Milestones

By Daniel Eisenberg, Anita Hamilton, Michael Krantz, Jodie Morse, Michele Orecklin, Alain L. Sanders, Hiroko Tashiro and Susan Veitch

MARRIED. LUCY LAWLESS, 30, New Zealand-born, leather bustier-wearing star of Xena: Warrior Princess; and ROB TAPERT, 43, the show's executive producer; in Santa Monica, Calif.

ACQUITTED. LORENA GALLO, erstwhile member mangler formerly known as Lorena Bobbitt; of allegedly assaulting her mother in a fight over family bills; in Prince William County, Va.

CONVICTED. MAURICE PAPON, 87, high-ranking functionary in France's wartime Vichy regime; in a grueling six-month trial that dredged up the darkest moments of the country's past; of complicity in crimes against humanity; in Bordeaux, France. Papon was sentenced to 10 years in prison.

DIED. DAVID HICKS, 69, 1960s avatar of interior design who dressed the homes of the rich and famous with wall-to-wall flamboyance and fidgety fuss; of cancer; in Oxfordshire, England. Hicks, a sworn enemy of chintz, eschewed the staid flowery prints in favor of eye-popping solids, which he boldly mingled with modern paintings and patterned carpets. Among his chichi clientele: King Fahd and royals Prince Charles and Princess Anne, who became his peers after he married Lady Pamela Mountbatten.

DIED. BELLA ABZUG, 77, champion extraordinaire of women, labor, blacks and any other underdog society could muster; in New York City. With the slogan "This woman's place is in the House--the House of Representatives," she won a seat in Congress in 1970 and bowled over Washington with her in-your-face manner and her raspy voice for reform. Abzug's signature hats were as wide and as colorful as her crotchety chutzpah.

DIED. ATHELSTAN SPILHAUS, 86, scientific jack-of-all-trades; in Middleburg, Va. A deep-sea thermometer and weather-friendly covered skyways were among his futuristic designs.