Monday, Jun. 06, 1983
EXPECTING. Phyllis George, 33, exuberant sportscaster on CBS'S N.F.L. Today, and John Y. Brown Jr., 49, Democratic Governor of Kentucky: their second child; in December. That month Brown will leave office, after his single term, to be succeeded by either Democratic Lieutenant Governor Martha Layne Collins or Republican Jim Bunning, former All-Star pitcher.
MARRIED. Anastasio Somoza ("Tachito") Portocarrero, 30, oldest son and onetime heir apparent to the late Nicaraguan dictator Anastasio Somoza Debayle; and Marisa Celasco Oberholzer, 24, Salvadoran socialite daughter of a Swiss mother and Italian businessman father; both for the first time; in Miami.
DIED. Albert Claude, 84, Nobel-prizewinning Belgian-born biologist who pioneered the use of the electron microscope and the centrifuge as tools in cell research, becoming in 1933 the first to isolate and chemically analyze a cancer virus, and in 1945 to publish the first detailed view of a cell and its structure; in Brussels.
DIED. Louise Weiss, 90, author, playwright, film maker and galvanizing feminist who in recent years, as the oldest member of the European Parliament, pressed her vision of a revivified Continental consciousness; in Paris. Founder and editor of her own influential magazine, L 'Europe Nouvelle, from 1918 to 1934, she left to campaign for female suffrage, once chaining herself with friends across the Rue Royale to block traffic. In 1936 Weiss was offered a Cabinet post if she would desist; she refused. French women finally got the vote in 1945.
DIED. Muhammad Idris el Mahdi es Senussi, 93, first and only King of Libya for 18 years until he was overthrown in a coupled by Colonel Muammar Gaddafi in 1969; in Cairo. Hereditary leader of the Senussi sect of Islam, traditional rulers of what is now eastern Libya, he fled to Cairo a few years after the territory was occupied by Italy in World War I to lead the resistance against the Mussolini fascists. Idris' troops fought alongside the British Eighth Army in World War II, and in 1951, with British support, he was proclaimed monarch of the newly federated Libya. A strict Muslim who claimed descent from Muhammad, Idris ruled with benign autocracy, had no heirs (to his dismay) and became increasingly out of touch as the oil discoveries of the late 1950s brought some modern Western ways to his primitive land.
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