Milestones Dec. 22, 1997

INDICTED. HENRY CISNEROS, 50, Clinton's first Housing Secretary; on 18 felony counts, including lying to the fbi about payments to his ex-mistress; by a federal grand jury; in Washington.

SENTENCED. AUTUMN JACKSON, 23, misguided blackmailer who attempted to extort $40 million from the man she would like to call Dad, Bill Cosby; to 26 months in prison; in New York City.

DIED. GIOVANNI ALBERTO AGNELLI, 33, great-grandson of the founder of the Fiat empire and heir apparent at the corporation; of intestinal cancer; in Turin. Company legend had the dashing but unpretentious Agnelli working as a lathe operator to savor blue-collar...

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