Milestones: Feb. 23, 1981

DIED. Olivier Rebbot, 31, French freelance photographer; of injuries received on Jan. 15 when he was shot by a sniper in San Francisco Gotera, El Salvador, while on assignment for Newsweek; in Hialeah, Fla. Rebbot was the second journalist to be killed and the third to be wounded this year in the civil strife in El Salvador. Another, American Freelance Writer John J. Sullivan, is missing and presumed dead.

DIED. Bill Haley, 55, singer and guitarist who combined blues, country and pop influences into a pioneering rock-'n'-roll style on such hit records of the 1950s as Rock Around the Clock, Shake, Rattle...

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