European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - February 16, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Tuesday february 16, 1988 the stars and stripes. Paga s Robertson says Cuba has nuke arms aide says he meant missiles not warheads Washington a Pat Robertson charged in a Republican presiden tial debate sunday that the soviet Union has secretly placed 25  Range nuclear missiles in Cuba. A Robertson aide said later the former religious broadcaster meant missile de livery systems not warheads themselves. In California a while House official travelling with president Reagan said there s no indication of any nuclear missiles or weapons in Cuba the offi Cial spoke on condition of anonymity. The soviet Union did place missiles in Cuba in 1962, but agreed to remove them after a tense showdown Between Nikita Khrushchev and president Ken Nedy Llu brought the world to the Brink of nuclear War. Robertson Ai the league of women voters debate in Cioff town n.h., said he obtained the information from a source in the Senate foreign relations committee he declined to identify. Sen. Jesse Helms , the ranking minority member of thai committee and fading opponent of Lite intermediate Range nuclear Force treaty recently introduced an amendment demanding that the soviets allow the United slates to inspect the cuban missile Sites. Helms also has asked administration officials about whether the soviets might have left Tome missiles behind when they pulled 42 out in 1962. During a discussion of the inf Accord Robertson said. Some information came to me that the soviets in Vio lation of the so called Khrushchev Kennedy accords have put some is 1s and -5s in Cuba which arc inner Mcdial Range nut car weapons. And somehow in All this Brilliant negotiation that these go Man Are so proud of they be in that out of the treaty. It seems like to me nukes pointing at the United states Are More vital to our Security than nukes pointing to Europe he added the surprised Moderator Edwin new Man said. You say you have Learned that soviet 5s-3s and ss4s have been placed in Cuba Twenty five of them fours and fives that s correct., you can Check it said Robertson. This May be a major flaw in thai treaty we certainly should look into if there Are nukes in  after the debate. Mire null a. Robertson s political director said the Candi Date was referring to missile delivery sys tems not warheads themselves. Null a said he does t know How Many of these systems arc in Cuba and he said the in formation did not come directly from the Senate foreign relations commit tee but that s where some of the information was  Jim Lucier the Republican minority staff director on he committee said sunday night he s probably referring to the testimony of Admiral Crowe be fore our committee on feb. 4. Adm. William j. Crowe jr., chairman of the joint chiefs of staff under questioning by Helms said thai although Cuba is under constant and intensive surveillance by . Satellites and other intelligence gathering devices he could not say with i of percent certainty that new sox Isi missile deployment would be detected. But Crowe raid . Surveillance is effective enough thai. We have High Confidence that we know whether or not Uherc Are soviet missiles in  he said he could not discuss the matter fur ther in Public. Helms said my amendment on cuban inspection rights would eliminate this gaping  Nicaragua ambassador to . Astorga Dies new York a Nora Astorga Nicaragua s . Ambassador who lured u general to his Donth during the sandinista revolution died sunday in Man Agua of cancer a spokesman fur the nicaraguan government announced. Site was 39. Astorga had resumed to the nicaraguan capital from new York Early last month because of her illness. Julio Leaza. Nicaragua Deputy representative of the United nations is serving As acting ambassador the spokesman said. In 1978. Astorga lured Gen. Reynaldo Perez Vega Deputy commander of the nicaraguan National guard into her bedroom where anti government guerrillas Cut his Shroit. Astoria claimed Liat the original plan had been to Kidnap pure Vega and Exchange him for 59 Sandinia la prisoner bul when he resisted her sandinista accomplices killed him. Perci Veja was a member of the regime of president Anastasio Somoza who was ousted by the sandinista in july 1979. In 1984, the United slates rejected Astorga As ambassador 10 the United states she held the rank of Deputy foreign minister at the Lime. . Officials said the Reagan administration regarded her As unsuitable in View of her involvement in the slaying of Pyrcz Vega Astorga was appointed ambassador to the United nations in february 1986. She held a doctorate in Law from the Catholic uni ambassador Nora Asl Orpi die or cancer. Victim s family sues Magazine Houston not a suit against the Magazine Soldier of Fortune brought by the family of the victim of a hired killer will be heard in Federal District court Here next week. The parents and teen age son of the victim Sandra Black charge that when mrs. Black s husband Robert decided to murder her he found a hired killer through classified advertisements in the Magazine a Publica Tion for military mercenaries. The parents and son Are suing Soldier of Fortune and Omega croup ltd., the Magazine s Parent company for More than $21 Mil lion. Black has been convicted of hiring John Wayne scam to kill his wife and n on death Row at the Texas corrections department facility in Huntsville heart has been convicted of murder and is serving two consecutive life terms in Gainesville a lawyers for both sides agree that Lite Basic facts in the murder Are not in question. Black an electrician and his wife were living in Bryan Texas in 1984 and Black was having an extramarital affair. Ron Franklin the lawyer representing mrs. Black s parents Glenn and Marjorie Einmann and the slain woman s son. Gary Wayne Block now 17, claims Black began asking friends and relatives if they would murder his wife and in the fall of 984 wrote to Carn whose classified and he had seen in the septem Ber Issue of Soldier of Fortune. The and read sex marines. 67-69 Nam vet. Exp weapons specialist Jungle warfare. Pilot. High risk assignment. . Or  authorities said Heam went to Bryan to Sec Black s collection of firearms. On feb. 25. 1985, Ham has told the police he killed mrs Black. He was paid $10,000. It was his third murder in 19 Days. The first two were committed in Florida Franklin claims the wording of Carn s and was an unequivocal offer to commit Domestic criminal serv ices and that the Magazine was aware of that implication. Franklin says he Wilt present evidence that Over 20 felonies in a two month period could be connected to classified ads in Soldier of Fortune. Larry d. Thompson the attorney for the Magazine and the Omega croup said the and did not mention illegal activity the and is a very Plain Vanilla and. The kind you would expect to find in a Magazine of that Type he said. Black did not originally Contact Carn o discuss murder Thompson said but to discuss work. Thompson said he would Tell the jury that Black wanted to be pan of the High risk assignments that Carn mentioned in his ads and invited Heam to Texas 10 see Bis gun collection. Only after several conversations and a visit after they had become acquaintances did the subject of murder come up Thompson said. Verily in Managua and directed Legal and personnel matters for an engineering firm there. She also studied at Catholic University in washing ton d.c., and was fluent in English and italian. After the overthrow of Somoza Astorga became a special minister of Justice for the trials of former Mem Bers of the Nat Iona guard. In an april 10, 1987, speech to the american society of newspaper editors in san Francisco Astorga talked about the problems Between Nicaragua and the United Stales which has supported the Contra rebels in their six year Ballac against the sandinista. She said relation were poor because of a theory of domination thai says that a Small poor underdeveloped country has to depend on one of the two super  bul decades of dependency on inc United Stales. She said brought Nicaragua poverty and the most cruel dictatorship in latin America. So we arc not willing to do that  Astorga represented Nicaragua in deliberations of inc Comadora group which attempted to end insurgencies in Nicaragua. Al Salvador and Guatemala. She Al