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Easter: We are renewedPaschal, encyclical of the Sobor of

Bishops of the U krainian Autocepha-lous Orthodox Church.

"Let us cleanse our senses that we maybe able to contemplate Christ resplendent with the glory of the resurrect ion.. ." From the Paschal Canon.

B eloved B rethren!Christ is risen!

Great Lent, wherein in sorrow andpenitence we purified our senses andacquired spiritual strength for the trialsof daily life, has concluded. N o w, afterreflecting on the vanity of our earthlycares, we are able to enter into the joy ofChrist who , as we hear in to day'sliturgical hymn is "resplendent with theglory of the resurrection."

We are renewed and thus become adifferent peo ple. O ur greeting, "Christis risen!", is an affirmation of ourawakening, a manifestation of a newperson who thinks and acts in a newmanner.

This year, the jo y of the Resurrectionis intensified by the recollection of howour Ukrainian O rthodo x Church seemingly sealed with a tombstone, suddenlyaro se. Thus, in singing "having enduredcrucifixion, He conquered death by

death," we recall and laud in song boththe past and future passion weeks of ourUkrainian O rthodo x Church and thepious Ukrainian nation which eventoday endure the sufferings of crucifixion.

A lso in this year, we recall andobserve the 40th anniversary of therenaissance o f o ur Ukrainian A uto -cephalo us O rthodox Church in 1942.A t that time in U kraine, under thepressure of the Moscow-Soviet regimethere was not to be found one activeUkrainian O rthodox parish, not o nebishop or active priest. Thousands ofthe faithful together with their clergyperished in prisons and concentrationcamps in the far north. The timeswitnessed another blo o dy year o f yetanother wo rld war.

Combating each other were twotitans who recognized neither the rights

of nations nor individuals. The newoccupier of Ukraine was also one whodespised Go d and humanity. D uring thefirst mo nths of the occupatio n theenemy did not scrutinize those whowere destined to be his victims. Thisbrief period when Christ "brought usfrom death to life and from earth toheaven..." was sufficient for the spontaneous renewal of religious life in U-kraine. In Kiev, in the Sobor of St.A ndrew the First-Called A po stle, divineprovidence provided for yet anotherrebirth o f the Ukrainian O rthodo xepiscopate and by so do ing provided an

opportunity for satisfying the tremendous need of giving spiritual comfort to millions of people.

That which occurred in that period o fhistory amidst the fire and embers of aterribje war, cannot even now be eradicated by S o viet atheistic powers.Those who despised Christ did notsucceed in liquidating all, for even intoday's Ukraine one finds ancientchurches w hich witness to the rebirthwhich took place 40 years ago. Fromthat time to this day, though o ppressedand for the most part underground, ourUkrainian O rthodox Church not o nlyexists but gains strength.

Let us heed the words of the angel

who spo ke thusly to the myrrh-bearingwomen at the empty tomb: "Why doyou seek among the dead Him who is ineternal light? Why do yo u weep for theincorruptable O ne in a place o f corruption?" To day, let us be radiant with thelight of the great feast! For indeed ourUkrainian O rthodox Church calls outto us in the words ofthe angel so that wemight not consider to be dead thatwhich is alive, so that we might notconsider corruptable that which isincorruptable.

A s Christ rose, likewise the Churchrises, and so will the Ukrainian nationwhich is faithful to Christ. Let uswelcome this great day in mutual love,with our work and by sacrificing fortho se things which pertain to Go d. Inparticular, let us prepare for Christ whois among us, young priests who in time

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E a s t E u r o p e a n l a w y e r s t e l l c o n g r ed e n a t u r a l iz a t io n d e f e n d a n t s a re d e

WA SHIN GTON - A delegation oflawyers and representatives of a numberof East European groups recently metwith several congressmen and aides toprotest tactics used by the JusticeD epartment in denaturalization proceedings brought against suspectedN azi collabo rators living in the UnitedStates.

The group met separately with Reps.James Leach (R-Iowa), Romano L.Mazzoli (D -Ky.) and D an Lungren (R-Calif.), as well as with Tom S chatz, anaide to Rep. Hamilton Fish (R-N .Y.),and Harris Jo rdan, an aide to Rep.Philip M. Crane (R-Ill.), presentingthem with a 10-point list of recommendations they said would ensure thedefendants' right to a fair trial.

The Justice D epartment's O ffice o fSpecial Investigations, whichwas created to find and prosecute alleged collaborators, is currently prosecuting about40 denaturalization cases, most of them

involving persons of East Europeandescent who emigrated to the UnitedStates after World War II under the.D isplaced Persons A ct.

A llan Ryan, head of the O S I, hasindicated that his office is investigatingapproximately 300 cases.

Present at the March 10 meetingswere Ihor Rakowsky, president of theUkrainian A merican B ar Asso ciation;Ivan Shando r, UA B A vice president;Ernest Raskauskas, defense attorneyfor a Lithuanian A merican threatenedwith denaturalization; D avid S pringer,a court-appointed defense attorneyinvolved in a denaturalization case inIllino is; A lexandra S hwed, co-presidentof the Ukrainian A nti-D efamatio nLeague^ and A usra Zerr, executive vicepresident for public affairs of theLithuanian-A merican Comm unity ofthe U.S .A . Inc.

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Warvariv, U.S. diplomat, diesWA SHIN GTO N - Cons t an tine

Warvariv, a high-ranking U.S . diplo

mat of Ukrainian descent, died hereTuesday, April 6, follo winga prolongedbout with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis(ALS). He was 57.

S ince 1978 Mr. Warvariv had servedas director of UN ES CO affairs, Bureauof International O rganization A ffairs,at the U.S . D epartment of S tate.

Earlier he had held the positio n o fdeputy to the permanent U .S . delegateto the United N ations Educational,S cientific and Cultural O rganizationand had been based in Paris, the headquarters of UN ESCO .

He had also served as so cial o fficer inthe O ffice of Multilateral P o licy andPlans, B ureau of Educational andCultural A ffairs, at the S tate D epartment.

For his contributions toward theachievement o f U.S . fo reign po licy, Mr.

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Klebanov: Soviet WalesaN EW YORK - S en. O rrin G.

Hatch (R-Utah), writing in the A pril5 issue of The Wall Street Journal,said that he was "disturbed" that theU.S . government, while expressingconcern for Solidarity leader LechWalesa in Poland, has "overlookedMr. Walesa's counterpart in theS o viet Union - V ladimir Klebanov."

Mr. Klebanov, a former co alminer, has been incarcerated since1978 because of his efforts to establish a free trade union. Much of thattime has been spent in Soviet mentalhospitals.

"In the winter of 1977-78 Mr.Klebanov founded the A ssociatio nof Free Trade Unions (A FTU ),"wrote Sen. Hatch. "Shortly thereafter the A FTU was abolished by theCommunist Party, and Mr. Klebanovand several others were arrested andconfined to prisons or psychiatrichospitals. N ow 50 years old, Mr.Klebanov has spent his last fouryears imprisoned in a special psychiatric hospital in D nipropetro vske. Heshould be released."

A lthough S oviet authorities havemanaged to imprison the leadershipof the A FTU and other advocates ofworkers' rights, S oviet workers have

continued their struggle and, acco rding to the senator, have managed tosustain the Free InterprofessionalA ssociation of W orkers, or SMO T,which w as formed in 1978to carry o nthe work started by Mr. Klebanov'sgroup.

"Like their predecessors, sevenS MO T members were arrested and

confined to either prisonsor psychiatric institutions," wrote Sen. Hatch."At this writing, two - Mark zo vand V ladimir Skvirsky - a re stillincarcerated."

Mr. Morozov was arrested in1980 , charged with anti-So viet agitprop, and sentenced to eight years ina strict-regimen camp.

Mr. S kvirsky, who was arrested inMoscow in 1979 on a trumped upcharge of stealing library books, wassentenced to five years'internal exile.V sevolod Kuvakin, a lawyer whoassisted both labor groups, is alsoreported to be in prison.

A mo ng the problems facing S ovietworkers outlined by Sen. Hatch arelow wages, arbitrary productionquotas, acute shortages of tools andmaterials, blatant discriminationagainst former political prisoners

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Orlov reported extremely illMO S CO W - The wife of jailed

dissident Yuri O rlov, a founding member of the Moscow group to monitorSoviet compliance with the 1975 Helsinki agreement said recently that hishealth is failing and she has appealed toSo viet President lio m d; Brezhnev to'reduce his sentence, reported the A sso

ciated Press on A pril 9.

Irina O rlov said that her 57-year-oldhusband was coughing up blood andapparently had tuberculosis or chronicpneumonia.

A rrested on February 10, 1977, lessthan a year after he helped organize thehuman-rights monitoring group inMoscow,M r. O rlov was sentenced inMay 1978 to seven years in a strict-regimen labor camp to be follo wed byfive years' internal exile. He was fo undguilty of "anti-S o viet agitation andpropaganda."

A veteran of Wo rld War II and aphycisist by profession, Mr. O rlov wasdismissed from his post at the Instituteof Theoretical and ExperimentalPhysics of the USS R A cademy of

S ciences in 1956 for speaking out at ameeting.

He was also expelled from the Communist Party the same year.. A fter.moving to Armenia, O rlovbecame a corresponding member of th e

'A rmenian A cademy o f Sciences in1968 .

" In 1972 Mr. O rlov wro te a letter indefense of colleague A ndrei S akharov,and two years later he was dismissedfrom his post.

Throughout the years 1974 and 1976,he was active in the defense o f S o vietpolitical prisoners, signing the "Moscow A ppeal" on behalf of novelistA lexander So lzhenitsyn, participatingin the first unofficial scientific seminarorganized by Jewish refusenik scientists.

Mr. O rlovalso campaigned vigoro usly for the release of Leonid Plyushch,the Ukrainian cyberneticist and dissident imprisoned in a Soviet psychiatrichospital until his exile to the West in1976.

Since his imprisonment there havebeen persistent reports that Mr. O rlov'shealth is rapidly deteriorating.

Walesa wins freedom awardSILV ER S PRIN G, Md. - Lech

Walesa has been invited to the UnitedS tates to receive the 1981 annual A lexander S olzhenitsyn Freedom A ward.Christian S o lidarity Internat io nal /U ni ted S ta tes of America(CS I/US A ) will honor Mr. Walesa andother individuals who have been activein the human-rights arena at the May 13ceremonies in Washington.

Mr. Walesa will receive SIO,OOO incash and a bronze statuette. C S I/US Asays he w as chosen because ofh is effortsto provide basic freedoms and humanrights to the people o f Poland throughthe Solidarity labor movement and theCatholic Church.

It is not kno wn if Mr. Walesa, who ispresently detained by the Polish government, will be permitted to attend theawards presentation banquet. He hasbeen hfcfcj irt custody by Polish officialssince irrt'"rhfp'osrtion of martial law onD ecember 13.

If Mr. Walesa cannot be present, aPo lish.clergyman, The Rev. D r. Fran-scizek B lachniki, will accept the awardon behalf of the Solidarity leader. TheRev. B lachniki will be returning toPoland in late May and would attemptto present the award to Mr. Walesa atthat time.

Sol idar i ty movement co-founderTersy Mohl will also be present at theawards banquet.

C S I / U S A H o n o r a ry F re ed o mA wards willbe presented to a number oforganizations and individuals whomade significant' contributions to religious rights causes in 1981-82.

S e n . Roger W. Jepsen (R-Iowa) andCo ngressman Jack Kemp (R-N .Y.) willbe noted for their roles in the foundingof the religious rights organizationCREE D (Christian Rescue Effort forthe Emancipat io n of D iss idents) .

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R a d i o S o l id a r i t y a i r s p r o g r a m ;r e p r e s s io n s c o n t i n u e in P o l a n d

WA RS A W, Poland - In a dramaticact of resistance to martial law, aclandestine station calling itself RadioS o lidarity made an eight-minute broadcast here o n. A pril 12, according tocolumnist John D arnton o f The NewYork Tunes.

The bro adcasters, introducing themselves over an FM band with a signaltaken from a song that was populardur i r t t the German occupat ion inWo rldw ar II, talked of conditions ininternment camps, played an anti-government folk song, and promisedthat they would be back on the air onA pril 30 with a regular schedule.

For days, the Times reported, peoplehad been told in leaflets to expect thebroadcast on 70.1 megacycles at 9 p.m.on A pril 12. The broadcast was badlyneeded, some said, to boo st the moraleof those opposing the martial-lawregime.

Mr. D arnton reported that at an

Easter Monday party he attended in athree-room apartment on the 49th flooro f a high rise, conversation stopped at 9p.m. while the host fiddled with theradio dial. Suddenly, he said, a voicecame across loud and clear - "This isRadio S o lidarity." Everyone in theroo m jumped up, hugging o ne another,Mr. D arnton reported.

The broadcasters a man and awoman asked listeners to recordthem if possible, and said the authorities might try to imitate them, presumably to pass on phony information.

.-"We have been sitting at our Eastertable and for a while we may haveforgotten we are living in a country inwhich there is a state of w a r, a war thatauthorities declared against their ownpeople," said the woman.

"But absent from the table are minerswho were killed. Prisons still hold morethan 4,000 people. It is not true thatinternment is better than ordinary jail.We are getting more and more reportsof beatings in internment camps."

She mentioned a fourth-year theology student who she said was beaten sobadly in Rakowiecka Prison that hisdiaphragm was punctured, placing hislife in jeopardy.

"We must fight for the release ofthose imprisoned, for the restoration ofhuman dignity. O ur radio statio n hastaken up this struggle. A ll hono rable

Poles should do the same," the announcer said.There followed a song, accompanied

with a guitar, about the 14-day strike atthe Piast co al m ine in S ilesia protestingthe imposition of martial law.

A ccording to Mr. D arnton, the call

sign of Radio S olidarityw a s t h emusicalrefrain of a song called, in translation,"Ax, S hovel, Mo onshine and Glass,"popular during th e wartime o ccupatio n.The refrain, alluding to Hitler, whoonce worked as a house painter, sa`ys,"The foolish painter lost the war."

A t the end o f the bro adcast, theannouncer recalled that A pril 13 marksthe fourth mo nth o f martial law, and heasked listeners to turn off their lightsbetween 9 and 9 :15p.m. , a smallw a y, hesaid, to mark the occasion.

Meanwhile, Polish authorities arecontinuing to crackdown on opponentsof martial law.

A recent report indicates that a Po lishpriest is under investigation for distributing leaflets critical of the state, andfive other Poles received severe prisonterms for activities against the martial-law regime.

The army newspaper ZolnierzWolnosci said earlier this month thatthe Rev. Wladyslaw D rewniak, pastorof a parish in Jaroslaw in southernPo land, is currently under investigatio nfor possesion and dissemination ofallegedly seditious leaflets.

The paper quoted the military prosecutor's o ffice as saying that a member o f

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S o v i e t p o l i c e n a b1 2 d i s s i d e n t s

: MOS COW ^O Wvediasidtents havebeen arrested by security' po lice in acoordinated series of raids here, dissident sources said on A pril1 2 ,accordingto Reuters news service.

The 1 2 m e nwere rounded u p on A pril6 and their apartments and those of 50of their relatives and friends weresearched, the sources said.

It was not known what charge wouldbe brought against them, though dissidents are normally charged with anti-Soviet agitation or slandering theSoviet state.

The po lice are said to have removedreligious materials, bibles and iconsfrom the homes of four o f them whoar emembers of the Russian O rthodo xChurch.

The sources expected some of the 12to be charged with productio n o f illegal

underground publications.They also said that some of thosearrested during the crackdown, one ofthe largest since the m o nths just prior tothe 1980 Moscow O lympics,were members of S MO T, an unofficial free tradeunion considered illegal by authorities.

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Conference to focus on perception of Eastern EuropeP I S C ATAWAY, N.J. - Ameri

cans' perceptionsand misperceptions ofthe USSR and Eastern Europe willbethe subject of a daylong conferencetobe held by the Rutgers UniversityGraduate School of Education at theUniversity of Medicine and Dentistry ofNew Jersey hereon Thursday, April 29.

The conference, featuring scholars

from throughout the United States asspeakers, is organized in cooperationwith the New Jersey Go vernor's EthnicAdvisory Council, the state's departments of education and higher education, and the New Jersey Councilfor theSocial Studies, a statewide teachers'group.

C o- sponso r s are the ShevchenkoScientific Society, Polish CulturalFoundation of New Jersey and theMedia Action Coalition.

Funding is provided entirely by theEthnic Advisory Council.

Appraisal of intellectuals' perceptions

The first topic of the conference willbe "American Intellectuals' Perceptionof the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe- A Critical Appraisal." The speaker,Dr. Paul Hollander, professorof sociology at the University of Massachusettsan d an associate of the Russian Research Center at Harvard University,isthe author of the recently publishedbook "Polit ical Pilgrims,"a criticalexamination of the reports of Westernv i s i t o r s to C o m m u n i s t s t a t e s . Dr .Hollander's presentation willbe basedon his book.

Dr. John S. Reshetar Jr., professor ofpolitical science at the University ofWashington, will address "The StudyofUkrainian Historyin the United States:Perceptions and Misconceptions."

A research specialist in East European history, Dr. Irena GrudzinskaGros s of Columbia University, willspeak on "I9th Century Western Atti

tudes toward Imperial Russia.""The Soviet Dissident MovementasReported by The New York Times" willbe the subject of Dr. Tho mas Oleszczuk,assistant professor of political science atRutgers University.

The U.S. directorof the U.S.-USSRTextbook Study Project initiated in1977 as a jo in t e ffor t of the U.S.Depa r tmen t of Educa t i on and theSoviet Ministry of Educat ion wi l lrepor t on one aspect of this study,"American Treatment of Soviet Soc i e t y " in t e x t b o o k s . Dr . H o w a r dMehlinger is a professor of history anddean of the Indiana University Schoolof Education.

Francis Baran, a post-graduate student at the Rutgers University GraduateSchool of Education, and Dr. AdamScrupski, associate professorof educational sociology at that school, willspeak on "Eas tern Europe and theUSSR as Reflected in New JerseyPublic School Curricula." Thisis thetopic of Mr. Baran's doctoral thesis,which is based on a survey of textboo ksconducted by a subcommittee of theNew Jersey Governor's Ethnic Advisory Council.

Dr. Scrupski, who is the conferenceco-director along with Dr. Iwan Z.Holowinsky, also of Rutgers University, will pro vide openin g remarks at thebeginning of the conference at 9 a.m.and will act as m o d e r a t o r for thequestion-and-answer periods scheduledto take place at the conclusionof boththe morning and afternoon conference

sessions.Rutgers president to speak

Rutgers U niversity President EdwardJ. Bloustein will welcome conferencepar t ic ipants fo l lowing the op en ingremarks.

Dr. Holowinsky, a professor ofspecial education at the university'sGraduate School of Education, willdeliver concludin g remarks at day's end.

Registration for the conference willbe held at 8:30 a.m., a half hour beforethe start of the morning session.Theconference will breakat 11:45 a.m . for aluncheon, resume at 1:30 p.m. for theafternoon sessionand adjourn at 4 p.m.

It will be held in the main auditoriumof the University of Medicine andDentistry of New Jersey, located offFrelinghuysen Road.

Laying the groundwork

The conference is the result of effortsthat began in 1978 with the establishment of the Education Committeeofth e New Jersey Governor ' s EthnicAdvisory Council.

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Soviets compelledto ration food

MOSCOW - A poor grain harvestand chronic shortages of food stapleshave led to the implementation of strictfood rationing in most parts of theSovie t Union, according to Sovietsources.

, Hardest bit arc arepsJa'"Jrom majordistribution centersor from farm areas.In Siberia, for example, consumersareallowed to purchase about 4.4 poundsof meat per person per month, whilethose living in European Russia areonly entitled to half that amount.

Sources estimate that the So viet grainharvest was abou t 170 million to ns,or66 million tons below official targets.Itwas the third bad harvest in a row, sobad that, for the first time since the1960s, authorities did not include thefigure in the 1981 statistical report onthe economy.

The dismal agricultural results havehad an impact in Ukraine, once knownas the "breadbasket"of Euro pe. Sourcesthere report shortages of meat, breadand other essential food items.

Butter, margarine, cooking oil andsugar are also being tightly rationedinsome parts of the Soviet Union.

Supplies of vegetables to urban areaswere reportedly worse this past winterthan for many years. The shortage ofbread has forced the government tourge people not to waste wheat, flourand bread, par t icular ly in feedinglivestock.

S t a t e m e n t by U N A a u d i t o r sThe following statement, signedby three members of the UNA Supreme

Auditing Committee, John Hewryk, Dr. Bohdan Hnatiuk and the Rt. Rev.Protopresbyter Stephan BUak, was read to the UNA Supreme ExecutiveCommittee on September 18,1981. Jhen,onDecember29,1981, the SupremeExecutive Comm ittee issued itsposition in regard to a statement issued andsignedby 1 1 members of the UNA Supreme Assembly who ormed a "CommitteeforLaw and Order in the UNA." The UNA Supreme Auditing.Committee, afterits most recent review of UNA operations conducted on March 22 - 26,decided to release its September 1981 statement to the public. Therefore, weare publishing the full text of the Auditing Comm ittee members 'statement, intranslation from the original Ukrainian.

At the September 18, 1981, joi nt meeting of the five members of theUNASupreme Auditing Committee with the Supreme Executive Committee, threemembers of the Auditing Committee presentedthe following statement.

To the Supreme Execut ive ' Com mit teeof the Ukra in i an Na t i on a lAssociation,c/o Supreme President JohnO. Flis.

Statement

We, the undersigned membersof the Supreme Auditing Com mittee of theUkrainian N ational Association, feel thatit is our duty and responsibilitytoaffirm the following.

The UN A By-Laws,in Article 42 which outlines the dutiesof the SupremeAuditing Committee, state that among those dutiesis: "to investigate allpetitions and com plaints filed by the members against the supreme officers..."without delineating the character, forms and methods for filing such petitionsor complaints.

However, the UNA By-Laws,in the chapter concerning the "Removal andSuspension of Supreme Officers," in Article 44 does state:

"Any officer o f the Suprem e Assembly may be suspendedor removed fromoffice for cause. Groundsfor such removal or suspension shallbe an y act ofmalfeasance, misfeasance or non-feasance in office as well as any other act,word or deed unbecoming the dignityof a supreme officer and detrime ntaltothe best interests of the association."

Further on in this paragraph of the UNA By-Laws the character andmethod for filing such complaintsis delineated:

" 1 . Charges for the suspension or removal of any supreme officer may beinstituted by any member of the Supreme Assembly.

"2 . Any charges preferred shall be submitted in a sworn statem ent executedby the accuser. Said statementof charges shall be forwarded directlyto thesupreme president... In the event the charges are against the president theyshall be forwarded to the next qualifying vice president..."

We cite these articles of the UNA By-Laws in order to: 1. affirm ourobligation as supreme auditorsto ourselves determine whether thereis a needto review petitionsor complaints filed againstthe supreme officers, withoutregard to the manner in which they were filed;2. point to violations of theUNA By-Laws by several supreme officers, includingtwo members of theSupreme Auditing Committee, Bohdan Futeyand Prof, bhn T;IUK.

We refer to the "Statement by members of the Supreme Assemblyof theUkrainian N ation al Assoc iation" which was publishedin the Toronto-basednewspaper Homin Ukrainy (Echoof Ukraine) in the issue dated August12-19, 1981.

The UNA By-Laws quoted abo ve,in Article 44 cite the transgressionsforwhich a UNA supreme officer may be called to task, suspended from hisduties, or removed from office, and they also delineate the method for supremeofficers to file complaints against other officers.In the aforementioned"Statement" accusationsare made against "membersof the UNA SupremeExecutive Committee, headedby President John O. Flis," who in the lastthree years "violated man y UN A By-Laws" and allegedly alloweda series oftransgressions that were detrimentalto the UNA and its membership.

We believe that it is the obligation of every member of the SupremeAssembly, and especially of a member of the Suprem e Auditing C om mittee, ifhe affirms that the UNA By-Laws were violated by a supreme officer orofficers, to respect these by-laws and act in accordance with his oath to"always observe, comply withand obey the rules and regulatio ns, resolutionsand laws of the Ukrainian National Association;... protectanddefend the good name of the association...,"to act in accordance withtheprovisions of the by-laws and to file a complaint in keeping with the formsand methods delineated in the by-laws.

Form s and metho ds other than tho se delineated in the UNA By-Laws are inan d of themselvesa violation of these by-laws. Such a violation of the by-laws,in our opinion, was committed by the Supreme Assembly membersincluding two membersof the Supreme Auditing Committee- who signedthe aforementioned "Statement."

Another violationof the UNA By-Laws and the UNA oath, we believe,isthe establishment by these 11 Supreme Assembly membersof some kindofprivate "committee"as well as the entire contents of the "Statement" theysigned. But this is another matter on which we will express our opinion atanother time at the appropriate forum.

Conclusion

We are aware that the matter of the "Statement" and the SupremeAssembly signatoriesis now underthe careful investigation of the trustees,i.e.the Supreme Executive Committee,in accordance withthe laws under whichthe UN A is incorporatedand in keeping with the rights and duties given themby the UN A By-Laws. But, until such time as this matteris decided legally andin accordance with the by-laws,we, the undersigned members of the SupremeAuditing Com mittee, donot consider it possible to conduct any further workor cooperation withthe two members of the Supreme Auditing Committeewho signed the illegal "Statement"of the illegal "committee."

Until this matter is decided, the duties of chairman of the UNA AuditingCommittee will be carried out by the former chairman and the present vicechairman, Supreme Auditor John Hewryk.

Jersey City, N.J.September 18, 1981

John HewrykBobdan Hnatiuk

The Rev. Stephan BUak

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W i n n i p e g b i l i n g u a l p r o g r a m e x t e n d e dWINNIPEG - An English-Ukrai

nian bilingual program for children ingrades I to 3 will be extended to grades 4to 6 over the next three years in Winnipeg.

Education Minister Maureen Hem-phill, in a speech Thursday evening, March 25, before Parents forUkrainian Education Inc., said the

success and exp ansion of the program,which has grown from six classes and1 IS children in 1978 to 480 children in26 classes this year, makes extension inthe fall to higher grades both desirableand necessary. Children who started theprogram in the first year will be entering grade 4 this fall, noted the minister.

Research conducted by the Department of E ducation recently showed thatchildren enrolled in the English-Ukrainian bilingual program did as well orbetter than regular program stude nts inEnglish subjects. They also scored 70percent or better in comprehension,reading and speaking tests in Ukrainian.

The program provides 50 percentinstruction in E nglish and 50 percent inUkrainian, the maximum allowableunder amendments to the Public

Schools Act approved in 1978.The Department of Education, in

addition to providing special fundingfor the three-year p ilot project, has beeninstrumental in developing curriculummaterial for the Ukrainian languageaspects of the program and has formeda Ukrainian bilingual curriculum committee to provide on going development.

Mrs. Hemphill had particular praisefor the work of the Manitoba Parentsfor Ukrainian Education Inc., which israising funds for developing new material for the bilingual program. Shepledged continuing departmental support through continuation of specialteacher training, material development,consultative and supervisory servicesand further evaluation.

The minister noted that an English-German program was introduced lastfall in River East School Division andan English-Hebrew program is scheduled to begin this coming fall in SevenOaks School Division. Such expansionrequires a complete review of the wholequestion of heritage language-Englishbilingual programs which will lead tocreation of a comprehensive policy, saidMrs. Hemphill.

Let us help our brothers

UIA needs books on Eastern EuropeNEW YORK - Books in Ukrainian

and English concerned with East European topics are greatly needed tosupplement a new and expanded 1982program of continuing education at theUkrainian Institute of America.

"The institute is reaching out to theUkrainian community for support inbuilding its library resources," saidWalter Nazarewicz, vice president of

the institute, "because it is crucial thatthe library keep pace w ith the institute'sgrowing educational programs of academic courses and lectures, politicalscience symposia and performing artsworkshops and master classes."

Mr. Nazarewicz emphasized that the

P o l o v c h a k : r i s i n gs o c c e r s t a r

CHICAGO - A Northwest Sidenewspaper recently reported thatWalter Polovchak is a young, risingstar in a local U krainian youth soccerclub, Wings.

Mr. Polovchak, who received worldwide publicity for his refusal toreturn to the Soviet Union with hisparents, now makes his home inChicago, where he devotes his freetime to playing soccer.

His coach, Joseph Owerko, saysWalter is "my type of player." "He'sfast, he's smart, he has good ballcontrol, and he's highly competitive."Walter now has the honor of beingthe Wings' new goalie.

"Sure, I like to be in the forwardline where I can score goals," Waltertold the Northwest Times. "But it ismore important to help my team win.

And if the coach says I play in goal,then I do my best to help my teamwin."

The 14-year-old Polovchak, whonow speaks fluent English, avoidstalking abou t his controversial status,although he readily admits that helikes Chicago and the United States.When asked about his ambition,Walter replied, "I'm too far awayfrom thinking about a career," butad de d, " may be I'd like to be awinning co ach."

development of a fully stocked andwidely rep resentative library inaddition to institute art exhibitions,films and other cultural events "willserve as a focal point on Fifth Avenuefor those persons interested in anenvironment rich in East Europeanculture and artifacts."

"We are looking for books representing a variety of topics of an East

European nature," added the vicepresident, "but our current emphasis ison obtaining books pertaining to Ukrainian language, history, culture, art andmusic."

Mr. Nazarewicz appealed to theUkrainian American comm unity -with special emphasis to communitygroups, fraternal and church organizations, and private individuals forhelp in establishing at the institute alibrary which will truly represent theUkrainian heritage and culture inAmerica.

Organizations and individuals able todonate to the Ukrainian Institute'slibrary should mail books to the aboveaddress, or contact the institute bytelephone (288-8660) for pick-up oflarger quantities.

Tucson U kra in iansbless church s i te

TUC SON , Ariz. - Over 120 TucsonUkrainians gathered here on March 14,to witness the blessing of the future siteof St. Michael's Ukrainian CatholicChurch.

The celebration began at 11 a.m. w itha divine liturgy served by Bishop Innocent Lotocky of the Chicago Eparchy,the Revs. Andrew Mykyta, Myroslav

Oleshko and Michael Kurylo. Alsopresent were Bishop Moreno of theTucson Archdiocese and Bishop Greenof Tucson.

The event concluded with an outdoorbuffet organized by Katia Fostiak, Mrs.Bliday, Trudy Tkachyk, Mrs. Larsenand Olya Halich.

Over S3.000 was added to the building fund. Anyone wishing to donate acontribution to what will be the firstUkrainian church in southern Arizonamay sent it to Steve Tkachyk, 824 S.Magnolia, Tucson, Ariz. 85711.

Appeal of the bishops of the Particular Ukrainian Catholic Church in Canada, toall the clergy and faithful.

Dearest Brothers and Sisters in Christ!The difficult political situation and , in particular, the catastrophiceconomiccrisis

in P oland, ha s turned the attention of the entire Western world to the initiation ofwidespread charitable action for the aid of the population of that country.

At present, over 500,000 of our brothers - Ukrainians - live in Poland. Theyare in danger not o nly of persecution for their faith and na tionality but also of thegreat sufferings of hunger and starvation. There they battle against assimilation,running Ukrainian religious, cultural-educational schools and institutions. Someof them h ave been successful in escaping to the Western world, where theywill nowbe ab le to lead peaceful lives as free peop le. But those who still remain and face anunsure future await and have laid their hopes upon our aid.

Who can help them in this regard? Whom, can they depend on toexten d their armsin aid, if not their brother Ukrainians beyond the ocean, in cooperation with theChurches, organizations and institutions?

It is our Christian responsibility to help those fellow countrymen who are inneed. If each of us were to make his own generous contribution to this cause,thousands of starving Ukrainian families, especially children, would feel a greatphysical relief and spiritual support.

It is for this reason that the general Ukrainian institution U krainian CanadianSocial Services Inc. - announces the collection agency "Aid forUkraine," to onceagain co llect funds and send them as soon as possible to our countrymen in Poland.We, your bishop s, are pleased with this useful initiative of the socia l services and

strongly urge our clergy and all our faithful to fully include themselves in thiscollection drive.Dearest Brothers and Sisters in Christ, let us understand and sympathize with the

tragic fate o f our brethren, a.id let us combine all our strength to co me to their aid.We bless this benevolent agency of the social services and sincerely ask all our

faithful to generously give to this cause. We are confident that our combinedefforts, our donations and our prayers will fulfill the hopes of our brothers andsisters, who are in such great need.

May the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ and the love of God the Father and thecommunion of the Holy Ghost be with you all.

Maxim Hermanluk, metropolitan of WinnipegNeil Savaryn, bishop of EdmontonIsidore Borecky, bishop of Toronto

Andrew Roborecki, bishop of SaskatoonDemetrius Grescb.uk, auxiliary bishop of Edmonton

Jerome Chimy, bishop of New Westminster

Please forward all donations for the aid of Ukrainians in Poland to the followingaddress: Ukrainian Canadian Social Services Inc. of C anada, 2445 Bloor St. W.,Toronto Ont., Canada, M6S 1P7.

Walesa...(Continued from page 2)

CREED operates as an informationclearinghouse in Washington.

Also to be honored are: Jane Drake,founder of SAVE, the organizationwhich is working on behalf of theSiberian Seven (the Pentecostals whoare living in the U.S. Embassy inMoscow with hopes ofemigration); theKentucky State Legislature whichrecently passed a resolution calling forsanctions against Rumania because ofreligious rights violations in Rumania;and International Christian Aid, a reliefand development organization whichhas been delivering convo ys of food andsupplies to Poland since the impositionof martial law.

Legislator Tom Riner will accept theaward for the State of Kentucky;International Christian Aid will berepresented by its president, L. JoeBass.

U.S. Sen. Carl Levin (D-Mich.)received the 1980 Alexander So lzhenit-syn Freedom Award for his proposedlegis la t ion which would make theSiberian Seven resident aliens in theUnited States.

Named after the exiled Soviet dissi

dent and a uthor A lexander Solzbenitsyn,the award is given to an outstandingreligious-rights leader or organizationeach year.

The Perbonum Foundation of Bermuda has contributed the S 10,000award which will be given to Mr.Walesa.

Klebanov...(Con t inued f rom pa fe 2 )

and unsafe conditions in mines,factories and other workplaces.

In addition, housing remains inadequate and food staples, and othernecessities are increasingly scarce,according to the senator.

Only the Soviet elite - top partymembers or top-level bureaucratsand managers - have easy access tospecial stores always stocked withluxury items and food.

But even though this apparentdiscrepancy between the haves andthe have-no ts is fertile ground for theformation of a Solidarity - likeunion in the USSR, Sen. Hatchcautions that the crucial differencedistinguishing the situation of Poland's workers and their Soviet

counterparts is the Kremlin responseto workers' rights.

Sen. Hatch wrote: "Vladimir Kle-banov's first offense occurred in the1960s when he refused to order theworkers he supervised to continuedto jeopardize their lives by workingin a mine with a high accident andfatality rate. Moscow's response: Hewas labelled 'socially dangerous' andlocked up in a psychiatric hospitalfrom 1968 to 1973."

After his latest arrest four yearsago, Soviet psychiatrists diagnosedMr. Klebanov as suffering from"paranoid development of the personality" with a mania for "struggling for justice," wrote Sen. Hatch.

"In spite o f this repression, SMO Tunderground publications continueto reach the West," said Sen. Hatch."The 'paranoia' continues."

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UNA district committees meet

Rochester

ROC HEST ER, N.Y. - The Rochester UNA District Committee held itsannual m eeting on Su nday, M arch 7, inthe Ukrainian N ational Home here and

re-elected the entire district executiveboard.

Walter Hawrylak, the district chairman and head of the convention committee in Rochester, opened the annu almeeting by welcoming UNA SupremePresident John O. Flis and all attendingmembers.

He was then elected chairman of themeeting; he read the agenda for theday's business and asked the secretaryof the d is t r ic t commit tee , DmytroPrytsay, to read the minutes of lastyear's meeting, which were acceptedunanimously.

Following were the reports of theofficers. The first report was read byMr. Hawrylak, wh o told of the plans forthe 30th Regular Convention which willbe held in Rochester on May 24-29. Heread the membership of each branch inthe district separately, stat ing howmany members each branch has andhow many members it had recruited in thepast year. He stressed the fact that thedistrict only fulfilled 61 percen t of itsorganizing qu ota, but that the cooperation of the convention and districtcommit tees in prepara t ion for theconvention was satisfactory.

The district treasurer, Mykola Lylak,repor ted on the d is t r ic t ' s f inancia lstatus; the account holds S212.84. Thedistrict secretary reported on the workof the district comm ittee, which held sixmeetings during the year.

After the reading of reports, cametime for the election of the new officers.Last year's district committee officerswere once again re-elected. The boardconsists of Mr. Hawrylak, chairman;Konstantyn Shevchuk, honorary chairman; Peter Dzuiba, vice chairman; Mr.Lylak, treasurer; Mr. Prytsay, secretary; Mary Kowalchuk, member; MarySveryda, member; and Vasyl Popowycz,member.

After the election of the officers Mr.Hawrylak expressed his thanks to all

by Paul Fenchak

BALT IMORE - On April 30 andMay 1 representatives of 30 fraternalorgan izations will convene, at the R a-mada Inn here on Security Boulevard atBelmont Avenue to conduct the 75thannual session of the Maryland-Districtof Columbia Fraternal Congress.

President of the 1982 congress isFloyd W. Morris of Woodmen of theWorld Life Insurance Association.

Activit ies on Friday will featureanalyses of the S tate M anagers' andField Workers' Section with presentations being ma de by fraternal officers,state government officials and nationalfraternal officers.

Business on Saturday will includereports by the committees of the fraternal congress, guest speakers from theMaryland State Insurance Commission,reports of national activities, remarksby national officials and election of,

the members present for having confidence in the newly re-elected members,and ass ured them tha t they will continueto work for the good of the UNA.

Next on the agenda was the report ofmembers of the convention committee.

Mr. Hawrylak gave details about themeeting he had w ith Mr. Flis and otherconvention committee members beforethe district committee meeting. He alsosaid that Mr. Andrusiw will try to havethe week of the convention proclaimedUkrainian Week in Rochester.

Lubomyr Bilyk told the members atthe meeting that the convention book isalmost ready. He also asked Mr. Flis ifthe convention `ould be fi lmed, towhich the supreme president repliedthat the UNA has already obtainedsomeone to do this job.

Roman Chornobil reported that theprogram is also almost set; the cost ofthe program will be almost 52,000.Peter Leshchyshyn added that Rochestergroups per form ing in the programinclude a choir, Plast and S UM-A.

M r. H a w r y l a k s t r e s s e d t h a t t h emembers should continue to recruit newmembers and col lec t donat ions for"boosters" for the convention book.

Ludwig Bach reported on the welcoming comm ittee's progress.He addedthat plans included showing the delegates who arrive from all over theUnited S tates and Ca nada such Roc hester institutions as Kodak, Xerox andchurches in the area.

Then Mr. Flis extended his warmestgreetings from the supreme executiveofficers. He gave a detailed financialreport on the state of the UNA, newmemberships, etc. He also talked abo utthe Svoboda Ukrainian daily, and theUNA building, which now has all thefloors rented out.

In conclusion, Mr. Flis accented theproblem of recruitingnew members andits importance for the existence of theUNA. He was happy with the progressof plans for the upcoming convention,noting that he expected Vice-PresidentGeorge Bush to attend.

Mr. Hawrylak concluded the meeting, and ask ed all present to join him fora repast, which was prepared by theladies of the district.

officers for the forthcoming year.In recent years the congress has

examined educational films geared tothe improving of family life in Americaand a ddition al emp hasis will be given tothe area of upgrading family life thisyear.

The congress has also undertaken aprogram of preserving fraternal recordsto enhance the study of history inMaryland and the District of Columbia.For six years the congress has beencollecting data about the histories of itsmember groups and has been forwarding such da ta to the M aryland HistoricalSociety and to the Maryland Room ofthe Enoch Pratt Central Library inBal t imore for preserva t ion and research.

Joh n M alko , secre ta ry, and PaulFenchak, president of UNA Branch320, will represent the Ukrainian National Association at the annual congress.

Passaic

PASS AIC, N.J. - Some 33 UNA'ersincluding Supreme President Joh n Flis,at tended the annual meeting of thePassaic UNA District Committee hereat the Ukrainian Center on March 28.

Ivan Chomko was re-elected chairman of the district for the 12th time.

Also re-elected were: Hryhory Kly-menko, vice president; Wasyl Marush-chak, secretary; Ivan Blykha, treasurer;

and Rostyslav Halaburda, organizingchairman.Teodor Kowalyk was elected press

chairman to replace the late WolodymyrBakalec.

Re-elected as members-at-large werePaul Voyniw and Anna Kowalchuk.Jo in ing them was Ivan Bur ia , whoreplaced Frank Martin. The auditingcommittee, also re-elected, consists ofChairman Nazar Mychalyshyn, BarbaraTyzhbir and Wolodymyr Oliyarnyk.

Mr. Chomko opened the meetingassisted by Mr. Marushchak, who readthe minutes of the last meeting. Theminutes were accepted without changes.

There was also a moment of silencefor deceased members of the district,which encompasses branches f romPassaic, Clifton, Paterson and Rutherford.

In his report, Mr. Chomko spokeabout last summer's successful UNA

sored by the state's four UNA districtcommittees. This year, Mr. Chomkosaid, UNA Day is scheduled for August25.

He also spoke about the committee'sorganizing efforts, noting th at 26 newmem bers joined the U NA in the district.Mr. Chomko also discussed financialmatters.

Following the chairman's address,reports were given by Messrs. Kly-menko , Marushcha k, Blykha and others.

The auditing committee's report waspresented by Mr. Mychalyshyn, whosaid that the district's books were inorder. He also moved that the outgoingexecutive committee be given a vote ofconfidence, a motion which was seconded by Ms. Tyzhbir and approved bythose present.

In his address, Mr. Flis touched on anumber of topical UNA matters including the UNA's financial standing,the third printing of Ukraine: A Concise Encyclopedia for which S37.000 hasbeen earmarked, the preparation of anindex for the Svoboda daily by theUniversity of Minnesota for whichS27.000 has been allocated; and theUNA campaign to aid Ukrainians inPoland.

Mr. Flis said that in addition to theS 10,000 donated by the UNA, S20.000has been raised for the relief fund whichis being administered by the UkrainianCatholic Church.

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tor George Boh-d a n Z a r y c k y(seated, of course,in the photo tothe right of thisblurb), who hasb e e n o n T h eWeekly staff sincethe spring of 1980and will be celebrating a secondanniversary onMay 6, has beenmoved up a notchon The Weeklyladder of success/From this dayforward he shallbe addressed asassociate editor.

M arta m a y e t s ( s t a n ding), the neophyteon the staff, has ,proven that shei s c a p a b l e o fh a n d l i n g t h ehectic pace andhassles of a Weekl y p o s i t i o n something associate editor Zary

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Now, for the not-so-good news.The hopes of Weekly editor Roma Sochan Hadzewycz (that's Ms. not Mr.;

Roma not Roman), who wanted to prefix her title with a little seven-letterword, i.e. supreme, were dashed this week. Apparently, the real "Supremes,"who occupy the third floor of the UNA building, took her suggestion as merejest.

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fraternals, UNA to take partin Maryland-D.C. congress

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k r a in ia n W e e lc lPower o f prayer

"I tell you solemnly once again, if two of you on earth agree to askanything at all, it will be granted to you by my Father in Heaven. Forwhere two or three meet in my name, I shall be with them ."

These verses from the Gospel of Matthew (18:19-20) emphasize thepower of co mm o n prayer. It is the conversation with God that leads usto faith; it is the beginning o f a relatio nship that reflects the spirit ofEaster. Fo r Easter is also the time o f a new beginning, a chance for usto renew our faith, to reflect on the strength of prayer.

Easter, as celebrated in the liturgy of the Resurrection is called thefeast o f feasts, the celebration o f celebrations. It is with Easter that weasso ciate all that we loo k fo rward to , all our ho pes and dreams in thekno wledge that light eternal will break thro ugh the darkness of despairand suffering. What better time than this the season o f the miracleof the Resurrectio n is there for us to join in co mm o n prayer for acommon cause .

Easter, a time that gives all humanity eternal h o pe, inspires us tobelieve that o ne day the Ukrainian co mmu nity will be a unitedcommunity.

B ut only thro ugh prayers offered to gether can this visio n beachieved. Just as it is mo re effective to wo rk together o n pro jects, moreenjoyable to achieve a goal together, it is also a more fulfillingexperience to pray together.

Two persons united can ease the burden of lifting a load, make thecompletion of a task easier and speedier. In other words, two peoplewo rking for a co mm o n go al make that goal mo re attainable, for theirvision is focused in one direction.

A nd so it is with the po wer o f prayer.The powerful sounds of the church choir singing out Khrystos

V oskres for the first time on Easter Sunday mo rning so joy o usly, sotriumphantly that the ico ns shake and the walls of the church trembleare a living reflection of the strength a community has if it follows a ^ ^ ^ . i i P i W d s ^ ;4?tiQ.njs,j j . . i-j D uring this Easter season leto is see the Ukrainian co mmu nity united,

in prayer ; with the coming of the spring season, as we witness therebirth of life and the renewal of hope, let our community realize thatanything is attainable, for this is the season of miracles.

A nd ma y this renewed faith throug h prayer bring to mind the wordsof S t. Paul in his first letter to theThessalo nians:"B e at peace amo ngyo urselves... Yo u must think o f what is best for each other and fo r theco mm unity. B e happy at all times, pray co nstantly and for all thingsgive thanks to Go d, because this is what God expects yo u to do inChrist Jesus."

Christ is Risen.

Canada at Madrid

Ambassador repo rts on CSCE meeting

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Following is a statement by Ambassador Louis Rogers, chairman of heCanadian delegation to the MadridConference to review implementationof the 1975 Helsinki Accords. Thestatement was delivered on April 1before the Canadian Helsinki Parliamentary Group on Parliamen t Hill inOttawa.

The fifth session of the Madridmeeting of the CSCE was originallyintended to adopt a balanced andsubstantial concluding document within one mo nth. O ver four weeks afterthe session began on February 9, notone word in the draft concluding document (RM-39) tabled last D ecember bythe neutral and non-aligned (N N A )states was added, changed or evenexamined.

D esultory non-dialogue between theWarsaw Pact and the N N A s, theoretically over RM-39, at meetings of thedrafting gro up, where the W est sat insilence, revealed little about nego tiatingpo sitio ns o ther than a general (butpossibly deceptive) acceptabili ty ofRM-39 as a basis for drafting (which theWest confirmed in meetings o f plenary).

In this sense the Madid meetingsimply marked time during the fifthsessio n, failing to deepen relationsamo ng the participating states as well asto strengthen security and to develo pcooperation as directed in its mandate.

However, the last few weeks inMadrid dispelled any illusion that theCS CE works hr a vacuum. Currentmajor issues in East-West relations, rearmament, A fghanistan, human rightsand Po land were fully aired. In this wayMadrid continued to fulfill the otherpart of its mandate, i.e. to reviewimplementation of the Helsinki FinalAct.

The S o viets' "narcotic of words"calling for constructive negotiationswas rejected not only by the West butalso by some of the neutral and non-aligned states, which insisted o n grappling with stark facts. Poland was highlighted. The West, and some N N A s,insisted that martial law must be lifted,detainees released and dialogue renewed.

The Warsaw Pact retorted in less andless convincing terms that such asser

tions co nstituted "massive" intervention in Po land's internal affairs and thata campaign had been launched by theUnited S tates and "some" N A TO alliesto block the Madrid meeting andultimately destroy the CSCE in accordance with Washington's aggressivepolicies.

A new theme emerged at the fifthsession, which, considered in terms ofrumblings about the destabilization ofthe S oviet empire, disq uiete d theS o viets. First the Yugo slavs, then theA mericans and som e other Westerndelegations firmly rejected the YaltaA greementas the basis for the geopolitical o rganization o f Europe into sphereso f influence. The Helsinki Final Act wasnot a confirmation but rather thenegation of such a policy, opening thedoo r to evolutionarychange in relationsamong Europeans.

The latter idea had, of course, oftenbeen repeated in the CSCE; but in termsof events in Poland and the Easternperception of a new attitude in Washington, i t touched very raw Sovietnerves with the specific mention ofYalta.

Tactically, the issue was whether the

fifth session should be "business asusual,"as the Warsaw Pact insisted andsome N N A s argued in terms of draftingthe co ncluding do cument, or not as theWest stoutly maintained. The West's"no" won out.

The business of the fifth session wasreview of implementation of the finalact, particularly Po lish and S o vietviolations of it, which was distinctlyunusual at a time when the meetingwould normally have, in accordancewith its agenda, been preoccupied withdrafting the concluding document.

D espite Warsaw Pact maneuverscarried out through abuse of procedures aimed at preventing Westernspeakers, many of them foreignministers, from taking the flo o ron February 9 and keeping the Czechoslovaks in the chair during the crucialweekend of March 5, the West said all itwanted to about Soviet and Polishviolations o f the Helsinki Final A ct.

This fortified Western insistence onthe right o raise any subject at any timein the CS CE plenary session. So me of theN N A s mustbe considered as Western inthis context. It also probably constituted an important propaganda advantage since the fifth session received anunusual degree of attention, at least inthe Western press.

A ny strains in the alliance werehardly felt here. The W est hung together around the objective of refusingbusiness as usual and towards this endrefused additional drafting sessions,only conceding three meetings of thelatter, at which the West still held silent,as a condition for adjourning the

session on the basis of thedeal drawn upby the N N A s. Iro nically reflecting thevicissitudes of the CS CE, this situatio nwas the reverse o f B elgrade when theEast refused to negotiate.

In a broader perspective, the fifthsession saw a further transformation ofthe CSCE process. It was designed as aforum for promoting security andcooperation among Europeans, withinthe differences between East-Westsystems and institutions. It has becomean arena where those differences areaccentuated in a kind of reverberatoryeffect.

The Swedes made sense in asking ifthe so-called dialo gue at the ifth sessionserved a purpose other than exacerbating tensions. By the unique consensusprocedure, the CS CE w as intended toreflect the interests of 35 states acting intheir sovereign equality, reflecting astep towards multipolarism. Through aresurgence of bipolarism it has turnedinto a platform of confrontation.

Finally, the loose rules of procedureof the CSCE which in the past, even atthe acrimo niou s B elgrade meeting, wererespected, have been turned to advantage by the Warsaw Pact. They againabused the rules in order to keep o ne oftheir own in the chair at a criticalmeeting, and to prevent (in effect, delay)

Western speakers in taking the floor,but at the price of alienating all otherparticipants.

A lthough the CSCE has been moreoften in session than not since 1972, itwas conceived, in accordance withWestern views, as a meeting whichwould convene irregularly, despite theS o viets who originally wanted to "institutionalize" it.

Paradoxically, the West now supportsthe N N A objective to ensure the CSCE

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EthnicChicago,

Book review

N e w s t u d yof e t h n i c C h i c a g o :im p o r ta n t . . . m a t u r e s c h o l a rs h ip "

"Ethnic Chicago, "ed. Peter d'A. Jones and MeMnG. Holli. Grand Rapids, Mich-William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 1981..384 pp.

by Dr. Wolodymyr T. ZjrkThe material of this attractively

produced and generously illustratedbook is very impressive indeed. Theauthors'knowledge of ethnic Chicago istremendous. They combine a broadoverview of A merican ethnicity with ascholarly .knowledge of details; theyhave .studied virtually every importantwork or document pertaining to theirsubject The boo k is, inthe fullest sense,the work of specialists, and only few ofus will read, it witho ut en vying theauthors their attainments.

A lso the editors added much to thestature of the book by their introduction and by the organization of thework. They follow a definite treatmentof the subject and do no t presenta seriesof tentative no tions. Having'in view thecontinuing national debate over cultural pluralism and the melting pot,they focus the i r approaches aboutA merica's heartland city in severaldirections: "the national ethnic processes of adjustment, survival, identity,and even melting into the A mericanMelting Pot."

For that reason they have divided thebo ok into two parts: Cultural Pluralism,and The Melting Po t. There are fivechapters in the first part and threechapters in the second. The division,how ever, is no t balanced quantitatively,but rather qualitatively, by offeringspecific explanations as wellas concreteexamples for a proper understanding o fthe melting pot pro cess. A s a result the

bo o k's treatment of ethnicity is descriptive rather that prescriptive and tentative rather than dogmatic. This is alsocaused by the surge in ethnicity, in theUnited S tates and in Europe, which wa sindeed typical o f the po litical, social andcultural debate of the 1960s and 1970swith a special focus o n cultural pluralism as the best answer for our society.

Let us now turn to the individualchapters for an examination of howvarious ethnic gro upshave behaved andacted in A merica.

The two chapters handling Irishimmigrants sho w two different po ints ofview: the ethnic-conscio us view and theview directed toward greater assimilation and success in power politics. It isto be stressed that the Irish of bothviews always "formed a highly self-co nsciou s and relatively co hesive ethniccommunity" that was in contact withother Chicagoans. Moreover, even ifthose more ethnic-conscious demonstrated their concern for Ireland, theirlove fortheir new country was in no waydiminished, nor was their loyalty to andfaith in the U nited S tates affected.

The mo st important factor, responsible for this situation is, without do ubt,the language that always helped tosmo o th out difficulties because thelanguage spoken by Irish A mericans isthat of their immigrant ancestors andthat of present-day Ireland as well as

that of the United States.O f impo rtance is also the fact that I n

co mbin ing o l d -w or l d t r ad i t i onswith new-world democracy, the Irishdeveloped a unique po litical personalityamo ng Chicago 's inhabi tants ," andtherefore were able more than o thers toovercome political discrimination andethnic prejudice.

Furthermo re, they "became the majorcatalysts within the Chicago D emo cratic Party" becau se, much of the city'searly history centered "on their own

quest for.power and respectability."This is a unique situation which fortunately enough always helped the Irish,"including mo re rapid melting into theMelting Pot."

The study o f the Greeks by AndrewT. Kopan presents a different sto ry. It isto a'large degree "an odyssey thatchallenges much of the conventionalwisdom about ethnics." O ne may question how it is possible that this poor"rural folk who cam e to A mericaneither with urban skills nor educa tion"co uld have reversed their status in orderto reach here the to p o f the educational,

professional and income ladder.These monumental achievements,

a cco rd ing t o Mr. Kopan , bec am epo ssible because of the right adjustmentto the A merican way o f life throughpreservation of Greek formal andinformal educatio n in commu nal ethnicschools, strong family bonds, preservation of their cultural heritage, adaptation of the best of the two worlds A merican and Greek - as well ast h rough t he commun i ty ' s c a r eno t to be "swal lowed up byt he v a s t n e s s o f A m e r i c a . "These factors not only contributed toGreek ethnic survival but they alsoproduced a special blend o f ethnic prideand resourceful participation in theA merican dream.

The study "The Jews of Chicago:From S hte tl to S uburb" by I rv ingCutler proves with persuasion anotherstory of success which became possiblebecause of occupational and economicachievement and of public educationwhich turned o ut for yo ung Jews to be"an important vehicle for becomingA mericanized and 'mo ving upwardsocially and economically, and oftenaway from the world of their parents."The author also handles with skill theonce-sharp differences between German and East European Jews andshows how they adjus ted throughhardships and suffering in the overall

process of acculturation.Myron B. Kuropas, a former White

House ethnic adviser to PresidentGerald Ford, wrote the study "Ukrainian Chicago: The M aking o f a N ationality Group in A merica." He approachedhis work from a unique point of viewwhich ho lds that "for m any a Ukrainianemigre, the United States was not anethnic melting pot but rather a schoolfor his ethno-national development"This approach gave his work a profound socio -political dimension ^even

though the Ukrainian success wasdrastically curtailed by A merica's changein policies during the Roosevelt era.

In the 1930s the Ukrainian nationalmo vement in the United States, as D r.Kuropas states, was unfairly treatedand linked by its detractors to a fascistconspiracy which ultimately broughtpolit ical disaster for the Ukrainiancause. Thus the Ukrainian people, who ,during the period of 1884 to 1939)matured in the United S tates from anethno-cultural group into a politically

self-conscious nationality, suffered anundeserved setback. Their aspirationswere tainted because in free A merica itbecame suddenly anti-democratic towork for the dismemberment of theS oviet empire.

How different would.,today's worldbe if A merica had helped to disintegratethe S oviet U nion and create in somecases recreate in its place a number offree states. For this reason D r. pas's study reaches beyond ethnicChicago and sets an example of ethnicimpact on global politics.

D om inic Candeloro in h is work"Suburban Italians: Chicago Heights,1890-1975" indicates very clearly howItalians were bound to ado pt A mericanvalues by m oving up in their new worldwithout having melted completelyin to i t . They remained, howe v e r , a w e l l - o r g a n i z e d a n dmost powerful force in the community, and easily dominated the citycouncil, the school board, etc. Thisproved their vitality and mobility tomake gains econo micallyand politically.

The study by Melvin G. Holli, "TheGreat War Sinks Chicago's German

Kultur," shows very clearly how theGerman A mericans, who before A ugust1914 were even more highly regardedthan were the English, lost their prestige during the world war that damagedbeyo nd repair German ethn ic, linguisticand cultural institutions. A s Mr. Ho llisays: "Deu tschtum's fall from its most-favored-nation status was broughtabout in part by the bellicose behaviorof German A mericans themselves. Inthe end, it was Kaiser Wilhelm`s submarines that sank not o nly A llied

shipping but A merica's D eutschtum."The book ends wi th Masako M.

O sako's study "Japanese-Am ericans:Melting into the A il-A merican Po t?"Like German-A mericans, Japanese-A mericans became war victims. It isinteresting to stress that the hardshipsof the internment camps redirected theJapanese no t toward rejection o f A merica but toward absorption. Mr. O sakosuggests that the 'Japanese-A mericansmay be the first racial minority tointegrate and assimilate biologicallyinto the dom inant white stock o f A merica."

The "Ethnic Chicago" editors' taskwas surely noteasy. Few scholars wouldattempt to write ethnic histories of agreat city and to provide profoundanalyses. The book has scored many

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Dr. Wolodymyr T. Zyla ischairmanof the Interdepartmental Committee onComparative Literature at Texas TechUniversity and is co-editor of"EthnicLiteratures Since 1776: The ManyVoices of America,"a two-volumecompendium published in 1978.

Book notes

H i s t o r yof U k r a i n i a n s e t t l e r s i n M a n iWIN N IPEG - "Pioneer Profiles:Ukrainian S ettlers in Manitoba" is a

new book published to commemoratethe 90th anniversary of the coming ofUkrainian settlers to Manitoba. Thewriting of the bo o k was initiated by theMo dern Languages A ssociatio n, Ukrainian C hapter.

It is an oral history bo ok based on theinterviews with Ukrainian pioneers invarious parts of the province. Thesettlers tell their own story, and interviews with the Ukrainian agriculturalists predo minate.

The author of the boo k, D r. MichaelEwanchuk, has been careful to give thenames of the villages and the countiesfrom which the sett lers came. TheKolomyia regionwas the po int of originof many pioneers and a large numbercame from B ereziv. O thers came fromBilyi Potik. Senkiw, Kopychentsi, Sam-bir and B orshchiv.

The "Pioneer Profiles" project wasresearched and written by D r. Ewanchuk, w ho is a former inspector (superintendent) of schools.

This is D r. Ewanchuk's fourth projectabo ut Ukrainian settlements in Canada.The firsts "A History of the UkrainianS ettlements in the Gimli A rea," waswritten in Ukrainian and is out of print.N ext came a three-boo k series^itled"V ita: A Ukrainian Co mmunity." Histhird publication, "S pruce, S wamp and

Stone" is no w in its sixth printing and ismo st popular with Canada's A nglo -Saxon readers.

The new book carries much background information, such as that abo utthe first permanent settler, WasylYatche w; Wasyl Elyniak a nd. I wanPillipiw who arrived in 1891; aboutJoseph O leskow ; about the first Ukrainian Catholic missionary, the Rev.N estor D mytr iw, one of the ear lyeditors of Svoboda, who consecratedthe Cross of Freedom at Trembowla.

It also carries the story of MichaelS tashyn the only kno wn living memberof the first group of Prof. JosephO leskow's settlers who arrived in S tuart-burn in 1896 and named their settlement Rus'. Mr. S tashyn, now a residentof V ancouver, was 7 when he arrived inCanada.

A mo ng the interviews from variousdistricts in Manitoba is one with acentenar ian , Michael Rehaluk of

D auphin, who reached the ripe age of104 on S t. M ichael's D ay 1981 andbo asts that he is still able to readSvo boda without glasses.

The 288-page book is indexed .andhas more than 150 pictures of schools,churches and pio neers at work. It sellsfor S 12.95 plus handling charges and, itis available in larger bookstores andfrom the author at the followingaddress:"Pioneer Profiles", Michael Ewanchuk,828 Borebank St., Winnipeg, Man.,Canada R3N 1G4.

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PREVIEWOF EVENTS

Wednesday, A pril 21

JEN K INTO W N, Pa .: - The admissions office of Manor JuniorCollege in association with the secretarial science depar tme nt -and the

members of Alpha Beta Gamma willbe' hosting a Secretarial ScienceCareer Day from 9:30 a.m. until 3p.m. on the college campus. Thisevent coincides with National Secretaries Day and will examine thechallenges of today's secretary andher changing role in the businessworld.

Ri ta Hummel of Warner andSwasey will speak on "The Role ofthe Executive Secretary" and Patricia Loundas of A. B. Dick Com panywill speak on Word Processing: TheComputer-Age Secretary."

Registration will be held at 9:30 -10 a.m., with the main speak ersscheduled at 10 - 11 a.m. T hrou ghout the day various mini-seminarswill be held on such topic s as specialization in the ares of legal, medical,or executive secretarial positions,word processing, office proceduresand communications. A talk on job-hunting techniques is scheduled for1:45 - 2:15 p.rrt. with an alumnaepanel at 2:15 - 3 p.m.

An invitation is extended to thepublic especially those in the processof choosing a career. For furtherinformation concerning SecretarialScience Career Day contact theadmissions office of Manor JuniorCollege, Fox Chase Road and ForrestAvenue, Jenkintown, Pa. 19046;(215)884-2216.

Thursday, A pril 22

JERSEY CITY, N J . : Writers at St.Pete r's College here will presentpoetry readings by Bohdan Boychukbeginning at 2 p.m.. in the EmeritusRoom at Pope Hall. Mr. Boychuk,who has published six volumes ofpoems, will read in Ukrainian withtranslation provided by the students.Mr. Boychuk is a well-known translator, and has had his works translated by several American poets,including Stanely Kunitz and DavidIgnatow. For 10 years he served aseditor of Novi Poeziyi (New Poetry).A reception will follow the reading.St. Peter's is located on KennedyBoulevard in Jersey City.FOT furtherinformat ion contac t Prof. VitalijKeis of the college's English department.

Friday, A pril 23

NE W YORK: Columbia University'sAdvisory Council of the Center for.Armenian Studies will present asymposium on "Ethnicity and Assimilation" beginning at 9:30 a.m. atthe Kellog Conference Center, Room1501, School of International Affairs,118th Street and Amsterdam Avenue. The symposium is co-sponsored

by the Armenian Assembly. Forinformation and reservations contactSusan Carlin at (202) 332-3434.

MAPLEWOOD, N.J.: Branch 86 ofthe Ukrainian National Women'sLeague of America is sponsoring anevening featuring author Luba Ko-lensky on the occasion of the publication of her third book, "Mirrors."The evening begins at 7 p.m. in the

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Chicagoans hold annual Shevchenko tribute

The O D UM Junior B andura Ensemble of Chicago a t the S hevchenko commemoration .

by Alex Poszewanyk

CHICAG O - St. Volodymyr's U-krainian Orthodox Cathedral School ofUkrain ian S ubjects in Chicag o onSunday, March 2 1, he ld i t s annualt r ibute to Taras Shevchenko. Theprogram was opened by Alex Konowal,the school's director, who greeted allthose present: students and their parents,numerous guests and clergy, includingArchbishop Constantine and the Rev.Theodore Bilecky, spiritual director ofthe school.

The life and work of Taras Shev

chenko were described in the keynotespeech given by Mark Pawlyk, a ninth-grader. The announcer for the programwas Lisa Kaszuba, a seventh-grader.

The program included group recitations of Shevchenko's poetry by childrenof the lower grades, prepared by theirteachers, and a performance by theschool choir led by Marta Stadnyk, themusic instructor. Individual recitationswere given by Valentina Dudycz andAnatole Konowal (third grade), ZenonHorb ( s e ven th g r ad e ) a nd R a i s aKarasejczuk (ninth grade). Vera Bjela-

jac, a ninth-grader, played a classical

composition at the piano.The program also included guest

appearances. The OBUM Junior Ban-dura Ensemble performed three songs.This ensemble of 17 memb ers, directedby Alex Poszewanyk, includes childrenof various parishes and youth organizations, most of whom attend or attendedthis school.

The ODUM String Ensemble, underthe direction of Victor Wojtychiw, agraduate of St. Volodymyr's School,performed a medley of melodies set to

the words of Taras Shevchenko.

Toronto senior citizens form 60-voice choir

The senior citizens' cho ir of S t. D emetrius Ukrainian Catholic Church.

by the Rev. Terry Lozynsky

TOR ONT O - In preparation for theofficial opening and blessing of theDemetrius Residence for Senior Citizens, the Senior Citizens Organizationdecided to form its own choir. Over60 seniors have signed up and, under thebaton of Dmytro Kowch, they gather

. twice weekly to develop their repertoireof hymns and folk songs.

Tnis organization was formed about10 years ago with a handful of seniors.Today it includes over 80 members andmeets on" a weekly basis in St. Demetrius Church Hall. Not only do theseniors enjoy the friendship and com

munity oi uigaiiuation, but various projects enable them to both contribute their talents and to discover thebeauty, joy and freedom that is theirs.Excursions, speakers, socials providean o pportun ity to relax in the friendshipof their peers.

The seniors also contribute to the muterial well-being of St. Demetrius Ukrainian Catholic Parish. They work inclose cooperation with both the Ukrainian Catholic Women's League as wellas the Ukra in ian Cathol ic Youth .Through bazaars, crafts and bake salesthey contribute to various organizations and maintenance of the churchbuildings. The seniors of St. Demetrius

work closely with all the youth organizations. They often inquire about their'various functions and volunteer theirservices since they truly believe that theyoung people are our future.

The greatest dream of the seniorsorganization is now a reality on theproperty of St. Demetrius UkrainianCatholic Church stands an impressiveapartm ent tower tha t will be a home forthe majority of the seniors. Luxuriouscommon areas and secure apartmen ts willprovide them with ample space and ahome atmosphere.

The Demetrius Seniors Residencewill be opened and solemnly blessed onSunday, May 2, at 2:30 p.m.

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P a n o r a m a o f U k r a i n ia n c u l tu r e i n th e B ig A p pby Helen Perozak Smindak

This afternoon, East Seventh Streetin M anhattan will take on an Old Worldsetting as youngsters in Ukrainiancostumes perform hahilky, the traditional ' spring dances, o utside St.George's Ukrainian Catholic Church.Moving in long lines, turning, formingcircles, chains and arches, the childrenwill provide their own musical accompaniment as they sing to the larks,swallows and golden-eyes who are theharbingers of spring.

The ritual dances, scheduled to beginafter' the no o n liturgy, area great delightto churchgoers and attract crowds ofpassers-by and photographers. A TVcameraman or two will usually drop byto take in "the Ukrainian Eastercustoms" for showing on news broadcasts later in the day.

The elementary school children,students of St. George's School, have

given previews of the Easter dances inrecent weeks, both in public and ont e l ev is ion . A ccompan ied by theirteacher, Darfa G enza, abo ut 40 girlstraveled to Fordham University onA pril 2 and gave a performance ofhahilky during Ukrainian D ay festivities there. On A pril 9, some 25 youngsters appeared on A B C-TV 's`live show,"Good Morning, New York," alongwith the Rev. Lawrentiy LawreniukandEaster egg decorators fa nia O beryshynand Sophie Zielyk.The sho w included ataped presentation of parish womenbaking babkas in the rectory kitchen.

Big Apple blooms with color

B rightening the pre-Easter seaso n formany New Yorkers were the decorating workshops and demonstrations coordinated by N atalia D umaatThe Ukrainian Museum. Museum officials report that about 35 participantsattended each of the workshop sessionsand that a Japanese film crew droppedby one day to record the batik methodof decorating eggs, for telecastingsometime in March on Channel 47.

The museum's exhibit of over 200brilliantly colored Easter eggs includessome with symbols from pagan times, agood many decorated here, some madein Ukraine and others decorated by

nuns in Germany. Displayed in setsaccording to types of symbols and theregions of Ukraine they represent, thepysanky take up all the wall space on thefifth floo r at 203 S econd A ve. They'realso shown ina ceiling-high glass roomdivider, where they appear to be floating in air though in actuality they aresuspended on fine nylon cords.

Elsewhere in the Big A pple, HomeB ox O ffice television showed S lawkoN o wytski's prize-winning co lor film"Pysanka: The Ukrainian Easter Egg"o n April 10.The B ronx Zoo hatchedaGreat Egg Event that included Ukrainian egg decorating fo r children, taughtby Marta Jacuszko and her daughter

Roma. The Ukrainian egg decoratingwas taught daily from A pril 9 to A pril14.

Mrs. Jacuszko instructed participants in egg-decorating workshops heldat the B ronx B otanical Gardens onMarch 26 and 28. A n exhibit of Eastereggs and egg-deco rating kits, which hasbecome a tradition at the Bronx Gardens through the auspices of YaroslavPastushenko of the A rka Company,was held again in the EducationalB uilding.

Notes on dancea From choreographing'the highly

acclaimed "Souvenir de Florence" forlast year's Tchaikovsky Festival, John

Taras movedon to

createa

new "Firebird" for D ance Theatreof Harlem. Hehas also added the O hio B allet to a longlist of companies which now performhis most famous wo rk, "DesignsforStrings." A sa ballet master of the N ewYork City B allet, Mr. Taras has the jo bof mounting Balanchine works all overthe world and he is regarded as adevoted mainstay of the company,writes D avid S ears in the latest issue ofN ew York Ci ty B al let N ews.ForN YCB's forthcoming Stravinsky Festival .(beginning June 10). Mr. Tarasplans to work with "Concerto for Pianoand Winds," a Stravinsky piece he hasused before. D uring the N YCB springseason at the New York S tate Theater

from May 4 to July 4, his "So uvenir deFlorence" will be performed in severalprograms.

V eteran folk dancersMary A nn andMichael Herman are "written up" inB etty Casey's bo o k, "InternationalFolk D ancing U.S .A .," just publishedby D oubleday. I haven t seen the bo okyet, but I hear the Hermans' contribution to folk dance is well recorded andtheir names are mentioned, by manycontributors throughout the book.

Ted Plaskono 3,a computer consultant with the Rendeck Corporation inB oston, who has beena member of theMandala Fo lk D ance Ensemble for thepast three years, performed with thegroup at the B roo klyn Center for thePerforming Arts on March 27 and 28.Tall, dark and handsome, he made astriking igure n B ulgarian, Hungarian,Irish, Slavonian and Romanian dances.Mr. Plaskonos, whosename is Ukrainian(not Greek, as it may appear in print),choreographed the. Hopak duet thatwas performed in the show. He studiedat various times with Wasyll Gina,Walter B acad, Markian Ko mlchak andRoman Strockyj. A mong the outstanding numbers performed by the companywere the circle dance from Slavonia,Yugoslavia's northern plainland; theHungarian wedding suite, and A ppalachian clogging, a uniquely Americanstyle of dance.

Ukrainian folkdances by the YoungV erkhovyntsi D ancers (with a fewaccordion melodies by Slavko Kosiw)

will be performed on May 5 at theUkrainian Restaurant during a Ukrainian dinner at which the Gamma chapterof Phi Lamda Upsilon,a honor chemical society at Co lumbia University, willinitiate some 50 to 60 outstandingstudents from Barnard College andColumbia's chemistry department andSchoo lof Chemical Engineering. V incent S altamach, Gamma Chapter secretary, explained the choice of a Ukrainian locale and Ukrainian entertainment; he said it was time for students torealize "there are also Ukrainians in theworld."

Th e art scene

" The Zabriskie Gallery's exhibitiono f A lexander Archipenko's naturalisticfigures created in the 1920s and 30sfocuses on his primary interest with thefemale figure. The show, which closesthis weekend, exhibits more than 15sculptures in bronze, lead, terra cottaand stone, as well as representativepaintings and drawings. 29 W. 57th S t.,10 a.m. to 5:30 p.m.

" Toronto-born artist Irka Iwachiw,now based in New York, held a one-woman show at the Ukrainian A rtistsA ssociation Gallery from A pril3 to 11.S he has expanded her earlier focus onprintmaking to work on paper in avariety of media - chalk, pastels,India ink, colored pencils, oil paint andoi l c rayons . Her show included 37works, priced from SI75 to S500, withtwo outstanding themes an abstracted rib-cage in brilliant red, blue, yellowand green on large canvasses, andbraided garlic shown in a series of sem i-representatio nal and abstract pieces.

11 The Co ntemporary A rtists Exhibit,a group show by II artists with impressive credentials, turned out to be asomewhat meager effort. A lthoughtheopening on March 28 drew a capacitycrowd to the Ukrainian Institute andprovided an opportunity for many tomeet and talk with the artists, the workson display did not seem to be a fullpresentation of the artists' talents (som eshowed one or two large works, othershad three or four small pieces in theexhibit). M o st interesting were A lexS iblmy's "Portrait of art A rtist" (1981),a four-part mosaic constructed from

ha l f - i nch ce ramic squa re s ; I l onaSochynsky's bold graphic oils "36thStreet" and "Mo torcycle," and O resta

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Szeparowycz's multi-media construction, expressing a meditative and spiritual form. " O ther pieces in the exhibitwere by A ny a Farion, V era Hrywniak,Laryssa Lawrynenko, O lga Maryschuk,

`A nna Bo rysenko Reynarovich, UlanaS alewycz, S tella B odak WarwickandHilary Zarycky.

The lecture circuit

The Ukrainian A cademy of A rts andSciences continued its"cycleof lectureson Kiev, Kharkiv and Lviv with anafternoon of reminiscences about theUniversity of Kharkiv (A pril 4) byformer students Lubov D rashevska,O ksana Burebiy, Oksana S olo veyandN adia S vitlychna. The series was initiated in February with a lecture o n theorigin of Kiev by Prof. O meljan Pritsakof the Harvard Ukrainian ResearchInstitute, who set forth his theory that

Kiev originated in the last quarter of theninth century and that it was founded byPrince Ihor (not Prince O leh, as manyhistorians believe).

On March 27, panelists B onder.Wytwycky, Roman Koropeckyj andA ndrew Fedynsky discussed the advantages and disadvantages of ethnicity inthe professions and academic comm unities. The academy's activities wereo utlined by Jaroslaw B ilinsky, WilliamO melchenko , O leh FedyshynandGeorge S hevelo v, academy president.

A mo ng recent offerings at the Fridaysoirees of the Ukrainian Literary andA rt Asso ciation were slide-illustrated

talks by K. Szonk-Rusych,on logical discoveries in Ukraine andcontemporary decorative art, and byProf. Lubomyr Kuzma, about the worko f the late Petro A ndrusivv, an artistwho specialized in large-scale workswith Ukrainian historical themes.

The origin and meaning of the word"kozak" were surveyed by V asyi.So siakat the March 28 conference of theResearch Society for Ukrainian Termin o l o g y Inc., headed by Dr. Kos t

- C erkewych. Dr. Ihor Huryn coordinated the conference, which marked theassociatio n's 10th a