S o C V ΓΡΑΦΕΙ ΤΗΝ ΙΣΤΟΡΙΑ Bringing the news W ΤΟΥ ΕΛΛΗΝΙΣΜΟΥ to generations of E ΑΠΟ ΤΟ 1915 The National Herald Greek- Americans N c v A wEEkly GrEEk-AmEriCAN PuBliCAtioN www.thenationalherald.com VOL. 16, ISSUE 828 August 24-30, 2013 $1.50 Greek-Am. German Finance Minister Ledes and Admits that Greece Will His Array Require a Third Bailout Of Films By Andy Dabilis ter Antonis Samaras has been TNH Staff Writer showing signs of recovery and as the government reported a Documentarian’s ATHeNS – While insisting that primary surplus of €663 million Greece would not be allowed to ($888.07 million) in June from Focus is on Family, write down its debt, German Fi - €73.1 million ($97.91 million) nance Minister Wolfgang in the same month last year. Society, Hellenism Schaeuble has admitted that The Troika of the European two bailouts of $325 billion Union-International Monetary By Constantine S. Sirigos have failed to right the faltering Fund-European Central Bank TNH Staff Writer Greek economy and that a third (EU-IMF-ECB) is putting up the would be needed. rescue packages of aid that are NeW yORK – To illuminate im - The surprise declaration keeping the Greek economy portant issues and people, a from the usually tight-lipped alive but is reluctant to let filmmaker must get people’s at - Schaeuble came a month before Greece walk away from some of tention. It helps if the issues are the Sept. 22 German federal its debt as it did with private in - potentially explosive. Richard elections in which Chancellor vestors in 2011, hitting them Ledes does not shy away from Angela Merkel is seeking re- with 74 percent losses. such things. election and as she has tried to There has been division He is currently working on a dismiss the idea that Greece within the Troika too though documentary on the perceptions needs more aid. with IMF Managing Director of the Greek-American commu - Schaeuble said at a campaign Christine Lagarde said the EU nity in New York on the rise of event that, “There will have to and ECB should accept losses on the neo-Nazi Golden Dawn be another program in Greece,” its loans but that her agency party in Greece, but he also has but said there not be a debt re - would not. a more literal relationship with AP Photo/NikolAs GiAkoumidis duction in which Greece would If Greece puts a so-called explosives. Over Protests, Ataturk Museum Opens in Thessaloniki impose losses on its interna - “haircut” on public lenders then When his father John moved tional lenders. taxpayers in the other 16 Euro - his family from Washington, DC Members of Greek far-right organization hold Greek flags as they protest outside the Turkish Merkel has been trying to zone countries would have to to New York, he bought a house Consulate in the Northern port city of Thessaloniki Greece, Tuesday, Aug. 20, 2013. The pro - downplay what critics said is the pay the bill for generations of that had a basement filled with testers are against the opening of the newly renovated museum of Kemal Ataturk, that was in - dire situation of the Greek econ - dynamite. augurated last week. See related story on page 7. omy which Greek Prime Minis - Continued on page 7 “My father was sold the house on the condition that he would continue to allow the previous owner, who had lost everything in Fidel Castro’s rev - Money No Object In Catsimatidis Run olution, to store dynamite,” he said. “He continued to fly over Cuba and drop sticks of dyna - By Michael Howard Saul single grocery store into a con - presuming he wins, as much as mite until he blew himself up.” Wall Street Journal glomerate with holdings in real $19 million in the November Viewers can also speculate estate, energy and aviation. general election. about the significance of being NeW yORK - As John Catsima - He’s known as the owner of As of early August, he’d spent exposed to radically different tidis stood near a tiny table of Gristedes, Manhattan’s largest about $4 million on his cam - cultures when he was growing assorted cheeses in a Lower East grocery chain, but that is only a paign, roughly 2.5 times the up. Side art gallery amid dozens of tiny, not-so-profitable slice of his amount spent by his main op - The original English spelling wine-sipping professionals, the diverse business portfolio. ponent, Joe Lhota, a former of Ledes was Costaledes. The self-made billionaire business - Mr. Catsimatidis is ranked chairman of the Metropolitan family came to Greece during man unbuttoned the rumpled No. 132 on Forbes magazine’s Transportation Authority who the infamous exchange of pop - jacket of his Paul Frederick suit list of the 400 richest people in worked as a deputy mayor in ulations between Greece and and gestured toward his heart. America. He has an estimated Rudy Giuliani’s administration. Turkey and his grandfather “I’m tough,” the 64-year-old net worth of $3 billion, accord - Public and private polling shows shortened it to Ledes, rhyming New York City Mayoral candi - ing to the magazine, but he says him trailing Mr. Lhota, but he with “Wheaties.” When he mar - date said as he opened his his actual net worth is between has gradually narrowed the gap ried his mother, Sally Chapman, jacket, his large frame on full $3 billion and $5 billion. As he since launching his first TV ad who is from Baltimore, with display for the crowd. “But as I seeks the Republican nomina - in May. sturdy WASP roots, the pronun - show everybody—I have a tion for mayor in the Sept. 10 Mr. Catsimatidis, a former ciation was Americanized to heart. I’m a softy.” primary, Mr. Catsimatidis said Democrat who considers Bill rhyme with “seeds.” Mr. Catsimatidis, who was he’s willing to spend whatever Clinton among his coterie of His father John still lives in born on the Greek island of it takes to win City Hall. friends, is also planning to run AP Photo/VAsilis PsomAs that home of 50 years in Ka - Nisyros in 1948 and moved with “Money is not an object. It’s on the Liberal Party line. He said Twight of the Gods tonah, NY. That is where Ledes his family to New York City getting the message across to he is the only GOP candidate filmed “Fred Won’t Move Out.” when he was six months old, everybody,” he said, estimating who has any chance of winning The full moon rises in the sky in front of the Apollo's temple at Fred’s family wants to move him has spent the past 40-plus years he will ultimately spend about ancient Corinth about 80 kilometers (50 miles) southwest of to closer to them and near his building his company from a $8 million on the primary and, Continued on page 3 Athens, on Wednesday, Aug. 21. Attractions were free. wife Susan, who has moderate Alzheimer’s and is about to be moved to a care facility. It is a poignant movie that explores what happens when the people Isaiah Covers up Priests’ Suspicious Dealings Aniston Strips we love start slipping away, even though they are still right next to us. 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