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DIED. MARIE LAMBERT, 76, Manhattan Surrogate, judge who presided over the estates of the wealthy and famous, including Marilyn Monroe, Lillian Hellman and Johnson & Johnson heir J. Seward Johnson; in New York City...
...Starr went back to work as if nothing had changed. But so much has. This latest incident leaves no doubts about Starr's ties to the far right. The school he will head was founded with a $1.1 million grant from Richard Mellon Scaife, the Pittsburgh newspaper publisher and heir to the Mellon fortune who funds some of the most virulent anti-Clinton organizations. Although former counsel Robert Fiske, the coroner and the FBI found that Vince Foster's death was a suicide, Starr reopened that investigation. Scaife has given hundreds of thousands of dollars to the Western Journalism Center...
CONVICTED. JOHN DU PONT, 58, family heir; of murder; in Media, Pennsylvania. He was found to be mentally ill when he killed a wrestler on his estate...
...spiritual pollution" of cosmetics and discotheques. But Deng persisted, likening the effect to mere "flies that come through an open window." By the late '80s, however, economic liberalization had spilled uncontrollably into political yearnings; soon labor unrest and student demonstrations for greater freedom panicked Deng. He sacked his popular heir apparent, party chief Hu Yaobang, for pushing political reforms. By this time the only title Deng held was honorary chairman of the Chinese Bridge Association (he had refused all high posts since his 1977 comeback, and in 1989 gave up the critical job as head of the Central Military Commission...
...would-be suitors. A man named Ramakrishna Gowd went to court insisting he was married to the Gandhi daughter, but the judge recommended he be incarcerated and seek psychiatric help. And on the day of the happy but heavily guarded nuptials, Ms. Gandhi--once thought to be a likely heir to the family's political legacy--was surprised by a 46-year-old schoolteacher who turned up claiming he was the prospective groom. He was arrested on the spot...