O C V ΓΡΑΦΕΙ ΤΗΝ ΙΣΤΟΡΙΑ Bringing the news ΤΟΥ ΕΛΛΗΝΙΣΜΟΥ to generations of ΑΠΟ ΤΟ 1915 The National Herald Greek Americans c v A wEEkLy GREEk AmERICAN PUBLICATION www.thenationalherald.com VOL. 13, ISSUE 676 September 25-October 1, 2010 $1.50 Peterson’s Chrysostomos Warns Christofias: Don't Bungle The Talks Simple Archbishops Sees No Solution, Success Says Church Is Not That Rich By Theodore Kalmoukos Chrysostomos said that, “The TNH Staff Writer Turks want everything, they put Formula forth maximalist positions. They BOSTON - “The national issue speak of two Peoples, two of Cyprus is not going well at States, two Nations; you under - Americans: Save, all” His Beatitude Archbishop stand that we are not heading Chrysostomos of Cyprus said in towards a solution.” Christofias Sacrifice, Choose, an exclusive interview to The has been unable to make any National Herald. The Arch - headway with Turkish leaders Hike Revenues bishop sent a clear message to since taking office on Feb. 2008, Cypriot President Demetris despite making unilateral con - NEW YORK – When self-made Christofias, who was in New cessions. Greek Cypriots in a billionaire Pete Peterson told an York attending the United Na - 2004 referendum defeated the audience at a Leadership 100 tions opening ceremonies “not so-called Annan Plan for re-uni - meeting here Sept. 9 that that to accept an international meet - fication, named for former U.N. American Dream was fading, he ing before the internal problems leader Koffi Annan, and also laid out a grim scenario that with the Turkish-Cypriots are re - Christofias’ critics said he is giv - portrayed the United States slip - solved.” The Archbishop said if ing away too much and that part ping into an unrecoverable eco - that happened, “The solution of his ideas mimic the rejected nomic crisis for the simple reason which will be imposed will be plan. that politicians and people today un-favorable to the Cypriot peo - NO SOLUTION SEEN won’t do what the World War II ple and in a few years Cyprus Asked where he would like generation did: save more than will become Turkish.” And, he to see the Cyprus leadership go - spend. The 84-year-old Peterson, added, “We cannot afford to ing, he said: “I believe that there a son of Greek immigrants, make any more mistakes.” is no possibility for a solution of warned his talk “will not be a Asked if Christofias, who is the Cyprus issue,” and stated charismatic, uplifting, inspira - trying to re-unify the divided is - that, “The issue should be rede - tional speech,” citing what he land by offering a settlement fined on its original base, be - called his “negative charisma,” that would allow a Turk to serve cause we had the worst possible but more significantly startling alternate terms as its President, invasion with many dead, miss - and worrying facts about the is on the right track, he said, ing, and refuges. The problem American economy he said in “Because I am not a member of is that Turkey wants to control many ways is worse off than the National Council I have no geopolitically the Middle East Greece, which is on the edge of way of knowing details, but and all of Cyprus.” As to what default. The key problem, he TNH/COSTAS BEJ based on his public statements would be a just and viable solu - said, is the staggering American He may be having trouble back home with his unpopular austerity measures, but Greek Prime he will not accept a solution tion, the Archbishop said, “A debt that politicians keep passing Minister was thronged by crowds when he came to the Greek consulate on New York’s upper which is not going to serve the on, and a population unwilling East Side on Sept. 22 during part of his visit to the United States for the opening of the United Cypriot People as it will not be Continued on page 5 to sacrifice for themselves or their Nations General Assembly, and a swing to Washington to meet Vice President Joe Biden a viable solution.” To a question family’s future. “If you were to about how Cypriot officials have ask me what the next crisis might approached the dilemma of part be, it could well be a global debt of the island being occupied crisis and it might well call for a Papandreou, in U.S., Touts His Plans since the Turkish invasion of Kotsonaros: global solution,” he said. 1974, the Archbishop said, “We He was talking to an audience have deflected from the right that included many successful NEW YORK – As truck drivers sembly to meet with New York included Greece’s domestic and way,” and said that, “The prob - Champion of Greek American business leaders, blocked roads and tried to storm Stock Exchange (NYSE) officials foreign policies. Biden ex - lem of Cyprus is the invasion professionals, and people who the Parliament in Athens and and then went to Washington to pressed his appreciation for Pa - and the occupation of the 37% had come from as far as Califor - unions planned yet another meet Vice President Joe Biden, pandreou’s efforts to advance of the land of the Republic of Mat, Movies nia to attend the event, and had mass protest, Greek Prime Min - who expressed continued sup - the integration of the countries Cyprus by the Turks. We have their rapt attention with a blunt ister George Papandreou was in port for Greece’s economic and of Southeast Europe into Euro- gone away from that position speech short on diplomacy and New York and Washington, con - political reforms and praised Pa - Atlantic structures, and he em - and the issue has become inter- By Steve Frangos tough with the truth. “Today, the tinuing to try to make a case pandreou for his tough stance, phasized the need for leaders in communal. The two sides have TNH Staff Writer majority of the American people that Greece’s economy is turn - that has included cutting public Athens and the Former Yugoslav not quarreled. The Turkish- do believe their children will do ing the corner and that the sector salaries by more than Republic of Macedonia (FY - Cypriots and the Greek-Cypriots CHICAGO - George D. Kot - better than they. Yet Americans country will not default on its 10%, raising taxes and slashing ROM) to quickly agree upon a have lived together nicely for sonaros is one of the most have been misinformed and, yes, obligations, including $146 bil - pension reforms to rein in the mutually acceptable solution to centuries. We do not even have unique Greeks ever to settle in dis-informed, sometimes quite in - lion in loans from the European country’s runaway deficit and resolve their differences over a religious problem in Cyprus. North America. Kotsonaros was tentionally, by politicians who be - Union and International Mone - debt. the name issue, as the wran - The problem is the invasion. simultaneously one of the most lieve that the American people tary Fund. Papandreou used the Politics and economics were gling heads toward its 19th year Again, Turkey invaded and con - successful powerhouse wrestlers can’t take the plain, hard truth. occasion of the annual opening on the agenda wherever he tinues to occupy 37% of the and recognized character-actors Politicians are focused on the session of the UN General As - went, with a range of issues that Continued on page 9 land.” of his generation. Even Jim Lon - next election, not the next gen - dos, the heavyweight wrestling eration. Politicians also believe champion of the United States that is not only politically incor - never had the success in Holly - rect but politically terminal to ask wood that Kotsonaros achieved. for any shared sacrifice. I simply N.Y. Storm Kotsonaros, over the course of do not accept that,” he said. his career as a professional He said repeated patterns of wrestler, competed in Greece, spending had created a national Fells Tree, Europe, North Africa, North debt that is $62 trillion, or America and Australia. While $485,000 per household, or 10 Kotsonaros’ film career covered times its earnings, and impossible Kills Woman only six years, readily available to repay. “We owe more than we news accounts all agree that his own,” he said. The only way to By Demetri Tsakas two careers unquestionably reverse that, he said, is with cur - TNH Staff Writer complimented each other in the rent Greek-like austerity mea - public’s recognition of him. Fi - sures to increase revenues and NEW YORK – A 30-year-old nancially well to do, long before reduce spending, while encour - woman from Pennsylvania was 1929, Kotsonaros continued his aging Americans to save more so killed in a deadly, tornado-like dual career as professional they don’t have to rely on bor - storm with winds up to 100 miles wrestler and movie actor when rowing. Most, he said, aren’t will - per hour which blasted New York he experienced considerable ing to do so, accustomed to the City on Sept. 16, uprooting trees losses in the 1929 stock market and tossing them like spears, crash. Reading between the Continued on page 5 choking off power to tens of thou - lines, and often in front-page sands of people, and halting most headlines, Kotsonaros was at all trains in and out of Long Island. times what his generation called The ferocious winds sent a mas - a high roller. Boisterous, nearly sive tree crashing onto the car of always bursting with energy, a Blessing of Iline Levakis after she pulled off rough prankster to friends as the Grand Central Parkway near well as enemies Kotsonaros was Jewel Avenue in Forest Hills to filled with life until his tragic the Waters escape the blinding rain. “She was and unexpected end. totally crushed,” a police source Kotsonaros was born October told the New York Post. “You 16, 1892, in Napulie, Greece. at Asbury couldn’t even tell what type of car ITHACA COLLEGE/LAUREN DECICCA News accounts of his exploits be - it was.” She was reportedly from Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Jeffrey Eugenides reads from his latest work during a public gin in 1914, although claims ex - Mechanicsburg, Penn. Remark - reading at Ithaca College earlier this month. Eugenides is on leave from Princeton University ist that he had arrived in the By Constantine S. Sirigos ably, her husband, Billy Levakis, this year to complete his new book, the title of which he has not yet disclosed. United States sometime in 1909. TNH Staff Writer 60, suffered only minor injuries. In his first appearances in North The couple, who were in town America, Kotsonaros wrestled as ASBURY PARK, N.J. – Of all the for a day trip, had just switched a middleweight, between 158 Greek traditions, one of the seats in the Lexus sedan before Eugenides’ Characters Bring Ponos and 165 pounds, but that didn’t most beloved, especially by the storm hit. “He’s a wreck,” keep him from frequently young men who vie for the Billy Levakis’ son Steve told The wrestling opponents who out - honor, is the Blessing of the Wa - Post. “He’s with family now. I’ve By Evan C. Lambrou perience, many people were rected by Sophia Coppola, who weighed him by 40 to 50 pounds ters, as they leap into the sea to been with him since it hap - Special to The National Herald heard telling each other after - recently won the top prize at the or more. Initially Kotsonaros, see who can be the first to re - pened.” Several other people wards. Eugenides, one of the Venice Film Festival for another wrestled bare-footed, which was trieve a cross that is supposed around the city were hurt by fly - ITHACA – If you ever heard an most prominent of this genera - of her works. “Its befuddled ret - counter to American rules, and to give them good luck through ing debris and collapsing struc - accomplished writer read from tion of Greek American writers, rospection on youth from the only wore short trucks instead the year, an act even captured tures. The intensity of the mon - their own works, it would more was introduced to the eagerly vantage point of middle age of full body tights. Using this in some Hollywood movies. It’s ster storm stunned everyone - than likely make you want to buy awaiting crowd by Jack Wang, lends The Virgin Suicides its ob - method meant he could not be usually held on January 6, but and left some Staten Island resi - the book as the real voice comes creative writing professor at sessive quality,” Wang said. held by his shoes and when he this year here, four young men dents convinced a twister had through, in person as it does on Ithaca College, who reflected on WHAT IS LOVE? began to sweat he was harder emerged from the Atlantic barreled through. “You could the page, and from the source. the first time he met the author, Eugenides’ new novel, the ti - to hold in short trunks instead Ocean clutching the Holy Cross kind of see the tornado,” said Award-winning author Jeffrey who is known for nuanced in - tle if which he has yet to disclose, of full body tights. Kotsonaros’ beneath a brilliant blue sky on Kelly DePietro, 18, who was Eugenides recently did a public sight into his characters’ inner is a college love story set in 1983 reputation as a fair wrestler Sunday, September 19. They re - working at Eggers Ice Cream in reading at Ithaca College in up - lives. and, among other things, draws (who only turned rough when ceived blessings, a trophy and a Tottenville. “It was spinning. state New York, bringing his “Jeffrey Eugenides writes a distinction between sexual at - so treated) was established early gift of a cross of gold from Met - Then it got black. The door flew unique voice, the sound of real about the genius and nightmare traction and falling in love. in his career. As such, Kotsonaros ropolitan Evangelos, and the ap - open, and I couldn’t close it -- the literature and three-dimensional that is America. He captures the Leonard and Madeline, the new was sought out as a referee not plause of hundreds of Greek Or - winds were too strong. I couldn’t characters. The event, part of IC’s pathos of racial tension, suburbia story’s two principle characters, simply by wrestlers but the fans shut the door for the life of me.” Distinguished Visiting Writers se - and urban decay,” Wang said. “I are drawn together in a way around the country. Well-edu - Continued on page 4 Jeffrey Greenburg was driving ries, drew more than 200 people first met him when I was a visit - which compels Madeline, by far cated, Kotsonaros was a polyglot on the Grand Central Parkway from the area. Most were stu - ing writer at the University of the more stable of the two, to and an extremely adept busi - near where Levakis was killed. “I dents, but a good number of lo - Arizona 15 years ago. Even then, examine herself as she tries to nessman. While all writers agree For subscription: seen the tree flying right in front cal residents also attended. Eu - people spoke in hushed, scandal - determine the meaning of love that Kotsonaros was physically 718.784.5255 of my car - it went right on by genides, who won the 2003 ized tones about his first novel, and its place in her life. Made - one of the all time “most perfect like Dorothy from The Wizard of Pulitzer Prize in Fiction for Mid - The Virgin Suicides, which bril - line, a logical young woman of built wrestlers” and “a husky [email protected] Oz, “ he told WCBS. “Before you dlesex, his second novel, read liantly captures the joy and tur - pure and sound mind, is not the athlete, with an unusual shoul - know it, like half the trees were from his yet-to-be-completed moil of being young,” Wang told excitable type. She is not inclined der, chest and arm develop - all over the road,” he added. third novel at IC’s Phillips Hall the crowd. Published in 1993, to get carried away. She would ment,” he was also frequently The National Weather Service on September 7. Listening to him The Virgin Suicides has been much rather curl up in bed with called “pug ugly.” Never to be read from his own work in his translated into 34 languages, and Continued on page 4 sonorous voice was a riveting ex - was made into a feature film di - Continued on page 4 Continued on page 7 2 COMMUNITY THE NATIONAL HERALD, SEPTEMBER 25-OCTOBER 1, 2010 In the Spotlight: George Kiriazides, Greek Character GOINGS ON... n SEPTEMBER 22 – pianist, David Nachmias. Music By Constantine S. Sirigos Queens and I have been involved pastimes? NOVEMBER 17 heavenly beautiful written in the TNH Staff Writer with various Hellenic societies in - GK: There are several that I TARPON SPRINGS, Fl. – Dr. Mary early 1900s from Greek com - cluding, as President, Sigma Ep - wouldn’t label in the superlative. Coros, director of the Levendia posers such as, Attik, Gounaris, NEW YORK - George Kiriazides, silon Phi, the college group of I do the Suduko puzzles from the Dance Troupe, will be providing Giannidis and etc…will be re-or - a 34-year resident of Mamaro - Greek College Clubs, the Solon Post and crossword puzzles from Greek dance lessons divided into chestrated by conductor David neck N.Y., has lived a life many Society and for over 30 years the Times that take an inordinate nine different sessions from Sep - Nachmias and performed by New York area Greek Americans with The Hellenic University Club amount of time, however it reas - tember 22 until November 17. some of the most talented opera can identify with, but as soon as of N.Y. where I am presently the sures me that the mind is still Learn to dance popular Greek class musicians. There will only you meet him, you know he is Treasurer and Chairperson of the working. I was an avid tennis dances and also learn about the be one performance, seats are unique. “He’s a character,” one Scholarship Committee. player prior to my back injury origin of and traditions surround - limited. For further information would hear said about him, but TNH: How has your life been last year, but I hope to resume ing each dance. Dances practices and to purchase tickets, contact: the rest of the description usually influenced by your Hellenic an - the game next year. I enjoy going will be held every Wednesday Yannis Remediakis at: info@hcc- involves his sharp mind (some cestry? to concerts and listening to clas - from 7:00-8:30 p.m. at the Tar - sw.org. The event will take place might just say sharp tongue) and GK: Both of my parents sical music composed prior to pon Springs Cultural Center. at the Wortham Center at Cullen what a great friend he is. Many stressed the special heritage that 1870. I prefer straight theater, Prices for the dance classes are: Theater (House of Houston’s disagree with him but most peo - we Hellenes possess and con - but My Fair Lady is my favorite $75 for nine week session, $50 Grand Opera House). Wortham ple enjoy talking with him. Kiri - stantly urged me to follow the musical. I love Greek concerts for any six classes and/or $10 Center is located at: 501 Texas, azides’ resume is founded on his Hellenic path. Unfortunately, I that include music by Hatzidakis, drop in rate. Register online at: Houston, TX 77002. being an engineering graduate of fought against their advice when Theodorakis, and rebetika, and I www.tarponarts.org or call: CCNY and a Master’s Degree in they were alive. Later in college love to go to Greek Theater that (727) 942-5605. The Tarpon TARPON SPRINGS, Fl. – Funded Industrial Management from I joined the CCNY Hellenic Club, George Kiriazides is performed in Astoria. I love Springs Cultural Center is located in part with a grant from the Na - Brooklyn Poly. He is President of where I met my wife. From that Greek cooking and I have created at: Cultural Center, 101 S. Pinel - tional Endowment for the Arts’ Vision Identics Sys. Inc., a small point on, I think my parents individuals who have met new a private Zagat rating of Greek las Ave., Tarpon Springs, FL Folk & Traditional Arts Program, distributor of Machine Vision would have been proud of me as friends through their relationship Restaurants based on my experi - 34689. the Greek Arts Initiative aug - Components Inc. based in Ma - I have associated himself with with me. I hold several events ence in NYC. My interests include ments the integration of Greek maroneck. He has taught Man - many Hellenic Associations and throughout the year at my home literature, art films and impres - n SEPTEMBER 23-26 culture into Tarpon Springs’ Cul - agement and Marketing at activities. I have a list of 125 including Memorial Day and sionist art. In recent years I have MYRTLE BEACH, S.C. - St. John tural Treasures presentations Westchester Community College. friends and acquaintances of Hel - New Years Day luncheons, and read the Russian Classics and ex - the Baptist Church will be hosting through a variety of program - His bio begins with his being lenic ancestry on an e-mail list Easter and Thanksgiving gather - tensive histories of WWII. With a their Annual Greek Festival Sep - ming. The Kalymnian Traditional the son of Greek immigrants who whom I call Hellenic Suspects, ings. Many of my friends have few close friends, I have acquired tember 23-26 from 11:00 a.m.- Songs with Irene Karavokiros will grew up in the South Bronx and which advises on events of inter - seen their first opera and other a fancy for Jane Austen’s novels 10:00 p.m. For additional infor - be held on September 26 from attended Brooklyn Tech HS and est. (It sort of competes with classical music events with me. and can be considered a Janite. I mation, visit: 12:00–2:00 p.m. at the Heritage is crowned with references to his THN). Classmates from the Greek TNH: Do you have role model have traveled extensively, visiting www.stjohn-mb.org/events/fes - Museum. She will teach many of two adult children, Alexis, an ed - table at CCNY North Campus or heroes? 48 states and all the major mu - tival.htm. the older Kalymnian songs, in - ucator, and Drew, who is a real have yearly reunions which I or - GK: My father. He was an ed - seums in the U.S. and Europe. cluding those sung for weddings estate developer for a non-profit. ganize. I have been a serious Phi - ucated Constantinopolite who About 30 years ago I took up n SEPTEMBER 24-26 and other important occasions. He is justly proud of them. latelist since I was 10 years old: spoke five languages and wanted painting in oils and lately I have GREENLAWN, N.Y. - The Church The event is free. The Heritage Recently he celebrated his my Greek Collection of Hermes to advance himself in America done portraits of friends and fam - of Saint Paraskevi is hosting their Museum is located at: 100 Beek - 70th birthday with more than Heads is fairly complete. Collect - and took courses in electronics. ily. annual Geek Food Festival Sep - man Lane, Craig Park, Tarpon 100 friends and family in atten - ing stamps is an excellent way to Those courses and electronic kits TNH: Share with us some tember 24-26. Enjoy a traditional Springs. For further information, dance. He regards his cadre of understand the history of a coun - influenced my choice to become words of wisdom and what you Greek Menu offering a wide vari - call: (727) 937-1130 or (727) friends and acquaintances as spe - try and perhaps my Greek Col - an electrical engineer. I wished would change about yourself. ety of delicious foods and pas - 942-5605. cial, but as an animal lover, he lection indicates I paid more at - he had lived longer so that I GK: I don’t claim to be a guru, tries. Listen and dance to the lives with three cats who he re - tention to my parents’ than they would have benefited from his however, I try to impress that be - sounds of Greece in their heated n SEPTEMBER 28 gards as his family and who bring realized. Byzantine and modern knowledge of the changes that ing of Hellenic Ancestry is a spe - outdoor tent and enjoy the per - NEW YORK, N.Y. - The Forum him great joy. Divorced, he said Greek history have now become occurred in Greece during the cial responsibility for all Hellenes. formances by their talented Saint on Orthodox Spirituality is host - he would have liked to remarry, my passion and I have privately WWI years and the dislocations It is important to understand our Paraskevi dancers. There will also ing a Welcome Back reception at but that has yet to come to pass. lectured on these subjects. The that affected so many people. roots and the special role that we be a wide variety of vendors in - Thalassa Restaurant on Septem - TNH: Tell us about growing Balkan wars of 1912 and the Asia There are so many unanswered have in continuing the Hellenic cluding Yia Yia's Attic, which con - ber 28 at 6:30 p.m. FOS is a up Greek in New York. Minor catastrophe of 1922 are questions. Most of my discussions Experience. Most of my friends sists of many new and gently used ministry of the Greek Orthodox GK: My Father died when I special for me as my parents were are political in nature. I am a lib - regard me as very opinionated items for sale. There will be many Archdiocesan Cathedral of the was 12 and my mother Alexan - affected by them. My mother was ertarian at heart and I regard and tactless. This is one charac - church tours explaining St. Holy Trinity conducted by Rev. dra when I was 18, and I have a born in Chios under Ottoman Ronald Reagan as the Greatest teristic that I would like to Paraskevi’s magnificent Iconogra - Dr. Frank Marangos. FOS was younger brother and sister. I was rule and my father a native of President of the 20th Century. I change, however the feeling that phy of the Seven Days of Creation created in response to the need an altar boy at St. Constantine & Constantinople. have a marked disdain for So - I am right most of the time per - and you can also visit their Grotto voiced by New York-area profes - Helen, which was located at TNH: How have you influ - cialism/Communism. Sadly, the sists. Shrine where many miracles have sional men and women for Brown Place in the South Bronx enced the people around you? present times do not measure up. taken place from the healing wa - deeper spiritual illumination and but then moved to Whitestone, GK: There have been many TNH: What are your great [email protected] ters of Saint Paraskevi & the heal - nourishment. The reception will ing oil of Saint Panteleimon. The be held in Thalassa’s Wine Room Grand Raffle consist of 50 prizes and will feature live entertain - including the top draw for a 2011 ment by Jazz Fusion Musician, Greek American Community Embraces Papandreou, Wishes Best for Him and Greece BMW 328I. Festival hours are Fri - Spiros Exaras, savory appetizers day, September 24 11:00am- and a cash bar. Admission is $25 11:00pm; Saturday, September and no RSVP is required. Tha - 25 11:00am-11:00pm; and Sun - lassa Restaurant is located at: day, September 26 12:00pm- 179 Franklin Street in Tribeca, 9:00pm. For more information, Manhattan. For further informa - call: (631)261-7272 or visit the tion, call: (212) 941-7661 or church website: visit: www.thalassanyc.com www.stparaskevi.org with the most up-to-date information. n OCTOBER 8-10 ST. AUGUSTINE, Fl. - The 13th n SEPTEMBER 25 Annual Greek Festival hosted by CALVERTON, N.Y. – All Saints Holy Trinity Greek Orthodox Greek Orthodox Monastery is Church will be held October 8- hosting a fundraiser luncheon on 10 at the Special Events Field, 25 September 25 at 12:00 p.m. W. Castillo Dr. St. Augustine, FL, where you can meet their newly next to the downtown Visitor’s tonsured nuns at the first Greek Center Parking Garage. A deli - Orthodox Monastery on Long Is - cious assortment of Greek foods, land. The luncheon will follow pastries and beverages will be Orthros at 9:15 a.m. and Divine served. Enjoy nonstop entertain - Liturgy at 10:15 a.m. with Fr. ment with live Greek music and Vasilios Govits officiating and dancing by beautifully costumed PHOTOS: TNH/COSTAS BEJ hear the nuns chanting. Sug - Greek dance troupes. Come join The Prime Minister greets Federation President Elias Tsek - gested donation is $50.00 per in the fun and experience St. Au - erides. To his right is Theodore Pavlakos, chairman of the Fed - person. For further information gustine’s Greek heritage. Admis - The National Herald Publisher Antonis H. Diamataris (C) and eration's National Issues Committee. Dimitris Molohides, Pan- or to RSVP, call Maria Mitrakos sion is only $2.00 and free for Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou (next to him) at the Pontian Federation President appears behind and to left of Pistone at: (631) 698-3709 or children 12 and under. For more Greek Consulate in New York. Archbishop Demetrios. Maryann Georgiou at (718) 631- information call (904) 829-0504 8611. All Saints Greek Orthodox or visit www.stauggreekfest.com Monastery is located at: 1676 Middle Road, PO Box 802, n OCTOBER 5 – JANUARY 3 Calverton, NY 11933. NEW YORK, N.Y. - The Onassis Cultural Center explores the role n SEPTEMBER 26 of heroes in society in the exhi - ΝEW YORK, N.Y. – The Associa - bition, Heroes: Mortals and tion of Greek American Women Myths in Ancient Greece, on view (AGAPW) will be hosting an end in Manhattan from October 5, of the year-welcome to autumn, 2010 to January 3, 2011. The ex - Mediterranean BBQ/fundraiser. hibition is supported by an in - The event will be held at the demnity from the Federal Council home of Vasilis and Martina on the Arts and Humanities. Obletter-Katsikiotis in Allendale, Highlights of the exhibition in - New Jersey on September 26 clude a bronze Corinthian helmet from 4:00-7:00 p.m. This will be from 700-500 B.C.; a black-figure a great opportunity to support amphora depicting Achilles and the mission of AGAPW and to Ajax playing a board game out - meet and great each other as you side Troy (late sixth century celebrate family, friendship and B.C.); a black-figure column community with great food and krater (c. 510 B.C.) depicting wine. There is no minimum re - Odysseus escaping from the cave PM Papandreou takes a moment to greet the future as he is quired contribution. For further of the cyclops Polyphemos; and East 79th Street in Manhattan is flooded with Greek Americans photographed with the child of Elizabeth Tzoumakas (to his information and/or to RSVP, call: a gold medallion with the bust who came out under threatening skies to greet the Greek leader right, in front of Greek Consul Evangelos Kyriakopoulos. Olga Alexakos at (917) 405-6833 of Alexander the Great (c. 218- George Papandreou (center) and wish him and their homeland Aphrodite Skeadas, President of the National Philoptochos is or email: [email protected]. 235 A.D.; among many more. well as they try to weather their economic crisis. 2nd from R). Guided tours of the exhibition HOUSTON, Texas - The Cretans will be offered to the public every of Houston in association with Tuesday and Thursday at 1:00 the Hellenic Cultural Center of p.m. Tours can also be organized the Southwest present, Greek upon request for school groups. Tango, on September 26 at 4:00 A comprehensive brochure will p.m. Hrysoula Stefanaki, one of also be offered free to visitors. the most talented popular Greek Exhibition Tour. For information, singer and musician, will perform contact: Lillian Goldenthal at for Houstonians under the direc - (212) 593-6355 or email: gold - Από το 1915 tion of world class arranger and [email protected]. για τον Ελληνισμό QUESTION OF THE WEEK Vote on our website! You have the chance to express your opinion on our website on an important question in the news. The results will be pub - lished in our printed edition next week along with the question for that week. The question this week is: Would Prime Minister George Papandreou be a good choice to be Secretary-General of the United Nations next year? o Yes ΤΟΤΕ και ΤΩΡΑ o No o Maybe The results for last week’s question: Would you support Εγκυρη και έγκαιρη ενημέρωση με μέτρο withholding church fees to the Archdiocese unless there is an accounting of how they are spent? (718) 784-5255, 888-547-9527 ext. 108 - 109 • Fax: (718) 472-0510 79 % voted "Yes" e-mail στο [email protected] • www.ekirikas.com 21 % voted "No" 0% voted "Maybe" Please vote at: www.thenationalherald.com THE NATIONAL HERALD, SEPTEMBER 25-OCTOBER 1, 2010 COMMUNITY 3 With Bells Ringing, Food Cooking St. Markella Holds Festival in Astoria

By Constantine S. Sirigos Markella school for 50. In 2004 were Christian Arabs from Is - TNH Staff Writer she was named TNH Teacher of rael. From them she learned the Year. She is one of four nuns about Orthodoxy, but she was NEW YORK - The streets sur - who teaches at the school and still not sure where she be - rounding the Cathedral of St. who stays in Astoria during the longed spiritually. She was Markella are typical of Queens, week. On most weekends, they drawn to the monastic life, but New York – stretches of row reside at their retreat in Farm - at that time she believed there houses alternate with detached ingdale, Long Island. were only Roman Catholic nuns, homes, some made of brick, oth - Sister Syncletike said she is and said she knew that the ers of stone or stucco – but just proud of the achievements of Catholic Church was not the beyond the Greek stores and the school and the thousands of right place for her. One day she restaurants one would expect to children taught there over the saw a photograph of Orthodox find in Astoria rise the sky blue years. She noted with some sad - nuns – a copy of the very photo domes and cupolas atop Cy - ness, however, the decline in the hanging on the wall in the foyer cladic-white drums of the Old numbers of students, the result of one of the St. Markella build - Calendar parish beloved of its of the near-cessation of immi - ings where she was speaking to parishioners and neighbors. gration from Greece after the TNH. At that moment she said From September 16 through the 1970’s. As recently as 1998 she knew where God was lead - 19th, New York City obliged the there were 275 students, ing her and eventually she vis - parish by shutting down the thought the current enrollment ited the Astoria parish. street for its annual festival. Gift of 90 is above average for a typ - Spanos told TNH the parish booths, children’s games and ical Greek Orthodox parish in had its roots in the 1951 journey rides and booths with religious the U.S. There is pride, but per - to America of Bishop Peter, who books and educational literature haps also relief when she remi - arrived from a monastery in stood nearby the food and nisces about the 11-hour days Mount Athos and told the story dessert stands that one expects many of the teachers worked in of the Metropolis. The parish is at Greek festivals, but there the old days. The Bethpage not part of the Greek Orthodox were a number of touches that parish has held Greek school at Archdiocese of America. Bishop made visitors feel more like be - Bethpage High School, for 30 Peter came to serve Orthodox ing in Greece than at almost any TNH/COSTAS BEJ years and Sister Syncletike said Christians who followed the Ju - other Grecian Festival. Who could resist this? The crew of volunteers at St. Markella’s showed off their wares at their she is grateful for the support lian (Old) calendar) and in There were the church bells church festival. From left are Markela Igneri, Pavlo Igneri, Petro Igneri, Vaso Dumopoulou, An - of that institution. 1954 founded the church of St. that were ringing on Saturday tonia Themeli, Isidoros Spanos, Athena Psoras, Fotini Poulos, Georgia Zatsis, Tasoula Baltzis, FINDING THE FAITH Markella. night, the 18th. Then it became Eleftheria Cherpelis, Michale Katsiaris, Ploumi Karras, Kalliope Menakis, and Irene Spanos She also made sure to intro - He was consecrated Bishop clear that guests were leaving duce Sister Irene to TNH, a non- by the Russian Orthodox Church their seats under the tents – as are many member of the lamb will cost you, of course. projects require attention, such Greek convert and a teacher in exile and established the Dio - where they ate and were head - parish (St. Markella is the pa - There is also an annual as the construction of the new who is also responsible for the cese of Astoria. ing into the church for vespers. tron saint of the Island) - spoke fundraising luncheon on the oc - rectory and an elevator to serve production of the Metropolis’ In 1998, Then-Archimandrite Finally, one noticed that among with pride about how the whole casion of the feast of St. Basil in the elderly and handicapped. textbooks. Sister Irene was Pavlos, who was born in Astoria, the volunteers and clergy were community helped build the January. This year Constantinos Like all council presidents, raised in Arizona, far removed was elevated to Bishop and as the energetic but peaceful and charming church with its radi - Tsamblakos served as festival Spanos said he is most proud of from Greek American life and Metropolitan he now leads what dedicated nuns. ant icons and shimmering chan - chairman. He and Spanos said the schools and the work in be - Hellenism. “She had never seen has become the Metropolis of After giving their regards to deliers. It was modeled after the they were grateful to all who half of the children. The Sunday the head of a fish until she came North and South America of the Metropolitan Pavlos, who was famous Church of the Chora in donated their products and ser - school runs through the 6th here,” said Sister Syncletike, Church of G.O.C. (Genuine Or - greeting guests from his wheel - Constantinople. The complex vices, including Telly’s Taverna, grade and the youth programs more a testament to the state of thodox Church) of Greece, chair at the entrance to the has grown from one house to and the Sparta restaurant Sup - are managed by Fr. Kleanthi Ko - seafood restaurants in the which is under the leadership of church, Parish Council President five, and they are preparing to ply company. He also said that rkotas, who is the pastor of their Southwest than to the erudite Archbishop Chrysostomos of Isidoros Spanos took a few mo - build a three-story rectory for Spanos, a restaurateur, would sister parish in Long Island of Sister Irene’s knowledge. She Greece. ments from his duties in the the nuns in place of one of those not tell TNH so, but he was him - St. Isidoros in Bethpage. was raised Protestant, and at - The Metropolis runs a num - food preparation areas to speak houses. self a major donor. The Metropolis is looking for - tended a Protestant bible col - ber of monasteries in North to The National Herald about The festival is the commu - THEY KEEP COMING BACK ward to this year’s national lege, but after studying the his - America, including the relatively the community. nity’s only fund-raising festival, Spanos lives in Long Island, Youth conference, which will be tory of the ancient Church she nearby Monastery of the Holy He spoke of its humble be - although many of the features and noted that about 25-30% of held in Detroit over the Colum - said she realized that she had Ascension in Bearsville, near ginnings in a single house and are repeated as part of the the members now live outside bus Day weekend. The after - not experienced “the fullness of Kingston New York, but those of the love of the parishioners parish’s Pascha celebration - 22 of Astoria. The Parish Council noon school is run by Gerontissa Christianity” in her church life. who’ve gone to St. Markella that helped it grow and who lambs were roasted this year – consists of 14 members who (Elder) Syncletike, who was One of her classes required an keep coming back. sustain it today and into the fu - which is free and open to the serve four-year terms. They been an educator for 65 years internship at a hospice that was ture. Spanos, who is from Chios entire community, although the break up into committees as and has been with the St. run by Orthodox priests who [email protected] Turkish Days in New York: P.R. Extravaganza Greece Can Learn From?

By Constantine S. Sirigos of TABID, explained to TNH that declined along with the Ot - ing little carvings from the stone booth belonged to the shoemak - strongly promoted abroad even TNH Staff Writer the purpose of Turkish Days in toman Empire. Iznik, whose of that region which at first ers from Kahramanmaras, the in times of budgetary strain by New York was to introduce name is a modification of its glance looked like ivory, and a Roman/Byzantine Germanicea, drawing on the talents and re - NEW YORK - Greece is behind Americans to Turkish culture and Greek name, Nicea, is known to neighboring booth contained sil - named for the relative of Caesar sources of the Diaspora, saying Turkey in many areas, including promote friendship between the history as the site of the seminal verwork by people from Mardin, and Augustus who won impor - Greece wants “to bring together tourism – and public relations two countries. Such initiatives Christian event, the first Ecu - which the Greeks probably tant battles in faraway Germany. people with good ideas” in many plans to promote the country, it are part of wider efforts aimed menical Council. A Greek’s ex - called Marida. Famous hordes of It may also have been the ances - fields in the Greek American seems, but now may be able to at helping to integrate the Turk - perience of one booth would be Early Christian silver have been tral home of the great Byzantine community. He said that Greek pick up some pointers from its ish community into American so - bittersweet. References to Izmir, discovered in that region near Emperors Basil I and Basil II. Americans with expertise and fi - rival. “Turkish Days in New York ciety. He stressed that TABID is the ancient Hellenic and Greek- Syria. The Malatya Pazari served Deputy Foreign Minister Spy - nancial resources working with 2010” was a lavish public rela - an NGO, non-governmental or - dominated modern city of delicious cups of Greek/Turkish ros Kouvelis, speaking to TNH the backing of the Greek gov - tions endeavor that was held in ganization, and not an entity of Smyrna that was burned in 1922 coffee, and was named after the at a reception for young profes - ernment can produce events that New York from Sept. 16-22 that the Turkish government. Accord - were sour notes that marred the city ruled by the Emir of Meli - sional at the Greek Consulate in rival or surpass Turkish Days in was sponsored by the Council of ing to the Turkish Embassy in sweet background music to tine, the father of the great hero New York, was aware of Turkish New York. Perhaps Greek Days Turkic American Associations, Washington, D.C. the Turkish Greek Americans. of Byzantine literature, Digenis Days and stressed the impor - in New York? the Turkish Cultural Center of Cultural center took the lead in Fine Turkish stonework was Akritas. tance of such endeavors. He New York and the Turkish Amer - the event’s organization. Despite on display nearby, in a booth Perhaps the most charming agreed that Greece can be [email protected] ican Business Improvement and the fact that the phone number manned by a gentleman from Development Council (TABID) of the Turkish consulate is listed the city of Van. In what was in and New York’s prestige spaces on the web site of both the TCC the heart of the Armenian home - were flooded with Turkish cul - and TABID, the embassy’s press land, the region around Lake ture as arts and crafts were pre - office said the TCC is not affili - Van was the scene of one of the sented at Grand Central Station, ated with the consulate, al - great debacles in Hellenic his - Turkish food at an open air though it is funded by the Turk - tory, the disastrous Battle of Grand Bazaar near Times Square ish government. September 16 Manzikert in 1071 which cost and a Turkish Movie Festival was and 17 featured “Performing Arts the Byzantines control over most held at the New York Film Acad - at The Terminal” at Grand Cen - of Asia Minor. Striking miniature emy to close out the festivities. tral. 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triarchate. a Gokhun Ozkuk, the President 4 COMMUNITY THE NATIONAL HERALD, SEPTEMBER 25-OCTOBER 1, 2010 Blessing of the Waters at Asbury Park, And the Toss of the Cross

Continued from page 1 world.” He added to his words the St. Barbara’s Church of Toms in comments to The National River handled the food tent thodox from all the parishes in Herald, saying, “We walk to - across the street from the the - New Jersey, and from special gether with the cross in our ater, providing the souvlakia, guest, U.S. Senator Robert hands, working for the Glory of loukoumades and other delights Menendez. It was the 63rd an - God and the peace and well-be - and refreshments. Kimisis of nual blessing of the waters at ing of the whole world ... the Holmdel ran the candle pangari Asbury Park marking the Greek end of all wars and conflicts.” and the collection trays. It’s Orthodox feast of the Elevation The Metropolitan expressed de - Parish Council President, Robert of the Holy Cross. The young light in the gathering of so many Bucco, told TNH he enjoyed the divers were divided into four of his parishes in one place opportunity to make new sections, with George Kavarakas every year that gives Greek Or - friends among his fellow Ortho - of host parish St. George of As - thodox Christians “a chance to dox Christians from parishes in bury Park receiving the white meet one another.” other parts of his state. Hope wooden cross for the junior LET THE SWIMMING BEGIN Demitry, of St. George in Tren - group of GOYA boys, and The procession from the the - ton, has been at the console of Efthimios Milos of Philadelphia ater to the sea was led by altar the electronic organ that is for the senior group. Georgette boys carrying the American, rented for the occasion every Galeana of St. Barbara of Toms Greek and Cypriot flags fol - year since 1996 - it was not River retrieved the cross among lowed by clergy, dignitaries and known if the theater’s original the junior group of GOYA girls the entire congregation. Other Mighty Wurlitzer pipe organ still and Eleni Dendrinos of St. An - participants waited for the pro - works. Hope, whose family hails thony of Vineland among the se - cession to begin on the sun- All four divisions of divers from the Greek island of Lem - nior GOYA girls. drenched boardwalk, an historic pose for a commemorative nos, told the TNH that the The Metropolitan displayed place once filled with Greek- photos before a platform con - liturgy has been held sometimes fine baseball form, four times owned concessions, restaurants, taining dignitaries and the at the Paramount, other times hurling the cross above the on - and other businesses, including cross retrievers (above). Met - in the big convention hall next rushing waves. The wooden the old Howard Johnson’s ropolitan Evangelos (left) door, and other years at the cross floated on the water - the restaurant right next to the shows off a fine throwing arm Great Auditorium in nearby children stayed close to the Paramount which closed a few on the beach at Asbury Park. Ocean Grove. shore on a day of fairly rough year ago after it was sold by the The pastor of St. George of seas at a Jersey shore troubled Panos family. Maria from the St. the Patriarchate. He later Asbury Park is Father Andrew this summer by dangerous rip Andrews Church of Randolph echoed his commitments in re - Eugenis. Raised in the parish of tides. Each time the cross was was sharing the “beautiful day” marks to TNH, when he also St. John the Baptist in Des retrieved, the waves rushed with her children Stamatina, said he would continue to work Plaines, Illinois, in the Chicago closer into the beach, sending George and Spiro. John Obe - to strengthen and deepen U.S. area, he has served at St. George onlookers and officials scram - lenus of the Vineland Church relations with Greece and for 10 years. He explained that bling back further. The day be - was a spectator today, but four Cyprus. The Senator told TNH despite the wonderful history of gan with the celebration of the years ago he was a proud father that Greek and Cypriot Ameri - the Asbury Park parish and the Divine Liturgy, the only one cel - as his daughter Eleni came up cans of New Jersey should be beautiful church that was built ebrated in the Metropolis of with the cross. “But she went to proud of the contributions they on Grand Avenue in 1949, the New Jersey that day, beneath the Metropolitan and told him make to their state. The Metro - community decided to move to the golden proscenium arches that she didn’t actually catch the politan also too the opportunity Ocean Township, to be closer to of the famous Asbury Park Para - cross, rather, it just hit her, but to thank all those who have led where the majority of its parish - mount Theater. he smiled and told her that she the fundraising efforts for the ioners now live. The new church The blessing of the Atlantic was a worthy cross receiver, “it new Metropolis headquarters in and community center are un - at Asbury Park was initiated by was Providence.” Westfield, and declared that the der construction and should be the late Ecumenical Patriarch Some of the divers were complex was not his home, but ready in one year. His parish Athenagoras when he was Arch - trained swimmers, such as se - The Metropolitan then awarded plaints that he favored the Sen - the home of all members of the Philoptochos chapter, led by its bishop of North and South nior GOYA winner Efthimios Mi - each of the cross receivers with ator’s Democratic party. He Metropolis of New Jersey. president Anne Michaels America. There is an impressive los, who swims for his high their trophies and crosses. One thanked the Senator for his sup - SO MUCH TRADITION greeted he guests on Sunday. St. statue of a smiling Athenagoras school team and whose family onlooker, referring to the bless - port of Greece and Cyprus and The combined choir of New George has many vibrant orga - on the famous Asbury Park comes from northern Epirus. ing of the waters for the Feast the Ecumenical Patriarchate and Jersey parishes, conducted by nizations and programs but is Boardwalk next to the theater. Others, such as track and field of the Epiphany in January told honored him with a gift of a Katina Kehayas, filled the gilded very proud of its Sunday school, Metropolitan Evangelos spoke enthusiast Eleni Dendrinos, are a friend, “The smart kids do it cross. The Senator was given a movie palace that evoked the whose directors Donna Karpo - to the congregation about the athletes participating in other in September.” chance to address the congre - splendor of Constantinople with dinis and Terri Lalli work hard meaning of the Elevation of the high school sports. After all the Earlier in the day, in the the - gation and expressed his admi - Byzantine hymns. Every year for their 150 students, and the Holy Cross, declaring that groups had their turns diving, ater following the liturgy, the ration for his colleagues who the altar boys’ and chanters’ Greek school program for 75 through Christ’s life, crucifixion they assembled before a spe - Metropolitan welcomed Senator guided him regarding Hellenic rank are also filled by partici - students run by Effie Psomia. and resurrection, “evil has been cially built platform on the Robert Menendez, but he issues, such as retired U.S. Sen - pants from many of the Metrop - But once a year, the day belongs demolished and death has been beach for a commemorative quipped that he was welcoming ator Paul Sarbanes. He pledged olis’s parishes while other func - to the swimmers. overcome, the power of the photo before the flower-be - him not as a politician, but as a to continue his work for a re- tions are rotated annually to Cross conquering all evil in the decked icon of the Holy Cross. fellow Christian, to avoid com - unified Cyprus and freedom for individual parishes. This year [email protected] Eugenides’ Characters Bring Agape, Eros, Ponos

Continued from page 1 serious person, Madeline is not felt a sure sign of love?” starts getting to know Leonard typical of young women who Not too long after she be - at a time when she is reading a book on a Friday night than go can’t seem to get boys out of comes sexually involved with French literary theorist and out partying with her friends. their minds. She had a him, she encounters an obsessive philosopher Roland Barthes’ For Madeline, reading litera - Uruguayan boyfriend prior to her and manipulative person with Lover’s Discourse, which points ture can be a re-awakening ex - senior year, and while she liked readily apparent psychological out that lack of physical contact perience because literature often him, she did not develop issues. She learns he has a trou - can lead to “extreme solitude.” provides “an articulation of what stronger feelings for him. bled past, but by then, she is al - The more Leonard pulls away she had been mutely feeling,” With Leonard, it is different. ready in love with him, and can from her, the more anxious Eugenides said. “It’s why she After spending a weekend with not help getting sucked into cop - Madeline becomes, and the ec - loved books and the order they him at his apartment, Eugenides ing with his rather sudden, inex - stasy of sex with him becomes express.” When Madeline first said, she finds herself being con - plicable and sometimes cruel be - based on his growing detach - met Leonard, she was drawn to cerned about the way he felt, havior. There is another ment. what at first appeared to be his and she began to wonder, “Was important sub-theme in the Leonard is eminently aware modest, unassuming nature. A her worrying about how Leonard story: Madeline also meets and of how she feels, and chooses to exploit her genuine feelings and concern for him. His A Reluctant Persona Part of it is set in Berlin, where Eugenides lived usurpation of Madeline’s love is from 1999 to 2004, but it is chiefly concerned poignantly described by the Jeffrey Eugenides is usually reluctant to ap - with the Greek American immigrant experience “feeling of peril” that comes Author Jeffrey Eugenides, reading from his yet-untitled third pear in public and disclose details about his pri - in the United States against the rise and fall of over her when Leonard haugh - novel had the audience at Ithaca College rapt with attention. vate life. He was born in Detroit, to parents of Detroit (the urban decline of which has haunted tily refers to her declaration of Greek and Irish ancestry. He attended University him, he says.) It explores transgender experi - love for him (“I love you”) as public – makes it clear that it when someone is mistreating or Liggett, a private school in Grosse Point. He re - ence in the United States. Eugenides resides in the pathetic “love cry” Barthes can be immensely difficult for being mistreated, it’s not really ceived his bachelor’s degree from Brown Uni - Princeton, New Jersey with his wife, the pho - discusses. To an outside ob - people to free themselves from love, which is supposed to be versity in 1983, and earned his master’s in Cre - tographer and sculptor Karen Yamauchi, and server or (ostensibly) the reader, powerful emotional attach - kind and gentle – Eugenides ative Writing at Stanford University. In 1986, their daughter. He joined Princeton University’s it’s clear that in light of the way ments. This can be particularly smiled and said he wasn’t pre - he received the Academy of Motion Picture Arts Creative Writing faculty in the fall of 2007. He Leonard starts mistreating overwhelming for younger peo - pared to give the whole story & Sciences’ Nicholl Fellowship for his story Here is on leave this year, completing his novel. He Madeline, she should pull her - ple, whose relationships are of - away yet. “I will say this much, Comes Winston, Full of the Holy Spirit. Besides writes short stories and is the editor of the col - self away from him and stop ten sexually charged. Asked though: None of us would fall the Pulitzer Prize, his honors include fellowships lection of short stories titled My Mistress's Spar - pursuing a relationship with whether his new story is leading in love unless we read about it from the Guggenheim Foundation and National row is Dead. The proceeds of the collection go him altogether because it is de - to the realization which comes first. Separating romantic love Endowment for the Arts. His 2002 novel Mid - to the writing center 826 Chicago, established veloping a psychologically un - with experience and maturity from reality is a journey in and dlesex also won the Ambassador Book Award. to encourage young people's writing. healthy dynamic. But Eugenides’ that love is not only rooted in of itself, and it’s the exploration book – at least the small part of passion, passionate, but is ulti - of love that’s important,” he told the story from which he read in mately also objective – e.g., The National Herald. Sudden N.Y. Storm Fells Tree, Kills Visiting Woman in Car on Highway

Continued from page 1 Staten Island, Brooklyn, Queens, pedestrians as lightning lit up the from sun to deep clouds to black barreled through the Park Slope jority of the damage came in northern Nassau and northwest - skies like a strobe light and trees within 10 minutes, making dri - section of Brooklyn with winds Queens from a macroburst, couldn’t confirm that it was a tor - ern Suffolk. Seven tornadoes fell like matchsticks, with reports ving especially hazardous, par - up to 80 mph, the National which is an intense gust of wind nado, but said a funnel cloud have been confirmed in New the wind may have hit 125 mph ticularly on the Long Island Ex - Weather Service reported. The that pours down from a storm. was reported swirling through York City since 1974, the last be - in some places. Unlike Hurricane pressway or Grand Central second hit Queens minutes later According to the National four neighborhoods on Staten Is - ing in The Bronx two months Earl, which came and went Parkway where motorists in the afternoon, at 5:42 p.m. It Weather Service, the macroburst land. NWS teams were to assess ago. around Labor Day with not so couldn’t see or drive or get off went from four miles from Flush - started in the Middle Village sec - whether it was officially a The intense storm, whether a much as a huff and a puff, this the road, the Long Island Press ing to a mile north of Bayside, tion of Queens and ended in For - twister. The hardest-hit areas, tornado or not, brought instant storm suddenly appeared with - reported. with winds as high as 100 mph. est Hills, and was eight miles weather officials said, were on black and fear to motorists and out warning, changing the sky The first apparent tornado Meteorologists said that the ma - long and five miles wide.

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Continued from page 1 Asked if Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew was invited, he unified State, the majority will said that, “Unfortunately the Ec - rule and the minority will be se - umenical Patriarch cannot visit cured. A democratic constitution Cyprus because he is going to based on the population major - have problems with the Turks, ity. One State, the Cypriot State, you understand. He is avoiding one nationality the Cypriot and himself to visit Cyprus, although to have everything in common.” we have invited him many times, He added that, “We are too it would be a great joy to have small to be divided and to es - him in Cyprus. Our People would tablish two States.” welcome him with much joy.” Christofias, in New York for The Archbishop said he was the U.N. General Assembly “enthusiastic” about the new opening, told the ambassadors charter of the Church of Cyprus, of the five permanent members which was voted and accepted of the Security Council that even unanimously. he sees no solution this year. He The Church of Cyprus in said that Turkey’s intransigent comprised of 13 Eparchies, 17 positions, presented by current hierarchs, 659 priests. The Turkish Cypriot leader Dervis salaries of priests are paid by Eroglu, and refusal to accept the Church. The Archbishop constructive proposals left him said, “The government gives a pessimistic. Christofias offered 600 euro supplement to the to link the issues of Greek priests of the countryside, not Cypriot properties now held by those in the big cities” and he Turks on the divided island and explained “the late Archbishop the of the Turkish occupied port Makarios had given fifteen and of Famagusta with unblocking one-half acres of land to the of opening more European State with the obligation to give Union accession chapters for to the countryside priests a Turkey and the convening of an small supplement to their international conference once EUROkINISSI AP PHOTO/RICHARD DREw salary.” agreement on the internal as - Archbishop Chrysostomos, leader of the Church of Cyprus ex - Cypriot President Dimitris Christofias addresses a summit on According to the Archbishop pects of the Cyprus is at hand. pressed his deep concerns over the conduct of negotiations for the Millennium Development Goals at United Nations head - the average salary of priests is He stressed the need to main - the re-unification of his divided island in an interview with TNH. quarters, Sept. 21, 2010. “Around two and one half thou - tain the Cypriot ownership of sand euro. The learned (the the - the talks while at the same time pastorship of the Church the ment follows. He said that, “We properties were the correct of the priesthood, Archbishop ologians) make four to five accepting the position that no Cypriot Americans had invited disagree in many points, we do ones. The Monastery shouldn’t Chrysostomos said, “It is an un - thousand euro. The Bishops solution should be imposed by me. I told them that in order for not agree on everything.” get involved with money and in - acceptable situation which is make around three and one half outsiders. “Certain people may the visit to be successful it OF VATOPEDI, vestments. I can accept the fact contemned firstly by God, ‘They thousand euro, the Metropoli - have a different opinion as far should be organized well. But HOMOSEXUALITY that the Monastery could have will not inherit the kingdom of tans more than four thousand as Turkey’s readiness to see a when the late Papadopoulos Asked to comment about the some investments in order to be God.’ He added: “I am against and the Archbishop five.” When solution emerge by the end of (former Cypriot President Tas - Monastery of Vatopedi of Mt. able to stand on its own feet, it (homosexuality). If they are, asked to comment on reports the year,” he pointed out, sos Papadopoulos) lost the elec - Athos, who were involved in a but it wasn’t its job to deal with then they should not enter the that the Church of Cyprus is adding that he has made it clear tion and Mr. Christofias came to land swap scandal with the tens of thousands of euro,” al - priesthood.” To the question of very wealthy, Archbishop that Turkey’s own actions do not power, and because the policy Greek government, and the con - though the scandal wound up whether he would ordain some - Chrysostomos said, “The Church follow up on its rhetoric, which changed and the representatives nections of its Abbot and other being hundreds of millions. The one who is known to be homo - is not very rich” and he re - serves only communication pur - of the Cypriot American Com - officials with the Church of Archbishop refused to reveal the sexual, Archbishop Chrysosto - vealed, “The Archdiocese lost a poses and aims to avoid taking munity always identify with the Cyprus, and specifically with reasons that forced him to chase mos said “never.” respectable amount of its invest - real responsibility for its role in government of Cyprus, my pres - Metropolitan Athanasios of Li - them away from the Church of THE PATRIARCH ments because the big invest - the Cyprus problem. ence was not necessary any massol, Archbishop Chrysosto - Cyprus. He simply said, “They CAN’T COME ments are in the banks and in NO U.S. VISIT longer. They indicated somehow mos said, “I wouldn’t want to could not stay with me; this is He also spoke of the recent hotels, both of which today are Asked if it is in his plans to that my presence was not comment on that issue. At some not the proper time to say more, meeting that the Orthodox Pa - not doing well. We lost about visit the United States, the Arch - needed, and thus I do not desire point those brothers were with and after all I chased them some triarchs of the Middle East area 12 million euro per year, which bishop said, “I do not think so; to come to America.” The Arch - me but I expelled them.” He also 30 years ago.” held in Cyprus. He said, “We dis - is a substantial amount; the en - there is no reason for that. bishop said he disagrees on the said, “I do not think that their As to what he believes about cussed the issues that all the tire Church has lost around 50 When I first assumed the arch- political procedure the govern - acts dealing with monies and homosexuality in all the ranks Churches face in Middle East.” million euro.” Peterson’s Simple Success Formula, Save, Sacrifice, Choose, Hike Revenues

Continued from page 1 about by demographic changes; ernment be responsible for the namely, declining birth rates and very costly heroic interventions good life bought by their parents therefore declining numbers of or should those be the responsi - out of the post-World War II taxpayers, increased longevity bility of the individual taxpayer? years. “If you doubt me, can you and, huge and unfunded retire - This is but one example of avoid - name a single sacrifice we have ment promises. Wouldn’t it be ing the sticky political and ethical been asked to make since 9/11?” ironic if Greece, having been questions like who gets and who he said. “Because we consume forced to confront their problems pays for what health care.” He far more than we produce and earlier may actually benefit from cited the example of La Crosse, because we save so little, we have being forced to do so,” he said. Wisconsin, where 95% of the to borrow the rest from foreign The difference today is that peo - population has living wills giving sources,” he said. That includes ple, unlike the previous genera - directions on how they want to China, which is holding $1.4 tril - tion, are unwilling to make per - be treated in the last years of lion of American government pa - sonal and political sacrifices to their life if they have serious per, and Peterson warned the sustain and change their health problems. “Its costs in the Chinese might call in the chips lifestyles, particularly Americans, last two years of life are 20% and create a crisis that could sink he said. lower than the national average,” the United States, already in deep “Our personal savings rate has he said. water because of funding two plummeted – gone from one of “Entitlement benefit reforms wars in Afghanistan and Iraq to the biggest savers to the lowest – would have to play a major role the tune of $2 trillion, and paying in some recent years, an unheard in maintaining the solvency of for U.S. President Barack of negative personal savings rate. these much needed entitlement Obama’s health care program As recently as the early 1990s, TNH/COSTAS BEJ programs and making our un - that Peterson said should have we were saving 8%-10% of our Pete Peterson, renowned for his career as a business executive and leader, offered some sage sustainable fiscal imbalances been delayed until there was a disposable income. If we are go - advice for Americans, the U.S. economy, and how his upbringing as the son of Greek immigrants sustainable,” he said. “We be - stronger recovery. “Now, if we ing to rescue our economic fu - shaped his life when he spoke to Leadership 100. have as though being “deficit had more savings, at the national ture, we, as a nation and we as neutral” for new healthcare pro - and the personal levels, our coun - people, simply must save more by politicians. “Lest you think this coming on the heels of the 2008 and are focused on keeping their grams is adequate, when this try would not be as exposed to and consume less.” He said that, is overestimating the problem, let Wall Street-generated near eco - jobs and on the next election not does nothing about the unsus - these risks,” he added. “The Greatest Generation that me first quote the very authori - nomic implosion of the country’s the next generation,” he said. tainable long-term costs of ex - LEARN FROM GREECE lived through the great depres - tative National Journal, “Even economy. LIFE OR DEATH DECISIONS isting programs of Medicare,” he As the world pillories Greece sion of the 1930s and World War alarmists may be underestimat - As Republicans battle Democ - One area Americans won’t added.” He said not all the news for its economic problems that II confronted, grew, overcame ing the size of the debt problem rats, he said both parties have even discuss, he said, is whether was bad. “The good news is that have brought the country to the and paid for public debts far and how quickly it will become lost sight of what political wran - sustaining life is worth the cost, there are many sensible and edge of default and roiled social larger than those we face today. unbearable. It’s worse than you gling has done. For example, he economically, or morally, and that workable proposals that also unrest, Peterson said the unthink - They also paid for the GI Bill, a think.” said, eliminating former presi - keeping people alive whose qual - protect the truly needy,” he said. able could happen in the United huge highway and infrastructure Peterson said he’s putting a dent George W. Bush’s tax cuts, ity of life has diminished to the But he said he’s worried about States and other developed coun - program and The Marshall Plan. lot of his vast fortune, spending which helped the rich, might look point where it may not be worth the next generation and the cost tries as well. “There is a strong There was one big difference, of $1 billion, into trying to help, good politically for Democrats, living is just too expensive, one of not acting, which, he said, tendency to think that Greece is course, because we had a high funding a study through his Peter but that they would represent lit - of what he called “tough cost dri - could lead Americans to ask: the exception among developed savings rate we owed it our - G. Peterson Foundation to bring tle more than 1% of the country’s ver questions.” “Is it the govern - “How could we have done this, nations. Our studies establish selves. We can do it again. In - in top economic analysts to offer Gross Domestic Product, while ment’s obligation to prolong life not simply to America, but to that this is emphatically not the deed, we must do it again,” he immediate and long-term solu - the cost of entitlement increases indefinitely or is it only to pro - our own children and grandchil - case. In fact, most developed na - said. Raising the specter of to - tions to what he said is the great - alone is 9%. “It’s easy to blame long life as long as a reasonable dren? Could there be a worse tions have similar unsustainable day’s economic problems, he said est crisis the U.S. has faced in the politicians, but, again, remember quality of life can be maintained? feeling? Can not trying really be future debt problems brought they are graver than presented post-World War II generation, most consider these as careers, In other words, should the gov - an acceptable alternative?”

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Seven Greek American col - and Africa for Lockheed Martin. lege students participated in the Following the luncheon, the stu - American Hellenic Institute’s dents went on a private tour of (AHI) second annual College the Greek Parliament, and after - Student Foreign Policy Study wards, they were received by Trip to Greece and Cyprus from Konstantinos Vrettos, Chairman June 17 – July 2, 2010, and The of the Parliament’s International National Herald is letting four Relations & Defense Committee. of them write about their expe - Later that evening, a visit was riences, starting with a piece paid to The American College this week by John Papaspanos of Greece, Deree. There, the stu - of Seton Hall University. dents were given a campus tour This was the second annual followed by dinner that was program designed to introduce hosted by Dr. Todd G. Fritch, future Greek American leaders Vice President for Academic De - to the core foreign policy issues velopment and dean of Gradu - important to the Greek Ameri - ate and Professional Studies. can community and their impact 2 On June 30, an important brief - on U.S. interests in the south - ing was held at one of Greece’s eastern Mediterranean region. prominent think-tank organiza - The trip began with briefings in 1 tions, ELIAMEP (Hellenic Foun - Washington on June 17 and 18, dation for European and Foreign followed by a series of activities Policy. Here the students were and briefings in Cyprus (June 1. There was time for more casual mixing too, and here they briefed by noted Greek foreign 19-24) and Athens (June 25 - got the best view in the city, the Acropolis, from the rooftop of policy expert, Professor July 2.) The program is open to the New Acropolis Museum, thanks to Tourism Minister Pavlos Theodore Couloumbis, Director Greek American and Cypriot Geroulanos (C) and the museum’s director, Professor Dimitrios General of ELIAMEP and Am - American college students in Pandermalis, next to him. 2. The Greek American college stu - bassador Alexandros Mallias, good academic standing who dents on the AHI Foundation trip got a tour of the Greek Par - former Greek Ambassador to the are studying political science, liament. (L-R) Alphonso Romero, Roula Adonakis, Ellen Yous - U.S., to discuss Greek foreign international relations, history, sios, Georgea Polizos, a guide, Leah Barkoukis, John policy. The group later visited law or foreign affairs. Papaspanos, and Michael Savvas. 3. At the ancient site of Kou - the new Acropolis Museum Besides Papaspanos, the rion in Cyprus. were they were given a private other students selected to par - tour that also included the mu - ticipate were: Arviri (Roula) on June 20. On the first full day During the remaining part of the seum’s president, Professor Adonakis, University of Michi - of meetings on June 21, the stu - day, the students took a trip to Emeritus Dimitrios Pandermalis. gan; Leah Barkoukis, George - dents began the day with a the Turkish occupied area where A working luncheon was also town University; Georgea Poli - meeting with Yiorgos they viewed first-hand Turkish hosted at the museum restau - zos, Florida State University; Christofides, director, Office of troops, destroyed and dese - rant by Panos Geroulanos, min - Alfonso Romero, University of the Permanent Secretary of the crated churches and cemeteries. ister of Culture and Tourism. Cincinnati; Michael Savvas, San Ministry of Foreign Affairs, fol - The visit culminated with a stop 3 The day concluded with a visit Diego State and Ellen Youssios, lowed by a guided tour of in the ghost town of Famagusta. the Archbishop of Athens and Queens College, QUNY. AHI Ex - Nicosia. After lunch, which was On June 23, the day began All Greece, His Beatitude Arch - ecutive Director Nick Larigakis hosted by the Ministry of For - with a visit to the UN Commit - and continued occupation of the anos Constantinou, who spent bishop Hieronymos II. and AHI Director of Govern - eign Affairs at the Ministry, the tee on the Missing Persons in area. many years in building up this LOTS OF BRIEFINGS ment Affairs and Media Rela - students visited the U.S. Em - Cyprus, which is located inside On June 24, a morning meet - beautiful center nestled within On July 1, the students vis - tions C. Franciscos Economides bassy in Nicosia where they met the UN buffer zone. After, the ing took place with Alexis a natural setting. Constantinou ited the Greek Ministry of De - led the group on its trip. with U.S. Ambassador to Cyprus students visited the House of Galanos, Mayor of Famagusta, led the students on a personal fense where informative and de - “I was honored to have had Frank C. Urbancic, Jr and his Representatives to meet with followed by a briefing at the tour of the expansive grounds tailed briefings were provided this wonderful opportunity to, staff, a total of 11 persons. On Averof Neofytou, Chairman, Colocassides guard post in and center, and afterwards, by multiple officials, including: once again, lead such an excep - June 22, the students had meet - House Standing Committee on Nicosia and a visit inside the hosted a splendid barbecue din - Ambassador Dimitris tional group of Greek American ings with Marios Garoyian, Pres - Foreign Affairs. Later, long-time United Nations controlled buffer ner. The students enjoyed a pri - Chronopoulos, director general students to Greece and Cyprus ident of the House of Represen - supporter and friend of AHI, zone where they visited the old vate cruise to Aegina Island as of Defense Policy & IR; Hellenic for a hands-on experience and tatives, and Archbishop Efthyvoulos Paraskevaides, Nicosia airport, an area that re - a way to relax midway through National Defense General Staff introduce them to the foreign Chrysostomos II, followed by a Chairman and CEO, J&P Ltd., mains mostly unchanged since the program on June 27. Col. Dimokritos Zervakis, De - policy issues concerning the U.S. guided tour of the Byzantine welcomed the students to his of - Turkish military forces invaded fense Policy Division; and Hel - relations with Greece and Museum. The day continued fice. Afterwards the students Cyprus in 1974. The students resumed a busy lenic Army General Staff Brig. Cyprus,” said Larigakis regard - with a visit to the Presidential took a guided tour of the Fama - IN GREECE schedule on June 28 with meet - Gen. Alkiviadis Stefanis, director ing the successful outcome of Palace for a meeting with Presi - gusta free area where they saw Deputy Minister of Foreign ings with Spiridon Adonis Geor - of Defense Planning & Program - the second annual student for - dential Commissioner George two video presentations at the Affairs Spyros Kouvelis hosted a giadis, member of the Perma - ming Division. eign policy trip. “The AHIF looks Iacovou, and a working lunch Cultural Centre of Occupied welcome dinner for the students nent Committee for Hellenism The final afternoon in Athens forward to continuing to offer hosted by Senior Press & Infor - Ammachostos (Famagusta) re - upon their arrival to Athens on and Greek Diaspora, Andy presented the students with this program as long as there is mation Officer Miltos Miltiadou. garding the Turkish invasion June 24. The first full day of Dabilis, Executive Editor of The unique experiences that were continued interest and support. briefings for the students oc - National Herald and briefings at highlights of their trip. First, And I feel certain there will be curred June 25 when the group the Foreign Ministry from the the students were received by both,” he said. met with various departments A7 Depratment for North Amer - President of the Hellenic Repub - The program began June 17, at Greece’s Ministry of Foreign ica: Ambassador Chryssoula Al - lic Karolos Papoulias. During the 2010 at AHI in Washington, D.C. Affairs. With the A2 Depart - iferi, and Counselors Nikos meeting, the President under - with a briefing from AHI Board ment for Cyprus the students Kotrokois and Maria Zissi. They scored the importance of pro - of Director and Legal Counsel, met its Director, Ambassador also met with Marios L. Evrivi - grams that afford students the Nick Karambelas and Larigakis. Dimitris Yannakakis; with the ades, assistant professor of In - opportunity to visit Greece in Following the briefings, the stu - A3 Department for Southeast ternational Relations, Panteion order to gain a better under - dents visited the Cato Institute European Countries, the group University, Athens. In the standing of multi-faceted issues. for a meeting with Dr. Ted Galen met with Counselors Franciscos evening, the group was led on a Following the visit to the Presi - Carpenter, Vice President, De - Kostellenos, Despina Kouk - tour and briefing at the very im - dential Mansion, the students fense and Foreign Policy Stud - oulopoulou, and Olga Anagnos - pressive headquarters complex were presented with a special ies. On June 18, the AHIF topoulou; and with the A4 De - of one of Greece’s leading pri - opportunity that few are af - hosted a working breakfast ses - partment for Turkey, the vate companies, S&B. The tour forded when they went to the sion at the Capital Hilton with students met with Counselor and briefing were led by long- Hellenic Army Special Forces State Department officials, Periklis Boutos and First Secre - time AHI member and sup - Training Center for briefings which included Senior Greece tary Lili Grammatika. In addi - porter, and S& B’s Chief Execu - and demonstrations by the Z’ - Desk Officer Adam Scarlatelli, tion, the students received a for - tive Officer, Efthimios Vidalis, MAK Unit of the Special Forces. Cyprus Desk Officer Terry Netos, eign policy briefing at the who hosted a dinner for them. While at the camp, the students Public Diplomacy Officer for American Embassy in Athens. On June 29, a luncheon saw demonstrations that in - Southern Europe and Caucasus On June 26, the students vis - briefing was hosted by Lockheed cluded urban assault tactics, Ruth Ann Stevens-Klitz, and Of - ited The Center for Hellenism Martin at the Grande Bretagne field maneuvers and a number fice of Southern European Af - at the Damianos Foundation at Hotel. Hosting the event was of amphibious assault exer - fairs Intern Melanie Ciolek. Not forgetting that defense is a big part of Greece’s budget Schinos Loutraki, Corinthos. Dennys Plessas, Vice President, cises—all with live ammo. After the breakfast the stu - and security, the students had a unique visit to Hellenic Army This excursion was hosted by Business Development Initia - After the demonstrations, the dents visited the Embassy of Special Forces Training Center Z'MAK Unit. long-time AHIF member, Dami - tives for Europe, Middle East unit’s top military brass hosted Cyprus for a briefing from the a luncheon for the group. The Ambassador of Cyprus to the two-week trip ended with a United States, Andreas Kak - “The AHIF foreign policy trip was a once-in-lifetime experi - “I can safely say that the Foreign Policy Trip to Greece and farewell dinner hosted by the ouris. Briefings at the Embassy ence that I will never forget. It allowed me to see firsthand what Cyprus was one of the most incredible experiences I’ve ever had. AHI Foundation at the Grande of Greece followed and were I have read in books thereby enhancing my understanding of the The organization of the trip and quality of the access we had Bretagne Hotel. provided by the Deputy Chief of issues. In Cyprus we were able to go to the ‘occupied area’ and was unparalleled … I came out of this trip with a deep-felt sense The dinner was attended by Mission Ioannis Vrailas, Consul see the desecration of a Greek Orthodox Church and the ghost that I have a place in the debate and that I can make an impact numerous individuals that the Constantinos G. Alexandris and town of Famagusta, which is still surrounded by barbwire. on Greek-American issues. I know that as a result of these two group met with during its stay Press Attaché Aristotelis Papa - • Aryiri (Roula) Adonakis weeks, I will carry a strong commitment to working towards in Athens, including: Konstan - georgiou. Later that afternoon Greek and Cypriot issues for the rest of my life. tinos Vrettos, chairman of the the students departed for “AHIF's foreign policy study trip enhanced not only my un - • Georgea Polizos Parliament’s International Rela - Cyprus. derstanding of global politics but also contextualized some of tions & Defense Committee; SEEING CYPRUS the most fundamental issues relevant to the field and study of “The study trip made me a better-informed Greek American Ambassador Chryssoula Aliferi, After their arrival in Cyprus, conflict resolution. The ability to travel to the occupied area in and has put in a position where I can make a difference and ad - director, A7 Department for the students went on a guided Cyprus demonstrated first hand the nature of enduring conflicts vocate for Greek and Cypriot issues in America.” North America, Ministry of For - day trip to the ancient site of and will enrich my studies in my final year of graduate school. • Michael Savvas eign Affairs; Dabilis, and George Kourion and archaeological ex - • Leah Barkoukis Economou, AHI-Athens chapter cavations at Paphos in Cyprus president. A Call to Action Could Bring Back Some of Greece’s Old Glory Days

By John Papaspanos members of academia. Essen - THE PUBLIC SERVICE LIFE Even more difficult and to the current diplomatic rift be - tially, this educational experi - Public diplomacy is very im - time-intensive than public diplo - tween Turkey on the one side My confidence in the future ence enriched our understand - portant in the policy-planning macy is the challenge of engag - and the U.S. and Israel on the of Greece is anchored in her ing of the ethnika themata by process and for shaping public ing in advocacy. It involves the other, we have a golden oppor - track record of overcoming ad - enabling us to gather informa - opinion. It involves the use of mobilization of citizens to par - tunity to gain traction on some versity. In the spirit of the tion from direct and expert information to inform others ticipate in the democratic issues. For example, Chairman 2500th anniversary of the Battle sources. And now that we have about the complex issues re - process. Ideally, I believe the Berman of the House Foreign of Marathon, we can draw in - returned to the U.S. and our garding Greece and Cyprus. It Greek government should invest Affairs Committee recently over - spiration from the courage and daily routines, we are equipped can take place in the office, at a in Washington, D.C. lobbyists saw a hearing about the deteri - self-sacrifice of Stylianos Kyri - with the knowledge and the net - restaurant, or in the university and provide funding for think orating US-Turkish relationship. akides, the 1946 winner of the work base to make a contribu - lecture hall. We can also use tanks. If U.S. policymakers are In his fourth point, Rep. Berman Boston Marathon, and his effort tion in accordance with the mis - social networking sites like Face - more aware of the strong strate - states: “It’s time for Turkey to to save his country. “It may be sion of the AHIF and the best book as a platform to organize gic relationship between the draw down its absurdly high the worst of times; but it may interests of the U.S., which is to the Greek and Cypriot grass - U.S. and Greece, then perhaps troop level in northern Cyprus. become the best of times.” With uphold the rule of law in U.S. roots network. Recently, a suc - Greece can assume a stronger And Turkey should cease set - this premise, seven Greek Amer - foreign policy, particularly in cessful online campaign caused geopolitical role and receive tling Turkish citizens in northern icans, including myself, re - matters regarding Greece, pop star Jennifer Lopez to can - more favorable treatment by the Cyprus.” Now that the window turned to the U.S. after partici - Cyprus, and Turkey. cel a planned concert in the U.S. For example, we learned of opportunity has widened, it pating in the second annual As Greek and Cypriot Amer - Turkish-occupied territory of during the AHIF trip that a high- is time for the youth to get in - Foreign Policy Trip to Greece icans, I believe it is our duty to Cyprus. During the program, I ranking U.S. official assigned to volved and to learn how to un - and Cyprus, which was spon - transmit a better community for wondered if anything can be defense issues was unaware of dertake political action. sored by the American Hellenic the next generation of U.S. citi - done to help Greece in her in - the importance of the U.S. naval Institute Foundation (AHIF) and zens and all members of the Ho - ternal affairs. I realized that the facilities at Souda Bay, on the John Papaspanos earned his led by its Executive Director, Mr. mogeneia by strengthening re - many political, economic, and John Papaspanos island of Crete. Such informa - bachelor’s degree summa cum Nick Larigakis. During the rig - lations between the U.S. and social problems that were major tion, along with other salient laude from Seton Hall orous two-week program, we Greece and Cyprus as being in factors resulting in the debt cri - as the ‘Worst of Times,’ but these facts provided to us by the University in International Re - were granted an invaluable op - the best interests of the U.S. By sis can only be addressed by the dark days may have ushered in Greek Ministry of Defense, lation in 2010. He is currently portunity to learn about the im - reading the materials provided Greek people. When we were in a new era for Greece. The po - should be relayed to both the conducting research on energy portant foreign policy and de - by the AHIF, namely the essays Athens weeks after the tragic tential for a new, modernized White House and Capitol Hill by issues with a Fulbright Scholar - fense issues concerning the U.S., by leaders like AHI President Marfin Bank incident, when Greece is increasing as Prime the Greek Government. I believe ship at the Aristotle University Greece, and Cyprus through a Eugene Rossides, we learned President Papoulias stated that Minister Papandreou, a Greek the best course of action is for of Thessaloniki, Greece and he series of briefings by Greek and about the importance of con - Greece has reached the “edge of American, is executing transfor - the Greek and Cypriot youth to will be returning to the U.S. to Cypriot policymakers, diplo - ducting effective public diplo - the abyss,” I wrote the following mative policies. I hope his am - become politically active. One study law at the University of mats, parliament members, re - macy to educate others, and the prediction in my notebook: “In bitious agenda will achieve its way is to develop advocacy skills Pennsylvania Law School, Class ligious leaders, think-tank orga - corollary task of engaging in ad - the coming years, observers may objectives, including the recent by interning or working for or - of 2014. He can be contacted at nizations, businessmen and vocacy. remember these recent months smoking ban in public places. ganizations like the AHIF. Due [email protected]. THE NATIONAL HERALD, SEPTEMBER 25-OCTOBER 1, 2010 FEATURE 7 A Brief History of Greek Migration and Settlement to Australia

By Stavros T. Stavridis return to Greece. Many jumped volved in charitable works such Hellenic Herald) of Sydney was problem of non-recognition of las 3 XY which also publishes the ship in Melbourne and Sydney as raising monies for an earth - labeled a community newspaper their credentials and weren’t able weekly newspaper Ta Nea. Com - The migration and settlement and proceeded to the gold fields. quake appeal and local hospitals and was not considered friendly to work in their chosen occupa - munity TV station Channel 31 has of Greeks to Australia can be di - In the early 1850’s, Nicholas and providing some assistance to towards the clergy. Furthermore tion. Many of them were forced a number of Greek programs that vided into three periods: 1829- Emellen, Andreas Lecatsas, Geor - the needy Greek unemployed. it urged the creation of a Federa - to find employment as laborers. are shown over the course of the 1890, 1890-1950 and 1950- gios Doikos, Nicholas and Spiro Other Greek communities were tion of Greek communities aiming During the entire post-war period week. Soccer receives attention 1972.The first arrivals were Lambert, Mihalis Manousou and established in Perth (West Aus - to curb the authority of the five commercial newspapers were on Channel 31with Victorian pre - convicts and adventurers whereas Konstantinos Argyropoulos and tralia,) Adelaide and Port Pirie Church. On the other hand, the in circulation in Melbourne and mier league soccer games shown by the 1890s a small permanent many other Greek sailors ran off (South Australia,) Darwin (North - Ethnikon Vima adopted a conser - Sydney. The ecclesiastical issue on Wednesday nights and South community began to emerge in to the gold fields in search of ad - ern Territory,) Hobart (Tasmania,) vative policy and supported the dominated the pages of these Melbourne Football Club TV the Australian Colonies. It wasn’t venture and to seek their for - and Brisbane, Innisfail and Metropolitan and later on the newspapers till the end of the show (aka Hellas) on Saturday until the post-1950 period that tunes. The majority of these Townsville Queensland). Archdiocese. It should be noted 1970s. The Archdiocese sought morning. Greeks arrived in large numbers Greeks were not successful in Education and newspapers that the two Greek –Australian align itself with one of three In 1959 the so-called after - in search of a better life and eco - their gold seeking ventures. These play an important role in the newspapers of Sydney reflected newspapers, Pyrsos, Phos or Neos noon Greek schools were ailing nomic opportunities after the tur - early Greek adventurers came preservation and maintenance of the divisions that existed in the Kosmos. All these Greek-Aus - with only a small number oper - moil of World War 2 and the Civil from every corner of the Hellenic an ethnic identity. The Sydney Greek community of Sydney. Phos tralian publications sought to ating. The organization of these War to Australia. world, including Kythera, Ithaca, and Melbourne Greek communi - was founded in Melbourne in keep the Greek migrant informed schools was very poor and oper - CONVICTS AND Limnos, Tenedos, Lesvos, Samos, ties established schools in their 1936 and was very active in the on local community news, sports, ated outside normal school hours. ADVENTURERS: 1829-1890 Rhodes, Corfu, Zakynthos, early years. In Melbourne a Greek community. It was noted Australian politics and Greek po - Many Greek parents were indif - During the Greek War of In - Smyrna, Constantinople, Kefalo - school operated as early as 1898, for its very strong anti-communist litical developments in the Greek ferent to their children’s Greek dependence, the British brig Al - nia and Skopelos. however, it did not achieve any stance and supported the Greek language. Neos Kosmos’ success school education due to long ceste, sailing from Malta to LAYING THE FOUNDATIONS: sense of permanency as a school dictator, Ioannis Metaxas. There can be attributed in maintaining working hours. The oral and lit - Alexandria laden with cargo was 1890-1950 until the 1950’s which coincided were other Greek-Australian its circulation and attracting ad - eracy level of students was very intercepted and boarded by the During the 1890’s the Greeks with the period of mass migration newspapers who due to their vertising revenue. It also has divergent which faced the indi - crew of the Greek vessel Heraklis. of Melbourne and Sydney estab - small circulation numbers and adapted to the realities of the vidual teacher. It must be noted The Greeks pillaged and removed lished their first communities in These early Greeks were limited economic resources did marketplace with its declining that some of these so-called much of the cargo and then al - 1897 and 1898. In Melbourne, not survive for very long. Greek language readership over teachers did not possess any for - lowed the Alceste to continue its Alexander Maniakis, Antonios adventurers who had no 3. FROM IMMIGRANTS TO past 15 years by enclosing an mal teaching qualifications either journey onto Alexandria. A few Lecatsas and Grigorios Matorikos intention of settling in CITIZENS: 1950- 1972 English language supplement for in Greece or Australia. Therefore days later, the Heraklis was inter - founded the Greek Orthodox Australia who wanted to After 1945 the Australian Gov - its Australian-born Greek readers. Greek students were possibly be - cepted by the British ship HMS Community of Melbourne ernment embarked on its largest Unfortunately, Phos and Pyrsos ing taught incorrectly which did Gannet off the coast of Crete and (GOCM) and purchased land for make their fortune and immigration program. The Aus - experienced financial difficulties, not assist their Greek language boarded by the captain to make the building of Evangelismos (An - return to Greece. tralian Government signed a declining readership, inability to education. It was in the 1970’s an examination of its cargo. The nunciation) Church in 1902. It number of migration agreements attract advertising revenue and under the Whitlam and Fraser captain ordered the Greeks to be was the only Greek organization to Australia. Anastasios Tamis with Italy, Malta and Greece as a consequence, became bank - Governments’ that ethnic studies taken to Malta. Andonis Manolis, in Melbourne during these early noted: “The generosity of the re - (1952) where migrants were to rupt. were encouraged in line with the Damianos Ninis, Ghikas Boul - years that met the cultural and gional organizations, the good- be given assisted passages under From the mid-1950’s to the official policy of multiculturalism. garis, Georgios Vasilakis, Konstan - religious needs of the community. heartedness of individuals, par - the Inter-Government Committee mid-1960’s, limited Greek lan - Modern Greek studies including tinos Stroumboulis, Nikolaos Pa - Later on, the Ithacans established ticularly businessmen, the for European Migration (I.C.E.M) guage broadcasts could be heard language spread to all education pandreou, Georgios Laritsos, the Association of Odysseus and conscientiousness of teaching scheme. From 1947-52, migrants on radio station 3AK (Melbourne) levels in Australia. In the Saturday Lalekhos and Bouff were held in the Pan Hellenic Association of staff and the anxiety of the par - were sponsored by family mem - and Nick Anton’s program in Co - morning schools teachers are re - prison and later charged with Orpheus by the Samians. In Syd - ents saved the school from per - bers in Australia. Under the lac (country Victoria.) These were quired to hold the requisite teach - piracy. The Greeks were trans - ney, the Greek and Syrian mi - manent closure.” The operation I.C.E.M program, approximately small steps in Greek language ing qualifications in order to teach ported on a convict ship for New grants met in 1896 and the first of two schools reflected the dis - 270,000 Greeks arrived from broadcasting prior to the advent Greek language and culture. As South Wales (NSW) arriving at church Holy Trinity was com - putes and schism that existed in Greece, Egypt, Romania, Turkey, of Special Broadcasting Service teaching qualifications and stan - Port Jackson on August 27, 1829. pleted in 1898 due to the gener - the Greek Community of Sydney. Middle East and Cyprus to Aus - created in 1975. SBS Radio (2EA dards rose from the late 1970’s After their arrival in Sydney, they ous contributions of the Greeks Parents faced the problem of sup - tralia during the period 1954-74. Sydney and 3EA Melbourne) in - onwards, the number of Aus - convicts were assigned by Colo - who originated from the island porting one of the factions in their Many post-1950 Greek migrants troduced and later SBS TV by the tralian students of Greek origin nial officials to work in Sydney of Kythera. Between 1924-1945, community. The Greek Orthodox settled in the major capital cities Whitlam and Fraser Governments studying the Greek language at and surrounding districts. Spyri - Sydney was the center of Greek Church was actively involved in of Australia, especially with Mel - in the mid to late 1970’s allowed primary, secondary and tertiary don Tricoupis, who became the activity in Australia. It had two the teaching of the Greek lan - bourne and Sydney absorbing the Greek migrants and other ethnic level steadily increased over the first appointed Greek Minister to rival newspapers, a division ex - guage to young Greek-Australian vast majority of them. They groups to hear radio programs in next 20 years. This is attributed the Court of St James, interceded isted between the laity and children. It should be noted that tended to live in the inner suburbs their own languages. This was to the baby boomers who mi - on behalf of the convicts, who church and this community po - Greeks of Perth were untouched of Melbourne and Sydney where part of the Australian govern - grated to Australia in the 1950’s were pardoned and allowed to larization was reflected with two by the schism in the eastern employment, cheap housing, ments commitment towards a and 1960’s whose children at - return to Greece. Five, Ninis, Vasi - rival churches. These community states. shopping centers, markets, multicultural and pluralistic soci - tended Greek school. There is lakis, Papandreou, Stroumboulis divisions made it extremely diffi - Newspapers also played an churches, sporting clubs and com - ety. SBS-TV shows foreign movies now a slow but marked decline and Laritsos returned to Greece, cult to solve the problems that important part in helping the munity organizations were lo - in foreign languages displaying in Greek studies across the edu - but Boulgaris and Manolis stayed bedeviled the Greek Community early Greeks to maintain their cated. The Greeks came usually an English sub-text at the bottom cation spectrum, with third gen - behind. of Sydney. ethnicity. The first Greek news - from rural areas of Greece with of the television screen. As a eration Greek-Australians not tak - The next wave of Greeks ar - In Victoria, the GOCM was pe - paper Australia was founded in very few skills and low educa - broadcaster, SBS has exposed An - ing up Greek language studies rived in Australia during the gold ripheral due to the Greek Church Melbourne in 1912 and pur - tional attainment. glo-Australians to overseas pro - like their parents. The Greek-Aus - rushes of the 1850s and 1860’s. and Greek Consulate General chased by the Marinakis brothers In Australia, they were em - grams that otherwise would nor - tralian community faces some in - These early Greeks were adven - having its center in Sydney. The in 1923, who relocated it to Syd - ployed as unskilled and semi- mally not be screened on teresting challenges over the com - turers who had no intention of GOCM saw a decline in migrant ney. It later changed its name to skilled laborers in factories. Those commercial television. The only ing years of maintaining and settling in Australia who simply participation during the years Ethnikon Vima (National Tri - with professional and trade qual - private Greek private radio oper - preserving its identity down un - wanted to make their fortune and 1924-35. However it was in - bune.) Panellinios Keryx (Pan ifications from Greece faced the ating in Melbourne is Radio Hel - der.

LIVING HISTORY Kotsonaros: Champion of the Mat and Movies, Showed His Moves

Continued from page 1 match with William Demetral thing. In that way the local boys “staged a mock fight … for the for the Greek heavyweight go out to win and assures the press at the train station” in At - outdone, Kotsonaros in his years wrestling championship at the public that they are going to get lanta Georgia. Kotsonaros and in North America often bragged Haymarket Theater. The injury a run for their money. Many men Dempsey were old friends and to the reporters (who always occurred on a back roll after one go on with the champion and Kotsonaros had trained with flocked around him) that he hour and fifty minutes of stay the short matches. The Dempsey before Dempsey’s big played a Gorilla in a film without wrestling,” the Chicago Tribune crowds of ladies, gentlemen and fights with Tommy Gibbons and any make-up. reported on March 15, 1917. Re - children that pack the show the first bout with Gene Tunney. OLYMPIC CHAMPION ports of other injuries abound. speaks for itself, as to its popu - Seventeen days after his mock Published accounts report A CASH SPORT larity, the Pueblo Chieftain wrote fight for the public press, Kot - that Kotsonaros won six medals Where American professional on June 19, 1919. What the sonaros was dead on a back road at the Olympic Games at Athens wrestlers first competed is espe - newspapers do not report are in rural Alabama. Still the por - in 1908 and placed fourth in the cially interesting since it shows the various side-bets made dur - trait of Kotsonaros is flawed. marathon race. I have only been the stages through which the ing the majority of these Kotsonaros’ ringside and carni - able to trace three of these sport progressed as an evolving matches. val fans all knew him, or of him, medals: Kotsonaros won the form of entertainment. Common Kotsonaros was a recognized as the half-man half-gorilla of world’s amateur title in the light - venues for wrestling from 1865 showman. His flamboyant the 1927 film sensation The weight wrestling at 125 pounds, to 1895 and for some time after speeches were legendary as Wizard or one of his many dark first place in the Greek-style of were opera houses, theaters (in - were his ringside challenges to gangster roles in silent films. the discus throw, and second clusive of vaudeville theaters,) those who would not meet him Kotsonaros’ career as a profes - place in the javelin throw. This gymnasiums and traveling car - inside the ring. Gardini once sional can not be fully under - may only be a typographical er - nivals. In the earliest days of said, “If he could wrestle as good stood until we know more about ror but the 2nd International American wrestling matches as he could talk he would be his considerable Hollywood ca - Olympic Games in Athens took George Kotsonaros (on the left) versus Tom Lurich, in Mel - were both events one could champion of the world.” On reer. (Part One of a two-part se - place in 1906 not 1908. Kot - bourne Australia, circa.1930. Kotsonaros traveled the world in watch and one that you could June 26, 1933, Kotsonaros and ries) sonaros also reported that in search of a good grappling match and would take on all comers, participate in as a wrestler. As boxing’s World Heavyweight 1909, he went to Cairo and won including ringside hecklers who thought they could take him. simply a watched contest one Champion Jack Dempsey [email protected] the Old National middleweight professional would meet another wrestling championship. Clearly this mandatory aspect of the av - Burns (a/k/a Farmer Burns,) for a fixed sum of money, a side a person who never let any grass erage wrestler’s life was time for Earl Caddock, Jimmie Corrigan bet that the winner would re - grow under his feet, Kotsonaros rigorous daily training, a special (the Masked Marvel,) William ceive, and/or a percentage of the often claimed he was in the eating regimen, business man - (the Greek Demon) Demetral, money collected by the pro - United States competing as a agement such as signing con - Renato Gardini, John Kilonis, Ed moter. Amateur wrestlers seek - George Delis, LLC professional wrestler in 1909 not tracts for matches, speaking with (Strangler) Lewis, Jim Londos, ing a match with a professional long after his triumph in Egypt, reporters, sending in letters to Nick Lunze, Gus Sonnenberg, usually took place in local gym - although a fundamental element the local press, all this and other and Stanislaus Zbyszko, all one- nasiums and sports clubs. But Consultant, Public Relations of professional wrestling in the dreary but required tasks left lit - time heavyweight champions. another venue soon came to pro - Land Use U.S. is hokum, but Kotsonaros tle time for a personal life. Kotsonaros never gave up his vide the willing amateur with a was very much a part of the American wrestling as a profes - dream of one day being the chance to test himself against Greek-American community all sional sport did not begin until Heavyweight Champion of the trained professional. Carni - across the nation. Certainly if he after 1865. The gradual appear - North America and sought a val or sideshow wrestling, an of - persistently made claims about ance of a professional class of match against every heavy - ten overlooked aspect of profes - his professional awards, surely wrestlers, while not difficult to weight champion of his genera - sional wrestling in North 1-917-696-0975 some Greek would have let the chart, is made difficult to judge tion. A challenge from Kot - America, eventually took the American press know. It must be not simply by the lack of reliable sonaros was not to be taken form of a professional well- stressed that finding reliable documentation on wrestling ti - lightly. known wrestler taking on all documents on the history and tles but the appearance of re - As was frequently reported, comers, most often local ama - sequence of wrestling titles in gional championship titles and “Kotsonaros is especially adept teur wrestlers, for “short period the U.S. is also difficult, espe - even titles by race. For example, in the defensive art of wrestling, wrestling matches of ten min - cially to positively locate espe - William Demetral initially was and when placed in a dangerous utes and up. In order to secure cially with the early divisions be - the “Greek” wrestling heavy - position by an opponent can opponents for the champion the tween regional, national and weight champion and matches cover up and protect himself management is making special international wrestling titles. were often advertised as Greece against the headlocks and scis - inducements to anyone who will Published accounts do exist stat - against Canada or Greece versus sors holds which are usually the go with him of $1.00 a minute,” ing that in 1921, Kotsonaros Poland and so on. beginning of the disfigured ears the Pueblo Chieftain reported on wrestled and defeated Cliff Matches would go two to five an face. The Grecian grappler’s June 14, 1919. Binckley for Ohio’s heavyweight hours often involving three method has taken the fans all In 1918, Kotsonaros wrestled www.GreekKitchennyc.com wrestling and that Kotsonaros matches with the best two out over the country by storm. He is in this manner for the Parker’s also held the wrestling cham - of three being winner, taking a a clean-cut wrestler, and proba - Greatest Show Then, and in pion of Georgia from 1926 to percentage of the house and side bly one of the brainiest men on 1919 he returned to the circus 1928 bets. “In that grandiloquent, dra - the mat today. His countrymen circuit again with the Russell THE WRESTLER’S LIFE matic style for which the Greek declare him equal to, if not bet - Brothers Show. As was generally Professional wrestling has al - is famous, Kotsonaros, with ter than, the famous Jimmy Lon - reported about Kotsonaros in his ways involved far more than many gestures, announced that dos. In fact, the Greeks have ex - role as the carnival champion he merely the contest between two after the Carr bout he would be pressed their opinions to the was “a good, clean wrestler and men. Even in the days when glad to pay to meet Hull for writer state that they consider plays the game in a fair way, wrestling matches would go on “$1.00, $5.00, $500, or $5,000, Kotsonaros equally as good a never resorting to any foul or from one hour to five hours, the the Aberdeen Daily News re - wrestler at the present time, underhand methods in trying to daily life of the professional ported on March 18, 1915. By with far greater possibilities than beat his man. He will take on wrestler was never considered 1916, Kotsonaros claimed to Londos will ever possess,” the anyone, regardless of size, by the public or the press. Most have wrestled 216 matches in Salt Lake Tribune reported on weight or reputation. What essential in this round of daily the United States and won 95% Jan. 1, 1927. Yet even Kot - makes the matches so interest - events was travel. The wrestlers of them. But who did Kotsonaros sonaros suffered injuries. ing is the fact that the (profes - were invariably on a circuit trav - wrestle? Among his most no - “George Kotsonaros incurred a sional) wrestler must stick the eling from town to town. Add to table opponents were Martin J. broken right collar bone in his full time or he does not get any - 8 OBITUARIES CLASSIFIEDS THE NATIONAL HERALD, SEPTEMBER 25-OCTOBER 1, 2010

DEATHS n BAHAVIOLOS, PETER Diamondopoulos, Katy Grea - tanis; his sisters, Antonia neral services were held at St. thing that she cherished. Marie in Greece on November 28, TORONTO, CANADA – The nias, Froso Antoniou and Geor - (Kostas), Theodora (Tassos), Barbara Greek Orthodox had a great sense of humor, was 1980. He was a member of a Toronto Star reported that Peter gia Diamondopoulos; sister-in- Maria (Nikos), Dina (Athana - Church. He is survived by his very caring and was also very seminar at Columbia University Bahaviolos, 54, passed away law of Kally Darras, Rena Darras sios) and Triantaffili (George); daughter, Tiffany A.; his brother, honest and direct with people. and a valued member of the peacefully with his family by his and Mary Ellen Brault; God - his niece, Dimitra (Panagiotis); George N.; and his mother, Ar - She was an animal lover and community. Stefanos came to side at Mt. Sinai Hospital on mother of John Kotsonis; aunt his brothers-in-law, Dean De - gyri Nikias. volunteered at the Franklin New York City from Greece in September 13. He was prede - and great-aunt of many. Visita - mopoulos and Chris (Rosa) De - County Animal Shelter. She also 2005 to study at the Department ceased by his father, Gus. He is tion was at Smith-Corcoran Fu - mopoulos; his sister-in-law, Dina n PARASHIS, PETER was currently employed with Al - of English and Comparative Lit - survived by his beloved mother, neral Home and the funeral was Kinney; his Godson, Grover Kin - SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. – The liance Data Systems. She en - erature at Columbia. Soon after Chrisoula; his brother, Chris held September 23 at SS. Peter ney; his nephew, George Kin - San Francisco Chronicle re - joyed watching any sporting graduation, he was awarded a (Roula); his nieces, Chryssa and & Paul Church. Memorial dona - ney; and his niece and God - ported that Peter George event, especially the Pittsburgh scholarship to join the Ph.D pro - Deena; and many aunts, uncles, tions to Greek American Reha - daughter, Christina Kinney. Parashis, 95, passed away Steelers, enjoyed traveling, par - gram in Performance Studies at cousins and many friends. Visi - bilitation & Care Centre, 220 N. Visitation, a Trisagion prayer peacefully on September 11. He ticularly her trip to Greece, as NYU, where he thrived and tation was held at the Turner & First St. Wheeling, IL 60090. service and funeral services was loved by many late and sur - well as gardening and the occa - found the ideal home for his var - Porter Yorke Chapel. Funeral were all held at the St. John viving family members and sional family poker game. She ied creative talents. He also services were held at the An - n FABRICATORE, EUGENIA Greek Orthodox Church. friends. Peter was born in San is survived by her partner, Lee found Nicole, his soul mate. nunciation of the Virgin Mary STAMFORD, Conn. – The Stam - Francisco to the late George and Ann Vogelsberger; her mother, Since 2007, he led conversation Greek Orthodox Cathedral. If ford Advocate reported that Eu - n LEWNES, GEORGE Constantina Parashis. He is sur - Peggy Touris; her siblings, Re - classes at the Program in Hel - desired, donations to the Cana - genia Fabricatore, 71, passed ANNAPOLIS, MD - The Capital vived by his loving daughter, nee Sudimack, John (Joyce), lenic Studies at Columbia and he dian Cancer Society or a charity away peacefully with her family reported that Judge George Pe - Joyce (Tom) Triantos; his ador - Jaimee, and Mark (Kyla) Touris; quickly established a lively and of your choice would be appre - by her side on September 12 in ter Lewnes, 86, passed away ing sister, Martha Capinaris; his eight nieces and nephews; and warm rapport with his students. ciated. her home. She was born on peacefully on September 12. grandchildren, Bill (Elisia) many other extended family He was to accept full teaching April 23, 1939 in Athens, Judge Lewnes was born on No - Triantos, Marie (John) Campo, members and dear friends. Fu - responsibility for Columbia’s be - n BOBOKIS, DONNA Greece. Eugenia is survived by vember 21, 1923 in Brooklyn, Peter (Tammy) Parashis, neral services were held at the ginners’ class in Modern Greek FALL RIVER, Mass. - The Herald her husband of 50 years, Egidio New York to the late Peter and Michael (Stacey) Triantos, An - Annunciation Greek Orthodox Language and Culture. Stefanos news reported that Donna R. A. Fabricatore; her sons, Angelo Pauline Karambelas Lewnes. Mr. gela Triantos and Suzanne Cathedral with Father Michael was vital to this community in Bobokis, 64, passed away on P. and Gary M. Fabricatore; her Lewnes served in the United Parashis; his adoring great- Kontos officiating. Visitation all senses of the word. He was a September 10 at Provena St. sisters, Sophie Mace, Mary States Army in 1942 and partic - grandchildren, Justin, Jessica, and a Trisagion prayer service mercurial guitarist, photogra - Joseph Medical Center with her Kakunes and Niki Karagiannis; ipated in the European Cam - Thomas, Matthew, Zoe and were held at Schoedinger East pher, avant-gardist, writer and loving family by her side. She her brother, Dimitri Karagiannis; paign with the 3rd Cavalry Re - Alyssa Triantos and Ava, Julia, Chapel. Contributions may be poet. A number of his closest was a member of all Saint's and several nieces and nephews. connaissance Squadron under and Ella Parashis and Andreas made to the Franklin County friends and collaborators com - Greek Orthodox Church of She was predeceased by her General George Patton. He was Rabbitt; his Godchildren, Gail Animal Shelter. To share mem - memorated his life and times at Joliet. Donna loved to paint parents, Pangiotis and Tasia honorably discharged in 1945. (Michael) Kelechava, Tony ories or condolences, please visit a memorial that took place for porcelain figurines and she was Karagiannis and her brother, He attended New York Univer - (Joan) Anderson and Joanna www.schoedinger.com. him on the Columbia campus. a great lover of animals. She John Karagiannis. Eugenia will sity, Massachusetts Institute of Coulouris; his many dear Funeral services were held at St. was predeceased by her parents, be dearly missed by her loving Technology, Brooklyn College nephews and nieces, George E. n TSIGRIMANIS, STEFANOS Paul’s Chapel. Contact Gerry Theodore and Lutie Wisneski; family and all who knew her. and Cornell University and ma - Parashis, Jay (Sandy) Parashis, NEW YORK, N.Y. - Stefanos Tsi - Visco at [email protected] her daughter, Tammy Bobokis; Funeral services were private. jored in civil engineering, ac - Harry (Tish) Parashis, Connie grimanis, 29, passed away in a for further information or any in - her beloved husband of 40 The Nicholas F. Cognetta Fu - counting and law. He graduated (late Gary) McIntyre, George P. tragic bike accident in Brooklyn quiries or visit: http://www.co - years, William Bobokis Sr.; her neral Home & Crematory, 104 New York Law School and re - Parashis, Stephanie Parashis, on September 7. He was born lumbia.edu/cu/earl/chapel.html son, William Bobokis Jr.; her Myrtle Ave., Stamford, CT ceived his LLB in 1955. Mr. Tina (Don) Mintz, Elizabeth grandchildren, Jessie Gerkhe 06902 is in charge of arrange - Lewnes was then admitted be - (John) Fredrickson, Annette and Lily Barto; her great-grand - ments. To leave online condo - fore the bar of the State of New Vassallo, and Stan Pappas; and CLASSIFIEDS children, Catrina and Shawn; lences, visit www.cognetta.com. York, the District of Columbia, his cousins, Helen (Homer) her brothers, Jimmy (Linda) US District Court for the District Coreris. He was predeceased by Wisneski, Ted Wisneski and Tim n KOPASAKIS, SOPHIA of Columbia and the U.S. his son, George (Marion) FOR RENT and ask for Veta. (Sandy) Wisneski; her extended CLEVELAND, Ohio - The Plain Supreme Court. Between 1955 Parashis and siblings, Ernest family, Nicole Barto and Angela Dealer reported that Sophia and 1956, Mr. Lewnes was em - (Georgia), Phil (Sophie), and LONG ISLAND CITY FUNERAL HOMES Fox; her best friends, Janet Kopasakis, 82, passed away ployed by the U.S. Department James (Marie) Parashis. Peter Beautiful second floor OFFICE Davis, Linda Green; and numer - peacefully. She is survived by of State as Special Investigator loved to fish, golf and was an SPACE. for rent from July 1st. Has CONSTANTINIDES ous nieces, nephews and her beloved husband, Andreas; in Athens, Greece. From 1956- avid San Francisco Giants and 10 offices, 3 bathrooms, server room, lounge area, reception area FUNERAL PARLOR Co. cousins. Visitation and a Trisa - her children, George (Popi) 1959 he was Attorney Advisor 49ers fan. He devoted his time etc. Spacious, modern, freshly 405 91st Street gion prayer service were held at Kopasakis, Kathy (Spiros) Pat - for the United States Depart - to his family and friends and painted, close to all amenities. Bay Ridge - Brooklyn, the Blackburn-Giegerich-Son - erakis and John (Lynn) ment of State, Passport Office, was a long-time servant of the Some offices are already furnished NY 11209 ntag Funeral Home. Funeral ser - Kopasakis; her grandchildren, Fraud & Litigation branch. He Lord at Holy Trinity Greek Or - with custom desks and matching (718) 745-1010 vices were held at All Saint's Manolis, Sophia, Andreas, Yan - was employed as Trial Attorney thodox Church. Peter was in - cabinet files. Easy move in. 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AP PHOTO/SUSAN wALSH AP PHOTO/DAVID GOLDmAN Vice President Joe Biden (R) meets with Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou in the Roo - Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou, (C,) gets a tour of the trading floor at the New York sevelt Room of the White House in Washington, Sept. 21, 2010. Stock Exchange Sept. 20, 2010, in New York City. Papandreou, in the U.S., Touts His Painful Plans To Save Greece

Continued from page 1 tional creditors, including the EU stronger from the crisis and and IMF, who have imposed noted that there was now a cli - of feuding. Biden praised Papan - harsh conditions on Greece in re - mate of optimism not only for dreou for the “excellent work he turn for the money, which in turn the Greek but also the European is doing in the handling of the have set off storms of strikes, economy. economic crisis and, God will - protests and demonstrations, in - He said Greece is on target to ing, he will put his country on cluding the truckers assault on meet its deficit cutting goals this the right path again.” the Parliament where they were year, reducing the deficit that Speaking to reporters after - pushed by back riot police. Union stood at 13.7% deficit by more wards, Papandreou said his talks officials said their members will than 40% with the aim of return - with Biden covered a wide range take to the streets on October 7 ing to international markets. of issues, such as the global eco - for the seventh general strike this He noted the country is “tak - nomic crisis, the Middle East is - year, but Papandreou said his ing the pain of reform” and sue, the Cyprus problem as well hands are tied by the EU and “making real progress.” He as the FYROM name issue. The IMF, although public workers added too: “Europe will come two leaders discussed the recent fear more drastic measures are out stronger.” While the country decision by the International coming and teachers have said is making “major structural Court of Justice on Kosovo’s de - they’ve heard their pay will be changes,” he said there are no claration of independence and cut further over the next couple plans to issue a global bond soon how to move forward so that the of years, as much as 40%. That and he also indicated that his people of Serbia and Kosovo are has set off a run on early retire - government is focused on able to become fully a part of a ments under current, better pen - growth policies, including busi - Europe whole and free and at sion regulations, and there is talk AP PHOTO/EVI ZOUPANOU ness-friendly legislation and fast- peace. Biden and Papandreou amongst teachers of mass emi - Protesters confront riot police outside the Greek Parliament in Athens, Sept. 21, 2010, as a tracking big investments while also discussed the situation in gration to other countries with flare burns in the background during a protest by truck drivers who oppose government plans citing interest from the United Cyprus and expressed their full better pay and conditions. Pa - to reform their sector and abolish strict licensing rules. Some 2,500 truckers marched and Arab Emirates, Russia and China. support for the Cypriot-led pandreou insisted that his ad - stayed the night outside. “Greece has been undervalued,” process, under the UN, toward a ministration was “on track” with he added. He finally said Greece settlement that reunifies Cyprus its efforts to reduce a gaping working and “that gives us the our tough but successful course Chief Executive Officer (CEO) would create 250,000 jobs in the as a bi-zonal and bi-communal budget deficit and push through strength to carry on with the in reducing the deficit, on the Duncan Niederauer, which was green energy sector, and touted federation. Biden applauded ef - long-delayed reforms. He said changes necessary so that we will one hand, but also, on the other attended by Wall Street officials Greece’s potential for developing forts by Greece and Turkey to the changes would create “new be not only proud of our country hand, all the new opportunities and senior executives of US fi - wind energy in particular. Papan - strengthen their relations. Papan - opportunities for investments in but we will have the Greece and arising for investments in our nancial and credit institutions. dreou also met with Iranian Pres - dreou and Biden also discussed transport, tourism and the de - the economy that we deserve. country, for investments in trans - After the lunch Papandreou, ac - ident Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on the Middle East. The two leaders velopment of the green econ - Here, at the NYSE, we had the ports, tourism, green develop - companied by Niederauer, the sidelines of the UN’s General emphasized their support for the omy.” opportunity to present the great ment and elsewhere,” the Greek signed the NYSE visitors’ book Assembly and talked to him direct talks between Israel and At the NYSE, Papandreou re - changes we have made in recent premier added. Papandreou also while, in reply to press questions, about Iran playing a stabilizing the Palestinians, and the need iterated that his policies are months in Greece. We presented sat at a lunch hosted by NYSE stressed that Greece is emerging role in the Middle East. for both sides to continue the process until they reach an agreement on two states. The George Papandreou: World prior to his departure for New York that Papandreou matos of Simon Fraser University and also a TNH Vice President reiterated the was interested in being a candidate for U.N. Secretary columnist suggested that the Ahmadinejad meeting is need for Iran to comply fully and General at the expiration next year of the term of Ban just what it seemed to be. “Papandreou is trying to unconditionally with UN Secu - Traveler, Next UN Leader? Ki-Moon. The response of a government spokesman appear even-handed to the Moslem world after the rity Council resolutions related to questions about it only fueled sepcualation. Rather opening to Israel,” said Gerolymatos, but he also said, to its nuclear program. than denying the rumors categorically, Girgios Petalotis “I believe he is genuinely trying to make a effort to ECONOMIC CHALK TALK TNH Staff said: “We have so much work to do as a government get a peaceful resolution to the nuclear power dispute. Papandreou had a series of that all this feverish reporting and scenario analysis Sometimes small countries can play a valuable diplo - meetings in New York in a bid to If Prime Minister George Papandreou saves Greece, really does not help the country.” matic role because they don’t carry the baggage of bolster Greece’s battered image will he be given a chance to save the whole world? Former U.S. Ambassador and TNH columnist larger states,” again bringing to mind the UN specula - abroad and drum up interest in Taking time out from his duties related to the opening Patrick Theros largely dismissed the reports, asking tion. investments that will bring session of the UN General Assembly and meetings de - “Who would consider pulling out a sitting Prime Min - Regarding the meeting’s effect on Greece’s ties with much-needed liquidity into the signed to promote investment in Greece, Papandreou ister in the middle of a grave national crisis? In another the U.S, he said no harm was done there, adding that debt-ridden economy. In a met with Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad time, it would make sense. Greece is popular in the it might have been an opportunity to pass a message speech at the New York Stock Ex - on September 20. In addition to strengthening Third World and Papandreou would be an improve - from Iran to the U.S. Theros’ take was that the meeting change, Papandreou said his Greece’s traditionallly good bilateral relations with ment over Ban Ki-Moon and other recent Secretaries would elicit typical knee-jerk negative reactions in the country had taken “unprece - Iran, a state now seen by much of the west as a pariah General, but markets could react badly – they would U.S. but said was good for U.S. foreign policy. He also dented and difficult steps to nation seeking to obtain nuclear weapons, the meet - see him as bailing on Greece. It would be horrific for noted that Papandreou and previous Greek prime min - tackle the crisis” and was making ings might also have a wider diplomatic context. market perceptions of Greece.” ister Costas Karamanlis worked to have reasonably “real progress in fulfilling its Coinidentally, there were reports in the Greek media Regarding the meeting with Iran, Dr. Andre Geroly - good relations with Iran. commitments” to its interna - Stelios Kouloglou: A Reporter Without Borders - But With Ethics

By Sylvia Klimaki the most gifted young people that citizens’ journalism can only pire’s jackals in rooms full of TNH Staff Writer who seek a better future abroad be conducted within certain lim - smoke” along with the voice- due to the low domestic wages.” its; modern societies need jour - over narration of Perkins adds ATHENS - In his career as a Kouloglou took the decision “not nalists to do legwork investiga - an aroma of mystery. journalist, Stelios Kouloglou has to air the show and leave the tive journalism. Truth hunting Kouloglou first read about shown an old-school propensity TV network.” cannot and should not be con - Perkins at Democracy Now! -an not just to get the facts straight This year, the current Minis - ducted by citizens, since “there American TV/radio program- and the story right, but to get ter of Tourism and Culture, Pav - is no substitute to that,” he said. and “thought his story was grip - the story behind the story, even los Geroulanos, asked Kouloglou Many times, he said, online com - ping.” After having established at the cost of alienating people to join the Board of Directors of mentators use the web’s a good relationship with the au - who didn’t want it to come out. ERT, the station that effectively anonymity in order to “ virtually thor, Kouloglou suggested He was the producer of Re - forced him off the air, removing attack” others who merely call Perkins should go to Ecuador portage Without Borders, a one of the few quality series on into question their arguments. and ask for an apology from the highly regarded current affairs other Greek television stations, Kouloglou translated that as “an people there. and documentary weekly series filled mostly with dreadful online form of bullying” since After a long internal struggle broadcast by the Greek National comedies, reality shows and “attacking people who simply between his guilt and the fear Television ERT. The show was celebrity news. Now, Kouloglou have a different opinion than of telling the truth, Perkins met nominated best informative pro - quit again - this time only from your own, goes against the very the daughter of an assassinated gram of Greek television for four the board - so he could resume foundations of democratic soci - president and spoke out in front consecutive years (1998 to his award-winning show, Re - eties.” After success in the last of an angry Latin-American au - 2001) and Kouloglou, who was portage Without Borders, which couple of years TV Without Bor - dience. Kouloglou said he never nominated for the award of will pick up again in November. ders is now offering an online expected this to become “such Journalist of the Year in 2006 He’s already been in the United monthly subscription for as low a major political event for and 2007 also worked as a spe - States doing some of his famed as the cost of a Greek coffee. Ecuador.” “But the plotline and cial envoy in the former Yu - legwork and pesky questioning, EUROkINISSI A REAL HIT the final sequences of the film, goslavia and a correspondent in the serious, sober manner that Journalist Stelios Kouloglou will be back on Greek National Kouloglou is also the director when the protagonist apologizes Paris and Moscow. In 2008, Re - makes him stand out in a time Television this November with his esteemed documentaries. of several documentaries includ - in front of the Ecuadorian peo - portage Without Borders ended of celebrity so-called journalists ing the award winning Commu - ple for his actions, give way to abruptly when he quit after ERT who are just glorified newsread - worse on TV, he said, because to create an axis of independent nism: the Great Utopia of the optimism: in a world full of cyn - refused to air his documentary ers with no real background in the economic crisis demands “A journalism that could compete 20th Century, and Apology of icism and wars, there is always called The Generation of 700 journalism. He said his intention strong reduction on the budget on an international level with an Economic Hit Man, which room for redemption and hope,” Euro, describing the life of when he first left ERT was to show that leads to cheaper pro - analogous websites. Kouloglou’s tells the story of the best selling Kouloglou wrote on the movie’s young Greeks and workers mak - show “younger generations of ductions with lower quality.” He strong belief, he said, is that author John Perkins, based on website. As for the political di - ing that limited amount of Greek journalists that they said he would show that his “one of the main culprits for this his book of the same name. Ac - mensions of the film Kouloglou money a month, creating a new should oppose when being show could prove you don’t chaos in Greece is the media.” cording to Perkins’ narration, he said he thinks, “We should con - generation of poor. In an inter - asked to do things against their need big budgets, just a big de - So Kouloglou is proud of having was a prominent member of the stantly push governments view with The National Herald, morality.” He added: “Saying sire, to produce good TV. created an interactive online top-secret team of “economic hit worldwide for better gover - he said he left because he “had ‘no’ does not mean that your ca - “Where there is a will there is a community that even “went on men”, who used all sorts of nance, no matter how well they been asked not to air this par - reer will end.” He said he’s de - way to produce good quality, strike one day as a form of fraudulent and illegal methods perform.” For this coming sea - ticular show or the network lighted by the turn of events low-budget shows,” he said. protest against an article,” that (rigged elections, payoffs, mili - son Kouloglou said he is looking would not renew (his) contract that brought him back on the CITIZEN JOURNALISTS he wrote. “This is a true democ - tary coups) to establish Ameri - forward to resuming his duties for the coming season.” air. “Censorship did not prevail,” Another idea the maverick ratic agora,” he said, where can interests in impoverished, as the director and producer of Kouloglou didn’t like the board’s he said. But he said he’s not op - producer has successfully cre - readers can post their comments third world countries. Based on Reporters Without Borders: “My decision and told them so. He timistic about the state or qual - ated is TV Without Borders - an -TVWB staff cuts only offensive rare material, it is a film noir story is a good paradigm that in said he thought it was his “duty ity of Greek TV or media, partly online project he “had in mind messages. The show has man - with all the relevant elements: Greece things can change,” he to show the Greek nation the because the economic crisis has for a long time.” After he lost aged so far to project the posi - “a sexy femme fatale, corruption said, reiterating that “Saying huge social problem that exists made stations and newspapers job in 2008, he had time to fo - tive aspects of the Internet, al - and assassinations, no good ‘no’ does not mean your career in our country - that of losing pull in their spending. It’w cus on the idea. His vision was though Kouloglou points out guys, secret meetings of the em - will end.” He proved it. 10 EDITORIALS LETTERS THE NATIONAL HERALD, SEPTEMBER 25-OCTOBER 1, 2010

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We are confused: is our Archdiocese engaged in “sensitive ne - gotiations” with the Port Authority over the re-building of Saint ΛΟΓΟΣ Nicholas or not? For the past month we have been told, by among others the office of Archbishop Demetrios, that the reason he could not comment on Saint Nicholas was because sensitive negotiations were under way which could be jeopardized by his comments. Fair OPA! A New Day is Born! Bringing Greek Meaning enough. This week, however, Father Mark Arey of the Archdiocese - in an opinion piece in the Daily News, here in New York - states cat - OPA! The sun was shining things, served as a across Greece and channels, each of which covered egorically that no negotiations are taking place. and the sea appeared to be more member of the first Crete, and from OPA! Day extensively which, “There have been no further negotiations with the PA in well blue than ever in Rethymno, National Assembly. around the world once again, demonstrated the over a year” he writes. What are we supposed to make of this? Crete, Greece, on Wednesday, Over many years, to be a part of his - commitment to this emerging Father Arey, the Ecumenical officer of the Archdiocese, makes September 15th, a very special the “ μεγάλη ” Pat - tory in the making. concept if for no other reason some other interesting points: “The Port Authority,” he writes, “ and much anticipated day for takos family After introductory than to “re-brand” Greece in a has virtually seized the property of the St. Nicholas Greek Orthodox myself and my spouse, Elaine. branched out across remarks by Mr. Eu - positive, meaningful light. Our Church at 155 Cedar Street and has refused to make good on its Over several months we had Crete, first in the genios Fragiadakis, first OPA! Day experience in promise to help rebuild the historic church that was destroyed been making arrangements with Amari who led the incred - Rethymno already provided ev - there on 9/11 … in March 2009, the newest Port Authority admin - our close friends, family mem - Valley/Rethymno, ible Aegean Pearl idence that such a re-branding istration sent the archdiocese a curt e-mail that stated, ‘We are ter - bers, and other partners in followed by other team and whose opportunity not only exists but minating negotiations and will be proceeding with an alternative Rethymno to host the very first parts of Greece and integrity is truly ex - is within reach for Greece. Since approach’ … The PA reneged on its agreement to rebuild the church secular celebration, a kind of eventually the Dias - by Dr. ALEX traordinary, Elaine the event was attended by so at a nearby location, 130 Liberty St., and at the same time - Name Day, of Greece’s (and pora. So you can PATTAKOS and I introduced many international representa - without the church's permission or even informing it - excavated Greek) contributions to the see that it was not and briefly ex - tives, across Europe and from the original site, rendering it unusable …. We have engaged in world. To be known as “OPA! a difficult decision Special to plained the ratio - other parts of the world, the honest, forthright negotiations with the Port Authority. We would Day,” the 15th of September was for us to settle on The National Herald nale behind and vi - prognosis looks good when prefer to resolve this issue by sitting back down at the table with proposed as the date for such a Crete, and specifi - sion for OPA! Day. viewed through the eyes of the PA. At the same time, the Archdiocese has no choice at this celebration - one that we envi - cally Rethymno, as the site of Then the Mayor of these representatives. In this re - point other than to appeal to the public, to our civic leaders and to sioned would take place each the very first OPA! Day celebra - Rethymno, Mr. George Mari - gard, people from other coun - the elected officials of New York and New Jersey — and, if necessary year in as many locations as pos - tion in Greece! And we were not nakis, shared some very inspi - tries genuinely would like to see and with regret, to proceed with other avenues afforded to us sible around the world. Because disappointed at any time, either rational thoughts about the sig - Greece thrive, not simply sur - under our system of government...” we felt strongly that it was nec - during the planning stage or on nificance of this idea and its vive the current economic crisis. God help us. While the site at Ground Zero is fast being devel - essary and obviously most ap - the Day itself! For OPA! Day implications for Rethymno, for With the worldwide mega - oped we are still at the point of threatening to “proceed with propriate for the very first OPA! 2010, we were blessed with a Crete, for Greece, and for the trend of health & wellness ex - other avenues afforded to us under our system of government.” Day to be held in Greece, and local partner in Rethymno, the world. The fact that the Mayor panding its reach every day, Now, we all know how long litigation usually takes. because we wanted to launch Aegean Pearl Hotel, who be - was accompanied by Ms. Pepi Greece holds a unique and en - Meanwhile, Father Arey makes no mention of the $60 million the idea in 2010 in a practical lieved in the idea from the start Birliraki-Marnalaki, who serves viable position to leverage its the Port Authority – as was stated in its press release - had offered way that could be shared and and whose leadership and staff as Vice-Mayor and Councillor natural (e.g., environmental, to the Archdiocese, but which was turned down. Is this true? If it expanded well into the future, demonstrated their commitment people, cultural) assets and is true, why was it turned down? Is $60 million not enough to re - we proposed Rethymno, Crete, to the OPA! Day mission in a "A re-branding achieve a win-win-win scenario build a church? The grandiose plans that perhaps the Archdioceses as the initial site and worldwide Daskalogiannis-like spirit. To be opportunity not only as more and more people seek had in mind, while admirable, might not be appropriate in today’s epicenter for OPA! Day. Why sure, Elaine and I could not increased happiness, well-being financial environment. Crete, you ask? Well besides the have had a better partner! exists but is within reach in mind, body and spirit, and a Why not build a sensible church, we might ask, as sensible as Big Island’s mythological, his - On the Day of the special for Greece” deeper sense of meaning and the $60 million will allow, enshrined with a memorial to the victims torical, political, and cultural event, the Aegean Pearl Hotel purpose in their lives. As I’ve of 9/11 that honors their memory in a fitting way, and turn it over significance, from the early Mi - truly became OPA! Day Central. with responsibility for Culture espoused many times before in to its owners, the community of Saint Nicholas? Father Arey, noan period to the present day, Besides beautiful decorations and Tourism, shows further that this column, Greece’s Second through his article in the Daily News, made an “appeal to the Crete, as regular readers of this that included plentiful blue & his remarks were authentic and “Golden Age” is coming. The public” to pressure the PA to return to the negotiation table. One column know, is where the Pat - white ballons, flowers, and the that he meant what he said. The celebration of OPA! Day in wonders if he would not get more of a response by appealing to takos family is deeply, strongly, like, the hotel staff prepared an Mayor’s presentation and Rethymno, it is our hope and in - those who care about Saint Nicholas the most, the readers of The and proudly rooted--both in its incredible array of traditional proclamation of OPA! Day in tention, will be just a seed that National Herald, the Greek American community. soil and soul - beginning in Greek/Cretan mezes, as well as Rethymno was followed by the can be planted, cultivated, and In any event, for any appeal to be effective, the Archdiocese Sfakia. For example, in the 18th drinks that included newly-in - official cutting of the OPA! Day harvested around the world in will have to: Century, Manousos Pattakos vented OPA! Day cocktails (i.e., cake, enthusiastic and engaging the years to come. 1. Come out and explain why the negotiations failed served as second-in-command blue ouzo, blue raki, and even interactions among the many in - 2. Understand that they have to work within the system rather to the famous rebel leader, blue-colored water) made spe - ternational attendees, presen - Dr. Pattakos, author of than trying to circumvent it Daskalogiannis and assumed cial for the occasion. There was ters, and local dignitaries, and Prisoners of Our Thoughts, is 3.Give a full accounting of the money raised, who contributed, command to fight against Ot - also an OPA! Day cake baked traditional music and dancing co-founder of a new business and who is in charge of it toman rule after Daskalogian - and appropriately iced to mark in costume that, as always, ulti - initiative on how to live a Otherwise, even if The New York Times were to print Father nis’s brutal execution on June the birthday of what hopefully mately recruits and seeks to in - happy, healthy, meaningful life Arey’s article, it would not make a bit of a difference. 17, 1771. will become a worldwide phe - volve everyone in attendance! inspired by and based on Greek Another member of the Pat - nomenon, beginning in 2011, in The OPA! Day event also was culture. Readers may contact takos family, my great-great recognition of all things Greek. well covered and reported by him with questions, comments, Getting Serious about Cyprus grandfather, Apostolos Pattakos, On September 15, 2010, that the local media. In addition to and/or suggestions for topics helped to lead the quest for an is, OPA! Day, I am very proud articles in the Rethymno-area at: [email protected] or independent Crete in the 19th and honored to report that we newspapers, Elaine and I were visit his web site: www.theop - It is well established that the Archbishop of Cyprus does not Century and, among other welcomed over 400 people from interviewed by three television away.com. mince his words. In his exclusive interview with The National Her - ald, however, he stated views which are usually whispered, not spoken out loud in public. COMMENTARY We should point out that the Church of Cyprus is a powerful force, and we remind you that the most important leader since the independence of Cyprus from the British was Archbishop Makarios of blessed memory. The most shocking statement of His Beatitude, Greece Should Default And Restructure Its Debt Now Archbishop Chrysostomos, is his assertion that unless a solution is found with the Turkish Cypriots, then a solution will be imposed which will lead “Cyprus to become Turkish.” By Armodios N. global capital markets and raise evitably lead to further strikes, marina for lifestyle tax evasion It is a frightful notion and one, which possibly is being expressed Papagianakis new money on its own. If riots, gas shortages etc.) Despite as revenues are already falling as warning, or a wake up call to the Greek Cypriots first, and to us Greece could not borrow from Finance Minister Papaconstan - behind budget projections. all that “more mistakes means Cyprus will become Turkish.” Greece Will and Should De - the capital markets on afford - tinou’s vapid threats to specula - Higher taxes combined with In that respect His Beatitude is playing a very useful role. Polls fault. Now that Greece has re - able terms this year, when its tors who would lose their shirts exasperating and mind-numb - show that many Cypriots in Cyprus have become rich and compla - ceived the latest loan install - betting against Greece and ing bureaucratic red tape is cent, content to accept a solution that “safeguards” their borders ment from the recent Greece will, Prime Minister Papandreou’s hardly the type of economic en - and lets the Turkish Cypriots go their merry way. IMF/EU/ECB bailout package hollow cries of defiance regard - vironment that will spur invest - The problem with this view is that Cyprus is too small to ac - and the Troika’s “stamp of ap - barring an economic ing any potential default, Greece ment and attract foreign or do - commodate two states, as Chrysostomos stated, and furthermore proval,” global capital markets miracle, very likely will, barring an economic mira - mestic capital to Greece. the growth rate of the population in the occupied north, in addition have seemingly breathed a fi - default cle, very likely default - and Investment capital flows to to the importing of settlers from Turkey is such that before too nancial sigh of relief. frankly, the sooner the better. where it is treated best. It’s no long there will be too many of them to be accommodated, and Unfortunately, that “sigh” debt ratio was only 115% and A default would not only al - surprise to see nations/states they will start pressuring the Greeks for more space. That is why a will only act to further inflate its debt was at 270 billion Euros, low Greece to immediately re - smaller than Greece, such as lasting solution has to be found now, one based on the historic an already bloated Greek debt why on earth would the world duce its onerous debt load by Switzerland, Singapore and facts of the case, that is this a pure and simple case of invasion and balloon. The latest loan install - want to lend it money in 2014 negotiating a formal restructur - Hong Kong with low tax rates, occupation that has no basis in today’s world and which Greek ment is exactly as it reads - an with a debt ratio of somewhere ing with its creditors who failed minimal bureaucratic red tape Cypriots, indeed all Hellenes and all sensible and decent people, additional loan at slightly better between an estimated 150% to properly assess the inherent and, (incredibly) almost no nat - will not accept. than market interest rates that and 180% and its debt near an risk of investing in Greek sover - ural resources, are among the P.S. The New Yorker magazine in its July 26th issue carried a will allow the largest holders of unsightly 350 billion Euros? No eign bonds, but perhaps even most prosperous economies in devastating indictment against Cyprus for the way it “slaughters” Greek bonds/debt (mostly large need to consult the Oracle of more importantly, it will provide the world on a per capita basis. ampelopoulia, songbirds. “I was worried, the author writes, that European banks) to receive their Delphi, the answer is painfully the necessary financial breath - Instead of empty nationalistic we might not see any action but the first orchard we walked into, principal and interest payments obvious. ing room to allow the Greek rhetoric, Greece requires aggres - was full of lime sticks: straight switches about thirty inches long, in full but ultimately increase The Greek government has government to implement its sive market-oriented economic that are coated with the glue gum of the Syrian plum and deployed Greece’s debt load from an al - already taken drastic measures economic policies with a more reforms combined with a signif - artfully to provide inviting perches, in the branches of low trees … ready unmanageable 115% of to improve its economic plight, measured approach as opposed icantly smaller debt load to pro - all the sticks had feathers on them. In a lemon tree we found a Gross Domestic Product to an as Greek citizens have endured to hurriedly bludgeoning Greek vide a clean monetary and fiscal male collared flycatcher hanging upside down like a piece of animal estimated 150% to 180% of the ignominy of government im - citizens with a one-size fits-all slate; Greece will then be able fruit” (they show an awful looking picture of it) and so it goes on, GDP by 2013 - which by then posed austerity programs (some tax hammer. to control its economic sover - page after page - all 12 of them. will require additional funding. of which were arguably long In fact, restructuring its debt eignty while growing to pros - There are also condemnations of Malta and Italy, but the article The theory expounded by the overdue,) including reduced would allow taxes to be low - perity. spends most of the space on Cyprus. These birds might be a delicacy bureaucratic philosophers in salaries and pensions, forced re - ered, not raised, as did the for some Cypriots, but it is unlawful to kill them in Europe, and Athens and Brussels, is that the tirements and/or increased re - shortsighted Papandreou gov - Armodios N. Papagianakis is Cyprus needs to do something about it so they will not lose the IMF/EU mandated reforms will tirement age, steep tax increases ernment, which now finds itself Managing Director of Dynamis goodwill and support of an important and active part of the world’s provide enough growth and sta - and even rumored “Islands For desperately chasing wealthy Capital Management in population. bility for Greece to return to the Sale” (all of which will in - seafaring Greeks from marina to Mineola, N.Y. THE NATIONAL HERALD, SEPTEMBER 25-OCTOBER 1, 2010 VIEWPOINTS 11

LETTER FROM ATHENS No More Hide-and-Seek, Mr. Karamanlis, Come Out, Come Out, Wherever You Are

Even Bill Clinton had to face manlis, first elected in 2004 on herself as a notary - brink, but not a “A former prime minister his party, now in the hands of the music and testify about his a platform that included “zero although she denied word, nada, decides for himself the time Antonis Samaras, who’s got no Animal House lifestyle in the tolerance” toward corruption, making any money nothing, tipota. and circumstances that are arguments left to do it and was White House, a wonderful only until it was found out that - said there was a If that didn’t right for him to talk,” said New forced to attack the Socialist sideshow watching him squirm meant his New Democracy “central political de - bring him out Democracy spokesman Panos PASOK party of Prime Minister and try to explain what is is af - center-right party officials cision” behind the swinging, you’d Panayiotopoulos. Really? In George Papandreou with the ter desecrating the Oval Office could put a big number in front deal, alleging that it have thought most civilized countries, that’s limp line, “The Socialist gov - with high school sophomore of a lot of zeros and rake in came from Kara - Peleki’s stinging left up to the justice system ernment has told several lies,” shenanigans, chasing young corrupt cash hand over fist manlis’ office, impli - words would. and not the whim of a former not exactly the specter you women like Groucho Marx in without being charged with cating him and his Instead, he’s leader, unless his name is want to raise when your party heat, making him the most dis - anything, and none of them aides. Somebody’s hiding behind Stalin. As the saying goes, if built its platform on lying appointing U.S. President, al - have yet. got some ‘splaining press releases, you ain’t nothing to hide, why through its teeth. most sheerly on squandered There’s no evidence Kara - to do. by ANDY apparently un - are you hiding? The sad part is that Kara - talent and wasted potential. manlis did anything wrong or I don’t know DABILIS caring that it The Vatopedi deal was so manlis is better than this, and That he got off, so to speak, improper, which is all the more about you but if will sully the onerous it tainted the name of for reasons only the monks on was expected because no one reason you’d expect him to someone wrongfully Special to family name, his Greece back to the Battle of Mt. Athos probably will ever said life is fair and the rich and come out swinging and defend accused me of hav - The National Herald legacy and place Marathon and cost taxpayers know, didn’t care that he was powerful almost always get his honor against charges that ing even a tangen - in history, which an alleged $130 million at surrounded by scoundrels. away with it, but at least he are either scurrilous or accu - tial role in a scandal which en - now threaten to be a footnote least, the price for selling your Here’s the chances he will tes - was charged, impeached, and rate, neither of which will ever riched monks, destroyed a in Wikipedia (*Costas Kara - once good name. Peleki said tify: 0, as in zero tolerance for impugned, none of which put be known because this being country and nearly brought manlis, served two terms as she was surprised nobody from corruption, which is what he a dent in him. Greece, we will never know down the European economy, Greek Prime Minister, 2004-09, New Democracy wanted to tes - said he had once upon a time. In Greece, they are un - whether Katerina Peleki - wife you’d have to tie me down to leaving office in disgrace after tify because she said the land If a man has honor and de - touchable and, in the words of of Karamanlis’ former Mer - keep me from their throats. his government had so many swap wasn’t criminal so they cency, he has to know they’re former Louisiana Gov. Edwin chant Marine Minister, Giorgos Instead, Karamanlis, who scandals a Cray supercomputer didn’t have to worry about be - worth defending, even if it Edwards, who knew how poli - Voulgarakis, whose tenure in - slinked from office nearly a and Chinese abacus champion ing prosecuted. If they were, risks going before a parliamen - tics is played (how could he cluded enough scandals to sink year ago after five scandal-rid - couldn’t keep count). they’d just find some way to tary committee, which wants not, coming from the state an aircraft carrier – was a liar den years in office which just Peleki’s testimony to a par - get out of it anyway. to put on a circus. where Huey “The Kingfish” defending herself and her hus - about ruined his reputation as liamentary committee, panels Even George Karatzaferis, Just be the circus leader and Long showed how successful a band or telling the truth when an honest man who tolerated effective as a screen door on a the near-shameless leader of make them jump through the rapscallion can be) a Greek she said Karamanlis himself or - the crooks around him, is submarine because they are the far-right extremist Popular hoops instead. Checking the politician couldn’t even be dered approval of the Vatopedi incognito and deeper in hiding patently partisan devices to Orthodox Rally LAOS party, curricula at the Fletcher School charged with being in bed with land swap deal with Mt. Athos than someone in the Witness protect their party, led to calls which would prefer to have im - of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts a live boy and a dead girl. monks. Protection Program and if this for Karamanlis to show up and migrants put on boats and set University near Boston, where Greek politicians know how That scandal brought down keeps up we’re going to need defend himself. adrift at sea, called on Kara - he did postgraduate studies, to protect themselves, starting his government and inflamed CSI or the Cold Case cops to There’s precedent for a manlis to face the music al - there was nothing showing po - with sovereign immunity from society, and was the center - find him. head of state to do so, such as though “not as a defendant but litical cowardice was a good prosecution while they’re in of - piece of a recent Vanity Fair ar - You would have thought Clinton’s prevarication tap as a key witness,” because tactic, even for a diplomat, so fice, a legal tactic designed to ticle, which essentially said he’d have come forward a long dance to a grand jury that gave Karatzaferis knows one day it’s it sure isn’t for a former prime forestall frivolous accusations most Greeks were crooks, not time ago to defend himself men everywhere an excuse to the likes of him who could be minister who, in Greece we are that would thwart them from a word you want next to your against charges from the Euro - cheat and say they were just on the other end of a subpoena told decides for himself the doing their jobs, but Greek name if you were prime minis - pean Union that said his Ad - following the strict Clintonian (scratch that, Greek political time and circumstances that lawmakers use it like a force ter. ministration cooked the books Rules. leaders testify only voluntarily are right for him to talk. field to prevent anybody from In a deposition, Peleki, not and lied about the state of the Karamanlis left his party, and so far none have.) How about now, before going after them for anything. the kind of person you’d want Greek economy so treacher - like his people, twisting in the If he doesn’t want to defend your name means zero too? This extends even to former as a character witness because ously it has put millions of wind to defend him, as feeble himself, maybe Karamanlis can prime minister Costas Kara - she was knee deep in Vatopedi Greek lives teetering on the as it was. try to salvage the detritus of [email protected] Frequently Asked Questions About the Ground Zero Mosque - and The Answers

With less than two mosque so close to vocal and to actively, regularly, months remaining Ground Zero, at emphatically, and categorically until the November which heinous denounce the terrorists who, in elections, the Democ - atrocities were com - Bush’s words, “hijacked” the Is - rats are desperately mitted in the name lamic faith. I might support the trying to hold on to of Islam, would be flying of the Confederate flag in power in both houses appropriate. the South when Southerners, by of Congress, their So, is the fact that the millions, gather in Washington momentum fading those terrorists just to condemn slavery. I might even fast as the nation happened to be Mus - consider amending Arizona’s im - continues to flail in lim only a coinci - migration law when legal immi - a jobless economic dence? grants, by the millions, gather to recovery that threat - by CONSTANTINOS E. -No, it’s not a co - denigrate illegal aliens. And I will ens to turn into phase SCAROS incidence at all. If consider endorsing the building two of the proverbial they were all left- of Park 51 two blocks from double-dip recession. Special to handed, all Virgos, Ground Zero when Muslims, by Republicans are crit - The National Herald or all weighed 160 the millions impugn the 9/11 icizing the Democrats pounds, those atrocities and any past or future for running up the deficit, ignoring would be coincidences. Their Is - acts of terrorism. Iran’s nuclear ambitions, idly lamic faith, however, was not standing by as the economy sput - merely coincidental, it was the Constantinos E. Scaros is an au - ters along, and prematurely taking very reason that they implement - AP PHOTO/DAVID GOLDmAN thor and expert in American credit for victory in Iraq. Today’s ed the attacks. But they are in Patricia Riley, 32, of Southampton, N.J., (C) participates in a demonstration opposing the pro - presidential history, with a back - Democrats are simply borrowing the minority; most Muslims would posed Islamic community center near Ground Zero in New York. ground in Ancient Greek history. a page from their Republican pre - not kill innocent civilians in the decessors, who were ousted in name of their religion. 2006. It is no surprise, then, Oh, just like most Christians that the latest attempt at political wouldn’t bomb an abortion clinic exploitation is a pending con - or kill people for not going to Sadly, Benign Hostility and Civilized Barbarism Prevail struction project known as Park church on Sunday? 51, slated to be built in lower -Yes, I think you’ve got it! Manhattan, that has informally Why, then, is there just a dis - By Evan C. Lambrou examined. In March 2009, the care to admit he or she harbors have to take what’s left.” This been referred to as the Ground parity in perception between peace- Special to TNH Port Authority yanked its offer, prejudice of any kind. But is it sort of benign hostility is a so - Zero Mosque. Depending on loving Christians and peace-loving claiming that the church was really so far-fetched to consider phisticated way of excluding mi - whom you believe, it is either Muslims? Amid the public furor over Park “making too many demands.” that this is also a possibility? Not norities. It is also typical of civi - going to be a wonderful commu - -Well, that all depends on 51, the proposed 13-story Is - This is absurd. Why would the when you stop to consider Park lized barbarism. It doesn’t nity center that, in the true spirit where you’re taking that poll. In lamic community center two church not be satisfied with an 51, which many people oppose matter if violence is averted; jus - of America, will bring warring the United States, for example, blocks from Ground Zero which additional $60 million for a because Islam is foreign to them. tice is not always fairly and faith - religious zealots together in peace, about 80% of the people are also has a mosque inside it, the larger building? In reality, the Constitutionally, it’s inane to ar - fully served by the law, and legal or it will be a monument cele - Christian. But do you know how public had almost forgotten church has been very coopera - gue that an Islamic center technicalities often end up brating radical Islam’s violent vic - many Muslims are here? About about the only house of worship tive and patient. While the Au - doesn’t have a legal right to set drowning what’s right. tory over freedom. The following six in every 10,000! To put it in which was actually destroyed thority makes false promises and up shop on private property. And Rebuilding St. Nicholas Frequently Asked Questions perspective, if you tried to build when the Twin Towers came pulls its bureaucratic strings, the while there are many sides to Church is not a matter of bu - (FAQ’s) will help shed light on a Christian church in Indonesia, crashing down after the 9/11 church reconstruction project the argument concerning the reaucracy. It’s a matter of reli - this controversy and to debunk where about 88% of the residen - terrorist attacks. St. Nicholas gets buried underneath the wisdom of building a Muslim gious freedom. If public officials some of the myths about potential ts are Muslim, they might look Greek Orthodox Church in weight of a billion paper clips. community center so close to are willing to defend Muslim threats that are perpetuated by at you funny. downtown Manhattan was In September 2007, a Port Ground Zero, all Americans rights in America, they should “information terrorists.” What do you say to folks who founded in 1916. It served the Authority spokesman told the should try to understand that, if also be willing to stand up for Is the structure really going to argue that allowing Park 51 to be spiritual needs of 300 Greek Or - National Herald that St. we stand in Park 51’s way, we Christian rights by exerting pres - be built on Ground Zero, where built so close to Ground Zero is a thodox Christians, who now at - Nicholas Church was an “inte - violate our own democratic prin - sure on a wayward government the Twin Towers stood? victory for terrorists, because that’s tend services in Brooklyn, anx - gral part of the master plan,” ciples and ideals. If we do that, agency. And other religious lead - -No. It will not be built on what they want? iously awaiting the day their that the people of St. Nicholas then the terrorists win. ers should also join the fight. any part of the former World -I say: Colin Ferguson, a black parish can once again reopen its “have been a great group of peo - New York Mayor Michael They should all come forward Trade Center complex, now re - man who went on a killing spree doors. Nine years later, recon - ple to work with,” and that the Bloomberg and others are vig - on behalf of St. Nicholas Church, ferred to as Ground Zero. Its in - in New York in 1993, was sen - struction of the church, which church is an “important piece of orously defending Park 51’s a genuine religious symbol of tended site is the former location tenced to life in prison. Should has actual property rights on a very large puzzle.” That was rights to develop. Regrettably, what died on 9/11, and that is of the Burlington Coat Factory, a we set him free because his in - Ground Zero, has yet to com - when Anthony Shorris was ex - however, Mr. Bloomberg and still waiting to rise from the couple of blocks away. carceration pleases white su - mence. Unfortunately, the Port ecutive director of the Authority. others are not doing the same ashes of that terrible day. If they Yeah, I read that in the Huff - premacists, who might consider Authority of New York & New Chris Ward, the current Execu - for Orthodox Christians, a mi - don’t, they compromise every - ington Post, which also said that any imprisoned black man a vic - Jersey, which has eminent do - tive Director, is now telling the nority group in this country – one’s constitutional rights, in - it’s not really going to be a mosque tory for the white race? main over the World Trade Cen - public that, really, it’s the none of whom did anything to cluding their own. As for the at all. Is that right? It sounds like you support build - ter Memorial site, broke off dia - Church’s fault; that Greek Or - offend or violate American sen - Greek American community, -Well, not exactly. The Huff - ing Park 51 near Ground Zero logue with the church and the thodox officials were being un - sitivities, yet all of whom are al - while we need to carefully re - ington Post’s argument that Park then, right? Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of reasonable by asking to review lowed to be at the mercy of a assess the situation, now is not 51 is not a mosque is rather -Actually, I do not. America last year. Port Authority plans after being told the Port recalcitrant government agency the time for us to be criticizing flimsy. Granted, Park 51 is sup - What??? Now I’m really con - officials claim the church was Authority needed to downsize which is now pretending it’s the our own selves. We need to unite posed to be a community center, fused! Explain yourself. being uncooperative, citing this the church. In the process, the church’s fault the project has under one banner and do our open to people of all faiths, replete -Well, there is one more group as their reason for abruptly con - Port Authority is trying to make stalled. Some critics argue that part – with God’s help – to en - with an art studio and a basketball I haven’t heard from. They have cluding negotiations. This is a it seem as though church offi - the two issues are totally differ - sure the proper reconstruction court and, unlike a mosque, will yet to speak or, at least speak red herring, so a little historic cials shouldn’t have the right to ent. Park 51 is trying to develop of an historic church, which is not be adorned with a dome or often enough and loudly enough background is in order: in ex - review plans which stand to af - its privately owned property, part of the post-9/11 American minarets. The imam behind Park – change for a larger parcel fect its reconstruction. they say, whereas St. Nicholas fabric. Since AHEPA, the coun - 51 supported the terrorist acts of Wait, don’t tell me, let me guess: nearby, the Port Authority asked So what’s changed since Church is caught in a tangled try’s largest Hellenic heritage 9/11, right? the Democrats? The Republicans? the church to move from its orig - 2007? Why is the Port Authority web of Ground Zero-specific bu - civic organization, is currently -Wrong. The leader in ques - The residents of lower Manhattan? inal property to accommodate putting up more roadblocks reaucracy. But while the church working on organizing some tion, Feisal Abdul Rauf, absolutely The Tea Party? Who? for the Memorial’s vehicle secu - now? One obvious answer is the is part of a larger public project, protests, it would behoove the repudiated the attacks, and said -The majority of American rity center. The church had to money: The Authority doesn’t its rights to rebuild are still being Archdiocese to cooperate with that terrorism has no place in Is - Muslims. You know, the ones who relocate. In July 2008, the Au - want to part with $60 million stonewalled by a powerful gov - AHEPA. The Archdiocese will lam. are down at Ground Zero right thority agreed to accommodate for the church. Another obvious ernment agency. Whether it’s or - hopefully also reach out to our Now I am officially confused! now, the actual Ground Zero, for a 24,000-square-foot edifice, answer is the administration: dinary citizens shouting against brethren under the country’s Well, it’s true that President Obama praying every day. and offered $20 million to help Faces have changed at the Au - a mosque or bureaucrats restrict - various Orthodox jurisdictions. said they have a right to a mosque Why are they down there pray - subsidize construction, plus $40 thority, faces which are clearly ing reconstruction of a church, Though they have been there, and he supports the initiative, ing? For the terrorists who flew million for a blast-proof founda - unsympathetic to Orthodox oppositional forces are at work strangely silent so far, our fellow doesn’t he? the planes? For Park 51 to be tion and platform. Building a Christian sensitivities and basic in both cases, yet hardly anyone Orthodox ought to join us quite -Sorry to confuse you even built there? larger church than the original religious rights. A not-so-obvious is coming to Orthodox Christian readily. All Orthodox Christians more, but the answer to that is -I was thinking more for the was not simply to make the answer is that something more defense. in America should mobilize to both yes and no. Obama did say lives of all of the victims, including church a monument of the sinister could also be at work be - As long as public officials and make sure Saint Nicholas that private citizens have the their own family members. tragedy, but to help make the hind the scenes. There just might the mainstream media establish - Church is properly rebuilt. If this right to build a mosque on any Wait a minute, are you saying new church commensurate with be non-Orthodox interests com - ment stay silent, bureaucrats will isn’t a Pan-Orthodox concern, I private property in the United there were Muslims killed during the rest of the WTC Memorial. pelling Mr. Ward to pull away continue to railroad an innocent don’t know what is. States, which is true, and a basic 9/11? When we stop to consider the and move ahead without St. group, and in the end say, “We’re Constitutional right. -Yes, and Jews, too! So, as I scope of the entire Memorial Nicholas Church. This would be sorry. We told you that you could Mr. Lambrou was managing But Obama did not expressly was saying, these mainstream project, this is hardly unreason - difficult to prove, of course, as do it on your own, but we had editor of The National Herald comment on whether building a Muslims need to become more able, even if costs need to be re- no public official today would to proceed without you, so you from 2004 to 2009. 12 TRAVEL THE NATIONAL HERALD, SEPTEMBER 25-OCTOBER 1, 2010 A Night in Exarchia: Counter-Culture, Comic Books, But Few Cops Here ATHENS – Exarchia, the graf - To Be Young Again fiti-scarred, anarchist hotbed neighborhood of central down - town Athens looks pretty gritty, By Matt Barrett clubs, pedestrian streets, com - but underneath the menacing Special to The National Herald puter shops, and great CD and signs it’s one of the places the used record shops. And right young and hip most like to be, ATHENS- The US Embassy is - there on the edge, my favorite even if they’re rubbing elbows sued a warning that travelers Lesbian hangout, the Lesvos with someone who may have should avoid the neighborhood Cafeneion, like the embassy of just come back from a riot after of Exarchia. This made sense the older generation in this is - throwing a Molotov cocktail. It’s to me. The area is behind the land of rebellious youth. I also a place that Matt Barrett Polytechnic University, which drank my Dimino ouzo and ate knows perhaps as well as any - is historically a hotbed of ac - my meze of fried gavros, body, where he’s visited just tivism with many of the major shrimp, bakaliaro, potatoes and about every nook and cranny marches originating here. It is eggplant I gazed around at my and alley to describe it for visi - also the neighborhood where fellow-travelers who looked tors on his website www.greek - Alexander Grigoropoulos was like they just came back from travel.com. It’s complete, unbi - killed by a policeman’s bullet, tending their sheep, oblivious ased and tells you the good, the setting off several days of riot - to the inhabitants of the rock bad, and the ugly, all of which ing in December of 2008. Since and roll kingdom that passes you’ll find in Exarchia, but let’s then police cars don’t patrol by on their way to and from let him describe it, here in an the area because they are reg - Exarchia square. The Russian excerpted version. ularly pelted with bottles, rocks lady who plays violin drove by Exarchia is the name of a and the occasional Molotov on her motorbike and a minute neighborhood in downtown cocktail. They just station riot later she was serenading me. Athens, Greece close to the his - police dressed like futuristic My family and friends were to - torical building of the National EUROkINISSI gladiators on the corners that gether on the sixth floor bal - Technical University of Athens. Alexander Grigoropoulos was 15 when he was shot dead by police officers in Exarchia in De - surround Exarchia to keep cony of Elizabeth and Mihos The region is famous as a cember of 2008, setting off the worst riots the city has seen in years. trouble in and off the streets apartment a few blocks away, stomping ground for Greek an - of the rest of downtown drinking raki and sending me archists. It took the name from to it these people were easily re - Exarchia is worth a visit. The come from the suburbs, spray- Athens. Last night I went to text messages begging me to a merchant named Exarchos assured. The neighborhood center is Exarchia Square, a cans in hand, to tag every last Exarchia to meet some friends come and join them, but I was who opened a large general strikes fear into the hearts of seedy little square with a num - inch of Athens in a mindless plea lost in this world store there. Exarchia is bordered many Athenians, particularly ber of cafes and fast-food restau - that someone, anyone, recognize at street level. I on the east by Kolonaki and is those who would proudly call rants, some ornery stray dogs that they exist. Political posters did not want to framed by Patission Street, themselves “establishment,” … a few drug addicts and man - announcing strikes and demon - leave and at the Panepistimiou Street and who have seen televised images gas and a large number of peo - strations compete with music same time I did Alexandras Avenue. of masked and hooded anar - ple who are just passing posters for space and any empty not want them to It’s also home to the National chists battling the police on the through. Most of the really cool storefront is fair game. With come. In the end Archaeological Museum of back streets and even the main stuff is on the small streets rents for shops cheaper than in we compromised Athens, the National Technical squares, tires burning to coun - around the square. At first pass - most areas, because what re - and arranged to University of Athens and Strefi teract the tear-gas, broken win - ing it just looks like a confusing spectable business would want meet at midnight Hill. The central square features dows, torched SUVs and older mess of shops, posters, graffiti to be in Exarchia, there are at a taverna with many cafes and bars with nu - folks complaining to TV news and weird people but that is all plenty of alternative music a big garden way merous retail computer shops reporters about the lawlessness part of being in a strange place shops, one on almost every block up on Kalidromiou located mainly on Stournari of their little corner of the city. for the first time and not feeling it seems, some specializing in on the hill of Strofi comfortable. If you wander heavy metal, others in rare and that overlooks around you will certainly find used vinyl. Low rents attract Exarchia. I went something that interests you, artists and there are several gal - there but they maybe something that you leries in Exarchia including never showed up thought would not interest any - Cheap Art. which was good one but you. If you consider There are those who would because I really yourself countercultural you are say that encouraging tourists to did not want to home. go to Exarchia is irresponsible eat or drink any - OF SHRINES AND ART and some things are best left un - more. I walked For those who want to pay written. A traveler with limited back to Kypseli, their respects or are just curious time in Athens can be quite past the gladiator Matt Barrett (don’t let the last name fool cops who greeted you, he’s Greek) knows how to savor life me uneasily when the Greek Way, but he doesn’t restrict I smiled and said himself to tourist traps and usual haunts. Kalispera. Thinking now and to visit one of my favorite about the cops and their ouzeris and I discovered the nightly battles with the anar - real reason the US embassy chists and the Athenian does not want its citizens to teenagers who come into the venture into this dark world. city from the suburbs just to 1 They don’t want people to taunt and hit and run, reminds have fun! Exarchia was the me of this song that was a hit liveliest place in Athens on this in the late 1960’s called The hot and humid Tuesday in Years of Othon about when June. There was some kind of they wanted to clean up the rally going on in the square, riff-raff that had taken over which is also a venue for rock Athens during the period concerts. Every bar and cafe when Greece was first being was full and music of all types established as a country. They poured out of each of them. sent a proclamation to all the There were people lined up for towns and villages of Crete 2 souvlakia in the psistarias, al - and the Mani, areas where the most all young in black T-shirts young men were known to be and shorts, with girls dressed courageous and tough, that like modern hippies with style. they needed policemen to Colorful posters of bands and come to Athens. It’s one of my summer rock festivals were plastered on walls. There were drug addicts here and there “So here are the among the crowds, just sort of modern versions of doing their own thing as junkies tend to do. Would you these guys, dressed to rather be with them or a crowd kill, but ... scared kids ” 4 of young people dissatisfied with what we old people have favorite songs. So here are the done to the world they are modern versions of these guys, A walk through Exarchia is an adventure, unlike strolling about to be stuck with? Who dressed to kill, but they are through the rich enclave of Kolonaki just up the hill. 1-The would you rather stand next scared kids, maybe from the main square of Exarchia offers trees and benches, but also to? A Greek junkie or Jack the villages, maybe from the some squatters. 2-The cafes here are funky and the coffee Ripper? OK. Let me get serious neighborhoods of Athens, paid good. 3-This is the spot where Alexander Grigoropoulos was for a moment. very little to fight other kids killed in 2008, now a shrine. 4-You’re know you’re in Exarchia Obviously, if you are my and protect the interests of so - by the graffitti. age and even somewhat ciety. It must be a strange po - 3 younger, Exarchia will have a sition to be in. I think of the Street, also called the Greek Sil - Actually it is more like a college limited appeal to you. In fact way American cops would icon Valley. Located on Exarchia town within the city of Athens, if you are not able to run fast handle an army of angry square is one of the oldest sum - similar to the East Village of you can visit the Shrine to happy in the center of the city enough to get out of trouble young people who are pelting mer cinemas of Athens, called New York BG (Before Guiliani.) Alexander Grigoropoulous, on walking the pedestrian streets of as easily as you get into it, like them with rocks and bottle- Vox, as well as the Antonopou - Exarchia sits between the Uni - the corner of Mesolongiou, now the Plaka, Monastiraki, Thission for example running from bombs and I am pretty sure los apartment building, known versity of Athens and the Po - unofficially renamed Alexander and Gazi. There is no need for cops who mistake you for the that they would wade in with as the Blue Building, because of litechnion and is home to stu - Grigoropoulou Street and Tz - them to even know the existence guy who just tossed their tear - clubs swinging in organized its initial color, which is a typical dents, immigrants, Greek abella Street. The wall has some of places like Exarchia just as gas canister back at them, you military fashion, taking pris - example of the modernist move - families of different economic of the most intense graffiti and someone sight-seeing in New should stick to the Plaka, Psiri oners and focusing on the gen - ment of Greek architecture in strata, restaurants, cafes, com - art of anywhere in the city and York City does not really need a and Gazi. But my impression erals. Whereas the Greek po - the inter war period. Due to the puter shops, used vinyl and CD people are always leaving flow - tour of the Bronx. But I see last night which sort of came lice are just satisfied with political and intellectual char - shops, terrific guitar shops, used ers and personal things in mem - Athens as the sum of its parts over me like an epiphany was containment, and why not? acter of the region, many book - bookshops, boutiques, clubs, ory. Nearby is one of several peo - and Exarchia is an important that if the American kids who These are not highly trained stores, fair trade shops and or - bars, anarchists, drug addicts, ple's parks that were squatted by part of the city, maybe more so visit Greece knew about this professionals, skilled in the art ganic food stores are also stray dogs and just about every locals to thwart the city's plan today because of the unrest of place they would come like of crowd control. They are kids located there, along with many kind of person, except cops. The to turn them into parking lots. the youth and their frustration Muslims to Mecca. This is the with less experience than the having comic book shops. police don't really go to Exarchia There is a sort of cafe in the mid - with this mess of a world that center of counter culture. rebellious youth they are sup - The district was created be - except in extreme situations be - dle where you can get a coffee we have created and are leaving Exarchia is Ann Arbor, Berke - posed to be fighting. They tween 1870 and 1880 at the con - cause for them just to enter the cooked on a fire or gas burner to them to try and figure out and ley, and the East Village on might very well be with the fines of the city and has played neighborhood creates trouble. or maybe an electric burner that make the best of. So if you are steroids. Is it a scary place? demonstrators if they did not a significant role in the social and So on many weekends in down - uses an extension chord that anti-globalization, love Che and Yeah. To anyone over 30 it is need to make a living. political life of Greece and was town Athens you will see police goes to someone's apartment Chomsky, think the Clash and terrifying. A place for young For those who are reading where the Athens Polytechnic and soldiers stationed strategi - down the street. Or you may Bad Brains were the godfathers people where cops are not al - this as a disagreement with uprising of November 1973 took cally on corners around come here and wonder what I of revolutionary music, and are lowed? No wonder the US em - the US Embassy about visiting place. Exarchia is a place where Exarchia, not to keep people am talking about because the not in Greece to dance on the bassy does not want us to go Exarchia, you should not take many intellectuals and artists live out, but to keep large groups of squatters went home and the islands to techno-pop but to here. What if we imported it that way. There are certainly and an area where many social - anarchists or troublemakers in. city took advantage of their in - meet kindred spirits, then maybe Exarchia to the USA? It’s a times when you should not ist, anarchist, and antifascist Of course when you have an difference and built their park - a visit to Exarchia is in the cards. revolutionary ghetto. It is the visit the area and since you groups are accommodated. Po - area of rock clubs, cafes and ing lot anyway. If you love wall You may learn something. It world that groups like the probably have no way of lice stations and other symbols restaurants in a sort of cop-free art and graffiti or even if you might not be about urban war - MC5 and the Bad Brains imag - knowing when these times are of authority (and capitalism) zone it attracts young people, can't stand it, you will find fare. It might just be the realiza - ined they could create with you may want to play it safe such as banks are often targets many of high school age, and plenty of it in Exarchia where tion that nowhere is as scary as their music. To the establish - and stick to the carefree of far-leftist groups. Exarchia is other counter-culture types. This every building is considered a people say and that there people ment it is a cancer that has to neighborhoods of Plaka, Psiri, also an art hub where theatrical creates something of a scene, canvas and nothing is sacred, just like you and me trying to be contained, thus the cops on Monastiraki, and Gazi. But shows and concerts take place where you can go for your not even good graffiti art which make a life that works for them the corners with bus loads of young college aged people around the central square. In De - nighttime entertainment never is often defaced by teens who in Exarchia. reinforcements nearby. It’s a looking for a scene that may cember 2008, the shooting of 15- sure of what is going to happen. dark and scary world of be a little darker than what year-old Alexandros Grigoropou - If you are a happy tourist Megadeath t-shirts and tat - you are used to may find the los in Exarchia caused rioting family visiting Athens and ex - toos, an entire neighborhood attraction of Exarchia hard to throughout Greece. ploring the city, maybe you that looks like your kid’s fa - resist. Sure Exarchia may be WELCOME ALMOST ALL should stick to the Plaka and book · worm. - noun vorite rock club or even his the scariest place in Athens. When the United States Em - Monastiraki and the archaeolog - 1. One who spends much time reading or studying. bedroom. But that depends on your de - bassy in Athens put out a warn - ical sites and museums. But if 2. Any of various insects, especially booklice and Exarchia = Evil. Perhaps the finition of scary. ing for travelers to avoid the you are of college age and mind- silverfish, that infest books and feed on the paste in the end of civilization. One person’s “scary” is an - neighborhood it prompted a set and are looking for an alter - bindings. And yet there is something other person’s “home.” number of e-mails to me from native area where you can find Source: The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition very civilized about it. Art gal - (This was written in June, people asking if their hotel was cool rock clubs, cheap tavernas, The National Herald Bookstore leries. Nice tavernas. Interest - as Athens began a series of anywhere near this area. Since excellent used CD and record (718) 784-5255 ing cafes of all styles. Bars, strikes and protests) there are few hotels in Exarchia shops and a couple of the best [email protected] and only a handful even close rembetika clubs in Athens, then