Milestones Dec. 11, 1995

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ENGAGEMENT ANNOUNCED. By JEAN-BERT-RAND ARISTIDE, 42, former priest and current President of Haiti; in Port au Prince. Although Aristide refused to name his fiancee, sources close to him identified her as MILDRED TROUILLET, a presidential legal counselor.

RECOVERING. JAMES BRADY, 55, former press secretary to Ronald Reagan, who was wounded in the 1981 attempt on Reagan's life, and went on to inspire an eponymous gun-control law; after suffering cardiac arrest at a dentist's office; in Fairfax, Virginia.

HOSPITALIZED. ANDREAS PAPANDREOU, 76, Prime Minister of Greece; with kidney and lung failure and pneumonia; in Athens. At week's end Papandreou was in stable condition, but required the use of life support.

SEPARATING. RODNEY KING, 30, motorist and beating victim, and his wife CRYSTAL. Mrs. King alleges that Mr. King used a car to knock her down during a scuffle in July; he is free on $2,500 bail pending a trial.

GUILTY PLEA ENTERED. By NICHOLAS LEESON, 28, former futures trader whose billion dollar losses brought down Barings investment bank; to fraud and forgery with the intention to commit fraud; in Singapore. The sentence: 6 1/2 years in prison: a Singaporean prison.

DEATH REVEALED. THYRA JOHNSTON, 91, inadvertent civil rights pioneer; in Honolulu. Fair-skinned, blue-eyed and one-eighth black, Johnston lived as a white woman in Keene, New Hampshire, with her husband Albert, a black physician who also "passed." Their white neighbors were shocked when Dr. Johnston's application for a naval commission in 1940 led him to reveal the couple's racial background. But the small town was ultimately accepting--Dr. Johnston's practice actually increased--and the story became the basis of the 1949 film Lost Boundaries.