S O C V ΓΡΑΦΕΙ ΤΗΝ ΙΣΤΟΡΙΑ Bringing the news W ΤΟΥ ΕΛΛΗΝΙΣΜΟΥ to generations of E ΑΠΟ ΤΟ 1915 The National Herald Greek- Americans N c v A wEEKly GrEEK-AmEriCAN PuBliCATiON www.thenationalherald.com VOL. 16, ISSUE 819 June 22-28, 2013 $1.50 The Hellenic Initiative: Brains, Energy, Funds For the New Greece President Clinton Was Among Those Who Helped Launch This Effort to Provide Aid

By Constantine S. Sirigos Liveris noted that the Initia - TNH Staff Writer tive “is focusing its support on three fundamental pillars that NEW YORK – The Hellenic Ini - will enable a stable recovery for tiative (THI), created by a group Greece and its people: 1) Sup - of business and community porting crisis relief efforts to ad - leaders with the ambition of dress real human suffering to - creating a major vehicle for Di - day; 2) Fostering a culture of aspora aid to Greece, was entrepreneurship to develop a launched with much fanfare last new generation of business August during a conference in leaders’; and 3) Investing in Athens that included an appear - small and medium sized busi - ance from former President Bill nesses - the lifeblood of the Clinton. Greek economy. Co-founder George Stamas, DOING IT RIGHT a Washington, DC attorney, ac - Myles Presler, the Interim knowledged that “last summer CEO, told TNH that it is hoped, we jumped the gun,” because that the members of the three Clinton was excited about get - main committees that have ting things going. His trip to formed around those areas will Greece “got more publicity than not be disconnected from the it deserved back then. We were areas that are not their main fo - TNH/COSTAS BEJ just starting off, and people cus. The Last American Diplomat? Old School Foreign Policy Expert - John Negroponte Addresses Audience on 21st Century Issues were wondering ‘well, are they He said “our committees really going to do anything?’ meet quite regularly. The invest - The auditorium of the University Club in New York was filled Penelope Tsillas, John Stratakis, Dr. Corina Gerontis, Consuls Well, now we are starting to do ment committee sometimes for the presentation by Ambassador and former Deputy Secre - General Koula Sophianou and George Iliopoulos, Nicholas things and they are seeing it,” tary of State John Negroponte. (L-R) Ambassador Lucas Tsillas, Kourides, and Archbishop Demetrios of America. See p. 3. he said. Continued on page 4 The former president will be featured at “The Hellenic Initia - tive Inaugural Banquet: Invest - ing in the Future of Greece,” on ERT Political Hires Hamper PM’s Revamp Plan October 3, 2013 in Manhattan. The Seleni Andrew Liveris, the CEO and Chairman of Dow Chemical who By Andy Dabilis Troika of the European Union- the Council of State, suspended he rehire all the ERT staff but is one of the other co-founders, Institute for TNH Staff Writer International Monetary Fund- his decision in a confusing rul - appeared to have been appeased told TNH the Board has spent European Central Bank (EU- ing that said he had the right to by a compromise that would let the past year building a solid ATHENS – With inspectors from IMF-ECB) to shed 2,500 workers create a new state broadcaster a temporary national broad - foundation to ensure that THI Mental Health the country’s international this summer and that firing all to be called NERIT, but not to caster operate until NERIT can deliver on its aspirations. lenders checking the books for 2,656 workers at ERT would do close ERT nor suspend its signal. comes on the air with a staff of Many of us have had mixed ex - progress on reforms, Greek the trick. He ignored the order, stating 1000-1200 recruited from cur - periences working with Greek By Eleni Kalogeras Prime Minister Antonis Samaras’ He argued that ERT was a that ERT was dead, prompting rent worker, who defied the clo - or Greece-focused organizations TNH Staff Writer push to restore the economy good first target toward reduc - the court to reconvene to clarify sure order and remained on air in the past, and we are working and attract investors hit a snag ing the public sector by another its meaning that was left open with pirate broadcasters over to ensure that THI is different. NEW YORK – The Seleni Insti - when his snap closure of the na - 15,000 next year because it was to varied interpretation. the Internet and satellite. We are taking a ‘crawl, walk, tute, the brand new treatment tional broadcaster ERT caused a “center of waste,” and “strong - His partners, PASOK Socialist Media reports indicated that run’ approach to ensure that the center in Manhattan devoted to a rift with his coalition partners. hold of a lack of transparency leader Evangelos Venizelos and Venizelos was ready to concede programs we build are effective the research and treatment of Samaras had argued that he and corruption.” Democratic Left (DIMAR) head and sustainable over the long women's mental health care, has had to meet demands from the The country’s highest court, Fotis Kouvelis at first demanded Continued on page 7 term.” a unique logo apropos of the complexity of the conditions they deal with and the depth of their commitment to clients: the an - cient image of the labyrinth. L.A. Film Festival Celebrates The founders are third gener - ation Greek-Americans Nitzia and George Logothetis, and TNH Daring Cinema & Elia Kazan met with the former in her office so that its readers can learn more

By Penelope Karageorge other hand, like Phoenixes arising Continued on page 2 Special to The National Herald from the ashes of Hellas, focused on change and survival. L.A., progenitor of smog and Only in L.A., a world fueled movie stardom as well as the by talent and cinematic ambition, great Saint Sophia Cathedral, can you find yourself sitting next The Legacy welcomed Greek film-makers to the great cinematographer with hoopla and warmth to the Haskell Wexler, on hand to help Seventh Los Angeles Greek Film celebrate the 50th Anniversary of Of My Mother Festival. The festival proved a Elia Kazan’s America America. On winner, drawing a record number opening night at the Writer’s By Harry Mark Petrakis of film enthusiasts and showing Guild Theater in luxurious, man - thirty new films. Commented icured Beverly Hills, gala goers As I’ve grown older, images Aris Katopidis, director of pro - networked while munching on of my father have receded and gramming: “This year there are a tiny meatballs and bite-sized memories of my mother have lot more films that are taking spanikopita. grown sharper. While I some - chances.” If the red carpet seemed ab - times dream of my father, I Greek filmmakers wrested breviated, perhaps a reflection of more often dream of my mother. drama out of trauma. Nothing Greece’s economic crisis, the per - Part of that imbalance in recall was off limits. Feature filmmakers sonalities intrigued, including may rest with the fact that my took rage, revenge and even star - Tassos Boulmetis, creator of A father died much earlier than vation as their subject matter. Touch of Spice, Greece’s No 1 Box my mother, on Memorial Day in Their mood reflected the angst Office hit, now completing a 1951 when he was sixty-six and that fills the headlines. The doc - script for his next film; Argyris I was twenty-eight. umentary filmmakers, on the Papadimitropoulos, director of My mother outlived my fa - the wonderful Wasted Youth; ther by twenty-eight years, George Chakiris, ever-graceful, AP PHOTO/PETrOS KArAdJiAS twenty-three of which she spent For subscription: the Oscar winner who thrilled us Tourists Offer More Hope to Cypriots than Current Bailout Plan living with my wife Diana and 718.784.5255 in West Side Story; and TV per - I. The last four years of her life [email protected] sonality Debbie Matenopoulos. A tourist couple with their child take photos as they enjoy the sea in the southeast resort of Pro - until her death in 1979 at the Two of the stars who shone taras, Cyprus, Monday, June 17. Officials say prospects for tourist arrivals to Cyprus this year are age of ninety-one were spent in brightest were Dean Metropoulos strong as the country tries to cope with the most severe economic crisis it has had to deal with in a nursing home. Through those and his wife Marianne, huge fes - decades. The Cypriot government has drafted plans to put some 6,000 jobless people to work in final years I watched her great the tourism sector. Meanwhile, Cypriot President said that the bailout is already showing signs it Continued on page 10 won’t work and is asking international lenders to redo the terms. See related story on page 7. Continued on page 3 2 COMMUNITY THE NATIONAL HERALD, JUNE 22-28, 2013 Trump Praises Mayoral Hopeful Catsimatidis GOINGS ON... n JUNE 21-24 Visit www.flintgreekfestival.com. ByMike Vilensky Among business and real-es - visionary; on good days or bad TARPON SPRINGS, FL – The Tar - Wall Street Journal tate leaders, Mr. Trump said, Mr. days he keeps moving forward. pon Springs Cultural Center at JUNE 24 Catsimatidis is “the rare person He loves New York City and all 101 S. Pinellas Avenue will pre - MANHATTAN - The Association John Catsimatidis, the may - who is both respected and that it stands for.” sent a screening of Elia Kazan’s of Greek American Professional oral hopeful and chief executive liked.” An article that ran on Satur - epic film “America American at Women (AGAPW) invite you to of Gristedes Foods, has a new The man known as “The day’s paper looked at Mr. Catsi - part of the Smithsonian Institu - their “Welcome the Summer” ally in the race for Gracie Man - Donald” said the admiration matidis’ “friendraisers,” free tion’s exhibition “Journey Sto - Networking event with fine sion: Donald Trump. cuts both ways, citing an inter - events that have often catered ries.” The exhibition explores the Greek wine tasting and appetiz - “[Mr. Catsimatidis] is an ex - view in which the mayoral to the city’s upper echelon, folks powerful tales of how we and ers at Loi’s on June 24, 6:30-8:30 cellent entrepreneur, a very hopeful called him one of his fa - much like Mr. Trump. Though our ancestors came to America PM at Loi Restaurant, 208 West good person, extremely smart, vorite people. (In 2010, Mr. Cat - Mr. Trump has not attended and to the place we now call 70th Street. This is a complimen - and a wonderful guy,” said Mr. simatidis told Forbes Mr. Trump one, he said those events are a home. In order to enhance visi - tary event but RSVP is required Trump, who is probably better was one of his heroes because tactic that can help the candi - tors’ experience of the exhibit, as space is limited. Please RSVP known for dishing out insults “he keeps his head up high… date meet people and “get the City of Tarpon Springs has at [email protected] or 917- and proclaiming “you’re fired!” and fights.”) ideas.” created a series of public pro - 405-6833. Eklektikon and Pieria than for serving up compli - The men do have some his - Mr. Catsimatidis is a billion - grams that explore local and re - Eratini’s oenologists Pavlos Argy - ments. tory. Both have been involved aire whose campaign has in fact gional connections. The screen - ropoulos & Andreas Pantos will Mr. Trump, perhaps the city’s in the Police Athletic League, already been marked by a mul - ing will be on Friday, June 21 be hosting a presentation of fine most famed and outspoken en - and Mr. Trump said they’ve in - titude of ideas, some seemingly from 7-10 PM. America, America Greek wines “Wishes Eratines” trepreneur, has stayed unchar - teracted through various charity far-fetched and thought up on (1963), written and directed by and recently awarded sparkling acteristically quiet on this year’s organizations. In 2011, Mr. Cat - the spot. Mr. Trump said the Elia Kazan, is loosely based upon “Blink”, at Loi Restaurant exclu - mayoral election, but in an in - simatidis even got onboard with candidate has “a wonderful the life of Kazan's uncle. The sively for (AGAPW). Pieria Era - terview with The Wall Street Mr. Trump’s campaign to get Donald Trump, businessman imagination.” film begins in the late 1890s, as tini just landed in the US, after Journal last week he expressed President Obama to reveal his and impresario, is impressed The main difference between young Greek Stavros taking Greece and Europe by his support for Mr. Catsimatidis, birth certificate in order to prove with John Catsimatidis. the two entrepreneurs? Accord - Topouzoglou (Stathis Giallelis), storm, with its numerous awards a Republican candidate. Mr. his citizenship. “[There's] prob - ing to Mr. Trump: “We’re very leaves his impoverished Anato - for their wines and stunning de - Trump did not explicitly endorse ably something on the birth cer - at the time.) different in one sense: until lian village on an odyssey to signs. Blink sparkling wine won Mr. Catsimatidis for mayor but tificate he doesn’t want people In an e-mail to The Wall now, John has not been very reach the faraway land of oppor - a golden Pentaward in 2011 for heaped unmitigated praise on to know about,” Mr. Catsima - Street Journal, Mr. Catsimatidis public. He’s done things quietly tunity, America. There he labors its packaging design and just re - him when asked. tidis told the New York Observer said: “I view Donald Trump as a and he’s done very well.” to gather the money to bring his ceived 90 points from Wine & family to the land where their Spirits magazine before it even descendants, including Kazan, entered the country! According will have the chance to fulfill to Wines & Spirits, Blink is the their potential. The film won the best Greek sparkling wine and The Seleni Institute for Women’s Health Care Academy Award for Best Art Di - one of the best for the Summer rection, and Kazan was nomi - of 2013 in the US. The wine tast - nated for three Oscars: Best Di - ing will include, besides Blink, Continued from page 1 good listener, which facilitates rector, Best Picture, and Best Wishes Eratines white and red, her sacred and inspiring calling Writing, Story and both with multiple awards from about it. that helps heal the sick and eases Screenplay/Written Directly for Greek and international compe - As Logothetis walked through people’s pain. the Screen. In 2001, America, titions. The tasting of these fine the modern and impressive facil - Over time she developed America was selected for preser - wines will be paired with Loi’s ity, she paused and pointed to the those tools of mind and soul that vation in the United States Na - delicious Greek appetizers, espe - Institute’s logo and said excitedly help free women from the stig - tional Film Registry by the Li - cially prepared by famous chef “it’s our ikona!” Their icon. mas exacerbated by the different brary of Congress as being extraordinaire, the one and only, Her utterance of the word forms of female pain, whether it "culturally, historically, or aes - Maria Loi. Event is generously “ikona” resonated in the thera - stems from issues involving men - thetically significant." sponsored by Pieria Eratini Win - peutic atmosphere of the Insti - tal health, difficulties pertaining ery – Eklektikon and Loi Restau - tute’s offices on Tuesday after - to childbirth or infertility, or loss, TARPON SPRINGS, FL – The City rant. We are looking forward to noon, and the images of the including – God forbid – even the of Tarpon Springs/Center for welcoming the summer with you! labyrinth added something of loss of a child. Gulf Coast Folklife is proud to both “the feminine” and a sanc - Logothetis said, "a diagnosis host Journey Stories. This Mu - FLUSHING, NY – Queens Hel - tuary. is not enough!" What brings seum on Main Street (MoMS) ex - lenic Americans for John Casti - The Labyrinth appears at the about good mental health in a hibition was created by the matidis along with Many of our top the Institute’s website, se - woman is for her to find the Smithsonian Institution Traveling Friends and Neighbors to Meet leni.org, flanked by the words Third generation Greek-Americans Nitzia and George Logo - “courage that she needs to make Exhibition Service (SITES). The and Greet John Catsimatidis, “Seleni – Empathy rooted in sci - thetis – the former is seen at her desk, are co-founders of the progress as she passes through Smithsonian Institution has made Candidate for New York City ence.” It speaks to the myriad Seleni Institute that supports mental health. the labyrinth of pain,” to emerge the exhibition available to a lim - Mayor. Monday, June 24, 7:00 – women of all cultural back - from therapy’s healing process ited number of communities 9:00PM at the Terrace on the grounds who at some point in purely scientific image. during summers that she spent healed. statewide. Journey Stories will Park, 52-11 111th Street, Flush - their lives will utter a prayer to Among the key words and volunteering at hospitals and These two words, courage be featured at the City of Tarpon ing Meadows Park Flushing. the Divine, but in the form of a phrases that emerged during her centers devoted to alleviating and Labyrinth, are also key words Springs’ Cultural Center from Mezedakia & Refreshments will feminine being, with whom they conversation with TNH was “so - malnutrition in Panama, where in the therapeutic vocabulary of Apr. 11 through Jul. 5. Hours be served. RSVP to: Dino Ralis, can share their pain over cial responsibility," a concern for her mother from. Later she the Seleni Institute. “Seleni” is are Monday through Friday, 9 [email protected], 917-856- uniquely female experiences. the less fortunate in life, which helped at an orphanage in Peru. formed from an “s” and the name AM to 4 PM. Admission to the 3735, or, Matthew Mirones, The logo is not a "religious" was taught her by her well-off Logothetis’ mother was serv - “Eleni,” inspired by Nick Gage’s exhibit is free. Saturday, Jun. 22 [email protected], symbol for the 29-year old Logo - parents when she was a little girl. ing as a diplomat in London book “Eleni,” about a mother –Journey Films. Many documen - 718.981.4562 This is not a Fund thetis, a “New Woman,” who is a Another key word is “empa - when she met her father – she who had the courage to save her tary and fictional films have ef - Raiser and No Funds will be So - researcher, a therapist, and a thy." She has been helping the also met her husband in the children fectively examined the immigrant licited. mother of the two infant boys, world’s less fortunate since she British capitol as well. The Institute’s name must in or migrant journey. We will pre - John-Michael and Philip. It is a was a high school student, and She has the gift of being a some way suggest courage be - sent, interpret, and discuss films n DEADLINE JUNE 28 cause a woman needs it to be that deal with locally significant MANHATTAN - The Association able to talk about her pain, which groups. What’s your journey of Greek American Professional is necessary for her to be healed. story? For further information, Women (AGAPW) wishes to in - Seleni also suggests the moon please call Helene MacNeil at form the community that Ernst and its phases, which tradition - 727-942-5605 or Tina Bucuvalas & Young is currently seeking ally has a feminine association, at 727-937-1130. women entrepreneurs to become and which corresponds with part of the Entrepreneurial Win - what a woman experiences, body, MANHATTAN – With the bless - ning Women's Program. The mind and soul. "A true labyrinth," ings of His Eminence Archbishop deadline for applying is June she says, metaphorically and Demetrios of America, Fr. Anas - 28th. Eligibility requirements can medically. tasios Gounaris and the Council be seen at www.ey.com One of the important areas of of the Archdiocesan Cathedral of /US/en/Services/Strategic- PANCRETAN ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA her research at the Institute of the Holy Trinity invite you to Growth-Markets/Entrepreneur - Psychiatry in London, where she “Summer Soiree 2013” celebrat - ial-Winning-Women. If you meet 43 rd PAA NATIONAL CONVENTION 2013 worked after studying psychology ing the service of the honorable these requirements and would be and neurology at Brown Univer - Koula Sophianou, Consul General interested in applying for the pro - sity, was comparing the brain of Cyprus in New York. Sunday, gram, please contact Chrissy June 29th through July 5th, AKRON-OHIO scans of patients with and with - Jun. 23 at the Tribeca Rooftop, 2 Koumbourlis of Ernst & Young at out autism. "The human mind Debrosses Street in Manhattan. chrissy.koumbourlis@ ey.com by Sheraton Suites Akron/Cuyahoga Falls 1989 Front Street Cuyahoga Falls, OH 44221, (330) 929-3000, 800-325-5788 has fascinated me since I was a Cocktail reception 6:30PM; din - June 27th. Group Code: PAA or Pancretan Association of America child," says Logothetis excitedly. ner at 7:30PM. Donation $300. Make Hotel Reservation by calling the hotel directly Logothetis also told TNH There will be a related affair es - n JULY 13 – NOVEMBER 2 about her childhood and high pecially for Young Professionals TARPON SPRINGS, FL – The City Schedule of Events school years and her studies at with open bar, buffet and danc - of Tarpon Springs presents Night the Universities of New Castle in ing at 8 PM. Donation $150. For in the Islands – a free event on Saturday June 29th - Welcome Night • Pro Football Hall of Fame 1pm-5pm England, and at NYU. reservations contact Effie Doscas- the Sponge Docks. Enjoy Greek • Convention Registration • Cretan Night & Dance Group Performances She also spoke about her hus - Butler at 917-836-0149. music, dancing, and dining of - Sheraton Suites 4pm-10pm Tangier main Ballroom band, Greek-American business - fered on Saturdays, Jul.13, Aug. man George Logothetis, the MANHATTAN –The Greek Amer - 3, Sept. 7, Oct. 5, and Nov. 2. • Welcome Night Cocktails 6:30pm-7:30pm founder and CEO of the Libra ican Sciences Behavioral Sciences cultural heritage. For more infor - Sheraton Suites dinner 7:30pm-9:30pm dinner 7pm-9pm dance 9:30pm-2am Group, who "immediately re - Institute hosts their Annual Net - mation call George Kitsios at 646- dance 9pm-1:30am • Late Night After Hours Party sponded to my idea," for the In - working and Social at Rafina 263-0773. stitute. She said, "The optimism restaurant, 630 First Avenue (be - • Late Night After Hours Party Sheraton Suites Hospitality room 227 and determination was what en - tween 36th and 37th Streets). n JULY 15 Sheraton Suites Hospitality room 227 couraged me and today we have GABSI invites everyone to cele - HUNTINGTON, NY – Rev. Dimitri Wednesday July 3rd Seleni. brate the summer solstice – Moraitis and the St. Paraskevi Sunday June 30th PAA Grand Ball George Logothetis trans - longest day and Friday of the community in Greenlawn, NY in - Cretan Picnic • PAA Meetings formed his father’s shipping com - year -- meet old friends and make vite the public to attend the 17th • Church Service Annuciation Sheraton Suites 9am-4pm pany into a more international new ones. 5:30 to 8:30 PM. Ad - Annual Golf Outing (Greater Greek Orthodox Church 129 S. • Tour of Akron and diversified entity. According mission Free. Cash Bar. Compli - Greek Open) on Monday, July 15 union Akron Ohio 9:30am-11:30am • Bus to Cleveland 11am-5:30pm to its website: “The Libra Group mentary hors d’oeuvres. at the Huntington Country Club • Convention Registration rock & roll Hall of Fame is a privately-owned international in Cold Spring Harbor, NY. For Sheraton Suites 10am-2pm Great lakes Science Center business group created in 2003. TROY, MI – The Church of St. further information: Telephone: • Cretan Picnic Horseshoe Casino It comprises the diversified busi - Nicholas hosts the 20th anniver - 631-261-7272; Fax: 631-261- ness interests of the Logothetis sary Opa! Fest, the largest ongo - 7295; E-mail: Fraternal Order of Police lodge 7, • Golf Outing Firestone Golf Course family that for the preceding 28 ing Greek festival in the Metro [email protected]. 2610 ley drive Akron, OH 1pm-9pm years had been focused exclu - Detroit area, Jun. 21-23 on • Cretan Alumni Network (CAN) Event 10pm-2am • PAA Grand Banquet Ball John S. Knight Convention Center sively on international shipping. church grounds at 760 Wattles n NOTE TO OUR READERS • Late Night After Hours Party Cocktails 6:30pm-7:30pm Today our group controls 30 op - Road, Troy, MI/ for information This calendar of events section is Sheraton Suites Hospitality room 227 dinner 7:30pm-9:30pm erating subsidiaries in 25 loca - call 248-362-9575 or visit a complimentary service to the tions across four continents and www.opafest.com. Saturday will community. All parishes, organi - dance 9:30pm-1:30am Monday July 1st is predominantly focused on five feature Greek cooking demon - zations and institutions are en - Women's Auxiliary Event • Late Night After Hours core sectors: shipping, aviation, strations by the famed Three couraged to e-mail their informa - Sheraton Suites Hospitality room 227 • Convention Registration real estate, hospitality and en - Greek Sisters from Toronto. tion regarding the event 3-4 Sheraton Suites 9am-8pm ergy.” weeks ahead of time, and no later Thursday July 4th "The Institute has a triple ori - FLINT, MI – The Assumption than Monday of the week before • PAA Meetings Farewell Night Sheraton Suites main Ball room 9am-4pm entation," she said. It provides Greek Orthodox Church hosts its the event, to english.edition@ • PAA/PYA Meetings 9am-4pm clinical assistance with psychi - Greek festival on Jun. 22-24. thenationalherald.com • Tour of Akron 12pm-2pm • Free Day atric direction where needed, it • Cedar Point Amusement Park 9am-9pm (downtown Akron rib Cook Off Canal Park) can help financially people who • Amish Country Tour 10am-4pm • Farewell Night lack the resources to obtain treat - • Women's Award Banquet Dinner Dance/ PAA Greek Orthodox Church Community Center ment, and it undertakes research QUESTION OF THE WEEK Cultural Concert Event Cocktails 6:30pm-7:30pm through universities it cooperates Sheraton Banquette room 7pm dinner 7:30pm-9:30pm with. Vote on our website! • Late Night After Hours Party dance 9:30pm-1:30am The Institute works with 20 Sheraton Suites Hospitality room 227 • Firework Display therapeutic specialists. Andrew You have the chance to express your opinion on our website downtown Akron, Canal Park 10pm Stephanopoulos, brother of for - on an important question in the news. The results will be pub - Tuesday July 2nd mer White House official and lished in our printed edition next week along with the question Cretan Night Other Area Attractions journalist George Stephanopou - for that week. • Convention Registration los, supervises clinical services. The question this week is: Do you think affluent Greek- • Stan Hywet & Gardens In the reception area we were Americans are doing enough to help the needy in Greece? Sheraton Suites 10am-4pm • Akron Aeros Baseball Game pleasantly surprised to meet Na - o Yes • PAA Meetings Canal Park talia Nikolaidis, a young woman o No Sheraton Suites 9am-4pm • Hale Farm & Village from Greece who was receiving o Maybe • Tour of Akron • Akron Zoo psychology training under the The results for last week’s question: Should the Greek gov - • Aurora Farms Outlet Mall 11am-4pm • Akron Art Museum Greek internship program spon - ernment enact a law forbidding strikes during tourist season? sored by the Libra Group. They 77 % voted "Yes" CONTACT: STAVrOS ANTONAKAKiS - TEl. 609.929.6000 EmAil: [email protected] are assisting the young people of 23 % voted "No" www .pancretan.org Greece, who are facing another kind of labyrinth. Please vote at: www.thenationalherald.com THE NATIONAL HERALD, JUNE 22-28, 2013 COMMUNITY 3 John Negroponte: an Old School Diplomat Living in a Brave New World

By Constantine S. Sirigos one like him anymore.” ence, introduced both the fea - TNH Staff Writer Archbishop Demetrios noted tured speaker and the Founda - that the subjects of biographies tion, and acknowledged some of NEW YORK – Ambassador John and autobiographies often stum - the distinguished guests, includ - Negroponte spoke about his re - ble into narcissism or arrogance, ing the Consuls General of markable career in a lecture ti - but that was not the case with Greece and Cyprus respectively, tled “Life in Public Service” at Negroponte. It was thus neces - George Iliopoulos and Koula the second presentation of the sary, the Archbishop said, to in - Sophianou, Ambassador Lucas annual Hellenic-American Cul - form the audience about “the Tsillas, Executive Director of the tural Foundation Peter T. service you have offered the Onassis Center(USA), and Ne - Kourides Lecture Series on June Archdiocese,” on important is - groponte’s brothers, Michel an 18. sues,” and thanked him for “be - Emmy Award-winning film - The ambassador’s extempo - ing available immediately every maker, and George, a distin - raneous review not of his time we asked for your assis - guished artist. His brother achievements but of the chal - tance.” Nicholas, the founder of the MIT lenges and privileges entailed The quintessential public ser - Media Lab, was unable to attend. by being a witness to history en - vant is often put in a negative They reflect the spectacular thralled the audience. He was light by critics who associate success of the guidance of their conscious of not overburdening him with the presidents and parents, Dimitri Negroponte and them with lengthy talk, but his policies he served, but the Ama - Catherine Coumantaros. The subject matter, seasoned by his zon description of Liebmann’s former would say “it’s not about sense of humor, clearly a com - book notes that “He opposed the money,” and encouraged ponent of his persuasiveness Kissinger in Vietnam, argued them to pursue their interests. and effectiveness, caused lis - against direct military action Negroponte credits dinner teners to wish he would con - against Marxists in Central conversation with his father, a tinue for hours. America and warned that the shipping magnate who had as - Negroponte’s tenure as both PHOTOS: TNH/COSTAS BEJ a U.S. Foreign Service officer ABOVE: Nicholas Kourides, on behalf of the Hellenic-American from 1960 to 1997 and the po - Cultural Foundation, spoke about its work and the lecture series litical appointments which fol - established in honor of his father, Peter T. Kourides. RIGHT: lowed included service as The large crowd clung to every word of Ambassador Nicholas Deputy Secretary of State, Am - Negroponte, who was introduced by Nicholas Kourides. bassador to Honduras, México, and the Philippines, to the Director of National Intelligence “That might be a program,” the United Nations and finally as can be seen as the pinnacle of official advised his superiors. the first U.S. Ambassador in his career, however. The guests that packed the post-Saddam-Hussein-Iraq. In the post-9/11 turmoil, the auditorium of the renowned He gave a fascinating government needed someone to University Club in Manhattan overview of his time as a politi - lead the process of integrating were eager to hear his perspec - cal officer with the United States the work of 17 separate agen - tive on the current controversy Embassy in Vietnam from 1964- cies and once again a president over domestic surveillance and 1968, an experience that later turned to Negroponte to handle about striking the crucial bal - served him well in Iraq, where a great challenge. ance in a Democracy between he had to navigate treacherous One of his most pleasant as - security and civil liberties, but civilian-military relations. He signments was Consul General none of the questioners among also enthralled with a descrip - in Thessaloniki from 1975- them raised the issue during the tion of his subsequent work at 1976, when he hired the current Q&A that followed. the secret peace talks led by director of Greece’s press office Negroponte warned about Henry Kissinger, which paral - in New York, Nikos Papacon - involvement in Syria, saying leled the formal Paris peace stantinou, who was in atten - “our record of nation building talks. dance. Negroponte acknowl - and regime change during my Negroponte’s responsibilities edged the man he hired as an watch is not too good,” but he included providing Presidents advisor right after the latter’s dismissed criticism that Amer - the book by George W. Lieb - Iraq War could be “another Viet - pired to being a diplomat him - Reagan and George W. Bush with Greek military service. ica’s economic problems and the mann titled The Last American nam." self, with shaping his ambition their morning national security Negroponte evoked laughter complexity of a now truly multi- Diplomat: John D Negroponte Nicholas Kourides read some at 15 years old to pursue a For - briefings, but his time as U.S. when noted that the State De - polar world signaled the end of and the Changing Face of US words of praise from Kissinger, eign Service career. permanent representative to the partment had originally as - American dominance. “The Diplomacy, and Kourides quoted but Negroponte quipped, “I Negroponte and his wife, Di - United Nations from 2001 to signed him to Izmir, Turkey, but world still looks to us to play a Bob Woodward that he is “from don’t know where you got those ana, have five children: Marina, 2004 was a personal highlight. someone then membered “Ne - leadership role,” he said. the old school of the Foreign quotes.” Alexandra, John, George and His appointment as the first groponte” was a Greek name. Negroponte is the subject of Service… [there is] almost no Kourides welcomed the audi - Sophia. Recollections of My Mother, and Valuable Life Lessions I Learned from Her

Continued from page 1 from St. Louis in 1923, the year resentfully because of the intru - the cost of gas I’d used trans - of empathy did not deserve. author of 23 books. More info I was born, she organized a Red sion on my own time. porting her to the ER. That was on his work can be found at spirit slowly succumb to resig - Cross Bandage unit in our parish The seamstress lived in a a profit my complaints and lack Harry Mark Petrakis is the www.harrymarkpetrakis.com. nation and despair. I was the church that met throughout her mixed-race building, young one most responsible for placing lifetime and continued meeting black children on the landings her in the facility, a decision I after her death. After her con - watching us silently as we as - feel guilty about to this day. Per - finement in the nursing home, cended the stairs. Inside her sin - haps that is why I dream of her the Red Cross presented her gle room apartment, the seam - so often. with a medallion honoring her stress wept as she embraced my My mother not only exerted 65 years of unbroken service. mother. She was a small-boned every effort to help others, her I was probably no more than woman, with tiny fingers. Her spacious heart caused her to suf - nine or ten when I traveled with face was pale, her hair thinning fer their afflictions with them. my mother to visit an ailing and bleached some washed-out HE WILL MAKE US ALL PROUD As the wife of the parish priest, woman in our parish. We rode a shade of henna. she was a whirlwind of activity. streetcar, my mother carrying a The seamstress was in pain She organized women’s soci - basket laden with food. At the and when my mother asked eties, led fundraising drives, end of our journey, we de - about her pain relief medica - sold raffle tickets and solicited scended stone steps into a tions, she told us she lacked ads for the church publications. cramped, dismal one- room base - money to refill her prescriptions. Her efforts began soon after she ment apartment littered with pa - My mother sent me to a nearby pharmacy where I had the prescriptions filled and paid for them. Later, on our drive home I lamented the expense. “You know we have trouble paying our own bills,” I com - plained. “Why should I pay for a woman we barely know?” But my mother was unrelent - ing in her devotion and, during future visits, insisted I continue to refill and pay for the prescrip - tions. When the seamstress’s condition grew critical, I was also called several times to drive her to the emergency room of a nearby hospital. The seamstress had a perva - sive fear of ending up in a pau - per's ward in the County Hospi - tal. She had once found the ward in which her friend was a The Philanthropic activities of Harry Mark Petrakis’ mother patient, overcrowded and ne - knew no bounds, and included supporting the Red Cross. glected by the staff. A few days after one of our arrived in this country in 1916 pers, magazines and piles of visits, the seamstress died. After from the island of Crete with my soiled clothing. The woman, knocking on her door without a father and four of my siblings. sprawled in a large worn arm - response, a neighbor called the Within weeks after setting foot chair, was obese with a weary, building janitor who found the on American soil, and despite misery-ravaged face. As she re - seamstress unconscious on the not yet speaking English, my cited her ailments, her voice be - floor and called for an ambu - mother became active in Liberty came a drawn-out moan. lance. She was transported to Bond drives. In the interval be - A parishioner in my father's the County Hospital, the very tween wars, she worked with parish who owned a dairy had place she had feared to go, and Interfaith Groups, various char - promised my mother that he where she died a few days later. ity drives, the Chicago Beautiful would arrange for delivery of My mother made the funeral Committee and a host of phil - milk and eggs to the woman, a arrangements and convinced anthropic organizations. promise he failed to keep. My several affluent members of our A NEW YORKER FOR ALL NEW YORKERS When the Second World War mother phoned this man from parish into paying the expense broke out, she organized savings the woman’s apartment, her of the casket, grave and the bond rallies and worked with strong voice verbally lashing the cemetery charges for burial. Greek War Relief as well as with miscreant for his failure. Sometime after the funeral, Russian War Relief. Her efforts For all the years I can re - my mother told me. received commendations from member, my mother’s efforts to “You want to write about life, JOHN CATSIMATIDIS city and state officials as well as help those in need continued my son. This poor woman who praise from members of Con - unabated. At the end of each suffered so much and who has gress. She collected these letters Sunday meal, she’d gather left - now died is life." For Mayor of New York, 2013 in a pair of scrapbooks that grew overs and prepare to take them My mother was right, of bulkier through the years. In her to an impoverished family in our course. She understood that car - later life, when friends visited community. ing for the poor woman was the our house, she would bring out At one point during the years moral and compassionate thing A proud member of the Omogeneia her scrapbooks to show the dis - she lived with us, she took un - to do. She understood as well and the FIRST Greek-American to ever run for play of letters and photos. At der her benevolent concern a that her illness and death was those times I wondered pen - tiny frail seamstress living in a an experience to be absorbed New York City’s mayoral seat. sively if I lived to be an old man furnished room not far from our and understood. A few years af - in the house of one of our sons, house in South Shore. The ter the death of the seamstress, Together, we can make it happen! whether I would also pull out seamstress had been diagnosed I wrote a story titled Zena Dawn reviews and letters to show vis - with an untreatable cancer and about a seamstress who was dy - itors? my mother visited her several ing, and a compassionate black All her life until her confine - times a week, carrying leftovers woman who befriended her. ment in the nursing home, my from our table. I was con - When I sold the story, the mother's principal volunteer ac - scripted into service to drive my amount the magazine paid me www.cats2013.com tivity was the Red Cross. Not mother for her visits to the far exceeded any monies I had long after arriving in Chicago seamstress, a task I performed paid for the prescriptions and 4 COMMUNITY THE NATIONAL HERALD, JUNE 22-28, 2013 The Hellenic Initiative’s Plan for a New Greece: Brains, Energy, and Funds

Continued from page 1 three prongs…now we as the Presler is the group’s first em - Greek Diaspora have forged a ployee and Chris Chrisafides, a meets every week and there are bridge with a number of Greeks Dow employee, was the first vol - at least twice annual Board of in Greece who are helping much unteer staff person. Numerous Directors meetings and the Ex - more on the philanthropic side others have offered their time ecutive Committee meets at than people realize.” as mentors and guides. least once a quarter. But there Liveris echoed Stamas. “I get POSITIVE EARLY REVIEWS is very frequent communication calls and emails every day from Andy Manatos, President of for decision making about dif - people wanting to help – the re - the Coordinated Effort of Hel - ferent things that are happen - sponse has been inspiring.” lenes, told TNH it is a “wonder - ing.” DIASPORA POWER ful idea and they have already Presler added that the He grew up as the grandson done some wonderful things.” group’s mindset is “Let’s have of Greek immigrants in Darwin, He agrees that the recent big visions, but break them into Australia, and echoed the words Schumer amendment to the im - small pieces. Take something of many who are seeking to migration reform bill, in which that you can do and just move… help. “I am the product of Greek he played a leading role fits in in the right direction.” values and heritage. This up - with the Initiative’s vision. According to its website bringing inspired my love and It will enable Greeks and www.thehellenicinitiative.org, respect for Greece – its land and Cypriots to obtain work visas, “THI is a global, nonprofit, non- people – and my deep commit - enabling them to bring vital governmental, secular institu - ment to its future. My family lessons and experiences back to tion whose vision is to mobilize still owns property in Greece, He said that once it be - the Greek diaspora and philhel - Kastelorizo, and I return often comes law and staff is put in lene community to support sus - with my family, remaining true place to help people apply and tainable economic renewal for to our Greek roots. Building recruit “if we do that right we Greece and its people.” THI is one way to honor that can literally create thousands of Stamas told TNH of the legacy.” positions here.” Presler said are group’s genesis. Around Febru - Stamas said it remains their developing an internship pro - ary, 2012 several of them, in - challenge to continue “to look gram that should benefit. cluding Andrew Liveris, the CEO for ways to unleash the passion Basil Mossaides, the Execu - and Chairman of DOW Chemi - of the Greek Diaspora and point tive Director of the Order of cal, George David, CEO of Hel - it in a unified way, where we all Former U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, left, Chairman and CEO of Coca-Cola, AHEPA, told TNH “the initiative lenic Bottling, Muhtar Kent of come together,” at the goal of Muhtar A. Kent, center, and Yangon region Chief Minister Myint Swe, right, applaud during an is a wonderful way for Diaspora the CEO of Coca Cola, began di - helping Greece. inaugural ceremony of Coca-Cola bottling plant, in Yangon, Myanmar on June 4. Greeks to help Greece get back aloguing on “what are the ways Greek immigrants have been on its feet and there is no better we in the Diaspora can coordi - very good, he said, at both as - quires investment. While nei - unique but you have to give a Honorary Advisor. way to do it than with business. nate and help, and whether we similation and maintaining their ther the Greek government nor nod to the Greek government Its Board of Directors, which Because AHEPA is a philan - could make a difference.” Greek heritage, but he said this consumers have money to in - and Samaras, who have adopted is still in formation, “is a group thropic organization that is He said “we reached out to endeavor “requires a more in - vest, there are strong companies the slogan ‘let’s turn red tape to of Greeks, Greek Diaspora and working in Greece directly and ward and unified look” at our that can and will grow if they red carpets,’ for investment. Liv - philhellenes committed to the through groups like IOCC, the culture and who we are… and have access to capital….We eris agrees and adds “Like all success of the organization and Initiative reached out to them to come together in ways that have already secured anchor in - governments, it is not perfect, to the long-term prosperity of for help on the philanthropic we haven’t done that effectively vestors committed to establish - but his coalition has performed Greece.” Each member of the side. AHEPA and the Initiative before.” He agrees that people ing a double bottom line of job very well under difficult circum - board has contributed at least also discussed how its “26 chap - are looking for good examples creation and investment re - stances.” $100,000 and includes John Pa - ters in Greece could be used as and that the successes of groups turns.” Basing his optimism on facts pajohn, Ted Leonsis, Nikos a conduit regarding business op - like THI have a multiplier effect. Liveris added however, that on the ground, he said the new Mouyiaris, George Marcus, Dou - portunities they are aware of Liveris said “focused efforts “capital can only go so far. To attitude and approach “is very glas Band, Achilles Constanta - and how the initiative can help are already underway in each be successful in the long term, widespread in the senior circles kopoulos, Jeremy Downward, them get funding or whatever [of the above areas]. We re - businesses, especially young of the government, and we are Declan Kelly, John Koundounis, then need,” Mossaides said. cently announced $650,000 in ones, need support in areas like in constant touch with them… Nicholas Lazares, Nick Mitaros, Endy Zemenides, founding grants to support a core group marketing, finance, and strat - the change in attitude is extra - Nicholas G. Pappas, and George President of Hellenic American of carefully selected nonprofit egy. For example, winners of ordinary, its 180 degree and re - Svokos. Leadership Council (HALC) said organizations that are already THI’s Hellenic Entrepreneurship minds you that in every crisis There is also an Investment of the Initiative “There is great providing a critical safety net to Award are being provided with there is an opportunity.” Advisory board and George potential there. It’s a very families affected by the eco - a senior business mentor as - A LINEUP OF HEAVY Fokos leads the philanthropy worthwhile effort to bring to - nomic crisis, efficiently and at signed from one of the Libra HITTERS committee. gether Hellenes with such great scale. These initial grants, made Group’s global businesses to According to the Initiative’s Among their most active in connections and capabilities.” to SOS Children’s Villages, provide advice and guidance website, the Executive Commit - volunteers in Athens and the He noted, however that it is CEO and Chairman of the Apostoli & IOCC, and Praxis, throughout every stage of the tee consists of Stamas, Liveris, United States are Peter Poulos important to “take the case Board of Dow Chemical An - will build on the scale and ef - business start-up.” Dean Dakolias, George David, and Peter Chresanthakes, the more to the community and drew Liveris. fectiveness of specific existing Numerous observers have Muhtar Kent, George M. Logo - Development Director of Anato - make it better understood by programs which have clearly de - noted progress, but Stamas thetis, Alexander Navab, George lia College, who has a back - people.” Nevertheless, he the Diaspora and realized many fined goals. Future support will warned “Greece is hardly out of Sakelaris, and Harry Wilson. Fa - ground in financial services. added, “there is no grouping of people are looking for a means be tied to progress against these the woods, and it’s hardly ther Alexander Karloutsos is its individuals anywhere better po - to help… and we felt we could outcomes.” sitioned or experienced to guide pull together and make a differ - Liveris is pleased that “Our the Greek government on what ence. first annual Hellenic Entrepre - it takes to attract large industry, “We wanted it to be an orga - neurship Award,” which was and then go and attract it for nization dedicated to the future spearheaded by George Logo - Greece.” welfare of the Greek people that thethis, and underwritten by the He also believes that while was permanent in nature, and Libra Group, where he is CEO SMEs play a large role in not just a short term relief ef - and Chairman, “is aimed at Greece’s private sector, it is im - forts,” although they are com - sparking a new generation of perative that large scale industry mitted to the charitable compo - business entrepreneurs and civic be quickly attracted and incen - nent because Greek social service leaders, [and has] selected four tivized to locate in Greece be - funding has been cut severely. promising Greek start-ups in cause the unemployed cannot Their biggest concern was April based on their smart busi - buy the goods and services of that “the entrepreneurial spirit ness ideas that were grounded the SMEs. was being drained out of the in pragmatism and financial “It’s not an academic exercise Greek people, especially the prudence. Stella Mare, Corfu for them. They do it for their youth,” and they saw the lack Living History Museum, Great companies in the United States,” of liquidity in the business mar - Catering and RabT will share in he said. It is also the subject of ket place. Those three observa - €575,000 of interest free fund - Liveris’ highly regarded 2011 tions caused them to consider ing, in addition to expert men - book “Make it in America.” building a permanent organiza - toring and support.” Nick Larigakis agrees that the tion modeled after the American THI will also assist small and endeavors should include both Ireland Fund, and the American medium-sized enterprises direct humanitarian aid and Jewish Committee. (SMSs) with growth potential programs to promote economic “One by one, with financial through a $100 million invest - growth and entrepreneurship. and moral support from many ment fund – that part is for TNH ArCHiVES “They are a shining example for people, I think we have now profit, the other two prongs are (L-R) Andrew Liveris former President Bill Clinton, George Stamas, Andreas Dracopoulos, uniden - other Greek Americans to pro - reached a critical mass where charitable endeavors. “We tified participant, Development Minister Kostis Hatzidakis, Foreign Minister Dimitris Avramopou - vide resources, and to join, and they are “bringing support to all know that Greek recovery re - los, Prime Minister Antonis Samaras, and Finance Minister Yiannis Stournaras in July 2012. be part of it,” he said. Orthodox Christian Studies Center at Fordham U Illuminates Critical Issues

TNH Staff also to re-examine certain ways to the larger community and to ideas and then it took off.” education around 2004 with the Christian who is a professor in of thinking about Orthodoxy.” foster better understanding of Demacopoulos said they lecture “Orthodoxy in America.” Fordham’s philosophy depart - BRONX – If the title did not Papanikolaou said the issues Orthodoxy by the media, poli - have had great support from the Through the generosity of Solon ment. need an explanation the topic “are timely given the situation cymakers, and the public, and Archdiocese and the Ecumenical and Marianna Patterson the tri - On June 10 the Center’s lead - would not merit an interna - in Eastern Europe in the tradi - it is now pursuing the necessary Patriarchate. ennial lecture series was ership and friends gathered at tional conference. “Christianity, tional Orthodox countries who resources. This year’s conference ex - launched with “Orthodox Read - Thalassa restaurant in Manhat - Democracy and the Shadow of are in a post-communist situa - The Center has established plores “the ambivalence that has ings of Augustine.” The second tan. According to a press re - Constantine” was presented by tion. The Center is a place in projects and programing and it historically existed between one was titled “Orthodox Con - lease, the guests celebrated the Orthodox Christian Studies general that facilitates intellec - is looking to expand them. It is structions of the West.” “winning an important Chal - Center of Fordham University tual inquiry and engagement the only place in the United Papanikolaou and Dema - lenge Grant from the National June 11-13 at the famed Jesuit with Orthodox Christianity States where one can minor in Demacopoulos believes copoulos handle everything to - Endowment for the Humanities, school’s Rose Hill campus. through teaching and scholar - Orthodox Christian studies. that the Center’s programs gether, but the former special - the most prestigious grant avail - The event, which attracted ship and in a way that is rele - They also co-sponsor a confer - are “critical for engaging izes in contemporary Orthodox able for humanities-based schol - scholars and well-read laymen vant to ecclesial communities ence with the Academy for The - thinkers and the latter is more arship in the United States. alike, is “The Third Solon and and public discourse, and to the ological Studies in Volos, regions of the world… focused on Church history. NEH will provide the center Marianna Patterson Triennial promotion on Christian unity.” Greece. where Orthodoxy is Demacopoulos’ book on the $500,000 once $1.5 million is Conference on Orthodox Demacopoulos believes that The Center was born “by issue of the primacy of Rome raised by the University. The Catholic Relations.” the Center’s programs are “crit - grace, the Holy Spirit, luck, the dominant expression called “The Invention of Peter” funding will be used to provide Dr. Aristotle Papanikolaou, ical for engaging regions of the whatever you want to call it,” of Christianity.” was just released, and last year a space within the University for Professor of Theology and co- world…where Orthodoxy is the Papanikolaou said, after he was Papanikolaou published a book engagement with Orthodox founding Director of the Center dominant expression of Chris - hired in 2000 and Demacopou - Democracy and Christianity… titled “The Mystical as Political: Christianity by undergraduate along with Dr. George Dema - tianity.” This spring Demacopou - los arrived in 2002. They were The Roman Catholic Church Democracy and Non-Radical Or - and graduate students, faculty, copoulos, told TNH that the los ran an important seminar on “approached by a wonderful Je - went through the same debate thodoxy.” alumni and members of the ex - conference series’s purpose is "The Arab Spring and the Future suit, who is now in Rome, Fr. over the past 60 years and ulti - Fordham also offers a num - tended Fordham family.” “to tear away some of the road - of Christianity in the Middle Gerald Vlasczak,” who asked mately said they are compati - ber of related courses in areas For more information or to blocks that get in the way of East." “what can we do for the Ortho - ble,” Demacopoulos said. like Byzantine art, and history, support the NEH Challenge Christian unity, between Part of the plan for the Cen - dox community here at Ford - The Center began its pro - and politics in Russia. Christina Grant, visit Catholics and Orthodox, but ter is to help present Orthodoxy ham? “We came up with some gramming to advance Orthodox Gfchwandtner is an Orthodox www.fordham.edu/orthodoxy. THE NATIONAL HERALD, JUNE 22-28, 2013 COMMUNITY 5

ALL HISTORY The Long-Range Situation of the Greek-American Long-Playing Record

By Steve Frangos Greek musicians. TNH Staff Writer Aside from the music one hears on these long-playing CHICAGO- It is difficult to say, records, we also have the record at this juncture in history, what covers (sometimes called jack - the future of the Greek American ets) to examine. Not only is the long-playing record will ulti - discography most often found mately provide posterity. Those on these covers but also some - simply interested in hearing, times photographs of the musi - singing and dancing to music are cians along with some printed in another category completely. information on their careers and Their aesthetic appreciation of even thoughts about their music. the music extends well past any It so happens that various Greek- mere historical issues. For those American writers became known who wish to learn what the orig - for their record jacket notes that inal musicians, producers and can still be found on a wide ar - music lovers intended to convey ray of Greek long-playing or experienced must now ignore records released in North Amer - what is presently offered as the ica. history of Greek music in North Among their number was Val America. It is a twisted fantasy. Arms (originally Emmanuel It is a “Greek-from-Greece-only” “YA’SSOO! Sing-Along.” LP’s and their covers provide valuable The RCA Victor record “Diplopennies (The Greeks Have a dance Tsamaras) who in the spring of fable foisted on an unsuspecting information about Greek-American history. for it) announces on its cover “Recorded in Greece.” 1947 became an associate editor public as authentic history. for Dance Magazine. Many may To begin with, rebetika was does not change what took – well it just cannot be Greek disagree with, Greek-America is Greek audiences in North Amer - recall Arms for his hosting of never the most popular Greek place. Discovering and faithfully and is therefore ignored. once again left to its own devices ica? Certainly the series pro - musical events in the New York music in North America. As a reporting upon what is known Now being as Greek as the to preserve its cultural and artis - duced by Capital Records with City area. Arms also wrote the musical genre said to be of the as “the native point of view” is next Hellene I would simply ig - tic traditions. One of the ways bilingual titles such as “The liner notes for numerous Greek lowest social classes, originating for all intents and purposes the nore those others I disagree with this preservation can take place Streets of Athens/E Dromi tis long-playing albums produced in the cafes along the water- central tenet of the social sci - and go about my business as if is to make sure Greek and Athenes” or “Ena vrathi stin in the United States during the fronts of the eastern Aegean, no ences as now practiced. Unless, they and all their writings were Greek-American long-playing 33 Athena/A Summer Evening in 1960s. “Gus Vali and his Parea: one seems able to explain how of course, you are in the make- invisible…if it were not for the 1/3rpm records are donated to Athens” were clearly target mar - Sing Along in Greek (UAS-6213: it traveled to Denver, San Fran - believe world of Modern Greek public record. What they think reputable musical archives. keted for a Greek audience re - 1963)” and “Bouzoukee Boule - cisco and the rest of the Greek- studies in the nation state of in Greece is not now nor has it Greek music recorded and/or siding outside Greece. The great - vard” are just two among those American population. Also what Greece. ever been the deciding factor in produced in the United States est horror the “Greece Only” long-playing records. What I be - academics presently allege is “re - What we see developing now Greek-American studies. Learn - dates from the 1890s with a ma - writers can imagine is that a lieve the “Greek Only” person is betika” music, today, is not al - is a freakish moment in the his - ing about what Greeks who lived jor expansion taking place in Greek-buying audience abroad afraid of is finding those long- ways what is printed on the orig - tory of the Greek experience in in the United States actually did 1917-1918. While long-playing directly influenced the produc - playing albums such as “YA’S - inal record labels! the United States. At the very and thought is what the Greeks records date only from around tion of Greek music (and other SOO! Sing-Along” or that RCA Record catalogs, business same time that Greek-Americans in Greece should learn about. 1960-1963, in terms of mass cultural events and products) in Victor record “Diplopennies (The records, sheet music, and actual are producing a flood of biogra - They don’t have to agree with production, they are more likely Greece. Greeks Have a dance for it) records from the private collec - phies, church and fraternal or - it, but ignoring it or making up to be held today by Greek-Amer - If we cast aside all long-play - which on the covers announces tions of Greek Americans, now ganization histories, photo-his - fairy tales about those people icans than say musical cylinders, ing Greek long-playing records “Recorded in Greece.” in archives, all attest to a much tory volumes, and every manner and events is well beyond ridicu - piano rolls or 78 rpm records. recorded and produced in North As I have said, there is one wider range of musical interests. of fictional writing, the Greeks lous. Also, since language com - One of the major cultural America how can it be honestly sure way to fight those who Next, it is striking, in the ex - in Greece (as well as Greek aca - petency is such a core issue, blind-spots for the “Greece be - said that an unprejudiced eval - would falsify Greek-American treme, to discovery how many demics in the USA) are ignoring those who write about Greek fore All Else” proponents is the uation of these musicians is be - history, that is to deposit your published sources on Greek- all but a very select few of these music in North America should diverse ways in which Greeks in ing made? Wait I forgot. Excuse long-playing 33 1/3 rpm Greek American immigrant music only expressions of personal experi - seek out editors who are native- the United States (and the rest me. If Gus Vali, Trio Bel Canto, and Greek-American albums in cite musicians who traveled ence. As the unstated policy speakers of American English. At of the diaspora for that matter) Yiorgos Katsaros, George Stratis, a public archive. Disappearing from Greece to perform for goes, if you do not speak Greek, least their wacky presentations were consumers of goods pro - James Stoynoff, Trio Kitara, history just because you disagree Greek ethnic audiences rather if you do not write Greek, if you of Greek-American history duced in the nation state of George Soffos or any of the with it may be how Greeks in than consider – or at the very do not express your sense of would then be easier to read (or Greece — including (but not other American-based musicians Greece solve problems, but that least name – those Greek-born Greek identity in exactly the decipher) than is commonly the limited to) music. So, logically are not playing/performing mu - is not what is done by those who musicians who resided in the same way that someone born case now. then, we must ask: which sic exactly as they were or are truly love all things Greek. 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GREEK AMERICAN STORIES Nostalgia – The Old Neighborhood

By Phylis (Kiki) Sembos strict. Still, I liked going. The town to see the ol’ neighbor - Special to The National Herald other kids hated it. My brother hood. Surfacing from the sub - would cry before going and Ma way, I thought I’d gotten off in Being kids in Hell’s Kitchen couldn’t see tears in her little Calcutta. during the Great Depression Νικολακι’ s eyes. So, we didn’t To my dismay, a neighbor meant having no toys, being a go anymore. told us, “That family moved little hungry and making do But, we’d find a myriad of away long ago - bought a pri - with what’s there. We did have entertainment in other ways – vate house in Brooklyn.” Costa’s a ball, called a spaldeen, which like bugs. Ma would buy apples and Marino’s were gone. People was actually a Spalding. It was from the stands along Ninth Av - bought refrigerators so Joe, the our pride and joy. enue where a kaleidoscope of ice man was gone, too. But, be - One Christmas, at the P.A.L. fruit and vegetable stores ing April the circus still came gift-giving event held in the old abounded. Biting into one I’d around. The guard who used to Madison Square Garden, my find a little green worm. In let us sneak into the old Madi - brother got a yo-yo. He got so those days everything was or - son Square garden was gone, good at it. There were street ganic. too. So, too, was the Garden – games like Ringolevio, I declare My brother hardly ever having moved to 33rd Street. war, Kick the can, Hide n’ seek, found one. I suspect he ate Pappas’ grocery store was up - and Patsy. Then, we played with them. Hey! That’s what hunger graded and it was there I vendor discarded oranges that does! I’d name mine ‘ σκουλικι ’ learned that bratty, Γεοργακι kids in the neighborhood threw The leftover chunks were picked or ’ φιδι’. When my brother, had become professor of history at each other or ice chunks from up by us as ammunition. It was Nicky, finally found one, he’d and to Κατινακι was teacher/di - Joe, the ice man’s stall situated better than the oranges because feed it to the hungry spider that rector in a school teaching cos - between two buildings. Joe, a the evidence melted and no one lived under the bureau in our tume and design. stringy, vein-ridden Sicilian could blame us for tossing any - house. Nothing was left of the old hardly spoke any English. His thing - except ‘ το Κατινακι ’ or But, we moved away. Nicky neighborhood. Most Greeks and face reflected the hardness of to ‘ Γεοργακι who were bratty got his dream bicycle. I got my Italians had moved to better the times. The two grocery sore losers. When they’d hit me dream skates. The war was over neighborhoods and newer im - stores, side by side, were Costa’s or my brother they’d laugh and and cars crowded the streets migrants were occupying the (Italian) and Marino’s (Greek). run away. We never squealed. that became too dangerous for tenement buildings. Gone were The Italians patronized Costa’s But, when we’d hit them they’d bicycles and skating. There were the potted basil and parsley and the Greeks, Marino’s. Yet, go squawking to their Mitera three black and white TV sta - plants that dotted green on fire TNH/COSTAS BEJ everyone respected one an - and Patera. tions and we’d fight over what escapes and sills. Gone, too, Flagship Community is Missing its Flags other; the kids played together They were the better readers to watch. He wanted westerns; were the pretty Priscilla or lace and I can’t recall trouble be - in the Greek School situated I wanted musicals. Years passed curtains at shiny windows. Greek and American flags once graced the entrance of The tween neighbors or the kids. Joe above Pappas’ grocery store on and I sure missed Hell’s Kitchen Drabness permeated. The Archdiocesan Cathedral of the Holy Trinity in New York City. used an ice pick to chopped Ninth Avenue. And, why not! – even το Κατινακι and to Γεορ - streets were more littered, the Recently the Greek one was replaced by the Patriarchate’s seal away customer’s requests. We’d They were born in Greece. I at - γακι. I wondered what became buildings unkempt, the people – now both flags are missing. The Dean of the Cathedral told hear from the windows above, tended only two weeks but of them. So, using nickels, got - less friendly. Or, am I being nos - TNH they need to raise funds for a third flagpole. Many mem - “JOE! BRING UP TEN CENTS learned the alphabet. The ten by cashing in empty bottles talgically pessimistic, letting age bers of the community expressed dismay. Businessman Petros ICE. THIRD FLOOR. FRONT.” teacher, Κυριο s Μοσχο s, was of soda, I took the A train down - cloud my imagination? Gromitsaris has offered to pay for it.

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The Washington Post School for the University of brated services in rented halls. Archimandrite Alexopoulos support new parishes among the Athens and the Theological Under Alexopoulos, the com - chancellor of the first Bishop of Greek immigrants. His ministry WASHINGTON, DC – The Academy of Moscow for his the - munity was finally established the Greek Orthodox Church in covered not only New England, memory of His Eminence Met - ological studies. on the corner of 6th and G America, Bishop Alexander of but many parts of the State of ropolitan Joachim Alexopoulos Ordained to the diaconate Streets, where Archimandrite Rodostolon. Then, in 1919, he New York, and even Canada. He was honored on Father's Day, and to priesthood in 1904, he Joachim served from 1906 to was appointed presiding priest served as the ruling hierarch in June 16 at Saint Sophia Cathe - was appointed the first Dean of 1918. From March 1906 to April of Saint Nicholas in Pittsburgh, Boston until 1930, when he was dral of Washington, DC. the Theological Seminary of 1907, Archimandrite Joachim where he served until 1920, and called back to Volos, Greece, The memorial service was of - Arta, and was eventually ele - also served as part-time pastor where he helped to raise the and elevated to the rank of Met - fered in loving commemoration vated to the rank of Archiman - of the newly established Greek necessary funds to establish the ropolitan of Demetrias. of Metropolitan Joachim, one of drite. In 1906, the Church of Orthodox Community of the An - community that is the Greek Or - A HERO DURING the pioneer priests of the Greek Greece sent the young Archi - nunciation, Baltimore, MD, thodox Cathedral of Saint THE HOLOCAUST Orthodox community. He was mandrite Alexopoulos to Amer - which offered Saint Sophia Nicholas, to this day. During the Nazi occupation born George Alexopoulos on ica, specifically, to the fledgling Church the amount of $100 In 1920, Archimandrite Alex - of Greece in 1943, Metropolitan November 8, 1873, in Goura of Greek Orthodox community of every six months for him to opoulos succeeded Fr. Joachim Joachim sent word to the Chief Corinth, Greece, where he re - Saint Sophia in Washington, DC, travel to Baltimore one Sunday Malahias as the priest at the Rabbi of the Jewish community ceived his primary education. as its first permanently assigned a month to celebrate Divine Church of the Annunciation in of Volos, to flee the town and Eventually, he completed his pastor. Having been founded in Liturgy and to conduct sacra - Boston, Massachusetts, at a time find refuge in the surrounding secondary school education in 1904, the community up until ments. following World War I when the mountain villages. Alexopoulos Aigion and Patras, and then that time had been serviced by In 1918, the Holy Synod of Greek disasters of Asia Minor provided letters of introduction went on to the Theological an itinerant priest, and cele - the Church of Greece appointed occurred in Turkey that caused instructing the village priests to plans for a new church in help and protect the Jews "in Boston to become dormant. every way." When the Nazis re - Alexopoulos revitalized these alized the Chief Rabbi had fled, Metropolitan plans, and a new church was they demanded the Metropoli - Joachim Alexopoulos Ithaca Mourns the Tragic Loss of Giannelis completed in 1924, which was tan hand over the list of Jewish designated the Boston Cathe - residents. He defiantly refused, name is inscribed in the Holo - dral. answering "I am a Jew." caust Museum in Washington, By Evan C. Lambrou ing husband Emmanuel, to On June 28, 1923, Archi - Due to the valiant efforts of DC, as well as the Honor Wall Special to The National Herald whom she was happily married mandrite Joachim was ap - Metropolitan Joachim, of the of the Righteous at Yad Vashem for 26 years; her son Paul, who pointed the first Greek Ortho - more than 1000 Jews living in in Jerusalem. ITHACA, N.Y. – Harriet (Harik - just completed his freshman dox Bishop of Boston, with the Volos at that time, over 700 He fell asleep in the Lord in lia) Giannelis, the beloved wife year at Cornell; her parents, Em - new Annunciation Boston were saved. On October 13, 1959, and is survived in the of a highly respected engineer - manuel and Tsambika Kout - Cathedral as his seat. During his 1997, the State of Israel posthu - Washington, DC, area by his ing professor at Cornell Univer - souris, who traveled from the years as the leader of the Greek mously recognized Metropolitan grandniece, Mary Hatziyiannis sity, was struck by a car while island of Rhodes for the funeral; Orthodox Community in the Joachim Alexopoulos as "Right - and family of Bethesda, MD, as riding her bicycle on Wednesday her brother John (Margaret); Boston area, his Grace, Bishop eous among the Nations." well as by family members in morning, June 12. She was 49 and her nephews, Michael and Joachim, helped establish and Today the Metropolitan's Greece. years old. Lukas. Mrs. Giannelis was traveling Her untimely passing is south on Warren Road, and had mourned by family, friends, crossed the entranceway of Borg neighbors and coworkers alike. DEATH NOTICES Warner Automotive when she Harriet lived for her family. was struck from behind by a She was a devoted aunt and car - southbound driver who was ex - ing godmother who deeply ap - n ANTONOPOULOS, the son of the late Nikos and 23) - Alexis, Marina (nee iting the Borg Warner parking preciated her friends. She was THEODORE Eleni (Tsagris) Antonopoulos. Spiropoulos) beloved wife of lot about 7:30 AM. kind and courteous to everyone WEST ORANGE, NJ (From the He was a resident of Monroe Constantine "Dino" Alexis; lov - Mrs. Giannelis died instantly. she met, and as her funeral Star-Ledger, published on June County, Pa., since 1989 and, ing mother of John, Bob and Her body was transported to Harriet (Hariklia) Giannelis clearly indicated, she will be 16) – Theodore Antonopoulos, prior to that, of Essex County, Frank (Despina "Penny") Alexis; Cayuga Medical Center shortly sorely missed by all who were 96, of Stroudsburg, Pa., passed N.J. He served in the Greek Yiayia of Marina, Niki, and after investigators arrived at the Canada and Greece to pay their fortunate enough to have away on Saturday, Jun. 15 at his Army in World War II. Prior to Dean; dear sister of Alice (the scene. Tompkins County Sher - respects. known her. daughter's home in West Or - his retirement, he owned and late Danny) Barbarigos, Diane iff’s deputies are still investigat - Harriet Giannelis was born Funeral arrangements were ange, N.J. Funeral services will operated several restaurants in (James) Panos, Helen Edwards, ing the precise nature of the in New Jersey in 1963. She by Bangs Funeral Home, and be held on Wednesday, Jun. 19 New Jersey. While he was living James Spiropoulos, Rita John - tragic accident, which sent earned her bachelor’s degree in burial was at Lakeview Ceme - at 11 AM at the Holy Cross in Greece, he was chief engineer son and the late Pam Johnsen; shockwaves of grief throughout Accounting at Fairleigh Dickin - tery. The reception, held at St. Greek Orthodox Church, 135 for an airplane manufacturer. fond aunt of many nieces and Ithaca and the surrounding son University, and worked for Catherine’s parish hall after - Stokes Ave., Stroudsburg. Burial He was the husband of the late nephews here and in Greece. area. a big-eight public accounting wards, was catered by the will follow in the Stroudsburg Efthimia "Effie" (Kalepanagos) Visitation Thursday from More than 400 people at - firm. Heights Café & Grill, which is Cemetery. There will be view - Antonopoulos. Theodore is sur - 4:00pm to 9:00pm at Smith- tended her funeral at St. Cather - After moving to Ithaca, she owned and operated by James ings on Tuesday, June 18 from vived by his two daughters, He - Corcoran Funeral Home 6150 ine’s Church in downtown joined Tompkins Community and Heidi Larounis, and was 2 to 4 and 7 to 9 PM. at the len Hennessy and her husband, N. Cicero Ave., Chicago. Family Ithaca this past Monday, June Action, which she served with one of Harriet’s favorite restau - Thomas Funeral Home, 401 Jim, of Frederick, Md., and and friends will meet Friday 17, which was officiated by tremendous commitment and rants. North 5th St., Stroudsburg, Pa. Fanny Drimonis and her hus - morning at SS. Peter & Paul three Greek Orthodox priests. dedication for 25 years as fi - In lieu of flowers, donations Theodore was born on Feb. 25, band. Dimitrios, of West Or - Greek Orthodox Church 1401 The funeral was attended not nance director. She was also in Harriet’s memory can be 1917, in Epitalion Elias Greece, ange, N.J.; his grandchildren, Wagner Rd., Glenview, IL 60025 only by members of Ithaca’s very actively involved with and made to St. Catherine’s Greek Dimitrios, Teddy, Effie and for visitation from 9:30 AM until Greek American community, but deeply devoted to the local Orthodox Church (120 W. Tessa; several nieces and time of funeral service at also by many friends of the Gi - Philoptochos Society at St. Seneca Street, Ithaca, NY days and dates of funerals, nephews, and many friends. 10:00am. Interment Memorial annelis family in the wider Catherine’s Church, which she 14850), or to the Food Pantry memorials, and other events di - Park Cemetery. In lieu of flow - Ithaca and Cornell communities. had recently served as presi - at Tompkins Community Action rectly correspond to the original n MARINA ALEXIS ers, memorial donations to SS. Friends and relatives also came dent. (701 Spencer Road, Ithaca, NY publication date, which appears CHICAGO (From the Chicago Peter & Paul Church would be from as far as New Jersey, Harriet is survived by her lov - 14850). at the beginning of each notice. Sun-Times, published on May appreciated. THE NATIONAL HERALD, JUNE 22-28, 2013 GREECE CYPRUS 7 Cyprus President Says Original Bailout Will Not Work, Wants a New One

NICOSIA- Three months after not taken into consideration Cyprus’s bailout three of the which puts up most of the res - banks have been eased, but re - he agreed to onerous terms in when it was Cyprus’s turn to bloc’s officials told Reuters. EU cue money. main in place. The president return for a 10 billion euros seek help.” officials said there was no in - To qualify for the 10 billion said such “artificial” measures ($13 billion) bailout from inter - He asked EU leaders to un - tention to alter the terms of the euros, Cyprus has to find 13 bil - “will only aggravate the deposi - national lenders, Cypriot Presi - wind the complex restructuring loans agreed with Cyprus or to lion euros ($17 billion) in tors the longer they persist.” He dent Nicos Anastasiades said it and partial merger of its two supply more funds. The sources spending cuts or ways to raise added: “Rather than creating already is showing signs it won’t largest banks, which account for suggested Anastasiades was revenues because the lenders confidence in the banking sys - work and he’s asking them to 80 percent of the domestic aware no revision was likely, but said there was no chance a big - tem they are eroding it by the redo the terms. They rejected banking sector, backed by fur - that he wanted to gain some po - ger bailout could ever be repaid. day. The success of the program his plea. ther Eurozone loans. litical ground with his disen - Anastasiades asked for part approved by the Eurogroup and He asked Eurozone leaders The government is seizing up chanted populace. of the 9 billion eurosgiven to the Troika depends upon the for a complete revamp of the to 80 percent and more of pri - It is the second time Anas - Laiki in so-called emergency liq - emergence of a strong and vi - rescue package he supported af - vate accounts over 100,000 eu - tasiades has voiced dissatisfac - uidity assistance by the Eeu - able Bank of Cyprus. It is for this ter first rejecting it, saying the ros ($132,000) in state banks, tion with the terms of the rosystem’s central banks to be reason that I urge you to sup - deal he signed will hurt the wiping out not just rich foreign bailout, which his government converted into long-term bonds. port a long-term solution to country’s economy and shaky investors but also the life sav - negotiated only weeks after be - These bonds would be used to Bank of Cyprus's thin liquidity banking system even more than ings of Cypriots who put money ing elected. unwind the partial merger of position,” he added. expected. aside for retirement, college In early April Anastasiades the “good” assets of Laiki with The crisis has severely weak - In a letter, Anastasiades funds and emergencies. told reporters in Nicosia he Bank of Cyprus. ened confidence in the island wrote that the restructuring of A senior Eurozone official di - would ask European Commis - “The success of the program country’s banking system which the country’s two largest banks rectly involved in the Cypriot sion President Jose Manuel Bar - approved by the Eurogroup and was brought to the edge of ruin was “implemented without care - talks said EU officials were “puz - roso and European Council the Troika depends upon the by its large holdings in Greek ful preparation,” wiping out the zled” by the letter, adding fi - President Herman Van Rompuy emergence of a strong and vi - bonds that were devalued 74 working capital of many Cypriot nance ministers would discuss for extra assistance given the able Bank of Cyprus. It is for this percent and in bad loans to companies and requiring un - it at meeting on June 20. bad economic situation of the reason that I urge you to sup - Greek businesses that went precedented capital controls “Essentially he is asking for island. port a long-term solution to belly-up in that country’s crush - that were suffocating the is - Cypriot President Nicos Anas - a complete reversal of the pro - EU officials clarified later Bank of Cyprus’s thin liquidity ing economic crisis, costing land’s economy. tasiades. gram,” the official told The Fi - that the discussion concerned position,” he explained in his Cypriot investors some 4.5 bil - Cypriots are still limited to nancial Times, adding that the the early use of EU structural letter. lion euros ($5.94 billion) in only 300 euros ($395) in daily pean Union-International Mon - failure to prepare for the funds, money from the EU bud - Anastasiades complained losses. ATM withdrawals and while etary Fund-European Central bailout’s impact was partially get to help development in that “no distinction was made The size of the loss was businesses have more lenient Bank (EU-IMF-ECB.) “I urge you the fault of Anastasiades’ gov - member states, allotted to between long-term deposits nearly half the country’s Gross conditions, Anastasiades said a to review the possibilities in or - ernment, which initially voted Cyprus in the next seven-year earning high returns and money Domestic Product and left the country’s economy can’t operate der to determine a viable down a rescue package that budget to help boost growth. flowing through current ac - banks in an untenable position. with fiscal handcuffs. prospect for Cyprus and its peo - would have gone after guaran - Although the letter does not counts, such as firms’ working While he knew that before being “(The) economy is driven ple.” teed deposits under 100,000 eu - explicitly request more money, capital” and that “This elected in February, Anastasi - into a deep recession, leading “The bail-in was imple - ros as well before accepting a Anastasiades is in effect asking amounted to a significant loss ades said at the time he would to a further rise in unemploy - mented without careful prepa - revised deal. for further Eurozone loans, of working capital for busi - reject any idea of going after ment and making fiscal consoli - ration,” he wrote. “The heavy HE’S ON HIS OWN which has already been ruled nesses.” private bank deposits but dation all the more difficult,” he burden placed on Cyprus by the The Eurozone does not in - out by a number of Eurozone Capital restrictions imposed changed his mind almost as wrote to the Troika of the Euro - restructuring of Greek debt was tend to change the terms of countries, led by Germany, to prevent a run on Cypriot soon as he took office. ERT’s Political Hires are Hampering PM Samaras’ Plan for Restructuring

Continued from page 1 los, a professor of health policy der and Greece then became the at the London School of Eco - first developed country relegated that ERT was finished and that nomics, who as minister of state to emerging market status. Kouvelis may have been amend - from June to November 2011 The ERT debacle, which be - able to bringing back a tempo - tried to alter the culture of ERT gan with the June 11 sudden rary operation with reduced and told the Times that he was shutdown and firing of the staff, allowing everyone to save rebuffed every time he tried to workers, put his fragile coalition face while trying to appease touch a sacred pig. government back into crisis their political base. Neither “I was confronted by all,” he mode and came just as new sta - Venizelos nor Kouvelis referred said, noting that the broadcaster tistics showed the unemploy - to ERT specifically, instead talk - was hamstrung by “politiciza - ment rate hit a record 27.4 per - ing about “public television.” tion, patronage, clientelism, in - cent – all in the private sector. For a time though, the dis - terventions,” as when govern - Determined to show the pute was so intense it seemed ment officials would call in to Troika he meant business, ready to create an immediate dictate the news. Still, he said Samaras set about finally going schism in the coalition govern - he opposed Samaras’s decision. after the sacred cows in the pub - ment and force new elections “It was antidemocratic,” he said. lic workforce, bloated by that would have the potential “Because they failed elsewhere, decades of needless hiring by to derail Greece’s efforts to over - they shut down ERT.” New Democracy and PASOK ad - come the economic crisis and Kogiannis said that Samaras’ ministrations in return for votes, keep loans coming. government ordered the hiring helping create today’s crushing THE GRAVY TRAIN of at least 30 advisors and “spe - crisis. Samaras, however, seemed cial staff” to continue the tradi - If he resolves the ERT crisis, to undermine his argument that tion of political hires at ERT al - Samaras still has to deal with ERT, funded with mandatory though it was also reported that the worrisome problem of how payments assessed on all Greeks many of them work out of po - to make up for lost privatization through their electric bills even litical offices and never show up revenues with the failure to sell if they don’t have a TV, needed at the station. of a stake in DEPA. He has said to be gutted and rebuilt. Among these complaints is he would not approve any more Giorgos Kogiannis, a former that the government directed a austerity measures, hoping to head of news at ERT, accused 1 million euros ($1.3 million) quell the same kind of social un - the government of hypocrisy for budget be given to a show called rest that brought down the pre - closing ERT down to cut costs, Mesogeion 136, which Kogiannis vious government of then prime claiming that the three-party claims was created to give a job AP PHOTO/KOSTAS TSirONiS minister and previous PASOK government formed last June to Anthi Salagkoudi, a former Socialist party leader Evangelos Venizelos (R), and leader of Democratic Left party Fotis leader George Papandreou. immediately appointed its own New Democracy candidate and Kouvelis (L), leave the PM's office after a meeting with Antonis Samaras, Wednesday, June 19. The ERT issue also arose just people to key posts there and daughter of former New Democ - The governing coalition parties failed to end a political crisis triggered by the closure of ERT. when Greece was in the begin - tripled the number of advisers racy finance minister Yiorgos ning of what looked to be a to the new chief executive. Salagkoudis, as well as other rel - communications director ners, who had refused them last been on a roll, gaining more in - record tourism season, expect - “As soon as they came to atives of New Democracy offi - George Mouroutis, was also year. coming loans from the Troika, ing 17 million visitors, and pos - government, they started the cials who got jobs with ERT. hired at 3,500 euros a month. EYE ON THE BALL luring Chinese investors during sibly more with Turkey’s gov - political appointments at ERT,” Kogiannis says ERT’s legal If Kouvelis and Venizelos That took attention away a trip to Beijing, and restoring ernment trying to deal with riots Kogiannis told the New York department refused to sign the don’t agree to a compromise, from Samaras’ plans to begin confidence. and protests there against plans Times. “They put 20 advisers in contract with this show’s pro - they said they would withhold downsizing the public sector af - That began to be unsettled to tear down a public park in Is - the C.E.O.’s office, compared to duction company, a contract their party’s votes when the ERT ter his government had failed to when lagging privatization plans tanbul for a shopping mall and six before.” He added that sev - that was drafted by Aimilios Li - question comes before Parlia - fire a single worker during the hit a snag when the offer of the against the growing heavy- eral positions were given to peo - atsos, who was brought in to ment for ratification or rejec - year he’s been in office. country’s natural gas company, handedness of Prime Minister ple with close ties to the gov - head the news at ERT by the tion, which had to be done Until recent weeks, he had DEPA, didn’t draw a single bid - Recep Tayyip Ergodan. ernment spokesman, Simos Samaras government. within 90 days of its shutdown Kedikoglou – a former ERT em - Among the hires, Kogiannis – by which time NERIT would ployee who said it was filled said, was a koumbaros, a best already be up and running. with corruption but never no - man to Samaras, Giorgos Anto - Kouvelis and Venizelos said ticed that while he was there – niou, who was appointed to ERT that other issues had been and other top government offi - with a monthly salary of 3,500 raised too during the talks amid cials. euros – more than twice that of speculation that Samaras would THE NATIONAL HERALD BOOkSTORE ERT was “always a political top editors. 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It does not belong can also be faxed to (718) 472- to the Government and the 0510 or e-mailed to Prime Minister (and his support - english.edition@thenational - ers) have no legal right to close herald.com. we reserve the it or sell its installations. It is ERTwhile Happenings right to edit letters for publi - now working against Govern - cation and regret that we are ment orders and the Authorities In the elections of June 17, 2012, almost exactly one year ago unable to acknowledge or re - are attempting to silence it by turn those left unpublished. and the second time in two months that Greece had gone to the shutting off current and tele - GEOrGE SArAFOGlOu / SPECiAl TO THE NATiONAl HErAld polls, New Democracy edged out SYRIZA, for first place by about phonic communications, even 1.5% percent. In order to form a government, Prime Minister Antonis Samaras needed the cooperation of two smaller parties, PASOK and Demo - COMMENTARY cratic Left (DIMAR), and that is what happened. Their collaboration produced the political stability that allowed the government to achieve a lot in the past year. Much, however, remains to be done, perhaps the most important matters of all. Two Thousand Years Later, the Modern-Day Pharisees The three partners met a number of times in an attempt to nor - malize relations after the rupture caused by the ERT affair, the closing of the national broadcaster. Will they succeed, or will the By Emmanuel with our lives. Sadly, we com - can and must become … intu - Jesus said. Yes, Jesus knew the country stagger into new elections? Karavousanos pletely ignore the very thing itive! Our Churches promote higher state – the kingdom of New elections are not in anyone's interest, least of all of Greece’s, Special to The National Herald that can elevate each and every faith. If there is some doubt heaven – but he did not know except for maybe SYRIZA and certainly of Golden Dawn, the neo- one of us. It is our thinking! We here, let us shift just a bit, a why, why it occurred! We do! fascist party. think, but fail to every study, small bit of that faith from the We now know it is because one In fact, there are reports that in the Athens area the real power Some two thousand years what thoughts are! The impor - heavens above to “the analysis chooses to analyze that which of Golden Dawn has reached 20% already. ago Jesus brought us His good tance of considering our of the obvious.” There is more is known only on the surface In any event, if you exclude the elections as a solution, given news. The news was that there thoughts can be seen in the sim - than adequate proof to look at and that can become intuitive the fact that this Parliament is still new, there is a chance to use exists a higher state of mind ple words given to us by histo - and to analyze what may be ob - knowledge. this political crisis as an opportunity for a fresh start. which He termed, the kingdom rian James Harvey Robinson: vious to us. In the introduction to his That can be accomplished with a well-targeted reshuffling of of heaven. He offered that we “we do not think enough about Jesus spoke of the wide and book, The Ferryman’s Dream, the Cabinet, in which both the PASOK leader Evangelos Venizelos can gain this gift, this kingdom thinking.” Reinforcing Robinson narrow gates. The narrow gate Dr. Stewart Bitkoff explains that and DIMAR chief Fotis Kouvelis join the government, as well as a of heaven, through what he are the poetic words written by is, “the analysis of the obvious.” some who have attained “spiri - small but capable and experienced contingent of professionals out - called, the Holy Spirit. Today we Johann Goethe: “My boy, I’ll say The wide gate, we discover, is tual completion” try to teach side the parties, to form what in effect would be a National Unity know the Holy Spirit to be a that I’ve been clever. I think, but everything else we deal with others how to gain that higher Government so that it would able to implement reforms. sudden flash of insight. It is an think of thinking never.” The daily. It is time to look toward state of mind, higher conscious - Such a government, under Samaras, could significantly accel - abrupt realization no different men also knew the importance what we now know to be…the ness, or what is also known as erate the work which was begun by the present government, but than a powerful idea that arrives of looking inward, but they too narrow gate! Honestly now, the mystical state. Notwith - which has apparently reached its potential. in the mind. Today, more accu - did not know why. When we an - would Jesus want us to praise standing the instruction all great Samaras made a leap in the right direction with his bold move rately, the Holy Spirit is known alyze what is already obvious to him to all eternity, or would he spiritual teachers offer, their to clean up ERT: he attempted to reduce the number of public em - as, a mystical experience and it us but known superficially, we really want each and every one help is often ignored or, as ployees and get a handle on a public service that is out of control. is the onset of the mystical state: can and will gain the insight of us to find happiness and our Bitkoff says, denied or over - Moves that would please the troika as well the markets. the kingdom of heaven! that is never expected. true self? In time this can be at - looked. The result of this is that He made the difficult move by announcing the closing of ERT, Understandably, having ex - most of us forever miss the but became trapped by not accompanying his announcement of perienced it, Jesus wanted to chance to ever know that pre - the shutdown of ERT with the declaration of a comprehensive plan transmit this most precious of cious spiritual gift. Why? It is for the future such as: ERT will open in six weeks, with a specific all gifts, this higher state of because the great majority of name, organizational structure, number of employees, salaries, mind, to everyone. Our Greek people skim, skim over what is Board of Directors, etc. Orthodox Church as well as all to be not just read, but ab - By being forced to back off so quickly, Samaras sent the worst other Christian churches failed sorbed. That precious insight message he could have possibly send to the ERT unions and to to understand the entire con - that can be theirs is entirely other public employees he might attempt to fire in the future. cept, thus the meaning and missed. The reader moves on However, as the politicians maneuver for power, one gets the essence of both the Holy Spirit failing to ever gain the message feeling that little attention is paid to the economic crisis, if not al - and the kingdom of heaven is, which would lead to a higher together ignored. sadly, to this day, pretty much state of mind. Yet, Greece’s creditors, on whom the country is depending for ignored and considered “other- We should be inspired by the more economic aid, are watching closely. worldly.” Yet, the potential here number of great minds that en - Political stability is a minimal requirement for the reconstruction is staggering! courage us to undertake “the of the country where the political climate has taken a bad turn. Now, today, we have an un - analysis of the obvious.” We But even in the worst of circumstances, there is some good to be derstanding of how we can gain now know why this is so, so nec - found. Jesus’ Holy Spirit, that sudden essary and must no longer be Critics were attacking Prime Minister Antonis Samaras for acting insight, and thus attain the so- ignored. All we and our reli - unilaterally regarding ERT, for not first securing the consent of the called kingdom of heaven. gious leaders need is the desire two small parties that, along with his New Democracy, make up Other names for Jesus’ kingdom to learn a bit about this gift. Our the governing coalition. Does anyone believe the Venizelos-Kouvelis are, higher consciousness, ulti - religious leaders, with a bit of duo would have ever publicly agreed to something like this? mate reality, the mystical state courage, can move forward with Does anyone think a country that is in the midst of an existential and in Buddhism and Hinduism, We can now teach and we tained by first realizing that con - this concept and this writer crisis can be governed through the unanimous consent of three nirvana. If the Holy Spirit could can learn about consciousness sciousness must become intu - would help in every way possi - parties that are so far apart ideologically, or whose clients’ interests be experienced by each of us, which is what would bring us itively known. ble. Yes, we can now come to are so scattered? Or disagree that this constitutes both the strength the higher state of mind would closer to what we call ... God! At the end of this commen - understand the great impor - and the Achilles Heel of the government? elevate mankind from the mad - God can and does become an tary there is a list of quotes tance of the consciousness prob - Samaras was also attacked because during the tenure of his ness and the horrors of what we attainable state of mind, not showing the undeniable impor - lem and by doing so we help (co) government he did not dare to fire a single civil servant – not read in newspapers almost daily, someone sitting for all eternity tance for us to look back at what mental problems as well. As one. That is a fair criticism. And yet now that he dared to do it, to a day when people gain the in the heavens above. It is quite is already known. It is certainly crazy as it may sound, depres - now that he has shown that he is determined to move in that di - mind Jesus wanted for us. Mad - easy for each of us to see, un - even now not difficult to see that sion can become a thing of the rection, he is being condemned as a threat to Democracy. ness would be gone. In order for derstand and know we have we know consciousness only on past. The Roman Poet Ovid of - As this indescribable nonsense was unfolding, the country’s this to occur, we must learn, in - consciousness, but we do not the surface. Known fully, we fered these words: “Ignoti nulla lenders watched with concern – especially German Chancellor An - tuitively learn, that which is al - know the state we call, higher would know the higher state of cupido.” They express that there gela Merkel, who is dreading the prospect of social unrest in Greece ready known to each and every consciousness. Higher con - consciousness! Perhaps we is no desire for an unknown during the run-up to German elections. And the farce continues in one of us. Though known, it is sciousness is the mystical state. should consider a single quote thing. For practical purposes the Athens. known superficially and not in - Once attained, we immediately from below. It was Hegel who Holy Spirit and the kingdom of They must all be asking themselves: should we continue to lend tuitively. What is it? It is…con - know that state and we have be - wrote, “Because it’s familiar, a heaven were generally un - money to this country? Is salvation possible for Greece? These are sciousness! It is our individual come mystics. How then does thing remains unknown.” We known “things.” With this work questions that are properly answered by Greek politicians, but consciousness! This however one gain that gift? know consciousness which is so, we can see that this is no longer mainly by the people of Greece. can only happen when our in - If we really cared to under - so familiar to us. Yet, we do not the case. dividual, ordinary consciousness stand consciousness, we would, know our individual conscious - The Pharisees did not believe becomes realized … intuitively above all, consider our ness fully. Our individual higher or follow Jesus. Why? Jesus did The New News Media realized! Yes, realized fully as it thoughts. We would consider if state of mind remains a mystery. not have a basis for what he pro - should be, we would then know our thoughts are interruptions, Yes, it is time to consider con - posed. We, today, do have a the full meaning of the higher interferences, disturbances, sciousness in a whole new light. most solid basis! It is "the analy - What is the cause of this international instability? What turns state of mind. We would be… "hangups!" It is our very It is time for us to undertake… sis of the obvious" which is given seemingly insignificant events into massive reactions by citizens mystics! thoughts that prevent us from “the analysis of the obvious.” to us not only by Whitehead, which threaten to overthrow governments and darkens the It was philosopher Alfred ever attaining the mystical state: If our Greek Orthodox but a number of others. If we prospects of the global economy? North Whitehead who wrote, peace of mind! So, how can it Church leaders can understand and our religious leaders fail to It is the revolutionary change in the way news is disseminated? "Familiar things happen and be gained? It can be gained there really is something here, at least consider what is here Relying on the old formula, the TV station “CNN Turk” re - mankind does not bother about through what Alfred North they can follow up and conduct suggested, perhaps we are each sponded to the explosion of protests in that country by broadcasting them." What is more familiar to Whitehead calls, "the analysis of experiments that would confirm and every one of us...modern- a program about penguins. each of us than the fact that we the obvious!" By looking inward what is here proposed and of - day Pharisees! Turkey’s youth, however, like that of Brazil or Greece, does not have consciousness and that we we can gain fully that which we fered. There is too much that rely on traditional media for information. The stay informed think? Early in life we take our know only on the surface. It is should no longer be ignored; it Emmanuel Karavousanos is the through Twitter, Facebook, text messages, etc. And within millisec - conscious state for granted and what we know only superfi - is too big to be ignored. There author of the book The Gift of onds, the message spread everywhere. quite understandably, move on cially! This knowledge, this gift is support here for everything Mystical Insight. Thus, moving beyond their original complaints, the protesters addressed other issues, such as the growing inequality between rich and poor, the poor functioning of their democratic establish - ments. So we have entered a new world, the world of easy, fast, digital • Mail Delivery service is available from • Classified services available with a wide media. Services to our readers: coast to coast. Delivery is dependent on category selection and well read world - But governments do not understand that yet. Post Office and region. Any unforeseen de - wide. 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Becomes Failure of the People Atheists, much like theists, don’t follow their forces: winds, mole - ones may not necessarily believe come in a variety of sorts: some logic that if God as cules, etc. When we in their non-belief because of a are rational thinkers while others portrayed in the take the discussion painful personal experience. They “My poor people mains jobless, crime are irrational, extreme, radical Bible doesn’t exist, further, however, very well may have drawn their – good and beloved and poverty are fundamentalists. This piece fo - then no god exists and ask: “well, who conclusion through an extensive – ever eager to be - abounding, and the cuses on the latter. at all. created the winds, intellectual process. The extreme lieve and ever be - prospect of starting To some extent, we are all ag - Nonetheless, I the molecules, the ones, though, often will display a trayed.” The above a family seems nostics – questioning the exis - have no qualms forces, the heat, and fit of rage when even the mere quote belongs to bleak for a shocking tence of God. Some of us are with such atheists. all those other possibility of God’s existence is Greece’s national number of young more certain of God’s existence In fact, I agree with things that came to - raised in their presence, as if they poet Dionysios people. Some suc - or lack thereof than others. Those the age-old saying gether,” the rational are fighting any temptation to re - Solomos. Written cess story… among us that believe with sub - that most believers atheist would re - vert to the theism they once es - over 150 years ago, After all, it’s stantial certainty that God exists and atheists agree by CONSTANTINOS E. spond: “hmm, I poused. They are so obsessed it remains as true fairly difficult to (does that mean a 70% chance? 99% of the time: SCAROS don’t know, that’s a with not opening up themselves today as ever, and completely screw 80%, 90%? 99.9%?) are theists, they disagree only good question.” The to the vulnerability of believing most appropriate in by Christopher up the lives of the and our counterparts that believe concerning the in - Special to fundamentalist athe - in God, for fear of feeling an in - the wake of the lat - TRIPOULAS overwhelming ma - the opposite are atheists. stance of a believer’s The National Herald ist however, will tense betrayal and heartbreak yet est scandalous ad - Special to jority of the popu - Atheists, as distinguished from specific religion. For snap: “well, science again. That, then, is every bit as mission of culpabil - The National Herald lation and still have pure agnostics, are convinced to example, a Christian and an athe - can’t answer everything!” The ra - fundamentalist as the fit or rage ity by the IMF political aspirations. a great extent that there is no ist will agree in rejecting the ab - tional atheist might say: “just be - displayed by the Muslim upon regarding Greece’s loan package. And yet, the amoral PASOK party God. Considering that most if not solute truth of all non-Christian cause I don’t know how the uni - hearing the words: “it’s okay to The austerity measures in the led by the man who reinstituted all people do not actually see or religions, and will only disagree verse was created, doesn’t mean eat pork,” the Evangelical upon first Greek bailout are much to the term “haratsi” (a tax term hear God, it is certainly under - about Christianity. The objects of that God created it.” Fair enough. hearing that even bad people will blame for the deep recession in that hasn’t been used since the standable that many folks will my criticism, however, are not the But when the radical atheist con - go to Heaven, or the Christian country, the IMF said in an in - dark days of Ottoman rule) re - draw that conclusion. And though rational atheists. Rather, they are tinues with a rant of: “what kind Scientist upon hearing that birds, ternal report made public after mains a junior partner and dic - it is a subjective conclusion (just the ones that, quite hypocritically, of God would allow suffering to and trees, and headaches too, are it was leaked to the Wall Street tates policy, while the main rul - as theism is), it is based on a sin - scoff at “fundamentalist believers” exist,” or “why doesn’t God reveal not an illusion, but are very, very Journal. Despite all the self-ag - ing party, New Democracy, cere desire to gain knowledge by with such enmity that they are himself to people regularly,” those real. grandizement by Greece’s credi - continues to base its modus objectively examining as much in - no less fundamentalist them - are both good questions, but have There are many powerful reli - tors and their domestic lackeys operandi on PASOK’s warped de - formation as possible. Many athe - selves. absolutely nothing to do with an - gions in this world, and the reli - comparing themselves to doctors sign. The remaining parties are ists also point to tremendous ad - “We believe in science,” they swering the question about who, gion of atheism is one of them. who would cure the ills of the busy doing their best to help the vances in scientific knowledge will exclaim. And indeed they do. if not God, created the winds and Some people will insist that reli - Greek economy, “market confi - extremist Golden Dawn Party made over the several thousand But there is a big difference in re - the molecules. gion in general does more good dence was not restored, the gain (mostly protest) votes, be - years during which many of our specting and adopting scientific Yes, those radical atheists are than harm, and others will argue banking system lost 30 percent cause they’re so caught up pre - religions existed, and they ac - theory, and treating science as a easy to spot. Quite often, they the opposite. Perhaps even more of its deposits and the economy tending to be “progressive,” count for ancient beliefs in one religion. In the first instance, sci - have been scarred in life by some important than the substantive encountered a much deeper- while refusing to denounce the or more gods as a method of ex - ence is, as it ought to be, a means major disappointment: the loss of beliefs of the particular religion than-expected recession with ex - rising fascism of the European plaining what had been scientifi - of discovering truth. But when a very dear loved one, betrayal in question, however, are the ceptionally high unemploy - Union (of bankers) and the Ger - cally unproven at the time. More - used with a premeditated notion by someone they trusted greatly, thought processes behind them. ment,” the report said. From an man imposed Gauleiters dictat - over, some atheists base their to disprove theism, science be - financial ruin, declining health, The rational thinker will say: “I initial unemployment forecast of ing national policy. conclusion that there is no God comes a fundamentalist religion or even lingering disappointment think I’m right, but I could be 14.8 percent maximum, the Nowhere in this crisis did the on the myriad of logical and itself. from the realization early in life wrong.” The fundamentalist will troika caused the figure to reach issue of real change vis-a-vis moral inconsistencies they find in It is fairly simple to tell the dif - that Santa Clause and the Easter say: “no matter what you say, 27% (approaching 60 percent for state treatment of the citizenry the God of the Bible – the Father ference between a rational think - Bunny are make-believe, so why you’re not going to change my young people), plunging the ever get on the agenda. Within of the Old Testament and even ing atheist and a fundamentalist not God, too? mind.” The superiority of one country into the worse peace- this fiery inferno of unprece - the “kinder, gentler” Son of the one. Each of them might tell us Again, it is important to note quote over the other is quite evi - time economic crisis since the dented austerity forced upon the New Testament. And I can cer - that the universe began with the difference between rational dent: subjectively speaking, of Great Depression. guinea-pigs of the Mediter - tainly see their point, although I some sort of interaction of cosmic and radical atheists: the rational course. The IMF also admitted that ranean, never did the intent of European governments did not lightening the people’s load by proceed with a haircut from the at least eliminating red tape (a LETTER FROM ATHENS onset of the memorandum, leading cause of corruption) ever which would have made the na - really appear… because it would tion’s debt more viable, because interfere with political interests of pressure from banks, which and disrupt the system. George Papanderou: the Lowlife Half-Life of an ex-PM preferred to dump the losses on The prime minister made the the taxpayers. surprise decision to shut down Then, less than a week after Greece’s state broadcaster ERT “April 2010, a Sunday burgh, Scotland to tures at Harvard Theorem, could tell you that if the admission of such a colossal and reestablish it. This move evening, I’m in a meeting with boos and the deri - and Columbia you spend more than you take in blunder (sic) – the second official would be a start in the right di - my European counterparts. I had sion of protesters about how to gov - then you’re going to be over - admission this year – the IMF’s rection, assuming it meets two just been elected Prime Minister outside who didn’t ern, which is rather drawn and get nasty notices from representative along with the preconditions: 1) it wasn’t or - of Greece. But I had the sad priv - want him there rep - like asking Sarah the bank. But IMF economists other two stooges comprising the dered by the troika to make up ilege of discovering that my coun - resenting Greece and Palin to give a talk live in proverbial Ivory Towers troika came to Greece demand - for the failed bid to sell Greece’s try’s deficit was not 6% of the talking about his on sanity. and dwell in abstract theory, not ing further austerity measures! state gas company to the Rus - GDP, as officially declared by the failed tenure. For those gigs – reality. Meanwhile, Greek politicians sians, which the EU torpedoed previous government a few days “We were not as well as going on Papandreou admitted that seem hell-bent on doing their ut - and 2) the resulting new com - before the election, but much given much time. the lecture circuit – hardship had been imposed on most to mirror the absurdities of pany will be a fully functional larger, reaching 15.6%.” Imagine yourself at Papandreou knocks people who were “in the main, their external financiers. The cur - state broadcaster and not leave That’s how former Greek the negotiating table down some serious not to blame for the crisis” and rent prime minister switched the people underserved, like Prime Minister George Papan - in Brussels. Ex - by ANDY money, making accused the European establish - from a staunch opponent of the when Olympic Airways closed dreou shockingly – and finally – tremely difficult ne - DABILIS him a triple-dipper ment of uncritically, and at great memorandum’s austerity policies down. revealed how he came to impose gotiations, the at a time when cost, clinging to “the orthodoxy to perhaps its finest implementer, If the government is serious harsh austerity measures on progress is extremely Special to many Greeks, of austerity.” Just like he did, and while ex-PM and current nutty about cleaning up the media, it Greeks three years ago, six slow, the tension The National Herald thanks to him, are which he defended to the hilt professor George Papandreou, will need to take on the private months after winning election soared. And all this eating dog food, even while being tarred and who signed the memorandum sector as well, where local with 44 percent of the vote on was happening at two in the scrounging through dumpsters or feathered and given the bum’s and was its greatest defender, is moguls (“pimps” was the term the back of his promise to keep morning.” That, by the way, is occasionally hanging themselves rush out of office. rumored to be planning a new used by ex-PM Karamanlis) have the spending tap open because, exactly the same scenario put on or jumping out a building be - Papandreou, who’s had a priv - centrist party that will now op - been (mis)using the national air - as he said, “The money is there.” current Cypriot President Nicos cause the pension they earned ileged political life, now assails pose it! waves to gain leverage for their It wasn’t, of course, and if he Anastasiades in March by the has been cut to McDonald’s ham - “plutocrats hiding their assets in Throughout these three years construction rackets, which didn’t know it when he was same Eurozone leaders who burger-flipper levels. tax havens” but he knew – de - of misery that have befallen the thrive on lucrative state jobs. elected then he was either lying forced him to accept onerous Maybe he’s finally feeling a spite his denial - that Papacon - poor Greek people, one thing has Perhaps the PM can pass a or incompetent, even though his conditions in return for bailouts, twinge of guilt because at the stantinou had a list of 2,062 remained constant: the unwill - law forcing national Greek chan - predecessor, then New Democ - the favored blackmail technique. Technology, Entertainment and Greeks with $1.95 billion secret ingness of the deep Greek state nels to broadcast a minimum racy leader Costas Karamanlis, For 19 months until he was Design, (TED) conference – and Swiss bank accounts and did to change even in the slightest amount of hours in the Greek slinked away into the night like hounded out of office by unre - what exactly do they have to do nothing about. If he did know degree to help the people. language and spend their money a worm after leaving behind an lenting protests, strikes and riots with government? – it was re - and did nothing, he’s lying. If he Premier Antonis Samaras was employing Greek-speaking jour - economic debacle. against pay cuts, tax hikes and ported that Papandreou “offered didn’t, he’s still incompetent and criticized by opponents for char - nalists, actors, and other person - The most important decision slashed pensions he implemented a mea culpa for his own mistakes has no right to talk about any - acterizing Greece’s current strug - alities, rather than filling the air - taken by a Greek leader in the on everyone instead of firing and those of the European politi - thing with the word decency in gle to implement the memoran - waves with cheap years after World War II then deadwood public workers right cal elite.” That came not long af - it. dum a “success story,” in light of foreign-language programs (i.e., hinged on what Papandreou, off the bat, Papandreou never ter the International Monetary “It’s no wonder many political the widespread poverty plaguing Turkish soaps) marketed by for - then the PASOK Socialist leader, revealed how austerity came to Fund (IMF) the brainless bureau - leaders, and I don’t exclude my - the people. However, ironically, eign ministries of (sometimes said was his sudden discovery pass during his 10 minutes of crats to whom he turned for a self, have lost the trust of our from a political standpoint, this hostile) neighbors… that the county’s deficit was sweating indecision. bailout, admitted it had made a people,” Papandreou said. “When term is most appropriate. To close with another quote, worse than he figured. Maybe he Since he resigned, he’s kept mistake in pushing for only aus - riot police have to protect Parlia - In the midst of certain disas - after three-plus years of troika - forgot to ask his Finance Minister, his back bench seat in Parliament terity – but said they’d do it again. ments, a scene that is increasingly ter – financial and moral bank - nomics and IMF policies fit more the now-disgraced George Papa - – as has Karamanlis, without You see the kind of people common around the world, there ruptcy – the Greek political sys - for a circus than a nation, P.T. constantinou, to check the books. shame – collecting their $10,000 you’re dealing with here: no con - is something wrong with our tem (including despised Barnum sums it up the best: So after six months of sitting a month or so for doing nothing. science, no heart, no soul, and democracies.” bureaucracy and the innate cor - “There’s a sucker born every in the Premier’s seat, with a Fi - Not content with that largesse apparently no economic training Too bad for the people of ruption that accompanies it) minute.” nance Ministry to depend on, Pa - out of the public trough, even because anyone who’s ever had Greece it took him more than 10 managed to survive and remain pandreou said he had 10 minutes though he doesn’t need the to balance a checkbook, which minutes to figure that out. fundamentally unchanged, while Follow me on Twitter to decide the fate of Greece, as money, Papandreou spends much admittedly sometimes is tougher one-third of the population re - @CTripoulas he told a conference in Edin - of his time in the U.S. giving lec - than figuring out Fermat’s Last [email protected] Despite its Evident Flaws, Turkey Remains a Functioning, Authoritative Democracy

When Mustapha Kemal, later threw the Muslim world in dis - alone a synagogue tutions. Western leaders, led by Presi - against the development of the known as Ataturk (father of the array and continues to stymie – something to con - The West, how - dent Obama, rushed to applaud Square and park but quickly ex - Turks) declared the establish - Sunni Islam as a variety of reli - sider when Muslims ever, was always and support the so-called phe - panded as a vote of no confi - ment of the Turkish Republic on gious and quasi-religious leaders complain that they suspicious of nomenon of a Muslim democra - dence against, what many secu - 23 October 1923, he did so over attempt to impose their version are mistreated and Turkey’s military tic state. larists in Turkey, perceive is a the radio and over a period of of Islam upon Turkey. suffer humiliation and understood Can so much ignorance of the slow slide to Sharia law. three days. The protracted dec - Kemal assumed that his pro - in the West. that it was the Middle East and Islam exist in Is this another Arab Spring? laration was necessary because gram of secularization world rid Kemal’s instru - army that kept Washington and elsewhere in Not very likely, as many people the Turkish leader was com - Turkey of the sophomoric influ - ment for the secu - Turkey secular. Re - the West? Fundamentally, there who oppose Prime Minster Er - pelled to explain why he was ter - ence of the Islamic establishment larization of Turkey gardless, the politi - is no moderate or extreme Islam, dogan and his AKP, there are just minating the Ottoman Empire over the new state and keep it was the army, cally correct, face - but only Islam. There are ex - as many who support his steady and replacing it with a republic. from inhibiting the new citizens which served to less bureaucrats in treme and radical individuals drive towards the transforma - Remarkably, he began his his - of the republic from opting into protect the state by DR. ANDRE Brussels and the and groups that choose to pro - tion of Turkey into an Islamic toric speech with the words: “I the technical, financial, social, from enemies from GEROLYMATOS European liberal- mote the imagined desert Islam society. am ending the tyranny of Os - educational, and other innova - abroad as well as minded media of the Prophet Mohamed and The secularists and liberals man”. tions of the 20th century. He en - within. In fact, the Special to would only counte - there are those such as Turkey’s have no traction because, de - Osman was the founder of visioned a modern Turkey in role of the Turkish The National Herald nance Turkey’s ap - prime minister and his party, spite its flaws, Turkey is a func - the Ottomans, who adopted the which individuals would main - army was enshrined plication to the EU who are moderate in process but tioning democracy. The West term Osmanli, Ottoman, to de - tain their religion in private. in the Turkish constitution, ele - if Ankara altered the constitu - no less rigid in practice. should also not complain that fine themselves. Ottoman was Ironically, the only aspect of vating the soldiers to guardians tion and removed the role of the It should not have come as a one of the most formidable mil - what all the Muslim subjects of the Ottoman regime Kemal of the state and the preservation military in politics. On the sur - surprise that without the army itary powers in Europe and the the Sultan were called, while the maintained was the Patriarchate. of the Kemal system. Kemal and face, this seemed like a good acting as a bulwark of secularism, Middle East now has an Islamic term “Turk” was pejorative indi - As was the case under the Ot - his followers ensured that the idea but the Europeans were the “moderate” Muslims of the agenda that will guide Turkey’s cating someone of low birth, es - toman Empire, the Eastern Or - military would be free of Islamic disingenuous because they had AKP are slowly transforming foreign policy in the region and sentially a peasant. thodox Church had to maintain influence and for generations no intention of admitting a Mus - Turkey into an Islamic republic. throughout the Muslim world. By ending the tyranny of Os - a subservient role in relation to the army served not only as a lim country into the EU. Laws have been enacted that pro - A perfect example is Syria. man, Mustapha Kemal also ele - the Islamic establishment and socializing force but it trans - This refusal has been a slap hibit the selling of alcohol drink - With the exception of Turkey, all vated the “Turks” to the status keep to the ancient impediments formed Turkish men, young and in the face of Turkey’s secular ing between 10 pm to 6 am and other governments in the region of citizens; no longer the sub - imposed upon them by the Ot - poor, into secular citizens. establishment and at the same kissing in pubic is now prohib - are either dictatorships or ab - servient class to the Ottomans. toman sultans. For example, Kemal established a republic time it enabled the Muslim fac - ited. Kemal had banned the solute monarchies. While Turkey A critical element in Mustapha even today the Eastern Orthodox with a qualified democratic tions to coalesce under the ban - wearing of headscarves by opposes the Assad regime in Kemal’s new Turkish Republic Church must secure a license in regime. He served, and his suc - ner of the Justice and Develop - women; the AKP has restored this Syria, it established close ties was the separation of Church, order to fix a window or paint a cessors have followed suit, as a ment Party (AKP). Led by Recep tradition and has also expanded with Iraq. Both countries are au - or rather, Mosque and State. To church. No church steeple can benevolent authoritative leader. Tayyip Erdoan, the AKP came the number of religious schools. thoritative regimes with scant achieve this, Kemal also abol - be higher than a nearby mosque As a result, Turkey emerged to power in 2003 and has since The riots that broke out in regard for human life. Erdogan ished the Caliphate, the central – most of these encumbrances from backwardness and poverty been quietly and systematically Turkey after the police overre - prefers the Islamic dictatorship religious authority, as part of his are maintained in the very parts into a secular society that enjoys dismantling the Kemal system. acted to a peaceful demonstra - and supports the Syrian opposi - endeavor to create a secular of the Muslim world that would considerable personal wealth The AKP advertises itself as a tion in Taksim Square, Istanbul tion, which also includes Salafis Turkey. The end of the Caliphate not even permit a church let and, until recently, liberal insti - moderate Islamic party and were initially about protests and other fanatic Muslims. 10 ARTS&SCIENCES THE NATIONAL HERALD, JUNE 22-28, 2013 L.A. Film Festival Celebrates Daring Cinema & Elia Kazan

Continued from page 1 stance, Traffic, a short, concludes a complicated and good way. with the discovery of a dead baby What’s worthy of discussion is the tival supporters, a glamorous cou - in a car. One audience member meaning of the film and how it ple by any standards. Metropou - said to director Leonardo fits our idea of life, and that’s wor - los, self-made billionaire owner Cariglino, “Who’s going to pay to thy of a lot of discussion. This of Pabst Brewing Company, and see your film? Particularly with can’t be said about a lot of films.” the man who rescued the Twinkie what’s going on in Greece now?” According to Wexler, Kazan by buying the bankrupt Hostess’s In another short, Golden Dawn was the crucial factor in the mak - snack cake lines, admitted to be - adherents attacked immigrants ing of this epic. “It was Kazan, ing tri-coastal. “I’m traveling be - with clubs. the incredible director,” Wexler tween three worlds,” he said. “My The Daughter, a highly touted said. “His relationship to actors wife and sons love it out here, so feature film, failed to move us. was really out of this world. He I commute between New York, When a 14-year old girl finds out would often get to know a great L.A. and Athens.” that her father has been duped deal about a person’s personal Marianne Metropoulosis has by his partner – sending him ca - life, almost like a psychiatrist and made an artistic breakthrough by reening into debt – she kidnaps use those things to get what he writing and producing her first the partner’s 8-year-old son. wanted out of actors. Sometimes film. Phedon Papamichael, Myrto Alimani, an excellent this could be hurtful to the actor award-winning cinematographer young actress, could not rescue personally, but more often it – and incidentally a cousin of the this bathetic tale. Director Thanos would inspire the actor to new late John Cassavetes -- will direct Anastopoulos took suspension of heights.” the historic romance set at the disbelief to the Nth degree and Wexler was instrumental in time of the Greek revolution. This lost us. casting Stathis Giallelis in the major film has a budget of $30 On the other hand, Boy Eating lead. “Gialellis had done a little million. the Bird’s Food, produced for a acting in Greece,” Wexler said. “The central character is a mere $20,000, was both daring “But Kazan didn’t really consider woman,” Mrs. Metropoulos told and heart-rending. It has already hiring him. Stathis came here on The National Herald. “The leads gained a share of international his own and I befriended him. We will be played by non-Greeks be - attention including an award spent two weeks traveling back cause you need a name to get dis - from the Toronto Film Festival. Kary Antholis, Oscar-winning president of HBO Miniseries and Cinemax Programming, who and forth to Brooklyn on a boat tributors attention. We’ll be film - The Hellenic Film Academy spoke about Elia Kazan and introduced America America at a 50th anniversary screening, with with a camera. Kazan finally saw ing on Malta because, named it Best Film, dubbed Yan - Haskell Wexler, 91, two-time Oscar winner and the film’s cinematographer. something in him, and I think he unfortunately, Greece has no in - nis Papadopoulos Best Actor of saw the right thing. Stathis is my frastructure and does not give re - 2013, and writer/director/pro - don’t love Boutaris’s policies, you pands his canvas. “I wanted to in - by cinematographers. He didn’t friend to this day. I talk with him bates.” Mrs. Metropoulos expects ducer Ektoras Lygizos Best New have to love this film. tegrate the personal and the in - want to talk about himself and every two weeks. He spent the the film to start shooting in the Director. The film, based on Knut “I like character-driven sto - tellectual,” says Emmanoulides. his cinematic genius, only Kazan. rest of his life here in America fall. Hamsun’s classic 1890 Hunger, ries,” says award-winning “Can the personal be universal? What was it like working with and works for the U.N. He does Mr. and Mrs. Metropoulos follows a young artist as he strug - writer/director Kimon Tsakiris. Yes, if you craft it in a personal Kazan? “It was a confluence of good work with young students sponsored two important festival gles to overcome demoralizing He discovered Mitsos “Mitsigan” way.” the positive,” Wexler said. “I from different nations.” innovations. In the Arts of Holly - hunger and loneliness on the Tsiganos, a modern-day Greek The surprise appearance of loved his personal story about his Ersi Danou and Angeliki Gi - wood Production, top profession - streets of Athens. His sole com - cowboy and owner of one of the cinematographer Haskell Wexler, family and America. It’s not just annakopoulos, founders of the als discussed their contribution to panion is a caged canary. largest farms in Messenia. He’s 91, shone as a highlight of the that he wrote it, but the picture festival, were joined by a team film. Even more important to Lygizos, primarily a theater di - the subject of Mitsigan – Hard - festival. Kary Antholis, President itself is psychologically, sociolog - including Aris Katopodis, director young filmmakers, the rector, commented on his first fea - ships and Beauties. Paunchy, of HBO Miniseries and Cinemax ically and politically his persona. of programming, publicist Beve Metropopouloses launched Pro - ture debut: “I wanted to express bearded, wearing a straw hat, Programming, introduced Wexler, I’m very proud and happy to Regas, Craig Prater, festival exec - ject Discovery Forum. Filmmakers my reaction against the Greek sit - Mitsigan hits the road to talk a five-time Academy Award Nom - have been a part of this film. utive director, and an enormous had the opportunity to “pitch” uation today in a nonpolitical with artists, friends and fellow inee and two-time Oscar winner. Having seen the film for the staff of volunteers to stage the their new projects to a team of way. In Greece we always had agronomists, about rebuilding Wexler had come to honor the first time in twenty years, Wexler successful event. Consul General professionals and receive criti - the family to fall back on, the fam - Greece. A delightful film and ex - late Elia Kazan and America, also said: ““One of the things it’s Fotiadou provided invaluable en - cism and guidance. ily to make sure we didn’t fall too tremely entertaining. America. about is what empire and repres - couragement and support, and Elisabeth Fotiadou, Consul far. Now we are starting to lose A documentary that won our Enthusiastic cheers and foot sion does to human beings, how hosted a closing night party for General of Greece in Los Angeles, even that. My film would have hearts, Little Land, written and stomping greeted Wexler, tall and people attempt to work their way Gold Card holders and invited lit up the gala. She’s a festival been an alien concept in the directed by Nikos Dayandas, takes craggy, wearing the cap favored out. I think the film shows that in guests. booster, a charming woman with Greece of just ten years ago. Now, us to the island of Ikaria with its a personal word for everyone. for the first time, we are truly on unique culture that fosters Said Mrs. Fotiadou, “Film has the our own with no family, literally longevity. The film follows a 35- power to inspire hope.” no mother to take care of us. Our year-old man as he buys a farm - In the midst of Hollywood mothers are in the same position house and seeks advice from na - Eureka Moments for Archimedes Fans commercialism, festival planners we are.” tive Ikarians. “What more do I rate four stars for their choice of Director Sotiris Goritsas’s Wel - need?” asks one old-timer. “Even the opening night films. In come to All Saints, the only full- Onassis could only eat one din - TNH Staff Writer Chamomile, a 15 minute film length feature comedy, won the ner.” short, from Neritan Zinxhiria, an Orpheus for Best Feature. A Another story of survival, They NEW YORK – Archimedes is one ancient looking black-clad yiayia, young medical intern begins his Glow in the Dark, by writer/di - of ancient history’s most colorful attempts to bury her husband. career in “All Saints Hospital” in rector Panagiotis Evangelidis, and well-known figures – it’s hard Life is tough and so is death, but Athens, only to discover that looks at two HIV-positive mid - to forget the quintessential absent love persists. An Orpheus winner everyone in the public sector is dle-aged gay friends in post-Kat - minded genius who jumped from for best short. part of an absurd tragicomedy. rina New Orleans who make and his bath and ran naked through Meteora, the feature film pre - If features were largely down - sell figurines. The men have sto - the streets of Syracuse, Sicily sentation, brings together the beat, documentaries took a more ries to tell and deep emotions to shouting “Eureka!” after making worlds of eroticism and the her - positive approach. Directors reveal, wonderfully evoked by a great discovery. metic monastic life. The film uses found original stories and dug Evangelidis. He co-wrote the But putting his brilliance and exactly 190 words in this tale of deep to give dramatic form to re - memorable feature film Strella. work into perspective, explaining a Russian nun and Greek monk ality. The Greek mother gets her his continuing relevance, and falling in love. Who needs words A knock-out film, One Step due in Food for Love, an engaging placing him in the context of Hel - Dr. Chris Rorres, seen standing before models and symbols when the cinematography, music, Ahead, winner of the Orpheus documentary by Marianna lenic achievement requires hard representing the genius of the great Greek thinker, chaired iconography and art work are so Award for Best Documentary, pre - Economou. It takes us inside the work. "Archimedes in the 21st and moderated the Archimedes World Conference at NYU. sublime? Said director Spiros sents us with a up close and per - kitchens of several mothers as Century: 23 Centuries of Influ - Stathoulopoulos, “We wanted to sonal look at Yiannis Boutaris, they prepare their specialties – ence on Mathematics, Engineer - A distinguished applied math - positions of the sun, moon and tell the story of a human soul sus - the mayor of Thessaloniki, an un - with unconditional love -- to ship ing, and Science,” served those ematician and Emeritus Professor planets – on the geocentric model pended between the spiritual conventional and intriguing per - to their children. Despite the noble purposes well at New York of Mathematics from Drexel Uni - of the solar system that prevailed world and the secular life.” sonality. This is a fascinating film abundant meals, the economic University last week. versity in Philadelphia for more at the time – are indicated by The same analogy could apply on all levels. Over a riveting two crisis is omnipresent. Dr. Chris Rorres chaired and than 45 years, Rorres studied the pointers and other devices. to many of the other feature films hours, he waxes articulate, witty A Greek-American, Philadel - moderated the Archimedes World lifework of Archimedes, who has A man of extraordinary phys - . They moved between heaven and emotional. It’s a deeply mov - phia TV producer Chris Em - Conference at NYU’s Courant In - been called the father of integral ical intuition and imagination, he and hell, mostly towards the dark ing love story (he married his wife manoulides won the Orpheus for stitute of Mathematical Sciences, calculus and of mathematical has succeeded in putting a soul side Filmmakers appear to be twice) and a suspenseful saga of audience favorite with Archive. where the participants received a physics. into the lifeless machine because, struggling to give form to chaos. a political campaign from direc - Emmanoulides starts out looking warm welcome from its director, Billie Rorres organized the “I believe in thinking through my It does not always work. For in - tor Dimitris Athiridis. Even if you at family pictures and then ex - Gerard ben Arous. event with the aim of both mark - fingers.” He benefitted from his ing Archimedes’’ 2300th birth an - insight that a loose construction niversary and doing justice to her was best – there has to be some husband’s life work. “give” in the gear works. The speakers and the models Other modelers make it too they brought “celebrated the myr - tight, but the ancients could not This summer, no matter where you go, iad ways in which Archimedes’ make to Swiss watch precision, lifework, principles, and inven - and Wright made it clear to TNH take The National Herald with you ! tions are being applied today – that the gears were not “ma - 23 centuries after his lifetime,” chined” – the triangular teeth according a press release. were sawed by hand by humble The presentations included, metalworkers. He a former cura - “Archimedes the Geometer” by tor at the London Science Mu - Mamikon Mnatsakanian of the seum Centre for the History of California Institute of Technology, Science, Technology and Medi - “Archimedes and Ship Design,” cine in London and although by Horst Nowacki of the Max Archimedes did not make it, Planck Institute for the History of Wright had the insight that the Science, Berlin, “Archimedes the mechanism suggested that some - Pragmatic Engineer,” by Moshe thing like it must have constituted Kam, Head/Dept. of Electrical the guts of a famous device that and Computer Engineering, is credited to the Greek from Drexel University,” Archimedes Sicily: the Archimedes Sphere, and the 21st Century Imagina - long believed to a planetarium. tion,”by Mary Jaeger, professor of Relying on literary sources and Classics, University of Oregon, unabashedly calling the sphere “Archimedes the Mathematician,” the product of his imagination, by Sylvain Cappell of the Courant Wright’s creation has a set of spi - Institute, and Chris Rorres, “The dery arms that emerge from the Archimedes Screw in the 21st top of a copper sphere painted Centrury,” by Dirk Nuernbergk, with the constellations and trace Enst Abbe University in Jena, Ger - out the path of sun, moon and many, “Archimedes’ Iron Hand,” planets across the stars of the zo - by Harry Harris of Drexel Univer - diac. The most amazing aspect of sity, and “Archimedes’ the Military the device is that it mimics even Engineer,” by Larrie D. Ferreiro, the retrograde motions of the Defense Acquisition University. planets – when we look up at the One of the highlights was a sky, there are times when they working model of the Antikythera slow down, stop and temporarily Mechanism, the remarkable de - reverse course. vice that came to light over hun - Wright should be proud of his dred years ago as a seemingly theoretical and mechanical skills worthless piece of junk, a mass – not unlike Archimedes himself of rusted metal rescued from the - but he is a scientist first and hunk of a ship that sank 2000 foremost. He embraced the news SUBSCRIBE TO OUR ON-LINE EDITION AND STAY INFORMED! earlier. that two other research teams Modern imaging technology have suggested a simpler mecha - and relentless research has re - nism – less gears are required. Every day you’ll find thought-provoking editorials, columns and special inserts vealed it to be a treasure and mir - The question is: will the model acle of ancient technology, an ex - work? relevant to the Omogeneia, Greece, Cyprus, the U.S.A., and the World tremely sophisticated machine Two years in the making, the consisting of an intricate set of conference’s benefactors included For more information contact: gears that calculated or simulated the Courant Institute, the Institute astronomical realities. Unlike ex - of Electrical and Electronics En - [email protected] or call: 718-784-5255, ext. 108 uberant reporters, scholars do not gineers (IEEE ) Math for America, refer is as an ancient “computer.” Drexel University, and Astra Michael T. Wright, one of the Foods of Upper Darby. 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