European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - November 12, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 6 the stars and stripes . Thursday november 12,1992 witness says killers ignored nuns pleas Carbondale 111. Apr the Mother Superior of five . Nuns slain in Liberia says a witness reported that rebels shot three of them at their Convent As one of the women begged for their lives. Quot the witness said the two others were fatally shot earlier in a Roadside ambush sister Mildred Gross reported monday. Sister Gross who Heads the Ruma Convent of the adores of the blood of Christ said the message was smuggled out of Liberia to a neighbouring West african country. She said it was received saturday and shared with the . State department. The message sent to the Convent said members of the National patriotic front of Liberia killed the nuns in late october. A representative of rebel commander Charles Taylor recently wrote a letter to the Convent denying responsibility. All five nuns along with four liberian aspirants were in their Convent in Gardnersville near the liberian capital of Monrovia on oct. 20, the message said. Sister Gross said a Security Man protecting the nuns wanted to visit a sick relative that Day. Sisters Barbara Ann Muttra and Mary Joel Kolmer gave the Man a ride and along the Way they picked up two members of a West african cease fire monitoring group. A they were reportedly ambushed by soldiers of the National patriotic front of Liberia. All were killed by the soldiers who then took their vehicle Quot sister Gross said. On oct. 23, reputed National front soldiers led by a commander called . Devir came to the Convent Gates and demanded the keys to the Convent car the message said. Order members who be been in Liberia said that in order for the car to be let out the nuns would have had to open solid Metal Gates in the 10-foot-High Wall that encircles their Convent. After taking the keys . Devil shot sister Kathleen Mcguire in the Arm and killed a lebanese Security Man the message said. . Devil then fatally shot sister Mcguire in the neck. The commander ordered everybody in the Convent to come out and sister Shirley Kolmer begged him to spare their lives. But the message said . Devil shot Sisters Agnes Mueller and Kolmer on a Road outside the Convent. Russians thankful for shuffle role space Center Houston a two russian cosmonauts said tuesday they Are beginning to feel right at Home As they train at nasal a Johnson space Center for a Mission aboard the space shuttle discovery. A a we have been surrounded by our counterparts and Felt their warmth and care and we Are very thankful for that a Vladimir Titov said through a translator. Quot we arc certainly thrilled to participate in this Mission since this is quite a new direction for  Titov and Sergei Kri Kalv arrived in Houston last week for intensive training. Both my briefly with reporters tuesday. One will be chosen to Fly aboard discovery on a research Mission scheduled for november 1993 the other will be a backup. The voyage will be the first .-russian space Endeavor since 1975, when three astronauts and two cosmonauts docked their orbiting Apollo and soyuz spacecraft. The cosmonauts participation in the shuttle program is part of an agreement Between the National aeronautics and space administration and the russian space Agency. The agreement also Calls for the flight of a . Astronaut aboard the Mir space station and a Mir shuttle rendezvous russian cosmonauts Sergei Kri Kalv left and mud Rinir Titov stand beside a space shuttle Trainer in Houston. Actor Chuck Connors Dies of cancer at 71 los Angeles a Chuck Connors the towering steely eyed actor who played a Quick draw homesteader on televisions the Rifleman during the 1950s and �?T60s, has died of lung cancer. He was 71. The 6-foot-5 Connors who died tuesday also played professional baseball and basketball. Later he picked up roles in such movies As Pat and Mike target Zero and hold Hack the night before getting his big break on to. In the Rifleman which ran from 1958 to 1963, he played Lucas Mccain a new Mexico homesteader raising a Motherless son and fighting the Good fight aided by a modified Winchester Rifle with Large ring that he cocked Connors As he Drew. Toy versions of the Rifle proved popular at Christmas. A a my a a Ole ability to make a living is derived from the it i that 1 was a the Rifleman a a Connors said in a 1983 a it Riew. Connors went on to Star in the i9h0s to series arrest and trial and branded in w hich he played a cavalry officer accused of cowardice. He won an emmy nomination As slave owner Tom Moore in the miniseries roots. Born Kevin Joseph in Brooklyn Connors played basketball with the Boston celtics and baseball with the Brooklyn dodgers and Chicago cubs. He also played minor league baseball with the los Angeles Angels. A Friend of former president Ronald Reagan a Connors once contemplated entering politics. But he said he decided not to a a because from being around so Many politicians i became a Little cynical about politicians in  during a 1973 poolside party at president Richard Nixon a Western White House in san Clemente calif., Connors received a Bear hug from soviet Leader Leonid Brezhnev. The actor gave Brezhnev two six guns. Connors other series included Cowboy in Africa the thrill seekers the yellow Rose and Werewolf. Other movie credits included soul i sea by onion designing woman Geronimo move Over Darling soy Jent Green and air plane 2 the sequel. Quot a until three years ago Connors kept an eight acre ranch in Tehachapi 100 Miles North of los Angeles. Connors who was married and divorced three times is surged by four sons. Funeral arrangements were Inci it Mph  exile Leader says he was double agent from wire reports Miami the head of the biggest anti Castro exile group in Miami says he was actually a double agent who helped organize attacks against Cuba at the Behest of the cuban government to Embarrass the United states. In interviews this week with a Spanish language to station in Miami Francisco Avila also said he worked for the Fri providing information about the cuban spy network in the United states. Avila told the station that he was recruited by Cuba after being captured in 1967 during a failed raid by this group Alpha 66. In 1979, he was returned to Miami where he was supposed to report on exile groups for the cubans. But shortly after his return Avila said he contacted . Officials and began a 13-year career As a double agent for the Fri. Avila also said the cuban government fostered raids by exiles and even paid for them if necessary to build up an image of a Small country under attack by Yankee  Given reprieve Crest Hill Iii. A a drifter who says he mutilated and murdered a Man to get the death penalty changed his mind late tuesday and sought a reprieve a and won it tuesday. The reprieve of Lloyd Wayne Hampton came less than three hours before his scheduled execution. Hampton had been scheduled to die by injection shortly after Midnight tuesday two Days before his 39th birthday. He had waived All appeals although he had not exhausted them. Hampton murdered and robbed 69-Ycar-old retired janitor Roy e. A a Jasper Pendleton in Pendleton a Motel room in Troy near East St. Louis on feb. 8,1990.Man convicted in 6 killings Dallas a a jury found a 35-year-old convicted rapist guilty tuesday in the murders of six Young women whose bodies were found buried five years ago in the West Texas desert near Elpaso. The jury deliberated six hours before convicting David Leonard Wood of capital murder. The punishment phase was to begin today. He could receive life in prison or death by lethal injection. Wood was charged in the killings of Angelica Frausto 17 Desiree Wheatley 15 Rosa Maria Casio 24 Karen Baker 20 Dawn Smith 14 and Ivy Susanna Williams 23, the women disappeared in the summer of 1987.teens give abortion views Gainesville Fla. A Many Young men disapprove of a single woman sending her pregnancy without her partners consent two University of Florida researchers say. The findings May indicate a gender Battle developing in the abortion debate they said. Sixty percent of teen age males in the nationwide Survey say it is not All right for a woman to get an abortion if her male partner objects said William Marsiglio a of sociologist and the study a coauthor. The study by Marsiglio and of sociologist Constance Sehati uses data from the 1988 National Survey of adolescent males which assesses abortion attitudes of 1,880 single males aged 15 to 19 in a variety of scenarios. The researchers presented their findings at the National Council on family relations meeting monday in orlando.3 children die in fire Holyoke mass. A a fire broke out Early tuesday in a five Story apartment building in Holyoke killing three children and sending two others to hospitals. A police officer a firefighter and a woman were also injured. The cause of the fire in the apartment House on Chestnut Street was not yet determined officials at Holyoke Hospital said a 5-year-old girl and an 8-year-old boy died there. Their 12-year-old brother was reported in poor condition. Officials at Bay state medical Center Jyh near Springfield said that two boys were brought Ere from the fire and that one of the boys had died. 1 he other was in intensive cure