69 Americans Hurt in Blast by PATRICK QUINN an Anonymous Caller Claiming to Represent the ATHENS

69 Americans Hurt in Blast by PATRICK QUINN an Anonymous Caller Claiming to Represent the ATHENS

Townhouse development opposed in Matawan, B1 GREATER RED BANK EATONTOWN Crosby victor Another goal LONG BRANCH O'Meara outlasts County grid stars Today's Forecast: Strange for title. select universities. Cold, snosnow on the way Page B2 Page B2 Complete weather on A2 The Daily Register VOL. 107 NO. 185 YOUR HOMETOWN NEWSPAPER . SINCE 1878 MONDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 1985 • 25 CENTS 69 Americans hurt in blast BY PATRICK QUINN An anonymous caller claiming to represent the ATHENS. Greece (AP) - Thirteen Injured U.S. "National Front" asserted responsibility for the blast servicemen and dependents, among the 69 Americans in a call last night to the Athens daily Eleftherotipa wounded when a bomb exploded In a crowded bar, were He criticized the United States for the "continuing airlifted to a U.S. base in West Germany yesterday for situation" on Cyprus, where Turkish troops occupy 33 treatment, US and Greek officials aaid. percent of the island. The explosion Saturday night injured 78 people in all Some Greeks feel Washington has not done enough to and was the first reported terrorist attack on a facility pressure NATO ally Turkey into removing its troops frequented by U.S. military personnel in Greece. A from Cyprus, which Turkey invaded in 1974 following a caller to an Athens newspaper claimed responsibility coup led by Greek army officers. for the blast, criticized U.S. policy and laid attacks on The caller told Eleftherotipa the group would "strike Americans would continue. again where Greeks and Americans frequent." Police Seven Greeks, a West German and an Ethiopian also could not be reached to comment on the call, believed were reported Injured when, Greek police said, a to be the first claim of terrorist activity by the "powerful time bomb" went off under one of the tables "National Front." at Bobby's, a bar in the seaside Athens suburb of Police searching the wrecked saloon foun "traces of Glyfada. a timing device," a police spokesman said. The bar is popular with many of the 1,500 US Air "It was clearly a powerful time bomb," the SURVEYING THE DAMAGE - Policeman in bar, injuring 69 Americans, including 13 ser- Force personnel stationed at Hellenikon Air Base next spokesman said. "It was a miracle that no one was Athens, Greece, inspects damage after an ex- vicemen. They were airlifted yesterday to a U.S. to Athens airport. See Americans, page A3 plosion Saturday night ripped through a crowded base in West Germany for treatment. Woman fatally stabbed in apartment EATONTOWN - A 22-year-old borough lifestyle and vocational program for Jackson found Vehring on the bedroom up in." intendent, to a reporter's inquiry man is being held on 1500,000 bail, charged former patients of Marlboro Psychiatric floor with multiple stab wounds when he "Until today, 1 didn't know anybody was Eatontown police also refused to com- with stabbing a 25-year-old borough Hospital, he said. arrived at her apartment, Chalet said. living in that apartment," said a neighbor. ment on the crime. woman to death with a kitchen knife, Juinta may have been staying in He said an autopsy will be performed "Some of the apartments are vacant and "All the information is coming out of according to Paul F Chalet, first assistant Vehrings apartment when the killing today, when the "defendant will probably I never saw anybody come or go out of it." the prosecutor's office." said a police county prosecutor. occurred, Chalet said. "I'm not going to appear in Superior Court." One neighbor said she thought Vehring spokesman. Jackson is in charge of the investiga- comment on the motive right now," he Neighbors Interviewed were either un- and JuinU were married. "What I heard Thomas JuinU, Building 10, Apt. 31, said. was that her husband was out to work and tion. He is being assisted by Detective Country Club Road, was arrested on a aware of the killing or refused to talk to' when he got home, he found her." she said. Sgts. Charles Stoneham and Thomas charge of killing Lisa Vehring, Building », Juinla reported the killing to Eatontown reporters. Stoneham. and Detectives Charles Davis The building's superintendent and assis- Apt. M, Country Club Road. police at approximately 8 a.m. according "I lived here six years and this place is and Arthur Pierce, all of the Eatontown to Chalet. tant superintendent declined comment. Juinta and Venring apparently knew going down," said a neighbor who asked police department, and the Monmouth each other, Chalet said. Detective Sgt. George Jackson was one not to be identified. "It's not the sort of "Call the front office in the morning," County Homicide Squad under Richard Both were involved in Pathway, a of the first to respond to the call, he said. environment I want my daughter to grow said George Jacob, assistant super- Canneto's supervision. More snow Fair Haven on the way police probe County residents awoke yester- Elsewhere in the nation, more day to find an additional one- to jewelry heist low-temperature records were three-inches of snow on their broken yesterday, with Wichita driveways. The white stuff, com- Falls, Texas, knocking a full 12 BY CHRIS HAND ring," Pons said. bined with the previous slush, degrees off its old mark, while They grabbed him when he turned FAIR HAVEN - Police are made sidewalks slippery and car just 25 miles north of the winter to get the ring. "They strangled me seeking information from anyone locks reluctant to open. haven of Phoenix, police turned and threatened to kill me," he said. There is a SO percent chance of back vehicles without chains be- who may have seen three men and a woman, all Caucasian, fleeing They did not display a weapon. snow tomorrow. cause of 7 inches of snow. "One of them had his hand in his Today's forecast calls for most- Since Wednesday, at least 20 from Don Pons Jeweler, 799 River Road, at approximately 4:15 p.m. pocket," Pons said. "1 don't know ly sunny skies with light winds. people have died in weather- whether he had a gun or not." Highs will be between 25 to 30, Saturday. related traffic accidents In Con- Pons was restrained on the floor with increasing cloudiness to- necticut, Pennsylvania, Cali- The four are wanted for strong- night. The overnight low will be arm robbery, which netted between with a "cheap" pair of handcuffs, fornia, Kansas, Missouri, Arkan- police said. around 20 degrees. sas, Alabama. West Virginia and 175,000 and $100,000 in jewelry and a Weatherwise, yesterday may Texas. small amount of cash. He was later taken to Riverview have been the final day of one of Six people froze to death in Police said the four are believed Medical Center. Red Bank, and the worst winter weekends, but It Louisiana Mississippi, Tennessee, to have fled on foot to a nearby car. released, police said. ended surprisingly accident free. Oklahoma and on the Navajo "Nobody saw them leave in a car, As of yesterday, police said they "The roads were very passable reservation in Arizona Also, a but we think they may have had one have no leads in the case. on the Garden State Parkway," Missouri man, a Louisiana man, hidden and walked to (a car)," a reported a state police officer in Meanwhile, neither police nor two Mississippi children and a police spokesman said. Pons could say exactly what was Holmdel. "We had no weather- Tennessee woman and her four related problems." The woman was described as stolen. "The items that they took grandchildren died in fires were in boxes from the safe," Pons Police departments elsewhere heavy-set, speaking with a foreign authorities said were caused by said. "We haven't taken an inven- in the county reported an equally- accent. space heaters, and an Alabama tory yet and we won't know what accident free Sunday. woman was electrocuted at her Police said they will work with was taken until we do that." A Keansburg dispatcher re- outdoor fuse box after her home Don Pons to make composite ported that borough was "quiet as lost power. sketches of the three men. Police described the robbery as a kitchen mouse" last night. Two young girls in Texas died Sno-fun one of the worst in the borough in Police In Rumson, meanwhile, Saturday after falling through the The owner, a Red Bank resident, recent years. had one accident, but it was so Ice on a stock pond, and a Ray Miller shovels snow away from pumps at Fair Haven Exxon said yesterday that he was alone minor that the two parties in- Michigan boy was swept to his on River Road. One- to three-Inches of snow fell on the county when the four entered the store. Lf. Richard Towler, Patrolman Michael Tallarico. special officer volved drove to headquarters to death after falling through ice on yesterday, In addition to the slush that has been underfoot all The jeweler said he generally Darryl Breckenridge and Detective report it. See County, page A3 weekend. More of the white stuff Is expected tomorrow. closes between 5 and 5:30 p.m. on Robert J. O'Neill of the Fair Haven Saturdays. police are investigating, along with "They entered through the front Glen Meyer of the county pros- door of the store and asked to see a ecutor's office. Commuters face dry ride home Monday BY EUSSA McCRARY encouraging New Jersey residents to use public Paul Wolcott, a spokesman for Gov. Thomas H. Index transportation on their nights on the town Is to Kean, said the governor had not seen a copy of Advice B7 Movies A8 TRENTON (AP) - Reports of violent incidents discourage drinking and driving," Foy said.

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