DIED. Dewey Bartlett, 59, former U.S. Senator from Oklahoma; of lung cancer; in Tulsa, Okla. A millionaire oilman and rancher, Bartlett was elected his state's first Roman Catholic (and second Republican) Governor in 1966, and after losing a re-election bid four years later, won his Senate seat in 1972. Deeply conservative, he became best known in Washington as the Senate's staunchest defender of oil and gas company interests. Aware of his illness, Bartlett chose not to seek another term, retiring from the Senate in January.

DIED. Mustafa Barzani, 75, Kurdish nationalist leader who waged guerrilla war for 40 years in a futile attempt to win a homeland in northeastern Iraq for his people; of a heart attack; in Washington, D.C. Wishing to establish an autonomous Kurdistan for his 12 million Muslim tribesmen scattered throughout Iraq, Iran, Turkey, Syria and the Soviet Union, Barzani led an unsuccessful rebellion against the Iraqi government in the mid-1930s. Fleeing to Moscow, where he spent twelve years in exile, he returned to his native land in 1958 to reorganize his guerrilla army, the Pesh Merga (Forward to Death). After a decade of battle, a truce was signed, and an Iraqi plan for limited Kurdish self-rule was drawn up but later rejected by Barzani, who resumed fighting. In 1976, after the Shah of Iran and the U.S. withdrew their aid to the Kurds, Barzani received asylum in the U.S.

DIED. W.A.C. Bennett, 78, nicknamed "Wacky," longtime Premier of British Columbia (1952-72), whose aggressive economic policies gave his province an unprecedented prosperity that became known as "Bennett's boom": in Kelowna, B.C.

DIED. Henrich Focke, 88, German aircraft designer who helped develop the helicopter; in Bremen. Inspired by the drawings of Michelangelo, Focke in the mid-1930s built the FW-61, the first helicopter to receive an international certificate of airworthiness. Unsympathetic to the Nazi regime, Focke was removed from his company (Focke-Wulf Flugzeugbau AG) before World War II and thus had no part in the production of the firm's famed fighter-bomber, the FW-190. He continued to design aircraft in France, Britain and Brazil, returning to his native country in 1956.

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