine services. blessing of Ukialiiiar. fuik instruments Resurrection oi the Lord. After the Famine, reports on his trip to Ukraine As reported in last week's Weekly, the — liras (hurdy-gurdies) and banduras. gates of St. Sophia, now a museum and and famine research there — page 9. Cathedral of Pokrova (Holy Protec– According to Mr. Katelnytsky, this is not a functioning church, were closed, в volodymyr Manyak, author of a tion; in Kiev's Podol section, held ser– an old Ukrainian tradition only the crowds moved onto the Khresh– book on the Great Famine of 1932- vices, celebrated by the Rev. Yuriy recently revived. chatyk, Kiev's main boulevard. 1933, speaks in Toronto — page 9. Boyko which began on Saturday even– He pointed out that the Russian (Continued on page 3) 2 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, APRIL 29,1990 No. 17 Technical problems at Chdfnobyl More than 400 apply for training cause shut-down of two reactors to become Ukrainian Catholic priests by Bohdan Nahaylo was dispatched to the Chornobyl plant, KESTONvPQTHN , EnglanFnobnHd - MorMnrPe than ReligiouP^lirrirmse ordersЛГ^РГС , whicxi;hinhb arQ reA 1stil l it transpired that pressure in one of the 400 young men have already applied to illegal in the Soviet Union, are func– pipes in the station's second reactor had Ukrainian Catholic bishops to train for tioning openly once again. The church MUN1CH - Technical problems at risen too high and that steam was the priesthood. This has underlined the and monastery of St. Onufriy in Lviv, the Chornobyl nuclear plant in nor– escaping. The problem was considered need for the opening of a central and the shrine and monastery in Hoshiv thern Ukraine last week resulted in the serious enough to shut off both the seminary in Lviv, noted Keston College. have been returned to the Basilian shut-down of two reactors and caused second and the third reactors; the first There are more than 140 candidates fathers. The Redemptorists have re- panic in a town 100 kilometers away reactor is already down for renovation. in the Archdiocese of Lviv, 251 in the gained their former centers in Dro– from the station. diocese of ivano-Frankivske and 25 in hobych and Ternopil. On March 25, the Radiation readings taken by the the diocese of Mukachiv. These figures Leonid Klymchuk, head of the Rukh Korosten representatives at the plant authorities in Lviv handed over two organization branch in Korosten, Zhy– were given by Msgr.