RELEASED. GORAN LAJIC, 28, Bosnian Serb refugee; after more than three months in jail as a suspected war criminal; by the international war-crimes tribunal; on the grounds of mistaken identity; in the Hague. Lajic, who was arrested in Germany last March and delivered to the Hague-based tribunal, has the same name as another Bosnian Serb indicted last year for murder and torture of Muslim and Croat prisoners in Keraterm, a Serb-run detention camp in northwestern Bosnia.

DIED. THOMAS KUHN, 73, U.S. scholar who made the word paradigm a cliche of academic parlance; in Cambridge, Massachusetts. In 1962 The Structure of Scientific Revolutions offered a discomfiting view of change: paradigms, frameworks of understanding, stagnate until intellectual rebels overthrow the system and provide new paradigms.

DIED. PRAN NATH, 77, Indian musical guru whose introspective renditions of ancient Hindustani melodies evoked realms past and future; in Berkeley, California. Banished from home in Lahore by his mother at 13 because of his determination to pursue music, Nath became a spiritual devotee, singing prayers naked but for a ceremonial coating of ashes. Though he abandoned asceticism and moved to the U.S., the purity of his voice--untainted by vibrato yet capable of subtle gradations of pitch--continued to conjure forth the sublime in ragas like Flickering Candle Burning in My Temple.

DIED. ANDREAS PAPANDREOU, 77, the first Socialist Prime Minister of Greece; in Athens. He was democrat and demagogue, a man whose doctrinaire ideology and fist-in-the-air oratory could just as often inflame an audience as inform it. Once a U.S. citizen, he parlayed a virulent anti-Americanism to power, delayed only by a military coup that imprisoned, then exiled him. Returning in 1974, he finally became Prime Minister in 1984 and, except for a hiatus brought on by financial scandal and despite the recent illness that led him reluctantly to resign from office in January 1996, was the central political figure of Greece till his death.

DIED. SIR FITZROY MACLEAN, 85, Scottish author, war hero, and reputedly the model for Ian Fleming's James Bond character; in Hertford, England. As a diplomat in Stalin's Soviet Union, Maclean traveled alone through remote Central Asian provinces and witnessed show trials of the 1930s; as one of the founders of British sas commando units in World War II, he fought behind enemy lines in North Africa and in the Balkans, where he befriended Tito, the leader of Yugoslav partisans. A friend of Ian Fleming's, Maclean never confirmed or denied that he was the real 007.

DIED. CHARLES KADES, 90, U.S. lawyer who helped negotiate a constitutional revolution in postwar Japan; in Greenfield, Massachusetts. In whirlwind talks during just 10 days of February 1946, Kades, an aide to General Douglas MacArthur, played the key role in drafting the new Japanese constitution. Under the American's gentle persuasion, Japan renounced war, stripped Emperor Hirohito of his powers and guaranteed such civil rights as equality for women.