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Vol. LIV No. 27 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JULY 6, 1986 25 cents 

Ukrainian Writers' Congress opens 

with defense of native language 

by Roman Sokhanyk 

MUNICH — The Ninth Congress of 

the Ukrainian Writers 4 Union, which 

convened in Kiev on June 5, opened 

with an impassioned speech by Oles 

Honchar urging His fellow writers to 

cultivate and protect the Ukrainian 

language. 

Mr. Honchar is probably the most 

prominent contemporary literary figure 

in Ukraine. He is also a member of the 

Ukrainian Central Committee, a candidate 

member of the CPSU Central 

Committee, and a deputy of the USSR 

Supreme Soviet. This high "political 

visibility" adds a certain amount of 

authority to Mr. Honchar's statements, 

and it will be interesting to see if the 

delegates assembled in the Ukrainian 

capital take up his call for a discussion 

of "our linguistic environment." 

Mr. Honchar's remarks on the language 

issue were contained in a highly 

critical introductory address very much 

in the style of Mikhail Gorbachev's 

"glasnost" campaign. He began his 

presentation with a reminder that "The 

27th Party Congress has given us a 

lesson in principledness and truth, a 

lesson in new thinking. We expect that 

the discussions at our writers' meeting 

will take place in precisely this spirit." 

Following his own lead, the Ukrainian 

writer chose to focus on the language 

issue, which has consistently been in the 

forefront of the Ukrainian intelligentsia's 

concerns, but in a manner so forthright 

and indignant that it must have 

taken many of his listeners back to the 

1960s and early 1970s. 

Capitalizing on what he described as 

being very much in vogue these days, 

namely, the determination to preserve, 

Mr. Honchar posed the language question 

in a rather unconventional manner, 

namely, in environmental terms: 

"Our linguistic environment fisj the 

natural surrounding environment within 

which literature lives and is created. 

Language is the soul of every national 

culture, the supply of its strength and 

the irreplaceable source of its developmeM, 

and who if not we writers — but 

surely not only we — should be concerned 

about it?" 

Utilizing the concept of a "linguistic 

environment" that needs to be preserved 

and protected is a particularly 

interesting twist in light of theapparently 

successful effort by Russian intellectuals 

to halt river diversion projects, a 

battle that was often fought in terms of 

Russian national interests, and the 

campaign that is currently under way to 

save Russian historical and cultural 

monuments. 

The delegates did not need to exercise 

their imaginations all that much to 

realize that Mr. Honchar was using an 

allegorical mechanism to make a simple 

point: language, in this case the Ukrainian 

language, is no less a cultural 

heritage in danger of destruction than 

rivers, forests and ancient churches. 

For those who needed the problem 

spelled out for them, Mr. Honchar 

explained: 

"Like every full-fledged language, 

fthe Ukrainian languageJ is suited for 

the school and for the lecture hall, it is 

suited for the mundane and for the 

special occasion. But there are those 

who need to be told that to hold the 

language of one's own people in contempt 

means, above all else, to disclose 

one's own narrow-mindedness. For 

some, our language seems to be "without 

a future'just like those age-old Poltava 

and other villages seemed to be 'without 

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Petliura Library vandalized in Paris 

PARIS — The Symon Petliura U- 

krainian Library here was vandalized 

on two separate occasions in the past 

three months, according to a June 23 

communique issued by library officials. 

The incidents took place on March 29 

and June 4. 

According to the official statement, 

during the latest break-in, the vandals 

ransacked the library and stole a ring 

belonging to Hetman Ivan Vyhovsky, 

weapons of a 17th century Turkish 

soldier and a collection of Ukrainian 

currency. They destroyed several Ukrainian 

Easter eggs, or pysanky. 

The vandals also broke the locks and 

glass on several display cases and 

cabinets, and scattered their contents. 

During the earlier accident, vandals 

took several personal possessions of 

Petliura. head of the Directory of the 

Ukrainian National Republic and the 

supreme commander of military forces. 

Also stolen were an icon with an 

embroidered ritual cloth, several bronze 

commemorative medals issued by the 

French court, seven paintings by Ukrainian 

artists, three typewriters, a microphone 

and a collection of postage 

stamps with Ukrainian themes. 

Also on June 4, the St. Symon 

Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox 

Church, which is located in the same 

building as the library, was desecrated. 

The chalice and other religious items 

were stolen, and crucifixes were scattered 

on the floor. 

A statement issued by Metropolitan 

Mstyslav of the Ukrainian Orthodox 

Church noted that prior to the second 

break-in, St. Symon's Parish had received 

a French-language newspaper, 

titled Jewish Information, in which 

Petliura was accused of conducting 

pogroms. 


Ukrainian becomes justice minister 

in major Canadian Cabinet shuffle 

by Michael B. Bociurkiw 

OTTAWA — A major pre-election 

Cabinet shuffle by Prime Minister 

Brian Mulroney has resulted in the 

promotion of a Ukrainian, Ramon 

(Ray) Hnatyshyn,to the justice portfolio 

and an enhanced status for Canada's 

federal multiculturalism policy. 

The mid-term overhaul — announced 

by the prime minister June 30 

— came on the heels of a recent public 

opinion poll which showed the Mulroney 

government trailing by three 

percentage points behind the Liberals. 

(The survey showing the Progressive 

Conservatives trailing behind the Liberals 

was based on a probability sample 

of 1,972 adults in Canada. The survey 

— conducted by Environics Research 

Group Ltd. — has a probability sample 

estimated to be accurate within two 

percentage points, 19 in 20 times. The 

results of the poll: Thirty-nine percent 

of decided voters would vote Liberal if 

an election were called today; 36 percent 

for the Progressive Conservatives; and 

24 percent for the New Democratic 

Party. In Quebec — where the Tories 

received overwhelming support in 1984 

— the poll showed that 49 percent 

would vote Liberal; 25 percent NDP; 

and 25 percent PC.) 

Besides boosting the government's 

sagging popularity in Quebec, the 

shuffle is also believed to be aimed at 

Justice Minister Ray Hnatyshyn 

currying favor among members ot 

Canada's ethnocultural groups by 

moving former Indian affairs minister 

David Crombie to the problem-plagued 

Ministry of Multiculturalism. 

Mr. Crombie, formerly one of Toronto's 

most popular mayors, has been 

assigned the task of running the mammoth 

secretary of state department and 

winning friends in ethnic communities 


Canadian probe on war crimes 

rejects fact-finding in USSR 

by Michael B. Bociurkiw 

HULL, Que. — Even though the 

Soviets have made an 1 Ith-hour offer to 

fully cooperate with a Canadian cornmission 

seeking evidence against suspected 

Nazi war criminals, no factfinding 

trip behind the Iron Curtain will 

be made by Canadian investigators. 

The Deschenes Commission on war 

crimes said the offer came too late. In 

what resembles an international tit-fortat 

diplomatic skirmish, the Soviets 

have responded to Canada's decision by 

publicly criticizing the Canadian government. 

The Soviets — through dour Soviet 

Embassy spokespersons in Ottawa — 

say the Canadians never had a "genuine 

interest" in gathering Soviet evidence 

and testimony. 

But the normally timid Canadians 

have not taken the attacks sitting down. 

In an unusual move, the Deschenes 

Commission on June 12 released copies 

of recent correspondence between its 

counsel and the procurator general of 

the USSR. 

Copies of the letters — six in total — 

were given to reporters after the cornmission 

announced that travel behind 

the Iron Curtain is no longer feasible 

given existing time constraints. 


INSIDE: 

Ш New York City mayor presents 

Liberty Awards to 86 ethnic Americans 

— page 3. 

В More on Chornobyl — page 2. 

Ш Nazi massacre at Gardelegen — 

page 7.

A GLIMPSE OF SOVIET REALITY 

The Chornobyl nuclear accident 

and East European fallout 

by David Marples 

The recent announcement by the 

Hungarian government that electricity 

imports from the USSR have fallen by 

1.5 percent since the Chornobyl accident 

highlights a point that has been 

largely overlooked in the West: namely, 

that the nuclear accident could have a 

far greater impact on Eastern Europe 

than in the Soviet Union itself. 

According to Radio Kiev (February 

10), the Chornobyl plant is part of the 

so-called MIR system, through which 

the USSR and its East European neighbors 

coordinate their nuclear energy 

programs. The CMEA (Council on 

Mutual Economic Assistance) countries, 

with the frequent participation of 

Yugoslavia, have been linked up closely 

with the Ukrainian nuclear power 

industry. Thus, two of Ukraine's four 

nuclear plants in operation are servicing 

Eastern Europe, and a third in the 

western part of Ukraine is expected to 

come on line this year in order to export 

electricity to Poland and Hungary. 

In turn, Ukrainian engineers are 

assisting with the construction of East 

European plants. Hungary's Paks plant, 

for example, is being designed by the 

Kiev branch of the recently established 

Institute for the Planning of Thermal 

Nuclear Energy, which specializes in 

using nuclear energy to supply heat and 

water to major towns. Kiev engineers 

are reportedly supervising the construction 

at Paks and resolving technical 

questions that arise. 

Like Soviet Ukraine, the East European 

countries, under Soviet guidance, 

have embarked on an extremely ambitious 

crash program for the development 

of nuclear energy over the next 15 

years. Capacity is to rise from the 

current 7,520 megawatts to over 30,000 

megawatts during this period at plants 

in Eastern Europe. 

In attaining this expansion, countries 

such as Rumania and Bulgaria would be 

able to offset longstanding energy 

problems. At the same time, the USSR, 

which is the technical leader and, aside 

from Czechoslovakia, the only manufacturer 

of the water-pressurized reactors 

that are used exclusively in 

Eastern Europe, gains greater economic 

leverage over its friendly neighbors. 

In contrast to the USSR, however, 

this development has met with some 

opposition, which has been accentuated 

as a result of the Chornobyl disaster. 

In at least three countries — Czechoslovakia, 

Poland and Yugoslavia — the 

political fallout from Chornobyl has 

been discernible almost immediately 

and may endanger the ambitious expansion 

schemes for nuclear power. 

In Czechoslpvakia, which has five 

nuclear reactors in operation at the 

Bohunice plant, and 11 more under 

construction here and at other locations 

in Dukovany, Mochovce and Temelin, 

the share of nuclear-generated electricity 

is to be raised from the current 14.5 

percent to 28 percent by 1990 and 53 

percent by the year 2000. Perhaps 

because of the extensive scope of these 

plans, government reporting about 

Chornobyl was minimal and confined 

largely to repeating the Soviet accounts. 

Consequently, on May 7, the Charter 

77 human-rights movement delivered a 

David Marples is a research analyst 

at the Canadian Institute of Ukrainian 

Studies, University of Alberta. 

THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JULY 6, 1986 No. 27 

statement to the Czechoslovak government 

deploring the lack of information 

about the disaster. 

A week later, Stanislav Havel, the 

chairman of the country's Atomic 

Energy Commission, declared that the 

Chornobyl accident was "no reason" to 

change the program for nuclear power 

construction in Czechoslovakia. Short - 

ly afterward, evidence emerged of the 

formation of a group calling itself 

"Antiatom," which began to distribute 

postcards warning against the construction 

of the Temelin plant in southern 

Bohemia, and declaring that Czechoslovakia's 

other plants, which are 

located close to population centers, lack 

twin containment structures to shield 

the radioactive zone. 

On May 26, Austrian students used 

balloons and leaflets in Prague to 

protest the Temelin construction, which 

is only about 60 kilometers from the 

Austrian border. Five were arrested, 

but subsequently released by the Czechoslovak 

police. 

In Poland, where nuclear plants are 

scheduled to produce 40 percent of the 

country's electricity by the year 2000, 

the authorities thus far have failed to 

construct the country's first plant at 

Zarnowiec in the Gdansk province, 

originally scheduled for 1984. 

The radioactive fallout over the 

northeastern part of Poland led to a 

major protest of some 3,000 people in 

Bialystok on May 16. The demonstration 

followed three smaller protests in 

Wroclaw and Warsaw. The petition 

declared lack of faith in assertions by 

the Polish authorities that Zarnowiec 

was safe. On this same date an open 

letter from five Polish nuclear experts to 

Polish Energy Minister Gen. Czeslaw 

Piotrowski stated that security measures 

for the plant were untested and 

could not be guaranteed. 

On May 20, the Polish government 

announced that it would review the 

safety measures planned for the Zarnowiec 

plant, but that the country could 

not abandon its plans to build three 

nuclear plants by the year 2000 because 

it faced an energy shortage. Zarnowiec, 

which is being built with Soviet help, is 

now scheduled for 1991. A location for 

a second plant at picturesque Karolewo, 

near Plock, is still in dispute following 

protests from local residents and the 

official environmental group, 

League of Nature Protection. 

the 

In Yugoslavia, which has attended 

CMEA sessions while developing its 

own program, a high-level debate about 

the wisdom of pursuing nuclear power 

was under way in February, and has 

intensified as a result of the Chornobyl 

disaster. In addition to the nuclear plant 

at Krsko, built by the U.S. Westinghouse 

Company, the government decided 

in July 1985 to build four nuclear 

plants by the year 2000, starting at 

Prevlaka, 38 kilometers south of Zagreb, 

for which foreign tenders were 

invited. 

In February Prof. Slavko Kulic, a 

scientific advisor at the Zagreb Economic 

Institute and head of the Center for 

Strategic Research, published an article 

in the Yugoslav Komunist, titled "Nuclear 

Age — An Undemocratic Alternative," 

which drew attention to the 

serious consequences of nuclear energy 

for the country's future: "I find it 

strange," Prof. Kulic wrote, "that 


Chornobyl dead buried near Moscow 

JERSEY CITY, NJ. — Twentythree 

of the official total of 26 victims 

who died as a result of the April 26 

Chornobyl nuclear disaster have been 

buried in a suburban Moscow cemetery, 

some 450 miles from their homes in 

Ukraine, reported The Washington 

Post on July 2. 

The dead, which include the only 

woman known to have died in the 

disaster, were laid to rest in two rows of 

graves marked by bright new marble 

headstones with gold lettering spelling 

out their distinctly Ukrainian names — 

Nicholai Titenok, Vasily Ignatenko, 

Victor Kibenok — wrote Moscow 

correspondent Gary Lee. 

No reason has been given by official 

Moscow for the victims' burial in the 

Mitino cemetery, 13 miles from the 

center of Moscow, instead of in their 

native Ukraine, and there are no 

markers or signs identifying them as the 

victims of the Chornobyl accident. 

Only the names distinguish the Chornobyl 

dead from the hundreds of Russians 

buried around them, names like 

Pravik, Vashchyk and Tishchura. 

Among these were six firemen; two 

older sergeants, two staff sergeants and 

two lieutenants, who are identified by 

gold stars. The grave of the lone woman 

among the dead, Ekaterina Alexandrovna 

Ivaniko, is marked by the 

highest pile of roses and carnations, 

apparently left by numerous visitors, 

who seem to know the story behind the 

graves, the Post said. 

"It's horrible, it's horrible to die in 

that way," said a Russian woman 

dressed in a black kerchief and long 

black skirt. The woman burst into tears 

standing above the graves. "No they are 

not my people, but it's still horrible. 

What a tragedy." 

Four newly released survivors of the 

nuclear incident, who were treated at a 

Moscow clinic, visited the gravesite to 

pay homage to their colleagues before 

returning to Ukraine, according to the 

newspaper Sovietskaya Rossiya. 


Amnesty International 

protests death sentence 

imposed on Fedorenko 

WOODHAVEN, N.Y. — Amnesty 

International has protested the death 

sentence imposed by the Soviet regime 

on Feodor Fedorenko, after a trial 

which convicted him of treason and 

mass murder during World War II. In 

the USSR treason is punishable by 

death. 

Amnesty International sent cables to 

the Chairman of the Presidium Andrei 

Gromyko, Procurator General Rekunkov 

and to the chief military procurator 

after appeals were made to Amnesty 

International's London headquarters 

by Americans for Due Process and 

Americans Against Defamation of 

Ukrainians. 

This is the second time that Amnesty 

International has responded to appeals 

from these groups in the Fedorenko 

matter. Amnesty International had also 

appealed to the United States government 

in 1984 not to deport Mr. Fedorenko 

to the USSR. 

Protsenko arrested in Kiev 

JERSEY CITY, N.J. — News just 

recently reached the west of the arrest of 

a young Orthodox activist, Pavlo 

Hryhorovych Protsenko, on charges of 

disseminating slanderous materials 

(article 187-1 of the Ukrainian Criminal 

Code). The arrest took place on June 4 

in the Kiev apartment of a nun. 

Upon his arrest, police confiscated 

documents describing the persecution 

of Orthodox believers. 

The arrest followed two recent incidents 

in which Mr. Protsenko had been 

harassed by the KGB. The activist's 

Kiev apartment was searched on March 

29 and religious documents were confiscated. 

Mr. Protsenko, who was born in 

1954, was also recently detained at a 

Kiev railroad station on suspicion of 

selling narcotics. He fell subject to a 

body search, and when no drugs were 

found, several papers and photographs 

of his were seized. 

The arrest occurred while Mr. Protsenko's 

wife, Iryna Diakova, and their 

daughter, Ksenia, were staying with 

relatives in Moscow. They had reportedly 

left Kiev in the wake of the Chornobyl 

nuclear accident. 

Mr. Protsenko's mother-in-law was 

reportedly threatened with the arrest of 

her daughter, Iryna, if news of the 

activist's arrest reach the west. 

Five years ago Ms. Diakova, who 

worked as a senior research associate in 

a Kiev research institute, was also 

searched by KGB. 

Mr. Protsenko's prayer book and 

Bible were also seized at the time of his 

arrest. 

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No. 27 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JULY 6, 1986 3 

New York mayor honors 86 outstanding immigrants 

by Natalia A. Feduschak 

NEW YORK — The Statue of Liberty 

centennial celebration got off to 

an unofficial start July 1 with the 

presentation of New York's Liberty 

Awards to 86 immigrants. Among those 

honored was a Ukrainian, Brig. Gen. 

Nicholas S.H. Krawciw, executive to 

the supreme allied commander in 

Europe. 

Amid the large concrete tablets of the 

East Coast War memorial with the 

Statue of Liberty serving as his backrrop, 

New York Mayor Ed Koch 

honored the immigrants, whose talents 

and achievements have significantly 

added to the well-being of the United 

States and New York City. 

"To award such excellence, to say 

thank you to so many who have come 

here to do their best, and to make this 

city the best, is what these liberty medals 

are all about." 

The awards ceremony came as a 

rebuttal to Liberty Weekend's official 

organizers who last March had selected 

only a dozen people to honor during the 

weekend's festivities. Mayor Koch had 

criticized the selection saying it did not 

represent sufficiently the country's 

ethnic diversity. 

Speaking to an audience made up of 

family members and guests and wellwishers, 

some waving American flags, 

Mayor Koch said: 

"Like all of you here today, I am 

proud to say that I love my country. But 

let us be even prouder, to understand 

why we love this country, what makes it, 

warts and all, so worth loving...Every 

group that came to America found it to 

be the land of culture shock and language 

barriers, of long hours and hard 

work, of discrimination and exploitation 

and adjustment. But here they were 

welcome to make a new home across the 

ocean. Here they finally obtained the 

religious freedom, the economic opportunity 

and the political power denied 

them in the land of their ancestors. They 

proved their worth. They proved the 

genius of the American ideal. And they 

helped to build a country that could 

never have become so great without 

them." 

The award recipients, who represent 

a variety of professions, from fashion 

designers, to scientists, to journalists, to 

businessmen, sat on the stage behind 

Mayor Koch. They had been selected by 

the mayor and his Ethnic Advisory 

Council. What they had in common was 

that they had achieved some sort of 

prominence in their new homeland. 

The program itself was informal, 

something rarely associated with such 

an event. The tone was set at the 

beginning with "The Star Spangled 

Banner." The pianist played the first few 

notes of the anthem, but Tony-award 

winning actress Bebe Neuwirth, never 

began to sing. After a few moments 

Mayor Koch shrugged, turned to Cely 

Carillo Onrubia, an award recipient and 

asked her to sing the national anthem. 

"In C please," she said and began to 

sing. 

"In a way the start of the ceremony is 

sort of reflective of how America 

works," the mayor said laughingly. "It 

works well." 

After the awards were given out, it 


Helsinki group resolution in Senate 

WASHINGTON — Sen. Alfonse 

D'Amato (R-N. Y.) introduced a resolution 

marking the 10th anniversary of the 

Ukrainian Helsinki Monitoring Group 

on Thursday, June 26. 

The measure is identical to House 

Concurrent Resolution 332, which is cosponsored 

by more than 70 congressіеп. 

Sen. Dennis DeConcini (D-Ariz.) 

joined Sen. D'Amato in sponsoring Senate 

Concurrent Resolution 154. Sens. 

D'Amato and DeConcini have sent a 

"dear colleague" letter to members of 

the Senate, urging them to sign on as cosponsors 

of the resolution. 

The measure calls on the United 

States to "firmly insist at the Vienna 

Review Meeting of the Conference on 

Security and Cooperation in Europe 

and at all other appropriate opportunities 

for discussions with the leadership 

of the Communist Party and government 

of the Soviet Union" that imprisoned 

and exiled members of the Ukrainian 

and other Helsinki groups be 

released and allowed to emigrate from 

the Soviet Union. 

It also states that the "secretary of 

state should ensure that the United 

States Consulate in Kiev reports on 

Soviet human-rights violations in the 

Ukrainian republic," and that information 

provided by the consulate be 

included in the semi-annual reports on 

compliance with the Helsinki Accords. 

Embassy security bill 

to set equal standards 

for protesters'prosecution 

WASHINGTON — An amendment 

which would create the same standards 

for arrest and prosecution of protesters 

in front of all foreign embassies in the 

U.S. looks like it will pass the Senate, 

according to a spokesman for the 

Senate Steering Committee. 

The amendment, introduced by Sen. 

Charles E. Grassley (R-Iowa) will be 

attached to an embassy security bill 

which is expected to be passed by the 

Senate, said Tony Rudy of the Steering 

Committee. 

Previously, Sen. Grassley had told 

the Senate, those individuals who have 

protested at the South African Embassy 

have been arrested, but have not been 

prosecuted. On the other hand, people 

protesting in front of the Soviet Embassy 

have received different treatment. 


The Rev. Patrick Paschak, who accepted the Liberty Award on behalf of Brig. Gen. 

Nicholas S.H. Krawciw, receives the medal from an honor guard. 

Dith Pran, (left) whose collaboration with journalist Sydney Schanberg during the 

war in Cambodia, and his imprisonment by the Khmer Rouge inspired the film 

"Hie Killing Fields," is seen on left. He is now a staff photographer for The New 

York Times. On the right, Mr. Pran displays the medal he and 85 other immigrants 

received. 

Obituaries 

Natalia Kotowych, UMI president 

PHILADELPHIA — Renowned 

pianist Natalia Kotowych, president of 

the Ukrainian Music Institute, died here 

on June 11 after a long illness. 

Prof. Kotowych had a long, illustrious 

career in music. She was one of those 

people who established a place for 

Ukrainians in the American musical 

field. 

Prof. Kotowych graduated from the 

gymnasium in Stryi, Ukraine, with a 

diploma in teaching and later from Lviv 

University. Since early childhood, 

she had played the piano. The young 

Ms. Kotowych studied piano with the 

noted pianist and teacher Halia Levytsky 

at the Stryi Music Institute, of 

which her father was founder and 

director. 

She later transferred to the Lysenko 

Music Institute in Lviv, where she 

studied under Wasyl Barvinsky. Later, 

for three years, she studied in the 

concert class of Leopold Minzer, the 

winner of the Chopin Competition. 

Before her emigration to the United 

Stated in 1950, she completed studies at 

the world-famous Austrian conservatory, 

the Mozarteum, in Salzburg. 

Upon her arrival in the U.S., Prof. 

Kotowych joined the faculty of the 

Settlement Music School in Philadelphia, 

one of the best American institutions 

of its type. Of Prof. Kotowych, the 

late Johann Grolle, founder of the 

Settlement School, wrote: 

"Natalia Kotowych has brought 

distinguished qualities of performing 

artistry to the Settlement School 

through her fine talent and musicianship 

which were cultivated at the universally 

recognized Mozarteum Conservatory 

in Salzburg." 

After arriving in the U.S. Prof. 

Kotowych also opened her own studio 

at the St. Nicholas Parish in Philadelphia. 

Since 1981, Prof. Kotowych was 

president of the Ukrainian Music Institute 

of America after having been on its 

faculty for several years. Ms. Kotowych 

was the moving force behind a concert 

marking the institute's 30th anniversary 

in 1983. 

Prof. Kotowych is survived by her 

sister, Irene Starosolsky, and brotherin-law, 

Volodymyr. The professor 

leaves behind other family in the United 

States, Canada and Ukraine. 

The funeral was held Saturday, June 

14.

Anti-defamation group meets 

PHILADELPHIA — The organization 

Americans Against Defamation of 

Ukrainians (AADU) held its biennial 

elections meeting on May 10. 

The meeting was opened after a moment 

of silence in memory of the victims 

of the recent tragedy at the Chornobyl 

nuclear power plant. 

The organization's president, Helena 

Kozak reported on the highlights of the 

organization's activities within the last 

two years. 

According to Ms. Kozak, AADU had 

three major goals: 

+ to act as a political liaison and 

activist organization in defending those 

Ukrainians being prosecuted without 

the safeguard of due process of law by 

the Office of Special Investigations 

(O S I) within the U.S. Justice Department; 

^ to guard against and to respond to 

the organized defamation of Ukrainians 

and their culture within the United 

States; and 

^ to act as a watchdog over the 

American media and to call attention to 

and correct frequent misinformation 

printed about Ukrainians, their history, 

culture and heritage. 

Within the past two years, AADU 

has: 

^ actively worked with sister organizations 

such as Americans for Due 

Process, CAUSE, Coalition for Constitutional 

Justice and Security, as well as 

the Ukrainian American Bar Association 

and other related organizations 

and individuals to defend against the 

politically motivated persecution of 

Ukrainians. Most of the $20,000 contributed 

to the organization within the last 

two years has been directly invested for 

the defense of individuals being prosecuted 

by the OSI, including Feodor 

Fedorenko, John Demjanjuk, Serge 

Kowalchuk and George Theodorovich. 

+ written dozens of letters to media 

editors and producers correcting information 

presented by them and challenging 

damaging opinions expressed. 

^ sought and received the support of 

local, state and federal officials in 

by the Rev. Joseph Shary 


WARREN, Mich. — Nearly 300 

Detroit-area Ukrainians attended a gala 

fund-raising dinner recently at the 

Ukrainian Cultural Center here. The 

black-tie affair raised more than 

$250,000, according to Jaroslaw Duzey, 

chairman of the Harvard Project in 

Detroit. 

The principal guests at the dinner 

were Bishop Michael Hrynchyshyn, 

head of the Ukrainian Catholic Exarrecognizing 

the disinformational conspiracy 

conducted by the Soviet Union 

against Ukrainians through the OSI. 

^ re-educated ttye non-Ukrainian 

public about Ukrainian historical integrity 

and cultural uniqueness by making 

presentations to professional and fraternal 

organizations as well as to 

administrative governmental representatives. 

^ educated and motivated the Ukrainian 

community about the necessity of 

our activities and about the information 

which is being misrepresented. 

In conclusion, Ms. Kozak stated that 

although much has been accomplished 

by AADU, there is still a tremendous 

amount of work to be done. She emphasized 

that the work of Americans 

Against Defamation of Ukrainians is 

not limited to its members, but is 

incumbent upon each Ukrainian. 

The invited speaker, Lydia Kowalchuk, 

wife of Serge Kowalchuk, speaking 

about her husband's personal political 

persecutions and the effect on their 

entire family, made the observation that 

although the defense of humanrights 

activists in Ukraine should 

continue to be the community's priority, 

the credibility of such defense is 

severely jeopardized when the image of 

Ukrainians in the free world is maligned 

by media misinformation and Soviet 

disinformation. 

In the elections that followed the 

question-and-answer session, the 

following persons were elected for the 

next two years: 

Ms. Kozak, president; Nila Pawluk, 

vice-president; Dr. Ihor Mirchuk, 

recording secretary; Nicholas Miniuk, 

press secretary; Dr. Roman Cybriwsky, 

member at large; Emillia Bortnichak, 

treasurer. The auditing committee 

members are Dr. George Baran, Slava 

Halaway and Melanie Sarachman. 

After thanking the members for their 

support and their continued work, the 

newly re-elected president stressed the 

importance of AADU's work for the 

future. 

Detroiters support Harvard Project 

Prof. Њоѓ Sevcenko, Bishop Michael Hrynchyshyn and Olha and Jaroslaw 

Duzey at fund-raising banquet for the Harvard Project. 

chate of France and secretary of the 

Worldwide Committee for the observance 

of the Ukrainian Christian Millennium; 

and Prof. Ihor Sevcenko, a 

professor of Byzantine history at Harvard 

University who represented the 

National Committee of the Harvard 

Project. 

At a press conference preceding the 

April 20 dinner, Bishop Hrynchyshyn 

and Prof. Sevcenko spoke to reporters 

about the millennnium project, which 


Millennium conference held in Winnipeg 

by Chris Guly 

WINNIPEG — The Ukrainian Academy 

of Arts and Sciences (UVAN) 

held a conference on the Millennium of 

the Christianization of Rus'-Ukraine on 

June 7 as part of the Learned Societies' 

Conference at the University of 

Manitoba from May 26 to June 9. 

The archbishop major of the Ukrainian 

Catholic Church, Cardinal Myroslav 

Lubachivsky, officially opened the 

one-day conference with a prayer. 

Metropolitan Maxim Hermaniukof the 

Ukrainian Catholic Church in Canada 

also participated. 

The Millennium conference was 

composed of three sessions held in the 

morning, afternoon and evening of 

June 7. 

The morning session, chaired by Dr. 

Iraida Tarnawecky of the University of 

Manitoba, included presentations by 

the Rev. Dr. Petro Bilaniuk (University 

of Toronto) on "Scythian monks and 

the Christian West"; Dr. George Knysh 

(University of Manitoba), "St. Gorazd 

in Ukraine: a new hypothesis concerning 

the missionary activity of St. Methodius' 

designated successor"; and the 

Rev. Dr. Alexander Baran (University 

of Manitoba), "The Ideology of the 

'Sermon on Law and Grace.'" 

Dr. Lome Reznowski (University of 

Manitoba) lead off the afternoon session 

with his paper on "A comparsion of 

motifs in Eastern and Western saints' 

lives." His presentation was followed by 

Dr. George Gajecky's (Harvard University) 

look at "ТЋе Stavropegian Brotherhood 

of Lviv," and a paper on "The 

influence of the Mohylian Academy on 

the development of Ukrainian culture" 

by the Rev. Dr. Ivan Stus of Edmonton. 

PHILADELPHIA — The 26th 

Scientific Convention of the Ukrainian 

Medical Association of North America 

(UMANA) took place May 22-25 here 

at the Four Seasons Hotel. 

Over 70 physicians and dentists 

began to assemble Thursday, May 22, 

and were welcomed by Dr. Mary Stefanyshyn, 

the president of the Philadelphia 

Chapter of the UMANA. 

The scientific program began on 

Friday morning and featured sports 

medicine related topics. The speakers 

included Myroslaw Dragan M.D., 

George Kuritza M.D., Lubov Pronchik 

D.P.M., George Babchuk M.D., and 

Matts Wilkstrom D.D.S. 

On Friday afternoon the members 

participated in planning sessions and 

general discussions concerning the 

organization. 

The Friday session ended after a 

buffet dinner, which featured an art 

exhibit by Omelan Mazuryk from 

Paris. 

The Saturday morning conference 

consisted of both a medical and dental 

program. Featured speakers were Nicholas 

Ilchyshyn, D.D.S., George Baranowskyj, 

D.D.S., George Tysovky, 

D.D.S., Irene Komarynskyj-Savyckyj, 

M.D., Zenon Kossak, D.D.S., Roman 

Dykun, M.D., Walter Poprycz, M.D., 

and Myroslaw Hreshchyshyn, M.D. 

Dr. George Hrycelak, M.D., president 

of the Ukrainian Medical Association 

of North America, issued a position 

paper calling for a full and timely 

scientific disclosure of the effects of the 

Chornobyl nuclear plant disaster, and 

urging the Soviet Union to open channels 

of communication with the world. 

A banquet and ball were held Saturday 

evening May 24, at the Benjamin 

Franklin Institute in downtown Phila- 

The afternoon session was chaired by 

Dr. Oleh Gerus of the University of 

Manitoba. 

That evening, the final session was 

held under the chairmanship of the Rev. 

Dr. Stepan Jarmus of St. Andrew's 

College. The speakers and their topics 

were: Dr. Wolodymyr Zyla (Texas Tech 

University), "Christian themes in the 

writings of Lesia Ukrainka"; Dr. Yar 

Slavutych (University of Alberta), 

"From paganism to Christianity: the 

poetry of B.I. Antonoych"; Dr. Leo 

Мої of Winnipeg, "Glass stained wi^ 

dows in Ukrainian religious art"; 

Dr. Stepan Zabrowarny (Agricultm 

Academy, Institute of Social Science, 

Poland), "Historical and sociological 

processes in the creation of the Ukrainian 

nation." 

Dr. Michael Marunchak offered coneluding 

remarks. 

Conferences focusing on the Millennium 

had been organized in 1984 by the 

World Committee for the Academic 

Congress on Acceptance of Christianity 

by Rus'-Ukraine under the auspices of 

the Munich-based Ukrainian Free 

University. 

In the past 36 years, UVAN, the 

sponsor of this latest Millennium conference, 

has published over 200 works in 

various disciplines, including a fourvolume 

edition of Shevchenko's "Kobzar" 

by Leonard Biletsky and an eightvolume 

Ukrainian Canadian history by 

Dr. Marunchak. 

The following day, St. Andrew's 

College played host to yet another 

conference, this one sponsored by the 

Center for Ukrainian Canadian Studies 

in conjunction with the Canadian Association 

of Slavists and titled "The 

Ukrainian Heritage." 

Medical association convenes in Philly 

delphia, with the participation of the 

Ukrainian medical and legal communities. 

The UMANA and the Ukrainian 

American Bar Association also held a 

joint session on Saturday, May 24. The 

topics covered included the case of 

Myroslav Medvid and the Chornobyl 

nuclear disaster. William Courtney, 

U.S. consul general-designate for Kiev, 

addressed participants. (For details, see 

The Weekly, June 15.) 

Saskatchewan UCC 

elects Cipywnyk 

SASKATOON — The Saskatchewan 

Provincial Council of the Ukrainian 

Canadian Committee held its fifth 

triennial general meeting on Saturday, 

May 10, at the Holiday Inn here. 

Sixty-nine representatives of Uk 

nian Canadian Committee branches u, 

the province, affiliated organizations of 

the Ukrainian Canadian Committee 

and church organizations were present. 

A new executive was elected for a 

three-year term as follows: D. 

Cipywnyk, president; J. Rozdilsky, 

vice-president; A. Cholod, secretary; G. 

Symchych, treasurer. 

Members-at-large are: S. Dershko; S. 

Kuzma and D. Prokopchuk. 

The Auditing Committee includes: P. 

Worobetz, chairman; W. Sagasz, E. 

Kucey, S. Franko and J. Chorney, 

members. 

The council also incorporates president 

(or their designate representatives) 

of local branches of the Ukrainian Canadian 

Committee and two persons delegated 

from each of the affiliated organizations, 

including the Ukrainian 

Canadian Students' Union (SUSK).

No. 27 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JULY 6, 1986 

5 

THE UKRAINIAN NATIONAL ASSOCIATION FORUM 

82 attend tennis camp 

at UNA'S Catskill resort 

KERHONKSON, N.Y. — The 18th 

annual UNA tennis camp opened here 

on June 22 on the UNA resort Soyuzivka 

with 82 participants from all over 

the United States signed up for the 11- 

day program, tying last year's record 

iber. 

voboda editor-in-chief Zenon Snylyk 

and George Sawchak of Philadelphia 

are in charge.of the camp once 

again, directing the group of nine 

instructors m the rigorous daily training 

of beginning, intermediate and advanced 

tennis enthusiasts. 

The program features a daily exercise 

routine, group tennis lessons, lectures, 

and an opportunity to participate in 

other sports like soccer, volleyball, 

swimming and basketball. 

This year, every participant received 

tennis equipment donated by Zenon 

and Nadia Matkiwsky from the Mazepa 

Foundation. 

The camp will end on July 2 with an 

awards ceremony and distribution of 

certificates of completion. 

The instructors are: Areta Rakoczy- 

Krusheinycky, Tania and Leda Sawchak, 

Ksenia Kyzyk, Anriy Charchalts, 

Wasyl Manko, Adrian Kutko, Ewhen 

Olvnets and Mark Andrushko. 

Seen on the Soyuzivka courts are tennis instructors (above) and campers with 

instructors (below). 

UNA Seniors elect Kuropas 

by Gene Woloshyn 

KERHONKSON, N.Y. — The Association 

of Ukrainian National Association 

Seniors held its 12th Conference at 

Soyuzivka the first week of June. 

A full house of seniors attended the 

conference starting with registration 

Sunday afternoon, June 1, and ending 

with a morning meeting Friday, June 6. 

On Monday, the presidium of the 

meetings was selected with M. Olshansky 

elected chairman, O. Liteplo and S. 

Martiuk, secretaries. The balance of the 

day was spent in the presentation of 

reports by the officers. Vice-President 

Gene Woloshyn emphasized the problem 

of UNA Seniors unable to get 

reservations for the conference. He 

strongly urged that some plan be devised 

that would allow all seniors who 

wish to attend an equal opportunity to 

nervations at the resort. 

Stephen Kuropas 

Tuesday was spent with reports and 

discussions of the reports. On Wednesday 

the seniors were bused to Hyde 

Park, home of President Franklin Delano 

Roosevelt. 

On Thursday the group heard reports 

by Dr. O, Wolansky, president, on the 

Ukrainian National Association's 31st 

Convention held the previous week at 

Dearborn, Mich. Nicholas Bobeczko 

and Mary Bednarczyk explained the 

mechanics of the elections. 

Supreme President John O. Fliscame 

to the conference in time for the banquet 

which he addressed. After-dinner 

entertainment was by bandurist Julian 

Kytasty of New York City. 

The newly elected officers of UNA 

Seniors are: Stephen Kuropas, president; 

Daniel Slobodian, executive vicepresident; 

Gene Woloshyn, vice-president; 

H. Chornamaz, treasurer; S. 

Martiuk, Ukrainian secretary; J. Laba, 

English secretary; and W. Barahura, 

press representative. Elected comptrollers 

were Dr. O. Wolansky, W. 

Senezhak, M. Buchak, M. Olshansky 

and M. Powch. 

District representatives are New 

Jersey — S. Chornamaz, Michigan — 

M. Zubel, Illinois — M. Olshansky, 

Florida — B. Deychakiwsky, Pennsylvania 

— M. Kawka, New England — 

J. Laba and Ohio — M. Bobeczko. 

UNA has first two "millionaires" 

iRoma Hadzewycz 

Supreme Auditor Nestor Olesnycky and then Supreme Organizer Stefan 

Hawrysz are seen above congratulating each other at the 31st Convention 

of the Ukrainian National Association. The two are the first members of the 

UNA Millionaries Club — msllionaries not in terms of their personal assets, 

but in terms of the amount of insurance coverage they have sold to new 

UNA members. Mr. Olesnycky enrolled 54 members insured for the total 

amount of $1,131,000, while Mr. Hawrysz signed up 282 members for 

$1,255,000 of insurance during the last four-year term of office of the Supreme 

Assembly. 

Ambridge branch: fraternal activities key to membership 

AMBRIDGE, Pa. — Fraternal activities 

are alive and well here in Ukrainian 

National Association Branch 161. 

The branch is very active in many 

ways, according to Bill Hladio, the 

sports director. Members participate in 

bowling, golf and pinochle leagues, and 

annual Christmas parties are organized 

for the children of the area. In the wn^s 

are horseshoes com^ 

men's chorus. 

In the spring and fall, the branch also 

holds social affairs. In addition, Branch 

161 and other nearby UNA branches 

hold mini-tourneys for golfers and 

bowlers. 

Says Mr. Hladio, the branch has 

found that the sports and other activities 

it organizes have been "vital in 

si on ;^- up new members." 

About 150 people participate in the 

various activities — some of them 

participate in all events, according to 

the branch's sports director. 

The branch's bowlers say they do 

miss the annual bowling tournaments 

once held by the Ukrainian National 

Association, anc- aat they hope such 

tournaments will be resumed, Mr. 

Hladio по^ч.

I_ 

THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JULY 6, 1986 ' No. 27 

ulcrainianWeeH V 

Mulroney shuffles, 

but what's in the cards? 

Throughout the Mulroney government's first few months in office, it has 

become abundantly clear to most Canadians that the Tory's approach to 

governing — decision-making by public opinion poll and stonewalling the 

House of Commons — has deprived the country of responsible leadership 

and new ideas. Even though Mr. Mulroney has brought a new set of fresh 

faces to the Cabinet table, there remains a great deal of house cleaning. The 

time has come for the prime minister to make some tough decisions on issues 

that affect the one-third of Canadians who are of neither English nor French 

origin. 

What issues need to be tackled by the current team of decision-makers? 

First of all we can't help but notice the lack of minority group members 

around the new Cabinet table. The Tory benches in the House of Commons 

are full of members of Parliament from Canada's diverse ethnic communities. 

It's nice to see names like Hnatyshyn, Mazankowsky, Vezina and Andre at 

the helm of the senior posts of government. But people like Ray Hnatyshyn 

have yet to demonstrate a sensitivity — even an awareness — to issues that are 

of importance to members of Canada's minority groups. 

It terms of overhauling Canada's multiculturalism policy, it seems to us 

that the Tories are bankrupt when it comes to proposing effective policy 

initiatives. The ethnic leaders themselves say that Mr. Mulroney's 

government is bent on reducing or eliminating all together purse strings to 

ethnic and multiculturalservices. The government says it wants to cut grants 

to some ethnic groups and use members of ethnic communities to sell 

products oversees. 

But the reality is that ethnocultural organizations are now operating on 

4vs^^ring 4 bwdlg^ts, and the government has reduced its contributions to the 

%шйші^^ѓ^ethnic groups ч†о about $18 million annually — a pittance 

considering the amount spent on Francophone groups outside of Quebec. 

It's absurd to expect the business sector to form meaningful alliances with 

Canada's ethnocultural groups since most of the largest corporations are 

foreign-owned and have a demonstrated lack of interest in implementing 

projects that benefit the hinterland. 

The first term of the Mulroney government has brought other bad news to 

Canada's ethnic groups. This spring a federal task force that examined all 

government programs urged the government to "phase out federal funding 

for prgariization^ and projects aimed at cultural retention and that they be 

assumed by the communities themselves, the provinces, and the municipalities 

or other federal programs." 

The Ukrainian Canadian Committee rightly saw such a proposal as 

"unacceptable." Ukrainian and several other ethnocultural groups in Canada 

have put multiculturalism grants to good use in all of Canada's diverse 

regions. Federal money has been used by Ukrainians in western Canada, for 

instance, to provide school children in kindergarten to grade 7 with bilingual 

instruction in English and Ukrainian. Other groups have put federal 

multiculturalism grants to work by employing scores of young Canadians, 

thereby putting a dent in Canada's alarmingly high youth employment rate. 

Canada — a country long threatened by cultural domination from the 

United States — is finally developing a vibrant cultural identity thanks to the 

scores of ethnocultural arts and performing groups that see Canada as more 

than a melting pot or a mere appendage to the United States. 

The Mulroney government should take a long and hard look at the 

multiculturalism program before reducing or eliminating the budget. All 

Canadians lose in the long run if funding for cultural and linguistic retention 

are sacrificed in the name of reducing the deficit. 

On a final note, the current government should tread carefully in dealing 

with the investigation of alleged Nazi war criminals in Canada. Mr. 

Mulroney's war crimes inquiry should implement tough measures that will 

not compromise due process, and the reputations of innocent Canadians and 

entire ethnic groups. Once the Deschenes Commission report is tabled in 

Cabinet, the federal government should carry out wide consultations with all 

sectors of Canadian society before adopting any course of action on ferreting 

out war criminals. 

The prime minister and his team have another two years to turn the public 

opinion polls around and transform a mistake-prone government into a 

responsive decision-making body. Mr. Mulroney's success will depend on, to 

some extent, his ability in showing non-Charter group Canadians that they 

are an integral part of Canadian society and equal partners in a nation that 

has a profound regard for justice and fairness. 

Canadian Cabinet: new faces, directions 

Prime Minister Brian Mulroney 

exercised his skills in shuffling his 

Cabinet with the aplomb of a neurosurgeon. 

Not only has he brought new faces 

into the Cabinet, he has also made 

changes that put the best and the 

brightest at the forefront of difficult 

mandates. 

Mr. Mulroney's intentions were 

manifold: improve the government's 

ability to communicate and sell policy 

effectively, to salvage the rapidly 

dwindling support of the Progressive 

Conservative Party in Quebec (the 

Tories are in third place behind the 

Liberals and the New Democratic 

Party), to be in a position of strength on 

two major issues (free trade with the 

United States and constitutional settlement 

with Quebec) and to raise the 

importance of several portfolios. 

Some of the changes are significant 

with respect to areas that have been 

traditionally or circumstantially important 

to Ukrainian affairs. Joe Clark 

remains as secretary of state for external 

affairs and there is no need for the 

Ukrainian community to make major 

adjustments in strategy when approaching 

the minister on Soviet and East 

European affairs. 

The appointment of Don Mazankowski 

as deputy prime minister, government 

house leader and president of 

the Privy Council is a welcome change; 

he replaces Erik Nielsen, who was 

perceived as being too controversial and 

uncommunicative. Mr. Mazankowski 

proved himself as a competent minister 

of transport, a responsibility passed on 

to John Crosbie. Mr. Mazankowski 

represents the Alberta riding of Vegreville; 

52 percent of the electorate there is 

Ukrainian, and it is known as the center 

of Ukrainian pioneer heritage in Canada. 

The controversies of the Justice 

Department, the anti-pornography bill 

and the Deschenes Commission of 

Inquiry have been passed over to 

Ramon Hnatyshyn. Mr. Hnatyshyn has 

a reputation for calm and resolute 

action. When approaching the new 

minister of justice, the Ukrainian community 

should bear in mind that a 

sentimental position will not succeed; 

Nadia Odette Diakun is a former 

legislative assistant to a Member of 

Parliament and a private consultant in 

Ottawa. 

"Harvest of Despair" wins again 

OAKLAND, Calif. — "Harvest of 

Despair," the internationally acclaimed 

film about the Ukrainian famine of 

1932-33, just won first place at the 

National Educational Film Festival 

here in the "history and government: 

world history" subcategory. This is the 

film's 11th award. It was produced by 

Slavko Nowytski and Yurij Luhovy. 

There were 579 entries in this festival, 

now in its 16th year. Entries originated 

from the United States, Canada, Europe, 

Asia and Africa. 

The festival is one of the most respected 

competitions for educational 

media. Awards are given through a 

three-level judging process, which 

involves both intended audiences and 

the winning formula is a logical, clear 

and concise legal argument. 

Barbara McDougall, formerly minister 

of state of finance, has now 

become the minister of state (privatiza 

tion) and minister responsible for th 

status of women. Just last week women's 

organizations gathered in Ottawa 

to express their concerns to then Secretary 

of State Benoit Bouchard. 

Notably, there was little representation 

of ethnic women's organizations, which 

had always been relegated to multiculturalism. 

With the appointment of Ms. 

McDougall, the prime minister has 

signalled the importance of women's 

issues. 

The relationship between the Mulroney 

government and Canada's various 

ethnic groups rapidly deteriorated 

under Ministers Jack Murta and Otto 

Jelinek. Ethnic groups felt a particular 

slight when multiculturalism and sports 

were lumped together. On more than 

one occasion the ministry demonstrated 

its shallow understanding of multicultural 

issues and the direction that the 

Progressive Conservative Party had 

hoped to adopt; rather than a policy of 

positive programs, some elements of 

tokenism so characteristic of the previous 

government policy remained. 

David Crorribie becomes secretary of 

state and minister responsible for 

multiculturalism. Mr. Crombie enjoys a 

high profile in Toronto as former 

mayor. His personal popularity should 

help offset the strong support of the 

Liberal and New Democratic Parties by 

Mediterranean groups, and will certainly 

contribute to a rapproachment with 

East Europeans. 

The consumer and corporate affairs 

portfolio goes to Calgarian Harvie 

Andre, another minister of Ukrainian 

origin. 

This midterm shuffle is especially 

important for the Mulroney government. 

The changes made on June 30 will 

either make or break the next election. 

The government needed new life and an 

image more carefully attuned to the 

business of governing. Prime Minister 

Mulroney has obviously heeded the 

signals that were being sent by government 

members of Parliament, communities 

and opposition critics. 

But a Cabinet shuffle is not enough. 

Each minister must now pay careful 

professional peers. It takes six weeks to 

evaluate all entries. Awards are given on 

the basis of educational value, achievement 

of objectives, originality and 

creativity, continuity and technical 

excellence. A board of directors, cornposed 

of leaders in the film industry, 

education, government and business, 

oversees the festival. 

"Harvest of Despair" has also been 

invited to participate in the Melbourne 

Film Festival to be held in Australia this 

month. The film will also be shown on 

national Australian television in the 

near future. 

"Harvest of Despair" has also been 

accepted as a finalist in the 28th American 

Film Festival to be held in New 

York City in July.

No. 27 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JULY 6, 1986 7 

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR 

AHRU appeals 

for donations 

Dear Editor: 

Rallies for the defense of John Demjanjuk, 

sponsored by Americans for 

Human Rights in Ukraine (AHRU) are 

continuing. AHRU appeals to all members 

of the Ukrainian community for 

their continued generous contributions 

to the AHRU Legal Fund. 

A tremendous amount of work has 

already been completed by attorney 

Mark O'Connor, John Demjanjuk's 

defense attorney for the past four and 

one-half years. This work is to be 

continued in Israeli courts in preparation 

for the forthcoming trial which has 

been recently been extended an additional 

90 days by the Israel Supreme 

Court due to "unusual circumstances." 

Mr. Demjanjuk, the victim who was 

extradited to Israel this past February 

and is closely guarded in an Israeli 

prison, is waiting to be formally charged 

by the Israeli prosecutor. The Office of 

Special Investigations (OSI), an agency 

set up in the U.S. Justice Department in 

1979 through legislation sponsored by 

former Congresswoman Elizabeth 

Holtzman, has been charged with 

accepting fabricated information and 

fraudulent statements from the Soviet 

KGB. This case has attracted worldwide 

attention because of the KGB-OSI 

unholy alliance. 

This case, which has often been 

featured in the media, has grown to such 

proportions that additional legal experts 

in the U.S. and Israel might have 

to be added to support the defense 

attorney. Americans for Human Rights 

in Ukraine urges the public to send 

desperately needed contributions to: 

AHRU Legal Fund, 43 Midland Place, 

Newark, N.J. 07106, or to special 

accounts in Self-Reliance credit unions 

in various cities. 

Boshena Olshaniwsky 

Newark, N.J. 

Addendum to 

AHRU article 

Dear Editor: 

I read with interest about the recent 

successes of Boston's Ukrainians in 

publicizing the issue of the Ukrainian 

famine and the defamation of Ukrainians 

(June 15). 

Here is a classic instance of how an 

adverse situation (the exclusion of 

Ukrainians from a state commemoration 

of genocide victims) was brilliantly 

turned into a major pro-Ukrainian 

publicity coup thanks to the outstanding 

preparedness, follow-through and 

well-timed responses by area Ukrainians. 

It is also apparent from the article 

that a number of groups — including 

Friends of the Harvard Ukrainian Research 

Institute, the Harvard Ukrainian 

Nazi camp survivor recalls 

massacre of 2,000 prisoners 

Valentyn Koval, a Ukrainian political 

activist and publicist who was one of 

the organizers of the Ukrainian Youth 

Association (SUM)and the Association 

for the Liberation of Ukraine, is a 

former prisoner of German concentration 

camps during World War II What 

follows is The Ukrainian Weekly's 

translation of his recollection of events 

leading up to the massacre of 2,000prisoners 

— among them 500 Ukrainians 

from the Dnieper region — by the 

Nazis. 

I was arrested by the Gestapo in 

December 1941. I belonged to the anti- 

German and anti-Russian Ukrainian 

underground. Other Ukrainian prisoners 

were from Kherson, Mykolaiv, 

and other cities and areas of the Dnieper 

region of Ukraine. For one year, the 

Germans held us in the Mykolaiv 

prison; later, in October 1942, we were 

transported out of Ukraine to the 

Buchenwald concentration camp in 

Germany (near Weimar in Thuringen). 

They chose the specialists among us 

' (mechanics, locksmiths, milling machine 

and lathe operators, and others) 

and sent us to the Rottleberode concentration 

camp (near Nordhausen in 

the Harz mountains). This was a small 

concentration camp for some 2,000 

persons. The prisoners worked 18 hours 

a day deep under the earth (100 meters). 

I worked as a lathe operator. At that 

time 1 weighed 80 pounds. Next to me, 

at the milling machine, worked a Russified 

Ukrainian from Kuban. He had a 

powerful physique, and I was preparing 

him for escape from imprisonment. 

Suddenly, one night, we were 

awakened and told that we were to be 

taken to Magdeburg. They loaded us 

into the wagons of a train at the 

Gardelegen station; for several days we 

were not given anything to eat; we did 

not know what would happen to us. 

Meanwhile, the train stood at the 

station. This is where I decided to 

escape from the transport, and I told the 

man from Kuban not to doze but to wait 

for my signal. Later, I saw he had fallen 

asleep and I decided to escape alone. 

This was very dangerous, because a 

German armed with an automatic rifle 

was also in the wagon; he was asleep. 

And now, as if in spite, the rain stopped 

falling and the moon emerged from 

behind the clouds. I remembered that 

the station was named Gardelegen and I 


Studies Fund and the Boston branch of 

Americans for Human Rights in U- 

kraine — worked together closely in this 

effort, each playing an important part in 

this campaign. 

After reading the detailed report 

about the events in Boston, I feel compelled 

to add a footnote to my article 

about AHRU in The Ukrainian Weekly 

on June 8. There I cited the role of the 

newly formed Boston AHRU branch in 

this publicity campaign — basing my 

information exclusively on articles in 

Boston newspapers which repeatedly 

cited only the Boston AHRU branch as 

a source. However, it is obvious from 

the recent Weekly report, that the 

Lew Iwaskiw's letter to the editor 

in the June 22 issue of The Weekly 

took The Washington Group and 

UNA audiences to task for failing to 

react to a statement by U.S. Consul- 

Designate to Kiev William Courtney 

about the celebration of the "millennium 

of Christianity in Ukraine and 

Russia." The writer indicated surprise 

that no one "reacted to this 

falsification of history." 

There was reaction in Washington 

land in Jersey City — editor! to Mr. 

Courtney's remark. This fact, along 

with many others, was not included 

in my story which accompanied the 

text of his prepared presentation. 

For the record 

AHRU branch's efforts were just one 

part of a large, multi-faceted and 

coordinated strategy by several Ukrainian 

groups. 

Boston Ukrainians have given us an 

outstanding example of how cooperation 

by a multitude of individuals and 

community groups can bring about 

success — when people of good will 

cooperate for the sake of a just cause, 

without caring who "gets the credit." It 

is an example well worth emulating in 

Ukrainian communities across the 

country. 

Anisa H. Sawyckyj 

Forest Hills, N.Y. 

About half-way through the lengthy 

discussion period that followed his 

speech, a member of the audience 

asked about his placing the Russian 

and Ukrainian celebrations "on 

equal footing." (The questions were 

fielded by "a State Department 

official," who spoke on the condition 

that he not be identified by name — a 

common practice in Washington 

known as speaking "on background.") 

The official said that Mr. Courtney's 

references to the millennium 

were "carefully worded." He went 

on: 


Photos above and below shows bodies of prisoners murdered by Nazis at 

Gardelegen.


Manor grants 95 degrees Lo Salle honors Fulbright 

PHILADELPHIA — Former U.S. 

Sen. J. William Fulbright, the architect 

of the world's most famous international 

educational exchange program, 

was honored as a man who "has been 

productive of so much good in the 

world" at La Salle University's 123rd 

Commencement on Sunday, May 18, at 

Philadelphia's Civic Center-Convention 

Hall. 

Sen. Fulbright, who represented the 

state of Arkansas in the U.S. Senate 

from 1944 to 1974, received an honorary 

doctor of humane letter degree. 

He was sponsored by Ragan Henry, a 

member of La Salle University's board 

of trustees and a prominent local 

attorney. 

Sen. Fulbright praised Leonid Rudnytzky 

of La Salle University in 

remarks that preceded his formal 

Dr. Elaine Brown, director of Singing City, Inc., center, was the commencement 

speaker for the May 15 graduation at Manor Junior College. At left is Sister Mary 

Cecilia Jurasinski OSBM, president of Manor Junior College. At right is William 

Sasso, chairman of the Manor hoard of trustees. 

JENK1NTOWN, Pa. — Manor Junior 

College in Jenkintown held commencement 

exercises on May 15 for 95 

students, 11 receiving Associate in Arts 

degrees, 83 receiving Associate in 

Science degrees and one student receiving 

a certificate in the medical 

secretarial program. 

The commencement speaker was Dr. 

Elaine Brown of Philadelphia, founder 

and director of Singing City and professor 

emerita at Temple University. 

Mary Frances Adamow of Ivyland, 

Pa., received an award for maintaining 

a 4.0 cumulative average in the accounting^ 

business administrative program. 

Stella Iaconesi of Philadelphia, received 

an award for maintaining a 3.9 cumulative 

average in the computer science 

program. Jbann Waysz of Cheltenham, 

Pa., received an award for continued 

academic excellence in the medical 

laboratory technology program as a 

continuing education student. 

Susan Panikowski of Philadelphia 

was recognized for her outstanding 

achievement and dedicated service to 

the Ambassador's Club of Manor's 

Admission's Office. A Student Activity 

Award was presented to Maureen 

Berry, who consistently developed and 

promoted student activities. 

Colleen McGuigan and Annette 

Szymendera each received a $50 award 

given by the Montgomery-Bucks Dental 

Society for an extraordinary expanded 

functions dental assisting students. 

Manor Junior College is a two-year 

college offering associate degrees and 

certificate programs in the allied health, 

business, liberal arts and science fields. 

Mother of God holds 40th commencement 

STAMFORD, Conn. — Bishop Basil 

H. Losten, of the Stamford Diocese 

for Ukrainian Catholics, officiated at 

and delivered the commencement address 

at the 40th graduation exercises at 

Mother of God Academy on Saturday 

morning, June 7. 

The bishop also presented the diplomas 

and awards to the graduating class. 

Assisting at the divine liturgy were 

Msgr. John Squiller, principal of St. 

Basil's Preparatory School for Boys, 

and the Rev. John †егіеску, librarian, 

procurator and bursar of St. Basil's 

College. 

Receiving diplomas at the exercises 

were Elizabeth Mary Conti (salutatorian), 

Darice Marie Davis, Shannon 

Darby Fisher, Annette Marie Gregoire, 

Christina Iris La Guardia, Cheryl-Ann 

Luciano (valedictorian), Alison Palmer, 

Yvonne Silva Vidreiro. 

The awards given included: Bishop 

Basil Losten's Award of the Archbishop 

Ambrose Senyshyn Memorial Scholarship 

to Cheryl-Ann Luciano; Mother of 

God Academy Science Club Award for 

Achievement in Mathematics to Yvonne ` 

Silva Vidreiro; Mother of God Асаdemy 

Achievement Award to Elizabeth 

Mary Conti; Mother of God Academy 

Science Club Award for Achievement 

in Science and Mathematics to Cheryl- 

Ann Luciano; Stamford Police Anchor 

Club Branch 25 Award for Merit to 

Darice Marie Davis; Hubbard Heights 

Association Drama Award to Annette 

Marie Gregoire; Corinne Boccuzzi 

Award for Progress to Alison Palmer; 

Stamford Police Anchor Club Branch 

25 Award for Service to Shannon 

Darby Fisher; Deegan Memorial Literary 

Award to Yvonne Silva Vidreiro; 

Progress in Business Subjects Award to 

Christina Iris La Guardia. 

A communion branch for the graduates, 

their special guests, and academy 

faculty was tendered by the class 

of 1987. On May 14 the traditional class 

night was observed. The Class of 1986 

gift to the school was presented. An 

original skit, written by the juniors, was 

presented in honor of the graduates. 

The finale was the traditional candlelight 

ceremony. 

Awards and citations were made in 

acknowledgment of scholarship and 

extracurricular activities by the principal, 

Vera Spikula, in behalf of the 

Missionary Sisters of Mother of God 

who direct the academy. 

94 graduate from St. Basil Academy 

PHILADELPHIA — St. Basil Academy 

awarded diplomas to 94 seniors in 

graduation ceremonies held on June 7 

in the school auditorium. 

The salutatorian was Christine De- 

Nario. The valedictorian was Andrea 

Porytko. The baccalareate mass was 

celebrated on June 7 at 10 a.m. Sister 

Joann OSBM, principal, presided. 

The following seniors received academic 

scholarships and^or grants: 

Kimberly Bader, Elizabeth Beschen, 

Liza ЙоЬЬ, Tanya Brown, Laurie Citino, 

Susan Connelly, Christine DeNario, 

Christine Foy, Karen Janco, Katria 

Korzeniowski, Judy Krasowski, Denise 

McCool, Amy O'Reilly, Andrea 

Porytko, Teresa Pajak, Maryann Shawaluk, 

Karol Weigand and Bridget 

White. 

Prior to La Salle University commencement exercises, from left are Dr. Leonard 

Brownstein, Dr. Berhardt G. Blumenthal, former Sen. J. William Fulbright and 

Prof. Leonid Rudnytzky. 

Zorepad dancers end school year 

by Daria E. Spiak 

WATERVLIET, N.Y. — The Zorepad 

Ukrainian Dance Ensemble had its 

final performance of the school year, 

celebrating its 10th anniversary on June 

8. The group is sponsored by St. Nicholas 

Ukrainian Catholic Church of 

Watervliet, N.Y. 

Small gifts and flowers were presented 

for years of hard work and dedieation 

to the group's instructor, Roma 

Pryma Bohachevsky. Vera Kushnir, 

who assisted with the group this past 

year, Daria Jakubowycz and Michael 

and Alia Heretz, who formed the group, 

were also honored. Gratitude was 

expressed to members of New York 

State Legislature in particular Sen. 

Joseph Bruno and Assemblyman Mc- 

Nulty, for support and special budget 

efforts. 

The children opened the program 

with the welcome dance, or "Pryvit,"at 

which time they presented the Rev. and 

Mrs. Walter Paszko with the traditional 

bread and salt. The older group danced 

the "Hutsulka," "The Naughty Boys" 

and the "Hopak." 

The younger group danced the "Kozachok." 

Jody and Jennifer Dynko 

danced "The Transcarpathian Dance." 

The children were received very warmly 

by the audience. 

Members of the 1985-86 dance ensemble 

were: Iwanka and John Barna, 

Nadia Barna, Adrian and Michael 

Berezansky, Janie Chomycz, Larisa 

Durbak, Jody and Jennifer Dynko, 

John Fil, Lesia and Peter Fil, Maria 

Jedynak, Kasia Klem, Marco Koshykar, 

Andrea and Taras Kufel, Ali and Casey 

Kuzio, Michele and Peter Salony, 

Christina and Lydia Skalij, and Christian 

Spiak. 

Members of the Zorepad dance troupe perform the welcome dance.


St. Basil College Seminary graduates largest class since 1963 

STAMFORD, Conn. — A tranquil, 

sunny sky greeted over 200 visitors to 

St. Basil College Seminary on Saturday, 

May 10. They had traveled to 

Stamford to witness the college graduation 

of nine young men, the college 

class of 1986, the largest class of 

seminarian graduates since 1963. 

Bishop Basil Losten celebrated the 

divine liturgy of thanksgiving for the 

intention of the seminary community at 

11 a.m. in the seminary chapel. Concelebrating 

the divine liturgy were Msgr. 

Peter Skrincosky, rector of the College; 

the Rev. John Terlecky, dean of men; 

the Rev. Basil Juli, director of spiritual 

formation; the Rev. Robert Pohley, 

spiritual advisor; and the Rev. Ivan 

Kaszczak, director of religious education 

and vocations for the diocese of 

Stamford. Congregational singing was 

led by seminarian Philip Weiner, who 

was concluding his term as seminary 

cantor for the last four years. 

Following the divine liturgy, the 44th 

commencement exercises of the college 

seminary took place. Dr. Edward Bordeau, 

academic dean, presented the 

candidates to Bishop Losten who 

awarded them Bachelor of Arts degrees 

and diplomas. 

The graduates are: Yurij Mychajlo 

Graduates of St. Basil College Seminary with faculty and Bishop Basil Losten. 

Bozio (Transfiguration Parish, Denver), 

Taras Leon Hankewich (Cathedral 

Parish, Philadelphia), Pavlo Denys 

Hayda (Ss. Volodymyr and Olha Parish, 

Chicago), Christopher David 

Jubinski (St. Anne Parish, Warrington, 

Pa.), cum laude, Ihor Midzak (Christ 

the King Parish, Philadelphia), Mark 

Myron Morozowich (St. John Parish, 

McKeesport, Pa.) cum laude, Philip 

James Weiner (St. Michael Parish-, 

Pottstown, Pa.), and John Paul Wirchnianski 

(St. Michael Parish, Yonkers, 

N.Y.). 

Dr. Bordeau then announced the 

following awards which were presented 

by Bishop Losten: the Mary Popyk 

Sowa Scholarship Grant to Mr. Michalczyk, 

the Michael and Anne Nagurney 

Scholarship Award to Mr. 

Morozowich, the Fedorchuck Family 

Scholarship Award to Mr. Midzak, the 

St. Thomas Aquinas Award in scholastic 

philosophy to Mr. Morozowich and 

the Ivan Zadorozny Memorial Award 

in liturgical music to Mr. Weiner. 

Undergraduate classmen awards 

were presented as well: the Emil Schiller 

Lumley Memorial Scholarship to Michal 

Palko (Nativity Parish, Middleport, 

Pa.) and Joseph Szupa (Holy 

Ghost Parish, Chester, Pa.), the Josef 

Immaculate Conception graduates 20 

DETROIT — The 24th commencement 

of the Immaculate Conception 

Ukrainian Catholic High School took 

place here as 20 graduating seniors 

received their diplomas from Bishop 

Innocent Lotocky, OSBM. 

The graduation ceremony followed a 

divine liturgy celebrated by the bishop 

earlier in the day. 

Of the 20 graduates, 13 graduated 

with honors and 11 received scholarships 

and grants from the school's 

scholarship fund, the Ukrainian Graduates 

Club, the Ukrainian National 

Association and the Ukrainian National 

Aid Association. 

Scholarship and grant recipients 

were: Lydia Zarewych, Anastasia Kryzaniwskyj, 

Katrina Cisaruk, Daniel 

Nagridge, Donna Hyka, Maria Halaburda, 

Sandra Walniuk, Marta Stefaniuk, 

Zenon Pryjma, Ireneus Kozak, 

and Myron Sowirka. 

The Immaculate Conception Scholarship 

Fund was set up several years 

ago to award scholarships to graduates 

for further studies and tuition grants to 

those deserving students in need of 

financial assistance. 

The valedictorian was Miss Zarewych, 

and the salutatorians were 

Misses Kryzaniwskyj and Cisaruk. 

The Immacualte Conception Ukrainian 

Catholic High School has already 

graduated 970 students since its founding. 

Daczkewycz Memorial Award in classical 

languages to Theodore Reznowski 

(Holy Eucharist Parish, Winnipeg), the 

Markiian Shashkewych Memorial 

Award in Ukrainian studies to Paul 

Wolensky "(St. Vladimir Parish, Edwardsville, 

Pa.) and the Bishop Jaroslav 

Gabro Memorial Award for a 

noteworthy effort by a new student in 

achieving the aims of seminary formation 

to Michael Polosky (Assumption 

Parish, Latrobe, Pa.) 

Bishop Losten, following the presentation 

of diplomas and awards, spoke 

briefly about the role of the seminary 

community in contributing to the 

spiritual growth of the graduates in 

leading them to deepen their love for the 

Lord Jesus and to discern their vocation 

about the priestly life. The bishop then 

presented to each of the graduates and 

to Michael Polosky, a post-graduate 

student, a cloth copy of the English 

gospel-book published by the diocese, 

noting that he will continue to pray for 

their vocations with the fervent hope 

that this gospel-book will be used on the 

altar in their futures. 

Msgr. Skrincosky then introduced 

the commencement speaker, Msgr. 

Andrew Cusack, director of ministry to 

clergy and religious for the Roman 

Catholic Diocese of Bridgeport. Msgr. 

Cusack devoted his address to the roles 

of time, talk, thought, tenderness and 

trust in growing in the spiritual life and 

in one's relationship with the triune God 

and with one another. 

At the conclusion of the ceremonies^ 

Bishop Losten intoned "Mnohaya Lita" 

for the graduates, their parents and 

families, their friends and guests, and 

for the seminary faculty. 

A buffet luncheon, prepared by the 

Little Sister Workers of Jesus and 

Mary, was served to all the guests. 

During the luncheon, the Rev. Terlecky 

filled the role of master of ceremonies. 

He introduced Msgr. Skrincosky, who 

spoke on behalf of the seminary community; 

Roma Hayda, who spoke on 

behalf of the graduates' parents, and 

Mr. Michalczyk, the seminary student 

prefect, who spoke on behalf of the 

graduates. The luncheon concluded 

with a prayer offered by the Rev. Basil 

Juli. 

St. Basil College Seminary, founded 

in 1939 by the late Archbishop Constantine 

Bochachevsky for the education of 

young men for the priesthood, is the 

oldest Catholic college in Fairfield 

County and the third oldest of nine 

Catholic CQlleges in the state of Connecticut. 

Of the 175 graduates of St. Basil 

College in its 47 years of existence, 91 

have been ordained to the priesthood, 

three of whom were elevated to the 

episcopacy. 

32 receive diplomas at St. George 

NEW YORK — Thirty-two graduates 

received their diplomas from 

Bishop Basil Losten at ceremonies held 

here at St. George Ukrainian Catholic 

Academy on June 14. The presentation 

of diplomas foltywed a divine liturgy 

earlier in the day. 

The commencement speaker was Dr. 

Ihor Sawchuk, assistant professor of 

urology at the College of Physicians and 

Surgeons at Columbia University, who 

spoke in both Ukrainian and English. 

He is a St. George alumnus. Speakers 

also included class valcweuj;^ , Sonya 

. Reszitnyk and salutatona^ Luoa 

Wesolowsky. Master of ceremonies was 

the Rev. Patrick Paschak OSBM, 

pastor of St. George's Ukrainian Catholic 

Church in New York. 

Of the 32 graduates, 14 received 

scholarships from various organizations 

including the Ukrainian National 

Women's League of America, Ukrainian 

National Association and Ukrainian 

Fraternal association. 

The recipients were: Sonya Reszitnyk, 

Luba Wesolosky, Irene Sysak, Andrij 

Oberyszyn, Michael Tomaszewsky, 

Roma Jacuszko, O. Malynovsky, Roma 

Pawiuk, Natalia Maslij, K. Brodman, 

M. Tiarnsic and M. McMahon.

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New York mayor... 

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was apparent that some of the recipients 

had received medals other than those 

belonging to them. The mix-ups were 

finally resolved but the confusion 

seemed to amuse the awardees. 

The ceremony ended with a splended 

fireworks display by the Grucci family. 

"It was quite an experience," said the 

Rev. Patrick Paschak, who accepted the 

award on behalf of Brig. Gen. Krawciw. 

The general was not able to receive the 

award as he is currently stationed in 

Belgium. 

"He was very pleased with the recognition," 

the Rev. Paschak said of the 

general. But the main thing is he is very 

Ukrainian oriented. It's very important 

with Ukrainians getting all this negative 

publicity ... that we could bring someone 

as a naturalized American and who 

worked his way up in the military." It 

shows, the Rev. Paschak said, an 

allegiance to this country. 

The general's medal will be sent to 

him in Europe, the Rev. Paschak said. 

Among the award recipients were 

pathologist Daniel R. Alonso (Argentina), 

scientist and novelist Isaac 

Asimov (Soviet Union), ballet dancer 

Mikhail Baryshnikov (Soviet Union), 

fashion designer Qscar de la Renta 

(Dominican Republic), professor 

Kenan T. Erim (Turkey), basketball 

player Patrick Ewing (Jamaica), 

actress Geraldine Fitzgerald 

(Ireland), Archbishop Torkom Manoogian 

(Armenia), writer Ved Mehta 

(India), actors Anthony Quinn (Mexico), 

John Houseman (Rumania) and 

Uta Hagen (Germany), filmmakers 

Milos Forman (Czechoslovakia) and 

Franco Zeffierelli (Italy), New York 

Times photographer Dith Pran (Cambodia) 

and psychosexual therapist Ruth 

Westheimer (Germany). 

The awards ceremony was co-hosted 

by actresses Jean Stapleton and Loretta 

Swit. 

The original number of award recipients 

was 87, but artist Claes Oldenberg 

declined his. In a conversation with 

The New York Times, his wife Coosje 

van Bruggen said the artist chose to do 

so because he did not think a distinction 

should be drawn between older and 

younger immigrants. Also, "he did not 

want to accept support from an administration 

supporting a nuclear harbor 

for New York." Ms. van Bruggen 

was referring to Mayor Koch's support 

for stationing battleships which carry 

nuclear weapons on Staten Island. 

Chornobyl dead... 


On July 1 a young woman carrying a 

bouquet of red carnations for Ms. 

Ivaniko's grave was prevented by an 

official and two policemen from laying 

them there in front of two Moscowbased 

American reporters, reported the 

Post. 

The reporters' notes were confiscated 

and they were escorted out of the 

cemetery by police with no explanations 

given. 

While stories about the Chornobyl 

incident fade from the Soviet press, the 

'"gtaVeStb ; nes cfoftniftg birthdatesin the 

1950s and 60s and the same deathdate, 

1986, serve as grim reminders of the 

human cost of the world's largest 

nuclear accident, wrote the Post. 

Alongside the occupied graves is an 

open space, said Mr. Lee, apparently 

left for more victims. 

Back in the area around Chornobyl, 

work has resumed on six farms, although 

farmers are allowed to till the 

land only for 10 days before being 

replaced by other workers, reported the 

Associated Press on June 22. 

"The farmers started inter-row potato 

cultivation and fodder preparation," 

the AP quoted a report in the Englishlanguage 

Moscow News. "After examining 

the fields, experts determined 

there was no danger in resuming this 

work. 

"The farmers' health, as well as the 

condition of the land, air and water are 

being constantly monitored," the report 

said. "Life, with its summer cares, is 

returning to normal in the countryside," 

the report concluded. 

The report did not specify the acreage 

being cultivated or give the location of 

the six farms that have started working. 

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Liberty Medals. 

Nazi camp... 


learned that the American Army was 

about three kilometers from the station. 

I decided to escape. This was my only 

hope: would 1 find deliverance or death? 

The guard in the wagon was still 

dozing. I could not wake anyone for 

fear of waking the guard, and at that 

moment I saw that the Polish prisoners 

had lifted up the wagon door and a 

number of them had already jumped 

out under the wagon. They were escaping. 

But, along the length of the train, 

the SS guards were patrolling with 

dogs. 

There was no time to think. I crawled 

to the opened door and peered under 

the wagon. I was in prisoners'garb, and 

in my pockets I had a lot of pepper, 

which I hid just in case. I don't remember 

how I wound up under the wagon, 

how I crawled under four trains and saw 

the guards and their dogs get farther 

away. The moon was shining brightly, 

and I was amazed at the silence surrounding 

me. 

I saw that the Poles were escaping 

into the woods to the left, so I ran to the 

right. I was sure the Germans would 

discover the escape and would pursue us 

escapees. When the shooting started I 

was already near the forest. I was free. 

Suddenly I heard moaning next to me. 

It was a Pole who had fled here from 

another group. I asked him if he knew 

how to navigate via the stars, and 

whether he wanted to go to the Americans 

or the Russians. He answered that 

he did not know how to tell direction by 

the stars, and that it was all the same to 

him to whom we went. I responded that 

if it didn't matter to him to whom we 

should go, then he should go where he 

chooses, and I will go alone. But he 

began to plead with me that wherever I 

went he would go with me. 

In front of us were high mountains, 

and we had to cross a mountain road. 

However, we did not know that the 

German Army was camped for the night 

on this road and we found ourselves 

right in their midst. A German officer 

jumped to his feet; the Pole was in front 

of me, The German saw us and yelled, 

"prisoners, prisoners." 

Several more Germans jumped up 

with rifles, and all shot at the Pole. I was 

several steps from them and I threw 

myself into a large bombed-out ditch 

and thus was saved. The German Army 

then gathered and retreated. 

After some time I wound up in a 

plowed field and I lay down in a deep 

trench dug by a gigantic plow. (A long 

story about my further wanderings 

follows, but I omit this for brevity's 

sake.) 

I learned about the fate of the prisoners 

later, when I was a witness at the 

trial in Dachau of those Germans who 

had murdered (shot) 2,000 prisoners — 

among them 500 Ukrainians. The Germans 

had brought straw into a large 

building in the field, they sprinkled the 

straw with gasoline, and then herded the 

prisoners inside. At night, they opened 

the door and ignited the straw. In front 

of the door, they placed heavy machine 

guns and they shot all those prisoners 

who tried to escape the fire inside. Then 

they walked around and killed all those 

who were still alive inside. All of them 

died. No one was left alive. 

After'this horrible murder, the German 

executioners quickly changed into 

the clothes of the prisoners they had 

shot and appeared before the Americans. 

However, they were found out; the 

Americans realized that these were the 

Germans who had shot the prisoners. 

American patrols immediately shot 

these Germans (executioners). The 

Americans then gathered together some 

German civilians to dig graves in the 

field by the building, and each prisoner's 

body was buried in a separate grave. (A 

photograph of this area shows a large 

cemetery.) 

I must point out that when we had 

been taken to Buchenwald and placed in 

the camp yard, the Russians who were 

already at the Buchenwald camp began 

to call out to us Ukrainians, "What, did 

you want a bit of land? Well give you a 

piece of land." Russian Communists 

were at home here. They were with the 

Germans, they were allied with them in 

the destruction of the Ukrainians. There 

was no salvation. The KGB ran around 

as if it was at home, under the Soviets; 

they asphyxiated Ukrainians in their 

own beds. You could not leave the 

barracks because Ukrainians were 

killed and thrown into the toilets. 

It became easier when Ukrainians 

organized themselves for self-defense. 

Then the Russians were silenced. This 

self-defense was needed aiso against the 

Poles, who killed Ukrainians and especially 

hunted the Ukrainian Galicians. 

Ukrainians from western Ukraine could 

not associate with Ukrainians; they 

spoke Polish and did not admit they 

were Ukrainians. But, when the number 

of Ukrainians in thexamps increased to 

the point that there were more of them 

than Poles or Russians, the Poles and 

Russians learned their lesson and were 

afraid to bother the Ukrainians.


11 

Ukrainian becomes... 


that traditionally vote Liberal. 

The Ministry of Multiculturalism — 

which hands out money to ethnic 

groups and coordinates Canada's 15- 

year-old multiculturalism policy — was 

up until now managed by Otto Jelinek 

who was also sports minister. Canada's 

ethnocultural groups have put pressure 

on the government for a separate 

ministry with its own minister, and Mr. 

Crombie's promotion appears to be a 

move that will be given a warm response 

by Canadian ethnocultural leaders. 

"We're pleased to hear that there has 

been a change and possibly a different 

approach," Art Miki, president of the 

National Association of Japanese Canadians, 

told The Toronto Star. 

"Our complaint with Mr. Jelinek is 

that he's been dealing around us instead 

of dealing with us and the group that 

represents us," Mr. Miki added. 

John Nowosad, the president of the 

Winnipeg-based Ukrainian Canadian 

Committee, said he isn't happy with the 

government's decision to give Mr. 

Crombie the double portfolio of secretary 

of state and multiculturalism. 

"The trouble up until now has been 

that the minister of multiculturalism 

has had two portfolios to take care of," 

said Mr. Nowosad in a telephone 

interview. "We think that they (the 

Mulroney government) should make 

-multiculturalism a separate portfolio." 

The multiculturalism portfolio has 

been giving Mr. Mulroney headaches 

since the Progressive Conservatives 

came to power. His government has 

come under fire from ethnocultural 

groups — particularly Ukrainian leaders 

— for putting the concerns of visible 

minorities in front of traditional ethnocultural 

groups. Ethnic leaders have 

also complained about the government's 

attempts to involve the private 

sector in its multiculturalism policy. 

According to The Toronto Star, the 

prime minister was said to be "dissatisfied" 

with the "lackluster" performance 

of former Multiculturalism Ministers 

Jack Murta and Otto Jelinek. 

If there is one single change in the 

Cabinet shuffle that has attracted the 

most attention from Ukrainian leaders 

it is the justice portfolio. 

Mr. Hnatyshyn, a Ukrainian member 

of Parliament who represents the riding 

of Saskatoon-West, inherited the justice 

portfolio from Newfoundland MP 

John Crosbie. The Ministry of Justice 

has been under the watchful eye of 

several East European group leaders 

ever since Ottawa launched its investigation 

into the presence of war 

criminals in Canada in February 1985. 

Mr. Hnatyshyn, 52, a lawyer and a 

12-year veteran of the House of Commons, 

was named government house 

leader and president of the Queen's 

Privy Council for Canada following the 

Progressive Conservative's landslide 

victory in September 1984. There are 

several Ukrainians in his Saskatoon 

constituency, and he is an occasional 

guest speaker at local Ukrainian community 

functions. 

The Ukrainian Professional and 

Business Club of Ottawa honored the 

Saskatoon politician in 1985 at a 

Parliament Hill banquet for Parliamentarians 

of Ukrainian origin. 

Said Mr. Hnatyshyn to the banquet 

audience: "To see so many of our 

colleagues in the House of Commons 

who are of Ukrainian ancestry gives us 

all a sense of pride and an indication 

that there is a great future in our 

country for all of us who have come to 

this country to make it our own." 

Mr. Hnatyshyn is the son of Ukrainian 

Orthodox parents. His father, the 

late Sen. John Hnatyshyn, emigrated to 

Canada from the Bukovina region of 

Ukraine. 

During a live interview June 30 with 

the CKO radio news network, Mr. 

Hnatyshyn said he looks forward to 

serving in the justice portfolio, and his 

emphasis will be on law reform and the 

implementation of Mr. Crosbie's legislative 

intiatives. Mr. Hnatyshyn told 

CKO that, as a lawyer, he has a "big 

interest" in the law. He added that 

Prime Minister Mulroney made the 

changes to the Cabinet because it is time 

to "move along to new challenges." He 

declined to say whether he would steer 

his department on the right of center 

course charted by his predecessor. 

Multiculturalism Minister David 

Crombie 

Among the major issues facing the 

new justice minister is the investigation 

of war criminals in Canada. A report 

from a government probe on war crimes 

will come across Mr. Hnatyshyn's desk 

in September, and a decision will have 

to be made on the feasibility of establishing 

a permanent Nazi-hunting 

body similar to the U.S. Justice Department's 

Office of Special Investigations. 

"Mr. Hnatyshyn will be in a position 

to do something positive about the 

Deschenes Commission," said Morris 

Cherneskey, a Saskatoon alderman 

whose district overlaps Mr. Hnatyshyn's 

federal constituency. 

But John Gregorovich, the chairperson 

of the Ukrainian Canadian 

Committee's Civil Liberties Commission, 

downplayed the significance of 

Mr. Hnatyshyn's move tojustice, saying 

decisions on the war crimes inquiry will 

be made by the prime minister and his 

inner Cabinet. 

Said Mr. Gregorovich in a recent 

interview: "The Deschenes Commission 

is a matter of the prime minister and the 

Cabinet in the discussions that anyone 

has had. Cabinet will consider the 

situation once Justice Deschenes' report 

has come in." 

Whether Mr. Hnatyshyn will have 

any impact on the war crimes issue is a 

matter which is "in the realm of speculation"as 

one political pundit put it. 

Nevertheless, the minister retains his 

seat at the table of the powerful priorities 

and planning committee — the 

prime minister's inner circle which is the 

most important political decisionmaking 

body in the government. 

The Cabinet shake-up has also 

brought Mr. Crombie to the inner circle 

— making him the first multiculturalism 

minister in the Mulroney government 

to hold such a high profile. 

Harvie Andre, a western MP of 

Ukrainian origin, was moved in one of 

the surprising shifts. Mr. Andre, the 

associate minister of defense, was 

known to have his eyes on the defense 

department, but he was shipped off to 

consumer and corporate affairs to 

replace Michel Cote. 

Canadian probe... 


(The commission — established 16 

months ago to determine how many 

alleged Nazis are in Canada, how they 

got here and what can be done about 

bringing them to justice — is to report 

to the government September 30. The 

Soviets said Canadian investigators 

could make the trip no sooner than June 

10, and they ignored the question of 

legal safeguards). 

Alexi Makarov, second secretary of 

the Soviet Embassy, told The Ottawa 

Citizen on June 14 that commission lawyers 

Michael Meighen and Yves Fortier 

are using the September deadline as an 

excuse to reject the Soviet offer. 

The Soviet Union has always meant 

to meet the strict conditions set down by 

Judge Deschenes before he would allow 

evidence to be collected behind the Iron 

Curtain, the Soviets said, and that 

Deschenes lawyers misinterpreted Soviet 

statements. 

Said Mr. Makarov in an interview 

with Citizen reporter Neil Macdonald: 

"Personally, I have suspected from the 

beginning that there was not genuine 

interest on the part of the (Deschenes 

Commission) counsel to go, for some 

obvious political reason I will not dwell 

on." 

Judge Deschenes'decisionnottotake 

evidence in the East Bloc was welcome 

news to members of Canada's East 

European groups who have campaigned 

hard to stop the commission from 

Embassy security... 


"These activists, following their 

arrests, face an ordeal or prosecution, 

fines and even prison," the senator said. 

"It is incumbent upon us to remember 

whose purpose we serve when we, the 

beacon of freedom in this world, chill 

these types of freedoms in this world, 

chill these types of public protests. I 

don't believe it is in the best interest of 

our great nation to do so." 

Mr. Rudy said the amendment should 

traveling behind the Iron Curtain. 

"I assume the decision not to go to the 

Soviet Union is a final one," said John 

Gregorovich, a Toronto lawyer who 

heads the Ukrainian Canadian Committee's 

Civil Liberties Commission. 

Mr. Gregorovich added that his 

group will now be focusing its attention 

on making all members of Parliament 

and Cabinet ministers aware "that the 

problem (of war criminals) is still significant" 

to a large number of Ukrainian 

Canadians. 

In the June 11 letter sent to the 

Soviets, the commission counsel did not 

rule out the possibility of the federal 

government sending investigators to the 

Soviet Union after the commission's 

deadline. 

Said the letter: "This decision (to 

reject a fact-finding trip to the Soviet 

Union) would not, however, prevent the 

government of Canada, once in receipt 

of the commission's findings and 

recommendations, and if it considers it 

necessary, from availing itself of an 

invitation to send representatives to the 

Soviet Union in order to gather any 

further information against alleged war 

criminals in accordance with the conditions 

to which you have now agreed." 

According to several sources, the 

commission continues to hold in-camera 

hearings with some of the key 

suspects under investigation. It is 

believed that the suspects — whose 

identities are being kept confidential — 

have been called before the commission 

to give them an opportunity to respond 

to allegations against them. 

prove successful. Sen. Grassley "did 

what he wanted to do," he said. 

An example of the unequal treatment 

protesters have received in Washington 

was on Marsh 2% ДШ, , лиЬ$дЖ-Џиdents 

were arrested in front of the 

Soviet Embassy during a demonstration 

in support of Ukrainian dissident 

Yuriy Shukhevych. They were later 

charged. In the meantime, U.S. Attorney 

Joseph deGenova declined to prosecute 

more than 1,700 protesters arrested 

in front of the South African Embassy 

during a similar non-violent demonstration. 

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OPEN APPEAL TO PRESIDENT RONALD REAGAN 

Dear Mr. President: 

The Soviet Union has forcibly extended its power and domain over vast areas of the globe, imposing harsh restrictions on the populations it 

holds captive, distorting the rule of law into institutionalized state terror, unabatedly committing human rights abuses for 60 years, Bolshevik and 

Soviet rulers have tortured, maimed, enslaved and murdered more people than anyone in history — exceeding even Hitlefs Third Reich. 

You, Mr, President, are among the few world leaders who recognize the true nature of the US.S.R. During your presidency, as you yourself 

remind us, not "one square inch" of free world soil has been conquered by communist forces. That is a record of which you can be proud. 

But, Mr. President, are you aware that within your own Administration there are people bent on accommodating Soviet goals, legitimizing its 

oppressive legal system, working with the notorious Soviet secret police, the KGB, and collaborating with Soviet oppressors? Only you, Mr. President, 

can change the course of open collaboration with the Soviets which has been taken by the Office of Special Investigations, within your own 

Department of Justice. 

We respectfully submit the following for your consideration: 

+ The tragedy of Hitler's perpetrated Holocaust cannot be under- `к As they did in Nuremburg 40 years ago, the United States and 

estimated or forgotten. History must record Hitler's atrocities, both other Western nations should again establish tribunals, whose purfor 

the sake of the victims and for future generations. 

pose would be to try and punish war criminals. This time, however, 

+ For those same reasons, the genocide committed by the commu- Hitler's partners, the Soviets, should be among the accused rather 

nists, beginning with the first days of the Bolshevik coup and continu- than the adjudicators. 

ing to this present day in the Gulag, must not be disregarded. History ^ The free nations should afford those accused of war crimes all the 

cannot ignore the millions of victims of the Ukrainian famine nor the due process protections guaranteed by our democratic constitutions, 

massive deportations and executions of Baits and others. 

`к No individual should be deported to any communist country for 

`к All war criminals — both Nazi and communist— should be pun- trial or punishment, if the individual is found guilty of committing war 

ished. There can be no haven for any war criminals in the free world. crimes, he should be tried and punished where he Is found. 

Ф- The captive nations of Eastern Europe, If they were free, would + Deportation of an individual to the Soviet Union, regardless of 

punish the authors and collaborators of the communist and Nazi geno- the circumstances or motivation for that deportation, compounds the 

cides. which occurred on their soil However, these countries are op- tragedy of Hitler's and Stalin's crimes against humanity and makes a 

pressed and held captive by Stalin's heirs. 

mockery of our democratic traditions, 

Mr. President, an American of Baltic heritage who has been denaturalized and faces deportation to the U.S.S.R. is in prison today. The guards 

have informed his family that he is not entitled to even the minimal amenities of prison life, because he is a political prisoner. While the US.S.R. 

continually charges that the United States has political prisoners, your Administration has repeatedly denied that allegation. The Office of 

Special Investigations has targeted other Baltic and Ukrainian individuals for deportation to the Soviet Union. 

These targeted deportees are not standing trial for alleged participation in war crimes. They are being tried in civil not criminal proceedings 

for violating retroactively passed immigration laws. They are not being afforded the most basic constitutional protections guaranteed to ail 

Americans. As naturalized Americans, they are being denied due process of law. 

These naturalized Americans are going to be delivered to the U.S.S.R. by the U.S. for political show trials and executions. Amnesty Internauonal 

has protested against these deportations. Nonetheless, some overly zealous officials, in total disregard of traditional American policy, are 

eager to accommodate the Soviets by repeating the mistakes committed by the United States in the infamous Operation Keelhaul, when after 

. -Work War If, the American rmhtary participated in the forced deportation of Ukrainians, Byelorussians, Russians, Poles and others to Stalin's 

concentration camps. Mr. President, Americans of Eastern European heritage and millions of their neighbors who overwhelmingly supported 

you in 1980 and again in 1984 look to you to review and end this action by the Office of Special Investigations. 

Franklin D. Roosevelt, who was in many respects a great president, committed a grievous error in conceding to Soviet demands at Yalta. As 

a result his record of achievements was greatly diminished in the eyes of millions of people who value freedom. Perhaps in recognizing Soviet 

influence over Eastern Europe, President Roosevelt had been blinded by the United States' past alliance with the Soviets. A similar concession 

on your part, Mr. President, could not be so excused, particularly in light of your long time anti-communist stance. History will record your 

great achievements in strongly resisting communist tyrannies around the globe, but if Americans are deported to the U.S.S.R. by your Administration, 

it will blacken your record and leave a permanent blemish on the American soul. 

We beseech you, Mr. President, to listen to the pleas of your fellow Americans: 

`к Do not compound the injustices of World War II by allowing 

your Administration to collaborate with the Soviets. 

^Do not permit deportation or extradition of any individual to 

communist controlled countries. 

`Аг Review the record of OSFs collaboration and submission to the 

interests of the Soviet Union and especially their secret police, the 

KGB. 

We trust in you, Mr. President, to correct this terribly unjust process. 

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speech. Sen. Fulbright referred to Prof. 

Rudnytzky and his colleague, Dr. 

Bernhardt G. Blumenthal, as the architects 

of the Fulbright program at La 

Salle. 

Sen. Fulbright stressed the fact that 

Prof. Rudnytzky successfully nominated 

numerous students for the Fulbright 

Fellowship and praised him and 

Dr. Blumenthal, for their years of work 

on behalf of their students. 

La Salle University president brother 

Patrick Ellis, F.S.C., conferred bachelor's 

degrees on 973 men and women, 

including 237 evening division students. 

Another 177 men and women received 

master's degrees in business administration; 

42 were awarded master's degrees 

in religious education; 13 received 

master's degrees in bilingual j bicultural 

studies (Spanish); nine were awarded 

master's degrees in pastoral counseling, 

and three others received master's 

degrees in education. 

In his citation presenting the former 

senator for his honorary doctorate, Mr. 

Henry praised the Fulbright Program 

for generating exchanges among nations 

exclusively for peaceful purposes 

and for touching the lives of individuals 

everywhere in the world. 

"The Fulbright program has sent 

Americans of compassion and common 

sense, of intellect and creative imaginations, 

and of empathy and understanding" 

to Europe, Africa, Asia and the 

Middle East, explained Mr. Henry, 

adding that the program "exists in 

accordance with the conception of its 

founder to improve the quality of life of 

all people." 

Brother Ellis praised Sen. Fulbright 

as a man who has individually made a 

significant impact on the whole world. 

"As our need to relate positively with 

other nations becomes more evident by 

the day," La Salle's president said, 

"your vision is all the more relevant 

since it has given us a cadre of citizens 

with direct experience of those nations." 

Sen. Fulbright chaired the Senate 

Foreign Relations Committee for 15 

years — longer than any other senator. 

He introduced the original legislation in 

1946 that authorized the use of nonconvertible 

foreign currencies acquired 

from the sale of surplus war equipment 

to finance grants for American citizens 

to study and teach abroad and for 

foreign students to study in the United 

States. 

Expanded and modernized by passage 

of the Fulbright^ Hays Act in 1961, 

the program has become an international 

educational venture unprecedented 

in size and scope. Since 1965, La 

Salle, has been one of the leading institutions 

in the East providing Fulbright 

scholars with 39 of its graduating 

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Fulbright program was also the first 

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Detroiters... 


has four parts. ТЋе first part will be an 

international conference on Ukrainian 

Christianity to be held in Ravenna, Italy 

in 1988. The second part is the endowment 

of a chair at Harvard in the history 

of religious thought in Ukraine. The 

third is the publication of an encyclopedia 

of Ukrainian Christianity, and the 

fourth is the publication of a monumental 

work consisting of 40 volumes 

documenting the growth and development 

of Kievan-Rus Christianity and its 

influence on the spiritual, cultural and 

political life of the Ukrainian nation. 

These volumes will be reproduced first 

in their original Old Slavonic language. 

The works will then be translated into 

English and modern Ukrainian and 

distributed to libraries and scholarly 

institutions throughout the world by the 

Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute. 

During the dinner, Mr. Duzey welcomed 

the large gathering. "By your 

presence you have shown your support 

for the Harvard Project, not only 

morally with good wishes but financially 

with your generous donations." A 

donation of $ 1,000 entitled the donor to 

two tickets to the banquet. There were 

166 such donors. 

Mr. Duzey pointedly reminded the 

distinguished audience that they were 

part of the great Ukrainian challenge to 

the Soviet Union, which has been 

working hard to convince the world that 

the 1988 Millennium of Christianity in 

Kievan Rus' is Russian and not Ukrainian. 

He pointed out that Ukrainians 

throughout the free world feel a great 

sense of urgency over saving their priceless 

heritage as the Soviet Union has 

over the years systematically destroyed 

tens of thousands of priceless historical 

documents and emptied library shelves 

of Ukrainian literature which proves the 

origin of Christianity in Ukraine in 988 

A.D 

Bishop Hrynchyshyn underscored 

the importance of the Harvard Project 

as a plan to leave a lasting monument to 

coming generations. "It will bear testimony," 

he said, "to the powerful effect 

Christianity had on the mind and soul 

and destiny of the Ukrainian people." 

The bishop went on to say: "This 

great effort you have made in Detroit 

for the realization of this great millennium 

program stands as a model worthy 

of emulation by all the Ukrainian 

communities in the free world. And for 

our fellow Ukrainians suffering daily 

for their Christianity, your presence at 

this fund-raising dinner tells them that 

you care about your faith not only in 

words but in deeds as well." 

The generous benefactor and editor 

Mykola Bazansky, who donated $25,000 

to the Harvard Millennium Project, as 

well as his vast library of historical 

Works on Ukraine to the Harvard 

Ukrainian Research Institute, introduced 

Prof. Sevcenko as an outstanding 

historian and Byzantinologist at Harvard. 

"You are using your God-given 

talents in a scholarly manner to document 

the truth about Ukraine and her 

people and her Church," he said. 

Prof. Sevcenko reported on the 

progress of the Harvard Project, noting 

that "the year 1988 will mark the 

beginning of the ongoing program of 

collecting the 40 important works 

documenting the growth and development 

of Kievan-Rus' Christianity and 

its influence on the spiritual, cultural 

and political life of the Ukrainian 

nation." The entire Harvard Millennium 

Project is expected to cost about 

$5 million. 

Wasyl Barnych read a satirical essay 

about the work and accomplishments of 

the Harvard Project. The satire, dealing 

with the reflections of Hryts Zazulia 

was the original creation of the inimitable 

Ukrainian humorist and satirist 

Edward Kozak of Detroit. 

Dr. Paul Dzul, chairman of the 

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He paid special tribute to Mr. Duzey 

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Prof. Sevcenko presented Mrs. Duzey 

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Research Institute for her untiring 

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In his invocation, the Rev. Barnard 

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Ukrainian National Association 

Monthly reports for April 

RECORDING DEPARTMENT 

TOTAL AS OF MARCH 1986 

GAINS IN APRIL 1986 

New members 

Reinstated 

Transferred in 

Change class in 

Transferred from Juv. Dept.. 

TOTAL GAINS: 

LOSSES IN APRIL 

Suspended 

Transferred out 

Change of class out 

Transferred to adults.... 

Died 

Cash surrender 

Endowment matured.... 

Fully paid-up 

;; Reduced paid-up 

Щ Extended insurance 

Cert, terminated -:.:-. 

TOTAL LOSSES: 

INACTIVE MEMBERSHIP: 

GAINS IN APRIL 

Paid up 

Extended insurance.......; 

TOTAL GAINS: 

LOSSES IN APRIL 

Died.. 

Ц Cash surrender.., 

Reinstated 

Lapsed 

TOTAL LOSSES: 

TOTAL UNA MEMBERSHIP AS OF 

APRIL 30, 1986 

Juv. 

18.972 

75 

25 

1 

3 

Adults 

51,487 

81 

80 

9 

9 

5 

ADD 

6,942 

25 

5 

1 

Totals 

77,401 

181 

110 

11 

12 

5 

104 184 319 

19 

1 

3 

6 

29 

29 

40 

.-. :. " .' — 

127 

40 

16 

56 

14 

4 

5 

23 

18,982 

39 

10 

9 

105 

47 

59 

96 

1 

366 

96 

31 

127 

33 

21 

67 

51,365 

26 

1 12 

12 

6 

106 

76 

88 

136 

13 

41 

- 

— 

FINANCIAL DEPARTMENT 

INCOME FOR APRIL 1986 

14 

534 

136 

47 

183 

33 

35 

12 

10 

- 90 

6.932 77,279 

WALTER SOCHAN 

Supreme Secretary 

Dues From Members $255,406.07 

Income From "Svoboda" Operation 90,943.83 

Investment Income: 

Bonds. $384,174.93 

Certificate Loans 3,096.87 

Mortgage Loans 40,444.46 

Banks 5,508.78 

Stocks . 2,765.04 

Real Estate 65,123.95 

Total... $501,114.03 

Refunds: 

Taxes Federal, State S City On Employee Wages $14,953.04 

Taxes-Canadian Witholding u Pension Plan 493.56 

Taxes Held In Escrow.. 1,215.00 

Employee Hospitafization Plan Premiums..... 1,152.80 

General Office Maintenance (Ret'd).. 16.89 

Scholarship (Ret'd). ;. 108.00 

Dividend (Ret'd).......... r......;. , 10,162.00 

Total ..............::..........;.... ...................;.............. .-........,....,.., $28,101.29 

(Miscellaneous: 

Ukrainian Heritage Defense Fund Donations... 

Profit On Bonds Sold Or Matured.. 

Щ Sale of "Ukrainian Encyclopaedia"...., 

8,334.00 

9,624.46 

1,599.26 

Total . . ^. .^..... ^.. $19,557.72 

Investments: 

Bonds Matured Or Sold $586,701.11 

Mortgages Repaid 16,433.19 

Certificate Loans Repaid 5,928.46 

Real Estate 30,000.00 

Total $639,062.76" 

Income For April, 1986 .‚.‚....w.^......... .... ....... $1,534,185.70 

DISBURSEMENTS FOR APRIL 1986 

Paid To Or For Members: 

Cash Surrenders $30,808.98 

Endowments Matured 78,500.00 

Death Benefits 90,283.34 

Interest On Death Benefits 32.03 

Payor Death Benefits 468.48 

Dues From Members Returned 257.05 

Indigent Benefits Disbursed. 1,750.00 

Scholarships 1,866.00 

Total 

$203,965.88^ 

Operating Expenses: 

Real Estate $50,126.55 

Svoboda Operation 96,015.65 

Official Pubiication-Svoboda 105,000.00 

Organizing Expenses: 

Advertising , $18,905.38 

Medical Inspections 32.90 

Reward To Special Organizers 4,677.30 

Reward To Branch Secretaries 100,166.58 

Reward To Branch Presidents And Treasurers 51.00 

Reward To Organizers 17,953.10 

Traveling. Expenses-Special Organizers ., 441.95 

Lodge Supplies Purchased.... 2,202.91 

Field Conferences 3,182.75 

Total... 

Payroll, Insurance And Taxes: 

Salary Of Executive Officers...., 

Salary Of Office Employee 

Employee Benefit Plan ... 

Insurance-General. , 

Taxes-Federal, State and City On Employee Wages... 

Total.... 

General Expenses: 

Actuarial And Statistical Expenses ..... 

Books and Periodicals.. ... 

General Office Maintenance.... ..... 

Insurance Department Fees.. 

Operating Expense Of Canadian Office... 

Postage 

Printing And Stationery... 

Rental Of Equipment and Services......... 

Telephone, Telegraph 

Traveling Expenses-General. 

Total.... 

Investments: 

Bonds 

Mortgages 

Stock 

Certificate Loans 

Real Estate 

Printing Plant And Equipment... 

Total 

Disbursements For April, 1986..... 

ASSETS 

Cash 

Bonds .... 

Mortgage Loans 

Certificate Loans 

Real Estate 

Printing Plant u E.D.P. 

Equipment .... 

Stocks 

Loan To D.H. - U.N.A. 

Housing Corp 

Loan to U.N.U.R.C 

$1,462,582.05 

39,111,887.47 

4,279,815.83 

772,502.29 

976,729.07 

BALANCE 

320,589.71 

627,603.59 

101,386.60 

8,000.000.00 

Total $55,653,096.61 Total 

LIABILITIES 

$147,613.87 

$13,321.67 

36,557.46 

14,126.46 

622.49 

25,335.69 

$89,963.77 

$18,994.00 

106.58 

1,373.83 

538.50 

162.82 

2,019.72 

690.17 

553.78 

3,732.53 

3,151.26 

$31,313.19 

Miscellaneous: 

Auditing Committee Expense $100.00 

Convention Expenses 5,548.02 

Investment Expense-Mortgages 675.00 

Loss On Bonds 32.82 

Youth Sports Activities 324.10 

Ukrainian Heritage Defense Fund Disbursements 12,736.55 

Donations 2,100.00 

Accrued Interest On Bonds 177.78 

Professional Fees 2,640.00 

$24,334.27 

$309,816.49 

5,295.50 

2,765.04 

10,246.87 

39,256.59 

11,783.70 

$379,164.19 

$1,127,497.37 

Life Insurance $53,646,852.64 

Accidental D.D. 1,454,277.97 

Fraternal.. 149,887.06 

Orphans 336,726.98 

Old Age Home.. (24,299.62) 

Emergency 90,051.58 

$55,653,096.61 

ULANA DIACHUK 

Supreme Treasurer


15 

The Chornobyl... 


decisions about this issue are being 

made by people of inadequate knowledge 

who are committing intellectual 

violence on the public." 

Over 130 mothers sent a petition to 

the president of the Assembly of Yugoslavia 

later in February under the 

slogan "We do not want another Hiroshima 

in Yugoslavia." 

On May 7, the newspaper Vecernje 

Novosti reported that Zagreb officials 

had postponed indefinitely the construction 

of the Prevlaka plant (in 

Croatia) in the wake of the Chornobyl 

accident. Finally on May 22, after bitter 

press criticism of the Soviet reporting of 

the disaster, the newspaper Politika 

stated that the Yugoslav government 

would not make any decision about the 

construction of future nuclear plants 

before May 1987. 

Despite these repercussions, Pravda 

announced on May 27 that at a CMEA 

executive meeting held in Moscow, the 

countries involved had resolved to 

adhere to their original plans for building 

nuclear power plants. One should 

bear in mind, however, that even before 

the Chornobyl accident occurred, none 

of the East European countries had 

managed to adhere to original schedules. 

The East European programs 

have been plagued throughout by a 

labor shortage, supply problems and 

cost overruns. 

While not all countries will respond 

to Chornobyl in the same fashion as the 

Poles, the problems inherent in nuclear 

power plant construction are clearly 

increasing as a result of the Chornobyl 

disaster. The East European program is 

based on Soviet technology and Soviet 

expertise, and it is hardly surprising in 

the current climate that doubts are 

being raised about the safety of nuclear 

plants within the Soviet sphere. 

Petliura Library... 


The library's communique reported 

that the police and several ministries of 

the French governments, as well as 

security agencies, were notified of the 

two incidents. 

The results of investigations undertaken 

by them are not known, according 

to Roman Kupchinsky, director of 

the New York-based information and 

research center Prolog. 

Metropolitan Mstyslav has called 

upon all Ukrainian groups to voice their 

displeasure to the World Jewish Congress 

and demand that the congress 

publicly express its condemnation of 

the incidents of vandalism. 

The Petliura Library continues to 

function in its normal capacity, according 

to its board of directors. 

Ukrainian Writers'... 


a future' and attempts were made to 

wipe them out; and only now, in a 

climate of reason and the love of a son, 

these villages have fully demonstrated 

that they do have a future and feed us 

with bread. Our beautiful language, in 

defiance of all of those who don't care, 

had and will have the same kind of 

future; after all of the tsarist bands, in 

the radiance of October, it has asserted 

for itself the right to live." 

The poetics aside, this is one of the 

strongest statements in support of the 

native language to have appeared in the 

Soviet Ukrainian press in many years. 

References to the banning of the Ukrainian 

language in tsarist times — i.e, the 

1863 Valuev Circular and the 1876 Ems 

Ukaz, are not an everyday occurrence in 

the Soviet media. 

No less pointed was Mr. Honchar's 

denunciation of the idea that certain 

languages have no future (neperspektyvni). 

This notion was floated almost 

25 years ago by the editors of Voprosy 

Yazykoznania, and created a stir among 

Ukrainian intellectuals precisely because 

it omitted the Ukrainian language 

from the list of those languages with a 

future. 

From the political standpoint, the 

most interesting aspect of Mr. Honchar's 

speech is the clear attempt to link 

the concerns and fears of the Ukrainian 

intelligentsia about the role and status 

of the native language to similar concerns 

that are clearly in evidence among 

influential circles of the Russian creative 

elite concerning Russia's cultural 

and historical heritage. The latter 

appears to have the support of the 

politicians in Moscow. 

But does this mean that the Ukrainians 

will be permitted to join the 

bandwagon? 

Canadian Cabinet... 


attention to the composition of his staff. 

The staff must reflect its competence 

and suitability to serve both the minister 

and the portfolio. Competence and 

quality must guide each ministry. 

Opposition parties have accused 

Prime Minister Mulroney of having 

made a transparent attempt to bolster 

the government's sagging popularity. 

This shuffle was a necessary move; one 

which now has the mark of more 

seasoned and able ministers, who have 

demonstrated their capabilities as 

legislators. 

Communities, however, should not 

assume that all issues have been resolved. 

The work of dealing with government 

continues and it would serve 

the Ukrainian community well to establish 

new and strengthen existing 

working relationships with the government. 

ST. ANDREWS FEDERAL CREDIT UNION 

has an opening which offers 

CAREER OPPORTUNITY 

for a 

QUALIFIED CANDIDATE: 

^ must speak Ukrainian and English 

9 should have general understanding of accounting 

^ willingness to professially grow and assume larger responsibilities 

e ability to deal with people 

If you are interested, please foreward your resume, including salary requirements 

to: 

St. Andrews Federal Credit Union 

of So. Bound Brook 

P.O. Box 375 

So. Bound Brook, N. J. 08880. 

For the record... 


"Soviet authorities would, of 

course, be delighted to have all the 

celebrations in Moscow, to the extent 

they will have any celebrations 

— and they'll have some, because 

they have a public Church that they 

can trot out for these occasions — 

and not to have anything in Kiev." 

"The millennium project of the 

Ukrainian Research Center, for 

example, at Harvard, will be publishing 

a number of things — in fact, 

they've already started publishing 

some things — that will raise the 

consciousness of a lot of people 

about the history of how Christianity 

was established (there)." 

ШШИШІІІШ{ 

Mr. Iwaskiw concluded his letter 

with the question: "Are our professionals 

so scared of appearing to be 

'nationalistic' that they are willing to 

let the Russian steal the most glorious 

period of Ukrainian history?" The 

Ukrainian Weely has carried two 

stories in less than a year about The 

Washington Group-sponsored lectures 

aimed at alerting the community 

to the Moscow patriarchate's 

designs on the millennium. One 

featured Dr. Bohdan Bociurkiw of 

Carleton University (March 1985); 

the other, Andrew Sorokowski of 

Keston College and Dr. Roman 

Procyk of the Harvard Ukrainian 

Studies Fund (January 1986). 

— Yaro Bihun 

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lAt Soyuzivka 

July 12-13 weekend 

Concert pianist Juliana Osinchuk and the Dumka Choir of New York 

will perform during the Saturday evening program at Soyuzivka this 

weekend. The concert will be followed by a dance to the music of the 

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PREVIEW OF EVENTS 

I LONG ISLAND, N.Y.: Club Suzyjl 

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I July 13 

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I CAMBRIDGE, Mass.: The Harvard 

I Ukrainian Research Institute will 

I sponsor a lecture by The Ukrainian 

І Weekly editor Roma Hadzewycz on 

і "The Inner Workings of The Ukrai- 

1 nian Weekly," at 4 p.m. in Ticknor 

I Lounge, Boylston Hail. Forinforma- 

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1 July 17 

I NEW BRITAIN, Conn.: Local resi- 

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I monies officially opening the Taras 

II Shevchenko Expressway here at 9 

I a.m. just оії state Route 72. Gov. 

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II 

If July 21 - August 2 

і 

I EDMONTON: The Ukrainian Bandurist 

Capella of Detroit and guest 

instructor Julian Kytasty will hold a 

bandura course for children age 6-13, 

daily from 9 a.m. to noon. The course 

will also include drama, puppet 

theater, music, arts and weaving 

workshops, and a sports program. 

All courses will be conducted in 

Ukrainian only. Registration fee is 

$20 with application plus $60 tuition, 

which will include rental fee of a 

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call (403) 439-2320. 

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