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CHARGED. AMROZI, 39; with involvement in the October 2002 Bali bombings; in Denpasar, Indonesia. State prosecutors said the East Java native bought bombmaking materials and the vehicle used in the blasts that killed 202 people. Last November, Amrozi was the first of the Bali suspects to be caught. (At a press conference after his arrest, he told police, "I am a naughty person.") Since then police have arrested 28 others, including Amrozi's brothers Ali Ghufron and Ali Imron. Amrozi's trial is scheduled to begin on May 12 under new Indonesian antiterrorism laws that carry a maximum sentence of the death penalty.

CHARGED. JAMES HENRY TING, 52, former chairman of the Akai consumer electronics company; with falsifying the accounts of Akai to the tune of more than $38 million; in Hong Kong. The Shanghai-born tycoon disappeared in late 2000 after the company racked up debts of more than $1 billion. He was arrested after returning to Hong Kong by helicopter from Macau. Akai, which was a 70-year-old Japanese electronics giant before Ting took it over, has been dubbed "Hong Kong's Enron."

SENTENCED. HUANG MINXIANG, 27, Chinese farmworker; to life imprisonment for setting off bombs at two Beijing universities; in Beijing. The two blasts in February injured nine people and caused an estimated $26,500 in damage. The court said Huang bombed the schools to become famous.

DIED. MIKE JENDRZEJCZYK, 53, human-rights champion and Washington director for the Asia division of Human Rights Watch (HRW); of natural causes; in Washington, D.C. An expert on U.S. foreign policy in Asia, Jendrzejczyk first became involved in human rights as a Vietnam War protester in the 1970s and an antinuclear demonstrator in the 1980s. After a tenure with Amnesty International, he joined HRW in 1990. During his 13 years at HRW, Jendrzejczyk campaigned against abusive security forces in Asia, rallied assistance to North Korean refugees and defended the rights of members of minority religions.

DIED. JANKO BOBETKO, 84, former Croatian army chief and war-crimes suspect, who was hailed as a hero of the country's independence struggle; in Zagreb. Bobetko fought in the antifascist forces during World War II and then joined the Yugoslav army. After Croatia's 1991 declaration of independence from Yugoslavia, which triggered a six-month war against Serb rebels, Bobetko joined the Croatian army and was appointed its Chief of Staff in 1992. Last September the U.N. war-crimes tribunal in the Hague accused Bobetko of being responsible for the killings of some 100 Serb civilians and soldiers during a 1993 Croatian offensive to retake an area seized by the Serb rebels. He vehemently denied the charges and refused to be tried, declaring, "They can carry me out of my house only when I am dead. Not wounded. Dead." He was never tried, because of ill health.died. Peter Stone, 73, award-winning writer of musicals, teleplays and films, including Charade; in New York City. In 1964, Stone won an Oscar for co-writing Father Goose, a World War II comedy starring Cary Grant as "a drunk, disgusting, irascible, misanthropic character"—in Stone's words—who ultimately becomes a hero on a deserted South Sea island. Stone won an Emmy for the 1960s television drama The Defenders and three Tony Awards for the books of the musicals 1776, Woman of the Year and Titanic.