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Samaras Intelligence Officer Back in Leaked Colleague’s Germany Name to Reporter By Scott Shane Told Chancellor The New York Times WASHINGTON, DC – Looking Merkel Greeks back, John C. Kiriakou admits he should have known better. But Did Their Part when the F.B.I. called him a year ago and invited him to stop by By Andy Dabilis and “help us with a case,” he did TNH Staff Writer not hesitate. In his years as a C.I.A. opera - ATHENS – Returning to Berlin tive, after all, Mr. Kiriakou had for the second time since he worked closely with F.B.I. agents took office last year, Greek overseas. Just months earlier, he Prime Minister Antonis Samaras had reported to the bureau a re - told German Chancellor Angela cruiting attempt by someone he Merkel that Greeks had done believed to be an Asian spy. their part to stay in the Euro - “Anything for the F.B.I.,” Mr. zone as he gave her an update Kiriakou replied. on reform efforts his uneasy Only an hour into what began coalition government has under - as a relaxed chat with the two taken. agents — the younger one who “I would like to make clear traded Pittsburgh Steelers talk from the start that our country with him and the senior investi - is making an enormous effort, gator with the droopy eye — did which goes hand-in-hand with he begin to realize just who was great sacrifices, to get things on the target of their investigation. the right track,” he said, flanked Finally, the older agent leaned by Merkel. “We are trying to win TNH/STAVROS MARMARINOS in close and said, by Mr. Kiri - back credibility – credibility on Spring Bayou: the Scene of Theophania Rites of Tarpon Springs’ St. Nicholas Cathedral akou’s recollection, “In the inter - the part of the peoples of Eu - est of full disclosure, I should tell rope and on the part of the mar - The exuberant cross divers are poised atop (or next to) boats by Archbishop Demetrios of America. First-time diver Vassilios you that right now we’re execut - kets.” in anticipation of the Holy Cross being tossed into the waters Harding, 16, was this year’s cross retriever. ing a search warrant at your Samaras was also returning house and seizing your electronic a favor to Merkel for her visit to devices.” Athens in October, when he was On Jan. 25, Mr. Kiriakou is struggling to get a $17.45 bil - scheduled to be sentenced to 30 lion spending cut and tax hike Greek National Poet Depicts Country’s Dark Mood months in prison as part of a plea plan passed over angry opposi - deal in which he admitted vio - tion from Greeks weary of more lating the Intelligence Identities austerity measures. By Rachel Donadio metaphysical, drawing on the ‘‘The Brazen Plagiarist,’’ ap - plenty strong. As is the writer. Protection Act by e-mailing the That was a condition of con - International Herald Tribune powerful themes of time, fate peared from Yale University ‘‘My homeland is my lan - name of a covert C.I.A. officer to tinued aid from international and destiny yet making them Press, translated by Cecile guage,’’ Ms. Dimoula said. She lenders, which Merkel backed, Kiki Dimoula, Greece’s feisty entirely her own — has earned Margellos and Rika Lesser, was seated on a dark velvet sofa but only if Samaras pushed 81-year old national poet, was her a near-cult following in bringing her work into English in the elegant Athens sitting through more pay cuts, tax holding court on a recent after - Greece. for the first time in nearly two room of Ms. Margellos, a trans - hikes, and slashed pensions. The noon, musing about her work One of her Greek writer con - decades. lator and literary critic who with package narrowly passed Parlia - and the fate of her country. temporaries, Nikos Dimou, has Ms. Dimoula does not speak her husband, the Greek investor ment and opened the release of Asked to describe the mood in called Ms. Dimoula ‘‘the best English. ‘‘I was lazy,’’ she said Theodore Margellos, has en - $69 billion in loans that have Greece today, she did not mince Greek woman poet since Sap - apologetically, and is concerned dowed the Margellos Republic started to be disbursed. words. ‘‘Darkness and chaos,’’ pho,’’ and she is the first living that her Greek verbal acrobatics of Letters imprint at Yale Uni - Samaras said his government she said, drawing on a cigarette. female poet ever to be included do not translate well. In the in - versity Press. had implemented a “series of Ms. Dimoula may have a flair in the prestigious French pub - troduction to the new collection, ‘‘It is my identity, it reassures systematic measures” to “guar - for the dramatic, but her words lisher Gallimard’s poetry series. she writes that she worries me,’’ Ms. Dimoula said of her antee that we do the best possi - are always chosen carefully. Her But she has rarely been trans - ‘‘whether the bridge from one language. Around her, the walls ble to put things right, above all poetry — spare, profound, un - lated into English. language to another is sound were painted with neo-Ot - sentimental, effortlessly trans - This past autumn, a new col - enough.’’ Continued on page 9 forming the quotidian into the lection of her selected poems, The bridge, as it happens, is Continued on page 12 Dr Dimon’s Neurodynamic Concepts

By Constantine S. Sirigos erhouse than Columbia Univer - from their natural states almost Ex-CIA operative TNH Staff Writer sity’s Teachers College is sup - from the start, but simple ob - John C. Kiriakou porting his endeavor. He teaches servation reinforces his points. NEW YORK – A new science a course there on the subject, He notes that young children ex - a freelance reporter, who did not that addresses some of the chal - which he calls Neurodynamics, press mind-body unity naturally, publish it. The law was passed lenges involved in educating as a new area of education, and losing the ability over time in 1982, aimed at radical publi - children and the overall well - he also gives courses at CUNY through the unconscious habits cations that deliberately sought ness of human beings merits at - Hunter College. they develop. Dimon’s knowl - to out undercover agents, expos - tention. Dr. Theodore Dimon’s When Dimon discussed his edge of psychology suggested ing their secret work and endan - ideas, which are founded on the ideas with TNH, he touched that the only way to address un - gering their lives. premise that learning is not just upon what he learned from conscious habits of thought and In more than six decades of an affair of the brain but of the studying the Alexander Tech - behavior is to become conscious fraught interaction between the entire organism, and on the es - nique and meditation mindful - of what is going on in the body agency and the news media, sential unity of the mind and ness practices, but he has pro - and the mind. To be really John Kiriakou is the first current body, are connected to age-old gressed beyond them through mindful, conscious “fundamen - or former C.I.A. officer to be con - Greek wisdom transmitted to his studies in physiology, neu - tal knowledge of how the motor victed of disclosing classified in - him by his father and grandfa - rophysiology, and anatomy– he system works is required.” formation to a reporter. ther. has written three books on He conveys that knowledge Mr. Kiriakou, 48, earned nu - The Dimon Institute, which anatomy . to adults in his private practice, merous commendations in he established on Manhattan’s His contribution is to develop but his big mission is to train nearly 15 years at the C.I.A., Upper West Side, “is dedicated a means for having the obvious teachers to work with young some of which were spent un - to teaching and promulgating a benefits from the above carry children. The path Dimon has dercover overseas chasing Al Historic Pilgrimage to St. Nicholas in Havana new vision in education based over into the other activities of chosen is a noble but difficult Qaeda and other terrorist on a practical understanding of modern life, where “Ultimately one, to work on incorporating groups. He led the team in 2002 More than 80 Archons and others journeyed to Havana to visit man’s unique psychophysical people just get lost in their his discoveries into the way we that found Abu Zubaydah, a ter - Saint Nicholas Greek Orthodox Cathedral in December. One of design and how it works in ac - work.” educate our children. But for rorist logistics specialist for Al the trip’s most joyous moments was the baptism of five Cubans tivity.” He is not the first to suggest in the Cathedral’s baptistery (above). Story on page 2. No less an educational pow - civilization drives humans away Continued on page 4 Continued on page 6 At 66 Years of Marriage, a Tsipras Will Look at Liar and the Lady Visit the U.S.

By Harry Mark Petrakis had bloomed. She had become Next Week shapely and taller, her face On September 30th of this adorned by her great black eyes, year, my wife Diana and I had her raven-black hair tumbling TNH Staff been married for 66 years. In from her temples across her the third grade of our Greek shoulders. WASHINGTON, DC – Alexis parish school, she remembers We began to date, casual Tsipras is preparing for his me trying to convince my evenings sipping chocolate much-anticipated first visit to teacher I had lost my homework phosphates at Reader’s Drug the United States as the leader using a phrase she was hearing Store near the University of of the Greek opposition. On Jan - for the first time, “on my word Chicago. We also spent hours uary 22, Global Economy and of honor.” I remember her as a talking aimlessly on the tele - Development at Brookings will skinny girl with large dark eyes phone. host a gathering featuring that seemed to overpower her After completing several Tsipras for a conversation about face. business courses, Diana went to Greece and the economic chal - When we met again in our work as a hostess in a restaurant lenges ahead. Tsipras’ remarks teens, I was stunned at how she and, as I feared, began attract - will touch on themes including: ing other suitors. The most dan - economic and social prospects gerous was a young clone of for his own country; the rela - Robert Redford, with tousled tionship between Athens and For subscription: blond hair and six feet of im - the rest of Europe, including 718.784.5255 posing height. what reforms are needed in [email protected] Studying my own face in the AP PHOTO Greece and Europe to address mirror gave me little reason for Ferry Crashes in New York, 85 injured, 2 Critically the crisis; and what role, if any, reassurance. My nose and jaw the U.S. can play in assisting fought one another for promi - The Seastreak Wall Street, a high-speed ferry carrying more than 300 people, crashed into a Greece and Europe tackle their dock in lower Manhattan the morning of January 9. Newsday reported “Passengers described Continued on page 7 a jolt, bodies falling and flying across each other, broken windows, and blood.” Continued on page 9 2 COMMUNITY THE NATIONAL HERALD, JANUARY 12-18, 2013

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n JANUARY 13 n JANUARY 20 FLORAL PARK - The Association ASTORIA – The Hellenic Relief of Asgata “Cyprus” invites you Foundation "Preserving Dignity to their Annual Vasilopita Party in Crisis" is celebrating it's ONE on Sunday, Jan. 13 at 2 PM at YEAR Anniversary on Sunday Towers on the Green 272-48 January 20. We will be cutting Grand Central Parkway in Floral the Vasilopita to honor all those Park. Santa will visit and give that have contributed to the mis - gifts to the children! Please re - sion of the Hellenic Relief Foun - spond with information about dation. Please join us for deli - children attending, 10 and un - cious luncheon at 3PM at the der Admission is Free. Contact: Cretan House "Omonia" 32-33 Peter Louca – 516-679-2205; 31st Street in Astoria. For reser - Loula Antoniou – 347-345-7407; vations call 347-201-1821 or Avgie Koutsioumbis – 917-922- email [email protected] or 9949. mail your RSVP to the Hellenic Relief Foundation, PO Box 735, n JANUARY 14 Mineola, NY 11501. Donation is MANHATTAN - The American $40 per person. (children up to Hellenic Institute (AHI) Business 12 years old $20 each). All net Network and The New York proceeds will be used to buy Chapter of AHI resume their food from the local merchants Monthly Informal Networking in Athens to feed the needy in Reception at Avra Restaurant on Greece. Remember, $40 will pro - Monday, January 14 at 141 East vide the basic food for two fam - 48th Street (Between Lexington ilies for approximately one and 3rd Avenues) in Manhattan. month. Archons other guests pause for a commemorative photo before St. Nicholas Cathedral with Metropolitan Athenagoras. Cash bar & complimentary hors d' oeuvres. AHI thanks Sam and n JANUARY 26 Stella Catechis for their donation FLUSHING – The 18th Annual of the wine for our Christmas Phidippides Award Gala dinner Archons’ Historic Journey to Cathedral in Cuba party at Meli Restaurant and and dance has been rescheduled everyone who attended. We for Saturday, January 26, at Ter - wish all our friends a Merry race on the Park, 52-11 111th TNH Staff Christmas and a Happy and St. in Flushing at 7PM. Celebrat - Healthy New Year. We also wish ing 25 Years of Broadcasting Ex - HAVANA, CUBA – More than to thank the owners and staff of cellence at Hellenic Public Ra - 80 Archons and Greek Orthodox AVRA for welcoming us month dio- Cosmos FM 91.5, they will faithful journeyed to Havana, after month, year after year. also be honoring world- Cuba for a 6-day pilgrimage to renowned composer Yannis visit Saint Nicholas Greek Or - n JANUARY 15 Markopoulos with The 2012 thodox Cathedral from Decem - YONKERS, NY - Saint Vladimir’s Phidippides Award for Passion - ber 5 to 10. The pilgrimage was Orthodox Theological Seminary ate Advocacy of Hellenism. Tick - sponsored by the Order of St is offering a 10-week course ets $200, $100 for students un - Andrew and led by its spiritual open to the public: “The Music der 21 years of age. For advisor, Father Alexander Kar - and Faith of Arvo Pärt,” taught information and reservations: loutsos, Protopresbyter of the by Peter C. Bouteneff. Arvo Pärt, (718) 204-8900 Ecumenical Patriarchate. the 3rd-most performed com - [email protected]. The trip culminated in a cel - poser globally, is an Orthodox ebration of the Feast of Saint Christian of Estonian nationality. n JANUARY 27 Nicholas and took place under The course will combine the MANHATTAN – As part of its cel - the auspices of His Eminence study of music with the spiritu - ebration of 25 Years of Broad - Metropolitan Athenagoras. ality and teachings of the Ortho - casting Excellence, Hellenic Pub - The trip was remarkable in dox Christian faith. Beginning lic Radio-Cosmos FM 91.5 is the context of modern Cuba. January 15, 2013For registration proud to present Yannis “On the first night, the pilgrims and course details, contact Pdn. Markopoulos: Live in New York. attended Vespers at Saint Joseph Matusiak, director of Ad - Special Guest Artist: Mario Fran - Nicholas Greek Orthodox missions: [email protected]; goulis with Vasiliki Lavina & Church. Afterwards, a proces - telephone: 914-961-8313 x328; Alexandros Belles and a 15- sion of the faithful followed or, visit www.svots.edu. Saint Member Orchestral Ensemble through the streets of Havana, Vladimir’s Orthodox Theological conducted by the composer. Sun - and around the Church, led by Archons from the United States participate in a moving religious procession through streets of Seminary at 575 Scarsdale Road day, Jan. 27 at The Town Hall, Archons, Dr. Lewis Assley and Havana, a remarkable sight in the context of modern Cuba. in Yonkers. 123 W. 43rd St in Manhattan at Stephen Kalivas, holding the 4:00 PM. Tickets: $50 $75 $100 icon of Saint Nicholas. The fol - at the port side in Colonial Ha - nation. The giving of the church Cuban parish – both children n JANUARY 18 $125. For information and reser - lowing day, all attended Divine vana, a UNESCO World Her - by Fidel Castro was a historic and adults – impressed the Y0NKERS, NY – Saint Vladimir’s vations: (718) 204-8900; cos - Liturgy at Saint Nicholas Church itage Site. Upon the official in - event marking the potential for group with a wonderful perfor - Orthodox Theological Seminary: [email protected]. in celebration of the Feast Day,” vitation of former President a new era in Cuban history and mance which included songs in Join us as Dr. Peter Brown, according to the press release. Fidel Castro, in January 2004, accentuating the increasing role Spanish, English and Greek and Princeton University's Philip and n FEBRUARY 9 When the Cathedral was ap - Ecumenical Patriarch of Orthodox missions around a rendition of The Old Man and Beulah Rollins Professor of His - MANHATTAN – The next Greek proved, it was the first time Bartholomew made a five-day the world.” the Sea, a novel written by tory, Emeritus, presents the 30th American Writers Association since the Cuban Revolution that official visit to Cuba, consecrat - There were a number of Ernest Hemingway. The group annual Father Alexander Schme - poetry reading will be held on permission was given for the ing the new St. Nicholas Cathe - memorable events according to was hosted to lunch by the mann Memorial Lecture. In his Saturday, Feb. 9, 6-7:30 PM and building of a new church in Ha - dral. Former President Fidel the release, including: parishioners in the beautiful talk, titled "Constantine, Euse - will feature Matthew Brailas, vana. Castro presented the key of the “The baptisms of five Cubans gardens behind the church. bius, and the Future of Chris - Andriana Rizos, Shelley Hainer, “The beautiful Byzantine- Cathedral to the spiritual leader to the Greek Orthodox faith. “The Cuban government tianity," our erudite and inspiring and Carl Rosenstock at the Cor - style Cathedral is decorated of the world’s 250 million Or - The happiness and enthusiasm hosted an unforgettable concert speaker will focus on how Chris - nelia Street Cafe, 29 Cornelia with Greek mosaics, icons, and thodox Christians. His All Holi - on their faces was heartwarm - in honor of the Order of St An - tians approach the study of his - Street in Manhattan. (212) 989- candelabras, and has a hand- ness invited Archbishop ing to all of the pilgrims from drew at the Baroque Basilica of tory. 575 Scarsdale Road in 9319. The purpose of the series carved wooden altar. It was Demetrios of America to accom - the USA. San Francisco de Assis which is Yonkers. 914-961-8313. is to support creative voices from built in a garden of the Basilica pany him on his historic first- “On Sunday, December 9, af - next to the church and towers Greek, Greek-American, and Menor of San Francisco de Assis, ever visit to a Latin American ter Liturgy, members of the over the square, Plaza de San MANHATTAN – AGAPW invites American writers of all genres. Francisco de Assis. The church you to its New Year’s Celebration now serves as a concert hall and with Vasilopita and Songs on Fri - MONTREAL, CANADA – The museum. From the bell tower day, January 18, 6-9 PM at Montreal AHEPA family presents (138 feet high), one has a won - Trump World Bar – 845 United its 14th Annual Saint Valentine’s derful view of Old Havana and Nations Plaza at East 48th Street Ball in support of the Phrixo B. its harbor.” in Manhattan. Eleni Andreou will Papachristidis Chair of Modern During the trip the guests vis - perform songs by Theodorakis, Greek and Greek Canadian ited the Plaza de Armas; Plaza Hatzidakis and rebetica. Nancy Studies at McGill University on de las Catedral; El Prado Prom - Goudinaki, Jazz vocals and gui - Saturday, Feb. 9 at Palace Re - enade; Plaza de San Francisco tar. Nancy will perform songs ception Halls; 1717 Boulevard de Assis; Malecon; Cathedral of from her about to be released Le Cobusier Laval Qc. Cocktails Saint Christopher, El Floridita CD "I Want To Be Your Star" Cash 6:30 PM and Ball Opening 8 PM. 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This year we have the US Interest Section, the Scholarship at its website: shifted our focus to embrace yet Russian, Serbian and Austrian agapw.org/site/awards. another tenet of AHEPA’s raison Ambassadors were also present, d'etre, that of supporting Edu - and a breakfast meeting was n JANUARY 19 cation and Hellenism. To that hosted by the Greek Ambas - CHICAGO, IL – The Annual Din - end we have chosen the Pa - sador, His Excellency Pantelis ner Dance, New Year Celebra - pachristidis Chair as the recipi - The participants in the pilgrimage experienced fellowship and hospitality at a reception. Carcabassis. tion, and Scholarship Awards of ent of the 2013 Ball’s donation Hellenic Link-Midwest will be proceeds. Contact: Olga held on Saturday, Jan. 19, at the Psolopoulou at 514-739-3826 or Four Points Sheraton Hotel, Frank Antoniou at 514-594- 10249 West Irving Road at 1148 and at f_antoniou@hot - Schiller Park, starting at 6:30PM. mail.com. 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AP PHOTOS Greek Orthodox Epiphany Commemoration at the Patriarchate in Constantinople one of Many Such Celebrations throughout the World on January 6 LEFT: Greek Orthodox Christians light candles during an Epiphany ceremony at the Patriarchate during a ceremony to bless the water at the Golden Horn. The traditional ceremony marks the in Constantinople, January 6. RIGHT: Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew (C) arrives before the Epiphany in Constantinople, Turkey, when Bartholomew I or an Orthodox priest throws a Orthodox swimmers that will race to retrieve a wooden cross that he will throw into the waters simple wooden cross into the water and swimmers compete to be the first to retrieve it. First-time Diver Retrieves the Epiphany Cross in the Tarpon Springs Bayou

By Stephanie Want and Tampa who dove Sunday. boys dive off row boats. The population of 22,000. The Keyonna Summers "You're just ready. Once the cross lucky one becomes an instant parish calls the ceremony the Tampa Bay Times falls … you don't think about celebrity. He is hoist o the shoul - largest Epiphany event in the anything else." ders of his peers and carried Western Hemisphere, celebrat - TARPON SPRINGS, FL – First- When the triumphant Vassil - through the city streets. ing the day Orthodox Christians time diver Vassilios Harding, 16, ios closed his hand around the Tarpon Springs is located 45 believe Jesus was baptized in crouched Sunday atop an over - cross, the other boys immedi - minutes Northwest of Tampa the River Jordan. turned dinghy in Spring Bayou. ately raised his arm from the and has one of the largest con - He worried the position put him water and shouted his name. centration of Greek-Americans Additional reporting by TNH at a disadvantage in diving with "It was really courteous and in the United States among its Staff. 46 other Greek boys for the they really upheld our values," Epiphany cross. "I want this," he said Paloumpis, a second-year thought to himself, "and I want diver. "And everyone who dived this bad." is a great emissary of the Archbishop Demetrios of church." America blessed the waters, The divers took up Vassilios then tossed the cross into Spring on their shoulders and carried Bayou while Father Michael him back to the church. Grip - Eaccarino, Dean of the Cathe - ping a trophy in his other hand, dral, and the parish’s new assis - Vassilios never loosened his tant priest, Fr. Gregory Trakas, clutch on the cross. also participated. "Hold it up," last year's cross Ahead of the other divers, retrievers advised him. "Keep it churning through the water, high." Vassilios reached the bobbing Axios! people clamored. He white cross within seconds. is worthy. "God actually puts it in your Vassilios Harding, 16, holds aloft the Holy Cross that that he Vassilios, the son of Tina and hand," he said. retrieved from the waters of Tarpon Springs, FL. Spanos Harding, is the first in Another highlight is the re - his family to retrieve a cross. His lease of the white dove repre - Orthros and divine liturgy at the be like. father and uncle both dove senting the appearance of the overflowing St. Nicholas Greek "I feel like it would be almost three times unsuccessfully. Holy Spirit in that form at the Orthodox Cathedral downtown. like experiencing the baptism of Cousins Louis Mailisand and Baptism of Christ in the Jordan The services concluded with Christ again," he said. "It's like Miros Petru won recognition as river 2000 years ago. This year’s blessings and prayers for the 47 a leap of faith." cross retrievers last year. dove bearer was Evelyn Bili - Greek boys ages 16 to 18 who Cheered by the crowd, the One of his sisters, 9-year-old rakis. The 15 year-old high would contend for the cross. Or - boys thundered toward the Erasmea, proudly called Vassil - school sophomore is the daugh - ganizers had announced that 48 bayou and jumped in feet-first, ios a loving sibling. "He's good ter of Dr. Emanuel and Maria boys would dive, but one had a some hitting the bottom. They at teaching me all the things I Bilirakis and the granddaughter conflict and couldn't participate. lumbered into the dinghies an - need for growing up," she said. of former Congressman Michael Clad in swim trunks and chored in a semicircle. They The boy who retrieves the Bilirakis, whose wife Evelyn was white T-shirts, the barefoot boys crossed themselves as the arch - cross is said to receive a year of the Dove Bearer in 1957. waited on the steps of the bishop spoke more blessings from blessings. Dripping wet and Unlike last year, Sunday's church for a procession to the a platform beside the bayou. shaking, Vassilios stood inside 107th Epiphany celebration in bayou. "Once you're in the water, the church and said, "I want it Tarpon Springs had one clear As his parents stood nearby your eyes are locked on the to be the best year of my life." victor. Last year, the boys diving holding his towel, Michael Vla - archbishop," said Andreas The Tarpon Springs High ju - for the cross couldn't find it, so makis, 17, of Palm Harbor, tried Paloumpis, a 17-year-old Hills - nior settled on a simple first a second was thrown into the to imagine what the dive would borough High senior from wish: to see his father soon. water. Both crosses were then Spanos Harding, a commer - found and four boys eventually cial fishing boat captain, was were named winners. working in Key West Sunday. He This year, organizers vowed scrambled to watch the dive on - to throw only one cross — and line but couldn't find any live one that wouldn't sink. videos. All he could do was send Emmanuel Gombos, who has a text telling Vassilios that he assisted with Epiphany prepara - loved him and knew he would tions for years, acknowledged be successful. that this year's cross was not so Soon, Harding's phone weighted. started ringing with congratula - "We knew it was going to tory calls. Vassilios cried as he float," he said. "We made sure it told reporters that he wanted to was done quickly and found drive to Key West the next day quickly." to see his father. Thousands gathered to "I love you, boy," Harding watch the cross dive, the cen - told his son over the phone Sun - terpiece of Tarpon's annual Jan. day. "I'm so proud of you. Thank 6 Epiphany celebration, which you for being who you are." is considered the largest in the The ceremony by the Western hemisphere. The event seashore was preceded Saturday commemorates the baptism of evening, Jan. 5 by the annual Jesus in the River Jordan by Epiphany Celebration Dance in John the Baptist. the Theofilos Hall at the Spanos- Bells tolled early Sunday to Pappas Community Center. mark the beginning of Epiphany. The spectacle has taken place At 8AM, local and national every January 6 for more than Greek Orthodox clergy led the Harding among his fellow cross divers. a century. Dozens of teenage Schumer Invites Demetrios to Offer Inaugural Benediction

TNH Staff only of the State of New York but of the entire nation, as WASHINGTON, DC – United well.” States Senator Charles E. According to a press release Schumer (D-NY), Chairman of from the Joint Committee, the Joint Congressional Com - “Archbishop Demetrios will re - mittee on Inaugural Ceremonies cite the benediction at the 57th (JCCIC), has invited His Emi - Presidential Inaugural Lun - nence Archbishop Demetrios of cheon, following the Inaugural America to offer the benediction Ceremonies. Attendees will in - at the 2013 Presidential Inau - clude the newly-sworn in Presi - gural Luncheon following the dent and Vice President, Con - Inaugural ceremonies at the gressional leaders, members of U.S. Capitol on January 21. the cabinet, and former Presi - “It’s my honor to invite Arch - dents and Vice Presidents who bishop Demetrios to offer this are in attendance at the Inau - important prayer at the Inau - gural Ceremonies. Additional gural Luncheon,” Schumer said. details regarding the luncheon “The archbishop is a tremen - will be provided at a later date.” dous and respected leader to The Committee, the release millions in the Greek Orthodox continues, “is responsible for the community in every corner of TNH ARcHIVeS oversight and planning of the the United States. I am blessed In November, 2011, Vice President Joe Biden and Archbishop Presidential Inauguration and to call the archbishop a friend, Demetrios had a lengthy meeting in NY. It was the first visit to related ceremonies on the U.S. and I look forward to his bene - Archdiocesan headquarters ever made by a sitting vice president. Capitol grounds….In addition, diction to conclude the 2013 In - January 21, 2013 is Martin augural events at the Capitol.” dential Inaugural Luncheon. To Sen. Charles E. Schumer, whom Luther King, Jr. Day. It will be Upon hearing the decision of participate with a special prayer I hold in high esteem, love and the second time that this federal the Chairman, Demetrios said: in such a historic event consti - respect for what he is and for holiday has coincided with a “I feel exceedingly honored by tutes a tremendous honor in - what he has been doing consis - Presidential Inauguration. The such a gracious invitation to of - deed. I express my deep grati - tently, tirelessly and effectively first was President Bill Clinton’s fer the benediction at the Presi - tude to my distinguished friend, for the good of the people not second Inauguration in 1997.” 4 COMMUNITY THE NATIONAL HERALD, JANUARY 12-18, 2013 Release Party in Manhattan Celebrates New CD by Musicians Plessas-Rafalides

TNH Staff was a “revisiting of 10 well- Pappas, obviously a big fan that when played with four mal - known songs from the Plessas of Plessas, noted “he composed lets, as Rafalides does, the vi - NEW YORK – The unique mu - songbook.” in such a wide genre of music,” braphone is one of the most dif - sical collaboration between the The vibraphone and Plessas’ and said he could only label him ficult instruments to master, but renowned Greek composer and “gorgeous touch on the piano,” by calling him “the Gershwin, his performance was smooth as pianist Mimis Plessas and ac - in the words of Rafalides, gives Cole Porter, and Henry Mancini silk. claimed Manhattan vibraphonist Greek music an ethereal quality of Greece.” The concert included “Enas Christos Rafalides, which began that is pleasant but unfamiliar, Plessas lived their music too. Ouranos M’asteria (A Moon with the 2008 CD, Echo, con - yet after just listening – with a He got his start as a pianist in with Stars),” which revealed tinues with their new CD titled reminder that Aristotle invented New York in the early 50s. “He Plessas at his Western romantic We Two, and was celebrated at the idea of the heavenly ether – played along with jazz greats finest and was followed by the a release party in Manhattan on audience members agreed it like pianist Art Tatum, the “Di - more Greek and delightfully December 17. was a marriage made in musical vine One” Sarah Vaughn, leg - jaunty “Eho Stenahori Kardia (I Apostolos Pappas, PhD, bio - heaven. endary alto saxaphonist and Have a Troubled Heart)” with chemist and music lover, wel - As the vibraphone-piano duo clarinetist Jimmy Dorsey, trom - its lyric: “tonight I have come comed the guests to the Press climbed the musical scales dur - bonist and band leader Tommy to drink a little bit extra.” and Communication Office of ing very first piece “Apopse Tha Dorsey, among others at notable The song “ Vrehi Fotia Sthn the Permanent Mission of Pio To Fegari (Tonight I Will venues like Carnegie Hall and Strata Mou (It’s Raining Fire on Greece to the United Nations Drink the Moon),” the guests Café de Paris,” according to a My Street),” with its Eastern and thanked them for their sup - were lifted to celestial realms press release. Mediterranean flavor prompted port of art and culture. and did not want to come down. In the CD one can distinguish Rafalides to declare he never Rafalides, who was joined in For many it was also a trip down pieces that are more saturated thought he’d play such songs on a live performance of the pieces memory lane. by Plessas’ Greek and Mediter - his vibes, which lent a heavenly of music on the CD by popular The party’s unique experi - ranean musical heritage from cast to the dramatic lyrics “I Zoi New York pianist Panos ence was created out of tunes his jazzier creations, and the at - Edo Telioni. Svini To Kandili Chrysovergis, noted that he had familiar to everyone present. For tentive listener will detect ele - Mou (Life Ends Here). My Can - never performed in an office many Greeks in the 60s and 70s, ments of both in many of his dle is Blown Out).” building, but the acoustics Plessas’ film, theatre, and radio compositions, but listening to a Beloved Greek composer and pianist Mimis Plessas and ac - When the concert drew to a turned out to support beauti - music was the soundtrack of string of his pieces in different claimed vibraphonist Christos Rafalides on the cover of their close, the guests cried out for fully a delightful concert which their lives. genres is enchanting. new CD: We Two. more and Rafalides said “Only if you sing it,” which they did. Pappas called it the “musical portunity their teaming up of - The lively “I Thalassies Sou I friction” he creates, not in the fered him. Handres (The Sea-Blue Beads),” sense of musical conflict, but A video presentation of pho - made them beg for more, but rather like two bodies during tos of the two artists followed – that’s what CD parties are for. lovemaking, or the striking of a in one of them they are playing The renowned pianist and match against a surface that chess – accompanied by the mu - composer was also trained as a causes it to burst into flame. sic they created. scientist. Plessas’ first journeys Rafalides noted that the to the United States were the Pappas introduced a video movies Plessas wrote sound - result of a scholarship to attend greeting by Plessas, who wel - tracks for were of dubious artis - Cornell University to pursue his comed and thanked his col - tic value, having been made un - PhD in chemistry. leagues and fans, and told the der the stifling oversight of the Rafalides was drawn to story of this friendly but musi - Greek Junta, but “we are for - America by a scholarship from cally inauspicious meeting with tunate he wrote the music… Berklee College of Music in Rafalides. which balance soul and intel - Boston, where he earned a BA. When Plessas first heard him lect.” He moved to Manhattan where play, he was impressed with his The introductions were wel - he finished a MA at the Man - virtuosity, but told him never - come, especially to Greek-Amer - hattan School of Music. He theless “the only thing I’m going icans less familiar with the life found his personal voice when to play with you is chess.” But of the composer, and when the he established “Manhattan Rafalides persisted and Plessas live music began, the vibra - Vibes,” a band that has ap - said that “somehow, to katafer - phone added a new facet to peared at many of NYCs cutting ame – we pulled it off.” Plessas Plessas’ more Hellenic pieces, edge venues. Emarel Music, smiled and called Rafalides his but Rafalides really brought which produced their CDs, was Among the guests at the Greek Press and Communication Office was its director, Nikos Papa - partner in crime, but he also Plessas’ jazzier pieces to life. created to facilitate the artists’ constantinou (2nd from L), and Greek Consul Evangelos Kyriakopoulos (3rd from L). thanked him for the musical op - Musicians in the audience noted collaboration. Taking Mind-Body Unity Seriously: Dr. Dimon’s Neurodynamic Ideas

Continued from page 1 devotion to education. He said his grandfather “was such a him it is a natural path, due to classy guy, refined, and he put both his personal disposition and such a value on education and his heritage. Dimon’s paternal learning. And my father had the grandfather was a learned man same attitude.” Pappou would who deeply valued education say to them “I expect all three and whose father ran a school of you to have PhDs. That is not in Athens. His grandfather’s negotiable.” grandfather was a priest who All three brothers went to a was the head of a monastery – private high school in Manhat - where an educational ethos also tan. The main effect it had on prevails. He was the first Pa - Theodore was to fuel his desire pademetriou, the source of the to start a school of his own. He Dimon family name. knew from around 15 that ROOTS THAT BEAR schools were not sensitive to GOOD FRUIT children. “I felt for the other kids Dimon’s grandfather moved and thought I could do better from Greece to Smyrna when it than that.” was an economic and cultural HIs next biggest mentor was magnet for the entire Greek his climbing instructor when he world. His mother’s father, was 15. “He was in many ways whose roots were in the Pelo - was the best teacher I ever had,” ponnese, also lived in Smyrna. he said, adding, “He combined They were those forced out in being a free spirit with disci - 1923 by the Asia Minor Disas - pline,” in a way that impressed ter. Dimon. Dimon himself grew up in PAIN AND GAIN Jackson Heights and moved to The other nudge along his Manhattans Upper East Side, path was a painful one, however. where his parents, Themis and Ted became an accomplished Theodore Sr., and his siblings climber, eventually reaching still live. Mont Blanc. “But climbing got His twin brother Jamie and me in trouble with my back.” By he brilliantly illustrate how dif - his fourth year of college, he Dr. Ted Dimon, an accomplished climber and athlete, working with a member of Ballet Hispanico as dancers look on. ferent the interests of siblings, pulled something. He didn’t even twins, can be. Jamie and think it was serious, but it got with him - and explored them. tion.” He said, “It’s a perfect ex - tural problem are also linked ing with doctoral students to ex - he attended the same schools worse and worse, culminating He realized that in many condi - ample of how no one is paying with their attention and you re - plore other ways of integrating right through Tufts University. in painful back spasms. tions there is a deeper behav - attention to the whole psy - alize that unless you can get that the knowledge into the class - ioral level, which requires a chophysical system as the kids kid to be a little more conscious, room. strong mind-body paradigm. are learning.” you will not be able to change When he works with adults, As he progressed in training Dimon further illustrated his the pattern, which isn’t the prob - exercises are necessary, “but and studies, he felt the need to thinking by speaking about what lem with the pen, it’s a problem with kids it might be just about articulate his work as a new area happens when children are of unconsciousness.” getting them to slow down, to in educational development, and asked to change from drawing EDUCATING EDUCATORS think about how they are doing he realized he wanted to make with crayons or painting pictures When people see the power something. Very often you can this area the subject of the to writing with pens. He ex - that devices have over children, just give a kid a minute to slow school of which he long plained, “Everything is learned. many conclude “oh we have to down and just look at what he dreamed. We are to some extent animals. help this child,” but others say is doing and you can restore bal - After finishing his Alexander We can do certain things very ance and get them to learn to Technique training he earned a well by instinct. When you ask a do it in a way that makes him master’s in education at Har - kid to form letters he will misuse more aware of what is going on vard. His professors, who knew the system because it’s not around them.” Dewey, encouraged him, and equipped for that. It’s a radically “You can work with each kid told him to press on to a doctor - different thing to ask a kid to for a few seconds and it makes ate if he wanted to start a school form letters as opposed to when a difference,” he said. Ted Dimon, also a musician, working with violinist Cody Geil. and new philosophy. When he he is just drawing and doing With adults the challenge is finished his PhD he wrote his what he wants. But now he has to show them the “whole habit - His brother majored in econom - Dimon began to search for first book, The Undivided Self. to do something a certain way ual system, to see how it can be ics and psychology, in which the ways to help his back. His prior “I realize that mind and body and he will be scrutinized.” rectified and brought under former still has an interest, “but interest in mind-body matters operate as a unified system in In his experience, the solu - greater conscious control.” His I had no interest in economic guided him. His family conveyed action but there is a concrete tions are simple, but teachers instruction includes getting peo - and finance. He was more into to him the Olympic ideal of a problem associate with that be - must know what is going on, ple to understand how the mind history and politics and finance. healthy mind and a healthy cause the system works at a and his main point is that if the and body evolved and work to - I was more arts oriented and hu - body. “My father valued that, I largely unconscious level,” he child does not get the attention gether. It includes things like manistically inclined – literature grew up with that.” said, “but if you understand how he needs, “he is going to develop “practicing lying down so they and self-exploration.” An educa - He intuited his back problem it works, you can raise the func - a number of elements that are can restore the muscle system tor to the core. was not only physical – he felt tioning of that system to a more going to get imbalanced, and not and showing them the basic Collectively, the twins reflect he was physically healthy – and conscious level.” just physically – including be - movements of sitting and stand - their father’s interests, who ma - sensed there was an emotional And it is striking to him that coming preoccupied, too fo - A photo of a four year-old ing.” jored in philosophy but became element. “But I didn’t think it this is completely ignored in ed - cused.” child at play illustrates the He extends the training to a stock broker. “My older was purely emotional,” he said. ucational theory. “The system of - Dimon says we have all wit - healthy posture humans dis - showing what parts of the mind brother, Peter, is totally different He eventually discovered the ten works badly and interferes nessed some of these symptoms, play instinctually as children. are involved and how to quiet again. He is science oriented.” Alexander Technique, which in - in the child’s functioning and children so wrapped up in the the mind and the nervous sys - He is an experimental physicist trigued him with its unified con - learning and leads to problems video games in their hands that “we just don’t have the resources tem “until you get to the point who he said is working on a cept of mind and body. Other that develop later in life,” he they are not even aware of peers to devote to paying that much that the whole system is more physics textbook. methods merely paid lip service said. or adults trying to talk with attention to individual kids.” balanced and you achieve a Mind-body harmony figured to mind-body unity, but they in Simple photographs suggest them. “Too much focus is the flip Training teachers in neurody - higher state of awareness,” of in many aspects of Dimon’s practice were either massaging he is onto something. “You see side of Attention Deficit Disor - namics addresses that directly. self and surroundings. youth. He recalls a lot of sports your body or your mind,” but he kids sitting nicely, doing things der,” he said. Dimon insists “it doesn’t have And the benefits go beyond playing with his brothers, and felt even the Alexander Tech - very nicely at four years old, but “If I say to a kid, ‘listen I want to be that every kid gets tremen - better health. ”I teach them the they were also musical. He still nique didn’t go far enough. when they become six, their sys - you to hold a pen,’ and I hand dous amount of care but we process of getting the system plays guitar and helps musicians Dimon went back to F. tem goes into disarray and it’s him the pen you will see the kid have to be aware of this aspect working together as the founda - who experience various difficul - Matthias Alexander’s original in - far from a postural problem,” al - grab at it as if someone has hyp - of development. You have to tion for being poised at whatever ties. sights – and those of the great though that is a symptom that notized him.” He continued say - know what you are dealing with they do.” As the song says, if you He believes his grandfather American educator and philoso - reflects “the misdirected work - ing that “The motor problems and have an understanding of can do that in New York, you and father are the source of his pher John Dewey, who studied ing of the whole system in ac - that seem like a physical or pos - the subject and he is now work - can do that anywhere. THE NATIONAL HERALD, JANUARY 12-18, 2013 COMMUNITY 5 Amid Concerns about Turkey’s Belligerence, Senate Blocks Ship Transfer

By Constantine S. Sirigos with the legislative offices to this should continue because, af - now this week helped defeat the the importance of having Greek- Our lists began responding di - TNH Staff Writer slow this down on the House ter all, Turkey is an ally and we frigates…we have established American Senators. He said “it’s rectly to their Congressmen.” The side. It was not clear that we need to help them. Well, I look strong working relationships extremely important one of your HALC website expressed the or - WASHINGTON – After strenu - would be able to stop it, but it at it the other way. They're a with other groups, including own in the Senate because of the ganizations appreciation for the ous efforts by numerous groups was important to voice our op - NATO ally, so they have respon - most prominently with the prerogatives that individual Sen - Community’s action with a note concerned over Turkey’s in - position to it. That was reflected sibility. And the way they're act - American Jewish Committee,” ators have. They have the ability that declares “You Did It.” creased belligerence and desta - in the work that Andy Manatos ing has been anything but re - which bodes well for the new to stop the worst excesses of pol - “We called other groups, he bilizing behavior in the Eastern did, and AHI President Nick Lar - sponsible. This is not an session of Congress. icy that favors Turkey over added, including the pro-Israel Mediterranean, the U.S. Senate igakis, which we helped with.” inconsequential or trivial matter." Hamparian is also optimistic Greece and Cyprus. It is pivotal groups and the Armenians the did not approve giving Ankara Turkey was on the Pentagon’s Bilirakis reminded that: "the that when push comes to shove, week before Christmas” and the two Perry Class frigates that the original wish list of recipients but Turkish navy, as recently as last that there is a Senator Paul Sar - effect was that rather than a sim - U.S. Navy no longer but which the draft approved by the House year, held naval live-fire exercises Rep. Engel on Turkey: banes or Olympia Snowe there ple up or down voice vote that still constitute advanced Foreign Affairs committee on De - in the eastern Mediterranean. “They’re a NATO ally, to be able to say ‘no.’” characterizes suspension calen - weaponry. cember 11 included only Mexico, These provocative exercises took He called Paul Sarbanes “a dar actions, “we had five mem - The transfer of the U.S.S. Thailand and Taiwan. Turkey place near the natural gas fields so they have respon- massively powerful Democrat bers of Congress get up and Halyburton (FFG–40) and the was then slipped into the final of Israel and the Republic of sibility.” [But their actions pillar of the Foreign Relations speak about the issue.” U.S.S. Thach (FFG–43) was ap - bill that was slated to be passed Cyprus and threatened to disrupt have been “anything but committee who even the other He stressed, however, “This proved by the House of Repre - under a suspension of the rules peaceful and productive eco - party deferred to…I don’t know is not about punishing Turkey. sentatives on December 31, but for debate as a “non-controver - nomic activity.” responsible.” who is next. I see Congressman It’s about having an honest con - efforts to fast track its approval sial” item. The bill had enough support John Sarbanes as a future Sena - versation about Turkey’s respon - in the Senate before the close of With the alarm sounded by to pass on a voice vote, but with about progress on matters of tor but I don’t know who else,” sibilities for American interests the old legislative session on Jan - the Greek, Cypriot, Armenian, a strong protest whose impact concern to Greek- and Armen - he said. and as a partner of the West. We uary 3 failed when at least one and Jewish communities, the carried over into the Senate. It ian-Americans, highlighting the Hamparian looks forward are American citizens and it is in Senator exercised his prerogative limited time allotted to debating has not been reported, however, rise up the foreign affairs lead - continuing to work with Greek- America’s interest that there is to place a “hold” on the bill. suspension calendar bills was put which Senator put the crucial ership latter of friends and the Americans and he added that he stability in the Eastern Mediter - Aram Hamparian, Executive to good use by congressmen hold on the bill. departure of traditional oppo - believes that HALC, with its on - ranean, and Turkey has not been Director of the Armenian Na - Brad Sherman, John Sarbanes, Congresswoman Ileana Ros – nents like Dan Burton. He noted line advocacy capability, is an im - a stabilizing factor.” tional Committee of America Gus Bilirakis, and Elliot Engel. Lehtinen, the outgoing chairman that this legislation can be re-in - portant new component in the Zemenides believes that what (ANCA) told TNH, “we worked Sherman was outraged that of the Foreign Affairs Committee, troduced, but said Turkey has Greek-American Community’s ef - happened with the frigates, “is with our friends the American “in the dead of night, provisions emerged as a supporter of the bigger fish to fry, and “there forts. an opportunity to start a real Hellenic Institute (AHI) and the to transfer two frigates to Turkey, gift to Turkey during the debate. aren’t too many champions of Zemenides told TNH they first conversation about what our ex - Hellenic American Leadership a controversial provision, was Zemenides is pleased that his Turkey left. “ published action alerts immediate pectations of Turkey…and to sig - Council (HALC),” and its Execu - added to this otherwise innocu - new organization “ helped defeat Hamparian agrees that the after it was learned that Turkey nal that that support by the U.S. tive Director Endy Zemenides, ous bill.” one piece of pro-Turkish legisla - stopping the frigates through a was put into the bill “literally in government can no longer be un - who did a lot of work. We talked Engel said, "some people say tion, the tribal trade bill, and senator’s hold dramatically shows the wee hours of the morning… conditional. “ Young Professionals of Arcadian Descent Celebrating Holiday Season in LIC

By Constantine S. Sirigos fessionals. sisting upon it.” Their represen - TNH Staff Writer Reveliotis moved to Illinois tatives are present when material when he was in fifth grade and is received and they will partici - NEW YORK – Young Profession - now lives in a Chicago suburb. pate, along with doctors and staff als of Arcadian descent cele - He was elected this past July at members, in the distribution to brated the season at the Holiday the convention held in Tripolis. create “absolute knowledge that Mixer in the Arcadian Hall in His mandate is “to bridge the the contributions will go to the Long Island City between Christ - generations.” Speaking of the right place.” mas and New Year’s Eve. They agenda of his two-year term, he That includes donations of rel - enjoyed traditional food and said “first and foremost our hope atively recent equipment from desserts, music, and fellowship is to inspire the younger genera - health care institutions that are at the event sponsored by the tion to become more active in looking to upgrade their ma - Eastern District of the Pan Arca - general and to participate in the chines. Reveliotis said that as a dian Federation of America and Federation’s philanthropic activ - 501(c)(3) organization, the Fed - the Geros tou Moria and Eparhis ities. eration can accept such contri - Kynouras chapters, but they also “We intend to create many butions on a tax-exempt basis. saw a bit of the future of the Ar - programs that will benefit the Dr. Mezitis, who was also at cadians in America. youth through scholarships, the holiday party, told TNH, “We Newly Elected President of the study abroad programs, intern - National President George Reveliotis (seated, 3rd from L, to the right of past president Dimitrios are delighted that we have estab - Pan Arcadian Federation of ships and other collaborative pro - Filios) was a special guest at the Pan Arcadian holiday party in New York. lished a wonderful collaboration America George Reveliotis was a grams between the Federation - although it is in the initial special guest at the party, and he and Arcadian owned busi - ing trip there. One will focus on gress in 2010 21 doctors from found many irregularities and stages, we plan to hold fundrais - fit right in – the 38 year-old at - nesses.,” he said. Given the Greek supporting young Greek entre - the US and four from Europe par - code violations, reflecting the sit - ers across the country in an effort torney from Chicago is young economic crisis, they will also re - preneurs. ticipated in the Pan Arcadian uation throughout Greece. The to buy supplies such as pharma - professional himself. serve a certain percentage of the As a result of the Greek eco - Conference and Medical Forum Americans were pleased the ceuticals and other medical ma - Dimitrios Filios, a past Feder - opportunities for students from nomic crisis and devastating cuts in Tripoli, a day-long panel ex - Greek doctors came up with the terial that is needed.” ation president, shared some his - Greece who are continuing their in healthcare spending, the Pan amining the status of the hospital idea of collaboration which their For Reveliotis and his young tory with TNH. The Geros tou studies in America. Arcadian hospital is once again and the medical needs of Greece organizations and the Pan Arca - colleagues, these endeavors, as Moria is the mother chapter, In Chicago, the Arcadians just at the forefront of the Federa - and the region. dians were already discussing. ambitious as they are, are just founded the same year as Feder - held Christmas parties for young tion’s philanthropic endeavors. Filios said it was “both a med - Filios was refreshingly frank the beginning. “We believe we ation in New York in April 22 families and for young profes - They will send a formal letter ical symposium and an ex - about the terms: “We want trans - must continue and build on the 1931. He said 12 visionary Amer - sionals. Reveliotis told TNH, “we to the director of the hospital, ploratory visit,” with a hands-on parency, because of some past sit - intentions of our forbears,” he icans of Arcadian descent were look to build on that momentum copied to the minister of health committee of doctors. They uations, and the doctors are in - said. determined to keep the torch of because people want to belong of Greece, who is also a MP from their heritage burning and to pass to something, to connect to their Arcadia, Andrea Likourezos, re - it on to succeeding generations. roots.” questing approval for formal col - The crowning achievement of His plan to attract more youth laboration between the hospital the Federation to date was the is founded on his determination and the Federation, including construction of the Pan Arcadian to give them a greater say about permits for US doctors to practice Hospital in Tripolis, one of the what happens within the Feder - in Greece and for supplies to be leading hospitals of the Pelopon - ation, which has already begun sent there. nese and completed in 1951en - in Chicago. A common desire to address tirely through funds raised by the He acknowledged that the the healthcare dimension of the Federation with the cooperation philanthropic activities involve crisis resulted in 2010 in collab - of organizations like AHEPA. work, but adds “we want them oration between the Pan Arca - YOUTH IS A FACT, NOT A to understand it’s not just busi - dian Federation, the Federation MOVEMENT ness, it’s also fun.” He said the of Hellenic Medical Societies of Unlike the majority of Greek- events are designed as forums for North America, led by its presi - American organizations that have social and professional network - dent, Dr. Spyros Mezitis, and the been paying lip service to bring - ing where they can make friends Hellenic Medical Society of New ing younger people into the up - and find mates. York and its then-president Dr. per ranks of their leadership, the HELPING THE HOMELAND George Tsioulias, who is an Ar - actions of the Federation speak The new programs will also cadian from Tegea. Dr. Mezitis’ louder than its words. Seven of benefit Greece, and they will be wife is an Arcadian. the 11 members of the Federa - informed by what the Federation Filios told TNH that during tions new board are young pro - leaders learn during an upcom - the 7th world Pan Arcadian Con -

HOly MeTROPOlIS OF New JeRSey Saint Athanasios Greek Orthodox Church 51 Paramus Road, Paramus, NJ 07652 • (201) 368-8881 Feast Day of Saint Athanasios the Great Patron Saint of our Parish

Thursday , January 17, 2013 Great Hierarchical Vesper Service with Arto klasia at 7:00 p.m. After the Service the Ladies of our Philoptochos Society will host a reception in our community center. Friday , January 18 The Feast of Saint Athanasios Orthros 8:45 a.m. and Hierarchical Divine Liturgy with Artoklasia. His Eminence Metropolitan EVANGELOS of New Jersey will preside at the Services. Luncheon will follow in the community center hosted by the Philoptochos Society of our Parish.

Protopresbyter Anargyros Stavropoulos and the President of the Parish Council Mr. Gus Panagiotopoulos cordially invite you to join us in celebrating the Feast Day of our Church. 6 COMMUNITY THE NATIONAL HERALD, JANUARY 12-18, 2013 Ex-Officer John Kyriakou is First from C.I.A. to Face Prison for a Leak

Continued from page 1 information compromise national last year — about American cy - Mr. Kiriakou at first said he security and can put individual berattacks on Iran, a double did not recall the name, but fol - Qaeda, and other militants lives in danger.” agent who infiltrated the Qaeda lowed up the next day with an e- whose capture in Pakistan was The leak case is a devastating branch in Yemen and procedures mail passing on the name and hailed as a notable victory after turn for Mr. Kiriakou, a father of for targeted killings — prompted adding, “It came to me last the Sept. 11 attacks. five who considers himself a pa - Mr. Holder to begin new leak in - night,” the documents show. (Mr. He got mixed reviews at the triot, a proud Greek-American vestigations that have not yet Sifton, Mr. Cole and federal pros - agency, which he left in 2004 for from Pennsylvania steel country produced any charges. ecutors all declined to comment.) a consulting job. Some praised whose grandfather, he recalls, The resulting chill on officials’ In recent interviews, Mr. Kiri - his skills, first as an analyst and “always talked as if F.D.R. per - willingness to talk is deplored by akou said he believed that the then as an overseas operative; sonally admitted him to this journalists and advocates of open covert officer, whom he had last others considered him a loose country.” Discovering a passion government; without leaks, they seen in 2002, had retired; in fact, cannon. for international affairs, he note, Americans might never the officer was then working Mr. Kiriakou first stumbled scrounged scholarships to go to have learned about the C.I.A.’s overseas. He had no idea that the into the public limelight by George Washington University, interrogation methods or the Na - name would be passed on to the speaking out about waterboard - where he was recruited by a pro - tional Security Agency’s warrant - Guantanamo defense lawyers ing on television in 2007, quickly fessor, a former C.I.A. psychiatrist less wiretapping. But for support - and end up in a government file, becoming a source for national who spotted talent for the agency. ers of greater secrecy, the chill is as it did, he said. security journalists, including this After he was charged last Jan - precisely the goal. When the F.B.I. agents invited reporter, who turned up in Mr. uary, his wife, though accused of cHRISTAAN FelbeR FOR THe New yORk TIMeS REVEALING A NAME Mr. Kiriakou to their Washington Kiriakou’s indictment last year as no wrongdoing, resigned under John Kiriakou with his daughter Kate at home in Arlington, From court documents and in - office a year ago “to help with a Journalist B. When he gave the pressure from her C.I.A. job as a VA last month. He has struggled with how to explain to his terviews, it is possible to piece case,” he said, they repeatedly covert officer’s name to the free - top Iran specialist. The family children that he will be going away. together how the case against Mr. asked him whether he had know - lancer, he said, he was simply try - had to go on food stamps for sev - Kiriakou took shape. When he ingly disclosed the name of a ing to help a writer find a poten - eral months before she got a new cover, first in Greece and later in hammed five years earlier; their first spoke on ABC in 2007, the covert officer. He replied that he tial source and had no intention job outside the government. To Pakistan (he speaks fluent Greek stories were far from secret. C.I.A. sent the Justice Depart - had no recollection of having or expectation that the name make ends meet, they rented out and Arabic). Mr. Martinez never agreed to ment a “crimes report” — a rou - done so; he still insists that was would ever become public. In their spacious house in Arlington, When terrorists blew up the talk to me. But a few e-mail ex - tine step to alert law enforcement the truth. fact, it did not surface publicly Va., and moved to a rented bun - Khobar Towers in Saudi Arabia changes with Mr. Kiriakou as I officials to an apparent unautho - “If I’d known the guy was still until long after Mr. Kiriakou was galow a third the size with their in 1996, killing 19 American ser - hunted for his former colleague rized disclosure of classified in - under cover,” Mr. Kiriakou said, charged. three young children (he has two vicemen, the blast blew out his would eventually turn up in Mr. formation. At least half a dozen “I would never have mentioned He is remorseful, up to a older children from his first mar - apartment windows in Bahrain Kiriakou’s indictment; he was more referrals went to Justice as him.” point. “I should never have pro - riage). 16 miles away across the water. charged with revealing to me that he continued to grant interviews The officer’s name did not be - vided the name,” he said on Fri - Their financial woes were Twice overseas, he had close calls Mr. Martinez had participated in covering similar ground. come public in the four years af - day in the latest of a series of in - complicated by Mr. Kiriakou’s le - with terrorists who were trying the operation to catch Abu Shortly after he became a mi - ter Mr. Kiriakou sent it to Mr. terviews. “I regret doing it, and I gal fees. He said he had paid his to kill Western officials. Zubaydah, a fact that the gov - nor media star, Mr. Kiriakou lost Cole. It appeared on a whistle- never will do it again.” defense lawyers more than He said he had been offered ernment said was classified. his job in business intelligence at blowing Web site for the first time At the same time, he argues, $100,000 and still owed them the chance to be trained in the TENSIONS OVER SECRECY Deloitte, the global consulting last October; the source was not with the backing of some former $500,000; the specter of addi - harsh interrogation methods but Nothing about my exchanges firm he joined after leaving the clear. agency colleagues, that the case tional, bankrupting legal fees, turned it down. Even though he with Mr. Kiriakou was unusual C.I.A. He had also begun working PREPARING FOR PRISON — one of an unprecedented along with the risk of a far longer had concluded that waterboard - for a reporter covering intelli - with Hollywood filmmakers — On a chilly recent afternoon, string of six prosecutions under prison term that could separate ing was indeed torture, he felt gence agencies, though he was visiting Afghanistan, for instance, Mr. Kiriakou, in a Steelers jersey, President Obama for leaking in - him from his wife and children that the C.I.A.’s critics, inflamed certainly on the candid end of before advising the producers of drove his Honda S.U.V. to pick formation to the news media — for a decade or more, prompted by the new revelation that video - the spectrum of former C.I.A. of - “The Kite Runner” that its young up his son Max, 8, and his daugh - was unfair and ill-advised as pub - him to take the plea offer, he said. tapes of the interrogations had ficers. Current officials are almost male actors should probably be ter Kate, 6, from school, leaving lic policy. Despite his distress about the been destroyed, were being un - always less willing to speak than relocated outside the country for the 14-month-old Charlie at His supporters are an unlikely charges and the havoc they have duly harsh in judging actions retirees. And former rank-and- their own safety. He was working home with a baby sitter. collection of old friends, former wrought for his family, he some - taken in the hectic months after file officers are usually more re - with a veteran journalist, Michael He and his wife had struggled spies, left-leaning critics of the times still speaks with reverence Sept. 11 when more attacks luctant to speak than their bosses, Ruby, on his memoir and battling with how to explain to the chil - government and conservative of the C.I.A. and its mission. seemed imminent. who are more confident in walk - the agency’s Publications Review dren that he is going away, prob - Christian opponents of torture. But the same qualities that “I think the second-guessing ing up to — or occasionally cross - Board, as many C.I.A. authors ably in mid-February. They set - Oliver Stone sent a message of worked well for him in his time of 2002 decisions is unfair,” he ing over — the borders protect - have, over what he was permit - tled on telling the children that encouragement, as did several as a risk-taking intelligence offi - said in our first conversation. ing classified information. ted to write about and what was “Daddy lost a big fight with the professors at Liberty University, cer, trained to form a bond with “2002 was a different world than Why do officials talk about os - off limits. F.B.I.” and would have to live where Mr. Kiriakou has taught. potential recruits, may have been 2007. What I think is fair is hav - tensibly secret programs? Some - Mr. Rizzo, then a top C.I.A. elsewhere for a while. Max cried They view the case as an outrage his undoing in his post-C.I.A. role ing a national debate over times the motive is self-aggran - lawyer, said he recalled some col - at the news, Mr. Kiriakou said. against a man who risked his life as an intelligence expert sought whether we should be water - dizement, or to promote a leagues being upset that Mr. Kiri - He cried again after calculating to defend the country. out by reporters. boarding.” personal or political agenda. But akou had begun speaking so that his birthday would fall on a Whatever his loquaciousness “Your job as a case officer is His feelings about water - many officials talk because they openly about the interrogation weekday, so it would be impossi - with journalists, they say, he nei - to recruit spies to steal secrets — boarding were so mixed that feel Americans have a right to program. “It was fairly brazen — ble to make the trip to prison to ther intended to damage national plain and simple,” Mr. Kiriakou some 2007 news reports cast him know, within limits, what the a former agency officer talking share the celebration with his fa - security nor did so. Some see a said. “You have to convince peo - as a critic of C.I.A. torture, while government is doing with their on camera,” Mr. Rizzo said. “He ther. particular injustice in the im - ple you are their best friend. That others portrayed him as a de - money and in their name. started being quoted all over the The afternoon school pickup pending imprisonment of Mr. wasn’t hard for me. I’d say half fender of the agency. Some hu - There is wide agreement in place. He was commenting on has become his routine since he Kiriakou, who in his first 2007 the people I recruited I could be man rights activists even sus - the government that too much everything.” has been out of work. A stint as appearance on ABC News de - lifelong friends with, even though pected — wrongly, as it turned information is classified, and Of course, Mr. Kiriakou had an investigator for the Senate fended the agency’s resort to des - some were communists, crimi - out — that the intelligence even senior officials are some - plenty of company. More and Foreign Relations Committee perate measures but also said nals and terrorists. I love people. agency was orchestrating his times uncertain about what is se - more C.I.A. retirees were writing ended before he was charged; that he had come to believe that cret. books, speaking to reporters or two hedge funds that had him waterboarding was torture and In Senate testimony last July, appearing on television. Mr. on retainer to provide advice on should no longer be used in for example, Michael V. Hayden, Rizzo himself became the subject international security issues American interrogations. the C.I.A. director from 2006 to of a Justice Department referral dropped him when the charges Bruce Riedel, a retired veteran 2009, admitted that he was per - after he spoke to a Newsweek re - were filed. C.I.A. officer who led an Afghan plexed by the “dilemma” over porter in 2011 about drone Only Liberty University, the war review for Mr. Obama and what he was or was not permit - strikes, and his own memoir, conservative Christian institution turned down an offer to be con - ted to say, in this case about the “The Company’s Man,” is sched - founded by Jerry Falwell Sr. in sidered for C.I.A. director in targeted killing of Qaeda opera - uled for publication next year. Lynchburg, Va., where Mr. Kiri - 2009, said Mr. Kiriakou, who tives using drones — officially Mr. Rizzo said he did not be - akou was hired by former C.I.A. worked for him in the 1990s, was classified but reported in the lieve that Mr. Kiriakou’s media officers on the faculty to teach “an exceptionally good intelli - news media every day and occa - appearances spurred a serious intelligence courses, actually in - gence officer” who did not de - sionally discussed by Mr. Obama. criminal investigation. “There re - creased the work it offered him serve to go to prison. “So much of that is in the pub - ally wasn’t a campaign against when he got in trouble. To me, the irony of this whole lic domain that right now this him,” he said. “They say torture is un-Chris - thing is, very simply, that he’s go - witness, with my experience, I Then, in 2009, officials were tian,” Mr. Kiriakou said, who ing to be the only C.I.A. officer am unclear what of my personal alarmed to discover that defense notes wryly that his fervent sup - to go to jail over torture,” even knowledge of this activity I can lawyers for detainees at Guan - porters now include both the Lib - though he publicly denounced or cannot discuss publicly,” Mr. tanamo Bay, Cuba, had obtained erty Christians and an array of torture, Mr. Riedel said. “It’s Hayden said. “That’s how mud - names and photographs of C.I.A. left-wing activists. deeply ironic under the Democ - PIeRS beNATAR FOR THe New yORk TIMeS dled this has become.” interrogators and other countert - Last summer, Mr. Kiriakou ratic president who ended tor - The house in Pakistan where Abu Zubaydah and others were The trade-offs and tensions errorism officers, including some was teaching a practical course ture.” captured in 2002. Kiriakou led the team that found Zubaydah. over government secrets in a who were still under cover. It on surveillance and countersur - John A. Rizzo, a senior C.I.A. democracy are nothing new. In turned out that the lawyers, veillance to a group of Liberty lawyer for three decades, said I love getting to know them. I public comments. 1971, when the Nixon adminis - working under the name of the students in Washington and had that he did not believe Mr. Kiri - love hearing their stories and Mr. Kiriakou seemed shell - tration went to court to try to John Adams Project, wanted to them trail him on foot on the akou set out to harm national se - telling them stories. shocked, and perhaps a little in - stop The New York Times from call the C.I.A. officers as wit - eastern edge of Georgetown, he curity or endanger anyone, but “That’s all great if you’re a toxicated, by the flood of public - publishing the Pentagon Papers, nesses in future military trials, said. After several passes, the stu - that his violation was serious. case officer,” he said. “It’s not so ity his remarks on ABC had a classified history of the Vietnam perhaps to substantiate accounts dents excitedly told him that they “I think he wanted to be a big great, it turns out, if you’re a for - received and the dozens of inter - War, Max Frankel, then the Wash - of torture or harsh treatment. had detected several cars that shot,” Mr. Rizzo said. “I don’t mer case officer.” view requests coming his way. ington bureau chief for The But initial fears that Al Qaeda were also following him — his think he was evil. But it’s not a MIXED FEELINGS We met for lunch a couple of Times, filed an affidavit on how might somehow be able to stalk usual F.B.I. minders, he figured. trivial thing to reveal a name.” After Mr. Kiriakou first ap - times in Washington and spoke officials and reporters exchange their previous captors drew wide - When Mr. Kiriakou pleaded The leak prosecutions have peared on ABC, talking with by phone occasionally. He re - secrets. spread coverage. This time there guilty in October to sharing the been lauded on Capitol Hill as a Brian Ross in some detail about counted his experiences in Pak - “Without the use of ‘secrets’ was a crimes report, Mr. Rizzo covert officer’s name, the govern - long-overdue response to a rash waterboarding, many Washing - istan — the C.I.A. later allowed that I shall attempt to explain in said, that was taken very seri - ment dropped several other of dangerous disclosures and ton reporters sought him out. I him to include much of that ma - this affidavit, there could be no charges, including the disclosure have been defended by both Mr. was among them. He was the terial in his 2009 memoir, “The adequate diplomatic, military to The Times and a claim that he Obama and his attorney general, first C.I.A. officer to speak about Reluctant Spy” — and readily an - and political reporting of the kind had lied to the C.I.A.’s Publica - Eric H. Holder Jr. But their aides the procedure, considered a no - swered questions about agency our people take for granted, ei - tions Review Board, though those say neither man ordered the torious torture method since the lore or senior officials with whom ther abroad or in Washington, violations remain in an official crackdown, and the cases appear Inquisition but declared legal by he had worked. and there could be no mature statement of facts accompanying to have resulted less from a con - the Justice Department in secret But he occasionally demurred system of communication be - the plea. scious policy change than from opinions that were later with - when the subject was too sensi - tween the government and the He expects to be sent to a min - the proliferation of e-mail, which drawn. tive. I could use information he people,” Mr. Frankel wrote 42 imum-security federal prison makes it possible to trace the ori - While he had spent hours gave me “on background” — that years ago. camp at rural Loretto, Pa., where gin of some disclosures without with Abu Zubaydah after the cap - is, without mentioning him. But Before Mr. Obama took office, his fellow residents will include pressuring journalists to identify ture, he had not been present we would have to agree explicitly prosecutions for disclosing clas - corrupt officials (inmates in re - confidential sources. when Abu Zubaydah was water - on anything I attributed to him sified information to the news cent years have included a Con - When Mr. Kiriakou pleaded boarded, a fact he made clear to by name, standard ground rules media had been rare. That was a necticut governor and a New guilty on Oct. 23 in federal court me and some other interviewers. for such relationships. comforting fact for national se - York state senator) and nonvio - in Alexandria, Va., David H. Pe - But based on what he had heard In 2008, when I began work - curity reporters and their sources, lent drug offenders (the actor traeus, then the C.I.A. director, and read at the agency, he told ing on an article about the inter - but a lamentable one for intelli - Michael Douglas’s son, Cameron, issued a statement praising the ABC and other news organiza - rogation of Khalid Shaikh Mo - gence officials who complained ously, both at the C.I.A. and the currently among them). prosecution as “an important vic - tions that Abu Zubaydah had hammed, I asked him about an that leaks damaged intelligence Justice Department. Without explanation, he said, tory for our agency, for our intel - stopped resisting after just 30 or interrogator whose name I had operations, endangered Ameri - F.B.I. agents discovered that a his lawyers at Trout Cacheris, a ligence community, and for our 35 seconds of the suffocating pro - heard: Deuce Martinez. He said can operatives and their infor - human rights advocate hired by high-end Washington criminal country.” cedure and told interrogators all that they had worked together to mants and strained relations with the John Adams Project, John defense firm, recently cut his out - “Oaths do matter,” he went he knew. catch Abu Zubaydah, and that he allied spy services. Sifton, had compiled a dossier of standing bill from more than on, “and there are indeed conse - That was grossly inaccurate would be a great source on Mr. By most counts, there were photographs and names of the $700,000 to $492,264.16. “We quences for those who believe — the prisoner was water - Mohammed, the architect of the only three cases until recently: C.I.A. officers; that Mr. Sifton had would appreciate any efforts you they are above the laws that pro - boarded some 83 times, it turned Sept. 11 attacks. against Daniel Ellsberg and a col - exchanged e-mails with journal - can make to reduce the outstand - tect our fellow officers and en - out. Mr. Kiriakou believes that he He was able to dig up the league for leaking the Pentagon ists, including Matthew A. Cole, ing amount,” the firm wrote to able American intelligence agen - and other C.I.A. officers were de - business card Mr. Martinez had Papers in 1971; against Samuel a freelancer then working on a him. cies to operate with the requisite liberately misled by other agency given him with contact informa - Loring Morison, a Navy intelli - book about a C.I.A. rendition case But the bill keeps climbing. degree of secrecy.” officers who knew the truth. tion at Mitchell Jessen and Asso - gence analyst, for selling classi - in Italy that had gone awry; and One recent item: $1,500 for three Less than three weeks later, e- Mr. Kiriakou, who has given ciates, the C.I.A. contractor that fied satellite photographs to that Mr. Cole had exchanged e- hours of work — a lunch mails tripped up Mr. Petraeus The New York Times permission helped devise the interrogation Jane’s, the military publisher, in mails with Mr. Kiriakou. The arranged by one of his lawyers himself. He resigned after F.B.I. to describe previously confiden - program and Mr. Martinez’s new 1985; and against Lawrence F.B.I. used search warrants to ob - with Mr. Kiriakou and a local pro - agents carrying out an unrelated tial conversations, came across employer. Franklin, a Defense Department tain access to Mr. Kiriakou’s two fessor who spent time at Loretto investigation discovered, upon as friendly, courteous, disarm - Mr. Martinez, an analyst by official, who was charged in 2005 personal e-mail accounts. for stealing government research examining his private e-mail ac - ingly candid — and deeply am - training, was retired and had with passing secrets to two offi - According to court docu - money, so he could get a first - count, that he had had an extra - bivalent about what the C.I.A. never served under cover; that cials of a pro-Israel lobbying ments, F.B.I. agents discovered hand account of life inside the marital affair. called “enhanced interrogation is, he had never posed as a diplo - group, who shared some of them that in August 2008, Mr. Cole — prison camp. Neil H. MacBride, the United techniques.” mat or a businessman while over - with reporters. identified as Journalist A in the States attorney for the Eastern He spoke about his career: seas. He had placed his home ad - Thus Mr. Obama has presided charging documents — had [Editor’s Note: TNH attempted District of Virginia, hailed Mr. starting as an analyst on the Mid - dress, his personal e-mail over twice as many such cases as asked Mr. Kiriakou if he knew the to communicate with John Kiri - Kiriakou’s conviction in a state - dle East at headquarters in Vir - address, his job as an intelligence all his predecessors combined, name of a covert officer who had akou and was informed that he is ment: “The government has a vi - ginia; later being stationed in officer and other personal details though at least two of the six a supervisory role in the rendition unable to speak with the press tal interest in protecting the iden - Bahrain; making the unusual on a public Web site for the use prosecutions since 2009 resulted program, which involved captur - prior to his sentencing on tities of those involved in covert switch to the “operations” side of of students at his alma mater. from investigations begun under ing terrorism suspects and deliv - January 25, 2013, at which time operations. Leaks of highly sen - the C.I.A.; and serving stints as a Abu Zubaydah had been cap - President George W. Bush. An ering them to prisons in other he plans to make a public state - sitive, closely held and classified counterterrorism officer under tured six years earlier, Mr. Mo - outcry over a series of revelations countries. ment.] THE NATIONAL HERALD, JANUARY 12-18, 2013 COMMUNITY 7

ALL HISTORY The Malbis Plantation is Part of the National Register of Historic Places

By Steve Frangos Family members guard their pri - bility to apply for Community TNH Staff Writer vacy, perhaps too closely. Development Block Grants. William Scourtes worked with Local images in the Mobile PART 2 documentary film maker Robert to Pensacola area abound when Clem to complete the film: Mal - the topic becomes the Malbis CHICAGO- On May 10, 2011, bis Plantation: From Greece to Plantation. Aside from the Mal - the Malbis Plantation was en - America (2008). While the bis Church and the remaining tered onto the National Register trailer of this film can be seen Plantation buildings, one can of Historic Places. The Register on the Internet (www.foundme - see how the popular imagina - is a program of the National dia.org). Mr. Clem does not tion has taken up the story of Park Service, which is the na - have the distribution rights for this Greek Orthodox collective. tion’s official list of cultural re - the film. It is owned by the Mal - A huge mural depicts a fire en - sources worthy of preservation. bis Foundation and for the mo - gine in front of the Malbis The Alabama Historical Com - ment no information about this church at Firehouse Subs in mission administers the pro - film is available. Fairhope and the STIX sushi gram in that state. While the For decades after Malbis’ restaurant in Spanish Fort offers Malbis Plantation has always death, the family stockholders its patrons Malbis Sushi. Yet, for held a unique status in the his - of the Malbis Plantation closely both Greek-American history tory of Greeks in the United held much of their 10,000 or so and the regional history of the States, the designation of an acres. The family later sold land Gulf Shore region of Alabama 860-acre historical district en - compassing what is left of the plantation propels this site into the foremost categories of Greek-American historic dis - tricts. Then, on June 13 of that year, Russ Henderson reported in the Mobile Press-Register that "the Greek Orthodox church and The local Greeks captured the imagination of the people of Mobile. Examples abound, such as many other structures associ - the “Malbis sushi” sign at the STIX restaurant (above). The Malbis brand of goods, such as ated with the Malbis Plantation bread in the ad at right, became recognized throughout the region. have been inducted to the Na - tional Register of Historic Malbis property but even that But this structure beautiful as it ject required the state to take Places." The Malbis Plantation was only a point on the map. may be is far from the only re - some of the Malbis property, in - was the location of a unique re - Malbis and his friends first pur - maining building on Malbis land. cluding part of the yards in front ligious collective of Greek im - chased some 600 acres of Along with the church one still of the Malbis Memorial Church, migrants. Started in 1906, the sprawling forest land. Over the finds the plantation house, a wa - the family cemetery, the main Malbis Plantation was a farm next 100 years, that small group ter tower, a cemetery and various plantation house and the brick that began with less than a of Greek Orthodox Christians es - other buildings. dormitory on the opposite side handful of Greek immigrants tablished an amazing array of It is important to hear what of 181, Gums said. That trig - and which never exceeded 100 highly profitable businesses. locals have to relate about this gered federal requirements for members. If one visits the re - What has also transpired over designation. As Russ Henderson a historic preservation evalua - mains of the Malbis Plantation the last 100 years is that this continued, "The 860-acre his - tion, she said. The Alabama De - today, it is hard to realize that once remote commune in the toric district is just a small part partment of Transportation paid this location was once one of Alabama wilderness has now of what used to be a 10,000- her team at USA to perform the the most isolated in all of Al - become quite literally the epi - acre plantation. The 500,000- study." abama. center of an upscale residential square-foot Eastern Shore Cen - As Elizabeth Ann Brown, When Jason Malbis, a former and business district. tre shopping mall occupies then-Deputy Preservation Direc - Greek Orthodox monk from the In other areas of the nation acreage where workers of the tor of the Alabama Historical Megali Spilion Monastery, first progress and the hard realities of Malbis Plantation once tended Commission, stated to the pub - to Diamondhead Corp. to create and Florida more is at work. The visited the acreage that would economics would have swept crops, including soybeans and lic press, “This is one of the most Lake Forest, Alabama’s largest Malbis fraternity beginning in become the Malbis Plantation, aside any and all historic struc - cotton. 'It’s a significant histori - fascinating historical sites in the subdivision. The family has re - 1906 brought Greeks from he had to first make extensive tures. Not so for the Malbis Plan - cal resource for its architecture state. It’s utterly unique,” adding tained about 3,000 acres, in - around the country to this area arrangements in Mobile. Malbis, tation. Many commentators first and for its place in social history, that the Malbis Plantation’s cluding land on the South side of the Deep South. Many Greek- his constant companion in arms point to what is known locally as the part it played in Greek im - landscape includes perhaps the of U.S. 90, and a commercial lot American families trace their William Papageorge, and a Mo - the Malbis Memorial Church. The migration to the United States,' largest and best-preserved col - across from Lowe’s home im - origins to this agricultural col - bile realtor took a ferry across Presentation of the Theotokos, as said Bonnie Gums, the Univer - lection of agricultural buildings provement store on AL 181. lective of devote Greek Ortho - Mobile Bay to the opposite the local Greek Orthodox recog - sity of South Alabama archeol - in Baldwin County. Today, a plant nursery built dox Christians. The designation shore of what was then simply nize that Church was the last ogist who applied for the desig - At the time of this initial sur - in 1928 is used as the commu - of the Malbis Plantation as a his - Baldwin County. A wagon had structure completed by the Mal - nation in 2007. vey, the entire preservation nity center of the Historic Malbis toric district worthy of preser - been hired to take the trio into bis collective in 1965. On January The process that led to the process found an enthusiastic subdivision developed in the last vation is only the latest public the area that was for sale. In 4, 1965, then Archbishop Iakovos historic designation began in supporter in William “Billy” several years. Various streets in recognition for a hard working 1906, this area was a remote dedicated this church as the Sa - 2006 in response to a state pro - Scourtes, then-President of the the new subdivisions are named group of immigrants whose lives part of Baldwin County, AL cred Patriarchal & Stavropegial ject to widen a 15-mile stretch Malbis Plantation and great- after prominent individuals who and work still add bounty and which was roughly in bordered Monastery of the Entrance of the of AL 181 — from Malbis to U.S. nephew of the estate’s founder. once formed the original Malbis grace to the new land they came by Spanish Fort in the north and Theotokos, (celebrated each year 98 — to 4 lanes. That project But Scourtes died unexpectedly collective. Benefits of being on to settle and improve all in the Fairhope in the South. In that on November 21) as the first mis - remains ongoing. AL 181 runs of a heart attack in 2008 at the the National Register of Historic service of God. early period, Daphne, AL was sion center of the Greek Ortho - down the middle of the Malbis age of 49. The remaining de - Places include a 20 percent fed - the closest settlement to the dox Church in North America. land. So, the road-widening pro - scendants of various Malbis eral income tax credit and eligi - [email protected]

GREEK AMERICAN STORIES It’s in the Cards

By Phylis (Kiki) Sembos ried out. The owner was wise or else!” Kipreos, eager to mol - Avenue where, to their surprise, Special to The National Herald enough to see in me a strong lify Yiannis’ growing temper, they saw Yiannis perched on the sense of leadership. He picked said, “That card has a lot of hood of a parked car, a growling Everyone’s attention fell on me out from all the other ten - power - like a government dog snapping up at him, daring Yiannis that particular Sunday ants!” Leaning back, his self as - agent.” Happy that someone him to come down, showing, as he explained about the new surance shone through like a had realized the importance of frothy, vicious fangs while Yian - owner of the building he lived sheriff in the Wild West. his new position Yiannis gave a nis tried to shoo him away. in. “The super does hardly any - “What do you have to do?” conciliatory nod, looked at his They watched in awe as they thing but mop and collect asked George, not sure that was watch and announced, “Gotta heard Yiannis’s desperate cry for garbage! So, he gave me this why he had been chosen but be - go! I am on duty from one to help. card…” (he flashed a very im - cause he was the only tenant three.” Being Sunday, the streets pressive card with his name in available due to his perpetual When he left, Dimos sug - were vacant. His friends, mostly large letters covered in Lucite unemployment status. Yiannis, gested they all go to watch Yian - Yiannis, wondered how long within a leather case.) “…that always on the alert to George’s nis at his new job. “It’s a fine would he be there waiting for gives me the right to put things negative attitudes, told him, “I day. We’ll stand where he can’t help – any help? Frantic, he in order in and around the have to protect the building see us. Let’s see how he handles cried out, louder, “HELP! building.” He sipped his coffee, from graffiti on the walls, dog himself on that job. What do HELP!” reached for a donut and waited doo on the sidewalk, loitering you say?” Standing across the street the for their reactions. John asked, by vagrants, meddling with the “What if he spots us?” ques - group doubled over laughing as “Do you get paid for it?” mail boxes…a lot!” He was tioned Kipreos, anxious. Dimos George, regarding the situation Yiannis, eager to banish that nearly out of breath describing explained that they’d tell him with amusement, approached as ignoble thought, said, “There his official duties. “I told him I they were concerned for his the ferocious animal had Yiannis are some things that are re - was in the army in WWII. That nemesis. George pursued, smirked, flashed his card and safety. firmly, trapped. wards in itself, John. I’ve been impressed him, of course.” “What if someone came up to said, “This card says I’m in “We didn’t want to find him Coming closer, George trusted to keep the building safe “You never got out of boot you and said ‘you can’t tell me charge – gives me the right to in a difficult situation – card or cupped his hands around his and see to it that nothing is out camp, Yiannis!” But, Yiannis what to do, mister!’ Are you go - call the police, order him and not!” So, it was agreed that they mouth and shouted, “YIANNIS! of order, that the rules are car - turned his head away from his ing to fight him?” Yiannis anyone else off the property… all go to Fifty Sixth and Eighth SHOW HIM YOUR CARD!” Celebrating 66 Years of Marriage, a Look Back Now at the Liar and the Lady

Continued from page 1 closed. All this time, haphazardly, Chicago to write full time. We were helped by two years I shared journey. Diana cared for My preference was to claim I with fitful starts and finishes, I Our income my first year as served as writer-in-residence for our family during those hours I nence. My oversized ears, one had mortally wounded Helmut, was writing. Year after year, my a freelancer was $1,600 and the the Chicago Public Library, and spent at the typewriter and the lobe a half inch longer than the but that posed a problem in how manuscripts were returned, first second year $2,400. Our family then two years as writer-in-res - computer. We celebrated the other, gave my head a lopsided I had disposed of the body. I with printed rejection slips then survived on the generosity of idence for the Chicago Board of growth of our sons, grieved the appearance. moved reluctantly to a more be - with a few scrawled words of our nephews, Leo, Frank and Education. death of our parents, and had Desperate to find a playing nign conclusion. encouragement. But I sold noth - Steve Manta, who renovated an In 2006 Diana suffered a the fulfillment of holding my field on which to compete, I The morning after the fic - ing. old house their father owned in stroke. While making a handy published books, the bindings drew upon the fertility of my tional duel, I taped a piece of My father died and a second South Shore where we lived recovery, she remained frail, that held the fragrance of fresh imagination. A visit to a grocery gauze to my chest and stained son, John, was born. These were rent-free. We also ate two to with only a fraction of her pre - paper and ink. became an Odyssey with my in - the edge of the gauze with io - hard years for our family. Bills three times a week with my vious energy and strength. Both I understand how much she venting various colorful charac - dine to simulate blood. I phoned piled up. There were sometimes wife’s parents or other relatives. of us aware that none but the influenced and enriched my sto - ters I described to Diana. Diana and told her the duel had bitter accusations about my fail - In the mid-1960s, my third early dead are spared the rav - ries. Many women characters I In 1940, Europe at war, I had ended in a draw after Helmut novel, A Dream of Kings, be - ages of aging; we limped created are facets of Diana, been taking fencing lessons at and I had inflicted minor cuts came a best seller, a Book Club through our 80s together. whether chaste as the Biblical an academy in Woodlawn. One on one another. Diana and I have lived selection and was translated In these last years I have Ruth or sensual as Bathsheba. student was a youth of German She insisted I come see her together so long and into a dozen foreign editions. done much of what she once did Wherever I traveled, she was the origin named Helmut. We had at once. I shamefully savored We sold the movie rights and for me, but she would have re - lodestone that drew me home. fenced one another with the her tear-stained face as I loved one another so well moved to California where I sponded the same way. Mean - Many other couples linked customary rubber-tipped foils. I showed her my bloody bandage. wrote the screenplay. As with so while, we try to retain our sense together a long time have con - made the match more ferocious We were married in the au - ure as a provider, my inability many writers who had gone to of humor. flicts and resolutions equally as to Diana, who worried that Hel - tumn of 1945. For the first year to hold a job for more than a Hollywood, the experience was - At times when I have coaxed dramatic. But in the way that mut might wish to harm me. we lived with my parents and few months. We talked of sepa - n’t a happy one. her through a stern regimen of no fingerprint or snowflake is Trapped in my own exagger - then moved to a third-floor stu - ration. Once again choosing novels therapy she finds painful, she the same, each love story is ations, to keep the drama dio apartment. Our windows In December of 1956 I sold and stories, I moved my family refers to me as “Caligula,” the unique. mounting, I told Diana that after looked out on a huge courtyard my first story to the Atlantic back to the Midwest. In the fol - brutal Roman Caesar who mur - Diana and I have now lived a violent argument Helmut chal - that in summer resonated with Monthly. About that time, we lowing years, I wrote and pub - dered numerous relatives. We together so long and loved one lenged me to a duel with bare tongues like the Tower of Babel. moved to Pittsburgh to a job as lished additional stories and laugh then, and I am reminded another so well; the name of blades. In 1948 our first son, Mark, a speechwriter for U.S. Steel. A books. of the lines from Yeats, “their one can never be uttered with - Diana pleaded with me to was born. In the following years third son, Dean, was born in A single stroke of good for - eyes mid many wrinkles, their out, in the same breath, speak - refuse the challenge. I told her I worked in the steel mills, on Pittsburgh and my first novel tune in writing does not last for - eyes, their ancient eyes are gay.” ing the name of the other. honor demanded I accept. The the railway express, on a beer was published. Elated and over - ever. Through the 1970s and In old age, everyone becomes duel was set for the following truck, pressing clothes for a confident, ignoring the warn - 1980s, we lived precariously on a historian. Looking back, I Harry Mark Petrakis is the evening after the academy had cleaner, selling real estate. ings of others, I moved back to my lecturing as well as writing. mark that our life has been a author of numerous novels. 8 OBITUARIES CLASSIFIEDS THE NATIONAL HERALD, JANUARY 12-18, 2013 Dr. Christine Kontomerkos, 34, Beloved Wife and Mother, Will be Missed

Dr. Christine Kontomerkos- studying the ancient and mod - tice to grow into one of the Christine cherished the holi - band Jim and their daughters Ferreira, loving wife of Tony Fer - ern uses of medicinal plants area's most notable facilities. days, rich with tradition where Sophia and Olivia of Fairfield, reira and beloved mother of with natives in the Amazon She deeply cared about her she was an aunt, a sister, a CT, and her brother Mario Kon - Aiden Ferreira, passed away on Rainforest, learning their tradi - patients whose health and well- daughter, and a godmother to a tomerkos and his wife Helise January 3, surrounded by her tions and their medicine. Upon being were of paramount im - loving family. Above all, being and their daughter Theodora of immediate family. She was 34 her return, she went on to earn portance to her. She touched home and spending time with Madison, CT. Funeral Services years old and a longtime resi - a Doctorate in Naturopathic and enriched the lives of many her husband, Tony, and son, for Dr. Christine Kontomerkos- dent of Trumbull, CT. Medicine from the University of people in the community Aiden, will always perfectly re - Ferreira were held at Holy Trin - Christine was a graduate of Bridgeport’s College of Naturo - through her sincere interest in flect how she loved to live. ity Greek Orthodox Church at Trumbull High School and of pathic Medicine and a Master's ensuring they pursued a healthy We will always remember 4070 Park Avenue in Bridgeport Boston University, where she re - degree in Human Nutrition from lifestyle. Christine's beautiful brown eyes on January 8th and interment ceived two Bachelor degrees, the University of Bridgeport Nu - Her favorite times were spent and contagious smile, as they at the Gate of Heaven Cemetery one in Biology and the other in trition Institute. with family and friends where are certain to never fade from in Trumbull. The family respect - Philosophy. Christine's passion and dedi - she always infused her passion our memory. Christine is sur - fully requests that in lieu of After she completed intern - cation to help others resulted in for living into every event. She vived by her husband Tony Fer - flowers, friends and family can light a virtual candle, share pic - ships at Yale University Medical the opening of her own private loved music, dancing, and being reira and her son Aiden of make donations to either tures and stories visit com - School's Boyer Center for Mole - practice in Trumbull. Her unwa - with friends, and every gather - Trumbull, parents Andrew and www.giveforward.com/TEAM - mercehillfh.com. Aionia I Mn - cular Medicine and Department vering aspiration to advance the ing was made better when Vasiliki Kontomerkos of Trum - CHRISTINE or Holy Trinity imi. of Cardiothoracic Research, she art of natural healing solutions Christine served her family's de - bull, her sister Elizabeth Kon - Greek Orthodox Church, Bridge - spent months in South America and medicines allowed her prac - licious spanakopita recipe. tomerkos Vancho and her hus - port. For online condolences, to funeral.com

DEATH NOTICES n COURPAS, PARASKEVI trakis Dul, 91, of 105 Beths Lane, ing of friends and family will be nessed modern war and ancient Kostas of Bridgeport, Ifigenia Jan; son, Tom, his wife, Amy; GREENFIELD, MA (From the Chesnee, died Saturday, Dec. 15, on Tuesday, Dec. 11th from 4-8 religious sites and traditions. Haikali of Athens, Greece, eleven daughter, Marnie; her husband, Recorder, published on Dec. 10) 2012, at Spartanburg Regional at Baird Case-Jordan Fannin Fu - Dedicated to life-long learning, grandchildren, five great-grand - Erik; sister, Katherine; her hus - – Paraskevi (Ninos) Courpas, 82, Hospice Home. Born December neral Home 4343 N. Federal Hwy Katherine received two masters children, several nieces and band, Jack; nephew, Tommy; and of Holly Ave, died Friday 10, 1921, in Crete, Greece, she and a funeral service will be held degrees from the University of nephews. Friends are invited to four grandsons, Matthew, Alex, 12/7/12 at the Baystate Franklin was the daughter of the late Wednesday, Dec. 12th at 12 pm Chicago. Katherine devoted her - go "Directly" to Holy Trinity Jack and Nicholas. A service will Medical Center in Greenfield. She Kostas and Amalia Roumalotti at St. Demetrios Greek Orthodox self to the Greek Orthodox Greek Orthodox Church, 4070 be held on Wednesday, Dec. 5, was born in Greece on July 17, Petrakis and widow of Alfred M. Church in Ft. Lauderdale. Church. Founder of Phosadelphia Park Ave, Bridgeport, on Monday 2012 at 11 a.m. at Holy Trinity 1930, the daughter of George Dul. She was a member of St. ("Phos") Mission, a non-profit, at 10am for the "Rite of Burial" Greek Orthodox Cathedral. In and Sofia (Anousi) Ninos. Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church n GRUMBOS, SPYROS and was equally dedicated to her officiated by Fr. Andreas lieu of flowers, remembrances Paraskevi lived in New Jersey be - and the Greek Ladies Philopto - GREENVILLE, SC (From The parish, S.S. Constantine and He - Vithoulkas Presbyter followed by may be sent to Fr. Elias fore coming to Greenfield. She chos Society. Survivors include Greenville News, published on len Greek Orthodox Church of interment in Lakeview Cemetery, Stephanopoulos Memorial Fund, owned and operated her own daughters, Mary Levine (Robert) Dec. 8) – Spyros George Grum - Palos Hills. Intimately involved Bridgeport. Calling hours will Lewis & Clark College or Hellenic diner for many years. Paraskevi of Pennsylvania and Helene Gann bos, 92, passed away peacefully in the design and building of the take place on Sunday from 3 to American Cultural Center & Mu - was an active member of the (George) of Chesnee; sons, in his sleep on December 7, 2012. Church and school, she partici - 7 pm in the Commerce Hill Fu - seum. Holy Trinity Greek Orthodox Michael Dul of New Jersey and Born on May 22, 1920 in Sparta, pated in the development of the neral Home, 4798 Main St. Church in Holyoke. She loved to Victor Dul of Georgia; grandsons, Greece, he was the first-born son Sunday school curriculum, as Bridgeport (on the Trumbull line) n ZERVOS, NICHOLAS read books. She was prede - Peter Dul of Georgia and Michael of George Spyros and Helen Pa - well as the day school, Koraes. with Trisagion services at 6pm. GRAND RAPIDS, MI (From the ceased by her husband Demetris Dul of New Jersey. Visitation will panicolaou Grumbos. Spyros Katherine taught Bible Study If desired donations maybe given Grand Rapids Press, published on Courpas. Among her survivors be at 6:00 - 8:00 PM Monday, came to the United States in throughout her life. For more to his wife Kostantina in loving Dec. 9) - Nicholas Themelsi Zer - Paraskevi leaves her longtime December 17, 2012, with a Tris - 1951. He briefly lived in New than 30 years Katherine was the memory of Gikas. For online con - vos, age 85, passed away Satur - companion and sister Margarita agion Prayer Service at 7:30 PM York and Chicago before settling editorial columnist for "The View dolences, to light a virtual candle, day, Dec. 8. He is survived by his Mavrikis, a sister Angela Dokelis at Floyd's Greenlawn Chapel. Fu - in South Carolina in 1956. He from the Pew"; never fearful of share pictures and stories visit us loving wife, Frances (Christopou - and her husband George of Bal - neral services will be conducted owned and operated three dif - commenting on what she at commercehillfh.com. Aionia H los) Zervos for more than 60 timore, MD, a sister Angelina at 1:00 PM Tuesday, December ferent restaurants including Pete's thought were wrongs or injus - Mnhmh. years; sister, Maria Karamalegos; Allesi of Italy, two brothers, 18, 2012, at St. Nicholas Greek in Easley, Heart's Drive-In in tices. Funeral Saturday, begin - brother-in-law, Denco (Wilma) Manolie Ninos and his wife Fotini Orthodox Church by the Rev. Union, and most recently, Pete's ning 9:15AM from the funeral n VLAHOS, PETER Christopoulos; sister-in-law, of Greenfield, John Ninos of George F. Nayfa. Burial will be in Open Kitchen in Greenville. De - home to S.S. Constantine and PORTLAND, OR (From The Ore - Amelia (Christ-opoulos) Botsis; Greece, and many nieces and Greenlawn Memorial Gardens. voted to his family, he was an ac - Helen Greek Orthodox Church, gonian, published on Dec. 4) - and many nieces and nephews nephews in Greece, Italy and the An online guest register is avail - tive member of St. George Greek Service 10AM. Interment Ever - Peter 'Pano' Vlahos,76. Jan. 20, and cousins. Nick served as United States. Funeral Services able at www.floydmortuary.com. Orthodox Cathedral and loved green Cemetery. In lieu of flow - 1936- Dec. 01, 2012. Peter was Sergeant in the U.S. Army during will be held at 10 a.m. on gardening and working outdoors. ers, donations to the Koraes En - born in Portland to Tom and Ma - the Korean War. He was born in Wednesday 12/12 at St. James n GALANOS, TONY The family would like to express dowment Fund or S.S. rina Vlahos and was married to Kalyninos, Greece on June 26, Episcopal Church, 73 Federal PORT ST. LUCIE (From the Sun- its appreciation to Miss Eva for Constantine and Helen Church his wife, Jan, for 48 years. His 1927. He and his wife owned and Street, Greenfield with the Rev. Sentinel, published on Dec. 23) her assistance with his care. He appreciated. Info: 708-598-5880 parents emigrated from Greece, operated the Crystal Cleaners in Fr. Chris Moody officiating – Antonis (Tony) Galanos, 77, of is survived by his loving wife of or hillsfh.com. and Pano was born in Portland Grand Rapids for 40 years and Burial will follow at Green River Port St. Lucie, FL, died Dec. 20, 51 years, Letta Janetakos Grum - where he was an active member they have never forgotten their Cemetery in Greenfield. Calling 2012 at his home. Born in Sa - bos; his daughter, Lena Grumbos n STAVROS, VASTARDIS of Holy Trinity Greek Orthodox many loyal customers. Many hours will be held on Tuesday lonika, Greece, Tony was a resi - Eliopoulos, and husband, Spero; OLD BRIDGE, NJ (Published in Cathedral. He served as Director thanks to Christian Rest Home for 12/11 from 5-7 p.m. at the dent of Port St. Lucie, FL for 14 son, George Spyros Grumbos; Home News Tribune on Dec. 8) - of Cultural Events and an Asso - their special care. A Funeral Ser - Kostanski Funeral Home, 220 years, moving from Hollywood, son, James Spero Grumbos, and Stavros Vastardis, 81 of Old ciate Dean of Students for 30 vice will be held Wednesday 11 Federal Street, Greenfield. FL. Prior to retirement, Mr. wife, Sally; grandchildren, Theo Bridge, passed away Wednesday, years at Lewis and Clark College, am at Holy Trinity Greek Ortho - Memorial Contributions may be Galanos was a Deputy Sheriff for Eliopoulos, Vivian Eliopoulos, December 5, 2012 at Robert where he was known and loved dox Church, 330 Lakeside Dr. NE made to Holy Trinity Greek Or - Broward County for 12 years, Spyros "Ross" Grumbos, and Wood Johnson Hospital, New by generations of students, fac - where he will repose one hour thodox Church, 410 Main Street, and prior to that had careers with Nicole Grumbos; sisters, Brunswick. He was born in An - ulty and staff. Pano had a full prior to the service. Presiding will Holyoke, MA 01040. Sympathy Sensormatic and work on several Panayiota Grumbos Kontos and dros, Greece and had lived in heart and spirit with a passion be Fr. Nicholas Marcus and Fr. message available at ships as the chief radio officer. Voula Grumbos Tomaras; Lyndhurst before moving to Old for bringing people together. He Dean Botsis. Interment Rosedale www.kostanskifuneralhome.com. He attended St. Nicholas Greek brother, Nicholas Grumbos; and Bridge in 1993. He had worked loved life, laughter, community Cemetery. His family will receive Orthodox Church of Port St. Lu - many nieces and nephews. In ad - as a chef for the Merchant and family, directing choirs, visitors Tuesday 2-4 and 7-9 pm n DOUZANIS, BESS cie, FL. He was a Mason, a li - dition to his parents, he was pre - Marines before his retirement. Af - teaching Greek folk dancing and at the Arsulowicz Brothers Re - (From The Enterprise, published censed private pilot, and dedi - ceded in death by sisters, Niki ter leaving the Merchant Marines volunteering for political and so - membrance Mortuary, 3525 Re - on Dec. 15) – Bess "Sunday" cated radio operator. Survivors Grumbos Krabis and Anastasia he purchased the Old Bridge cial causes with a special passion membrance NW. where a Trisa - Douzanis, 98 years of age, went include his wife of 46 years, Feli - Grumbos Conits. Visitation will Diner. For the past 20 years for the arts. He served on the gion Service will be held at 8:00 to the Lord Tuesday, Dec. 11, cia Galanos of Port St. Lucie, FL; be held on Sunday, December 9, Stavros worked side by side with boards of RACC, ORS, pm. Memorial Contributions to 2012. She was was the widow of one daughter, Ria Galanos of Ar - 2012, from 6:00 p.m. until 8:00 his son in the diner which he was Alzheimer's Association and oth - Holy Trinity Greek Orthodox George Douzanis. She was born lington, VA; one brother, Ioannis p.m., with the Trisagion service very proud of. He had made ers. Pano is survived by his wife, Church will be appreciated. to immigrant parents from Galanos of Vienna, Austria, and at 7:00 p.m. at Thomas McAfee many friends in the community Greece, the late John Tsiatsios one sister, Elva Nikiforiadis of Funeral Home, Downtown. The and it was a great part of his life and Felitsa Karagiannis Tsiatsios, Athens, Greece. Visitation will be funeral service will be held on that he truly loved. He was pre - in Merrimac, N.H.. The family Monday, December 24, 2012, Monday, December 10, 2012, at deceased by his parents Leonidas CLASSIFIEDS moved to Manchester, N.H. Sun - 10:30am-11:30am at the Aycock 11:00 a.m. at St. George Greek and Maroula Vastardis, a brother day was educated in the public Funeral Home, Port St. Lucie, FL. Orthodox Cathedral, 406 North Demetrios, a sister Katerine, and school system in Manchester. A service will follow on Decem - Academy Street, Greenville, SC a grandson Stavros. He leaves be - HELP WANTED LEGAL NOTICE Sunday became active in the An - ber 24, 2012 at 11:30am at the 29601. Memorials may be made hind his wife of 48 years Fotini nunciation Greek Orthodox funeral home. to St. George Greek Orthodox Vastardis, a son and daughter-in- Journalists, women and men, to Notice of formation of LUCKY DUCK LLC. (DOM LLC) Article of Organization filed Church in Brockton, where she Cathedral Building Fund. law Leonidas and Irene Vastardis, work part-time at The National NY Sec. of State (SSNY) on 11/29/2012. became president of the Philop - n GANNITES, CHRISTO a sister Irene Vlahakis, and a Herald. Send resume to: pub - Office in Kings Co. SSNY designated agent of LLC upon whom process may be served. tochos Society. At Saint Cather - PAWTUCKET, RI (From the Prov - TRIANT, MATINA granddaughter Demetra Vas - [email protected] SSNY shall mail copy of process to: THE ines Greek Orthodox Church, in idence Journal, published on TENAFLY, NJ (From The New tardis. Visitation will be held on 117039/2/01-19-13 LLC, 32 COURT STREET, SUITE 2200, Quincy, Sunday again became Dec. 19) – Christo Gannites, York Times, published on Nov. Sunday December 9th, 2012 BROOKLYN, NY 11201-4404. Purpose: LEGAL NOTICE Any lawful purpose. president of the Philoptochos So - 80,of Pawtucket, passed away on 14) – Matina, born in Chios, from 4pm - 8pm at Waitt Funeral 272381/18400 ciety, an active member of the Dec. 17, 2012. He was born in Greece passed on Nov. 11, 2012. Home and Cremation Service, RUADHAN DESIGN LLC, a domestic LLC, choir and a member of the Parish Pawtucket, the son of the late Devoted mother of Demetrios 501 Highway 79, Morganville, Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 11/9/12. Office location: Kings County. LEGAL NOTICE Council. While at St. Catherines, Nicholas and Athena (Eledos) Elias and his wife Dona, Tasos NJ 07751. Monday morning vis - SSNY is designated as agent upon whom she was the recipient of the Gannites who were originally Elias and his wife Angie, Maria itation will be held at Kimisis Tis process against the LLC may be served. Notice of Formationof 511A GREENE RE - Clergy Laity Award. Sunday was from Greece. He was the hus - Golias and her husband Paul, Theotokou Greek Orthodix SSNY shall mail process to: E.R. Mestecky, ALTY LLC (A DOMESTIC LLC) Articles of 23 Cambridge Pl., Apt #3, Brooklyn, NY Org. filed NY Sec. of State (SSNY) ON a cantor for 16 years at St. band of the late Bertha (Ryan) George Triant and his wife Church from 10am - 11am and a 11238. General Purposes. 04/18/2011. Office Kings County. SSNY Demetrios Greek Orthodox Gannites who passed away in Selma, and predeceased by her funeral service will begin 272421/10709 designated agent of LLC upon whom Church in Fall River. Sunday was 1992. After serving his country daughter Eleni. Loving Yia Yia to promptly at 11am. Interment will process may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to: THE LLC, 359 BROAD - a member of the Parish Council in the Army during the Korean her fourteen grandchildren and follow in Chestnut Hill Cemetery, LEGAL NOTICE WAY, BROOKLYN, NY 11211, which is also and is a member of the Philopto - War, he worked for 30 years for three great-grandchildren. Old Bridge. To share stories, pho - the principal business location. Purpose: chos Society, and eager to help the Pawtucket Fire Department Matina, known to many as tos or to send an online condo - CHROME HEALTH MANAGEMENT LLC Ar - Any lawful purpose. ticles of Org. filed NY Sec. of State (SSNY) 272384/18402 her church in any way. Sunday as a mechanic before retiring in 'Mama' loved being surrounded lence, please visit 11/27/12. Office in Kings Co. SSNY desig. enjoyed sewing and cooking and 1994. He is survived by a brother by family and friends, enjoyed www.waittfh.com agent of LLC upon whom process may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to FUNERAL HOMES was famous for her Greek salad, George of Lincoln, a niece Ruth traveling and was high spirited 6323 14th Ave., Brooklyn, NY 11219, which spanakopita, skortholia and kef - of Bellingham, MA and his long - and full of life. She was the n VIDALIS, GIKAS is also the principal business location. Pur - APOSTOLOPOULOS tathakia. She is survived by her time friend, Estelle Cayer of Paw - founder and owner of Matina's BRIDGEPORT, CT (From the pose: Any lawful purpose. Apostle Family - two children, Betty and her hus - tucket. He is predeceased by his Boutiques located in Florida and Connecticut Post, published on 272372/10801 Gregory, Nicholas, Andrew - band George Papas and Priscilla brothers Theodore and Andrew. Ohio. Visitation will be Thursday Dec. 15) - Gikas G. Vidalis age Funeral Directors of and her husband Brad Hurd; a The funeral service for Mr. Gan - 2-4pm and 7-9pm at the Barrett 91 of Bridgeport, beloved hus - LEGAL NOTICE RIVERDALE granddaughter, Constance and nites will be Saturday, December Funeral Home, 148 Dean Drive, band of 58 years to Kostantina FUNERAL HOME Inc. Notice of Formation of CROW HILL her husband Fayiz Zureikat; her 22nd at 9:00 am in the Assump - Tenafly, NJ. 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A gather - the Holy Land, where she wit - THE NATIONAL HERALD, JANUARY 12-18, 2013 GREECE CYPRUS 9 Chrysostomos Says Government is to Blame for Cyrpus’ Economic Crisis

By Theodore Kalmoukos a solution. I think the prime min - believe that the next five years The Archdiocese has estab - TNH Staff Writer ister is ready to agree with me. we all should work together in lished a “public market” where Of course, we are going to dis - order the issue to be resolved in people in need come and get BOSTON, MA – His Beatitude cuss all the details. When the the best possible way for all the their food items, he said. Archbishop Chrysostomos of new President of Cyprus is peoples of the island the Turk - Chrysostomos expressed a Cyprus told TNH that he blamed elected we all sit down and work ish-Cypriots, Greek-Cypriots, degree of optimism. He said the current Cypriot government towards the solution of the prob - Maronites, and other minorities “our people in Cyprus and in of Demetris Christofias for the lem of Cyprus.” The archbishop who dwell in Cyprus.” Greece have a high educational economic crisis as well as the added that “I will assume a piv - He believes that “the New level. We have to set high goals. political dead ends. “I believe otal role and I press the issue Year will be difficult primarily The leadership should lift the that the government didn’t do because 40 years of Turkish oc - in terms of the economy and people to heights and in ethic its duty. It let things to roll over cupation are too many. secondly because of the national awareness. I believe that Hel - on their own.” Chrysostomos “I believe that many mistakes problem, because I don’t think lenism has the dynamism and added that “I can tell you that were made on our behalf. Of with Erdogan and Davoudoglou the potential to achieve many the government worked nega - course, we have against us a in charge of the leadership of things.” tively and that is why we have Turkey which wants to invade Turkey we can expect anything Christostomos praised the come to this point. At any rate the entire Cyprus because this good. We Greek-Cypriots should Cypriot-American and the now, it’s leaving in two months is the Turkish politics. Our lead - assume initiatives and respon - Greek-American Communities and we are going to have a new ership didn’t have a clear vision sibilities. In terms of economics, and sent to all his best wishes government.” for our country. The Cypriot I am optimistic because I think through TNH. He said “it is a The prelate revealed that he people are disappointed at this our people can live with less. very dynamic community in the is going to take initiatives to - moment and it pains for the There is a spirit of optimism and United States, and can offer a wards the solution of the Cyprus course our country has taken. solidarity.” He explained that lot to the small nation of issue. “I believe now is the hour The people are disheartened to - “when the Church took the lead Cyprus” and added that “Greece of the Church. I have already wards its political leadership be - and said it wouldn’t allow any - and Cyprus need the support of spoken with the prime minister cause it didn’t do its obligation.” body to be hungry, the people the Greek-American Community of Greece during the memorial Chrysostomos plans to visit supported us. They come to us at this moment.” He also said “I Service of the late president of the United States in 2013. He daily bringing money, food, they wish each and all of you collec - Cyprus Tassos Papadopoulos and said that “this is the first time have an authentic love and care tively in the United States a we have agreed to meet soon in that I am thinking seriously for the others; for those who are healthy and prosperous New order to cooperate and achieve about making a visit because I Archbishop Chrysostomos of Cyprus. in need.” Year blessed by God.” Scandals in Tourism and Banking Industries Shake Greece’s Coalition

By Andy Dabilis prosecutors was created on July racy and PASOK, who until this TNH Staff Writer 8, 2011, raising questions about year’s coalition was created, had whether a second copy was taken turns ruling the country ATHENS – With $69 billion in made and if the data might have for four decades. new foreign loans pouring in, been doctored then. If Venizelos can’t repulse a and as Greek Prime Minister An - At the time, the list was in challenge to his leadership by tonis Samaras has set his sights Diotis’ possession. He is due to rebels next month, and with on attracting foreign invest - appear before Peponis and growing unrest in DIMAR, the ment, his uneasy coalition gov - Mouzakitis to testify and pro - Samaras government could find ernment has found itself forced vide further evidence. He previ - itself losing control of Parlia - to deal with burgeoning scan - ously denied making a copy as ment and unable to rule. dals involving a Swiss bank list the mystery deepened. Samaras, hoping to quell and 12 billion euros ($15.6 bil - Adding to the confusion, in - growing public discord over aus - lion) in missing funds at the vestigative journalist Costas terity as new pay cuts, tax hikes country’s tourism agency. Vaxevanis, who was acquitted and slashed pensions go into ef - Samaras, the New Democ - of violation of privacy laws for fect, has promised a crackdown racy Conservative leader, had publishing the list on his website on corruption and tax evasion. hoped the distraction of Hot Doc, claimed that he has Stournaras said he wants whether Greece would get con - the USB stick to which the mandatory jail time for major tinued bailouts from interna - names were transferred from tax cheats who now face only tional lenders or be forced out the original CD supplied by suspended sentences, on the of the Eurozone was behind him French authorities. rare occasion they are prose - and he could concentrate on try - Vaxevanis, who is going to cuted at all. ing to restore growth. be prosecuted again on the Justice Minister Antonis But one of his coalition part - same charge after the govern - Roupakiotis said the govern - ners, PASOK Socialist leader AP PHOTO/PeTROS GIANNAkOuRIS ment said it wasn’t satisfied with ment has prepared draft legis - Evangelos Venizelos, is facing a Homeless men prepare to bed down for the night under a road bridge in the Athens district of his acquittal verdict, told follow - lation tht would also allow it challenge over his handling of Rouf, on Tuesday, Jan. 8. Greece, which is struggling with its worst financial crisis in decades, ers on Twitter that he had sub - seize debtors assets and speed the so-called Lagarde List and suffered freezing temperatures in many parts of the country and snowfall in Athens. Municipal mitted the memory stick for trials for tax cheat suspects, with a party Congress looming officials have opened temporary shelters for people sleeping rough during the cold snap. analysis, which he said proves which have been delayed as next month has even extended "when and how" the list was long as 10 years in some cases. an invitation to party members party Coalition of the Radical ernment. memory stick created in July, transferred from the CD to the A recent Transparency Inter - he ejected for refusing to back Left (SYRIZA) and the surging That has set off a flurry of 2011, after Papaconstantinou device. He said he had tried to national report found Greece austerity measures to return to far right Golden Dawn Party finger pointing, with Papacon - left office and before it was give it to Peponis but said the the most corrupt country in Eu - the fold. want Venizelos, who was Papa - stantinou claiming he never given to Venizelos, raising fur - prosecutor had “not shown in - rope, and, despite the govern - The coalition, which includes constantinou’s successor as fi - looked at the list Lagarde gave ther speculation and doubt over terest.” ment’s get-tough proclamations, the tiny Democratic Left (DI - nance chief, as well as former him nor removed his relative’s who removed the names be - TROUBLE AT THE GNTO there are few signs anything has MAR), had already seen its sup - prime minister George Papan - names. He said he suspected cause the time frame could Meanwhile, investigators are changed. port plummet for its unrelenting dreou and interim premier Lu - who did, but wouldn’t provide mean that neither man had his also scouring the records of the Andreas Kouris, owner of TV backing of pay cuts, tax hikes cas Papademos to also be exam - a name and accused Venizelos hands on it then. Greek National Tourism Organ - station Alter that shut down af - and slashed pensions demanded ined over the list of 2,062 of mishandling the list. The Supreme Court has in - isation (GNTO,) the body re - ter not paying its workers was by the Troika of the European Greeks with $1.95 billion in de - Venizelos said he never acted structed financial prosecutors sponsible for what critics said found guilty of not paying the Union-International Monetary posits in the Geneva branch of on it to check for possible tax Grigoris Peponis and Spyros has been a series of ineffective state 9.17 million euros ($14.8 Fund-European Central Bank HSBC. evaders when he was doubling Mouzakitis to hand the USB campaigns to lure visitors, after million) deducted from the em - (EU-IMF-ECB.) It is named for former French income and property taxes and stick over to the police’s elec - the arrest of five people on a se - ployees check for health care The government, which con - finance minister Christine La - taxing the poor because the in - tronic crime squad so experts ries of charges, including trying and social security contribu - trolled 179 of the 300 seats in garde, now head of the IMF, formation was stolen from the could work out when the files to defraud the agency, embez - tions, but was given only a sus - Parliament, now has only 164, who said she gave it to Papa - bank, but Lagarde said other had been transferred to the de - zlement, and operating a crimi - pended four-year sentence and after ejections and defections constantinou in 2010. He said countries had used versions con - vice. nal gang. a fine of $14,376. There was no from PASOK and DIMAR over it went missing and when cur - taining the names of their citi - Prosecutors got the memory After one of them was ar - report what happened to the austerity and whether the inves - rent Finance Minister Yiannis zens in the hunt for tax cheats. stick from Venizelos in October, rested for trying to cash a check rest of the money. tigation into the handling of the Stournaras vowed to find it, The story has infuriated 2012. He said he got it in Au - for 147,000 euros ($192,600) Lagarde List should be ex - Venizelos said he had a copy Greeks who have been beset by gust, 2011 when he was finance that had been written out for panded. and handed it into Samaras’ of - nearly three years of pay cuts, minister, but was advised by services for a hotel on the island Former finance minister fice. tax hikes and slashed pensions then Financial Crimes Squad of Syros that were never pro - George Papaconstantinou, who But when Greek officials while tax evaders who owe (SDOE) chief Yiannis Diotis that vided, police said the scheme was booted from PASOK after it went to Paris last month to re - more than $70 billion have it could not be used to track tax unraveled and led investigators was found the names of three trieve the original CD of data largely gone unprosecuted and evaders as the information had to discover that 12 million euros of his relatives had been erased stolen from HSBC by an em - unaffected by sacrifice put on been obtained illegally. were unaccounted for, primarily from a list in the hands of Greek ployee – which included names workers, pensioners and the Parliament is set this week to from advertising budgets and authorities, is facing questioning of depositors across Europe – poor. conduct secret ballot voting of hotel stays of GNTO staff. and a possible Parliamentary in - they discovered the names of TWISTS AND TURNS who should be investigated. The apparent theft goes back dictment if his immunity while Papaconstantinou’s relatives Now it has been reported Sources told the newspaper 10 years, officials said, and acting in office is removed. were on it, but not on the copies that the list Greek investigators Kathimerini that the informa - could involve political ap - But the major opposition in the hands of the Greek gov - were studying was on a USB tion on the USB stick held by pointees from both New Democ - Samaras Tells Merkel in Berlin about Greece’s Enormous Sacrifices

Continued from page 1 the other hand to report what worsened the country’s reces - kind of economic situation we sion, now in its sixth year, cre - to ensure liquidity, which is the in Germany expect because we ated record 26 percent unem - Alexis Tsipras life’s blood of a healthy econ - too must do everything we can ployment, closed more than omy.” to ensure economic growth and 68,000 businesses and sent two He added: “Those are, to - thus job security.” of Greece’s biggest companies, gether with investments, the Merkel is widely despised in Coca Cola Hellas and the dairy Tsipras Will two elements that are crucial for Greece for her insistence on un - giant Fage, to move their head - our country – a country that is relenting authority, although she quarters to other countries to truly suffering a lot, above all said it was necessary to rein in escape giant tax hikes. Visit the U.S. in the grips of unemployment, decades of wild overspending Samaras said the country especially among young peo - and a succession of Greek gov - desperately needs new jobs. Next Week ple.” ernments packing public pay - Speaking at a press conference Merkel said she would “of rolls with hundreds of thou - at the Ministry of Finance in course be interested in what sands of unnecessary workers in Athens, he said that most Greeks Continued from page 1 progress the implementation of return for votes. were making major sacrifices the Greek reform program is JOBS AND INVESTMENT which he said had secured the current problems. making,” but didn’t offer any as - Samaras appealed to German country’s presence in the Euro - Alexis Tsipras is the leader of sessment. In remarks to re - business leaders for more invest - zone and had boosted Greece’s the SYRIZA coalition. Both porters earlier on Jan. 8 before ment, and asked for Merkel’s international credibility. Tsipras and SYRIZA have been he attended a closed-doors con - help, German media reported. “We are experiencing this im - vocal opponents of European ference organized by German The two declined to talk to re - proved mood, also recognized austerity measures in response newspaper Die Welt, Samaras porters after their meeting. by our partners,” said the prime to the euro crisis. Those posi - said that he considers “the glass With the immediate threat of minister, who added that in or - tions have led to a surge in pub - half full” and was in Berlin with being forced out of the Euro - der to fight against “this un - lic support for both the SYRIZA a message of optimism. “We are zone set aside for now, and with precedented recession, we must coalition and for Tsipras person - delivering and Europe is help - rescue loans coming in, Greece take advantage of the current ally, placing either at, or near, ing,” he said. now must try to find ways to climate and structural reforms the top in various Greek opinion Before they met, Merkel said convince investors the country and attract investment in a surveys in recent months. she also would discuss with is right for them, he said. highly competitive international Tsipras is the youngest person Samaras the economic situation It will be a tough sell, as of - environment through targeted ever to lead the official-opposi - in Germany, where growth has ficials have acknowledged actions.” tion party in the Greek Parlia - slowed over the past year, “be - Greece must shed its reputation He did not say how he in - ment. cause we also must do every - as unfriendly to businesses, re - tends to show foreign investors Brookings Managing Director thing to guarantee economic quiring long delays in obtaining they should come to Greece dur - William Antholis will provide in - growth and, with that, job se - licenses, and now tagged with ing a deep recession and crush - troductory remarks and, with curity.” being Europe’s most corrupt ing economic crisis but is set to Brookings Senior Fellow She said that, “I am inter - country, where requests for AP PHOTO/MARkuS ScHReIbeR begin a round of trips, starting Domenico Lombardi, will mod - ested in hearing about progress bribes are common. German Chancellor Angela Merkel, right, and the Prime Minis - with Qatar this month, to per - erate the discussion with Alexis on the implementation of the Austerity measures imposed ter of Greece, Antonis Samaras, give a statement prior to a suade them Greece now is busi - Tsipras, including questions Greek reform program and on by successive governments have meeting at the chancellery in Berlin, Tuesday, Jan. 8, 2013. ness-friendly. from the audience. 10 EDITORIALS LETTERS THE NATIONAL HERALD, JANUARY 12-18, 2013

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This should re - cation and regret that we are sult if the duplication of re - Many of us who read last Sunday’s New York Times were as - unable to acknowledge or re - sources within the Orthodox tounded to see the lead story – four columns wide – accompanied by turn those left unpublished. Christian faith community are a huge picture of a face that turned out to be that of Greek-American combined to avoid waste and GeORGe SARAFOGlOu / SPecIAl TO THe NATIONAl HeRAlD John C. Kiriakou. duplication. The challenges are “Former CIA officer is the first to face prison for a leak to a reporter” the subheadline read. Thus, in a few days our community will mark another milestone: COMMENTARY a Greek- American CIA officer will go to jail for leaking a colleague’s name to a reporter. He will serve in a minimum security prison, but the sentence a substantial one: 30 long months. Old Calendar Orthodox Should be Treated with Respect Kiriakou served his country with distinction in different capacities and in different posts overseas, including Greece during the years when the terrorist group November 17 was assassinating people at By A.H. Diamataris write these lines today for an - are ignored by the Greek state, critical times, for the Minister will in Athens. He put his life at risk many times in the service of his other reason, something else: because the Archdiocese would of Foreign Affairs Dimitris country. The Old Calendar churches this newspaper being part of the react negatively – it was true in Avramopoulos, Patriarch It is obvious that his case has become an object of contention celebrate their Christmas 13 establishment in the Greek- the past and continues to be so Bartholomew, and Archbishop among the White House, the intelligence community, and the re - days later than the rest of us, American world, and we have – just as they are ignored by the Demetrios to change the unfair porters who cover the national security beat. It is also obvious that with class and decorum under carried some collective feelings Ecumenical Patriarchate and the and pointless policy of their pre - this is not a black and white case. Reasonable people can see it from Metropolitan Pavlos, a humble, of guilt regarding these people. Archdiocese of Cyprus. decessors? different perspectives. honest shepherd, a passionate Here is why: I wonder why the Archdio - Our archbishop rightly meets On the one hand, one can argue, strongly we think, that there are Greek born in America. He is They are members of our cese fights them in that way. with the leaders of many non- government secrets, among them, operatives’ names, that should not the nephew of the late revered community, maintaining What are they afraid of? And Orthodox and non-Christian be leaked to the press because lives can be put in danger. In this Metropolitan Peter, for whom churches and schools, and pre - for a stronger reason we wonder groups. Is it not right for him case, Kiriakou did not know that the official whose name he leaked there was general respect, in - serving the faith and its tradi - what have Greece and Cyprus also to meet Metropolitan Pav - was still undercover, and the name was never published, anyway. cluding, among others, that of tions as few others do. They to fear, so much so that their los, an ardent Greek Orthodox The government became aware of it from an email he sent to a re - the late revered Archbishop number in the thousands, and representatives in New York do Metropolitan? porter. Iakovos. no wrongdoing on their part has not even approach them? At the end of the day, are we On the other hand, there are plenty of people who would argue There is nothing new to re - come to the attention of the Is it not time, in the name of not all judged by how we treat that the public has the right to know what the CIA is doing. After all, port in this regard. Instead, we community. Nevertheless, they unity among Hellenes in these the minorities among us? it is spending the citizens’ money and acting in their name. Independent of the side you might be on this issue, we find it ironic that an officer who put himself in harm’s way for his country PRESS CLIPPING will go to jail for leaking a name that was not even printed. What appears to have irked the authorities is his position on the effectiveness of torture in breaking the resistance of prisoners and making them talk. Once-Lively Omonia Square Has Become Center of Woe In a television interview and through later statements, Kiriakou denounced torture, such as the waterboarding of suspected terrorists. It was a highly-charged issue. He provoked some very powerful By Gordon Fairclough misconduct. "Our principal con - people in the government who were arguing otherwise. And thus, he Wall Street Journal cern is to respect human rights is made an example of for the rest of the intelligence community, and civil rights" of people in and he has been punished severely. ATHENS – Once the vibrant com - Greece, "regardless of color," said The Times wrote: “Kiriakou, the father of five who considers him - mercial heart of Athens, the cap - police spokesman Lt. Col. Chris - self a patriot, a proud Greek-American from Pennsylvania Steel Coun - ital's central Omonia Square now tos D. Manouras. try, whose grandfather he recalls ‘always talked as if F.D.R. personally is ringed by shuttered hotels and "We don't have a magic wand admitted him to this country,’” is financially broke. And we mean vacant shops and haunted by to wave and make everything broke. According to the Times: “The family had to go on food stamps drug dealers, addicts and prosti - right, everywhere and all the for several months ... to make ends meet they rented out their spacious tutes, making it a national sym - time," said Col. Manouras. But, house in Arlington, VA and moved to a rented bungalow a third the bol of despair and social collapse. he said, "progress is being made size...” And he still owes $500,000 in legal fees. The square, whose name on illegal immigration. The in - Thus, the question we should at least contemplate is: do we as a means harmony in Greek, and flow is slowing." community , without taking a stand on the merits of the issue, have the neighborhoods that stretch FRANceScO ANSelMI/cONTRASTO/ReDux PIcTuReS One recent night, Konstantina a responsibility to support his children financially until he gets out of out around it have been ravaged Drug use and prostitution are nourishing in an area that was Karanika and Maria Dim - jail? by the country's deep economic once considered the crossroads of Athens. itropoulou, outreach workers for downturn, a flood of illegal im - the Organization Against Drugs, migrants and austerity measures means to earn a living, helping ditions like this before. The drug handed out clean needles and Cyprus Grants Diaspora Vote that have severely undercut the to drive the drug trade, authori - use is awful." He added: "There condoms to addicts from Greece, government's ability to cope. The ties said. The supply of illegal are so many illegal immigrants South Asia, the Middle East and depth of the urban disintegration drugs around Omonia is so plen - we don't have time for anything Georgia and to a group of Bul - Bravo, Cypriots! there shows the complexity of the tiful that a dose of heroin or else. It takes all our manpower garian prostitutes outside the Ho - The people of Cyprus have demonstrated once again they are a problems Greece faces as the methamphetamine can be just to round them up." tel Aktion. progressive nation. Cypriot expatriates will be allowed to vote in the country heads into a sixth year bought for less than $7. Dealers Since August, police said, they In a squalid alley, junkies com - upcoming presidential elections in February. A polling station will be of economic contraction, and it conceal drugs in small packets in have stopped and checked more plained that the needles on the set up at the Consulate in New York. Yes, indeed. is a warning to other crisis-hit their mouths and in their shoes. than 65,000 migrants, and ar - syringes they were being given In Athens, on the other hand, the matter is still under considera - European countries about how For Athenians and other rested about 4,000 for not having weren't long enough. They tion. swift the fall can be when a tip - Greeks, the demise of Omonia, proper papers. More than 6,000 wanted to inject drugs into the This development comes at a most critical moment for Cyprus: ping point is reached. whose department stores, coffee people have been returned to femoral veins in their groins, a the Cyprus issue is almost forgotten, if not on the verge of abandon - "It used to be our Times shops and hotels were emblems their countries of origin. relatively common practice ment... as an issue of international criminality. The economy is, per - Square. Now, it's like Baghdad," of the country's economic Migrants said the police can among long-term users. haps, in a worse state than Greece’s. Nevertheless, the participation said Yiannis Politis, who owns a progress since the 1960s, has ex - be predators. A 24-year-old "If we call an ambulance, of overseas Cypriots whose disinterested interest in and love for his small hotel, the Achillion, near acted a psychic toll. The square Bangladeshi man who gave his would you go with us?" Ms. country will bring an air of revival and perhaps even revamp the na - Omonia. "In the last three years, was a traditional meeting place name as Tanjim said police often Karanika asked Mohamed Aziz, tional issue, is a welcome development. all the problems have come to - for people coming to Athens from kick in the door to the small room who said he was a heroin addict The sad truth is that Cyprus’ politicians tragically failed in their gether." other parts of Greece. he shares with seven migrants and had been injured in a traffic mission, in the same way, if not worse, than those of Greece. They With police struggling to con - "This was the center of the and take any cash they can find. accident. Lying under a pile of have a greater responsibility because a large chunk of their country trol the chaos, street battles have Greek dream," said Eleftherios Sometimes they also steal cell - blankets on wooden shipping pal - is under foreign military occupation. erupted between groups of ultra - Skiadas, a writer and historian phones, he said. lets, Mr. Aziz declined, but ac - Instead of setting aside what separates them politically in the face nationalists—who carry out at - who is president of the Associa - Tanjim, who said he entered cepted a bundle of syringes, some of the need to liberate the occupied zone, and to protect Free Cyprus, tacks against immigrants and tion of Athenians, a group that Greece illegally but now has tem - of which he said he resells. the politicians became disoriented by their power. They let matters wreck their shops and market works on historic preservation. porary papers, said police officers The drug-abuse counselors try drag on, they became complacent, and they turned the attention of stalls in the neighborhoods "But everything we've built over have twice confiscated the shop - to see to the medical needs of ad - the citizens from the struggle for the homeland to the enjoyment of around the square—and anar - the years has crumbled in a very ping carts he uses for "scrap - dicts living on the streets. But material goods. chists who say they are fighting short time." ping"—collecting paper, glass and most want to avoid contact with Moreover, we find it striking that Cypriot newspapers focused on fascism and want to protect for - Police in body armor patrol metal from garbage bins and sell - authorities. One Romanian almost anything but the national issue, and public officials were con - eigners. on motorcycles, while groups of ing it to recyclers. woman, who Ms. Karanika knew cerned with partisan politics and prosperity. In the case of Omonia Square officers on foot, many fresh from "The other day, the police as Amalia, died this autumn in Nonetheless, for years, almost all the countries of Europe and and surrounding areas, a massive the police academy, regularly poured milk on my head," said an empty lot near Omonia, ap - Latin America have provided expatriates the right to vote. inflow of illegal migrants desper - stop and search immigrants, Tanjim, who said he used to work parently of a blood infection. One party leader told us, however, that he wondered how the Di - ate to get into the European many from South Asia and in a hotel in Dhaka, Bangladesh's "Where there isn't a stable so - aspora Greeks would vote in Greek elections, fearing that they would Union has collided with a lack of Africa. capital. "There are no jobs, prob - cial structure, these things hap - tilt the electoral balance to the rightist parties. We responded that jobs in Greece's moribund econ - "It's dangerous. We're afraid lems with the police. If I knew pen. It's all related to the crisis," the Diaspora will vote based on what they believe serves the interests omy and diminished public and of diseases," said a 19-year-old the real situation, I never would said Tasos Panopoulos, another of the motherland. charitable resources to help patrolman from northern Greece, have come." Organization Against Drugs offi - So time marches on and further delay is not good for anyone, it them. who has been on the beat in The police said they don't tol - cial. "This is what we live with just makes everyone look ridiculous. Some locals as well as mi - Athens for about four months. "I erate abuses and thoroughly in - every day now in the city cen - grants have turned to illicit was shocked. I've never seen con - vestigate allegations of official ter." Bitter Truths • Mail Delivery service is available from • Classified services available with a wide "The Rotten Oligarchy of Greece" is the brutal headline of an op- Services to our readers: coast to coast. Delivery is dependent on category selection and well read world - ed piece published this week by the New York Times and written by Post Office and region. Any unforeseen de - wide. It’s the go to paper in the Greek Kostas Vaxevanis, the journalist and editor who published the infa - lays please contact us at 718-784-5255. 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Dictators, and Democrats The world breathed a collec - the same healthcare known history of ing immigrants while ignoring tive sigh of relief as December reform. The exis - mental distur - the corrupt oligarchs whom the 21, 2012 came and went appar - tence of a parallel bance, availed him - same Greek populace correctly Throughout all Muslim world as ently without the end having unreality would self of a military blames for the disaster that has of its history as a well as use the come upon us. According to a also seem to explain weapon that was in devastated their country. The superpower, the Brotherhood to modern Western interpretation, why those who de - his home with the Greek Government has just an - United States has challenge Gamal the Mayans calculated back in mand smaller gov - knowledge of the nounced that it has a list of struggled diplomat - Abdel Nasser’s 3114 B.C., a 144,000-day cycle ernment, lower authorities and 2,062 names of potential Greek ically whenever leadership in ending on 12/21/2012 known taxes and no for - killed not only his tax evaders handed to a previous dealing with the Egypt. as a Ba’ktun would be the last eign entanglements mother but 20 Greek Government by the Middle East. Israel Ramadan and cycle of the world. We all now demand that the small children and French Government. Unbeliev - is America’s closest the Brotherhood’s seem certain that this did not United States throw 6 teachers before ably, the politicians who received ally in the region relations with the come to pass. its soldiers into civil by AMB. PATRICK N. sending himself to the list “forgot” they had it and and one can argue United States rose However, examining the wars around the THEROS his reward. That then found it later but with the that the Israelis do and fell in the late world today has led me to con - world. Not to ap - the NRA responded names of their relatives ex - actually like Amer - by DR. ANDRE 1960s and most of sider the real possibility that the pear partisan, one Special to to the slaughter of punged – and expected to be be - ica, with or without GEROLYMATOS the 1970s, but ter - Mayans were right: the world must also ask why The National Herald innocents by de - lieved. In Russia, a rabble-rous - President Obama. minated after Ra - did end and that we now dwell the president, who manding that the ing Government responds to an The Israelis are the Special to madan came out in in a parallel reality. Although I won a landslide electoral victory, U.S. Government provide armed American political provocation only real Western- The National Herald support of the Aya - cannot prove that we are all and whose party’s position im - guards to all of the 100,000 of limited effect by punishing its style democracy in tollah Khomeini’s dead and hallucinating, I find proved in both Houses of Con - schools in the country should own orphans. Further east, the the Middle East (strictly speak - theocratic regime in 1979. this theory to be a plausible ex - gress, seems more willing to come as no surprise. The gun in - Israeli Government announces ing, Turkey is not part of the American interest in Islamists planation for what is happening compromise than his opponents. dustry, after all, funds that au - measures to kill once and for all Middle East) and one that the was renewed with the Soviet in - around us. Those opponents, meanwhile, gust organization. That the a separate Palestinian state and United States can count on in a vasion of Afghanistan. The As of this writing, the richest have rejected their own leader - small-budget, small government, guarantee the creation of a sin - crisis. United States, through its intel - and most powerful country in ship and seem to relish the idea states-rights political types gle unitary state that will ulti - Middle Eastern states range ligence community, cultivated the world is about to plunge it - of forcing their country into the should embrace a proposal that mately destroy the dream of a from theocracies and dictator - the fanatical mujahedeen as self into what may turn out to abyss at the bidding of a self-ap - would cost the taxpayer at least country for the Jewish people. ships such as Iran and Syria, ab - well as the Islamist dictator of be the greatest economic disas - pointed guru. $60 billion a year, increase the It appears that the Israeli people solute monarchies like Saudi Pakistan, General Zia-ul-Haq. ter of its history through a de - size of the federal bureaucracy will probably vote for that gov - Arabia, the Gulf Emirates, and The policy of “America’s enemy liberate and calculated act by its by at least half a million federal ernment and for their own long- the former or quasi dictatorships is America’s friend” worked bril - own elected officials. This self- Given the lunacy that bureaucrats, and give the federal term destruction. in Egypt, Lebanon, and Iraq, as liantly and defeated the Soviet immolation was orchestrated by, passes for reality, maybe government control of every Space precludes further enu - well as current authoritarian Army, but the war in Grover Norquist, a self-ap - the world really did end a public school in the country, can meration of phenomena that can states in places such as Algeria Afghanistan served as an incu - pointed activist of no particular only be explained by the psy - exist only in another dimension. and Yemen. bator for a virulent Wahhabi in - accomplishment or qualifica - few weeks ago. chosis of living in the parallel I would welcome a more plausi - However, adjacent to the spired Islam that spawned al- tions who extracted vows of obe - unreality. ble explanation for the collective Middle East and very much in - Qaeda, which organized the dience from an entire political It is not just the politicians. Were these only American lunacy that seems to have fluenced by events in the region tragedy of 9/11. party that give his wishes prece - The surrealistic madness has phenomena, we might find some gripped our globe. are the former dictatorships in Yet the United States was not dence over those of the elec - also struck large portions of the other explanation. However, North Africa of Libya and through with Islamists. For a torate and common sense. It gets electorate as well. How else to one who looks at Europe can re - The Hon. Ambassador Theros is Tunisia. Although some of these couple of years after the Sep - worse. Politicians who support explain the refusal of Maryland alize that the unreality has also president of the U.S.-Qatar Busi - states are technically part of tember 11 attacks, the United states’ rights reject participation and Virginia residents stuck in taken hold there. European ness Council. He served in the North Africa, they are connected States severed ties with the Is - in a healthcare program that daily hours-long traffic jams on politicians have knowingly im - U.S. Foreign Service for 36 to the Middle East with respect lamists, but by 2005, America saves them money but guaran - the Washington, DC Beltway to posed an “austerity” program years, mostly in the Middle East, to religion and the issues of once again, turned to the Mus - tees the rights of states to control pay for improvements so that that has depressed all the and was American Ambassador Palestine. In this same way, Pak - lim Brotherhood for help with their own healthcare systems. they might actually get home be - economies of the continent and to Qatar from 1995 to 1998. He istan and Afghanistan are part Europe’s Muslim communities, This bit of lunacy becomes more fore their kids go to sleep? aggravated the debt problem it also directed the State Depart - of South Asia but are also di - many who are considered close poignant if one considers that Two days after we suppos - was supposed to fix. A Greek po - ment’s Counter-Terrorism rectly affected by the religious to the Brothers. Both the those politicians belong to the edly avoided the end of the litical party has gained great Office, and holds numerous U.S. and political crises in the Middle Obama and Bush Administra - political party that first designed world, a young man with a support among Greeks by attack - Government decorations. East. Indonesia, in Southeast tions could not help but notice Asia, is more moderate in reli - that the Brotherhood’s influence gious matters and a democracy, was also expanding rapidly in but it is equally impacted by the Egypt; on June 30 the Egyptians LETTER FROM ATHENS events in Palestine and Israel. elected Mohamed Morsi, a lead - In effect, America’s relations ing member of the Muslim with the Middle East are deter - Brotherhood, president. mined by three critical factors: The United States currently Tourism Office Scandal Shows the Real Myth of Greece Political Islam, both extreme faces a critical choice. How can and moderate, strategic consid - it balance its close ties with Is - erations (petroleum and the rael and the Muslim Brother - It has been 26 years since American public re - the ad campaign on staff to divulge the organi - need to maintain bases in the hood especially now that the Is - Madison Avenue advertising lations firms who budget was the pre - zation’s banking details. Vasi - region), and the Palestinian lamist organization is the whiz, Greek-American George wanted the ac - ferred pilferage lakos is accused of issuing the problem. Historically the government of Egypt? Albeit Lois, devised the brilliant $2.5 count, or to ask for spot, along with check from GNTO for the pay - United States has favored and there is opposition in Egypt to million campaign for Greece big discounts on charging for hotel ment of services that were never supported dictatorships and the Brotherhood president, but that was brilliant in its sincerity the grounds that it stays by the GNTO provided. monarchies in order to maintain it is only a matter of time before and simplicity, a series of 30- was a patriotic duty staff. Livadas praised his agency its influence over the Muslim Egypt falls under the sway of second TV spots featuring for Greeks of the This racket is for exposing the scam. “We shall world as well as to counter the the Islamists, and that will end celebrities of the time – none of Diaspora to volun - the stuff of which proceed with all the legal ac - Soviet Union in the Middle East. Egypt’s treaty with Israel. But them Greek – appearing in a teer their expertise, good Film Noir tions, and will continue to pro - In the 1950s, beginning with America’s conundrum with the video showing Greek splendor, although no one at movies were made, vide all the necessary help to President Eisenhower’s admin - Islamist will face its greatest noting where their ancestors the GNTO was re - and there’s even a the responsible authorities in or - istration, the U.S. government challenge in Syria. came from and declaring: “And fusing a paycheck by ANDY doll with a bad der to reveal the truth and pun - cultivated the Muslim Brother - Eventually the Assad regime now I'm going home . . . to or going above and DABILIS check, and a plot as ish the perpetrators,” he said. hood and believed that religion will collapse, but the question Greece.” beyond the call of convoluted as The This is all pretty embarrass - was the best weapon to check - is who will replace the Syrian Between the first two people duty. Special to Big Sleep, which is ing to the current administra - mate and reverse communism dictator? If it is the Islamists, and the third in each commer - Five people The National Herald what the GNTO has tion of Prime Minister and New in the Muslim world. In 1953, who are one of the most orga - cial there was a voiceover by a have been arrested been taking since Democracy Conservative leader the USIA (United States Infor - nized components of the Free noted actor with a resonant in this latest chicanery, including Lois’ day. Antonis Samaras since Kara - mation Agency) arranged a con - Syrian Army and are backed by voice, Richard Kiley, saying that a former GNTO consultant, Tourism Minister Olga Ke - halios is a New Democracy ap - ference at Princeton University, the Saudis and other conserva - “Every American feels at home Costas Vasilakos, on various faloyianni ordered a probe into pointee, although investigators of Islamic scholars and leaders tive Islamic regimes, there is a the minute they set foot in this charges including embezzle - the GNTO’s finances after Gen - said there’s plenty of blame to in order to promote anti-com - strong probability that Israel lovely land. . . . So America, go ment and operating a criminal eral Secretary Panos Livadas ad - go around as it’s believed that munism in the newly indepen - and the United States will be home to Greece, where it all be - gang. The sad scheme began to mitted there were some “gaps some PASOK appointees to the dent states with Muslim majori - dealing with Islamists in control gan.” unravel when one of them, a in the accounts,” following the GNTO may be involved. ties. of both Syria and Egypt. Ah, if only it were so these woman, went to the National arrests. Accountants inspected Kefaloyianni, after ordering The conference also served Pakistan is not far from also days, because since then Greek Bank of Greece and tried to cash the organization’s books and a probe, hasn’t said a word as a cover for the U.S. propa - coming under the complete con - ad campaigns to get people to a check from the GNTO for discovered the shortfall, former about the scandal at the same ganda agency to arrange a trol of the Islamists, which visit a glorious land were often 147,000 euros, some $192,266. general secretary Nikos Kara - time she’s been trying to drum meeting between the president means that a significant segment so lackluster they were imme - That raised eyebrows, even halios claimed. up international interest in and Said Ramadan, the son-in- of the Muslim world – Egypt, diately forgettable. That’s, of at Greek banks which are accus - Karahalios left the organiza - Greece and bring back tourists law of the Brotherhood’s Syria, Pakistan, and Iran – will course, when the Greek Na - tomed to turning over bags of tion on Dec. 20, a day after the who were scared off in 2012 by founder, Hassan al-Banna, and be hostile to the West and will tional Tourism Organisation, free money to political parties woman – said to be his aide – social and political unrest. Noth - the father of the controversial no doubt seek hostilities with Is - (GNTO) an agency filled with and forgiving the loan while was caught at the bank with the ing like the sight of protesters scholar Tariq Ramadan. Said Ra - rael. The US must either abstain hacks and political hires, even pressing customers to pay 100 bogus check with his name on shutting down the subways, air - madan was also the de facto for - or take sides. The underlying bothered to advertise. percent of high-interest loans it, the newspaper Kathimerini ports, and ports to send would- eign minister of the Muslim question is whether there an ap - Now we know why they of - even though they’ve suffered po - reported. Karahalios said his be tourists to Greece fleeing to Brotherhood. The then-re - petite in Washington for another ten didn’t. According to Greek litically-imposed pay cuts, tax name was forged and that he Turkey. cently-created CIA warned the conflict with Muslim states. investigators, people have been hikes and slashed pensions. knew nothing about it. In a visit to New York in Oc - government that Said Ramadan plundering the ad account of the When someone called the The newspaper said that ac - tober, the fetching Kefaloyianni was a Phalangist and fascist only Andre Gerolymatos is Director GNTO for at least a decade, and GNTO and notified them, the cording to a representative of – reason enough to visit Greece interested in power. of the Stavros Niarchos Founda - you can bet if a burgeoning in - check was stopped and the ar - the organization’s employees, just to get a look at her – said Despite this, the White tion Centre for Hellenic Studies vestigation is expanded it will rests began. The check was sup - Constantinos Rantos, as well as the American Diaspora had House went ahead with the at Simon Fraser University in go back a lot further than that posedly to pay for services that police sources, Vasilakos had been a “forgotten market” for meeting and by end of the Vancouver and the author of at hackdom. Initial reports in - were, of course, never rendered, succeeded in getting his hands Greek tourism, and taken for decade, the CIA was overtly sup - Castles in the Sand: A Century dicate that some 12 million eu - at some hotel on the island of on two GNTO checkbooks, one granted, but maybe she can pro - porting Ramadan and through of Anglo-American Espionage ros, nearly $15.6 million, is Syros. It was, according to in - of which was used to write out mote Fraud Tourism. That’s hot. him the Islamists. The CIA be - and Intervention in the Middle missing. That’s code for stolen. vestigators, just a way to siphon the check. lieved they could counter the in - East (New York, NY: St. Martin’s It was typical for Greece to money out of the GNTO and Rantos also reportedly said [email protected] fluence of the Soviets in the Press, 2010). either rebuff well-known Greek- they have reportedly found that that Vasilakos applied pressure Greece’s Supposed Democracy: a Defective Bicycle that Just Doesn’t Pedal Anymore

By Kostas Vaxevanis They bribe politicians to get fat prived of real information, as taxes while their desperate fel - about the case. goat sacrificed so that the cor - The New York Times government contracts, usually television stations, newspapers low citizens were searching the When Mr. Venizelos left the rupt political system can survive. at inflated prices. They also own and online news sites are con - trash for food. Finance Ministry last March, he This is all unfolding at a time Democracy is like a bicycle: many of the country’s media trolled by the economic and po - When Hot Doc, the monthly failed to turn the CD with the when Greece is walking a if you don’t keep pedaling, you outlets, and thus manage to en - litical elite. magazine I edit and publish, list over to his successor. He tightrope above the abyss of fall. Unfortunately, the bicycle sure that their actions are Another scandal involves the made the list public in October, took it with him. Only when his bankruptcy, while the coalition of Greek democracy has long clothed in silence. Sometimes so-called Lagarde List. In 2010, I was arrested and charged with successor, Yannis Stournaras, government is instituting new been broken. After the military they’ll even buy a soccer team Christine Lagarde, then the violating personal privacy, but told The Financial Times in Oc - taxes on the lower classes. Half junta collapsed in 1974, Greece in order to drum up popular French finance minister (and was acquitted. The result didn’t tober that he had never received of young Greeks are unem - created only a hybrid, diluted support and shield their crimes now the head of the Interna - please those in power. So I am the list did Mr. Venizelos turn it ployed. The economy is shrink - form of democracy. You can behind popular protection, as tional Monetary Fund), gave the being brought back for a second over to the prime minister’s of - ing at an annual rate of 6.9 per - vote, belong to a party and the drug lord Pablo Escobar did trial (a date has yet to be set) fice. He was never asked about cent. People are scrounging for protest. In essence, however, a in Colombia, and as the para - Greeks must insist on similarly vague allegations. the delay, and leaders of the food. And a neo-Nazi party, small clique exercises all mean - military leader Arkan did in Ser - Throughout the entire process three parties in the coalition Golden Dawn, is on the rise, ex - ingful political power. bia. on an end to decep- — the publication of the list, my government have not referred ploiting the resentment and For all that has been said In 2011, Evangelos Venize - tion and corruption. arrest, my acquittal — the Greek his conduct to Parliament’s in - rage toward the ruling class. about the Greek crisis, much has los, who was then the finance media were absent. The case vestigatory committee. The Greek people must re - been left unsaid. The crisis has minister and is now the leader Greek government a list of was a top story in the interna - Meanwhile, a newly released mount their bicycle of democ - become a battleground of inter - of the socialist party, Pasok, in - roughly 2,000 Greek citizens tional press, but not in the coun - version of the list made clear racy by demanding an end to ests and ideologies. At stake is stituted a new property-tax law. with Swiss bank accounts, to try where it took place. that someone had removed the deception and corruption. Jour - the role of the public sector and But for properties larger than help uncover tax fraud. Greek The reason is simple. The La - names of three relatives of Mr. nalists need to resist manipula - the welfare state. Yes, in Greece 2,000 square meters — about officials did virtually nothing garde list implicates a corrupt Papaconstantinou, who was the tion and rediscover their jour - we have a dysfunctional public 21,000 square feet — the tax with the list; two former finance group that answers to the name finance minister from 2009 to nalistic duties. And the sector; for the past 40 years the was reduced by 60 percent. Mr. ministers, George Papaconstan - of democracy even as it casually 2011, before Mr. Venizelos. Last government should revive ruling parties handed out gov - Venizelos thus carved out a big tinou and his successor, Mr. nullifies it: officials with off - month, Mr. Papaconstantinou Greece’s ancient democratic her - ernment jobs to their support - exemption for the only people Venizelos, reportedly even told shore companies, friends and was expelled from Pasok. He itage — instead of killing the ers, regardless of their qualifi - who could afford to pay the tax: Parliament they did not know relatives of government minis - now faces a Parliamentary in - messenger. cations. the rich. (Mr. Venizelos is also where it was. Meanwhile, sev - ters, bankers, publishers and vestigation, the potential lifting But the real problem with the the man responsible for a law eral media outlets falsely ac - those involved in the black mar - of his immunity from prosecu - Kostas Vaxevanis is a magazine public sector is the tiny elite of granting broad immunity to cused some politicians and busi - ket. tion as a former minister, and publisher and television jour - business people who live off the government ministers.) ness figures of being on the list After my magazine released charges of tampering with the nalist. This essay was translated Greek state while passing them - Such shenanigans have gone in order to conceal the ugly re - the list, the Greek government data. It appears that he may be - by Karen Emmerich from the selves off as “entrepreneurs.” on for decades. The public is de - ality: rich people were evading made not a single statement come a new Iphigenia, a scape - Greek. 12 VIEWPOINTS THE NATIONAL HERALD, JANUARY 12-18, 2013 Firestorm over Greek Tax Scandal Draws Attention Away from Collection Deficiency By Liz Alderman and of 300, the report said, while said Zoe Konstantopoulou, a tax-evading occupations.” the 20 biggest account holders Rachel Donadio just 467 audits of high-wealth member of Parliament from The reports were released on the list. In the e-mail inter - The New York Times individuals were completed, Syriza who serves on a panel in - shortly before Greece’s financial view, he said that an aide in his compared with a goal of 1,300. vestigating the so-called La - crimes squad accused Mr. Papa - office pulled together the George Papaconstantinou, a The fragile, three-party coali - garde list, a compilation of more constantinou late last month of names, which he said accounted former finance minister, was ac - tion government of Prime Min - than 2,000 Greeks with ac - removing the names of three of for about half of the money in cused of scrubbing relatives’ ister Antonis Samaras continues counts in a Swiss branch of his relatives from the Lagarde list. the accounts. names from a CD with the iden - to vow it will crack down on HSBC that had been sent to Mr. Those accounts belonged to He said he had been uneasy tities of possible tax dodgers. corruption and tax evasion, but Papaconstantinou in 2010 by a cousin of Mr. Papaconstanti - releasing the full 2,000 names Mr. Papaconstantinou, in a blunt assessment last month Christine Lagarde, then the fi - nou’s, her husband and the to financial investigators for fear turn, hinted darkly that he was by a task force of Greece’s for - nance minister of France. “The spouse of another cousin. On that they would be leaked. the victim of a plot masking eign lenders said, “These problem is tax evasion among Wednesday, the cousin, Eleni Pa - “Surely it is easier to safeguard malfeasance at higher levels. changes have not yet been re - the rich with the complicity and paconstantinou-Sikiaridis, re - an investigation of 20 people While the firestorm may flected in results in terms of im - the aiding and abetting of those signed from her post at the than one of 2,000 people,” he have made for political theater proved tax inspection and col - who govern.” Greek privatization agency, say - said. of a sort, it has diverted atten - lection.” Analysts say the failure While Greece received a ing in a letter that the money Mr. Papaconstantinou testi - tion from a much bigger prob - to pursue tax evaders aggres - badly needed $45 billion in aid held in the HSBC Geneva ac - fied that he then passed the en - lem: Greece, its foreign lenders sively is deepening social ten - last month to help it avoid de - count was “the legal wealth of tire file in June 2011 to the head say, has fallen woefully short of sions. “It’s a weak government faulting on its debts, critics say myself and my husband.” of Greece’s financial crimes unit, its tax collection targets and is with very difficult work to do, that unless Athens can more Mr. Papaconstantinou has ve - Ioannis Diotis, who later gave it still not moving hard enough to and this is very, very bad for the forcefully tap the billions it is hemently denied the accusa - to Mr. Papaconstantinou’s suc - tackle widespread tax evasion morale of the people,” said Former finance minister owed in taxes, it will never pay tions and has said that he cessor, Evangelos Venizelos, the — long tolerated, particularly Nikos Xydakis, a political colum - George Papaconstantinou. off its debts, even if its mori - worked to clamp down on tax current leader of the Socialists among the country’s richest cit - nist for Kathimerini, a daily bund economy eventually starts evasion as finance minister from and a rival of Mr. Papaconstan - izens. newspaper. “This year will be itations has run out or the to recover. 2009 until 2011. “I handed to tinou’s. Greek officials agreed to the hell for the middle-class people. scofflaws do not have the A dysfunctional bureaucracy the tax authorities all the files Mr. Diotis said that Mr. targets as part of an interna - And the rich people are un - money. weakened by budget cuts, two which I received from the Venizelos did not give him or - tional lending pact last year, but touchable. This is very bad.” It pressed Greece to focus on destabilizing rounds of elections French authorities,” he said in ders to investigate the names on there is no penalty for missing In a separate report, the Eu - the cases most likely to produce last spring and an economy dec - an e-mail. “I am not in a posi - the list. Mr. Venizelos said Mr. them. In recent weeks, however, ropean Union and the Interna - real revenues, especially in vo - imated by austerity have ham - tion to confirm that the original Diotis had told him the material two reports by Greece’s foreign tional Monetary Fund said they cations where tax evasion has pered tax collections further. information received in 2010 was unusable as it had been il - lenders have found that Athens were concerned that the “au - become pernicious. “Doctors But a thicket of regulations and contained the three files con - legally acquired. Mr. Venizelos pulled in less than half of the thorities are falling idle and that and lawyers are a good place to a culture of resistance also fuel cerned,” he added, about his rel - added that he passed the mem - additional tax income that it ex - the drive to fight tax evasion by start,” it said. a shadow economy that includes atives. ory stick to the prime minister, pected last year and performed the very wealthy and the free Critics, especially the leftist an estimated 25 percent of eco - “If the original is identical to Mr. Samaras, last October after fewer than half of the expected professions is at risk of weaken - party Syriza, which leads in nomic activity. the new one sent by the French Finance Minister Yannis audits. ing.” opinion polls, say the govern - One study by researchers authorities two weeks ago, this Stournaras said the authorities One report said that Athens The report added that total ment has not done enough to from the University of Chicago means that someone removed could not find the original list. had brought in a little less than unpaid taxes amounted to stop corruption because its and Virginia Tech estimated that the names after I handed the On Thursday, Syriza called $1.3 billion in additional taxes nearly $70 billion, about 25 per - members are tied to the coun - tax evasion costs Greece about files over,” he said. for an investigation into Mr. Pa - of the $2.6 billion it had hoped cent of Greece’s gross domestic try’s business elite and do not $37 billion a year, equivalent to Mr. Papaconstantinou told paconstantinou and Mr. Venize - to collect in 2012. Only 88 ma - product. But only about 15 per - want to jeopardize their political nearly 15 percent of economic Parliament in November that he los, and it labeled the current jor taxpayers, including corpo - cent to 20 percent of the careers. output. The study found that had asked the head of the finan - coalition government “the archi - rations, were the subject of full- amount is actually collectible, “The problem is not simply doctors, engineers, accountants cial crimes unit at the time to tects of corruption, and of the scope audits, well below a target either because the statute of lim - tax evasion among the rich,” and lawyers were “the primary investigate only the names of cover-up of corruption.” Kiki Dimoula, National Poet of Greece, Describes the Country’s Dark and Chaotic Mood

Continued from page 1 of Greece — as had her father day, with Greece dismantling its cigarette, referring to Greece’s and her husband— before she social protections amid a crush - many financial scandals. toman-motifs. A vase of blood- quit working in 1974. She raised ing debt crisis, she is concerned She said she follows the red dahlias sat on the mirrored two children and is a devoted that things may get even more news and listens to political coffee table. Ms. Dimoula grandmother. terrible. ‘‘I believe they can get speeches, especially those of the leaned back on a silk turquoise The desk job was no fun. ‘‘It even worse than the junta pe - Socialist party leader, Evangelos throw pillow. Her gray hair was was a prison,’’ she said. Every riod,’’ she said. ‘‘The junta put Venizelos, famous for his ora - cut stylishly short. The lines morning during Greece’s mili - under surveillance and limited tory. ‘‘He’s very careful; he’s a around her eyes revealed a tary dictatorship from 1967 to the freedom of the leftists. Now speaker by nature,’’ she said. legacy of laughter and loss. 1974, her supervisor would the whole country is being per - ‘‘I’m examining the quality, not In a literary tradition in have her take a metal phoenix secuted.’’ the authenticity’’ of his which poets have been revered — the symbol of the colonels — Like all Greek retirees, Ms. speeches, she added. Asked almost as untouchable gods, Ms. out of a drawer and place it on Dimoula has seen her pension whether she believed a word he Dimoula comes across as earthy his desk. ‘‘My bird, Dimoula, my cut. ‘‘Because of 100 people that said, she shook her head vehe - and approachable. Born and bird!’’ she said, laughing at the abused power, the whole coun - mently. ‘‘No,’’ she said. raised in Athens, she worked for memory. try has been asked to pay,’’ she In a speech she gave in 2011 years at a desk job at the Bank Those were dark times. To - said angrily, drawing on another upon receiving Greece’s most

Kiki Dimoula, Greece’s feisty 81-year old national poet.

prestigious literary award, the Dimoula said. Grand National Prize for life - Photographs are a recurring time achievement, Ms. Dimoula theme, a way of capturing time. talked about the role of culture In other poems, Ms. Dimoula during the crisis. ‘‘How society uses the everyday as a gateway perceives matters of art in gen - to the infinite. In ‘‘Mother of the eral depends on how far its soul Floor Below,’’ dedicated to her has accepted the belief that art, children, she writes of moving poetry in this case, will not im - house: Cartons boxes bundles pose cutbacks on the escape it well-secured with the severed provides,’’ she said then. umbilical cord. The infant ther - In 2001, when Ms. Dimoula mometer forgotten for days in became the first woman to re - history’s armpit, no longer fever - ceive an award for lifetime work ish. from the Academy of Athens, ‘‘The main subject of Di - she began giving interviews to moula’s poetry is nothingness,’’ the Greek news media. Her re - Mr. Dimou, the writer, said by marks quickly became almost as telephone. ‘‘It is the fact that our well knownas her poetry. existence is not a real existence, ‘‘Half of the mail we get is it’s a precarious existence, it’s from people who say, ‘I want to always undermined by the meet Kiki Dimoula,’’’ said Mar - thought of death, by time, by ilena Panourgia, a publisher at decay.’’ Ikaros, Ms. Dimoula’s publishing house, where she is in the illus - trious company of Greece’s two Like all Greek retirees, “There Is Nothing Permanent Except Change” Nobel laureates in literature, Dimoula has seen her George Seferis and Odysseas pension cut. ‘‘Because Heraclitus Elytis. Like so many small busi - of 100 people that abused nesses in Greece, Ikaros is strug - power, the whole country gling to stay afloat. ‘‘In the good times, we didn’t buy houses and has been asked to pay,’’ EXTENDING SAVINGS OFFER INTO THE NEW YEAR! boats; we published more books she says angrily. that we knew no one would buy,’’ Katerina Karydi, whose fa - Like the American poet Emily ther founded Ikaros in 1943, Dickinson or the Greek poet % said with a sad smile. She spoke Constantine Cavafy, Ms. Di - 50 OFF FOR 6 MONTHS in the publisher’s in-house book - moula ‘‘has her own very single, shop, amid shelves of elegant very specific, very individual Plus unlimited online access to our digital edition paperbacks with pages that have voice,’’ Mr. Dimou added. ‘‘She to be sliced open with a paper cannot be mistaken for anything cutter. else.’’ Stay current with the news and upcoming events Ms. Dimoula said she hates Ms. Dimoula said she was to reread her own poems. In - disappointed that her intricate of the Greek-American Community. stead, she said, she prefers to prose was accessible to so many. treat them coldly, like ‘‘a step - ‘‘I feel offended,’’ she said. ‘‘Am mother.’’ She has professed a I as understandable as that?’’ Tell your friends and family to also take advantage of this savings offer. dramatic, almost creative, belief She also plays down the fact in pessimism. ‘‘Pessimism is an that her poetry speaks to read - inner love for life,’’ she said. ers, especially in such dark ‘‘The pessimist is one who can - times. ‘‘People say to me, ‘It’s a ACT NOW! SAVE NOW! SUBSCRIBE NOW!* not enjoy the joys of life and is consolation,’ ’’ she said. ‘‘And I very conscious that he has the wonder how I can console them, *For new subscribers only | Rates vary per region | Offer expires: January 31, 2013 passion of the unsatisfied and because I myself am incon - of the unsatisfiable.’’ solable.’’ Above all, Ms. Dimoula ‘‘I derive my themes from mourns the death of her hus - what’s happening in everyday band, Athos Dimoulas, a poet life,’’ Ms. Dimoula had said ear - The National Herald who encouraged her to become lier. ‘‘I don’t have visions. I am one, too, and who died in 1985. not a visionary poet.’’ 37-10 30th Street, long Island city, Ny 11101-2614 She honors his memory in her The afternoon light poured Tel: (718) 784-5255 • Fax: (718) 472-0510 1988 collection ‘‘Hail, Never.’’ In in through high windows. Out - [email protected] - www.thenationalherald.com writing that book, ‘‘all I was side was Athens, a city pushed thinking was, how could you get to the brink. ‘‘I want to trans - back what has disappeared? All form reality into something less my poetry is about that,’’ Ms. real,’’ she said.