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While Eagleton and the three Congressmen have championed the cause, the pressure has been generated by a complex of Greek-American organizations. Most effective has been the American Hellenic Institute, founded last summer. The institute has a full-time lobbyist in Washington and is headed by Eugene Telemachus Rossides, a former Nixon-appointed Treasury Department official and a well-connected Republican attorney (he is a law partner of former Secretary of State William Rogers). Son of a Greek mother and Greek-Cypriot father, Rossides argues that the Cyprus crisis "exposed the myth of Kissinger's competence as a negotiator...
...long-established Greek-American institutions have provided vital grass-roots support, stimulating the mail campaigns. One is the Greek Orthodox Church, headed in the U.S. by Archbishop lakovos, who set up 50 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...
...publicity campaign has been pushed by the Greek embassy in Washington, which has hired the public relations firm of J. Walter Thompson to advise it. The embassy has also retained William Ruckelshaus, the former Deputy Attorney General who was a victim of Richard Nixon's Saturday Night Massacre, to argue against military aid to Turkey on Capitol Hill. Legislators describe his efforts as "low-key but effective." The embassy's most visible publicist has been John Nicolopoulos, a former political science professor who fled the Greek junta and has acquired influence among Washington newsmen and congressional staffers...
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...