MILESTONES

MILESTONES

ARRESTED. STEVE HOWE, 38, ex-New York Yankees pitcher; for allegedly carrying a loaded .357 Magnum in his airport luggage; in New York City.

RECOVERING. TOMMY LASORDA, 68, Los Angeles Dodgers manager; from angioplasty;in Inglewood, California.

DIED. VERONICA GUERIN, 36, investigative reporter for Ireland's Sunday Independent; after being shot while sitting in her car; in Clondalkin, Ireland. Guerin's fearless coverage of Dublin's crime underworld won her an International Press Freedom Award last year from the Committee to Protect Journalists.

DIED. MOLLIE BEATTIE, 49, for three years the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service chief and champion of the Endangered Species Act; of brain cancer; in Townshend, Vermont.

DIED. TERREL BELL, 74, Ronald Reagan's first Secretary of Education; of pulmonary fibrosis; in Salt Lake City, Utah. Bell's department--initially targeted for elimination--survived after he helped engineer an influential report, A Nation at Risk, which sparked a drive for educational reform.

DIED. ALBERT BROCCOLI, 87, producer of the James Bond film series; in Beverly Hills, California. From Dr. No to Goldeneye, Broccoli and his successors parlayed the 007 mix of adventure, sex and gadgetry into one of pop culture's biggest hits.

DIED. IRVING KRICK, 89, meteorologist who helped forecast the crucial weather conditions that prompted General Eisenhower to choose June 6, 1944, as D-day for the invasion of Normandy; in Pasadena, California.

DIED. ELBERT TUTTLE, 98, former chief judge of the U.S. Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals whose unflinching, pivotal civil rights rulings in the 1960s helped dismantle Southern segregation; in Atlanta. He received the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1981.