Milestones

By Harriet Barovick, Val Castronovo, Matthew Cooper, Autumn De Leon, Lina Lofaro, Desa Philadelphia, Chris Taylor

AILING. DUDLEY MOORE, 64, puckish composer and star of Arthur; of progressive supranuclear palsy (PSP), an incurable brain disorder similar to Parkinson's disease; at a rehabilitation center in West Orange, N.J.

ARRESTED. LAWRENCE MICHAEL LOMBARDI, 41, unemployed white father of two, suspected in two recent bombings at the predominantly black Florida A&M University; on a bomb-manufacturing charge; in Tallahassee, Fla.

RELEASED. KATHERINE ANN POWER, 50, former student radical; after serving six years in prison for manslaughter in the 1970 death of police officer Walter Schroeder during an armed bank robbery; in Framingham, Mass. Power, who drove the getaway car, spent 23 years underground and surrendered in 1993.

AWARDED. To GUNTER GRASS, 71, provocative German writer whose explorations of his country's torturous century established him as one of the most esteemed voices of the postwar era; the Nobel Prize for Literature; in Stockholm. The jury predicted that Grass's The Tin Drum (1959) would become "one of the enduring literary works of the 20th century."

DIED. JUDITH EXNER, 65, rumored former mistress of John F. Kennedy and Mob boss Sam Giancana; of breast cancer; in Duarte, Calif. A sometime Rat Pack associate, Exner claimed to have been a conduit between Kennedy and Giancana.

DIED. DONALD SANDERS, 69, G.O.P. staff lawyer for the Senate committee that investigated Watergate, who uncovered the existence of Nixon's White House tapes; of cancer; in Columbia, Mo. During a slow-going interview with Nixon aide Alexander Butterfield, a persistent Sanders asked if recording devices were ever used. "I wish you hadn't asked," Butterfield said, "but yes."

DIED. OSEOLA MCCARTY, 91, folk heroine; in Hattiesburg, Miss. (see EULOGY).