Milestones: Sep. 10, 1984

HOSPITALIZED. Jean Harris, 61, former school headmistress now serving a 15-year-to-life sentence for killing Scarsdale Diet Doctor Herman Tarnower; after suffering a heart attack at the Bedford Hills Correctional Facility, where she has been incarcerated since 1981; in Valhalla, N.Y.

DIED. Pierre Gemayel, 78, courtly, shrewd and strong-willed political chieftain of Lebanon's Christians, a key powerbroker in the country's factional political strife, and father of President Amin Gemayel and his brother Bashir, who was killed in 1982 before he could assume the presidency; of a heart attack; in Bikfaya, Lebanon. He helped found...

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