Monday, Apr. 17, 2000
Milestones
By Val Castronovo, Matthew Cooper, Lina Lofaro, Desa Philadelphia, Hope Reeves, Elizabeth Rudulph, Alain Sanders and Josh Tyrangiel
ARRESTED. MOMCILO KRAJISNIK, 55, top Bosnian Serb war leader; by NATO troops; on war crimes charges, including genocide; in Pale, Bosnia. He pleaded not guilty in the Hague.
SENTENCED. LAWRENCE TAYLOR, 41, pro football Hall of Famer; to three months' house arrest, five years' probation and a $10,000 fine; for income tax evasion; in Camden, N.J.
DIED. CLAIRE TREVOR, 91, actress who specialized in playing tough-talking floozies with hearts of gold and won a supporting-actress Oscar for just such a role in Key Largo (1948); in Newport Beach, Calif. One of her most memorable parts came opposite John Wayne in the classic Stagecoach (1939).
DIED. JEAN LEOPOLD DOMINIQUE, 69, pro-democracy director of Radio Haiti Inter; from gunshots by attackers; in Port-au-Prince (see Eulogy, below).
DIED. TOMMASO BUSCETTA, 71, Italian organized-crime turncoat; of cancer; at an undisclosed U.S. witness-protection location. He testified in the New York "pizza connection" heroin-smuggling trial of the 1980s and helped put away hundreds of mobsters on both sides of the Atlantic.
DIED. LEE PETTY, 86, three-time NASCAR champion, winner of the first Daytona 500 and patriarch of a four-generation racing dynasty that includes his famous son Richard; in Greensboro, N.C.
DIED. WAYNE MCALLISTER, 92, West Coast architect whose flamboyant hotels and drive-in restaurants monumentalized America's car culture; in Arcadia, Calif. The neon gulch of casino classics he carved in Las Vegas included the El Rancho and Sands. In Los Angeles, one of his Bob's Big Boy eateries is a state landmark.
DIED. HABIB BOURGUIBA, 96, Tunisia's liberator from French colonial rule in 1956, and the nation's pro-Western President for Life until a 1987 bloodless coup; in Monastir, Tunisia. He modernized his country and promoted women's rights and moderation toward Israel.