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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. 14, ISSUE 722 August 13-19, 2011 $1.50 Golf in The Papandreou Tells EU to Send the Check, Some Germans Balk Kingdom: Big September Looms for Greece as the A Walk Not Pressure Builds to Push Reforms Faster ATHENS – After the unprece - calm markets. He suggested that dented downgrading of the the region should move more Spoiled American economy and reeling quickly to issue Eurobonds, to markets in Europe, Greek Prime impose a financial transaction Minister George Papandreou has tax and to strengthen the Euro - Executive Producer G. reached out to European Union pean Financial Stability Facility leaders, asking them to acceler - (EFSF) fund to prop up weak Stephanopoulos & ate the timetable for sending economies in Greece, Ireland, life-saving loans to Greece, Portugal, Spain and Italy. Papan - More than a Game scheduled for next month and dreou also urged the European beyond that. Papandreou, who leaders to ensure that there By Constantine S. Sirigos had a telephone conversation would be no complications in TNH Staff Writer with European Council President Greece receiving its next loan in - Herman Van Rompuy, also spoke stallment, which will amount to NEW YORK – What does it to European Commission Presi - $11.3 billion due in September, mean when a movie begins with dent Jose Manuel Barroso and and without which Greece can - the declaration: We must make Luxembourg’s Prime Minister not pay its bills. It is likely that golf a matter of life and death? Jean-Claude Juncker, who heads Athens will not receive this loan The ambitious independent film the 17-nation Eurozone of coun - with the improved terms agreed Golf in the Kingdom is not a tries using the euro as a currency in Brussels on July 21, which sports movie. Its Executive Pro - which has been under siege be - provided lower interest rates ducer is George Stephanopoulos cause of Greece’s fiscal morass. and a longer repayment period, – the entertainment lawyer, not The Athens newspaper up to 15 years. Papandreou’s the host of Good Morning Amer - Kathimerini, citing unnamed plea was backed by his Finance ica who is his cousin. Producer sources, said the discussions fo - Minister Evangelos Venizelos Stephanopoulos is the son and cused on three key areas: the re - who said the Eurozone must grandson of Greek Orthodox forms being carried out by the swiftly implement a July deal to priest and the magnificent government, further measures boost its rescue fund in order to scenes framed by cinematogra - that the Eurozone can take to show it will do all it can to sup - pher Arturo Smith and the sub - bolster the single currency, and port the euro and stem a grow - lime music by Evelyn Glennie the current market volatility ing global crisis. Eurozone lead - are the first hints this picture is threatening the euro, which ers agreed in July to give the not about sports, but life. Based AP/ THANASSIS STAVRAKIS prompted the European Central EFSF rescue fund power to buy on the 1971 book of the same Her Ship Isn’t Coming In Bank to declare it would buy sovereign bonds on the sec - title by writer Michael Murphy, Italian bonds. ondary market and to extend to it is the fictional story of an An elderly woman holds an umbrella at the southern Athens seaside suburb of Paleo Faliro to Papandreou reportedly pro - Greece a new multi-billion euro earnest but impatient young protect herself from a heatwave and – just as Greece is sweating out the dog days of August - posed that the Eurozone adopt American seeking enlighten - wondering what September will bring for the economically-battered country. more convincing measures to Continued on page 7 ment. Played by Mason Gamble, he is on his way to the Sri Au - robindo Ashram in India and be - ing a golf enthusiast he decided to play at the famous Burning - Peter Vallone’s Astoria: No Changes Here Please Australian bush course during a layover. “Any chance I can get a golf les - son” he asked the quirky pro By Constantine S. Sirigos cluding a run as its Speaker, and office. virtually every day of his life. Girl in Tragic Shivas Irons, played by David TNH Staff Writer his grandfather Charles was a Second, heritage. The Val - He calls it the greatest neigh - O’Hara. “It’s a serious matter,” judge. His urge to serve his com - lones revere their roots and are borhood in the world. Even you just can’t be sure,” he told NEW YORK – New York City munity is strong and has deep proud of the achievements and when he was working in the N.Y. Death the perplexed American in a Councilman Peter F. Vallone, Jr. roots, but evidence abounds of contributions of Italian Ameri - Manhattan District Attorney’s “You can’t get there from here” was casually dressed as he in - other commitments. First, the cans. Among the photos in the office he lived there and when tone. Over a 24-hour period, vited The National Herald into family. Press interviews are im - office are two from a recent trip he lived in other parts of Queens By Demetrios Tsakas however, Shiva teaches Michael his offices in the heart of Astoria portant to politicians, but he to Sicily. He and his cousin An - he worked there. “It’s a model TNH Staff Writer about golf, and more. on the first day of August. made it clear that the time was thony visited Palermo with a for the entire world. The Irish, The slightly arrogant and Though his attire was dictated limited by his need to be on law enforcement delegation that Italians and then the Greeks NEW YORK – A wave of grief stuck up Murphy doesn’t take by the sweltering heat outside, time for lunch with his parents met with Sicilian organized came in, who now make up passed through the Greek Amer - Shivas too seriously. He borders it also reflected the comfort felt and dinner later in the day with crime prosecutors. He slipped about half the population … the ican community of New York on condescension when he ex - by the Third Generation public youngest daughter. There are away to visit nearby Agrigento, other half come from the entire and New Jersey in the wake of presses surprise that Sivas knew servant and his constituents more photos of children, nieces the land of three of his grand - world and it’s a great melting the passing of 10-year-old Sab - of Aurobindo. That’s just as well alike when they meet. Vallone’s and nephews parents, grand parents. pot – everybody gets along rina Mangos, an Australian of father, Peter Sr. served on the and great grandparents than of Third, but certainly not least, Greek descent, who was killed Continued on page 4 City Council for 27 years – in - celebrities or politicians in his Astoria, where Vallone has spent Continued on page 4 Aug. 7 in a tragic car crash in Astoria at the intersection of 34th Avenue and 31st Street at 6:35 p.m. Authorities said a 2001 Nissan Sentra that Richard George Lessons for Portnoy was driving collided with a GMC minivan that was being driven by Mangos family Zouroudis’ Greece from friend Demetrius Moutafis. His wife Stavroula was in the van Many Lives along with her first cousin Va - Astoria’s Own lerie (Stavroula) Mangos and her husband Michael and their By Steve Frangos three children, Sam, 13, By Vangelis Katsikiotis Nicholas, 11, and Sabrina. The All across the United States Special to The National Herald Mangos family was visiting from Greek Americans are making Australia and live in Tennyson, every effort to preserve the his - ASTORIA, N.Y. - When the peo - a suburb of Adelaide. tories of their immigrant ances - ple of Greece try to grasp the The minivan flipped over in tors. Through stories they share problems their country faces, it’s the violent crash and The Wall among themselves, old pho - easy for them to get lost in the Street Journal reported that tographs they pass around over daunting challenges: an unem - young Sabrina, who was “on her coffee and conversation, to short ployment rate of 16.1%, a na - way to an Astoria, Queens, pas - accounts they compose expressly tional debt approaching $500 try shop after attending a Broad - for their families and close billion, a political system unable way show with her parents, friends more of Greek American to cope with the crisis, a state brothers and cousins - was history is being recorded in this bloated by bureaucracy and cor - ejected from the minivan in the manner than by any other means ruption, and a shocking disre - Sunday crash … She was pro - or agency. What follows is an ac - spect for the rule of law among nounced dead at Mount Sinai their fellow citizens. If they were Hospital of Queens,” despite re - Continued on page 5 to turn their glance across the ports ambulances arrived on the sea they might find a basis for scene very quickly. The Journal optimism. It seems that rela - noted that the car was being tively few Greeks realize that “driven by an on-duty New York For subscription: the members of the Diaspora liv - City public-housing supervisor 718.784.5255 ing all over the world are among broadsided the minivan,” and [email protected] the most successful and promi - added that the 55 year-old “Mr.