THE WEEK: AUGUST 13-19

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Shannon Faulkner, who fought for more than two years to become the first female "knob" at the Citadel, dropped out of the military college after missing all of the school's "hell week" indoctrination. Faulkner became ill following a drill in 100-degree weather and spent most of the week in the campus infirmary. Her fellow cadets greeted the news of Faulkner's departure with cheers and jeers.

HUMAN GUINEA PIGS

A report released by the Department of Energy discloses that human radiation experiments conducted from the end of World War II into the 1970s were far more extensive than was previously known. About 16,000 people participated-often unwittingly-in the tests; many were from "vulnerable populations" that included prisoners, pregnant women, children, mentally retarded people and comatose patients.

SIMPSON JUDGE: "RECUSE ME!"

There was high drama again at the endless-and, in recent weeks, tedious-O.J. Simpson murder trial. The possibility of a mistrial was raised when a visibly emotional Judge Lance Ito agreed with the prosecution that he might be unable to act impartially if 11 hours of taped interviews with prosecution witness Detective Mark Fuhrman were introduced as evidence. The interviews allegedly contain derogatory comments about Ito's wife Captain Margaret York, who is the L.A.P.D.'s highest-ranking female officer. (More to the evidentiary point, Simpson defense lawyers contend that the tapes contain passages in which Fuhrman discusses framing suspects, and 30 instances of his using the word nigger-language he earlier testified he had not used in 10 years.) By week's end, however, all sides agreed that Ito should continue to preside over the case, and another judge ruled that Captain York could not be called to testify, removing a possible conflict for Ito, who must still rule on whether the tapes can be introduced as evidence.

WORLD

PEACEMAKERS PERISH

Three senior American diplomats, together with a French peacekeeper, died in an accident on the way to Sarajevo for talks on the new U.S.-drafted peace plan for Bosnia. Robert Frasure, a top envoy to the five-nation contact group seeking Bosnian peace; Joseph Kruzel, deputy assistant secretary of defense; and National Security Council aide Nelson Drew were killed when their vehicle plunged off the road while trying to avoid an oncoming U.N. convoy.

CUNY SAID KILLED BY CHECHENS

The family of American aid worker Frederick Cuny said he was executed by Chechen rebels on April 14 after Russian intelligence agents spread rumors that he was an anti-Chechen spy. Cuny, who was awarded a MacArthur "genius" grant last June, was on a humanitarian mission to develop an aid plan for Chechnya. Although a Russian official said his government believed Cuny was still alive, U.S. diplomats in Moscow said they agreed with the family. ISRAELI ATROCITIES ALLEGED

The public acknowledgment by a retired Israeli general that, as a captain, he helped massacre 49 Egyptian POWs during the 1956 war in the Sinai stirred other veterans to speak out about similar atrocities in the war of 1967. The unit allegedly involved in the 1956 incident was commanded by right-wing politician Rafael Eitan, who intends to run for Prime Minister in 1996. At Egypt's request, the Israeli government ordered an investigation.

JAPAN APOLOGIZES