Died. Lucio Cabanas, 37, Mexican guerrilla and folk hero; of wounds suffered in a gun battle with Federates; in the Sierra Madre del Sur above Acapulco. In a seven-year campaign of bank robberies, kidnapings, and slayings, Caban 7/8as, a Communist, won the sympathy of the dirt-poor marijuana growers of Guerrero state and acquired a mystique reminiscent of Emiliano Zapata.

-Died. Pietro Germi, 60, Italian film director (Divorce--Italian Style; Seduced and Abandoned; Alfredo, Alfredo); of liver disease; in Rome. Germi's Academy Award-winning Divorzio in 1961 was the first of a series of films that marked him as a superb tragicomedian who manufactured social slapstick from the hypocrisies of Italian law.

-Died. Bishop Stephen G. Spottswood, 77, an N.A.A.C.P. official and spiritual leader of the African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church; of cancer; in Washington, D.C. Son of a Boston porter, Spottswood's lifelong commitment to nonviolent action began in the 1920s.

Elected board chairman of the N.A.A.C.P.

in 1961, Spottswood's low-key manner soon came under attack from angry young militants. In the heat of the civil rights struggle, his own anger grew. In 1969, he lashed out at the Nixon Administration as "anti-black" and in 1970 claimed that "killing black Americans has been the 20th century pastime of our police."

-Died. Richard Whitney, 86, Harvard-educated, Depression-era Stock Exchange president and embezzler; in Far Hills, N.J. By wandering the floor of the exchange on "Black Thursday," Oct. 24, 1929, as the representative of a banking consortium, and bidding high on blue chip stocks, Whitney earned credit for temporarily stemming the 1929 crash. Elected president of the New York Stock Exchange, he lived regally, took to embezzling, and was convicted and sent to Sing Sing in 1938 in the scandal of the decade.

-Died. Hazel Hotchkiss Wightman, 87, "Queen Mother of American Tennis"; in Chestnut Hill, Mass. In over four decades of play, Wightman won 45 titles and a spot in the Tennis Hall of Fame. In 1919 she donated the premier prize in international women's tennis, the Wightman Cup.

-Died. Millicent V. Hearst, 92, widow of legendary Press Lord William Randolph Hearst Sr.; in Manhattan. A former chorine, Mrs. Hearst was estranged from her husband for more than three decades before his death in 1951, dividing her time among society functions, charity and travel.

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