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Mass grave of Stalin's victims uneart/ied near Ivano-Franlcivslce JERSEY CITY, N.J. - Yet

another mass grave of victims of the Stalin terror in Ukraine has been found in the republic — this time in western Ukraine in the Ivano-Fran-kivske area.

According to the September 30 issue of Komsomolskyi Prapor, official newspaper of the Ivano-Frankivske Oblast Komsomol (Com­munist Youth League), on Septem­ber 21, in Demianiv Laz, a nature preserve near Pasichna, south of Ivano-Frankivske, a mass gravesite was unearthed.

Found along with the bodies — some 500 exhumed thus far - were documents proving that these were

victims of the NKVD, executed in 1941. Many of the dead were pri­soners in the secret police's prison in Stanislav, now Ivano-Frankivske.

Tpurists recently returning from Ukraine told The Ukrainian Weekly that a memorial service attended by thousands was held near the site on Sunday, October 29.

Komsomolskyi Prapor noted in its report titled "The Truth about De­mianiv Laz'' the discovery of the mass grave "confirmed the facts about which our countrymen for decades had spoken in whispers, while look­ing all around."

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Canadians laundli busin^sslies with Ukraine by George S jewych

Special to The Ukrainian Weekly

KIEV — As card-carrying capitalists they weren't averse to making a profit, even if chances were that it would be in rubles, the beleaguered Soviet currency. But the more than 50 Ukrainian Cana­dian businessmen, professionals and government representatives had a lot more in mind than that when they visited three Ukrainian cities in a span of two weeks.

"They had a real desire to help their fellow Ukrainians and if they can get a successful business venture out of it, that's fine," said Michael Waris, Wash­ington attorney and one of a handful of Americans in the Canadian delegation that made the trip to Ukraine last month for a series of conferences and meetings on business and trade.

"They're not charitable institutions, they can't afford to do it any other way," said Mr. Waris, former senior partner and now of counsel of the Washington law firm of Baker A McKenzie, re­putedly the world's largest. "But they would certainly love to be part of the revival of the economy of Ukraine."

The focal point of the tour, during which the group visited Kiev, Odessa and Lviv, was a conference on joint ventures, held October 3-5 in the Ukrai­nian capital. For three days the Cana­dian Ukrainian visitors and their more than 350 Soviet counterparts explored the possibilities of increasing trade and business contacts between enterprises of Canada and Ukraine. (The term "coun­terparts" should be interpreted rather loosely in this context, as was made evident by the contrast between the market and private-initiative orienta­tion of the Canadians and the Soviets' admitted very recent exposure to these concepts.)

The focus of the sessions was on the

Union Hospital donates medical aid to children affected by Chornobyl

issue of businesb projects undertaken jointly by Western and Soviet partners and the changes in Soviet regulations and practices that have made them possible.

The Kiev conference is seen as reflect­ing the economic reforms undertaken by the Soviet leadership under Mikhail Gorbachev within the context of his perebudova (restructuring) policies. A hallmark of the still-evolving economic reforms is decentralization, a move­ment away from the planned economy of the past and a new willingness to place production and other critical decisions in the hands of local ma­nagers. The reforms also stress the increased or promised economic auto­nomy of the union-republics, with decision-making powers in many eco­nomic sectors transferred to republican ministries and on down to the regional (oblast), district (raion) and enterprise levels.

A major element in these changes is the promise that the republics will be allowed to keep much more of what they produce; estimates of the gross product of Ukraine that remains for consumption in the republic have ranged from 28 to 18 percent, and activists in the West and in Ukraine have pointed to these statistics as evidence of Ukraine's colonial status vis-a-vis Moscow.

The Canadian delegation's tour of Ukraine and the Kiev conference grew out of an initiative by the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of the Ukrai­nian SSR. Much of the organizational work was done by a Planning Commit­tee chaired by Bohdan Onyschuk, a senior partner in the Toronto law firm of Smith, Lyons, Torrance, Stevenson and Mayer, and vice-president of the Ukrainian Canadian Professionals'and Businessmen's Association.

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І OIha Kuzmowycz Patricia Lynch, Union Hospital administrator, is flanked by Volodymyr Yavorivsky (left) and Dr. Zenon Matkiwsky, chief of surgery, during news conference in Union, N.J. announcing the hospital's donation of aid to.Chornobyl

victims. by Chrystyna N. Lapychak

UNION, N.J. - Responding to a plea for help by Volodymyr Yavorivsky for an effort begun by members of the Popular Movement of Ukraine for Perebudova, or Rukh, Union Hospital announced on October 26 that it will provide aid to the victims of the 1986 Chornobyl nuclear disaster in Soviet Ukraine.

On the initiative of its chief of surgery. Dr. Zenon Matkiwsky, with the contribution of several pharmaceu­tical companies. Union Hospital has agreed to donate much-needed medical

supplies to help the children affected by the Chornobyl disaster and announced it would accept several Soviet patients a year for free medical treatment.

The announcement was made at an October 26 news conference at the medical facility in the presence of Mr. Yavorivsky, a member of the Soviet Congress of People's Deputies and leading member of Rukh, who visited the United States last month.

''Mr. Yavorivsky has come from Ukraine to the United States on a very special mission," said Dr. Matkiwsky during the news conference, "to find

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House-Senate conference committee: Ukraine's faithful are persecuted Amendment calls for 1,000 refugee slots

WASHINGTON. "- The House-Senate Conference Committee pn the Foreign Aid Appropriations Bill adop­ted language on November 3 which included Ukrainian Catholics and Ukrainian Orthodox as Soviet groups presumed to be subject to persecution and, therefore, eligible for refugee status. The new language also provides for an allocation of 1,0(Ю admissions to the United States for Ukrainian Catho­lics and Orthodox.

The adopted amendment replaces the Lautenberg amendment which failed to provide the two Ukrainian religions with refugee status.

The new amendment was negotiated

by representatives of Sen. Fraiik Lauten­berg (D-N.J.), Rep. Bruce Morrison (D-Conn.), and a number of Jewish organizations involved in the refugee issue, as well as Eugene Iwanciw of the Washington Office of the Ukrainian National Association (UNA). The amendment is based on legislation introduced earlier this year in the House by Rep. Morrison and in the Senate by Sen. Lautenberg.

The agreement was applauded by all the parties involved. Sen. Lautenberg stated: "I'm extremely pleased that my refugee bill recognizes the continuing persecution of active Ukrainian Catho­lics and Orthodox in the Soviet Union. The bill,.which makes it easier for Ukrainian Catholics and Orthodox to prove refugee status, sends a message to

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itself fell to Prof. Bohdan Hawryly-shyn, prominent Canadian economist and former director of the International Management Institute in Geneva, with Viktor Yanovsky, vice-president of the Chamber of Commerce, serving as co-chair.

After hearing greetings sent by the Canadian ambassador in Moscow (who could not attend personally, due to illness) and the Council of Ministers of the Ukrainian SSR and a welcoming speech by Ukrainian poet Volodymyr Brovchenko, the chairman of the Ukrai-na Society, which arranged the rich cultural program for the Canadian guests, the conferees got down to the business of business.

Prof. Oleh Bilorus, deputy director of the Institute of National Economy of the Academy of Sciences of the Ukrai­nian SSR, and, from the Canadian side. Prof. Basil Kalymon of the University of Toronto, gave an overview of the economy of Ukraine. Valery Krav-chenko of the Ministry of Foreign Economic Relations presented a trade profile of the Ukrainian SSR, explain­ing the roles of the various organiza­tions and institutions involved.

Attorney Arthur George, who heads Baker ft McKenzie's recently opened Moscow office, shared his expertise in

. the area of joint ventures. Mr. George, the co-author of "Joint Ventures in the Soviet Union: The Law and Practice," has recently been joined in the Moscow office by John Hewko, a young attor­ney of Ukrainian descent. An entire afternoon was devoted to the broader aspects of joint venture, with an outline provided by Prof. Vasyl Kisil of Kiev State University, Dr. Serhiy B^ezo-venko, the chairman of Biznex, a iiewly established Ukrainian firm that pro­vides courses on management, Toronto attorney Edward Belobaba and George Yurchyshyn, president of Mt. Vernon Enterprises Inc. Mr. Yurchyshyn had become so excited by the prospects of trade with Ukraine that he quit his senior vice-president position at the Bank of Boston to found his own company.

Parallel working groups Most of the rest of the work of the

conference was done in six parallel working groups dealing with the follow­ing sectors: health care; agroindustrial and food processing; light indus­try/technology; engineering services, energy and technology; construction, hotels and tourism development; con­sulting, legal and financial services.

Delegation members also met with their Soviet counterparts outside the conference, either informally over dinner and at receptions or during organized visits to government institu­tions and enterprises, including, for example, the Dovzhenko film studio and, for a small group, a visit to the nuclear power station at Chornobyl.

Somehow, the Canadian guests also found time to see the more famous sites of Kiev, catch performances at Kiev's excellent dramatic and opera theatres, and meet with some leading figures of Ukrainian cultural life. Most of oneday was set aside for a side trip to Kaniv — a pilgrimage really - to the grave of Ukraine's national poet and bard, Taras Shevchenko.

The pace in Odessa, where the Cana­dian group spent three days, and in Lviv (four days) was not nearly as hectic. There was more time for sightseeing, including a cruise on the Black Sea and і side trip to the Olesko Castle near Lviv, and outings to the theatre.

The last evening in Lviv was devoted to a wrap-up session, an assessment of what had been accomplished during the

previous two weeks. A consensus was easily reached: the conference on joint ventures and the entire two-week pro­gram of contacts and activities had more than matched expectations.

Speaking for the Canadian side, delegation leader Mr. Onyschuk listed among the highlights the cere­monial signing during the Kiev confe­rence of a memorandum of understand­ing between Ukraine and the province of Ontario on increasing trade and economic cooperation, Mr. Onyschuk and Chamber of Commerce vice-presi­dent Mr. Yanovsky, who co4;haired the final session, put their own signatures on a memorandum, calling for ex­changes of information in the area of economic relations.

The head of the Canadian delegation signed two other documents — an agreement of cooperation with the Ministry of Health of the Ukrainian SSR and, together with the mayor of Lviv, a memorandum on creating a foundation for the restoration of the historical places of this ancient Ukrai­nian city. Mr. Onyschuk also men­tioned the signing of an agreement on future cooperation between Mc Master University of Hamilton, Ontario, (which was represented by Prof. Peter Potichny) and Kiev State University.

October 1 bloodshed Very seldom in human affairs is

everything light. The shadow cast upon an otherwise most rewarding and in­spiring two-week experience was that of the events in Lviv on October 1, when Soviet spetsnaz units spilled the blood of hundreds of city residents, including many women, children and elderly persons, while brutally breaking up a crowd that had gathered for the peace­ful and sanctioned celebration of the anniversary of the city's founding.

Mr. Onyschuk and conference chair­man Dr. Hawrylyshyn expressed the deep concern of delegation members to the deputy chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Ukrainian SSR Viktor Urchykin, who assured them that a commission had already been formed to conduct an inquiry into the Lviv po­grom and promised that he would personally look into the matter.

The Soviet Ukrainian official had to deal with the issue again in an interview for Toronto's TV Channel 47. Mean­while, Messrs. Onyschuk and Hawryly­shyn briefed representatives of the Canadian government during an offi­cial reception, and later, in Lviv, the Canadian delegation head raised the issue again in meetings with local and oblast officials. The thrust of these representations was twofold: that the Lviv events were a stark violation of human rights and that they would cast a pall over the wartmng business climate.

To the list of highlights of the tour a casual observer might have also added that Ukrainian was the agreed upon language of choice during all officikl sessions and informal meetings, with English also in use as an official lan­guage and simultaneous translations provided into one or the other. And it did the heart good to see ^Soviet functionaries (the few who had a lan­guage problem) conquer their inclina­tions to lapse into the Russian that had become so much more comfortable for them and stay with their rusty Ukrai-nian,and the pride with which third-and fourth-generation Ukrainian Cana­dians put to use the Ukrainian they were sure they had forgotten.

And, of course, there were those true businessmen (who knows how many of them there were) who left for home with memoranda of intent or perhaps even a contract or two, the first fruit of a good first step towards breaking the econo­mic isolation of Ukraine and making it a full trading partner with the West.

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medical support for the victims of the Chornobyl disaster. You are aware as Mr. Yavorivsky has said and we have heard from other people coming from Ukraine that there are close to two million children that are afflicted with the effects of radiation and they are now dealing with such things as leukemia, which is very rampant,sarcomas,as well as thyroid cancer.

"It is very imperative that we support this effort and we have already collect­ed medical supplies of a great amount, which will be transported to Ukraine with Mr. Yavorivsky," declared Dr. Matkiwsky.

This first shipment consisted of 1,300 lbs. of medical supplies worth approxi­mately 5100,000, said Dr. Matkiwsky, and included some basic medical equip­ment and medications that are in scarce supply in the Soviet Union. The ship­ment included: antibiotics; vacuum bottles for blood; bottles with different solutions; ureteric catheters for kidney-related illnesses; medications for gastro­intestinal diseases, hypertension, heart disease and other afflictions; 10 to 15 cases containing 5,000 3cc syringes, 2,000 lOcc syringes, 4,000 22-gauge needles and 4,000 23-gauge needles; vitamins; iodine; sutures material and more.

Swissair, the airline which flew Mr. Yavorivsky back to the USSR on October 26, agreed to take the 1,300 lbs. of supplies on board the flight at no charge.

During the news conference, Mr. Yavorivsky addressed many of his remarks at the children from the fourth grade of St. John the Baptist Ukrainian Catholic School in Newark, N.J., who, dressed in embroidered Ukrainian costumes, presented Mr. Yavorivsky with flowers and sent greetings to the children of Ukraine in a moving cere­mony.

"Children - you are the future of both the United States and Ukraine," said Mr. Yavorivsky. "When I came on to the grounds of this hospital I was reminded of the fact that people cross over into this hospital with faith and hope in their hearts."

"I can now only imagine the moment when I arrive at the Ukrainian villages and will see the prematurely old faces of Ukrainian children in whose eyes re­mains the question: what will become of us? And I can see how in them and in their parents a ray of hope will shine through — the Ukrainian people will retain your generosity in their sub­conscious, it stands high above all political deeds, because this is an act of love and brotherhood," declared Mr. Yavorivsky.

Speaking on behalf of his consti­tuents in Kiev Oblast, many of whom are evacuees from areas surrounding Chornobyl, and "in the name of grief and tears," Mr. Yavorivsky expressed gratitude to the hospital administration and staff, the Ukrainian community, the Jewish community and all Ameri­cans who in some way contributed to this humanitarian effort.

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A fourth-grader from St. John's Ukrainian Catholic School thanks Patricia Lynch, administrator of Union Hospital, for donating mcNiical aid to the children of Chornobyl in a ceremony during October 26 news conference, as Volodymyr

Yavorivsky (left) looks on.

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Mykola Horbal thanks Rep Gilman, | - ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ j ^ -his principal champion m U.S. | f^^ f^^^^^^ ^f Church

Dearly Beloved in Christ! It is the eve of the arrival of President Mikhail Gorbachev in Rome, where

he will meet with our holy father, Pope John Paul II. Soon the future of our Church will be determined. Our eyes are lifted up to

God, whom we approach with intensive prayers: Grant us. a beneficial fate, enable us to pray freely in our churches on the native land of our fatherland.

More than ever before, we need to pray, fast and perform works of charity, in order that the Lord may respond favorably to our entreaties: "'Ask and you shall receive" (Matthew 7:7); "Be vigilant, and pray incessantly all the time" (Luke 21:36), as our faithful have done in Moscow. They, by praying and staging hunger strikes, heed the words of Christ (Mark 9:29).

Now, on the the eve of this historic visit, we appeal to all our bishops, І priests, monks, nuns and faithful in Ukraine and in ttiie diaspora to observe a

special Day of Prayer and Fasting fur the freedom and public recognition of the Ukrainian Catholic Church in Ukraine on Sunday, November 26.

We simultaneously appeal to all Christians throughout the world to join us in Christian solidarity on .this day of prayer, so that our Church in Ukraine, after long decades of intense persecution, might rejoice in its public legalization and the fullness of religious liberty.

May God bless you! +Cardinal Myroslav Lubachivsky

Given in Rome at the Church of the Zhyrovytsi Mother of God on the feast of the holy martyrs Sergius and Bacchus,OCiOber 7 (Gregorian), October 20 (Julian), 1989.

Mykola Horbal (second from left) with Rep. Benjamin Gilman, Chrystia Senyk (left) and Ulana Mazurkevich (right).

by Ciena Stercho Hendler

PHILADELPHIA - Mykola Hor­bal, a former Ukrainian political pri­soner who was incarcerated by the Soviets for a total of 16 years, recently had the opportunity to thank his chief champion in the U.S. Congress, Rep. Benjamin Gilman, (R-N.Y.) for his sustained efforts on his behalf through­out the I980's.

Rep. Gilman, who "adopted" Mr. Horbal after his arrest and imprison­ment in 1980 for activities stemming from his membership in the Ukrainian Helsinki Monitoring Group, fought tirelessly for Mr. Horbal's release from the infamous "death" camp, Perm No. 35(36).

As a member of the Congressional Ad Hoc Committee on the Baltic States and Ukraine, Rep. Gilman exerted pressure on Soviet authorities on Mr. Horbal's behalf through letters, tele­phone calls and personal contacts.

Mr. Horbal, who is in the United States for a three-month visit with relatives, met with Rep. Gilman on October 22 in Washington. During their meeting, Rep. Gilman and Mr. Horbal not only discussied Mr. Horbal's impri­sonment and the contributions to the battle for human rights in Ukraine by U.S. advocates, but also, reviewed the

present situation m Ukraine. In this connection, Mr. Horbal, who

is the executive secretary of the Ukrai­nian Helsinki Union and a leading activist in the Kiev branch of Rukh, informed Rep. Gilman about the tragic health consequences of the Chornobyl nuclear disaster which are now coming into the open and the crying need for medical help for its victims.

Rep. Gilman, who, along with mem­bers of the Ukrainian Human Rights Committee of Philadelphia (UHRC), met with officials of the Soviet Mis­sion to the U. N. immediately after the accident m 1986 to discuss U.S. medical assistance, commented on the horrible irony of the recent disclosures in view of previous Soviet insistence that da­mage from the accident was minimal and that no help was needed.

Mr. Horbal was accompanied on his visit to Rep. Gilman by Ulana Mazur­kevich and Chrystia Senyk of the UHRC, which arranged the meeting.

While in Washington, Mr. Horbal also met informally, over dinner, with Rep. Don Ritter (R-Pa.). Mr. Horbal was pleased to have the opportunity to renew his acquaintancehip with Rep. Ritter, the ranking Republican on the U.S. Helsinki Commission, with whom he had held talks previously in Moscow in 1988.

Man from Ukraine walks again thanks to space-age technology

by Marta Kolomayets

JERSEY CITY, N.J. - When Ivan Yonyk climbed out of his bus to check engine trouble near his home town of Sniatyn in western Ukraine, on No­vember 22, 1987, he had no reason to think that this would be the last time he'd walk for quite some time.

But, that day was a tragic one for the healthy, robust bus driver, who was run

over by a speeding car as he leaned over the motor. Although his legs were badly broken, still he had no reason to think that he would lose them. Yet now, as Mr. Yonyk stands on two artificial limbs, according to his family, it is a miracle that he will be walking again.

For, on that awful day, almost two years agQi Mr. Yonyk was taken to the hospital; however, as is often the case in

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Wife Halyna Una Kuzmowycz

s Ivan Yonyk as he takes his first steps using his new artificial limbs;

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Ivan Drach tells Winnipeggers about Ukraine's Rukh by Stella Hryniuk

WINNIPEG - The head of the newly founded Popular Movement of Ukraine for Perebudova, or Rukh, Ivan Drach, spoke on Monday, October 23, to an enthusiastic, mostly Ukrainian audience of some 200 people at the Planetarium Auditorium here.

His talk and responses to questions were simultaneously translated into English by Orysia Paszczak Tracz.

Dr. Drach made it clear that, unlike the popular fronts in the Baltic states the Ukrainian movement for democra­tization of Soviet Ukrainian society had faced formidable opposition during its formative stages, and that the challenges to Rukh continued to be enormous.

Communist Party officialdom and the media, particularly in Kiev, had actively fought the efforts to establish Rukh, and it was, in his words, a miracle that this still-fragile child had been born.

The leading figures of Rukh have been writers and academics, he said,but from the very beginning among those intimately involved in the movement there have been workers, artists, youths and women. He spoke with special pride of the youth and workers who have bravely articulated and defended the principles and program of Rukh before its opponents.

He contrasted these actions with the coolness of the Central Committee of the Kiev Communist Party and the Ukrainian press and media in general towards the movement. Rukh had been prepared, he said, for a rejection of its request for space to hold its founding meeting in Kiev, having negotiated with their Lithuanian supporters for a venue in Vilnius. However Kiev city officials ultimately permitted use of the Kiev Polytechnical Institute for the founding conference of Rukh.

The composition of Rukh reflects the diverse population of Ukraine, which Mr. Drach smilingly described as made up of "malorosy, khokhly і ukraintsi." ITie "malorosy,'' he said, are dena­tionalized people, some of whom were acting in predictably negative ways towards Rukh; the 'hikraintsi" are the nationally conscious Ukrainians and pro-Rukh; but the largest group, he said, were the "khokhly," who he hoped would "get off the fence" and support the movement as it gained momentum and positive results.

The fact that in Ukraine there are 12

million Russians, 5 million Ukrainians who claim Russian is their mother tongue, 1 million Jews, and many other national minority groups militated against easy coordination of Rukh activities, Mr. Drach noted. There had been delegations from the Russian and Jewish groups at the founding meeting. Delegates were present from all oblasts of Ukraine, the most numerous being from the cities of Kiev and Lviv, and the western oblasts. Lesser numbers had come from Donetske, Odessa and Dnipropetrovske.

Mr. Drach outlined the operational structure of Rukh, which he said is complex but flexible, and able to react quickly to unfolding events. There is a Council of Delegates, led by Volo-dymyr Yavorivsky; the Council of Collegiums, a sort of "think tank" of academics, headed by economist Volo-dymyr Cherniak; the Council of Na­tionalities lead by Col. Villei Martyro-sian; and the Council of Deputies, the elected Ukrainian deputies in the Soviet Congress of People's Deputies.

In the councils and the membership in general there are diverse opinions, a striking example of which is the pre­sence of both Communists and Ukrai­nian Helsinki Union representatives. Support for Rukh is understandably stronger in the cities than in the country, and the western oblasts are more asser­tive in their demands of Rukh in respect to questions of national identity than are the eastern oblasts, Mr. Drach explained.

Tasks facing Rukh are huge, but "we are undaunted," Mr. Drach said. The main challenges will be the republican elections, the constitution, presenting legislative proposals on these questions, and on the issue of Ukrainian as the state language and language of common usage.

Despite the diversity of opinion in Rukh, Mr. Drach said he was confident that the movement possessed great reserves of untapped potential for the work ahead.He reiterated that Rukh is a socio-political organization, and not a political party, whose aims are the attainment of a free, sovereign Ukraine in a new federative structure, Rukh is opposed to the command system of the past, to anti-Semitism, and the mono­polistic ideological stance of the Com­munist Party, particularly now when Rukh is actively working for the crea­tion of a democratic society, and not threatening any separation of Ukraine

TUSM protest against Filaret seeks freedom of Churches

GARFIELD, N.J. - Despite strong winds and drenching rain, on Tuesday evening, October 31, several dozen Ukrainian Americans gathered here at Three Saints Russian Orthodox Church in for a vigil in support of Ukraine's repressed Christian faithful.

Participants held small candles while others in the group surrounded a large cross wrapped in barbed wire, symbolic of the continued persecution of the Ukrainian Orthodox and Catholic Churches, with several blue and yellow Ukrainian flags. Also on display were several banners reading "Free Ukraine's Churches," "Independence for Ukraine" and "Let Our People Pray."

The vigil coincided with the visit of Kiev's Russian Orthodox Metropolitan Filaret, who was visiting the Garfield parish along with other Soviet and world clergy, including churchmen from Cuba, Nicaragua, Hungary, Ru­mania, East Germany, Czechoslovakia,

as some opponents of the movement have suggested.

During the question period, Mr. Drach fleshed out some other points of the Rukh program, such as its defense of legal equality of all in Ukraine regardless of national or religious origin; and openness to discussions with other groups with common interests, such as the Ukrainian National Re­public in exile.

He maintained that Vitally Korotych is supportive of Rukh, something he has shown amply in the recent coverage in Ogonyok given to the question of legalization of the Ukrainian Catholic Church; he urged the audience to guard against blanket condemnation of all Ukrainian Communists, saying that there had been good people and great Ukrainians among them, such as Skrypnyk, Shumsky and Khvyliovy. Mr. Drach rejected the notion that he was a "continuator" of the Stalinists who had helped create the famine in Ukraine in the 1930s, and he announced that in the near future there was to be a forum of researchers looking at that question.

Curiously, he spoke very little about the role of the Church in Ukraine, or about the legalization of the Ukrainian Catholic Church. In response to a question about the Church in general, he stated that, "as a poet and idealist, I wish Ukrainians could have one united Christian Church."

There were several questions about what Ukrainians in Canada could do to help, and not harm, Rukh. To these Mr. Drach replied that he would likq to see more youth visiting Canada f om U-kraine, and more "twinning" of Cana­dian cities with Ukrainian cities. He urged Canadians to persuade their government: to help the "children of Chornobyl" by sending assistance of various sorts - medical and other expertise in particular.

Mr. Drach was thoroughly animated throughout the discussion, and appear­ed hopeful of significant changes for the better in Ukraine as a result of the founding of Rukh. He stated that he and others like him saw involvement in Rukh as a personal obligation in this "now or never" period of opportunity for Ukraine.

There was a collection of donations for Rukh supervised by the department of Slavic studies at the University of Manitoba, and the Ukrainian Free Academy of Sciences in Winnipeg.

Toronto group greets Zelenyi Svit conclave

TORONTO - Ukrainian envi­ronmentalists gathered at the first republican convention at Zelenyi Svit (Green World) learned that they are not alone in their concern about the state of Ukraine's environment.

Among the many official greetings received by the convention, which took place in Kiev on October 27-29, was a letter from an independent environmental group in Canada called ECOLOS.

"Environmental problems do not recognize political borders," said the letter. "These issues are of concern to people everywhere, and especially to Ukrainians in the diaspora who are apprehensive about the environ­mental state of their native land, Ukraine."

The letter was addressed to "fellow environmentalists,"care of Dr. Yuriy Shcherbak, a founder of Zelenyi Svit, and signed by the chairpersons of ECOLOS, Luba Medicky and Nata­lia Pawlenko, followed by the signa­tures of executive members.

ECOLOS began last December as a committee founded by Ms. Me­dicky and Ms. Pawlenko. For­mally renamed ECOLOS in June, the group has grown from four to 16 active members in Toronto, with supporters in the United States and Australia. Though an independent group, ECOLOS is endorsed by the newly formed Ecological Commis­sion of the World Congress of Free Ukrainians.

"We would have loved to attend tbe convention of Zelenyi Svit, but it was not possible to go at Ihe present time," said Ms. Medicky. "But with the letter, we were there in spirit. The environmental movement in Ukraine needs a great deal of support."

In the letter, ECOLOS pledges cooperation and support for envi­ronmentalists in Ukraine. As well, the organization is "attempting to raise the awareness of Ukrainian and other Western communities about the critical state of the environment in Ukraine."

"One of the first projects we are working on is a booklet describing Ukraine's 'environmental hotspots,' which we will later republish as a poster," said Ms. Pawlenko. "We're also making efforts to help the children of Chernivtsi, and are consi­dering a proposal to send dosimeters to Ukraine."

AHRU to benefit from United Way and other primarily Communist coun­tries, as part of a National Peace Conference held in northern New Jersey.

Vigil participants sang traditional religious and patriotic hymns, and observed an extended period of silence in memory of all of Ukraine's martyrs in the struggle for national independence.

As Metropolitcan Filaret and other conference attendees began exiting the church, vigil participants began chant­ing "Free our Churches in Ukraine!" While most of the clergy only paused briefly to survey the vigil. Metropolitan Filaret and the Soviet delegation re­mained on the church portico for several minutes to listen to the persis­tent calls for freedom for Ukraine's Christian faithful.

The vigil was sponsored by the northern New Jersey chapter of the Ukrainian Students Association of

- Mrl^oia' Mikhiio ; K:y (TUSlvlj.

NEWARK, N.J. - Americans for Human Rights in Ukraine (AHRU) has issued a press release appealing to its members and supporters for assistance in helping and supporting groups and individuals working to promote demo­cratization in Ukraine.

According to the release, AHRU is eligible to receive donations through the United Way. The United Way usually conducts its campaign in most com­panies and corporations during the first two weeks in October. Within the next few weeks, therefore, many will be contacted by fellow co-workers who will be serving as United Way campaign canyassers.

Through this unified campaign, numerous agencies are eligible to re­ceive the assistance needed to help countless causes - AHRU's work being among them. The specific qualifi­cation which makes AHRU eligible for the Uftiicci Wu - ii.^u is ШЄ did /illRu

gives to the resettled former political prisoners who emigrate to the United States and who experience difficulties in the beginning of their new lives.

The United Way represents the lar­gest system of providing people-to-people assistance, said the release.

Since the new influx of emigrants from Ukraine, the needs of the Ukrai­nian American community have been steadily growing. AHRU asks suppor­ters to consider their decision carefully when giving their United Way donation this year. This type of help is essential and will be appreciated by those who will benefit, wrote AHRU.

When filling out a United Way card, donations may be assigned to: Ameri­cans for Human Rights in Ukraine, 43 Midland Place, Newark, N.J. 07106 (IRS tax-deductible No. 22-2318966).

For farther information write or call r^)i) :^3-9729. -

No. 46 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 1989

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Fraternal by A ndre J. Worobec

Fraternal Activities Coordinator

Corner

Christmas cards to armed forces This is the third year since the UNA

initiated its Christmas card project. As it was well received, we are continuing it again this year. Ads about this project are appearing in Svoboda and The Ukrainian Weekly.

We are doing this because we know there are many of our young men and women in the U.S. and Canadian armed forces, be they in Army, Navy, Air Force or Coast Guard installations, on naval vessels, in various embassies, or, in case of the Canadian forces, part of the peacekeeping forces in the Middle East. Wherever they may be stationed, the UNA will send them a Christmas card.

Young UNA'ers

Diana Marie Lewitzke, seen above on the day of her first birthday, July 2, 1989, is a new member of UNA Branch 183 in Detroit. She is the daughter of

Craig and Natalie Lewitzke.

Brian D. Walker is a new member of UNA Branch 101 in Colchester, Conn. His parents are Wayne and Olga Walker of East Lyme, Conn. Grandpa John Gulycz of Sarasota, Fla., purchased a UNA insurance policy for little Brian.

Supreme secretary addresses Woonsocket UNA'ers

The UNA invites all readers to re­spond to its call and send in names and addresses of any Ukrainian service-person that chey may know, who is serving in the armed forces. The UNA will then mail the Christmas cards on December 6 of this year.

Therefore, clip out the ad, fill out the coupon with all the necessary informa­tion and forward it to us. You can also send the rank, name and service address of the serviceperson directly to: Ukrai­nian National Association, Fraternal Activities Coordinator, 30 Montgo­mery St. (third floor), Jersey City, N.J. 07302, and we will take care of the rest.

Supreme Secretary Walter Sochan addresses Woonsocket UNA District Committee. He is flanked by Helen Trenkler and Leon Hardink.

Natalie Belkairous (left), daughter of AH and Marta Belkairous, and Elizabeth Shuya, daughter of George and Margaret Shuya, were both enrolled into UNA Branch 452 of Hammond, Ind., by their grandparents Vasyl md Natalia Shuy^

WOONSOCKET, R.I. - A UNA district organizing meeting was held here on Sunday, October 8, in which approximately 15 people attended.

The assembly was chaired bv Leon Hardink of the Woonsocket District. Secretaries Helen Trenkler and Theo-dor Kiowan participated with the recorded minutes of the previous meet­ing.

UNA Supreme Secretary Walter Sochan was the special guest and main speaker. He informed the gathering on the current status of the UNA, both its fraternal and financial activities. Some of the topics he addressed included the status of current UNA membership, the asset base and financial strength of the UNA, the high level of dividends award­ed to UNA members during the past year and information on the UNA's most recently introduced insurance plans.

The UNA officer also commented on the fraternal's ongoing operations, such as Soyuzivka and its new buildings, the publication of Svoboda and The Ukrai­nian Weekly, and the role of the UNA's Washington Office of Government Relations.

Mr. Sochan stressed the importance of the UNA'S generosity in financially supporting Ukrainian organizations,

the Ellis Island project. Harvard Uni­versity's Ukrainian Research Institute and its Millennium Project, various book publications and many other acti­vities. He also highlighted the success of the UNA'S scholarship program for its members.

In regard to scholarship assistance, Mr. Kiowan read a letter of apprecia­tion to Mr. Sochan, thanking the UNA for the financial support he had received over the past four years. Mr. Kiowan is a recent graduate of Bryant College in Rhode Island and is now employed with the Arthur Young accounting firm.

The Woonsocket UNA District mem­bers were encouraged to hear that its new membership quota for the year has almost been attained. With two months remaining, the district only needs three more new members to reach its goal for the year.

The Woonsocket District's fraternal activities were reciewed by its coordina­tor, Dmytro Sarachman. A possible 1990 trip to Washington is under consideration.

The UNA'S Washington Office was represented at the meeting by its assis­tant director, John A. Kun, a native of Woonsocket. Mr. Kun commented on the operations of the Washington Office.

New Jersey's UNA districts to celebrate 95th anniversory

NEWARK, N.J. - The Supreme Executive Committee of the Ukrainian National Association and the UNA District Committee of New Jersey cordially invite all UNA members ^nd friends to a jubilee banquet on the occasion of the 95th anniversary of the Ukrainian National Association to be held Sunday, December 3, at 3 p.m., at St. John's Gymnasium, 770 Sandford Ave., Newark, N.J. Donation is S15 per person.

Featured performers for this memo­rable event will be: the Homin Bandu-rist Ensemble, directed by Alexander Napora, vocalists Chrystynaand Daria, and harpist Odarka D. Polanskyj.

Special certificates and/or pla­ques will be presented to all UNA members who have faithfully and re­spectfully served the Ukrainian Na­tional Association during these many years.

Michael Chytra, secretary of UNA

Branch 234 in Elizabeth, and his mem­bers will celebrate the branch's 80th anniversary at this banquet.

Gov. Thomas H. Kean will receive the UNA Man of the Year Award and Secretary of State Jane Burgio will receive the UNA Woman of the Year Award for their concern and sincere sensitivity toward the Ukrainian people in New Jersey and in captive Ukraine.

Special invitations have been mailed to all secretaries, members of the UNA family and leaders of Ukrainian organi­zations in New Jersey.

For further information and banquet reservations please contact the follow­ing members of the UNA District Committee of New Jersey: Jaroslaw Leskiw, (201) 996-3772; Michael Za. charko, (201) 725-8062; Walter Bilyk, (201) 795-0628; John Chomko, (201) 472-0989; or Andrew Keybida, (201) 762-2827.

Reservation deadline is November 29.

Ukrainian National Association: 95 years of service

THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 1989 '^ No. 46

Ukrainian Weem

A victory for Ukrainians In our October 1 issue we commented on an about-face made by Sen.

Frank Lautenberg (D-N. J.) in regard to the issue of Ukrainian Catholics and Ukrainian Orthodox emigrating to the U.S. from the USSR. Two months earlier, Sen. Lautenberg had stated eloquently that members of these two groups - two outlawed denominations in the USSR - should be officially recognized by the U.S. as persecuted and as such should be eligible for refugee status when seeking to enter this country. Then, on September 20, the senator reversed himself, offering a new amendment that no longer recognized Ukrainian Catholics and Orthodox as persecuted groups.

What caused this change in the senator's stance, The Weekly was told, was a necessary political compromise. Many Ukrainian Americans, however, felt strongly that this was a matter of principle, suggested that the senator had betrayed their interests and — as we wrote on October 1 — had actually compromised himself.

This week's issue of The Weekly reports that Sen. Lautenberg and others involved in the refugee issue, that is. Rep. Bruce Morrison (D-Conn.) representatives of Jewish American organizations and the Ukrainian National Association's Washington Office, had reached agreement on new language regarding the issue. As formulated and adopted by the House-Senate Conference Committee on the Foreign Aid Appropriations Bill, the language once again states that among Soviet groups presumed to be subject to persecution and thus eligible for refugee status are members of the Ukrainian Catholic and Ukrainian Orthodox Churches. Also, the new language guarantees 1,000 refugee slots for Ukrainian Catholics and Orthodox.

The new amendment replaces Sen. Lautenberg's previous amendment to the appropriations bill, which had not recognized these two groups as persecuted within the Soviet Union. In fact, the new amendment is based on legislation introduced earlier this year in the House and Senate, respectively, by Rep. Morrison and Sen. Lautenberg.

Why did Sen. Lautenberg return to his original position on this issue? Because our Ukrainian American community proved that it cared deeply about this matter. After it became clear that Sen. Lautenberg had reversed his original position, there was a veritable deluge of telephone calls, letters and postcards. Countless persons responded to the UNA Washington Office's "Action Item." This was a deluge that could not be ignored.

Ultimately, Eugene Iwanpiw, director of the UNA Washington Office,was asked by Sen. Lautenberg'k staff to help resolve the situation; the senator pledged that ho legislation would be enacted until it included provisions that took into consideration the Ukrainian American community's concern. The UNA Washington Office subsequently reported that the senator was as accommodating as possible. This aspect of the refugee issue has now been settled and the legislation is expected to be passed shortly by both houses of Congress and then sent on to the president for his signature.

The Ukrainian American community must be commended for its speedy and effective response to a measure that would have prevented members of the Ukrainian Catholic and Ukrainian Orthodox Churches from being recognized as persecuted groups in the USSR. It showed that it cares, and that it has strength, and that it knows how and when to apply it. One hopes that this is a good omen for the 1990s and beyond.

Nov. 1 Д III Turning the pages back...

1918

BOOK REVIEW

Although the idea of a Ukrainian Academy of Sciences, the highest learning institution of Ukraine, was first conceived by the Ukrainian Scientific Society in Kiev in

April 1917, it only became a reality during the establishment of the Ukrainian state in 1918. \

It was the government of Hetman Pavlo Skoropadsky that officially ratified the draft project of the Ukrainian Academy of Sciences and it came into existence on November 14, 1918.

The statute of the UAS provided for its headquarters in Kiev and divided the academy into three faculties: history-philology, physics-mathemf.tics and socio-economics. The statute also called for all publishing work from the academy to be conducted in the Ukrainian language. It underscored the academy's general Ukrainian character. Its membership was not limited to citizens of the Ukrainian state, but also open to Ukrainian acadenr. ics from western Ukraine, which at the time was under the Austro-Himgarian empire. Foreigners could also become members of the academy, but only if accepted by two-thirds of the academy's full members.

The first charter members who served on the faculties of the Ukrainian Academy of Sciences were: Dmytro Bahaliy, Ahatanhel Krymsky, Mykola Petrov and Stephen Smal-Stocky, Volodymyr Vernadsky, Mykola Kashchenko, Stephen Tymoshenko, Mykhailo Tuhan-Barnanovsky, Orest Levytsky, Volodymyr Kosynsky and Theodore Taranovsky. The first president of the academy was Prof. Vernadsky; first permanent secretary was Prof. Krymsky.

According to Ukraine: A Concise Encyclopedia, immediately following the occupation of Kiev, the Communists proclaimed the decree of the People's Commissar of Education of the Ukrainian SSR (February 11, 1919), which established structural and financial guidelines for the academy. Although this decree was of little parallel significance, it served the Soviets as a means for advancing the unjustifiable claim of having established this highest scholarly institution of Ukraine.

Gulag memoir a sobering account Grey is the Color of Hope by Irina Ratushinskaya. New York: Alfred A. Knopf

1988, 355 pp, S 18,95 (hardcover). by Peter Bejger

In these heady days of hlasnist and perebudova, a Soviet prison camp memoir might seem to be an anachro­nism, an unwanted iand embarrassing guest haunting the lavish banquet celebrating the newly proclaimed era of goodwill and "new thinking" in the USSR. One can almost hear some well-intentioned, if not slightly impatient, voices in the West stressing the need to move on into the promising future and not dwell obsessively on the tragic past.

However, with broad masses of Soviet citizens themselves bravely raising demands for historical truth and a public accounting of crimes against humanity on the part of state organs, we in the West should not be so quick to dismiss the appearance of yet another gulag volume. We need to remember the camp personnel that showed such fiendish ingenuity in tormenting politi­cal prisoners in the past are still very much in place and can resume their tasks (indeed some undoubtedly conti­nue their work on prisoners we have yet to hear oO immediately in the event of a crackdown.

More importantly, every gulag me­moir — no matter how brilliant or mediocre — serves an invaluable role in illuminating one more mystery of the Soviet system, in providing one more clue to the mindset of those who inflict­ed so much cnieity, originally in the name of ideology, and now merely for the purpose of maintaining power.

Irina Ratushinskaya's story begins with her riding in a black KGB limou­sine as she is returned to her Kiev apartment after imprisonment. There is an awkward moment when a KGB general escorts Ms. Ratushinskaya up to her fifth floor flat. What is theproper etiquette with one's inquisitor? Does one offer coffee? She does, but the general respectfully declines, Ms. Ra­tushinskaya sardonically muses on her family's and friends' reactions to this unlikely politesse with the secret police: "What of it, that I offered a KGB man a cup of coffee? I am the victor, not he!... I shall be able to look them in the eye without flinching; everything is in order, there has been nothing in these four years of which I need to feel ashamed."

Ms. Ratushinskaya is without a doubt a winner, and her remarkable and self-confident memoir reveals the stub-boTMiess, the strength of character, and perhtos most surprising, the humor that Was so important in resisting and finally triumphing over her persecutors. Ms. Ratushinskaya was a rising young Soviet poet who became an outspoken human rights activist in response to the appalling social injustice and religious oppression in Soviet society. She was charged with "anti-Soviet agitation and propaganda" and received, as a 29th birthday present, a sentence of seven years' hard labor and five years' inter­nal exile in 1983.

Ms. Ratushinskaya's internment began in the KGB Isolation-Interroga­tive Prison in Kiev (once used by the Gestapo in World War II) but she was soon on her way to the labor camp in Mordovia. This is a voyage we have all taken before many times in our reading of Soviet prison literature. Ms. Ratu­shinskaya had the benefit, however, of

Peter Bejger is a writer and editor viл> in New York,

absorbing valuable lessons from that trailblazer chronicler of the gulag, Alexander Solzhenitsyn, before her arrest. She credits him for that cardinal principle for all prisoners of conscience: "Never believe them, never fear them, never ask them for anything."

This hard-bitten advice was to serve Ms. Ratushinskaya well during the horrors she was to experience. The KGB was a very strong believer in the theory that environment determines consciousness and they were especially eager to "reform" their political charges.

Extreme cold was regarded as a necessary feature of the corrective process and solitary confinement in the frigid shizo — the shtrafnoy izoliator, or punitive isolation cell — was a favorite means bf trying to break a rebellious prisoner. An endless diet of overly salted gruel and other disgusting food was yet another method. Planting a psychotic informer within the ranks of the prisoners to stir discord was a third. Criminally indifferent camp doctors and a pretty blonde overseer name Lt. Podust, a sadistic bitch who evoked Nazi images of the Use Koch variety, completed the framework of Soviet rehabilitative methods.

In "the zone," or camp, Ms. Ratu­shinskaya and her sister inmates fought incessant, enervating battles for their most basic rights as outlined within the Soviet penal code, and exhibited an unselfish, unshakable solidarity when anyone was singled out for punishment. Protest actions were undertaken in the form of hunger strikes. The authorities inevitably responded with the shizo, and then with forced feedings. In one horrifying incident, Mr. Ratushinskaya describes how six large male guards grappled with her in an attempt to force-feed her and finally threw her head first against a wooden trestle and knocked her unconscious. In the face of these atrocities, Ms. Ratushinskaya and her imprisoned compatriots displayed a quiet feminine fortitude that even won the grudging respect of their captors.

Ukrainian readers will be interested to know that two of her companions in the zone were Ukrainians. Raya(Raisa) Rudenko was serving a sentence of "five plus five" - camps, then exile - for concealing, memorizing and then disseminating the poetry of her impri­soned husband, Mykola Rudenko. Ms. Ratushinskaya considers this aspect of Raya's work perhaps the greatest stroke of luck ever for Ukrainian literature.

Olya Heyko Matusevych suffered a (Continued on page 13)

No. 46 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 12,1989

Convention address Ukrainian scholarship in the U.S.: a look at its needs, potential

Following is the text of a speech delivered by Dr James E. Mace, staff director of the U.S. Commission on the Ukraine Famine, at the second conven­tion of the Ukrainian American Co­ordinating Council. The address was given on Saturday, October 21, during the convention banquet.

by Dr. James E. Mace CONCLUSION

In order to do justice to the Ukrainian experience, more scholars are needed at more institutions in the United States. They need to be full-fledged members of those institutions, which means that they must be able to look forward to tenure. And let there be no doubt about it: this means money channeled through either an existing community institu­tion or through a new community institution which will have to be created for that purpose.

It cannot be done by any single existing academic institution because, sadly, such an institution may not follow Edmonton's example in pro­moting the field's expansion, but may view as paramount its own institutional interest in attempting to restrict or undermine that which it does not control. For, you see, Ukrainian scho­larship is not immune from the same sorts of diseases that have infected Ukrainian community politics.

We also are witnessing the birth of a third type of scholarly enterprise based on cooperation between institutions of Ukrainian studies in the West, espe­cially in Canada, and official and unofficial institutions in Ukraine itself. The best known is the newly created International Association of Ukrai-nianists (MAU), which includes some Western scholars and officially sanc-I Addendwn I

Upon returning from the UACC Convention I found in my mail a "Dear Colleague" letter sent by the vice-president for North America of the International Association of Ukrai-nianists on October 18. It invited me, along with a broad spectrum of persons ^ active in the field of Ukrainian studies in the United States, to participate in the ^ founding meeting of the American I Association of Ukrainian Studies, the U.S. counterpart to the International board. The conference will be held at the Harvard Ukrainian Research Insti­tute on December 8-9, 1989.

The letter further stated that the list of invitees was not final. I applaud this action, which does much to dispel the feeling of many of my colleagues that they were excluded from participation in MAU and the consequent suspicion that this was part of an attempt to guarantee institutional dominance by restricting the development of the field as a whole. I therefore withdraw that portion of my remarks. I deeply regret and apologize for the error, which was inadvertent. І

However, I stand by the substance of my argument, that a national strategy for the expansion of Ukrainian studies in U.S. universities must be developed by the leadership of the Ukrainian American community in order to com­plement the Harvard Ukrainian Re­search Institute. The creation of HURI is an achievement in which its sup­porters can take great pride, but it is not in itself sufficient in view of the need to develop and promote Ukrainian studies in American universities. Other pro­grams are clearly needed as well.

tioned Soviet scholars. Another project, which I am pleased

to announce this evening, is to hold in September 1990 in Kiev an interna­tional conference on the Ukrainian Famine of 1933, to be sponsored on the Soviet side by the Union of Ukrainian Writers, the Shevchenko Institute of Literature of the Ukrainian Academy of Sciences, the Popular Movement of Ukraine for Perebudova (Rukh), the Shevchenko Ukrainian Language So­ciety, and the Ukrainian Memorial Society. Appropriate Western institu­tional sponsors will be sought by those of us who were asked by our colleagues in Kiev to serve on the organizational committee for this conference.

I am also pleased to announce to­night that, in cooperation with the Ukrainian Memorial Society, a new group, the American Friends of the Ukrainian Memorial Society has been founded in Washington in order to propagate the views, promote the goals, and otherwise assist the Ukrainian Memorial Society. This new organiza­tion, which is now applying for tax-exempt status, in the coming months will turn to the community for support, along with such similar entities as the American branch of the Shevchenko Ukrainian Language Society and the Rukh Fund.

Let there be no mistake about it: the growing contact and cooperation with Soviet Ukrainian bodies and move­ments must still be seen as tentative and made possible only by, and dependent upon, the continuation of the changes taking place in Ukraine, the Soviet Union, and the Communist world. There is also a fundamental distinction to be made between a body like the International Association of Ukrai-nianists (MAU), headed by Academi­cian Vitally Rusanivsky, whose text­book history of the Ukrainian language condemned the "bourgeois nationa­lism" inherent in the linguistic standar­dization of the 1920s, and the Memorial Society, which the authorities have refused to register in Kiev.

I support both, although the MAU vice-president for the United States insisted upon keeping strict control over membership in this country in order to - and I quote - "keep the idiots out." As one who applied for membership information and did not receive even the courtesy of a response, it seems that I must be one of the idiots, and the director of the Ukrainian Research Program at the University of Illinois also told me that he believed that he, too, was intentionally excluded. Of course, I am quite certain that the fate and worth of MAU will not be decided by whether or not I am a member. But the exclusion of a major program in Ukrainian studies, which holds an annual conference that Soviet Ukrai­nians want to attend and which is trying to create a chair in Ukrainian history, is an object lesson of why no existing Ukrainian American scholarly institu­tion can be allowed to aspire to domi­nance in the field of Ukrainian studies by restricting the development of the field as a whole.

This is unconscionable, given the status of Ukrainian studies in the United States today. Ukrainian studies was founded in this country by scholars of the post-war emigration who are now retired or rapidly approaching retire­ment age. The next generation, now in its SOs and early 60s, consists of scholars who were born in Ukraine but received ,

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Faces and Places by Myron B. Kuropas

Death of a dreamer Lesia and I recently celebrated our

25th wedding anniversary with a recep­tion for family and friends.

It was a wonderful event marking the day I was bonded to my lovely life's companion.

We were surrounded by those we loved - my parents, our two sons, my sister, other relatives, neighbors, mar­riage encounter couples, Ukrainian community activists, priests, a dear nun, and others who have enriched our lives during the past quarter century.

One person, however, was missing. It was the Rev. Joseph Shary, the priest who married us at Soyuzivka on Octo­ber 24, 1964. Father Shary died of heart failure on September 13, a few weeks before our celebration. He was only 62.

Father Shary had a tremendous impact on our lives. He was the vehicle for the spiritual force which launched Lesia and me on our marital journey.

At the time I proposed to Lesia, I was not a regular church-goer. Nor was I much of a Christian. I attended St. Joseph's Church in Chicago sporadi­cally, which is another way of saying that I went to church on Christmas and Easter. At the time, I knew more about the Roman Catholic Church than about my own Ukrainian religious heritage. The Jesuits at Loyola University where I earned by bachelor's degree had taught me well.

As pastor of St. Joseph's parish. Father Shary was aware of my spiritual shortcomings and let me know it when I asked him to officiate at our wedding. After confirming his suspicions with queries related to my religious past and practices, he suggested that Lesia and I attend pre-Cana marriage classes during the coming summer. "Sure," I ans­wered, anxious to placate this priest who was beginning to make me feel uncomfortable with his questions.

"And there is one more thing you must do, Myron," he said sternly. "You will pray daily for the strengthening of your faith by attending divine liturgy at St. Joseph's for 30 days in a row."

"Thirty days?" I asked increduously. "In a row?"

"Yes," Father Shary answered firmly. "And I want you become thoroughly familiar with our Ukrainian service by following the liturgy closely. Stand near the cantor, follow the liturgy book, and learn to respond."

Reluctantly, I agreed to what seemed to be an unreasonable request. As things turned out, however, those 30 days were a meaningful prelude to what lie ahead. After our marriage, Lesia and I were members of St. Joseph's parish for eight years, a time during which our two sons, Stephen and Michael, were born and baptized.

Our family was not the only one to benefit from Father Shary's ministry. The man was a dreamer who arrived in Chicago in 1956 with few material possessions. He had strong faith, how­ever, indefatigable energy, a sense of mission, and a overriding desire to do God's work.

And God's work he did. Assigned by Archbishop Constantine Bohachevsky to organize a parish on Chicago's northwest side, Father Shary celebrated his first divine liturgy on August 10, 1956. Members of only five families were present. With no church edifice to call their own, parishioners attended Sunday services in the corridor of St.

Patrick's High School, near Belmont and Austin, an institution owned and managed by the good Christian Brc^ thers. "The future of our church is our youth," declared Father Shary during his first divine liturgy at St. Patrick's. "We must begin by bringing our chil­dren here to St. Patrick's to Room 101 every Saturday for instruction in reli­gion, our Ukrainian rite, and our Ukrainian language, history and heri­tage...Our youth, this is our first order of business." By the end of the year, some 130 families were parish members. For Father Shary, that was enough to begin thinking of a permanent settle­ment.

From the onset. Father Shary dream­ed of a Ukrainian village on Chicago's far northwest side centered around the church. Four parcels of land werei purchased near Cumberland and Foster avenues and, with the help of John Podney, who coordinated the project,; and a private developer, St. Joseph's! Manor came into existence. Over 1201 families expressed a desire to purchase homes in the area, then a relatively unihabited part of Chicago. One acre of land was donated to the parish by the developer and on November 2,1958, the first divine liturgy was celebrated in a new, all-purpose church building.

A recession dimmed Father Shary's dream. Only 11 Ukrainian families purchased homes in the area and the developer was forced to sell to others. The parish, however, continued to prosper. Hardly a day wenit by without some type of church activity aimed at unifying God's people and^providing a sense of Christian community.

Father Shary never stopped dream­ing. Additional land was purchased and the parish set out to build, as Father Shary described it, "the most beautiful Ukrainian church in the world." A unique new edifice, now a Chicago landmark, was dedicated on May 22, 1977.

As more and more Ukrainians moved to Chicago's ilorthwest suburbs. Father Shary responded to their need by or­ganizing Immaculate Conception Pa­rish in Palatine. Later, he organized St. Josaphat Parish in Munster, Ind.

Along with scripture scholar John Weisengoff of Catholic University, Father Shary established St. Joseph Institute for the purpose of studying and translating Ukrainian rite liturgical and religious literature ігло English. More than 30 books were published as a result of their scholarly collaboration.

In failing health, Father Shary was transferred to Detroit's St. John Parish in 1981. He served there until his untimely death.

During the funeral eulogy in Detroit, the Very Rev. Canon John Lazar, a close friend of the dreamer priest, asked: "Father's lips are now stilled, who will preach the Word of God? His hands now lay in repose; who will bless us? Father will no longer stand at the altar to bring Christ to us; who will take his place?"

Who indeed, one might ask. Who indeed. Given the paucity of vocations and the growing shortage of priests in the Ukrainian rite, the answer to that question is no one. Father Joseph Shary is gone forever. He will be missed by the thousands whose lives he touched. He touched my life. And I became better for it. '

THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 1989 No. 46

Chicago-Kiev excfiange: youtlis recall trip to Ukraine by Borys Bodnaruk and Adrian Ozga

Chicago is working towards be­coming Kiev's Sister City. To help strengthen ties between the two cities a series of projects has been planned.

Upon the request of Kiev's city government and Kiev's Komsomol, the Chicago Center for U.S.-USSR Relations and Exchanges recently orffiinized a group of nine youths, age 13 \o 15, from Chicago and from Chicago's outlying areas.

This delegation officially repre­senting Chicago joined similar dele­gations from Poland, Bulgaria, Fin­land, Austria and the United King­dom in Kiev's Pioneer Youth Camp, "Yasnyi." For three weeks, on Au­gust 2-25, these delegations along with the Soviet Pioneers engaged in sports, games, computer olympiads and tours of Kiev, Kanivand Cherni-hiv.

Such exchanges are important for Kiev-Chicago relations, but more important for U.S.-USSR under­standing. They go beyond the formal and diplomatic, and allow for a true exchange between average people, in this case, young teens.

Three of the participants of the Chicago delegation were Ukrainian Americans. They were described to the Komsomol as representing the Ukrainian American community of Chicago. The first, Daria Han-kewych, was one of the nine youths. The other two, Borys Bodnaruk and Adrian Ozga (authors of this article) were counselors of the delegation. All three speak fluent Ukrainian, belong to Plast, and many other community organizations.

The Soviets in the Pioneer camp were primarily Ukrainians from Kiev. The youths spoke Ukrainian pooriy, because at home they speak Russian. Many of the youths had used this opportunity provided by meeting Americans to practice their English. They could communicate in English quite well.

However, to Adrian, Daria and Borys the youths spoke only in Ukrainian. Adrian and Borys had spoken with one of the counselors in Ukrainian so intensely that on one of her 'free days" at home she spoke Ukrainian quite unknowingly to her parents. The parents were shocked, but pleased by the change.

Though the Ukrainian language of the youths is quite poor, it can

improve. Their nationalistic feelings, however, remained untouched by Russification. After getting to know us quite well, the older youths, age 16-18, would greet us by shouting, "Glory and Freedom for Ukraine!" Many Ukrainians in Kiev would greet us similarly after hearing us speak Ukrainian among ourselves, because Ukrainian is rarely heard in Kiev.

The camp youths proudly wore pins of the Ukrainian blue and yellow flag, which we gave them, even questioned us to make sure that we knew what the colors stood for. A group of the boys even painted the flag with the Ukrainian trident on their bedroom window. It remained there for three days before being removed.

Every night the camp would engage in some sort of activity, either con­certs, dances, movie showings or bonfires. Towards the end of the first week, the international ex­change was formally opened, and this day was known as the Day of International Friendship. At night, every delegation presented some­thing of its culture.

As representatives of Chicago, Da­ria and Borys, dressed in Ukrainian embroidery, read in Ukrainian Taras Shevchenko's poem ""And I grew up

in a foreign land..." They received tremendous applause and many cheers. After the concert, Borys was approached by a city official and thanked for keeping Ukrainian close to his heart. He gave Borys a me­dallion commemorating the millen­nium of education in Rus'as a token of his appreciation.

That experience gave us a feeling of appreciation of who we are. From all the years of attending Ukrainian school, the fact that we knew our Ukrainian language and culture really came to the forefront here in this beautiful country. Some experiences which really gave us a feeling for our Ukrainian heritage were trips to Taras Shevchenko's memorial in Kaniv and the Pecher-ska Lavra Monastery in Kiev.

While at Shevchenko's memorial we observed many of his works and a history of his life. The most interest­ing experience was meeting an 85-year-old man who played on the bandura and sang Shevchenko's poems. They called this man "kob-zar" which fitted him perfectly, with his long gray mustache and authentic Ukrainian outfit. This was a very moving experience that gave us a feeling of that spirit within every Ukrainian that yearns for his beauti-

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A tryzub on a blue and yellow flag painted on the window of students' bedroom.

Chicago youths during their trip to Ukraine.

Ne Zhurys: L by Orysia Paszczak Tracz

A beautiful melody can move you deeply; so can a lovely voice. Poetic or defiant lyrics carry their own powerful punch. Any one of these would have been enough.

But combine all three, along with young dynamic personalities from Ukraine itself, and over a week later, it is still difficult for me to absorb and comprehend all that I have seen and heard.

During the past two years the other performers from Ukraine, such as Nina Matvienko, Svitlytsia, Yavir and Vatra, have been delicately paving the way for the present, but the Ne Zhurys ensemble from Lviv exploded with an indelible effect on our hearts and souls.

Scheduled to appear in Winnipeg on Halloween night, October 31, the en­semble was driving in from Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, in a rented bus. Their performance timetable was planned more on fantasy than Canadian weather and geography, because a concert in a different city each night is more than cruel and usual punishment. Even if the performers themselves thought they could do it, their Canadian organizers should have insisted on more time for travel and rest.

Because they didn't, and had not taken prairie weather into account, at the scheduled performance time, an audience of 410 at the Winnipeg Con­vention Center (some had arrived a good hour before the performance), was told by the more than anxious local sponsors that th^iiensemble should arrive any minute — a snowstorm beginning at the Saskatchewan-Mani­toba border had delayed their arrival.

It is to Xht performers' credit that when they did arrive, straight off the bus after over 10 hours of travel, they sounded great — the only evidence of their travail was that their instruments needed constant tuning.

Their next performance was to be in Sault St. Marie, Ontario, the next evening (impossible even under ideal conditions) - they left at 2 a.m., but barely made it, and did not perform because of exhaustion. I am told au­dience members did not request their money back. There is hope that Ne Zhurys will return to this kind and generous city after its other concerts.

Only five of the approximately 20 members of the ensemble arrived in North America for this tour. Who knows if we could have taken the whole ensemble, based on the impact these five had. Not present was the young Ukrai­nian-style heavy metalist Taras Chubai, or humorist Yuriy Vynnychuk, or Kost Moskalets or Stefan Orobets. The ensemble is self-financing, with its own management (Mr. Vynnychuk and Ostap Fedoryshyn have economic back­grounds). They call themselves experi­mental theatre - Lvivskyi Estradnyi Teatr-Studia Ne Zhurys.

Individually, Viktor Morozov, the artistic director, and Andriy Panchy-shyn accompanied themselves on gui­tars as they sang mostly contemporary, deeply thought-out compositions. They reminded me of the 1960s folk singers and such songs as "Blowin' In the Wind" and "We Shall Overcome."

But what protest songs these are! "Given Us Back Our Language," "Trai­tors," "Symbolism," "Advertisement," "Graves of the Sichovi Striltsi," "His­tory". These and others are as biting and as viciously critical of the Soviet

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z ensemble's performance leaves indelible mark on hearts, souls stem and national oppression as you n get. But the lyrics are also witty, )etic, and as patriotic as they can be. Listening and watching, I kept think-g of the adjectives amazing, mind-^ggling, incredible — and dangerous. Lviv, so far they have performed five

parate programs: "Viv Vukha do jkha" (From Ear to Ear), Shevchen-ana, Vertep (ancient Christmas tradi-)ns). Pan Badzio (about characters )m pre-war Lviv), and one devoted to e Sichovi Striltsi (Ukrainian Sich iflemen). They are preparing one out pre-Christian traditions. They are en featured in the newest issue of craine, published in Kiev by Radian-a Ukraina (No. 8, 1989). Mr. Morozov opened the concert th his composition to the poem by Lsyl Symonenko about Lviv, "Ukrai-kyi Lev" (Ukrainian Lion). In a rich, sy baritone, Mr. Morozov sang about Ї strength and pride of the city, that re he saw "Shashkevycha ochi, Kry-nosovi plechi, Frankove cholo" (the ss of Shashkevych, the shoulders of yvonis, and the brow of Franko). Not all their songs were serious, cause his next one was a humorous e about the wonderful Lviv beer. He roduced the next song by saying that Ї "blank spots" of history are dis-pearing and are being filled in by :ts. "Striletski Mohyly" (Graves of ; Sichovi), lyrics by Bohdan Stel-ikh, music by Mr. Morozov, is a werful song about the Soviet destruc-n of the graves, and the singer's (uest that Vasyl Stus, Volodymyr isiuk, many other dissidents - and himself — be buried also in a strilet-i mohyla. He told us about their one program, jsented in Lviv last year about the hovi Striltsi, titled "Poviyav Viter ipovyi" (The Steppe Wind Blew), ;ed on their songs, poetry and humor, ntinuing in the "strilets" mood, he ig "Podai, Divchyno, Ruchky Na

Kobzar Vasyl Zhdankin

Proshchannia" (Girl, Give Me Your Hand in Farewell). What a deep fulfill­ing pleasure it was to hear him sing, in his rich baritone, "la vpav za Voliu Ukrainy" (I died for Ukraine's free­dom).

I watched a man in his 60s at our table smile ever so gently to himself as he listened — with the lines in his cheeks he reminded me of my father, who would have both smiled and cried at hearing those lyrics in these circumstances.

Mr. Morozov finished his set with another powerful work, ''Istoriya" (History) - by V. Kaminsky and B. Stelmakh. The song traces Ukrainian history from medieval times through the present, covering all the suffering in Ukrainian history, and all the betrayal by its own people, the janizaries, the contemporary traitors selling their nation, culture and language.

Is Chornobyl the retribution? The last verse is: "Dymom, porokhamy, pomizh rep'iakhamy, dykhaye Chor­nobyl nashymy hrikhamy. 1 zreklysia movy, і zreklysia rodu, otaka istoriya ridnoho narodu" (In smoke and dust, among the burdocks breathes Chor­nobyl with our sins. They renounced their language, and their own fa­mily/nation, such is the history of our own people).

We could have listened to Mr. Moro­zov who, won a first prize at the recent Chervona Ruta Festival, for a long time more, but it was a delight to have Ostap Fedoryshyn introduce us to some ty­pical Lviv and rural Galicia residents. His comic routines — in dialect — were a riot! He had the audience wiping tears of laughter. In his two sets, there were Pani Stasia of Lviv with her seven husbands and lovers, the contemporary doctors who get through medical school on bribes — and the effect on their patients, Hryts' Savkiv of selo Zatemne flying to America to visit his brother, and two interpretations of the same letter from a son to his parents. Mr. Fedoryshyn certainly enriched my knowledge of the more juicy Ukrainian vocabulary — a linguistic area in which I am quite deprived.

Pianist and composer Yuriy Sayenko played his own compositions based on Ukrainian folk themes. In the intro­duction, he said that the musical festival Chervona Ruta in Chernivtsi proved that Ukrainian art does not end with the proverbial embroidery and sharavary.

Ne Zhurys members in concert. but that Ukrainian vocal and instru­mental music can be urban, sophisti­cated.

After someone told him that there can't be jazz in Ukraine, because that's all village, folk music, Mr. Sayenko got angry and wrote some Ukrainian jazz, on Hutsul themes. That was followed by a jazz version of the hahilka (spring ritual song) "Oi, 2^tsvily Fiyalonky." Also, he played his own "Nostalhiya." It was fascinating to follow the folk themes through the jazzy variations. Mr. Sayenko was a winner at the "Kryshtalevyi Lev - 88" (Crystal Lion — 88) Jazz Festival in Lviv.

To prepare for the concert and for an interview with the performers, I had viewed the videotape of a concert by Ne Zhurys given in Lviv. You could seethe support in the audience for what was sung by the applause, which quickly turned to clapping in unison - strongly and for a long time for all the songs with deep protest messages.

While all the artists have a charm about them, and gifted voices and presentations, kobzar Vasyl Zhdankin was someone I especially wanted to hear. The others were dressed in jeans, corduroys, or suits, but Mr. Zhdankin came out in an antique white linen outfit from Podillia, exquisitely embroidered in white with touches of red, as well and black and gold. Later he told me that it was from a village which had been flooded for a hydroelectric dam.

With his kobza, striking outfit, bare feet, and flowing hair and beard — in a young face — he made quite an impres­sion. And then he began singing "Oi zibralysia orly... hei, num khloptsi do zbroi... Nam pomozhe Sviatyi Yuriy, і Prechysta Maty" (St. George and the Virgin Mary will help us... defeat the Turk). Not only was the song impres­sive, but the voice — a clear, resonant, rich baritone flowed effortlessly out of this reincarnation of the bards of the 17-18th centuries.

His next song was about the destruc­tion of the Zaporizhian Sich. Mr. Zhdankin followed this with a chant about the miracle of the Blessed Mother at Pochayiv turning away the attacking Turks, "Pochayivska Bozha Matir." As he sang the verse "Kuli vertala, turkiv zabyvala, monastyr riatuvala" and "Slava Bozhiy Materi Pochayivskiy, budut yiyi pamiataty," a chill went through me — because of what and how

he was singing. He introduced the next song, "Tu-

man, Tuman Dolynamy" (The Mist in the Valleys), by saying that after the Red Army was greeted by the people in western Ukraine, in 1941 these same people were murdered or sent into the labor camps of the far north and Siberia. This song was by a man from the Carpathians longing for home, for his mountains and his "ruta" and "miata," and asking that '4vhen I am dying, please take me home to Ukraine, I want to die where I was born."

The strilets song "Hei, Tam Na Hori Sich Ide" followed, dedicated to the descendants of the striltsi, and intro­duced with comments about the demon-strations in Lviv last year on the November 1 anniversary of the 1918 declaration of independence in western Ukraine. He sang "Zhuravli" by Boh­dan Lepkyi and dedicated this song about leaving home to the Ukrainian pioneers in Canada.

But, for me, the highlight of all the highlights of the evening was Mr. Zhdankin's own composition to two poems by Bohdan Ihor Antonych, which he called "Koliada." His melody hinted at the ancient koliadky, caressing the lyrics about the Lemko people greeting the newborn Christ Child with the round moon (Narodyvsia Boh na saniakh v lemkivskim mistechku Dukli...). It seemed there could be no more perfect combination of words and music. And as the koliadka was ending, he topped it all with "Khrystos sia razhdaie... Slavimo loho!" No wonder Mr. Zhdankin won the Grand Prize at the Chervona Ruta Festival. I think the people have already declared him a living national treasure.

Mr. Panchyshyn has a razor-sharp wit, pen, and voice. (It seems to me he reserves his nasal sharp tone for the sarcastic songs, because a rich baritone appears every so often.) He sang nine songs, each mocking, criticizing, ob­serving, or invoking.

In his "Brekhunets" (Liar) about the one-station radio always broadcasting the official line, that now the truth is being broadcast about shortages, the West — an epidemic of truth. There is a sobering line, though when perebudova stops, the "brekhunets" will revive (Shche zhoryt perebudova u pekelnomu

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ohni, і todi nastane znovu tsarstvo svitloyi brekhni).

His "^Oholoshennia" (Advertisement) is vicidus in its commentary on the language situation: '"Lost, one lan­guage... For sale, my own, my mother's language, in good condition, cheap... But then, if the language is gone, who will understand the ad?" The song "Yanychary" (Janizaries) was about the bloody battle in Lviv on October 1: ''khodiat' yanychary chobitmy zaliz-nymy po perebudovi" (the janizaries are trampling perebudova with their iron boots).

Mr. Panchyshyn (on the ensemble's poster he has "Pan Chyshyn" written on his stomach) then spoke about the ''explosion of Ukrainian culture" at the first truly Ukrainian festival - Cher-vona Ruta in Chernivtsi, that it showed the variety of Ukrainian son^ Xin the thousands). He said that the prize he won at the festival was because of his song "Symvolika" (Symbolism). The chorus, which had us clapping to the rhythm, is "Pidnesimo dohory zhovto-syni prapory, azh popid nebesa, akh, yaka krasa!" (let us raise to the skies the yellow-blue flags, oh, what beauty). "Vyrii" (warm lands whence birds migrate) he dedicated to Canada and the pioneers. He said this was the first country he found where Ukrainians were equal citizens of a land, and that he felt at home here among people he had just met.

Mr. Morozov returned with an an­them of a declaration - "Viddayte Movu" (Return Our Language) by E. Drach. The introductory verse is another condemnation of those among our own people who no longer hold anything sacred except money and position. They furtively destroy the linguistic roots of a nation C'nyshkom

nyshchut movnyi korin rodu"), turning their own people into slaves. They have chased the language into the villages, and there are dragging it into the grave in order to rob us of our memory and our language - which only slaves don4 have. The chorus is ''Viddayte movu, tse ne prokhannia a nakaz, viddayte movy, і ne kolys a V tsey zhe chas" (Return our language, this is not a request but a command, and not sometime, but right now).

The verses following are just as severe and demanding, declaring that the battle, while not bloody, will not be the easiest, but in this battle we will tell about Chyhyryn, Chernivtsi and the Crimea. We must break through the ice in our hearts, because only through language will the Kozak nation live. Mr. Morozov continues with an appeal to the other nations under the Soviets, asking the ' 'brothers" for support, because after they have destroyed our language they will go after yours, that together, when one brother defends another's language, then a multi-thou­sand chorus will sing out.

What a finale! After short verses from each artist, Ne Zhurys was thanked with a standing ovation. What usually happens now is that after performances by visitors from Ukraine someone in the audience begins "Shche Ne Vmerla Ukraina," the Ukrainian national an­them. But this time, Mr. Zhdankin the kobzar and the rest of the troupe started "Shche Ne Vmeria"!

What a deeply satisfying evening this was — here were young people from Ukraine, speaking pure unblemished Ukrainian, singing what had been un­heard of, daring to sing it at all both there and here. I felt pride, joy, amaze­ment and sadness that circumstances were such that such soi^s andMeir

"bravery were necessary at all. Aftd all this was happening there, in spite of the system (or finally, because of it), inde­pendently, no matter what we here

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ful country. ^ The tours of the Pecherska Lavra

and other architectural and historical landmarks of Ukraine were very inspiring and moving. These tours were just not another day of sightsee­ing, but days of learning about the country our forefathers had left in despair.

A final experience which we'd like to talk about is our trip on the Dnieper River — the same place where thousands of years ago, Ko-zaks had fought their enemies to protect the country that they loved enough to die for. It was an un­believable feeling sailing down the same river the Kozaks did. All of these experiences, gave us a feeling for our past and for who we really are and why we should love this beautiful country.

As news of the cultural exchange spread, the media came to the camp to speak with the delegations. Our Chicago delegation spoke with Ra­dio Free America (before leaving Chicago), Radio Kiev, Novosti Press (publishers of Soviet Life), Kiev's city radio station and a Canadian newspaper, the Vancouver Post. The interviews usually were short and touched on the purpose of the ex­change and our feelings about it.

We two, however, were seen as

special. Radio Kiev made a point of interviewing the seven delegations in only English or Ukrainian, not Rus­sian. After brief questions about the exchange, we were interviewed for a very long time. The interviewer was interested in our Ukrainian back­grounds, and how and why it was that we continued to speak Ukrai­nian and support Ukrainian culture even in a foreign land. The interview was conducted entirely in Ukrainian.

As counselors, we had many op­portunities to become better ac­quainted with Ukrainians in Kiev. Our experience there helped us gain more respect for the Ukrainian language and a better understanding of the struggle in Ukraine.

Ukraine still has a long road ahead of it with many barriers to be re­moved and many currentsto be reversed. Our main goals here in the diaspora should be those of main­taining and spreading with pride the Ukrainian heritage and showing all Ukrainians that the struggle is a worthwhile one.

We as Ukrainians must under­stand that communism did not occur overnight, so neither will the freedom of Ukraine. We must bond all Ukrai­nians together, forgetting our diffe­rences, and become one. Only then can we promote our cause here and influence events in Ukraine. Without unity, the freedom of Ukraine may always be a dream - never a realitv.

think, or say or do - we can support them or not, to them that is irrelevant. They are doing it anyway.

My first question to troupe members was, "Are you afraid, because 1 am very afraid for you."

The look on Mr. Morozov's face betrayed his casual answer, "There are different kinds of fears." He said there was no turning back, and even though there may be repression, this time blood will flow. He mentioned that there are Communist Party members who sup­port them, as well as those who oppose. About the fear, Mr. Zhdankin answered precisely. "We must do this for our children's future." Then Mr. Morozov remembered that after their perfor­mance in Kosiv, where they stayed overnight, the „women (hospodyni) kept a watch outside their windows all night.

I asked Mr. Morozov how many people know the Ukrainian national anthem. He said many do, others are learning. At their Sichovi Striltsi pro­gram which they concluded with "Shche Ne Vmerla,"everyone stood, many sang and those who did not know the words stood at attention; no one walked out. And there were no complaints later.

I wanted to know where they learn the old songs. They said from the people, and from libraries, which are now more accessible. Mr. Zhdankin mentioned that he learns from people in the villages, where he likes to go fish­ing... for songs. The strilets songs are still sung by the population. I mention­ed to Mr. Morozov that my mother told me that "Poviyav Viter Stepovyi" was a strilets song, while two years ago it was recorded in Ukraine as a Kozak song. He said that they had to do that before, change jfrom strilets to kozak, but that this specific song originally began, "Poviyav buynyi viterets, vypav u boyu sichovyi strilets." Their program on the striltsi was titled with this song. Now I realized why, in the videotape of the recent demonstrations in Lviv the

people marching in the streets with the Ukrainian flags had been singing pre­cisely this song.

Mr. Zhdankin mentioned that he would like to compose more, but has been so busy that he has written only four songs in the last year. I gave Mr. Morozov some photocopies of songs Ukrainian children sing in North Ame­rica, and got my come-uppance when he noticed that one of the verses to "O Ukraino, О Liuba Nen'ko" was not given - and recited it. But they were not aware of "Poklin Tobi, Tarase." To the young people here they gave the message, "Return home, visit us and — remember your language!" Even though this was our first encounter, these were close friends I just hadn't met before.

I drove home on the slippery Hallo­ween streets worrying how the artists would get to their next destination, over desolate Highway 1 to Ontario. But my soul was at peace.

Each of the artists should record a separate cassette. Just a few songs from each on one cassette is not enough — although the one available (produced by Kobza) gives a sampling of their work. Imagine a whole tape each of Messrs. Zhdankin, Morozov, Panchy­shyn, Sayenko, or the routines of Mr. Fedoryshyn. Then, the tour organizers should videotape a program or two -what a bestseller that would be! Also, a book of all their lyrics would be just as popular.

There is hope that Ne Zhurys will return by invitation for the celebration of the centenary of Ukrainian settle-"ment in Canada. This time they will be able to travel at a human pace, with more than adequate rest between stops.

This troupe, which has performed in other cities of Ukraine, in Moscow, the Baltic states, and in Poland, will be in Canada and the United ^States. (The tour schedule, currently being revised, is being published in Preview of Events.)

Fly, ride, swim, or walk, but be there!

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well as the nearby I^vlivsky Forest and the nameless graves near Nad-virna, was to have been heard at the meeting in Ivano-Frankivske on January 29. However, the invited witnesses to the mass shootings and secret nighttime burials did not appear. We will not reproach the grandfathers of the Pavlivsky Forest and Pasichna for their fear," the newspaper said.

On that day, according to a Radio Liberty report published in The Weekly in March, an informal histo­rical-cultural society had wanted to organize a public meeting to comme­morate the victims of Stalinism. Local officials, reported RL, tried to transform the gathering into a meet­ing to honor "the victims of the Banderite movement."

Since then, however, a chapter of the Ukrainian Memorial Society has been established in the Ivano-Fran­kivske Oblast. It is headed by R.O. krutsyk.

Komsomolskyi Prapor reports that Memorial has begun the difficult task of collecting eyewitness ac­counts of the massacre, using both audio and videotapes. The most difficult aspect of this work, Mr. Krutsyk told the newspaper, is '4o overcome the fear of local residents."

The Komsomol newspaper des­cribed the scene as the mass grave was found after several unsuccessful attempts on September 27:

"A pile of wet, half-rotted cloth­ing, out of which fall human bones. The old villagers of Pasichna cry. There is horror and pain in the eyes of those present. A toothbrush. An aluminum quart-container. They, obviously, were told that they were to be transported Cout of the агеаЗ. A leg bone sticks out of a shoe. Buttons. Death. The military field engineers have fallen deathly still. And the excavator is digging a new trench. On its shovel — clothing, bones. The videocamera records our return to history..."

"The seventh day of exhumation. The remains of 212 persons have been found. Examining the clothing, shoes, one can say with certainty: the absolute majority of the victims are villagers. There are very many wo­men. There are also invalids - a glass eye is found, as are dark eye­glasses of the typ^ worn by the blind...

"The mind refuses to accept this horrible scene. And thus far, only one grave has beeh exhumed..."

Thus begins the story of yet ano­ther Katyn, or Kuropaty, or Bykiy-nia-type grave of the countless vic­tims of Stalin's reign of terror.

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the Soviet Union that the United States Congress is aware of the persecution of Ukrainian believers and strongly oppo­ses it."

Rep. Morrison commented: "I'm pleased that the House and the Senate have reached agreement on my bill, the Refugee Status Act, which among other things recognizes the historic persecu­tion of Ukrainian Orthodox and Catho­lics by the Soviet Russian government. I hope that President Bush will sign this bill and take advantage of the rapid and massive changes in the Soviet Union."

On July 13, the House of Represen­tatives adopted the Morrison bill,H.R. 2022,with an amendment sponsored by Reps. William Lipinski (D-Ill.) and Christopher Cox (R-Calif.), which added Ukrainian Catholics and Ortho­dox to the list of groups with a "well-established history of persecution." A week later, on July 20, the Senate adopted a Lautenberg amendment, based on his bill S. 893, which also included the two Ukrainian religions. H.R. 2022 was never reported from the Senate Judiciary Committee, and the State Department Authorization Bill, to which the Lautenberg amendment was added, is tied up in a House-Senate Conference Committee.

In an effort to promote quick action on the issue, on September 20, Sen. Lautenberg proposed his amendment to another bill, the Foreign Assistance Appropriations Bill. That amendment, however, did not designate members of the Ukrainian Catholic and Orthodox Churches as refugees, but rather allowed the attorney general to make such a designation.

An outcry from the Ukrainian Ame­rican community followed the adoption of the second Lautenberg amendment. The avalanche of telephone calls and postcards which followed the Senate action convinced members of Congress of the degree of concern for the issue felt by the community.

Mr. Iwanciw was asked by Sen. Lautenberg's staff to help resolve the situation. According to the UNA Wa­shington Office director: "Realizing how important the issue is to Ukrainian

Americans, Sen. Lautenberg made a commitment to me that no legislation would be enacted until it included language which took into consideration the concerns of the community. If that meant that the second amendment would die, he was willing to do that. As a result, we began a consultative process to find language which would meet our community's concerns and still be palatable to the opponents of the legislation. The senator was as accom­modating as possible in resolving the impasse that we all found ourselves at."

The initial compromise language agreed to by Sen. Lautenberg's office and the UNA office posed problems to Rep. Morrison which resulted in a meeting of all the parties involved in the issue. Staff for the Connecticut legis­lator proposed alternative language based on the Lipinski-Cox amendment with an allotment of 1,000 slots for fiscal year 1990, i.e. until September 30, 1990. Based on past immigration data, the 1,000 number is more than sufficient for the first year of such a program. If there are additional applicants, additio­nal slots may become available during the year.

Mr. Iwanciw explained the signi­ficance of the adopted language: "It must be understood that Ukrainian Orthodox and Catholics are among only four groups — Soviet Jews and Evangelical Christians and certain Vietnamese — in the world which are specifically designated as 'subject to persecution' and, therefore, 'eligible for refugee status.' In the future, the De­partment of State will track the appli­cations for refugee status by Ukrai-inian Catholics and Orthodox and report to the Congress the number of refugee requests expected in the future. The General Accounting Office will include both Ukrainian groups in all future studies of refugee processing and will report any problems to the Con­gress."

He went on to explain that "at least 1,000 of our believers will be given the opportunity to come to the United States as refugees. They will be pro­cessed in the order in which Ukrainian Orthodox and Catholics registered at the U. S. Embassy in Moscow and not the order in which all individuals registered. The 1,000 slots are reserved for Ukrai-

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"These Ukrainian immigrants are eligible for all the benefits of refugee status, including eventual citizenship, federal resettlement assistance, and federal and state domestic assistance programs including Medicare, food stamps, etc," Mr. Iwanciw said. "Federal resettlement assistance alone averages S7,000 per refugee which means that the U.S. government will provide appro­ximately S7 million of resettlement assistance to Ukrainian Orthodox and Catholics."

The Foreign Assistance Appropri­ations Bill, to which the amendment is attached, still has other outstanding issues that need to be resolved before adoption by the House and the Senate. According to congressional sources, the issues are expected to be resolved during the week of November 6. It was

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Buffalo, N.Y. District Committee of UNA Branches announces that its

DISTRICT ORGANIZATIONAL MEETING will be held on

Sunday, November 19, 1989 at 2:00 P.M. at the Ukrainian American Civic Center, Inc., 205 Military Rd., Buffalo, N.Y.

Obligated to attend the meeting are District Committee Officers, Branch Officers and 31st Convention Delegates of the following Branches:

40, 87, 127, 149, 304, 360 All UNA members are welcome as guests at the meeting.

AGENDA: 1. Opening 2. Review of the District's 1989 organizational activities 3. Address by UNA Supreme Vice-Presidentess GLORIA PASCHEN 4. General UNA topics 5. Adoption of membership campaign plan for the balance of the current year 6. Questions and answers 7. Adjournment

Meeting will be attended by:

G l o r i a P a S C h e n , U N A supreme Vlce-Presidentess

FOR THE DISTRICT COMMITTEE:

Roman Konotopskyj, Chairman Wasyl Sywenky, Secfetary Maria Harawus, Treasurer

THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 1989 No. 46

(Continued from page 7) all or part of their education in Ame­rica. Ілке their predecessors, they got into the field at a time of expansion (the early 1960s) and were hired as Russian or East European specialists. When the field tightened, however, beginning with the Hi.D. glut in the late 1960s, colleges and universities became much more selective and, if they wanted a Russian historian, that's what they hired, not a Ukrainian historian who also did Russian history. The next generational tier includes scholars wholly or partially produced by HURI - scholars like Frank Sysyn, Orest Subtelny, Paul Magosci and Zenon Kohut. With the exception of Dr. Kohut, who does government-spon­sored research in Washington, all have taken positions in Canada.

As of today, in the generation under 50 years of age, there is one Ukrainian historian, untenured, in a tenure-track position at an American university. Dr. George Liber at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. That is all that there is. In political science, the situation is little better: there are two people, Alexander Motyl, who is depen­dent on a substantial grant for his continuation at Columbia, and Jaro-slaw Bilocerkowycz at the University of Dayton. All three of these are in their 30s and untenured. Now, a historian or political scientist at the age of 55 is at the peak of his powers as a scholar, but he is also 10 years away from retirement. The question of who will take his place cannot be long postponed. Will they be people who study things Ukrainian? As things now stand, these positions will go to Russian specialists.

By far the best opportunity to create a tenurable position in the field of Ukrai­nian history is at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. This

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The Ukrainian Studies Conference at Illinois is, generally speaking out­standing. Among this year's partici­pants were Mykola Zhulynsky, Les Taniuk, George Shevelov, Roman Solchanyk, David Marples, Bohdan Nahaylo, Romana Bahry, Nadia Svitly-chna and myself.

The University of Illinois is not Harvard, but it is an excellent state university with generous support from its state legislature. Its library holdings are superb, better than Harvard's in the field of 20th century Ukrainian studies. It also, thanks to grants from the U.S. Department of Education and the Mellon Foundation, runs a Summer Research Laboratory on Russia and Eastern Europe in which nearly 2,000 Slavicists (roughly 40 percent in his­tory), representing nearly 600 institu­tions, have participated since the pro­gram's inception in 1973. It offers up to 28 nights free housing, workshops, conferences and library privileges to anyone in the field was is at or beyond the dissertation stage, which means that people from other schools with less research facilities come to do their research at Urbana-Champaign. More­over, over 17 percent of all those participating in the Summer Research Laboratory ,have been Ukrainian spe­cialists, meaning that the people who run this program see the Ukrainians as a major constituency.

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To be sure, it has been noted that a number of those who helped create the University of Illinois program are from the other side of the political fence in the Ukrainian American community. It should also be noted that many in this group are also on your side of the fence. And it should, most of all, be realized that this is totally irrelevant because the composition of the fund-raising foun­dation has nothing to do with the desira­bility of a worthwhile project. After all, the Shevchenko Scientific Society also has members who may not agree with you politically, but that did not stop you from working together with NTSh on the recent Shevchenko observance in Washington.

The point here is obvious: if you want to influence the field of Slavic studies, the University of Illinois is a very strategic place from which to do it. And the creation of a fully endowed chair of Ukrainian history for 5200,000 will give the most impact per dollar of any option imaginable. And the foundation cur­rently in existence to support Ukrainian studies at Illinois would certainly welcome cooperation, assistance and support from organizations like those represented here this evening. After all, the vice-president of the Ukrainian National Association is a member of the board of the University of Illinois Ukrainian Studies Foundation.

The Program for Soviet Nationalities and Siberian Studies at Columbia University is not, like Illinois, the product of a long internal evolution within the parent institution, but based on a grant and will last only as long as the grant. The same goes for Prof. Motyl's position. However, if one can guarantee it some funding in exchange for an orientation toward things Ukrai­nian, it is, at least, possible to give it the permanence it deserves and a basis for further growth.

The University of Michigan, where Prof. Roman Szporluk wants to create an endowed fellowship for junior scho­lars similar to the never-activated Yuvileiny Fond (Jubilee Fund) at Har­vard, is also worthy of support. Prof. Szporluk, it should be noted, has trained such scholars as John Paul-Himka, Ro­man Solchanyk and me. The existence of two chairs of Armenian studies and an on­going project to create a chair of Polish history there also shows an institutional commitment to the study of East Euro­pean history and Soviet nationality studies.

The University of Minnesota Emigra­tion Studies Program already has ties to the community through its ongoing project to compile an index to Svoboda, the Ukrainian American community's newspaper of record. It was also the first university considered by the Ukrainian Studies Fund for a chair of Ukrainian history. The study of the history of America's ethnic communities is a growing field from which the Ukrainian Research Institute at Harvard has consciously withdrawn by rejecting —

after an initial acceptance eight years ago - Dr. Kuropas's monograph on the history of the Ukrainian American community before World War II. As a result of Harvard's change of heart, this book has been forced to follow the migration of Ukrainian American scho­lars to Canada, and the first solid history of Ukrainians in America will be published by the University of Toronto Press. Should we not think of seeking a place in America where the Ukrainian American experience can be studied? And what better place to develop this field than at Minnesota?

The very fact that Ukrainian Ameri­can scholars have to emigrate to Ca­nada in order to work in their field means that there is no shortage of intellectual resources in the form of qualified candidates for positions, should they be created. There are viable options for creating such positions and, should it become known that the finan­cial wherewithal is available for the expansion of this field, other institu­tions will also undoubtedly make their interest known. Universities like money.

What, then, should you do? I am hardly the person to tell a room full of outstanding leaders of the Ukrainian American community how to lead. I can only appeal to you to see the situation today as a historic opportunity to expand the field of Ukrainian studies for a comparatively small financial investment. You should immediately consider whether this is in the interests of the Ukrainian American community and something which you want to support. If you decide that it is, you must not only contribute financially but participate directly as individuals and where possible as organizations in the institutions which promote such expan­sion. You must either help redirect the Ukrainian Studies Fund, which -contrary to popular belief — has no exclusive legal or moral commitment to any one academic institution, or create a new umbrella,organization to seek out opportunities and promote the develop­ment of Ukrainian studies in the United States as a whole. This is what the Armenian American community has done, and it has served them well.

There are those who believe that Harvard is enough. I spent four and a half of the most productive years of my scholarly career at Harvard. I love Harvard. But it is not enough. Anyone who does not support the expansion of Ukrainian studies in the United States is promoting its restriction and, ultima­tely, its becoming an irrelevant and ineffectual curiosity in the field of scholarship. Those in Ukraine, who now seek to learn about things so long forbidden to them, need and deserve more. This community needs and de­serves more. Let us each, here and now, promise to ourselves that we will do what needs to be done. Help those of us who are scholars to research, to teach, and to inform. Help us, for in so doing, you will only be helping yourselves.

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Gulag memoir... (Continued from page 6)

particularly cruel fate. Ms. Ratushin-skaya describes how she had already served a three-year sentence for mem­bership in the Ukrainian Helsinki Group. After she was released one warm spring day in Odessa, she took her first steps to freedom along the street but was promptly bundled back into a KGB car and given another sentence of three years, this time on strict regime. Ms. Matusevych had elderly parents and her father died without seeing his daughter again.

One Ukrainian who does not prompt poignant recoUectioiis in the book is Oles Berdnyk, a former Ukrainian Helsinki Group member who had re­

canted his views and was cooperating with the KGB. Ms. Ratushinskaya was made physically sick reading Mr. Berdnyk's obsequious clemency plea and had to fend off constant KGB pres­sure to meet with him so that he could persuade her to follow his example. Ms. Ratushinskaya expresses sympathy for those who could take no more and denounced themselves to win release. She has contempt, however, for anyone who felt the need to slander others in his bid for freedom.

Ms. Ratushinskaya maintains a stern moral code. She writes: "Camp either cleanses your conscience, or destroys it forever. People emerge either much better than they were, or much worse..." In a crisp self-evaluation, Ms. Ratu­shinskaya summarizes her ordeal: "I

survived, I did not betray my con­science, and the man I love was waiting for me when Ї came out... While else can one ask for?"

What else indeed. The only question we can yet ask is what has become of such a sinister figure as Lt. Podust and all her ilk? The Soviet penal camp system — as well as its seasoned per­sonnel — is still very much in place. Despite the ferment now occurring, Soviet political developments remain highly uncertain. Ms. Ratushinskaya's compelling account of the zone thus may serve not only as a searing docu­ment of recent Soviet history, but perhaps also function as a cautionary gulag guidebook for the next generation of human rights activists in the USSR.

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RECORDING DEPARTMENT MEMBERSHIP REPORT

TOTAL AS OF JUNE 30.1989 Juv.

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Man from Ukraine... (Continued from page 3)

the Soviet Union, treatment was de­layed and experienced medical care was not available. Gangrene spread throughout both legs and amputation was necessary. He spent many months in the hopsital, surviving, he believes, only because he was a strong, healthy man before the accident.

Mr. Yonyk did not believe that he would ever walk again, yet today, he is already making wonderful progress, even slowly climbing stairs. The efforts made on his behalf are thanks to his wife Halyna's cousin, Christina Kowcz of Rochester, N.Y., who after hearing about her family's tragic case decided to see what could be done for Ivas, as she affectionately refers to her cousin by marriage.

"I knew there was no hope of his getting artificial limbs in Ukraine/' she said during a recent telephone conversa­tion. She discovered the Sabolich Clinic in Oklahoma City, Okla., a lab which since 1982 has been creating and fitting complex prosthetic devices to increase the mobility of above-the knee ampu­tees, even allowing some physical movements previously thought impos­sible.

Mr. Yonyk's case was complicated because the amputations of both his legs left only four inches of each leg, not much to work with when one is fitted for artificial limbs. The Sabolich Clinic, in order to make commuting easier for Mr. Yonyk referred Ms. Kowcz to the GFH Orthotic and Prosthetic Laboratories Inc., with offices at Columbia Presbytc-

Union Hospitai... (Continued from page 2)

"Along with the wind, the clouds and the rising sun from the Ukrainian shores will fly the warm and gentle gratitude of Ukraine," he said.

Visibly moved, hospital administra­tor Patricia Lynch said that although it was difficult to follow as touching a speech as Mr. Yavorivsky delivered, she wanted to express what the efforts, as well as the fourth graders present, had impressed upon her and her employees. "These children remind us that every­one of us in the U.S. has a heritage, and should be proud of it," she said.

Also present at the press conference was Taras Hunczak, representing Rukh USA, a U.S. extension of the Ukrainian Rukh, who hope to coordinate an aid to the children of Chornobyl effort in this country.

Ivan Yonyk in his wheelchair. rian Hospital in New York City. New headquarters are opening in the Long Island community of Bohemia, N.Y. shortly.

Ms. Kowcz sent a personal invitation to her cousin and her husband once she had done preliminary work in what could be done to help Mr. Yonyk.

After an Odyssey which involved spending three days and three nights at the Moscow airport, Ms. Kowcz's family arrived in New York in Septem-

Ted Romankow, coordinator of the statewide Ukrainian Americans for Florio for Governor, delivered a mes­sage from Rep. James Florio (D-N.J.) who couldn't attend the news confe­rence. Rep. Florio and Sen. Bill Brad­ley (D-N.J.) had extended the invitation to Mr. Yavorivsky, as a new people's deputy, to come to the U.S. to expe­rience democracy first-hand on Capitol Hill.

In a letter addressed to Prof. Hunczak, Rep. Florio wrote that the aid donated by Union Hospital and other Ameri­cans to the Chornobyl victims "exem­plifies the true meaning of America."

The 1,300 lbs. of medical supplies were loaded onto St. John's School's school bus that stood outside in front of the hospital for transport to JFK International Airport, where another news conference was scheduled to take place before Mr. Yavorivsky's depar­ture.

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ber. According to Ms. Kowcz, the journey itself was physically and psy­chologically grueling. It included delays in obtaining visas and the invalid, who transported himself on a dolly, being told that no coach tickets would be available for more than a year. Finally because of the kindness of one of the commercial directors at Aeroflot, the Yonyks were allowed to board a plane and landed in New York. Appointments were scheduled right away, and, today, Glenn F. Hutnick, president of GFH, sees bright prospects for Mr. Yonyk, when his new prosthetic limbs are ready.

"The fittings are going extremely well, and we expect Mr. Yonyk will soon be walking very functionally and independently," said GFH's president, who also serves as a clinicial instructor of rehabilitation medicine at Columbia Presbyterian Hospital in New York City and as a clinical instructor in orthopedics at the State University of New York at Stony Brook Health Sciences Center/ University Hospital on Long Island. Mr. Hutnick had been one of the four researchers who had worked with John Sabolich, the inventor of these revolutionary limbs, developed using a tough, durable, yet flexible plastic, a material originally made for use in rocket ships.

The developers of these limbs who are not medical doctors by profession, like to refer to themselves as "part carpen­ter, part scientist, part doctor." They are indeed therapists/ orthopedists/ pro-sthetists, who work closely with patients in helping them adjust to their new limbs, and recipients have included the winner of the 1988 Special Olympics marathon, a model and Sen. Edward Kennedy's son.

In Mr. Yonyk's case, his limbs were fitted, taking two inches off of his original height. Today he stands 6 feet tall instead of 6'2', but for Mr. Yonyk the operative word is that he stands. He has also gone down half a size in shoes. This was done because, according to Joe Ahlert, his personal prosthetist and the man who fits him for his limbs and makes adjustments, because at this height and foot size, Mr. Yonyk attains the perfect balance. He will be fitted a few more times before his scheduled departure in February, as his weight stabilizes and his muscles tone. Ms. Kowcz notes that they will try to extend his visa for an extra two months.

He will have to be refitted, as he learns to use his limbs, which are attached by a girdle. The limbs consist of a foot, from which thin slabs of material extend. In turn, a mechanical knee which bends is connected, follow­ed by a socket with a valve. This valve, when opened, releases air and through a kind of suction effect it attaches itself to the muscle and nerve endings in the remaining four inches of Mr. Yonyk's legs.

Mr. Yonyk puts this girdle on, and releases the socket valves to attach his limbs. When he returns to the Soviet Union, he will have no problems if the mechanical knees fail, for maintenance is easily done by any mechanic. How­ever, he must make sure that the fit is proper before he returns to the Soviet Union next year, for this technique is so innovative that, according to Mr. Sabolich, there are only a handful of clinics which handle these artificial limbs.

Within the next few weeks the limbs will go through cosmetic make-up and a final fitting. Mr. Yonyk will be able to walk using only a cane.

Mr. Sabolich has been invited to Leningrad to open a clinic, and he is taking this into consideration. Yet, he told Ms. Kowcz, he'd like doctors and therapists to come to his clinic, for, they won't believe me, he said, when I tell them that I bake my materials in a pizza pie oven.

Mr. Yonyk will probably need a follow-up visit in two years at the GFH, which is donating its services. How­ever, thousands of dollars are needed fcr materials used in these artificial limbs to cover the cost of necessary prosthetic technology. The technology itself will run over 520,000.

Ivan Yonyk's story was recently told in the Ukrainian National Association's Ukrainian-language daily, Svoboda, and in response to this tragedy, the community has raised nearly 513,000. This story has solicited many responses; among them one of the most touching is an episode from a day in the lif of a Ukrainian woman in Toronto. She writes that one morning she got up early with the intention of getting bargain shoes for the fall in one of the city's shoe boutiques. As she made her way to the bus, she grabbed some reading таїаеїгіаі, in this case a copy of Svoboda, with Mr. Yonyk's story on the front page. As she began reading, she changed her mind and her traveling direction, heading straight to the post office to write out a money order toward the fund for Mr. Yonyk's new limbs. She had decided that her old shoes would last her one more season.

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and uncle of Anthony Michael.

Parastas on Tuesday, November 7th at 8:30 P.M. at the Greenville MemoHal Funeral Home, 374 Danforth Ave., Jersey City, N.J.

Funeral Services on Wednesday, November 8th 1989 at Sts. Peter 8i Paul Ukrainian Catholic Churcli, Bentley Ave., Jersey City, and interment at the p^g^ ^ill Cemetery in Linden, N.J.

REST IN PEACEOUR BELOVED SfMON.

16 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 1989 No. 46

November 12

NEW YORK: The Ukrainian Artists Association and the Pershi Stezhi Plast group invite the public to the opening reception of an art exhibit of art works by Ivan Ostafijchuk at 1 p.m. in the UAA Gallery, 136 Second Ave. The exhibit will run through Sunday, November 19. Gallery hours are 1 to 8 p.m. on weekends, 6 to 8 p.m. on weeknights. For more infor­mation call Marta Kolomayets, (212) 673-8718.

JERSEY CITY, N.J.: The North Eastern Super Soccer League will host a top Supreme League soccer club from the Soviet Union. F.K. Zalgiris Vilnius, third place finishers in the Soviet Union, will face an all star team made up of players from the 14 NESSL clubs; at 2 p.m. at Caven Point Stadium here. Founded in 1947, Zalgiris, from the Lithua­nian city of Vilnius, has been in the Supreme . League since 1983, com­peting against such teams as Dy­namo Kiev, Spartak Moscow and Dynamo Moscow. Tickets are S8 for adults, S4 for senior citizens and children, and will be available at the gate.

November 16

WASfflNGTON: Ne Zhurys, the popular Ukrainian cabaret ensemble from Lviv will perform in concert at the Holy Family National Shrine parish hall, 4250 Harewood NE at 7:30 p.m. For more information call Kobza, (416) 253-9314.

November 17

NEWARK, N.J.: Americans for Human Rights in Ukraine will pre­sent the third event in their Friday night ''Report from Ukraine" series, featuring Dr. Nina Strokata who will give a lecture on "The Perception of Facts and Symbols at the Kiev Rukh Congress" at 7:30 p.m. in St. John's Ukrainian Catholic Church hall, Sandford Avenue and Ivy Street. Admission is free. Ms. Strokata is a founding member of the Ukrainian Helsinki Group, a former political prisoner and an independent re­searcher of events and developments in Ukraine. A wine and cheese social will follow the question and answer

PREVIEW OF EVENTS period. For more information call AHRU, (201) 373-9729.

November 18

PHILADELPHIA; The vaudevil-lian group Ne Zhurys of Lviv will perform in concert at 7:30 p.m. at Northeast High School Auditorium, Cottman and Algon avenues. For more information call Kobza, (416) 253-9314.

PHOENIX, Ariz.: Branch 3 of the Ukrainian National Women's League of America and the Ukrainian Ame­rican Credit Union of Phoenix invite the public to attend a benefit Scho­larship Autumn Ball at the Pointe Resort at Squaw Peak, 7377 North 16th St. Music will be provided by Odnochasnist of Toronto. Tickets are S40 for adults, S30 for students. For reservations call Lidia Dydyk, (602) 948-2683.

November 18-19

NEW YORK: World-renowned U-krainian violinist Oleh Krysa and sons Petro and Taras, violinists, as well as his wife pianist Tatyana Tchekina will perform in concert, as part of the Music at the Institute series at 8 p.m. on Saturday and 3 p.m. on Sunday at the Ukrainian Institute of America, 2 E. 79th St. Tickets are S25 for adults, SIO for senior citizens. Full-time students and children underage 12can receive complimentary tickets with proper ID. For tickets and more informa­tion call the UIA, Monday through Friday, 3 to 6 p.m. (212) 288-8660.

November 19

WASHINGTON: Bohdan Kraw-chenko, director of the Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies at the University of Alberta in Edmonton will speak on "Ukrainian Commu­nity Development in Western Ca­nada" at 1 p.m. at the Holy Family Ukrainian National Shrine, 4250 Harewood Road NE. Dr. Kraw-chenko will focus his discussion on such areas as current relations with Ukraine, bilingual schools in western Canada, and the status and develop­ment of the Encyclopedia of Ukraine

project. Contributions will be accept­ed. For more information call Orysia Pylyshenko, (703)671-1451.

JENKINTOWN, Pa.: Manor Junior College will hold a college-wide "Careers of the '90s" open house, 12:30 to 3 p.m., in the Academic Building, Fox Chase Road and Forrest Avenue. Participants will be able to speak with admissions coun­selors, financial aid representatives and faculty. For more information call the admissions office, (215) 884-2216.

NEW YORK: Ne Zhurys, the well-known satirical ensemble from Lviv, will give a performance at 3 p.m. in the Ukrainian National Home, 140-142 Second Ave. For further infor­mation call Kobza, (416) 253-9314.

November 22

YONKERS, N.Y,: Ne Zhurys will perform in concert at 7:30 p.m. at the Ukrainian Youth Center, 301 Pali­sade Ave. For more information call Kobza, (416) 253-9314.

SASKATOON, Sask.: A lecture on "The Development of Popular Music in Ukraine from 1960 to 1980" and a display of photographs and music will be presented by Prof. Oksana Ivasiuk of the University of Cher-nivtsi, Ukraine, at 7:30 p.m. at the Ukrainian Museum of Canada, 910 Spadina Crescent East. The lecture is presented in cooperation with the University of Saskatchewan Cher-nivtsi Exchange Committee and will be delivered in Ukrainian. Prof. Ivasiuk is the sister of the late com­poser of contemporary Ukrainian music, who was largely responsible for the revival of popular Ukrainian music in the 1970s. His brilliant musical career was shortened by his tragic death at age 31 in 1979. On display will be an album of photo­graphs of the Ivasiuk family and samples of original sheet music composed and autographed by the late composer. Prof. Ivasiuk was born in 1960 in the town of Kitsman and serves as an assistant professor of Ukrainian literature at Chernivtsi State University. For more informa­tion call the museum, (306) 244-3800.

November 24

PARMA, Ohio: Ukrainian National Women's League branch 33 will hold an exhibit of works by Bohdan Borzemsky with an opening on Fri­day evening from 7:30 p.m. to 10 p.m. The exhibit, which will be on view at the UNWLA clubhouse, St. Josaphat's Astrodome, 5720 State Road, Parma will run through Sunday, November 26. The show's hours are Saturday, November 25 noon to 10 p.m. and Sunday, No­vember 26 from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m.

November 25

CHICAGO: The Chicago Plast branch will celebrate its 40th anni­versary with a banquet and dance. The banquet, to be held at the Marriott Lincolnshire Resort, Mil­waukee Road and Route 22, begins with cocktails at 6:30 p.m. and a dinner at 7:30 p.m. The dance begins at 9 p.m. Tickets for the banquet and dance are S40 per person; for the dance only, S20 per person. For more information or reservations, please call Marta Ozga at (312) 983-8693.

KERHONKSON, N.Y.: Ne Zhurys will perform in concert at 7:30 p.m. in the Veselka pavilion at the Ukrainian National Association resort, Soyu-zivka, Foordemore Road. For more information call Kobza, (416) 253-9314.

November 30

TORONTO: Dr. Frances Swiripa, history department of the University of Alberta, will speak on "Ukrainian Canadian Women and the Ethnic Community," at 7:30 p.m. at the Multicultural History Society of Ontario, 43 Queen's Park Crescent, The lecture is part of the Toronto Seminar in Ukrainian Studies lecture series sponsored by the Chair of Ukrainian Studies at the University of Toronto. For more information call (416) 978-3332.

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THE "CHORNOMORTSr PLAST FRATERNITY

cordially invites

everyone to their

8th ANNUAL

M O R S K I Y BALL on FRIDAY, November 24, 1989 at 9 p.m.

in the Main Ballroom of the RAM ADA HOTEL Route 10, EAST HANOVER, N.J.

Music provided by "TEMPO"

Tickets: 512,00 at the door For table reservation, please contact Oleh Kolodiy, (201) 763-1797

UNA WEEKEND FOR YOUNG PROFESSIONALS

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at SOYUZIVKA

NOVEMBER 2 4 8^ 2 5 , 1 9 8 9

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For Reservations Contact: Soyuzivka 914-626-5641