MILESTONES

EXPECTING. HEATHER HARLAN, 26, actress, and her husband TONY RANDALL, 76; in London. The baby's debut is expected in April. Randall is in London for a stage revival of The Odd Couple, with Jack Klugman, his co-star in the TV series.

FREED. MAMORU KONNO, 57, president of Sanyo Video Components USA Corp., who was kidnapped on Aug. 10 in Mexico; after payment of a $2 million ransom; in Tijuana. The kidnappers remain at large.

RELEASED. RICK JAMES, 44, grandmaster of funk (Super Freak); after serving two years and 23 days of a five-year sentence; in Folsom, California. In 1994 James was convicted of assaulting a woman, holding her hostage and giving her cocaine.

AILING. MEL TORME, 70, velvet-voiced song stylist; after a stroke; in Los Angeles. Torme was hospitalized in guarded condition after developing pneumonia and a partially collapsed lung.

SENTENCED. GARY LAUCK, 43, neo-Nazi propagandist from Nebraska; to four years in prison; for inciting racial hatred and distributing extremist literature; in Hamburg, Germany.

SENTENCED. CONCHITA LINK, 61, former wife of 81-year-old photographer O. Winston Link, celebrated for his black-and-white nighttime images of steam locomotives; to 6 1/3 to 20 years in prison; in White Plains, New York. Mrs. Link was found guilty in July of stealing more than $1 million worth of his photographic prints.

SUICIDE RULED. In the death of model-actress MARGAUX HEMINGWAY, whose body was found on July 1; in Los Angeles. Toxicological tests determined that Hemingway died of an intentional overdose of barbiturates.

DIED. E. DIGBY BALTZELL, 80, sociologist who, in his studies of American Protestantism, popularized the acronym wasp for his fellow white Anglo-Saxon Protestants; in Boston.