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 of a “Cancer” Hierarchs – 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 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 (C) looks at a sels of 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 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 go after major tax evaders cost - priest for 29 years at the Three was troubled by ’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 - 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 . 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. Now, a decades-long dox Faith. The program is also lage of Lia near the top of a dream of having the book trans - complemented by excursions to mountain in Epiros, Greece, just lated into English is being real - Ancient Olympia, , a kilometer below the border ized by Worcester’s St. George’s Kefalonia, Delphi, , with . As the sun began Hellenic Benefit Society of Kalavrita, Athens and other his - to set, we joined the villagers Tsamanta(s) and New York-and torical, cultural and religious sitting at tables in the courtyard Athens-based publisher Aristides sites. At the end of the program, outside the inn under the plane Caratzas and his Melissa Inter - the staff and campers return to trees. Soon some visitors to the national. The publisher said the their homes with strengthened region came over, one by one, work, which is scheduled for a faith and with a greater appre - to introduce themselves. This Spring 2012 release, is impor - happens every time Nick returns tant, and praised Nitsos’ “schol - Continued on page 3 to the village. The visitors have arly and scientific approach,” come up this twisting, vertigi - careful observation and rare in - nous mountain road into the sider’s perspective. Dr. Dimitrios Mourgana mountain range be - Konstadakopulos, of the Univer - For subscription: cause they want to see the sity of the West of England, who 718.784.5255 places that figure in Nick’s 1983 is completing a book on [email protected] book Eleni about the life and Tsamantas’ micro-economy from death of his mother Eleni Gat - its late Ottoman days to the pre - zoyiannis, who never left this sent, agreed, noting: “No one village. In 1948 she was exe - ever matched Nitsos for his zeal

Continued on page 4 A watercolor of the restored Eleni Gatzoyiannis house by the British artist Bill Peake. Continued on page 4 2 COMMUNITY THE NATIONAL HERALD, JULY 23-29, 2011

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n THROUGH AUGUST 5 There will also be a folk dancing TARPON SPRINGS, Florida - exhibition, and continuous Aegean Legacy, a solo exhibition Greek music. Church tours will featuring the outstanding works acquaint the public with the rich of artist Pantelis Klonaris, will symbolism that is inextricably be on display at the Tarpon linked to Orthodox Christian Springs Cultural Center from worship. Finally, the Festival will June 10 thru August 5. A native feature the most successful raffle of Tarpon Springs, Klonaris has on the East Coast, with a total spent the last 30 years designing of 270 prizes. Thursday, August compositions across a wide 18 from 5 p.m. – 10 p.m., Friday, range of mediums. His large, August 19 from 5 p.m. – 11 vivid, and dynamic canvases p.m., Saturday August 20 from combine images from ancient 1 p.m. – 11 p.m., Sunday August tnh/coStAS beJ Greece and the natural world. 21 from 1 p.m. – 10 p.m. The An Illinois Greek School Graduation Klonaris believes that his work Festival is located at 430 Sheep advocates human sustainability, Pasture Road. For more informa - On Thursday, June 9th, Commencement Exercises took place increased social awareness, and tion, call 631-473-0894, email for the 95th Class of graduates from Koraes Elementary School improved quality of life—condi - [email protected], or at Saints Constantine and Helen Church in Palos Hills, IL. Back: tnh/coStAS beJ tions he considers essential to visit www.portjeffgreekfest.com. Mrs. Bess Shizas (Teacher), Dimitrios Pettas, Nikolaos Atkinson, New York’s Famed Kosmos Club positive human development. Andonia Marie Subsits, Jacqueline Loupakos, James Karitsiotis, He uses such varied sources as CLEVELAND HEIGHTS, Ohio – Paul Davenport, Athanasios Makris, Evangelos Vouris, Evan The loss of Kosmos NY against the tournament winner Polish world history, technology, de - Sts. Constantine and Helen Baniewicz. Front: Dr. Lee Koliopoulos (Keynote Address), Fr. team was a result of the absence of many key players, although sign, and business strategies to Greek Orthodox Cathedral pre - Tom De Medeiros (Presbyter), Fr. Byron Papanikolaou (Proto - the rest of the team did its best. The New York club is perhaps contextualize current events sents the 38th annual Greek Fes - presbyter), Fr. Nicholas W. Jonas (Pastor), Mary Zaharis the most famous of the many Greek American football teams and shed light on the dominant tival 2011. Come for amazing (School Principal), John Arvanetes (Parish Council President). over the years, holding many championships. factors that structure our soci - Greek meals, such as souvlaki, ety. Klonaris attributes much of saganaki, and calamari, home - his sense of social responsibility made pastries, live music and to his Greek heritage and the dancing. Authentic Greek music role of ancient Greece in creat - performed by three Greek ing western civilization. Yet he bands, including Orion Express, also believes that artists play an and Hellenic dancers in tradi - essential role in developing so - tional folk costumes. Two tav - ciety and culture through their ernas offer Greek wine and beer. visionary abilities to think out - The Kid’s Corner offers treats, side the box. Free admission. two large bounce houses, and The Tarpon Springs Cultural face painting. Thursday from 4 Center is located at 101 S. Pinel - p.m. – 10 p.m., Friday from 3 las Avenue. For more informa - p.m. – 11 p.m., Saturday from tion, contact Lisa Cobb at 727- 12 p.m. – 11 p.m., Sunday from 942-5605. 12 p.m. – 9 p.m. The Festival is located at 3352 Mayfield Road. n THRU AUGUST 7 For more information, call 216- (WEEK LONG SESSIONS 923-3300, or visit www.cleve - STARTING EACH landgreekfestival.com. MONDAY) BOSTON, Mass. – Greek Ortho - SOUTH GLENS FALLS, N.Y. – St. dox Metropolis of Boston pre - George Orthodox Church pre - sents Summer Camp 2011 for sents the 2nd annual Adiron - youths aged 8-18. The weeklong dack Greek Festival. Friday Au - summer camp sessions embrace gust 19 from 5 p.m. – 9 p.m. PhotoS: tnh/coStAS beJ children from throughout the and Saturday, August 20 from Cypriot Team Takes N.Y. Tourney Title, Parties in Style, As Their Fans Turn Out world, and feature a dedicated 11 a.m. – 9 p.m. The Festival is staff of counselors, priests, and located at 55 Main Street. For A very skillful Pan-Cyprian soccer team came to New York to American cup winners celebrated along with their players, lay leaders. Activities include more information, call 518-792- participate in a tournament, which they won, making their many coaches, managers, supporters and politicians, including the sports, swimming, arts and 2359. fans in the area very happy and showing that Greek Americans Mayor of Famagusta (Ammochostos) well-known Cypriot politi - crafts, and Greek dancing. Chil - and Cypriot Americans are just as zealous about the game as cian Alexis Galanos and many others. The talk and celebration dren also learn more about their WINCHESTER, VA – Dormition their counterparts in Greece and Cyprus. After their victory, the was as much about their heritage as the sport they love. Greek Orthodox faith and cul - of the Virgin Mary Greek Ortho - tural heritage. For more infor - dox Church presents the Win - mation on the camp, please visit chester Greek Festival August www.mbcamp.org or call 603- 20-21. Join us for live Greek 746-4400. music, delicious Greek food, and In the Spotlight: Elizabeth Economou, Writer great fun for all. The Festival is n JULY 22 – 24 located at 1700 Amherst Street. NEWPORT, R.I. – St. Spyridon For more information, call 540- SEATTLE - Elizabeth M. – Liz – Liz is a freelance journalist phrase “Prota O Theos – God Greek Orthodox Church pre - 667-1416. Economou is the daughter of and writer, and recently finished willing,” sums it up perfectly. sents Greek Festival 2011 July Greek immigrants. The first thing her first quarter as an adjunct TNH: What has been your 22-23. Come enjoy Greek food, n AUGUST 26 – 28 she told The National Herald is: professor in strategic communi - greatest achievement so far? pastry, live music, and dancing, ROCHESTER, Minn. – Holy “I’ve been blessed beyond mea - cations at Seattle University, a EME: A life-long learner, I am and shop at the Greek market - Anargyroi Greek Orthodox sure,” and immediately men - private Jesuit college near down - more focused on achieving than place. Bring the whole family to Church presents 2011 GreekFest. tioned her dear family, beginning town. Her articles, essays, and achievement. I am most proud this spectacular celebration of Authentic Greek foods, live with her father Panagioti of op-eds have been published by of the generous relationships in Hellenic heritage and culture. Greek music and dancers, bake blessed memory, who was born Newsweek, Newsday, Our Town, my life and the people - such as Free admission. The Festival is sale featuring locally made Greek and raised in Aegina, an island The Seattle Times, The Seattle my husband, my sisters, and located at 390 Thames Street. pastries, a carnival for children, near Athens in the Saronic Gulf. Post-Intelligencer, Seattle maga - close friends - who challenge, an - For more information, call 401- silent auction, and Church tours. Her mother Maria is also an is - zine, and Alaska Airlines maga - chor, and inspire me. 846-0555. Free admission and parking. Fri - lander, from in the Dode - zine, among other media outlets. TNH: What’s the greatest les - day from 5 p.m. – 8 p.m., Satur - canese. She grew up in a close- She is currently working on a son you've ever learned? LA CROSSE, WI – Join St. Elias day from 11 a.m. – 8 p.m., Sun - knit family with her sisters, Eva, memoir about her “one-month- EME: That you don’t get for its Mediterranean Festival. day from 11 a.m. – 6 p.m. The her twin, who teaches history, turned-ten-year stint” in New everything you want in life at the Gourmet complete dinner of Church is located at 703 W. Cen - and Christina, the youngest who York City, a fish-out-of-water tale same time, and that there are no chicken, lamb, or vegetarian, ter Street. For more information, is a real estate broker. She is a that is also about leaving the fold shortcuts. To be patient, humble, bake sale, fresh beer, clowns, call 507-282-1529.BOSTON, MA proud product of Seattle, Wash - for the first time at the late- merciful, and forgiving, along stilt walkers, and a silent auc - – Chicago Greektown presents ington, which she describes as a blooming age of 33. Through an the way, and above all to give tion. From 12 p.m. – 5 p.m. on “Taste of Greece 2011” August former timber town that is now odd twist of fate, she landed on thanks to God for all blessings, Friday, July 24. The Festival is 27-28. Come for food, fun, and the epicenter of global health, Manhattan’s Upper East Side. realized and unrealized, and to located at 716 Copeland Av - dancing from 12 pm – 11 pm. and where she says it actually Her Website is www.elizabeth - pray for salvation. enue. For more information, call Located at 100-400 S. Halsted rains less than in New York. In meconomou.com TNH: Do you have role mod - 608-782-8641. Street. For more information, call 2005, she married her husband TNH: How do you help the Elizabeth M. Economou els? (847) 509-8050. George, from Astoria, Queens. people you work with/for? EME: When you grow up in n JULY 23 After bumping into him while EME: I have free reign to illness and sudden cardiac arrest a Greek immigrant family, like TARPON SPRINGS, Florida – n SEPTEMBER 3 – 4 waiting in line for Holy Commu - pitch and write about subjects (SCA) among young people. mine, you don’t have to look too Greek cooking class from 12-2 LANCASTER, Calif. – Sts. Con - nion, he he showed up at her that are interesting to me. My Prior to that, in the wake of a far for role models. My parents p.m. at the historic 1883 Safford stantine and Helen Greek Or - apartment, unannounced, with specialties include health, edu - harrowing incident, where my sacrificed everything for their House Museum. In this series of thodox Church presents the a bouquet of flowers in one hand cation, and real estate. I hope husband, a seasoned pharmacist, children, standing on their feet, traditional cuisine classes, ex - Greek Festival 2011, your ticket and a bacon-cheeseburger that along the way I am inform - was held up at gunpoint for Oxy - most of their adult life in order cellent community cooks offer to the tastes, music, and cele - deluxe, in the other. “Thought ing and educating readers and Contin, a wildly popular pre - to provide a solid foundation for instruction in preparing dishes brations of Greece and the you could use the protein,” he giving voice to important issues scription painkiller, I published their daughters. My father, a from the delicious regional cui - Greek isles. There will be live said. “And that, as they, was and causes. Most recently, I an op-ed in the Seattle Times ad - restaurant owner and cook, sine of the Islands. entertainment, dancers, Greek that,” she told TNH. wrote a piece about chronic kid - vocating for tougher sentencing toiled over a sizzling grill for Participants learn how to pre - cooking demonstrations, Church The Church has always been ney disease and how more and laws for perpetrators. three decades, up until his sud - pare the dishes, and will be able tours, door prizes, a raffle, and central to Liz’s life. In 1988, she more people are at risk for de - TNH: Has your life path been den passing, shortly after 9/11, to sample them at the end of lots of Greek hospitality! Satur - worked as a counselor at the Ion - veloping CKD, due to the rise in influenced by your Greek and when all he really yearned for the class. Examples of dishes in - day from 11 am – 9 pm, Sunday ian Village, and in 1991, and diabetes. I’ve also published Orthodox heritage? was the sea. The consummate clude Greek meatballs (keft - from 12 pm – 9 pm. The Festival went on a mission to Ghana, in health-related articles on brain EME: Without a doubt, my provider, he filled our lives much edes) and fish with Vegetables is located at 43404 30th Street West Africa. From 1999-2001 injuries among young athletes, culture and my faith inform the same way he filled our (psari plaki). The cost is $20 per West. For more information, call she served as English Press Offi - the new-and controversial-breast every aspect of my life, and serve pantry: with sweetness and class. Space is limited to 12 par - (661) 945-1212. cer for the Greek Orthodox Arch - cancer screening guidelines, how as the lens through which I see abundance. ticipants and classes often sell diocese in America. to help stem the tide of chronic the world and beyond. The Similarly, despite working as out. The Safford House is lo - n SEPTEMBER 9 – 18 a department store clerk for cated at 23 Parkin Ct. For more STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. – Holy nearly 30 years, my mother information, please call 727- Trinity – St. Nicholas Greek Or - never served us a frozen dinner; 942-5605 or register online at thodox Church presents its an - now that’s love! A stomach can - www.tarponarts.org. nual Greek Festival on the two cer survivor, she is thriving today, weekends following Labor Day. by the grace of God. But I’ll never n AUGUST 18 – 21 All family, friends, and visitors forget the time shortly after her PORT JEFFERSON, N.Y. – As - are welcome to attend and en - emergency surgery, her tiny little sumption Greek Orthodox joy the delicious Greek food, frame tethered to myriad tubes, Church is pleased to present its lively music, fun, and philoxenia when she, loaded with pain annual Greek Festival, a com - of the Greek community. Friday, meds, turned to me and said: munity event put together by the September 9th and 16th from 6 “Honey, make sure you eat some - families of The Assumption. Fea - pm – 12 am; Saturday, Septem - thing.” turing culinary delights like gy - ber 10th and 17th, from 2 pm – Together, my parents person - ros, pastitsio, moussaka, sou - 12 am; Sunday, September 11th ified the lofty Greek ideals: philo - vlaki, spanakopita, tyropita, and and 18th from 2 pm – 10 pm. timo – love of honor, philoxenia much more! Also traditional The festival is located at 1641 – hospitality and love. Also, Greek pastries such as baklava, Richmond Avenue. For more in - never settle for mediocrity. Other galaktobouriko, among others. formation, call (718) 494-0658. role models include: My husband George, who has a heart as big as the Atlantic Ocean, and who found me amid a sea of eight QUESTION OF THE WEEK million people. My sisters, who inspire me spiritually, creatively, Vote on our website! intellectually, and physically; both amazing mothers, who re - You have the chance to express your opinion on our website define unconditional love for me on an important question in the news. The results will be pub - every day of my life. My mater - lished in our printed edition next week along with the question nal grandmother, Yiayia Eliza - for that week. beth, the person I was named af - The question this week is: Should the Archdiocese fund ter, who raised seven children Greek schools? during WWII while bombs o Yes rained relentlessly from the o No Aegean sky, a talented poet, o Maybe though she never thought of her - The results for last week’s question: Should Greek education self in that way. be taken out of the hands of the Archdiocese? TNH: What’s your ultimate 64 % voted "Yes" goal in life? 26 % voted "No" EME: To forgive, and to be 10 % voted "Maybe" forgiven. Please vote at: www.thenationalherald.com THE NATIONAL HERALD, JULY 23-29, 2011 COMMUNITY 3

The coveted FAITH scholarships to attend the Ionian Village program in Greece, which has some good Greek food and company (top left,) collect themselves on lawn chairs to hear pre - helped thousands of Greek American students live life there and get to know their heritage. sentations (top right,) and hear a musical presentation (bottom left.) The program was the Here, last year’s recipients meet with the camp’s Director, Father Jason Roll, in Greece for idea of noted philanthropist Michael Jaharis (bottom left) seen here with his wife, Mary.

FAITH Awards Send 54 to Ionian Village to Celebrate Their Heritage

Continued from page 1 slowdown of the last few years, Maria Allwin who is a FAITH 40 years, Ionian Village has been schools across the country for ward their college tuition. The we saw a sharp increase in ap - Founder and chaired the Schol - and still is the premiere program academic excellence. The pro - core mission of FAITH is to pro - ciation for the Church and for plications and the generosity of arship Committee added: “We for the young Greek Americans gram, which originally limited to mote Hellenism and an under - Greek culture and heritage. the Founders of FAITH will make (the Founders of Faith) are proud to understand their Hellenic her - valedictorians and salutatorians standing of the Greek Orthodox “The generous support of it possible for young people to to support young people wishing itage and identity.” has expanded to also include stu - faith through a series of high FAITH makes it possible to offer connect to their Hellenic roots to participate in Ionian Village, In 2011, FAITH will also con - dents who display extraordinary quality educational programs and financial assistance to 54 young and experience Greece. This which is a truly transformative tinue to underwrite merit-based academic achievement and dis - cultural initiatives through an en - people to attend Ionian Village means that one-sixth of the experience –the intellectual and academic scholarships Since its play an acute need for financial dowment for the Greek Orthodox this summer who otherwise young people attending Ionian spiritual growth along with the inception, grants from FAITH support for their university stud - Archdiocese of America. would not have been able to af - Village will be FAITH scholarship friendships that take place as have funded many merit-based ies. In past years, several gradu - For more info about these pro - ford to do so because their fami - recipients and we are extremely these young people connect to scholarships to high school stu - ating seniors received Faith grams and the application lies face unfortunate financial dif - grateful for this,” said Fr. Jason their Hellenic roots at Ionian Vil - dents graduating from public, Scholarships for Academic Excel - process, visit the FAITH website: ficulties. Given the economic Roll, Director of Ionian Village. lage are extraordinary. For over parochial and private high lence through the Archdiocese to - www.faithendowment.org.

A HELLENIC AMERICAN MONUMENT, CULTURAL, EDUCATIONAL AND PERFORMING ARTS CENTER WANTED 300 GREEK AMERICANS WITH THE SPIRIT OF LEONIDAS AND HIS FIGHTERS armed with a $300 weapon joining many others to place the 7 1/2 foot bronze statue of Sophocles next to the other great symbols of our Greek heritage in Athens Square in Astoria, new york. this project is a thank you to this country for the opportunities it has given to our forefathers. this is your opportunity to make this icon of hellenic Pride live forever in America.

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Continued from page 1 Orthodox Cathedral. (Worces - dues-paying members. The ter’s Tsamantas immigrants be - group once numbered 350 but and thoroughness.” St. George’s gan as fruit and vegetable ped - is committed to the village – and Nitsos: Last Words To TNH is backing the definitive trans - dlers and built their livelihood its past. Former St. George’s lation that may number over based on kinship connections, President, nonagenarian Arthur 350 pages. as Konstadakopulos’ study re - Athanasiou, said the society be - Nikolaos Nitsos’ family left Tsaman - of facts, but also expressions of a This is one of several acade - veals.) The will dictated that the came a non-profit after the ma - tas when he was a boy; in Constan - “Greece waking up” after Ottoman mic-minded projects made pos - benefactors draw interest for 20 jor gift; some funds went to tinople he was trained in several rule. Konstadakopulos said: “Writ - sible by an unusual legacy pro - years –at which point they could scholarships, but even more, in languages. He was, for years, as ten in the early days of indepen - vided to the Worcester,Mass. access the main sum. 2008, were invested in a cen - Dr. Dimitrios Konstadakopulos, dence from the Ottomans, an society by Stavros Bellos, a cook Like so many villages in tennial celebration, with an aca - of the University of the West of era of great uncertainty, his and society member - who was Greece, Tsamantas village – only demic conference entitled 100 England, explained, secretary book reveals his underlying an - secretly a millionaire! When the a short walk from the Albanian Years in America that resulted to his uncle, prominent Metro - guish over the security of his 85-year-old (born in Tsamantas border, Northeast of in a book (available on Ama - politan Nathaniel, who was village’s hard-won status.” in 1913) passed away in 1999, Igoumenitsa - today is nearly zon.com. “No other Greek re - posted in Serres (Thrace,) Nitsos wrote to New York everyone was surprised to learn empty. Soterios Zoulas, St. gional society has done any - Proussa (today Turkey’s Bursa) papers Atlantis and Ethnikos that the bachelor who never George’s Co-Vice President, said thing like this before in the and, finally, Epirus’ Preveza. He Kirikas (The National Herald) owned a car, dressed simply and there are about 60 people living U.S.,” noted Athanasiou, point - also was a reporter for Constan - too. Konstadakopulos notes lived in a rented room had there today, compared to 1,400 ing to the many distinguished tinople-based Greek papers. Af - that Nitsos’ last dispatch, on his earned $2 million in stock mar - in the past. Many live off animal guests. Speakers included Gage, ter his uncle’s death, Nitsos deathbed, was written to this pa - ket gains. husbandry, in the village not far Ellis Island Archivist George Tse - turned to commercial activities in per in January 1940. He warned: Fifty percent of his legacy from author Nicholas Gage’s Lia los and scholar Alexander Constantinople. But upon his re - “... the horizon is turning darker went to the village once known (of Eleni fame.) Zoulas, who is Kitroeff. The book includes two turn to Tsamantas in 1914, as Hel - and darker, foretelling the coming for its itinerant tinkers. The rest a communications analyst/in - papers by Konstadakopulos lenic Benefit Society of Tsamanta(s) storm. The provocative activities of the was divided evenly by the soci - structor, said St. George’s Soci - (who has also studied Viet - Vice President Zoulas noted: World War I Italian invaders along the border, in bla - ety and local St. Spyridon Greek ety only has about 30 active namese rural society,) UK “entrapped” him, for life. tant cooperation with the Albanians, are a clear Nitsos used the time to write his book on the threat to the independence and territorial in - village in 1920. But strife in Asia Minor pre - tegrity of our fatherland.” He died a month later vented his return. “He ended his life in the vil - and the Italian invasion took place on October lage,” explained Zoulas of the bachelor. Pub - 28, when Greece’s “Oxi” (No) would give Greek lisher Aristides Caratzas said Nitsos’ book is full Americans a new prestige.

scholar Lynn Morrison’s look at you have a glendi (feast) at of the group’s activities, includ - the imperiled Folklore Museum night, the next day it’s forgot - ing a focus on immigration, in a of Tsamantas and other immi - ten.” The question is what to do time when anti-immigration gration-related pieces by inter - next, in nine years, when Bellos’ voices are being heard in the national scholars. The society full funds are available. Athana - U.S. Zoulas noted: “Old immi - also backed an academic work - siou said: “We are thinking of grants can teach new immi - shop in Tsamantas in 2005. what we will do best, in collab - grants and vice versa.” Athanasiou sats the village oration with universities and today lacks nothing – except for others.” Zoulas – who is related To find out more about the or - people. For years, U.S. and Aus - to Nitsos and Bellos- said of the ganization, visit tralian immigrants have sent village that only fills with people www.100yearsinamerica.org. In money to the village and its for the August 15 feast day: “In September, Caratzas/Melissa church and two schools (one is one sense there is a sadness International will release the now the museum.) Bellos’ gift with what’s happened to it.” At major compilation The improved road and water infra - the same time, however, he un - Genocide of the Ottoman In early years, immigrants from Tsamantas in Epirus were united by their St. George's Society. structure. The society isn’t in - derlined: “There is such a com - Greeks. They held picnics, but also sent funds to their village. The Society was named after the village terested in dances and dinners, mitment to the village.” He said church. These kind of social gatherings were common and kept the heritage alive. but history. He noted: “When he thinks Bellos would approve [email protected] A Famous House in a Simple Greek Village, the Gatzoyiannis Family Story

Continued from page 1 realize that the prisoners were packed in so tightly that they cuted, at the age of 41, by a fir - couldn’t even lie down.) Now ing squad of Communist guer - the basement contains display rillas because she had managed cases showing artifacts discov - to get four of her five children ered during the reconstruction, led out of the village and down including a hand grenade, a ri - through mine fields to freedom fle, plates and cups, even part under cover of night. of the wrought-iron bed that Eleni organized this escape Nick’s father had brought up the after she learned that the chil - mountain to the village, where dren in the guerrilla-occupied most people slept on pallets on village were to be taken away the floor. to camps behind the Iron Cur - Some 37 bodies had already tain in the last days of the Greek been buried in the yard around Civil War. (Some 28,000 chil - the house when Eleni Gat - dren were taken from Greece in zoyiannis was taken prisoner. what is called the “pedoma - There was no room for more, so soma,” or “gathering of chil - on August 28, 1948, the guer - dren.”) rillas marched their last group On the last day before the es - of 13 condemned prisoners to a cape, she was forced to stay be - distant plateau where their bod - hind with one of her daughters ies would be thrown into a to work for the guerrillas in the ABOVE LEFT : Nick Gage looking at a relative’s recent grave. nearby ravine. threshing fields. His mother’s remains have been moved to Hope Cemetery in In 2002 our daughter Eleni, Since the book Eleni was Worcester, Mass. and buried next to his father. ABOVE : Display her grandmother’s namesake, published in 1983, it’s been cases in the basement of the Gatzoyiannis house showing arti - spent a year living in Lia, re - translated into 32 languages. facts discovered during the reconstruction. LEFT: A photo of building the family home, which People from around the world the late Eleni Gatzoyiannis. She earned a place in Greek history had been allowed to fall into its come regularly to Lia to see after her son wrote about her struggle during the Civil War to foundations. She spent nine where Nick’s mother lived and save her family, and her execution, that haunted him. months restoring the house as died. A week ago, Nick showed it had been in her grand - his village and his childhood ished to find themselves sitting suary after being recovered from mother’s life. She was moved to home to 14 students from John in the Inn’s courtyard with the the ravine where the guerrillas find that the elderly villagers Jay College in New York and author of the book included threw the 13 civilians they exe - who remembered the terrible their professor, and on August David from Wales and his Greek cuted on August 28, 1948. events of the war helped her 2, he will welcome 30 students companion Effie, and a couple The guerrillas had taken over and donated their own belong - from Northeastern University, who had come from Austria, Eleni’s home for their headquar - ings, including a painted who read the book in their Hannelore and Claus. ters and they kept her and 30 wooden cradle and many em - Greek History class. The next day Nick led them other prisoners confined in the broidered textiles, to keep the Once the weather turns good on a tour of the spots that are basement where the animals house authentic to its period. In in the spring, nearly every day significant to the story, including had been stabled, while the pris - 2005, North of Ithaka, Eleni’s brings a foreign visitor or two many were executed, still har - to denying that Eleni Gatzoyian - the ancient church of Saint oners were questioned and tor - travel memoir describing that on this pilgrimage, although bor pro-Communist sentiments, nis ever lived there. Demitrios where Eleni wor - tured. (It always brings a gasp year and her experiences living they find that some Greeks, and may be unhelpful in an - Last Wednesday night, the shipped every day and where from visitors when they step in her ancestors’ village, was even in this village where so swering their questions - even two couples who were aston - her bones were kept in the os - into the cave-like basement and published by St. Martin’s Press.

MOUNT ATHOS PILGRIMAGE Three Hierarchs School Shuts Down For Good

Continued from page 1 “That was not the reason we Council and she showed how the parents didn’t want it,” and SEPT 21 to OCT 5, 2011 closed the school. We just could most of our schools are declin - he added: “No solution was For information please contact have the young people any not afford as a community to ing in membership, including given to us from on high. People more. I have said it many times subsidize a failing institution.” the major schools of St. of authority did not take initia - Theofilos Russos at (714) 535-0975 from the pulpit and at the meet - He said he hadn’t informed Demetrios and maybe St. tive.” ings with the Archbishop that the Archdiocese about the clos - Nicholas in Flushing because Nicholas Boudouris, who was www.mtathospilgrimage.com our people here in America, we ing at the time because he said, people are moving away.” a member of the Parish Council are on the move. So as soon as “I am waiting for the parish A DIFFERENCE OF OPINION and Chairman of the School Exclusively for men the children are educated and council to draw a proper letter Fr. Pappas also said that, “For committee five years ago, told they see that that there is a bet - to send to them, but I am sure 29 years I taught at the TNH that, “When I left, the ter place to live they move, it is they knew it. Makedon knew parochial school free of charge. school had 92 students and its the American way that people months before.” When asked if I was teaching religion, morals budged showed a surplus of move to better communities, to and ethics and I was acting as a $57,000.” ATHENS LAW FIRM better schools, so it is not the Dean of Discipline of the school He expressed his sadness phenomenon only of the Three “We just could not afford so no one can challenge the fact about the closing of the school MARIA M. MANOLAKA & KONSTANTINOS A. PETRATOS Hierarchs but every parish in as a community to that I supported the school. and stated that, “The reason of Brooklyn is losing membership.” subsidize a failing Even when there were elements the closing of the school was the INTEGRATED LEGAL SERVICES THROUGHOUT GREECE GONE, PEOPLE, GONE who wanted to close the school bad management the least 15 He also said that, “The de - institution.” in the past I fought them tooth years. The priest did whatever mographics are changing and nail but now I can’t any he wanted.” Boudouris also said meSoGeion AVe 451, 15343 AG. PArASkeVi - AthenS rapidly,” and he added that, Ioannis Eftimiopoulos knew more.” “the Archdiocese has huge re - “Once upon the time, Manhat - about the closing of the school, Of those efforts to keep the sponsibilities about the closing tel.: 01130 211 0123 345, Fax: 01130 211 014 1919 tan, New York, which has up to he replied: “Does he care? Has school open and combine all the of the School.” cell: 01130-6947-106-544, 01130-6948-383-011 date 11 churches, out of which he ever visited us? He never did. schools of the Brooklyn Aristotle Pavlides, a member e-mail: [email protected] just three Liturgize with congre - He may have come once for the parishes, he said, “It was a of the Parish Council, told TNH gation in 1950 and 1960 were feast of the Three Hierarchs waste of time and efforts be - that, “As much as we do not like • contrActS • reAl eStAte trAnSActionS, leASeS throuGhout Greece flourishing because that was when the Archbishop was here, cause everybody was selling to close any educational institu - • ProPerty mAnAGement in Greece where the Greeks were. In 1970 but he never made any visit to gyro and souvlaki in the same tion, our job as Parish Council • DonAtionS / PArentAl GrAntS they moved to Astoria.” our parish to care for the corner and nobody wanted to members is to support the Hel - • lAnD reGiStry cASeS As for the Three Hierarchs, school.” Fr. Pappas said, “The give up their concession. I mean lenic studies. But as other • PenSionS he said, “We have 500 families general assembly took the ini - everybody wanted to be chief. parochial schools have closed in • ciVil AnD commerciAl lAw the most; we had 30 students tiative, I did not ask for the clos - The Archdioceses should have New York it is really a function • Public AnD criminAl lAw at the Day School, 15 in the Af - ing of the school, but I did not come in and simply laid the lot. of economics and the moving of • comPAny lAw ternoon Greek School and 15 at fight it either,” and he added: “I Instead of establishing one giant the younger people out of the the Sunday school.” The tuition informed the Archbishop in May school for all the parishes, it was city.” He added that, “There was for the Day School was $4,800 that we are having a bad prob - said this church will take only two Greek children in the per year.” He also said, “Most lem here. He knew it because Kindergarten, this church will school this year, the rest were The National Herald Blog... of the students were Russian we had a report from Mrs. take first, second and third Russian, Chinese, Muslim, from www.thenationalherald.com and Ukrainian students. We had Makedon at the May meeting of grade, this church will take four, the area but not members of the a handful of Greeks.” He added, the Direct Archdiocesan District fifth and sixth. It didn’t work, church.” THE NATIONAL HERALD, JULY 23-29, 2011 COMMUNITY 5

GREEK GASTRONOMY The Island of Lesvos Offers a Gastronomical Paradise for Ouzo Lovers

By Georgia Kofinas word ouzo began to be used ex - cific product leading to the final manner in which it is served. Special to The National Herald tensively in Greece in the second stage of bottling. In the Bar - Turks say that water must be half of the 19th Century. Lesvos bayannis factory, it is most inter - added to raki (or ouzo) first be - The idea of my travel to the has a long standing history of esting that the sterilized bottles fore being chilled with ice cubes. island of Lesvos actually began producing the finest ouzo in are rinsed with diluted ouzo be - This prevents the aromatic oils in Istanbul back in the winter. Greece. The island’s climate and fore being filled and passed in the drink from becoming crys - My husband and I had been in - rich supply of water gives life to through the packaging process. tallized and thus losing some of vited to a tasting event for a new an abundant variety of rare wild Quality claims depend on the its flavor. Greeks usually add ice Turkish raki put out by the well herbs, many of which are used percentage of distilled alcohol in to their ouzo first and wait until known Yeni Raki Company. to flavor ouzo. Spring water, the final product. By Greek law the ice melts a bit before adding While discussing the manner in used exclusively in the process any product with at least 20% of water. Lesvos is also known for which the aromas and textures of making ouzo, is found exten - the alcoholic strength of ouzo its salted sardines and anchovies play on the palate, we were sively all over the island. Ouzo can be named ouzo. The remain - which are perfect accompani - asked to comment on the simi - production began in the middle ing 80% may be sugar and arti - ments to ouzo. Usually they will larities and differences between of the 19th Century reaching a ficially flavored alcohol. Thus a be served simply by shaking off Turkish raki and Greek ouzo. At peak around the end of the cen - bottle of ouzo that is labeled the salt, rinsed off with vinegar the end of the session we offered tury on the island’s town of Plo - 100% distilled is indeed the best and generously drizzled with the to take them to some of the ouzo mari. While the island hosts the quality of ouzo available and island’s superb extra virgin olive factories on the island of Lesvos larger major ouzo companies of will, of course, be more expen - oil. However, we were also and let them see for themselves. Greece there are a number of sive. Alcohol percentage may treated to a delectable anchovy And so it was in early June that smaller producers that claim range from 40% to 48% depend - salad whose recipe I will share we met up on Lesvos with two fame to producing superior qual - ing on how much filtered water with you below. Serve this at representatives of Yeni Raki: ities of ouzo. is added during the final process your next ouzoparea and clink Zafer Oylan, Quality Manager, HOW OUZO IS MADE of distillation. The Barbayanni your glasses “to your health”!! and Duygu Beypinar, a quality The next morning we took bles, the Barbayanni family used plate of marble the separation of company has four different types analyst. Needless to say, we ini - our Turkish friends to tour the ethyl alcohol made exclusively seeds from the plant is done by of ouzo all produced of a100% tiated our friendship the first premises of the Barbayannis from dried grapes (raisins.) The hand. Aniseed is then stored in distillation. The classic Blue is a Anchovy and red evening by “going for “ouzakia” ouzo factory, one of the oldest main herb that gives ouzo its dis - pouches made from plant fibers 46 % volume alcohol and the pepper salad (as the Greeks say: “pame gia distilleries on the island. In 1860 tinct aroma is anise, cultivated to protect it from humidity. company’s oldest product first ouzakia”)! Ouzo as we know it the first generation of the Bar - on the island for this purpose. The distillation process in - produced in 1860. Their Evzone For 6 meze servings today has been produced in bayannis family arrived in the The Barbayanni family oversees volves the use of stills made from ouzo contains 47% alcohol and Greece since the middle of the town of Plomari bringing with the cultivation of anise in their copper specially designed in the has a hint of mastic in its blend • 24 marinated fillets of 19th Century, but records of dis - them their knowledge of distil - own fields or from fields of other traditional manner. While the of aromas. In 1962 the Bar - anchovies (preserved in olive tilling the by-products of wine - lation processes from the Russian anise producers. Harvesting main aroma in ouzo comes from bayanni Aphrodite was produced oil) making (“marc”) go back to the city of Odessa. Today the com - anise for its seeds is time-con - aniseed the various ouzo produc - exclusively for export at a 48% • 2 roasted red peppers late Byzantine period. Despite pany is being operated by the suming and requires special care ers have their own blend of other alcohol volume, but became very (ready-made from a jar) cut the efforts of the Ottomans to fifth and sixth generations of the to keep the seeds dry. Seeds are herbs and spices as well. The popular among the native Greeks into small cubes thwart alcohol distillation rak - family maintaining both the tra - sown in February where rainfall Barbayannis family secret blend as well. The mildest product at • 1 teaspoon capers (rinsed itzide” (raki producers) appeared dition of company and the qual - is frequent and by spring the includes from 12 to 14 other aro - 42% alcohol volume was created several times with water) on the scene to produce the ity of its products. We were given aroma of the fresh anise plant mas besides anise. This pouch of in 1997 to meet the target mar - • 1 fresh green onion finely finest distilled spirits which were the grand tour by Vagia Bar - pervades the island. It is not until aromas is placed in the still to ket demands for a lighter ouzo. chopped enjoyed by the upper class of the bayannis, sister of Manolis and the end of July that anise is har - which spring water and the ethyl Our Turkish friends were quite • 1 tablespoon finely chopped Empire. After Greece’s liberation Stathis Barbayannis who help vested allowing for the hot alcohol is added. The mixture is impressed with the whole expe - parsley from the Turkish Occupation in run the business. Vagia began the Aegean sun to ripen the seeds. heated by steam passing through rience and shared their expertise • 2 tablespoons lemon juice 1821, distillation of spirits was tour by telling us that the best The anise plants are then har - a spiral tube at the base of the on distilled spirits. They found • 3 tablespoons virgin olive oil revitalized and in 1863 the new ouzo comes from a combination vested, tied into small sheaves still and then evaporates. The va - many similarities with the Turk - 1. Arrange anchovies in an state promulgated the first taxa - of the finest ingredients and a and carefully dried in the shade pors turn to liquid inside a con - ish raki, but one of the main dif - oblong platter. tion of alcohol. By the end of the profound knowledge of the tech - to ensure that its green color will denser and the liquid distillate is ferences is the fact that Turkish 2. Combine red peppers, ca - century permits were issued for nique of distillation. The family’s not fade. With the help of a tilted collected and stored in small raki has added sugar whereas pers, onion and parsley in a the production of distilled spirits main concern is making sure tanks. The middle faction ouzo does not. Also the blend of small bowl. Add lemon juice from marc. The origin of the they can control their quality by (“heart”) of the distillation is flavors may differ as does the al - and olive oil and toss until cov - name ouzo has some interesting seeking the right sources for their stored in a separate tank which cohol content. What Greeks usu - ered with oil. stories surrounding it. Some et - ingredients, from the ethyl alco - will be distilled a second and ally call “raki” is not processed 3. Scatter mixture over an - ymologists say the word comes hol to the native spring water to third time. This is the part that with aniseed and therefore will chovies and serve with a lemon from the word “uso,” meaning the herbs and spices that go into becomes ouzo. Every complete not become milky when water is wedge. use, which was stamped on the the aroma of ouzo. distillation process produces a added. Greek raki means differ - Variation: Preserved fillets of crates that were exported to Eu - The most important ingredi - specific type of ouzo based on ent things to different regions in sardines can be substituted for rope. A more likely story is that ent used to produce ouzo is ethyl the types and quantities of the Greece. In it is also called anchovies. it comes from the ancient Greek alcohol. This is supplied by li - aromas added. The final distillate “tsigoudia” and in the mountain - word “ozo” which means “to censed winemakers under the is stored in stainless steel tanks ous regions in Thessaly, Epirus Georgia Kofinas is a food wri ter, smell,” referring to the strong supervision of the General where the mixture settles and and Agrapha, their distilled drink cookbook author and chef in - anise fragrance. And, of course, Chemical State Laboratory to en - become homogeneous. Aging is named “tsipouro.” None of structor at Alpine College, a from the mixture of Turkish and sure standard quality and safety. takes place from thirty to forty these spirits are diluted with wa - hotel management and tourism Greek cultures comes the version While some ouzo producers ob - days. Then double-filtered spring ter or chilled with ice cubes as is school in Athens, Greece. Her that ouzo refers to the Turkish tain ethyl alcohol made from a water is introduced into the ouzo and Turkish raki. Another cu linary journeys have taken her word for grapes, “uzum.” What combination of grapes, potatoes, tanks to balance out the desired difference between ouzo and to many regions of the Eastern is certain, however, is that the carrots and other fruit or vegeta - percentage of alcohol of a spe - Turkish raki has to do with the Mediterranean and Asia Minor. 6 OBITUARIES CLASSIFIEDS THE NATIONAL HERALD, JULY 23-29, 2011 Beloved Industrialist and Philanthropist, Remembering Spiros Raftis’ Self-Made Life DEATH ANNOUNCEMENT In Memory PITTSBURGH - From humble wife said, “We would travel the of beginnings, Spiros Raftis knew world together on these trips to Our beloved husband, father and grandfather the American door of opportu - places like Chile, Malaysia, Sin - MARY KARABATOS nity was his to open. Born here gapore to bring the valves he in 1925, the son of a Greek im - designed to them.” One of Mr. of Bay Ridge, Bklyn, migrant, Mr. Raftis considered Raftis’ lasting achievements was Died July 07, 2010 in Winter Park, Fl. following his father in a career introducing his products to as a maintenance worker when many Third World communities a family friend seeing his poten - in South America and India Although it has been a year since she has left us, tial convinced him to attend col - where many people die from the loss and pain has not lessened. lege. Mr. Raftis was graduated unsanitary water drinking con - from the University of Pitts - ditions. His products helped Her memory and love will remain forever. burgh in 1945 with a degree in save untold lives. My mother was a devoted and loving wife and a mother metallurgical engineering. He Mr. Raftis, much like another went on to work as a manufac - Pennsylvannia-based industrial - that sacrificed and did without so I would not. turing sales representative for ist Andrew Carnegie, was more She gave from her heart and soul so that others could be happy. several years before deciding to than just a successful business - start his own company in 1953. man, but a friend to man. He Her memory and love will remain for ever in everyone she touched. He founded Red Valve, a was a charitable and generous Mom, I miss you, and you will never be forgottened Carnegie-based company that person, respected by others and and will remain forever in my heart. specialized in environmental humble about his accomplish - and industrial valves for waste - ments. A family man, Mr. Raftis John Karabatos, MD. water treatment. Raftis, 86, was active in his church com - SPIROS RAFTIS from nearby Mt. Lebanon, munity, serving on the board 901207/8819 passed away on June 1, but left and as a past president of the Archon, Leadership 100, Industrialist, a legacy to be told in the Greek St. Nicholas Cathedral. He was American Community and be - also supportive of various Real Estate Developer & Author yond, a businessman who didn’t monasteries and orphanages in let success make him forget his Greece as well as supporting from Pittsburgh , PA CLASSIFIEDS roots or detract from his well- Mother Theresa’s Children of known philanthropy and gen - Calcutta program. 86 years old erosity, including to his Church He was also involved in help - HELP WANTED FUNERAL HOMES and Hellenism. ing to build the Aghios Nektar - who passed away on June 1st , 2011, was buried on June 6th , 2011. Red Valve was a one-plant church in the island of The funeral service w as held at Saint Nicholas Greek Orthodox We’re Looking for Good Writers! 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Continued from page 1 commitment to make good on tional identity. Almost two the rest of the euro zone from the fiscal targets and continue decades of UN-led negotiations contagion. “Nobody should be sions, they were acts of leader - to deliver reform that drives fu - over the name dispute have under any illusion: the situation ship,” Clinton said. ture growth.” She added: “We been fruitless. is very serious. It requires a re - Despite the political cost and believe that the recent legisla - ON THEIR BACKS sponse, otherwise the negative social anguish, Lambrinidis said tion will make Greece more The unpopular austerity mea - consequences will be felt in all Greece has made progress. The competitive, will make Greece sures have sparked waves of corners of Europe and beyond,” Socialist government’s success more business-friendly,” she strikes and protests, many of Barroso told a news conference. in pushing through the deeply said. Lambrinidis said Athens them violent, with many Greeks He said the elements of a solu - unpopular austerity measures, appreciated the support and angry at the apparent futility of tion must include: measures to he added, had saved Greece, pledged to “emerge victorious” the effort which have backfired, ensure the sustainability of which had been downgraded from the ordeal. He argued that creating a nearly 16% unemploy - Greek public finances, private several times by international the European Union has “un - ment rate and more than 65,000 sector involvement in funding credit rating agencies. “Many fathomable” economic power businesses closing. Despite a for Athens, more flexible use of had gambled on the collapse of “when 500 million people in 27 huge effort last year involving the Eurozone’s EFSF bailout Greece and of Europe,’’ Lam - countries stand together.” But painful wage and pension cuts, fund, repair of the region’s brinidis said. “But all have been observers say the bloc has failed deficit reduction targets were ul - banking system and liquidity to proven wrong.” to harness this potential in suc - timately missed because of a keep the economy going. Clinton said she understands cessive efforts to deal with the greater-than-foreseen recession In what sounded like a veiled and added that, “I have faith in Greek debt crisis. and tax revenues that have fallen criticism of German Chancellor the resilience of the Greek peo - RAH-RAH-RAH far short of estimates because of Angela Merkel, whose country ple,” Clinton said at the start of Clinton also met Papan - continued evasion, corruption is the EU’s biggest economy, two days of talks with Greek dreou, Greek President Karolos leaders in Athens. “I applaud the Papoulias, and with new Fi - Greek government on its will - nance Minister Evangelos ingness to take these difficult Venizelos, who said, “The US steps. Greece has inspired the side understands very well that world before, and I have every it is important to make the confidence that you are doing Greek debt sustainable in the so again,” she said after meeting long term. They are ready to Lambrinidis. “We stand by the help in terms of investment and people and government of ASSociAteD PreSS the real economy.” He added: Greece as you put your country Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou, left, shakes hands “American support is very im - back on a path to economic sta - with US Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton on Saturday portant. It is important through bility and prosperity,” Clinton July 17, 2011, at the Foreign Ministry in Athens. the IMF, where the US role is said. The message was intended crucial. US support is also im - to boost the embattled Socialist some of Athen’s buildings. chemotherapy to get rid of the portant through their bilateral administration of the US-born Papandreou is seen by critics cancer,” Clinton said. “But the relations with Eurozone mem - Papandreou, whose popularity in Greece as a front man for the bottom line is this is the best ap - ber states.” Greece has made is plummeting over his backing banks who want to insure they proach and we strongly support progress but it still is not where of the Troika demands to en - will be paid back and as some - it,” she said. “While the payoff it should be to reassure markets force tough reforms. one who had not gone after for these sacrifices may not and escape the danger of eco - But after Papandreou intro - Greece’s rich elite, of which he come quickly, it will come. We nomic disaster, Clinton told duced the austerity measures, is a member. That didn’t keep know that.” Working class SKAI television. Clinton re - Greeks took to the streets and Clinton from standing by him. Greeks, the poor and pensioners hashed Washington’s support for rioting broke out last month. “There are lots of analogies - have said, however, that it is the structural reforms sanc - During Clinton’s visit, signs of having to take the strong medi - only they making the sacrifices. tioned by the debt-ridden coun - that outrage were still visible – cine that tastes terrible when it “Now the challenge will be try’s foreign lenders of the with graffiti decrying the aus - goes down and you wish you to keep moving forward with Troika. “Half of the package of terity measures plastered on didn’t have to, or the the same determination and the measures required has been passed and is being imple - mented, but the other half has not yet been carried through,” she said. Most of the optimism comes from political leaders while most economic analysts insist the math is against Greece US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton looks at a statue as she and that default or restructuring tours the Acropolis Museum in Athens Sunday July 17, before its loans and economy is in - signing a Cultural Memorandum of Understanding on import evitable. restrictions for archaeological finds between the US and Greece. Besides the economic crisis, Clinton urged Greece and Mace - and consumers slowing and stop - Barroso said it was time for donia, the northern neighbor ping their spending. This forced leaders to say, “what they can which Greece calls FYROM (The Papandreou’s administration to do and what they want to do. Former Yugoslav Republic of bring a new austerity package Not what they can’t do and Macedonia) to resolve a long- before Parliament last month, won’t do.” Merkel lowered ex - standing name row that has un - with creditors threatening to pectations, saying the summit dermined relations and blocks withhold continued aid unless it, would not bring a one-shot Skopje’s EU and NATO entry too, was passed. The package spectacular solution to the bids. “We have made it very was passed by the government’s Greek crisis but only the latest clear that we support the nego - majority. in a series of incremental steps tiations that have gone on be - EU leaders must find a con - to tackle the roots of Athens’ tween Skopje and Athens,” Clin - vincing solution to Greece’s debt debt and competitiveness prob - ton told Greece’s SKAI TV. crisis at a summit or the global lems. Papandreou made another The two countries have been economy will pay the price, the pitch for EU cohesion too ahead at loggerheads since Macedonia head of the European Commis - of the meeting when he said, proclaimed independence from sion said in an unusually somber ““It is time for Europe to wake the former Yugoslavia in 1991, warning. Jose Manuel Barroso up” and find a conclusive solu - with Greece insisting that the delivered the message as offi - tion, while insisting that Greece use of the name Macedonia im - cials of the 17-nation currency would not default on its debt. plies a claim on Greek territory. area and bankers struggled to Germany has been pushing for Macedonian officials say name pin down a package of measures private banks to help bear the The Orthodox Patriachate officials look as the U. S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton change could lead to a denial of to persuade markets that Greece burden of the latest proposed leaves after a meeting with Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I in Istanbul, Turkey, July 16. the country’s language and na - can be saved from default and bailout. Erdogan Fires Shots, Cyprus Solution Sliding Away, U.N. Sets a New Deadline

Continued from page 1 cult core issues. “I have every ex - pectation that by October the the Greek Cypriot side was still leaders will be able to report that expecting the Turkish side to they have reached convergence agree to even broader conces - on all core issues, and we will sions than the ones in the Annan meet that month in New York,” plan, but made it clear that the said Ban said, according to the circumstances have changed. Famagusta Gazette. “This will “The Annan plan conditions have take the Cyprus negotiations changed. We will be coming to close to their conclusion and (the negotiating) table differ - would allow me to give a positive ently. They (the Greek Cypriots) report to the Security Council on are still thinking of what more the matter. It would also pave the they get can get besides (conces - way for me to work with the par - sions stipulated in) the Annan ties towards convening a final, plan. Well, excuse us, but the international conference,” he time (of concessions) has added. passed,” said Erdogan. Erdogan also reiterated that TWO STATES OR NONE Turkish-European Union rela - “We speak clearly and firmly. tions will be suspended if Greek A bi-zonal structure of two states Cyprus, an EU member since with equal status must be ac - 2004, takes over the 27-nation cepted. Whether or not to accept bloc’s rotating presidency in the it is up to them,” said Erdogan. second half of 2012 without a Earlier he was quoted as saying: settlement on the island. “We even consider it degrading ABOVE: Greek Cypriots gathered in the center of Nicosia to re - “We will never have dialogue to sit at the same table with the member the grave date of the Turkish invasion. RIGHT: Turkish with them (Greek Cyprus) dur - Greek Cypriot administration... Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan (R) he talks with Turkish ing their presidency. Relations we will see whether this issue Cypriot leader Dervis Eroglu during a military parade in the with the EU will freeze, meaning (Cyprus issue) will be concluded Turkish-occupied area of the divided capital Nicosia, Cyprus, there will be no Turkey-EU rela - in 2012 or not. If they don’t con - July 20, 2011 to mark the 37th anniversary of the Turkish in - tions for that six-month period,” clude this issue in 2012, we will vasion and occupation of the northern area of the island. Er - he said. Erdogan said Turkey will go our own way.” dogan dashed hopes he was bringing a solution. not sit down and talk to Greek Zaman said there was specu - Cyprus, which it does not recog - lation that Erdogan could seek to quoted Christofias as responding see this happen. They will wait nize. “The EU has not acted with kick start the Cyprus talks, and that Erdogan’s comments were in vain as long as Turkey remains honesty,” he said, criticizing the subsequently Ankara’s near- “utterly reprehensible.” He added a guarantor state,” he added. bloc for accepting Greek Cyprus frozen EU accession talks, by that, “If the Turkish side pursues NOT A REAL STATE as a full member in 2004 despite making a surprise concessionary this line there is no chance of any Responding to Erdogan’s re - the Greek Cypriot rejection of the proposal during the visit. But be - real progress,” referring to the marks, Christofias expressed Annan plan. “If the Greek fore he left for Cyprus, Erdogan UN-mediated peace talks. hope the Turkish side would Cypriot side stalls negotiations seemed to quash such hopes say - Responding to the question on “change (their) behavior in order and takes over the presidency of ing, “We have made enough pos - Mara (Varosha), which has been to have progress”, noting that the the European Union in July itive gestures on Cyprus. We are fenced off since the Turkish mili - statements by Erdogan “are ab - 2012, this means not only a not about to make concessions tary intervention in the island in solutely condemnable and cyni - deadlock on the island, but also and no one should expect them.” 1974, Erdogan also signaled that cal and if this is the line that the a blockage, a freezing point in Turkish daily Milliyet quoted Er - there would be no change in the Turkish side will pursue, there Turkey-European Union rela - doan as saying, “We will not Turkish position as long as the will be no prospect for any tions,” Davutoglu reportedly have any discussions with the Greek Cypriots maintain what he progress.” Christofias said that he said. The prime minister also ap - Cypriot president,” referring to called “bad faith.” Varosha has senses that the UN is also of - AP Photo/PetroS kArADJiAS pealed to Turkish Cypriot fami - Dimitris Christofias. “Our con - been closed to anyone except the fended by Erdogan’s statements, international scene, would have talks and speaking in Geneva last lies to help increase the Turkish tacts with the EU will be frozen,” Turkish military and UN person - noting that the UN also wants expect a positive move on his be - week Ban left little room for Cypriot population of the island. the statement added. “We con - nel, deployed on the island on a progress during the talks. Invited half rather than incendiary state - doubt that the UN was ready to Erdogan, who has repeatedly sider it a disgrace to sit down at peacekeeping mission. The An - to comment on the information ments.” He added that “if this is see the process come to its end, called on Turkish families to have the negotiating table with (the nan plan had provided for the re - for a unilateral proposal on be - Turkey’s official stance, it means one way or another. “The leaders at least three children, argued Greek Cypriots) at the United Na - turn of Varosha to Greek Cypriot half of the Turkish side regarding they want recognition of the have agreed to enter into an in - that Turkish Cypriot families tions. We will not negotiate with control. “If the Greek Cypriots are the opening of Famagusta, pseudo-state”. tensive period of negotiations on must have at least four children a country which we do not rec - still hoping that they will have Christofias said that “upon Erdo - The UN is reportedly becom - the core issues when they return so that Turkey won’t have to ognize.” the (Turkish-run) northern gan’s illegal visit to the occupied ing increasing frustrated with the to the island. They will focus on keep sending people to raise the Greek daily Kathimerini Cyprus, they will wait in vain to areas, the UN and others in the lack of progress in the Cyprus finding a way through the diffi - Turkish population. 8 EDITORIALS LETTERS THE NATIONAL HERALD, JULY 23-29, 2011

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Naturally, the purpose of the visit of the Secretary of State to the I bet that most, if not all, onate withthe result of heritage, losophy of living can be applied Greek capital was somewhat different and was twofold: readers have seen the 2002 hit meaningful story birthright, or birth - both to our personal lives and to show support toward the Greek people in their time of need film, My Big Fat Greek Wedding, depicted in the place. For example, our work lives. Thousands of and press the message that, unfortunate as it may be, the only way written by and starring Nia movie. It is because the Athenian years ago, philosophers like Her - forward is the implementation of the Troika plan. Vardalos. The movie centered on the movie reflects so speechwriter, aclitus, Hippocrates, Socrates, “I am pleased to be here during these challenging times to demon - Fotoula “Toula” Portokalou, a many of our own Isocrates, who was Plato, Aristotle, and others had strate unequivocally the strong support that the United States has for middle-class Greek American families and per - a contemporary of grappled with the existential Greece,” said the Secretary. woman going through an early sonal lives, Greek or Socrates, espoused question: “How do we live the As for the second point, Mrs. Clinton stated: “I am not here to in mid-life crisis because she had not, that makes its that “the word good life?” Fast-forward to the any way downplay the immediate challenges, because they are real, not married. As the story goes, story arc so com - ‘Greek’ is not so present-day and we find the but I am here to say that we believe strongly that this will give Greece Toula falls in love with a non- pelling and memo - much a term of Greeks living in so-called post - a very strong economy going forward. There are lots of analogies – Greek, i.e., White Anglo-Saxon rable. We can relate birth as it is of men - modern society, along with those having to take the strong medicine that tastes terrible when it goes Protestant, by the name of Ian to Toula, to her en - by Dr. ALEX tality, and is ap - of us living in similar circum - down and you wish you didn’t have to, or the chemotherapy to get Miller. Although the movie was tire family, and to PATTAKOS plied to a common stances, asking the very same rid of the cancer. There are all kinds of analogies. But the bottom set in Chicago, it was shot largely her situation pre - culture rather than question. It is as if we have pro - line is this is the best approach and we strongly support it.” in Toronto where I was living at cisely because it Special to of common de - gressed and regressed at the However Mrs. Clinton added an important condition the American the time so the scenes of Greek - mirrors so much of The National Herald scent.” Likewise, same time. Today the tiny coun - support hinges upon: “And as you do what you must to bring your town on Danforth Avenue hold us and our lives. the modern Greek try Greece and its citizens are economy back to health, you will have the full support of the US.” special meaning for me. In a very Against this backdrop, of poet and winner of the Nobel faced with formidable challenges memorable scene near the end course, still lies the very obvious Prize in Literature in 1979, and, once again, find themselves of the film when Toula and Ian and hard-to-forget “Greek” Odysseas Elytis, said that, “To be rocking the cradle of Western What a Difference celebrate their big fat Greek theme. To the Windex bottle- Greek means to feel and react in civilization and leading the way wedding with their respective toting Gus, for example, all Eng - a certain way, nothing else; out of the abyss as they seek to families, Toula’s father, Gus, lish words can be traced to their whether one is young or old, reinvent our common notions of The city of Athens that Hillary Clinton found was a different one played by the well-known Greek- Greek roots. While humorous born here or there.” . Greece and its citi - than her husband, then-U.S. President found 12 years American actor Michael Con - when considered in a movie By implication, to be Greek zens are being forced to reassess earlier on his stop there. The huge demonstrations against him, the stantine, finally comes around to script, the implications of this or to manifest one’s “Greekness” what really matters in life. Not riots, the burnings, forced him to cut his visit short. It did not impress accept the “mixed” marriage and part of the story line are not as is a potentiality that exists in all unlike other nations in the con - the so-called progressive forces who were against his visit that he shares the following ageless and far-fetched as some may think. of us. I believe this human ca - temporary era, today’s Greece made an unprecedented admission for a sitting president that his very touching Greek wisdom In this regard, the loan given by pacity is inherent in everyone and Greeks must reengage with country erred in its support of the military Junta. with all of the guests at the re - the Greeks to the English lan - even if it appears to be dormant, some traditional values and cus - When, years later, a Greek American offered him his apologies ception: “You know, the root of guage is enormous. The expres - waiting to be unleashed in some toms from which they had be - for what happened then, Bill Clinton, without losing a beat responded: the word Miller is a Greek word. sion, “It’s all Greek to me,” is not way. In other words, there is an come estranged in their hurried The Republicans had done worst things to me. Miller comes from the Greek really that far off the mark since inner Zorba the Greek in all hu - quest to modernize at any cost. Mrs. Clinton did not see any demonstrators in Athens. Nor was word, ‘milo,’ which is mean ‘ap - there are more than 40,000 man beings, waiting to dance on According to traditional Greek she harshly criticized in the press. In effect, the opposite happened: ple,’ so there you go. As many of Greek words in use today in the the beach of life, eager to em - village wisdom, “The truth and she was welcomed, there were lines of people wishing to shake her you know, our name, Portokalos, English language. brace the “full catastrophe” of the olive oil always come to the hand, as was the case at the new Acropolis Museum. “The streets is come from the Greek word The vast contributions of living, and determined to expe - top.” Remember, as Gus Portaka - were lined with well-wishers as our motorcade moved through the ‘portokali,’ which mean ‘orange.’ Greece to Western civilization rience all of life to the fullest los said: “We all different, but in city to meet with President Papoulias, Prime Minister Papandreou, So, okay? Here tonight, we have, don’t stop with language by any with enthusiasm and meaning. the end, we all fruit.” And to that Foreign Minister Lambrinidis, and Finance Minister Venizelos bloged ah, apple and orange. We all dif - means. Indeed, it was the fa - It is partly because we believe we add, we are all Greek! OPA! Liz Sherwood-Randall, Special Assistant to the President for National ferent, but in the end, we all mous English Romantic poet, so strongly that we are all Greek Security Affairs and Senior Director for European Affairs”. fruit.” Percy Bysshe Shelley, regarded that we developed The OPA! Dr. Pattakos, author of Prisoners Judging by how hard Hillary Clinton tried to convince the Greeks How simple sounding, yet so as one of the finest lyric poets in Way lifestyle. This new paradigm of Our Thoughts (including a to stick with the plan, one can detect a certain anxiety on the part of profound and true: We are all the English language who keenly or mental model offers the anti - soon-to-be-released Greek edi - the Administration over the rejection movement that is spreading in different but in the end, we are observed: “We are all Greeks. dote to the stressful, unhappy, tion, ΦΥΛΑΚΙΣΜΕΝΟΙ ΣΤΙΣ ΣΚΕ - Greece. In any case, it could be argued that it could be best left to the all fruit. Of course, you don’t Our laws, our literature, our re - unhealthy, disconnected lives ΨΕΙΣ ΜΑΣ, ) is co-founder of The Europeans to do that. have to be of Greek heritage to ligion, our arts have their root many people around the world OPA! Way, a business initiative appreciate this bit of philosophy. in Greece.” Moreover, it has been are experiencing today. The wis - inspired by and based on Greek Nor do you have to be of Greek recognized through the ages that dom and practical advice that culture. Readers may contact Kudos for Omogeneia heritage to appreciate and res - to be Greek is not necessarily the are the foundation of this phi - him at: [email protected]

There is an eternal question, going back to the early days of im - COMMENTARY migration to the USA and is likely to go on for a lot longer: Why is it that the Greeks who live abroad, especially in America, do well in comparison to the Greeks of Greece? Why is it that even though im - migrants leave Greece carrying with them only an old suitcase, the Greece Can’t Handle the Truth, and It’s Going to Cost blessing of their parents and an icon, within a few years manage to prosper and especially to provide a much better life for their children whereas the Greeks of Greece dream of getting a dead end job work - A healthy dose of truth al - are now talking to living with se - the ministry’s official name. It ing for the government? ways serves as a great elixir. It about “selective de - verely limited sov - doesn’t get any plainer than that. This eternal question is dealt with by no other than Thomas L. helps us stay grounded, and fault” when the ereignty for a long Here’s how Greek intellec - Friedman, the New York Times columnist who filed two consecutive sometimes, even when it’s un - whole selling point time. The first reac - tual/politologist Kostas Zouraris columns from Athens this past week. pleasant, is better than a lie. The of signing the mem - tion is anger over describes Juncker’s views: “His Dimitris Bourantas, a Professor of Management at Athens Univer - Greek word for truth ( αλήθεια ) orandum and im - his timing and lack statement is absolutely correct. sity said that when Greeks move to the U.S. they “unleash their skills “alitheia” comes from the prefix posing its harsh of (talk This fellow is always very careful and entrepreneurship in ways that enable them to thrive in commerce. “a” (un) and the word “lithi,” terms was to avoid about adding insult and has exceptional abilities. If But here in Greece the system encourages just the opposite”. which means to forget. Heracli - default? Tons of ink to injury) but then he wasn’t representing total Investors here tell you, writes Friedman, that the red tape involved tus says that we reveal the truth has been wasted again, maybe we nothingness, that is Luxembourg in starting a new business is overwhelming. It is crazy. Greece is the whenever we commune with and liters of saliva should be grateful – a money bin for people accept - only country in the world where Greeks don’t behave like Greeks. each other, but when we act as spent on “doubles - to Juncker for spit - ing stolen monies – and was Their welfare state, financed by Euro–oil, has bred it out of them. private individuals we are en - peak” designed to by Christopher ting out a truth that Prime Minister of France or Ger - Prime Minister Papandreou said to me, Friedman continued, gaged in falsehood. Still, the hide an obvious, if TRIPOULAS Greek politicians many, he’d be a major figure. … “what is most frustrating is the resistance in the system. How do you truth remains unpopular – even unpleasant truth Special to have been too de - the terms of the Memorandum produce a change in culture”? when it’s staring us right in the from the people. The National Herald ceitful (delusional?) and Mid-Range program are es - It will take a cultural revolution, writes Friedman. face. Take Greece’s economic cri - Greece is about to to say on their own. sentially terms of an occupa - Well, yes, a revolution but not of the Maoist kind. Something sis. It’s become pretty obvious default and European leaders are Since its entry into the Eurozone tional contract. Hence, the coun - more modern. We propose that Greece invites a few thousand Greeks that the medicine prescribed by just as much to blame for this as in 2001 Greece has given up the try has been under a system of from abroad and hand them over the administration of the public the IMF-EU-ECB troika is killing, the Greeks. So much for the illu - right to devalue its own currency occupied territory for the past sector. That will change the culture. Unless the system is so powerful instead of healing, the patient, sion of the European Union… (monetary policy) and since it year-and-a-half.” Zouraris noted that it sucks them right into it. but the architects of the plan signed the Maastricht Treaty in that Greece’s current indentured In any event, thank you Mr. Friedman for your perceptive com - (and the Greek government 1992 it has essentially ceded its status endangers its foreign af - ments about the Greeks abroad. blindly following their directives) Tons of ink has been sovereign right to set its budget fairs as well. That can’t bode well refuse to see the obvious. In - wasted and liters of saliva (fiscal policy) by accepting for Cyprus either, which is prob - stead, they continue to sink the spent on “doublespeak” deficit-to-GDP ratios and other ably going to be fed a new Cyprus Concerns Grow economy into further recession quotas and directives from Brus - (worse) version of the Annan and impoverish more citizens. So designed to hide an sels. Foreign policy has been out Plan this fall. I don’t know if what if some of the largest news - obvious, if unpleasant of Greek hands for decades. Even there’s anything that Greece can July 20th marked 37 years since Turkey invaded Cyprus. Up to papers in the world (N.Y. Times, education policy is being set by do from preventing an imminent now there was some indication, some hope that a fair solution would Wall Street Journal, Financial truth from the people third parties. How else do you default, but I know that there’s be found. Not this year, not now. More and more it becomes apparent Times, Guardian, etc.) have explain the appointment of a plenty it can do to keep a new that the Turks are determined to divide the island between the Greek come out against the measures Here’s another unpleasant woman to the Education Min - one from coming, when it does south and the Turkish north. A recipe for disaster. in their editorial pages this past truth. Just a day or two after the istry who proposed that English get back on its feet. History is a In addition, for the first time the internal political situation in month? So what if Greek citizens ruling Socialists in the Greek Par - be adapted as the country’s offi - great teacher, and if we weren’t Cyprus is unraveling. After the tragic accident at the naval base where all across the country are up in liament voted into law the latest cial language, as well as some of so busy rewriting it, we might 13 people lost their lives and dozens were wounded two senior min - arms and have already publicly round of tax assaults and other her predecessors’ decisions to just learn from it. We also might isters resigned while the people are out calling for the resignation of berated (sometimes even at - austerity measures that were rewrite history books in a more learn that Greece has been glo - President Dimitris Christofias. tacked) two-thirds of the ruling mandated by the troika for the “objective” light so as to incor - rified by standing up and saying On top of that, the economy, for the first time in decades is raising Socialist party’s Parliament mem - release of the fifth installment of porate their neighbors’ (primarily “No” to would be occupiers for concerns that it might be follow in the footsteps of Greece. bers for okaying the austerity Greece’s loan, Eurozone Chair - Turkey) interpretations? The cur - dozens of centuries. The unity of the Cypriot people is of paramount importance at measures? So what if European man Jean Claude Juncker stated rent government removed the this time of decision. leaders and senior Greek officials that Greeks will have to get used term “national education” from [email protected] THE NATIONAL HERALD, JULY 23-29, 2011 VIEWPOINTS 9 LETTER FROM ATHENS Clinton’s Greek Credo: Always Look on the Bright Side

Cypriots Finally Seeing Red United States Secretary of this country remains in the hands proach and we strongly support turbulent economic times: State Hillary Clinton isn’t the of the Greek people.” it.” “I think that coming at this most quotable type, a diplomat “The United States strongly MEETING WITH GREEK time actually turned out to be Over Commie Christofias who exemplifies cautious lan - supports the Papandreou’s gov - PRESIDENT very good timing because of the guage, but her visit to Athens on ernment’s determination to make In Clinton’s meeting with Pa - need to demonstrate our solidar - July 17-18 to meet with Prime the necessary reforms, to put poulias on July 17 at the Presi - ity and support for the difficult, As tedious in that Communist Minister George Papandreou, Greece back on sound financial dential Mansion in Athens, the painful times that Greece is ex - news stories go, country, and de - Foreign Minister Stavros Lam - footing, and to make Greece Secretary of State assured the periencing. And I know that you the droning-on- manded he resign. brinidis, President Karolos Pa - more competitive economically. people of Greece that she is op - are the daily face of that rela - and-off “peace” He wouldn’t even poulias and other political lead - Committing to bring down the timistic for an economic recovery tionship. All of the interactions talks to re-unify apologize, saying ers was watched carefully deficit and passing the medium- as a result of the Greek people that you have are a manifesta - the divided island that should be taken because she was carrying the term fiscal strategy were vital remaining resilient: tion of our long, enduring friend - of Cyprus is even for granted, much sentiments of the United States’ first steps. We know these were “I am here to reaffirm our ship, partnership, and alliance. more of a MEGO, like his lack of lead - concern over the Greek eco - not easy decisions. They were strong bonds of friendship, part - And I also know you care for (My Eyes Glaze ership. That dis - nomic crisis that has sent shivers acts of leadership. And those acts nership. And as our fellow allies American citizens, whom I saw Over) than the 20- grace came on the from Athens to Brussels to Wall of leadership will help to build a in NATO we have long roots, but in great numbers on the streets year-old babbling sidelines of a Street and even around the better economic future.” what is most important is the re - in Athens and in the museum.” over what the For - solemn ceremony world. She repeatedly assured “We believe that the recent lationship between the American “I also am very much aware mer Yugoslav Re - by ANDY marking the lives the Greek people that brighter legislation that was passed will and Greek people, and of course, of everything you’ve done in ad - public of Macedo - DABILIS lost in the invasion days are ahead, pledging her make Greece more competitive, our very strong, dynamic, Greek- dition to your daily jobs. You nia, what only 37 years ago. In a country’s full and continued sup - will make Greece more business- American community in the helped with the evacuation of Greece calls FY - Special to thoughtful piece in port, and highlighting the impor - friendly. We think that will pro - United States which has so Americans from Egypt during the ROM, and most of The National Herald the Cyprus Mail, tance of friendly relations be - vide a firm financial footing on greatly enriched both of our na - upheaval in that country, and the rest of the columnist Loucas tween the United States and which Greece will be able in - tions. And I share your optimism you staffed the airport, you world calls Macedonia – only Charalambous, noting a previ - Greece. Here’s a sampling of creasingly to attract businesses that despite the difficult times handed out water, diapers, cloth - because Greece gave away that ous article, said: “When I wrote what she had to say: and create the jobs that Stavros and the very hard decisions that ing, whatever people needed. name and ceded the right to … that President Christofias and MEETING WITH FOREIGN said are absolutely important for have had to be made, Greece is You cared for stranded Peace protest. FYROM? Sounds like his government were totally ir - MINISTER the Greek people. Because busi - now on a path that will be very Corps volunteers who hadn’t something you use to loosen responsible and therefore dan - “I am greatly honored that I nesses seek consistent, pre - positive in terms of future slept or eaten in days.” tight screws. Hey, hand me the gerous, I was not expecting that am your first foreign minister vis - dictable regulatory and taxation growth and prosperity. There will “I know that these are hard FYROM, will you? So that silly my view would have been itor. But you are becoming regimes. Investors seek a level be some painful sacrifices neces - times, but I have a lot of confi - acronym will one day – not soon proved correct in such a tragic quickly a veteran in just one playing field. They expect trans - sary, but I have full optimism in dence in the resilience of the – be replaced with another one, way. I was referring to the pres - month in office. And I am also parency, streamlined procedures, the resilience and the intelli - Greek people, and I believe that the last word of which will still ident’s irresponsibility on issues pleased to be here during these protection of commercial and in - gence of the Greek people, and you will be able to go through be Macedonia, and that’s what relating to the economy. Often I challenging times to demonstrate tellectual property rights, effec - so I am here to sound a very this period of challenge and sac - that country will continue to be cite his handling of the Cyprus unequivocally the strong support tive contract enforcement, all of strong note for all of the difficult rifice and come out even called outside Greece. Those problem to illustrate his irre - that the United States has for which was part of your reform work that lies ahead.” stronger. It will require unity and talks will end with Greece pro - sponsibility, to which I have also Greece. We know that we are package.” MEETING WITH EMBASSY solidarity, but it’s something that claiming victory in the negotia - attributed the regular revelation your friend and we are your ally “Therefore, I am not here to OF ATHENS I fully believe will happen. So tions, but politics is all about il - of scandals, involving his close and we are proud to be both. We in any way downplay the imme - In a meeting with the staff just know that the United States, lusion and that’s what’s associates. His irresponsibility is stand by the people and Govern - diate challenges, because they and families of the Embassy of and particularly this Administra - happening on Cyprus too, illustrated everywhere and all ment of Greece as you put your are real, but I am here to say that Athens on July 18 at the Westin tion and myself personally, are where the talks – not soon – will the time. It is a personal gift – it country back on a path to eco - we believe strongly that this will Hotel, Clinton praised the hard going to stand with you the end with Turkey being allowed is in his genes and therefore per - nomic stability and prosperity.” give Greece a very strong econ - work of Greek citizens and whole way. We’ll do everything to keep occupying troops on the manently his very own. It can - “It is, for us, essential because omy going forward. But the bot - pledged full support from the we can to be supportive as you island, Turkish thieves who stole not be bought, it cannot be sold we have a lot riding on our rela - tom line is this is the best ap - United States during the current make these tough decisions.” the homes of Greek Cypriots af - and it cannot be leased out. An tionship together. As a NATO ally, ter the 1974 invasion authorized irresponsible man will always we appreciate Greece’s partner - by the United States and Not- be irresponsible.” Well, at least ship on a shared agenda that so-Great Britain, to keep those Christofias has left the island’s spans the globe. The foreign min - properties, a Turk from an in - market economy alone, maybe ister and I have just completed a vading country serving as Pres - learning from the world’s very productive conversation, ident every other term, and biggest capitalist country, Com - not just about Greece’s immedi - Greek Communist Cypriot Pres - munist China. ate challenges but about the full ident Dimitris Christofias pro - His only real skill is playing range of issues that form the core claiming victory in negotiations. both sides against the middle, of our enduring alliance.” Christofias, schooled in Rus - ratcheting up his fake outrage “We are bound together by our sia and whose allegiance is to when the peace talks stall, and shared values. Millions of Ameri - the defeated ideology of Com - getting ready to kneel before the cans claim Greek ancestry, and munism over his own country, Red Crescent when they occa - last year President Obama was has two visions: serving Com - sionally show any signs of being pleased to welcome Prime Minis - munism and re-unifying the is - revived. Maybe he confused the ter Papandreou to the White land, almost at any cost, his Turkish flag with the hammer- House to celebrate Greece’s entry into our Visa Waiver Program. That makes it easier for Greeks to visit family and friends in the United States. And later today, as the minister said, we will be sign - ing a cultural preservation agree - ment to make it more difficult for looters and smugglers to make that same trip carrying Greece’s historic treasures. That will pro - AP Photo/koStAS tSironiS tect tourism and ensure that the US Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, left, gestures as Greek Foreign Minister Stavros remarkable cultural heritage of Lambrinidis looks on at the end of a press conference in Athens, on Sunday, July 16, 2011. An Easy Guide to How Greece Should Privatize Now

By E. S. Savas seemingly endless series of le - to make final decisions without broad access to information on gal, bureaucratic, and labor hur - having to seek other approvals. the process, on the appraised “Ailing Greece Tries National dles must be overcome. Intru - This formally responsible body value of the asset, and on the Tag Sale,” was the headline of a sive courts cancel agreements could be supported by an advi - result of the sale. recent Wall Street Journal arti - arrived at after tortuous negoti - sory commission of civic, busi - Fifth, land or buildings of - cle. “Greece is about to hold an ations that sometimes last for ness, political, educational, and fered for sale must be clearly epic yard sale,” the article con - years. Demands for bribes and other leaders. identified with accurate prop - tinues. The European Union kickbacks are endemic. Bureau - Second, the legal basis for erty lines and clean ownership (EU) and the International Mon - cracies rival the infamous “li - privatization should be clear. records. Thousands of land AP Photo/PetroS kArADJiAS etary Fund (IMF) are demand - cense raj’ in India in holding up Specific authority may be re - parcels are available but many The silhouettes of protesters on a wall with a poster of Cypriot ing that the country privatize as - what should be simple transac - quired to exit from certain busi - lack these prerequisites, with President Dimitris Christofias that reads in Greek “Wanted,” sets - land, buildings, and tions. Citizens oppose the sale nesses or to sell particular prop - ambiguities dating back to Ot - during a demonstration outside the Presidential palace in the enterprises - to raise €50 billion of what they believe is valuable erties, and unwarranted toman times. capital Nicosia, July 18. He’s under a lot of domestic fire. so they won’t be forced to lend government–owned land, fear - limitations on ownership should Sixth, an open competitive quite as much when they bail ing that will be sold for a song, be eliminated from the outset: process should be carried out to protestations and occasional and-sickle. Same color, same out Greece once again. when a more realistic concern it should not be necessary to select qualified foreign or do - populist grandstanding notwith - thinking. Even Greece is not the only coun - is that such “treasures” may lan - reinvent the wheel for every mestic buyers. No extraneous or standing. He was elected on the Secretary-General Ban ki-Moon, try with a privatization agenda. guish on the market for years transaction. Third, a strong ef - irrelevant criteria should be platform of trying to end the who was born with a rare pas - For example, in the midst of the without attracting buyers. (An fort must be mounted to ensure used either to bar legitimate monotony of negotiations and sivity gene and holds the world ongoing battle to reduce the example is the long-abandoned public understanding and gain bidders or to favor particular has failed because his wily coun - record in how fast he puts peo - U.S. national debt, the govern - Anavyssos salt works with its public support for the privatiza - buyers. For some specialized terpart, Turkish Cypriot Presi - ple to sleep when talks, is get - ment this month brought up the mile-and-a-half beach south of tion program. This entails a state-owned enterprises it may dent Dervis Eroglu, a hard-line ting weary of Christofias’ act. idea of raising $12 billion by Athens.) These barriers must be be necessary to rely on negotia - nationalist who replaced the After repeatedly giving fake selling unneeded federal land. removed or at least lowered if tion rather than competitive bid - more malleable Mehmet Ali Ta - deadlines for Christofias and Other potential targets are the privatization is to proceed. “Public-employee unions ding, but extreme vigilance is lat, basically ignores Christofias, Eroglu to reach a settlement – 45,000 buildings - owned by 24 Public-employee unions fiercely oppose necessary to assure fairness and outwaiting him until even the including one in January which federal agencies - that are un - fiercely oppose privatization of avoid any hint of impropriety. Cypriots who elected him and came and went – Ban has set derutilized but nevertheless cost state-owned enterprises because privatization of state- Seventh, the public agency elevated a politics that ended in another one, for October, and the government $1.66 billion a they know it would end the free owned enterprises that currently owns an enter - 1989 with the fall of the Berlin said he really, really, really year to operate. By comparison, ride enjoyed by an overpaid, un - because they know it prise or facility that is offered Wall in Europe, recognize means it and triple dog dared tiny Greece has 70,000 govern - derworked, bloated government for sale should not be in charge they’ve been had. First, negoti - them to miss it. ment-owned properties. Greece work force - one created by would end the free ride” of the process. This recommen - ating with a country that in - There won’t be a settlement, faces two major problems in Prime Minister Andreas Papan - dation is counterintuitive; one vaded yours and still has an of course, not the least of which selling state-owned assets: do - dreou and now bedeviling his broad and sophisticated plan of would think that this agency is army there is rather like negoti - is Christofias’ incompetence in ing it at all, and doing it right. son, Prime Minister George Pa - public education. It should be ideal because it knows the busi - ating with home invaders and managing his own government “Doing it at all” refers in the first pandreou. Interestingly, New easy to turn journalists loose to ness. A common problem, how - allowing them to live on the sec - and forgetting to inform his For - place to the willingness of the York State is going through a produce accurate stories about ever, is that the agency harbors ond floor and care guns and eign Minister, former European nation’s politicians to take this similar father-son reversal, as the failures of existing state- latent opposition to privatiza - every two years take over the Commissioner Markos Kypri - step rather than drag their feet, Governor Andrew Cuomo is owned enterprises and wasteful tion and sabotages the process, first floor and make you live on anou, when there will even be a step that seems bold to them forced by economic conditions activities that harm the Greek or it may facilitate exploitation the second. Second, as the re - talks. A recent Wikileaks disclo - even though most developing to undo some of the liberal, economy and the Greek people. through old relationships. It is cent fatal blast that killed 13 sure showed that in 2009 the nations and virtually all devel - spendthrift policies of his father, But it is even more important to better for the central authority people at a Cypriot naval base American Ambassador in oped nations have been priva - Governor Mario Cuomo. But if indicate the positive effects ex - to keep control, using consul - showed – the result of negli - Nicosia, Frank Urbanic, wrote tizing for decades. One of my and when the politicians and pected from privatization, and tants as necessary. gence in the storing of large Secretary of State Hillary Clin - books on privatization, trans - the people develop the will to they should be presented com - These are the principal issues quantities of seized ammunition ton in a confidential cable that lated and expanded by Professor privatize, they must address the petently, authoritatively, and facing the privatization program and explosives, which the gov - Christofias was turning Cypriot Emmanuel Kondylis of the Uni - second major problem identified honestly. Effective public educa - as Greece attempts to climb out ernment was warned about – foreign policy a shade of “red,” versity of Piraeus, was published above, “doing it right.” A great tion programs were carried out of the deep hole it dug for itself. Christofias’ incompetence is that Kyprianou had no clear idea in Greece in 1993 but was es - deal of experience is available in such unlikely places as Sri Underutilized assets are a bur - worse than his politics. I would - of what to do about the re-uni - sentially ignored. The same from other countries that have Lanka and Zambia as well as in den on the country’s economy. n’t carry if a Communist was fly - fication, and that he had to book, however, was translated successfully carried out large- Great Britain; they helped build Putting them into the hands of ing a falling plane as long as he learn from the media – not into Polish in 1992 and took scale privatization programs. public support for privatization private entrepreneurs can create was a qualified pilot, but Christofias – that Clinton would root. Poland is an excellent ex - HOW TO DO IT despite initial suspicions and jobs and generate earnings. Ca - Christofias has shown repeat - be meeting with Talat. That’s no ample of what can be done: the First, an impeccable and in - powerful opposition. Public sup - reers would open up for bright edly he can’t fly right in almost way to run a railroad, never government sold off 500 entities corruptible body to carry out the port for privatization is some - young Greeks who would oth - anything. That’s what happens mind a country, and the explo - and is planning to sell another process must be established, one thing Greece needs badly. erwise join a 21st Century brain when your red bandana slips sion cost Kyprianou his job, as 300. It is now a thriving market that is recognized as such by a (Doesn’t it speak volumes that drain. America, Canada, and down over your eyes and your he resigned – which is what economy that emerged from the rightly skeptical public and that Greece can learn from Sri Lanka Australia, among other coun - faded, old Che Guevara T-shirt Christofias should have done. A bleak era of Soviet-imposed So - can gain public trust. This and Zambia in this area of pub - tries, were enriched by the gets too tight. Cypriots should Russian brainwashing victim, cialism. Unfortunately too many should be a bi-partisan body lic policy?) Greek immigrants of the last be glad they aren’t driving 1957 Christofias has, as Charalam - Greeks are still infatuated with consisting of individuals com - Fourth, opportunities for cor - hundred years. Through priva - Chevies and standing in bread bous noted, a “sick anti-Ameri - their self-imposed socialism and mitted to privatization, not a ruption should be minimized by tization Greece can create op - lines. can fixation,” so maybe he can remain oblivious to the wide - body that will engage in endless (1) establishing and following a portunities to help keep its tal - At least some Cypriots are do what Greece always does spread evidence of socialism’s ideological debate and political standard procedure to reduce ent at home. figuring out the jig is up with when something goes wrong. failures. posturing. It should have the au - administrative discretion; (2) him as an estimated 10,000 Blame the United States. That’s The problem of “doing it at thority to select and prioritize speeding the process - which Dr. Savas is a Presidential Pro - protested outside the Presiden - the Communist Way. all” also refers to the obstacles privatization candidates, to con - leaves less time to arrange a cor - fessor, School of Public Affairs, tial palace, not to be confused that deter investors from trying trol and oversee the process rupt transaction; and (3) ensur - Baruch College of the City Uni - with the huts of Cuban workers [email protected] to do anything in Greece. A from a centralized position, and ing transparency by providing versity of New York. 10 THE BACK PAGE THE NATIONAL HERALD, JULY 23-29, 2011

Korfos Harbor on the island of Therasia, part of the island Oia's balconies and terraces offer ideal settings for contemplation and relaxation. There’s no better place to be in summer. group of . It’s a picturesque little village to see. The Astonishing Santorini, The Explosion That Rocked the World

Photos and text campaigns initiated in 1967 by area 76 sq. km; perimeter 67 panoramic and very pleasant, by Nigel McGilchrist Spyros Marinatos first began to km; resident population 13,447; with a good breakfast served in reveal it again to modern eyes max. altitude 567 m. Port Au - the rooms. The island’s oldest Art historian/lecturer Nigel in the excavations near the town thority: 22860 22239. Travel in - hotel, The Atlantis (tel 22860 McGilchrist’s superb blue-and- of Akrotiri. The eruption itself formation: Pelican Travel (tel. 22111, fax 22821; www.at - white McGilchrist’s Greek Is - was so great that the airborne 22860 22220, www.pelican.gr). lantishotel.gr) is practical, lands booklets offer a thorough blanket of volcanic powder in General information: www.san - straightforward, welcoming and look at no less than 70 isles for the stratosphere provoked a pe - torini.com . superbly sited; it is one of the the discerning traveler. Here riod of climatic cooling around - Further reading: Ferdinand few hotels open all year round. from the series’ Santorini & the world; it altered the course Fouqué, whose book Santorini The Aressana Hotel (tel 22860 Therasia with Anaphi booklet is of history in the Eastern Mediter - et Ses Eruptions was first pub - 22860, fax 23902; www.ares - the introduction, an excerpt ranean; and it may be the cen - lished in French in 1879, and sana.gr,) opposite the Atlantis, from the section on the Volcanic tral event at the heart of the reissued in an English transla - is also comfortably appointed Caldera and practical info. The myth of Atlantis, recounted by tion by Alexander McBirney in and convenient. On one of the booklet also includes sections on Plato. Today the same volcanic 1999 by Johns Hopkins Univer - highest points of the cliff, with the Chora and Kameni islets and history determines the island’s sity Press, is the first compre - views directly over the caldera, the north of the island, the south economy – its famous wine, the hensive study of the island’s ge - Anteliz Apartments Hotel (tel of the island and Therasia & export of pumice and pozzolana, ology and volcanic history. J.V. 22860 28842, fax 28843; Christiana. There is also a sec - and the tourism it attracts which Luce, The End of Atlantis (pub - www.anteliz.gr) is modern and tion on Anaphi. The history of comes to gaze on this vast, top - lished first by Thames & Hud - attractive, with spacious rooms each place is provided with fea - pled ruin in the sea. son, London, 1969; reprinted by and a pool. For boutique chic, tures on topics including Theran Santorini today has to be Efstathiadis & Sons, Athens, Homeric Poems (tel 22860 painting, the Gymnopaidiai sa - taken on different terms from 1982) is indebted to Fouqué, but 24661-3, fax 24660; cred spectacles as well as Wine most of the other islands. follows the theme of Plato’s leg - www.homericpoems.gr) offers a and Water. The book also in - Tourism and the incessant ar - end of Atlantis and its relation luxurious and rarified atmos - cludes an in-depth look at the rival of cruise-ships and aircraft to Santorini. Nanno Marinatos, phere. Oia is generally more excavations at Akrotiri, with sev - from all corners of Europe has in Art & Religion in Thera: Re - tranquil than Chora; it also has eral diagrams. utterly transformed the land, the constructing a Bronze Age Soci - the most delightful place to stay people, and the spirit of the ety (Athens, 1984) lays out a on the island – Chelidonia Villas, INTRODUCTION place. But not even the artificial - clear and cogent explanation of which combines simplicity with Santorini is the Mother of ity and the press of humanity the paintings from Akrotiri. The good taste, friendliness and a Volcanoes. Its caldera, seen from can diminish the island’s interest Wall Paintings of Thera (Athens, perfect position (tel. 22860 a boat for the first time is a or drown out the extraordinary 1992) by Christos Doumas, the 71827, fax 71649; www.cheli - source of wonderment – some - magic of the light. It takes not current head of excavations at donia.com). thing so unusual that it can only much effort to find a quiet cor - Akrotiri, is also authoritative and marginally be minimized by the ner for contemplation of the Black and white pebbles and arches complete a shady spot in clear on the subject – as are all fact that it will already be famil - scene: a balcony in the delightful Emboreio, inviting visitors to sit in the quietude and just think. his many excellent articles and iar from photographs. Images, settlement of Oia, a plateia in writings on Theran matters. though, do not do justice to the forgotten Emboreio, or a shaded of the vast crater which is now cally active for centuries before - Access: Santorini is well- magnitude, or to the changing taverna by the water at Akrotiri, filled by the sea, whose surface the “Great” eruption. The upper - connected by air: 4 daily flights shapes and colors of the marine looking across to distant Crete hides water-depths of as much most layers give vulcanologists to Athens with both Olympic Air - landscape as the boat cuts which nurtured the island as 400 meters. In the center of a picture of the various stages lines and Aegean Airlines, and through the enclosed circle of is - throughout its earliest history. the area, two (relatively new) of that final cataclysm. It ap - 3 to Thessaloniki with Aegean. lands towards the harbor, which And for those who wish to have land-masses of up-thrust magma pears to have taken place over Aegean also operate a once- is no more than an improvised a glimpse of what Santorini was have appeared – the islets of several months – perhaps even weekly direct flight to/from Mi - ledge beneath a 270-meter strat - like a few decades back, an early Palaia and – which more than a year, beginning lan and Rome, from July to Sep - from this angle appear as one with premonitory tremors which tember. The airport takes large low, deserted island of black gave the prehistoric inhabitants aircraft, and is 4.5 km from rock. This whole desolate and of the island warning to leave. Chora (c. €10 by taxi). The beautiful scene is the remnant There appear to have been mo - (new) ferry port (Athinis) is 7.5 of what was probably the largest ments of quiescence, in which km from Chora (c. €12 by taxi). volcanic explosion in human his - the inhabitants returned to re - There are generally 2 or 3 daily tory. The island was once a pair damage to their buildings, boat connections to Piraeus, tak - mountainous, roughly circular before being forced to leave ing 9 hours by car-ferry and 5 land-mass, similar in shape and once again on a journey which hours by high-speed vessel, most size to Ios, up until the middle almost certainly culminated later stop at Paros and/or en of the 2nd Millennium B.C. It in a gruesome death, even if route. There are links to , was then called Strongyle they had managed to reach dry , and Ios, (round) according to Herodotus, land on Crete. The final stages and with Crete, five or six times and Kalliste (most beautiful) ac - were a crescendo of eruptions weekly: these drop to twice cording to Apollonius. Then, in covering the island with increas - weekly in the winter. There are a series of successive cataclysms, ingly large volcanic debris set - direct links to twice the volcanic core of the center tling to ever greater depths on weekly throughout the year. of the island erupted, ejecting the surface. As the core of island Boats for Therasia leave from The Catholic Cathedral of up to 60-cubic kilometers of in - was destroyed, a column of vol - the port of Oia at Amoudi (12 Thera, a spot for introspection. candescent pumice and ash into canic ash and steam was ejected km from Chora) at 8 am and 12 the atmosphere. The cone and into the atmosphere to a height pm daily. - Eating. Between the twin its magma chamber subse - of over 30 kilometers, where the - Lodging: The Kavalari Hotel traps of the expensively preten - quently collapsed, allowing the lightest particles were distrib - (tel 22860 22347, fax 22603; tious and the indifferently touris - sea to pour in through massive uted through the stratosphere by www.kavalari.com) is one of the tic, there are still a few good breaches to the west, filling the currents of air. The heavier older hotels on the island, cen - places to eat on Santorini. Ta central core. tephra, also carried on a prevail - trally placed, with magnificent Delphinia at the water’s edge in A captain's house from Pyrgos, where he could sit and rest. The depth of the water im - ing northwest wind, was spread views, created from traditional the Bay of Akrotiri is a family mediately below the cliffs is so over the southeast Aegean: de - Santorinian houses cut into the run fish-taverna, which largely ified cliff of lava. The view from morning, 15-minute ferry-ride – great that it does not permit posits of up to a meter in depth native lava at the top of the cliff serves its own catch of fish ac - the town above is no less extra - which nobody except locals ever boats to anchor: they have to tie- have been found, for example, above the caldera. It is simple, companied by its own local wine ordinary – especially at about seems to take – from the harbor up to floating buoys instead, on the island of . The im - friendly, unpretentious, and (from March to August), and an two hours before sunset, when of Amoudi to the islet of Thera - which are chained to the floor mediate effects of this cataclysm beautiful: there is no elevator, array of traditional mezés, which the vast bowl of cliffs and islands sia opposite, will leave you to of the sea at a depth of nearly can be understood by an invalu - however, and the rooms are include a delicious Santorinian below begins to fill with a pal - explore in peace a Theran land - 200-meters. The floor of the able point of comparison: the reached down precipitous flights fava and tomatokeftedes. The pable light reflected on the wa - scape and villages, and to en - caldera lies generally between well-documented eruption of of steps. For greater ease of ac - taverna Aktaion (often known ter from the low angle of the de - counter the willing salutations 200 and 400 meters below sea Krakatoa in Indonesia in 1883… cess (also near the Metropolitan as Roussos) at the very begin - clining sun. Santorini is an of people whose lives have been level, reaching its deepest points . Church): the Theoxenia Hotel ning of Firostefni (coming by astonishing natural phenome - little touched by the crowds and to the north and east of Aspro - PRACTICAL INFORMATION (tel 22860 22740, fax 22950; foot from Chora), though small, non; but its human history and activity across the water. nisi, and directly west and below - 847 00-02 Thera /Santorini: www.theoxenia.net ) is small, serves local food, including a archaeology, both prehistoric the crest at where the good prassopitta – a pie made and historic, are no less aston - THE VOLCANIC CALDERA dry land rises in a cliff to 320 with mixed greens and leeks. ishing. For its small size, it has 1) The layout: The meters this represents a total 50m north of it, is the best and one of the richest and most var - panoramic parapet just opposite drop between cliff-top and sea- most genuine Italian eatery in ied archaeological histories of the church of the Metropolis in bed of over 700 meters. The the Aegean (run by Italians), any island. Chora is a good vantage point black and barren islands of the called Il Cantuccio. For a more The volcanic nature of the is - for comprehending the nature Ka(i)meni (meaning “burnt”) in highly-wrought cuisine, still land, even before the great erup - of the volcanic caldera of San - the center of the caldera are the based on Greek ingredients, Se - tion in the 2nd Millennium B.C. torini. The caldera is the physical result of the slow and continuing lene at the southern extremity has always shaped its history, incarnation of the island’s his - up-thrust of solidified magma. of Chora offers peace and a forcing the early inhabitants into tory. It extends below and to the They first appeared in the 2nd beautiful view in addition to a life of maritime trade and ship - west, covering an area of around Century B.C., and have grown some interesting dishes. Franco’s ping rather than agricultural 85-square kilometers, sur - in circumference, subsided, par - Bar merits mention as a historic production, pushing them to rounded by a broken, roughly tially disappeared, re-appeared, institution: one of the first bars evolve new methods of construc - elliptical rim. You are standing split and joined in a constant of the 1970’s on Santorini, it still tion to withstand their seismi - on its eastern edge at a height ballet of movement over the cen - serves (expensive, but well-pre - cally active terrain, and giving of c. 250 meters a.s.l.; it sweeps turies. They represent the focus pared) cocktails to the accom - them an array of brilliant vol - slowly round in two arms to and dome of the active volcano paniment of classical music, in canic earths with which to dec - north and south, and its frag - today, and are currently growing front of one of the most dra - orate their walls with paintings. mented western rim is formed in height and size by a slow matic sunsets in Europe. Then, the eruption itself – one by the island of Therasia across process of extrusion from below. of the greatest, if not the greatest the water to the west and the 2) The volcanic eruption. The Reprinted with permission of in human history – destroyed small, steep rock of Aspronisi, clearly defined and variedly col - the author. For more info about and buried their prospering city. visible just to the south of due ored strata of the cliff-face as these books, visit But it did so in such a way that west in the middle of the breach seen from the water are a legible www.mcgilchristsgreekislands.co it preserved the streets and su - between the southern tip of section through the geological m or North American perbly decorated rooms in Therasia and Santorini. These history of the island, showing distributors www.interlink - packed ash, until the painstaking landmarks describe the contour that the island had been volcani - Terrace of the Ephebes, Ancient Thera. It beckons visitors. books.com, 1-800-238-LINK