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 797 January 19-25, 2013 $1.50 Project Hope for Greece Greek Police Fear New Terrorist Groups Forming Fundraiser Underway by Shots at ND Offices and Violence Toward Greek Am. Foundation Media Spark Worry By Constantine S. Sirigos tonakopoulos, and Chris Pa - By Andy Dabilis TNH Staff Writer pavasiliou. The Consuls general TNH Staff Writer of Greece and Cyprus, respec - NEW YORK – Because nobody tively, George Eliopoulos and ATHENS – The gunshot attack knows how much more the peo - Koula Sophianou, were also pre - on the ruling conservative New ple of Greece can withstand, or sent. Democracy Party headquarters which act of solidarity and phil - TRIAGE FIRST, THEN BUILD in which a bullet was fired into anthropy will convey to a critical A NEW GREECE the office of Prime Minister An - mass of Greeks that the diaspora Pappas said the Project was tonis Samaras, and a spate of stands at their side and that created “with three distinct ar - bombings at the homes of jour - there is hope, every new initia - eas of funding that we will sup - nalists and political parties has tive from the Greek-American port. He calls the first he calls Greek police reportedly fearful community is more than wel - “‘triage,’ helping the sick, the that new terrorism enclaves are come. homeless, the hungry, and the assembling. At Manhattan’s Stix restau - desperate.” Authorities did not say what rant on January 10, Gregg Pap - He said that people are liter - the motive may have been for pas, the founder and President ally dying for lack of medicine, the attack on New Democracy’s of the Greek American Founda - like a four-year old boy in Cha - building, but that of nine shots tion, one of the community’s nia where his parents come apparently fired only one hit the newer organizations, made a from, because the hospital ran structure, landing in an office passionate plea for the commu - out of insulin. For lack of funds, that Samaras no longer uses. nity to help at a fundraising re - he added, a suicide prevention “The bullet from the Kalash - ception for Foundation’s latest hotline is only staffed two hours nikov may have hit the prime initiative, Project Hope for a day. The Project will support minister’s office but we doubt Greece. it. whether the perpetrators knew The guests, who donated a “The Church of Greece is al - where it was and had targeted minimum of $100 to attend, ready doing a great job feeding AP PHOTO/PETrOS GiANNAkOuriS it,” an unidentified police offi - filled the sleek new restaurant the hungry” and the Archdio - Greek Police forensic experts search for evidence after an unknown attacker fired an automatic cial told the news site Proto and the hosts included Stix cese has sent more than rifle at the building on the capital's busy Syngrou Avenue, Athens, on Monday, Jan. 14. A Thema. “This is why the remain - owner and creator Stathis An - $500,000, Pappas noted, but he gunman fired a spray of bullets at the headquarters of the governing center-right New Democracy ing eight bullets never reached want to find all the organiza - party near central Athens early Monday, with one hitting an office occasionally used by the the building. Which means that tions that are doing good work. prime minister, officials said. No one was hurt. their inexperience made them The second and third cate - miss.” gories constitute their long-term Police said they believe two concerns. They are working men fired the shots in a hurry with a number of entrepreneur - and sped away in a stolen vehi - ship incubators who are helping Greece’s Gold May Overshadow Green cle driven by a woman, and au - Greeks get back to work, includ - thorities were scouring CCTV ing prompting them to think cameras to see if the perpetra - outside the box. By Suzanne Daley 1,500 jobs by 2015, is a blessing the economic gain. tors could be seen. Authorities The Project is one of the cen - The New York Times that could pump some life into “This will be a business for 10, said they are trying to determine ters of action and models for the dismal economy of the sur - maybe 15 years, and then this whether the assailants may have other groups that are finally IERISSOS, Greece – In the forest rounding villages in this rural company will just disappear, leav - been acting on the orders of oth - popping up here and there in near here, bulldozers have al - northeast region of Greece. ing all the pollution behind like ers who devised the assault. the community. ready begun flattening hundreds But for hundreds of others, all the others did,” said Christos Police said the modus Individual business persons of acres for an open pit gold mine who have mounted repeated Adamidis, a hotel owner here operandi of the attack didn’t are also showing the way to di - and a processing plant, which protests, the new mining opera - who fears that the new mining match that of previous terrorist rectly stimulate the Greek econ - Canada’s Eldorado Gold Corpo - tion is nothing more than a sym - operations will end up destroying groups who have been shut omy. Pappas said Manos Sifakis, ration hopes to open within two bol of Greece’s willingness these other local businesses, including down by law enforcement. The a Foundation board member, years. Eldorado has reopened days to accept any development, tourism. “If the price of gold anti-terrorist squad estimates runs Custom Media Labs a PR, other mining operations around no matter the environmental drops, it might not even last that those terrorists no longer have marketing and advertising firm here, too, digging for gold, cop - cost. Only 10 years ago, they like long. And in the meantime, the an arsenal or exist, but were re - in Philadelphia. He outsources per, zinc and lead from nearby to point out, Greece’s highest dust this will create will be killing portedly worried that new “not to India, but to Larissa, hills. court ruled that the amount of off the leaves. There will be no groups are rising to replace For some residents, all this ac - environmental damage that min - Gregg Pappas Continued on page 5 tivity, which promises perhaps ing would do here was not worth Continued on page 8 Continued on page 9 Greek Opposition Leader RESTAURANT REVIEW Tsipras to Visit Washington Uncle Nick’s for Greek Comfort Food in Midtown and New York By Penelope Karageorge Special to The National Herald By Constantine S. Sirigos in the Greek Parliament includes Who doesn’t have an Uncle TNH Staff Writer what is billed as “a conversation Nick? In the film My Big Fat WASHINGTON – The leader of about Greece and the economic Greek Wedding, a scene that the Greek opposition, Alexis challenges ahead,” at the particularly resonates with me Tsipras, departs Athens on Jan - renowned Brookings Institution is the father’s introducing his ex - uary 20 for a visit to the United – which is respected for its in - tended family to the future States. The itinerary of the head dependence, and a seminar at WASP in-laws: “Nick, Nick, Nick, of the SYRIZA political grouping Columbia University in New Nick, Nick and Nick.” Visiting York City. Uncle Nick’s Restaurant on Tsipras will also be the guest Ninth Avenue and 51st Street in of honor at a dinner in Wash - what was once Hell’s Kitchen – ington hosted by the American the home of Greeks and Irish Greek-Amer- Hellenic Institute (AHI) on Tues - Westies – I could immediately day evening. The guests will in - relate. Photographs of the late clude Greek-American leaders Nick Manatakis, replete with a icans Mourn and Washington officials, their wonderful black Cretan mous - first encounter with the political tache, adorn the walls to create firebrand whose first trip to the the authentic taverna atmos - Kastanas, 70 Western Hemisphere since his phere. Uncle Nick was the father rise the precipice of power took of the restaurant’s founder, Tony him to Latin America. Manatakis. “My father was a TNH Staff Although details are sketchy, true lover of tavernas and at Tsipras is likely to have meeting home in them,” says Manatakis. NEW YORK – Dimitris Kastanas, with policymakers in Washing - “He contributed his special the founder of the Greek Na - ton, including State Department recipes to the restaurant.” tional program NGTV, passed officials. Uncle Nick’s offers a friendly, away on January 14 in a Man - He has taken public positions relaxed atmosphere, good food, hattan hospital, after having un - both against the reforms and and large portions. Small tables TNH/COSTAS BEJ dergone his second open heart austerity measures demanded Uncle Nick’s on 9th Avenue and 51st Street in Hell’s Kitchen, the original Greektown. surgery in 16 years. His death by the so-called Troika, which Continued on page 4 was due to postoperative com - consists of the Washington- plications. based IMF, the EU and the Eu - Kastanas is survived by his ropean Central Band, and in fa - wife, Nomiki Papamichael-Kas - vor of Greece remaining in the tanas, his children Matina and Eurozone. Mouyiaris Donates $600K for NJU Greek Studies George, his granddaughter Although he hopes to be with Mary, and other relatives in various Greek-American busi - Greece and the United States.