MILESTONES

APPOINTED. PETE HAMILL, 61, tabloid columnist's tabloid columnist and best-selling author; as editor in chief of the New York Daily News, the sixth largest U.S. daily; in New York City.

DIED. JOHN SALVI, 24, convicted of killing two people in an attack at two Boston-area abortion clinics in 1994; an apparent suicide; in his prison cell in Walpole, Massachusetts.

DIED. MOHAMED AMIN, 53, acclaimed Kenyan photographer whose images of the 1984 famine in Ethiopia shocked the world into providing help; in the crash of hijacked Ethiopian Airlines flight 961; off the Comoro Islands. Among the others killed: Brian Tetley, 61, a colleague who often wrote the text for Amin's photo books.

DIED. MICHAEL BENTINE, 74, comic actor; of cancer; in London. Bentine, along with Peter Sellers, was an original member of the bbc's irreverent The Goon Show, which influenced a generation of British performers.

DIED. MARIA CASARES, 74, grande dame of the French theater; of undisclosed causes; in La Vergne, France. A commanding presence, Casares took on nearly every classic female stage role, from Lady Macbeth to Medea--and played King Lear to boot. Her films include Les Enfants du Paradis, Orphee and La Lectrice.

DIED. PAUL RAND, 82, innovative graphic designer and creator of instantly recognizable corporate logos for IBM, ABC and UPS among others; in Norwalk, Connecticut. A devotee of functionalism, Rand was one of the first to bring modern design's simplicity to commercial art.

DIED. ELREY JEPPESEN, 89, ex-mail pilot who parlayed his meticulous terrain notes into a multimillion-dollar business publishing air-navigation charts and other flight information; in Denver. Jeppesen began jotting notes for his own use in the '30s, when charting a course by air meant reading road maps or "hugging" railroad tracks.