Milestones

By Harriet Barovick, Ellin Martens and Sora Song

PLEADED GUILTY. SARA JANE OLSON, 54, homemaker and ex-fugitive formerly known as Kathleen Soliah; to the attempted murder of police by car bombs in 1975 for the Symbionese Liberation Army; in Los Angeles. Olson's comments following the plea--she maintained her innocence but said she would not receive a fair trial in the wake of the Sept. 11 attacks--prompted the judge to order a hearing to determine whether to toss out the plea.

DIED. REGINE CAVAGNOUD, 31, world champion high-speed skier; after colliding with a German coach while training on a glacier in Innsbruck, Austria. Cavagnoud won last year's super-G World Cup and was third in the World Cup overall. She was considered a top contender for France in the 2002 Winter Olympics.

DIED. JOHN ROBERTS, 56, a founding producer of Woodstock, the 1969 music festival that defined a generation of sex, drugs and music-loving hippies-who-became-yuppies; of cancer; in New York City. Roberts and three friends put on the show to fund a music studio. With "local talent" like Bob Dylan, they expected 50,000 at Yasgur's farm in upstate New York; the event drew more than 500,000.

DIED. MARVIN HARRIS, 74, provocative mainstream anthropologist who promoted "cultural materialism," the idea that human social life forms in response to practical problems; in Gainesville, Fla. Among his theories: Aztec cannibals were protein-deprived; warfare was a way of curbing populations when protein became scarce; and a necktie signaled that a man was above physical labor.

DIED. JOHN SPRINGER, 85, fiercely protective, proudly star-struck Hollywood publicist who more often than not tried to keep his top-of-the-A-list clients, including Marilyn Monroe, Judy Garland and Cary Grant, out of the news; in New York City. "Trust is what it's all about," he said of his job. "I feel my obligation is something like the seal of a confessional."

DIED. PAUL WARNKE, 81, outspoken Washington defense adviser and a leader of the doves, a group of diplomats who advocated disarmament during the cold war; in Washington. In the Johnson Administration, Warnke was the highest-ranking Pentagon official to publicly question the aims of the Vietnam War. As Jimmy Carter's chief negotiator with the Soviets in the SALT talks, he argued, "We can be first off the treadmill. That's the only victory this arms race has to offer."