MILESTONES

BORN. To MELANIE GRIFFITH, 39, and ANTONIO BANDERAS, 36; a daughter, Stella del Carmen; in Spain. She is Banderas' first child and Griffith's third.

RELEASED. BARRY GOLDWATER, 87, conservative icon and former Arizona Senator; from a Phoenix hospital following treatment for a minor stroke.

RULED INCOMPETENT. JOHN E. DU PONT, 57, eccentric millionaire and chemical heir; to stand trial in the slaying of Olympic wrestler David Shultz; in Media, Pennsylvania.

ARRESTED. ROBERT KIM, 56, civilian Navy computer analyst; on charges of passing classified documents on North Korea and U.S. policy to a South Korean attache; in Alexandria, Virginia. Kim, a South Korean native, became a U.S. citizen in 1974. He faces a maximum 10-year jail sentence if convicted.

AILING. SEYMOUR CRAY, 71, the Thomas Edison of the supercomputer; after suffering a broken neck and severe head injuries in a highway crash; in Colorado Springs, Colorado.

DIED. NICU CEAUSESCU, 45, playboy son of executed Romanian dictator Nicolae Ceausescu; following surgery to stem internal bleeding caused by liver disease; in Vienna.

EXECUTED. NAJIBULLAH, 49, former Soviet-backed President of Afghanistan who had spent more than four years in refuge at a U.N. compound; in Kabul. Najibullah, a ruthless security chief who ruled from 1986 until 1992, was found hanged after the Taliban rebels captured Kabul. Afghanistan will now be ruled by strict Islamic law.

DIED. BOB DENT, 66, cancer patient; by lethal injection at the hand of Dr. Philip Nitschke; in the world's first legal mercy killing; in Darwin, Australia.

DIED. DOROTHY LAMOUR, 81, actress who took to the road--sometimes sporting only her signature sarong--with Bing Crosby and Bob Hope; in Los Angeles. Though she starred in more than 50 movies, Lamour won over audiences--particularly G.I.s during World War II--with the seven road films she made with Crosby and Hope, surviving the jungle, a malevolent aunt and the wisecracking duo at her side who vied relentlessly for her affections.

DIED. PAUL ERDOS, 83, quirky Hungarian-American mathematician with more than 1,500 papers to his name; of a heart attack while living homeless, by choice; in Warsaw.

DIED. PAVEL SUDOPLATOV, 89, Stalin's spymaster who claimed he stole atom-bomb secrets from the U.S. and plotted the death of Leon Trotsky; in Moscow.

DIED. SABINE ZLATIN, 89, Polish-born nurse who risked her life to give dozens of Jewish children refuge at an isolated farmhouse in Izieu, France, during World War II; in Paris.