Clinton Praises Greek Austerity Plan, Says More Reforms Needed Pay Cuts, Tax Hikes Needed to Rid Three Greece of a “Cancer” Hierarchs ATHENS – U.S
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o C V ΓΡΑΦΕΙ ΤΗΝ ΙΣΤΟΡΙΑ Bringing the news ΤΟΥ ΕΛΛΗΝΙΣΜΟΥ to generations of ΑΠΟ ΤΟ 1915 The National Herald Greek Americans c v A weekly Greek AmericAn PublicAtion www.thenationalherald.com VOL. 14, ISSUE 719 July 23-29, 2011 $1.50 Clinton Praises Greek Austerity Plan, Says More Reforms Needed Pay Cuts, Tax Hikes Needed to Rid Three Greece of a “Cancer” Hierarchs ATHENS – U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, School during a two-day visit here, said Greece can count on American support for its harsh austerity Shuts Down measures to keep the country from going bankrupt, but said there were conditions that By Theodore Kalmoukos would have to be accepted as TNH Staff Writer well. At a news conference with Greece’s Foreign Minister, BROOKLYN, N.Y. – After 40 Stavros Lambrinidis, who used years of operation, the Three Hi - to work for a Washington, D.C. erarchs Greek School here is law firm, she praised the deter - closing, the second area Greek mination of the government to school to be shutting its doors impose big pay cuts for public after generations of service to workers, tax hikes and slashed students and families. The deci - pensions, including a new round sion was taken by the parish’s approved last month amid vio - general assembly on June 26 lent street protests. Comparing “due to financial reason and the the measures to “chemotherapy small number of students,” Fr. to get rid of the cancer,’’ she em - Eugene Pappas said in a tele - phasized the price of inaction phone interview with The Na - would have been much higher. tional Herald. That came only Clinton’s visit, her first to Greece two weeks after the School of since becoming Secretary of the Transfiguration parish in State, she said Prime Minister Corona, N.Y. said it was also George Papandreou could count closing due to a lack of students on unshakeable U.S. support for and funding. his deeply unpopular measures Archbishop Demetrios did he said are critical to keep not return a phone message, or Greece from defaulting on its Ioannis Eftimiopoulos, Director loans and threatening the Euro - of Education of the Archdiocese. zone of 17 countries using the TNH also left a message to AP Photo/SAul loeb, Pool euro as their currency. It came Bishop Andonios of Fassiani ABOVE: US Secretary of State before a crisis summit in Brus - Chancellor of the Archdiocese Hillary Clinton (C) looks at a sels of European Union finance as well but there was no elabo - statue alongside Dimitrios ministers and politicians consid - ration on the effect of the Pandermalis, (C-R) President ering a second bailout for school’s closing from the church of the New Acropolis Museum Greece after the first, a $155 bil - hierarchy. Board of Directors as she lion series of rolling rescue Maria Makedon, Director of tours the Athens institution, loans, has failed to prevent the Education of the Direct Arch - July 17, before signing a Cul - country from sliding toward de - diocesan District, told TNH that, tural Memorandum of Under - fault under the weight of a $460 “The Archdiocese, through the standing between the U.S. and billion debit and 10.4% deficit. Chancellors Bishop Andonios Greece on import restrictions The second bailout could be as and the local (through me) did for archaeological finds. large as first but would come all the necessary actions in order LEFT : Ecumenical Patriarch with yet more pay cuts and tax to help the parish of the Three Bartholomew, (R) leads US hikes even though Papandreou Hierarchs to take to proper de - Secretary of State Hillary Rod - has not met the demands of the cision for its school. The respon - ham Clinton following a meet - so-called Troika of the European sibility first and foremost lies on ing at the Patriarchy in Con - Union-International Monetary the parish council.” Archiman - stantinople, July 16. Clinton Fund-European Central Bank to drite Pappas, who has been a said that the United States go after major tax evaders cost - priest for 29 years at the Three was troubled by Turkey’s ar - ing the country an estimated Hierarchs parish, said, “The rests of dozens of journalists, $40 billion in lost revenues an - school has been losing money calling the moves inconsistent nually. The Troika has also in - for the last two or three years, with the economic and politi - sisted on Greece privatizing or we lost $170,000 last year. This cal progress the moderate selling state-run entities to raise year we lost another $70,000. Muslim nation has made. $70 billion in additional rev - We are down to 30 students so enues, an idea that has pitted we had to close the school, as Papandreou’s Socialist PASOK simple as that, it is logistics.” He party against its major support - added: “It is not that we do not ers, Leftist labor unions. “We want the school, but we don’t know these were not easy deci - Continued on page 4 Continued on page 7 Faith Awards Erdogan Fires Shots, Cyprus Solution Sliding Away Worcester Send 54 to At the 37th anniversary of his land, effectively meaning if the stalling tactics and blasted its re - will discuss with our Turkish Epirotes country’s invasion of Cyprus, current round of UN sponsored fusal to use a timetable to achieve Cypriot brothers. I mean, this Turkish Prime Minister Recep talks fail that Turkey will likely a solution. “There is no such state process (of reunification) shall Ionian Village Tayyip Erdogan fired a two-bar - seek international recognition for as Cyprus. There is southern stop if necessary. What are we Remember reled blast at hopes for a solution the breakaway state. Erdogan, Cyprus and there is the Turkish supposed to do if it is not work - to re-unify the divided island, during a visit to Nicosia to cele - Republic of Northern Cyprus,” he ing?” Erdogan asked. He said he By Theodore Kalmoukos saying his country won’t accept brate Turkey’s invasion, said told a crowd of around 2,000 would not withdraw the occupy - Tsamantas TNH Staff Writer the concessions it supported to 2012 was a final deadline for a people at the airport while giant ing army still settled on the settle the problem in 2004, and settlement on the island. “We will posters with his image lined northern third of the island BOSTON - The FAITH: For Hel - would not recognize Cyprus’ see if this is resolved by 2012 or streets. seized by Turkey in 1974, which By Angelike Contis lenism and Orthodoxy Fund has standing as the rotating head of not. If it is not, we will have to UN Secretary General Ban ki- was a concession under the so- TNH Staff Writer awarded financial aid scholar - the European Union Presidency find solutions ourselves,” Erdo - Moon, whose January deadline called Annan Plan in 2004 re - ships to 54 young people to par - for six months in 2012. Turkey gan was quoted as saying by the for Greek Cypriot President jected by Greek Cypriots. “We NEW YORK –In 1914, Constan - ticipate in the Ionian Village wants to join the EU but bars Anatolia news agency. The Turk - Demetris Christofias and his had agreed to withdraw troops tinople intellectual Nikolaos Nit - summer program. The Ionian ships and planes from Cyprus ish side has long warned that Turkish Cypriot counterpart under the so-called Annan plan. sos (1865-1940) decided to visit Village is the prominent Camp and is the only country in the talks to reunite Cyprus will not Dervis Eroglu to find a solution They (the Greek Cypriots) did the newly-liberated village of his of the Greek Orthodox Archdio - world to recognize the unlawful continue forever and that Ankara was ignored has set a new dead - not accept it. So, they lost (their birth, Tsamantas, located below cese of America, established 40 government established in the oc - might seek international recog - line for October, although years chance.”) Mt. Mourgana in Epirus. It be - years ago by the late Archbishop cupied part of the island. Erdo - nition for the north. Ankara has of on-again off-again talks have The Turkish newspaper Za - came a permanent stay when Iakovos of North and South gan said the Turkish side will ac - often criticized the internation - produced no progress and critics man reported that Erdogan said World War I – and then the Asia America, in Bartholomio of cept nothing short of recognition ally recognized Greek Cypriot said both sides are intransigent. Minor Catastrophe and popula - Eleia, Greece on a site donated of a two-state solution on the is - government for what it calls “There are alternatives that we Continued on page 7 tion exchange - prevented him by the Greek government. Its from ever returning to Constan - unique and ideal location pro - tinople. Today, his observations vides to the young generations are preserved in Tsamantas: A of Greek-Americans who partic - Cultural History, published in ipate in its program a unique A Famous House in a Simple Greek Village 1926. For decades, the book – experience of life time that is covering the village’s history, ge - unavailable elsewhere. Based on ography, economy and folk cul - a beautiful seafront property, a By Joan Gage ture (from songs to colloquial daily program of arts and crafts, expressions) - existed only in Greek Music and Dance, athlet - LIA, Greece - On Saturday, July Greek, offering a portrait of a ics, aquatics, and chapel edu - 16, my husband, Nicholas Gage, place before the tumultuous cates the participants about and I returned, as we do every wars and migrations of the 20th their Hellenic legacy and Ortho - summer, to his small Greek vil - Century.