SEEKING DIVORCE. Margaret Trudeau, 35, free-spirited party pepper, sometime photographer and current Ottawa TV show host; and Pierre Trudeau, 64, Canada's Prime Minister; after twelve years of marriage (including six years of estrangement), three children; in Toronto. She reportedly decided to end the marriage so she could wed an Ottawa real estate agent.

RESIGNED. A. James Armstrong, 59, respected and influential liberal Protestant clergyman; from the presidency of the National Council of Churches and his position as bishop of Indiana's United Methodist Church; in Indianapolis. Armstrong said that job pressures had caused him to fail "my loved ones" and "the Gospel." Despite rumors of strain in his marriage, his wife later issued a statement, saying, "Jim and I are not separated. We have never been separated. We will never be separated."

SENTENCED. Willie Wilson, 28; Willie Aikens, 29; and Jerry Martin, 34, players on the 1982-83 Kansas City Royals baseball club (although Aikens and Martin will not be playing for the team next season); to three months in prison for attempted cocaine possession; in Kansas City, Kans. Wilson and Aikens were also fined $5,000 apiece; Martin was fined $2,500. In sentencing Wilson, who won the 1982 American League batting title, U.S. Magistrate J. Milton Sullivant noted the professional athlete's "special place in our society." Wilson was enraged. Said he: "They made an example out of me."

DIED. Charlie Grimm, 85, exuberant, banjo-playing major league first baseman (1916-36), who in three terms as manager of the Chicago Cubs led the team to three pennants ('32, '35, '45); in Scottsdale, Ariz. Jolly Cholly's antic disposition reached a high point in a dreary 1940s game when, as coach, he signaled a player to slide into third, then slid into the base himself from the opposite side.

DIED. Ivan Albright, 86, American painter renowned for his eerie, disturbing portraits, which feature microscopically detailed scars, blisters, varicose veins and other deliberately provocative signs of human decay; in Woodstock, Vt.

DIED. Mother Pasqualina Lehnert, 89, austere German nun who, as the de facto secretary, housekeeper and confidante of Pope Pius XII, was called the Pope's Guardian Angel; of a brain hemorrhage; in Vienna. Mother Pasqualina met Archbishop Eugenio Pacelli in 1918 when he was papal nuncio in Munich, moved with him to the Vatican and, after he was elected Pope in 1939, became the channel through which outsiders had to pass to gain access to the ascetic, withdrawn Pontiff. This file is automatically generated by a robot program, so viewer discretion is required.