U.S. Embassy Attacked in Salvador Crash Called Suicide
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Page B3 Page B1 Complete weather on A2 The Daily Register VOL.105 NO. 313=111 YOUR HOMETOWN NEWSPAPER . .^INCE 1878 ^—"^TUESDAY, JUNE 28, 1983 25 CENTS U.S. embassy attacked in Salvador SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador exploded when it hit a tree about 40 but on further investigation they in the attack, which occurred at 9:25 The embassy, which has not been hydroelectric dams, a military (API — The U.S. Embassy was hit yards from the embassy wall. found evidence it was a rocket. p.m. EDT, Hamilton said. attacked in more than a year, is spokesman said yesterday. by gunfire from assailants in two Hamilton said if the rocket Hamilton said bullets shattered Witnesses said guards at the em- located in a residential district but The spokesman, who' asked passing cars last night, moments hadn't hit the two tree limbs, about windows of a second-floor'otfice on bassy apparently returned fire but is surrounded by fortress-like con- anonymity for security reasons, after a rocket tired at the building 15 to zO feet oft the ground, "it the southwest corner of the build- Hamilton denied this. crete walls .iiiii is heavily guarded said the road was cleared of guer- exploded across the street, a U.S. probably would have hit the em- ing.. Shots were fired from auto- Salvadoran National Guardsmen Meanwhile, government soldiers official said. bassy." matic and non-automatic weapons rolled up to the area in armored recaptured a northern road Irom rillas during the night and a task Embassy spokesman Donald The official said embassy of- before and after the explosion of the cars after the attack to reinforce leftist guerrillas and lifted a rebel force of 2,000 troops continued Hamilton said the rocket, tired from ficials originally thought the ex rocket, he said. security at the embassy, witnesses siege of Suchitoto, a city on Lake combing the countryside for rebels. the southwest toward the embassy, plosion had been caused by a bomb There were no reports of injuries said. Suchitlan near two important See Embassy, page A2 Chase ends in head-on collision Crash called suicide try By JO ASTRID GLADING T1NTON FALLS - A high- speed chase through the heart of Eatontown's business district ended yesterday morning in an apparently intentional head-on collision with an 18-wheeler truck and serious injuries to the driver of the car. police reported. •He pointed the car at the tractor trailer and headed right into it." reported Eatontown Pa- trolman Kichard Coffey, who wit- nessed the crash "It was a sui- cide mission. 1 guess." The incident began Sunday night when Simon Texidor, 32, of 122 Court St., Freehold, allegedly slammed into his girlfriend's car while it was parked outside the Eatonbrook Apartments, Coffey reported. While a police officer was in- vestigating that incident yester- day morning, Texidor drove by and again slammed into his girl- friend's car. sending it further up the lawn, Coffey said. Sgt Hobert Odell then called TOTAL WRECK — Rescuers work to free the DeVille, which rests against the bumper of the tor a backup and started the driver pinned inside the smashed 1970 Cadillac tractor trailor it smashed into yesterday chase, which led down White Street and onto Clinton Avenue at on Broad Street and go through Coltey said. When Texidor made a right 60 miles per hour. Coffey re- two red lights in the business dis- Near the Country Club Apart- onto Hope Road, truck driver Ray- Register photos by Carl Forlno ported. trict ments. Patrolman John Paulus mond Ciam. 22. of 69 Stratford TAKING NO CHANCES — Pinned inside the wreckage of his car Coffey picked up the chase at Texidor then careened around joined in the chase, bringing the Road, saw the oncoming chase and suffering from extensive injuries, Simon Texidor fingers the the corner of Route 35 and Clinton the corner at Tinton Avenue, head- posse to three squad cars with and pulled his rig over to the side handcuffs placed on him bv police after he allegedly attempted to Avenue, and said he witnessed the ing toward Tinton Falls and still Xexidor's 1970 Cadillac DeVille of the road to get out ol the way. reach for a knife inside the glove compartment. suspect illegally pass several cars traveling at a high rate of speed. leading the way. See Crash, page A5 EPA won't lower Lawyer predicts sewage standards killer's acquittal NEW YORK - The federal En- County, all of those tu. - -d down vironmental Protection Agency yes- yesterday discharge effluent into terday tentatively denied waivers to New York Harbor or adjacent wa- By JON HEALEY psychiatric testimony needed for an 19 sewerage authorities that would ters, much of which flows down to with wire reports insanity plea, his attorneys have have allowed treatment plants to Kantan Bay and the northern Mon- several alternative defenses substantially decrease the quality of mouth .County shore, the spokesman FREEHOLD - The attorney for planned. Diamond said 1 imagine effluent pumped into New York- said accused mass murderer Richard F any one of them willbe successful, New Jersey metropolitan area wa- Biegenwald predicted yesterday the Staten Island attorney added. The 19 authorities include five in A county grand jury charged ters. New York City, seven in northern that his client would be acquitted of all charges when he goes to trial this Biegenwald June 15 with murder, The decision was based on the New Jersey — including the Mid- felony murder, armed robbery, recommendation of the Interstate dlesex Sewerage Authority — and fall. "We should win all of (the theft, and lour weapons offenses Sanitation Commission and various seven on Long Island, N.Y., the County Prosecutor Alexander D state and interstate agencies, ac- spokesman said. He added that the casesi, " commented Louis Diamond of Staten Island, one of Lehrer has pledged to "pursue the cording to a spokesman for Jac- possibility of granting such a waiver death penalty" for Biegenwald queline Schafer, regional EPA ad- to the Passaic Valley Sewerage Au- two attorneys representing the 42- year-old Biegenwald. The paroled with all the vigor that 1 have, and ministrator. thority is "still being looked at." all the resources of my office. The only sewerage authorities killer has been indicted for two Although none of the affected Superior Court Judge Thomas F. plants are located in Monmouth See EPA, page A3 murders and linked t»four others A manacled and heavily guarded Shebell Jr. set Nov 28 as the trial Biegenwald was arraigned yester- date, and ordered Biegenwald s at- day on the second indictment, which torneys to disclose by July 29 wheth- concerns the Sept 22 execution- er they will use insanity as a de- Garage inspections style slaying of a 34-year-old North tense. Wildwood man Diamond entered Biegenwald was shackled on his not-guilty pleas to all the charges of arms and legs He was quickly es- pass Legislature the indictment on his client's behalf. corted out of the courtroom by three Diamond said the 42-year-old prison guards following the brief TRENTON (AP) - For a year, The package also includes a bill, Biegenwald will undergo psy- proceeding motorists would be given the choice sponsored by Sen. Gerald Stockman, chiatric evaluations to determine Diamond said he spoke with of having their cars inspected at a D-Mercer. that would appropriate whether he is fit to proceed ito Biegenwald alter the arraignment private garage or a state inspection $4.9 million to improve the state's 38 trial i. and if he is. whether an in- and asserted that he was "in very station under a measure that re- motor vehicle inspection stations sanity defense is available to him good spirits ceived final legislative approval in The measure sponsored by Sen. II Biegenwald cannot obtain the See Lawyer, page A2 the Assembly yesterday. Brian T. Kennedy, R-Monmouth, The inspection bill was part of a authorizes the director of the four-measure package approved Division of Motor Vehicles to desig- yesterday by the lower house and nate private garages that currently Tuesday forwarded to (Jov Thomas H. Kean serve as reinspeclion stations to be- Aides to the Republican governor come official inspection stations for Index had worked out a compromise (in See Garages, page A5 Advice B6 Obituaries A7 the issue with the Democrats who Ans B7 Opinion A6 Sports control both houses of the Legisla- N.Y. Fireworks Cruise July 4 Business B9 ture. Classified. B10 Television B7 Reservations, Sea Fox. 747-3982, Your Town B1 872-0505. Comics B89 Highland! Marina Bar-Grill • uoclalM Pritl plwto Litestyle B6 Lottery 258 Bay Ave., Highlands-872-0947. Edith Ron UNDER HEAVY GUARD — Richard Biegenwald, under armed Make a Date A4 Wmnmq numbers, in the New Jer- Dinner Special June 29-30; Buy 1 Summer sale now in progress. 97 guard and with chains on both his hands and feet, is taken from the Movies B7 sey lottery appear on page A7 Dinner full price-get 2nd V\ price. Broad St., Red Bank, NJ Monmouth County Courthouse after pleading innocent to a murder. A2 The Daily Register TUESDAY, JUNE 28,1983 Christian Democrats lose seats in Italy PEOPLE HOME (AP) - The long-dominant 114 percent o! the vote, taking 38 seats, The Christian Democrats polled a get to support his claim to be prime Christian Democrats suffered a stunning a gain of six.