NOTEBOOK/MILESTONES	MARCH 2, 1998 VOL. 151 NO. 8
	Milestones By DAN ERCK SENTENCED. DIANE ZAMORA, 20, former U.S. Naval Academy midshipman, to life in prison, after a jury convicted her of killing a lover of her then-fiance to "purify" their relationship; in Fort Worth, Texas. Described by prosecutors as a "sociopath," Zamora had recanted a previous admission of guilt and claimed her boyfriend pressured her into taking the fall for him. Prosecutors said the clean-cut couple lured 16-year-old Adrianne Jones to a secluded reservoir; Zamora clubbed her with a dumbbell and, in a jealous rage, ordered her boyfriend to "Kill Her! Kill her!" CHARGED. KENNETH KAUNDA, 73, former Zambian President, with hiding information about last October's failed coup; in Lusaka. Arrested in December and later placed under house arrest, Kaunda was formally charged with knowing about plans for a coup in the southern African country and failing to report the plot to the government. If convicted, Zambia's founding father faces life in prison. DIED. MARTHA ELLIS GELLHORN, 89, trail-blazing female war correspondent, who covered the Spanish Civil War in the 1930s, the 1989 U.S. invasion of Panama at age 81 and, in between, most major conflicts of the 20th century; in London. The chain-smoking scribe was determined to report on a war from the front lines: on D-Day she snuck aboard a hospital ship and went ashore carrying a stretcher. She resented being known chiefly as Ernest Hemingway's third wife--perhaps her biggest hold on fame--and once asked, "Why should I be a footnote to somebody else's life?" DIED. HARRY CARAY, 83, charismatic Hall of Fame broadcaster and American baseball legend; in Rancho Mirage, Calif. A sportscaster for more than 50 years, Caray had called games for the St. Louis Cardinals and, since 1982, the Chicago Cubs. He was famous for enthusiastically singing Take Me Out to the Ball Game during the seventh-inning stretch, slurring players' names and, on all-too-few occasions for the hapless Chicago team, roaring "Cubs win! Cubs win! Cubs win! Holy cow!" DIED. SHEU YUAN-DONG, 70, Taiwan's Central Bank Governor; in a China Airlines plane crash at Taipei's international airport. As Governor since 1995, Sheu won praise for deftly handling Taiwan's monetary policy; he maintained the New Taiwan dollar at a relatively stable level through the 1996 missile crisis with China and the recent Asian financial disaster. He previously headed the Bank of Taiwan. BORN. BILLY, a 4-kg newborn, nearly eight years after he was conceived; in Tarzana, Calif. Billy's parents, whose names were not disclosed, sought to solve a fertility problem in 1990 through a laboratory procedure that mixed his mother's eggs with her husband's sperm. Three embryos were frozen in case the first attempt didn't work. It did; Billy's fraternal twin brother was born later that year, and the embryos were forgotten about--mostly because of a clerical error--until a reminder arrived in the mail last year. Billy's parents decided to try the procedure again, marking the longest time an embryo had been frozen and later implanted in a woman's womb. --By Dan Erck TIME CAPSULE Amid riots and a raft of economic woes, Indonesia's PRESIDENT SUHARTO has come full circle, facing the same paralyzing chaos as when he replaced President Sukarno after a silent military coup 32 years ago. "With victory, Suharto inherited problems as vast and unmanageable as the nation of 3,000 islands he now has to control...The greatest problem of all...is Indonesia's shattered economy--if it can be called an economy. On the books, Indonesia went bankrupt years ago. It owes $2.4 billion to foreign creditors, and its exports bring in nowhere nearly enough money even to meet the interest payments. It has no foreign currency reserves, almost no foreign credit. The rupiah is literally not worth the paper it is printed on. The cost of living quintupled during the first six months of this year, and there is little hope of stopping its rise." --TIME, July 15, 1966
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