LETTERS TO THE EDITOR (02/25/01)

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

Kuropas: provocative and ingenious writer

Dear Editor:

I, too, find Dr. Myron Kuropas' items slanted at times, and provocative. But, that's what makes for an ingenious columnist!

His articles cover varied themes - political, social, community, religious, etc., concerns and problems affecting Ukrainian Americans and Ukrainians abroad. His exaggerations are those of any columnist worthy of his/her salt to stimulate thought, seeking a positive or negative response, while at times stating just the opposite.

Den Wichar (Letters to the Editor, January 28) would do well not to offend an icon of our press unless he himself can do better. Although I appreciate the work of the Greens and Ukraine surely needs their assistance, I doubt if a column by Mr. Wichar would have much resonance, in the long term, in the Ukrainian American community.

Dr. Wichar, you owe Dr. Kuropas an apology. Your comments are undeserved and self-righteous.

Mr. Kuropas did just what he wanted: he challenged his readers and you responded!

Both of you have the welfare and the interests of Ukraine at heart. Do not create a rift in your common goal of aiding our brothers and sisters in Ukraine.

Good luck in your endeavors.

Zenon George Izak
Warminister, Pa.

The Rev. Medvid's visit brings closure

Dear Editor:

I want to express my most profound gratitude to your correspondent, Roman Woronowycz, for making possible the recent American tour of the Rev. Myroslav Medvid. For those of us involved with the long and endless Ukrainian human rights struggle of the past some 30 years, his case was indeed a rallying "cause célèbre" at a time when very few things seemed to be going right.

We always feared the worst in his case (despite the "rumors" to the contrary), so you can well imagine the tremendous relief and much-deserved closure we felt in actually meeting him in person.

Thank you. Thank you, so very much!

Jaroslaw Sawka
Sterling Heights, Mich.

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