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Sichko, Striltsiv receivenew labor-camp sentences

On the patriarch's 90th

ELLICO TT CITY, Md. - Twomembers of the Ukrainian HelsinkiMonitoring Group have recently beengiven additional sentences,and a formerdissident has been rearrested in Lviv,reported the Smoloskyp InformationService based here.

Vasyl S ichko, 25, was sentenced to athree-year term in January, accordingto sources in Ukraine. At the time ofsentencing, he was about to complete athree-year labor-camp term in the cityof Cherkasy. He has been a member ofthe Ukrainian Helsinki Group since1978.

Mr. Sichko was arrested along withhis father, Petro, on Jury 5, 1979, forallegedly "slandering the Soviet state."His younger brother, Volodymyr, isalso imprisoned in a So viet laborcamp.

The other Helsinki group member toreceive an addHioaaf^Kntenoe.^S3-year-old Vasyl Striltsiv, a former teacherwho was sentenced in the fall of 1979 totwo years in a labor camp for allegedpassport law violations.

On the eve ofhis scheduled release hewas sentenced to an additional six-yearterm.

The nature of the new charges broughtagainst both men is not known.

A former teacher, Mr. Striltsiv wasfirst arrested when he was IS years oldand spent 10 years in a labor camp

Vasyl Sichko

before his release in 1954. On February9, 1977, he was fired from his teachingpo st after years o f pressure related to hisbrother Paylo's arrest in 1972 ;fo rostensibly "steodering the So viet state."Soon after he was fired Mr. Striltsivjoined the Ukrainian Helsinki Group.

Sm olo skyp also reported the arrest inlate 1981 of Mykhailo H oryn,51, a Lvivjournalist and author. Mr. Horyn, whowas previously imprisoned from 1965 to1971,' was reportedly charged with"anti-Soviet" activities, but as yet noinformation about the length of hissentence or the circumstances of hisarrest is available from sources inUkraine.

Congressional letter urges Sovietsto release ailing Ivan Svitlychny

WA SHINGTON - Following thelead of Amnesty International, Americans for Human Rights in Ukraine, andother organizations and concernedindividuals that are conducting telegram and letter campaigns to Sovietofficials in behalf of gravery-ill Ukrainian rights activist Ivan Svitlychny,Rep. C h r i s t o p h e r H . S m i t h(R-N.J.) initiated a letter that is beingcirculated in the U.S. Congress toobtain signatures for a special appeal toSoviet Chairman Leonid Brezhnev.

Mr. Svitlychny, Ukrainian prisonerof conscience, was arrested by the

. So viet government in 19 72 and sen-tenced to 12 years of strict-regimen

PT abo r camp and internal exile for "anti-f` Soviet agitation and propaganda."While under incarceration Mr. Svit

lychny suffered frequent and pro longedserious illnesses. On August20,1981,hesuffered a severe stroke with a massivebrain hemorrhage of the left temporallob e. S urgery was performed in aprimitive medical facility in the villageof Horno-Altaiska, Altaisky Krai,RSFSR, where Mr. Svitlychny is currently in internal exile.

So mehow he survived the operation,but the right side of his body remains

paralyzed. He suffered a relapse onDecember 17,1981,and is now reportedto be in critical condition.

In the congressional letter preparedby Rep. Smith, U.S. legislators areasking Chairman Brezhnev to releaseMr. Svi t lychny on humani tar iangrounds and as provided for by Article100 of the RSFSR Corrective LaborCode ("Convicted persons who aresuffering from chronic mental or otherserious illnesses preventing the furtherserving o f their sentence, can be freed bya court from further serving theirsentence...").

Furthermore, the U.S. legislators areasking the Soviet government to allow

Mr. Svitlychny to travel to the UnitedStates for m edical treatment and physical therapy.

AHRU is calling upon all concernedpeople to write their congressmen andsenators urging them to become cosignatories of this congressional letterof appeal to Soviet officials. Lettersmay also be written directly to theSoviet officials. For further information, interested persons may contact:Americans for Human Rights in U-kraine, 43 Midland Place, Newark, N.J.07106.

U.S. Cath olics h onor Slipyjby D r. Walter Dushnyck

PHILAD ELPHIA - Sunday, February 28, will enter the annals of theUkrainian Catholic Church and the

Ukrainian emigration in America as anoutstanding and historic day. On thatdate, the Ukrainian Catholic Metropo-lia, with its center in Philadelphia,joyfully and solemnly marked the 90thbirthday of Patriarch and CardinalJosyf Slipyj with an archepiscopaldivine liturgy and a gala concert.

All four hierarchs of the U.S. Ukrainian Catho lic Church - Metropo litanStephen Sulyk and Bishops Basil H.Losten of Stamford, Conn., InnocentLoto cky of Chicago^ and Ro bert M.Mo skal of Philadelphia - too k aleading and active role in the observance of the birthday of the primate ofthe Ukrainian Catholic Church. Aspecial citizens' comm ittee, established

ad hoc for the occasion, comprisedheads of 35 Ukrainian American national organizations, while the programwas prepared by a steering committee,headed by the Very Rev. Mitred slav Charyna.

Archepiscopal liturgy

A t 10 a.m. at the Cathedral of theImmaculate Conception of the BlessedVirgin Mary, a solemn archepiscopalliturgy was celebrated for the intentionof Patriarch Josyf by Archbishop-Metropolitan Sulyk, assisted by Bishops Losten, Lotocky and Moskal.During the liturgy responses were sung

by the Metropolitan Choir under thedirection of Osyp Lupan.Bishop Moskal delivered a penetrat

ing sermon about the life, activities andsuffering of Patriarch Slipyj, confessorof the faith, for his Church and hisUkrainian people. He said that theSo viet Com munist regime, despite itsattempts at annihilation of the Ukrainian Catholic Church through physicalpersecution, had failed to destroy theChurch, which continues to exist "in thecatacom bs." He called on the faithful tostrengthen the Ukrainian CatholicChurch in the diaspora, so that it mayserve as an inspiration and beacon forthe suffering Ukrainian faithful inUkraine.

Academy of Musk concert

At 2 p.m. at the Academy of Music,the prestigious auditorium in Philadelphia, a well-organized concert w as heldunder the patronage of the UkrainianCatholic hierarchs of the United States.

The stage was adorned with a portraitof Patriarch Slipyj and the banner read:"In tribute to His Beatitude PatriarchJosyf on the Occasion of His 90th."

The program was opened by Dr.

Volodymyr Pushkar, vice chairman ofthe steering com mittee, who stressed thegreat and symbolic meaning of theobservance.

Eishops' speechesThe audience was addressed by Me

tropolitan Sulyk and Bishops Lostenand Lotocky, whose addresses wereinterspersed with performances bychoirs, a pianist, an actress anda vocalist.

In his introductory remarks, Metropolitan Sulyk stated: "In this solemnmoment we bow our heads in tributebefore the majestic figure of the confessor of the holy faith . He is not withus personally. But our thoughts and ourfeelings demonstrate that we are withhim in spirit. We are sending our greetings through the waves of ether and wesalute His Beatitude Father Josyf,

patriarch fo r us all.""We pay him tribute in the 90th year

of his labor-loving lifeand long road ofservice for the glory of God, for thegreatness of Christ's Church and for thewelfare o f the Ukrainian peo ple," hesaid.

"Let this historic day marking the90th anniversary of the birth of theconfessor of the holy faith and our'Pomisna' Church, and his spirit ofservice for the Church and the peoplebecome a beacon forus all and give us astrength repeating the words of PopeJohn Paul II - 4o serve the Church andhimself in Christ and in truth and love,born from the gospel.' And may our' prayer with the faith' be the foundation of all our endeavors, for then ' what we will ask of God will be givenus.` "

Bishop Lotocky spoke of the thornypath of the life of Patriarch Josyf. Hementioned an episode from the life ofCardinal Slipyj, which has not hereto-"fore been publicized. A fterhis release in1963 from Soviet laborcamps and uponhis arrival in R om e, the patriarch told agroup of visiting priests (among themFather Lotocky) of the following

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I N S I D E :M Remarks of Max Kampelman,U.S. delegation chairman, at the

Madrid Conference - page 3. News and v iews: Dr. Ihor Kosz-

man on Rep. Millicent Fenwfck; Dr.Myron B. Kuropas on Rep. EdwardD erwinski - page 5.

Tribute to Taras Shev chenko -pages 6-7.

Scenes of Patriarch Josyf'ojubilee in Rome page 9.

Ukrainianpro hockey update byIhor N. Stelmach - page 10.


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S a m iz d a t d o c u m e n t d e s c r ib e s E x i l e d H e l s i n k i m o n i t o r s e n d s t"Communis t expe r imen t" in Ukra ine to S upporters the U nited S tates

NEW YORK - A document by ananonymous author that describes current conditions in Ukraine has made itsway to the West via the Russiansamizdat, reported the External Representation of the Ukrainian HelsinkiGroup.'"

The document, titled "Situation inUkraine." notes that this union republicof the USSR has been turned into atesting' ground of sorts where new formsof existence for communism are beingtried Slit. The do cument goes on to listthe various directions this new "experiment" has taken.

Below are excerpts from the document in, translation from the Ukrainiantext provided by the External Representation of the Ukrainian HelsinkiGroup.

Ukraine today has been transformedinto a testing ground, where commu

nism is looking for new forms of itsexistence in order to destroy and stampout everything alive, without destroyingitself. Communism is searching for aform in which it can exist for ages. If thisform is found (if such a form exists) itwill be a historic event comparable onlyto the March 1917 revolution. That iswhy the events that are taking place heretoday are important not only for U-kraine or Russia but for the wholeworld.

Before this "Ukrainian experiment"could be realized, a change of authoritytook place (the first secretary of theCommunist Party of Ukraine, Shelest,was accused of being a Ukrainian

nationalist for writings in his book,"Our Soviet Ukraine," he was ousted,and S hcherbytsky to ok his place; andthe head of the KGB , Nikitchenko, wasreplaced by Fedorchuk), and then thisexperiment, after being approved by thecentral government, branched out inseveral directions.

The head of the KGB and member ofthe Ukrainian SSR's Politburo, Fedorchuk delivered a speech at the end ofApril 1981 at the union republic KGBheadquarter, where he v ocalized o ne ofthe new directions the experiment wastaking: "In the last year, much work wasdone; 40 Ukrainian nationalists wererendered harmless. To avo id anyinternational rumblings, most of themwere sentenced for criminal acts.

He names 40 persons, although therewere really more; by the way this, justlike the "psykhushka ," is an attempt toundermine the support of Westernpublic opinion. This is an old Stalinisttrick: to call one's opponents criminals.

A second direction fthe new experiment is taking) is the effort to takeaction against any kind of religiousexpression, which does not in any waytouch upon the government. In August1980, KGB agents disbanded the O rthodox youth choirin the Pokrov a Churchin Kiev. The choir members were thrownout into the street and chased awayfrom the church, aftertheir names weretaken dow n. D uring the month theKGB daily checked the roster of singersin the choir, m aking sure that the youthsdid ho t make their way up to the choirloft.

In the fall of 1980, the militia brokeinto the Ukrainian Exarchate headquarters, demanding that all present inthe building gather in one room. Thepremises were searched, without awarrant, under the pretense of investigating som e criminal offense.

Year after year, the Pochayiv Mo nas

tery's territory is cut off, conditionsdeteriorate, the mo nks are persecuted.

Ambrosiy, a monk known throughout the Soviet Union because of hislifestyle and his preachings directed atyou th and understoo d by all , waschased out of the monastery in February 1981. The rector and "Good-Samaritan," escorted by the militia,personally searched his chambers. Afterharassing the rector, the militia alsoh a r a s s e d t he o t h e r m o n k s .They beat up Pytyrym, chased outIsaiah; they also chased o ut all the agedresidents from the Lavra living quarters- residents that had lived there foryears.

Third: in Ukraine they imprison notonly husbands and wives, but they alsopersecute members of families thatrefuse to denounce the activities of theirrelatives.

They expelled Volodymyr Sichkofrom the university because his fatherand brother were imprisoned and he

refused to com promise with the government. Atena Pashko (Vyacheslav novil's wife) is threatened with arrest;her husband's letter to the 26th Congress of the Communist Party of theSoviet Union was confiscated fromher.

Fou rth: the KGB scares Ukrainiansfrom any type of activity by persecutingthem, threatening them and blackmailing them. Thus, the situation in Ukrainehas become a Stalinist variant of communism. Ukrainians are discouragedfrom helping one another (financiallyand otherwise), calling or visiting eachother.

Mykola Horbal, after the escalationof persecution against him, gave noticeof his intention to emigrate and wasarrested.

Mykola Plakhotniuk, who was released from prison in March 1981, withgreat difficulties returned to work,where in April he was beat up by thepolice, and on September 6, he wasarrested after the testimony offalse" witnesses accused him o f criminalacts.

Olha Matusevych, after the arrest ofher husband, was blackmailed and inthe spring of 1980, she disappeared.O nly after three mo nths did it becomeapparent that she was in a prison cam p,but on what charges she is imprisoned isstill not known.

Raisa Rudenko, who after years ofbeing followed andspied on, was subjectedto humiliating searches. In May 1981she also disappeared. After a month, itbecames known that she, too, is in acamp, having been tried under Article62 ("anti-Soviet agitation and propaganda").

Th ree women - Sv i t lana chenko, Anna Marchenko and My-chailyna Kotsiubynska - who werevery active and deeply conscientious,were subjected to searches, physical harassme nt and threats. No w, theylive in constant fear of arrest.

Fifth: in an attempt to drain the lastbits of morals, of scruples in Ukraine,

the Sov iet governm ent keepsa fierce eyeon the released Ukrainian prisoners.Kalynychenko's administrative surveillance was extended eight times; thesame was true for Kandyba. Stus wasforbidden to v isit the Meshko residence.

No one is safe from being trailed. InMay 1981 Lytovchenko played hostessto a German woman tourist. On thatday and the following days, she wasfollowed by a group of agents in automobiles.

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D ENV ER - Bo hdan Rebryk, exiledmember of the Ukrainian HelsinkiGroup, has written the Denv er chapterof Am nesty International to express hisgratitude for the many cards and Christmas letters he has received from suppo rters in the U nited States, according to achapter press release.

Mr. Rebryk, 43, who served a seven-year term in strict-regimen camps inPerm and Mordovia for "anti-Sovietagitation and propaganda," was released in May 1981 and transferred to astate farm at Kenbidaik in the Tselino-gradskaya oblast.

A staunch U krainian nationalist, Mr.Rebryk, a former teacher, was firstarrested in February 1967 and sentencedthree months later to three years in alabor camp under Article 187 of theUkrainian Criminal Code, "slanderingthe Soviet state."

During his imprisonment he was acellmate of Ukrainian dissident DanyloShumuk, who was finishing a 10-year

sentence for "anti-Soviet agitation andpropaganda." Mr. Shumuk was rearrestedin 1972 and sentenced to 15 years imprisoned and exile. He joined the Ukrainian Helsinki Group in 1979.

After his release in 1970, Mr. Rebrykwas continually harassed by the KGB.On May 23,1974 hewas arrested aga in,this time for "anti-Soviet agitation andpropaganda," and sentenced to sevenyears in a labor camp and three yearsinternal exile.

Mr. Rebryk joined the UkrainianHelsinki Group in 1979 while servinghis labor-camp sentence.

Although in prison, he continued his

Lviv coup le r am s carth r o u g h e m b a ss y g a te

MO SCOW - A young Ukrainiancouple rammed their car through theiron gates of the U.S. Embassy herebefore dawn on March 2 but left thecompound five hours later, reportedUPI and the Associated Press.

American consular officers accompanied the couple, said to be in their 30sand from the western Ukrainian city ofLviv, to a taxi outside the embassy aftertelling them to take their grievance tothe prosecutor general's office. Thenature o f the grievanceand the names ofthe two Ukrainians were not disclosedby embassy officials.

Thirty minutes before the couple leftthe embassy, U.S. security officialsdrove their damaged car to an unknownlocation.

Bohdan Rebryk

political activism, signing numerouspetitions and appeals. He also to ok partin hunger strikes and protests at thenotorious So snovka labor camp.

Amnesty International adopted Mr.Rebryk as a prisoner of co nscience soonafter his trial and conviction in 1974.AI's Denver Group 60, in cooperationwith a Swedish and West Germangroup, campaigned for his releasethrough a number of letters and petitiondrives.

In a letter to the group shortly afterhis arrival in Kenbidaik, Mr. Rebrykdescribed living conditions at the farmwhere he and many former prisoners arebeing held.

"I have a little flat to myself one

room, a kitchen and a pantry," hewrote. "I will be working in a buildingparty which is renovating the cattlestalls. I lost 70 percent ofmy eyesight inthe Red Army, so I constantly havedifficulty finding work."

The Denver group exchanges correspondence with Mr. Rebryk and sendshim clothing and other necessit ies.Currently the group is seeking funds tosend him a pair of reading glasses,which he desperately needs.

Anyone wishing to contribute toaiding Mr. Rebryk is urged to contactthe Denver group. The mailing addressis: AI /USA Denve r Gro up 60 , c / oChristine Gehrt Wynar, 778 8 S. O gdenWay, Littleton, Colo. 80122. The telephone number is (303) 797-3345.

Registered letters to Mr. Rebryk maybe sent to: SSS R, RSFS R474230,Tseli-nogradskaya oblast, Kuraldzhinskiyraion, pos. Kenbidaik, Rebryk, Bohdan.

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leaders join ethniCS COIlSUlate protest Ukra in ian M useum ge t s a r t s g ran tSA N FRANCIS CO - Some 45

people rallied in the rain before theSoviet Consulate here on February 13in support of Ukrainian political prisoners, according to the local UCCAbranch which sponsored the event.

Guest speaker Viktor Borovsky, aformer victim of Soviet psychiatricimprisonment, tore apart a Soviet flag,and declared that soon the same wouldhappen to the Soviet system.

Prof. George Lerski, national director of the Polish American Congressand president o f its Northern CaliforniaBranch, noted that the Ukrainianpeople were the first and worst victimsof So viet imperialism, and declared thatthe struggles for justice and liberation ofthe Polish and Ukrainian peoples areinseparable.

This common cause demands thatpast differences be forgotten, he said.

Jan B oro dov ski, a former resident ofKiev and acquaintance of several Ukrainian dissidents, outlined the history,goals, methods and present situation ofthe Ukrainian Helsinki MonitoringGroup.

Jim Baker, director of Region 6 of

Thefollowing address was delivere dby Max Kampelman, head ofth e U.S.delegation to the MadridConference onSecurity and Cooperation in Europe,on February 10. In the speech, Mr.Kampelman refers repeatedly to aserious procedural dispute which erupted when th e chairman of theFebruary 9session. Poland's Josef, Wiejacz, arbitrarily decided to stop debate before allthe scheduled speakers had addressedthe mee ting, and attempted to have themeeting adjourned until February 12.Although the procedural wranglingdisrupted the rest of the session, talksresumed as scheduled the ollowing day.

Yesterday was a sad day for theHelsinki process. The moment at handis a grave one, and it requires honest anddirect language.

For more than 17. months we havebeen meeting here in Madrid in serious,earnest, intensive discourse. Duringthat time, our differences o f perceptionabout our obligations to one anotherand to the Helsinki Final Act have beenfully aired. The West has set forth indetail a whole series of actions engagedin by the Soviet Union which, in ourview, represented contempt for, if notdefiance of, the substantive provisionsof the Helsinki Final Act. We tooknotice of these actions out of a conviction that if all 35 of us were going tobuild the fabric of peace and cooperation demanded by our publics and byreason, we needed understandingamong us.

It was of great importance that weused the Helsinki process fully toexchange views and to negotiate withone another. We respected the rules ofcourtesy which have characterized theHelsinki process since its beginning Wediffered, but we did not seek to destroy

the fabric of our intercourse here. Ourprocedures, mutually arrived at, werebased on courtesy and interpreted onthe premise that our respect for oneanother and for our historic task demanded the same respect for our rightto express ourselves freely.

Yesterday's dramatic veering awayfrom that spirit was, our delegation iscoming to believe, in effect a demonstration against the Helsinki Final Actas we have come to knowand cherish it.

Not only are the substantive provi-

the A FL-CIO , which encompasses ninewestern states, declared the support ofAmerican labor for the struggles of theworkers of the Soviet Union and Poland. He noted that the right of workersto organize in self-defense is the mostfundamental of human rights. Therefore, he went on, the struggle of theworkers of the So vietUnion and EasternEurope is at o ne with the struggle of thedissident intellectuals.

Mr. Baker added that to support theworkers' movements within the Sovietbloc is the responsibility of the workersof the demo cratic coun tries, because thecause of the working people is indivisible and worldwide.

In his introduction of Mr. Baker,Oleh Weres, president of the UCCAbranch, thanked the AFL-CIO forbeing the first political power in America to seriously and sincerely take noteof the political cause of the EastEuropean ethnics, and to help them.

He also remarked that the international campaign of support for theworkers of Poland mounted by theA F L - a nd o th er w es te rn la bo r

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sions of the final act being totallyignored by the Soviet Union in Afghanistan, in Poland, and with respectto the human dimension of the act'sprovisions, but we now find that theSoviet Union has begun to assault thevery fabric of our process, the verymeans which permitted us to maintainour dialogue.

I realize full well that it was thedelegate from Poland who sat in thechair at yesterday's plenary and whowill assume the historic burden o f beingresponsible for undermining so much ofwhat has been indispensable to all of usin the Helsinki process. It was the Sovietdelegation, however, which constantlyintervened, constantly defended theincredible positions taken by the chair,and which gave every sign of beingresponsible for what we consider to bethe outlandish conduct of the chairduring yesterday's session .

It would appear, Mr. Chairman, as ifthe Soviet Union is acting to underminethe Helsinki Final Act both substantive-ly and procedurally, in both the letterand the spirit. This saddens us. We hopethat Soviet authorities will re-examine

their positio n. It is not in their interest.It is certainly no t in the interest of peaceand cooperation in Europe.'

We have differences of philosophyamong us. We differ in our views as tothe nature of man. It is no secret thatmany of us look upon the Soviet Unionas a modern form of repressive societywhich we could not tolerate for ourselves and our children. Nevertheless,we know that it is essential for us tolearn to live in peace with one another.The patient exchange of views, discussion, argument, and the naturalevo lution of so cieties, we hoped, mightwell help lessen our differences as we allcame t o understand the indispensabilityof human freedom to human development, and that we have more to gainfrom living in peace with one anotherthan from fighting each other.

The Helsinki Accords have beenindispensable to our aspirations for theachievement of these goals. But yesterday's dev elopments dampen o ur expectations'. The delivery of damaging blo wsto the Helsinki spirit continues. Thebrazen misuse o f po wer yesterday in theface of reason and precedent warns us

NEW YORK - The New York StateCouncil on the Arts has granted funding of 521,000 to The Ukrainian Museum toward two major projects andgeneral operations.

General operations is a title given tomuseum activities and operations covering administrative, staff and operating costs. The Ukrainian Museum has,on the basis of past work and futureplans, received 86,000 from the artscouncil towards its general operatingbudget.

"Lost A rchitecture of Kiev," anexhibit opening May 29, has beenawarded 59,000. This exhibition willattempt to bring to the public the spiritand the splendor of the city's lostarchitectural landmarks. Kiev is one ofthe oldest cities of Eastern Europe. As acapital of a medieval empire, the oldcity of Kiev was one of the majorcultural centers of Europe.

A medieval traveler wrote "...in thisgreat city are over 400 churches andeight marketplaces and a great multitude of people.'' In subsequent yearsKiev underwent decades of destruction

and a slow' rebirth during the B aroqueperiod of; the 17th-18th centuries. It isthese mo numents and landmarks, manyof which were destroyed in the 1930s,that the exhibit will bring to the attention of the museum's visitor.

The Ukrainian Museum has alsobeen granted 56,000 to continue itsarchival project on the photographicdocumentation of the history of Ukrainians in the United States. This majorendeavo r invo lves a program to locate,collect, preserve, copy and make available for research purpo ses pho tographs in the possession of individuals,organizations aud institutions nationally. Photographs are an important,recognized source of historic documentation. This major project will presentitself in the first exhibit of Ukrainianimmigration into the United States,scheduled for 1983.

The Ukrainian Museum is still awaiting positive response from The NewYork State Council on the Arts inregard to grants invo lving the museum'seducational programs.

Kampelman at M adrid scores Soviet contempt for Helsinki Final Actntempt for Helsifthat our aspirations may not be sharedby the Soviet Union.

It will serve no purpose for ourdelegation to review here the legal andpractical arguments presented yesterday by nearly every delegation present, except for the Soviet Union andthose whom it directs through the threatof military and police power. The chairman yesterday received no supportfrom any delegation other than thosefew whose destinies are controlled bythe Soviet Union. Every other delegatewho spoke protested the arbitrary,stubborn and improper behavior of thechairman.

The chair kept reiterating that it wasnot making rules, that it was a prisonerof the rules and of this body, that it didnot have power. And yet, it was theinitiative of the chair and the grossmisinterpretation of the rules by thechair that led to yesterday's destructiveconfrontation. Never before in thehistory of this process has a delegation,inscribed on the speaking rolls, beendenied the right to talk that day. Wewitnessed a blatant usurpation o f powerby the chairman, perhaps quite repre

sentative o f the practices engaged in byhis government but highly inappropriate for the CSCE.

It is important, however, that we notlet this violent affront to the Helsinkiprocess divert our energies from thesubstance of what was said by sixforeign ministers yesterday in behalf ofthe free wo rld, and what will continue tobe expressed by others at this meeting.

Our broad concerns about the destruction of human liberty in Poland,our objections to the threat of the use offorce by the Soviet Union against thepeople of Po land - all this has beenand will continue to be clearly enunciated. Basic to it all, however, and to thevery purpose of diplomacy must be theconscio usness that the human being andhis welfare are primary. The strength ofthe Helsinki Final A ct is that the humandimension is recognized for its primaryrole in achieving security, cooperationand peace among us.

In this context, I wish to comment fora few brief moments about one individual, one distinguished citizen of Poland, one human being with a wife andchild, a man deeply respected in mycountry, w ho is today a victim of

ki Final Actmartial law in his own.

It has been my privilege, while thesemeetings have been in session, to servealso as chairman of the board o f trusteesof the Woodrow Wilson InternationalCenter for Scholars in Washington. In1978, Prof. Bronislaw Geremek ofPoland served as a distinguished F ellowat our center. He came to us as one ofthe world's most distinguished andproductive medieval scholars. He hadgraduated from the University of Warsaw in 1955 with a special thesis dealingwith the 14th century, which earned forhim great distinction. His thesis onmedieval Paris led him to receive hisdoctorate in 1960 from the PolishA cademy of Sciences; and that thesis inturn has been published in a number oflanguages. He was director of theCenter of Polish Culture and taughtPolish history at the University ofParis in the early 1960s. He did furtherwork on Paris of the 14th and 15thcenturies, on the basis of which hereceived an ev en higher degree from thePolish Academy of Sciences in 1970.This work gained for him as well thePrix d'Histoire de 1'Academie Fran-caise in 1977.

During Prof. Geremek's stay in theUnited States as a Wilson Fellow, heproduced an absolutely remarkablepiece of work on the role of the gypsiesin the late medieval culture. This paperwas published in Poland in the spring of1980 and was called "The World o f theBeggars' Opera." He subsequentlycompleted another book on "SocialAttitudes toward Poverty in the MiddleAges and Modern Times."

Prof. Geremek's great scholarshipwas accompanied by a characteristic o fmany scholars, the possession of a freemind and a free soul. In 1968 he turnedin his Communist Party membershipcard in protest against the Sovietinvasion of Czechoslov akia. In 1980 hejoined the Solidarity movement of hiscountry, assisting the Gdansk strikers intheir negotiations and then later servingas an unpaid chairman of that movement's board of academic advisers.During the period of his people'sstruggle for human dignity and freedom, this outstanding citizen of Polandrepresented his people last No vember at

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THE UK RA IN IA N WEEKLY SUNDAY, MARCH7 , 1982 No. 10

Stamford Diocese youth directorvisits fraternal activities office

Obituaries

Sister Dorothea and Marta Korduba.

JERSEY CITY, N.J. - Youth participation in the Ukrainian communitywas the topic of conversation during arecent visit to the UNA FraternalActivities Office by Sister DorotheaMihalko, director o f the Youth Apo sto-late to the Stamford Diocese of theUkrainian Catholic Church.

Sister D oro thea met with the UNA'Sfraternal activities director, MartaKorduba, in order to discuss common

P e r t hA m b o yc l u bo f f e r s U k r a i n i a n

PERTH AMB OY, N.J. - In orderto bridge the gap between co mmunication levels within the Perth Amboyarea's Ukrainian community, the U-krainian Cultural Club of U NA Branch155 is sponsoring a Ukrainian languageworkshop.

Beginning on March 13 and continuing for eight consecutive Saturdays, aone-and-a-half hour weekly workshopwill be conducted. The cour se, slated for1 p.m., prom ises to be a unique one, dueto the unconventional and innovativemethods to be used, including a color-coded system, whereby students relyupon visual identification to masterlinguistic construction,and "hands-on"reading approach m ethods.

The no vice will be given the oppo rtunity of beginning with the alphabet,while the intermediate speaker will beable to work on his own level of proficiency.

The course has been designed by anative speaker of Ukrainian and anAm erican-born pro fessional teacher o flanguage arts and reading. Both aremembers of the UNA Cultural Club inPerth Amboy.

A ll sessions will be held at the Ukrainian National Home, 760 State St.,Perth Amboy, N.J.

Persons who are interested in participating may call 826-5654 or 442-4632for registration or further information.The fee is S I2.50, and covers the cost ofall materials. Persons outside the PerthAmboy area are welcome.

experiences encountered in their jobs.Like the UNA , the Stamford D iocese

has recognized and addressed the problem of declining youth participationby creating a full-time position (a littleover a year ago) to be filled by a youthactivities director.

Sister Dorothea's interest in UNA-sponsored activities was sparked by an

enthusiastic participant in the UNASharing and Communicating weekendheld at Soyuzivka February 5-7. SisterD oro thea and Ms. Korduba agreed thecommunication were the key to encouraging and enabling yo uth to participate more actively in their respectivecommunities. "Through communication, we discover and grow to respectthe differences in our individual interpretation of our Ukrainian Americanidentity," said Sister Dorothea. "Variety of thought is a positive, neededthing. In order to benefit and grow as a

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R etired judg e tel ls R eagarrl e t U k ra in e b e U k ra in e 'SO UTH B END , Ind. - In a Feb

ruary 8 letter to President RonaldReagan, retired Appellate Court JudgeJohn S. Gonas praised the president forhis support of the Polish people - "Weall agree... Let Poland be Po land," hewrote - and he suggested that theUnited States take an equally vocalposition in support of Lithuania, Latvia,Estonia and Ukraine.

Judge,Gonas, who is a former president of the American Ethnic Foundation, told the president that the UnitedStates government should remain ever

vigilant in checking the spread ofsocialism and comm unism, noting that"today the Soviets are placing missilesin the Caribbean."

In referring to the Baltic nations andUkraine, Judge Gonas wrote that with-

- out these natio ns in their empire, theSov iet Union wouldbe less ofa threat tothe world.

"If Ukraine was granted her freedom,as she had-pleaded for years, we wouldhave a'free wo rld. Let Ukraine be ,Ukraine," he wrote.

N e s t o r Chylak, AL umpireD UNM O RE, Pa. - Former Ameri

can League umpire Nestor Chylak, whoworked five World S eries, three American League championship series andfour all-star games, died here of anapparent heart attack on February 17.He was 59.

Mr. Chylak, a native of Olyphant,

Pa., was the son of Nestor and NellieShipskie Chylak , and a long- t imeparishioner of Ss. Cyril and MethodiusUkrainian Greek Catholic Church.

A v eteran of World War II, Mr.Chylak was a platoon sergeant duringthe Battle of the Bulge, where a seriousshrapnel wound almost cost him hiseyesight.

After leaving the army, Mr. Chylakreturned to Pennsylvania, where hebegan his umpiring career in the StateAmateur Baseball League, which wasthen headed by Jerry Pronko, vicepresident of the Ukrainian FraternalAssociation and editor of The UFAVoice, the organization's newspaper.Another Ukrainian sportsman, Walt

Dutchak, convinced young Chylak thathe could beco me a grea t basebal lumpire.

In 1947 he moved up north to umpirein the Pony L eague (Class D ) in Hamilton, Ont. From that year on, the careerof Mr. Chylak, who studied engineeringat Rutgers University and the University of Scranton, took off, and afterbrief stints in the Canadian-AmericanLeague and the International League,he was moved up to the AmericanLeague in 1954.

His umpiring skills were so respectedby owners, managers and players alikethat, three years after breaking into theleague, he was chosen to umpire in theWorld S eries.

In 1960, he w as umpiring the seventhgame of World Series when Bill Mazo-roski's dramatic home run enabled thePittsburgh Pirates to upset the NewYork Yankees. In addition, Mr. Chylakparticipated in the 1966, 1971 and the1977 World Series.

"I umpired for 25 years and canhonestly say I never called o ne wronginmy heart," he once recalled. "The way Isee it, an um pire must be perfect on thefirst day of the season and then getbetter every day."

In New York, Commissioner BowieKuhn paid tribute to Mr. Chylak,saying: "Few people have ever beenmore respected in his field. Everyonelooked up to him, andI developed morerespect every time I saw him in a W orldScries or all-star game."

American League President Lee

McPhail also held him in high esteem."He had the conf idence of youngumpires on the staff as well as therespect of the senior men. He wasconsidered an outstanding teacher andcertainly one of the finest umpires inmajor league baseball in modern times.We are sure he will be a candidate foreventual Hall of Fame recognition."

After his retirement in 1979, Mr.Chylak was named assistant supervisorof umpires. He was a frequent guestspeaker at banquets and other affairs,and a popular figure on the lecturecircuit because of his natural gift ofstorytelling coupled with his vast .baseball experience. He appeared annually atSs . Cyril and Methodius Ukrainian

Greek Catholic Church Baseball Banquets, never forgetting his Ukrainianroots.

In the spring 1969 issue ofthe UFA'sForum magazine, Mr. Chylak creditedhis success to his early years in P ennsylvania, saying: "I look back tomy days inthe State League where I received mybaptismal of fire in the umpiring profession, and I am thankful for thisexperience because it was a great aid inadvancing my career."

"I've come a long way, and lamindebted to many people for my success," he added.

In addition to his after-dinner speaking, he was a fine singer, taking the lead

in local quartets, as well as an excellenthonky-tonk piano player.Along with his wife, the former Sue

Shemet, Mr. Chylak is survived by twosons, Robert and William; two sisters,Jule Dudrich and Mae Burgass; and abrother, Eugene.

Mr. Chylak`s funeral was held February 20 at S s. Cyril and Metho diusChurch, with the divine liturgy brated by the Revs. John Stevensky,John Beckage and Msgr. Steven nioch, the local pastor. Burialwas in theparish cemetery in Peckville, Pa.

Rose Kowalchuk, UN A activisAP O PKA , Fla. - Rose (nee Fu-

terko) Kowalchuk, a tireless community activist and one of the co-foundersof the Ukrainian Village here, died onFebruary 20 at her home following along bout with cancer. She was 70.

Born in the vil lage of Dorohiv,Ukraine, on March 19, 1911, Mrs.Kowalchuk emigrated to New York in1928 to join her mother, who had comethere in 1912. Four years later, onMarch 12, 1932, she married StephenKowalchuk.

In 1934, Mrs. Kowalchuk became amember of U NA Branch 361 in NewYork. She assisted her husband incommunity organizing in New York,Hempstead, Long Island and Miami.

In 1974, Mrs. Kowalchuk was a co-founder of UN A Branch 380 in Apopka,Fla. In addition, she was co-founder of theUkrainian Unity of St. Wolodymyr,and was an honorary member of thechurch

In 1972 she organized and presentedthe first Ukrainian arts and craftsexhibit at an annual Apopka artsfestival and was awarded first prize.

Mrs. kowalchuk was also a memberof La Sertoma, a ladies auxiliary to

Rose KowalchukSertoma, a community service organization.

Mrs. Kowalchuk was anxiously loo king forward to celebrating her 50thwedding anniversary o n M arch 12, butshe began to fail rapidly and her doctoradvised her family to celebrate her longmarriage before that date.

A wedding anniversary celebrationwas scheduled for February 20, and

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a conference summoned by Pope JohnPaul II at the Vatican on "The Common Spiritual Roots of Europe."

With the retreat of Poland into thedarkness of martial law and repression,this outstanding Pole, this internationally respected scholar, was jailed by themilitary rulers of his country, one ofmore than a score of leading historians

of his country so incarcerated.This man, considered by his colleagues to be the center of "Europe'scommon spiritual r oots," has now beenmaligned as a "political gangster." Hisoutstanding and creative medievalstudies, particularly his work about thegypsies, were shamelessly characterizedby Moscow Radio as "writing aboutdegenerates," another blatant exampleof the racism which g overns that society.On December 18 Radio Moscow furtherattacked him as a Zionist writing about"psychotic social movements." Thiscourageous young man and remarkablescholar, who until the age of 9 washeld by the Nazis at Auschwitz, hasonce more suffered direct anti-Semiticattacks.

Is this the image that the militaryleaders of Poland intend to conveyabout the nature of their society to aworld which looks upon the evolvingtragedy of that country in anguish andoutrage? Is this the respect for learningwhich has characterized Polish historyover the ages, or is it, rather, clearevidence of this military regime's repudiation of that lofty civilization?

Prof. Geremek is a scholar who haslinked Eastern and Western history,social and traditional history, thedistant past and the troubled present:Today the military rulers of his co untryshow their disdain for the tradition of

learning represented by him by imprisoning and punishing him through awhole series of indignities. It is ourinformation that he has been moved tothe Drawsko Prison far from Warsaw,far from his family. In his role as theelected chairman of the prisoners at theBialoleka Juvenile Prison, which wasturned into a detention camp, he hadrecently completed a two-week hungerstrike in protest against the inhumantreatment he and his fellow prisonerswere receiving.

Those in my country who`knowProf.Geremek have joined with countlessothers who respect him as a scholar andas a human being in a plea for h is releasefrom prison. On December 23, a letterwas addressed to General Jaruzelski,signed by past presidents and thepresent president of the AmericanHistorical Association, expressingparticular concern about their colleague'sfate. I am informed that Prof.Geremek' has been pr oposed for honorary membership in that distinguished professional association.

There is great skepticism in mycountry about the genuineness of statements made by representatives of thePolish military regime that their intentis to continue the process of renewal anddialogue which began in their countryand was abruptly interrupted. The fateof Bronislaw Geremek and his colleagues

will be an important yardstick bywhich we will measure that genuineness.Their release would go far in dealingwith that skepticism.

We say to our friend BronislawGeremek, a historian, that the teachingsof history demon strate that at no periodcan we say that "it is over." The Polishpeople have seen this inhumanity beforein their lifetime. Today is not the lastday. It is just today. And there will betomorrow.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman.

N e w s and views

M illicent Fenwick: hum an-rights championby Dr. Dior Koszman

The name of Congresswoman Millicent Fenwick is well known to readersof the Ukrainian press in the UnitedStates, and in my view, perhaps no onein U.S. officialdom merits more appre

ciation than she. At present she isendeavoring to obtain the Republicannomination for the U.S. Senate fromthe state of New Jersey. In this article Ishall try to point o ut why Mrs. Fenwickdeserves and needs the active support ofthe Ukrainian American community.

Since 1974, Mrs. Fenwick has servedas a representative from New Jersey'sSth Congressional District. She continues to enjoy great popularity in herown region. In the last three elections,she overwhelmed the opposition bygetting approximately 75 percent of thevote. In current political circumstancesthis is regarded a s quite an accomp lishment. Her Democatic 'opponents ranagainst her with an apparent lack ofenthusiasm, for opposing her in the SthDistrict amounted to political suicide.

Although Mrs. Fenwick has neverlost an election, her earlier politicalcampaigns were not without somemisgivings. For example, in her firstcongressional Republican primary in1974, she won by a mere 81 votes.Generally speaking, participation in theRepublican primaries is numericallylight when contrasted with the totalregistration. This could be attributed to

1the relatively small percentage of voter sin New Jersey who are officially registered as Republicans. Since primaryelections are limited to party membersonly, even a small group of well-organized voters can have a decisiveinfluence on nominating a candidate ofits choice.

In the upcoming primaries Mrs.Fenwick faces a determined opposition.Due to this fact political observers arereluctant to forecast the outcome of theRepublican primary election. By takingall this into consideration, the followingconclusion can be drawn: if UkrainianAmericans exert a concerted effort bysupporting Mrs. Fenwick in the Republican primaries, her nomination as acandidate to the U.S. Senate would begreatly enhanced.

Now comes the question: Does Mrs.Fenwick really deserve the support ofUkrainian Americans?

The answer is clear. During her sevenyears in the House of Representatives,Mrs. Fenwick became a champion inthe struggle for universal human rights,as evidenced by her innumerable effortsto improve the fate of Ukrainian political prisoners and the fight for the

attainment of human rights n Ukraine.One should mention a few of herefforts in defense of persecuted Ukrainians.

In 1975, as a part of a congressionaldelegation to the Soviet Union, sheraised the question of free emigrationand submitted a list of Ukrainianpolitical prisoners to the highest authorities in the Kremlin. She insisted onvisiting Valentyn Moroz in VladimirPrison. The Soviets' brusque refusal,together with subsequent charges andcountercharges, elevated her visit to acause celebre. The difficulties sheencountered in the Soviet Union wereextensively described in press reportswhich gained worldwide exposure.

At that time, it .was not an acceptedpractice to protest to Soviet officialsabout the fate of Ukrainians. A well-known American politician even madea statement to the Kremlin that it wasnot in the best interests of the UnitedStates to liberate Ukraine. Rep. Fen-wick's forthright approach created asensation in the American press and,conversely, a brutal reaction from themasters of the Kremlin.

Leonid Brezhnev at first complainedthat the American congressional delegation, and especially Mrs. Fenwick,became deranged with this idea ofhuman rights. Later, the Soviet presswrote that "Ukrainians and Jews paidoff Fenwick." From then on she wasrefused entry to the Soviet Union.Readers of Svoboda had an opportunity to see the cartoon from the Sovietsatirical magazine Perets whichdepicted a two-headed serpent onehead with a trident and the other withthe Star of David.

During Mrs. Fenwick's visit to theSoviet Union, she also met Prof. YuriOrlov, who is currently in prison. Hermeeting with Mr. Orlov and eventsduring the rest of the trip crystallizedthe idea of establishing a special congressional commission to monitorcompliance of signatory nations withthe HelsinkioAccords, especially inregard to the Third Basket dealing with

human righ ts. In a conversation at thattime Rep. Fenwick pointed out to methat the main purpose of the congressional commissibn would be toobserve and report the compliance (ornon-compliance) specifically with thehuman-rights provisions; other provi

sions could be monitored by the Stateand Commerce Departments. .In September of 1975,she introduced

a bill in Congress to establish this body.In spite of the oposition of Secretary ofState Henry Kissinger and the executive branch, the bill was overwhelminglypassed by both houses of Congress; thecommission was finally established inthe summer of 1976, under the chairmanship of Rep. Dante Fascell fromFlorida. The Ukrainian community,especially the New Jersey-based Committee for the Defense of ValentynMoroz, took a very active part inassisting Mrs. Fenwick in her efforts.

This congressional comm ission provided an opportunity for all Ukrainianpolitical prisoners who had been released and emigrated to the West totestify about violations of human andnational rights in Uk raine. Based on thehearings and research, this commissioncompiled all pertinent informationabout Soviet tyranny, and this documentation was used by the U.S. delegation at the Madrid Conference. TheUkrainian problem and the fate ofUkrainian political prisoners was raisedon numerous occasions by the U.S.delegation.

The release of Valentyn Moroz was inno small way due to the diligent effortsof Mrs. Fenwick. Although writingabout all her endeavors could fill avolume, her own words probably describe it best: "After all those years oftremendous effort, it was hard to believethat Moroz was finally freed. When Ifirst met M oroz face-to-face, I was socompletely overwhelmed that I couldnot speak, but only embrace him."

Mrs. Fenwick continues to be in theforefront of the struggle for freedomand justice for U krainian politicalprisoners w ho are serving time in Soviet"torture chambers." In her privateconversations with Ukrainian American human-rights activists, she sometimes chided the Ukrainian Americancommunity for not defending humanrights more forcefully, for not bringing

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Edward Derwinski: a friend in needby Dr. Myron B. Kuropas

"Reciprocity" writes Levi-Strauss, isthe "very essence o f social life." Itis alsoat the core of political life in America asanyone familiar with our democraticsystem can readily testify. Politicalaction comm ittees (PAC s) organized byvarious special interest groups are asmuch a part of life in Washington ascherry blossoms in the spring.

Despite the best of intentions, weUkrainians have yet to create an effective and efficient lobby on Capitol Hillwhich could promote our interests onan ongoing basis. Lacking this, we havehad to rely on friends, congressmen whowere sympathetic to our cause and whowere willing to risk their political-reputations on our behalf.

During the past 100 plus years of ourimmigration, we have found many suchcongressional allies but only two havedemonstrated a loyalty to our community that went far beyond anything we

had a right to expect.The first was Rep. James Hamill (D. -

N.J.) who during World War I supported the Ukrainian national independencemovement more vigorously and moreconsistently than any other Am ericanpolitical leader before or since.

The second is Rep. Edward Derwinski (R-Ill.), a man w ho for^over 20 yearshas courageously and unstintinglyresponded to countless requests fromthe Ukrainian American community.Without his help, there might not havebeen a Taras Shevchenko monument inour nation's capital , or an annualCaptive Nations Week observance, ornumerous congressional resolutionscalling attention to the plight of ourdissidents and our Catholic and Orthodox clergy in Soviet Ukraine.

A Shevchenko Freedom Award re-c ipient, Congressman Derwinski is oneof our nation's most articulate spokesmen on behalf of human and nationalrights in Eastern Europe.

Today, our friend Ed Derwinski

needs our help. As a result of congressional redistricting, he faces a verydifficult and expensive primary electionagainst a formidable opponent onMarch 16. If he loses, the Ukrainiancommunity loses!

We Ukrainian Americans now have agolden opportunity to clearly demonstrate that we understand the meaningof reciprocity by coming to the aid of afriend in need.

Let's let our friend know that weappreciate his efforts with a personalnote of encouragement along with ourtax-deductible contribution to hiscampaign. A simple "We Ukrainianslove you, Ed Derwinski" wrappedaround a personal check will go fartowards repaying a man who has doneso much to promote our cause.

Time is short. Please send your lettersas soon as possible to: The Citizens forDerwinski Committee, P.O. Box 91,Worth, 111. 60482. Checks should bemade payable to: Citizens for Derwinski Committee.


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U kra in ian W eeklyO n S h e v c h e n k o ' s u n iv e r s a l i ty

The works of Tares Shevchenko will always appeal to his ownpeople due to the richness of th e language he uses and the folk themeshe explores, but the ideas of this man undoubtedly stirsomething inthe soul of any people that strives for liberty and justice. Thus, even

today, Shevchenko is an international figure who represents freedomfor all people who have been oppressed and persecuted.How did a m a n w h o w a sborn a serf, w h o d i d n o tgain his freedom o r

begin h is education until th e age of 24 , achievesuch a respectability incommunities throughout the world? Why have his works beentranslated into over 30 languages? What was S hevchenko saying thathas made other communities want to listen?

First and foremost Shevchenko spoke for the people. Throughhisreading, his writing and his acquaintances, Shevchenko became ahighly educated person in the upper echelons of society. A s soon ashe gained his freedom, he found doors to education opening up forhim. He attended the Academy o f Ar t , became an avid reader of suchwriters as Homer, Goethe, Schiller, Scott, Dickens, Defoe, Pushkinand Gogol. H e studied the history of ancient Greece and Ukraine, andtoo k courses in zoo log y, physics, philosophy and French. Frequentlyhe attended the theater.

He soo n found himselfa t parties in St .Petersburg in the com pany o fthe most prominent and culturally influential figures' of the day. Yet,he never forgot where he came from, no r the fate of the peoplehe hadleft behind. After the success of his "Kobzar," Shevchenko becamewell known not only in S t. Petersburg, but also in Russia and WesternEurope. '

Yet, "nowhere was he as well known or as warmly greeted andpraised as he was in Ukraine. Returning to his homeland in 1843, hewas met by both peasantry and nobility, all of whom vied for hisattentions. Each landowner tried to outdo the other with invitations toShevchenko to visit his estate.

Shevchenko returned to St. Petersburg to continue his studies, yethe returned a different man . Before his trip to Uk raine his poetry hadconcentrated on his boyhood memories of Ukraine and the stories hehad heard from h is father and grandfather.N o w , after visiting Ukraineas a successful, enlightened and progressive young man, Shevchenkosaw first-hand the fate of the oppressed.

Thus, on h is second visit to Ukraine in1845 , hetook an active part inorganizing along with Mykola Kostomariv and Panteleimon Kulishthe Brotherhood of Ss. Cyril and Methodius, which dreamed oforganizing a democracy in which the people would thrive.

This intelligent, self-made man understood the situation in whichhis countrymen found themselves. Thus, he was also able tounderstand similar situations of other peoples.

For this reason, he wasdrawn to a deep friendship with a blackShakespearian actor from America, Ira Aldridge, who was touringwith adrama troupe in Russia. Shevchenko and Aldridge became sincerefriends. They had a common bond; both came from persecutedbackgrounds and b oth loved their oppressed people, never forgettingthe roots from which they came. They understood each other w ithouttalking; they would act outwhat they wanted to say in gestures andmimicry, often singing,respectively, Negro and Ukrainian folk songs.This friendship is emblem atic of Shev chenk o's belief intheinternational friendship of all peoples. Shevchenko, a true humanitarian, was indeed a spokesman for all the oppressed people of theworld. National prejudice, he believed shamed men's dignity, theirhonor. His struggle reached for a freedom for all people.

In commemorating Shevchenko's birthday let us be proud of thefact that such an enlightened, intelligent man was Ukrainian. Heunderstood Ukrainians like no other man ever will, and was able toexpress not onlv his nation's plight but the plight of other oppressedpeoples in the beauty of his poetry, his painting and his life.

S hevchen ko's watercolor of a moonli t night at Kos-A ral was painted in 184 8-4 9 . S hevchenko o f t en concen t ra t ed on l andscapes . H e was a g rea t lover o fnature a nd indeed enjoy ed paint ing i t even though, a t t he t ime , the Academ yof F ine A r t s f rowned upon th i s them e . There fo re , Shevchenko t eam edlandscape p a i n t i n g from nature i tself . His lan dscapes a re or iginal ; he t r ied to

reproduce nature 's moods on the canvas.

D ro w s y t h e W a v e sDrowsy the waves and dim the sky,Across the shore and far away,Like drunken things the rushes swayWithout a want. God onhigh,I s it decreed that longer yetWithin this lockless prison set,Beside this sea that profits naught,I am to languish? Answering not,Like to a living thing , the grainSways mute and yellowing on the plain;No tidings will it let me hear,And none besides to give me ear.

Reprinted from "Taras Shevchenko - Poems" (Munich: Molode Zyttia, 1961).

A nothe r o f Shevchenko ' s l andscapes . T h i s e t ch ing , o f the V yduby t skyM onas te ry in K iev, was done in 184 4 .

I C o r e N otI care no t, shall I see my dearOwn land before I die, or no,Nor who forgets me, buried hereIn desert wastes of alien snow;Tho ugh all forget me - better so.A slave from my first bitter years,Most surely I shall die a slaveUngraced of any kinsmen's tears;And carry with me to my graveEverything; and leave no trace,No little mark to keep my placeIn the dear lost UkraineWhich is not ours, though our land.

And none shall.ever understand;No father to his son shall say:- Kneel dow n, and fold your hands, and pray;He died for our Ukraine.I care no longer if the childShall pray for me, or pass me by.One only thing I cannot bear:To know my land, that was beguiledInto a death-trap w ith a lie,Trampled and ruined and defiled...A h , but I care, dear God; I caret

Reprinted from 'laras Shevchenko - Poems" (Munich:Molode Zyttia, 1961).


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M y Thi r t een th YearMy thirteenth year was wearing on -Grazing the lambs, one day I wasBeyond the village. The sun shonePerhaps? Or was it without cause?Such joy, such joy , as at the thron eOf G od I felt...They'd called already for our food,But I, among the weeds, remainedAlone, and prayed to God. Indeed,

Why I, a small boy, wished to praySo eagerly, I do not know,Nor how my happiness was caused.Around, the village and the Lord'sSky, the lam bs, it seemed, rejoiced.The sun shone warm - yet did not scorch.Not long the sun shone fair and warm,Not long my prayers I murmured,The sun blazed fiery red above,And set this heaven burning.As if aroused from sleep, I looked:The village had grown dar k,.Even God's azure sky above -That too was cheerless, stark.I turned my eyes towards the lambs -These lambs were not mine;I looked yonder to the houses -No home there I'd find.God did not give me anything!And tears started flowing...Bitter "tears... B ut a youn g girl,Over by the roadside,Only a few steps away,Was plucking hemp, and sheHeard my sobs, came to my sideAnd spoke kind words to me,Gently wiped away my tears,And kissed me tenderly.It seemed once m ore the sun shone bright.As if the whole wide world were mine:The fields, the spinneys, and the orchards...And laughing, we began to driveThose lambs, that were not o urs, to water.Idle dreams, indsedl But evenNow, when J recall, my heart

Aches, weeps: why, God , let me not passMy little span in that dear heaven?Ploughing the field I would have died,Ignorant of it all, would notHave lived on earth an outcast's lifeWould not have cursed both men and (God)l

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Have your love, you black-haired m aidens,But avoid the Moskals,For the Moskals - they are strangersAnd they treat you foully.Yes, the Moskal loves you lightly,Lightly he will drop you,Goes away unto his countryAnd the maiden's ruined.Were that all, it wo uld be nothing,But her aged mother,Who into God's world once brought her,She must perish with her.So her heart will pine a-singing,If she knows the reason;

People will her heart not noticeAnd they'll say: "She's no thing."\ Have your love, you black-haired maidens,

But not with the Moskals,For the Moskals - they are strangers,And they always mock you.

Reprinted from "Taras Shevchenko - Poems" by Clarence A . Manning (Jersey City, NJ.:Ukrainian National A ssociation, 1945).

Both the Valley S tre tch ing W ide . ..Both the valley stretching wideAnd the gravemound soaring high,Both the hour of eventideAnd what was dreamed in days gone byI shall not forget.But what of that? We did not marryBut parted as we had been onlyStrangers. Meanwhile all the wealthOf those precious years of youthSped away in vain.Now the two of us have withered,I - a captive, you - a widow,We walk - yet we are not alive,We but recall those days gone byWhen, of old, we lived.

Reprinted from "Taras Sheychenkd -Poems" (Munich:Molode Zyttia, 1961). \ .'. ^ . .


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dent: On the day of the outbreak of theSoviet-German war in June 1941 f theNICVD, the S ov iet secret police, rounded up then-Archbishop Slipyj and all hisassistants at St. George UkrainianCatholic Cathedral in Lviv and orderedthem to line up against the cathedralwall. Before them were a Soviet armytank, machine guns in turrets, and agroup of soldiers with automatic sub

machine guns aimed and ready to fire.They were kept under this threat ofdeath for several hours, but eventuallythey, the would-be victims of execution,were released.

In h i s a d d r e s s d e l i v e r e din the English language, Bishop Lostenemphasized several of the patriarch'svirtues, singling out his unceasingadvocacy of freedom for the UkrainianCatholic Church, now underground inUkraine, and his strivings for theestablishment of a Ukrainian Patriarchate - his ardent propo sal for whichhas not yet been approved by theApostolic See. Yet His Beatitude, KyrJosyf does not despair, said BishopLosten, noting that in his pastoral letter,Patriarch Slipyj said:

"Our Patriarchate exists because 400years of striving stand behind it, andseven years of actualization; before itlays only the confirmation by theRoman A postolic See..."

Citing the address of the pope to theSynod of the Ukrainian Catholic Bishops on March 24, 1980, the StamfordUkrainian Catholic eparch stated:

"...I wish to address a word of specialregard to you . Your Beatitude. I wish topay tribute to you for so many years ofservice and sacrifice on behalf of thecause of Christ and His gospel... Together with the Ukrainian confreres present and absent, and the whole Catholic

Church, I want to thank the Lord forwhat he has carried o ut in yo u. We prayfervently to him to lavish everygrace onyou, so that you may continue to gatherjoyful ly every b less ing ad mul tosannos."

The artistic part of the program

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The Prometheus Chorus of Philadelphiaencompassed performances by well-known Ukrainian choruses and indivi-"dual artists. The choral presentationincluded the appearances of the Metropolitan Cho rus directed by O syp Lupan("Prayer fo r the Pa triarch" by N.Nedilsky), and the samechorus directedby Michael Dobosh ("Blessed are thePeople" and "Lord by Your Strength,"

music by D . B ortniansky), with pianoaccompaniment by Anna Melnyk.The well-known Ukrainian pianist

Juliana Osincbuk rendered "JesusRemains M y Joy" (Bach-B auer), Choral"Prelude" (Vasyl Barvinsky) and Liszt's"Mazepa" Transcendental Etude.

performs under the direction of MichaelThe all-male choir Prometheus,

under the direction o f M ichael Dlaboha,performed Beethoven's "Nature's Glori-fier" and Bortniansky's Concerto No.29 "Glory to Our God" (Part II), and"Blessed Su nday" by K. Stetsenko ,with Ihor Kushnir as soloist and IrenePelech at the piano.

Lidia Kru shelnytska, the noted Ukrai

nian stage actress and director of thedrama studio in New York, recited anexcerpt from Ivan Frankp's epic poem"Moses."

Andriy D obriansky, bass-baritone ofthe Metropolitan Opera, sang "Chantto Mother of Pochayiv," "Chant to St.

Marta Kobnuyets

Dlaboha. At the piano is Irene Pelech.Demetrius" and VTUarvinsky's "Psalm94 " - all arranged by A . Rudnytsky.He was accompanied at the piano byD r. O sinchuk . jj-Kji

The entire program was on a highlyprofessional levelandwas gratefully acknowledged by the most enthusiasticapplause of the audience.. A mong the many representatives of

central and national Ukrainian organizations were Ivan B azarko, president ofthe W orld Congress o f Free Ukrainians,and Mary Dushnyck and Ulana Dia-chulc, supreme v ice .president and supreme treasurer, respectively, of theUkrainian National Association.

U k r a i n i a n i n s t it u t e i n i t ia t e s c o u r s e s B ilin g u a l p ro g ra m b eg in s NEW YORK - Beginning Monday,

March 22, the Ukrainian Institute ofAmerica will offer Ukrainian studiescourses to all interested adults andstudents at its building on 2 E. 79th St.

The offerings for the spring semesterinclude Ukrainian history, culture,language and literature. '

All courses begin the week of March22 and will run throug h the first week o fJune. They are held in the evenings at 6 -7:45 p.m. The registration fee isS35 foradults; no charge for students. Thedeadline for registering is March IS, butlate registration will be accepted.

"A Ukrainian history course, "U-kraine in European Politics," will betaught Monday evenings by MariaPryshlak, a P h.D . candidate in historyat Columbia University.

"Tuesday's offering is a Ukrainianculture co urse subtitled "O verview fromOrigins to the Present." The instructoris Zirka D erlycia, who holds a Ph.D .from New York University.

" "Co nversational Ukrainian," abeginne rs' course, will be taught o nWednesdays by Dr. Alexandra Ky-silewskyi-Tkach, who holds a Ph.D.

from the Ukrainian Free University. A lso on Wednesdays, "English asa

Second Language," a bas ic courseemphasizing listening, reading, speaking, writing and comprehension skills,will be taught by Zirka Voronka. Ms.Vo ronka is an assistant professor o f theEnglish - seco nd language course1 atHudson County Community College inWest New York, N.J. She holds B.A.and M.A. degrees in linguistics fromRutgers University.

The Ukrainian Institute has alsoprovided for an independent studiescourse titled "Research in UkrainianLanguage and Literature" to be offeredin affiliation with Hunter College forone to three credits. The course will besupervised by D r. William O melchenkoand will meet twice a month.

Fo r i n fo rma t ion , c a t a logue andregistration materials call the Ukrainian Institute of America at (212) 288-866 0 between 9 a.m. and S p.m. (closed

Mondays).The Ukrainian Institute of America

plans to offer accredited courses duringthe fall semester - all in affiliation withHunter College.

WINNIPEG - At the beginning ofFebruary, M anitoba Parents for Ukrainian Education launched its annualstudent recruitment campaign to encourage enrollment into Manitoba'sEnglish-Ukrainian bilingual program.

The English-Ukrainian bil ingualprogram is available in six differentschool d iv is ions and one Cathol icschool in Manitoba and provides students with the opportunity to acquiretotal fluency in a second language whiledeveloping their English language skillsat an equal or higher rate than regularunilingual program students.

The English-Ukrainian program iscurrently in its third year of existenceand has a total enrolment of 500 students in Manitoba. Pupils in the program receive4 50 percent of their classroom instruction in English, includingin that time arithmetic, science andEnglish language arts.

Ukrainian is used for the other 50percent of the normal scho ol day fortheteaching of Ukrainian language arts,social studies, art, physical educationand m usic. Pupils also take French as a

Remember our

brothers in need

You may forward your contribution to help our needyfellow Ukrainians in Poland to your pastor, to thePhiladelphia Ukrainian Catholic A rcheparchy, 815 N.Franklin St., Philadelph ia, Pa. 1912 3; or to the UkrainianNational A ssociation, 30 Montgomery St., Jersey City, N.J.07302.

core subject in some divisions.Pupils who complete the English-

Ukrainian bilingual program should beable to fully comm unicate in Ukrainianwith the same ability as native speakersof Ukrainian. Studies of full and partialimmersion programs indicate that thistype of educational experience in asecond language increases the child'sabilities in divergent thinking tasks.

Stud ents enter the program at kindergarten o r grade 1. As of September theprogram will extend to grade 4. It iscurrently available in the WinnipegScho ol D ivision, as. well as the SevenOaks, River East, Transcona-Spring-field, Agassiz and Dauphin-Ochreschool divisions and at ImmaculateHeart of Mary School in Winnipeg.

The program is structured in such away that neither students nor theirfamilies have to speak or be Ukrainianin order for the student to enter and to

succeed in the program. The program ismonitored and approved by the Department of Education, which has beenconducting an extensive two-year evaluation of the program's impact onstudents, scho ols, divisionsand parents.The final results of the evaluation areexpected to be made public by theDepartment of Education in late spring.

Parents who are interested in enrolling their children into the program cancontact their school division or Manitoba Parents for Ukrainian Education.


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Scenes of patriarch's 90th birthday celebration in RomeDuring the we ek o^ February 1 3 - 2 0 ,

ove r 500 par sons clergy and lai ty gathered in Rome to join in the jubileefest ivi t ies honoring Patr iarch Josyf Slipyjon the occasion of his 90th bir thday.Following are some photos taken duringthe we ekhng celebrat ion thai wa s reported on in the last issue of The Weekly.

Clockwise from top right:

Patriarch Josyf is surrounded by Catholichierarchs, clergy and fai thful wf)o at tended the banquet held on Thursday, February 18, at Domus Maria to celebrate thepatriarch's birthday.

Patriarch Josyf, the guest of honor, a tthe February 18 banquet reads a cert i ficate presented to him. He is surrounded bythe Rev. Petro Steciuk of the UkrainianCatholic Universi ty, Prof. Leonid Rudnyckyof Philadelphia, the emcee of the banquet, and Metropoli tans Maxim Her-maniuk and Stephen Sulyk .

The patr iarch is escorted into thebanquet hal l by the Knights of Columbus.

The fai thful , and clergy, includingArchbishop-Coadjutor Myroslav Lubachiv-sky and Cardina l Wladislaw Rubin of theEastern Congregation, toast Patr iarchJosyf.

The Rev. Petro Steciuk ass ists thepatr iarch on his wa y to St . Sophio Sobor.


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10 TH E UKRA INI AN WEEKLY SUNDAY, MARCH7, 1982 No. 10

Ukrainian pro hockey updateby Ihor N. Stelmach A

Isles' quest to be bestboasts Bossy's benefits

. . Pecnntly the New York Islanders seta new National Hockey League rsccrdby winning J5 consecutive regularseason matches. When asked to explainwhat the main factors were behind this

. streak, players, writers and casualobservers tossed out the normal replies.Original cliches like good goaltending,real team play, a great deal of luck,shrewd coaching, comfortable scheduling and others were the norm. Now,truthfully, who contributed more thananyone else in making the Islandermachine triumphant during this record-breaking stretch?

Goalie Billy Smith, right? No, notreally. Norris trophy winner DennisPotvin anchoring the defense? Notquite. The masterminding strategies ofcoach Al Arbour? No way! Underratedcontributions from some no-name

hustlers? Wrong again! Sure, there wasa strong consistent effort from most ofthe team members. No one or twoplayers should be singled out as theabsolute "reason for the new record.However, the Islander top forward lineshould take a bow for being mostresponsible. Center Bryan Trottierscored and assisted on goals almosteffortlessly, while left-winger JohnTonelli scored several crucial game-winners to keep the streak alive. But thewinger on the right side really made theline go.

In the past 16 Islander games, all butone victories, Mike Bossy put togethersome credentials that many players donot even achieve throughout an entireseason. Mike registered 11 goals, yetmore importantly passed for 26 assistsand totalled 37 points (almost 2.5 pointsper game). Now for an all-star play-making center those are pretty goodnumbers. The problem is, we're nottalking about an all-star center here -these are production figures tallied by ahigh goal-scoring right-winger. Andthis is the key point to understand whenanalyzing this year's exploits of Mr.Bossy. This, his fifth, is the season ofBossy's total transformation into an all-around offensive and defensive terror.

A look at Mike's career scoring statsshows him achieving a personal assisthigh with 57 in his second blander year.

At press time, he has already beencredited with 67 with 18 games remaining. Naturally he is expected to scoreclose to 60 goals again and should endthe regular season in the vicinity of 140

points new career bests.Mike Bossy is the key example of how

a perennially winning team must continue to improve from within if it expectsto maintain its lofty reputation asdefending Stanley Cup champions.Players, especially all-stars, must strivefor new goals and improve all otherfacets of their personal game on anindividual and team basis in order thattheir respective club can hope to keepup with this rapidly evolutionary, goal-crazed hockey league.

There is, without a single doubt, nobetter example of a more successfulpersonal transformation, one that is soimportant to the overall Islander cog,than the one portrayed this season byMike Bossy.

Marvelous MarukCapital main man

Whenever he jumps over the boards,

his skates hit the ice in those shortsnappy strides and he causes immediateoffensive mayhem at the opposition'snet, usually resulting in a quick goal,hometown Capital fans scream inunison: "Maruk! Maruk! Maruk!"Whenever he scores on a brilliant dashup ice or on a blistering slapper from theslot (SI times already), his teammatesrush over and pat him on his helmetedhead with a congratulatory "Way to go,Pee-wee!" Pee-wee Maruk is definitely acapital asset, obtaining him for a No. 1draft choice was a capital idea and thisseason, as in all of the others in his N HLcareer, Denny has certainly capitalizedon his scoring chances!

The last few years the city of Washington has had some rather rough times.The Nixons, Carters and Reagans,congressional scandals, planes landingon bridges instead of runways, a probasketball team in disarray and theseemingly never-improving Washington Caps hockey team serve as vividexamples of how rough it has reallybeen. Ah, but then there's the little manwith the big stick and the smooth touch.He is rapidly becoming a Washingtonhero and is doing more than his part toset that Caps hockey team in the rightdirection.

For the second straight campaignDennis Maruk has reached the 50-goalplateau. Last season he got his 50th in

his club's season finale, whereas thus farMaruk has lit the red light 51times with 18 games still remaining. Hisbreaking the 100-point barrier this yearis a career first for this Ukrainian, and

M. BossyD . MarukD . HawerchukM. LukowichS. SmylB. FederkoT. LysiakJ. OgrodnickD . BabychM. ZukeW. BabychD . BonarR. SaganiukD . SemenkoF. BoimistruckP. ShmyrE. HospodarL. MelnykM. Zaharko

Ukrainian scoring(through games

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an educated estimate would give him135 by season's end. Here is one Capitalwho has shown significant improvement each successive season with Washington as his point production has risenalmost PQ par with our country's cost ofliving index. (90 points in '78- ,79,

injured the next year, 97 points in U0-'81).Of more immediate interest are the

team's and Dennis's achievements inrecent weeks when new coach B. Murray's dub of youngsters began a spiriteddrive to gain their conference's finalplayoff spot. In the past 14 gamesduring Washington's aspiring assent inthe standings, Maruk has triggered theoffensive assault by netting 17 goals,assisting on 12 by fortunate teammates,totalling 29 points and averaging slightly more than two points per game. Hisscoring savvy has rubbed off on at leastfour different wingers the coach has

teamed him with in an attempt togenerate a more balanced of fensiveattack.

Thus Denny is by now used to, indeedenjoys, being double-shifted duringevery critical Capital game down thestretch, tie is entrusted with anchoringthe No.

1offensive line, centers the two

extra wingers on the fourth line andkeys any man-advantage situations asthe center of the power-play unit.Dennis is the fifth best power-playscorer in the NHL this season with atotal of 15.

Dennis Maruk is the main man whomakes the Capitals go. His teammatesmay lovingly refer to him as "Pee-wee,"but in the final analysis, his on-the-iceaccomplishments enable him to standtall and proud. That is why wheneverNo . 21 jumps out in the ice, faithfulWashingtonians begin that clamorouschant: "Maruk! Maruk! Maruk!"

Bossy tops Ukrainians in plus-minusThe New York Islanders were the

mid-season runners-Op in defense andone of the reasons behind this feat is thefact that their brilliant right-winger,Mike Bossy, rates as third best in theNational Hockey League in the first-half plus-minus statistics. These numbers certainly justify leaguewide plaudits on Mike's superbly improved two-way play.

Bossy had - 36 the same plusfigure as Mr. Gretzky to lead allUkrainian players after each club hadplayed 40 games in the 1981-82 regularschedule. This means Mike was on theice for 36 more goals scored by the

Islanders than those scored against theirteam, with both teams at even strength.

For fellow statistical buffs, here is thecode of abbreviations: GP-games played; TGF-total goals for, PGF-power-play goals for, NF-total even-strengthgoals; TGA-total goals against; PGA-power-play goals against; NA-totaleven-strength goals against; DIF-diffe-rence between offensive net and defensive net (plus or minus).

To indicate how our Ukrainian hockey stars compare wi thi n the entireleague, the range of plus-minus figureswas between +49 and -35. The averageplayer's rating was approximately a, -5.

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Ukrainian playerof the week

Dennis MarukWashington Capitals

He's getting to be a one-man team,this little guy, the spirit of the Caps.Continuing an unbelievably hot scoringstreak, which has lasted for three weeksnow (that's a long time to be hot) Dennytallied an amazing five goals, assisted on

two others and totalled seven points inthree Washington matches. A real dogfight developing here for UkrainianMVP honors between Mr. Maruk andMr. Mike Bossy.

RUNNER-UP: Well, well, well! Areal surprise here, folks! Did someonemail Maple Leaf winger Rocky Saganiuk a copy of the Ukrainian hockeyreport card update? This past week hewent on a scoring tear, registering abrilliant 3G-3A-6PT performance in/ourATproritorv'gamOT,vspnmng'.'thev

Leafs in their late-season drive for aplayoff berth. Perchance, was heinspired by the recent telecast of RockyII?

Transactions

NHL

HARTFORD: Paul Shmyr, D, returned to lineup from injury list.

TORONTO: Gary Yaremchuk, C,sent to Cincinnati (CHL).

Minors

NOVA SCOTIA (AHL): Al Luciw,D , recalled from defunct Cape Codteam of ACHL.

UKRAINIAN UTTERINGS: Toronto's hockey writer Mike Dennis onrookie Ukrainian defender Fred Boimistruck: "defenseaian,.- selecsed in the

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N o . 10 T H E U K R A I N I A N W E E K LY S U N D A Y, M A R C H 7 , 1 9 8 2 11

Preview of eventsPostponement be obtained by phoning (617) 495-

4053.

TUCSON, Ariz.: Bishop InnocentLotocky of Chicago will be thespecial guest at a groundbreakingceremony at the site of the plannedSt. Michael's Ukrainian CatholicChurch. A divine liturgy at 11 a.m.will precede the blessing of the site.Ceremonies will conclude with anoutdoor buffet. Anyone wishing todonate a co ntribution to what will bethe first Ukrainian church in southern Arizona may send it to SteveTkachyk, 824 S. Magnolia, Tucson,Ariz. 85711.

Thursday, March 18

CAMBRIDGE, Mass.: Ihor Shev-chenko of Harvard University willlecture on "The Last ByzantineRenaissance: Palaeologon CulturalRevival of the 14th and 15th Centu

ries." The lecture is part of HURI'sSeminar in Ukrainian Studies series.For further information, telephone(617) 495-4053 or (617) 495-7833.

Saturday, March 20

NEW YO RK: A jubilee concert inhonor of Patriarch Josyf Slipyj onthe occasion ofh is 90th birthday willbe held at 6 p.m. at The CooperUnion, Third Avenue and SeventhStreet. The concert is sponsored bythe Ukrainian Patriarchal Society,New Yo rk branch. Program includesperformances by bass-baritone An-driy Dobriansky, violinist MelaniaKupchynsky, pianist Laryssa Krupa,

mezzo-soprano Christine Lypeckyand the Lidia Krushelnytsky DramaStudio. Keynote speaker will be theRev. Mitred Marian Butrynsky.Tickets, at S8 and S6 , are available atthe Ark? and Eko shops.

NEW YORK: William Shust, American actor of Ukrainian descent, willappear at the Ukrainian Institute ofAm erica, 2 E. 7 9th St., at 7 p.m. The1program will be composed of recita- jtions and a discussion in Ukrainian |and English. Included will be selections from works by Taras Shev-jchenko, Vasyl Symonenko and Lina j

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NEW YORK: The Ukrainian Institute of America conference on "TheContemporary Situation in Polandand Ukraine," sponsored by Suchas-nist and P rolog , has been postponeduntil May due to a conflict in theschedules of several key participants.

Sunday, M arch 7

PASSAIC, NJ.: The choir of St.John the B aptist Ukrainian CatholicChurch in Newark, N.J., is holding aconcert dedicated to the appearanceof the Blessed Mother in Lourdes,France. The concert will be held atthe Ukrainian Center, 240 HopeAve., beginning at 4 p.m. Programincludes address by the Rev. VasylPerejma of Lourdes, soprano M artaKokolska-Musijtschuk, recitation byOksana and Yaroslav Rudakevychand Iwanna Kononiw, the HominBandurist Ensemble and St. John'schoir. P roceeds from the concert areearmarked for the com pletion o f theUkra in i an Ca tho l i c chu rch i nLourdes. Tickets are S5 at the door.

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