s o C V ΓΡΑΦΕΙ ΤΗΝ ΙΣΤΟΡΙΑ Bringing the news w ΤΟΥ ΕΛΛΗΝΙΣΜΟΥ to generations of e ΑΠΟ ΤΟ 1915 The National Herald Greek- Americans N c v A weekly Greek-AmericAn PuBlicAtion www.thenationalherald.com VOL. 17, ISSUE 870 June 14-20, 2014 $1.50 Samaras, Shaking up Can This Greek-American Save Obamacare? The Cabinet, Replaces Burwell Confirmed as HHS Secretary by a Nearly Half of Ministers Wide Bipartisan Vote ATHENS – Trying to recover pointed in mid-2012, handled By Constantinos E. Scaros ground and voters his New Greece’s bailout negotiations Democracy Conservatives lost in with the Troika and oversaw the WASHINGTON, DC – Sylvia the European Parliament elec - country’s tentative return to fi - Mathews Burwell, Director of tions, Prime Minister Antonis nancial markets earlier this year. the White House’s Office of Samaras shook up his Cabinet, "Mr. Stournaras will continue to Management and Budget replacing nearly half his key min - defend the bailout policies from (OMB) and nominated in April isters. his new post," SYRIZA by President Obama to succeed New Democracy lost 529,530 spokesman Panos Skourletis was the exiting and oft-assailed voters in the EU ballot from the quoted as saying by Greek news Kathleen Sebelius as Secretary numbers it won in the June 2012 website skai.gr. of Health and Human Services national elections which brought SYRIZA leader Alexis Tsipras (HHS), was confirmed over - Samaras to power, although he – emboldened by the Party's vic - whelmingly by the U.S. Senate needed to bring in his rival, the tory in European Parliament elec - in a bipartisan vote on June 5. PASOK Socialists, to control Par - tions in Greece last month – had As OMB Director Burwell al - liament. warned Samaras not to appoint ready held a Cabinet-level rank, Among the few changes a new governor without consult - but now becomes the first Samaras made was the most im - ing him. Greek-American woman to head portant position, naming econo - Provopoulos, 63, oversaw the a U.S. Executive Department, mist and banker Gikas Hardou - recapitalization of Greece's bank - and is tenth in line to presiden - velis Finance Minister to replace ing system under the terms of the tial succession, behind the Vice think tank technocrat Yannis country's international bailout President, and the Secretaries Stournaras. Stournaras, in turn, and had publicly said he wanted of State, Treasury, Defense, Jus - will take over as the next Gover - a second term. tice, Interior, Agriculture, Com - nor of the Bank of Greece to re - But he had incorrectly pre - merce, and Labor. place Giorgos Provopoulos, dicted for the last few years that The lopsided vote in Bur - whose term expires later this Greece would recover sooner well’s favor speaks to the confi - month. Stournaras' appointment than it did, putting a rosy spin AP Photo/J. Scott APPlewhite, File dence the great majority of sen - means he will be a member of on the country's crushing eco - Sylvia Mathews Burwell was confirmed by a wide bipartisan margin as Secretary of Health and ators have in the the European Central Bank's Gov - nomic crisis that has brought Human Services, the top position in the executive branch ever held by a Greek-American Greek-American’s competence erning Council. record unemployment and deep woman. Many Republicans, confident of her ability, crossed party lines to vote for her. Can she Stournaras, who was ap - poverty. make Obamacare better and save that legislation once and for all? Continued on page 6 Hardouvelis, chief economist at Eurobank, a bank notorious for hounding austerity-crushed Greeks to repay loans, credit cards and mortgages even if they Vlahos is New Dean at NY Cathedral The Onassis can’t, was an economic adviser to two previous governments, those of PASOK prime minister By Theodore Kalmoukos tion, where he serves as the sec - life, leads us on paths that we Foundation’s Costas Simitis in 2000-2004 and ond residing priest in the history do not always anticipate. We of interim premier, Lucas Pa - NEW YORK – Father John Vla - of the parish. pray that wherever the Lord pademos, also a banker, in late hos, currently the priest of the The letter sent by Fr. Vlahos leads us will be blessed and Zankel Show 2011-mid-2012. Church of the Holy Resurrection to the Brookville parish, where salvific. With the assurance of The Finance Minister is a key in Brookville, NY has been ap - he will celebrate his final Divine God’s love and grace, I am being position in the country whose pointed as the new Dean of the Liturgy on June 15, stated called to embark on a new path By Constantine S. Sirigos near default is broadly blamed Archdiocesan Cathedral of the among others things that “for as His Eminence Archbishop TNH Staff Writer for sparking a financial crisis in Holy Trinity in New York. He the past six years, I have had Demetrios has asked me to as - the Eurozone after successive PA - will be formally installed by the honor and privilege of serv - sume a new responsibility NEW YORK – The Tetraktys SOK and New Democracy gov - Archbishop Demetrios of Amer - ing as the priest of the Church within our Holy Archdiocese. String Quartet, joined by clar - ernments hired hundreds of ica on June 22 and will begin of the Holy Resurrection. You On Sunday, June 22nd, 2014, I inetist Dionysis Grammenos, AP Photo/PetroS GiAnnAkouriS thousands of needless workers his new duties immediately have all welcomed my family will be installed by His Emi - thrilled the audience that New Finance Minister Gikas for decades in return for votes. thereafter. and me with open arms, open nence as the priest of the Holy packed Zankel Hall at Carnegie Hardouvelis takes the oath of “Greece is suffering. Every In May 2008, Demetrios as - minds and open hearts. We have Trinity Cathedral in New York Hall for a concert on June 5, office during a ceremony at signed Father Vlahos to the become a family. As I am sure hosted by the Permanent Mis - the Presidential palace. Continued on page 11 Church of the Holy Resurrec - we can all attest, the mystery of Continued on page 6 sion of Greece to the UN and the Onassis Foundation (USA), and included pieces by Johann Sebastian Bach, Johannes Brahms, Dmitri Shostakovich First Greek Greek National Team, in NJ, Beats Bolivia 2-1 and the Greek composer Nikos Salkottas. One by one the violinists, Feature Film By Constantine S. Sirigos brothers Giorgos and Kostas TNH Staff Writer Panagiotidis, violist Ali Baseg - mezler, and cellist Dionysis Golfo: 100 HARRISON, NJ – Just over Grammenos entered Bach’s “Art 11,000 fans in the Red Bull of the Fugue,” beginning an arena – the ones in Hellenic blue eclectic evening of music for the Years Later and white loud and passionate knowledgeable and appreciative from start to finish, watched audience. Salkottas’ “10 Greece defeat Bolivia 2 -1 on Sketches for String Quartet” fol - By Constantinos E. Scaros June 7. lowed, whose atonality and dis - Greece, spurred by continu - sonance was the concert’s mu - THESSALONIKI – “Golfo, a ous chants of “Hellas, Hellas” sical spice. young shepherdess, and Tasos, that sent chills down the spines The Shostakovich began with a young shepherd, are secretly of proud Greek-Americans on a a delightful musical conflict in love but are too poor to sup - warm night, drew first blood among the instruments that is port their union. when Guerki Panagiotis Kone more like an argument among “Fortunately, an English lord, scored in the match’s 21st who visits the area, gives the minute. Continued on page 4 boy a great sum of money for Then the captain, Konstanti - rescuing his life in an archaeo - nos Katsouranis, scored a logical expedition and the cou - header off a Jose Holebas corner ple is now able to get engaged. kick in minute 53 – and the Shortly after, a new obstacle crowd went wild, smelling a big Petrakis: a emerges: the rich Master Shep - win. herd Zisis’ daughter Stavroula The shot by Rudy Cardozo in and her cousin, rich shepherd the 70th minute that eluded Chicagoan Kitsos, wish to marry Tasos and Orestis Karnezis, however, did Golfo respectively. more than let the Bolivians back “While Golfo is not affected into the game – it unleashed a Takes NY by Kitsos’ woos, Tasos is con - wave of concern among Greek vinced by Yannos, the village vil - fans who know that their team tnh/coStAS BeJ lain, to abandon his beloved and The Greek national team won its tune-up match against Bolivia 2-1 at Red Bull Arena on June By Harry Mark Petrakis marry Stavroula. As the wed - Continued on page 6 6th, cheered on by thousands of Greek-Americans revved up for the World Cup in Brazil. ding is in preparation, Golfo, Thus far in my life as a Mid - half-mad, curses Tasos and then westerner, I have traveled into poisons herself. Tasos, after a vi - New York a score of times. My olent fight with his rival Kitsos, first visit came in the summer of regrets his decision and rushes Lost History Expert Andreas Zinelis Talks Wine 1958 after I had been writing and back to Golfo, who dies in his submitting stories for about ten arms. years. All were rejected. Finally, “The young shepherd com - Of All-things By Lauren Loeffler grew up in Athens – says he in the spring of 1957 my short mits suicide next to her. Death couldn’t shake off the “hospital - story, “Pericles on 31st Street,” has united them.” Nerai is a modern restaurant ity bug” he developed growing was published in the Atlantic.