Milestones

SENTECNCE. GILLIAN GUESS, 43, Canadian juror, to 18 months' imprisonment for obstructing justice by having an affair with a 1995 murder defendant while serving on the jury during his eight-month-long trial; in Vancouver. Guess raised eyebrows by suggestively sucking candies during the trial and making eye contact with the defendant, who was later found innocent. Her trial marked the first time in North America that jurors were called upon to break the sanctity of the jury-room by testifying about the secret deliberations.KILLED. ASSADOLLAH LAJEVARDI, Iranian ex-prison chief, who earned the nickname the butcher for reportedly masterminding acts of torture at the infamous Evin prison, by gunman allegedly from the rebel People's Mujahedin; in Tehran. According to spokesmen from the armed opposition group, the Khomeini acolyte's assassination was timed to coincide with the 10th anniversary of the 1988 mass slayings of political prisoners.RESIGNED. SCOTT RITTER, 37, dogged American weapons inspector, whose pursuit of suspected nuclear, chemical and biological weapons programs in Iraq was allegedly stymied by a reluctant international community. In his resignation letter, the ex-Marine slammed both the United States and the United Nations for a surrender to Iraqi leadership, by reportedly negotiating with the Iraqis instead of using military and economic threats to force the country to uncover a potentially bristling arsenal.UNDER INVESTIGATION. ALAIN JUPPE, 53, former Prime Minister of France, for fraud over alleged illegal political party financing, by magistrates probing graft in the capital's city hall; in Paris. The long-simmering scandal revolves around allegations that Juppe used taxpayer money illegally to compensate employees working for his--and President Jacques Chirac's--Gaullist Rally for the Republic party.DIED. LEWIS POWELL, 90, soft-spoken U.S. Supreme Court justice, whose centrist stance bridged a court deeply divided by ideology; in Richmond, Virginia. During his 1972-87 tenure, Powell helped usher in landmark decisions on affirmative action and abortion rights, breaking court deadlocks without letting a political agenda dilute his jurist's objectivity.DIED. WANDA TOSCANINI HOROWITZ, 90, daughter of legendary conductor Arturo Toscanini and wife of piano virtuoso Vladimir Horowitz, who served as confidante and caretaker to a pair of musical icons; in New York. Of her unique supporting role in classical music, Horowitz once said: To be the daughter of Toscanini, I didn't have any merit because I could have been born to anybody. But to be the wife of Horowitz, in that I take a little bit of pride.HONORABLY DISCHARGED. PRABOWO SUBIANTO, 47, pugnacious Indonesian Lieut. General, for his involvement in the kidnapping and torture of political activists over a 12-month period ending last May, by a military honor council; in Jakarta. The ambitious son-in-law of former strongman Suharto may yet be court-martialed as public outrage over three decades of military brutality intensifies. Prabowo maintains that he simply misread the orders from superiors.TIME CapsuleOlympic Horror and DeathIt has been 26 years since the deadly attack on the Israeli team at the Olympic Village by gunmen of the Black September organization. Governments around the world are still struggling to combat terrorism:In a world that thought itself accustomed to horror, it was yet another notch on an ever-rising scale of grotesquerie. . . This time the final monstrous twist was that the killings were in Munich, the original spawning ground of Nazism--and the victims were Jews. The guerrilla operation had evidently been planned to create maximum outrage. It succeeded, probably beyond its planners' wildest dreams. By invading the Olympic Village and seizing nine Israeli athletes as hostages and killing two others, eight young Palestinians managed to expose every weakness in the forces of law and in the helpless governments involved in the crisis.--TIME, Sept. 18, 1972