Monday, Nov. 25, 1996
MILESTONES
MARRIED. DANIEL DAY-LEWIS, 39, Oscar-winning actor (My Left Foot), and REBECCA MILLER, 32, daughter of playwright Arthur Miller; both for the first time; in Vermont.
RECOVERING. SOPHIA ROSE STALLONE, 12-week-old daughter of actor Sylvester Stallone and girlfriend Jennifer Flavin; after surgery to repair a hole in her heart; in Los Angeles.
MISTRIAL DECLARED. In the first rape trial of ALEX KELLY, 29, fugitive for nine years; in Stamford, Connecticut. Kelly, who skipped bail in 1987 after being accused of rape by two women, still faces trial in the second case and a probable retrial in the first.
CONVICTED. JONATHAN SCHMITZ, 26, talk-show guest who killed Scott Amedure after Amedure revealed during taping (never aired) of the Jenny Jones Show that he had a crush on Schmitz; of second-degree murder; in Pontiac, Michigan. Schmitz was not told his "secret admirer" would be a man.
HOSPITALIZED. FRANJO TUDJMAN, 74, President of Croatia; reportedly with cancer; at the Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington.
DIED. MARIO SAVIO, 53, fiery, eloquent leader of the Free Speech Movement at the University of California, Berkeley in the 1960s whose success inspired similar protests nationwide; after suffering cardiac fibrillation; in Sebastopol, California.
DIED. JOSEPH CARDINAL BERNARDIN, 68, Roman Catholic archbishop of Chicago who played a major role in shaping American Catholicism since the 1960s; of cancer; in Chicago. Once touted as the man who might be the first American Pope, Bernardin was a skilled yet humble conciliator, steering a course between social progressivism and traditional church doctrine. After he learned in June 1995 that he had pancreatic cancer, he began ministering to others who were dying. "As a person of faith," he said, "I see death as a friend."