MILESTONES

SETTLEMENT ACCEPTED. By HUGO PRINCZ, 72, Holocaust survivor; after his 40-year pursuit of compensation from the German government for 3 1/2 years spent at Maidanek and Auschwitz; in Washington. The settlement means $2.1 million for Princz and 10 other Americans denied reparations because of technicalities in German law.

GUILTY. GEORGE LINDEMANN, 31, scion of a cellular-phone empire; of having his underperforming show horse Charisma electrocuted in order to get $250,000 in insurance money; in Chicago. He is one of 23 upscale equestrians indicted in a fraud scheme.

SENTENCED. NINA SIMONE, 62, singer; to a two-month suspended sentence and a $5,000 fine for causing and fleeing a 1993 auto accident that injured two young motorcyclists; in Aix-en-Provence, France.

DIED. RUDY PERPICH, 67, Governor of Minnesota, 1977-79, 1983-91; from colon cancer; in Minneapolis. His record 10 years in office mixed a knack for making headlines (with notions such as selling the Governor's mansion) with a yen for making history: the nation's largest mall, a state arts high school, unprecedented opportunities for women and minorities in government.

DIED. WALTER HAAS, 79, heir of jeans maker Levi Strauss, beloved by Oaklanders for acquiring the A's in 1980 to keep the baseball team on home turf; in San Francisco.

DIED. ORVILLE REDENBACHER, 88, popcorn potentate; in Coronado, California. His persona on TV spots made him an icon of, well, pure corn: the crisp bow tie, the Alfalfa-style hair, the good-natured geekiness. But beneath this hayseed hucksterism, Orville Redenbacher was the Luther Burbank of popcorn. The decades he devoted to the staple food of double features produced a gourmet hybrid that exploded to twice the size and twice the sales of its competitors.