O C V ΓΡΑΦΕΙ ΤΗΝ ΙΣΤΟΡΙΑ Bringing the news ΤΟΥ ΕΛΛΗΝΙΣΜΟΥ to generations of ΑΠΟ ΤΟ 1915 The National Herald Greek Americans c v A WEEKLY GREEK AMERICAN PUBLICATION www.thenationalherald.com VOL. 13, ISSUE 637 December 26, 2009 - January 1, 2010 $1.25 Bartholomew Makes Courageous, Impassioned Plea to Save the Patriarchate ‘Crucifixion’ Remarks In an Interview on ‘60 Minutes’ the Ecumenical Raise Patriarchate- Patriarch Says He Feels ‘Crucified’ in Turkey Turkey Tensions By Theodore Kalmoukos broadcast by CBS follows: The National Herald Staff Writer Simon (introduction): “Would it By Christopher Tripoulas surprise you to learn that one of the The National Herald Staff Writer BOSTON - Ecumenical Patriarch world's most important Christian Bartholomew, in a historic tele- leaders, second only to the pope, NEW YORK - Ecumenical Patriarch vised interview with CBS news lives in a country where 99 percent Bartholomew's interview on CBS's show “Sixty Minutes” on December of the population is Muslim? His “60 Minutes”, which aired nation- 20, said that he feels “crucified” name is Bartholomew, and he is the wide on Sunday, December 20, pro- and that the Turks are trying to dri- patriarch of 300 million Orthodox voked reactions from the Turkish ve the Ecumenical Patriarchate out Christians. He lives in Istanbul, Government after “60 Minutes” of Constantinople. Turkey, the latest in a line of patri- shined a glaring light on its reli- It was an unprecedented and archs who have resided there since gious intolerance and human rights courageous denunciation of before there was a Turkey, since the violations against the Greek minor- Turkey. No Ecumenical Patriarch centuries following the death of Je- ity living in Turkey and the ancient has dared to make such a statement sus Christ. Christian See of Constantinople. in the past 50 years. During the in- That's when Istanbul was called During his interview with Bob Si- terview with reporter Bob Simon Constantinople and was the most mon, Ecumenical Patriarch the Patriarch appealed to the Amer- important city in the Christian Bartholomew likened his treatment ican people and to the entire world. world. by the government in Turkey to The Patriarch said that Ortho- But times change, and in mod- 'crucifixion’, which drew a response dox Christians are treated as sec- ern Muslim Turkey the Patriarch from Turkish Foreign Minister Ah- ond-class citizens and that the doesn't feel very welcome. Turkish met Davutoglu, who replied that he Turkish government does not re- authorities have seized Christian wished those remarks were a “slip spect the history of the Greek Or- properties and closed Christian of the tongue.” Patriarch thodox faithful and the Patriar- churches, monasteries and schools. Bartholomew told “60 Minutes” chate in Turkey. "And we don't feel His parishioners are afraid that the that members of Turkey’s Greek Or- that we enjoy our full rights as authorities want to force thodox community do not feel they Turkish citizens," he said. Bartholomew and his church - the enjoy full freedoms as Turkish citi- "If you're treated as second-class oldest of all Christian churches - zens and feel they are treated as citizens here and you are Greek, out of Turkey. “second-class citizens.” why don't you go to Greece?" Si- His official title is impressive: “We feel that our mission is here mon asked. ‘His All Holiness, Bartholomew, as it has been for 17 entire cen- "Because we love our country. Archbishop of Constantinople, New turies… I wonder why the authori- We are born here. We want to die Rome, Ecumenical Patriarch.’ ties of our country do not respect here. We feel that our mission is ‘Ecumenical’ means ‘universal,’ this history,” the Patriarch said. The here, as it has been for 17 entire and worldwide, 300 million Ortho- Ecumenical Patriarch - spiritual TNH/COSTAS BEJ centuries," the Patriarch explained. dox Christians look to him for spiri- leader of the world's some 300 mil- Santa's Little Helpers "And I wonder why the authorities tual guidance. lion Orthodox Christians - ruled out of our country do not respect this We first met him in Istanbul. It relocating Orthodoxy's top see to The children of the William Spyropoulos Greek American Day School in Flushing, New York, perform in history.” Greece, saying he would stay in the annual Christmas party. The all-day event, held on December 22, also included a Christmas pageant. The entire interview as it was Continued on page 4 Turkey. “This is the continuation of Jerusalem and for us it is equally a holy and sacred land. We prefer to stay here, even crucified some- times,” said Patriarch Bartholomew. Asked if he feels cru- Moody’s Downgrades Greece, but Not by Much Sacrament cified, he replied, “Yes, I do.” Turkish Foreign Minister Davu- ATHENS (Reuters) - Moody's In- Greece negative, meaning the S&P. costly bailout of the country, dent- toglu commented on the Ecumeni- vestors Service cut Greece's debt country risks a further downgrade. "Greece's repositioned rating of ing confidence in the value of the Stolen from cal Patriarch's remarks. “We consid- rating on December 22 but partial- Government steps announced in A2 balances the Greek govern- euro and European assets in gener- er the crucifix metaphor an ex- ly reassured financial markets by the last few weeks to curb the ment's very limited short-term liq- al. tremely unfortunate metaphor. In saying the country remained far deficit are likely to prove only par- uidity risks on the one hand, and its The government is determined Priest’s Car from a crisis, igniting a rally in tially effective, Moody's said. medium- to long-term solvency to materialize the measures that Continued on page 4 Greek bonds and bank stocks. But Moody's also made clear it risks on the other," said Sarah Carl- have been announced, and is inten- By Theodore Kalmoukos The rating agency downgraded saw little chance of a near-term fi- son, Moody's lead sovereign ana- sifying its efforts for recovery of the The National Herald Staff Writer Greece to A2 from A1, citing the nancing crisis in Greece and that in- lyst for Greece. Greek economy, the Greek finance country's swelling budget deficit. It stead, the risks were long-term. Its That was a relief to investors, ministry press office said in an an- BOSTON - A thief or thieves broke WITH THIS ISSUE was Greece's third downgrade by a downgrade was smaller than the who have been worrying that nouncement on Tuesday after the into the car of Father Christopher major agency this month; Fitch two-notch cut which the markets Greece's debt problems could ulti- Moody's downgrade. Flesoras, the priest of the St. Anna took action early this month, fol- had feared, and its new rating for mately prevent it from borrowing The ministry underlined the fact Greek Orthodox parish in Roseville, lowed by Standard & Poor's. Greece was still two notches above in the bond market. The European California, and stole his holy com- Moody's kept its outlook for the BBB+ assigned by Fitch and Union might then be forced into a Continued on page 9 munion kit. The kit contained the Holy Sacrament and it was taken while he participated in a funeral service at the local Serbian Ortho- dox church. In a telephone interview with St. Basil’s The National Herald, Rev. Christo- pher Flesoras said, “We had prayed Glows with at a funeral and were at the makaria. When I came out, my back window was smashed and also the Christmas car next to me. Unfortunately, they took my bag thinking it was a lap- By Angelike Contis top or something of that sort.” The National Herald Staff Writer He said “Probably someone saw it when I opened the door; it is an NEW YORK - They wore glittering SUV. So they broke into my car and angels’ halos and long shepherds’ they took the communion kit.” cloaks, regal crowns and shirts and Fr. Christopher was on his way ties. The youngsters of Saint Basil to give Holy Communion to one of Academy in Garrison, New York, his parishioners. “In fact after the put on a Christmas pageant that funeral I was to visit someone to couldn’t be beat on December 19. give him the Eucharist, so it has Though snow forecasts kept been incredibly tragic. I am putting some visitors away, present were information [out] to the local com- Archbishop Demetrios and repre- munity hoping that the bag is re- PeterPanarites sentatives of the consuls of Greece turned.” and Cyprus, AHEPA and the Philop- He told TNH that he feels terri- Is Mourned By tochos Society – as well as friends, ble: “Tragic, the greatest loss is the family and academy graduates. Eucharist, everything else is re- The children re-enacted the placeable,” he said. Community birth of Jesus Christ on a stage He has served at St. Anna’s since complete with a manger, elevated 2001. The parish is relatively new, angels’ structures and the house of just ten years old, and comprises WASHINGTON, D.C. - Peter E. Pa- Elizabeth. Soloists sang both Greek “under two hundred families, ap- narites, an attorney whose love of and English songs, with the older proximately 20 miles from Sacra- opera, hiking and Greek and Italian children offering readings. A real mento”. culture was exceeded only by his sheep named Madi provided comic He explained that, “It is a mixed intense devotion to family, died in relief, as the little shepherds were parish; it is a very pan-Orthodox Bethesda, Maryland on November initially hesitant upon their en- TNH/ANGELIKE CONTIS parish. Our Deacon and his family 24, 2009 at 79 years of age. The counter with her. The children of Saint Basil Academy with (l to r): AHEPA Supreme Pres. Nicholas Karacostas, the Acade- were received some years ago from cause was heart failure. After the performance, Cyprus’ my’s Board Pres. Evelyn Tsiadis, Greek Consul Evangelos Kyriakopoulos, Archbishop Demetrios, Fr. Con- the Roman Catholic Church. When Tall, handsome and possessed of Consul General in New York Koula stantine Sitaras, Philoptochos Pres. Aphrodite Skeadas and Cyprus Consul General Koula Sophianou. we say the Lord’s Prayer on Sunday, a deep, melodic voice and twin- Sophianou thanked the children for we begin with English, then Greek, kling eyes, Mr. Panarites was re- the family feeling – and offered to then Slavonic, Romanian, Spanish, called overwhelmingly by those join them on stage in the future. and Ethiopian. It allows the people who mourned his passing as a gen- Philoptochos President Aphrodite to each say something in their own tleman’s gentleman. Chivalrous Skeadas said the event reminded language…In the services we use and self-deprecating, he reveled in everyone about what Christmas is Media Mogul Christos Lambrakis Dies primarily English, but we use some both the lowbrow comedy of a really about. “Christmas is a truly Greek too; I would say 80 percent Marx Brothers film and high art of a joyous time to be here and to be to- ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Publisher group founded by his father Dim- to create the Athens Concert Hall in English and 20 Greek; I also say a Puccini opera. Mr. Panarites’ love gether with our family, because this and journalist Christos Lambrakis, itris, who died in 1957. He expand- 1991, and the Thessaloniki Concert line in Arabic, a line in Spanish and of opera and numerous hiking trips is our family,” Ms. Skeadas added. who headed Greece's largest media ed it to include some 20 newspaper Hall, a related project in northern sometimes a line in Romanian.” in the Italian Alps with his wife He- The Archbishop commended the group for decades and was the dri- and magazine titles, including the Greece. Asked if the parish retains its len inspired him to take up Italian show’s production values, the “at- ving force behind the creation of top-selling Ta Nea and respected Lambrakis never married. His Hellenic Orthodox identity, he said, lessons in mid-life for the pure joy tentive” sheep and congratulated Athens' main venue for classical daily To Vima, as well as a stake in funeral will be held Wednesday at “It does, sure it does; it is really a of speaking a language rife with the youngsters for trading in their music concerts, has died. He was private Mega TV. Athens' First Cemetery, a statement very nice community - it is a great passion and lyricism. His im- sneakers for sandals, despite the 75. "Christos Lambrakis was a very from his publishing company said. place to be.” promptu exchanges of a libretto cold weather. He lauded the Christos Lambrakis was laid to important member of the public life STATEMENTS BY THE STATE He said the congregants are passage in the manner of casual pageant text’s use of original bibli- rest on Wednesday with members of the country...who made a great AND POLITICAL LEADERSHIP mostly professionals, adding, “We conversation with a fellow opera- cal material, noting: “It was a very of his family, journalists, politi- contribution to the arts and to edu- "Christos Lambrakis' long and have physicians, those in law, those rich theological performance.” The cians, and people from the world of cation," Prime Minister George Pa- fruitful work in the media left his in real estate, numerous teachers, Continued on page 8 Archbishop also remarked upon the culture, arts, and letters in atten- pandreou said in a statement. life intertwined with our nation's engineers.” The priest noted: “They children’s “tremendous progress” dance. The funeral service was held "His loss leaves a huge gap, and modern political history. His pas- all support the church very much.” over the past five or ten years. “We at the Saint Theodore Church, and marks the end of an era." sion for culture has endowed His pastoral approach to inter- To subscribe call: 718.784.5255 are with you,” he assured the he was subsequently buried at the In recent years, Lambrakis was Greece with a priceless heritage - faith marriages is to not “see them e-mail: youngsters, and thanked those who First Cemetery of Athens. less actively involved in his publish- the Athens Music Hall, his life's as a challenge”. He explains, “It is a [email protected] “have been faithful to the institu- The Onassis Cardiac Surgery ing business and spent more time work. I offer my heartfelt condo- matter of the church being loving tion.” Center in Athens said Lambrakis on his non-profit ventures — the lences to his loved ones," Greece's and embracing, counseling them “As we live our lives every day died at the hospital Monday, De- Lambrakis Research Foundation, President Karolos Papoulias said in appropriately prior to their mar- and we have the stress and the hus- cember 21 from multiple organ created to promote education pro- a statement. riage, answering any questions the tle and bustle, there is nothing failure after receiving heart surgery grams, and the Greek Friends of Main opposition New Democra- couple has.” on November 30. Music Society. Continued on page 6 Lambrakis inherited a media He led a group of private donors Continued on page 9 Continued on page 7 2 THE NATIONAL HERALD, DECEMBER 26, 2009 - JANUARY 1, 2010 THE NATIONAL HERALD, DECEMBER 26, 2009 - JANUARY 1, 2010 COMMUNITY 3 GOINGS ON... In the Spotlight: Nicholas Pappas ■ NOVEMBER 27 – JANUARY 17 members, guests and ladies are wel- ASTORIA, N.Y. – Ethos Productions comed to participate. It will be a 4- By Eleni Kostopoulos I went from the National Guard to presents ‘A Cuckoo Family’ at the man scramble format longest drive, The National Herald Staff Writer the Greek Batallian to the OSS and Hellenic Cultural Center in Astoria. contest to the pin, and putting con- was sent to Greece. The biggest bat- ‘A Cuckoo Family’ is a play adapted test. Entry fee, per person, is $75 and NEW YORK - Ninety-seven year-old tle was in Lamia and we won at that and directed by Larisa Antypa. The that includes, green fees, cart, door Nicholas Pappas is a U.S.-born re- time. I was the director of the group story takes place in the 1960s in prizes, trophies for 1st & 2nd place tired Colonel of the U.S. Army who of 19 Greek Americans who went to Athens. Andreas and Mika meet dur- teams. Buffet dinner will be served. was a member of the Greek Ameri- Athens, the first and only Greek ing Carnival in Venice; they fell in For more information, contact: Gus can Battalion. He was one of its American expedition that made it love and get married that same day. Pantelides at: (727) 461-1211; members who was recruited into the down to Athens. We had orders from With their return to Athens, Andreas Michael Pantel at: (727) 461-6220 or Office of Strategic Services (OSS) the president to go down there to finds out that Mika is not only very (727) 213-4104 and Demetrios Kirk- and who was parachuted into make contact. By then the Greeks spoiled but also was engaged to iles at: (954) 463-6500. Greece during World War II. He then were fighting among themselves - someone else. There are no rules in fought in France; the surviving mem- the left and the right. Mika’s home, everybody does what- ■ JANUARY 10 bers of that group were recently hon- After the war, I was in the re- ever they like and Andreas attempts LOWELL, Mass. – The Ladies Philop- ored by the French Government. Af- serves and I was once called in to be to win Mika’s heart and put some or- tochos Society of the Transfiguration ter the war, he continued to serve as part of a 21-person secret service de- der in this Cuckoo Family. “A Cuckoo Greek Orthodox Church in Lowell, a reservist. Mr. Pappas and his wife tail to Eisenhower in Geneva. I was Family” is presented in Greek with hosts their traditional (Vasilopita) Faye have also been benefactors of his right-hand guard because of my English subtitles. General Admission Gold Coin celebration on January 10. the extraordinarily successful language skills. is $ 25 and $20 for Seniors/Stu- They will begin collecting names De- "Odyssey Charter School" in Wilm- Retired U.S. Colonel Nicholas Pappas and wife Faye at a parade. TNH: What are some of your dents/Groups (10 people or more. cember 13. The donation is $20 per ington (the Wilmington Chapter most recent proud moments? The Hellenic Cultural Center of the piece. Proceeds of this event will be #95 of the Order of AHEPA funded aptitude [I didn’t know at the time] Greek, Arabic, French and I knew NP: President Obama went to El- Greek Orthodox Archdiocese is lo- given as a donation to St Basil’s Acad- the launching of the school), found- for memory, for languages. I could them all. I speak nine languages. I lis Island and I brought the Greek cated at 27-09 Crescent Street. For emy. For further information, contact ed by George Righos and Peter Yian- pick them up quickly. I was released started to learn them when I was in American school kids from the further information and reservas- Pat Mahoney, President of the Ladies nos five years ago. Members of the at around 12 years old, and I began New York City - I wasn’t in school Odyssey Charter School and they tions, call: (646) 945-9429 or (718) Philoptochos Society at: (978) 436- Greek American community have talking to Italians so I picked that up, when I was a youngster; I started a were very much overjoyed. I’ve also 408-4571 or e-mail: 0998 or e-mail: philoptochos@tran- expressed to The National Herald then I picked up Yiddish, too. I also little later. received much support from now [email protected]. schurch.org. The Transfiguation that Mr. Pappas’ most admirable still know Biblical Greek; when I go TNH: You were a Colonel of the Vice President Joe Biden, who Greek Orthodox Church is located at: quality is his young soul and continu- to church I know the meanings of all U.S. Army. What are some of your brought me to the White House ■ DECEMBER – JANUARY 9 5 Clark Str., Lowell, Massachusetts. ous love of dancing traditional Greek the hymns that are chanted in most vivid memories of World War many years ago, when he was still CHICAGO, Ill. – The National Hel- dances like the zembekiko. church. II? senator. lenic Museum is featuring the exhibit ■ JANUARY 25 TNH: How did you get to where I’ve been married to my wife Faye NP: I was one of the first Greeks TNH: Is it true that you love to Neolaia/Pathos on Tuesdays through LOS ANGELES, Calif. - Dr. Frederic J. you are today? since August 29, 1948 and we live in to get in before D-day. I was in the dance? Were you always a dancer? Saturdays until January 9. The exhib- Kakis, author of the book, Legacy of NP: Mother was from Thessaloni- Delaware. We attend the Holy Trini- paratroopers, the 82nd airborne di- NP: I used to dance in the Rose- it features the work of 13 young Courage, will speak about living in ki and my father was from Sparta, ty Cathedral in Wilmington with Fr. vision, and I was among the first, land Ballroom in New York City in Greek-American artists using various Greece during the Nazi occupation and they were living in New York Costas. along with my brother in-law, to land contests. I also competed in Brook- media, including painting, pho- on January 25 at 12:30 pm at St. City. In 1912 or 1913, my father, who TNH: What has been your great- on the Normandy beachhead. But I lyn and in Harlem, where they had tographs, sculpture and video. A $5 Sophia Cathedral. His book is a fic- was an expert confectioner, went est achievement? also vividly remember the 28th of the Apollo Ballroom, which had a donation is suggested and it is free tional account based on the true story with my mother back for a visit to NP: The liberation of Greece! October, 1941 [OXI day]. I had different name at the time. My wife, for kids under age 12. The National of his family’s survival from the Nazis Greece and they were stuck there for That we [my Greek American fight- joined the National Guard in 1939 who is a bit younger than me, also Hellenic Museum is located at: 801 in Greece. In his book, he skillfully a couple months and I was born in ers] were the ones known as “the with a group of Greeks. We were pa- loves to dance. She’s still youthful. W. Adams St., Chicago, IL 60607- manages to concurrently provide de- Thessaloniki, although my records band of brothers”. At that time we triotic and we knew that things were As you ask me this question, she is 3034. For further information, call: tails and background information show I was born in New York City. were in the OSS. They didn’t have becoming difficult because the Ger- singing and dancing in the back- (312) 655-1234. about the historical events related to When my mother and father died any interpreters - most of the inter- mans were attacking in different ground! the Greek resistance movement and and I became an orphan at a young preters they had were Polish and places. We knew that any day they ■ DECEMBER 31 the major role it played in saving the age, I was placed in a Greek Ortho- Jewish - but they needed translators would attack Austria and the North- Contact Eleni at EleniK@then- BROOKLINE, Mass. – The Annuncia- lives of Jewish Greeks. St. Sophia dox Church in New York and I had an that spoke languages like German, ern part of Greece. ationalherald.com tion Cathedral of New England will Cathedral is located at: 1324 South host a New Year’s Eve Celebration on Normandie Ave. Los Angeles, CA. December 31 at 8:00 p.m at The Cathedral Center. Ring in the New ■ JANUARY 29-31 Year with the Cathedral Family. CHARLESTON, S.C. – The Greek Cocktails, hors’ d’oeuvres, lamb din- Church of Holy Trinity of Charleston ner and vasilopita will be served. South Carolina is hosting its Centen- There will be dancing and a cham- nial Banquet on January 29-31 at pagne toast as well. A vegetarian op- the Charleston Place Hotel. On Jan- tion is available, inform at ticket pur- uary 29, cocktails and Art Exhibit chase. Tickets are $55.00 for Adults Reception will begin at 6:00 p.m. to ($65.00 if purchased after December 8:00 p.m. at the Gibbes Museum of 20); $35.00 for students ($45.00 if Art. The Gibbes will feature an ex- purchased after December 20). For hibit as part of its Charleston Story reservations, call the Cathedral office entitled, “The Greek American Ex- at: (617) 731-6633 or Co-Chairs: Lu- perience at the Turn of the Century la Kiflit at: (617) 970-7477 or Christa in Charleston.” On Saturday, Janu- Philipoppoulos at: (781) 843-0469. ary 30 the Divine Liturgy of the The Cathedral Center is located at: Three Hierarchs and Tonsure of Al- 162 Goddard Avenue, Brookline, tar Boys at the Holy Trinity Greek Massachusetts. Orthodox Church will begin at 9:45 a.m. and a Centennial Brunch will ■ DECEMBER 31 follow at the Hellenic Center with ASHBURN, Virginia – Asteria Pro- Metropolitan Alexios and Archbish- ductions presents the 6th Annual op Demetrios. A Centennial Grand Greek New Years Eve Party at Nick’s Banquet program, dinner and dance Corner Grill on December 31 at 8:00 will begin at 7:00 p/m/ at the TNH/COSTAS BEJ TNH/COSTAS BEJ p.m. Music by DJ Liakos with live en- Charleston Place Hotel. On Sunday, Holy Trinity of Hicksville Presents Christmas Pageant Archdiocesan Metropolitan Youth Choir Shines tertainment by Matthaios Roussos, January 31, the Holy Trinity Greek Mirka Xatzi and Tasos Xristou. There Orthodox Church Hierarchal Divine More than 120 students participated in the annual Christmas pageant The Archdiocesan Cathedral of the Holy Trinity was the scene of the are two admissions packages to Liturgy with Archbishop Demetrios of the parish of the Church of the Holy Trinity in Hicksville Saturday, Christmas Concert of the Metropolitan Youth Choir on Friday, Decem- chose from. The Mega Paketo Pack- and Metropolitan Alexios will begin December 19. A packed hall braved a blizzard to be present with the ber 18 in New York. Archbishop Demetrios was present with Greece’s age is $89.95 per person and in- at 9:45 a.m. A farewell luncheon Archbishop and officials of the Consulate of Greece in New York. Deputy Health Minister Fofi Gennimata and other dignitaries. cludes: a complete 5 course sit-down will follow at the Town and Country dinner, dessert, full wait-staff service, Inn and Conference Center. For fur- champagne toast and party favors. ther information, e-mail: holytrini- The Glendi Package is $50 per person [email protected] or call: and includes admission at 10 p.m., (843) 577-2063. complimentary drink, champagne toast and party favors. There is also ■ JANUARY 7 special hotel accommodations at the CLEARWATER, Fl. – The Minos Youth new Aloft Hotel for $99 per room. of Clearwater is hosting its 2010 Cre- Nick’s Corner Grill is located at: tan Winter Conference at Shephards 42395 Ryan Rd., Ashburn, VA. For Beach Resort on January 7 at 4 p.m. tickets and hotel reservations, call: For those who chose to go early, on Asteria Productions at: (877) 878- January 6, there will be an Epiphany 4404 or (703) 371-9898 or visit: Celebration (diving for the cross) & www.asteriaproductions.com Epiphany Glendi all day beginning at 11 a.m. Registration will begin at 4 ■ DECEMBER 31 p.m. and poolside mezedakia will be FALLS CHURCH, Virginia – St. served at 7 p.m.; on January 8, break- Katherine’s Youth Adult League fast will be served at 9:00 a.m. fol- (YAL) will be hosting their New Year’s lowed by a day at the beach with var- Eve Gala, A Night on the Greek Riv- ious activities and then at 4:30 p.m. iera, on December 31 at 8:30 p.m. at shuttles will take all to the Panigiri at St. Katherine’s Melets Charuhas Cen- the Silogo; on January 9 the meeting ter. The Gala will be featuring leg- will begin at 11:00 a.m., followed by endary comedian Basile and live a beach volleyball tournament at 3 Greek music by Zephyros. There will p.m. and then the Cretan Formal TNH/COSTAS BEJ TNH/COSTAS BEJ be an open bar all night, a cocktail Dance at the Silogo. The package St. Demetrios School Brings Christmas Joy to TNH Christmas Angels in Astoria hour, a dinner and dessert buffet, price is $75 for PYA members and Champagne Toast at Midnight, prize $100 for non-members before De- The chorus and orchestra of the St. Demetrios Greek Day School in Ja- The students of the afternoon Greek School of St. Demetrios in Asto- giveaways, games and entertain- cember 1. For further information maica performed holiday music in Greek and English at The National ria presented their annual Christmas Show on December 18 in the ment. Reserved table seating is avail- about the conference and a more de- Herald’s headquarters in Long Island City. The delightful student-mu- Petros Patridis Center. The 3rd & 4th grades performed a sketch “Be- able up to 11 people per table. Tick- tailed itinerary, contact: Joanna sicians were directed by their teacher, Stavros Kilimitzoglou. fore the Manger” while other grades sang and recited poetry. ets are: $40 for children 12 & under; Boutzoukas at (727) 599-4646; e- $75 for teens 13-20 years-old; $125 mail her at: [email protected] for Adults. The Meletis Charuhas or visit: www.dcgreeks.com Center at St. Katherine’s is located at: Laconian Progressive Association 3149 Glen Carlyn Rd, Falls Church, ■ NOTE TO OUR READERS VA 22041. For tickets & info call He- This calendar of events section is a of the United States & Canada “Evrotas”, Inc. len Spanos at (703) 801-5289 or complimentary service to the Greek POCKET-LESS George Moshos at (202) 409-2302. American community. All parishes, P.O. 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Continued from page 1 would want to know, Your All Holi- smallest diocese in the world.” Patriarch Bartholomew tells ness, why the leader of so many The report then notes that the Simon: "This school prepared peo- was Easter, and worshipers from millions of Orthodox Christians in monks are all Greek, with one ex- ple who preached peace, preached throughout the Orthodox Christian the world lives in a country that is ception: there is Father Justin, a unity, preached love. So not giving world had come to celebrate 99 percent Muslim?" converted Baptist from El Paso, to the church the possibility to pre- Christ's resurrection on the holiest The Patriarch explains: "Be- Texas. pare these people, we offend hu- day of their calendar with the man cause we are here before this coun- Father Justin, the chief librarian, man dignity." who they see as their pope.” try became a Muslim country, much says, "Most of these date from the Simon: “The Patriarch says it Simon continues (interview be- earlier. Ever since the very begin- 10th to the 14th century.” not only offends human dignity, it gins): "My first question is this. ning." Simon: “He showed us the offends him personally because this How should I refer to you? As your Asked since the beginning of monastery's collection of Byzantine is his alma mater. Halki is where he All Holiness? As Patriarch? As Ecu- what, Patriarch Bartholomew says, icons, the largest and oldest collec- studied to be a priest… menical Patriarch? What is the "Of the foundation of our church, of tion in the world. Then he took us The Patriarch was born Dim- proper way to address you?" the Church of Constantinople." to what the Patriarch really wanted itrios Arhondonis in Turkey. Like all "Bartholomew. The official title Simon (over shots of the city): us to see: a little-known letter writ- Turkish citizens, he served in the is 'your all holiness,'" the Patriarch “And in the beginning Istanbul was ten by the Prophet Mohammed, al- Turkish army. He was ordained at replies, laughing. "But for me, called Constantinople, the ancient most 1,400 years ago, signed and the age of 21 and elected Ecumeni- Bartholomew is enough." city on the Bosporus where east sealed with his hand print, offering cal Patriarch in 1991. But the Turk- Simon: “For him perhaps, but meets west. protection and religious freedom to ish government does not recognize not for us. And while his All Holi- The city's skyline is dominated the Christians of the monastery.” the ecumenical or international ness may occupy the Ecumenical by minarets; at Friday prayers, the Father Justin explains, "These part of his title. To them, he is throne, his quarters are a far cry mosques are teeming. are precedents from Mohammed merely a local bishop.” from the Vatican. But the city's richest and most himself for toleration and peace Patriarch Bartholomew: "I His office is cramped and rela- renowned Christian churches are among people of differing faiths." have visited the prime minister, tively austere, his desk littered with museums today, Meccas for His All Holiness Patriarch Bartholomew is seen with Turkish Prime Simon: “The Patriarch then submitting our problems, concrete papers. No Michelangelos there. All tourists, not for worshipers. There's Minister Tayyip Erdogan. The Patriarch’s appearance on U.S. news- brought us back to the 21st century problems, and asking why, and ask- that is left of a Christian empire the Chora Church, with its fresco of magazine ‘60 Minutes’ has increased tension with Turkey’s officials. and Turkey, to his own back yard. ing to help us." once ruled from Istanbul is a com- Jesus whose eyes seem to go right He took us for a ride on an island Simon: “Do you get answers?” plex of nine buildings, tightly through you, and the Aghia Sophia, We are born here. We want to die Simon: “Our guide Sevim Kara- off of Istanbul in a carriage, with a Patriarch Bartholomew: "Nev- squeezed onto less than an acre of the first great church in Christen- here. We feel that our mission is biyik told us, much to our surprise, police escort. The Patriarch wanted er." land.” dom and an architectural wonder here as it has been for 17 entire that the four gospels were written to show us that Mohammed's mes- "Do you sometimes fear that the Walking with the Patriarch, Si- built 1,000 years before Saint Pe- centuries," the Patriarch explains. in Turkey and that three of the sage of tolerance has not been re- community will be wiped out?" Si- mon asks: "Now, is this the Vatican ter's Basilica in Rome, and for cen- He adds, "And I wonder why the apostles spread the word there. ceived by the Turkish authorities. mon asks. of your church?" turies the most important church in authorities of our country do not There are hundreds of these His prime example, The Halki "Not really," the Patriarch "Well, our headquarters," the Pa- the Christian world. respect this history." churches in Cappadocia, where School of Theology, the only Greek replies. "We survived. We do be- triarch replies. Fast forward a few centuries and Simon: “To better understand Christians sought refuge from per- Orthodox seminary in Turkey. Emp- lieve in miracles." Simon: “It's called the Phanar, it's hard to find Christians in Istan- the Patriarch's frustration, he sug- secution. The oldest was built in ty and abandoned, no priests and Simon: “And that,” the Patri- and it has been the heart of Ortho- bul. One local church “60 Minutes” gested we head off on our own mis- the 5th century, when Christianity no prayers… arch says, “is because Turkey is also dox Christianity since 1599. His all visited holds 500 people, but dur- sion, 500 miles east of Istanbul to a was in its infancy.” The Halki was closed down by the Holy Land, spiritually not very holiness promotes an informal at- ing its Sunday service its pews were region called Cappadocia. We Simon: "Do you think many Turkish authorities after passage of far from Jerusalem.” mosphere there: there's none of the practically empty. It was the same launched our search for this Christ- Christians realize that it all started a law banning private higher edu- Patriarch Bartholomew: "And ritual that surrounds the pope in everywhere we went. ian history in a hot air balloon and here in Turkey?" cation. That was back in 1971.” this is the continuation of Rome. And there is no cathedral - At the turn of the last century came upon one of the most bizarre Karabiyik: "Personal experi- The Patriarch notes, "It's a pity Jerusalem. And for us, it is equally only a modest church. The neigh- there were nearly 2 million Ortho- and dramatic landscapes on Earth: ence? No." and a shame. It's a crime to keep a holy and sacred land. We prefer borhood that surrounds it used to dox Christians in Turkey; 1.5 mil- from above the clouds, it looks like Simon: "It all started in the such a school closed, unused, for no to stay here, even crucified some- be Greek and Christian, but today is lion were expelled in 1923, and an- a city of stone. And when you ap- Holy Land…because that's…where reason. Why?" times. Because in the gospel, it is predominantly Muslim. The Pha- other 150,000 left after violent an- proach the cliffs, you see doors and Jesus is…from. 'Cause "Reasons of state?" Simon asks. written that it is given to us not on- nar is so small, our tour didn't take ti-Christian riots in Istanbul in windows carved by hand into the nobody…disputes that. But the "Reasons of state," the Patriarch ly to believe in Christ, but also to long.” 1955. rock eons ago. Christian religion began in Turkey.” replies. suffer for Christ.” The camera shows a policeman Today, in all of Turkey, there are It's extraordinary enough from Karabiyik: "In Anatolia, in Simon: “As a consequence, the Simon:"You said even to be cru- speaking to Patriarch only 4,000 Orthodox Christians the outside, but open one of the Turkey.” church can't train new priests - po- cified sometimes?" Bartholomew. left.” doors and step inside and you enter Simon: “The Patriarch then tential new patriarchs who, under Patriarch Bartholomew: "Yes. Simon: “It had just ended when Patriarch Bartholomew tells Si- a world of unfathomable beauty, sent us to the depths of the Sinai Turkish law, have to be born in Because we believe in the resurrec- a Turkish policeman informed the mon that Orthodox Christians in chapels with frescos painted while Desert in Egypt, to a Greek Ortho- Turkey. It's as if Rome closed down tion. After the crucifixion, resurrec- Patriarch that there was a threat on Turkey are treated as second-class Rome was still ruled by the Caesars dox monastery where early Chris- the College of Cardinals. tion comes." his life. It turned out to be nothing, citizens. "And we don't feel that we and Bethlehem and Nazareth were tians also sought protection. It's The hallways where 100 young Simon: Do you feel personally, but church officials say previous enjoy our full rights as Turkish citi- dusty little towns.” called St. Catherine's, and it’s locat- seminarians roamed are desolate Your Holiness, that you are being threats have been serious enough zens," he says. Simon (asking guide Sevim ed at the foot of Mt. Sinai where, now; the library's priceless collec- crucified sometimes? that the Phanar is surrounded by "If you're treated as second-class Karabiyik): "Are there any Christ- according to tradition, Moses re- tion of old manuscripts lies un- Patriarch Bartholomew: "Yes, I barbed wire and cameras and the citizens here and you are Greek, ian remains as old as this in the ceived the Ten Commandments. touched. Walk into a classroom and do." Patriarch has 24-hour protection.” why don't you go to Greece?" Si- Holy Land, in Jerusalem or Bethle- It is the oldest functioning it seems as if the students had just Simon asks, as the interview mon asks. hem?" monastery anywhere. There are 25 gone home today, not 38 years Contact Theodore Kalmoukos at continues: "I think a lot of people "Because we love our country. Krabiyik: "Not that I know of." monks here today, servicing the ago.” [email protected]. ‘Crucifixion’ Remarks Cause Tension between Ecumenical Patriarch - Turkish Government

Continued from page 1 Greek Prime Minister George The government says it has been ing. Papandreou called Patriarch assessing a number of legal options The interview was recorded in our history, there have never been Bartholomew on December 22 to to reopen the Halki Seminary - May, 2009, Ms. Hatemi underlined, crucifixes and there never will be. I pledge Greece's support. which Patriarch Bartholomew says adding that “being crucified” was a couldn’t really square this Several top Turkish journalists is of vital importance for the sur- commonly used Christian phrase. metaphor with his mature person- like Hurriyet columnist Oktay Eksi vival of the Greek Orthodox clergy. Sources close to the Ecumenical ality,” Davutoglu told reporters. found Patriarch Bartholomew's It has also pushed for a law to re- Patriarch, speaking with Turkish Stating that the Turkish nation’s statements justified, citing the inac- store the property rights of non- newspaper Milliyet, also under- history was built on religious toler- tion of current Turkish Premier Re- Muslim foundations despite objec- lined that the term “being cruci- ance, Davutoglu went on to say, “I cep Tayyip Erdogan despite numer- tions from the opposition. The law fied,” was commonly used among hope to see this as an undesirable ous meetings with the Patriarch expands property rights for non- Greek people. The patriarch didn’t slip of the tongue.” and vague promises. Muslim foundations but does not particularly target the current Turkey's President Abdullah Gul Hurriyet's Sedat Ergin coun- change the status of property Turkish Government with those re- backed Mr. Davutoglu's comments tered the Turkish FM's denial of seized by the state in past decades. marks, but he rather referred to at a press conference on Monday crucifixion in Turkey by citing the “Turkey is a secular and democ- decades-old troubles faced by the ahead of his departure for an offi- decrease in Greek minority popula- ratic state based on the rule of law, Greek Orthodox community in cial visit to Kuwait. tion from 120,000 in 1920 to less and it doesn’t treat its own citizens Turkey, the same sources told the “The foreign minister spoke of than 2,500 today, heavier estate differently according to their reli- daily. the issue extremely well. There is taxes for non-Muslims, the pogrom gious identities,” Mr. Davutoglu “We use the phrase in daily lan- nothing further to say on the issue,” against the Greeks of Constantino- said. guage. This is not against the gov- Turkish President Gül responded ple in September 1955, and the se- “If Bartholomew has complaints ernment, because the term of the briefly. cret deportation of 12,000 Greeks about this, there are authorities in- ruling Justice and Development Greece's foreign ministry re- in 1964. volved in these issues in Turkey; he Party [AK Party] has been the most sponded that among Turkey's oblig- Top Turkish TV newscaster and can convey [those complaints] to comfortable term for us in modern ations for joining the European journalist Mehmet Ali Birand also us. Necessary effort will be exerted history. But of course, is it possible Union is "that respect for the free- backed Patriarch Bartholomew. on whichever issues he feels should to forget that our school [Halki] is dom of religion and the rights of "The Patriarch is right. The Govern- be addressed. We are ready to lis- still closed; the Sept. 6-7 incidents minorities takes first place." ment has not kept its word, and by ten to every kind of complaint on [1955 rampage against ethnic Ecumenical Patriarch tricking a Turkish foundation for this issue, but we cannot accept this Greeks which led thousands to Bartholomew "is known for his wis- the past 38 years, it has crucified making of comparisons that we leave the country]; that our proper- dom and moderation, and for his the Patriarch." Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu (left) and Greek Foreign don’t deserve.” ties have been confiscated; and the unwavering support for Turkey's A major sticking point between Ministry spokesperson Grigoris Delavekouras traded jabs on Monday, ‘A DAILY USED PHRASE’ troubles which we have been membership of the EU," foreign Ankara and the Ecumenical Patriar- Dec. 21, 2009 following an interview by Ecumenical Patriarch While Mr. Davutoglu was speak- through?” the sources were quoted ministry spokesman Grigoris chate is that the former rejects Pa- Bartholomew that aired on 60 Minutes a day earlier. ing in Ankara, Kezban Hatemi, a as saying by Milliyet. Delavekouras said in a statement. triarch Bartholomew’s use of the ti- lawyer for Ecumenical Patriarch This article incorporates reports "It is the duty of all, and mainly tle “ecumenical,” or universal, ar- Turkey for not reopening a Greek long complained about the status Bartholomew, spoke with the Ana- from the Athens News Agency, To- those who carry responsibility for guing instead that he is merely the Orthodox seminary closed in 1971 of the seminary, located on an is- tolia news agency in Istanbul, day's Zaman and Hurriyet Daily the situation of the Ecumenical Pa- spiritual leader of Istanbul’s dwin- and failing to take measures to pro- land near Constantinople, and where she announced that Patri- News. triarch and the Greek minority, to dling Orthodox community. tect the Patriarchate’s property property issues, but his remarks to arch Bartholomew has planned to pay attention," the spokesman The European Union and the rights. Simon were some of his harshest release a statement this week in or- Contact Christopher Tripoulas at added. U.S. have frequently criticized The Ecumenical Patriarch has criticisms to date. der to prevent any misunderstand- [email protected]

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By Eleni Kostopoulos fort.” Most members of Team Aegean Team Aegean has provided and will The National Herald Staff Writer Designating a U.S. group of doc- are indeed owners of inflatable provide for the construction of tors with concrete specialties (a pe- boats with an equal love for the sea football fields, playgrounds, school NEW YORK – For more than 15 diatrician, an ophthalmologist, a and public service. It was this pas- sites, and gyms; it offers education- years now, a group of dedicated gastroenterologist, a dermatologist sion that launched the organization al, pedagogical, cultural, recre- doctors and various other profes- and a surgeon), the anticipated in 1995, along with a sharing of ex- ational and athletic equipment at sionals set aside a period during the 2010 tour will take place from May periences, concerns and the desire all school levels (such as school fur- late spring or early summer to sail 13 to 23. to do good, according to the orga- niture, books, toys), shadow the- the beautiful seas of Greece, but the “You begin to become familiar nization’s website. ater performances, concerts, pre- trip is not meant to serve as a with the people you visit each year U.S. and Greece-based oncolo- ventive medical examinations and peaceful retreat. The aim of “Oma- and you feel more love and grati- gist Dr. Nikos Touroutoglou, a interventions. Health services are da Aigaiou” or Team Aegean is to tude each time,” cardiologist Dr. Team Aegean member, said that supported by the medical depart- save lives and enhance the well-be- Georgios Plakogiannakis, told tele- many consider the team to be a ment of the group, which has more ing of Greek islanders with little or vision station Mega last year, dur- trustworthy institution. “Because than 15 specialties, including: In- no accessibility to some of life’s ba- ing the 2008 voyage. Dr. Plakogian- much of the community comes ternal Medicine, Cardiology, Gyne- sic necessities. Next year’s mission nakis, who is a long-time member from these islands, if we enhance cology-Obstetrics, Pediatrics, Or- will entail even greater support of Team Aegean, made his way to the life of residents of border is- thopedics and Child-Orthopedics, from abroad: five New York-based the United States to welcome Dr. lands, then we enhance the life of a Oncology, Pulmonary Medicine, doctors, including President of the Tsioulias to the team earlier in the big portion of the population of Dentistry, Neurology, moral sup- Hellenic Medical Society of New month at the Holy Trinity Cathe- Greece,” Dr Tourouglou said. port, Dermatology, Urology, ENT, York (HMSNY) Dr. George Tsiou- dral of Manhattan. So far Team Aegean has visited General and Plastic Surgery, Vascu- lias, a hematologist/oncologist In his convivial speech, he 47 islands and traveled roughly lar Surgery and Microbiology in who is based in Astoria, New York, stressed that volunteerism consti- 12,000 miles on the sea. With the adults and children. will participate in the yearly benev- tutes one of the basic values of life. help of its members, the preventive Team Aegean is a non-profit or- olent voyage. He noted that it is both evident and medical examinations of more than Hematologist/oncologist Dr. George Tsioulias, who will be part of Team ganization, established legally in “What they do is so incredible,” unfortunate that the unequal treat- 6,000 residents of islands were re- Aegean’s next voyage, speaks at the Holy Trinity cathedral in NYC. 2001, which supports services to Dr. Tsioulias told The National Her- ment of residents of various islands alized, while more than 1,900 indi- improve the quality of life in ald, adding that Team Aegean de- of Greece still exists today. These viduals were granted hematologi- nual sailing across the Aegean Sea of medical and technological Greece. livers a message of hope and love residents of remote and small is- cal and biochemical examinations. by boats, including the ambulance equipment. For more information on Team for the residents of the isolated is- lands, he said, insist on remaining The activities of Team Aegean sea craft "Minas E", and a two-day The equipment consists of med- Aegean, visit www.omadaaigaiou.gr. lands of Greece. “I’m very excited in their homes, despite the im- are divided into humanitarian, so- campaign on the islands, engaging ical instruments, modern portable to be able to go next year and [par- mense shortcomings and major cial, environmental and cultural in medical tests and interventions, diagnostic equipment, recorders, Contact Eleni at EleniK@then- ticipate] in such an important ef- challenges they face. sections. Missions include the an- and the installation on each island and medical supplies. In addition, ationalherald.com. U. of Chicago Saint Basil Glows with Christmas 'Treasure' Continued from page 1 time at the academy. “You won’t be dent Eleni Meekins. She and her with your family, but you know you family raised about $5,000 in gifts. more humbling than to come to are with people who love you,” he She brought her children and Really Just Saint Basil’s Academy during said of how the holidays are there. nephew because she wanted them Christmas time and watch these He always encourages the young- “to experience the feeling of be- wonderful children perform this sters to put all their energy into longing” that she had felt when vis- a Fine Fake beautiful play,” noted AHEPA their studies. The children, he ex- iting Saint Basil Academy at Christ- Supreme President Nicholas Kara- plained, are well aware of the com- mas when she was younger. She re- costas. munity’s efforts to help out. Mr. Al- calls: “I used to come as a teenager By Stefano Esposito A town of gingerbread houses shanniek added: “They know with my church. I used to go home Chicago Sun-Times Staff Reporter was on display on two big tables in what’s going on.” and not sleep.” the entrance. One of them – in a Santa was generous this year, as “We’re very proud of them,” not- It is considered one of the Uni- sign of the times - read “For Sale”. evidenced by a gift-giving session in ed Roseanne Roberts, who is an as- versity of Chicago's "treasures," On December 12, the children re- the main brick building. The small- sistant to the academy’s Father kept safe in a climate-controlled ceived help in this endeavor from est ones struggled to carry their big Constantine Sitaras. She noted that underground vault. Had it been put the Saint Basil Academy Fellow- boxes crammed full of gifts. “They most of the children will spend the on the auction block, it might have ship, a group of young profession- fit, they fit!” one girl sang as wore holidays with host families. fetched millions. Researchers now als who come to the academy once her new patent leather shoes. Individuals and groups interest- believe this Gospel of St. Mark is a a month (and often more frequent- Meanwhile, a little boy was just as ed in joining the Saint Academy Fel- The pageant's little shepherds were not sure at first what to make of phony. It was purchased by the Uni- ly) for mentoring and fun activities. absorbed in trying on his new lowship, and taking part in activities their real sheep, Midge, but the animal became a big hit with adults versity of Chicago in the 1930s. Among those who returned to Wolverine claws. “I’ll think about like bowling, ice-skating, pumpkin and youngsters. The Archbishop praised the ‘attentive little animal'. But that was before scholars and Saint Basil’s for the event was Joe it,” one teenager noted with a smile, picking and much more - can email scientists peered closely at the Coutlis Alshanniek, 23. Now a when asked if he’d let the others use the group at [email protected]. the youngsters and participating in site: www.saintbasilacademy.org blotchy parchment pages of the U. graduate student (in University Ad- his new PlayStation 3. College-age students are particular- networking with the fellowship’s of C.'s "Byzantine" Gospel of St. ministration and Business) at Among those who made the ly welcome to join in the fun activi- young professionals. Readers may Contact Angelike Contis at ange- Mark. They have now declared the Boston College, he often spends gifts possible was Philadelphia resi- ties that include spending time with visit the Saint Basil Academy web- [email protected]. tiny hand-written, hand-illustrated book a fake. The findings are to be published early next year in Novum Testamentum, an academic journal devoted to Biblical studies. Far from being devastated that Photographing Archbishop Demetrios’s 1st Ten Years at the Helm the U. of C. was duped when it bought the fake from a Greek fami- By Angelike Contis Michael and Mary Jaharis for sup- ly in the late 1930s, the scholars The National Herald Staff Writer porting the book financially. who uncovered the truth are re- Mr. Panagos’ colleague, Aposto- lieved. NEW YORK - At the December los Zoupaniotis, editor of the Greek "It's actually tremendously satis- 17 presentation of a new book de- News newspaper, called the book fying to have a definite result," said voted to his first ten years at the “a labor of love” for the community Margaret M. Mitchell, a professor head of the Greek Orthodox and church. “It’s not a regular pho- at U. of C.'s Divinity School. "Schol- Church of America, Archbishop to album, but a history book,” he arship depends as much as possible Demetrios underlined that he could added, calling Archbishop [about] being absolutely certain only accept the honor of the large Demetrios a peacemaker. At the about these things. "The manu- photo gift book if readers realized event, the adjective “peaceful” was script, written in Greek, originally that it was actually about the com- frequently attached to the Arch- was believed to have been written munity – and an “amazing commu- bishop’s first ten years at the head as early as the 14th century. But nity” at that – rather on himself. “I of the Greek Orthodox Church of strong suspicions that it might not feel disengaged from the book,” he America. be nearly so old surfaced in 1989, modestly noted of the volume that Fox News White House corre- after it was discovered that a blue features him in 537 shots. spondent Mike Emanuel also pigment on one of the pages wasn't The handsome 368-page bi-lin- spoke. “I could not put this book available until 1704, Mitchell said. gual hardcover “Archbishop down,” said the reporter, who is a It took carbon dating, advanced mi- Demetrios of America: The First member of the Ecumenical Patri- croscope technology and good Decade 1999-2009” depicts the arch’s Order of St. Andrew. He not- sleuthing to discover the faker's head of the Greek Orthodox ed: “This book is perfect because it crafty handiwork. Church of America with political reminds all of us of the places Arch- "The evidence points quite di- leaders (from U.S. presidents to bishop Demetrios has been and rectly to it being fabricated for the Cuban leader Fidel Castro) and im- Archbishop Demetrios at the presentation of the new book about his first decade in his current role. The some truly powerful moments, like antiquities market," Mitchell said. portant religious figures, but also front row includes Fr. Frank Marangos, Greek Consul General Balta, Michael Jaharis and Bishop Savvas. page 320, where a young man in The clever faker probably spent with ordinary people in the U.S. in military uniform is on one knee re- countless months on the manu- moments of both crisis and celebra- notice that Mr. Panagos was busy such a book is that when the people he appreciated that the church hi- ceiving a blessing of His Eminence script, and even smeared a "brown- tion. snapping photos at the event. His read the book, they will discover erarch had “the time to say hello to at Ground Zero.” The Fox news- ish-black" liquid on the edges of the The volume was the work of the Eminence inquired, with a humor- the beauty, the truth and the mag- the last person when he visits or man said of the Archbishop, “He is pages to create a "charring" effect, official Archdiocese of America ous tone, referring to the industri- nificence of the Greek Orthodox when he is at an event.” He added: the real deal…In this era of style Mitchell said. Medieval manu- photographer Dimitrios S. Panagos ous photographer: “Do you know spirit. And thank you for that.” “He even goes into the kitchen to over substance, he is all substance.” scripts often collected soot around and journalist Revecca Pa- anyone else who - is responsible for Upon taking the podium, pho- say ‘Thank you.’ And it teaches us a At the end of the gathering, the edges after years and years of padopoulou. In his speech at the a book…who even during [its] pre- tographer Panagos said the work lot.” which was attended by members of people reading by candlelight, event held at Manhattan’s Cathe- sentation is working?” The Nation- was a realization of a dream to cre- The photographer, who was the community including Mr. Ja- Mitchell explained. dral Center, the Archbishop lauded al Herald’s photographer Costa Bej ate a book that captures “some- born in Greece in 1958 and immi- haris, businessman John Catsima- Even if the manuscript is now the book’s creators not only for was on hand to photograph Mr. thing in the history of our ‘omo- grated to the U.S. at age 11, said tidis, and Greek Consul to New worth far less than originally be- their enormous task of reviewing Panagos when he put down his geneia’ (Greek community)”. He that he looks forward to the next York Aglaia Balta, the faithful lined lieved, it's still a valuable research tens of thousands of photographs, camera to take the podium. noted that he was grateful for hav- decade of following Archbishop up for the Archbishop and photog- tool, Mitchell said, adding that it but also for “ten years of happy The Archbishop closed by not- ing “the privilege of working close- Demetrios. A photographer too for rapher/author to autograph the will help future scholars uncover a marriage.” ing: “The only way for me to accept ly with his Eminence for ten years”. the Athens News Agency and Mace- book. The smiling Archbishop em- faker's fingerprints. The spiritual leader didn’t fail to the production and publication of In that time, noted Mr. Panagos, donian Press Agency, he also point- braced many of those at the presen- ed to the pressing need for a cen- tation like old friends. tralized archive of photos of the Greek community in the U.S. Mr. Contact Angelike Contis at ange- Panagos thanked philanthropists [email protected].

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ALL HISTORY Al Bowlly Crooned His Way through Dazzling U.S. Tour, Died in London Blitz

By Steve Frangos morning in the band’s dressing Wait until the sun shines through Their Guitars” and “Radio Stars with ternet at the www.YouTube.com The National Herald Staff Writer room: Smile my honey dear, while I kiss Two Guitars.” Among many record- site. For those of you not familiar away each tear ings, the two recorded Nicky the with computers this is a site that fea- PART TWO Weep for the moon, for the moon has Or else I shall be melancholy too! Greek (Has Gone) on April 2, 1941 tures both short and long films that no reason to glow now; Another measure of Bowlly’s suc- with Pat Dodd on piano (HMV BD- you can view for free. These can be CHICAGO - In the winter of 1934 Weep for the rose, for the rose has no cess is that he ultimately traveled to 922). In point of fact Al Bowlly’s last seen at any neighborhood library Albert Bowlly arrived in North reason to grow now; Hollywood to perform in the film recordings were made with Mesene with online computer facilities. America already an internationally The river won’t flow now, The Big Broadcast of 1936. just two weeks before his death. Our all too brief survey of the life recognized recording star. The As I lay me down to weep. By 1937, Bowlly, fresh from his It was during the London Blitz: and career of Al Bowlly is an effort American press was keenly aware You went away, and the break in my triumphant two year tour of the “His last date was at the Rex Theatre to introduce new individuals into that Bowlly had already established heart isn’t mending; United States was back in England in High Wycombe on 16th April, the overall exploration of Greek his “reputation in this country en- You went away, and I know there is with his own band, the Radio City 1941. After the show, Al returned to contributions to the fields of perfor- tirely through [his] distinctive no happy ending, Rhythm Makers. For all the atten- his flat in Dukes Court, Piccadilly. mance and promotion in the diaspo- phonograph records which Victor is- There’s no use pretending, tion given to this man’s artistic ca- On this night London was suffering ra. As Al Bowlly, a self-identified sued here, long before they came As I lay me down to weep. reer, Al Bowlly’s, business savvy one of its heaviest air raids. Instead Greek from South Africa was estab- over (Aiken Journal and Review When you were mine, the world was seems to continually escape atten- of taking cover in the air raid shelter, lishing himself in Great Britain, at April 10, 1935).” mine, tion. Bowlly always tried to have as Al was sitting up in bed reading a essentially that very same historical Al Bowlly, with orchestra leader And fate constantly smiled. many performative venues open to cowboy book. In the early hours of moment, other Greeks born in the and arranger Ray Noble, and Billy Now in its place, I have to face him as possible. Occasionally one April 17, 1941 a German bomb diaspora were simultaneously mak- Harty, a friend and drummer, ar- A pillow of tears, all through the Al Bowlly, charismatic and bril- will read about how work dried up came silently down and exploded in ing their first attempts to enter the rived with the intent of forming an years. liant musician, left us too soon. for musicians and other performers the street outside Al's window. world of entertainment: the An- entirely new orchestra. Glenn Though you are gone, I still pray that at the beginning of the war. But even After the "all-clear" had been sig- drews Sisters, the Condos brothers, Miller, just then a rising star himself, the sun shines above you; Al Bowlly and not the other way a cursory exploration into World nalled, the caretaker made his Georges Guétary, Jimmy Mesene, hand-picked all the musicians in- Time marches on, yet I know that I around. Obviously, celebrity culture War II and the arts reveals the exact rounds to see that everyone was all Georges Metaxa, George Melachri- cluding such individuals as Claude always will love you and its resulting tabloid accounts opposite. For all nations involved in right. When he entered Al's flat, lo- no and many others. Wouldn’t some Thornhill, Charlie Spivak and Bud are never to be understood as histo- the war, moralewas a central con- cated on the corner of Jermyn Street kind of overall comparative study on Freeman. Bowlly and company The exact path of Bowlly’s tour is ry. Al Bowlly, Ray Noble, Bing Cros- cern, so the entertainment industry and Dukes Street, St. James, he this group of performers seem logi- opened at the prestigious Rainbow not now known. Whatever the route by, the Andrews Sisters, Frank Sina- world-wide experienced an un- found him dead on the floor beside cal for Modern Greek Studies pro- Room atop the RCA Building in Ra- may have been Al Bowlly’s record- tra and all the rest were living precedented boom. his bed, killed outright by the blast grams to pursue? dio City on Fifth Avenue in New York ings of songs such as “Blue Moon”, through a moment of transition in Throughout the late 1930s, even from the bomb. He was buried on City. They toured clubs, theaters, “Easy to Love”, “I've Got You Under public entertainment. Up to the while with his own orchestra, Bowl- April 26 in a communal grave at and saturated the radio with live My Skin”, and “My Melancholy Ba- 1930s, the vocalist was just another ly also regularly performed and Westminster city council cemetery, Contact Steve Frangos at grecian- performances from around the by” were considerable financial suc- band member. The name and focus sometimes recorded with the or- Hanwell, after a funeral service con- [email protected]. country. cesses. This led to Bowlly’s own ra- of the orchestra or dance-band was chestras of Sydney Lipton, Lew ducted by the dean of the Greek Or- On December 18, 1934, Bowlly dio series on NBC. If Bowlly’s NBC on the conductor, who was also Stone and Maurice Winnick. Music thodox Cathedral in London. The married Margaret Fairless (known special live radio performances and most often the musical arranger. buffs always stress that the versatile gross value of his estate was £1163 as Marjie) an English dance hostess, regular program are any indication Al Bowlly is credited with in- Al Bowlly also recorded in 1940 2s. 8d. although at the time of his in New Jersey. Without missing a of who heard him sing (and where) stantly recognizing the emotional with Ken ‘Snakehips’ Johnson's West death he had only £3 10s. 9d. in his GREEK POETRY beat Bowlly toured all corners of the we can have a better understanding and performative possibilities of the, Indian Orchestra. bank account, something of an irony United States. Al Bowlly gave one of his influence. I almost went snow then, new technology. Bowlly, “dis- It is here in the life story of Al given that his signature tune was stellar performance after another, blind trying to read through the liked the term ‘crooning’, and pre- Bowlly that we meet yet another ‘Buddy, Can You Spare a Dime?’ Hymn on the Birth even as his new marriage suffered dozens and dozens of local radio ferred ‘modern style singing’…the Greek musician of the diaspora, Jim- (www.memorylane.org).” the consequences of his ever more show listings for Al Bowlly’s radio modern intimate style of singing de- my Mesene. Mesene was born on Albert Bowlly’s legacy is that for of Our Savior demanding successes. performances during his United pends on the microphone, and that March 6, 1908 in Cardiff (Wales); the people of Great Britain, his mu- Right at this very moment in States tour. the microphone gives a new timbre his father was a Greek running a sic signals the late-1930s and the time, young George Thomas Simon, To give some scope to the kind of to the voice, amplifying previously shipping business. When he was fif- war years. That the Andrews Sisters When Augustus became a new drummer in the Miller Or- exposure Bowlly enjoyed on the ra- unheard harmonics. The techniques teen Jimmy Mesene was sent to can claim this same cultural role in sole ruler on earth, chestra, later recalled: “One of the dio (outside of New York City), let of the dance-band style of Greece to learn the shipping busi- the United States is obvious to any the multitude of rulers nicest guys I ever met was Al Bowlly me list just at random a dozen cities singing…characteristic of Bowlly: ness but the Great Depression ru- Hellene. came to an end. [the] South African singer, whose in which his program was aired: for example, a slight portamento, an ined his father and brought the Bowlly’s music has been show- And when You were incarnated warm and tender phrasing was a Oakland, California; Chicago, Illi- added grace-note, a fresh attack, young man back to England. Al- cased in more feature films, after his through Her who was pure, true reflection of his nois; Evansville, Illinois; New Or- and a dragging behind the tempo ready a superb guitarist, Jimmy death, than he ever did alive. He the multitude of pagan gods was personality…One of my fondest leans, Louisiana; Lowell, Massachu- followed by a catching up. His tech- soon became a highly successful can be heard singing ‘Midnight, the abolished. memories is of Bowlly taking me setts; Trenton, New Jersey; Cleve- nique is heard to advantage in ‘The musician. Extensive fan sites on the Stars and You’ and ‘It's All Forgotten All cities came under one aside and telling me he’d like to sing land, Ohio; Xenia, Ohio; Dallas, Very Thought of You’, recorded with Internet exist for Jimmy Mesene as Now’ on Stanley Kubrick's classic terrestrial king, me a song that Glen had just writ- Texas; San Antonio, Texas; Seattle, Ray Noble's New Mayfair Orchestra, they do for Al Bowlly, but with the ‘The Shining’ (1980) and his voice and all nations believed ten. Actually, only the melody was Washington; and Sheboygan, Wis- HMV's house band, in 1934 extra advantage of extensive com- can be heard in the charming French in one divine realm. Glenn’s; the lyrics were by Eddie consin. (www.memorylane.org).” mentary by James Messini, Jimmy’s film ‘Amelie’ singing ‘Guilt’. His mu- Augustus decreed that there Heyman, best known as the lyricist Given that Bowlly was never shy One musical success followed an- only son who now lives in near Mel- sic is often used as background in should be a census of men: of “Body and Soul.” about his Greek background, his fa- other. Al Bowlly’s recording of “My bourne in Australia (see esp. British TV series set in the twenties we believers took as our official Al was a very sentimental guy ther hailed from Rhodes, it seems Melancholy Baby was made in New http://virgin.net/davidh.taylor/jim- and thirties, such as ‘Poirot’, ‘Miss designation the name of God. who had no trouble showing his impossible that he did not meet York City on March 15, 1935 and myson.htm). Not only was Al Bowlly Marple’, ‘Goodnight Sweetheart’, Great is Your mercy, emotions, and I thought he was ac- some fellow Hellenes during his was his big signature commercial hit best man at Jimmy Mesene’ wed- ‘Pennies From Heaven’, ‘Edward & o Lord our God incarnate: tually going to cry as he sang with- travels. of this period of his life. ding when he married Emily Isobel Mrs. Simpson’ and other programs glory unto You. out any accompaniment, the new Newspaper accounts I’ve read “Come to me my melancholy baby, Gilbert on March 29, 1934, he was (www.memorylane.org.uk). song he had just learned and which during Bowlly’s USA tour sound Cuddle up and don’t be blue… godfather to the couple’s only child, On October 19, 2007, the BBC Kassiani. obviously had affected him very much different than the various bi- All your fears are foolish fancy, James. first aired their documentary, “Al much…I’ve been unable to forget ographies and liner notes. While all maybe During the early 1940s, Bowlly Bowlly: The Very Thought of You.” Translated by Vayos Liapis in the original lyrics of “Now I Lay Me sources agree it was a triumphant You know dear that I’m in love with and Mesene teamed up, performing Literally hundreds of Al Bowlly’s “The Greek Poets” down to Weep,” as Al Bowlly tour the newspaper accounts report you! on the London stage and on BBC ra- recordings and even those with Jim- Constantine, Hadas, Keeley crooned them just for me that early it was the Ray Noble Orchestra with Every cloud has a silver lining dio, alternating as “Two Greeks and my Mesene can be heard on the In- and Van Dyck. Sacrament Stolen from Priest’s Car

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By Roberta Smith son, who would later have a gallery and for a time represented a few Greek Artist is Mourned The New York Times of his own. Park Place artists. However geometrically in- In addition to Park Place, Mr. NEW YORK - Peter Forakis, a sculp- clined, these artists avoided the Forakis had New York solo shows in ATHENS (ANA-MPA/Kathimerini) tor who helped found Park Place, a simple, stable shapes of Minimal- the 1960s at the Brata Gallery, the - Yiannis Moralis, one of the great- prominent New York artists’ coop- ism. David Anderson Gallery and the Ti- est Greek painters of the so-called erative gallery of the 1960s, died Their best-known member, Mr. bor de Nagy Gallery. In 1966 his "Generation of the '30s" and who on Nov. 26 in Petaluma, Calif. He di Suvero, favored dynamic, open work appeared in “Primary Struc- had earned many distinctions both was 82 and lived in Petaluma. Mr. structures of tilted and balanced tures,” an important exhibition of at home and abroad, passed away Forakis was one of many young beams, objects and forms. His Park geometric sculpture at the Jewish on Sunday at the age of 93. artists in the late ’50s and early ’60s Place colleagues worked with and Museum. Moralis was born in the city of who took up geometry and moved against his influence, usually with Mr. Forakis returned to North- Arta, in western Greece, in 1916 into three-dimensional space as a more streamlined forms or brighter ern California in 1979. His last New and settled permanently in Athens way to avoid the omnipresence of colors. York show was at the Max Hutchin- in 1927. At the age of 15 he was ac- Abstract Expressionism. Often consisting of repeating, son Gallery in 1982. cepted at the Fine Arts School in Born in Hanna, Wyoming to flattened volumes tilted on a cor- He is represented in several pub- Athens and in 1936 he left for Greek immigrants, he grew up in ner, Mr. Forakis’s work had a math- lic collections and numerous com- Rome with a scholarship. California, in Oakland and ematical demeanor; sometimes it missions in Atlanta, Denver, Oak- In 1949, he and several Greek Modesto, and served in the mer- evoked the black, chunky forms of land, Nyack, N.Y., and elsewhere. artists founded the artistic group chant marine from 1949 to 1950 the Minimalist sculptor Tony In 2008 his work was included in "Armos" and organised the first and in the military in Korea from Smith. “Reimagining Space: The Park joint exhibition at the Zappion Hall 1951 to 1953. He earned a bache- In 1965 Park Place relocated to Place Gallery Group in 1960s New in 1950, while in 1954 he began his lor of fine arts degree from the Cal- 542 West Broadway (now La York” at the Blanton Museum of Art cooperation with the Greek The- EUROKINISSI ifornia School of Fine Arts (now the Peter talking to an art fan inside Guardia Place) and became known at the University of Texas in Austin. atre, first with the Art Theatre and Yiannis Moralis San Francisco Art Institute) in 1957 the new Petaluma Arts Center. for ecumenical invitationals that Mr. Forakis’s marriage to the then with the National Theatre. and moved to New York in 1958. included artists as varied as Ronald artist Phyllis Yampolsky ended in He was honored with a painting arts. Moralis was in the company of Over the next few years he went Grosvenor and Forrest Myers start- Bladen, Al Held, Eva Hesse, Sol Le- divorce. award in 1940 for the first time and other greats like Tsarouchis, Ghikas from concentrating on painting to ed exhibiting their work, playing Witt, Brice Marden, Sylvia Stone, He is survived by a daughter, works of his belong to public and and Nikolaou, and all together they making sculptures, just as geome- free jazz and discussing the future Ronnie Landfield, Carl Andre and Christina Forakis of Sacramento, private collections in Greece and were part of a much broader artis- try was becoming a force in both of public sculpture in a floor at the Joan Jonas. Park Place closed in who is the child of an earlier rela- abroad. tic milieu which involved composer mediums, but especially in sculp- top of a loft building in Lower Man- 1967. tionship; and by two children from Yiannis Moralis was an artist Manos Hadjidakis, set designer ture, Minimalist and not. hattan near Park Place, where sev- A year later its second director, his marriage to Ms. Yampolsky, Gia known for avoiding publicity. He Dionysis Fotopoulos, choreograph- In 1963, a group that included eral of them lived. Paula Cooper, opened her own Forakis of New York City and shied away from interviews and did er Rallou Manou, and director Mr. Forakis, Mark di Suvero, Robert The first director was John Gib- gallery on Prince Street in SoHo, Jozeph Forakis of Milan. not like to speak about his work. Karolos Koun. This reticence may partly explain This era is sometimes referred to the myth that surrounded him: that as the Golden Age of Greek intellec- of a cool, witty and dignified artist tual life, reflected in a mood of nos- who carried until his final days the talgia for the past, enveloped in the aura of the old Greek Athenian melancholy but sweet musical Barbecue Restaurateur Gus Frank Demeris Passes Away bourgeoisie. But it is mostly be- tones composed by Manos Hadji- cause Moralis, like other artists of dakis and the folk-like paintings of By Robert Stanton December 17 they did not charge work at Steve's. when Gus had last been there. his generation, became associated Yiannis Tsarouchis. Housston Chronicle customers. 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Continued from page 1 scenarios for Greece were probably Greek banks could lose some of crisis. excessive. their access to European Central Greek officials said on Tuesday that Greece's credit rating was "Going into next year, there is a Bank funds at the end of next year that the smaller-than-feared downgraded by Moody's just one strong chance that we do see a if Moody's downgrades Greece fur- Moody's downgrade was an initial level (from A1 to A2), but re- tightening in Greek spreads as new ther. sign that Greece, which aims to re- mained in the same category (A), money arrives in funds," he said. The ECB plans to tighten its col- sume borrowing from the interna- and was two levels higher than the But he added that austerity lateral rules at the end of 2010, so tional bond market in January, was ratings recently announced by two steps revealed by Greek Prime Min- if the ratings of all three major starting to regain investors' trust. other rating firms (Standard & ister George Papandreou this agencies are no higher than BBB+ "I believe Moody's rating better Poor's and Fitch). month were not enough to allay then, banks could become unable reflects the prospects of the Greek The ministry statement further markets' concerns fully. Papan- to exchange Greek government economy, given the Greek govern- noted that the Moody's announce- dreou announced a halt on most debt for cash in ECB refinancing ment's commitment to take the ment acknowledges that the mate- public sector hiring in 2010 and a operations. necessary measures to restore fiscal rialization of prime minister freeze on wage hikes for high-level However, Moody's said on Tues- health and improve competitive- George Papandreou's recent an- civil servants, but his plans include day that it saw very little risk of ness," Spyros Papanicolaou, head nouncements would pave the way pay rises above inflation for poorer this. of Greece's Public Debt Manage- to lasting solutions to the problems civil servants. "Moody's believes that Greece is ment Agency, told Reuters. of the Greek economy. "The country is sticking to a bud- extremely unlikely to face short- However, Carlson at Moody's MARKETS get that the markets do not find en- term liquidity/refinancing prob- said the government's ability to im- Greek bank stocks, which had tirely credible. Until the budget lems unless the European Central plement reforms would be key to tumbled more than 35 percent moves to a more structural ap- Bank decides to take the unusual the outlook for its rating. Some of since mid-October, rebounded 4.6 proach to reduce the deficit, and step of making the sovereign debt Papandreou's austerity measures percent on Tuesday morning. that involves cost-cutting, we will of a member state ineligible as col- face domestic political opposition, The premium which investors not really see volatility to go down lateral for bank repurchase opera- and a communist labour group demand to hold 10-year Greek gov- by much," Knight said. tions - a risk that we consider very held a one-day strike last week to ernment bonds rather than bench- Greece is set to become the euro remote," says Arnaud Mares, senior protest spending restraint. mark German Bunds narrowed zone's most indebted nation next vice president in Moody's Sover- "We'll also be looking at the pub- sharply, to 246 basis points from year with public debt projected at eign Risk Group. lic acceptance of whatever mea- 280 - though it remained very high 121 percent of gross domestic ECB officials have so far insisted sures the government wants to put compared to most euro zone na- product. The budget deficit rose to publicly they will not change their into place, because that's really key tions, which are below 100 bps. EUROKINISSI 12.7 percent of GDP in 2009; the planned collateral rules to accom- for their success or failure," Carlson Justin Knight, a market strate- Finance Minister George Papaconstantinou chaired a council meeting government aims to cut it to 8.7 modate Greece. said. gist at UBS, said there was room for of Economic Advisers in the Ministry headquarters on Tuesday Dec. percent next year. But many analysts expect the "There's clearly not much of a Greek spreads to narrow further as 22, 2009. The Council is working with the Minister to draft a Stability COLLATERAL central bank to ease its rules in the history of public acceptance, so we investors realised their worst-case and Growth plan, which must be submitted to the EU in January. Markets have been fretting that end if that is necessary to avert a can't take that for granted." Modern Greece: The First 150 Years

By Prof. Th. P. Perros Constantine the Great", Kousoulas In the following pages, the au- Book Review combines a lively writing style that thor brings to life the events and the makes the book easy to read with personalities of the first 150 years. It D. George Kousoulas meticulous research that becomes is a story of determined efforts to Modern Greece: Profile of a evident as one goes through the overcome many hardships and ob- Nation: The First 150 Years. pages of the book. stacles, to liberate and bring into the BookSurge Publishing. The book begins with the Greek bosom of the free nation the Greek Pp. 308 (paperback). revolution against the Ottoman Em- populations still under foreign dom- pire. The opening paragraph sets ination and to overcome the back- Many of us have often expressed the stage for what is to follow. wardness left from four hundred the wish that our children and "Throughout the year, 1820, the air years of slavery. It is a story of tri- grandchildren knew more about over the Greek peninsula was heavy umphs and failures, great achieve- Greece, the country of our ancestral with anticipation. In the mountain ments and moments of despair, uni- origin. Unfortunately for too many villages and the small towns in the ty and strife, as the Greek nation of them Greece is only a name. Too valleys below, landowners and bish- strove to regain its place in history. often, their knowledge comes from ops, peasants, shepherds, and arti- As I came to the end of the book, sporadic and at times biased or inac- sans, brigands, sailors, and monks, I wished that Prof. Kousoulas had curate reports in the Media. Even traded rumors of things to come. continued his story to the present in- those Greeks of Hellenic origin who Visitors from the prospering com- stead of ending it with the fall of the would like to learn more about mod- munities of the Greek Diaspora as colonels' dictatorship in 1974. But, ern Greece will have a hard time far as Paris, Vienna, and Odessa of course, the events since then are finding a reliable and accurate book were bringing tidings of hope. The too recent to be covered with the de- of history covering the story of day of delivery from the Turkish tachment a historian must bring to Greece since the War of Indepen- rule, they claimed, was near. Almost his work. dence in 1821-1827. four centuries had passed since May In closing, I particularly enjoyed Such a book is now available. It is 29, 1453, the day the conquering the Introduction where in four "Modern Greece: Profile of a Nation; armies of Sultan Mohammed had pages Prof. Kousoulas unfolds a the First 150 Years" by Prof. D. G. breached the walls of Constantino- panoramic overview of the history Kousoulas, known to the readers of ple and thus ended more than a of the Greek nation since its origins, EUROKINISSI the English edition of the National thousand years of Byzantine history. all the way back to the time "when Delivering More Bad News, but Better than Feared Herald from his bi-weekly column In the following centuries, Turkish the historical record begins to blur on current affairs. It is a book that hegemony spread over the lands with legend." It would be a daunting Bank of Greece Governor George Provopoulos, left, met with Greece's President Karolos Papoulias at the can be a superb present to our chil- where Byzantium once ruled. The challenge for any historian to at- presidential mansion in Athens on Tuesday, Dec. 22, 2009. Mr. Provopoulos briefed President Papoulias on dren and grandchildren. Greeks, who previously held the tempt, but the author has done so the economic situation in Greece on the same day that Moody's Investors Service lowered its rating on the As he does in his other books of levers of power in the empire, be- with this sterling example of histori- country's Government debt one notch from A1 to A2. Moody’s is the only major rating company grading history like "The Life and Times of came a vassal people..." cal prose. Greece above BBB+ after cuts from Standard & Poor’s and Fitch Ratings. Christos Lambrakis Dies Greek Parliament Preparing to Pass 2010 Budget

Continued from page 1 ATHENS (Reuters) - Greece's parlia- All three major credit rating agen- The government plans to lay out zone's 3 percent of GDP ceiling by ment is set to pass the socialist gov- cies have downgraded Greece since its updated growth and stability plan 2013. cy party leader Antonis Samaras ernment's 2010 budget late on the 2010 draft budget was unveiled next month, its roadmap of specific said "One of the leading figures in Wednesday, which aims to cut the last month, on concerns over the targets to restore fiscal health and This article includes editing by Ron the public eye, publisher Christos deficit to single digits as a first step to- country's fiscal deterioration and bring the deficit below the euro- Askew. Lambrakis, is no longer with us. He wards pulling the indebted nation worsening debt dynamics. fought during difficult times and out of its fiscal crisis. Prime Minister George Papan- accomplished a great deal. He was The budget plan is expected to dreou, who won Oct. 4 elections on a a leading player in the press, in- pass easily after days of debate. The promise to tax the rich and help the cluding both print and electronic government has a comfortable ma- poor, has refused to take drastic mea- Patriarchate Issues Press Statement media. Aside from journalism, jority of 160 deputies in the 300-seat sures, such as across-the-board pub- however, he served the culture in legislature. The budget targets a fis- lic sector wage cuts, to shore up the CONSTANTINOPLE (ANA-MPA) - ment. the wider sense. Personally, back cal gap of 9.1 percent of gross domes- country's battered finances. The Ecumenical Patriarchate re- "Besides, our Prime Minister, who when I was Minister of Culture, I tic product, down from 12.7 percent Greek bonds, stocks and credit de- leased a statement to the Turkish me- is dealing with our community's had the opportunity to experience in 2009. fault swaps have been pressured in dia on Wednesday in regards to Ecu- problems with sincerity, has on sever- the warmth with which he em- Despite an economic slump, the the past weeks over fears the coun- menical Patriarch Bartholomew's use al instances expressed the problems braced every significant cultural government expects ordinary budget try's bonds may not make it as accept- of a "crucifixion" metaphor during his that he is facing in the path towards a initiative. The Lambrakis Founda- revenues to increase by 9 percent able collateral in European Central “60 Minutes” interview. "As a spiritu- state founded on Justice for all, has tion was active in the fields of edu- next year. Spending before debt ser- Bank repo funding operations. al leader with a duty to communicate used non-western terms, like the cation, the arts, environment, new vice payments is seen shrinking by Rating agencies have warned they the problems facing the Patriarchate, Turkish word for shroud. Govern- forms of agricultural and touristic 3.8 percent. may cut Greece's rating further if the [Ecumenical Patriarch ment officials are faced with the development, and the utilization of Many analysts believe the targets government fails to win public sup- Bartholomew] expressed these in his same problems in their sincere and modern technological break- are attainable but provide no guaran- port for tougher, long-term fiscal traditionally realistically and simulta- well intended initiatives aimed to- throughs. I express my sorrow over tee for fiscal restraint in subsequent measures. neously careful manner." wards a democratic state of Justice, his death and pass on my condo- EUROKINISSI years as they rely on one-off mea- Public sector trade union ADEDY The statement, composed in Turk- which our people support. lences to his colleagues and rela- Publisher and journalist Christos sures such as a windfall corporate tax has threatened to hold a 24-hour ish, also notes that "the term crucifix- “The Patriarch always prays for tives.” Lambrakis and a crackdown on tax evasion. strike by early February to protest ion is an expression related to the our country's prosperity and the ef- against budget reforms, which it problems facing the Patriarchate. forts and success of the Government claims are imposed by the markets. There are terms like this in every lan- in its path towards a state of Justice. Greece's main opposition conserv- guage, and they are understood in a Publicizing problems that exist, with- HIDDEN GREECE atives have said the government broader sense, in accordance with out hiding them, is a result of trust in needs to spell out more specific mea- the meanings that they hold in each our democratic social system. Every Andy Dabilis’ camera captures the texture of life in today’s Greece, in all its colorful variations. sures to tackle the country's fiscal individual language.” prudent and well meaning person ac- problems. Smaller parties of the left "It is obvious that when answering cepts that in an open and democratic say they will vote against the budget the question with this term, the Patri- society there is no other solution to because it does not boost lower in- arch was not seeking to characterize eradicating these difficulties, besides comes. pressures coming from our govern- making them known.” Christofias and Talat to Intensify Talks

NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) — Cyprus' ri- Union in 2004, but only Greek Cypri- reach will be put to simultaneous ref- val leaders agreed Monday to intensi- ots enjoy the benefits. erendums in both communities. fy talks aimed at reunifying the divid- Both leaders have been meeting Talat also faces a possible ouster ed island, in a move seen as key to for around three hours once or twice by a hardline opponent in an April achieving a possible peace deal next a week over the last 15 months but election and solid progress would year. U.N. official Yasser Sabra said have achieved little progress. sustain the talks' momentum through that President Dimitris Christofias, a U.N. envoy Alexander Downer a likely break for the poll. Greek Cypriot, and Turkish Cypriot said that January will be very impor- Christofias said "there is no set leader Mehmet Ali Talat will hold six tant to the entire peace process and goal" to reach a deal before the April daylong meetings next month. that there "really needs to be good election. He said negotiations would The meetings scheduled for Jan. progress." continue with "whoever the Turkish 11-13 and Jan. 18-20 will be held at a Next month's meetings will con- Cypriot community choses as its compound inside the U.N.-controlled centrate on issues where most leader." buffer zone separating the interna- progress has been achieved — pow- The slow pace of the talks has tionally recognized Greek Cypriot er-sharing under a future federal been blamed on the complex issues, south and breakaway Turkish Cypri- structure, the economy and EU mat- including arrangements on property ot north. ters. lost during the war and granting mil- TNH/ANDY DABILIS Cyprus was split in 1974 when The talks need a breakthrough to itary intervention rights to Turkey. A Marathon Seat Turkey invaded and illegally occu- dissipate public skepticism on either Downer said that, despite the dif- pied the island nation's northern side of the divide whether the leaders ficulties, the U.N. believes a peace You have to look before you take a seat sometimes, especially if you're going to sit on a history of third. can reach a peace deal. deal is "within the grasp" of the two Marathon, as this woman almost did during a celebration before this year's event The island joined the European Any agreement the two leaders men. 10 EDITORIALS LETTERS THE NATIONAL HERALD, DECEMBER 26, 2009 - JANUARY 1, 2010

The National Herald LETTERS TO THE EDITOR A weekly publication of the NATIONAL HERALD, INC. (ΕΘΝΙΚΟΣ ΚΗΡΥΞ), reporting the news and addressing the issues of paramount interest Greek American Community of tell the story of our forefathers. You nic museums in New York, yet we to make this happen. Contact us at to the Greek American community of the United States of America. N.Y. Must Work for Museum can check our website: www.the- have yet to have one. Why: The PO Box 1863, Grand Central Sta- greekmuseum.net and we invite lack of funds and support. tion, N.Y. or by email at: thegreek- Publisher-Editor Antonis H. Diamataris To the Editor: you to read about the work we have This very newspaper has written [email protected]. Lets hear from This letter is written in reply to been doing, about the programs we have given you NOW. Assistant to Publisher, Advertising Veta H. 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THE NATIONAL HERALD, 37-10 30th Street, LIC, NY 11101-2614 Despite the fact that we have given over 75 programs, have had a number of articles written about the work we are doing, and trying to fundraise, we have not been able A dramatic cry to the world to rally enough financial support to open a museum. We have been in- Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew’s interview on “60 Minutes”, CBS’s ac- terviewing elders, collecting arti- claimed newsmagazine, is a historic event that urgently launches the ques- facts, have over 2,000 photographs tion of the survival of the Patriarchate and its relations with the state of that tell the story of our people, and Turkey, where it is located. have in an insured storage facility Our view is that this amazingly effective interview strengthens the posi- books, textiles, and artifacts that CHRYSANTHI LIRISTIS / SPECIAL TO THE NATIONAL HERALD tion of the Patriarchate and forces the Turks to decide at last whether to allow it to operate in freedom as a religious institution and survive into the future, or forcefully uproot it from its centuries-old seat and face the world’s con- ΛΟΓΟΣ demnation. Bartholomew dared to do what his predecessors would not even contem- plate: Squarely addressing American public opinion, he dared to condemn Turkey for its concerted policy of gradual extinction by asphyxiation. He de- clared, in essence, that the Patriarchate is under persecution, and he lifted Meaning in Politics: Searching for the Soul of Government himself into the ranks of the leading religious figures of our times. Turkey, on the contrary, suffered a first class public relations disaster in the SANTA FE, N.M. - It sure looks like 1980 had been referred pose and meaning of of life, a moral spirit.” all-powerful court of public opinion, due to the powerful argument for reli- public trust and confidence in gov- to as a “crisis of compe- government. In the To the extent that government is gion freedom projected by Bartholomew. ernment in the United States are suf- tence,” and Professor same vein, activist Jim viewed as the physical manifestation The question on everyone’s mind is: How will Turkey react? This is the big fering. Indeed, Americans in large Lynn’s book was fo- Wallis, the founding ed- of a collectivity of living beings also unknown. It is our belief, however, that Greece’s neighbor will not dare to numbers today seem not only to dis- cused on improving the itor of “Sojourners” provides reason to believe that it pos- take any drastic retribution against either Bartholomew or the Patriarchate. trust but also resent their govern- capacity of government magazine, has argued sesses qualities of human systems of Global public opinion will not tolerate it now. ment. And I’m not just referring to to discharge its respon- that “we can find com- its own. Hence, it is no accident that Anyone who happened to see the program last Sunday night, be he or she those who have been participating in sibilities more effective- mon ground only by the name “body politic” has been a Greek, a Christian or an atheist, had to be moved, driven to tears and anger the so-called “tea parties” that are ly, efficiently, and equi- moving to higher used frequently throughout recorded over the demeaning, humiliating way the Turks treat Orthodoxy’s centuries- targeted at the federal government. tably. ground.” In other history when referring to govern- old religious institution. Support of government at the state Let me suggest that words, constituency- ment and its proper place in society. When the key question came, you could feel the entire country holding its and sub-state levels is also on a path managing the public’s based politics, with its One of the qualities of living human breath. “Do you feel personally, Your Holiness, that you are being crucified of erosion as citizens increasingly business has never been by Dr. ALEX factional interests, will systems, I think that most readers sometimes?” asked Bob Simon, the “60 Minutes” correspondent. “Yes, I do,” question the role and scope of public as important as it is to- PATTAKOS not lead us to this high- would agree, is deeply spiritual in na- was the simple, straightforward, but powerful response from the Patriarch. sector intervention, the unwilling- day. Political realign- er ground. Politics has ture. It is an unprecedented accusation in the 21st century. It is reminiscent of ness their representatives to cross the ments, increasing glob- Special to been reduced to the It should come as no surprise that the 20th century barbarisms of Turkey, a sort of a continuation of the rapes, chasm of partisan differences to craft al competitiveness and The National Herald selfish struggle for pow- in order to affect reform in ancient the destruction of property, the killing and expulsion of the Greeks from Asia meaningful public policies, the un- interdependencies, and er among competing in- Greek society, both Plato and Aristo- Minor and Constantinople, the Turkish genocide of the Greeks, Armenians controllable pace in government ex- emerging developments in technolo- terests and groups, instead of a tle ultimately resorted to “spiritual and Assyrians. penditures, and the effectiveness and gies, to say nothing about the dire im- process of searching for the common means” as the preferred course of ac- What was it that pushed Bartholomew to take this gamble with his posi- efficiency of public service delivery. plications associated with the cur- good. And this reductionist view of tion. It was their view that in order tion, and the future of the Patriarchate, at this point in time, now that Turkey In short, the attentive public is now rent, unstable economic and security politics, I’m afraid does not lead to “to heal disunion and division of spir- is so strong and Greece is undergoing one of its most serious crises? asking if this really is “change that we milieu, all contribute to the need to change that we can believe in. it, one must employ a common edu- There must be many explanations. The most important, probably, is that can believe in.” carefully examine the public’s return Finding the point of balance be- cation, which will put all men on the Bartholomew reached the conclusion that time is running out fast for the sur- “They (citizens) have become on investment in government affairs. tween the common good and individ- same spiritual level, and initiate them vival of the Patriarchate, and thus he has nothing to lose, but a lot to gain. convinced that government, especial- Indeed, the very nature of the “pub- ual rights is no simple matter, espe- into the same spiritual community.” It seems that he had enough of the promises from U.S. presidents about ly the federal government, is waste- lic’s business,” by definition, estab- cially when one recognizes that there In line with the core message of this exerting pressure on the Turks to allow the Patriarchate to operate in free- ful, oppressive, and insensitive, and lishes it as the biggest business in the is no such point - at least not one that weekly column, it is the concept and dom. Perhaps he had enough of excuses by consecutive Turkish prime minis- people have come to doubt that pub- public marketplace. is fixed in space and time. We live in process of dialogue (rooted in ters about why they could not help. Perhaps he could not deal anymore with lic officials act in the public interest or I would add that our nation, as an “age of paradox” observes British “λογος”) that are linked most closely the feeling of hopelessness of seeing the property of the Patriarchate being in accordance with commonly-held well as so many others around the author, Charles Handy, and finding to the notion of a “common educa- stolen by the Turkish state and not being able to do anything about it. Perhaps values.” This statement does not globe, suffers not so much from a such a balance is at best a formidable tion” to build the kind of spiritual all that and more. Thus, he might have concluded that he had to use the ulti- come on the heels of the healthcare “crisis of competence” but a “crisis of challenge. Moreover, living in an age community envisioned here. And it mate weapon left to him, the power of public opinion. “debate” (and I use this term loosely) spirit.” In this regard, it is the essence of paradox applies to the government is through the process of authentic di- When politicians are under the influence of public opinion, they become that is still raging on Capitol Hill as I of government - at its most funda- sector, where the lack of order and alogue where we become really con- energized. That’s when they seek to transfer a problem from the dark alleys of write this week’s ΛΟΓΟΣ column. On mental level - that is at risk, not the clear-cut policy direction are com- scious of and connected to the “soul” low-level diplomacy into the sunlight of public discourse. Only that pressure the contrary, it was part of the open- capacity of elected, appointed, and monplace. in government. Alas, if only Plato makes politicians feel compelled to act. ing chapter to a book titled, “Manag- career public officials to discharge It is also clear that government and Aristotle were around today! This course of action, bringing the force of public opinion to bear on the ing the Public’s Business”, published their responsibilities effectively and tends to elicit deeply-seated value politicians, might even be encouraged by the politicians themselves, to pro- in 1981, following the election of efficiently. Only by reconnecting propositions about the boundaries Dr. Pattakos, author of Prisoners of vide the necessary pressure on Ankara that is required to obtain results. Ronald Reagan as President. The with its “soul” can good government between the public and private Our Thoughts, is currently work- Whatever the reason might be, one thing is certain: This interview was so book’s author, Laurence E. Lynn, was be exposed and the challenges of spheres of human existence. It is pre- ing on a new book on how to live a effective that it dramatically changed the dynamics in the relationship be- at the time a professor of public poli- guarding the public’s interest be ac- cisely this passionate desire for de- meaningful life inspired by Greek tween Patriarchate and Turkey. The Patriarchate found a powerful voice, cy at the John F. Kennedy School of commodated with integrity, dignity, marcation that sets the stage for un- culture (see: came into the spotlight, found protectors. The Patriarch himself became a Government, Harvard University, and, yes, transparency. derstanding the spiritual side of pub- www.theopaway.com). His col- martyr, a symbol of crucifixion, one who would rather suffer than give up, and was a former Assistant Secretary To be sure, this will require a dif- lic affairs and, more explicitly, points umn is published weekly in The thus winning the hearts and the minds of public opinion. in the U.S. Department of Health, Ed- ferent paradigm than that which cur- to the seat of the soul of government National Herald. Readers may There is however another dimension to this: Bartholomew has put Greece ucation, and Welfare and in the U.S. rently guides the public sector, espe- as a living entity in its own right. contact him with questions, com- in a difficult position, forcing her to take account of her position towards that Department of the Interior. cially at the national level. For one, it Government, in the words of the ments, and/or suggestions for top- institution and to place it at the top of the pyramid of problems the country The state of affairs that had will require that we collectively raise philosopher, Aristotle, “is more than ics at: alex@prisonersofour- faces with Turkey. brought about this collapse of popu- our consciousness and seek to discov- a legal structure, more than an thoughts.com or visit his web site: No mention was made of the community during the interview. Nor does it lar confidence in government in er common ground about the pur- arrangement of offices; it is a manner www.prisonersofourthoughts.com. matter, as far as the problems this community faces go. It dealt exclusively with the life or death situation facing the Patriarchate. Unquestionably the interview made Bartholomew more popular among our people. It enhanced the support he enjoys in our Greek American com- COMMENTARY munity. Bartholomew was correct in seeing the status quo as the mortal enemy of the Patriarchate. He dared to challenge an unforgiving country such as Turkey from within. He is forcing her to re-examine the issue not as a political problem but in the overall context of her local and European ambitions. Emergency Medicine: The Greek Diaspora’s Lifesaving Gift The interview was a gamble. Especially at a time when Greece can hardly provide anything more than moral support. By Christopher Tripoulas between pre-hospital, emergency training fellowship at the N.Y. Hos- would return home, where they However, history teaches us that those who dare, succeed. Most of the The National Herald Staff Writer and definitive care does not devel- pital of Queens. Prospective appli- would apply their expertise and lead time. op. Consequently, the best chance at cants must be Greek physicians-in- their hospitals into the cutting edge NEW YORK - Christmas is a time of survival and full functional recovery training with an interest in develop- of emergency care. giving, and the Greeks of the Dias- is often not available. To correct this ing EM in Greece. They would spend We've all heard the saying “give a pora have always felt very strongly deficit, many European countries three months training in N.Y., where man a fish and he will eat for a day, Christmas in Greece about giving back to society - espe- have developed or are in the process they would observe our system of teach a man to fish and he will eat cially their homeland. Some of mod- of developing specializations in emergency care and participate in for a lifetime,” and nowhere is it This Christmas, black financial clouds are superseding the otherwise blue ern Greece's greatest benefactors emergency medicine. bedside teaching. They would also more true than in an instance like sky of Athens, threatening to darken the mood of the Greek people. were Greeks living abroad, who It is this knowhow that Dr. be trained as Research Associates, this. The Greek American Commu- Not that the Greeks will not celebrate at all. Not that the skiing areas of the wanted to share their wealth with Radeos, Lead Ambassador to Greece and could continue their collabora- nity can provide an invaluable ser- country will not attract their share of business. On the contrary. their brethren. That's why Eleni for the American College of Emer- tion with their mentor even after re- vice to residents of Greece by sup- Nonetheless, the mood will be different. After all, the financial crisis is Kostopoulos' article “Doctor Works gency Physicians Section on Interna- turning to Greece. porting this program. hanging over the people’s head like the sword of Damocles. to Improve ERs in Greece” in last tional Emergency Medicine is inter- This ambitious project is estimat- There are a lot of successful All three rating agencies have downgraded the Greek economy now, mak- week's TNH (19 Dec. 09) was so per- ested in developing, through a pro- ed to cost approximately $10,000 Greek Americans who have the abil- ing it harder and much more expensive to borrow. Since the first downgrade tinent. It outlines a visionary project gram offering hands-on training to for each three-month training ses- ity to help at a higher level, and about a month ago - by Finch and Co. - Greece has been burdened with an spearheaded by N.Y. Hospital of visiting Greek physicians, who will sion, making for an annual budget could alleviate some of the expenses additional $2 billion of interest costs per year. Queens Emergency Department Re- then take this knowledge back to of $40,000, assuming there will be by creating a scholarship in their Our community follows the events in the mother country with sadness. It search Director Dr. Michael Radeos their hospitals in Greece and estab- four 3-month training sessions avail- name. Similarly, Greek American as- hurts, it feels awful every time the map of Greece is displayed on a TV screen, that provides a wonderful way for lish a growing number of EM de- able. sociations could earmark scholar- or when one reads the financial mess the country is in and its drag on the val- the Community to make an essential partments. These specially trained As the alumni from this training ships for physicians from their par- ue of the Euro in the press. Our Greek American community is concerned contribution to Greece. professionals would then play a key program multiply, they will bring ticular region (i.e., Crete, Chios, about how the people will be able to cope once the government matches up In emergency medicine, the term role educating young Greek physi- their abilities to not only major Cephalonia). its words to its decisions. “golden hour” refers to those first cians in the skills needed to stabilize Greek hospitals, but also to the nu- This is a type of donation that is Our community is not a stranger to financial crises. We are in the middle crucial hours following traumatic in- and treat critically ill patients com- merous villages and smaller islands. much more far-reaching than a of a financial crisis ourselves. Some of our people have lost their jobs, others jury, during which there is the high- ing into their hospital. In Greece, the number of general mere financial contribution that have lost their homes and still others cannot afford to pay their kids’ tuition. est likelihood that prompt medical In Greece – especially in rural practitioners is quite low, 9.5% ac- could get lost, misdirected, or wast- Yet, what sets us apart is our belief that we will overcome the crises, that bet- treatment will prevent death. It is and remote areas, this kind of cording to a 2009 report by the Or- ed. Here, our Community can make ter days are ahead and we do see some signs of progress. well established that the victim's knowledge and specialized training ganisation for Economic Co-Opera- a difference for Greece in a way that Greece will overcome also; but it will take much longer, and a swarm of chances of survival are greatest if could mean the difference between tion and Development (OECD). This will be self-sustaining! unpleasant things may occur. We were used to seeing our brothers and sisters they receive care within a short peri- life and death. Sadly, practically leaves the average citizen with very During this time of giving, here is in Greece making progress during our visits to the homeland - to see them liv- od of time after a severe injury. everyone with family or friends in limited access to primary care doc- a perfect opportunity for Greek ing a better life, perhaps the best so far, and naturally, we were happy for Scenes popularized in shows like Greece knows of at least one horror tors. The wide range of skills that American organizations and philan- them. Some of us are also wondering how it was all possible. “ER” or “House” are everyday occur- story where a loved one died or sus- emergency physicians possess thropists to make their contribution Some of us sought to invest in Greece only to face the impenetrable wall of rences in emergency departments tained irreparable damage because would certainly help Greeks who to the homeland felt, and keep the the bureaucracy, to lose money, to be disappointed in other ways. throughout the U.S., where emer- of errors that occurred during the have nowhere else to turn in a crisis. Greek Diaspora’s legacy of benevo- Now we know how it all happened: through a massive borrowing spree gency medicine has been a specialty critical “golden hour”. The Greek This program would benefit the lence alive in the 21st century. beyond what the country and its individuals can afford. for over 30 years. Greece, however, American Community now has the villages and islands in a more per- Those interested in participating In any event, we stand ready, as we always have in the past, to do our part still has no specialty of emergency opportunity to help save the lives of sonal way. The sons and daughters in this program should contact Dr. in helping our mother country in any way we can. medicine. Because of this, the fine their countrymen back home. of these areas who train at the large Radeos at [email protected]. John Catsimatides said it best in an interview with an Athenian TV station tuning of care for patients who suf- Together with leading Greek Pro- university hospitals would be eligi- when asked what our community can do for Greece: we have not been asked fer acute trauma or major illness of- fessors of Medicine, Dr. Radeos is ble for this training program. Upon Contact Christos Tripoulas at to do anything, he replied. ten falls short, and the critical link working to establish an intensive completion of their training, they [email protected]. THE NATIONAL HERALD, DECEMBER 26, 2009 - JANUARY 1, 2010 VIEWPOINTS 11 LETTER FROM ATHENS The Black Stain on Turkish Liberalism and Modernity

VANCOUVER, B.C. - Perhaps no abuses not only the they prefer to ignore Ankara simply served to highlight other institution than the Ecumeni- Greek Orthodox, but the state sanctioned that Turkish gross violation of hu- For Greece, 2009 Was a cal Patriarchate would desire that all other minorities racism and abuse of man rights and racism are just as Turkey emerge as a forward-look- who do not share the minorities. They be- acceptable to a Democratic presi- ing state with liberal policies and so Turkish version of faith lieve that by hoping dent as they were to a Republican. Year to Forget that Ankara can become a member and conformity. that Turkey will be- In the topsy-turvy world of of the European Union. However, Remarkably, the come a Western-style Washington think tanks and fast- Now Greece’s new dered 10 people dur- every time we think that Turkey has Greek Orthodox mi- Muslim state, it would food policy centers, it is actually as- Prime Minister George ing that attack, only to gotten over its complexes, inferiori- nority in Constantino- become so, by a factor sumed that Sunni Turkey can have Papandreou knows the recant when he fig- ties, racism and outright meanness, ple amounts to less of time and wishing. a mediating effect on Shiite Iran meaning of the old ax- ured life was better the plight of the Patriarchate grabs than 1,500 people. We all wish that it and that Ankara will serve as Oba- iom about being care- than death to. us by the throat. Most left in the 1950s, were true and that ma’s good-will ambassador to ful what you ask for, There was also a The Greek-Turks of Istanbul and driven out by Turkish by DR. ANDRE Turkey is evolving out Tehran. Of course, these are the because you just might spate of high-profile the Eastern Orthodox clergy are the pogroms against the GEROLYMATOS of a past stained with same analysts who believe that the get it. And boy, did he kidnappings for ran- continuing victims of historic and Christians. How can genocide, mass mur- U.S. will win the hearts and minds ever. He was dripping som that netted most current Turkish discrimination and 1,500 people and an Special to der, torture and intol- of the Afghans at the same time as with the desire for of the kidnappers brutality. The interview of His All aging clergy pose any The National Herald erance. The Armenian it emerges victorious in the war power and winning enough money to re- Holiness Bartholomew on the tele- threat to Turkish cul- Genocide took place, against the Taliban. the job he now holds, tire from that racket, vision program “60 Minutes” was a ture, religion and society? Either and despite overwhelming evi- There is not doubt that they will only to walk into the by ANDY even if others knew chilling reminder that the wall that those handful of Greek orthodox dence the Turks refuse to accept it win all the battles but will also lose biggest political and DABILIS the odds of being separates Christianity and Islam is are super beings and can ultimately as a historical fact. The mass vio- the war. Perhaps, Turkey can be in- economic mess Greece caught were infinitesi- standing solid in Turkey. subvert the Turkish way of life or lence against Greek Orthodox in duced to commit a serious number has ever faced, short Special to mal because there’s Indeed, the Turkish Prime Min- the current Turkish Government, as the 1950s also took place but no of forces to turn the tide of battle in of taking 300 friends The National Herald just nothing like an FBI ister will pounce on any minute was the case with just about all pre- Turkish Government has ever apol- favor of the Americans – but they to Thermopylae to in Greece to go after perceived transgression against vious Turkish regimes, is trying to ogized or merely acknowledged might need to keep their army in- keep the Persians at bay. He’s now them. Muslims but stands idly by while engineer a homogenized strictly that particular chapter of Turkish tact, in case they have to take on presiding over a country about to That’s the kind of thinking that his authorities continue to humili- Sunni Muslim society. history. Remarkably, official those 1,500 pesky Greek Orthodox go under, and maybe take down the led to a daring prison escape by he- ate one of the oldest Christian Such an outcome goes contrary Turkey remembers every slight, but and the Patriarchate. other 15 countries that use the euro licopter – the second time the in- Churches. Instead he should be to Ankara’s policy of joining the EU has complete amnesia of its own How a country treats its minori- as their currency as well. mates who fled did it – even if one leading by example and, if he and promoting the notion that misdeeds. ties is a great measure of the decen- Greece is the equivalent of giv- of them was unlucky enough to be wants to join the European Union – Turkey is becoming a liberal and The trouble with Turkey, howev- cy of its society – in the case of ing your no-limit American Express recaptured, showing he was per- an organization of states that ac- tolerant society. Yet, if the Turks er, is the United States. Indeed, the Turkey the ongoing abuse of the Pa- Platinum Card to a scorned spouse haps the stupidest criminal in cept and apply liberalism and toler- cannot accept a small Greek Ortho- American-Turkish relationship has triarchate and the handful of ortho- or partner, who promptly goes on a Greece, where almost no one gets ance – he should demonstrate to dox community and the Patriar- inadvertently stunted Turkey’s de- dox is a reminder that Turkey is not wild spending spree. How bad is it caught. the Europeans and the rest of the chate in their midst how will they velopment. As long as Washington ready for the EU or to be accepted in Greece right now? Germany, Greeks fell for U.S. President world that Turkey is a modern state deal with homosexuality practiced remains Turkey’s unquestioned pa- as a liberal modern state. with a population of 82.3 million Barack Obama’s camouflage cam- and not the remnant of the Ot- in the open, criticism of religion tron, Ankara will not have any in- people, has a 2010 tentative budget paign that pretended to care about toman corpse – corrupt, suspicious, and all the other aspects of Euro- centive to adapt or change its poli- Dr. Gerolymatos is chair of Hel- of about $467.14 billion, and a Greece, only to discover they still and a bastion of cruelty. pean life that flaunt the tenets of Is- cies. lenic Studies at Simon Fraser deficit of about $143.5 billion. need visas to get into the U.S. – just To place the plight of the Ecu- lam? In effect, with America as its University in Vancouver, British Greece, with a population of about as they did under the former presi- menical Patriarchate in context, let It is a great deal to digest. Some drumbeater Ankara, wrongly, as- Columbia and the author of "Red 10.7 million – eight times fewer dent they reviled, George W. Bush – us consider what would happen if political pundits point to Turkey as sumes it can have EU membership Acropolis, Black Terror: The than Germany – has a 2010 pro- and are still being sold down the any Western country treated its the model of a Muslim, democratic and still remain a quasi-Medieval Greek Civil War and the Origins posed budget about $77 billion – river on Cyprus and Turkey by the Muslim minority the way Turkey and forward-looking society, yet state. President Obama’s visit to of Soviet-American Rivalry." six times less than Germany – but a president they love, just as they deficit of $440 million, three times were under Bush, showing they more. have learned nothing about the As the captain of the Titanic business of politics and the democ- found out when he assumed his racy that they invented. ship couldn’t go down, it was a In the Silly Department, a poll of Greece: A Beautiful Country – A Dysfunctional Society mathematical certainty it would, television viewers (now there’s a petri dish begging to be infected) WASHINGTON, D.C. - With the eco- Soon after the fall of from this are covered by proximately 260 working days, more listed the likes of Lakis Lazopoulos, nomic problems in Greece reaching the junta, a Socialist borrowing. Corruption than 70 days are wasted in one way Greece is the equivalent a talentless, shameless, self-pro- the breaking point, a first and vital party (PASOK) was in many forms has be- or another. A mindset of “maximum of giving your no-limit moter who hogged the stage under step towards arresting the dangerous formed by Andreas Pa- come almost a way of reward and minimum effort” has be- the Acropolis from Mikis Theodor- downslide is to look with unblinking pandreou, a charismat- life. Even lowly govern- come the guiding principle! American Express Card akis during a concert, among the eyes into the reasons that led to this ic politician who under- ment employees expect A horrendously complex bureau- to a scorned spouse 50 Greatest Greeks of All Time, dire situation. stood that the old to receive under the cratic system not only encourages who…goes on even if they somehow got it mostly There are no innocents in this members of EAM and table a gratuity for the corruption but also keeps away for- right that Alexander the Great was game. Moreover, this calamity is the their sons and daugh- services they are provid- eign investments. Many Greek a…spending spree. the Greatest Greek, although those climax of economic, political and cul- ters who had for so ing. A derisive new Americans who in the postwar years rampant irredentists to the north, tural developments that go back sev- long faced discrimina- word “Grigorosimo” went to Greece to invest in produc- and only the European Union can in the Former Yugoslav Republic of eral decades. tion for their political (speed stamp) was tive enterprises were forced to return keep Greece’s ship of state, now Macedonia - where they have no During the Nazi occupation views were ready to fol- by DR. D.G. added to the Greek lan- home with a bitter taste in their listing hard to starboard and taking heroes - claimed him as their own, (1941-1944), a resistance organiza- low his lead together KOUSOULAS guage. mouths. Even foreign companies on water and red ink fast, from go- keeping in motion the 18-year-long tion known as the National Libera- with the more tradi- For a period of time, that had come to Greece in the 1950s ing under. Nothing is as tedious in dispute between the two countries tion Front (EAM) attracted a very tional center-left vot- Special to especially in the 1980s, and 1960s eventually were forced to politics as numbers and budgets be- over what FYROM should be large following. Most of the EAM- ers. In a spectacular The National Herald the PASOK government close shop and leave. cause it’s a business where people called, knowing full well as the supporters were patriotic Greeks. But rise, PASOK came to was able to play Santa The above is admittedly a long prefer personalities, celebrities and year ended that it will be a compos- the organization was controlled by power in 1980. For the next 30 years Claus thanks to the grants and other litany of wrongs. Even so, it probably horse races, of who’s winning and ite name resulting in giving away the Communist party. Together with PASOK remained the dominant force subsidies received from the European does not cover all dysfunctional de- losing. the name Macedonia. Maybe the patriotic messages, a subtle but holding the reins of government for Union. When the grants became less velopments of the past fifty years. But this drama has hit home, Alexander can win a poll showing effective dose of Marxist ideology 22 of these 30 years. generous, the government turned to It will be a Herculean task to re- and at just the wrong time, because him the Greatest FYROMian in the was passed into the members. The During those years, an anti-busi- borrowing and the public debt began shape the cultural traits that have be- for Greeks, 2009 was a year that meantime. aim of the Communist party was to ness mindset received fresh impetus, to rise. come ingrained in the Greek mentali- began with social unrest, coming The year 2009 was the year drag Greece behind the Iron Curtain the bosses of the labor unions were In 1991-93, a center-right govern- ty. George Papandreou, the son of off riots in the streets after a 15- smokers continued to reign as at the time the German army would given extraordinary powers, hand- ment of the New Democracy came to Andreas, is now the Prime Minister of year-old boy was killed by police, Greeks, as they do with laws they evacuate Greece. This objective outs to lower income groups became power but with a slim majority of one Greece. To succeed in this superhu- and has been a flat spin of an eco- don’t like - which are most of them failed (1949) but only after a crip- the order of the day, the client rela- vote in the legislature, it merely man task, nomic free fall that has put 10,000 - just flat out ignored a smoking pling guerrilla war. tionship between politicians and vot- slowed the downslide. In the second he will have to take out of the sys- small firms out of business, and ban in public places. The Right-center governments ers (rusfeti), another corruption fea- half of the 1990s, after the death of tem much of what is the dubious ended with the near collapse of So you can smoke ‘em if you got that came to power in the fifties re- ture of Greek politics –both right and Papandreou, another PASOK govern- legacy of his father and to clash also Christmas spending, down an esti- ‘em in Greece, and if you’re out, constructed the ravaged economy left - with a long tradition, became ment under Constantine Simitis tried with many of the people who voted mated 30 percent in a season retail- send your kid to the periptero to and with American assistance even more common with thousands to harness the wild horses, but it in- for him in the election three months ers count on to save their year, pick up a few packs because there’s launched serious development pro- being hired by the public sector (as curred the wrath of the labor unions ago. which means that 2010 will see no age limit for that, or buying jects. They made, however, a big mis- civil servants and in the public enter- that brought thousands out into the By a fortuitous coincidence, the thousands more small stores shut- liquor either, so another year of take. In the Cold War climate, they prises which proliferated) at the be- streets. The PASOK domination was new leader of New Democracy, An- tered and people’s dreams dashed. fighting cancer has gone down the turned most of those who had sup- hest of politicians eager to win sup- again interrupted in 2004-2009. The donis Samaras, and George Papan- Along the way, Greece saw an drain. ported EAM into second-class citi- porters - it is indicative that the regis- center-right government of N.D. dreou were roommates when they army of farmers take their tractors There were the predictable ar- zens with the notorious “certificates tered members of the Government promised reforms but its efforts were were students in the United States. to the streets to blockade highways son fires destroying what’s left of of national views”. Although the Employees Union ADEDY increased blocked by demonstrations, strikes, Together they command well over because they wanted greater subsi- Greece’s forests, the economic ruin overwhelming majority were not from 96,000 in 1982 to 289,000 by marches and rallies. To remain in 200 votes in the 300-seat legislature. dies and EU funding, an unrealistic of a country that is supposed to be supporters of the Communist party, 2005 - and the universities were filled power with only a one-vote majority They can pass any necessary legisla- demand because that would leave the power of the Balkans, and the they were forced to remain beholden with left-oriented professors and lec- in the legislature, the government tion. Together they can even face less for politicians and their friends riots of December again, although to their Marxist-inspired mindset. turers, just to name a few of the most gave up the effort and went along down the powerful labor unions to steal. these were briefer, because every- During the military junta of glaring developments. with the established pattern, avoid- when they try to block all necessary The year began too with the one knows in Greece what the 1967-1974 a seismic change took At the same time, the under- ing painful reforms, and continuing reforms with strikes and demonstra- cowardly acid attack on Bulgarian script is, that begins and ends the place. All democratic forces, right- ground economy, always a problem to borrow to cover the deficits. tions. immigrant and union organizer year, and starts the New Year the center, left-center, as well as moder- in Greece, flourished (reaching 30 to The press (17 daily newspapers in If they show common sense and Konstantina Kuneva, and ended same way. (Note to editor: repeat ate and extreme left joined ranks 40 percent of GDP) together with a Athens) sided politically mostly with determination, they will make histo- with her getting a free apartment this column in December 2010 with against the dictatorship. This con- rise in tax evasion practiced with PASOK, yet they turned against even ry - in addition to motivating the in- as compensation from a shamed the same stories) fluence legitimized politically even equal fervor by right, right-center, PASOK-proposed reforms, to protect ternational entities that control or in- government that lets her attackers the extreme left. With the fall of the left-center or left citizens. Since 97 the “conquests of the working peo- fluence the flow of money to come to roam the streets, bottles of acid at Mr. Dabilis was the New England dictatorship every form of discrimi- percent of enterprises in Greece have ple.” Dominated by leftist-oriented the aid of Greece at this critical junc- the ready for the next one who editor for United Press Interna- nation and suppression of Marxist- fewer than 20 employees, or are self- journalists, they share responsibility ture. dares speak out against the black- tional in Boston, and a staff writer oriented groups or individuals was employed technicians or profession- for the current crisis. mail they perpetuate, with the ac- and assistant metropolitan editor lifted at last. als, tax evasion is rampant. 94 per- There were other significant side Dr. Kousoulas is Professor Emeri- quiescence-by-inaction of the gov- at the Boston Globe for 17 years To respond to the leftward drift of cent of tax returns report annual in- effects. The frequent demonstra- tus of Political Science at Howard ernment. before relocating to Greece. His public opinion, even the right-center comes of less than 30,000 Euros tions, marches, rallies, strikes, to- University in Washington, DC. He A former Turkish soldier during column is published weekly in the government of Constantine Kara- ($45,000) and that includes medical gether with national, religious or po- is the author of several books, the 1974 invasion of Cyprus, who National Herald. Readers interest- manlis nationalized major Greek doctors, lawyers, engineers, litical holidays, reduced labor pro- notably "The Life and Times of later became a TV star, told of how ed in contacting him can send e- companies such as the Olympic Air- plumbers or restaurant or storeown- ductivity and the competitiveness of Constantine the Great (1999)," he and his fellow soldiers mur- mails to [email protected]. ways and the Greek Shipyards. ers. The budget deficits that result Greek products and firms. Out of ap- and numerous scholarly articles. Traditions of Orthodoxy and Science Need not Clash: A Discussion on the H1N1

By Dr. John Collis, M.D. DISCUSSION an outbreak in Mexico and then On December 10, the CDC is- younger and are relatively healthy. These observations will hopeful- Special to The National Herald The issue of the common spoon spread to the United States. Case sued another alarming report that And as stated above, it is postulated ly serve for discussion that will lead has come up in the past, but many reports started from California, approximately 50 million Ameri- that a third outbreak of the disease to a solution. My goal is for more CLEVELAND - Some members of church members are reluctant to then Texas, then New York and cans have become infected with may start this coming Spring. parishioners to take communion, the Orthodox Church never take even discuss the obvious unhygien- then many other states by mid- H1N1 virus and that 10,000 Ameri- Our bishops, through SCOBA, and for more parishioners to take communion because of the use of a ic aspect of the common spoon. April 2009. cans have died as a result of this have thoroughly studied the issue communion more frequently. common spoon. Other members They are reluctant out of fear of At the end of May 2009, the virus. as to who is permitted, and who is Frankly, it is unproven that re- periodically avoid communion for disrespect to the sacrament. How- virus had infected citizens in all 50 So, of 300 million Americans, 50 not permitted to receive commu- placing the common spoon with in- the same basic reason. They all be- ever, the deep concern we are dis- states. This pattern continued with million have become infected with nion at an Orthodox Church from dividual spoons would actually re- lieve that the use of a common cussing here is directed toward the the CDC stating that 2,717 con- the H1N1 virus, that is 1 out of 6 the perspective of what denomina- duce the frequencies of infections spoon is unhygienic, and therefore common spoon, not toward the firmed cases had been reported. At Americans. This was confirmed by tion they belong to. Their position in the faithful. Apparently our the use of the common spoon is sacrament itself. the beginning of June the cases in the Director of the CDC, Dr. has been made clear, and is now priests do not suffer from conta- found to be of deep concern. Similar concerns arose when Tu- the United States exceeded those in Thomas Frieden. There is also con- doctrine. Perhaps this issue of the gious disease any more than our Roman Catholics, many Protes- berculosis was endemic and again Mexico. cern that there will be a new wave common spoon should be similarly parishioners do. Remember: our tants, and now Lutherans are re- with the outbreaks of SARC and Toward the end of June, the of illnesses caused by H1N1. No studied by SCOBA and their deci- priests always consume the remain- ceiving communion without the AIDS. number of deaths related to the one can predict the severity of a sions forwarded to the Orthodox ing portions from the chalice at the use of a common spoon. A “pandemic” is a disease occur- H1N1 virus in the United States new outbreak, but we can only faithful. One church leader, a end of every liturgy, and our priest The United States has approxi- ring over a wide geographic area, surpassed those of all other coun- hope and pray that the virus does member of SCOBA, stated that the appear as healthy as our laity. mately 300 million citizens. and affecting an exceptionally high tries put together. not mutate and become more se- use of individual wooden spoons Nevertheless, if the common Presently 50 million Americans proportion of people. This is what The CDC released information vere. might be permissible; the wooden spoon is replaced by a more hygien- have been infected with a new type is now happening in the United in July indicating that more than Every year “seasonal flu” kills spoons could be burned after they ic practice, such as the use of indi- of influenza called H1N1 virus. States. Details of this problem can one million cases of the infection approximately 36,000 Americans. are used. vidual spoons, more parishioners Along with the 50 million infected, be found on the Web site of the had been reported in the United This has been observed for a num- CONCLUSION will take communion, and more an additional 10,000 Americans Center for Disease Control (CDC) States. On October 24 President ber of years by the CDC. These cas- As a surgeon, I have spent much parishioners will take communion have died from this newer, some- at CDC.com Barack Obama declared that swine es usually affect elderly people, of my professional life studying in- more frequently. times deadly virus. The essence of this recent infor- flu had become a national emer- that is, those who are chronically ill fectious disease, more specifically, Perhaps our church, i.e. our mation is that the United States is gency. from heart attacks, strokes, lung trying to prevent infections before The author is a neurosurgeon. bishops, could arrange for us Or- experiencing a pandemic with a By November 12 an estimated disease, etc. This new virus, the they begin. Presently many parish- He is a life long member of the thodox Christians to have the op- new type of influenza, the H1N1 22 million Americans had been in- H1N1 virus, affects a different ioners are avoiding communion be- Greek Orthodox Church and has tion of receiving communion with- virus. It is sometimes referred to as fected by the H1N1 virus and 4,000 group of people. The H1N1 virus cause of the use of a common served on the Archdiocesan out a common spoon. “swine flu”. This virus started with had died. affects people who are much spoon. Council for the past 25 years. 12 THE NATIONAL HERALD, DECEMBER 26, 2009 - JANUARY 1, 2010

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