MILESTONES

APPOINTED. CHARLES CHAPUT, 52, as Archbishop of Denver. Chaput, a member of the Prairie Band Potawatomi tribe, is U.S. Catholicism's first Native American archbishop.

RECOVERING. ELIZABETH TAYLOR, 64, from surgery to remove a 2-in. brain tumor, which, doctors say, appears to be benign; in Los Angeles.

CHARGED. GUEORGUI MAKHARADZE, 35, Georgian diplomat, with involuntary manslaughter in the death of Joviane Waltrick, 16, who was killed in a car crash in January; in Washington.

PLEADED GUILTY. DANIEL CARLETON GAJDUSEK, 73, Nobel-prizewinning scientist for his work on viruses; to two counts of child abuse; in Frederick, Maryland. In a plea bargain, Gajdusek will serve up to a year in jail for molesting a 16-year-old boy, now 24.

WITHDRAWN. RIDDICK BOWE, 29, from U.S. Marine Corps Reserve boot camp after 11 days. The ex-heavyweight champ's manager said Bowe missed his wife and five children, and "had become used to living a life of luxury."

DIED. OSCAR ADAMS JR., 72, former state-supreme-court justice and the first black elected to statewide office in Alabama; of cancer; in Birmingham. Adams, a top civil-rights lawyer, was appointed to a vacancy on the state's high court in 1980. He won the seat in 1982 and was re-elected twice.

DIED. CHIEN SHIUNG WU, 84, Columbia University professor emeritus and one of the world's foremost physicists; in New York City. A native of Shanghai, Wu came to the U.S. in 1936 and earned a doctorate in physics from the University of California, Berkeley. In 1956 she conducted an experiment that disproved the theory that movement in nature is always symmetrical.

DIED. LEO ROSTEN, 88, author best known for his works celebrating Jewish culture; in New York City. His definitive reference work, The Joys of Yiddish, published in 1968, introduced readers to colorful and now common terms like schlemiel, schmaltz and chutzpah. A native of Poland, Rosten seasoned his scholarship with humor, which he called "one of the requirements for sanity."

DIED. ROBERT KLARK GRAHAM, 90, optical physicist who developed shatterproof plastic eyeglass lenses; in Seattle. Later in life Graham established a controversial sperm bank for Nobel Prize winners. He was criticized as a eugenicist, but his bank has been credited with fathering more than 200 children.

DIED. EMILY HAHN, 92, adventurous author of more than 50 books on subjects ranging from seduction to apes to cooking; in New York City. Her career began in 1924, when she crossed the country in a Model T Ford, chronicling her travels in letters to her brother, who sent them to the New Yorker. She wrote for the magazine throughout her life, becoming its China correspondent in 1935. In China she became temporarily addicted to opium, befriended Mao Zedong and met her future husband, a British intelligence officer by whom she proudly had a child out of wedlock.