DIED. Lucas Tupper, 45, Franciscan missionary doctor whose practice embraced 200,000 Brazilian villagers along the Amazon River; of injuries sustained in a motorcycle accident; in Columbus, Ohio. Tupper first witnessed the misery of South America's poor in 1960 as a U.S. Navy medic and soon dropped plans for a career in plastic surgery to join the priesthood. He first made his Amazonian rounds in a motorboat, but later ministered from a 55-ton refurbished ferryboat named the Esperanqa (Portuguese for Hope).
DIED. William S. Schlamm, 74, Polish-born writer and a former Communist who turned into a staunch conservative during the 1930s; of a...