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. 17, ISSUE 875 July 19-25, 2014 $1.50 PSEKA Jaharis on Holds 30th Growth of Cyprus Church in Conference America By Neophytos Kyriakou Archdiocesan and Constantine S. Sirigos TNH Staff Vice Chairman Outlines Plan WASHINGTON, DC – More than 100 representatives of Greek- and Cypriot-American TNH Staff organizations gathered in Wash - ington, DC this week for the PHILADELPHIA, PA – Michael 30th Annual Cyprus and Hel - Jaharis spoke about the State of lenic Leadership Conference the Greek Orthodox Church in hosted by the World Coordinat - America at the 42nd annual ing Committee “Justice for Clergy Laity Congress, held in Cyprus” (PSEKA) and the Coor - Philadelphia July 6-9. The dinated Effort of Hellenes. speech given by Jaharis, a well- The conference included respected entrepreneur and briefings by top U.S. and Cypriot philanthropist, and Vice Chair - officials on developments in the man of the Archdiocesan Coun - Eastern Mediterranean and was cil, focused on the growth of the an opportunity for the commu - Church. nity and its allies in Congress to Jaharis began by emphasiz - express their outrage over ing the need to support the Ec - Turkey’s illegal occupation. umenical Patriarchate in Con - On July 16 approximately 50 AP Photo/IntIme news, GIAnnIs LIAkos stantinople. He relayed how members of Congress, including Nikos Maziotis, one Greece’s most wanted men, a fugitive con - the left, after a shootout at the tourist area of Monastiraki in Turkey refuses to recognize the Senator Bob Menendez and victed of terrorism, lays wounded on a sidewalk, with a wig on Athens on July 16. Maziotis had been on the run with his wife. Patriarchate as ecumenical, and Rep. Ed Royce, Chairmen, re - noted that the Patriarchate spectively, of the Senate and might not continue to receive House Foreign Relations Com - the financial support it receives mittees, joined the participants Greece’s Top Terrorist is Captured after Shootout from Greece, due to the finan - to unfurl a huge banner on the cial crisis there. “We must not steps of the Capitol: “Cyprus overlook the severity of the 1974- 2014 – Still occupied, still By Andy Dabilis which also left a policeman with in Northeastern Attica. It is Police had been monitoring repercussions that the Greek fi - divided. STOP this injustice minor injuries and slightly hurt thought that Maziotis could the center of Athens after re - nancial crisis may bear on the now.” ATHENS – Greek police cap - two tourists – a German and an have one or more weapons ceiving tip-offs according to Patriarchate, and we must be Menendez then dramatically tured the country’s most-wanted Australian. caches there. which Maziotis had been ready to mobilize once again to cut a length of barbed wire sym - terrorist, Nikos Maziotis, on July Police sources told the news - Police said they believe Mazi - sighted in Monastiraki, Omonia offer our support,” he said. bolizing Cyprus’ division. 16 following a dramatic, run - paper Kathimerini that they otis used a forged identity card Square and other parts of cen - Jaharis clearly indicated that The enthusiasm of the par - ning gun battle through a were closing in on Roupa as well – bearing his photo and the tral Athens in recent weeks. the future of the Church in ticipants did not mask the fact crowed tourist area, and then as November 17 hit man name Michalis Michelakis – to He was spotted by counter- America rests with the Archdio - that they were marking a “Black turned toward looking for his Christodoulos Xiros, who rent a property that could have terrorism officers close to Omo - cese itself. That is the “hub of anniversary.” “For us,” it is a hideout or other clues about his walked away from a holiday fur - operated as a hideout. nia, was followed and then the wheel,” and central respon - very sad day,” said PSEKA Pres - Revolutionary Struggle organi - lough he was given at Christmas The ID card was used to buy stopped outside a store selling sibility is there, not with the in - ident Philip Christopher. “Forty zation. last year even though he was a silver Hyundai Accent that has camping goods on the corner of dividual Metropolises. Recent years ago, illegally using arms Maziotis, who had been a serving six life sentences for his been linked to a bank robbery Athinas and Ermou streets. infrastructural challenges in re - made in America, Turkey in - fugitive since 2012 after he and role in six assassinations, includ - in Kleitoria, Achaia prefecture, Officers ordered him to sur - cent years, however, have re - vaded the Republic of Cyprus his wife, Panayiota Roupa, had ing five Americans attached to in March and is believed to have render, but he fired his gun, sulted in “Band-Aid” solutions and from that time occupies 37 to be released from detention the U.S., Embassy in Athens been used by Maziotis to travel prompting police to fire back. rather than true growth and de - percent of the island while because they hadn't been over the years since the 1970s. to and around Attica. He then fled on foot through the velopment plans, Jaharis said. 200,000 Greek Cypriot refugees brought to trial in 18 months, Counterterrorism officers Police appealed to anyone streets of Monastiraki, which Such reforms should include the are still waiting to return to was seriously injured in an ex - were reportedly focusing on an with information about the ve - were packed with tourists, pur - appointment of a chief financial change of fire with police in the area running from Patissia in hicle – whose license plate is officer, an in-house legal coun - Continued on page 6 busy district of Monastiraki, central Athens to Grammatiko YHT 2959 – to come forward. Continued on page 9 sel, and various directors, Ja - haris said. “We need to staff the Church with more top tier sup - port from the best and brightest professionals in these crucial Community Spyropoulos Pleads Guilty to Plot to Kill Uncle roles,” he said, “and these vital staffing needs should be in - cluded in the budget to make it Bids Adieu By Demetris Tsakas a ‘complete budget.” TNH Staff Writer Jaharis also called for is - To Emanuel NEW YORK – Georgios Spy - Continued on page 4 ropoulos, the manager of the Tick Tock diner in Clifton, NJ Demos, Esq. pleaded “guilty” to a first-degree charge of conspiracy to commit murder on July 14. Spyropoulos New Edition TNH Staff was arrested in April 2013 and proclaimed his innocence at all NEW YORK – Respect, rever - other previous court appear - Of Greek- ence, and love filled the Arch - ances. diocesan Cathedral of the Holy On Monday he stood before Trinity as family, friends, and Judge Donald Volkert in New Ams. Book representatives of the Greek- Jersey Superior Court in Pater - American community bade son and admitted that he con - farewell to Emanuel Demos. spired to murder and rob By Moskos Beneath a brilliant Friday sky Alexandro Sgourdos, his wife’s in Manhattan on July 11, Arch - uncle and the co-owner of the bishop Demetrios of America Tick Tock diners in Clifton and By Constantine S. Sirigos presided over the funeral of a Manhattan. TNH Staff Writer beloved husband and father, When asked whether he and a man who served the promised a hit man $20,000 to NEW YORK – The aphorism, Church in virtually every way a torture and kill Sgouros, whom “To see where you are going, layman can, from altar boy to prosecutors said he had come you must know where you came General Legal Counsel of the to resent, Spyropoulos said “Yes from,” applies to individuals and Archdiocese. your honor.” groups alike. Those interested Metropolitans Savas of Pitts - Judge Volkert scheduled sen - in the future of the Greek-Amer - burgh and Evangelos of New tencing for Spyropoulos for ican community would do well Jersey also participated in the Sept. 19. Until then he remains tnh/CostAs BeJ to begin by reading the third service as did bishops Andonios Georgios Spyropoulos takes an oath prior to admitting his guilt in New Jersey Superior Court edition of Greek Americans – of Phasiane and Sevastianos of Continued on page 6 on July 14 flanked by his attorneys Stephen Turano (L) and Anthony Pope (R). Struggle and Success. Zela, along with clergy includ - First published in 1980 by ing Fr. John Vlahos, the Cathe - the late Charles C. Moskos, the dral Dean, Fr. Elias Villas, Fr. third edition of the book that Nathanael Symeonides, and traces the community’s experi - Archdeacon Panteleimon Pa - Greek-Am.’s Glendi on “America’s Greek Island” ence from 1900 to today fea - padopoulos. tures substantial revisions and Amb. Vasilios Philippou, the new material by his son, Peter Consul General of Cyprus was Paper Uses By Constantinos E. Scaros And so on July 12, the latest C. Moskos. also present with other digni - installment of Tina Bucuvalas’ The former worked on the taries from New York and be - TARPON SPRINGS, FL – “Night in the Islands” on the his - first edition in the late 1970s yond. The N-Word Florida vacationers – particu - toric Sponge Docks of what I’ve while teaching a popular class Demos’ son George, and larly long-term ones – are com - dubbed “America’s Greek Is - on Greek America at Northwest - Michael Jaharis, Vice Chairman monly known as “snowbirds.” land,” Tarpon Springs, the ern University, and the second of the Archdiocesan Council, By Constantinos E.