Married. Henry Luce III, 50, director of corporate planning for Time Inc. and president of the Henry Luce Foundation, and Mrs. Nancy Bryan Cassiday, 45, daughter of a Montana rancher; he for the third time, she for the second; in the chapel of Princeton Theological Seminary, of which Luce is a trustee.

Died. Sheik Mujibur Rahman, 55, charismatic Bengali leader and President of Bangladesh; assassinated during a military coup; in Dacca (see THE WORLD).

Died. Pinhas Sapir, 66, Israel's political gray eminence; of a heart attack; during a visit to Nevatim, a Negev agricultural village. Nicknamed "Bulldozer" for his drive and blunt pugnacity, burly, Polish-born Sapir immigrated to Palestine in 1929, was jailed by the British in 1933 for his militant labor organizing, and became David Ben-Gurion's roving weapons buyer during the 1948 war of independence. As Commerce and later Finance Minister for most of the past 20 years, Sapir was Israel's Midas, tapping his broad foreign contacts for the billions of dollars needed for arms and industrialization. A behind-the-scenes political broker in Israel's ruling Labor Party, he was instrumental in the rise of Levi Eshkol, Golda Meir and Israel's current Premier, Yitzhak Rabin. A self-proclaimed dove, Sapir favored giving up captured Arab territory in return for an early Middle East peace agreement. After leaving the government last year, he devoted his energies to running the Jewish Agency, which encourages Jews round the world to immigrate to Israel.

Died. Dmitri Shostakovich, 69, preeminent Soviet composer; of heart disease; in Moscow (see Music).

Died. General Anthony C. McAuliffe, 77, hero of the Battle of the Bulge; of leukemia; in Washington. Left in temporary command of the 101st Airborne Division during a rest period, feisty "Old Crock" McAuliffe was ordered to hold the Belgian road hub of Bastogne when the Nazis launched a desperate counteroffensive in the icy whiter of 1944. McAuliffe's 10,000 men were surrounded by Panzers, outnumbered 4 to 1, and running short of food, medicine and ammunition when a German officer arrived with the surrender ultimatum that brought the U.S. general's famous, quickly scrawled reply: "To the German Commander--Nuts!" The "Screaming Eagles" hung on for five bloody days until the siege was broken by armor under General George S. Patton, who pinned the Distinguished Service Cross on McAuliffe.

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