Word: ahepa
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...state committees after the Turkish invasion to raise money for Greek-Cypriot refugees (collections so far: $1.3 million) and to urge letters to Congressmen. Iakovos has personally pressed the issue with President Ford, Massachusetts Senator Edward Kennedy and Democratic Presidential Contenders Henry Jackson and Lloyd Bentsen. The other is AHEPA (American Hellenic Educational Progressive Association), the Greek-American fraternal order, which has 400 chapters and about 50,000 members, as well as some 700 chapters of auxiliary organizations for women, boys and girls. AHEPA headquarters raised $165,000 to run newspaper-ad campaigns and to solicit letters; it sent delegations...
Kissinger has responded to the Greek-American criticism by meeting four times with the AHEPA leadership's Justice for Cyprus Committee and several times with anti-Turkish-aid Congressmen. He has refused to budge in advocating aid to Turkey and has criticized the opposition as misguided and not in the best interests of the U.S. Kissinger also has found one Greek American, Rochester lawyer Dennis Livadas, who has agreed to try to organize a minority lobby within the U.S. Greek community to support the Administration...
...President has made a special pitch to various ethnic groups who normally vote Democratic, and many of them have returned the compliment. Albert Gee, grand president of the Chinese-American Citizens Alliance, is supporting Nixon. So is Sam Nakis, past supreme president of the Greek-American organization AHEPA. Among Jewish defectors are Rabbi Herschel Schacter, former chairman of the Conference of Presidents of Jewish Organizations; and David Luchins, who headed the 1972 Jewish Youth for Humphrey. Blacks have been the staunchest holdouts against Republican blandishments, but Nixon has been able to pick up the backing of Athlete-Actor Jim Brown...