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r a i n i a n W e e k !UBUSHED BY THE UKRAINIAN NATIONAL ASSOCIATION IN C. A FRATERNAL, NON-PROFIT ASSO CIATION VV o l . t N o . 5 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JANUARY 3 1 , 1 9 8 2 25 centsU.S. said to plan long Madr id recess Svi tlychny suf fers sec on d s t roke;to protest martial law in Poland A I r e q u e s t s u r g e n t a c t i o nNEW YORK NY . - The UnitedStates is planning several measures,including a prolonged recess of theMadrid Conference on East-West security and cooperation, to demonstrate its

opposition to the imposition of martiallaw in Poland, administration officialsdisclosed on January 23, reported TheNew York Times.The Madrid Conference, which is inrecess, is scheduled to reconvene onFebruary 9. The United States is urgingthe W estern allies to adopt a plan underwhich the talks would concentrate for aweek to 10 days on Western charges ofSoviet breaches of the 1975 HelsinkiAccords on security and human rights,then would recess until September orOctober.It would make no sense for the Westto negotiate new agreements at M adrid,Am erican officials sa id, While the So vie tbloc was violating existing agreements,the Times reported.Under conference proceedings , aunanimous vote is required to suspendthe negotiations. American officials areconfident, however, that agreement bythe Western allies would leave the Eastbloc no choice but to suspend the talks.At the same time, the Times reported,the administration intends to seek a

resolution condemnirg the crackdownin Poland when the 42-member U.N.Human Rights Commission meetsFebruary 1 to March 12 in Geneva.The principal American gesture,however, will be made at Madrid, where33 European countries, Canada and theUnited States have been negotiatingsince November 1980 to enlarge theHelsinki process.Last December, they appeared to beclose to an agreement that wouldexpand "confidence-building measures"which would require the Soviet Unionto give advance notice of troop movements and maneuvers as far east as theUral Mountains and impose a similarobligation on NATO forces as far westas the air and sea space adjoiningEurope. ' Even before the declaration of a stateof .emergency in Poland by Gen. Woj-c i ech Jaruzel s ki on D ecem ber 1 3 ,several Western delegations .urgedsuspension of the talks because ofcontinued Soviet violations of humanri ght s , t he A f ghani s t an i nvas i on,threatening war games on the Polishborder and the jamming of Westernbroadcasts into East Europe and theU S S R .

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S A N F R A N C I S C O - A m n e s tyInternational, which monitors human-righ ts abuses worldwide, has recentlyplaced exiled Ukrainian dissident IvanSvitlychny on its urgent action list, andhas called for his immediate releaseafter learning that he is desperately ill.Mr. Svitlychny , 52, reportedly suffered a stroke on D ecember 17, just fourmonths after undergoing emergencysurgery to remove a blood clot on hisbrain which left his left side partiallyparalyzed. He is said to'be in criticalcondition, and AI has learned that hiswife has expressed concern that he is notgetting the proper medical attention"inhis place of internal exile in the Gorno-Altaisk region; some 3,640 kilometers'east of Moscow.

A leading literary critic and scholar,Mr. Svitlychny was one of a group ofyoung intellectuals who spearheadedthe revival in the public and cultural lifeof Ukraine in the 1960s.After a long period of harassment bythe authorities for his dissenting activi-fies^ Mr. Svitfychny was arrested onJanuary' 12, 1972, during a majorcrackdown on Ukrainian dissidents.Convicted of "anti-Soviet agitationand propaganda," he was sentenced toseven years in a labor camp to be

Kowalchuk trial stirs hostility and "residual hate"PHILADELPHIA - As the de-naturalization trial of Serge Kowalchuk draws to a close, open hostilityand bitterness between members of

this city's Ukrainian and Jewishcommunities continue to run highover the question of whether the frail,61-year-old tailor is indeed, as theJustice Department contends, guiltyof collaboration with the Germansduring World War II.In an article published in theJanuary 19 issue of the Ph iladelphiaInquirer, columnist Dorothy Storckdescribes the palpable rancor and"residual h ate" perm eating the courtroom. Prosecution and defense lawyers presented their closing arguments on January 18.Ordinarily, a citizenship trialwould draw few spectators , Ms.Storck wrote, but the proceedingsbefore Judge John P. Fullman arefilled to capacity."In the second row, behind theKowalchuk family, sit the Ukrainians, determined to protect theKowalchuks as much as possiblefrom the calumny directed at themfrom the members of the Jewishorganizations who fill the back rows,many of them wearing the yellowarmband of the Holocaust," wroteMs. Storck.

At times, Jewish spectators in thegallery some members of themilitant Jewish D efense League -threaten Mr. Kowalchuk.Ms. Storck describes the scene:" 'Murderer!1 shouts one man asKowalchuk, gray, bespectacled,stoop-shouldered but immaculatelygroomed, enters the room, if theydon't get you, we will!' the manshouts, and a bailiff edges close."These may not be idle threats. Sixmonths before Mr. Kowalchuk wasbrought to trial on O ctober 19, 1981,the JDL picketed his house andburned two Nazi flags. At the time,Ed Ramov, a spokesman for theJDL, warned that if the governmentdid not bring Mr. Kowalchuk totrial, his group would "bring tjuV

man to Jewish justice." A similarincident in 1980 led to the co nvictionof three JDL members for aggravated assault after they attacked andbeat two of Mr. Kowalchuk's neighbors.The Ukrainian community's mainobjection to the Kowalchuk trial isthat the bulk of the evidence againsthim consists of alleged eyewitnessaccounts videotaped in the SovietUnion and leased to the JusticeDepartment's Ottice of Special In

vestigations, which is charged withthe investigation of alleged warcriminals and collaborators.In her column, Ms. Storck comments: "It is startling to watch whileburly men in those tapes, some ofthem needing translators, accuse aman they haven't seen for 40 years ofhideous inhumanity. You have towonder, along with the UkrainianAnti-Defamation League, what kindof justice this is, to place S oviet tapesin an American court."

Ms. Storck concludes her piece bysaying that whatever the decision ofthe judge, Mr. Kowalchuk's life "hasbeen scarred once a gain, after all thistime, with the residue of old hatreds."To her, the" open antipathy between Ukrainian and Jew, stemmingfronv events^ w hich happened nearly40yearSHigo, is somewhat tragic inthat it sows the seeds of hatred forfuture generations.

She illustra tes this theme in apoignant final passage: "A small boysits by his father in a back row. Thefather is wearing a yellow armband,and so is the child." 'Look,' the father hisses. 'Therehe is, the killer of Jews.' And the boyhunches forward to look."And you wonder when it will everend."

In n S vitlychnyfollowed by five years' internal exile.While in internal exile, Mr. Svitlychny suffered from kidney ailments andhigh blood pressure. On August 20,1981, he suffered his first stroke.AI has previously campaigned forMr. Svitlychny's release as a prisoner ofconscience, but because of the gravity ofhis illness, it is urging the Sovietgovernment to release him immediatelyunder Article 100 of the RSF SR Corrective Labor Code. The article statesthat prisoners suffering from mentalillness "or other serious illness preventing the serving of their sentence, can befreed by a court from serving theirsentence..."

AI recommends that telegrams orletters be sent before February 19,urging Mr. Svitlychny's release to theSoviet minister of internal affairs, theprocurator-general of the USSR andthe Soviet Embassy in Washington.The addresses are:Minister of internal affairs: USSR(SSSR), 103009 Moskva, Ui. Ogarieva6, Ministerstvo Vnutrennikh Del SSR,,Ministru N.A. Shchelokov;Procurator-general of the USSR:USSR (SSSR), Moskva, Ul. Push-kinskaya I5A, Prokuratura SSSR,Generalnomu Prokuroru, A. Rekun-kovu;The Embassy of the USSR, 1125-16th N.W., Washington, D.C. 20036.

INSIDE: Interim report on the MadridConference - page 7. Ukrainian pro hockey update byIhor N. Stelmach - page 9. A young h ockey p layer's accountof a visit to the USS R - page 13.

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reports Sovie t doc to rscontinue psychiatric abusesNEW YORK - An alarmingnumber ofSoviet citizens continue tobe declared mentally ill and committed to psychiatric prison hospitals, often being confined with thecriminally insane, the AmericanPsychiatric Association reported at a

press conference before the openingof World Psychiatric Associationmeetings held here in late fall, reported the January issue of PsychiatricNews, the official paper of the .The WPA had previously condemned the Soviet government'spractice of psychiatric abuse in aresolution passed during a 1977meeting in Hawaii.Since that meeting, the rep o r t e d , the So v i e t s c o n t i n u e tosubject political dissidents to psychiatric maltreatment. Many Sovietcitizens who espouse human rightsconcerns and unofficial politicalviews, express a desire to emigrate, orexpress unpopular religious beliefs,continue to be committed to insaneasylums and are often subjected tomedically unnecessary and dangerous drug therapy.Moreover, the grou p rep or ted, Moscow's Working Commissionfor the Investigation of the Use ofPsychiatry for Political Purposes, an

unofficial monitoring group set upafter the 1977 Hawaii meeting, hasbeen vitiated through systematicharassment and arrests. Today, notone member of the group remainsfree, most serving long labor-campterms.Among those testifying aboutSoviet violations of the 1977 Hawaiiresolution were S oviet emigre VictorBorovsky; himself' a victim of psychiatric abuse, who read a stronglyworded statement prepared by 74-year-old Gen. Petro Grigorenko. afounding member of the Ukrainian andMoscow Helsinki groups now living inthe West, who suffered repeatedcommitments to mental hospitalsbecause of his unwillingness to renounce his human-rights activism.Also testifying were Americanpsychiatrists Harold Visotsky andPaul Chadoff; British psychiatristDavid Levine; former Soviet psychiatrist Boris Zoubock; and Lud-milla Thorne of Freedom House."Today the Soviets no longercommit famous dissidents to psychiatric hospitals because they fearworld reaction," said Ms. Thorne.She reported that of 896 politicalprisoners known to Freedom House,

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Young believer threatened with arrestORANGE, Calif. - A young Russian Orthodox believer is being threatened with arrest for "parasitism" afterserving a five-year labor-camp termstemming from the political activities of

his father" who was inexplicably expelled to the West with his wife aftercompleting his sentence, reported Kes-ton News.The bizarre ordeal of AlexanderSoldatov, 23, began in 1976 when hisfather, Sergei, already serving a prisonterm for his political views, refused topublicly renounce his activities.As a result of this refusal, the KGBwent after his son, setting him up for aphony assault charge. Alexander, then18, was approached by a man whoclaimed to have news of his father. Asthe boy followed the man, the strangersuddenly attacked a passerby. Just assuddenly, a carload of militia appearedand arrested Alexander, who did nottake part in the incident, which had allthe earmarks of a KGB set-up.Neither the stranger nor the "victim"were present at his trial, and he wassentenced to five years in a strict-regimen camp.When Sergei Soldatov completed hissentence early in 1981, both he and hiswife were expelled to the West. Theywere told by the KGB that their sonwould join them after hecompleted histerm in August 1981, but following hisrelease, he faced increased harassmentby the authorities.First, he was refused residence registration in his hometown of Tallinn, thecapital of Estonia. Without the registration, he has not been permitted to work,and now faces the possibility of beingrearrested and sentenced to prison for"parasitism."In addition, his applications for anemigration visa to join his parents in theWest have been rejected, ostensibly onthe grounds that hedoes not have theirwritten permission. According to Kes-ton, none of the letters and parcels sentby his parents have reached Alexander,nor have they received any correspondence from him.

It has been speculated that theSoviets are trying to further punish thedefiant father by keeping him separatedfrom his son, and by making the sonsuffer for the sins of the father. Kestonalso reported that Alexander's experiences in prison have had a deep affecton him and that he hopes to somedaytrain for the Orthodox priesthood...

Orthodox priestends hunger strike

O R AN G E , Calif. - The Rev. GlebYakunin, the imprisoned Russian Orthodox priest who began a hunger strikeon September 16, 1981, to protest theconfiscation of his Bible and otherreligious material by officials at LaborCamp No . 37 in Perm, northern Russia,has reportedly ended his fast accordingto reliable sources in the Soviet Union,reported Keston News.F a t h e r Y a k u n i n , who was thefounder of the unofficial ChristianCommittee for the D efense of Believers'Rights, was sentenced in August 1980 tofive years in a labor camp to be tollow-ed by five years internal, exil e oncharges of "anti-Soviet agitation and` propaganda."The committee was set up to monitorSoviet violations of believers' rights.Soviet sources said that after FatherYakunin began his hunger strike, he wastransferred to a hospital in Camp 35,where there were unconfirmed reportsthat he was being intraveneously forcefed. Recently, he was returned to Camp37, indicating that he has ended hishunger strike. Keston has receivedinformation that the dissident's familywas notified of the move, and was toldby authorities that he was in goodhealth.There was no indication whethercamp officials had met Father Ya-kunin's demands and returned theconfiscated religious materials, therebybringing an end to the fast.

Two Pentecostals pontinuehunger strike in JL).S. Embassy

M O S C O W - Two of the sevenSoviet Pentecostals who took refuge inthe U.S. Embassy here three and a halfyears ago abandoned a total hungerstrike on January 26 after two dayswithout nourishment, reported TheNew York Times.Augustina Vashchenko, 52, and hereldest daughter, Lidia, 31, had takenonly tea and high-calorie fruit juice for amonth, before they decided to begin atotal fast on January 24 to press theirdemands for emigration.The Times reported that the twowomen are back on their liquid diet.Mrs. Vashchenko has reportedly lost 22pounds since she and her daughterbegan their fast shortly after Christmas.Embassy sources reported that Lidiawas in worse shape than her mother. Ayounger daughter, Liuba, said an embassy physician warned that Lidia couldrequire hospitalization within two days.On January 15, former PresidentJimmy Carter placed a call to theembassy to try and dissuade the twowomen from continuing their fast. Hisattempt failed.The possibility that the refugees mayhave to be hospitalized has long haunted embassy personnel, because of theimplication of placing the seven inSoviet hands. Embassy spokesmen saidthe Americans have been in repeatedcontact with Soviet officials about the

plight to the hunger strikers, and theessential response has been that theproblem is an American one.The seven Pentecostals five Vash-chenkos and two members of the Chmy-khalov family - have been holed up inthe embassy since they burst into thebuilding past Soviet guards onJune 27,1978, in a desperate attempt to get theAmericans to help in their long campaign to leave the Soviet Union.After camping out in the embassywaiting room for several months, theywere finally assigned a tiny, 15-by-20^foot room in the embassy basement.The Soviet position has been that theseven must first return to their homevillage of Chernogorsk in Siberia, aridapply for emigration from there beforeauthorities can consider their case.Yet, the seven are certain that if theyleave the embassy, they will be arrestedand brutalized by the S oviets. The basisof this fear is easily discernable. Whenthey first made their break for freedom,Ivan Vashchenko, 17, did not make itpast Soviet guards and, as his familywatched helplessly from the embassycompound , he was beaten close to deathby Soviet security personnel.Moreover, before their escape to theembassy, the seven have suffered arrests,forced psychiatric treatment and forcedseparations over the last 20 years.

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S t u d e n t s r e a c t to P e n t e c o s t a l s ' p l i g h tSEATTLE - More than 1,400 students at Seattle Pacific University herehave signed a petition urging President

Ronald Reagan to take immediateaction on resolving the issue of the sevenSiberian Pentecostals who have beenliving in the U.S. Embassy in Moscowfor over three and a half years in a bid togain permission to leave the SovietUnion, reported East/West News.Two of the seven, Augustina Vashchenko, 52, and her eldest daughterLidia, are in the fourth week of a hungerstrike protesting the failure of the twosuperpowers to resolve their dilemma.Lidia is reported to be. in very poorhealth as a result of the fast, and mayrequire hospitalization.The students want President Reaganto personally intervene on the Pentecostals' behalf. They requested that thepresident hold a news conference at theWhite House and issue a statement insupport of the seven, and to press theSoviet government to allow them toemigrate.

In addition, the petition asks thepresident to personally contact thefamilies at the embassy and express hispersonal support for their plight, and toinform them that he plans to contactSoviet boss Leonid Brezhnev abouttheir case.The college students also want President Reagan to instruct the StateDepartment to issue daily bulletins onthe physical condition of the fastingwomen, who on January 24 renouncedall food, including the high-calorie fruitjuice and tea that they had been drinking since the- outset of their hungerstrike shortly after Christmas.Kent Hill, a professor at SeattlePacific, was at the U.S. Embassy inMoscow during the first week of thehunger strike. According to Prof. Hill,the Washington State Legislature willshortly vote in a resolution similar tothe student petition.He added that colleges and universities throughout the United States atecirculating similar petitions in supportof the Siberian Seven.

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Hardened crim inals rep orted am ong S oviet em igres Orthodox leadeiheads soborOS ANG ELES - Hard-core Sovietcriminals , posing as Soviet Jewishrefugees, have set u p a n organized crimegroup here which has engaged in suchcrimes as murder, extortion and narcotics trafficking according'to a January21 report issued by Los Angeles PoliceChief Daryl Gates, reported the LosAngeles Daily News.The report, titled "Soviet Emigre'Mafia'," went on to say that the influxof Soviet criminals may be part of aSov iet ploy to aggravate the city's ris ingcrime problem and, perhaps, to stagedisturbances during the 1984 SummerOlympics to be held here.The police department report, saysdetect ives have identif ied 20 Sovietemigrants currently in the Los Angelesarea who are engaged in criminalactivity.

Their crimes are listed as murder,extortion, counterfeiting, fraud, forgery, receiving stolen property andvarious vice activities:T he L A PD i nves t i gat i ons , w hi chbegan last May, "reveal that most of theorganized criminal activity involvingSoviet emigres was control led anddirected from the Brighton Beach areaof Brooklyn, N .Y.," the report says.Currently, there are about 5,000Soviet Jews in Brighton Beach. The FBIrecently reporte d that the U.S . government believes that the KGB has planteda number of "sleeper" agents in thatcommunity who may later emerge asSoviet spies.Thus far, the LAPD and the U.S.Immigration and Naturalization Service have found no co nnection betweenthe emigre criminals and the so-called

Israeli Mafia, which has a base ofoperations in Los Angeles and is activein wide-scale drug dealing.The report suggests the Soviets mayhave used their advanced scientific andpsychological abi l i ty to screen out"dangerous criminals" to be sent to theUnited States as refugees via the Jewishimmigration quota. In addition, theLA PD suspects that some of the emigrecriminals are, in fact, Jews.The LAPD findings come in the faceof a major reduction in the number ofJews being permitted to leave theUSSR. In 1981, fewer than 10,000 Jewswere allowed to emigrate from theSoviet Union compared to more than51,000 in the peak year of 1979.Although Soviet Jews receive Israeliexit visas, most end up emigrating toWestern Europe or the United States.

U . S . c a u t i o u sa b o u t e n c o u r a g i n gP o l i s h r e f u g e e sW A S H I N G T O N - T he R eaganadministration has decided not toencourage the 50,000 Poles who haveflooded Austrian centers'to come to theUnited Slates, according to a highAmerican official, reported The NewYork Times.The policy adopted toward the Polesin Au stria has angered Polish-Amer ican groups and has troubled the Austrian government, but, the administration official said, it is part of a quieteffort to obtain a loosening of themartial law tha t w a s imposed in Polandon December 13.The official, who did not want to beidentified, was recently quoted in theTimes as saying: "We don4 want tocreate the impression that the situationin Poland is irretrievable. It is notnecessary yet. There is no point incontributing one way or another to theimpression that the situation h a s movedto a point where it is locked in ice."Although the exodus of Poles toVienna ended with the declaration ofmartial law by the Jaruzelski regime, ithas left Austria with a refugee problemthat cost S 6 0 million last year a n d showsfew signs of ameliorating.Yet, Austria is less concerned aboutthe cost than about the final destination

of the refugees, an Austrian Embassyofficial told the Times.In response to the Polish crisis, theU.S. government has placed a ceiling of9,000 refugees from all of EasternEurope, twice as many as for 1981.A l t hough t he a l l ot m ent m ay beincreased if necessary, the unidentifiedadministration official said that theUnited States is not actively seekingrefugees.The Times reported that Rep. TobyMoffet (D-Conn.), who visited Austriathis month, said American immigrationpolicy "was in a state of uncertainty a n dconfusion," and the United States has"virtually no presence" in the two Polishrefugee camps."In Austria," he said, "we found thatthe long-held view of the United Statesas a country that opens its arms toothers has virtually disappeared."Although the administration contends that the American response to therefugee problem has been adequate,some Pol ish-American leaders arecritical of U.S. policy, saying that thegovernment has been reluctant toaccept Poles in contrast to refugeesfrom Southeast Asia and from Cuba."Poles happen to be 'more contain-(C`ont imifd on page 15)

Papers reveal Vatican anxiety about YaltaCHICA GO - Historic documents

made public D ecember 17, reveal thatthe Vatican expressed "worried expectation" about the Soviet occupation ofEastern Europe in the closing days ofWorld War II.According to an article by NancyFrazier published in the New Star, aUkrainian Catholic weekly based inChicago, Pope Pius XII told the U.S.government four months after th e YaltaConference that the agreement "mightcompromise seriously the cause ofpeace."These statements are contained in the11th and final volume of "Actes etDocuments du Saint Siege relatif a laSeconde Guerre Mondiale" ("Acts andDocuments of the Holy See RegardingWorld War II"). The 11 volumes wereedi t ed by A m eri can Jes ui t Fat herRobert A. Graham and three otherJesuits. The first of the series waspublished in 1965. The concludingvolume has documents from the Vatican that date from January 1944 to June1 9 4 5 ."It does not seem credible thatRussia will be a partner with freedom-loving countries in assuring in all theworld the truimph of the four freedomsprocl ai m ed by Pres i dent Frankl i nD elano Roosevelt as the main war aimsof the United States of A merica," theVatican document said."Rel iable information which hasreached the Holy S ee gives no sign thatthe Catholic Church might resume itsmissionary work in Russia under thepresent regime or that the Catholicreligion w ill be free and respected in theterritories over which the Soviet government may eventually extend itscontrol or political domination," thedocument went on.Pope Pius XII was very concernedover the religious freedom for CatholicPoland. Shortly after he wrote thismemo , the Vatican was embarrassed bya meeting in Moscow between PolishAmerican Father Stanislas Oriemanskiand Soviet leader Joseph Stalin, atwhich Stalin said he desired a free andindependent Poland.The pope considered sending a groupof Polish American bishops to look atthe religious situation in Poland, butthis meeting never took place.

The final volume contains the pope'sconcern over his native city, Rome,which he wanted to protect from destruction from both the Allies and theAxis powers. This document also expresses his opposit ion to PresidentRoosevelt's policy of demanding "unconditional surrender" by Germany,Italy and Japan.

The Holy See's efforts to save Romeincluded a personal and pressing appealto President Roosevelt from the pope inFebruary 1944, presented by Archbishop Am leto Cicognani, then apostolic delegate in the United States. Thepope strongly stated: "Both sides haveno respect for the monuments andworks of society. The only thing thatxounts is military interest." PresidentRoosevelt's reply included: "If YourHoliness manages to persuade theGermans to respect the sacred andcultural character of Rome and to clearout from there, you will have assuredthe preservation of the city."When German troops withdrew fromRome in June 1944, Pope Pius XIIturned to the task of wor king for a "justand honorable peace that would givethe defeated peoples and the worldcommunity grounds to hope for a betterworld," the article said.

in Aus traliaSYD NEY , Australia - Metropolitan Mstyslav, head of the UkrainianA ut ocephal ous Ort hodox C hurch,visited various parishes in Australiaduring the month of December.The metropolitan, who arrived inAustralia to head the sobor of the Australia - New Zealand Eparchy of theChurch held on December 25-27, spentthe first weeks of his visit traveling tothe major cities and parishes.Accompanied by the head of theUkrainian Autocephalous OrthodoxChurch in Australia, the Rev. Protopresbyter O. Pihulevsky, and DeaconYuriy Halytsia, a student at St. SophiaSeminary in South Bound Brook, N.J.,the metropolitan celebrated liturgy atthe following parishes: Transfigurationof the Lord, Blacktown-Sydney; HolyProtectress, Adelaide; Assumption ofthe Blessed Virgin Mary, Melbourne;Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Ma ry,Geelong; St. Nicholas, Canberra; HolyProtectress, Sydney; and St. Athana-sius Lubensky, Sydney.In Adelaide, Metropolitan Mstyslavordained Deacon Volodymyr Salyga,named him presbyter and appointedhim pastor of the Assumption of theBlessed"Virgin Mary Church in Melbourne.In Melbourne, the metropol i tangranted interviews to the Ukrainianradio show and the city's large dailynewspaper, Age. - While in Canberra, the capital of" Australia, Metropolitan Mstyslav participated in a demonstration in supportof the Solidarity Polish trade union,held in front of the Polish Embassy.

Films of th e demonstration, which werelater televised on a Canberra channel,showed the metropolitan taking anactive part in the rally.

May ou r Kozak s tock f lou r ishA p p e a l o f t h e U N A S u p r e m e E x e c u ti v e C o m m i t t e e a n d a n n o u n c e m e n t o f t h e C o n v e n t i o n - Y e a r O r g a n i z i n g C a m p a i g n .

In the beginning of 1982, the Ukrainian National Associat ion's Supreme ExecutiveCom mittee, in a ccordance wi th obl igat ions enum erated in the UNA by-laws,announ cedthe 30 th Regular U N A Convention of th is , the o ldes t a n d largest Ukrainian inst i tut ion inthe f ree w orld. The co nvention wi l l take p lace the w eek of May 24 in Rochester, N.Y.Since i ts founding on February 22, 1894, on the b irthday of America's foundingfather George Washington, the conventions of the UNA have been mi lestones in ourh is tory , which de termined the growth and development of comm uni ty l i fe in the NewWorld and aided the cont inu al struggle by our Ukrainian na t ion. These conventionsbecame m i lestones in the UNA's history not only because of the decisions made att h e m , butalso, in considerable degree, because of preparat ions for the convention,especial ly the pre-convention organizing campaigns.With this in m i n d , w e now announce the Convention-Year Organizing Campaign,which w i l l l as t through Apr il 3 1 . The goa l is to gain at least 2,000 new UNA mem bersinsured ' for a sum of S4 mi l l ion .In add i t ion to many new m odern insu rance p lans, which do not di ffer at al l in typeand va lue f rom those of even the b igges t com merc ia l i nsurance companies , the UNAprovides the best secu ri ty for the Ukrainian futu re in the United States and Canada; itsafeguards the roots of our Ukrainian heri tage; ensures that our Kozak stock wi l lf l ou r i sh , both here in the New Wor ld and in the O ld Count ry , where the Communis tregime is so brutal ly forcing the genocidal assimi lat ion of peoples.Let us remember that every new member of the UNA is l ike a new brick in theconst ruc t ion and for t if ica t ion of our "Ukra in ian for t ress beyond the seas . " Every newmember i s an ac t ive and generous member of our Ukra in ian co mm uni ty ; thus , everynew UNA insurance cert i f icate is a new nat iona l b i r th cer t i f ica te which ensures that ourKozak stock wi l l f lourish.We ca l l on you a l l , of fi cers and m embers of branches and d is t r ic t com mi t tees , and,in part icular, those delegates already e lec ted , or candidates for convention delegates,to part ic ipate most act ively in this Convention-Year Organizing Campaign and thusmake the for thcoming 30 th Regular UNA Convent ion a h is tor ic success .As in the past again this year we w i l l g ive regular an d special awards for those wbr.contr ibute to the success of the Convention-Year Organizing Campaign.We wi l l report al l of the achievements of this campaign on the pages of ournewspapers. J e r s e y C i t y , N . J . , J a n u a r y 1 9 8 2U N A S u p r e m e E x e c u t iv e C o m m i t t e `

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H a r v a r d s u m m e r s c h o o l a n n o u n c e s s c h e d u l e U k r a i n i a n a s s o c i a t i o n m ay be e v i c t e dCAM BRID GE, Mass. - The Harvard Ukrainian Summer Institute hasannounced plans to expand its summerschool curriculum. The 1982 program,which will run from June 21 to August14, will offer three new courses inlanguage, history and political science.The new courses include an advancedlanguage course, a conference course on"The Ukrainian Revolution of 1917,"

and a political science course on "Religion and Politics in Ukraine Since1917."The following is a complete list ofcourses offered by the 1982 HarvardUkrainian Summer Institute.e "Modern Ukraine" (HIST S-152,four units); Assistant Prof. John-PaulHimka; a survey of Ukrainian historysince the mid-19th century.e "The Ukrainian R evolution"(HISTS-154, four units); Assistant Prof. John-Paul Himka; conference course focusing on the events of 1917-20 in Ukraine. "Religion and Politics in UkraineSince 1917" (GOV T S-1 98, four units);Prof. Bohdan R. Bociurkiw; a systema

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CA MB RID GE, Mass. - The Harvard Ukrainian Research InstituteMonograph Series has just publishedProf. George G. Grabowicz's thought-provoking essay, "Toward a History ofUkrainian Literature."Prof. Grabowicz's book is a clarioncall for a new approach to Ukrainianliterature. "Toward a History of Ukrainian Literature" is available in paperback for S8.50 (U.S. currency) fromUSF-Publications, 1583 MassachusettsAve., Cambridge, Mass. 02138.

tionship between institutional religionand the po litical system in Ukraine sincethe 1917 revolution." "20th Century Ukrainian Literature" (UKRN S-100, four units); Associate Prof. George G. Grabowicz; asurvey of 20th century Ukrainian literature - poetry, prose and drama. "Beginning Ukrainian" (UKRN S-Aab, eight Units); Roman Koropeckyj;introduction to the basic elements ofUkrainian language.

" "Intermediate Ukrainian" (UKRNS-B, four units); George Mihaychuk;continuation of the study of Ukrainiangrammar, emphasis on the developmentof vocabulary and m eans of oral expression.- "Upper-Level Ukrainian" (UKR NS-C, four units); Natalia Pylypiuk;simultaneous review of grammar andextension of communications skills,readings of texts from various sources:journal ism, bel les- lettres , pol i t icalliterature, popular culture.Accredited university instruction inUkrainian studies is supplemented with

guest lectures,4 exhibits and films onUkrainian society and culture.Applicants should be in good standing in their college degree programs.Those who are not enrolled in anacademic program must be secondaryschool graduates, and are required tosubmit statements of their interest inUkrainian studies. All applicants arcrequired to enroll for eight Units ofcredits, transferable to most universitydegree programs.Tuition-free scholarships are available to individuals who are alreadymembers of the Friends of the HarvardUkrainian Research' Institute, or thosewho join by making a S100 contribution.For further information and applicat i ons , cont act : H arvard S um m erSchool, Department UI, 20 Garden St.,Cambridge, Mass. 02138.

PHILAD ELPHIA - The UkrainianAmerican Cit izens' Associat ion ofSouth Philadelphia, which has beenlocated here at the same address fornearly 82 years, is b eing threatened witheviction from its headquarters locatedin what has lately become an affluentand fashionable neighborhood, reported Mike Elko, secretary of the Ukrainian Cultural Service Center.The building, which stands at 610-612S. American St., is surrounded by poshhomes in an area that has recently beenrenamed "Society Hill."According to Mr. Elko, the new andwealthy residents of the area do notwant the Ukrainian association in theirstaid community, where homes aregoing for 5175,000 and up. DistrictAttorney Edward G. Rendell has beentrying to get an injunction from thecity's Common Pleas Court to permanently close down the headquarters.Several hearings have already been heldbefore Judge Sporkin.The association has been at its present site since 1900. It has a spotless

record, and has had no liquor boardviolations in 50 years, reported Mr.Elko.The building was the first headquarters of Philadelphia's UNA Branch45, the city's first." The Ukrainian Cultural Service

Center got its start there in 1975 andmaintains offices in the building. TheUkrainian Fraternal -Associat ion'sBranch 11 and the Ukrainian NationalWomen's League of America have heldmeetings there.In addition, St. Andrew's UkrainianCatholic Church held its first divineliturgy there in the 1950s.The association building is an integralpart of the history and fabric of Philadelphia's Ukrainian com mun ity In1976, for example, a Bicentennial T.V.documentary titled "Ukrainians inAmerica" was filmed there by Channel10. It received a national award as theDocumentary Film of the Bicentennial.Mr. Elko, a community activist andmember of UNA Branch 45, has urgedthat Ukrainians nationwide write Mr.Rendell to protest his efforts to evict theassociation. The address is: 1300 Ches-nut St., Philadelphia, Pa. 19107. Thedistrict attorney's office telephonenumber is (215) MU 6-1176.Although Judge Sporkin said duringa recent hearing that "the Ukrainianassociation and its members has certainrights," Mr. Elko fears that the affluentresidents in "Society .Hill" may havemore clout."The Ukrainian people have a right tostay there where they have been for over80 years," he said.

U N A d i s t r i c t c o m m i t t e e m e e t sDetroitDE TRO IT - Thirty-nine delegatesrepresenting 12 UNA Branches inMichigan and southern Ontario tookpart in the annual meeting of theDetroit UNA District Committee heldhere at the Ukrainian National home onJanuary 23.Also participating was John Flis,UNA supreme president; Roman

Chair of Ukrainian Studies marks anniversaryTORO NTO - William G. Davis,premier of Ontario, was the mainspeaker at a recent event marking theinitial year of the Chair of UkrainianStudies at the University of Toronto.The occasion was the first annualFounder's Dinner, sponsored by theChair of Ukrainian Studies Foundationand the Canadian Foundation for

Ukrainian Studies, to honor those whohave lent their financial support to theChair of Ukrainian Studies.The dinner, attended by over 500guests, was held on November 19 in theelegant surroundings of the HarbourCastle Hilton along the shores of LakeOntario.Premier Davis conveyed his government's wishes for the continued successof the Chair of Ukrainian Studies andthen discussed the historical significance of the constitutional agreementfor Canada which was reached a fewweeks before on November 5. PremierDavis, who played a crucial role in thelengthy const i tut ional debate, alsostressed the contributions made byUkrainians and other groups to theenrichment of Canadian society.Greetings to the Chair of Ukrainiantudies were delivered by Arthur 5 - . , dean of the Faculty of Arts andSciences at the University of Toronto;w " liam D iachu k, minister from thego-eminent of Alberta; Peter Savaryn,president of the Canadian Foundationcl Ukrainian Stud ies; and John Tutecki,- ;dent of the Ukrainian Canadian't ..ssional and Business Federation.-, c....,,vn w ho was recently ap

pointed chancellor of the University ofAlberta, noted the substantial financialsupport given to the chair by the federalgovernment of Canada and the province of Ontario, and he called onUkrainians to continue their support incollecting funds for the chair in order toassure a full endowment of SI million.The success of the first anniversarycelebration for the Chair of UkrainianStudies was due to the efforts of theexecutive committee of the foundation.The chair project has revealed theextent to which Ukrainian communities in all parts of Canada have beenable to cooperate with each other andwith educational and government insti

tutions in order to create a universitychair devoted exclusively to Ukrainianhistory and culture.Among the other honored guestswhose presence expressed a commitment to those goals were Bishop IsidoreBorecky of the Ukrainian Cathol icChurch; A rchimandrite John Tataryn ofthe U krainian Catholic Church; Nicholas Leluk, minister of the government ofOntario; John Yaremko, former provincial minister; Al Kolyn and YuriS hym ko, m em bers of t he Ont ari olegislature; Peter Jacyk, who recentlydonated 545,000 for a special chairproject; and Paul R. Magocsi, professorof the Chair of Ukrainian Studies.

William G. Davis, premier of Ontario, amUkrainian Studies, discussing the stp'-is Paul R. Magocsi, Chair ofr education in Canada.

pas, supreme advisor and vice chairmanof the district; as well as Eugene Repeta,supreme advisor and district committeeorganizing chairman.Representatives re-elected by acclamation the existing executive consistingof Roman Tatarsky, chairman; WalterBoyd-Boryskevych and Mr. Kuropas,vice chairmen; Hryhoriy Korbiak,secretary; Yaroslav Baziuk, financialchairman; Mr. Repeta, organizingchairman; Wasyl Papiz, press chairman; Dmytro Koshylovsky, MykolaKonchak, Mykhailo Bober and Wolo-dymyr Litynsky, members.

The auditing committee is composedof Dr. Atanas Sliusarchuk, Olha Ma-rushchak and Petro Zahula.Named to the presidum of the meeting were Mr. B oyd-Boryskevych, president; Ms. Marushchak, vice president;and Mr. Korbiak, secretary. Also askedto join the presidium were Messrs. Flis,Repeta and Kuropas.In their reports Messrs. Tatarsky andRepeta noted that the district hadenrolled 165 new members into theUNA, or 79 percent of i ts quota.Reports on the .work of the districtcommittee were also presented byMessrs. Boyd-Boryskevych, Kuropas,Korbiak and Baziuk. Mr. Papiz reported on community relations, while Dr.Sliusarchuk gave the auditing committee's report.In hisremarks,Mr. Flis discussed themany facets of U NA activities, repor ting on the organization's role in community life, educational and publishing endeavors, as well as on financial andorganizing matters.Mr. Flis praised the district for beingone of the leading UNA district committees, and he cited the four organizingchampions: Mr. Tatarsky (Branch 94),45 m embers; Mr. Litynsky (34 1) andDr. Sliusarchuk (174), 33 each;^andStefania Fedyk (292), 22 members. ,During the general discussion periodwhich fol lowed, representat ives applauded the efforts of the UNA Supreme Executive Committee and theDetroit District Committee, and exrchanged ideas on the work still -ahead;

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DenaturaHzat ion t r ialsUA DL asks OS I D i rector Ryanto re-evaluate use of Soviet evidence

Following are excerpts froma letter, dated December20, 1981, was written by AlexandraShwed and Nila Pawluk, co-presidentso f the Ukra in ian DefamationLeague, to Allan A. Ryan, director ofthe Justice Department's Office ofSpecial Investigations, which is responsible for tracking down and bringing tojustice suspected Nazis or Nazi collaborators living in the United States. Sincethe letter was written, Mr. Ryan has me twith representatives of the U ADL,which is based in Jenkintown, Pa.

Dear Mr. Ryan:We are writing to you in answer toyour letter of O ctober 26, 1981, addressed to Alexandra Shwed, co-president of the`tlkrainian Anti-DefamationLeague, in which you stated that youwould be happy to meet with her andher colleagues to answer any questionson the conduct of the trials, pursued byyour office, against alleged "Nazi warcriminals" in the U.S.We would l ike to bring to yourattention that we, of the UkrainianAnti-Defamatio n League Inc., tried ona few occasions to set up an appointment with your office, but you evidentlydid not consider it important enough tocall back and set up such a meeting. Weare therefore sending you this`letter, andwe recommend that you read it since it isan o pen letter and copies have been sentto President Ronald Reagan, VicePresident George Bush, Secretary ofState Alexander Haig, U.S. AttorneyGeneral William French Smith, to allU.S. senators and congressmen and toall the major newspapers in the UnitedStates.Besides your cover letter of October26, you also enclosed a copy of a letter,dated February 24, 1981, which yousent to a member of the UkrainianAmerican com munity in Cleveland, andthis is what we would like to discusswith you. Your Octo ber 26 and yourFebruary 24 letters have been publishedin The Ukrainian Weekly on November22, 1981, (copy enclosed), and an editorialtitled, "Ryan's Reasoning," was alsopublished in The Weekly on the samedate (copy enclosed).The Ukrainian American communities in the United States are unanimo usly object ing to these tr ials on thegrounds that much of the evidencebeing used against the defendants hasbeen acquired from the Soviet Ministryof Justice. Your acceptance of Sovietlegal and judicial practices, through theuse of videotaped testimony of Soviet"witnesses" and their introd uction intothe American legal system must havebeen motivated by blind faith, since theho rrors of Soviet "justice" are clear tothe majority of reasonable men in thefree world.Because of your acceptance of Soviettestimony we now have a foreign dictatorship operating through the American legal system to persecute its political enemies living in the United States.Both Soviet law and the methods of itsenforcement have been discredited inthe world, but your office continues to

listen to the Soviet prosecutors andreadily accepts their evidence throughvideotaped spectacles...In your letter of Feb ruary 24, youstated that cases have been broughtagainst "accused N azi war criminals,some of whom are Ukrainian." Wewould like to bring to your attentionthat the defendants, be they Ukrainian,Lithuanian, Latvian or other are notaccused and certainly no t N azis, theyare only suspect, and you as director ofthe OSI should be more judicious inyour choice of words. We are outragedat the manner in which the media ispresenting these cases to the Americanpublic...In your letter you state, "I am awareof the profound antipathy toward theSoviet Union held by many, if not mostUkrainian Americans," but you saythat this animosity is a political matterthat is not your con cern as a prosecuto r.Well, we believe that you should make ityour concern; m aybe then you wouldunderstand what the interest of theSoviet Union is in these trials.The trials against the alleged "Naziwar cr iminals" must be consideredpolitical trials where M oscow 's politicalaims are achieved, and not bona fidetrials for the establishment of guilt orinnocence of the defendants. In a trial ofthis sort, the Soviets are not seeking tofind out if the defendants are guilty ornot; they are seeking to attain politicalcapital from those trials. They are notdoing it to get the verdict of "guilty" forthe defendants, but to discredit theirpolitical enemies before the world asinhuman murderers and "anti-Semites."Who are these enemies? Ukrainians,Lithuanians, Latvians Poles, Rumanians, Estonians all those who areproscribed in Moscow as "nationalists"and "separatists." Moscow understandsthe Jewish community's concern andtries to exploit this concern for its ownpurpose, by posing as a mourner overthe Jewish victims of the Holocaust.The Soviets are using these trials tofuel hatred between the two largestdissident gro ups in the Soviet Union the Jewish people and the Ukrainianpeople. So when you say that this is apolitical matter and therefore not yourconcern, you are disqualifying yourselfas a competent prosecutor in thesecases.Mr. Ryan, you talk about the SovietUnion assisting the OSI in two primaryrespects: "in providing us with certifiedcopies (or originals, if available) ofrelevant documents; and by allowing usto question Soviet citizens in the presence of defense counsel with full rightsof cross-examination." How can youroffice be so naive and accept testimonyfrom a Soviet government-providedwitness whose testimony is influencedby its totalitarian regime?Although these depositions are takenin the presence of defense counsel whohas the right to a full cross-examinat ion, i t seems obvious that unlessdefense counsel has the r ight andoppo r tun i ty t o go in to the Sov ie t

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NOTICE TO OUR CONTRIBUTORSAll m aterials - brief news stories, photos, capt ions - o n UkrainianIndependence Day comm emorat ions must be rece ived by The W eek lyeditorial of f ices by February 15. Any m aterials received af ter that datewil l not be publ ished in The Weekly. There wil l be no except ions.- E d i t o r s

U k ra in ia n In d e p e n d e n c e Daly ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ Je r s ey City, N.J.

Jersey City 's Mayor Gerald McCann signed a proclamation o n Thursday, January 2 1 ,designating th e following d a y a s Ukrainian Independence Day in the municipality. Th eproclantabon-signingceremony wasattended by a host of the city's Ukrainians, including Ss.Peter a n d Paul Ukrainian Catholic Church Pastor John Wysochanskyt Ukrainian NationalAssociation Suprem e Secretary W alter Sochan; Walter Bilyk a n d Alex Blahitka of theUkrainian National Home; Municip al Judge Robert Cheloc; Wasyl Boyko of the SUM-A ParentsCommittee; Antin Szubak of the Organization fo r the Defense of Four Freedoms for Ukraine;Halyna Hawryluk a n d Halyna Bilyk of the Ukrainian National Women's League of America;Roma Hadzewycz of Plast. Th e proclamation signing and the subsequent flag-rais ingceremony were coordinated b y M r . Bilyk an d I rene Zahylkiewicz, Ukrainian Democraticactivist. The UNA contingent a t t he ceremonies, included eight persons.

Whippany , N .J .

Ukrainians of Morr is County, N.J. , observed Ukrainian Independence Day'with a concertprogram on Sunday, January 17, i n S t John's Ukrainian Catholic Church hall in Whippany.The program featured addresses b y former political prisoner Nadia Svitlychna an d VasylPasichniak a n d performances by the Homin Ukrainian Bandur ist Chorus, directed byVolod ymy rYurkevych ,and area me mbers of Plast's novatstvo."The program was attended bylocal community a n d polit ical leaders, some o f whom a re seen above; (from left) FelixSmieczynski, local Polish com munity leader; Henry Blekicki, former mayor of MorrisTownship; Arthur Albohn, m ayorof Hanove r Township; the Rev. Joseph Panasiuk, pastor of S tJohn's; Rep. Millicent Fenwick, candidate for the U.S. Senate; Ms. Svitlychna; Morris CountyFreeholder Rodney Frelinghuysen, candidate for U.S. House of Representatives; Dr . IvanPelech, chairman of the Morris County UCCA; a n d Mykola Hrehorovich, branch treasurer .

Phi lade lph ia

Philadelphia Mayor W ill iam Green presents the Ukrainian Independ ence Day proclamation toDr. Petro Stercho, chairm an of the Philadelphia branch of the Ukrainian Congress Committee' of America, i n t he presence of a delegation of Ukrainia n com munity activ ists.

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U k r a i n i a n W e e lc lMadrid: keep talking

The roar of Gen. Wojciech Jaruzclski's tanks through the streets ofPoland has done more than put a temporary damper on that country'sreform movement and further exacerbate East-West relations. It mayhave sounded the death knel l for the Madrid Conference on securityand hu man rights in Eur ope and jeopa rdized the future of the Helsinkiprocess itself.When the conference resumes on February 9, the United States isexpected to urge the Western allies to adopt a plan under which thetalks would conce ntrate for a week to 1 0 days on the Polish crisis andSoviet v iolat ions of the 1975 Hels inki Accord s, then would recess unti lthe fall.Put anothe r way , rather than use the M adrid meet ing as a forum fora p r o l o n g e d d e n u n c i a t i o n o f P o l i s h m a r t i a l l a w ( a n d S o v i e tcomp lici ty) , and Sov iet breaches of the H els inki Final A ct , the UnitedStates has decided that a lengthy suspension of the negot iat ionspresents a m ore effective m ean s of protest. The reasoning here is that itwou ld be im politic for the W est to try and reach an agreem ent with theSo viet Un ion an d its allies in the face of the Polish crisis, the continuedSoviet presence in Afghanistan and the East bloc's cynical flouting ofthe human-rights provisions incorporated in the Helsinki pact.

Clearly, i t was the declarat ion of martial law in Poland onDecem ber 13 which was the s traw that broke the camel's back. Beforethen, a comprom ise draft of a concluding docum ent prepared by eightneutral and non-aligned countries did succeed in narrowing thedifferences between East and West on key human-rights and securityquestions. Although both sides had strong reservations over certainaspects of the 36-page paper, there was guarded optimism that acompromise could be hammered out .Gen. Jaruzelski^s tanks q uashed that optimism three days before thecompromise draft was officially put forth. So, after nine months ofpainstaking neg otiation s, wh ich, included three recesses totalling fivemonths, things were back to square one.There is some diplomatic and political sense in the U.S. position thatthe talks should be suspended. Inarguably, 14 months spent bangingone's head against the wall can become exasperating, particularly ifduring that span He lsinki monitors con tinue to be arrested, Soviet

helicopters continue to napalm Afghan villages, Western broadcasts toEastern Euro pe con tinue to be jam me d, and a military junta brutallyseizes power in a signatory state.But even though reaching final agreement at Madrid-is unquestioh-`ably a redoubtable task, we suggest that a long suspension of thereview m eeting at this juncture wo uld be a diplomatic and politicalblunder. For the West to throw its hands up and walk away from thetable would not, as the U.S. government argues, send a clear signal tothe Soviets that the West can no longer tolerate flagrant abuses of theoriginal Helsinki Accords and, therefore, refuses to negotiate further.It will simply let the Soviets off the hook by eliminating a forum thathas clearly been a propaganda triumph for the West, a point oftenraised by West German Foreign Minister Hans-Dietrich Genscher.Exposing and documenting the barbarity of the Soviet system beforethe entire world goes a long way in discrediting that system.To postpone the conference for seven or eight months would give

the S oviets time to lick their wounds and to regroup. Moreover, it wouldprovide them with an opportunity to pin the final disintegration ofdetente on the United States and the Western alliance. It would givethem an out.In addition, given the political imponderables which may crop up inthat time span and the loss of momentum that a long hiatus wouldengender, there is the risk that the meeting would not reconvene in thefall.Clearly, the global developments s ince the original Hels inkidocu men t was conc luded in 1975 are making So viets wish they neversigned it. In exchan ge for de jure recog nition o f post-World War IIEuropean borders, they have been publicly humiliated for their awfulhuman-rights record and the innate brutality of their systim.If the talks do not reco nvene in the fall, then the Helsinki A ccor dswil l be abrogated by neglect . The West would lose a valuableinternational forum for chastising the Soviets, as well as a juridical,

base for doing so. More importantly, hundreds of Soviet diss identsand Hels inki monitors would lose yet another legal is t ic base on whichto anchor their humanitarian demands, and, tragical ly, attent ion tot hei r p l i ght w oul d undoubt edl y w ane i f t he revi ew proces s w asscrapped. vTherefore, we recommend that despite excrutiating East-Westtension,`and continued East-bloc violat ions of the Hels inki Accords,the United States and its allies return to the bargaining table' onFebruary 9 and continue the Hels inki process no matter how tediousand frustrating it may seem. Suspending the Madrid talks will surelyaccomplish less than keeping them alive, if only to keep Soviet abusesclearly in the spotlight. v,

News and viewsB r o a d e r s t a t i s t i c a l r e s e a r c h n e e d e dt o a n a l y z e i m p a c t o f m i x e d m a r r i a g e s

by Zenon V. WaayliwThe maintenance of a Ukrainianidentity and community in the United

States is of prime concern for manyreaders of The Ukrainian Weekly. Thishas been illustrated by the interestingfeatures, articles and letters to theeditor. It is with the latter aspect that Iwish to deal specifically, the manyletters touching on the topic of exogam-ous or mixed marriages.If one were to follow statistical,trends, one would roost likely Find anincrease over the years of marriages inwhich one partner is not Ukrainian. Themost reliable sources would be Ukrainian church records and active membership in your area. Though it may appearthat a number of young people do notattend services regularly, however, theystill marry and baptize their children inchurch.A book edited by W.R. Petryshyn,"Changing Real i t ies: Social TrendsAm ong Ukrainian Canadians," provides statistics on endogamy (Ukrainians marrying Ukrainians).1 Despitethe fact that there is a higher concentration of Ukrainians in Canada than inthe United States, there has been adownward trend in the number ofendogamous marriages. Thefirstfigureavailable is for 1921, with a highpercentage of 87.4. By 1961 it is down to53.5 percent and finally in 1971 it is 38.7percent.Alongside the drop in endogamousmarriages there were declines in lity, Ukrainian language knowledge andchurch affiliation.2 However, it isapparent by the title of the above work,plus other works, that Ukrainian Canadians are making an attempt to synthesize their changing nature and come upwith possible evaluations of the future.Unfortunately, in the United States,little work is being done in studying andevaluating changing Ukrainian socialtrends (i.e. exogamous marriages).3Despite similarities between theUkrainian communities in the UnitedStates and Canada, there are also important differences. For example, outsideof the Northeast and portions of theMidwest, there are very few organizedUkrainian communities in the UnitedStates, whereas in Canada, Ukrainiansare represented nationwide. The growing migration to the West and Southwould necessitate the creation of newcomm unities/organizations to carry ona Ukrainian ethnic identity. Importantquestions to raise here are whetherpeople of exogamous marriages will bewilling or prepared to develop communities/organizations; and will the mostenduring institution of Ukrainian identity, the Ukrainian Church, be able tomake the move to these new areas ofsettlement.4Past and present Ukrainian immigrants have brought with them from thehomeland various political doctrinesand affiliations. They have in the pastand do today splinter the Ukrainiancommunity over topics that are of littlerelevance or are incomprehensible tothe vast majority of younger UkrainianAmericans. Constant intracommunitystrife, plus the absence of organizations which could provide American-bom Ukrainians the opportunity tocome to an alternate understanding ofbeing both an American and a Ukraini an has l ed t o m any exogam ousmarriages. This is a phenomenon notonly among Ukrainians but.most other

groups as well. Rather than maintainthe extreme of a parochial Ukrainianghetto existence, many have chosen theother extreme of mixed marriage andassimilation into the American mainstream of ethnic non-affiliation.Viable community and organizat ional al ternatives and construct ivediscussion are needed when dealingwith mixed marriages in the Ukrainiancom m uni t y . U ni vers al endogam yamong Ukrainians is impossible andshould not be forced. However, there isnothing inherently wrong with encouraging Ukrainians to marry otherUkrainians, not only for the purpose ofmaintaining an active community ornational iden tity, but also Jak ing in toconsideration personal compatibility,similarity of interests, plus emotionaland spiritual satisfaction.Furthermore, perhaps we shouldlook at Ukrainian communities whichare experiencing growth and a synthesisof multi-faceted factors for positivesolutions. I like to think of my owncommunity in Binghamton/JohnsonCity, N.Y., and specifically the Ukrainian Catholic parish to which I belongas a model . Pol i t ical squabbling isabsent, and my parish (as well as theUkrainian Orthodox parish under thelong-term guidance of Father Lawryk)is held in high esteem by the local non-Ukrainian community.There have been many endogamousmarriages in the past several years, but aconscious effort is made to also enablecouples of mixed marriages to feelcomfortable in a Ukrainian environment. A willingness to communicateand cooperate has . led a number(though not all) of the non-Ukrainianmembers to cherish and actively support a Ukrainian identity. Also, as aresult , our vibrant pastor, FatherBohdan Kin, has been kept quite busywith many baptisms (obviously a goodomen for the future).1 have only scratched the surface indealing with the topic of mixed marriages. However, positive and concretediscussion rather than accusations andnegativism are needed.J recently had the opportunity toattend a conference of young Ukrainians organized by Marta Korduba, theUNA`s fraternal activities coordinator,at Soyuzivka. We discussed-the abovetopic as well as many others in whatamounted to a very positive experience.It was decided to meet again, and Iwould urge all those who are concerned

(Continued on page 11)1. W. Roman Petryshyn, ed., "ChangingRealities: Social Trends Among UkrainianCanadians" (Edmonton: The CanadianInstitute of Ukrainian Studies, 1980).2. William Darcovich, "The StatisticalCompendium : An Overview of Trends," in"Changing Realities...," p. 13.3. Two valuable works that can bepurchased through the Harvard UkrainianResearch Institute are: Wsevolod W. Isajiw,ed., "Ukrainians in American and CanadianSociety, Contributions to the S ociology ofEthnic Groups" (Jersey City, N.J.: M.P.Kots Publishing, 1976); Paul R. Magocsi,ed., "The Ukrainian Experience in theUnited States: A Symposium" (Cambridge,Mass.: Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute, 1979).4. It is interesting to note that theByzantine Catholics (Carpatho-Rusyns)have created a new diocese in California andadherents of the (formerly Russian) Orthodox Church of America (which includesmany of Ukrainian.descent) are thriving inthese areas. - , . , -. ', -,

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Madrid Review Conference: an in ter im repo rtThe following is an interim report on the status ofthe Madrid meeting to review implementation of the1975 Helsinki Accords prepared at the time of itsrecess on December 18,1981'. The meeting s scheduledto reconvene on February 9. The report was providedby the Congressional Commission on Security andCooperation in Europe.Phase HI of the Madrid review meeting of theConference on Security and Cooperation in Europe(CSCE) came to an uneasy and inconclusive end onFriday, December 18, 1981 after eight weeks ofnegotiations on a concluding document.The brutal imposition of martial law and subsequent suspension of civil rights in Poland occurred justas this segment of the meeting was entering its finalweek and, thus, dashed all hope of reaching agreementin 1981. The likelihood of any substantive conclusionto the review meeting, which is scheduled t o reconveneon February 9, is now as uncertain as the fate ofPoland.The Madrid meeting resumed on O ctober 27,198 1,after a recess of nearly three months. Phase II of themeeting had ended when a Western attempt to breakthe impasse on the m ilitary security and human-rightsquestions was summarily rejected by the EastAfter 36 weeks of deliberations over 14 months, theMadrid meeting is still divided over these same two

fundamental issues. Virtually no progress in thehuman-rights and military security areas was madeduring the latest phase of the meeting.In fact, no new agreements on any outstandingissues were reached in the eight-week period. A largepart of the reason for the inflexibility on both sides wasa desire not to concede anything until the finalbargaining at the end.Ironically, just prior to the Polish crackdown anddespite some remaining differences between East andWest on the key issues, agreement on a substantive andbalanced concluding document seemed nearer in thisphase of the meeting than ever before, due largely tothe introduction of a package compromise proposalby the neutral and non-aligned (NNA) nations.While the theoretical possibility for bridging thosedifferences still remains, it is clear the eventual,outcome of the Madrid m eeting will be greatly affected- if not directly determined by the harsh crushingof the reform movement in Poland and subsequentdevelopments there.

Military securityEvery participating state in the CS CE had indicatedits support for convening a post-Madrid conferenceon the military aspects of security in Europe. PresidentRonald Reagan, in his November 18,1981, speech onarms-control issues, reiterated U.S. support for thisproposal:"At the current Madrid meeting of the Conferenceon Security and Cooperation in Europe, we are layingthe foundation for a Western-proposed Conference onDisarmament in Europe. This conference woulddiscuss new measures to enhance stability and security

in Europe. Agreement on this conference is withinreach. I urge the Soviet Union to join us and the manyother nations who are ready to launch this importantenterprise."Agreement in Madrid has coalesced around a post-Madrid security forum closely resembling the originalFrench-proposed and NATO-sponsored Conferenceon Disarmament in Europe (CDE). All CSCEparticipants have agreed that, this conference sh ouldexamine new confidence and security-buildingmeasures (CS BM s) - such as prior notification troopmovements and military exercises which would bemilitarily significant, verifiable, politically bindingand which would be aimed at reducing the danger ofsurprise attack.The remaining unresolved issue is the area ofEuropean territory to be covered by these measures.The West's position is that the entire continent ofEurope from the Atlantic Ocean to the Ural Mountains should be included. (Under the existing Final Actprovisions, only 250 kilometers of S oviet territory arecovered.)The Soviets have conditioned their acceptance ofthis extension of the zone of applicability of CSBMson the willingness of the West to take a "corresponding" step. The United States and its allies haveindicated their readiness to extend coverage to air andnaval activities which are an integral part of groundmanuevers on the European land mass.The'Soviets, however, have called this formulationinadequate, claiming that the CSBM zone Should

coverall the sea area and air space around Europe, andthat the exact contours of this zone of applicabilityshould be drawn up at the security conference itself.Th e N A T O ; countries adamantly oppose this idea,insisting that all aspects of the mandate for a post-Madrid security conference must be resolved inMadrid itself in order to prevent the.conference frombecoming a mere propaganda forum.The zone issue has been - and remains - at thecrux of the military security question in Madrid.Human rights

Sharp differences between East and West on human-rightswere also manifested during Phase III. Westerndelegates clashed with their Eastern counterpartsduring discussions of human-rights violations in boththe plenary and working group sessions of themeeting.Western representatives, led by the United States,issued sharp attacks on the Soviet Union and certainEast European countries for a,wide range of human-rights violations. Perhaps the harshest condemnationyet of Western performance in this area was expressedby Soviet and Czechoslovak delegates during PhaseIII of the Madrid meeting, in response to Westerncriticism of Eastern human-rights abuses.Discord over these issues was also evident in thenegotiations of the human-rights component of theMadrid concluding d ocument. The West continued toinsist that substantial progress in the human-rightsand humanitarian cooperation sections beyond theprovisions of the Final Act was essential for theconcluding document.` While some new commitments in these areas hadbeen provisionally agreed upon in previous stages ofthe Madrid meeting, these were not,eriough to meetWestern needs. During the eight weeks of Phase III,however, no additional progress on these topics wasmade. Not one new undertaking in the human-rights,human-contacts or information fields was agreedupon.Soviet negotiators - claiming they had alreadyconceded as much as they could - varied their tacticsbetween stony silence and refusal even to discussWestern proposals and a counter-offensive of tablingwholly unrealistic proposals in these fields.While some delegates believed that Eastern concessions in the human-rights area would be forthcoming once agreement has been reached on themandate for a security conference, the Soviets gaveonly vague hints and such concessions might beforthcoming. However, should the negotiationssomehow eventually get back on track following theevents in Poland, a satisfactory resolution of thehuman-rights question will be central to a successfuloutcome of the Madrid meeting.

Review of implementationThroughout the course of Phase 111, the U.S.delegation, together with other Western countries,

continued the practice of calling certain Easterncountries to task for their deplorable, and steadilyworsening, implementation records in both themilitary security and humanitarian areas.By continuing to raise implementation issues, theWest acted to effectively restore balance to themeeting, which might otherwise have been in danger ofdevoting excessive time to the elaboration of newprovisions for a Madrid concluding document andignoring continuing violations of the original provisions of the Helsinki Final Act.Putting the Soviet so-called "peace offensive" inEurope into stark perspective, the United Statesdelegation documented and denounced recent Sovietactions which had drastically undermined Europeansecurity and increased tensions on the continent.Included in the U.S. indictment was the failure toadequately notify major military maneuvers, inparticular the maneuver Zapad '81 held near Poland inearly September, the violation of Swedish territorialwaters by a Soviet spy submarine (probably nuclear-armed), the invasion and continued occupation ofAfghanistan and, ultimately, the imposition of martiallaw in Poland and Soviet involvement therein, all ofwhich constituted flagrant violations of virtually everyHelsinki Final Act principal and provision relating tosecurity in Europe.In this context, U.S. Delegation Chief MaxKampelman in a plenary speech recalled PresidentReagan's statement of November 18, 1981, whichlinked true peace and security in Europe with r espe ct

for human freedom and dignity, and emphasized that"wherever there is-o'ppression, we must strive fortruepeace and security of individuals as well as states. Wemust recognize/that progress in the pursuit of liberty isa necessary complement to military security."During Phase 111, the U.S. delegation brought to atotal of 86 the number of individuals it has cited whoserights under the Helsinki Accords have been violatedby Warsaw Pact countries. The delegation also raisedother human-rights concerns such as: the repressivelegal restrictions on Crimean Tatars which, propibitthem from returning to their historic homeland; thewidespread persecution of religious activists asexemplified by the intensified harassment of Evangelical Christians; the forced Russification of the Balticpeoples; and prohibitions against manifestations ofUkrainian culture. ',

In addition, the United States and the UnitedKingdom d elegates strongly attacked anti-Semitism inthe Soviet Union..The,Federal Republic of Germanyrepresentative made a sharp statement criticizingSoviet restrictions on the free movement of people andflow of information across the borders of participatingstates. jWestern delegations also reacted to currentdevelopments. For example, Am bassador Kampelmanin referring to the observance of Political PrisonerDay on October 30 in the Soviet Union, again raisedthe Raoul Wallenberg case and protested the stepped -up efforts by the USSR and Czechoslovakia toeradicate Helsinki monitoring groups in their countries.

The United States delegation commemorated the33rd anniversary of the adoption of the UniversalDeclaration on Human Rights and, in that connection,appealed for the release of individuals presentlyimprisoned or separated from their families by Easterngovernments. And, as international concern mountedin connection with the hunger strike of Dr. AndreiSakharov and his wife, Yelena Bonner, the UnitedStates and many other Western delegations repeatedlyprotested against the Soviet government's stubbornand inhumane refusal to respond to the Sakharovs`demands to let their daughter-in-law join her husbandin the United States.On a few occasions, the East, notably the USSR andCzechoslovakia, accused the West of massive violations of human rights.The Eastern attacks focused on unemployment,crime, the Ku Klux Klan, the tragic murders of blackchildren in Atlanta, alleged anti-Semitism in theUnited States, racism, purported U.S. governmentmistreatment of the aiMraffic controllers and thealleged B ritish torture of IRA inmates in Maze PrisonThe United States and Britain refuted these chargesand produced evidence to document the East's recordof blatant discrimination against minority andnational groups, forced labor, inhuman treatment ofpolitical prisoners, psychiatric abuse, suppression offree trade unions and the growing crime rate in theUSSR.As Phase III neared an end and the full extent of the

suppression of human freedoms in Poland becameknown to the world, the United States and otherWestern and neutral countries condemned the Polishmilitary regime for its wholesale violation of thehuman-rights provisions of the Helsinki Accords.The most that the East could do to respond was torepeat the tired and ineffectual argument that suchcriticism constitutes impermissible interference in theinternal affairs of a participating state. The meetingended on this discordant point of charges and countercharges about Poland. The Soviet Union was clearlyput on the defensive both for its obvious role in thePolish events and for having destroyed the possibilityof ending the Madrid meeting on a positive note.NNA Initiative

On December 16, during the final week of Phase III,eight neutral and non-aligned countries Austria,Cyprus, Finland, Liechtenstein, San Marino, Sweden,Sw itzerland and Yugoslavia - formally introduced anew compromise draft of the concluding document forthe Madrid meeting.This 36-page document was the result of weeks ofintensive informal contacts between the NNA countries, acting as intermediaries, and selected Westernand Eastern delegations. Three delegations - theUnited S tates, the United Kingdom and Norway -had been designated by the Western allies to negotiatedirectly with the NNA'representatives in these. : M I . , , . . ^ . . - (Continued on page t e) ` - . v ` - `

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Japanese schola r p lans t rans la t ions o f D z y uba , She v c he nk o w ork sJERSEY CITY, N .J. - How manypeople do you know that can reciteTaras Shevchenko's poetry in Ukrainian? And also in Japanese? Offhand,we can think of one. He is Kazuo Nakai,a Japanese Fulbright scholar and specialist in Ukrainian studies who, alongw i th o c t o g e n a r i a n a p i a r i s t M y r o nSurmach Sr., recently visited the Svo-boda editorial offices.Mr. N akai, a 33-year-old researchassociate at the Harvard UkrainianResearch Institute, was in N ew York toattend a conference of the AmericanAssociation of Teachers of Slavic andE a s t e r n E u r o p e a n L a n g u a g e s(ATSEEL) and to visit his close friendMr. Surmach, whom he met throughrather interesting circumstances.While at the Svoboda offices, Mr.N akai talked at length abo ut his firstencqunter with the Ukrainian cultureand language as well as his intriguingmeeting with Mr. Surmach.Mr. N akai, who spoke Ukrainiancautiously, yet fluently, told the editorsat Svoboda that his interest in Ukrai

nian began while he was s tudyingRussian his tory in Tokyo. He haddecided to wri te his master ' s thesisabout peasant uprisings in 1917-20.Thus, he also encountered the Ukrainian peasants' revolt of that period.Intrigued by what he had read, Mr.N akai delved into the history of thisperiod.Unfortunately, he found many gaps

in what he read in Japanese.He decided to look for a universitvwhere he could obtain more information. N aturally, he turned to Harvardand its Ukrainian Research Institute.N eeding help with some translation s,Mr . N aka i wro te t o Mr . Surm ach ,former owner of the Surma bookstoreand legendary beekeeper, asking aboutthe availability of Andrusyshen's Ukrainian-English and Kuzela`s Ukrainian-German dictionaries.Mr. Surmach responded by sayingthat he could provide the lexicon undercertain co nditions: Mr. N akai couldhave the books for S100, or he couldagree to come to New York sometimeand share his interest in Ukrainianhistory with the Ukrainian LiteraryClub. Mr. N akai accepted the latteroffer and become close friends with Mr.Surmach, who in turn introduced Mr.N akai to his 3 million bees.Mr. N akai says he enjoys these visitsin the Ukrainian co mmunity because hecan bone up on his Ukrainian anddiscuss a wide variety of topics. He is

only one of two Japanese scholarsthat specializes in Ukrainian and whenhis year at the HU RI is up, he will returnto Tokyo, where he will miss hisUkrainian conversations.Indeed a pioneer in his studies, Mr.N akai is working on a translation ofIvan Dzyuba`s "Internat ional ism orRussification," which has already beenpublished in many languages, including

Kazuo Nakai and Myron Surmach Sr., during their recent visit to the Svo bodaeditorial offices.Chinese. He has completed about athird of the work on this endeavor,translating directly from Ukrainian toJapanese.The young scholar's plans for thefuture include a translation of Shevchenko's "Kobzar." After he tackles thetranslation of Shevchenko's poetry, hewants to write a bo ok on the contempo rary history of Ukraine, beginning of

course , w i th Shevchenko , who Mr .N akai says awakened his interest inUkrainians."Shevchenko is immo rtal ," commented Mr. Surmach. "Although hehas been dead for 120 years, he standsbefore us, over us - just as it wasbefore, so it is now.And, he will co ntinue to stand beforeus in the future."

N e w Y o r k S c h o o l o f B a n d u r a b a n q u e t h o n o r s N i c k C z o r n y , a d m i n i s t r a t o rby Laryssa Lauret

N EW YORK - It 's not easy to keepsecret a banquet that is being plannedfor around a hundred people when theone for whom it is being planned isconstantly around.The New York School of Bandurawas planning one for its administrativedirector, Nick Czorny, and it somehowmanaged to do just that.Fo r some time already, the parents ofthe youths involved in the work of theNew York School of Bandura had feltstrongly that "something should bedone" for Mr. Czorny.F o r t h o s e w ho d o n ' t k n o w M r .Czo rny, let me tell yo u: he is the primemover of the school; in fact he is theschool. An obsessed wo rkaholic, he notonly gives of his time after his daily jo b,but also before and during (I hope hisemployer do esn4 read this!) Five peoplecould not accomplish what he doessinglehandedly. He is a botto mless wellof energy and a continuous fountain ofideas and ever-bigger and bolder dreamsfor ways of acquainting the world withhis favorite instrument, the bandura.I was quite pleased, therefore, whenthe early part of December I received acall from one of the mothers, MariaJow yk, sharing with me her idea that weshould honor Mr. Czorny with a banquet. Would I be willing to emcee andgenerally be of help? Yes, indeed, Ianswered, only wishing I had thought ofit first. Everybody connected with theschool agreed it was a wonderful idea,and we all got to work.Dec emb er 19 was cho sen as thebanq uet date since it coincided withMr. Czorny's nameday and, it was aSaturday. We all agreed that it shouldbe a surprise. Did we carry it off? Yes,and unbelievably well at that.When the day arrived, we all gatheredin the spacio us dining hall in back of theUkrainian Restaurant in the UkrainianN ational Ho me. Orest Baransky -under the pretext that someone was

about to give a donation to the NewYork School of Bandura ScholarshipFund brought Mr. Czorny to theentrance of the hall. The banduristsstruck up a rousing march, and therestood Mr. Czo rny, for th e first secondor so, confused then to tally stunned and then, loo king aroun d at thesmiling faces of the standing guests andthe students of the school moved -yes, very moved. He stood motionless,listening, with tears in his eyes.After a spontaneous "Mnohaya Lita,"he was led to his seat at the head table atwhich Fathers Sebastian Shewchuk,W o l o d y m y r B a z y le v s k y a n dTkachuk, Panimatka Tkachuk, and hisbeaming wife, Stefania Czorny, werealready seated. Then, the students, ledby Marta Jowyk, presented him with akolach, decorated with 11 birds exquisitely sculpted out of dough. Tenbirds were for each o f the 10 years thatthe school had been in existence; the1 Ith was for an extra measure of goodluck.The students approached the headtable, and one by one they read out thewish that each bird had brought to Mr.Czorny. The 1 Ith wish was the grandest: that in the next 10 years the NewYork Schoo l of Bandura ought to give ac o n c e r t , n o t i n t h e a u d i t o r i u m o fStuyvesant High School, but on thestage of a free Kiev!There were many expressions of bestwishes from tho se present, most no tablyfrom Julian Kytasty, the musical director of the school, who warmly greetedMr. Czorny on behalf of members of theschool as well as those present He alsoconveyed warm regards and wishes forsuccess in the' future from the grea tMaestro Hryhory Kytasky.

The evening was not without i tscomic side. Besides several songs thatthe bandura ensemble played at variousintervals between courses, there wasalso a duet by Julian Kytasty andMykola Deychakiwsky, who sang hu-

N ick C zorny, administrative director o f the New York Schoo l of Bandura, admiresa giant-size card that bears the message "The School of Bandura without Mr.Czorny is like a bandura without strings.' 'morous lyrics written especially for theoccasion.Of course, Mr. Czorny was presentedwith a gift, and a very ingenious o ne, atthat : a leather briefcase, just largeenough to carry his 8-by-l I-inch sheetsof m usic (which he co ntinuou sly carriesa ro und wi th h im fo r pho toco py ingpurposes), and on its face an embossedbandura . But that wasn ' t the only

bandura o f the even ing . BohdannaWolansky, on behalf of the ProminChoir, presented Mr. Czorny with aleather cassette in the form of a bandura!It was a most enjo yable evening, andwe were all glad that we had finallypaid ho mage, even if in a mo dest way, toa man who truly deserved it.

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U k rainian p ro hock ey up dateby Ihor N. Stelmach

S p i r i t e d S e m e n k os u s p e n d e d

Edmonton's big Ukrainian left wingOave Semenko was suspended for sixgames for jumping off the Oilers' playerbench to aid in an altercation of feistyfisticuffs during a January 2 gameagainst Boston. This comes as nosurprise to those familiar with Dave'spugilistic reputation around the league.Interestingly enough, his team sufferedthrough a dismal slump during Dave'ssuspension, with his centerman, theprolific Wayne Gretzky, enduring astretch of point accumulation not up tothis season's par.B a b y c h , F e d e r k o s i n gt h e i n j u r y b l u e s

Right on the verge of reclaiming theirdivisional lead, the St. Louis Blues'mid-season hopes suffered a temporarysetback when their top two scorers,Ukrainians.Bernie Federko and WayneBabych, were forced to the sidelineswith injuries. Federko sustained a ribinjury which put him out of action forsix gam es during which S t. Louis fairednot too badly. For teammate Babych,however, the prognosis was not quite aspositive. Wayne severely damaged hisshoulder and the timetable for hisreturn reads mid-February at best. Ashame for this sharp-shooting rightwinger who has been riddled withinjuries throughout his brief, but sopromising pro career. ` ` ` - "

Nasty New Yorkj a w b r e a k e rThe New York Rangers' promisingUkrainian defender, Ed Hospodar, hadhis jaw broken in an on-the-ice duelwith Islander Clark Gillies during aDecember 30 all-New York hockeymatch. Hospodar will be sidelined six toeight weeks while recuperating fromthis most shattering incident where heplayed loyal enforcer for his Rangerteammates.

Ed HospodarT r a n s a c t i o n s

CALGARY: Carl Mokosak, LW,returned to Brandon (WHL)CHICAGO: Miles Zaharko, D, re

called from New Brunswick (AHL);Steve Ludzik, C, also recalled from NewBrunswick; Tom Lysiak, C, sidelinedbriefly with knee injury.EDMONTON: Walt Poddubny, C-RW, recalled from Wichita (CHL)PHILADELPHIA: Dave Michayluk,RW, recalled from Regina (WHL) andlater returned.- QUE BE C: Clint Malarchuk, GT,returned to Frederiction (AHL)ST. LOUIS: Bernie Federko, C, andWayne Babych, RW, on injury list

U K R A I N I A N U T T E R I N G S : A tpress time W ashington's D ennis Marukhad catapulted to third among all NHLscorers; Wayne Babych signs new four-year contract with St. Louis (no detailsyet); Bernie Federko goes over 400points for his career, Babych, big commercial star on St. Louis'flagship radiostation, KMOX; Ranger Eddie John-stone, asked to assess Ukrainian assistant coach Walt Tkaczuk's coachingstyle, put it this way: "He coaches like heplays...he never gets excited, and seemsto always know what he's doing"; AgentGus Badali predicts that his latest superclient, Winnipeg's Dale Hawerchuk,will score 100 points this season...Gus,your prediction is definitely on target,old buddy!!! His Jet teammates quick tonickname rookie Hawerchuk "Duckey"...Well find out why real soon!MIKE SHOWS WHO'S BOSS: (anupdate of Mike Bossyisms): ThroughJanuary 13 Mike had 12-game pointscoring streak; also had tied a clubrecord with at least one assist in nineconsecutive games; has tremendouslyimproved his playmaking skills aswitnessed by the significant increase inhis assist totals this season; all year hasmaintained third/fourth position inoverall NHL scoring race; most ofcampaign has ranked second best ingoal scoring; the 24-year-old right wingearned approximately 5185,000 plusbonuses last season when he was theleague's fourth top scorer...G l a n c e a t m i n o r l e a g u e sU k r a i n i a n s t y l e

In addition to the 20 Ukrainianhockey stars currently occupying activespots on NHL rosters, an additional 23presently toil in the minor leagues. Thetop minor league (AHL) boasts themajority of our Ukrainians (13), whileno analysis could be made of the newAtlantic Coast League due to unavailable information.An introspective examination of ourminor leaguers reveals three definiteclassifications of players: 1. the definiteprospect in need' of just a bit more. seasoning; 2. the middle to late-rounddraftee or the disappointing high pickfrom a few years back, each with a slimhope of making it up or back to theNHL; 2. the veteran who'll probablyfinish his career in the minors.Specifically speaking, Ukrainianhockey fans should have much torejoice and read about in the comingyears. The goaltenders alone rate asoutstanding future prospects especiallyconsidering their severe dearth in theleague. Lozinski and Malarchuk ranktops for the future with their respectiveparent clubs, Detroit and Quebec.Indeed, Malarchuk has already beenrecalled for two games this season.Among the others, Mike Krushelnyski,currently atop all AHL scorers, mightbe seen centering future Bruins inBoston Garden. And Walt Poddubny,

up for a brief cup of coffee early thisseason with Edmonton, is a -missOiler prospect, his fifth-place on theCHL scoring parade enhancing hisvalue.An example of the second classification can be seen in the careers of DaleYakiwchuk and Mike Kaszycki. Theformer is an ex-N o. 1 pick of theMontreal Canadiens, who mistakenlyopted for Winnipeg in the WHA (beforethe merger) and never made it. He hasage on his side and will be fortunate toget one more shot at the big time.Kaszycki spent two uninspired seasonswith the Islanders, was traded to Toronto,