O C V ΓΡΑΦΕΙ ΤΗΝ ΙΣΤΟΡΙΑ Bringing the news ΤΟΥ ΕΛΛΗΝΙΣΜΟΥ to generations of ΑΠΟ ΤΟ 1915 The National Herald Greek Americans A WEEKLY GREEK AMERICAN PUBLICATION c v www.thenationalherald.com VOL. 10, ISSUE 511 July 28, 2007 $1.00 GREECE: 1.75 EURO Community Islamist Erdogan Re-Elected by a Landslide in Turkish Elections Reflects On What does his victory mean for Greeks in The Cyprus Turkey? How are Greeks Viewing the Results? By Mark Frangos Greeks still living in Turkey gen- Special to the National Herald erally supported AKP because secu- Problem lar Turkish governments have been NEW YORK – Turkish Prime Minis- harsh on minorities in their efforts ter Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s Islamist to create a strong Turkish state. Ap- After 33 years, some Justice & Development Party (AKP) proximately 3,000 Greeks still live scored a commanding victory over in Constantinople (present-day Is- still fight, but feel the its secular rivals in parliamentary tanbul), down from hundreds of elections held last Sunday, July 22, thousands just a few decades ago. issue is at a standstill which was met by a reserved ap- Demetris Frangopoulos, former plause by most Greeks. director of the Zografio elementary By Stavros Marmarinos The Islamists increased their school in Constantinople, said that Special to the National Herald share by more than 12 points from secular governments made it very the last election in 2003 to 46.6 difficult to teach the small number NEW YORK – In the hope and percent of the popular vote. It is the of students (some 50 today) still at- seemingly never-ending quest for a largest percentage for any single tending the school. He cited a lack just solution to the Cyprus issue, party in Turkey since 1969. The of teaching materials, and said the the Greek American community re- secular main opposition Republi- most difficult time came when CHP members and continues its struggle can People’s Party (CHP) received was in power, as the Turkish Min- on behalf of its Cypriot brethren, 33 20.9 percent, while the Nationalist istry of Education could overrule years after the invasion of the still- Action Party (MHP), which primar- the school director’s decisions. On divided island republic, and the on- ily plays on the fears of Kurdish sep- election day, he wasn’t sure if his going occupation of its northern aratism, won 14.3 percent. vote would go to independent part by Turkish soldiers. Many Greeks who have ties to, Ankara Professor Baskin Oran, or Greek Cypriot Americans living or live in, Turkey believe that AKP to the AKP. in New York gave their thoughts on is the better choice, not because Mr. “At the end of the day, I am not the occasion of the dark day of July Erdogan will do the most good, but concerned about who brings about 20, 1974, the infamous anniversary because the alternative might have these changes, as long as they are of the Turkish attack on the sover- made things worse. finally implemented, and as long as eign nation. “We already know Mr. Erdogan the winning party maintains a firm Cyprus Federation of America and how he governs,” Prodromos stance,” he said. President Panicos Papanicolaou Katsantonis, president of Hellenic Alekos Bakulas, manager of told The National Herald that, after EUROKINISSI Society of Constantinople in New Palet restaurant in Constantinople, 33 years, America’s Greek Cypriot His All Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew of Constantinople exercises his right to vote voted at York, told the National Herald. “We didn’t plan to vote in the elections, community has concluded that ef- the Marasleios School, which served as an election precinct, during parliamentary elections in Turkey last are happy because we won’t have but said he feels that AKP was the forts directed towards the United Sunday, July 22, and said “these elections are auspicious for the country.” The Patriarch, was one of mil- to deal with a possibly negative sit- better choice. States Government and other par- lions of Turkish citizens who cast their votes. The Turkish Government still refuses to recognize his ecu- uation with a new government.” ties involved with the Cyprus issue menical status. Mr. Katsantonis said believes Continued on page 7 must be heightened. In light of this, that life for the few Greeks who still CFA and members of other Hellenic live in Turkey has been relatively associations met with more than 50 calm under Mr. Erdogan’s govern- members of Congress and U.S. ment. Government officials. “The Greeks in Turkey are con- “The Greek American communi- Celebrating his 25th Year as a Bishop tent with their lives and communi- Mayhem in ty can not keep vigilant and remain ty, and didn’t want to be affected by effective with demonstrations and By Theodore Kalmoukos Daskalakis, Dean of the Cathedral, of the Archdiocese Office of Com- a nationalist government that may NYC’s Steam protests. The area where we can Special to The National Herald a classmate and roommate of Met- munications, were also present. have hurt their way of life,” he said. help and bring about results is by ropolitan Methodios when they Elizabeth Papaslis, president of Mr. Katsantonis did not sound applying pressure on the U.S. Gov- BOSTON, Mass. – Hundreds of were students at Holy Cross Semi- the Federation of the Hellenic Soci- worried about Mr. Erdogan’s Islam- Pipe Explosion ernment – especially the State De- faithful from the 62 Greek Ortho- nary in Brookline. Nearly all priests eties of New England, as well as ic agenda. partment – either through direct dox communities in New England serving in the Metropolis of Boston two former Federation presidents, “He is, for lack of a better word, meetings with their representa- filled the Annunciation Cathedral were present in the congregation. Vasilios Kafkas and Despina an orthodox Muslim, but he is not By Stavros Marmarinos tives, or through our interaction of Boston to honor Metropolitan Also present was the President Demetropoulos, and more than radical,” he said. “Greeks in Con- Special to The National Herald with friends and supporters in Con- Methodios of Boston’s 25th an- of Hellenic College/Holy Cross, 150 campers from the Metropolis stantinople are currently able to gress who sit on committees that niversary of the ordination to the Rev. Nicholas Triantafilou, with a Summer Camp in Contoocook, practice their religion. He hasn’t NEW YORK – Katerina Vikatos- deal directly with the topic of U.S.- episcopate. number of students and faculty New Hampshire also attended. shown that he would change that,” Agabi had left her office at the Unit- Greece relations and the Cyprus is- During the Divine Liturgy this members, including Professors Rev. Tom Chininis, president of although Mr. Erdogan’s Govern- ed Nations last Wednesday after- sue,” Mr. Papanicolaou said. past July 18, over which Methodios George Bebis (emeritus) and Lewis St. Andrew’s Clergy Brotherhood, ment has continued the longstand- noon, July 18, at 5:40 PM. She The past three years have been presided together with Metropoli- Patsavos. presented a gift of liturgical cande- ing policy of previous governments walked down to 42nd Street, be- very difficult, he explained, “be- tan Evangelos of New Jersey, and Dr. Tom Lelon, vice president of labras to Methodios on behalf of to refuse recognizing the status of tween Third and Lexington Av- cause no one wanted to touch the during which 12 clergymen partici- the HC/HC Board of Trustees, and the Ecumenical Patriarchate of enues, where she was waiting to subject” due to the Greek Cypriot pated including the Rev. George Rev. Dr. Frank Marangos, director Continued on page 3 Constantinople as ecumenical. catch the bus which takes her to the rejection of the Annan Plan in April pier where she boards the New Jer- 2004. sey ferry. It was another typical day The last few weeks and months for the Fort Lee, New Jersey resi- have also been challenging in that dent, who typically leaves her car in regard, he added, because of the New Jersey, and relies on mass tran- proximity to elections in Turkey, Christodoulos sit to get to and from New York. which were held last Sunday, June Little did she know that, just a 22. Exits Hospital few moments later, she would be “But we believe that, after the overcome with fear and distress, Turkish elections, the various com- running down the crowded streets mittees will be able to meet once In Good Spirits of Manhattan along with so many again, and work in accordance to other panic-stricken commuters the agreement of July 8th, 2006 amid chaos filled with the tears, (the U.N.-brokered agreement be- By Theodore Kalmoukos screams and prayers of terrified tween Republic of Cyprus President Special to The National Herald New Yorkers. Tassos Papadopoulos and Turkish These were the moments when Cypriot community leader Mehmet BOSTON, Mass. – Archbishop no one could tell whether the explo- Ali Talat, signed last year),” he said. Christodoulos of Athens & All sion which had stunned the city that Mr. Papanicolaou also said that, Greece was discharged from the late summer afternoon was an during his meeting with Undersec- Aretaieion Hospital in Athens last earthquake or a new terrorist at- retary of State for Political Affairs Friday, July 20 at 1 PM, after he tack. was hospitalized for colon cancer Mrs. Agabi was among the first Continued on page 3 for 42 days. people to experience the hellish A visibly thinner and weaker scene which unfolded that after- Christodoulos, who shed some 45 noon, when an underground pound, was smiling and appeared steampipe exploded at the intersec- to be in very good spirits, telling tion of Lexington Avenue and 41st journalists and the large crowd Street. Arsonists are which had gathered outside of the It was around 5:50 PM when she hospital, “Here I am. I’m standing called a friend on her mobile phone. Suspected in on my own two feet. It’s me, your “Suddenly, I saw everyone on the Christodoulos.” street stop to listen a loud sound With an emotional tone in his that was approaching. I sounded Greece & Italy voice, he said, “After one and one like a very loud buzz,” Mrs. Agabi half months in seclusion in the Hos- told The National Herald. “No one pital, I am able to once again look seemed to know what was happen- By Ariel David upon you, my beloved Christians, ing, but we all realized that the Associated Press with much love and gratitude for sound was coming from nearby. your payers.” Bagpipe player serenades the village Sure enough, the explosion hap- ROME (AP) – Italian authorities said Christodoulos also expressed pened just one block away.” this past Wednesday, July 25, they special thanks to his physicians, The above photo, taken in Mykonos in 1955, is from page 105 of “GREECE: Images of an Enchanted Land In the beginning, Mrs. Agabi have discovered incendiary devices and said, “I depart from here to go (1954-1965),” a new book by Robert McCabe. See stories on pages 4-5. thought it was an earthquake, be- at the site of a blaze where a fire- home and I thank all of you for your cause she had already witnessed fighting plane crashed earlier this love and concern all this time. Now two earthquakes before, and re- week, lending weight to fears that the second phase begins, the prepa- membered the sounds which ac- most of the fires ravaging Italy and ration for my trip to America. I am companied them. She experienced Greece have been started deliberate- certain that you will continue to her first earthquake in Greece, and ly. support me with your prayers, as Karamanlis Goes to Sarajevo her second in 1984, when mild Authorities in the two countries you did the whole time I was here tremors shook New York. “I live say arsonists are behind fires which at Aretaieion Hospital,” adding that SARAJEVO (ANA) – Greek Prime meeting with Karamanlis this past funded by ESOAB,” Karamanlis nearby in Fort Lee, and I remember have devastated thousands of acres he was confident “everything will Minister Costas Karamanlis met Monday, July 23, Spiric thanked said, adding that the building that it was after midnight when we of Greek forest since June, and go well in America.” with his counterpart in the Bosnia- the Greek Premier for Greece’s as- would be a symbol of the friendship had heard a loud buzz and our which have left firefighters battling The prelate of the Church of Herzegovina Government, Council sistance toward his country’s eco- between the two people in the cen- house started to shake.” to contain blazes across central and Greece is schedule to arrive in Mia- of Ministers Chairman Nikola Spir- nomic reconstruction, and for sup- ter of Sarajevo. Last week, Mrs. Agabi thought southern Italy. mi, Florida by the middle of August ic, for talks that focused on bilater- porting its efforts to join Euro-At- The Greek Premier also under- she was going to suffer through yet Both Italy and Greece have lost for liver transplant surgery to be al relations and the tiny Balkan lantic structures. scored Greece’s support for another earthquake. “The sky above firefighting pilots this week as water- performed by world-renowned sur- state’s European Union perspective Karamanlis said relations be- Bosnia’s eventual accession to the us blackened. It became very dark dropping helicopters and planes geon Andreas Tzakis. earlier this week. tween the two countries were ex- European Union: “Greece supports gray,” she said. worked overtime. Dr. Tzakis traveled to Athens Karamanlis also held talks with cellent, and referred to the eco- the Euro-Atlantic prospects of “Moments later, I saw everyone Italian firefighters managed to this past July 11 and personally ex- the country’s three-member federal nomic assistance given to Bosnia- Bosnia-Herzegovina with all means start to run in a panic, not knowing amined the ailing archbishop and, presidium, and delegations from Herzegovina by Greece via the – political, economic and military – exactly what had taken place. Continued on page 7 along with Aretaieion doctors, an- the two sides later signed bilateral Greek Plan for the Reconstruction as a guarantee for the development Everyone jumped to their own con- nounced during a press conference agreements for avoiding double of the Balkans (ESOAB), noting and stability of the region,” he clusions, since the nightmarish that Christodoulos will be coming taxation and for economic and that the new Greece-Bosnia Friend- stressed. memories of 9/11 are still embed- To subscribe call: 718.784.5255 to the United States for a liver technological cooperation. ship Building, which was inaugu- Athens is in favor of the immedi- ded in people’s minds. I saw every- e-mail: transplantation (the news was bro- The agreements were signed by rated on Monday, and the renova- ate signature of a Stability & Asso- one running to the east side and [email protected] ken first by the Greek-language Deputy Foreign Minister Euripides tion of which was financed by ciation Agreement between the yelling to other bystanders to start daily edition of the National Herald Stylianides for Greece, while Bosn- ESOAB, was confirmation of E.U. and Bosnia-Herzegovina, he running and get as far away as they 24 hours prior to the official an- ian Finance Minister Dragan Vran- Greece’s determination to support said, as soon as the latter fulfilled could because something bad was nouncement). kic and Foreign Trade Minister Slo- Bosnia. the necessary criteria. happening. The fear and alarm was There is a strong debate going bodan Puhalac represented the oth- “I am happy to inaugurate the After their meeting, Karamanlis spreading from person to person, *072807* er side. Friendship Building of our people Continued on page 7 In a press conference after the whose renovation was 80 percent Continued on page 7 Continued on page 2 2 COMMUNITY THE NATIONAL HERALD, JULY 28, 2007 Steam Pipe Blast Sends Woman Running for Cover GOINGS ON... ■ THROUGH AUGUST Feast of flavors, including moussa- Continued from page 1 ATHENS – The Synthesis Media ka, gyro and souvlaki, along with Company cordially invites the com- fabulous desserts like baklava and like a domino effect,” she added. munity to “The Apology,” a new play kourabiedes. For more informa- Mrs. Agabi started running, too based on Plato’s original dialogue tion, call 805-683-4492. with her phone in hand. “I started and translated into English, re-en- running, not knowing where to go, acting Socrates’ defense in the Court ■ AUGUST 17-19 and I was screaming to my friend, of Athens before he took hemlock, PAWTUCKET, R.I. – Assumption of terrified that something horrible for two performances daily in July the Virgin Mary Greek Orthodox was happening, but I didn’t know and August in Athens (Scholiou 8, Church cordially invites the commu- what,” she said. “I told her to run to Plaka, entrance from Adrianou nity to its 80th Annual Greek Festival the TV man to see what was going 122). Starring Emmy award winner on Saturday-Sunday, August 17-19, on. A man who was running behind Yannis Simonides; directed by at the church (97 Walcott Street). me was yelling to the others to get Broadway veteran Loukas Skipi- Festival Times: Friday, 5-10 PM; Sat- away quickly because a second one taris; costumes by Oscar and Tony urday, 12-10 PM; Sunday 12-10 PM. was on its way. Maybe he meant winner Theoni Vahliotes-Aldredge; Join in traditional Greek dancing in- that a second earthquake was about and percussive support by Caryn to the evening, or just sit back and to happen; or a second explosion; Heilman; fresh translation by Mr. Si- enjoy the sounds of live Greek music or a second terrorist attack. I didn’t monides & Mr. Skipitaris. Perfor- provided by Asteria. Enjoy tradition- know. I don’t know what he was mances begin at 8:30 PM and 10:30 al homemade Greek food like roast- thinking. Anything seemed possible PM daily. Duration is approximately ed lamb, souvlaki, gyros and pasti- to us at that moment.” 80 minutes. Tickets are 10, 12 or 15 sio. Indulge in our homemade Greek The mass exodus continued euro. For more information contact desserts like galaktoboureko and amid the panic among terrified Eirini Polydorou in Athens: 011-30- baklava. Indulge in Greek pastries pedestrians. “We were all running 694-907-9175 or 011-30-210-360- and coffees at our cafe. Enjoy our toward the East River. I continued 0410. specialty homemade baklava cheese- to keep my phone on, with my cake and Baklava Sundays. Browse friend on the other line. I was run- ■ JULY 28-29 the vendors selling Greek art, gift- ning in fear, and would speak to her ASTORIA – Saint Irene Chryso- ware, music, books for adults and every so often. I told her to call my valantou Greek Orthodox Church children, cookbooks and more in our husband immediately, and I was in Astoria cordially invites the com- new indoor Agora Marketplace. En- crying for help. But who could have munity to its annual Greek Festival ter to win a 10-day trip for two to helped me? We were all running AP /LOUIS LANZANO from Thursday-Sunday, July 26-29, Skiathos. The trip includes airfare just to get away,” Mrs. Agabi said. A woman pulls a suitcase as she passes the site of a steampipe explosion in midtown Manhattan last at the church in Astoria (36-07 from Boston, lodging at the Nostos “We were trying to reach First Thursday, July 19. The steampipe exploded the day before underneath a street near Grand Central Station. 23rd Avenue). The festival takes Luxury hotel and resort and meals. Avenue as quickly as possible, or Stretches of several major thoroughfares remained closed, and city officials said workers would not be al- place in connection with the annual For more information, call 401-725- any other avenues on the east side lowed into office buildings in a zone which covered several blocks. Hundreds of businesses were adverse- feast of the church’s patron saint on 3127. that are wider. We were running, ly affected. July 28 and will feature rides and but we couldn’t look back, because games for children, a bazaar with ■ AUGUST 23-26 if we stopped even for a moment, phone, it sounded like I was about sion had taken place. I opted to take Avenue, loyal customers trickled in delicious Greek food and pastries, PORT JEFFERSON, N.Y. – The the people running behind us were to have a heart attack. I was yelling a taxi and spend the night at a hotel. only to find that the restaurant had traditional Greek dances by the Greek Orthodox Church of the As- going to knock us down and tram- ‘help me’ to him, and he answered On the way though, I noticed that not been able to open. One cus- Greek American Folklore Society sumption cordially invites the com- ple on us,” she added. that he couldn’t help me from far everyone was calmer as time went tomer who arrived seeking an and live Greek music by the Tro- munity to its Greek Festival from Many cell phones stopped func- away,” she said, choking back her by, and so I decided to go to New omelet had to settle for a bottled di- jans. All are welcome to attend and August 23-26 at the church (430 tioning, and disorder began to in- tears. Jersey. I finally reached my home at et iced tea. participate. For more information, Sheep Pasture Road). Festival crease. Mrs. Agabi and all the others Fear, quick thinking and prayer midnight.” Asked how business was going, call the church at 718-626-6225. Times: Thursday, 5-10:30 PM; Fri- who were in the area during those were what stood out the most dur- The shock Mrs. Agabi underwent owner Theo Groutas said, “What day, 5-10:30 PM; Saturday, 1-11 frightening moments were riddled ing those difficult moments. “I was was so great that she couldn’t go business? We’re angry. We’re losing SANTA BARBARA, Calif. – Saint PM; Sunday, 1-11 PM. Spectacular with anxiety. running to save myself, and I was back to work the next day. She money. We’ve been empty for days.” Barbara Greek Orthodox Church in fireworks Friday night. Carnival “We were the ones who experi- thinking about when – or if – I stayed home on Friday, July 20, as Governor Eliot Spitzer and May- Santa Barbara cordially invites the rides, live music and entertainment enced all the fear and distress, since would get to see my parents and well, trying to recover. or Michael Bloomberg announced community to its annual Greek Fes- by the Hellenic Dancers of New Jer- the emergency crews and the police husband again,” Mrs. Agabi said. “I was too shocked and afraid be- this past Tuesday, July 24, that the tival on Saturday-Sunday, July 28- sey. Admission is $2. Free under 18. didn’t arrive at the scene until later,” “That gray color in the atmosphere cause, this time, I experienced these state was requesting a disaster dec- 29, from 11 AM to 7 PM at Oak Park Free shuttle bus and the best raffle she recalled. “At some point, I was and the sky made the entire situa- dreadful moments up close, where- laration from the federal Small (300 W. Alamar Avenue). The park in the Eastern area with 270 prizes able to speak with my husband on tion feel even more bleak.” as on 9/11, I was watching them on Business Administration for busi- transforms into a Greek village including 7 Grand Prizes. Prizes in- the phone. I asked him if he knew The events of 9/11, when the television,” she said. “Since my hus- nesses hurt by the steampipe. If ap- with all the sights, sounds, aromas clude: 2007 Mercedes C280, 2007 what had happened,, but he hadn’t World Trade Center fell during the band, who is a doctor, is from proved, low-interest loans would be and flavors that the Mediterranean Jeep Wrangler, 18’ Boat Maxum, found out yet. As I was running, I fell terrorist attacks, were running Lebanon, I had gone to Lebanon in available to repair or replace dam- has to offer. Now in its 34th year, Toyota Tacoma, Toyota Corolla CE, down and someone managed to through her mind over and over like June. As you know, the situation is aged property and inventory of af- the Santa Barbara Greek Festival is Nissan Versa and Seadoo Jetski. pick me up in time, without me get- a movie. “Back then, we had all left the Middle East is very turbulent. fected businesses. one of the most successful ethnic $100 per raffle, 1 out of every 15 ting stepped on by the stampede.” the building and started to run,” she Well, I have to say that I was more And utility giant Consolidated festivals on the West Coast. Be tickets is a winner. For more infor- Before she started to run away remembered. “I ran from 42nd scared right here in New York last Edison is coming under fire yet Greek for the weekend. Shop at the mation or how to purchase a raffle from the scene, Mrs. Agabi could Street, where the U.N. is located, all Wednesday than I ever was in again, just a year after blackouts Greek Boutique, where you can ticket, call the church at 631-473- see the smoke coming from the area the way to 57th Street.” Lebanon. The point is, anywhere we that left parts of Queens dark for purchase authentic imported jewel- 0894. where the explosion occurred. “It This time, she ran until 50th are, no one knows what can hap- days. ry, clothing and exotic food items. was quite black, and there was a lot Street. “I met a girl there, coinci- pen. We don’t know what the future “I don’t know how many of these Make your way to the Oak Park ■ NOTE TO OUR READERS of it. It reached up really high, all dentally, who works at the United has in store for us.” incidents that we need to go Stag, where live Greek music and This calendar of events section is a the way to the surrounding build- Nations. She told me to go to her Dozens of people were injured through before we realize that Con dancing takes center stage. Kick up complimentary service to the Greek ings,” she said. “You could see the house, which is on 48th Street. It during the explosion, which was Edison, as a company is in need of your heels for some Greek folk American community. All parishes, terror in everyone’s eyes – especial- was 6:50 PM. When we got there, followed by a giant geyser of steam, dramatic reform,” said State Assem- dancing, and view the perfor- organizations and institutions are en- ly on Lexington Avenue, between we turned on the television, and fi- water and earth which lasted for blyman Michael Gianaris (D-Asto- mances of award-winning Greek couraged to e-mail their information 42nd, 43rd and 44th Streets. I was nally learned what had taken place. nearly two hours. Street and side- ria), who has sponsored legislation Dance Troupes, including Santa 3-4 weeks ahead of time, and no later screaming, too. When I saw my hus- My friend offered to let me spend walk closures, meanwhile, have calling for a review of Con Ed’s ex- Barbara’s own Thavma. Bring your than Monday of the week before the band that night, he told me that as the night there, but I was too afraid been hurting businesses. clusive license to provide electricity appetite and indulge your tastes for event, to english.edition@thenation- he heard my voice over the tele- to stay in the area where the explo- At Scotty’s diner on Lexington to the city. an authentically prepared Greek alherald.com. THE NATIONAL HERALD, JULY 28, 2007 COMMUNITY 3 Community Reflects on Cyprus Problem 33 Years after the Turkish Invasion

Continued from page 1 their lives; and to condemn the cy reversal towards the govern- continued occupation. On July 20, ment and the people of the occu- R. Nicholas Burns, a former U.S. 1974, in blatant violation of inter- pied north will only delay reunifi- ambassador to Greece and NATO, national law, Turkey violently in- cation of the entire island. If the the latter told him he was planning vaded Cyprus and seized the north- U.S. allows direct trade through to visit Cyprus in September to see ern part of the island. As a result of routes in the north what incentive how he could help in the current ef- the invasion, approximately 5,000 do the illegal occupiers have to forts for a solution to this lingering Cypriots were killed and more than make any concessions? It’s as if the international problem, one of the 1,400 Greek Cypriots, including State Department has completely international community’s most in- four Americans of Cypriot descent, forgotten who is responsible for the tractable disputes. still remain missing. Since the inva- division of Cyprus in the first place. Mr. Burns and Cypriot Ambas- sion, Turkey has established a heav- Madam Speaker, for 33 years now, sador to the U.S. Andreas Kakouris ily armed military occupation that the people of Cyprus have been de- signed a five-year renewal of the continues to control nearly 40 per- nied their independence and free- Memorandum of Understanding cent of Cyprus. Forced expulsions dom because of a foreign aggressor. between the U.S. and Cyprus con- of Greek Cypriots on the occupied I urge all of my colleagues to join cerning restrictions on the importa- land have left more than 160,000 me in remembering what the Cypri- tion of pre-classical and classical displaced persons. Another tragic ot people have suffered and contin- archaeological artifacts and ecclesi- result of this 33-year occupation is ue to suffer at the hands of the astical and ceremonial ethnological the divisions among Greek and Turks. I also urge my colleagues to materials from the Byzantine peri- Turkish Cypriots, who have since join me in pressuring the Adminis- od. been forced to live their lives sepa- tration to return to a policy that U.S.-Cyprus Chamber of Com- rated along ethnic lines. This crack- merce President Andreas Comodro- ing of the Cypriot nation is a crime mos said he thought that, due to against society and the people of Cyprus’ inclusion in the European Cyprus that can only be resolved by Union, the situation overall is bet- ending this occupation. Since the ter today than it once was. invasion, international governing “Of course, the Cyprus issue has bodies and human rights groups not been solved, but surely, Cyprus’ have condemned Turkey’s flagrant inclusion in the European Union is TNH/COSTAS BEJ abuse of international law and vio- a great accomplishment, which of- (L-R) Republic of Cyprus Consul General in New York Martha Mavrommati, U.S.-Cyprus Chamber of Com- lation of Cyprus’ national sover- fers a great deal of security for the merce President Andreas Comodromos, Cypriot Ambassador to the U.S. Andreas Kakouris and Panicos Pa- eignty. Madam Speaker, 33-years is future of the Cypriot people. panicolaou, president of the Cyprus Federation of America. just too long. America, a friend of Cyprus certainly has more opportu- the Cypriot people, owes it to them nities for progress today, than if it ly unchanged after 33 years. 33 years after the Turkish invasion, reached, it will undoubtedly be to do everything in their power to had remained outside of the Euro- “I personally do not foresee a so- we still can not go to our churches against our interests,” she said. support peace and an end to this il- pean Union. Of course, all this has lution in the near future, even in the occupied lands of northern Meanwhile, the Cyprus News legal occupation,” Rep. Bilirakis taken place during the past 33 though many would like to believe Cyprus for a pilgrimage,” Dr. Agency reported that members of said. years, following the Turkish inva- so,” she stated. Christodoulidou said. “I personally the Greek American community REP. PALLONE sion and occupation of the north- “It is a shame that, after 33 disagree with the opening of the who met with U.S. officials in “Madam Speaker, tonight I join ern part of the island. This is one of years, the refugees still can not re- borders, where Cypriots go and vis- Washington, DC last week urged my colleagues on the House floor to the accomplishments,” Mr. Comod- turn to their homes. It is a shame it northern Cyprus. Cypriots and once again that 33 years of Turkish remember a horrific act taken by romos said. that Northern Cyprus is being sold Greeks should not go to the north, occupation are too many, and Turkey against the citizens of “Despite the fact that the Cypri- to the British and other Europeans. at all, nor should they give any fi- urged members of Congress to use Cyprus 33 years ago. On July 20, ot people have had to shoulder the Unfortunately, most of them cast a nancial support to the occupied ter- their influence to achieve a with- 1974 the nation of Turkey violated burden of supporting 200,000 blind eye to all that is happening ritory. I am not a politician, but that drawal of Turkish occupation international law when it brutally refugees, they have managed to put there, and allow the Greek land in is my humble opinion,” she said, forces from the island. invaded the sovereign Republic of together an economic miracle, Northern Cyprus to be sold to for- adding that she is not hopeful that They also cited the peaceful pas- Cyprus. Following the Turkish Inva- while securing the entry of the Re- eigners. This is a shame,” she said, a settlement to the Cyprus issue sage of 12 million Greek and Turk- sion, 200,000 people were forcibly public of Cyprus into the European asserting that the Greek American will be reached anytime soon. ish Cypriots through the “Green displaced from their homes, and a Union. This accession did not hap- community has played a more sub- “I do not foresee a solution in Line” dividing the island without large number of Cypriots, who pen by itself. It came about through stantive role than the Cypriot Gov- the near future, and if one is any altercations, which they ar- were captured during the invasion, the support of Greece, the Greek ernment to help solve the problem. gued proves that the Turkish mili- are still missing today. Until three people and Greek politicians, who “The Greek American communi- tary presence still occupying the is- years ago, both Democratic and Re- Rep. Frank Pallone of New Jersey stood alongside them. It also came ty has been on alert for the past 33 land is completely unnecessary. publican administrations here in about through the support of the years now. In fact, I would go as far Congressman Robert Wexler, the United States consistently con- once again takes into consideration Greeks and Cypriots living here, as to say that the Greek American Chairman of the House “Friends of demned the Turkish Government the entire 33-year history of this who strived to support Cyprus’ bid community does much more than Turkey” group also noted that the for this illegal occupation, and conflict. The people of Cyprus de- for E.U. admission,” he added. those who are there, but unfortu- presence of so many Turkish sol- pressured Turkey to come to the ne- serve nothing less,” Rep. Pallone Mr. Comodromos also said that nately, special interests there take diers on the island is not necessary. gotiating table in an attempt to fi- said. while 35-40 thousand Turkish precedence over the best interest of Congressman Gus Bilirakis (R- nally reunify Cyprus. As long as Congresswoman Carolyn Mal- troops continue to occupy almost the Cypriots and Cypriot Ameri- Florida), co-chairman of the House Turkey continued its intransigence oney, the Democratic co-chair of 37 percent of Cyprus, Greeks and cans,” she said. Hellenic Caucus, and Congressman and refused to leave Cyprus, U.S. the House Hellenic caucus, also Cypriots everywhere are also hope- Greek Cypriots in the southern Frank Pallone (D-New Jersey), a administrations correctly believed criticized the Turkish Government ful that the day will come when the (free) part of the island have been member of the Caucus, spoke on that they should not be rewarded. for its unwillingness to compro- powers that be realize it’s time to fi- showing good faith, she pointed the House Floor last week to com- While this has been consistent U.S. mise. nally grant justice to the people of out. “They opened their borders, memorate the 33rd anniversary of policy, I have grown increasingly Greek American community Cyprus. and Turkish Cypriots have all the the Turkish invasion, urging Con- concerned that over the past three representatives met with six new “As far as the Greek American benefits that Cypriot citizens do. gress to act. years we have witnessed a blatant Republican congressmen and seven community goes, we will continue They go in and out of the south to REP. BILIRAKIS shift in Cyprus policy from the Bush new Democratic ones, following an to be vigilant,” he said. “I personal- work and make a living, while the “Madam Speaker, I stand before Administration, specifically from initiative by Reps. Bilirakis, John ly believe that the time will come Greek Cypriots can not go see their you today to recall an anniversary Secretary of State Condoleezza Sarbanes (D-Maryland) and Zack when the Greek American commu- stolen properties or make repairs to that has racked the Cypriot and Rice. The Bush Administration is Space (D-Ohio). nity will once again play a very im- them,” she said. Hellenic communities for the past punishing Cyprus, the victim, for More than 30 members of the portant role in the efforts to settle Dr. Christodoulidou also sadly 33 years. Even though the tragic overwhelmingly voting in a democ- House of Representatives and two the Cyprus issue. This might even noted that she recently saw a photo events of the Turkish invasion of ratic election against the United Senators issued greetings at a re- take place during the next 2-3 exhibition from London showing Cyprus took place so long ago, the Nations’ Annan Plan. The State De- cent luncheon held at Capitol Hill. years, if circumstances permit.” churches in the Turkish-occupied pain and suffering of this tragic oc- partment and Secretary Rice seem Senator Joe Biden (D-Delaware) The President of Women’s Chap- part of northern Cyprus which have casion still ripples throughout the much more interested in rewarding praised the Greek American com- ter of the Pancyprian Association of been destroyed by Turks, or turned Greek and Cypriot communities. those who illegally occupied the munity, while Congressman Robert America, Dr. Florentia into stables. Other photos showed This anniversary is a time for Amer- northern third of the nation back in Menendez (D-New Jersey) called Christodoulidou, said that, while tombs and cemeteries which have ica to solemnly remember the Turk- 1974 than actually reunifying the on the U.S. Government to take on she isn’t a politician, she sees the been desecrated. ish military invasion of the island of island. I am deeply concerned that a greater role to help achieve a fair Cyprus issue has remained basical- “What hurt me very much is that Rep. Gus Bilirakis of Florida Cyprus; to mourn those who lost the State Department’s drastic poli- settlement to the Cyprus issue. Metropolitan Methodios of Boston Celebrates his 25th Anniversary as a Bishop

Continued from page 1 that a year after I was ordained a said, “When His All Holiness (Ecu- presbyter (December 25, 1979), menical Patriarch Bartholomew) the Brotherhood. Father the Archbishop shared with me in honored me with this opportunity, I Daskalakis also offered remarks. his home that he was considering was not ready to accept.” Methodios thanked the throng requesting that the Ecumenical Pa- Methodios also said he believes of faithful and clergy who were pre- triarchate elect me as an auxiliary the Church must now permit sec- sent and referred fondly to the late bishop during the year 1981. It did- ond marriages for clergymen who Archbishop Iakovos, who ordained n’t happen in 1981, but in 1982.” have lost their presvyteres (priests’ him to the episcopate. Metropolitan Methodios served wives). In an interview with the Nation- as archdeacon to Archbishop “I brought this issue to the agen- al Herald, His Eminence, said, “As I Iakovos for six and a half years, and da of the Holy & Sacred Synod in said during my remarks following learned much from him, he said. “It Constantinople during my tenure the Divine Liturgy, I can’t believe was a great learning experience. I last year. The Ecumenical Patriarch how fast these 25 years have accompanied him to many parishes sent letters to all the other Patriar- passed. I recall the verse of the throughout America. I had the op- chates and Autocephalous Church- Prophet David, “Man’s days are like portunity to go to South America es to solicit their opinions. Not all those of grass. Like a flower of the twice, but never accompanied him had responded while I served on field he blooms. The wind sweeps to Greece.” the Synod.” over him and he is gone (Psalm During the Divine Liturgy and in Asked whether Pope Benedict 102).” his sermon, Methodios remem- XVI insulted the Orthodox Church Asked to recall how he felt when bered the late Archbishop, who in a recent encyclical in which the he was informed of his election as a served at the helm of the Church in Pope refers to the Orthodox bishop, and who notified him, he America for almost four decades, Churches as “defective,” because said, “I was working in my office at and referred to him with deep re- they do not recognize the Pope of Saint Spyridon Parish in New York’s spect: “I believe I am the only hier- Rome’s authority, Methodios said, Washington Heights when I re- arch who was ordained to all three “I was shocked when I heard the ceived a telephone call from Arch- ranks of the Priesthood by Arch- Pope’s comments. Before reacting, bishop Iakovos himself, who was so bishop Iakovos. I consider that fact however, I await the official re- deeply moved that he could not fin- a great honor,” he said, adding that sponse of our Ecumenical Patriar- ish the sentence that I was elected Iakovos was a “great figure and a chate. I also plan to call Cardinal an auxiliary bishop by the venera- truly charismatic leader.” Sean O’Malley (of Boston) to tell ble Ecumenical Patriarchate in Asked whether he believed him the Pope’s remarks place both Constantinople. I was in in tears.” Archbishop Iakovos’ absence from His Eminence Metropolitan Methodios of Boston, right, presides over a Divine Liturgy service last Wednes- of us in an uncomfortable posi- Asked whether he though it was the Church in America and world- day, July 18, with Metropolitan Evangelos of New Jersey at the Annunciation Cathedral in Boston. Hun- tion.” to his benefit to be ordained a bish- wide Orthodoxy, including Greece, dreds of faithful and scores of priests came to honor Methodios' 25th anniversary as a Greek Orthodox Regarding his position concern- op as young as he was at the time or is sorely missed, Methodios said, “I bishop. ing homosexuals in the priesthood, if, upon reflection, he would have believe so, and so do many other the Metropolitan stressed, “There’s preferred to be elected at a later people. That is not to say that his the last 25 years, Methodios said, where a large number of students in Arlington this September, and no question they have no place in time, Methodios said, “Every celi- successors were not good people, “Orthodoxy and Hellenism have are converts. There is no question hopefully another in Lynn very the clergy. The worst tragedies are bate priest awaits – if it is God’s will of course. But the fact is, we all changed greatly. The flock we that the Church has changed.” soon. I believe other parishes have those involving the molestation of to serve the Church as a hierarch. miss Iakovos. Everyone has his own shepherd has changed. Twenty-five Tomorrow’s priests who are the ability to establish schools, as innocent children. This is not only a Some are elected later in life, oth- personality and gifts. But Iakovos’ years ago, we didn’t have as many coming to Holy Cross need careful well. The best thing we can offer to grave sin, but a despicable crime. ers at a younger age. I was elected stature can not be replicated.” interfaith marriages, for example. consideration, he added. “How are the community is to establish Child molesters have no place in when I was 35 years of age, the Asked what he would do differ- The world was different; our they prepared to serve as priests of schools where the future of our the Church.” youngest Bishop at that time. I be- ently if he were to start his life parishes were different, our people our communities? A great deal of Parishes and our nation will be Concerning the future of Hel- lieve that this can be beneficial be- again today, Methodios stressed were different.” attention must be given to mentor formed.” lenic College/Holy Cross, Metro- cause a young hierarch has great that felt a very strong calling to en- When asked to comment on these men.” Among other people who had a politan Methodios said, “I have enthusiasm, many dreams and as- ter the priesthood. “I always be- what direction the Church and and Not all his dreams and aspira- great influence in his life, Metro- nothing to say about Hellenic Col- pirations, as well as the physical lieved I had a calling to be a priest; its parishes are headed, Methodios tions have been fulfilled, he said. politan Methodios named his lege/Holy Cross. Others are re- stamina to work hard. I had a great what I would have done different said, “That’s your most difficult “Among other things, I’d like to es- mother and his professors, espe- sponsible within and outside the deal of enthusiasm.” was to have given more attention to question. I pray that we are headed tablish several parochial schools cially the late Rev. George Tsoumas. School, including the Archbishop, Asked whether Archbishop furthering my education. If I were a in the direction forged by the Holy and high schools in our Metropolis. Asked why he declined the Ecu- who is the President of its Board of Iakovos told him after his ordina- deacon again, I would have gone Spirit. We are heading towards a For many reasons, all these years, menical Patriarchate’s invitation to Trustees. I hope and pray that the tion as a celibate priest that he was onto earn an additional academic Church that will be comprised al- that goal has not been attained. become Archbishop of America in School mentors spirit-filled, dedi- going to ordain him a bishop one degree,” he said. most completely of American-born The only parochial school in New August of 1999, fter then Archbisop cated priests to succeed in the day, Methodios said, “No, he never Asked what he thinks has Orthodox faithful, including many England is the Hellenic American Spyridon resigned, and whether he priesthood because the message of told me ‘I am going to make you a changed in the Church and in the converts to Orthodoxy. We see this Academy of the Holy Trinity parish did the Church and himself a injus- Orthodoxy to the world is a mes- Bishop one day,’ but I remember Greek American community over now at our theological school, in Lowell. We are starting a school tice by not doing so, Methodios sage of hope and peace.” 4 FEATURE THE NATIONAL HERALD, JULY 28, 2007

Hellenic Star 1955. Preparing for arrival. Page 151. Metsovo 1963. Three generations. Page 73.

Kassos 1965. The village coffee shop. Page 85. Epiros 1961. Young friends. Page 71.

Mistras 1955. This citadel was the last bastion of the Byzantine Em- pire, falling to the Turks in 1460, seven years after Constantinople did. Page 67. Serifos 1963. Bringing water to Chora village. Page 97. Queen Sofia Spanish Institute Houses Enchanting Exhibit for New Book on Greece

By Mark Frangos who was then Prince. The images Aegean Sea with a Rolleiflex and and go well beyond the depiction of were transferred to a small, often ‘spoiled’ if there was even one other Special to the National Herald are meant to capture the people and Plus-X film. His photos were first ex- a person, an object, a place, or even bobbing, tender to travel the last visitor present. The landscape was landscapes of an era and way of life hibited in 1954 at Princeton’s Fire- a satisfying visual composition,” Mr. 100 meters to their destination. still unspoiled. Villages throughout NEW YORK – Housed in the Queen which have all but vanished due to stone Library and in an ensuing trav- McCabe writes in one of several Small children were frequently half- the country were beautiful, not only Sofia Spanish Institute, photographs tourism and development. On both eling exhibit. They were exhibited at signs of his words, hanging on the tossed from the steamer to a parent architecturally, but also for their from Robert A. McCabe’s book, floors of the exhibition, a looped the Olympic Gallery in Manhattan walls besides his photos. “Just as a or sailor on the tender,” Mr. McCabe unique and distinct traditions. Stone “Greece: Images of an Enchanted recording of Greek poet Constantine (what is now the Olympic Tower) in short poem can create a vivid emo- points out. was often the basic building materi- Land, 1954-1965,” allow Greek Cavafy’s most famous poem, “Itha- 1979. Since then, Mr. McCabe’s pho- tional experience, so too can an im- “The islands were very poor. al with all the discipline of design Americans, Spaniards and other vis- ca,” can be heard recited by Oscar- tos have been displayed at the Art age. Such photographs can invoke Tourism had not yet taken root. imposed by that medium,” he adds. itors to admire approximately 50 winning actor Sean Connery and set Association in the resort town of in our souls much more than the di- Many families had members who His book, “Greece: Images of an black and white photographs taken to original music by world- Jackson Hole, Wyoming and in rect visual content of the photo- had immigrated to the United Enchanted Land, 1954-1965,” cap- by Mr. McCabe during a decade’s renowned (and Oscar-winning) Greece at exhibitions in Athens, graph.” States, Canada, Germany or Aus- tures all that and more, and is a worth of visits to the Greek islands. Greek composer Vangelis. Thessaloniki, Patras, Santorini and Mr. McCabe’s photos depict a dif- tralia. The island populations were powerful nostalgic reminder of the The exhibition, which runs Mr. McCabe first visited Greece Anatolia College. This summer, Mr. ferent time in Greece, before the is- in equilibrium with their land and Greece which once was. through August 25, is in honor of in 1954 on the Achilles, via the McCabe will exhibit photos from the lands became tourism hotspots. ocean food resources. With remit- Queen Sofia’s Greek heritage and Corinth Canal, as an undergraduate 1950’s of Greece, Italy, Paris, the “In the 1950’s and 1960’s, travel tances from the émigrés frequently a The Spanish Institute is located in many of the pictures were taken in studying English Literature at U.S. and Antarctica in an exhibition in the Greek Islands was fraught balancing factor, there was also ex- Manhattan on 684 Park Avenue. the summer of 1954, the same sum- Princeton University. In the decade in Monodendri, Greece. with hardship and uncertainty. traordinary hospitality which were a For more information, call 212- mer the Queen met her future hus- which followed, he made many oth- “For me, the most successful pho- There were few actual docks on the rare sight to many places,” he says. 628-0420 or visit the web at band, King Juan Carlos of Spain, er visits, traveling the islands of the tographs represent a form of poetry islands, so in most ports, passengers “We would consider an island www.spanishinstitute.org. THE NATIONAL HERALD, JULY 28, 2007 FEATURE 5 Enchanting Images Capture Greece’s Recent Past

By Elaine Thomopoulos ing meticulously handcrafted walking barefoot and hand-in-hand flect the glimmering light of the Special to The National Herald wooden ones. The solitude one down a country road; a captain and sunset, a picture of purity. found at almost every archaeologi- his first mate hugging; the radiance Throughout the 204-page book, “Greece: Images of an Enchanted cal site has disappeared, and most of Brother Panteleimon at the Russ- there are photographs representing Land, 1954-1965” by Robert A Mc- are today overrun by busloads of ian Monastery of Mount Athos in a way of life which has all but dis- Cabe, Quantuck Lane Press, 204 tourists.” 1957, as he displays the skulls of appeared. An old woman, dressed pages, $85. McCabe fell in love with Greece two monks with their biographies. in black, laboriously lugs a water on his first visit in 1954, while he There are images of sadness too: jug on her shoulder. An attractive I remember my first trip to was an undergraduate at Princeton the sharp haunting image of chil- smiling middle-aged woman, clad Greece in 1963, when the country University. The photographs in this dren in threadbare clothing, the in homespun dress and apron, was still recovering from the rav- book record several trips he took boy with a wrinkled-forehead clutches a handmade implement ages of World War II and the Civil from 1954 to 1965. Sparse cap- frown. used for spinning. There are also War. The village, which my father tions, in Greek and English, identi- McCabe includes down-to-earth women washing clothes at a river left when he was a young teen, had fy each image in this coffee-table photographs of people working: re- in Epiros; deck-class travelers of not yet received running water or size book. Longer captions are not pairing a jeep, unloading fishing the Aegean; a muleteer and his electricity. The Greece I experi- necessary, for the photos them- nets, harvesting olives, transport- charges; and a bagpipe player. enced was much like it was when selves tell the story. Each photo- ing sheep and peeling onions. A Philhellene McCabe has taken a my father left in the 1920’s. Despite graph is framed with warmth and photo of two men preparing for a slice of Greece and frozen it in time, the poverty that remained, the sensitivity. boat’s arrival, with its simplicity of captured for posterity. The pho- beauty of the landscape and the The black and white images cap- lines and composition, remind me tographs bring back memories of warmth of the people filled me ture the many moods of Greece in of a Mondrian painting. the beauty of the landscape and the with a longing for the same Greece the 1950’s and 1960’s. The solitude Images also include those of cel- humanity of the people. With this my father knew, the Greece I wit- and magic of archeological sites like ebration. One of my favorite pho- volume, published more than 40 nessed that summer, the Greece the Acropolis and Epidavros are re- tographs contains a young musi- years after he captured the images, which no longer exists today. vealed in scenes McCabe offers in cian with a Chaplin-style mustache McCabe has granted us a mar- Nostalgia fills the book, the first chapter, History. He also in- and classic features. He plays the velous treasure. “Greece: Images of an Enchanted cludes photographs of archeologists bouzouki, consumed by the music, Land, 1954-1965” by Robert A. Mc- at work in Mycenae, including one oblivious to his surroundings. His Dr. Thomopoulos is managing Cabe. More than 100 stunning who had just uncovered a skeleton. stocky elderly partner belts out a editor of The National Herald’s black and white photos capture im- The breathtaking photograph, folk song. You can almost hear the “Books” and “Greek American ages of a simpler way of life, a won- “MISTRAS 1955,” is reminiscent of tune. Scientists” inserts. She is project derful testament to the people and a Japanese silk screen or an Ansel Another of my favorites is director of “The Greeks of Jacket cover to Robert McCabe's new book, which captures the Greece the land of Greece: “It is an era and Adams print, with trees and a road “THERA. Sunset from Fira.” I have Berrien County, Michigan” and of yesteryear with nostalgic photographs, a Greece which has virtual- way of life that has vanished, swept in the foreground and wispy clouds experienced the ethereal sunset at curator of the exhibit about the ly vanished due to tourism, industry and development. away by pounding waves of and mountains in the background. Thera with wonder. McCabe cap- history of Berrien County Greeks. tourism and development; by huge The play of light and shadow is tures the feeling precisely, with She is also the author of the local high speed car ferries; by charter spectacular. clarity and precision, and without history books, “St. Joseph and flights and package tours and is- McCabe captures moments of the hordes of tourists. The waves Benton Harbor” and “Resorts of land villas; by plastic boats replac- happiness: three smiling little girls made in the wake of a lone boat re- Berrien County.”

Meteora 1961. Charles McCabe and Evga ice cream salesman. Page 41. The Aegean 1955. On the waterfront. Page 127.

Mount Athos 1957. Brother Panteleimon at the Russian Monastery Astipalaia 1963. At the port. Page 87. display the skulls of two monks with their biographies. Page 181. Thera 1955. Sunset from Fira. Page 155.

The Aegean 1955. Deck class aboard the Despina. Page 142. Mykonos 1955. Musicians at a baptismal festival. Page 177. 6 OBITUARIES CLASSIFIEDS THE NATIONAL HERALD, JULY 28, 2007

DEATHS Charlie Phillips, Tarpon Springs’ ■ BOLLAS, JAMES A. Church in Pittsfield and a member of Nick Kallas, the family moved to San and Cori (Todd) Litke; and his great AKRON, Ohio – The Akron Beacon The Ladies Philoptochos Society. The Francisco when she was an infant. grandchildren Nikki Young, Tonee Chamber of Commerce Director Journal reported that James A. Bol- funeral was held on July 18 at Saint She met George N. Kosturos when Cobb, Lane Cobb, Lauren Young, Tay- las, 92, passed away on Friday, July George Church. Memorial donations she was 16 and a student at Balboa lor Young, and Shelby Litke. He was By Elena Lesley He wasn't gone long, returning 20, 2007. He is survived by his to Saint George Church (73 Bradford High School and he was a student at predeceased by his brothers Steve St. Petersburg Times to Tarpon Springs a few years later daughter Angela; his son Al (Boot- Street, Pittsfield, MA 01201). Sacred Heart High School. After and Mike; and his daughter Ann Del- and meeting Pauline Pavlis, who sie); his grandchildren Mark J. Price, graduating from Balboa during phia. He was a business person all his TARPON SPRINGS, Fla. - During would become his second wife. Nick (Lindsey) Bollas and Jon Bollas; ■ ECONOMOU, EFFIE WWII, she worked for the Marine life, but best known for his love of the 13 years he led Tarpon Springs' "He was the most logical person his great-grandchildren Patrick and NEWPORT NEWS, Va. – The Daily Corps until the war was over and people. This love and affinity quickly Chamber of Commerce, Charlie I had ever met," she said. "He was Libby Bollas; his nephews George Press reported that Effie Samos George graduated from UC Berkeley. resulted in an uncanny fund-raising Phillips never passed up a chance extremely level-headed." (Joyce) Bollas, Michael (Luanne) Economou, 55, passed away peace- They were married on July 15, 1945 capability. As reported in the to promote the city he loved. That quality came in handy Bollas and John Bollas; his niece fully in her sleep surrounded by fam- and celebrated their 59th anniver- Modesto Bee in 1948, when a 20- Whether making sure highway when he became executive director Cheryl (Harley) Tennant; his great- ily on Wednesday, July 18, 2007. She sary before George passed away on year effort to erect a permanent signs clearly pointed visitors to the of the chamber in 1988. Mr. Phillips nephew George Bollas; his great- is survived by her parents John and October 2, 2004. During their early structure at Graceada Park failed, he fishing village, or casing the worked to build up the city and nieces Grace and Amy Bollas; his sis- Agnes Samos; her daughter Lea (Ja- years, Dolores devoted her time to single-handed, with undaunted faith Sponge Docks to get opinions from launch new initiatives, friends and ters-in-law Angela Bollas, Trudy son) Holbrook; her granddaughters lovingly raising their three children, and courage raised an approximate local business owners, he was a family said. (Walter) Maycher and Jane (Jack) Lauren and Sydney Holbrook; her and helping George in his accounting $15,000 in materials for the project, consummate ambassador and man- "He was the kind of person you Bittner; his brother-in-law James brother Harry (Zelma) Samos; her business. When her children were as a tribute to Prof. Mancini' to build about-town. would want in town, publicizing Vasilopoulos; his cousins James niece Christi (Jason) Byrd; her grown, Dolores began her career in the Mancini Bowl. He was born in "He was one of the finest cham- your city," Mrs. Phillips said. (Jean) Bollas, Bob Bollas, Jim nephew Mike (Melissa) Samos; and the fashion industry, first with Peck & Kennelworth, Utah to immigrant par- ber directors that Tarpon Springs He was a big man – "like a gi- (Kathy) Sweet, Jerry Sweet, Jack several nieces and nephews. She was Peck of N.Y. and then as a manager at ents Anthony and Anna Pavlakis from has ever had," said former Mayor ant," according to his wife – but Sweet, Koula Manolis; and many oth- born Oct. 18, 1951, in Newport Livingston Brothers where she loved Crete, Greece. The family migrated Anita Protos. "His heart was in the never loud or blustery. A Southern er relatives. He was predeceased in News, Va. She graduated from War- being in the center of the latest styles to Modesto in the early 20's and community." gentleman, he always managed to death by his wife Joan; his parents wick High School, where she was a and designs and who was always im- turned to farming. Pavy graduated Mr. Phillips died at Helen Ellis draw attention and loyalty with his Alexander and Angeline Bollas; his gymnast and later for Towson State peccably dressed. Dolores will lov- from Modesto High School in 1934 Memorial Hospital last Sunday, Ju- understated charm, friends said. sister Marcella Vasilopoulos; his University in Maryland. Effie was a ingly be remembered for her love of where he starred in track in the mile. ly 22, after a brief illness. He was While leading the chamber, he brothers Mike Bollas and George Bol- real estate agent and broker on the her family, shopping, her style, There he met his wife, Ethel (Athena) 67. forged strong relationships with las; his aunts and uncles Gertrude Peninsula for over 25 years, and then sweetness, grace and warmth. The Fintikas Pavlakis. They were married Friends and family say Tarpon business owners throughout town; and George Manolis and Ann and sold insurance for John Hancock un- family would like to thank Dolores' 68 years. He was drafted into the Air Springs won't be the same. ran the annual arts and crafts Nick Bollas. Born February 2, 1915, til she became ill. She was also part caregivers, Linny and Malou who Corps and served in the Phillippine As one local told Mr. Phillips' show; and "brought the chamber in Cleveland, he grew up in Warren, owner of the Warwick Restaurant in filled her last years with love, music, Islands. He worked for Rainbo Bak- wife, Pauline, at the hospital: "I can from a hole-in-the-wall office to the Ohio. He was the oldest of four chil- Newport News for five years. She was laughter and kindness. The funeral ery for 43 years as a supervisor and not imagine a world without Char- building it's in now," Mrs. Phillips dren born to Alexander and Angeline a member of Saints Constantine and was held on July 24, 2007, at Holy also in public relations. As a member lie Phillips." said. Bollas of Chios, Greece. He graduat- Helen Greek Orthodox Church, and Trinity Greek Orthodox Church in of the Junior Chamber of Commerce, Though many around town felt His daughter Donna, an interior ed in 1933 from Warren G. Harding the Daughters of Penelope. She will San Francisco. Memorial donations he sold enough memberships to reac- like they'd known Mr. Phillips as designer, helped redesign the inte- High School, where he had the lead always be remembered as a very lov- to Holy Trinity Church Building Fund tivate the Senior Chamber of Com- long as they could remember, he rior and exterior of the chamber's role in "The Mikado." He was em- ing and caring daughter, mother and (999 Brotherhood Way, San Francis- merce. He was the chairman of build- was actually a Georgia native who present office on E. Orange Street. ployed by Trumbull County and grandmother. The funeral was held co, CA 94132). ing the Burbank-Paradise Communi- relocated to Tarpon Springs in the "I don't want people to forget all Goodyear Aircraft before starting a on July 20 at Saints Constantine and ty Center, and also a long-term mem- 1970's. that Charlie did for this communi- machine shop business, DuBo Manu- Helen Church in Newport News. ■ MANSOLA, ELLI ber of the Board of Trustees of Memo- A graduate of the University of ty," Mrs. Phillips said. facturing Corp., which he operated in Memorial donations to Saints Con- DEKALB, Ill. – The Daily Chronicle re- rial Hospital Foundation. He was a Georgia, he came south for a job in Those who knew him say that Akron from the 1940s to 1970s. His stantine and Helen Church (60 Tra- ported that Elli (nee Stathopoulos) proud active steward of his church Tampa. While he was looking for a would be impossible. company's products included parts verse Road, Newport News, VA Mansola, 94, of Athens, Greece, and ethnic affiliations. He was a 60- home, a coworker who lived in Tar- "When people die, everyone al- for national defense and the U.S. 23606). passed away on Saturday, June 23, year member of the Parish Council of pon Springs invited him over for ways says they will be missed," Mrs. space program. DuBo also manufac- 2007 at NIMITS Hospital in Athens, the Greek Orthodox Church and also dinner. It was love at first sight. Protos said. "But this is one individ- tured boat trailers and made the ■ KARASULAS, VASILLIOS K. Greece, from complications relating served twice as President. He chaired "It's hard to explain why exactly" ual who truly will be missed." arched gateway at Kent State Univer- BRAWLEY, Ariz. – The Imperial Val- to recent surgery. She is survived by most of the fund-raising for building Mr. Phillips immediately fell for Mr. Phillips is survived by his sity. He was a member of Annuncia- ley Press reported that Vasillios K. her daughter Avra (Dimitri) Liakos; and remodeling of the church facility Tarpon Springs, said Jim Cantonis, wife; two daughters, Veda Baggio tion Greek Orthodox Church in "Bill the Greek" Karasulas, 81, passed her granddaughter, Photine (Sushil on Tokay Avenue. Mr. Pavlakis was a president of Acme Sponge Co., a and Donna Childs, of Douglasville, Akron, where he served as church away on Saturday, July 14, 2007. He Keswani) Liakos; and her great- 55-year member of the Pancretan As- friend. "It's like explaining why you Georgia; and two sons, the Rev. president in 1955, 1956 and 1957, is survived by several nieces, grandchildren Elina and Magnus. sociation of America. He served as love your boyfriend or your hus- Chuck Phillips of Cumming, Geor- and sang in the men's chorus. He was nephews, grand-nieces and grand- She was predeceased by her parents President locally, and as a District band. You just do." gia and Chazz Nicholas Phillips of the first American-born president of nephews in Greece as well as his Sophia and Miltiades Stathopoulos; Governor for the national affiliation. The feelings were reciprocated, Tarpon Springs. the church. His hobbies included sail- "adopted" American family. He was her husband Emanuel; and four sib- He was also the chairman of the Na- apparently. The funeral was held at Saint ing, fishing and traveling. He was a born on December 12, 1925 in Olga lings. Born July 23, 1913, in Athens, tional Convention of the Pancretan After just a few years in town, Nicholas Greek Orthodox Cathe- commander in the U.S. Power Tragnous, Elias, a small village in Greece, she married Emanuel Man- Association of America here in Mr. Phillips was elected to the City dral on July 25. Squadron. He belonged to the Riv- Greece near Olympia. He was the sola, a general with the Greek Army. Modesto in 1962 - the first national Commission in 1976. But he re- iera Yacht Club, South Shore Yacht youngest of four children born to She and her husband were stationed convention of any kind to be held in signed a year into his term to move The St. Petersburg Times pub- Club and Sandusky Sailing Club, and Konstantinos and Magdaline Tzn- at various locations in Greece during Modesto. He also was a 50-year to Chicago. lished the above on July 24. was a member of the National One tanou Karasulas. The years during his military career but maintained member of AHEPA. He loved to smile Design Racing Association. In later World War II were difficult in Greece Athens as their home base and even- and see people smile. He served as years, he liked to watch "Storm Sto- and his uncle brought him to the tual full-time residence. She was very master of ceremonies for numerous ries" on The Weather Channel. He en- United States in 1957 to work with active in the Greek Resistance during events. To begin each event he would CLASSIFIEDS joyed seeing friends and relatives at him in his Brawley gardening service. the German Occupation of Greece start by proclaiming that he was the Greek festival and gyro luncheon. He did not speak a word of English, during World War II. Although living “happy to see all the beautiful faces.'' He also enjoyed going to Gus' Chalet but soon learned the language by in Athens for her whole life, she spent Pavy was an avid golfer. He often HELP WANTED (718) 728-8500 and being waited on by Cookie. The watching the movies every night more than 35 years traveling back shot his age in his 70's and 80's. He Not affiliated with any family wishes to thank Chambrel at from the Brawley Cinema projector and forth from Greece to spend time was a member of the Turlock Country JOURNALISTS WANTED other funeral home. Montrose, especially Becky, George room. After helping his uncle for a with her family in DeKalb. Family Club and played his last round two Nation’s leading Greek American and Nikki, for their many kindnesses. couple of years, Bill took over full- and friends were her greatest joy and months before his passing. “Pavy, newspaper needs reporters and as- APOSTOLOPOULOS The funeral was held on July 24 at time yard care for Gene and Hetty her great-grandchildren brought her your family, extended church family, sistant editor for English weekly Apostle Family - Annunciation Greek Orthodox Joy Jordan. His position with the Jor- many hours of happiness in recent and the entire community misses paper. Exceptional writing/report- Gregory, Nicholas, Andrew - Church in Akron. Memorial dona- dans became more than yard care, as years. The funeral was held on June your physical presence. However, ing skills and bilingual fluency a Funeral Directors of tions to Annunciation Church (129 S. he became part of the family, calling 26 at the Church of the First Ceme- your memory will always be eternal.” must. Car a plus. Fax or e-mail clips RIVERDALE Union St., Akron, OH 44304). Gene and Hetty Joy, the Pappa and tery in Athens, Greece. A memorial and cover letter to 718-472-0510 FUNERAL HOME Inc. Mom. He continued to work in the service will take place on July 29 at ■ TOMADAKIS, KATHERINE or [email protected]. 5044 Broadway ■ CALLAS, JAYNE E. Jordan household as well as working Saint George Greek Orthodox SALT LAKE CITY, Utah – The Salt 111609/01 New York, NY 10034 ELMIRA, N.Y. – The Star-Gazette re- for Jordan Implement Company. Bill Church in DeKalb, Ill. Memorial do- Lake City Tribune reported that (212) 942-4000 ported that Jayne E. Callas passed performed a variety of tasks for Jor- nations to Saint George Church (320 Katherine Tomadakis, 92, passed FUNERAL HOMES Toll Free 1-888-GAPOSTLE away on Monday, July 16, 2007 at dan Implement, from arriving in the S. Second St., DeKalb, IL 60115). away Friday, July 6, 2007 in Price. her home, after a long battle with wee hours of the morning to start the She is survived by her three sons CONSTANTINIDES LITRAS FUNERAL HOME cancer. She is survived by her sons heaters in the shop and put on a pot ■ MASSAD, BARBARA M. John W. (Donna), George (Bea) and FUNERAL PARLOR Co. ARLINGTON BENSON DOWD, Ricky Lee and Christopher P. She was of coffee to delivering parts as far RANDOLPH, N.J. – The Star-Ledger Peter (Rowena); his grandchildren; 405 91st Street INC FUNERAL HOME predeceased by her husband away as Arizona. One of the proudest reported that Barbara M. Massad his 25 great grandchildren; and his Bay Ridge - Brooklyn, NY 11209 83-15 Parsons Blvd., Socrates P. Callas; her son Socrates C. days of Bill's life was the day he be- passed away on Friday, July 20, 2007 great-great grandchild. She was pre- (718) 745-1010 Jamaica, NY 11432 Callas; her brother Charles N. Gusti- came a US citizen with a celebration at Morristown Memorial Hospital. deceased by her parents; her brother; Services in all localities - (718) 858-4434 • (800) 245-4872 na; and her sister Doris L. Gustina. party at Jordan Implement. After She is survived by her husband Louis; and four sisters. She was born in Mis- Low cost shipping to Greece She moved from Buffalo to Elmira in that, never did a day pass when Bill her mother Norma Christos; her souri to George and Mary Dawson the mid 1930's. She was a graduate wouldn't declare, "God Bless Ameri- brother Nicholas (Sandra) Christos; Douros. She was a longtime resident ANTONOPOULOS TO PLACE YOUR of Southside High School and attend- ca."?Bill was very fond of his numer- and several nieces and nephews. She of Carbon County and an active FUNERAL HOME, INC. CLASSIFIED AD, CALL: ed Elmira College. She worked as a ous nieces and nephews in Greece, was born and grew up in Belleville. member of the Carbon County Senior Konstantinos Antonopoulos - (718) 784-5255, EXT. 106, physical education instructor for always sending them money at She received her master's in biology Citizens. She will be dearly missed by Funeral Director E-MAIL: Elmira College and the Elmira City Christmastime. When his beloved from Fairleigh Dickinson University. her family and a community of 38-08 Ditmars Blvd., classifieds@ thenationalherald.com School District. Over the years she mother, then dear sister Georgia She was an administrative vice presi- friends. The funeral was held on July Astoria, New York 11105 had volunteered with many organi- passed away, Bill said he had no de- dent for Blue Cross/Blue Shield in 11 at Assumption Greek Orthodox zations in the Elmira area. She was a sire to travel to Greece again. Bill had Florham Park, retiring in 1989. A cer- Church in Salt Lake City. member of the Ladies Auxiliary of the a deep faith, regularly attending tified medical technologist, she was a Railroad, the Elmira Heights Ameri- Mass at Saint George's Greek Ortho- former head of the chemistry labora- ■ TOMARAS, GEORGE When you advertise in The National Herald can Legion Post 154 Auxiliary, Ladies dox Church in Palm Desert and never tory at St. Michael's Medical Center SANTA CRUZ, Calif. – The Santa of the Moose, Red Hat Club, Italian missing the Easter service. He was an in Newark, and was a former assis- Cruz Sentinel reported on Wednes- Greek Americans pay attention American Veteran's Club, Twin Tier "uncle" and "grandfather" to several tant professor of anatomy and physi- day, July 4, 2007 that George Ostomy Club, Widow/Widowers young people, admonishing them to ology at Kean University in Union. Tomaras, 86, passed away at his Va- Club, and Women of the Grotto. She work hard and inspiring them with The funeral was held on July 23 at caville home. He is survived by his The National Herald was a long time member, and coordi- his quotes of Greek philosophy. Bill is Saint Andrew Greek Orthodox wife Maria Tomaras; his daughter (718) 784-5255 ext. 101 nator for 23 years, of the Elmira YM- remembered by almost everyone in Church in Randolph. Memorial dona- Kathie (Vasili) Karagiannopoulos; his [email protected] CA Camp Iroquois. She was an avid Brawley. The last few years, his day tions to Saint Andrew Greek Ortho- son Peter "Tyke" Tomaras; his grand- NY Yankee fan and enjoyed attending would begin with sharing pre-dawn dox Church (1447 Sussex Tpk., Ran- children Nicholas (Beth), and various sporting events. Among her coffee with his friends at the Donut dolph, N.J. 07869). George; his great grandson Anthony other interests were bingo, swim- Shop, helping wherever needed for a Patrick; his sister Mary Steel; his sev- ming and bowling. She was a lifetime couple of hours at the Kramer house- ■ MILONAS, DEMA J. eral nieces, nephews and great nieces member of the WIBC 600 Club and hold, having news highlights read to GLENDALE, Ariz. – The Arizona Re- and great nephews; his pet donkey; was actively bowling up until Febru- him by Otis, and stopping by Jordan public reported that Dema J. and his dog Buckshot. He was prede- ary of 2007. Jayne also had a great Implement Company to do a few Milonas, 72, passed away on Thurs- ceased by his brother Tom; and his love for animals. She enjoyed her chores and check in with everyone. day, July 19, 2007. She is survived by sister, Lula Bouskos. A native of After returning home for a meal and her sisters Mary (Spiro), Jenny, and Phoenix, Arizona, he served in the subscribe many trips across the United States PRINTED EDITION OF THE NATIONAL HERALD and Europe. She had attended Saint rest, Bill would get dressed up and Esther (Jerry); her sons Mike U.S. Army as a Mess Sergeant during via the post-office: Patrick's Roman Catholic Church, make his "rounds" in Brawley. He (Colleen), Dean (Reni) and Nick WWII. After the war, he worked with ❏1 Month for $9.95 ❏3 Months for $19.95 Saint Athanasios Greek Orthodox warmly greeted everyone with their (Jane); her grandchildren Jeff, Tricia, his father in the restaurant business, ❏6 Months for $29.95 ❏One Year fo $59.85 Church and Independent Baptist pet name, a hug, and often a kiss, Daniel, Steven, Brian, Nina, Terry, later in Redwood City in the grocery Church all of Elmira. The funeral was anyone whose path he crossed felt Tyler and Kelly; and her great-grand- business from 1950 to 1964. He later VIA HOME DELIVERY (NY, NJ & CT): ❏1 Month for $12.95 ❏3 Months for $29.95 held on July 19 at the Independent brighter. His love of his friends was children, Desiree, Jared, Jack and owned and operated the Town Vint- ❏ ❏ Baptist Church in Elmira. Memorial genuine. Always thoughtful and gen- Joshua; and several nieces and ner on Water Street and later Broad- 6 Months for $43.99 One Year for $80.00 donations to the Independent Baptist erous, he would deliver "gifts" to peo- nephews. She was predeceased by way Liquors in Redwood City. After VIA HOME DELIVERY (NEW ENGLAND, PENNSYLVANIA & Church Building Fund (719 ple at different times of the year such her husband Mickie. She was known working with his brother in Arizona, WASHINGTON D.C.) Holdridge Str, Elmira NY 14904). as watermelons, onions, bread, or for her deep faith in Jesus Christ, love he returned to Santa Cruz to work at ❏1 Month for $15.95 ❏3 Months for $37.45 bags of candy. Sometimes he was giv- of family, passion for cooking, solving Prospero Market, and later, with his ❏6 Months for $51.75 ❏One Year for $99.00 ■ DIAMOND, SOULA D. en the produce that he shared, so he the New Times crossword puzzles, a wife, Maria, operated Jack's Ham- ON LINE SUBSCRIPTION www.thenationalherald.com PITTSFIELD, Mass. – The Berkshire called himself "the politician." He zeal for playing Shanghi Rummy burgers on Cedar Street before retir- ❏ Eagle reported that Soula D. Dia- never wanted to fully retire and with her children, collecting interest- ing. Aside from his love of gardening, NON SUBSCRIBERS: One Year for $29.95 ❏One Month for $3.95 mond, 83, passed away on Saturday, worked at the Jordan/Kramer home ing rocks and pine cones. She had a he was a member of Prophet Elias ❏ ❏ July 14, 2007 at her home. Born in and at Jordan Implement Company wonderful sense of humor and was Greek Orthodox Church and the F.&. SUBSCRIBERS: One Year for $19.95 One Month for $1.95 Pittsfield on Aug. 11, 1923, daughter for 50 years. The funeral was held on loved and admired by everyone she A.M, Peninsula Lodge #168, Red- of Dennis G. and Urania T. Gourdou- July 21 at Frye Chapel and Mortuary met. “Her family was Blessed with a wood City. The funeral was held on NAME: ...... veli Diamond, she was a graduate of in Brawley. truly wonderful Mother, Yia Yia, and July 10 at Santa Cruz Memorial Park ADDRESS: ...... Pittsfield High School. She is sur- Megali Yia Yia and we are going to Mission Chapel Memorial donations CITY:...... STATE: ...... ZIP:...... vived by her brother Theodore Dia- ■ KOSTUROS, DOLORES E. miss her terribly. We love you Mom, to Vacaville Convalescent and Rehab. TEL.: ...... E-MAIL:...... CELL...... mond; her sister Georgia Caprino; SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. – The San so much.” The funeral was held on Center (585 Nut Tree Ct, Vacaville, PLEASE SEND A GIFT SUBSCRIPTION TO: her sister-in-law Olga Diamond; her Francisco Chronicle reported that July 25 at Saint Haralambos Greek CA 95687). NAME: ...... brother-in-law Joseph Caprino; her Dolores E. Kosturos, 82, passed away Orthodox Church. Memorial dona- nephews Dennis T. (Dorina) and Pe- on Friday, July 20, 2007 in her tions to Saint Haralambos Church ADDRESS: ...... CITY:...... STATE: ...... ZIP:...... ter W. (Ruth); her nieces Barbara A. beloved San Francisco. She is sur- (10320 N. 84th Ave., Peoria, AZ This is a service (Stephen) and Kathy (Arthur); and vived by her daughter Diane (Steve); 85345). to the community. TEL.: ...... E-MAIL:...... CELL...... her grandnieces and grandnephews her son Nick (Deanne); her grand- Announcements of deaths Please specify method of payment Benjamin Diamond, Daniel Dia- children Christopher, Matthew, Kim ■ PAVLAKIS, JAMES may be telephoned to the I enclose a check/money order for $ ...... made payable to: mond, Ava Plante, Kelsey Plante, El- (Jason), Angela (Joey); her great The Modesto Bee reported that The National Herald, Inc., 37-10 30th Street, Long Island City, NY 11101 - 2614 Classified Department of ❏ ❏ ❏ liot Lipner, and Julia Lipner. She was grandchildren Alexandra, Jason, Kyle James “Pavy'' Pavlakis, 91, passed The National Herald at or please debit my Mastercard Visa American Express employed by General Electric Co. in and Niko; her sister Virginia Costan- away on Friday, July 20, 2007, nine (718) 784-5255, CARD NUMBER: ...... the naval ordnance systems depart- zo; and her brothers Sarando and days shy of his 92nd birthday. He is Monday through Friday, EXPIRATION DATE: ...... SIGNATURE:...... ment, where she served as a union Sam Kallas. She was predeceased by survived by his wife Ethel (Athena); 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. EST steward. She retired in 1981 with 38 her son Michael; her sister Sophie his son Anthony (Susan); his grand- or e-mailed to: years of service. She was a member of Hogan; and her brother Gus Kallas. children Donny (Sabia) Young, Jim [email protected] Saint George Greek Orthodox Born in Lincoln, CA, to Clara and (Judy) Young, Diane (Craig) Cobb, THE NATIONAL HERALD, JULY 28, 2007 GREECE CYPRUS 7 Christodoulos Exits Hospital Karamanlis Meets with Counterpart in Sarajevo In Good Spirits After 42 Days Continued from page 1 and Spiric officially inaugurated Continued from page 1 the recently renovated Friendship Building in the heart of Sarajevo, on these days among physicians in for which ESOAB contributed 13.5 Greece, as well as physicians in Eu- million euros ($18.5 million), 80 rope and China, as to the absolute percent of the total cost. necessity for Christodoulos’ The impressive 20-story “Joint prospective liver transplant Institutions Building” had suffered surgery, but Dr. Tzakis, a top-flight severe damage during the Bosnian surgeon, said he believes it is the war of 1992-95. only available option. Accompanied by Spiric, Kara- Christodoulos is expected to un- manlis unveiled a plaque at the en- dergo the operation at the Universi- trance of the building, which states ty of Miami/Jackson Memorial that the building has been renovat- Medical Center, a leading medical ed with economic assistance from center for organ transplants, and Greece. where Dr. Tzakis is director. Each The Greek Premier gave a brief year more than 20,000 people re- speech, in which he noted that the ceive organ transplants there. Dr. building was the first major project Tzakis himself performs more than funded by ESOAB which has been 200 liver transplants annually, and completed. is a widely acknowledged expert in He also announced that the next the field of organ transplantation. major project to be carried out us- Christodoulos appears to be re- ing ESOAB funds would be the re- covering from his initial ordeal. He AP/EUROKINISSI/CHRISTOS BONIS building of a hospital in Sarajevo, liturgized in his private chapel at Archbishop Christodoulos of to which the Greek Government his residence in Paleon Psichikon of Athens & All Greece smiles from would contribute 1.2 million euros Athens last Sunday, July 22, and the rear seat of his car after being ($1.65 million). then took a walk around his home, released from the hospital in Such projects confirm Greece’s where he was warmly greeted by Athens last Friday, July 20. “unwavering support” toward his neighbors. He thanked them for Bosnia-Herzegovina, reiterating their support and told them, “I have placed on the high-priority list for a Athens' support for Bosnia and the AP/BRIAN BAER to walk daily in order for my mus- liver transplant. rest of Southeast Europe’s Euro- Greek Prime Minister Costas Karamanlis, right, with his Bosnian counterpart, Nikola Spiric, inspect Bosn- cles to regain their strength. I am Moses, a 55-year-old monk from pean prospects, and concluding ian Army's Guard during Karamanlis' visit to Sarajevo this past Monday, July 23. Karamanlis was Bosnia- preparing for the next phase, which Mount Athos, underwent a lifesav- with his wish that the building Herzegovina for a two-day visit. is going to be in America.” His ing liver transplant, also performed would “remain a symbol of the chancellor Rev. Thomas Synodinos, by Dr. Tzakis, some ten years ago. peace and friendship of all the peo- Asked by the press to comment Greece would donate money for Greece’s developmental aid to his deacons and his close friend, Moses leads a regular monk’s life, ples in the region, for us and future on earlier claims in the Bosnian the reconstruction of a school in the country in 1996-2002 exceeded Metropolitan Theoklitos of Vres- and takes only four pills a day. The generations.” print media that Greek volunteers Srebrenica, and that the Hellenic $55 million, while 19.5 million eu- thena, stayed close to the ailing monk visited Christodoulos at the Karamanlis was in Sarajevo for a had participated in the war in Republic was ready to help with po- ros ($26.75 million) have been ear- prelate’s side. Aretaieion Hospital and told him two-day visit. He joined Spiric for a Bosnia on the Serbian side and lice reform and constitutional marked for Bosnia-Herzegovina The Archbishop will be meeting everything he went through, and visit to Camp Butmir, headquarters committed crimes, Karamanlis dis- changes in Bosnia-Herzegovina. under ESOAB. Greece is also a ma- with members of the Holy Synod encouraged the Archbishop of of the E.U.’s force in Bosnia-Herze- missed such information, saying Political and economic relations jor investor in the country, with the next few days in order to make Greece to have complete confi- govina (EUFOR), and the Greek that Greece had always been between the two countries have un- Greek investors ranking seventh sure that the ecclesiastical matters dence in Dr. Tzakis. contingent there. friendly towards all peoples in dergone rapid development since among foreign investors in the of the Church of Greece remain The Archbishop said he took The Greek Premier was accom- Bosnia. they first established diplomatic country. properly handled. great comfort from the Athonite panied by Stylianides and Minister He also said Greece regrets the ties in 1996, and Greece has stead- It is anticipated that Christodou- monk’s visit: “I am grateful to Fa- of State and Chief Government events in Srebrenica in 1995, when fastly backed Bosnia-Herzegovina’s The above incorporates informa- los, 66, will be staying in Miami for ther Moses, who took the time and Spokesman Theodore Roussopou- Serb troops killed more than 8,000 efforts to consolidate political sta- tion from reports posted by the at least three months. He has been came to speak to me.” los. Muslims, and announced that bility and develop its economy. HINA-Croatian News Agency. Erdogan and Islamists Re-Elected by Very Big Margin in Turkish Elections

Continued from page 1 Europe.” resume his bid to become presi- press time. In April, military lead- In a joint statement with Wilfred dent, despite fierce opposition from ers admonished Mr. Erdogan “I want what is best for the Ecu- Martens, who heads the European Turkey's military-backed, secular against straying from the country’s menical Patriarchate, and would People’s Party, the European establishment. “I can not turn a secularist policies (the military has therefore vote for AKP, as well,” he Union’s center-right political party, blind eye to the will of people,” he deposed four elected governments said. Mrs. Bakoyanni emphasized that said this past Wednesday, July 25. since 1923). Greek Prime Minister Costas Turkey needs to take certain steps “The demand of the people is Kurds also had reasons to cele- Karamanlis congratulated Mr. Er- to remain on the path toward en- clear.” brate these elections. For the first dogan by phone this past Monday, tering the E.U. The new Parliament’s first task time since 1994, when several law- July 23. “We stress that Turkey will be will be to choose a new president, makers were ousted from Parlia- “I would like to believe that yes- expected to comply with the insti- whose post is largely ceremonial, ment for having ties to Kurdish terday’s result will contribute to tutional, political and economic el- but who has power to veto govern- rebel groups, Kurds will be repre- Turkey continuing its reform efforts ements of the Union. Respect for ment appointments and legislative sented in the Turkish Government. with greater efficiency and at a human rights and fundamental bills. The Democratic Society Party more intense pace and, of course, freedoms, including the rights of Opposition leader Deniz Baykal (DTP) won 24 seats in Parliament. carrying out the commitments it minorities, are basic elements of said this past Tuesday, July 24, that To circumvent a rule which re- has undertaken in the framework this process,” she said. the future president must respect quires political parties to accumu- of its European perspective," Mr. Republic of Cyprus President the constitution, which prohibits late 10 percent of the vote to win Karamanlis said from Sarajevo, Tassos Papadopoulos showed less mixing religion with politics – sig- representation, Kurdish candidates where he was on an official visit. “A optimism than his Greek counter- naling that his party's objection to a ran as independents. They are ex- democratic Turkey is in everyone’s parts. Gul presidency remains. pected to regroup under the DTP interest.” “We believe it is premature and Baykal’s party boycotted the umbrella when the new Parliament Mr. Karamanlis also appealed to irresponsible to draw any conclu- parliamentary presidential election convenes. the Mr. Erdogan to “cooperate to sions at this early stage, as far as process in May, depriving the ruling DTP deputy leader Ayself Tugluk create conditions that lead to the political developments in Turkey party of the support needed to elect promised that his party would improvement of bilateral ties,” and are concerned,” Mr. Papadopoulos Mr. Gul as president. Mr. Gul then avoid tensions and work with Par- said Greece would actively support said. “Our position remains firm. I abandoned his bid, and Mr. Erdo- liament to help the country. this effort. hope that the wishes for the democ- gan called general elections for Ju- “We will not be the cause of any “To have Turkey progress on the ratization of the country and for ASSOCIATED PRESS ly 22, four months ahead of sched- tension; we will work with toler- path toward Europe and democra- normalization of its accession to Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, right, and his Deputy & ule, to find a way out of the dead- ance and understanding. We hope cy, and to prove in practice its re- the European Union will have more Foreign Minister Abdullah Gul salute cheering supporters of their Is- lock. that other parties will have the spect for international law and in- positive developments with regard lamic-rooted Justice & Development Party (AKP) outside AKP head- Mr. Erdogan reiterated his par- same approach,” she said. “This is ternational treaties, is in the inter- to Turkey’s positions on Cyprus.” quarters in Ankara, late last Sunday, July 22. AKP won parliamentary ty’s willingness to compromise an important opportunity to solve est of both the Turkish people and Cypriot Foreign Minister Erato elections by a wide margin last week. Wednesday, but said opposition the Kurdish issue.” our entire region,” he added. Kazakou-Markouli, a former am- parties should take into account the The elections were not entirely Greek Foreign Minister Dora bassador to the United States, said minimize the role of the military, seats in the 550-seat Parliament. fact that his party won a strong peaceful. Officers in Adana de- Bakoyannis also congratulated Mr. AKP’s win might not change the which is what Cyprus wants to see.” CHP will have at least 111, while mandate. tained or questioned 300 suspected Erdogan, but expressed concern role of the Turkish military as much The election results showed that MHP will have at least 71. “Compromise does not mean the lawbreakers who showed up at about the way Turkey has been as Cyprus hopes. Turks were clearly pleased with the GUL HINTS AT ANOTHER RUN minority imposing its will on the polling stations to vote, according handling the rights of the Patriar- “What is important is to see country’s strong and growing econ- This was nonetheless a big win majority. The language of the peo- to reports posted by state-run Ana- chate. whether the military will continue omy, and not as concerned with for Mr. Erdogan who, just four ple is clear,” he said, adding that it tolia news agency, which did not The protection of the Patriar- to hold the key to the so-called na- AKP’s pro-Islamic agenda, as the months earlier, had failed to get his was up to Mr. Gul to decide on specify their alleged crimes, though chate “is a non-negotiable issue of tional issues, including the Cyprus secularists hoped. Secular Turks foreign minister, Abdullah Gul, whether or not to run. “I have re- police in Adana reportedly arrested human and religious rights,” she problem,” she said, adding that she took some solace in the fact that elected president (controversy was spect for his decision. He was treat- another 12 people for offenses like said. “Turkey must realize that re- does not believe the time has ar- AKP did not win by the two thirds created because Mr. Gul’s wife ed unjustly.” carrying weapons into polling sta- spect for the Patriarchate can be rived for Turkey to make “drastic majority needed to amend the Con- wears a head scarf). Turkey’s powerful military had tions and trying to vote on someone used positively in its course toward reforms, a domestic revolution to stitution, but AKP will have 340 Mr. Gul is hinting that he would not yet reacted to the elections at else’s behalf. Arsonists Blamed for Fires in Greece and Italy, Another Severe Heat Wave Hits

Continued from page 1 in the north and one in the south – Scattered fires also continued to rage copters. Late Tuesday, the Western Balka- But the heat wave which started which were built over the ashes of in the Gargano peninsula, a spur of "We're facing an extremely diffi- ns suffered widespread power break- in May has cut yields in Romania, subdue blazes in central and south- forests ravaged by fires, Vadala said. land in the north of the Puglia re- cult situation: many fires on many downs, including Albania, Kosovo, where wheat will likely come in at 20 ern areas – many of them blamed on "(The law) has had some deter- gion, the heel of the Italian boot, fronts in many parts of the country," Montenegro and Macedonia. North- percent below average. Bulgarian arson – after some 3,000 tourists and rent effect, but more must be done to where the situation has been more Fire Service spokesman Yiannis Sta- ern Greece suffered outages, while maize could be down by as much as residents had to be evacuated this enforce it, as many towns don't keep critical. moulis said. other areas were hit by rolling power 40 percent. past Tuesday night, July 24. track well enough of fires," he said. Two elderly people died there Stamoulis said the worst fires cuts to protect the national grid from The 27-member E.U. should pro- Giuseppe Vadala, head of an in- Builders have also been regarded Tuesday, according to the Civil Pro- were at Aigio, on the holiday island broader damage. duce 276 million metric tons (304 vestigative unit with Italy's forestry as likely culprits in Greece, the only tection, with the fires also destroying of Kefalonia, and in areas bordering Greek Development Minister tons) of cereals this year, 1.6 percent service, said officers found crude in- European Union country lacking a thousands of acres of forest and FYROM and Albania, where a fire Demetris Sioufas said regional black- or 5 million metric tons (5.5 tons) cendiary devices on the side of a nationwide land registry, which causing hundreds of residents and caused explosions of ordnance outs had put additional strain on below average, but 10 million metric road near Acciano, in the Abruzzo means that areas designated as tourists to flee to the beach, where strewn across a remote area in Greece, and appealed to the public tons (11 tons) more than last year. region, where a Canadair firefight- forestland have sometimes been re- they were rescued by boats. Greece's 1946-49 Civil War. to limit the use of air conditioners. Overall wheat yields should be up ing plane crashed Monday, killing designated once the forests were SEVERE HEATWAVE Tourists and a children's camp "We ask for citizens' understand- slightly over last year, the Commis- the pilot and seriously injuring the gone. Meanwhile, southern Europe were evacuated as a precaution in ing. Only with their cooperation can sion reported, with the E.U. crop co-pilot. Vadala declined to give de- Vadala said one person was ar- continued to bake in some of the parts of Greece, while the Kefalonia we cope with extreme weather con- forecast predicting some 132 million tails on the devices. rested this past Wednesday in Mat- year's hottest weather as the second fire threatened a nature reserve ditions that have not appeared in our metric tons (145.5 tons.). While arsonists have been active era, in the southern Basilicata re- major heat wave in a month sparked which is home to ponies native to the country for decades," he said. Greece and Bulgaria, however, in other heat-affected countries this gion, for starting a fire. A 28-year-old yet more forest fires and had power island. Meteorologists said they were ex- will see their soft wheat yields fall by summer, Italy and Greece are among construction worker was arrested in officials scrambling to avert a repeat The Health Ministry reported that pecting cooler air in the region by the 10 percent, and E.U. soft wheat those suffering the most, Vadala told Sardinia this past Tuesday, and an- of widespread blackouts in the west- an 81-year-old woman died of heat weekend, but no rain was forecast to yields are expected to remain un- the Associated Press. other worker was apprehended ern Balkans. stroke in northern Greece, as the relieve the parched conditions. changed. "In other countries, like the Unit- south of Rome as they were caught The heat has claimed at least 33 temperatures reached 45 degrees CEREAL YIELDS "Unseasonably high temperatures ed States and Canada, natural caus- trying to start fires. lives in Romania. Celsius (113 Fahrenheit). BELOW AVERAGE of 2-4 degrees Celsius (3-7 degrees es are more frequent, even though In Greece, a 39-year-old suspect Many thousands of acres of In FYROM, 2,000 firefighters and In Brussels Tuesday, the Euro- Fahrenheit) above the seasonal aver- there are always cases of blazes that was arrested on Tuesday and forestland have been torched in Italy, army conscripts battled dozens of pean Commission said it expected age across the growing season cer- are started by negligence or on pur- charged with setting a fire near the Bulgaria, FYROM and Greece. The blazes in pine and oak forests two this year's cereal harvest to be 1.6 tainly had an impact in central and pose," he said. Athens-Corinth national road. fires ignited in tinderbox conditions days after the southern city of Bitola percent below the previous five-year eastern Europe and the Balkan re- In Italy and Greece, arsonists can The number and magnitude of worsened by last winter's extended narrowly escaped an inferno. Au- average – though ahead of 2006 – as gion," the E.U.'s executive arm re- spark fires to clear land for pasture, blazes raging across the country was drought. Arson is suspected in many thorities described the July fires as drought and heat waves hit yields in ported. "An extreme heat wave is still as part of criminal vendettas or to so high on Tuesday that the head of cases and several people have been some of the worst recorded in the Eastern Europe and the Black Sea re- underway in Hungary, Bulgaria and create new construction areas. Italy Italy's Civil Protection said it was the arrested. Forests in Serbia have also country. gion. Romania, where both winter and passed a law in 2000 banning con- country's worst day ever for fires. been ravaged. Health officials in Hungary said The warmer weather benefited summer crop yields are being affect- struction for ten years in any burnt- Tanker planes were still flying across One man was killed in a fire in high temperatures over the last week cooler Northern Europe, where ma- ed." down areas. Italy on Wednesday, putting out a southern Greece on Wednesday may have contributed, at least in jor producers France, Germany and But the rule is not always en- blaze in the Sicilian city of Messina, when a blaze destroyed homes out- part, to hastening the deaths of hun- Spain enjoyed a better growing sea- AP Writers John F.L. Ross and forced, and forestry officials have re- while other fires were reported in side the town of Aigio. Stranded res- dreds of seriously ill people in the son, thanks to a mild winter and a Aoife White contributed to this cently closed down two hotels – one Sardinia, Abruzzo and other regions. idents were airlifted by rescue heli- country. warm spring. story. 8 EDITORIALS LETTERS THE NATIONAL HERALD, JULY 28, 2007

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These questions A tricky situation PRESS CLIPPINGS The 46.6 percent landslide victory of AKP, the party of Prime Minister Re- cep Tayyip Erdogan, in Turkey last Sunday – 12 percent more votes than it got in the previous elections in March of 2003 – is a clear indication of the Turk- ish people’s thirst to break though the restrictive political and social barriers erected around them after the bankruptcy of the Ottoman Empire and the World Keeps Watch on Test Case for Political Islam emergence of the modern Turkish State. It also confirms the monumental mistake the Turkish military establish- By Michael Binyon which most generals believe Turks Arab world is watching what hap- bility over the island, but the army ment made in allowing Mr. Erdogan to turn the elections into a referendum, The Times are not yet ready? pens in Turkey with unusual inter- is strongly opposed to any conces- pitting the secular Turk against the Islamist. Given the fact that, nominally, If the army accepts the return of est. sions. If the Prime Minister is de- more than 94 percent of the Turkish populace is Moslem (believers and ad- The general election in Turkey is Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdo- Iraqis are also watching closely. feated or weakened, he will be un- herents of Islam), the result should have been obvious from the start. arguably the most important since gan, this marks a milestone in the Mr. Erdogan has been resisting able to go further on Cyprus. That And some of the jubilation coming out of Greece over the serious-minded the death of Kemal Ataturk, the fractious relations between the army pressure to intervene in Kur- would throw up an immediate Mr. Erdogan and his victory is misplaced. founder of today's secular republic. generals and civilian politicians; it distan on the pretext that PKK roadblock to the accession talks. Turkey has certainly entered into new, uncharted territory after this elec- At stake is far more than the row also vindicates the caution and con- fighters are using northern Iraq as a Many outsiders have seen the tion: The charismatic Mr. Erdogan can now either lead his country down a over whether an Islamist can be cessions he has made to allay suspi- haven. The army, where national- election as a contest between Is- path of prosperity and progress – and he has done very well, so far (on the elected president. The election will cions he is trying to undermine sec- ism has as strong a grip as secular- lamists and secularists. It is not so economic front, at least, scoring a 7 percent annual growth rate in the past determine the nature of Turkish ularism by stealth. This will help ism, fears that de facto indepen- clear-cut. five years) – or turn her into a country run by religious fanatics along the lines democracy; the identity of the him to resist the clamor to abolish dence for Iraq's Kurds will encour- AKP has demonstrated econom- of most other Islamic countries in the area, or provoke a military coup d’etat Turkish state; and whether a rest- the ban on headscarves in public, age Turkey's restless Kurds and ic competence and clear commit- and turn the clock back several decades. less younger generation is prepared and to build more Islamic schools. threaten the unity and stability of ments to reform, and has won sup- Neither of these possible outcomes serves Greece’s interests, however, be- to defy the threats of a conservative Such an outcome would reassure Turkey itself. port from non-Islamists and pro- cause they all carry unacceptable risks. military establishment to launch other wary Middle Eastern govern- Turkish intervention would be Europeans. Turkey’s population presently stands at 73 million people, and it has the the fifth coup since 1960. ments that Islamists can be trusted catastrophic for hopes in America The army, Turkey's most respect- potential to become an economic – and therefore military – powerhouse in The implications go far beyond to take part in democratic elec- and Europe of stabilizing Iraq. It ed institution, would stand to lose the region. The stock market in Constantinople jumped almost 4 percent the the plains of Anatolia or the teem- tions. would aggravate poor relations from AKP's wish to cut back its po- day after the elections, and that’s because the Erdogan government’s eco- ing bazaars of Istanbul. This elec- If the army refuses to accept the with Ankara for both, caused by litical influence. It has attracted nomic policies have been pro-business, pro-competition and against big gov- tion is being perceived across the result, as in Algeria, Islamists Turkish refusal to back the U.S. in- support from many angered by NA- ernment. Muslim world as a test case for po- across the Muslim world will con- vasion of Iraq, and by the determi- TO and E.U. pressures. This elec- Should this come to pass and Turkey develop into a regional economic litical Islam. If, as expected, the rul- clude that they will never be ac- nation of some European Union tion will show whether Turkey can powerhouse, it would jeopardize the already fragile balance of power be- ing Justice and Development (AK) cepted in a Western-style democra- leaders not to allow Turkey full go forward with either reforming tween Greece and Turkey – unless the Greeks heed the sensible call of their Party wins a landslide, will the cy. That would encourage radicals membership in the E.U. Islam or with nationalist secular- current government and work much harder than they are working right now. powerful Turkish army accept the to reject any participation in parlia- The election will strongly influ- ism, or whether compromise be- Moreover, an economically strong Turkey does not mean it will eradicate result? Or will fears that the vote mentary politics, on the grounds ence E.U. accession talks. Despite tween forces shaping a country its extreme nationalist elements which, among other things, want to elimi- will give AKP a mandate to move that the cards are stacked against broad European sympathy for the strategically placed between the nate the Ecumenical Patriarchate – they, too, entered the Turkish Parliament beyond its cautious Islamism them, fueling extremism and lead- Turkish army's secular stance, West and the Muslim world is im- with around 14 percent of the vote – nor does it mean that the threat to her prompt military intervention to re- ing to confrontations between sec- many E.U. leaders are worried by possible. borders (real or imagined) posed by the Kurds and others would subside, assert the army's role as the ular politicians and Islamists its nationalist, interventionist tone. thus giving the army great leverage over politicians, no matter what. guardian of Ataturk's legacy and around the world. This is especially true for Cyprus. The Times of London published As far as the second scenario goes – that of “creeping Islamism” becoming the final arbiter of a democracy for Little wonder, then, that the Mr. Erdogan has shown some flexi- the above on July 23. overt in a backhanded way and taking total control of the country – it would be foolish to disregard that distinct possibility. There are some serious foreign policy experts who see this as Mr. Erdogan’s ultimate goal: using the protec- tive cover provided by the democratic process in order to establish a religious government. That Mr. Erdogan does not control two thirds of the vote in parliament, Of Mullahs and Majors: Turkey’s Election and therefore can not elect the next president by himself, is encouraging, but one should not underestimate the tremendous personal influence he exerts The general election in Turkey on Islamist poem in public, and he mosphere, there is a case for fixing who are likely to get into parlia- on his party and country. July 22nd is momentous not just for once described democracy as a train on a more neutral figure for a post ment. What he will most likely do is select a third person outside of his party for the country and region, but for the from which to disembark on reach- which is meant to be above politics: The second problem is how to president so as not to provoke the army, albeit a weak personality of little con- cause of democracy in the Muslim ing one's destination. somebody acceptable not only to keep the door to the E.U. ajar. An- sequence and influence who would not be able to prevent his policies from world. It was called early by Recep Some in his party still take that the AKP Party, but also to the army other gesture towards accepting the advancing further. Tayyip Erdogan, the prime minister view. That could make an AKP land- and opposition. Encouragingly, Mr. legitimacy of the Cypriot Govern- Finally, concerning the possibility of a military intervention – as was the and leader of the ruling Justice & slide troubling, but it is an argu- Erdogan is dropping hints that he ment would help. But the best poli- case as recently as 1997 with former Prime Minister Necemettin Erbakan – Development Party (AKP), after he ment for vigilance, not disqualifica- will move in this direction. cy is one of patience. Turkey should we would consider it highly unlikely in light of the huge popularity Mr. Erdo- failed to lever his foreign minister, tion. Most of the people in the AKP After the election, Turkey faces quietly continue to make the re- gan presently enjoys among the general Turkish populace. No one, not even Abdullah Gul, into the presidency. have evolved to become more like two big foreign problems: forms needed for full membership. the Turkish army can depose a leader who enjoys the confidence of his people Mr. Gul was fiercely opposed by European-style Christian Democ- The first is what to do about PKK And E.U. countries should be held to the extent Mr. Erdogan does. secularists and the army because his rats. They are no longer a huge fighters in northern Iraq. Turkey has to the commitment they all made in Ultimately, the best scenario for Greece would be for Turkey to join the Eu- wife wears the Muslim headscarf, threat to secularism. The real risk troops in the area now. But a big in- October 2005, no matter how long ropean Union, but that possibility seems to be growing more and more re- banned in public buildings. The op- now is that the opposition's slogan – vasion would be disastrous, import- and tortuous the process proves. It mote, and it’s quite probable that neither will Mr. Erdogan go through the position harps on AKP's Islamist that democracy without secularism ing instability into northern Iraq is quite possible that, in the end, motions of trying to gain E.U. admission, nor will the E.U. want to let Turkey roots, and portrays the election as a is meaningless – could become an and southeastern Turkey alike. As it Turkey may choose not to join. But in anytime soon. fight between secularism and politi- excuse for military intervention. happens, the opposition (and the it would be far better if that decision That being the case, Greece and Cyprus should now approach relations cal Islam. In reality, it is over the fu- In this situation, it would be wise generals) are keener to invade than were made by Turks, not by Euro- with Turkey from the standpoint of the risks posed by, and draw realistic con- ture of Turkish democracy. for a re-elected Mr. Erdogan to Mr. Erdogan. His best bet is to per- peans slamming the door in their clusions from, the latest election results in Turkey. This is a fight that Mr. Erdogan's reach out to his opponents, above suade the Americans and political faces. party is likely to win – as it deserves all over the presidency. The urbane leaders of northern Iraq to disarm to. The government which came in Mr. Gul might be a good president. PKK terrorists themselves, and to The Economist published the after AKP's big election victory in But in today's bitterly partisan at- keep talking to moderate Kurds above on July 21. 33 years later November 2002 has been a success. For decades, Turks had endured a Meanwhile, ∆εν ξεχνώ, “Ι don’t forget,” was the slogan which helped mo- string of fractious and corrupt coali- bilize our community, a movement spearheaded by our Greek Cypriot broth- tions, interspersed by military ers and sisters, who would organize massive demonstrations against the in- coups. The economy lurched be- vasion and subsequent occupation of a huge part of Cyprus, almost 37 per- tween boom and bust, culminating cent, by Turkey in 1974. in near-bankruptcy in 2001. In stark Thirty-three years later, how many among us continue to “never forget,” contrast, Mr. Erdogan's government and how many have come to terms with the idea that the Turkish presence in has been stable and relatively clean. the occupied part of Cyprus is practically immovable? By sticking to the rescue plan de- Thirty-three years later, the Greek Cypriots have managed to accomplish vised by Kemal Dervis, the finance the impossible: The invaders seem to have washed their crimes away by ac- minister in 2001, it has tamed infla- cepting the Annan Plan as the solution to the Cyprus issue, and the victims of tion; seen economic growth of the invasion are looked upon as those who are somehow against a solution, around 7 percent a year; and lured as if that were actually possible. record foreign investment. Thirty-three years ago, around this time, tens of thousands of Greek Amer- Mr. Erdogan's government has icans from across the country rallied in Washington, DC in a historic and un- also modernized the constitution. It precedented show of ethnic pride to express their anger at the stabbing of the has shaken up the judiciary; updat- back of Hellenism during a time of major military disadvantage orchestrated ed the penal code; and nudged the by betrayal from within the country itself. army towards civilian control for We were naïve then to believe that America would intervene to reverse the the first time. AKP has taken tenta- Turkish invasion of Cyprus. But don’t let anyone tell you that our voice was tive steps to improve the treatment not heard by the powerful in Washington; let no one tell you that our passion- of minorities, especially Turkey's 14 ate interest did not lend voice and support to the legendary president of million Kurds, although fighting Cyprus, Archbishop Makarios, or to the great statesman, Greek Prime Minis- against guerrillas of the Kurdistan ter Constantinos Karamanlis, who had been sworn in as prime minister under Workers Party (PKK) has flared up chaotic circumstances. anew. Mr. Erdogan has even gained And let no one tell you that our voice did not prevent the worst from hap- the moral high ground over Cyprus, pening to Cyprus at that time. by persuading previously obdurate Today, 33 years later, a virtual silence reigns in our community. Why is Turkish Cypriots in 2004 to endorse that? Are we just tired after 33 years? Do we feel under-utilized, under-ap- a United Nations unification plan preciated, and unsupported by the current government and diplomacy of which was rejected by the Greek Cyprus? Cypriots. What has the Greek American community accomplished so far, they ask? These successes were crowned Cyprus is now a full member of the European Union which needs the United by the achievement of a goal vainly States, some politicians (not the people) say. pursued by Turkish governments We could forgive their ignorance if they did not damage the most impor- for more than 40 years: the start of tant Greek national issue. negotiations for membership of the What European Union in October 2005. What hypocrites. Has this community done so little for Cyprus? Does it not Admittedly, the negotiations have continue to do enough? Let us ask, how effective could this community be run into roadblocks on both sides, given the fact that, for the past five years, in contrast to what had taken place the latest being the firm opposition in the past (when the presidents and the foreign ministers of Cyprus were of France's new president, Nicolas welcome in Washington), they have not even been invited once? What does Sarkozy. But talks about E.U. mem- that tell us about the state of relations between Nicosia and Washington? bership are, at least formally, still And please don’t tell us that this is due to your strong patriotic stand be- continuing. cause you would then be accusing all presidents – from Μakarios to Clerides None of this is to dismiss all the – of being traitors. concerns of the secular opposition. That said, we are confident that, given the right circumstances, if called When it comes to fundamentalism, upon, this community will stand up and continue to do its part, as it has al- Mr. Erdogan has form: He was ways done in the past. briefly jailed in 1998 for reading an THE NATIONAL HERALD, JULY 28, 2007 VIEWPOINTS 9 LETTER FROM ATHENS Stories of Conspiracy Might Come Back to Haunt You

By Nicos A. Rolandis from office.” “dangers as a result of Papadopou- As for Germany and Strauss, he Scorched-Earth Policy is Special to The National Herald 5. Finally the pro-Tassos los’ wrong actions.” He further instructed me to handle the matter comrade of Christofias, Lakis charged that “Papadopoulos under- as I saw fit. “The crisis must be In Cyprus, conspiracy has al- Christodoulou, AKEL chief at Pa- mined the state (“Phileleftheros,” over,” he told me. In Bonn, as a ges- Leaving Greece Barren ways been the vanguard of all those phos, stated on Paphos Radio on “Haravgi,” “Simerini” and “Ta Nea” ture of honor, Genscher placed me who are against a solution of the June 4, “The Anglo Americans are newspapers, July 18, 1978). in the Gymnich Castle, which is Now we know arsonists, KKE’s Gener- Cyprus problem; of all those who trying to break up the three-party “Apogevmatini” newspaper report- usually reserved for heads of state. where God spends his al Secretary, Aleka Pa- are interested mainly in the perpe- coalition.” The three-party coali- ed that Papadopoulos might face Genscher arrived on Sunday summers – in Greece, pariga, demanded that tuity of power, irrespective of tion was dissolved by the contribu- trial (July 18, 1978). And the evening, July 23, 1978 to have din- burning down the not a “square meter” of whether they gradually set the tion of his own party, however. Is he Cypriot Government spokesman ner with me. He entered; we took country. That was the land be built in Par- country rolling down the hill. So insinuating that AKEL collaborated confirmed in “Ethnos” newspaper our seats; and he immediately message from the au- nitha, stealing the Pre- when it looks likely that the posi- with the British and the Ameri- that “the Government knows every- asked me, politely but in a straight- thorities allegedly in mier’s thunder by tour- tions of power will be at risk, the cans? thing about the conspiracy and its forward manner, the reasons for charge of protecting ing the devastated “enemies of Cyprus” automatically So, the smiling young man, leader, who is a Cypriot (July 18, the statements about a German the environment, who forestland which she appear. They are mainly the British, Demetris (who has a frowned face 1978).” conspiracy. What evidence did we said the fire which rav- said is the forerunner the Americans and the Germans only when he stands behind the In the meantime, Kyprianou was have, he asked? aged Athens’ last for a continuation of who, in collaboration with Cypriot President at the airport), even if he guarded by dozens of policemen to I replied in clear language that green stronghold, the the arsonists’ policy of “conspirators,” will lead Cyprus to does not show it, together with Ka- face the conspiracy of the Germans President Kyprianou had some in- formerly imposing by ANDY illegal land grabs. catastrophe. soulides would not give a damn, ei- and Papadopoulos. I recall that, formation which was apparently Mount Parnitha, de- DABILIS And it was Kara- In line with the above, the lead- ther for Thermopylae or for resis- when we visited the “Asteria” hotel incorrect. He appreciated my sin- stroying 12,355 acres manlis’ ill-advisors ers of AKEL have now joined the tance, nor for foreign spies. On the in Limassol, which belonged to our cerity. He moved his head, and and depriving people Special to who blamed God for club. Demetris Christofias, the dar- contrary, they both work with such common friend Christis Doritis, the asked me whether I was prepared of a cool, wooded The National Herald the fires and promised ling of the three-party coalition, spies to oust Papadopoulos. To- lobby and the gardens of the hotel to issue an immediate statement place to get away from to reforest Mount Par- who generously granted the “gifts” gether with Papadopoulos, “Ther- were filled with police officers, exonerating the Federal Republic of the concrete jungle of the city, was nitha, a vow no one expects will be of power to all of them in 2003, is mopylae” will go, and power will whose presence hindered the prop- Germany and Josef Franz Strauss “an act of God.” Too bad God ap- kept because they’ve heard it be- now labeled an outcast, a conspira- also be lost with the beautiful aura er functioning of the hotel. of any involvement in the conspira- parently set another 2,000 fires fore, and all they get is more fires tor. So… which surrounds it. The Germans were infuriated cy. while he was at it. and more bad houses occupying 1. The pro-Papadopoulos I do not know whether all the with the whole situation, and I replied in the affirmative. We Fires in Greece are as common what used to be forests. It’s like weekly, “Pontiki” (Mouse), remind- above should cause concern, sad- warned us that they would shut both stepped out of the house, as tourists in the summer, and American folk singer Joni Mitchell’s ed us on June 15 that “the foreign ness or amusement. As for myself, down their embassy in Cyprus. where dozens of cameras and other they’ve become a sadly accepted prophetic lyrics about develop- embassies in Cyprus do not aim at they remind me of another era: the Such a move would have constitut- media were waiting. I made my part of the way of doing business. ment: “They took all the trees, put the electoral success of Christofias, year 1978, when Spyros Kyprianou ed a fatal blow to the Republic of statement, and so the issue of the Everyone knows they are deliber- ’em in a tree museum. And they they wish to block the way of Tas- was the President, and his dear suc- Cyprus four years after the inva- German conspiracy was over. We ately set to get around the law charged the people a dollar and a sos Papadopoulos.” cessor at DIKO, Tassos Papadopou- sion. A meeting of the National became good friends with the Ger- which won’t let people build on half just to see ’em.” 2. EDEK leader Yiannakis los, was the chief conspirator. Council was held. Ezekias Pa- mans. Kyprianou was enthusiastic forested land because as soon as It’s especially poignant now that Omirou declared on June17 that In July 1978, certain people in paioannou of AKEL was particular- when I returned to Cyprus, and he the ashes cool down, houses start the finger of blame in Greece is be- “some people conspire in Cyprus the President’s entourage con- ly worried. He insisted that I should publicly congratulated me. springing up. ing pointed at developers who and abroad to demolish the bas- vinced him that a conspiracy was in arrange a meeting in Bonn with the As for Tassos Papadopoulos, With the burning of Mount Pen- want to steal land by burning it, tions of resistance, but the people the wings. I tried to dissuade him – German leader of the Liberal Party, things remained blurry, and there deli a few years ago came more knowing there are no conse- will defend Cyprus’ “Thermopylae” to no avail. He was obsessed with the Deputy Chancellor and Foreign were suspicions in Kyprianou’s houses and a re-burning of the quences. None. What can you ex- (famous ancient Greek resistance the conspiracy theory. The foreign Minister Hans Dietrich Genscher. mind. When Papadopoulos met me same area this year, in the middle pect when former governments location). chief conspirator was the German President Kyprianou agreed. once socially back in those days, he of a dispute between a landowner manage to let their favorite hotels 3. Democratic Party leader leader of the Christian Social Union Our ambassador in Bonn, Tasos told me that, with the exception of and the famed monastery there encroach on beachfront property Marios Karoyan underscored on (and later Prime Minister of Panagides, moved fast. He man- the 1974 invasion, he and his fami- which was preventing construction that’s supposed to belong to the June 15, “It is our duty to avert the Bavaria), Josef Franz Strauss, aged to fix a meeting on Sunday, ly never went through such a horri- in the middle of one of the last re- public, by twisting the law to let implementation of the plans of whose party was in coalition with July 23, 1978. The Germans ad- ble ordeal, like those days of the maining wooded areas. It was the them do it? those who wish to remove Pa- the Christian Democrats of Chan- vised us that the visit would be up- “conspiracy.” same in the new suburb of Agios One editorial cartoon lam- padopoulos from office.” And his cellor Helmut Schmidt. The local graded to “official visit” to show So, those who have started Stefanos, where trees have been re- pooned the catastrophe by showing deputy, G. Colocassides, indicated agent was diplomat Paul Kurbjuhn, how important they considered it. harping on the conspiracy theories placed by the cookie cutter white Mount Parnitha burning while ce- to the “conspirators,” Christofias whom Kyprianou eventually ex- Before I left Cyprus, I asked the about Christofias and Kasoulides concrete buildings which aren’t so ment trucks were idling nearby, and Kasoulides, that “any candida- pelled from Cyprus. The chief President about the evidence we should be a little more cautious. Af- quaint when there’s a million of waiting for the chance to come in cy beyond that of Papadopoulos Cypriot conspirator then was Tas- had in connection with the conspir- ter all, their boss was the first vic- them replacing trees. and start pouring foundations for serves foreign interests.” Colocas- sos Papadopoulos. Some other peo- acy. He replied that there was a lot tim of these tactics. As it burned through the night new homes, or perhaps tavernas sides has not told us whether he ple were also involved, and they of evidence, but that it would be Mount Parnitha, from the distance and casinos which are so lucrative knows the meaning of the word were arrested. better if I talked to Attorney-Gener- Mr. Rolandis was the Cypriot of Athens below, looked like an that the temptation must be very “democratic” which is part of the Kyprianou fired Papadopoulos al Kriton Tornaritis. I summoned Government’s Foreign Minister artist’s depiction of the fiery sack- great indeed to have more, instead name of his party. from the Interlocutor’s post on July Tornaritis to my office, but he told (1978-83) and Minister of Com- ing of ancient Rome, the orange of those pesky trees which will take 4. The Athens weekly, 17, 1978 because it was “in the me that he had no evidence at all in merce, Industry & Tourism glow of the incineration ringing the anywhere from 30 to 100 years to “Paron,” instigated by a Cypriot public interest.” In his letter to Pa- his possession. So I went back to (1998-2003). He was also a city, threatening to erupt into the come back, an optimistic timetable, Minister, recently published that padopoulos, Kyprianou asserted the President, who told me that he member of the Cyprus House of night sky, rosy red fingers reaching since as soon as they take root they “the British, the Americans, that Papadopoulos’ “personal ambi- had a lot of evidence about Pa- Representatives (1991-96) and into the heavens. It’s now scorched will be burned down again. The Christofias and Kasoulides have tion blinds him.” Kyprianou also re- padopoulos and diplomat Kurb- chairman of the Liberal Party toothpicks where a forest used to Parnitha fire has left a city which is conspired to oust Papadopoulos ferred to “tragic mistakes” and juhn. (1986-98). be. Besides the tragedy of the loss hotter and will get worse, scientists of land which will take decades to have warned. Mount Parnitha was rebuild, there is the little matter of a natural cooling mechanism for the fires’ victims, seven dead peo- Attica, but the trees are gone, and ple, including three firefighters in their stead is a blackened, petri- burned alive and two pilots carry- fied stick forest which will only add The 2nd Attila: The Invasions of Cyprus in Retrospect ing water in an airplane to another to Athens’ heat. fire scene. And then there’s the on- No one really listened to PASOK In my previous column (July 14 on Turkey to withdraw central government session, Clerides suggested that the going problem of arsonists burning Chairman George Papandreou’s edition), I discussed the events her troops from the is- having competence conference be adjourned for 36-48 what they want with impunity. predictable grandstanding and which opened the door to the July land. Callaghan added over state affairs and hours so that he could go back to Number arrested so far: zero. headline-stealing hyperbole blam- 20, 1974 landing of Turkish troops that his proposal had the communal admin- Cyprus and discuss the Turkish pro- The fire took away shade trees ing the Government for the fires in- on Cyprus and the initial takeover the personal endorse- istrations exercising posals with his colleagues. and a natural resource against stead of offering ideas which could of approximately five percent of its ment of Kissinger. their powers “on all Callaghan strongly supported Greece’s blast-furnace summer stop it, including demolishing ille- total area. The United Nations Se- Glafkos Clerides re- other matters.” But the Clerides’ request, pointing out that heat which has produced record gal buildings which will inevitably curity Council, with Resolution jected the proposal be- two communities “the Cyprus problem was being dis- heat waves and temperatures over follow. “We must stand by the for- 353, had asked the governments of cause, as he said, it would coexist within cussed and fought over for at least 112 degrees Fahrenheit. In a coun- est fire fighters and the local bod- Greece, Turkey and Great Britain – would lead to the geo- the framework of a 20 years. Would 48 more hours be try whose natural beauty doesn’t ies, whose indignation we are hear- the “guarantors” of the 1960 agree- graphic division of the “sovereign, indepen- too much?” Gunes refused to agree include many trees and no grass, ing at the state’s neglect,” he said, ments which had established an in- island, since it provid- dent and integral re- to the proposed adjournment. He the little green that’s left is disap- calling the Mount Parnitha blaze a dependent Cyprus – to “enter into ed for a system of au- by DR. D.G. public.” In other again demanded that the Greek side pearing, leaving only dirt. At one “biblical disaster,” pathetic rhetoric negotiations without delay” to re- tonomous administra- KOUSOULAS words, no geographi- agree to a federal geographic system point, six major forest fires en- which didn’t offer a clue how to res- store the peace and constitutional tions “within appropri- cal divisions on the is- and 34 percent of Cypriot territory. gulfed Greece simultaneously, and urrect Greece from the carbon soot order. They did, and the first Gene- ate boundaries.” He Special to land. The Turkish side It was almost midnight when others have destroyed parts of Pe- left behind. va Convention had sanctioned the would only accept a The National Herald rejected Clerides’ pro- Gunes read a message he said he lion near Volos; threatened homes There’s a difference between ceasefire of July 22, and scheduled system of some auton- posal outright. had received from Kissinger. In the near Mount Ymittos in Vrilissia; statesmanship and self-indulgence, a second conference with the omy over certain subjects of special Clerides knew there was no message, Kissinger noted that the burned Neohori, Kalamaki, and history shows the people who added participation of the repre- religious or cultural interest to each chance the Turkish side would Turkish Cypriots needed a “greater Karaouli, Nea Tyrintha, Melivia, are remembered and those who sentatives of the Greek and Turkish community. In hindsight of today, agree to his proposal, of course, but degree of autonomy,” and that the Avdira and Larissa – where two recognize that. The ancient Greeks Cypriots. The second Geneva Con- one can fairly easily argue that the he didn’t have much elbowroom. parties were negotiating “on one or people were burned alive after be- built monuments to man’s innate vention was set for August 8, 1974 Callaghan proposal would have Archbishop Makarios in London more autonomous areas.” He ing trapped in the fires they were genius, still-standing wonders like – the same day, coincidentally that been much better for Cyprus com- was making the decisions, and added that the avenues of diploma- fighting – villages near Patras and the Acropolis, and the disasters President Nixon also left Washing- pared to what exists today. Makarios insisted on a return to the cy had not been exhausted, “and a Nafpaktos, as well as Crete and Za- now have ironically given Kara- ton in disgrace. During the plenary session, 1960 Constitution. resort to military action was unjus- kynthos and other islands. manlis, through malfeasance and What happened during the Sec- Callaghan did not bring up the sug- Faced with Turkish intransi- tified.” Gunes ignored the last re- If you put pins on the map of misfortune not of his doing, a ond Geneva Convention may now gestion Clerides had rejected. In- gence, and the implied threat of mark about military action, and in- Greece showing the fires, all you’d chance to rebuild a new Greece or be a dim memory. Yet it was there stead, he pointed out that creating further military action, then Greek terpreted the message as being sup- see would be pins. From 1974 to let it slip away in political wran- that the floodgates of the Turkish two separate geographic areas, one Foreign Minister George Mavros portive of the Turkish position. He 2005, there were 50,370 fires in gling, leaving the question, will he military assault opened, bringing inhabited by Greek Cypriots and told Callaghan privately that, if said he was prepared to stay in Greece, according to the Agricul- be Pericles or Nero? the de facto partition of the island another by Turk Cypriots, would re- Turkish forces launched an attack Geneva, provided that Clerides de- ture Ministry’s Reforestation De- While politicians bicker, envi- we have today. quire an extensive exchange of and the Americans made no move clared he viewed his proposals partment, burning more than ronmental groups have called for The conference began on Satur- populations and the uprooting of to prevent this, Greece would with- “with some sympathy,” a sympathy 1,309,658 acres of forestland, and reforestation, but forestry experts day, August 10, 1974. From the thousands of Cypriots from their draw from NATO and reevaluate which “was practical and genuine, more than 2,410,705 acres alto- said replanting Mount Parnitha first moment, the Turkish side in- homes. Kissinger also, in a tele- her relations with the United States not theoretical.” gether. Worse, there’s no central wouldn’t work; that non-indige- sisted on a “geographic solution,” phone talk with then Turkish Prime (a month later, Greece did indeed Clerides replied that he could land registry, and documents about nous trees in the area would be eco- with each community having its withdraw temporarily from the not accept this under duress. In a who owns what go back to when logically unsuitable; and that the own area. By contrast, the Greek military part of NATO). last ditch effort, Callaghan asked Turkey ruled. People in powerful natural cycle of regrowth would be side called for the return to the The Turkish Foreign Realizing that the conference Clerides to sign a statement that he positions have long been successful best, an idea which means Atheni- 1960 Constitution. James Minister gathered his was quickly sliding toward failure, would go back to Cyprus in order to in getting politicians to declassify ans will be without the use of their Callaghan, the British Foreign Min- Callaghan spoke to Clerides and “favorably consider” the concept of forestland as buildable area once it most beautiful mountain for gener- ister, who acted as an informal me- papers and rose from Mavros and told them that he has geographic separation.” Clerides is burned. ations. diator, initially sided with the his chair... Turkish been in constant communication said he was not prepared to go that These are the kind of catastro- Where’s the real crime? Greek position. According to the Forces invaded Cyprus with Kissinger, and that the Ameri- far. The most he could promise was phes which bring down govern- Adamantios Karonis of the refor- official minutes, Callaghan said, can Secretary of State was not pre- that he would consider the Turkish ments, especially now that even estation department told the “We have to be a little careful here less than an hour later. pared to exert any “further pres- proposals “with an open mind.” Greeks are fed up with it, and have Athens News, “It would be a crime because, speaking for myself and sure” on Turkey in order to prevent Callaghan picked up on the expres- taken to the streets to protest like and a waste of public money to at- the U.K., I do not think that we are Minister Bulent Ecevit, used the an expansion of the area under oc- sion, “with an open mind,” and said they were afraid they’d have to tempt to replant in an area that entitled to propose amendments to same argument. In those days, the cupation. Callaghan added that that, in diplomacy, it meant a posi- start obeying laws. Caught up in would be better left to regenerate the 1960 Constitution.” Turkish Cypriots lived in villages Britain would be prepared to use tive response. Gunes was not satis- this is Prime Minister Costas Kara- naturally.” The Turkish side, represented by found throughout the island, often her forces, but only with U.S. sup- fied. manlis, a good and decent man So it’s in God’s hands again. then Turkish Foreign Minister Tu- side by side with Greek Cypriots. port, or in the context of a U.N.-ap- It was almost three o’clock in the who genuinely cares about the en- ran Gunes and Rauf Denktash, the Ecevit proposed the establishment proved operation. Such support, morning when Callaghan asked if vironment. Is there no philosopher- Mr. Dabilis was the New England Turkish Cypriot leader, replied that of “cantons” to Kissinger, an alter- however, was not in the cards. they all agreed to come back on king in Greece who can stop this in- editor for United Press Interna- a return to the 1960 Constitution native which did not require the Clerides realized that more than Thursday, August 15, tacitly accept- sanity? This is Mr. Karamanlis’ tional in Boston, and a staff was unacceptable. They wanted transfer of populations. 180,000 Cypriots would come un- ing Clerides’ request for a short re- chance. All it takes now is an en- writer and assistant metropoli- two separate geographic areas During the session of Monday der Turkish occupation, or be cess. Callaghan added that he him- forced law which prohibits building tan editor at the Boston Globe for wherein the two communities evening, August 12, Gunes pro- turned into refugees, if Turkey self was prepared to come back. on forests – and on burned down 17 years before relocating to would be in charge of their respec- posed the creation of an au- went ahead with its military plans. Clerides and Mavros also answered forests. Greece. His column is published tive security. tonomous zone composed mostly Before he went back to the plenary in the affirmative. Gunes remained While protesters stood outside weekly in the National Herald. The discussion continued all of Turkish Cypriot villages in the session, he went to see the Russian silent. Then, the Turkish Foreign Hellenic Parliament, where they Readers interested in contacting day, with both sides clinging to north section of the island, and five observer, Victor Menin. He asked Minister gathered his papers, were promptly ignored by lawmak- him can send e-mails to andydab- their points of view. Callaghan’s ef- smaller districts in other areas him if, in the event of a further closed his briefcase and rose from ers who won’t pass laws to punish [email protected]. forts to find a middle ground went where there were Turkish Cypriot Turkish attack, Cyprus could count his chair. The time was 3 AM. Less nowhere. After several hours, the villages. Gunes added that the ar- on Soviet assistance. Menin re- than an hour later, Turkish forces first session ended in a total im- eas under Turkish Cypriot adminis- sponded with a rather pointed launched Attila II, advancing south, GUEST EDITORIALS passe. On Sunday, Callaghan spent tration should cover approximately question: “Have you cleared this on a broad front. most of his time trying to find a way 34 percent of the island. with the Americans?” In other Hindsight is 20/20. The National Herald welcomes manuscripts representing a variety of views out without success. Callaghan urged Clerides not to words, the Soviet Union was not for publication in its View Points page. They should include the writer’s On Monday morning, August reject the proposal outright be- going to risk a confrontation with Dr. Kousoulas is professor emeri- name, address, and telephone number and be addressed to the View 12, Callaghan presented to the cause, if he did, the conference Washington for the sake of Cyprus tus of Political Science at Howard Points Editor, The National Herald, 37-10 30th Street, Long Island City, NY Greek side a compromise plan would end with a complete failure (Polyvios G. Polyviou, “Cyprus; University in Washington, DC. He which provided for two “au- and unforeseen consequences. Conflict and Negotiation, 1960- is the author of several books, 11101. They can also be faxed to (718) 472-0510 or, preferably, e-mailed tonomous administrations within Clerides accepted Callaghan’s sug- 1980,” page 177.) Cyprus had no notably “The Life and Times of to [email protected]. Due to considerations of space appropriate boundaries, united un- gestion, and the following day, he cards to play. The only way to pre- Constantine the Great (1999),” we enforce a strict 1,400-word upper limit. We reserve the right to edit for der a central government.” He came up with a proposal of his vent the Turkish military action and numerous scholarly articles. repetitiveness, diction and syntax. We regret that we are unable to ac- made clear that, if the Greek side own. He proposed a system in was for the Greek side to accept the Readers are welcome to send knowledge or return manuscripts, published or unpublished. found the proposal acceptable in which there would be allocation of “geographic solution.” their comments to dkous@com- principle, he would exert pressure powers and functions between the That evening during the plenary cast.net. 10 THE NATIONAL HERALD, JULY 28, 2007