Died. Lillian Board, 22, British track star, winner of a silver medal for the 400-meter dash at the 1968 Olympics in Mexico City and of two gold medals--800-meter and 1600-meter relay--at the 1969 European Games in Athens; of intestinal cancer; in Munich.

Died. Representative L. Mendel Rivers, 65, the military's best friend in Congress (see THE NATION).

Died. Elyesa Bazna, 66, better known as "Cicero," famed World War II spy for Germany, who could have doomed the D-day invasion had the German high command not stubbornly refused to believe his information; of kidney disease; in Munich. An Albanian national, Bazna served as valet to the British ambassador in Ankara, which enabled him to photocopy secret papers, including telegrams between Churchill, Roosevelt and Stalin, and detailed plans for the Allied invasion of Normandy. The Germans paid him more than $1,000,000 for the information--all in counterfeit sterling notes they were circulating in hopes of undermining the British economy. In 1960, Bazna emigrated to Germany, where he most recently worked as a night watchman in Munich.

Died. John Jay Hooker Sr., 67, noted Tennessee lawyer who as a special Government prosecutor in 1964 succeeded in convicting Teamster President James R. Hoffa for jury tampering; of a heart attack; in Franklin, Tenn. Hooker's death preceded by two days that of Jacques Schiffer, 62, longtime Hoffa attorney and a defense counsel in the same trial; of cancer; in Chicago.

Died. Nikolai Shvernik, 82, loyal Stalinist and President of the Soviet Union from 1946 to 1954; in Moscow. Shvernik made his mark as a trade unionist, becoming leader of the movement in 1930 after his predecessor had been purged for showing too much interest in the welfare of workers; Shvernik transformed the unions into instruments of the state that put production before workers' rights, thus greatly assisting industrial growth.

Died. Dr. Paul Schwarzkopf, 84, noted Austrian metallurgist who fled to the U.S. after the 1938 Anschluss and later aided the Allied war effort; in Reutte, Austria. A pioneer in powder metallurgy (a method of producing metal parts without melting the components), Schwarzkopf developed techniques that allowed the U.S. to overcome a shortage of pure iron during World War II and produce millions of parts for field telephones and similar instruments. Among his other discoveries was tungsten carbide, a substance so hard that it has all but displaced diamonds as drill bits.

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