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MOVING. MONTREAL EXPOS; to Washington; after 36 years in Canada; to become the capital's first Major League team since the old Senators left in 1971.

RECOVERING. TONY BLAIR, 51, British Prime Minister; from a procedure to correct an irregular heartbeat; in London. Blair, who first disclosed his heart problem last year, underwent a successful catheter ablation to restore normal heart rhythm. In announcing his treatment, he also vowed to seek a third term.

CHARGED. PHIL SPECTOR, 64, eccentric record producer who created the "wall of sound" pop style in the 1960s; in the murder of Lana Clarkson, 40, last year; in Los Angeles. The actress was working as a hostess at the House of Blues on the night she went home with Spector, who has said she shot herself.

SENTENCED. ABD AL-RAHIM AL-NASHIRI and JAMAL AL-BADAWI; to death, by firing squad; for the 2000 attack on the U.S.S. Cole, which killed 17 sailors; in Sana'a, Yemen. The Saudi-born al-Nashiri, considered an associate of Osama bin Laden's and the mastermind of the Cole attack, has been in CIA custody outside the U.S. since 2002 and was tried by the Yemenis in absentia.

MARRIED. BILLY JOEL, 55, singer-songwriter and former husband of Christie Brinkley; to Kate Lee, 23, a restaurant correspondent for the PBS show George Hirsch: Living It Up!; in Long Island, N.Y.

DIED. JOHN E. MACK, 74, controversial Pulitzer prize-winning psychiatrist; after being hit by a drunk driver; in London. Mack, a Harvard Medical School professor, was best known for his studies of people who claimed to have had alien encounters. His 1994 book on the subject, which concluded that "the abduction phenomenon has important philosophical, spiritual and social implications," caused Harvard to consider censure, but a committee later "reaffirmed Dr. Mack's academic freedom."

DIED. RICHARD AVEDON, 81, celebrated art and fashion photographer; of complications of a cerebral hemorrhage; in San Antonio, Texas (see page 54).

DIED. KATHARINA DALTON, 87, British gynecologist and early expert on premenstrual syndrome; in Poole, England. She began studying the connection between the menstrual cycle and behavioral swings when, as a pregnant medical student, she noticed that her premenstrual migraines had subsided. She gave the syndrome its name and treated sufferers with progesterone therapy, a regimen that was later rejected by most doctors.

DIED. JEAN RUTH HAY, 87, the world's first global disk jockey, who woke millions of American troops during World War II with her plucky Reveille with Beverly program; in Fortuna, Calif. Instead of a bugler's blast, soldiers were greeted with big-band music and Hay's signature line, "Hi there, boys of the U.S.A."