Milestones Dec. 8, 1997

RESIGNED. I.K. GUJRAL, Prime Minister of India; in New Delhi. India is in a state of political chaos, and Gujral's government was the fourth to fall in 18 months.

DIED. JORGE MAS CANOSA, 58, vociferous Castro foe; of lung cancer; in Miami. Canosa trained for the Bay of Pigs invasion but proved fiercer in the halls of Congress, where he lobbied successfully for economic embargoes and the controversial Helms-Burton Act.

DIED. COLEMAN YOUNG, 79, feisty five-term mayor of Detroit from 1974 to 1993; of respiratory and heart problems; in Detroit. The ex-World War II Tuskegee Airman became one of the first...

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