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By Constantinos E. Scaros at the Summit, held on May 14 TNH Staff in Washington, DC included For - President Bill Clinton and mer Federal Reserve Chairman LARNACA, CYPRUS – U.S. Vice current NJ Governor and possi - Alan Greenspan, Senator Patty President Joe Biden, visiting ble 2016 presidential candidate Murray (D-WA), Representa - Cyprus, said the island nation Chris Christie headlined an im - tives Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), Rob has a real chance at reunifica - pressive array of participants at Portman (R-OH), and Peter tion 40 years after it was un - the 2014 Fiscal Summit of the Roskam (R-IL), and veteran lawfully invaded by Turkey and Peter G. Peterson Foundation, news anchors Gwen Ifill (PBS) could be a source of stability in named after its Chairman and and Bob Schieffer (CBS). a troubled region. Founder, a Greek-American who DEBT NOT TOP PROBLEM Biden, the most senior Amer - served as Secretary of Com - Dr. Greenspan, appointed ican official to visit Cyprus since merce under President Richard Federal Reserve Chairman by his predecessor Lyndon Johnson Nixon. Ronald Reagan and reappointed in 1962, voiced strong support Peterson is also Chairman of by the three ensuing presidents, for a new round of talks to re - the Peterson Institute for Inter - George H.W. Bush, Bill Clinton, unify the island, which was di - national Economics, a leading and George W. Bush (Greenspan vided along ethnic lines in 1974 international think tank with a retired in 2006), was long con - when Turkey attacked after a highly-esteemed Board of Direc - sidered a hero that heralded coup by supporters of union tors, not least of which Andreas tremendous economic growth with . Dracopoulos, who has collabo - during the Reagan and Clinton “This island can, and should rated with the Institute in fund - Administrations, and left a be the bedrock of stability and ing numerous lectures featuring strong enough economy to re - opportunity for Europe and for the world’s top political and eco - bound from the multilayered the eastern Mediterranean,” nomic thinkers, in the name of devastation of 9/11. But Biden told reporters. the Stavros Niarchos Founda - Greenspan’s star began to tar - Numerous rounds of negoti - tion, of which he is co-President. nish following the Great Reces - ations over four decades have Other prominent attendees sion of 2008, which Americans failed to work out an envisioned increasingly attributed to sup - federation acceptable to inter - ply- economics and mass nationally recognized Greek deregulations that led to ques - AP Photo/Petros KArAdjiAs Cypriots and minority Turkish WITH THIS ISSUE tionable banking and finance US Vice President Joe Biden, right, shakes hands with Cypriot President Nicos Anastasiades before practices. their meeting at the Presidential Palace in the Cypriot capital Nicosia on Thursday, May 22. Continued on page 11 Interviewed by Politico’s Chief Economic Correspondent Ben White, Greenspan said he sees some upward momentum regarding the economy, but it Lois: Damn Good Advice for Greeks Patriarch and may just be a false start – his skepticism based on the “struc - turally difficult” problems. The By Aris Papadopoulos ences. his Greekness and the experi - Pope to Meet federal debt? No, that’s a “symp - TNH Staff Writer An ardent Greek virtually ence of growing up in a tough tom” of the problem, Greenspan from the moment of his birth in Irish neighborhood notwith - said. The main culprit is institu - NEW YORK – George Lois, the the Bronx on June 26, 1931 and standing. in Jerusalem tions like Fannie Mae, Freddy legendary Greek-American ad a passionate conversationalist, Lois liked bothering Greek- Mac, and the auto industry, man, was in Greece to promote Lois invited TNH to his hotel Americans who changed their By Theodore Kalmoukos which the government has the Greek edition of his latest room for a wide-ranging discus - name, so he was taken aback – dubbed “too big to fail,” and so book Damn Good Advice, which sion that only ended because his likely for just half a second – BOSTON, MA – On May 23, the saving them is inherently fac - was published by Key Books, young publisher politely an - when Aristotle Onassis asked sacred journey of Ecumenical tored into the equation. That the and was reviewed by TNH nounced that it was time to what his family name was be - Patriarch Bartholomew and “politically safe” choice is to bail (“From my Bookshelf”) in the leave for an appointment. fore it was changed. “Loi” he Pope Francis of Rome begins in out rather than not, Greenspan Sept. 14, 2013 edition. He still has so much to say said. The Greek tycoon, who the Holy City of Jerusalem. On explained, is “fundamentally dif - The Greek title is Exo apo ta beyond his 10 highly-successful was impressed with the young May 25, the two leaders will ferent from the way it was years Dontia, meaning, “straight talk,” books, and when he speaks to a genius, promised to find out the meet at the Church of the Holy and includes new stories and fellow Greek his words and Sepulchre to commemorate a Continued on page 6 advice geared to Greek audi - body language strongly convey Continued on page 8 meeting in the Holy Land 50 years ago by their revered pre - decessors, Ecumenical Patriarch Athenagoras and Pope Paul VI. The historic meeting in 1964 Memory of Sts. Constantine and Helen in PA – 100 Years marked the beginning of a new era in relations between the Churches of Rome and Constan - Genocide in By Constantinos E. Scaros tinople, and indirectly between Roman Catholicism and Ortho - WYOMISSING, PA – “We can doxy as a whole. The signifi - Pontos 1919 do better,” advised Father Tom cance of that event can only be Pappalas, presiding priest of the fully appreciated placed against Saints Constantine and Helen the background of a millennium By Constantine S. Sirigos Greek Orthodox Church in branded with theological es - TNH Staff Writer Reading, PA – from the ballroom trangement and mutual mistrust dais at the Crowne Plaza Hotel between the two great traditions NEW YORK – The genocide in nearby Wyomissing on May of the Church. The apex of that against the Greeks of Pontos 18, in celebration of the parish’s meeting was the mutual lifting was commemorated at the 100th anniversary. of the anathemas and the be - Greek Press and Communica - A humble, down-to-earth, ginning of the Theological - tion Office on May 16, 95 years but scholarly clergyman, Father logue. after its most harrowing events, Pappalas reminded the capacity The 1964 meeting in with a program of cultural and crowd – close to 400 attendees Jerusalem was the beginning of scholarly presentations pre - – that there are two doors sented by the Consulate General through which the Devil enters. Continued on page 7 of Greece in NY in coordination “Most of us know to keep the with The Pan-Pontian Federa - front door closed,” he said, tion of USA & Canada and the “that’s the door of lying, steal - Press Office. ing, killing, etc. But it is the back Emcee Felicia Theodoridis door through which the Devil Soul of the welcomed the guests, as did enters more easily – that’s the Nikos Papaconstantinou, door of complacency.” We must Greece’s Press counsellor. Fr. not be complacent, Pappalas ad - Parthenon Ioannis Amarantidis of St. Nec - vised – not as individual Chris - tarios of Brooklyn offered the tians, not as a community, and invocation and greetings were not as a Church. In Mexico read from His E