NAMED. Joseph L. Bernardin, 54, Archbishop of Cincinnati and former president of the National Conference of Catholic Bishops, by Pope John Paul II to succeed the ate John P. Cardinal Cody as Archbishop of Chicago, the nation's largest archdiocese, with 2.5 million Roman Catholics. A liberal on social issues but a conservative on church doctrine, Bernardin was the subject of controversy last year when his name surfaced in the private journals of the Rev. Andrew Greeley, a writer and Cody critic. Greeley created a fictional scenario in which Bernardin succeeded the embattled Cody as part of a plot to rig a papal election.

DIED. Joseph Peel Jr., 58, Florida municipal judge convicted in 1961 of helping to murder a superior judge who was threatening to reveal Peel's corrupt practices on the bench; of cancer; in Jacksonville. Peel denied having his accuser weighted down and thrown into the sea from a rented boat. But on his deathbed he owned up to knowing about it: "I'm guilty of not using my influence to stop what was going to happen, and I could have."

DIED. Silvestre Antonio Guzman Fernandez, 71, moderately leftist, U.S.-backed President of the Dominican Republic since 1978, who improved health services, schools and rural conditions and who pushed the military out of politics; by his own hand (a pistol shot to the head, officially called an accident but rumored to have been suicide prompted by despondency over a threatened investigation of government corruption); in Santo Domingo. Elected despite an army attempt to block the counting of ballots, Guzman planned to give up his office next month, after becoming the first elected President in the country's 138-year history to pledge not to seek a second term. The military has said it will not interfere with the still scheduled transfer of power.

DIED. Raul Roa Garcia, 75, Foreign Minister of Cuba from 1959 to 1976, whose acerbic voice enunciated Fidel Castro's scathing views of U.S. policies toward his country; in Havana. A supporter of Fulgencio Batista until they had a falling-out, Roa was named by Castro after he ousted the dictator. Despite Roa's anti-Yanqui stance, he negotiated an agreement with the U.S. in 1965 that allowed an airlift of Cuban emigrants and another in 1973 providing for Cuban punishment of airplane hijackers.

DIED. Daniel Sullivan, 76, crusading, mild-mannered FBI crime buster in the '30s, who helped nail John Dillinger and Kate ("Ma") Barker's gang, then in 1942 became a tenacious private investigator whose exhaustive files on criminal activity in the Southeast led to numerous indictments and helped bring about Senator Estes Kefauver's 1950 hearings on organized crime; of pneumonia; in North Miami.

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