Milestones Mar. 31, 1997

PLEADED GUILTY. CAPTAIN DERRICK ROBERTSON, 31, to consensual sex, sodomy, adultery and conduct unbecoming an officer; in Aberdeen Proving Ground, Maryland. Robertson, the first officer sentenced in the Aberdeen sex scandal, was booted out of the Army, and will serve four months in prison.

AILING. SCOTT HAMILTON, 38, Olympic gold-medal skater; with testicular cancer. Doctors say Hamilton will undergo chemotherapy treatment.

DIED. CARLO FASSI, 67, coach who guided Peggy Fleming, Dorothy Hamill, John Curry and Robin Cousins to Olympic gold medals; of a heart attack; in Lausanne, Switzerland, where he was accompanying his current skaters, including American Nicole Bobek, at the...

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