S o C V ΓΡΑΦΕΙ ΤΗΝ ΙΣΤΟΡΙΑ Bringing the news W ΤΟΥ ΕΛΛΗΝΙΣΜΟΥ to generations of E ΑΠΟ ΤΟ 1915 The National Herald Greek- Americans N c v a WeekLy greek-american PubLication www.thenationalherald.com VOL. 15, ISSUE 782 October 6-12 , 2012 $1.50 Remembering Paddy: Inauguration of an Outdoor Theater at UConn Patrick Leigh Fermor, Paideia Launches Theater at Center Battle of Crete Hero of Greek Studies

By Lawrence Osborne By Theodore Kalmoukos Wall Street Journal TNH Staff Writer

A famous anecdote, told by Patrick Leigh Fermor himself in his STORRS CT –The Hellenic Or - book Mani, relates how on one furnace-hot evening in the town of ganization Paideia inaugurated Kalamata, in the remote region for which that book is named, Fer - its new outdoors theater at its mor and his dinner companions picked up their table and carried Center of Greek Studies on the it nonchalantly and fully dressed into the sea. It is a few years campus of the University of Con - after World War II, and the English are still an exotic rarity in this necticut on September 29. The part of Greece. There they sit until the waiter arrives with a plate theater is a depiction of the An - of grilled fish, looks down at the displaced table and calmly—with cient Greek theater of Epidavros an unflappable Greek stoicism—wades into the water to serve din - with the orchestra, a two-story ner. Soon the diners are surrounded by little boats and out come stage and colonnade. It was the bouzouki and the wine. A typical Fermor evening has been named after Alexander the consummated, though driving through Kalamata today one has Great. trouble imagining the scene being repeated. The somniferous ham - More than 400 Greek-Amer - let of the far-off 1950s is now filled with cocktail bars and volleyball icans from Connecticut, New nets. The '50s, let alone the war, seems like another millennium. York, New Jersey, Massachu - Fermor, or "Paddy," as many educated Greeks knew him, died setts, New Hampshire, Maine, last year at the age of 96. He is remembered not only as the greatest and Rhode Island attended the travel writer of his generation, or even his century, but as a hero of ceremony, which started with an the Battle of Crete, in which he served as a commando in the Agiasmo Service (blessing of the British special forces. water) officiated by Rev. Con - "For as long as he is read and remembered," Christopher stantine Simonis, Chaplain of Hitchens wrote upon Fermor's death, "the ideal of the hero will be the Center’s Three Hierarchs a real one." Hitchens placed Fermor at the center of a brilliant Chapel. A number of dignitaries English generation of "scholar warriors," men forged on the battle - and officials including Theo - fields of the mid-century: This included poet John Cornford, mar - dosis Pelegrinis, president of the tyred in the Spanish Civil War, and the scholar and writer Xan university of Athens, and Loizos Fielding, a close personal friend of Fermor's who was also active in Soroniatis ,president of the Or - Crete and Egypt during the war, and a guest of the aforementioned ganization of Tourism and dinner party. When Fermor said Fielding was "a gifted, many-sided, Training of Greece who was one courageous and romantic figure, at the same time civilized and of the founder members of bohemian," he could have been describing himself. Paideia in the early 1980s, con - But Fermor was a man apart. Born in 1915 into the Anglo-Irish veyed statements and good upper class—the son of a famous geologist—Fermor, literally, wishes. walked away from his social class and its expectations almost at The ceremony concluded once. At 18, he traveled by foot across Europe to Constantinople— with an academic and cultural a feat later recorded in his books A Time of Gifts and Between the program at the Center’s facilities Woods and the Water. In the '30s he traveled through Greece, mas - and a buffet luncheon. tering its language and exploring its landscapes with meticulous DaviD Prince/WSJ Palegridis told TNH that “this attention. He fell in love with a Romanian noblewoman, Balasha George Lois’ “objects of my affection” project is a sample of the Greek Cantacuzene (a deliciously Byzantine name), and the outbreak of who has always the sense of ad - war found him at her family estate in Moldavia. OBJECTS OF MY AFFECTION: (From left) This bronze Corinthian helmet was worn by a vancement and also to help the Because of his knowledge of Greek, the British posted him to Greek hoplite in the 6th century BC and excavated within sight of my father's birthplace; society around him. It is a mag - Albania. He then joined the Special Operations Executive (SOE) the American flag as painted by my son Harry, then 5 years old, a few months after the as - nificent theater, which was and was subsequently parachuted into German-occupied Crete. In sassination of President Kennedy (As he was painting it, two of the white stars started to made possible with the contri - drip. "Harry, it's dripping," I said. "That's America crying, Papa," he replied.); the Art Directors butions of simple people.” Continued on page 12 Club Hall of Fame Award, designed by me in 1972 and awarded to me in 1978; a snapshot Former president of the of Rosemary Lewandowski and me, 10 minutes after we met at Pratt—it was love at first UConn Philip Austin, who was sight and we've been married for 61 years; Superfocus Glasses, prescription lenses that at the helm of the university allow you to focus at any distance—I did all the branding and advertising for them; a when Paideia started its projects powder horn, decorated and inscribed July 8th, 1776, and carried by Colonel Samuel Brewer more than 25 years ago told during the American Revolution; Muhammad Ali's private punching bag, given to me by Ali TNH that “we have been work - in 1975; a copy of my latest book, Damn Good Advice (For People With Talent!); Buck Rogers's 25th-century rocket pistol. Continued on page 5 9th Annual Collis Lecture at Cleveland Museum

By Holly Witchey

On a beautiful sunny Sep - tember day, an overflow crowd gathered at the Cleveland Mu - seum of Art in the grand Gart - Photo by Joan Leigh Fermor, courteSy the neW york revieW oF bookS ner Auditorium for the Ninth Fermor in an undated photograph. Annual Dr. John and Helen Col - lis Lecture. The lecture was also simul - cast in the Recital Hall for those who could not obtain seats. The NY Federation Denies Any Lecture is an annual event ded - icated to a topic in either An - cient Greek or Byzantine Art. Ties to Golden Dawn Party Each year, an outstanding scholar is invited and typically the auditorium is filled to ca - By Demetrios Tsakas question by posed by TNH about pacity. The atmosphere is one Translated from the Original the photographic material of kindred souls gathered to cel - Greek posted on the website, said ebrate the Museum, its collec - “Members of Golden Dawn’s tions, and the heritage of NEW YORK – The Federation of New York chapter went to see Greece. Hellenic Societies of Greater the Secretary-General of the This year’s noted scholar was New York denies any relation - Federation, Petros Galatoulas, Professor Maria Vassilaki of the ship with recently-announced took advantage of his friendship University of Thessaly. Her topic New York chapter of the Greek with him, and found an oppor - was, “From Byzantium to El political party Golden Dawn, de - tunity to be photographed in the Greco: icon painting in Venetian spite the fact that the pictures corridors of Stathakion." Crete.” Both speaker and topic posted on the group’s website Asked about the photos were chosen to celebrate the (xanyc.org) clearly showed that showing members of the Golden Museum’s 2010 purchase of a From the Helen Collis lectures at the Cleveland Museum of Art. Dr. John and Helen Collis, Mu - food and clothing destined for Dawn packing clothes in the seum Director Dr. David Franklin, and Prof. Maria Vassilaki, speaker, from the University of Greece were collected at the Stathakion, Tsekeridis said: Continued on page 4 Thessaly and advisor to the Benaki Museum in Athens. Federation’s headquarters at the "When they came to pack the Stathakion Center in Astoria. clothing and were seen by Fed - Immediately after the publi - eration Vice President Christos cation of one of those photos in Vournas, he forbade them from the September 24 issue of the doing so at the Federation’s Lanthimos Builds on Black Humor and Anxiety Ethnikos Kirix, the Federation headquarters, indeed. He told made an announcement, the full them that if they wanted to do text of which follows: that, they should go across the By Penelope Karageorge with our sense of what’s real. medic tells her that she might “The Federation of Hellenic street, but not at the Stathakion Special to The National Herald The film is anxiety-producing, die, and then asks her to name Societies of Greater New York Cultural Center." baffling, a huge black joke, a her favorite actor. Brad Pitt, per - due to the fact that it is a As TNH reported on Septem - What’s reality? Who’s in con - shaggy dog story, and utterly haps? If we’re obsessed with 501(3c) Non-Profit organization ber 24, Golden Dawn estab - trol? Are you living your life, or fascinating. It is a film that begs performers, wouldn’t acting the does not associate, promote, or lished its chapter in New York playing a role handed to you by we think. What could be more roles of the dear departed be an endorse, any political organiza - City about two months ago and central casting? Yorgos Lanthi - fun? Part of Lanthimos’ genius extension of our pseudo-life? tion in Greece or the United took its first fundraising and or - mos, the brilliant director who is dropping sly clues. Is life per - And one must perform a role States of America. The Federa - ganizational steps through its brought us Dogtooth, has done formance? What is the influence correctly. When the lovely tion’s objective is to assist our website. it again with Alps: he made us of pop culture on our lives? young gymnast can’t remember community and to promote our Parallel with those efforts, frightened and queasy about the A beautiful young gymnast her lines, she’s hung upside Hellenic heritage. The Federa - they undertook charitable en - nature of existence itself. Al - (Ariane Labed) weeps because down in the gym until she tion does not provide space at deavors aimed at assisting the though the characters in this she is not permitted to perform learns them. She attempts to the Stathakion Cultural Center, needy in Greece. mordant tale assume the roles to contemporary music. She is a commit suicide, but the nurse nor has any affiliation to Golden Although dozens of articles of dead relatives for a price, the member of the Alps crew, a group (Angeliki Papoulia) cuts her Dawn, aka Chrysi Avgi.” have appeared in the Greek and film is not really about loss and that will imitate a dead loved one down just in time. Federation President Elias American media, including the grief. It is more about the tenu - for money. We are never tipped Papoulia, a superb actor, Tsekeridis, in response to a New York Times, reporting that ous business of living. off to the motives of the Alps’ or - played the oldest daughter in the group has opened offices in In Dogtooth, a mother/father A poignant moment with ac - ganizer, a paramedic played by Dogtooth, the sibling who Astoria, investigations by TNH team of sadists keep their chil - tress Ariane Labed in Alps, an Aris Servetalis. He could be a A) smashes in her face and then have revealed that those reports dren walled away from the intriguing new film from Yor - humanitarian B) psychotic C) tries to escape her restricted life For subscription: are unfounded. world, and teach them not only gos Lanthimos to be shown at frustrated actor D) control freak by hiding in the trunk of her fa - 718.784.5255 TNH contacted some of the a different language but a dif - the NYC Greek Film Festival E) entrepreneur who wants to ther’s car. In Alps, she stars once [email protected] people who participated in the ferent moral code. When one opening Oct 6. make some bucks, or F) all of the again. Alfred Hitchcock ob - clothing drive as well as those daughter tries to make her get - above. He cleverly markets his sessed with beautiful blonds as who have worn Golden Dawn away, her punishment is death In Alps, Lanthimos puts the bizarre service, offering two free his film leads, and Lanthimos jerseys at several recent Greek- (we think, but will never be sure filmgoer in a similar role. While visits as a come-on. has discovered Papoulia. She is because the film stopped rather we watch willingly, he gaslights While driving an accident Continued on page 4 than ended). us for 90 minutes as he plays victim to the hospital, the para - Continued on page 7 2 COMMUNITY THE NATIONAL HERALD, OCTOBER 6-12, 2012

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n OCTOBER 5 a multi-faceted event: a Bake ASTORIA – The Hellenic Relief Sale featuring irresistible Greek Foundation presents a benefit sweets, a Tag Sale with great bar - concert with Grigoris Maninakis gains “straight from Yiayia’s attic and the Mikrokosmos Ensemble, & Pappou’s garage”, and, to help with Guest Artists/Singers- you get an early start on your Makaria Psilliteli, Lina Orfanos, holiday gift shopping, exquisite Anna Eliopoulos, and Elena hand-made Jewelry by Fotini De - Toumaras. The concert will be signs and Fine Quality Cutlery held at the Chian Federation in by Cutco. 12 PM – 3 PM (after Astoria at 8 PM (Doors open at the Sunday Divine Liturgy), De - 7pm). One Hundred percent of mas Hall, Annunciation Greek all proceeds will go towards sup - Orthodox Church, 302 West 91st plying food for the needy in Street, (at West End Ave.), In Greece. Grigoris Maninakis and Manhattan. 212-724-2070. all the artists are appearing pro bono to support HRF in its mis - WILKES-BARRE, PA – Attend the sion to provide support for the 2012 Fall Greek Food Festival, Greek population by addressing hosted by the Annunciation needs in health and nutrition. Greek Orthodox Church, 32 East For tickets call the Hellenic Relief Ross Street (near the Wilkes- Foundation at 347-201-1821 or Barre Post Office) in Wilkes- by email Barre from Thursday, Oct. 4 to [email protected] Tickets Saturday, Oct. 6, 11AM to 8PM (L-R) Ioanna Efhymiadou, Consul General of Greece; John P. of Trustees; Constantinos Tsiaras, Greek Deputy Minister for are $30 in advance and $40 at daily. An assortment of Greek Calamos Sr., National Hellenic Museum Chairman of the Board Foreign Affairs; and Connie Mourtoupalas, NHM Director. the door. Tickets are also on line: food and pastries, including gy - www.hellenicrelief.org. ros, stuffed grape vine leaves, spinach pies, baklava, galakto - National Hellenic Museum’s “Kouzina” Exhibit n OCTOBER 8 boureko, and more, will be avail - MANHATTAN – The American able for eat-in or take-out. Greek Hellenic Institute (AHI) Business t-shirts and aprons will also be TNH Staff the Museum. Through the gen - Network and The New York sold. Church tours will be offered erosity of our sponsors, donors, Chapter of AHI hosts its Monthly upon clergy availability. Cus - CHICAGO, IL – More than 500 and guests the Museum is able Informal Networking Reception tomers may pre-order their food guests of the National Hellenic to provide engaging exhibits, at Avra Restaurant on Monday, by calling (570) 823-4805 dur - Museum (NHM) celebrated rich programming, exciting Oct. 8. 141 East 48th Street (Be - ing festival hours or by ordering Greek culture and the newly- events and stimulating educa - tween Lexington and 3rd Av - online at opened Museum itself at its an - tional programs for children, enues) in Manhattan. Cash Bar greekfoodfestival.webs.com. For nual signature “Kouzina” event. which enrich not only our im - & complimentary hors d' oeu - more information, please call The event raised more than mediate Chicagoland neighbor - vres. (570) 823-4805. $90,000 as the fare of 17 top hoods, but the entire country as chefs was complemented by pre - we connect with a broad range n OCTOBER 10 n OCTOBER 20 mium Greek wines and enter - of communities that make up the MANHATTAN – The Hellenic- MANHATTAN – “Movie Night at tainment by Dionysos Dance American mosaic,” said Connie American Chamber of Com - the Annunciation” proudly pre - Troupe. Mourtoupalas, NHM’s Director. merce, The Hellenic American sents “My Sweet Canary”, an ex - The Museum and the Chicago Kouzina was the first major Cultural Foundation, The New uberant documentary film about community are also excited public of Mourtoupalas’ tenure York City Greek Film Festival in the life and career of singer Rosa about two new exhibits this fall. at the Museum and she told TNH association with the Armenia Eskenazy, A Sephardic Jew from The Spirit of the Marathon: “it was the culmination a collab - General Benevolent Union an - Asia Minor who became the most From Pheidippides to Today orative effort with local busi - nounce a special event: Two spe - recorded singer of "Rebetika" opens on October 4 and coin - nesses, the community, donors, cial screenings of “Smyrna: The songs (Greek blues) in the cides with the 35th running of good lovers and wine importers. Destruction of A Cosmopolitan 1920s, with a career that ex - the Chicago Marathon on Octo - Food and wine are an integral City, 1900-1922.” Directed by tended beyond the political ber 7. In November, the Museum part of Greek culture from an - award-winning filmmaker Maria boundaries of Greece to the will present: “American Mo - cient times through the present,” Exterior view of the new, state-of-the-art National Hellenic Iliou, the documentary pre - Greek Diaspora and spanned ments: The Legacy of Greek Im - Mourtoupalas noted. From the Museum in the heart of Chicago’s Greektown. miered at the Benaki Museum in many decades. Three musicians, migration to the United States” formal symposia, which were ve - Athens earlier this year. Using a British-born Greek Cypriot, an - broad and well documented hicles for philosophical discus - how much Greek food has in - restaurant on Chicago’s North astonishing archival footage and Israeli and a Turk, embark on a presentation of the history of sion, through the hospitality ex - spired current trends in gastron - Side – called “Mia Figlia – My informative interviews with in - mission to tell her incredible Greek immigration to the United pected of each household, every omy.” Also, how Greek cuisine Daughter " features Italian food. dividuals with family connec - story. “My Sweet Canary” is di - States, starting with the Ameri - Greek has his obligations and ex - now blends into the food tapes - The guests and their palates tions to Smyrna’s Greek, Armen - rected by Roy Sher and features can Civil War. pectations, all of which were sat - try of the United States. benefited from the opportunity ian and Turkish residents, the the Greek singer Haris Alexiou, But the Kouzina event – isfied at Kouzina along with John Boudouvas was the Boudouvas created for his film presents a balanced account Yasmin Levy, Mehtap Demir, which was inaugurated four everyone’s appetites. Chef Chairman. He told TNH he friends to both be creative and of this all but forgotten tragic Tomer Katz and Martha D. years ago when the Museum was Mourtoupalas was thrilled invited distinguished colleague: to reach down into the basics of event. Also featured in the doc - Lewis. (In Greek, Hebrew and still a gleam in the eye of over the way “the Greek com - “a huge variety of chefs of dif - their cuisine. umentary is the film’s consultant, Turkish, with English subtitles.) Chicago’s Greek and Cypriot- munity came together, and they ferent backgrounds, from Italy, There was also a special ex - Alexander Kitroeff, professor of The suggested donation of $15 Americans – is one of the high - were joined by the Chicago com - Poland,” and Greece of course. hibit, “From the Kouzina: Essen - History at Haverford College. supports the philanthropic work lights of the season, and is vital munity at large – the Greek town He urged the Italian contingent tial Ingredients of Greece,” and Wednesday, Oct. 10 7PM and of the Philoptochos Society to the Museum’s mission. neighborhood and the Chicago to let themselves be inspired by an “Agora – Marketplace” fea - 9PM at the Paris Theater, Fifth which sponsors “Movie Night”. “Events like Kouzina play an region – and chefs from all over Adriatic and Mediterranean cul - turing Greek food products. Avenue at 58th Street in Man - Refreshments will be served. essential role in the growth of Chicago. Kouzina also “showed ture and ingredients. His own It was all done in the won - hattan. Ticket sales soon at: Film starts at 7PM. Demas Hall, derful setting constituted by the www.nycgreekfilmfestival.com. Annunciation Greek Orthodox new state-of the art museum For advanced group sales call: Church, 302 West 91st Street (at that has become a great source 212-988-1929 (evenings) The West End Ave.) in Manhattan. of pride for the Chicago commu - Stavros Niarchos Foundation is 212-724-2070. nity. the principal benefactor of the “It combines the old and the NYC Greek Film Festival. n NOVEMBER 2 new – contemporary architec - FLUSHING – Hellenic Public Ra - ture” and themes, ancient sub - n OCTOBER 12 dio- Cosmos FM 91.5 is Celebrat - jects, and everything in between MANHATTAN – NY Greek-Amer - ing 25 Years of Broadcasting Ex - – diachronic and contemporary icans for Obama invite you to a cellence and honor renowned Hellenism,” Mourtoupalas told fundraiser and Wine and Hors Composer Yiannis Markopoulos TNH. “The community really d'oeuvres Reception on Friday, with The 2012 Phidippides came out and supported the Mu - Oct. 12, 6-9 PM at Loi Restaurant Award for Passionate Advocacy seum and enjoyed a night of fel - 208 West 70th Street in Manhat - of Hellenism at The 18th Annual lowship and new friendships – tan. Suggested Contribution: $75 Phidippides Award Gala. Friday, Greeks don’t eat and drink in iso - ($40 for students & seniors) November 2 at Terrace on the lation. The event also facilitated R.S.V.P: https://my.barack - Park in Flushing at 7PM. dialogue, discussion and ex - obama.com/page/event/de - change.” tail/gswl22 Please make contri - n NOVEMBER 4 One of the evening’s nicest el - butions for the event at: MANHATTAN – Hellenic Public ements was the deployment of https://donate.barackobama.co Radio-Cosmos FM 91.5 is proud groups of dancers in Greek cos - m/page/outreach/view/2012/N to present tumes along with individual mu - YGreekAmericans. Special Yiannis Markopoulos Live in sicians – there was a bouzouki Guests include – more will be New York. Special Guest Artist: player, naturally – who inter - announced - Aravella Simotas, Mario Frangoulis with Vasiliki acted with the crowd, fielding Member of the New York State Lavina & Alexandros Belles and questions about the history and Assembly Michael Gianaris, a 15-Member Orchestral Ensem - traditions of Greek music and Member of the NYS Senate. Visit ble Conducted by the Composer. dance. “It was an exchange http://www.facebook.com/grou Sunday, Nov. 4 at the rather than a performance, in ps/145889152220023/ Cooper Union, Great Hall. 7 E. the tradition of the itinerant mu - 7th St. in Manhattan at 4PM. sicians of Greece.” n OCTOBER 12 Tickets: $50 $75 $100 $125. For The new 40,000-square-foot STAMFORD, CT – The greater info and reservations: 718-204- Museum opened December community is invited to view the 8900. [email protected] 2011 and is home to interactive American Hellenic Institute exhibits, children’s education (AHI) documentary “Cyprus Still n NOVEMBER 16 center, research library, oral his - Divided: A U.S. Foreign Policy MANHATTAN – The 24th annual tory center, museum store, spe - Failure” at 6:30 PM, Friday, Oct. Dinner Gala honoring New York cial events hall, and rooftop ter - 12 at the Annunciation Church State Senator Michael Gianaris, race. For more information, visit of Stamford. After the viewing, 12th District for his Dedication www.nationalhellenicmu - there will be a panel discussion to Public Service and Attorney seum.org. including Nick Larigakis, Presi - of the Year Kirk Karabelas, Esq. The Marathon exhibit is gen - dent, followed by a panel discus - Karabelas and Papagianopoulos, erously sponsored by National sion. The event is FREE but LLP and Chairman, Alma Bank. Hellenic Society and will be up reservations are required at The Black Tie Optional affair for one month. American Mo - http://ahiworld.org/rsvp or by will be held on Friday, Nov. 16 ments is a major exhibition calling the church at 203-322- at the Pierre Hotel in Manhattan. which will highlight: “stories 2093. The event is sponsored Cocktails at 7PM, Dinner imme - that date back to the 1860s; the jointly by the American Hellenic diately following. Live entertain - story of Michael Anagnos, the Institute, the Annunciation ment by Panos Chrysovergis and man “who made the sightless Greek Orthodox Church and Aphrodite Daniels. Advance see,” as Director of the Perkins Stamford AHEPA Chapter #99. reservations only – no tickets Institute, the man who trained sold at the door. For reservations and paired Annie Sullivan with n OCTOBER 14 and information please email Helen Keller, the deaf-blind MANHATTAN – The Annuncia - Stacey Pappas at: American author and activist, tion Ladies Philoptochos kicks off [email protected] or call 917 - one of the 20th century’s bright - its Fall fund raising efforts with 842-6534 by November 2. est examples of courage and de - termination; the story of the Chios massacre survivor, Captain George Colvocoresses, American QUESTION OF THE WEEK Civil War Captain of the Saratoga and his victories Vote on our website! against the Confederates; of Photius Kavasales Fisk, a promi - You have the chance to express your opinion on our website nent abolitionist in Boston; of on an important question in the news. The results will be pub - John Zachos, the head of Cooper lished in our printed edition next week along with the question Union, and an educator fully for that week. committed to educating the The question this week is: Did you watch the first Obama- black slaves of the South; the Romney debate? march in Selma, AL, when His o Yes Eminence Archbishop Iakovos, o No marched with Martin Luther o Maybe King; of the 1909 Nebraska riots The results for last week’s question: Do you think how well where the Greek community Obama and Romney do in the debates can affect their chances was destroyed and 3,000 Greeks to win the election? were expelled.” 63 % voted "Yes" The website noted those are 26 % voted "No" only a few of the stories that will 11 % voted "Maybe" be highlighted.” Please vote at: www.thenationalherald.com THE NATIONAL HERALD, OCTOBER 6-12, 2012 COMMUNITY 3 Greek- and Cypriot-American Constantinides Ready to Go to Bat for Astoria

TNH Staff democrat, and my dad’s mother, public hearings about proposed was a staunch democrat too. My school closings, but he rammed NEW YORK – Costas Constanti - yiayia would yell at the TV set. through the closures so he could nides is polite and soft-spoken, She would get very angry at re-open them with new names but make no mistake, he is a Bush,” he said. after firing teachers. An August fighter. As an employee of New Mom and Yiayia won him 2012 court ruling put a stop to York’s City Council – he is a over. “I would ask my father, that, but the mayor is appealing deputy chief of staff to City Coun - ‘Pop, do you really believe this the decision. cilman Jim Gennaro – and a De - stuff?’” Today he says “Obama is When the topic of the resis - mocratic Party District Leader in just the clear choice for the mid - tance of teacher unions to neces - Astoria, and back to the commu - dle class and the working class. I sary changes, he insisted the City nity service efforts in his youth, don’t get that they want to give is the problem. “They should he has worked and battled to billions of dollars in tax cut to come to the table in good faith. make the City a better place for more millionaires. They have had The City has cut off negotiations all. He now seeks to become the these tax cuts for ten years, but I with the union regarding teacher first Greek- and Cypriot-Ameri - haven’t seen the jobs. I am not evaluations – they walked away can elected to the City Council. asking anyone to pay more than from the table. In his multiple roles he has their fair share, but at the end of ON the other hand, he said, earned a reputation as someone the day, Mitt Romney should not “in the 70s when the city was who builds consensus and works be paying 14 percent when a bankrupt, everybody came to the with everyone to find the right nurse is paying 32. table–business, government , solution. Part of his responsibility He was a delegate at the De - unions – and they said this is how is to help public officials, but the mocratic National Convention we will fix the city. Today, there community also depends on him and told TNH, “I had the great (L-R) Cypriot entertainer Harry Antoniou, Despina Axiotakis, State Senator Michael Gianaris, is no measure of good faith. The to be its squeaky wheel. He said pleasure to meet Governor Costas Constantinides, and State Assemblywoman Aravella Simotas at a fundraiser. Bloomberg administration comes he learned from NY State Senator Michael Dukakis.” to the union and say “we are go - Michael Gianaris and Assembly - His wife Loridana is from hospital in the last four years.” Constantinides said, in general and he got the job almost by luck. ing to cut this, this and this, but woman Aravella Simotas, “we Sicily. She’s a lifelong Astorian, He said Mt. Sinai hospital is and for health care. “Romney’s Council woman Darlene Mealy, you are not my partner. I don’t need to constantly beat the so she is Greek by osmosis, but ready to expand. “They have the latest solution is that poor people who was elected in 2006 Brook - blame the union, he said, ex - drum,” referring both to citizens there are some Greek genes there land, they have they have a plan can just go the emergency room,” lyn, came to his class and said plaining “If you want us to and their representatives. too. They were introduced by they sent to the state,” but ap - though he argued the opposite she was hiring. When he heard change the rules of the game, you The election is a year away, middle sibling Andrea. He also proval has been held up. Using when he put through Romney - that, he ran and printed out his have to actually work with us and 2013, but he is pleased with the has a younger sister, Anna. the bully pulpit, he will mobilize care in Massachusetts. “He’s de - resume and within a week she treat us as a partner because we campaign to date. His average His father passed away eight the district and send a strong bating himself, “when he talks hired him to be her legislative di - can help you solve the problem.” donation so far is $120, from 400 years ago and Constantinides message to Governor Cuomo that about health care. rector. Constantinides believes he is contributors. He has already been wishes his three year-old son access to healthcare in Western BAIN A CAPITOL PAIN In 2008 he became president one the people who has the nec - endorsed by the Working Fami - Niko had the chance to meet his Queens will be a priority. “No one “People talk about Romney of the Queens Country Young De - essary common sense and can lies Party and union Local 1500. pappou. should have to go over the bridge and his plan for jobs? I saw it up mocrats, then a neglected orga - say “Let’s go into a room and not “I have been very lucky to Constantinides is a product of [to Manhattan] for treatment.” close,” he said. He was a store nization. He began with about scream at each other – too much have a wide base of volunteers, the City’s public school system all He is most concerned about manager at the flagship store of ten active members and by the of what happens in the world Greek and non-Greek,” who the way through Bryant High the middle and working classes, KB Toys. “Bain Capital bought KB time his tour of duty finished it now is: yell and yell and yell.” worked with him in the past on School and on to Queens College and those mired in poverty. Con - Toys, helped them go public, was the second largest chapter And the problems are not solved. numerous civic issues and. There where he studied political science stantinides knows more than leveraged them with huge in the state. A year into his There are no signs so far that are 160,000 voters in his district and history. He graduated from most what is at stake – nationally amount of debt – over $200 mil - tenure the party asked him to be Constantinides’ son Niko will be and he will have the opportunity Cardozo Law School and gradu - and locally – with healthcare and lion – and one and a half year a district in Astoria. He is proud a political animal like his dad, to meet a large percentage of ated in 2010 but public service is issues life pre-existing conditions. later took an $85 million divi - of what they were able to accom - but he is into animals now. He them. his mission in life. His wife is a transplant patient – dend and paid for it with even plished including a saving a post loves the zoo, museums, and Asked how he feels about that His main rival is Democrat An - kidney and pancreas. She lost her more debt. A year and a half later office from closing and making parks. Niko is already a greenbelt he beamed: “I love it.” tonio Meloni. “He’s a nice guy. job because of her treatments the company goes bankrupt, streets safer for drivers and in Tae Kwan Do. Costa himself is “I’ve been knocking on doors He’s does a lot of good things, and she had to go on Medicare crushed by all that debt. They pedestrians. “I knocked on peo - a veteran of GOYA basketball for talking to people about issues for but I just feel I can do the job to get the transplant. Her em - closed 300 stores.” ple’s doors and asked them about St. Demetrios in Astoria – he says years,” he said, adding “the better.” He has run the full gamut ployer was not a bad person, he “So I saw his jobs plan. It a dangerous strip and they said he was more a street ball player chance to talk to people and hear of community involvement and just had no interest in keeping sends jobs to China, and the little ‘I’m afraid to cross the street to than one suited for organized how I can help them and how I wants to put all that experience her on. guy gets screwed,” he said. get a carton of milk.’” play, but he was happy to be on can get them real results for their to work. He gets frustrated when Re - When the Chapter 11 an - It took the organization of a the team. “It’s a fantastic pro - lives in the whole reason why I’m He said has so far raised more publicans say Obama should stop nouncement came though no - rally, “an entire year beating gram. It gives kids an opportunity in public service.” than $60,000, outraising his op - talking about the economy in the body knew which stores would them [city officials] up, and send - to be active,” and solidifies their He is an Astorian to the bone, ponents 3-1. “We need to raise context of the damage done by close. At the time had just started ing many letters, and finally ties to the community. born at Boulevard Hospital. That more, but it’s been great so far. the Bush administration. To the law school, so it made sense to speed bumps were installed.” Which brings him back to how institution is gone and the short - We have had overwhelming sup - question “where are Bush, Ch - quit – and focus on his true love After eight years of excited he is about becoming the age of medical facilities in his port from the community and the eney, and Rumsfeld. If they are – politics. He looked around for Bloomberg, he is not a fan, but first Hellene to be on the City neighborhood is one of his big party.” so proud of what they did, why an internship and noticed an ad he noted there are some things Council. “I believe I am the right concerns for the future. Constantinides told TNH “I didn’t we see them at the con - on Craig’s list for a congressional he did well. “Everyone wants the person for the job, but that is His father Andreas, a Vietnam will hit the ground running from vention?” campaign in Yorktown Heights in same things,” he said, “to be able something I have great pride in. Veteran and a banker, came from day one and offer a unique per - “They are in the witness pro - Upper Westchester. “The candi - to send kids to public schools, Mike Gianaris and Aravella Simo - Cyprus at the age of eight. His spective. I am not beholden to tection program,” he quipped. date needed a day to day opera - and the schools to be safe, and tas knocked down all those mother Helena is a native New the incumbent. I am not going to He said the idea that markets, tions guy and I figured if I ran a for their kids to actually get an doors,” getting into the state Sen - Yorker of Ukrainian descent. “My reinvent the wheel but there are or businesses will take care of $3 million store,” he could do it education – but there is a right ate and Assembly. Now I want to father was a really strong Repub - things we can do better. Schools everything is absurd. he said. and wrong way to go about it.” follow in their footsteps and lican. We argued politics until the are overcrowded, crime is on the “Trickle down is not the an - He has been working for the He said the mayor fulfilled the knock down even more doors for day he died. My mother was a rise…and Queens has lost four swer. There has to be a floor,” City Council for the past six years letter of the law by having the other Greeks to follow me.”

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“There are two sides to every question” Publisher / Editor Protagoras 4 COMMUNITY THE NATIONAL HERALD, OCTOBER 6-12, 2012 Jewish Group Has Luncheon to Honor Greek FM Avramopoulos NY Federation

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NEW YORK – The American Connection to Jewish Committee hosted a lun - cheon in honor of Greek Foreign Minister Dimitris Avramopoulos Golden Dawn at its Manhattan headquarters on September 28. Continued from page 1 AJC President David Harris welcomed Avramopoulos and American events, but all of them the guests, which included rep - denied any connection with the resentatives of a number of organization. leading Jewish organizations. At the same time, however, The gathering provided an they noted that so far the chap - opportunity to discuss issues of ter has not opened an office in importance to Greece and Israel New York and that they would and reflected the deepening and know if it had. strengthening of relations in re - The chapter’s website has cent years. been down for over a week. The host and guest of honor TNH has tried to contact Golden have enjoyed a personal friend - Dawn’s website administrator, ship reinforced by frank discus - but had not been able to do so sions that dates from the gov - as this edition went to press. ernment of former Greek Prime There are media reports that Minister Constantine Mitsotakis, the hacking group “Anonymous” who established full diplomatic brought down the website. Dig - relations with Israel. Greek Foreign Minister Dimitris Avramopoulos (4th from L) and AJC Executive Director David Harris (3rd from L). ital Journal published an article In June, Harris told the titled “Anonymous hacks Greek newspaper To Vima “I manded by the troika, extrem - ‘No two races have set such and believe in their invincible with headquarters in New York, Golden Dawn's New York web - have visited Greece on countless ists in the wings, and many mark upon the world. Both have power to survive internal strife 26 offices across the United site,” attributing the problems occasions, drawn by profes - storefronts and offices for rent, shown a capacity for survival, and the world tides threatening States, and 10 others around the with the website to Anonymous, sional and personal reasons. But even the bright sunshine could in spite of unending perils and their extinction.’" world. Founded in 1906, AJC but a Greek-American Internet the most recent visit this month not lift the collective mood. sufferings from external oppres - A trip by Jewish-American has given priority to building expert excluded that possibility left a particularly deep impres - “Yet I remain bullish on sors, matched only by their own leaders to Greece is scheduled close ties with countries world - and noted that such actions are sion on me. Greece…perhaps it is because I ceaseless feuds, quarrels and for January 24 and 25, 2013 wide. An AJC representative illegal in the United States. “It is clear, even from a brief draw inspiration from the his - convulsions… No two cities whose purpose is to further de - told TNH “our close and coop - He did not wish to speak on stay, that the country is hurting tory of Greeks and Jews, which have counted more with velop ties between Greece and erative relations with Greece the record because he has noth - badly. With unemployment sky - Winston Churchill, in his own mankind than Athens and the community. and Cyprus are key to our work ing to do with Golden Dawn and rocketing, the economy con - inimitable way, captured so bril - Jerusalem… Personally I have AJC is the premier global to advance democracy and hu - does not want any involvement tracting, more austerity de - liantly: always been on the side of both, Jewish advocacy organization, man rights.” in the matter. 9th Annual Dr. John and Helen Collis Lecture at Cleveland’s Art Museum

Continued from page 1 galleries. He spoke of his admi - lier because Cleveland has a ent religions, but united by prox - another Cretan artist, 2004. Vassilaki, who was in Lon - ration for Vassilaki and her three lovely atmosphere. She seemed imity. She identified the features Domenikos Theotokopoulos don at the time, was 15th century Cretan icon depict - decades of research and work genuinely moved when she that consolidated the two com - (1541- 7 April 1614), better asked by authorities in Crete ing the Mother of God and the which have finally allowed 15th thanked the Collises. She also munities in the 15th century, the known as El Greco. Archival ev - to authenticate the work, which Infant Christ. (Virgin Eleousa). century Cretan icon painter An - stated that she had been thrilled collapse if the Byzantine Empire idence shows that Theotokopou - was in the London offices of the Museum Director Dr. David gelos Akotantos, aka “The to see the Mother of God icon in 1453, and the stratification of los, left Crete in 1567-8 when famous auction house. She did Franklin spoke warmly of the Painter Angelos,” to take his hanging in the galleries because, society in Crete by virtue of he was not yet 30. In order to so, and the lovely work of many contributions John and rightful place in the history of for, up until this visit, she had wealth than by nationality or re - do so, he sold an icon via a lot - Crete’s famous native son, El Helen Collis have made to the art. Fliegel noted Vassilaki’s im - only seen the icon in pictures. ligion. The 15th century was a tery process that raised 70-80 Greco, returned to Heraklion. Museum and to the community, pressive credentials, highlight - She told the audience “words period of economic expansion ducats, more than 7 times the The painting was sent to the Be - and he gave a heartfelt intro - ing two exhibitions at the Be - are not enough to describe how on Crete and there was a rise in naki Museum in Athens for duction to Stephen Fliegel, the naki Musuem in Athens: The I felt when I saw the icon.” the standard of living. cleaning which revealed a date, Museum’s Curator of Medieval Mother of God (2000) and The Vassilaki then took the audi - Crete became an important Museum Director Dr. 1567, when the young artist Art, and the curator responsible Hand of Angelos (2010). ence on a whirlwind tour of artistic center. Cretan icons of David Franklin spoke was newly-arrived in Venice. for the discovery and purchase Vassilaki took the stage ac - Crete and the Mediterranean the time traveled as far as warmly about John Vassilaki ended her lecture of the icon. companied by a round of ap - basin in the 15th century. She France and Flanders in Northern by describing an upcoming ex - Fliegel spoke glowingly of plause from the audience, explained that Crete at the time Europe and were prized in the and Helen Collis’ hibition for the Municipal Mu - the Museum’s acquisition of the whom she had in her hand from was a Venetian possession re - communities of Mt. Athos and many contributions seum of Nicosia, Cyprus and giv - icon, the yearlong conservation the moment she began. Her ferred as the Kingdom of Candia Mt. Sinai. Those paintings had ing the Cleveland audience the of the icon by the hands of opening remark, “I love Cleve - (present day Heraklion). Two both religious and artistic value to the Museum and first chance to see an El Greco Paintings Conservator Dean Yo - land,” brought another round of communities – the Venetian and and it may have been at this to the community. acquired by the Museum. The der – 700 hours’ worth – and fi - applause. Though this is her first the Cretan – lived side by side point that icon painters began subject: St. Francis in Ecstasy. nally seeing the icon hung in the visit, she told the audience she on the island speaking different signing their creations. Cretan price a normal icon at the time. She told the audience the paint - Museum’s permanent collection felt she would have visited ear - languages and practicing differ - icons of the time have more sig - Vassilaki believes this illustrates ing was to be a feature of an ex - natures and this may be a sign just how well-known the young hibition being planned for the that Crete was ideally situated artist was at the time of his de - museum in Nicosia entitled to adopt both western and parture. She reinforced her Footsteps of a European Jour - Byzantine artistic traditions. point with images of the Bap - ney. There was no Europe when Cretan painters had two tism of Christ and the Adoration El Greco traveled from Crete to communities that needed to be of Jesus – pointing out El Venice, Rome, Madrid, and served, the Italian and the Greco’s interest in Western fea - Toledo. No matter where he Byzantine. Records show that tures, which he may have went, Theotokopoulos always many famous Venetian painters learned via paintings and prints signed his name in Greek. Vas - of the time were represented in that were available in his native silaki speculates that El Greco paintings and prints on Crete – Crete. might have been hoping that his Tintoretto, Titian and Palma Of particular interest was a fame would equal that of his fel - Vecchio – and in Candia artists Baptism panel purchased for the low Cretan painter of the previ - were probably skilled at paint - Heraklion Museum from ous century to who only used ing in either Forma Greca or Christies Auction House in one name: The Painter Angelos. Forma Latina as demanded by their patrons. With the fall of Constantinople, painters fleeing the capital came to Crete and THE CHIAN FEDERATION Vassilaki believes that The 44-01 Broadway, Astoria, N Υ 11103 • (718) 204-2550 Painter Angelos may have re - 2012 Presidential Race - Update www.chianfed.org ceived artistic training from a painter from Constantinople. By Constantinos E. Scaros Vassilaki’s lecture was illus - trated with beautiful full-color The first Obama-Romney debate was possibly the best ever INVITES YOU TO ATTEND images of the many icons attrib - – yes, ever – in terms of polish: no gaffes, no stutters, no stam - uted to Angelos, and she talked mers, no sighs. But it was one of the worst ever in that two THE about his impressive range in finely-tuned robots did not exhibit any passion. George W. subject matter. She pointed out Bush, who to a considerable extent mangled the English lan - that one of the elements that el - guage, had more passion in his pinkie than these two very ar - 33rd HOMERIC AWARD GALA evates Angelos in stature is his ticulate speakers combined. ability to introduce new visual Obama lost, not by much, but he lost. Ironically, by being images into the Orthodox vo - more human. By showing irritability. Romney, of course, has The 33rd Homeric Award is being bestowed on cabulary. In addition to the the perpetual weird smile and glassy gaze on his face whenever “Christ as the Vine,” Vassilaki his debate opponent speaks. ADMIRAL JAMES G. STAVRIDIS, USN believes that Angelos is respon - And because Obama picked his nose, on camera, I cannot SUPREME ALLIED COMMANDER EUROPE, (SACEUR) sible for the theme of the stand - resist but to say: "Obama lost by a nose." That said, Obama COMMANDER U.S. EUROPEAN COMMAND, (USEUCOM) ing dragon slayer (St. Michael, should bounce back in debates 2 and 3 because they play to St. George). his strengths: foreign policy and the town hall forum. She showed a number of The fact-checkers will have a field day with this one, partic - ON icons to demonstrate how An - ularly given Romney’s reputation for stretching the truth. gelos’ work had influenced the Obama’s most avid supporters, amusingly and ironically, may FRIDAY, OCTOBER 26, 2012 work of his contemporaries and want to start quoting Newt Gingrich of all people, who had built up the audience’s under - this to say about Romney after one of their Republican Primary AT standing of the art of the time debates: “I was amazed. I’m standing next to a guy who has by illustrating Latin (Venetian) the most blatantly dishonest answers I can remember in any elements in essentially Byzan - presidential race in my lifetime… I don’t know how you can THE CHIAN FEDERATION tine Icons. debate someone with civility if they’re prepared to say things Vassilaki concluded her lec - that are factually false.” HELLENIC AMERICAN CULTURAL CENTER ture with a discussion of the Up next: Biden vs. Ryan, on Thursday night. Stay tuned! 44-01 BROADWAY archival and visual evidence of ASTORIA, NEW YORK 11103

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PhotoS: tnh/theoDore kaLmoukoS The Hellenic Organization Paideia inaugurated its new outdoors theater at its Center of Greek Dimitri Giannaros, former Connecticut State Assemblyman, presents a check to Ilias Tomazos, Studies on the campus of the University of Connecticut on September 29. Agiasmo Service president of the Paideia society in the amount of $5000 to the applause of guests. (blessing of the water) officiated by Rev. Constantine Simonis. Paideia Inaugurates an Outdoor Theater at the University of Connecticut

Continued from page 1 soul and the inspiration of this Bristol, CT but he doesn’t talk the construction of the Center with the help of our Greek- jects tremendously. magnificent project. When we about it. He is a very humble for Hellenic Studies and the American students we cut the Tomazos said “since 1990 ing on this project with our started as an association in the man. He is a good person and a chapel in honor of the Three Hi - tress with great enthusiasm and they have given us more than friends from Paideia for many beginning, we could never have great Hellene.” erarchs, but we faced some everybody was talking about it 450,000. For the theater specif - years and I am so happy that imagine that we would do the Fotios Papadimitrakopoulos practical problems and we went here at the University.” ically they have given us since we have arrived to today’s suc - things that we have done.” professor of nanotechnology at on with the Center and the Tomazos said “you will be 2006 mote than 160,000 and cess and I believe that they will William Michel had traveled UConn and also Paideia’s secre - chapel and left for a while the surprised to see how many peo - last year 180,000. I can’t find continue to be successful in 50 miles to be present at the tary , said “you have to have big theater. We revisited the issue ple come and volunteer their words to thank them. Also the everything they do.” ceremonies. He said “I came to doses of “craziness” to do com - in 1990, we had to do some ne - time, marble men, painters, con - Panmacedonian Association has Soroniatis said he has been honor Ilias Tomazos. We are all plete a great project.” Andreas gotiations with the neighbors struction workers.” contributed 11,500.” “friends with Ilias Tomazos since very proud of what he has Karpouzis from Massachusetts and the zoning and finally we The theater cost about one Neither Greece nor the Greek our school years at the Venetok - done.” said that “I am astonished with managed to get the permission.” million. Tomazos said “we took Orthodox Archdiocese of Amer - leian High School in Rhodes, George Hatzinikolas said “I this magnificent theater; I re - Tomazos also said that we estimates in 1999 and the prices ica helped at all. Tomazos said Greece. I came to the United come from the same village as spect Ilias Tomazos a great deal started in 2006 with personal ranged from 9 to 15 million be - “the Archdiocese sends us a States for graduate studies and Ilias, Soroni, in Rhodes, and for what he has done all these labor as we have done for our cause it is a difficult project, but priest to give a blessing and we have been back in Greece for when he first started we were years humbly and quietly.” projects. I remember that we with our personal labor it cost are happy with that.” the last 23 years. Today Greece told him ‘Ilias are you crazy?’ Il - Ilias Tomazos in an interview needed $25,000 to cut the tress us around 1 million.” Tomazos was instrumental in and America have spoken ias did it! This is his second with TNH said that “the idea of and clean the land but we did The Greek-American Organi - embedding the teaching of the through the mouth of one per - great project. His first one was the theater started in 1986 not want to pay all that money zation Pan Gregorian of Con - Greek language into 15 High son, Ilias Tomazos, who is the the building of the church in when we first filed our plans for because we didn’t have it, so necticut helped the Paideia pro - Schools in Connecticut. Women’s Soccer Coach Len Tsantiris an Athletic and Academic Force at UConn

By Kenneth Best soccer, but most Greeks in the ful,” he said he said of his acter. “You help them to be com - UConn Today area know him for his violin AHEPA work. petitive, but in a fair way, and playing. He plays at the Greek Tsantiris’ long involvement in also to work together as a team STORRS, CT - Although Gregory festivals along with his wife, soccer has been recognized with and respect each other,” he said. Stamos ’77 (CLAS) and Univer - who plays keyboard.” Stamos awards many times in the past, He loves the system of col - sity of Connecticut Huskies said that Tsantiris was a main - including as NCAA Division I lege sports in America because women’s soccer coach Len Tsan - stay at the Hartford restaurant Women’s National Coach of the it is inspired by the ancient tiris ’77 (ED), were students at “Basel’s” which was owned by Year in 1997. He has led the Greeks and their belief that the the main campus in Storrs at the his godparents. “Hilary Clinton Huskies to 28 NCAA National body and mind must be trained same time, they did not know wrote in her book that it was Tournaments, including 26 together, saying, “That’s what I each other. Stamos watched her father’s favorite Greek straight from 1982 – 2007. do. I help them become com - Tsantiris play soccer as he restaurant when she was a stu - “You look at his resume and plete human beings.” helped the Huskies reach the dent at Yale.” it’s outstanding. We’re not al - When his students apply for Sweet 16 and Elite Eight in the AHEPA has for many years lowed to lobby anyone, but he jobs with major companies he NCAA men’s soccer tournament. inducted athletes and special was selected.” Stamos says. “You sees that they are valued them But Stamos later got to know contributors, such as coaches look at who is in our Hall of for the discipline and integrity Tsantiris through their shared and members of the media, into Fame. He’s in his rightful place. that goes with their competitive - Greek heritage, as they would its Athletic Hall of Fame, a Lenny deserves to be there.” ness. exchange greetings and chat at process that allows chapters He arrived in the US in the He is active with the Center Greek festivals throughout Con - from around the nation to nom - 70’s and lived first in New York. for Hellenic Studies Paideia necticut. Tsantiris would be inate candidates to the 20-mem - Photo by StePhen SLaDe ’89 (SFa) For uconn) He transferred to UConn and af - which sponsors Greek studies leading his Greek band in per - ber national selection commit - Head women’s soccer coach Len Tsantiris ’77 (ED) was in - ter his playing days were over abroad and has helped them to formances on the violin and Sta - tee. Earlier this year, Tsantiris ducted earlier this year into the Athletic Hall of Fame of AHEPA, he began coaching the girls’ soc - raise funds for its endeavors. mos would be meeting col - was selected as a member of the the largest Greek-American fraternal organization. cer team at a local high school. “Elias Tomazos has done a great leagues through his national 2012 induction class to the UConn the tapped him as a tem - job taking students from Amer - involvement with the American AHEPA Athletic Hall of Fame. nis champion Pete Sampras, and tiris’ players consistently rank porary coach and hired him per - ica to Greece to take courses Hellenic Education Progressive Stamos serves as chair of the Bob Costas. high first or second for scholarly manently when he took the there.” They are very excited Association (AHEPA), the largest AHEPA Athletic Hall of Fame “He was elected the first time achievement among the univer - team to the final four nation - about the new amphitheater in Greek-American fraternal orga - and nominated Tsantiris, who he was nominated, in the cate - sity’s 30 teams, adding, “His ally, the ancient style at UConn that nization. joins 125 previous inductees gory for non-athletes called teams are known for combining Tsantiris told TNH what he had its grand opening on Sep - “He was a great player,” Sta - that include prominent names ‘contributors,’” Stamos said. academic and athletic success.” loves the most about coaching tember 29. mos told TNH, “and is the sec - such as Detroit Lions star Alex AHEPA also honors young “My pride and joy are Hel - in college is the opportunity to ond winningest coach in the his - Karras, Major League Baseball athletes for their academic abil - lenism and sports and to be able teach young people about life Additional reporting by TNH tory of Division 1 women’s pitcher Milt Pappas, major ten - ity and Stamos noted that Tsan - to combine the two is wonder - and helping them to build char - Staff.

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DEATH NOTICES CLASSIFIEDS HELP WANTED LEGAL NOTICE n DESPOTERIS, ELLEN daughter of George and Strate - painter, Small business owner, (Moutisoulis) Kitsis of Manches - HARTFORD, CT – (From The goula Galanis. A few years after father and grandfather. Larry ter. He resided in Greece, before Busy medical office in ASTORIA Notice of Formation of MR. NICE TOY LLC. Hartford Courant, published on her marriage to Plato enjoyed the challenge and hard immigrating to Manchester in searching for a full time front Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 09/24/12. Office location: Sept. 5) – Ellen (Diminaki) Economos, the couple moved to work associated with building 1976. Giorgios attended Man - desk RECEPTIONIST. Must Kings County. Princ. office of LLC: 2300 Despoteris, 81, of Rocky Hill, Newberry (1963) where they his real estate investment Busi - chester High School Central. In speak English/Greek. Experi - Linden Blvd., Brooklyn, NY 11208. SSNY passed away on September 2, owned and operated Sunset ness and to tending to many of his earlier years, he owned and ence is preferred. Duties include designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY 2012, after a long illness. She Drive In Restaurant (also known the details himself. He made the operated Astro Pizza and Lev - answering busy phone lines, shall mail process to the LLC at the addr. was predeceased by her hus - by many as Plato's) until Plato's maintenance of his apartments endis Pizza. Later, he operated multi-tasking, and greeting pa - of its princ. office. Purpose: Any lawful ac - band of 60 years, Charles death in 1977. Litsa continued a family affair providing his Giorgios Construction Company tients. Call (917) 716-1755 or tivity 272213/18295 Despoteris, who recently passed her restaurant business through - three daughters the opportunity for several years. He was a e-mail to away. She was a longtime resi - out the years until her recent re - to learn the value of a hard day's member of the Assumption of [email protected] dent of Wethersfield. Born in tirement in early 2012. She was work. Larry was a thrifty, hum - the Virgin Mary Greek Orthodox 117007/760/10-6 LEGAL NOTICE Lemnnos, Greece, Ellen immi - a member of Holy Trinity Greek ble, and inquisitive - traits he Church as well as the Fourka grated to this country in 1956. Orthodox Church of Columbia. and his wife, Pitsa, instilled into Fraternal Education Society. Notice of Formation of MINNIE SAYS LLC, She worked as a seamstress for She is survived by her daughter their daughters. As a lifelong Giorgios was an avid outdoors - Journalists a domestic LLC, Arts. of Org. filed with SSNY on 08/21/2012. Office location: Marion brothers for many years and son-in-law, Toula Economos member of the Saint Demetrios man and avid hunter. He en - The National Herald Kings County. SSNY designated as agent of and also co-owned several and Hal Hubbard of Charlotte; Greek Orthodox Church in Rock joyed traveling, especially to LLC upon whom process against it may be seeks college students served. SSNY shall mail process to: THE pizzerias and restaurants in the grandchildren, Christopher and River, Ohio, he served as a Greece. He will be remembered LLC, P.O. BOX 250470, BROOKLYN, Hartford area. Ellen enjoyed Zoë Hubbard; step-granddaugh - Member of the parish council for his caring and selfless ways. for part-time journalist work NY 11225. Purpose: any lawful activity. traveling, cooking, sewing and ter, Andrea Hubbard, brothers, and was also a member of the He was fond of his beloved from across the U.S. 272214/18294 spending time with her grand - Denis (Vicki) Galanis of Long Is - Order of Ahepa. Larry loved his dogs. In addition to his parents children. She was a longtime land, NY and Kosta Galanis of church and enjoyed spending of Manchester; family members Must have member of St. George Greek Or - NY, NY; nephew, George Galanis time with his family. He appre - include his two sisters, Dorothea good knowledge LEGAL NOTICE thodox Cathedral in Hartford. of Long Island, NY. She was pre - ciated the adventure of traveling Gakis and her husband, Ilias, of of English and Greek. Ellen is survived by her devoted deceased by her husband, Plato and outdoor activities and was Manchester and Christine Kitsis JJV 97 COURT LLC, a domestic LLC, Arts. Please send resume to: of Org. filed with the SSNY on 6/25/12. son and daughter-in-law, Economos and son, Chris always eager to learn new of Merrimack; his nephew, Office location: Kings County. SSNY is des - Emanuel and Jean Despoteris of Economos. Funeral services will things. Larry is survived by his Christos Valandes Gakis of Man - [email protected] ignated as agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served. SSNY shall Rocky Hill; her cherished grand - be conducted at 4:00 PM, Sat - wife of 46 years, Pat "Pitsa" (nee chester; his uncle, Kosta Mout - mail process to: Joseph Keenan, 88 Pine children, Nicholas and Eleni urday, September 1 at the Gourdomihalis); Daughters sioulis and his wife, Nikki, of St., 21st Fl, NY, NY 10005. General Pur - Despoteris and her adored Whitaker Funeral Home Chapel Elena-Helen (Bill) Nicolozakes Manchester; his cousin, poses. 272189/10709 great-grandson, Nicholas Despo - by Father Michael Platanis. In - of Zanesville, Anna (Don) Nicholas Moutsioulis of Man - LEGAL NOTICE teris, all of Rocky Hill. She also terment will follow in Newberry Younker of Akron, Athanasia- chester as well as many other leaves her sister and brother-in- Memorial Gardens. Visitation Tammy (Matthew) Donelan of aunts, uncles, cousins, and a Notice of formation of PREMIER WORK- LEGAL NOTICE law, James and Loula Adamidis will be from 6:00 to 7:30 PM, Rocky River. Grandchildren godchild, all of Greece. Calling SITE SOLUTIONS, LLC. Application for Au - thority (FOR LLC). Arts. of Organization of Wethersfield; her brother, Tri - Friday at the Whitaker Funeral Paul, Marina and William. Sis - hours will be held Saturday filed with the SSNY on 09/05/2012. Office Notice of formation of 2035 EAST 3RD STREET fono Diminaki of Athens, Greece Home, Newberry. Memorials ters Gianoula of Vrontamas, from 2 to 4 and 6 to 8 p.m. at location: Kings County. SSNY is designated LLC Arts of organization (DOM LLC) filed with and several nieces and nephews may be made to the Holy Trinity Greece and Georgia of Koropi, the Connor-Healy Funeral as agent upon whom process against the the SSNY on 01/20/2012. Office location: Kings LLC may be served. SSNY shall mail process County. SSNY is designated as agent upon whom both here, in Greece and in Italy. Greek Orthodox Church, 1931 Greece. Niece Joanna Theohari, Home and Cremation Center, to: SEAMUS DUGAN, PREMIER WORK- process against the LLC may be served. SSNY She was predeceased by her sis - Sumter Street, Columbia, SC Nephew Chris (Irini) Theohari 537 Union St., corner of Con - SITE SOLUTIONS, LLC, 1078 FULTON ST., shall mail process to: C/O WAC HTEL MASYR & ter, Marika Lapis of Greece. 29201. On line condolences both of Koropi, Greece. He was cord Street, Manchester. The APT. 5G, BROOKLYN, NY 11238. Purpose: MISSRY LLP Attn: Eli D. Dweck, 885 2nd Ave, Any Lawful Activity. 47th Flr., NEW YORK, NY 10017. Purpose: any The funeral service will be held may be sent to the family at preceded in death by his brother Trisagion service will take place 272194/18282 lawful purpose or activity. on Friday at 10:30 a.m. at St. www.whitakerfuneralhome.com Demetrios and his sister Mar - Saturday in the funeral home 272167/18255 George Greek Orthodox Cathe - . Whitaker Funeral Home of garita, both of Kosmas, Greece. with the Rev. Athanasios Nenes LEGAL NOTICE dral, 433 Fairfield Avenue, Hart - Newberry is assisting the fam - All funeral services will be held officiating. Burial will take place ford, CT 06114. Burial will fol - ily. Monday, September 10, 2012, , in Agios Athanasios Cemetery, Notice of formation of limited liability com - FUNERAL HOMES low in Cedar Hill, Cemetery, 11 a.m. at the St. Demeterios Fourka, Konitsis, Greece. In lieu pany (LLC). Name: Lazy Mas L.L.C. Articles of Organization filed with Secretary of State ANTONOPOULOS Hartford. There are no calling n GEORGE, LARRY Greek Orthodox Church, 22909 of flowers, memorial donations of New York (SSNY) on 07/23/2012. NY hours. The D'Esopo Funeral CLEVELAND, OH – (From The Center Ridge Road. The family may be made to the Assumption office location: Kings County. SSNY has FUNERAL HOME, INC. been designated as agent of the LLC upon Chapel is in charge of arrange - Plain Dealer, published on Sept. will receive friends at the Greek Orthodox Church, 222 Is - whom process against it may be served. Konstantinos Antonopoulos - ments. In lieu of flowers, memo - 8) – Larry Thomas George CATAVOLOS-BERRY FUNERAL land Pond Road, Manchester, The post office address to which the SSNY Funeral Director rial contributions can be made (Giortsi), passed away peace - HOME, 23040 Center Ridge 03109 or to the Hellenic Cardiac shall mail a copy of any process against the LLC served upon him/her is: Trena De Lan - 38-08 Ditmars Blvd., to St. George Greek Orthodox fully among his family on Thurs - Road, Westlake Ohio 44145, Fund for Children, C/O Chil - dro, 250 Hawthorne St., Apt. 3C Brooklyn, Astoria, New York 11105 Cathedral. For online expres - day, September 6, 2012, after a SUNDAY 6-8PM, with TRISA - dren's Hospital, 1 Autumn St. NY 11225. Purpose/character of LLC: Any sions of sympathy, please visit period of declining health. He GION SERVICE 7:30PM. Inter - #731, Boston, MA 02215. Cour - lawful purpose. (718) 728-8500 www.desopo.com. was born May 18, 1938 in Kos - ment Lakewood Park Cemetery. tesy local transportation for call - 272195/18283 Not affiliated with any mas, Greece, son of the late For the love he had for his ing hours will be provided on LEGAL NOTICE other funeral home. n ECONOMOS, LITSA Thanasi and Eleni (nee Lam - church, in lieu of flowers, those request by contacting Daniel J. GALANIS brou) George. At the age of 17, who wish to make a memorial Healy at 622-8223. For more in - Notice of Formation of Mathis Holdings LITRAS FUNERAL HOME LLC, Art. of Org. filed Sec'y of State (SSNY) NEWBERRY, SC (From The Larry immigrated to the United contribution to the St. formation or to sign the online 7/19/12. Office location: Kings County. ARLINGTON Greenville News, published on States In 1955 to escape the Demetrios Philoptochos Society guest registry, please visit: SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon BENSON DOWD, INC Aug. 31) – Litsa Galanis hardships of Greece and to seek or the Cooley's Anemia Founda - www.connorhealy.com. whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to Joseph FUNERAL HOME Economos, 74, of Newberry, a better life in America. Larry tion, 330 Seventh Avenue, Weingarten, 1465 President St., Brooklyn, 83-15 Parsons Blvd., died on August 28, 2012. Litsa found employment in Ohio #200, New York, NY 10001. On - n LACHANOS, EVANTHIA NY 11213. Purpose: any lawful activities. was born in 1938 in Vassara, La - working for his uncles Peter and line tributes and condolences GREENVILLE, SC (From The 272178/10834 Jamaica, NY 11432 conia, Greece. She was the Ted making candy at the Sugar may be viewed or expressed. Greenville News, published on LEGAL NOTICE (718) 858-4434 Bowl in Massillon. Later, he catavolosfuneralhome.com Aug. 28) - Evanthia "Eva" Geor - • (800) 245-4872 found opportunity in Cleveland ganta Lachanos, 85, of 2 Notice of formation of 188 NOLL LLC Arts. of Organization (DOM LLC) filed with the Days and dates of funerals, by joining the Painters Union n KITSIS, GIORGIOS Elkhorn Drive, widow of Nick SSNY on 07/26/2012. Office location: APOSTOLOPOULOS memorials, and other events Local #867. Driven to better MANCHESTER, NH (From the Lachanos, died Sunday, August Kings County. SSNY is designated as agent Apostle Family - himself and provide for his fam - Union Leader, published on 26, 2012 at Greenville Memorial upon whom process against the LLC may directly correspond to the be served. SSNY shall mail process to: The Gregory, Nicholas, Andrew - original publication date, ily, he was known to work end - Aug. 31) - Giorgios I. Kitsis, 46, Medical Center. 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ALL HISTORY Whodunnit? “The Barber Did It”: More Tales of Bloody Greek Barbers

By Steve Frangos working as barbers, are cited as apparently believing us to be ac - there the two reported to Mrs. given a life sentence. As best as TNH Staff Writer all manners of thieves and mur - quaintances." As was later rea - Delorey that a young girl had I can determine from public ders in the American press. soned out by the police, in the been killed in Cambridge. Al - records, Spiropoulos died in PART SIx Were it merely a few scattered dark of the evening, Mullins ini - though the two young men had prison. Nonetheless, I find it es - individuals we could perhaps at - tially mistook the eighteen year been working at the farm they pecially striking that no one in CHICAGO- Since the 1820s, tribute this to some statistical old Peter Delorey for Peter both soon left. Young Delorey 1909 asked why Spiropoulos many Americans have held a occurrence common to these Downey, an acquaintance of for Boston where he became a murdered Annie Mullins. No ex - dazzling array of ideas, opin - crimes within society at large. hers. As Delorey continued: "We butcher and the 20 year-old planation has ever been offered. ions, and stereotypes concern - But not only are these acts of walked together to Squires field, Spiropoulos for Manchester, NH What are we to take away ing the Greeks living in their im - murder, or at the very least at - Arlington, and returned to where he changed his name to from this all too brief survey of mediate vicinity. tempted murder, found nearly where we started. The evening James Mantir and quickly ac - Greek barbers as portrayed in These constantly changing on an annual basis, they are being still early we walked back quired work as a barber. the pages of the American press? images can be readily found committed overwhelmingly by again, entering Squires field by As freely reported in the Clearly these events took place. scattered across folklore, popu - barbers. way of Marathon street. Mullins American press, "For more than Residents of small town America lar songs, newspaper accounts, After surveying over 100 in - and Spiropoulos [information a year the case completely baf - read these accounts and memo - academic studies, vaudeville dividual newspaper accounts on about him later] went into the fled the authorities, who were ries are long. When what was acts, street corners, diners, and Greek barbers it is amazing to sand pit while I stood some dis - unable to obtain the slightest taught in school or read by other such common place discover exactly how many were tance away. I heard him strike clue to the perpetrators of the chance in some book is long venues. Unfortunately, over the involved or charged with mur - the girl, and heard a thud as outrage (Palestine Daily Herald gone tales heard on street cor - last 100 years the characteriza - der. That is not to say Greek im - she fell down, followed by sev - November 2, 1909)." It is clear ners or read in the daily news - tions found in popular culture migrants other than barbers eral screams. There was much that Delorey and Spiropoulos papers are still vividly recalled. have had more of an impact on were never suspected, arrested, noise for some time after, but I would never have been discov - To be sure the overwhelming the average person than has sus - or found guilty of murder. But was afraid to go near them. Af - ered were it not for Mrs. Delorey majority of Greek barbers in tained academic study. But in my own surveys of Greeks in ter a while, Spiropoulos came contacting local police. Mrs. De - America, or anywhere for that Greeks in North America should various fields of work, over a to me with his hands smeared lorey explained that she had not matter, were law abiding citizens not feel singled out, as this phe - period of time now spanning with blood and threatened me wanted to implicate her nephew and as a professional class re - nomenon is not restricted to over thirty years, I have never saying that if I ever told any per - but in the end felt compelled to main so to this day. Greeks alone. seen such a concentration of Ready for your shave? No son of what had happened he do so. Not only did she come to No one will be Greek for us. Nevertheless, the history of crime attributed to any other Thanks. would kill me." realize the two youths could not These news accounts of Greek Greeks in the United States does profession undertaken by Greek As was described later in of - have known of the killing on the barbers are not some forgotten not begin and end with each of immigrants. topic, no more tragic an account ficial documents, the left- very night that it took place but accounts of the distant past. Dis - our family's experiences. Nor is Be advised that the newspa - seems to exist than the murder handed Spiropoulos cut Mullins' she also found Spiropoulos' regarding other Greeks and their it bounded by the experiences per accounts I uncovered, are of young Annie Mullins. Some - throat with a sharp object al - sweater had retained blood actions as being outside one's of your friends and fellow not restricted to the metropoli - time after 7PM, on March 27, most to the spinal column. In marks. personal circle of family and church members. We must ex - tan press. Small city newspapers 1908, Mullins, an unmarried 26 four quick cuts, Spiropoulos had On March 30, 1909, nearly friends in no way influences the tend our influence into the gen - as well as the most remote of year-old who worked as a do - completely severed the gullet one full year since the killing, average American. In the popu - eral American consciousness American rural hamlets regu - mestic servant in the household and the jugular vein nearly de - Delorey and Spiropoulos were lar imagination, a Greek is a well beyond what the average larly carried accounts of mur - of Harvard University Professor capitating the young woman. arrested. The testimony of Mrs. Greek. If we are not in full com - individual may or may not know ders and other events that in - von Jagemann, left without While signs of struggle were ev - Delorey, the sweater, and Peter mand of our collective history, of Classical Greece. We cannot volved Greek barbers. Time and telling anyone where she was ident, it was later noted that, Delorey's subsequent confession who can say what lies will be expect food festivals or bake space constraints focus this going. What happened next Mullins' hat stayed pinned to made for a speedy trial. Within written about us? As any think - sales to be the full extent of our piece on one specific crime, but seems to have been nothing her hair and her gloves re - two weeks, Peter Delorey was ing Greek knows such false ac - cultural presence on the Ameri - the other murders and mayhem more than chance. As Peter De - mained on her hands. convicted of manslaughter and counts already exist. How will can mind. involving Greek barbers as re - lorey later told the police: "We The two youths immediately sentenced to 18 to 20 years in you answer someone should they After all is said and done, we ported in the American press of met Miss Mullins on the night returned to Peter Delorey's aunt prison. Delorey received a par - raise the existence of a tale of a are left with an exceedingly odd the 1900s could fill an entire of March 27th near the Porter and uncles' farm in Billerica, don after serving 14 years. Dion - bloody Greek American barber? historical mystery. Beginning, at newspaper, if not a book. street station of the Boston and Massachusetts which is some 20 isios Spiropoulos was convicted least, in the 1870s, Greeks, From my readings on the Maine railroad. She spoke to us, miles northwest of Boston. Once of second degree murder and [email protected]

GREEK AMERICAN STORIES A Pink Heart

By Phylis (Kiki) Sembos mas was unknown in my house taken and we, quickly, erased tention back to the present as I a pink sweater and a jewelry box Special to The National Herald due to my father’s unemploy - him from our minds as we entered a department store that opened to a dancing balle - ment in the Great Depression. inched towards the table laden where I searched for something rina. I wish I could watch the Early last month I went to the What money he could earn went with gifts. a six year-old, size 7-8 little girl little girl Christmas morning. It Westwood Library in Northern for food – food often being oat - Of course, like children would like. I asked myself: what doesn’t matter! Choosing it gave New Jersey to borrow a book meal for dinner. Being janitors whose imagination could run would I have liked to receive at me the very same giggly excite - and browse the shelf of new ad - of a tenement building we didn’t amok, we went away holding the time? ment and anticipation I’d felt ditions. Beside the shelf was a have to worry about rent. our disappointments – Nicky got After deliberation I chose a those many years ago when I huge board covered with small The line to enter the Madison a game that we couldn’t figure pair of light gray corduroy pants, held a ticket to a dream. pink, paper hearts with num - Square Garden was long and the out how it was played, Catherine bers, sizes and ages of a ‘some - weather was numbingly icy. My got a rag doll with black button one’ who, in all probability, was - brother, Nicky, dreamed of a bi - eyes and a red bonnet made by n’t expecting a Christmas gift cycle; I wanted a typewriter. I the kind ladies of some organi - this year. was dreaming of writing even at zation on the other side of town, I questioned the librarian eight years of age. “Fat chance and I got the rag doll’s sister about it. She explained that the of that happening!” pessimistic whose bonnet was blue. town council selected names of Catherine said. Somehow, I felt happy be - Hellenic families with low incomes or the We got in, finally, and sat un - cause it was the first Christmas unemployed families with chil - til the police organized an or - gift I’d ever received until the dren. My imagination traveled derly line rather than risk a rush following Christmas when we back to a time when my brother, that might incur an accident. expected to get another ticket. my friend Catherine, and I had While waiting, a reporter came I, clumsily, sewed dresses for my Leaders received special tickets from the up to us and asked us questions rag doll , which I named Molly. Police Athletic League (PAL) that – questions that were, unbe - My imagination had turned that entitled us to a gift. It was a few knownst to us, being written doll into a model. A baby doll Series days before Christmas and I was down for publication in the Her - was boring, I figured. giggly with anticipation. Christ - ald Tribune. We got our photo A cold wind snapped my at - The National Herald c v Lanthimos Builds on Black Humor and Anxiety

Continued from page 1 fearless, aggressive, and like the goddess Athena assumes many guises. She dances awkwardly, has sexless sex, and occasionally breaks down in something be - tween laughter and tears. Ap - parently moved to a sincere emotional expression, a no-no in her roleplaying, she can’t quite get it out. As for the individuals who re - quest the Alps service, their in - teraction with fake loved ones takes on a darkly comic quality. A woman’s husband cheated on Ariane Labed plays a young gymnast in "Alps," a fascinating her with her best friend. She new film from Yorgos Lanthimos to be shown at the New York serves tea to the “best friend”, City Greek Film Festival opening Oct. 6. and then weakly punches at the friend and husband when she life is not worth living.” Monday, Oct. 15, at 9PM at Cin - catches them making love. [As part of the New York City ema Village, 22 East 12th Street Throughout the film, we be - Greek Film Festival, Alps will in Manhattan. The Festival runs lieve the nurse (none of the have a special screening on Oct. 6-17.] characters have real names) goes home at night to look after her father tenderly and admin - ister his eye drops. In the end, we learn it’s just one more part that she’s been playing. Lanthi - mos continues to question tra - ditional Greek family roles. The good Greek daughter even makes a pass at her “father.” When the nurse makes the enormous mistake of actual liv - ing, getting emotionally in - volved in her roles, it’s curtains www.GreekKitchennyc.com Andy Manatos for her. She’s fired from the Alps group and thrust out of her make-believe world. She’s forced back into herself. This is tragic. She appears to have no Don’t miss the newest edition identity, other than the role thrust upon her by a superficial society. of our “Hellenic Leaders” series We can’t wait to see what Lanthimos will do next. Although on October 13 this film is part of the Greek new wave, you won’t find anything in it that hints of Greece – noth - featuring ing obvious that is. No Greek mu - sic, food, coffee, newspapers, tavli. But Greek fatalism rules. Andrew E. Manatos As the great Greek philosopher Socrates said: “The unexamined 8 GREECE THE NATIONAL HERALD, OCTOBER 6-12, 2012 Greek-American Group END Claims to Have Money to Pay off Greece’s Debt

TNH Staff and chairman of the Committee With respect to conditions, on Greeks Abroad, disputed Lam - they said there are only two: to ATHENS – The people of Greece brakis’ claims. He told TNH that set up a tripartite committee of have been dazzled in recent days he will meet with the Canadian members of the Greek Supreme by the assertions of a group of Di - ambassador, as they claim that Court, the Areos Pagos, who will aspora Greeks who say they con - the wealth is deposited in a bank endorse and confirm the legality trol up to $650 billion that they in Canada. of the national that will be repaid. wish to put at the disposal of Georgiades said he is thinking The committee will be chosen by Greece and Cyprus with the aim seriously of turning to prosecutors an international jury of 17 econ - of lifting their debt burdens, aid - to "put an end to the myths” that omists. ing the needy, and stimulating the have disturbed the people of Another committee of Are - Greek and Cypriot economies. Greece. opagites will be selected to inves - The claims of the group END During the telecast (the videos tigate all public servants from – End National Debt – to have ac - are posted on the website 1974 to the present for illegal en - cess to 600 billion euros, which www.ekirikas.com), END’s legal richment at the expense of the have been variously described as adviser George Papadakis (who public. Georgiadis said to TNH: bonds, bank deposits, or U.S. has the same name as the show’s "Look, in Greece people are very treasury, have been trumpeted by host) said that "in a few hours depressed. When the hearing the media and have seized the at - there will be a formal announce - about the Greek Diaspora, they tention of government officials, ment at a global banking forum react positively. It is one of the who declared that they are inves - about the 600 billion euros that eurokiniSSi few positive things we have left.” tigating matters. have been deposited in a bank in Talking heads talking trash on ANT1 in Greece. Representatives of the organization END defend The issue, nevertheless, has The finance minister issued a Canada." At that point Georgiadis their claims of possessing massive wealth against the criticisms of ND deputy Andonis Geor - generated hope and has come to statement calling the whole thing intervened and declared “if the giades, whose microphone was cut off by TV host Giorgos Papadakis. engage almost everyone in “a joke.” Dr. Manolis Lambrakis, Bank of Canada officially stated Greece – positively and nega - best known in the United States that there are 600 billion avail - is only END’s legal advisor: “Lis - ments from Arabs, and as soon speak,” he said the control, ex - tively. Even serious financial web - as an internet radio personality, able for Greece, then its borrow - ten Mr. Papadakis: Mr. Lambrakis, as he had to pay, he disappeared." plained that he is being prevented sites are speculating about what has presented himself as the head ing rates will automatically drop who is sitting next to you, has Lambrakis defended himself, from performing his role as mod - might happen. On the one hand, of the group. Group members’ ap - to 0%. The country will then be been convicted in America for noting that he was responsible for erator. the group was officially invited to pearances on Greek TV, including able to borrow the next day after tax evasion and was sentenced to liabilities left behind when his sis - Lambrakis and Papadakis then Cyprus and visited the Ministry the ANT1 program of Giorgos all the money it wants because it imprisonment and community ter died, and then stating he re - said that had intended to reveal of Finance, but on the other hand Papadakis, have raised tensions will have that guarantee." service. It’s a bit too much for a fused to answer questions from the name of the bank in which the man who supposedly de - while evoking ironic smiles Both Lambrakis and Papadakis convicted fraudster to play the New Democracy members, and they deposited the money yester - posited the billions, Sorras, who among the saavy and feelings of said that Georgiades was com - judge over other people." saying “Andonis Georgiadis does day afternoon, that they would presents himself as being richer hope among those desperate to pletely ignorant about econom - Georgiadis did not hesitate to not know how to ask questions. also present the evidence that than Croesus, does not appear see an end to their struggles. ics. compare the two to the emirs – All he does is talk.” they have already made two de - on any list of wealthy individuals Their appearance on the At one point Georgiadis could the Saudi princes who wanted to The outburst prompted Pa - posits in favor of Greece and such as those of the magazine morning show ANT1 is a typical not contain himself and he de - buy the Panathinaikos soccer padakis the presenter to "silence" Cyprus, and that they would ac - Forbes. Bill Gates and Warren manifestation: Andonis Geor - clared that Papadakis will not be team. “We listened to Vlassis Georgiadis: "Cut off Georgiadis’ cept any audit to prove the truth Buffett together do not possess giades, a New Democracy MP able to save himself by saying he Tsakas, who promised invest - microphone. He is not allowed to of their claims. the 600 billion Sorras claims. PM Samaras Sees Hope on the Horizon, as Long as Europe Provides Help

By Rachel Donadio and should ring a bell to our allies Democracy party — he con - their pain every second.” Liz Alderman and to the Western world: that tended that the measures could New Democracy came to The New York Times if this happens in Greece and in be manageable if Greece’s cred - power in part by tapping into Spain and tomorrow in other itors allowed them to be put populist sentiments, tacking ATHENS – He waited his whole countries, that they should into effect gradually over a four- right on immigration in elec - life for this moment, and many make sure this will not inten - year period rather than all at tions that resulted in the entry European leaders see him as sify.” once. The lenders have already of the neo-Nazi Golden Dawn Greece’s last best hope for sta - While fighting to keep given an indication that they are party, known for its attacks on bility. But for Antonis Samaras, Greece’s place in Europe, Mr. ready to accede to his request. immigrants, into Parliament for leading his country is no fun at Samaras is waging an uphill bat - In the meantime, Mr. Sama - the first time. Opinion polls now all. “Do you think anyone can tle to contain the damage at ras is working to lure invest - place Golden Dawn third, after be happy being prime minister home. Unemployment is at 24 ment back to the country, and New Democracy and the leftist of Greece?” he asked in a low percent and rising, and above he outlined a pro-European Syriza party. voice in an interview here on 50 percent for young people, a agenda that he said had already In the interview, Mr. Samaras Friday, placing his elbows on his situation he called his “No. 1 gone a long way toward bur - said “waves of illegal immi - knees. “This is the toughest job problem.” The country’s gross nishing Greece’s credibility and grants” were sweeping Greece, in the world. It’s just pain.” domestic product has dropped image. It includes initiatives to a “major problem” that would Since coming to power in 25 percent since 2009, and an free up markets, root out cor - worsen if Syria imploded and June after two tumultuous elec - estimated 400,000 small busi - ruption and replace the heavy more refugees entered Turkey tions, Mr. Samaras has been la - nesses are at risk of closing in hand of oligarchs, cartels and and then Greece. “Illegal immi - boring to restore Greece’s cred - the coming months. favoritism with a system of mer - grants have taken over Athens,” ibility and to dispel all fears that This is why Mr. Samaras is itocracy. he said, causing a “public health the country could leave the pressing for more time — until In a volatile country, Mr. problem” and a rise in crime. euro, even as the harsh austerity 2016 instead of 2014 — to carry Samaras comes across as rather But even as he echoed some he must impose to keep the out a new $15 billion package low octane. A tall and trim 61, of its words, the prime minister country in the common cur - of deeply unpopular austerity he was born into the country’s said he thought that Golden rency stokes a new wave of so - measures, including cuts to the ruling class and has spent his Dawn was a “bubble that would cial unrest. public sector and pensions and adult life in politics. Educated burst” and that its members Sitting in his office at the new tax brackets, as well as $2.6 at Amherst College, where a for - were not “ideological followers,” Maximos Mansion here, he all billion in new taxes. Greece Greek PM Antonis Samaras was interviewed by the NY Times. mer prime minister, George A. but had joined out of a sense of but declared that he had needs to take these steps in or - Papandreou, was in the same “anti-system” desperation in achieved that goal. “There is ab - der to unlock $40 billion in fi - left Greece in a huff last week, said. dormitory, he speaks quietly and worsening economic times. solutely zero risk that Greece is nancial aid next month from its questioning whether the coun - His message to Greeks was slowly, smiling only occasionally. He said he did not believe in leaving the euro,” he said. But international lenders. Without try could actually make good on clear: Keep the faith; better days Dressed in a gray suit and blue outlawing the extremist group, he implied that the conditions that liquidity, Mr. Samaras its promises after it repeatedly lie ahead. “What I am telling tie, on the day of the interview which has voted with New for euro membership came at a warned, the country could face failed to meet financial targets. you is, ‘There is hope,’ ” he said. he said he was fighting a fever. Democracy in significant parlia - rising political and economic collapse. More wrangling is also ex - “That is all I can offer.” Asked if he had faced the mentary votes. “I believe democ - cost. Mr. Samaras said that Thurs - pected within Mr. Samaras’s un - But his message to Europe types of hardships that have racy is so strong you don’t need On a week when violent day had been one of his happi - ruly coalition, which in a rare was equally clear: Without its fallen on many Greeks, he said: to take extreme measures,” Mr. protests broke out in Greece and est days since taking office, as case for modern Greek history help, his promises may ring “Every one of us in one way or Samaras said. Spain against tighter austerity his government reached a basic has brought together his center- empty. “We are changing, but at another has faced very difficult Still, the coming months are measures and surging unem - agreement on the austerity mea - right New Democracy party, the the same time you have to help hardships. I’m in politics; I sure to test Greek democracy. ployment, and after other mass sures. But the so-called troika once mighty Socialists and a us, you have to help the situa - stayed in my house for 11 years As he contemplated the chal - demonstrations in normally of lenders — the European smaller party, the Democratic tion,” he said. The alternative, because of politics.” He was re - lenges ahead, Mr. Samaras ges - tranquil Portugal, Mr. Samaras Commission, the European Cen - Left. Whether the prime minis - he added, could be “the end of ferring to the years in the 1990s tured to a large allegorical warned the international com - tral Bank and the International ter succeeds will determine Greece.” when he left the New Democ - painting hanging above his munity to pay close attention to Monetary Fund — must still de - whether his government can last Mr. Samaras insisted that this racy party over a policy dispute. desk, depicting freedom leading “this new social phenomenon” cide whether to sign off on the through the winter — let alone round of austerity would be the “Thanks to my family I did not the Greek people. “When you sweeping Europe. package when talks resume in serve its four-year mandate, as last. While few Greeks seem to have problems of that sort,” he come in in the morning and you “This is the product of this Athens next week. he hopes. Mr. Samaras is deter - believe him — and many are added, referring to financial look at this,” he said, casting his huge crisis and this huge reces - Recent history is not promis - mined to see it through. “This upset at a corruption scandal woes. But he said he had empa - eyes upward, “you gain sion we’re in,” he said. “So that ing. Negotiators for the troika is a four-year government,” he now embroiling his New thy for the Greek people. “I feel strength.” Greek Prime Minister Gaining High Marks Lately on European Stage

By Alkman Granitsas and November 2011 Samaras the troika—appeared hung up that he would support the aus - the alternative would be," the inspectors, not try to go around Marcus Walker backs interim coalition govern - on details of some spending re - terity program. aide said. "There was a definite them and negotiate with other Wall Street Journal ment headed by former Euro - ductions and proposed changes In November, amid a political coldness before, but things are political leaders, said a Euro - pean Central Bank Vice Presi - to labor-market rules. crisis that toppled former Prime better now." pean official familiar with the ATHENS – Greek Prime Minis - dent Lucas Papademos; European leaders are eager Minister George Papandreou Nowhere has Mr. Samaras's call. ter Antonis Samaras is under - Euro-zone leaders demand that to avoid the costs of a renewed and rocked global markets as transformation from villain to Berlin officials warn that the going one of the biggest meta - Samaras sign a pledge backing crisis with Greece as they try to fears mounted that Greece partner been more apparent Greek government appears to morphoses of his long political Greece's reform plan, which he protect the common currency would default, Mr. Samaras than with Ms. Merkel, who ulti - be overly confident that it will life: from shrill opponent of Eu - does. and keep other fragile changed tack and backed Eu - mately controls the strings on get its next, €31 billion, loan rope's rescue plan for Greece, to January 2012 Euro-zone economies, such as Spain's and rope's second €173 billion res - the purse financing Greece. payment from Europe and the the man the Continent's leaders leaders demand Samaras sign Italy's, from weakening further. cue plan. He joined a new coali - Early on in the crisis, Ms. IMF, regardless of whether it sat - now see as the best bet for keep - another pledge backing reforms. tion government to negotiate Merkel blamed Mr. Samaras for isfies the troika's demands. ing the country in the euro zone. He complies. that plan. undermining a political consen - For Mr. Samaras, that means Since taking office in June, February 2012 New Democ - Once shunned by At the time, Mr. Samaras said sus for change in Athens and walking a tightrope between a Mr. Samaras, a 61-year-old racy, as part of an interim coali - Europeans, Samaras that the Socialist government's making life harder for the pre - more friendly, but still tight- scion of one of Greece's most tion government, votes to sup - has been lauded for leadership had posed an open vious government. Mr. Samaras fisted Europe on the one hand, prominent families, has strug - port a new €173 billion bailout, threat to the country's euro further angered Ms. Merkel in and a restive Greek public and gled to push ahead with €13.5 accompanying overhauls and bailout leadership membership. 2011 by rebuffing her appeals sometimes reluctant coalition billion ($17.4 billion) in auster - austerity measures In February, Mr. Samaras and for bipartisan support for partners on the other. ity measures to satisfy interna - May 2012 Greece holds na - Mr. Samaras "is seen as diffi - his New Democracy party, as painful overhauls. The talks with the troika tional lenders despite opposition tional elections. New Democ - cult and he's tough. But those part of the coalition, voted in When Mr. Samaras became have exposed rifts in the coun - on the streets of Athens and in racy wins but is unable to form traits also mean he has the best favor of the new bailout—as prime minister in June, Ms. try's three-way coalition govern - Parliament. a coalition government; new chance of pushing through the well as the austerity measures Merkel decided to put past dis - ment—made up of the conserv - Once shunned by Europe's election called for June. tough changes needed," a senior tied to it. putes aside and give him a ative New Democracy, Socialist leaders, Greek Premier Antonis June 2012 New Democracy European Commission official in Since taking the reins as chance to show that he could Pasok and the Democratic Left Samaras has been winning ku - narrowly defeats radical left Brussels said. "He's the best port prime minister, Mr. Samaras has turn Greece around, "like a new parties—making it harder for it dos since backing the nation's party Syriza. Samaras, vowing we have in this storm. But that's insisted that the country must CEO at a company," one senior to adopt some of the tougher bailout. to speed up reforms and priva - not saying much, giving how swallow the bitter medicine of German official said recently. measures inspectors have rec - November 2009 Antonis tizations, becomes prime minis - much mistrust there is right now." €10.5 billion in cost cuts and €3 Mr. Samaras and his advisers ommended. Samaras elected as leader of ter after forming a new coalition Not long ago, Mr. Samaras billion in new tax measures over made a good impression when No date has been set for a conservative New Democracy government. was one of the most vociferous the next two years. He has said: they visited Berlin in August, parliamentary vote on the new party, becomes opposition So far, that has won cautious critics of the tough conditions "We have to drink the whole convincing Ms. Merkel that they austerity measures, but it is ex - leader. support from other European attached to bailout loans from damn cup." were serious about raising the pected to take place in the next May 2010 Greek Socialist- capitals for Mr. Samaras and his the EU and IMF. As leader of the Such moves have sparked a pace of Greek structural re - few weeks. The coalition, which dominated Parliament approves country. But the mood could opposition in 2010, he called for reassessment of Mr. Samaras by forms, the official said. controls 178 of 300 seats in €110 billion bailout; New sour quickly if Greece fails to a vote against the plan, despite other European leaders. Also The current round of talks Greece's Parliament, is expected Democracy votes against rescue swiftly deliver on promised bud - appeals from German Chancel - playing a part was the surpris - between Greece and the troika, to suffer defections, though not plan. get cuts and restructuring plans lor Angela Merkel and other ingly strong performance of the however, shows the limits to the enough to imperil its majority. May 2011 Samaras presents delayed for months by political leaders. radical left Syriza party—which goodwill Mr. Samaras has In Europe, at least for now, alternative economic plan for turmoil. On Wednesday, negoti - In the year that followed, Mr. repudiates the terms of the helped to engender. Mr. Samaras's star has risen, Greece, calls for tax cuts to ations between Greece and a Samaras maintained his com - bailout—in the elections in May In an effort to smooth the with one European official in boost growth. team of inspectors from the Eu - bative stance, earning a reputa - and June, a close aide to the way to a deal, Mr. Samaras Brussels describing him "as a June 2011 New Democracy ropean Union, the International tion as a troublemaker. Later, Greek premier said. "The Euro - called Ms. Merkel. But the chan - major positive surprise….Some - votes against five-year austerity Monetary Fund and the Euro - EU officials twice demanded peans saw the danger of a cellor told him he needs to reach one we can work with, which plan. pean Central Bank—known as written guarantees from him Syriza victory and realized what an agreement with the team of frankly we didn't expect." THE NATIONAL HERALD, OCTOBER 6-12, 2012 GREECE 9 Crisis Resolution Setback as Greece and Troika at Odds over Budget Cuts

By Andy Dabilis spending TNH Staff TALK, TALK, TALK The Troika is standing tough ATHENS – Greek Prime Minis - with demands for even more cuts, ter Antonis Samaras’ uneasy including reducing severance pay coalition government’s hopes of for fired private sector workers, getting the release of a critical eliminating an automatic 9 per - $38.8 billion loan installment cent pay raise after three years of needed to keep paying workers work, and making Greeks work and pensioners ran into a road - on Saturday, all of which the gov - block when international ernment was said to have re - lenders disputed the adminis - jected, creating an impasse. tration’s projections of $2.58 bil - Samaras’ meeting with the lion in a plan of $17.45 billion Troika troops lasted only 35 in combined spending cuts and minutes, leading to speculation tax hikes. that there was a deadlock, al - Compounding Samaras’ though his office denied it, problems was the embarrass - along with refuting another re - ment of two lists of Greece’s port that he called European wealthy trying to hide their as - Commission President Jose sets: the first of 33 politicians Manuel Barroso and European being examined to determine Union President Herman Van the source of their income, Rompuy to ask for their political which was leaked to the media, support in the talks. and a second list of 1,991 Greek media also reported Greeks who had deposited that the IMF’s point man in $1.39 billion in the Geneva, Athens, Bob Traa, was talking Switzerland branch of the HSBC to fuel company leaders to dis - bank. cuss ways of increasing compe - The bulk of the deposits, aP PhotoS/thanaSSiS StavrakiS some $1.29 billion, came from Gen. Michalis Kostarakos (above top center, using a micro - only 20 people, but what really phone) asks from protesters to leave Greece's Defense Ministry riled Greeks was the revelation in Athens, Thursday, Oct. 4, 2012. Greek police clashed with that the names have long been scores of protesting shipyard workers Thursday after they known and were on a stolen CD forced their way into the grounds of Greece's Defense Ministry given former Finance Minister in Athens. More than 100 protesters forced open the shuttered George Papaconstantinou by his entrance to the ministry complex, crossing the courtyard and then French counterpart, Chris - blocking the entrance to the general staff building. tine Lagarde, who has gone on to head the International Mon - garde now said it could have Samaras, the New Democ - etary Fund, one of the Troika of been used to try to detect po - racy Conservative leader, had Greece’s lenders putting up res - tential tax evaders. hoped to gain approval in time cue monies. The lists have detracted at - to ram the package through the The CD went missing, Papa - tention from the government’s Parliament his government con - constantinou said, after it was problem trying to convince the trols and before Eurozone fi - passed on to the financial crimes Troika of the European Union- nance ministers meet on Oct. 8. squad SDOE, but when current International Monetary Fund- But friction remained with his Finance Minister Yiannis European Central Bank to ac - coalition partners, Venizelos, Stournaras vowed to find it, PA - cept its estimates of how much and Democratic Left leader Fotis SOK Socialist leader Evangelos could be saved in budget cuts Kouvelis, who accepted his blue - Venizelos produced a copy he and raised in taxes for the 2013- print but said they still had had kept on a memory stick. 14 period. Until an agreement reservations about some of the Venizelos said he got the list is reached, the $38.8 billion in - harshest measures and the when he was finance minister stallment, the last in a first se - planned suspension of 15,000 under a previous government ries of $152 billion in rescue public workers to save money. and was pushing austerity mea - loans won’t be released, and the In a bid to appease the sures and doubling income and Troika is also holding back a sec - Troika, the government has re - property taxes but said he didn’t ond bailout of $172 billion until portedly agreed to scrap what try $70 billion – a bill that rises reports that Greece will get the tition after a draft IMF report act on it because it was unlaw - more reforms and austerity is left of Christmas, Easter and as much as $15 billion a year – next loan installment no matter indicated that Greeks paid about fully obtained, although La - measures are passed. summer bonuses, given workers continue to largely escape. what happens because EU lead - $1 billion more per year for fuel that fueled consumer spending Despite some widely-publi - ers fear a Greek default would than they should. The IMF during important holiday peri - cized arrests earlier this year, jeopardize the integrity of the wants to see the sector liberal - ods for businesses, leading to there has not been a single pros - Eurozone, the 17 countries that ized and independent gas sta - estimates from retail federations ecution against a major tax use the euro as a currency. tions not have to maintain large that as many as 400,000 more cheat, fueling growing Greek Samaras said he would like an - inventories. That could be diffi - could close as Greeks close their anger which spilled over into other two years to administer cult, as tax increases have wallets and pocketbooks. Farm - the streets during a massive reforms and reduce the deficit helped push the cost of gasoline ers’ pensions, the lowest in protest and general strike on from 9.3 to 3 percent and try to in Greece to nearly $10 a gallon, Greece, are also likely to be Sept. 26, with more planned. make a dent in the $380 billion leading to the closing of more slashed by 30 euros, or $38.85 Samaras is now facing the same debt, but hasn’t asked for it. than 2,200 stations, about one- a month from next year. kind of social unrest that top - The key areas of dispute now fourth of all those that had been The Troika has indicated that pled the government of then PA - are the government’s estimates operating. The government, as if Greece adopts extra spending SOK leader George Papandreou, it can save $2.58 billion through did previous administrations, cut measures next year, inspec - who resigned last year in the cuts in health care, defense and has also failed to act on opening tors will be willing to drop their face of relentless protests, local authority funding but the closed professions such as objections to the savings fore - strikes, and riots against auster - Troika didn’t accept them. In the lawyers, architects, engineers cast from structural reforms. ity. meantime, a draft budget for and pharmacists that enjoy “There is still a large gap, we The measures have largely 2013, outlining 7.8 billion euros near-monopolies and guaran - are trying to reach a compro - backfired, putting nearly two or $10.08 billion, has already teed profits with set prices. mise to seal a deal,” Stournaras million people out of work, been submitted to Parliament. Greece has enough cash re - said. shuttering 68,000 businesses As it stands now, the govern - serves to last until the end of ENDLESS AUSTERITY and shrinking the economy, with ment projects cuts of: November but needs the second Already having reneged on the government estimating a de - • $4.91 billion in pensions, bailout to pump another $64 their campaign pledges ahead cline of 3.8 percent of Gross Do - the fourth time benefits for the billion into recapitalizing cash- of the June 17 elections to hold mestic Product in 2013, extend - elderly would be cut starved banks pushed toward the line on austerity, the three ing the recession into its sixth • $1.42 billion in public ruin when Venizelos imposed 74 aP Photo/koStaS tSironiS coalition partners have fash - year. The Troika put the figure worker salaries, which have al - percent losses on investors, also International Monetary Fund (IMF) mission chief Poul Thomsen ioned a budget plan that is at 5 percent and more analysts ready been cut 30 percent and locking Greece out of the lend - first left, European Commission director, Matthias Mors , centre heavy on more pay cuts, tax now believe the economy is col - more ing markets and reliant on wel - and European Central Bank's (ECB) Klaus Masuch leave Maxi - hikes, and slashed pensions lapsing at a faster rate than at - • $1.034 billion in social wel - fare aid. Without the next loans, mos mansion after meeting with Greek prime minister Antonis aimed primarily at workers, tempts to save it can counter. fare benefits Greece won’t have enough Samaras and finance minister Yannis Stournaras in Athens, pensioners and the poor while Despite the barrage of bad • $1.55 billion in health, de - money to pay its workers and Monday, Oct. 1 2012. tax evaders who owe the coun - news for Samaras, there were fenses and local authority pensioners. Greece Seeks Taxes from Wealthy Who Maintain Tax Havens in London

By Landon Thomas, Jr. government, the British financial wealth. has been accepted practice for don-based property company, bankers who are paying The New York Times authorities recently handed over The politicians on the list in - the wealthiest Greeks — £20 billion of foreign money has £300,000 to £500,000 for mod - a detailed list of about 400 cluded the president of the shipowners in particular — look - been invested in prime residen - est apartments. LONDON, England – The Lon - Greek individuals who have Greek Parliament, Evangelos ing to hedge their bets against tial real estate here since 2006. Notably, a recent study con - don real estate market was bought and sold London prop - Meimarakis, creating an embar - their country’s volatile economy. The biggest year on record ducted by economists at the Uni - abuzz. A wealthy Greek banker erties since 2009. rassing distraction for Mr. Sama - Since 2008, when the country’s was 2011, when foreigners versity of Chicago concluded wanted to spend up to £60 mil - The list, closely guarded, has ras’s coalition government. Mr. problems began to surface, a snapped up £5.2 billion worth that it was within this segment lion (nearly $100 million) for a not been publicly disclosed. But Meimarakis is a former defense much broader spectrum of of new residences. With eco - of society where most of home, and was in a hurry to Greek officials are examining it minister who has also been im - Greek investors has turned to nomic uncertainty in the euro Greece’s tax collection shortfall make a deal. to determine whether the people plicated in accusations concern - London real estate. zone increasing this year, de - occurs. Evangelos Meimarakis, the named — who they say include ing a money-laundering network “Greeks are panicking,” said mand for these properties in By delving through bank president of the Greek Parlia - prominent businessmen, said to involve two other former Sandy Triantopoulou-von Croy 2012 shows no sign of letting records, the economists found ment, is among the more than bankers, shipping tycoons and ministers. of EPPC, a real estate firm in up, real estate agents say. that Greek professionals — not 30 Greek politicians under in - professional athletes — have de - London, long a magnet for Investors from Italy and the truly wealthy, but the com - vestigation for possible tax eva - ceived the tax authorities by un - foreign real estate investors, has France have been most promi - fortably affluent — skirted as sion and the illegal accumula - derstating their wealth. become a special focus for Greek Now that Greece is nent in using London properties much as 28 billion euros worth tion of wealth. “These people have money officials trying to track down paying more attention as a hedge against the euro. But of taxes in 2009. That would Real estate agents recall sift - and they are known — but it is money taken from the country. the Greek influx has been espe - have been enough to cover a ing the listings for some of the not clear yet if they have vio - Bankers say that accounts in to collecting taxes, is cially striking. third of the country’s budget most prestigious, and expensive, lated any laws,” said Haris Theo - Singapore and even in the coun - there any hope that Officials in Greece examining deficit that year. properties in South Kensington, haris, an official in the Greek Fi - try of Georgia have become fa - wealthy Greeks will these transactions estimate that Mr. Theoharis, of the Greek a favored area for London’s in - nance Ministry. Tax investigators vorite destinations for fleeing about 250 Greeks invested more Finance Ministry, said London ternational set. have been examining the list to funds, more so than the tradi - repatriate their money? than £100 million in prime Lon - properties represented but a But the house hunter, Lavren - see whether there is any overlap tional haven of Switzerland, be - don residences in 2009 and small portion of the billions tis Lavrentiadis, never made a between those who bought Lon - cause the looser rules and regu - London that does a lot of work 2010, according to records col - Greeks had shipped out of their purchase in the spring of 2011, don properties and those already lations of those countries about with Greek clients. “They just do lected with the assistance of the country since 2009. In 2011, ac - agents say. Within months his identified as being tax cheats. accepting large sums of foreign not know what to do with their British government. As the crisis cording to government figures, failing institution, a small lender The Greek government, un - money. But while Singapore and money.” grew worse last year and this Greeks sent 6 billion euros to known as Proton Bank, was der pressure from its interna - Switzerland have been reluctant Mr. Lavrentiadis was not the year, government officials say it foreign bank accounts. The data seized. The Greek government, tional lenders to raise 13.5 bil - to divulge information about its only bank chief to dabble in Lon - is likely that the inflows in - for 2012 is even more stark: for suspecting that Mr. Lavrentiadis lion euros ($17.4 billion) Greek clientele, the British gov - don real estate. Theodoros Pan - creased. the first half of the year about 5 may have moved money out of through tax increases and ernment has been more cooper - talakis, a former chief executive Not everyone, of course, was billion euros left the country, Mr. the country, is now investigating spending cuts, is intent on mak - ative in sharing its real estate of Agricultural Bank of Greece, looking for a £60 million manse Theoharis said. his activities to determine ing the well-heeled share the records. another ailing lender, caused a as Mr. Lavrentiadis was said to Much of that outflow came whether he engaged in fraud burden. Studies have shown that There is an air of desperation stir in Athens this year when it have done. Even in London, with in the panicky months preceding and money laundering. the country may be forgoing as to this Athens fund-raising drive, was revealed that in 2011 he its enclaves of billionaire oli - the two rounds of Greek elec - Greece, heavily in debt and much as 30 billion euros a year which includes leasing out transferred 8 million euros garchs and sheiks, such requests tions in May and June. desperate to track down money in uncollected taxes, with a sig - empty Greek islands and even abroad with the intent of buying do not frequently roll around. More recently, the effort by wherever it can, is leaving no nificant portion of that amount putting up for sale the former a property in London. Mr. Pan - Ms. von Croy says that the Mr. Samaras’s government to stone unturned. having been shipped out of the residence of the Greek consul talakis has said that the author - average asking price from her push through spending cuts and Mr. Lavrentiadis has denied country as the affluent seek shel - general in the tony London ities were informed of the trans - Greek clients is about £1.5 mil - economic overhauls has some - the accusations, and his lawyer ter from Greece’s financial neighborhood of Holland Park. action and that the appropriate lion, which is still a significant what calmed fears of an imme - did not respond to questions storm. But with Greece’s membership taxes were paid. enough barometer of wealth to diate Greek euro exit. In fact about any interest his client This week, the government in the euro at stake, every con - Greek money, along with attract the attention of the Greek there was actually a rare in - might have had in London prop - of Prime Minister Antonis Sama - ceivable revenue-raising strategy wealth from China, Russia and tax authorities. crease, of 2 percent, in Greek erties. But the Greek banker’s ru - ras opened an investigation into is being pursued, even if it re - various other countries, has kept Experts say it is not only high bank deposits in July. mored flirtation with this city’s the bank accounts of more than mains unclear how successful it the high end of London’s prop - rollers looking to make a splash. The harder trick to turn could prime real estate market, and 30 Greek politicians to deter - will be. erty market buoyant despite — Many of the recent buyers hail be persuading Greek real estate the frenzy it stirred among sales mine whether they should be For the better part of a cen - or maybe because of — the from Greece’s professional money in London to come back agents, is telling. charged with tax evasion and tury, owning a grand London global financial turmoil. Accord - classes, including lawyers, doc - home — especially now, with At the request of the Athens the illegal accumulation of home in Belgravia or Mayfair ing to research by Savills, a Lon - tors, accountants and midlevel the tax man closely watching. 10 EDITORIALS LETTERS THE NATIONAL HERALD, OCTOBER 6-12, 2012

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By Antonis H. Diamataris and the Agora, the original marketplace of ideas, writing an interesting column. Rest assured, Constantinos E. Scaros and we, their modern-day descendants, aspire anything we write here are our sincere, heartfelt to continue that tradition. thoughts. We will share them with you every Awaiting Dawn’s Twilight From time to time, an issue emerges and We (Diamataris and Scaros) rarely disagree two weeks. We hope you enjoy them, and we inspires various minds to converge, often at with one another, but we think it is valuable look forward to your taking part in the discus - The uproar over the news of the spread of Golden Dawn – a odds with one another, to discuss it. Hopefully, to share our thoughts when we do, and invite sion as well – by contributing letters to the ed - fascist, albeit Greek Parliament-elected party – to New York has collective enlightenment will result from such you to share yours as well. We would never itor in response, and/or commenting on our even made the pages of the New York Times. conversations. The Ancient Greeks did that in fabricate a difference of opinion for the sake of website: www.thenationalherald.com. “The group,” that newspaper writes, "recently opened an office in New York, announcing its presence with a sleek website depicting a stylized Swastika against a darkened Manhattan skyline.” A year ago, few even knew that Golden Dawn even existed. Yet within a short period of time it has managed to propel itself to be - Round 1: A Debate or a Sideshow? Style or Substance? come the third most popular political party in Greece. What is Golden Dawn’s political philosophy so far? It is a fascist party organized in a military fashion headed by an unquestionable 1. TNH’S PUBLISHER- leader. EDITOR SHARES HIS It is the first fascist party to gain traction in Greece after the POINT OF VIEW party of Ioannis Metaxas, the brilliant military strategist, the man Dino, the question should not who said OXI to the Italians, the aid to the king of Greece, and a be who won last night’s debate, man who admired Mussolini and Hitler. but rather what the voters This Party hates foreigners and Jews, and does not believe very learned from the 90-minute much in due process. Its members take the law into their own recital of memorized, poll-dri - hands. And given the weakened state of the Greek police, they fill ven, and predetermined state - the void in their own fascist way. Most of them are uneducated, in - ments made by the two presi - doctrinated, in way over their head. dential candidates, incumbent What, then, makes them so popular? Barack Obama and challenger The dismal economic situation Greece in which has been mired Mitt Romney. over the past three years. The poor, the hungry, those who feel be - On this point, I would say we trayed by the political parties, the hopeless who look to Golden did not learn much. Dawn as something new, sincere, and patriotic. Nonetheless, we can look at Nikos Demertzis, a professor of political sociology at the Uni - the candidates themselves, their versity of Athens, told the Times that Golden Dawn was effective overall worldview, and try to fig - because it did more than just utter political platitudes. Its members ure out who is closer to the truth perpetrate their propaganda through deeds, “exactly the same way and most importantly, whose that the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt does, or Hezbollah in judgment we can trust when a Lebanon.” major problem reaches the Oval For instance, they feed the poor, escort old people to the banks, Office and needs an immediate provide security where the police sometime do not, even have gas answer. Frankly, on this point, I reserves to operate their vehicles. am leaning towards Obama, If they were given the chance to run the country they could though I reserve my judgment bring shame to the country and the Hellenes all over the world, until after the second and third and possibly danger. debates. In fact we do not underestimate the risk of (significant) increase I too, am of the view as many aP Photo/charLie neibergaLL in their political power (they now have 18 members of Parliament seem to be this morning, that President Barack Obama walks past Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney during the out of 300). And we are told they are the most dynamic of the Romney gave a more robust per - first presidential debate at the University of Denver, Wednesday, Oct. 3, 2012, in Denver. Greek political parties. Nor do we underestimate the appeal their formance than the president. He clever policing has on desperate people. did that by being confident, by That makes a world of differ - Newt Gingrich, who vowed that hope he finds the time to get We believe, however, that this hyper attention with which they going on the attack, by looking ence to me. if he had earned the nomination, some rest and take better care are showered in both the Greek and Jewish communities is coun - every bit as presidential as the At this point, call me unde - he would have challenged of himself. Second, as I have said terproductive. It gives them an importance beyond what they rep - president did, if not more so. He cided but leaning toward Obama Obama to six, three-hour debates all along, Romney is a very weak resent. It brings them the publicity they crave. prepared hard, he put his mind – on the basis of character more in the style of Lincoln-Douglas, campaigner overall, largely be - It gives them credibility and followers from among those who to it, he proved that he really than policy. with no moderator, only a time - cause he comes across more like feel its their duty to support their own when attacked by foreign - wants to win this, to become 2. TNH’S ASSOCIATE EDITOR keeper. Then, we could have a robot than a person. But his ers. president. And that, do not mis - RESPONDS seen what the candidates are re - debating prowess is his greatest And we are not oblivious to the fact that the further deterioration understand me, is something Antoni, let me begin by say - ally made of. Gingrich also chal - strength. Much like that other of the economy, as most experts anticipate, and the accompanying very important for someone to ing something that you are too lenged Romney to those types of robot of recent decades past, Al rise in crime will lead to a swelling of their flanks. have. modest to admit yourself: you debates. Romney backed down, Gore, Romney is a formidable We fully sympathize with the outrage of our friends at the On the other hand, Obama are a better newspaper publisher as Obama probably would have, debater. It took the sheer Jewish organizations who are shocked and disturbed by the seemed most of the time to want than Arthur Ochs Sulzberger, Jr. too. One has to wonder: why are warmth and gumption that Swastikas. We are, too. to avoid a major blow, to hope – the publisher of the once-re - we planning to elect the candi - George W. Bush possessed to But we must understand that while this is a very serious problem, to simply emerge unscathed and spectable New York Times. I say dates who shied away from such out-debate Gore, but Obama it is one with which the Greeks themselves must deal. be given a chance to come back this not to shower you with a challenge, rather than the one lacks such warmth himself – The mere existence of such a group is and should be offensive stronger another time. He did praise, but because it is refresh - who issued it? even though he has more of it to Greeks and Americans of Greek origin alike. The rise of a fascist not look sick, he just looked de - ing to read a candid, sincere As for the debate itself, it was than Romney does. In fact, it party is an abomination to the country that is the cradle of democ - fensive. Sort of guilty, but about analysis of the debates, rather long on style, short on sub - was Obama’s very humanity that racy and a beacon of freedom. what? than a blind, ideologically-driven stance. In terms of no gaffes, no cost him the first debate: evi - What third parties can do, however, is to understand the roots So if we take all this into con - version of what really happened. awkward moments, no mala - dently, Romney got under of this evil, namely the deep economic crisis, and contribute in sideration, then yes, the winner In fairness, the Times is not the propisms, and no negative Obama’s skin, and it showed. some way to its solution and quick passing. in this modern-day Colosseum only one to blame. Not surpris - swipes, it was the best of its class Third, as unfair a shake as The sooner Greece gets out of this financial mess, the better it called a televised presidential ingly, left-leaning MSNBC attrib - in recent memory. But, as you Obama has gotten from most of is for everybody. debate is clearly Mitt Romney. uted any success Romney had to mentioned, it lacked compassion the pundits at Fox News, and, And in doing so some ugly things might be avoided. What troubles me about lies, and right-leaning Fox News and conviction. Never mind a quite frankly, most of the Repub - Romney, however, is the cynical made it seem as if Obama came great speaker like Ronald Rea - lican opposition from day one, way by which he tried to rein - apart at the seams. Your assess - gan, these two debaters aren’t he has enjoyed virtually a free End the END vent his campaign, erasing posi - ment of the debate is far better even in the same league with ride from the rest of the media tions he has taken all along and than any of that, and so my re - George W. Bush! Bush was not who – yes – absolutely coddle have proven to do him damage sponse today is less a rebuttal nearly as smooth and fluid a him. In that sense, it is high time END claim to have $650 billion deposited in a Canadian Bank for positions that are more to than a supplement. speaker than either Obama or that the young knight take off that can be used to pay off the combined debt of Greece and the center, more acceptable to First, about the nature of the Romney, but when it comes to the armor and step into the ring Cyprus – which they will do if and when the Greek government re - the largest segments of the soci - debates themselves: you are ab - speaking from the heart, Bush and learn what a real punch signs, and they take over and change the constitution. ety. Examples include his posi - solutely right. They are not really can mop the floor with these feels like. They purport to have purchased so many American bonds the tions on tax cuts and the poor. debates, they are more like a two. Talk about a politician who Fourth, in fairness to Romney, U.S. Treasury could not afford to buy them back. They say this and His shifting stances to score po - clash of gladiators in Ancient spoke his mind and didn’t worry he did not actually change posi - much more with a straight face, and instead of being ridiculed, litical points is what disturbs me. Rome. That is what our apoliti - about the consequences, Bush tions about his tax proposal. If they are invited to speak on popular television programs. I am willing to support some - cal, entertainment-driven society had that in droves. all he wants to do is extend the Who are these people and what they want? One of them is a one who stands by what he be - craves. At the very least, let us Some conclusions that I drew longstanding Bush tax cuts, then New York doctor. Thus they are called omogeneis, Greek-Americans. lieves in, no matter how contro - be thankful that the general elec - from the debates, which I think these are not new tax cuts. Be - That adds a sense of credibility and doubt. People say, “who versial the views might be, than tion debates remain much more are helpful to put the remainder sides, he plainly stated that any knows?” someone who changes his views dignified than the ones in the of the campaign into perspec - new tax cuts will be offset by This story has been evolving now for a few weeks. It has reached based on the last poll numbers. primaries – which included tive: first, Obama looks awful. closing certain loopholes that the point at where we cannot ignore it any longer. Especially not The latter approach raises some theme music, commercial He looks exhausted. Over the will render them revenue-neu - now that all of Greece is talking about it. red flags for me. breaks, and booing and hissing last few months, he looks as if tral. Whether or not he follows Never in recent memory have a couple of individuals managed What I admired about Ronald from the crowd – as if these were he’s aged 20 years. As one hu - through remains to be seen, and to make an entire community look so ridiculous to millions of Reagan was exactly that: he had professional wrestling bouts. man being thinking about an - the voters are right to demand Greeks who hear such nonsense. a belief system, a clear view that That is one of the many reasons other, and as an American think - more specifics. But for as much.. In an earlier (September 9th) commentary in our Greek edition he stood by no matter what and that I regret that the Republican ing about his president, I am entitled “They Shame the Community,” we wrote: “It’s certainly the rest of us knew it was. nominee is Romney and not worried about his health and 3. WHAT’S YOUR OPINION? not serious what Dr. Manolis Labrakis is claiming. That supposedly he and his associates are in a position to pay off the entire debt of Greece and Cyprus. They should stop taking advantage of desperate people. 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Both political parties just agencies cannot fill half their re - we are third among give adjunct pro - Both have powerful teachers’ technology. As we have seen, we completed their national con - quirements for foreign language in the world for col - fessors class as - unions with high salaries but lack the pool of young educated ventions in the run-up to per - skills. Two-thirds of American lege graduates be - signments one to produce different results. The recruits who will become the haps the most important presi - middle school and high school tween 45 and 54, three weeks be - Democratic National Conven - soldiers who can operate the dential elections in my lifetime. students fail to achieve mini - and 10th for those fore the semester tion barely touched on the prob - high tech gear. Did anyone notice that neither mum competence on national between the ages of starts. As parents, lem. President Obama ad - We do need to relook at the political party made more than math, reading, and science tests. 25 and 45! This we should wonder dressed the rising cost of college last fifty years. In the 50, a high a perfunctory reference to per - Less than 5% of U.S. students trend will only get not only how we but paid little attention to the school education guaranteed a haps the most transformative graduate with degrees in engi - worse, as our 17 and will pay our chil - more serious problem of a bro - good job; nowadays, even a crisis facing America’s long term neering. (By comparison, about 18 year-olds have to dren’s education, ken K-12 public educational sys - bachelor’s degree does not. Per - future: the steady deterioration fifty percent of Chinese students face the twin chal - but also why we tem. The Republican platform haps we should look first at im - in the quality of American edu - graduate in engineering.) Al - lenges of skyrocket - should in the first does address K-12 education but proving K-12 so that a high cation? We have ignored what though 75% of American stu - ing college tuition by AMB. PATRICK N. place. then calls for school prayer, school degree once again be - may be the most serious threat dents do graduate from high costs and lower- THEROS What has gone home schooling, charter comes a ticket to decent em - to national security. school (as if that number should quality instruction. wrong? We really schools, vouchers and breaking ployment. Germany has done so According to a bipartisan satisfy!) only about one fifth of Take George Special to do not know. Un - public school teachers’ unions. with a comprehensive range of blue-ribbon Council on Foreign those who actually do graduate Washington Univer - The National Herald fortunately, we In other words, the GOP walks secondary education that pro - Relations Report, America’s are “college-ready.” Put another sity. At $51,000 per have allowed pol - away from public schools in duces an 18 year-old who can post-World War II lead in edu - way, only about 15 of every 100 year, it is the country’s most ex - itics to replace a dispassionate principle. get a decent paying job. We cational achievement has frit - kids who start elementary pensive university. Yet accord - and professional investigation The failure of public K-12 ed - must also improve public edu - tered away and shows no sign school are ready for higher ed - ing to Adjunct Professor Kip Lor - of the problem. Educational in - ucation represents a far more cation for all kids and not just of recovering. We should look ucation! nell, in 2011 only 40% of the novation in the United States serious threat to the long-term for those who live in the gated at a few items in the report. Al - In 1950, the United States school’s budget went to instruc - has become a series of disjointed strength of our nation than the communities of our more afflu - most two-thirds of life science led the world in almost every tion, the remaining 60% to experiments driven as much by national debt burden. There are ent suburbs. and aerospace firms cannot find level of education. We certainly “other issues.” Of the instruc - ideology and politics as by a real two ways to get out of debt: qualified Americans to fill va - had no competition in the hard tional budget, 6% of the budget desire to improve educational spend less or earn more. Our The Hon. Ambassador Theros is cancies. The U.S. military turns sciences. But in 2009, the Pro - went to paying salaries of part- standards. Charter schools, educational decline indicates president of the U.S.-Qatar down 75% of potential recruits, gram for International Student time faculty, despite the fact that school choice and school vouch - that we will not be able to earn Business Council. He served in one-third of them because they Assessment ranked U.S. high part-time faculty conducted ers are only desperate efforts to more. The engineers and scien - the U.S. Foreign Service for 36 lack the basic education skills to school graduates 14th in read - 48% of all classroom instruc - fill the void left by the virtual tists who will create the inno - years, mostly in the Middle be a Marine rifleman. One mili - ing, 25th in mathematics, and tion! To compound the prob - collapse of the America public vations and grow the economy East, and was American Ambas - tary intelligence unit reported, 17th in science against the rest lem, universities deny part-time school system. Many blame are increasing in China and sador to Qatar from 1995 to “only four or five members of a of the world. The trends are faculty of the tools to teach teachers’ unions. Yet, one of the other emerging nations, not in 1998. He also directed the State 250-man unit were able to put even more alarming. The United properly. Most universities do best public school systems in the the United States. Poor public Department’s Counter- the pieces together to form a States leads the world in the not give those same adjunct fac - US (Montgomery Country, education threatens our na - Terrorism Office, and holds nu - conclusion.” The U.S. Foreign number of college graduates ulty members office space to Maryland) sits next to one of tional security as well. American merous U.S. Government deco - Service and the intelligence over the age of 55. However, counsel their students. Others the worst, (Washington, DC). military superiority rests on high rations.

LETTER FROM ATHENS The Austerity Survival Guide: Greece’s Official Rules for How to Stand in Line

Two months late, I headed cartels, who’ve already over - like to stand is that there are no and ordered that people who too!” she yelled as he tried to down to the local electric com - taken the Greek olive oil indus - around for a half lines, usually just didn’t pay should have their disappear into the landscape. pany in the Athens neighbor - try. hour or so when mass pushing to - lights turned off until someone Some people don’t want to hood where I live to pay the bi - The bus was a good option they pay their elec - ward the front figured out that would leave wait so they have developed monthly bill, which had reached because, like the Metro which tric and phone and where you hope to lighting only in the small rich clever ruses if the usual trick of four months due because with doesn’t have barriers, you can water bills instead find a clerk who is - enclaves where Greece’s politi - just pushing your way through, pay cuts and tax hikes as part take your chances there won’t of paying them on- n’t sleeping, smok - cians and wealthy plot the de - elbowing aside the lame and el - of austerity measures imposed be an inspector on board who’ll line and printing ing, drinking cof - struction of the country and derly doesn’t work, such as car - by banks and rich politicians catch you and make you pay a out the receipt. It fee, or ready to how to enslave workers who rying a child and sighing heavily there just isn’t enough to go big fine, which is rather odd if, gives you time to slam shut the win - haven’t committed suicide. to get people’s attention so they around these days unless you’re like many Greeks now, you can’t catch up on the dow because clos - Venizelos is now the leader can wave you ahead, like the New Democracy or PASOK, afford the $1.50 ticket. That’s gossip, such as ing time is only 30 of the PASOK Anti-Socialist gypsy beggars in the streets who which have open lines of credit soon to rise along with other which politician is by ANDY minutes away and party and, seeing his party’s sup - rent children and drug them so at Greek banks and don’t have public transportation fees be - sleeping with DABILIS it takes the sloths port head toward territory re - they’ll sleep all day while suck - to repay them. cause the government’s answer which other politi - that long just to get served for Libertarians in the ers give them money. These peo - I couldn’t take the car be - to people who can’t afford any - cian’s wife. Special to up from the chairs United States, has had a change ple make even more than tax cause it broke about eight thing is to make it more expen - There’s a certain The National Herald where they’ve sta - of heart and now opposes the evaders. months ago and there wasn’t sive. etiquette – or lack pled their rear pay cuts and tax hikes he used If you don’t have a kid handy, enough money to fix it. Not that Plus, on the bus – unlike the of it – when standing in a queue, ends. to champion so he can pretend bring an elderly relative in a it mattered because gasoline is Metro – if you’re caught you can or, as New Yorkers say, “on line,” This particular day, the line to be a populist although he’s wheelchair, put on sunglasses $10 a gallon, which is still always fumble around and pre - instead of in-line, which brings was very long indeed and as phony as a 3-euro bill, even and wave a cane in someone’s cheaper than Heineken in tend you have a ticket and then to mind the late comic George Greeks were grumbling because he only carries 1,000-euro back or be at least six months Greece, which goes for about when the bus stops, hurl your - Carlin’s quibbling with the Eng - besides paying high electric bills notes. pregnant, and if there’s another $14.70 a gallon and has been self through the door and run lish language that, when told to to the power monopoly, they So the customers were just a pregnant woman ahead of you, trying to kill off Greek breweries for it like a Greek politician flee - get “on” the plane, he swore at were paying property tax sur - tad surly and when one of them say loudly you have twins due and control distribution for its ing a tax inspector. the attendant in language suit - charges attached to their utility seized on a guard who went to any moment. If that doesn’t products, which includes Ams - There’s a lot of lines in able only for Greek politicians bills, courtesy of former finance the front to pay a bill for a friend work, point to the rear of the tel. That’s why I drink Greek Greece because many Greeks daring each other to blow into minister Evangelos “The Turk” so they wouldn’t have to stand room and yell, “Hey! There’s beers and try to buy as many don’t like to use computers – us - each other’s breathalizers and Venizelos. Just to add a little fun in line, a cranky middle-aged Venizelos!” Greek-made goods as I can still age is last in the European said, “I’m getting ‘in’ the plane.” to the mix, he had the property woman tore him a new orifice. find that aren’t controlled by Union – and people apparently The first rule of Greek lines tax bills put into the electric bills “Hey! Why don’t you pay my bill [email protected] Who’s the King of Big-Money Politics in the U.S.? Soros? Koch Bros.? No, Peter Peterson

By Michael Hiltzik ance programs such as Medicare writing often, perhaps most 2009 amounted to 17-hun - Los Angeles Times and Social Security desperately clearly in a 1994 article in the dredths of 1% of all benefits and urgently need "reform" has New York Review of Books. paid out. Who's the most influential become a foundation stone of There he praised President Clin - Walker says Peterson has re - billionaire business figure in na - the debate, even though Peter - ton for his budget-cutting but fined his approach to the deficit tional politics? son's evidence can be mislead - damned him for promising over time: "He's diversifying. If you answered one of the ing and his contentions ques - Americans "broad new entitle - He's funded things dealing with Koch brothers (Charles or tionable. That points to the ments in health, employment, defense and other spending, and David) or George Soros, you're question of whose interests Pe - retirement and education." Pe - he recognizes now that health - wearing your partisan blinders. terson is really promoting when terson urged instead "putting an care costs are the main driver" The former are known for their he talks about ratcheting back end to the vast and largely un - of federal deficits. Walker, devotion to conservative causes, programs that were designed earned windfall we now give to whose organization plainly re - the latter to liberal. In either from their inception as universal the more affluent half of all mains part of the Peterson fam - case, you're wrong. benefits. American households." ily circle (notwithstanding the The most influential billion - Peterson hasn't flown entirely That prescription encom - bus tour), says that "it's flat not aire in America is Peter G. Pe - under the radar; indeed, some passes several feats of legerde - true that his desire is to slash terson. The son of Greek immi - of his beneficiaries have started main. For one thing, most recip - the social safety net.... But he grants, Peterson, 86, served as to play down their associations ients of Social Security and recognizes, as does any knowl - Commerce secretary under Pres - with him. That's the case with Medicare have spent their lives edgeable person, that you've got ident Nixon, then became chair - the Comeback America Initia - earning the benefits through to reform those programs as man and chief executive of tive, an anti-deficit program payroll taxes. For another, the part of a comprehensive grand Lehman Bros. Subsequently, he founded by David Walker, a for - fiscal issues faced by Social Se - fiscal bargain." made his big money as co- mer U.S. comptroller general curity and Medicare are distin - Walker's own initiative, like founder of the Wall Street pri - who headed the Peter G. Peter - guishable — Social Security is others carrying the Peterson im - vate equity firm Blackstone son Foundation from 2008 to not facing an immediate crisis primatur, properly acknowledges Group. 2010. A significant portion of and may not for decades; that fiscal responsibility requires Peterson's views are subtly the group's budget comes from Medicare's crisis stems entirely tax increases as well as spending infiltrating the Washington de - a three-year $3.1-million Peter - from the externality of rising cuts, though people can argue in bate — which is why Americans son Foundation grant. But when healthcare costs. Finally, "more good faith about how to balance should start getting worried Walker embarked on a nation - The most influential billionaire in America is Peter G. Peterson. affluent" is not synonymous the two. But the hallmark of Pe - about him. wide bus tour to sound the with "affluent": the "more afflu - terson's worldview is to view so - He isn't content merely to ex - deficit alarm, he took pains to partisan. That allows intellectu - sure that any criticism of Peter - ent half" of U.S. households in cial insurance programs such as press concern about the federal insist that Peterson had nothing als and luminaries of all political son's activities remains respect - 1994 were those earning Social Security and Medicare deficit. His particular targets are to do with funding it, even creeds to feel comfortable in the ful and judicious. $32,000 or more, according to strictly as fiscal expense items, Social Security, Medicare and though the tour is running un - Peterson Foundation's capacious On the other hand, his con - the Census Bureau. That would ignoring their roots as moral Medicaid, which he calls "enti - der the Comeback America ban - shade, displaying their public nections can be hard to keep be $48,418 in today's dollars. commitments to American citi - tlement" programs and which ner. spirit as if it's a perk of emi - straight: In 2009, for example, Today, the median figure is zens that cross generations and he wants to cut back in a man - The reason: "Pete's a great nence. The foundation's advi - the Washington Post published about $50,000, which shows unite economic classes. ner that would strike deeply at man, he's done great work, but sory board includes as members a news article talking up an os - that the average American fam - These programs form the the middle class. he's also a lightning rod," Walker former New York Gov. Mario tensibly independent effort to ily hasn't progressed much over warp and woof of the American Many beneficiaries of Peter - told me. Cuomo; Facebook Chief Oper - create a bipartisan deficit-cut - that time. fabric. Portraying them, as Pe - son grants are, like the high Walker attributes some of the ating Officer Sheryl Sandberg; ting commission in Washington. Nevertheless, Peterson ar - terson does, as "safety net" ini - school syllabus, initiatives lightning to Peterson's back - former Secretary of State The piece included approving gued that too much money was tiatives that have outlived their sounding the alarm on the fed - ground as a Republican and a George Shultz (a Republican) comments from Robert L. Bixby, going to the "middle class." He relevance for all but the most eral deficit. And although every - Wall Street billionaire. He adds, and former Treasury Secretary executive director of the "non - defined that segment as house - destitute Americans is an artful one agrees that too much bor - "Pete's focused on reforming so - Robert Rubin (Democrat); for - partisan" Concord Coalition. holds earning $30,000 to way of destroying their univer - rowing can be bad for the cial insurance programs, and mer Federal Reserve Chairman What wasn't disclosed is that the $200,000, "which, however, sal appeal. country, the real question is that's gotten some elements of Paul Volcker; and "60 Minutes" Concord Coalition was funded hard-pressed, cannot claim to The danger in the economic what to do about it. the left exercised." correspondent Leslie Stahl. and co-founded by Pete Peter - be destitute." He observed that debate in Washington comes It's a measure of Peterson's Still, Peterson's influence in The foundation's roster of son, and that the article itself cutting off entitlement outlays from treating our fiscal prob - achievement that for Washing - national politics stems largely grant recipients has been simi - had been provided to the Post to these recipients "would bal - lems as if they spring from the ton Republicans and Democrats from his ability to make his in - larly eclectic: the right-wing by Fiscal Times, the news outlet ance the budget, and would so structure of our emblematic alike, the idea that social insur - terests appear eclectic and non - Heritage Foundation and the lib - launched by, yes, Pete Peterson. with a comfortable surplus to public social insurance pro - eral Brookings Institution. The The avoidance of overt polit - spare." grams, when the truth is that progressive Center for American ical partisanship enables Peter - Peterson still argues that the ill-advised tax cuts and unre - Progress, the free-market Amer - son to engage in something typical person bearing such cuts strained military spending have GUEST EDITORIALS ican Enterprise Institute and the more insidious: economic parti - would scarcely feel them. In a played a more important role. the national herald welcomes manuscripts representing a variety of pro-union Economic Policy In - sanship. That's what makes it video interview posted on the The shame of Washington, views for publication in its view Points page. they should include stitute. The independent public worthwhile to examine his ap - foundation website, he states, on the other hand, comes from interest news organization ProP - proach to Social Security, "A substantial part of these re - the fact that almost every orga - the writer’s name, address, telephone number and be addressed to ublica. Medicare and Medicaid, and tirement payments go to people nization promoting the grand the view Points editor, the national herald, 37-10 30th St., Lic, ny It might be churlish to say how it has spread. like me." fiscal bargain in which those 11101. they can also be e-mailed to english.edition@thenational - these organizations have been Peterson declined to be in - Well, not really. The $1.14 programs will be on the table herald.com. Due to considerations of space we enforce a strict 850- co-opted by Peterson money; terviewed for this column. But billion in Social Security pay - has accepted, somewhere and word upper limit. We reserve the right to edit. let's just observe that sowing his views on "entitlement re - ments that went to recipients somehow, money from Pete Pe - largesse so widely may help en - form" have been set forth in earning $1 million or more in terson. 12 FEATURE THE NATIONAL HERALD, OCTOBER 6-12, 2012 Fondly Remembering Paddy: Patrick Leigh Fermor, Hero of the Battle of Crete

Continued from page 1 ing Achilles as a reward for his however remote, was a place in the hotel next to Fermor's rejoining the paralyzed Achaean that attracted many friends, lit - house.) Chatwin venerated the 1944 Fermor and a small group army at Troy in The Iliad. erary luminaries and even ad - older writer, and the two men of Cretan partisans and British "Not a house in sight," Fer - miring strangers over the years. would walk together for hours commandos kidnapped General mor later wrote of his adopted His circle included the historian in the hills. Fermor, for his part, Heinrich Kreipe, commander of view, in a letter to his friend the John Julius Norwich and his found Chatwin enchanting and the German forces on the island, Duchess of Devonshire, "nothing daughter, Artemis Cooper; the almost eerily energetic. Yet and drove him in his staff car but the two rocky headlands, an literary critic Cyril Connolly; the Chatwin was inspired not just through enemy lines disguised island a quarter of a mile out to Greek painter Nikos Ghika; and by Fermor but by where he in German uniforms. (They sea with a ruined chapel, and a the writer Bruce Chatwin. In an lived. When Chatwin was dying, would have been shot on the vast expanse of glittering water, obituary for Fermor in 2011, he converted to Greek Ortho - spot if discovered.) Kreipe was over which you see the sun set - The New York Times put it thus: dox. It was Fermor, in the end, later spirited away to British ting till its last gasp." "The couple's tables, in Mani who buried Chatwin's ashes un - Egypt, but as they were crossing “Fermor at his wife built a and in Worcestershire, were re - der an olive tree next to St. Mount Ida, a legendary scene house in the wild and remote puted to be among the liveliest Nicholas, in sight of the sea of unfolded. Fermor described it Mani. It was a place that, even in Europe. Guests, both celebri - Nestor and Odysseus. himself: in the '60s, almost no one vis - ties and local people, came to Exohori felt as deserted as "Looking across the valley at ited. "Homer's Greece," as he put dine with them. The journalist the other strongholds of the [the] flashing mountain-crest, it admiringly.” and historian Max Hastings Mani, its schools closed and the general murmured to him - The house, still largely un - called Mr. Leigh Fermor 'per - only the elderly left behind. It self: 'Vides ut alta stet nive can - touched from when Fermor haps the most brilliant conver - possesses an atmosphere of ruin didum Soracte.' [See how lived there, was bequeathed to sationalist of his time, wearing and aloofness. I remembered a Mount Soracte stands out white the Benaki Museum in Athens. his literacy light as wings, brim - haunting passage from Mani in with deep snow.] It was one of As I walked through it alone ming over with laughter.' " which Fermor describes how vil - the [Horace odes] I knew! I con - during a visit there this spring, Standing on Fermor's terrace, © the estate of William Stanley moss - reproduced by permission, taken from ill met by lagers once scoured out the tinued from where he had bro - it reminded me in some ways of with its fragments of classical moonlight by /William Stanley moss, Published by Paul Dry books painted eyes of saints in church ken off... The general's blue eyes Ian Fleming's Goldeneye in Ja - sculpture and its vertiginous Fermor, seated at center, with the team that kidnapped a Ger - frescoes and sprinkled the had swivelled away from the maica, a spartan but splendidly view of a turquoise cove of man commander in Crete. crumbs into the drinks of girls mountain-top to mine—and labyrinthine retreat devoted to stones, I felt as if the inhabitants whom they wanted to fall in when I'd finished, after a long both a productive life and to the of 40 years ago had momentar - pages throughout; he knew she abandoned villages like Petro - love with them. So, one villager silence, he said: 'Ach so, Herr elegant sunset cocktail hour. In ily gone inside for a siesta and hated reading. But the garden - vonni and, above it, the church admits to Fermor that it wasn't Major!' It was very strange. As one bedroom stood a set of would soon be out for a dusk-lit ing-mad Duchess slyly under - of Agia Sophia, which looks the Turks after all. though, for a long moment, the Shakespeare volumes with gin and tonic. It seemed a place stood all her correspondent's down on the Viros Gorge. In As a former guerrilla of the designed for small, intimate erudite gags. Mani Fermor remembers that it savage Cretan war, Fermor felt groups that could pitch their Their gossip was gentle and was here, near the city of Mistra, at home here. It was a thorny talk against a vast sea and an civilized, and underneath it that Byzantium died out a few backwater similarly ruled by a even vaster sky. flowed a kind of unrequited years after the fall of Constan - warrior code. Its bellicose vil - It also had something neat love. In his first letter of the col - tinople, and where the continu - lages were, almost within living and punctilious about it. While lection, written in 1955 from ously creative Greek mind lasted memory, frequently carpeted sitting there, I could not help Nikos Ghika's house on Hydra, the longest. It is a delicate, lu - with bullet casings. It was a remembering that Fermor had Fermor proposes having himself minous landscape—at once pa - vendetta culture. once sternly corrected Fleming turned into a fish by a young lo - gan and Christian. The Mani was for centuries for a tiny factual error in his cal witch and swimming all the Fermor discovered that Man - the only place in Greece apart novel On Her Majesty's Secret way from Greece to Lismore iots still carried within them the from the Ionians islands and Service. Didn't Fleming know Castle in Ireland, where the demonology of the ancient Crete (which, nevertheless, fell that Bond could not possibly be Duchess was staying. world, filled with pagan spirits. to the Turks in 1669) to remain drinking a half bottle of Pol "I'm told," he writes, "there's They called these spirits the dai - mostly detached from the Ot - Roger? It was the only cham - a stream that flows under your monia, or ta' xotika: supernat - toman Empire. Its people—an pagne, Fermor scolded, never window, up which I propose to ural beings "outside" the Church impenetrable mix of ancient sold in half bottles. It was ex - swim and, with a final effort, who still—as Nereids, centaurs, Lacedaemonians, Slavs and actly the sort of false note that clear the sill and land on the satyrs and Fates—lived in the Latins—were never assimilated Paddy never missed, and that carpet…But please be there. streams and glades of the Mani. into Islamic rule, and their defi - the creator of Bond should not Otherwise there is all the risk of They still believed in "The Far - ant palaces perched above the have missed either. Truth for filleting, meunière, etc., and, away One," a spirit who haunted sea never had their double- Fermor lay in the details, and worst of all, au bleu…" sun-blazing crossroads at mid - headed Byzantine eagles re - his books show the same strain - Mani, meanwhile, was a far day and who Fermor deduced moved. Here, Fermor wrote, ing eye for the small fact, the cry from English country houses to be the god Pan. The Mani was was "a miraculous surviving telling minutiae. and fox-hunting parties. Its re - only Christianized, after all, in glow of the radiance that gave I noticed, meanwhile, a moteness and austerity—espe - the 10th century. Fermor also life to this last comet as it shot handsomely stocked drinks cab - cially immediately after the described how an illiterate glittering and sinking across the inet inside the house, in the war—were truly forbidding. As Greek peasant, wandering sunset sky of Byzantium." Mani, cool, cavernously whitewashed Fermor pointed out, this was a through archaeological muse - therefore, explores wondrous Fermor's house living room lined with books— place that the Renaissance and ums, might look up at ancient connections in our forgotten the selection dominated by a all its effects had never touched. statues of centaurs and cry, im - Greek inheritance (it argues, for war had ceased to exist. We had painstakingly hand-penned fine bottle of Nonino grappa. On It was still sunk in Europe's pre - mediately, "A Kallikantzaros example, that Christianity itself both drunk at the same foun - spines; on a wall, a painted Bud - the mantelpiece stood a card modern past—a place still con - [centaur]!" To him, it was a liv - was the last great invention of tains long before; and things dhist mandala. In the living with the telephone numbers of nected by a thousand invisible ing creature. the classical Greek world). But were different between us for room there were faded wartime his closest friends, Artemis threads to the pagan world. I hiked up to Exohori, where Fermor's philhellenism was not the rest of our time together." photographs of Fermor on Cooper (whose biography of Above Kardamyli rise the Bruce Chatwin had, 25 years dryly bookish. It was intensely After the war, now decorated horseback, armed and dressed Fermor is being published this Taygetus range and the forests ago, discovered the tiny chapel lived, filled with intoxication for his heroism, Fermor settled like a Maniot. The whole house month) and Deborah Mitford, that Fermor loved to wander. of St. Nicholas while he was vis - and carnal play. in Greece. He and his wife, Joan felt like a series of monastic later the Duchess of Devonshire. Steep paved footpaths called iting Fermor. (I had, in fact, His contemporary and fellow Rayner, a well-traveled English - cells, their piety replaced by a Fermor had been at the heart kalderimi ascend up into half- been given Chatwin's old room Anglo-Irish philhellene woman whom he'd met in worldly curiosity, an endless of many aristocratic circles, in - Lawrence Durrell was, in so Cairo, built a house just outside warren of blackened fireplaces, cluding those of the notorious many ways, his kindred spirit in the village of Kardamyli, a few bookshelves and windows fram - Mitford sisters. The youngest of this regard. They were also close miles down the jagged coast ing the sea. the Mitfords—"Debo," as she friends and had reveled together from Kalamata, in the wild and Fleming and Fermor were, was known—became Fermor's at the famous Tara mansion in remote Mani. It was a place perhaps predictably, close lifelong intimate and correspon - Cairo during the war. Mani, in that, even in the early '60s, al - friends. Fleming's Live and Let dent. Their polished and witty any case, stands naturally beside most no one visited. "Homer's Die freely quotes from Fermor's letters have recently been pub - Bitter Lemons and Prospero's Greece," as he put it admiringly. book about the Caribbean, The lished in the book In Tearing Cell as love songs to the Greece "It was unlike any village I Traveller's Tree. It was Fermor Haste. of that era. In Ian MacNiven's had seen in Greece," he wrote who made Fleming (and, of He was a frequent visitor at biography of Durrell, we find an in Mani. "These houses, resem - course, Bond) long for Jamaica. her country estate, Chatsworth, enchanting glimpse of a riotous bling small castles built of But where Fleming retreated to and the two were platonically Fermor visit to Durrell in Cyprus golden stone with medieval- Jamaica to knock out six-week entwined through their letters just after the war. The two men looking pepper-pot turrets, were thrillers, Fermor lived in his well into old age. They were, stayed up half the night singing topped by a fine church. The landscape more deeply; he ex - however, strange epistolary bed - obscure Greek songs, rejoicing mountains rushed down almost plored with dogged rigor its fellows. The Duchess hated in shared Hellenic lore and mak - to the water's edge with, here ethnography, its dialects, its books ("Quelle dread surprise," ing a lot of noise. and there among the white - mystical lore. His books are not she writes upon learning that a “"For as long as he is read washed fishermen's houses near "travel" in the usual sense. They famous French writer is coming and remembered," Christopher the sea, great rustling groves of are explorations of places to dinner), while Fermor was Hitchens wrote upon Fermor's calamus reed ten feet high and known over years, fingered like the very definition of the dash - death, "the ideal of the hero will all swaying together in the venerable books and therefore ing, encyclopedic gypsy scholar. be a real one."” slightest whisper of wind." It loved with precision, with an In one letter the Duchess boasts "Once as they went through was timeless. Kardamyli, in - amorous obsession for details. that Evelyn Waugh gave her a Patrick Leigh Fermor wrote numerous books, but the daring Paddy's vast repertoire of Greek deed, is one of the seven cities Fermor led an active social signed copy of his latest book, kidnapping of the “butcher of Crete” during WW II was more songs far into the night, the lane that Agamemnon offers a scowl - life, and the house in Mani, which turned out to have blank outrageous than any fiction he might have written. outside the house filled with quiet neighbors, among them the usually boisterous Frangos, who told Larry, 'Never have I heard Englishmen singing Greek songs like this!' " Their shared virtuosity in the Greek language “There is only one good - knowledge, was remarkable. Greece, for some of the young prewar generation, held and one evil - ignorance.” a special magic. It was a youth - ful Eden, a place linked to the Socrates ancient world that was doomed to disappear in the near future. It's a mood cannily incarnated in Henry Miller's The Colossus of Maroussi, which records jour - The National Herald neys that Miller and Durrell un - dertook together in 1939. But no one sang Greece more pro - celebrating it’s 15th Year! foundly than Fermor, and no one tried more ardently to argue its core importance to Western culture, both now and—a more 50% Discount for 3 Months radical argument—in the future. Roumeli and Mani are his with unlimited access to our digital edition twin love songs to Greece, but it is in Mani that he most elo - quently lamented the disappear - ance of folk cultures under the mindless onslaught of moder - The National Herald is the connecting link nity and celebrated most beau - tifully what he thought of as an to the Greek-American Community from Coast to Coast. immortal landscape in which human beings naturally found themselves humanized. SUBSCRIBE NOW. 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