Milestones

DIED. William Anthony (Tony) Boyle, 83, ironfisted labor leader and convicted murderer whose nine-year reign over the United Mine Workers of America was marked by graft and violence; of a heart attack; in Wilkes-Barre, Pa. Boyle died in a hospital near the state prison where he was serving three consecutive life terms for ordering the deaths in 1969 of Union Rival Joseph ("Jock") Yablonski, his wife and daughter. The killings took place three weeks after Yablonski lost to Boyle in an election for the union presidency. Yablonski, once a lobbyist for the union, had announced that he intended to seek a new vote on grounds of fraud.