DIVORCED. John D. Ehrlichman, 53, author (The Company) and White House domestic affairs chief under Richard Nixon; and Jeanne Ehrlichman, 51; after 29 years of marriage; in Santa Fe, N. Mex.

DIED. Maybelle Carter, 69, matriarch of country music's Carter family; of Parkinson's disease; in Madison, Tenn. Formed in 1927, the Carter Family trio achieved lasting success by recording such traditional folk songs as Wildwood Flower and Will the Circle Be Unbroken, with member Maybelle becoming celebrated for her alto voice as well as her unique guitar and autoharp licks. When the group disbanded in 1943, Carter started out anew with her three daughters as Mother Maybelle and the Carter Sisters, and later toured extensively with Daughter June and her husband Singer Johnny Cash.

DIED. W. Garfield Weston, 80, Canadian "Barnum of Bread" who parlayed a small family business, George Weston, Ltd., into the world's largest bakery and one of the world's biggest international grocery chains; in Toronto.

DIED. Anastas Mikoyan, 82, Soviet politician who amazingly survived nearly 50 years of his nation's purges and upheavals and was briefly President of the U.S.S.R. (1964-65); after a long illness. Son of an Armenian carpenter, Mikoyan studied for the priesthood before joining the Bolsheviks in 1915. One of Stalin's most trusted ministers, Mikoyan became known both as a tough, wily trade negotiator well versed in capitalist business practices and as a skilled organizer who directed the evacuation of Soviet industry during World War II. After Stalin's death in 1953, he allied himself with Nikita Khrushchev, eventually serving as one of the party chiefs Deputy Premiers. During the Cuban missile crisis it was Mikoyan whom Khrushchev sent to Fidel Castro to explain his "compromise" with President Kennedy. A survivor by instinct, Mikoyan initiated the now famous attack against Stalin at the party's 20th Congress in 1956 and, eight years later, helped depose Khrushchev. Eased out of office at age 70, Mikoyan enjoyed an honorable retirement.

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