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Across the street, the St. Nectarios Greek Orthodox Church community center is falling apart. There was a fire last year at this outpost of Roslindale's new Greek-American community; the walls are wood where they should be concrete; the concrete is peeling faster than the congregation is repairing. Inside the community center basement there is a small snack shop and about 30 tables covered in light blue grease cloths. The turnout is much smaller than it should be a couple of weeks before the election. About 45 Greek-Americans are sitting at the tables, chatting uniformly in Greek...
Tsongas, a 37-year-old Greek-American from Lowell, maintains strong positions against apartheid in South Africa, and has compiled a consistent liberal record on the SALT negotiations and nuclear power issues...
...betrayed by the U.S. They provoked the wrath and sanctions of the U.S. Congress by using American weapons to invade Cyprus in 1974. The embargo was partly lifted this summer, but the government of Premier Bülent Ecevit in Ankara believes with some justification that the strength of the Greek-American lobby in the U.S. has tilted Washington's policy permanently against Turkey. As for the Shah, he has called CENTO "a nice club," although these days it is not all that nice and not all that clubby...
Hard Work. There are some 70 Greek-American organizations, about 20 of which have sprung up because of the Cyprus crisis. Much of their effort will now be coordinated by an organization set up for that purpose in Boston last month. Called the United Hellenic American Congress, it is headed by Andrew Athens, president of the Chicago-based Metron Steel Corp. Among this group's supporters have been New York Shipowners George Livanos, Pericles Callimanopulos and the Goulandris family. Most of the shipowners' contributions have been to aid Greek-Cypriot refugees. Such prominent Greek Americans as former...
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...