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THE GREEK AUSTRALIAN The oldest circulating Greek newspaper outside Greece email: VEMA [email protected] NOVEMBER 2003 Tel. (02) 9559 7022 Fax: (02) 9559 7033 In this issue... Give a little hope this Christmas PAGE 14/36 Games plans ATHENS TO OPEN $1.1 million gift ‘ ’ to boost medical research ROUND-THE-CLOCK PAGE 12/34 Dr Maria Kavallaris searches for cancer breakthroughs PAGE 13/35 By Deborah Kyvrikosaios forward," Games chief Gianna Angelopou- subway and new rail lines will be available los said in a joint news conference with the around the clock with Olympic ticket hold- Greek siesta lovers will have to for- country's Culture and Olympics Minister ers allowed free transfer to and from sports get their mid-day naps during next Evangelos Venizelos. events. year's Athens Olympics under plans "Our goal is for an Athens that will be The special measures will run from Au- announced recently to keep the city open, human, safe and festive - an Athens gust 2 to September 4 and while Athenians open round-the-clock for the vast where everyone will be able to travel with will have to forego their traditional early ease but without disturbing the working of afternoon nap, some habits are too ingrained numbers of foreign visitors. the Games." for even the Olympics to challenge. Athens Olympics organisers have unveiled Organisers expect more than 250,000 The frequent demonstrations in the capital the new measures in a bid to make the people to visit the city during the Olympics to back strikes and political issues that often Greek capital more accessible and friendly that start on August 13. bring Athens heavy traffic to a standstill will to visitors for one month before and during Shops in Athens and around all Olympic not be banned. next August's Olympics. venues will remain open 12 hours a day "Society continues to function during the From round-the-clock transport, to late- from Monday to Friday and nine hours on Games," Venizelos told reporters. "Demon- ProviCare night garbage collections and extended Saturday. strations and strikes are covered by the con- shopping, Athenians will have to stretch Renowned evening traffic jams due to stitution. is here! their working hours to meet Games organis- garbage trucks will be a thing of the past as "The measures will be as mild as possible, ers' needs. collections must be after midnight. restricted to only all that is necessary." PAGE 14/36 "We want all of Athens to put its best foot Public transport, including buses, the Reuters NOVEMBER 2003 2/24 TO BHMA The Greek Australian VEMA DID YOU KNOW? Due to earth's gravity it is impossible for mountains to be higher than 15,000 metres. Cyprus peaceniks are poetry in motion Poetz4Peace may sound like a throwback decades-long restrictions on travel across the States, which syndicates to 1,700 radio sta- to the beatnik era but a small group of UN-manned Green Line in April arguably tions, has accepted the song, Down by the writers and musicians have overcome sparked the largest free movement of Green Line. Cyprus' cultural and political divide to Cypriots since the Turkish invasion and Distributors and labels in Turkey and produce a potent mix for reunification. occupation of the island's northern third in Greece have also shown interest, but high- 1974. profile admirers are also ready to put Cyprus The Greek and Turkish Cypriot commu- It also ensured the Poetz's success, allow- and the Poetz on a bigger stage, such as nities of divided Cyprus have suffered three ing recording to happen on both sides of the Cyprus-born Angela Bowie, former wife of decades of separation, but this bunch of thir- island. music icon David Bowie. ty and forty-somethings have banded togeth- "What the events of April have shown is "There is support from unlikely sources. er to help heal the island's division with a that Turkish Cypriots could see that Greek Angela Bowie is a huge fan and wants to message of peace through music. Cypriots didn't have horns and vice versa," sing with us," Franz explained. "We are trying to make noise and get the Mike said. "She has sent our tape to Oprah to try and people to notice," the group's producer, Before the travel ban was lifted, Turkish get us wider exposure, and Rita Wilson, the Steffan Franz told AFP. Cypriot Zeki Ali was refused permission to Greek wife of Tom Hanks and backer of My "I don't think anywhere in the world could cross into the south to meet his fellow band Big Fat Greek Wedding, is also being court- you find Turkish folk music and Greek members. ed," he added, referring to the queen of US bouzouki produced with a hip-hop beat," the "We want to contribute to change by try- chat shows and the recent Hollywood film. San Francisco-based DJ and producer said ing to get away from hate culture and histor- A Pair of Olive Leaves was funded through about the Poetz' music, which also features a ical brainwashing," songwriter and pub- the United Nations Development Program hint of reggae underpinning the vibe. lished poet Ali said. and the US embassy's bicommunal funding The Poetz say they are positive proof that "What we are doing is what the Turkish program. The project also included work- On December 10, 1901, the first Cypriots can live and work together, not just Cypriots are doing - taking our message to shops where young Greek and Turkish Nobel Prizes are awarded in Stockholm, to make music. the streets," he said, referring to the recent Cypriot rappers could make contemporary Sweden, in the fields of physics, chem- "We've just been talking to ourselves for mass northern protests in support of a reuni- music together. istry, medicine, literature, and peace. 29 years, not each other," lead vocalist and fied Cyprus joining the European Union in "(The rappers) were saying things in their lyricist Haji Mike said. May 2004. lyrics people just didn't say 10 years ago," November 20 Poetz4Peace released a debut 17-track UN talks collapsed in March in what was Mike said. "There is a lot of frustration about CD, A Pair of Olive Leaves, a culmination of billed as a "last chance for peace" after the situation here." 1945 - Nuremberg trials begin three years' work begun when contact Turkish Cypriot leader Rauf Denktash The Poetz4Peace collective - with Mike Twenty-four high-ranking Nazis go on trial in between the two communities was still snubbed a UN-drafted plan. But Turkish Cherry and Mike Minas completing the Nuremberg, Germany, for atrocities committed taboo. Most of the early work was done over Cypriot elections in December are seen as a quintet - also started a record label, Olive during World War II. the internet, swapping samples of lyrics and referendum on the island's future with the Tree Music, to get the word out. ideas online. anti-Denktash opposition fighting on a pro- "We have our own label aimed at devel- November 28 "Without the internet this would never EU platform. oping acts from Cyprus and giving young have worked, but we needed to meet each But early signs reveal that the Poetz's people a chance from both sides of the 1919 - Lady Astor becomes MP other face-to-face to make it a more human message of peace is spreading far and wide divide which nobody else seems prepared to American-born Nancy Astor, the first woman project," Franz said. with radio play in Britain, Germany, Greece do," lead singer Mike said. ever to sit in the House of Commons, is elect- Turkish Cypriot authorities easing and Holland. Metro One in the United AFP ed to Parliament with a substantial majority. Lady Astor took the Unionist seat of her hus- band, Waldorf Astor, who was moving up to an Greece not ready inherited seat in the House of Lords. Private study estimates December 3 to counter major Iraqi war dead at 13,000 1967 - First human heart transplant biochemical attack An estimated 13,000 Iraqis, including as many as On December 3, 1967, 53-year-old Lewis 4,300 non-combatants, were killed during the major Washkansky receives the first human Greek security forces were not pre- said operational plans were incomplete. combat phase of the war in Iraq, a research group heart transplant at Groote Schuur Hospital pared for chemical or biological ter- The State Department called on Greece found in a study made public recently. in Cape Town, South Africa. rorist attacks during the 2004 to increase its supply of chemical anti- The Project on Defence Alternatives said its esti- Olympics, according to a report dotes, as well as supplies in its blood mate was based on a review of US combat data, bat- December 6 based on a secret US State banks, the newspaper reported. tlefield press reports, and Iraqi hospital surveys. The Department analysis. The US was part of a seven-nation study covered the period from March 19 to the end 1921- Irish free state declared panel advising Athens on security for of April. The Irish Free State, comprising four-fifths Greek security planning suggested the August 13-29 Games. The first The Pentagon has refrained from making esti- of Ireland, is declared, ending a five-year that authorities consider "a biochemical major test of security operations and mates of Iraqi dead in either the 1991 Gulf War or Irish struggle for independence from Britain. attack is impossible", the To Vima equipment was scheduled for the latest conflict.

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