SENTENCED. John Jenrette, 47, former Democratic Congressman from South Carolina; to two years in prison and a $20,000 fine; for accepting a $50,000 bribe from FBI agents posing as Arab sheiks in the 1978-80 Abscam operation; in Washington, D.C. The sixth of seven U.S. legislators to be sentenced in Abscam, Jenrette asked the judge for leniency with a bit of forced insouciance, saying he had "no desire to further burden the overcrowded prisons."

DIED. Charlie Brown, 57, art instructor, longtime friend of Cartoonist Charles Schulz, and real-life model for the luckless, roundheaded hero of the Peanuts comic strip; of cancer; in Minneapolis.

DIED. Slim Pickens, 64, grizzled actor with a gulch-wide twang who played second-banana Hollywood cowpokes in westerns including One-Eyed Jacks (1961) and Blazing Saddles (1974), but whose indelible screen moment was his cowboy-hat-waving, yeehah-ing ride on a nuclear bomb dropped on the Russkies in Dr. Strangelove (1964); of lingering complications after the 1982 removal of a brain tumor; in Modesto, Calif. Born Louis Bert Lindley Jr., he changed his name in the 1930s when he became a rodeo clown and bronco buster, explaining his new moniker "was a natural, considerin' that in those days you didn't make a dime doin' rodeos."

DIED. John A.T. Robinson, 64, boldly individualistic Anglican theologian, former Bishop of Woolwich (1959-69) and Cambridge lecturer who scandalized the church world with his 1963 biblical study Honest to God, which argued that traditional concepts of a supernatural God and Saviour were essentially mythical and inadequate in this scientific age; of cancer; in Arncliffe, Yorkshire, England.

DIED. Robert Aldrich, 65, film director whose works of macabre-to-macho violence included the Bette Davis-Joan Crawford shocker What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962), the Burt Reynolds gridiron prison melodrama The Longest Yard (1974), and The Dirty Dozen (1967), which at the time sparked complaints about its relentless brutality; of kidney failure; in Los Angeles. Scion of a prominent New England family and a Rockefeller cousin, Aldrich rejected a banking career to start as a $25-a-week production clerk at RKO studios in 1941.

DIED. Keith Holyoake, 79, popular Prime Minister of New Zealand from 1960 to 1972; after a series of heart attacks and strokes; in Wellington. A master of consensus politics who enjoyed debating issues with his working-class constituents, Holyoake smoothly guided his nation through the crisis of New Zealand's military involvement in Viet Nam. This file is automatically generated by a robot program, so viewer discretion is required.