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S GREEK INDEPENDENCE DAY PARADES IN NEW Bringing the news W YORK, CHICAGO AND to generations of E BALTIMORE THIS SUNDAY! LET'S ALL ATTEND! The National Herald Greek- Americans N c v A WEEKLY GREEK-AMERICAN PUBLICATION www.thenationalherald.com VOL. 17, ISSUE 859 March 29 - April 4, 2014 $1.50 Recipes for Lent: Tasty, Did Ex-TNH Employee Know Who Killed JFK? Healthy, and Enough Joannides’ CIA Files Still Classified 50 Yrs Variety for Everyone After Kennedy Death By Anna Skamangas- with their exceptional health By Constantinos E. Scaros Scaros benefits. Serves 4. Fifty years after the assassi - We’ve been posting my Ingredients: nation of President John F. Lenten recipes to our website, 2½ cups wheat berries, soaked Kennedy, there are lingering thenationalherald.com, since overnight doubts that Lee Harvey Oswald February 15. Lent began on 1/4 cup apple cider vinegar – the man arrested for the mur - March 3, but we wanted to give 1/4 cup agave syrup der and killed two days later in everyone a head start. We’re a 2 celery stalks, thinly sliced a Dallas police station by Jack little more than halfway done ½ cup chopped green onion Ruby – acted alone. The burning now, and there will be 40 (white and green parts) question remains: if Oswald did recipes in all! Then, to give you 2 tablespoons fresh minced not in fact act alone, who was a head start for Easter, we will thyme behind Kennedy’s killing? 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Chill at least 1 hour before from a play about the life and patriotic exploits of the great heroine of the Greek War of Indepen - crime figures, and even Moura Poikilia features serving. dence, Laskarina Bouboulina, who placed her ships and fortune at the disposal of the Greek forces Kennedy’s own vice president – wheat berries and cranberries. and became a naval commander. She was also made an Admiral of the Imperial Russian Navy. who was sworn in as president Wheat berries are one of the Lenten Pizza on the airplane carrying heartiest grains, which gives Kennedy’s dead body back to them a long cooking time along Yes, you can enjoy pizza dur - Washington – Lyndon Johnson. ing Lent, indeed! Another culprit high on con - Before Chicago introduced Philly Ideal for Independence Parade spiracy theorists’ radars is the “pizza”, ancient Greeks com - CIA. What sets the CIA apart bined what was plentiful and on from the other list of non-Os - hand. Olives, cheese a bread By Constantinos E. Scaros Today’s cold weather is noth - certainly not the only one that wald suspects, however, is that were staples in the Greek diet. ing to complain about, AHEPA will take place in the coming while – like the rest – there is The first pizza, if you will. PHILADELPHIA, PA – The Supreme Vice President Phillip days – evidencing the wide net no plausible evidence to impli - Serves 6. words “kai san prota andri - T. Frangos told a larger group of Hellenism cast across Amer - cate it, there has been and con - Ingredients : omeni – valiant, like in the past” at the post-Parade Reception, ica – but in some ways it may tinues to be reason believe that 1/4 cup cornmeal, for sprin - were richly symbolized by the “think of the Greek heroes in be the most fitting. Philadelphia, the CIA has not been open, kling on baking sheet, plus descendants of the Hellenes of 1821,” he said, “and the Ameri - after all, is a combination of two forthright, and fully cooperative more for rolling out dough centuries past as they proudly can heroes who fought at Valley Greek words “philos – love” and with Congress about all it knows 1 can artichoke hearts in plain and vigilantly stood along Forge” not too far away from “adelphos – brother” hence its about Kennedy’s assassination. brine, drained and roughly Philadelphia’s Benjamin Upper Darby, where the Recep - nickname: “The City of Broth - CIA was thrust back into the chopped Franklin Parkway on March 23 tion was held – at the St. erly Love.” William Penn named media spotlight over the past 1 tablespoon grape seed oil as temperatures dropped into Demetrios Greek Orthodox it as such, to symbolize a place few weeks, not because of the 1 16-oz. pkg. prepared whole- the 30s – the latest reminder of Church Community Center. where freedom would flourish. Kennedy assassination but in wheat pizza dough a long and brutal winter that re - Organized by the Federation Resplendent in American histor - light of new revelations about ½ cup pesto fuses to end, even as spring has of Hellenic-American Societies ical significance, even primacy, the agency’s methods, including officially arrived – to celebrate of Philadelphia and Greater Chocolate mint cookies Continued on page 8 Greek independence. Delaware Valley, the Parade was Continued on page 5 Continued on page 9 Remember, Nana Mouskouri and Her Music Stir the World Koufalakis is It all Began By Constantine S. Sirigos Positioned to TNH Staff Writer Mar 25, 1821 NEW YORK – When she sings Be Bishop the Manos Hadjidakis hymn to the capital of Hellas with its im - By Harry Mark Petrakis mortal name, “Athina,” Nana By Theodore Kalmoukos Mouskouri is the soul of Greece. For Greeks in Greece and And her soulfulness is not of NEW YORK – The Holy those in the Diaspora in coun - gossamer stuff. It packs a cul - Eparchial Synod of the Greek tries across the world, March tural, even an economic force. Orthodox Archdiocese of Amer - 25th is a day nearly as reveren - Mouskouri is an artist of such ica, which was convened in a tial as the holidays of Christmas extraordinary power and appeal two-day session at the Arch - and Easter. In 1821 in Greece, that there were periods in her diocesan Headquarters in New that date marked the beginning long international career when York on March 17 and 18, de - of the War of Independence, a her international record sales cided to begin the process to el - struggle that lasted ten years constituted a significant share evate Archimandrite Apostolos and which, finally in 1832, of Greece’s exports. Koufalakis to the bishopric rank. gained much of Greece its free - Mouskouri’s “out of retire - Koufalakis presently serves as dom from the Ottoman Empire ment” tour has her currently in Chancellor to Metropolitan after almost 400 years of Canada, one of many places she Gerasimos of San Francisco. bondage. loves and whose citizens adore Gerasimos had raised the is - In my father’s parish in the her sultry evocations of songs sue of Koufalakis’ elevation in 1930s, on the South Side of that range from classical to jazz the past, but Archbishop Chicago, preparations to com - to Greek and her beloved Had - Demetrios had stalled it because jidakis. of Koufalakis’ close friendship Continued on page 6 A classically trained singer – and ties to the originators of the her teachers were not pleased 2010 scandal at St. Irene with her jazz interests – Mousk - Chrysovalantou Monastery in For subscription: ouri began her musical career Astoria. Gerasimos invoked the 718.784.5255 in Greece in 1957. Soon she was opinion of Metropolitan Nikitas [email protected] singing in Germany and France of Dardanelia, who headed the and later she travelled to the three-member Exarchy sent by United States, forging her re - the Ecumenical Patriarchate to markable connection with her investigate the scandal, which Nana Mouskouri graciously receives the love of her fans after a concert, which is expressed in Continued on page 3 many languages. She herself sings in Spanish, English, French, German and Italian. Continued on page 9 HAPPY INDEPENDENCE DAY AllAll of us at Atlantic Bankank join in celebrating Greekeek Independence Day, March 25th Your partner for success. NEW YORK COMMUNITY BANCORP, INC. 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