S o C V ΓΡΑΦΕΙ ΤΗΝ ΙΣΤΟΡΙΑ Bringing the news W ΤΟΥ ΕΛΛΗΝΙΣΜΟΥ to generations of E ΑΠΟ ΤΟ 1915 The National Herald Greek- Americans N c v A weeKly GreeK-AmeriCAn PuBliCAtion www.thenationalherald.com VOL. 16, ISSUE 822 July 13-19, 2013 $1.50 A. Frangou, OCL Marks 25 Years Magnate in Promoting Orthodox Maritime, Unity, Church Reform

Sails Along By Constantine S. Sirigos America. Their website, ocl.org, TNH Staff Writer will inform visitors regarding important matters about which Shipping Giant on NEW YORK, NY – Orthodox there is only limited informa - Christian Laity (OCL), a national tion. Fortune 500 Top organization of Orthodox Chris - For example: there is a new tian laypersons that will mark reality for all the Orthodox 50 Women Ranks its 25th anniversary at its an - Churches in North and Central nual conference this Fall in Cal - America, including the Greek By Eric Reguly ifornia, has been at the forefront Orthodox Archdiocese. It is the Globe and Mail of critical Church issues through Assembly of Canonical Ortho - its publications, conferences, dox Bishops of North and Cen - PIRAEUS, Greece – A 14,000- and meetings, despite the fact tral America. ton freighter, the Fulvia, lay in that few know of its existence. Few people seem to be aware Rio de Janeiro, unloved and Whether or not people agree of it, but OCL is one of the few very much for sale. It was 1990 with OCL positions – they have groups that have embraced it. and the Brazilian economy was met numerous times with hier - In 2009, the 4th Pre-Conciliar in one of its periodic messes. archs from of Archdiocese and Pan-Orthodox Conference in Surely the rotting dry-bulk car - the Ecumenical Patriarchate, Chambésy, Switzerland which rier would find no buyer. whose officials have alternately was attended by the represen - The sight of a young woman viewed them with interest and tatives and leaders of all the uni - inspecting every aspect of the suspicion – they have a vision versally-recognized auto - ship, from its wheelhouse to its for the Church and a strategy cephalous Orthodox churches in engine room, must have seemed on how to achieve their goals. the world led by Ecumenical Pa - incongruous to the burly men OCL was incorporated in triarch Bartholomew, estab - in the shipyard. The woman was Chicago by Greek-Americans ac - lished the Assembly. 25, and so obviously not the AP Photo/johAnnes eisele, Pool tive as Church and community Archbishop Demetrios is its captain. Greek Prime Minister Antonis Samaras, left, talks with European Council President Herman leaders in order to support chairman and according to its Who was she, what would Van Rompuy, bottom, German Chancellor Angela Merkel, center, and French President Francois greater participation by the laity website, http://www.assem - she possibly know about ships Hollande prior to a conference on promoting youth employment in Europe on Wednesday, July in the governance of the Greek blyof bishops.org, “The Assem - and why would she want one in 3, 2013 at the chancellery in Berlin. Merkel is bringing together officials from across Europe Orthodox Archdiocese and to this economy? Wednesday to discuss how best to get young people into jobs, and is insisting that money alone promote Orthodox unity in Continued on page 3 The woman plunked down won’t end high youth unemployment. $1.5-million (U.S.) for the ship and, with it, began to build an enterprise that, by 2011, got her on Fortune magazine’s list of the Samaras and Obama Will Meet in DC world’s 50 most powerful busi - nesswomen. The Fulvia would spawn a WASHINGTON, DC – The White the NATO Alliance – and under - gree and Samaras with an MBA shipping empire. The woman House said Greek Prime Minister score the United States’ ongoing in economics. who walked the Fulvia’s decks Antonis Samaras will meet Presi - support for Greece’s efforts to re - The August talks are expected in 1990 is Angeliki Frangou, dent Obama at the White House form its economy and promote a to focus also on trade negotiations founder, CEO and chairwoman on Aug. 8 to talk about U.S. sup - return to prosperity.” and Cyprus, just a few weeks after of Navios Maritime Holdings port for the Greek government's It added that Obama looked the 39th anniversary of the 1974 Inc., one of the largest and besieged austerity efforts. forward to discussing with the unlawful invasion of the island fastest-growing Greek-con - Obama called Samaras last Prime Minister a broad array of by Turkey, which still keeps troops trolled shipping companies. year, a week after the conserva - mutual interests and challenges, there and bars Cypriot planes and At last count, the Navios tive New Democracy Party leader including U.S.-Greek defense co - ships while the Turks are vying group of companies – three of had won elections in June, but operation, the Transatlantic Trade to join the European Union. which are listed on the New without enough of the vote to and Investment Partnership, re - Defense cooperation, countert - York Stock Exchange – had 119 form a new government, to tell gional cooperation, mutual coun - errorism, and security issues in ships under its command, plus him he had the White House's terterrorism efforts, prospects for Syria and North Africa are also nearly 300 barges and small support.The United States was ea - a settlement in Cyprus, develop - on the agenda as Samaras will tankers that ply the Hidrovia ger for Greece not to be pushed ments in North Africa, and Syria. try to bolster Greece’s position in river system between Paraguay out of the Eurozone, fearing that It promises to be an interesting the United States, where it has AP/Petros KArAdjiAs and the Uruguayan coast. would rattle markets from Europe meeting of the minds between the been marginalized by America’s Politicians May be Gone but the Pain Remains In Greece, where control of to Wall Street and hit the Ameri - center-left Democrat Obama and leaning more toward Turkey on can economy with a ripple effect. the center-right Samaras, a grad - many issues. Relatives of victims that were killed during the explosion of Continued on page 6 Samaras’ office released a uate of Amherst College in Mass - The meeting comes as Sama - seized Iranian gunpowder at a naval base on 2011, hold their statement that said, “The visit will achusetts who knows the Ameri - ras is promising to speed up aus - pictures outside of the court after a trial in the Southern city of highlight the strength of the U.S.- can political landscape better terity reforms related to the fi - Larnaca, Cyprus on July 9. A Cyprus criminal court has found Greek relationship today – bound than do many world leaders. nancial crisis that has plunged former defense minister Costas Papacostas guilty of manslaughter together through enduring ties of They also both graduates of in the explosion of confiscated Iranian munitions in 2011 that kinship, common interests, and Harvard, Obama with a law de - Continued on page 9 killed 13 people and wrecked his country's main power station. Jack Jacobs’ Great Life Not Always a Blue Dream Run It, Crime

NEW YORK – Jack Jacobs, Bridgehampton on July 20 his friend Ivan Kronenfeld, who teenagers, however, after their Drama of a whose father’s family hails from which will benefit the program. himself led a fascinating life, families fled the turmoil of the Ioannina, has served America as Blue Dream promises to be “dragged me to a publisher.” Balkan Wars. a soldier and as a teacher and the Greek party of the year, but Jacobs was born in Crown Jacobs was very much aware Raw Realism mentor of soldiers. He was the community is most proud of Heights Hospital, which his fa - of his Greek heritage growing awarded the Medal of Honor for the event’s budding tradition of ther was serving in the South up and he noted, “My father saving his brothers in arms four supporting noble causes and Pacific just before WWII ended. spoke nothing but Greek until By Penelope Karageorge Angeliki Frangou, founder, decades ago, but the sacrifices spotlighting outstanding Greek- His family lived in Bedford he was six years old…There was CEO, and chair of fast-grow - and challenges of soldiers con - Americans. Stuyvesant in the heart of a great number of Greek Jews The Giovanis Brothers – ing Navios Maritime Holdings. tinue to engage him. Jacobs spoke with TNH Brooklyn, at the time a middle from northern Greece in his Evangelos and George – two Now retired, he spends some about his family’s Greek-Jewish class Jewish neighborhood. neighborhood,” in Williamsburg unique Greek-American film - of his time visiting troops at hos - origins and his memoir “If Not NO FISH PLEASE he said , makers – were back in New pitals and he also participates Now, When?” which Barnes & Both his parents were born His father returned when he York, showing their raw, gritty in events related to the Noble called “ an account of a in the United States, but his was eight months old and they crime drama Run It, at Cinema Gus Prentzas: Wounded Warriors Through unique life at both war and mother’s, Marsha’s, family came eventually moved to Wood - Village. Script writer/director Sports program of Disabled peace, and the all-too-often un - from Eastern Europe and his fa - bridge, NJ, but they visited the Evangelos, a fan of Ingmar Sports USA. Jacobs is the Hon - examined role of the citizenry ther’s, David’s, parents were old neighborhood every week - Bergman’s Cries and Whispers, Businessman orary Chair of the third annual in the service and defense of the from Ioannina – Romaniote end. He told TNH “I don’t re - says “My film teacher told me Blue Dream Gala of the Greek Republic.” Jews who had lived in Northern member ever meeting anyone not to be afraid of subject mat - Orthodox Church of the Hamp - The book was born of an in - Greece for almost 2000 years. ter,” and Run It bears out his And Activist tons – Kimisis Tis Theotokou in vitation – of sorts. Jacobs said They met in Brooklyn as Continued on page 3 filmmaker’s credo. Looking at Run It Is like peer - ing through the keyhole – you’re NEW YORK – On the Fourth of shocked at what you see but you July, two groups that celebrate keep watching, even when you the day through both work and Karagiozis is Back: Greek Shadow Theater Tribute can’t quite follow the action. play are politicians and fire - Viewing the film for the second works technicians. By the time time around – since it was recut New York City Council candi - By Anthe Mitrakos -- I found it even more violent date Gus Prentzas had a chance on all levels, and was fascinated to enjoy the pyrotechnics, he As the Greek crisis continues by the creative force that could wore out a lot of shoe leather, to make global headlines, a fa - even bring seething rage into a but it was worth it for the man miliar character is making his classroom of eleven-year-olds. who does not aspire to be a pro - way back on stage and into peo - This takes talent and daring, fessional politician. Rather, his ple’s hearts. Karagiozis, with his which Evangelos – primarily the campaign is an extension of his witty ways and cunning quips writer, and George – the musi - passion for community service is once again growing in popu - cian and actor, have in abun - that permeated his life even as larity as a cultural icon. With dance. he ran his Astoria-based busi - the economy in the dumps and Says George, “My brother nesses, including Pavilion Flo - Greece’s political arena in likes to not pull his punches but rals that he bought in 1998. scrambles, more and more to show film with meaning -- “The holiday gave me an op - Greeks are once again relating about how things really are. The portunity to go through the en - to Karagiozis, perhaps finding film’s main topics are abuse, tire district,” from barbeques his some solace in comparing his poverty and drugs and the affect friends invited him to in Upper daily struggles to make ends it has on our society. I think he Ditmars to the housing projects meet and keep his family fed did a very good job. You’re al - by the East River, where he with their own burdens. In most suckered into enjoying it, essence, Karagiozis is a sort of and then it takes a turn, and it’s Continued on page 2 comical hero in Greek tradition, a nasty turn. It sneaks up on a figure who has over the years you.” won the love of people of vari - Plot clashes up against plot, ous social statuses and ages. with guns, sex, drugs, guns and For subscription: “Karagiozis productions are naked bodies in abundance. 718.784.5255 once again gaining popularity The glue that holds it all to - [email protected] as kind of a comeback from the gether is a young black kid, Je - recent days when watching tele - remy, who dearly loves his vision came into fashion,” says promiscuous mother and tnh/CostAs Bej Mixalis Theodoropoulos, a druggy father, despite their ne - Michalis Theodoropoulos with his son and wife behind the shadow theater scenes. Some histo - rians believe Karagiozis’ roots are in Ancient Greece, while others point to Turkish origins. Continued on page 5 Continued on page 5 2 COMMUNITY THE NATIONAL HERALD, JULY 13-19, 2013 Gus Prentzas – Small Businessman, Big Activist GOINGS ON... n JULY 13 – NOVE MBER 2 n JULY 27 Continued from page 1 TARPON SPRINGS, FL - On Sat - MANHATTAN - Celebrate the Pow - urday, Jul. 13, from 6-11 PM the er and Pleasure of Singing To - spoke both with residents and City of Tarpon Springs will pre - gether! Please Join Us for the small business owners, he said. sent Night in the Islands – a free Eighth Choral Concert of The Un - “It was a chance to speak with event on the world famous forgettables ChorusUniting People people one on one, to see what Sponge Docks. Enjoy Greek mu - with Dementia and their Family their concerns are.” sic, dancing, and dining! And Members Saturday, Jul. 27 from Prentzas is very proud of his we will offer an hour of free 3-4 PM at St. Peter’s Church at diverse and Astoria-rooted cam - Greek dance lessons by the Lev - 619 Lexington Ave. at 54th Street paign team, which includes endia Dance Troupe from 6-7 (Entrance is on 54th St. between Kosta Lambropoulos, a banker, PM. The event features live mu - Lexington Avenue and 3rd Av - who is his campaign manager, sic by Ellada, an exciting Greek enue) in Manhattan. Wine and George Malandrakis, who runs band composed of three of the Cheese Reception to follow. This a program for the HANAC social most accomplished Greek musi - concert is the culmination of 3 service organization and is han - cians in the state. Ellada will months of rehearsals of a chorus dling campaign communica - perform nisiotika, the lively tra - for people with dementia and tions, real estate man and com - ditional music of the Greek is - their family members, founded munity activist George Rivera, lands, as well as old and new by the Psychosocial Research and Maria Mondrakis, Maria Kapsis, Greek favorites. Ellada includes Support Program at NYU Langone an executive at Kaufman Astoria Leonidas Zafiris, bouzouki; Elias Medical Center’s Comprehensive Studios, Tyrone Tyler, and John Poulos, vocals; and Dino Theofi - Center on Brain Aging in 2011. Delis. los, keyboard. Night in the Is - For more information, visit Prentzas was born in Agrinio lands also will be offered Satur - http://aging.med.nyu.edu/re - in Central Greece and came to days, Aug. 3, Sep. 7, Oct. 5, and search/chorus The chorus is sup - the Unites States when he was Nov 2. Mark your calendar and ported by a grant from the Fund a year old. His parents, George make this a regular destination! for the City of New York and con - and Sophia, are from Nafpaktos The festival is supported in part tributions from its members and and the island of Tilos, respec - by a grant from the National En - generous gifts from people who tively. He met his wife, Kiki, Gus Prentzas, 8th from L, is seen with friends and campaign staff at a recent fundraiser. His re - dowment for the Arts. believe in its value. For more in - when he was vacationing on her sume combines experience as a small business owner with community service. formation call 347-351-1247. island of Rhodes. Their older n JULY 15 daughter, Sophia, is turning 18 achievements was ensuring dent five years ago, their first government must be more pro- HUNTINGTON, NY – Rev. Dim - SOUTHAMTON, NY – The Sopho - and will begin pre-med studies that schools and parents in the question was “tell us about your business in general, and more itri Moraitis and the St. cles N. and Louiza Zoullas Memo - at Manhattan College this fall, district were notified of the school, we don’t understand the flexible with small businesses, Paraskevi community in Green - rial Hellenic Lecture presents: and Irene, another daughter, is presence of convicted pe - education system here.” especially regarding fines. He lawn, NY invite the public to at - George Venizelos, the FBI’s Assis - a high school student. dophiles, a policy that was Prentzas will also prioritize agrees with Vallone that in tend the 17th Annual Golf Out - tant Director in Charge – New Prentzas’ family arrived in eventually adopted citywide. healthcare issues, including sup - many cases warnings should be ing (Greater Greek Open) on York Field Office. As the leader America in 1968. From humble He also helped secure funds to port for the expansion of Mount issued before fining owners. Monday, Jul. 15 at the Hunting - of the Bureau’s largest field office, origins his father provided for expand and build schools, but Sinai hospital. He said his op - As one would expect, though ton Country Club in Cold Spring Mr. Venizelos oversees all opera - the material wellbeing of his son remains concerned that so ponents do not examine the it is only recently that the Greek- Harbor, NY. For further informa - tions and personnel on the five and younger daughter Maria, many Astoria public school stu - roots causes of recent Queens community has put up so many tion: Telephone: 631-261-7272; boroughs, eight counties in New but he also looked out for their dents are still in temporary hospital closings, which he at - candidates for office in New Fax: 631-261-7295; E-mail: fa - York State, and LaGuardia and development as human beings, trailers that have become per - tributes to Medicaid fraud and York, there are other Greeks in [email protected]. Kennedy airports. Saturday, Jul. making sure they learned the manent, classrooms. Obamacare. He is very con - the race for Peter Vallone’s seat. 27 at the Greek Orthodox Church Greek language and traditions “If am elected to the City cerned about the absorption or “The more Greek names get out n JULY 8 of the Hamptons. 111 St. Andrew's by attending Greek school and Council I will put that back on closing of smaller hospitals and there the better. We want more MANHATTAN, NY – The Ameri - Rd. Southampton. NY. RSVP is visiting Greece as often as pos - the agenda. And I want to make the rise of healthcare monopo - Greek-Americans in all levels of can Hellenic Institute Business required by July 20 at 631-283- sible. “It was very important for Pre-K available to more chil - lies. government,” he said. Network and The New York 6169. who I am today,” Prentzas told dren,” but he is most concerned He believes security and po - Costas Constantinides, who Chapter of the American Hel - TNH. about an educational process lice issues are crucial to his is also running in the Democra - lenic Institute request the plea - n AUGUST 15-18 At Queens College he took that has become distorted by ex - neighborhood’s wellbeing. He tic primary on September 10 for sure of your company at our jSOUTHAMTON, NY – His Emi - courses offered by the Center cessive focus on standardized thanked Astoria’s incumbent on Vallone’s seat, had an earlier Monthly Informal Networking nence Archbishop Demetrios will for Byzantine and Modern testing. He said that is not sub - the City Council, Peter F. Val - start, but Prentzas and his team Reception for members and officiate at the Archieratical Divine Greek Studies but it was also stitute for “making sure the lone, Jr. “for doing a great job” have worked hard to collect the guests. Monday, Jul. 9 from 5:30 Liturgy for the Thyranixia – The the time when his entrepreneur - child understands the lessons – as chairman of its Public Safety money and signatures. He to 7:30 PM at Avra Restaurant, Opening of the Doors – of the ial seeds were planted – he children understand at different Committee. I think he will make noted, however, that five recent 141 East 48th Street (212-759- new sanctuary of The Greek Or - worked in a florist during col - rates and levels...and the con - a great borough president,” Constantinides mailers have 8550). Cash bar & complimen - thodox Church of the Hamptons lege and learned the business ditions of every district… and which Vallone is running for, been sponsored by an outside tary hors d'œuvres. Please RSVP – Dormition of the Virgin Mary- well. He bought his own in every family are different.” He and he will expand on his public group called “Jobs for NY,” a to Col. Andonios Neroulias at Kimisis tis Theotokou, and the 1991. wants to re-emphasize the stu - safety work there.” pro-business PAC which [email protected] by July 6. parish’s feast day on Thursday, Prentzas’ college days also dent portfolios that accompany Prentzas is not comfortable Prentzas says is dominated by Aug. 15. Orthros at 8:30AM and foreshadowed his Greek and them from grade to grade and with proposals such as having developers. n JULY 13 Divine Liturgy at 10AM. 111 St. non-Greek community endeav - track their progress. the Attorney General oversee The New York Times writes SOUTHAMTON, NY – The Andrew's Rd. Southampton, NY. ors – he was president of the Although as a parent he de - the police. “I am not saying that that it is “a group of real estate Johnides Family Foundation pre - Vespers will be celebrated Wednes - Ikaros Greek club, Vice Presi - mands excellence, Prentzas also there aren’t abuses in the ‘stop executives and corporate lead - sents a lecture on “Seleni.” The day evening at 7PM with a re - dent of Queens College on cam - sympathizes with the plight of and frisk’ process, but it would ers, bracing for the departure of Seleni Institute provides the ception after the service hosted pus, and chairman of several the teachers, who he believes be better to re-evaluate it and Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg, care, information and research by the Philoptochos. For infor - student government commit - the City is treating unfairly in come up with new ways of do - plans to spend up to $10 million support central to women’s re - mation call 631-283-6169, or tees. contract negotiations. The gov - ing it.” to make sure the City Council productive and mental health email to All those experience made ernment is looking for cost sav - He has many friends and elected this fall is friendly to and well-being. Saturday, Jul. 13 [email protected]. him a good listener, but he says ings, which he supports, and he family in law enforcement, but business.” under the tent at the Greek Or - campaigning has become more also agrees that performance he add that he knows what it Constantinides acknowl - thodox Church of the Hamptons. SOUTHAMTON, NY – The Greek challenging for office seekers evaluations and the dismissal of feels like for a citizen to be edged the mailers to TNH but 111 St. Andrew's Rd. Southamp - Orthodox Church of the Hamptons because “voters have become a incompetent teachers is impor - stopped and frisked for appar - noted that Jobs for NY, which ton. NY. For more information – Dormition of the Virgin Mary- lot more educated about the tant, but he adds “There is al - ently no reason. It happened to the Times said is also supported call 631-283-6169, or email to Kimisis tis Theotokou invites you process and they are not as fo - ways two sides to the story. The him recently. “Someone was be - by trade union groups, indepen - [email protected]. to a special luncheon with Arch - cused on party lines. They are teachers say they have already ing frisked by police on 30th av - dently endorsed him. He ex - bishop Demetrios which will be looking for any individual who given in,” on many issues. “The enue, and just because I ques - plained that campaign finance n JULY 20 held after the Archieratical Divine can represent them in the right system must be reformed on tioned it…I had to go through laws forbid him from seeking BRIDGEHAMPTON, NY – The Liturgy on Thursday, Aug. 15 at way.” both sides. The status quo is not the process also. “But we need them out or coordinating with 2013 Blue Dream gala of the Nammos restaurant; 136 Main On the Fourth of July, his po - helping us,” he said. to have it. It’s an important de - them in any way. Greek Orthodox Church of the St, Southampton, NY. Phone: 631- tential constituents emphasized Prentzas is most frustrated terrent,” he declared. Nevertheless, Prentzas be - Hamptons – Kimisis Tis Theotok - 287-5500. $75 per adult. $25 three items: the economy, edu - what he calls the Bloomberg Ad - He will also stress the need lieves that is a sign that he is ou will be held on July 20 at children under 12. Reservations cation, and healthcare. ministration’s expensive school for tougher sentencing to stop running against profession “The Farm” at 270 Lumber Lane, must be made with the Church Prentzas has been steeped policy failures, in particular, hir - the revolving door for criminals, politicians, whereas he sees Bridgehampton, New York. Re - Office at 631-283-6169. in Astoria educational matters ing expensive consultants from and he wants to take policemen himself as a community activist ception 6:30 PM And Dinner at from the time he was elected England. When Prentzas sat away from desks and return seeking to be a public servant. 7:30 PM. Greek Island Chic At - ST. CLAIR SHORES - Assumption's vice president of the District 30 across the table from some of them to the neighborhood beat. tire. Music by Yianni Papaste - GreekFest Is Back! Aug. 15-18. school board. Among his them when he was PTA presi - Prentzas also believes that Constantine S. Sirigos fanou & Orchestra Spartan 10,000 people are expected to Sounds – DJ Bobby Karounos. experience a taste of Greece at Proceeds to benefit Warfighter Assumption Greek Orthodox Sports, a program of Disabled Church and there is something Sports USA. The slogan for everyone. From traditional “WOUNDED WARRIORS Greek homemade food and pas - THROUGH SPORTS” represents tries to live music and dancing, This summer, no matter where you go, the program which “offers sports this Festival will be one of the rehabilitation for severely wound - best parts of the summer. Festi - take The National Herald with you ! ed warriors in military hospitals val-goers will see traditional Greek and communities across the U.S. costumes from many regions of through a nationwide network Greece. Hours: August 15-17 11 of over 100 community-based AM to 11 PM; August 18, 11 AM chapters. Since 1967, Disabled to 8 PM. Sports USA has proudly served wounded warriors, including AUGUST 23-25 those injured in the Iraq and GRAND RAPIDS, MI – The Church Afghanistan wars, offering over of the Holy Trinity hosts its Yassou 30 winter and summer sports at Greek Festival August 23-25. We more than 100 events each year. are thrilled to bring Grand Rapids Warfighter Sports rebuilds lives an event celebrating the culture through sports by improving self and traditions of the Greek Or - confidence, promoting indepen - thodox people. We look forward dence and uniting families to sharing with you our music, through shared healthy activities. dances, gifts and OF COURSE Since 2003, more than 5,600 of our FOOD! Visit yassoufest.com. the most severely wounded and their families have been served, n NOTE TO OUR READERS including This calendar of events section is those with amputations, trau - a complimentary service to the matic brain injury, spinal cord Greek American community. All injury, visual impairments, and parishes, organizations and insti - significant nerve and muscle tutions are encouraged to e-mail damage. Honorary Chair: their information regarding the Colonel Jack H. 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Continued from page 1 rogression in the way it is orga - traditions. Local communities nized.” He said there has been have particular issues, one is the bly understands itself to be the an increase in the number of language and passing on with successor of SCOBA, and as leaders who are appointed by the language cultural and his - such, it has assumed all of its hierarchs rather than elected by torical benefits,” he said. agencies, dialogues, and other the laity at the Archdiocesan He agrees that any structure ministries.” and Metropolis levels. that emerges would support lo - One of its four stated main His main point is that this cal parishes determining such goals is “the promotion and ac - state of affairs “drains the vital - issues by themselves, a principle complishment of Church unity ity out of many of the organiza - first enunciated by Archbishop in North and Central America.” tions because [member partici - Iakovos of blessed memory. The existence of multiple juris - pation] is the way we do things Nathaniel said “where we are dictions along ethnic lines in a in America.” OCL also sees a speaking of when there might given city or region is an anom - lack of transparency and ac - be one bishop in an area that aly in the Orthodox Church. countability, which it says can bishop must respect the needs Archbishop Nathaniel of the be remedied through the prin - of his people. He can’t say we Romanian Orthodox Episcopate ciple of syndiakonia, co-ministry can only use English.” of America and is a member of of clergy and laity. Karcazes brought up fears ex - the OCL Advisory Board. The ORTHODOX UNITY: pressed by some Greek-Ameri - National Herald asked him to STALLED BY INERTIA cans that the “poorer” jurisdic - put the Assembly into perspec - OR FEARS? tions just want access to the tive. “The main thing to keep in Commemorative photo of the third annual meeting of the Assembly of Bishops in September, TNH brought up the concern Greeks’ money, including the mind is that the Assembly has 2012. Archbishop Demetrios of America (7th from L) is the Assembly’s Chair. expressed by some Greek-Amer - Faith and Leadership 100 en - been blessed by all the Patriar - icans that promoting Orthodox dowments, “but there are ways chates.” Laity Congress held in Los An - Unity will undermine the Hel - of dealing with that if the will Nevertheless, even as OCL geles in 2002 as example of the lenic character of their parishes. is there,” he said. leads the cheers, its leaders leading role OCL has played on Marudas said it is a false di - Haikalis was buoyed by the notes that not much seems to some important issues. Thanks chotomy. “There is nothing that recent merger of Antiochian and be happening. OCL’s Executive to its efforts, the L.A. Congress says that if you are for Orthodox Greek Orthodox parishes in Ten - Director George Matsoukas sees was the first time in his experi - unity you would be against the nessee that were both strug - symptoms of lethargy in the As - ence that “a really significant promotion of the Hellenic char - gling. “That’s the direction we sembly’s website. “It’s is not very body of lay people arrived there acter.” need to be going in, finding informative.” Regarding the As - knowledgeable about the issues He noted “These communi - ways to bring everyone to - sembly, he says it is moving being discussed.” ties are already changing every gether. It may be uphill, and not glacially. He would bristle at “We fought the battle of the weekend with mixed marriages. in my lifetime, but maybe in my those who say that is the Ortho - Archdiocesan Charter and that The rate is at least 80 percent. children’s life times.” dox way, saying rather that “it was the high point, in terms of It’s happening anyway and isn’t Another situation is typified has lost its focus… What are the getting the laity involved.” He it better for it to happen in a by her parish of the Ascension Committees doing?” was referring to revisions in the structure which encourages peo - Cathedral in Oakland, whose OCL’s President Susan Archdiocese’s charter which had ple to stay within the membership already represents Haikalis would also like to see been in force since 1979. The church...and which enables us a multi-jurisdictional reality. more movement, but said that Ecumenical Patriarchate made to reach out to the greater com - “Despite the existence of other OCL’s November conference revisions, which followed and munity and our own young peo - ethnic churches in the Bay Area, provides an opportunity to spot - codified its transformation of ple…it doesn’t rule out having people by choice are coming to light the Assembly. America’s bishoprics into me - communities with more Greek Ascension.” Chicago attorney George tropolises formally under the the liturgy.” James Koutrelakos, psychol - Karcazes one of OCL’s founders Archbishop but effectively under Karcazes believes that even ogist and professor, is the author and Past-President of OCL and the Patriarch and independent with the canonically correct es - of a landmark study of over 700 the Parish Council of the Saints of New York. tablishment of one Orthodox hi - New York high school and col - Peter and Paul Greek Orthodox Peter Marudas, another erarch in each city, the latter lege students which shows that Church, is a bit more sanguine. founder, served as Chief of Staff could still be assisted by bishops “ethnic identity can continue, “The fact that they have cre - for retired Senator Paul Sar - corresponding to the traditional strong, across generations, if the ated committees and work is be - banes and is one of many Greek- OCL Board members George Karcazes and George Pontikes ethnic groupings and thus min - right factors are in place.” ing done, all preliminary to a American community leaders discussed its founding and purpose and answered questions ister to their continuing needs Among Greek-Americans, the proposal…for the restructuring who believe the change was ill- at the organization’s Washington, DC conference in 2012. of parishes. factors included church mem - of the Orthodox churches” is advised. “It undercut the role of Archbishop Nathaniel, whose bership, participation in other very positive. He pointed out, the Archbishop and weakened OCL obtained copies and dis - lawsuit that was filed in New main concern is to advance the organizations, and children’s at - however, that to move forward, the unity of the community,” he seminated it to all the parishes York by about 30 individuals… cause of Orthodox unity, ad - tendance of Greek culture and clergy have to be told by their told TNH. and the arriving delegates de - Ultimately it was dismissed be - dressed the issue for TNH. “I language schools. hierarchs to devote sermons and One of the main issues in Los manded to be heard. That re - cause of the court’s reluctance think OCL has kelp pretty close The implication is that with parish council meetings about Angeles was the role of the Laity, sulted in an unprecedented to get involved” on church-state to the issue at heart, which is imagination, good manage - the existence, function and aim in particular, the defense of the item-by-item review of the pro - separation grounds, despite hav - how do we live as Orthodox ment, and a commitment to of the Assembly. 1979 charter’s requirement that posed charter. Finally, Dr. John ing a strong case Ka rcazes said. Christians respecting our own gathering the necessary finan - George Matsoukas is less pa - any changes to the charter had Collis’ historic motion was over - Regarding reform in the ethnic traditions and languages cial resources for schools and tient. He believes“OCL has to to be approved both by the Pa - whelmingly adopted that the Archdiocese, Karcazes points and also become a moving force innovative programs, Hellenic keep the community informed triarch and a Clergy Laity Con - suggestions be forwarded to the out that the decline in the Arch - in American society. identity can flourish within a about the Assembly because no - gress. That was removed from Patriarchate. bishop’s prestige and authority “The church is a mother and Pan-Orthodox framework, but body knows what is happening.” the new Charter, which Karcazes “But when the Patriarchate limits his ability to change has many children. It certainly OCL members would say that It would not be the first time. said was to be kept under wraps pretty much ignored all the things, but Marudas is even cannot say you cannot use this can only happen if clergy and Karcazes spoke about the Clergy- and not even discussed. changes…OCL helped to fund a more pessimistic. “There is a ret - language and not have those laity are working together. Jacobs’ Great Life Not Always a Blue Dream

Continued from page 1 his family attended a reception icy, in fact I would argue stren - in the East Room of the White uously that we don’t even have from the Greek islands, or ever House. one.” HE WILL MAKE US ALL PROUD having fish at my grandmother’s When he was a captain, the house. She made lamb, beef, Army send him to Rutgers for He thinks “a lack of leader - goat and vegetables.” His grand - graduate school in international ship since the end of WWII has mother would spend the entire relations and comparative poli - left us with a very fragmented week preparing the food he and tics, not to become an expert in policymaking apparatus where his sister liked best when they the field, but to be able to teach everyone has his two cents and visited on the weekends. the subjects at West Point , we have no foreign policy to His military career began which he did from 1973 to speak of.” when he joined ROTC in col - 1976. The people currently run - He believes strongly in uni - lege. He said he really needed ning the U.S. military were his versal service and does not think the little money he earned, but students. the problem is that that the all- also because “I thought it was He retired from the military volunteer army makes it too my obligation to serve as my fa - in 1986 when he was a 42-year easy to use the military as an ther and everybody in my neigh - old colonel, and he began to instrument of power. “The prin - borhood had served.” He work on Wall Street, where he ciple reason why it seems like planned to eventually go to law eventually became a managing we have the tendency to use the school, but he stayed on. director at Bankers Trust. Jacobs military instrument is because Jacobs and his wife’s, Sue’s, still teaches at West Point one we are lousy at the use of the first two children, Heather and day a week however. He also other instruments. We stink at David, have provided them with travels giving speeches on lead - statecraft. We have had a suc - four grandchildren, but his ership or current events, does cession of people who don’t youngest, Zachary, a corporate consulting work, and is an on- know what they are doing in the lawyer, finally got the family air military analyst for NBC. international arena.” into the legal profession. “I live GOING TO HELL IN A But he adds that “the military vicariously through Zachary,” HANDBASKET establishment is very good at said the man whose reality has Regarding the situations in what it does, so the default in - been anything but virtual. Syria and Egypt today, he said strument of policy is the mili - GOOD MORNING VIETNAM “there is nothing but trouble. tary…whenever we have a He arrived in Vietnam in problem we say ‘send in the September, 1967 assigned as an marines.’ And by that time it’s advisor to a Vietnamese infantry too late.” division. He was supposed to be Jacobs says it was a historical the deputy senior advisor but accident he is so interested in when their captain returned politics and history. His father home, Jacobs found himself the was an electrical engineer and senior advisor. “we were always on the cutting He saw combat immediately. edge of electronic develop - The fighting engagement that ments.” His family was among was the occasion for his receiv - the few in the neighborhood ing the Medal of Honor oc - that owned a television and he curred six months into his tour recalls being utterly fascinated of duty, in March, 1968. by the political process as he By then he had plenty of ex - watched the 1952 Republican perience being shot at, “but all National convention. that notwithstanding, you never He noted however that A NEW YORKER FOR ALL NEW YORKERS get used to being scared.” thanks to the Internet, “right Jacobs goes into detail in his now we are in the middle of the memoire, which is now avail - biggest revolution in the distri - able in paperback, about what bution of information since the happened when his unit was Jack Jacobs in a photo taken invention of the printing press, ambushed. just after White House Medal and where it’s going, nobody JOHN CATSIMATIDIS Within the first few seconds of Honor ceremony in 1969. has any idea.” of the attack, almost everyone Perhaps that will keep him was either killed or wounded, We ignored what was going on more busy after retirement than For Mayor of New York, 2013 including himself. “There wasn't for decades and then were sur - before. any praying going on,” he said prised when things went to hell Wounded Warrior programs when he was asked, “Like every - in a handbasket.” offer “sports rehabilitation for body else I was busy trying to He told TNH “we are not severely wounded warriors in A proud member of the Omogeneia get my job done and stay alive.” well-served by “our natural re - military hospitals and commu - and the FIRST Greek-American to ever run for One and a half years later he action, which is to think – in nities across the United States received the Medal of Honor very self-centered terms – that through a nationwide network New York City’s mayoral seat. from President Nixon in a White everybody needs to have...and of over 100 community-based House Rose Garden ceremony. can have a republican form of chapters,” according to its web - Together, we can make it happen! “It was a beautiful day and there democracy.” He said “we forget site www.woundedwarriorpro - was a sea of people as far as you our own history…we were still ject.org could see.” He said, humbly, “It arguing about our constitution Information about Blue was a heady experience. You in 1787,” long after the Decla - Dream is available by calling don’t expect any kind of recog - ration of Independence. 631-283-6169, or by email to nition and getting the award The crux of the problem, he [email protected]. www.cats2013.com came as a surprise to me.” Prior says, is that “We have been very to the medal ceremony he and bad managing our foreign pol - Constantine S. Sirigos 4 EDUCATION THE NATIONAL HERALD, JULY 13-19, 2013 Libra Group CEO Urges Greeks to Choose Difficult Path and Avoid Hubris

ATHENS, Greece – Cheered on In his moving and highly ef - Kennedy sought to inspire in an by thousands of parents and fective speech, Mr. Logothetis earlier generation of Americans friends, hundreds of young grad - urged the graduates not to limit and that is represented in the uates celebrated received their their ambition to material goals, motto [of The American College degrees from DEREE - The Amer - telling them that the surest path of Greece]” – “Not to Be Served ican College of Greece in a ma - to success is though duty and but to Serve.” jestic ceremony last week. honor. He also warned against “There are no shortages of At the same time, they re - hubris: "I caution you to be very problems in the world, of that I ceived a warning that “nothing of careful when things go right – al - can assure you; but there are too real value or true worth is, or ways keep your feet on the often shortages of people willing should be, either easy or free; it ground and ensure hubris always to do something about those chal - requires struggle, effort, commit - gives way to humility. History is lenges,” Amb. Smith told the au - ment and conviction." littered with successful people un - dience that included ambassadors These words came from done by hubris." of other foreign nations, ministers George Logothetis, the chairman Just minutes before Mr. Logo - and members of the parliament, and CEO of New York-based Libra thetis’ address, Amb. Daniel Ben - as well as representatives of local Group, who was awarded an hon - nett Smith, the outgoing US en - governments and the business orary doctorate for his contribu - voy to Greece, urged young Greek world.. tion in building ACG’s extensive graduates to "reject the empty The graduates received their international internship program ideologies and promises of the far bachelor’s and master’s degrees and for his many other contribu - left and the far right, and to seek from the hands of the President tions to education and philan - to build a prosperous and open of the American College of thropy. society, which not only tolerates Greece, Dr. David G. Horner. Referring to the crisis and its but actually embraces diversity.” DEREE-ACG is accredited by the dispiriting effects on the young, Amb. Smith said that "over - New England Association of Logothetis stressed that the coming the challenges that Eu - Schools and Colleges, the oldest proper mindset should point rope and Greece face today -- as and most prestigious accredita - them toward “what you will do well as indeed the challenges all tion organization in the U.S. The to prevent the crisis from contin - of us in the world face today -- college is the largest and most uing and not what the crisis will will require the same sacrifice and A view of The American College of Greece Stadium during the 2013 Commencement exercise. historic American institution of prevent you from doing.” commitment that President The Graduates along with their friends and families cheer at the end of the ceremony. higher education in Europe. George Logothetis Advises DEREE Grads: You Need Both Passion and Belief

ATHENS – The following are re - from where we have come, and selves, when difficulties in - And stand up stronger. marks by George Logothetis, how much suffering has oc - evitably envelop us, is this: Fight your fears and harvest CEO of the Libra Group, at the curred in the years gone by. Will you confront them and your hopes! American College of Greece However bad things are here to - take the path of wisdom and re - Whatever you do with your Commencement Ceremonies on day in Greece, there is no occu - flection? lives, you also need to love it. June 29. pation, no famine, no mas - Or will you give into them Do what you love and love what It is a truly wonderful and sacres. We should look into the and take the path of self-pity you do. moving honor for me to be past to gain appreciation for the and regret? If this is accompanied by be - standing in front of you here to - present. One of these paths leads to lief and conviction, it is a pow - day. It is crucial to know, and re - progress and the other to bitter - erful and potent combination It is particularly poignant for spect where one has come from, ness. and you will positively surprise me personally as I never did in order to dream and better un - Will you stand up to diffi - yourself. complete university… so here I derstand where one wants to culty or run from it? Fight it or You need both passion and am graduating in front of go. flee from it? The deeper the belief. Do not settle for any less you all… 20 years late! Thanks! If one views ones past problems, the deeper the resolve as the starting point. For at the I am so very grateful to the heart of success is self-belief. If Board of Trustees for bestowing this is then married to moral this overwhelming honor on me. courage and fortitude, then you If there was ever an X marks the have the seeds of sustainable spot moment in my life, it is success in your pocket. Plant here, now, in front of you all on them with wisdom and vision. this minute of this day of this Now I want to tell you that I month of this year. have never worked primarily for Here we are… at X! money – it was never the driving George Logothetis addresses the graduating class of 2013. So I want to begin by em - motive or what resulted in a phatically congratulating you on bottomless well of energy to mindset should be: what are And so can you. So should graduating. Well done to you all keep going. you going to do in order to pre - you! – much hard work, effort and We worked to right a wrong. vent the crisis from continuing Ultimately, what will define commitment all coming to - A wrong that existed that has and not what is the crisis going you are the bad times, not the gether. now been righted. I tell you this, to prevent you from doing. good. How do you react when One chapter ends and an - as the power and courage you Look at life through the faced with attrition or obstruc - other begins. Don’t forget an have if you fight for something prism of possibility and spend tion? That is what will deter - end is also a beginning. It is an you believe in, will trump any your lives trying to convert that mine you, for nothing of real opportunity to better oneself, to ambition for material gain. possibility into probability. value or true worth is, or should start afresh, to re-affirm one’s Find a cause, tap into the ge - I also caution you to be very be, either easy or free. It re - soul and values, to be you. netic coding of all the accrued careful when things go right – quires struggle, effort, commit - Don’t waste this transition. suffering that your parents, always keep your feet on the ment and conviction. Don’t ever waste such visible grandparents and ancestors en - ground and ensure hubris al - So what am I trying to say? and obvious opportunities to dured for you to be here today ways gives way to humility. His - Make it less about me and change for the better. – and draw it down. tory is littered with successful more about us. Us, not I. Emeis We live in a world where in - Our grandparents and par - people undone by hubris. not ego! formation has been massively ents built yesterday; my gener - When we built our company Finally, be kind. Keep your democratized, transparency ation is building today – and Libra, the starting point was not empathy; enhance your empa - rules and the borders of the you will build tomorrow. that it would be possible or easy, thy always – for that is what world are constantly narrowing. George Logothetis (right) receives his honorary degree from Build it with wisdom and but that it was going to be im - makes and keeps us truly hu - While bringing massive benefits, ACG President Dr. David G. Horner. passion to honor the genera - possible and hard. Hard over man. it can also result in a dilution of tions of yesteryear. If you work easy, impossibility over possibil - I wish you all the success in traditional core values. Philo - through a proud and dignified that is needed to fight them. more out of duty and honor you ity. And yet here we are. the world and – remember – timo, philoxenia, phileia, phil - lens, this can give one limitless Don’t run, combat. Don’t give will have more guts and glory We wanted to be a force for never, ever give up! anthropia… these are powerful courage and conviction during in – fight on. Don’t complain – than if your aims are limited good. We also fought very hard The president will shortly be words that you need to hold the most difficult times – of contribute! solely to material gain. to keep our kindness and hu - handing you your diplomas, he’s onto, however much they some - which we all have many. If someone puts you down – Given the current crisis manity even when faced with also handing you our collective times get drowned out. The key thought – and I you better stand back up again. around us here, I strongly be - immense difficulties. And we future – be wise and kind with it. We also need to be aware mean key – you must ask your - You better stand up again. lieve, and advise, that your did. Thank you. Remarks by Ambassador Smith to Grads of American University in Greece

President Horner, borrowed from the motto of the which not only tolerates but ac - you what will become a life-long distinguished guests, American College of Greece – tually embraces diversity. passion for learning. faculty and staff, “Not to be Served, but to Serve.” It includes those willing to When I was a student, there family and friends, and students, President Kennedy’s address launch new businesses and take was a popular book by an author I am honored to be here took place against the backdrop new risks, even in the face of dif - named Alvin Toffler called “Fu - tonight among such an outstand - of a much different world than ficult economic challenges. This ture Shock.” ing group of graduates, and it is we face today. crisis can be an opportunity. His thesis, in a nutshell, was a great pleasure for me to have Nowhere is that more appar - The reforms that Greece is that the world and society are the opportunity to join you as ent than in Europe. Europe in undertaking can open new doors changing at ever increasing you mark this important mile - 1960 was a continent divided by to those willing to take chances, speeds and that we need to find stone. an Iron Curtain on the front lines to those willing to compete in a ways to cope with things like “in - I also want to congratulate of a Cold War that threatened global market place, to those not formation overload.” George Logothetis on his hon - many times to spill over into a afraid to fail and learn from that Toffler wrote his book before orary degree. It is richly de - war with unimaginable conse - experience. there was an internet or personal served. quences. It’s amazing to think I trust that your education computers, before email, before Your graduation tonight how far we have come since. here has helped prepare you and cell phones, Google or Facebook. marks the culmination not just How freedom has spread inspire you to meet these new If he thought there was informa - of years of dedication and hard throughout most of Europe, how challenges and to take advantage tion overload in 1970, imagine work, but also of the constant the constant threat of war has of this changing world. what he would think today. support you have received from receded, how NATO has adapted For those of you who are While many of us may look your teachers, families, and and ensured the continuation of Greek, you have an opportunity back longingly on a world with - friends. our trans-Atlantic security al - to help build a new, more com - out cell phones or email, believe During the three years that I liance, and how the European petitive and outward-looking me I do from time to time, we have had the privilege of repre - Union has brought ancient ene - Greek economy that is able to also need to recognize that senting President Obama and the mies together for mutual bene - thrive economically and exploit change is inevitable and that the United States of America in the fit. its natural advantages in fields speed with which things are Hellenic Republic, some of my I know that the current eco - ranging from energy to tourism changing is constantly accelerat - fondest memories have come nomic crisis has tested Europe and agriculture. ing. from the opportunities I have and the European Union, and I believe that while much The challenge for you will be had to interact with you and caused many to rethink where work remains to be done, the to adapt to this pace of change, your counterparts at the other Europe is headed and what the United States Ambassador to Greece Daniel Bennett Smith promise of that new economy is to harness new technology and fine colleges and universities that future of Europe will be. speaks to the graduates dressed in full academic regalia. drawing closer, holding out the to use it to improve our lives,not make up the network of Ameri - But I think it’s important to hope that Greece truly has complicate them further. can-affiliated institutions in remember as well how far Eu - perity. young people I have met over turned the corner, and will re - A commitment to lifelong Greece. rope has come and how much I believe that the skills and the courseof my three years here turn to steady economic growth learning will be critical not only You have unfailingly im - progress has been made. analytical abilities you have de - who are eager to make a differ - that will sustain your careers to your professional success, but pressed me not just with your Still, overcoming the chal - veloped here at Deree have pre - ence. over the long term. to your personal happiness as talents and seriousness of pur - lenges that Europe and Greece pared you well to help shape this This includes young people For those of you who are from well. pose, but with your confidence face today (as well as indeed the new future. who are reaching out to those other countries, I hope your ed - I wish you all the best in fac - in yourselves, and determination challenges all of us in the world There are no shortages of less fortunate, volunteering to ucational experience here has ing the challenges that lie ahead. to give back for the benefits that face today) will require the same problems in the world, of that I work in soup kitchens or home - helped you gain an international But as you go forth, do not you have received. sacrifice and commitment that can assure you. less shelters. perspective and insight into the forget the noble values and the In his famous inaugural ad - President Kennedy sought to in - But there are too often short - Young people joining forces challenges we face as a world principles you have learned, do dress over fifty years ago, Presi - spire in an earlier generation of ages of people willing to do to fight global threats such as cli - community and of the need for not forget those less fortunate dent John F. Kennedy challenged Americans and that is repre - something about those chal - mate changeor combat human us all to work together if we are than yourselves,and do not for - a generation of Americans with sented in the motto of this out - lenges. trafficking and modern day slav - to address problems that are get what you owe to your par - the famous words “Ask not what standing institution. That said, I remain hopeful. ery. truly global in dimension and ents, your teachers, your fellow your country can do for you, ask It will require leaders and cit - I am hopeful not only because I It includes young people who that no one nation alone can ad - students, your countries, and to what you can do for your coun - izens willing to rethink old as - see your bright, shining faces out reject the empty ideologies and dress or solve. the world. try.” sumptions, to reshape institu - there, and the obvious pride of promises of the far left and far Finally, I fervently hope that “Not to be Served, but to I would note that President tions, and to rebuild the your families, friends and teach - right, and who seek to build a your experience at the American Serve.” Kennedy could just as well have foundations of economic pros - ers, but because of the many prosperous and open society College of Greece has inspired in God bless you and God speed. THE NATIONAL HERALD, JULY 13-19, 2013 COMMUNITY 5 Karagiozis is Making a Comeback: an Homage to the Greek Shadow Theater

Continued from page 1 actly symbolizes a typical oli of Athens, the Patrini Sx - from about 1950 to 1970. He Greek. He is a poor ugly oli of Patras, and the played the role of the messen - shadow theater performer based hunchback. All these charac - Pireotiki Sxoli of Piraeus. ger, bringing news to villages in Athens. “Because the average teristics are symbolic, be - * There are about 3 through performances. Because Greek is going through some cause while we as a country to 4 stationary Kara - of the lack of media coverage difficult economic times, Kara - may be the cradle of civiliza - giozis theaters in the we have today, without these giozis shows are truly something tion and culture, we are very far Athens area, and performances, it would be im - enjoyable since they are not from that in reality. Karagiozi’s many travelling shows possible for some regions or vil - only comical, but also afford - ugliness symbolizes his poverty. which visit islands lages to receive the latest news, able,” he says. His hunchback symbolizes the and other cities and Karagiozis helped with that. Belonging to the historical burdens he carries, and his bare - around Greece. A basic and distinctive feature art form of shadow puppetry, footedness symbolizes our bare - * The Spathario of the shadow theater is free - Karagiozis theater is considered footedness in civilization, Museum of Shadow dom of speech and expression, a Modern Greek tradition and health, education and other Theater, named after and this was a very important pastime, making its way to post- things we remain behind in,” famed poplar pup - element during the time. revolutionary Greece from the says Theodoropoulos. peteer Eugenios TNH: How important is it to East. Some historians believe As man of the house who Spatharis, was opened keep the Karagiozis tradition that the shadow theater tech - strives to feed his family, in the municipality of alive? nique can be traced back to An - scheming and taking on Maroussi in 1995. MT: The only traditional en - cient Greece, as part of celebra - multiple jobs, creating The following is an tertainment Greece has left re - tions of the Eleusinian laughs as he goes about interview with Kara - ally, is that of traditional re - mysteries, held annually in Eleu - doing his business, giozis performer and gional dances and the shadow sis in Attica, in honor of the god - Karagiozis is a lovable fig - puppeteer Mixalis theater, so to that extent it is Vezyris dess Demeter and her daughter ure. “He finds a solution to Karagiozis Vezyropoula Nionios Theodoropoulos: important that we preserve this Persephone. Introduced to Mod - every problem and he’s a good TNH: How did the character tradition and art form. This craft ern Greece from Asia Minor, person,” explains Theodoropou - ing at Karagiozi from inside resenting the cool Rebetiko tra - of Karagiozis originate? is something you have to pursue Karagiozis officially took on his los. their home, representing a dition prevalent in Piraeus. Al - MT: There are many myths for many years…it’s an oral tra - Greek citizenship in Patras, KARAGIOZIS CHARACTERS housekeeper. though he tries to bully others, and stories regarding this. One dition that is passed on from the around the end of the 19th cen - All characters in Karagiozi The Kollitiria: Karagiozi’s Karagiozis often teases him. myth is that Karagiozis was a older generation to the younger tury. play unique roles representing three sons, who in some schools Solomon: Known simply as construction worker in Ali generation. In older times this HISTORY OF SHADOW various lifestyles. They are said of shadow theater are referred “the Jew,” Solomon is a rich Pasha’s palace. It is said that he history and technique was THEATER to have been modeled after ac - to as Kollitiris, Kopritis, and Thessalonikian businessman would humor other workers passed on strictly from father to The shadow theater was tual people in Greek society. Mirikogos. who sings and dances, repre - during break time to make the son. used in ancient times Though the original Hadjiavatis: Karagiozi’s hon - senting wealth and stinginess. workday a little easier to han - Karagiozis shows are some - mainly for religious prac - Karagiozis theater est friend who sometimes joins Veziris/Pasas: Symbolizing dle. Soon, his colleagues began times comedies and other times tices in China, India, started off with just two Karagiozi as a sidekick and is wealth and the ruling entity as to spend more and more time dramas, but there are always and Java. Later on, the characters, Karagiozis wrapped up in his schemes. He’s a dominant figure of the occu - listening to him and doing less jokes to be made, and through art form traveled west and his friend Hadjia - got it good with everyone, even pying side, the Pasha is a serious work. The construction of the Karagiozis and his humor, the and made its way to vatis, shadow pup - though he doesn’t really care and imposing character. palace was being delayed, and seriousness of drama is lifted a Europe through the peteers of various about them, because he wants Veziropoula: The Pasha’s when Ali Pasa found out the rea - bit. Karagiozis also serves as a Middle East and to schools gradually added to avoid problems. daughter who is accustomed to son behind this, he had Kara - historical learning tool. One Greece directly from on characters Barba Giorgos: A crude vil - a lavish lifestyle, obeying her fa - giozis hung. A friend who was show, for example, celebrates Turkey around 1841. lager from the mountains, de - ther, but is cunning and there - working with Karagiozis is said the story of Greek Independence The first-known per - picted as a large, strong shep - fore successful in accomplishing to have designed these puppet hero Athanasios Diakos. It is im - former of shadow the - herd in traditional foustanela. what she wants. figurines in memory of Kara - portant to keep this Greek tra - ater in Greece was He sports a mustache and car - Veligegkas: An Albanian giozis and used them in shadow dition going and it is our respon - Barbagiannis Vraxalis. ries a staff. He considers Kara - guard of the palace, symbolizing theater to sort of remember him sibility as Greeks to appreciate Picking up the skill, giozis a crook, but nonetheless the police force, who comes af - and pass on his jokes. It’s really this art form, which is our own. performer Dimitrios stands up for his kin. Being his ter Karagiozis to often beat him a mixed up story though be - Theodoropoulos is a trained Sardounis, known as own man and following his own for his actions. He is uncivilized cause there are many myths that Karagiozis performer and pup - “Mimaros,” is accred - ways, he has steadfast char - and stupid, executing the have been passed on over the peteer of the Xaridimou school. ited with “Greekifying” acter and does not bow Pasha’s commands while trying years. He has been involved in puppet the character of Kara - down to others, represent - to maintain public order. TNH: Describe your personal theater since age six, mentored giozis in about 1891. ing self-confidence. SHADOW THEATER FACTS fascination with Karagiozis by the Athanasiou Brothers, and Karagiozis soon after - Kolitiri Sior Dionysios: * The name Karagiozis is de - shadow theater. currently performs in Athens ward became known A Zakynthian gen - rived from the Turkish “Kara - MT: I was introduced to and in travelling Karagiozis among the Greek people from tleman of aris - gioz,” which means dark-eyed. Karagiozis at the age of six. In shows. port to port as an image and tocratic back - * Karagiozis productions and the eight to nine years that I was KARAGIOZIS representation of simple life and Morfonios ground who shows start off and end with attending Saturday Karagiozis TO TRAVEL ABROAD common society. sings cantades. Karagiozis on stage, usually be - workshops as a child, I didn’t New York-based Globe Enter - The original characters of which were He represents ginning with the traditional miss a single day. This art form tainment Promotions Inc. plans theater performed by Vraxalis adopted as classic new money “Serviko” song and dance. Per - is not something you can just on bringing Karagiozis and his were few. The number has sig - figures in the years and the high- formances end with Karagiozis attend classes to learn, it’s some - clan of puppets for a visit to the nificantly grown over the years to come. Popular nosed attitude of muttering the comical phrase thing that you have to love and United States as part of an in - as key professional puppeteers characters include: such Greeks, when “apopse tha fame, tha pioume, work with for many years to be ternational tour in the upcom - have introduced their own char - Karagiozis: in reality he is kai noistikoi tha koimithoume” able to be good at. It’s a very ing year. acters into the clan of puppets, Representing a penniless. meaning “tonight we will dine, difficult art form…for example, “Karagiozis represents for me called “figoures” in Greek. Some poor Greek man, Morfonios: A and drink, and go to sleep hun - I performed my first solo show what it does for most Greek peo - characters, like those created by Karagiozis is clever, very ugly suit- gry.” in 2009, after 21 years of in - ple. The performance offers a Mimaros, were eventually simple, sarcastic, a wearing ladies * In Karagiozis shadow the - volvement with shadow theater. magical portal into a past that Skorpios adopted into the traditional set comedian, and also man with a huge ater, a puppeteer stands behind The art and performance of is pure and beautiful both on a used widely to this day. patriotic, with a good heart. head and long an illuminated white cloth Karagiozis is a whole world in personal level and a national KARAGIOZIS THE GREEK Quick to take on new challenges nose, who con - screen and acts out scenes, itself, and once you have truly one… it taps into wonderful AND SYMBOLIZM and ready to joke, Karagiozis siders him - while narrating and singing to entered it, it’s difficult to leave. childhood memories, but also Depicted as an impoverished faces his poverty and misfortune self hand - live or playback music. While As a professional Karagiozis per - perhaps memories of a better hunchback, Karagiozis lives in a with an optimistic soul and Pitsirikos some and falls some Karagiozis stories are clas - former, you carry the weight of Greece,” says Dimitris Kant - shack, called the “paragka” with good humor. His hunchback in love often. He believes he is sics, (there are about 30) the this cultural icon on your back. zoglou, managing director at his wife and three kids, called symbolizes the oppressed and the most sought-after male, viewing experience usually in - Karagiozis is a cultural inheri - Globe. the “kolitiria,” collectively. The deprived Greek population, when in reality he is a sad case cludes audience input and cre - tance. I would be honored and “Karagiozis has a dual role traditional scene depicts his di - while his long arm, which he with an overblown ego. Speak - ative improvisation by the pup - happy if my son decides to one however; most importantly, the lapidated cottage to the left, and waives around and beats people ing through his bit nose, Morfo - peteer. day continue my work with the show acts as a powerful vehicle the Sultan’s lavish palace oppo - with, represents his cleverness nios is also characterized by the * A sole narrator is in charge shadow theater. of sociopolitical and cultural ex - site, a stark representation of and trickery. making odd sound “whit” dur - of all dialogue that happens be - TNH: What makes for a suc - pression with a unique timeless social status differences. Aglaia: Karagiozi’s nagging ing speech. tween Karagiozis and other cessful performance? quality. Therefore, the nurtur - “Karagiozis as a character ex - wife. She is often heard scream - Stavrakas: A “magkas” rep - characters, as well as interaction MT: Audience involvement ing, protection and celebration with the audience. Sometimes, is a key element to a great per - of this highly valuable art form depending on the size of the formance. About 30 percent of becomes crucial in the sustain - screen and puppets, a second a show is based off some sort of ability of the Greek culture and performer takes on the respon - predetermined storyline. The re - its traditions, an approach that Run It: Crime Drama of Raw Realism sibility of acting out movements. maining 70 percent is improvi - falls directly in line with our * The puppet figures them - sation. Like Aesop’s fables, company's mission and efforts,” selves can be made of cardboard Karagiozis stories leave the au - he adds. Continued from page 1 by exclusion method, cut out in dience with messages and The tour will include live detail to let light through. An - morals learned. Performances shows and entertainment for glect, but ends up accidentally other traditional way of creating keep the attention of children, audiences of all ages, as well as shooting his mother to death. the puppets is using dried and and that makes it easy for them art workshops for children. You could criticize Run it for stretched cowhide, which allows to stay entertained while learn - For more information on the its unending brutality – and the for the addition of color as well. ing history and culture. history of Karagiozis and blood does flow – or you could Today, Plexiglas is used as the TNH: What is an example of Shadow Theater is available at compare it to a tragedy like more sustainable modern op - how Karagiozis has played an the website of the Spathario Macbeth. Once the story’s set in tion. important role in modern Greek Museum: karagiozismuseum.gr, motion, it moves to a devastat - * The three original and tra - history? or greekshadows.com. For fu - ing end. ditional regional schools of MT: Karagiozis played a ma - ture updates on the Karagiozis Regardless, the independent Karagiozis are the Athinaiki Sx - jor role in the post WWII era, Tour, on globeent.com. film has been earning attention, including from The Hollywood Reporter and The New York Times. It won the Gold Award at the Philadelphia International Film Festival, the Bronze Palm George and Evangelos Giovanis, brothers and filmmakers, en - SPEAK GREEK in 2 MONTHS Award at the Mexico Interna - livened their showing of Run It at Cinema Village with a Q & A tional Film Festival, and the about the making of their gritty urban drama. Next on the agenda CHILDREN & ADULTS - Tutoring one-on-one Gold Kahuna Award at the Hon - for the independent filmmakers and Vago Productions, Bereave, olulu International Film Festival. starring actors Malcolm McDowell and Neve Campbell. Two well-known actors, Sam Phonetic Method - Via Internet or Telephone Coppola of Saturday Night Fever ternational Film Festival where they can catch up with it when and veteran character actor it was compared to “young Cas - it’s featured in the New York Louis Zorich, husband of savetes” and “Martin Scorsese.” City Greek Film Festival in Oc - Olympia Dukakis, have roles in For those who missed Run It, tober. Children will learn the film. Both Evangelos and to understand and SPEAK Greek George Giovanis play roles in the film, along with wearing based on experiences related to many other hats – including pro - their daily life: home, church, school. ducer, editor, and director of photography. The Giovanis and their Vago Adults will learn Productions next plan to pro - duce Bereave, a story that fo - to communicate in Greek comfortably - cuses on a man who has figured via dialogues on true to life situations. out how to die alone. When his Emphasis is placed on vocabulary and beloved Evelyn mysteriously goes missing on their anniver - expressions - enough grammar to help b sary, he must live to save her. www.GreekKitchennyc.com develop correct sentence structure. The film will star the legendary Helen Dumas star Malcolm McDowell of A

Clockwork Orange, as well as a Both Courses will be easy, simple, actress Neve Campbell of For further information: Scream and Wild Things. Mc - enjoyable, quick and affordable. Dowell has taken a personal in - Phone: 310.941.0700 terest in the film and is doing a New classes (for individuals and crowd funding campaign to help E-Mail: [email protected] produce Bereave. Evangelos Website: www.speakgreeknow.com groups) start the first Monday of each Month. Giovanis wrote the script and will direct. Says Evangelos: “We’re Helen Dumas internationally recognized learning with every film, and as an authority in teaching Greek as a 2nd language - we’ve said that every film has to be better than the last one. and in the shortest period of time. So far this has held true.” Their first film, Land of Nod, pre - Helen's tutoring method leaves phenomenal results! miered at the Thessaloniki In - 6 COMMUNITY THE NATIONAL HERALD, JULY 13-19, 2013 Two Millennia Later and Counting, Archimedes is Still Impacting Science

By Kenneth Chang built in Europe, including one came up with fundamental laws The New York Times commissioned by Queen Eliza - of nature, proved them mathe - beth II of England to power matically and then was able to For the last time: Archimedes Windsor Castle; the first in the apply them,” Dr. Rorres said. did not invent a death ray. United States could start oper - Archimedes oversaw the de - But more than 2,200 years ating next year. fenses of Syracuse, and while after his death, his inventions And Archimedes’ ideas are death ray mirrors and steam are still driving technological in - showing up in other fields as cannons (another supposed novations – so much so that ex - well. “He just planted the seeds Archimedes invention debunked perts from around the world for so many seminal ideas that by Mythbusters) were too fan - gathered recently for a confer - could grow over the ages,” said ciful, the Archimedes Claw ap - ence at New York University on Chris Rorres, an emeritus pro - pears to have been a real his continuing influence. fessor of mathematics at Drexel weapon used against the Roman The death ray legend has University, who organized the navy. Archimedes using mirrors to conference at N.Y.U. It is very likely that it took concentrate sunlight to inciner - A panoply of devices and advantage of two scientific prin - ate Roman ships attacking his ideas are named after ciples Archimedes discovered. home of Syracuse, the ancient Archimedes. Besides the With his law of buoyancy, he city-state in the southeast Sicily. Archimedes Screw, there is the was able to determine whether It has been debunked no fewer Archimedes Principle, the law a paraboloid (a shape similar to than three times on the televi - of buoyancy that states the up - the nose cone of a jetliner) sion show Mythbusters (the ward force on a submerged ob - would float upright or tip over, third time at the behest of Pres - ject equals the weight of the liq - a principle of utmost impor - ident Obama). uid displaced. There is the tance to ship designers, and Rather, it is a mundane con - Archimedes Claw, a weapon Archimedes probably realized traption attributed to the great that most likely did exist, grab - that the Roman ships were vul - Greek mathematician, inventor, bing onto Roman ships and tip - nerable as they came close to engineer and military planner - ping them over. the city walls. the Archimedes Screw, a And there is the Archimedes “Archimedes knew about the corkscrew inside a cylinder - Sphere, a forerunner of the stability of these kinds of ships,” that has a new use in the 21st planetarium – a hand-held globe said Harry G. Harris, an emeri - Century. For thousands of years, that showed the constellations Archimides is in deep thought above. His work was celebrated at a conference organized by Dr. tus professor of structural engi - farmers have used this simple as well as the locations of the Chris Rorres, professor emeritus at Drexel University, and his wife, Billie. neering at Drexel who has built machine for irrigation: Placed sun and the planets in the sky. a model of the claw. “When it is at an angle with one end sub - “Here was someone who just volume between a crown made trivance due to Archimedes in - sented it in public for the first moving fast through the water, merged in a river or a lake, the changed how we look at the of pure gold and one made of a side,” he wrote. “He had devised time at the conference. it is stable. Standing still or go - screw is turned by a handle, lift - universe,” Dr. Rorres said. mixture of gold and silver is too a way in which a single rotation “I can’t guarantee that the ing very slow, it is very easy to ing water upward and out at the Only a handful of small to be reliably measured. would generate the several non- original was like this,” Mr. tip over.” other end. Archimedes’ writings survive, Some of the talks at the con - uniform motions.” Wright said. “What I can say is So using an Archimedean A couple of decades ago, en - and much of what we think we ference were about using pre - If this description is taken lit - this, in the simplest way that I principle – the law of the lever, gineers found that running an know about him was written sent-day ingenuity to figure out erally, it would seem that can imagine it, fits the evidence which enables a small force to Archimedes screw backward – centuries after his death. what Archimedes actually Archimedes figured out the we have. We’ve been talking for lift a large weight, as in seesaws that is, dropping water in at the Some of the legends, like us - achieved in antiquity. gearing needed to mimic the 2,000 years about this thing that and pulleys – a claw at the end top, causing the screw to turn ing mirrors to set the Roman Michael Wright, a researcher motion of the planets, including Archimedes made, and nobody of a chain would be lowered as the water falls to the bottom ships afire, proved too good to at Imperial College London, has the retrograde motion where seems to have offered to show and hooked into a Roman ship, – is a robust, economical and ef - be true. The same may go for been trying to decipher how the they appear to stop and reverse people what it was like. I had then lifted to capsize the ship ficient way to generate electric - the tale of Archimedes figuring Archimedes sphere showed the direction for a while before pro - an idea. I thought it was worth and crash it against the rocks. ity from small streams. out, while sitting in a bathtub, night sky. Although it is de - ceeding in their usual direction. making, even if it was so people Syracuse won the battle but The power output is modest, how to tell if the maker of a scribed in historical writings, no “This instrument was just could have an argument about was weakened under a long enough for a village, but with a crown for the king had fraudu - pieces or even drawings of it like any other celestial sphere, it and disagree with it. That’s a siege and fell three years later. small impact on the environ - lently mixed in some silver with have survived. Others had al - except with the addition of in - good way to get things going.” And in 212 B.C., at the age of ment. Unlike the turbine blades the gold; according to this story ready made celestial spheres, dicators for the Sun, Moon, the Dr. Rorres said the singular about 75, Archimedes was killed that spin in huge hydropower Archimedes, too excited to put globes that show the positions planets moving over the sphere genius of Archimedes was that by a Roman soldier, supposedly plants like the Hoover Dam, an on clothes, ran naked through of the constellations. and a mechanism inside the he not only was able to solve furious that he refused to stop Archimedes screw permits fish the streets of Syracuse shouting, The Roman historian Cicero sphere to move them,” Mr. abstract mathematics problems, work on a mathematical draw - to swim through it and emerge “Eureka!” described the Archimedes Wright said. but also used mathematics to ing. His last words: “Do not dis - at the other end almost un - As with the mirrors, the un - Sphere as uninteresting at first In the spring, he began build - solve physics problems, and he turb my circles!” scathed. derlying principle works. But in glance until it was explained. ing his version of the then engineered devices to take Of course, that bit about the Such generators have been practice, the tiny difference in “There was a wonderful con - Archimedes Sphere. He pre - advantage of the physics. “He circles is probably also a myth. Greek Shipping Magnate Frangou: Industry Leader, Sailing into the Wind

Continued from page 1 A divorced mother of one, nies on the NYSE. The first, Ms. Frangou is dressed in a Navios Maritime Partners, a shipping companies is consid - dark, masculine-but-elegant pin- company that lured investors ered a virtual birthright, she is striped suit. Her silver-grey hair though its high-dividend yield, the executive to watch; a poten - is short, almost punk-inspired; and Navios Maritime Acquisi - tial Aristotle Onassis in the mak - her eyebrows dark and thick. tion, which runs a tanker fleet. ing, though adorned with pearl She offers a warm smile and The trio of public companies earrings and a necklace. speaks fluent, though heavily has a combined market value of Her family is from the accented, English. about $1.8-billion (U.S.). A Aegean island of Chios, near the This being a port town, the fourth company, Navios South Turkish coast. “The island has a kitchen staff, clad in nautical American Logistics, runs a barge long tradition in shipping,” she white, give us the full seafood and port business in Uruguay says. “Absolutely everyone was lunch treatment in the vast and Paraguay. Ms. Frangou said working in shipping there. The Navios boardroom overlooking she plans to take the South baker came from another is - the harbour: Plump shrimp to American unit public also. land.” start, followed by pan-fried The Navios group cruised The Fulvia is long gone, but Mediterranean red snapper as through the financial crisis and it “was a great investment,” Ms. thick and meaty as a Texas T- recession with relative ease, Frangou says. “I wanted to have bone (two big helpings for me), even though the share prices my own business, so I took the served with asparagus, baby tanked. The companies have challenge to reactivate the ves - potatoes and steamed carrots. managed to raise about $3-bil - sel. I supervised everything. The meal is paired with a crisp lion (U.S.) in debt and equity Everything had been stolen. You Greek white. Simple and deli - since September, 2008, the opened the machinery and the cious. month of the collapse of parts were missing inside.” CAPTAIN DAD Lehman Brothers. The ship was ready to re - Ms. Frangou barely touches Bank debt was replaced by sume service within four her meal or the wine, not be - bonds, Navios vessels secured months, by which time its value cause she isn’t hungry, but be - long contracts, providing cash had doubled, she says. The over - cause her enthusiasm about flow stability, operating costs hauled Fulvia made its first voy - shipping and the companies she were trimmed by doing repairs age to the United States, a trip has built compels her to keep at sea instead of shipyards and that made her a small fortune. talking. “I’m not a workaholic, Ms. Frangou pioneered the use She was hooked by the indus - but one of my hobbies is work,” “I’m not a workaholic, but one of my hobbies is work,” Angeliki Frangou says. She probably of credit default insurance, try’s profit potential. She would she explains. picked up the hobby from her father, Nicholas Frangos, who at 86 still runs a few ships. which protected her business abandon her career as a Wall She speaks frankly about pol - when post-crunch customers Street analyst and become the itics , especially about the dead vessels. Nicolas’s father and the She decided to bolster her ca - leverage in a highly cyclical could not meet their contract fifth generation of Frangous to hand of the Greek state and why father of Athina Livanos, Aristotle reer prospects with an MBA business. commitments. Meanwhile, make their living off the high shipping companies, Greek or Onassis’s first wife, were partners from New York University, but Indeed, applying the princi - Navios bought foreclosed ships seas. foreign, should remain shielded in the shipping industry. never graduated because she ples of high finance to the more from creditors at knock-down Navios’s base of Piraeus has from taxes because their earn - As a teenager, Ms. Frangou took a job as an analyst on the down-to-earth business of filling prices. been Athens’ port district since ings are made on the stateless would cross the Atlantic on one trading floor of Republic Na - cargo holds with soya, wheat SHIPPING UP TO PIRAEUS the Fifth Century BC. Today, it high seas. of her father’s vessels, but tional Bank, where she worked and oil products gave her an Her companies are now at - is Europe’s largest passenger Ms. Frangou acknowledges needed time to be convinced from 1987 to 1989. edge in an industry that has suf - tracting “outperform” ratings port terminal, an expanse of the help she received in getting that a shipping career was for The bank job changed Ms. fered greatly since the financial from some analysts, including towering white cruise ship hulls started, explaining that her fa - her. She was more interested in Frangou’s life because it ex - crash of 2008. those at the Royal Bank of tethered to wharves. While the A BLANK CHECK Canada, in spite of their finan - city bustles with activity, it has After the Fulvia success, Ms. cial complexity. Ms. Frangou is a grubby and run-down feel, Frangou went to ship auctions predicting a shipping rebound, and the millions of tourists who in Brazil to buy and restore or - but won’t hazard a guess as to land here generally flee to phaned vessels. In 2004, she ze - when that will happen. “After a Athens or to the Aegean islands. roed in on special purpose ac - crisis, the market will go up and The Navios headquarters, a quisition companies, or SPACs, whoever survives will be very nondescript seven-story glass as a vehicle that could bring her wealthy,” she says. box, fits right into the shabby business to the next level. These Meanwhile Ms. Frangou is port atmosphere, hardly reflect - entities, also known as “blank making plans to expand – she is ing the status of Ms. Frangou’s cheque” companies, traded over now loading up on container company. Inside is a different the counter in the American ships and working with a do - story, though: a study in cool, market, had no income and mestic economic think tank to open modernism, inspired by were designed to make acquisi - find ways to create more ship - Ms. Frangou’s stint on Wall tions. ping jobs for Greeks. She claims Street. Ms. Frangou launched a that most of the job growth in The decor in the reception SPAC with $200-million (U.S.) her country has come about by area and meeting rooms consists in investor funds and used the padding the bureaucracy – “in of model ships and small gold- vehicle to buy International essence creating non-productive colored axes in glass boxes. Shipping Enterprises, which people.” She believes that bust - Each axe was used to christen a United States Steel Corp. estab - ing the powerful Greek shipping new Navios ship by cutting the lished in the mid-1950’s to union would create tens of thou - tether fastened to the cham - transport iron ore from sands of jobs. pagne bottle that smashes Venezuela to Canada and the Taxation is another matter. against the hull. United States. Neither Navios nor other Greek I realize that Ms. Frangou The new company, renamed shipping companies pay a Greek has amassed considerable Navios, became one of the very income tax, though a small levy wealth when I examine a group - first dry-bulk shipping compa - based on the ships’ tonnage has ing of curious clay figurines, all nies to list on a stock exchange. been introduced. armless, displayed behind plex - Traditionally, Greek shipping Does Ms. Frangou think it’s iglass. The arms of these clay magnates had cherished their fair that Greece’s biggest and characters from China’s Tang Angeliki Frangou, who as a teenager sailed on her father’s vessels, dons the prestigious hat privacy. “A SPAC can take you best-known industry is legally Dynasty, a three-century reign that goes with being the Connecticut Maritime Association’s Commodore for 2011. public very quickly,” she says. “I allowed to escape taxation as that ended in the year 907 A.D., totally changed this market, the country grinds its way were made of wood and so ther, Nicolas Frangos, provided mechanical engineering and so posed her to the world of finan - which became a $10-billion through a protracted recession? didn’t survive the centuries. “I the funds she needed to buy the studied the subject at New Jer - cial engineering. She worked business.” “To be honest, yes,” she says. enjoy ancient Greek and Byzan - Fulvia. She calls her father “cap - sey’s Farleigh Dickinson Univer - with credit default insurance, Suddenly, Ms. Frangou was “If I am taxed here and have to tine antiquities,” she says. “An - tain.” sity, and then completed a mas - which taught her how to judge an international shipping player compete internationally, I can - cient Chinese antiquities, I At 86, he still runs a few ships. ter’s degree, also in mechanical risk and how to hedge, as well and had access to public capital. not compete. Then I close my love.” At one point, he had about 50 engineering. as the dangers of excessive She floated two more compa - business.” THE NATIONAL HERALD, JULY 13-19, 2013 COMMUNITY 7

ALL HISTORY The Reverend George Patterson: a Fine Grecian Gentleman of Old South

By Steve Frangos of the extended Papathakes large plantation owned by TNH Staff Writer Family. Josiah Collins at Lake Scupper - While no source disputes that nong near Hillsboro, NC. He was Part One Papathakes married Louisa, two universally loved. The Negro points are nearly always brought slaves responded to him with Much of Greek-American his - up: first, that Papathakes never childlike delight and affection. tory is regional in nature and denied or denounced his mem - The associations of this period very often maintained by living bership in the Greek Orthodox were the most sacred and help - memories. Traveling through the faith, and second that at the ful of his life, he used to say, country, it is common to hear of time of their marriage Louisa “thus the son of a Greek immi - some historical figure, well- was a devout Unitarian. grant from Athens, reared in known to locals within a given By all accounts a devoted Boston by a typical New England city, county, or region, who was couple once their only son was Unitarian mother, educated in a Greek. Once the memory of born, Louisa consented to his be - Wisconsin, and ordained in such an individual is raised, ing baptized in 1829 at St. Paul’s North Carolina appears to have pride-of-place takes over and Episcopal Church as it was Pap - found his own people in the one is regaled with the exploits athakes’ belief that the Episcopal South.’ and character of that venerated Church was the closest in creed “And here we encounter an figure. This is a part of living to the Greek Orthodox. At the aspect of Patterson’s beliefs and American history that confounds time of George’s baptism, his character that are difficult to un - many recently-arrived Greeks, mother also insisted that the last derstand. Patterson became such since rarely do any of these col - name be Americanized to Pat - a devotee of the South and of lective memories have anything terson. In 1832, Louisa con - the institution of slavery he to do with the Greek aspects of vinced her husband to change George Patterson’s father was born Petro Papathakes. With no Greek Orthodox churches in the wrote (and we must suspect, at the person’s life. The enduring his name legally through an Act vicinity, on his deathbed he asked his devout Unitarian wife, Louisa Miles, to raise their son in least, that he also preached) in influence/s of Greeks in the of Congress, and so Petro Pap - the Episcopalian church because he felt it was closest to Orthodoxy. George studied at the Uni - support of the institution of slav - wider American society in which athakes became Peter Patterson versity of North Carolina and became an Episcopal priest, but the man who was devoted to the ery on Biblical grounds. Patter - they live/d is a subject of study (officially) on March 13 of that South became a strong advocate for slavery. His elegant tombstone is shown above. son’s views on slavery are re - with the stamp of official sanc - year. vealed in a pamphlet, entitled, tion from Greece. Peter Patterson died in 1833. fection how his mother consci - the ministry as a vocation for events do not always agree in ‘The Scripture Doctrine with Re - A fine example of just such On his deathbed, Patterson he entiously, though remaining a her son. She went so far, finally, every source, but the basic out - gard to Slavery,’ that he pub - an individual is the life and on - reportedly requested that his Unitarian herself, brought him as to say that, if he should be - line is as follows. By 1850 or lished anonymously in Pennsyl - going recollections surrounding four year-old son be brought up up in the Episcopal Church. come a priest in the Church, he 1851 Patterson began his reli - vania in 1856. “In the pamphlet, the Reverend George Patterson. in the Eastern Orthodox faith. No record or account on could not and ought not to gion education at the Nashotah Patterson asked “Is slavery a Patterson is one of those per - From our perspective in history, George Patterson’s early life and marry. Her son was firm, how - House in Wisconsin and later at - sin?” and attempted to argue in sons, like other individuals in the exchange that is reported to education exists. Dr. Alexander ever, and declared that he was tended the University of North the negative by citing dozens of the South, that continue to rec - next have occurred between the H. Vinton of St. Paul’s Church willing to take a vow of celibacy, Carolina. Not long after that, he passages from the Old and the ognize as both a true son of the Pattersons is more than a little was his rector and advisor, and if she thought it necessary to his received permission to take his New Testament that seemed to South as well as a Greek. puzzling. It is perhaps filled with it does appear that young Pat - entering the ministry. So he took pastoral training in North Car - provide at least Scriptural ap - George Patterson was born in local meaning/s in terms of fam - terson entered Harvard College. the vow, and all his life remained olina. On April 9, 1852, Bishop proval of the practice. The piece Boston, MA on July 13, 1828. ily, religion, and social status But by 1851, when he was 23, unmarried. I have heard him Levi Silliman Ives (1797-1867) became one of the most promi - His mother, Louisa Miles, was a than someone not from Boston Patterson informed his mother say: ‘I presented my mother for ordained him deacon in North nently known defenses of slav - direct descendant of John Miles, in the 1830s can now fully ap - that he had decided to take or - confirmation afterwards (when Carolina and on April 27, 1856, ery.” who came from England about preciate. Louisa, ever the dutiful ders in the Episcopal Church. she left the Unitarian Church Bishop Thomas Atkinson (1807- Patterson’s acceptance of the 1639, settled in Concord, and wife, is reported to have an - Unlike many a Greek mother, and joined the Episcopal), and 1881) ordained him a priest. Ini - Southern way of life was no af - was said to be the progenitor of swered her husband’s last re - Patterson most certainly did not she tried to absolve me from that tially Patterson served as assis - fectation. Early in 1862, he vol - many respectable families. Pat - quest by saying, “but you have want her son to become a cler - vow; but it was too late. I had tant to Rev. G. A. Watson in the unteered and became the chap - terson’s father, Petro Papathakes, no church in this country.” “Yes, gyman. taken it. Vows are not very good Grace Church of Plymouth, NC. lain of the Third North Carolina was a Greek whose father had I have,” Peter immediately an - As we read in Thomas F. things to take; but when you Next, Patterson served as a Regiment. His war experiences brought the entire family to swered, “The Church of Eng - Gailor’s published account of take them, you ought to stick to missionary to the slaves belong - and later life were to be the sub - Boston in 1816. While we learn land’s faith is the same as mine.” Patterson’s life, “she tried hard them.” ing to Josiah Collins, owner of ject of many a treasured recol - that in time Papathakes became Over the course of his entire to dissuade him, both because Events moved quickly once the massive Somerset Plantation lection and not a few tall tales. a prosperous Boston merchant, life, George Patterson would tell her religion was different from Patterson had decided upon the in Washington County. “For five we hear no more about the rest friends with deep and tender af - his and because she objected to ministry and the dates of specific years he was a chaplain on a [email protected]

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By Phylis (Kiki) Sembos “Sure! I got special ones, too. blood hound on a scent. “How count what he’d found; four Special to The National Herald They’re called ‘Big Boys’. Last much? What did you do with quarters and a fifty cent piece, year, my neighbor got two the bone?” John shrugged, but no bones. Giving up, Yiannis Yiannis was trying to con - pounders from each one of “Who cares? I’m interested in packed up his gloves, hat, jeans vince the others that living in them. He got fifty pounds of my tomatoes, that’s all.” Yiannis’ and soiled shirt and went inside the suburbs wasn’t so practical. tomatoes.” mind spun like the last rinse in where John’s wife made him “You’ve got to mow the lawn, “Ah ha! So, now you have to the washing machine. Could it coffee and a sandwich. Hours take the garbage out front, shovel the ground wide and be? Finally, he said, “You know? later, John, Dimos, George and shovel snow from your walk, deep before you plant them. My doctor said I need fresh air Kipreos sauntered into the back - pay property taxes and a lot Back-breaking work! Huh! and exercise. The only draw - yard and looked around. John more.” He sipped his coffee with Then, fertilize, add lime...lot of back to living in an apartment held two boxes of tomato flats; the ambiance of a city slicker. work. All I do is go to the mar - is not getting enough of both. George and Dimos held the oth - “Areti couldn’t handle all that.” ket and fill a bag.” He reached So, would you mind if...” ers. Looking around, Kipreos “You have disadvantages, for a donut with nonchalance. “Not at all, Yiannis,” John said, “Looks like Yiannis was too, Yiannis,” said John. “Your John looked annoyed. If only he readily accepted. “Come tomor - here – digging. I wonder if he rent rises every year, no heat could best him. But how? row. Help yourself! The shovel’s found anything.” John looked sometimes, neighbors yell when George put down his coffee, in the shed beside the house. I out at the small plot of land that your radio is loud or they play winked at Dimos and began Yup! It was! They gave him five back yards – especially, in Asto - have to pick up the plants some - was all dug up. “The place is all their radio loud and you never telling them about the neighbor hundred thousand dollars for it. ria. But, who knows?” he time this week.” ready for planting. George told know who lives next door and in Astoria who found a bone in Did anybody read about that?” shrugged, taking up his coffee. Yiannis wasted no time. Next him, “He found a dollar and fifty plenty more. You have no stor - his back yard. “He called his Dimos set his coffee cup down, Yiannis listened with growing afternoon found him; shovel in cents.” age, either.” son’s teacher who said it might slowly, catching on to George’s interest. John observed the eye hand, digging here and there in “How do you know that?” “Are you planting tomatoes be a fossil bone – something drift. “Oh, I remember! It was exchanges between them. They John’s small backyard and find - asked Kipreos. George grinned, this year, John?” Kipreos asked, about a million years old. He in the papers. Lucky guy! They were up to something. He de - ing a fifty cent piece here, a broadly, “That’s how much I to change the subject. called the Smithsonian Society. say, there’s a lot more bones in cided to play their game. He quarter there. He kept digging. tossed into the soil, yesterday.” said, “Come to think of it there When most of the yard was dug Laughing aloud, John said, was a bone in my back yard last and thoroughly furrowed he “Getting the soil ready for plant - year. And, some coins, I recall.” took out his handkerchief and ing for a dollar fifty is a real bar - Glorious Graduation Day at Saint George Yiannis’s attention perked like a mopped his sweat, stopping to gain – and no bones about it.”

By Demetris Tsakas as young as two years old. and evoked optimism,” said Tri - TNH Staff Writer Triantafillou told TNH that antafillou, who serves the Acad - the decision to implement a spe - emy on a volunteer basis, but NEW YORK – It was a brilliant cial program for year olds serves she also makes contributions to THE NATIONAL HERALD BOOKSTORE day in every sense of the word two main purposes. First, it cover expenses. Exercise your mind with the latest books from The National Herald Collection at the graduation ceremony of meets the high demand that ex - Asked when they will pro - the St. George Children’s Acad - ists for programs for that age ceed to the development of full emy of the Church of St. George group, and second, because they day school, she noted that the DEMETRIOS PROTOPSALTIS in Trenton. want to give the children the current stage of development is holds a doctor of education (EdD) degree from Nova The children were the stars opportunity to attend bi-lingual of great importance to the suc - of the show that was set in the classes at a very young age and cess of the Pre-K program and University of Fort Lauderdale, Florida. He was born in Chalkis, parish gymnasium. The three-to- to spend an additional year in its expansion, which will pave Euboea, Greece. After graduating from the 3rd Gymnasium five year-olds astonished the par - the Academy. the way for the establishment of Athens, he migrated to Canada and re-ceived his bachelor ents, guests, and leaders of the Asked about the upcoming of the higher grades. of arts at the University of Winnipeg, Mani-toba. community with the songs they school year, Triantafillou indi - They seek to hire a new He taught both English and history at the Whitemouth and performed and the pride they ex - cated they will have more chil - teacher for the fall term, one Silver Heights collegiates for a number of years. He acquired pressed in their Greek origin. dren than last year because it is who speaks good basic Greek his residency in the United States in 1966 and continued It was the school’s second a quality program that is pro - with good pronunciation and ei - teaching both English and history in the Livermore and graduation, and the most touch - gressing and is on a par with ther has or is able to obtain a ing to date according to those the best public and private Child Development Associate Newark School systems. in attendance. It coincided with Kindergartens in New Jersey. (CDA) bachelor’s degree. After receiving his doctorate in 1985, he also served as a the announcement of the deci - "The education offered by Thirteen children (only one principal of the language school in Oakland and acted as an sion of the community to re - the Academy is of high quality. student was unable to attend) An Encyclopedic Chronology educational consultant in the San Francisco Bay Area. He is a name it the George Children’s Although it has only been run - were present. They demon - of Greece and its History frequent visitor to the Mediterranean, where firsthand Academy ning for two years, it is beyond strated their ability to make the with Synoptic Presentation experiences in his native land deepened his interest and The director, Dr. Georgia Tri - the experimental phase and has sign of the cross and recited the Author: D. PROTOPSALTIS enthusiasm for the ancient Greek world and Hellenic culture. antafillou, a Professor of Math - acquired the status of an estab - Trisagion (Holy God, Holy He now resides with his wife in Hayward, California. ematics at Temple University, lished and promising institution. Mighty, Holy and Immortal, Price: $27.00 announced that starting in Sep - The graduation ceremony was have mercy on us) and the Dis - tember they will accept children a pleasant surprise for everyone missal “Through the prayers of the Holy Fathers…” They also sang Greek tunes including "My Apple Red" and "Once upon a time," songs about the days of the week and the months, and ended with the farewell song, “Ta Perasam’ Omorfa – We had a wonderful ORDER FORM time." Please return this form with your check or money order payable to: The children proudly dis - The National Herald, 37-10 30 th street , Long Island City , NY 11101-2614 played their knowledge of the or charge your credit card : o American express o master Card o Visa o discover Greek answering questions such as "how old are you…which an - αCCOUNT : εxPIR ATION DATE : imal do you love…do you have ναμε : siblings…what do you want to αDDRESS : be when you grow up?” Tri - CITY : STATE : zIP CODE : antafillou told TNH, “some of PHONE / CELL : FAx : E-MAIL : their answers surprised their # BOOKS : own parents. One girl, Sarah, said that she wants to become a SIGNATURE The students of the St. George Children’s Academy in Trenton firefighter, and Nick said he shined onstage during their pre-school graduation. wants to be a Pappou.” 8 OBITUARIES CLASSIFIEDS THE NATIONAL HERALD, JULY 13-19, 2013

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SSNY shall mail a copy of any process 2 Homes, Bonnie Blink, Cock - Park South. Contributions in as agent upon whom process against the 7 2 eysville, Md. Dino enjoyed tak - her memory may be made to against the LLC served upon him/her is: 54 LLC may be served. SSNY shall mail process DOWNING-FRYE REALTY, INC. E 182nd St. Apt. E1 Bronx, NY 10453. to: The LLC, 1654-44th St., Brooklyn, NY μιλώ ελληνικά ing vacations with his sons, St. Andrew Greek Orthodox General Purposes. 11204. General Purposes. playing with his grandchildren, Church. 272823/18666 272793/10709 and reading and listening to the opera. He was an outstanding n HUTCHINS, BESSIE son, father, papou, brother, un - STRATFORD, CT (From the cle, and friend to all who knew Connecticut Post, published on him. He will be deeply missed. May 19) – Bessie Pappas Greek-Americans of Washington Mourn Sandra Vonetes In addition to his parents, he Hutchins age 93, of Stratford, was also preceded in death by passed away peacefully on May a brother, Peter Anagnos; sis - 14 in Bridgeport Hospital with WASHINGTON, DC – Sandra the renowned “Sandra Vonetes. trial. A Supreme Court justice ago, and their beloved aunts. ters, Mary Papadopoulos and her loving family by her side. Jeanne Vonetes, respected busi - Caterer of Flowers.” It was not presumably can spot class a mile They attended to other peo - Irene Anagnos. Surviving are Bessie was born on April 18, nesswoman and beloved philan - a typical florist shop, neither away, and the apples did not fall ple’s needs to the point of being his sons, Daniel C. Anagnos and 1920 in Bridgeport and was the thropist, departed this life on with respect to its creations nor far from the tree. completely self-effacing, and his wife, Laureen, Ellicott City, daughter of the late Anthony June 28, at home in Washing - its clientele, which included “She was always a lady. I they were also very dedicated Md.; James C. Anagnos, and his and Helen Athans Pappas. She ton, DC. She died the day after Senators, Congressmen, Cabinet never saw them in jeans or to their alma mater, participat - wife Jennifer, Vienna, Va.; was employed by Sikorsky Air - her 60th birthday. The night be - officials, and embassies. shorts. White gloves, fine man - ing and hosting Sweet Briar grandchildren, Dylan and craft as a telephone operator fore she had gone out to dinner “All Washington luminaries ners, elegant cursive handwrit - events. Kallie, Ellicott City, Md.; for several years and was the with her friends from the St. trusted her. Not only for her per - ing,” Popps said, but there was The florist was not a mere brother, William D. Anagnos voice recorded in the black box Sophia Cathedral of Washing - sonal touch on every arrange - more. Many people and organi - business for Sandra. Flowers be - and his wife Sharon, Peckville; for Sikorsky Aircrafts. Bessie ton. ment, but because of her discre - zations benefited from her gen - came vehicles of her love for several nieces and nephews. had a passion for dancing and Sandra, whose Greek name tion,” Popps said. erosity. “All the churches re - people. They very personal for The funeral will be held 10:30 taught ballroom as well as is Sultana, and her sister Maria, She learned from her father, ceived flowers for various her and accompanied all her re - a.m. Monday from the Charles Greek dancing at the Arthur her identical twin, were raised restaurateur and real estate in - occasions and if they ordered lationships. “Flowers were part S. Zeiler & Son Funeral Home, Murray Studio in NYC. She also in Petersburg, VA, the genteel vestor John Vonetes, and inher - $200 worth of flowers they got of one big package of love, and 6224 Easter Ave., Baltimore, accepted all of life's challenges suburb of Richmond. They were ited his touch and intuition. He a $400 value. For the epitaphios, personality and connectivity, with a Funeral Liturgy at 11:30 with courage and grace and the only children of John and was a Captain in WW II and leg - for funerals, any Philoptochos and she expressed herself a.m. in St. Nicholas Greek Or - was a trail blazer for single Emmalou Vonetes, both of end as a logistics whiz. Sta - meeting or anniversary dinner, through them,” Popps added thodox Church, 520 S. Ponca mothers. Bessie is survived by Greek origin. tioned in the bombed-out city AHEPA affair, women’s’ organi - about the woman who was a fel - Street, Baltimore, with the Rev. one son Francis Byron Hutchins Her funeral was held at the of Nuremberg during the war zation event,” she was generous low parishioner at St. Sophia Michael Pastrikos, Pastor Dino III of Lesvos, Greece, one Cathedral of St. Constantine and crimes trials that were held to a fault he said. Cathedral, and a cherished fam - Koumbaros, Rev. James Lokis daughter Sandra E. Frashefski Helen of Richmond, whose pas - there after the war, Supreme She and her sister were de - ily friend. officiating. Interment will be in and husband Rich of Stratford, tor, Fr. Nicholas Bacalis, Court Justice Robert H. Jackson voted to their family, playing the Guests at the annual Ameri - Oak Lawn Cemetery, Baltimore. seven grandchildren Eric presided, assisted by Father tasked Vonetes with providing role both of providers and care - can Hellenic Institute awards Friends may call Sunday, 2 to Hutchins and wife Jennifer, Dimitrios J. Lee, the Assistant for the 1500 members of the takers to their mother, who dinner in Washington enjoyed 4 and 6 to 8 PM. Trisagion ser - Jonathan Hutchins and wife Priest of Saint Sophia. press who were covering the passed away about eight years her personal and professional vice will be held 7 p.m. Sunday Stacy, Tara Mosley and husband The sisters’ upbringing com - presence. When he learned of followed by a Masonic funeral Peter, Alex Hutchins, Garner bined the values and mores of her passing, AHI Founder Gene service. In lieu of flowers, Frashefski and wife Coreena, Southern culture, and their par - Rossides said: “Sandra was a memorial contributions may be Brandon Frashefski and wife ents’ Hellenism and Orthodoxy longtime and staunch supporter made to Maryland Masonic Amal and Krista Jones and hus - under the spiritual guidance of of AHI,” which promotes justice Homes, 300 International Cir - band Randy, eight great grand - Fr. Constantine Dombalis, the for Cyprus and strong ties be - cle, Cockeysville, MD 21030 or children and several special longtime Dean of the Richmond tween Greece, Cyprus and the to St. Nicholas Greek Orthodox nieces. Bessie was also prede - Cathedral. United States. “She cared deeply Church, 520 S. Ponca St., Bal - ceased by two brothers John They attended Virginia’s about the mission of AHI and timore, MD 21224. 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All other funeral services a master’s degree at George of AHI, and in a way, Sandra’s Barre. will be private and at the con - Washington University in the work as a florist touched all of venience of the family. part of the nation’s capital us who ever attended an AHI n ELLERT, PENELOPE where they have lived since awards dinner in Washington MIAMI, FL (From the Miami their arrival. and admired the floral decor. Herald, published on May 19) days and dates of funerals, Dean Popps, a Greek-Ameri - May her memory be eternal.” – Penelope “Poppy” Elleert,103, memorials, and other events di - can businessman and commu - The family received friends fell asleep in the Lord on May rectly correspond to the original nity leader, first met her when on July 2, at Bliley's Central, 17. 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Orthodox Cathedral in Rich - or e-mailed to: [email protected] She eventually established Sandra Jeanne Vonetes, businesswoman and philanthropist died mond, or to the Saint Sophia her own shop across the street, at her DC home on June 28, the day after her 60th birthday. Cathedral. THE NATIONAL HERALD, JULY 13-19, 2013 GREECE CYPRUS 9 Currency Controls in Cyprus Heighten Concerns about the Euro System

By Andrew Higgins common currency. Tangled in re - ros — in fact already started? the director of Bruegel, a Brus - of the country. he taint now attached to a The New York Times strictions imposed in March as President Nicos Anastasiades sels research group. Despite a All these rules and the paper - euro in Cyprus “challenges the part of a bailout for the country’s of Cyprus certainly thinks so. softening of restrictions, he work they create add to the cost very essence of a common cur - NICOSIA, Cyprus – On a visit ailing banks, a euro in Cyprus is “Actually, we are already out of added, “the euro in Cyprus is still of many transactions, effectively rency area,” said Harris Geor - to Athens this year, Marios Lou - no longer the same as one in the euro zone,” he said, citing not the same as a euro in Frank - reducing the value of the euro giades, the new finance minister. caides, a Cypriot businessman, France, Germany or Greece. restrictions on the movement of furt.” in Cyprus compared with a freely He said he planned to lift all re - saw an apartment he liked in the “A Cyprus euro is a second- euros from Cyprus as evidence The rigid capital controls in - movable euro in the rest of the strictions by the end of the year, heart of the Greek capital and class euro,” said Mr. Loucaides, that his country’s money now has troduced in March have been euro zone. but first needed to get unspeci - decided to buy it. He told the the managing director of the a different status and value from steadily relaxed, but they still “Our euro looks like a euro fied help from the European Cen - owner he would seal the deal Cyprus Trading Corporation. that in France, Germany and the snarl businesses and ordinary and feels like a euro, but it is not tral Bank to ensure Cyprus’s with a bank transfer — the price Capital controls, once a tool 14 other European Union na - Cypriots in a web of red tape. really a euro,” said Alexandros banking system could withstand was 170,000 euros, about used frequently by governments tions that use the currency. Within certain, and constantly Diogenous, the chief executive the jolt. $220,000 — once he got back to in times of crisis, have become “It is a peculiar situation,” Mr. changing, limits, individuals and of Unicars, a company in Nicosia A big problem with capital Cyprus. extremely rare in Europe, though Anastasiades said in an inter - companies can now make trans - that imports cars made by the controls is that, once imposed, Marios Loucaides, a Cypriot they are not unknown. Iceland, view. fers abroad and between banks VW Group in Germany. they tend to linger longer than entrepreneur, had a deal collapse which is not a member of the Eu - The rules of the European in Cyprus, operations that were One measure of this, Mr. Dio - anyone anticipates because fear after he was prevented from ropean Union and uses its own Union, enshrined in the 1992 initially prohibited. However, genous said, is the wide gap in builds up over what might hap - moving euros to Greece. currency, imposed them in 2008 Maastricht Treaty, ban restric - they need to present invoices and interest rates between Cyprus pen once they are gone. The con - Alexandros Diogenous, whose after its three main banks im - tions on the movement of capi - other documents to justify mov - and the rest of the euro zone. trols introduced in Iceland are company imports cars from Ger - ploded. tal, but the measures by Cyprus ing their money. Transfers over “I’m paying 7.75 percent on still in place five years later. The many, lamented the disparity in With a gross domestic prod - have been endorsed by the Eu - 500,000 euros, about $640,000, long-term loans, but my partners Cypriot authorities initially said interest rates between Cyprus uct of about $23 billion and ropean Central Bank and the by a company — and 300,000 in Germany are paying 3 to 4 their controls would last just a and the rest of the euro zone. shrinking, Cyprus is little more union’s executive arm, the Euro - euros, about $380,000, by an in - percent,” he said. week and then extended them After returning home, how - than a rounding error in the $9.5 pean Commission, as essential to dividual — require the central But this issue is increasingly to a month. They have now been ever, Mr. Loucaides discovered trillion euro zone economy. But prevent money from fleeing the bank’s approval. academic: most banks in Cyprus in force for four months. that the euros he had on deposit Cyprus is also the first nation us - country. While the European It is still forbidden to cash have stopped issuing loans alto - But while already partly out here in Nicosia, the capital, could ing the euro to restrict the flow Central Bank declined to com - checks or to open a new account gether. of the euro zone, Cyprus still not be moved to Greece, even of capital, raising a crucial ques - ment on the Cyprus situation, of - unless a previous one existed at Mr. Diogenous said that get - does not enjoy the main advan - though the two countries share tion: Has the breakup of the euro ficials in Brussels say they remain the same bank. Individuals can ting authorization to transfer tage of having a wholly separate the same currency and, in theory zone — something European firmly committed to maintaining withdraw no more than 300 eu - money abroad to pay for his ve - currency: the freedom to de - at least, the same commitment leaders have been struggling to the euro as a single currency. ros a day, while the limit for com - hicles initially took 10 days or value. In the European Union, to the free movement of capital. prevent for three years with fran - Nevertheless, many financial panies is currently set at 500 eu - longer and was a significant ob - this is a prerogative held only by The apartment deal col - tic summit meetings in Brussels experts say Cyprus has, in effect, ros. Signs at airports warn stacle to business. It now takes Britain, Sweden and other coun - lapsed. And so, too, did Mr. Lou - and a series of bailout packages made a “silent, hidden exit” from passengers that it is illegal to just 24 hours, a headache but tries that kept their national cur - caides’s belief that Europe has a worth hundreds of billions of eu - the euro, said Guntram B. Wolff, carry more than 3,000 euros out just about a bearable one. rencies. Cypriot Finance Minister Georgiades Says Bank Consolidation is Critical

Amid worries that limits on the independent Cypriot central nixed by the Troika. ond-class EU state with a separate snarl businesses and ordinary year, but first needed to get un - cash withdrawals and the move - bank, which is responsible for re - In the meantime, Georgiades euro, Anastasiades told the Times. Cypriots in a web of red tape. specified help from the European ment of currency as part of plan solving the country’s biggest lender said the government expects to “Actually, we are already out of Within certain, and constantly Central Bank to ensure Cyprus’ imposed to get a 10 billion euros and is led by Panicos Demetriades. receive a second payout of aid in the Eurozone,” he said, citing re - changing, limits, individuals and banking system could withstand ($13 billion) international bailout European officials including September and a third payment strictions on the movement of companies can now make transfers the jolt. is holding down the economy, Jeroen Dijsselbloem, Dutch head near the end of the year, although euros from Cyprus as evidence abroad and between banks in Michael Kammas, Director Cypriot Finance Minister Haris of the group of Eurozone finance some analysts said despite the that his country’s money now has Cyprus, operations that were ini - General of the Association of Georgiades said completing the ministers, have called for Bank bailouts the Cypriot economy is a different status and value from tially prohibited. Cyprus Banks, an industry lobby - Bank of Cyprus consolidation is of Cyprus to emerge from the in such disarray that it may not that in France, Germany and the They need to present invoices ing group, said his organization critical. resolution process. be able to be saved. 14 other European Union nations and other documents to justify favored swiftly lifting all restric - “It’s the immediate top goal,” “I consider that the central Part of the problem for Cyprus that use the currency. moving their money. Transfers tions, which have created a deep Georgiades told reporters in Brus - bank has received the same mes - is that to prevent a run on the “It is a peculiar situation,” over 500,000 euros, about wariness abroad of dealing with sels. “The Bank of Cyprus needs sages that the government has banks after the confiscation plan Anastasiades said in an interview. $640,000, by a company — and Cypriot banks and are hampering to get out of the resolution regime received,” Georgiades said. “We was announced, the government The rules of the European Union, 300,000 euros, about $380,000, trade. without further delays.” are in constant communication.” put capital controls in place, lim - enshrined in the 1992 Maastricht by an individual — require the A letter of credit issued by a Cyprus in March got the okay The political push for Deme - iting depositors to taking out only Treaty, ban restrictions on the central bank’s approval. bank in Cyprus, for example, is for the rescue plan from the Troika triades to act comes as the Cypriot 300 euros ($385) per day, in - movement of capital, but the mea - It is still forbidden to cash now rarely accepted abroad or of the European Union-Interna - government prepares for the first cluding from ATMS, and limiting sures by Cyprus have been en - checks or to open a new account even within Cyprus, forcing traders tional Monetary Fund-European review later this month of progress businesses to 500 euros ($652,) dorsed by the EU and ECB, as es - unless a previous one existed at to pay for goods in cash. But no Central Bank (EU-IMF-ECB) but in meeting budget-austerity con - although they have higher limits sential to prevent money from the same bank. Individuals can one is eager to see the controls had to devise a plan to through ditions tied to the country’s rescue. for electronic transfers. fleeing the country. withdraw no more than 300 euros lifted too soon. Kammas cautioned cuts and other means to come up Cyprus has already received TIGHT LIMITS Some analysts said Cyprus has, ($385) a day, while the limit for against doing so until confidence with an additional 13 billion euros an initial disbursement of 3 billion The New York Times reported in effect, made a “silent, hidden companies is currently set at 500 returns to the banking system ($17 billion). euros ($3.91 billion from the Eu - that the currency movement re - exit” from the euro, Guntram B. euros ($642.) Signs at airports shattered by the closing of Laiki. That included seizing up to ropean Stability Mechanism, the strictions are in violation of Eu - Wolff, the Director of Bruegel, a warn passengers that it is illegal Lifting restrictions in a country 80 percent of private bank ac - Eurozone permanent rescue fund. ropean Union rules, which are Brussels research group, told the to carry more than 3,000 euros where nobody trusts banks could counts over 100,000 euros His call came as President being ignored for political expe - paper. Despite a softening of re - ($3,851) out of the country. probably lead to a flood of money ($130,000) but also the closing Nicos Anastasiades has com - diency, and which are putting a strictions, he added, “the euro in The taint now attached to a out of the country and the collapse of Laiki Bank, with it assets – and plained about the deal he said he crimp in the economy’s ability to Cyprus is still not the same as a euro in Cyprus “challenges the of the banking system, Theodore liabilities – transferred to the Bank signed under pressure after op - rebound. The controls were put euro in Frankfurt.” very essence of a common cur - Panayotou, an economist and the of Cyprus. posing it while campaigning ahead in place for March, ostensibly for The rigid capital controls in - rency area,” Georgiades told the Director of the Cyprus Interna - Georgiades’ statement was seen of the February elections. He a week, but could last for years. troduced in March have been Times. He said he planned to lift tional Institute of Management, as putting political pressure on wants it revised but that was That has made Cyprus a sec - steadily relaxed, but they still all restrictions by the end of the told the paper. Samaras to Meet Obama at White House

Continued from page 1 spending and cutbacks in paying ramped up social unrest after expected to give his imprimatur of discussions at the White Greece has backed Turkey’s creditors as revenues are far off months of relative calm. to Greece’s program and stand House, there could also be dis - bid to join the EU, which has Greece into a deep recession. expectations despite big tax The Troika of the European by the embattled leader’s side. cussions about Cyprus, which is been stalled by the Turks’ refusal Greece ha s promised to cut hikes. Obama has given Greece Union-International Monetary When a previous coalition undergoing a similar economic to recognize Cyprus – already in thousands of civil service jobs so support for the austerity mea - Fund-European Central Bank partner, the Democratic Left (DI - crisis amid long-stalled talks to the EU. the country can keep receiving sures. (EU-IMF-ECB) wants another MAR) left the government after try to re-unify the island. Samaras could be a key vital funds from its international Samaras has been under siege 15,000 workers fired by the end objecting to his ministerial de - Cypriot President Nicos Anas - bridge for Obama and the United bailout but three years of auster - as of late, beginning with his of 2014. cree shutting down ERT, Sama - tasiades, whom Samaras knows States with Turkey as he has ity is showing signs of making closing of the state broadcaster The measures are strongly ras turned to the other ally, PA - well, is unhappy with the terms good relations with Turkish the economy worse in some re - ERT on June 11 and the firing of backed by German Chancellor SOK Socialist leader Evangelos of a 10 billion euros ($13 billion) Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Er - spects, although the government all 2,656 of its workers and lag - Angela Merkel whose country is Venizelos, to keep a parliamen - bailout deal from the Troika and dogan and traveled to Istanbul said there could be a recovery ging privatization programs. footing much of the bill for two tary majority. When Venizelos distracted from even beginning in March this year where they beginning next year. The government’s plan to put bailouts of $325 billion to prop dropped his objections to closing to talk to his Turkish-Cypriot signed 25 bilateral agreements. Greece has also reduced its 12,500 workers this year into up the Greek economy and ERT, Samaras made him Deputy counterpart Dervis Eroglu, a Greece could also be a broker primary deficit – before interest schemes in which they would be whose party is facing elections Prime Minister and Foreign Min - hardliner whose intransigence between the interests of Cyprus on loans – markedly, including paid 75 percent of their already in September. ister. was one of the reasons that and Turkey for oil and gas ex - by 1.617 billion euros ($2.08 bil - reduced pay for up to eight A key American ally, Merkel FOREIGN POLICY Cyprus’ former President, ploration off the island which lion) in June. But that came on months but fired if another posi - is seen as keen to keep down any While the Greek economy is Demetris Christofias, decided not they are contesting, and which the back of sharply reduced tion can’t be found for them has unrest in Greece and Obama is expected to be at the forefront to seek re-election this year. involves interests from Israel. Greek Unrest Back over Public Worker Cuts

By Andy Dabilis public workers and take on its MISSING THE TARGET bor unions had a symbiotic re - ECONOMY STILL SHRINKING must be adjusted downwards - TNH Staff Writer once-powerful union ADEDY. Greece missed a June dead - lationship, trading jobs for The Premier had only re - the recession this year will be GSEE, representing private line to place 12,500 workers in votes. That became unsustain - cently said Greece would begin around 5.0 percent,” IOBE said ATHENS – Already reeling from workers who’ve taken the brunt a program that subjects them to able over the years and created to recover next year and that he in its quarterly report. It said it an ongoing battle over the clos - of austerity, joined with ADEDY involuntary transfers, and pos - a $460 billion debt, forcing Pa - was confident of bringing in pri - would range between a decline ing of the national broadcaster in saying it would conduct a sible dismissals, within the pub - pandreou to seek international vate investors, but the optimism of 4.8 and 5 percent, compared ERT and the firing of all its joint general strike on July 16, lic sector. bailouts. began to unravel when the with its previous forecast of a 2,656 workers, Prime Minister the deadline for Parliament to Greece has also promised to THEY ARE NOT HAPPY stalled privatization program 4.6 percent slump. Antonis Samaras’ uneasy coali - act on a multi-bill that includes axe a further 15,000 jobs by the Municipal workers – includ - took a double hit. The EU and IMF expect the tion government moved toward the plan to get rid of public end of next year. The govern - ing Athens municipal police, First, there was not a single economy to shrink by 4.2 per - getting rid of as many as 27,500 workers. ment said it had been given who are generally tasked with bidder for the state gas company cent in 2013; the Bank of public workers over the next That would be done through three months by rescue lenders checking parking violations and DEPA and then a deal Greece Greece projects a contraction of two years, a move that ramped a so-called mobility scheme in to catch up, and announced it checking street vendors – an - signed with a Greek-Czech con - 4.6 percent. The economy up widespread protests. which workers identified as be - was placing 4,200 workers – in - gered by their inclusion in the sortium, Emma Delta, to take a shrank 6.4 percent last year. Samaras is under intense ing redundant will get 75 per - cluding school guards and job cuts, embarked on symbolic 33 percent stake in the state “Fiscal consolidation and im - pressure from international cent of their already reduced teachers – on an eight-month occupations of municipal build - gambling monopoly threatened proved competitiveness have lenders to pare the number of pay for up to eight months and suspension with reduced pay be - ings and staged 24-hour rolling to fall apart when the bidder ob - not been coupled with success - workers in a workforce hugely if no position can be found for fore the end of July. strikes. jected to some of the conditions ful implementation of the struc - bloated over the last 40 years them in another department, If they cannot be absorbed They had been criticized for the government for them to deal tural reforms program,” the lo - with hundreds of thousands of they will be fired. into other positions after the their performance as it’s com - with subsidiaries. cally influential think tank said. needless hires directed by his Austerity plans “which have eight-month period, they face mon in Greece for people to ig - The government’s rosy pre - IOBE projected the country’s New Democracy Conservatives led workers into destitution and dismissal. The government has nore traffic laws, including park - dictions were tarnished too unemployment rate will rise to and the PASOK Socialists now have deprived them of their ba - largely gone after the lowest- ing on sidewalks and running when the prestigious Athens 27.8 percent this year, raising in his administration. sic democratic rights cannot and paid workers while exempting red lights. think tank IOBE – which pro - its previous 27.3 percent projec - Austerity measures ordered must not remain unanswered,” the Parliament workers and Samaras is trying to govern duced current Finance Minister tion. Unemployment was 26.8 three years ago by the Troika of said the GSEE union. more highly-paid managers with a slim majority of 157 seats Yannis Stournaras – released a percent at the last count. the European Union-Interna - Greece has been dragging its from facing dismissal or trans - in the 300-member Parliament report showing the economy “As long as the recession per - tional Monetary Fund-European feet for three years on overhaul - fer. with his New Democracy-PASOK could contract as much as 5 per - sists, the economy isn’t only Central Bank (EU-IMF-ECB,) ing the public sector but Sama - The Troika said it would not coalition nearly splintered when cent this year. burning fat but also productive which is putting up $325 billion ras was squeezed again after the count the dismissed ERT work - as many as seven members from The austerity measures de - tissue,” said Nikos Vettas, the in two bailouts to prop up the EU agreed to release 6.8 billion ers toward the goal because as the two parties said they might cided to save Greece have made new head of IOBE,, which ear - economy have created a record euros ($8.7 billion) as its share many as 2,000 of them will be not vote for the bill because of Greeks slow spending almost to lier had warned that even if 27.4 percent unemployment of a pending 8.1 billion euro rehired to run a temporary sta - reservations over the job cuts. a standstill, closing scores of there were signs of a recovery rate and put 1.3 million people ($10.46 billion) installment – tion called EDT until a perma - In the past, Samaras ejected thousands of businesses and that it could be undercut by so - out of work – all in the private but in staggered does and only nent new state broadcaster, party members that didn’t fol - producing less-than-expected cial unrest if the government ig - sector. on condition Greece meets fiscal NERIT, is up and running later low his orders on telling them revenues despite big tax hikes, nored the consequences of aus - Samaras, as was former pre - targets. this summer but with only how to vote in support of aus - including 23 percent on restau - terity on the populace. mier and previous PASOK leader The IMF is holding off on its 1000-1200 staff recruited from terity but he can’t afford to lose rants and taverns the govern - Samaras said he would not George Papandreou – hounded 1.3 billion euros ($1.69 billion) ERT. seats now. He and PASOK leader ment hoped to persuade the impose any more austerity mea - out of office by protests, strikes tranche until July 31, but could Firing public workers had Evangelos Venizelos had to call Troika to roll back to 13 percent. sures but the numbers are work - and riots against pay cuts, tax yank its support altogether if been considered anathema in an urgent meeting with the pos - That was rejected out of hand. ing against him with the failure hikes and slashed pensions – Greece does not fulfill the terms Greece’s political system in sible dissenters to bring them IT DOESN’T ADD UP of privatization and other re - had been reluctant to dismiss of its deal. which the government and la - back into the fold. “The projection on growth forms to begin. 10 EDITORIALS LETTERS THE NATIONAL HERALD, JULY 13-19, 2013

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The anchors on Greek TV and innovation and made is that if happens” (similar to the fatigue A Question of Mentality channels sound like that some - which inflicted the Cyprus exits the that brought down Lehman one cheated Greece of its entitle - virus called reliance by JOHN Euro in the next 15 Brothers on September 15th We try to avoid comparisons between countries and peoples ment regarding the new tranche on government CHARALAMBAKIS months, then the 2008) because it is usually like comparing apples and oranges. We will from the troika (the EU, the ECB, handouts repercussions will • Seventh, the lack of any re - make an exception this time because the topic is timely and there is and the IMF). • An inefficient Special to be felt in Greece too alistic prospects for growth un - an instructive reference point, an American in the news who is of It seems that more than three tax structure that The National Herald in the form of a dermines the coalition’s cohesive - Greek descent and is no stranger to Greece, whom we will compare years after the first tranche was advanced the inter - pressure to exit the ness and once the summer to the typical Greek worker. given to Greece and after more ests of few while kept squeezing Euro zone too. It is very unfortu - months pass and reality kicks We begin by noting that the American economy added 195,000 than $330 billion in new loans, the middle class, which was ex - nate that Cyprus chose to bow back in, the street complaints will non-agricultural jobs in June. bonds’ haircuts, and numerous tended consumer loans and down to the idol called Euro and pick up pace Nevertheless, the economic recovery has still left many millions of pronouncements that the situa - “prospered” through credit ex - now it ends up having a nominal • Eighth, the credit environ - Americans out of work, many for long periods of time that have been tion has reached bottom, not only tensions Euro that is not the same as the ment will tighten even further in forced to accept jobs that pay less than their previous positions. the bottom cannot be seen but • An uncompetitive business Euro in other countries. I have the EU and thus they cannot up - One such example is Greek-American John Vrettos, who was laid the leviathan gaps of uncertainty, environment which had the illu - been talking to Cypriot business - front funds to Greece (as they are off from his job at an electronics company in Moline, IL in November. illiquidity, lack of jobs, shrinking sion that because credit was people every week, and the situ - doing currently in order to save He has still not had a job offer from another company. incomes, and productivity are abundant it could “prosper” in ation there deteriorates by the face and avoid turmoil before the “I am 55 years old and this is an issue,” Vrettos told the New York getting bigger and bigger. perpetuity day. German elections) Times. He is an accountant. “When they see me think ‘This man The tranches have been used • A badly-designed and exe - After October, the Greek econ - • Ninth, the lack of any seri - might be very old,’” he adds. He was forced to look for work outside to bailout the perpetrators of the cuted Euro – see several pertinent omy will have to face the music ous foreign investments will de - his field. His last job paid $17 per hour but now he is willing to work crisis (mostly foreign but also do - articles that I published in TNH again due to the following facts: moralize the business environ - for $9. mestic banks), real structural re - – that was too expensive for • First, the debt is not sustain - ment which at the same time will “It’s more than I would get from unemployment,” he says. Now forms are still in absentia, in - Greek standards and which able at the projected 124% level, discover that it cannot expect any when he completes job applications, he does not fill out the part that vestors are discouraged in trapped the economy into a fetish let alone the current165% of liquidity from the recapitalized asks about his previous salary out of fear that it could be a reason to putting their monies at work, mentality where staying in the GDP Greek banks since those funds reject him. while credit and real production Euro became an end in itself • Second, the non-compliance were already committed to cover This is the mindset that corresponds to the reality of the free keep declining. Under these cir - • A policy of riding on the with the austerity measures (pub - existing holes market, where no one owes anything to anybody, where each person cumstances we should not be sur - bandwagon of bailouts that in - lic sector layoffs, privatizations, • Tenth, the incoming tremors is responsible for his own affairs. These elements, along with others, prised if GDP growth rate drops cluded unacceptable terms and missing revenue targets, etc.) will in the French, Italian, and Span - account for the dynamism of the American economy. by another 5.2% this year and conditions that sacrificed national force either cuts in the tranches ish banking systems along with It is this mentality – the willingness to do whatever it takes to official unemployment reaches sovereignty, imposed measures or the demand for new measures, disagreements related to the EU’s survive – that needs to be adapted to some extent in Greece, so that 29% (the unofficial well exceeds that suffocated hopes for exit either of which will create not banking union, will force the the country can spread its economic wings in the highly competitive 33% currently). from the crisis, while suppressed just economic but also political troika to focus on those countries global economy. What could a brief diagnosis incomes and allowed no room turmoil rather than trying to recover their of the Greek situation look like? for flexibility • Third, national central money from Greece. • Questionable faith in the • The policies applied com - banks in the EU do not seem will - In conclusion, I choose to re - Egypt on the Brink rule of law pletely neglected the competitive ing to roll over the Greek bonds, iterate London’s tube pronounce - • A sclerotic state that suffo - advantages of the nation which in turn will force the IMF ment: “Mind the Gap,” because cated the private sector while ad - The above list focuses on to withdraw its support. Both the light at the end of the tunnel The Arab Spring, which began in Tunisia in 2011 and spread with vanced the interests of special some fundamental issues/prob - events will leave a huge funding may be the incoming train. lightning speed to Egypt is threatening to turn into a nightmare. groups lems that have been keeping gap for Greece As we write these lines, Egypt is on the brink. The danger of a civil • Too many regulations that Greece in a captive situation. Cer - • Fourth, healthcare costs and Dr. Charalambakis is Chief war is now more visible. Muslim Brotherhood Party, which is so created business atrophy, while tainly we could add many more other unfunded liabilities will Economist, Blacksummit Finan - hateful to the West, is vowing to fight. Of course, in the end the allowed those special interests reasons, but my belief is that a start showing their true face cial Group Inc.,and Adjunct Pro - Armed Forces will prevail, but at great cost. What a shame. groups to become the fat cats due correct prescription presupposes which in turn will create a budget fessor of Economics, Patterson Egypt was ruled by the authoritarian regime of Hosni Mubarak for to government contracts an accurate diagnosis of the fun - hole School of Diplomacy, University decades so the people the people of Egypt have little experience in • An educational system that damental problems. • Fifth, Greek politicians ex - of Kentucky. democratic governance. Despite the fact that the Brotherhood is not a paragon of democratic governance, it was nevertheless freely elected – finally giving the people a glimpse of democratic processes. Military intervention in the COMMENTARY politics of a country never solves its serious problems. At best, it buys some time, but often merely delays the solutions. Usually, though, it creates many more problems than it solves, troubling the country for European Central Bank: the New Colonial Imperialists a long time after the fall of the elected government. The case of the Greek Junta easily comes to mind. Unfortunately, the unrealistic hopes of the Egyptian people for By Marina Valieri tors, etc., and their salaries, paid This, again, is presented as an the decision was taken on the or - miraculous solutions to their problems after the overthrow of Mubarak by the government, cannot be economical measure, but in truth ders of the Troika. were dashed. Their wishes could not have been realized even under LESVOS, Greece – This article is hidden. If a doctor has some un - it is a muzzling of the Greeks, for Closing ERT had been in - the best of circumstances in such a short time. necessary for the world to know declared income from private pa - the ERT is paid for by the people, cluded in the agreements signed The developments in Egypt will have an impact inside the country what is going on in Greece – and tients or a teacher gives some pri - not the government. An amount by the Greek government with and throughout the region – probably a great and wrenching probably in Spain, Portugal and vate lessons in summer, it is not is earmarked for it on every the International European Bank, concussion. Italy as well – and it must be of such magnitude to ruin the Greek's electricity bill. ERT has agreements that many Parliament Democracy is not a panacea. stated that the writer, grandniece Greek economy. The farmers and the only cultural and educational Members had not taken the trou - It does not solve problems by magic. It might not constitute the of the well-known Greek poet landowners are already taxed on programs on TV. It is the link be - ble to read and understand in ideal polity. But there is no better option, despite Plato’s dissent on Constantine Cavafy, is not an ac - their products, which they cannot tween Greeks everywhere. their entirety before accepting the issue, and Churchill’s rejoinder: “Democracy is the worst form of tive member of any political party, easily hide (olive-oil, for instance, It serves remote parts of the them. In fact, and this is what re - government, except for all the others.” and has only the interests of the has to be processed by govern - country that other stations cannot ally matters most is that these Greek people and the service of ment-controlled factories). Small reach; and not everyone in agreements, which several the truth at heart. businesses possibly might hide Greece (especially not those over smaller European countries have Game-Playing Limit The economic crisis in Greece part of their profits, and certainly 55) has a computer or a satellite signed, are not simply business has been caused by the mistakes the "Big Businesses" which have aerial. agreements for the granting of Greece and the troika are on a collision course, if their game of and the bad friends in the government – for - The salaries of the majority of loans and the repayment of the cat-and-mouse continues for long. administration of the two eign corporations, for instance – ERT employees, many of whom same at a certain rate of interest This is not a matter of if, but when. leading political parties, and the can get away with almost any - have worked there steadily for and within a certain delay, but a Greece pretends to adopt the agreed-upon reforms and the troika people themselves are in no way thing! years, are paid on the same basis takeover of the government of the pretends, despite the facts, that Athens has made enough changes to to blame, save perhaps for having Then, there are the members as most civil servants'. Higher country concerned, the right to justify the continuation of the loan payments. continually elected the wrong of government themselves. Under posts are occupied by nominees discharge government employ - What is thus achieved is merely the delay of Judgment Day. people to govern them. both the old Constantine Kara - of the government, at sometimes ees, to limit or close national in - At present, however, the Greek government and troika can rejoice. The constant harping about manlis and the Colonels' Dicta - great salaries, after which the stitutions, to diminish or suppress The government is happy because it will not run out of money to pay tax evasion is nonsense: the great torship there was no-tax witch- government, calculating an aver - old-age or disability pensions, and its employees and the troika is thrilled that there is money to pay the majority of Greeks do pay their hunt, no claim that the age salary paid to ERT employees, to regulate salaries, by the Euro - interest on maturing bonds – 2.17 billion euros in August – thus taxes. They have no possible way population had to be pressured says that they make too much! pean Central Bank (ECB). avoiding market turmoil. of evading them, and VAT is out of every penny to save the And the man who, on Prime Min - In essence, we are facing a However, as with all such games, this cannot continue forever. It is charged on everything, from the national economy. I was there ister Samaras' instructions, gave form of colonization. In the past tiresome, so they have to make it more exciting. bread they eat (several accumu - and I know. the order to close centuries, the We are now at that stage. lated VATs, on the wheat, the But all of that is beside the it down, Simos Kedikoglou, Europeans took over the ad - Greece was to collect 8.1 billion euros, but will receive only part of yeast, the materials used for bak - point. Greater danger looms representative of the Govern - ministration of countries in Africa, her allowance: 4.8 billion. To receive the rest, Athens must really ing, and the finished product it - ahead: apart from the ruin that ment, had his education in jour - India, Asia, and the Middle East. reduce the number of civil servants. It has been promising that for self) and the milk they drink. has been brought upon the Greek nalism paid for by ERT! Now the ECB is taking over con - years, but it has yet to really happen. From building and repairing ma - people, the constant increase in Samaras’ decision to shut trol and administrating the peo - Some facts are helpful to the discussion: the troika calculated in terial, to the traditional cup of charges and salary-cuts, and de - down ERT was sudden and un - ples of Europe, and very much to 2010 that the country had to lay off 150,000 employees. Their coffee. crease in benefits (schools, health- constitutional the same degree. number fell by 128,000. But how? They were given their pensions. Moreover, a large percentage care, pensions) there is now the and shocked the whole coun - In other words, while the They will be paid from another pocket. In other words, there has of Greeks are government em - matter of ERT, the Greek radio try, plunging it into the darkness Africans, Indians, and others have been zero gain. ployees, whether and television station that the of suddenly blank TV screens. gained their freedom, we have Things have now become more strained, however, and future in - civil servants, teachers, doc - government wants to shut down. But now we know the truth: lost ours. stallments are conditioned on the dismissal of a substantial amount of employees. Greece and the troika "agreed that the matter will be taken care of by the end of the year." If this is not done, the loan spigot will be turned off. • Mail Delivery service is available from • Classified services available with a wide By that logic, it seems that the plan is for the game to be played at Services to our readers: coast to coast. 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By Voula Makrinou We were assigned to run the nancial resources and means school year, without even clari - Offinger. During the past two duced us. The question now is: and Vickie Doukas summer camp of the Cathedral (e.g. school bus) for their im - fying the amount that the teach - years the summer camp was Since, according to their School from June 17th to June plementation. To create a suit - ers would pay. The reason that housed in the Stavros Niarchos statements, the security policy We are the two teachers re - 28th. The School gave the op - able program for our children, we decided to continue working Foundation wing, which did not of the school is absolutely flaw - sponsible for the incident that eration of each session to only both educational and entertain - work this year due to lack of air less and there is a “zero toler - affected the students and par - two teachers, regardless of the ing, we arrange trips to muse - If the School had a zero conditioning . We had been in - ance on any breach of safety ents of the Cathedral School in number of registered children. ums and parks, paying all costs tolerance policy about formed that it was impossible to procedures and regulations,” New York, and the Greek com - On Friday, June 28th, we ac - with our own money. restore the operation of the air then why up until the incident munity as a whole. We decided companied 22 children to St. The question, therefore, is breaching security, why conditioning one day before the they assigned only teachers to to write this letter because we Catherine’s Park, 14 of which why did we agree to run the did it wait until now to beginning of the program. monitor up to 26 children and feel that it is our obligation and were from 3 to 7 years old, 2 program under such circum - Therefore, we had to find solu - after the incident they assigned deepest need to apologize to the that were 16 years old, and the stances? To understand our de - improve the student- tions in order to create another three teachers to 10? child and her family, but also to other 4 who were between 11 cision, one must take account teacher ratio? area within a night. In conclusion, we want to say the parents of the School, which and 12. of the following: during the The above circumstances in that we are deeply touched by entrusted their children to all of On that day as well as on the school year 2012-2013, the ex - under such unpleasant condi - no way excuse the undeniable the understanding that the fam - us. previous 13 days of the summer ecutive board cited financial dif - tions is because we wanted to fact that we left a child behind. ily of the child showed us and We would like to make clear program, the number of chil - ficulties and made budget cuts support the School during those We are and we will always be the love and sympathy from the that our aim is not to exempt dren that attended ranged from in useful teaching tools, such as difficult circumstances. devastated by that fact. But the families whose children partici - ourselves from our responsibili - 22 to 26. The office was always supplies and staff (teachers that The summer program started letter of explanation that the pated in the summer program, ties. We believe, however, that aware of our trips and actions. resigned were not replaced). three years ago because of the head of the School sent to the as well as many other families our duty is to rectify the errors As it is well known, summer Also, we were told that our parents’ desire and it was initi - parents on July 1st as well as that trusted their children to the and inaccuracies that were com - programs often include field health insurance would not be ated by one of us (Voula Makri - the interviews that were given Cathedral School. We warmly municated. trips. We were not given any fi - paid in full by them in the next nou) and supported by Maureen to TNH about this incident tra - thank them. Regional Stability Following Is Egypt in Transition Mode or on the Brink of Civil War?

Taksim: a Hellenic Outlook On 30 June 2013, the one toppled the corrupt Arab Spring, offer - is the inability to comprehend year anniversary of the first free monarchy of King ing the promise of that in a democracy, the oppo - presidential election in Egypt, Farouk, triggering liberalism and sition to the regime in power is By Angelos Kostopoulos ing: between 10 and14 million peo - the postcolonial democracy, failed part of the government. Com - • Economic: Creation a Hel - ple massed in Tahrir Square, nationalism that to foster confi - bined, the ruling party and the As the fog of the post Iran lenic Economic Council for the the streets of Cairo, and in occurred on a dence in the elec - opposition provide the safe - and Afghanistan wars dissipates, revitalization of the other Egyptian cities to demand global scale in the toral process for guards to protect the state. This it is clear that the state of Hel - Hellenic economies of Greece the removal of President Mo - years following the both the newly was lost on both Morsi and the lenism as personified by Greece & Cyprus hamed Morsi. Despite being Second World War. elected President massive crowds that filled the and Cyprus has declined in the • Political: Removal of Turk - chosen by barely 52% of the The Free Officers Morsi and for the streets demanding his resigna - face of the emerging hegemony ish military forces from Cyprus population, Mohamed Morsi represented a sec - millions who tion, who were just as contemp - of Turkey in the region. and the establishment of EEZ in was the democratically elected ular and relatively crowded the tuous of the democratic Under the leadership of the Aegean for the exploitation president. The problem was progressive force in by DR. ANDRE Square and the process. Ironically, it fell on the Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Er - of Greece’s oil reserves, as well that neither he nor the millions Egyptian society, a GEROLYMATOS streets of Egypt. army to interpret and execute dogan and his Neo-Ottoman as reinforcing Hellenic territor - who took to the streets had the group who experi - Morsi and the the will of the people. Foreign Minister, Ahmet Davu - ial rights patience to wait for the next mented with pan- Special to Muslim Brother - Western states were caught toglu, Turkey has reinforced its • Military; modernization of election. Arabism and so - The National Herald hod, despite their unprepared – accept or con - regional claims in the Aegean the Greek and Cypriot militaries Mass demonstrations have cialism and commitment to an demn the military coup. The Sea and in Cyprus through its within the EU & NATO struc - replaced the ballot box in achieved complete indepen - absolute Islamic society, were White House, for example, was new-found strategy of "Strategic tures, and the reaffirmation of Egypt. The army, never quite dence for Egypt. This was sym - seen by many middle of the glad that the Muslim Brother - Depth.” the Hellenic Military Defense confortable with Morsi being a bolized by Nasser’s nationaliza - road Egyptians as the only hood had been ousted from Davutoglu views Turkey as Pact Muslim Brotherhood leader, tion of the Suez Canal on 26 credible force in Egyptian poli - power and yet it could not the epicenter of the Balkans, • Diaspora: mobilization of took the opportunity presented July 1956. tics. They voted for Morsi be - sanction a military coup. The Middle East, and the Caucasus, the Hellenic Diaspora as the by the protests and deposed Nasser emerged not only as cause he promised economic problem for the United States the center of Eurasia in general fourth column of the revitaliza - Egypt’s duly elected president. Egypt’s strongman, but a major and political reform, and be - and other western nations is and is the Rimland Belt cutting tion campaign and the establish - As military units moved in and figure in the Arab world. The cause he promised that he that they are trying to under - across the Mediterranean to the ment of a Hellenic National seized control of the govern - Egyptian leader achieved a would not pursue the goals of stand events in the Middle East Pacific. Fund ment, millions of Egyptians moral authority over Arabs of the Muslim Brotherhood. and Egypt through a liberal de - Since the Turkish invasion of The successful implementa - cheered on the soldiers for sat - all stripes because he was seen Morsi, in essence, claimed that mocratic system prism that can - Cyprus in 1974, the Greeks have tion of the Hellenic Revitaliza - isfying ‘the will of the people.’ to be standing up to the West. he would be the president of not accurately interpret the re - answered this threat to their tion Campaign must encourage This was not the first time that Eventually, Nasser succumbed all Egyptians, and not just the alities in the region. sovereignty by protesting at in - support from our partners in the army has intervened in to his own propaganda and em - Muslim Brotherhood. The Egyptian Army has been ternational venues. The result the EU, NATO, and our allies to Egyptian politics, and certainly barked on a disastrous war Sadly, Morsi failed to keep the vanguard of Egyptian inde - has been Turkish intransigence include the United States, the it will not be the last. with Israel in 1967. Remark - any of his promises. Instead of pendence, modernity, and sec - and increased confidence. United Kingdom, and Israel. Two years ago, in January ably, the Nasser myth and the improving the economy, Morsi ularism. To vast numbers of Despite this erosion of Hel - A strong and stable Hellenic 2011, millions of Egyptians myth that Arab armies only ignored the problem and fo - Egyptians, it is perfectly natural lenic sovereignty, a tipping-point presence in SE Europe and the came together, regardless of re - faced defeat because of Ameri - cused on transforming Egypt that the military intervene and opportunity for Hellenism may Eastern Mediterranean is in the ligion, politics, or regionalism, can intervention in favor of Is - into an Islamic state. In effect, reboot the failed political sys - be at hand in the aftermath of interest of all the stakeholders, to demand the end of the Hosni rael has continued to find res - he tried to implement the Mus - tem. As long as the soldiers re - the Taksim Square Uprising. and reinforces the EU’s and Mubarak regime. After a three onance in the so-called ‘Arab lim Brotherhood agenda. His turn to their barracks, the in - Turkey’s internal problems have NATO’s security in the region. week stand off the army moved street’. record on human rights almost tervention is less of a coup and highlighted the non-western A strong and stable Hellenic in and forced Mubarak to step Unfortunately, the other matched the abysmal record of more an act of enlightened au - and non-democratic trends that presence will level the playing down. promises of Arab secular na - the later years of the Mubarak thoritarianism. When both the have characterized the Erdogan field and lead to cooperation Mubarak had been part of a tionalism, prosperity and regime. The new president people and politicians of Egypt regime. The situation illustrates with Turkey across all sectors. long line of dictators, beginning democracy, have failed to ma - could not abide by criticism – agree to live by a democratic the dichotomy of Turkey’s per - A strong and stable Greece with Nasser, who had ruled terialize. Nasser’s successors even comedians who made fun system, only then the power of sona; on the one hand a face of and Cyprus will serve as a cata - Egypt with varying degrees of have maintained power of him faced persecution and the military will fade. In the Western democracy in a Muslim lyst for the economic resurgence oppression. However, the real through a combination of the prosecution. He failed to pro - meantime, the army is all that body; and on the other hand an of the region; a market of 250 power since 1952, of course, army backing them against any tect Egypt’s Shia and Christian stands between an orderly re - autocratic Ottoman face that million consumers. has been the Egyptian Army. It opposition, American military minorities – he was not the turn to political rule or chaos. while applying for EU entry, And finally, a strong and sta - is the army that has provided aid, and government subsidy of President of all Egyptians, but Andre Gerolymatos is the Di - the force necessary for these food stuffs, particularly grain rather only to those with whom rector of the Stavros Niarchos modern Egyptian pharaohs to and diesel fuel. Indeed, the he agreed. Morsi’s interpreta - Foundation Centre for Hellenic rule the country and stifle op - Arab Spring in Egypt was trig - tion of the role of the presi - Studies at Simon Fraser Univer - position. gered, in part, by the rise in the dency, contrary to his earlier sity in Vancouver The army, particularly its of - cost of food and fuel when the promises, was to support his ficer corps, has represented Mubarak regime dramatically followers and crush the oppo - themselves as the guardians of reduced government subsidies. sition. [email protected] Egypt. It was the ‘Free Officers’, The Tahrir Square phenom - The most common error of www.sfu.ca/snfchs.html led by Nasser in July 1952 who enon that came to embody the some Third World democracies twitter.ie/sfuhellenic

LETTER FROM ATHENS Despicable Me 2: Evangelos Venizelos Story Carries On

You can tell all you need to Andreas Papan - Samaras to offer into their heritage. know about a country and gov - dreou who later Venizelos, a man Venizelos walked away unaf - ernment by how it treats its become Prime Min - whose policies he fected and somehow, wearing most vulnerable, weakest and ister - “National hates almost as his foreign minister’s hat, man - lowest-paid, and Greece’s Independence, much as the sight aged to go to Cyprus for an hybrid opportunity coalition Popular Sover - of a poor person, official visit (translation: a short government led by Prime Minis - eignty, Social key positions in his first-class plane ride, luxury ter and New Democracy Emancipation, government. foods and accommodations and Capitalist party leader Antonis Democratic Venizelos can lots of genuflection from Samaras and his PASOK Anti- Process.” read, and he saw Cypriot leaders) without being Socialist Major Opportunist Venizelos polls that showed tarred and feathered and run partner Evangelos “Throw believes in none of that under his non- out of town on a rail the way he Them Under the Bus” Venizelos this. He believes in by ANDY leadership PASOK should have been. proved it with a deal made with himself, first and DABILIS continued the free There’s so much deadwood international lenders to fire foremost, watching fall begun by its for - in Greece you could make a pet - school crossing guards, janitors his back, watching Special to mer leader and rified forest museum exhibit, and teachers instead of man - out for number one The National Herald previous premier, starting with Samaras’ cabinet agers and the likes of and sticking his George Papandreou, of recycled, tired retreads who Parliament workers who get neck out for nobody. The next son of PASOK’s founder, who is a jump from ministry to ministry paid big bucks for handing out principle he has beyond self- duplicitous double-dipper. and are qualified to run none, glasses of water to zombie law - aggrandizement will be his first. PASOK was running around and, if truth be told, would be makers. Venizelos is now Deputy 5 percent in the polls after win - selling hot dogs if politics didn’t AP Photo/Gero Breloer) Threatened by its interna - Prime Minister and Foreign ning 44 percent in 2009 when offer them a chance to show Thousands of people sit on Istiklal Avenue, the main shopping tional lenders with a cutoff of a Minister serving under Samaras Papandreou won. Imagine how useless they really are. road of Istanbul, in Istanbul, Turkey, Tuesday, July 9, 2013. next loan installment of 8.1 bil - and so sleazy is this faux Social - Obama with 5 percent support That’s what makes Venizelos’ Thousands of people broke the fast on the first day of Ramadan lion euros ($10.6 billion) that ist he pretty much publicly and you get the picture. PASOK case so sad, because he has the in a kind of spontaneous form of protest sitting in a queue of will mostly go to pay back renounced all his party is essentially dead and certainly intelligence to be better but some hundred meters from Galatasaray University to Taksim banks and investors instead of allegedly stands for to declare irrelevant but Venizelos doesn’t spends so much time looking at Square on the street chanting slogans and eating together. providing critical social services he would do follow Samaras’ want to be and will do anything the beautiful words coming out for a country in the sixth year of bidding and keep imposing aus - to stay in the limelight and of his self-styled orator’s mouth continues the military occupa - ble Hellenic presence will better a recession and with a record terity measures that are the believe he’s a statesman when that he can’t see they are so tion of an EU country and manage the explosive predica - 27.4 percent unemployment antithesis of PASOK’s platform. he’s really just a chameleon. empty they evaporate before threatens war on another over ment of illegal migration to the rate, Greece responded with a He objected to Samaras’ You can find fault with the next one is uttered because oil in the Aegean, and generally EU. plan to get rid of people who closing of the national broad - Samaras in a lot of areas but at none of them mean anything. shows a disrespect for the rule Observers should not under - have no voice and can’t fight caster ERT and the firing of all least the guy’s got a backbone. He’s just a very large empty suit of law. estimate the will of the Hellenic back. It’s beyond despicable. 2,656 workers, including Venizelos and Papandreou have guilty of the worst crime: After nearly five decades of countries and the value of a It’s easy to understand decent, hard-working profes - to sit in the non-vertebrate sec - wasted potential. acquiescence, the opportunity strong and stable Greece and Samaras’ motivation because he sionals mixed in with the usual tion of the Parliament and carry You know a man by his has finally come for Greece to Cyprus. The "tipping point” of doesn’t really care about peo - deadbeat political hires put jello in their wallets for identifi - deeds and words and Venizelos’ officially tell Turkey that they Taksim is an opportunity for ple, certainly not those below there by alternating administra - cation. betray him for what he is. His do not belong in the EU unless Hellenism to reassert a regional his station in life. Of course, tions of their two parties who When he was finance minis - deeds were to help impoverish they respect the sovereign rights balance of power for the pro - Venizelos believes Samaras is took turns ruining Greece for 40 ter under Papandreou, innocent people while safe - of Greece and Cyprus; a position motion of peace and security in beneath him too but that’s years. Venizelos – the man of the peo - guard his friends and use them that is silently supported by SE Europe and the Eastern another story. It was a phony grandstand ple – imposed 74 percent losses as a steppingstone to presumed most EU members, not neces - Mediterranean. As an alleged Socialist, a ploy because he knew that the on Greece’s investors, destroy - power. And now, serving Sama - sarily for the same reason. The kind of centrist-leftist, the clos - other partner in the coalition ing the Cypriot banking system, ras, he will live the credo that Hellenic countries should revi - Angelos Kostopoulos is a est thing Greece has to a then, the Democratic Left wiping out plenty of Cypriots came out of his own mouth: talize their joint economic, po - former U.S. Army Foreign Area Democrat in the United States, (DIMAR) would quit, leaving who had stored their life sav - “Protect those who protect litical and military activities to Officer and a graduate of the Venizelos is supposed to believe him the only game in town for ings in the banks, and cleaning you.” strengthen peace in the region Hellenic Army Supreme War in – as PASOK’s slogan stated Samaras to keep a parliamen - out Greeks of the Diaspora who and clearly advocate the follow - College. when it was founded in 1974 by tary majority. That forced put their savings and hearts [email protected] 12 THE NATIONAL HERALD, JULY 13-19, 2013