Milestones

By Harriet Barovick, ELIZABETH L. BLAND, Sora Song

ARRESTED. ALBERTO FUJIMORI, 67, fugitive ex-President of Peru, still popular among some for leading an early 1990s economic rebound; as he attempted to return to the country to seek re-election in defiance of an international arrest warrant; after five years in exile in Japan, where he is a citizen thanks to his Japanese-born emigrant parents; in Santiago, Chile. Fujimori faces up to 55 years in jail and $29 million in fines for alleged corruption and sanctioning of death squads during his 10-year rule.

REPORTED DEAD. IZZAT IBRAHIM AL-DOURI, 63, former top aide to Saddam Hussein and ranked No. 6 in the Pentagon's Most Wanted deck; by the formerly ruling Baath Party, in a message to reporters. Al-Douri, whose death could not yet be confirmed by U.S. officials, has been at large since December 2003, when Saddam was captured. He was believed to have leukemia.

DIED. FERNANDO BUJONES, 50, the greatest U.S.-born ballet dancer of his generation; of skin cancer; in Miami. In 1974 the 19-year-old son of Cuban immigrants became the first American male to win a gold medal at the International Ballet Competition. But Mikhail Baryshnikov's defection from the Soviet Union quickly overshadowed Bujones' feat--and the pair's later clashes at the American Ballet Theatre led Baryshnikov, who became the group's artistic director, to fire Bujones in 1985. A sought-after guest artist, he danced with 60 companies in 33 countries, partnering with Gelsey Kirkland, Natalia Makarova and others, and most recently headed the Orlando Ballet in his native Florida.

DIED. LORD LICHFIELD, 66, dashing photographer of Britain's elite; after a stroke; in London (see p. 136).

DIED. SHEREE NORTH, 72, blond bombshell of 1950s Hollywood; of complications from surgery; in Los Angeles. Groomed to replace the flighty Marilyn Monroe, North did just that in 1955's How to Be Very, Very Popular, and later danced with Harold Lang in the Broadway musical I Can Get It for You Wholesale (top). But the glamour girl's insistence on aging naturally led to memorable roles on TV's The Mary Tyler Moore Show, as Lou Grant's savvy lady friend, and as Kramer's mother on Seinfeld.

DIED. C.P. ELLIS, 78, whose transformation from Ku Klux Klan Grand Cyclops to civil rights activist was chronicled in the book The Best of Enemies and the film An Unlikely Friendship; in Durham, N.C. The cause of the shift: a 1971 community forum on violence as Durham tried to integrate its schools. Over 10 days of talks, he became so close to his adversary and co-chair, desegregationist Ann Atwater, that he denounced the Klan and joined her efforts.

DIED. JOHN FOWLES, 79, British author of such popular, critically acclaimed novels as The Collector, The Magus and The French Lieutenant's Woman; in Lyme Regis, England. Swayed by Sartre and Camus, Fowles explored existential themes of obsession, uncertainty and free will, stretching the limits of literary form (he was a fan of multiple endings) and dreaming scenes into existence (Woman, the Victorian love saga that became a hit film starring Meryl Streep, started with his recurring dream of a woman on a pier). Uneasy with his commercial success, he lived largely as a recluse, once saying he could never tell his stories adequately, as "[no] art or science can describe the whole reality of nature."

DIED. K.R. NARAYANAN, 85, India's first "untouchable" President; in New Delhi. A member of the Dalits, the group of Hindus on the lowest rung of the brutal 3,000-year caste system, he used his post to vocally rebuke the "caste-ism" that deemed his people unclean.