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A few years ago the rebirth of the vegetable garden has opened the door to the new you spiritually and physically. I ask the doers, the diggers, the planters, the ones with the dirt under their fingernails — What can be more rewarding than a healthy dig in the back yard? The sun on your back, the warm, moist soil running through your fingers, the promise of a great big tomatoe bush held in the tiny seed in your palm... And then the fruit of your labor is realized. The seed lives. It sends its first white tender probe deep into the soil and waves a tiny green leaf for victory. With time, it will be strong and tall and graced with many leaves. Then its flower, kissed by the wind, will turn into an insignificant bud of a fruit. That too will grow, swell with pride and blush with a marvelous red color, until its heaviness will be too much for the stalk to bear. Only then can you take your reward — in basketfulls — red, succulent tomatoes. Its a marvelous vegetable for all seasons, but best when just plucked from the vine, perhaps still warm from the sun. Our Cover. Our cover this month features a photograph of a mother and daugher, astride two ponies, from the Hutsul part of the Ukraine. In order to dissect the picture, the characters in it and the setting, we have used Volodymyr Shukhevych's book "Hutsulshchyna" published between 1899-1908 in Lwiw. The 5 volume work is an ethnographic research masterpiece, which reads like a sensational novel. It depicts in minute detail the world of the Hutsul, a world of untold beauty, mystery and charm which has fascinated the Ukrainian writers and artists for centuries. Cont. from p. 23. the law for the protection of the defendent in a rape case. The victim, on the other hand, is left completely vulnerable to the attack of defense lawyers or, even more seriously, without any protection from the law whatsoever. The rules can be broken down into three categories: 1) independent corroborative evidence 2) the chastity standard and 3) resistance, force and consent standards. Such rules do not apply in the case of any other violent crime. Currently, the independent corroborative evidence rules are being struck from most state laws. As recently as 1974, however, Connecticut, Iowa and New York all have such rules written into their criminal statutes governing rape. In effect, the corroborative evidence rule required that an independent witness support under oath,that is, corroborate the victim's testimony; if there were no witnesses at the scene of the crime when it occurred, the case was summarily thrown out of court. The consequences of this rule which unilaterally dismissed the victim's word as invalid were catastrophic. For example, during 1971 the New York City police "founded" 2,415 rape complaints and were able to make 1,085 arrests. Because of the corroborative evidence rule, only 100 cases were presented before the grand jury, resulting in only 34 indictments and 18 convictions. The chastity standard can more presicely be called the unchastity charge. Defense lawyers, taking the REMEMBERING THE "OLD DA YS" In order to commemorate the 100 Anniversary of Ukrainian settlement in the United States, OUR LIFE is sponsoring a contest — memoirs of the early days of our Ukrainian "pioneer" settlers. Obviously, one does not expect first hand experiences, for how many centegenerians still live within our communities?-but many people have family anecdotes and stories that have been passed from father to son to grandson concerning these early times. It is these stories that we are looking for. Tales that will give us a personal link with our Ukrainian forefathers and formother, who have seen this land firsthand, in the time of the Industrial Revolution, in the day of the silver dollar. Please confine your manuscript to 2 to 5 pages - double-spaced and typewritten. The most interesting entries will be published and rewarded. The deadline is September 30, 1976. OUR LIFE reserves the right to edit any submitted story. offensive, put the prosecution on trial. Rather than defending their clients they accuse the victim of immorality, promiscuity and lewd behaviour. Their tactics boil down to the argument that no decent woman could be raped or, conversely, that any woman who is attacked was, as the saying goes, 'asking for it.' While the victim of the crime can be maligned in this manner, the prosecution is not permitted to introduce evidence about the defendent's relevant sexual history — including prior charges and convictions for rape — unless he takes the witness stand. Of course, few defendents volunteer to take the stand and they are not required to do so. Among convicted rapists fully 64% are repeaters, one of the highest recidivist rates for any major crime. Cont. in next issue. 24 НАШЕ ЖИТТЯ, ТРАВЕНЬ, 1976 Видання C оюзу Українок A мерики - перевидано в електронному форматі в 2012 році . A рхів C У A - Ню Йорк , Н . Й . C Ш A.
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