EXPECTING. NANCY KERRIGAN, 26, U.S. figure skater who overcame knee-bashing sabotage by a crony of her rival Tonya Harding to win a silver medal at the 1994 Winter Olympics, and her husband JERRY SOLOMON, 41; their first child; in December.

ARREST SOUGHT. Of SERGE DASSAULT, 71, president of France's largest private aeronautical group; for suspected complicity in bribing Belgian officials to obtain a 1989 defense contract; in Liege. Investigators allege that Dassault Aviation paid as much as $3 million to the then ruling Belgian Socialist Party in exchange for a $200 million contract to modernize Belgian fighter planes. The investigating magistrate issued the warrant after Dassault refused to go to Belgium for questioning.

DIED. LUIS MIGUEL DOMINGUIN, 69, famed Spanish matador who fought with brio, arrogance and death-defying daring; following a stroke; in Sotogrande. Descended from a dynasty of distinguished toreros, Dominguin displayed an uncanny rhythm for the deadly movement of the bullring--especially in 1959, during The Dangerous Summer chronicled by Ernest Hemingway. That season of rivalry between Dominguin and his brother-in-law Antonio Ordonez included the duel at Malaga in which Dominguin, despite being tossed, wielded his crimson muleta and steel blade flawlessly. His audacious showmanship transfixed admirers like film star Ava Gardner, but it was for the bull--wounded and facing death at his sword--that he sometimes saved a kiss goodbye.

DIED. AI QING, 86, conflicted Chinese poet whose bleak craft fell victim to the ideological currents of his lifetime; in Beijing. Because of a fortune teller's dire predictions, Ai was largely raised by his nanny, the heroic laborer in Big River Yan, My Nurse (1933)--a poem he later described as "an imprecation against an unjust world." Ai's fortune did indeed seem cursed: in 1932 he went to jail in Shanghai for three years for being too radical; in 1957 he was sent to a labor camp for nearly two decades for not being radical enough.

DIED. LU DINGYI, 90, China's former Minister of Propaganda, whose idealism exceeded that of the Communist Party; in Beijing. Lu's appeal in 1956 to "let a hundred flowers bloom and a hundred schools of thought contend" inspired an outpouring of criticism against Mao's rule; arrested in 1968 during the Cultural Revolution, Lu spent the next decade in prison. Upon his release after Mao's death, Lu's dedication was undiminished, and he remained the Communist Party's unwavering conscience.

DIED. LEON-JOSEPH SUENENS, 91, reform-minded Belgian cardinal whose bold leadership helped Catholicism meet the needs of a modernizing congregation; in Brussels. A moderator at the Second Vatican Council (1962-65), Suenens set a revolutionary agenda, urging the church to review its stance against artificial birth control. His efforts to articulate a dynamic vision of Catholicism put him on the brink of the papacy in the 1960s, but his criticism of Rome's bureaucracy violated the cardinal rule of discretion.