Died. Baron Jean-Louis de Portal, 23; of gunshot wounds; near Montauban, France. Together with his mother and sister, Jean-Louis barricaded La Fumade, the Portal family's 30-room mansion, shortly before the death of his father Baron Leonce in 1973, and refused to relinquish it to the farmer who bought it at a debt auction. After Portal shot and wounded two workers sent by the new owner to plow the land, 70 gendarmes assaulted La Fumade, braving fire from the young baron's elephant gun and mortally wounding him. The body of the father, which the family had kept in a coffin in the main hall, was taken to a cemetery; the baroness and her daughter were being held for psychiatric examination.

Died. Gustavo Rojas Pinilla, 74, Colombian caudillo (1953-57); of a heart attack; in Malgar, Colombia. Installed as President in a bloodless 1953 golpe, Rojas ruled in dictatorial fashion until an appetite for graft (he acquired at least nine ranches as President) eroded army support and led to his ouster in 1957. The next year he returned from exile and became the focus of opposition to the ruling Liberal-Conservative National Front, nearly returning to power in the hotly contested election of 1970.

Died. Li Fu-chun, 75, Red China's master planner; in Peking. A veteran of the 6,000-mile Long March in 1934-35 with his childhood friend Mao Tse-tung, Li was named Minister of Heavy Industry after the Communists' 1949 victory. As chief of the State Planning Commission Li marshalled millions of peasants in the abortive industrial phase of the Great Leap Forward (1958-61). Both Mao and the recently hospitalized Chou En-lai attended their old comrade's funeral.

Died. Paul Cardinal Meouchi, 80, Maronite patriarch of Antioch and the Orient; in Bkerke, Lebanon. Spiritual head of 800,000 Maronite-rite Roman Catholics (65,000 of them in the U.S.), Meouchi played a major role in the delicate politics of Lebanese Christians and Moslems. Named bishop of Tyre in 1934 after serving in California, Indiana and Massachusetts parishes, he worked to prevent sectarian conflict, siding with Moslem opposition to Lebanon's Christian President Camille Chamoun in 1958 civil strife and recently supporting Palestinian territorial claims. Meouchi counted Jordan's King Hussein and Egypt's Anwar Sadat as friends, once blessed a delegation of Moslem mullahs as they prayed to Mecca: "The British have a well-known phrase, 'In His Majesty's service,'" Meouchi explained pointing skyward. "I'm in his majesty's service."

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