Quotes of the Day

DIED. CARDINAL JOHN BAPTIST WU, 77, head of Hong Kong's Catholic Diocese who guided the territory's 350,000-strong Catholic community through the handover from British to Chinese rule; in Hong Kong. Ordained to the priesthood in 1952, Wu was named a Bishop in 1975 and appointed Hong Kong's first Cardinal in 1988.

DETHRONED. OXANA FEDOROVA, 24, St. Petersburg police lieutenant and law student who in May became the first Miss Universe from Russia; by pageant officials in New York City. The pageant says Fedorova was sacked for undisclosed reasons, but she claims she chose to give up the title in order to dedicate more time to her career and education. Miss Panama, Justine Pasek, the first runner-up, has been crowned in Fedorova's place.

DIED. PAUL "HUCKLE-BUCK" WILLIAMS, 87, jazz saxophonist and bandleader whose 1949 hit The Huckle-Buck was the biggest-selling record in the Savoy label's 60-year history; in New York City. The tune topped the R. and B. charts for 14 weeks and spawned many vocal versions, most notably by Frank Sinatra.

DIED. ANGELO BUONO JR., 67, serial killer whose habit of dumping his female victims' nude bodies on hillsides near his suburban Los Angeles home earned him the nickname "Hillside Strangler"; at Calipatria State Prison in Sacramento. Convicted in 1983 of murdering nine young women in 1977 and 1978, Buono was serving a life sentence without parole.

RE-ELECTED. YUKIO HATOYAMA, 55, as leader of the Democratic Party of Japan, the country's largest opposition party; after a closely contested runoff against party Secretary-General Naoto Kan; in Tokyo. Despite holding a quarter of the seats in Japan's Diet, a recent newspaper poll showed that that djp is supported by less than 10% of the public.

DIED. MILES DABORD, 35, brother of former NBA player Bison Dele; in Chula Vista, California. Dabord was suspected of having killed Dele and two others aboard Dele's luxury catamaran near Tahiti and disposing of their bodies in the shark-infested waters. He died after his mother asked doctors to remove life-support that had been keeping him alive since Sept. 14, when he was found comatose on a Tijuana beach.

AILING. KINJI FUKASAKU, 72, Japanese director whose 2000 hit Battle Royale, about a group of schoolchildren forced to fight each other to the death on a deserted island, turned heads with its macabre mix of nihilism and whimsy; with cancer; in Tokyo. Fukasaku, who co-directed the 1970 Pearl Harbor classic Tora! Tora! Tora!, plans to begin filming Battle Royale 2 in defiance of his doctor's orders.

MISSING. SERGEI BODROV JR., 30, actor and director seen by many as the most promising figure in Russia's struggling film industry; after an avalanche swept through the site in the Caucasus where he was filming; in North Ossetia, Russia. The son of a well-known director, Bodrov had his breakthrough in the 1996 Prisoner of the Caucasus. Officials say they have little hope of finding more survivors of the massive avalanche, which killed as many as 150 people, including 49 from Bodrov's cast and crew.

• ILYA GARGER