The World - News from March 2, 1988

Two gunmen riding a motor scooter shot and killed a prominent Greek businessman. Alexandros Athanassiades, 59, the director of Chemical & Fertilizer Products, one of Greece’s largest companies, was slain at an intersection in an Athens suburb as he drove to work. Leaflets left at the scene said the shooting was carried out by the Revolutionary Organization November 17. The same group claimed responsibility for an attack on a bus last April near Athens in which 10 U.S. servicemen were injured, as well as the slayings of U.S. Navy Capt. George Tsantes and his Greek driver in December, 1985, and that of Richard Welch, the CIA’s Athens station chief, in 1975 outside his Athens home.