WINNERS & LOSERS

By Kathleen Adams, Lina Lofaro, Alice Park, Jeffery C. Rubin, Alain L. Sanders and Sidney Urquhart

[winners]

MARGARET O'BRIEN Ex-child star recovers Oscar stolen by maid 40 years ago

PRINCESS DI Gym owner who took sweaty secret pix of her forced to give up the negs

DICK VAN DYKE O.J. prosecution witness plugs Van Dyke reruns to establish possible murder time

[losers]

SHEIK OMAR ABDEL-RAHMAN Terror trial codefendant shifts plea to guilty and fingers him

LEON PANETTA Wasn't the President's chief of staff going to put an end to nomination bungling?

DICK VAN PATTEN On cross, Johnnie Cochran fails to elicit a single mention of Eight Is Enough