By HANNAH BEECH

DIED. NGUYEN NGOC LOAN, 67, South Vietnamese national police chief whose wartime fervor was captured in a searing photograph of Loan aiming a pistol at a wincing prisoner in 1968; in a Washington suburb. The Pulitzer Prize-winning picture, snapped seconds before the prisoner's point-blank execution, entered the American consciousness and helped turn many against the Vietnam War. With the Communists on the verge of victory in 1975, Loan fled to Virginia, where he opened a restaurant.

DIED. RICHARD MCDONALD, 89, pioneering restaurateur, who, along with his brother, slapped together hamburgers and french fries to oil the nascent American fast-food industry; in Manchester, New Hampshire. To take advantage of the fact that more Americans were hitting the open roads after World War II, the McDonald brothers set up a California drive-in eatery in 1948 that boasted cheap and speedy chow. After selling the rights to their growing Golden Arches business to ex-milk shake mixer Ray Kroc in 1961, the pair watched as McDonald's Corp. mushroomed into a 23,000-restaurant empire with outlets in 111 countries.

INDICTED. JORGE RAFAEL VIDELA, 72, military strongman during Argentina's seven-year "dirty war," on charges that he kidnapped the children of detained dissidents; by a federal judge in Buenos Aires. Videla, whose junta grabbed power in 1976, was controversially pardoned in 1990 by President Carlos Menem for any complicity in the disappearance of an estimated 30,000 people, now presumed dead. But child kidnapping was not one of the crimes covered by the pardon, leaving prosecutors with a way to hold Videla accountable for his alleged crimes.

AWARDED. To YANG CHUN-KI, 68, and Kwon Byong-suk, 68, Korean women forced to work grueling shifts at a Japanese tool factory during World War II, pensions of 12 cents each, from the Japanese government; in Toyama, Japan. The meager payout was based on 15 days' wages at 1941 prices. Some 1.2 million Koreans were shipped to Japan from 1910 to 1945 to compensate for a severe labor shortage.

ARRIVED. ZHU LILAN, Chinese Science and Technology Minister, in Taiwan, making her the highest-level representative from Communist China to touch down on the island; in Taipei. Zhu's visit, tied to a technology seminar where both sides will show off their latest inventions, raised hopes of a thaw in relations between Taipei and Beijing. "We need to strengthen our technological cooperation with the advent of the 21st century," said Zhu. "It shall help to make the Chinese people more prosperous."

MARRIED. ALIYA NAZARBAYEVA, 18, daughter of the President of oil-rich Kazakhstan and Aidar Akayev, 23, son of the President of mountainous Kyrgyzstan; on the scenic shores of Lake Issyk-Kul, Kyrgyzstan. The wedding recalls an era when dynastic marriages helped bind Central Asia's clans together, but official spokesmen insist that politics played no part in the partnership.

BORN. To STEPHANIE GRIMALDI, 33, mercurial princess of Monaco, a daughter, named Camille Marie Kelly; in Monaco. Stephanie has two other children from liaisons with former bodyguard and ex-husband Daniel Ducruet. The identity of Camille's father has not been revealed.