O C V ΓΡΑΦΕΙ ΤΗΝ ΙΣΤΟΡΙΑ Bringing the news ΤΟΥ ΕΛΛΗΝΙΣΜΟΥ to generations of ΑΠΟ ΤΟ 1915 The National Herald Greek Americans c v A wEEkly GrEEk AmEriCAN PuBliCATiON www.thenationalherald.com VOL. 14, ISSUE 688 December 18-24 , 2010 $1.50 Bishop Vikentios Levels Shocking Sex Charges Against Paisios Alleges Metropolitan Abused Young Men, Greeks Women; Group Sex Take To By Theodore Kalmoukos The Streets TNH Staff Writer NEW YORK - Bishop Vikentios of Apameia has made stunning Again allegations about Metropolitan Paisios of Tyana tenure at the Saint Irene Chrysovalantou ATHENS – Beleaguered Greek Monastery and its Dependencies workers, and even some fami - in Astoria, N.Y., including lies, paraded before the Parlia - charges that the Metropolitan ment in vain again, failing to sexually abused the Bishop’s get the government to stop its brother, Spyros Malamatenios, austerity program that has cut who was 17 at the time. In a public worker salaries, raised long interview with The Na - taxes and slashed pensions. Dur - tional Herald, Bishop Vikentios ing a 24-hour general strike (Malamatenios), a close associ - there were clashes with police ate of Metropolitan Paisios in protests by nearly 20,000 (Loulourgas) for 40 years and people – about one-fifth the co-founder of the Monastery, number that demonstrated on outlined a sordid tale of sex and May 5 in the first of seven gen - other alleged wrongdoings. In eral strikes this year – the So - the lengthy interview - which cialist government of Prime was taken on tape - live and un - Minister George Papandreou’s conditionally at the headquar - PASOK party succeeded in ex - ters of TNH in New York, Bishop tending to private businesses the Vikentios made revelations of right to get around collective alleged serious excesses by the bargaining agreements with Metropolitan, including that he unions and deeply cut private was involved with people of worker salaries too, and moved both sexes, including the young to cut the pay and benefits of nun, Christonymphi, who now workers in state-run companies has given up the Monastic vows such as the debt-ridden rail - and talked to the police. Bishop ways. That set off a firestorm of AP PHOTO Vikentios also revealed that, ac - protest in which hundreds of A bodyguard, left, leads Costis Hatzidakis, former development he was attacked by protesters in Athens on Dec. 15, 2010, cording to his information, the demonstrators tangled with riot minister in the previous, conservative government, away after showing the rising level of anger against austerity measures. former nun had been pregnant police across central Athens, but did not know by whom. Si - smashing cars and hurling gaso - multaneously, Bishop Vikentios line bombs and sending Christ - asked “forgiveness from the vic - mas shoppers fleeing in panic tims’ of Paisios,” at least one of during a massive labor protest Calomiris’ Good News: Greece Should Default whom, Andreas Georgiou, is al - against the government’s aus - ready launching a lawsuit terity measures. A bodyguard, against the Monastery and the had to leads Costis Hatzidakis, By Constantine S. Sirigos Herald, Calomiris said “My and lacking the productivity to scores of thousands of busi - Ecumenical Patriarchate. Other former development minister in TNH Staff Writer analysis suggests that Greece compete on the European or nesses have either closed and alleged victims are expected to the previous New Democracy cannot pay back its debts,” in - world stage. He said the drastic international investors fleeing follow. conservative government, away NEW YORK – Charles Calomiris cluding the $146 billion lent by austerity measures, deep wage or avoiding country, a recipe for after he was attacked by pro - didn’t get to be the Henry Kauf - the European Union and Inter - cuts for public workers, big tax financial disaster as sure as the testers in Athens, punched and man Professor of Financial In - national Monetary Fund (IMF) hikes and slashed benefits for Titanic going to sink. With smashed in the head with an stitutions at Columbia Univer - to stave off economic collapse pensioners, imposed by Prime Greece like a terminally ill pa - umbrella, bloodying his face, sity Graduate School of Business and will either have to restruc - Minister George Papandreou un - tient fending off a frightening showing the level of anger at without knowing math, and he’s ture or go under anyway and der the aegis of the EU and IMF treatment option, TNH asked political leaders, even those not added up the numbers for near- should accept the painful con - as a condition of getting the Calomiris for a clear account of in the ruling party. bankrupt Greece and come to sequences instead of pretending loans are having only limited ef - where Greece stood after a year Police fired tear gas and flash what he said is the inevitable the country can survive the way fect, as underscored by the sta - of efforts by the Papandreou conclusion: default or die. In an it’s going, awash in corruption, tistics that frightened Greeks Continued on page 9 interview with The National tax evasion, faltering revenues have stopped spending and Continued on page 5 Leo Brings N.Y. Bagels to Greece By Andy Dabilis turned bagel making facility in said he knew Greeks had a pen - TNH Staff Writer Ano Liossia, Leo’s House of chant for another food they eat Bagels distributes its products at most meals. ATHENS – Americans living in to various food outlets dining “Greece loves bread,” he Greece get cravings for their fa - providers in Greece and also said, although he knew others vorite foodstuffs that are diffi - handles special catering and had tried to persuade Greeks to cult to find here: limes, ginger wholesale orders. Gavallias, 37, try bagels too. “People have at - TNH/COSTAS BEJ ale, root beer popsicles, key lime whose family is from Brooklyn, tempted it here and failed but I Bishop Vikentios during his pie, Boston crème pie, and all has been obsessed with the idea was curious to see if I could do interview with TNH. those comfort foods and crav - of bringing the New York break - it,” he said, convinced that using ings that sometimes the best fast staple to Greece since work - traditional methods – particu - The Metropolitan left the moussaka or horiatiki can’t sat - ing in the Greek restaurant busi - larly boiling, which has thor - Monastery after submitting two isfy. The worst jag for many may ness in New York at age 15. And oughly confused Greeks when letters of resignation in October, be missing a good bagel, plain while it’s tough for Boston Red he told them how it’s done – citing health reasons, and re - or toasted, with Philly cream Sox fans to swallow him wear - would be successful. Coming to turned to Athens, Greece. TNH cheese, or salted or with sesame ing a New York Yankees cap Greece with bagels, he said, was called him at his residence there seeds or ….. stop, it’s enough to while preparing batches of a combination of working in his on Dec. 11 to give him the op - make you want to fly back to bagels boiled the traditional ancestral homeland and doing portunity to comment on the al - New Yawk City! Now, you don’t way, his products go down a lot what he does best. “This has legations and the Bishop’s entire have to because they’re avail - easier, especially when you been on my mind for years,” he interview, but when the Metro - able in Athens– if only for now haven’t had one for a long time. said, with barely a trace of New politan heard who the call was in cafes and restaurants – Gavallias said he thought there Yawker accent. from he hung up the phone. brought to you by Leo Gavallias, was a niche market in Athens Having worked at the famed Bishop Vikentios confirmed a native New Yorker who moved for bagels, although other Amer - Murray’s Bagels on 6th Avenue reports that a gun was found by here six years ago, along with ican standbys such as Wendy’s and 13th Street, in New York, the Patriarchal Exarchy in the his expertise in the restaurant have failed to capture the stom - and the Eric Kayser boulangerie room of Metropolitan Paisios Leo Gavallias shows off a tray of some of his best boiled and and bagel business. ach of Greeks used to their tra - baked bagels made in a renovated facility in Athens. Based in a revamped bakery- ditions such as souvlaki. But he Continued on page 9 Continued on page 3 The Greek Doctor Who Dr. Linda Exposes Bad Science Katehi: Don’t tell Professor John Ioan - it’s also a low-yield endeavor,” he Superwoman nidis – formerly of the University says. “I’m not sure that more than of Ioannina in Greece and now a very small percentage of med - at Stanford in California – that ical research is ever likely to lead By Aphrodite Matsakis he’s a hero to science deniers be - to major improvements in clinical Special to The National Herald cause he exposes faulty research outcomes and quality of life. We among his peers and in his field: should be very comfortable with (First in a series of profiles which still haven’t kept him from that fact.” of Greek American scientists ) earning the praise of his col - Nonetheless, his debunking of leagues and renowned as one of bad scientists and discrediting Greek born Dr. Linda Katehi the greatest scientists in the their alleged work in his 2005 pa - was so good at math and science world. “I definitely want nothing per Why Most Published Research in elementary school that her to do with science deniers … I Findings Are False is the most- teachers encouraged her be - don’t think science would be downloaded article in the history come a high school teacher, a harmed by its ability or desire to of Public Library of Science and traditionally feminine but re - check facts or improve on these elevated him to the position of spectable position.