Milestones, Jun. 25, 1979

MARRIED. Maria Isabella Niarchos, 20, daughter of the Greek shipping Croesus Stavros Niarchos and a staffer at the French edition of Vogue; and Alix Chevassus, 36, heir to a French chemical fortune; both for the first tune; in Paris.

DIED. General Ignatius Acheampong, 47, who ruled West Africa's chronically troubled Republic of Ghana from 1972 to 1978; by firing squad following his conviction on charges of corruption; in Accra. The country's current strongman, Flight Lieut. Jerry Rawlings, 33, overthrew Acheampong's successor in another military coup earlier this month.

DIED. Anatoli Kuznetsov, 49, Russian author of Babi Yar, a documentary novel about the Nazi...

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