MILESTONES

HOSPITALIZED. COURTNEY LOVE, 30, rock singer; for an overdose of what a police spokesman said were prescription drugs; in Seattle. Love, singer and songwriter for the band Hole, became groggy during a flight from New York, passing out by the time she arrived home. She recovered and was released after 12 hours.

HOSPITALIZED. JOSEPH CARDINAL BERNARDIN, 67, head of the Chicago Roman Catholic diocese; for the removal of malignant tumors in the liver and pancreas as well as a cancerous kidney and lymph node; in Maywood, Illinois. Bernardin faces extensive chemotherapy and radiation treatments.

RECOVERING. WHITEY FORD, 66, retired baseball great; from cancer; on Long Island, New York. The Yankee Hall of Fame pitcher revealed he'd had a cancerous tumor removed from behind his left ear last December in an eight-hour operation. He has been receiving radiation treatment.

DIED. ARTHUR KROPP, 37, president of the liberal lobbying group People for the American Way; from AIDS; in Washington. Kropp went to work for TV producer Norman Lear's organization -- a direct response to Jerry Falwell's Moral Majority -- in 1984. PAW's ranks swelled to 300,000 during Kropp's tenure as it weighed in against Robert Bork and the "flag-burning amendment"-and for gay rights and free speech.

DIED. ROGER ZELAZNY, 58, author; of lung cancer; in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Armed with pyrotechnic prose and a stylish command of mythic themes, Zelazny broke new ground in science fiction as part of the 1960s "New Wave," which presented socially and psychologically complex views of the future, at sharp odds with the genre's traditionally upbeat portrayals of tomorrow. The winner of every major award in the field, Zelazny saw his grim vision of a postapocalyptic America, Damnation Alley, made into an uncompelling 1977 Jan-Michael Vincent film.