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E 10 0 ΑΠΟ ΤΟ 1915 The National Herald anniversa ry N www.thenationalherald.com A weekly Greek-AmeriCAN PuBliCAtioN 1915-2015 VOL. 18, ISSUE 932 August 22-28, 2015 c v $1.50 Conspicuously Absent M1aloney, From the Greek Deal is Greek-Am. The Int’l Monetary Fund Leaders,

Greece is set to get a third longer until the next dilemma. Want End bailout, this one for 86 billion It's now so bad that the IMF, euros, but this time one of its breaking from the unspoken key creditors, the International role about not going public to To Controls Monetary Fund, isn't taking air dirty laundry, wrote a paper part. declaring Greece needs debt re - That's because the IMF, lief – from the EU and ECB – to which has put $15 billion (13.5 be eligible for continued IMF Hellenic Caucus co- billion euros) into two rescue aid. Chair and Community packages along with the Euro - "I remain firmly of the view pean Union and European Cen - that Greece’s debt has become Seek to Free Capital tral Bank, doesn't think Greece unsustainable and that Greece can pay back what it owes. cannot restore debt sustainabil - And Remittances In a lengthy piece analyzing ity solely through actions on its the new deal and the history of own,” she said. the first two for 240 billion eu - A growing number of econo - By Demetris Tsakas ros ($266.65 billion) that the mists agree that Greece needs so-called Troika began lending more than another dose of aus - NEW YORK – Congresswoman in 2010, the New York Times terity policies to recover. But Carolyn Maloney, co-Chair of wrote that many economists go they are also asking why it took the Congressional Hellenic Cau - along with the IMF's assess - so long for the fund to reach cus, was joined by Greek-Amer - ment. that conclusion, the Times ican leaders in Manhattan on The IMF won't be joining the wrote. August 13, calling for the immi - third bailout because it said “I applaud the fund for re - nent lifting of capital controls Greece can't repay and wants leasing the report, but at the AP Photo/GiANNiS PAPANikoS in Greece as well as the restric - the EU and ECB to go along same time it was too late,” Migrants, En Route to Northern Europe, Overflowing on Greek Islands tions to monies sent by Greek- with Prime Minister and Radical Gabriel Sterne, an economist at Americans to their families and Left SYRIZA leader Alexis Oxford Economics in London A child is covered with a sleeping bag as he waits with other migrants near the border train friends in Greece. Tsipras' request for debt relief, who has closely studied the station of Idomeni, northern Greece, to be allowed by the Macedonian police to cross the Rep. Maloney, a longstanding which some estimates have at IMF’s role in Greece told the pa - border from Greece to Macedonia on Tuesday, Aug. 18, 2015. More than 135,000 migrants philhellene, contended that re - as much as 100 billion euros per. “For right or for wrong, they have arrived on Greek islands so far this year, hoping to head north to other more prosperous mittances by Greek-Americans ($111.11 billion). are the only honest broker here European countries such as Germany, the Netherlands and Scandinavian countries. sent to Greece exceed $800 mil - The story made the argu - so they really should have got - lion and not only help the crisis ment that austerity alone can't ten this out sooner.” victims there personally, but also save Greece no matter how The IMF, which admitted it enhance liquidity, which is vital many more pay cuts, tax hikes, had grossly underestimated the to Greece’s economic recovery. slashed pensions, worker firings effects of austerity in further King Constantine Will Live in Greece Maloney (D-NY) announced and accelerated privatizations wrecking the Greek economy, that she and Caucus co-Chair are pushed. came to the same conclusion as Congressman Gus Bilirakis (R- Greece simply doesn't have did Greece's former finance min - TNH Staff of the Hellenes in 1964 when famously declared “I shall re - FL) sent letters to Treasury Sec - the money or political will to do ister, the pugnacious Yanis Varo - his father, King Paul, died of turn [to Greece], just like my retary Jack Lew, Federal Reserve what's necessary to stay solvent ufakis, who said Greece just Why has King Constantine cancer, was overthrown in April, ancestors did,” but then went to Chair Janet Yellen, as well as and recover from generations of can't pay what it owes and chosen to return to Greece after 1967 by a military junta led by London in 1973. other federal officials who over - wild overspending by successive needed debt relief. all these years, after being George Papadopoulos, at - A year later, the Greek peo - see banking and finance, im - - and then joined - administra - Other analysts said IMF offi - ousted from power and rejected tempted a countercoup that De - ple in a referendum decidedly pressing upon them the urgency tions of the New Democracy cials were asleep at the wheel by the public, and at a time cember, which failed and led to rejected the idea of his return – with which they ought to lift the Conservatives and PASOK So - and missed the boat on what when others are leaving Greece the deposed monarch piloting a only 31 percent voted in favor current restrictions. cialists. was going on in Greece, reach - because of the country’s dire plane carrying him, his wife of the restoration of the monar - As The National Herald has Although he said Greece ing the right conclusion at the economic crisis? That question, Queen Anne Marie, his mother chy. That is when he decided to been reporting, the community couldn't pay back the first two wrong time. on the minds of many, is an - Queen Frederica, his then-born settle in London for good. His was anguished by restrictions to loans, Tsipras - reversing anti- The latest bailout is heavy on swered by authors Nicholas and children, Alexia and Pavlos (he property in Greece was had funds they could send to Greece austerity campaign pledges - austerity measures like privati - Joan Gage in the September has three born subsequently, been seized, when his mother not only to their relatives who said he was forced to ask for a zation of power companies and edition of Town & Country Mag - Nikolaos, Theodora, and Philip - died suddenly in Madrid, he live there year-round, but also third he said can't work and seaports, reduced pensions and azine. pos), and Greek Prime Minister was allowed to return with his to those currently visiting there won't be repaid to keep the FROM KINGDOM TO EXILE Konstantinos Kollias to safety in for the summer. country afloat for a little while Continued on page 9 Constantine II, throned King Rome, where he remained he Continued on page 4 Maloney and Bilirakis also sent a letter to Elizabeth L. Lit - tlefield, President and CEO of the Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC), a govern - Crisis Begets a New Source ment agency that mobilizes pri - vate investment to financially struggling countries throughout Of Illegal Income – Looting the world, calling upon OPIC to lend their support to this cause as well, namely by establishing Of Ancient Greek Artifacts an office and more of a presence in Greece. Maloney pointed out OPIC’s success in intervening in [An August 17th article in Greek Department of Antiquities Portugal, another EU member National Geographic magazine and Cultural Heritage have no - nation that suffered economic by Nick Romeo depicts recent ticed not only that illegal exca - peril. crimes of looting antiquities in vations and thefts of archaeo - OPIC’s involvement in Greece. Excerpts from the article logical artifacts increased, but Greece, Maloney said, not only follow.] also that the typical profile of would contribute greatly to looters has changed. Greece’s economic stability, but ATHENS – Recently police in Before the crisis, many loot - would serve American interests Greece have noted a spike in a ers were members of criminal insofar as Greece is a strategic surprising kind of crime: People networks that also trafficked in U.S. and NATO ally, and plays a with no prior criminal record guns and narcotics. Now it ap - geostrategic role in the Eastern are looting Greek antiquities. pears that regular people with Mediterranean. One sign of the problem: a access to tools for digging are The press conference setting, sharp rise in applications for unearthing pieces of Greece's at Park Avenue and 54th Street metal detector permits. Because past and selling them for quick in Midtown, had particular sym - metal detectors are used to find cash. bolic significance, as it is across ancient coins and artifacts, the This surge comes at a time the street from a branch of At - Greek government tracks pur - when agencies charged with lantic Bank – founded in 1920 chases of the devices and typi - protecting the country’s antiq - as a subsidiary of the National cally grants use permits only to uities are underfunded and un - Bank of Greece. Maloney and people without a criminal derstaffed because of govern - the other speakers captured the record. “The numbers have in - ment budget cuts. attention of passersby, their creased, and this is related to Monovasios estimated that in words ringing with indignation tNh/CoStAS BeJ the economic crisis,” Police Lieu - all of Greece there are roughly toward Chancellor Angela Greek Nights in Astoria’s Athens Square tenant Evgenios Monovasios 60 employees who work exclu - Merkel and Finance Minister said. sively to prevent and disrupt Wolfgang Schaeuble of Ger - The steering committee of Athens Square Park in Astoria, along with the Federation of Greek So - As the Greek economic crisis looting. While cooperation with many, and the notion perpetu - cieties of Greater New York, organized a Greek night on Tuesday, Aug. 18 that surpassed attendance has intensified over the past five of any previous one. Greeks and non-Greeks alike enjoyed the music of The Trojans of New York. years, police detectives with the Continued on page 5 Continued on page 4 Greece’s Forgotten Tobacco Industry Dr. Demetis,

By Anthe Mitrakos by National Technical University major export harbor. Pillar at Plato of Athens Associate Professor The city soon attracted inde - KAVALA, GREECE – Greece is Maria Renetzi. pendent exporters and Greek Passes Away in modern days is surely known In the Northern Greece city bourgeoisie who invested in for producing a number of local of Kavala, for instance, the to - warehouses and trade, further goods like feta cheese, Chios bacco craze went full cycle, from strengthening the local tobacco By Demetris Tsakas masticha, and the best olive oil leaf picking, to drying, to pro - production industry. By 1880, in the world. But not many peo - cessing tobacco, which was then all the key European counties BROOKLYN – Parents, students, ple know that the country was transported from large ware - had established consulates in teachers, Chairman Basil Danas once host to a booming tobacco houses to the local port where Kavala city, and by the end of and other Board members of the production industry. foreign ships awaited their pre - the 19th century, around 4,000 Greek afternoon school Plato (in In fact, in the 19th and 20th cious parcels. According to tons of tobacco were being ex - Brooklyn), colleagues, patients, centuries, the economies of a Renetzi’s report, exports were ported annually from the city’s relatives, and friends gathered number of Greek cities relied al - mainly sent to the Hapsburg port. on the evening of August 16 at most exclusively on the cultiva - Empire and also England, Egypt, By 1913, Renetzi notes, a to - the Andrew Torregrossa & Sons tion and sale of tobacco leaves, Russia, France, and the United tal of 61 tobacco companies Funeral Home in Brooklyn to according to a Johns Hopkins States. were registered in the city, and venerate the mortal remains of University Press research paper Tobacco production in the close to 6,000 people were em - Dr. Spiro Demetis and express area dates back to the Ottoman ployed in the industry, though sincere and heartfelt condo - occupation, when the sultan had by the 1950s, new technological lences to his family. For subscription: forbidden Turks from growing advances replaced old tradi - AP Photo/ChArlie riedel The next morning, they gath - 718.784.5255 the plant, thus exclusively hand - tional ways of cultivation and Trump Challenges Birthright Citizenship ered at the Church of the Holy [email protected] ing over cultivation to local production, which became more Cross in Bay Ridge to attend the Greek merchants. As smoking efficient in others parts of the Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump waves to the funeral and big Dr. Demetis a became a growing trend among world. And thus, the once suc - crowd at the Iowa State Fair in Des Moines on Saturday, Aug. final farewell. Greeks, the tobacco industry cessful tobacco industry of 15. Trump wants to deny citizenship to the babies of immigrants Dr. Demetis died on August prospered, and Kavala became living in the U.S. illegally as part of an immigration plan that a tobacco-producing mecca and Continued on page 7 emphasizes border security and deportation for millions. Continued on page 6 2 COMMUNITY THE NATIONAL HERALD, AUGUST 22-28, 2015 Dr. James Rouman: Scientist Believes in Miracles GOINGS ON... n THRu OCT. 31 n SEPTEMBER 5 By Constantinos E. Scaros CHICAGO, IL – The National Hel - EAST MEADOW, NY – Faith, lenic Museum, 33 S Halsted St., Food & Fellowship Festival: The HARTFORD, CT – The National in Chicago, pays tribute to the Holy Trinity Orthodox Church at Herald’s recent article “Greek- legendary actor and artist An - 369 Green Avenue in East Americans and Miracles over the thony Quinn, who brought to life Meadow will host its annual fes - Decades” (Aug. 8) prompted Dr. one of the greatest and most life- tival on Saturday, Sept. 5 (rain James Rouman, a retired anes - affirming literary characters of or shine) from 10AM to 6PM. It thesiologist and the author of our time – Zorba the Greek. will feature the Greek and Slavic two novels, to share is own first - Quinn’s creative genius is show - café, live Slavic music by hand account of a miracle that cased in an exhibition of more Barynya, big bouncy castles and occurred almost 30 years ago, than 80 of his emotive paintings kids’ games, Chinese auction, flea yet remains fresh in his mind and and powerful sculptures. Visitors market, vendors, and 50/50 raf - left a profound effect on him. will see reflections of Quinn’s life fle. Prayer services and Church “I was attending a medical experiences and the impact of his tours will be offered throughout meeting at an O'Hare Airport Ho - long friendship with the Greek the day. Admission is free. For tel in March 1987,” Dr. Rouman people. more information, contact 516- told TNH, “when I learned of a 483-3649, email tearing (weeping) icon at an ob - LEFT: The famed weeping n THRu OCT. 3 [email protected] or visit scure Albanian Orthodox Church Theotokos icon at the St. TARPON SPRINGS, FL – Night in www.htocem.org. in Chicago, and decided to see Nicholas Albanian Orthodox the Islands returns to the world- for myself what the fuss reported Church in Chicago. ABOVE: A famous Sponge Docks of Tarpon TOLEDO, OH – OPA! Join Holy in the newspapers and on televi - lifelong man of science and Springs for 2015! Saturdays, 6- Trinity Greek Orthodox Cathedral sion was all about. medicine, Dr. Rouman says it 11PM: Sept. 12, and Oct. 3. A for our 44th Annual Greek-Amer - “Arriving at the church, I saw is perfectly logical to reconcile free event of Greek music, danc - ican Festival, Sept. 5, 6 & 7. a line of people waiting to enter those disciplines with the su - ing, and dining! And we will offer Come and enjoy authentic Greek the building in front of which pernatural. an hour of free Greek dance Food, Greek Pastries & Greek several tour busses were lessons by the Levendia Dance Dancing. Browse through our parked,” he continued. “For over Rouman was also a faculty mem - few tears that had wetted an like, Rouman said “the material Troupe from 6-7PM. The festival Greek Boutique, Greek Culture, four months, more than a quar - ber of the University of Connecti - icon. There was material enough was not clear fluid likened to is supported in part by a grant Greek Language & Religious Ed - ter million people from as far cut Health Center. streaming from the Virgin's eyes tears, but rather a more thick from the National Endowment ucation Booths. Tour our beauti - away as Ceylon, Sri Lanka, Eng - How does Rouman reconcile to have been collected and used substance akin to myrrh.” for the Arts. Come join us for au - ful Byzantine Cathedral. Attend land, Rome, and Egypt had made all the science and medicine that to anoint hundreds of persons Rouman says the experience thentic island fun in the warm the Greek Language & Culture the pilgrimage to see what for he learned, practiced, and taught over several months' time. As for further strengthened his faith in Florida sun and mark your cal - Presentations, and watch the many was believed to be a mira - over the years, with a phenome - skeptics, there were obviously God, and make him more open endar and make this a regular Greek Cooking Demonstrations. cle. non that cannot be explained by some. To them, all I can say is to believing that other similar re - destination! And if you’re just in “On the afternoon of my visit, those disciplines? that those who need tidy and fi - ported phenomena to be true. town for a week or two, make n SEPTEMBER 16 a church official remarked that “A great physician or scientist, nite answers to metaphysical ABOUT DR. ROUMAN sure to mark your calendar as LEMONT, IL – There's nothing the icon was weeping more than if honest with himself,” Rouman questions or inexplicable reli - Dr. Rouman was born in Wis - you will not want to miss this! like a day spent among friends usual, and that the amount of explains, “is humbled by what gious phenomena will not be sat - consin to parents from Metamor - Tarpon Springs is a unique Greek and colleagues in an informal set - material coming from the eyes little he knows as a function of isfied until such time they have phosis, a village in the Southern experience in the United States, ting, especially as we enjoy the of the Virgin Mary was sufficient what there is to know – not just had a religious experience of Laconian region of Monemvasia one unlike any other Greek com - end of summer. Mariyana Spy - to permit those present to be of the human body, but of nature their own. Only then will the – the family name, “Roumanis,” munity. Come be part of this one- ropoulos, Presidentof the Met - anointed if they so desired. Soon itself, of the universe in which need for explanations be put was shortened at Ellis island by of-a-kind American experience ropolitan Water Reclamation Dis - it would be my turn to witness he exists. The infinite order of it aside.” one of his uncles, who had ar - that will make you feel as if, truly, trict, is having a Golf Outing at the unforgettable. Approaching all, the intricacy of design of all He continued: one might ask rived to the United States earlier. you are back in the homeland! the Gleneagles Country the icon, I recognized it to be a existing matter, whether alive or why God chooses to make His His first novel, Underwater Club,13070 McCarthy Road painting on canvas over wood, inert, boggles the mind of any - presence felt in places far and Dreams, is semi-autobiographi - n AuGuST 27-29 Lemont, IL. We hope you'll join standing about five feet tall, one giving expression to such wide, often mysteriously and be - cal in nature and was written as PEABODY, MA – Back by popular Mariyanna at her first annual golf three feet wide, and in colors pri - thoughts. yond comprehension. Why is it a tribute to that cohort of demand! Our Philoptochos is outing, in memoriam of Ted Spy - marily of red and gold. One “Through it all, the issue of that in a small Albanian church Greeks, who while finding them - once again planning our Attic ropoulos, at Gleneagles Country could see that the icon posi - origin, of ontology, is brought to the Virgin Mary wept tears? For selves in remote cities and areas Treasures sale and asking for Club on Wednesday, Sept. 16. tioned on the iconostasis was in bear. There had to be a begin - some people these and similar of America, and without the sup - your old and new treasures. All Join us as we take a few swings, no way supported from behind ning. There had to be a super - questions call for plausible an - port of a Greek community, proceeds from the sale will be enjoy a beautiful day on the or touching anything other than human architect to have fash - swers. To me they are irrelevant. church, schools and cultural or - donated to the much-needed Ac - course, and cap off everything the screen, itself, of which it was ioned the universe in all of its Having seen the tears of the ganizations, managed to main - cessibility Fund. Thursday, Aug. with relaxing cocktails and food. a part. As I stood before the icon, unfathomable complexity. To me Theotokos, I no longer doubt tain their Orthodox faith, lan - 27 through Saturday, Aug. 29, Registration opens at 8AM and I saw a liquid substance falling and to the physicians and scien - that God reveals himself at times guage, and traditions, all the 9AM-3PM, at Saint Vasilios Greek the shotgun start will be at 9AM. directly from the pupils of the tists I've known and respected and in ways that are difficult to while accomplishing great Orthodox Church, 5 Paleologos There will be lunch on the course Virgin Mary's eyes, over her face during my career, that answer understand. I don't need an ex - things. “My two siblings and I Street in Peabody. Donations are at noon. There will cocktails at and clothing, reaching finally to can only be God, however ex - planation for what I witnessed. I were home schooled in the welcome. For more information, 2PM followed by dinner at 3PM. the bottom of the icon. pressed by any given person. Un - know what I saw.” Greek language by my mother, please call Maria Collins at (978) “There the exudate was care - der such a premise, it is not hard It would have been consid - who procured material for that 531-6832. n OCTOBER 11 fully collected, placed in a small to reconcile the natural with the ered a “sacrilege if the tears were purpose from Greece. One of my LOS ANGELES, CA – By popular silver bowl and taken to several supernatural. Things can and do given up for analysis,” Rouman brothers is also a physician, n AuGuST 28-30 demand, Peggy Zina is coming to priests, who while uttering occur for which we have no im - explains. But why? If those who while the other became a distin - CARMEL, IN – The Holy Trinity Los Angeles for a special engage - words of blessing and prayer, mediate or rational explanation submitted them for analysis re - guished professor of Greek and Greek Orthodox Church, 3500 W. ment. Peggy will be performing anointed those who came for - And just what does, for example, ally believed, then what could be Latin,” he says. 106th street in Carmel invites live at Club Nokia, 800 West ward. At that moment I knew I constitute a rational explana - better than a good faith effort to His second novel, Uncertain you to join them for their annual Olympic Blvd, in Los Angeles. was witnessing not just a reli - tion? After all, we learn in sci - show everyone else the tears Journey, received high marks Greek Festival. The festival will Peggy has a career which has gious phenomenon, but an awe - ence that too often today's wis - were real – through whatever ev - from the reviewer Kirkus. The be on Friday, Aug. 28 from 4PM lasted over 20 years with many some and miraculous event un - dom is merely tomorrow's folly. idence they needed to believe, book “is a story in which I at - to 11PM and Saturday, Aug. 29 hits going multi-platinum. We are like anything I could have ever As physicians and scientists,” even if that were chemical analy - tempt to put a face on one of from 11AM to 10PM and Sunday excited to present her along with imagined. And although I stood Rouman continues, “we are sis? the major and troublesome so - Aug. 23 from 11AM to 4PM. Ad - her band directly from Greece for in wonder, I felt transformed by taught to observe carefully and The sacrilege, as Rouman ex - cietal issues of our day, namely, mission is free. There will be live the only west coast performance! the experience as the tears were to record accurately what we see, plained, would not have been in that of the illegal immigrant, music, food and pastries, a Peggy will be here Sun, Oct. 11 placed on my forehead.” which in turn determines, to a the concept of a chemical analy - through the telling of the plight guided church tour, and Greek at 7PM and Mon, Oct. 12 at 12 NATURAL AND large extent, what we do and sis, but rather in the act. “The of an Albanian alien living in the dance performances. The Hel - Noon. To get tickets call (877) SUPERNATURAL how we react.” ecclesiastic authorities of shadows of our society and lenic Dance Troup will be per - 639-9715. A graduate of Northwestern WAS IT REAL? Chicago prevented the chemical within a well-established Greek- forming, as well as the Ormi Or - University School of Medicine in All that aside, how can the analysis of the material coming American community.” chestra. The whole family will n NOVEMBER 12-15 Chicago, Rouman interned at the rest of us, who weren’t there be from the Virgin's eyes for theo - Finally, regarding the miracle enjoy the Children’s Activity Tent. WASHINGTON, DC – Texas Medical Center in Houston convinced that what Dr. Rouman logical reasons, the thinking be - he witnessed in 1987, “I urge Face painting, Greek flag tattoos, DCGreeks.com, in association and trained as an anesthesiolo - experienced was really a weep - ing that the substance repre - your readers to go on line and lollipop draw, bracelet making, with local and national Hellenic gist at Hartford Hospital and ing icon, and not some sort of sented part of the Virgin's body google ‘Weeping Icon, St. and guessing the number of organizations, invites Greek- McGill University. His entire ca - hoax? and should therefore be handled Nicholas Albanian Orthodox olives in a jar will be some of the American young adults from reer has been as a staff member “What I personally observed with same respect as would be Church, Chicago,’ where numer - fun everyone will enjoy. Make a across the country to our Nation's of Hartford Hospital, the largest in that little church in Chicago shown the body and blood of ous detailed accounts of the phe - Greek flag, an Olympic laurel Capital this November for the 7th tertiary care center between was not an illusion. It was not a Christ in the Eucharist.” nomenon can be accessed,” Dr. wreath to wear, and a postcard. edition of the one of the most di - Boston and New York City. matter of whether there were a As for what it looked and felt Rouman says. A “Cell Phone Selfie” center will verse and inclusive Greek events allow children to use props to on the calendar! Pan-Hellenism take pictures of themselves in Weekend 2015 will provide front of a backdrop on Friday and Greek-American and Philhellene Sunday. There will be a puppet young adults 18 and over with show every 90 minutes on Sat - an affordable, fun, classy, and urday only during the duration quality event which allows atten - GIVE THE GIFT OF HISTORY! of GreekFest. See festival website dees from DC and over two for more details. dozen different states the oppor - Give a home delivery to The National Herald! tunity to network in a relaxed n AuGuST 29-30 and welcoming environment HONOLULU, HI – Aloha and Yeia while helping raise money for Sas! We invite you to join us in over a dozen Greek American our annual Greek Festival, to take non-profit organizations and place at Ala Moana Park in Hon - charities. Since the first edition olulu on Saturday, Aug. 29 and of Pan-Hellenism Weekend in Sunday, Aug. 30. Both days, 2009, this weekend has raised Noon until 9PM. 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The Greeks of New York City and the Greater New York Area attended Church services to honor the Kimisis (dormition/assumption) of the Theotokos, culminating the 15-day period known as Dekapentavgousto (15 August days).

FAR LEFT & LEFT ABOVE: Kimisis Theotokou in Brooklyn. LEFT: St. Catherine and St. George in Astoria RIGHT: (L-R) Fr. John Paizis, Archbishop Demetrios, Parish Council President Peter Rizik, and Stratos Demertzis of Panaghia of Island Park. RIGHT BELOW: St. Demetrios in Astoria.

Panagia Pilgrimage: Venerating the Theotokos on the Island of Pserimos

By Theodore Kalmoukos Andrew and Themis Karpouzis, sands of plates of chickpeas – from Mastichari, a picturesque the traditional Panagias’ eve PSERIMOS, GREECE – The Kos harbor. The small boat dish – to all those who made Feast of the Dormition of the “Olympian Zeus” glided on the the pilgrimage. Theotokos (colloquially referred Aegean Sea, as if steered by Nicholas Karavorikos, a na - to as “Panagias”) is celebrated Panagia herself. The passengers tive of Pserimos and member of throughout the Greek Orthodox varied from older women the Merchant Navy, told TNH world generally, and the Dode - dressed in black, to young girls that the church was built in the canese islands specifically, with in shorts and colorful attire. late 17th or early 18th century reverence and solemnity. On this tiny island, the in - by the monk Neophytos. The It is in this vein that the Na - habitants guard Greece’s border, current icon is not the original, tional Herald traveled on the fly the Greek flag in their homes he explained. That one was a eve of Panagias to the small Do - and in the few stores that exist, small one, found in a well decanese island of Pserimos, and thereby illustrate that this nearby, but it has been missing which belongs to the much land, however small, is unmis - for five years. “No one seems to larger island Kalymnos. Pseri - takably Greek. know” what happened to it, he mos has a population of only We were greeted by a very said. 20. It is only 15 square kilome - nice man from Lancaster, PA – a Kostas Zogas and his family ters in size. There are no cars, Herald reader for many years – traveled there from Athens. He and no roads. The only settle - named Vasilis Mailis. complained about the political ment is Avlakia, at the island’s The service began, liturgized and economic situation, and harbor. by Church’s priest Fr. Nicholas said the worst thing Greek Pserimos is part of the Kalyd - Klimis, along with Fr. Anthony politicians did over the past 50 nas islands cluster to which Frangos of St. Barbara-Daphne years was to change Greece’s Homer referred. Pliny called it in Athens, who preached the culture. A lot of people don’t Pserimos’ population of 20 is significantly multiplied by the pilgrimage to this tiny Dodecanese Pserema. Situated between Ka - Word of God. The dulcet sounds work, and want to be paid by island for the Feast of the Dormition of the Theotokos (“Panagias”). lymnos and Kos, Pserimos has of cantor Aristocles Marinos borrowed money, he said. as its jewel the church Koimisis from Kalymnos were heard Fr. Klimis told TNH that the tis Theotokou (dormition-as - chanting the Vespers. Then, the beautiful island has its prob - sumption of the Theotokos). procession of the icon followed lems. Aside from illegal mi - The pilgrimage began with on the island’s only street. grants, transportation, particu - Pontians Gather to Worship in W. Milford the company of our good friends The parish distributed thou - larly in the winter.

By Fotis Papagermanos Kambourakis was present. small but very warm and wel - Though fewer than expected coming chapel, resembled WEST MILFORD, NJ – With the were on hand, Pontians traveled something out of Byzantine magnificence and splendor of a from across the United States grandeur, and was enhanced by bygone imperial Byzantine era, for the occasion. the presence of Evangelos and the Pontians of America hon - What was encouraging, cantor Dr. George Bilalis. ored and venerated the Virgin though, was the number of The metropolitan advised the Mary at the Panagia Soumela young people on hand, portend - congregation to live the word of Greek Orthodox Church in West ing that this tradition will en - love by faith, works of love, and Milford. dure in future generations. support of the Church. Metropolitan Evangelos offi - Indeed, the Sunday morning “Everyone who was here ciated, and Greek Consul Manos liturgy on August 16, in the dancing and having fun last night [at the Panagias’ eve cele - bration] should be here [at the Liturgy] today,” he added. The procession of the icon of the Panagia followed, which many Astorian Pontians traveled to see, and also to greet Evan - gelos, whom they remember well when he served the com - munity there. More than 30 young Pontian- Americans, dressed in tradi - tional costumes, danced the tra - ditional dances of their ancestral homeland. Greetings were read aloud of Pontians across America come to venerate Panagia Soumela various well-wishers, including in West Milford, NJ. the Metropolitans of Drama, Ve - ria, and Naoussa, and Greek President Prokopis Pavlopoulos. Philadelphia Pontians were on hand, including the President of the Federation of Hellenic- American Societies of Philadel - phia and Greater Delaware Val - ley, Efstathios Karadonis, who called for support of The Holy Foundation Panagia Soumela Pontion Amerikis, by Pontians and non-Pontians alike. Evange - los praised the Foundation, and said “it is here all the time,” and so called on the laity to support it throughout the year. Those sentiments were echoed by Gus Tsiflidis, Presi - dent of the Pan Pontian Federa - Young Pontian-Americans perform the traditional dances of tion of America & Canada. their ancestral homeland. Even in Death, Fr. Matthew Baker Has Ties to Norwich

NORWICH, CT – The Rev. Katherine, and their six children Matthew Baker, priest of the moved into a dormitory at St. Holy Trinity Greek Orthodox Basil’s Academy in Garrison, NY. Church in Norwich, was killed The room in which they are on March 1. As TNH reported, staying was donated by the Rose over $600,000 was raised for City AHEPA 110 Chapter in the his wife and children within early 1980s. Chapter spokesper - days (Over $600K is Raised for son Tony Petros said of Kather - Fr. Baker’s Wife and Children,” ine, the Bulletin reported, “she Mar. 14). That number, reports made a point of sending me the the Norwich Bulletin, is now nameplate on the door. It is over $1million. amazing that this donation But the amazing link be - would eventually go to help Fr. tween Baker’s family and the Baker’s wife and children.” city of Norwich is the link that What makes it so amazing: remains in the most unpre - that this donation to Garrison, dictable of ways: NY was made by the AHEPA Fr. Matthew Baker Recently, Baker’s wife, Chapter of…Norwich, CT! 4 COMMUNITY THE NATIONAL HERALD, AUGUST 22-28, 2015 Rep. Maloney, Greek-Am. Leaders Call for Lifting of Funds Restrictions

Continued from page 1 ated by the German and Euro - pean media, they said, that Greeks are lazy. Greek-American entrepre - neur and 2013 NYC mayoral candidate John Catsimatidis, who hosts the weekly radio show Cats Roundtable, also ex - pressed his outrage. He said no bank and no government has the right to retain $800 million that Greek-Americans send to their Greek brethren. He called upon the Greek government to sign the agreement with the Troika (which Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras had approved and which, on the morning of Au - gust 14 was approved by Parlia - ment), and said “shame on you, Mrs. Merkel, stop making our Greek brothers and sisters suf - fer.” Lou Katsos, a member of the Hellenic American Chamber of PhotoS: tNh/CoStAS BeJ Commerce’s (HACC) Board of ABOVE LEFT: In front of the Atlantic Bank, Rep. Maloney displays her impas - BOTTON LEFT: US Rep. Carolyn Maloney, co-Chair of the Congressional Hellenic Directors, emphasized that the sioned philhellenism. ABOVE RIGHT: NYC 2013 Mayoral candidate John Catsi - Caucus, leads press conference calling for lifting of Greece funds sanctions. current sanctions impede Greek matidis, who now hosts a political radio show, calls upon Germany's Angela BOTTON RIGHT: Gold Coast Chairman/CEO John Tsunis said "by supporting productivity, and discussed Merkel to "stop making our Greek brothers and sisters suffer. Greece, we protect the interests of America itself."

HACC’s efforts to support busi - relatives in the homeland is part that Greeks love Greece and re - preneurship and efforts to pro - $100,000 within 70 hours, Euro-American Women's Council nesses in Greece. “They must of what the American dream is vealed that he performed the vide relief. which was promptly doubled by (EAWC), also expressed her dis - stop this propaganda,” he said, all about. “Dance of Isaiah” (i.e., was mar - Tasos Pardalis and Anthony the Foundation and Mouyaris, content for the perception that pointing out that the negative The money her parents ried) on the island of Santorini. Kammas, who serve on the Hel - each contributing $50,000. Greeks are lazy, a perception press affects Greeks both in the would send to her grandparents He added that not only Greek- lenic American Leadership Banker Kimon Bakos, repre - that she characterized as false. homeland and abroad. “The in Greece “was a constant Americans, but all Americans, Council’s (HALC) Board of Di - senting Atlantic Bank President Other attendees included At - Greeks are not lazy; they are source of income for them. should support Greece, as it is rectors, spoke of the initiatives Nancy Papaioannou (who could lantic Bank VP Artie Gyftopou - hardworking and have pride.” Therefore, remittances should an ally of the United States. “By of the Jaharis Family Founda - not attend because she is in los, Capital Link President Nico - New York Assemblywoman reach their intended recipients supporting Greece, we protect tion and Nick Mouyaris to dou - Greece), announced that At - las Bornozis, and Ionian Aravella Simotas, who repre - without hindrance,” she added, the interests of America itself.” ble every dollar donated to help lantic Bank will help them any Management Chairman Spiros sents Astoria, described growing and reiterated how such funds Mark Arey, Executive Direc - the children of Greece victim - effort and initiative taken to as - Milonas, who congratulated up Greek-American, with par - enhance Greek liquidity. tor of The Hellenic Initiative ized by the crisis. They empha - sist the homeland. Congresswoman Maloney for ents born in Greece, and how John Tsunis, Chairman and (THI), spoke of the organiza - sized that through the website Loula Loi Alafoyiannis the initiative and for her support sending money back to needy CEO of Gold Coast Bank, noted tion’s support for Greek entre - Help Greece Now, they raised Founder and President of the of Greece. King Constantine Will Live in Greece: Says Because it’s “In His Blood”

Continued from page 1 family to Greece – but only for a few hours – to bury her at the palace at Tatoi. THE RETURN Why, then, after all this time and such bad memories, did King Constantine decide to re - turn to Greece, presumably for the rest of his life, as an ordinary person? Nicholas Gage and his wife, Joan, provide the answer in their article “King Without a Country.” Constantine told the Gages: “Look at Ancient Greek History: All Greeks who live in exile want to go back. It’s in the blood.” In fact, he added, it was Anne Marie who pushed him hardest to return. “She realized I would be happy only when I came back home,” he said. While so many seek to leave Greece in its time of trouble, he Left Above: Constantine marries his queen, Anne Marie, in has chosen to return. The Greek 1964, flees the country in 1967, and now the royal couple re - people “have seen their stan - turns (above and below). Left Below: The Royal Palace at Tatoi. dard of living drop by 30 per - cent and unemployment soar to Offering further evidence crumbling palace, but consider - more than 25 percent,” he said. that he is back for good, Con - ing himself fortunate to be on “It’s painful to see how much stantine discussed his burial his native ground in life and, suffering they have endured. plans – whenever that may be: eventually, in death. They close But the Greeks are a tough peo - at the royal cemetery at Tatoi. with the poet C.P. Cavafy’s ode ple who not only know how to “I’ve chosen the spot…that part to Odysseus’ experience: enjoy life but how to endure where the graves are shadowed Arriving there is what you are hardship. We suffered centuries by blossoming hickory trees,” he Destined for of subjugation under the Ot - says, “father down and a little Ithaka gave you the marvelous toman Turks, a brutal Nazi oc - to the left of my father. Facing journey. cupation, and a devastating civil toward the sea…” And if you find her poor, Ithaka war, but we bounced back to And how he loves the sea, won’t create a beautiful land to call the Gages write: he sails is Have fooled you. home. Everyone must take great kayak every day, finds a cove, Wise as you will have become, care not to allow our glorious docks, swims, and relaxes. So full of experience, country to fall into the kind of Like Odysseus, they con - You will have understood by national division that brought have faith that Greeks will face tience and resolve and that we clude, the former king has re - then so much misery in the past. I our current troubles with pa - will prevail.” turned home with no title, a What these Ithakas mean. Roy Vagelos to Receive American Chemical Society’s CME Leadership Award

NEW YORK – the Chemical elected Fortune’s Most Admired “My career began when I for the industries of chemistry Marketing and Economics Corporation seven years in a majored in chemistry at the Uni - to learn the many paths to (CME) group of the American row, an extraordinary achieve - versity of Pennsylvania. Then progress and growth. Chemical Society’s New York ment. my knowledge of chemistry per - Vagelos is the retired Chair - Section, Inc., announced on “It is remarkable to have an mitted me to work in medicine, man and CEO of Merck & Co., Aug. 11 that P. Roy Vagelos, MD, active career over six decades biochemistry and drug discov - Inc. He received an AB in 1950 Chairman of Regeneron Phar - but it is truly exceptional to ery, and ultimately to lead a gi - from the University of Pennsyl - maceuticals, Inc., will receive head the legendary Merck & ant research-based pharmaceu - vania and an MD in 1954 from CME’s Leadership Award™ for Co., Inc. for a decade, taking it tical company, Merck. After Columbia University. After Lifetime Achievement at the to new heights, retire, and sub - retirement, I agreed to chair the working at Massachusetts Gen - Yale Club Ballroom in New York sequently spend two decades board of Regeneron because of eral Hospital, the National In - City on December 8, 2015. developing Regeneron into the the superb quality of its science. stitutes of Health and Washing - Dr. Vagelos has an un - fifth largest biotech company in It was bound to succeed,” Dr. ton University School of matched record in building both the USA,” Mr. George Ro - Vagelos said. “I wholeheartedly Medicine in St. Louis, he joined pharmaceutical and biotechnol - driguez, Chair of CME and support the American Chemical Merck Research Laboratories in ogy companies into top world- Board member of the ACS NY Society, and in particular the 1975. In 1985, he became CEO class enterprises that effectively Section noted. “Further, his pas - CME group, for their initiatives and subsequently Chairman of translate science into medicine. sion and support for STEM ed - Dr. Roy Vagelos joined Merck in 1975 and retired in 1994 as to expand STEM student pro - the company until retirement in Under his leadership Merck was ucation are truly exemplary. its Chairman. He is now Chairman of Regeneron. grams and to provide a venue 1994. THE NATIONAL HERALD, AUGUST 22-28, 2015 COMMUNITY 5 Strapped for Cash, Some Greeks Resorting to Looting Ancient Artifacts

Continued from page 1 with an estimated value of al - before being sold to a middle - most twenty million euros. man who owns a legitimate local police departments across For every successful recovery business that can be used to Greece expands this capacity, it’s or repatriation, however, many launder the proceeds. difficult to monitor more than a other artifacts are slipping be - Pottery and statues are typi - fraction of the country’s vast yond Greece’s borders and into cally broken into pieces. This and varied landscape, which private collections. not only facilitates hiding and ranges from the mountainous While there is no such thing smuggling the antiquities across north to hundreds of islands in as a typical looter in Greece, international borders, it also al - the Aegean and Ionian Seas… Monovasios and Sergeant Babis lows merchants to blackmail To combat looting, Greek au - Melistas sketched a general buyers by selling them all but thorities employ tactics that composite picture of who com - one of the fragments before range from undercover police prises the looting networks and charging a huge sum for the work to international legal ne - how they function. People piece that completes the item… gotiations. Lieutenant Monova - whose work involves scrutiniz - Museums can also be reluc - sios and his colleagues do the ing and sifting earth—farmers, tant collaborators. The Getty detective work of gathering in - ranchers, or construction work - Museum, for instance, failed to telligence on suspected looters, ers—often form the initial link respond to requests from the mounting raids to recover arti - in a chain of traffickers. Greek government for almost facts, and going undercover to “People dream of mythical four years between 2002 and infiltrate looting networks. One clue that leads police to sums,” Melistas said. For those 2006… Greece faces major chal - know that crimes of looting doing the digging, however, the The past decade has seen lenges in protecting its cultural ancient artifacts remain on financial reward is typically only some improvement in attitudes heritage: an abundance of an - the rise is increased permit a fraction of the final price. In a towards repatriation. Since tiquities, limited resources to applications for metal recent case involving a female 2008, artifacts have been re - protect them, strong black mar - detectors. statue, the Greek looters made turned from galleries, private ket demand for antiquities, and fifty thousand euros; the final collections, and museums in the an economic crisis that is sale price was 1.1 million euros. UK, the United States, the swelling the ranks of looters Most illicit excavations are Netherlands, and Germany… with first-time offenders. done at night to decrease the “By looting you are depriving Recent antiquities trafficking Getty Museum and Duke Uni - risk of discovery. Once artifacts future generations of identity,” cases range from Byzantine versity in 2014 and 2015—to a are found, they are reburied or Monovasios said. “The economic manuscripts—stolen from cache of Neolithic Cycladic fig - hidden in improbable loca - crisis is probably temporary, but Dionysiou monastery at Mount urines, vessels, and statue parts tions—in one case, artifacts the negative effects of looting Athos and recovered from the confiscated in Attica in 2011 were stashed in a sheep pen— are permanent.”

HELLENIC HAPPENINGS COAST TO COAST

TNH Staff Similarly, JOHN CATSIMA - TIDIS, the self-made billionaire BEND, OR – One of Bend’s most businessman who ran for NYC famous residents ever, KATH - Mayor as a Republican in 2013, LEEN ROCKWELL, better known and who currently hosts the by her Vaudeville stage name, CATS ROUNDTABLE radio “KLODIKE KATE,” just made the show, more closely identifies town’s residents very happy – with – and donates to – the Re - even as she has been deceased publican Party, but has main - for almost 60 years. tained longstanding friendships Married to Greek-American with plenty of Democrats, fa - ALEXANDER PANTAGES, a film mously said during the cam - industry giant, Rockwell paign: “Am I a Republican? Yes. (named “Klondike” after Ore - Am I a Democrat? Yes. Am I a gon’s famous gold rush) had a conservative? Yes. Am I a lib - home in the area. Now, “NATE eral? Yes.” PEDERSEN, President of THE ABOVE: Guests DESCHUTES COUNTY HISTOR - mingle with old ICAL SOCIETY, retrieved ap - and new friends proximately 600 pounds of outside the agates, thundereggs, obsidian elegant Nicholas and petrified wood, the remains S. Zoullas of the home’s once-marvelous Hellenic Center chimney,” reported the Seattle at the 2014 Blue Times. Dream. “This is a triumphant return LEFT: Blue Drean of something that was thought voyagers melt to be lost forever,” he said. into another Local historian CHUCK reality thanks to ROLLINS added: “Kate loved be - the magic touch ing a celebrity and loved to pro - of event planner mote things. We’re trying to pro - Angela mote history. This is one more Giannopoulos. thing for her,” the Times re - ported. Rockwell eventually settled into the home after taking her act all over the country, follow - ing a bitter public divorce from Pantages, who jilted her for a teenage violinist. Pantages eventually estab - lished a chain of movie theaters Hamptons’ Blue Dream Gala for Refugees Int’l across the country. MATINECOCK, NY – Some TNH Staff Writer front line neighbors, who have will be brief. 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Office in Kings Co. rant in East Liberty and later as Kyria Eleni, she taught count - could watch the whales for helped work at the farm stand SSNY designated for service of process and Astoria, New York 11105 shall mail to Reg. Agent: US Corp. Agents, took over as owner of the Mod - less children the Greek lan - hours and bask in the spirit of as a young girl, which would in - Inc, 7014 13th Ave. Ste. 202, Brooklyn, NY (718) 728-8500 ern Café in the North Side, guage, dances and culture. Kiria aloha. They named their cat spire the master gardener in her 11228. Purpose: Any lawful activity. Not affiliated with any which he operated for 20 years. Eleni loved to write and was a Popoki, the Hawaiian word for which she later became. She 274555/18796+ other funeral home. He was also a strong supporter talented poet finding great joy cat. Leisa adored all of her kit - also loved going to school. She of Greek-American progressive in the poems she wrote for vari - ties: Amos, Eroica, Norman, excelled at Port Richmond High associations including, AHEPA, ous occasions. She was a strong Cheever and Buster, and most School, graduating in 1962 and GAPA and KEPA; he was a joy - , intelligent , and worldly recently Koukla. She had a spe - heading to Elmira College in to PlACe your ClASSiFied Ad, CAll: (718) 784-5255, ful, longtime volunteer with the woman who loved teaching , cial fondness for her friends' cats Elmira, New York. She was Pres - ext. 106, e-mAil: classifieds@ thenationalherald.com auxiliary Deputy Sheriffs of Al - Greece and her island of Zakyn - and dogs as well. She also ident of the graduating class of legheny County as well as a thos. She had a deep commit - adored her fabulous godchil - Elmira College in 1966, and has proud 32nd degree Shriner. He ment to the Orthodox faith and dren, Courtney Wood, Emma since loved attending and plan - will be remembered for his no- her family. Helen is survived by Jarnagin, Christopher Marshall ning the elaborate reunions that nonsense personality, irreverent her daughters, granddaughter, and Forrest Troxell; and her the College hosts. The wonder - their success in learning a sec - teered at the Masonicare Café. humor and the love he doted on son in law Kosta, and sister beautiful nieces Stella and ful and everlasting friendships ond language and life. Tributes She used time in retirement to his children and grandchildren. Stella. She passed away peace - Joanna Suhayda and their hand - made at Elmira College were from her former students, family travel to England with David, One of his greatest joys was fully on August 3rd. some brother Gregory. There are something that Eve cherished. and friends can be found on work in her gardens, get to - gathering as many family mem - many other children who were She was most looking forward Eve's Caringbridge website: gether with friends and enjoy bers as he could and treating n CRANE, LEISA special to her, and she got a kick to planning and attending her http://www.caringbridge.org/vi her grandchildren. Together in them to some ice cream and BIDDEFORD POOL, ME (from out of sending them cards and 50th year reunion- to be held sit/evedonigian. Eve looked for - their Sandy Hook home, she good conversation. George is the Portland Press Herald/ presents. She stayed close to next June, 2016. Her alumni ward to retiring, for now she and David hosted large Thanks - survived by his wife, Sofia; his Maine Sunday Telegram, pub - many members of her (and friends said she will have her had the time to do whatever she giving dinners for family and daughters, Irene (Dean) Zotis, lished on Aug.13) – Leisa Crane, Charlie's) extended family, es - own special place at the re - felt like doing! Since retiring, friends, retirement parties for Tammy (Alvin) Backeris, Geor - 55, of New York City and Bid - pecially her Cavoulas cousins. union, as she without a doubt, Eve kept a journal detailing all colleagues, birthday parties, gia (Mike) Tankosich of Pitts - deford Pool, passed away on And while her brother John was will be there in spirit! Upon of her accomplishments, includ - bridal showers and baby show - burgh; his son, Constantine Aug. 11. She was born in Akron, her only biological sibling, she graduation from Elmira College, ing which books she had read, ers. Their home was always the "Dean" (Zoe) Bouzos of Ohio, on Jan. 4, 1960, as Lisa counted many as her soul sis - Eve realized her love of lan - listed year by year, which destination for celebrating with Karpathos, Greece. He will be Beth Suhayda, the younger (and ters, including the Birthday guages. For this reason, she movies she had seen and other Armenian and Greek foods, missed by his many grandchil - cuter) of Joan and Bernie Girls, the Sweet Nellies, the chose to attend Middlebury Col - events she had participated in. friends and love. She is survived dren and great- grandchildren Suhayda's two children. She Wheaties and more. From all of lege in Middlebury, Vermont to She said she loved seeing the by her devoted husband, David, who dearly loved their Pappou added the exotic 'e' to her name us whose lives you touched, we earn her Master's Degree, grad - pages in her retirement journal two loving children, Christina and "Pappou-Pappou." He also in grade school as a tribute to miss you desperately. You are uating in 1968. She had the op - fill up, as it showed the many and Matthew, her son-in-law leaves behind remaining sib - her grandmothers and became and will forever be a tulip. Vis - portunity to travel and live in different things she absolutely Thomas and her daughter-in- lings, Paraskevas and John Leisa. From a very early age iting hours will be from 4PM to Spain multiple times through loved to do and had been wait - law Andrea, as well as her ador - Bouzos in Greece, and Harry Leisa loved to read and visit li - 7PM on Friday, Aug. 14, at Cote the Middlebury Immersion pro - ing to do her entire life. As a ing grandchildren, 2 year old Bouzos and Stamatoula Bellios braries. At one point she read Funeral Home, 87 James St., gram and also met the love of voracious reader, she joined Olivia, 2 year old Michael and here in the U.S. In lieu of flow - every book in the kids' section Saco. The Trisagion prayer ser - her life, David through the same multiple book clubs in New - 7 month old Sophia. Eve is sur - ers, memorial donations may be of the local branch, and the li - vice will take place at 4:30PM. program. Together, they made town, the Newtown Women's vived by her mother, Fannie made to Holy Cross Greek Or - brarian gave her special permis - A funeral service will be held at many wonderful memories and Club, the Philoptochos Women's Chrampanis of Staten Island, thodox Church in Mt. Lebanon sion to borrow books from the 11AM Saturday, Aug. 15, at St. friendships in Spain. David and club- a philanthropic association NY, her sister Georgia Chram - or St. George Greek Orthodox young adult section upstairs. Demetrios Greek Orthodox Eve married on July 26th, 1970 at Assumption Greek Orthodox panis Peterson of Dunellen, NJ Church, Port Richey, FL. She would grow up to get her Church in Saco, with burial at at Saint George Greek Orthodox Church, her advanced Italian and sister Dessie Henion of Masters in Library Science from St. Demetrios Cemetery in Bid - Church in Staten Island, NY. class, volunteered reading to Poughkeepsie, NY, four nieces, n CALOFONOS, HELEN M. Columbia and work in libraries deford immediately after. In ad - Their wedding is remembered toddlers at Newtown Congrega - and one nephew as well as sev - SAN FRANCISCO, CA (from at Wheaton (her alma mater), dition, a celebration of Leisa's by many for the wonderful tional Church and more re - eral cousins, aunts and uncle, Alameda Funeral & Cremation Dartmouth, Harvard, Columbia, life will be held in New York City Greek music and dancing and cently, helped teach Spanish to and her many, many friends. Services online, published on the Princeton Club of NY and at a date this fall to be deter - love. This year, 2015, was their Trinity Church congregants who She is also survived by her de - Aug. 5) ¬– Helen Calofonos was the Biddeford Pool Community mined, and will be webcast live 45th wedding anniversary. Eve's headed to El Salvador this voted rescued granddogs. Wait - born in Skoulikado on the island Club, where she ran the summer for those who cannot attend in love of languages brought her spring. She also ensured that the ing for her in the eternal life are of Zakynthos, Greece. She was reading program for more than person. In honor of her love of on a journey that would inspire residents and patients at Ma - her father Louis Chrampanis, the youngest daughter of Dim - a decade, introducing dozens of books and libraries, Leisa and the lives of many young stu - sonicare in Newtown had the and her in-laws, Harry and Elsie itrios and Angeliki Markesinis kids to the joy of books. Leisa Charlie endowed two libraries dents. She loved teaching and ability to read, starting a pro - Donigian. The Greek Trisagion and grew up with her sister was a writer, too. In high school in Maine, both of which will be looked forward to each new gram where large print books prayer service will take place at Stella and her cousin, John she wrote an essay about her known as Leisa's Place. school year. She began her were part of the reading pro - 5:30PM. Funeral services will Markesinis with whom she was Greek Orthodox faith that won teaching career in Bay Shore, gram there. She also volun - take place at the Assumption very close. Following in her first place in the entire country, n DIMOPOuLOS, NICOLAS E. Long Island, before teaching Greek Orthodox Church, 30 father’s footsteps, she became a the prize for which was a trip to WINTER HAVEN, FL (from the Spanish (and French) as the De - this is a service Clapboard Ridge Road, on teacher. She spent several years the Ionian Village program in Ledger, published on Aug. 13) partment Chair at Wilton High to the community. Thursday, August 13th at teaching children in towns Greece. In college one of her – Mr. Nicolas E. Dimopoulos, 84, School in Wilton, CT for 35 Announcements of deaths 10:30AM, with burial following across Greece. Some of her fond - short stories was published in of Winter Haven passed away years, retiring in 2005. Her pas - may be telephoned to the at Zoar Cemetery, 53 Berkshire an anthology by Ishmael Reed, Wednesday, Aug. 11, in Auburn - sion for languages and appreci - Classified department of Road in Sandy Hook, CT. In lieu and she later worked as a dale, FL. He was born in Tripoli, ation for different cultures the National herald at of flowers, Donations may be days and dates of funerals, writer/researcher on several Greece and moved to Winter would take her to Greece, Spain, (718) 784-5255, made in Eve's name to: Assump - memorials, and other events di - books by Pat Ross. She was a Haven where he owned his own Portugal, France, Russia, Mo - monday through Friday, tion Greek Orthodox Church rectly correspond to the original keen student of the English lan - restaurant. He survived by his rocco, Mexico and South Amer - 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. eSt and/or Regional Hospice of publication date, which appears guage, which came in handy son Elias N. (Jackie) Dimopou - ica. Her students remember her or e-mailed to: Western Connecticut30 Clap - at the beginning of each notice. when she played Words with los of Winter Haven and one for her kind personality, inviting [email protected] board Ridge Road 30 Milestone Friends on her iPad, keeping 30 brother Anthony Dimopoulos of classroom, and her passion for Road Danbury, CT 06810. THE NATIONAL HERALD, AUGUST 22-28, 2015 FEATURE 7

ALL HISTORY Constantine Phaulkon: the Oft-Underappreciated Greek Viceroy of Siam

By Steve Frangos who regularly sailed to the Far bandar, a.k.a. harbormaster. tions were in terms of import Siam. The leader of the anti-for - TNH Staff Writer East. By 1669, the young Greek From the 16th century on, the and export duties and that all eign party was General P’ra P’e - had anglicized his name to Fal - city of Mergui was an important goods had to be bought from traja. When King Narai fell ill, CHICAGO- Since the late 1600s, con. It is said that his shipmates seaport and trading center with the royal warehouses, histori - without an heir to the throne, the life and career of Constan - persuaded him to re-Hellenize the Europeans. It was the duty ans, mostly British historians, P’ra P’etraja seized power. As tine Phaulkon (1647-1688) has his name to Phaulkon. From this of the Shahbandar to be in have claimed that in return part of the General’s overall pro - occupied the attention of nu - point until his death he would charge of all the traders and to Siam received nothing for these gram to rid Siam of foreign in - merous scholars, merchants, sign his name as Constant see to the collection of taxes. concessions. fluences Phaulkon was arrested. and diplomats. Phaulkon was Phaulkon. These appointments were all Yet these same writers all ob - On June 5, 1688, Phaulkon was destined to become the King - In any account of the life and part of Phaulkon’s overall plan serve that King Narai was filled tortured mercilessly with hot dom of Siam’s legendary Greek actions of the man the world to organize all of Siam’s royal with grave misgivings about the irons, flames and nailings. He Chao Phya Wijayendra or Vic - now knows as Constant military actions of the Euro - was subsequently beheaded. torious High Lord. Phaulkon’s Phaulkon we must precede with peans in the Far East. Later Historians always insist that story is one filled with political care. For no account agrees with Siamese diplomatic missions to we must not project our own in - intrigue and some of the most the next about his words, ac - France that aimed at securing dividual values onto the distant significant diplomatic events of tions, or intent. This is due to French troops to garrison forts past. But rather to try and un - his day. But international diplo - the undeniable fact that within Siam clearly indicate that derstand the actions of these macy, in those far-off days, in - Phaulkon bested the Europeans King Narai feared for the safety historic figures from their own cluded more than the mere ne - at every turn. Few if any modern of his kingdom. It is also recog - historical and cultural points of gotiation and signing of legal historical accounts, present the nized that it was Phaulkon who view. A prime example of the documents. Europeans as invaders who succeeded in establishing this cultural blind sidedness we are Little today equals the sheer wanted nothing more than to alliance between Siam and supposed to overlook is Louis pageantry of the massive diplo - make every society and so every France. XIV’s order that the Siamese matic processions typical in people they met their colonial Though he is largely unher - Obviously King Narai and the King be converted to Christian - those first meetings and formal slaves---but that is what took alded today, Constantine extremely able Phaulkon were ity. While I completely support exchanges between Europeans place. Phaulkon was so able in Phaulkon was revered by seeking to pit Western European this view that we must under - and the peoples of Siam. French halting the European mercantile many wise and powerful fig - rivals against each other. As the stand all cultures from their couriers from none other than and military incursion into Siam ures throughout history, not diplomatic efforts of the King own point of view – initially the court of Louis XIV, the Sun that he has been portrayed in least of which France’s King and Phaulkon gradually suc - such a position does not negate King, were to doff their grand- Western historical accounts as a Louis XIV. ceeded the influence and trade the fact that the Europeans were plumed hats to Phaulkon. In villain. Yet Phaulkon began his of the British East India Com - invading and enslaving anyone, turn processions of Siamese time in Siam as an agent of the jayendra, literally Lord Victory. pany progressively came to a everyone they could. That they royal elephants bedecked in English interests. Upon the Minister’s death in virtual standstill. did so because they felt them - golden armor bearing rare gifts In 1678, Phaulkon came to 1682 Phaulkon became the con - As far as converting King selves and their way of life ut - came to meet these first arrivals Siam with the East India Com - troller of Siam’s foreign trade. Narai, de Chaumont failed com - terly superior to any and all oth - from Europe. Gongs, sticks of pany agent Richard Burnaby. It was at this same time that pletely. It has even been sug - ers does not absolve them of incense burning in the doorways Burnaby had been sent from Phaulkon’s potential service to gested that the famous religious hubris. Clearly Phaulkon, White of pagodas, the chanting of Bud - Bantam in Java to revive English the Kingdom of Siam found its trade with India using European arguments between de Chau - and Barnaby all knew that the dhist monks, shrines with gilded trade in Siam. The Greek’s flu - true venue. expertise. In response to these mont and the King of Siam Europeans only wanted to dom - spires and the smells of a thou - ency in English, Greek, Por - Siam’s King P’ra Narai (1633- appointments (and what they never got beyond Phaulkon who inate the Siamese people and all sand exotic cooking spices tuguese, Tai (the official lan - 1688) was seeking an alliance meant in terms of everyday served as translator. De Chau - that was in dispute was who mixed with those streaming guage of Siam), French and with France. It was for his piv - trade with Siam) in 1687 East mont was so fundamentally im - England, France or the Dutch from the surrounding jungle other languages made him an otal role as Siamese diploma India Company officials in mersed in own cultural beliefs would be the ultimate rulers of were all in the young Greek’s ideal person for this commercial from 1682 until 1688 that Madras declared war on Siam. and values that literally com - Siam. future. venture. The only company au - Phaulkon was given the title of This left Phaulkon little alterna - manding King Narai to re - So, while historians have la - While Phaulkon never set thorized by the British govern - Chao P’ya Wijayendra. But it is tive but to enlist the support of nounce his religion never struck beled Phaulkon as an “adven - foot on the Western Hemi - ment to carry on trade in the this same loyalty and skill in in - Louis XIV of France. him as the gravest form of in - turer” few present the actions sphere, his complicated and ro - Far East, during this period, was ternational diplomacy that In September 1685, Cheva - sult. of say the East India Company mantic story deserves the atten - the East India Company. Any earned Phaulkon the enduring lier de Chaumont (1640-1710) In 1687, French envoys as an extremely vicious mer - tion of Greeks throughout the other companies or individuals hatred of many a European headed the first French diplo - brought with them a patent of chant-army bound for plunder Diaspora. For if Greeks are ever attempting to trade in this re - writer, especially the British. matic mission to Siam, estab - nobility for Constantine and nothing more. By their ac - to reclaim and so rewrite their gion were termed, by the Simply put Phaulkon paid no lishing an embassy upon his ar - Phaulkon. The middle-aged tions alone we can easily see own history, they must consider British, as interlopers. These dis - attention to the British East In - rival. Louis XIV, himself, Greek who had been forced to that whatever the English Sea the lives and careers of persons tinctions carried far more dia Company’s claim to monop - chartered de Chaumont with the leave his family for a life at sea dogs wanted they simply took. such as Constantine Phaulkon. weight in the 1600s than is eas - olize trade in Siam. Phaulkon’s task of establishing full diplo - became a count of France and a Diplomacy and treaties were Phaulkon was born on Kefal - ily appreciated or understood policy of encouraging interlop - matic and trade relations with knight of the Order of St only the exterior niceties of un - lonia in the town of Argostoli. today. ers led to constant disputes. As Siam and to convert King P’ra Michael. Along with these titles wanted economic invasion and The regular presence of English In 1680, Phaulkon was en - these disputes grew in severity Narai to Christianity! were sent many valuable gifts servitude. ships led young Phaulkon, gaged by the Siamese as their Phaulkon hired two especially In the first task de Chaumont by both King Louis XIV and Pope Yet to this day that is not the somewhere between the ages of P’ra K’lang or Minister of the disenfranchised former employ - succeeded completely. By a con - Innocent XI. This must have history of Siam and Phaulkon’s 10 and 14, to a life at sea. Ac - Treasury as a translator. In less ees of this British trading firm, vention signed on December 19, been the high point of considerable role in those events counts are vague about his for - than two years Phaulkon had Samuel White and Richard 1685, the Companie Royale des Phaulkon’s career. that is portrayed. One can only mative years but during the next made himself indispensable to Burnaby. In 1683, Burnaby was Indes Orientales gained com - An anti-foreign party had ask, why? ten years the Greek youth the Minister and so received appointed Siamese Governor of plete liberty of commerce within grown steadily among the no - worked for English merchants from him the title of Lang Wi - Mergui and White as the Shah - Siam. The only notable excep - bility and common people of [email protected] Recollecting Pre-Invasion Cyprus

PITTSBURGH, PA – [Earlier this sion stand in the soccer stadium, Greek life is a community life. summer, Cypriot-born, knew his son’s best hope for a Before he knew it, he was Pennsylvania-raised Mike better future lay elsewhere. So teaching Greek during the Kritiotis was the topic of a feature after the teenager completed his evening, putting together Greek article in the Pittsburgh Post- two years of mandatory military movie nights in the library and Gazette, chronicling his saga of service after high school, Aga - hauling his kids to dance class. sudden emigration from Cyprus pios sent Mike to live with his Julie got involved, too, cooking at age 10, following the Turkish uncle, who by then owned for festivals and doing outreach. invasion in 1974. The article, Lefty’s Dairy Bar and Lun - Mike now is the church’s am - titled “Odysseys: Long Since cheonette in a faraway city bassador for FOCUS Pittsburgh, Leaving Cyprus, He Still Values called Latrobe. a faith-based nonprofit dedi - Greek Roots,” follows.] The youngest brother of cated to serving the poor. Mike’s mother, Maria, Lefty had In the United States, Mike Up until age 10, Mike Kritio - returned to the Westmoreland said, it’s so easy to make friends tis led a fairly charmed life in County city after a stint in the and feel optimistic. Paphos, an idyllic city on army to attend nearby Saint Vin - “Americans feel like nothing Cyprus’ western coast that’s cent College. Now married to is impossible,” he said. known for its white-pebble an American, he was in the Back in Cyprus, Mike noted, beaches, baby-blue skies and fa - process of becoming an Ameri - people are still crying about the bled past. Aphrodite, the Greek can citizen. invasion. “But you have to look goddess of love and beauty, is Cyprus was not yet back on ahead … . Here, it’s not what said to have been born there. its feet, so for Mike, who wanted you’ve done, but what can you The Tobacco The oldest of three children of to be an accountant, it made do next. You can look forward Museum in Kavala a successful entrepreneur, Mike sense to follow in his uncle’s to making your own future.” showcases the little- played, fished and shot marbles footsteps. That said, he misses the known history of with the Turkish boys who shared In his new home, he met homemade halloumi cheese he Greece’s once- his village of 5,000, even though, Julie, a friend of Lefty’s wife, at grew up with and a rubbery booming tobacco like a majority of islanders, he a wedding in Washington, D.C. grape-jelly licorice called industry. was of Greek descent. They married two weeks after shoushouko. So he makes a America was something he he graduated from Saint Vincent point of visiting his parents and thought about only when he in 1984. younger sisters, who still live in went to the movies. “Pittsburgh” The newlyweds settled in Cyprus, as often as he can. His was nothing more than the Pittsburgh’s Brighton Heights son, Marios, now 28, and 26- pretty front of a postcard his Un - neighborhood and had two chil - year-old daughter, Vicki, go, too. cle Lefteris — known as Lefty dren. Mike began a career that “I have the best of both — posted after he left Cyprus to eventually focused on health worlds,” Mike says. “I come become an exchange student at care accounting. He landed at from a culture that’s 10,000 Ligonier Valley High School. St. Clair hospital 2½ years ago. years old and can show my kids Then in 1974, Turkey in - Along the way, the couple where St. Paul walked. But I live vaded northern Cyprus. forged a lasting relationship in the best country in the mod - Turkish officials initially de - with Holy Trinity Greek Ortho - ern world. It’s cool.” scribed the invasion as a “simple dox Church in the North Hills. It might even have been des - peace operation” aimed at The goal at first, Mike said, tined. That postcard Lefty sent restoring the status quo after a was to stay connected to his cul - so long ago? It pictured Mellon coup d’etat in which Greek junta ture, as he had started not to Square during Renaissance I. overthrew the Cyprus govern - speak the Greek language. He “Mellon” in Greek, Mike points ment. Then came demands for was quickly reminded that the out, means “future.” territorial changes on a “take it or leave it basis,” after which Turkey attacked again. In the bloody fight that fol - lowed, tens of thousands of Greek Cypriots were forced from their homes as Turkish Greece’s Forgotten Lucrative Tobacco Era forces took control of just over a third of the island. While his small village wasn’t Continued from page 1 sections including cultivation, logical innovation, and even invaded, Mike remembers the manufacturing, trade, and gender and women’s working terror of low-flying Turkish air - Kavala ceased to exist. more, showcasing a number of history, as the companies at craft buzzing the island. He and Though now long gone, the historical items including hand - some point banned unionized his two younger sisters cowered Greek tobacco industry’s rich crafted wooden machinery, rare men, preferring women instead. in ditches for a week, trying to past is today celebrated at the documents, furniture, artwork, You can learn all this and more avoid the planes, “waiting to see Tobacco Museum of Kavala. memorabilia, posters, vintage with a visit to the Tobacco Mu - what would happen.” Unique in itself, the history of smoke boxes, and black and seum of Kavala. When hostilities ended a few Kavala’s Tobacco Museum dates white photos of key industry And while in the city, you can weeks after they had begun, back before 2003 when it was players. journey through the world of most of his Turkish friends had officially opened to the public. Among most interesting Greek tobacco culture, visit the moved north, while his Greek It is hosted in a small section of things to see during your visit landmark buildings of the city’s relatives in the north were an impressive historical building here are the tools and tricks of historical tobacco warehouses forced south. And the beautiful which formerly housed the the trade, and if you’re lucky, and admire the Austro-Hungar - isle that Cypriot poet Leonidas Greek Tobacco Organization you may catch a live show and ian architectural gems that add Malenis described as “the green- that served as a tobacco show - see how smoke is made. a special touch to Kavala. golden leaf thrown in the sea” room since the 1970s. The history of the Kavala to - For more information on the was changed forever. For the first 10 years of his like, Mike Kritiotis grew up in The museum’s exhibit area is bacco industry goes beyond Tobacco Museum of Kavala, visit Mike’s father, Agapios, who beautiful, idyllic Paphos. Then, the Turkish invasion changed separated into seven themed trade, from politics, to techno - tobaccomuseum.gr. owned a restaurant and conces - everything. 8 GREECE THE NATIONAL HERALD, AUGUST 22-28, 2015 Schaeuble: “Greece Must Take Medicine; Krugman Doesn’t Know EU”

TNH Staff cessfully stabilized the Eurozone. addressed, step by step. And by But they never have an answer. TAKE MEDICINE AS the way, that worked in all crisis “We have to again generate HAMBURG, GERMANY – In an PRESCRIBED countries, just not in Greece.” more faith in the euro -- not just interview with Spiegel, German “For the most part,” Schaeuble But didn’t Ireland, Portugal, on the financial markets, but also Finance Minister Wolfgang said, “the elements of the new and Spain suffer? And isn’t among the populace. We also Schaeuble blamed the govern - program were agreed to back in Greece still suffering? have to strengthen regulations ment of Greece for the fact that 2010. They were just never im - “I am not claiming that every - pertaining to healthy state fi - “the country’s economy lies in ru - plemented, unfortunately. Thus thing is easy,” Schaeuble quali - nances and ensure that they are ins” but also said a new bailout far, the Greek economy and soci - fied. “But you have to start with adhered to. To do so, we must program was needed because ety have hardly developed in the the restructuring and carry it change the European treaties in “we cannot abandon the people desired direction. What has dra - through to the end. Those coun - the medium term, which is diffi - of Greece.” matically changed since the be - tries did that. Since the 1990s, cult. Many shy away from doing KRUGMAN DOESN’T ginning of the year, however, is Baltic countries and countries in so because they are afraid that UNDERSTAND the need for additional financing. Central Europe have also been further steps toward integration A third bailout – the latest it - According to the most conserva - remarkably successful. We in the would be rejected by their people eration agreed to by Greek Prime tive estimates, that need is now or parliaments. Minister Alexis Tsipras, the Greek at least €80 billion. For many “We are currently seeing that Parliament, and the Eurogroup a people, that is an unimaginable a currency union without politi - few days ago – has been chided sum…Previously, Tsipras rejected cal union cannot function with - by noted economist Paul Krug - a similar program and then he out complications. So we have to man as “pure vindictiveness” and campaigned for a "no" in the ref - move further toward establishing “ a complete destruction of na - erendum, a position that a large a political union, for example by tional sovereignty.” But Schaeu - majority supported. Now he strengthening the European ble does not agree with that as - wants to do the opposite of what Commission and the European sessment. Instead, he told Spiegel he once supported. One can in - Parliament. But that means that Krugman is an expert on trade, German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble says Greece deed be doubtful. But for now, I member states must give up even but has “no idea about the archi - must take his medicine, but doesn’t think the Greek people trust the assurances of Mr. more sovereignty. They have al - tecture and foundation of the Eu - should be abandoned. Tsipras, as is only fair. He has ready taken this step when it ropean currency union. In con - promised to implement the pro - comes to monetary policy, but are trast to the United States, there why didn’t Germany take that “There is no German domi - gram even though he doesn't be - they also prepared to transfer fi - is no central government in Eu - into consideration? “It isn't un - nance,” he flatly told Spiegel. He lieve in it. So, we'll see. nancial policy competencies, for rope and all 19 members of the usual for the positions of France pointed out that while “Germany “The problem is that for the example, to the European level? Eurozone must come to an agree - and Germany to not be com - is in a good position economi - last five years the medicine has Many have a problem with that. ment. It appears Mr. Krugman is pletely consistent, Schaeuble cally…in contrast to France and not been taken as prescribed. “I [like French President unaware of that.” said. “It is also sometimes the Great Britain, Germany is not a That's why it is now important François Hollande] am also in fa - Schaeuble added: “We never case that my wife and I aren't en - member of the United Nations that those measures agreed to vor of a Eurozone finance minis - said that Greece should leave the tirely of the same opinion. We Security Council. For that reason long ago are now implemented. Paul Krugman (seen here) ter, but to install one, the Euro - Eurozone. We only called atten - aren't even married to France, alone, you cannot talk about be - In December, the troika made may be an expert on trade, pean treaties must be amended tion to the possibility that Athens but Germany and France never - ing in a position of political su - clear that Greece still hasn't tack - but Schaeuble says he has “no first. I was pleased to hear from itself can decide on taking a time - theless overcame their differ - premacy. led 15 important reforms. That idea about the architecture President Hollande that France out. Debt relief is not possible ences in the end. Without Ger - Schaeuble added that “what must finally change.” and foundation of the Euro - is now prepared to do so.” within the currency union. Euro - many and France, it doesn't is important is the fact that many EU BETTER THAN ITS pean currency union.” Schaeuble says he is happy pean treaties do not allow it. work. That is what matters.” Euro countries have now left the SNUBBERS with increased integration, “but A total of 15 of the 18 mem - NO GERMAN DOMINANCE emergency aid program and have Spiegel pointed out that many euro zone are on a real path to I am also aware that the experi - ber nations backed Germany’s Schaeuble dismissed the no - experienced a positive economic contend the reforms, which in - success, and it is much more sus - ences of recent years have not position regarding Greece’s diffi - tion – which people all across Eu - development: Portugal, Ireland, clude additional austerity, are tainable than it is, for example, made it easier to advocate for culties to meet its June 30 pay - rope are discussing – that Ger - Spain, even Cyprus. Even Greece simply too much for Greece to in many developing economies. more Europe. Still, I'm not giving ment, with Cyprus, France and many is planning a new type of had gained traction by the end handle. The decision-making process in up. I am a realist, which is why I Italy disagreeing. The latter two “German dominance” on the con - of last year, such that we can ac - “I see things differently,” Europe is much more compli - am unable to assert that we can are founding EU members, so tinent. curately say today: We have suc - Schaeuble replied. “In 2009, cated than it is in any nation only save the euro if we amend Greece had a budget deficit of 15 state, yet the Eurozone – aside the treaties. We may have to do percent and a current accounts from Greece – is in much better without. What is essential is that deficit of the same magnitude. shape than many countries that rules are followed and enforced. Both indicators show that the sometimes wrinkle their noses at But when we do that, then we country was living beyond its us. are accused of establishing a pro - THE HERALD SQUARE means and that there was a sig - “European unity is never easy. tectorate or abolishing democ - nificant need for reform. Greece It is true that Europe is cumber - racy. That is all nonsense.” TNH's Crossword Challenge is still paying for a public admin - some, bureaucratic and compli - GREXIT: NO COMMENT istration that is among the lead - cated. I hear that all the time, Spiegel asked Schaeuble point ers in Europe in terms of the ratio particularly in America. I respond blank: “do you think a Grexit re - 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 of its cost to economi c output. by asking the critics whether they mains a possibility?” to which he The country has pension expen - have a better idea for bringing chuckled and replied: everything ditures that are far above Euro - together 28 countries that fought that needs to be said about that 14 15 16 pean sta ndards. That ha s to be against each other for centuries. has already been said.” 17 18 19 Fr om our Website’s Food Section 20 21 22 23 24

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THE NATIONAL HERALD, AUGUST 22-28, 2015 GREECE CYPRUS 9 The TEMerity to Circumvent the Euro: the Alternative Money of Volos

By Constantinos E. Scaros pay buy food at the local grocer cided to fight the economic who accepts it. downturn by printing its own Tired of languishing like a TEM is not the only alterna - money. Economists called the puppet on a string, waiting to tive currency system in Greece, result a miracle: Employment hear the latest news of the day but is certainly one of the boomed, while inflation re - about a Grexit versus a Gre - longest-running operations mained subdued. During the mainder? Whether to rush to since the Greek crisis, and one economic depression that struck the bank to withdraw your small of the most popular ones. Argentina in 1998 and lasted till fortune, 50 euros at a time? TEM’s official website, 2002, people formed barter net - Whether to dig out those www.tem-magnisia.gr, provides works and several provinces in - drachma relics from the shoe - you with everything you’ll need troduced their own currencies.” box in your closet, because they to know about the system, and Spain, Italy, Portugal, and even will be Greece’s currency of even has space for posting ads Germany and France, used alter - choice once again? about services rendered, or native currencies when the finan - That may be the case in most wanted. The only catch – it’s cial crisis hit virtually the entire of Greece, but the people of Vo - 100% in Greek. If you’re not flu - European continent in 2008. los have taken matters into their ent in Greek, you’re out of luck. The alternate currencies own hands. As the Wall Street The Journal points out the have their limitations: The use Journal recently reported, it’s sense of community alternative of TEM, for example is restricted TEM time. currencies like TEM provide. Be - to those people and local busi - TEM stands for Topiki Enal - cause of their local nature, the nesses that choose to accept lakti Monada – Local Alternative transactions are more akin to a them, and won’t directly help Unit, and is used as an alterna - neighborhood feel rather than people struggling to meet their tive currency by cash-strapped an impersonal, technological monthly utility bills. Greeks. A food market in Greece that accepts TEM as payment. Alternative money systems are sprouting transaction – such as buying a Although TEM has its limita - There are about 1000 regis - in various areas of the country. waffle iron online from Amazon. tions – such as, it cannot help tered TEM users in Volos, the HISTORIC SUCCESS those without money to begin Journal reported. Founded in apartment rentals, even haircuts. cant, as there is no credit system ment for a service rendered – The Journal describes an al - with, to pay their bills – it serves 2010, the system includes nu - TEM BASICS – i.e., spending money you don’t such as, repairing a leaky roof ternative success story in Aus - an important need for many merous local businesses that use Here’s how it works: you es - really have, as is prevalent or filling a tooth cavity. Now, tria, “during a in the 1930s dur - who use it, and obviates the ab - TEM to sell goods and services, tablish an online account, which throughout the Greek economy. your account has some TEM in ing the Great Depression, when solute dependency on Greece’s including food, medical care, begins at zero. This is signifi - Then, you accept TEM as pay - it, which you can then use to the Austrian town of Wörgl de - “euro vs. drachma” drama.

AP Photo/AlexANder ZemliANiCheNko AP Photo/PetroS GiANNAkouriS Greece rescues hundreds of migrants off Aegean islands Thousands of migrants reached Greece's main port on Thursday with more than 160,000 arriving since January. In a bid to migrants as they started shouting while waiting to be registered in their quest to reach the safety of Europe. Greece has been ease the overcrowding on the islands, the government char - near a police station at the island of Kos, Aug. 19. RIGHT: Syr - overwhelmed this year by record numbers of migrants reaching tered a ferry that transported about 2,500 migrants to the port ian Refugees come out from a ferry carrying about 2,500 mi - its Aegean islands clandestinely from the nearby Turkish coast, of Piraeus. LEFT: Greek raiot policemen chase away Pakistani grants from Greek islands to the port of Piraeus , on Aug. 20. Greece is Bailed out Yet Again, and Prime Min. Tsipras Plans Early Elections

ATHENS – With money coming In the last vote, 43 of Accepting the conditions was tached to Greece's two previous Dombrovskis said in an interview italize Greek banks who may in from a bailout he didn't want, SYRIZA's 149 Members of Parlia - a major reversal of policy for bailouts. with the news agency soon need another 15 billion eu - Greek Prime Minister Alexis ment defied their leader and got Tsipras and the coalition govern - But he has said accepting Bloomberg. ros ($16.55 billion) as they are Tsipras is planning to hold early away with it. Former energy min - ment between his radical left creditor demands for yet more Greeks have yanked out awash in bad loans as people elections, months after winning ister Panagiotis Lafazanis is also SYRIZA party and the small na - reforms was the only way to en - scores of billions of euros from buried by austerity measures snap polls. leading an anti-austerity move - tionalist Independent Greeks. sure his country remains in the banks which are still under capi - can't pay what they owe. Tsipras also wants to shed his ment but hasn't said whether he'll Eurozone, which opinion polls tal controls and the European Cypriots with accounts of Radical Left SYRIZA party of dis - do so within SYRIZA or form a have shown the vast majority of Union wants to give them guar - more than 100,000 euros sidents who accused him of be - new party to oppose Tsipras. The EU wants to his population wants. antees they won't lose money – ($110,400) lost 47.5 percent of traying its principles by bowing Tsipras is reportedly consider - assure Greeks that Hardliners within his party as Cypriots did two years ago – if their money to pay for mistakes to demands for more austerity he ing another SYRIZA congress to they won’t lose their have accused him of capitulating the government and banks are the banks made. No bank man - had campaigned against ahead resolve differences with the to unreasonable demands that allowed to confiscate big chunk agers were held accountable de - of the Jan. 25 elections. rebels although one earlier this money in the bank. will plunge the Greek economy of accounts. spite promises by Cypriot Presi - He said he had no choice but month just created more rancor. further into recession. The condition is part of a com - dent Nicos Anastasiades – who to renege on promises to get in - Skourletis said Tsipras should Tsipras has been contemplat - NO BANK BAIL-IN BAILOUT ing bailout of 86 billion euros reneged on promises to bar bank ternational aid and keep Greece move faster. "I would say elec - ing his options after a Parliament The European Commission ($95 billion) in a third rescue raids – that they would. in the Eurozone, repeating what tions first, then the party con - vote to approve the bailout con - has reiterated that faltering package for Greece even though If the banks are recapitalized, previous premiers had said, and gress," he said. ditions led to dozens of his own Greek banks won't be allowed to the first two bailouts of 240 bil - the EU could apply new bail-in for which he blamed them for ANOTHER RESCUE PACKAGE party lawmakers voting against raid bank accounts and that se - lion euros ($264.84 billion) rules that determine investor selling out the country. Greece got the first 13 billion- him. nior bondholders will have to failed to reduce the country's losses. Under the terms of the With polls showing he'll easily euro ($14.5 billion) payment of The government has said its take any hits and pick up the tab. staggering debt, now at about Greek bailout, senior bondhold - win again despite breaking his its new bailout Aug. 20, with 12 main priority was to secure the “The principle of bail-in is be - 352.8 billion euros ($389.31 bil - ers would immediately be in line promises, the Premier also is anx - billion euros earmarked for re - bailout funding and the repay - ing applied so that it’s not tax - lion). for losses. ious to get a mandate from voters paying debts and the remainder ment of the ECB loan on Aug. 20 payers which are first in line to The government hopes to Uninsured depositors would before the next round of harsh for settling arrears to public sec - before deciding what to do about pay for banking sector problems, quickly get 26 billion euros be protected until the EU’s Bank austerity measures set in. tor suppliers. elections. Tsipras won Jan.25 but it’s actually the shareholders ($28.69 billion) from the new Recovery and Resolution Direc - He's getting advice that the Athens was using the funds to elections on promises to repeal and bondholders of the banks,” bailout but 10 billion euros tive rules go into effect on Jan. polls should be soon, perhaps in repay a 3.2 billion euro ($3.5 bil - similar austerity measures at - Commission Vice President Valdis ($11.04 billion) will go to recap - 1, the EU official said. September, while others are urg - lion) debt installment due Aug. ing him to wait until October so 20 to the European Central Bank he can institute demanded re - — an amount it could not have forms, the newspaper afforded to repay without the Kathimerini said. bailout from 18 other European Reopening of Church on Turkish Side Gives Cyprus Hope Energy Minister Panos Sk - nations that share the euro cur - ourletis, a close Tsipras adviser, rency with Greece. said he thinks the government European bailout fund super - The Church of Panagia gether for religious freedom, hu - must move quickly to resolve the visors approved the release the Galakdodrofousas in Palekythro, man rights and peace, with the rift within SYRIZA over the third night of Aug. 19. in the Turkish northern part of support of the Embassy of Swe - bailout. Without the rescue loans — Cyprus, has reopened after 41 den. "The political landscape must Greece's third bailout in little years as hope rises the island "We are grateful to the Office clear up. We need to know more than five years — the coun - will be reunified again. of the Religious Track for their whether the government has or try would have defaulted on its The World Council of role in today's worship and their does not have a majority," he told debts and faced being forced out Churches (WCC) hailed the constant facilitation of the reli - state TV channel ERT. of the Eurozone. opening of the church in the gious leader's dialogue for Tsipras got the bailout The new three-year bailout is Turkish sector of the divided is - peace," said Porfyrios. through Parliament only with the worth 86 billion euros ($95.6 bil - land where Islam has domi - The WCC said in its state - support of opposition parties, lion), and the disbursement of nated for four decades as "an ment that along with its who said they wanted to keep funds is dependent on the Greek important sign of peace and rec - churches in Cyprus it has long Greece in the Eurozone at any government implementing a se - onciliation," the Ecumenical been engaged in promoting di - cost but he can't rely on them on ries of reforms, including steep News reported. alogue between Turkish Cypriot other issues. tax hikes and spending cuts. The church opened its doors and Greek Cypriot leaders, as to worshippers on August 16, well as reunification of the is - the Office of the Religious Track Cypriot peer Mustafa Akinci be - The liturgy celebrated by land and its people. of the Cyprus Peace Process, un - gan meeting in May to try to Bishop Porfyrios of Neapolis on In May, the WCC issued a der the auspices of the Embassy settle differences and reunify Aug. 16 gathered some 400 statement welcoming the re - IMF’s Noticeable Absence of Sweden said in a statement. the island and have made a worshippers from the village of sumption of peace talks on Imam Fuat Tosun brought number of small concessions to Palekythro. Cyprus. greetings of peace from the each other. Imam Tosun, the regional Tveit called for prayers in From Greece’s Debt Deal mufti of Cyprus and welcomed Cyprusin 2014 was called "a mufti of Kyrenia, represented support of dialogue to "find a Christian worshippers in Greek station for the pilgrimage of jus - Dr. Talip Atalay, mufti of Cyprus. way to overcome previous an - at a Sunday service on Aug 16. tice and peace" by WCC General Salpy Eskidjian Weiderud tagonisms and disappointments, Continued from page 1 Greece saga said the lenders "God will help both Chris - Secretary Rev. Olav Fykse Tveit. represented the Office of the Re - and shape an undivided and were eager to make Greeks and tians and Muslims to work to - Since the Turkish invasion of ligious Track of the Cyprus peaceful future for the people tax increases in shipping and not bondholders take the hit gether to achieve peace in Cyprus in 1974 partitioned the Peace Process. of Cyprus.” tourism, and says nothing about and pay the price and should Cyprus and we should continue island, the northern third has Bishop Porfyrios brought The WCC brings together debt relief. have realized with the first loan our joint efforts in this regard," been inhabited by Turkish Cypri - thanks from Archbishop more than 500 million Chris - “This is old wine in a new in 2010 the country couldn't the Muslim cleric said. ots and the southern two-thirds Chrysostomos II of the Church tians worldwide representing bottle,” Meghan E. Greene, chief make it no matter how much The Church of Panagia ((Vir - by Greek Cypriots. of Cyprus to the mufti for his Anglican, Orthodox and Protes - economist at Manulife in Boston money was poured in and how gin Mary), built in 1896, had Decades of talks have gone personal attention and interven - tant Christians from many tra - told the paper. “I see very little much austerity was imposed. been closed for worship from nowhere, leaving some appre - tion in favor of Sunday worship ditions and denominations. chance that the bailout will suc - “The fund should have 1974 after Turkey invaded the hension that this round could that had been rejected by the The Roman Catholic Church ceed — it’s too much like the pushed for a restructuring island and as it still occupies the also fail despite a good start. Turkish Cypriot authorities in is not a member of the WCC but other ones.” then,” she said. “That, after all, northern third despite interna - Even Akinci warned that unless earlier years. it cooperates it at many levels Susan Schadler, a former IMF is its job — to assess the risks tional condemnation. a final deal is reached by May "The religious leaders of with the Geneva-based Christian economist and author of a and say whether or not the debt With Cypriot President Nicos of 2016 that Cyprus will fall into Cyprus are committed to con - grouping and serves on some its widely read paper on the fund’s is sustainable.” Anastasiades and his Turkish- a kind of permanent lethargy. tinue to dialogue and work to - committees. 10 EDITORIALS LETTERS THE NATIONAL HERALD, AUGUST 22-28, 2015

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By Dan Georgakas and the Agora, the original marketplace of ideas, Rest assured, anything we write here are Your Country Needs You, Joe Constantinos E. Scaros and we, their modern-day descendants, aspire our sincere, heartfelt thoughts. to continue that tradition. We will share them with you every two From time to time, an issue emerges and We respect one another’s opinion very much, weeks. We hope you enjoy them, and we look As it turns out, Donald Trump did not plummet like a meteor, inspires various minds to converge, often at but often times we will disagree on particular forward to your taking part in the discussion as many of us had hoped. odds with one another, to discuss it. Hopefully, issues. We would never fabricate a difference as well – by contributing letters to the editor in Despite the numerous unacceptable comments he makes – collective enlightenment will result from such of opinion for the sake of writing an interesting response, and/or commenting on our website: such as about illegal aliens – his popularity rises rather than falls. conversations. The Ancient Greeks did that in column. www.thenationalherald.com On the other hand, candidates like Jeb Bush, the perennial Republican frontrunner, have faded ever since the GOP’s first prime-time debate a couple of weeks ago. It is becoming increasingly evident that Mr. Trump has the Rape and Incest Exceptions: Relevant to Abortion Issue? skills – political and otherwise – to articulate points of view es - poused by Republican voters and candidates, in a particularly authentic manner, to say things plainly as he sees them, and ex - SCAROS PRESENTS HIS If the answer to whether a fe - of our bodies. The obvious dif - was probably the most horrible press them as the words come into his head – without filtering POINT OF VIEW tus is a life is “no,” then how ference is that in a period of moment of their life. The child for tone. Dan, as the 2016 presidential would performing an abortion about nine months the fertilized suffers similarly and society is But something similar is happening on the Democratic side of race has turned up a notch, with be any different than wearing a egg has the potential to evolve often hostile. the house: frontrunner Hillary Clinton has seen her support cut the advent of the GOP debates, condom? into an infant human being. The A rarely-discussed aspect of in half, with Senator Bernie Sanders surging, now exceeding the candidates in both major “Ahh, but in that case, the question of abortion involves the divine sacredness of human 30%. parties fall all over themselves egg has not been fertilized yet,” what rights the evolving egg pos - life so often evoked by anti-abor - Politically, Messrs. Trump and Sanders couldn’t be more dif - trying to make sure the voters someone might say, which again, sesses and who speaks for it? tionists is the large number of ferent, except that like Trump, Sanders also sticks to his positions know exactly how they feel makes the argument that the fe - Third parties who oppose miscarriages. Did all these lost rather than basing them on the latest poll, dares to support un - about abortion. tus is a life. abortion invariably posit that at embryos also have souls? How orthodox points of view, and resonates very well with the in - Democrats, of course, want So, it boils down to this: the moment of fertilization or could the soul-creating Creator creasingly important voting block of millennials. to ensure their base that abor - whether life begins at concep - shortly thereafter, the new life have been so careless in con - Just like in Greece, the voters in America are entirely dissatis - tions should be “safe, legal, and tion, one month, three months, form acquires an immortal soul. structing the human body? This fied with business as usual. That’s why other political outsiders, rare,” (wink-wink on that last five months, or not until the The faithful take it as their moral is a matter for theologians to like Dr. Ben Carson (a neurosurgeon) and Carly Fiorina (former part), whereas Republicans in - baby is delivered, it begins at obligation to protect that soul ponder, but anti-abortionists CEO of Hewlett-Packard) have done so well in the polls. voke the “Supreme Court doesn’t some point. And at that point, from destruction and they often should be less absolutist in their Granted, it is still very early. change God’s laws” doctrine – its rights to exist supersede those evoke the power of the secular assertion that they are fulfilling A lot can change between now and November, 2016. which they most recently used of anyone trying to kill it (with state to enforce their faith. Divine will. But the message emitted by support for Trump and Sanders is regarding same-sex marriage, an exception that I will address The Orthodox faithful and clear: there is widespread dissatisfaction with the status quo. and apply liberally (pardon the momentarily). zealot priests would do well to That is why we need another candidate, because ultimately it irony) to whatever suits them at Therefore, the rape and in - keep in mind the counsel of is very doubtful whether either Trump or Sanders can win the any given moment. cest exceptions do not apply, Archbishop Iakovos. He urged general election. The current GOP crop ranges because, just like a woman priests to try to convince a That candidate, in our view, is Vice President Joe Biden. If he in its views on abortion, with may not legally kill a three- woman seeking abortion decides to enter the fray, he has the ability to win the Democratic some candidates disagreeing month-old baby because that it was sinful. If they nomination, and enough crossover appeal to win the general about the three main exceptions she is annoyed by it, nei - failed, the sin fell on election. VP Biden possess the political experience and knowledge – the three instances in which ther can she kill it be - the Church. More im - necessary to lead the nation. they would allow abortion: rape, cause it was the prod - portantly, the Church And even though Biden is a career politician, his modesty, hu - incest, and the life of the mother. uct of rape or incest. should embrace the mility, and approachability resonates with the average voter. My argument is that the rape And if that fetus is in woman more dearly Moreover, the dignity with which he handled two family tragedies and incest exceptions are ridicu - fact a “life,” then she than ever rather at different stages of his life – Biden’s first wife, Noelia and lous, because they ignore the cannot kill it in the than haranguing or daughter Naomi were killed in 1972; his oldest son, Beau, died crux of the abortion debate to womb, either. ostracizing her. earlier this year – has further endeared him to the American begin with. I turn, then, to the The formal anti- people. First, let’s take sex and femi - exception when taking abortion movement Lastly, but not at all insignificantly, Joe Biden has proven to nism out of the equation. That’s another person’s life is has shaped a cruel be a true supporter of our Greek-American community. hard to do, because too many legal: self-defense. In and heartless di - There is a good amount of talk that he is currently mulling people on either side don’t give another gruesome exam - chotomy that pits a over whether or not to run for president. In fact, it may be more a hoot about either the pregnant ple, where, let’s say, a 30- wayward woman against than just talk, because some say that one of Beau’s last wishes woman’s right to choose, or year-old man tries to kill his an innocent soul. Extrem - was for his father to enter the race. about the life of the unborn mom or dad, the parent has a ists have employed violence We hope he decides yes. baby, and instead want to use legal right to kill the child in self- at times, including the murder their pro-life stance to wage war defense. Similarly, if a fetus’ ex - of physicians, If the goal truly is on casual sex (“if they can’t have istence poses a viable threat to a more loving humanity, anti- Tsipras’ Problems & Dilemmas abortions, they’ll think twice be - the life of the mother, then in For nine months, the devel - abortionists would be more fore those one-night stands”), or self-defense, the mother should oping human is totally depen - credible if they addressed the is - their pro-choice position to have a legal right to abort that dent on the life of the woman in sues that lead to abortion and Greece’s Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras doesn’t look very well sound the trumpet for feminism child. which it is growing. If the the long-term needs of any un - these days. (“no man can write a law about Mind you, in both cases (the mother smokes or drinks alco - wanted child. This requires a After that historic July 13 meeting in Brussels, where the what a woman can do with her 30-year-old and the fetus) the hol, the embryo is affected. If commitment to provide reliable fate of Greece via an unusual U-turn was determined, he has body”). parents can make the conscious the mother is undernourished, public or private support that become a different man. With those two hidden agen - decision to allow themselves to the embryo is undernourished. may last for nearly two decades. He looks melancholic, cheerless, despondent. Less prevalent das cast aside, the issue be - be killed by their offspring rather The list of behaviors by mothers Anything less is irresponsible on the scene. comes: which right is superior, than to kill them instead. But, that can adversely affect the self-righteousness. He holds his head as if it hurts him, as if he is suffering. the right of the unborn baby to should they choose the latter, it growing embryo is vast. Do The issue of the right to abor - Granted, the weight he bears on his shoulders is not a light live, or the right of its mother to is – and should be – their legal those who oppose abortion also tion is less one of the rights of a one. His world, both personal and political, seems to be col - decide that it won’t live? right. propose to regulate the behavior fetus versus the rights of a lapsing. The theories on which he rose to political power and This question speaks to the Without taking a stand in this of mothers? mother and more the rights of stardom have failed him. His political allies are now his rivals. second issue: is that unborn particular segment about A newborn infant cannot self-appointed third parties to Seemingly overnight, he went from railing against the polit - baby a “life”? whether abortion should be le - even feed itself and full maturity speak for the fetus. Given that ical establishment to supporting it. Surely this transformation To illustrate, consider the gal or illegal, I conclude that to will not occur for nearly two the issue involves religious doc - must bother him. He contemplates whether to stay the course, gruesome example of a woman the extent that abortion should decades. Many women who trine, the government’s only le - or veer rightward and become a new PASOK. Above all, what who, fed up with the constant be illegal, rape and incest are have unplanned pregnancies do gitimate role is guaranteeing the must pain him most is that his colleagues – lifelong comrades crying of her three-month-old in - not logical bases for exceptions, not feel able to take on the long- safety of medical facilities. My with whom he grew up, ate, celebrated at night – have now de - fant, kills it. In that case, the law but the life of the mother is. term responsibilities of parent - personal view is that humans clared relentless war against him. clearly protects the murdered What do you think? ing given their current eco - have the right to control what That he would make mistakes was to be expected. After all, child, and the woman will surely nomic, social, mental, or happens to their bodies. That in - his qualifications to become prime minister were unconvincing. land in jail, probably for the rest GEORGAKAS RESPONDS physical circumstances. Among cludes the right of a woman to He had little knowledge or experience to take the reins. And of her life. Dino, any rational person rec - the most painful circumstances decide that an abortion is the the government that formed around him would have been sub - The question then, is: is three ognizes that a fertilized egg is is when the pregnancy results best solution for her circum - par even under normal conditions, let alone during such a mon - months outside the womb a su - alive. So were the failed sperm from rape. Most women would stances. umental crisis. perior “life” status than three and unfertilized eggs. So, too, not be comfortable raising a To manage the crisis, he chose Yanis Varoufakis, a talented months inside the womb? the thousands of bacteria in all child who reminds them of what WHAT’S YOUR OPINION? but problematic man. The resulting consequences are well- known. He resigned his post and, as the Aug. 3 issue of the New Yorker points out (in a piece on Varoufakis titled “Greek Observations By Antonis H. Diamataris Warrior”), “he would no longer need to marshal scant supplies of discretion to disguise the fact that he and Tsipras had, in re - cent weeks, lost significant faith in each other.” No to New Elections Something has to change, and immedi - And Greece cannot wait another five And Varoufakis, of course, is not done talking. At some point ately. That something must be a new “hair - years. Currently, the nation appears to be in the future, when he forms his own political party and/or cut” on the debt. Interestingly and signifi - drifting aimlessly at sea – just like the cur - writes a book, he will have plenty more to say, none of which Now that the 15-day Panagias obser - cantly, the IMF strongly supports Greece on rent droves of refugees – without any land Tsipras will find pleasant. vance has concluded, life in Greece will be - that matter. IMF head Christine Lagarde de - in sight. How long can Greece stay adrift, Moreover, Tsipras committed the colossal mistake of not gin to return ever so slowly to its normal clared the other day that she firmly remains without the raft’s passengers revolting, caus - having ousted Panagiotis Lafazanis and Zoe Konstantopoulou routine. And the arrival of the measures of of the view that “Greece’s debt is unman - ing the makeshift vessel to sink? from SYRIZA ahead of time. Instead, he gave them important a third memorandum of conditions for the ageable” and “Greece cannot restore debt Lately, there has been talk about new roles, probably expecting that would ensure their loyalty. country’s latest bailout will make life all sustainability solely through actions of its elections. But how will that change things? No one who is one step away from losing power would tol - that much harder. own” (i.e., austerity measures). Would a new, strong government emerge, erate insubordination, such as from those two. Has Tsipras for - There was no better alternative than this, Based on that analysis, the IMF abstained one that can capably represent Greece’s in - gotten what his teacher – Andreas Papandreou – used to do and fortunately, Prime Minister Alexis this time from financing Greece further – terests in Europe and make the bold deci - with troublemakers? Tsipras took a last-minute turn in the direc - the first time it is doing so. The organization sions necessary to revitalize the nation? But anyway, that’s all in the past. Now, the first thing Tsipras tion necessary to achieve it. But it is simply seeks to avoid the nightmare it experienced Highly unlikely. can do to help himself is to learn from his mistakes. more of the same. Nothing changed. The with Argentina, when it lent that nation bil - Instead, why not give a strong, pro-Eu - Second, Tsipras must decide whether the role of the chris - situation has not improved. lions shortly before it went bankrupt (in ropean contingent a formidable majority in tened one in the Pool of Siloam (where Jesus healed the blind Greece will receive another €86 billion 2001). Parliament, still led by Mr. Tsipras, but com - man) suits him – if he feels good about himself in that capacity. to go with the approximately €450 billion Certainly, the haircut should be accom - prised of experienced leaders carefully se - Because if he doesn’t, then why proceed? Why bring more it already received, in exchange for new panied by reforms, but those alone are in - lected from among the respective political headaches and misery onto himself, not to mention to the detri - taxes, additional spending cuts, and a new sufficient, because it would take a fairly parties? ment to Greece’s interests? and more intense despair for the masses, long time – up to five years – to yield posi - Is that not the obvious solution that who do not foresee even a glimmer of hope. tive results. Greece needs? THE NATIONAL HERALD, AUGUST 22-28, 2015 VIEWPOINTS 11 Is Tsipras Really that Bad, Grexit, the Mighty Euro, and the Indomitable Drachma

Or Does he Get a Bum Rap? By Leonidas Petrakis symbolic. In reality, the euro has tinguished professor of classics also suffered from high inflation, fluctuated wildly relative to the was heard to ruefully lament that and then-Minister of Finance Spy - Greece is in the sixth year of a dollar, not to mention the exis - “this day (of the passing of the ros Markezines in dealing with The conven - friendly, investment financial crisis with Great Depres - tential fears that a Grexit has gen - drachma) is very sad for some of the inflation famously chopped tional wisdom attractive, and least sion Era unemployment, a third erated. Greece's economy is a us.” off three zeroes from the among most pun - welfare-oriented bailout package just negotiated small component of the Euro - The drachma as a monetary drachma’s value. dits labels Alexis nation in Europe, increasing its ever-mounting and zone, but a Grexit would establish unit has a very long history, from The value of the drachma has Tsipras as a disaster with the possible unsustainable debt, and still-un - a precedent and demonstrate that the Archaic to the classical and undergone wild gyrations over its for having failed to exception of the certain prospects for escaping the Eurozone was not forever. Hellenistic periods. After the con - very long history. Thucydides in deliver on his elec - United Kingdom. from its current painful and hu - There have been serious chal - quest of Greece in 146 BC by the The Peloponnesian War states tion promise and Greece has elimi - miliating situation. lenges to the single currency con - Romans, the drachma was offi - that one drachma was the daily his failure has sunk nated more privi - Grexit (Greece exiting the Eu - cept from its very beginning. Mar - cially replaced by the denarius, wage of a hoplite, and Aristo - Greece deeper into leges for “protected rozone, forcibly or voluntarily) garet Thatcher, England's "Iron but under the Roman policy of phanes in The Wasps mentions misery. Does he de - occupations” and has become the focal point of a Lady," was dismissive of the euro provincial currencies it continued three obols (half a drachma) as serve the criticism? farmers than virtu - national soul-searching and of an and predicted its ultimate failure; being minted in many localities, the wage of a skilled worker or The pundits’ case by AMB. PATRICK N. ally any other international debate as to the UK and Denmark have nego - especially in Alexandria and in serviceman. During the German indicates, perhaps, THEROS country in the EU. whether extrication from its eco - tiated special exemptions for their Corinth, well into the Common Occupation, this writer remem - a failure to break No other major nomic morass is best accom - Era. In the Gospel bers worthless drachma notes de - out of conventional Special to capital in Europe plished (or even if it is possible) of Luke there is a nominated in hundreds of mil - wisdom. But let’s The National Herald allows unlimited within the Eurozone or with the reference to the lions. In 1954, thirty drachmas look at it another taxi drivers. In fact, country returning to its national drachma. bought one U.S. dollar. When way. Greece repealed a law protect - currency. The word Greece joined the Eurozone in Alexis Tsipras campaigned on ing pharmacists that had been Despairing of the devastation drachma derives 2002, the drachma was ex - a promise designed by Yanis copied almost verbatim from that extreme nationalism had vis - from the verb changed at the rate of 340 drach - Varoufakis, an admittedly ideo - current German law. Tsipras’ ited upon Europe during two “drattomai,” which mas to one euro. Devaluation and logical economist (as if the critics should not forget that the wars, there were steps taken at means to "grasp a hyperinflation are key topics in Troika’s economists are not previous allegedly more mature the conclusion of WWII by vision - handful." In its ini - the current Grexit debate. equally ideological) to convert politicians had lied and aries for a European economic tial monetary use, In contrast to the smooth and the relationship with Greece’s weaseled their way out of pass - and political union that would it referred to six celebratory transition from the creditors to the benefit of both. ing the legislation demanded by eventually create a superpower, metal rods that drachma to the euro, the possi - Unlike virtually any other politi - Brussels, the ECB, and the IMF “The United States of Europe.” were grasped, and bility of a Grexit has rocked the cian on the face of the globe, for the last five years. Tsipras The modest beginnings of that that handful was a financial world markets and has Tsipras actually tried very hard implemented what they should vision (a coal and steel commu - drachma. become a deeply-polarizing issue to implement his campaign have done years ago. nity in 1951) culminated with the The Numis - in Greek society. The oft-ran - promises. Had anyone bothered The critics correctly blame Maastricht Treaty of 1992 that association with the Eurozone; matic Museum in Athens has a corous euro vs. drachma debate to count, Varoufakis’ numbers Tsipras’ failures on his inexperi - codified the establishment of the Sweden opted out of the euro by very rich display of drachmas of (dominated by the cacophonous added up better than those of ence. For example, he failed to European Union (EU). The Treaty a referendum; This year, Iceland different denominations issued by banality in the Greek mass me - austerity politics. understand that Spain’s Prime also obliged its members to adopt withdrew its application for mem - various city-states. Issuing cities dia) is being carried out in the Germany could not continue Minister, when forced to choose the single currency, the euro, once bership. included Athens (Peisistratos shadow of the six-year long grind - to export to an increasingly-im - between the good of his country they met strict monetary and bud - Currently only nineteen of the didrachm), Aegina (Chelone ca. ing and deepening economic poverished customer base nor and his reelection, would opt getary criteria. Entry into the twenty eight members of the EU 700), Massalia (Marseilles quagmire. could Greek businesses recover for political survival. He also prestigious Eurozone was to be are in the Eurozone; once fervent tetrobol), Olympia Thirteen years into the Euro - without increased consumption. failed to get his domestic ducks in perpetuity; it was also touted Eurozone-aspiring Poland and (tetradrachm,105th Olympiad), zone, the initial expectations of Like most economists, Varo - in order. He should have that it would make continuing other Eastern European nations and many others. The two most robust economic growth and ufakis excelled at analysis; I started, for example, his admin - economic development feasible are backing off from their eager - famous were the 5th century B.C. modernization of the state (tax doubt his solutions would have istration pursuing the anti-cor - even for economies such as that ness to join; and Euroskeptics Athenian four gram silver collection, effective public sector) worked, but they were certainly ruption campaign he had of Greece, while at the same time seem in ascendancy in various tetradrachm, and the drachma of remain unrealized, despite the promised and then transitioned enabling the modernization of its countries. Alexander the Great. Both be - country assuming such a stagger - The Greek people to anti-austerity, which would public institutions (tax collection, Greece initially did not qualify came international means of pay - ing debt. have gained him greater domes - efficient public sector, etc.). for entry into the Eurozone, but ment and commerce throughout Will the newly-negotiated think more highly of tic and international credibility In addition to this expectation an elaborate and expensive plan the Mediterranean basin and the third bailout accomplish what the Tsipras than do the and leverage in negotiations. for economic growth and state enabled its entry in January, remotest reaches of Alexander's previous borrowings failed to do? Crucially, he failed to under - modernization, there was much 2002. Goldman Sachs devised a conquests. Will there be another drachma pundits. They see stand that Germany’s Angela pride among the Greeks for the scheme that allowed Greece to The drachma gave its name to resurrection? Strong assertions him as honest, Merkel had her own political fu - new transnational currency, as mask its deficits, circumvent the other currencies, including the abound on all sides, and experts ture at stake. She had played "euro" in Greek letters would ap - Maastricht deficit rules, and Arabic dirham (the name of the maintain that "this time will be hardworking, and shamelessly to German arro - pear on the coins and notes that thereby qualify for membership. currency of several Arab coun - different." However, what re - courageous. gance and her countrymen’s were to circulate in all the Euro - For their helpfulness and exper - tries) and the Armenian dram. mains certain and accepted by all self-righteous sense that Ger - zone countries. There was also tise in creative accounting, Gold - After a long hiatus, the is that the proud and long-suffer - worth a try. Austerity had put mans alone possess the grit and pride for the euro sign itself – the man Sachs received a hefty com - drachma was reintroduced as na - ing Greek people face an uncer - Greece on a permanent down - determination to make austerity epsilon (for the initial vowel of mission from the Greek tional currency in 1832 following tain and very difficult road ahead. ward slide – the silly assertions work. She made the Greeks the Europe) “with two parallel lines government. Greece's independence from the that the Samaras government whipping boys for one electoral to certify the stability of the euro,” The transition from the Ottoman Empire. By 1893, Leonidas Petrakis, PhD in had turned things around campaign after another. For her as the European Commission drachma to the euro was mostly Greece faced bankruptcy due to physical chemistry from the Uni - notwithstanding. Tsipras failed to admit that austerity will fail proudly pointed out. (The euro uneventful, and there were even overborrowing and overspending. versity of California-Berkeley, to persuade the creditors (for in the long run would have vio - would remain stable as parallel humorous incidents reported During the Nazi occupation, new was Chairman and Senior reasons to be described later) lated the cardinal rule of elected lines do, since they never cross in (small shopkeepers refusing “ta drachmas were issued that un - Scientist of the Department of and turned to the Greek popu - politics: never admit you were Euclidean space.) kokkina,” i.e., the small denomi - derwent unprecedented hyperin - Applied Sciences at Brookhaven lation to ask via referendum if wrong. This column had cor - But stability has been mostly nation copper coins). And a dis - flation. The post-WWII drachma National Laboratory. they would accept the Euro - rectly predicted that Mrs. zone’s (i.e., Germany’s) ultima - Merkel would do all in her tum. power to defeat and discredit Emboldened, he returned to Mr. Tsipras. Now, it remains to LETTER FROM ATHENS Brussels to engage in the most be seen whether Merkel can bruising, vicious, and deter - pivot and reflate the German mined political fight any of us economy as a mechanism to res - have witnessed in our genera - cue Europe from the straight How Communist Tsipras Turned into Capitalist Tsipras tion. At the end, he had to jacket into which she locked it. choose between agreeing to The Greek people seem to Germany’s very painful terms or have a greater admiration for Q: Which Greek Prime Min - money isn’t the only to his guns. But he restore pay and pensions, cut have Greece default and aban - Mr. Tsipras than do the pundits. ister said, “I didn’t want to im - thing in life but it’s was trapped even taxes, rehire fired workers and don the common currency. He Ordinary Greeks perceive him pose austerity but I had no pretty far ahead of before the Jan. 25 stop privatizations. brought the question to Parlia - as an honest, courageous, and choice.” whatever’s in sec - snap elections He got what he wanted: a 61 ment, which gave overwhelm - hardworking politician who A) New Democracy’s Antonis ond place. Leave it when he cam - percent mandate to do just that. ing agreement to accept took great personal risks for the “Mr. Bean Counter” Samaras to the Proletariat to paigned against After the ECB closed down Merkel’s terms from every po - good of his country. He failed, B) Then-PASOK’s George “The do the heavy lifting austerity, not liquidity to the banks and word litical party except the commu - yes, but measured against every Money is There” Papandreou of Communism, knowing that the spread he had his eyes on seiz - nists and the far left of his own one of his political opponents, C) SYRIZA’s Alexis “U-turn” comrades. Big Boys of Capi - ing bank accounts as another party. from right to left, he smells like Tsipras You’d think Cuba talism were wait - scoundrel, Cypriot President What did Tsipras accomplish a rose. To add to his credibility, D) The next one after Tsipras’ would have figured ing to have him for Nicos Anastasiades, did – also in the process, beyond securing Tsipras and his junior partner turn at being humiliated in that out long ago, or lunch. reneging on a campaign another loan rollover to the tune Panos Kammenos, appear an election comes that someone other by ANDY A Prime Minis - promise – the die was cast and of $94 billion? Well, besides among the few Greek politicians E) All of the above President Obama in DABILIS ter with no real Tsipras had nowhere to turn. kicking the can down the road, who have no public scandal con - The correct answer is E! the White House life experience be - Playing his trump card – give the Greek political system has nected with their names. In fact, Q: Which country’s Com - would have ended Special to yond being a Café me money without condition or finally and irreversibly dumped the few SYRIZA politicians who munist system has worked? the embargo with The National Herald philosopher who Greece will be out of the Euro - the gaggle of Greek politicians may have a suspect past seem A) Russia Havana which had said, “There zone – he was playing a game who bankrupted the country to dwell in the Party’s mutinous B) Cuba posed no threat to the United was a huge lack of freedom in of stares with a cat and it was (before Tsipras) over the last left wing. As of this writing, C) North Korea States anymore. Communist regimes, but at least he who blinked. It wasn’t 2012 four decades. The likes of Sama - every poll indicates that Tsipras D) None of the above That’s unless you were wor - they had humanity at the center anymore and the EU leaders ras, Papandreou, Venizelos and would sweep to power were he It’s D! ried the remainders of Fidel Cas - of their thinking,” was dead were willing to bet he was bluff - their venal political class are to hold elections now. Q: What’s the biggest Cap - tro’s revolutionaries were going meat for the Quartet and they ing. And he was. gone. In fairness, the tsunami italist country in the world? to land on the beaches of Miami just kept squeezing him, shut - This is a guy who said, “The also swept away a few good The Hon. Ambassador Theros is If you said the United States in 1957 Chevrolets waving cig - ting off liquidity to the Greek verdict of the Greek people ren - politicians, such as the very de - president of the U.S.-Qatar – EHHHHH! – (buzzer sound - ars, rifles, and requests for spare banks and putting his feet in the ders the Troika a thing of the cent and competent Dora Business Council. He served in ing) you’re wrong! parts. fire until he screamed, “Yes, yes, past for our common European Bakoyanni. However, let’s be the U.S. Foreign Service for 36 It’s China, which learned fast Now, a prime Castro idolater, Capitalism yes!” framework,” refusing even to honest; Samaras had systemati - years, mostly in the Middle from American bankers and Tsipras, a former Communist Tsipras’ conversion is part use the term and referring to cally destroyed Dora long be - East, and was American Ambas - businessmen after former Presi - youth leader, who come to Joan of Arc treatment by those the lenders – actually Greece’s fore. sador to Qatar from 1995 to dent Richard Nixon opened the power promising to reverse aus - heartless folks in the Quartet owners – as The Institutions and Secondly, as of this week, 1998. He also directed the State door four decades ago that terity and show solidarity with who wouldn’t care if Greeks got the Brussels Group. A capitula - Greece now owns a brand-new Department’s Counter- money talks and Communism the masses, has switched to a 100 percent pay cut, 100 per - tion by any other name sounds set of legislation that, at least Terrorism Office, and holds nu - walks. Capitalism too. cent tax hike, and 100 percent the same. on paper, makes that country lit - merous U.S. Government deco - After you’ve bought your first They all do sooner or later, unemployment as long as banks He never had a chance really, erally the most business- rations. Mercedes, riding a bicycle to the except for the maniacs in North and the Eurozone and IMF had thinking that taking on the bread line just doesn’t have the Korea and those rabid dog hold - a 100 percent chance of repay - Troika and Quartet and Men in same appeal anymore once you outs in Tsipras’ Looney Left ment. Suits would be as easy as when get past puberty and sloganeer - SYRIZA party who want Greece The other part of his coming he was a student taking over GuEST EDITORIALS ing. to return to the drachma and around was the realization that classrooms, howling Communist The U.S. has been happy to dark ages. in the real world Communism slogans and demanding justice the National herald welcomes manuscripts representing a variety of do business with China, also the They don’t get it that Greece doesn’t work. without understanding there is - views for publication. they should include the writer’s name, address, biggest Communist country in would go under unless Tsipras So now it’s not Samaras and n’t any unless you have money. and telephone number, and be addressed to the editor, the National the world. That’s because in the took a dive in the third round Papandreou – whom he pilloried He pretends to still be a Left - herald, 37-10 30th St., long island City, Ny 11101. they may also world of Capitalism, money – against the Quartet of the Euro - as betrayers – imposing auster - ist but he’s now a member of be e-mailed to [email protected]. we reserve the right not language, culture, customs pean Union-International Mon - ity, but him. How humiliating to the Capitalist Club because he to edit any manuscripts that we publish, and we do not return or or politics – is King. etary Fund-European Central eat such crow. did its bidding. Greece gave the otherwise acknowledge unpublished ones. due to considerations of The United States still has Bank-European Stability Mech - Tsipras also hoisted himself world democracy, not Commu - space we enforce a strict 850-word upper limit. the most billionaires, with 615, anism (EU-IMF-ECB-ESM). with his own petard when he nism. but China is second, with 213 Tsipras said that he had a called a July 5 referendum ask - after its politicians discovered gun to his head so wouldn’t stick ing people to back his pledge to [email protected] For all the Gifts You’ve Given to the World, Greece, You Do Not Owe Us, We Owe You

By A.M. Celal Sengor tors showed mankind that we ence. And with that step, human the ruled, masters and slaves. Art seen to that point, tiny Greece convictions. These convictions can think for ourselves, we can civilization was born. had no time and no movement. raised its head and said: “I shall may be changed by intelligent To Our Brothers and Sisters know without the help of any Before Greece, there had It depicted a world of beings not surrender, because I am a argument, but not by force.” Across the Archipelagos imaginary supernatural powers. been cultures: great cultures in - bound in chains. Your ancestors free human being. I shall not Your noble dead at Marathon, In your hour of sorrow, I am They showed us that nature deed, in Egypt, Mesopotamia, In - showed us how to break those bow before any ruler, because I Thermopylae, and Salamis rep - writing to you to remind you – was not run by deities, but that dian, China… but none was civ - chains. alone can rule my own world. I resent the greatest monuments and the rest of humanity – that can be understood and even har - ilized, because they lacked With the rise of the Greek in - shall not be herded, because all that mankind can ever erect for if we, those of us who benefit nessed by men for the good of individual freedom and the abil - dividual, human individuality my human siblings are individu - itself. from the bounty of human civi - men. ity to argue without killing each and dignity were invented. A be - als, worthy of equal respect. It is their spirit that still lization, live in a decent way But more important than al - other. ing worthy of thinking himself “You may kill me, because watches. worthy of human dignity, we low for that, they taught us the Before Greeks showed the one with the gods. you are powerful, but you shall owe that to you. value of human freedom. It is world otherwise, art was stifled, When lunacy, thinking itself not enslave me, because I cannot A.M. Celal Sengor is a professor More than two-and-a-half with free thinking that men be - two-dimensional, and compart - deity, arrived from the East with be beaten into submission. I sub - at the Istanbul Technical Uni - millennia ago, your great ances - gan creating great art and sci - mentalized to depict rulers and the mightiest force the world had mit only to my own mind and versity. 12 THE NATIONAL HERALD, AUGUST 22-28, 2015