MARRIED. Katherine Kim Carter, 22, Billy Carter's eldest, a high school English teacher; and Mark Fuller, 24, an aide to Billy; at the Plains, Ga., home of First Mother Miss Lillian. The President congratulated his niece by phone from South Korea.

MARRIED. Eric Sevareid, 66, silver-haired, golden-voiced commentator who retired from the CBS Evening News in 1977; and Suzanne St. Pierre, 42, a Washington producer for the station's 60 Minutes program; he for the third time and she for the second; in Worcester, Mass.

DIED. Conn McCreary, 58, racehorse trainer and jockey who won the Kentucky Derby aboard Pensive in 1944 and Count Turf in 1951; of a heart attack; in Ocala, Fla. The 4-ft. 8-in. McCreary won a reputation as a savvy, cool horseman during a 21-year career, and was elected to horse racing's Hall of Fame in 1974.

DIED. Helen Van Slyke, 59, businesswoman turned bestselling novelist; after a brief illness; in New York City. Van Slyke headed the fashion section of the Washington Star at age 19, eventually becoming a vice president at Helena Rubinstein. Adept at identifying women's tastes, she decided in 1970 to apply her talent to writing. Van Slyke produced eight hugely successful modern romances, including the current blockbuster A Necessary Woman, devised, she said, for "blue-haired ladies in the cocktail hour of life."

DIED. Joseph Borkin, 67, Washington attorney, economist and author; of a heart attack; in Chevy Chase, Md. A trustbuster with the U.S. Department of Justice from 1938 to 1946, Borkin also pursued his commitment to social justice with such books as The Corrupt Judge (1962) and last year's The Crime and Punishment of I.G. Farben, an expose of the German chemical company that provided Hitler's troops with poison gas.

DIED. Paul Dessau, 84, East German composer of operas and incidental music best known for his collaborations with Bertolt Brecht (Mother Courage, The Caucasian Chalk Circle); in East Berlin. Following a career as a violinist and conductor of the Staaedtische Oper in Berlin, Dessau fled the Nazis in 1939 for America, where he began writing the dissonant scores that so effectively complemented Brecht's scripts. An old-line Communist, Dessau returned to East Germany after the war.

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