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Patriarch's Christmas pastoralProvidence president announces
pjjnderscores unity through lovemediation efforts in UCCA rift
ROME - In their Christmas pastoral
letter released here, Patriarch Josyf
Slipyj and the hierarchs of the "Po-
misna" (particular) Ukrainian Catholic
Church stressed the need for unity
through love.
The patriarch begins his letter by
saying thai- Ukrainians greet the new­
born infant with adoration by singing
koliady Which remind us that in be­
coming тяп the Christ Child turned
unhappiness into happiness.
The patriarch writes: "The source of
Christian happiness and joy is the love
of God and one another - toye which
Christ brought down to earth. As
without fire there is no warmth, so
without love a person does not have real
happiness, mirth, contentment. Jesus
himself says that with. His birth as a
human, he brought to Earth the divine
fire of love, and He only wishes that it
would be kindled."
"St? John, the Evangelist is also
quoted iu the pastoral letter. He, as a
beloved student of Jesus Christ, the
apostle of Christian love, talked about
the need for love of God and one's
fellow man.
The patriarch goes on to say that "in
today's world of progress, technology,
prosperity, luxury and lost love, self-
love has been created. With the loss of
love, today's man has lost happiness,
mirth, satisfaction — the fruits of love."
In these times of need, modern-day
apostles of Christian love have emerged,
he writes, and these include Pope John
XXIII, Pope Paul VI, Pope John Paul I
and Pope John Paul II.
In the following two sections of the
letter, Patriarch Josyf speaks of love
as the foundation for achieving unity.
"Besides individual happiness, mirth
and a healthy satisfaction from life, love
gives us the wish for general unity and
brotherhood which the Ukrainian com­
munity desperately needs. We constant­
ly plead: 'God grant us unity.' But let us
remember that the only road to unity
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"1982: a look back" - pages
5-12.
c Dissident profile: Yuriy
Shukhevych - page 2.
о Adaptation of women's confe­
rence keynote address by Dr.
Marta Bohachevsky Chomiak -
page 4.
rainian THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY
leads through love. Without love there
is no unity in family life, or community,
national, or even church life. Without
deep Christian love, which is the fruit of
the Holy Spirit, all church life limits
itself to exterior religious practices, the
keeping of written rituals, cults. In
church centers where there is only
exterior religious life and no love of
God and fellow men, there is no God,
because God is love — according to the
words of St. John," the letter stresses.
This Christmas, as we get approach
the celebration of the millennium of
Christianity in Ukraine, the patriarch
stresses that we should renounce self-
love and strive for the fruit of the spirit
which is "love, joy, peace, long-suffer­
ing, gentleness, goodness, faith, meek­
ness, temperance" (Galatiahs 5:22)1-
The patriarch also recalls the year
1933, the year that marked 1,900 years
since Christ died for our sins. He recalls
youth rallies in Lviv that year; "Ukrai­
nian Youth for Christ," was their motto,
he notes. Now it is time once again for
youth to be the hope of the future, he
says.
"Our older generation looks into its
past, relives it, gets caught up in it and
often even locks itself in the past." Now
SO years later the young generation sees
an open road in front of itself, and
wants to be the creator of something
new, something big, wants to be the
creator of a happy life for itself and for
future generations, he writes. The
patriarch goes on to say that youth
should search for God in its own
Church.
There is also strength in numbers,
Patriarch Josyf says in a section de­
voted to group prayer. As he points out
from the Gospel of Matthew (18:20):
"For where there are two or three
gathered together in my name, there am
I in the midst of them." In the Church,
Jesus Christ Himself unites us with His
love, and unity in Christ will help us
overcome all our difficulties because He
will be our strength, says the letter.
The last section of the letter is
devoted to the patriarch's pastoral
greeting to the Synod which will take
place in early 1983. He asks for guidance
in the Synod through prayer.
Patriarch Josyf ends his letter by
saying: "On the occasion of Christmas
and the New Year, 1983, we extend to
all of you priests, monks, all faithful of
the 'Pomisna' Ukrainian Catholic
Church in Ukraine and the diaspora,
and in exile and in prisons, our heart­
felt greetings and we ask the Child bom
in Bethlehem and his Virgin Mother to
grant us all love, unity, peace and joy of
Christmas. 'Peace be to the brethren and
love with faith from God the Father and
the Lord Jesus Christ. Grace be with all
who love our Lord Jesus Christ in
sincerity' " (Ephesians 6:23-4).
SUNDAY, DECEMBER 26, 1982
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PHILADELPHIA - Msgr. Stephen
Chomko, supreme president of the
Providence Association of Ukrainian
Catholics, a fraternal organization
based in Philadelphia, has announced
that he has begun and will continue
mediation efforts to resolve the current
split within the U.S. Ukrainian commu­
nity that occurred at the 13th Congress
of the Ukrainian Congress Committee
of America in October 1980.
Msgr. Chomko made the announce­
ment in a statement published in the
December 22 issue of America, the
official publication of the Providence
Association. Msgr. Chomko's state­
ment was datelined Hartford, Conn.,
December 20, and headlined "Announce­
ment about steps toward mediation by
the supreme president of the Providence
Association." Msgr. Stephen Chomko
In the statement, Msgr. Chomko National Women's League of America
noted that he plans to call a meeting of- the founding member-organizations
representatives of the UCCA. the Com­ of the UCCA - and a representative of
mittee for Law and Order in the UCCA the professionals, in order to more
and.other organizations, and, if this precisely define the positions of those
meeting shows that there is a founda­ parties that could participate in any
tion for settling the current dispute, hemediation activity. This meeting was
will propose the creation of an arbitra­ held Monday, December 20, at the
tion board to prepare a plan for action UNA building in Jersey City, N. J., and,
for resolving dispute within our com­ at the meeting, a general plan for further
munity. mediation attempts was formulated.
The full text of the announcement (in In the very near future I plan to invite
English translation prepared by The representatives of the UCCA executive
Weekly staff), follows. board, the Committee for Law and
Order in the UCCA and leaders of other
organizations to special meetings, and,
if these meetings demonstrate that there
During the past two months 1 have is a basis for understanding, I plan to
met with various key persons in attempt­ propose the establishment of an arbitra­
ing to ascertain if there is a basis for tion committee that would be charged
expanding my attempts at mediation with preparing a concrete plan of action
aimed at preventing a permanent rift for the settlement of the misunderstand­
within the Ukrainian community in the ings within our community.
United States. These discussions, in my While informing the membership of
opinion, were useful and constructive, the Providence Association of Ukrai­
and, therefore, I decided to convene a nian Catholics and all our community
meeting of representatives of the Ukrai­ members about the above, I ask for
nian National Association, Ukrainian^ further support of my mediation at­
Fraternal Association, the Ukrainian tempts.
Madrid Conference recesses until February
MADRID - The two-year-old on delegates to conclude their meeting
Madrid Conference on European secu­ by spring.
rity and human rights adjourned on Edouard Brunner, the Swiss delegate,
December 17 amid warnings that it was told reporters he demanded a March 25
headed for crisis unless an East-West deadline at a closed-door session as
deadlock was broken during the recess, delegates prepared for another seven-
reported Reuters. week break in the meeting, which has
"Should we fail to agree on a balanced lasted 25 months and made little tan­
and substantive document in February gible progress.
or March, a serious crisis must be The 35-state conference has been
envisaged," said Franz Ceska, the chief reviewing the 1975 Helsinki Accords.
Austrian delegate. The meeting has been deadlocked
He was speaking at the conclusion of because of major differences between
the final full session of the current the West and Soviet-bloc countries on
round of the conference, which is human rights and the format of a post-
scheduled to resume on February 8. Madrid European disarmament confe­
On December 15, Switzerland called rence.
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Dissident profile.
Fedorchuk. named MVD chief,
Chebrikov fills KGB post
Yuriy Shukhevych: MOSCOW - Vitaly Fedorchuk, 1966, but was not a member of the
who headed the KGB in his native Politburo.
the eternal prisoner Ukraine for 12 years before being
named to succeed Yuri Andropov as all-
The KGB post will befilledby Viktor
Chebrikov, 59, a deputy chief during
union head of the KGB last May, has much of Mr. Andropov's KGB tenure.
Mr. Shukhevych in exchange for been chosen to head the Ministry of Mr. Andropov, who assumed the Soviet
special privileges. As a result, Mr. Internal Affairs, according to a Decem­ leadership following the death of Mr.
Shukhevych was sentenced to a ber 17 release from the official Soviet Brezhnev in November, directed the
second 10-year term at hard labor. news agency TASS. agency from 1967 to 1982.
After the trial, the defendant was Mr. Fedorchuk, 64, will replace As head of the internal affairs mi­
approached by an officer of the Nikolai Shcholokov, 72, a close asso­ nistry, or MVD as it is known by its
KGB, Klementiy Halsky, who pro­ ciate of late President Leonid Brezhnev Russian acronym, Mr. Fedorchuk will
posed that Mr. Shukhevych write an and who had been the minister since oversee the maintenance of public
article denouncing Ukrainian na­ order, the militia and uniformed police,
tionalism and the activities of his criminal investigations,riotsuppression,
father. He was told that if he co­
operated, the sentence would not be Nobel laureates seek traffic control and the enforcement of a
wide range of regulations having to.do
with the right of residence in different
enforced. Again, Mr. Shukhevych
refused to go along. As a result, he political prisoners'release places, internal travel and issuance of
emigration permits.
was sent to a labor camp in the
Mordovian ASSR. NEW YORK - Seven Nobel Peace The appointment of a career KGB
, Prize winners, including exiled Soviet officer to head the MVD is seen by
In 1967, one year before his term physicist Andrei Sakharov, helped many as an attempt to shore up along-
was due to expire, Mr. Shukhevych launch a worldwide signature drive by time rift between the two agencies with
wrote a declaration to the Supreme Amnesty International for the release of many overlapping security functions
Yuriy Shukhevych Soviet of the Ukrainian SSR pro­ political prisoners. requiring a measure of coordination.
testing illegalities in his case, parti­ The drive was opened on December (Continued on paje 15)
JERSEY CITY, N.J. - On Sep­ cularly the refusal of the court to call 10, which is International Human
tember 12, 1972, Yuriy Shukhevych, 12 witnesses who would have testi­ Rights Day, and will continue through
then 38 years old, was sentenced to 10 fied on his behalf.
years in a prison and labor camps
1983. Petitions asking for the release
of prisoners of conscience will be Kremlin announces
In the declaration, he also foresaw circulated, collected and presented to all
and five years' internal exile. Incre­ his fate. "I turn to you," he wrote,
dibly, it was the third 10-year term in "because it may happen that a new heads of state and the president of the
U.N. General Assembly.
new penalties
24 years for Mr. Shukhevych, whose crime will be perpetrated against me.
father, the late Gen. Roman Shukhe­ They will again fabricate a new case In addition to Mr. Sakharov, who is MOSCOW - T h e Kremlin announc­
vych, was the commander of the to get me sentenced for a third time." confined in the Soviet city of Gorky, the ed on December 18 harsh new fines and
Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA). other Nobel Peace Prize laureates to prison terms, including forced labor, for a
Of all the members of the Ukrainian For a while, it looked like Mr. support the drive were former German wide range of crimes, reported .the
Helsinki Group, which Mr. Shukhe­ Shukhevych's fears were groundless. chancellor Willy Brandt, England's Associated Press. The announcement
vych joined in 1979, only Yuriy Released in 1968, Mr. Shukhevych Mairead Corrigan, Sean MacBride of came just one day after a reshuffling of
Lytvyn has been sentenced more was forbidden to return to Ukraine. Ireland, Alva Myrdal of Sweden (the the leadership of the Soviet security
times (five), but his terms were Sent to the Caucasus, he married 1982 recipient), Adolfo Perez Esquivel systems.
shorter ( a total of 23 years at the Valentyna Trotsenko and found a of Argentina and the.late Philip Noel- The criminal penalties and the leader­
expiration of his latest sentence.) If job'as an electrician. The couple had Baker of Great Britain. ship'changes' in the KGB and the
and when Mr. Shukhevych, who is two children. Also signing was Coretta King, Ministry of internal Affairs announced
reported to be 99 percent blind, widow of assassinated civil-rights leader in the five weeks since Yuri Andropov
completes his full term, he will have But in 1972, with a massive crack­ Martin Luther King Jr., who won the took power are part of a government
served a mindboggling 35 years in down on Ukrainian intellectuals and Nobel Peace Prize in 1964. campaign aimed at tighter control over
Soviet prisons, labor camps and activists under way in Ukraine," the The petitions call for the release of all officials, and also signals a harsher life
exile. And he will be but 53 years old. fears that he had expressed to the prisoners of conscience - men and for the country's 270 million citizens.
Supreme Soviet were realized. women imprisoned solely for their The government newspaper Izvestia
In a sense, Yuriy Shukhevych is political or religious beliefs, race or reported on December 18 that a Central
Arrested in March, he was sen­ ethnic origin and who have not used or
the eternal prisoner, the embodiment tenced six months later to a third 10- Committee decree effective January 1
of Ukraine's struggle against Soviet advocated violence. imposes fines ranging from the equiva­
year term — five years in prison and
oppression. Born in Ukraine on five years in a labor camp — to be The petition declares: "None of these lent of S240 (well over a month's pay for
March 28, 1934, he was sentenced in followed by five years' internal exile. people should be in prison. The fact that most Soviet workers) to SI,400.for
1948 - when he was just 14 years of The charge was "anti-Soviet agita­ they have been arrested and punished economic crimes such as profiteering.
age - to 10 years at hard labor tion and propaganda" based on a because of their beliefs or origins is an The newspaper also said that judges
merely for being the son of a Ukrai­ copy of his memoirs that had pre­ affront to humanity." have been ordered to assign more
nian nationalist leader. viously been confiscated during a Moreover, the signers attest their convicts to forced-labor brigades for up
search of his home. belief that "there is an indissoluble link to two years instead of sending them to
In the spring of 1956 he was between human rights and peace." prison.
amnestied after serving eight years, Other Nobel laureates signing the It said the decree imposed stiffer
primarily because he had been im­ In 1979, Mr. Shukhevych joined
first petitions were Heinrich Boll (litera­ prison terms for crimes ranging from
prisoned while still a minor. But later the Ukrainian Helsinki Group while ture, 1972), Gunnar Myrdal (economics, auto theft to stealing public property —
thbt year, Roman A. Rudenko, the in Chistopol Prison.
1974) and Elias Canetti (literature, a provision apparently aimed at corrupt
notorious prosecutor-general of the This summer, letters from Ukraine 1981). officials.
USSR, repealed the release, arguing by persons close to Mr. Shukhevych
that Mr. Shukhevych was dangerous ^revealed that he was nearly blind
because he was the son of Gen. following eye surgery in a prison
Shukhevych, who had been killed in hospital. Former Soviet political
battle in 1949.

As a result, Mr. Shukhevych was and Nina Strokata insist that Mr.
forced to serve the remaining two Shukhevych was intentionally blind­
years of his sentence.
While serving the term, he was
approached by agents of the KGB
who demanded that he publicly
denounce his father. Mr. Shukhevych
refused. Oa the day of his release,
August 21, 1958, he was re-arrested
and- charged with "anti-Soviet agita­
tion and propaganda." He was ac­
cused of agitation among the pri­
soners in Vladimir Prison.
At a closed trial in Lviv, two
former cellmates imprisoned for
criminal activities testified against
prisoners Sviatoslav Karavansky
ed by authorities.
The sickening torment of Mr.
Shukhevych by Soviet authorities is
unquestionably one of the starkest
examples of inhumanity in modern
times. They continue to brutalize and
torture Mr. Shukhevych because
they cannot forgive him his courage
in refusing to renounce the principle
of an independent Ukraine and the
memory of a father whom he barely
knew, but who shared those prin­
ciples. It is clear that they fear this
determined heroism more than any­
thing else.
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No. 52
Rubin, siipyj exchange indicates
Vatican warning to Ukrainians
VATICAN CITY - An exchange of
letters between the prefect of the Holy
Eastern Congregation, Cardinal Wla-
dislaw Rubin, and Patriarch Josyf
Siipyj of the "Pomisna" Ukrainian
Catholic Church during the summer
months reveals that the Vatican has
apparently issued a warning to the
Ukrainian Church.
Cardinal Rubin made three main
points in his letter to the chancery of the
primate of the Ukrainian Catholic
Church: a Ukrainian Patriarchate has
not been established, and to maintain
that one does exist is a distortion of the
truth; the Synod of Bishops can be
convened only with the consent of the
pope, and it cannot elect bishops- it can
only present a list of candidates; the
successor to Cardinal Siipyj as arch-
bishop of Lviv has already been select-
ed in the person of Archbishop-Coad-
jutor Myroslav Lubachivsky.
Patriarch Josyf asserted in his reply:
"Even when I am no longer here among
the living, no power in this world and no
institution.will have the force to stop
that irreversible process which will lead
to the recognition of the Ukrainian
Patriarchate/This patriarchate is neither
a gift, nor c concession, nor an effect of
any politic?!, diplomatic or alchemic
machination. The patriarchate is a holy
thing and a sacred right of the Parti-
cular (Pomisna) Ukrainian Church,
which is an organic part of the Mystical
Body of Christ."
Cardinal Rubin's letter, dated July 6,
was written on the recommendation of
Pope approves
Synod meeting
ROME - An unofficial phone call
from Rome has informed the Ukrainian
Catholic Archeparchy in Philadelphia
that, on the proposal of Patriarch Josyf
Siipyj, Pope John Paul II has approved
the next meeting of the synod of
Bishops for January 30through February
12, 1983 in the Vatican.
The date of the synod was established
during a private audience with the holy
father and a delegation consisting of
Archbishop-Coadjutor Myroslav Lu-
bachivsky, secretary of the synod
Bishop Andrew Sapelak of Argentina
and business secretary of the synod'the
Rev. Dr. Ihor Monchak.
The date was chosen because it is
during the time the pope will be in
residence at the Vatican; he plans to
visit Poland in March. The program of
the synod had not yet been formulated,
but sources reveal that one of the topics
to be brought up at the synod will be the
naming of candidates for bishop to
replace the late Bishop Andrew Robo-
recki of Saskatoon, Sask.
Senate confirms
Dobriansky nomination
WASHINGTON - The Senate voted
on December 10 to confirm the nomina-
tion of Dr. Lev E. Dobriansky as U.S.
ambassador, to the Bahamas.
Dr. Dobriansky, 64, a Georgetown
University economics professor and
president of the Ukrainian Congress
Committee of America, was nominated
for the position by President Ronald
Reagan on October 25.
The Senate Foreign Relations Com-
mittee voted to support his nomination
on December 6.
THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, DECEMBER 26, 1982 3
Law and Order Committee execs meet
NEW YORK - The executive com-
mittee of the Committee for Law and
Dr. Roman Baranowsky reported on
his visit to Cleveland, where he spoke at
Order in the UCCA met here on Mon- an evening of discussion organized by
Pope John Paul II. Copies were sent to day, November 29, to discuss the most the Organization for the Rebirth of
all Ukrainian Uniate bishops reminding recent developments within the Ukrai- Ukraine. The topic of the November 6
"all concerned of their grave obligation nian community in connection with event was the state of the Ukrainian
to abide by the directives issued by the appeal of the U.S. Ukrainian Catholic community in the United States in the
Holy See." hierarchy to the faithful and the leaders aftermath of the 13th UCCA Congress.
Cardinal Rubin also criticized the of community organizations. Also at the meeting, the Committee
pastoral letter written on the occasion In his report to the meeting partici- for Law and Order reiterated its position
of the patriarch's 90th birthday, which pants, the committee's president, Dr. that if the hierarchs' appeal yields no
was addressed, in the first place, to the Bohdan Shebunchak, said that there positive results in restoring unity within
faithful in Ukraine. had been response to the appeal on the the Ukrainian community, it will pro-
The patriarch's response to Cardinal part of the Committee for Law and ceed with plans to convene, in the spring
Rubin, written six days later, includes Order in the UCCA, the fraternal of 1983, a national convention for the
the following statement: "As shepherd organizations and Patriarch Josyf purpose of establishing a new central
of my Church - having been impri- Siipyj. The Ukrainian Congress Com- organization of Ukrainian organiza-
soned for many years - 1 realize what mittee of America and the Organiza- tions in the United States.
the suffering and persecuted children of tions of the Ukrainian Liberation The next meeting of the executive
my Church want; it is my right and duty Front, however, have not reacted in the committee of the Committee for Law
to come to their aid. I find myself two months since the appeal's issuance, and Order in the UCCA is scheduled for
astonished that you seem to be under- he said. January 10.
mining my pastoral care."
The patriarch also noted that the tone
of Cardinal Rubin's letter is offensive to
the Ukrainian Catholic Church and to Taxi" episode slanders Orthodox
him personally as head of that Church. CHICAGO - In a sharp letter to sleazy sacrilege was humorous?"
Excerpts from Cardinal Rubin's NBC Chairman Grant Tinker, UNA Dr. Kuropas is advising UNA mem-
letter (in English translation, as published Supreme Vice-President Myron B. bers familiar with the episode to write
in The Herald of Winnipeg on Decem- Kuropas protested a recent episode of their letters of protest directly to the
ber 1) follow. "Taxi" during which the wife of an NBC chairman, 3000 Alameda Ave.,
unfaithful husband is advised by a priest Burbank, Calif. 91523.
" 1 . First of all, as regards the
establishment of a patriarchate in the that the only way she can expiate the sin According to the Rev. Dr. Miltiades B.
of her husband in the eyes "of the Efthimiou of the Greek Orthodox
Catholic Church: it is common know-
ledge that the right to establish a patriar- Orthodox Church" is to commit adultery Archdiocese of North and South Ame-
with one of his friends. rica, who spoke with the NBC vice
chate is reserved to an Ecumenical
Council and to the Holy See. Now it is Condemning the episode as "a president regarding the matter, only a
"visible protest" would assure the
evident that the proposal to establish a blasphemous insult to the religious
Ukrainian Patriarchate has been ac- beliefs" of Orthodox UNA'ers, Dr. Orthodox community of America that
similar incidents were not repeated in
cepted neither by an Ecumenical Kuropas demanded to know what NBC
Council nor by the Holy See. To planned to do to rectify the slur. the future.
maintain, therefore, as some do, that a "Most distressing to me," concluded Among the groups demanding an
Ukrainian Patriarchate exists is a Dr. Kuropas, "is the fact that such a apology from NBC is the Illinois Con-
forcing or a distortion of the truth, blatant attempt to denigrate the faith of sultation on Ethnicity in Education,,
which can only serve to generate confu-
sion and division in people's minds. On
millions of Americans escaped'the
attention of responsible people at NBC
which is chaired by Edwin Cudecki oF
the Copernicus Foundation. The UNA
this point clarity and objectivity is
(Continued on page 16)
prior to airing. What motivated your
program directors to believe that such
is one of the ethnic organizations
affiliated with the ICEE.
ODUM senior counselors hold conference, elect officers
DETROIT - The Association of chairman, and Mr. Konowal, secretary, Victor Hushcha, Paul Hajowyj and
America Youth of Ukrainian Descent was elected to conduct the conference. Mark Sydorenko, all of Minneapolis-
(ODUM) in the United States held its Also elected during the opening St. Paul; Natalie Prytula, Vera Holo-
fifth biennial conference of senior session were the nominating, verifica- waty and Michael Wasylenko of Detroit;
counselors here at St. Mary's Ukrainian tions and resolutions committees. and Mr. Neprel of New York.
Orthodox Church Hall during the The business session continued with
The delegates also reviewed and
November 26-28 weekend. approved applications by candidates reports by members of the outgoing
Some 40 delegates representing 10 applying for senior counselor status in executive board' and presidents of
ODUM branches in the United States the ODUM organizational system. The ODUM branches throughout the United
attended the conference and re-elected applications were reviewed on the basis States.
Andrij Shevchenko president of the of qualifications required by the ODUM Friday evening's session concluded
national executive board for the next by-laws. with the keynote speech of the confe-
two years. Receiving new senior counselor status rence titled " O D U M Today and
Joining Mr. Shevchenko on the new were Natalia Lysyj, Valentine Yarr, (Continued at pap 14)
executive board are Taras Konowal,
first vice president and organizational
chairman; Natalia Pawlenko, second
vice president and coordinator of Youth
affairs; Wolodymyr Hryhorenko, secre-
tary; Evhen Kalman, treasurer; Alex-
ander Neprel, camps coordinator; Iwan
Pawlenko, external affairs director;
Mykola Francuzenko, cultural affairs
director; George Smyk, press and
information director; Bohdan Lysyj
and George Krywolap Jr., members-at-
large.
The newly elected auditing committee
consists of: Dr. George Krywolap,
chairman, and Vera Konowal and
Helen Bachnivsky, members.
The first session of the conference
was officially opened on Friday even-
ing, November 26. After opening re-
marks by Mr. Shevchenko, the Very
Rev. Nestor Stolarchuk, pastor of St.
Mary's Ukrainian Orthodox Church in
Detroit, delivered the invocation. The newly elected ODUM executive board: (from left): Bobdan Lysyj, Tans
A presidium consisting of Oleksij Konowal, Andrij Shevchenko, Natalia Pawlenko, Alex Neprel, Yevhen Kalman
Shevchenko, chairman, Mr. Smyk, vice and Yariy Sayk.
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M -j-J Women's conference keynote address

nan Week!
ainian weeny Women: Ukrainian society's
pragmatists and doers
Mending fences
by Dr. Martha Bohachevsky-Chomiak Ukrainian womanhood."
In the December 22 issue of the Catholic newspaper America, Msgr. Ukrainian women — and by that I
Stephen Chomko disclosed that he will attempt to mediate the two- Following is an adaptation of the mean any woman who has someconnec-
year-old rift in the Ukrainian community brought on in the aftermath Ukrainian-language keynote address tion with some aspect of Ukrainianism,
of the oft-discussed 13th UCCA Congress. In making the announce­ delivered by Dr. Martha Bohachevsky- regardless of the language in which she
ment, Msgr. Chomko, who is president of the Providence Association Chomiak at the Ukrainian women's communicates — do not know the
of Ukrainian Catholics, revealed that on December 20 he had met with conference, "Ukrainian Woman in Two history of Ukrainian women. They
leaders of the Ukrainian National Association, the Ukrainian Worlds,"on Saturday, October 2. Dr. cannot know it, for it has not been
Fraternal Association and the Ukrainian National Women's League Bohachevsky-Chomiak, professor of studied. Relatively little has been done
history at Manhattanvi'.le College, is on the social history of Ukraine, vir­
of America, three founding members of the UCCA who led the completing a book on the Ukrainian tually nothing on the history of women.
walkout at the fateful congress, as well as with a representative of women's movement from the 19th Women have been studied either within
professionals. He also indicated that he plans to meet with current century to the present. women's organizations, or from an
UCCA leaders in an effort to set up a basis for constructive dialogue. idealized perspective of preconceived
Clearly, Msgr. Chomko's initiative is welcome and much needed. Ukrainian women are, and have notions of motherhood — seen mainly
Since the UCCA split, brought on largely by the opprobrious behavior always tried to be, an integral part of as care for children (tell that to the
of one political grouping that need not be named, the Ukrainian their societies. But, they have not woman working in the fields), preserva­
community has slumped into a dormancy laced with suspicion and always been as conscious of the impor­ tion of national heritage (in ravioli-like
tance of their position. Nor have their varenyky, more frequently called
distrust. Where once we could mobilize thousands of protesters to
demonstrate for Ukrainian independence or the release of Ukrainian societies always appreciated their genuine pyrohy, made by women, eaten by men)
political prisoners, now we're lucky to get 50. roles. In this respect they share the or struggle against the invader (on those
major problems of perception and self- occasions the woman's conduct is
What's more, certain government officials have made it plain that perception with the rest of the women in described in terms of manly valor and
they would rather deal with a unified community or organization — the world. overcoming feminine weakness).
which the UCCA was before the coup — than have various political Women have historically either been Genuine study of the Ukrainian
delegations streaming into their offices with the same cause. confined to women's ghettos or have women's movement and the history of
The rift in our community has also alienated our young people, put been socialized by the men to think in Ukrainian women forces one to tackle
such problems as assimilation and other pressing social issues on the categories created by men. The irony is issues of the whole societyln which the
back burner, and made the active concern for the Ukrainian liberation that this allows men to better under­ women lived, and also some essential
struggle secondary to emigre political squabbling. stand women than women understand issues in Ukrainian history. Let me
Meanwhile, it doesn4 take a whole lot of political gumption to themselves. Only rarely do women see touch on a few issues in which nationa­
realize that the Soviet leadership and, it can be argued, a measure of themselves in realistic terms. lism and feminism — both attempts to
the 45 to 50 million Ukrainians in Ukraine, find the situation rather Take, for instance, the so-called assert human dignity — intersect for
"women's issues" or even the whole Ukrainians.
amusing, but for different reasons and to differing degrees. For the
"women's question." The issue was Ukrainianism, ethnicity, nationa­
Soviets, the rift represents a tactical victory. A dispirited and bickering
formulated almost 100 years ago by the lism, patriotism — are as much our
Ukrainian community serves their purposes well. Anyone who thinks writer Olha Kobylianska. She wrote: characteristics, part of us, as is the
that the Soviets did not have a hand in picking the scab off of a 40-year- "Nature, in creating women, did not biological fact that we are women. It is
old OUN wound isnt up on KGB methodology. ask, 'Is it a man or a woman, so that I not some externally defined concept
Our brothers in Ukraine, particularly the well-informed and those might endow them with suitable apti­ that some of our fellow Ukrainians,
active in the Ukrainian cause, find it amusing that an emigre tudes?' No — nature only said, 'Here wherever they might be, choose to foist
community, cut off from the homeland for some 40 years, has come to you are — now live!' " upon us. We have a right to Our own
blows over so-called ideologies that, out of their historical, social and Life, for all members of society, is individual definition of what it is that
geographic context, have absolutely no bearing on modern-day determined to a greater or lesser degree characterizes us.
Ukraine. It should be noted that they also find the situation deeply by society, along with the roles the Men talk much about the preserva­
disturbing because they are aware that a divided Ukrainian individual chooses or is expected to tion of ethnicity, the preservation of the
play. Role juggling is a fact of life; for nationality, but somehow the nitty
community can do very little practical good for the Ukrainian cause.
women, however, it is viewed as a gritty of the preservation often devolves
For all these reasons and more, we hail Msgr. Chomko and the problem, an issue, a "question." Even a upon the women. The Ukrainian Mu­
hierarchs of the Ukrainian Catholic Church, for their efforts to get the glance at aspects of the women's issue seum of the UNWLA in New York is
warring parties together. We only hope that both sides grab the peace- shows that what is at stake is central to but an obvious case in point.
pipe firmly in hand, agree to bury the hatchet in the ground rather than the whole society, and not only to A nation as adept in having symbols
each others' skulls, and get on with the business that should be women. as is ours overlooked an obvious one in
paramount in our concerns — the business of working together to help Child and family care, welfare, even the case of Olena Pchilka, the mother of
our brothers and sisters in Ukraine, and working to preserve our folk art are some of these issues central the poet Lesia Ukrainka and the sister
community in the diaspora. It would be a useful way to start the year. to society. Because societies have tradi­ of Mykhailo Drahomaniv, the political
tionally not paid as much attention to thinker and essayist. She was an influen­
them as to other matters, and precisely tial woman in her ownright,but rubbed
because the children, the sick and the many people the wrong way. Perhaps
needy had to be taken care of, they that was the reason many of her accom­
Setting the record straight became women's issues. plishments have been overlooked.
For the most part, Ukrainian women In 1876, in the year in which the tsarist
Former Ukrainian political pri­ Brief later retracted the information have not questioned the system. In government outlawed the use of the
soner Sviatoslav Karavansky has printed in its original news item modern times they defined the family as Ukrainian language in print, Pchilka
brought to our attention an error about the Helsinki camp group, the building block of society, a burden to published a book on the ethnographic
that was made in the issue devoted to noting that it had been full of in­ be shared with other duties expected by ornaments used by the Ukrainian pea­
the Ukrainian Helsinki Group on the accuracies. society. Work in and outside of the sants. It was as if the nation, now made
occasion of its sixth anniversary. Mr. Karavansky brought this fact home has always been a part of the lives mute, found an alternative language in
According to Mr. Karavansky, it is to The Weekly's attention, along of most Ukrainian women. The stan­ the folk ornament, which no power of
not true that the Ukrainian mem­ with" another more recent item taken dard of living of most Ukrainian families the Russian tsar could stifle. The
bers of the Helsinki monitoring from the USSR News Brief which did not allow for the luxury of the symbolism is clear, and unused. Strange,
group in the camps are not members stated clearly that Oksana Popovych, woman being only a mother and a wife. is it not, that this symbolism was
of the Kiev-based Ukrainian Hel­ Bohdan Rebryk, Danylo Shumuk Many women worked in the fields and overlooked? Yet, lesser proclamations
sinki Group. and Yuriy Shukhevych had joined in cottage industries. Those women who have been duly recorded by their
The error arose when Nadia the Kiev-based Ukrainian Helsinki acquired a position of authority in makers, and revered by readers.
S. r'vchna, another former Ukrai- Group. society frequently denied both the Pchilka fostered the folk arts, but did
- t a political prisoner.provided The So, to set the record straight, the relative merits of feminism and their not stop there. Her goal was to adapt
Weekly with information.on the five Ukrainian dissidents The Week­ own feminism. Ukrainian life, culture, language, chil­
"krainian Helsinki. Group, and the ly and Ms. Svitlychna had listed as Rarely is there a discussion of feminist dren, peasants to the world, to all that
"amp-based Helsinki Group. Her members of the camp-based group,' concerns among Ukrainians today. was new in it; to таки certain that
information, taken from USSR News but not as members of the Ukrainian Such discussions as do occur involve the Ukraine kept in step with progress. She
Brief (published in Munich under the Helsinki Group — Oksana Po­ sacred duties of the mother and the would have understood us well, in our
editorship of Cronid Lubarsky), povych, Bohdan Rebryk, Yuriy woman's role as wife. Women do not attempts to hold on to some type of
indicated that Ukrainian camp group Shukhevych, Danylo Shumuk and even object when Iryna Knysh — one of Ukrainianism while at the same time
members were not Ukrainian Hel­ Sviatoslav Karavansky — are, in the few contemporary Ukrainian wo­ being in step with the world. Just as it
sinki Group members. Ms. Svitly- fact, members of the Ukrainian men social historians, publicists and was 100 years ago, today Ukraine is still
chna was not aware that USSR News Helsinki Group. journalists — is characterized, rather largely cut off from the main Currents of/
flippantly as "the only ideologue of (Continued oo paje 13)
No. 52 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, DECEMBER 26, 1982 5

1982: a look back

Dissent in Ukraine Madrid Conference continues
This was truly a difficult year for 1982 marked another year of frus­ internal and external political status
human-rights activists in the Soviet tration and futility for the two-year- and to pursue as they wish their
Unjon, particularly Ukraine. With 26 old Madrid Conference to review political, economic, social and cul­
of the original 37 members of the compliance with the 1975 Helsinki tural development."
Ukrainian Helsinki Group behind Accords on security and human Needless to say, the Eastern bloc
bars or in exile, the Soviets launched rights in Europe. When the confe­ countries did not like the new pro­
a campaign to wipe out dissent in rence agreed to recess on March 12, posals at all.
Ukraine. the 35 participating states were still The conference was further com­
The KGB, first under Yuri An­ unable tp hammer out a final com7 plicated by the death in November
dropov and later under Vitaliy munique, as East and West re­ of Soviet President Leonid Brezhnev,'
Fedorchuk, began a two-pronged mained at loggerheads over such an event which left the negotiations
assault on human-rights activists key issues as human rights and the suspended in mid-air. It soon be­
and nationalists, particularly former particulars of a post-Madrid dis­ came clear that the Soviets would
members of the Organization of armament conference. The impasse offer no new initiatives until Yuri
Ukrainian Nationalists and the U- was further exacerbated bydevelop- Andropov, Mr. Brezhnev's apparent
krainian Insurgent Army. ments in Poland and the continued successor, stabilized his position.
A new tactic adopted by authori­ Soviet presence in Afghanistan. Unable to break the deadlock,
ties saw the re-arrest and sentenc­ Just prior to the recess of the delegates agreed on December 17
ing of dissidents just prior to the conference, then-Secretary of State to yet another adjournment, this
expiration of previous terms. Alexander Haig outlined the basic time until.February 8,1983.
position of the NATO allies when he Many delegations are running out
Early in the year, Yaroslav Lesiv, a told delegates: "Business as usual of patience. Just before this latest
:
37 year-old physical education in­ here at Madrid would simply con­ recess, the Swiss delegation re­
structor and member of the Ukrai­ done the massive violations of the quested that a timetable be set for
nian Helsinki Group, was sentenced Final Act now occurring in Poland." the negotiations, asking that they
to five years in a labor camp on the When delegates returned to the conclude by the spring.
eve of his scheduled release. He had bargaining table on November 9, Yet, neither the Soviets nor the
served three years after being ironically the sixth anniversary of NATO allies want to be blamed for
charged with possession of nar­ the suppressed Ukrainian Helsinki scuttling the conference and there­
cotics. Group, both sides continued to by putting a formal end to detente.
haggle over the direction the talks Moreover, the West sees the confe­
Vasyl Sichko, 25, and Vasyl Striltsiv, should take. rence as a huge propaganda defeat
both sentenced in 1979 to three- Yuriy Lytvyn: afifthterm of imprison­ The Western allies began by for the Soviets, and is willing to sit
year labor-camp terms, were given ment, courtesy of the Kremlin.
making fresh demands that martial tight.
new sentences. Mr. Sichko was Paradjanov had been accused of law be lifted in Poland and called for In a sense, the conference has
sentenced to an additional three being a Ukrainian nationalist be­ the Warsaw Pact countries to accept become an elaborate and protracted
years, while Mr. Striltsiv got a six- cause of his Ukrainian-language free trade unions and the right to staring contest, with each side
year term. films. , , . . . political self-determіnatioiv.' waiting for the'other to blink first..
In April, Petro.Sichko, 56, VasyTs : A European Economic Commu­ Meanwhile, Soviet citizens who set
гйгйг,' and Yuriy Lytvyn, a 48-year- The scope of the anti-dissident nity proposal also would havecom- up groups in several republics to
poet, were given new sentences. Mr. campaign also (deluded former mitted the signatory states to allow monitor compliance with the Hel­
Sichko got three years in a labor political prisoners and those seek­ citizens to freely monitor com­ sinki agreement are either in prison
camp, while Mr. Lytvyn was sen­ ing to emigrate. Volodymyr An- pliance with the human-rights provi­ or in exile.
tenced to five or six years. Incredibly, drushko, a Ukrainian patriot who sions of the Helsinki Final Act. The If anything, 1982 showed that the
it was Mr. Lytvyn's fifth term. had been imprisoned In the 1960s, new proposals would also insert into Helsinki process, although tattered,
A similar fate befell Vasyl Ovsienko, was arrested and sentenced to 10 a concluding document criticism of remains durable. But for just how
a member of the Ukrainian Helsinki years' imprisonment for "anti-Soviet "actions hindering the effective long is a question that will have to be
Group. agitation and propaganda." During exercise of the right of all peoples to answered next year when the con­
The campaign against former the summer, Yeyhen Antonenko- determine, in full freedom, their ference resumes.
nationalists was even more brutal. In Davydovych, the son of poet Borys
May, news reached the West that Antonenko-Davydovych, was sen­
five former members of the OUN tenced to four years' imprisonment. Poland
were executed for membership in
that brganization. Also arrested was Oleksander In 1982, the Polish nation suffered
Mykola Dufanets, Artem Bubel Shatravka, 32, an author who tried to its first full year in the vise-grip of
and Pylyp Rubachuk were shot in escape to Finland in 1974. In Sep­ martial law. It was the year that 35
the town of Lutske in the Volhynia tember, the KGB arrested Iryna people died in clashes with police
region. The others - Ivan Rumyha Ratushynska, a Kiev poet, charging and the dreaded ZOMO militia, and
(a.k.a. "Sokil") and Yuriy Butnytsky her with "anti-Soviet agitation and at least 100,000 were either arrested,
("Burlaka") - were executed in propaganda." fined or interned as.the junta of Gen.
Horodenka in the Ivano-Frankivske Wojciech Jaruzelski tried desperate­
oblast. It was also reported that Halyna ly to make Poland safe for socialism
In addition, it was learned that Maksymovych, 50, and her son, 23- again.
month that former UPA member year-old Oleksander, were each
Perhaps more disturbing was
Vasyl Mazurak ("Buriy") had been sentenced to two years' imprison­ Western reaction to all this. Presi­
sentenced early in the year after a ment for trying to emigrate to the dent Ronald Reagan's sanctions
three-day trial to 15 years in a West. against Poland were more cere­
special-regimen labor camp for na­ Dissident sources also reported monial than effective, and his deci­
tionalist activities. He had pre­ that several imprisoned Ukrainian sion to order a ban on parts for the
viously served an eight-year term dissidents were gravely ill. It was Soviet natural-gas pipeline met with
from 1946 to 1954. learned that Yuriy Shukhevych, who such vociferous opposition from the fierce riots there in 1956 which left
NATO allies, that he was forced to
Among better-known dissidents has served over 30 years in Soviet scrap it altogether. 75 dead. In Wroclaw, 275 people
arrested and sentenced in 1982 were prisons and labor camps for refusing were arrested after a crowd of several
Mykola Plakhotniuk, who was sen­ to renounce his father, the late But perhaps the most wimpish act thousand workers tried to lay a
tenced in the spring to four years' Roman Shukhevych, leader of the was left to the Western banks which, wreath at a plaque commemorating
imprisonment on a phony homo­ UPA, had lost 99 percent of his after some perfunctory hemming- the founding of the local chapter of
sexuality charge; Mykhailo Horyn, eyesight while imprisoned, in and-hawing, agreed to reschedule Solidarity.
52, sentenced in June to 15 years' addition, it was learned in 1982 that Poland's staggering debt to the But the largest demonstrations
imprisonment and exile; and Olena Ivan Svitlychny is near death follow­ West, a move that flew in the face of occurred on August 31, the second
Antoniv Krasivska, 45, who was ing two strokes, the latest in Decem­ the NATO governments' decision anniversary of the founding of Soli­
arrested in Lviv in September. In ber 1981. not to do so. darity in Gdansk. Tens of thousands
addition, Soviet filmmaker Sergei It was also reported that Ukrainian In Poland itself, the year saw the of Poles in at least 11 Polish cities
Paradjanov, whose "Shadows of political prisoner Yuriy Badzio, who trials of hundreds of Solidarity took to the streets in a massive show
Forgotten Ancestors" is considered was sentenced in 1979 to a total of members, priests and intellectuals. of defiant support for the free trade
a cinema classic, was sentenced to 12 years' imprisonment and exile, There were also violent clashes with union and its interned leader, Lech
five years' imprisonment for asso­ began a hunger strike, vowing not to police. In late June, 4,000 workers in Walesa. Over 4,000 people were
ciating with "undesirables." An eat until authorities restore his the industrial city of Poznan battled reported arrested nationwide.
Armenian from Soviet Georgia, Mr. visiting privileges. police on the 26th anniversary of the Finally, aware of Solidarity's broad
6 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY
support, the military regime decided
to outlaw the suspended union in
mid-October and establish in its
stead government-controlled trade
unions. A "parasitism" law was also
adopted to discourage workers from
getting out of line.
Among the important political
trials of 1982 were those involving
members of the dissident groups
KOR and the nationalist KPN. In
September, KOR leaders Jacek
Kuron, Adam Michnik, Jan Litynski
and Henryk Wujec were arrested
while in internment and charged
with treason. All were advisors to
Mr. Walesa.
In addition, four members of the
KPN - Confederation for an Inde-
pendent Poland - ' w e n t on trial
September 13 on charges of sedi-
tion and undermining Poland's
alliance with the USSR. The four
were Leszek Moczulski, Romuald
Szeremietiew, Tadeusz Stanski and
Taduesz Jandziszak.
Meanwhile, a growing number of
Polish citizens, including many
Ukrainians, applied for exit visas to
the West. Many Poles who found
themselves in the West when martial
law was imposed last December
Denaturalization and Soviet evidence
Although 1982 saw no new cases
brought by the Justice Department
against Ukrainians suspected of
collaborating with the Germans
during World War II, several on-
going cases resulted in defendants
being stripped of their U.S. citizen-
ship.
On February 4, Michael Derkacz,
a 73-year-old retired w i n d o w -
washer from New York, had his
citizenship revoked after a federal
judge ruled that he had withheld
information about his service in a
German-controlled police unit.
The following month, on March
30, BohdanKoziy, 59, was stripped of
his naturalized citizenship. On Oc-
tober 22, the Justice Department's
Office of Special Investigations,
which is charged with locating and
bringing to trial suspected war
criminals and collaborators, moved
to have the Florida hotel-keeper
deported.
Deportation proceedings were
also initiated against Cleveland
autoworker John Demjanjuk, 62,
who lost his citizenship in March
1981 after a federal court ruled that
he had not disclosed his service as a
guard at the Treblinka concentra-
tion camp when applying to enter
the United States under the Dis-
placed Persons Act.
At the heart of the Ukrainian
community's opposition to the de-
naturalization proceedings is the
Justice Department's continued use
of Soviet-supplied witnesses and
material evidence in most of the
cases. Several Ukrainian groups,
most notably the Ukrainian Ameri-
can Bar Association, had a busy
year meeting with officials from the
Justice Department and Congress
in an effort to ensure that the de-
fendants receive a fair trial and full
protection of their rights under the
law.
For their part, officials of the
Office of Special Investigations,
particularly its director, Allan A.
Ryan Jr., made themselves available
to explain the OSI's position and to
1982: a look back
decided not to return to their native
land.
In a desperate bid to reverse
Poland's economic and social slide,
Gen. Jaruzelski announced his
intention to suspend martial law,
and the government freed Mr. Walesa.
But it was a hollow gesture. Less
than four weeks after being released,
Mr. Walesa was detained by police
just before he was to deliver an
address to workers in Gdansk. More-
over, the announcement easing
martial law included enough vague
clauses which would allow the go-
vernment to reimpose all martial-law
restrictions at the slightest hint of
unrest.
As the year draws to a close, there
is no sign that Gen. Jaruzelski plans
to restart the dialogue with the
people whom Solidarity used to
represent, the vast majority of ordi-
nary Poles. The military crackdown
by the junta, stage-managed by
Moscow, succeeded only in splinter-
ing the myth of Communist legiti-
macy in Poland once and for all.
Until the generals realize this, and
reinstate many of the freedoms won
in Gdansk rn-1981, the agony of
Poland will continue.
of Soviet-supplied evidence.
try and allay the fears of the Ukrai-
nian community. On January 3, Mr.
Ryan and Lowell Jensen, assistant
attorney general, met with represen-
tatives of six East European groups,
including the UABA.
In the spring, East European com-
munity leaders and lawyers met with
several congressmen, presenting
them with a 10-point list of recom-
mendations and grievances which
included a demand that the govern-
ment review the OSI's use of Soviet
information.
It must be said that Mr. Ryan
showed a particular sensitivity to the
concerns of this country's East
European communities, which have
been especially affected by the
denaturalization proceedings, be-
cause many of the defendants come
SUNDAY, DECEMBER 26, 1982
from Eastern Europe and the Soviet
Union.
On October 30 Mr. Ryan spent
nearly three hours answering ques-
tions posed by Ukrainian lawyers at
a meeting of the Ukrainian Ame-
rican Bar Association. He defended
the OSI's methods, noting that he
was satisfied that the defendant's
rights were being safeguarded by
the American legal system. He also
said that, to date, the OSI has yet to
prosecute anyone merely for being
a member of any proscribed group
- such as the Organization of U-
krainian Nationalists - unless it was
convinced that individual acts of
persecution could be verified.
In addition to meeting with Ukrai-
nian lawyers and community repre-
sentatives, Mr. Ryan has also made
himself accessible to the Ukrainian
press.
But his commendable actions
notwithstanding, several issues
remain murky. Why, for example, in
the Fedorenko case, did Mr. Ryan
reverse his earlier assessment, made
while he was with the solicitor
general's office, that the govern-
ment not appeal the case because,
in his view, Mr. Fedorenko "may be
the unfortunate victim of innocently
mistaken identification, or indeed,
he may be the target of a group of
Treblinka survivors who are deter-
mined to bring vengeance on any
Treblinka guard, guilty or not."
During the UABA meeting, Mr.
Ryan said that he had rescinded his
memo after reading the transcript of
the case and concluding that the
trial judge did not accurately convey
the evidence in the case.
But several lawyers at the UABA
meeting said privately that it seemed
implausible for Mr. Ryan to ask the
government not to appeal the first-
ever denaturalization case, which
was argued by the attorney general
The political scene
1982 will perhaps be best re-
membered, in terms of Ukrainian
influence on the political scene, as
the year the Congress and the presi-
dent honored the Ukrainian Public
Group to Promote Implementation
of the Helsinki Accords, a.k.a. the
Ukrainian Helsinki Group, on the
occasion of its sixth anniversary.
Thanks mostly to the lobbying
efforts of Americans for Human
Rights in Ukraine and groups work-
ing in concert with the organization,
the House of Representatives, act-
ing on May 4, and the Senate, follow-
ing suit on June 21, passed House
Concurrent Resolution 205 calling
on the U.S. president to proclaim
November 9, as a day in tribute to
Three supporters of Ukrainian causes were defeated in 1982 elections:
Reps. Edward J. Derwinski, Millicent Fenwick and Charles Dougherty.
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himself, without having a thorough
knowledge of the facts.
They also found it interesting that,
in his memo recommending that the
government not appeal the case, Mr.
Ryan implied that the government
had failed to prove individual perse-
cution. However, during his meeting
with the UABA, Mr. Ryan, in an
apparent shift, said that, by defini-
tion, all concentration-camp guards
were guilty of persecution simply
because of their jobs, and that even
though Mr. Fedorenko was cleared
of committing individual acts of
atrocity, he was still culpable.
Moreover, despite the entreaties
of several Ukrainian organizations,
Mr. Ryan and the OSI still seem
reluctant to accept the notion that
the Soviets have a stake in dis-
crediting the Ukrainian community
and, therefore, Soviet evidence
should be inadmissable. Realizing
why the Ukrainian community hates
the Soviets is not the same thing as
understanding why the Soviets hate
the emigre community.,
But the OSI and its investigations
were not the only source ef concern
in this area. In November, The
Washington Post ran a story about a
new book by former OSI staffer
John Loftus in which the author
accuses the Organization of Ukrai-
nian Nationalists of active colla-
boration with the Germans. Al-
though the book, "The Belarus
Secret," makes only a few references
to the OUN, the bulk of the Post's
article dealt with the nationalist
group.
As the year draws to a close, the
miasma of collaboration still hangs
over the Ukrainian community, and
remains a source of frustration and
concern. Unfortunately, with the
community divided, coordinated
action in this urgent matter has been
made more difficult.
Ukrainian Helsinki monitors on the
occasion of the sixth anniversary of
the establishment of the Ukrainian
Helsinki Group.
President Ronald Reagan did so
on September 21.
The resolution, sponsored in the
House by Reps. Bernard J. Dwyer
(D) and Christopher H. Smith (R),
both of New Jersey, also called on
the president to work for the release
of imprisoned Ukrainian Helsinki
monitors and to demand an end to
Soviet persecution of Ukrainian
national" and human-rights acti-
vists.
Ukrainian Helsinki Group Day
was marked with special programs
and demonstrations in New York
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City and Washington, as well as
other cities throughout the country.
State and municipal governments
followed in the federal government's
footsteps and issued resolutions or
proclamations of their own. The
New Jersey Senate on November 8
passed a resolution calling on Gov.
Thomas Kean to proclaim Novem­
ber 9 Ukrainian Helsinki Group Day
in the Garden State. The governor,
however, did not act, according to
his press office, because of the time
factor involved. Sacramento Mayor
Phillip L Isenberg proclaimed No­
vember 9 Ukrainian Helsinki Moni­
toring Group Day in the California
capital.
A Ukrainian Human-Rights Aware­
ness Week was held in Washington
beginning June 21 through the
efforts of the Ad Hoc Committee on
the Baltic States and Ukrainechaired
by Reps. Charles Dougherty (R-Pa.)
and Brian Donnelly (D-Mass.). The
goal of the week was to call atten­
tion, through special programs and
exhibits, to Soviet oppression of
Ukraine and persecution of Ukrai­
nian human- and national-rights
activists.
Among other actions of the U.S.
Congress on issues of concern to
Ukrainians were the following.
" On April 1,104 U.S. senators and
representatives sent a letter to Soviet
President Leonid Brezhnev asking
for the release of ailing Ukrainian
political prisoner Ivan Svitlychny.
The letter was initiated, by Rep.
Smith of New jersey.
" On June 21 the Senate passed
Senate Resolution 326 urging the
release of Ukrainian political pri­
soner Yuriy Badzio and an end to
Soviet authorities' harassment of his
wife Svitliana Kyrychenko. The
resolution was sponsored by Sen.
Paul E. Tsongas (D-Mass.)
" Also on June 21, the Senate
passed House Concurrent Resolu­
tion 111 calling for the release of
veteran human- and national-rights
activist Yuriy Shukhevych, the eter­
nal political prisoner, and the grant­
ing of permission for theShukhevych
family to emigrate. The resolution
had been passed by the House on
September 21,1981, and was spon­
sored by Rep. Joel Pritchard (R-
Wash.).
" On September 30 the House
passed Senate Concurrent Resolu­
tion 18whichcalledforthe resurrec­
tion of the Ukrainian Orthodox and
Catholic Churches liquidated by the
Soviets in Ukraine. The resolution
had been introduced in the Senate
by Sen. Barry Goldwater (R-Ariz.)
and in the House by Rep. Edward J.
Derwinski (R-lll.). It had been pass­
ed by the Senate on June 19,1981.
e In the autumn, Rep. Bill Green
(R-N.Y.) initiated a letter to Soviet
Ambassador Dobrynin, which called
for the release of Ukrainian dissi­
dent Zlnoviy Krasivsky from internal
exile. The letter was signed by 55.
members of the House.
In the executive branch of the U.S.
government, the following were
notable actions, as far as Ukrainians
were concerned.
" President Ronald Reagan pro­
claimed March 21 Afghanistan Day
and called on the citizens of the
United States and the world "not to
forget the struggle of the Afghan
patriots" fighting Soviet invaders. At
an official White House ceremony
THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY
1982: a look back
that day, both President Reagan and
Vice President George Bush spoke.
Mr. Bush told his audience that the
United States will not forget the
plight of captive nations in Eastern
Europe, from the Baltic States to
Ukraine to Uzbekistan.
ж On July 19 President Reagan
signed the Captive Nations Week
proclamation at a Rose Garden
ceremony.
о On May 28, at the Ukrainian
National Association convention in
Rochester, N.Y., Vice President
Bush delivered what the administra­
tion described as "a major policy
address" on U.S.-Soviet relations.
Canadian government officials,
too, expressed their concern about
the fate of Ukrainian political pri­
soners.
" I n the beginning of theyear, four
Ontario federal and municipal offi­
cials joined Bishop Isidore Borecky
of the Toronto Ukrainian Catholic
Eparchy in announcing that they
would sponsor Yuriy Shukhevych's
immigration to Canada in an attempt
to secure his release from Soviet
prison. The four officials were:
Federal MP Michael H. Wilson, To­
ronto Mayor Art Eggleton, Etobi-
coke Mayor Dennis Flynn and
former Labor Minister Michael Starr.
e On May 20 the House of Com­
mons passed a resolution calling on
the Soviet government to release
Ivan Svitlychny and allow him to
emigrate to the West for medical
treatment.
" On November 9 the Senate
passed a resolution paying tribute to
the Ukrainian Helsinki Group on the
sixth anniversary of its establish­
ment and calling for an end to Soviet
persecution of all human-rights
activists.
Back in the United States, on the
state level, there was not much
ado about anything.
However, New Jersey Gov. Thomas
Kean, acting during the summer
months, did announce the forma­
tion of an Office of Ethnic Affairs
and the expansion of the New
Jersey Ethnic Advisory Council
from 16 members to 19 members
plus six department heads from the
state government. Two Ukrainians
were named to the council: Zenon
Onufryk as the Ukrainiaarepresen­
tative and Andrew Keybida as a
member at large.
New Jersey Gov. Thomas Kean:
creates Office of Ethnic Affairs.
SUNDAY, DECEMBER 26, 1982 7
Churches
The Ukrainian Catholic hierarchs
in the United States started work
early this year. After issuing an
appeal on the eve of the New Year
that called on all Ukrainian Ameri­
cans of good will to contribute
toward a special fund to aid needy
Ukrainians in Poland, they turned to
fraternal societies, financial institu­
tions as well as individuals to send
contributions to the fund. The re­
sults were phenomenal; to date the
hierarchs have sent over 585,000
worth of parcels and supplies to Po­
land.
No sooner did this project get
under way than the hierarchs began
planning celebrations in obser­
vance of Patriarch Josyf Slipyj's
90th birthday. Forming an ad-hoc
committee, comprised of represen­
tatives of 35 Ukrainian American
organizations, the hierarchs of the
Ukrainian Catholic Church in the
United States sponsored a concert
that paid tribute to the patriarch. It
was held in Philadelphia on February
28. The. concert was preceeded by
weeklong festivities in Rome for the
primate of the 'Pomisna' Ukrainian
Catholic Church, which attracted
over 500 persons - clergy and
laity - the week of February 13-20.
Faithful unable to attend the cele­
bration in Rome, or the concert in
Philadelphia, sponsored other con­
certs and programs to mark the
90th birthday of the patriarch as well
as ttiil 65th anniversary of his ordi­
nation in their own communities.
In 1982, Patriarch Josyf was also
named to the papal academy of St.
Thomas Aquinas. The academy's Patriarch Josyf (top) and Metropoli­
membership is reserved for those tan Mstyslav: anniversary celebra­
persons who, through their studies tions.
a/id works, have advanced the philo­
sophy of St. Thomas.
The patriarch, unfortunately, re­
ceived bad news as welt in the form
of a letter from the head of the Holy
Eastern Congregation, Cardinal
Wladislaw Rubin, which issued a
warning to the Ukrainian Catholic
Church. The three points under­
lined in the letter included: the
denial of the establishment of the
Ukrainian Patriarchate; the fact that
the synod of bishops can be con­
vened only with the consent of the
pope and that it cannot elect bi­
shops; and the reminder that Arch­
bishop-Coadjutor Myroslav Luba-
chivsky has already been named
the successor to Cardinal Slipyj, as
archbishop of Lviv.
The most recent news from Rome
indicates that the pope has approv­
ed a meeting of the Synod of Ukrai­
nian Catholic Bishops to take place
in early 1983.
The Catholics were not the only
ones observing anniversaries and
birthdays this year. The head of the
Ukrainian Orthodox Church in the
U.S.A., Metropolitan Mstyslav
Skrypnyk, celebrated his 84th birth­
day and the 40th anniversary of his
episcopacy. Celebrations in his
honor were held in May in South
Bound Brook, N.J.
Throughout the year, Pope John
Paul II appointed several Ukrainians
to positions in the Ukrainian Catho­
lic Church.
On September 25, Bishop Myro­
slav Marusyn was named the titular
archbisnop of Cadeun. in addition,
he was appointed secretary of the
8 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY
Sacred Congregation fortheOriental
Churches by Pope John Paul II. The
pope also appointed the Rev. Myron
Daciuk as auxiliary bishop to Arch-
bishop-Metropolitan Maxim Her-
maniuk of Canada.
In November, the Rev. Michael
Hrynchyshyn CSsR of Saskatoon
was nominated exarch for Ukrainian
Catholics in France. He will replace
Bishop Volodymyr Malanczuk CSsR,
who is unable to continue serving as
apostolic exarch because of his age
and poor health.
Bishop Andrew Roborecki of the
Saskatoon Eparchy died at the age
of 71 on October 23. Ordained into
the priesthood in 1934, the late
bishop served Ukrainian Catholic
parishes throughout Canada. In
1948 he was appointed auxiliary
bishop of the Ukrainian Catholic
Eparchy of Winnipeg and was con-
secrated in Toronto. He was subse-
quently appointed exarch of Saska-
toon in 1951 and eparch in 1956.
A notable event within the Ukrai-
nian Catholic Church in 1982 on
August 28 was the solemn blessing
of the recently built Assumption of
the Blessed Virgin Mary Ukrainian
Catholic Church in Lourdes, France
A community still divided
Will the twain e'er meet?
1982 brought no relief from the rift
within the Ukrainian community
over the fateful, and perhaps fatal,
13th Congress of the Ukrainian
Congress Committee of America
held in October 1980.
In March of 1982 the executive
committee of the Committee for Law
and Order in the UCCA released a
statement announcing that it had
begun preparations for a national
convention of Ukrainian organiza-
tions whose aim would be to create a
coordinating center for Ukrainian
Americans.
The committee also announced
that it was opening an office in New
York City and that representatives
would visit Ukrainian communities
throughout the country in order to
inform them of the committee's
activity and progress in convention
preparations.
Branches of the Committee for
Law and Order in the UCCA were
established in several cities, and the
committee executives met a number
of times during the year to assess
the situation at hand and plan the
convention.
1982: a look back
Over 1,500 faithful from various
countries, including Poland and
Yugoslavia, attended the historic
event.
Back in the United States, once
again the Ukrainian Catholic hie-
rarchs issued an appeal. Dated Sep-
tember 8, this one called for unity
within the Ukrainian community. The
hierarchs said that if their appeal
was not successful, they would
withdraw their parochial and epar-
chal representatives from the cen-
tral and local organizations that do
battle with one another. The appeal
said that "representatives of the
organizations and institutions will
stand aside and they may perform
the role of mediators in this great
cause of unity." (See "A community
still divided.")
December 5 marked the first anni-
versary of the launching of the
"Guardian Angel Children's Prayer
Book," published by St. Demetrius
Ukrainian Catholic Church and the
Office of Religious Education of the
Toronto Eparchy. The prayer book,
published in both Ukrainian" and
English-language versions, has been
a best-seller. It is currently in its
second printing.
The Ukrainian National Associa-
tion, at the first meeting of its newly
elected Supreme Executive Com-
mittee on July 22, released a state-
ment asserting that it would work
toward the formation of a represen-
tative community organization in
the United States - the type of
entity that the UCCA once was.
Things were quiet through the
summer months, and then the
hierarchs of the Ukrainian Catholic
Church in the United States decided
that they could keep silent no longer.
On September 8 the hierarchs -
Archbishop-Metropolitan Stephen
Sulyk, and Bishops Innocent Lo-
tocky, Basil Losten and Robert
Moskal - released their "Appeal to
the faithful and especially to the
leaders of all organizations" in
which they called on Ukrainian
Americans to "throw off the shackles
of disunity and the cancer of mis-
understanding, intractibility and
hatred."
Quoting the Bible, Metropolitan
Andrey Sheptytsky and Patriarch
Josyf Slipyj, Princes Yaroslav Mudry
and Volodymyr Monomakh, as well
SUNDAY, DECEMBER 26, 1982 No. 52
as Hetman Ivan Mazepa, and citing reflected in the hierarchs' appeal."
historical examples, the lengthy However, the committee commu-
treatise expounded on the impor- nique added, if the appeal yielded
tance of unity and love of neighbor. no concrete results, the convention
On September 27, the Providence would be held in the spring of 1983.
Association of Ukrainian Catholics, A joint statement by the UNA and
in a communique signed by its the Ukrainian Fraternal Association
supreme president, Msgr. Stephen followed on October 11. The two
Chomko, announced that effective fraternals acknowledged the hie-
September 29 it was withdrawing its rarchs' appeal and stated that they
representatives from UCCA central fully supported its aims and would
bodies and branches, and at the do their utmost to bring' about their
same time called on Providence realization.
representatives not to participate in Patriarch Slipyj was next to re-
the Committee for Law and Order in spond to the hierarchs' appeal. In a
the UCCA. letter to UNA President John O. His
Msgr. Chomko stated in his com- (a similar one was sent to Dr. Lev E.
munique that he was acting in ac- Dobriansky, president of the UCCA),
cordance with the hierarchs'appeal, the patriarch said that he joins in the
which, in addition to exhortations appeal of the hierarchy in asking for
for unity, had asserted that the unity and asked that Mr. Flis use his
Church cannot be party to the divi- authority "to help return the spirit of
siveness within the Ukrainian com- mutual respect and cooperation to
munity and. that if unity is not our community." ^.,
achieved the Church would be forced The Ukrainian Orthodox Church
to withdraw the representatives of of the U.S.A. reacted to the Catholic
all organizations operating under its hierarchs' appeal in the November-
aegis from "those central and local December issue of The Ukrainian
organizations that do not adhere to Orthodox Word. A commentary
the principle of Christian love and signed with the initials MSM praised
do battle with one another." the appeal but at the same noted
Msgr. Chomko, noting that he had that it was deficient because it did
made his decision "with a heavy not state who had caused the rift in
heart," said that the decision re- the Ukrainian community. The article
flected the Providence Associa- went on to say that the responsible
tion's desire "to stand aside and thus party was "leaders of the so-called
be instrumental in bringing about Liberation Front."
the recuperation of our community Meanwhile, the Ukrainian com-
life." munity awaited a response to the
In October, Patriarch Josyf re- hierarchs' appeal from the UCCA
leased a pastoral letter on the occa- and the Ukrainian IJberatiort Front.
sion of the Feast of St. Mary the Msgr. Chomko of the Providence
Protectress and the 40th anniver- Association took the initiative once
sary of the Ukrainian Insurgent again on December 22 and an-
Army (UPA). In it he called for the nounced in a statement published
Christian and national maturity that that day in America, the official
was so lacking among U.S. Ukrai- publication of the association, that
nians. He urged his flock "to unite in he would spearhead efforts at
the spirit of brotherly love and mediation between the two parties
forgiveness." in the community dispute - the
Then, in a statement released organizations that had withdrawn
after its October 6 meeting, the from the UCCA and the present
executive of the Committee for Law UCCA leadership. He said he hoped
and Order in the UCCA said that it he would find a foundation on which
was cancelling the national conven- he could establish an arbitration
tion it had already scheduled for committee that could finally settle
November 19-21 "in order to pro- the matter.
vide another opportunity for the We can only hope that the new
settlement of our present conflict in year w i l l b r i n g Msgr. Chomko
the Christian and national spirit success.
The UNA...
1982 was a banner year for the Stefan Hawrysz.
Ukrainian National Association as The convention also voted several
its 30th Regular Convention was by-laws changes, the most impor-
held in Rochester, N.Y., on May 24- tant of which eliminated the position
28. of supreme organizer effective July
It was a banner convention, too, 1, 1986, and instead provided for a
as the vice president of the United chief organizer to be hired by the
States, George Bush, delivered a Supreme Executive Committee.
major policy address on U.S.-Soviet Another highlight of the conven-
relations on the concluding day of tion was the premiere of Slavko
the convention, and as delegates Nowytski's documentary film on the
voted overwhelmingly (295 to 46) to Ukrainian experience in the United
continue negotiations with the U- States from the first immigrants to
krainian Fraternal Association to- the present. The hourlong film, two
ward a merger of the two largest years in the making, had been com-
Ukrainian fraternal organizations. missioned by the UNA in April 1980.
The convention re-elected Su- According to Mr. Nowytski, who
preme President John O. Flis, Su- introduced his film to UNA conven-
preme Vice President Myron B. tion participants, the film is not a
Kuropas, Supreme Director for Ca- chronology and it "addresses the
nada Paul Yuzyk, Supreme Secre- heart rather than the mind."
tary Waiter Sochan and Supreme
With the UN A convention success-
Treasurer Ulana Diachuk. Supreme fully completed, the new Supreme
Vice President Mary Dushnyck and Executive Committee held its first
Supreme Organizer Wasyl Orichow- meeting on July 22 at the main
sky were narrowly defeated by, office, and the Supreme Assembly
respectively, Gloria Paschen and met in an extraordinary session
No. 52 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, DECEMBER 26,1982 9

1982: a look back

...and other fraternaIs
The news at other Ukrainian fra­
ternal organizations also included
elections erf supreme officers.
Msgr. Stephen Chomko took over
in 1982 as the new supreme presi­
dent of the Providence Association
of Ukrainian Catholics, the third
largest Ukrainian fraternal society.
Ivan Oleksyn was re-elected su­
preme president of the Ukrainian
Fraternal Association at the asso­
ciation's 20th convention held at
Verkhovyna, the UFA Resort Center.
Also at the UFA convention, dele­
gates unanimously approved con­
tinued talks about the proposed
merger of the UNA and UFA.
The Providence Association cele­
brated its 70th anniversary in 1982
with special programs in several
U.S. cities, including New York, and
with a divine liturgy, reception and
presentation of Hulak-Artemovsky's
opera "Zaporozhets beyond the
Danube," in Philadelphia, the site of
Providence headquarters.
1982 was also the year the Provi­
dence Association withdrew its
representatives from central and
local UCCA bodies, citing the U.S.
Ukrainian Catholic hierarchs' ap­
peal which stated that the Church
cannot become party to the divisive-
ness of the Ukrainian community.
(See "A community still divided.")

George Bush: delivering a major policy address on U.S.-Soviet relations at

the. UNA convention.

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Three supremes (supreme presidents, that is): Msgr. Stephen Chomko of
the Providence Association, John 0. Flis of the UNA and Ivan Oleksyn of the
UFA.

Ukrainians and Carpatho-Rusyns

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шт/ЩвВШл Шл \ ' ВІЇ If 1981 was the year of Ukrainian- Passaic and John Y. Hamulak of the
ЩПШ -а ! Шг Jewish relations, 1982 was the year Ukrainian Engineers' Society were
ІД 1 1 шйА of Ukrainian/Carpatho-Rusyn rela­ later elected interim chairman and
tions. secretary, respectively, of the
ш ш -;v-:"^T - Throughout the year, commen­ groups. A meeting of all groups that
HIRomi taries, historical background pieces, was scheduled to take place in late
Swearing in of UNA supreme officers (from left): Sen. Paul Yuzyk, Gloria letters to the editor and news items 1982, however, was not held.
Paschen, John 0. Flis, Dr. Myron B. Kuropas, Ulana Diachuk, Walter Sochan by many an author made their way To be sure, Ukrainian-Jewish
and Stefan Hawrysz. Stephen Kuropas administers the oath. onto the pages of The Weekly. relations were still an issue as a
The news, of course, was that conference held in Washington on
(since the by-laws do not provide for On July 31, Soyuzivka was hit by a initiative groups for the promotion September 21 further explored the
an annual session during a conven­ tornado that knocked out power and of communications and coopera­ matter, and various speakers broach­
tion year) on September 18-19 at toppled several huge trees. Thank­ tion between the Ukrainian and ed the subject in several U.S. cities.
Soyuzivka. Organizing strategy was fully, the worst of the damage was Carpatho-Rusyn communities were The Weekly did its part here, too,
the major topic of the assembly merely the cancellation of that even­ established following meetings of by publishing, in six parts, the
meeting. ing's outdoor dance. activists representing both groups. research paper on "Jewish-Ukrai­
As usual, the UNA awarded Also of note in 1982 was The Such meetings were held in New nian relations: two solitudes," by
scholarships to qualified students of Weekly's answer to the oft-asked York City (May 1) and Cleveland Profs. Peter J. Potichnyj and Ho­
Ukrainian descent in the United question: "Why are UNA executives (June 12) after an initial meet­ ward Aster of McMaster University
States and Canada. A record S48.000 'supreme'?" The answer, "tradition, ing was held in Pittsburgh in No­ in Hamilton, Ont., as well as com­
was awarded to 149 students in tradition," appeared in an article in vember of 1981. mentaries by such authors as Dr.
1982, thus bringing the total amount the July 4 issue. Msgr. Raymond Misulich of the Myron B. Kuropas and Dr. Israel
of scholarship aid distributed to Byzantine Catholic Diocese of Kleiner.
students since the formal institu­
tion of the UNA program to nearly Highlights
S280.000.
In addition, the Ukrainian National 1982 was a year of firsts. Among concentrated on the science policy
Association announced the esta­ the notable events this year was of the Reagan administration and
blishment^ the Roman Slobodian the first-of-its-kind women's confe­ the exchange of information on
Scholarship Fund in memory of the rence, the first world conference of science and technology between
long-time UNA treasurer who had Ukrainian youth organizations, the the United States and the Soviet
passed away on May 20, just four first Ukrainian engineers' confe­ Union. Such speakers as Dr. George
days before the convention. rence on science and technology A. Keyworth II, science advisor to
There was news at the UNA'S to be held at the White House the president, Dr. Norman Bailey,
estate, Soyuzivka, too, as Walter and the first purchase of a National Security Council policy
Kwas, manager for over 25 years, radio station in the United States by chief, as well as notable Ukrainian
announced his retirement in Ja­ a coalition of ethnic groups. American scientists and engineers
nuary. In April a new face arrived at " The conference on "Science and participated in the conference.
Soyuzivka - Georg9 Prokopeccame Technology in the 1980s," organized " Probably the most unique event
to take over the Soyuzivka ma­ by the Ukrainian Engineers' Society of 1982 was the women's confe­
nager's duties under the direction of Walter Kwas: legendary hospodar of America, was held in the White rence sponsored by the Ukrainian
legendary hospodar Mr. Kwas. retires. House on May 15. The conference National Women's League of Ame-
 10
rica Billed as a conference to ex-
plore the vital issues facing the new
generation of Ukrainian women in
North America, the "Ukrainian Wo-
man in Two Worlds" conference was
a year in the planning. A bit stalled in
the preparatory stages because
of the tragic death of the
first head of the organizing
committee, Olenka Savyckyj,
planning once again picked up
in the summer, when the committee
was taken over by Anisa Handzia"
Sawyckyj and as an overwhelming
number of women expressed an
interest in the conference.
The conference commenced on
October 1 at Soyuzivka as hundreds
of women arrived from all parts of
the United States and Canada. By
Sunday afternoon, the registration
showed that over 600 women and
some men had taken part in the
conference, whose purpose was to
increase the awareness of the U-
krainian women's valuable input
into the Ukrainian community.
The weekend conclave touched
upon some interesting topics not
often brought up in the Ukrainian
community. Such issues as "The
Ukrainian Singles Scene," "Ukrai-
nian Schools and Youth Organiza-
tions," "Intermarriage," "Women in
Crisis," "The Ukrainian Male,"
"Working Women," were among the
13 panels, several presentations and
three art exhibits covered during the
weekend.
" Another first, although not as
widely publicized as the women's
conference, was the world confe-
rence of youth organizations held in
Toronto the weekend of October 8-
10. This conference was in the
planning stages since 1979 and was
affiliated with the World Congressof
Free Ukrainians. Fifty-nine dele-
gates representing such organiza-
tions as Plast, SUM, ODUM,
MUNO. TUSM, USCAK, Zarevo,
SUSTA, SUSTE and SUSK, were
represented.
' In November, 18 ethnic groups
of Metropolitan Detroit joined forces
to purchase a radio station to broad-
cast their ethnic programs, marking
the first time a coalition of ethnic
groups purchased a station in the
United States.
" Also in Michigan, on September
22, the U.S. Department of Housing
The International Plast Jamboree celebrated the youth organization's 70th He is active in thV Republican Na-
anniversary.
THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, DECEMBER 26, 1982 No. 52
1982: a look back
the community, the home of the first The first brotherhood formed at
Ukrainian immigrants of the late the parish, St. Nicholas Brother-
19th and early 20th centuries, began hood, was later to become one of the
planning for a new church imme- brotherhoods which united to form
diately. the Ukrainian National Association.
" Another notable event of 1982
St. Michael's Ukrainian Catholic took place in August in upstate New
Church, the first Ukrainian Catholic York at the Vovcha Tropa (Wolfs
Church in America was built in 1885, Trek) Plast campsite. Over 1,500
a year after St. Michael's parish, the Plast youths, young adult and senior
first Ukrainian parish in the United members, and parents were present
States was established by the Rev. at the opening ceremonies of the
Ivan Voliansky, the first priest ever nine-day International Jamboree
appointed for Ukrainian Catholics in which commemorated the 70th an-
this country. It was rebuilt in 1908. niversary of the founding of Plast.
Nofables
FdremOst among the Ukrainians
in the news during the year were two
men who were chosen to make their
respective marks in the fields of
education and diplomacy.
On July 6, Peter Savaryn, 55, an
Edmonton lawyer, was installed as
chancellor of the University of Al-
berta, his alrriamater. Elected chan-
cellor by the 62-member University
of Alberta Senate, he thus became
charged with the responsibility of
representing the public interest at
the university.
As Mr. Savaryn explained, he
aspired to become chancellor, a
voluntary position that is filled by a
representative of the community at
large, for two reasons: first of all,
he, like Maimonides, a 12th century
Jewish rabbi and philosopher, be-
Dr. Martha Bohachevsky Chomiatc lieves tfiat "The advancement of
keynote speaker at the "Ukrainian learning is the highest command-
Woman in Two Worlds" conference. ment"; and he wanted to "-pay back"
his alma mater with his time, know-
and Urban Development awarded ledge and experience. He had pre-
S6.7 million to the Ukrainian Village viously served on the university's
Non-Profit Housing Corporation for Senate and board of governors.
the building of housing for the
elderly. This was the largest grant News of Mr. Savaryn's election
ever awarded in Michigan. was hailed by the Ukrainian commu-
" The year also included ground- nity, which knows Mr. Savaryn as a
breaking ceremonies for the new St. tireless community activist who is
Michael's Church in Shenandoah, involved in many organizations
Pa., on Monday, April 12 (Easter including the Ukrainian Canadian
Monday), in which Metropolitan Committee, the Ukrainian Profes-
Stephen Sulyk took part. The church sional and Business Club and Plast Dale Hawerchuk: Rookie of the Year
community in this coal-mining town Ukrainian Youth Organization. for the 1981-82 NHL season.
suffered a great tragedy on Easter
Monday 1980 when its church burn- Several Ukrainians made their
ed to the ground. Lost in the blaze marks in a completely unrelated
A professor of economics at
were priceless icons, religious ob- field (or should wesayrink?).Hockey
Georgetown University, Dr. Lev E.
jects and stained glass. However, seems to be the sport of Ukrainians
Dobriansky, was nominated by Pre- these days, especially in 1982 when
sident Ronald Reagan to become we finally learned that, yes, The
U.S. ambassador to the Common- Great One, superstar Way neGretzky
wealth of the Bahamas. News of the of the Edmonton Oilers, does indeed
nomination was released on October have some Ukrainian blood cours-
25, and Dr. Dobriansky appeared at ing through his veins.
a hearing on December 6 before the
Senate Foreign Relations Commit- Gretzky was the leading scorer in
tee, which later that day voted to the NHL in the 1981-82 season and
support his nomination. was the winner of the Hart Trophy
given to the NHL's most valuable
The full Senate voted to confirm player.
Dr. Dobriansky's nomination on
December 10, thus making him the Moving from the top scorer to the
first U.S. ambassador of Ukrainian second-place finisher, we found
descent. another Ukrainian, Mike Bossy of
the Stanley Cup champion New
Dr. Dobriansky, 64, is known for
York Islanders. Bossy, too, received
his involvement in the Ukrainian
an MVP award - this one for the
Congress Committee of America
playoffs' best - the Conn Smythe
and the National Captive Nations
Trophy.
Committee, and he has served both
organizations in various executive Rookie of the Year (Calder
positions. He is the 1964 recipient of Trophy) honors went, of course, to
the Shevchenko Freedom Award. another Ukrainian: Dale Hawerchuk
The Georgetown professor has of the Winnipeg Jets.
also acted as adviser to the U.S. The 1981-82 season was also a
Department of State and as faculty good one for Ukrainian Dennis
member of the National War College. Maruk of the Washington Capitals.
He finished fifth among the NHL's
tional Committee. top scorers:
No. 52
Our E.T.
When Michael and Ester Bilon
walked into The Weekly offices on
July 2 and calmly told us that their
son was E.T., frankly our first in­
stinct was to call for the truck with
the padded walls. After all, for all we
knew, the star of Steven Spielberg's
blockbuster movie "E.T. - The
Extraterrestial," was a mechanical
device, a robot and not a live actor.
How wrong we were.
The Youngstown, Ohio, couple
explained that their son, 34-year-old
Pat Bilon, is a dwarf whostands2feet
10 inches, and who had played in
several movies. What's more, they
said it was him the audience was
seeing inside an E.T. costume.
Now here was a scoop! Not only
were newspapers and. magazines
reporting that E.T. was nothing
more than an elaborate mechanical
device, Mr. Spielberg himself never
mentioned that an actor was in­
volved at all. What's more, E.T. was a
third-generation Ukrainian who
spoke the language and was a mem­
ber of UNA Branch 119 in Youngs­
town.
The rest, as they say, is history.
The Weekly was the first paper in the
country to report the true identity of
the actor employed in many of E.T.'s
most notable scenes, such as the
one in which he gets drunk and falls
down in Elliot's kitchen. (Some
publications incorrectly reported
that the real E.T. was another dwarf,
Tamara DeTreaux^
The movie has made a celebrity of
Mr. Bilon, who is active in Ukrainian
organizations, including theXeague
of Ukrainian Catholics and St. Anne's
Ukrainian Catholic Church. Back in
Youngstown, where Mr. Bilon guest
hosts the hourlong Ukrainian radio
program he started, he is a favorite
among children who want to meet
Deaths
In 1982, a number of prominent
Ukrainians passed away. Among
them were the following:
" Vassyl Yemetz, 91, bandurist-
virtuoso, music educator, bandurist
chorus organizer, the "insuperable
kobzar" - January 6;
о Daria Emilia Stolarchuk, 76.
Vassyl Yemetz
THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY
1982: a look back
.25; ';-
Pat Bilon: in "Under the Rainbow" helped pioneer the atomic bomb
(above) and as E.T.
the real E.T.
So yes, the real E.T. is Ukrainian,
and remember, you read it here first.
author and journalist, who wrote
under the pen name Daria Yaroslav-
ska - January 13;
" Victor Prychodko, 96, Ukrainian
political activist and former minister
of justice of the Directorate of the
Ukrainian National Republic and
assistant minister of finance of the
Ukrainian National Republic-in-
exile - February 6;
" Dmytro Kuzyk, 75, editor for 14
years of the Ukrainian-language
monthly Our Voice and editorial
board member of various Ukrainian
newspapers in Ukraine and Ger­
many - February 13;
' Nestor Chylak, 59, former Ame­
rican League umpire who worked
five World Series, three American
League championship series and
four all-star games - FebruaryH7;
' Constantine Warvariv, 57, high-
ranking U.S. diplomat who served as
director of UNESCO affairs at the
Bureau of International Organiza­
tion Affairs at the U.S. Department
of State, and also as U.S. delegate to
UNESCO, as well as social officer in
the office of Multilateral Policy and
Plans, Bureau of Educational and
Cultural Affairs at the State Depart­
ment - April 6;
" Olenka Leskiw Savyckyj, 36,
community activist who chaired the
"Ukrainian Woman in Two Worlds"
conference organizing committee
- April 26;
SUNDAY, DECEMBER 26, 1982 11
5 Roman Slobodian, 92. former
long-time UNA supreme treasurer
and honorary member of the UNA
Supreme Assembly - May 20;
" Wolodymyr Kirshak, poet, essa­
yist, literary critic, who wrote under
the.pen name Wadym Lesytch -
August 24;
i | Thomas Shepko, free-lance
illustrator, designer and art director
for leading New York art studios and
advertising agencies - September
; 'A . '
" Bishop Andrew Roborecki, 71,
of the Saskatoon, Sask., Eparchy -
October 23;
" George Lopatynsky, 76,-a former
lieutenant colonel of the Ukrainian
Insurgent Army and member Of the
board of directors of Prolog Re­
search - November 16;
' Dr. George B. Kistiakowsky, 82,
internationally known chemist who
and later advocated the banning of
nuclear weapons - December 7.
Also in 1982, news about the
deaths in late December 1981 of
three prominent Ukrainians was
reported:
" Frank Mural, 87, Cleveland U-
krainian businessman who spon­
sored over 100 Ukrainian families
who arrived in the United States
after World War II - December 15,
1981;
e Wasyl Werhun,72, journalist and
former editor of Narodna Volia, the
newspaper of the Ukrainian Fra­
ternal Association - December 25,
1981;
" Petro Andrusiw, 75, artist and
illustrator perhaps best known for
his monumental murals of Ukrainian
historic and religious scenes, in­
cluding "Baptism of Ukraine-Rus' "
- December 29, 1981. Roman Slobodian
At The Weekly
1982 was a rather eventful year for
The Weekly's unholy editorial troika
In otherЛМеекІу news, George B.
Zarycky and Marta Kolomayets
as we did our best to provide you, were promoted in April. Mr. Zarycky
dear readers, with - to coin a is now an associate editor and Ms.
phrase - "a Ukrainian perspective Kolomayets is an assistant editor.
on the news." She still gets the coffee, however.
After Ika Koznarska Casanova On July 4, The Weekly adopted a
jumped ship in December 1981 to new flag - the nameplate at the top
hook-up with Suchasnist, the we'll- of our front page. Excised was the
come-out-when-we-want-to Ukrai­ word Svoboda, hopefully clearing
nian-language magazine, her posi­ up any misunderstanding as to the
tion at The Weekly was taken up on paper's editorial independence from
January 18 by Marta Kolomayets, its Ukrainian-language older brother.
who blew in from the Windy City The move was the result of last
ready to leave her mark on Ukrai­ year's UNA Executive Committee
nian journalism. She didn't even decision to liberate The Weekly.
bristle when told that all newcomers In the area of new features, this
to the staff have to fetch coffee for year's Weekly launched the "Dissi­
the others for two whole years. dent profile" series, which explains
This was also the year that our itself. We also moved "Preview of
editor Roma Sochan Hadzewycz Events" to the back page to make it
went through something of an iden­ somewhat easier for our readers to
tity crisis. And who could blame her. decide if they're going to spend their
She kept receiving mail addressed weekend at a concert in Carteret,
to Mr. Roma Sochan Hadzewycz, or N.J., or at a bandura workshop at
Roman or Mr. Hadzewycz. By far the Soyuzivka. What's more Yuri My-
worst offenders were the high­ skiw of Chicago's Ukrainian Insti­
brows uptown at the Ukrainian tute of Modern Art offered a number
Institute of America, who insisted on of excellent art reviews to bolster
calling her - now get this - MR. our culture coverage.
ROMAN SOCHAN HADKEVYCH! In addition, we provided several
With a 51,000 per annum member­ special issues, such as those on
ship fee, you'd think that someone at Patriarch Josyf Slipyj's 90th birth­
the UIA would know the name and day and the pull-out section on the
sex of the editor of the newspaper Ukrainian Helsinki Group. There
that publicizes and covers many of was also the extra edition featuring
its events. UNA scholarship winners.
So, please, people, the editor is a Although this year no one issue
lady. seemed to stir the reading public
12
like last year's "folly of mixed
marriages," we got substantial feed-
back on the role of our "elite" aca-
demic societies. The mail ran solidly
against our "pan doktors." Another
hot topic seemed to be the "the"
Ukraine debate, with most readers
lined up firmly against the the.
As to headline grabbers, this
year's winner has to be Metropolitan
Mstyslav of the Ukrainian Orthodox
Church. His picture appeared on
page 1 of The Weekly no less than
four times. Interestingly enough,
last year's winner was Metropolitan
Stephen Sulyk. Some inter-Church
rivalry, perhaps?
Not to be outdone, Michael Bo-
ciurkiw, new president of Canada's
SUSK, appeared in four photos in
one issue of The Weekly - easily a
new record.
THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY
1982: a look back
In the way of self-promotion, this
year The Weekly staff decided to
send a free copy of the paper to ail
Svoboda subscribers, even the few
who were already Weekly subscri-
bers, in an effort to remind them of
all they lost when Svoboda and
Weekly circulations were separated.
Well, the response, we are happy to
report, was encouraging. But the
move appeared to create some panic
among those who suddenly found
two copies of The Weekly, in their
mailboxes. Talk about looking a gift
horse in the mouth. We can only
guess that, perhaps, sometimes you
can get,too much of a good thing.
In closing, we would like to wish
all our readers a very Merry Christ-
mas and a happy and healthy new
year. And, as always, keep reading.
Ifs good to know you're out there.
SUNDAY, DECEMBER 26, 1982 No. 52
Merry Christmas from The Weekly: (from left) Awilda Arzola, typesetter,
George B. Zarycky, associate editor, RomaSochan Hadzewycz, editor, Marta
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No. 52
Women...
(С11ІІ— і А м р М ' О
modernity, and Pchilka's program is
still a valid task.
The conference theme was "Ukrai­
nian Woman in Two Worlds," as if
there were two separate worlds! If only
there were just two worlds in our lives
which we needed to balance! Our lives
— the lives of each one of us - are
intricate feats of juggling various roles,
careers, functions, worlds, existences.
We function simultaneously on many
levels. We perceive many multi-hued
reflections through the single prism of
our fife. Our lives are fluid permeations
from one role, from one compartment
to another. That has been a fact of
human existence, of which women were
more aware then men. Society has
continually confronted women with the
"double burden" — work and family.
And the women have stubbornly in­
sisted on yet a third level, keeping
themselves, their egos, their own aspira­
tions, in the picture.
The first woman who openly raised
the issue of the double burden was
Natalia Kobrynska, a daughter and wife
of Catholic priests, who lived in western
Ukraine in the last decades of the
previous century. She, as many leading
intellectuals of the time, was a con­
vinced socialist. Early in her public life
she also became a convinced feminist.
She was probably the first thinker in
Europe to argue openly that socialism
in itself would not be a factor in the
liberation of women unless the women,
while working for social reforms, would
also specifically work for sexual equa­
lity. She maintained that sexual equality
would not emerge automatically with a
more equitable economic or social
system.
She also argued against revolutionary
rhetoric in Galicia, maintained that the
road to progress lay through peaceful,
effective reform. She predicted that
revolutionary upheavals would lead to
violations of individual liberty. She saw
women as yet another emerging consti­
tuency in the changing configuration of
Galicia.
The men who understood her, how­
ever, did not support her; the women en
masse were not in a position to under­
stand her, since they could not even
attend high schools. Her potential was
not utilized; and she remains known
only as an early organizer of Ukrainian
women and a minor writer. Her theore­
tical views on feminism and socialism,
especially the manner in which she
integrated them, remain largely un­
explored.
In part, Kobrynska fell victim to the
ideological exclusiveness that is so
frequently a characteristic of the male
intelligentsia. Since she refused to
accept unquestionably the dictates of
her male colleagues, although, God
knows, she was deferential to them, they
criticized her and accused her of being
petulant and petty, and, in the final
analysis, a lady and a feminist. Her
plans for day care centers were accepted
without crediting her with any origina­
lity. Her ideas on communal kitchens
were not seriously discussed. Her argu­
ment that the conveyor belts of new
ideas into the villages were the wives
and daughters of priests were laughed
out as a theory, while used effectively
without discussion in practice.
Kobrynska's pragmatic approach to
issues of feminism and socialism actually
reflected the pragmatism that is fre­
quently a characteristip ці women and
women's organizations. Women, not
being conditioned to ideological think­
ing, did not exhibit the ideological
exclusiveness that often plagued — and
continues to plague — many Ukrainian
community organizations.
THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY
Nor were Pchilka and Kobrynska the
only Ukrainian women to fall victim to.
misrepresentation by Ukrainian males
and even some women historians.
Before World War I, Ukrainian
authors commonly stressed the similari­
ties between Ukrainian and Russian
women, overlooking the crucial forma­
tive Kozak and frontier experience
which the Russian women lacked (not
to mention the differences stemming
from the different nature of the Tatar
yoke - something that was stressed by
Lesia Ukrainka, who was educated by
her mother and not by the Ukrainian or
Russian intelligentsia).
That, combined with the democratic
and progressive nature of Ukrainian
nationalism, predisposed the Ukrai­
nians in the tsarist empire to write off
feminism as a middle-class pheno­
menon and to deny its existence among
Ukrainians. Thus, the significant con­
tributions of the Ukrainian women to
the establishment of higher education
courses for women and various philan­
thropic societies in Kiev and Kharkiv
have been overlooked, mainly because
they reflected achievements of women
who did not readily fit into the pro­
gressive intelligentsia mold.
An extremely important chapter in
both women's history in general and in
Ukrainian history in particular was
contributed by the Soyuz Ukrainok,
Ukrainian Women's Union, in the
interwar years on the territories of
western Ukraine. Even here, however,
the women tended to downplay their
roles. The Ukrainian women's organi­
zation on the territories of interwar
Poland alone was proportionately the
largest women's organization in Europe.
The policies of modernization it pur­
sued —effective, moderate, yet ones
that did not challenge the traditional
values of society — foreshadowed
similar effective policies used by the
Third World women.
The western Ukrainian women offered
an example of women with some degree
of autonomous status of pre-industria-
lized societies trying to preserve and
expand that autonomy while helping to
better their economic position. The very
real threats to the existence of the
Ukrainian nation in the interwar years,
however, led most of the participants,
and the few persons who write on the
subject, to concentrate on the patriotic
importance of the work of women.
I am not denying the patriotism of the
women — far from it! I am, however,
saying that it went beyond rhetoric, and
was effective because it was practical
and because it was suited to the needs,
the problems at hand. As usual, women,
without much talk, got down to the
tasks that had to be done.
Today, in the organized community
life of Ukrainians and of Ukrainian
women in the New World, there is a
bifurcation in the perception of women.
We seem to function differently on
Ukrainian-language and English-lan­
guage planes. Ukrainians tend to be
uneasy about terms like liberation and
people's struggle in English. Yet, in
Ukrainian, these terms, full of justified
patriotic attraction, are proudly used.
Words like feminism and women's
rights, however, make most Ukrainians
uncomfortable in any language.
Few of us are aware of the non-
traditional activities of. other Ukrai­
nian women. A gathering such as the
women's conference, women meeting'
as women, regardless of age, profession,
marital status, political convictions and
language used for communication,,
makes most Ukrainian men uneasy — a
traditional response to demonstrations
of women's power.
The topic of the conference - "U-
krainian Woman in Two Worlds" -
has already generated a number of.
SUNDAY, DECEMBER 26,1982 13
witticisms, and will probably continue
to do so. Humor is a defense mechanism
society which fosters the growth of the
individual, for any society which ham­
of the endangered. pers individual growth is not only a
What is it that we women want? Not limiting society, but a limited one.
the equality the Ukrainian men have т- or We want a society within the Ukrai­
profess to have — with its inequality, nian community without double stan­
bickerings, innuendos, cross-purposes. dards - sexually, linguistically, geo­
We want the same two things for graphically. The community is us, and
which our predecessors had striven. We without us the community is neither
want the right to be ourselves, and the truly representative, nor can it be truly
freedom to determine, each and every effective.
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You'll lose the mid-January blues at the ODUM senior...
(Continued from page 3)
MALANKA BALL Tommorrow — Directions for the
Future," which was delivered by Mr. A.
OF THE UKRAINIAN ASSOCIATION OF WASHINGTON Shevchenko, outgoing president of the
Saturday, January 15, 1983 national executive board. In bis address,
Mr. Shevchenko analyzed ODUM's
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Law and Order in the UCCA, the
Deck the halls with Melody Night, Ukrainian Orthodox Church, Ukrai­
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Ukrainian youth organizations, most
fa la la la la la la la....HEY! notably Plastand SUM-A.
The Perfect The speech also analyzed the internal
problems of ODUM, particularly its
Christmas organizational structure, which, Mr.
Gift Shevchenko argued, needed to be
professionalized and updated in order
for ODUM to meet the needs of today's
Ukrainian youth. Mr. Shevchenko
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pagating and informing youths about
contemporary Ukraine. This would
make them more keenly aware of their
heritage.
Echoing this sentiment, Mr. Shev­
chenko argued that the Ukrainian
community had become far too em­
broiled in old emigre party politics and
had thus steered its energies away from
today's Ukraine. Such political blind­
ness caused boycotts of Kobza's recent
tour of Canada, the Ukrainian Helsinki
Monitoring Group and individual
Ukrainian dissidents, exactly those
entites which represent the Ukraine of
today, he said. Such actions had alie­
nated many Ukrainian youths from the
Ukrainian community, he noted.
After lunch the conference's business
sessions continued with a question-and-
answer and discussion period pertain­
ing to the reports of the outgoing
officers of the national executive board.
The auditing committee then gave its
report recommending that a vote of
confidence be bestowed upon the out­
going executive board for its work over
the previous two years. This was un­
animously approved by the delegates.
Next on the agenda was the report of
the resolutions committee and subse­
quent adoption of the resolutions.
Some of the more noteworthy general
resolutions adopted by the conference:
a called for cooperation and work
among the Ukrainian community in
accordance with democratic principles;
a reaffirmed ODUM's strong support
for the Committee for Law and Order in
the UCCA:
a reaffirmed ODUM's active support
of the enslaved peoples in Ukraine,
especially, its youth, in light of the
dictatorial rule of the Soviet regime;
a called on ODUM members to
safeguard the Ukrainian language,
culture and traditions in light of Russi-
fication policies being pursued in
Ukraine;
a called for ODUM's active support,
through donations and other means, of
the erection of the monument in honor
of Metropolitan Wasyl Lypkivskyj of
Kiev, first Metropolitan of the reborn
Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox
Church in 1921 (The monument is to be
built on the grounds of the Ukrainian
Orthodox Center in South Bound
Brook, N.J.);
a called for ODUM's active prepara­
tion for the commemoration of the
millennium of Christianity in Ukraine
and the Ukrainian Orthodox Church
which is to occur in 1988;
a called on ODUM to actively partici­
pate in the commemoration of the 50th
anniversary of the Soviet-made famine
in Ukraine of 1932-33.
The report of the nominating com­
mittee and election of the new execu­
tive board followed.
In his closing remarks, Mr. Shev­
chenko thanked the delegates for allow­
ing him the opportunity to serve as
Centor. ODUM's president for the next two
years. He promised an active and
aggressive tenure of the executive board
over the upcoming term and briefly
outlined his plans for the next two
years.
The conference ended with the sing­
ing of the ODUM youth march by the
delegates.
A dinner and dance that evening
concluded the weekend's activities.
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Fedorchuk... any Soviet book without a special

permit. Rusalka ensemble celebrates 20th
(Continued from pete 2) Mr. Fedorchuk was born in Ukraine
Over the last 30 years the Kremlin in December 1918. He served in the WINNIPEG - The Rusalka Dance Although there are, at present, 48
leadership has kept the two agenices at a Soviet armed forces in World War II Ensemble celebrated its 20th anniver­ dancers in the group, ranging in age
careful distance, according to The New and has belonged to the Communist sary on Saturday, October 23, with a from 17 to 32, about 400 dancers have
York Times. Party since 1940. concert at Centennial Concert Hall passed through the ranks of
The separation of the functions was a The new minister is a member of the here, which attracted 2,270 spectators. the ensemble. All the dancers
protective measure ordered by the Central Committee of the Communist are strictly amateurs, devot­
Rusalka, described by the Winnipeg ing seven hours or more a week to
Kremlin a few months after the execu­ Party of the Ukrainian SSR, but he has Free Press as "Manitoba's premier' perfecting their skills while juggling
tion in 1953 of Lavrenti Beria, a loyalist not been elevated to a similar post in the Ukrainian dance company," was first university studies or working careers
of Stalin who used his control of the national party's central committee. organized by Peter Hladun. With the with tours.
secret police and their uniformed coun­ TASS reported, however, that he has cooperation of other members of the
terparts to further the dictator's reign of been promoted from the rank of colonel The dancers reflect the cultural
Ukrainian community, and under the
terror. In recent years, the KGB has general to that of general of the army. heritage of all areas of Ukraine: they
auspices of the Ukrainian National
become the more powerful of the two have learned a variety of styles of
Less is known about Mr. Chebrikov, Federation, the group began to flourish.
agencies. dancing from different regions, and
who is said to be a close associate of Mr.
A career intelligence officer, Mr. Andropov. Also born in Ukraine, Mr. Judge Benjamin Hewak, a firm sup­ wear costumes that are authentic to the
Fedorchuk held the post of KGB head Chebrikov was graduated from a metal­ porter and determined fund-raiser for regions they represent.
in Ukraine from 1970 until 1982. He lurgical institute as an engineer after the group, helped the group achieve the
gained a reputation there as a ruthless serving five years in the army. financial footing it needed to start Besides the concert program that
opponent of political dissidents and as a touring. The group often travels with­ included an all-dance program of 17
Mr. Chebrikov, who joined the party
hard-liner on issues such as Communist out the funding of Canada Council or wdrks and a slide presentation honoring
in 1944, served for many years after the
ideology and the rise of the Solidarity Manitoba Arts Council grants. Judge the Rusalka's 20th anniversary, the
war as a party activist in his home town
free labor union in Poland, which he Hewak began aiding the group over 10 .group was also scheduled to perform an
of Dnipropetrovske, where Mr. Bre^
attributed to "anti-Soviet" agitators. years ago. Since that time it has been to hourlong special on CBC-TV, on
zhnev was once party chief.
Since taking over the chairmanship Mexico, Scotland, England, Ukraine, October 21. A banquet and.awards
of the KGB in Moscow, this reputation In 1967, he moved to Moscow to take Italy, the United States and throughout presentation in honor of the Rusalka
has been confirmed. There has been a over personnel matters in the KGB. One Canada, dancing for Queen Elizabeth, Dance Ensemble was held at the Winni­
nationwide crackdown of dissidents; year later, he was appointed by Mr. Prince Phillip, Princess Margaret, peg Holiday Inn on Saturday, October
international telephone calls have been Andropov as one of six deputy chair­ Prince Charles and Pope John Paul II. 30.
sharply cut back, and a range of other men.
measures curbing contacts between The recent appointments are inter­
Soviet citizens and foreigners have been preted by Western analysts as signaling
adopted. One of these, instituted in an attempt by Mr. Andropov to con­ j DMYTROBORTNIANSKY BRANCH SIX-UKRAINIAN FRATERNAL ASSOCIATION I
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Thursday and Friday, December 30
and 31
ELLENVILLE, N.Y.: SUSTA's
Outlook for 1983 Conference will
take place during these two days.
This is an opportunity for Ukrainian
students to get together and discuss
plans for ther New Year. The confe-
rence will feature an open forum and
workshops. It will be held in con-
junction with the weeklong SUM-
TUSMcamp. For more information,
please call Ronya Stojko-Lozynskyj
at (212) 260-7888 or Michael Mulyk
at (212) 854-8030.
Friday, December 31
SOYUZIVKA: A New Years Eve
Dance featuring the Alex and Dorko
Band will be held at the Ukrainian
National Association estate. For
more information call (914) 626-
S641.
NEW YORK: The Ukrainian Insti-
tute of America will hold a special
New Year's Eve program tonight,
beginning at 9 p.m. The black-tie
affair will include cocktails, dinner/ per person. For more information
refreshments and live music provided
by the Vodohray band of Chicago.
The celebration will continue through
2 a.m. Cost is S45 per person, S20 for
students. Please call the institute for Sunday, January 9
reservations, (212) 288-8660.
SOMERVILLE, NJ.: The Cher- Catholic Church here is holding a
vona Kalyna Band will ring in the traditional Ukrainian Christmas
New Year at the Holiday Inn of Dinner and the celebration of the
Somerville. (U.S. Route 22 East) The 35th anniversary of the ordination of
celebration begins at 9 p.m. with a their pastor, the Very Rev. Andrew
prime-rib dinner. Admission is S7G Mykyta. The afternoon event will be
per couple. Please make reservations held after high liturgy at the church
as soon as possible by calling (201) hall, 4318 W. Clarendon.
526-9500.
EAST HANOVER, NJ.: The New
Jersey branch of the Ukrainian
Engineers' Society of America and
the Chornomortsi Plast Unit are
sponsoring a New Year's Eve ban-
quet and ball at the Ramada Inn, 130
Route 10. The evening includes a
cocktail hour at 8 p.m., banquet at 9
p.m., and ball at 10 p.m. Music will
be provided by the B. Hirniak Or-
chestra.
Admission prices are: S75 per
couple for banquet and ball, S40 per
person. Cocktails are not included in
these prices. Tickets, including open
bar from 9 p.m. to 2 a.m., areS55 per
person. For reservations and more
information call J. Bihun at (201)
763-1732, V. Javorenko at (201) 752-
7520; Daria Twardowsky or Orest
Fedash at the Ramada Inn, (201)
887-9100 or (201) 386-5622.
Yevshan dancers put on "spectacular show"
SASKATOON, Sask. - The Yev-
shan Ukrainian Folk Ballet Ensemble
put on what one critic called "a specta-
cular show" during a special two-day
concert program of the Saskatoon
Symphony Orchestra here on Novem-
ber 20-21.
The weekend event, held in Cen-
tennial Auditorium, was part of the
"Century Saskatoon" Festival.
The 22-member ensemble that has
entertained audiences which have in-
THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY
PREVIEW OF EVENTS
PHILADELPHIA: The Tryzub
Sports Club and the League of
Ukrainian Catholics in Frankford
are sponsoring a New Year's Eve
Dance in the St. Josaphat School
Auditorium. Dancing music will be
provided by the Melody Night band
of Rochester, N.Y. Tables may be
reserved by calling Oleh Woloshchuk
(215) 533-7697 or Yuriy Lesiuk (215)
824-2491.
824-2491. Proceeds from the dance
will go toward the construction of the
Sports Club in Horsham, Pa.
Saturday, January 1
NEW YORK: To start off the New
Year, the young professionals of the
Ukrainian Institute of America will
present an informal get-together.
The evening, geared toward making
new friends and business contacts,
will feature live music by a new and
exciting band from Chicago, Vo-
dohray. The evening begins at 8 p.m.,
lasts until 1 a.m., and includes snacks
and refreshments. Admission is S12
call the institute, 2 E. 79th St., (212)
288-8660.
PHOENIX, Ariz.: The Sisterhood of
the Blessed Virgin Mary Ukrainian
Saturday, January IS
FORKED RIVER, N J.: The Ukrai-
nian American Club of Ocean County
is sponsoring its second annual
Ukrainian New Year's Eve dinner-
dance at the Oyster Bay Restaurant
on Route 9. Hors d'oeuvres will be
served from 7 to 8 p.m., followed by a
dinner (choice of prime rib of beef or
flounder stuffed with crabmeat).
Committee advises BYOB.
In addition to the meal, Ukrai-
nian desserts will be served later in
the evening. The well-known Ukrai-
nian group "The Kolomeykas" will
provide entertainment from 8 p.m.
throughout the evening. Tickets are
S15 per person. For more informa-
tion and tickets call Marie Meehan at
(201) 341-4127 or Ann Lichko (201)
240-0354.
cluded England's Queen Elizabeth, Eminence Cardinal Slipyj in the See of
performed three Hutsul dances, "ha- Lviv: such a successor has already been
hilky," the Yevshan Zillia, the Hopak provided in the person of the coad-
and the Kozak Dance.
In his review, Wilf Popoff of the therefore, to the possibility of another
Star-Phoenix called the performance hierarch having rights equal to, or
"overwhelming," labeling the dancers' higher than, those of the holder of the
enthusiasm "infectious."
"During six folk ballets and dances without value."
they never once failed to maintain a
high level of entertainment," he wrote.
SUNDAY, DECEMBER 26, 1982
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla.: The
Ukrainian American Club of the
Palm Beaches will hold its second
annual "Malanka" dance tonight at
St. Mary's Church hall, Florida
Mango Road. The S10 admission
includes dinner, live music from 9
p.m. to 1 a.m. and special entertain-
ment by local artists.
PITTSBURGH: The Western Penn-
sylvania region of the Ukrainian
Orthodox League will sponsor its
25th annual "Malanka" at the Green-
tree Holiday Inn. Music for dancing
will be provided by the Corsairs
recording artists.
Highlighting the event will be the
selection of Miss UOL of Western
Pennsylvania. Each chapter of the
region is permitted one candidate
who must be single and between the
ages of 16 and 25. The winner will be
crowned by Susan Woznak, last
year's winner.
Elizabeth Mitchell is serving as
committee chairperson. The Rev.
Andrew Beck is the advisor to the
"Malanka" committee. The planning
and organization of the "Malanka" is
being handled by the Ss. Peter and
Paul Senior UOL Chapter of Car-
negie, Pa.
Saturday, January 15
COLUMBIA, Mdj The Ukrainian
Association of the Washington Me-
tropolitan Area will hold its annual
Rubin, 5/ipyj...
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necessary, if it is desired to restore peace
and concord in the Ukrainian commu-
nity.
"Moreover, the non-acceptance of a
decision of the Holy See, expressed
either by word of mouth, in writing or in
deed, is an act of insubordination and,
as such, is to be refused by anyone who
professes himself a loyal Catholic.
Every Catholic must keep himself from
taking up positions damaging to the
authority of the Holy See and from
assuming attitudes calculated to sow
discontent or to provoke indiscipline.
"2. As regards the Synod of
Bishops: this institution represents a
special concession of the Holy Father to
the Ukrainian Church. But it is necessary
to stand by the terms of the concession,
for it is on the basis of these terms that
the Synod of the Ukrainian hierarchy
has a well-defined character. In parti-
cular, it can be convoked only with the
consent of the holy father, which is to be
obtained each time a meeting is contem-
plated; and it cannot elect bishops but
only present a list of candidates, as
occasion arises.
"3. As regards a successor to His
jutor, His Excellency Msgr. Myroslav
Ivan Lubachivsky. Any reference,
Major Archepiscopal See of Lviv, is
Writing the letter in his own hand in
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"Malanka" ball and banquet with the
presentation of debutantes at the
Rouse Building Ballroom in Colum-
bia, Md., between Baltimore and
Washington on Route 29. This event
is also a fund-raiser for the cultural
and charitable projects of the Ukrai-
nian association.
ONGOING
CHICAGO: The Ukrainian Institute
of Modern Art will have a Christmas
Bazaar of drawings, paintings and
sculpture by Ukrainian artists. All
the works, moderately priced, will be
on sale. The bazaar will be open from
December 11 through January 9.
NEW YORK: The Mayana Gallery,
21 E. Seventh St., is holding a
Christmas exhibit of Slava Gerulak
works. The exhibit runs from De-
cember 17 through January 15.
Gallery hours are from 1 to 6 p.m.
Tuesday through Sunday; closed
Monday's.
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service provided free of charge by
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nian community. To have a Ukrai-
nian community event listed in this
column please send information
(type of event, date, rime, place,
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who may be reached during daytime
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- to: PREVIEW OF EVENTS, The
Ukrainian Weekly, 30 Montgomery
St., Jersey City, N J . 07302.
order to "prove that I personally am still
capable of giving a reply and not my
chancery," the Patriarch Josyf respond-
ed with the following.
"The tone of your letter seems to
insult and offend my Church and myself
as its head and father. Really, does this
constitute a gift on my 90th birthday?
Further, your letter was addressed to
my chancery - this I find offensive;
after all, it insinuates that I am only an
instrument in its hands. Do you assume
that I am already a living corpse?
"Because of the importance of your
letter, which contains the accusation of
insubordination and unloyalty to the
Apostolic See of Rome, I find myself
answering it not in every particular
aspect but confine myself to a more
detailed reply which may take the form
of:
"a. rejection of your letter — fine
de non recevoir - in order to defend my
personal honor and the dignity of the
Ukrainian Church, and also the dignity
of the congregation which you head; or
"b. direct intervention to the holy
father. It would be a complaint of a
person who, for his loyalty to the
Apostolic See of Rome, has spent 18
years of his life in the prisons and
internment camps of that atheistic
regime. to which your letter, regrettably,
renders a service.
"It pains me that my personal confi-
dence in Your Eminence has been
undermined by this unfortunate letter.
It pains me even more, Eminence,
because we are both inflicting mutual
harm; for I fear that this letter will
become a stumbling'block in the rela-
tions between our Churches and our
peoples — Ukrainian and Polish."