RETIRED. JACOBO ZABLUDOVSKY, 69, Mexico's best-known newscaster, as the anchor of Televisa's 24 Hours, after 27 years on the air; in Mexico City. Admirers called the stiff and owlish newsman the Mexican Walter Cronkite, but critics saw him as a mouthpiece for the government and the long-ruling Institutional Revolutionary Party.

ARRESTED. JOHN GOTTI JR., 33, reputed mob boss and son of the infamous Gambino crime kingpin, on racketeering charges that included tax evasion and extortion; in Yonkers, N.Y. Gotti, who faces up to 20 years in prison, pleaded not guilty at a federal courthouse. Forty people were indicted in the investigation, including jailed former baseball star Denny McLain, linked to Gotti through a phone-card business.

REELECTED. VACLAV HAVEL, 61, former dissident and playwright, to a second five-year term as President of the Czech Republic; in Prague, by a razor-thin margin during a joint session of Parliament. Havel, a heavy smoker who recently underwent surgery for lung cancer, was elected President of Czechoslovakia in 1989-after persuading the country's communist regime to step aside following weeks of street demonstrations-and then of the Czech Republic following its split with Slovakia in 1993.

DIED. CARL PERKINS, 65, granddaddy of rockabilly, whose gritty guitar licks inspired Elvis Presley and the Beatles; in Jackson, Tenn. Acclaimed for his 1956 hit Blue Suede Shoes, which sold 2 million copies, Perkins pioneered a fusion of rhythm-and-blues and country music. One of rock 'n' roll's preeminent guitarists, he was a member of the legendary "Million Dollar Quartet" with Presley, Johnny Cash and Jerry Lee Lewis.

DIED. PIERRE BOULAT, 73, celebrated photojournalist, whose 23-year career at Life began at the onset of the cold war when the magazine published his eerie picture of a tornado over Paris, which, taken with an orange filter, looked like a nuclear explosion; in Nemours, France. Boulat chronicled countless celebrities, the first French tourists in the Soviet Union in 1955 and the filming of Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey.

DIED. ZEVULUN HAMMER, 61, Israeli Education Minister and chairman of the pro-settlement National Religious Party; in Jerusalem. Hammer, who pushed Israel to colonize the West Bank and Gaza Strip after the 1967 Middle East war, was a key figure in Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's right-wing coalition. Described by Netanyahu as a "great Zionist," Hammer had grown more moderate in recent years but his party remained vehemently opposed to ceding occupied territories to the Palestinians.

DIED. JACK LORD, 77, television's no-nonsense Hawaii Five-O detective, whose habit of ending many episodes by commanding his sidekick to "Book 'em, Danno!" won fans the world over; in Honolulu. Hawaii Five-O's remarkable string of 284 episodes was seen weekly in 80 countries by more than 300 million people.

By Dan Erck

TIME CAPSULE

Will Monica Lewinsky play the same role in the Clinton investigation that former White House Counsel JOHN DEAN played in the Watergate probe of Richard Nixon? "As John Dean's testimony spilled across the nation's television screens, few spectators watched with more anxious attention than the leaders of the House of Representatives, where, under the Constitution, any impeachment proceedings against the President of the U.S. must begin. Until Dean's appearance two weeks ago, the leaders of the House have steadfastly refused to contemplate the momentous question: How would they organize and deal with the horrifying and cataclysmic event of Richard Nixon's impeachment? Reluctantly, privately, they concluded that that thinking and tentative planning must commence." --Time, July 16, 1973