Milestones Jun. 9, 1997

HOSPITALIZED. BOB DYLAN, 56, folk-rock's seminal poet; for a potentially fatal fungal infection, histoplasmosis.

CONVICTED. JESSE TIMMENDEQUAS, 36, sex offender whose trial for killing Megan Kanka, then 7, provoked the passage of a federal bill requiring that communities be warned of the presence of sexual felons; of kidnapping, sexual assault and murder; in Trenton, N.J.

CONVICTED. MARKUS WOLF, 74, elusive East German spymaster, known to cold war operatives as the "man without a face"; of kidnapping, and given a two-year suspended sentence; in Dusseldorf.

DIED. AMY SVOBODA, 29, fighter pilot; after her A-10 jet plunged into the southwestern Arizona desert, in...

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