WE WOULD LIKE TO WISH OUR Bringing the news READERS A JOYOUS to generations of CHRISTMAS The National Herald Greek Americans c v A WEEKLY GREEK AMERICAN PUBLICATION www.thenationalherald.com VOL. 14, ISSUE 689 December 25-31 , 2010 $1.50 Greece’s 2011 Austerity Budget Promises More Pain, Sacrifice for Greeks Papandreou Gets His Way, Moves to Quiet His Critics, and Stifle Dissent in PASOK ATHENS – After five days of de - The most painful measures are bate that didn’t change a vote – behind us,” Papandreou added despite some grumbling by law - minutes before the final vote. makers in the ruling PASOK “We will do whatever it takes to party- the Greek Parliament ap - succeed. We will change this proved a 2011 budget that country.” He also said it’s wrong slashes spending and hikes to point the finger of criticism at taxes again, freezes pensions the Troika. “Much of the blame and plans cuts in the debt-laden for the current situation the state-run enterprises, such as country is in does not belong the railways. The blueprint for with our international lenders more sacrifices for public but is rooted in past misman - workers was met with more agement, and we have to recog - strikes, including a 24-hour nize and change that,” Papan - shutdown of all public trans - dreou said. “I continue to fight portation, but pale demonstra - for the country without consid - tions as only a few hundred pro - erations of political cost, and testers stood outside the Parlia - my three objectives are to avoid ment and yelled “Thieves” bankruptcy, stabilize the econo - while debate was going on, a my and implement necessary sign of the bitter resentment by restructuring reforms to many Greeks that their lives are promote growth and employ - being reduced while the rich ment,” said Papandreou, who and politicians are living above added that, “We will exhaust all the fray. Workers at the state- opportunities to assist society’s run gaming company OPAP, for worst hit by the crisis and the example, were reported to be measures as soon as possible.” getting 6 ½ months of bonus He came under stinging attack pay in addition to their monthly from some members of his TNH/COSTAS BEJ salaries, while public workers, party, who described the budget Greek Christmas in Astoria with the Pancyprian Choir who had been receiving two ex - as “not credible,” “not Socialist” tra months bonuses, saw those and “unfair.” But none dared The Pancyprian Choir presented their annual Christmas concert December 18. Christmas hymns and holiday carols were sung slashed up to 40%. The budget under the direction of Constantinos Yiannoudes on Saturday, at Astoria’s beautiful Church of St. Catherine's and St. George. was approved after midnight, Continued on page 9 long after protesters shouting “We can’t take it anymore,” had left. Prime Minister George Pa - A Nod to Ataturk, Boutaris’ New Epoch Begins pandreou said the budget – an - Elias Kazan: tithetical to his Socialist PASOK principles – was necessary as By Sylvia Klimaki election in November he imme - righteous anger in Greeks and tinople as tourists and give Turk - conditions imposed by the Eu - Man in a TNH Staff Writer diately found himself those in the Diaspora – were ish people money by visiting ropean Union-International backpedaling from a report he misplaced and that no memorial their country.” That little politi - Monetary Fund-European Cen - THESSALONIKI - “I am not a wanted to build a memorial to will be built, but that Ataturk’s cal firestorm briefly overshad - tral Bank Troika that has lent Box, With politician. I will never become Turkish statesman Mustafa Ke - house stands as an attraction for owed his victory that, with his the country $146 billion over one.” That’s what Yiannis mal Ataturuk, under whose visitors that will be open. “No - fellow Socialist George Kaminis three years to prevent bank - Boutaris, 68, from a famous reign as an army officer Greeks body can deny history and Ke - in Athens, made it the first two ruptcy and default, and to cut His Films wine making family, was quick were driven out of Asia Minor mal Atatürk massacred thou - in 24 years their party held the the deficit from 15.1% at its to point out in an interview, and thousands killed and the sands of Greeks, and we should leadership of both cities at the worst last year, to 3% by the stressing that his professional Greek city of Smyrna burned never forget history but his same time. It was quite a tri - end of 2013, although Greece By Constantine S. Sirigos experience running a business – and civilians massacred. Ataturk house that is located in Thessa - umph for a man whose family may need more time to repay TNH Staff Writer and background as an environ - was born in Thessaloniki, also loniki should be open to visitors. is one of the best known in the loans, perpetuating mental activist – make him the known as Salonika, in 1881, We have nothing to be afraid of. Greece’s crowded field of winery economic problems for workers NEW YORK – Elia Kazan, one of right fit for Greece’s second- and Boutaris said the reports of Let the Turks come in Greece and pensioners. “I will change America’s greatest screen and largest city, although after his a memorial – which fired up and visit like we go to Constan - Continued on page 9 Greece, and we will not default. stage directors, created some of the most powerful images of American life in the late 20th Century. But the great image- maker remains an enigma in Patriarchate Suspends Paisios the America where he arrived from Constantinople at the age of 4. With someone as complex and Vikentios Indefinitely as Kazan, there may be no rem - edy, but fans can at least immerse themselves in the films By Theodore Kalmoukos other Sacred Services of the he created. An 18-DVD boxed TNH Staff Writer Church. This decision was set of his films titled The Elia reached during an emergency Kazan collection has just been BOSTON - The Ecumenical Pa - meeting of the members of the released which prompted triarchate has levied the canoni - Hierarchy residing in Constan - writer John Lahr to take a close cal punishment of an indefinite tinople. Sources told The Na - look at Kazan with a Critic At suspension upon Metropolitan tional Herald that Ecumenical Pa - Large piece titled Method Man: Paisios of Tyana and Bishop triarch Bartholomew plans on Elia Kazan’s Singular Career in Vikentios of Apameia, meaning revisiting the issue involving the the December 13 edition of The that the two hierarchs are forbid - Patriarchal and Stravropegial New Yorker. The DVD set in - den from celebrating the Divine Monastery of St. Irene Chryso - cludes what Lahr calls director Liturgy, holy sacraments, and any valantou in Astoria, N.Y. and its “Martin Scorcese’s artful and former leadership during the next heartfelt recent documentary meeting of the Holy Synod at the homage ‘A Letter to Elia’ which Phanar, which is scheduled for describes Kazan’s transition January 9, 2011. from journeyman to studio di - Is There a As has been reported by TNH, rector then to filmmaker.” Lahr the Ecumenical Patriarchate and says, “The movies are a treasure the entire Greek American Com - trove of defining cultural mo - Place for munity have been rocked by the ments, among the a revolution scandalous allegations, which in film acting (Brando); the came to light at the St. Irene finest filmed version of an Aristotle? Monastery this past fall. During American drama (Tennessee its previous meeting, the Holy William’s A Streetcar Named Synod decided to accept the res - Desire); an iconic By Constantine S. Sirigos ignation submitted by Metropol - representation of teen-age re - TNH Staff Writer itan Paisios, while also asking bellion (East of Eden) and the Bishop Vikentios to resign from first compelling onscreen NEW YORK – In a modern his post as well as Deputy Abbot, EUROKINISSI account of the immigrant’s jour - world driven sometimes more which he subsequently did. Af - Greece gets state-of-the-art submarine ney to the New World (America by greed than anything else, is terward, it named Bishop Ilia of America). there a place for the ancient Philomelion as acting Abbot. The hydrogen powered new Greek submarine “Papanikolas” in the naval ship yard in Piraeus Kazan, whose last name was ideals of philosophers such as Bishop Ilia arrived at the as it was finally delivered after a near decade delay in one of the biggest defense budget fiascos changed from Kazanjoglous, Aristotle and those who praised monastery on Dec. 17 and offici - in the long history of expensive military hardware for Greece’s arsenal. and has been described as “one concepts such as ethics that fed ated at this hierarchical Divine of the most honored and influ - the soul instead of filled the Liturgy on Sunday, December 19 ential directors in Broadway pocket? Nadia Urbinati, the at St. Irene’s church in Astoria. Kyriakos Tsakopoulos Professor The announcement made by Continued on page 6 of Political Theory and Hellenic the Ecumenical Patriarchate Antsaklis Knows How Things Work Studies at Columbia University, reads as follows: “It is hereby an - made the case for Aristotle’s nounced that the Hierarchs of the way in the annual Kyriakos Throne in our City gathered for By Natalie Bakopoulos lites, computers, and the Inter - heart of the discipline of systems WITH THIS ISSUE Tsakopoulos Lecture, Aristotle an extraordinary session today, Special to The National Herald net — have undeniably changed and control in general — lies and the Moderns, at the Low Li - December 17, 2010, and revis - the way we live.