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Soviet policy toward invalids: Helsinki monitor Lesiv
intentional neglect, inhumanity sentenced to five years
NEW YORK - Thousands of
Soviet paraplegics and other invalids,
many of them World War II veterans,
are forced to eke out an existence
with virtually no government assis­
tance, are banished from most major
city centers, and are often beaten by
police if they wander into busy
downtown areas because they spoil
the view for tourists and foreigners,
reported Freedom Appeals, a bi­
monthly human-rights journal.
Although 1981 was designated the
International Year of Disabled Per­
sons by the United Nations, the
plight of the disabled in the USSR
reaches inhumane dimensions, com­
plete with government indifference,
maltreatment and harassment that
rivals the treatment of the mentally ill
during the Dark Ages. Ю д и в ш е
Many Soviet invalids, have been
forcibly exiled or imprisoned in
special camps, which lack proper
medical facilities, and where they are
often put to work despite their
physical handicaps.
Official Soviet policy toward the
invalids appears to be one of inten­
tional neglect. Unlike in the West,
there are no special agencies to aid
the disabled, nor are there special
buses, ramps or other accommoda­
tions specifically designed to make
life easier for the physically handi­
capped. Prosthetic devices are cheap­
ly made, if they can be found at all.
There is no housing designed for
invalids, and pensions are inadequate
to meet their special needs.
Freedom Apeals recounted one
incident in Moscow witnessed by
Victor Abdalov, a photographer now
living in the West, which seems
indicative of official Soviet attitudes
towards invalids.
While riding in a cab in Moscow,
Mr. Abdalov witnessed a policeman
roughing up a man with no legs, who
was forced to move about on a small,
motorized platform.
The cripple later told Mr. Abdalov
that he was a World War II veteran
who lost his legs defending the Soviet
Union, and now was routinely routed
by Moscow police for venturing into
the downtown area "where he could
be seen by foreigners." The police­
men consider him an eyesore, a bad
reflection of the Soviet system.
In 1978, a handful of Soviet in­
valids, tired of official neglect and
periodic harassment, established the
Initiative Group to Defend the Rights
of Invalids in the USSR.
The three founding members of
the group, Yuriy Kiselev, a 50-year-
old artist who lost both his legs in an
industrial accident when he was 16;
Failzulla Khusainov, who is confined
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to a wheelchair and lives in a building
with no elevator; and Valeriy Fefe-
lov, 33, who has been a paraplegic
since suffering an industrial accident
when he was 17, have all suffered
reprisals.
All three, plus contributors to the
group's bulletins, have been harassed
by the KGB. On March 5, 1981, Mr.
Kiselev`s small workshop in the
Crimea, which his friends helped
build, was set on fire by the KGB.
Earlier that year, he-had been severely
beaten by police plainclothesmen.
The Soviet invalids who suffer the
most, however, are those who are
sentenced to labor-camp and exile
terms for political activities.
The initiative group's Bulletin No.
12 outlines the case of Ukrainian
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Iryna Senyk, 57, who is currently in
her final year of exile in the remote
Kazakh SSR.
First arrested in 1944 and sen­
tenced to 10 years for membership in
the Organization of Ukrainian Na­
tionalists, Ms. Senyk was released in
1954. While in the camp, she was
beaten so badly that her spine was
broken. She underwent a number of
operations and, after a long con­
valescence, was able to walk again.
She was declared an invalid upon
being discharged.
Although she was classified an
invalid, Ms. Senyk, who was sen­
tenced in 1972 to six years'imprison­
ment and three years' internal exile
for "anti-Soviet agitation and propa­
ganda," has been forced to work as a
cleaning woman in a hotel.
She was deprived of her invalid
status, and must how wash floors and
do other demanding work which has
seriously impaired her health.
Her appeals to have her invalid
status reinstated have been ignored
by doctors and administrators. Ac­
cording to the bulletin, doctors tell
her: "You can walk, can't you? So
you are not disabled."
There are countless other invalids
who are prisoners of conscience,
among them Mykola Rudenko, 61,
co-founder of the Ukrainian Helsinki
Group, who suffered serious wounds
during World War II.
According to Bulletin No. 12,
nearly a dozen inmates of a special
concentration camp for invalids near
Dnipropetrovske, Ukraine, died in
1976-77.
The existence of the camp was
verified last July by the Belgian
newspaper Libre Belgique, which
printed excerpts of a samvydav
statement by an invalid prisoner
identified as A. Zeliakov. In his
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SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 1982
NEW YORK - Yaroslav Lesiv, 37,
member of the Ukrainian Helsinki
group, was sentenced to five years'
imprisonment, reported the External
Representation of the Ukrainian Hel­
sinki Group.
Mr. Lesiv was first sentenced in 1967
to six years in camp and five years of
internal exile for membership in the
Ukrainian National Front.
In September 1979, he joined the
Ukrainian Helsinki Group, and in
November of that year he was arrested
reportedly on a fabricated charge of
narcotics possession, which carries a
penalty of up to 10 years'deprivation of
freedom.
He was to be freed on November 15,
1981. However, another investigation
was ordered, and instead of being
released on that day, Mr. Lesiv was
again sentenced to a five-year term.
This is not the first case in which
human-rights activists have had their
terms prolonged. This has recently
happened to the Podrabinek brothers in
Moscow, to Vasyl Barladianu and
Vasyl Ovsienko.
No one in the West knows what
charges have been brought against Mr.
Lesiv, a physical education teacher and
U.S. Embassy hunger-striker hospitalized
MOSCOW - Looking haggard and
sallow, Lidia Vashchenko, the 30-year-
old Siberian Pentecostal who has been
on a monthlong hunger strike in the
U.S. Embassy here, was escorted out of
the compound by U.S. officials on
January 30 and driven to nearby Botkin
Hospital after American doctors said
her condition had worsened, reported
United Press International.
After the embassy car pulled up to the
hospital entrance, trailed by a CBS-
News camera crew, a gaunt Ms. Vash­
chenko, who reportedly lost 15 pounds
while on a liquid diet and is said to
weigh just 90 pounds, was wisked into
the hospital by Soviet personnel. When
CBS tried to film her admittance, a
burly man in a white smock suddenly
iunged at the camera and covered the
lens with his hand.
Botkin Hospital is regarded as one of
Moscow's best, and serves the city's
diplomatic community. Soviet officials
flatly refused an American request to
have Ms. Vashchenko treated in a West
European hospital.
Ms. Vashchenko, who began her
hunger strike on December 28, 1981,
along with her mother, Augustina, 52,
was placed in an intensive-care unit.
Soviet doctors reported that she aban­
doned her fast and began taking solid
food shortly after her admittance.
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seven Pentecostals — members of two
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gymnast from Ivano-Frankivske. His
only "crime" seems to be that he is a
defender of human rights and personal
dignity, the Helsinki group's External
Representation noted.
Mr. Lesiv is in poor health; he has
heart trouble, diabetes and severe
myopia, which has caused partial blind­
ness, the External Representation said.
families — who rushed past Soviet
guards nearly three and a half years ago
and have been living in a dingy base­
ment room in the U.S. Embassy ever
since.
She and her mother began their fast
to dramatize their plight, claiming that
the United States has been dragging its
feet in resolving their dilemma.
Although Soviet officials at first
refused to allow U.S. diplomatic per­
sonnel to visit Ms. Vashchenko, they
finally permitted two Americans — Dr.
John Schadler, the embassy physician,
and James Curt Struble, a consular
official — to see the young woman on
February 2.
An embassy spokesman said the
visitors spent 15 minutes with Ms.
Vashchenko in the intensive-care unit,
and found her "looking good, calm,
smiling and appearing rested and alert."
Yet, in a February 3 letter to the
remaining six Pentecostals in the em-
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Three Soviet Baptist ministers
placed in solitary confinement
ELKHART, Ind. - Three Soviet
Baptist ministers serving labor-camp
sentences were recently placed in soli­
tary confinement for religious activities
in their respective camps, reported the
International Representation for the
Council of Evangelical Churches of the
Soviet Union based here.
Pastors Gennady Malakhov and
Mikhail Khorev, 50, spent 10 days in
solitary confinement for preaching the
gospel to other prisoners, while Pastor
Nikolai Baturin was given 15 days for
praying and singing hymns.
Pastor Baturin, 54, is the secretary of
the Council of Evangelical Christian
Baptist Churches, and is currently
serving the third year of a five-year
Greek Orthodox bishops protest
religious oppression in Albania
PASADENA, Calif. - Albania's
Hoxha regime, judged by Amnesty
International and Freedom House to be
one of the most brutally repressive
regimes in Eastern Europe, has come
under fire from bishops of the Ortho­
dox Church in neighboring Greece, who
have recently called for a united effort
by religious and human-rights groups
and the United Nations to protest the
persecution of religious groups in that
Balkan country, reported East/West
News.
The bishops called upon all Auto-
cephalous Orthodox Churches, ecu­
menical leaders, the United Nations and
the public to voice objection to the
repressive measures taken by the go­
vernment in Tirana, the capital city, to
enforce the regime's policy of official
and total atheism.
U.S. Embassy...
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bassy, Ms. Vashchenko said that she
had given up her protest after Soviet
doctors threatened that she would be
force-fed, reported Reuters.
She quoted a Soviet doctor as telling
her: "If you don't want to eat, we will
feed you with a tube down your throat.
We don4 want to, but we will."
An embassy doctor who visited the
young woman on February 3 reported
that she was regaining her strength, and
had been transferred out of the inten­
sive care unit.
Meanwhile, Mrs. Vashchenko is
continuing her fast, despite a call from
former President Jimmy Carter and a
letter from President Ronald Reagan
urging her to abandon her protest.
Although somewhat weakened by her
diet of fruit jucies and tea, Mrs. Vash­
chenko, who is said to have lost 22
pounds, is not yet in a condition to
warrant hospitalization.
Soviet policy...
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testimony, Mr. Zeliakov described
how invalid prisoners were forced to
dig trenches, were brutalized by
sadistic camp guards, and often left
to died in a special barrack when they
no longer could work.
Although independent associa­
tions do exist for.the blind and the
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sentence in a strict-regimen camp in
Siberia.
Pastor Malakhov, 43, is serving a
three-year term in an ordinary-regimen
labor camp.
Also a member of the Council of
Evangelical Christian Baptist Churches,
Pastor Khorev is serving a five-year
sentence in a strict-regimen camp in
Omsk, western Siberia.
In addition to having been kept in
solitary confinement, he is reportedly
searched every night by camp guards
who awaken him hourly by shining a
powerful light into his eyes.
In December 1981, Pastor Khorev's
wife, Vera, was barred from visiting her
husband by camp officials after she had
made the long trip to see him.
Most of Albania's 2.1 million inha­
bitants are Muslim, but there are an
estimated 400,000 .Greek Orthodox.
According to the Greek bishops, the
Church in Albania has no legally
recognized bishop, and that most
churches have been renovated and
converted into museums.
Kathpress, an Austrian news agency,
recently reported that Christians in
Albania live without a divine liturgy,
without a church community and with­
out baptismal services. In effect, the
Christian Churches have been forced
underground.
In their statement, the Greek bishops
said that such complete oppression of
religious expression does not exist
anywhere else in the world, not even in
countries with similar "atheistic-totali­
tarian regimes."
Mrs. Vashchenko, her husband and
three of their daughters rushed into the
embassy on June 27, 1978, along with
Maria Chmykhalov and her son Ti­
mothy in a bid to be allowed to emi­
grate to a country where they could
freely practice their religion.
Originally from Chernogorsk, Si­
beria, the seven still have relatives there
who have been repeatedly harassed by
Soviet authorities. The Soviets view the
Pentecostals as a deviant sect not
officially recognized by the government
on the grounds that members refuse
military induction and engage in other
activities deemed anti-social.
Lidia Vashchenko's evacuation to a
Soviet hospital raises serious concerns
as to whether she will eventually be
allowed to return to her family in the
U.S. Embassy. American officials have
said that the Soviets have refused to
guarantee such a move, and it seems
likely that she could face arrest after she
recovers from the effects of her fast.
deat-mute in the Soviet Union, there
is no such group to represent invalids
and paraplegics. One of the aims of
the Initiative Group to Defend
Rights of Invalids in the USSR is to
get the government to establish such
a body, in addition to raising pen­
sions for the disabled and providing
necessary social services and special­
ly equipped housing and other
facilities for invalids. . .
SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 1982 No. 6
Meshko recounts hardships of exile
NEW YORK - In excerpts from a
letter released by the External Repre­
sentation of the Ukrainian Helsinki
Group, Oksana Meshko, the 77-year-
old dissident, writes about the hard­
ships she has encountered in exile.
Ms. Meshko, who was most recently
arrested on October 14, 1980, for "anti-
Soviet agitation and propaganda" and
sentenced to half a year in prison and
five years in exile, is the founding and
senior member of the Kiev-based Hel­
sinki group. In her letter, Ms. Meshko
writes about her journey from the
prison camp to exile in Ayan, Ауапо–
Maiskyi raion, in Khabarovsk.
"I arrived here on July З, 1981, in the
rain and am still drying off," she Writes.
"Here there are torrential rains."
"I live here in total isolation. The Oksana Meshko
winters are harsh and the townspeople his wife is very ІИ after her last preg­
warn me that I won't make it through nancy. But she also shares the fact that
them. Here, I have encountered three besides her 10-year-old grandson,
problems: lack of firewood, water and
food. When the snowstorms come, they
Yustym, she now also has a grand­
daughter, Olenka, born March 28,
will block the roads, and if one ventures
out it is impossible to find the way back
1981.
She ends her letter by saying that at
home. Although the grocery store is not the moment her son is chopping wood
far, no one will help me, no one. will for the stove which gives off warmth.
come with supplies. Although the roof leaks, he patches it
"I had asked for a telephone to be up; the house has been white-washed,
installed, I even went to the chairman of and Ms. Meshko rejoices that she does
the raion executive committee. He not have to sleep surrounded by cement
answered me: 'You'll have to wait your walls.
turn.'
"My turn comes in two to three years
and how long I live interests no one,"
she said.
Religious leader
Ms. Meshko, who celebrated her 77th
birthday yesterday, set out for her new reported arrested
home in exile on March 17,1981. On the ELKHART, Ind. - Vladimir Рто–
way, thanks to the many stops along the tsenko, a leader of Leningrad's 300-
route, she "saw the sights of Kharkiv, member congregation of the unregister­
Sverdlovsk, Krasnoyarsk, Irkutsk, ed Baptist Church, was arrested on
Khabarovsk and Nikolayev-on-the- December 8, 1981, reported the Inter­
Amur." national Representation for the Council
"But, І сапЧ complain," she writes of Evangelical Baptist Churches of the
sarcastically. "They took care of me and Soviet Union, based here.
prepared me for this journey. In nine Mr. Protsenko's home had been the
months, I had third-degree hypertonia... site of church meetings since 1973. The
Now for me to spend the winter here is Leningrad unregistered Baptists sepa­
like asking an untrained sportsman to
climb Mt. Everest."
rated from the official body in 1961, and
the congregation is the only one not
She also writes about the problems aligned with the Soviet government in
she has with her pension. It has yet to this city of 4.5 million people. There is
come through. Food is also a problem. also one official Baptist church.
Fruits and vegetables are non-existent. The international representation also
This season she has received only reported that the KGB has recently
potatoes and fresh cabbage. Milk, she conducted mass searches of Christian
writes, is available, although not in the homes in Tula, Kharkiv and Lviv. In
winter. Kharkiv, police have reportedly interro­
Ms. Meshko says she has to becaref ul gated small children in the absence of
with her diet because of her diabetes and their parents. Many of them have been
reports that her rheumatism has flared forced to sign declarations against their
up again. mothers and fathers.
Her son, Oleksander Serhiyenko, It is not known if a trial date has been
who is also in exile, brings firewood for set in the Protsenko case, the interna­
the house. Ms. Meshko mentions that tional representation reported.
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Public and editorial response to Polovchak ruling is mixed

CHICAGO - Public and editorial reaction to the permit him to stay here with family members...would
December 30 Illinois Appellate Court ruling that 14- be just an application of the well-established rule that
year-old Walter Polovchak should not have been where parents act in a manner detrimental to the best
made a ward of the state, a decision that opens the interests of the child, and especially where the child is
door for grantingcustody of the boy to his parents, run old enough to understand the issue and disagrees with
the gamut from praise to strong disapproval. the parents' actions, the government will step in to
Despite the court's ruling, Walter, who ran away protect the child."
from his parents' home 18 months ago rather than In the same issue of the Times, Jerome M. Balsam,
return with them to the USSR, is currently the object Mark Tobak and Curt Rogg-Meltzer, in a joint letter,
of four separate suits in Illinois courts, and the legal found the paper's position "perplexing in its short­
battle may drag on for years. The Justice Department sightedness and alarming in its attitude toward human
is arguing that Walter's political asylum supersedes the rights."
Illinois court ruling, while the American Civil The trio argued that, regardless of his age, Walter
liberties Union, which represents' Walter's parents would likely face obstacles should he return to the
now back in the Soviet Union, maintains that the USSR, and "insuperable" barriers should he desire to
federal government had no business getting mixed up leave in the future; "the Helsinki Accords notwith­
in what it sees as a family matter in the first place. standing."
In a January 6 editorial; Trie New York Times The letter continues: "More disturbing, however, is
praised the court's decision and the ACLU's efforts on your flippant disregard of human and constitutional
the parents' behalf. It argued that government officials rights. Adolescence is not a bar to the exercise of
had "no business intervening in family life,"and (hatthe. individual rights in our nation; the Supreme Court, in
Polovchak affair should have remained a purely Tinker v. Des Moines Independent Community
domestic one. . -- . School District, pronounced the First Amendment
"By continuing to defend Walter Polovchak,"The Right of students age 13, IS and 16 to wear armbands
Times said, "the Reagan administration appears to school in protest of the Vietnam War."
more interested in. shallow chauvinism" than family In addition, the authors adduce an eloquent dissent
values. by the late Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas
Responding to the Times editorial. Rep. Peter A. in Wisconsin v. Yoder, dealing with the religious rights
Peyser (D-N.Y.), in a letter to the editor dated of children: "Where the child is mature enough to
January 6 and published January 11, disagreed with express potentially conflicting desires, it would be an
the paper's assertion that the case is solely a domestic invasion of the child's rights to permit such an
matter. imposition'without canvassing his views."
"The important issue at this point," wrote Rep. The letter concluded that returning Walter to the
Peyser, "is not whether the court's ruling in Illinois was Soviet Union against his will "would be an unfor­
correct or not. What is important is what will happen givable act and an insult to our constitutional
to Walter if he is forced to return to the Soviet Union." tradition."
According to the congressman, Walter faces the real Writing in the January 13 issue of the Chicago Sun-
risk of being labelled a "traitor" in a society which does Times, columnist Roger Simon, in a piece titled
not differentiate between minors and adults in the area "Where liberals falter over Walter," confessed that
of serious crimes. . '--.,.-.` despite his well-known support for liberal causes, he
"For Walter this would mean being placed in an could not go along with the ACLU in its decision to
institution for 're-education purposes,"training press for Walter's return to the Soviet Union.
purposes' or "psychiatric help,' " said Rep. peyser.' Alluding to the January 6 New York Times
The congressman went on to urge the justice editorial, Mr. Simon said the paper was wrong in
Department to issue a departure-control order which asserting that the government's decision to stick by
would bar anyone from skirting Walter out of the Walter was emblematic of "shallow chauvinism."
country without his consent. "``` Mr. Simon wrote: "I see it (the Polovchak case) as a
case of human rights. I see a person, an intelligent,
In a January 20 letter to the Times, attorney Harriet thinking human being, who desires such basicrightsas
F. Pilpel argued that the paper, the Illinois court and life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness."
the` ACLU have put too much emphasis on parental He added: "I know that is corny. It may be shallow
prerogatives and not enough on children's rights. chauvinism. But I am hooked on the Constitution...
Citing the fact that the U.S. Supreme Court has That is why I disagree with them (the ACLU) now."
established the concept of the "mature minor" in Mr. Simon pooh-poohed the oft-heard notion that if
several cases involving children under the age of 18, Walter was legally allowed to defy his parents, it would
Ms. Pilpel wrote: "The Polovchak case must be viewed set a dangerous precedent which would allow children
against this factual and legal background -and not to run away and become wards of the state if their -
against the wishful thinking of the Times. Of course parents decided to move from one state to another
the government should not step in unless there is against their wishes.
substantial disregard by the parents of the child's best "This is nonsense," said Mr. Simon. "Walter
interests. I believe that the Polovchak case presents Polovchak is claiming religious and political asylum.
such a situation." He is claiming that in the United States he will have
She went on the say: "Can anyone question that 14- freedoms that he would not have in the Soviet Union."
year-old Walter is not likely to live in 'peace and Expanding on his theme, Mr. Simon continued:
harmony' in the Soviet Union now that he has so "Can a child from Chicago claim religious and
openly 'defied' both his parents and і the state? To political asylum in Los Angeles? Are there greater civil
liberties in Los Angeles than in Chicago? Of course not.
The Polovchak case will have no affect on children and
their parents in this country."
Mr. Simon concluded that the ruling against
Walter did much to validate the notion that children
are the property of theic parents, and have fewrightsof
their own.
Syndicated colunist Jack Anderson chose a different
tack in approaching the Polovchak case. In his
January 27 column, he examined the Polovchak
situation in a human context, bereft of all the legal
entanglements, providing a glimpse of the domestic
situation.
Mr. Anderson's information was gleaned from
family letters shown to his reporters, Viki Warren and
Sharon Spivak.
It seems that the Polovchaks` decision to emigrate to
the United1 States was based partly on information
provided by Michael Polovchak`s sister, Anastazia
Junko, who owned two houses in the United States
and, promised that he and his family — wife Anna;
daughter Natalia; and sons Walter and Michael, 7, -
could live in one of them.
Within weeks of their arrival in the United States in
January 1980, the Polovchaks became disillusioned
with life in America. The sister had sold one of the
houses. Instead, she gave them money for a cramped
apartment in a Chicago neighborhood with no
Ukrainians.
A former bus driver, Mr. Polovchak became a
janitor during the day, while his wife worked nights as
a cleaning woman.
By May 1980, he had enough, and decided to seek
permission to return to the Soviet Union.
Yet, according to Mr. Anderson, Mr. Polovchak
was far from the upright, hard-working family man he
appeared in court. A cousin, writing to Mr. Polov­
chak`s sister from the Soviet Union, called him "a
playboy" who "always went around with vodka in his
pocket."
His wife would be foolish to return with him, wrote
the cousin. " He will go on drinking and carousing if he
has the means. If she returns, she will have the same
life."
As it turned out, it was Walter who chose not to
return, and when he and his sister, then 18,-ran away to
their uncle, the event set off the complex chain of
events the legal implications of which are still being
argued in the Illinois courts.
In a concluding note, Mr. Anderson wrote that
Walter and his sister suspect that recent letters received
from their father via the ACLU may have been
"officially inspired."
"For example, he used to begin his personal letters
with the salutation, 'Glory to Jesus Christ.' Now they
. begin, 'Greetings from the city of Lviv,` wrote Mr.
Anderson. As an officially atheist society, it is highly
doubtful that the Soviets would allow a letter to begin
with a reference to Jesus Christ.
Despite opinions both pro and con, the legal battle
goes on, and the 14-year-old litigant may have to wait
many more years before his case plows through the
courts. Most legal experts agree that if he manages to
stay in the courts for another four years, when he will
be of legal age, then his chances of remaining in this
country are good. Until then, all Walter can do is wait.

Florio asks Reagan to admit OUN assembly holds meeting

Polish kids to U.S. for treatment JERSEY CITY, N . J . , - The sixth
Supreme Assembly of the Organization
from the assembly presidium.
The Supreme Assembly also elects
of Ukrainian Nationalists (revolu­ the members of the OUN executive
WASHINGTON - `Rep. James Раді 11,- the NationaUnstitute of Cardio­ tionaries) was held in the fall of last year organs. At the 1981 meetings the assem­
Florio (D-N.J.) has asked President logy: in Warsaw signed a historic agree­ with the participation of official dele­ bly elected Yaroslav Stetsko chairman
Ronald Reagan's help in an efforttoget ment last March permitting the young gates and summoned participants, of the OUN. Also elected were members
11 Polish children who have congenital patients to receive treatment end sur­ including many young activists, taking of the OUN Leadership, the chairman
heart disease to the Deborah Heart and gery at Deborah. part in the proceedings, reported the and members of the OUN Council and
Lung Center of Browns Mills, N.J. assembly's presidium. the chairman and members of the OUN
Since admitting its first patient under auditing and arbitration boards, whose
The Polish youngsters'lives are in , this program last June, Deborah has The Supreme Assembly of the OUN
greater danger because all flights from successfully, performed surgery on 26 names were not released.
is the highest source of authority and
Poland were cancelled by the president Polish youngsters with congenital heart the highest legislative body of the OUN; The OUN Supreme Assembly re­
in response to imposition of martial law disease. , its purpose is to rule on all questions of viewed the current political situation in..
y
by the Polish government. ideology, program, liberation strategy, the world, in the Russian empire and
"These children should not be denied Eight Polish physicians have ob­ external and internal policy, to deter­ particularly in Ukraine. Among the
the chance for life-saving surgery at served Deborah's expert surgeons and mine the OUN`s cultural and academic issues discussed during the delibera-
Deborah," said Rep. Florio, a Deborah have returned to Poland with their new policies- and the educational program t tions were: the threat of thermonuclear
trustee. "They are not involved in the medical knowledge. Like all of De­ for youth and cadres, and to establish war, Russification policies which are an
political tragedy in their country. borah's patients, the cost of treating the general directives of the revolu­ attempt to destroy all facets of Ukrai­
Politics must not be allowed to contri­ young patients from Poland is being tionary, national liberation struggle and nian life, and the need for continued
bute to their possible early deaths." provided by contributions to the De­ the common front .of the subjugated. actions throughout the world in defense
With the assistance of Pope John borah Hospital Foundation. і Rations, according to a press release (Combined on page IS)
4 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 1982 No. 6

Ukrainian Independence Day

New Jersey Pennsylvania

New Jersey Gov. Thomas Kean signs the Ukrainian Independence Day Pennsylvania Gov. Richard Thornburgh signed a proclamation designating January 22
proclamation. Ukrainian Independence Day in the Keystone State on January 19 in the presence of a
TRENTON, N.J. - New Jersey's ceremony was organized by the delegation of Ukrainian community representatives. Seated from left are: Dr. Peter Stercho,
newly inaugurated Gov. Thomas Kean New Jersey state UCCA branches, Philadelphia UCCA branch president; Gov. Thornburgh;and Ulana Mazurkevich; standing: Dr.
signed his first official proclamation, a under the coordination of Andrew Mykola Cenko, Stephanie Wochok, Charles Bojanic, chairman of the Governor's-Heritage
document commemorating the 64th Keybida. Affairs Advisory Commission; and Louis Skeparnias, executive director of the commission.
anniversary of the re-establishment of After signing the proclamation the
Ukrainian statehood, on January 21. governor expressed his understanding
Gov. Kean, who was inaugurated on of Ukrainian aspirations. Maplewood, N.J.
January 19, met with over 40 repre- Gov. Kean was presented with the
sentatives of the New Jersey Ukrainian English-language Ukraine: A Concise
community in the State House. The (Continued on page J4)

by Victor Lapychak Jersey for living up to these ideals.

TRENTON, N.J. - The New Jersey
State Legislature, acting on the last day
it would be in session, Monday, Ja-
nuary 18, passed resolutions proclaim-
ing January 22 Ukrainian Indepen-
dence Day.
The Senate and Assembly resolu-
tions, passed during the legislative rush
in the waning hours of the Byrne
administration, demonstrated that the
senators and assemblymen could take
time out from the harried scramble of
legislating last-minute laws to pay.
tribute to a worthy event such as the
historic re-establishment of Ukrainian
statehood 64 years ago.
Sponsored in the Assembly by Ray-
mond Lesniak and Thomas Deverin,
both of Elizabeth, and in the upper
house by Sens. Joseph Hirkala of
Passaic and John Caufield of Newark,
the resolution praised the Ukrainian
nation for its endless pursuit of freedom
and the Ukrainian community in New
Oops
In the photo caption story about the
Whippany, N.J., concert in comme-
moration of Ukrainian Independence
Day, the title of former mayor was
mistakenly given to Henry Btekicki,
who is in fact the present mayor of
Morris Township, N.J. The former
mayor in the photo is Arthur Albohn of
Hanover Township, who is now a New
Jersey state assemblyman.
In addition to asking all New Jersey-
ans to join their Ukrainian neighbors in
commemorating the event, the resolu-.
tions asked the incoming governor,
Thomas,Kean, to continue the work of
the outgoing Byrne administration in
seeking to eliminate distortions of history
and discriminatory passages related to
Ukraine and Ukrainians from elemen-
tary and high-school textbooks. While
praising the Department of Education
for doing such in the past, the resolu-
tions" requested the Department of
Higher Education to do the same Mayor Robert Grasmere of Maplewood'greeted a large delegation of Ukrainian community
regarding the study of Ukraine and activists at the regular meeting of the Maplewood Township Committee on Tuesday, January
other captive nations in college curri- 19, during which he signed the Ukrainian Independence Day proclamation. After reading the
cula. proclamation, Mayor Grasmere presented a copy of it to Andrew Keybida, coordinator of the
On the floor of the lower house, program. Also present were Vice Mayor Robert Klein, Township Committeemen Ed Barrone
Assemblyman Lesniak addressed his and Michael DeCico and the Rev. John Nakonachny.
colleagues. "Such a resolution becomes
particularly important because of the
crisis in Poland. While aspirations of New CityrN.Y.
freedom are being manifested in places
like Gdansk (Poland) and5 Kabul, (Af-
ghanistan), it is important not to forget
struggles of independence that are not
always on the front page. The events in
Poland illustrate the resistance of all
nations affected by Soviet repression.
The Solidarity movement is no different
in spirit from the Ukrainian Helsinki
Monitoring Group and other human-
rights groups behind the Iron Curtain",
he said.
Assemblyman Deverin. then paid
tribute to the Ukrainian people, who, he
said, "are the most fiercely independent
people in the world." .
(Continued on page 12)

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-Editors
The Rev. Taras Galonzka, visiting priest on weekends atSs. Peter and Paul Ukrainian Catholic
Church, Spring Valley, NY., speaks at ceremonies held in County Legislature Chambers in
New City, N.Y., on Sunday, January 24, to celebrate-the 64th anniversary of Ukraine's'
independence. Sharing the dais are Clarkstown Supervisor Theodore Dusaneriko, left, and
Joseph Brega, representative of the local Ukrainian American Veterans Post 19. A legislative
proclamation was presented naming Friday, January 22, asUkrainian Independence Day.
The"`actual Ukrainian and American flag-raising ceremony was held on Friday, January 22; at
the New City county government buildings.
No!
UNA convention site
boasts A-l fadlities
JERSEY CITY, N. J. - The Ukrainian National
Association's Supreme Executive Committee
officially announced on January 2 that the 30th
Regular UNA Convention will take place in
Rochester, N.Y., at the Holiday Inn-Genesee
Plaza, 120 Main St. E., the week of May 23-29.
The UNA has already made reservations for 300
rooms in this hotel, beginning Sunday, May 23.
That evening a pre-convention banquet will be held
in the hotel.
Of the 300 rooms reserved, SO are king-size. All
the rooms have color televisions, are air-condition­
ed, and all have double beds for either single or
double occupancy.
The price of one room for one person is S42; the
price for double occupancy is S24 per person, or S48
total.
The hotel is lOminutes away from the airport via
a free hotel-airport bus. A parking garage is also
available free of charge for hotel guests with cars.
All the convention facilities are located on one
floor, where the main hall can accommodate 1,000
people.
The hotel also has good dining facilities,
including Barnaby's restaurant, which is open from
6:30 a.m. to midnight. Entertainment is provided
Tuesday through Sunday night. In the immediate
neighborhood, guests can also find many other
pleasant restaurants and food shops, if they desire a
change of pace.
Chicago UNAers honor branch secretary
CHICAGO - On Sunday, January
17, while a blizzard was raging in this
city, there was 'a very warm, cozy,
pleasant atmosphere and a delicious
luncheon at the Little, Kiev Restaurant
on the south side of Chicago, where
members of UNA Branch 259, Holy
Virgin Society, paid tribute to their
branch secretary of 30 years, Julia
Guglik.
Stephanie Majioris, branch presi­
dent, welcomed all the members present
and asked the Rev. Michael Stelmach of
the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary
Church to offer the invocation. Stepha­
nie La`Pointe then took over as emcee.
Alter the luncheon, every officer of
the branch remarked on some of the
branch activities and the work that their
secretary has been doing as a dedicated,
devoted UNA'er. "Mnohaya Lita" was
sung for her.
Then Mrs. Majioris and Mrs. Olek Seated from left are: Stephanie Majioris, Julia Guglik ,Rose Sypko; standing are:
presented Mrs. Guglik with a beautiful J. Focia, John Guglik, P. Sullivan, M. Lazuka, Helen Otek and R. Pitula, all
plaque for her dedicated work.
Fraternal Communicators Program outlines new goals
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The UNAs fraternal communicator in Missouri, Jaroslawa WBUams, poses with
-the state's Fraternal Communicators' Program Coordinator Fred Rottraan at the і
Missouri Fraternal Congress Convention.
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tional Association.
The Holiday Inn-Genesee Plaza Hotel is one of easily accessible Jo Interstate 90, via Route 490,
the biggest convention and meeting centers in which is two blocks away from the building.
Rochester. It is 15 stories tall and has 467 guest A main shopping area is also only a block and a
rooms. The hotel has 15 meeting rooms which half away from the hotel for any convention
occupy 16,000 square feet of space. participants who wish to spend some time browsing
The hotel is located in downtown Rochester. It is around.
officers of UNA Branch 259.
JERSEY CITY, N.J. - Last year the
UNA's Fraternal Activities Office
undertook a nationwide project ini­
tiated by the National Fraternal Con­
gress of America, an organization that
unites fraternal organizations through­
out the country.
In 1981 the project - dubbed the
Fraternal Communicators Program -
outlined two tasks designed to inform
the public about the benefits offered by
fraternal organizations.
A "fraternal communicator" (or a
team of fraternal communicators) was
designated by the UNA's Fraternal
Activities Office to implement the
communicators project and to represent
Soyuz in as many states as possible.
This year, the NFCA's Fraternal
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Committee postpones
bowling tournament
by Helen Olek
CHICAGO - A special meeting was
called to order in Parma, Ohio, on
Friday, November 16, 1981, at St.
Josaphat`s Church Hall, by Helen B.
Olek, supreme advisor, of Chicago.
About 20 people were present including
supreme officers of the Ukrainian Na­
tional Association, Bohdan Futey and
Taras Szmagala of Cleveland, Genevieve
Zerebniak of Akron, Ohio,and Andrew
Jula of Ambridge, Pa.
The purpose of^this meeting was to
initiate the 17th Annual UNA Bowling
Tournament in the Cleveland area.
Mrs. Olek presented the entire bowling
tournament rules and after some dis­
cussions, questions and answers, John
Jacubic, John Sawchak and Larry
Sawchak volunteered to take the tourna­
ment in hand and together with local
UNA secretaries and bowlers to make
every effort to make this tournament a
success.
However, after checking all accom­
modations necessary in the Cleveland
area for this tournament, and then
taking a poll among the bowlers of the
three Chicago Ukrainian bowling lea­
gues, Mrs. Olek, as chairman of the
National UNA Bowling Committee,
decided that this tournament should be
postponed due to the economic condi­
tions existing today, inflation, un­
employment, etc.
As a matter of fact, at the last bowling
tournament held in Chicago, at the very
last moment, cancellations were re­
ceived because of the cost of transporta­
tion. Furthermore, the next UNA
Convention will be held in Rochester,
N. Y., just a week prior to the date set for
the tourney and the Rochester bowlers
probably would not be able to partici­
pate in the tourney, she noted.
Chicago bowlers are planning to hold
a local tournament during the Memorial
Day weekend, and they hope that
bowlers throughout the country will
make similar plans in order to keep in
touch and look forward to the next
tourney in .1983, i ( ( t u i і ч і , .
6 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 1982
Book notes
Basilian Sisters
Ukrainian Weerlї compile history
PHILADELPHIA - "Vessels of
Election," a history of the Basilian
Sisters compiled in commemoration of
the 16th centenary of St. Basil the Great
Drawing a blank in 1979, has recently been released.
the history was compiled by Sister
M. Olha of the Sacred Heart Province
Perhaps the biggest bugaboo of all journalists and editors, one that in Philadelphia.
may even supplant the hellish nightmare of libel or slander suits (or the The 191-page book, which includes
prospect of having one's newspaper bought out by Rupert Murdoch), many historic photographs and illus­
is the frantic search for an ellusive editorial topic. trations, contains articles'in both
You see, the news itself is not the problem. For example, this week English and Ukrainian highlighting
was brimming with interesting and newsworthy items of concern, to. various aspects of the holy order, a
our dear readers in the Ukrainian community. But, here's the rub. For branch of which was first established in
Ukraine in 1037 when Prince Yaroslav
a plethora of reasons, none of them warranted editorial comment at
this time. the Wise founded the Monastery of St.
Irene in .Kiev. '/
Here's a for-instance. Groundhog Day passed without incident save
During the first quarter of the 20th
for the sad fact that the early-February winter doldrums will last at
century, the order spread out from
least another six weeks. No grist for the editorial mill there. Ukraine. The first Basilian foundation
What about current events, you say? Well, the Madrid Conference is outside Ukraine was created in 1911 in
still without a modus vivendi, the aftershocks of the Polish putsch Philadelphia. In 1917, a branch was
continue to wrack that country, the Polovchak case is still mired in the established in Yugoslavia, and in 1921,
courts, our community is still hopelessly split as "political" factions one was established in Czechoslovakia.
That same year, sisters from the Phila­
remain at loggerheads, and the Vashchenko case continues to bedevil
delphia monastery went to Cleveland
American officialdom. As we said, a lot is happening.
Trouble is, over the last several weeks, we gamely put ink to paper and established what was to become the
Uniontown Province.
and addressed all these issues in this very space.
The burning issued of "mixed marriages" offers no succor. For us, In 193S, a foundation was established
the endogamy debate is a sticky wicket, and we discreetly let our readers in Hungary, and four years later in
Argentina.
bandy that hot potato around on our pages.
Although the monasteries in Ukraine
Other newspapers, particularly the general-interest dailies; have it and Hungary were closed by commu­
easy. On slow days, after offering a couple of quicky editorials on the nist authorities by the end of World
problems of mass transit or, say, corruption in the sanitation War II, the order now has monasteries
department, they fill in the space with cutesy, homespun yarns about in Italy, Poland, Brazil and Australia in
the coming of spring, vignettes about the city (The New York Times addition to those in the United States,
gets a lot of mileage out of this genre), or humorous tidbits on the Yugoslavia, Argentina and Czecho­
human condition rife with clever bon mots. slovakia.
Unfortunately, we have neither the time, the wit nor the inclination
to go that road. We are sure our readers in Ontario or North Dakota,
let alone Munich, would much care for featury editorials waxing Letters to the editor
winsome about the wintery landscape of downtown Jersey City from
the perspective of a harried Ukrainian pedestrian. Would you?
Well, enough of these fluffy explanations. Next week, well be back High marks for
with the same two-fisted hard-hitting commentary you've come to
know and love. Until then, have a nice week wherever you may be. Maday article
Dear Editor:
I had the pleasure of reading a
commentary by Andrij Maday with
reference to "The state of contemporary
Ukrainian church art and architecture."
TO THE WEEKLY CONTRIBUTORS: The commentary appeared in The
Ukrainian Weekly dated Sunday, Dec.
20, 1981.
W e greatly appreciate the materials — feature articles, news stories, press Mr. Maday is to be commended for
clippings, letters to the editor, and the like — we receive from our readers. his wisdom and enlightenment on the
In order to facilitate preparation of The Ukrainian Weekly, we ask that the aforementioned subject. The necessary
guidelines listed below be followed. ingredient that will produce icons and
О News stories should be sent in not later than 10 days after the occurrence of a church buildings to reflect the image of
given event. God is a constant growth and perfection
of the Ukrainian community's spiritual
Ф Information about upcoming events must be received by noon of the Monday life. As Mr. Maday put it, "believing in
before the date of The Weekly edition in which the information is to be published. God and attending church is not
enough."
о All materials must be typed and double spaced. More articles of this nature; our
Ukrainian people desperately need
them.
Eugenia Wasylenko
Ф Newspaper and magazine clippings must be accompanied by the name of Philadelphia, Pa.
the publication and the date of the edition.
в Photographs submitted for publication must be black and white (or color with
good contrast). They will be returned only when so requested and accompanied
Mixed marriages:
by a stamped, addressed envelope. another reaction
в Correct English-language spellings of names must be provided. Dear Editor:
It is sad and sometimes even a tragic
o MATERIALS MUST BE SENT DIRECTLY T O : THE U K R A I N I A N WEEKLY, 3 0
event when families of our children, our
M O N T G O M E R Y ST., JERSEY CITY, N . J . 0 7 3 0 2 .
young adults, are confronted with a
mixed-marriage situation. I use the
Thank you for your interest and cooperation. word "confronted" with more than one
meaning in mind, because it is basically
a serious confrontation during which,
more often than not, harsh words are
exchanged, feelings are hurt, dreams
and expectations are shattered.
No. 6
Along with histories of the orders'
monasteries around the globe, the book
contains 16 pages on the 1979 comme­
moration of 1,600th anniversary of St.
Basil's birth, stories on the orders'
educational and social role in Ukrai­
nian community life, including brief
histories of Manor Junior College, the
St. Basil Orphanage and school, and St.
Basil Academy.
The book also includes photographs
of the 19 elementary and high schools
under the direction of the Basilian
order, as well as a list of contributors
and benefactors.
Directory lists
political prisoners
BALTIMORE - "Ukrainian Politi­
cal Prisoners in the USSR: A Direc­
tory," which lists the names, labor-
camp or exile addresses, sentences and
other statistical data concerning Ukrai­
nian political prisoners, was recently
published here and in Toronto by
Smoloskyp Publishers.
Information for the 203-page, U-
krainian-language pamphlet was com­
piled by Marta Harasowska. The pre­
face was written by Osyp Zinkewych, a
Smoloskyp editor.
Net royalties will be used in the
interest of Ukrainian political pri­
soners in the USSR, according to the
publishers.
A copy of the directory may be ob­
tained by sending a donation to Smo­
loskyp, P.O. Box 561, Ellicott City, Md.
21043. In Canada; the address is:
Smoloskyp, P.O. Box 153, Station "T",
Toronto, Ont., Canada M6B 4AI.
Watching it happen to other people'
or just hearing about it one can say: no,
it will never happen to me, after all I was
a "better" parent, I used strictly Ukrai­
nian at home, went to church, involved
my children in "Ridna Shkola," Plast,
SU M-A, etc. But it may and, in fact, has
happened to many who least expect it.
Many letters have been written and
published in various ethnic papers,
including The Ukrainian Weekly. Many
facets of the topic have been mentioned,
various opinions have been expressed,
but some problems or possible pro­
blems have been bypassed. So let me
mention those in brief, as I feel this type
of newspaper discussion, especially in
an English-language publication, is
beneficial,and the English language, like
it or not, is preferred by the majority of
our young people.
First and foremost, let's make it clear
that as a rule it is not a question of
ethnic or racial bias, since .we as Ukrai­
nians are a true minority in all aspects.
Rather it is a question of ethnic and
cultural, and sometimes even national
and religious survival, and it is most
serious. We are slowly being suppress­
ed, denationalized, robbed of our
culture, tradition, language and heri­
tage here and in Ukraine.
We still have to fight for recognition
of the fact that "Ukraine is not Russia,"
even among the most learned" people
in the news media. Our students have
difficulties when taking geography or
world history. Our Catholic priests are
not considered true Catholics because
they marry (though there are many
important differences, they are still
Catholic). Our Orthodox Church is
- labelled Russian. GUI' "varenyky" are
Polish "pierogi," "borshch" is Jewish,
and "holubtsi" are who knows what,
and on and on.
(ContliuiedcnpagclS) -,
No. 6
News and views
Anti-Semitism and Ukrainophobia: roadblocks to progress
by George Woioshyn
A number of developments over the
last three to four years bodes well for the
future of Ukrainian-Jewish relations
and leads one to believe that the cycle of
recrimination and bigotry will be
broken.
In Ukraine, both Ukrainians
and Jews appear to have found
common ground in a mutual
struggle against Soviet tyranny. Slave
labor camps and asylums are excellent
breeding grounds for men of honor and
good will to come together to recognize
their common humanity and respect
each others' aspirations. Here in the
United States, the unprecedented in-
crease in Jewish-Ukrainian contacts
and joint activities is a welcome and
long-overdue phenomenon.
On the other, hand, the revival of no-
tions of Ukrainian anti-Semitism in the
aftermath of the "war criminal" triajs has
resulted in a marked setback.
The question of "Ukrainian anti-
Semitism," and its counterpart "Ukrai-
nophobia" cannot be breezily dismissed
by bland denials or simply by listing
atrocities perpetrated by the "other
side." Both Ukrainian anti-Semitism
and Ukrainophobia are very real and
abiding manifestations among certain
Ukrainians and Jews, respectively.
While it is entirely accurate to take
the position that Ukrainians have been
charged with greater crimes and with a
much higher level of anti-Semitism than
is objectively and historically the case, it
is absurb for us to insist that some
Ukrainians were not responsible for
anti-Semitic outbreaks. Conversely, it
Two communities: similar, yet worlds apart
by J.Y. Hamulak
One cannot say with all certainty how
many Ukrainians live in the United
States. However, we can cite statistics
on church affiliation given in J.P.
Kennedy Publications. There are 244,641
Ukrainian Catholics, while there are
283,685 Carpatho-Rusyn Catholics. In
addition, it has been estimated that
there are over 230,000 Orthodox Car-
patho-Rusyns, while Orthodox Ukrai-
nians probably do not exceed 200,000.
Adding the above figures, we can see
that in the United States there are more
Carpatho-Rusyns than Ukrainians.
These two communities —who speak,
pray and sing "po nashomu" - live
worlds apart, not showing nearly
enough interest in each other even
though, if we ask ourselves that two
ethnic group are the most similar to each
other, we would arrive at the conclusion
that the answer is Carpatho-Rusyns and
Ukrainians.
This situation was created long ago.
It is a "situation in which Rusyn
Americans and Ukrainians live basically
in the same places but have little or no
contact with each other," says Prof.
Paul R. Magocsi in his reply to Prof.
Vasyl Markus published in the Suchas-
nist journal. (Excerpts in English trans-
lation were also published in the Car-
patho-Rusyn American, fall 1981 issue.)
"It is unfortunate, but true, that the
psychological gap between the two
groups is deep...," but "Rusyn and
Ukrainian immigrants and their des-
cendants in the U.S.A. should not
remain separated to the degree that they
have in the past and are still at the
present," writes Prof. Magocsi. To
overcome this separation "mutual
respect on both sides has to be the basic
THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY. FEBRUARY 7, 1982 7
Courts not in
catharsis business,
would be equally absurb for Jews to who exploit and torment their fellow
deny their participation in many of the
tragedies that have befallen the Ukrai-
man - and this type of person has not
been known to discriminate among his
columnist avers
nian people. There were and are Ukrai- victims. It could be a Ukrainian today, a
nian anti-Semites just as there were and Jew tomorrow, or a Filipino the next PHILADELPHIA - Philadel-
are Jewish Ukrainophobes. day. (If we but take note of the sur- phia Inquirer columnist Dorothy
The, fact that the world knows only names of KGB tormentors of our own Storck, whose January 19 column on
one side's position does not change the political dissidents, it should be quite the denaturalization trial of Serge
essential validity of that statement. obvious that there is no scarcity of such Kowalchuk (The Ukrainian Weekly,
However, to conclude that Ukrai- human debris even among our own January 31) voiced doubts about the
nians are anti-Semitic or that Jews are people.) While some Ukrainians can use of Soviet evidence in such pro-
Ukrainophobes is the type of generali- recollect individual Jews who had been ceedings,reportedin her January 26
zation that should be emphatically instrumental in terroristic actions, how column that she has received numer-
rejected. Despite some lingering distrust many more were there of Russians, ous letters criticizing her stance, most
that both parties have toward each Armenians, yes, even Ukrainians, who of them from Jewish organizations.
other, only very tiny fractions of both participated with them? In the original piece, Ms. Storck
peoples have either participated in or Furthermore, we should not over- expressed concern about the atmos-
eyen bee,n, inched towards any overt look the much larger number of Jews phere of "residual hate" which seem-
actions against each other. Such "anti" who suffered alongside their Ukrainian ed to shroud the proceedings, noting
feelings and "phobias" that may exist compatriots or even helped them at that certain Jewish spectators openly
are a (regretfully) natural and common great personal risk. Those who took threatened Mr. Kowalchuk in the
occurrence whenever two basically part in anti-Ukrainian activities are no courtroom. She went on to say that it
distinct groups, each with zealously more representative of the Jewish seemed regrettable that the "residue
enforced religious beliefs and harboring people than those Ukrainians who took of hatred " will probably be passed on.
ethnocentric viewpoints, live on the part in anti-Jewish activities are of the to future, generations of Ukrainians
same land. Ukrainian people. and Jews.
Ukrainians fall prey to the very Secondly, we must bear in mind that Defending her position, Ms.
common error of stereotyping Jews the perception of Jews as a powerful, Storck, who covered the trial for four
based on the actions of the few. Jews, conspiratorial world force is vastly days, noted that, despite Jewish
despite their reputation for tolerance exaggerated. Anybody who has olv Defense League claims to the con-
and civil libertarianism, are equally served the internal dynamics of the trary, Mr. Kowalchuk is "innocent
capable of such outrageously biased Jewish community knows that they are until proven guilty" and his rights
statements as that rendered by a Jewish as deeply factionalized as we are. Both under the American legal system
historian on Petliura: "Ukrainian anti- in and outside Israel, there exist deep ought to be respected.
Semitism flows with the mother's milk." splits and disagreements on how to best She added: "It seemed to me that
What, then, should our own position handle the very serious problems the issue of the innocence or guilt of
be? In the first place, we must recognize confronting them. Hence, we need not Kowalchuk was subordinated to the
that there is no such thing as "The Jew." be overly concerned about the "Jewish" 40-year-old hatreds — handed down
There are many Jews — some good, attitude towards Ukrainians, for there is from generation to generation - of
some bad, but all essentially concerned no single attitude. Although the U- people who have made areligionout
with surviving in what they perceive as a krainophobic faction does seem to be of revenge in the name of justice."
hostile and alien world. There are some (Condoned on page 16) Addressing the JDL and other
Jewish agitators in the courtroom,
Ms. Storck wrote: "The epithet-
hissers in the courtroom, and the
members of the Jewish Defense
precondition," he says. that many Carpatho-Rusyns are highly League who hassled his (Mr. Kowal-
The Ukrainian community, at educated and qualified professionals. chuk's) children and who demon-
least through its leading publications, They can apply their talents and qualifi- strated in front of his house, seem to
i.e. Svoboda, America, The Ukrainian cations for any American community or have forgotten" the fundamental
Weekly, Suchasnist, should inform its notion of innocent until proven
business. In my contact with them, I
readers of events in the Carpatho- guilty.
strongly felt that they stand ready to
Rusyn community, especially if, in help the common causes of Carpatho- Quoting from a letter from Ronald
theory, they consider the group part of Rusyns and Ukrainians. And we have lots L. Kaiserman, who said that the trial
the "larger Ukrainian ethos." of these common causes, for example: is a "catharsis" for the families of
We, Ukrainians who are so involved preservation of our Churches, museums, Holocaust victims, and that the
in our internal problems — often schools, traditions, our heritages. actual innocence or guilt of Mr.
making them seem bigger and more Working together we will feel stronger, Kowalchuk seems less germane than
important than they really are — have we will eliminate a lot of confusion for "official recognition that a terrible
) "room" for the many important news ourselves, for our children and grand- wrong has occurred," Ms. Storck
items and events, such as the activities children. argued that such a position runs
of the Carpatho-Rusyn community. contrary to the American legal sy-
stem.
This should definitely be changed, if we Cooperation: what it actually means
want to act like a mature and serious- "1 don4 believe that the American
thinking people. "Mutual respect, however, precludes system of justice should be in the
put-downs about the so-called Rusyn business of providing catharsis," Ms.
Cracks in the wall lack of national consciousness or in- Storck responded. "Theexamination
correct use of Ukrainian. It requires, of guilt or innocence puts enough
In my conversation with a Carpatho- instead, understanding and an effort at burden on it as it is."
Rusyn community member, he stated learning and teaching each other," Ms. Storck ended her piece on a
that a big wall was erected between writes Prof. Magocsi. philosophical note: "...if 'catharsis'
Carpatho-Rusyns and Ukrainians. Any Let us, Carpatho-Rusyns and Ukrai- was what I was seeing in that court-
crack in this wall should be utilized to nians, sing our songs, let us dance our room, with spectators urging their
build bridges between both communi- dances at various festivals. We can even small children to hate, then I have to
ties, which may lead to a complete stage a festival for both communities - wonder if its benefits aren't out-
disappearance of that wall. Perhaps this the songs could be Ukrainian, Rusyn or weighed by its strain on the human
wall is a superficial monster created by just plain "ours." spirit."
our mutual enemies? (Continued on page 15)
Another Carpatho-Rusyn, in a dis-
cussion, saidr"Up to now we have been
working for separation between two
communities; from now one we should
do the reverse, work for unity."
Remember our brothers in need
Both statements came from the Car-
patho-Rusyns who do not oppose closer Have you contributed toward the Ukrainian Catholic hierarchs' fund to help
cooperation between our two commu- our needy fellow Ukrainians in Poland?
nities. These statements may not reflect You may forward your donation to your pastor, to the Philadelphia Ukrainian
the thinking of all Carpatho-Rusyns, Catholic Archeporefiy, 815 N. Franklin St., Philadelphia, Pa. 19123; or to the
however, they do reflect some or the Ukrainian National Association, 30 Montgomery St., Jersey City, N.J. 07302.
majority of them.
We Ukrainians have to understand
8 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY
Ukrainian pro hockey update
Smyl `steam'-roils over
Canuck foes
It is said that you often cannot
measure the value of a player by his
points, and it is so. Ukrainian Stan
Smyl scored only 38 points in his rookie
season, 78 and 63 in his next two, and
was never in contention for Rookie of
the Year honors or MVP, but the
Vancouver right winger led his side in
plus-minus ratings and was in the top 10
in the league.
Short, yet sturdy at 5`8" and 190
pounds, the youngster plays with
power and defenses foes determinedly.
He hits with shattering impact and was
one of the few who played with passion
for his side last season and early this
season. He sets an example for older
players with his hustle.
Canuck coach Harry Neale says: "He
is the kind of kid you want to bring new
blood to a team ." General manager
Jake Milford says: "I wish we had 10
more like him. I guarantee you wed win
a heck of a lot more games than we've
been winning. He goes all out and gives
you a good game every game."
Smyl, who pronounces his name
"Smeel," says: "I'm small, so I have to
be aggressive to make up for it. I'm
husky, can take a certain amount of
punishment, and don't mind the hard
going. It's my game to go for the body. I
guess I'm the kind of guy who makes
things happen. When I get in a game, I
tend to stir things up."
In one of his team's scrimmages at
training camp, Smyl smacked tough
teammate Harold Snepts with a body-
check so heavily it slammed him into the
end boards and dislodged a couple of
panes of the protective glass. His
reputation was made at that point.
He carried his heavy hitting into his
rookie regular season and also scored 10
points in his first 11 games, but then, on
November 1, in Chicago, he took a hit
into the boards which bruised his collar­
bone.
Smyl missed 17 games that year, but
came back fearlessly, hitting hard, and
totalled 14 goals and 24 assists in the 62
games he played. In his two subsequent
seasons he improved to 31-47 for 78 and
25-38 for 63 points. Neale says: "You
have to look past his points. He held
foes to less points. He seldom lets his
winger get away. He's up and down all
night, checking closely."
"I was taught to play that way and it's
in my nature to play all out. I'm not the
most talented player who came into this
league and IVe got to go to get the most
out of myself and make a place for
myself up here," Stan says.
Smyl was born in Glendon, Alta., in
January 1958, the son of Bernard,
proprietor of Smyl Motors car dealer­
ship in St. Paul, and was the third of
four sons and three daughters. An older
brother, Danny, played junior, while
younger brothers Harvey and Jeff are
amateurs now.
"When you have a large family,
especially Ukrainian, it's hard to leave
home," Stan says. "I was just a kid when
I went to play hockey. I went to Belling-
ham, where I boarded with another
player at a family house. I was scared.
Soon, I was homesick. But I stuck it
out. Then I went to New Westminster
and a place was found for me with
another family.
"The teams pay your room and board
and you get S20 every two weeks. You
get some good meals and we had a car for
six of us. I went to school and dated a
little, but you can Ї do much without much
SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 1982 No. 6
Ife
by Ihor N. Stelmach . - ^ ^ X
money. After awhile, if you're lucky, talking in the neighborhood of SI 10,000 lawyer named Ron Perrick, knows full
you meet a nice girl or two and go to as a base salary for a two- or three-year well all the ins ami outs, and says hell
some dances, but you miss your friends contract, so if Smyl doesn't sign it, hell start putting on the public heat if the
at home. It's hard being away from be losing 40 G's right off the bat. Even if Canucks don't soon improve their offer.
home." he is able to successfully negotiate a new
However, Sun played so well, he led deal next year for what he's asking now "I haven4 played dirty in any of this
New Westminster to the Memorial Cup - around S 150,000 — it does not take a business yet, and I don't think the
finals four straight years. He averaged genius to realize that it will take him Canucks have gone as far as they will,"
better than 30 goals and close to 200 nearly two years to make up what he he says. "But the way things are going,
minutes in penalties a season and was loses this year. something's got to give. TheyVe got
the most valuable player of the 1978 Is all this hassle worth it? Milford is some momentum here in town with the
playoffs with 14 goals and 21 assists in trying to talk him into signing and new Czechs and new Swedes and a
20 games. cutting his losses, and chances are, that public hassle with a player of Stan's
"Stanley the Steamer" was, because is what will eventually happen. But popularity might hurt."
of his hustling style of play, considered Smyl is not going to go down without Indeed, Smyl is a crowd favorite, and
the most popular player the team has some sabre rattling. if anyone on the roster deserves a raise,
had. But, because he was not a superior "I'm prepared to play it out, I really it's Smyl. To have received perfor­
skater, most teams passed on him in the am," says Smyl with some reluctance. mances like he's given out for only
draft that summer and when Vancouver "They have to realize that my services 560,000 is the GM's dream, from which
took him in the third round, he was only came pretty cheaply the last couple of Milford is now slowly awakening.
the 40th player picked. seasons. I wasn't complaining about it "I must admit, my contract was
Jack MacDonald and other scouts and I won't complain about it this bothering me a bit last year,"says Smyl.
recommended him because of the leader­ season. But IVe got to be happy with my "I tried not to let it, but it seems to get to
ship qualities, dedication to hockey, contract. I know that and what they're you subconsciously. All I know is that
and dependability they saw in him. He offering me right now will not leave me I'm putting it right out of my mind this
did not let them down and was one of happy. It's not that I want to be the year no matter what happens. If I sign,
the bright spots in a gloomy Canuck highest paid player on the team or fine. If I end up playing out my option,
campaign. Three years hence, he's still anything, nothing like that at all. But that's okay too."
struggling to get the club going. IVe got to be happy." Perrick`s lines like: "Tiiereare 10men
"When you've been with a winner, as Canuck captain Kevin McCarthy in that front-office over there, and none
I was in New Westminster, it lets you realized the cost of playing out the of them have scored a goal yet" don't
down when you land with a loser, but option, and ended up signing. endear him to the club, but he says he
we have a lot of young players and I "I wasn't really happy with what I doesn4 have to worry about long-term
believe we're going to get better," he got," says McCarthy. "But theyVe got good will towards the clubs like some of
says. you. You lose so much in playing it out. the other big name agents do.
The problem with that is that teams Plus the problems we've got with "That's why I need the law practice as
with young players always expect to settling on compensation. WeVe all well," says Perrick. "What am I going to
improve, but if the young players aren't seen what has happened with the base­ tell Stan? 'Go on sign, I have to make
good enough they're not going to get ball strike and nobody wants that for my rent payments soon!' I can wait out
better. hockey. WeVe almost completely ruled the Canucks."
Stan Smyl is one of the good ones. that out as an alternative." Will the Steamer get his raise? Stay
Still a bachelor, who loves to water ski Stan's agent, a north Vancouver tuned, if you can bear it.
and play baseball back in St. Paul
summers, he takes time to lift weights to SMYL, STANLEY PHILLIP (STAN)
build his stocky body to strength for the Born: Glendon, Alta., January 28,1958. Right wing, shoots right. 5'8", 200 lbs.
winters. Ifhecanpickuphisscoringjust
(Vancouver's third choice, 40th over all, in 1978 amateur draft)
a bit, hell be one of the players arounr"
whom Vancouver can build a winner. Season Club League GP G A PTS PIM GP G A PTS 1'IM
1978-79 Dallas CHL 3 1 1 2 9
Smyl carefully 1978-79 Vancouver NHL 62 14 24 38 89 2 1 1 2 0
weighing his options 1979-80 Vancouver NHL 77 31 47 78 204 4 0 2 2 14
This season, however, it isn't the cost 1980-81 Vancouver NHL 80 25 38 63 171 3 12 3 0
of groceries or high interest rates which NHL Totals 219 70 109 179 464 9 2 5 7 14
are weighing heavily on the mind of
Stan Smyl these days. It's the cost of Ukrainian headliners our weekly star.
playing out one's option. RUNNER-UP: St. Louis' Mike Zuke
Wire service headlines of hockey had a big scoring week (3G-1A-4PTS),
Smyl is presently going into his exploits by Ukrainian NHL stars
option year and his agent is negotiating gathered from around the country. including a power play and short-
a new deal with the Vancouver Ca­ handed effort.
nucks. While the Canucks have appre­ Hawerchuk powers Jets
ciated his services for the three years
he's played, they've come pretty cheaply. UPI - When opportunity knocks,
Smyl signed a three years and an option Winnipeg's Dale Hawerchuk answers.
contract when he came out of juniors. "My biggest asset is puck-handling,"
Of course, in his second and third said Hawerchuk, who scored two goals
years with the club, he was the leading and added two assists to boost the
plus-minus player and in his second Winnipeg Jets to a 5-3 victory over the
year he led the club in goals, assists, Hartford Whalers. "I'm an opportu­
points and penalty minutes, the only nist."
man in the league to lead his team in all "It's always good to get a little
three categories. revenge over a team that beat you,"said
Last year, Stanley, like the entire Hawerchuk, referring to the Jets'
club, slipped a little in the second half of snapping a six-game winless stretch,
the season and his stats slowed slightly including a 6-1 drubbing by the Whalers
over the previous season. It was bad at Winnipeg. "This was an important
timing for negotiations bound to start. win for us because we're fighting for the
Now they are reaching a crucial point, playoffs."
and Smyl is finding out how tough it is "Dale's biggest asset is his quickness,"
to dig in your heels as a National said Winnipeg coach Tom Watt. "He's
Hockey League player. not a free flowing skater, but rather a
With the possibility of a whole year darter."
without a contract and even more
hassles to come next year, plus the Ukrainian player
problem of compensation, it's going to
cost Smyl at least 540,000 to play out his of the week
option. TOM LYSIAK
On his old contract, he's making just Chicago Black Hawks
over 560,000 and will this year again if
he doesn't sign what general manager By scoring two goals and assisting on
Milford has offered him. Milford is three others, Tom Lysiak is honored as Tom Lysiak
No. 6 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 1982 9

Panorama of Ukrainian culture in the Big Apple

by Helen Perozak Smindak

with Hunter College and Harvard A benefit concert in aid of the mu-
University. suem will bring two bright stars of the
Mr. Martynuk was introduced as a music world — soprano Iryna Wel-
new member of the institute's public hasch and pianist Juliana Osinchuk -
relations committee during a dinner to the stage of New York University's
meeting on January 29 at the Brooklyn Eisner and Lubin Auditorium on March
residence of Dr. Rostyslav Sochynsky, 28.
who heads the committee. Two other The spring calendar of events in­
new members, also present'at the cludes includes an embroidery
meeting, were Roman Czajkowsky, a course directed by Lubov Wolynetzand
New York-based writer, and Alex woodcarving classes taught by Ivan
Heiko, president of the Fifth Avenue Symczyk and supervised by master
firm of Heiko Graphics, Inc. sculptor and woodcarver Mycbajlo
Dr. Sochynsky reported that officials Czereszniowskyj. The first sessions were
of the institute and The Ukrainian held this weekend, but it is still possible
Museum, which is seeking larger quar­ to join by calling the museum this week.
ters, had explored the possibility of Registration fees are very reasonable,
moving the museum exhibits and offices and youngsters under 16 years of age
to the institute. However, no agreement may attend free of charge.
could be reached since the museum Further along the spring horizon is an
would require all the institute space for exhibit which will focus on the architec­
its needs. He said "the door for positive tural riches of Kiev which have been
dialogue is always open" and that destroyed. "The Lost Architecture of
special exhibits might be mounted by Kiev" will be shown through plans,
the museum at the institute. drawings and blown-up photographs,
According to Dr. Sochynsky, the together with a slide show and commen­
basic mission of the Ukrainian Institute tary. Titus Hewryk of Philadelphia is
is to "assume an important role in the curator of the exhibit, set to run from
development, sponsorship and promo­ May 29 through July 27.
tion of educational activities which will As a member of the New York Con­
acquaint the general public with the vention and Visitors' Bureau, the mu­
culture, art and music of the Ukrainian seum is listed in the bureau's Quarterly
Calendar of Events for 1981-82 and in
The trio of cellist Nestor Cybriwsky violinist Helen Strike and pianist Thomas nation." These aims are to be accom­ the Visitors' Shopping Guide to New
Hrynkiw performs today at the Ukrainian Institute of America. plished through exhibits, concerts and
lectures that will focus on the history, York City. The calendar includes a
heritage and arts of the Ukrainian color illustration of one of the Ukrai­
You can never have enough of a good the society has promised to provide a people. The institute Will also sponsor nian ritual cloths in the museum's
thing, the saying goes. photograph of the building as soon as
and develop craft workshops and li­ current exhibit.
-The Ukrainian Museum, which has the facade is ready. brary facilities.
completed its first five years with flying Put them all together - museum,
colors, has just announced its spring institute, scientific society, .Ukrainian Bread and Puppet
program — workshops, a benefit con­ Academy of Arts and Sciences, School Hatching exciting events
One of the members of the cast of The
cert, an Easter egg exhibit and other of Bandura, choruses and dance groups
plans. The Ukrainian Institute of Ame­ - and you've got Culture with a capital The Ukrainian Museum may be Bread and Puppet Theater Company,
rica, enthusiastically set on its new C! having trouble with crowded facilities, now playing a three-week run at the
mission of becoming the embassy of but it appears to have no lack of ideas Theater for the New City, 162 Second
Ukrainian culture, continues its second Concerts and courses and plans for activities. Ave., is 25-year-old Michael Romany-
year of the Ukrainian Composers Series With Easter only weeks away (eight shyn. A native of Vermont who has
with a concert by an instrumental trio The third concert of this season's weeks for some people, nine weeks for been performing with the troupe for
seven years, Mr. Romanyshyn is of
this afternoon, and is busy setting up Ukrainian Composers Series at the those who follow the Eastern Orthodox
Ukrainian stock (his Ukrainian father
courses in affiliation with Harvard Ukrainian Institute of America will church calendar), it's not too early to
University and Hunter College. present violinist Helen Strike, cellist think of Easter eggs and egg-decorating and Polish mother migrated to this
country from western Ukraine). The
Now there is word that there will soon Nestor Cybriwsky and pianist Thomas workshops. The museum has already
group's artistic director, George Ваг–
be another center of Ukrainian culture Hrynkiw. Beginning at 3 p.m., the hatched plans for such events.
in the Big Apple. The Shevchenko program will offer some lovely treasures Here are the details: An exhibit of tenieff, also claims Ukrainian nationa­
lity, since his father was born in Kher­
Scientific Society, until now located on of Ukrainian music — Vasyl Barvin- Ukrainian Easter eggs (pysanky) will be
son. During the past week, the company
West 13th Street in a decaying section of sky's Trio in A minor, Victor Kos- displayed from March 6 to May 16, with
presented "The Story of One Who Set
Greenwich Village, plans to move into senko's Sonata for violin and piano, more than 400 superbly crafted pysanky
Out to Study Fear," a Grimm fairy tale
new quarters on Fourth Avenue, a and two grand work? by Nestor Ny- from the museum's collection present­
block or so north of the prestigious zhankiwsky. ing a spectrum of color and design. turned into a parable about the apo­
Cooper Avenue (where Abraham The January program featured works How-to demonstrations are scheduled calypse, a play in which the troupe's
puppets resemble iconographic figures.
Lincoln made the speech that led to his of Barvinsky and Stanislav Liudkevych for March 6 and 7 and April 10, while
New York Times reviewer Mel Gussow
nomination for the presidency). The performed by Mr. Hrynkiw and Mr. workshops for children and adults will
found an evening in the theater "perti­
building, a former bookstore, is solidly Cybriwsky. Mr. Hrynkiw provided a be held on weekends from March 13 to
nent as well as palatable" because of the
built to hold the society's archives and skillfull rendering of Liudkevych's April 10. For further information call
(Continued on pate 14)
thousands of books, is within a few Elegy with 18 variations in В flat minor, the museum at 228-0110.
blocks of the Big Apple's Ukrainian a work composed in 1917 on a popular
enclave in the East Village - Little Galician theme and first used by the
Ukraine, and is close to public trans­ Rev. O. Zaklynsky in an elegy titled
portation (IRT and BMT subway sta­ "Where the Chornohora." Together,
tions). the artists performed Barvinsky's Varia­
According to Dr. Jaroslaw Padoch, tions on a Ukrainian theme for cello and
the society's president, the new "House piano.
of Ukrainian Culture" will concentrate The institute recently added a new
its work on lectures, book publishing, type of membership intended to appeal
collections of paintings and old maps, to students and young people. For S25 a
and other scholarly pursuits. year and occasional volunteer services,
Dr. Padoch and Dr. Roman Osin- associate members may attend all
chuk, head of the building committee, events and meetings (although they do
along with engineers and other advi­ not have voting privileges).
sors, examined 27 buildings in the Little The board of directors, which meets
Ukraine area before selecting the every week, is presently involved in
Fourth Avenue locale. Although many discussions and plans for numerous
buildings were attractive, they were a c t i v i t i e s . G r e a t a s s i s t a n c e has
either too high-priced or physcially been given to this endeavor by George
unsound to accept the weight of all the Martynuk, assistant director of corpo­
books which the society owns. rate communications at Turner Con­
Several months of interior and ex­ struction Co., who is making arrange­
terior renovation will be needed to ments for the institute to resume offer­ A scene from the Bread and Puppet Theater Company's presentation of "The Story
prepare the building for occupancy, but ing educational courses in affiliation of One Who Set Out to Study Fear."
 10
'The Helm of Destiny": a film in the making
To make any film takes much time,
effort, talent and money. To make a
documentary film on the Ukrainian
experience in the United States, from
the first immigrants to the present, is a
monumental task. The UNA decided
such a film is needed, and committed
itself to financing it. The actual task of
putting the whole project together fell to
Director/ Producer Slavko Nowytski
and his company, Filmart Productions,
Inc.
It was decided that the film would be
told mainly by Americans of Ukrainian
descent who would tell that segment of
the story which they themselves ex-
perienced. A narrator would fill in other
information, especially of the early
periods of Ukrainian immigration, to
which no witnesses are alive today.
The film does not duplicate any of the
excellent written material on the sub-
ject, since it is primarily a visual
medium, and speaks directly to the
emotions. Research led to the discovery
of rare photographs and old motion
picture film. Other archival materials
used were drawings, etchings, paintings
and maps.
The English-language film (Ukrainian
version may follow), will tell the story of
Ukrainians — who they are, where they
came from, why they came to America,
and what contributions they and their
children made to this new land. Even
with only the most prominent Ukrai-
nian-Americans featured, it was im-
possible to list all those who contributed
to the American way of life in such areas
as science, sports and the arts.
As a non-partisan film, it does not
deal with the various political groups,
but rather presents the goals common to
all political and social organizations.
The film's restricted framework
necessarily omitted many Ukrainian
events and institutions. It is important
to realize, however, that it is not the
function of the film to document all
Ukrainian-related activities, but rather
to present to the public at large enough
of the flavor of the Ukrainian ex-
perience to acquaint them with a small
but important segment of their society.
The emphasis is on people and the
culture they are nurturing, preserving
and adapting to the American environ-
ment.
Preliminary research and scriptwrit-
ing began in early 1980. Since the film
was aimed primarily at the non-Ukrai-
nian-speaking audience, Mr. Nowytski
hired award-winning writer Lance
Sherman Belville to write the script. Mr.
Belville, who is playwright-in-residence
at the Minnesota Playwrights Lab and
writes historical plays for the Great
North American History Theatre, has
not only a strong professional back-
ground in history (incidentally, he is
descendant of the Civil War's General
Sherman), but also a good knowledge
of the Ukrainian community through
his many years of association with
members of the Ukrainian community,
especially in New York City. Mr.
Belville has also worked with Slavko
Nowytski on other award-winning film
projects.
The actual filming began where
Ukrainian life in the United States of
America began: in the coal-mining
areas of eastern Pennsylvania. Early in
October 1980, Mr. Nowytski'sfilmcrew
was led by the UNA'S Stefan Hawrysz
through various raining communities,
THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 1982 „, ESS
Filmart productions crew shooting the Svoboda press for the UNA Dim, "The Helm of Destiny." Crew members, left to
right: Barbara Becker, sound engineer; Slavko Nowytski, producer/director; Yuri Denysenko, cameraman; Tom
Anderson, assistant cameraman. Seen on the left is Svoboda pressman Stas Magin.
retracing the steps of the early pioneers. nating event was the blessing of the Poberezny, founder and president of
The crew consisted of: Mr. Nowytski, Easter baskets, filmed right outside on the Experimental Aircraft Association.
producer/director; Yuri Denysenko, the grass in front of the new church He is interviewed by Mr. Nowytski
cameraman; Barbara Becker, sound designed by Radoslav Zuk near Soyu- inside a P-51 Mustang, the famous
engineer; and Marta Kichorowsky, zivka. The ceremony evokes a feeling of World War II fighter plane, during the
production assistant. traditional observances in a modern yet association's annual Oshkosh, Wise.,
In the following week many pioneers ancient environment. fly-in.
and their descendants told the story of With the exception of the stage show
the early days for the film. In that same (where union restrictions forbid film- The historical value of the footage is
week a baby was born to our camera- ing), the-activities around the various crystallized when one considers that
man's wife back in New York. When we tents at the Garden State Festival were two of the persons filmed are no longer
received news of the impending birth, filmed, as was the colorful Youth with us: John Panchuk, former president
Yuri, in a rented car, raced to the Festival at the Ukrainian Fraternal of, the United Ukrainian American Re-
hospital arriving a few minutes too late Association's "Verkhovyna" resort. lief Committee, who was responsible
to witness the birth of Olenka. The film North Dakota Ukrainians for helping many Ukrainians
crew, however, carried on, immigra to the United States
with the producer/ director taking on Meanwhile, the agricultural activities after World War II, among them the
the function of cameraman - for the of Ukrainians in North Dakota were entire Bandurist Chorus of Detroit; and
show must go on. filmed in the appropriate season, as well Vasile Avramenko, folk dancer and
as activities in Minnesota, including a choreographer, who singlehandedly did
Pioneers' story
moving interview with Maria Procai, more than anyone else to propagate
Memorable among the Pennsylvania who singlehandedly is responsible for Ukrainian folk dancing in the United
interviews was the cheerful Marta perhaps more propagation of the py- States and Canada.
Turchyn, who is perhaps the only sanka culture then anyone else in
person living today who knew Father America. She and her daughters, most 16 months of filming
Hryhory Hrushka, the founder of notably Luba Perchyshyn, are leading
Svoboda. A touching story was told by practitioners of this ancient Ukrainian The filming, over a period of some 16
Mary Stuban, who remembers her art. (Mrs. Perchyshyn was featured in months, yielded several hours of
ocean voyage to the United States on a Mr. Nowytski's film, "Pysanka: The fascinating material, and it became
cattle ship back at the turn of the Ukrainian Easter Egg.") evident that a half hour was definitely
century. Of the well-known personali- Other Midwest activities recorded too short a time for the finished film.
ties interviewed was Hollywood actor were a traditional American Thanks- This was confirmed by UNA supreme
Jack Palance, whose father was a giving at the home of Dr. Myron officers Dr. Myron Kuropas and Sen.
Pennsylvania miner for 40 years. Kuropas, including an interview with Paul Yuzyk of Canada, who viewed the
his father, Stephen Kuropas, who material at Mr. Nowytski's Filmart
Museums featured
related Ukrainian thanksgiving tradi- Productions studio in St. Paul, Minn.
The Pennsylvania shoot was just the tions. In Chicago, the Ukrainian Mu- Later, at a meeting of UNA supreme
beginning. Subsequent filming included, seum of Modern Art was documented officers on December 28, it was agreed
the museum of the Stamford Eparchy, for the film. to extend the film to one hour (actually,
the Ukrainian Research Institute at 57 minutes, which is the correct length
Harvard, The Ukrainian Museum in Space shuttle, too
for TV use in a one-hour slot).
New York City, and an interview with An interview with Dr. Michael Yary-
Myron Surmach Sr., in his store. Other movych, one of the space shuttle's The mountain of film material, with
locations in the East included the UNA initiators, led the Filmart crew to its accompanying sound, is now being
headquarters and Svoboda Press offices, California, to the site where a new space edited at Filmart. It is expected that
as well as the Soyuzivka resort at shuttle is under construction. Another editing will take two months, and the
various times of the year. Also included highlight was the interview with Gen. film will be ready for release sometime
was an interview with Walter Kwas, its Samuel Jaskilka at his Annapolis home. in the spring. A distribution schedule
long-time director, who appears on Gen. Jaskilka, who was second in will be worked out, to allow for screen-
camera in an authentic Hutsul costume. command of the U.S. Marines, relates ing of the film not only on television,
The filming was often dictated by his experiences as a Ukrainian serving public libraries, educational institu-
various events, and as a result, it stretch- in the U.S. armed forces: - tions, but also in all Ukrainian commu-
ed into many months. One such fasci- An exciting episode covers Paul nit'tCV - ' '`' ' - -` - i` `""`
No. 6 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 7,1982 11

Schoolchildren ask President Reagan to help Walter

PASS AIC, N. J. - Hearing the news that Walter EDUCATIONAL
Polovchak may have to return to the Soviet Union
to rejoin his parents, the children of St. Nicholas LOANS
Ukrainian Catholic School here decided to take
matters into their own hands. A fraternal service
They went right to the top: they decided to write
letters to President Ronald Reagan. On request of
to UNA members
the Ukrainian Catholic Archdiocese of Philadel­
phia, children in the school system were asked to
write Mr. Reagan to act upon changing the ruling in
Walter's court ease.
All the schoolchildren of St. Nicholas partici­
pated in the letter-writing campaign. Following are
several excerpts from their letters.
Eleven-year-old Mary Ann Kosciolek writes:
"...I am writing to you, to ask you if you would let
Walter Polovchak stay here in the U.S.A. You see,
Mr. President, I, too, am Ukrainian. I know that I
wouldn't want to go back to the USSR. If he goes
back to the USSR he might die there. Walter is a
good boy, and as a person, he should be given the
chance God has given him to stay in the U.S. A., the
free country." ,: л
Seven-year-old Lesia Ulczak, a third-grader
H
writes: ..7I have heard that Walter Polovchak will
be sent back to Ukraine. You, as president, can help
him by passing a law to let him stay here. This is the
only country where he can have a proper home and
live in freedom," j-
Peter Roman Kosciolek was straight and to the The loan will bear a
point He wrote: "Dear Mr. President, Please let modest interest rate
Walter have his own choice and let him stay here, if
he likes." of 39b a year only on
Eleven-year-old Oiga Zielonka had another way loans made. Interest
of asking the president: "...I am writing this letter to will a c c u m u l a t e
ask you with all my heart to please let Walter during the period of
Polovchak stay in this country with us. You schooling and be paid
wouldn't send yo.ur son or grandson to the USSR
would you? Please let him stay and grow up the Eva Marie Panchyshyn's letter was one of many that pupils of during repayment
right way. Please. I will remember you in my Passaic's St. Nicholas Ukrainian Catholic School sent to period.
prayers." President Ronald Reagan on Walter Polovchak's behalf.
As of November 1, children up
to Ш years of age who enroll for
Baptist youths Bishop Innocent Lotocky feted 515,000 of insurance will be
guaranteed a 55,000 educa­
to attend congress by San Diego parishioners tional loan. Should they enroll
for 525,000 of insurance, they
CICERO, 111. - A delegation of will be guaranteed a loan of
more than 50 persons will represent 57,500.
Ukrainian Baptist youth from the Juvenile members ages 5 to 10
United States and Canada at the fourth enrolled for 515,000 of NEW
world congress of the All-Ukrainian insurance will be guaranteed a
Evangelical Baptist Youth Fellowship 54,000 Educational Loan. If
in Paraguay. enrolled for 525,00 of protec­
The weeklong congress gets under tion, they will be guaranteed a
way February 8 in Encarnacion, Para­ loan of 56,000.
guay's, second largest city. The protection herein referred
Other participants in the congress to must be under UNA P-20
will come from various countries in Certificate.
South America and possibly from A formal notice that loan is
Australia and Europe. guaranteed will be sent with
The North American delegation was Certificate of Protection when it
scheduled to depart from New York on is issued after November 1,
February 6 on a chartered flight led by 1980.
the president of the youth fellowship, Certificate must remain in good
the Rev. John Kovalchuk of Crum standing with all assessments
Lynne, Pa. and dues paid until Educational
Others attending the congress are Loan is granted and throughout
from New York, Pennsylvania, repayment period.
New Jersey, Chicago, Minnea­ Certificate must be assigned to
polis and Canada. UNA during the period of the
The main speaker is the Rev. Vo- loan and its repayment Either
lodymyr Domashovetz, pastor of the parents or guardian must gua­
Ukrainian Baptist Church in lrvington, rantee repayment of loan if
N.J. juvenile is under age 21 when
The Very Rev. Canon Andrew Mykyta, Bishop Innocent Lotocky,the Very Rev.
The Rev. John Polischuk, pastor of loan is granted.
Canon Michael Koltutsky, and the Rev. Michael Kurylo are seen above with
the Ukrainian Baptist Church of Chi­ Educational Loans will be made
members of the women's guild.
cago, is the choir director and also a over a four-year period only for
main speaker. tuition to the college or institu­
The congress will be conducted under SAN DIEGO - Bishop Innocent the members of the Women's Guild was tion of higher learning.
the theme "Lord, Come" and the scrip­ Lotocky of the St. Nicholas Ukrainian held in the church hall. The event was Repayment of loan begins three
ture text is taken from Revelation 22:17. Catholic Eparchy of Chicago visited emceed by Yaroslaw Sysyn, who intro­ months following graduation of
The event will include seminars, Our Lady of Perpetual Help Parish here duced the many guests and representa­ applicant and must be fully
and also publishes a magazine titled on January 17, and he participated in a tives of local organizations who greeted repaid over a maximum of
Horizons. divine liturgy and a banquet. the bishop with brief remarks. Among 20 equal quarterly install­
A business meeting at the congress Before entering the church, which the speakers was the Rev. Kurylo. ments.
will elect an executive board to serve for was filled to capacity by the parishioners, Following the keynote address by Should period of education for
the next three years. Bishop Lotocky was greeted with the Bishop Lotocky, the banquet was which loan was secured be
musical /literary programs, fellowship traditional Ukrainian welcome of bread concluded with the singing of "Bozhe reduced or terminated the
dinners, social activities and sightseeing and salt, and he was presented the key to poslykhai blahannia" ("God Hear Our repayment period will begin
tours. . , ., , . the church by its pastor, the Rev. Prayers"). immediately.
The international youth fellowship Michael Kurylo. Banquet participants remained in the
sponsors a congress every three years Afterward -a banquet prepared by hall, lining up to speak with the bishop.
 12 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNBAV, FEBRUARY 7, 1982 No. 6

Receives master's degree Mazuryk to hold exhibit

CLARKSTON, Mich. - John P.
Hewko, son of Mr. and Mrs. Lubomyr
Hcwko of Clarkston, Mich., has suc-
cessfully defended his thesis and has been
awarded a master's degree from Oxford
University, England. His studies at
Oxford, which centered on interna-
tional relations, with emphasis on
Ukraine and Eastern Europe, were
funded by a full scholarship from the
Marshall Foundation. The title of Mr.
Hewko's thesis was "The Ukrainian-
Jewish Political Relationship During
the Period of the Central Rada —"
March 1917 to January 1918."
While at Oxford, Mr. Hewko was a
member of the Oxford University
Debate Society and on the roster of the
IKS. Embassy's Speakers' Bureau. He
was also top scorer on the college's la-
crosse team and a member of the well-
known regatta rowing team.
The research on the original material
for his thesis has taken Mr. Hewko on
two extensive visits to the USSR and
Eastern Europe and on six-week stay in
Israel.
While in Israel he had an opportunity
to discuss various issues related to his
thesis with contemporaries of the events
in Kiev during the reign of the Central
Rada, interview historical researchers
at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem
Notes on people
Soviet Union. The chairman of the
conference was Zbigniew Brzezinski
with whom Mr. Hewko held personal
discussions about issues relating to
Ukraine.
Mr. Hewko has just completed a six-
month tour through the heartland of
the continent of Africa as a member of a
seven-man team of Oxford University
graduate, students. The team traveled
by a Land Rover type vehicle from the
northernmost tip of Algeria, through
the Sahara Desert, jungles of central
Africa, savannas of Sudan, Kenya and Omelian Mazuryk
Zimbabwe to Cape Town on the VATICAN CITY - Patriarch Josyf
southernmost tip of the African conti- Slipyj has invited artist Omelian
nent. The trip included, among other Mazuryk to Rome to exhibit his paint-
things, climbing to the peaks of Mt. ings, beginning Monday, February IS.
Kenya and Mt. Kilimanjaro, as well as a The exhibit, which will be held at Via
visit Jo .Victoria Falls. Currently Mr. Aurelia 481, will be under the patronage
John P. Hewko Hewko is crossing the southern Atlantic of the patriarch as was the artist's 1975
and live for a month on a kibbutz with from South Africa to Uruguay as a crew exhibit at Via Boccea 478, the home of
many Jews who were former citizens of member of the sailing yacht La Mo- the Ukrainian Catholic University.
Ukraine. rian, which is taking part in the
In 1980, Mr. Mazuryk personally
Last summer, as a representative and sailboat race for the South African Cup. presented Pope John Paul II with his
observer from Oxford University, Mr. Mr. Hewko's future plans include paintings while they were on display at
Hewko took part in the prestigious studying Spanish in Argentina during the Art Forum International in Paris:
Ditchley Foundation's conference on the the spring of 1982 arid entering'Har- Mr. Mazuryk, who lives in Fra"nce,
"Soviet Empire in Europe." The confe- vard Law School in September. He is a has also exhibited in the United States
rence is limited by invitation to 30 most, member ofPlast, and the Plast Branch in the late 1970s. He has had art shows
distinguished world experts on the of UNA. in Philadelphia, New York and Chicago
and is planning an exhibit for western
Canada in the spring.

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Woman's crafts featured
SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Stefania
Miszkewycz's handicrafts were featured
in a local newspaper in January.
Mrs. Miszkewycz, a resident of Rose-
ville, Calif., was interviewed, by Harvi
Callaham, a correspondent for the
Daily Press-Tribune. The article was
accompanied by Jim Denman's beauti-
ful photos of Mrs. Miszkewycz's em-
broidered pillows, 'servetky'and clothes
as well as hand-carved wood orna-
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Many samples of her embroidered
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library in Roseville and will be on
display at this year's Camellia Festival
in Sacramento.
"It is so important to preserve the
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New Jersey
(Continued from page 4)
Assemblyman George Otlowski of
Perth Amboy made a motion for all
members of the Assembly to co-sponsor
this resolution, the vote for which was
unanimous.
Sen. Hirkala, who along with the
other sponsors has in the past spon-
sored the Ukrainian Independence Day
resolutions and other resolutions per-
taining to the Ukrainian cause, com-
mented in the upper house of the
Legislature: "I am proud to be a spon-
sor of this resolution and am always
happy to do whatever I can for the cause
of persecuted nations like Ukraine."
Sen. Caufield praised the Ukrainian
nation for "preserving the spirit of
independence despite the severe repres-
sions they have faced." He also praised
the Ukrainian community in the Ne-
wark area for "their civic-mindedness
and their cultural contributiort to the
area." He added: "I am proud to have
such a community in my district." ,
As in the Assembly, the Senate
resolution passed unanimously.' `''" `
No. 6 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 1982 13

Ukrainian women in U.S.

plan October conference Preview of events
Sunday, February 7 Sunday, February 21

PASS AIC, N J.;The Passaic-Bergen LOS ANGELES, Calif.: The Ukrai­

County UCCA branch is holding a nian Art Center at 4315 Melrose
program to commemorate the 64th Ave., is sponsoring a Ukrainian
anniversary of the proclamation of a Easter egg (pysanka) decorating
free Ukraine. The concert will be held workshop. The adult course begins
at 5 p.m. at the Ukrainian Center, today and will also be offered on
240 Hope Ave. February 28 and March 21 and 28,
The keynote speaker will be Ivan from 1 to 4 p.m. The children's
Burtyk, and the entertainment will be course will be held on Saturday,
provided by members of youth or­ March 27, and April 3 from 1:30 p.m.
ganizations. to 3:30 p.m. The cost of the course is
S10 for adults, S5 for children. To
NEW YORK: St. George School will register call Daria Chaikovsky at the
hold a children's party at 2 p.m. in the Art Center, Tuesday through Satur­
school auditorium, 215 E. Sixth St. day between 11 a.m. and 3 p.m., (213)
The party.will include games, sur­ 668-0172.
prises and refreshments. Admission
for adults is S2, for children - SI. Monday, February 23

TUCSON, Ariz.: Ann A. Meyer is

offering a course on Ukrainian
At a recent meeting of the women's conference organizing committee are: (seated, Saturday, February 13 Easter egg decorating at the Univer­
from left) Sonia Kaczaraj, Slava Gerulak, Myroslava Znayenko, Irena Fedyshyn sity of Arizona, every Tuesday night
(standing) Anisa H. Sawyckyj, Olenka Savyckyj, Christine Melnyk, Myrosia TRENTON, NJ.: The Ukrainian from 6:30 to 9 p.m. from February 23
Wank), Maria Olynec and Oksana Tyshovnytsky. National Home Club here is spon­ to March 9. The classes will be held at
soring a Valentine's Day Party at 8 1717 S. Speedway, in the Babcock
by Anisa Hendzia Sawyckyj slowing the assimilation process; the p.m. The party will be held at the Building, Room 1216. The three
Ukrainian woman and the women's Ukrainian National Home Down­ sessions will cost S25.
NEW YORK - Ukrainian women in movement; the Ukrainian superwoman; stairs Club, 477 Jeremiah Ave. The
the United States are starting to circle community activism; establishing U- admission fee is S3 and includes a
October 2-3 on their calendars, say krainian women's networks; women buffet. For more information, please
organizers of a conference titled "The artists and the Ukrainian heritage; contact Omelan Kotsopey at (609) ADVANCE NOTICE
Ukrainian Woman in Two Worlds." organizing political action groups; the 392-0650 or Teresa Kopanycia (609)
ROME: The Ukrainian Catholic
That is the weekend when a gathering press and the community. 396-7945.
University in Rome" is sponsoring its
geared specifically to the interests of a Also planned for the weekend are an 12th summer sessions from June 24
new generation of Ukrainian women exhibition of women's art, and an CARTERET, N JL: The New Jersey- to July 25, under the theme "Millen­
will be held in the pleasant autumn evening of cocktails and a buffet dinner New York region of the Ukrainian nium of Christianity in Ukraine.' For
setting of Soyuzivka. with entertainment by women involved Orthodox League extends a cordial more information about the course
The last decade has opened many new in the performing arts. invitation to a Mardi Gras, at St. contact: Prof. Wasyl Lew, 289 Wil­
opportunities for women in the United j The idea for the conference was Demetrius Hall, 645 Roosevelt Ave., ton Road E., Ridgefield, Conn.
States. Ukrainian women, too, have proposed by the national executive of Come and enjoy a festive evening of 06877, (203)431-3785.
had to make choices that affect their the Ukrainian National Women's Lea­ laughter and dance to the sounds of To find out about scholarships
personal growth, their families, their gue of America. It called together a the Chary band. contact: St. Sophia Religious Asso­
jobs and the Ukrainian community, group of young, enthusiastic Ukrainian ciation, 7911 Whitewood Road,
which depends greatly upon the input of women, both members and non-mem­ Philadelphia, Pa. 19117.
women. bers of the UNWLA, who agreed that the Saturday, February 20
The upcoming conference will ad­ time had come for an event of this kind. WASHINGTON: Now is the time to
dress this dilemma through small work­ The conference organizing commit­ JENKINTOWN, Pa.: Manor Junior apply for the 1982 Institute on
shop sessions on a variety of topics. tee is currently, composed of women College is holding its annual Mardi Comparative. Political and Econo­
Some proposed topics are: Ukrainian from New York, New Jersey and Con­
Gras, sponsored by the Parents mic Systems offered on Friday, June
traditions and the family; preserving the necticut. However, women from cities
Ukrainian language; intermarriage such as Cleveland, Rochester, Detroit, Association. It will be held from 8:30 4, through .Saturday, July 17, at
(Ukrainians with non-Ukrainians); Washington, Chicago and others have p.m. to 1 a.m. Everyone is invited to Georgetown University.
join in dancing, games of chance, hot Students participating in the insti­
what does your Ukrainian identity offered to establish liaison groups in
mean to^ou?; the future of Ukrainian order to create as widespread an infor-. and cold buffet and refreshments. tute will be enrolled in the courses for
schools, churches and youth organiza­ mation network of women as possible. The entertainment committee pro­ six weeks and will receive three credit
tions; the individual and the community mises a live band, The Hy-lites. hours of study.
"The response to our initial efforts Reserved tickets are S10. All pro­ For more information write to:
(singles, single parents'and the elderly); has been tremendous," said Olenka
ceeds will go to the College Annual Michael Caslin, Executive Director,
Savyckyj, chairwoman of the organiz­ Fund. Mardi Gras and 50/50 tickets The Charles Edison Memorial Youth
ing committee. b And we welcome the may be ordered and tables reserved Fund, 1616 H St. NW, Suite 804,
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has new editor the conference."
A questionnaire has been mailed to
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a publication recently founded here mailing list in order to help the group
under the aegis of the New York School better assess the interests of conference
of Bandura, has announced that it has a participants and narrow down the Attention, students!
new editor, Prof. Andrij Horniatkevyc number of topics to fit into the time- - Throughout the year. Ukrainian student clubs plan and hold
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Hall, University of Alberta, Edmonton, questionnaire and to be kept informed
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New Jersey
(Continued from page 4)
Encyclopedia, a gift from the New
Jersey Ukrainian community. Mr.
Keybida's introductory remarks blend­
ed the past history of Ukraine with
today's political situations around the
world.
Mykola Semanyshyn wished the new
governor all the best in his new office,
after which the group sang "Mnohaya
Lita." The program concluded with a
few words from Constantine Wanio, the
Passaic UCCA branch head and
public relations manager for the state­
wide UCCA Coordinating Council.
After the program, Gov. Kean passed
out commemorative pens to representa­
tives of the Ukrainian community.
Among the representatives gathered
for the signing were the pastors of four
Ukrainian parishes, the Rev. Mitred
Mykola Haleta of St. George Ukrainian
Orthodox Church in the Trenton-
Yardville area, the Very Rev. Bohdan
Zelechiwsky of Holy Trinity Ukrainian
Orthodox Church in Trentont the Very
Rev. Michael Kuchmiak of St. John the
Baptist Ukrainian Catholic Church in
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SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 1982
Utica College offers
Ukrainian course
UTICA, N.Y. — A Five-week course
on Ukrainian history and culture will be
offered at Utica College uf Syracuse
University in the framework of the
Ethnic Heritage Studies Center, begin­
ning February 25.
Utica College has created an Ethnic
Heritage Studies Center as a service in
developing human understanding for
the community. To this end the Divi­
sion of Continuing Education will offer
a series of seminars during 1982 dealing
with the ethnic heritage of selected
Oneida-Herkimer area ethnic groups.
The seminars are designed primarily
for area residents to gain information
and insight about the history and
culture of a given ethnic group. There
will be no testing or examination for
persons registered on a no-credit basis.
Students may register for this course for
one credit.
Literary resources are being deve­
loped by the Utica College Library.
Purchases of basic books in heritage
studies are being made by the library,
aided partly through local contributions.
The course will be conducted by Dr.
M. Teodozia Sawyck'a. The lectures will
be held on Thursdays, February 25 to
April 1 (no class on Thursday, March
18).
hor more information call Utica
College in Utica at (315) 792-3001 or in
Rome at 339-3880.
Panorama...
(Continued from page 9)
storytelling style, which combines the
classic simplicity of ancient oral
traditions with the free play of perfor­
mance, blending mime, music and
puppetry. From February 9 through 14,
the troupe will present "The Thunder­
storm of the Youngest Child" at 8 p.m.
daily and a Sunday matinee at 3 p.m.
(For information, call 254-1109).
Around the Big Apple
Jack Palance has been signed to star
in the play "Now You See It," opening
on Broadway on May 20. The ABC-TV
comedy series "Open All Night," star­
ring George Dzundza has been switched
from Saturday to Friday evening at 8:30
p.m. An oil painting by Dona Sochyn-
sky is included in"the seventh annual
Juried Exhibition of Paintings and
Sculpture, now on display at the
Brooklyn Museum...Alexander Archi-
penko's 1957 "Cleojja`tra`" Is on view in
the Zabriskie Gallery's western annex in
a show titled "Flat and Figurative"...
Playing the role of Blondie in the film
"Zoot Suit," now at Universal theatres
in the Metropolitan New York area, is
Helena Andreyko, a modern dancer
who hails from Philadelphia.
THE UKRAINIAN NATIONAL ASSOCIATION
SCHOLARSHIP AWARDS
FOR THE ACADEMIC YEAR 1982/83?
The scholarships are available to`sfyderrts at an accredited college or university, WHO
HAVE BEEN MEMBERS OF THE UKRAINIAN NATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR AT LEAST
TWO YEARS. Applicants are judged on the basis of scholastic record, financial need
and involvement in Ukrainian community arid student lite. Applications are to be sub­
mitted no later than March 3 1 , 1982. For application form write to:
UKRAINIAN NATIONAL ASSOCIATION. INC.
30 Montgomery Street ш Jersey City. N.J. 0 7 3 0 2
ATTENTION! APPLICATIONS SUBMITTED WITHOUT ALL REQUIRED DOCUMENTS
ATTACHED WILL NOT BE PROCESSED BVTHEІСОМІЙТТЕЕ.' S " ^ ' ` ' " ` ` `
No. 6
Detroit, Windsor
Ukrainian graduates
hold annual meeting
WINDSOR, Ont. - The annual
meeting of the Ukrainian Graduates of
Detroit and Windsor was held Satur­
day, January 23, at the National Tra­
veller Hotel" here.
The organization is a group of Ukrai­
nian university graduates organized in
October 1939. The group is dedicated to
the interests of the Ukrainian commu­
nity in the Detroit and Windsor areas.
One of the club's purposes is to en­
courage students of Ukrainian descent
to pursue higher education through the
medium of scholarships.
President Alex Serafyn gave his
report to the general membership on the
club's 1981 activities. Other officers
reported more specifically on their
activities.
The incoming officers for 1982 were
introduced as follows: Dr. Walter
Yaworsky, president; Greg Nazark, vice
president; Yvonne Romanow, record­
ing secretary; Diana Lynn Warziski,
treasurer; Alex Serafyn, scholarship
chairman; Vera Feld, Ivan Halich, Dr.
Ron Hazen and Irene Zdan, board
members; Michael Wichorek; Bulletin
editor.
The club holds an annual banquet at
which scholarships are awarded to
deserving high school graduates pursu­
ing university degrees.
In addition, special recognition is
awarded annually to a person of Ukrai­
nian descent for his/her service to the
community. The 1982 banquet and
dance will be held at the Cleary Audi­
torium in Windsor on October 16.
Fraternal...
(Continued from page S)
organizations on-the local level.
The project suggests that fraternal
communicators work in cooperation
with their local UNA branch in honor­
ing a person whose services to the
community have been especially note­
worthy. The person to be honored
need not be a branch or community
member. The event organized in honor
of this person should take place no later
than July 1. The nature of the event is
entirely up to the fraternal communica­
tor and the participating local branch.
Branch members who would like to
participate in this project as a fraternal
communicator, or help to or­
ganize the aforementioned event,
should contact: Marta Korduba, Fra­
ternal Activities Office, Ukrainian
National Association, 30 Montgomery
St., Jersey City, N.J. 07302; (201) 451-
2200,(212)227-5250.'
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hend the personal hurt and grief to
Mixed marriages... which parents (on both sides) are
(Continued from p i s e 6) subjected. Although parents sometimes
I have met some Ukrainians who say try to hide their feelings, nevertheless A GIFT OF LASTING VALUE
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don't get involved (romantically) with able to finish, don't get involved and
non-Ukrainians and there will be no hurt yourself and those who give so and Watson КігксоамІІ 115.00
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romances, as it should be, but one does introduction by Dr. Paul LGersper hard J` 5.75
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Some young couples say: "111 take my (Continued from pate 3)

child once a week to Ukrainian school." of Ukrainian political prisoners. THE VULNERABLE RUSSIANS - b y lev E. Dobnansky J 595
That child will grow up to know Ukrai­ The assembly "emphasized the ne­
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about it. And. sooner or later, even
that will be forgotten.
We must remember that our parents
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our identity, or else we or they could
have remained where they weraaccepted
Russian dominance and their language,
and led fairly comfortable lives without
the uncertainties of an immigrant's
mobilization of cadres for the expan­
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placed e m p h a s i s o n the "need for
military preparedness and militariza­
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assembly presidium noted in its release.
It also said that the assembly "con­
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Two communities... ing. Allmutual respect.

this may sound emotional. How­ A HISTORY OF U K R A I N E - by Hichael Hrashevsky 177.50
(Co nttnued from page 7) ever, if one considers that there are a
Let us Ukrainian Catholics, Ortho­ half million Carpatho-Rusyns and a THE UKRAINE. 1917 1921 A STUDY IN REVOLUTION - edited by Tans Hunczak
dox or Protestants visit, or, if no Ukrai­ half million Ukrainians in the United with the assistance of John T. von dtr Heide. Cambridge. Mass.: Harvard Uk
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The converse should apply to Carpatho-
Rusyns vis-a-vis Ukrainian churches.
"Ukrainian Harvard" should be for
both communities; and, thank God, it
effective force for mutual benefit and
for the preservation of our heritages and
national identities.
All this will not happen in a day, but,
if events begin to move toward that
direction, it may become a reality much
sooner than we think.
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A GIFT OF LASTING VALUE
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Anti-Semitism...
(Continued from page 7)
more vocal, that is not to say that Jews
are anti-Ukrainian. Some are assertive­
ly supportive of our cause while the
majority spends no more time thinking
of us than we do. say. of the Zambians.
We must rid ourselves of the stereotype
t 4 00
of the Jewish Ukrainophobe.
Thirdly, we must recognize that the
S 2 50
single most compelling aspect
of the Jewish psyche is fear
Illustration
and alienation. This profound,
t too
virtually uncontrollable manifestation
shared by all Jews is the product of three
114 95 millennia of persecution, oppression,
and discrimination. Despite their vast
S1250 achievements and the prominence and
prosperity they seem to enjoy, Jews
everywhere see themselves as a be­
J 6 94 leaguered tiny tribe adrift in a powerful
and threatening sea of Gentiles.
It should not surprise us that Jews
cling so tenaciously to and feel as deeply
as they do about both their Jewishness
and the survival of Israel. To be and
S 400 remain Jewish is a matter of survival.
Conversely, even relatively innocent
S 800 and innocuous manifestations of "anti-
SI? 50
Semitism" which often take the form of
і 3.00 some silly ethnic joke, in light of Jewish
J 3 00 hypersensitivity to all hostile manifesta­
S ? 50 tions, cannot help but evoke a reaction
far in excess of that which is objectively
warranted.
s?ooo
There are certain conclusions that
ought to be drawn from this. Our
objective — both long-and short4erm —
must include the enhancement of trust,
J1S00 respect and mutuality of concerns and
95
interest between both peoples. Those
a' common interests, I believe, are much
deeper than most of us realize. In case of
5 3 25 provocations, such as the Soviet-in­
spired "war criminal" trials, we should
see them for what they are: transparent
attempts by our enemies to drive a
I I SO
wedge between two strong and proud
nations.
That is not to say that we should
allow ourselves to be abused or that we
should silently tolerate defamation of
our national honor. Countermeasures,
such as that taken by the Ukrainian
Anti-Defamation League, should be
greatly strengthened. Vigorous action
should be taken to focus public legisla­
tive and judicial attention on the glaring
absurdity of basing prosecution on
Soviet-supplied evidence. The stiff
protests Ukrainians initiated in re­
sponse to distortions in the film "Holo­
caust" are another very justifiable form
of self-defense. These measures not only
allow us to engage in constructive
dialogue, but, more importantly, earn
us respect as a cohesive group capable
of responding when provoked.
A line must always be drawn, how­
ever, between legitimate defense of our
national honor and an urge to "get back
at the Jews." The former will always be
respected and will leave open channels
of communication even during periods
of tension and friction. The latter will
simply result in a continuance of an
unfortunate siate of affairs that bene­
fits neither Ukrainians nor Jews.
Thus, in the short term, it is impera­
tive that we take whatever lawful and
dignified measures may be necessary to
neutralize the effectiveness of the
Ukrainophobes.
In the long term, it is our responsibi­
lity to restrain those who manifest anti-
Semitic tendencies among us, and to
seek an understanding and trust with
Jews which would permanently break
the vicious cycle of bigotry and recri­
mination. Not only is this the proper
humane and Christian position to take,
but it is also an essential component of
our struggle for national self-deter-
nimation. With 3 million Jews residing
in Ukraine, we must recognize them as
valuable allies and as fellow citizens and
compatriots of a common homeland.

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