Milestones

By Melissa August, Harriet Barovick, Janice M. Horowitz, Barbara Maddux, Kate Novack, Sora Song, Deirdre Van Dyk and Rebecca Winters

DISCLOSED, by AOL TIME WARNER, that federal regulators are investigating whether the company overstated its ad revenues by an additional $400 million; in a filing with the SEC. The company, which owns TIME, previously admitted overstating revenues by $190 million, but says in this case its accounting was correct.

REMOVED. GENERAL JOHN DALLAGER, 56, BRIGADIER GENERAL S. TACO GILBERT III, 46, COLONEL ROBERT ESKRIDGE, 46, AND COLONEL LAURIE SLAVEC, 48, the four top officers at the U.S. Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs, Colo.; after allegations by dozens of female cadets that they had been raped by fellow cadets but discouraged from reporting the assaults; by Air Force Secretary James Roche.

RESIGNED. RICHARD PERLE, 61, as chairman of the Defense Policy Board, which advises the Pentagon; amid criticism of his business ties, including one with Global Crossing, which had retained the hawkish Perle to help gain Pentagon approval of its sale to an Asian venture; in Washington. While denying any conflict of interest, Perle said he did not want to distract attention from the Pentagon's current "urgent challenge."

DIED. ADAM OSBORNE, 64, computer executive who in 1981 introduced the first portable PC; after a series of strokes; in Kodiakanal, India. With its 5-in. screen, his 24-lb. Osborne 1 elicited a frenzy of orders before manufacturing glitches derailed the machine. Osborne Computer declared bankruptcy in 1983.

DIED. PAUL ZINDEL, 66, chemistry teacher turned playwright who won a Pulitzer Prize for his semiautobiographical 1970 play, The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds, the story of two siblings with an abusive mother; of cancer; in New York City.

DIED. ROBERT BOURQUE, 82, creator of Zoltan the Astrological Wizard, a mechanical fortuneteller that dispensed predictions at beachfronts and arcades before the age of electronic games; in Duxbury, Mass. The turbaned seer was the model for Zoltar, who turned Tom Hanks from a boy into a man in the 1988 movie Big.