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SUIT SETTLED. By ART BUCHWALD, 69, and Paramount Pictures; for $825,000; after a protracted court battle; in Los Angeles. Satirist Buchwald and producer Alain Bernheim initially won their suit, which charged that the studio's Coming to America was based on a Buchwald scenario, after a 1992 trial made famous by Paramount's claim that the Eddie Murphy hit lost money.

RECOVERING. LOU HOLTZ, 58, Notre Dame football coach; from 4 1/2 hours of surgery to relieve debilitating spinal-cord pressure; at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota. Though he is improving, Holtz will be on the bench for at least two more weeks.

DIED. JEREMY BRETT, 59, British actor who brought a sepulchral presence, sardonic line readings and a sly sense of the eccentric to his portrayal of Sherlock Holmes for the BBC--easily the most memorable interpretation of the role since Basil Rathbone's; of heart failure; in London.

DIED. MICHIO WATANABE, 72, outspoken Japanese politician whose derogatory comments about African Americans set off a furor in the U.S. in 1988; of heart failure; in Tokyo. Watanabe, a leader of the once dominant Liberal Democratic Party, resigned as Foreign Minister in 1993 for health reasons. He didn't leave the stage quietly, setting off protests in South Korea in June by saying that Japan's 1910 takeover of Korea had been done with Korea's consent.

DIED. OLGA IVINSKAYA, 83, longtime mistress of Russian novelist Boris Pasternak and inspiration for Lara, the heroine of his epic love story Doctor Zhivago; in Moscow.

DIED. MALVIN R. GOODE, 87, network television's first black reporter; in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Hired by ABC News in 1962, Goode refused to be confined to "black stories" and covered the Cuban missile crisis and political conventions as well as the dramatic years of the civil rights movement.