www.ukrweekly.com Ж І СВОБОДА JlSvOBODA І І чилійський щолінниж ЧЯВР илялі М 1AN ОЛІІЧ UkrainiaENGL1SH-LANGUAGnE WEEKL YWeelc EDlTlON l У VOL. I.XXXVI. No.49 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, MARCH 4,1979 25 CENTS UNA Special Reorganizational Committee meets JERSEY ClTY, N.J. - The Ukrai– quota, he said. The Organizing Depart - which will be announced shortly. stressed that the Supreme Organizer's nian National Association headquar– ment attributes this failure to bad wea– administrative tasks in the office, ' The recommendations of the although burdensome and voluminous, ters here was the cite of a meeting of ther in January. membership subcommittee bearing on the UNA Special Reorganizational produce little benefit in the organizing Dr. Flis also reported on attempts to proposed Branch activities. District field. Committee on Saturday, February 24. secure the employment of a profes– activities, fraternal action, youth pro- The following took part in the day- sional insurance sales manager who grams, field of new membership, pre– ' The report of the public relations long discussions: Dr. Myron Kuropas, would organize the planned insurance serit organizing methods, and adapta– subcommittee which stressed the Dr. Bohdan Futey, Prof. John Teluk, sales department, rewrite sales ma– tion of'these to present needs. The role importance of hiring a professional Anatoie Doroshenko, Taras Szmagala, terial, hire additional salesmen, train of student clubs, professional clubs, person to handle the public relations Evhen Repeta, Tekla Moroz and ex-of– such salesmen, develop a field of pro– the educational role of Svoboda and and fraternal work of the UNA. This ficio members Dr. John O. Flis and spects, prepare material and take part The Ukrainian Weekly, as it concerns field of endeavor would also include Wasyl Orichowsky. Walter Sochan and in training, motivating and educating the UNA, the role of the UNA in fin– arranging cruises for UNA members, Ulana Diachuk also attended the meet– secretaries and organizers. Such efforts ancing new activities to be undertaken, visits to all parts of the United States, ing, the latter joining the group in the to date have not been successful. The sponsorship of dance groups, choral Canada and Europe, and, in gen– final stages of the meeting. Dr. Flis, person whom Dr. Flis had located who groups and classes in folk crafts, as eral, engaging in such fraternal work who heads this special committee, agreed to do all of the above and in well as additional classes of member- that would retain present membership chaired the meeting. addition, organize 5800,000 of per– ship were discussed in detail. and prepare a field of prospects for in– manent line life insurance per year, has ф surance organizing work, which is the This committee was appointed by been a million-dollar producer for a The recommendations of the organi– bread and butter that makes all other the Supreme Assembly in September commercial insurance company for a zing program subcommittee bearing UNA; fraternal activities possible. 1978 to explore the problems being number of years. Negotiations are con– upon the role of the p^tsent Supreme faced by the UNA and to recommend tinuing to secure the services of this in- Organizer, the necessity of visiting and The next meeting of the Special Re- changes in organizing methods and in dividual. conferring with chairmen of our Dis– organizational Committee was set for structure in order to cope with them. tricts and active secretaries, investi– April 7 at the Warren, Mich., Ukraini– A whole array of matters was dis– in the discussions that followed, gating branch inactivity, changing of an Cultural Center in order that the com– cussed. Dr. Flis noted that the Organi– four important matters were covered and education of secretaries, appoint– mittee may be ready with a full report of zing Department had reported a total of very extensively. They are as follows: ment of district and field organizers, recommendations for the Annual Meet– 166 new members organized in January " A new format for the Annual holding of regional field courses and ing of the Supreme Assembly set for 1979. This number is way below our Meeting of the Supreme Assembly periodic courses at Soyuzivka. it was May 14-19 at Soyuzivka. UCCA executive board meets, hears talk by State Department representative NEW YORK, N.Y. (UCCA Spe– had arranged the appearance. The cial). - Shaun M. Byrnes of the office change of U.S. policy in the Far East of Soviet Union affairs at the State has created considerable apprehension Department attended the monthly both in Washington and in South meeting of the UCCA executive board Korea, he said. on February 24, which was the first The observance of the 61st anniver– appearance of a State Department re– sary of Ukraine's independence and a presentative at a UCCA board meeting reception in the Capitol on January 24 in the UCCA's nearly 40-year history. were successful. Several U.S. senators The purpose of his visit was to brief and congressmen read their statements UCCA executive officers on major as– into the "Congressional Record" in pec!s of U.S. foreign policy and especi– tribute to the Ukrainian people. Dr. ally on U.S.-Soviet relations. Dobriansky is working on a resolution The meeting began with lvan Bazar– on the resurrection of the Ukrainian ko, UCCA administrative director, cal– churches to be sponsored by Sen. Barry ling all present to rise and pay tribute Goldwater (R-Ariz.) and Rep. Daniel J. to the late Gen. Pavlo Shandruk. Flood (R-Pa.). The-4eeetmg was opened and con- Dr. Dobriansky further stated that At the UCCA executive board meeting: Left to right, lgnatius Bilinsky, secretary; ducted by Msgr. Robert Moskal, he is ^working with the Conference of George Nesterczuk, former director of UN1S; Ulana Celewych, executive board UCCA executive vice-president, igna– U.S. Catholic Bishops on matters member; Sbaun M. Byrnes, State Department representative; Stefania Buksho– tius M. Billinsky, a UCCA secretary, dealing with Communism. He is also in wany, board member; Prof. Lev Dobriansky, president; Bohdan Wynnyczok, read the minutes from the previous close touch with representatives of the new director of UN1S; Msgr. Robert Moskal, executive vice-president; Ulana meeting of the UCCA executive board. Baltic groups and other nationalities, Diachuk, treasurer; lvan Bazarko, administrative director; Dr. Walter Dush– all of whom suggest that Ukrainians nyck, editor of The Quarterly; and Bohdan Denysyk, UN1S staff member. Report by president should assume the leadership in pro- testing against the 1980 Olympics in amendment. Bureau (UN1S) in Washington, intro– UCCA President Prof. Lev E. Moscow. He further stressed the im– in conclusion. Dr. Dobriansky duced Mr. Byrnes, deputy director of Dobriansky in his report focused on a portance of the forthcoming 20th anni– spoke on the necessity of starting pre– the office of Soviet Union affairs at number of problems connected with versary of the Captive Nations Week parations for the 1980 UCCA conven– the Slate Department, who presented a his activities in the nation's capital Resolution this July, and urged UCCA tion. broad view of U.S.-Soviet relations. which are pertinent to UCCA policies branches to take the leadership in the Ever since Stalin's death in 1953, the and programs. The appearance of Gen. observance. He expressed the UCCA's U.S.-Soviet relations United States has been trying to im– opposition to the granting of a most fa– Petro Grigorenko at the U.S. Military prove its relations with the USSR and vored nation status to the USSR, and George Nesterczuk, acting director Academy in West Point was well re– urged support of the Jackson-Yanik ceived in Washington. Dr. Dobriansky of the Ukrainian National information (Continued on page 9) 2 ^THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, MARCH 4,1979,.^No. 49 U.S. publishers hope low-key approach will help Rudenko by lhor Dtaboln NEW YORK, N.Y. - A group of the letter, but as for a definite plan of ter was a follow-up to its previous Soviet Union. That does not work," American publishers has rejected a action, Ms. Laber indicated that none efforts. Mr. Green said. hard-line approach in regard to the exists at the present. Moderation in action and praise for Mr. Green said that Knopf publi– shers and Random House, on whose Second international Moscow Book "We are open to suggestions," said Rudenko were also expressed by Ash– behalf he also spoke, have not yet de– Fair and its efforts on behalf of My– Ms. Laber. bel Green; vice-president and senior kola Rudenko, in hopes that a low-key, editor of Alfred A. Knopf. cided whether or not to attend the fair She said that there are no contin– but he explained that their attendance moderate attitude will be more helpful. gency plans in the event that Soviet of– He echoed Ms. Laber's comments, Jeri Laber, executive director of the saying that Rudenko is the "most pro– "is not contingent on Rudenko's re- ficials will again bar certain American lease." international Freedom to Publish books from the fair. Ms. Laber said minent Soviet writer in prison." Mr. Committee of the Association of Ame– that until that happens, nothing can be Green said that while he did not men– Mr. Green could not offer any ad- rican Publishers, said that publishers done. However, if it does happen, she tion it in his letter to Mr. Stukalin, he is vice to American publishers on what to have considered and rejected the idea continued, the matter will be protested. aware that Rudenko was "unfairly do if some of their books are barred of boycotting the book fair.