MILESTONES

SENTENCED. ROBERT VESCO, 60, fugitive American financier; to 13 years in prison for fraud and "illicit economic activities"; in Cuba. Vesco fled the U.S. in 1972 to escape prosecution for looting a mutual fund of some $200 million and for making an illegal contribution to Richard Nixon's campaign. After renouncing his citizenship, Vesco wandered the Caribbean and Latin America; in 1982 Castro gave him refuge in Cuba. Vesco was convicted for trying to market an unproven aids drug known as TX.

HOSPITALIZED. JAN-MICHAEL VINCENT, 52, television actor; for a broken neck suffered in an auto accident; in Mission Viejo, California. Police are investigating whether Vincent was driving under the influence of alcohol.

DIED. GREG MORRIS, 61, actor who portrayed the quiet electronics wizard Barney Collier in the Mission: Impossible TV series; of lung cancer; in Las Vegas. Morris, who was one of the first black actors featured in a hit TV series, walked out of a screening of the movie version of Mission: Impossible, calling it an "abomination."

DIED. AUDREY PATTERSON-TYLER, 69, the first black American woman to win an Olympic medal; after a heart attack; in San Diego. The bronze medalist in the 200-m dash at the 1948 Olympic Games, Patterson-Tyler went on to coach more than 5,000 youths in track and field.

DIED. BERNARD JACOBS, 80, president of the Shubert Organization and a powerful leader of the American theater; in Roslyn, New York. With Shubert co-CEO Gerald Schoenfeld, Jacobs decided which shows would open in the Shubert's 16 Broadway theaters and for how long they would run.

DIED. PHYLLIS PEARSALL, 89, creator of the "A-Z" city maps; in Shoreham, England. Pearsall published the first of her famous map series in 1936, after walking more than 3,000 miles along 23,000 streets in London.