M arch 22 and was signed by Patriarch Josyf Slipyja n d th e bierarchso f the U k r a in ia n C a th o lic C h u r c h .

w hich w e w ill m ark in 1988: N in e years rem aini n whicht o m ak e the prepara\u2013 tio n s. O n the occasiono f the Feasto f the R esurrection

the entire C hurcho f Christ at the m om ent when our nation a c c e p t e d

1 ,0 0 0 y e a r s a g ot o our resurrection with C hrist, in accor\u2013 dance with the thoughts

preparation for the 1,000th anniversary o f C h r is tia n ity in U k r a in e s h o u ld b r in g fo r u s th e s a m e k in d o f s p ir itu a l r ep en \u2013 tencea s does rebirthi n Christ, which g iv es

" L et o u r p r ep a r a tio n s fo r th e 1,0 0 0 th a n n iv er s a r yo f C h r is tia n ityi n U k r a in e help m ake u s ready to assist w ith deed a n d

D r . W . G eorge D a n y iiw , p r es id en to f th e U k r a in ia n C a n a d ia n P r o fe s s io n a l a n d B u sin ess F ed er a tio n , (r ig h t) sh a k es h a n d s w ith D r . J a m es H a m , p r esid en t o f th e U n iversityo f T o ro n to , after the tw o sign ed the agreem en t creatin gt h e first chair o f

M u ltic u ltu ra lis m . M inister N orm an Cafik was on handa t the cerem ony to present D r. W . G eorge D a n y iiw ,

J a m e s H a m , p re s id e n t of th e U n iv e rs ity of T oron to; D ean A rthur K ruger, D ean J a c o b S p e ll a n d

C om m itte e ,a n d officerso f th e fe d e ra tio n w h o w e re p re s e n t, a m o n g th e m

O ly a W illia m s, vice presidentfo r N ova Soctia; the very R ev.M . B odnarchuk

m yshl, Y asyl O vsienko, 30-year-old U k r a in ia n p h ilo lo g is t, c h a r g ed th a t a c c u s a tio n s

d a y so f S ta lin a n d B er ia . O v s ien k o a ls o said that " a s in thosetim es,t h e principal director here is the K G B."

sen ten cedi n F eb ru a ry to three years im prisonm entfo r refu\u2013 s in gt o a llo wth e K G Bt o

a p a r tm en t a n d fo r m a in ta in in g c o n ta c ts w ith m em b erso f the U k rain ian H elsin \u2013 ki group.

m ilitia. T his entire "case"i s fabricated ina m atter w orse than in the tim eso f S ta lin is m

always triedt o help people everywhere, to help the p eo p le o b ta in ju stice, it is for th is th a t1 a m b ein g d estr o y ed . B u t1 w ill try tos u r v i v e , so that1 will liv e tos e e the d a y w h en th e d efen d a n t's b en c h w ill b e f i l l e d

w illn o t h a v et o fa b r ic a te a n y th in g .\u0406 w ill tell o n lyth e tr u th , a s H ry b o ied ov s a id : " 1 w ill tell th e tr u th a b o u t y o u ,th e k in do ftr u th th a t willb e fa r worse thana n y lies."A nd God will help me survive.

their duties, they were a c tin ga s th e m ilitia s h o u ld .\u0406 a m n o ta c r im in a l. T h e m a x im

displease the au thorities.B ut1 looka t the la w s, n o t a t the a u tho rities.\u0406 w ill tell th e

people's court. Y ou were chosen by the p eo p le. B u t it w a s th e p eo p le w h o m y o u d id n o t let in t o th is c o u r tr o o m , b ec a u se la w lessn essa n d a c tio n s a g a in st th e people are created here, and the people are in the square. Y oua r e afraid to look in tot h e fa ces o fth ep eo p le. H ear ou t the voiceo f the people.A nd

the eyes not of the regim e, n ot through hypocritical eyes,b u t through hum an eyes intoth e eyeso f m y m other. Long live ju stice!

tw o form er hum anr ig h ts activists from th e S o v ie t U n io n to in q u ir e w ith S o v iet o ffic ia ls a b o u t th e b ea tin g o f P etr o v in s on M arch2 7 .

T he request was m ade by G en. P etro G rigorenko, W estern representativeo f th e

m o te the im p lem en ta tin o f the H elsin k i A c c o r d s , a n d Y u r i M iy k ,a m em b ero f the M oscow H elsinki group.

. C a llin gth e in c id e n t " in h u m a n ,"th e two form er dissidents said thatit w a s " n o ta ll th a t

M iyk to jd the secretaryo fs t a t e that the v in s fam ily has suffered p ersecu tion for their religion sin ce S talin 's rule.

" P etr o 's g r a n d fa th er :w a s to r tu r edt o deathi n Stalin's cam ps,h is grandm o\u2013 ther spent

father, pastor G eorgi vins, is currently serving his second sentence ina severe- reg im e ca m p in Y a k u tia . A ll this suffer\u2013 in g

b ec a u seh e isa m em b ero f th e U k r a in ia n H elsin k i g r o u p .

y o u r a tten tio n to the fact that in K iev, S oviet c it iz e n s ,w ho fi n di t n e c e s s a r y

com edy,a n d thisw a s doneo n Sucha prim itive level that the court was forced toa c t in a hypocritical m anner.

p r ev io u sly d ec id ed ,r e \u2013 gardlesso f whatw a s said here.\u0406 have already undergone four yearso f" r eh a \u2013 b ilita tio n "fo r s o m eth in g

a n d n o w1 a m t o u n d e r g o " r e h a b ili\u2013 tation through hard work anda severe r eg im e a m o n g h o o lig a n s , k iller s , r a p is ts and other dregso f society. T here it will b e

standard head so that it would not have a n y u n d esir a b le th o u g h ts, esp ec ia llyi n " sin c er e la n g a u g e." B u t1 w o n 't la s t lo n g there, because1a m still suffering from m y r ia d

v a sy l S tu s, w ho is in exile in the M agadansk oblast, is threatenedw itha new arrest, reported th e

i n t e r n a t i o n a la n d th e B r i\u2013 tish chaptero f the internationalP E N h a v e a lr ea d y b eg u n a c tio n si n d efen se o f S tu s. T hey have sent telegram s to the Soviet governm ent and have called fo r im m ed ia te a c tio n si n S tu s's d efen se.

The press service also revealedn ew in fo r m a tio n a b o u t sev er a l o th er U k ra i\u2013 nian political prisoners and dissidents.

ex ile sen ten cei n the K urhan ob last after having com pleted five yearso f im pri\u2013 son m en t. H er p etition to em igrate to the W estw a s tu r n ed d o w n .

M ykhailo O sadchy, who was arrested in 1972 and sentencedt o seven yearsi n concentration cam ps and three years in

169420, C ityo f T roitsko-Pechorsk.i n M arch, O sadchyw a s allow ed to visit his a ilin g

"in relation to this, we are petitioning the S tate D ep artm en tt o ask the S oviet M in istry

the A m erican con su latei n K iev ,"concluded G en. G rigorenko and M r. M iyk.

J E R S E Y . C 1T Y ,N .J . - T h e U .S . C onsulatei n K iev is in the,p rocesso f h elp in g

v in s,a m em bero f the U k r a in ia n H els in k i m o n ito r in g g r o u p , im m ig ra te

W eek lyw a s to ldo n A pril6 that sin ce the C anadian govern\u2013 m ent does not have a consulate in K iev, v in s 's

T h e a d m in is tr a tio n s o u r c e c o n fir m ed a report in the M arch2 9 issu e of K eston N ew s

T he British service said that vin sh a d been invited to the consulate in connec\u2013 tio n

w hether or hot v in sw a s invitedt o the consulate, he did say that th e 2 2 -y ea r -o ld

T he source also said thatth e U nited States supportsth e Canadian govern\u2013 m en ts' intercessions on behalfof vin s to S o v ie t o ffic ia ls .H e a d d ed

sy l R o m a n iu k ex ten d ed h is g r eetin g st o the hierarchso f Ukrainian Churchesi n the free w o r ld , rep orted the p ress service o fth e .U k r a in ia n

A rrestedi n 1972, the R ev. R o m a n iu k was sentencedt o1 0 years incarceration a n d

See to the U nited N a t io n s , A r c h b is h o p G io v a n n ia C h e li, r e c e iv e d

M sgr. R obert M oskal, acting chancellor of the A rcheparchy of P h ila \u2013 delphia and vice president ofthe Ukrai\u2013 nian C ongress C om m ittee of A m erica; M sgr. E m il M anastersky, vicar general oft h e Stam ford Eparchy,thevery Rev.

M ea\u2013 d o w s iv a n B a z a r k o , W C F U v ic e p r esi\u2013 d en t

W orld Congress of Free Ukrainians and, Borys Potapenko, director of the W C FU

the letter of Pope John Paul H to Patriarch Josyf Slipyj on the occasion of the1 ,0 0 0 t h anniversary of the Christianity in U kraine by quoting the p on tiffo n the p rin cip les o f religiou s lib erty... "which form

one of the basic principles oft h e U N . U niversal D eclar\u2013 ation on H um an R ights and which are c o n ta in ed in th e c o n s titu tio n s o f m a n y governm ents. B ased on that principle to w h ic h

m a k es frequent references, every believer has th e r ig h t t o p r o c la im

his b eliefs and to be a m em ber of the faith to which he b elo n g s ."

g r o w in g c o n c e r n o f a ll U k r a in ia n fa ith fu l in th e U n ited S ta tes a s w ell as tho se int h e free w o r ld

U kraine which have been forced into the catacom bs since W orld W ar

recountedh is efforts to prod the U nited N ations towards acceptance ofa declar\u2013 a tio n o n relig io u s rig hts. H e stated that the H oly S ee is op p osed to the politiza\u2013 tio n

o n religious rights. Archbishop Cheli held out little hope that it would

be com \u2013 p leted in the n ear fu tu re, p articu larly in light of the dism al

o f U .N . attem p ts to draft such a d ocu m en t over the past tw o d ecad es. H e also said that the H oly S ee is seek in g to alleviate the p light of religiou s believers by u tilizin g " q u iet d ip lo m a c y "

r elig io u s r ig h t s activists in U kraine. T he representatives s tr e s s e d

regim e p u rsu es sim ul\u2013 tan eou s p olicies of repressing religiou s, c u ltu r a l a n d n a tio n a l r ig h t s in U k r a in e b eca u se

o n th e D ec o lo n iz a tio n o f th e U S S R ," " E th n o c id e o f U k r a in i\u2013 a n s

and perhaps youa r ea w a r ea lr ea d y , that it h a s lo n g b een th e p o lic y o ft h e U n ited States to encourage, to the m axim um ex ten t

world. W e strongly support the concept of the right of national m inorities to prom ote

r elig io u s heritages in situations free of political pressures or repression.

S tu d en ts a t th e T r en to n S c h o o l o f U k r a in ia n S u b jec ts recently participated in a letter-writing cam paign on behalf of valentyn M oroz, w ho is to be released this year from

release and their hope that he will com e to the United S ta tes.

The students' action was based on a statem en t by 1.S. H ru shetsk y chairm an of the Suprem e Soviet oft h e U krainian S S R . in S ep tem b er 1975, M r. H rushet\u2013 sk y

arrest, he (M oroz) refused to recant his views and was sentenced to nine years in c a r c er a tio n in stea d

w ill therefo re, b e released in 1979. if the A m erica n s w ill still w an t him , then they c a n h a v e h im ."

a concentration cam p, and 'if the A m eri\u2013 cans still want him , they can have him !' \u0406 as a

ized by the C om m ittee for the D efense of valentyn M oroz. T he com m ittee has a p p ea led to a ll U k r a in ia n o r g a n iz a tio n s in eastern C anada to participate in the p r o t e s t .

in solitary confinem ent in con\u2013 centration cam p N o. 36 in the M ordo\u2013 v ia n A S S R .

O n t., chairm an of the com m ittee, said that new developm ents have particular r elev a n c e to C a n a d ia n s b ec a u se in 1975 a C a n a d ia n p a r lia m en ta r y d eleg a tio n in th e

1.S . H rushetsky, chairm an of the Suprem e S o v iet

o u r c o n s titu tio n a l o b lig a tio n a n d d u r in g th e w eek b eg in n in g M a rch 19, 1979, c o n d u c ted o u rfir s t a n n u a l a u d it of the assets, operations and organizing status oft h i s , our oldest and largest U k r a in ia n o r g a n iz a tio n in th e N ew W o r ld . O n th e b a s is o ft h e a u d it

at the 29th C onvention last year, in its activity guides itself by the sam e basic idealistic aim s

im plem ents the decisions, resolutions and recom m endations of that convention,b y appropriately adaptingi t s work and m ethods to the new tim es and circum stances, always keeping

recording,financialand organizing,as w ell a s S v o b o d a a n d S o y u z iv k a , a n d th e U k r a in ia n N a tio n a l U r b a n R en ew a l C orporation, are in proper order and are m anaged

T he S u p rem e A u d itin g C om m ittee a lso asserts that the U k rain ian N ation al A s s o c ia tio n , its lea d er s a n d m em b er s c o n tin u e th e h o n o r a b le tr a d itio n s o f th a t

s p ea r h ea d in g p a r tic ip a tio n in a ll p h a s es o f o u r c iv ic a n d c u ltu r a ll i v e s , a s w ell a s w ith th eir active m oral and m aterial support for our national central representations.

a n d th e U k r a in ia n C a n a d ia n C om m ittee, our scholarly, charitable, w om en's, youth and other organiza\u2013 tio n s,a n d

C ongress of Free U k r a in ia n s , fr eq u en tly a d d th eir d ec is iv e v o ic e t o a c c o m p lis h in g o u r m a jo r assignm ent \u2014 m obilizing our strengths and resources in defense of hum an a n d

audit att h e annual m eeting oft h e Suprem e A ssem blyi n M ay oft h isy e a r , but now , bearing in m ind the current status and activity oft h e U N A . as well as its n eed s a n d p o ten tia ls , th e S u p r em e A u d itin g C o m m ittee ea r n estly a p p ea ls to a ll

w ith g r ea ter d ed ic a tio n , perseverance and energy assist the Suprem e E xecutive C om m ittee and the S u p r em e A s s em b ly in a c c o m p lis h in g its p la n s a n d a c tio n s fo r th e c o n tin u ed growth and strengthening ofo u r Ukrainian Fortress Beyond the Sea, because that is in the b est in terest and w elfare ofa ll the m em b ers of the U N A , as w ell a s o f o u r c o m m u n it y in A m e r ic a a n d C a n a d a a n d o fa ll U k r a in ia n p e o p le in U k r a in e a n d th e fr ee w o r ld .