Monday, May. 28, 2001

Milestones

By Kathleen Adams, Melissa August, Amanda Bower, Ellin Martens, Joseph Pierro, Sora Song, Joel Stein, Heather Won Tesoriero and Josh Tyrangiel

DISMISSED. LORRAINE E. HALE, 70; as president of Hale House, a Harlem charity she co-founded with her late mother Clara in 1969 that shelters babies born addicted to drugs or infected with HIV; amid an investigation into why most of the money raised was not being funneled to the children; in New York City.

PENALTY IMPOSED. On JENNA BUSH, 19, one of the President's twin daughters; six hours of attendance at an alcohol-awareness class, eight hours of community service and $51.25 in court costs; after she pleaded no contest to last month's charges of alcohol possession by a minor; in Austin, Texas. She has till July 18 to comply with the judge's order.

CONVICTED. TOM GREEN, 52, sometime telemarketer and excommunicated Mormon with five wives and 25 children; on four counts of bigamy and one count of failing to pay child support; in Provo, Utah. He may face as much as 25 years in prison and a $25,000 fine.

INDICTED. ROBERT HANSSEN, 57, FBI agent arrested last February after allegedly depositing secret documents for the Russians under a bridge in a Virginia park; on charges of spying for Moscow since 1985, identifying Russian agents working for the FBI and gravely injuring national security; in Washington. If convicted, he could get the death penalty.

CONVICTED. REGINA MCKNIGHT, 24, mother of three whose baby was stillborn in 1999 at 35 weeks; of homicide by child abuse for smoking crack cocaine during pregnancy; in Conway, S.C. In 1997, the state Supreme Court upheld the conviction of a mother charged with child abuse for using cocaine during pregnancy but McKnight's is the first homicide conviction. Expert witnesses differed about whether drug use caused the stillbirth, but the jury deliberated only 15 minutes before sentencing McKnight, two months pregnant, to 12 years in prison.

DIED. JACQUES LOWE, 71, Kennedy-clan friend and trusted photographer who produced nearly 40,000 images of John F. Kennedy and his family; of cancer; in New York City. Lowe began documenting Camelot in 1956 while on assignment for three different magazines to cover rising Washington lawyer Robert F. Kennedy. Over the next several years, his intimate pictures helped foster America's growing affection for the First Family. In 1968, after R.F.K.'s assassination, Lowe left the U.S. for Paris, not to return until 1984.

DIED. SUSANNAH MCCORKLE, 55, acclaimed jazz singer and short-story writer; after jumping from her Manhattan apartment; in New York City (see Eulogy).

DIED. JASON MILLER, 62, playwright, actor and Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award winner in 1973 for That Championship Season; of a heart attack; in Scranton, Pa. He was nominated for an Oscar for the role of Father Damien Karras in The Exorcist.

DIED. BRUNO CAVALIERI DUCATI, 96, last of three brothers who founded the Ducati motorcycle company; in Ispra, Italy. After World War II, the company patented a "micro-engine," attached it to a bicycle frame and created the Cucciolo (Puppy), one of the first Italian motorbikes, eventually selling hundreds of thousands.