General News
Meropi Kyriacou Honored as TNH Educator of the Year
NEW YORK – Meropi Kyriacou, the new Principal of The Cathedral School in Manhattan, was honored as The National Herald’s Educator of the Year.
To the Editor:
I read with deep annoyance the disturbing caption of your January 18 issue front-page photograph, that “Cyprus President Nicos Anastasiades and British Prime Minister David Cameron reaffirmed the strong bonds of friendship and partnership between Cyprus and the UK, during a meeting at 10 Downing Street in London, Wednesday, January 15.”
As a Greek-American Veteran United States Air Force Officer who served two years in Greece at the Athens Office of the Air Attache in the U.S. Embassy, I feel embarrassed and saddened that after the huge damage that the British have caused to the nation of Cyprus, the Cypriots erroneously consider their relations with the British as “strong bonds of friendship and partnership.”
Britain’s treacherous attitude and cowardly course of action against Cyprus for 39½ years, along with the criminal Kissingerian doctrine that continues to permeate the U.S. Department of State in Foggy Bottom (appropriate location) for the same number of years, are contrary to Western and American values that we so often hear British Foreign Office officers and American Secretaries of State espouse.
Both Greece and Cyprus have provided to Western best interests and even more so to America’s throughout the nearly four decades, and all we see as assistance is their expectations not only to turn the other cheek but their behinds.
I thank the Lord for making me a “native” American (Gary, IN), for if I were either a Greek or a Cypriot native I would run for office on the platform to kick out the British from the Dekhelia and Akrotiri bases on Cyprus and the Americans from Souda Bay in Greece and lease them to the Russians – an anathema to both British and American foreign-policy planners – who would love to have warm-water access after centuries of dreams.
If the Turks know how to play hardball as unjustified as they are of their internationally-illegal occupation of one third of Cyprus, why should not the Cypriots and the Greeks play the same game with justice on their side?
Dr. Dean C. Lomis
Newark, DE
NEW YORK – Meropi Kyriacou, the new Principal of The Cathedral School in Manhattan, was honored as The National Herald’s Educator of the Year.
DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza (AP) — An international team of doctors visiting a hospital in central Gaza was prepared for the worst.
ATHENS - The tragedy of the Tempi train collision is a much greater issue than an opportunity for parties to table a motion of censure against the government, but the opposition parties used it anyway "to turn society's pain into a tool to strike at the government and me personally," Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said on Thursday night in parliament.
ATHENS - PASOK-KINAL leader Nikos Androulakis, speaking at the Hellenic Parliament on Thursday, emphasized that there is "an established belief among the Greek people" that the government "operates as a well-oiled machine of corruption, cover-up, and propaganda.
ATHENS — Greece’s center-right government survived a motion of no-confidence late Thursday that was brought by opposition parties over its handling of the country’s deadliest rail disaster a year ago.
NASHVILLE, ΤΝ – With a special event organized by the Hellenic Institute of Cultural Diplomacy - U.