MILESTONES

RECOVERING. BORIS YELTSIN, 64, President of Russia; from a blood-supply problem in his heart that triggered chest pains; in Moscow. Yeltsin has canceled all engagements until next week, including trips to Norway and the Russian city of Murmansk. RECOVERING. LES PAUL, 80, musician and father of the electric guitar; after collapsing while preparing to travel to a Nashville birthday concert; in Mahwah, New Jersey. OUSTED. G. KIRK RAAB, 59, president and ceo of biotech giant Genentech; following the revelation that he had requested a personal $2 million loan guarantee from Roche Holding Ltd. while negotiating a merger with the firm; in San Francisco. During Raab's five years at Genentech, the company's revenues nearly doubled. But shareholders have been growing restive over earnings and the terms of the Roche deal. Thus the board may have been looking for an excuse to remove Raab.

ARRESTED. RODNEY KING, 30, whose videotaped beating by police ultimately led to the 1992 Los Angeles riots; on suspicion of assault with a deadly weapon and domestic violence; in Altadena, California. This time the police taped the arrest themselves. He was released after posting a $50,000 bond.

DIED. ONNIE LEE LOGAN, 85, midwife and memoirist; in Mobile, Alabama. For half a century, Logan delivered the babies of impoverished black families. In 1989 she published her reminiscences, Motherwit: An Alabama Midwife's Story, which became a best-selling feminist classic.

DIED. M0RTON L. LEVIN, 91, epidemiologist; in Riverhead, New York. One of the first medical researchers to link tobacco and lung cancer, Levin tracked patients from 1938 to '50 and concluded in a 1950 Journal of the American Medical Association article that lung cancer was more than twice as likely to strike a smoker as a nonsmoker.