Milestones

By Val Castronovo, Matthew Cooper, Lina Lofaro, Desa Philadelphia, Alain L. Sanders, Flora Tartakovsky and Josh Tyrangiel

DIVORCING. MONTEL WILLIAMS, 43, TV host and multiple sclerosis sufferer, and GRACE WILLIAMS, 36, actress, his wife of seven years. They have two children.

NATURALIZED. ANTHONY HOPKINS, 62, Oscar-winning British actor; as a U.S. citizen; in Los Angeles. Sir Anthony the Yank (LECTER THE DEFECTOR, cried one British headline) will be a dual national.

DIED. LARRY LINVILLE, 60, TV's Major Frank Burns, the military stickler captivated by Nurse Hot Lips in the 1970s comic hit M*A*S*H; of pneumonia complications; in New York City.

DIED. JAMES VORENBERG, 72, former Harvard Law School dean and a key deputy to Watergate prosecutor Archibald Cox, whose organizational efforts helped the office survive President Nixon's ouster of Cox in the Saturday Night Massacre; of cardiac arrest; in Boston.

DIED. ROBERT KOMER, 78, President Johnson's aggressive chief of "pacification," the controversial propaganda program aimed at the Vietnamese during the war; in Arlington, Va. A once fiery hawk, he came to view the war as "a strategic disaster."

DIED. ALBERT TURNER, 64, civil rights leader at the vanguard of a 1965 voting-rights march from Selma; after his heart stopped before a surgery; in Selma, Ala.

DIED. WILLIAM STOKOE JR., 80, Gallaudet University professor whose work led to recognition of American Sign Language as a true language and a fitting teaching tool for the deaf; in Chevy Chase, Md.

DIED. ANDRE DEUTSCH, 82, influential Hungarian-born British publisher who rose from being a bird scarer in Shropshire to publishing Norman Mailer's best-selling The Naked and the Dead; in London.

DIED. GIORGIO BASSANI, 84, acclaimed Italian author of The Garden of the Finzi-Continis (1962), a haunting, semiautobiographical novel of an aristocratic Jewish family's illusory attempts to take refuge from the Fascists in a walled villa; in Rome.