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 829 August 31 - September 6, 2013 $1.50 AHEPA’s 91st Annual Koumoutsos: Leader of the Port Authority Police Supreme Convention Veteran Lawman is Epitome of Energy, Shines in Florida Sun Devotion, Vigilance

By Constantine S. Sirigos The AHEPA Cyprus and Hel - By Constantine S. Sirigos TNH Staff Writer lenic Affairs Committee passed TNH Staff Writer a resolution adopted by the con - ORLANDO, FL – The Order of vention body backing all of the NEW YORK — The Port Author - AHEPA held its 91st annual legislation introduced thus far ity of New York and New Jer - Supreme Convention at the in Congress by the Congres - sey’s portfolio of vital infrastruc - Loews Portofino Bay Hotel at sional Caucus on Hellenic Is - ture and services includes JFK, Universal Orlando, FL August sues, which is chaired by Rep - Newark, and LaGuardia Air - 18 to 24. The Opening cere - resentatives Gus Bilirakis and ports, and a 1,600-member Po - monies on August 18 welcomed Carolyn Maloney. lice Department. That is why it participants from across the The election of the officials can be said that Louis Koumout - United States, Canada, Greece, who oversee international orga - sos’ appointment as chief of the Australia, and Bulgaria and the nization’s activities throughout PAPD this summer was almost week culminated with the the coming year took place on preordained. Grand Banquet on August 23 August 23. Anthony Kouzounis Koumoutsos was interested and elections the following day. of Houston was elected in aviation and police work The mission of the AHEPA Supreme President, and the since childhood, despite having Family is to promote Hellenism, other organizations that com - no family members in either Education, Philanthropy, Civic prise the AHEPA Family also field. He had hoped to be a pi - Responsibility, and Family and held elections. Joanne Saltas, lot, and worked for Continental Individual Excellence. During Salt Lake City, UT, was reelected Airlines at Newark Airport for the week, well-planned social Grand President of the Daugh - several years, but as soon as the events were the sugar and spice ters of Penelope; John Ververis, opportunity came to be a police to the meat and potatoes of the Southington, CT, elected Sons officer, he took it. organizational meetings where of Pericles Supreme President; Koumoutsos’ landing in the issues were discussed ranging and Angela Armstrong, Chan - PAPD’s vast field of responsibil - from the Order’s charitable ac - dler, AZ, was reelected Maids of ity was inevitable only because tivities in the United States, Athena Grand President. TNH/COSTAS BEJ of his dedication to duty and ex - Greece, and Cyprus, to the fu - As always, the Grand Ban - Spirited Republican Mayoral Primary Debate Live from CUNY cellence during 20 years of po - ture of the organization. quet was a moving and enter - lice service. It was probably also taining affair. Basile the Come - Mayoral candidate John Catsimatidis responded to TNH reporter Eleni Kalogeras’ question about critical that his late father, Evan - dian served up laughter as MC how he felt about this week’s New York Times’ endorsement of rival Joe Lhota by suggesting that gelos, was a proud Spartan. and the guests also received in - for Republicans, Times endorsements are a kiss of death. CBS correspondent John Metaxas is “We say you do it the one spirational words from His Em - seen holding a microphone. See related article on page 6. way and the only way which is inence Archbishop Demetrios, the right way,” Koumoutsos told Congressman Gus Bilirakis, and TNH, which he also conveys to His All Holiness Ecumenical Pa - his children. “I tell them try to triarch Bartholomew I via video do it right the first time so you clip. Samaras Upbeat But Unrest Looming don’t have to go back and waste Also present were the Am - time.” bassador of the Republic of As the head of the police Cyprus George Chacalli and the By Andy Dabilis whether Greece will need a funds and hospitals – for college force that was at the heart of Consul General of Greece in TNH Staff Writer third bailout, said to be 10-11 graduates struggling to find the tragedy and heroism of 9/11 Tampa, Antonios Sgouropoulos, billion euros ($13-$14.4 bil - work amid a deepening reces - and works to prevent future at - who offered remarks and ATHENS – Greek Prime Minis - lion,) Samaras said he wants to sion. tacks – the Port Authority owns briefed the audience on the lat - ter Antonis Samaras has di - point out how he has pushed Another “success story” to be the World Trade Center – those est developments in Cyprus and rected his ministers to find ex - the economy toward recovery touted is the fact that authorities are reassuring words. Greece. amples where the government and wants to counter-attack crit - this year succeeded in securing The facilities that the PAPD All the speakers expressed is helping people to push what icism from the major opposition adequate funding to accommo - polices “are vulnerable areas their thanks to AHEPA for its as - he calls the country’s “success party the Coalition of the Radi - date all the families that applied and prime targets…that’s why sistance and effectiveness as an story,” but is facing the likeli - cal Left (SYRIZA). for a position for their child at a our tactics change every day. organization over its 91 years hood of teacher strikes and op - State officials plan to draw state day center. The tourists he encounters and the Archbishop said “We are position in his government to attention to initiatives such as Ministers will be asked to are impressed with his uniform Anthony Kouzounis of Hous - thankful to God for having this the lifting of a ban on foreclo - the granting of 50,000 tempo - submit files containing outlines that is bedecked with the marks ton, newly-elected Supreme sures of homes. rary jobs – at municipalities, President. Continued on page 4 Even while talk lingers of schools, courts, social insurance Continued on page 9 Continued on page 5 Diaspora Leaders Convene Greece Skeptical of Alexander Tomb Discovery

In Cyprus to Discuss Crisis ATHENS - Greece’s Culture Min - istry has warned against “over - bold” speculation that an an - Cyprus Mail Delegates from all over the cient artificial mound being world also discussed their con - excavated could contain a royal NICOSIA, Cyprus - Representa - tribution and pledged to con - Macedonian grave or even tives of Greek and Cypriot or - tinue their support. Alexander the Great. ganizations abroad, gathered President Nicos Anastasiades Site archaeologist Aikaterini here for their 17th annual con - opened the two-day meeting Peristeri has voiced hopes of ference focusing on two main and during his speech said that finding “a significant individual topics, the state of the economy despite trouble in the Middle or individuals” within. and developments in UN-led ef - East and the financial problems Greek websites enthused that forts to find a political settle - faced by Cyprus, the govern - it could hold the long-sought ment. ment’s priority remained a so - grave of 4th-Century B.C. war - lution to the Cyprus problem. rior-king Alexander the Great — “Our priority is to free our thought to lie in Egypt. occupied territory, the reunifi - A Culture Ministry statement cation our homeland and the said the partly-excavated Panipirotics creation of conditions which will mound has yielded a “very re - allow Cypriots, both Greek and markable” marble-faced wall Turkish, to live together peace - from the late 4th Century B.C. Blast Attack fully within a modern European It is an impressive 500 meters state which will allow prosperity (yards) long and three meters and a promising future,” he high. In Permet said. But the ministry warned it Referring to a government would be “overbold” to link the proposal for the return of Fam - site near ancient Amphipolis, The Panepirotic Federation of agusta as a first positive and 370 miles (600 kilometers) America (POA) has sharply crit - practical step Turkey could north of Athens, with “historic icized an assault on a Greek Or - make ahead of a new round of personages” before the excava - thodox church in the city of Per - negotiations expected to begin tion is completed. met in southern Albania on Aug. in autumn, Anastasiades said it Archaeologists at a tomb in the city of Amphipolis, near Serres, northern Greece, which they 16 by what it said were hired seemed the proposal was being Continued on page 9 believe could belong to the wife and son of Alexander the Great, Roxana and Alexander IV. government thugs who smashed accepted by the international icons and crosses and beat up community. worshippers trying to defend the “It is interpreted as a tangible only Christian house of worship sign of our will to move the in the city. Cyprus issue out of the current Utah Churches Resume their Sunday Liturgies “The attack on the Church of deadlock and create the condi - the Virgin Mary, on the morning tions that will give new impetus after her feast day, revived ugly and momentum to efforts for a By Theodore Kalmoukos scheduled time 8:30AM. brate any Liturgy, Sacrament, or memories of past attempts by comprehensive settlement”, he TNH Staff Writer Metropolitan Isaiah of Den - Service whatsoever, effective government agencies of outgo - added. ver had closed both churches a this date until further notice. ing Prime Minister Sali Berisha The Director of the Division SALT LAKE CITY, UT – The month ago by prohibiting its This includes the Sunday Litur - to harass, intimidate and bru - of Overseas and Repatriated stalemate at the Greek Ortho - three priests to celebrate the gies, beginning this Sunday, Au - talize ethnic Greek Orthodox Cypriots, at the Foreign Ministry dox parish in Salt Lake City that Liturgy, the Sacraments and any gust 4th, and all scheduled wed - communities in Albania,” said Ambassador Marios had kept the Churches of the of the Sacred Services because dings and baptisms.” POA President Demetrios Ieronymides spoke about the re - Holy Trinity and Prophet Elias the parish council was forced to Isaiah also wrote to the Koutoulas. sponsibility of Cypriot Hellenism closed for a whole month upon reduce the salaries of the clergy Tsagaris to inform him after “The conduct of municipal around the world to preserve the directive of Metropolitan by 40% due to lack of funds of they restore the priests’ salaries authorities in Permet, with the the vision to liberate Cyprus and Isaiah of Denver has come to an the parish. in order to allow them to do obvious consent of the Berisha seek ways to take Cyprus out of end. In a letter dated July 31 to their priestly duties: “Please in - government, was outrageous the economic recession. An email sent to the parish Parish Council President Dim - form me in writing at such time and far from responsible behav - He commended the efforts of by the two priests, Michael itrios Tsagaris and its members, as you have put the financial af - ior for a country seeking to en - Cypriots abroad who were help - Kouremetis and Mathew Gilbert, Isaiah wrote that “pursuant to fairs of the parish in order and ter the European Union.” ing their homeland, and con - states that “with the blessing of the motion voted on and ap - representing the General Assem - gratulated them on their suc - His Eminence Metropolitan Isa - proved by your Parish Council bly of parishioners in good Continued on page 6 cesses in their adopted iah we will return to the Litur - at your meeting on July 29, standing, you are able to resume countries. gical Life of the community and 2013 to reduce clergy salaries compensating the clergy as re - Katie Clerides, Presidential the clergy will resume office by 40%, I have no other choice quired by the Uniform Parish Commissioner for Humanitarian hours. During this past month but to direct your three assigned Regulations. Keep in mind that For subscription: Affairs and Affairs of Overseas the Sacraments, Baptisms, Wed - clergy to immediately suspend you must pay them the amounts 718.784.5255 Cypriots, noted that the pres - dings and Funeral Services were Metropolitan Isaiah of Denver all priestly ministry to the withheld by you as of this date. [email protected] ence of overseas Cypriots in never stopped and any Ortho - parish.” As soon as I receive your assur - Cyprus showed their love for dox parishioners who were in celebration of the Liturgy for the Isaiah made clear that the ance that matters returned to their homeland and their con - the hospitals were ministered Feast of the Beheading of Saint Holy trinity Cathedral is normal, I will be very happy to tinuous interest in pursuing the to, if we were notified.” John the Baptist. Also this Sun - “closed” since he prohibited the have the clergy resume their The Liturgical Services re - day, Orthros and Divine Liturgy priests to even Liturgize. He Continued on page 9 sumed on August 29 with the will be celebrated at the usual wrote that “they are not to cele - Continued on page 6 2 COMMUNITY THE NATIONAL HERALD, AUGUST 31 - SEPTEMBER 6, 2013 Turkey Hints That Halki Seminary Could Reopen GOINGS ON... n JULY 13 – NOVEMBER 2 Hellenic professionals and the Hurriyet study about the Heybeliada TARPON SPRINGS, FL - Night Hellenic entrepreneurs, bringing Halki Seminary in a positive ap - in the Islands also will be of - together our like-minded com - Justice Minister Sadullah Er - proach, by considering all the fered Saturdays, Sep. 7, Oct. 5, munity to create a platform for gin has signaled that the Halki aspects of the issue along with and Nov. 2 from 6-11 PM the the growth and advancement of Greek Orthodox Seminary on Is - the related institutions,” Y?lmaz City of Tarpon Springs will pre - Hellenes. tanbul’s Heybeliada Island said. sent Night in the Islands – a free might be reopened as part of a In addition, Deputy Prime event on the world famous n SEPTEMBER 19-22 democratization package. Minister Bulent Ar?nc said on Sponge Docks. Enjoy Greek mu - GREENLAWN, NY – The St. Ergin said the minority issue March 5 the Heybeliada Halki sic, dancing, and dining! And Paraskevi Greek Orthodox and the Halki Seminary were on Seminary should be reopened we will offer an hour of free Church presents its Greek Festi - the table as part of the discus - to educate clerics for the Ortho - Greek dance lessons by the Lev - val 2013, Sep. 19. Come join us sions over the democratization dox community, saying “minori - endia Dance Troupe from 6-7 for a little taste of Greece and package, during an interview ties have the same rights as us,” PM. The event features live mu - enjoy homemade Greek special - with the private Haberturk while speaking at a conference sic by Ellada, an exciting Greek ties such as gyro, souvlaki, channel. in Berlin. band composed of three of the mousaka, spanakopita, Greek “It is among the discussed “We accept that there is a ne - most accomplished Greek mu - beer and more! Also featuring debates. We will see its result cessity for clerics in the Heybe - sicians in the state. Ellada will traditional Greek dance perfor - together. But it is on the table liada Halki Seminary for the perform nisiotika, the lively tra - mances, guided Church tours, now. This is a political decision. Greek Orthodox Patriarch or the ditional music of the Greek is - flea market and vendors and If such a decision is taken then Orthodox community, and a lands, as well as old and new Grand Raffle! Hours: Thursday, of course the Halki Seminary school is needed for these (cler - Greek favorites. Ellada includes Sep. 19, 6 – 10 PM, Friday, Sep. could be opened,” said Ergin. ics) to be educated. We know Leonidas Zafiris, bouzouki; Elias 20 and Saturday, Sep. 21, 11 In March, Defense Minister there are (those needs,)” said Poulos, vocals; and Dino The - AM–11 PM, Sunday, Sep 22, 12 Ismet Yilmaz told Parliament Ar?nc at the conference. ofilos, keyboard. The festival is noon–9 PM. Where: Parish that a broad study was being “Therefore, this school cer - supported in part by a grant Grounds, 1 Shrine Place, Green - held into reopening the Halki tainly has to be opened and cler - from the National Endowment lawn, NY. For more information Seminary. ics should be educated here for the Arts. call 631-261-7272. “We are carrying out a broad Halki Greek Orthodox Seminary on Heybeliada Island. again. n SEPTEMBER 4 n OCTOBER 3 ASTORIA – Get-Out-The-Vote MANHATTAN – Please join us Rally for John CATSimatidis! at the Inaugural Banquet for The 2013 Independent Repub - The Hellenic Initiative on Thurs - Tech Innovators Rewriting Greek Tragedy Script lican for NYC Mayor. A Mayor day, Oct. 3 at 583 Park Avenue for all New Yorkers and a Proud in Manhattan. “Investing in the Member of the Omogeneia. Join Future of Greece” featuring By Jim Armitage – and the reality in people’s pay Us on Wednesday, Sept. 4th, 6- President Bill Clinton will honor The Independent packets, pensions and redun - 8PM at the Cretan House,32-33 three outstanding individuals dancy notices – has been of cuts, 31st Street in Astoria. Open to for their service to people of Eric Parks could easily be cuts, cuts: forced upon it by the the Public. Everyone is wel - Greece and all funds raised taken for yet another Silicon Troika in return for bailout come. John will meet with us through the banquet will sup - Valley tycoon. You know the funds. Not to mention big rises and share his passion and vision port programs to support recov - type: big personality, broad in their tax bills. for NYC. Appetizers and refresh - ery and renewal in Greece. American accent, talks in Mr Parks evangelises about ments will be served. RSVP to: George Stephanopoulos will be colourful tech jargon and calls how his country needs to find a [email protected],917.856. the Master of Ceremonies. The you Dude. new story – one in which entre - 3735 or, danielsmediaco@ honorees include Andreas Dra - But, in fact, this 38-year-old preneurs lead the way to an gmail.com.This is NOT a copoulos on behalf of The is one of a small but growing economy in which the brightest fundraiser and no funds will be Stavros Niarchos Foundation; clan – the Athens technology en - want to start businesses, rather solicited. Muhtar Kent, chairman and trepreneur. than get easy, well-paying jobs CEO of The Coca Cola Com - Mr Parks was brought up in in the state sector. n SEPTEMBER 10-11 pany; and Andrew N. Liveris, the city then globe-trotted He is a fine antidote to the CARDIFF BY THE SEA, CA – Be chairman and CEO of The Dow through universities in the US easy German cliche of the tax- Greek for the day and enjoy au - Chemical Company. We are de - and the UK, before settling dodging Greek layabout. thentic food, music, live enter - lighted to celebrate their long - down to work in America. There are more tech-savvy tainment, dancing, and more for standing commitment and many He explains: “I was working folks like him in the city, who the entire family at the 33rd an - contributions to Greece, espe - in Colorado and just woke up could quite easily up sticks for nual Greek Festival held at cially in response to the eco - one day and realised: I’m 1,500 San Francisco or London to Saints Constantine and Helen nomic crisis. John Catsimatidis, miles from the sea. I’m half make themselves rich but Greek Orthodox Church on Sat - Dennis Mehiel, George Stamas, Greek. This is just not going to choose to stay. urday, Sept. 10 from 10AM to George Svokos are the event Co- work!” The fear has to be that, if the 10PM, and Sunday, Sept. 11 Chairs. Visit THI’s website to Back in Athens, he and his conditions imposed on Greece from 11AM to 9PM. The event register to attend at: www.the - web-savvy friends founded a get any worse, even these hardy is located ½ mile east of I-5 at hellenicinitiative.org. Hotel Ac - messaging app called Pinnatta. souls will quit. the Manchester Avenue exit in commodations in Manhattan: With no venture capitalists to A Grexit would make such an Cardiff-by-the-Sea. Admission is Rooms have been reserved at speak of in the city, they had to exodus inevitable. $3.00 for adults and free for the following hotels in Manhat - head to Silicon Valley for funds, Less is definitely more for children under 12. Free parking tan for Oct. 2-4. If you would tapping Sequoia Capital among Russian computer nerds is available at adjacent Mira like to make a reservation, others. Eric Parks says Greece’s grad - Costa College. For two days, the please phone the hotels directly That was in 2011. This year, Eric Parks, who is part Greek and grew up in Athens, has re - uates make bright, and cheap, church grounds are transformed and ask for the Hellenic Initia - the latest venture he’s involved turned to the Greek capital. He is able to flash his high-tech programmers. But at Goldman into a quaint Greek village at - tive Banquet rate. The Renais - with, Pollfish, secured its full, talent there, thanks to some of the Troika reforms. Sachs, it’s Russian boffins mosphere where you can expe - sance Hotel ($369 per night) €300,000 (£ 257,886) seed fi - they’re after. rience fine food, traditional Phone: 212-753-8841; The Fitz - nance entirely from Greek ven - scene. It now has four venture- It isn’t just Pinnatta and Poll - So says the Muscovite maths Greek dancing, and the warmth patrick Hotel ($329 per night) ture capital. capital houses in the city where fish set to benefit from the new genius Sergey Aleynikov, the of Greek hospitality. The Phone: 212-355-0100. Banquet Thanks to a mixture of EU a couple of years ago there were environment. Other Athens dig - former Goldman algorithmic church’s award-winning folk tickets are $500 each, with and private funding, plus red- none. ital startups include Bugsense, trading programmer convicted dance troupes, Armonia and packages for hosts at $2500, tape cutting for start-ups de - “A few years ago you had to Taxibeat and Incrediblue – a of stealing computer code from Neo Kyma Dancers, will perform supporters at 15k, patrons at manded by “the Trokia” – the almost emigrate to get funding kind of booking.com for boats the bank last year. In this in full traditional dress on the 25k and vice chairs at 50k. EU, International Monetary but now we have a vibrant en - and yachts. month’s Vanity Fair, as well as outdoor patio. A live auction Fund and European Central vironment. It’s a big psycholog - It is the kind of story the protesting his innocence, he de - featuring many valuable do - n OCTOBER 31 – Bank – and the launch of col - ical change,” Mr Parks says. Greek government desperately scribes how more than half the nated items will take place at NOVEMBER 3 laborative workspaces offering “And, crucially, here I can hire needs to get out to its increas - programmers designing Gold - 5PM on both days. The annual WASHINGTON, DC – DC - support and guidance for young brilliant engineers of Silicon Val - ingly desperate and disenfran - man’s super-fast algorithmic drawing for the 2012 Mercedes- Greeks.com, in association with entrepreneurs, Athens has de - ley quality for a quarter of the chised youth. trading programmes were Rus - Benz C300 Sedan will be held local and national Hellenic or - veloped its own nascent silicon price.” So far, the political narrative sians. on Sept. 11 at 7PM. Tickets are ganizations, invites Greek- The reason? They’re the best only $10 each and limited to American young adults from on Wall Street. Mr Aleynikov 7,500 sold. Tickets can be pur - across the country to our Na - says that, for his generation at chased at the festival or on the tion's Capital this November for COMING THIS FALL! least, this is because their badly- website at cardiffgreekfest.com. the 5th edition of the one of the kitted out universities don’t al - Winner need not be present. most diverse and inclusive low them much time on com - Greek events on the calendar! puters. n SEPTEMBER 15 Pan-Hellenism Weekend 2013 Special Import / Export Issue “In Russia, time on the com - MANHATTAN – The Church of will provide Greek-American puter was measured in min - the Annunciation invites you to and Philhellene young adults 18 utes,” he says. The result being, “Welcome Back & Godparent and over with an affordable, October 2013 he claims, an unmatched skill Sunday,” on Sunday, Sep. 15. fun, classy, and quality event in creating programs that work Now that the summer is slowly which allows attendees from DC Place your ad by September 26th and be part of this culinary first time without the need for winding down we are preparing and over two dozen different constant rewriting to eliminate to welcome the entire commu - states the opportunity to net - renaissance in our Greek Special Edition the bugs. nity back to the Annunciation work in a relaxed and welcom - Given the events on Wall Church. We will celebrate every - ing environment without the Street this week, featuring not one's return by honoring our burden of meetings and agendas one but two major episodes of godparents and godchildren. A that so often detract young major computer glitches, one memorial service will be held adults from attending other wonders: did the programmers for our godparents and godchil - more established Greek conven - involved at Goldman and Nas - dren who have fallen asleep in tions. Highlights of the weekend daq spend too much time on the Lord, and an artoklasia will include Thursday and Saturday their computers at college? be offered for the health and Happy Hours, Friday and Sun - Georgia’s new leader has the wellbeing of those who are still day Night Greek Nights, and West worried alive and with us. 302 West 91st Saturday Late Night Bouzoukia! When you’ve got $6bn Street. 212-724-2070. For full details including a (£3.84bn) in the bank, it’s easy schedule of events, visit the Pan- enough to speak your mind. But n SEPTEMBER 16 Hellenism Weekend 2013 page Georgia’s billionaire newish ROSLYN, NY – The Hellenic on DCGreeks.com! prime minister Bidzina Ivan - American Networking Group in - ishvili should perhaps be more vites you to their next gathering n NOTE TO OUR READERS circumspect. at Limani Restaurant, 1043 This calendar of events section The man who made his for - Northern Boulevard, Roslyn, is a complimentary service to tune in Russia before deciding NY on Monday, Sep. 16. There the Greek American community. to turn his mind back home won will be a cash bar and Limani All parishes, organizations and a bad-tempered coalition drive will once again graciously pro - institutions are encouraged to to push out the pro-Western vide their delicious appetizers. e-mail their information regard - party of outgoing president The mission of this organization ing the event 3-4 weeks ahead Mikheil Saakashvili, pictured is to create an environment that of time, and no later than Mon - left, last year. facilitates meaningful business day of the week before the Some in Western govern - connections with fellow Hel - event, to english.edition@then - ments fear he wants to turn the lenes. It’s about unifying the ationalherald.com country’s allegiances back to mother Russia. He counters that he wants to be friends with east and west and still wants Georgia to join the EU and Nato. QUESTION OF THE WEEK But his government has de - This edition highlights the hottest trends tained dozens of Mr Vote on our website! Saakashvili’s officials on corrup - in specialty foods and wines, combined with the most tion charges. Yesterday he said You have the chance to express your opinion on our website Mr Saakashvili himself could on an important question in the news. The results will be pub - traditional Greek products and recipes. Don’t miss out! face the same fate for presiding lished in our printed edition next week along with the question over a country “smothered by for that week. For more information contact: corruption”. The question this week is: Question of the Week: Do you [email protected] or call: 718-784-5255, ext. 108 The US has already voiced think Greece should refuse another bailout from the EU? concern at the arrests and will o Yes be rightly concerned by this lat - o No est outburst. o Maybe If he is serious about keeping The results for last week’s question: Do you think President The National Herald ties with the West, he should Obama was right to cancel his meeting with Vladimir Putin af - stop threatening to use the ter Russia granted asylum to Edward Snowden? www.thenationalherald.com courts to silence his opposition. 62 % voted "Yes" Such talk may wash with 38 % voted "No" Moscow, but Western capitals might take a different view. Please vote at: www.thenationalherald.com THE NATIONAL HERALD, AUGUST 31 - SEPTEMBER 6, 2013 COMMUNITY 3 Republican Mike Pantelides Strives to Become Mayor of Annapolis, MD

By Paul Foer nial, articulate and well versed long-time Democrats seemed to make it hard to follow what may Capital Gazette in city issues, he’ll have to rely be the makeup of the crowd. apparently be a campaign in - on his community service, fa - Democratic Aldermen Joe tended to raise awareness of ANNAPOLIS, MD - The baklava, miliarity with the city and work Budge and Jared Littman were certain issues, namely taxes and spanakopita and stuffed grape in the campaign of former may - there as were former Alderper - our economy, than to get him leaves were delicious and the oral candidate David Cordle, sons Louise and John Ham - elected. crowd, a who’s who among the who was noticeably absent from mond, Republican Del. Herb I have no information about local Greek-American commu - his party. McMillan, and even — yes, any such announcement event nity, was enthusiastic when the These campaign announce - O’Shea. What was most telling for Bradley and was unable to “groom” rose to speak to the ment parties excite and unite were the many leading civic ac - attend Cohen’s party, but his in - guests. It was a scene out of My the candidate’s closest support - tivists, although many, if not cumbency and familiarity al - Big, Fat Greek ... uh, Campaign ers. Republican Bob O’Shea and most, were from the active ready puts him ahead of other Announcement. Democrat Bevin Buchheister downtown and Eastport wards. candidates in terms of visibility, The groom was none other clearly did that as well at their That’s no surprise. for better or for worse. Cohen than Mike Pantelides, who is respective announcement par - The middle-aged O’Shea, a has likely been taken off guard courting the City of Annapolis ties atop downtown — as in the business consultant living down - by an apparently strong and to become its next mayor. The city — restaurants. town with his wife and young growing campaign for Buchheis - thirtyish-Eagle Scout was as en - Oddly enough, Pantelides child, is high-energy, talkative, ter. thusiastic as his audience, com - held his about a mile outside of gregarious, full of ideas and like It will come down to party posed of both fellow Republi - city limits, which seems to make Pantelides, seems driven by en - lines, perhaps an “anyone but cans and his dearly beloved no sense to this columnist but thusiastic passion for improving Cohen” stance and basically per - extended family and friends. he did attract a lot of Republican the city. His strengths appear to sonal impressions of the candi - Pantelides made a strong im - leaders. be experience in the business dates as they knock on your pression with a passionate, O’Shea’s party was probably world and a willingness to listen door, shake your hand or appear forcefully delivered and thank - the smallest of the three and the and bring people with diverse at public events such as the fully brief speech. He can wow only local elected official I saw ideas together. Sept. 12 Eastport Civic Associa - a crowd and fire up an audi - was Alderman Fred Paone, who Neither he nor Pantelides tion forum at Eastport Elemen - ence, but of the table full of Michael Pantelides on the campaign trail running for Mayor of introduced him. Buchheister seemed comfortable taking a tary School. well-wishers I spoke with, most Annapolis, MD as a pro-local business environmental activist. packed an elbow-room only position on what I believe to be Finally, since history and reg - were not even Annapolitans. His grandparents’ roots are in Greece and Cyprus. crowd when she was introduced our No. 1 issue, which is to istration suggests the Democra - The locally-connected Pan - by longtime Democratic activist change our style of government tic nominee will likely capture telides will likely be pigeon - mayor if he or she had signifi - strong case for his experience. Beth Garraway of Eastport who to a council-manager. the mayor’s seat, the primary on holed due to his youth and in - cant real world experience in Even an advance degree in once supported Mayor Josh Co - Bradley is running a more Sept. 17 is key. Will it be Cohen experience, and while I might running a complex organiza - public administration would be hen. Both Republicans, who low-key campaign and his late or will it be the “Bevinteenth” vote for a 30-year-old to become tion, he has not yet made a great, but while he is bright, ge - might be switching parties, and filing and limited web presence of September? Mayor Bloomberg a Regular at the Greek-Owned Viand Cafe on East Side

By James Barron Janet Napolitano when she was For the record, Mr. The New York Times the governor of Arizona. Scott Bloomberg and Ms. Taylor were M. Stringer, who will face Mr. at Table 13 that morning, not Angel Pelengaris led the way Spitzer in the Democratic pri - Table 14, because someone else to Table 14, saying it was the mary for city comptroller, has had been at Table 14 when they booth to sit in “if you want to faced the mayor from across arrived. Viand does not take be mayor for five minutes.” Table 14. reservations, does not even put It took longer than five min - So what does the world look a “reserved” sign to hold the utes — a lot longer — for Mr. like from the table where the green, silver-speckled table, the Pelengaris, the manager of the mayor has breakfast often and fourth of six booths along a wall Viand Cafe at 1011 Madison Av - dinner sometimes? Not that dif - with photographs of famous enue, between 78th and 79th ferent than from the other tables customers like Mr. Bloomberg Streets, to say everything he at Viand. It has a view of the and the country singer Willie wanted to say about the regular door. You can see the V.I.P.’s as Nelson. customer who made Table 14 they come in, and they can see Willie Nelson? “That was a famous, Mayor Michael R. you. long time ago” is all Mr. Pelen - Bloomberg. Mr. Pelengaris’s as - But not always. One morning garis says by way of explana - sessment of Mr. Bloomberg’s Mr. Bloomberg was seated with tion. nearly 12 years in City Hall? A his girlfriend, Diana L. Taylor, Mr. Bloomberg is said to like rave. Six stars, maybe more, on when, as Mr. Pelengaris put it, his eggs soft boiled and his toast a scale of one to five. “guess who” walked in — Mr. “well done,” which may or may “We were hoping he’d be Bloomberg’s predecessor, not mean almost burned. Table- president,” said Mr. Pelengaris, Rudolph W. Giuliani. hopping on his way out, he 60, whose restaurant is just “The place was full,” Mr. Pe - sometimes samples a French fry around the corner from Mr. lengaris said, and somehow the or two from another customer’s Bloomberg’s town house. “I two mayors did not see each plate, said Mr. Pelengaris. Never PHOTOS: JAmES ESTriN/THE NEw yOrk TimES thought he could go that way, other until Mr. Giuliani had mind that French fries contain Mayor Bloomberg has made Viand Cafe, near his townhouse, a place for power breakfasts. but knowing the problems, he been seated at Table 12. “I had trans-fats and that, at his behest, Bloomberg doesn’t always get his favorite, booth 14, however. Reservations are not taken. didn’t.” two mayors sitting back to New York became the first city Table 14 — medium green, back,” Mr. Pelengaris said, “and to ban artificial trans-fats, which with darker, forest-green ban - for a minute they didn’t know have been linked to obesity and quettes — is where Eliot Spitzer it.” Had they not said hello, the heart disease. joined the mayor when he was political world would have won - Mr. Pelengaris, who was born the governor, Joel I. Klein when dered: Were they snubbing each in Cyprus and studied mathe - he was schools chancellor and other? matics and physics in London before he came to New York in 1977, said Mr. Bloomberg “gave character to the city.” HE WILL MAKE US ALL PROUD The affection seems to be mutual. In 2010, on his weekly radio program, the mayor de - scribed “my favorite restaurant,” the place he would go “if I had to eat all the meals the rest of my life.” And then he turned Viand into a metaphor. “The food’s great,” the mayor said. “The people are nice. It’s low cost. Everything comes in - stantly. But you watch the guy behind the counter and you say, ‘You know, I want a ham-and- cheese or B.L.T. or a tuna fish on toast or this and that.’ Bang. Bang. Bang. It’s there. You go elsewhere in the country, and it’s overstating it to say every - body, but they work a lot slower. And that’s just making sand - wiches. And that’s true of New Yorkers. There’s a pace of life The Greek-owned Viand opened in 1968. here which isn’t for everybody.”

A NEW YORKER FOR ALL NEW YORKERS JOHN CATSIMATIDIS For Mayor of New York, 2013

A proud member of the Omogeneia and the FIRST Greek-American to ever run for New York City’s mayoral seat. Together, we can make it happen!

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The National Hellenic Society’s (NHS) Heritage Greece Program is the result of a collaboration studying in Greece is to experience as much of the country as possible, including the heart of with the American College of Greece, which has a beautiful 65-acre campus, but the point of Athens in Syntagma Square (right) and the famed Greek seashore (left). National Hellenic Society Shows Greek Heritage Program Effectiveness

By Art Dimopoulos pairs highly-accomplished volved in a sociological study of of the program providing for a namic, fulfilling, and a life- identity greatly enhances the Special to The National Herald Greek-American students with the Program by Dr. Gregory Kat - meaningful experience. The re - changing. likelihood that they too will con - a peer group of Greek students. sas, a Fordham Univesity soci - sults of the study indicate that According to Katsas’ results, tribute by becoming future com - The National Hellenic Soci - Together, the students share a ologist, over four years since the Heritage Greece has left an in - this year’s study of the Heritage munity leaders and ambas - ety (NHS) is a nonprofit foun - heritage that binds them and Program’s inception. delible mark characterized as Greece program met with suc - sadors of Hellenic heritage. dation dedicated to the preser - helps them explore and redis - The research is unprece - personally fulfilling, memo - cess “in fulfilling the goal of con - Toward that objective, NHS vation of Hellenic heritage cover their Greek identity. dented in the Greek- American rable, and educational. One necting the participants to a will host a reunion of Heritage through innovative programs Heritage Greece was devel - community and ripe for longi - surprising fact is the sense of in - stronger sense of who they are Greece alumni during the an - with particular emphasis on the oped by the NHS in collabora - tudinal study. Katsas’ finding dividual accomplishment each within the context of their cul - nual NHS Heritage Weekend next generation. The NHS is tion with partner and host in - demonstrates the effectiveness of the participants felt, some - ture, heritage and language and Classic gathering in Las Ve - very concerned that a failure to stitution, the American College of the Program’s different com - thing clearly augmented by the within the backdrop and context gas in early October. foster a sense of Hellenic iden - of Greece, Europe’s oldest and ponents and determines how involvement of the peer group of modern Greece.” The alumni will be provide tity in the next generation of largest American styled college the Heritage Greece partici - of students. Another surprising Next, the NHS will assess input and suggestions on devel - young adults will be detrimental located on a modern 65 acre pants’ notions of their respective finding is the importance of the how the goodwill and positive oping programs they deem im - to sustaining a connection to the campus in Aghia Paraskevi, an Greek identity may have Greek language that within the effects of the Heritage Greece portant toward the goal of keep - Greek-American community, Athens suburb. changed as a result of the pro - context of the Heritage Greece Program continue to play a ing them engaged in the Greek and ultimately to Greece. The objectives underlying the gram. The recently published experience is something the stu - meaningful part of the partici - American community. Consequently, since the foun - Heritage Greece Program are to study has yielded overwhelm - dents desired greater profi - pants’ lives as they move for - The NHS hopes that Heritage dation’s inception four years create an awareness of Greek ingly positive findings. ciency and mastery of; they ward with their studies and re - Greece will serve scores of stu - ago, the NHS developed the identity amongst the group of This year’s Program included wanted an enhanced Greek lan - spective careers. dents in the future and help turn Heritage Greece Program—a Greek American college partici - 26 Greek-American students guage experience. The goal of Heritage Greece the tide of complacency about unique two week educational pants and to impart the pro - that shared their experiences Katsas’ findings gauge the is to have a significant impact the importance and relevance of and cultural immersion program found richness of their respec - with a group of Greek students Program’s success and effec - on engagement and involve - Hellenic heritage. in Greece for students largely tive cultural legacy. The and received college credit for tively provide a barometer for ment in the Greek American A legacy passed on to us by from interfaith/intercultural Program’s success has been the educational component. The better refining the Program’s ac - community. Providing the stu - our forbearers and incumbent families that have never visited measured from feedback of Her - presence of the Greek students tivities and curriculum. Tweak - dents with a sense of belonging for us to pass on the future gen - Greece. The two-week program itage Greece participants in - is integral to meeting the goals ing the experience to keep it dy - and appreciation of their Greek erations. AHEPA’s 91st Annual Supreme Convention Gleams in the Florida Sunshine

Continued from page 1 his Basil’s Blog. City and the Destruction of its “Our evening at Universal Greek, Armenian, and Jewish association of AHEPA existing in Studios Orlando was a truly Ethnic Communities” as well as America.” memorable one,” Mossaidis “Demetrios is now Jimmy.” Chris P. Tomaras, the Chair - wrote, adding, “Our convention - The guests danced one of the man of the PanHellenic Schol - eers were treated to a night of nights away – some on tables – arship Foundations was honored music, dancing and delicious at Taverna Opa! and some com - at the Grand Banquet. Outgoing food at Studio 33 of the theme peting in the convention’s golf Supreme President, Dr. John park….the highlight of the tournament as well as the Grossomanides, presented evening was the outstanding AHEPA National Golf Champi - Tomaras with the 2013 Acad - view we were afforded of the onship held at Windermere emy of Achievement Award in Universal’s Cinematic Spectacu - Country Club and Grand Cy - Business. lar—100 Years of Movie Memo - press Golf Club, respectively. In accepting the award ries…which was narrated by One of the many highlights Tomaras said "It is a huge and award-winning Actor Morgan of the week was the annual most valuable award because it Freeman and were accompanied awards and scholarship lun - comes from a huge and most by fireworks, a light show, and cheon of AHEPA’s National Ath - valuable institution, AHEPA. It a musical score that were simply letic Department. is the organization which, since out of this world.” Nikko Koutouvides, who 1922, has been the most effec - He also noted that in support plays for the New England Pa - tive, the most contributive, the of AHEPA’s “long-standing com - triots, received the AHEPA Harry most accomplished, the most mitment to finding cures for Agganis Award, and Toni Koke - admired and deeply respected deadly diseases such as cancer nis, a basketball player at Stan - Greek American civic organiza - and Cooley’s Anemia (Tha - ford University, received the tion in the world. I am truly lassemia major), there was a AHEPA William Chirgotis overwhelmed and humbled by representative from Delete Award. this honor." Blood Cancer, a national bone Gold Medal Olympic Diver Continuing a recent tradi - marrow registry, on-hand for Louganis headed the list of in - Supreme President Anthony Kouzounis stands third from left in the first row surrounded by tion, AHEPA’s Executive Direc - two days to sign-up individuals ductees AHEPA’s new leadership in this commemorative photo at the order’s 91st Convention. tor, Basil Mossaidis, who is for the registry.” Into the prestigious AHEPA based at its headquarters in The AHEPA Cultural Com - Athletic Hall of Fame and the Penelope Honor also two out - the broader community,” Saltas the Sons of Pericles committee, Washington, DC, kept members mission once again sponsored community’s outstanding standing said. Jimmy Kokotas of Brooklyn. around the world that were un - its Hellenism Book Corner, scholar athletes received schol - Women for their athletic After his election, Kouzounis, Kouzounis will also stress able to attend informed about which featured books such as arships. achievements. The Zoe Cav - who is a member of Alexander further developing communica - the work and festivities through “Constantinople: The Beautiful Each year the Daughters of alaris Athletic Award was pre - the Great Chapter 29, Houston, tion within AHEPA and he wants sented to Katherine Victoria said, “It is an honor to be elected to further deepen their human - Lane and the Athletic Hall of AHEPA supreme president…The itarian aid collaboration with Fame Award was given to Kathy community continues to face a Apostoli-Mission in Greece and Bizoukas Zotos. multitude of challenges that are with the IOCC. He is very im - NEW LEADERSHIP PLEDGES important to address as the pressed at the latter’s resource - TO CONTINUE AHEPA need for community service is fulness, especially in delivering REJUVENATION, SUPPORT relentless, both in the United medical material. They are cur - FOR HOMELANDS States and abroad and the pro - rently preparing the fifth con - Saltas, who is who is a mem - motion of Hellenic ideals will tainer they are helping to send ber of Daughters of Penelope always be a priority." to Evangelismos Hospital in Charai Chapter 79, Salt Lake He added, "I am excited to Athens. He is open to additional City Utah, declared “It is hum - work with our seasoned Diaspora aid initiatives, he said bling to be reelected Grand Supreme Lodge and our mem - to TNH. President…I look forward to bership to address these chal - Kokotas told TNH the success continuing our work with the lenges and keep AHEPA on the of the membership drive of the Grand Lodge and the member - steady path set forth by my pre - Sons of Pericles which has ship to take our existing success - decessors in a spirit true to our boosted membership above 700, ful programs in education, phil - mission." but although the declared target anthropy, and social services to He said reaching out to is 1000, he will work to reach greater levels to the benefit of young people will remain a pri - 2000 within a few years. “It will the community.” ority but since it’s not easy for require many people pitching “I believe strongly in the phi - the older generation to be on in…we have a strong national losophy of our organization’s the same wavelength with them, team and Dr. John Grosso - founder, Alexandra Apostolides, even if they are young at heart, manides will stay on as a mem - who championed empowering he looked forward to working ber of the committee.” women to be strong advocates with the new presidents of the The 2014 Supreme Conven - AHEPA Athletic Hall of Fame Inductees and Student-Athlete Honorees beam with pride and ap - for others and encouraged Sons and Maids and the na - tion will convene July 21-26, preciation. Outgoing Supreme President Dr. John Grossomanides is 7th from the left. women to pursue ways to serve tional advisor and chairman of New Orleans, LA. THE NATIONAL HERALD, AUGUST 31 - SEPTEMBER 6, 2013 COMMUNITY 5 Constantinides Emphasizes Education, Prentzas Invites Him to Debate

By Constantine S. Sirigos “temporary” classrooms but is going to lift you up,” and also TNH Staff Writer which have scarred the school’s urging him to fight for others to playground for 16 years. get a good education. NEW YORK – With two weeks He presented five points The stakes remain personal, to go before the primary elec - meant to address the problems however, because his own will tion, Costas Constantinides, there and throughout Western begin attending school the day who is running to be the first Queens and was joined by before the September 10 elec - Greek- and Cypriot-American to Danny Dromm, former teacher tion. be elected to New York’s City and City Councilmember from Constantinides said he was Council, focused on an issue neighboring Jackson Heights, “proud to stand with the parents that is near and dear to the and Dermot Smyth, who repre - and our community leaders,” in - hearts of the community: their sented the United Federation of cluding New York State Senator children’s education. Teachers (UFT). Michael Gianaris, State Assem - Constantinides held a press A product of Astoria’s public blywoman Aravella Simotas, conference on August 26 at P.S. schools, whose mother was a PTA and Peter Vallone Jr, incumbent 151 near the edge of Eastern As - president and school district 30 in the City Council, to keep the toria to highlight conditions that leader, Constantinides has been Gifted & Talented Academy threaten the quality of public an education activist throughout open at P.S. 122 and to save his school education in Queens – his years as Democratic District alma mater Bryant High School the gathering took place before Leader. He remembers his and Long Island City High the unsightly and uninspiring mother stressing the importance School “that were on the chop - trailers that were meant to be of education saying “this is what ping block for two years straight.” Term limits ended Vallone’s City Council Service but he is now running for Queen Bor - Costas Constantinides (L), City Council member Danny Dromm, and UFT representative Dermot ough President. His campaign Smyth express outrage over “temporary” trailer classrooms (in background) that have been received a significant boost parked in P.S. 151’s schoolyard for 16 years. when State Senator Tony Avella recently dropped out of the pri - “the members of the UFT are with Constantinides for several stuck in them like prisoners year mary. Among those running for the individuals who educate our years, he and his organization after year.” his old seat is Greek-American children every single day.” is confident that “he will bring Prentzas, a local business - businessman Gus Prentzas. He also believes that parents a fresh enthusiasm to the City man who was also served on Constantinides presented a also feel excluded from the de - Council… we have Peter Vallone school boards and is currently five-point plan that extends be - cision making. “I don’t think my who has done a lot standing up the PTA president at Bryant told yond the elimination of the trail - mom’s voice would be welcome for education here and we look TNH he does not believe Con - ers, which is point number one. today,” referring to meetings forward to that mantle being stantinides has gone beyond is - The rest include: accelerate that dragged past 11:00 PM be - passed on to Costa.” suing bullet points that “have school construction to meet fore parents were allowed to Ann Adolino, who has lived been heard for the past 25 growing needs of families; re - speak, an additional allusion the in the area for 35 years and has years.” duce class sizes to allow for mayor’s controversial decision volunteer in its schools, told He challenged Constanti - more individualized attention to to take over the Department of TNH “I believe in lot of the nides to a public debate, saying students; encourage parental in - Education in order to spur reor - changes he wants to make for he wants to know “what’s the volvement in decision making; ganization and reform. our children.” path, how do you do it? We and invest in classroom technol - Dromm wholeheartedly en - Colette Conlon is outraged must discuss and analyze what ogy and computers. dorsed Constantinides’ points over the trailers from a different has worked and what has not Alluding to battles between and thanked him for putting the standpoint. worked,” in efforts to reform ed - the UFT and Mayor Michael focus on education and to pre - “Since the Newtown mas - ucation systems. Bloomberg and prior adminis - sent a plan “because the DOE sacre I have been thinking about For example, Prentzas said trations he said “I stand with doesn’t have a plan,” and added the issue of student security on that what must be addressed is our teachers. I’m not sure when “unless you have a good educa - a daily basis. This doesn’t look the fact that money is being mis - Gus Prentzas, who is challenging Costa Constantinides for the teachers became the enemy of tion plan, New York City is secure, and that’s above and be - used, noting that in addition to City Council seat now held by Peter Vallone, Jr., stands outside our City. I don’t believe that they doomed.” yond the message the trailers over-crowded schools, there are a school named for Vallone’s grandfather. are.” He declared earlier that Smith said that after working send to the children who are facilities that are underutilized. PA Police Chief Louis Koumoutsos: Dedication, Energy, and Vigilance

Continued from page 1 he learned from his Spartan fa - at the time called him and said baby girl. ficials regarding security for the can. His wife is an Italian-Amer - ther. ”you might want to turn on the Asked what his favorite time 2004 Olympics and the PAPD ican and a convert to Orthodoxy, of rank and citations from two He spent a lot of time “in the TV.” if the year is for visiting Greece, had a liaison that went there. and they try to maintain the decades of achievement, but he trenches” and although his com - When he saw the planes hit Koumoutsos responded “any He is a Parish Council member Hellenic values and traditions knows full well that one man at mitments are now more admin - the Twin Towers, he called his time the opportunity arises.” of the Church of St. George in in the family, but above all, he the top or even his entire force istrative and involves respond - mother-in-law to come watch As demanding as his profes - Ocean Township in New Jersey. is an American. He is looking are not sufficient for the security ing to the needs of the public, the children and then reported sion is, he also makes sure to Koumoutsos travels to Asto - forward to the completion of the he is pledged to provide to the “I like to get out there. I like to to Newark Airport. give back to community and ria to support the community of World Trade Center. 20 million-person Metropolitan see the guys,” he said. “We didn’t know the num - homeland. Koumoutsos was St. Irene Chrysovalantou and “When it opens up, for me, area. As recently as this past May, bers but we knew several of our asked to consult with Greek of - the Greek stores whenever he it will seem like a resurrection.” “We reach out to the public before he was appointed Chief, officers had responded…several as much as we can…we have he was an inspector assigned to had fallen and others were tip lines where they can give us the PATH rapid transit lines, trapped at the Trade Center.” very important information,” he where he was the commanding “It was an emotional roller - said, adding that “we also reach officer for four years. coaster, listening on the radio, out to the public and tell them “I got on the train – daily if you could hear the officers’ BROOKLYN & QUEENS ROCK THE VOTE! that their tips – such as report - I could…I would pick a route voices and their concern. We re - ing somebody that should not and ride the train wearing my covered one officer who was be in a certain area – can lead uniform, interacting with the alive and were cheering,” but for to something and certainly pre - conductors, PA employees.” more information was coming vent a major event.” The important thing is that in, “regarding unidentified offi - But uniforms are important. “when the police officers and cers who had died and it be - “Visibility is a big deterrent, we supervisors see the boss doing came a grueling process emo - JOHN CATS IMATIDIS know that. My message to the that…they say ‘we are going to tionally.” officers and supervisors is ‘be get out there too.’” That’s what All their tours were extended visible and be safe out there,’ it’s about: it’s about deterring to 12 hours rotations to provide Independent Republican and always be mindful of the activity and crime. Being out the necessary support. “We were unknown,” noting things may there. The uniform does deter.” there for a couple of days; not be what they appear to be. And it made an impression everybody was on board; there CANDIDATE FOR MAYOR “It is not the entire picture,” he on him as a child. While he was were no complaints,” he said. says. always fascinated by planes tak - LEARN AND MOVE ON “They must be cognizant of ing off and landing, he knew he “We have changed the way Join Us at the Rally! other variable and things that had always wanted to be a po - we do business every day,” after may happen.” liceman. As manager of opera - 9/11 he said. “From normal He says similar things to tions for Continental he got to everyday policing where you civilians. “Question the car in know well several PAPD officers could almost pick out what a the driveway or across the at Newark airport, and when he given police officer was going street. Have that policeman’s in - learned the test was coming up to do,” they now make their tac - stinct in you, because in today’s in 1992 he took it. tics and patterns as unpre - society everything is a chal - THAT TERRIBLE DAY dictable as possible. lenge.” It is not just any police force. He works with local police The officers listen closely be - Koumoutsos had a day off on departments, and noted “I have cause Koumoutsos leads by ex - 9/11 and was home with his every one of them on speed dial ample. “The example is huge,” children. His wife, Angela, on my personal cell phone so he said of one of the principles worked for Continental Airlines that if there is an issue we can discuss it, mobilize, and react as a cohesive group,” In a crisis, Koumoutsos can summon two decades of experi - Tuesday • September 3rd, 6:30pm - 8:30pm ence and training. He is a recent graduate of the FBI National Omonia Cafe - Bay Ridge Academy. He was the top-ranking offi - 7612 Third Avenue, Brooklyn, NY cer of the PATH Command and after Superstorm Sandy and di - Refreshments will be served rected his team to make several RSVP to: [email protected] rescues, including saving 28 people from a Jersey City apart - For more info: 347-335-6141 or 212-974-3145 CATS Campaign Headquarters ment building. GOD BLESS AMERICA His father was a tailor, which enabled him to settle his family Wednesday • September 4th, 6:00pm - 8:00pm wherever he wanted. After land - ing in Canada with his mother, Cretan House “Omonia” Dimitra, who is from Kalamata, 32-33 31st Street, Astoria, NY (nearest transit: Broadway - N,Q) he said lets “try the United States,” for which his son is very Refreshments will be served grateful. “This country has been great to me and my family,” he RSVP to: [email protected] told TNH. Koumoutsos was born in For more info: or 212-974-3145 CATS Campaign Headquarters Montreal and grew up in Rochester, Astoria, and New Jer - sey, where he has lived the ma - jority of his life. He spent two Come meet our friend, John CATSimatidis, who is of his high school years in running as the Independent Republican Candidate for Mayor. Athens. At home he spoke Greek and attended Greek School at He will share his passion and vision for New York City. St. Demetrios St. Fanourios in Elizabeth, NJ. When his parents retired in Greece in 1984, the Primary Election Day is September 10, 2013 plan was for him to stay there, but although he loves visiting Greece – he used to go twice a We hope you will join us and vote for CATS! year – after a few months he thought “this is not for me.” This is not a Fund Raiser and No Funds will be Solicited His sister, Fotini, however, re - Louis Koumoutsos stands amid PAPD, state, and city flags in a sides in Athens with their room where some members of 1,600-member force slept on mother, and works for Coca Paid for by Cats2013 Committee cots during when they were on duty for Hurricane Sandy. Cola. She just gave birth to a 6 COMMUNITY THE NATIONAL HERALD, AUGUST 31 - SEPTEMBER 6, 2013 Catsimatidis, Lhota, and McDonald Battle it out Live on the CUNY Stage

By Constantine S. Sirigos ing the homeless and of which TNH Staff Writer he is the founder and president. “Over these past 25 years…I put NEW YORK – John Lhota, John a quarter of a billion dollars into Catsimatidis, and George Mc - the pockets of these men and Donald did not seem to disagree women who lifted themselves about much on substance when up and followed my leadership. they gathered on August 27 for I will do that as mayor of New the Republican mayoral debate, York.” but the verbal jabs and shoving During the Q&A TNH asked turned the auditorium of CUNY Catsimatidis how he felt about Graduate Center in Manhattan the New York Times’ endorse - into more of a boxing arena ment of Lhota. He said “The than a political forum. New York Times picked Mark The younger members of the Green over Mayor Bloomberg, audience were delighted, but it so when it comes to Republicans was not a surprise for seasoned I think it’s an advantage,” that politicos and reporters covering it didn’t endorse him. He added the next to last debate before “the New York Post kicks me the September 10 primary. every chance they get. They When political horse races turn caught me yawning the other into the home stretch, they sel - day and they wrote a whole dom become genteel affairs. story about it.” Even philanthropists and public servants – the candidates’ web - sites are chock full of evidence of a lifetime of good deeds – cannot resist the temptation to NYC Mayoral turn nasty. The most recent Marist Col - Race Update: lege survey had Catsimatidis trailing Lhota 33 percent to 22 GOP Debate percent. 30 percent of the re - spondents were undecided, and By Constantinos E. the poll had a margin of error ABOVE: John Catsimatidis, who was a target at the debates Scaros of 8.5 percentage points. since he is within striking distance of frontrunner Joe Lhota, McDonald, who was last at handled most of his rivals’ attacks with humor and grace. 12 percent, became testy when RIGHT: An ebullient Margo Catsimatidis, who observers say A debate sponsored by reporters brought up those would be an excellent First Lady, stood to the left of her hus - CBS News New York fea - numbers after the debate, insist - band when the candidates spoke to the media after the de - tured the three Republican ing that with such a large mar - bates. mayoral hopefuls live on the gin of error, the actual order same stage: frontrunner Joe might be different, and he dis - demand that Catsimatidis re - he snapped “go after Catsima - Lhota, strong contender played apparently deep resent - lease his tax returns. The busi - tidis’ tax returns.” When it came John Catsimatidis, and ment towards Catsimatidis ness mogul swatted the question up again that the latter believed trailer George McDonald. It when he brought up that the lat - away by saying McDonald was they were friends, he became will be interesting to see ter’s billions enable him to flood “back to his old tricks.” agitated, and when he was how the polls fare after this the airwaves with ads. DEJA VU asked if he would join him for one, as McDonald, last of Maurice Dubois of CBS’s One of the strangest mo - dinner he shouted, “No!” the pack, was the most fluid. Channel 2 was a deft moderator ments of the debate then fol - He continued by saying, Debates, after all, are more and the a panel included1010 lowed when McDonald thought “He’s got a billion dollars so you about style than substance, WINS’ Juliet Papa, Channel 2 he could channel Lloyd Bentsen treat him like he’s a serious can - and of the three candidates, political reporter Marcia by paraphrasing his response to didate. I understand that,” as McDonald looked and Kramer, and El Diario La Dan Quayle in their 1988 vice Catsimatides stood near. When sounded the most states - Prensa’s Marlene Peralta. presidential debate. After sug - McDonald was asked if he manlike. There was discussion on se - gesting Catsimatidis considered meant that, he shouted “no he’s Catsimatidis’ diction be - rious issues such the City’s himself a “special case,” like not a serious candidate, and you came smoother as the schools, its preparedness in the Mayor Bloomberg, regarding his know he’s not a serious candi - evening progressed, and he face of chemical attacks by ter - income, McDonald jabbed, "I date…but he’s got billions of limited the coached “oh rorists, waterfront development, know Mike Bloomberg…Mike dollars and can advertise on yeah, it’s time for me to safety at public housing and Bloomberg is a friend of mine. TV.” smile” moments as well. To whether it should be privatized, You, sir, are no Mike Catsimatidis responded not - the extent that substance and the police department’s Bloomberg." ing what he brings to the cam - counts, however, Catsima - controversial stop and frisk pro - Catsimatidis laughed it off, paign, including common sense tidis was most on point. His gram. saying, "He's certainly worth a solutions and 25 years of politi - words were measured, di - When Kramer asked the lot more money than I am." cal activism. He brought up his rectly focused on the issues three to reveal personal medical During the Q&A with the negotiations with unions over a he has served the Greek Ortho - ered him a friend because he al - at hand, and he had no an - information, McDonald refused press, Kramer returned to the 40-year period and said their dox Archdiocese as its highest ways made the payments at 11 noyingly disingenuous mo - to disclose what prescription health issue and said to McDon - representatives say “John is ranking layperson and noted percent interest on million dol - ments – the type candidates drugs he takes, but he turned ald that people might think he tough, but he’s fair.” “New York City politics is easy lar mortgage Catsimatidis held. often repeat like parrots be - the question into a chance to was hiding something, to which He added to his resume that compared to Church politics.” The debate concluded with cause their “guru” handlers Lhota also got in some one minute closing statements told them to. Not Catsima - punches. When Catsimatides by each candidate. tidis; he is as real as real can proposed that policemen should Catsimatidis began by speak - get. be stationed at each of the 20 ing passionately about growing As for Lhota, he escaped POA Condemns Church Attack in Premet percent of the apartment build - up in the poor side of town. “I unscathed. His opponents ings that he said collectively ac - owe New York City for every - did not do enough to bring count for most of the crime in thing I have. I made a lot of him down any notches – Mc - Continued from page 1 by ethnic Greeks and Orthodox of the church and find other the projects, Lhota blurted, "I money – I don’t hide from it. I Donald, in fact, focused Christians in the country, also space for a cultural center. The was budget director of the City have a great family and kids. I more on attacking Catsima - He called on the Obama Ad - protested the attack on the Per - Albanian government blamed of New York…Don't make up owe everything to New York and tidis, in what appeared to be ministration and the U.S. Con - meti Church. the Greek Orthodox community numbers." I just want to give back.” an obvious personal animus gress to pressure the Albanian Evangelos Doules, the Presi - for the tension. Catsimatidis bristled at the He said he wants to create (for a high interest rate Cat - government to return the dent of KEAD and a member of Berisha, who is leaving of - charge, prompting Lhota to ask, 100,000 jobs and that in general simatidis charged him in a Church to the Orthodox Chris - the Albanian Parliament, said fice, dismissed Greece’s official "Why are you so angry?" he wants to build atop the plat - mortgage loan) – and Lhota tians of Premet, who venerate the attack reminds the world complaint as “unacceptable and "I'm not," Catsimatidis said form that Mayor Bloomberg himself did nothing to hurt it and whose ancestors built it. that Albania is the only country unreasonable interference in Al - loudly. built “and make it an even bet - his own cause. Not only did The Church served Orthodox that declared war on God “turn - bania’s internal affairs.” WHY CAN’T WE BE ter city.” Lhota work for Giuliani, he Christians in the area for ing into stables, warehouses and It was the clergymen and FRIENDS? Lhota also stressed his hum - looks like Giuliani. Take decades until 1967 when Stal - cultural centers the houses of churchgoers that “broke the po - Ironically, the journalists ble origins. He is the son of a away the mustache and the inist dictator Enver Hoxha out - worship of its religious commu - lice cordon, removed the pro - seemed to be trying encourag - policeman and grandfather unseemly chin stubble, and lawed all religious worship in nities.” tective barriers and entered the ing good will among the com - worked as fireman and taxi dri - it’s Rudy the Second. the country and it was turned Kristaq Kristaqis, the Presi - building,” Albania’s Foreign batants. Dubois asked them to vers and concluded by saying The real challenge for into a cultural center. dent of MEGA, said the violence Ministry said in a statement. say some nice things about their “I’m running for mayor because any of these guys is to beat After the collapse of Commu - against the Church of the Vergin Responding to allegations rivals, but the best they could I have the vision, the principles the Democratic nominee in nism in Albania in 1991 and the in Permet “reflects the rage with that unknown assailants threw manage was to praise their and I have the experience to get the general election. But Orthodox Church was re-estab - which certain political groups in stones at the Greek Consulate wives and children. the job done.” first things first: there’s a lished in the country, it became Albania view everything that is in Gjirokaster, the ministry said McDonald and Lhota refused McDonald shifted the ambi - primary to be held on Sep - a church once gain and used for Greek or Orthodox.” that police investigators only to accept Catsimitidis character - ence of the venue once again – tember 10, and from the worship until Aug. 16 when se - Human rights groups in the found one stone, “which could izing them as his friends. Mc - it was almost like being in looks of Tuesday night’s de - curity forces hired by the Mayor region called on Albanian au - have been kicked up by the Donald, showing discomfort, Church when he spoke of the bate, it’s anybody’s to win. of Premet Gilberto Giatse moved thorities to end the occupation wheel of a passing vehicle.” said Catsimatidis only consid - Doe Fund, which began by help - into the Church, beat up priests and worshipers, smashed icons and crosses and announced the municipality was reclaiming the building as a cultural center. Salt Lake City Churches Have Resumed their Sunday Liturgies The actions were immedi - ately blasated by the Greek gov - ernment, the Orthodox Church Continued from page 1 dent of the Parish Council, Isaiah, in a letter to the of Albania, political action which includes opprobrious Parish Council dated August 8, groups representing ethnic priestly duties.” comments even about Metropol - provided “cover” to his two Greeks in the country and hu - In a general assembly held itan Isaiah. Out of respect to the priests Gilbert and Kouremetis man rights organizations in the on August 25th at the Prophet Church and the Greek-American of the Salt Lake City community region. Elias Community Center, a slim community TNH will not pub - in Utah for what appears to be Greek Foreign Minister Evan - majority of 220 parishioners lish them verbatim. dubious dealings of the benev - gelos Venizelos sent a demarche (versus 215 against) voted in fa - TNH revealed last week that olent accounts which they con - to Tirana protesting the actions vor of the motion “to reinstate Gilbert and Kouremetis had trolled, as TNH revealed in last of municipal authorities in full clergy salaries with back- open benevolent funds accounts week’s edition. Premet and calling for the re - pay and request the reassign - supposedly to assist discreetly He finds nothing wrong that turn of the Church. ment of one of our priests as and confidently people in need, the priests were using the Archbishop Anstastasios, the soon as possible”. The Parish but instead Gilbert wrote checks benevolent accounts to write primate of the Orthodox Church Council communicated the As - to his sons and Kouremetis paid checks one of them for his sons of Albania, called the brutal ac - sembly’s decision to Isaiah. After his secretary’s rent. He had also and the other for his secretary. tions in Permet an attack not an entire month during which authorized her as a cosigner on Isaiah calls the audit “witch- only on the Orthodox Church the Divine Liturgy was not cele - the account. hunt” and is asking is the audit but also on Albania itself. brated, the doors of both According the documents ac - committee members “have any “We are moved to ask if we churches were opened and quired by TNH and had been sense of morals.” find ourselves in 2013 where we parishioners went lit candles sent to Demetrios and Isaiah, 11 Isaiah also wrote “On the ba - enjoy democracy and have and listen to chanting from a checks were paid to Gilbert’s sis of this information, I would hopes of entering the European tape recorder. sons over 9 months totaling say that this is nothing more Union or if we are reliving the Tsagaris told TNH that “the $4,637.18 for car repairs, assist - than a witch-hunt to embarrass nightmare of 1967 when an parish doesn’t have the money ing with church services, school - your priests. Does the current atheistic party believed that it to reinstate the clergy salaries books, and undetailed reasons. At an August 25 General Assembly, members of the Churches audit committee not have any could uproot forever the reli - but we are planning to have the Also a check of $75.13 was is - of the Holy Trinity and Prophet Elias voted 220-215 “to rein - sense of morals. What is its pur - gious faith of the Albanian peo - Greek Festival from September sued payable to Gilbert for a state full clergy salaries with back pay and request the reas - pose regarding this procedure? ple,” he said in a statement. 5 to 8 and from the festival’s lunch with another cleric named signment of one of our priests as soon as possible.” And if these funds are confiden - OMONIA, the political action proceeds we will pay them and Maximos. tial, since they have only one group representing the ethnic also the assessment of the Arch - Gilbert opened the benevo - was a cash payment – says for other $7,212.70 or another 25% signatory on the checks, are not Greek minority in Albania, dis - diocese because we haven’t pay lent account in February, 2006 rent). of the total contributions made the Zions Bank and the Chase puted the claims of Permeti mu - for more than one and one half and he closed in May, 2013 after Also, the records show that to the benevolent account were Bank of Salt Lake City liable for nicipal authorities that they had years.” the Parish Council had started 4 cash payments to the Church unidentified, including a $2,000 divulging confidential informa - court sanction to return the The local American press auditing the finances of the secretary totaling $1,337 plus $ payment to law firm tion? Can this happen to other church to a cultural center. “A picked up the story of the parish parish and requested to examine 215.49 in other miscellaneous Scally&Reeding. people who do business with questionable court decision can - and also a broader discussion is all the accounts that use the payments. Parishioners, donors, and these banks?” not be used as an excuse to des - taking place in the social media, Church’s tax ID number. The documents show that also the parish were contribut - Members of the Archdio - ecrate in such a violent way an including Facebook, which is at From Kouremetis’ benevolent $13,787.49 expenditures from ing to the benevolent accounts cese’s legal team are in close established holy site,” the group times nasty and of very low account, 14 payments were the benevolent account went to of the two priests trusting that contact with the officials of the declared. level. It is indicative the conver - made for household rent for the the Church secretary. their contributions would be Salt Lake City parish trying to KEAD and MEGA, two polit - sation that a priest’s wife had Church secretary’s benefit total - According to the records sent used for philanthropic purposes prevent intervention by the In - ical parties in Albania supported with the wife of a former presi - ing $12,835.00 ($600 of this to Demetrios and Isaiah, an - assisting people in need. ternal Revenue Service. THE NATIONAL HERALD, AUGUST 31 - SEPTEMBER 6, 2013 COMMUNITY 7

ALL HISTORY Mathon Kyritsis: Great Lakes Fish Whisperer and Chef to Ichthyofagists

By Steve Frangos is listed in maritime documents processing the fish, storing them TNH Staff Writer for the first time as the in the ship and resetting the owner/operator of a fishing nets, in broad outline, was the PART ONE boat. By 1939, at the latest, daily cycle of each vessel. CHICAGO- The man fishermen Mathon had his own small stand Waukegan was, prior to World across the Great Lakes would along Clayton Street not more War II, one of the largest com - know simply as “Mathon” was than a block and a half from mercial fisheries in the Great born Nicolas Konstantinos Ca - Waukegan’s port where he Lakes ordinarily supplying pogiannis on September 1, 1901 would sell his daily catch to Chicago area with half the chub on the Aegean island of Milos. commercial dealers and the gen - and a quarter of the lake trout Sorting out historical events eral public alike. At some point annually consumed, or about from a vibrant fisherman’s tales Mathon, just before World War 800,000 pounds of each. is always a difficult business. II, began to fry and boil some of The destruction of breeding Consequently, in the news ac - his daily catch and sell it from grounds for freshwater fish is counts left to us, Mathon’s per - his stand now called “Mathon’s not some kind of imaginary non - sonal recollections of his past do Fish and Chips.” Still, the master sense. It is a fact of history that not always agree over the of his own fishing tug Mathon literally thousands of pounds of decades. Still, with so many gradually expanded his stand lake and river fish readily (and published sources including into a fully-appointed restau - cheaply) available to the aver - civic documents, radio show rant. age American as fresh pure food recordings and even a documen - Now, to be sure, Mathon and is simply no longer available. tary film available for reference Louis were not the only com - Over-fishing is now a catch- on this incredibly active public mercial fishermen out of phrase to obscure the dumping figure, a broad outline of his Waukegan harbor and far from of raw garbage into the Great many accomplishments (as well even the only Greek fishermen Lakes (and elsewhere) by the as his inventive showmanship) who sailed from that port. Dur - cities found along their borders. can be readily offered. ing the years of World War II As if this were not bad enough Without question, Mathon some 200 fishermen manned the garbage scows would often during the course of his lifetime the fishing tugs of Waukegan’s dump their loads directly into directly altered the Great Lakes’ commercial fleet. Given the fish breeding grounds. Indus - natural environment. Few The photo appeared on March 19, 1959. Mathon Kyritsis is the man in herringbone overcoat physical requirements of main - trial development along the Greeks of Mathon’s generation and hamburg hat. The man with the capt's hat and cigarette in his mouth is Pete "the Greek" taining the fishing tugs, the Great Lakes only added to the are recognized today for having Prevenas skipper of the fishing tug Marguerita W. They are showing the largest perch catch in daily drying and repairing of the amounts of manufacturing gen - initiated environmental legisla - 15 years some 5,000 pounds of perch. gill nets and the processing of erated toxic wastes pumped out tion passed at the state and na - the daily catch in an array of into the waters in massive tional levels. Yet, without ques - whisked aside by any number Gulf of Mexico but also to rivers to Mathon Kyritsis. Even after scattered out-buildings the 17 waves on a daily basis. Add the tion, this lone Greek fisherman of examples. In terms of fishing, such as the salmon of the Great that change the young Greek fishing tugs occupied a space in refuse, inclusive of gas and first led a gathering of fishermen by the late 1800s, Greeks were Northwest as well as the Missis - found it was best just to tell the harbor all their own giving other oil-based wastes, that and officials from the states bor - found in every port along the sippi River and the Great Lakes. everyone to call him Mathon. the physical appearance of an ships plying the Lakes spread dering the five Great Lakes to coastline of the United States, As the story goes, Nicolas Little is available on the next isolated fishing village with the and you have some idea of why Illinois’ capital, Springfield. including Hawaii and Alaska Konstantinos Capogiannis ar - 17 years of Mathon’s life other city of Waukegan built on the few Great Lake’s fish are avail - Then, Mathon led the way to long before those two regions rived in the United States to than he was a commercial fish - bluff above it. able even to the most avid of Washington and back, all to save became states in the Union. The help his brother Louis fish the erman. The changes in Mathon’s During the season, the aver - sportsmen. the largest freshwater fishing contributions of Greek fisher - waters of Lake Michigan. life were not restricted solely to age fisherman’s day began just In 1949, “eighty commercial grounds in North America for men to the American fishing in - Eleutherios (Louis) Evangelos the land. One story that sees before dawn as the fleet set out fishermen from Chicago and future generations. That he is dustry are plentiful. Aside from Kyritsis was born on June 22, repetition in later published ac - for the fishing grounds. Each Waukegan yesterday formed the also credited with “talking” to their obvious skill in fishing 1898 and by the time of his counts is Mathon’s first outing boat had a skipper, usually the Illinois Co-operative Fishermen’s the fish of Lake Michigan is an - many unique contributions re - brother Mathon’s arrival in 1919 into the tempestuous Lake owner and a crew of two to Marketing Association at a other tale all onto itself. lated to structural changes in or 1920, the elder brother was Michigan waters, “the roaring, three. Beginning some 15 to 20 meeting in Fishermen’s Hall on To begin with, one of the boat designs are also docu - the proud owner of his own raging, tossing icy waters of the miles out the fleet began to lo - the Waukegan city docks. many fallacies of Greek-Ameri - mented as being due to Greeks. commercial fishing boat based Great Lakes were not for this cate their individually buoys Mathon Kyritsis was named can studies is that Greeks that The very term “fishing” must be out of Waukegan, IL a port city son of the sunny Mediterranean. which marked where they had chairman (Chicago Tribune Au - arrived in the United States be - carefully unpacked to include of Lake Michigan. The elder “I can’t fish, I’m too seasick. And set their gill nets. The nets gust 8, 1949).” And so began a tween 1880 and 1920 did not not simply fish but also clams, brother had already legally I’m cold all the time,” he com - which were laid across the lake battle to save America’s natural bring any of their traditional lobsters, shrimp, oysters and changed his name to Louis Car - plained. “So are we,” his fellow bottom, 250 feet below, in par - fishing resources few now even skills or commercial trades to sponges. Even the locations for rison. Legal documents exist re - crewmen said. “But what else allel east-west so as to avoid be - know took place. American shores. That is a to - this commercial trade were not porting that on March 8, 1934, are we to do?” coming entangled with one an - tally erroneous belief easily limited to the open seas or the Capogiannis changed his name On January 5, 1937, Mathon other. Bringing up the nets, [email protected]

GREEK AMERICAN STORIES Diets

By Phylis (Kiki) Sembos sheep – grazing – eating salads The secret will cost you ten dol - Special to The National Herald and vegetables. I can’t tell my lars.” wife she can’t cook my favorite “I have will power! I have re - When the group met at foods anymore. It’ll hurt her feel - solve!” but the ten dollars was Dixon that Sunday Yiannis had ings – and, mine,” he stared at nonnegotiable, grumbled Yian - been explaining about his visit the donuts on the plate. “There nis, but didn’t say so. He won - to the doctor. “A month ago he must be another way - but, dering what the bane of his ex - told me I was overweight,” he how?” George, grinning, said, istence will tell him. Taking his sipped his coffee before contin - “You can grow another two feet. time, George began to outline uing. “For my height I should be Then, your weight will be per - the plan Yiannis would have to twenty pounds lighter. He gave fect.” Yiannis ignored him. In - follow in order to lose weight. me a diet that was ridiculous.” stead, he, absentmindedly, “WAY #1 - Areti can cook all “Why ridiculous, Yiannis? reached for the frosted donut but your favorite foods – as usual; He’s anxious that you live longer Kipreos snatched it up, explain - then, fill your plate with what - and better,” Dimos told him. ing, “Not good for you, Yiannis. ever catches your eye, as Yiannis wrinkled his forehead, “I I’m just thinking of you.” usual…” he paused, noticing he know that! But, I can’t eat like “It’s not what you eat, Yian - had everyone’s avid attention. nis, it’s how much,” said John. “…then, you pick up your fork Yiannis watched the slim or spoon, as usual…” Yiannis, Kipreos munch the delectable, impatient, waved his hand, sig - frosted donut. He worked as naling George to hurry it up. “… Christopoulos pastry chef at a high class hotel. then, you fill your mouth with George, a mechanic, was thin, as much as you can and chew Weds Ward in too. Swallowing his pride he, well,” all heads bent forward, nonchalantly, inquired about as George paused to allow his their regimen. Kipreos was very narration to be absorbed before, Chi., Officiated straight forward. “I never touch finally revealing the secret to the deserts at work. Too rich the successful diet, “…but, you By their Friend and sugary! I eat a sandwich must be careful not to swallow and tea for lunch and a fruit. At any of it.” The others laughed home, I’ll have eggs or make a earning a chuckle from the oth - but came up empty. George, I guarantee you’ll not gain one but Yiannis exhibited annoyance Katerina Angelos Christopou - simple stew with whatever veg - ers. Yiannis narrowed his eyes. looking concerned, said, “You ounce! I promise!” Yiannis at his nemesis’ irritating sense los and John Benjamin Ward etables are in my small refriger - “I move plenty” don’t have too much time before looked up, his interest piqued of humor; but George decided were married Saturday evening ator while watching TV. Then, I “Besides moving a spoon or you see that doctor, again. but with suspicious reservations. to add WAY # 2. “Or, you can at the InterContinental Chicago go for a long walk to digest my fork to your mouth, what else?” You’ve got to do something He asked how that can be done. eat using a special spoon – one Magnificent Mile Hotel. Rebecca food before going to bed. That’s asked George, smugly. “I move soon. I know TWO ways you can George, slowly, shook his head, with a hole in it!” Hand ex - Hendrickson, a friend of the it!” He suggested, “Maybe you to get my daughter from school, positively lose a lot of weight, “I don’t know if you’ll go ahead tended, George said, “Now, pay couple who became a Universal should move more – walking or I food shop every Saturday, I…” yet let Areti cook whatever you with it, Yiannis. You’ll need a lot up!” Yiannis, leaning back in his Life minister for the occasion, exercising.” he fumbled, trying to think of desire – and, you don’t have to of will power – a lot of resolve. seat, reached for a donut and officiated. “Or working!” added George, an activity he could mention - do any walking or running and But, the results are absolute! told him, “Put it on my tab.” The bride, 41, is keeping her name. She is an assistant pro - fessor in the H.I.V./AIDS divi - sion of the department of med - icine at the University of California, San Francisco. 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DEATH NOTICES n ANTONELLIS, ASIMINA Greece and emigrated to the where she lived until joining her athanasiou and his fiancé, Debra; ceased by her husband, lodge. He graciously donated NEW HAVEN, CT (From the New USA in 1973, before moving to daughter Susan and her husband as well as four grandchildren, Ar - Theodore Tsamardinos. She was and prepared Thanksgiving din - Haven Register, published on Jul. Medford over 20 years ago. She Dick in Louisville, Ky. As the ma - ianna Papathanasiou, Emily Mer - a devoted mother to Maria ner for many years at the Ma - 31) – Asimina (Mina) Antonellis, was preceded in death by her triarch of the Nicholas family, cer, Christopher Mercer and (William) Spears, Eftihia (Joy) sonic Home of Virginia. He was 79, of Fountain St., New Haven, husband Leonidas in 1997. Mrs. Sue was instrumental in arrang - Stephen Mercer. Memorial con - (Nicholas) Toppses, Stella a partner with his brother-in-law, passed away July 29, 2013 in Lazaropoulos is survived by her ing for the installation of the tributions may be sent to Man - (Thomas) Koleci, and Dimitrios Louis Velitjelos, at Pop's Restau - Masonicare, Wallingford after a son Pete (wife Krissa); grandchil - WWII Submarine Memorial at chester Animal Shelter, 490 Dun - (Michele) Tsamardinos. She was rant and then opened Steve's brief illness. She was the beloved dren Leonidas, Taso, Michael; the U.S. Navy Memorial Founda - barton Road, Manchester, 03102. the beloved grandmother of the Restaurant at 110 N. 5th St., in wife of the late Konstantinos sister Sophia Mavrogiannis; tion Center in Washington, D.C. Family and friends may visit late Anthony (Yvonne) Toppses, 1978 until his retirement in (Gus) Antonellis. Born in brother Michalis Xidis. Memorial The Memorial was given to our CateJohnson.com. Father Theodore (Vicki) Toppses, 2002. He held a great compas - Corinth, Greece on Oct 31, 1933, donations in memory of Mrs. Country by her sons, Nicholas Carolann Koleci, Nicole (John) sion for his church and his Greek she was the daughter of the late Lazaropoulos may be made to and Peter. This gift honors the n THEOHAROS, HELEN Quackenbush, Vasil Koleci, heritage. He enjoyed gardening, John & Irene Gaitanou. She mar - Saint Irene Philoptochos Society memory of her beloved husband NEWARK, NJ (From the Star- Sabina (Jeb) Breece, Jane Emily reading the Bible, and spending ried and came to New Haven in of St. Thomas Greek Orthodox Nick. On June 10, 2003, at the Ledger, published on Jul. 22) – Tsamardinos, and Lea Rose time with his family and close 1963. She has been a New Church 615 Mercer Street, dedication ceremony, Sue was Helen (Mamoukaris) Theoharis, Tsamardinos. She is also survived friends. A heartfelt thank you to Haven resident ever since. A Cherry Hill, NJ 08002. presented a plaque by Rear Ad - 89, of North Plainfield, N.J., by seven great-grandchildren, the staff at Gayton Terrace Mem - seamstress by trade, she assisted miral Henry C. McKinney, USN passed away on Saturday, Jul. many nieces and nephews, great- ory Care Unit and the Medi Hos - her late husband in the operation n NICHOLAS, VRYSULA Ret., President and CEO of the 20, at her home. Born and raised nieces and nephews, step-grand - pice for their care and loving of The College Spa on College COUCOUVITIS U.S. Navy Memorial Foundation, in New York City, Helen went to children and step-great-grand - support. Memorial contributions St. in downtown New Haven for PORTLAND, ME (From the Port - in recognition of her tireless ser - live in Greece during the German children, a goddaughter and may be made to Sts. Constantine many years. She was a loyal land Press Herald, published on vice as a Navy wife. For Sue, the occupation. Upon returning to many loving friends. Zenovia is and Helen Greek Orthodox member of St. Barbara Greek Or - Aug. 4) – Much beloved, Vrysula inscription on the plaque meant the U.S., she lived in Brooklyn, survived by her sister, Demetra Cathedral, 30 Malvern Ave., thodox Church and an active Coucouvitis Nicholas, 100, the everything: 'Those Who Wait Jersey City, N.J., and Nutley be - Retos. She was predeceased by Richmond, Va. 23221, or the member of the Odyssey Commit - daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Anas - Also Serve.' Sue's life reflects the fore moving to North Plainfield her sisters, Marika Pagoulatos, Alzheimer's Association , 4600 tee, particularly in the Louk - tasios Coucouvitis of Ellasona, best of all those who came to this in 2000. She was the owner of Mimika Reskakis, Despina Gur - Cox Rd., Suite 130, Glen Allen, oumades booth. She is survived Greece, died peacefully of nat - country working hard to attain Neptune Liquor & Deli in Jersey guli, Eftihia Galli; and her Va. 23060. by two sons, George (Donna) ural causes at the home of her the American Dream. Having left City from 1970 to 1990. The brother, Apostoli Galli. The fam - Antonellis of Orange and daughter Susan and husband her parents behind in a small re - beloved wife of the late Nicholas ily wishes to express their sincere n WOUTAS, NICHOLAS Theodore Antonellis of Bethany; Richard Johnsen in Louisville, mote country village in northern Theoharis, she is survived by her gratitude for the dedicated and THE WOODLANDS, TX (From two sisters, Sophia & Anna, both Ky., on July 25, 2013. Born on Greece at the age of 14, Sue trav - loving daughter, Irene Tantaros, loving care Zenovia received at yourkingwoodnews.com, pub - in Greece; and 5 grandchildren, Aug. 6, 1912, Vrysula, also eled to America where she re - and her husband, Nick; her Evergreen Commons Nursing lished on Jul. 24) – Nicholas Michael, Steven, Sylvia, known as Sue, emigrated with ceived a superb education, grandson, Gregory Tantaros, and Home and for the love and sup - Woutas, 78, a retired geologist Stephanie & George Antonellis. her older sister, Chrysoula, to the proudly became an American cit - her siblings, Christine Demos port of Niki Colydas. In lieu of who is remembered for his joy - She was predeceased by a United States from Greece, spon - izen, and successfully raised a and Nick Mamoukaris. flowers, donations may be made fulness and zest for life, died un - brother, George Gaitanou. In sored by her uncle, Nicholas family of two sons and twin to St. Sophia's Greek Orthodox expectedly Friday, Jul. 12, at his lieu of flowers, contributions Coucouvitis, who had previously daughters. She leaves behind n TRIFON, DESPINA Church, 440 Whitehall Road, Al - brother's home in Merrimac, may be made to the Antonellis emigrated to this country. She four children: Nicholas J. FLINT, MI (From from Flint Jour - bany, NY 12208. Published in Al - Wisconsin. He was there to at - Scholarship Fund, c/o St. Bar - lived in Haverhill, Mass., with Nicholas Jr. and wife Lynn of nal, published on Jul. 31) – De - bany Times Union on August 12, tend his 60th high school re - bara Greek Orthodox Church, family relatives and attended New York City and Nantucket, spina Trifon, of Burton, age 69, 2013 union in nearby Madison. Born 480 Racebrook Rd., Orange. To Mount Hermon Academy, and Mass., Peter M. Nicholas and died Monday, Jul. 29 at her resi - in Patras, Greece, Mr. Woutas leave condolence messages, Bradford Junior College. Over wife Ruth of Concord, Mass., and dence. Those desiring may make n VANIAS, STEPHEN was in his teens when he immi - please visit www.celentanofuner - the next 20 years, Sue became Boca Grande, Fla., Susan contributions to Assumption NICHOLAS grated to Madison in 1952 and alhome.com an active member of the growing Nicholas Johnsen and husband Greek Orthodox Church 2245 RICHMOND, VA (From the Rich - graduated from high school Greek-American communities of Richard of Louisville, Ky., and East Baldwin Road, Grand Blanc mond Times-Dispatch, published there. He earned his Bachelor of n DEMETRIOS JAMES Haverhill, Mass., Manchester, Sara Nicholas Monroe and hus - or Gentiva Hospice. Despina was on Aug. 13) – Stephen Nicholas, Science degree in geology from ATHANASOPOULOS N.H., and Portland, where her band Kenneth of Staunton, Va. born in Rhodes, Greece, the 79, of Richmond, passed away the University of Wisconsin, also JERSEY CITY, NJ (From the Jer - sister, Chrysoula, had established She also leaves behind seven daughter of Emmanouil Ioannis on Sunday, August 11, 2013. He Madison, and received his mas - sey Journal, published on Aug. her home and family. While vis - grandchildren: Hilary Nicholas Giannouris and Andrianna Ha - is survived by his devoted wife ter's degree in geology from the 12) – Demetrios "James" Athana - iting in Portland, Sue met her fu - Steinert, Alexandra Nicholas Ca - zoglou. On October 8, 1961 she of 54 years, Virginia "Smaro" University of North Carolina at sopoulos, 97, of Jersey City ture husband, Lt. Nicholas John puto, John Kirby Nicholas, Peter married Everett Trifon and he Prokopis Vanias; loving son, Nick Chapel Hill. Mr. Woutas had a passed away peacefully on Sat - Nicholas, USN. In 1912, at the Michael Nicholas Jr., Katherine preceded her in death in 2010. Vanias and his wife, Elli, of Rich - brief stint as a science teacher urday August 10, 2013. He was age of three, Nick came to Amer - Nicholas Ronan, Nicholas Trim - Despina was a member of As - mond; loving daughter, Thea at Biloxi (Mississippi) High originally from Greece but lived ica via the Greek community in ble Monroe, and Kenneth R. sumption Greek Orthodox Kanos and her husband, Johnny, School and biology lab professor in Jersey City all of his life. Af - Istanbul and settled with his fam - Monroe III; and 13 great-grand - Church. Surviving are children, of Fayetteville, N.C.; five grand - at the University of Southern fectionately known as "Jimmy ily in Portland. Nick graduated children. Sue will be laid to rest Georgia (Alex) Kocoves of West children, Stephen (Katherine), Mississippi in Hattiesburg. He the Chef" from Tippy's, Jimmy from the United States Naval in Arlington National Cemetery Bloomfield, Andrea (Dave) Gor - Pamela, James, Billy and Alexis; then became a geologist with worked there for over 50 years. Academy in 1932, and Navy alongside her husband, Captain don of Milford and Nick Trifon one great-grandson, Owen; a Exxon, and worked for the com - He was a chef all of his life and Submarine School in 1935, and N. J. Nicholas, USN Ret. Memo - of Grand Blanc; grandchildren, brother, Taki (Barbara); and a pany for 29 years in Lafayette, also owned his own business. they were married later that rial donations may be made to: Lauren, Dean, Evan, Drew, sister, Soula Sitaras (Stelios), all Louisiana, New Orleans, Lon - Walking in his garden was like year. During the early years of Holy Trinity Greek Orthodox Chloe, Alex and Ethan; siblings, of Thessaloniki, Greece; and don, and Singapore. He retired taking a trip to his homeland marriage, Sue lived in China and Church 133 Pleasant St. Port - Anastasia Kleanthis, George and many loving and devoted sisters from the company in Houston Greece. He was at his happiest the Philippines where her hus - land, Maine 04102 207-774- Anna Giannouris, Stergoula and and brothers-in-law, cousins, in 1994. In 2004, Mr. Woutas among the fig trees, peach trees, band had been assigned to sub - 0281 Contact: Fr. Constantine Dimitri Potsos, Ioannis Gian - nieces and nephews. He was pre - purchased a home in Staten Is - tomatoes and beautiful roses. marine duty on board the S 36, Sarantidis E-Mail: nouris, Vasilia Varvoudakis and ceded in death by his brother, land, New York in order to be When not in his garden and one of the Navy's aging 'pig [email protected] brother-in-law, Nick (Anna) Dino, in Thessaloniki, Greece. closer to his sons and grandson, singing songs from his home - boats' With the onset of World Georgiou; many nieces, "Steve" was born in Kavala, and since then had divided his land, he enjoyed trips to Atlantic War II, Sue returned from China n PAPATHANASIOU, nephews; Godchildren, family Greece and came to America in time between there and Hous - City & watching the Game Show to the United States to live near LEMONIA and friends. Your condolences 1955. He was an active member ton. Family members said he Network with his youngest her husband's and sister's fami - MANCHESTER, NH (From the may be shared with the family of Sts. Constantine and Helen lived life to the absolute fullest. daughter Sharon. He was truly lies in Portland. Sue remained Manchester Union Leader, pub - at swartzfuneralhomeinc.com Greek Orthodox Cathedral, His boundless energy, enthusi - loved and will be sorely missed. there and raised her family of lished on Aug. 22) – Lemonia where he faithfully volunteered asm and playful sense of humor Loving father of Georgia, Tzane - four children while her husband "Nitsa" Papathanasiou, 86, of n TSAMARDINOS, ZENOVIA his services and cooking skills for delighted others. He enjoyed tos, Anastasia, Paula, Sharon; Nick skippered submarines in the Manchester, NH, passed away on ALBANY, NY (From the Albany numerous years at the Greek Fes - traveling, playing golf, photog - beloved grandfather of 7 and Pacific Theater and became a lo - August 20, 2013 surrounded by Times-Union, Aug. 12) – Zenovia tival, and he was a loyal member raphy, and genealogy, and had great grandfather of 9. cal Portland war hero having her loving family and friends. Tsamardinos, entered into eter - of AHEPA. He chaired the 1976 compiled a well-researched earned several campaign medals Mrs. Papathanasiou was born nal rest on August 10, 2013 at Bicentennial Celebration at the record of his Greek heritage. Mr. n LAZAROPOULOS, MATINA and Bronze and Silver Stars with Jan. 6, 1927 in Ikaria, Greece, a Evergreen Commons Nursing Hotel John Marshall. Steve was Woutas volunteered for the MEDFORD, NJ (From the Med - Oak Leaf clusters for courage and daughter of Nikos and Maria Fi - Home. Zenovia was born in a Mason in Hellenic Lodge No. Golfers Against Cancer Organi - ford Courier-Post, published on bravery in action. Sue and Nick olou and had been a Manchester Chios, Greece on February 28, 249 A.F&A.M. and served twice zation, and was a member and Aug. 9) – Matina Leonida retired to St. Croix in the U.S. resident for many years. 1917. She was the daughter of as a Worshipful Master of the past president of the Exxon Mo - Lazaropoulos (nee Xidis), 83, of Virgin Islands, a paradise that Prior to retirement, Mrs. Pap - the late Maria and George Galli. bile Retiree Club, serving as Medford, New Jersey died Nick had discovered and came athanasiou was employed with Zenovia was educated in Greece This is a service president in 1999. His first wife Wednesday, August 7, 2013 at to love during WWII when he Pandora Industries and in later as a nurse. She met her husband to the community. of 39 years, the former Effie home. Mrs. Lazaropoulos was visited Crown Bay Navy Base in years with the Jac Pac Company. Theodore Tsamardinos there and Announcements of deaths Apostolou, died in 2004. Surviv - born in Poulakida, Nafplion, St. Thomas, USVI on shakedown Mrs. Papathanasiou was a loving, they came to the United States may be telephoned to the ing, along with his grandson, are cruises of newly minted sub - dedicated and devoted mother together in 1966. They were Classified Department of Betsy, his wife of six years; his marines that were destined for and grandmother as well as a married for 62 years. Zenovia de - The National Herald at sons, Nicholas and wife Donna, Days and dates of funerals, action in the Pacific Theater. loving Yia Yia to all. voted her life to her family, (718) 784-5255, and Alexis, and his brothers, memorials, and other events di - While living there, Sue lost her She was predeceased by her hus - friends and her faith in God. She monday through Friday, Dean and Dimitri. In lieu of rectly correspond to the original beloved husband who suc - band, Costas Papathanasiou. was a member of St. Sophia's 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. EST flowers, donations may be made publication date, which appears cumbed to war-related injuries Family includes two sons, Greek Orthodox Church and a or e-mailed to: to Golfers Against Cancer at at the beginning of each notice. in 1970, and shortly thereafter, Nicholas Papathanasiou and his past member of the Philoptocos [email protected] GolfersAgainstCancer.org or she moved to Fort Lauderdale wife, Debra and Evangelos Pap - Society. Zenovia was prede - 281-348-2280. THE NATIONAL HERALD, AUGUST 31 - SEPTEMBER 6, 2013 GREECE CYPRUS 9 As U.S. Ponders Strike on Syria, Greece and Cyprus Prepare for it as Well

As the United States and telligence services, with vital in - Prof. Michael Clarke, the Di - United Kingdom were debating formation about what is going rector General of the defense whether to take military action on across the Middle East. think tank the Royal United Ser - against Syria for the alleged use Military analysts have ex - vices Institute, told the paper of chemical weapons that killed pressed concern that Cyprus that there was a threat to British a reported 355 civilians, a U.S. might be in range of Syria’s Scud interests in Cyprus whether or Navy base on Crete and UK air missiles. Assad also has a strong not it was used to launch strikes base on Cyprus were being pre - air force. on Syria. pared for use in possible attacks. An RAF spokesman told The “If the Syrians wanted to re - Washington has reportedly Guardian the fighter jets were taliate, they would retaliate asked Greece for permission to for Cyprus’ protection as well as against British bases whether or use its military bases in Kala - the base in case Syria tried to not it had been used,” he said. mata and Souda for a possible attack in response to their coun - “The safety of Cyprus is not strike. The two bases in Pelopon - try being hit. an issue here but you would take nesus and on Crete would be “This is purely a prudent and sensible actions to keep Cyprus used by the American Air Force precautionary measure to ensure properly defended. Defending and Navy for transportation pur - the protection of UK interests Cyprus is not a problem but poses. AP PHOTO/PAVlOS VriONiDES and the defense of our sovereign there will be measures taken to The Greek government has A British Typhoon fighter jet comes in to land at a British air base in Akrotiri, Cyprus on Thurs - base areas at a time of height - be on alert,” he said. given the green light but stated day, August 29. Britain's Ministry of Defense that it was deploying six Typhoon jets at the base ened tension in the wider re - The base at Akrotiri is home that it will not take part in any as a “purely a prudent and precautionary measure to ensure the protection of UK interests”. gion,” the spokesman said. to 84 Squadron, a search-and- direct military action in Syria for The statement added that, rescue helicopter and a range of fear of reprisals, the Interna - Barack Obama’s support for ef - report to be delivered by Sama - Guardian reported. “This is a movement of defensive other units. A number are in - tional Business Times said. forts to reform the Greek econ - ras. The Cypriot Ministry of De - assets operating in an air-to-air volved in providing air transport According to reports, the U.S. omy during a White House visit “The briefing is absolutely fence stressed that the jets were role only. They are not deploying links and other support to oper - authorities are reluctant to use on Aug. 8 reportedly returned necessary as reports suggest that not being sent to conduct poten - to take part in any military ac - ations in Afghanistan, including Turkish military bases because the favor by allowing the use of the country is under pressure to tial ground-attack missions tion against Syria. The PM has decompression for personnel re - of Ankara’s strong support for installations in Greece. facilitate a military interven - against Assad’s regime, but were made clear no decision has been turning from operations there. the Assad opposition. That drew fire from major tion,” the leftist leader said. there as a precautionary mea - taken on our response and the Another 270 UK personnel A buildup of warplanes and opposition Coalition of the Rad - President Karolos Papoulias sure. government has said that there are based in Nicosia on peace - military transporters was also re - ical Left (SYRIZA) leader Alexis noted simply that “those taking The UK has two sovereign will be a Commons vote before keeping duties, as part of the UN ported at the British airbase at Tsipras who said he was upset the decisions should carefully base areas on the former British direct military involvement”. force in Cyprus. Akrotiri in Cyprus, less than 100 that the United States wanted consider the matter of an inter - colony at Akrotiri and Dhekelia. miles from Syria. C-130 trans - the use of Greek military bases vention in Syria.” The aircraft will be based at the port planes were spotted by two and air and sea access. PROTECTING CYPRUS Akrotiri base, which has been a commercial pilots and the air - Be called for an emergency The UK is sending six RAF Ty - key staging post for military base has been much busier than session in Parliament regarding phoon jets to Cyprus to defend flights to and from Afghanistan. normal, according to the Greece’s position ahead of the the strategically important bases The bases are also home to Guardian. intervention. In a letter to Par - on the island against potential listening and surveillance sta - Greek Prime Minister Antonis liament Speaker Evangelos retaliatory attacks from the tions that provide the British and Samaras, who got U.S. President Meimarakis, Tsipras asked for a regime of Bashar al-Assad, the U.S. militaries, and Western in - Samaras Rosy about Economy, But Unrest Looms

Continued from page 1 Samaras’ cheerleader is Fi - Venizelos was finance minister can’t be found for them. nance Minister Yannis hadn’t imposed 74 percent Administrative Reform Min - of similar upbeat initiatives to Stournaras, a technocrat who losses on investors, including ister Kyriakos Mitsotakis, who is Samaras’s aides who are to han - left a highly-regarded think tank those in the Diaspora who lost charged with finding 12,500 dle the initiative, sources told to take on the job of overseeing most of their money trusting in workers this year for transfer, the newspaper Kathimerini. the fight to right the economy, Greece. admitted that many of them will The public relations cam - and who has said recovery could Staikouras said that the debt be fired, and that he might need paign is being planned, it was begin by the end of next year will keep climbing as long as more time to find another AP PHOTO/PHiliPPOS CHriSTOu said, because Samaras is uneasy and that Greece might even be Greece continues to have pri - 12,500. Cyprus' President Nicos Anastasiades prepares to testify at a over the aggressive tactics of able to return to the markets for mary deficits that are covered Mitsotakis said the govern - judicial inquiry in Nicosia, Cyprus, Tuesday, Aug. 27. SYRIZA and its leader, Alexis borrowing. by borrowing. Additionally, “as ment wants to root out discipli - Tsipras, who opposes the bailout “The latest developments in long as the recession deepens, nary problems and wrongdoers memorandum with the coun - the economy are definitely on a public debt as a percentage of in the system and as mass cases try’s international lenders and positive keel and I hope they GDP will also increase,” he ar - of workers faking their creden - Anastasiades Says Bailout the attached austerity measures. will continue to remain posi - gued. tial are being uncovered. Officials in the coalition gov - tive,” Stournaras told Parlia - The country is surviving on Alternate Interior Minister ernment of Samaras, the New ment. “Fiscal developments are two rescue packages of $325 bil - Leonidas Grigorakas said on Is Like a Gun to the Head Democracy Conservative leader in line with the targets, but also lion from the Troika of the Eu - SKAI TV that under former pre - and his partner, PASOK Socialist production data – particularly ropean Union-International mier and then-New Democracy NICOSIA, Cyprus- Cypriot Pres - trols have been in place since leader/Deputy Prime in tourism – allow for optimism Monetary Fund-European Cen - leader Costas Karamanlis, who ident Nicos Anastasiades has but the banks are still losing an Minister/Foreign Minister Evan - that if we continue on this tral Bank which has insisted on served from 2004-09 that told a committee investigating estimated 30 million euros gelos Venizelos have described course, the national product this big pay cuts, tax hikes, and 850,000 new hirings were the collapse of the country’s ($39.73 million.) They had 24.6 SYRIZA’s tactics as “scaremon - year will exceed projections,” he slashed pensions, creating a made.here banking sector that he had to billion euros ($32.57 billion) be - gering.” added. record unemployment rate of “Of these, more than 10 per - accept an onerous 10 billion eu - fore the crisis began. With the economy in the Alternate Finance Minister 27.4 percent. cent were on the basis of false ros ($13 billion) bailout deal According to a statement sixth year of a deep recession Christos Staikouras presented Now the government is mov - qualification certificates, which from international lenders be - that Anastasiades submitted to and the debt growing under data to Parliament showing that ing ahead with a so-called mo - had not been approved by the cause of intense pressure and to the committee, the closing of Samaras’ one-year tenure to 321 Greece’s public debt would have bility scheme in which 25,000 Supreme Council for Personnel keep the economy from implod - Laiki worsened the uncertainty billion euros ($425.64 billion,) reached 380 billion euros, public workers over the next Selection (ASEP),” Grigorakos ing, too. and compounded the economy’s the government is keen to point ($503.64 billion) or 208 percent two years would be paid 75 per - said, referring to the body re - Anastasiades said not going problems “unfortunately con - out highlights of what it believes of Gross Domestic Product if a cent of their already reduced sponsible for appointing civil along with the terms, that firming the concerns I expressed is what it’s done right. previous government in which pay and then fired if another job servants. wound up including confisca - after the first Eurogroup deci - tion of 47.5 percent of bank ac - sion.” counts over 100,000 euros “Imports froze while supplies ($130,000) would have been were running out and thousands catastrophic but denied he had of businesses could not function. In Cyprus, Diaspora Leaders Discuss the Crisis suggested the so-called “bail-in” Many started suspending their scheme that he had campaigned operation,” Anastasiades said. against before the February elec - Despite the closure, bank Continued from page 1 tions. branches overseas were still Anastasiades conceded that open while people could with - common struggle for justice in he reneged on his pledges not draw the maximum allowed Cyprus. to accept a so-called “haircut” amount from ATMs, but only “To achieve our goals we on deposits, but said he had no 300 euros ($394.47) per day. must act collectively and unite choice. Businesses were allowed to take forces. We need your support “I opted to be useful instead more but for a time had detail also” she stressed. of likeable,” Anastasiades said, any proposed transaction in For the first time, the Turkish the Cyprus Mail reported. He writing. invasion and occupation of also said the pressure exerted Anastasiades said not accept - Cyprus did not feature at the on him by Brussels had been un - ing the haircut would have led top of the agenda of the meet - precedented. to the collapse of the economy, ing, because of the economic cri - To a remark by one of the although critics said what’s hap - sis, Executive Council of the panel judges that it was “like a pened is almost just that and World Federation of Overseas knife to the throat,” Anastasi - with additional austerity mea - Cypriots (POMAK) President ades said it was more like “a sures sending unemployment Haris Sophoclides noted, adding gun to the head”. soaring and businesses closing that Cypriots from abroad had He was talking about a meet - all over the island. gathered to exchange views Nicos Anastasiades, the President of the Republic of Cyprus, converses with guests at a reception ing of Eurozone officials in The island’s banks would with the government and the during a conference of representatives of various Diaspora organizations. March, which decided on the have collapsed because the Eu - political leadership on the best scheme to seize private bank ac - ropean Central Bank (ECB) way to contribute to the recov - an economic recession it should He also said that big corpo - withdrawal of the Turkish counts to pay for the mistakes would have stopped providing ery of the country’s battered remain focused on the Cyprus rations were interested in in - troops and settlers from the is - of the country’s banks, which them with emergency liquidity economy. issue. vesting in a European country. land and the return of refugees lost 4.5 billion euros ($5.9 bil - (ELA), Anastasiades said Philip Christopher, President He urged President Anastasi - “Cyprus’ struggle is our strug - to their homes” said Christos lion) in bad loans to Greek busi - The state would then have to of the International Coordinat - ades to continue building gle. We take part in the struggle Karaolis, head of the Executive nesses that went broke during cover insured bank deposits ing Committee Justice for bridges with Israel, the USA and for economic recovery, we take Council of the Organisation of that country’s economic crisis, worth €19.7 billion, €11 billion Cyprus (PSEKA), said that al - the EU and “stick to the solution part in the struggle to end the Young Overseas Cypriots, NEPO - and in large holdings of Greek in ELA owed to the ECB, and though Cyprus was faced with that we want”. Turkish occupation, secure the MAK. bonds that were devalued 74 around €5.8 billion in govern - percent. ment debt – some €36 billion in “The truth is that anything total, the committee heard, al - proposed was done on the ini - though there was not enough tiative of the Eurogroup direc - capital to do so. Greece Skeptical of Alexander Tomb Discovery torate and adopted by the ma - The Bank of Cyprus, which jority of the members,” took on the assets and liabilities Anastasiades said. At one point of Laiki, which has hampered Continued from page 1 of Alexander the Great, Roxana son, who, according to legend, sented at the Royal Ontario Mu - during the discussions, there its ability to operate next month and Alexander IV, Archaeology had been ostracized to Macedo - seum, the Canadian Museum of was talk about going after in - will elect a new board and fi - “The finding of Amphipolis & Arts reported. nia after Alexander’s death. Civilization, The Field Museum sured deposits under 100,000 nalize a restructuring plan. is certainly very important, but The circular enclosure sur - There the 12-year-old Alexander and The National Geographic euros, violating the country’s Until its liquidation Laiki – linking the site with the identi - rounding the tomb located in an the IV and his mother Roxana Museum. banking laws that protected ac - including its so-called toxic as - fication of historical figures urban area close to the small were murdered. Tradition has it More than 560 ancient ob - counts. sets area – is being managed by without scientific justification is city of Amphipolis is three me - that the two victims were buried jects, as well as some models, Even if the Cypriot govern - a special administration ap - risky,” the Culture Ministry said ters (or nearly 10 feet high) and in Amphipolis but no evidence casts and copies, from Greek ment had suggested the haircut pointed by the Governor of the in a press release. its perimeter is about 500 me - so far has proved this. museums, as the National of insured deposits, “since they Central Bank of Cyprus, Panicos Alexander, who was edu - ters (or 1,640 feet). The head Alexander remains one of the Archeological, the Numismatic, claimed it was illegal, why did Demetriades, who functions as cated by the ancient Greek of the team, Katerina Peristeri, enduring figures of world his - the Epigraphic Museum, the they accept it?” the president the supervising Resolution Au - philosopher Aristotle, con - noted that it is too soon to talk tory and with Greeks and their Acropolis Museum, the Archae - asked. Yet he presented that thority. quered most of the world with certainty about the identi - neighbors in the Former Yu - ological Museums of Thessa - plan to the Parliament which re - One of the plans being ex - known to the ancient Greeks. ties of the discovery. goslav Republic of Macedonia loniki and Heraklion, will travel jected it unanimously, forcing amined is the setting up of a By the age of 25 he had de - “Of course this precinct is both claiming him. He has been to the other side of the Atlantic the Troika of the European board to manage the bad part feated the Persians and his en - one we have never seen before, the subject of countless books aiming at be included in the ex - Union-International Monetary of Laiki which will include rep - tire eventually included Egypt, neither in Vergina nor anywhere and films and with Greeks say - hibition. Fund-European Central Bank resentatives of its creditors. The Anatolia, Syria, Gaza and else in Greece. There is no doubt ing he’s a hero and critics that The exhibits will chronologi - (EU-IMF-ECB to come back with government wants Laiki’s depos - Mesopotamia, even stretching about this” she said. However, he was one of the first major cally cover the period from pre - the alternative to go after larger itors to have a say in the man - as far as India. At age 32 he died it is too early, as she told jour - imperialists trying to conquer history until the late Hellenistic accounts that weren’t insured. agement of the 18 percent of in Babylon, possibly as the result nalists, to speak with certainty the world. period. The exhibition will be BANKS BLEEDING AWAY Bank of Cyprus. of malaria or typhoid fever. about the identities of the peo - The exhibition The Greeks: structured in nine sections, The Eurozone also ordered In the meantime, Cyprus is Last year, researchers from ple at the tomb site. Further ev - Agamemnon to Alexander The which aims at helping the visitor the closing of the island’s sec - struggling to get back on its feet the 28th Ephorate of Antiquities idence was required. Great will be hosted in four mu - get familiar with the Greek civ - ond-biggest bank, Laiki. Banks but hopes for a good tourism unearthed a tomb in the city of Nevertheless, local authorities seums in Canada and the USA ilization. remained closed during the 10 season have been dashed with Amphipolis, near Serres, north - and media rushed into claiming from December 2014 to Sep - days between the first and sec - would-be visitors staying away ern Greece, which they believe and believing that the tomb be - tember 2016. (Material from the Associated ond Eurogroup meetings to pre - in large numbers, fearing they could belong to the wife and son longs to Alexander’s wife and The exhibition will be pre - Press was used in this report) vent a bank run and capital con - would not have access to cash. 10 EDITORIALS LETTERS THE NATIONAL HERALD, AUGUST 31 - SEPTEMBER 6, 2013

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By Seth Cropsey rial Ottoman rule. ranean's growing importance. on its southern coast at Vassilikos. Hudson Institute The Ottomans' successor, Furthermore, under the leader - The unprecedented joint devel - modern-day Turkey, has aban - ship of the current Cypriot opment projects between Israel Catsimatidis for Mayor! The strategic and energy-rich doned the Kemalist enterprise regime, U.S.-Cyprus relations are and Cyprus to develop their re - region beginning in the eastern and is governed by an increas - the closest they have ever been. sources and consolidate them We are endorsing John Catsimatidis in the Republican primary Mediterranean and stretching ingly repressive, hostile, and Is - The United States has supported will transform the two states into for mayor of New York City, and fully intend on endorsing him in 600 miles east into Central Asia lamist regime. Turkey's economic Cyprus's right to explore and uti - major regional energy exporters, the general election as well. That much, we are sure you could straddles three continents, from growth has encouraged Prime lize energy resources in its own and improve their already strong have guessed. As a newspaper in the business of serving the Greek- Libya to Azerbaijan. The region Minister Tayyip Erdogan to hew exclusive economic zone, and relations. American community, our endorsement is hardly breaking news. is undergoing changes as large to his ideology, casting aside Cyprus seeks to join NATO's Part - The Israeli ambassador to In fact, what would have been breaking news is if we had endorsed as those that Dickens described modern-day Turkey's westward- nership for Peace. Athens, Arie Mekel, has empha - one of his opponents, instead. between London and revolution - looking and secular character The Cypriot government's de - sized regional energy coopera - And it is important to note that we certainly would have done ary Paris. Huge energy deposits that succeeded the collapse of the sire to join NATO's Partnership tion: "We've told the Greek gov - just that if we did not believe in John’s candidacy. Surely it means have been discovered at the same Ottoman Empire. In its place, Mr. for Peace and begin the process ernment on the highest level that a great deal to us – as we are sure it means a lot to many of you – time that political upheavals roil Erdogan has reoriented Turkey of becoming a NATO member we would be happy to make that Catsimatidis is the first Greek-American to run for mayor of the area. In this cauldron, the towards the East, emphasizing should be welcomed. Promoting Greece a hub for this gas that will arguably the greatest city in the world. We do not deny that we United States faces serious chal - Sunni Muslim solidarity and hos - Cyprus' NATO accession will re - continue to Europe; it can be are particularly jubilant that John “is one of us.” lenges and opportunities. tility towards the U.S.'s non-Mus - inforce the alliance's security. brought here by pipeline or by If we were to endorse him solely because of his Greek heritage, Politics and alliances in the lim allies in the region. Erdogan's Cyprus' entry into NATO would liquefying it and bringing it by however, that would be a dishonor to our integrity as a newspaper, eastern Mediterranean are shift - policy looks to reestablish the extend the alliance's borders into tanker; we also want Cyprus to and a supreme disservice to you, our readers. ing, and the region's security hegemony that his Ottoman pre - the eastern Mediterranean, di - be involved in this because they Instead, we hope that you will indulge us, and read the following framework is splintering. The re - decessors achieved. There are minish Russian leverage over also found gas and we believe words about why we would have endorsed John Catsimatidis for gion is now divided as much many examples of this policy, Cyprus' defense sector, and de - that these three countries, Israel, mayor of New York City even if he wasn’t Greek. within the Muslim world as be - such as the Turkish navy's recent crease the possibility that Russia Greece, and Cyprus, if we work John was born on the tiny island of Nisyros and came to New tween it and the non-Muslim interference with the efforts of could gain a strategic foothold in together and use our power like York when he was toddler. His family struggled as his immigrant states. Israel and Cyprus to consolidate the region. Overturning the U.S.'s in the area of natural gas, we father worked hard but in the usual types of thankless jobs an im - A new order is emerging as a efforts to extract hydrocarbons antiquated ban on exporting could become together a regional migrant of that time was destined to occupy. result of three major events: the from the sea beds within their weapons to Cyprus will encour - power that will be able to stand John made the leap to New York University, and stopped just redrawing of the region's hydro - exclusive economic zones; Turk - age U.S.-Cypriot military-to-mil - up to other regional powers." short of graduation, because the overwhelming passion of his en - carbon map, with the discovery ish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davu - itary interoperability, and this in Greece's position at the cross - trepreneurial ambitions could wait no longer. He worked in a small of substantial hydrocarbon de - roads of three continents and as supermarket, which he bought and from there he bought another posits in the Cypriot and Israeli an EU member makes it the pri - one, and another one, and so on, and always tried to buy the land exclusive economic zones; mary transit state for both the Is - on which the store sat, too. Later on, as John’s grocery business Turkey's adoption of a hostile raeli and Cypriot natural gas expanded, he went into the energy business and then. Later on, he neo-Ottoman ideology to guide when it comes online later this ventured into real estate development. it in the 21st century; and the decade. Export options include a Therefore, to associate John Catsimatidis solely with Gristedes, "Arab Spring." At the mid-point proposed "East-Med pipeline," re- his supermarket chain, would be like saying Ronald Reagan was of this political shift, Greece and gassification terminals on an is - an accomplished Hollywood actor, and leaving it at that. Cyprus — coordinating with Is - land near the Salamis Naval John archived the American dream in a big way. He became not rael — have remained the prin - Base, and, in the future, re-gassi - only a billionaire but a multi billionaire. But he has always remained cipal states in the region that are fication terminals at the northern humble. He never forgot where he came from. friendly to the West. When port of Kavala to supply both Accordingly, he became involved with the Greek-American com - volatility and fear are on the rise, Western Europe and the Balkans. munity to an extent that few successful Hellenes have matched. predictability becomes especially Recent Turkish naval incur - He donated his time and his money to the Archdiocese. He started prized. sions in and around Cyprus' ex - broadcasting the Greek Independence Day Parade. He provided The roles of Greece and clusive economic zone, threats to scholarships, helped struggling families, and was there, along with Cyprus in the West's political and use military force to prevent fur - his wife, Margo, for countless community events. security framework offer U.S. ther drilling, and its 40,000 John said neither “no,” nor “oxi”. policy makers an arc of stability troops occupying the north of the When it came to Greece and Cyprus he would visit, try to invest, in the eastern Mediterranean, island constitute a direct threat use his considerable contacts with our political leaders on their be - and bring the EU to within 45 The redrawing of the Mediterranean's hydrocarbon map comes to these ventures and U.S. inter - half. He recently revealed that he visited Greece once at the behest minutes of Israel's borders. Port with the discovery of substantial hydrocarbon deposits in the ests. Setting "red lines" with of President Clinton. usage, naval facilities, and strate - Cypriot and Israeli exclusive economic zones. Turkey enforced by a greater U.S. But John would make a great mayor for reasons far beyond his gic airbases that Cyprus and naval presence in the area would self-made success story. Greece have long extended to the toglu's March promise to "again turn will lessen Cyprus's reliance assure stable commerce, and We know the state in which New York City was in and the United States permit a U.S. Sixth tie Sarajevo to Damascus, Beng - on Russia as its guardian against more effective diplomacy were amazing progress it made these past 20 years thanks to the great Fleet — if the U.S. should decide hazi to … Batumi" (on Georgia's such threats as may come from any state to interfere with the de - leadership of Mayors Rudy Giuliani and Mike Bloomberg. John to return that once-powerful Black Sea coast); and the Lon - Turkey. Ankara is indeed likely to velopment of the joint hydrocar - plans to perpetuate that Giuliani-Bloomberg mode. naval force to even a fraction of don-based International Institute oppose the accession of Cyprus bon projects of Cyprus and Israel. We cannot risk another setback. John’s opponents – along with its former strength — to safe - for Strategic Studies' observation to the Partnership for Peace, as it Bolstering the U.S. presence at all three major New York City newspapers – accuse him of lack of guard the region's sea lines of that "in March 2012, the Turkish has frequently countered Souda Bay, Crete, as well as ad - political experience. He has not run for office before, they say. communication. The region's in - government introduced a five- Nicosia's accession to such other ditional military-to-military naval Then again, neither had another fellow, who made quite a name creasing volatility has elevated year strategic plan to make the international organizations as the and air exercises with the Greek for himself as New York City Mayor: Mike Bloomberg. the strategic roles of Greece and country's armaments industry OECD and IEA. and Israeli militaries, would con - John Catsimatidis has what it takes to leave his mark on New Cyprus, and offers an incentive one of the world's ten largest by As a member of the European tribute enormously to the unin - York with the same bold, confident approach he has done in the for American statesmen to pro - 2016." Union and Partnership for Peace, terrupted export of the area's business world. He understands what it takes to do it, he knows mote a new order that establishes A combination of Islamist Cyprus would flourish and likely large hydrocarbon deposits as the people and the streets. stronger relations with both rule, a neo-Ottoman, ideology become a hub for stability in the well as its general security. And he is the Republican candidate that can be elected in No - countries and bolsters their re - and Turkey's attempt to return as secure Eastern Mediterranean John Maynard Keynes once vember. gional standing. the region's hegemon opposes the that U.S. policy seeks. Increasing said: "The difficulty lies not so It is for these reasons that we urge our readers, those Republi - Yet the eastern Mediterranean U.S. goal of a democratic and Cypriot security would also help much in developing new ideas as cans living in the city of New York, to come out in droves and vote is witnessing new political, mili - peaceful region. It threatens safeguard the massive hydrocar - in escaping from old ones." The for John on primary day, September 12th. And if each of you can tary, and energy centers of gravity America's allies — Greece, bon deposits in which U.S. com - U.S. will find it difficult to influ - convince two of your fellow Republican friends and family members just as the U.S. administration Cyprus, Israel, and new EU mem - panies have a direct stake. Recent ence events in the region's future to do the same, then our candidate will be one step closer to City wants to "pivot" to Asia. ber Bulgaria, which has com - Greek-Israeli air force drills if it continues to view Ankara as Hall. While China and India will re - plained of Turkey's control over within the Cypriot exclusive eco - the ally it surely was during the This is a monumental historic opportunity – the power is in our quire U.S. attention for at least both supplies and prices of the nomic zone and their use of the Cold War. In 1910, Winston hands. Let’s not waste it – let us seize the moment! the remainder of this century, the natural gas it transits to the EU. strategic airbase at Paphos on Churchill declared that the in - United States cannot abandon its Current Turkish policy runs Cyprus show how the three evitability of war between Britain influence in the eastern Mediter - counter to the traditional goal of might coordinate to secure the and Germany was "all nonsense." A Vote for Dual Citizenship ranean without risking NATO's U.S. grand strategy that seeks to resources in the future. In July 1911, the German gun - southern flank and the alliance prevent hegemony on the The EU currently depends boat Panther docked at the Mo - itself if Iran becomes a nuclear Eurasian landmass. America upon three major energy corri - roccan port of Agadir, and trans - For most immigrants, American citizenship is a dream fulfilled. power (leaving Israel to fend for fought two world wars and one dors to supply its growing natural formed his view of Germany. The But many defer it too, for anxious reasons that make them feel less itself), and without further un - cold war to prevent the rise of a gas demands. In 2012, Norway, Agadir crisis erased any of attached to their original homeland. derlining the appearance of a hegemon on the European con - Russia, and North Africa supplied Churchill's doubts that Germany A large percentage of legal immigrants in this country – 40 per - great power in strategic retreat. tinent. Because the U.S. retains two-thirds of the EU's natural gas was a threat. Turkey's naval in - cent of those who have a green card according to the New York The U.S.'s interest and in - its interest in a balance of powers consumption. The risk associated cursions in the eastern Mediter - Times – choose not to become American citizens. volvement in the Mediterranean on the continent, Greece and with the many jihadist groups ranean and over-flights of Greek This percentage might surprise American-born citizens, as well dates to the Jefferson adminis - Cyprus have become far more striving for influence in the airspace in the Aegean and as far as many of the undocumented immigrants who will do anything tration. The United States has important to U.S. foreign and se - Hobbesian state-of-war left by de - south as Rhodes should also be to gain the world’s most sought-after citizenship: American, in the sought a stable region since the curity policy. Both states have a posed leaders in North Africa is regarded as warning signals. If most powerful country in the world. So the question is, why has U.S. Navy battled the Barbary pi - strong interest in regional energy creating an increasingly uncer - history is a guide, the Interna - such a large percentage of the people who decided to leave their rates in the early 19th century to security, as does Israel, whose tain future for the security of re - tional Institute of Strategic Stud - homelands chosen not to get U.S. citizenship? keep them from preying on navy in April of this year asked cently discovered energy re - ies report on the large expansion Obviously, each will have his own reasons. American commercial interests for a $760 million budget in - sources as well as those that of Turkey's armaments industry We believe, however, that the most common answers are the from their ports in North Africa. crease to help defend the new - might be found in the future. The noted above is no less a cause for following three. The ascendance of radical Islam found hydrocarbon deposits in last three years have seen dozens concern. The first reason is that reported by Italian immigrant Jonathan as the region's most dynamic po - Israel's territorial waters. Israel's of attacks on oil and gas facilities The U.S. will advance its com - Wajskol a who realized the American dream. “I would feel that if litical force, and the deepening naval capabilities complement its by jihadists in Algeria, Libya, and pelling interest in greater Euro - I get the American citizenship, I would feel a little less Italian,” he connections of the radicals with superior air force; together, they Egypt. These have disrupted sup - pean energy independence, Mid - told The Times. It is a feeling that many of us have faced before the "Arab Spring," is a great have a regional impact. plies to both the EU and Israel. dle Eastern stability, and NATO's deciding to become American citizens. Possessed by a feeling of threat to U.S. interests — as the Increased Israeli naval In 2011, U.S. based Noble En - future as an effective alliance by guilt, that if you do it you're not a good Greek and also feel you recent closure of 19 U.S. em - strength demonstrates serious - ergy discovered seven trillion cu - re-examining its old idea of are not a good American either. bassies from North Africa to the ness about taking a larger role in bic feet (TCF) of natural gas in Turkey, and reinforcing its al - This is not so and of course you do not lose your Greek citizen - Middle East and as far south as the annual tripartite naval exer - Cyprus' Block 12. One hundred- liances with Greece, Cyprus, and ship and are confirming both dimensions of your lives as Greek- Madagascar demonstrates. Is - cise "Noble Dina," in which U.S., seventy-five miles to Cyprus' east, Israel. The alternative — the pas - Americans, for which we should be very proud. lamist and authoritarian regimes Israeli, and Greek forces have Israel has found an even larger sivity of "leading from behind" — The second reason is that a some believe that the acquisition of have emerged after the demise participated since 2011. The ex - deposit: 31 TCF of natural gas. offers nothing but weakness and U.S. citizenship amounts to the final act of the abandonment of of the region's ancien régime. The ercise is designed to rehearse the Cyprus believes it holds up to 60 additional evidence that we are the dream of returning to the homeland. Tens of thousands of regional drift toward authoritar - defense of offshore drilling plat - (TCF) of natural gas in its 12 slowly withdrawing from the Greek-Americans who are living in Greece without losing any rights ian Islamism is a reminder of the forms, to promote the level of op - blocks, which, if proven, would world. - or obligations are a proof of the opposite. late Harvard professor Samuel erational coordination between make Cyprus the EU's second Third, some people believe that there is no difference between Huntington's warning about a the three navies, and to improve largest energy source after Nor - Seth Cropsey is a Senior Fellow the holder of a Green Card and a citizen, which is true but for one clash of civilizations, and sug - the participants' ability to deter way. Cyprus has recently signed at Hudson Institute. Previously, exception: they do not have the right to vote. gests a struggle as long and dan - regional conflict. The U.S. lead - a memorandum of understand - he served as Deputy Undersecre - Perhaps nothing helps the land in which we choose to spend gerous as the one that occupied ership of this exercise is positive ing with U.S.-based Noble Energy tary of the Navy during both the our lives or the land of our birth more than our power to vote in Europe's attention throughout — U.S. policy is starting to ac - to begin the construction of a liq - Ronald Reagan and George H.W. the U.S. the centuries-long reign of impe - knowledge the Eastern Mediter - uefied natural gas (LNG) facility Bush administrations. THE NATIONAL HERALD, AUGUST 31 - SEPTEMBER 6, 2013 VIEWPOINTS 11 Remembering the People Farewell, Safe New York City Streets, We Hardly Knew Ye

That Were Here Before Us Those of you who, like me, enough to walk on, sequels, and your much on race and nationality. are old enough to remember even after dark, is memory will be re - Are there still white racist cops New York City in the 1970s and perilously close to freshed in no time. out there who take pleasure in The feast of the two daughters both 80s, but either too young or not coming to an end. As for the inno - cracking open the heads of Dormition shines of whom received a yet born to remember it in the It was nice while it cent, law-abiding blacks and Latinos? Unfortu - like a pharos in the solid education at a 40s and 50s, might have lasted. persons of color nately yes, there are – but prob - shimmering sum - Greek-American thought that we would never get The New York who feel ostracized ably not nearly as many as some mer sea, guiding us day school and to experience those wonderful City Council has and humiliated, City Council members might travelers on our went on to earn “safe streets” of yesteryear about overridden and often fear think. And better training will common journey college degrees and which we heard through our Bloomberg’s sensi - physical repercus - reduce the number even more. from the waves of distinguish them - older relatives’ and friends’ fond ble veto of restric - sions simply be - Indeed, there is hardly any - this life to the safe selves in the job recollections. And then came tions on the Stop cause of what they thing worse than a segment of harbors of the next, world, while giving 1993, and the election of Mayor and Frisk policy. In by CONSTANTINOS E. look like, it is truly New Yorkers walking around where the embrace back to their local Rudy Giuliani. other words, the SCAROS a shame that such their hometown feeling vulner - of the Mother of community at the Emblematic of the adage police are going to racism continues to able to harassment by public the True Life wel - by Christopher same time. And the “success has 100 fathers, but have less power Special to exist in our so- servants that are purportedly comes the weary TRIPOULAS Stenoses managed failure is an orphan,” the amaz - now. Granted, that The National Herald called evolved soci - there to protect them. Worse passengers like an Special to to perform stellar ing renaissance that New York doesn’t mean that ety in the year yet, having the verbal abuse es - immigrant return - The National Herald parental duties and experienced – leading the na - murders and other horrible 2013. A great deal must be done calate to physical assault, and ing to his native provide for their tion in a spectacular reduction crimes are going to quadruple to combat that, beginning with once in a while to serious bodily home. And this offers sweet so - children without the benefit of of crime – is attributed to many overnight. But it is a reckless education. A more educated injury, or even death, because lace to heal the unavoidable fluency in the English language factors, with virtually everyone first step that, if indeed is only New York means less xenopho - of a cop prematurely firing his pangs of pain that accompany or the advantages that natives rushing to take the credit. More the tip of the iceberg, might turn bia to begin with, reduced even weapon. the death of a loved one – espe - inherently enjoy over immi - so than anyone else, however, the clock back to the pre-Giu - further because of a lower But “hardly anything” worse cially a mother. It is this image grants, who start off their new it is Giuliani who deserves the liani days, when our beloved propensity to commit crimes. is not the same as “nothing” that this column hopes to pro - life with nothing to their name lion’s share of the accolades. city was one big, filthy, bullet- Another solution is better train - worse. One thing that is un - ject to the children and grand - but dreams and a desire for hard Sure, there were problems, riddled crack den. ing of police officers: holding doubtedly worse is murder, by children of a dearly beloved work. but when in the history of the Do you have trouble remem - them to higher standards over - the thousands, because the po - Greek-American, fellow parish - Like most other immigrants, world has a policy been imple - bering those awful times? Just all. The problem is not stopping lice can no longer keep us safe ioner, and compatriot who trav - Moschoula faced the obstacles mented without some nega - watch the film Death Wish, star - and frisking, it is the perception – as they have been doing, par - eled all the way from the island of economic hardships and so - tives? Were some police officers ring Charles Bronson, made in that such tactics are often rooted ticularly over the last 20 years. of Ikaria in Greece to the me - cial unrest from a young age. emboldened by a renewed city - 1974, and maybe a couple of the in misguided profiling based too Yes, it was nice while it lasted. tropolis of New York, raised a And similarly, these problems wide focus on crimefighting that family, bequeathed a rich spiri - did not magically dispel with they misused their power by be - tual legacy to all that knew her, her arrival to America. But one rating innocent people – namely, and managed to retain all the would be hard pressed to every persons of color? To some ex - virtues of her Hellenic home - have heard her utter a com - tent, yes. On the other hand, land despite the thousands of plaint or display any righteous how many thousands of addi - miles that separated her from indignation. Hers was a life of tional lives were saved, of New her birthplace. thanks. Bearing a wit that was Yorkers of all races, nationalities, as sharp as a tack and a sense shapes, and sizes? of humor that would not aban - From the 1960s forward, the As the Greek Christian don her even during the most New York City streets became understanding of life as trying moments in life, she was increasingly dangerous under able to successfully handle life’s Mayors John Lindsay, Abe loving others and being problems with remarkable en - Beame, Ed Koch, and David loved reflects, durance. Her diplomatic skills Dinkins. It took Giuliani to clean Moschoula’s memory is an were unrivaled, and she could them up, and current Mayor speak with the same ease to a Mike Bloomberg to keep them Remember killers David “Son of Sam” Berkowitz and Colin Ferguson? Their murder sprees were eternal, shining beacon. friend or neighbor as she could that way. But, alas, this wonder - not during Rudy Giuliani’s or Mike Bloomberg’s mayoral watch. Apparently, the New York City to the three Archbishops whom ful 20-year run of streets safe Council has forgotten those days, and has weakened the police’s ability to fight crime. The sudden passing of she served during her tenure Moschoula Stenos plunged and the many VIPs who would those who knew and loved her visit her place of work. Clergy into a sorrow that can only be and laity would gain a lot if they LETTER FROM ATHENS tempered by the lasting memo - took a page out of her book. ries she imparted and the prayer And from a social standpoint, that her strong faith and noble her service to her parish or local soul will constitute her journey society was a constant. The im - Samaras, Venizelos Have Signed the Foreclosure Notices tireless and will earn her warm portance of “belonging” to a greetings at the heavenly har - community of persons served as bor. Her Ikarian heritage and the impetus for her lifetime of Many years ago when I in the United States, including 22.9 per - their mouths, a double ventrilo - ever youthful personality left us civic service. Even during her fi - bought my home, it was re - with 1.4 million cent of mortgages quism trick only politicians with the worldly “complaint” nal days, overrun with weak - quired to meet the president of people out of work that were in de - know, they said first that only that she still had good years ness, her sense of “philotimo” the bank, a former U.S. Navy of - and more than fault. two percent of homeowners ahead of her, but the Lord in reigned supreme, as she worried ficer who was a cautious man 110,000 businesses Greece three would be affected because the Whom she placed her ultimate what the archbishop would indeed and liked to look you in closing the last three years ago put a government was going to iden - trust and hope found her worthy think when he would not see the eye and shake your hand, years in the wake of ban on foreclo - tify what Venizelos called “trick - of the great journey now. her at her parish’s feast day… gauging the mettle of your char - harsh austerity mea - sures until it could sters” who can afford to pay but It is only human to want to Like so many other Greek- acter before he’d let loose a sures. figure out how the aren’t, from those who gen - keep one’s (grand)mother American immigrants, nickel. Successive gov - hell to right the uinely can’t. nearby in this life for as long as Moschoula’s life reflects that of It was more than a little ernments – first that economy but Then it was said the percent - possible, but who can say if that the community at large. Ca - nerve-wracking wondering what of former PASOK Venizelos, as fi - age would be much higher, so is best? Mothers know that les - reers, titles, increased economic he thought and whether the Anti-Socialist leader by ANDY nance minister un - which is it? If 98 percent of peo - son best of all, when they must affluence, a higher standard of mortgage would be granted so George Papandreou, DABILIS der Papandreou, ple in default on mortgages can’t overcome their innate instincts living, etc., are all useful advan - the American dream could be re - and now the coali - stiffed banks and afford to pay – and will be ex - and let their children go out into tages, but they don’t seem to alized, even after he said that all tion of Prime Minis - Special to private investors – empted and protected as Sama - the world and start their own represent the core of what con - the math worked out but the fi - ter and New Democ - The National Herald including those in ras vowed – how does that help families, to ensure that the circle stitutes a “well rounded” life in nal decision came down to what racy Conservative the Diaspora – bank balance sheets? It doesn’t. of life continues. By the same the Hellenic outlook. People like he thought. leader Antonis Samaras and his with 74 percent losses, driving This is political chicancery token, the passage into the next Moschoula carried about them He saw I had served as a U.S. partner, current PASOK financial institutions to the edge which solves nothing. If you take life requires prayers and com - a noble “paideia” that existed Air Force officer but still there leader/Deputy Prime of ruin in Greece and Cyprus. out a mortgage you are obliged memoration, which must be independent of degrees, a re - was no discernible sign of what Minister/Foreign Minister Evan - Greeks now owe 63.6 billion to pay or the bank has to right done by responsible children finement and politeness that he was thinking until he lifted gelos Venizelos – have imposed euros ($85 billion) in unpaid to take your property – unless and grandchildren to ensure the was overwhelming in its sim - his head from the pile of papers waves of pay cuts, tax hikes, and loans, including mortgages, a your pay has been cut 30 per - continuation of the spiritual cy - plicity and genuineness, and a and said, “okay, it’s approved.” slashed pensions that have cut staggering amount that matches cent by the government, taxes cle and smooth arrival into our love for the world, people, and I had to ask why. “At this disposable income an estimated that of tax evasion, a national doubled and the supermarket true spiritual homeland. the community that remains es - bank,” he said, talking about the 46.8 percent. sport. hasn’t cut prices. And just like the Theotokos, sential to leading a “whole” life small cooperative institution in Now here’s the question you The government is injecting There is an answer but Sama - who, like the hymn says did not in today’s individualized mate - Boston, “we never lend money have to ask yourself if you’re liv - banks with 50 billion euros ($65 ras set it aside when he tabled abandon the world during her rialistic society. to people who need it.” So the ing in the USA: what would you billion) in recapitalization funds his own proposal to allow debt falling asleep, so too do the According to the Hellenic math had added up, but he said tell your bank if your pay had but that’s enough for them. The relief to households that could mothers of the world follow this Christian understanding of life there was more. been cut 30 percent, property banks – as does Greece’s inter - prove they were genuinely un - prototype. After all, they share as loving others and being “You pass the smell test,” he taxes doubled and one or both national lenders, the Troika of able to pay, which would have not only flesh and chromosomes loved, Moschoula’s memory re - said, meaning that he believed of you were out of work? the European Union-Interna - forced banks to restructure loans with their apogeny, but also a mains eternal and shines as a the loan would be repaid. It was, Many Greeks tried restructur - tional Monetary Fund-European to where they could. piece of their very soul, which beacon for all of us who want and that bank is still doing well ing their mortgages, making the Central Bank (EU-IMF-ECB) Politicians and bankers being we all carry with us throughout to overcome today’s problems because it didn’t veer from those rather valid argument that since wants homes confiscated too, a of the same species as sharks our lives and pass on to those and lead a more genuine life. basic principles the way Greek the government and private em - nice humanitarian touch. and snakes, that didn’t matter that follow. And if the circle is to continue banks and so many others ployers had broken their con - Samaras and Venizelos, because all that does to them is In a wider context, revolving as it has for so many around the world have over the tracts by cutting their pay that who’ve never had to worry making other people pay no Moschoula’s life personified the thousands of years, we perpet - last five roller coaster years of there was no alternative for the about missing a mortgage pay - matter the cost, even if they can’t successes and challenges of ually need to remember and try recession and economic crashes. customer to do the same to the ment, are happy to go along be - afford it because banks and many Greek-Americans, and in to resemble the Moschoulas of Some 80 percent of Greeks bank. cause no politicians will be put politicians put them in an un - that sense it presents an oppor - the world, praying for them and own their homes, 10th highest Many banks didn’t listen and on the streets although an esti - tenable position. tunity for some thought. To - asking for their blessing – in this in the world, (the US is 18th at didn’t care. They wanted it all mated 15,000 people could be In this case, it’s the govern - gether with her husband, life and the next. 65.4 percent) which has pretty but that backfired when the rate left homeless once the govern - ment that doesn’t pass the smell Stamatis, who preceded her on much saved the country’s run - of Non-Performing Loans ment lifts the ban on foreclo - test. the journey into the afterlife Follow me on Twitter away recession from being a flat- (NPL’s) went through the roof sures at the end of the year. nearly a decade ago, they raised @CTripoulas out depression worse than 1929 and hit an estimated 42 percent, Speaking out of both sides of [email protected] Inevitably, Greece, Ireland, Portugal, Spain, Italy, and Cyprus Will Have to Leave Euro

By William Thayer pened. I also predicted that the The Greek debt had grown to shrunk from $320 billion in be explained by some kind of even more if the Europeans con - Barron’s euro zone would collapse be - about $490 billion, but the Eu - 2010 to about $250 billion in sub rosa purchasing of Italian tinue to put off their days of cause of the Greek default. I was ropean Central Bank, the Inter - 2013, a drop of nearly 25%. Un - bonds by the European Central reckoning. Have you read anywhere that wrong on that one—so far. national Monetary Fund, and employment has gone up, from Bank. What should have the Euro - the Greeks will soon be request - What I completely underesti - the European Union (often 10% in 2010 to 25% in 2013. Spain has a national debt that peans been doing the past three ing a third bailout? Probably not. mated was the willingness of the called the troika) let the Greeks These numbers are just about is in control, a budget deficit that years to truly solve their prob - Thus far this summer, the euro- stronger European countries to default on 25% of it, a loss of the same as the numbers for the is not in control, and a real-es - lems? They should have been zone leaders and the European bail out every troubled country. roughly $137 billion to private U.S. in the worst year of the tate bubble that is about to pop. working harder, marketing ag - Central Bank have successfully They operate on classic Keyne - bondholders. Then the troika Great Depression. Spanish real estate tripled when gressively, and innovating more. papered over the real problems sian assumptions: If you can just gave the Greeks another, even U.S. real estate was doubling. If they cut their cushy six-week in the south of Europe. throw in a little more money, de - larger bailout of $220 billion Maybe those six What happened to our real-es - vacations to the two-week U.S. If only denial, smoke, and mand will increase, and every - that all sides said should last un - tate prices and our banks has standard, they would be work - mirrors could solve the euro- one will live happily ever after. til 2020. How much of that $220 nations can rejoin only just begun to play out in ing 50 weeks instead of 46 zone crisis. The euro wasn't a It's not working out that way, billion is left? Just $14 billion, the Euro someday Spain. weeks. Simple math (50/46= bad idea, but the euro zone not even in Greece, which has barely enough to get the Greeks Thus far, ECB Chairman 1.087) suggests they could po - should have been limited to received huge bailouts. past the German elections in Unfortunately, Greece is not Mario Draghi has postponed a tentially be growing their those countries that can make it In mid-2010, the country had September. Few things in fi - the only problem country in Eu - euro-zone crisis by printing economies at better than 8% per without bailouts. That list prob - a gross domestic product of nance are more likely than a re - rope. Ireland and Portugal have bailout and bond money as fast year versus 1%. Of course, you ably does not include Greece, about $320 billion, a national quest from the Greeks for a third national debts at 120% of GDP, as he can. When it becomes ob - have to be working on what the Ireland, Portugal, Spain, Italy, debt of $390 billion, and a bailout. and they continue to run big vious to investors in Europe that world wants to buy. That's mar - and Cyprus. Those countries will yearly budget deficit of $30 bil - The trend is not good. Con - budget deficits. There's little this can't continue, money will keting. Compare Korea and sim - have to leave the euro, default lion. The first Greek bailout was sider: chance they will be off bailouts flee to safer places. To get that ilarly sized Spain. Korea sells on at least some of their debts, for $143 billion for over three Bailout 1: $143 billion and back to the bond market by money back, the ECB will have cellphones, cars, ships, and elec - and institute their own devalued years. It was easy to predict that Default 1: $137 billion Christmas. A second bailout is to allow interest rates to rise—a tronic chips to the world, while currencies. Then they can re - the country would fail again, in Bailout 2: $220 billion on the horizon for both coun - lot. That is what governments Spain sells—what? Finally, the form and hope to rejoin the euro early 2012, because the Greeks Total: $500 billion tries. have to do when their debts be - Europeans need to innovate as at some future date. had to roll over about $40 billion Nearly half a trillion dollars Italy has a national debt of come unsustainable. As every - they once did during the first In the middle of 2011, I pub - a year in existing debt, plus has gone down the Greek drain 132% of GDP, a continuing bud - one knows and nobody remem - and second Industrial Revolu - lished a book, Euro: How to cover the $30 billion annual in three years—the three years get deficit, and a divided gov - bers until it's too late, bond tions. Since World War II, they Save It, in which I predicted that budget deficit. Sure enough, the during which the Greeks were ernment. Its bond rating is two prices fall when rates rise. Even missed the arrival of the com - the first Greek bailout would not Greeks went through $140 bil - supposed to restructure their notches above junk, but some - the bonds that survive the crisis puter, lasers, the Internet, fiber succeed, and that the Greeks lion in two years, and they were economy and return to the pri - how its 10-year bond rates are will be cut in value. The princi - optics, oil/gas fracking, cell - would run out of money in early insolvent again by the first half vate capital markets. In those just 4.2% (versus U.S. rates of pal losses and the losses from phones, and just about every - 2012. That's exactly what hap - of 2012. three years, the Greek GDP has 2.7%). The inconsistency may default could total $4 trillion, or thing else. 12 THE NATIONAL HERALD, AUGUST 31 - SEPTEMBER 6, 2013

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