ARRESTED. David Dorr, 30, and Peter Marchant, 24, former bellhops at the Brazilian Court Hotel in Palm Beach, Fla.; for conspiracy to sell cocaine and for selling the drug to the late David Kennedy; in Barnstable, Mass., and Warwick, R.I. Dorr, a Cape Cod resident, and Marchant, a Rhode Island native, face a maximum penalty of 20 years imprisonment and a $15,000 fine for both charges. On the day of the arrest, Palm Beach officials announced that Kennedy, 28, son of the late Senator Robert Kennedy, had died after "multiple ingestion of cocaine, Demerol and a prescription sedative called Mellaril." Under Florida law, the accused coke dealers could also face a felony murder charge, though that is unlikely because of the difficulty of proving that the coke they allegedly sold was the same drug found in Kennedy's body.

DIED. Andy Kaufman, 35, quirky comedian who antagonized as many audiences as he delighted with his bizarre brand of humor; of lung cancer (although he was never a smoker); in Los Angeles. From 1978 to 1983, Kaufman played the childlike mechanic Latka Gravas on television's Taxi, but he was more celebrated for his stand-up acts and concert appearances in which he wrestled women, impersonated Elvis Presley and sleazy nightclub crooners, and sang the tedious camp song One Hundred Bottles of Beer on the Wall almost all the way through. He seemed to relish putting audiences on, and off balance, making them wonder if he was joking at all, as in his shoving match with a TV producer and actors on a live broadcast of ABC's Friday's in 1981. "I just want real reactions," said Kaufman in explaining his comedy. "I want people to laugh from the gut, be sad from the gut--or get angry from the gut."

DIED. Michael Demarest, 59, versatile TIME senior writer; of a heart attack; in New Orleans, where he was completing an assignment on the World's Fair (see LIVING). A U.S. Cavalry officer's son who was reared in England, Demarest joined TIME as an Atlanta correspondent in 1954 and went on to serve as editor of the Nation section from 1965 to 1969. After a stint as executive editor of Playboy (1970-74), Demarest returned to TIME, where he wrote Living and contributed to several other sections of the magazine. Over the years he wrote about subjects as diverse as military history, urban planning, gardening and gourmet food, always bringing wit, intellectual rigor and urbanity to his work.

DIED. Irwin Shaw, 71, popular, prolific American writer whose lean, straightforward prose style and masterly sense of storytelling won wide audiences for such novels as The Young Lions (1948) and Rich Man, Poor Man (1970), but who will be remembered critically for his short stories of the 1930s and '40s; of a heart attack; in Davos, Switzerland. Born in Brooklyn, Shaw first won acclaim for his antiwar play Bury the Dead in 1936. He attracted a wide following with his short stories in The New Yorker, particularly his exquisite evocation of a young man's obsession, The Girls in Their Summer Dresses (1939). Renowned in writers' circles for his generosity to young authors, Shaw took his financial success lightly (his novels were often turned into movies or TV mini-series). He took his craft seriously, however, saying, "I sweat over every word, but I'm glad it doesn't show."

DIED. Francis Schaeffer, 72, Christian theologian and a leading scholar of evangelical Protestantism; of cancer; in Rochester, Minn. Schaeffer, a Philadelphia-born Presbyterian, and his wife in 1955 founded L'Abri (French for "the shelter"), a chalet in the Swiss Alps known among students and intellectuals for a reasoned rather than emotional approach to religious counseling. His 23 philosophical books include the bestseller How Should We Then Live? (1976).

DIED. John Betjeman, 77, poet laureate of Britain whose whimsical light verse and nostalgic odes to genteel Edwardian England won him uncommon popular success; in Trebetherick, Cornwall. The son of a prosperous businessman, Betjeman flunked out of Oxford and worked in a variety of jobs, from journalist to insurance salesman, before his Selected Poems (1948) won the prestigious Heinemann Award. Critics were divided on Betjeman's poetry; many found it trivial or derivative, perhaps because of its simple musical rhymes and accessible themes. An astute architectural critic, he waged passionate campaigns to preserve England's historical treasures and opposed the spread of urban development. In 1972, Queen Elizabeth named Betjeman poet laureate, a title once held by Tennyson and Wordsworth, but ill health curtailed his productivity over the past decade. One of his last collections, A Nip in the Air, concluded with a poignant epitaph: "Now if the harvest is over/ And the world cold/ Give me the bonus of laughter/ As I lose hold."

DIED. Walter Rauff, 77, one of the most infamous fugitive Nazi war criminals, who designed the "Black Raven" mobile gas-chamber vans that were used to exterminate perhaps 250,000 East Europeans, most of them Jews, in 1941-42; of lung cancer; in Santiago, Chile. A colonel in the SS, Rauff fled Europe after World War II and settled in 1958 in Chile where he lived in relative obscurity and comfort. Since 1963, Chile has rejected appeals from Israel, France and West Germany for Rauff's extradition to face murder charges.