NOTEBOOK/MILESTONES	JANUARY 19, 1998 VOL. 151 NO. 2
	Milestones By HANNAH BEECH NAMED. ROSARIO GREEN MACIAS, 56, scholarly senator, as Mexico's Foreign Minister; by President Ernesto Zedillo in Mexico City. Green, who previously served as the United Nations' special adviser on women's issues, is the first female to hold the foreign-affairs post. The former ambassador to East Germany promises that one of her top priorities will be untangling the nation's complex relationship with the U.S. SENTENCED. ABDALA BUCARAM, 45, Ecuador's eccentric ex-President who could lead a dance but not a country, to two years in prison for slandering a pair of political rivals; by Ecuador's Supreme Court in Quito. The former television personality, who earned the moniker "El Loco" during his six-month tenure, spiced up his presidency by belting out show tunes and twirling with dancing girls. Although he was deposed by Congress for "mental incapacity," Bucaram insists from his political exile in Panama that he will return to politics. SENTENCED. ALAN EAGLESON, 64, flamboyant former North American hockey czar, to 18 months' imprisonment and a $700,000 fine, for mail fraud and embezzling funds from the players he once represented; by courts in Toronto and Boston, as part of a complex plea-bargain arrangement. In Boston, the trial was packed with the Canadian's betrayed followers, including ice legends Bobby Orr and Brad Park. Park is pushing for Eagleson's ouster from the Hockey Hall of Fame. RESIGNED. JULIO CESAR RUIZ FERRO, 47, governor of Mexico's beleaguered Chiapas state, following last month's massacre of 45 Indian peasants by paramilitary guerrillas; in Tuxtla Gutierrez, the state capital. Ruiz Ferro allegedly had advance notice of the ambush, which was carried out by gunmen who support his ruling Institutional Revolutionary Party. Public outcry over the attack led President Ernesto Zedillo to sack his hard-line Interior Minister. The mayor of the village where the Tzotzil Indians were slaughtered has been arrested. DIED. MICHAEL TIPPETT, 93, British composer whose emotional oratorio A Child of Our Time set the horrors of the Holocaust to music; in London. Although Tippett's works were initially dismissed as overly quixotic and too difficult to play, admirers delighted in his unpredictable style, which drew from inspirations as disparate as Yeats and television soap operas. DIED. GEORGI SVIRIDOV, 82, deft Russian composer whose music celebrated the virtues of pastoral life; in Moscow. A protege of fellow Russian musical genius Dimitri Shostakovich, Sviridov infused his vocal and choral works with a nostalgia for the simple peasant life-style that had been wiped out by machinized Soviet cooperatives. TIME CAPSULE Polite words from Iran's President to the U.S. last week were far from the ire of AYATULLAH KHOMEINI, who a decade ago blamed America for the murder of a group of Iranians in Saudi Arabia. "They jammed Revolution Avenue in the heart of Tehran last week, a million Iranians raising their fists and shouting as if with one voice, 'Revenge! Revenge! Revenge!' The clutches of women dressed in black chadors, the phalanxes of men bearing placards that said DOWN WITH U.S... Then came the hypnotic voice of Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini, 87, still the country's supreme leader. Speaking in fierce whispers over nationwide radio, Khomeini...lashed out at...the U.S., still the 'Great Satan' in the eyes of the fevered Iranian nation, and vowed vengeance. Promised Khomeini: 'God willing, at the opportune time we shall deal with her.'" --TIME, Aug. 17, 1987
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