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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. 13, ISSUE 662 June 19-25 , 2010 $1.50 Greek Papandreou Goes to New York to Make Greece’s Case Renaissance Will Meet With Grows in Fellow Socialist Leaders, Present Brooklyn Austerity Argument Sts. Constantine and By Andy Dabilis Helen Community Fresh off a series of stops in Europe to reiterate his belief Nears Centennial that Greece is turning an eco - nomic corner because of his By Angelike Contis harsh austerity measures to TNH Staff Writer ratchet down a record debt and deficit, Greek Prime Minister NEW YORK – Let’s start with the George Papandreou will be in galaktoboureko. The custard in New York from June 20-23 for this dessert was light, fluffy and a series of meetings, including impossibly generous. The crust, before the International Social - delightfully golden. The honey ist conference. Papandreou, sauce was applied with a light, whose PASOK Socialist party expert touch. This perfected now rules Greece, has been Greek custard-filled treat was working the press circuit hard just one example of what drew with a number of interviews in some 8-10,000 people this year international newspapers – ex - to the Greek Festival of the Sts. cept for Greek American media Constantine and Helen Cathe - – that have often given him a dral in Brooklyn Heights. flattering portrayal, even while The event, held June 7-13 in Greeks have been forced into a the barricaded-off street outside lowered standard of living with of the historic church, also fea - AP Photo/PetroS GiAnnAkoUriS) tax hikes, pensions that could tured the tantalizing, smoky Chinese Vice-Premier Zhang Dejiang (L), and his Greek coun - day, June 15, 2010. Officials said Greek and Chinese companies be slashed in half, and public scent of gyro and souvlaki waft - terpart Theodoros Pangalos, during a commercial agreement signed 14 deals, including those for the construction of cargo sector pay cuts. That has met ing through the air, a sack slide signing ceremony at the foreign ministry in Athens, on Tues - ships and the export of olive oil, during Zhang's visit. with a series of strikes and ride and bouncy house for chil - protests, most of which have pe - dren, a basement flea market, tered out recently, especially af - generous table space, a cozy pas - ter the death of three innocent try/drinks nook – and lots of bank workers on May 5 in a fire - dancing. HMS Doctors Make A House Call to the Aegean bombing police blamed on an - Attendance, according to archists. But some Greeks re - four-time Festival Chairwoman main defiant and Athens has Michelle Tambakis was up 10- By Stavros Marmarinos tion and possible procedure ticipated in this year’s Aegean transport vessel Menas E, which been hit with a spate of public 15% over last year. The weather TNH Staff Writer from the pediatric surgeons sta - Crossing, which is conducted is equipped with medical equip - transport strikes and work stop - last week was kind and Friday, tioned at the hospital there. each year by Team Aegean, a ment and instruments used in pages, in the midst of 100 de - June 11, was, she said, “the NEW YORK -- A frightened During another instance, Tsiou - group of dedicated doctors and preventive medicine, visited the gree heat, that have also left busiest day ever.” Tambakis is mother walked into the lias examined a 35-year-old various other professionals who islands of Kimolos, Sikinos, tourists perplexed and unable perhaps proudest of the way that makeshift medical office that woman who did not know that set aside a period during the late Schoinoussa, Herakleia, Do - many generations worked to - was set up on the small remote she had a cyst in her right ovary. spring or early summer each nousa, Akrioi, Leipsoi, Agathon - gether in the community of some Aegean island of Arkioi, near As soon as he finished the ex - year to sail across Greece’s isi, Fournoi, and Thymaina. A 220 families. She noted, a day Patmos, and brought in her 11- amination, he advised that she Aegean Sea and enhance the total of 60 people participated after this year’s festival ended: month-old son, who was suffer - go immediately to see the gyne - well-being of Greek islanders in the mission. “We have three or four genera - ing from a urinary retention cologist in Samos. “The cyst was with little or no accessibility to Team Aegean’s medical unit tions of the same family working problem. Dr. George Tsioulias, rather large, and she had not some of life’s basic necessities. conducted free bloodwork and at the same station.” This overlap President of the Hellenic Med - realized a thing,” Tsioulias said. The doctors have been engaging biochemical profiles for all the was clear in the smooth coordi - ical Society of New York, exam - “Thanks to the examination we in this mission for the past 16 residents of these islands, and nation, nonstop joking and ined the child. Once he saw the performed, there is a great years. This year, the mission provided full pediatric examina - smiles amongst the volunteers in severity of the condition, he ad - chance that she will avoid any took place between May 13 - 23. tions for children. The Greek vised that the child be sent to complications.” Team Aegean, using 11 inflat - Continued on page 4 Samos for a thorough examina - For the first time, HMS par - able speedboats and the medical Continued on page 9 Markopolos Mania in Manhattan NEW YORK – “The press called one else, ignored the clear signs Markopolos talk shop about me a hero. I certainly don’t think of the notorious $65 billion Madoff. The event was co-spon - I was a hero. I was very fright - Ponzi scheme that bilked thou - sored by the Hellenic American ened. Heroes are brave. I wasn’t, sands of people of their invest - Bankers Association, the Hel - AP Photo/Geert VAnden WijnGAert I was scared as a rabbit for at ments and, in some cases, their lenic American Chamber of Greek Prime Minister George least six and a half years.” Harry fortunes. Commerce and the Hellenic Papandreou in Brussels June Markopolos said that of his Though justice-seeking guy- American Lawyers Association. 16, 2010. lengthy, frustrating efforts to next-door Markopolos may not Shooting out financial one- alert the world to a swindler consider himself a hero, the liners was the self-described to get around, not the image named Bernie Madoff, as he Greek American community proud Greek geek’s effort to Greece wants to present. took the podium on June 11, for clearly does. This was evidenced counterbalance the gravity of The Prime Minister’s office a special presentation of the at the book signing presenta - the Madoff tragedy – which in - said they didn’t know what his book No One Would Listen. As tion, where the financial ana - cluded, as the speaker pointed schedule would be, although he number cruncher Markopolos lyst-turned-whistleblower in an out -suicides and countless in - scheduled a news conference in noted in the book, he carried a olive-colored suit was swarmed direct victims. “How many gen - New York City on June 20. Pa - gun and checked for bombs un - by people in business attire for erous souls do you know on pandreou’s appearances have der his mini-van as he and his his autograph. It mattered little Wall Street,” he asked, in one of been geared toward trying to team got deeper into their in - that it was a Friday afternoon. these asides. Getting even big - present the argument that he tnh/AnGelike ContiS vestigation of Madoff’s question - Greeks from Wall Street and be - ger laughs, he continued: “Are has taken necessary, if politically Harry Markopolos (L), the man who warned the government able profits and tried to alert the yond clearly considered this there any souls on Wall Street?” unpopular, steps to save Greece about financial fraudster Bernie Madoff but was ignored. A world, between 2000 and 2008. their rock concert of the year. The financial wiz, who was from bankruptcy. He has also special booksigning drew a crowd in New York City, including But the U.S. Securities and Ex - They flocked to the First Amer - plenty of attorneys, bankers and other Greek Americans. change Commission, and every - ican Title rendezvous to hear Continued on page 4 Continued on page 9 John Paradise Conquers Giannoulias Virginia, Literary World Rising vs. By Steve Frangos As we shall see, Paradise was GOP’s Kirk TNH Staff Writer a scholarly gentleman of leisure and considerable repute who CHICAGO- In a time when it is lived nearly his entire life in By Constantine S. Sirigos claimed that studies of the London. Yet at the time of his TNH Staff Writer Greek Diaspora are on the rise death Paradise was not simply worldwide it is well worth re- a celebrated intellectual figure NEW YORK – The world has considering the life of John Par - but also an American citizen long enjoyed stories of Greeks adise. This one man’s life brings who had only spent less than fighting and winning in the face together many of the enduring eight months in North America. of adversity. The tale of Alexi questions and concerns that EARLY LIFE Giannoulias, the youngest state continue to plague the very de - Paradise was born in Thessa - treasurer in Illinois history, who finition of the historical and cul - loniki in April 1743, the son of set his sights on the U.S.
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