MILESTONES

CLEARED. TERRYL SCHWALIER, Air Force brigadier general in charge of a military housing complex in Saudi Arabia where 19 U.S. airmen were killed in a truck bombing in June; of any culpability in the blast; in Washington.

RULED COMPETENT. JOHN DUPONT, 58, eccentric chemical-fortune heir; to stand trial for murder in the death of Olympic wrestler David Schultz, after undergoing treatment at a psychiatric hospital; in Media, Pennsylvania.

ARRAIGNED. THEODORE KACZYNSKI, 54, Unabomber suspect; on charges of mailing an explosive device that killed a New Jersey ad executive; in Newark, New Jersey, via TV hookup from Sacramento, California, where he is being held. Kaczynski pleaded not guilty.

INDICTED. High school sweethearts AMY GROSSBERG, 18, and BRIAN PETERSON, 18; on two counts of first-degree murder for the death of their newborn son; in Wilmington, Delaware.

INDICTED. WES COOLEY, 64, Republican U.S. Representative from Oregon; on charges he lied about serving in Korea in his state's voter-education pamphlet; in Salem, Oregon.

HOSPITALIZED. UDAY HUSSEIN, 32, temperamental eldest son and henchman of Iraqi President Saddam Hussein; reportedly in stable condition after would-be assassins ambushed his car; in Baghdad.

DIED. HOWARD ROLLINS, 46, actor who starred for five seasons in the TV series In the Heat of the Night; of complications from lymphoma; in New York City. Rollins was written out of the series after the 1992-93 season following repeated problems with substance abuse. He was nominated for an Oscar for his role in the 1981 film Ragtime.

DIED. JOSEPH QUINLAN, 71, pioneer of the right-to-die movement who led a successful legal crusade to allow his adopted daughter Karen Ann Quinlan to "die with dignity" after she slipped into a coma in 1975; of cancer; in Wantage, New Jersey.

DIED. JULES DAVIDS, 75, retired Georgetown University professor credited with helping then Senator John F. Kennedy write his 1957 Pulitzer-prizewinning book Profiles in Courage; of Alzheimer's disease; in Rockville, Maryland.

DIED. CHARLES HAMILTON, 82, handwriting expert who in 1983 was one of the first authorities to expose the so-called Hitler diaries as "patent and obvious forgeries"; in New York City.

DIED. VANCE PACKARD, 82, critic of American consumerism whose 1957 best-selling book The Hidden Persuaders exposed the advertising technique of using subliminal messages to sell products; in Vineyard Haven, Massachusetts.

DIED. NEIL REAGAN, 88, retired advertising executive and older brother of former President Ronald Reagan; in San Diego.