Milestones

By Harriet Barovick, Tam Gray, Daniel Levy, Lina Lofaro, Jodie Morse and Joel Stein

DIED. GALINA STAROVOITOVA, 52, outspoken Russian reformist and potential presidential candidate; gunned down outside her apartment; in St. Petersburg.

DIED. KWAME TURE, 57, American revolutionary once known as Stokely Carmichael; of prostate cancer; in Conakry, Guinea. He popularized the term "black power" and redefined the civil rights movement. In 1969 he moved to Guinea, severing ties with the Black Panthers, whom he deemed insufficiently militant (see Eulogy).

DIED. ESTHER ROLLE, 78, pioneering black actress who spoke out against racial stereotyping; in Los Angeles. Best known for her role as Florida Evans in the series Good Times, Rolle left the show for a while, protesting the clownish image of her on-screen, "Dyn-o-Mite"-uttering son J.J.

DIED. ALAN PAKULA, 70, filmmaker; after a pole struck the car he was driving; in Long Island, N.Y. In his four-decade career Pakula directed or produced more than 20 movies, including All the President's Men and Sophie's Choice, and was one of Hollywood's foremost actor's directors. His edgy, psychologically evocative films won critical kudos and Oscars. "A man who is in control and inside there is a frightened child--that interests me," Pakula once told a reporter. "Why? You can draw your own conclusions."

DIED. WEEB EWBANK, 91, understated and paternal longtime head coach of the New York Jets; in Oxford, Ohio. After the Jets, then an upstart team with the fledgling A.F.L., trounced the Colts in 1969's Super Bowl III--pro football's most memorable upset--Ewbank offered a near apology to the Colts' Don Shula: "We had all the breaks." Ferociously beloved by his players and colleagues (Jets' quarterback Joe Namath once called him a "little butterball"), the Hall of Famer coached the game for 45 years.