Milestones

By Melissa August, Amanda Bower, Beau Briese, Rhett Butler, Ellin Martens, Sora Song, Kadesha Thomas and Josh Tyrangiel

SENTENCED. ROBERT F. KENNEDY JR., to 30 days in prison; for trespassing during a protest of U.S. Navy bombing exercises on Vieques; in San Juan. The latest of several high-profile protesters to be imprisoned, Kennedy may miss the birth of his sixth child, expected this week.

TURNED OVER. TIMOTHY WOODLAND, 24, U.S. Air Force sergeant accused of raping a Japanese woman in her 20s in a parking lot last month; to local authorities; in Okinawa, Japan. The U.S. released Woodland into Japanese custody without an indictment after the Japanese government agreed to allow him access to legal counsel and a translator during police interrogations--privileges not usually available to suspects in Japan.

DIED. JOE HENDERSON, 64, lyrical modern-jazz saxophonist and composer; of heart failure; in San Francisco. Henderson, who started out in his high school band, made his recording debut in 1963 on trumpeter Kenny Dorham's Una Mas, now a Blue Note classic. He went on to play with pianists Horace Silver and Herbie Hancock, and recorded a string of his own successful albums. In the 1990s, Henderson won four Grammy awards, two for best jazz instrumental solo for Lush Life and Miles Ahead.

DIED. HANNELORE KOHL, 68, loyal wife of 41 years to former German Chancellor Helmut Kohl; by suicide; in Ludwigshafen, Germany. Since 1993 she had endured a painful and untreatable allergy to sunlight, triggered by a severe reaction to a penicillin treatment. The photoallergy, which caused hivelike rashes and fever, forced Kohl to remain indoors every day until dark. During the past 15 months her debilitating condition had worsened and left her totally homebound and dependent on painkillers.

DIED. MORDECAI RICHLER, 70, undiplomatic Canadian author whose humorous and often irreverent writings gave equal time to mocking the bourgeoisie, Judaism, life in Montreal and elitist Quebecois; of complications from kidney cancer; in Montreal. Richler's first acclaimed novel, The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz (1959), about an ambitious Jewish boy clawing his way out of working-class Montreal, was turned into a movie with Richard Dreyfuss in 1974 and earned Richler an Oscar nomination for the screenplay. He also wrote prolifically on such political topics as the Quebec separatist movement, scoffing at the law banning exterior signs in any language but French as "linguistic cleansing." His novels Cocksure (1968) and St. Urbain's Horseman (1971) both won the Governor General's Literary Award, Canada's highest writing prize.

DIED. ELY CALLAWAY, 82, golf-equipment innovator and founder of Callaway Golf Co.; of pancreatic cancer; in Rancho Santa Fe, Calif. Callaway's aim was simply to make golfers happy; to that end he designed more "forgiving" clubs, like the popular, oversize Big Bertha driver, which he introduced in 1991. In 1999 he launched the controversial ERC driver, banned by the U.S. Golf Association for exceeding the limit on the so-called springlike effect (how far the club head rebounds after striking the ball) but soundly endorsed for recreation by golf's favorite son, Arnold Palmer.