CUSTODY AWARDED.To ILONA ("Cicciolina") STALLER, 43, sometime porn star and former Italian M.P.; of her two-year-old son Ludwig Maximilian by ex-husband JEFF KOONS, the American artist; in Rome.

CHARGED. HOWARD STERN, 41, radio "shock jock"; with disorderly conduct; by a judge in Harlingen, Texas. Stern's on-air mocking of slain Mexican-American singing star Selena could earn him a $500 fine if he ever sets foot in the Lone Star State.

DIED. GUNTER GUILLAUME, 68, East German spy whose embarrassing infiltration of Willy Brandt's office forced the West German Chancellor's resignation in 1974; of a stroke; in Eggersdorf, Germany. Working his way up through the ranks of the Social Democratic Party, Guillaume became a personal aide to Brandt after he was elected in 1969; Guillaume's close relationship with Brandt allowed him unfettered access to secrets, a breach he exploited fully.

DIED. BURL IVES, 85, goateed crooner and actor beloved by generations of children for his mellifluous renditions of Frosty the Snowman and The Blue Tail Fly; in Anacortes, Washington. Among the best known of Ives' many stage and screen roles were his starring appearance as Big Daddy in the original Broadway production of Cat on a Hot Tin Roof and his narration of the undying holiday TV special, Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer.

DIED. MORARJI DESAI, 99, ascetic former Prime Minister of India who led the country's first non-Congress Party government from 1977 to 1979; in Bombay. After Prime Minister Indira Gandhi imposed a state of emergency in 1975 and imprisoned political opponents-including Desai, for 21 months-voters put his coalition in power. He credited his long life to celibacy (begun at age 32 after his fifth child was born) and a spartan diet of fruit, milk, juice and, from time to time, his own urine.