MILESTONES

AWARDED. To WISLAWA SZYMBORSKA, 73, masterly Polish poet of the prosaic; the Nobel Prize for Literature; in Stockholm. The Academy described her as the "Mozart of poetry." Her flowing verses and everyday imagery reveal the grace and depth of simplicity.

INDICTED. THEODORE KACZYNSKI, 54, Unabomber suspect; for allegedly mailing the bomb that killed New Jersey ad executive Thomas Mosser in 1994; by a federal grand jury; in Newark, New Jersey. Kaczynski also faces bombing charges in California.

PLEADED NO CONTEST. MARK FUHRMAN, 44, infamous ex-detective of the O.J. Simpson murder trial; to perjury; for lying at the trial about using racial slurs; in Los Angeles. He was given three years' probation and fined $200.

RECOVERING. TINY TIM, 64, ukulele-playing, Tiptoe Through the Tulips- singing falsetto sensation of the 1960s; from a heart attack suffered during a concert; in Greenfield, Massachusetts.

ASSASSINATED. ANDREI LUKANOV, 58, Bulgaria's first post-communist socialist Prime Minister and a critic of the current economically and politically embattled socialist-led government; by an unknown gunman or gunmen; outside his home in Sofia.

DIED. ROBERT BOURASSA, 63, recently retired Quebec Premier whose antiseparatist, pro-French cultural policies reflected the Canadian province's torn allegiances; of skin cancer; in Montreal.

DIED. MONETA SLEET, 70, Pulitzer prizewinning Ebony magazine photographer noted for his powerful images of America's civil rights struggle; of cancer; in New York City.

DIED. SEYMOUR CRAY, 71, of injuries resulting from a car crash; in Colorado Springs, Colorado. A brilliant and legendarily eccentric electronics engineer who put together an automatic telegraph machine when he was 10 years old, Cray built in the 1960s what many consider the world's first supercomputers. Not all his work was as constructive: for many years he built a new sailboat every winter and burned it, inexplicably, every fall.

DIED. RUFUS YOUNGBLOOD, 72; Secret Service agent who threw himself over Lyndon Johnson for protection when President Kennedy was assassinated; of lung cancer; in Savannah, Georgia.

DIED. SHUSAKU ENDO, 73; widely acclaimed Roman Catholic novelist and a popular Japanese writer in the West; of hepatitis complications; in Tokyo. Author of Deep River, Scandal and Silence, Endo focused on questions of faith and the clash of cultures.

DIED. FRANCES LEAR, 73; outspoken feminist and magazine editor; of breast cancer; in New York City. Married for 28 years to TV producer Norman Lear (and believed to be the model for the title character of his sitcom Maude), she used part of her splashy $100 million 1985 divorce settlement to found the short-lived Lear's, a magazine "for the woman who wasn't born yesterday."