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Greek Ties By Neophytos Kyriacou TNH Staff Writer

By Constantine S. Sirigos LEFKOSIA, Cyprus – Nicos TNH Staff Writer Anastasiades, the recently- elected president of Cyprus, sent NEW YORK – When the stakes a message of optimism to the are as high as they are today for Greek and Cypriot-American countries like Greece, Israel, and communities through TNH. Cyprus, and uncertainty is one The Cypriot president met of the biggest impediments to with the newspaper’s Publisher- progress, channels of communi - Editor, Antonis H. Diamataris, cation and opportunities for co - at the Presidential Palace on operation are very valuable. April 2 for over 40 minutes, By virtue of its longstanding whom he briefed in detail about relations with Greece and the the difficult situation now facing Greek-American community the the island nation. American Jewish Committee Anastasiades informed TNH (AJC), the century-old Jewish about the terrible scene he en - Advocacy organization that does countered in Brussels, where the its work in the context of pro - decision was made for a “ haircut moting American interests and "on deposits over 100,000 euros. the advancement of democracy He did not hide his bitterness around the world, is in a unique about the attitude of some Euro - position to foster the recent peans towards Cyprus, and strengthening of relations among spoke about the “cruel extortion" Greece, Cyprus, and Israel, and perpetrated against Nicosia by between their diaspora commu - its European "partners" and the nities. TNH/COSTAS BEJ International Monetary Fund, Jason Isaacson, who has been Archbishop Demetrios Convenes Meeting with Major Leaders about Diaspora Aid for Cyprus with the unprecedented decision director of AJC's Office of Gov - of the Eurogroup. "The dilemma ernment and International Af - Archbishop Demetrios of America gathered the leaders of major themselves and their members to explore ways they can take was clear. Either we accept the fairs in Washington, DC since Greek- and Cypriot-American organizations, who committed action to assist the people of Cyprus. Related story on page 3. blackmail of the haircuts, or our July 1991, recently spoke to TNH two biggest banks would fail, the about current events and millen - consequence that Cyprus would nia-old ties. also go bankrupt,” said the pres - “The relationship with the ident of the Republic. Greek-American community has Everyone Invited to NY’s Greek Parade on Sunday! Anastasiades reiterated that been strong for years and now it he received a state in bank - is seeing a flowering and contin - ruptcy and said that some peo - ues to strengthen. One of the re - By Constantine S. Sirigos oral candidate John Catsima - the faces of the children at the and committee chairs to present ple bear huge responsibilities for sults of that is the new caucus, TNH Staff Writer tidis, at the penultimate Thurs - Parade for many years by riding their final status reports. He also the economic destruction of the the Congressional Hellenic Israel day night meeting of the Feder - on a horse dressed Theodoros introduced Greek Consul Evan - country. "The mandate given to Alliance which we are privileged NEW YORK – Rain or shine, the ation of Hellenic Societies of Kolokotronis. gelos Kyriakopoulos and Arch - the Commission of Inquiry that to have been a part of its forma - 2013 Greek Parade on Fifth Av - Greater New York, which orga - The guests were told “if we bishop Demetrios. has been set up to investigate tion,” he said. enue will not be merely a cele - nizes the Parade. remember them, they never In the spirit of the heroic and the acts or omissions of those The AJC has been involved bration of Hellenism. It will also Words of tribute were also die,” reflecting one of the main critical role of the Hellenic Di - who were overseeing the econ - “in a whole range of events and send a ringing message of soli - offered for two members of the purposes of the Parade: remem - aspora in 1821, Kyriakopoulos omy and the banking system – meetings and cooperative enter - darity and hope to the people community who are associated bering the sacrifices made 192 urged all to consider how Hel - including myself – and to rigor - prises that bring together Greek, of Greece and Cyprus, and of with the New York Parade, the years ago that all Hellenes lenes abroad can help the peo - ously perform their duties, Greek Cypriot and Jewish Amer - Hellenic unity and determina - recently-deceased Dimitris (J.J.) might be free. ple of Greece and Cyprus whether they are political or icans in support of stability and tion to their creditors and critics. Dimitriou, whose wife Athena FBI official George Venizelos through their current difficul - not,” he said. "We owe it to the peace and prosperity in the East - That was the message pre - will march as honorary Grand is this year’s Grand Marshal. ties, and stressed that the Pa - country and to the people who ern Mediterranean,” Isaacson sented on March 28 by speaker Marshal, and Takis Nikolopou - Dino Rallis, Chairman of the Pa - rade was a golden opportunity were innocent victims and right - after speaker, led by Archbishop los, who brought joy to the rade, presided over the meeting Continued on page 5 Demetrios and including May - hearts all adults and smiles to and invited Federation officials Continued on page 4 Continued on page 9 Sts. Const. Memory of Joan Tsakanikas Inspires Endeavor Greek Govt and Helen’s TNH Staff Wrangling

NEW YORK – The campaign 100th Year aimed at finding a cure for Over Troika blood cancers such as leukemia, BROOKLYN – When a parish lymphoma, and myeloma is led reaches the 100-year milestone, by brilliant scientists and physi - Stipulations the word “anniversary” does not cians around the world, but the do justice to the century-long ex - foot soldiers in the battle are in - istence: not only of an institution dividual that devote their time By Andy Dabilis but also of a beautiful extended and energy to raising the vital TNH Staff Writer family. funds that support the research. On April 12 the parish of Sts. Many of them are inspired ATHENS – Greek Prime Minis - Constantine and Helen, whose by men and women that are no ter Antonis Samaras has agreed home is the majestic, beautifully- longer with us, like Joan with his coalition partners to renovated Byzantine domed Tsakanikas, whose heroic fight come together on a compromise basilica in downtown Brooklyn, inspired loved ones to honor her plan to create a combined single begins its year-long celebration memory and express their love property tax but differences re - with a “Homecoming Weekend.” by participating in the 10 week mained over how to deal with The first day has a youth focus. fundraising campaign of the other reforms demanded by in - After Salutations to the Leukemia and Lymphoma Soci - ternational lenders, including Theotokos, the parish GOYA and ety. Joan’s devoted son-in-law the layoff of public workers. the chapters of their sister Matthew Andrejkovics is spear - Samaras, the New Democ - parishes are invited to a Lenten heading the family’s efforts as racy Conservative leader, had meal. one of the 17 candidates to be wanted to continue a hated so- On April 13 the community the society’s Man and Woman called “haratsi,” a 100 percent welcomes back one of its most of the Year. surcharge on property taxes that beloved and revered pastors, Rev. The man and woman who was imposed in 2011, suppos - Fr. Alkiviadis Calivas, and hosts raise the most donations will be edly only for one year. a special tribute the parish’s Boy crowned. Donations can be Ironically, that was imple - Scout Troop 63. Calivas will pre - made at TNH/COSTAS BEJ mented by former finance min - side over Great Vespers that will Joan Tsakanikas’ son-in-law Matthew Andrejkovics (Left) is spearheading the family’s efforts ister Evangelos Venizelos, now feature the Byzantine Choir of Continued on page 2 as one of the 17 candidates to be the Society’s Man and Woman of the Year. head of the PASOK Socialists, Holy Cross Theological Seminary who said he agreed with Demo - at 6:30PM followed by a lenten cratic Left (DIMAR) chief Fotis meal in the Church hall. Kouvelis to roll it into one tax, The weekend culminates in although it was not stated the Divine Liturgy celebrated by Documentary Art Agnos: Eulogy for Nicolas Petris whether it would be reduced. Archbishop Demetrios of Amer - The two are partners in Sama - ica, and a Luncheon celebration ras’ government. at the Grand Prospect Hall. About Smyrna SAN FRANCISCO, CA – Today, Right from the start…Nick’s ENet reported that Venizelos Peter Vlitas, proud Spartan – the mayor of Oakland Jean focus was on those often left out said, “when it was agreed to in - most of the parishioners have Quan has ordered the flags of and left aside in our society. troduce (the emergency prop - Peloponnesian roots – and for - Destruction this city lowered to honor the He began serving at the local erty tax) in 2011 as a temporary mer Parish Council President life of Nick Petris…and here we level as a housing commissioner and emergency measure, there who is currently the President By Eleni Kalogeras are …on what is also…Greek and then was elected to the was no other solution. As we of the A. Fantis School Board, TNH Staff Writer Independence day celebrating State Assembly in 1958 with the said from the beginning, it was spoke to TNH about the exciting his life of service to all of us and strong support and encourage - exceptional and temporary and events, which will also mark the NEW YORK – Maria Iliou’s doc - so many more in this state who ment of his closest friend As - now we must move on to a sin - 50th anniversary of the school. umentary Smyrna: the destruc - will never know him, but cer - semblyman Bob Crown. gle progressive property tax.” He and Jim Tampakis, the PC’s tion of a cosmopolitan city, will tainly will be the beneficiaries And it was there in the As - Samaras had not wanted to Executive Vice President, are be screened at Manhattan’s of his work. sembly where he immediately make any changes to the levy serving a co-chairs of the cele - QUAD Cinema beginning on Ours is a country of immi - showed his commitment and method and gained a partial bration. Elias Serementis is the April 5. The two-week run is a grants…this means that every passion for those in need. In his concession when Kouvelis PC President. presentation of the theater and American has a proud dual her - Oakland district and in the cap - agreed to let it be attached Vlitas told TNH “there were Proteus NY, Inc. “a non-profit itage…the first, proudly Ameri - ital… people said… “If you have again this to electric bills under organization dedicated to the can …the second, proudly eth - a problem and no one cares… the threat of having power Continued on page 3 mission of preserving visual and nic. go see Petris. turned off for non-payment, al - audio archives related to Hel - Nick Petris was proudly What a wonderful reputation though a number of government lenic history around the world,” American first and proudly to have as public servant. offices haven’t paid it and their according to its website. Greek second. What a record he had as a power has not been cut, earlier For subscription: The film premiered last year Nick loved his country, and Nicholas Petris, vocal liberal legislator. media reports said. 718.784.5255 on the opening night of the New he served it with honor in WWII in the California legislature. When you drive on any one Samaras wanted to approach [email protected] York Greek Film Festival. One first in Army Intelligence as a of our bay bridges or around the the Troika of the European thousand people saw it, but trained Japanese Interpreter. In Greece. San Francisco Bay shore… it Union-International Monetary many more were unable to at - 1946, President Truman ap - It wasn’t long after discharge was his legislation that saved Fund-European Central Bank tend, so Iliou immediately pointed him to be a member of from the Army and completing that bay from being filled in by (EU-IMF-ECB) with a common an American delegation to ob - law school at Stanford that Nick Continued on page 5 serve the post war elections in began his public service career. Continued on page 6 Continued on page 8 2 COMMUNITY THE NATIONAL HERALD, APRIL 6-12, 2013 Leonidas and Eftychia Group Presents Electra GOINGS ON... n APRIL 5-11 gins with registration and a By Constantine S. Sirigos She and her husband are MANHATTAN – SMYRNA FILM morning reception at 9AM. Panel TNH Staff Writer thrilled to be able to teach and IN N.Y. THEATER. Maria Iliou's 1: Growing Your Business In The inspire Young theater students documentary "Smyrna: The De - Modern Economy with speakers NEW YORK – The Greek trage - from the top acting schools in struction of a Cosmopolitan City, Catherine Giuliani, Partner, The dians’ brilliant insights into un - New York, but most of all they 1900-1922" will play a one-week Reiter Giuliani Group; Justin Bo - changing human nature remain are on a mission to show the con - engagement, Apr. 5-11, at the zonelis, CEO & Founder, LivEth - as powerful and valid as ever, but tinuing relevance of the great Quad Cinema, 34 West 13th nic.com; Maria Loi, Celebrity for their plays to be truly timeless Greek tragedians. Street in Manhattan. Information Chef, Owner, Loi Restaurant; requires work and inspiration on The company decided to spe - at www.quadcinema.com. Maria Avgitidis,Co-founder &. the part of those who present cialize in ancient drama and their CEO, AgapaMe.com & Agape - them to modern audiences. The dream is to create an institute of n APRIL 7 Match.com. Moderator for both Leonidas and Eftychia Theater ancient drama in the United GLEN COVE, NY – The Holocaust panels: Eleni Daniels, President Group’s recent adaptation of States. Memorial & Tolerance Center of & Principal DanielsMedia Co. Sophocles’ Electra at the Theater Their passion and dedication Nassau County will present a Panel 2: Funding your Business Row Studios in New York give fresh meaning to the adage special program on Holocaust through crowd-funding, featur - brought the complex woman to “the show must go on” – Eftychia Remembrance Day commemo - ing Martin W. Enright, Esq. Part - life. was three months pregnant at rating the Jews of Greece titled ner, Littman Krooks LLP; Brian The action of Sophocles’ mas - the time of the performance. “Greece and the Holocaust – Dev - Meece, CEO RocketHub. Keynote terpiece transcended the simplic - Loizidis , who was born in astation, Resistance and Re - Speaker and book signing John ity of the theater, with its painted Cyprus, was graduated from newal,” on Sunday, April 7. 90 P Margaritis, Unlock Your Inner brick walls and hardwood floor NYU’s school of Fine Arts and has percent of Greek Jews were mur - Entrepreneur Author, business and chairs on risers. The set is distinguished himself as a direc - dered in the Holocaust, yet many creation and expansion specialist abstract in the extreme: a white tor of both plays and films. Efty - people are unaware of this President/CEO President/CEO, garment nailed to the wall, chia was born and raised in tragedy. We will honor Greek Ledgemoor Group. To RSVP and stained with blood, and a crim - Athens. They met and fell in love holocaust survivors, rescuers, register for this event, go to: son fishing net, perhaps signaling when she appeared in the and victims. Guest are invited to www.hbngroup.org/ny2013. that although the thirst for justice The founders of the Leonidas and Eftychia Theatre Group after group’s very first play which was view a special multi-media ex - is powerful ideal, cycles of vio - a production. They specialize in Ancient Greek theater. presented in New York seven hibit on Greek Jewry. There will n APRIL 15 (DEADLINE) lence and vengeance which con - years ago. also be an exhibit created by the WASHINGTON, DC – The Amer - tinue through modern times do mented life with her mother, the and sings her praises. The music, This year, inspired by the po - Foundation for the Advancement ican Hellenic Institute Founda - not serve it well. moment Electra has been await - beautifully performed, reminds litical and economic crises of Sephardic Studies and Culture tion (AHIF) is accepting applica - The chorus, which Sophocles ing is imminent, but after a blis - the audience that is was a pow - around which they see as crises titled "Portraits of Our Past," tions for its program that sends reduced in number from 50 to tering exchange between mother erful dimension in Greek drama. in leadership, they have decided which will include artifacts from college students to Greece and 12, was condensed for this pro - and daughter, each feeling her But Sophocles’ emotional and to stage their plays with females the Kehila Kedosha Janina syna - Cyprus to better understand the duction to two women represent - actual or planned murders are moral roller coaster has yet to only. “The men have made a gogue’s permanent exhibit. 100 core foreign policy issues impor - ing the women of Mycenae, who justified, a stranger arrives with come to a stop. mess of things, and they think it Crescent Beach Road, in Glen tant to community. The program comfort, sympathize with and news of her brother's tragic Another stranger arrives and is time for women to be given Cove. is open to Greek American and encourage Electra, played by death. says of her brother, “His death authority.” Cypriot American college stu - Eftychia Loizidis. She was also Electra is shattered: “I am lost, was fake but his return is real.” When it was pointed out that n APRIL 11 dents in good academic standing the director. I am undone!” Soon he reveals that he is German Chancellor Angela MANHATTAN – The 2013 An - studying political science, inter - After the death of Electra’s fa - Clytemnestra is conflicted for Orestes, and after a moving re - Merkel is a woman, she said the nual Career and Internship Fair national relations, etc. The 5th ther, the great Agamemnon, a moment: “Shall I rejoice or feel union, he enters the palace and policies of women like her and sponsored by The Cyprus-U.S. annual trip be take place June sacker of Troy, she placed the in - remorse?” she asks as her heart avenges their father. the late Margaret Thatcher was Chamber of Commerce will be 19-July. For information visit: fant Orestes into the care of his breaks for the child she suckled: The Theater group is seven influenced or guided by men. held on Thursday, Apr.11, 4:30- ahiworld.org/for-students/pol - Pedagogos – teacher – who “There is a strange power in years old and is run by Leonidas Eftychia added, “women like 6:45 PM at the Holy Trinity icy-trip.html. The deadline to ap - raised him to avenge his father’s motherhood; a mother may be Loizidis, the producer of Electra Merkel strive to express their pas - Cathedral Center Ballroom, 337 ply is Apr.15. murder. wronged, but she never learns to and Eftychia, who is his wife. sion and assert their power East 74th Street (between 1st Clytemnestra knows this and hate her child.” Contributing their own money, through political authority, but and 2nd Avenues) in Manhattan. n APRIL 18 lives in fear even as she makes But she is soon bathed with they perform in Greek and Eng - that is not what women are Guest Speaker Maggie Stavrian - ASTORIA – The New York City Electra life a living hell. The lat - relief as the threat to her life re - lish throughout the United States about. We need put in authority idis Human Resources Business Greek Film Festival and Terret ter’s response to the condemna - cedes, and she returns to the . the other kind of woman.” Partner. Job seekers should come Entertainment present the U.S. tions of her mother is simple but palace in triumph while Electra They are blessed with the Electra is a 2500 year-old play with their resume. Company rep - premiere of WHAT IF, the year's explosive: “I am who you made writhes on the ground in despair. generosity of people Michael written by Sophocles during a resentatives will be available to most popular Greek film, with me.” Chrysothemis returns and ex - Psaros, who owns the new Sher - time of social and political up - discuss career and internship op - writer/ director/star Christopher Eftychia pointed out to TNH citedly tells her sister she found aton Four Points Hotel in Long heaval and Eftychia feels we are portunities. Companies in the Papakaliatis in person. Thursday, that “In ancient tragedy there are evidence that Orestes is near. Island City and Mary Vasilakos , in a similar period of turmoil. fields of Insurance, Banking, Ac - Apr. 18, Museum of the Moving no good and bad people, there When Electra tells her the news, and they also raise funds by of - Sophocles’ play was adapted counting, Attorneys, Trading, Fi - Image, 35th Ave.at 37 Street in are only actions, undertaken by she too is devastated. fering acting lessons. by Louis Markos, author of nu - nance, and many others will be Astoria. Reception by Stix people who are driven by forces Seeing their future crystal Eftychia said they fill a void merous publications and profes - on hand to meet with job fair ap - Mediterranean Grill at 6PM, beyond their control.” clear, she admonished Electra: in the United States, where act - sor of English at Houston Baptist plicants. Additional companies screening at 7:30PM. Tickets on Electra’s younger sister “You must learn to yield to those ing students are not taught how University. The music was com - interested in participating, con - line at www.movingimage.us/ Chrysothemis is sympathetic, but who rule,” a clear reference to to perform ancient drama. “Fu - posed by Oxford graduate Eleni tact: Despina Axiotakis, Execu - films or call 718-777-6800 to re - fear of losing her royal lifestyle the right-wing tyrannies that suc - eled by our love we provide them Gaitatzis, who was born in tive Director 201-444-5609 or e- serve. stops her from supporting the ceeded the death of Periclean with knowledge and technique,” Zurich and grew up in Thessa - mail: wild scheme and she leaves the democracy in Athens. so they can present to the world loniki. Cypriot Ivie Demos - [email protected]. n APRIL 20 scene. The chorus soothes Electra in that which they have inherited thenous was the assistant direc - Admission is Free Refreshments ASTORIA – The Hellenic Cultural After many years of tor - very poignant and moving verses from their ancestors. tor. will be served. Center and the Mikrokosmos En - semble present a historical con - n APRIL 13 cert “Rebetiko …To Perpetuity” BAYSIDE – The Hellenic Relief spanning the history of classical Foundation Inc. is announcing a Rebetika from Smyrna ….to Memory of Joan Tsakanikas Inspires Endeavor benefit concert with renowned Pireaus…and the Blues of New Greek composer, piano soloist Orleans with Grigoris Maninakis Yannis Spanos. The concert will and the Mikrokosmos Ensemble. Continued from page 1 take place at Queensboro Com - Narration by Stelios Taketzis. Fri - munity College theater 222-05 day, April 19 at 7:30 PM; Satur - http://www.mwoy.org/nyc/lo - 56th Ave in Bayside on Saturday day, Apr. 20 at 7:30PM; and Sun - calchapter/candidates. Apr. 13 at 8PM. Yannis Spanos day, Apr. 21 at 5PM at the Andrejkovics and his wife will perform many of his well- Hellenic Cultural Center, 27-09 Alexandra, the daughter of Joan known songs having at his side Crescent Street in Astoria. Reser - and her husband, Nikos, the the vocalist Hrysoula Stefanaki. vations Mon. – Fri. 10AM-4PM president and founder of Home - Tickets are priced at $80, $60, at 718-626-5111; other times: ric Tours, invited their friends $40 and $20. $ 20 purchases one 917- 915-8647. to join them for the fundraising package of nonperishable foods campaign’s Kickoff event at the and home supplies for families n APRIL 21 Hudson Terrace on the West in distress. All net proceeds of SPRINGFIELD, NJ – The friends Side of Manhattan on March 27. the concert will benefit the mis - and family of Peter Markou are He spoke to the guests who sion of the Hellenic Relief Foun - hosting a pasta dinner to raise packed the tony club about his dation in Greece. Production awareness and support Peter's wife and the campaign, and partner Hellenic Public Radio battle with colon cancer. Join his noted that despite the good-na - COSMOS FM 91.5 will partici - family and friends for “Pasta for tured completion they are all pate in promotion, ticket sales Pete.” There will also be a bake working together for a cure and and production. Ticket info : Hel - sale, raffle and tricky tray. Tickets the society’s representatives lenic Relief Foundation: (347) will be sold prior to the event for kept repeating that “Whoever 201-1821 or info@hellenicre - $10. Sunday, April 21st from wins, cancer loses.” lief.org. COSMOS FM : (718) 1:00 - 7:00 PM at IUPAT D.C 711 The invitation sent to friends 204-8900 or Local 1331, 9 Fadem Road in by Tsakanikas’ family for Kickoff [email protected]. Hellenic Springfield. For tickets or to event told some of the story of Relief: Preserving Dignity in Cri - make a direct donation email: her life and her heroic struggle: sis. [email protected]. “Joan Tsakanikas, a mother of two, grandmother of four, Friends of the Society packed the Hudson Terrace for the 2013 fundraising launch event. MANHATTAN – The next Greek HARTFORD, CT – St. George and dear friend of many passed American Writers Association po - Greek Orthodox Cathedral pre - away in October 2011. Joan was heroic and inspiring and pro - needs of the many who are cur - Waithe, who thanked the guests etry reading hosted by Dean Kos - sents the Dr. James C. Rouman diagnosed with Acute Myeloid vides our proximate connection rently battling blood cancers, as and also inspired them. tos features four compelling po - Lecture Series will feature An - Leukemia, a rare and fast pro - to the cause. However, there are well as the many who have yet The Society's Man & Woman ets, all of an Attic disposition: drew Walsh, PhD, Assistant Pro - gressing blood cancer in August many others who are still in to be diagnosed.” of the Year “is a unique national Sarah Arvio; Veronica Golos; Tre - fessor, Trinity College, who will 2009. Despite receiving a bone need of advanced treatment and One of the highlights of the campaign…Hundreds of men bor Healey; Lloyd Robson. At the speak on the Monastic Move - marrow transplant and achiev - we cannot hold back in the evening was the presentation of and women in 61 chapters Cornelia Street Café on Saturday, ment in American Orthodoxy at ing remission, complications de - fight. We are determined to the 2013 Boy and Girl of the across America vie for the title Apr. 13, 6 PM, at 29 Cornelia the Cathedral’s Matthews Fellow - veloped in the summer of 2011. achieve our goal of raising funds Year awards to nine year-old DJ each year in a 10-week fundrais - Street. 212-989-9319. ship Hall, 433 Fairfield Avenue Joan’s battle with Leukemia was and building awareness to the Valcin and six year-old Daniya ing campaign,” according to the in Hartford on Sunday, Apr. 21 Society. The Tsakanikas Family’s n APRIL 13 at 5PM. For information call: goal is to raise $50,000. MANHATTAN – Hellenic Busi - 860-956-7586. The campaign’s theme is “For ness Network (HBN) New York Every One There Are Many,” Chapter and the Hellenic Profes - n MAY 30 and symbolizes the connections sional Women (HPW) invite you MANHATTAN – The Officers and POCKET-LESS between cancer patients (the to our Entrepreneurship Sympo - Directors of The Hellenic Ameri - Ones) and their many friends, sium 2013. Saturday, Apr. 13, can Bankers Association Invite loved ones, parents, children, 9AM to 1:30PM at the ballroom you to save the date for our 2013 PITA BREAD siblings, colleagues, neighbors of the Holy Trinity Cathedral, Executive of the Year Award Din - and “many other aspects of their 337 East 74th Street in Manhat - ner In honor of Mr. Brent Call - lives impacted.” tan. The one-day symposium has inicos Vice President, Treasurer Kontos Foods The culmination of the en - been designed to explore the & Chief Accountant, Google Inc. deavor is in the Man and challenges and opportunities Thursday, May 30. 6PM Recep - The Leading Company in Flat Breads Woman of the Year Grand Finale faced by entrepreneurs and start- tion, 7PM Dinner at the Union Gals at the Capitale at 130 Bow - up companies in funding their League Club of New York at 38 Well known for the Pocket-Less Pita ery and Grand Street in Man - ideas and growth. 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By Constantine S. Sirigos Andy Manatos told the gathering tive to the UN, Ambassador TNH Staff Writer that the people assisting new Nicholas Emiliou; the Consuls Cyprus President Nicos Anastasi - General of Cyprus and Greece re - NEW YORK – Archbishop ades on the island and in its spectively, Koula Sophianou and Demetrios convened a meeting diplomatic corps are the best he George Iliopoulos; Bishop Sevas - of Greek- and Cypriot-American has ever seen. He also provided tianos of Zela; President of HABA leaders in order to share ideas his colleagues with a valuable Costas Kellas; Leadership 100 Ex - and begin coordinating action to handout titled “Eleven Things ecutive Director Paulette Poulos; benefit of the people of Cyprus. You Need to Know about the Eco - President of the Cyprus Chil - Cypriot Minister of Foreign Af - nomic Crisis in Cyprus – That You dren’s Fund, Savas Tsivikos; Pres - fairs Ioannis Kasoulides partici - Aren’t Reading in the News.” ident of H.A.N.C. Paul Kotrot - pated through a 45-minute con - Among the practical questions sios; Alternate President of ference call, addressing the that were addressed according to PSEKA, Tasos Zampas; President guests, asking for their views, and Kokotas were whether aid should of the Coordinated Effort of Hel - thanking them for their concern go directly to people and institu - lenes, Andy Manatos; past presi - about the impact of the economic tions in need through the Cypriot dent of the Pan Arcadian Associ - crisis on his country. government. One man said they ation, Dimitrios Filios; President The archbishop called the should “just start writing checks.” of PSEKA, Philip Greek and Greek-American press Dr. Nicholas Mezitis, the Pres - Christopher; President of AHI, into the room after the meeting ident of the Hellenic Medical So - Nicholas Larigakis; President of and summarized the proceed - ciety, told TNH it was a produc - the Federation of Hellenic Soci - ings. He said the immediate pri - TNH/COSTAS BEJ tive meeting and was impressed eties of Greater New York, Elias ority is to gather the facts about Cypriot Minister of Foreign Affairs Ioannis Kasoulides briefed community leaders on the Cyprus with professions and groups that Tsekerides; Vassos Vassiliou, Pres - urgent needs, other priorities, crisis and asked for their views during his 45-minute conference call. were represented. With respect ident, Peter Kakoyiannis, Chair - and costs. When the critical in - to the healthcare system, he said man of the Board, Dennis C. formation is received from the social service arm of the nity’s maturity and ability to mar - Greek- and Cypriot-Americans to that the major cuts that are ex - Droushiotis, Vice Chairman, Cyprus, additional meetings will Church of Greece. shal funds and ideas. help the homelands, whose real pected could create a health cri - Nikos Mouyiaris, Board Member, be called to discuss what should Demetrios left no room for Leadership 100 was founded independence is being under - sis. Despina Axiotakis, Executive Di - be done by individuals and the doubts about the ability of the in 1983 with the commitment of mined by the current crises. He said one of the things the rector, and Andreas D. Comod - community’s organizations. community to make a difference. 15 people to give $100,000 over James Kokotas, AHEPA foreign minister said was that romos, Founding Chairman of In the meantime, he said im - “The community is very power - a ten year period and today has Supreme Governor for District 5, “the Church has to have a central the Cyprus-U.S. Chamber of mediate action can still be taken, ful. We are not where we were more than 800 members and an said it was a very good meeting role for a variety of reasons, as it Commerce; Hellenic Medical So - and noted the most effective in 1960 or 1974.” He stated that endowment of $80 million, the and that Philip Christopher is the one element that binds ciety President, Dr. Nicholas short-term help might consist of 47 percent of Greek-Americans archbishop said. helped focus the discussion by everyone together and has the Mezitis; President of the Hellenic aid from the Archdiocese of earn more than $100,000 per Demetrios noted that the cur - identifying three aspects of the ability to coordinate the imme - American Chamber of Com - America to the Church of Cyprus, year and cited the growth of the rent celebrations marking the crisis the Diaspora should help diate relief efforts.” merce, Michael Theodorobeakos; on the model of the assistance Leadership 100 Endowment Greek Declaration of Indepen - address: humanitarian, eco - Philip Vogis told TNH that National Philoptochos President, given to date to Apostoli-Mission, Fund as evidence of the commu - dence in 1821 should goad nomic, and political. He said “the meeting was extremely pos - Aphrodite Skeadas; Peter Papan - itive and the leaders of all the or - icolaou, President, Constantine ganizations gave excellent input Tsentas, Executive VP, and Peter about what can be done.” He said Louca, Vice President of the they committed themselves to ac - Cyprus Federation of America; Brooklyn’s Sts. Constantine and Helen is 100 Years Old tions and projects that they will President of the Chian Federa - undertake collectively. “Commit - tion, Stavros Haviaras; President tees will be established to spear - of the Panchiaki Korais Society, Continued from page 1 cation – and the cornerstone was Eventually designated a choir loft in honor of Paulette head the efforts and explore op - Stelios Gerazounis; Executive laid in 1916. The Church has ex - Cathedral, it was the first Greek Chios, who served as choir di - portunities and means of Vice President of the Hellenic Greek living in Brooklyn since the panded a number of times and Orthodox church on Long Island, rector for 40 years and left a helping,” and he looks forward Federation of New Jersey Nick late 1800s and they were having has changed its form, but as the and the first in the Archdiocese legacy for the Church. The to the next meeting. Poulis; and member of the board services wherever they could. building was rising, the first of to feature an organ. The parish Church façade is also undergoing Among those present were of the Hellenic Lawyers Associa - The priests were mainly Russian three major fires that struck the highlights include visits by Arch - a renovation, as is the A. Fantis Cyprus’ Permanent Representa - tion George Zapantis. Orthodox. By 1912 they reached parish occurred: set by non- bishop Makarios, who made an school. a critical mass.” They petitioned Greek residents fueled by anti- impassioned speech for the lib - Philoptochos president Mar - the Archbishop of Greece and re - immigrant fervor. eration of Cyprus, as well as jorie Bacas told TNH she is hon - ceived permission to build the There was another fire in the Greek monarchs. ored to be part of the celebra - Church of St. Constantine – St. 1946 that was turned into an ex - GLORIOUS PAST, tion. The chapter was established Helen was to be added later – pansion opportunity and the BRIGHT FUTURE in 1932, when it helped newly and were sent their first priest, Church was renovated again and The Dean of the Cathedral, arrived immigrants meet their Fr. Stefanos Makaronis. rededicated in 1960. Fr. John Lardas, is pleased to needs and adjust to their new Donations came from all over By WWII it was a vibrant note there has been a migration way of life. America – Brooklyn was the gate - community and Vlitas said it sold of young professional to the area They currently help Greeks way for many Greeks who then the most war bonds of any parish whose children are starting to at - and non-Greeks alike. “Through moved to other parts of the coun - in the Archdiocese, and also tend the School. He noted that the years we have evolved to try. The Church was literally built made major contributions to philanthropic projects are incor - help all our neighbors,” Bacas with nickels and dimes from the Greek War Relief. porated into the programs of the said. Last year they raised money struggling immigrants – although The parish flourished due to parish’s youth groups and for Hurricane Sandy relief and there were two $100 donations America’s post-war prosperity schools in addition to career de - the homeless in Brooklyn. They – a large sum for that time. and the new waves of immigra - velopment activities. also provide scholarships to the The plans for the church were tion from a Greece damaged One of the current physical A. Fantis school and they have shown in the National Herald in both by the Fascist occupation projects is the installation of an raised money to alleviate the hu - 1915 – the first year of its publi - and the Civil War. icon of the Nativity above the manitarian crisis in Greece.

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Left photo: Students from the Greek language schools of the parishes in Pawtucket, Newport, Greek Independence Day celebration at the Rhode Island State House. State Senator Leonidas and Cranston delighted the leaders of the Greek-American community and other guests at the P. Raptakis (right photo) has been organizing the festivities for 21 years. The Rhode Island State House Hosts a Celebration of Greek Independence

By Theodore Kalmoukos ebration. in the ceremony welcoming the M. Teresa Paiva Weed and nunciation Church delivered Greek Girls/Ee Ellinopoules” by Resolutions were passed in many guests. The program, de - House Speaker Gordon Fox who both the invocation and the Katherine O’Hair and Savvina PROVIDENCE, RI – State Sen - both houses of the RI legislature livered by the Greek school stu - have once again come together benediction and the audience Arsenis, Annunciation Greek ator Leonidas P. Raptakis and as part of the day’s celebration dents, featured poems, readings, in the State House for this spe - joined together to sing the Language School, Cranston; “To the Greek-American community also honoring the three Greek and songs celebrating Greek his - cial celebration.” American and Greek national Our Country of Greece,” by hosted a glorious celebration Orthodox communities Annun - tory, culture, and the nation’s Also attending was Provi - anthems. Rev. Philip Zymaris of Ronald George Purcell and marking the Greek Indepen - ciation of the Theotokos of commitment to democracy and dence Mayor Angel Taveras and the Assumption Church gave the Charles Lehourites, Assumption dence Day at the RI State Cranston, St. Spyridon of New - freedom. Attorney Nicholas Supreme President of the promi - invocation in the House cham - Greek School, Pawtucket; “Dou - House, bringing together state port, and Assumption of the Vir - Lambros, a parishioner of the nent Greek-American Organiza - ber while Rev. Andrew George ble Celebration,” by Isabel leaders and members of the gin Mary of Pawtucket. Annunciation Greek Orthodox tion AHEPA Dr. John Grosso - gave the invocation in the Sen - Sophia Petrou, St. Spyridon-Pro - Greek community to recognize Throughout the day, Greece’s church of Cranston was the manides, both of whom gave ate. All three Greek Orthodox tulis Greek Language School, the 192nd anniversary of national flag was flown in four master of ceremonies. remarks, and State Senator parishes which included the Newport; “Greece Will Never Greece’s independence from the different areas of the State Raptakis told TNH that “this Hanna Gallo represented Weed Greek Language Schools of Die,” by Nicholas Lambros, Con - Ottoman Empire. House, in the Governor’s State - event is a wonderful expression in giving greetings. Gallo Rhode Island participated with stantine Coclin, and Dimitri It was the 21st consecutive room, in the Senate and House of our strong Greek community praised Raptakis in his commit - various poems: “The Holocaust Petrou, Annunciation Greek such celebration of the event, chambers, and also displayed on in Rhode Island and the strong ment in continuing for 21 years, of Arkadi,” by Ana Belliveau and Language School, Cranston; and which included Consul General top of the State House building. connection between this state the celebration honoring Greek Athanasia Dafoulas, Assumption “Simera Yiortazi” and “O Thou - of Greece Ilias Fotopoulos, who State officials such as Lieu - known for its commitment to in - Independence Day and the Feast Greek Language School, Paw - rios, songs sung by the children addressed the RI State Senate tenant Governor, Elizabeth dependence and the nation of the Annunciation. tucket; “Lord Byron,” Reading representing the Greek Lan - while accepting the official Roberts, General Treasurer Gina which was the birthplace of As part of the main program by Emilee Sullivan, St. Spyri - guage Schools of Rhode Island. proclamation in the Governor’s Raimondo, and Attorney Gen - democracy. We are grateful to in the Governor’s State Room, don-Protulis Greek Language A reception followed at the State Room during a festive cel - eral Peter Kilmartin, took part the Governor, Senate President Rev. Andrew George of the An - School, Newport; “The Young Annunciation Community Center. New York Federation Invites Everyone to Greek Parade on Fifth Avenue

Continued from page 1 greeted him by saying “today we $10,000 from The Order of are all Irish.” Demetrios could AHEPA, and a representative of for Hellenes in New York to not resist going one up on the the Daughters of Penelope de - demonstrate their love for exuberant man. “On this day clared “we are always prepared Greece and their pride by turn - everyone is Irish, but all year, to help in any way.” ing out for the Parade and sig - everyone is Greek.” When the The Federation and New naling to the homelands that man wondered how that was so, Greek TV (NGTV) cooperated to “we stand by them…And we the archbishop asked him: “Do produce a telethon to benefit the must say it in a loud voice so you hold in high esteem justice, Parade on March 31. Co-Hosted that it can be heard in Washing - human rights, science and art?” by Dimitrios Filippides, more ton, D.C. and in Brussels.” “Of course” the man replied. than $50,000 was raised. Rallis noted that Demetrios “Then you are Greek,” he said. Petros Galatoulas, General altered his schedule to be able After thinking about it a mo - Secretary of the Federation, an - to be present for at least 10 min - ment, the new Philhellene said, nounced “the Evzones will be utes, but the archbishop said he “You are right!” here” and thanked Archbishop was so impressed with what he The Archbishop cited 4000 Demetrios , adding “You give us heard about the preparations, “I years of Hellenic triumphs and strength.” wanted to hear about every - struggles and noted “There may PARADE WEEKEND EVENTS thing,” and he expressed his ap - be difficulties now, but that is Among the highlights of the preciation for how well-orga - nothing new.” The situation in Parade weekend is the raising on nized the meeting was and for Greece and Cyprus is clearly not the Greek flag at historic Bowling Green at Noon on April 5, orga - ABOVE: Elias Tsekerides presents a plaque to George nized and hosted as always by Siamboulis in honor of his achievements and for his philan - Michael Voudouris. The Evzones thropic work as president of Pan Gregorian of America. (L-R) will be present and students Dino Rallis, George Siamboulis, Evangelia Siamboulis, George from the community’s schools Alexiou (obscured), Elias Tsekerides, and Petros Galatoulas. will dance. For the first time they LEFT: The acrobatic children of the dance troupe of Cretans will also appear at a celebration Association Omonia delight the dignitaries and other guests at in Astoria’s Athens Square Park the celebration of the 75th anniversary of the Federation Hel - at noon on the following day, af - lenic Societies at the Terrace on the Park on March 31. ter which they will also appear at the Cretan House in Astoria ing dinner at the New York recently had with you at the for the annual dance festival that Hilton, called for a “demonstra - Archdiocese, everyone I have features troupes from the region. tion of strength by the commu - called has responded positively Tasos Manesis announced nity on Fifth Avenue.” He of - and we even received faxes from that everything is in place for the fered his perspective on the people whom I had not called pre-Parade reception at the tragedy that has struck Cyprus, and announced that the journal Pierre Hotel at 11:30AM after but he is undaunted, declaring, has raised $70,000 to date.” Sunday Liturgy at the Cathedral, “We will work to save Greece FederationTreasurer Aposto - where the Parade day’s festivities and Cyprus.” los Skotidas said that $120,876 will commence. Tasso Efstratiades expressed had been raised to date. The Parade will be once more the New Jersey Federation’s sol - Numerous large donations carried live on New York’s Chan - idarity and said “our purpose is were announced, including nel 9, 2-4 PM. every year to strengthen the Pa - rade, which is the biggest expres - sion of Hellenism in America.” its spirit. just economic in nature, but he families and “fill Fifth Avenue Basilios Gournelos is the en - Presidential Proclamation: He looks forward to a great noted that it is has caused “the until there is no more room so ergetic chairman of the raffle Greek Independence Day: Parade as a demonstration of the masks of all the Europeans to everyone sees us.” committee. Collected to date has Hellenic presence in New York fall,” now that they have at - He also praised the Federa - been $29,000, and he expects A National Day of Celebration of Greek and and told of his encounter with tacked human rights in Greece tion for not limiting the celebra - more to come in by the dead - American Democracy, 2013 an Irish-American during the re - and Cyprus. “These are human tion of March 25 to “just one line. cent St. Patrick’s Day Parade problems that are not easily re - day,” congratulating it for pre - Eleni Psarras, the Parade’s co- March 22, 2013 which terminated near Arch - solved,” he said, but he permit - senting events throughout the Chair and Chair of the Journal diocesan headquarters on 79th ted no doubt that Hellenes will month preceding the Parade. Committee told Demetrios “you Each year, America celebrates Greek Independence Day to Street. overcome, and urged the audi - Philip Christopher, chairman must have blessed us because as strengthen the bonds between the birthplace of democracy and A man decked out in green ence to bring their friends and of the Federation’s gala fundrais - soon as we left the meeting we the world's oldest republic. We recognize the enduring contri - butions of Greek Americans, woven into the fabric of our na - tional life. And we reflect on the ancient Hellenic principles that inspired our Founders to vest the powers of government in the hands of the people. OPPORTUNITY ΙΝ SYROS! In both America and Greece, we are inheritors to great re - publics, entrusted to safeguard the ideals that make represen - tative government work. Our peoples have learned that democ - racy flourishes when we respect our differences, hold fast to the principles that unite us, and move forward with common purpose. It is a legacy lived by generations of Greek Americans, who for centuries have helped write proud chapters in our country's history and continue to enrich the character of our Nation. www.GreekKitchennyc.com Today, we congratulate Greece, a valued NATO ally, as it commemorates the 192nd anniversary of its independence, and we pledge our continued solidarity as the country works to rebuild its economy. In the face of hardship, America stands with the people of Greece, confident they can meet the chal - land lot 10.000 sq.m. at megas yialos adjacent to St. Anthony’s lenges of the 21st century while upholding their ancient ideals. NOW, THEREFORE, I, BARACK OBAMA, President of the church, unobstructed views, sandy beach, jetty nearby, separated United States of America, by virtue of the authority vested in to ten plots of about 1000 sq.m each. Construction permits for me by the Constitution and the laws of the United States, do 3-5 maisonettes totaling 400sq.meters in each plot obtained. hereby proclaim March 25, 2013, as Greek Independence Day: A National Day of Celebration of Greek and American Democ - Sells all together or by plot, racy. I call upon the people of the United States to observe this Built upon request on a separate contract day with appropriate ceremonies and activities. IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this For more information: twenty-second day of March, in the year of our Lord two thou - Chryso A.Stamou [email protected] sand thirteen, and of the Independence of the United States of America the two hundred and thirty-seventh. Tel. (01130) 6974-125-925 BARACK OBAMA THE NATIONAL HERALD, APRIL 6-12, 2013 COMMUNITY 5 American Jewish Committee: Long at Forefront of Greek-Jewish Bond

Continued from page 1 encourage their friends and col - discussed Golden Dawn and leagues “wherever they live to other matters. said. travel to Greece and enjoy some “We are concerned about it,” Some members of the AJC’s of the splendors of that magnifi - he said, “and we encourage the Board of Governors recently vis - cent country.” Greek government and Greek ited Greece. The Board has a re - Isaacson took his family to civil society to be vigilant against treat each winter that is held in Greece three years ago. “It was such appeals to the basest in - Israel every fifth year. In January, an amazing trip. We went to stincts of man and to make it on the way to Israel, the AJC’s Naxos and Santorini and spent a clear there is no real root in Executive Director David Harris little time in Athens too.” They Greek political space for that led the delegation to Athens loved “The people, the air, the kind of intolerance.” where they met with Prime Min - light, the food, the spirit of the Isaacson added “the response ister Antonis Samaras and other place. It was the best vacation that has always been given to me officials, and with the leaders of ever.” and my colleagues when we the Jewish community. He is very encouraged by the have raised this has demon - Isaacson said the AJC’s rela - increase in Israeli tourism in strated the depth of feeling by tionship with Hellenes has been Greece and he agrees there is responsible Greek officials and building for generations and he great potential for Greek Ameri - Church officials and leaders in gives the late Andy Athens a lot cans to visit Israel, especially civil society that this is anathema of credit for it, and to Andy Man - with their Jewish-American to the values of Greece,” and atos and his son Mike, who friends. “The synergies between noted that the AJC recognizes worked closely with Athens. these two countries are so ap - that the current strain of “xeno - “Andy Athens was a pioneer of parent – and with the United phobia and bigotry is not natural the whole effort to strengthen States. That is the rationale be - to Greece.” the bonds between the two com - AJC delegation led by Exec. Director David Harris (7th from L) and accompanied by Greek- hind the new Alliance that we When he discussed such mat - munities,” Isaacson said, though American leader Andy Manatos (2nd from L), with Greek Foreign Minister Dimitris Avramopou - strongly support on Capitol Hill,” ters more than a year ago with he agrees that there is still a lot los (8th from L). In a demonstration of solidarity, the AJC and the Greek-American community he said. Archbishop Ieronymos of Greece, of work to be done. announced a $100,000 joint donation to Doctors Without Borders Greece. He also expects that just as “We had a very full and candid CURRENT EVENTS AND American Jews worked with discussion…he is a brilliant and COMPLEX CURRENTS and Greece and the Greeks and His position calls for him not promote their culture all over the members of Congress and with empathetic man who was quite In light of the recent rap - the Jewish world,” which is oc - only to be active internationally world. Isaacson said that during Administrations “to encourage aware of this and quite direct in prochement brokered by Presi - curring for economic, political, but to work closely with fellow conversations with Andy Athens the kind of aid that helps a coun - his rejection various statements, dent Obama between Turkey and military, and strategic reasons. ethnic and religious communities through the years he became im - try facing severe strategic or eco - including by senior clerics…one Israel, Isaacson reiterated what Isaacson said there will be “no in the United States with which pressed with the Greek-American nomic challenges, as was the in particular who had been es - the ACJ and other Jewish groups diminution of the commitment the AJC has formed partnerships tradition of philanthropic activity case of the constantly attacked pecially provocative has been have stated all along, that the of both sides to a strong military through the years. and donations to Greece, which state of Israel in the first decades stingingly rejected by the Arch - deepening of relations between to military relationship,” which For example, last month he parallels the Jewish experience. of its existence. I expect that bishop.” Greece, Cyprus and Israel and includes joint maneuvers. addressed Latino leaders brought “Wherever there are Jews in spirit will motivate Greek Amer - He said the issue “has come their diaspora communities flows His background enables together by AJC’s Latin America need, including where they con - icans, whether they seek direct up from time to time with our from a dynamic that is indepen - Isaacson to view the developing Institute. He said his AJC col - front oppression…Jewish orga - assistance or support by the friends in the Greek-American dent of anything that happens in relationship from many perspec - league Dina Siegel Vann “has or - nizations like the AJC have United States in the IMF or Community and we feel there is Israeli-Turkish relations. tives. After working on Capitol ganized a very impressive coali - sprung up to help going back World bank to help get the strug - complete sympathy and solidar - Whenever he has spoken to Hill and in journalism, he began tion of leaders communities more than a century,” he said. gling economy back on its feet. “ ity and strong support.” Greek groups he stressed “the with AJC in July 1991. across the United States. “ Through his friendship with Diaspora Jews have con - Isaacson concluded by saying natural synergy and bonds be - He has been in the same po - Isaacson remembers always Athens he has seen “marvelous tributed to Israel materially and “The relationship that the AJC tween these people, and it has sition since then, but it has having one foot in the political expressions of humanitarianism by sharing their valuable experi - has been privileged to have with nothing to do with a third coun - grown remarkably since he ar - world as a result of the social and solidarity that has driven ence and expertise. Isaacson said the leadership of the Greek and try, but with natural civilizational rived at the point when the Mid - consciousness inculcated by his that community to make contri - “there is a great amount of travel Cypriot-American communities links and sharing of values be - dle East peace process intensified parents. His father had a store butions to causes overseas, and back and forth of business people has been one of our proudest tween Greeks and Jews that go during the year of the Madrid in Brooklyn that he took over a lot of that energy has now been between the United States and achievements. At the community back thousands of years.” He Peace conference of October of from his grandfather, but Isaac - devoted to finding ways to help all diaspora communities around level we feel solidarity, empathy, noted there has always a strong 1991. He said that “set the stage son grew up in Long Island. He Greece and Cyprus whether the world and Israel, and Amer - a common purpose and a level consciousness of Greece among for a vast expansion on Israel’s remembers participating in poli - through supporting are social- ican Jews have been involved in of candor and friendship that is the Jewish people, and vice versa. diplomatic horizons, forging full tics as early as the age of 11 welfare institutions or economic advising Israel in matters of tax unmatched by any other rela - Given the growing volatility relations with countries all over when he walked around his Re - development efforts.” and trade policy.” tionship that we have. We are in the Middle East and the im - the world.” publican neighborhood with a “There are so many ways that COMBATTING committed to it and are doing portance of their finding ways to That also “created a desire in straw hat that said “all the way diaspora communities can help ANTI-SEMITISM what we can to help emphasize work together, Isaacson looks many countries to work with an with LBJ,” going door to door out, philanthropy is one area, Asked about how Greece and the ample synergies in the rela - forward to the Israel-Turkey re - American NGO that could serve with leaflets.” and another is developing Greek-Americans can help fight tionship between Greece and Is - lationship returning to normal, as a friend an explainer and door DIASPORA POWER tourism. He believes “the tourism anti-Semitism in Greece, he said rael and between Hellenic peo - “but it doesn’t have anything to opener and interlocutor,” be - One of the strongest affinities potential of Greece is completely it is an issue “that comes up from ple and the Jewish people. It’s a do with the remarkable trajec - cause of its involvement in rela - between the Greek- and Jewish- unlimited…it is one of the great time to time” and that the AJC relationship that goes back thou - tory of warming, increasingly tions with Israel and the United American communities is a de - tourist destinations in the has spoken to Greek officials sands of years and it will go for - close relations between Israel States. sire to help the homeland and to world.” He is sure Greeks will about it. Most recently they have ward thousands of years as well.” Film in NYC about Smyrna: Destruction of a Cosmopolitan City 1900-22

Continued from page 1 disaster: "I grew up with my fa - City of Tolerance), who is the ther’s memories and in a main speaker in the film. sought out distributors and the - Smyrnean atmosphere. We were Asked whether the world’s ater owners. She found an en - different. More receptive to new perception of the destruction of thusiastic supporter in Elliott ideas and diversity. I heard Smyrna might shift to a new Kanbar, the owner of her fa - things that were different from reading, Iliou said: "we respect vorite neighborhood theater, the what we were told in school. memory, and the discipline and QUAD He has roots in the Jew - Smyrna was not merely a grim science of history. We try to stay ish community of Thessaloniki image…it was music and West - away from excessively national - and feels an affinity with ern songs. It was not only the istic narratives but we also keep Smyrna. Greeks! There were Armenians, our distance from the latest at - Iliou, an award-winning di - Levantines, Jews, Turks, Mus - tempts to suppress the tragic rector, producer, and screen - lims, Christians.” events of the destruction, which writer, worked with other con - She wanted to tell the story distort the truth. " tributors, including the film’s of Smyrna, which was unknown Regarding the role of art in historian, professor Alexander to the world, for a long time. examining the tragedy, the jux - Kitroeff of Haverford College, Reading the words Henry Miller taposition of the carefree life of on The Journey: The Greek in his book The Colossus of the people of Smyrna before the American Dream (2007). Maroussi triggered the project: wars and the city’s ultimate de - The film enlightens without “Yet the Smyrna affair...has been struction, she said: "There is an being didactic, taking the viewer somehow soft-pedaled and al - existential motif that repeats on a journey to Smyrna from its most expunged from the mem - continuously in the movie. Peo - peak as a renowned cosmopoli - ory of present-day man." ple live their daily lives effort - tan city of the Eastern Mediter - The structure of her film was lessly, they enjoy the rides in the ranean to the period just before determined by the photographs harbor, music at night, dancing, the ominous advance of the the and films they could obtain in they are engrossed by the sight COurTESy imPEriAl wAr muSEum Turkish Nationalist Army, and their research struggles in public of Greek steamers at sea! The The scene outside Smyrna’s Sporting Club. Greeks, Jews, and Armenians celebrate the arrival the horrors that followed: the and private archives. It covers clothes, the look, the appear - of the Allied Fleet and the Greek Army. violence, the fire, the indiffer - the years from from 1900 to ances ... all show a lightness that ence of the ships of the Great 1922 in two periods: the pros - recurs in the film ... they create John Zecca, and expressed her Costopoulos, Marianthi, and For information about the Powers and the powerlessness perity and cosmopolitanism, the an atmosphere ... and these im - gratitude to its sponsors: the Bo - Proteus foundations, and to the screenings call 212-255-2243. of the Greek fleet. acme, from 1900-1912, and ages in the film melt into one an - dossaki, Argyros, Nicholas J. 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The San Francisco "Nick Petris was a hero to me semblyman, he and state Sen. were often stricter than national Office of Strategic Service dur - the Greek tradition who people Chronicle as an elected official and as a Eugene McAteer wrote the bill standards. ing World War II. would just stop and listen to," Greek American man who set that created the Bay Conserva - The Lanterman-Petris-Short He graduated from Stanford said former state Sen. John Bur - SAN FRANCIOSCO, CA – the highest standards," said Art tion and Development Commis - Act, passed in 1967, barred the University Law School in 1949 ton, now the chairman of the Nicholas Petris, who eloquently Agnos, who served with Mr. sion. The agency, which reviews involuntary commitment of and worked as a lawyer before California Democratic Party. "I championed liberal causes as an Petris in the Legislature and shoreline development, has most people with mental health being elected to the Assembly don't think he had a single en - East Bay representative in the went on to become San Fran - been credited with saving San problems. in 1959 and the state Senate in emy. If you didn't like Nick Legislature for 37 years, died cisco mayor. "He had a passion Francisco Bay from dozens of Mr. Petris also wrote laws 1967. Petris, you didn't like vanilla ice Wednesday at an Oakland nurs - to fight for the needs of the fill projects. banning smoking on airplanes, KNOWN FOR ELOQUENCE cream." ing center after a two-year bout poor, the sick and disabled," Ag - Mr. Petris was often contro - trains and buses, and it was his His eloquence was legendary. Term limits compelled Mr. with Alzheimer's disease, rela - nos said, "as well as the intellect versial. In the late 1960s, he in - legislation that required rede - One speech about how budget Petris to retire in 1996. tives said. He was 90. to anticipate the future." troduced a bill calling for the velopment agencies to build cuts would affect the poor and Mr. Petris was married for 60 The son of Greek immi - Mr. Petris was a tireless ad - elimination of the internal-com - housing for low-income fami - mentally ill was so moving that years to the former Anna Vla - grants, he advanced ideas that vocate for environmental pro - bustion engine, causing outrage lies. a prominent Republican legisla - hos, who died in 2010. were sometimes so far ahead of tection, affordable housing, in the auto industry. Born in Oakland, Mr. Petris tor told him afterward he re - He is survived by his brother, their time that staffers referred health care, higher education, The bill eventually failed, but spoke mostly Greek as a child. gretted having to vote against Gus Petris of Oakland, his long - to the years between proposal farmworkers and tenants. his efforts ushered in an era of He graduated from Mc - Mr. Petris' position. time caretaker, Noula Vlahakis and acceptance as the "Petris PROTECTING THE BAY clean-fuel regulation and air Clymonds High School and UC "He was really a giant of the of Oakland, and several nieces, gap." In 1965, when he was an as - pollution laws in California that Berkeley before serving in the Legislature, a fantastic orator in nephews, cousins and in-laws. Former Mayor of San Francisco Art Agnos Gives Eulogy in Honor of Nicholas C. Petris

Continued from page 1 (My son, look for one of our own President of the Senate…not the tural afternoons with a visiting In another part of the same and follow him) Speaker…not the Governor…not Greek writer, poet or musician University… State Treasurer Bill excessive development. It wasn’t long after that advice even the Highway Patrol…Nick arranged by Professor Thanasi Lockyer created the Nick Petris It was his legislation that pro - from my mother in 1967, I could slow down Lou Papan in a Maskaleris. Center on Health Care Markets tected mentally ill and elderly opened the paper and there was car or in a committee room… all There I came to understand and Consumer Welfare. from being warehoused and ig - a headline story… “Petris seeks he had to do was give Lou the firsthand the shining light Anna Yes…Nick stood up to the best nored in remote mental institu - ban on internal combustion en - Greek mati (Eye). was in his life. of what life had to offer and never tions. gine.” In all of Nick’s years, there She was beautiful…viva - changed…. It was his legislation that pro - 46 years ago…Nick Petris un - were no scandals…no innuen - cious…a rock for him. It takes a In these final years…at Pied - tected farm workers and their derstood that unless we dealt dos… no shameful disgrace. strong, secure woman to be a po - mont Gardens…Nick stood up to children from pesticides that with air pollution by setting tough He never even broke the speed litical wife…to share a husband the worst of what life has to offer cause death and deformity. air pollution standards and car - limit during his frequent trips with the world of politics. I and never complained. It was his legislation that: es - bon emission limits for our auto - back and forth to Sacramento! know…because I have one who Noula Vlahakis… who looked tablished mandatory car seats for mobiles, our health and our en - The legislature followed his loved Nick and Anna together after him… was magnificent with children…prohibited smoking in vironment would be greatly example in doing the best work with me. him through it all. on planes, trains, and busses in endangered. 46 years ago! it ever did for the people of Cali - Nick loved everything about She always had him looking California…established legal ser - Today, our country has begun fornia...and Nick’s leadership style being Greek. His Greek Orthodox like the handsome…impeccably vices for the poor...created Kid - to set car emission standards to was one of the main reasons why faith was an essential part of his well-dressed man he was all of ney Dialysis Centers that saved catch up to where Nick Petris said the legislature reached those life. his life. He was cheerful and en - thousands of lives…mandated we should have been that long heights in public service. He not only was instrumental gaged whenever anyone went to Immunization of preschoolers. ago. So I knew I had found one Nicholas C. Petris That’s not me talking…it is in the building of this church. As see him for a visit. These are but a few of the of my own to follow. every editorial written in every President of the Congregation… His buddy Martin Huff… who many, many examples of how he In 1975 I was elected to the Nick was never afraid to risk major newspaper in the last few he helped create the good things Nick once described as the “clean - helped the poor, the needy, the Assembly with his strong support his political capital for a just days. that happened in the church com - est, most honest public servant aged, the environment, educa - where I got a lot closer to him. cause. Nick was one of those rare munity. he had ever seen” would often be tion, and so much more. In 1987 as a candidate for He fought injustice of dicta - public officials who got better in My favorite Nick Petris Greek there with him… as he was Nick would be the first to tell mayor of San Francisco, I was torship in Greece and around the every way…the closer you got to story is the one told about when throughout his life… supporting you that he never did these falsely attacked in the front pages world. him…the better he was. There he went to school for the first and loving him. things alone. of the SF Chronicle in effort to And in 1986…ignoring his were no feet of clay here. time. As was his style… Nick was He did it in collaboration with defeat me. own tough reelection…he trav - The Greeks have a word for it At the age of four…a year be - open and honest about his his colleagues. He was helped I sunk to 14% in the polls… eled up and down our state to …Filotimo…it is the highest com - fore he was to start kinder - Alzheimer’s condition with to the every step of the way by a deeply Nick joined with George Padis fight for the first woman on the pliment one can receive in Greek garten… his beloved immigrant point of making fun of it. loyal, committed staff led by Fe - who was the first to rally the Supreme Court…Chief Justice culture. father and mother Christos and In a conversation at his Pied - lice Tennebaum…Dan Visnich… Greek community here in Oak - Rose Bird and an independent ju - There is no English interpre - Mary started to prepare him for mont Gardens apartment late last Jonathan Lewis and others who land with my first comeback diciary. tation… but here is the best I can school. Like many immigrant year…he remembered all the old believed in him and were at their fundraiser and ultimate victory. John Burton, current chair - do. families they only spoke Greek at things…politics, people and is - best working with him. Nick was a role model…a man of the Democratic Party and Filotimo is a fundamental core home. sues like he was in still in the mid - The first example of his work friend…a teacher… and a hero former President of the Senate Greek value of personal honor During that year between 4 dle of it. I learned about came in 1967. who gave my wife Sherry and me said, “Nick was a giant of the leg - and respect. and 5… his parents spent part of But on recent things… he I had just arrived in San Fran - permission in 1981 to name our islature, a fantastic orator in the It reflects the essence of one’s everyday telling him how won - struggled and he would joke cisco from Massachusetts on a newborn son after him. And to - Greek tradition who people character and evolves from com - derful school would be…how he about it... greyhound bus...no job…no morrow…Stephen Nicholas Petris would just stop and listen to…he passion and empathy for others. would learn to read books and So when Maskaleris and I place to live...no friends. I was Agnos, age 31, will be one of his did not have a single enemy.” It is expressed through acts of understand the world…meet new asked him about a current con - lonely… a little scared…how was pallbearers. You see Nick was a leader who generosity and self-sacrifice. friends. They would tell friends troversy in the media, he rose up I going to make it in this new big Nick was never sick…never inspired other politicians…not Filotimo was reflected in every and relatives… “Nick will be with his hand in the air as he of - city? So I did what any Greek boy tired…never discouraged… and with his power or tactics…but part of Nick’s life… at work…at starting school very soon…it will ten did on the floor of the Senate would do in that situation…I never gave up… no matter what with his integrity…his adherence church…in the community…in be a great day for him.” and responded, “ I have two called my mother! confronted him. He just showed to principle…and his deep com - the legislature…and at home. Well… that first day came and things to say about that…but I And she said…Agori mou… up every day ready to tackle every mitment to the common good. Indeed… it was in his home when 5 year-old Nick came home, just forgot the first and can’t re - na kitaxis yia enan apo tous dik - challenge that stood in the way Nick could do what no else in where I had some of the best mo - he rushed into the house crying member the second.” ous mas kai na ton prosehees. of doing the right thing. the capital could do…not the ments as he and Anna hosted cul - and very upset. In tonight’s (Trisagion) memo - His father was disturbed and rial service we heard a traditional asked him what was wrong? Did hymn that says “Aionia e someone mistreat you?…did the mneemi” (May his memory be teacher scold you?… what is the eternal). DEATH NOTICES matter? Nick Petris’ memory will be Nick burst out…nobody in eternal. And tonight, I ask that n ANNOUSIS, SOTERE the rank of Lieutenant of Com - and George Annoussis; his Chemical Engineering from the that school speaks Greek and I we honor Nick in one more way. DES MOINES, IA (From the Des munications in the Greek Army. grandchildren, Nathaniel and MIT in 1950. He served in the don’t know what is wrong with 2000 years ago…upon the Moines Register, published on Following his service, he was ac - Margietza Skinner. Sotere is also U.S. Navy from 1944 to 1946. them! reaching the age of 21 every citi - Mar. 12) – Sotere "Soto" An - cepted to Pantios University in survived by his brother Paul of Louis married his wife Penelope The rest of life, Nick tried to zen of ancient Athens took the noussis, 76, died Mar. 9, at Iowa Athens. In 1961, he married Piraeus, Greece. Memorial con - and they moved to Tennessee correct that problem he encoun - Oath of Citizenship wherein they Methodist Medical Center. Maroussa (Alafouzou) and they tributions may be directed to St. where his professional career tered his first day in kindergarten. promised to leave their city better Sotere was born Aug. 6, 1936, immigrated to Munich West George Greek Orthodox Church. began at Oak Ridge National He joined with Professor than they found it. in Piraeus, Greece, to George Germany where he worked for Laboratory working on liquid Maskaleris to create the Modern The life of Nicholas C. Petris is and Katina (Gikakis) Annoussis. the U.S. Military as a civilian su - n BASEL, LOUIS metal heat transfer for nuclear Greek Studies Center and Cur - the fulfillment of that ancient He graduated from Pantanassa pervisor of the EM, NCO and Of - STAMFORD, CT (From the reactors. He moved on to United riculum at San Francisco State oath. Private High School. Upon grad - ficer's Clubs of the 24th Infantry Stamford Advocate, published Engineers & Constructors in University … He left his city, his state, his uation, he entered into Greek Division, 7th Army. In 1969, on March 24) – Louis Basel of Philadelphia and then to Craw - He collaborated with his country and many parts of the Military Service and attained they located in the U.S., settling Stamford Connecticut, 86, ford & Russell in Stamford, Con - Koumbaro Angelo Tsakopoulos to world better than he found it. in Iowa, and opening Top's passed away with his loving necticut. Louis and Penelope are create the Petris Reading Room Keep him in your heart… Steak House in Des Moines. family by his side on the morn - long time residents of Stamford at the Hellenic Center at Sacra - and… in his name and memory… Days and dates of funerals, Sotere also started and was ing of Mar. 22 at Yale New CT. He is survived by his loving mento State University. Do your best to do something memorials, and other events di - President of Spartans Inc., a Haven hospital. He was born on wife Penelope, his sister Sophie Nick’s alma mater…the Uni - for your city that will leave it bet - rectly correspond to the original chain of steak houses with many June 28, 1926 in New Haven, Caloutas, his sons Peter, John versity of California endowed a ter than you found it. publication date, which appears locations in Iowa. Sotere is sur - Connecticut to the late John and and his wife Ki, and his grand - chair in Greek classical studies Do this…and the ideals of at the beginning of each notice. vived by his wife, Maroussa; Aspasia Basel. Louis obtained a children Louis, Paul, and Peter that supports a full time professor Nick Petris will be eternal and children, Maria (Rick) Skinner, Master of Science Degree in Jr. in Greek Art history. honored from this day forward. THE NATIONAL HERALD, APRIL 6-12, 2013 COMMUNITY 7

ALL HISTORY Glamorous Entertainer Jefferies: Still “Frantastic” after All These Years

By Steve Frangos of his contemporaries such as There was not another soul in November 14, 1958, Makris TNH Staff Writer Frank Sinatra or Bing Crosby. the bar. Dick was the picture of married Haymes, in a civil cere - Haymes worked with Benny absolute despair and dejection mony at the Arlington, VA Cour - PART 1 Goodman and Tommy Dorsey (Jackson: University Press of thouse. Haymes was 40 years on stage. His Decca Record Mississippi, 2006).” old and Makris 21. It was CHICAGO- Fran Jefferies was duets with the Greek-American Yet, once Makris and Haymes Haymes’ fifth marriage. At some one of the most versatile and trio the Andrews Sisters such as teamed up professionally, as point after her marriage Makris glamorous performers of the “Teresa,” “Great Day,” “Here is Prigozy notes, the duo immedi - changed her name to Fran Jef - 1960s and 1970s. An extremely My Heart,” and the million-sell - ately clicked: “there is no doubt fries. The two were on quite a popular singer, dancer, and ac - ing “I Can Dream Can’t I?” are that they were among the top high…for a while. tress, Jeffries moved effortlessly now legendary performances. club performers and an out - It was clear from newspaper from movie studios to recording By the late 1950s, however, standing team on the circuit. and magazine accounts pub - studios to casino lounges and Haymes had definitely fallen on They played the major cities, re - lished at the time that reviewers back again. Jefferies’ undeniable hard times. turning to Florida three times a had not thought that Jeffries magnetism accompanying her In the Life of Dick Haymes: year, playing the Fontainebleau, had attached herself to Haymes’ lush vocal talent and on-stage No More Little White Lies by at which their successful head - rising star. In fact, the published presentation culminated in what Ruth Prigozy, we read about his line act debuted. Frank Sinatra opinions of even the most hard- one reviewer identified as cos - meeting and subsequent events: had recently played at the hotel, hearted newspaper reviewers mopolitan sensuality. Far from “At the time that Dick and Fran and Dick was particularly ner - expressed quite the reverse. a forgotten singer/starlet, Jef - met, he was touring the country vous about following Sinatra’s Take for example, what New feries albums’ are still avidly performing in nightclubs to de - dazzling performance. Fran un - York syndicated columnist Earl sought. This says nothing about cidedly mixed audience re - questionably bolstered Dick’s Wilson had this to say about Jef - the performances from her var - sponses. One fan remembers confidence… fries under the title: “It Hap - ious movie roles and television Dick performing at the Boule - Their act consisted of solos pened Last Night.” On August performances one can see on vard, a club in Queens, New by Dick and Fran and then duets 16, 1961, all across the nation, the Internet. A performer of the York. He recalls the audience for the remainder of the show. newspaper readers opened their first order, Jefferies was an ex - They were held over in Florida papers to read the following: otic beauty whose work still in - several weeks after their debut. “All those international sex sym - fluences others. Dick was thrilled to hear the bols—Marilyn Monroe, Eliza - Fran Jeffries appeared during cheers of the audiences at the beth Taylor, Jayne Mansfield an era when high-end supper Copa and other leading clubs, and Brigitte Bardot – had better clubs, swank hotel dining and he thanked Fran publicly get a wiggle and a waggle on rooms, and exclusive music for her support and for her tal - and look out for Dick Haymes’ clubs were scattered across the ent and vivacity.” wife, Fran Jeffries. American urban landscape. Jef - But Haymes had been living What other gal can caress fries is another of those ex - in the public spotlight for with her nose – and her hips – tremely popular Greek-Ameri - decades and his abilities (and and also make women specta - can performers such as Fran Jeffries’ glamor – she once graced Playboy’s cover – leaps considerable failings) were well tors adore her? When Fran and Margaret James, Georgia Drake, from the page in photos above and right. She was the daughter known. We can see some of this Dick opened their slick act at and/or Betty George. While of Steven and Esther Makris. Her father was from Greece, and after a lengthy recapitulation of the Copacabana, such customers Greeks are quick to dismiss the her mother was of French descent. Dick’s troubled past, by a New as Milton Berle, Steve Lawrence, success of others there is no York Daily News critic when as Edyie Gorme, Jack E. Leonard, denying that from the 1940s on - Hour radio program. The young views. After less than a year, he describes Dick and Fran’s ap - William B. Williams, and Frank wards a growing number of singer won “a Bulova watch and Makris left the Scobey Dixieland pearance at the Roundtable, Lovejoy saluted them with a Greek female performers won something like a month’s worth Band for a solo career. wonders, “Who is doing most for standing ovation. lasting acclaim. of groceries at the local Safe - Makris met Dick Haymes at whom in the act?” It did not es - They agreed that Fran, who Jeffries was born Francis Ann way.” At 16 she was singing pro - one of the clubs in San Francisco cape the ever critical eyes of the has a 22 waist and isn’t much Makris on May 18, 1937 to fessionally at the North Beach where they both happened to was very rude, noisy, and inat - attending journalists that Makris older, deserves a big movie and Steven and Esther (nee Gau - Club in San Francisco. Not long be booked. While it is true that tentive. The master of cere - was also being affected by this record career. She’s as beautiful thier) Makris in San Jose, CA. after, Makris was touring with Richard (Dick) Benjamin monies said to the audience, professional relationship, as Lillie Palmer, as sexy as Lena Her father was a barber born in Bob Scobey’s Dixieland Band. Haymes (September 13, 1918- ‘Let’s see if we can get Dick to “Fran…is one of the most attrac - Horne; she is, in a word: Fran - Greece, her mother, a housewife Then, sometime in 1955, Makris March 28, 1980), at the time come out for an encore,’ but tive women to appear – in real tastic.” and native of California was of married Eddie Blasco, a piano was an international recognized someone in the audience could life, let alone on a supper club Initially, the newlyweds ex - French descent. Francis Ann was player. But the couple was singer and actor, it is also true see him waving his hand to the floor. What’s more, she is singing perienced ongoing critical suc - the youngest of four children, quickly and quietly divorced. that in 1958 he was at an ex - MC, expressing his unwilling - better, with more assurance, cess. But then, old doubts and including Thomas, Jane, and While Makris was never shy treme low point of his career. ness and his distaste for them. than she did a few months back.” lingering mistakes soon over - Steve. about discussing her relation - There was a time when virtually As the fan left the club, Dick was The euphoria of their profes - took them. At age 12, Makris made her ships, she never mentioned no one would have left Dick sitting at the bar, completely sional lives spilled over into singing debut on Del’s Amateur Blasco in any of her later inter - Haymes out of the very top class alone, “hunched over a drink. their personal relationship. On [email protected]

GREEK AMERICAN STORIES Feeling Blue

By Phylis (Kiki) Sembos his wife’s visit to a podiatrist. grief. He turned away, ashamed Special to The National Herald “There’s one on Thirty-ninth to show his wet eyes. John swal - and Eighth Avenue. He’s reason - lowed hard, recalling Yiannis’ Sunday couldn’t come soon able, too.” Still feeling troubled, uncle whose feet were cut off. enough for Kipreos, who needed Kipreos asked them what they “He...should have said some - to speak about something that thought it could be. Dimos thing sooner!” Their expressions had caused him dire anxiety for shrugged, “It could be anything reflected true alarm. almost a week. Now among his – varicose veins, circulation Fifteen agonizing minutes friends, he spoke up, seeking problems, nerve damage...who later, Kipreos emerged looking counsel or, hopefully, a cure. knows! Only a doctor could tell downcast and shy. George was “Your feet have turned blue?” you.” Kipreos was close to tears. glad to see he still had both feet. said Dimos, incredulously. Nod - Yiannis thought of something. They greeted him with alacrity, ding, Kipreos’ features reflected “Come to think of it I had an “How do you feel, friend.” and, sheer anxiety, asking, “Is it seri - uncle whose feet were like that “Don’t worry about anything! ous?” – blue.” George asked, “Well? We’re here for you.” Kipreos, ac - “It could be. Is there pain? What happened to him?” Un - cepting some papers from the Does it affect your walk? Is perturbed, Yiannis, told them, nurse remained speechless. Di - there any swelling?” To all those “They cut off both feet.” Kipreos mos was quizzical and pretend - inquiries Kipreos responded began hyperventilating. “Can ing he’d left his hat in the emer - “no.” To oblige them he took off we go to a doctor today? Now?” gency room asked them to wait one shoe and sock and showed “You’ll have to make an ap - while he went to retrieve it.” them. They all bent under the pointment, first.” Dimos re - George was puzzled. Dimos table to see the colorful foot. minded. “My wife’s doctor – he’s never wore a hat! Yes, Kipreos’ foot was decidedly good. Her bunions are gone.” Inside, Dimos asked the blue – a dark blue from the an - “I don’t have bunions. I nurse what was wrong with his kle down. “You have to see a have... I don’t know what!” he friend. The nurse smiled and doctor soon.” John advised, pushed his coffee away, feeling to the nearest emergency room. sat until a nurse called out, when a doctor solemnly men - said, “Nothing a little soap and with concern. “That’s not nor - faint. “Did a snake bite you?” John hailed a taxi while Yianni, “Kipreos, please?” On shaky tioned to the nurse in the hall - water couldn’t cure.” Confused, mal.” Yiannis, who never saw a Yiannis asked, reaching for a unwilling to pay for fare, stood legs, Kipreos got up and fol - way something that sounded and ready to give the apathetic doctor, said, “Maybe, it’ll go donut. Irritated, George said, at the curb and bade them, lowed the nurse to a curtained like, “die - bleeding!” She got woman a piece of his mind, he away.” “Now, where would Kipreos find “Good luck! Good Bye!” and booth where a doctor soon en - up, filling a basin with water, insisted she be more specific. “And, maybe not!” empha - a snake in New York City?” Yian - left. tered. John, Dimos, and George holding a sponge and a bottle “Tell me! Will his legs come sized George, well versed in nis shrugged, “How about a The emergency room was sat like men awaiting their sen - of liquid and rushed into the cu - off?” Smiling, showing him the Yiannis’ stringent ways. “I say rat?” No one paid attention to not crowded. After answering tence, each finding nothing to bicle. Dimos broke the silence. pan of blue water, she told him, he finds a foot doctor. Anyone him. Anxiety began to affect the questions at the desk they went say, their eyes on the curtained “Did...did you hear that?” “Only his socks – that bled dye know of one?” Dimos recalled others as they decided to all go into a waiting room where they cubicle. Thirty minutes passed George was numb with growing to his skin.” Lowell’s Mayor Embarrasses Self and City by Taking “Pericles” out to a Bar

By Theodore Kalmoukos George Zaharoulis was honored ture, their ethics with us. I am Mayor Murphy was disgraceful. for his valuable contributions to unofficially a Greek-American”. The mayor of any city should be LOWELL, MA – The mayor of the city of Lowell and to the Why your mayor did that an ambassador that builds historic city of Lowell MA Greek-American community, with Pericles, she said “I want bridges and doesn’t burn bridges Patrick Murphy took the bust of mayor Murphy interviewed four you to know that I am very sorry, and he is the spokesperson for Pericles from the Mayor’s Room of his city council members who I apologize to the Greek-Ameri - the entire city whether is Boston, at City Hall to a city bar, placed expressed very vocally their can people. I am contemplating Lowell, or Worcester. It’s very im - a hat on his head, scarf around complete disagreement with his impeaching him.” portant for the mayor to be al - his neck, and a glass of beer in actions. Former State Senator Steve ways with the people, let the peo - front of him, and he pretended Edward Kennedy said “I Panagiotakos said “I don’t know ple know that this isn’t the to drink beer with Pericles, ridi - don’t know why he did that. I why he did that. I took it as ill mayor’s reception room it’s the culing the wise man of Ancient think part of it is a misunder - advice. Pericles is our official people’s reception room. Hellenism. standing, part of it is a genera - commemoration. Look, there is “I think he is immature, inex - Nobody knows why Murphy tion problem, but never the less a plaque here from the Syrian perience and he doesn’t know did that, but the Greek-Ameri - was inexcusable. He does a lot Community. The question is re - much about politics. If I were on can community is up in arms of things which are somewhat spect. We want to be treated with the City Council I would bring a demanding his resignation. unusual.” the same respect and dignity, but motion to rescind the votes that Nikitas Flaris, parish council Asked if he has confronted unfortunately there is pattern made him a mayor.” He ex - president of the Assumption of him as to why he did that, here. I am hoping that this is the plained that “the people elected the Virgin Mary Greek-Orthodox Kennedy said “nobody has seen end of it. Lowell was one on the him as a counsilor, they did not parish in Dracut and a local real him the last couple of weeks. His first big Greek communities, it’s elect him as a mayor. The City estate businessman said “what wife is having a baby and he has a historic community.” Council should address the issue he did is unacceptable. He em - taken a leave for a while. Eduard Bud Caulfield, Former because it is an embarrassment barrassed our proud Hellenic- “Only be the City Council mayor of Lowell said “I think is to the City Council, but most im - American community and he could impeach him. I am not very important that all of us cel - portantly it’s an embarrassment should resign.” sure that he should be im - It is a mystery why Mayor Patrick Murphy of Lowell, MA took ebrated Greek Independence to the city and the people who TNH called Murphy’s office peached, but it should be some the bust of Pericles to a bar, but there is no doubt about the Day and that is why I am here. reside here.” looking for an interview with sort of a reprimand.” reaction of the city’s Greek community: Resign! “I was the mayor at 2009 George Zaharoulis said “we him but it was said by his secre - Kennedy also said that “the when Senator Steve Panagiotakos are going to address the City tary that “the mayor is on pa - Greek community in Lowell is appropriate. I don’t know why TNH that “today I am Greek too, addressed the Greek-American Council and we have put a letter ternal leave; his wife is having very successful and that is why he did it.” Joseph Mendonca, I am so proud of the Greek her - community and said ‘Mr. Mayor, together which is going to the a baby.” you see so many councilors here Vice Chairman of the City Coun - itage. I am so proud of the we would like to put in the bust Council. He should resign, ab - During the annual Greek-In - tonight even though the mayor cil said “I thought it was very un - Greek-Americans of the city. of Pericles to look at the father of solutely. He set us back fifty dependence Day celebration at is not here.” fortunate.” They have added to fabric of this democracy,’ and I said make it years. He rekindled a flame that City Hall, during which former Councilor Martin Lorrey said Rita Mercier, former mayor city and they have done tremen - happen. And it did happen.” He should have gone out many Chairman of the Planning Board “I was discussed, it was very in - who is also a city councilor, told dous work. They share their cul - added that “what happened with years ago.” 8 GREECE CYPRUS THE NATIONAL HERALD, APRIL 6-12, 2013 Archaeological Find on Mani's Coast Suggests Greece Was a Crossroad

By Charles Choi most likely route of dispersals a mild climate and supported a "confirmation of a thriving and LiveScience of early modern humans and wide range of wildlife, including long-standing Neanderthal pop - earlier hominins into Europe deer, wild boar, rabbits, ele - ulation in the region." A trove of Neanderthal fossils from Africa via the Near East," phants, weasels, foxes, wolves, These findings suggest "the including bones of children and paleoanthropologist Katerina leopards, bears, falcons, toads, fossil record from Greece poten - adults, discovered in a cave in Harvati at the University of vipers and tortoises. tially holds answers about the ear - Greece hints the area may have Tübingen in Germany told Live - In the cave, the researchers liest dispersal of modern humans been a key crossroad for ancient Science. "It also lies at the heart found tools such as scrapers and earlier hominins into Europe, humans, researchers say. of one of the three Mediter - made of flint, quartz and about possible late survival of Ne - The timing of the fossils sug - ranean peninsulae of Europe, seashells. The stone tools were anderthals and about one of the gests Neanderthals and humans which acted as refugia for plant all shaped, or knapped, in a way first instances where the two may have at least had the op - and animal species, including typical of Neanderthal artifacts. might have had the opportunity portunity to interact, or cross human populations, during Now, the scientists reveal to interact," Harvati said. paths, there, the researchers glacial times — that is, areas they discovered 14 specimens of In the future, Harvati and her added. where species and populations child and adult human remains colleagues will conduct new Neanderthals are the closest were able to survive during the in the cave, including teeth, a fieldwork in other areas in extinct relatives of modern hu - worst climatic deteriorations." small fragment of skull, a verte - Greece to address mysteries mans, apparently even occasion - "Until recently, very little was bra, and leg and foot bones with such as potential coexistence ally interbreeding with our an - known about deep prehistory in bite and gnaw marks on them. and interactions between Nean - cestors. Neanderthals entered Greece, chiefly because the ar - The teeth strongly appear to be derthals and modern humans, Europe before modern humans chaeological research focus in CrEDiT: kATEriNA HArVATi ET Al. Neanderthal, and judging by the spread of modern and ex - did, and may have lasted there the country has been on classi - Map of Greece (left) showing the approximate position of Kala - marks on the teeth, the ancient tinct humans into Europe and until about 35,000 years ago, cal and other more recent peri - makia cave. Entrance to Kalamakia cave (right) where Nean - people apparently had a diet of possible seafaring capabilities of although recent findings have ods," Harvati added. derthal remains were found. meat and diverse plants. ancient humans. called this date into question. Harvati and colleagues from "Kalamakia, together with "We look forward to exciting To learn more about the his - Greece and France analyzed re - ern coast of the Mani Peninsula of the cave date back to between the single human tooth from the discoveries in the coming years," tory of ancient humans, scien - mains from a site known as on the mainland of Greece. about 39,000 and 100,000 years nearby cave site of Lakonis, are Harvati said. tists have recently focused on Kalamakia, a cave stretching They excavated the cave over ago to the Middle Paleolithic pe - the first Neanderthal remains to The scientists detailed their Greece. about 65 feet (20 meters) deep the course of 13 years. riod. During the height of the be identified from Greece," Har - findings online March 13 in the "Greece lies directly on the into limestone cliffs on the west - The archaeological deposits ice age, the area still possessed vati said. The discoveries are Journal of Human Evolution. Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu's Letter to Greek Foreign Minister

TNH Staff jointly decide on what kind of a activities, and again in 2012 and future they want. With the par - thus through getting the clean ANKARA, Turkey – Turkey’s ticipation of their motherlands consent of the Turkish Cypriot Foreign Minister Ahmet they can establish a new state side regarding the sharing of Davutoglu sent a letter to Greek of affairs. There is no longer any these natural resources. Foreign Minister Dimitris time to lose. As the two motherlands and Avramopoulos about Cyprus If the Greek Cypriot side is guarantors, the Cyprus problem problem. The letter is reprinted, also sincerely committed to es - has been occupying our agendas below. tablishing a new partnership on for more than half a century. In 2013 is the 50th year of the the Island, they should prove our bilateral relations, we were emergence of the Cyprus prob - this not only by words, but also able to start a new positive era, lem. Reaching a mutually by deeds. Reaching comprehen - which is crowned with the agreed, just and lasting political sive settlement will also help the achievements through the HLCC settlement in Cyprus will not Greek Cypriots to leave behind mechanism since 2010, reflected only be in the interest of the two all issues including economic not only in the 47 documents we sides on the Island, but of all problems. It is obvious that con - have been able to sign but also concerned parties. Despite the frontational policy is in the in - in our increased capability to ex - efforts of the Turkish Cypriot terest of neither Turkey/Turkish plore new ways to overcome our side in the last UN process that Cypriots nor Greece/Greek differences. I am glad to see that lasted four years between 2008 Cypriots. this better understanding is also and 2012, it has not yet been If the Greek Cypriots insist reflected in a more cooperative possible to reach an agreement. to act unilaterally regarding the approach on Cyprus issue. I be - After the election of the new natural resources in the south lieve that as we did in 1959, we Greek Cypriot leader Mr. Anas - of the Island, then they should can take a major step forward tasiades, the Turkish Cypriot be honest about expressing towards the settlement of this President Mr. Eroglu has pro - what they really want. If they long lasting issue. posed to start result-oriented ne - Turkey’s Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu speaks with Greek F.M. Dimitris Avramopoulos. do not desire a power and With the conviction that the gotiations without further delay. Recent provocative statements by Davutoglu were with firm responses by Avramopoulos. wealth sharing partnership with real remedy of all problems re - We sincerely wish to see that a the Turkish Cypriots, then a ne - lated to Cyprus issue resides negotiated comprehensive set - eral for a solidarity investment not continue for another 50 the United Nations. We are com - gotiated two state settlement with the comprehensive settle - tlement in Cyprus is achieved in fund or any other borrowing years and reaching settlement mitted to be one step ahead and could also be conceived. ment negotiations, I look for - the shortest possible time. scheme to be established due to will contribute to peace, stability open to new and innovative On the other hand, if the ward to our active cooperation At this juncture, when the its current economic crisis, has and prosperity in the Eastern ideas. Greek Cypriots feel the need to towards this end. As I explained two sides on the Island are ex - constituted a new manifestation Mediterranean and will have Turkey and the Turkish benefit from natural resources to you during your visits to pected to come together to of the Greek Cypriots’ illusion positive repercussions in the Cypriot side desire a negotiated before any settlement, this could Turkey, the state of affairs in agree on the terms of a just and of being the sole owner of the wider region. settlement in the Island. Eco - only be possible through an 1960 was established through lasting political settlement and Island, at a time when the new As a guarantor and mother - nomic problems, like political agreement under the auspices an agreement between the the hopes of the international Greek Cypriot leaders’ sincerity land in Cyprus, we are ready to conflicts can be overcome by of the UN Secretary General, in motherlands and the two peo - community are high, Greek is tested. actively contribute to settlement creating an atmosphere of line the fair sharing proposals ples. Now it is time to establish Cypriot Administration’s at - The Turkish side is commit - in close collaboration with the peace, reconciliation and coop - made by the Turkish Cypriot a new state of affairs that would tempt to offer the natural re - ted to a settlement aim, believ - guarantor and motherland eration. It is up to the two co- side in 2011, when the Greek ensure peace, stability, prosper - sources of the Island as collat - ing that the Cyprus issue should Greece, guarantor Britain and founder peoples of the Island to Cypriot initiated their unilateral ity and security for us all. Samaras, Coalition Agree on Property Tax Cut, Gov’t Wrestles with Troika

Continued from page 1 March tranche of 2.8 billion eu - quet of yesses.” ros ($3.5 billion) and the next He said that if he were Prime front. Kouvelis said he would installment of 6 billion euros, Minister that he would get not give his party’s support any - some $7.7 billion. tough with the Troika, which he more to the haratsi although he While Samaras has brought said was a “white-collar gang,” didn’t object to it being applied his partners together for now, and he would not give in to the this year. he’s still taking shots from his same kind of “blackmail” to The government said it badly major opposition leader, Alexis which he said it forced Cyprus needs the 2 billion euros ($2.6 Tsipras of the Coalition of the to accept in return for a 10 bil - billion) that the double tax Radical Left (SYRIZA) party lion euros ($13 billion) bailout. brings in. If the Troika agrees, who said that Greece must focus “We are working on scenar - starting in 2014 it will be up to on how to end austerity rather ios around which we will con - tax offices to collect the levies, than whether it can stay in the struct our negotiating tactics not the utility company. Eurozone. and examine chances for ma - The new levy will combine After being out of the lime - neuver,” he said, adding that all property taxes and could lead light for some time, and with SYRIZA would soon be taking to some owners paying less his party and New Democracy “significant steps” to create al - overall. Kouvelis added that the virtually tied for voter support, liances to ensure “the balance tax would be levied on a wider Tsipiras has stepped up his anti- of power is not totally negative.” property base, including farm - austerity drumbeat again, even Venizelos is facing his own land. though the Troika is rolling out political distractions. After being Finance Minister Yiannis 69 billion euros ($88.3) in a first exempted from an investigation Stournaras told reporters that series of new loans as part of a into why a list of 2,062 Greeks the government would propose second bailout of $173 billion with $1.95 billion in deposits in to the Troika changes to the which has set aside talk of secret Swiss bank accounts had - charges faced by property own - Greece being forced out of the n't been checked for tax evasion ers, the newspaper Kathimerini Eurozone. - although he had it in his pos - reported. Venizelos suggested “The euro is not the focal session - he is expected to testify that a tax-free threshold might point,” Samaras said. “The before a Parliamentary commit - be introduced but it wasn’t cer - dilemma we are facing is not tee in the handling of the affair. tain which way the government whether we will be in the euro Besides Venizelos, former might go. or not but whether we will be AP PHOTO/THANASSiS STAVrAkiS Prime Minister George Papan - Stournaras is the govern - in austerity. Our main concern Greece's Prime Minister Antonis Samaras, right, speaks with European Commissioner for Re - dreou, who was their boss as ment’s point man on negotia - is to avoid austerity. Our aim is gional Policy Johannes Hahn during a summit for the National Strategic Reference Framework the former head of the Social - tions with the Troika on a num - to save Greece in the euro and of 2014-2020 (NSRF) in Athens, Thursday, April 4, 2013. ists, is also being invited to tes - ber of issues, including its not to save the euro no matter tify but the committee said it demands that 25,000 workers what.” level that forced Greece into PASOK for generations in return cility (HFSF) to be nationalized. wouldn't compel him to show. be let go this year, which the Tsipras has offered no alter - near-insolvency and wouldn’t for votes. At a news conference before The head of the committee, government is resisting, fearing native to austerity and said that lay off any of the hundreds of Tsipras also called for all the Troika inspectors returned to Christos Markoyiannakis, said political fallout from labor to the contrary he would keep thousands of needless workers banks being recapitalized by the Athens, he accused Samaras of the panel is likely to unveil its unions. spending at the same bankrupt hired by New Democracy and Hellenic Financial Stability Fa - preparing to give them “a bou - findings after the Easter break. While austerity measures have created a record near 27 percent unemployment rate, that is all in the private sector as the government has not fired Five Imprisoned in Greece in Connection with Terrorist Group any workers in the three years since pay cuts, tax hikes and slashed pensions began being ATHENS, Greece (AP) — A Three other suspects were ac - thought if shot and severely in - killed 23 people, including for - strike — which caused no in - imposed in return for bailouts. Greek court on Wednesday con - quitted. The special court, which jured a riot policeman in 2009, eign diplomats, from 1975 to juries. THE LEFT SWINGS BACK victed five people on terrorism- convened in a maximum-secu - and several other people suf - 2000. A smaller far-left group, Violence spiked again after Other issues remain. The re - related charges related to a mil - rity Athens prison, sentenced fered minor injuries in other at - Revolutionary Popular Struggle, the fatal police shooting of an capitalization of Greek banks itant anarchist group which Maziotis, Roupa and Costas tacks. was also broken amid a huge se - Athens teenager in late 2008, has yet to be completed, with claimed responsibility for a Gournas to 25 years in prison, Wednesday's ruling ended curity crackdown ahead of the which triggered days of rioting the Troika now opposing a string of bombings over six years and gave 7 and 7 1/2-year terms the third major domestic terror - Athens Games. in many Greek cities. Several an - merger between National Bank and fired a rocket-propelled to two more men. ism trial in recent years in Revolutionary Struggle, archist or nihilist groups claimed and Eurobank. There will also grenade into the U.S. Embassy Maziotis, Roupa and Gournas Greece, which suffered from ex - which emerged in 2003, became dozens of bomb or gunfire at - be discussions about how many in Athens but caused no deaths. have admitted "political respon - treme left-wing political violence the main source of extremist po - tacks, during which three people installments Greeks should be Two of the main suspects, sibility" for actions of the Revo - for decades. Authorities scored litical action. It claimed respon - died. allowed to pay off their overdue Nikos Maziotis and his wife lutionary Struggle group. All the a first key victory just before the sibility for several bomb attacks Authorities have jailed half a taxes. Kathimerini said that the Panagiota Roupa, were convicted other suspects denied any 2004 Athens Olympics, eradicat - in Athens, including against the dozen convicted members of the two sides hope to conclude talks in absentia. They absconded last wrongdoing. ing the most deadly group — Athens Stock Exchange, planting most prolific of these groups, by April 16 so that the Eu - year following their release after Nobody died in the attacks November 17. a massive bomb that failed to Conspiracy Nuclei of Fire, while rogroup can then decided spending the maximum 18 by the group, which was active Professing a mix of Marxism explode outside Citibank offices, about 20 more suspected mem - whether to approve the delayed months in pre-trial detention. between 2003 and 2009, and nationalism, November 17 and the 2007 U.S. embassy bers face terrorism charges. THE NATIONAL HERALD, APRIL 6-12, 2013 CYPRUS 9 Cyprus Approved for Big Bailout, and, in Turn, Must Make Big Payback

By Andy Dabilis cies of the program seek to dis - and in bad loans to Greek busi - to oversee harsh reforms. Anastasiades could face ob - The President, apparently ea - TNH Staff Writer tribute the burden of the adjust - nesses that failed during that The trial balloon was shot stacles in the Parliament, which ger to dissociate himself from ment fairly among the various country’s crushing economic cri - down fast. Cyprus should not voted 36-0 against an initial Eu - his own approval of the terms, ATHENS - As Cypriot banks are segments of the population and sis. rule out leaving the Eurozone, rozone plan to seize bank assets replaced Michalis Sarris as fi - still struggling with capital con - to protect the most vulnerable Cypriot officials tried to Andros Kyprianou, Secretary even from guaranteed deposits nance minister with Harris trols and a confiscation tax on groups,” she added. downplay the additional bad General of AKEL said in an in - under 100,000 euros until the Geporgiades. Sarris had been big deposits, the country”s in - Lagarde jointly issued a news. “This is an important de - terview with the Athens News government got carte blanche the point man in negotiations ternational lenders have set statement with Olli Rehn, the velopment which brings a long Agency. from the lawmakers to restruc - with other Eurozone finance tough terms for a coming 10 bil - European Commission finance period of uncertainty to an end,” “We do not hold absolute ture the banks without its ap - ministers who steamrolled him lion euros ($13 billion) bailout chief, pledging to “stand by Christos Stylianides, a govern - views on the issue of the euro proval. into relenting to demands. aimed at saving the banking sec - Cyprus and the Cypriot people ment spokesman, said in a state - exit,” Kyprianou was quoted as Facing a political backlash Georgiades, who had been tor and propping up the island’s in helping to restore financial ment. saying. “It remains on the table though, some Cypriot lawmak - the deputy finance minister, said teetering economy. stability, fiscal sustainability and as an option. It requires careful ers are resisting some measures that capital controls would be The International Monetary growth to the country and its Facing a backlash, study and planning,” he added. already in place, such as tight lifted “gradually” and that the Fund, which, along with the Eu - people.” CYPRUS’ “OXI” restrictions on transfers and country would meet all of its ropean Union and European Though it has not yet been some lawmakers TO THE TROIKA withdrawals of money. bailout targets. Central Bank makes up the EU- made public, the Times reported are already resisting AKEL controlled Cyprus’ pre - IMF-ECB Troika that will front that officials said the agreement vious government under former the money, was especially hard includes budget cuts, the priva - some measures in President Demetris Christofias, in its conditions, the New York tization of state-owned assets place, such as tight who didn’t run because he said Times reported. and other austere demands sim - he had failed to meet his pledge The IMF will put up one bil - ilar to those the Troika imposed restrictions on transfers to re-unify the island which has lion euros ($1.27 billion) while in Greece to save that country and withdrawals. been divided since an unlawful the EU and ECB will come up with $325 billion in two 1974 invasion by Turkey, which with the rest but needs the for - bailouts. The bailout agreement still holds the northern third of mal approval of the other 16 That comes after Cyprus’ “should have taken place a lot the country”s territory. countries of the Eurozone which new President Nicos Anastasi - sooner, under more favorable Stylianides stated that Anas - use the euro as a currency. ades reneged on his campaign political and financial circum - tasiades would try to insert a “This is a challenging pro - pledge not to seize bank assets stances,” said Stylianides, who clause in the rescue deal allow - gram that will require great ef - and agreed that the government was apparently referring to in - ing the country to get rid of forts from the Cypriot popula - would take as much as 80 per - fighting in Cyprus about respon - monitors if it can repay the loan. tion,” Christine Lagarde, the cent or more of bank deposits sibility for the debacle. Averof Neofytou, the alter - IMF’s Managing Director said in over 100,000 euros ($130,000) Indeed, at one point, Anas - nate President of DISY – who a statement from Washington. to make bank account holders tasiades, who heads the conser - supported the terms – changed Lagarde said Cyprus needed pay for the crisis they didn’t vative DISY party, reportedly his tune too, saying that, “The to make substantial spending cause. mulled trying to create a coali - Troika can go to hell once we cuts “to put debt on a firmly Cyprus was pushed into tion government with his rivals, have found the money we downward path,” including in near-insolvency when its state including the AKEL Commu - need.” areas like social welfare pro - banks suffered 4.5 billion euros nists, similar to what Greek Even before the bailout deal, grams. But she said the plan ($5.75 billion) in losses in its Prime Minister Antonis Sama - the Cypriot economy was set to sought to be evenhanded. holdings in Greek bonds that ras, a fellow conservative, did contract about 3.5 percent and “The fiscal and financial poli - were devalued by 74 percent in bringing in two Leftist parties have a 14 percent unemploy - ment rate, little more than half the near 27 percent in Greece, which supported the confisca - tion tax and backs the Troika. The new conditions could see the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) shrink 5 percent or more with austerity expected to create a recession as it did in Greece, and send unemployment soar - ing, especially with prospects that tourism could suffer be - cause of fears visitors could have trouble accessing money or worries about the banks con - tinuing. The memorandum will not TNH be made public before Eurozone President of Cyprus Nicos Anastasiades with the Publisher-Ed - governments review it, Olivier itor of The National Herald, Antonis H. Diamataris. Bailly, a spokesman for the Eu - ropean Commission, said. Euro - zone finance ministers will hold an informal meeting next week Anastasiades Sends Message in Dublin, where they might give their backing, Bailly said. That’s expected to be only for - of Hope to Greek-Americans malities, however, and Cyprus could receive its first aid check in May. Continued from page 1 which we also express our grat - Stylianides said the deal pro - itude and sincere thanks for tected Cyprus’ claimed rights for fully demand the punishment of what they have done for sorely- any finds of gas from offshore those responsible." tested Cyprus. reserves although Turkey covets Nevertheless, President "It is well known that we are the same area. Cyprus also got Anastasiades has not lost his op - undergoing another great test two more years, until 2018, to timism. Through TNH, which he today with this economic crisis, meet fiscal targets and carry out congratulated on the occasion but the optimistic message that privatizations, the sale or lease of completing 98 years of con - emerges from the responses of AP PHOTO/PETrOS kArADJiAS of state-owned entities and tinuous service to the commu - the people, our stubbornness Cyprus Aid: Charity Concert in Nicosia properties. nity, he sent a message of hope and patriotism, and more gen - He also said the government to the Cypriot and Greek com - erally our work ethic, makes me Volunteers help collect canned goods and other food items from people arriving for a music saved the jobs of contract teach - munities in the United States: "I believe that Cyprus has a future, concert in the capital Nicosia, Monday, April 1, 2013. Thousands of people attended a charity ers and of 500 civil servants, want to convey my heartfelt and it has hope, and we will regain concert in Nicosia on Monday designed to help the needy at a time of 15 percent unemployment. and had overcome demands by warm greetings, and also those our footing and overcome the Some 50 Greek and Cypriot artists were to perform at the Cyprus Aid event at the moat beneath the international lenders to tax of the people of Cyprus to the great difficulties we are cur - the medieval walls surrounding the old part of the capital. dividends. community in America, to rently facing.” 40 Years Later, Lingering Memories of Cyprus before the Turkish Invasion

By Tamer Fakahany place, hurtling toward us, came house in Coral Bay. It didn't last AP Essay a party-town hedonism and a very long. myriad of places blaring, "Eng - In 1992, my father suffered NEW YORK (AP) — Nicosia, lish Breakfast All Day Here!" a fatal heart attack just a year Cyprus, 1973: Riding with my And the price of everything into his retirement. Months parents and two elder siblings went up and up. later, my brother-in-law fell se - in a taxi, the kind of large Mer - There seemed to be an on - riously ill and passed away not cedes favored in the Middle going national obsession with long after he, my sister and their East. The driver gestures to an accumulating wealth as each young son had made a new life alley where you can just make year passed, though many na - teaching at the international out people behind barricades. tions are like this. But in Cyprus, school and living in a house next "Turks," he spits derisively. I always sensed the bubble was door that my parents had built We keep quiet. We hadn't going to burst. for her. Eight years later, my been brought up to think of any As I grew older, I began to mother fell while dropping fruit people that way. Later that day, see another, less savory side. Af - off to a Syrian friend. She broke my father tells us that things ter the fall of the Soviet Union, her hip and died two months don't bode well for Cyprus, a an avalanche of money poured later. place we had been coming to into Cyprus — a good amount After that, the visits from my for three summer holidays and of it ill-gotten. There were Russ - siblings and me became less fre - that he visited frequently on ian and Georgian extortion rack - quent. It was only a matter of business over the years. ets and mafia-style hits. We time before we drew the curtain A year later, war broke out. heard whispers of a villa near on a significant part of our lives. My thoughts have turned fre - to ours being used for prostitu - We sold the two properties quently to Cyprus and its pa - tion. to one of the Island's hotel and tient, resilient people in recent This is the money, or some real-estate tycoons in 2005, a weeks as the ruinous financial of it, that swelled Cypriot bank year after the country joined the crisis that swept across southern coffers to $88 billion, which was EU. A seat at that top table was, Europe engulfs the tiny Mediter - AP PHOTO/HAruN uCAr, FilE then followed by catastrophic for Cyprus, a dream finally re - ranean island. The angry and This April 14, 2005 file photo shows a general view of the Greek Cypriot sector of the Turkish- losses on Greek bonds and the alized — and one that would worried faces, waiting in ATM occupied town of Famagusta in east Cyprus. prospect of people having to bail turn sour. lines to withdraw their money, out the state with their own The Cypriot entrepreneurial were very familiar to me. Over they were among the displaced. things that would change. minutes' walk. We listened to hard-earned savings. spirit became its curse. Not four decades, to my family, the I get the sense and then I ask, Tourism boomed, the national the BBC World Service ("This is But for us, for many years, thinking of the future took over. country became a convoluted anxious to share memories of infrastructure modernized and London ...," my family's home still there were the warm peo - In the end, it was a soft target relative of sorts. that lost paradise. the economy and the island's at the time) on the veranda as a ple, the lovely beach and the because it carried that desire to Famagusta, that most beau - We never returned to Fama - people began to prosper. gentle breeze cut the stifling fresh, delicious food. It was still make the easy buck on its sleeve tiful of ancient port towns (its gusta, part of an internationally I think back to the acceler - heat. a place for our family to con - for some to exploit and bad fi - name in Greek means "hidden unrecognized republic. But two ated construction as if it were a We spent wondrous times to - gregate from far-flung places. nancial decisions were made all in the sand") had been our idyl - years after the war, my family time-lapse video. Hotels, holi - gether there. And of course Whenever there, we felt part of around. lic destination: a golden beach purchased a plot of land in the day apartment blocks, shops, su - there were bumps, too. the community. My last trip there was in lined with luxury hotels and a Greek Cypriot territory — a permarkets, restaurants — In 1983, my father, outraged Characters came and went: 2006 with my pregnant wife child's swimming pool dream. small place called Coral Bay. build, build, build and then that a restaurant had sold out the affable Lebanese water ski and my sister. I expected to re - The aroma of street vendors' Cyprus was in shell shock; build more. of Kleftiko, the national dish instructor who just disappeared turn much sooner, and I have charcoal-grilled corn on the cob postwar recovery was taking In Coral Bay, our house now that he had promised to his one summer (drug smuggling, watched intently from afar the lingers in my nose. hold only slowly. The capital, stood proudly. It was named guests, declared to the owner we heard); the kindly and successes and tribulations of this In 1974, Famagusta was oc - Nicosia, was divided by a "green "Samantah," combining the first we would never return. We did - stately family lawyer; the driver beloved relative. cupied by invading Turkey. line." The Turkish Cypriot flag letters of my family's names. n't. cum supermarket and restau - I realize now: Cyprus is in a There were deaths and disap - was emblazoned on a hill. From The battles of foreigners owning "Nice move, Dad," my rant owner who ran off with a time of need, and it's high time pearances, and thousands of the Greek side, you couldn't property abroad were well brother, who would later be - Romanian woman half his age, I went back. I have a son, soon Greek Cypriots lost their homes miss it. Nicosia's airport was known to us: haranguing the come a successful restaurateur deserting his family; the Ger - to be 7, the age I was when I and businesses. Parts of Fama - now out of bounds and Lar - municipality, chasing after in Manhattan, remarked dryly man neighbor who suffered first took in the wonders of gusta remain neglected to decay naca's took in the many visitors builders, grappling with electric - on the walk home. "Now our through the Allied firebombing Aphrodite's island. I have some even today. The island of Cyprus to the island. I remember the ity and water issues. dining-out options have been re - of Hamburg as a young girl in family history to share with him. is now split into the Turkish tortuous, hours-long journey on But you could also just walk duced by 50 percent." World War II and wanted to visit north and the Greek south. winding single-lane roads, often out into the garden and pluck a The relative unspoiled, sun- London to see where the Luft - EDITOR'S NOTE: Tamer Faka - Within minutes of meeting in the dead of night. lemon off a tree for evening kissed nature of a traditional ex - waffe had struck. hany is a deputy managing Cypriots, I usually can tell if This was one of the many cocktails. The beach was two istence began to fade. In its My parents retired to the editor of The Associated Press. 10 EDITORIALS LETTERS THE NATIONAL HERALD, APRIL 6-12, 2013

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The fact that 60 house of God not to be amused, I hear, while attempting, athwart America, after having been forced to leave their homeland due to in these days of social, economic, per cent of all marriages per - but to be spiritually uplifted, and the general calisthenics, to com - occasional periods of economic hardship or tragedy in Greece and and religious upheaval is, for formed in the Greek Orthodox it is enough that God under - mune with my Maker, and ask Cyprus, while maintaining their Hellenic identity intact. those of us of Greek ancestry, the Church are mixed must not be stands where the supplicant Him first to forgive me my own They created the National Herald as their authentic and worthy introduction of English to sup - taken lightly. merely feels. There are prayer sins, and implore him, second, voice, and as an authoritative source of information. plement the little-understood However, when it comes to books in every Church pew with not to forgive the people who ru - That is why the Herald is so closely identified with the community, classical Greek language of the the Divine Liturgy, the substitu - English translations of the Liturgy ined the mass.” and vice versa. Orthodox Church Services. tion of English for any part of the to which the faithful can refer Let others build their towers This historic anniversary spurs us to examine the reasons that On the one hand, there are classical Greek would serve only and thereby 'understand as well of babel, confusing the tongues contributed to survival of the Herald for 98 years, longer than any those who sincerely believe that to chip away at the rock that is as feel. The late and lamented in their churches. Let them water other institution in the community. unless the language of America the true Orthodox Faith of Christ. friend William Buckley of Stam - down the Mass and services, even It is mainly due to: is really substituted for the Greek Written in the fourth century, the ford wrote the following concern - to the point of introducing rock • The culture that was established from the beginning of the op - in order to bring an ancient faith Divine Liturgy is so interwoven ing his own and roll complete with musical eration of the newspaper, a culture of principles, with strong feelings up to modern standards, then the with the eloquent Greek lan - Church's changing of the instruments, leaving mysticism to of indebtedness and responsibility to the readers. younger generation is destined guage that one is inseparable Catholic Mass: “As a Catholic, I evaporate. The beauty and mys - • The managers and employees who through the decades gener - to walk in spiritual darkness. On from the other. Much is lost in have abandoned hope for the ticism of the Orthodox Liturgy is ally took correct positions on critical community issues, and other the other hand, there are those the translation of any language, liturgy, which, in the typical unsurpassed in any form of wor - issues overall. sincere adherents of the status particularly idiomatic effective - American Church is as ugly and ship. Youth needs to be elevated • The creation, after a long and arduous process, of a relationship quo who honestly believe that to ness which lose their power in as maladroit as if it had been to the level of this marvelous of deep trust between the reader and the newspaper. substitute one word of English translation. The spiritually mov - composed by Robert Ingersoll Liturgy with its symbolic beauty A relationship that is the alpha and omega of the proper func - for our revered Greek would be ing incantations of the liturgy roll and H. L. Mencken for the pur - of sacrament written during the tioning of a newspaper. nothing short of sacrilege. And off the Greek tongue with a heav - pose of driving people away. In - Apostolic age and enhanced in That is how the National Herald became the “bible” of the com - there are extremists who are enly impact that would be denied cidentally, the modern liturgists its passage through the corridors munity. sounding false alarms about the in any other language. This may are doing a remarkably good job, of time. English may replace Nonetheless, it would have been impossible in this long journey encroachment of the English well be attendance at Catholic mass on Greek in America eventually, but of almost a century for the newspaper not to have made mistakes. language into the Orthodox Ser - The phenomenon that has led "Sunday having dropped sharply let us not in our time hasten that What matters, however, is that the right decisions exceeded the vices to the point where they the rest of the world to say the in the 10 years since a few well- change for as our illustrious an - wrong ones by far, and that the vast majority of publishers and em - would have you believe English Greeks have a word for it, espe - meaning cretins got hold of the cestors would say, "he who hur - ployees of the newspaper carried out their duty honorably. to be the tongue of pagans and cially in spiritual matters. Robert power to vernacularize the mass, ries will falter.” In its 98 years of its life, only seven publishers have stood at the heretics. Payne stated a few years ago, and the We can no more expect to helm of the National Herald. Three of them, Tatanis, Marketos, and Not in compromise, but in “this beautiful language, of im - money to scour the earth in fully comprehend the complete yours truly – Antonis H. Diamataris – have served for 91 of its 98 fairness to both sides, there is a mense vigor and sweetness, was search of the most unmusical Liturgy than we can comprehend years. I am honored to have served the longest, having been publisher happy solution for what some the perfect vehicle for the Chris - men and women to the omnipotence of God. That is since 1979. may call a problem in the cele - tian message. They gloried in preside over the translation. precisely what religion is all Thousands of colleagues have worked in different parts of the bration of our Sunday Services. Greek, and some believed that “The next liturgical ceremony about. Rather than putting our newspaper. The compromise is simply to in - Greek, a language that ripples conducted primarily for my ben - young on a soft diet of easily di - It is impossible to emphasize enough the devotion, contributions, clude English as a supplement in like water and flashes like danc - efit, since I have no plans to be gested English, let them have and sacrifices of the people who have worked here throughout the observing the sacraments of the ing flames, was spoken by the beatified or remarried will be my their fill of a hearty Liturgy that years, certainly during the years of my tenure. Congratulations to Church and in the sermon. It is angels." Thousands of hauntingly funeral; and it is a source of great will strengthen their hearts, their my colleagues in New York, Boston, Florida, Athens, Tripoli, Herak - better for the young parents to beautiful idioms, phrases, and consolation to me that, at my fu - minds, and souls and reveal to lion, and Nicosia. have a better understanding of pure Greek expressions of praise neral, I shall be quite dead, and them the awesome beauty of the Peter Tatanis, the once-wealthy founder of the newspaper, died the baptism of their child so that and supplication in the Divine will not need to listen to the ac - mysticism which the Divine poor in New York on December 27, 1959 from a heart attack at the this concept of Christianity may Liturgy would surely suffer cepted replacement for the noble Liturgy represents and which age of 74. have fuller meaning and solemn through translation losing its old Latin liturgy. Meanwhile, I may draw them closer to the We just recently located his grave site where there was no sign of beauty. Similarly, other sacra - warmth, exuberance, and am practicing Yoga so that, at glory of Almighty God. his name! But we wonder if he ever could possibly have imagined that the great creation to which he gave life would still be very much alive COMMENTARY today. We are very grateful to him. As for the inevitable question, how does the future look for the National Herald, we answer: it will depend on our continued adher - ence to the principles and values which have governed it in the past. Cyprus Crisis Presents Opportunity to Reunify the Country For as long as the operation of the newspaper rests on ethics and honesty, and continues to provide accurate information, if we con - tinue to feel the thrill and the gravitas of our mission and persist in By MICHAEL MOLLER lier, changing the framework The new Greek Cypriot presi - the risk of triggering further cat - the self-sacrifice required to serve the truth and the interests of our The New York Times within which the Cyprus problem dent, with his solid pro-unifica - astrophic consequences for the readers, the Herald’s future will be guaranteed. has traditionally been viewed. tion credentials, is well placed to integrity of the European con - It has often been said that Greece’s economic woes have propose bold measures toward a struct. Cyprus never misses an opportu - changed its priorities. Its orienta - unified island with a greater com - However the fate of the Euro - Negotiating from Weakness nity to miss an opportunity. This tion is firmly anchored in Europe, mon prosperity. And the Turkish pean Union plays out, there are maxim was being bandied about and it is a steadfast supporter of Cypriot leadership is now in a undeniable benefits in ensuring especially after the negative Turkish accession to the European stronger position than ever to ne - strong partnerships within the Faithful to their policy of staying "one step ahead," as Prime Min - Greek Cypriot vote on reunifica - Union. At the same time, the high gotiate a solution on more equal southern Mediterranean basin. ister Recep Tayyip Erdogan has said, the Turks have opened a new tion in 2004. Life was good in price Cyprus is now paying for its terms. The different economies and se - chapter in the already much-too-long book that could be titled The their south of the island then and past symbiotic financial relation - Turkey’s European aspirations curity, energy, water and other Settling of Unresolved Issues with Greece. there was no apparent cost to ship with Greece may affect their can no longer be denied. But part needs can only be strengthened Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu in a letter to his Greek sticking with the status quo. future relationship. of that road goes through Cyprus, through closer union. counterpart Dimitri Avramopoulos echoed Erdogan’s message. A new reality has now im - These new realities — good and the sooner that problem is The United Nations has been Whether or not this leads to a happy ending for Athens will de - posed itself on the Greek Cypri - and bad — offer an opportunity solved, the sooner Turkey can be a steady presence in the daily pend on how fast Greece and Cyprus overcome their current eco - ots. The situation is dire and the to move forward on the long- welcomed as a full member of a lives of Cypriots for almost 50 nomic primarily crises. immediate future does not look sought solution for Cyprus. stronger and more integrated Eu - years. But it too must take heed In his response, Avramopoulos correctly pointed out that it is encouraging unless imaginative Five years ago, the Cyprus rope. of the new realities and realign "wrong to think the temporary economic weakness of Cyprus or any solutions are found. I firmly be - center of the Peace Research In - The European Union can no its strategies. other country is a criterion for policy making." Then again, the Turks lieve those solutions are now stitute Oslo (PRIO) published longer afford to consider Cyprus Cyprus has plenty of assets — do not necessarily care about behaving according to good manners. within reach. some startling assertions on the an irritating peripheral problem. geographical location, natural re - Now, in the face of the economic struggles of their neighbors, Here’s why. Economic and so - monetary benefits that would Cyprus is part of Europe and as sources, a well-educated popula - they call for "a negotiated solution" to the Cyprus problem. cial conditions in the Turkish-con - come within the first year of re - such, especially now, very much tions, infrastructure and now, But for Greece and Cyprus to negotiate under these economic trolled north are improving, cre - unification. PRIO’s conservative a European problem. once again in its long and tor - and political conditions is obviously not to their benefit. It is as if ating a more level playing field estimate was that every Cypriot It is time for a solid, united tured history, the attention of the they are the loser on the battlefield negotiating the terms of surren - between the two sides. Turkey is family would get an extra €2,500 and active European policy and international community. der. And even if Athens refuses to negotiate, the Turks are in the po - now an increasingly important per year. commitment to the reunification It is time to put them to good sition to proceed unilaterally. player both regionally and inter - While the context has of the island based on a clear and use. Davutoglu makes it abundantly clear that Turkey will not allow nationally, and a major anchor of changed, the conclusion that re - shared conviction that it is in the exploitation of hydrocarbons in Cyprus without its sharing of it. stability in a turbulent region. unification would bring increased everyone’s vital interest. Michael Moller is a former In one of the most dramatic statements ever to come from a top The ties between Turkey and prosperity would probably be If not, we are looking at an - United Nations special represen - Turkish official he characterized as an “illusion” the Greek Cypriot Greece are now closer and friend - similar today. other bailout down the road and tative for Cyprus. position that it is the "sole owner of the island". Indeed, he could not have been clearer about Turkey’s inten - tions. 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Mystical Experiences Occur Media reporting has concen - other countries that and a half and the quences that led to the events trated on the catastrophic ef - need a bailout. At fact that the cur - of this week. fects of the latest European “res - some point, depos - rent President of Slashing Greek debt at the By Emmanuel J. obvious.” Yes, there is little more cue” on the Cypriot economy. itors in other trou - Cyprus failed to re - time was essential. That the pri - Karavousanos obvious to us than our thinking President Nicos Anastasiades bled economies will alize that when vate sectors and banks bore the Special to The National Herald and our thoughts, yet the higher announced bravely that Cyprus figure out that this someone calls your full burden so that Mrs. Merkel state of mind eludes us and re - will not leave the Eurozone. He means them as bluff you need to could win regional elections NEW YORK – In reading, hearing mains…mystical! Thoughts must, did not dwell on the likelihood well. Our Dutch have a backup raises serious doubts about the and watching the news of the must be seen for what they are; that the Cyprus economic model friend has since plan, contributed wisdom and skills of politicians day, we learn of the horrors that suddenly, Robinson and Goethe will soon implode (if it is not said that he may no small bit to the in the richer European coun - go on in our world. Though speak to us again… Let us un - dismantled sooner), GDP will have been misinter - crisis. tries. much of the news is all too trou - derstand that a mystical experi - probably decline by 20% in the preted but does Fortunately, the Many economists and bling, there is also some that is ence takes place when one real - next year or so (a figure that anyone believe by AMB. PATRICK N. Cypriot Parliament bankers are asking: “How could good and often, promising. Per - izes that which has been known surpasses Cyprus’ decline after him? THEROS acted responsibly they be so stupid?” Conspiracy haps the good can be greatly ex - only on the surface, taken for the 1974 invasion) and that In fact, the Eu - in rejecting the theorists surmise that German panded if we, individually, made granted and for the most part, prospects for a recovery are rogroup had first Special to confiscation of leaders have devised a new and the effort to become wiser hu - ignored. It is our individual con - cloudy to say the least. Cyprus’ insisted that the The National Herald guaranteed de - better plan to conquer Europe man beings. Wisdom, we know, sciousness! This must be realized greatest geostrategic asset: the Government of posits. Unfortu - in the 21st century after two can only arrive from within the intuitively! “Analysis of the obvi - exploitation of its newly-discov - Cyprus “tax” (i.e., confiscate) nately, the fact that Cyprus had failures in the 20th. “Haircuts” self, for it cannot be taught and ous” is the tool with which we ered gas fields, has been imper - money from accounts under eu - no viable “plan B” should the and other imaginative financial certainly not legislated. How can now reach for and attain the iled by a new Turkish demand ros 100,000 that it had itself Eurogroup call its bluff, forced scams are cheaper and more dif - wonderful it would be if wisdom most precious gift of all. Yes, we to control the exploitation of the previously guaranteed under it accept a settlement that could ficult to defend against than was multiplied and spread know consciousness on the sur - fields and the American led rec - Eurozone rules. In other words, toss the country into an irre - sending in the Panzers and the throughout our world! Is this too face, but not intuitively! We de - onciliation between Israel and small depositors kept their versible downward spiral. Stukas. idealistic? Let us look at and con - vote much time to many things, Turkey that could undermine money in the banks after the The New York Times just Nevertheless, they failed to sider mysticism, a very old con - but precious little on our con - Cyprus’ only realistic defense 2008 banking crisis because pointed out that the path to calculate the risk that they may cept, in a whole new way. sciousness dilemma. Now that against Turkish aggressiveness. governments guaranteed the de - once again destroy Germany A mystical experience is a sud - we can understand why mystical Cruel and callous as it may posits (think FDIC in the United even as they ruin Europe. den insight. It is an abrupt real - experiences occur, we can and sound, the fate of Cyprus is not States). Caught in a bind, the Modern Germany’s I doubt this. The current crop ization that brings on a whole will choose to seek that precious the issue. I suggest that you Europeans demanded that the leaders might not of German leaders clearly lacks new awareness and a fresh and higher state of mind. worry more about the actions of Government of Cyprus grab the be as ruthless as the brains, the determination, healthy mentality. A mystical ex - In the introduction to his book the Eurogroup and their effects money! In the confidence and the flair of Bismarck, Kaiser perience is the onset of the mys - titled The Ferryman’s Dream, the on the world banking system. racket, this is known as “bait their predecessors, Wilhelm, and Adolf Hitler and tical state, commonly known as author, Dr. Stewart Bitkoff, ex - Europe’s leaders have doubled and switch.” but they share a their disciples. They only share higher consciousness and often plains that some who have at - down on a series of bad deci - The U.S. Government cre - their cold-blooded disdain for as, ultimate reality! Perhaps now, tained “spiritual completion” try sions beginning with the 70% ated the Federal Deposit Insur - disdain for democracy democracy and human beings. for the first time in human his - to teach others how to gain the “haircut” they forced on private ance Corporation in 1933 pre - and human beings. On the other hand, the leader - tory, we may finally understand mystical state. Bitkoff writes that holders of Greek Government cisely to prevent the types of ship of the threatened countries why this precious gift occurs. No these already gifted individuals bonds. Amazingly, we seem to runs on banks by small deposi - Cyprus’ current crisis can be clearly also lack the qualities of longer mystical, we would gain use tools and faculties termed ex - have taken lightly the huge tors that destroyed America’s traced back to the decision by Churchill and DeGaulle looking the incentive to seek it for our - traordinary in their efforts to help transformation of financial prac - banking system in the Great De - the European Union and the after their own interests rather selves. others. Notwithstanding the in - tices in Europe. Depositors in pression. The rest of the world IMF in late October 2011. Eu - than that of their countries. Per - Each of us is aware of this struction he and other spiritual Cyprus with accounts in excess copied us. But in this case, the rope demanded that private haps we are all victims of the ever-present state of mind we call teachers offer, their help is often of 100,000 euros will lose 40 Eurogroup cure for a local dis - bondholders “voluntarily” sur - fact that Europe today seems consciousness, yet the great ma - ignored or, as Bitkoff writes, de - percent of their supposedly ease threatens to unleash a render about 70% of the value rather short on leadership. jority of us forever fail to attain nied or overlooked. Why? It is “safe” money. That the allegedly world wide pandemic. Now of Greek Government bonds. and know what is called, higher because people all too often skim prudent leadership of stable Mrs. Merkel and other Europ - This fell especially heavily on The Hon. Ambassador Theros is consciousness. Higher conscious - over what they read and skip prosperous countries has im - group leaders have decided that Cypriot banks which held bil - president of the U.S.-Qatar ness is simply intuitive, intuitive over some material that should posed this loss boggles the teaching a lesson to weaker lons of Euros worth of those Business Council. He served in knowledge of our ordinary con - be carefully read and considered. mind. That serious European countries is worth the risk of bonds, which had been re - the U.S. Foreign Service for 36 sciousness; it is obvious and They therefore miss much of leaders could hint that they bringing the world’s banking garded as safe by international years, mostly in the Middle hardly necessary to say that mys - what they should have absorbed. could do it again defies concep - system down around our ears. rating agencies at the time of East, and was American Ambas - tics have realized consciousness Sadly, the insight that is so, so tion. The Dutch Finance Minis - purchase. Laiki Bank, for one, sador to Qatar from 1995 to as an insight from within -- intu - valuable and can be theirs is ter and current President of the In fairness, the near-criminal took a hit of 2.3 billion Euros – 1998. He also directed the State itively! missed, discounted or ignored. Eurogroup of Eurozone finance ineptness of the previous in an economy whose GDP Department’s Counter- ministers, stated flatly that the Cypriot President, Christofias, in barely reached 18 billion euros. Terrorism Office, and holds nu - confiscation of bank accounts dealing with a crisis that has This decision triggered the chain merous U.S. Government deco - Cyprus will be a “template” for been in the making for a year reaction of unintended conse - rations.

LETTER FROM ATHENS Greek Corruption: the Same Old Story, 2500 Years Later

Corruption in Greece is as nant water inoper - as many of them fell for a fourth year as austerity ancient as Ancient Greece, able fountain in evade taxes at the limited Greeks’ ability to pay, ac - It is here we turn for evidence True, time is so important and where at least the philosophers Syntamga Square same time. cording to a survey commis - and a foundation to several our busy schedules often prevent were more open in admitting it in Athens while The data sioned for the watchdog Trans - prominent names. Alfred North us from applying the necessary existed, unlike today where the corruption is run - showed that in parency International Greece Whitehead said, “Familiar things time. Understandably, the reader government vows fake crack - away and getting 2012 it investigated (TIG). happen and mankind does not moves on often failing to ever downs and Prime Ministers yell worse during a a total of 1,060 The survey by Public Issue bother about them. It requires a gain the importance of a mes - like Capt. Renault in Rick’s Café crushing economic cases, or 263 more for the anti-corruption watch - very unusual mind to undertake sage. Here and now we have two in Casablanca that, “I’m shocked crisis. than it did in 2011, dog showed 8.6 percent of the analysis of the obvious.” Little advantages. We understand why – shocked – to find out gambling Coming on the marking a 33 per - households received demands if anything is more obvious to us a mystical experience occurs, and is going on here!” only to be heels of the convic - cent increase. Of for bribes in 2012 compared than the fact that we are con - we can understand the impor - handed his winnings a moment tion of a former these, 710 (or 66.9 with 10.2 percent in 2011 and stantly having thoughts! Hegel tance of not overlooking a most later. mayor of Thessa - by ANDY percent) concerned 13.5 percent in 2008. gave us these words: “Because it’s important concept that must be After the great lawmaker loniki on corrup - DABILIS police officers, 260 Almost 70 percent of bribe familiar, a thing remains un - carefully read and applied. Solon in the 5th Century B.C. tion, prosecutors concerned employ - demands came from the public known.” Our incoming thoughts At this point let us add the put forth the notion of debt can - are charging My - Special to ees of the broader sector. The private sector ac - are familiar to us as anything else words of another giant in the cellation, Aristotle tipped off his konos Mayor Atha- The National Herald public sector and counted for 32 percent. The cost we know. Let us add the words world of philosophy. Kahlil friends, in one of the first real nasios Kousathanas- 67 were cases of bribes last year was estimated of Aldous Huxley who said, “Most Gibran who gave us these words: insider scandals, to get big loans Megas and former mayor brought against individuals. at 420 million euros ($550 mil - human beings have an almost in - “The obvious is that which is so they could be forgiven, not Christos Veronis with embezzle - In the public sector, com - lion) compared with 554 million finite capacity for taking things never seen until someone ex - unlike what the Cypriot govern - ment during their terms running plaints of corruption by citizens euros in 2011 and 787 million for granted.” Perhaps as much or presses it.” In discussing con - ment did for its friends while the famous island’s government. nearly doubled, jumping 94.6 euros in 2009, the survey more than anything else, we take sciousness, let us express the ob - confiscating everyone else’s Prosecutor George percent in 2012 compared to showed. our thinking for granted; this oc - vious once again: we know money. Economou proposed their in - the previous year, with the ma - It often seems like almost curs early in life and we then for - ordinary consciousness, but do dictment in a case that comes jority of the 535 complaints everyone has their hand out in ever fail to adequately study not know higher consciousness. just as the tourist season is processed concerning employ - Greece looking for a bribe, from thoughts. The power of Huxley’s The higher state of consciousness Greece ranked 94th about to begin in earnest. ees at local authorities (152) tax inspectors to driver’s license statement is strengthened when can and must be intuitively real - most honest nation Economou said the case in - and regional authorities examiners, civil servants, doc - we hear from psychologist Gustav ized from within the self through in the world, and most volves some 10 million euros (63.)The report also noted that tors, lawyers, and anyone with Ichheiser who said, “Nothing analysis of our incoming ($13 million) in missing funds, 20 police officers were arrested a service to dispense. evades our attention as persis - thoughts. Our thoughts must, corrupt in the EU the newspaper Kathimerini re - in 2012 on charges ranging TIG ranked Greece the most tently as that which is taken for must be seen, intuitively seen, for ported. from physical abuse of a pris - corrupt country in the EU and granted.” All this can and must what they are…. The politician Themistocles, Then former Deputy Educa - oner to theft and embezzlement. 94th in the world for honesty, be applied to consciousness and With the foundation provided a populist with the support of tion Minister and ex-PASOK Meanwhile, of the country’s with the likes of Moldova and to our individual thinking. It is for us, we can now appreciate the lower classes, nonetheless lawmaker Ioannis Anthopoulos, total of 53,980 police officers Mongolia. Talk about bad com - here that each of us can begin to the very deep need to undertake knew where his bread was but - after being charged with taking and border guards in 2012, 876 pany. consider the importance of ana - the analysis of our arriving tered and said it was no good 1.57 million euros ($2.01 mil - failed to submit a declaration of TIG’s chief Costas Bakouris lyzing what we already “know” thoughts. Peace of mind is free - to be a leader unless you could lion) to help a tobacco trading wealth and charges were told the British newspaper The … or, believe we know! Historian dom from thought and it is this enrich your friends, a practice company gain contracts and ac - brought against 16 of them. Guardian that, “We need to cre - James Harvey Robinson said, “We gift which waits. To gain this gift, carried on ingloriously today by cess to financing, was freed on The only good news about ate a political system where do not think enough about think - we must, must examine that every Prime Minister who obvi - bail of 200,000 euros the bad news is that because of politicians care more about the ing.” Poetically, Goethe agrees: which we learned long – our in - ously read between the lines of ($260,000) and prohibited from pay cuts, tax hikes and slashed fate of the country than them - “My boy I’ll say that I’ve been coming thoughts…. It should and Greek history. leaving Greece after he goes to pensions, even the corrupt are selves.” If it didn’t work for Per - clever, I think, but think of think - must be repeated: yes, we know It’s no surprise then that ar - trial. asking for fewer bribes and for icles, it’s not going to work for ing never.” Indeed, there is noth - consciousness and we know we rogant amoeba like former De - And while Prime Minister lesser amounts. anyone. ing in the world more important think, but it is not intuitive! fense Minister Akis Tsochat - Antonis Samaras, like his pre - The percentage of Greek than to begin the analysis of our Again, if these were intuitively zopoulos have been charged decessors, has vowed to crack households asked to pay bribes [email protected] very own thoughts …in a whole known to us, we would already with enriching themselves by down on corruption, the prob - new way! And now, here and be mystics. Begin a very simple stealing from contracts, includ - lem is getting worse in the po - now, we have the basis. practice of considering, once or ing those for submarines, be - lice department and among civil It becomes clear that our in - twice a day, perhaps morning and cause even the great Pericles servants during the country’s dividual consciousness is known evening, for only a moment or was charged by Plutarch with age of austerity, a Greek Police GUEST EDITORIALS to us only on the surface. If we two, that all arriving thoughts are introducing the first slush fund special task force said. The National Herald welcomes manuscripts representing a variety of knew it fully we would already actually disturbances or interrup - of secret money and justifying Its report said bribery and views for publication in its View Points page. They should include have attained the higher state. tions to peace of mind, “hang- it by saying, “I gave them where wrongdoing are out of control the writer’s name, address, telephone number and be addressed to With this thought in mind we can ups.” It’s simple! The gift of mys - they were needed.” and rising among the police and easily understand that conscious - tical insight waits. At least the Ancient Greeks public workers, especially in the View Points Editor, The National Herald, 37-10 30th St., liC, Ny ness must become, intuitively, re - got the Parthenon out of the health care services where doc - 11101. They can also be e-mailed to english.edition@thenational - alized and not just known on the Emmanuel Karavousanos is the deal while those today have tors still demand an under-the- herald.com. Due to considerations of space we enforce a strict 850- surface! It is here that we apply author of the book The Gift of only submarines with screen table fee for work for which they word upper limit. we reserve the right to edit. Whitehead’s idea: “analysis of the Mystical Insight. doors and a giant dog bowl stag - are also paid by the state and 12 VIEWPOINTS THE NATIONAL HERALD, APRIL 6-12, 2013 Should Russia’s President Vladimir Putin Be Held Responsible for the Cyprus Crisis?

By Ben Judah 2008 alone more than $350 bil - ity of the foreign accounts there Putin took office in 2000 left little more than a servile other European havens, like the New York Times lion in capital has fled the coun - worth over 100,000 euros. promising a “dictatorship of web of patronage, a recipe for Dutch Antilles and the British try. According to the I.M.F., law,” but the moneymakers lost embezzlement of public funds. Virgin Islands. Malta and Lux - The blue-glass skyscrapers of These billions craved secrecy Cyprus was the destination for confidence in him. By 2003, the So more Russians put money in embourg are possibilities, but Moscow City — fragments of and security, and financial is - 34 percent of all outward invest - country’s richest man, Mikhail “safe” places like Cyprus. analysts have both on bailout Russia’s boom-time dream — lands inside the European Union ment from Russia in 2011, and Khodorkovsky, had been ar - Matters were made only watch. are visible from the Kremlin welcomed them. A love affair accounted for 28 percent of for - rested, ultimately to be stripped worse when protests over elec - Meanwhile, Brussels is not walls, within which there was started, especially, between eign direct investment in Russia. of his biggest holdings and tion rigging charges in 2011 re - impotent. The European Union once hope that those towers Cypriot banks and Russia’s cash. But these gigantic flows did not thrown into a Siberian prison, vived fears of a national implo - must clamp down on offshore could supplant the West’s finan - Only weeks ago, the Cypriot reflect real investment overseas. making it clear that what Mr. sion. havens, insist on transparent cial centers. When the sun sets capital, Nicosia, was Russia’s They were overwhelmingly Putin really had in mind was Last year, official capital banking and toughen up on behind them, you can see that most important offshore ac - Russian cash “round-tripping” manipulating the law to control flight hit $56 billion, and Mr. money laundering. This is aus - many of the offices lie empty. countant. But today this finan - through Nicosia shell companies any potential challenge from the Putin’s own central bank calcu - terity Europe — and bloated tax In fact, the real hubs for cial paradise lies in economic and re-entering as foreign in - oligarchs’ wealth. lated that two-thirds of that to - havens not only put Europe at Russian banking are in other ruin, its bloated banking sector vestment. So the capital flight that had tal might be traceable to illegal risk but also make its financial countries. Moscow’s billionaires wrecked by a gigantic exposure As the German finance min - begun in Russia’s “wild 1990s” activity like drug money, kick - system complicit with offshore squirrel their fortunes abroad, to Greek bonds. ister, Wolfgang Schäuble, never stopped. And by 2011 the backs or tax fraud. corruption. and many businessmen register To save Cyprus from bank - pointed out, this has raised sus - I.M.F. reported that all of the Why did Russians flock to But it cannot erase the truths their companies as British, ruptcy, a decree from the Euro - picions of money laundering. top five national destinations for Cyprus? Cyprus was in the Eu - exposed by the Nicosia bust. Eu - Dutch, Swiss or Cypriot — any - pean Union, the International On the other hand, many le - foreign investment in and out ropean Union, with its rules and rope, it turns out, is studded thing but Russian. Whistle-blow - Monetary Fund and the Euro - gitimate Russian businessmen of Russia were tax havens — a overseers — a nearby legal par - with vulnerable, contagious tax ers would have us believe that pean Central Bank (known as had funds there as well. Russia’s sign that the funds were really adise where state confiscation islands, and their availability even President Vladimir V. Putin “the troika”) is now confronting steel oligarchs controlled their offshore Russian money. was unthinkable. But now the only compounds Russia’s deeper stashes his money offshore. depositors in Cypriot banks with companies through Cypriot Russia’s middle class lost troika’s raid on their accounts problem: it is both too corrupt Simply put, Russian money the loss of as much as 60 per - holding companies. Many state- faith in Mr. Putin after 2008, — Russians call it a theft — has and too paranoid to keep its bil - is frightened of Russia. This is cent of deposits greater than owned pillars of Russia’s econ - when in the midst of the global given Russians a new dose of lions at home. because after Boris N. Yeltsin $100,000, alongside tough new omy also have Cyprus accounts, financial crisis, the bureaucracy anti-Western passion and para - made the transition to crude capital controls. including the oil company Ros - remained mired in Gogolian in - noia. Ben Judah, a journalist, is the capitalism in the 1990s, Mr. Nicosia was the second capi - neft and the banks Sberbank competence and venality. He Whatever remains of the author of the forthcoming book Putin never delivered secure tal of Russian finance, after and VTB. had gutted the courts, media Russian fortunes in Nicosia “Fragile Empire: How Russia property rights. That makes Moscow, and Russians are be - How did so much Russian and local governments while fo - seems sure to flee again — but Fell In and Out of Love With Russian money paranoid; since lieved to account for the major - money end up in Cyprus? Mr. cusing power in his party. That not back to Russia. It may go to Vladimir Putin.” Emboldened Far Right Golden Dawn Party is Opening Offices Throughout the World

Guardian in Australia. The party's Canada, which attracted tens of else."Despite the resistance, the spokesman, Ilias Kasidiaris, said thousands of Greeks after far-rightists have made con - Boldened by its meteoric rise it had decided to establish cells Greece's devastating 1946-49 certed efforts to move else - in Greece, the far-right Golden "wherever there are Greeks". civil war. where, with Golden Dawn sup - Dawn party is spreading its ten - "We don't see any gold in "It's a well-studied cam - porters saying Toronto is next. tacles abroad, amid fears it is Golden Dawn," said Father Alex paign," said Anastasios Tamis, But the biggest push by far to acting on its pledge to "create Karloutsos, one of America's Australia's pre-eminent ethnic date has been in the US. As cells in every corner of the leading Greek community fig - Greek historian. "There is a home to close to 3 million citi - world". The extremist group, ures, in Southampton, New large stock of very conservative zens of Greek heritage, America which forged links with British York. "Nationalism, fascism, people here – former royalists, has the diaspora's largest com - neo-Nazis when it was founded xenophobia are not part of our former loyalists to the junta, munity. At first, cadres worked in the 1980s, has begun opening spiritual or cultural heritage." that sort of thing – who are very undercover, organising clothes offices in Germany, Australia, But Golden Dawn is hoping disappointed at what has been sales and other charitable events Canada and the US. to tap into the deep well of dis - happening in Greece and are without stating their true affili - The international push fol - appointment and fury felt by trying to find a means to express ation. Stickers and posters then lows successive polls that show Greeks living abroad, in the it. They are nationalists who feel began to appear around the Golden Dawn entrenching its po - three years since the debt- betrayed by Greece over issues New York suburb of Astoria be - sition as Greece's third, and stricken nation was plunged like Macedonia, Cyprus and [the fore the organisation opened a fastest growing, political force. into crisis. Greek minority] in Voreio Epirus branch there. First catapulted into parliament "Golden Dawn is not like [southern Albania], who cannot But while Greek Americans with 18 MPs last year, the ultra- other parties in Greece. From its see the fascistic part of this have some of the strongest ties nationalists captured 11.5% sup - beginnings, in the early 80s, it party. Golden Dawn is trying to of any community to their port in a recent survey conducted always had one eye abroad," exploit them." homeland, senior figures have by polling company Public Issue. said Dimitris Psarras, whose Fr. Alex Karloutsos said, "Nationalism, fascism, xenophobia The younger generation — vehemently denounced the or - The group – whose logo re - book, Golden Dawn's Black are not part of our spiritual or cultural heritage." children of agrarian and un - ganisation for not only being in - sembles the swastika and whose Bible, chronicles the organisa - skilled immigrants – were also congruous with Greece's strug - members are prone to give Nazi tion since its creation by Nikos communities abroad, the far- bers regularly met with neo- being targeted, he said. "They're gle against fascism, during one salutes – has gone from strength Michaloliakos, an overt sup - rightists were attempting not Nazis from Germany, Italy and the generation who were born of Europe's most brutal Nazi oc - to strength, promoting itself as porter of the colonels who over - only to shore up their credibility Romania. "It wants to spread its here and grew up here and cupations, but utterly alien to the only force willing to take on saw seven years of brutal anti- but also to find extra funding influence worldwide." know next to nothing about their own experience as immi - the "rotten establishment". Amid leftist dictatorship until the and perhaps even potential With its 300,000-strong com - Greece, its history and social grants. rumours of backing from collapse of military rule in 1974. votes if Greeks abroad ever won munity, Melbourne has pride of and economic background. "These people and their prin - wealthy shipowners, it has suc - "Like-minded groups in Eu - the right to cast ballots in elec - place in the constellation of They're easy prey and Golden ciples will never be accepted in ceeded in opening party offices rope and Russia have given the tions. Greek-populated metropolises Dawn will capitalise on their ig - our community. Their beliefs are across Greece. party ideological, and some - "[Golden Dawn] not only that dot a diaspora officially es - norance." alien to our beliefs and way of It is also concentrating on times financial, support to print wants to become the central timated at around 7 million.As Tamis, who admits that some life," said Nikos Mouyiaris, co- spreading internationally, with books and magazines. After pole of a pan-European alliance part of its international push, of his students support the or - founder of the Chicago-based news last month that it had years of importing nazism, it of neo-Nazis, even if in public it Golden Dawn has also focused ganisation, does not think the Hellenic American Leadership opened an office in Germany now wants to export nazism," will hotly deny that," claimed on the US, a magnet for mi - group will gain traction even if Council (HALC), whose mission and planned to set up branches added Psarras. By infiltrating Psarras, who said party mem - grants for generations, and Australia's far-right party has is to promote human rights and been quick to embrace it. But democratic values. the prospect of Golden Dawn The victims of often violent descending on the country has persecution at the hands of the clearly sent tremors through the Ku Klux Klan as well as wider Greek community. discrimination (in Florida in the "This is a multicultural soci - 1920s restaurant noticeboards ety. They are not wanted or wel - declared "no dogs or Greeks al - come here," said one prominent lowed") Greek Americans member, requesting anonymity proudly recount how, almost when talk turned to the group. alone among ethnic minorities, Greek Australian leftists have they actively participated in the begun collecting protest signa - civil rights movement, their spir - tures to bring pressure on the itual leader Archbishop Iakovos Australia immigration minister, daring to march alongside Mar - Brendan O'Connor, to prohibit tin Luther King. "Our history as Golden Dawn MPs from enter - a diaspora in the US has been ing the country. In a statement marked by our fight against urging the government not to racism," said Mouyiaris. give the deputies visas, they said Many in the diaspora believe, the extremists had to be stopped like Endy Zemenides who heads "from spreading their influence HALC, that Golden Dawn has de - within the Greek community luded itself into believing it is a and threatening the multicul - permanent force because of its tural society that Greek Aus - soaring popularity on the back tralians and other migrants have of the economic crisis. "The real - fought to defend". ity is that it is a fleeting by-prod - The neo-Nazis have been uct of failed austerity measures given a similar reception in and the social disruption this Canada, where the party opened austerity has caused," he said. a chapter last October. Despite In Greece, where Golden getting the father of champion Dawn has begun to recruit in sprinter Nicolas Macrozonaris to schools, there are fears of com - front it, the group was quickly placency. Drawing parallels with denounced by Greek Canadians the 1930s Weimar period and as "a black mark". the rise of Hitler's National So - The culture of intolerance cialist German Workers' party, that has allowed racially moti - the historian Mark Mazower re - vated violence to flourish in cently warned against underes - Greece – with black-clad Golden timating the threat posed by a Dawn members being blamed party whose use of violence was for a big rise in attacks on im - so disturbing. "Unfortunately, migrants – had, they said, no the Greek state does not seem place in a country that prides it - to realise the urgency of the sit - self on liberal values. uation," he told an audience in "Their philosophy and ideol - Athens. ogy does not appeal to Greeks After spending almost 30 living here," insisted Father years following Golden Dawn, Lambros Kamperidis, a Greek Psarras agrees. Only weeks ago, Orthodox priest in Montreal. he claimed, Michaloliakos held "We all got scared when we saw talks in the Greek parliament they were giving a press confer - with two German neo-Nazis ence. But it was a deplorable posing as journalists. Golden event and as soon as we heard Dawn rejected the claim as "old their deplorable views they were mud". condemned by community lead - "It is an extremely dangerous ers and the church." phenomenon and do I think it "We are all immigrants in will get worse? Yes I do," Psarras Canada," added Kamperidis, re - said, lamenting that, with living ferring to Golden Dawn's tactic standards plummeting, the or - of tapping into anti-immigrant ganisation was opening offices resentment. "The conditions in traditional middle-class that apply in Greece do not ap - neighbourhoods. There re - ply here, so there is no justifica - mained a simple fact too big to tion for the party to flourish. ignore: in 2009 the party was a The really bad thing is that in political pariah, gaining a mere opening here it gives the impres - 0.29 % of the vote; today it had sion, to people who don't know global ambitions. the situation, that it is supported "Ten years ago, if you had said by a lot of Greeks, which is not Golden Dawn would become the the case. It has hurt Greece, the third biggest force in Greece, Greek cause, and Greeks' repu - you'd be called crazy," said Psar - tation more than anything ras. "Now look where it is."