Onassis flies to Athens for £170m deal

Reading Evening Post
24th October 1968

GREEK shipping magnate Mr Aristotle Onassis interrupted his honeymoon on Skorpios Island today to fly to Athens to sign a £170m contract with the Greek government. 
 Mr Onassis, who married Mrs Jacqueline Kennedy on Sunday, arrived alone at Athens Airport. He said that he was "very happy" about his marriage and was "spending a lovely time at Skorpios". 
 The contract with the Greek Government involves establishment of a group of inter-related industries, including an oil refinery, an aluminium industry, a shipyard and a series of tourist projects. 
 On some of these projects he is co-operating with the American Reynolds Metal Company. 

CANCEL 

Mr Onassis faces the possibility of losing his Argentine citizenship amid rumblings of Roman Catholic discontent over his marriage to Mrs Kennedy.
 Public prosecutor Juan Zapiota asked a civil court yesterday to cancel Mr Onassis citizenship - taken out in 1929 - on the grounds that he did not live in Argentina. 

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