Milestones: Mar. 23, 1981

ENGAGEMENT REVEALED. George Wallace, 61, former three-time Alabama Governor and independent presidential candidate; and Lisa Taylor, 32, country-and-western singer turned executive of a family-owned coal firm; in Jasper, Ala.

DIED. Chester Bitterman, 28, Protestant missionary who was kidnaped from the Colombian headquarters of Wycliffe Bible Translators on Jan. 19 by hooded terrorists claiming to represent the Marxist "April 19th Movement"; of gunshot wounds after 48 days in captivity; in Bogota, Colombia. Bitterman, the father of two, was found in a stolen minibus after the evangelical Wycliffe organization rejected a terrorist manifesto accusing...

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