The Ukrainian Weekly 1982-27

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Published by the Ukrainian National Associat ion inc. , a fraternal non-profit associat ionr a i n i a n W e eVol. L No . 27 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JULY 4, 19 82 ' 25 cents

Lytvyn, Sichko receive new termsNEW YORK - Two imprisonedmembers of the Ukrainian group to- monito r-Sov^ bcom pliance with thehuman-rights provisions of the 1975Helsinki Accords, have had additionalterms tacked on to their sentencesshortly before they were due to be freed,reported the External Representationof the Ukrainian Helsinki Group here.Recent reports from Soviet Ukraineindicate that Petro Sichko, 56, and Yuriy

Lytvyn, 48, each sentenced in 1979 tothree-year labor-camp terms on separate charges s have been given newsentences.Mr. Lytvyu, convicted in 1979 for"anti-Soviet agitation and propaganda,"was again charged with the same offensein April, and now faces an additionalsentence of 10 years' imprisonment andfive years' internal ex ile. The new termmarks the fifth time since 1951 that Mr.Lytvyn has been, sentenced.Mr. Sichko, whose two sons are alsoimprisoned , w ith the o ldest , V asy l ,receiving an additional term in January,was charged earlier this year with"slandering the Soviet state." thesame charge that lead to his imprisonment in 1979. As a second offender, henow faces a maximum of 10 years'imprisonment and five years' exile.An active member of the Ukrainianliberation movement after World WarI, Mr. Sichko w as sentenced to death in1947 for his involvement in an under-

Senate passes three resolutionsdefending Ukrainian rights-activists

- Yuriy Lytvynground student orgarrization, but thesentence was later commuted to 25years' bard labor. He was amnestied in1957 and released.A translator and publicist by profession, Mr. Lytvyn was active in theUkrainian nationalist mov ement beforeand during. World War II. First sentenced to three years in 1951, he wasarrested again in 1955 and served 13years in prison. He wasarrested again inNovember 1974 and sentenced to three

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WA SHING TON - The U.S. Senatepassed a resolution calling on PresidentRonald Reagan to proclaim November9, 1982 the sixth anniversary of theUkrainian Helsinki Group's founding as a day honoring the group's members.Passed o n June 21, the resolution a lsocalls on the president to work for therelease of imprisoned Ukrainian Helsinki monitors and to demand an end toSoviet persecution of national' andhuman-rights activists in Ukraine.Also on that day, the Senate passedseparate reso lu t ions in defense o fimprisoned Ukrainian rights activistsYuriy Shukhevych and Yuriy Badzio.The Ukrainian Helsinki Group resolution, designated House ConcurrentResolution 205, was originally introduced in the House of Representativeson O ctober 21 , 1981, and passed onMay 4. Its sponsors were Reps; Bernard J. Dwyer (D) and Christopher H.Smith (R), both of New Jersey.

The concurrent resolution was thenforwarded t o the Senate for consideration and was approved by the ForeignRelations Committee on June 15.Awa its presidential action

The resolution now goes to President

Oleksyn re-elected U F A chiefk U N A - U F A m e r g e r n e g o tia t io n s a p p r o v e diarI ' GLEN SPEY , N .Y . - Ivan Oleksyn w as re -e lec tedsupreme president of the Ukrainian Fraternal Association at

the association's 20 th quadrennial convention held here at theUFA Resort Center, Verkhovyna, June 21 through 25.The 128 delegates and supreme officers attending theconvention unanimously approved continued negotiationstoward the merger of the UFA with the Ukrainian NationalAssociation.In addition to Mr. Oleksyn, elected to the UFA executiveboard during the Friday, June 25, balloting were: WalterSteck, f irst vice president; Jerry Pronko, second vicepresident; Petro Rodak, vice president for ; RomanRychok, supreme secretary; Miroslaw Czapow sky; assistantsupreme secretary; Edward Pppil, f inancial secretary-treasurer; and Joseph Charyna, assistant financial secretary-treasurer.The new UFA Auditing Committee consists of: Dmytroa | Korbutiak, Paul Konowtu, Roman Danyluk, Volodymyr a nd Walter M aik. Newly elected supreme advisors are: Wolodymyr Leskiw,Michael Mochnacz, Wasyl Iwanciw, Mykola Perepichka,Michael Car, Vera Harkusha, Mykola Boychuk, Yaroslav

"" Hankevych, Zenon Komonytsky, Anatole Falko, OleksanderSkocen and Anatole Bilocerkivsky.A highlight of the UFA convention was the Wednesdayevening, June 23, banquet attended by some 200 persons -delegates, officers and guests representing various Ukrainiancommunity institutions and organizations.(Continued on psfe 5)

Reagan for his action.Instrumental in the passage of theresolution by both houses of Congresswas the New Jersey-based Americansfor Human Rights in Ukraine. Members of the organization kept in closecontact with the sponsors of HouseConcurrent Resolution 205 and urgedother members of Congress to supportthe measure.

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The UNA'S John Flis and the UFA'S Ivan Oleksyn at the UFAconvention banquet.

The Week ly f l agToday, on the sixth anniversaryof The U krainian Wee kly's switchto a tab lo id fo rmat we unvei l anew We ekly f lag (that 's the n ame -plate at the top of a newspaper 'sf r o n t p a g e ) . . .Our new f lag is meant to accurately ref lect the present-daystatus o f The Weekly as a newspaper Independent - both e d i tor ial ly and administrat ively -f rom Svoboda, and as a pub l i cat i o n of t h e U k r a i n i a n N a t i o n a lAssociat ion.The Week ly f lag used u nti l nowhad been des igned to show thatThe Weekly was subord inate tothe Svoboda Ukra in ian - l anguagedai ly. But, that status was a l teredas o f January 27 ,1981 , when theUNA Supreme Execut ive Comm i t t e e d e c i d e d t o r e t u r n T h eWeekly to Its roots of independ e n c e ( T h e W e e k l y h a d b e e neditor ial ly Independent since i tsfound ing in 1933 unt i l i t wasp laced under the superv is ion o fthe Svoboda editor In 1957) and

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THE UKRA INIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JULY 4, 1982 No. 27

Po lish worke rs c lash w i th po li ce ;hund reds a r r es ted i n Wroc l awWAR SAW - Polish police clashedbriefly with a crowd of youn g peop le onJune 28 in the industrial city of Pozna nas some 4,000 workers marched to markthe 26th anniversary of the fierce riotsthere in 1956 that left at least 75 dead.The New York Times reported thatscuffles broke out at the end of the

otherwise peaceful march, and thatpolice used tear gas and water cannon todisperse several hundred youngermarchers who refused to leave whenordered to do so.The violence in Poznan coincidedwith the arrest of 257 people in thesouthwestern city of Wroclaw after acrowd of several thousand workers triedto lay a wreath at a plaque commemorating the founding of the local chapterof the banned Solidarity union.According to reports reaching Warsaw, when workers reached the plaqueat the Wroclaw bus terminal, they weremet by a large force of rio t police armedwith wafer cannon and tear gas who

told them to disperse. As the crowdstarted to break up, the police beganchecking identity papers and makingarrests.It was the largest number of Polesarrested at one time since the demonstrations against martial law in Warsawand several other cities on May 3.Pr ior to the vio len ce inPoznan workers from the Cegielskiengineer ing plant , where the

1956 disturbances began, marchedin groups along the sidewalks to the twoblack marble crosses draped with ropethat were erected near the city centerlast year to commemorate the uprising,the Times said.Reports said that the police surroundedthe demonstrators with green armoredbuses when they reached the memorialand began laying flowers in front of thecrosses. When police ordered them todisperse quietly most did so, but fighting broke out between the police and theyoung, people, who taunted them withcries of "Long live Solidarity" and"Gestapo."On Sunday, June 27, the Polishauthorities organized a low-key ceremony to commemorate the 1956 disturbances, which ended Poland's post-warStalinist period and ushered in the moreliberal regime of Wladyslaw Gomulka.But the workers from the Cegielskiplant, who strongly supported theSolidarity labor union last year, stayedaway' and organized a separate ceremony the following day.The violence, the first between Solidarity supporters and police since theJune 16 riots in W roclaw, coincidedwith a statement by the leaders ofPoland' s Roman Cathol i c Churchsaying that more political detainees willsoon be released and appealing to thecountry to prepare a peaceful welcomefor Pope John Paul II later this summer,the Times reported.

T e n s io n s m o u n t i n A f g h a n C o m m u n i s t P a r t ya f t e r g u e r r i l l a a m b u s h k i l l s h u n d r e d s

NEW DEL HI , India - Afghanguerrillas ambushed and killed severalhundred young Communists near thestrategic Panjshir Valley abo ut 70 milesnorth of Kabul on June 14, an act whichhas served to heighten opposition toPresident Babrak Karmal from members of the ruling Communist Party,reported The New York Tunes.According to reports reaching NewDelhi, the young party activists, mostlyteens, were killed after they had g one tothe valley to support a joint militaryoffensive by Afghan and Soviet forcesthat apparently have seized control ofmuch of the narrow, winding corridor.The killing of the young Communists has reportedly angered membersof the Khalq, or Masses, faction of theparty, who have resisted efforts by Mr.Karmal's Parcham, or Flag, group tosend young recruits to the Panjshir tospread the party's ideology.The latest dispute, which surfacedwhile Mr. Karmal was on a two-mon thtour of East Germany and the SovietUnion, is the newest manifestation ofthe factionalism which has racked theCommunist Party in Afghanistan evenbefore the Soviet invasion in 1979. Mr.Karmal, who returned to Kabul twoweeks ago, took power after Soviettroops overthrew and killed his predecessor, Hafizullah Amin.

Scores of members of the two factionswere gunned down in street battlesduring the first months of PresidentKarmal's regime.President Karmal's long absencefrom Kabul has led to speculation thatbis control of the country may beeroding. During his stay abroad, Sovietand Afghan troops mounter1 one oftheir biggest assaults on the guerrillastronghold in the Panjshir region, anindication that his power may be waning.Commenting on Mr. Karmal's longabsence from the capital, a Western

diplomat said: "Either be is supremelyconfident of everything being undercontrol and everyone knows this isnot the case or the Russians haverefined their running of the administration to such a point that his absence orpresence does not really matter."Another Western diplomat reported(Cont inued on page 15)

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MOSCOW - A Soviet artist whofasted for 37 days for the right toemigrate to West Germany to join hiswife and son was told on June 29 that hewould be given an exit visa, reportedUnited Press International."This is absolutely un expected, and itcaught me totally by surprise,''said IosifKibl i t sky, 36 , who los t a lmos t 62poun ds during his hunger strike. He hadbeen trying to obtain permission toleave the country since 1978, the year hemarried Renata Zobel, a West Germanteacher at that country's Moscowembassy. They have a 2-year-old son.

Mr. Kiblitsky and six other Sovietcitizens with spouses in the West beganhunger strikes on May 10. Mr. Kiblitsky became the fifth member of thegroup to get a visa or the promise ofone. All seven of those who began thehunger strike have resumed eating. One,Andrei Frolov, has already gone to theUnited States and been reunited withhis wife.Mr. Kiblitsky refused food until June15, when he entered a hospital. He saidthen that he thought he had failed in hisbid to win a visa and that he had acted toprevent permanent damage to his health.Shortly before being granted permission to leave, Mr. Kiblitsky wasvisited in Moscow by his wife.

R e p o r t U n i a t e r e v i v a l in U k r a i n eWASHINGTO N - A documentwhich has just reached the West provides a detailed account of both thepersecution and widespread revival ofthe U krainian Catholic Church, reported the, Smoloskyp Ukrainian Information Service.According to the document, theChurch, which united with Rome in1596 at the Union of Brest, has a long

history of persecution, highlighted bythe violent campaign launched byCatherine II in 1795 after Russia'sannexation of western and southernUkraine following the partition ofPoland, and culminating with theSoviet government's official campaignagainst the Church in 1945-48.That campaign reached its apex onMarch 8- , 1946, when an illegal, non-canonical group convened a sobor inLviv and announced that the Union ofBrest was void, thus "reuniting" theChurch with the Russian Orthodox.Prior to the synod, Soviet authoritieshad arrested all of the Ukrainian C atholic bishops and much of the clergy,including then Metropolitan JosyfSlipyj, who had become head of the

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ELLICOTT CITY, Md. - According to reports from Kiev literary circleswhich have just reached the West, well-known poet, historian and literary criticEvhen Kramar has disappeared, andmany of his friends fear that he may bein police custody, reported the Smoloskyp Ukrainian Information Servicehere.A friend of the author's recently saidthat Mr. Kramar had 'just vanished."He added: "As to his whereabouts, I justdon't k now . M aybe he's in jail, ormaybe in a mental hospital, or maybe heis being punished in some m ore terribleway."The 49-year-old writer, a lawyer byprofession, lived near the town ofLutske, and was a frequent contributorto academic journals in Lviv and elsewhere in Ukraine. He often wrote aboutthe Princely Era in Ukrainian history.According to Smoloskyp, Mr. Kramar had been arrested at on e time, butwas quickly released. Throughout 1981,his home was the target of sporadicsearches by the KGB. The reason for hisarrest and the KGB raids is not known.About the fall of 1981, Mr. Kramardisappeared from sight. Telephone andwritten inquiries to city authorities havebeen met with evasiveness, Smoloskypsaid.

Church following the death of Metropolitan Andrey Sheptytsky in 1944.Several thousand bishops and priestsperished in prison or in exile, and 200monasteries were closed. MetropolitanSlipyj, who w as released in 1963 andelevated to cardinal in 1965, is nowconsidered the patriarch of the Ukrainian Catholic Church.After the Church was subordinatedto the Moscow partriarchate and Orthodox bishops, those priests andbishops returning from prison or exilehave been barred by the governmentfrom registering as clergy, the documentstated. With no officially recognizednew bishops, the Church has undergoneintense harassment and persecution.

Yet, despite government attempts tocompletely eradicate the Church, Catholics still meet on Sundays, religiousholidays and other occasions, according(Cont inued on puge 13)

S o c io lo g is t's le t te r a s k sr e l e a s e o f P ol i s h d e t a i n e eJERSEY CITY, N.J. - Alexander J.Matejko, a soc iologist at the Universityof Edmo nton, has written a letter in thebulletin of the Canadian Association ofUniversity T eachers calling for a letter-writing campaign to free a' colleagueimprisoned in Poland since the declaration of martial law there in December.

Elisabeth Regulska, a 27-year-oldsocial anthropologist at the Universityof Warsaw interned on December 13, isthe writer's niece. Although officialcharges against her are unkn own, shewas a member of KOR, a dissidentgroup founded in 1976 to defend workersdetained that year follow ing labo rdisturbances in Gdansk and otherPolish cities.According to Mr. Matejko, she wasalso concerned with the rights of Poland's m inorities. He writes: "Later on,she also became interested in the. fate ofUkrainians in Poland and started towork on her Ph.D. thesis devoted to thistouchy subject."Orphaned at an early age, Ms. Regulska had been taking care of her m entallydisabled brother, Witold, 22, who nowhas nobody to look after him, said Mr.Matejko.Although Mr. Matejko and his familysend parcels of food and clothing for herbrother, he says that broader action

would be more helpful in obtaining Ms.Regulska's release."A large number of letters fromCanadians addressed to the Polishauthorities may be very helpful," saidMr. Matejko.

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R i g h t s c o m m i t t e e c o n f e r s w i t h A b r a m sWASH INGTON - Members of thePhiladelphia-based Ukrainian HumanRights Co mmittee met here at the StateDepartment on June 16 with ElliotAbrams, a ssistant secretary of state forhuman rights and humanitarian affairs,who told the group that the Reaganadministration w as sensitive to the issueof human rights.During the meeting, which was alsoattended by Hugh Simon, director forEastern and Western Europe, committee members raised the issue of theCarter administration's decision not togo ahead with opening a U .S. Consulatein Kiev to protest the Soviet invasion ofAfghanistan.Mr. Abrams acknowledged that notopening the consulate may no t have hadthe desired effect, but said that sometype of action had to be taken by theUnited States to show American displeasure with Soviet aggression.He went on to defend the Reaganadministration ag ainst what he said wasan unwarranted perception that it doesnot have a vocal human-rights policy,

citing the president's strong standagainst Soviet involvement in Poland'sdeclaration of martial law last December.During the meeting, Mr. Abrams

Elliot Abramsaccepted an invitation from the committee to attend a reception here onJune 23 , which capped off HumanRights Awareness Week in the nation'scapital sponsored by the committee andthe House Ad Hoc Committee on theBaltic States and Ukraine.

Representing the committee at themeeting were Ulana Mazurkevich,chairperson; Christine Senyk, pressliaison; and members Christine Shustand Odarka Turceniuk.

C N W e e k o b s e r v a n c e s p l a n n e dNEW YORK - Two separateobservances are planned here for thisyear's commemoration of CaptiveNations Week, which was established in 1959 by a joint Congressional resolution authorizingand requesting the president to setaside the third week in July for thecelebration.This year, Captive Nations Weekwill be officially celebrated from July18 to July 25.To mark the event, held to supportthe millions of people living underCommunist domination, the CaptiveNations Committee Inc., is sponsoring a march down Fifth Avenue, aspecial memorial m ass and a rally inCentral Park.The march will begin on Sunday,July 18, at 9 a.m., and organizershave asked marchers to assemble atFifth Avenue and 59th Street nearthe Plaza Hotel. The march willproceed south along the avenue tohistoric St. Patrick's Cathedral at50th Street, where a memorial mass

will be celebrated at 10 a.m.Marchers will then re-assemble infront of the cathedral at 11 a.m., andthen move north to the Central Parkband stand near 72nd S treet, where a

rally is scheduled for noon.Rep. Larry McDonald (D-Ga.)will be the grand marshal for theparade. tA week earlier, on July 11, anothermarch will be held, this one organized by the Metropolitan NewYork branch of the UCCA and theUkrainian division of the AmericanFriends of Anti-Bolshevik Bloc ofNations Inc.The march is scheduled to begin at10:30 a.m. at 51st Street and FifthAvenue, and will move up to theband shell in Central Park, where acultural program is planned. Am ongthose appearing will be the Karpatydance ensemble. Prof. NicholasChirovsky will be one of the speakers.

The grand marshal of the paradewill be Thomas W. Gleason, president of the International Longshoremen's Association of the AFL-CIO.In all, 35 nations appear on theCaptive Nations Committee Inc. listof areas subjugated by communism,including Afghanistan, Ukraine, theWarsaw Pact countries, North andSouth Vietnam, and such regions asSerbia, Slovenia and Idel Ural.

C o n f e r e n c e discusses new roles for ethnics in school-community relations- - ' " - - - - -' ^ -.; - :- . :. .. t business can do something like what wehave done."Maynard Wishner, president of theWalter Heller and Com pany investmentfirm and national president of theAmerican Jewish Com mittee, described

\ T he story below was prepared by theHecHage News Service, which providesnews, commentary and story ideas onethnicity and socialpolicy. It is a projectof the American Jewish Committee'sInstitute on Pluralism an d G roupIdentity.CHICA GO - Ukrainian American

leader Julian Kulas, along with otherwhite ethnic, black, Hispanic and AsianAmerican business and educa tionleaders, outlined an impressive array ofresources available in ethnic communities and called upon public schools totake advantage of such resources at arecent conference in Chicago.The conference, titled Hard Tunesand Beyond: New Roles for EthnicLeaders in School-Community Relations, attracted 150 civic, ethnic, business and education leaders, includingsix of the 17 members of the IllinoisState Board of Education (ISBE) andState Superintendent of Schools DonaldGill. It was organized by the DlinoisConsultation on Ethnicity in Educa

tion, the ISBE and the Institute onPluralism and Group Identity of theAmerican Jewish Comm ittee, and washeld Thursday and Friday, June 3 and4, at the Dlinois Athletic Club and theAmericana Congress Hotel in Chicago."Educators must begin to train students to operate in an increasinglyinterdependent wor ld, and shouldrealize that in our cities' multiethniccommunities we have largely untappedresources for this task ," Mr. Kulas toldcivic leaders at a June 3 reception at theDlinois Athletic Club.Many Chicago neighborhoods havesurvived the problems afflicting olderindustrial cities, said M r. Kulas, largelybecause of the skills and values embodied in ethnic organizations."The vigor of many ethnic neighborhoods demonstrates that city neighborhoods are not doomed because they areold or are near areas of ethnic change,"he sa id.. "It also suggests that ethniccommunities generate numerous problem-solving resources, including specialized businesses, financial institutionsand a variety of service agencies builtaround self-help and mutual aid. Schools,social service organizations and cultural

institutions, share responsibility withthe public sector for solving problems.Government must identify and tap intothe strengths of these ethnic systems,"he continued.Ethnic problem-solving is illustrated,said Mr. Kulas, by the success ofSecurity Savings and Loan, which heheads. Security was recently rated , in aChicago Sun-Times series on Dlinois'saving and loan industry, as one of thefew profitable institutions in the state.Mr. Kulas attributed the success ofSecurity and a surprising number ofother medium-sized and small ethnically oriented institutions to theirability to "integrate an understanding ofethnic values into standard businessdecisions." Security, said Mr. Kulas,has loan officers who speak five languages other than English, and whounderstand the cultures of variousethnic communities.

This ability of ethnic organizations tosolve problems and deliver resources forthe larger society will strengthen theirdemands for social justice, said participants in "Hard Times and Beyond.""During the 60s and 70s , ethniccommunities have focused on demandsfor justice. That will remain our toppriority, but will be joined in the 80s bythe ideal of service ethnic communities sharing their resources and skillswith American society," said EdwinCudecki, director of foreign languagesfor the Chicago Public Schools andchair of the ICEE.

In explaining the purpose of themeeting Mr. Cudecki said, "Many ofour speakers are what I call 'domesticdiplom ats', because they are involved inthe mainstream as leaders in business,finance, public affairs and the professions, and because they are deeplyinvolved in the activities of their ethniccommunities and provide leadership tothe community at large.""Through the give and take of theconsultation's coalition building process, these ethnic leaders have learned tosearch for a common ground amongtheir communities. They are now in aposition to share the social service,education, econom ic and arts andhumanities resources of their communities with the schools," added Mr.

Cudecki, who is also vice president ofthe Copernicus Foundation."This exercise is not meant as acriticism of the schools. We are noteducators in the formal sense of thatword, n or do we wish to interfere in theprovince of professional edu cators. Butwe are in a position to act as partnerswith educators in a meaningful andappropriate way;" noted Andrew A-thens, president of the United HellenicAmerican Congress and the MetronSteel Corporation.One of the ways ethnic communitiescan help educators, said Anthony J.Fornelli, is in mobilizing politicalsupport for education."Education can no longer afford tosimply be altruistic, but must alsobecome adept at the politics of education funding, and must learn to appealto the pow erful ethnic constituencies oflegislators, in Springfield and Washington, who hold the public educationpurse strings," said Mr. Fornelli, vicechair of the Chicago Plan Commissionand president of Festa Italiana.

In addition to providing politicalsupport, said participants, white ethnic,black, H ispanic and Asian comm unitiescan provide: social service expertisewhich can help solve behavior problemsin scho ols, ethnic businesses which offereconomic support and curriculumenrichment for schoo ls, ethnic activistswith resources for global education,linguistic skills to aid America'ssagging international fortunes, andcultural expertise to ease the adjustmentof immigrants and refugees."With the success of a business go es aresponsibility," said reception speakerEd Gardner, president of Soft SheenBeauty Products and a board memberof the Chicago Urban League. "One

purpose of our company is to providejobs and opportunities in the blackcommunity. We have helped many ofour 400 employees in purchasing homes,taking care of their families and in otherways. We adopted Percy Julian HighSchool by paying the salary of theirtheater arts teacher, w ho had been laidoff because of Board of Educationbudget cuts, allowing her to remain atthe school as a teacher for five monthsuntil the board hired her back. Every

how early Jewish immigrant aid societies developed into an extensive network of social service agencies. Mr.Wishner added "we are now calledupon to use that resource for membersof all groups who com e to Chicago fromaround the world. These services,including medical , educational andvocational aid, came out of impulses ofself-help, and illustrate how theseimpulses of self-help, constructivelychanneled, can benefit everyone insociety."Mitchell Kobelinski, president of theCopernicus Foundation and Kore International, a trading and consultingfirm, pointed out that "we are blessed inthis country with a tremendous multiethnic resource, which used to beconsidered a kind of sub culture. In fact,knowledge of the language and cultureof foreign countries is crucial to thesuccess of American's efforts in international business and diplomacy andour own economic, political and socialsystems."

"These resources reflect the new tenorof ethnic activism in the 80s, as ethnicsconsolidate the gains they made in the60s and 70s," said Irving Levine, national director of the Institute onPluralism and Group Identity of theAmerican Jewish Committee. "Whilewe may disagree about how powerful aforce ethnicity is, we know that is itimportant. Policymakers and ethnicsneed to u se it constructively n ow. W hileethnic groups will continue to advocate,agitate and struggle for social justice,they are also offering something themselves support systems for institutions in society that are failing, a kind ofethnic statemanship and coal i t ion-building."

Schools need to understand howethnicity can be an important partnerwith public education in preservingrespect for diversity and a sense ofhistory against the influences of theelectronic media, said education re-(Contfnued on pt f c 15)


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T H E U K R A I N IA N W E E K L Y S U N D A Y , J U L Y 4. 1 9 8 2 No. 27

U . of T o r o n t o L i b r a r y a c q u i r e s m i c r o f i l mTORONTO - In thefirstyear of thePeter Jacyk microfilming project directed by the Chair of Ukrainian Studies,200 reels of m icrofilm have been addedto the Ukrainian collection at theUniversity of Toronto Library.This represents about half of theextensive, project which will include allpre-1918 Ukrainian serials held at theAustrian National Library in Vienna. Afew titles have also been obtained from

the National Museum in Prague and theSzechenyi National Library in Budapest.Among the titles already received areZoria halytska (1848-57) and Dnewnykruskiy (1848), the oldest Ukrainian!serial pub lications, and thefirst20 yearsof Dilo (1880-99), the most importantdaily newspaper of Galicia's Ukrainians. B esides newspapers and journalsof Galician and Bukovinian interest, theJacyk microfilm project has also madeavailable Pravda (1867-96) and Zoria(1880-97), the representative journals

for the Ukrainian national movement asa whole during the hut decades of the19th century.According to Prof. Paul R. Magocsiof the Chair of Ukrainian Studies, whoheads the microfilm project, "The PeterJacyk Collection of Ukrainian Serialswill, when completed in the next fewmonths, transform the University ofToronto into the leading repository of

pre-1918 Ukrainian serials. Neither theLibrary of Congress, Harvard, nor anyother North American repository hassuch invaluable source material onUkrainian civilization." "Now morethan ever is the time for the Ukrainiancommunity to follow the lead of Mr.Peter Jacyk and to endow researchfellowships in order to allow the bestgraduate students and visiting scholarsto come to Toronto and make use of therich collections here," Prof. Magocsiadded.

ObituariesAssociate Pastor Demetrius Byblow

Canadian Associat ion ofSlavists meetsOTTAW A - At the annual meetingsof the Learned Societies of Canada,which were held this year at the University of O ttawa, from May 30 to June 12,the Canadian Association of Slavistsheld three da ys of sessions on a varietyof topics concerning the literature,language and history of most of theSlavic nations.Over 100 university teachers of Slavicstudies from universities and collegesacross Canada participated in thisprogram.A special banquet honoring Sen.Paul Yuzyk was held on ParliamentHill. Senators and members of theHouse of Commons of Slavic origin,including Sen. Stanley Haidasz, the firstminister of multiculturalism, were inattendance.

In the presentation of honorary lifemembership in the CAS, Prof. CarterElwood of Carleton University, president of the association, noted that Sen.Yuzyk is a former professor of EastEuropean, Russian and Soviet historyand Canadian-Soviet relations at theuniversities of Manitoba and Ottawa,an author of several scholarly booksand numerous articles, a founder ofCAS, a prominent leader of the Ukrainian community and founder of thepolicy of m ulticulturalism in Canada, aswell as an active member in severalSenate com mittees, including the Northern Pipeline, External Affairs andNATO.Sen. Yuzyk delivered an address

titled "The Role of the Slavists inMulticulturalism" at the banquet.

Mail registration announcedfor U krainian women's conferenceNEW YORK - The OrganizingCommittee of the Ukrainian Women'sConference announced recently thatmail registration for the October 2-3,weekend event has begun."Ukrainian W oman in Two W orlds,"to be held at Soyuzivka, the UkrainianNational Association's estate in theCatskill Mountains of New York state,is expected to draw several hundredUkrainian women from the East Coastas well as other parts of the UnitedStates and Canada.The format of the conference, whichbegins Saturday at 10 a.m. and endsSunday at 3 p.m., will be panels andwork shop session s .on a variety ofimportant issues facing the new generation of Ukrainian women in America.Both the Ukrainian and English languages will be used. The program willalso include an exhibit of women's artand cultural presentations throughoutthe weekend. A concert by womenperforming artists is also planned forSaturday evening,.October 2.The topics to be discussed include:the role of w omen in preserving Ukrainian identity and culture; Ukrainianschools and youth organizations; mixedmarriages; U krainian language; Uk rainians and American politics; Ukrainians and the media; the problems ofthe working woman, handling bothcareer and family; the Uk rainian male'sviews on Ukrainian women and fatherhood.Also to be covered: woman in crisis,

coping with divorce, parenting, loss;Ukrainian artists on Ukrainian culture;teenagers on their bicultural upbringing; and the Ukrainian singles scene.The registration fee for those whoregister before July 30 is S15 per person,or S20 to include spouse. After July 30,the fee will be S20 per person, or S25with spouse. Early registration is encouraged , in order to assist the committee in planning conference activities.Completed registration forms andchecks should be sent to the committeein New York City.Arrangements for rooms and mealsat Soyuzivka should be made directlywith the management of the resort. Therate is S36 per person per day, whichincludes Saturday lunch, dinner andlodging, and Sunday breakfast Thosewho choose an add itional day's stay willpay S64. Write to: Manager, UkrainianNational Association Estate-Soyuzivka,Foordmore Road, Kerhonkson, N.Y.12446; (914) 626-5641.(Women on the committee's mailing

list who receive a conference brochurewith a registration form should takespecial note of the correct address andtelephone of Soyuzivka, as listed above).To register, look for the conferenceregistration form elsewhere in this issue.For further information, additionalbrochures or other inquiries, write to:Ukrainian Women's Conference Organizing C ommittee, 108 Second Ave.,New York, N.Y. 10003; or call (212)533-4646.

by Andrew KeybidaNEW ARK, N.J. - The Rev. Demetrius John Byblow CSsR, associatepastor of St. John the Baptist Ukrainian Catholic Church here, died suddenly on Thursday, June 17. He was 60.He was born on April 25, 1922, inWhitesand, Sask., Canada. He com

pleted his elementary education atByblow School in Whitesand, and hissecondary education at the Redempto-rist Fathers Juvenate in Yorkton, Sask.He entered the Redemptorist novitiate at Yorkton on June 29, 1940, andmade his profession of vows on September 24, 1941. He took his philosophicaland theological studies at St. Mary'sSeminary in Yorkton, Sask. He wasordained to the holy priesthood byArchbishop Basil Ladyka, OSBM at St.Mary's Church in Yorkton on September 8, 1946.Father Demetrius fulfilled manytasks in the Redemptorist Congregation. He was co-pastor in Ituna, Sask.,Roblin and Winnipeg Man., and in

Newark, N.J. He had pastoral charge ofparishes in Chatham, London and St.Thomas, Ont.He taught in the minor seminary atRoblin for two years. He was provincialconsultor and bursar for seven years.He was also prefect of students in theseminary for one year. He took postgradu ate studies at the Pontifical OrientalInstitute in Rome.Father Byblow faithfully served theparishioners of St. John the BaptistUkrainian Catholic Church of Newark,N. J., for 21 years. During his pa storship

The Rev. Demetrius Byblow CSsRin 1957-58 be formalized the plans forthe erection of the present church andwas chairman of the Church BuildingFund Committee whose sole functionwas to raise the sum of S I.5 m illion forthe building of the church.He was moderator for the-Apostle-ship of P rayer and Rosary A ltar Societyas w ell as spiritual director of the JuniorSodality. Father Demetrius served aschairman or co-chairman of everymajor church event and served astoastmaster for holiday programs ortestimonial banquets.

He took an active part in the comm unity, worked with dedication and administered his faithful with deep devotion, sacrifice, courage and dynamicCatholic leadership. He visited thehomes and hospitals of the sick and(Condoned on pap 14)Rev. Peter Mayevsky of LA.

LOS ANGELES - The Rev. PeterMayevsky, a Ukrainian O rthodoxclergyman in Ukraine, Canada and theUnited States, died here on June 3following a brief illness.He was born into a relatively poorfamily on June 25,18 93, in the village of vychi in Galicia, Ukraine.In 1894, he moved with his family tothe village of Komarno. When the Rev.Mayevsky was a 9-year-old boy hisfather died; while he was in high schoolin Lviv his mother passed away.The Rev. Mayevsky studied philosophy at the University of Lviv, but hisstudies were interrupted by the outbreak of World War I. He was arrestedby Russian m ilitary authorities in June1915 and sent to an army holding campin Voronezh, Russia. He was latertransferred to Pavlovsk on the DonRiver, where he worked in a grain milloperated by German colonists.In 1917 the R ev. M ayevsky was freedfrom the camp , and he decided to travelto Kiev where he enrolled in St. Volo-dymyr Ukrainian University to take uphistory-philosophy studies . He alsopursued various courses in theologywith the aim of becoming a priestAt this time he met AlexandriaWoronyna, a student at St. Olha Women's University. They were married in1921.He was ordained on December 19,

1921, by Vasyl Lypkivsky, who waselected the first metropolitan of theUkrainian Autocephalous OrthodoxChurch at the Church's Sob er held thatsame year.In January of 1922 the Rev. Mayevsky was appointed pastor of St. Elizabeth Parish in Kiev.In fall of 1931 he and his wife emigrated to Canada with the help of theRev. Dr. S. Sawchuk, then administrator of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church

T bt Rev. Peter Mayevskyof Canada, and Michael Luchkovich,member of Pa rliament The Mayevskyssettled in Winnipeg.Father Mayevsky's f irst c lericalduties in Canada were those of anitinerant priest traveling out of Winnipeg to serve parishes in Tolstoi andVita .In November 1932 he accepted aninvitation to become pastor of HolyProtectress Church in Winnipeg. Healso served as teacher and choir director of the parish.In 1946 the Mayevskys emigrated tothe United States, for Father Mayevskyhad been invited by Los Angeles-areaUkrainians to serve as their pastor. Thenew congregation eventually built itsown church, St Wotodymyr^The funeral was held on June 7 in St.Wolodymyr Church, with six priestsofficiating. Burial was at S t A ndrew'sUkrainian Orthodox Cemetery in SouthBound Brook, N J.The Rev. Mayevsky is survived by hiswife who is seriously ill and has been in aconvalescent hospital for several years.


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No . 27 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY. JULY 4. 1982

N J. districts p lan UN A dayNEWA RK, N J . - Representativesof the four UNA districts of New Jerseymet here at the headquarters of Chorno -morslca Sitch on June 18 at 6:30 p.m. todiscuss preparations for this year'sUNA Day, which is scheduled to be heldin Bound Brook on August 29.Among those in attendance wasWasyl Orichowsky, outgoing UNAsupreme organizer, and former UNA

president Joseph Lesawyer. The meeting was opened and chaired by JulianBaraniuk.It was decided that each district servea specific function during this year'sUNA Day, which will be the 12th in arow. The Newark district, beaded byMr. Baraniuk, was put in charge of thekitchen, while the Jersey City district.

headed by Walter Bilyk, wui managethe bar. Perth Amboy, chaired byMichael Zacharko, will handle cashierduties and run the raffle, and thePassaic district, headed by John Chomko,will man the door and oversee parking.Price of admission will be S2.50 perperson.For the entertainment program, itwas decided to invite well-known danceand bandurist ensembles. The ZvukyUkrainy band will provide musk fordancing.Mr. Baraniuk urged members of allfour districts to do their utmost toensure the success of U NA Day , whichannually attracts many visitors fromaround New Jersey as well as fromsurrounding states.

Oleksyn re-elected...D

Among those present was a UNAdelegation consisting of supreme officersJohn O. Flis, president; Walter Sochan,secretary; Ulana Diachuk, treasurer,Wasyl Orichowsky, organizer;as well asZenon Snylyk, Svoboda editor-in-chief;Roma Sochan Hadzewycz, The Ukrainian Weekly editor, and Walter Kwas,newly elected supreme advisor.At the banquet Mr. Flis greeted theUFA'ers on behalf of the UNAAmong others speaking during thecourse of the banquet were: Msgr.Stephen Chomko, president of theProvidence Association of UkrainianCatholics; Dmytro Hryhorchuk of theUkrainian National Credit Union Association; and Roman Baranowsky of theCommittee for Law and Order in theUCCA and the Association of Ukrainians in America.The banquet was officially openedwi th remarks by UFA Pres identOleksyn, who said: "The fraternal spiritis alive, as evidenced by your presencehere."He went on to note that the frateraalsare the pillars of Ukrainian com munitystructure.In his greetings on behalf of the UNA ,Mr. Flis said that the UFA and UNAare on the road to true fraternity andstressed that the proposed merger of thetwo fraternal societies "is not a takeover of one by the other.""It is a union of tw o partners," hesaid, add ing that it is a "SO-SO partnership." Mr. Flis also explained thatthe merger would be beneficial to futuregenerations, and he asked God's help tospeed the realization of the merger.In turn, Msgr. Chomko spoke onbehalf of the Providence Association.He hailed the planned merger of theUNA and UFA in the Ukrainian National Fraternal Association and ex

pressed hope that the merger wouldbenefit the Ukrainian community assoon as possible.Msgr. Chomko pledged the Providence Association's cooperation withthe two fraternals and stressed that"striving for unity should be our constant goal."He scored "those who say that fraternalsare merely insurance companies," noting that this simply is not so . They havemade man y cultural-educational contributions and have sponsored many jointactions for the common good of allUkrainians, both in the diaspora and inUkraine, he said.The UFA convention banquet wasemceed by Mr. Popil.

John Flis greets UFA'ers at the banquet

Lytvyn, Sichko

Msgr. Stephen Chomko addresses UFAbanquet participants.

( C o nt i nu e d fr om 1 )years' imprisonment for "slandering theSoviet state."During his incarceration he developed an ulcer, a condition from whichhe still suffers today. After his release in1977, he returned to the village ofBarakty to live with his young son, andbecame involved with the UkrainianHelsinki Group, which he joined in1979. That same year, he was arrestedagain, this time for "anti-Soviet" agitprop, and received his fourth sentence.Mr. Sichko, an engineer, joined theUkrainian Helsinki Group in 1978along with his son Vasyl, 26. Both werearrested on July 5, 1979, and subsequently sentenced to three years' imprisonment.In January, the younger Mr. Sichkowas sentenced to another three-yearterm as be was about to complete hissentence in the city of Cherkasy.His younger brother, 22-year-oldVolodymyr, was arrested on December6, 1980, and sentenced to three years'imprisonment. He is serving his term inthe Ivano-Frankivske oblast in Ukraine.

Why are UNA executives "supreme"?- t radi t ion, t rad i t ion

So, you think the title "supreme"president is a bit pretentious? Yousnicker at the very mention of supreme p residents, supreme secretariesand supreme treasurers?That's probably because you aren4aware of the tradition on which useof the descriptive "supreme" beforean officer's title is based.If you're an average UkrainianAmerican, you probably recall thatseveral years ago, Soyuzivka summeremployees jokingly employed the"supreme" t o describe their respectivefunctions at the UN A estate. Suddenly,T-shirts emblazoned with titles suchas supreme ba rtender, supreme gatekeeper and supreme bus boy beganappearing all over Soyuzivka.

You probably a lso recall that we atThe Weekly, too, have been knownto make light of the term "supreme."Well, the time has come to set therecord straight and to answer onceand (hopefully) for all the question:"but why do they use that word'supreme"?"The adjective "supreme"before anexecutive officer's title is traditionallyused by many U.S. and Canadianfraternal benefit societies. And, thereare nearly 200 such societies with 10million members throughout NorthAmerica.From the 1981 edition of Statisticsof Fraternal Benefit S ocieties, areference book published by theNational Fraternal Congress ofAmerica, one can learn that many afraternal has supreme officers. Inaddition to our Ukrainian fraternals the Ukrainian National Association, the Ukrainian Fraternal Association and the Providence Association of Ukrainian Catholics whoall have supreme presidents,,there arescores of societies that use the adjective "supreme" seriously.

Take, for example, the CatholicKnights of St. George headquarteredin Pittsburgh, the North AmericanBenefit Association of Port Huron,

Mich., the Portuguese ContinentalUnion of the United States of America based in Boston, and the SlovakCatholic Sokol of Passaic, N.J. -they each ha ve a supreme president fora chief executive officer.There are other supremes as well.The Knights of Columbus, perhaps the best-known fraternal organization, which is headquarteredin New Haven, Conn., has a supremeknight for a head. The Order ofUnited Commercial Travelers ofAmerica based in Columbus, Ohio,has a supreme counselor; RoyalArcanum of Boston is headed by asupreme regent; and the RoyalNeighbors of America, which has itsmain office in Rock Island, 111., has,believe it or not, a supreme oracle.You see, it is traditional to besupreme amon g fraternals.Another reason for the use of theadjective "supreme" is practicality.

Fraternals are based on a lodge, orlocal branch, system, and each lodgeor branch has its own officers. Todistinguish the local officers from thenational or international officers, anadjective often precedes the officers'titles.To be sure, not all fraternals foundthe "supreme" solution. Fraternalsocieties use a variety of highfalutintitles for their top executive officers.A sampling: Catholic Life Insurance Union of San Antonio, Tex.,and the National Fraternal Societyof the Deaf of Mt. Prospect, 111., bothhave grand presidents; the Independent Order of Vikings based inChicago has a grand chief; the Ca

tholic Order of Foresters, also ofChicago, has a high chief ranger; andthe Neighbors of Woodcraft of Portland, Ore., has a grand guardian.So, now that we have done ourutmost to put you in the know, wehope that the sniggering will stop andthat enlightenment will reign,well...supreme.

Chicago to host UNA golf tourneyCHICAGO - The Chicago UNAGolf Committee has been meeting andpreparing for the ninth annual UNAGolf T ournament which will be held on

Sunday, August 1, at the very popularand beautiful Nordic Hills CountryClub in Itasca, 111.The committee , headed by JohnGawaluch, Gloria Paschen, supremevice presidentess, and Helen Olek,supreme a dvisor, and assisted by EdwinBlidy, Joe Gural, Bill Semkiw, RussHaluczak and George Mychalzuk, hasplanned a beautiful day for the golfersand their families. All the facilities ofthe club, indoor arid outdoor swimmingspools, will be available for the families

for the entire day.Tee-off is set for 10 a.m., and dinnerfor 6 p.m. A John Evanchuk trophy willbe awarded in addition to many othertrophies and prizes. Fees are SI2 forgolf; S14 for dinner.Reservations must be in by July 1.For reservations or information call:Mr. Gawaluch, (312) 692-2412; Mrs.Paschen, 823-2064; Mr. Blidy, 737-2910; Mrs. Olek, 631-4625; Mr. Gural,484-6690; Mr. Haluczak, 867-5793; Mr.Semkiw, 278-6209; or Mr. Mychalzuk,358-8675.Please mail checks for golf and/ordinner to: John Gawaluch, 323 S.Redfield Court, Park Ridge, . 60068.

Remember our brothersin need

You ma y forward your contr ibut ion to he lp our n eedyfe l low Ukrain ians in Poland to your pastor, to thePhi lade lphia Ukrain ian C atho l ic Archepa rchy, 815 N.Frank l in St . , Phi lade lphia, Pa. 19123; or to the Ukrain ianNational Asso ciat ion, 30 Montgom ery St. , Jersey City, N.J.07302.


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T H E UKRAINIA N WEEKLY SUNDAY. JULY 4, 19 82 N o . 27

U k r a i n i a n W e e k lyIndependence Day

Two hundred and six years ago this July 4, a small group ofpragmatic visionaries signed a strongly worded document, drafted bya young Thomas Jefferson, which rather boldly branded Britain'sKing George III "a tyrant unfit to be ruler of a free peo ple," anddeclared independ ence for the 13 colonie s. Since those early, formativeyears, the Un ited States has grown from an internationa l parvenu to aglobal superpower, the world's largest and strongest democracy.From the very beginning, thi s ascens ion was qui te of t en ananfractuou s o ne, conto ured b y such com plexities as first establishing aworkable and lasting structure for the new union, and later keepingthat union from being rent asunder by a host of internal and externalconflicts.Why has it survived, let alone flourished? Part of the reason is theprofoun d sop histication of its found ing principles which at once defineand are coinciden t with what is truly a unique system of representativegovernment se t down in the U.S. Cons t i tut ion. I t i s t ruly amagn animous d ocumen t, informed by the opening notion of "we thepeople" that permeates its pages, and firmly anchors the individualrights outlined further on in the Bill of Rights to the concept of onecommunity, one nation.But co-termino us with these unifying and characteristic principles isthe vitality and variety of Am erica's people. A merica has survived andflourished for over two centuries largely because mo st of the basicfreedoms enjoyed by some 4 million Americans in 1790 were and areautomatically guaranteed to those seeking refuge or opportunity onthis country's shores.We Ukrainians, whether we came here in the 1920s, the 1950s orwere born here, and like millions of other immigrants and theirdescendants, are in a position to truly understand and appreciate thisseminal concept.The United States remains strong and free because its people haveaccomplished so much, and its people have accomplished so muchbecause the bedrock of democracy which is the United States hasallowed them the right and the opportunity to do so.This interdependence, this built-in reciprocity between governmentand people - all the people - marked and continue to mark thiscountry's greatness.Happy Birthday America, Mnohaya Lita.

Statue of Benjamin Franklin in Philadelphia.

Letters to the editorO SI directorsticks to his guns

Dear Editor:I read with interest The UkrainianWeekly'', account of the formation ofAmericans for Du e Pro cess. As anAmerican firmly committed to dueprocess, I am always pleased to see itdefended.There are two points, however, thatyour readers may find of interest. First,there is no formal agreement in thesense of a protocol or treaty or otherdocum ent - between the United Statesand the Soviet Union regarding depositions of Soviet citizens.In January 19801 went to Moscow toask if depositions could be taken inthese cases. I told the Soviet representatives of the details of Americanprocedure that would have to be followed for example, attendance andcross-examination by defense counsel,witnesses called by the defense to bemade avai lable , and so forth. TheSoviet representatives stated that thedepositions could be taken under thoseconditions. In the past two years, theyhave been. So there is no secret orwritten "agreement;" moreover, I havealways been ready to explain publiclywhat I discussed in Moscow.

While Americans for Due Processcan file a request under the Freedom ofInformation Act if they wish, I honestlydon't know what more I can say that Ihave not already said. There is simplyno secret about any of this.My second point is that I would notwant your readers to be under themistaken impression that the OSI(Office of Special Investigations), inseeking information, has ever tried tocoerce information from anyone. Wehave never suggested to people weapproach that they are legally obligatedto talk to us. Ms. Shwed is correct thatno one is legally obligated to talk to usunless we obtain a subpoena, but itshould be clear that the OSI has neversuggested otherwise.

By the way , we have only very rarelysought subpoenas, and never to myknowledge against "acquaintances orneighbors."I want to be responsive to the concerns of the Ukrainian American community, and I appreciate the forumoffered by The Ukrainian Weekly. Iwould be happy to elaborate on theabove or to answer any questions youmay have.Allan A. Ryan Jr.DirectorOffice of Special InvestigationsP.O. Box 28603Washington, D.C. 20005

G etting the "the"out of UkraineDear Editor:It was with interest that I read Dr.Bohdan Wytwycky's commentary regarding the "the Ukraine" controversy.We have indeed come a long way sincemy original critique in The UkrainianWeekly (August 28, 1977).Two of our three foremost scholarlyjournals: Nationalities Papers and theCanadian-published Journal of Ukrainian Studies do not use the "the" beforeUkraine. Harvard Ukrainian Studies(the journal) is the only hold-out. Eventhe Russian Review on occasion (at therequest of authors) doesn't use the "the"before Ukraine.

Perhaps the Friends of HURI cansuggest to the po wers that be at Harvard

to consider joining the 1980s on thisissue. No hard-sell techniques areneeded, just a suggestion.It would be nice, for a change, to haveour own house in order before we go offchallenging the Mr. McBrides of thisworld. After all, Mr. McBride canalways reply to Dr. Wytwycky that the"the" is correct as evidenced by itsmandatory use at the Harvard Ukrainian studies chairs.

Dr. JarosUw SawkaRoyal Oak, Mich.

Students complimentcomplimentary issuesDear Editor:We, the. students o f the grad uatingclass of St. Volodymyr's UkrainianOrthodox Cathedral School of Ukrainian Subjects in Chicago, thank you forproviding us with complimentary subscriptions to The Ukrainian Weekly iorthe duration of the school year.The articles in this newspaper provided us with much information whichwe needed to supplement tour knowledge of Ukrainian community life. Wefound the articles to be interesting andenjoyable, as well as informative. Weespecially appreciated the fact that y ouprovide quite a few illustrations andphotographs with your articles, whichmakes them so much more interestingto read. At least one of our classmatessaw her own photograph in the newspaper this year!

We will certainly continue to readThe Ukrainian Weekly in the future, soas to keep abreast of events in theUkrainian community and in Ukraine.Thank you!Nina Werchohlad Andrew KosowskyKatherina Luppo Ina TaranLydia Skrebetz Peter SkrebetzTheodora P oszewanykinstructorChicago

Did UNA'ersgive Busha bogus pysanka?Dear Editor:In the June 6 Weekly report on VicePresident George Bush's address to theUNA Convention, it states that V.P."Bush fwas presented3 with flowers andceramic fmy italics! pysanky... Onepysanka, designed with Ukrainianmotifs, was for Mr. Bush; the other,decorated with U.S. emblems . . .italicsj, was for President Reagan.

From a distance of a few thousandmiles I have no way of knowing howthese objects looked. However, unlessthey were ceramic pysanky in the styleof Kievan Rus' (which I doubt, but thenI stand corrected), these "pysanky" wereprobably ordinary white ceramic withthe decorations painted upon theirsurface. No ma tter how pretty and well-executed these may have been, I question the cultural and a rtistic knowledgeof whoever ordered or selected suchgifts.Why select a copy (i.e., a ceramic),when the original genuine pysanka is soreadily available in our community?And then whether an original or theceramic - why decorate it with U.S .emblems, or anything else that does notbelong on a pysanka?A pysanka is not just a pretty decorated egg . It would take a long a rticleto discuss fully the history and symbolism of pysanky (and such articles andbooks are available). Pysanky, eggs

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N o . 27 T H E U K R A 1 N I A W W E E K L Y S U N D A Y . J U L Y 4 . 198?Com m entarySchools must offer studentsUkrainian current events courses

News and views

by Theodore PoszewanykThe instructors of Ukrainian Saturday schools devote many hours to theteaching of Ukrainian history, presenting their students with a picture of anation with a glorious past . MostUkrainian history texts come to anabrupt end after the events of WorldWar II, the unification of eastern andwestern Ukraine in the UkrainianSoviet Socialist Republic. Many add,asa postscript, a chapter about the dispersal of Ukrainian emigrants throughout the free world.Thus, students are left with theimpression that Ukraine is a nation witha historical past, but without any viableconnection with the present; they graduate from Ukrainian studies courseswith very little knowledge of the Ukrainian comm unity life w hich continues tothis day.If we wish to encourage the graduatesof our Ukrainian schools to becomeactive members of the community, it isnecessary to acquaint them with thiscommunity, in all its forms, and all theactivities in which they could, in thefuture, become involved.This would include an overview ofUkrainian immigrant life from itsbeginnings in the United States, itsgrowth and development as a comm unity, and a presentation of present-daycommunity organizations, as well as anexposition o f events in S oviet Ukraine.It would also be beneficial to include astudy of current even ts, based on

articles in Ukraine periodicals.The directors of St. Volodymyr'sUkrainian Orthodox Cathedral Schoolof Ukrainian Studies in Chicago facedthis problem some years ago, andintroduced a course called "Present-Day Ukrainian Community Life ,"based on materials collected for seminars prepared for ODUM's seniorcounselors.

This current events course is taught tostudents in their last year in the school.After several years of revision andupdating by various teachers , thiscourse has developed into a wel l -structure comprehensive introductionto the Ukrainian community in all itspresent-day facets. N o k nown segmentof the spectrum of Ukrainian life isomitted, nor is any portion set aboveothers . These students con currentlytake a course in 20th Century UkrainianLiterature, which exposes them toUkrainian writ ing "after Franko,"including imm igrant authors and Ukrainian writers in Soviet Ukraine.

As an added feature in this schoolyear, each student was provided with acomplimentary subscript ion to TheUkrainian Weekly by the UkrainianNational Associat ion. The Weeklyissues provided materials to comple-i ment prepared course material and tokeep students abreast of developmentsin Soviet Ukraine and the fight forhuman and nationalrightsof its people.The students were also encouraged toread the Svoboda daily, as well as

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H U R I announces third annualCenko bibliography competitionmembers, abstained from this year'sappraisal process because be was aconsultant to one of the works submitted. His place was taken by IvanKorowytsky, librarian emeritus ofTemple University's Philosophy andReligion Library.Entries for the third annual prize, inEnglish and Ukrainian, must by sub-'mitted in four copies by March 1,198 3.Manuscripts mu st be in their final, pre-publicat ion form, with names and.addresses of authors. Published worksand late submissions will not be considered.

Examples of sol ic i ted entries aredescriptive bibliographical essays orannotated bibliographies of a subject orauthor; ind ex of a Ukrainian periodical;or more general works which discuss theimpact of the printed book on Ukrainian culture.The Cenko Prize Committee wil ljudge the entries according to thefollowing criteria: importance andoriginality of the topic, the work'smethodology and completeness, andthe work's contribution to exist ingbibliographical scholarship.The committee retains the right toaward the prize individually or jointlyor to withhold the prize until the nextacademic year.The winner or winners will be announced at Harvard University no laterthan June 1983.Entries should be sent by registeredmail to: Cenko Prize in UkrainianBibliography, Harvard University U-krainian Research Institute, 1581-83Massachusetts Ave., Cambridge, Mass.02138.

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. - . T h e Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute hasannounced that it is accepting submissions for the third annual CenkoPrize in Ukrainian Bibliography.The SI ,000 prize , establ ished byVolodymyra and Dr. Mykola Cenko ofPhiladelphia, will be given for the bestbibliographical work on the topic ofUkrainian studies.HU RI also announced this year'swinners , Dr. Paul M ago csi of theUniversity o f Toronto, w ho was awarded S700 for "Galicia: A BibliographicalGuide," and Yar Slavutych of theUniversity of Alberta, who got S300 forhis work, "An Annotated Bibliographyof Ukrainian Literature in Canada:Canadian Book Publicat ions, 1908-1980."Dr. Magocsi's essay, in English, isintended as an introduction to the basichistorical problems of western Ukraineand as a bibliographical key to themajor published sources covering theperiod from the beginning of history tothe end of World War II. The manuscript is 414 pages long and has some3,000 bibliographical entries.Dr. Slavutych, an associate professorin the department of Slavic languages,compiled an annotated bibliography, inUkrainian, of Ukrainian belles lettreswritten by Canadians and published inCanada. It con tains 670 bibliographicalentries and is 242 pages long .The submissions were critically examined and appraised by the CenkoPrize Committee: Marta Tarnawsky,University of Pennsylvania, chairman,and Osyp Danko, Yale University.Edward Kasinec, one of the permanent

Sov iet officialdom scores Magocsifor Subcarpathian Rus' book

by Ihor OsaklwskyTORONTO - Prof. Paul R Magocsi,the first holder of the Chair of Ukrainian Studies at the University of To

ronto, has come under heavy criticismfrom the Soviets for a book he wrote onthe Subcarpathian Rusyns.In a harsh review article published inthe Kiev-based Ukrainian HistoricalJournal , Prof. Magocsi 's 640-pagebook has been called "a filthy falsification of historical truth."Reviewer I.S. Khmil accuses Prof.Magocsi of silently by-passing Marxist-Leninist teachings on the nationalityproblem as well as the Soviet Union'sexperience in solving itMr. Khmil says that in the "Shapingof a National Identity: SubcarpathianRus', 1848-1948," Prof. Magocsithinks least of all of establishing scholarly truth. Dr. Magocsi's interpretation of Subcarpathian history is said tobe from an "anti-Soviet and anti-Communist" perspective which is "convenient to imperialist propaganda."Mr. Khmil's extensive review, titled"Against the Bourgeois Falsification ofHistory," appeared in the Februaryissue of the Ukrainian Historical Journal, the official organ of the UkrainianAcademy of Science's Institute ofHistory.Despite the Soviet viewpoint, Dr.Magocsi's book is a scholarly examination of national development am ong theCarpatho-Rusyns. In i t the authorshows h ow during a century of nationalconsolidation in Subcarpathian Rus'between 1848 and 1948 the Ru synpeople were confronted with a choice offour national orientations: the Magya-rone, the Ukrainophile, the Russophileand the Rusynophile.Prof. Magocsi argues that the failureof the Rusyn intelligentsia to unitebehind a single orientation retarded thesol idi f i cat ion of nat ional id en t i t yamong the Rusyn people as a wholebefore the Soviet annexation in 1943.The R usyn national question was finallyresolved, however, in favor of Ukrai-nianism.Now in its second printing, the"Shaping of a National Identity" waspublished by Harvard University Pressin 1978. The book has received inter

national attention and has been thesubject o f over SO book reviews in awide range of scholarly journals. Reviews have appeared in France, Luxembourg, Italy, Spain, Austria, WestGermany, Great Britain and in numerous publications in Canada and theUnited States. Most reviewers havepraised the book highly, while a fewhave voiced some conceptual criticisms.Soviet Ukraine is the third Communist-dominated country to review thebook. Czechoslovakia reviewed it in1979 and Hungary in 1980. AlthoughYugoslavia did not itself review Dr.Magocsi's book, it reprinted in Novadumka (Vukovar) Dr. Vasyl Markus'sreview, which originally appeared inSuchasnist in 1980, as well as Prof.Magocsi's rebuttal to Dr. Markus.The S oviet review is the mo st criticaland least scholarly to appear to date. Itreads like a crude, political propagan dists attack and does not belong inwhat is supposed to be an officialscholarly journal associated with theUkrainian Academy of Sciences.The reviewer, Mr. Khm il, does admitthat Prof. Magocsi 's book is "puttogether with pedantic scrupulousness,

which bourgeois historiography considers 'scholarly,' " but this is the only"favorable" comment in what is otherwise a brutal attack.Mr. Khmil suggests that Prof. Magocsisupposedly had an ulterior motive inby-passing Soviet views on the nationalities question. That is, Prof. Magocsihoped to limit public attention to Sovietteachings and experience in solving thenationality question, and instead triedto direct that public attention towards"a false r iverbed of inventions ofimperialist propaganda about the external politics of the Soviet Union."

Suggesting that the book is not theresult of the efforts of Prof. Magocsialone , M r. Khmil states that throughoutthe 10 years that it took Prof. Magocsito complete the work, the author was"maintained" by Princeton University,the International Research and Exchange Board, the American Council ofLearned Societies and Harvard University.

Mr. Khmil claims that at its differentstages, Dr. M agocsi's work was directedpolitically and conceptually by morethan 20 leading bourgeois pol i t icalscientists in the United States. Mr. Khmilalso mistakenly calls Dr. Magocsi "aCanadian 'So vietolo gist.'" H e is neither.Although he works and resides inCanada, Prof. Magocsi still maintainshis U.S. c i t izenship, and does notconsider himself a Sovietolo gistWhen asked about the Soviet reviewof his book, Prof. Magocsi declined tomake any comment.In stark contrast to the Soviet Uk rainian attitude, the Prague-based journal,Slovansky prehled, noted in 1979 thatDr. Magocsi's book "is from all externals an objective one." It said thatalthough the book does not obviouslybegin with a Marxist understanding ofhistory and the nationality question, "itstill can provide even M arxist historiansof the modern period with a considerable number of little-known and particularly hard-to-obtain facts."T h e C z e c h o s l o v a k r e v i e w e r( s i gne d M . T . ) f ur t he r adde dthat: "With careful use, the bookcan also provide a reasonable andfactual survey o f the problem (even if itsconception is anti-Marxist and therefore one-sided), which is without ques

tion also related to the history of theUkrainian minority in eastern Slovakia."The Hungarian Academy of Sciences'journal, Acta Historica, also had somepraiseworthy comments to make aboutthe "Shaping of a National Identity."Reviewer Emil Niederhauser wrote in1980: "Though we cannot agree with theauthor when he ignores the results ofMarxist historical sciences, we have toacknowledge the merits of the bookwhich consists in raising aspects thathave been neglected so far by Marxisthistorical science."Mr. Niederhauser, H ungary's leadingspecialist on nationality problems inEastern Europe, concluded that "Magocsi's book contains many useful

materials, and it raises a number ofissues worth being considered. Severalresults of the book will be debated bymany, yet there will be more historianswho will make good use of the materialcollected in the volume."Western scholars have been evenmore complimentary about Prof. M agocsi's book. John Keep, an internationally known and highly respectedscholar of Russian history who teaches

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Osvita Foundation banquet honorsMelosky of Manitoba University

42 undergo tennis trainingWINNIPEG - Dr. Louis Meloeky,chairman of the board of governors ofthe University of Manitoba, w a s honored at a banquet at T h e Fort Garry Hotelon June 2. Organized by the newlyestablished Osvita Foundation, thebanquet was attended by over 140people including Canada's Governor

General, Edward Schreyer, who spokeat the opening of the banquet.In his address, the governor generalexpressed pleasure at being able toattend the event, particularly as anhonorary patron of The Osvita Foundation. The governor general addressedhimself to the importance of maintaining Canada's cultural pluralism as theprominent feature of Canadian societyand the importance within that policy ofmaintaining the many minority languages.Speaking at one point in Ukrainian,he added that it was incumbent uponthe community to provide full financialsupport to organizations such as Manitoba Parents for Ukrainian Education

and The Osvita Foundation to ensurethat U krainian programs are promotedand are made accessible to large numbers of Manitobans.At the end of his speech GovernorGeneral Schreyer was greeted with achorus of "Mnohaya Lita." Due toanother engagement the governor general left before dinner began.The evening was chaired by thepresident of Manitoba Parents forUkrainian Education, Terry Prychitko,who asked Metropolitan Maxim Her-maniuk of the Ukrainian CatholicChurch in Canada to say grace.Following dinner, the lieutenant-governor of Manitoba, Pearl Mc-Gonigal, spoke, citing Dr. Melosky'swork in the community a n d h i s commitment to th e enhancement of educationalopp ortunity in the province. TheHonorable Minister of Energy andMines, Wilson, brought greetings onbehalf of the government of Manitobaand spoke about Dr. Melosky's contribution to education in Manitoba andabout the importance of languagemaintenance within the p olicy of mu!ti-culturalism in Manitoba.

Mr. Prychitko then called upon JohnPetryshyn to introduce the guest ofhonor. Mr. Petryshyn spoke about Dr.Melosky's extensive involvement invarious community organizat ions,particularly his membership on a number of boards of directors of voluntaryorganizations, including the UkrainianCultural and Educational Centre, Canadian Foundation of Ukrainian Studies, Ukrainian Professional and Busi

ness Club of Winnipeg and ManitobaParents for Ukrainian Education.Mr. Petryshyn emphasized the verylarge contribution made by D r. Meloskyto ensure the introduction of the English-Ukrainian bilingual program inManitoba, stressing that without Dr.Melosky's participation in the ad hoccommunity committee promoting theprogram it would never have probablybeen introduced.Dr. Joseph Slogan then provided apersonal and professional insight intoDr. Melosky, highlighting h is scholasticachievements at the University ofMan itoba, University of A lberta and theUniversity of Washington, where hereceived his orthodontic training. Dr.Slogan then introduced Dr. Melosky.Dr. Melosky thanked The OsvitaFoundation and Manitoba Parents forUkrainian Education for honoring h i m .He spoke ab out his involvement in theorganization of the English-Ukrainianbilingual program, stressing the participation of a number of individuals in thisprocess. Throughout his speech hestressed that language is the basicelement which ensures the continuedexistence of the Ukrainian culture a n d mcalled upon the entire Ukrainian community to financially and morallysupport M PUE and T h e Osvita Foundation to ensure the continued development of the bilingual program.

Mr. Prychitko then presented Dr.Melosky with a serigraph by Victoriaartist Peter Shostak, with the inscription "Presented to Dr. Louis C. Melosky, in recognition of his outstandingcontribution to the establishment of th eEnglish-Ukrainian b ilingual program inManitoba, by The Osvita Foundationand Manitoba Parents for UkrainianEducation, 2 June 1982."The evening ended with mezzo-soprano Alexis K ochan-Budyk, accompanied by Ted Komar on th e accordion,performing three contemporary Ukrainian songs by the late composer Volo-dymyr Ivasiuk.Bishop Vasiliy of the UkrainianGreek Orthodox Church of Canadarecited the ben ediction a t the end of theevening's formal section.All proceeds from the dinner havebeen designated for The Osvita Foundation, which was organized to provideMPUE with a stable source of funds inorder to promote Manitoba's English-Ukrainian bilingual program. Theboard of trustees of the foundation hasdecided to organize these dinners on anannual basis to recognize the contributions of outstanding Ukrainian Canadians to Manitoba.

The 17 boys participating in the tennis camp.JCERHONKSON, N.Y. - Forty-twoyoung tennis enthusiasts 25 girls and17 boys honed up their ground-strokes and lobs at this year's Soyu-zivka tennis camp held here in theCatskills on the UNA resort's sevencourts last week.Putting the campers through a rigor

ous regimen of running and calisthenics,as well as three daily instruction sessions,were court veterans Zenon Snylyk,editor-in-chief of Svob oda, and GeorgeSawchak. Assisting them were Romanand Areta Rakoczy and two youngerplayers, Adrian Kutko and OlenkaMatkiwsky.

The camp, which began June 20 andended on June 30 with a tournament,was run in five groups advanced,intermediate an d three beginner groups.Along with learning tennis strokes ,tactics for singles and doubles play a n dthe art of serving, players took advantage of tennis films, books and magazines.

At the conclusion of the camp,participants were scheduled to put on aseries of skits with a tennis theme.Trophies were also slated to b e awardedat the end of the concluding tournament.

S t . D e m e t r i u s s t u d e n t s g r e e t s e n i o r s

The cheerful smiles of S t. Demetrius Catholic School students and Ted Woloshyn,administrator of Demetrius Residence, greeted the senior residents.

Canada's Governor General Edward Schreyer (center) is seen above with (fromleft) Mary Meloeky, Dr. Louis Meloeky, Terry Prychitko and Marjorie Prychitko.

TORONTO - On Wednesday, June16 the student body and staff of St.Demetrius School over 350 people made their way to the entrance ofDemetrius Residence in order to welcome all the senior residents with songand verse.A delegation of students showeredthe seniors with candies and pennieswishing them in verse "a sweet andprosperous" life in their new home.Afterwards the entire student body sanga beautiful song of welcome preparedby Daria Diakowsky, a teacher ofUkrainian.

The highlight of this visit was thepresentation of a beautiful icon of theMother of God which the studentspurchased as a g ift to the residents. TheRt. Rev. John Tataryn, pastor of St.Demetrius Church, blessed the icon andtwo Grade 8 students presented it to T edWoloshyn, administrator of DemetriusResidence, and Mr. Basarab, firstpresident of the Seniors' Club formedby the residents.After the presentation, the seniorshosted the students w ith the best possibletreat for a hot summer afternoon -pop sides.


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Panorama of Ukrainian culture in the Big Appleby Helen Perozak Smindak

25-year celebrationGreat accomplishments are usuallythe result of a dream and an undyingdetermination to see that dream cometrue. That is certainly true of a quiet,mild-mannered New Yorker who in

1957 proposed that a chair in Ukrainianstudies be endowed at a leading American university as a means of preservingand advancing Ukrainian scholarship.Because of this man's dream and hisdedication to fund-raising, chairs inUkrainian history, literature and language have been established at HarvaroUniversity.The concept of a Ukrainian studies4chair was not a popular idea when it wasinitiated 25 years ago by StephenChemych, then president of the Federation of Ukrainian Student Organizat ions (SUSTA). Mr. Chemych persevered, organized the Ukrainian Studies Fund with a small group of believers

and started about the task of raisingfunds. His work a nd leadership resultedin raising S3.7 million for the studiesfund, a nd h e was instrumental in attracting the largest single donation yet madeto the fund - the 5160,000 bequest leftin 1972 by Volodymyr Y urkowsky ofNew York.To hono r Mr. Chemych and his wifeand close helpmate Maria for their hardwork and perseverance, the Stephanand Maria Chemych Foundation hasbeen established at Harvard.Announcement of the endowmentwas made at the Ukrainian Institute ofAmerica on Jun e 12 during a S50-a-plate Harvard benefit dinner sponsoredby the institute and the New York

branches of the Ukrainian MedicalAssociation of North America and theUkrainian Engineers' Society of America.Dr. Dior Shevchenko, a gracious anddignified speaker, described the endowment in his tribute to Stephan andMaria Chemych during the dinner.Later in the evening, R oman Procyk, amember of the Ukrainian Studies Fundexecutive board, reported that donations to the new foundation totalled516,000. (The sum has now swelled towell over 520,000.)Prof. Shevchenko invited Mr.Chemych up to the speaker's stand asMr. Procyk ceremoniously carried in a

huge cardboard box. Opened, the boxdisclosed an extremely appropriate giftfor Mr. Chemych a chair, a handsome wood rocking chair in satiny-black finish with gilt trim and a smallgold plate on its back bearing theinscription "Stephan Chemych, President, Ukrainian Studies Fund, 1957-1982." For Mrs. Chemych, there was abouquet of long-stemmed red roses, andfor both husband and wife, a toast and arousing "Mno haya Lita" from theassembled guests.Beaming from the sidelines were theChemych's children, Roxana, a first-year student at New York University,and Askold, a student at St. George

Academy.In a brief and business-like responseto the tribute, Mr. Chemych expressedappreciation for the honor accorded tohim and his wife and announced thatthey were giving a 51,000 donation tothe foundation.Dr. Jaroslaw Padoch, president ofthe Shevchenk o S cientif ic Society,presented to Mr. Chemych a scrapbookof clippings from the Svoboda Ukrainian daily which documented donationsto the studies fund over the years. UIA

vice-president Walter Nazarewicz, whosaid he would be happy to see Harvardinvolved in an educational program atthe institute, disclosed that a room wasbeing set aside at the institute specifically for the Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute.Other speakers included Ofeh Fedy-shyn of the Ukrainian Academy of A rtsand Sciences; Mykh ailo Kupchynsky ofFriends of Harvard in Pittsburgh, andDr. Stepan Worocfa, chairman of theHarvard benefit evening. Dr. LubomyrWoroch, president of the UMANA'sNew York branch, served as emceeduring dinner in the ballroom, wheresome 80 guests sat at round tablesappointed with crisp linens and pots o fflowering plants. Singer Evelina M mentertained with folk songs and compositions by Leonid Verbytsky, whoprovided accompaniment at the piano.During the cocktai l hour, guestsmingled in the lobby or strolled through

the library, examining an exhibit ofHarvard's Ucrainica that included oldand rare volumes donated by Ukrainians and such HURI publications asD r. Omelan PrHsakls recently publishedfirst volume of "Origin of Rus'."Reading matter

The Big Apple's Ukrainian community has received a fair share of attention in "The Hip Pocket Guide to NewYork City," a 272-page paperback guidewhich Harper A Row will have out inthe bookstores in a few weeks. Compiled by a host o f contributors workingunder the direction of editor Tim P age,the book points out an area in the EastVil lage that is "almost exclusivelyUkrainian" East Seventh Street ,between Second and Third avenues, aswell as a surrounding portion of SecondAvenue.

Almost a whole page is devoted toThe Ukrainian Museum, with the observation that it affords visitors "auniquely concentrated look 4t Ukrainian folk art and culture." Alsolisted ate the Kiev, Odessa and Ukrainian Restaurants, the Svoboda Dailynewspaper and the Kurowycky meatmarket.Two small faux pas: the UkrainianFestival on East Seventh Street hasbeen misplaced in the September cate

gory of "Annual New York" instead ofMay , and St. Vladimir's Uk rainianOrthodox Church is listed with its old14th Street address instead of the morerecent location at 160 W. 82nd St.Aimed at both the New Yorker andthe tourist, "The Hip Pocket Guide"(55.95) advises how to live safely andinexpensively in New York, and includes sections on shopping (from hipclothes to collectors' record shops), theperforming arts, art galleries, alternat ive museums, night l i fe , personaldetails (such as finding an apartment)and special pleasures (plazas and parks,subway graffiti and hailing taxicabs).Peter Bejger of Harper A Row's

paperback editorial department hasassured me that the errors in the bookwill be corrected in the next printing.Mr. Bejger, whose German name belieshis Ukrainian ancestry which goes"several families back," is a native ofBuffalo, holds a B.A. degree from theUniversity of Buffalo and an M. A. fromthe University of Toronto, and has beenwith Harper A Row for four years. Aresident of the East Village, he is avolunteer part-time assistant at TheUkrainian Museum, which he calls "a

wonderful institution."Russian works of art

Amo ng offerings of Russian works ofart auctioned on June IS in the ParkAvenue galleries of Christie, Manson AWoods International was a Fabergehardstone figure o f a Ukrainian peasant,owned by Charles R Woods. Expectedto go for between 5100,000 and 5150,000,the peasant figurereachedonly 575,000and was not sold.Alice Ilich of Christie's Russiandepartment, Park Avenue and 59thStreet, tells me the provenance (originalowner) of the piece is Sir William S eeds,KCMG, and that Faberge's name isengraved in Cyrillic characters underthe left boot. Carl Gustave Faberge(1846-1920) was goldsmith and jewelerto the imperial Russian court.Christie's catalog describes the figurethus: "The brown jasper mantel draped

over the chalcedony peasant's blousewith simulated embroidery in paintedenamel, with purpurine sash and lapis-lazuli trousers tucked into black onyxboots, the astrakhan cap of black onyxand brown jasper, aventurine quartzface and hands, with jasper mustacheand hair , cabochon sapphire eyes ,holding a gold pipe - 5W inches (13.2centimeters) high, in fitted leather casestamped Wartski, London."The d escription is headed "An important figure of a Ukrainian peasant(Hoho l)," causing me to believe that itdepicted a character from the writingsof Nikolai Gogol (Mykola Hohol). Onreflection I realized that hohol was ananglicized form of the Russian word

"khokhol," a derogatory term for anyperson of Ukrainian nationality intsarist d ays.A figure described as "a Cossacksmoking a pipe," made in the silver-smithing w orkshop of Joseph Abramo-vich Marshak in Kiev circa 1895, wentfor 51,430. It shows the figure of aKozak, in silver, reclining on a silverplaque, which is mounted on a rectangular hardstone base 6!4 incheslong. It was the property of a member ofthe Russian nobility.Christie's International, fine artauctioneers since 1766, offers enameledpieces, icons, Faberge figures andprecious objects, silverware, snuff

boxes and Ukrainian pieces in itsRussian sales. Another New Yorkauction house which also h olds frequentsales of Russian art pieces and icons is

Faberge figure of a Ukrainian peasantrecently auctioned in New York.

Sotheby's at 1334 York Ave. (72ndStreet). Properties are placed on viewseveral day s before auction s, so if you Yeinterested in picking up a Ukrainianpeasant or a Kozak or two, or lookingover icon collections, call Christie's at546-1000 or Sotheby's 472-3555.War's endNestor Matone ) an anarchist wholed an uprising in southeastern Ukraineat the time of the Russian Revolution,left his mark on history some 60 yearsago. This past spring, the Ukrainiananarchist turned up in BrooklynHeights as the focal character of an OffOff-Broadway drama presented by theNew Cycle Theater and The Arts at St.Ann's.Playwright Karen M alpede chose thestory of the Makhnovist uprising because "it was the most just war I couldfind." She used some of the factsreported in Peter Arshinov's "The

History of the Makhnovist Movement:1918-1921" as well as in Peter Kro-potkin's autobiography, invented personal relat ionships , and interwovehistory, politics, folk culture, myth andreligion to produce a semi-historicaldocu-drama in verse form. Togetherwith musical accom panim ent, the chanting of a peasant chorus, spotlightingthat picks ou t ragged figures on the bareramps which form the play's setting, theproduction creates a mystical atmospherearound the subject of violence.Makhno, who rallied his people toreclaim their land, fighting both theBolsheviks and the tsar's army, isportrayed at the outset as a hero whose

legend on earth "will grow as you fightthrough this glorious day." As the playprogresses, it becomes evident that MissMalpede feels that the true heroes arethe people, above all the women, because they are the greatest victims of theviolence of war.First produced in 1977 in a ParkSlope loft, Miss Malpede's stage poemwas presented with a revised text duringseveral weekends in May and June. Theplay was offered in support of theUnited Nations' Special Session onDisarmament, which opened in NewYork in mid-June.The production received excellentreviews from Brooklyn critics, whodescribed it as "fine crafted and well-

directed," "a beautiful and often quitesimple poem form" and "a celebrationof human dignity and hope."Produced by Burl H ash, and directedby Betsey Shevey, the two-act play wasinterpreted by a cast of 16, with PeterEfthymiou in the role of Nestor Makhno.Especially fin e performances were givenby Yolanda Baven, a singer-actressfrom Sri Lanka, in the role of the oldmother, Jane Mandel and BonnieBrewster. The music was composed byNoa Ain.One might question the authenticityof the costumes worn by some of thecentral characters (Russian-style side-buttoning tunics), the cross held in themother's hands (should it not be a three-barred cross of the Eastern OrthodoxChurch?) and the Russian names forcentral characters and place names(Galina, for instance, and Gulai-Polyefor Hulai-Pole). Still, Miss Malpedemust be comm ended for her

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