MILESTONES

By DANIEL EISENBERG, ANITA HAMILTON, JANICE M. HOROWITZ, NADYA LABI, JANICE Y. LEE, MICHELLE ORECKLIN, ALAIN L. SANDERS

RESIGNED. I.K. GUJRAL, Prime Minister of India; in New Delhi. India is in a state of political chaos, and Gujral's government was the fourth to fall in 18 months.

DIED. JORGE MAS CANOSA, 58, vociferous Castro foe; of lung cancer; in Miami. Canosa trained for the Bay of Pigs invasion but proved fiercer in the halls of Congress, where he lobbied successfully for economic embargoes and the controversial Helms-Burton Act.

DIED. COLEMAN YOUNG, 79, feisty five-term mayor of Detroit from 1974 to 1993; of respiratory and heart problems; in Detroit. The ex-World War II Tuskegee Airman became one of the first black mayors of a major U.S. city. Blunt and upbeat, he integrated the police and fire departments and tried to spur development of the waterfront with construction of the huge Renaissance Center. The Motor City, however, continued its decline during his tenure, as its population shrank and crime remained high.

DIED. BUCK LEONARD, 90, Hall of Fame first baseman hailed as the Lou Gehrig of the Negro Leagues; in Rocky Mount, N.C. With flawless glove work and a career batting average well above .300, Leonard anchored the Washington Homestead Grays from 1934 to 1950. "We had our own league, like another world," he recalled philosophically, "and we played like no other league existed."

DIED. HASTINGS KAMUZU BANDA, 90s, Malawi's self-proclaimed President-for-Life whose idiosyncratic tenure was ended by democratic elections in 1994; in Johannesburg. After his country won freedom from Britain in 1964, Banda delayed Africanization and curried favor with apartheid South Africa to bolster the economy.

DIED. MARGUERITE HENRY, 95, creator of fiction's favored steeds--Misty of Chincoteague, Sham (of the Newbery Award-winning King of the Wind), Brighty and Black Gold; in Rancho Santa Fe, Calif.

DIED. JOYCE WETHERED, 96, unflappable first lady of the links; in London. Unknown and not yet 19, Wethered easily outshot Cecil Leitch at the English Ladies' championship in 1920. Her textbook swing and unswerving concentration (once, a passing steam locomotive failed to distract her eye from the ball) won her four more of those titles and four British championships.