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But Questions Abound, No Signed Deals, Stalled Talks, No Signs of Progress

By Theodore Kalmoukos came to a standstill, the Chan - cellor replied: “I don’t know, I BOSTON - The Greek Orthodox wasn’t involved in them. I’m Archdiocese of America is keep - telling you what I’ve heard. I ing all its options open - includ - think that negotiations grew ing legal recourse, if necessary somewhat tense. Perhaps the - to safeguard its right to rebuild Port Authority did not like our the historic St. Nicholas Church position.” at Ground Zero in Manhattan He also noted that “some of that was felled during the ter - the things that they (the Port rorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. Authority) have said are not Nine years after, the site where precise; especially that the the little church stood remains Church demanded $60 million empty. The Archdiocese’s Chan - dollars.” He went on to emphat - cellor Bishop Andonios of ically state that “40 million will Phasiane reaffirmed during an go to construction costs under - interview that the possibility of neath the church to facilitate the a suit against the Port Authority safety of cars passing through of New York and New Jersey the area, and this has nothing looms. “I’m certain that we have to do with the church.” He also planned for this as well. It’s not explained that negotiations with something that we look forward the Port Authority had been de - to, but we will resort to this op - veloping. tion if we are forced to do so,” “It was a process. At first, it he said, saving some choice re - wasn’t the Port Authority, but marks for the current Port Au - the LMDC (Lower Manhattan thority head. He said he won - Development Corporation.) dered “if something else was not Since 2004, we have papers and EUROKINISSI behind this issue,” pointing to documents stating that the St. Opening of Picture Exhibition at Halki plans for the construction of a Nicholas Church will be rebuilt Fine Arts Center on the site that on 130 Liberty Street,” he said, Ecumenical Patriarich Bartholomew expressed his grief at the was held in a space at the historic school. 101 artists joined had been reserved for the re - adding that, “There are papers continued closure of the School of Theology at Halki at the Minister of Culture, Pavlos Geroulanos and the Mayor of construction of the St. Nicholas opening of a picture exhibition called “Tracing Istanbul” that Athens, Nikitas Kaklamanis. church. The site is a prime piece Continued on page 4 of real estate in Manhattan and the tiny church occupied an area surrounded by skyscrapers. When asked about Archbishop A Solar Light Bulb Went off in Katsaros’ Head Demetrios’ feelings on the issue, Stathis’ Killer Bishop Andonios - who acts “in his place” in his capacity as By Angelike Contis Chinese factory with a 600,000 For Westerners, including Kat - Things fell into place with this Chancellor - noted that “The Gets 33 Years TNH Staff Writer per month production capacity. saros, the 2-Watt bulb may be invention, says Katsaros, due to Archbishop is very concerned. The Denver-based Katsaros re - handier to have on camping his more than 15 years in the He is actively involved in this NEW YORK – Maybe it was the flects: “I don’t think it was di - trips than for home lighting. But field. He notes: “I knew exactly matter, he is aware of all the de - and Family’s visit to a solar farm or to the vine intervention or anything, for the 1.6 billion people around how exactly to take the path and tails, and is working on the side - Thomas Edison and Henry Ford but randomly, I started thinking the world who lack electricity, I knew which path to take and I lines to put pressure on the Port Winter Estates in Florida. about a solar light bulb.” He relying on the more dangerous, knew how much it would cost.” Authority to return to the bar - Scorn Stephen Katsaros isn’t sure ex - drew it, filed a patent on Janu - expensive and polluting He adds that having sold a gaining table.” actly what triggered his idea. ary 28, and had the first proto - kerosene lamps, his Nokero (for house recently helped him fi - Bishop Andonios also re - By Demetris Tsakas But in January, he woke up and type in February. “no kerosene”) bulb may be the nance the scheme. vealed that “negotiations with TNH Staff Writer sketched out the plan for the Though there are lots of so - solution. The Nokero has al - A GREEN IDEA the Port Authority stopped last world’s first solar light bulb. lar-powered light sources ready made a splash around the Though he initially created year, and “they left us with no NEW YORK – “I wish I could Things have been moving around the world, entrepreneur international media, with re - the bulb as “a fun novelty prod - other choice but to return to the line your prison cell with pho - rapidly since – with interest for Katsaros’ design is unique in ports in National Geographic original site of St. Nicholas’ lo - tographs of Thalia and a record - the bulb in 50 countries and a that it looks like a light bulb. and the New York Times alike. Continued on page 3 cation.” As to why negotiations ing of her voice – so every time you open your eyes you are haunted by the evil act that you committed.” Her voice emo - tional, Joanne Stathis, the The Greek Rural Life at mother of murdered waitress Thalia Stathis, directed her con - tempt at her daughter’s con - American Farm School victed killer and former boyfriend, Hugues Francois, at the Bergen County Justice Court NEW YORK – The Greek village mother.) In return, they left the in Hackensack, New Jersey, min - Mikro Dassos adopted a group Northern Greek village memo - utes before his sentencing on of American teenagers this sum - ries of their lively presence and Aug. 31, where he was given mer, and both liked it. The an amphitheater. Luke Hamel, the maximum on six counts, in - teens, who were taking part in a Maryland high school senior, cluding 30 years for aggravated the American Farm School’s said he loved “the sense of to - manslaughter, 10 years for dis - (AFS) Greek Summer program, getherness and the opportunity turbing human remains and an - tasted - despite language and to be a part of a new family” at other 10 years for additional cultural barriers- real Greek vil - the Pontian village of 500-some charges, including check lage life. Some even ended up inhabitants. New Yorker Anthea forgery. Francois must serve at with a new Greek papou (grand - Levi, a junior in high school, least 33 years for Stathis’ Sep - father) and yiayia (grand - said she “most enjoyed meeting tember 2007 death, before be - the people in the village.” The ing permitted to request parole. two now have joined the ranks “He has now killed twice, of hundreds of Greek Summer and I am firmly convinced that alumni who have taken part in he poses a substantial threat to Christofias: the program since it was society,” Judge Harry Carroll launched in 1970; many still said, referring to Francois’ ag - stay in touch (on places such as gravated manslaughter convic - Work with Facebook) and the upcoming tion 15 years ago. Registered 40-Year Reunion (November 5- sex offender Francois also had 7) in New York City. a sexual assault conviction in - the Turks Building the amphitheater – volving a 14-year-old girl on his complete with a mural, stage record. While the convicted NICOSIA- As he struggles to and dance-floor - was the focal killer remained silent, apart find some way to re-unite his is - community service project for from complaints about his hand - land, the northern third occu - the 28 youngsters taking part in cuffs and accusing Judge Carroll pied by Turkish troops since the the six-week program from June of not being “fair,” turning down invasion of 1974, Cypriot Presi - 28-Aug. 6. In the past, American the judge’s offer to stand up and dent Demetrios Christofias teens have built roads and vil - address the courtroom, the vic - reached out to a meeting of the lage squares and renovated tim’s family had the opportunity Diaspora to urge them to accept buildings. The goal is always to to address both Francois and the that they must work with Turk - leave something concrete be - AP PHOTO/DIMITRI MESSINIS court. ish Cypriots, a stance anathema hind, while instilling teens with Prince Nicholas of Greece and his wife Tatiana Blatnik outside the church of St. Nicholas in Stathis’ mother spoke of to nationalists who said they a clear sense of “international Spetses, Greece, after their marrige, Aug. 25, 2010. “beautiful Thalia” and the pain won’t accept any deal that in - living” and “sensitive, responsi - of losing her. “We have been pa - volves Turks sharing power. ble global citizenship” at a criti - tiently and painfully waiting for Christofias has said he would cal age, said the AFS’ Joann Ry - you - the incarcerated worthless agree to let there be a Turkish ding Beltes, who is Vice No Fairy Tale, But Royal Wedding degenerate murderer to be sen - Cypriot President alternating President for Institutional Ad - tenced,” she said to Francois, as terms with a Greek Cypriot, a vancement. she held an oversized photo of position that has infuriated The American Farm School ATHENS – Reminders of a past and the prince’s wedding to Ta - groom’s parents, former King her daughter. “Each time we are some hardline members of the of Thessaloniki – noted for its forced upon Greece, and almost tiana Blatnik was held in a Constantine, whose initial sup - in court, we are once again Diaspora who want Turkish U.S. –Greek exchanges - was unknown by the post-junta gen - whitewashed church, which is port for the junta has left him as forced to live the entire night - troops off the island and prop - founded in Greece in 1904 by eration, the Once Upon A Time part of a monastery near the old much reviled as revered, and for - mare that is with us all the time erties seized by the Turks re - Dr. John Henry House. Today, Greek Royal Family still carries port of Spetses island. Blatnik, mer Queen Anne Marie, paid a and we are forced to be in the turned to their Greek Cypriot the scholarship-driven school enough weight and cachet to 29, arrived in a horse-drawn last-minute visit to the church as same room and look at the re - owners. The 23rd Conference of boasts a secondary school for have a celebrated wedding, carriage and waved to a crowd trucks carried in ornaments and pulsive sight of you,” she added. the Executive Councils of the children from the surrounding even if now it’s more fodder for of well-wishers gathered out - flowers. Despite all the pomp and The trial began on March 4. World Federation for Overseas region and the international tabloids and celebrity sheets. side. The 40-year-old Nikolaos, circumstance, the wedding failed On June 3, a grand jury unani - Cypriots (POMAK) and of the Dimitris Perrotis College of Agri - And so the joining of Prince sometimes called the “Playboy to attract the interest of ordinary mously found Francois guilty of International Coordinating cultural Studies. The school also Nikolaos, the second son of for - Prince” before he decided to set - Greeks, many of who don’t have aggravated manslaughter (a Committee Justice for Cyprus has a reputation for topnotch mer King Constantine, married tle down, fashionably arrived by a clue who the former King is, or lesser offense than murder) in (PSEKA), and the 5th Annual eggs, milk and turkeys, which a fashion events planner in a boat. He is a graduate of Brown his family. Constantine remains Stathis’ Sept. 14, 2007 killing. are found on many Greek su - ceremony on a southern Greek University, the Ivy League col - largely unpopular because of his The Arena Diner waitress was Continued on page 7 permarket shelves. island on Aug. 25 attended by lege in Providence, Rhode Is - decision to swear in the military last seen when Francois picked Since 1970, Greek Summer fellow royals from across Eu - land, and works in his father’s colonels, cooperating with them her up that evening. She had has brought wave after wave of rope, a posh bash that had no London office. The Greek Ortho - before staging a failed counter told her family she was going U.S. teens to Greece to experi - evidence of hoi-polloi but still dox service was attended by coup. “As you know, in all of to break up with him. On Sep - For subscription: ence village life and participate enough adoring fans to make it Spanish Queen Sofia — Con - these situations, even the last tember 26, the Clifford Park po - 718.784.5255 in annual AFS rituals, such as a paparazzi must. There was so stantine’s sister — Crown Prince minute you are preparing,” Con - lice conducted a search of [email protected] climbing Mt. Olympus. “During much aristocracy around they Felipe and his wife, Letizia. stantine told AP Television. Stathis and Francois’ residence, Greek Summer,” the AFS web - upstaged the married couple, Members of royal families from Technically speaking, the where they found blood traces site promises, “young Americans and just to add to the scene, Norway, Sweden, Denmark and event wasn’t a real Royal Wed - in the trunk that matched the undergo their own metamor - singer Elton John came. the Netherlands also were pre - ding because the 70-year-old victim’s DNA. She is believed to But you can’t beat being mar - sent. Continued on page 3 ried on a Greek island at sunset Before the ceremony, the Continued on page 7 Continued on page 3 2 COMMUNITY THE NATIONAL HERALD, SEPTEMBER 4-10, 2010 Spotlight on: Greek Traveler Matt Barrett GOINGS ON... n SEPTEMBER 3-5 LOS ANGELES, Calif. - The Los By Angelike Contis on my website because it cap - CHICAGO, Ill. - The National Angeles Greek Festival of the TNH Staff Writer tures the Greece they know, or Hellenic Museum will be hosting Saint Sophia Cathedral is around knew, I consider that a great the Percy Jackson and the the corner. For further informa - NEW YORK – If you’ve ever achievement. I hope I can keep Olympians: A Look inside the tion, call: (323) 737-2424. surfed the Internet looking for re - doing what I am doing and that Lightning Thief from July liable Greek travel information – Greece gets through this difficult through September 4. In this SOMERVILLE, Mass. - The festi - in English- chances are you’ve al - period. world- premiere exhibition, visi - val of the Dormition of the Virgin ready “met” Matt Barrett, a.k.a. TNH: Do you have any role tors will get an up-close and per - Mary Greek Orthodox Church Matheos Economopoulos. His models? sonal look at some of their fa - will be held September 10-12. Greece Travel Guide MB: Well, Keith Hernandez, vorite props from the Fox 2000 Festival hours will be: September (www.greektravel.com) and its but that is baseball. As far as film, Percy Jackson and the 10 from 12:00 p.m.-11:00 p.m.; spin-offs stand out, with their what I do, I don't know anyone Olympians: The Lightning Thief. September 11 from 12:00-11:00 personal tales, photos and prac - who does what I do. Maybe In partnership with Twentieth p.m.; and September 12 from tical details. As Barrett writes on George Papandreou. Greek- Century Fox, the National Hel - 12:00 p.m.-10:00 p.m. For fur - his site: “Unlike Lonely Planet, American boy becomes Prime lenic Museum and Curator ther info visit: http://www.dor - Frommers and Fodor’s, I have not Minister at the most challenging Bethany Fleming created the ex - mitionchurch.org/ attempted to write about every - time in the history of the country hibition based on the film, Percy thing in Greece. I have written and is forced to make the tough Jackson & The Olympians: The CARMEL, Ind. - The Holy Trinity about what I know and enjoy.” decisions that should have been Lightning Thief. The film is the Greek Orthodox Church is host - Barrett’s guide is not only the made decades ago. But it is too big screen adaptation of author ing their 38th Annual Greek Fes - most comprehensive site about early to tell if he is going to be a Rick Riordan’s #1 New York tival September 10-11 from 4:00 Greece, but the most personal, hero. I hope he is and then I will Times bestseller, Percy Jackson p.m.-11:00 p.m. For further in - not something written by a ca - have a role model. & the Olympians: The Lightning formation, visit:www.holytrini - sual visitor or armchair critic. TNH: What is an issue regard - Thief, the first of five books in tyindy.org/ You know if he writes about ing the Greek community that Riordan’s series. Hours: Friday, something, he’s been there, done concerns you? 10 am - 4 pm; Saturday, 11 am - n SEPTEMBER 11 that and seen that, so the infor - MB: I think corruption is the 4 pm. Suggested general admis - EAST MEADOW, N.Y. - The Holy mation is reliable, although ad - biggest issue for Greece. So many sion: adults and seniors; $5, Trinity Orthodox Church will mittedly subjective. But if you people have gone against the NHM members, children 12 and host its second annual Faith, want to know about a particular common good to enrich them - under; Free. The National Hel - Food & Fellowship Festival and taxi driver, he can tell you. Think selves that they have brought the lenic Museum is located at: 801 9/11 Memorial services on Sep - you know Athens, even if you country to the brink of chaos. We W. Adams Street, 4th floor, at the tember 11 from 10 a.m.- 5 p.m. live there? Scroll down through need a Thermopylae or a corner of Adams and Halsted The festival will feature Slavic his tips on what to see in the city Marathon moment where we all Streets, Chicago, IL 60607. For and Greek food, children's activ - and you’ll think you’re an out - come together to save the coun - further information, call: 312- ities, church tours, vendors, flea sider visiting for the first time. try. Hellenism is alive and well in 655-1234 or visit: www.nation - market and a raffle. A 9-11 Barrett’s picaresque work is de - Matt Barrett, a.k.a. Matheos Economopoulos the USA. I am in Chicago right alhellenicmuseum.org. memorial service will be held at rivative of old time travel writers now for the Taste of Greece cele - 1:00 p.m.. Admission is free. who took their own sweet time about Athens, which I knew so makes them feel like they are bration and the Greek commu - SACRAMENTO, Calif. - The An - Rain or Shine. Holy Trinity Or - looking around a city and coun - well ... there were very few web - powerful … it is little more than nity here is fantastic. It's only in nunciation Greek Orthodox thodox Church is located at: 369 try. sites about Greece back then and an inconvenience. Travelers who Greece where they can't seem to Church of Sacramento is hosting Green Avenue, East Meadow. He talks to the National Her - those that existed were lacking use a reliable Greek travel agent come together. their annual Greek festival from For information, call (516) 483- ald about his unique, 10,000- in good photos and good writing, will be told beforehand about the TNH: What are some upcom - September 3-5. The variety of 3649 or visit www.htocem.org. page cyber contribution to Hel - so once people found my site strike and their plans will be ing projects/events we can look homemade Greek food ranges lenism. they stuck with it and told their changed. Some will get a few ex - forward to? from moussaka, kalamari, pastit - n SEPTEMBER 18 TNH: Tell us about yourself friends ... I keep adding and up - tra hours in Athens or an extra MB: Projects just seem to hap - sio, fasolakia, pilafi and dola - TARPON SPRINGS, Fl. - Funded and Greece Travel Guide. dating the old stuff, though it is night at a hotel on the islands. pen. I will get a small idea like, madakia-to name a few. There in part with a grant from the Na - MB: My real name is Matheos about 10,000 pages. The strikes end at midnight so for example, I wanted to write a will be an assortment of Greek tional Endowment for the Arts’ Economopoulos. My grandfather I come to Greece a couple then the ferries leave so they can short history of Greece for my pastries, coffee and frappes. Each Folk & Traditional Arts Program, came from Kalithea (Zarafona), times a year and usually spend get back on schedule … the peo - website. I start writing and I go night there will be live Greek the Greek Arts Initiative aug - near Sparti, around 1915. He three or four months, mostly in ple you see on CNN complaining off in all different areas and I end music and Greek dancing per - ments the integration of Greek changed his name to Econopouly. the summer. I spent the school that they were stuck in Athens up with a huge website like formed by Greek dance groups. culture into Tarpon Springs’ Cul - My grandmother was from Ky - year of 2008-9 in Athens because for days are talking nonsense. www.ahistoryofgreece.com. Festival hours are: Friday, tural Treasures presentations parissi, Lakonia. My father was my daughter went to ACS for a There have always been When I wanted to write about 11a.m.-11p.m.; Saturday, 12 through a variety of program - born in Long Island and so was year. I met her mom at ACS when demonstrations and usually there Greek food, I ended up with p.m.-11p.m.; and Sunday, ming. On September 18, Night I. He taught at the University of I was in the 9th grade. is a lunatic fringe that uses any www.greecefoods.com. 12p.m.- 10p.m. General Admis - in the Islands recreates the at - Athens in 1963 and then got a TNH: Since 1995, how has demonstration as a vehicle so TNH: Your articles are popu - sion is $5 for adults; Seniors (55 mosphere of the Greek islands job teaching at the American travel to Greece changed? they can taunt and fight with the lated by interesting characters. and over) $4 and children under with monthly outdoor dining on Community Schools of Athens MB: The places I go are pretty cops. It is like a sport and as any How important is meeting locals, 12 are free. Admission is free on the Sponge Docks. There will be (ACS), which is where I went to much the same. The more popu - sport, there are spectators. You in travel? Friday from 11a.m.-3p.m. There performances by outstanding school. I lived in Greece from lar islands have seen a jump in can make very dramatic photos MB: Greece is not a place that is a $2.00 off admission coupon musical groups, Ellada and 1968 to 1974, then in N.Y. and tourism, which they responded of cops in riot gear standing next insulates its visitors. You can’t on the website. The Convention Odyssey, Greek dancing, and North Carolina, where I worked to by building more hotels, shops to a burning trash basket and help meeting locals because you Center is located at: 1400 J other arts. For further informa - in restaurants and played guitar and restaurants, and now (there beam it all over the world and are eating in the same restau - Street Sacramento, CA 95814. tion, call: (727) 937-1130 or in rock bands and solo. is) a decline. Athens has changed scare people. But when you get rants, walking the same streets, For further information, visit: (727) 942-5605. I began going to Greece every a lot mostly because of the down to it, it is just a photo of a going to the same shops as they http://www.annunciation.ca.goa summer and played in a bar Olympics and the new roads, the cop next to a burning garbage do. It is not like going to some - rch.org/ or call: (916) 443-2003. n SEPTEMBER 19 called The Old Captain in Ka - tram and the metro. It is a much can. So what? But the guy who where in the Caribbean where BROOKLYN, N.Y. - Annual com - mares, Sifnos. I played every better city (as more pedestrian took the photo got paid and the you stay on a resort that is cut n SEPTEMBER 10-12 & 17-19 memoration of the Hellenes of night, in the mid-80’s, mostly my areas are created). photo is dramatic, so it sells pa - off from the rest of the host soci - STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. - Staten Thrace, Asia Minor and Pontos own songs, and wrote about TNH: Any tips on Greek travel pers. The guys fighting with the ety doing the things that tourists Island celebrates Hellenic culture who perished in the Greek Holo - Greece. In the early 90's I got to - during the current crisis? cops videotape themselves and do everywhere. When you visit with the Staten Island Greek Fes - caust at the hands of the Ot - gether with my girlfriend Andrea MB: Right now the crisis is af - put it on Youtube… Greece you are doing what the tival of the Church of The Holy toman State and the Young Turk Jerome and we had a daughter, fecting the pocketbooks of the TNH: What is your greatest Greeks do. Eating, drinking, Trinity-St. Nicholas. For the past regime. The event will be held but rather than let having kids middle class and should not af - achievement? Future plans? swimming, exploring. 40 years the church has used the at the community center of the keep us doing what we wanted fect tourism. The only time it MB: Writing a guide that is TNH: Any words of wisdom? festival to stage events that rep - Three Hierarchs Greek Orthodox to do, we continued to go to does is when a handful of Com - entertaining and also convinces MB: If you do what you love, resent the Greek way of life and Church after the Divine Liturgy Greece every summer and I con - munists or union members de - people to go to Greece, often peo - eventually it will bear fruit. And to share their rich cultural and at 12 noon, 1714 Avenue P in tinued writing about it. cide they are going to put pres - ple who had not even (consid - even if it takes a long time, if you artistic heritage with the rest of Brooklyn, New York. For addi - In 1995 I discovered the In - sure on the government by ered it.) Every time I get an e- love what you are doing, then NYC. Visitors can taste tradi - tional information call 718-339- ternet and put a few articles stopping the ferries or cruise mail from an Athenian, or a you will enjoy the journey. tional Greek food, pastries, cof - 0280. about Sifnos up and that is how ships … which to me is like Greek who has been away from fee, sample the great wines of the website began. (Next I wrote) hostage taking. Even though it his homeland, congratulating me [email protected] Greece, watch and learn tradi - n SEPTEMBER 19 & 26 tional dances from all regions of TARPON SPRINGS, Fl. - Funded Greece, and shop at the authen - in part with a grant from the Na - tic Greek boutique. Guests can tional Endowment for the Arts’ test their skills at games of Folk & Traditional Arts Program, chance, have fun spinning, the Greek Arts Initiative aug - swirling and swaying on exhila - ments the integration of Greek rating rides or simply soak up culture into Tarpon Springs’ Cul - the culture and celebrate it with tural Treasures presentations family and friends. The hours are through a variety of program - Sept. Fridays Sept. 10 & 17 from ming. The Kalymnian Tradi - 6 to 10 p.m.; Saturdays Sept. 11 tional Songs with Irene Kara - & 18 from 2-12 pm and Sundays vokiros will be held on Sept. 12 and 19 from 2-10 p.m. September 19 and 26 from For directions visit the church 12:00–2:00 p.m. at the Heritage Web site at http://greekchurch- Museum. She will teach many si.org/ or call (718) 494-0568. of the older Kalymnian songs, in - cluding those sung for weddings n SEPTEMBER 10-12 and other important occasions. BOSTON, Mass. - The aroma of The event is free. The Heritage grilled souvlaki and baked mous - Museum is located at 100 Beek - saka will once again fill the air man Lane, Craig Park, Tarpon when the Annunciation Greek Springs. For further information Orthodox Cathedral of New Eng - call: (727) 937-1130 or (727) land hosts its annual Greek fes - 942-5605. tival Friday Sept. 10 from 3 - 10 TNH/cOSTAS bEJ TNH/cOSTAS bEJ p.m.; Saturday from 11 a.m. - 11 n SEPTEMBER 23-26 St. John the Baptist Marked in Manhatttan Some Churches Celebrate Twice a Year p.m. and Sunday 11 a.m. - 9 p.m. MYRTLE BEACH, S.C. - St. John at the community center grounds the Baptist Church will be host - One of the more somber dates on the calendar of the Greek A procession followed vespers at the Church of St. Fanourios at 162 Goddard Avenue in ing their Annual Greek Festival Orthodox Church, the commemoration of the beheading of St. & Gerasimos in Woodside, Queens on August 26, where talis - Brookline. Admission and park - September 23-26 from 11:00 John the Baptist, is still cause for fellowship. Parishioners sur - mans associated with the saint were distributed. The next day ing are free. There will be live a.m. - 10:00 p.m. For info visit: round their new Pastor, Fr. Vasillios Bassakyros on August 29. parishioners lined up for the ‘fanouropites’ named after him. Greek music and dancing. The www.stjohn-mb.org/events/fes - Greek Music Ensemble will pro - tival.htm. vide music on Saturday and Sun - day evenings. Visitors will also n NOTE TO OUR READERS enjoy Greek and American tunes This calendar of events section is by a DJ and traditional folk danc - a complimentary service to the ing shows. Games, rides, chil - Greek American community. All drens activities and a raffle will parishes, organizations and insti - be featured. There will also be a tutions are encouraged to e-mail flea market, boutiques and art - their info regarding the event 3- work and jewelry for sale, along 4 weeks ahead of time, and no Από το 1915 with cultural and religious dis - later than Monday of the week για τον Ελληνισμό plays and tours. For info call 617- before the event, to english.edi - 731-6633. [email protected]

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Continued from page 1 “I lost the person I shared a room maximum amount of time the with as a child in a tiny apart - law allowed. He clarified that have been killed in the couple's ment, my best friend and confi - Francois will be required to apartment. In July, 2008, a New dant as a teenager and my equal serve 85% of his total sentence York State trooper discovered counterpart as an adult.” He – or 33 years- before having the Stathis’ remains in a plastic bag called Francois “not only a mur - right to request parole. along the Southern State Park - derous coward” but also “a A DIFFICULT DAY way in Queens, New York. The thief,” who robbed the family of The family and friends of family finally held a funeral for Thalia’s presence. “Holidays will Thalia Stathis gathered on the her on October 3, 2008. never be the same and life will fourth floor of the court in Hack - Joanne Stathis underlined to never be the same,” he told the ensack, early on August 31. Four the courtroom: “Since my Thalia court. people from the defendant’s side is no longer with us, she cannot He relived the family’s or - were also present, as was his at - defend herself, so we give her a deal, going through stages of torney, Robert Kalisch. Mello, face, a defense, a voice and a “shock, and disbelief,” bracing Carroll and Francois were the last presence in this courtroom.” She for “a grim reality” and finally to enter the courtroom. The sen - accused Francois of taking ad - having their world turned “up - tencing began with a few words vantage of her good-hearted side down” with the discovery from Kalisch. The judge invited daughter and “isolating her of her remains. At the same Francois to speak if he so desired. from her family and friends.” At time, he thanked those who Showing no remorse, Francois the same time, she let him know worked with great diligence on declined, complaining only that that her daughter continued to the court case. “Their work was he was in handcuffs throughout confide in her to the end. nothing short of professional the entire trial and told the judge: “Thalia became fearful of you and to my family it was of some “It’s not fair. It’s not a fair trial. as it was not in her nature to be comfort.” The wronged brother That’s all I have to say.” taken advantage of, and as a re - saved his scorn for the convicted After a brief discussion with sult, she became afraid of you. killer, noting: “I would like to the attorneys, Carroll allowed Do you know how I know this? say to the convicted, stay Stathis’ mother and brother to She told me on many occasions- healthy. Stay alive – and start take the stand. As she spoke, the even the last time I saw her.” counting the minutes, hours, victim's father, Panagiotis, stood When referring her daughter’s days, and years you’re going to next to his wife, holding a growing suspicions of Francois, TNH/cOSTAS bEJ spend in your cage. Every tick blown-up photograph of their she repeated the phrase: “Do Joanne Stathis, mother of murdered waitress Thalia Stathis, addresses the Superior Court of of the clock will feel like the daughter. After Spiros Stathis’ you know how I know this? I Hackensack, NJ on August 31, 2010. Her son, Spiros Stathis, embraces his father, Panagiotis. strike of a hammer.” He re - speech, the three embraced and know because she told me!” Fi - minded Francois that he will returned to their seats. At the nally, the mother related how you were doing – you chose an only as those left behind in since we buried my sister and spend his life in a cell, apart end of the sentencing, a woman her daughter told her the last evil path in life- because you have Thalia’s passing, but as respon - over three years since we lost her from the free world, for his told Francois, “We love you,” as time she was home that she the soul of the devil.” The mother sible, law abiding members of – and our pain and anger has yet crime. He added a final re - she left the room. A member of wanted to get away from Fran - concluded that while her daugh - the community, seeking the to subside. My mother and father minder: “During the next few Thalia Stathis’ group sputtered cois. Stathis uttered: “You mur - ter is gone in body, her spirit still stiffest penalty allowed by law have endured the most horrific decades you will spend in a at Francois, angrily: “Go home.” dered my daughter- put her in triumphs. “Her spirit lives in the for the crimes committed by thing that any parent can endure cage, never forget that you At the end of the difficult day in a bag in the trunk of your car, hearts of all those who loved her Hugh Francois, the coward and in losing a child and the horror killed the last woman that will court, Joanna Stathis told TNH: that she had paid for and threw – this girl I am so proud to call degenerate who took my sister’s has been compounded by the ever have touched you, so start “We thank the Greek commu - her out on a highway like a my daughter Thalia.” life.” He outlined Francois’ crim - manner in which they lost counting, tough guy.” nity for their love and support.” piece of garbage.” A BROTHER’S WORDS inal past (including “deadly vio - Thalia. Only now, after becoming Prosecutor Wayne Mello told In front of the packed court - Spiros Stathis, the victim’s lence, drug abuse and rape”) and a parent myself, can I even begin The National Herald that he was Additional reporting by room, she denounced Francois’ brother, took the stand after his asked for “the closure to finally to sympathize with their loss as pleased with the results of the Angelike Contis and Northjer - lack of remorse or conscience, mother. “My family and friends put Thalia’s spirit at rest.” He parents.” He recalled, from his trial and Judge Carroll’s sen - sey.com noting: “You know exactly what and I stand before you today not noted: “Two years have passed unique point of view, his sister. tencing, noting that it was the A Solar Light Bulb Went off in Inventor Katsaros’ Head

Continued from page 1 and considerable time spent viduals can afford it.” The prod - thing magical about the simplic - company, Katsaros now is busy with his partners in China - Kat - uct, according to its creator, is ity. Everybody looks at this and designing several additional re - uct,” it didn’t take him long to saros says the bulb, which is poised to leap into huge markets they says, ‘It’s a light bulb.’ And lated solar lighting products. He realize what a powerful contri - made up of teeny solar strips in countries where electricity re - then they say, ‘It’s a solar light notes: “This is a really hot bution it would have in many and a rechargeable battery, had mains a challenge. Katsaros bulb.’” Inventing it, he said, in - area...We’ve learned that this people’s lives. The market, Kat - nothing tricky about it. “It was says, “We are in advanced dis - volved assembling the parts “in one product doesn’t meet every - saros said “wound up to be one of those simple ideas- it cussions with companies in a a new way.” He adds: “I’m not body’s needs, so we’re actively much larger than I expected.” wasn’t a hard product to de - large variety of countries, in par - able to take credit like I’ve done building new prototypes.” Pro - Katsaros, 37, studied engineer - velop.” The bulbs have a rea - ticular in Africa, and in India something earth shattering. duction will be ready for more ing at Purdue University and sonable life of five years, as only and Pakistan.” India, with an es - What’s clever is just the aware - similar products soon. then attended the Bard Center the battery needs replacing. It timated 405 million people ness of what it is. People look What’s the secret to being a of Entrepreneurship at the Uni - may last, in some cases, up to without electricity, is a major po - at it and intuitively know what successful inventor? Katsaros, versity of Colorado. The Col - 30 years “like your grand - tential market. Though Katsaros it is, how it fits into their lives, whose Denver-born father has oradoan’s first inventions were mother’s china,” Katsaros adds. says he never sees countries what it’s used for. There’s very roots on Greece’s Serifos island, centered around his early love The bulb steered his life such Pakistan and Haiti, which little education that goes into says that he spends most of his of skiing – including risers for quickly into the field of social suffer great disasters, as “an op - what this can do for them.” It free time with his sons, two- Dynastar skis. (His parents and entrepreneurship, as he found portunity,” the entrepreneur be - helped, when it comes to man - year-old Thomas and four-year- his twin brother moved to Vail inspiration in the business lieves that the bulb can be part ufacturing the bulb cheaply and old Christopher, but he’s also when they were teens, in order model presented in Paul Polak’s of their rebuilding. To date, he quickly, he says, to have excel - “really passionate about learn - to be nearer the slopes.) His Out of Poverty, which taught notes, the company has deliv - lent relationship with his Hong ing.” That means, making it a most complex work, the Katsaros the following: “You ered over 5,000 bulbs to places Kong-based partners and to part of life to always be learning RevoPower motorized bicycle don’t look at people who live in around the world, many of them know exactly which 1,000-em - about new things and software TOM bOyD wheel, took up a good five years other parts of the world with remote. Nokero is in talks with ployee factory he’d be using for – while always trying to speed Inventor Stephen Katsaros at of his life, just in hammering pity. You look at them as cus - nonprofit organizations as well production. He also credits his up the distance between coming the National Geographic De - out the invention; it’s one of the tomers, and people who are just as companies to discuss mass excellent public relations cam - up with a new idea and making sign for the Other 90% social first pictures that appears when looking to get through their day dissemination. paign, led by journalist Tom it a tangible reality, or “trying entrepreneurship museum you type “bicycle” into a Google efficiently and survive and SIMPLICITY THE KEY Boyd, with getting the word out to get my ideas out of my head display in Washington, D.C. Internet image search. thrive.” He adds: “There are 2.8 The secret the Nokero bulb’s to the kind of people who can and into the market as fast as But by contrast to the billion people in the world that success, Katsaros says, is its very spread the new technology possible.” lions of people around the world RevoPower wheel, whose design live on less than $2 a day and streamlined design and throughout the planet. “I don’t have the time to read read after sundown. –offering 200 miles to the gal - our goal is to make it (the bulb) “straightforward subsystems.” While he originally thought anymore,” Katsaros regrets, but lon- involved many challenges so inexpensive that those indi - He says: “I think there is some - Nokero would be a one-product soon his invention may help mil - [email protected] The Greek Rural Life at American Farm School Dazzles U.S. Teens

Continued from page 1 Teens are more likely to listen Nonetheless, he adds: “I would amphitheater, part of a plan for cans.” www.afs.edu.gr/gs40reunion or to their peers. The head coun - recommend this trip to any hu - a new community center. The call 212-463-8434. Reunion phosis of thought and spirit as selor and head of student life man teenager that can breathe,” Greek American teens got their For more information on the committee members include the they work to accomplish set hope Greek Summer will in - even if they aren’t big on service Greek Summer, one that will last Greek Summer 40th Year Re - likes of green furniture design - goals.” The program promises creasingly emphasize “the im - or culture. a lifetime. Or as, AFS’s Beltes union event, which will include er/artist Tucker Robbins and that for some $3,100 (2,500 eu - portance and relevance of rural Anthea Levi, who loves dance put it: “The visible display of vol - a Greek taverna dinner at the Iowa State University’s agricul - ros) that teens will “r ealize new life and slow life,” referring to a and writing, says she was drawn unteer community service un - Radisson Martinique Hotel on ture professor David Acker. potential and discover resources movement that emphasizes lo - to Greek Summer “to experience dertaken with enthusiasm and Broadway, in Manhattan, visit within themselves and each cally-produced food, as well as something different from what I joy by 15-17-year-old Ameri - the website [email protected] other.” Organizers try to set the a slower-paced lifestyle that am used to.” Being “50% Greek,” program in a new village each stresses nature instead of mod - she had visited the country pre - year, and one located between ern technologies such as air con - viously, but having a host family two and four hours from AFS’ ditioning, cell phones and com - had new challenges. “I was campus. puters. amazed at how close we became MY GREEK SUMMER Greek Summer seems to without even having real con - During this year’s program, have had an important impact, versations. We didn’t speak the Kira Antigone Tolla, the Greek judging from the responses of same language so our relation - Summer Head Counselor, pro - two young people to TNH ques - ship was based off of gestures vided parents with a flavor of tions. Skateboarding buff and smiles. While this was a this summer’s experience, with Hamel’s introduction to Greek blessing, it was also a curse. I her online reports. Her weekly culture came from friends at - often felt frustrated that we entries- punctuated by exclama - tending Greek School. When his could not communicate; I tion marks – relate trips to bee - mother first showed him the wanted to be able to interact keepers, wineries, organic website, he said: “I knew imme - with my gracious family as much farms, as well as village events, diately that it was what I was as possible and this was very the progress of the amphithe - looking for as it not only focused hard without words.” ater, and travels. She writes: “Of on service, but travel and cul - Like Hamel, her favorite course we’re always stuffed to tural aspects of Greek culture.” memory involved water. One the brim, but what would Greek THE RAIN IN DELPHI day, she notes, she and her Summer be without all the deli - The aspiring writer says he’ll friends discovered local water - cious food!” Among the words cherish memorie s of a rainy run falls. “We arrived in a wooded parents learn from her blog are in Delphi. “While we were there, area that was shaded by trees as varied as Kalispera (Good Af - a colossal rainstorm hit the town and appeared abandoned; we ternoon) and betoniera (cement and the streets ran thick with were the only people there. We mixer.) Tolla and Athanasios water for about an hour. About found the waterfalls after explor - Kasapidis, Head of AFS’ Student nine or 10 other kids and I all ing and climbing up the rocks, Life, noted (in a joint email cor - put on bathing suits … and ran which were beautiful, but below respondence from Greece) that amok in the water for the dura - there was a pond, while we they were impressed by the ini - tion of the storm, even going so swam.” The clincher for the New tiative taken by this year’s far as to climb about on the cliffs Yorker, however, was getting the group. Each year, they point out, over the valley with lightning guts to climb up to the rope that the hardest part is the be - striking off in the distance and swing her friends were enjoying. ginning: “The participants arrive rain coming down all around us. “I swung and let go of the rope, anxious, nervous, scared, and It was incredible. I still have the screaming, and jumping into the they leave crying and unwilling muddy shirt to remind me of it.” water. I came up feeling freezing to depart the embrace of their This summer’s lessons in - but also so happy I had jumped second family.” They’ve ob - cluded, Hamel said, co-existing, in, I felt accomplished and free.” served that Greek Summer self-awareness and confidence. Diving into Greece taught her a leaves teens more tolerant and But he said he also learned lot. She says: “I also learned outgoing and generates leader - about short tempers on construc - about another culture and how, ship skills. tion work, whenever things were by submerging yourself into an - “Everybody wins!” noted disorganized. His Greek cultural other lifestyle completely, you Tolla and Kasapidis, when education included learning that learn a great deal about the peo - youngsters who know Greece “Greeks do not change with the ple you are with, but more than better than the rest share their door closed, and that they do anything you learn about your - knowledge with the group. not spay or neuter their pets.” self.” Mikro Dassos got its new 4 COMMUNITY THE NATIONAL HERALD, SEPTEMBER 4-10, 2010 Archbishop Demetrios Mum on St. Nicholas Church’s Future

By Theodore Kalmoukos In response to TNH’s question Telling us to go back to our orig - that they were going to give us if he was planning on issuing an inal sight is something that can - a larger lot. The so-called air BOSTON – Archbishop ultimatum to the Port Authority not be taken seriously consider - rights on the initial lot allowed Demetrios of America is refusing to the effect of “either you stop ing all the digging and the for the construction of a narrow to inform the Greek American digging on our lot or we will take projects that they have begun. building reaching as high as 14 Community about the status of you to court,” Couloucoundis re - Where would we go?” stories. Now thay have limited plans to rebuild the St. Nicholas sponded that, “We have not got - Couloucoundis went on to say us to three stories. Imagine a Church at Ground Zero in New ten to that point yet.” With re - that, “I think that they also cylinder, which instead of being York. In a response to a written gard to when it was the last time know that this would be a very tall and narrow, was made low communiqué sent by The Na - he spoke to the Port Authority difficult thing to do. Something and wide. We received a larger tional Herald requesting an in - was, he explained that, “I per - like this should have been dis - lot, but we cannot build as high. terview with the Archbishop re - sonally have not had any contact cussed seven or eight years ago, We have enough room to build garding this issue, the with them because the Archdio - when the initial plans were a simple church, but we do not Archdiocese’s Press Officer cese is handling this.” He also drafted. What they are suggest - have the right to build a sky - Stavros Papagermanos replied added that “we are now commu - ing now might not be feasible scraper. In addition, they have that “for the moment, and as nicating through third parties, from an engineering standpoint, very much limited the purpose long as the issue continues to who have greater influence, and but they threw out the proposal for which the new lot can be develop, His Eminence will not we are trying to reach some kind anyway just to have something used.” give any interviews regarding of reasonable understanding.” to tell the Press. They can avoid Couloucoundis, the son of a the issue of St. Nicholas.” Mean - Couloucoundis said that he be - us, but it is very difficult to prominent family of ship-own - while, St. Nicholas’ Parish Coun - lieves that, “We do not have ma - avoid reporters. This kind of be - ers, explained that, “If we had cil President John jor differences,” and added that, havior is not serious.” wanted to sell the church there Couloucoundis called the under - “We have the feeling that the When asked when was it was would have been no limitations ground Vehicle Security Center Port Authority is reconsidering the last time he’d spoken to on the use of the lot because it that the NY/NJ Port Authority this agreement because they Archbishop Demetrios regarding was located in a commercial has already begun construction might have some other plans for the issue of St. Nicholas, he said, area. Today, however, the Port on at the initially agreed upon the lot (on Liberty Street.) There “I have spoken primarily to Mr. Authority has tacked on limita - site for the new church “illegal.” might be some commercial rea - (Michael) aharis, who repre - tions, stipulating that they never Speaking to TNH from Singa - sonwhich they do not want to sents the Archdiocese for some want us to sell the lot. In one- pore, where he is away on busi - make public. This is not uncom - of these issues, about two weeks hundred years, let’s say, if we ness, Couloucoundis reminded mon for the Port Authority. They ago. They let me know right wanted to build a larger struc - that the Port Authority pro - do not make anything public be - away if they have any new de - ture or relocate, they have ceeded with this decision uni - fore it is completed. In other velopment, because we honestly placed many limitations on the laterally and had not reached words, they’re up to something have very good relations and deed of the new lot.” Kulukindis any agreement with the Arch - (the Port Authority), and they they keep me informed.” also said that, “The construction diocese. He also refused to rule will announce it when plans are Couloucoundis added that, “Mr. of the church must take place out any option, including seek - pretty much set.” Jaharis told me that we are not on the new lot because they (the ing legal recourse in the courts, Commenting on the Port Au - in contact with the Port Author - Port Authority) are adhering to if an agreement is not reached thority’s statement that the St. Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church near the World Trade ity. They are avoiding us and a strange plan. They are build - during negotiations with the church could be rebuilt at its ini - Center in New York was a familiar site to churchgoers and steering clear of negotiations by ing a garage on the lot where Port Authority. Couloucoundis tial location, Couloucoundis neighborhood residents before it was felled on Sept. 11, 2001. all means.” Responding to a the church was initially located, insisted that, “It’s illegal; what noted that, “It isn’t so simple. question about the initial cost so the new church must move the Port Authority is doing is il - Not only are they digging there church without knowing what build an underground parking of the lot that the St. Nicholas further east in order to be closer legal.” When asked how he now, but we don’t know what the Port Authority is planning? lot in such a way that we would was built on, Couloucoundis an - to the street.” It cannot move plans to react, he replied that they plan on doing exactly. How Going back to the old site is eas - be unable to build a church, swered that, “I can tell you that west because of zoning issues”, “we are discussing our course can we lay the foundations of a ier said than done. And if they then what would we put there? the estimate was objective, and he explained. of action.” He said “We always have shown good will towards the Port Authority and tried to go Port Authority Began Work at St. Nicholas Site Without Deal about things the right way, but now we are looking into differ - ent options, and one of these is U.S. House of Representatives mem - statement we issued last week.” could not be delayed over this issue. legal recourse,” he explained. bers from New York Carolyn Maloney The Port Authority statement is as They rejected that offer. The compo - Couloucoundis added that, and Timothy Bishop, both Democrats, follows: nents for the Vehicle Security Center “Turning to the Justice System co-signed a letter to Christopher Ward, "St. Nicholas Orthodox Church has have been designed and contracted. To is one option, but it is always the New York Port Authority’s Executive always had and will continue to have now cancel existing contracts and go preferable to avoid lawsuits. Of Director in support of the St. Nicholas the right to rebuild on its original loca - back and redesign that key facility, course, if we see that there is church at Ground Zero. In their letter tion. The question was whether signifi - which is integral to the rest of the site, no other option, then a legal so - dated August 27, 2010, they revealed cant sums of public money would be would delay the entire World Trade lution is definitely on our list of that the Port Authority had began con - spent to build a church six times larger Center further and cost untold millions choices, and the Port Authority struction on the church’s original site than the original at a separate location in public dollars. Moreover, St. Nicholas knows this.” When asked to de - without any written agreement nor per - on the site, and making sure that effort Church continues to retain the right to scribe the solution that would mission front the Greek Orthodox Arch - wouldn’t further delay the World Trade build on its original location and work best satisfy him, he responded diocese of America. Center redevelopment. On that ques - could begin in 2013 in sequence with that, “We were happy with the The stated that, “We have been in - tion, we worked for many years to reach the completion of the Vehicle Security basic agreement that we had in formed that the Port Authority has be - an agreement and offered up to 60 mil - Center, just as it would have on the place; a lot on Liberty Street. gun to build the Vehicle Security Facility lion dollars of public money to build larger site." Money was not an issue. We below the original site of the church, that much larger new church. After Greek-American New York Assembly were seeking some restitution although there presently is no agree - reaching what we believed was an Member of the 36th Assembly District for inflation because there are ment with the Greek Orthodox Arch - agreement in 2008, representatives of Michael Gianaris, in a letter dated Au - major delays in construction diocese or the church.” Maloney and the church wanted even more public gust 27, 2010 to the Port Authority’s and five years from now the cost Bishop urged the Port Authority “to as - commitments, including unacceptable Executive Director Christopher Ward, of rebuilding the church may be sume negotiations with the Archdiocese approvals on the design of the Vehicle wrote that, “I respectfully but strongly much greater. Perhaps they and the Church as soon as practicable, Security Center that threatened to fur - request that the Port Authority return might undertake the initiative consistent with all applicable rules and ther delay the construction on the World to the bargaining table as soon as pos - to get some of the licenses regulations.” U.S. House of Representatives mem - Trade Center and the potential for an - sible with an eye towards honoring the needed for construction to The Port Authority’s representative ber (New York) Carolyn Maloney. other $20 million of public money. In commitment made to the Saint Nicholas start.” He also noted that “the Steve Goltman told The National Herald 2009, we made our final offer, which parishioners that their church will be basic agreement proposed by that, “We have begun the construction agreement was reached all these years, again included up to $60 million in pub - rebuilt at 130 Liberty Street.” the Port Authority was to our of the Vehicle Security Facility.” Goltman said, “I am not going to answer lic money and told St. Nicholas Ortho - satisfaction. The problems lied To the question why no written that question, I am referring you to dox Church that the World Trade Center -Theodore Kalmoukos in the details.” Bishop Andonios says Archdiocese Ready for St. Nicholas Court Battle

Continued from page 1 would need the funds to pay our Church, and saying that we are deal, it was never completed,” bills.” greedy, making irrational de - and added that, “I did not par - proving that all their (the Port WHY NINE YEAR WAIT? mands, and many other things ticipate in the negotiations and Authority) plans show the In response to how nine that are not true. We are trying I don’t know why an agreement church on 130 Liberty Street.” years could have passed since to exercise political pressure, be - was never finalized.” Bishop Andonios said that all September 2001 without a writ - cause unfortunately the Port Au - According to Bishop Ando - relevant documentation is in the ten agreement between the two thority is somewhat of an inde - nios, “Attorneys, Mr. (Michael) possession of the Archdiocese’s parties, Bishop Andonios reiter - pendent body, with its own Jaharis I’m guessing, and other legal counsel and clarified that ated that, “A final agreement board of trustees, but they are people” were present at the ne - “they are not in my hands, and was never drafted,” and added responsible to the governors of gotiations. When asked if Rev. I did not take part in the nego - that “construction was not going New York and New Jersey. Un - Alexander Karloutsos was pre - tiations.” The Chancellor also to start until 2012 or 2013 any - fortunately, we have a governor sent, he replied that, “I am cer - clarified that the Archdiocese’s way.” When asked what docu - in New York who is on his way tain that he was, but I don’t attorney Emmanuel Demos is ments are in the Archdiocese’s out of office, and who has nei - know to what degree,” explain - not representing them at the ne - hands today, he responded that ther great influence nor power. ing that “Fr. Karloutsos was not gotiations. “Unfortunately, we have noth - No one pays him any mind. If it assigned as the Archdiocese’s “No, we have other attorneys ing, because we are dealing with was someone else, like (former negotiator.” In regards to a re - representing the Archdiocese for a very peculiar Port Authority governors George) Pataki or cent news conference at Ground this matter,” he said. When head. All his predecessors (Mario) Cuomo, the issue would Zero, Bishop Andonios said that asked if there is a finalized writ - agreed to whatever we had have been resolved.” Bishop An - “it was called by (Congressional ten agreement between the asked, but the current chief has donios also said that, “The Arch - candidate) George Demos,” and Archdiocese and the Port Au - adopted a position that nobody diocese has on file a letter from explained that “I was not aware thority, Bishop Andonios said, can explain. We don’t know if George Pataki back when he of it until the moment that I ar - “No, there is no final decision. there is something that is lying was New York State Governor rived. I was told to go there by They claim that we asked for 60 behind all of this. Maybe they confirming that 130 Liberty the Office of the Archbishop, be - million, but I am telling you that want to do something else with TNH ARcHIVES Street was the lot that had been cause the Archbishop was out at some point they offered us the lot, because six months ago The Archdiocese’s Chancellor Bishop Andonios of Phasiane assigned for the rebuilding of of the country.” When asked in 20 million, then they lowered it they had said something about reaffirmed during an interview that the possibility of a suit the church.” In response to what capacity Demos called that to 10 million. The matter is not build a Fine Arts Center. We against the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey looms. TNH’s observation that things Press Conference, he answered, about the amount of money, but don’t know what is happening would have been different if a “I don’t know, you should ask when it would be given to the behind the scenes.” Bishop An - Regarding the Archdiocese’s publicize the documents, be - final agreement had been him. We simply used it as an op - Archdiocese, because if we be - donios also faults New York future steps, the Chancellor said cause the Port Authority is mak - signed, Bishop Andonios said portunity for the Church to get gan building the church, we State Governor David Paterson. that, “Initially, we are trying to ing false statements about the that, “We never had a signed its message out.”

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GREEK GASTRONOMY Greeks and Grapes: They Know Fruit of the Vine Not Only for Wine

By Georgia Kofinas the krater, which was the mixing Messinia in the Peloponnese; • Robola own healing properties. The ditional cuisine still at the base, Special to The National Herald bowl used to mix wine with wa - Macedonia and Thrace in north - • Savvatiano skins of grapes are loaded with you can find such fusion innova - ter before drinking it (Greeks ern Greece; Thessaly in Central • Malagouzia beta-carotene and lycopene, and tions as grapes in chicken pilaf Any visit to an archeological considered drinking undiluted Greece; and the Aegean, Ionian, The most common table grape other phytonutrients like ellagic topped with a pureed grape museum will affirm that, since wine to be barbaric due to the and Dodecanese Islands and varieties are: acid, resveratrol and sulfur com - sauce; stewed beef with grapes antiquity, Greeks have been as - fact that it was exceptionally con - Crete. Over the years, Greece has • Avgoulato pounds. For optimum health ben - in a wine sauce; or a sweet sociated with grapes and wine. centrated and had a very high al - adopted many varieties of grapes • Rozaki efits nutritionists suggest that cheese pie with Greek anthotiro Ancient Greek vases depict cohol content.) We also know originating in other parts of the • Moschato Amvourgo when juicing grapes, skins and (soft white cheese) with a scenes of men picking grapes and that viticulture spread from world which, of course, have (also for wine) seeds should not be removed. caramelized grape glaze. For this carrying them off to be treaded Greece to its territories in South - adapted exceptionally well to the • Aetonichi GREEK COOKING time of year, I like serving my upon for wine. The god of wine, ern Italy and on into the rest of moderate climate and arid land • Cardinal WITH GRAPES guests this refreshing salad, Dionysus, is illustrated in ancient Europe through the Roman Em - of the country. Therefore you can • Fraoula While Greeks enjoy simply which can accompany any light Greek art as being preoccupied pire. Most of the information we find a growing number of wines • Sultanina eating their grapes fresh off the summer main course. with wine drinking and merry - have about grapes in antiquity on the Greek market made from • Stafida vine, there are some characteris - making while his colleague Pan are directly linked to the process these grapes, • Kerino tic culinary indulgences when it Mixed Grape Salad gathers grapes (in between chas - of winemaking and could fill vol - which may also • Italia comes to grapes and Greeks. with Almonds ing nymphs) in order to sustain umes of books. So for now, I will be com - • Victoria Serving feta cheese with grapes the Drink of the Gods. It was the leave this to the oenologists and bined • Sideritis (also for is very popular in the summer for ancient Greeks who considered limit this article to the actual wine) a light snack, to accompany ouzo, For 6 servings winemaking to be an ultimate fruit of the vine rather than or as dessert at the end of a meal. • 10 small radishes cleaned symbol of civilization and culture. to the pleasures of wine - Another variety of Grapes are also made into a and thinly sliced While the main reason for culti - making. stafida, the mavri spoon sweet which can readily • 1 small radicchio vating grapes in Greece has been THE BLESSING OF Corinthiaki stafida, is be served like marmalade or a • 1 small bunch arugula to produce wine, Greeks also en - GRAPES dried to make black topping for yogurt or ice cream. (rocket, or roka) joy eating grapes almost as much Since grapes and wine Stafida or sultanina • ½ cup chopped fresh as stomping them! When I first have been such an integral grapes are more com - coriander or parsley moved to Greece 34 years ago, I part of the history of monly used for the • 1 cup seedless white grapes could not understand why eating Greece, it is not surpris - spoon sweet as they are • 1 cup black seedless grapes grapes all year round was not ing that there is a spe - seedless and have a • 3 tablespoons toasted common among Greeks. Back in cial ritual to pay tribute longer season. But the blanched almonds, slivered the States, grapes were readily to what the ancient raisins. best grape spoon sweet is made • 6 oz. soft white Greek cheese available all year round since Greeks named “The King Originally it was with the fraoula (strawberry) (anthotiro) cut into 6 slices they were imported from such of Fruits.” Tied into the with cultivated in the area of variety which imparts its straw - areas as South America and Greek tradition and Or - traditional Corinth, but today other vine - berry red color and fragrance to For the dressing: Southern California. But as thodox religious practices is the native vari - yards of the Peloponnese host the the sweet. Because the fraoula • 1 tablespoon honey Greece’s fruit is primarily sea - blessing of the first harvest of eties. There are, however, some variety as well. Production of grape has pips that must be re - • 1 tablespoon grape molasses sonal, Greeks enjoy their grapes grapes which takes place on the purists like myself who would these raisins began around 1830 moved before boiling them in the (if available) beginning in late summer when feast day of the Transfiguration prefer to support indigenous and found favor on the interna - syrup, it is a more time consum - • 2 tablespoons white vinegar the “jeweled clusters” have of Christ on August 6th. This ini - products and drink wine made tional market especially among ing process. For this reason, the • 1/3 cup extra virgin olive oil soaked up enough of the summer tiates the use of the new season’s exclusively from the traditional the British. The sultanina variety older generations of women • Salt sun to impart their succulent grapes for making the wine to be native grapes. For this reason I of table grapes used for raisins would gather together for a joint • Freshly ground pepper sweet flavor. Just to set the used in Holy Communion. It is will only be presenting the native and wine as well. It was brought effort to carefully pull out the record straight, these grapes, the custom for those who have varieties. Below is a chart depict - to Greece by a Greek from pips with hairpins while engaging 1. Keep sliced radishes in ice known as table grapes (epi - vineyards to bring their first har - ing the most popular and tradi - Smyrni in Asia Minor in 1838. in jovial conversation. Unfortu - water to retain crispness. Mix trapezia) or dessert grapes, are vest of grapes to the church tional red and white varieties of Finding hospitable soil in the area nately, today this communal spirit together all ingredients for salad basically a different variety than where it is placed in a large bas - grapes cultivated in Greece for of Nafplion in the Peloponnese, has become almost extinct and dressing. those used for winemaking, al - ket to be blessed by the priest. winemaking. Some varieties can the sultanina is probably the most the grapes are sent to more so - 2. Tear radicchio and arugula though some can be for both. The special prayer read over the be used for both the table and favored and versatile of all phisticated spoon sweet compa - with fingers and place in large They are cultivated in all areas grapes says, “Bless, Lord, this winemaking. grapes. nies to be processed commer - bowl. Add remaining ingredi - of Greece in both the mountain - new fruit of the vine which Red grapes White grapes EAT GRAPES FOR HEALTH cially. Raisins play a major role ents except for almonds and ous terrain of the mainland and reached ripeness because Thou • Agiorgitiko Grapes are actually berries in Greek cuisine as they are used cheese and toss carefully. in the arid lowlands of the Greek kindly provided good weather, • Kotsifali and therefore have highly pro - to make many traditional breads 3. Divide salad among 6 islands. drops of rain and stillness. Let • Krasato tective flavonol anti-oxidants that and sweets. Because of their high salad bowls and sprinkle al - A GRAPE HISTORY eating this fruit of the vine make • Limnio scavenge the free radicals in our nutritional value raisins are par - monds on top. Place cheese in Grape vines originally grew us joyful. And give us the honor • Mandilaria body. They are rich in vitamins ticularly favored in the Lenten center of salad and drizzle wild across a wide belt from the of offering this fruit to Thee, as • Mavrodafne A, B1, B2, B6 and C and in min - cuisine during fasting periods. dressing over top. Western Mediterranean all the the gift of purging of sins, alto - • Mavro Mesenikola erals such as calcium, chlorine, They pair with olive oil, honey, way to the Caucasus. Findings of gether with the Holy Body of Thy • Moschato Amvourgo (also for copper, fluorine, iron, magne - dried fruit and nuts in baked Variation: You can substitute wild grape pips date back to 7500 Christ.” After the service, the table) sium, manganese, phosphorus, goods such as raisin bread, raisin radicchio and arugula with B.C. in Western Europe and 6000 priest passes out the grapes to all • Moschofilero (makes white potassium, silicon and sulfur. rusks (paximadia), and cakes. other salad greens of your B.C. in the Caucasus. There is ev - those present as a blessing. wine) Grapes contain many health-pro - They can also be added to sweet choice. Try replacing the cheese idence that grapes were culti - THE GREEK VARIETIES • Xinomavro moting flavonoids found in the puddings and fruit compotes. In with feta or other white cheeses. vated as far away as Asia around About 6% of the total culti - • Athiri color of the grapes. Therefore the savory dishes, raisins add a tangy 5000 B.C. Domestication began vated land (about 560,000 acres) • Aedani deeper the color of the grapes, sweetness to rice pilafs and stuff - Georgia Kofinas is a food wri ter, much later but the dates are quite of Greece is given over to grow - • Asyrtiko the richer the flavonoids. Also ings for both meat and seafood cookbook author and chef in - obscure. In the Aegean there is ing grapes. While viticulture is • Daphne present in grapes are large specialties, or they can be added structor at Alpine College, a evidence of grape pressing for widely distributed throughout • Monemvasia amounts of tartaric and malic to stews and sauces for extra fla - hotel management and tourism wine around 2000 B.C. in Crete Greece the greatest concentration • Moschato lefko acids and a respectable amount vor. school in Athens, Greece. Her and a little later in an area near is in the prefectures of Attica • Moschato Alexandrias (also of other acids like succinic, fu - Creative Greek cuisine has cu linary journeys have taken her Sparta. By 1400 B.C. the Linear (area around Athens); Corinth, for table) maric, glyceric, p-coumaric and also incorporated grapes into to many regions of the Eastern B tablet from Mycenae records Achaia, Argolida, Elia and • Roditis caffeic, each functioning with its more modern recipes. With tra - Mediterranean and Asia Minor. Do the Math: Hypatia and the Clash of Civilizations in Late Antiquity

(The 2009 Spanish film dro Amenabar released a film of Egypt. Orestes loved Hypatia living event unfolding in front Her vision also made learning a Agora had its heart in Greece, he pointedly named Agora in and did whatever he could to of our eyes. We see the magnifi - bond for building a just society. depicting the relationship be - which he zeroed in the clash of protect her from the monks. cent buildings of the Alexandria Perhaps Agora is a metaphor for tween religion and science dur - Greek and Christian civilizations Cyril, however, had the ear of library and the Mouseion, the our enormous loss from the vio - ing the decline of the Greco-Ro - in the fourth and fifth centuries the emperor. The church was be - throngs of people selling and lent eclipse of Greek culture. It man polytheistic times and the in Alexandria, Egypt. The vio - coming the state. Sokrates, c. buying in the fading agora. We may also be a warning of the Christianization of the Roman lent Christianization of polythe - 380 - post 439, a lawyer and an also see Hypatia teaching young emerging hubris coming out of empire. It won seven Goya istic Greece even redefined ecclesiastical historian, was a men math, astronomy and phi - the clash of civilizations in our awards in Spain, including Best agora to just a place for trade, contemporary of Hypatia. He losophy, stubborn to the very time. Original Screenplay and got its eventually becoming the “free said the monks “(Waylaid) her end about the virtues of Greek title from the ancient gathering market” of today. The protago - returning home. They dragged culture and science: asking ques - Evaggelos Vallianatos, Ph.D., of place of Greece and tells the nist of Agora is Hypatia, c. 370 her from her carriage, took her tions in order to grasp the se - Claremont, Calif., is the author story of Hypatia, a female math - - 415, daughter of the mathe - to the church called Kaisareon, crets of nature and the cosmos. of The Passion of the Greeks. ematician, philosopher and as - matician Theon who headed a where they completely stripped tronomer in 4th Century Roman school of philosophy and sci - her naked, and then murdered Egypt who investigates the flaws ence in Alexandria. Following her with tiles. After tearing her of the geocentric Ptolemaic sys - her father, Hypatia became a body to pieces, they took her tem and the heliocentric model philosopher and mathematician. mangled limbs to a place called that challenges it.) 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would get out of hand. In fact, chance. One of her former stu - translate this horrific Christian a Takis Ioannides in 391, the Archbishop of dents, Orestes, was the Governor attack against the Greeks into a 6 OBITUARIES CLASSIFIEDS THE NATIONAL HERALD, SEPTEMBER 4-10, 2010 Fabled Greek Scholar Mabel Lang Taught 45 Years at Bryn Mawr

By Sally A. Downey ident Mary Patterson McPherson phering of ancient inscriptions. ing Room Only, Top Secret, Kind in later years, she always took Inquirer Staff Writer said. She spent summers on excava - Hearts and Martinets, and The her knitting, Blanchard said. Besides being an inspiring, tions in such places as Gordion Profs in the Pudding. She created designs in yellow PHILADELPHIA, Penn. - Mabel caring, and demanding teacher, in Turkey, the Acropolis and the A native of Hamilton, N.Y., and white - Bryn Mawr's colors Lang, 92, a prominent scholar, McPherson said, Dr. Lang was a Agora in Athens, and the Palace Dr. Lang played basketball at - for socks sold at college fund- archaeologist, and professor prominent scholar, and her of King Nestor in Pylos, Greece. Hamilton High School and was raisers. She loved decorating the emeritus at Bryn Mawr College graduate seminars on Homer Dr. Lang was awarded an avid swimmer, said her sister, gingerbread men at Christmas who was beloved for her intro - and Thucydides set a standard Guggenheim and Fulbright Fel - Marian Blanchard. She once and was always generous to her ductory course on Greek and for in her field. lowships and received many swam across the lake near her niece and nephews, her sister stage-managing faculty shows, For 27 years until retiring in honors. She was a member of home in frigid weather. She had said. died of heart failure Wednesday, 1988, Dr. Lang chaired the Bryn the American Philosophical So - to break the ice first, her sister In addition to her sister, Dr. July 21, at home in Rosemont. Mawr Greek department. She ciety, the American Academy of said, and when a photographer Lang is survived by a niece and Dr. Lang earned a master's wrote more than 50 articles and Arts and Sciences, the German for the local paper wanted to four nephews. degree and a doctorate in Greek 12 books. Archaeological Society, Phi Beta take her picture, she swam A memorial service will be studies from Bryn Mawr and, She continued to write and Kappa, and Phi Kappa Phi. across again. held at 3 p.m. Sunday, April 3, while a graduate student, was a do research after retiring, and In addition to her research Dr. Lang earned a bachelor's in Thomas Great Hall at Bryn dormitory residential adviser or her book on Thucydides, an an - and teaching at Bryn Mawr, she degree from Cornell University, Mawr College. "warden." cient Greek historian, will be served as acting dean of the col - where her professor of Greek Memorial donations may be She joined the faculty in published this fall, said McPher - lege and dean of the sophomore encouraged her to pursue grad - made to the Mabel Lang Fund 1943. In the next 45 years, al - son, who was a close friend. class and was secretary of the uate studies. While in college, in the Humanities, Bryn Mawr most a thousand students took Dr. Lang's chief academic in - faculty from 1970 to 1975. she worked one summer on a College, Resource Office, 101 N. her undergraduate "baby" Greek terests were Greek history and Her credits as stage manager chicken farm on Cape Cod. Merion Ave., Bryn Mawr, Pa. course, former Bryn Mawr pres - epigraphy, the study and deci - include the faculty shows Stand - When she visited her family Mabel Lang 19010.

DEATHS n ANDREWS, DAN was a Real Estate Broker and In - the East Chapel of Chattanooga sity of Athens and McGill Univer - 1939 in Greece, son of the late Panayota Papamichael; his niece, NORTHRIDGE, Calif. - Dignity vestor and served on the Paw - Funeral Home. In lieu of flowers, sity. He practiced dentistry, a pro - Emanuel and Evagelia Tzenis. Kim (Tom) Martin; his great Memorial reported that Dan P. tucket Blackstone Valley Board memorial contributions may be fession that he loved and strove Mr. Tzenis worked for Nestle in nephew Nick Martin; and great Andrews, 83, passed away peace - of Realtors for 50 years. He is sent to the Annunciation Greek to advance, for over 55 years in New Milford, retiring after 30 niece and Goddaughter, Zoe Mar - fully on August 27. He was born survived by his children, Alana Orthodox Church, 722 Glenwood Athens, Montreal and Toronto. years of service. He is survived tin. 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He was a WWII Army and past president of the Greek Tacia Fiffy, 88, passed away veteran, retiree from the U.S. n PARTHENIOS, DIMITRIOS Community of Metropolitan peacefully on August 29 in the Postal Service, member of the An - ROCKFORD, Ill. - The Rockford TO PlAcE yOUR clASSIFIED AD, cAll: (718) 784-5255, Toronto with a long list of credits Holy Trinity Nursing & Rehab nunciation Greek Orthodox Register Star reported that Dim - ExT. 106, E-MAIl: classifieds@ thenationalherald.com to his name. He leaves behind his Center in Worcester. She was Cathedral where he was a de - itrios George Parthenios, 78, loving wife, Anna; his children, born in Agios Petros, Greece on voted steward of his time for passed away on August 28 due Peter (Talar), Franchesca (Philip) July 3, 1922 to Theodore and many years, former chairman of to health-related issues. He was REAL ESTATE and Penelopy (Rob); and his Metaxia Economou. She grew the Greek Festival in 1980 and born on August 23, 1932, in the grandchildren, Christopher, Peter up in Athens and immigrated to 1981 and also served on the village of Lada, Kalamata, Jr., Melinda, Melody and the United States in 1946 and Parish Council. He is survived by Greece. Dimitrios first immi - Nicholas. Visitation was held at settled in Brighton with her sister his loving wife of 69 years, grated to Toronto, Canada before Thompson Funeral Home. Fu - Evangeline. She was married in Catherine Polis Kalliantas; his moving to the United States and neral services were held at St. 1948 and was proud to have at - children, Antoinette (Timothy) ultimately settling in Rockford. John's Greek Orthodox Church. tended night school to obtain her Curley, Stella Roberts, Helen Dimitrios co-owned three restau - In lieu of flowers, donations to U.S. citizenship. She worked in (Glen) Miller, Penny (Charles) rants, including Parthenios the Greek Community of Metro - the cafeteria at the former May Monfort, Steve (Diane) Kalliantas Restaurant, Redwood Restaurant politan Toronto would be appre - A. Gallagher Junior High School and Louis Kalliantas; his grand - and Johnson's Restaurant, with ciated. Online condolences in Leominster for several years. children, Chris (Lisa) Roberts, his brothers over the course of maybe made at www.thomp - She was a member of the Holy Rick (Barb) Roberts, Charles (Dr. 45 years in Rockford. He is sur - sonfh-aurora.com Trinity Greek Orthodox Church Kimberly) Monfort, Vincent Cur - vived by his children, Efstathia PRINTED EDITION OF THE NATIONAL HERALD in Fitchburg and the church's ley, Justine Curley, Amy (Brock) (Juan) Reyes, Amalia (John) vIA THE POST-OFFICE: n ATHANIS, DEAN Philoptochos Society. She loved Novak and Susan Kalliantas; his Deligiannis and Georgia (John o1 Month $11.00 o3 Months $22.00 CHICAGO, Ill. – The Chicago Tri - the beach, her flower garden and great-grandchildren, Sarah, Shoulders) Parthenios; his grand - o6 Months $33.00 oOne year $66.00 bune reported that Dean P. Atha - was completely devoted to her Aaron and Madeline Roberts and children, Andrianna, J. Antonio, vIA HOME DELIvERy (Ny, NJ & CT): nis passed away peacefully on children and grandchildren. She Grace, Daniel and Peter Monfort; Anastasya, Annalissa, Theofani, o1 Month for $14.00 o3 Months for $33.00 August 3. Dean was a devoted was predeceased by her husband, his nieces and nephews, Michael Gabrielle, Danielle, Vivian, o6 Months for $48.00 oOne year for $88.00 father, loving son, and caring Alexander J. Fiffy in 1993; her and Jeff Young, Ginny Green and Alexandros and Dimitrios; his sib - brother. 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Continued from page 1 for the Greek Cypriots or the Di - some U.N. members want a so - Cyprus problem will constitute aspora – Clinton did not men - lution without really caring a positive development for the Conference of the World Organ - tion human rights violations or about the conditions of it re - international political arena, he isation for Young Overseas call for withdrawal of occupa - garding the Cyprus issue. He said, adding that the reunited Cypriots (NEPOMAK) was held tion troops or return of refugees mentioned that Greece and Federal Republic of Cyprus and on Cyprus from Aug. 24-28. to their homes – that “the fact Cyprus should take advantage all of the Cypriot people, Greek But Christofias, whose critics that she responded to our invi - of new opportunities that may Cypriots and Turkish Cypriots, see him as an appeaser, said he tation to send us a message, that be presented upon them and to Maronites, Armenians and believes in a bi-communal fed - was positive.” He told the Tass ally with other foreign contras Latins have to be the ones that eration for Cyprus and that News Agency that Clinton’s non- in the international political will benefit more than anyone members of the Diaspora message was not a reflection on arena. The conference’s audi - else from the settlement of the around the world, including the the ineffectiveness of PSEKA, the ence holds members of the Jew - problem. “Our aim is that the United States, need to … “create Cyprus Federation of America ish lobby. Cypriots seem willing United Federal Republic of relationships with the overseas and other lobby groups in the to collaborate with Israel but Cyprus will constitute a solid Turkish Cypriots. They are also U.S. “It is a foreign policy that without jeopardizing their rela - ground on which Greek Cypriots children of our homeland.” He could have been much worse tions in the Arab world, he said. and Turkish Cypriots will con - added: We have to see the situ - than what it is,” said Christo - TURKEY WON’T BUDGE struct their common future and ation as it is, not as we are pher. “With the work we are do - Christofias stressed that de - at the same time each commu - dreaming it to be. We had to ing in the US as expatriates we spite the Turkish side’s refusal nity will be able, in the frame - have thought of our dreams be - managed to keep the Cyprus to accept proposals he’s put for - work of a federation, to govern fore 1974, actually before problem at the forefront of for - ward, the Greek Cypriot side one of its component parts and 1960.” Christofias acknowl - eign policy.” will continue, in coordination develop its own cultural, reli - edged he is under international He noted that due to the rift with Greece, to work for their gious and language identity, he pressure to find some way to re- between Israel and Turkey implementation. He called on added. unite the island, especially from there is an opportunity for Turkey to make positive steps Referring to the ongoing ne - the European Union, which Cyprus. These developments, and help Turkish Cypriot leader gotiations for a Cyprus settle - wants to admit Turkey, even said Christopher, “gave us the Dervis Eroglu proceed at the ne - ment, which started in Septem - though that country bars ships opportunity to open the door to gotiating table with proposals ber 2008, Christofias noted that and planes from the Greek the Jewish lobby wider.” Mem - providing for a federal settle - they resumed from the point Cypriots, who belong to the EU bers of the Jewish lobby at - ment, adding that Turkey will they were left before the elec - already. “Of course there is pres - tended the conference of over - then be surprised “how deci - tions in Cyprus’ Turkish occu - sure from foreign forces for a seas Cypriots and met the sively and instantly we will pro - pied areas, in which hardliner solution. We won’t give in, we foreign minister and comrade ceed to a mutually acceptable Eroglu succeeded Mehmet Ali want this solution to come from president. As he told Tass, the and agreed settlement of the Talat. He said he hasn’t given Cyprus,” he added. He noted Jewish lobby was “all-powerful” Cyprus problem.” up fully on settling the property the important role of the over - because there were many Jew - He said that the message that issues. seas Cypriots for Cyprus. “Over - ish Congressmen and Senators Turkey has a decisive role to “There are a lot of differ - seas Cypriots offer great help to plus it had great power in the play in the settlement of the ences between the two sides’ po - their homeland and the Cypriot mass media. Cyprus problem must be sent sitions, and prospects for bridg - problems. The Cypriot govern - Archbishop Chrysostomos out. That is why the interna - ing them are not encouraging if ment always will stand by you,” said in his speech that: “I wish I tional community and especially we take into consideration the he said. could welcome you with a bet - the countries which have close negative messages sent by Mr. WHAT CHRISOPHER SAID ter message regarding the relations with Turkey- must ex - Eroglu and Turkey through their The conference for overseas President Demetris Christofias spoke on Tuesday, Aug. 24, at Cyprus problem. Our side never ert their influence and pressure daily statements, and also the Cypriots began with a welcome the 23rd Conference of the World Federation for Overseas gained anything. Our political to make Turkey work for a set - overall stance and behaviour of speech by The Cypriot Minister Cypriots (POMAK) and the International Coordinating Com - ideas of being the good child tlement using United Nations the Turkish side,” he added. “We for Foreign Affairs Marcos Kypri - mittee Justice for Cyprus (PSEKA), and the 50th conference of never brought any results. resolutions, although the last strongly believe that any effort anou. Among the speakers were the youth organization NEOPOMAK. Turkey, on the other side, with time that was tried, in 2004, it to question the federal settle - the Archbishop of Cyprus the power of the army holds a was overwhelmingly rejected by ment must not lead to thoughts Chrisostomos, SAE Honorary Christopher, and NEPOMAK tary of State Hillary Clinton who country divided. The situation Greek Cypriots, but accepted by for abandoning it, but, on the President Andrew Athens, PO - President Christos Karaolis. reiterated the same message the is really sad.” Turkish Cypriots. contrary, it must enhance our MAK President Haris Sophoklei - Christopher presented a U.S. has presented since 1974. The Parliament’s President “We are fully aware of the commitment and consistency to dis; PSEKA President Philip video message from US Secre - He said while if offered no hope Marios Garoyian stated that fact that the settlement of the it,” he said. No Fairy Tale, but a Royal Wedding Comes to Greece

Continued from page 1 navian princesses. But his repu - of the big entourage and local tation as womanizer ended that interest. Curiously, while most Constantine ascended to the match hope. The couple met in Greeks could care less and were throne in Greece in 1964, but 2003 during a ski vacation in more interested in Greece’s was formally deposed in 1973 the Swiss resort of Gstaad hopes for the World Basketball OPA! Now during the country’s 1967-1974 through mutual friends and Championships in Turkey, and military dictatorship. In 1974, were engaged last year. The the team’s exhibition game after the restoration of democ - bride’s engagement ring was a against the U.S. on the same There's a racy in Greece, its citizens voted in a referendum to abolish the country’s monarchy, leaving him Name Day a has-been King still clinging to the title but no longer the ac - coutrements that accompany Greeks know what OPA! that lifestyle. means and they'll have a chance After the monarchy was abol - to celebrate it the Cretan Way ished, most of its descendents on Sept. 15 with the first annual moved out of Greece but remain OPA! Day, a concept created by one of the most well connected National Herald columnist Alex royal families in Europe. The Pattakos and his wife Elaine wedding was the first time a Dundon of Santa Fe, New Mex - royal was wed in Greece in ico two years ago when they more than 45 years, following were reflecting on the many the union between former King contributions Greeks have given Constantine and Queen Anne- the world. "Why isn't there a day Marie in 1964. to celebrate these contribu - OH LOOK! A PRINCE! tions?" they asked. "There Yachts began gathering in the AP PHOTOS should be a day where all peo - harbor two days before the wed - Above: The deposed King Constantine II of Greece and his wife ple around the world celebrate ding and pre-wedding parties Queen Anne Marie during the wedding of their second son the Greek culture and these con - drew a glittery international Prince Nicholas of Greece and his wife Tatiana Blatnik inside tributions. We should call it crowd to the isle. Locals and the church of St. Nicholas in Spetses, Greece, Aug. 25, 2010. OPA! Day." And so, OPA! Day tourists were excited about the Right: Danish Queen Margrethe, (L) and Queen Sofia of Spain. was invented. September 15th wedding. “I think it is quite ex - Below: Princess Theodora of Greece and her brother Filippos seemed like a good day. It was citing really because I didn’t arrive at Agios Nikolaos church for the wedding ceremony. after summer holidays, but not know it was going on and I have in the winter; it didn't interfere been here about a week and a with too many other celebra - half and suddenly I realize what tions; and most of all, the is going on around me and I United Nations had declared looked on the Internet and there sapphire stone given to Nicholas night as the wedding, there was September 15th the Interna - seems to be a lot of famous peo - by his mother, who had received more of a brouhaha internation - tional Day of Democracy, which ple coming, and everything,” it from her parents, the late King ally, with the celebrity-oriented seemed fitting." The event will said tourist Nicole Woods. Frederick IX and Queen Ingrid magazine Vanity Fair, a darling be held at the Aegean Pearl Ho - Hundreds of joyous tourists of Denmark. Located a few of the jet set who like to see tel in Rethymno from 6:30 to and residents lined the entrance hours from Athens, Spetses is their photos at fancy parties, 9:30 p.m. It was a natural site to the tiny whitewashed 19th- one of the country’s most popu - picking up the news with on Crete, Pattakos said, because Century monastery of Aghios lar islands, perhaps because breathless abandon. The media that's where his family is from. Nikolaos and cheered as the there are relatively few vehicles. ate it up like wedding cake, a He said he wants to celebrate bride arrived in a horse-drawn Residents and tourists are en - chance to see idle European Greek achievements such as as - carriage to the chapel wearing couraged to travel by horse- aristocracy, and people flum - tronomy, architecture, art, biol - a traditional lace gown designed drawn carriage, bicycles, scoot - moxed over the bride’s wedding ogy, democracy, drama, food, by Venezuelan Angel Sanchez. ers, and sea taxis. Following the dress, a silk creation by well diet, language, literature, math, The groom arrived from the ceremony, guests were invited known designer Diane von medicine, philosophy, politics, nearby mainland resort town of to toast their happiness during Furstenberg. science, sports, and theater, Porto Heli under guard of hun - a reception at the Koutsis ranch Spetses’ Mayor Evangelos Ko - among other in a long list. If dreds of heavily armed police overlooking the island’s ancient daxakis told Greek television you're going to be in Greece and coast guard officials. harbor. The Koutsises are one of station Alter he was happy the then, he said: "Join us for the of - The prince’s eldest brother, the oldest families on Spetses former King Constantine had ficial declaration and launch of Prince Pavlos, Tatiana’s brother and are also old friends of the chosen Spetses as the place of OPA! Day as we celebrate with Boris and a friend of the family, in Venezuela and educated in Countess von Einsiedel. A regu - former Greek royal family. the marriage, hoping it would Greek food, drink, and dancing. Greek businessman Nasos Switzerland and the United lar amongst the international jet Greek media reports that for bring more tourists during one We expect dignitaries from Crete, Tanopoulos were best men at States. The 29-year-old blonde set, Nicholas was once reported the first time in years, the is - of Greece’s worst years for visi - Greece, along with international the wedding. has some royal blood since she to have been favored as a royal land’s visitor accommodation tors due the economic crisis and guests to attend. Remember to The Prince’s bride was born is the granddaughter of Ellinka consort for one of the Scandi - capacity was exhausted because strikes and protests. wear something blue! In the fu - ture, we hope OPA! Day will be celebrated every September 15th around the world. Pattakos and Dundon are the For Rent: Greece’s Empty Storefronts Are Adding up Fast co-founders of The OPA Way!, a philosophy of living a happy, healthy, meaningful life inspired ATHENS – The Enoikiazetai Kolonaki. On Leventi Street, gering 93% had suffered a fall nience store format, as it has and profits in the short term. A by and based on the lessons from signs offering storefronts for rent about 100 yards long, half the in turnover due to the financial done in other central European country teetering on the edge of ancient and modern-day Greek are almost as ubiquitous as graf - dozen stores are shuttered. crisis. markets and locating in residen - bankruptcy will need a few years culture. "It's a way to build mean - fiti here now, with businesses “Have you seen all the ‘for Even some of the world’s tial areas and city centers which before consumer spending re - ingfully engaging relationships, ranging from convenient korner rent’ signs in the center? I’ve largest retailers are giving up on will suit the habits of Greek con - turns to pre-crisis levels,” the clarify and strengthen your pur - kiosks, small stores and giant re - never seen anything like it in the Greece with German discount su - sumers, who tend to visit grocery Stores report added. pose, and leverage a healthy, pos - tailers abandoning hope and past 30 years,” said Georgia permarket chain Aldi withdraw - stores at least twice a day. Del - The Confederation of Greek itive attitude so that you can live shutting down in the wake of Brezati, owner of a clothes shop ing and French supermarket gi - haize Group entered Greece as a Craftsmen and Merchants and work to your fullest poten - vise-like austerity measures that just off the popular pedestrian ant Carrefour is converting its premium retailer, but over the (GSEVEE), representing the tial," Pattakos said. More infor - have nearly shut down the coun - shopping street of Ermou in cen - low-rent Dia Hellas stores to last few years it has emphasized country’s small businesses, said mation is available at try’s economy in the name of sav - tral Athens, where a report this other formats, a sure sign that price cuts on branded products a recent survey showed one in www.theopaway.gr ing it. It’s bad news for Greece month by the National Confed - even penny-pinchers aren’t buy - and the launch of the 365 and five of its members are close to as small and medium sized com - eration of Hellenic Commerce, ing because their wages have AB private label lines. This ex - closure. The Union’s Vice Presi - panies account for 99% of the or ESEE, said 15 percent of shops been cut and taxes pushed to the tensive range of private label dent, George Kavvathas, said: country’s business activity. The had shut down. A recent survey prohibitive points. Lidl, a rock- products will give Delhaize a “The government measures to re - signs and empty stores, windows by the Athens Chamber of Com - bottom price supermarket that solid foundation for develop - duce the national debt, cutting covered with grime, some with merce and Industry revealed that offers cheap off-brands, is chang - ment of its new discount format, pensions, wages and benefits, left-behind merchandise inside 86% of the 523 businesses ques - ing its strategy in Greece too, ac - Lion Food, officials said. “Greece have created a massive problem in ghostly scenes are now even tioned said they were suffering cording to Stores magazine, does not present as a market because consumers’ spending in the affluent neighborhood of cash flow problems, while a stag - adapting to more of a conve - promising flourishing revenues power has been reduced.” 8 EDITORIALS LETTERS THE NATIONAL HERALD, SEPTEMBER 4-10, 2010

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These days - under the whole world's gaze - this gigantic project ing the suspension, but the R H is well under way; the steel beams of one of the towers has been faithful should at least be told c raised to the 36th floor already. The first of many trees have been planted. Yet, we suddenly realized that something precious is missing from the picture: The church of Saint Nicholas. We may not have even noticed it had the controversy not ex - ΛΟΓΟΣ ploded over the building of the Islamic Center, with its planned mosque, a few blocks away from Ground Zero. (This paper, having abundant faith in the spirit and the ideolog - ical soundness of this country as well as confidence in the wisdom Chronia Polla: What’s In A Name? Depends What It Is of the First Amendment, its ideals and traditions, has supported the right of Muslims to build their center where they choose. We believe it is wrong, dangerous and counterproductive to discriminate On August 30, 2010, I cele - to an agenda that name and do not about the significance of the against the religion of over a billion people. Can you imagine how brated my Name Day. To most seeks to use the have a name day name Ares I became less enthu - they must feel, seeing the way the majority of us - according to the Americans who have not even Constitution to ad - although they al - siastic about the name’s deeper polls - and the mass media treat them?) heard of such a thing - and the vance its own aims ways can find op - meaning and was not impressed Going back to our own community's issue, it is quite unfortunate number seems to be dwindling rather than defend portunities to cele - with some of the more famous, that we were energized because of that backlash. How smart is it to - they equate it with another it. brate, including on or infamous, myths surrounding link the reconstruction of our church with a mosque? Why equate birthday. Many people like to But let’s stay on All Saints’ Day. my initial namesake. (If you’re the rebuilding of Saint Nicholas with something as divisive, as po - think that our country is becom - track. The tradition Like many other named Ares, please forgive me!) larizing, as the Islamic Center issue? Why claim or imply that we ing less religious and more spir - of Name Day ( ονο - members of the I happen to be a metaphysically are discriminated against by the Port Authority of New York and itual, so perhaps Name Days are μαστική εορτή, ) Greek Orthodox oriented person and believe in New Jersey on the basis that a mosque is being built, but not a no longer important. I’m not can be traced to the faith, my parents destiny so I didn’t keep Ares for church? Does this really make sense? convinced such a spiritual trans - Orthodox (and Ro - named me at birth long, thanks to my godfather, There is another issue that needs to be raised: Does it benefit formation is taking place nor do man Catholic) cal - by Dr. ALEX with a name differ - Alexandros Despopoulos. When our Archdiocese to take part in a press conference convened by I think a private label version of endar of saints. Be - PATTAKOS ent than what I re - I was baptized as Αλέξανδρος I politicians eager to exploit an issue for their own benefit? spirituality is emerging in the lievers are named ceived later when was given a “calling” that, un - Furthermore, did they even consider the possible impact that way some people want us to be - after a particular Special to baptized, and while beknownst to me, would stick the linking of these two issues might have on the Ecumenical Patri - lieve. In our zeal to accommo - saint and would, The National Herald this may not be un - with me. archate? date socially progressive think - over the course of usual for some peo - No longer the Greek god of More specifically: On what moral grounds can Patriarch ing, we’ve effectively their lives, celebrate that saint’s ple, it proved to be an opportu - war, life instead called upon me Bartholomew demand that the Muslim Turks respect the rights of amputated, sometimes crudely, feast day. Although name days nity and a challenge as I follow to become a helper and protec - his church, when his representatives in New York, by the mere fact many rituals and customs that are celebrated in many coun - my life’s path or labyrinth of tor of mankind, a positive, of their presence at a press conference where politicians bash their have accompanied serious spir - tries, the connection to Chris - meaning. I didn’t come to realize meaningful force for humanity. religion, seem not to respect theirs? itual practice for centuries. Of tianity is no longer as explicit that my birth name was not Like my new namesake, Saint In any event we want to believe that our side is right and the all of the faith-based traditions, as it was in the past. Even in Alexander ( Αλέξανδρος ) until I Alexander, a Greek monk who Port Authority is wrong for the breakdown of negotiations for the not to be confused with orga - Greece, a name day is cele - became an adult and for the first among other things founded church. We want to believe that our negotiators are right in turning nized religions that have had to brated as a birthday, but without time had to obtain a copy of my monastic communities in Syria down the up to $60 million – a big amount - that the Port Authority face the surgeon’s knife, Chris - a cake and candles (even birth certificate. and Constantinople and started claims it offered our Church. We have no choice, however, but to tianity seems to be the most though it means much more.) My parents had neglected to the tradition of “sleepless” take the Archdiocese to task for the less-than- forthcoming, un- popular, albeit a reluctant pa - so why not do so everywhere tell me that, while I was still in (akimiti) monks, I realize now church-like handling of this case from the beginning. tient. Or should I say it contin - else, just have a birthday party the hospital, I had been given a more than ever that I’ve been Let us explain: ues to be a target of those who and cut out all of the religious pagan name for some reason on a search for meaning, as well First, over the past nine years, not once has the Archdiocese in - espouse a more progressive and spiritual stuff? Is that all and that it was only a few as helping others on similar formed the community either of their plans, the state of negotiations, view of post-modern society. there is to it? Traditionally, the months later, when I was bap - quests, without taking breaks. or the problems they faced in their talks with the Port Authority. That’s the way it appears to Orthodox Church dedicates tized that I became the Alexan - While I still have difficulties ob - Two, not once in all these years have they given an account of me since no other religious or every day to the memory of at dros I grew to know! Perhaps it taining copies of my official the amount they have collected, the sources of the money, who is faith-based group can be tar - least one saint or martyr, and was because I was born not too birth certificate, especially since in charge of it and how they have managed all the millions of dol - geted so openly or unkindly ideally every person is named long after the end of World War 9/11, the opportunities to live lars. without feeling the wrath of after a saint if they are going to II, or because my parents were out my name with integrity and Three, frankly we are perplexed as to why the Archdiocese is in some higher authority or the in - be baptized. waging their own war to accul - authenticity are well worth the total control of the negotiations. Is it because they cared so much tervention of groups such as the Such a dedicated calendar of turate into American society; cost. Chronia polla! about St. Nicholas before it was destroyed? And why shut out the ACLU that use and abuse the saints, a traditional Christian whatever the reason, I first en - leadership of the parish from the negotiations? words “civil liberties” with un - method of organizing the litur - tered the planet with the name, Dr. Pattakos, author of Prisoners This paper has time and again asked the Archdiocese to respond bounded discretionary bias. No gical year, is used to associate a Ares ( Άρης, ) the Greek god of of Our Thoughts, is working on a to these questions. We repeatedly stressed the necessity of acting longer the unabashed guardian feast day with one or more war. business initiative and book on with absolute transparency. What we got was a guilty silence. and champion of freedom and saints, and a Name Day is not In hindsight, I don’t mind how to live a happy, healthy, Transparency and accountability are a must in ensuring the seri - the rights enshrined in the U.S. to be taken lightly, for those who having the same first name as a meaningful life inspired by ous and sustained participation of people in any public effort. And Constitution it was designed to have been named after a saint. member of the Twelve Greek culture. Readers may when negotiators seem to treat a public issue as a personal matter, be in the years following World Since in Greece many names de - Olympians, and being a son of contact him at alex@prisonerso - the result is usually less impressive than what would have achieved War I, the ACLU for one, rightly rive from a long pagan tradition, Zeus and Hera, in Greek mythol - fourthoughts.com or visit his otherwise. No, the fate of the church of Saint Nicholas at Ground or wrongly, has become increas - some people may not have a ogy. It’s kind of cool or hip. web site: www.prisonersofour - Zero is not a personal matter between a handful of people. It is an ingly politicized and dedicated Christian saint with the same However, as I learned more thoughts.com. important public issue, and one that is dear to all of us. That is why we urge the Archdiocese - even at this late hour - to give a full accounting of the money collected, as well as the state of COMMENTARY the negotiations. This would be an important foundation for the re - building that needs to take place, swiftly. A Man’s Character is His Fate – So is the Church’s Make your contribution now The latest scandal to rock the diocese or local Me - the top as we are door policy to interact with their Primary election season is upon us, which means that we will he Greek American Community – an tropolises is now. It’s sad that clergy or flock on a regular basis hearing a sometimes cacophanous chorus of campaign messages. unlawful bingo operation using needed.Not every these issues really to nip these problems in the bud. Yes, they can be annoying, even maddening but for better or worse a non-existent church as a front allegation is truth - don’t ever seem to They prefer to go from luncheon they are part of the democratic process. Then there will be debates. – highlights again the need to ful. One reason be discussed at to luncheon, conference to con - Those can be annoying too, but often they are vital opportunities to overhaul the system of adminis - many people don’t Clergy Laity Confer - ference, reception to reception, gauge the ideas and emotional attachment of candidates to issues tration in place in the Greek Or - get involved in the ences while all sorts appearing more like religious that are important to you. thodox Archdiocese of America. administrative af - of other dog and tourists than spiritual fathers. Of Our responsibilities as citizens, however, go beyond resisting the According to the Queens County fairs of parish com - pony shows are be - course, who’s to say that Bishops temptation to click on the remote in search of better entertainment. District Attorney, three people munities or other ing held. have all the answers? You don’t All of us are exposed to the debates and ads – they are on free TV were able to swindle the Arch - organizations is be - Volunteerism is need a degree in management or and get prominent treatment in our newspaper, but there are other diocese out of nearly $850,000 cause it only takes important, but so is an MBA to be elevated to the parts of the process where we have to go out of our way: volunteering by holding bingo games under one person to start by Christopher accountability. episcopate. We can only pray that in behalf of candidates of our choice, and making campaign contri - the auspices of the Church and spreading rumors TRIPOULAS There is a dire need those smart enough to surround butions. pocketing the winnings. This lat - and ruin someone’s Special to for well-trained ef - themselves with competent ad - We view those activities as part civic duty – in support of gov - est case exposes again a major good name. People The National Herald ficient staffers who visers and a capable staff will ernment by the people - and part philanthropy - good people must problem in the way day-to-day who are wrongfully can monitor parish value criticism as much as praise. be part of the process for greater good of society to be the result. business is conducted in the accused are the silent victims of administration and related insti - Mistakes are inevitable and for - If we are short on treasure, all of us have time and talent (yes Archdiocese, which leaves it – a broken down system that des - tutions. From the moment an of - givable, but what is inexcusable this sounds a bit like a stewardship sermon, because in a democracy and its hundreds of parish com - perately needs to be overhauled. ficial complaint is lodged at the is not learning from them to en - we are all stewards of the republic). Not everyone can write a letter munities by extension – suscep - With so many scandals though, Archdiocese regarding objection - sure they won’t be repeated. The to voters or pay for all the stamps, but someone has to stuff them tible to all sorts of schemes. Sim - affecting churches and causing able behavior, months or years Greek American community into envelopes. ilar scams created bad publicity moral and financial harm, many pass until it’s investigated. More needs to ask itself if it wants to Volunteers are remembered. If you can recruit droves of Greek for Greek communities, including self-respecting people are turned often, acknowledgement of the follow the BP business model or Americans to work in campaign, that is remembered and appreciated, a case in Connecticut last fall. off from helping because of fear complaint is never given, and usher in the necessary reforms to and its not too late, especially in races that are close. This past spring, The National of being implicated, so why don’t concerned parties are hardly ever ensure it safeguards the good This election season is also a source of community pride. There Herald ran a story about charges we change the system? The invited to meet with an Arch - name of its churches, schools, is an upsurge in young Greek Americans running for office. Their made by the ex-president of St. Greek American community diocesan official unless the prob - and philanthropic institutions – backgrounds run from the traditional sources of professional politi - Nicholas Community at Ground boasts many entrepreneurs and lem has gotten “out of hand” even if that means bruising a cou - cians – lawyers and political science majors - to men and women Zero. And the list goes on and on self-employed people, and if they (i.e., the press has gotten wind ple of egos. As the saying goes, with business backgrounds who are tired of legislation affecting ... who knows how many similar ran their businesses the same of it, legal recourse has been you’re only as good as your commerce being written only by people who have no clue about allegations or improprieties there way our churches and organiza - sought, etc.) Meanwhile, presid - name. what it takes to run a business. And in elections where it’s Greeks are? A study of the complaints tions are being run, we’d be last ing hierarchs who have the final vs. Greek, also a good sign, may the best Greek American win! sent to the Chancery of the Arch - in per capita income, not near say sadly don’t have an open [email protected] THE NATIONAL HERALD, SEPTEMBER 4-10, 2010 VIEWPOINTS 9 LETTER FROM ATHENS Have We Forgotten Who We Are? From Where We Came?

Back to School! Welcome, Americans of all political Defamation League project, according many naturalized relatives and stripes never cease to brag about and the Simon to the pollsters? I friends carry their naturalization the freedoms and rights our po - Wiesenthal Center, rather suspect that papers with them at all times. I Class of 2057 litical system has blessed us both formed be - much more than would have been perfectly with. In fact, few countries are cause half a century 53% of the Ameri - happy with a requirement that so fortunate in terms of human ago another politi - can public opposed ALL American citizens carry Except for get - through high rights, political freedoms, free - cian rallied his sup - letting black kids proof of citizenship, which in - ting into medical school, where they dom of expression and freedom porters with hate- mix with white kids clude birth certificates and pass - school in Greece, are allowed 114 of religion - just to name a few. filled rhetoric that in school after the ports. Drivers’ licenses, on the which is difficult in - hours of absences a Given human nature, however, led to the barbaric Supreme Court other hand, do not fill the bill. deed because stu - year, begin school we often have no difficulty death of six million ruled in Brown v. The pernicious effect of the law dents have to score in mid-September, hoarding those rights and free - of their coreligion - Board of Education is in persecuting American citi - about 97.5 out of strike a few weeks, doms for ourselves while deny - ists. They have all by AMB. PATRICK N. in 1954. The furor zens whose skin color, accent or 100 to be admitted, go to a few classes, ing them to others. The most vis - forgotten that as THEROS over Arizona’s national origins make them the or for law school, get their Christmas ible recent event has been the Americans we all aborted attempt to perceived threat du jour. where you have to break, strike again brouhaha generated by a motley came here, in large Special to address the issue of Finally, and perhaps the most demonstrate supe - or occupy their coalition who have their pants part, to ensure for The National Herald illegal immigration vicious assault on our Constitu - riority in prevarica - schools, go to a few in a bind over plans to build an ourselves and our should also raise tion and our national identity tion, or some teach - by ANDy classes, get their Islamic Center in southern Man - children the freedoms denied warning flags about the future can be found among the increas - ing professions and DABILIS Easter break, by hattan. The facts in the case elsewhere “Saudi Arabia bans of freedom in the Republic. ingly vitriolic attempts to amend liberal arts courses which time they are simple: only two very small Churches,” cries Mr. Krautham - Clearly, the federal Government or reinterpret the 14th Amend - which require Special to are too bored to mosques in lower Manhattan mer, and therefore argues that has failed to deal with the issue ment. That proudest legacy of thinking, being ad - The National Herald study or have serve a fairly large Muslim- we should imitate the example of immigration. But let us not the Republican Party stems from mitted to many saved up enough American population. One, of the most repressive regime in forget that the loudest and crud - the end of the Civil War when technological institutes, or even absences to skip school for a few Masjid Manhattan, is on Warren the Arab World. Do the politi - est supporters of Arizona’s new they prevented revanchist universities in Greece, requires weeks and leave in mid-May. Street, four blocks from Ground cians want to reword the First law can be found among those Southerners from denying citi - you spell your name right and Still, until 2000, only about 25% Zero. The mosque, like most Amendment so that we can re - politicians who have prevented zenship to freed black slaves show a brain scan proving there were admitted to the 22 Greek early Greek Orthodox Churches, strict the free exercise of any re - the federal Government from who, until then, were only is some activity inside your public universities called AEI’s is housed in a makeshift secular ligion not currently favored in acting, even turning on George 3/5ths human. Senate candidate head. Still, some people - except and 16 technological institutes building. (In fact, St. Nicholas Alaska? Or in Georgia? Greek W. Bush when he tried to do the Rand Paul (R-Ky.) caused a stir for the rich who don’t care (TEI’s.) Since them, the schools Church, destroyed at Ground Orthodox Christians should read decent thing. It is bad law. But shortly after winning his primary about such things because they have opened their doors to al - Zero. occupied an old but reno - what some fundamentalist readers should look at one par - by saying he supported stripping buy their way through univer - most free admission because Ar - vated tenement house built in Christian blogs say about us. ticularly frightening article: Sec - citizenship from children of the sity, pay off people so they don’t ticle 16 of the Greek Constitu - 1832.) Like the Greeks, Muslim Jews have an even more vivid tion 3, which requires all natu - undocumented. My father prob - have to serve in the military, tion requires free public Americans want to “trade up.” reason to worry about American ralized American citizens to ably qualified as an illegal im - evade taxes with impunity, and education, even at the college To some, an Islamic center two traditions like the Ku Klux Klan present their naturalization pa - migrant (he came on a cousin’s get all the best tables in Kolon - level, which has prevented top- full city blocks from Ground of Mr. Gingrich’s home state. pers on demand by the local papers.) So does Mr. Paul pro - aki restaurants which serve notch private institutions such Zero insults the memories of the But, they argue, how dare deputy sheriff. Should my wife, pose stripping me of my citizen - over-sauced, over-priced and as the American College of victims of the 9/11 attack. Does - Mr. Bloomberg and President or your mother, carry her natu - ship? What the Dixiecrat south - over-rated food - were sur - Greece, American College of n’t opposition to the mosque in - Obama support the right of Mus - ralization papers with her if she erners who took over my GOP prised, upset, dismayed and Thessaloniki, New York College, sult the memory of at least sev - lims to build a mosque when makes the mistake of visiting want is simple: to disenfranchise even shocked over the news that Hellenic American University, eral dozen American fathers, 53% of Americans oppose the Arizona? Ask yourself just how people who might vote against some high school graduates and University of Indianapolis mothers, children and siblings them. That the otherwise decent were admitted to the institutes from having their students de - who died at Ground Zero that Senator Lindsay Graham would and universities this month by grees recognized, even though dreadful day but who happened support such an abomination scoring a grade equivalent to their schools have tougher stan - to be Muslim? can be understood but not ex - 4.5 out of 100 on their entrance dards and better curricula and FOX News, predictably, cused. His state, South Carolina, exam. That got you into the faculty. Greek students prepare shreds accuracy for publicity, started the rebellion in order to School of Geo-technology and for the countrywide Pan-Hel - claiming that the proposed retain slavery and has still not Environment in remote Kozani, lenic Examinations by rote mosque site “overlooks” Ground reconciled itself to the defeat at which welcomes them anyway memorization instead of critical Zero. If you take a minute to Appomattox. Senator Graham, because all the residents want thinking and analytical skills, Google map the address of the after all, needs to get reelected. to do is rent them bad rooms at which is how many of them go supposed “Ground Zero” That Senator John McCain, who high prices. These students are through high school too, so they mosque, 45-47 Park Place, you’ll served honorably with Ameri - just the kind of people you want are ill equipped for university find the proposed site is on a cans of every color, national ori - heading technology and the en - life, even if they can be admitted small city street buried in the gin and belief, would do so is vironment in Greece, although with failing grades. It’s a middle of the block. The build - incomprehensible. We are a free they can’t even spell g-r-e-e-n. dilemma no Greek government ings between the proposed lo - citizenry in a free country, but The same grade gets you into wants to solve because it means cation and Ground Zero are for how long? To quote that first the school that allegedly teaches taking on the entrenched inter - much taller. No one visiting the Great Republican, Abraham Lin - ests of students, and faculty World Trade Center site will see coln: “Those who deny freedom members who don’t want to be it - unless he takes a wrong turn to others, deserve it not for evaluated because their lives are on the way. So what is the cor - themselves.” easier than even the students rect distance from Ground Zero? who, once admitted, can fail, Is it 20 blocks, outside Manhat - The Hon. Ambassador Theros is not go to class, or stay forever, tan, or outside North America? president of the U.S.-Qatar Busi - part of the legion of so-called The motives of Sarah Palin, AP PHOTO/bEbETO MATTHEwS ness Council. He served in the “eternal students,” many of Newt Gingrich, Charles Faiza Ali (C), Affairs Director for the Council on American-Is - U.S. Foreign Service for 36 whom are students into mid-life. Krauthammer and other politi - lamic Relations of New York, speaks at a news conference or - years, mostly in the Middle East, This year’s entering class of cians are perfectly understand - ganized by the Coalition of New York Neighbors for American and was American Ambassador students, coming in at 18 years able. They want power and have Values, as Rabbi Arthur Waskow, far left, director of the Shalom to Qatar from 1995 to 1998. He old, just have to pretend to be rallied their supporters; they un - Center, listens, Aug. 25, 2010, in New York. Ali offered support also directed the State Depart - students until they retire at 65, derstand the power of fomenting for the proposed lower Manhattan Islamic center and said, ment’s Counter-Terrorism although they’d have to wear hate. Less understandable are "The controversy over Park 51 and centers nationwide reveal Office, and holds numerous U.S. grey tassels on their dunce caps the opposition of the Anti- a new wave of anti-Muslim sentiment." Government decorations. at their graduation in 2057. In 2006, Richard Jackson, Presi - dent of the American College of Thessaloniki, spoke on higher education reform in Greece to Mideast Geopolitical Architecture: Israel, Turkey, Iran The new mascot for the Greek the Woodrow Wilson Interna - technical school system. tional Center in Washington, D.C. and noted: “Eternal stu - On May 31, nine activists Prime Minster, Recep resources. and Turkey also share one com - bio-mechanical planning, but if dents are in no hurry to forfeit (eight of whom were Turkish Tayyip Erdogan has Part of the mon threat: their respective Kur - you’re worried about the safety student benefits and frequently nationals and one a US national adroitly and subtly new Turkish strat - dish separatist movement. of food in Greece, fear no take a decade or more to com - of Turkish origin) were killed by affected a radical egy includes Growing collaboration between longer, because this year’s en - plete four-year undergraduate Israeli troops in a raid on the shift in Turkey’s do - closer relations PKK (Kurdish rebels fighting tering class studying Commer - programs. Faculty … are highly Mavi Marmara, part of the Gaza mestic and foreign with Iran. At first against Turkey) and PJAK (Kur - cial and Quality Control of Agri - resistant to any form of evalua - Freedom Flotilla that included policies. Initially, Er - glance it is not so dish rebels fighting against Iran) cultural Products, in Florina, tion or quality control through six ships carrying 663 people dogan pursued the unusual for have led the Iranian and Turkish raised the bar to a qualifying accreditation. Thus, with many from 37 nations. After the raid, agenda of the secular Turkey and Iran military to collaborate over op - grade of 5.4, so if you get sal - exceptions, students and faculty which took place in the Mediter - Turkish establish - to develop closer erations against the rebel monella from bad eggs, blame form a strong alliance against ranean Sea, relations between ment by trying to ties. Although group’s bases in Iraqi Kurdistan. those American inspectors be - reform efforts. All too often, the Israel and Turkey rapidly dete - gain admission of Turkey is pre - Recently, Erdogan has even sup - cause these Greek kids can spot whipping boy for both is the riorated to a series of accusa - Turkey to the Euro - by DR. ANDRE dominantly Sunni ported Iran’s right to a nuclear a bad seed and a rotten egg, presumed threat to the status tions and counter-accusations. pean Union. Accord - GEROLyMATOS and Iran Shiite, program. The consequences of even if they aren’t chickens. quo of private, non-profit uni - Turkish Prime Minister, Recep ingly, he complied they are both Turkey’s dramatic policy shift, Moving up the food chain, versities.” Jackson noted that Tayyip Erdogan, described the with EU guidelines Special to non-Arab states. and its impact on the geopoliti - students studying fishing (isn’t the costs of ignorance are high. raid as “state terrorism” and that also stipulated The National Herald Historically, the cal architecture of the Middle that what retirees do?) had to “It is indeed a paradox that, added that Israel “has shown the removal of the Turks and Irani - East is revolutionary and bodes get at least a 6.35 in their exam, while higher education origi - that it does not want peace in Turkish army from politics – ef - ans have been rivals over the ill for the US. The withdrawal so something’s fishy here, while nated in Greece some 2,500 the region” and has “violated in - fectively the guardian of Turkish Middle East but today they have of American forces from Iraq those studying production of an - years ago, there is today a flow - ternational law.” Turkey recalled secularism and the proponent found common ground – oppo - and in the near future from imal products, which sounds ering of high-quality, private, its ambassador from Israel and, of the alliance with Israel. By sition to Israel. Trade between Afghanistan will bring the entire like cloning politicians, had to non-profit universities next door summoned the Israeli ambas - diminishing the military, Erdo - the two countries, for example, region into the Iranian-Turkish meet the minimum score of 7 – in Turkey, encouraged by legis - sador to demand an explanation gan was free to pursue an Is - reached $10 billion in 2008 orbit. It will not be long before yes, out of 100, for you math lation of 1981.” and apology. The Israelis have lamic agenda domestically and (compared to a level of $1 bil - America’s Middle East allies students. While there hasn’t Maybe we’re being too harsh refused to apologize and despite internationally. Furthermore, lion in 2000.) Iran also supplies abandon Washington and make been a recurrence of the horri - though, because I’ve seen a copy American intervention to mend the EU rejection of Turkey also close to one-third of Turkey’s pe - their peace with the Iranian- ble fires of 2007, which killed of the entrance exams and fences, the Turkish-Israeli al - played into his hands, leaving troleum. Not surprisingly, Turk - Turkish axis, creating a new 84 people, destroyed 670,000 doubt I could pass with ques - liance is over. Historically, with the Turkish leader free to steer ish officials were the only for - strategic dynamic in the region. acres of forest, olive groves and tions involving multiple disci - the exception of the US, Turkey Turkey away from the West and eigners to congratulate farmland and destroyed 1,000 plines in math, science, culture, has been Israel’s closest ally to seek alliances and influence President Mahmoud Ahmedine - Dr. Gerolymatos is chair of Hel - houses, it’s unlikely to happen politics, such as this sampling: since 1949. Indeed, to some ex - in the Middle East. Turkey is jad of Iran, after his bloody re- lenic Studies at Simon Fraser again. • If a boat leaves Piraeus go - tent, Turkey has been more im - now trying to form a common election. Turkey and Iran share University in Vancouver, British That’s because this year’s en - ing 20 kilometers an hour, how portant for Israel than the economic union with Iran, Syria a 499-kilometer border, and Columbia and the author of tering technical school class of long will it take to reach an is - United States because the al - and Iraq. If it succeeds, it will both Turkish and Iranian diplo - "Red Acropolis, Black Terror: firefighters had to meet the al - land 20 kilometers away? liance was regional and permit - be able to form a union of some mats like to point out that the The Greek Civil War and the most-impossible-to-attain score • How long does it take a bill ted Israel to use Turkish air 350 million people in a region two Muslim neighbors have Origins of Soviet-American Ri - of 12.2, and you can bet it won’t to pass Parliament? space for exercises. In addition, with great economic and energy been at peace for centuries. Iran valry." take them long to figure out a) 30 days trade between the two countries which end of a fire hose to con - b) 60 days is extensive, reaching $3.3 bil - nect to a hydrant or a fire truck, c) When a deposit is made lion in 2008 and Turkey was the once they learn what those are to a secret Swiss bank account favorite tourist destination for too. Next time you’re on a fer - • If tin whistles are made out Israelis, who are barred from ryboat to the islands, worry not, of tin, what do they make most of the Middle East. How - because students who want to foghorns out of? ever, since the Israeli army’s in - be captains are at their post, • Who’s buried in the Tomb vasion of Gaza in 2009, Turkey when they’re not watching foot - of the Unknown Soldier? has emerged as the leader of the ball on TV in the lounge, and, • Is Europe a country? anti-Israeli front in the Middle just in case, you can count on • What color is the Metro’s East. students studying mechanics in Green Line? On face value, it seems re - the Commercial Navy, who had • If you put a loaf of bread markable that the Israeli-Turkish to score from 14 to 16.85. The in the refrigerator and six alliance has unraveled over Greek military is sure to be pre - months later it’s turned to peni - Gaza and the Israeli assault on pared for that imminent attack cillin, is it safe to eat? Does it a Turkish ship. The Palestinian from the Former Yugoslav Re - both make you ill AND cure issue has dogged Israel’s rela - public of Macedonia (FYROM,) you? tions with the Middle East states because students who want to • How much of a bribe do for almost half a century and be naval officers had to score you give to the inspector at your prior to 2009 had little impact 14.85, while the much-tougher driver’s test? on relations with Turkey. Mean - Army entrance needed a 22.3. a) 300 euros while the death of several Turk - How did we get from Aristo - b) 300 euros ish citizens at the hands of Is - tle to Bozo the Clown as an ed - c) 300 euros raeli commandos, albeit tragic, ucational role model in the is hardly grounds to terminate country that practically invented Sign your name and check a mutually beneficial relation - critical thinking? which college you want to at - ship. Yet Turkish policy toward AP PHOTO/IRANIAN DEFENSE MINISTRy/VAHID REZA AlAEI, HO The problem is that students tend because you’ve been ad - the Middle East as well as the Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad during a ceremony of inauguration of the Karrar, know they can get into univer - mitted. Hello? You awake? West changed with the election which Iran claims is the first domestically built, long-range, unmanned bomber aircraft, at the sity just by showing up for the of the Turkish Islamist-rooted Malek-e Ashtar University, Aug. 22, 2010. He called it the “Ambassador of Death” to Iran’s en - entrance exam after skating [email protected] AK Party in 2002. Turkey’s emies. 10 THE BACK PAGE THE NATIONAL HERALD, SEPTEMBER 4-10, 2010 A Catastrophe in Cyprus: The Summer of 1974 Isn’t Over Yet by Dan Georgakas

(The National Herald’s July 31 Special Section on Gene Ros - sides contained commentary by Prof. Nikolaos Stavrou reviewing a book, The Cyprus File, which chronicled the tragic events in 1974 when Turkey invaded the island. This is another look at that book and what unfolded 36 years ago)

The Cyprus File is an engross - ing chronicle of the anti-Makar - ios coup organized by the Greek junta that triggered the Turkish invasion of Cyprus. It is the work of James G. Pyrros, then in the midst of a 20-year career as an aide to Democratic Congressman The Cyprus Files documents the role of Greek American leading politicians at spoke out against the junta. Gene Rossides (3) became one of the leading Lucien Nedzi of Michigan. While the time of the invasion by Turkey, how some were in support of the Colonels voices to save Cyprus. Then U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger (4) emerged not in the policy level of govern - ruling Greece. Then (from left to right) Congressman Paul Sarbanes (1) was as the chief villain, as was then U.S. Vice President Spiro Agnew (5,) a favorite ment, Pyrros had an inside-the- said to have been slow to protest, while Congressman John Brademas (2) of the Colonels, who feted him. beltway view of Washington’s re - action to the crisis. In addition that the US did not create the US officials would be that they dense to understand the mean - dictatorship, the AFL-CIO has dreou might be America’s best to being a Congressional aide, junta, instigate the coup against did not know a coup against ing of these rights or he thought been silent.” His own efforts to hope for Greece, but when Pa - he also had long been part of an Makarios, or encourage the Makarios was imminent. This is the US would restrain Turkey. get unions activated once the pandreou increasingly drifted to informal group seeking to edu - Turkish invasion, but simply ac - preposterous. Pyrros reprints The first reaction in Washington Cyprus situation exploded bore the left, they shifted their sup - cate American politicians and quiesced in them when they oc - the lengthy letter Makarios sent was that the Turkish military little fruit. Pyrros states that port to King Constantine. Pyrros mass media about the junta that curred. Pyrros considers this be - to the junta that also was pub - was not capable of mounting a even persons like then Congress - thinks the monarchy might not had seized power in Greece in havior a series of policy lished by Apogevmatini an naval invasion. In fact, three man John Sarbanes, whom he have been abolished if Constan - 1967. That involvement pro - blunders that allowed the de - Athenian daily, on July 6. In that days following the coup, the greatly admired, had not taken tine had been active against the vided Pyrros with considerable structive plots of Ioannides and letter, Makarios requested the Turks used landing craft previ - a strong public position against junta after his ouster from insights into the agonies of the Turkish Premier Ecevit to un - Greek government withdraw its ously purchased from the US to the ruthless Ioannides when he Greece. AHEPA is severely criti - summer of 1974. The Cyprus File fold. Kissinger is identified as 374 officers in Greece because land 30,000 troops on a beach - took command of the junta in cized for its general support of is not an academic study. It is a the source of most of the blun - they were cooperating with the head in northern Cyprus. A November that year. On the the junta and its extremely slow segment of a larger diary Pyrros dering. The essence of the junta-sponsored EOKA-B to vio - month later, when the Turks other hand, Peter Marudas, recognition of its misguided began to write in 1943 after Kissinger problem is that he pre - lently unseat him. By making launched a formal invasion closely associated with Sar - policies. When Senator Henry reading William Shirer’s best- ferred to deal with compliant his letter public, Makarios was against vastly outnumbered and banes, was a noted anti-junta Jackson blasted the junta at the selling Berlin Diary. Pyrros also authoritarian regimes rather asking for American pressure to outgunned Greek forces, Britain activist. By and large, however, AHEPA biennial Congressional wanted to write of events imme - than unruly democracies. This be applied to the junta. Pyrros and other international parties the Congressional opposition to dinner in March, 1974, his ad - diately as they occurred. This attitude was echoed by Ambas - also reports that the CIA was voiced strong condemnation. the junta had been led by non- dress was met with silence. perspective became especially sador Henry Tasca who opined told by Ioannides of his plan to The US, the only country with Greeks such as Congressmen When then Vice-President Ger - critical when, “…It came time of the junta: “This is the best overthrow Makarios at least 10 the power to halt the Turkish Don Edwards, and Don Fraser. ald Ford stressed the Truman for me to play a political role as government Greece has ever days in advance of the opera - offensive, remained silent. Following the anti-Makarios Doctrine in his address without participant and observer.” The had.” Pyrros reports that during tion. The junta, greatly weak - Pyrros establishes the indiffer - coup and the Turkish invasions any mention of the junta, he resulting diary is exciting reading the first year and half of his ap - ened by the uprising at the Poly - ence of the United Sates by not - everything changed drastically. was enthusiastically applauded. that accurately records the pointment, Tasca never both - technic in 1973, believed it ing that despite Makarios’ open All the Greek American politi - What makes The Cyprus File es - shocks, fears, and hopes gener - ered to meet with civic leaders could retain the support of the letter and the Ioannides leak to cians (Sarbanes, Kyros, Yatron, sential reading is that Pyrros has ated by events as they unfolded or dissident forces. Kissinger restive army if it were able to the CIA, at the time of the coup John Brademas, and others) fearlessly recorded how the not only day-to-day, but also also believed that Turkey was engineer enosis with Cyprus. Ambassador Tasca was on vaca - spoke out forcefully and worked Greek American community, its hour-to-hour and even minute- far more important than Greece The leak made to the CIA was a tion. Also on vacation were John with great vigor to change politicians, its allies, and its or - to-minute. Although most read - in American efforts to contain trial balloon. Tasca would give Day, chief of the Greek desk in American foreign policy. What ganizations actually behaved in ers will know the ultimate out - the power of the Soviet Union. different versions of America’s Washington, and Thomas Boy - thrilled Pyrros the most, how - those now distant years. We come of events, The Cyprus File He thought Turkish cooperation official reaction, but finally in att, chief of the Cyprus desk. ever, was the response of the learn the names of the reporters is a page-turner in the very best would be enhanced by the “dou - 1975, he admitted the US had Roger Davies, the new ambas - Greek American public. Plan - who did their work honestly and sense of the word. ble enosis” of Cyprus: part of never expressed strong reserva - sador to Cyprus, had not yet The diary pulls no punches the island uniting with Greece tions about the plot against presented his credentials. When in its account of who did what, and part with Turkey. This atti - Makarios. This was tantamount the Greek government replacing when, and why. Pyrros’ assess - tude was further strengthened to giving Ioannides a green light the junta asked for Tasca to be ments are drawn from private by Kissinger’s extreme hostility to proceed. recalled, he was replaced by conversations, behind-the-scenes to the non-alignment foreign MAKARIOS ESCAPES Jack Kubisch, a Latin-American - maneuvers, newspaper ac - policy of Archbishop Makarios. The coup launched on July ist without previous service in counts, government dispatches, Pyrros praises the insights of 17 failed to kill Markarios as the Mediterranean or as an am - and other primary sources. The ultra-conservative columnists planned. Makarios obtained bassador anywhere. two great villains that emerge Rowland Evans and Robert No - refuge with the British forces on Following the Greek mili - are Henry Kissinger, then Amer - vak when they wrote: “The gen - Cyprus and soon appeared at tary’s ouster of the junta, Con - ica’s Secretary of State, and Gen - erals held tyrannical power so the UN and Washington seeking stantine Karamanlis was the eral Demetrios Ioannides, then long because of Washington’s support. Kissinger vetoed affir - only Greek leader acceptable to leader of the Greek junta, who coddling …. working-level State mation of support for Makarios all. He had denounced the junta died recently. The two Greek Department officials who and expressed possible backing from its onset and had worked politicians who emerge most wanted to condemn Athens for of the junta-appointed George behind-the-scenes for its ouster. positively are Archbishop Makar - the Cyprus plot after it occurred Sampson, now in nominal con - Earlier, Karamanlis had distin - ios and Constantine Karamanlis. were overruled by Secretary of trol of Cyprus. The British were guished himself by retiring to But Pyrros writes at length of State Henry Kissinger.” He also incensed as they had already Paris rather than participating scores of political players in agrees with The New York brought formal charges against in the cover-up of the murder Washington. Some of these Times evaluation of July 18, Sampson for his earlier criminal of Gregory Lambrakis in 1963, During the 1974 Turkish invasion of Cyprus, the Turkish army names will be immediately fa - 1974, which criticized Kissinger behavior. International agree - an affair brought to interna - arrested thousands of Greek-Cypriots. Some1619 persons were miliar to readers, others not. as being “too late, too insensi - ments gave Turkey the legal tional attention in 1969 by the reported missing, with many reportedly taken to Adana, Turkey WHOSE FAULT? tive, too unheeding, too narrow, right to protect Turks in Cyprus film Z. Karamanlis also had the or detained on Cyprus. Many were said to have been seen in Conspiracy theorists will be too wrong.” in the event of any armed con - skills and trust needed to pre - captivity alive and well, by others who were released later, disheartened with Pyrros’ view One of the claims made by flict. Ioannides was either too vent a full war with Turkey that but there’s been no word since would likely result in the loss of Thrace. Only his skills and the ners of a Washington demon - those who simply parroted the prestige combined with the in - stration had hoped as many as government line. We see how ternational respect for Makarios 2,000 Greek Americans would difficult it was for important made it possible to contain the respond. They were joyous newspapers such as the Wash - calamity at hand. Illustrative of when 20,0000 Greeks Ameri - ington Post and the New York the long-term consequences of cans from all over the nation ap - Times to recognize the errors in American policy was that soon peared. This spontaneous and their reporting and editorializ - after his return to Greece, the passionate outpouring, which ing. The Cyprus File also is a re - strongly pro-American Kara - was able to positively influence minder that these events took manalis was dismayed and then American foreign policy in the place during the same time the embittered by Kissinger’s poli - eastern Mediterranean for a Watergate scandal that culmi - cies. Cokie Roberts of CBS radio number of tears, was the politi - nated in Nixon’s resignation publicly reported on this phe - cal backbone for what came to from the presidency was unfold - nomenon at the time of the sec - be called the Greek lobby. Gene ing. American mass media ond Turkish offensive. Rossides appears again and seems incapable of seriously These overseas events are ac - again in Pyrros’ narrative, first dealing with more than one im - curately and clearly presented for his work against the junta, portant story at time; the Nixon by Pyrros, but the most original then for his active support of news easily trumped news aspect of his work is how he Makarios, and finally for his about Greece and Cyprus. Again weaves the reaction in various leading role in the creation of and again, Pyrros notes that American power circles into his the Greek lobby. Pyrros also Greece and Cyprus are generally narrative. He comments repeat - speaks highly of the work of afterthoughts to American pol - edly on the general American non-Greeks such as Richard icy makers, who usually have ignorance of its true national in - Moose and James Lowenstein, little grasp of regional issues. terests in the region, the empti - aides to Senator Fulbright. Like Most journalists know even less. ness of America’s mass media, Rossides, they were key in try - One of the longer-term val - and the general political apathy ing to move the Senate and the ues of The Cyprus File is what of the American public. He House to positive actions. The it reveals about process. The records the efforts he and his other happy pages in the diary mechanisms and attitudes evi - vIDEO TEEN colleagues made to spur Con - deal with the fall of the Greek dent in 1974 are largely un - gressional action and provide junta. Pyrros wonderfully cap - changed. Mass media still SHOWCASE journalists with accurate infor - tures the euphoria felt by Greeks doesn’t know much about the mation. at home and in the Diaspora. eastern Mediterranean, the U.S. GREEK AMERICAN Most of his colleagues in the still sees Turkey as its major re - TURNAROUND anti-junta struggle were Greek- gional partner, and not even the Pyrros believes that the born. He had mixed emotions Greek American public is par - Cyprus catastrophe was inti - as each ultimately decided that ticularly active. More broadly, CALL FOR ENTRIES mately linked to Washington’s it was time for them to go home. Pyrros is telling us that even acceptance of the Greek junta. Once back, they continued to though perception often substi - No small factor in that response communicate with Pyrros, pro - tutes for reality, reality is inde - Introducing the 1st “No Limits” was that to a large degree, viding invaluable insights for his pendent of perception. In other prominent Greek Americans, diary. words, American policy makers Showcase of Greek American Teen Videos, major Greek American institu - The uncompromising evalu - may chose to evaluate a dicta - tions, and the Greek American ations Pyrros offers are refresh - torship as they wish, but dicta - sponsored by TNH and the Nyc Greek Film Festival. public were mute about the ing and unlike accounts that torships will always behave junta or supported it. The diary omit mention of objectionable ruthlessly and will always place is remarkably candid in this re - behavior by persons that are their preservation above na - gard. Tasca, Pyrros notes, was otherwise admirable. For in - tional interest. Once overturned, No limits on: on intimate terms with the pro- stance he writes that Archbishop their allies are not easily for - junta industrialist Thomas Pap - Iakovos, perhaps due to his de - given. Similarly, however Amer - formats, cameras, genres, creativity. pas with whom he would meet sire to be named Ecumenical Pa - ican policy makers may chose three or four times a week. Pap - triarch, was quite late in oppos - to view the Turkish state, the re - pas, in turn, is said to have in - ing the junta. Once committed, ality is that ever since its found - Length: 3 minutes maximum. fluenced Nixon to choose Spiro however, Iakovos is reported to ing that state has sought to re - Agnew as his running mate. Be - have worked diligently behind claim at least part of Cyprus, fore Agnew’s disgraceful fall the scenes to unseat the dicta - various Mediterranean islands, from high office, he would be tors. For instance, in August of and more territory in Europe. Extended Deadline: September 15, 2010 feted by the junta on more than 1973, he proposed that he, The political task of Greek one occasion. Other American Brademas, and Sarbanes meet Americans and Philhellenes is to politicians, including Greek with Kissinger to “get something bring the perceptions of policy For info/entry forms, visit www.thenationalherald.com American Congressmen Gus Ya - done” about the dictatorship. makers into closer accord with tron and Peter Kyros, also would That meeting, however, never reality. That task is no easier or email: [email protected] be feted by the junta. Pyrros, materialized. Andreas Papan - now than the challenges faced who worked for a Congressman dreou is judged to be brilliant, by Pyrros and his colleagues in intimately associated with pow - charming, but unpredictable. 1974. erful trade unions, laments that, Pyrros reports that at one time “In the seven years of the Greek the CIA had thought Papan - [email protected]