SEEKING DIVORCE. Nancy Lopez Melton, 25, fourth leading money winner in the Ladies Professional Golf Association this year; from Tim Melton, 33, Houston TV sports announcer; on grounds of conflict of personalities; in Stafford, Texas.

DIED. Neil Bogart, 39, maverick entertainment mogul whose "ear for the street" made him a millionaire catalyst of the disco-music craze; of cancer; in Los Angeles. Bogart at 27 first corralled the teeny-bopper record market with "bubblegum" music like the indigestible Yummy Yummy Yummy ("I've got love in my tummy"). With his sure instinct for slick commercialization, he was a key shaper of the success of such pop singers and groups as Donna Summer, Mac Davis, the Village People and Kiss. An occasional co-producer of expertly hyped movies as well (Midnight Express, The Deep), Bogart garnered 60 gold and 24 platinum records.

DIED. Dennis Stone, 52, prominent epidemiologist who co-wrote the definitive study of the links between fetal deformities and drugs used by pregnant women; of a brain tumor; in Lexington, Mass. Slone's 1977 Birth Defects and Drugs in Pregnancy concluded that the most commonly used painkillers, tranquilizers and sleeping pills involve little risk to fetuses. Last year, however, his team reported that women who used oral contraceptives for a long time doubled or tripled their chances of having a heart attack.

DIED. Del Carroll, 62, Keeneland race track's winningest trainer, whose horses won $19 million and 2,115 victories during his 32-year career; of head injuries in a riding accident at Keeneland; in Lexington, Ky. His most famous Thoroughbred was Bee Bee Bee, who took the 1972 Preakness and broke up Riva Ridge's bid for the Triple Crown.

DIED. Peter Weiss, 65, reclusive, German-born playwright who wrote the shocking tour de force, The Persecution and Assassination of Jean Paul Marat as Performed by the Inmates of the Asylum of Charenton Under the Direction of the Marquis de Sade (1964); of a heart attack; in Stockholm. Tormented by guilt for having escaped the Holocaust and convinced that the modern world had gone mad, Weiss, who was a naturalized Swedish citizen, created polemical works of intense graphic imagery meant to jolt audiences out of their complacency. In Marat/Sade he explored clashing views of society: De Sade's celebration of self-indulgence and individualism vs. French Revolutionary Marat's defense of mass killing for the good of mankind. In his later works, Weiss, an avowed Marxist, railed against the Viet Nam War and colonialism in Angola, but also condemned oppressive Communist regimes after the 1968 Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia.

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