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Milestones: Mar. 16, 1981

SEEKING DIVORCE. Loni Anderson, 34, the sexy blond receptionist on TV's WKRP in Cincinnati; and Actor Ross Bickell, 35; after seven years of marriage, no children; in Los Angeles. Says Anderson: "It all came down to the fact that he was being called Loni Anderson's husband. That's not good for any man."

DIED. Ahmed Badawi, 53, Egyptian Defense Minister and armed forces commander in chief, who became a national hero after leading an assault division across the Suez Canal to storm the Bar-Lev line during the 1973 war with Israel; when his helicopter crashed...

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RAY KELLY, New York City Police Commissioner, on the arrest of a New Jersey man in one of the nation's most baffling missing-children cases, the disappearance more than three decades ago of 6-year-old Etan Patz.
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