NAMED. LOUISE FRECHETTE, 51, Canada's Deputy Defense Minister, to the newly created position of deputy secretary-general of the United Nations; by Kofi Annan as part of his effort to shake up the institution's bloated bureaucracy. Canada's Ambassador to the U.N. from 1992-94, Frechette will become the highest-ranking woman in the organization's history as Annan's second-in-command.

HONORED. SALIMA GHEZALI, 40, editor-in-chief of the Algerian weekly La Nation, for her courage in reporting "the violence done to the Algerian people"; by the Olof Palme Memorial Fund for International Understanding and Common Security in Stockholm. A professor of French literature and the founder of a women's rights movement in Algeria, Ghezali estimates, based on counting graves, that more than 100,000 people have been killed since 1992, when the military canceled general elections because it feared the now-banned Islamic Salvation Front would win. Chinese dissident Wei Jingsheng and Czech President Vaclav Havel previously won the award, named in honor of the Swedish Prime Minister who was assassinated in 1986.

DIED. KLAUS TENNSTEDT, 71, animated German conductor noted for his Mahler interpretations; near Kiel, Germany. Virtually unknown in the West until he fled East Germany in 1971, Tennstedt directed the Toronto Symphony Orchestra and in 1983 succeeded Sir George Solti as conductor of the London Philharmonic.

DIED. WALTER DIEMER, 93, inventor of the first commercial bubble gum, who taught salesmen how to blow gooey, membranous pink bubbles; in Lancaster, Pa. An accountant who rose to become senior vice president of Fleer Corp., Diemer accidentally concocted the first batch of what would later be called Double Bubble in 1928; the initial five-pound order of the penny-a-piece candy sold out within several hours.

BANNED. TERRY VENABLES, 55, former England soccer coach who now helms the Australia team, from company directorships for seven years, after admitting he mismanaged Tottenham Hotspur-the Premier League club he headed until his sacking in 1993-and three other companies; by the High Court in London following allegations by the Department of Trade and Industry. Venables conceded that he failed to keep proper accounting records for one company and allowed another to continue operating even though he knew it was insolvent.

ENGAGED. PETE PETERSON, 62, U.S. Ambassador to Vietnam, to Saigon-born Australian diplomat VI LE , 41; in Hanoi, after dating for several months. Peterson, who spent more than six torturous years as a pow in North Vietnam, served as a Congressman from Florida before becoming Washington's first envoy to communist Hanoi. Le, the senior trade commissioner for the Australian Embassy and a banker by training, fled Vietnam with her parents in the late 1950s and grew up in Hong Kong and Australia.

By Dan Erck

TIME CAPSULE

It was 50 years ago this month that MAHATMA GANDHI.on his way to prayer in New Delhi, was shot to death by the editor of a Hindu newspaper who objected to Gandhi's treatment of Muslims. "In his lifetime his fellow men had sensed that Gandhi had a great message; of what the message was, they had scarcely an inkling. Gandhi, by the manner of his death, told them a little more of what he had been trying to com-municate-but not enough to make them live as he had tried to. The world . . . revered him-but not enough to follow where he pointed. . . Premier Nehru, that great and learned . . . man, came back to Gandhi's cooling pyre the day after the cremation. He spoke a few halting, wistful sentences, like a lost child. Said Nehru: 'Bapuji, here are flowers. Today at least, I can offer them to your bones and ashes. Where will I offer them tomorrow and to whom?'" --Time, Feb. 9, 1948