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ISTANBUL (AP) — Regional ri - odds over a broad range of is - TNH Staff vals Greece and Turkey want to sues, including war-divided overcome long-standing differ - Cyprus, Aegean Sea boundaries, NICOSIA, Cyprus – The top ences through dialogue and can and illegal immigration. Greece agenda item for Nicos Anastasi - resolve Cyprus's division if they is a main transit point for illegal ades, the newly-elected presi - show the will, Turkish Prime immigrants entering the Euro - dent of the Republic of Cyprus, Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan pean Union, with most crossing is securing a a 17 billion euro said Monday. into the country through Turkey. bailout from the members of the Erdogan was speaking along - "We may have different opin - Eurozone. One of the main ob - side his Greek counterpart, An - ions but we want to solve these stacles is the island nation’s rep - tonis Samaras, following the by launching new channels of utation as a haven for money- second joint ministerial council dialogue," Erdogan said. "I hope laundering, meeting between Turkey and we will overcome the Cyprus is - Cyprus partners also have Greece aimed at building trust sue through our common will... purely economic concerns. The and strengthening economic ties It's time to bury this problem in Associated Press (AP) reported between the two countries, history." that “Eurogroup chairman which have nearly gone to war Cyprus was divided into an Jeroen Dijsselbloem declined to three times between 1974 and internationally recognized answer questions on whether 1996. Ministers from both coun - Greek speaking south and a Cypriot bank bondholders — tries signed more than two breakaway Turkish speaking and possibly even depositors – dozen cooperation deals, includ - north in 1974 when Turkey in - should be forced to pay a share ing in health, tourism and fight - vaded after a coup by supporters of the cost of the bailout, saying ing illegal migration. of union with Greece. the negotiations with Cyprus' Relations between the un - "This is a good day for Turk - new government were only easy NATO allies have improved ish-Greek ties," Samaras said, starting. Dijsselbloem reiterated greatly since the late 1990s, but adding: "There have been ups that the eurozone seeks to final - Athens and Ankara remain at and down in our ties, we cannot ize the bailout by the end of the ignore this fact. But we want the month.” history that we shall be writing The AP explained, however from now on to be recalled by that “the idea of making bond - chapters entitled 'peace' and 'de - Anthony S. Papadimitriou, President of the Alexander S. Onassis Public Benefit Foundation, re - velopment.'" ceived the Award of Excellence for the promotion of the world’s shared Hellenic heritage by the Continued on page 11 The leaders did not directly National Hellenic Museum boards chairman John Calamos, Sr. address the contentious issue of determining each neighbors' rights for exploring and exploit - ing potential mineral and fossil $350,000 for Nat’l Hellenic Museum Catsimatidis fuel deposits, but the Greek leader said the question of the delineation of the continental By Anthe Mitrakos Hellenic heritage was Dr. An - Major benefactors included Is on Jewish shelf was being discussed by of - thony Papadimitriou, President the families of Mary and ficials during regular lower-level CHICAGO, IL – A carnival spirit and Treasurer of the Vaduz, Michael Jaharis, Dean and Mar - discussions. was in the air at the National Liechtenstein-established ianne Metropoulos, and the Ha - Radio Show Also, Greece has offered its Hellenic Museum’s second an - Alexander S. Onassis Founda - likias Family. Notable guests in support to regional rival nual Ambrosia Ball on March tion. attendance were former Ambas - Turkey's bid to host the 2020 2nd. Held at the Hilton Palmer The evening was hosted by sador of Greece to the United TNH Staff Olympics. House, the Museum’s the Fox News Chicago anchor States Loukas Tsilas, Director of The prime ministers of both fundraiser, which raised over Anna Davlantes. George Cultural Affairs at Onassis Foun - NEW YORK – John Catsima - countries signed an agreement $350,000, brought together Stephanopoulos, co-anchor of dation USA Amalia Cosmetatou, tidis, who has made a name for pledging to cooperate on Istan - some 300 of the Greek-Ameri - “Good Morning America,” who Consul-General of Greece in himself as a tirelessly productive AP PHOTO bul's latest bid for the games. can community’s leaders in ed - could not be in attendance, Chicago Ioanna Efthymiadou, businessman and philanthropist, Greek PM Antonis Samaras The accord was signed by ucation, business, and philan - served as honorary chair, while and Cook County Treasurer is working hard to present him - speaks to the media with his Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip thropy. Dr. George Korkos, president at Maria Pappas. self as the person best qualified Turkish counterpart Recep Erdogan and Greek Prime Min - Honored that night with an Plastic Surgery Associates, and “On a more personal note, I to carry the mayoral baton after Tayyip Erdogan, not pictured, award of excellence for his pro - Mrs. Penny Korkos, served as the combined 20-year run of after talks in Istanbul, Turkey. Continued on page 11 motion of the world’s shared chairs of the night. Continued on page 4 Rudy Giuliani and Michael Bloomberg. Vowing to spend the neces - sary money to fund his campaign, he is making his case directly to The Fall of Amb.’s Dinner Heralds Hellenic-Israeli Alliance the New York’s numerous ethnic and social groups, and through their media outlets. Const/ople: TNH Staff On February 28 he appeared on Michael Fragin’s program The WASHINGTON, DC – The Israeli Is a Lesson Ambassador to the United States, Continued on page 6 Michael Oren, and his wife Sally, hosted a dinner at the Ambas - For Greece sador's residence on the evening of February 27 in honor of a new By Constantine S. Sirigos congressional grouping called the AGAPW and TNH Staff Writer Congressional Hellenic-Israel Al - liance, which is dedicated to im - NEW YORK – An entertaining proving Israeli-Greek-Cypriot John Jay’s and informative lecture by the ties. author of the new book Queen The co-chairmen of the newly of Cities: A Historical Novel on established caucus, Reps. Gus Forum about The Fall of Constantinople not Bilirakis (R-FL) and Ted Deutch only illuminated a seminal mo - (D-FL), as well as lawmakers in - ment in the history of the Greek cluding Reps. John Sarbanes (D- Trafficking nation for a standing room only MD) and Eliot Engel (D-NY), audience at the Holy Trinity who is the senior Democrat on Cathedral Ballroom, but was also the U.S. House of Representa - By Constantine S. Sirigos a humbling reminder that civi - tives Foreign Affairs Committee, TNH Staff Writer lizations that endure for millen - and special guests from across nia by virtue of their genius can the United States, attended the NEW YORK – The Association also be brought low by ignoble reception at Ambassador Oren's of Greek American Professional qualities that lurk in the shadows residence. Also present were Women (AGAPW) and the Cen - of their glory days. Christos Panagopoulos, the Am - ter for International Human The author and presenter, bassador of Greece to the United Rights of John Jay College pre - Professor Andrew Novo of the States, and Olympia Neocleous, sented a Forum on Human Traf - National Defense University, the charge d'affaires at the ficking on February 24. opened by noting parallels with Cypriot embassy in Washington. It was a night for celebrating the many things Greeks and Jews have in common and appreciate The forum featured a panel the current Greek crisis. Infight - about one another’s cultures, but the musicians stole the show at the residence of Ambassador discussion that was preceded by ing among Greeks, massive tax Continued on page 2 Oren, who joined them on percussion. the United Nations Children’s evasion and incompetence that Fund (UNICEF) film Not My Life crippled the state, and depen - which “depicts the scourge of dence on European partners ei - human trafficking on a global ther reluctant to help or clueless scale.” Filmed on five continents about what needs to be done are WIN Honors C ommunity Bids Adieu to Peter Kikis in a dozen countries, Not My characteristic of 1453 and 2013. Life takes viewers into a world The event on March 5 was a where millions of children are presentation of the Cyprus Fed - Fox Anchor NEW YORK – Entrepreneur, a man of deep personal faith, exploited through practices in - eration of America in cooperation philanthropist, and stalwart of passionate commitment to Or - cluding forced labor, domestic with Investors Bank (which re - the Greek Orthodox Church, Pe - thodoxy and Hellenism, and a servitude, begging, sex tourism cently acquired Marathon Bank Petallides ter T. Kikis has fallen asleep in leading personage of enterprise. and child soldiering, according of New York) and Piraeus Bank. the Lord at the age of 90. Arch - He was an elegant and eloquent to UNICEF. Natalie Nicolaou, a Princeton By Constantine S. Sirigos bishop Demetrios of America man who took very seriously his The purpose of such events graduate who works for Investors TNH Staff Writer presided over the funeral which responsibility for the dual lega - is to provide people with infor - Bank and who is married to Pro - was held at the Archdiocesan cies of Hellenism and Ortho - mation that will enable them to fessor Novo, was the MC and FLUSHING – The Pancyprian Cathedral of the Holy Trinity in doxy. His leadership at the speak out pressure their govern - moderator of the Q&A that fol - Women’s Issues Network (WIN) Manhattan on March 6. FAITH Endowment has left an ments to take action. The spirit lowed the lecture. marked its 18th Anniversary and Friends and family were enduring positive mark not only of the event was summarized by Peter Papanicolaou, the Fed - honored Nicole Petallides, An - joined by Greece’s UN Ambas - on the Fund, but in the greater a young person in the film who eration’s president, welcomed the chor for Fox Business Network, sador Greece's UN Ambassador life of the Archdiocese, offering said “I cannot live a good life guests, and there were greetings 2013 Woman of the Year with Anastassis Mitsialis, George Il - his faithful and dedicated ser - when other people are living from Kevin Cummings, President at their annual dinner dance on iopoulos, Greece's Consul Gen - vices as a Member of the Arch - like animals, not because I can & Chief Executive Officer of In - March 2 at Terrace on the Park. eral in New York, and Cyprus' diocesan Council and the Exec - a good person but because they A feeling of family often pre - Consul General Koula Sophi - utive Committee. He will surely are human beings like me. “ Continued on page 3 vails at community events, but anou. be deeply missed by his family, One of the stories was that the WIN gala was more of a fam - Kikis was the president and but also by all of us who have of Grace from Uganda, who told ily affair than usual. Petallides’ an original founding member of had the lasting privilege to of her horrific experience as a family, well-known in the United “Faith: An Endowment for Or - know and work with him for the child soldier, saying, “marching For subscription: States and Cyprus for their de - thodoxy and Hellenism,” a Businessman and philan - good of the Church. May his into the Sudan was like march - 718.784.5255 votion to the Cyprus cause and member of the Order of St. An - thropist Peter T. Kikis. memory be eternal.” ing into a grave.” She said the [email protected] the community as a whole, came drew with the title Archon The son of Greek immigrants dehumanization process that fa - out in force. Some of the digni - Maestor, and a member of Lead - ecutive Committee of the Arch - from Arcadia, Kikis was born cilitates the exploitation of chil - taries who addressed the guests ership 100. diocesan Council. Archbishop and raised in New Rochelle, dren often began with their be - felt the need to declare they A trusted advisor to Arch - Demetrios of America released New York. When he was eleven ing ordered to shoot their own bishop Demetrios, Kikis had this statement: Continued on page 7 served as a member of the Ex - Mr. Peter T. Kikis. Peter was Continued on page 8 Continued on page 7 2 COMMUNITY THE NATIONAL HERALD, MARCH 9-15, 2013 Lemnian Society "Hephaestos" Honors Douris GOINGS ON... n MARCH 4-30 able for purchase during inter - By Demetrios Tsakas MANHATTAN – The community mission. All tickets for the event TNH Staff Writer is invited to the new exhibition: are $20, and will be available “Lilia: Revealing Moments,” at at the door. Advance reserva - FLUSHING – The Pan Lemnian Elga Wimmer Gallery, 526 W. tions for this event can be made Philanthropic Association “Hep - 26 Street, #310 in Manhattan. by contacting Cheryl Bontales, haestos” celebrated the 107th 212-206-0006, March 4 – March 732-796-1006; anniversary of its founding and 30. Lilia’s new series of works [email protected]. This event is the 101st anniversary of the lib - combines physical media -stone, funded in part by the Hellenic eration of the island of Lemnos plaster, rope- and digital media Dancers of New Jersey, Inc., and with a dinner dance at Terrace – 3d printed sculptures, photog - New Jersey State Council on the on the Park on March 2. raphy- to explore the concept of Arts - Department of State, a The gala was rich with emo - the female body. Partner Agency of the National tions and memories because it Endowment for the Arts. was dedicated to the beloved n MARCH 8 Evangeline Douris, who is Chair - MANHATTAN – Internet Dating: n MARCH 18 man of the Board of Director of The Good, the Bad and the Out - MANHATTAN – Kellari Taverna the social service institution rageous will be the topic of a is pulling out all the stops for HANAC, and because numerous program sponsored by the Hel - the annual Kathara Deftera speakers made references to lenic University Club (HUC) of (Clean Monday) dinner to ben - Lemnos and to the contribution New York and the Greek Amer - efit the renowned Gennadius Li - the Hephaestos has made ican Behavioral Institute. brary of the American School of through the years – especially Teacher Alexis Kiriazides and Classical Studies in Athens on during the difficult post-World journalist Dean Sirigos will ad - Monday, March 18 at 6:30PM! War II period – to its island dress the pros and cons of the Executive Chef Gregory Zapan - homeland and to the Greek- 21st century phenomenon. Psy - tis is serving a spectacular menu American community. ABOVE: The ballroom and the chologist Tom Mallios will then of Mediterranean dishes There Hephaestus’ dance troupe famed Terrace on the Park in weigh in and Fr. Anastasios will be an open bar from 6:30 presented traditional dances, Flushing is filled with the Gounaris will present his views to 7:30 PM and Greek wines which won accolades from the members of the Pan-Lemnian leading into a lively give and and beer will be served through - guests, and provided evidence, Association and friends of take with attendees who are en - out the evening. Music will be along with the scholarship cere - Evangeline Douris, the couraged to bring their “war sto - provided by Gregory Maninakis mony, of the relevance of this evening’s honoree. ries” and questions. Reception and his trio. For reservations call historic club for the younger LEFT: Evangeline Douris, who follows. ADMISSION FREE. 609-454-6814. generation. was born on the island of 6:30PM, Friday, Mar. 8 at the Douris declared she was Lemnos, receives a plaque Cathedral of the Holy Trinity. n MARCH 23 proud of her roots in the village during the 2013 dinner dance 337 East 74th Street in Manhat - NEW BRUNSWICK, NJ – of Moudros and recounted with of the Pan-Lemnian Associa - tan (212) 661-8026. “Manolos Mitsias Sings for emotion her visits there with her tion Hephaestos dinner dance Greece” is a benefit concert in parents. She reminisced about in her honor. Dimitris n MARCH 9 support of charities working to her participation in the dance Vekiarellis and Alexander MANHATTAN – The Hellenic alleviate the suffering of chil - troupe and the events organized Tsoukalas. Medical Society will re-create a dren in Greece and Cyprus. Pre - by Hephaestus. She also spoke traditional Macedonian sented by the P.G.E.I of Ameri - about HANAC and the services Apokries – Mardi Gras celebra - can Charitable Foundation, The it offers to members of the com - tas spoke touchingly of the hon - tion with costumes, traditional Hellenic Federation of NJ, and munity and new immigrants. oree as an example to many meatfare and other delicious members of Pan Gregorian En - As for the award that she re - Greek-American and about Greek specialties, and live music terprises. Proceeds to benefit: ceived that night, she said it is and important member of the The president of the Federa - HANAC. with Lefteris Bournias and the Hamogelo tou Pediou (The the biggest and most important community, Evangeline Douris, tion of Greek Societies of Tsoukalas awarded scholar - Kavala Brass Band and the Smile of the Child), which pro - distinction she has ever received, who as a little girl proudly wore Greater New York, Elias Tsek - ships to Aspasia Vasilopoulos Greek Choir of Folk Songs with vides a home and other services and dedicated it to the late par - the traditional costume of Lem - eridis congratulated Hephaestus and Mary Dimitropoulou. The Athanasia Filios.7PM Saturday, to needy children throughout ents, Constantine and Hariklia nos and danced as a member of for its decision to honor Douris scholarships are offered annu - Mar. 9th at the Ballroom of Holy Greece; Kivotos tou Kosmou Papataros. the dance troupe. Mrs. Douris and invited the guests to partic - ally in memory of Eraklis Dia - Trinity Cathedral. Come dressed (Ark of the World), which pro - The event’s organizer, Ar - continues to make us proud with ipate in this year’s Greek Inde - mataris, the father of the Na - for the festivities! Our Society vides services to needy families gyrios Makris, referred to the her tireless efforts at HANAC, an pendence Day Parade in Man - tional Herald’s Publisher-Editor plans to support relief efforts in in Greece; Apostoli of the Arch - Greek crisis and declared that organization that helps to im - hattan. Antonis H. Diamataris. Stamatiki Greece through a silent auction diocese of Athens, and the all eyes are on Greece and its prove our lives.” The Consul General of Greece Valiotis then presented George and donations at this celebra - Cyprus Children’s Fund. Satur - struggles, and especially on Lem - Hephaestus President Dim - in New York George Eliopoulos Sourelo with the Stamatios and tion. For tickets contact Evan - day, Mar. 23 at 7PM and the nos. "We are closely monitoring itris Vekiarellis, and Alexander and the Consul General of Stamatiki Valiotis Scholarship. gelia Tsavaris at 718-398-2440. Nicholas Music Center of the developments and we are ready Tsoukalas, who was in charge of Cyprus Koula Sofianou congrat - Dimitrios Filios was the ebul - Rutgers University Douglass to help again,” he declared. the commemorative journal, ulated Douris, as well as Hep - lient Emcee, and entertainment n MARCH 10 Campus. For tickets and info call Referring to the honoree, he said the event’s success points haestus for its century of work was provided by vocalists Grig - FLUSHING – The Direct Arch - 201-981-5764 or 908-624-0250. said: "I am delighted the Board to a bright future for the organi - and love for Lemnos. New York ori Maninakis and Vicky Palma diocesan District Philoptochos has decided to honor a dynamic zation. Assemblywoman Aravella Simo - and the Microcosmos Ensemble. Society will honor the women n APRIL 11 of our parishes who have served MANHATTAN – The 2013 An - Philoptochos for fifty years or nual Career and Internship Fair more. The event will be held on sponsored by The Cyprus-U.S. Sunday, March 10 at 1PM Ter - Chamber of Commerce will be Israeli Amb. Hosts Dinner to Honor Hellenic-Israeli Alliance race on the Park, in Flushing. held on Thursday, April 11,from The proceeds of this fundraiser 4:30 – 6:45 PM at the Holy Trin - will be used to assist over 100 ity Cathedral Center Ballroom, Continued from page 1 Greek Orthodox families that 337 East 74th Street (between have been devastated by Hurri - 1st and 2nd Avenues) in Man - About 50 invited guests, cane Sandy, as well as benefiting hattan. Guest Speaker Maggie Greeks and Jews from all over the newly acquired Philoptochos Stavrianidis Human Resources America, including some Greek Center of Philanthropy at 126 Business Partner. Job seekers Jews also attended and heard the East 37th Street in Manhattan. should come with their resume. official representatives of the For luncheon reservations $65 Company representatives will be three countries speak with warm per person, please contact Ma - available to discuss career and and encouraging words, high - rina Katsoulis at 516-627-0580 internship opportunities. Com - lighting the common historical or [email protected]. panies in the fields of Insurance, experience that linked them, but Banking, Accounting, Attorneys, they also spoke about the future. n MARCH 13 Trading, Finance, and many oth - Ambassador Oren declared, MANHATTAN –The PC of the ers will be on hand to meet with “Jews and Greeks share a 3,000- Church of the annunciation in job fair applicants. Additional year history. Sit anywhere in the conjunction with the Philopto - companies interested in partici - State of Israel and we find evi - chos Society invites you to a pating, contact: Despina Axio - dence of how Jews and Greeks conversation with Klaus Ken - takis, Executive Director 201- lived and flourished together in neth, author of the best-selling 444-5609 or e-mail: antiquity. For the last 20 years, book, “Born to Hate, Reborn to [email protected] Greece and Israel have enjoyed Love”. It is an opportunity to . Admission is Free Refresh - excellent relations. Now, that re - hear and speak with Mr. Ken - ments will be served. lationship has truly blossomed neth about his remarkable spir - into the fields of energy, agricul - itual odyssey. Wednesday, March n APRIL 13 ture, trade, military cooperation, 13, 6:30PM in Demas Hall; a re - QUEENS, NY – The Hellenic Re - and tourism. This year alone, ception will follow. Annuncia - lief Foundation presents an some 400,000 Israelis visited tion Greek Orthodox Church, evening with renowned com - Greece, and we expect even Congressional Co-Chairs of the Hellenic-Israel Caucus, Gus Bilirakis (R-FL) and Ted Deutch (D- 302 West 91st Street, (at West poser Yannis Spanos and vocal - more next year. Our friendship FL), along with Congresswoman Dina Titus (D-NV) stand with Ambassador Christos Panagopou - End Ave.) in Manhattan. 212- ist Hrysoula stafanakis in a ben - finds expression here in the bi- los, Ambassador Michael Oren and Charge d’Affaires Olympia Neocleous, Eliot Engel (D-NY). 724-2070. efit piano-voice concert. partisan Congressional Hellenic- Saturday, April 13, 8 PM Israel Alliance that was an - interests among the three coun - that “the creation of the Congres - Ambassador Oren echoed his n MARCH 16 Queensborough Performing Arts nounced last week, chaired by tries. Christos Panagopoulos, the sional Hellenic-Israel Alliance re - colleague at the dinner he WASHINGTON, DC – The Athe - Center; 222-05 56th Avenue, Reps. Ted Deutch and Gus M. Greek ambassador to Washing - flects the evolving cooperation hosted, and pointed out that the nians’ Society of NY in collabo - Bayside, NY. Free parking. Tick - Bilirakis.” ton, said cooperation among the between our countries, to the land of Israel is filled with Greek ration with the Embassy of ets and information, 347-201- The Israeli Ambassador also three countries would bring benefit of the regional stability remains and that even the land Greece, the Dept. of Greek Stud - 1821 or [email protected]. noted the importance of the joint ‘peace, stability and prosperity’ in the Eastern Mediterranean… on which the Israeli Parliament ies at Georgetown University, Tickets online: www.hellenicre - exercises of Greek and Israeli Air to the region.” and we discovered in this process stands is leased from the Greek and the Library of Congress pre - lief.org. Hellenic Relief: Preserv - Forces. According the Israeli em - Ambassador Panagopoulos, how many things unite us and Orthodox Patriarchate of sents “A Festival of Greek Liter - ing Dignity in Crisis. bassy’s press release, “Oren in his speaking at the Capitol Hill Re - can serve as a pillar of prosperity Jerusalem. He also noted that Is - ature and Books” devoted to remarks at the dinner, touted ception that launched the Al - and stability in the otherwise rael is the only Middle Eastern Constantine Cavafy on the an - n APRIL 20 shared economic and strategic liance two weeks earlier, said troubled area.” country where the Christian pop - niversary of his birth. Saturday, ASTORIA – The Hellenic Cul - ulation is growing. March 16 10 AM to 3 PM at the tural Center and the Mikrokos - Congressman Bilirakis de - Bunn Intercultural Center Audi - mos Ensemble present a histor - clared the evening was filled with torium of Georgetown U. For in - ical concert “Rebetiko …To kefi – good energy and spirits – formation contact Panos Perpetuity” spanning the history and guests reported that it was Adamopoulos at 718-721-1111 of classical Rebetika from A FESTIVAL OF GREEK a cheerful, joyous occasion. They or [email protected]. Smyrna ….to Pireaus…and the LITERATURE AND BOOKS were delighted by the four tal - Blues of New Orleans with Grig - ented musicians are known in - n MARCH 17 oris Maninakis and the resented by The Athenians’ Society of new york, in FOUNDED 1928 P.O. BOX 5725, ASTORIA, NY 11105 formally as the “Hellenic Israel HOLMDEL, NJ – The nationally Mikrokosmos Ensemble. Narra - Pcollaboration with The embassy of Greece in washington, www.atheniansociety.com Consort,” who stole the show. famous Hellenic Dancers of New tion by Stelios Taketzis. Friday, D.c., the Department of Greek Studies at the university of email: [email protected] The Consort was comprised Jersey (HDNJ) present Journey April 19 at 7:30 PM; Saturday, 718-721-1113 Georgetown, and the library of congress. of two Greeks and two Israelis: to Greece Through Dance, Sun - April 20 at 7:30 PM; and Sun - Magda Giannikou, Dan Nadel, day, Mar. 17, at Holmdel High day, Apr. 21 at 5PM at the Hel - The Festival will be devoted to the Greek poet Petros Klampanis and Rafi School Theater, 36 Crawfords lenic Cultural Center, 27-09 constantine cavafy on the anniversary of his birth and cele - Malkiel, but for one song they Corner Road, Holmdel, with a Crescent Street in Astoria. brated this year by uneScO. The Festival will include intro - were joined on percussion by the performance of traditional Reservations Mon. – Fri. 10AM- ductions by keynote Speaker, Vassilis lambropoulos, cavafy smiling Israeli Ambassador. They Greek folk dance from 3–5PM. 4PM at 718-626-5111; other played numerous Greek and Is - Light refreshments will be avail - times: 917- 915-8647 chair, Professor of classics and comperative literature at the raeli songs including "Thalassaki university of michigan and presentations by members of the Mou - My Little Sea,” and "Mou Athenians’ Society, poets yiota Strati, nikos Alexiou, Tasos Spasane to Baglama – they broke mouzakis, nikos Zavolas & elias neofotistos. my baglama.” It was noted that QUESTION OF THE WEEK many Israeli popular songs have Historical screen footage on the life and works of Greek roots. Vote on our website! constantine cavafy and readings of poems in an open forum The food was Israeli, but the will follow. toasts were made with glasses of You have the chance to express your opinion on our website ouzo from Lesvos. on an important question in the news. The results will be pub - The event will feature the work of our modern Ambassador Oren posted on lished in our printed edition next week along with the question Greek authors and poets who will present their projects and Facebook that ““I was thrilled to for that week.

books. The library of congress will exhibit rare books of po - R host an evening celebrating the The question this week is: Do you think the No Smoking etry from their cavafy collection. Greek Publishing Houses Hellenic-Israeli Alliance filled law in Greece will be enforced this time? W

and authors will present books for sale. © with great food, music, and o Yes friends. This colorful friendship o No was on display last night at my o Maybe Saturday, March 16, 2013 • 10:00 am to 3:00 pm. residence. The dinner comes on The results for last week’s question: Would you like to see Georgetown university | bunn intercultural center Auditorium the heels of the launch of the Olympia Snowe run for president of the United States? 37th and O Streets, nw, washington, D.c 20057 Congressional Israel-Hellenic Al - 43 % voted "Yes" liance celebrating the friendship 29 % voted "No" For more informations: Panos Adamopoulos, 718.721.1111, [email protected] between Israel, the Unites States, 28 % voted "Maybe" Greece, and Cyprus.” Please vote at: www.thenationalherald.com THE NATIONAL HERALD, MARCH 9-15, 2013 COMMUNITY 3 Epirotes Abroad VIP Gatzoyiannis in Greece

ATHENS – Nikos Gatzoyiannis, Evrypides Stylianidis, and Smith. Amb. and Mrs. Smith are the author and honorary presi - Deputy Foreign Minister Kon - great admirers of the literary dent of the World Council of stantinos Tsiaras. works of Mr. Gatzoyiannis, who Epirotes Abroad, recently visited While in Athens the U.S. Am - even visited his native village in Greece to participate in the bassador to Greece, Daniel Epiros, Lia, last summer. 100th anniversary celebration Smith, gave a dinner in honor Another admirer of the au - of the liberation of Epiros from of the author at his residence thor is Ambassador to Hungary the Ottoman Turks on February on March 1 that was attended Eszter Sandorfi, who gave a din - 21. by Samaras and several of Gat - ner in his honor on March 3 at After the celebration, he zoyiannis’ friends. her residence in Psychiko. went to Athens where he met Pictured in the photo to the Among the guests were the Am - with Prime Minister Antonis left are, left to right, Christina bassadors of Canada and Bul - Samaras, Foreign Minister Mihalos, Gatzoyiannis, Prime garia, all of whom accepted an Demitris Avramopoulos, Minis - Samaras, Hollywood producer invitation from Gatzoyiannis to ter of Defense Panos Panoyio- Stratton Leopold, his wife Mary, visit Epiros and his village next topoulos, Interior Minister Smith’s wife Diane, and Amb. July. Lecture on the Fall of Constantinople Draws Parallels to Crisis in Greece

Continued from page 1 commitment to the defense of the Fourth Crusade in 1204, West - City, the ironically named Ge - erners note that in 1182 tens of vestors Bank and Constantinos noese condottieri Giovanni Gius - thousands of Latins were massa - Loizides, the Managing Director tiniani, who fought valiantly until cred in Constantinople in 1182. and Chief Executive Officer of Pi - he was mortally wounded on the By adding a moral motive to raeus Bank. Archbishop last day of the siege. western greed, the Greeks pro - Demetrios offered closing re - Constantinople was for cen - voked the Latin conquest of the marks. turies the greatest city in the empire. Although the City was Novo explained that although world, an engine of economic recovered, its ultimate fall be - “the book is dramatic in design, and cultural achievement as well came all but inevitable. its aim is not to present fiction, as caretaker of the glories of the The book was a 10-year pro - but the drama of the historical Hellenic past. Novo noted that ject of scholarship and creativity and personal reality. It attempts by the fateful day of May 29, for Novo. His research included to bring characters and world- 1453 it was barely a shell of its delving deep into the roots of changing events to life. Here on former self, its empire gone – Byzantium, or rather, as he ex - one of history’s grandest stages only the City, its suburbs and the plained, the empire whose inhab - was a story “two worlds, two Morea were left – its population itants were the products of the faiths, two cultures, an immortal shrunken to a mere 50,000. No glories of ancient Greece and the struggle over a legendary city at more than 5000 soldiers could conquests of Alexander the Great once impregnable and vulnera - be mustered by the Emperor of a but called themselves Romans. ble,” and pitting two radically dif - non-Empire. During the Q&A, one guest pre - ferent personalities against one The Turks had 80,000 troops, sented a question urged on by another: Constantine XI of Con - including the formidable Jannis - his 10 year-old son about “What stantinople, and the 21 year-old aries, veterans of conquests happened to the Greeks between Ottoman Sultan Mehmet II. throughout the Balkans and Asia Alexander and Constantine XI?” The Sultan, whose mother Minor. Above: Prof. Andrew Novo, Novo’s two minute summary was was Greek and saw himself as the Despite numerous renais - author of Queen of Cities: A breathtaking, causing the audi - legitimate and worthy heir to the sances and comebacks, Byzantine Historical Novel on The Fall ence look forward to future Caesars, was brilliant, cultured, prospects were bleak. Centuries of Constantinople, addresses books and presentations. sometimes cruel, and impatient of Civil War, greed that exempted an SRO audience (above) at Guests declared the night the for the glory the city’s conquest the rich and powerful from taxa - the Cathedral, which included cultural event of the season. would provide him. He was also tion and caused even Orthodox fascinated dignitaries (left). Cummings said his bank partici - anxious over the attacks and be - church leaders to refuse to share pated “because we are commit - trayals that would lead to his own its massive wealth in support of Constantine, but he was unable ted to the community… and it death in the event of failure. national defense, and the bad to raise the funds to pay him. Re - was also an opportunity to work Among the fascinating facts is luck to be completely surrounded duced to poverty waiting for the with Piraeus Bank to continue that both men were wary of their by enemies took their tool. check in the Byzantine mail, he the rich Greek heritage in this second in command, the Turks’ The tragedy can be encapsu - sold his services to the affluent country.” As an American of Irish Grand Vizier, Halil Pasha, who lated in one fact: more than any Mehmet, and the City’s doom descent, he appreciates that the was suspected of Greek sympa - other element – luck, good or a was sealed. descendants of immigrant must thies, and Megadux Notaras, who bad, is always a factor in war – it Among the lessons Novo be - work hard to preserve their her - was shipping family gold out of was Mehmet II’s massive cannons lieves must be learned from the itage. the city as the Ottoman vise – that decided the outcome by bat - fate of Byzantium is the need to Loizides told TNH that al - which could have been smashed tering the city’s 1000 year old avoid cycles of violence and ret - though Piraeus bank no longer if the Emperor could have secured wall to dust. ribution – and of the scourge of has a physical presence in New more resources – was closing. The Turks did not invent ar - selective memory. Although York, he wanted “to keep in touch One Westerner, at least, was tillery, however. Cannon-maker Greeks will “never forget” the with our friends and saying thank distinguished for his passion and Orban was first in the employ of rape of Constantinople by the you.” 4 COMMUNITY THE NATIONAL HERALD, MARCH 9-15, 2013 Ambrosia Ball 2013 Raises $350,000 for the National Hellenic Museum

Continued from page 1 TNH spoke with John P. Onassis to do important pro - Calamos Sr. of Calamos Invest - jects, so we don't squander our am moved by the presence of ments, and Chairman of the efforts in many small projects, Ambassador Loukas Tsilas, a Board of Trustees of the Na - but rather, we have decided to great mentor to me and many tional Hellenic Museum. focus on few significant projects. others, whose work as Executive TNH: What are your impres - Also, we don’t see our role Director of the Onassis Founda - sions tonight on the Museum’s only as giving money, we see tion USA, has raised the bar for second annual Ambrosia Ball? our role as organizing people so anyone who undertakes the pre - JC: It is a great success. We that this money is used in a bet - sentation of Greek arts and cul - are excited about the participa - ter and more efficient way. We ture in the Unites States,” said tion with the Onassis Founda - provide our enthusiasm, knowl - Connie Mourtopalas, president tion. I think part of the mission edge, expertise, and the exper - of the National Hellenic Mu - of the Museum is to really bring tise of the people working for seum, in a statement. it out to more and more people us to make it happen. Money on Chicagoland’s Orpheus so they understand what’s going its own is not enough. You need Dance Troupe provided tradi - on. Having the Onassis Founda - organization and an efficient tional apokriatiko entertain - tion here, considering all the structure to make most of the ment. The costumed and good work that they do all over money. masked group performed the the world…that's a great suc - ABOUT DR. ANTHONY “gaitanaki,” or maypole dance, cess. S. PAPADIMITRIOU: a performance special to TNH: Are you working with Born in Alexandria, Egypt, Kathara Deutera, while the Onassis Foundation for the Dr. Anthony Papadimitriou be - “koudounatoi,” bell-bearers, first time? gan his legal career specializing danced around tables, bringing JC: Yes. I have been in con - in commercial law representing to light the traditions of the tact with them for many large shipping companies in Aegean island of Skyros. After months. We are trying to lever - 1977, after having graduated dinner, guests danced the night age off a lot of the work they from the Law School of the Uni - away to music by DJ John do…they may have exhibits versity of Athens. In 1981 he Grammatis and live entertain - there that we’ll bring to the Mu - earned his postgraduate degree ment by Public i Band. Tickets seum here. Obviously they have in Maritime and Transportation were $350 a person. a lot of knowledge, they have Over 300 Apokries guests enjoyed an evening of dinner, dancing, and disguise. Above: Law from the University of Aix- John P. Calamos, CEO of been doing this for decades and Koudounati, the Bell Bearers of Skyros, kicked off the evening by dancing around the tables, en-Provence. In 1984 Dr. Pa - Calamos Investments, who sits we like that collaboration with followed by the Gaitananki (Maypole Dance) performed by the Orpheus Dance Troupe. padimitriou obtained a B. Sc. Degree in economics from the have to revel in our traditions consciousness of the rest of the London School of Economics. and customs, and have fun do - Americans. He also holds a Doctorate in Po - ing it. In a funny way, in order to litical Science and Public Ad - attract more Greeks, you have ministration from the National TNH spoke with Dr. Anthony to have programs that attract University of Athens. In 1989 he Papadimitriou as well, who is the American public at large. was admitted to the Bar of the the Alexander S. Onassis Public Because second and third gen - Supreme Court of Greece. Benefit Foundation Board of Di - eration Greeks are not so much In 1988, on the recommen - rectors President and Treasurer. interested in traditions, but dation of then President TNH: What does receiving rather, they are interested in the Christina Onassis, Dr. Papadim - the National Hellenic Museum’s deep-rooted reality of Hel - itriou was elected on the Board 2013 Award of Excellence mean lenism, which is a common her - of Directors of the Alexander S. to you? itage of all of humanity. Onassis Public Benefit Founda - AP: It is a very moving event. TNH: How do you see the tion and had served as coordi - I am deeply honored and grate - Onassis Foundation collaborat - nator of the He served as legal ful for the award, but I am also ing with the National Hellenic counsel to Olympic Shipping very happy to find myself in the Museum in the near future? and Management S.A. from Greek-American community of AP: I see a bright future in 1986 to 2005 when he was Chicago…a community that this collaboration because by unanimously elected to lead the comes from Arcadia, and main - uniting our multiple efforts. We Foundation as president and tains all its traditions in a way share the same vision and goals treasurer. Dr. Papadimitriou has which is quite rare, in fact. as Mr. Calamos and Connie since then been responsible for The National Hellenic Mu - Mourtopalas and have already public benefit, welfare, and seum is doing a great job in discussed various ways to do business activities of the Foun - maintaining Greek culture and more things in New York and dation, which fund philan - traditions. It does a great and Chicago, and throughout North thropic endeavors. necessary job in maintaining America. and saving, for future genera - TNH: The Onassis Founda - Dr. & Mrs. Korkos 2013 Ambrosia Ball Chairs, and Presvytera and Father James Dokas were tions, the memories and history tion has backed up many impor - among the hundreds of guests who enjoyed a fantastic party for a good cause. of the Greeks in Chicago and tant projects promoting Hel - About the Alexander North America – the way they lenism. Is there some insight S. Onassis Foundation: on the board of the National somebody as knowledgeable as that? And how can we be more started more than 100 years you can give us regarding your Hellenic Museum, presented the they are. successful in bringing it to a na - ago, from their birthplaces, how involvement with the Founda - The Alexander S. Onassis Award of Excellence to Dr. Pa - TNH: Would you say this tional level? That’s what we’re they relate to the city, how they tion since 1988, and what are Public Benefit Foundation was padimitriou. year that there is a greater out - trying to do. We are reaching survived in the city, how they some things that have improved established in December 1975 “We of Hellenic origin have reach in terms of bringing the out to the National Hellenic So - made good in the city…how since then? in accordance with Aristotle traversed the world for thou - Museum to a nationally-ac - ciety and others we can collab - they became rich and powerful AP: We have evolved a lot in Onassis’ wish to honor the mem - sands of years and have created knowledged level? orate with and make it a truly in the city. Maintaining those the attitude we have because we ory of his late son Alexander, history wherever we have JC: That’s an excellent point. national museum. memories is a very important are now more outgoing. We are who tragically died in an air - been,” Calamos said in a state - One of the things we are trying TNH: Do you see a potential part of maintaining traditions. doing more activities which are plane crash at the young age of ment. “With Dr. Papadimitriou to do this year is make it not collaboration with institutions The other important thing is focused on the outside world, 25. at the helm, the Onassis Foun - just about Chicago Greek-Amer - in Greece, to bring Greek ex - that the National Hellenic Mu - and the activities we do are in a The foundation has since dation continues to be an am - icans, but to expand nationally. hibits here, for example? seum is actually working to pro - sense more focused. There are funded and supported a myriad bassador of Hellenic culture So this is really sort of the J.C: I visit Greece two to mote Greek culture within the only so many groups that can of cultural, educational, envi - around the world.” launch of that. How do we do three times a year. We’re talking general American public. That give large amounts of money to ronmental, and health-related about that, but I don’t know. At is an important goal…not to fund a project, and even less projects pertaining to Greece this point, our mission is to re - keep Greek culture only within that can give the gift of $1 mil - and Hellenism around the ally make sure that we honor ourselves, but to get Greek cul - lion or more. We are in the po - world. The foundation’s activi - the heritage and contributions ture outside and penetrate the sition of being endowed by ties promote the humanistic of Greek-Americans to the ideals of the Hellenic civiliza - United States, that’s our main tion. focus. For more information please TNH also spoke with Dr. visit: onassisusa.org and onas - George Korkos, President at sis.gr. Plastic Surgery Associates, and new member of the Museum’s Board of Trustees. TNH: What is the signifi - About the National cance to you in having recently Hellenic Museum: joined the National Hellenic Museum? G.K: This evening repre - Based in Chicago’s Greek - sented a deep concept of our town since 1983, the National heritage. I am a new trustee of Hellenic Museum, previously the National Hellenic Museum known as the Hellenic Museum Chicago’s famed Palmer House Hilton Hotel was filled with and Cultural Center only be - and Cultural Center, strives to the spirit of Carnival – Greek style - for the National Hellenic cause I am serious about my preserve and explore Hellenism Museum’s second annual Ambrosia Ball on March 2. heritage. It is very important be - and to chronicle the Greek cause when you think of all the American journey through exhi - problems our parents had to go bitions, oral histories, archival through when they came here… collections, and educational pro - Major Ambrosia Ball donations included the following: all the travesties and shortcom - grams. ings, to make our life a lot better Located in a new 40,000- Chairman’s Circle ($35,000) here in America, we owe it to square-foot space at 333 S. Hal - • Calamos Investments them to disseminate Hellenism sted St. in Chicago, the Museum • Mary & Michael Jaharis in this country. Otherwise, if we was established to connect all don’t do it, no one is going to generations—past, present and Platinum Benefactors ($25,000) do it, and it will become extinct. future—to the rich heritage of • Republic Bank & the Halikias Family The other thing that is very Greek history, culture, art and • Dean & Marianne Metropoulos important to me is that I per - the Greek American experience. sonally have a vision and a wish The National Hellenic Mu - Gold Benefactors ($15,000) to educate our young profes - seum’s 5-300 square foot John • Dr. & Mrs. George J. Korkos sionals and educators to the P. Calamos Sr. Great Hall and • The Alexander S. Onassis Public Benefit Foundation ideals of Hellenic culture as it the 3,600 square foot signature • Grecian Delight & the Parthenis Family pertains to western civilization Rooftop Terrace, featuring a • Earth Friendly Products & the Vlahakis Family as contributions. I am just very panoramic view of Chicago, are • Oxford Insurance & the Danos Family happy to be a trustee of the Mu - available for rent to the public seum. to host holiday parties, wedding Grand Benefactors ($10,000) The National Hellenic Mu - receptions, business meetings • Mr. & Mrs. John T. Matthews seum is really also a cultural and such. • Thompson Coburn, LLP – Tom & Christy Skallas center to disseminate this his - Metropolitan Iakovos of Chicago, assisted by his deacon, of - • In honor of Sotiri & Dimitra Kamberos tory of ours and preserve it. But fered the invocation at the Ambrosia ball with an Apokries- For more info please visit: na - we also have to have fun. We Carnival flavor. tionalhellenicmuseum.org. THE NATIONAL HERALD, MARCH 9-15, 2013 5

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By Eleni Kalogeras month after Catsimatidis’ official immigrated to New York City eas including supermarkets, air - their skills and combine both tidis attracts also friends from TNH Staff Writer announcement to run for the with his parents when he was lines, oil, and real estate. training and education in order the Democratic Party and re - next Republican mayor of New only six months old. But Catsimatidis’ most inter - to make a successful career with mains an admirer of former NEW YORK – “Jobs, jobs, jobs” York City, and it is the first event He also referred with passion esting remark was to the youth a respected annual income com - United States President Bill Clin - and vocational training on the organized by his fellow Greek- to Manhattan’s West Side as to trust New York’s public edu - pared to the $8 hourly wage ton, whom he considers one of high school level are the major Americans of AHEPA. well as to Brooklyn Technical cation system, yet to listen to they would endure as high the smartest persons he has ever topics in John Catsimatidis’ During his speech, Catsima - High School, where he studied, their natural talents and follow school dropouts. known. strategy as he presented it to his tidis who, according to Forbes though his business instinct their calling instead of a curricu - Catsimatidis proposed But he has also praised the Greek-American and other sup - magazine’s new list remains one “forced” him to drop out and lum that wouldn’t lead them to adding high school training for accomplishments of New York’s porters during an event orga - of the wealthiest American busi - begin his massive entrepreneur - winning in life. vocations such as carpenters two most recent mayors, both nized by AHEPA’s, Brooklyn nessmen, referred with obvious ship. For “it’s all about winning” and plumbers. Republicans, Rudy Giuliani and Chapter No.41 on March 5th. pride to his small Greek native He is well-known for his said Catsimatidis and again Although a Republican him - Michael Bloomberg. The event took place a island of Nisyros from where he most successful business in ar - called on the young to trust self, as he mentioned Catsima -

PHOTOS: TnH/cOSTAS beJ (L-R) Republican Party county chairmen Craig Eaton, and Dan Isaacs, John Catsimatidis, former New York Mayoral candidate John Catsimatidis, who was born in Nisyros, addresses an enthu - NY State Assemblyman Matthew Mirones, and attorney George Georgaklis. siastic gathering of friends and supporters at Brooklyn’s Bridgeview Diner. On the Campaign Trail, Catsimatidis Speaks on Jewish Political Radio Show

Continued from page 1 from all over the country and the “My grandfathers came such issues, “it’s not about being I’m the one who went to school Although Fragin agreed those world, keeping our hotels and around 1911, and they were a Democrat or a Republican it’s in Brooklyn and the Bronx,” he increases are outrageous, he Spin Class on Jewish Political Ra - restaurants full, selling our apart - looking for the streets paved with about common sense.” said, and explained his relation - added that purportedly, MTA’s dio. Fragin described Catsima - ments. This is because they be - gold. I want New York‘s doors to That prompted the question ship to the remaining borough, costs are going up exponentially, tidis as a very successful entre - lieve in New York as the greatest remain open, for immigration to of why he left the Democratic Staten Island: “We were so poor especially with respect to labor preneur, founder of the Gristides city in the world.” open up and I want a great, suc - Party. “I was a Clinton Democrat. that the only vacations we took costs, healthcare, and other fac - supermarket chain, and with in - His message is simple and cessful New York going forward. I still am. I didn’t leave the Party, [were] on the Staten Island Ferry tors. “How do you then pay for terests in real estate, energy: “a straightforward: “if we have the Education is one of the great the Democratic Party left me. I’m for a nickel, and we went back the expense,” Fragin asked the great American success story.” wrong person leading the city, engines of New York’s greatness. a pro-business Republican, but and forth three different trips.” candidate. “You go through the Fragin asked “what makes that money is going to dry up Fragin said that among other is - I’m also a pro social [and] envi - Responding to the notion that budget step by step and you you think you will continue [the fast. If we put the wrong person sues, like the improvement of the ronment Democrat. The Party in Bill Clinton is not so popular don’t abuse any particular peo - Republican mayoral winning in as commissioner, that safety public schools, the Jewish com - New York is a little too far on the among Republican voters, Catsi - ple,” Catsimatidis replied. “We streak]?” Catsimatidis replied: “I factor will go away.” munity is concerned about what left hand side of the political matidis said “but I still admire want fair treatment for all.” think New York has done well He sees his campaign spend - the city can and cannot do about equation. him. You have to look at who Regarding whether he would [during that time]. Rudy cleaned ing as an investment in the city private schools. NOT A BLOOMBERG can win and the Republicans re - challenge Adolfo Carrion, who is up all the problems in the streets, that is the foundation of his suc - Catsimatidis replied “I think BILLIONAIRE alize that you can support some - running as an independent, Cat - which was a really big problem. cess and his family’s well-being. it’s very important that Jewish Catsimatidis said “the people one who can’t win, but you know simatidis said “I don’t know. I He said, “I lived in a doorman “I’m a big stakeholder in New and Catholic Schools are not be - in New York need a choice. They what you accomplish? Nothing. read the Daily News like you did. building but we also had an York. New York is responsible for ing abused and they should get can vote for me as Republicans, I’m not sure New York is ready We’ll see what happens. I like armed security guard. People my success and my family’s suc - some aid from the public school Democrats, independents, to go back to a pure Republican. Adolfo, he’s a very nice person I were scared to walk around.” He cess.” He also supports immigra - system, but I believe in a strong maybe even as liberals. I grew Mitt Romney lost the city 81-19 hope everything’s ok with him.” said Bloomberg’s leadership “has tion reform that will meet the public school system. “ up in Harlem on 135th Street. I percent.” To illustrate that he is a gen - caused tens of billions of dollars City’s needs and provide others He said he attended public am not a Bloomberg billionaire. Catsimatidis discussed some uine, down-to-earth candidate to flow into New York to keep with the opportunities with schools, P.S. 192 and the famed I feel the pain of the people in of his proposed initiatives, be - and not a political panderer, Cat - New York going. Tourism is al - which his family was blessed. Brooklyn Technical High School, the City, the storeowners, and ginning with his call to freeze simatidis described his long - most up to 60 million people, He put his political ambitions but noted that he also attended the people living in every bor - tolls, which he says is a big issue standing ties to the Jewish Com - and people feel safe in the streets and loyalties into perspective parochial schools for three years. ough that we have to pay atten - for people in all the boroughs. munity: “Rabbi Arthur Schneier under police commissioner Ray when he was asked to comment He added, however, that the tion to. I am one of them, not a “In 1998 the tolls were $4 for a of the Park East Synagogue, I’m Kelly.” on why so many Republicans City is spending $26,000 per stu - guy that went to Harvard, who round trip, now [they are] $15. on his Board, and Rabbi Shmuel Catsimatidis said that such ac - want to run for mayor but do dent each year. “If we could pay went straight to work at Gold - Inflation didn’t go up 400 per - Butman, for 20 years in a row complishments do not occur au - not want to run for governor. “I private schools $5000 and avoid man Sachs or Salomon Brothers. cent. You must have guidelines… I’ve been lighting the Menorah tomatically. “It takes leadership love New York City. I don’t want spending $26000, it might make “I’m the one with relatives in it’s wrong to punish people for on Central Park South – I’m not to keep that money flowing in to live upstate.” common sense.” He said that on the other boroughs, in Queens. no reason at all.” a Johnny-come-lately.”

ANALYSIS What John Catsimatidis Must Do to Become Mayor of New York City

By Constantinos E. Scaros national election. sponses with palpable righteous But all three exemplify the indignation. Greek-American self-made type of Republican that can gen - 4. Show them that you’re billionaire John Catsimatidis has erate broad appeal across party the number one New Yorker eight months to convince New lines, for whom New Yorkers Catsimatidis should be as Yorkers why he ought to be their would vote. In other words, high-profile as possible. By no next mayor. But first, he must Grover Norquist and Sarah Palin means should he employ a Rose win the Republican Primary, need not apply. Catsimatidis, Garden strategy – not even if it’s whose current frontrunner is too, can be added to the La the magnificent one in Central former Metropolitan Transit Au - Guardia-Guiliani-Bloomberg list Park. He should be on hand at thority (MTA) Chairman Joe as a potentially-electable Repub - opening day at CitiField and Lhota. lican mayor. “Am I a Democrat? Yankee Stadium, and be a regu - Although Lhota has been Yes. Am I a Republican? Yes. Am lar at Knicks, Nets, and Rangers widely praised for his brief lead - I a liberal? Yes. Am I a conserv - games. And in September and ership at the MTA, particularly ative? Yes,” says Catsimatidis. October, he should go see the his crisis management skills dur - A self-made mega-tycoon Giants and the Jets play live. Of ing Hurricane Sandy last fall, he who grew up in poverty, Catsi - course, he should do those is hardly a household word. matidis has never forgotten his things because he really is a That his support ranges any - humble and simple beginnings. sports fan – if he weren’t, then where from double to quadruple Despite his 10-figure net worth he should not fake it. If nothing that of Catsimatidis’ at the mo - not counting decimal points, he else, New Yorkers usually are ment, depending on the partic - comes across as more of a regu - able to spot a phony a mile ular poll, is because he is the in - lar guy than most, and has a away. sider candidate – not because wonderfully-essential home- He should be on hand for all he (or anyone else thus far, for grown New York accent, to boot. parades, marathons, bike-a- that matter), has won the hearts Far from being a liability, Catsi - thons, city-wide ceremonies, and minds of the City’s voters. matidis’ billions can help him and – though we all hope there On the Democratic side of buy much-needed airtime to TnH/cOSTAS beJ won’t be any – tragedies. For the house, a host of candidates flood the television stations with A Plain-Spoken, Regular Guy Billionaire all the great things Giuliani did – including former Councilman campaign commercials. Before in his eight years as mayor – Sal Albanese, former Comptrol - he begins spending, though, he Despite his tremendous success and staggering wealth, mayoral hopeful John Catsimatidis has most notably, making New York ler Bill Thompson, and Public ought to pay heed to some es - not forgotten where he came from: the tiny Greek island of Nisyros, to be exact, and 135th City the crown jewel in the na - Advocate Bill DeBlasio – all lead sential advice. street in Harlem. tionwide fight against crime – Republican Lhota by at least a 1. Do not listen to anyone he rose to the status of “Amer - 2-to-1 margin. That the Democ - who thought romney was go - the economy was on the mend, initiative. If Catsimatidis’ cam - in routs. On the other hand, be - ica’s Mayor” in the eleventh ratic candidates – any of them, ing to win whereas Bill Clinton told unem - paign is the site’s creator, coming a political punching bag hour of his reign when, on Sep - all of them – are the presump - Many so-called experts said ployed Americans “I feel your though, then it needs to pour that does not fight back is not tember 11, 2001, he showed up tive favorites should be no sur - they were “stunned” that Mitt pain.” Clinton won. more time and money into it to the answer, either – as many to Ground Zero and pointed the prise: New York is a Democratic Romney lost the presidential The economy is a great na - give it much more flair. readers can confirm in recalling panicked masses to “go this town, after all. Then again, cur - election to Barack Obama this tional issue, but to reach mil - Also, a perfunctory Facebook Michael Dukakis’ presidential way.” rent Mayor Mike Bloomberg and past November. The only stun - lions of New Yorkers, many of search reveals very little in bid. If there is one thing Catsima - his immediate predecessor, ning thing about that…is that whom are not necessarily polit - terms of “Catsimatidis for A positive campaign message tidis might have going against Rudy Giuliani, both Republi - they were stunned. Whoever ical creatures by nature, tech - mayor.” Social media is the way balanced with an aggressive him, it is his multisyllabic sur - cans, have been among the most could not see plain as day that nology is the way to do it. As of to win elections nowadays – just counterattack to any negative name. He is known as “John popular and highly-acclaimed as soon as the Republicans nom - this writing, when Googling Cat - ask President Obama. attacks is the best approach. The Cats” or “Johnny Cats” in some mayors in the City’s history. In inated Romney they had guar - simatidis’ mayoral run, very lit - 3. Use the high road as a counterattack should focus on a circles. Then again, even with - fact, one of New York’s most cel - anteed their demise knows next tle can be found. A bare-bones bully pulpit “how dare you,” “shame on you” out the nicknames, we are talk - ebrated mayors of all time, to nothing about how to win website about his mayoral bid Sometimes, negative cam - response, not a tit-for-tat battle ing about New York City, after Fiorello LaGuardia (for whom elections, and should not be a appears, and there is no indica - paigns work, but other times that incorporates retaliatory ac - all, not some homogenous rural the airport was named), was strategist in Catsimatidis’ cam - tion whether it is his official they flop – as they so richly de - cusations. American town that is ethnically also a Republican. paign. website, or one created indepen - serve to do. Political dogfights A battle of negative attack out of the loop. And lest we for - Notably, La Guardia, Giu - 2. It’s technology, stupid dently by a supporter. It con - often result in a winner who ads is childish, and hopefully get, another Republican with a liani, and Bloomberg all have The catchphrase during the tains a couple of nice articles, prevails by a nose, with hardly New Yorkers are too mature to hard-to-pronounce name, Eisen - something in common: none of 1992 presidential election was but very little else by way of a mandate in hand. When politi - buy into any of that. Whoever hower, did quite well for himself them fits the profile of bona fide “it’s the economy, stupid,” to un - bells and whistles. cians concentrate on a positive runs negative ads deserves to in politics. conservative (paleo- or neo-), derscore that the prevalent issue If, in fact, the website and message, however – Ronald lose. Whoever refrains from Catsimatidis’ candidacy is not which in the post-Reagan era was the nation’s listless econ - others like it was created inde - Reagan and Bill Clinton come them, however, may rightfully a longshot. This is his election to has become a virtual require - omy at the time. Incumbent pendently by supporters, they to mind – they usually emerge claim the high moral ground, win, or lose, depending on how ment for a Republican to win a George H.W. Bush insisted that are to be commended for their victorious not in squeakers, but and run “shame on you” re - effectively he runs his campaign. THE NATIONAL HERALD, MARCH 9-15, 2013 COMMUNITY 7 WIN Honors Fox News Anchor Nicole Petallides as Woman of the Year

Continued from page 1 has begun by surrounding him - self with capable people. He were not one of her first cousins. agreed that doesn’t always hap - WIN WORKS FOR THE pen “but that is half of the recipe COMMUNITY’S WOMEN for success.” He said. Phillip Christopher, the pres - Karacostas believes the new ident of PSEKA and of the Pan - president who is “pro-business, cyprian Association, which is pro-EU, has a strong economic WIN’s parent organization, background and knows the key noted they were gathered to EU players, will help Cyprus get honor both Petallides, and WIN back on track.” Christopher also for all the “work they have expressed optimism. “The whole done.” Dr. Florentia country has a challenge. It needs Christodoulidou, its president, to take swift action. A change told TNH the organization works was needed. Based on what I to bring issues of importance to have seen , experienced people community women to the fore - have taken over. It’s a good front. She is most proud of a pro - sign.” gram that has enabled more At the start of the evening than 700 women without health Constantine Yiannoudes, the insurance to receive free mam - Cypriot-born international bari - mograms and Pap Tests. tone, offered thrilling renditions Dr. Christodoulidou told TNH of the Star Spangled Banner and “we are proud of Nicole, whom the Greek national anthem, we saw grow up and achieve the Bishop Sevastianos of Zela, also success,” but it is the fact that ABOVE: Petallides receives the from Cyprus, offered the invo - inspires many other young Woman of the Year award. cation and expressed his per - women, “that’s why we are hon - LEFT: She speaks to the gala sonal pride and congratulations oring her tonight.” audience. to the honoree. Speaker after speaker noted Cyprus’ Consul General in that the woman whose talent, New York, Koula Sophianou, charm, and energy were appar - mother and was the founder and said she felt a special joy at be - ent from childhood, but they publisher of the newspaper ing present , both because of her marveled most at the dedication Proini and gave her daughter the admiration for Petallides, “a high and hard work that propelled “news bug.” “I thank my mother. achiever,” in America who “is Petallides to the top of her pro - Every breath she takes has proud of her heritage and Kyre - fession as one of the most dis - meaning. She and my family nia,” and because the event kicks tinguished voices reporting on taught me you have to be strong, of the month of March, which national and global economic that the world is not easy.” culminates in the celebration of news in the heart of Wall Street. She offered her personal val - Greek Independence. She said She appears on FOX 30 times idation to a FOX viewer’s re - that “for Greeks, Freedom is the daily from the floor of the New sponse to the question “what highest good.” York Stock Exchange. makes success?” His answer was The Greek Consul General Theana Iordanou – the first “as much as you want to George Iliopoulos also offered proud cousin to appear – was breathe, you have to want suc - greetings and congratulations to the Emcee. She moved the pro - cess.” She added “you have to Petallides and WIN and New gram through the speakers to breathe and die for everything York State Assemblywoman Ar - the music and dancing that fea - you are doing – and go for it, avella Simotas presented her a tured Nikos Nikolaides and his with a full heart, and hopefully citation of her own and another Orchestra and a delightful per - you are as lucky as I am to have on behalf of State Senator formance by the adults and chil - in and noted that when visitors ance -by the fact that she is 5’ 7” courage to get up every day.” th great family and friends that Michael Gianaris, who she said dren of the Pancyprian Dance to the New York Stock Exchange “She was not devastated, how - She must have absorbed that are behind me every day, and regretted that he was unable to Group. observe her speaking with all the ever, “she was determined to from her entrepreneurial uncle this Greek community. “ attend. President Peter Papani - New York City Mayoral can - mover and shakers of the finan - succeed,” she said. at a young age. Petallides told TNH “this is colaou told TNH “One behalf of didate John Catsimatides won cial world, they rush to meet her. Christopher overflowed with An emotional Petallides an unbelievable evening. I am the Cyprus Federation of Amer - votes by keeping his promise not She also noted that Petallides’ pride and joy for his niece, who thanked everyone, “For the priv - so honored ad privileged to be ica I wish to express my congrat - to “let my words stand between magnetic personality has turned he said has combined a brilliant ilege and honor,” which she ac - here with the Greek community ulations and say we are very you and your dinner.” To the the floor of the Exchange into career with devotion to her fam - cepted also on behalf of all and friends…I know I am a very proud.” general pride in Nicole he added an Oscars-style “Red Carpet” as ily, her husband Nicholas Tsiolas women. “Every single woman in lucky girl,” she told TNH, but his personal pride in recruiting the guests saw images of her be - and her children Eric and the room deserves to be Woman she paid her dues: “overnights, her be the voice of the Greek Pa - ing photographed with one star Michael. He welcomed all the of the Year to me. She the honor double shifts, graveyard shifts, rade, along with her FOX col - of the entertainment world after guests and dignitaries, and finally hit her in recent days at back to back shifts, and ulti - league Ernie Anastos, on the TV another at the NYSE. thanked everyone responsible for 4AM – the time she wakes up mately you break in when you broadcast of the annual Greek Nicholas Karacostas, Chair - the success of the event, including for FOX News. don’t give up. You keep showing Parade on Fifth Avenue, which man of the Board of Trustees of Dimitrios and Georgia Kaloidis, “It’s a great job. It’s a hard up and you just do it,” she said. will be held on April 7 this year. the Order of AHEPA, said “we who run Terrace on the Park. job but I love it. They scream in Anastos sent a message of Catsimatidis declared that af - knew she would be a star from Turning to Petallides, he of - my ear, it’s chaos all day long congratulations, saying he ter years of fighting for the a young age and she rose to be fered her some avuncular ad - but I love it,” she said. Although wished he could have been there Cyprus cause, “I feel like a a FOX anchor is a very tough vice. He said perseverance is es - “everybody told me I would not “to personally honor my friend Cypriot. I’m from the island of media world. She was always sential to success, for individuals get there,” Petallides said, “I and FOX colleague.” Nysiros, which is just around the very articulate, had a beautiful and for groups. After noting both don’t like the word ‘no.’” The Cypriot homeland, which corner.” smile and always the center of personal setbacks and the fact She thanked her brother C.J., just elected a new President, was Iordanou, as a VP of Allied attention.” that “We have been fighting for her father John Petallides, and also on people’s minds. Savas World Assurance and the man - Iordanes revealed that Petal - 38 years for freedom for Cyprus” her stepfather Mort Holliday, but Tsivikos wishes the new presi - ager of its New York branch of - lides also had modeling aspira - he said: “Success, Nicole, is offered moving praise for her dent much luck and success “I fice, values the serious business tions. They were shot down – never final, and failure is never mother, Fannie Petallides-Holli - think he is the right leader at reporting that Petallides excels despite her statuesque appear - fatal. What is important is the day, who raised her as a single the right moment.” He said he AGAPW and John Jay Cohost Forum on Human Trafficking F. mArTin rAmin/wAll STreeT JOurnAl Continued from page 1 build up respect for children’s The drachma print dress from rights and fight against tradi - Mary Katrantzou's spring col - parents. tional prejudices, and to gener - lection. The conditions compelled ally raise awareness in at-risk some children to kill themselves locations, for example, by warn - with the weapons they were ing people against believing the Drachma given. promises made by traffickers. She was one of the lucky Professor Andreopoulos, fo - ones. After being kidnapped cusing on the Balkans, critically Queen: the from a church school for girls, examined the different ap - she managed to escape after a proaches to combating human Story behind year and now devotes herself trafficking such as: law enforce - helping other children escape ment, human rights, migration from their hell and working to and economic. The Design stop the evil. He emphasized the powerful Katerina Stefanatou, UNICEF economic forces driving the phe - Global Citizenship fellow at the nomenon – Interpol estimates By F. Martin Ramin U.S. Fund for UNICEF, was the its annual worth at $19 billion Wall Street Journal moderator at the New Building but other groups place it as high of John Jay College and intro - as $31 billion and made the A year ago, Greece's potential duced the panelists who in - point that the victims are typi - switch from the euro common cluded George Andreopoulos, cally “people with no options,” currency back to the drachma Professor of Political Science and said the challenge is “How seemed to many economists the and Criminal Justice, CUNY; Di - do you empower people to have final and inevitable act in a rector, Center for International credible options in their lives.” Greek tragedy. But for Athens- Human Rights, John Jay Col - Andreopoulos, briefly born designer Mary Katrantzou, lege, Jennifer Chan, Program PHOTOS: TnH/cOSTAS beJ touched upon the situation in it was an opportunity. Officer for the End Trafficking Above: Katerina Stefanatou was the moderator at AGAPW’s forum on human trafficking. The Greece and mentioned the im - In her spring collection, Lon - project of the US Fund for panel included Prof. George Andreopoulos of John Jay College, Jennifer Chan of UNICEF, and portance of the work by groups don-based Ms. Katrantzou man - UNICEF, and Dorota Gierycz, scholar Dorota Gierycz. The audience (below) was anxious to help trafficking. like Klimaka. aged to make a poignant and Ph.D. Human rights scholar, He and other speakers spoke original statement by taking in - University of Vienna; Webster of the negative impact of the spiration from the global econ - University and European Peace Greek economic crisis on THB omy and giving old currencies, University and the Center for In - efforts and said that that law like the drachma, as well as ternational Human Rights, John enforcement officials in Greece postage stamps, a starring role. Jay College. are so hard pressed to maintain Despite the fact that the cur - Gierycz began with an basic safety in the streets, and rency had not been in circula - overview of Trafficking in Hu - non-governmental organiza - tion for more than a decade, Ms. man Beings (THB) and how it tions (NGOs) are so stressed in Katrantzou proved that its aes - differs from other criminal ac - their efforts to fight homeless - thetic worth remains intact. tivities, such as smuggling in ness that THB cannot be prop - The fitted Swarovski crystal persons, or illegal migration. erly addressed. mesh cocktail dress gets a shim - She talked about the interna - While Andreopoulos said mery effect from a stained-glass- tional legal framework (focus - “there is no magic bullet” for like technique. "It's an innova - ing on the Palermo Protocol) eradicating the scourge of THB, tion that we developed this aimed at combating THB and more can be done, for example, season," explained Ms. Katrant - the difficulties in its implemen - airlines can look out for signs of zou. "It allowed us to use the tation. She believes a human sex tourism and Chan said peo - mesh as a fabric, printing it rights approach, as opposed to ple can visit opaque white, but leaving cer - a law-enforcement paradigm is slaveryfootprint.com to learn tain areas bare to allow the crys - the best way to fight THB. about he forced labor and slav - tals to mimic the holographic The essence of the crime is ery components of the products nature of the bank notes." that the mistreatment of the vic - they buy. People can visit ec - However, the designer said tims goes far beyond exploita - pat.net to learn about fighting she intended no overt political tion as low wage employees un - child trafficking and prostitu - or economic message. "I wanted der harsh conditions. These tion. to look at world history, and I people, especially the children, AGAPW founding president thought of bank notes and have lost control of their lives. Olga Alexakos concluded the stamps because they are a Because their lives are difficult work of UNICEF which, accord - partners, governments and cation documents, second the evening by thanking the pan - means of cultural exchange that to distinguish from those of il - ing to its website “works in 190 NGOs, UNICEF also works on broader efforts that help elists and the guests, including signify travel and heritage," she legal migrants, and live in con - countries and territories to save all aspects of anti trafficking re - strengthen families through ed - the consuls general of Greece said. "There is so much history ditions that fosters behavior like and improve children’s lives by sponses including prevention, ucation and training so that and Cyprus, George Iliopoulos and beauty in what is essentially petty crime, local law enforce - providing health care and im - protection, and prosecution.” crushing socioeconomic circum - and Koula Sofianou. The latter just a piece of paper." ment lose sight of the fact that munizations, clean water and Chan described the two pil - stances don’t cause relatives to announced that her government The drachma may now be evils lurks: the enslavement of sanitation, nutrition, education, lars of efforts to combat THB, traffic their children. has announced a program to relatively valueless, but as in - human beings. emergency relief and more. In first the promotion of birth reg - They also work with local el - train its diplomatic corps to spiration, it is worth its weight Jennifer Chan introduced the partnership with development istration and issuing of identifi - ders and religious leaders to combat trafficking. in gold. 8 OBITUARIES CLASSIFIEDS THE NATIONAL HERALD, MARCH 9-15, 2013 Community Bids Farewell to Peter Kikis: Leader, Philanthropist, Scholar, Good Friend

Continued from page 1 years old his father passed away and he began working to help support his mother and sisters. He was graduated summa cum laude from Princeton Uni - versity, where he majored in Mathematics. He then served as a Captain in the US Army during World War II in Europe Until 1985, Peter was in - volved in the shipping industry. From 1950 to the present Kikis was the President and a Princi - pal of Spencer Management Company, a real estate develop - ment and management com - pany in New York. He also served as a Principal and Co- Chairman on McRoberts Protec - tive Agency, a New York based provider of security guard ser - vices from 1972 to 1992. He was Chairman of the Board of Command Security Corporation, a public security corporation, since September, 2006. He also served as Director of Deltec In - ternational S.A. and Atlas Capi - ABOVE: The mortal remains of Peter Kikis are borne away from the Archdiocesan Cathedral of tal Group Holdings S.A.. the Holy Trinity he loved. LEFT: Archbishop Demetrios offers condolences to Thomas Kikis, the He was active in behalf of son of Peter Kikis, as the Cathedral Dean, Rev. Anastasios Gounaris looks on. numerous causes and served as President of the Board of ciety. He rose from poverty to Faith Endowment, and the 2011. “He had a wonderful Trustees of Lenox Hill Hospital great wealth, but more impor - Leadership 100, and by advanc - time. He was such a warm man, in New York. Kikis married the tantly, doors that were closed to ing the holy cause of the Ecu - and a distinguished-looking late Helen Kikis (nee Kalevas) him he opened for others.” menical Patriarchate. “ man.” Poulos was deeply im - in 1955. He is survived by their “What our grandparents en - Paulette Poulos, the execu - pressed that “he was a person son, Thomas P. Kikis, daughter- visioned for their children, to tive director of Leadership 100, who would to everything nec - in-law Stephanie, and three climb to the mountaintop of told TNH that she met Kikis essary to get the job done, but grandchildren: Elena, Peter, and great success - in name and many years ago through his ser - he always stood out to me as a Terrel Kikis. He is also survived character - Peter Kikis achieved. vice at Holy Trinity Cathedral. perfect gentleman, and a dedi - by his sister, Ms. Urania (Uky) TRIBUTES TO A FRIEND latter part of his ministry. He will be missed but his life “He always impressed me as a cated Christian.” Perakos. AND A LEADER He said “Peter Kikis embod - will shine, along with his wife perfect gentleman, always with Michael Jaharis, Vice Chair - Friends and family called at Father Alexander Karloutsos, ied the nobility of the American Helen’s, from that mountaintop, that pleasant smile, and always man of the Archdiocesan Coun - the Frank E. Campbell funeral Protopresbyter of the Ecumeni - dream,” and noted that he was for the rest of our community. willing to help people whenever cil, is a close personal friend of home on Madison Avenue at cal Patriarchate and Spiritual “one of the first Greek-Ameri - Eternal be his memory,” he said. he could.” Kikis. He told TNH, “Peter was 81st Street on Tuesday, March Advisor to Faith Endowment cans to graduate from an Ivy Fr. Karloutsos added that “he She said she had warm mem - a very good friend, a good 5. He will be buried next to his and The Order of St. Andrew League school and became a became a philanthropist in the ories of Kikis attending the an - Greek, and a good Christian. He beloved wife Eleni in Milbrook, the Apostle, told TNH he felt ‘gentleman’s gentleman in the true sense of the word when he nual Leadership 100 conference played a critical role in the cre - N.Y. blessed to have met Kikis in the upper echelons of American so - became the president of the with his sister in Florida in ation of the Faith endowment.”

DEATH NOTICES n BOURNAKEL, ANTIGONE Orthodox Church. Committal starred in several plays. He was Sun, published on Feb. 20) – may be made in her name to the University, Box 223623, Pitts - LEWISTON, ME (From the Port - will be held in the spring at Oak also a graduate of UCLA, major - Christine Daphne Natsios passed Cornell Hotel Society Scholar - burgh, PA 15251-2623. Arrange - land Press Herald/Maine Sunday Hill Cemetery. You are invited to ing in accounting. Michael re - away after a battle with cancer ship Fund, checks payable to ments are by the Bangs Funeral Telegram, published on Jan. 21) offer condolences and pay tribute turned to Las Vegas and was a on Feb. 16, 2013 at the Cayuga "Cornell University", c/o Cornell Home. – Antigone Bournakel of Lewis - to Antigone's life by visiting her stockbroker for 30 years. Michael Medical Center of Ithaca, NY. ton, ME, passed away on Jan. 20, guest book at www.thefortin - was actively involved in the fam - She was born Jan. 2, 1953 in 2013 at Gosnell Memorial Hos - groupauburn.com. Those wish - ily apartment and water com - Athens, Greece, daughter of the pice House in Scarborough after ing to make donations in her pany business. Michael was very late Nicholas Andrew Natsios, a CLASSIFIEDS a brief illness. She was 99 years memory may do so to: The Holy generous and he loved to read. US Foreign Service Officer, and old. Born in Arkadia, Greece, on Trinity Greek Orthodox Church, He was passionate about travel Mitzi (Peterson) Natsios. She March 15, 1913, to Michael and 155 Hogan Rd, Lewiston, ME and loved taking family members was a member of St. Catherine's HELP WANTED LEGAL NOTICE Emily Lysikatos, she was the sixth 04240. on trips around the world. He Greek Orthodox Church in of ten children. Antigone came enjoyed hunting and fishing with Ithaca. Ms. Natsios grew up in FALLS CHURCH, VA/DIREC - NOTICE FORMATION OF DOMESTIC to the U.S. in 1935, as a young MESSINEZIS, GEORGE his brother-in-law Keith. He Greece, Vietnam, France, Korea, TOR OF EDUCATION, for Saint LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY Take n notice that Folksbier Brauerei, LLC was bride. She and her husband, PHILADELPHIA, PA (From the loved playing second grandfather Argentina, and the Netherlands, Katherine Hellenic Education formed as a domestic Limited Liability Spiro Bournakel, settled in Lewis - Philadelphia Inquirer & Philadel - to his great nephews, Spencer where she acquired a unique per - Center (HEC). Submission Re - Company on December 13, 2012. The LLC office is located in Kings County. The ton where they raised three chil - phia Daily News on Jan. 13) – and Sean. The Michelas family spective on global cultures as quirements: 1) A Curriculum Vi - New York State Secretary of State has dren. In addition to being a lov - George Messinezis, beloved un - was one of the first founding well as a talent for languages. A tae (CV), 2) a one page descrip - been designated as the agent of the LLC ing wife and mother, cle of many nieces and nephews, families of St. John's Greek Or - childhood spent traveling within tion of objectives, describing the for the purposes of service of process. Copies of service shall be sent to Travis grandmother, sister and aunt to fell asleep in the Lord on January thodox Church. Michael was a the world of international diplo - candidate's approach to teach - Kauffman at 195 Luquer Street, Apt. 4R, her family, Antigone was an ac - 9. George is survived by his close brilliant, generous, kind, and lov - macy provided apt preparation ing Greek as a second language Brooklyn, NY 11231. The purpose of the tive, faithful, and devoted mem - friend Mary Petcos and his sister ing person. He was greatly loved for her subsequent career in the in the U. S., and 3) Three refer - LLC is any lawful purpose. ber of the Holy Trinity Greek Or - Popi of Greece. Pre-deceased by and will be missed by all. He was hospitality industry. A 1985 grad - ences. E-mail "soft copy" to: 272456/18448 thodox Church community. The his beloved brothers Anthony preceded in death by his parents, uate of the Cornell Hotel School, [email protected], "hard FUNERAL HOMES depth of her faith and dedication and Savas. George and his broth - Theodore and Eve Michelas; and Ms. Natsios had 30 years experi - copy" to: Saint Katherine Greek to the church was exemplified ers were career bridge painters sister and brother-in-law, Ann ence in special events manage - Orthodox Church c/o Mr. Jim LITRAS FUNERAL HOME over 75 years of service, as she in the Philadelphia area. His Fu - and Keith Campbell. He is sur - ment, catering, and sales with Stoucker, Parish Council Presi - ARLINGTON lent her talents to every need of neral Service will be 11 AM. vived by his sister, Patricia Robi - organizations such as the Ritz- dent 3149 Glen Carlyn Road BENSON DOWD, INC the church. In 2002, Antigone re - Tuesday January 15, 2013 at the son (Robert); nieces, Diane Ro - Carlton, Four Seasons Hotels, Falls Church, VA 22041 (Due FUNERAL HOME ceived a Boston Diocesan Award Greek Orthodox Church of St. bison, Michelle Clark (Jerry) and Sheraton, Intercontinental Ho - Date for Submission: 30 April 83-15 Parsons Blvd., for her service to the church com - Luke, 35 N. Malin Rd., Broomall, Stacey Riggs; nephew, Ted tels, The Columbus (Ohio) 2013). Email questions to Jamaica, NY 11432 munity. Antigone was the spiri - Pa. 19008. Interment Fernwood Campbell (Cheryl), grand- Athanaeum and Columbus Mu - [email protected]. (718) 858-4434 tual and emotional center of her Cemetery. In lieu of flowers, nephews, Spencer (Laura) and seum of Art. She was appointed 117146/18500/03-30 • (800) 245-4872 family, raising her three children memorial contributions may be Sean Campbell. Funeral services director of alumni affairs at the and maintaining intimate con - made to the church. will be at 10 a.m., Friday, Feb. 1, Cornell Hotel School in 2005, Journalists, women and men, to APOSTOLOPOULOS nections with her grandchildren at St. John the Baptist Greek Or - where she served until present work part-time at The National Apostle Family - as well as all of her relatives n MIHALAKOS, GEORGE thodox Church, 5300 El Camino as the school's primary liaison to Herald. Send resume to: pub - Gregory, Nicholas, Andrew - throughout her life. Antigone HAMDEN, CT (From the New Road. 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She is also survived by at 10:30.Interment in Beaverdale portance of telling her story as a niece, Allegra Andreadis Natsios; four grandchildren, Dean Bour - Memorial Park. To leave condo - tribute to those who were killed nephew, Nicholas R. Mundell; REAL ESTATE nakel of Largo, Fla., Christina lence messages, please vis - and as lesson for future genera - and many beloved cousins, aunts Bournakel of Portland, Christo - itwww.celentanofuneralhome.co tions. She was one of the first and uncles. A viewing will be pher Bournakis of Auburn, and m. Holocaust survivors to be video - held on Wednesday, February 20, NAPLES FLORIDA REAL ESTATE Nicholas Bournakel of Portland; taped by the Steven Speilberg 2013 at St. Catherine's Greek Or - one great-grandchild, Nicos n MICHELAS, MICHAEL Foundation and was frequently thodox Church, 120 West Seneca Bournakel of Kentfield, Calif.; LAS VEGAS, NV (Published on - invited to speak at schools in the St., Ithaca, NY. A private inter - and many nieces and nephews. line on Jan. 28, courtesy of Dig - area. Esther is survived by her ment will be held at a later date In recent years, Antigone lived nity Memorial) – Michael T. daughters, Evelyn Mordechai and at Westlawn Cemetery in Lowell, Vicky Lewis with her daughter in Yarmouth, Michelas passed away Saturday, Anny Hall, and granddaughter, MA. In lieu of flowers, donations realtor and for the last two and a half Jan. 26, 2013. Michael was a Emily Hall. Donations can be years, she was a resident at Fal - long-time resident of Las Vegas made to the Rabbi's Discretionary This is a service mouth By The Sea, in Falmouth. and a first generation Greek. He Fund through the Beth David to the community. Funeral Service will be on Thurs - was born to Theodore and Eve Synagogue, 804 Winview Drive, Announcements of deaths day 11 AM at Holy Trinity Greek Michelas, who were both born Greensboro, NC 27410. Hanes may be telephoned to the 7

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ALL HISTORY Role of Greek Performers in American Circuses, Carnivals, and Rodeos

By Steve Frangos ought to be assumed that April 29, 1936, edition of the TNH Staff Writer Bockus and Kilonis were ulti - Nashua, NH newspaper the mately in charge of their circus, Telegraph, offers a succinct over PART 5 they had hired seasoned circus view of B&K's performers. Miss veterans. Faith Ryan and her blue ribbon CHICAGO- That the Bockus and James Swafford, was general horses are first mentioned and Kilonis Wild Animal Circus manager, and he had worked in then "the roster of circus stars (B&K) was owned and operated a wide array of circuses since embrace the following well by Greek-Americans Curtis the 1890s. B&K’s superinten - known artists: William Shulz, Bockus and John Kilonis and dent, was George A. Manches - Wild Animal Exhibit, of jungle lasted less than one full season ter, "the first man on the lot in bred lions and tigers put is a matter of history. The pre - the morning and the last one off through an amazing routine by cise reasons for its quick demise, at night" is described as a circus Mariom Knowlton, world's however, remain unconfirmed. veteran who "has been in the greatest female wild animal sub - The only publicly available circus business 42 years...and jugator; De Marlow and Mar - account of that circus from ei - who was with the Buffalo Bill lette are a European duo of aer - ther of the principal owners circus...in 1899 [and]...had ial gymnasts; the ‘freeborn Trio’ comes from Bockus. In the Jan - charge of erection of the tented are skillful equilibrists and high uary 21, 1950, edition of Bill - city (Fitchburg Sentinel May 6, perch experts; Raymond and board magazine, a concise his - 1936)." So what exactly did LaFrance, astounding head bal - tory of Bockus' career was Manchester do as superinten - ancers and acrobats; Leo and published. Bockus offered only dent? "Long before the perform - May Jackson, champion tight a passing account of B&K, stat - ers, animals and attractions ar - wire and nifty jugglers; Harry ing that he formed a partnership rived the cook tent, the dressing Barrows aerial rings in daring with the Kilonis where "each rooms, the animal tent, the side drops and catches; Madame contributed the same among of Dale's stable of Kentucky and cash: nothing." Given the size Arabian horses; The DeMarco and complexity of the show, as sisters, dainty and youthful we shall see, that cannot be trapeze performers; Ted Mer - true. Bockus' few other remarks, chant, cowboy screen star, has while revealing, are again short his own company of cowboys of the full complement of Above: One of the attractions at James E. Strates’ Carnival Midway. Right: A carnival poster. and girls and spirited broncos known facts. Strates Shows’ history dates back to 1923. Strates came to America in 1909. and presents thrilling ‘Frontier Over the course of this series Life’; Jinks and Clifford head the about B&K, we have established “Bockus & Kilonis Wild Animal Marion Knowlton who later 1936)." merry clown contingent, who that Bockus and Kilonis were Circus, Season of 1936: Short gained fame on the Cole Bros. B&K has been described as present their grotesque absurdi - seasoned owners and operators Sketches of Former Shows,” by Circus. She also worked horses, only a "medium sized motorized ties and ludicrous comedy. Al of circuses, athletic shows, and Joseph T. Bradbury that ap - dogs, and ponies. Schultz fur - circus," but newspaper reports Massey's Military band will offer other midway entertainments. peared in the January-February nished the majority of stock and attest that there were 50 trucks concerts before each perfor - Incorporation papers for B&K 1967 edition of the circus his - other animals on the show." Var - and a large number of house show and finally the main top mance which commences at 3 were filed on April 30, 1936 tory magazine Bandwagon: ious accounts give different cars. It was with this same com - arose as if by magic. An army of and 8 p.m. with Crystal Lake Park in Man - "An important personage numbers to the animals in pliment of vehicles that the cir - employees were busy; each one "Effie Nelson, a daring aeri - chester, NH, which was identi - connected with the new show Schultz show, but over 80 seems cus gave a parade in each city it had his appointed task (Fitch - alist and trick rider sees mention fied as its headquarters. Perhaps was Capt. William Schultz who a reasonable number. toured. In Bradbury's article we burg Sentinel May 6, 1936)." as well as side show attractions, it was nothing but show busi - was signed to furnish several Merchant was an early Hol - learn that B&K "had received 10 The circus credentials of other Madame Rhonda, palmist; pet - ness hokum, but B&K repeatedly wild and domestic animal acts lywood cowboy actor who also new Ford V-8 trucks equipped members of the B&K Circus rified man; Airlene; Guy Samp - claimed to have been the only in the performance. Schultz also ran his own independent com - with 24 ft. semi-trailers from the could be offered. son, musical cowboy playing New England-based circus. That added a number of his own pany: "Ted will have with him Charles Carrol Co. and later re - Putting aside the issue of glasses, bottles, handsaw, man - promoters and entertainers in - trucks which photos indicate his entire troupe of cowboys and ports stated that 7 additional poor management, the next log - dolin, guitar, and novelty instru - volved with circuses and other were used not only to carry his cowgirls from Hollywood, in - new trucks were delivered. A to - ical question is: how were all ments; snake charmer; Punch outdoor entertainments would own animals and props but also cluding Miss Jackie Moore, lead - tal of 26 trucks plus 3 advance these individuals paid? Neither and Judy; magic; legless man; collectively join forces, from sea - to load seats and other proper - ing lady in many of his recent vehicles were claimed by the Bockus nor Kilonis, no matter dancers; and Bill Freeman's col - son to season, was not uncom - ties of the show. In the early 30's films: show and this figure should be how convincing a speaker he ored band and minstrels." mon. Schultz had operated his own Crooning Dan, cowboy song - substantially correct." might have been, ever could All of that information seems As part of the overall prepa - circus using the rather unusual ster, and his wonder horse, The accepted explanation for have convinced so many indi - to point to a mixture of the very rations, aside from Bockus and title of ‘King of the Beasts.’ His Scout. There are many frontier why B&K failed is poor manage - viduals to work for no food, pay forces of nature along with the Kilonis joining forces, some vehicles were still painted with experts in the Wild West show ment. It is argued that Bockus or gas money. Extending that ar - bad luck of daring men that led arrangements were made with that title while on the Bockus & and they will give the circus fans and Kilonis had only operated gument, who paid to feed all the to the Bockus and Kilonis Wild William Schultz and Ted Mer - Kilonis show. One of Schultz's a real example of rip-roaring as carnival and sideshow men, animals? Animal Circus’ demise. chant. A curt vignette on animal acts was trained lions riding, roping and fancy shoot - which at least in the case of No writer has faulted the ros - William Schultz is found in worked in the steel arena by ing (Fitchburg Sentinel May 5, Bockus is incorrect. While it ter of circus performers. The [email protected]

GREEK AMERICAN STORIES The Perfect Crime

By Phylis (Kiki) Sembos her from humiliating poverty, “Aw, George!” said Dimos Special to The National Herald being an orphan, an’ all. When when the laughter subsided. he noticed her hair was curly “Have a heart! Think of Areti It was Saturday. The table and she wouldn’t go to beauty and Barbara.” facing the front window in the parlors for curls, an’ stuff – that “I am!” remarked George as Dixon cafeteria on Forty-third cinched the deal.” Dimos ex - the front doors of the cafeteria and Eighth Avenue hosted its plained, thinking of his wife’s opened and the portly figure of regular patrons; Dimos, Kipreos, beauty parlor bills. “God! That the resurrected Yiannis ap - John and my papa, George. IS an economy!” proached the table, giving a Their warm coffees remained at “I hear he gives her just salutary nod to each. “Anybody half-way so that the manager enough money to go and come treating today?” Yiannis asked. couldn’t accuse them of loiter - from work with the bus. He “I forgot my wallet and Areti ing, as they spoke animatedly packs her lunch for her, too. I doesn’t get paid until Friday.” on various subjects ranging wonder what’s in them.” Kipreos George lowered his head to sti - from politics in Greece to poli - rubbed his chin. fle surging laughter as the oth - tics in the city – all ending with “Oatmeal sandwiches, ers displayed objections at the the same results. Nothing maybe?” said George, looking master moocher. One could only solved, but each felt a measure serious. wonder what thoughts went of satisfaction for having con - “Look how she dresses, for through their heads at that mo - tributed invaluable information God’s sake! Clothes she brought you haven’t heard my way of cup as George revealed the so - slowly, rose up from them as the ment. Had a machine been in - that had been, until that day, with her as a bride. Hey! It’s getting rid of Yiannis, yet.” lution of ridding the world of manager, feeling silly to have vented to reveal invisible unbeknownst to the rest of the been ten years now. Even her The interest he aroused the tyrannical, skin-flint known been taken in by another of thoughts, a fifty dollar bill and world. shoes are the very same.” John caused a quiet that brought the as Yiannis. George’s tales, offered them free a hundred dollar bill would, Egos uplifted, they moved on informed. “My wife buys clothes attention of the manager who “First, I’d wait until he seated coffee. probably, be, gladly, volunteered to another subject, one with all the time – and says, she does - had stood close enough to over - himself there – in that chair – “Ingenious!” said, John, wip - as a small contribution to the teeth, Yiannis’ grisly, penny- n’t have a thing to wear to hear most of their conversa - drinking his coffee – calmly and ing his eyes of laughing tears. perfect crime. pinching ways. “His wife now church.” tions. Intrigued, he came closer thoughtfully, as he usually does. works overtime, I hear, while he “Let’s face it, guys. He’s got to hear what George had in Then, I’d ask him how he feels. stays home,” said Kipreos, ob - it made and you don’t! Could mind as, George, pleased with He’d say he’s fine, as usual. After serving his buddies reactions. envy have something to do with their avid attention explained, a few quiet moments, I’d, non - “Someone has to take care of it,” said Kipreos, the bachelor “Seriously, I know a way to get chalantly, take out a fifty dollar Ekali their kid.” remarked John, among them. rid of Yiannis without any trou - bill and wave it. the most "exclusive" shrugging. ble to anyone – no police in - He’d look at it with those suburb of Athens, “I hear they have oatmeal for “Are you sure you volvement, no detectives, no bulging eyes and ask what it dinner because it’s cheap.” said knives or guns, poisons or base - was for. His temperature would lovely villa about 24.000 s.f. George, hoping to ruffle their all want to know? ball bats as evidence – nothing!” begin to rise. I’ll tell him it’s for sale. composure. This is lethal business, A long silence ensued. Curiosity something I don’t want any - can be used as is or as “Possible.” Dimos nodded. the perfect crime, I’m reigned. But, doubts clouded more. Of course, he’d say some - 4 independent homes “Maybe, when he becomes rich their thinking that such a crime thing like – ‘if you don’t want it, depending on he’ll serve it with nuts and existed. John broke the curios - I do!’ I’d wait until he asked for talking about here.” the needs of the owner. raisins.” ity-ridden silence. “Ok George! it. I’ll tell him he can have it – a “That’ll be dessert.” quipped “Anyway, I’ve been thinking. How is that done? What do you little at a time – and then, pro - For more information Kipreos, lifting his cup as if it Suppose Areti wants to get rid know that the world never ceed to tear it a half inch down. tel: (011-30) 6984-100-977 was full, the manager eying of him. I could help her.” All thought of?” That’s when his heart will begin e-mail: [email protected] them, curiously. eyes were fastened on George, “Yeah! You’d better make it to race, palpitation will rise.” “Poor Areti! Comes home to who leaned back in his seat, quick! He’ll be here any minute Every face registered awe as the www.villaekali.com do more work; washing dishes, sporting a smug expression, now.” Kipreos urged as all eyes scene played in their minds; cleaning up, ironing and taking tinted with devil – pink. He went to the wide window, even the manager appeared care of baby Barbara. At least, gazed at them as if he knew the searchingly. mesmerized as George contin - he does the shopping, you combination to the Chase bank’s “Are you sure you all want ued. know,” said John. vault. to know? This is lethal business “I’ll tear off more and more, “Sure! Doesn’t trust that she “Get rid of Yiannis?” John – the perfect crime, I’m talking until his color pales and his might buy something expen - looked aghast. “What would about here.” George’s grave ex - hands sweat. He’ll object, say - sive.” George grinned, sipping happen to Areti?” pression became almost sinister. ing, ‘what’re you doing?’ I won’t his own coffee. “He says he “I’d marry her.” offered Fascinated, they begged him to answer. I’ll tear it down all the doesn’t want to confuse her.” Kipreos, thinking of all the ben - reveal the mechanics of the per - way and continue the next strip, “I’ve seen them at the super efits in that situation. fect crime. George’s captivated laying them beside his shaking market. Their bags are sure “We’d have nothing to talk audience included the manager hands. By that time, the fifty light. He says he doesn’t want about with Yiannis gone.” John as he took a seat beside them, dollar bill now in shreds, Yianni her to hurt herself while carry - was rueful. “Gotta admit life listening and waiting with cu - will begin suffering cardiac ar - www.GreekKitchennyc.com ing them home.” would be dull, then.” riosity and suspense. George be - rest. One of you can call the “I’ll bet she fantasizes herself “Besides, it’s illegal to kill gan slowly to reveal the facts paramedics as I take out another as widow,” George’s eyes twin - anyone, y’ know. – even Yian - with measured precision. bill – a one hundred dollar bill. kled mischievously. The others nis,” said Dimos, restraining “Now, I’m not saying it would I’ll start tearing that one, too. objected, waving that thought laughter. “Then, Areti would be work on just anyone. No! This - By the time the paramedics ar - away. found out and jailed. What hap - only on Yiannis! Now! Every - rive Yiannis will be dead.” “Areti’s a good, Christianly pens to the baby?” body has a weak spot. So, one George leaned back in his chair, woman, uncomplaining, makes “They’ve got visiting days in must study his victim carefully pleased, enjoying the despair her cross often. I’ve never heard prison.” said John, tantalized at before plotting. So, here’s what and amazement painted on the her say one word against him. a world without Yiannis. “I’ll I’d do if we are all in agreement stunned faces around him. My wife has more complaints drive her there, myself. No sac - to kill him.” “What’s wrong? It’ll work, I tell against me than can fill an en - rifice!” “WE?” cried Kipreos. “No, you.” cyclopedia.” complained John, “What happy endings! Think George! You! It’s your idea.” Familiar with the devious stirring a half empty cup, vigor - of it, guys!” continued George, “But, I expect your loyalty workings of George’s mind, they ously. still serious. “Areti relieved of when the coroner comes.” sobered at once; John chuck - “Y’ gotta remember; Areti Yiannis, Kipreos gets a worthy George’s face remained placid. ling, Dimos shaking his head, was dirt poor in her village in wife and we find a new subject Tension stilled every voice, Kipreos, closing the mouth that Greece, grateful Yiannis rescued for gossip and conjecture. But, every finger, and every empty had fallen open. Laughter, 10 GREECE CYPRUS THE NATIONAL HERALD, MARCH 9-15, 2013 Eurozone Bailout of Cyprus is Stalled by Suspicion of Money-Laundering

By Charles Forelle And ruined it. war. of state intervention" in business Matina Stevis Skepticism abounds among Couriers flew cash from the affairs. "Everyone in this game Wall Street Journal Cyprus's would-be rescuers, es - Yugoslav customs agency to operates like this," he says. pecially Germany, where parlia - Cyprus—hundreds of millions of "That's how it's done." NICOSIA, Cyprus - Cyprus's ment must assent to a bailout. dollars in a fistful of currencies, Mr. Ablyazov was granted newly elected government is "We will not secure deposits according to a report prepared asylum in the U.K., and he lived bargaining for a €17 billion of Russian black money in in 2002 by a fraud investigator for several years in Carlton bailout from its euro-zone peers. Cypriot banks with German tax - for prosecutors at the Interna - House, a nine-bedroom mansion But the little island won't get payer money," said Carsten tional Criminal Tribunal for the with a Turkish bath in north Lon - a cent until it wrestles with a Schneider, of the leading SPD former Yugoslavia, which tried don. Last year a judge sentenced long-standing issue: money opposition party, last month. Mr. Milosevic and others for war him to 22 months in prison for laundering. Cyprus's reputation Cypriot officials reject such crimes. There, the investigator violating the freezing order and as a transit point for shady cash, characterizations and say they said, it was deposited in the lying to the court about his as - and its unusual connections to ignore substantial reforms of re - Cypriot bank accounts of front sets. He has fled the U.K., and it Russia, are making many of its cent years, and wrongly assume companies. Much allegedly went isn't certain where he is. Mr. would-be rescuers nervous. that money from Russia must be through Cyprus Popular Bank, Leedham says Mr. Ablyazov Monday, euro-zone finance tainted. "Cyprus is doing a lot which today needs a massive "completely disputes the bank's ministers agreed that Cyprus more than other countries" to government rescue. contention that he has in any would have to submit to a fresh combat illegal financial activity, A spokesman said the bank way siphoned off assets." outside examination of its says Eva Rossidou-Papakyriacou, didn't breach United Nations Cyprus was the engine room money-laundering controls—an the longtime head of Cyprus's sanctions and "fully cooperated" of Mr. Ablyazov's alleged opera - audit that many here resent. The anti-money-laundering agency. with authorities. brought back to Lebanon. One mits corporate-service providers tion. In court documents, BTA new president, Nicos Anastasi - Yet Cyprus is having a hard The tribunal's investigators of the banks was Federal Bank to closer regulation. "We've done bank claims Mr. Ablyazov used ades, sworn in last week, has time shaking its reputation, asked Mihalj Kertes, the head of of Lebanon, the complaint said. everything," Ms. Rossidou-Pa - a London company to direct pledged cooperation with the thanks to an industry skilled at Milosevic's customs agency, why It handled the smallest amount pakyriacou says. agents in Cyprus who adminis - euro zone—"We have nothing to forming shell corporations and cash was brought to Cyprus. of money among the four banks Still, she acknowledges that tered companies there—while hide," he told a German news - trusts that can camouflage as - "Probably there," he said, "there described in the complaint and the corporate-service business is apparently asking few questions. paper—but his new finance min - sets. It also has favorable accom - was a passage to the world." it is not a defendant in the case. a major industry. "We rely on One agent was Paul Kythreo - ister said Sunday that there "has modations for Russians, such as FBME has made Cyprus its Its lawyers say the bank "always tourism and services. We don't tis, a 45-year-old Briton with of - to be a balance" between a tough low taxes on cross-border trans - portal for years. It was spun off complies with Lebanese laws produce cars," she says. fices in Limassol. Mr. Kythreotis's audit and bank secrecy. actions. So much money flows from a Lebanese bank and es - and international standards." An industry of thousands of assignments included handling The country's rescue, though through Cyprus to Russia that in tablished in Cyprus in 1986 with FBME says it does less than lawyers, accountants and so- the corporate affairs of scores of small, is an essential test of the 10% of its business in Tanzania. called corporate-service agents companies the bank alleges are currency bloc's newly pro - The bulk is in Cyprus. In the in Cyprus beaver away forming linked to Mr. Ablyazov. claimed cohesion, which has statement, it said it is "fully ap - companies, whipping up corpo - "We need some intergroup re - calmed financial markets after plying" money-laundering regu - rate skeletons and dressing them structuring," an official at the years of turmoil. If Cyprus's long- lations of both countries. with directors, paperwork and London management company delayed bailout descends into As Cyprus's government fell bank accounts. emailed Mr. Kythreotis in 2008, discord, much of that progress into financial trouble in 2011, Their handiwork is evident in according to court documents. could be undone. FBME stepped up. In July 2011, a civil fraud action brought by The official instructed Mr. Mr. Anastasiades's task will according to a brief public state - BTA Bank, one of Kazakhstan's Kythreotis to change the entail piloting the reluctant ment last November, it bought biggest lenders, against its for - recorded owner of "all compa - Mediterranean island back to - short-term Cypriot government mer chairman, Mukhtar Ablya - nies under your administration." ward Europe, after a period debt. Over the next year, it zov. BTA claims Mr. Ablyazov There were 102. when Cyprus flirted with other quadrupled its holdings. By No - and another former executive Among entities in Mr. rescuers—to the consternation vember, it said it held €240 mil - looted billions of dollars from Kythreotis's stable were five of the European Union. lion worth. the bank before it was national - British Virgin Islands companies When Cyprus was fast run - On the day in May 2012 that ized in 2009 and they were that BTA alleged Mr. Ablyazov ning out of cash in late 2011, Cyprus's parliament authorized fired. ultimately owned. (A London for example, Mr. Anastasiades's an initial bailout of Cyprus Pop - BTA says Mr. Ablyazov squir - judge has ruled he did own at predecessor, a Russophile Com - ular, FBME applied to move its reled the money away inside a least one.) BTA says $300 mil - munist, dispatched his finance legal headquarters from Tanza - paper empire of companies. A lion worth of bonds owned by minister to Moscow for a loan reuTerS nia to Cyprus. That would make London judge's order freezing the bank ended up in the coffers of €2.5 billion, or about $3.3 bil - A billboard in Russian advertising a property development in it a fully European bank with ac - Mr. Ablyazov's assets lists hun - of those companies. lion. The next year, Cyprus got Limassol, Cyprus. cess to the entire EU. It currently dreds of companies alleged by Mr. Kythreotis was sentenced another lifeline, when Tanzanian has a license to operate as a for - the bank to be shells—entities to 21 months in prison in the bank FBME Bank Ltd., angling the official statistics the little is - its legal domicile in the Cayman eign branch in Cyprus. from Cyprus to the British Virgin U.K. for refusing to turn over for a Cypriot banking license land is Russia's largest source of Islands. A decade ago, the Cay - Averof Neofytou, a member Islands and the Seychelles. documents. He has remained in that would give it access to all foreign investment—accounting man Islands evicted banks with of Cyprus's parliament, asked Cyprus, where last year he was of Europe, invested 13% of its for nearly a quarter of the total no real presence there. FBME the central-bank chief if there sentenced to two months in jail balance sheet in the govern - in 2011. found a new home in Dar es was a quid pro quo. He says he for refusing a court order to ment's junk-rated treasury bills. For some in Europe, Cyprus's Salaam. was told there wasn't. search his house and Limassol FBME says the investment was - moment of need is also an op - Tanzania isn't a financial cen - In its statement, FBME said office. His lawyer declined to n't linked to its application. portunity to pull it closer. The ter. It is on an international its decision to buy the debt was comment. At a euro-zone finance min - island is deep in the eastern blacklist of jurisdictions that "made on the basis of commer - Residents of Cyprus, mean - isters' gathering in Brussels on Mediterranean, barely 150 miles don't do enough to stop money cial interests and at no time while, welcome the Russians. Dec. 3, Maria Fekter, a blunt from Beirut. It was at various laundering. And FBME itself has linked to any other considera - The money brings jobs and in - Austrian with little time for col - times under the sway of Byzan - drawn scrutiny from anti- tion." vestment. And, many say, the is - legial niceties, captured the tines, Venetians and Ottomans. money-laundering officials at Cyprus's would-be EU res - land provides a refuge for legit - mood in the currency union over Richard the Lionheart seized the U.S. Treasury Department, cuers fret over the dense stacks imate Russian businessmen. the prospect of bailing out Cyprus on his way to the Holy according to people familiar of shell companies based here, Elias Neocleous, a lawyer at Cyprus. Land. Britain ruled it from World with the matter, in part because which critics say abet tax evasion one of Cyprus's most prominent "What about the Russians and War I to 1960. of its links with a Lebanese bank. and money laundering. firms, with an office in Moscow their fake companies laundering FBME was spun out of that Cypriot officials say the con - and a hefty client list, says their cash through your banks?" Cyprus doesn't control the bank, Federal Bank of Lebanon cern is unfounded. Ms. Rossi - Cyprus needs to capitalize on its she asked her Cypriot counter - northern part of the island, SAL, in the 1980s and has the dou-Papakyriacou, the anti- position in the world. He envi - part at the time, according to which was invaded by Turkish same controlling shareholders. money-laundering chief, points sions making the island a global two people present at the closed- Army troops in 1974. They are FBME hasn't been accused of to her office's broad powers to center for arbitration, "for people door meeting. "Are we giving still there. A United Nations any wrongdoing. block suspicious transactions who don't trust their own sys - them our taxpayers' money too?" buffer zone separates 860,000 In a 2011 civil complaint filed and laws requiring shell compa - tems." Cyprus's future is in "fa - Cyprus—which joined the people in the south from another in New York federal court, the nies to maintain ownership Mr. Ablyazov is a critic of cilitating business, bridging cul - European Union in 2004 and the quarter million in the north. Justice Department outlined an records. She brandishes a folder Kazakhstan's strongman presi - tures and geographies," he says. euro zone in 2008—needs the Cyprus's financial industry alleged scheme in which money of letters from foreign counter - dent, Nursultan Nazarbayev, and "We don't have anything else." money. Four years of deficits blossomed after the split. It be - linked to Hezbollah operatives parts thanking her for coopera - he has said the bank is trying to from a free-spending govern - came a haven for Middle Eastern and drug traffickers was laun - tion, and points to Cyprus's silence him. He has argued that Jay Solomon contributed to this ment run by a Communist have money, and the collapse of the dered around the world. largely positive evaluation under he needed complex structures to article. eroded public finances. A muni - Soviet Union brought new According to the complaint, the international money-laun - shield assets from what he says A version of this article appeared tions explosion at a naval base clients. The unsavory reputation money was transferred from sev - dering regime—better marks are Mr. Nazarbayev's predations. March 5, 2013, on page A1 in the in 2011 badly damaged a critical was cemented in the 1990s, eral Lebanese banks to the U.S., than Austria. His lawyer, Richard Leed - U.S. edition of The Wall Street power plant, stunting the econ - when Slobodan Milosevic and where it was used to buy cars In December, Cyprus passed ham, says that such practices are Journal, with the headline: Mon - omy. A major Cypriot bank's in - his associates funneled money that were shipped to West Africa more anti-money-laundering commonplace in the former So - ey-Laundering Suspicion Stalls vestments in Greece have nearly through Cypriot banks to pay for and sold, and the proceeds laws, among them one that sub - viet Union "because of the fear Europe's Latest Bailout. Euro Crisis Now Breeds Comics: Italian Funnyman Wins 25% of Vote

By Gideon Rachman died in Europe. Millions more democracy as a system. partly why Mr Grillo is currently The Financial Times were mutilated. In fact, modern Europeans rejecting all overtures to form a Adolf Hitler and Benito Mus - seem more likely to react to bad coalition government. Some months ago, I was dis - solini were both veterans of the times by voting for a comedian Where his Five Star Move - cussing the euro crisis with a war and the movements they than for a fascist. Mr Grillo is ment has gained power at the high-ranking US diplomat. “It’s led were profoundly shaped by not an isolated example. In Ice - local level, it has governed prag - back to the 1930s, isn’t it?” said it. Mussolini took power in the land, whose economy was dev - matically. In Parma, Mr Grillo’s my companion with a mixture 1920s, before the Depression astated by a financial crisis, the followers found themselves in of gloom and relish. “The ex - even hit Europe. When it got voters elected Jon Gnarr, a charge of a city that was hugely tremists are on the rise.” under way in the 1930s, Europe stand-up comic, as the mayor of in hock. They responded by re - After the Italian elections, was ill-prepared. Welfare states Reykjavik, the capital. Mr financing the debt and pushing these doom-laden predictions were vestigial, so unemploy - Gnarr’s political pledges in - through spending cuts. Simi - are redoubling. The Spectator, ment often spelt destitution and cluded a drug-free parliament larly, in Reykjavik, the comedy a British magazine, has labelled hunger. within a decade. mayor has had to cut jobs and Beppe Grillo as “Italy’s new By contrast, modern Europe A comic’s ability to combine raise taxes. Mussolini”. Even some Italian is a much richer and less trau - anger and humour works polit - By contrast, Mr Grillo’s pro - commentators have made the matised continent. Of course, ically, when things look bleak. posals for Italy’s national eco - same comparison. times are tough in countries ingram Pinn illustration©ingram Pinn Comedians can also make un - nomic crisis hint at much more That is not just unfair on Mr such as Portugal, where wages ployment is now higher than 50 but did badly in the most recent conventional proposals that sub - radical policies. He has talked Grillo, a comedian whose Five and pensions have been cut. Un - per cent, the big new political election. The new force in Ital - vert the pomposity of politics as of stopping payments on Italy’s Star Movement has just scooped employment is high across the development is the rise of Cata - ian politics is Mr Grillo and his usual. Mr Grillo has promised huge national debt – and flirted up 25 per cent of the vote. It is eurozone and many people fear lan nationalism. This is a serious movement – whose political to slash the pay of politicians, with the idea of Italy leaving the also a misreading of how Euro - for the future. But this is not the phenomenon that threatens the style is very different from that make the internet faster and cre - euro. Most mainstream politi - pean politics are likely to de - 1930s. unity of the country. But it is not of the Italian fascists. Mussolini ate more bicycle lanes. cians treat these ideas as a bad velop, under conditions of eco - The country that looks clos - to be confused with a resur - was militaristic and bombastic. The difficulty for politicians joke. But, unless they can find a nomic stress. The temptation is est to producing 1930s-style pol - gence of Francoism or the anar - Mr Grillo uses humour and in - who make their breakthroughs way forward that looks more at - to argue that because the De - itics is Greece, whose economy chist movements of the 1930s. formality as his trademarks. It as truth-telling clowns is that ac - tractive than another five years pression of the 1930s led to the has suffered the deepest con - Italy’s regional separatists, is true that he ridicules the Ital - tually wielding power presents of austerity, Mr Grillo and his rise of fascists and communists, traction of any in Europe – the Northern League, emerged ian parliament and political them with some distinctly un - imitators could have the last the current economic crisis will shrinking by 25 per cent. That well before the economic crisis class. But he has never rejected funny choices. That may be laugh in Italy. provoke a similar flight to the has led to the rise of Golden far right and the far left. Dawn, a far-right party that flirts There are a few similarities with fascist themes, from ultra - between Europe then and now. nationalism to anti-semitism. The grape, As in the 1930s, a financial Golden Dawn is currently at Lesvos, Once Famous for its named after the crash, followed by austerity poli - about 10 per cent in the polls village Chidiri - cies, has led to high unemploy - and the far-left Syriza party otiko, was re - ment. Once again, new political came a close second in the last Wine, is Bottling Once Again planted in 1985 in movements are springing up election. But, for now, an un - the family estate, that heap scorn on the govern - popular centrist government The island of Lesvos has been tradition was lost on the inside the crater of ing class. But dig a little deeper continues to hold power. famous from antiquity and the island;the grapes were killed by the extinct volcano and the comparisons seem su - What is striking about middle ages for its wine, which the lethal disease Philloxera which, millennia perficial. When the Depression Greece, moreover, is that it re - was the most expensive in the and, since Lesvos by then had ago, had created arrived in Europe, only 12 years mains exceptional in contempo - markets of ancient Athens, specialized in the production of the Petrified Forest had passed since the continent rary Europe. If you look at the Rome and Constantinople.Dur - ouzo, vineyards on the island of Lesvos. Daphnis had suffered the horrors of the rest of the continent, the far ing Ottoman rule, it was the were abandoned. & Chloë, red and first world war. About 40 per right and the far left have not only wine consumed in Turkish Recently , a couple of quality white, is produced cent of French and German men yet made dramatic headway – harems. labels, Methymnaeos and Daph - following their discovery of the at the vineyard Oenophoros, at aged 19-21 in 1914 were killed even in countries such as Portu - Eventually however, in the nis & Chloë have put the name last remaining vines of the tra - Megalochori with rare indige - in the next four years. Italy also gal, Italy and Spain, whose course of the island's turbulent Lesvos back on the wine map. ditional red grape of Lesvos in nous varieties. suffered terrible casualties. economies are suffering badly. history, including the many Methymnaeos wine was the surroundings of the village Overall, more than 10m soldiers In Spain, where youth unem - changes in rulers, the viticulture launched by the Lambros family Chidira. Source: AMNA THE NATIONAL HERALD, MARCH 9-15, 2013 GREECE CYPRUS 11 After Positive Signs of Progress, Greece-Troika Talks Have Hit a Roadblock

By Andy Dabilis of 1.5 percent. Greece remains deep in re - in hidden monies that still hasn’t TNH Staff Writer The Troika, however, doesn’t cession with the economy ex - been checked for possible tax favor such leniency and report - pected to contract by more than evasion. ATHENS – With some positive edly wants only to allow a two- 4% this year. Many economists Former Public Order Minister signs emerging for Greece’s bat - year repayment of interest-only fear unemployment will rise fur - George Voulgarakis, 53, was tered economy, the uneasy coali - so that banks and investors can ther to about 30% this year. also accused of hiding from the tion government led by Prime be protected. IOBE expects the economy to state that his wife had deposits Minister Antonis Samaras took CUT! CUT! CUT! shrink by 4.6% in 2013, com - of 117,000 euros ($152,000) in a setback when his talks with A plan to consolidate govern - pared with a slightly more opti - a foreign bank account in 2007. international lenders were post - ment ministries, which is close mistic government prediction of The country’s international poned after administration offi - to completion, will result in a 4.5% economic contraction lenders are ramping up the pres - cials could not reach agreement around 2,000 employees being this year. sure to go after tax cheats who on demands for accelerated re - laid off for a year at reduced CORRUPTION CRACKDOWN hide their assets. forms. pay and then fired if other posi - PICKS UP Papantoniou and Voulgarakis The Troika of the European tions for them can’t be found as Sensing growing public out - both denied the charges, which Union-International Monetary part of a plan to cut the public rage could undo its hopes for a stem from a probe into the so- Fund-European Central Bank workforce by 25,000 by the end recovery, the government has called “Lagarde list” of potential (EU-IMF-ECB) that is putting up of the year, although the gov - stepped up its crackdown on tax evaders published that $325 billion in two bailouts to ernment hopes it won’t be nec - corruption and on tax evasion sparked an outcry among prop up the country’s flat-line essary. although not a single major al - Greeks angry at a wealthy elite economy is demanding Greece Approval has already been leged tax cheat has been prose - partly blamed for dragging the open closed professions, priva - given though for the reduction cuted. country to the brink of bank - tize state enterprises, and start of 900 workers at six ministries Vassilis Papageorgopoulos, ruptcy. It is named for former firing public workers to reduce to save 19.8 million euros, the former mayor of Thessa - French finance minister Chris - their numbers by 150,000 the ($25.6 million). loniki and a New Democracy tine Lagarde who gave the next three years or face likely AP PHOTO/THAnASSiS STAVrAkiS Speaking to Kathimerini, a stalwart, received a swift life HSBC list to former finance min - cutoff of more rescue loans. Former Greek defense minister Akis Tsochatzopoulos, sur - high-ranking Finance Minister sentence after being convicted ister George Papaconstantinou Fearing a backlash from rounded by police, arrives at a court in Athens, Monday, March official said negotiations had “a of embezzling 18 million euros in 2010. He is being investi - unions and workers already be - 4. Tsochatzopoulos was sentenced to eight years in prison long way to go” as government ($23.35 million) while former gated after it was discovered the set by three years of crushing after a court found him guilty of submitting false income dec - officials met with the IMF’s Poul defense minister Akis Tsochat - names of three of his relatives austerity measures, the govern - larations. The court also fined Tsochadzopoulos euro 520,000 Thomsen, the ECB’s Klaus Ma - zopoulos was sentenced to eight were removed. ment had hoped to persuade the ($676,000) and ordered the seizure of his Acropolis-view home. such and the European Commis - years for failing to disclose his Papantoniou and Voulgarakis Troika that firing some 7,000- sion’s Matthias Mors. assets and his mansion was con - told a parliamentary committee 8,000 disciplinary problems and without which the government Democracy and one of its coali - Greece remains a volatile fiscated. that is looking into the Lagarde early retirements would prevent doesn’t have enough money to tion partners, the PASOK Social - mix of economic sentiment, Tsochatzopoulos, who has list that the accounts belonged the need for immediate layoffs, pay workers, pensioners and ists, have not paid 250 million with the Foundation for Eco - been jailed for 11 months, faces only to their wives. Former or at least delay them now. banks. euros ($324.3 million) in bank nomic and Industrial Research trials on more serious charges Deputy Finance Minister Petros Finance Minister Yiannis Successive governments have loans. (IOBE) reporting that its of masterminding money-laun - Doukas, a member of the ruling Stournaras said that there was dragged their feet for three The government reportedly monthly index showed a bounce dering schemes to steal as much conservative party, was also a “long road ahead” in the talks years over dismissal of public wants approval for a five-year although consumer confidence as 1 billion euros ($1.3 billion) charged with felony after the between the two sides aimed at workers – their voter con - installment plan for social secu - remained low. from defense contracts. prosecutor refused to accept his checking the progress of re - stituency – as private sector un - rity fund debtors, some of “The stability we see con - Three other former ministers explanation over the disappear - forms. employment has hit a record 27 whom have reportedly been firms that citizens and business - were also caught up in the cor - ance of 1 million euros ($1.29 The Troika in December percent, some 61.7 percent for keeping worker contributions men are trying to come to terms ruption sweep. million) from his bank account agreed to start releasing some those under 25 and plunged and putting them in their own with the reality created by the Among them was Yannos Pa - in 2010, court officials said. $69 billion as part of a second Greece into a six-year recession. pockets, but the Troika has enforcement and implementa - pantoniou, a prominent Social - Doukas, 60, has denied any bailout of $325 billion but has The Troika also wants a pay - balked. tion of additional (austerity) … ist politician who was finance wrondoing. He has said the insisted that the government ment plan for companies and The newspaper Kathimerini but also the continued funding minister after Tsochatzopoulos money was transferred to an in - meet fiscal targets to reduce its individuals that owe social se - said that the government also of the Greek economy by our when Greece joined the euro in vestment account, which was debt-to-Gross Domestic Product curity contributions and a pro - proposing that for the next four partners,” IOBE said. 2001. He faces misdemeanor declared in his income state - ratio and start chasing tax gram giving bank customers years some low-income house - However, it added that “the charges for failing to disclose in ment. Greek politicians are re - evaders. longer to repay their loans. holds, pensioners, the unem - concerns about the issue of in - 2008 that his wife had 2.2 mil - quired under law to declare the At stake now is the next in - Banks are hounding workers ployed, large families and dis - creasing long-term unemploy - lion euros ($2.85 million) in de - origin of their wealth after Par - stallment of 2.8 billion euros, buried by pay cuts, tax hikes, abled people be allowed to only ment remains intense and rein - posits in a Swiss account of the liament toughened legislation in about $3.63 billion, which now and slashed pensions to repay repay the interest on their loans, forces uncertainty at high HSBC Bank, where another 2010 soon after its debt crisis has been delayed a month and their loans in full while New which will be set at a fixed rate levels.” 2,062 Greeks have $1.95 billion erupted. Samaras and Erdogan Seek to Resolve Cyprus Issues Northern Greek Policemen

Continued from page 1 Injured in Gold Mine Clash ister Antonis Samaras following meetings in Istanbul on Sunday THESSALONIKI, Greece (AP) made in the news media that and Monday. — Residents of a northern (tear gas) was used at a school In a joint declaration, the Greek village who object to the and outside homes in the area," leaders said they are committed construction of a gold mine a police statement said. to "engage in cooperation with clashed with riot police Thurs - It said two police officers suf - regard to the technical and re - day, with some claiming that po - fered minor injuries after being lated aspects in the organization lice fired tear gas into a school hit by rocks thrown by protest - of the 2020 Summer Olympic yard. Two police officers were ers. No arrests were made. Games." hurt. The agreement said the two Police have been conducting sides will "explore ways of en - frequent searches in the village hancing the benefits of the of Ierissos, looking for evidence Olympics for the two countries in connection with a February Unemployment as well as for the entire Balkan nighttime raid on the mining and Black Sea region" if Istanbul company's facilities during dips to 26.4 % wins the bid. which people set fire to machin - Greece, the home of the an - ery. The mining facilities are be - cient Olympics and birthplace ing operated by the Vancouver, ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Un - of the modern games, last Canada-based, Eldorado Gold employment in Greece dipped hosted the Olympics in Athens Corp. marginally to 26.4 percent in in 2004. The Greek government says December, but experts warn that Istanbul, bidding for a fifth the gold mine would provide more significant improvements time, is competing against badly needed overseas invest - are unlikely in coming months. Tokyo and Madrid for the 2020 ment and create jobs during a The Greek Statistical Author - Games. The International time of national economic crisis. ity said Thursday the November Olympic Committee will select Local campaigners argue the figure had been revised from 27 the host city in Buenos Aires on AP PHOTO mine would damage the envi - percent originally, a record high, Sept. 7. ABOVE: Turkish Prime Minis - ronment and put farmers out of to 26.6 percent. The agency said "The ties between Turkey and ter Recep Tayyip Erdogan, business. the discrepancy was due to a Greece have been strengthened right, and Greek Prime Minis - On Thursday, residents set up seasonal adjustment recalcula - today, thanks to the power of ter Antonis Samaras shake a roadblock at the village's en - tion. the Olympic Movement to build hands after a joint news con - trance, burning tires to prevent The rate has fluctuated bridges," Istanbul bid leader ference in Istanbul, Turkey, the riot police from entering around the record levels in re - Hasan Arat said. "The closer co - Monday, March 4, 2013. Ierissos. Police said tear gas was cent months, with some econo - operation between our countries fired at the roadblock. mists — as well as a govern - will be a valuable and lasting tween 1974 and 1996. Relations A former local mayor, ment-funded study — legacy of our bid." between the uneasy NATO allies Michalis Vlachopoulos, said tear predicting an increase to 30 per - Greece and Turkey mounted have improved greatly since the gas also was fired inside the vil - cent this year. a joint bid for football's 2008 late 1990s, but Athens and lage, including in the yard of a About a million Greeks have European Championship, which Ankara remain at odds over a high school, and that students lost their jobs since the start of were awarded to Austria and broad range of issues, including were suffering breathing prob - the recession in late 2008. Only Switzerland. war-divided Cyprus, Aegean Sea lems. 3.7 million people work out of Turkey and Greece nearly boundaries, and illegal immigra - Greek Prime Minister Antonis Samaras greets Ecumenical Pa - Police denied the allegation. a population of nearly 11 mil - went to war three times be - tion. triarch Bartholomew during his visit to Constantinople. "We categorically deny claims lion. Cyprus, Seeking Eurozone Bailout, Hindered by Money Laundering Charges

Continued from page 1 against money-laundering. Cyprus's would-be rescuers, es - thanks to an industry skilled at Yugoslavia, which tried Mr. Milo - Austria.” Anastasiades has promised to pecially Germany, where parlia - forming shell corporations and sevic and others for war crimes. Cyprus passed more anti- holders and owners of large cooperate. He told a German ment must assent to a bailout. trusts that can camouflage as - There, the investigator said, it money-laundering law in De - bank deposits take a hit is con - newspaper "we have nothing to ‘We will not secure deposits of sets. It also has favorable accom - was deposited in the Cypriot cember which call for closer reg - troversial, because many econ - hide," but the Journal reported Russian black money in Cypriot modations for Russians, such as bank accounts of front compa - ulation of corporate-service. omists and leaders fear it might that “his new finance minister banks with German taxpayer low taxes on cross-border trans - nies. Much allegedly went Rossidou-Papakyriacou said, set a precedent that could spook said Sunday that there ‘has to be money,’ said Carsten Schneider, actions. So much money flows through Cyprus Popular Bank, "We've done everything.” markets, undermining recently a balance’ between a tough au - of the leading SPD opposition through Cyprus to Russia that in which today needs a massive “Still, she acknowledges that regained confidence in the eu - dit and bank secrecy.” party, last month,” according to the official statistics the little is - government rescue." the corporate-service business is rozone as whole. Cyprus has ve - Cyprus’ partners are not in a the Journal. land is Russia's largest source of A bank spokesman denied a major industry. ‘We rely on hemently rejected the proposals, polite mood however. Maria Fek - foreign investment—accounting that it violated United Nations tourism and services. We don't adding the discussion already ter, the Austrian finance minister, for nearly a quarter of the total sanctions and claimed it "fully produce cars,’ she says. An in - has led some depositors to with - was blunt at a December 3 gath - Cyprus declares in 2011,” the Journal reported. cooperated" with authorities. dustry of thousands of lawyers, draw their money.” ering in Brussels, but she re - “we have nothing Cyprus's financial industry According to the Journal: accountants and so-called corpo - An extensive article this week flected her colleagues’ feelings blossomed after the illegal Turk - “Cyprus' would-be EU rescuers rate-service agents in Cyprus on the subject in the Wall Street regarding a bailout of Cyprus. to hide,” but its ish invasion and occupation. The fret over the dense stacks of shell beaver away forming companies, Journal noted “Cyprus' reputa - She asked her Cypriot coun - partners are not Journal wrote: “it became a companies based here, which whipping up corporate skeletons tion as a transit point for shady terpart "what about the Russians in a polite mood haven for Middle Eastern money, critics say abet tax evasion and and dressing them with direc - cash, and its unusual connec - and their fake companies laun - and the collapse of the Soviet money laundering…Cypriot of - tors, paperwork and bank ac - tions to Russia, are making many dering their cash through your these days. Union brought new clients. The ficials say the concern is un - counts,” the Journal added. of its would-be rescuers ner - banks…Are we giving them our unsavory reputation was ce - founded. Ms. Rossidou-Papakyr - Elias Neocleous, a lawyer at vous.” taxpayers' money too?" Officials in Cyprus say their mented in the 1990s, when Slo - iacou, the one of Cyprus's most top firms, On March 4, a week after The Journal nicely summa - critics are ignoring major reforms bodan Milosevic and his associ - anti-money-laundering chief, has an office in Moscow and a Anastasiades was sworn in, suc - rized Cyprus’ predicament: “Four they have undertaken, and they ates funneled money through points to her office's broad pow - substantial client list. He told ceeding Dimitri Christofias, the years of deficits from a free- challenge the notion that Russia Cypriot banks to pay for war.” ers to block suspicious transac - the Journal “Cyprus needs to Communist stalwart who was spending government run by a money must be tainted. "Cyprus According to the Journal, tions and laws requiring shell capitalize on its position in the able to obtain a loan of €2.5 bil - Communist have eroded public is doing a lot more than other “couriers flew cash from the Yu - companies to maintain owner - world,” and he envisions Cyprus lion, or about $3.3 billion from finances. A munitions explosion countries to combat illegal finan - goslav customs agency to Cyprus ship records. She brandishes a becoming a global center for ar - Russia, the European finance at a naval base in 2011 badly cial activity,” the Journal quoted – hundreds of millions of dollars folder of letters from foreign bitration, “for people who don't ministers pushed Cyprus into ac - damaged a critical power plant, Eva Rossidou-Papakyriacou, the in a fistful of currencies, accord - counterparts thanking her for co - trust their own systems.” He be - cepting an independent audit. stunting the economy. A major veteran head of Cyprus's anti- ing to a report prepared in 2002 operation, and points to Cyprus's lieves Cyprus has a bright future The probe will determine Cypriot bank's investments in money-laundering agency. by a fraud investigator for pros - largely positive evaluation under “facilitating business, bridging whether its financial institutions Greece have nearly ruined it.” “Yet Cyprus is having a hard ecutors at the International the international money-launder - cultures and geographies. “We comply with international rules “Skepticism abounds among time shaking its reputation, Criminal Tribunal for the former ing regime—better marks than don't have anything else.” 12 EDITORIALS LETTERS THE NATIONAL HERALD, MARCH 9-15, 2013

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It was friendly, cheerful, joyous occasion, the dinner hosted by Is - raeli Ambassador to the United States, Dr. Michael Oren, and his AGORA – THE ORIGINAL MARKETPLACE OF IDEAS wife Sally, on February 27. The gathering highlighted a new grouping called the Congressional Hellenic-Israel Alliance. The guests were delighted by “Hellenic Israel Concert,” which By Antonis H. Diamataris and the Agora, the original marketplace of ideas, writing an interesting column. Rest assured, stole the show. It was comprised of two Greeks and two Israelis: Constantinos E. Scaros and we, their modern-day descendants, aspire anything we write here are our sincere, heartfelt Magda Giannikou, Dan Nadel, Petros Klampanis and Rafi Malkiel. to continue that tradition. thoughts. We will share them with you every For one song they were joined on percussion by the Israeli Ambas - From time to time, an issue emerges and We (Diamataris and Scaros) rarely disagree two weeks. We hope you enjoy them, and we sador. It was noted that many Israeli popular songs have Greek roots. inspires various minds to converge, often at with one another, but we think it is valuable look forward to your taking part in the discus - The ambassador pointed out that the land in Israel if filled with odds with one another, to discuss it. Hopefully, to share our thoughts when we do, and invite sion as well – by contributing letters to the ed - Greek remains and that even the location on which the Israeli Parlia - collective enlightenment will result from such you to share yours as well. We would never itor in response, and/or commenting on our ment stands is leased from the Greek Orthodox Patriarchate of conversations. The Ancient Greeks did that in fabricate a difference of opinion for the sake of website: www.thenationalherald.com. Jerusalem. And he said Israel is the only Middle Eastern country where the Christian population is growing. The event, which was a "Celebration of Friendship between Israel, the United States, Greece, and Cyprus" was also attended by the Greek Ambassador to the United States, Christos Panagopoulos, Greece Needs a Hand, But Must Jumpstart its Own Economy Olympia Neocleous, the charge d'affaires at the Cypriot Embassy, and about 50 invited guests: Greeks and Jews from all over America, including some Greek Jews. 1. TNH’s PUBLISHER-EDI - anymore,” he continued. addition to austerity measures from Athens to and from one of The official representatives of the three countries spoke with warm TOR SHARES HIS POINT OF It seems to me that before and crackdown on corruption, the islands was $50, can you and encouraging words, highlighting the common historical experi - VIEW the place explodes in violence both commendable measures, imagine how many thousands ence linking our peoples. But they also spoke about the future. Dino, one has to be blind not or before they elect a lunatic as and with an eye toward hope more people would go there this The Israeli Ambassador referred to the joint training of Greek and to see that there is some encour - prime minister – going a step for debt relief – Greece is not summer? Israeli Air Forces pilots and mentioned that 400,000 Israelis visited aging news emerging from further than the Italians did a doing more to spark immediate Moreover, what if the cost of Greece last year. Greece these days. Prime Min - few weeks ago – before Greece robust economic growth by fully staying in a hotel, eating in a It was indeed an important event. It was not only and evening ister Antonis Samaras is doing is set afire, the Eurozone coun - utilizing its top resource: that it restaurant, buying food from a filled with “kefi,” as it was described by Congressman Gus Bilirakis his utmost to save the country. tries, indeed the international is a vacationer’s dream getaway supermarket, and riding in a cab of Florida, who spearhead the creation of the Alliance. Last week, a former mayor community, need to step in and destination. – better yet, making sure cabs For now, what matters is to deepen the relationships between our of Thessaloniki went to prison lighten Greece of its debt bur - Why doesn’t everyone simply were not on strike, but available communities and our homelands and place them on a basis of mutual for life for embezzling millions den. slash prices? It doesn’t matter to transport tourists wherever interests and benefits and the common values and principles we of public funds. A former close They all know that this that other Euro countries keep they wanted to go – were cut in share, rather than to rely on impetus from common enemies. aid to Andreas Papandreou amount of debt is not sustain - their prices high. Just because half? Why would the restaura - We Greek-Americans must work with our fellow Jewish-American went to jail for eight years and able. To pretend otherwise Greece uses the same currency teurs care if all food and drink citizens for the good of our common country, and for the countries of had his house right under the might be politically expedient, doesn’t mean it has to charge they served was 50% off? After our origin, Greece, Cyprus, and Israel. Acropolis Hill confiscated for it might help Mrs. Merkel in all, whenever they spent money similar reasons. Three other Germany until the next elec - on rent, paying the mortgage, ministers also face jail time for tions, but it does not help any - The lenders must filling their cars, buying a pair Diaspora Do-Gooders misrepresenting their wealth to body else. forgive some of of shoes, or paying the utility Parliament. All these incidents Therefore, instead of waiting Greece’s debt, but bill, those expenses would 50% point to an increased focus on for the inevitable, instead of de - less expensive, too. Let's face it: quite often, the community does not always show law and order. stroying the lives of a couple of Greece needs to Of course, there are the proper gratitude to those Greek-Americans that provide financial sup - In addition, there is not generations of Greeks, before a do more to spur lenders to consider: if the port for the events and projects of the community. Instead, we take much discussion these days massive exodus takes place, Greeks all get by just fine charg - them for granted. And then, when they disappear, we get frustrated. about Greece exiting the Euro - there is no alternative but to robust growth ing each other much less, how Those of us who live in New York usually take the existence of the zone. move ahead and forgive a great can they pay off their loans to rest of the community for granted. When we go on the road and Yet, it would be quite wrong percentage of its debt. the same amount – just like the foreign lenders? That is where travel to places far from New York, however, that is when we feel the to think that the situation on the The money, then, should be cost of living in rural Arkansas those lenders must do their part, joy and thrill of meeting other Greek-Americans. ground is improving for the peo - invested in the country in the is far less than it is in Manhat - in concert with the domestic And that is also when one truly appreciates the endeavors of ple. Quite the opposite, in fact. hope that it might lift the econ - tan, even though the residents price-slashing, and forgive the members of the community, in places where there are precious few With an unemployment rate omy out of the depression in of both places use the same loan amount commensurate Greeks and Cypriots. of 27% and wave after wave of which it finds itself. American dollar. with the price reduction. We wish to highlight the recent fundraising gala, the Ambrosia new taxes imposed on the urg - Frankly, I see no other alter - A bunch of my cousins and I Meanwhile, the tourists Ball of the National Hellenic Museum in Chicago. To note the impor - ing of the troika in the hope of native. have been talking for some time would flow into Greece at tance of the work done by the members of our community there. raising the revenues of the coun - For if they procrastinate for now about a family reunion in record rates. After all, the many We also want to emphasize the role played by certain people that try, the people have just about whatever reason the burden of Greece this summer. Ultimately, splendors of Greece are still is crucial for the establishment and support of this inspired and vital had it. They simply cannot make misery and the loss of hope will some will go, and some will not, there to behold – the Greeks project. They are our compatriots acquired great fortunes, and to ends meet anymore. be so great that the next possi - but none will ignore that the haven’t managed to ruin them. their credit, they have chosen to spend some of their valuable time A conversation today with a ble solution in fact would be tremendous costs involved is a A coordinated effort to forgive and their money to enhance Hellenism in America. friend from Crete, one of the Greece’s exit from the Eurozone. serious factor in the equation. loans, slash prices, continue The Ambrosia Ball, celebrating Apokries – Greek Orthodox Carnival most affluent areas in the coun - Why aren’t Olympic and the throwing the crooks in jail, and – was underwritten by a few generous Hellenes according to the try, hit me hard. “There is no 2. TNH’s ASSOCIATE EDI - other airlines running huge bar - ending the senseless strikes and commemorative journal. hope anymore left in this coun - TOR RESPONDS gain sales on tickets for both in - riots will go a long way to lift Let us, therefore, express our gratitude to them and to others that try,” he said. “If my children Antoni, I agree that some ternational and domestic Greece from its doldrums much support the projects and events of our community. were older I would not hesitate loan forgiveness is a very sensi - flights? If the price of a round- sooner than later. And lets hope they will do even more in the future. for a minute to send them to ble solution. What I do not un - trip ticket from New York to America. There is no life here derstand, however, is why – in Athens were $500, and the price 3. WHAT’S YOUR OPINION? Mountain Lion COMMENTARY John Catsimatidis has been climbing mountains all his life. The latest mountain he has attempted to scale, which is the topic of dis - cussion throughout the community, is his run for the office of mayor The Triumph of Truth at Last: Senator Menendez Vindicated of New York City. We are often asked: can he win? In politics a lot can happen from one day to the next. That said, here is what we think: By A.H. Diamataris lations Committee. to convince reporters that he did to say that, and admitted that First, Catsimatidis will surprise a lot of people who do not believe The attacks started on sev - not even know the girls who ac - she never met him and does not that he has a serious chance of winning. His chances are greatly in - Robert Menendez, the son of eral hitherto unknown websites, cused him, that the whole situ - even know what the Senator creased by his gift of being able to communicate with the average Cuban immigrants – a carpenter which contained allegations ation was created by his ene - looks like. citizen. Despite his tremendous wealth, he is humble, and he under - father and his a dressmaker about his personal life, and also mies, who were trying to She also revealed that a stands ordinary folks and their problems. mother – and a U.S. Senator raised questions about his destroy him politically. lawyer approached her and a Second, he did not decide to run on a whim, but only after from New Jersey, was not friendship with an ophthalmol - Indeed, the New York Times friend about doing the video, in thoughtful deliberation. We recall his past desire to run, subsequently merely persecuted by his oppo - ogist in Florida. called for his temporary resig - turn revealing the name of an - tempered by prudent evaluation of the facts and circumstances at nents, he was crucified. The He was accused of having re - nation from the post of chair - other lawyer that gave him the the time. He would not have entered the race, we suspect, unless he mainstream media felt com - lations with underage prosti - man of the Committee until the text and paid him to find the thought he had a strong chance to win. pelled to go along with his ac - tutes in the Dominican Republic, case is solved. two women. Third, we expect the Greek-American community to support him cusers who circulated rumors on where he vacationed. But as the Greeks say, God These incredible things are virtually unanimously. Not just because he is Greek, but because he the Internet. In fact, a girl was filmed say - loves the thief but he also loves unacceptable. They pollute le - is the epitome of a resilient, “mountain-climbing” New Yorker. It should be noted that the ing she actually had sex with the landlord. gitimate democracy. After these Recently, he told Cindy Adams of the New York Post: “Look, I’ve rumors and reports flared up the Senator. So a couple of days ago, the revelations, which have restored climbed mountains all my life. I’m from little Greek island Nisyros, when it became clear after last This "news" was eventually same girl who appeared in the Menendez’ innocence, both the where I could’ve stayed a sheep herder. My busboy father, who never year’s elections that Menendez picked up by major media out - video claimed she had a rela - authorities and the media, must made waiter, moved here. To 135th Street. Today, I live in that would become the chairman of lets, giving it weight. tionship with the Senator re - get to the bottom of it and pun - restaurant’s owner’s same Fifth Avenue apartment. the powerful Senate Foreign Re - The Senator struggled in vain vealed that she had been paid ish the conspirators. “I’ve always climbed mountains. Working in a supermarket, 80 hours a week, $1.10 an hour – cashiers got $1.20 – my tip was 2 cents a bottle, 10 bottles — then I borrowed money and bought the supermarket. 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Grads Abandon the Church These are not exactly times long we will have to The time has it is a lot less dirty than leaving without challenge. The Arab wait in lines at air - come for the United thousands of young soldiers world has launched into the ports. Nothing ter - States to act like a dead or maimed. By Fr. Steven C. Salaris must I hear about priests and most transformative epoch since rible has happened true historical great In fairness to the Obama ad - their families that are expected the collapse of the Ottoman Em - yet to damage power. The ministration, its conduct of for - Last year I attended a clergy to live in substandard housing, pire whose final development America’s national Olympic-class prac - eign policy marks the first real gathering where we had several send their children to substan - cannot be discerned. Palestinians security but reread - titioners of diplo - attempt by American Govern - “workshops” discussing the im - dard schools, drive junk cars, and and Israelis have locked them - ing the first para - macy, the Byzantine ment to protect our national se - portance of Orthodox Christian depend on food stamps? This is selves into a political death grip graph can reveal a and British Empires curity within our means. It has Fellowship (OCF) ministry to col - scandalous! Even worse, this is that threatens to undermine the lot about what can survived for cen - failed to articulate its success very lege students, and what I call oftentimes expected by parish - last forty years of diplomacy. Iran happen. turies. Romans, like well. “Leading from behind” in “The 60%.” This term derives ioners who are quite generous and Israel have together con - We bumbled Americans, dis - Libya is an unfortunate term that from a recent study revealing to themselves. Why do churches vinced us that the former is de - blithely into two by AMB. PATRICK N. dained diplomacy, describes exactly what we that 60% of college students depend on endless fundraisers termined to become a nuclear unnecessary wars, THEROS put their faith in needed to accomplish: the re - never return to church after col - and festivals for income? The an - power. China and Japan are on which are arguably military force and moval of a criminally insane dic - lege... swer to these questions is simple: a collision course over a chain of among the most im - Special to could not survive a tator with the help of allies. Man - So why do 60% of our college too many parishioners do not semi-submerged and uninhab - portant proximate The National Herald change in the bal - aging the aftermath is tough but youth leave Orthodoxy? This is value the Church. ited islands. Russia behaves as if causes of our cur - ance. we are working on it despite the a difficult question to answer, but We must pass on to our chil - Mott Romney won the recent rent inability to deal with the The principals of diplomacy tragic loss of diplomats. Obama I have come up with several hy - dren, by our example, the prin - election and seems to be treating world. Our problems stem have remained unchanged for correctly refuses to be stampeded potheses. Some will apply specif - ciple that the Church is worth them like the “greatest threat.” largely from our national obses - centuries; only the tools evolve into attacking Iran or jumping ically to our Orthodox Church, the stewardship of our time and Hopes that the young new dic - sion that a unilateral threat to with technology. The first is the into the Syrian swamp without others will apply to Christian talents above all else. tator of North Korea would go to war is the only way to pre - most difficult to learn and to trying everything else first. churches in general. Hypothesis 4: Failed models change the behavior of his un - vent one. As a consequence, we practice: know your limits. No The obvious first step in Syria Here are my hypotheses. of Christian education are con - happy nuclear-armed country have seriously weakened our amount of military strength can would be to enlist Assad’s allies, Hypothesis 1: Linguistic and tributing to “the 60%. appear to have been dashed. Is - armed forces and today realisti - force every one to do your bid - Russia, Iraq and Iran, and, to - cultural ghettos that masquerade With all due respect to those lamist-inspired terrorist groups cally lack the capacity to threaten ding. If you overdue military co - gether with our allies, force the as “Churches” are contributing that have worked so hard in have gained new footholds in a medium-sized country. Since ercion your allies, sooner or later, warring parties to reach a com - to “The 60%.” Orthodoxy has Christian education, it is time we North Africa. Europe has para - we seem to regard diplomatic will join your enemies. Pick your promise solution. Making com - been in America for over 200 admit that our Protestant-de - lyzed itself into a downward eco - tools such as building alliances, wars; modern technology dic - promise a dirty word in Ameri - years. Yet too often our parishes rived models of Christian educa - nomic spiral through misman - persuading others through tates that no foreign occupying can politics produced the live with the notion that the tion have failed. Like us, the agement and confusing bribes, or subtle persuasion as power can defeat a nationalist sequester; refusing to find a com - Church’s primary function is to Catholics and Protestants also economic and political objec - somehow un-American, this has insurrection. Vietnam, Iraq and promise in Syria would be be an ethnic preservation society. have their own 60%. tives. At this crucial moment, the further paralyzed us. Afghanistan all failed because we equally stupid. Far too many people go to Christian youth come out of administration and the rest of The good news is that there made them American wars un - As a nation we have to realize years of Sunday school and still the country allowed a lunatic are some very competent Amer - like the defeat of the communists that we were once powerful and Kids cannot learn about don’t know the basics of their fringe of ideologues to stampede icans who do know how to man - in Greece, a Greek civil war well-meaning adolescents. We own faith. I know of students ed - us into a monstrosity called se - age our national security and fought by Greeks alone. Never had made ourselves into a be - Christian love when their ucated in Catholic schools that questration, perhaps the dumb - who may be able to do so if only destroy your opponent: the cost nign super-power that could parents hold grudges think the Holy Trinity is Jesus, est political decision since Pro - because our politicians do not is not worth it and besides you crush anybody who would not Mary, and Joseph! I know Ortho - hibition. really care much about foreign will almost certainly need him allow us to save him. That time church not to encounter Christ, dox Christians who think that the But, as Will Rogers once said: policy. The further good news is as an ally in the future against a has passed. The time has come the Son of the living God, but to Holy Trinity is God, Jesus, and “There is nothing in the Consti - the State Department, with the stronger threat. Vietnam’s inter - to grow up. talk in or listen to foreign lan - Mary. An organic living knowl - tution of the United States that smallest budget among federal ests regarding China now coin - guages and eat ethnic foods. edge and internalization of the forbids the American people agencies, has escaped much of cide with ours. Get your allies to The Hon. Ambassador Theros is Why do we attempt to raise our Orthodox Christian faith cannot from making damned fools of the mindless micromanagement join you in the fight or better president of the U.S.-Qatar Busi - children spiritually in an atmos - happen in 45 minutes on a Sun - themselves.” We weren’t listen - that allowed the sequester to still, fight on your behalf. Don’t ness Council. He served in the phere of dead liturgical lan - day by cutting and coloring pa - ing then and we aren’t listening paralyze so many of the other go to war without a realistic U.S. Foreign Service for 36 guages and the equally dead cul - per doll clergy and iconostases. now. I am not, however, going government agencies. It is one endgame; a mistake Americans years, mostly in the Middle East, tures from which they came? There was no Sunday School in to go into one more Jeremiad among the few agencies that has repeat over and over again. The and was American Ambassador Gee, Toto, we’re not in Byzan - the early Church and yet families about how stupid this all is. We some leeway to move funds invasion of Iraq drove the Iraqis to Qatar from 1995 to 1998. He tium (or Tsarist Russia) any - – parents and children – were did it and now we have to live around sufficiently to keep its into the embrace of their ancient also directed the State Depart - more! Nonetheless, we continue martyred together bearing wit - with it. Living with it does de - most valuable and effective asset, enemy the Iranians. Bribing for - ment’s Counter-Terrorism to offer incense to the idol of ness to the Christian faith (read serve more serious attention the men and women of the U.S. eign countries works; it may Office, and holds numerous U.S. “spiritual language” while not the life of the early second-cen - than silly arguments about how Foreign Service, on the job. sound dirty but I can assure you Government decorations. gaining a substantive under - tury martyrs Sophia and her standing from what we hear. three children...if you dare). Per - Sure, sending our children to haps a radical re-thinking and Arabic/Greek/Russian school new approach to LETTER FROM ATHENS might make grandma happy, but Hypothesis 5: The lack of a they will still be unable to un - personal relationship with Jesus derstand the liturgical languages Christ is contributing to “the Greece’s Famed Flying Doctor is Now Grounded for Life they hear in Church. 60%. The Church is like a fig tree Hypothesis 2: Enmity in our with lots of leaves. The leaves are churches is contributing to “the things we get passionate and ob - Vassilis Papageorgopoulos court, which con - stealing from the pensions, one for being a dentist 60%.” Enmity is a word that sessive about – icons, facial hair earned the sobriquet “The Fly - victed him of direct petty cash ac - and the other for his time in the means “positive, active, and mu - (on men), chanting, vestments, ing Doctor” because won two complicity in em - counts, but only 1.2 Greek Parliament, where you tual hatred or ill will.” Churches ethnic nationalism, calendars, medals at the European Indoor bezzlement. “Some million euros can earn a pension for serving are full of it! – including the Or - choirs, rants about ecumenists Track Championships and the people will go to ($1.56 million) and about 10 minutes. thodox. It would be great if we and liberal deconstructionists, bronze in the 100-meter dash in their graves given the high He wasn’t the only lame hated evil, sin, and the devil; in - spirituality, pseudo-spirituality, 1971 before going on to become weighed down by prices in Greece brain using the city treasury as stead we hate each other. Jesus and all the rest of the fodder that a dentist. Then he got involved remorse.” even during a a personal ATM, according to tells us that we are to love one one can find on “Orthodox” blog in politics in 1978 when was He claimed his crushing economic prosecutors. Former general sec - another as he has loved us. Too sites. However, if the tree doesn’t elected a City Councilor in Thes - trial had turned crisis who could retary Michalis Lemoussias and often, we fail. bear fruit, then it is doomed to saloniki, Greece’s second-largest into a “political blame them? A former treasurer Panagiotis Sax - When we fail we are hyp - whither. municipality and his star was process,” con - guy’s gotta eat, onis are the others who will see ocrites. How can Johnny learn I am going to be bold and rising. He kept practicing den - ducted “to satisfy by ANDY even if it’s Beluga him around the jail yard for the about Christian love when mom identify the “first fruits” of the tistry as well, although, as it the general mood DABILIS caviar. rest of their lives if the sentences has not spoken to “that person” Church as a personal relationship turned out, he was better at that calls for politi - You can’t make are carried out. Media reports in the parish for fifteen years? with Jesus Christ. Some people drilling for gold in the city’s cof - cians’ blood,” with Special to this guy up, even as said they were spending like Add to this parish splits, gos - might think that sounds a bit fers. Greeks buried un - The National Herald a character in a B- drunken sailors, although that sip, back-biting, the way person - “Protestant,” but in fact it is en - He had all the elements that der pay cuts, tax film noir. From jail, gives drunken sailors a bad ality-disordered parishioners tirely Orthodox. Our relationship the New Democracy conserva - hikes and slashed pensions de - he wrote a letter demanding an - name. treat the priest, vituperative gen - with Jesus Christ is so deep, in - tives wanted and at one point manded by international lenders swers to 13 questions that Saxonis was responsible for eral assembly meetings, etc., is timate, and personal, that He Prime Minister Antonis Sama - in return for $325 billion in res - weren’t revealed so maybe one forwarding to social security it any wonder that our youth flee feeds us with this very own Body ras, the Party leader, called him cue monies, while tax cheats of them was, “Can I get a shovel funds the contributions with - once they are free? and Blood in the Eucharist (be - an “honest man,” in tones that and politicians have largely es - or a nail file?” held from municipal employees’ Hypothesis 3: Lack of stew - ginning for many of us when we would have made you think caped sacrifice. Apparently overlooking his salaries but the court found he ardship is contributing to the are babies). That “first fruit,” that Diogenes was the King of the It’s rare in Greece for a politi - conviction, the 65-year-old put the money in his pocket, ap - 60%. We don’t regard the intense personal relationship Prevaricators by comparison. cian to even be charged with a grounded sprinter called on parently thinking no one would Church as the pearl of great price with Christ, should then yield the From January 1999 to the crime and it wasn’t until former anyone with “the smallest piece notice why they were bulging. or a treasure buried in a field. fruits of repentance and spiritual end of 2010, Papageorgopoulos defense minister Akis Tsochat - of concrete evidence that I par - But he kept only 10 percent Instead we treat the Church like growth in the lives of every Or - was the Mayor of Thessaloniki zopoulos, who elevated arro - ticipated in embezzling” to de - and forwarded the rest to Le - a street beggar. In many of our thodox Christian. If we are un - until Leftist Yiannis Boutaris was gance to an art, was charged last clare it on television, although moussias, who prosecutors said parishes, clergy and stewardship able to bear these “first fruits,” elected and immediately com - year with stealing as much as they already did in court, maybe split the difference with Papa - committees hold out their hands our youth and our Churches will plained that someone had $1.32 billion from defense con - while he was asleep. He said he georgopoulos. Even in Greece hoping (and begging) that parish wither. cooked the books. tracts and thrown into detention wouldn’t appeal if they did, a that’s a crime and when the so - families will pay their “minimum An investigation ensued and that any high-ranking official move so dumb you wouldn’t see cial security office asked, “Hey, dues.” Why must I hear of Fr. Steven C. Salaris, MDiv, PhD, Papageorgopoulos wasn’t fast had seen the inside of a jail in a it used by someone trying to where’s the money?” the jig was parishes with hundreds of fami - is Protopresbyter of All Saints of enough to get away from the long time. convince Judge Judy they didn’t up. lies that by midyear do not have North America Antiochian Or - long arm of the law after he was Two other former high-rank - steal their girlfriend’s car and Presiding judge Giorgos enough money to pay the electric thodox Christian Church in convicted of heading a gang of ing former Thessaloniki city of - wreck it on a date with another Apostolakis said that “Papageor - bill or the priest’s salary? Why Maryland Heights, MO thieves of city officials charged ficials also got life in jail for their woman. gopoulos was in charge, and with embezzling 51.4 million part in the scheme to scam tax - This guy is a walking mis - without his approval Lemous - euros ($66.9 million) and given payer money, although they take. How else can you explain sias could have done nothing.” a life sentence in jail, although were convicted of stealing only how he got caught when other “His silent stance on the side - GUEST EDITORIALS it remains to be seen if that will 18 billion euros ($23.44 mil - politicians who are still stealing lines showed that he knew The national Herald welcomes manuscripts representing a variety of ever be carried out given lion) so who knows where the are walking around and drink - everything.” Now the disgraced views for publication in its View Points page. They should include Greece’s penchant for letting other $43.46 million went. ing coffee at upscale cafes while former mayor will find that this the writer’s name, address, telephone number and be addressed to politicians plunder with im - Apparently not content with avoiding beggars? race is different than his dashes punity. taking millions, according to Greek newspaper reports for Greece and glory: they are the View Points editor, The national Herald, 37-10 30th St., lic, ny Predictably, he denied any prosecutors, Papageorgopoulos showed his greed knew no lim - neverending and there is no fin - 11101. They can also be e-mailed to english.edition@thenational - wrongdoing. “I declare that I and 16 other former officials in its because while he was knock - ish line. herald.com. Due to considerations of space we enforce a strict 850- have nothing to do with this the gang that couldn’t steal ing down a big paycheck as word upper limit. we reserve the right to edit. case,” he told the Thessaloniki straight were also accused of mayor, he was collecting two [email protected] The Elections in Italy, Viewed in Wider Context, Reveal Overall Threat to Democracy

By Mark Mazower in Italy. But the crisis of democ - longer recommends them to the rope will give the Germans until their prestige and their ability golden age. Its achievement The Financial Times ratic legitimacy has been shown voters who would rather have the autumn to come around to to govern. now looks in danger of being to be equally deep there. As in someone who understands a new approach. But toleration European co-operation undone. For it is not written in The turmoil produced by the Greece, the voters have a rea - them. for austerity is unlikely to last emerged alongside economic stone that Europe will always Italian elections has directed at - sonably clear view: they want The result is dangerous. It is much beyond then. planning, exchange controls, be identified in the minds of its tention back to where it should to remain in Europe and – but a short step from writing off A moment of truth is surely Keynesianism and corporatist citizens with growth and have been all along – to the pol - knowing the defects of their the political class to writing off approaching. Joachim Gauck, management of industrial rela - democracy. A different future itics of the eurozone crisis. We own economic system – they the institutions of democracy. So the German president, has tions. The whole approach was may lie ahead in which Europe have had six months of compla - may even accept some measure far most voters have not done called for a new debate on Eu - discredited by the stagflation of is identified instead with stag - cency, rising stock markets and of austerity. this in either Italy or Greece. But rope, and suggested that its fu - the 1970s. Under the leadership nation, unemployment and wishful thinking. The conven - But the Rome-based political some have and the temptation ture lies in reviving the idea of of Jacques Delors, European tyranny. tional wisdom was that the crisis class has lost all credibility in is there for more to do so, a commonwealth of nations. But Commission president from Those preaching austerity had been contained, with Ire - their eyes – they were creators whether by drifting towards the if such a debate is to go any - 1985 to 1994, and his succes - probably do not see themselves land recovering and the risk of of the mess, and of the corrup - far right, towards an anti-capi - where, it will have to confront sors, the EU went in a different as contributing to a crisis of a Greek exit from the eurozone tion that accompanied it. They talism that is the prisoner of its the question of monetary union. direction. It emphasised mone - democracy, but they are. The reduced. But this view always cannot be trusted to clear it up. own revolutionary rhetoric, or For Europe may be approaching tary co-ordination, free capital Italian elections should remind ignored the politics. Those who have made no sacri - towards a kind of anarchic al - a stark choice: giving up the flows, privatisation and a soft eurozone leaders to pay atten - Greece, in particular, showed fice themselves lack the moral ternative to party politics – the euro; or keeping it and seeing touch in financial regulation. tion to their voters. Economic that even if capital flows might credibility to ask them of oth - direct democracy espoused by the political crisis spin out of The older vision was aban - fixes have failed to staunch a be going in the right direction, ers. Beppe Grillo’s Five Star Move - control. doned, but it produced higher political crisis that has the ca - the democratic deficit was Technocrat prime minsters, ment in Italy. As Mr Gauck noted, the orig - growth rates than the model pacity to harm not only EU in - widening. No one has much such as Italy’s Mario Monti or The response from Brussels inal European idea saw supra - that succeeded it. It also nur - tegration, but the legitimacy of cared outside Greece that a neo- Greece’s Lucas Papademos, are and the creditor north to all this national policy making not as tured domestic political institu - the continent’s democratic order Nazi party could shoot to above no alternative: they may have has been robotically unimagina - something that would suffocate tions rather than undermining itself. 10 per cent in the polls. But it is clean hands because they re - tive – to insist that the debtors, individual member nation-states them: credibility was painstak - a warning of what can happen mained outside party politics. like the little fish in Finding but rather as a means to help ingly restored to parliaments The writer is a professor of his - to other eurozone members. But they are creatures of bank - Nemo, must just keep on going. them out of the existential crisis and parties. tory at Columbia university and There is, fortunately, no par - ing and economics. While they And so they may – for a while. that had beset them during the So, from today’s perspective, author of ‘Governing the World: allel to the rise of Golden Dawn may understand money, that no It is possible that southern Eu - second world war, to restore the 1950s and 1960s look like a The History of an Idea’ 14 THE NATIONAL HERALD, MARCH 9-15, 2013