RESIGNED. HANS HERMANN CARDINAL GROER, 75, Archbishop of Vienna and focus of a sex scandal that shook the Roman Catholic Church of Austria; in Vienna. After publicly declaring last February that child molesters would not enter the kingdom of God, Groer was accused by several men of sexually abusing them in the 1970s when they were his students at a Catholic school in Hollabrunn, Lower Austria. Though no public investigation of the allegations ever took place, the Vatican appointed an assistant, or coadjutor, to take over many of Groer's duties. With Groer's retirement, his assistant, Christoph Schoenborn, will succeed him as Archbishop.

BARRED. MARTIN LEE, 57, Queen's Counsel and leader of Hong Kong's main pro-democracy party, who was dubbed a "subversive" by Beijing; from entering China; in Hong Kong. Chinese authorities gave no reason for rejecting his visa application, but Lee is an outspoken crusader for the preservation of Hong Kong's legal system after the 1997 reversion to Chinese control.

OVERTHROWN. MIGUEL TROVOADA, 58, first freely elected President of the west African island nation of Sao Tome e Principe, 250 km off the coast of Gabon; in a predawn coup by rebel soldiers; at the presidential palace in Sao Tome. Frustration with the country's stagnant cocoa-based economy (army wages have not been paid in six months) led to the ouster of the lawyer and former political prisoner who in 1991 elections defeated a Marxist regime that had ruled the tiny volcanic islands since their 1975 independence from Portugal. The 130,000 islanders calmly went about their daily affairs as rebels arrested top ministers and suspended the four-year-old constitution. Confined to military barracks, Trovoada began a hunger strike to protest his detention, but late in the week was spotted entering his residence.

ARRESTED. JEAN-MICHEL BOUCHERON, 48, fugitive former French parliamentarian and socialist mayor of Angouleme, who was sentenced to four years in prison in July 1994 on charges that included influence peddling, forgery and embezzlement of more than $100,000; in Buenos Aires.

INDICTED. OFER NIMRODI, 35, editor of Ma'ariv, a leading Israeli newspaper; on charges that he ordered wiretaps on top officials of his main rival, the daily Yediot Aharonot; in Tel Aviv. Authorities are reviewing claims that in a vicious circulation war Nimrodi himself was bugged by Yediot Aharonot. If convicted, he could face up to three years in prison.

DIED. PIERRE-JAKEZ HELIAS, 81, Breton folklorist, linguist and raconteur; in Quimper, France. Eloquent guardian of Brittany's archaic Celtic language and culture, Helias limned peasant life in France's rural northwest in more than 70 books, poems and plays. His lyrical, widely translated memoir, Horse of Pride (1974), later made into a film, portrays his pre-World War I boyhood in a small Breton village.

DIED. AMINA EL-SAEED, 81, ground-breaking Egyptian feminist and journalist; in Cairo. Founder in 1954 of the country's first women's magazine, Hawa'a (Eve), which favored social commentary over fashion tips, El-Saeed also edited the popular weekly Al-Mussawar and ran the publishing house that produced her magazines. A vocal critic of Islamic fundamentalism, El-Saeed condemned women who wore veils, and chastised younger generations for not advancing Egypt's feminist movement, a cause that some consider weakened by her passing.