Milestones Sep. 25, 2000

SENTENCED. JOSE BOVE, 47, media-savvy French sheep farmer and anti-globalization hero; to three months in jail, for ransacking a half-built McDonald's last year in Millau, France.

DIED. KONRAD KUJAU, 62, German con artist who in 1983 claimed to have found 60 volumes of diaries written by Adolf Hitler, which he had actually forged himself; of cancer; in Stuttgart. The diaries, which he sold to a German magazine for $4.8 million, were exposed as fakes a few days after the first excerpts were published. He was found guilty of fraud and spent three years in prison.

DIED. STANLEY TURRENTINE, 66, soulful...

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