S o C V st ΓΡΑΦΕΙ ΤΗΝ ΙΣΤΟΡΙΑ W ΤΟΥ ΕΛΛΗΝΙΣΜΟΥ E 101 ΑΠΟ ΤΟ 1915 The National Herald anniversa ry N www.thenationalherald.com A Weekly Greek-AmeriCAn PubliCAtion 1915-2016 VOL. 20, ISSUE 1006 January 21-27, 2017 c v $1.50 Trump’s Inauguration, Schaeuble Administration Will on IMF Have a Greek Accent Greek TNH Staff behavior about Russia. Pullout Christos Marafatsos will rep - NEW YORK – As he takes the resent the Greek- and Cypriot- oath of office as the 45th Presi - American community on the Na - Would Mean Revised dent of the United States, Donald tional Diversity Coalition for Trump will have in the back - Trump. Marafatsos’ role was to Bailout Terms for ground a cadre of Greek-Ameri - advise the Coalition and the Re - can advisers who will have his publican National Committee on Beleaguered Nation ear and be steps away from the issues critical to those groups. Oval Office. This is the closest Greek- TNH Staff Chief among them is his Chief Americans have gotten to the of Staff, Reince Priebus, who has presidency since Spiro Agnew ATHENS – Greece’s left-led gov - a Greek mother and German fa - was Vice-President and Michael ernment said it would welcome ther – apropos given Greece’s in - Dukakis was the Democratic a decision by the International extricable economic links to its nominee in 1988, losing an early Monetary Fund to pull out of biggest lender. lead in polls before being the country’s bailout program, There’s also George Gigicos, thumped by George Bush, father which is bogged down in dis - who is Director of Advance Op - of his namesake who would later agreements on further spending erations and was close to the hold the office. cuts. Trump from the early days of an Priebus and Gigicos are Ar - Government spokesman unlikely campaign written off by chons of the Church, as is Florida Dimitris Tzanakopoulos accused political pundits and Washington Congressman Gus Bilirakis. The the Washington-based fund of insiders as a pipe dream that be - three will be honored, along with making “irrational demands” in came their nightmare. Archbishop Demetrios at the Met - the negotiations, which he said George Papadopoulos, who ropolitan Club in Washington on Greece wants wrapped up as directs an international energy Jan. 19, a day before the inau - soon as possible. center at the London Center of guration. The Finance Ministry re - International Law Practice, will THE TOP DOG leased preliminary budget data be a member of a foreign policy The top spot goes to Priebus, according to which the primary team tackling an unsafe world of 44, from Wisconsin, a steady AP Photo surplus for 2016 – which ex - terrorism and sensitive diplo - Chief-of-staff Greek-American Reince Priebus at the podium, with Donald Trump and Mike cludes debt servicing costs – was macy, especially given Trump’s Continued on page 3 Pence looking on, is just one of many in Trump’s administration with Greek connections. more than double the initial tar - get. Greece hopes a deal with Eu - ropean creditors and the IMF will boost its battered economy, St. Paul’s Fr. Melackrinos Suspended give it access to the European Central Bank’s bond-buying stimulus program and, later, to By Theodore Kalmoukos wife and three daughters. The know how he ended up where international debt markets. National Herald’s requests to we are now. What I know is that The IMF participated in HEMPSTEAD, NY – Rev. Luke Melackrinos and St. Paul’s a year ago he communicated via Greece’s two previous bailouts, Melackrinos was placed on sus - parish council president re - email and text messages with a but is still deliberating whether pension from all his liturgical mained unanswered at press woman who had been divorced to finance the current, third pro - and administrative duties as time, but His Grace Bishop An - three years ago. She is not Or - gram signed in 2015. It says fis - presiding priest at the presti - donios of Phasiane gave an ex - thodox; I think she is Roman- cal targets agreed upon between gious St. Paul’s Cathedral in clusive interview to the Herald Catholic. Her husband was Greece and the Europeans are Hempstead, NY for allegedly in - elaborating on the allegations. Greek Orthodox and member of too optimistic. appropriate electronic commu - The interview follows: the St. Paul parish. Sometimes, “What the IMF decides is its nication with an adult female TNH: Your Grace, what did she had attended services in the own concern,” Tzanakopoulos parishioner. exactly happened regarding Fr. past. Those e-mails had said. “But what concerns us is Ordained to the priesthood Melackrinos? stopped, but shortly before the that it should take its decision in 2003, Fr. Melackrinos is sus - BA: That is what I am trying New Year, Fr. Luke sent an email as soon as possible and not cre - pected of sending electronically to understand myself as well. I to all the parishioners regarding ate pointless delays” in the inappropriate photographs of can tell you that no one ex - himself to the woman. He has a pected this from him. I don’t Continued on page 6 Continued on page 9 TV Icon, Greek-American onnozweers, via Wikimedia Commons Betty White Celebrates a Panepirotikos Fed. Essay Contest Announced The old bridge of Konitsa over the river Aoos, one of the highest Happy 95th Birthday of its kind in Greece is located in the legendary region of Epiros. College students are invited to submit 1,500 word es - says on “What Epiros Means to Me” to the Panepirotic Federa - TNH Staff the longest television career for tion. See the related story on page 4. a female entertainer. White is LOS ANGELES, CA – Greek- also a longtime animal rights ac - American actress Betty White tivist. celebrated her 95th birthday on On Dec. 27, a GoFundMe January 17. The only child of campaign was launched by Worlds Apart Boffo in NYC Christine Tess Cachikis and Ho - Demetrios Hrysikos from South race Logan White, she was born Carolina to protect the iconic ac - in Oak Park, IL. tress from 2016, a year that saw Booked for Second Week The family moved to Califor - the departure of so many nia during the Great Depression beloved celebrities. The descrip - and it was while attending high tion of the fundraising effort By Penelope Karageorge Libre Studio, thrilled at the school that Betty decided to be - read, “Help 2016 catch these film’s terrific showing, booked come an actress. A pioneer in hands if it goes anywhere near NEW YORK – Worlds Apart, the it for a second week at Village the television industry, White Betty White! If she's okay with explosive and moving drama East Cinemas. It racked up the worked in front of and behind it I will fly to wherever Betty that scored No. 1 as Greece’s largest per-screen tally of any the cameras as the first woman White is and keep her safe till biggest box office winner in a other film showing in theatres to produce her own TV sitcom. Jan. 1, 2017. 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As of 2013, she also holds Prokopis Pavlopoulos, at the Presidential Palace, in Athens, Continued on page 2 the Guinness World Records for Continued on page 3 Jan. 17. Mattarella is in Greece on a two-day official visit. 2 COMMUNITY- ARTS THE NATIONAL HERALD, JANUARY 21-27, 2017 Peter Douskalis and Company Wow the Audience with World Music in NY By Eleni Sakellis pieces from a wide range of D’Amour ensemble which in - countries and regions, yet all cludes: Douskalis on guitar, Su - NEW YORK – Coup D’Amour a share musical commonalities. san Davis on violin, Gjilberta Lu - performance of World Music, From harmonic relationships be - caj on cello, Luiz Bacchi on led by guitarist and educator Pe - tween Syria and Turkey or Mex - upright bass, and Jacob Yusufov ter Douskalis dazzled the audi - ico and Russia; rhythmic com - on guitar. The gifted artists ence at The Bitter End in New monalities between Turkey, played so well, many in the au - York’s Greenwich Village on Jan.