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IMF/Greek Tension Following Wikileaks at White House, Obama Declares Unwavering Friendship to Greece Drs. Andreopoulou Greek Independence Day Parade In New York This Sunday! Let's All Attend! st S Bringing the news W to generations of E 101 Greek Americans The National Herald anniversa ry N www.thenationalherald.com A WEEKLY GREEK-AMERICAN PUBLICATION 1915-2016 VOL. 19, ISSUE 965 APRIL 9-15, 2016 c v $1.50 IMF/Greek At White House, Obama Tension Declares Unwavering Following Friendship to Greece WikiLeaks By Constantine S. Sirigos ing “Zito I Ellas.” The event reportedly was the WASHINGTON, DC – Hundreds most-attended in its 30-year his - ATHENS – Swapping shots over of Greek-Americans gathered at tory and the pre-reception meet - leaked discussions that showed the White House on April 4 for ing between Obama, Biden, and an International Monetary Fund the annual reception in recog - community leaders was ONE OF strategy to push Greece toward nition of Greek Independence the longest in memory. default, negotiations with inter - Day hosted by President Barack Biden had earlier conveyed national lenders over a long- Obama and featuring remarks part of a conversation he had stalled third bailout of 86 billion by Vice President Biden and that morning with Greek Prime euros ($98 billion) have picked Archbishop Demetrios. Minister Alexis Tsipras. up again. Loud and enthusiastic ap - “We talked about a range of Prime Minister and Radical plause greeted the President issues facing Greece right now,” Left SYRIZA leader Alexis Tsipras Obama as he entered the room Biden said, “and speaking for was furious after WikiLeaks put with Archbishop Demetrios after the president...and I repeat it, out transcript showing IMF en - warm introductory remarks by the United States will continue voys discussing whether an the vice president. to stand by and with Greece as “event” – code word for default On a day when officials on an ally and a friend. And as we – would force the other lenders both sides of the Atlantic were celebrate Greece’s resilience and – the European Union – to trig - dealing with the fallout from the Greece’s ability to overcome and ger debt relief for Greece while Wikileaks revelations about a endure, I do not doubt the insuring the IMF got paid in full. conversation between high IMF Greek people and Greece will Ironically, debt relief is part officials about the Greek crisis rise to the occasion, and in no of Tsipras’ hopes to push Greece and Greeks in Greece and small part because of the moral, toward recovery but he was up - abroad were feeling insecure, financial, and cultural support set that the IMF had intervened. President Obama declared “the they get from the Greek com - IMF Managing Director Chris - United States of America will be munity…it’s real. It matters.” tine Lagarde responded to Greece’s unwavering friend” Appearing nostalgic as the Tsipras’s suggestion that the Vice President Joe Biden, President Barack Obama and Archbishop Demetrios each spoke and his speech concluded with Washington-based organization eloquently about Hellenism and the vital relationship between the United States and Greece. a burst of applause after shout - Continued on page 4 was trying to engineer a Greek bankruptcy so a reform review could be wrapped up as “non - sense.” The IMF, with the European A Sunny Greek Parade in Baltimore Union, European Central Bank and European Stability Mecha - nism make up the EU-IMF-ECB- By Constantine Sirigos in America and the dual nature marching started – and contin - ESM Quartet that since 2010 has TNH Staff Writer of the March 25 holiday that is ued to the front of St. Nicholas. loaned Greece 240 billion euros also the great Orthodox Feast of The tone of the day was lit - ($273.47 billion) in three rescue BALTIMORE, MD – A brilliant the Annunciation. erally set by Angeliki Frangos packages. Hellenic Blue sky crowned the Local clergy from Baltimore’s singing the Star Spangled Ban - But those, including the third glory of Greece that shines in two other churches, Annuncia - ner and Stephanos Niktas, who that Tsipras said he would never the hearts of the Hellenes of tion Cathedral and St. sang the Greek. Baltatzis em - seek nor accept but did both, Maryland, Virginia, and Wash - Demetrios, Sts. Magdalene and phasized that a united commu - came with attached harsh aus - ington, DC at the Greek Inde - Markella of Darlington, MD, Sts. nity can do the most to help terity measures that have pendence Parade in Baltimore Peter and Paul of Frederick, MD, Greece, saying “not ego (me) on April 3. and St. Theodore of Lanham, but emeis (us)” is the way to go. Continued on page 13 More than 50 groups, includ - MD, whose pastor Fr. Manuel Among the highlights of pa - ing parishes from all over the Burdusi offered the invocation, rade day were the “Evzones of region and as far away as Rich - were on the reviewing stand the Maryland Independence mond’s Sts. Constantine and He - and parishioners from Sts. Con - Day Parade.” Established in len Cathedral, the Order of stantine and Hellen of Annapo - 1997, the Evzones are now led Med. Society AHEPA, college Greek clubs, and lis, MD and participated in the and trained by Stavros Katsas, regional associations partici - parade. a former sergeant of the Greek pated in the city’s 19th annual Led by Grand Marshals Paul Presidential Guard. Kalpothakes Parade. Kotrotsios and Dr. Panagiotis All the speakers praised the Father Michael Pastrikos, Baltatzis, the Parade began early work of the Parade committee pastor of the Baltimore’s St. – a credit to the committee’s or - led by this year’s Chairs, George Symposium Nicholas Church, presided over ganizational ability. Stakias and Emily Liadakis the liturgy and doxology. He The Parade began on Eastern Fekos. Joanne Trikoulis was the emphasized the importance of Avenue – which resounded with By Eleni Sakellis preserving the Greek language piped-in Greek music before the Continued on page 6 Ariana Huffington discusses The Sleep Revolution NEW YORK – On April 6, the Hellenic Medical Society of New York (HMS) held the Dr. Mary Kalopothakes Symposium to Drs. Andreopoulou: Physicians, Profs, Sisters Huffington: honor Distinguished Female Physician of the Year Dr. Anas - tasia Anagnostopoulos, Chair of By Demetris Tsakas work at Weill Cornell Medical icine and works for Weill Cor - they were married. New Book the Department of Pathology College. And they happen to be nell Breast Center/New York They returned to New York, and Medical Director of Labo - NEW YORK – Eleni and Pana - sisters. Presbyterian Hospital, while where they gave birth to Eleni ratories at Saint Francis Hospi - giota (Penny) Andreopoulou, Eleni is an oncologist with Panagiota is an endocrinologist. and Panagiota. After the fall of On Sleep tal, The Heart Center in Roslyn, are doctors and professors. Both expertise in breast cancer med - Beyond their careers, both Greece’s dictatorship, they de - NY, and Medical Director of Lab - are actively involved in the cided to return to Greece, where oratories at the Infusion Center Greek-American community, the girls were raised. The sisters By Aliz Koletas of Saint Francis Hospital in East and have been honored by the studied Medicine at the Univer - Hills, NY. The award is named Hellenic Medical Society of New sity of Ioannina and the Na - NEW YORK – The word revolu - in honor of the first Greek- York, of which Panagiota is vice- tional University of Athens, re - tion conjures images of wars American female physician Dr. president, as well as other spectively. After receiving her and fighting...blood, sweat, and Mary Kalopothakes. Greek-American institutions, medical degree in Greece, Eleni tears, but Arianna Huffington, The introduction was made such as Leadership 100. completed her residency at St the co-founder and editor-in- by Dr. Stella Lymberis, Chair, 1st The Andreopoulos family his - Bartholomew`s Hospital in Lon - chief of The Huffington Post, is Vice President of HMS and Clin - tory is a typical one of Greeks don, and later trained at the leading the fight for a sleep rev - ical Assistant Professor of Radi - who immigrated to the United Royal Marsden Hospital/Insti - olution. She recently authored States to pursue the American tute of Cancer Research. She a book aptly named The Sleep Continued on page 7 dream. Demetrios Andreopoulos then returned to New York. Revolution, pointing out the was the first of his family to ar - Panagiota followed a similar perils of the sleep deprived cul - rive on Ellis Island in 1910, with path before rejoining her sister. ture we are in and the whys and just ten dollars in his pocket. He The interview the ways to change it. For subscription: returned to Greece after World The Drs. Andreopoulou are She appeared at a book sign - 718.784.5255 War II. proud of their late parents, who ing event packed with hundreds [email protected] During the 1950s, his son did so much for their daughters, of people at the luxurious inter - Antonios, came to America. In and nurtured them with love for national Greek-owned bedding 1967, while vacationing in Greece and pride for Greek cul - store Coco-Mat in New York City Eleni and Panagiota (Penny) Andreopoulou are distinguished Greece, he married Georgia ture. Eleni said that passing the on April 6. doctors – an oncologist and endocrinologist, respectively, and Markopoulou. Three weeks after academics. Both work at Weill Cornell Medical College. their arranged introduction, Continued on page 7 Continued on page 8 2 COMMUNITY THE NATIONAL HERALD, APRIL 9-15, 2016 Prof. Kitroeff Speaks at U Mass about Archbishop Iakovos TNH Staff Patriarch Bartholomew, who, ities I would like to see in to - ering in 1994, a worthwhile ini - doxy can grow in the United like Iakovos was a strong per - morrow's Greek Orthodox tiative to unify all Eastern Or - States? “It is safe to say that LOWELL, MA – The University sonality and a native of Imbros.
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