MILESTONES

ACQUITTED. BRIGITTE BARDOT, 62, 1950s sex kitten turned animal-rights crusader; of charges of inciting racism; in Paris. The accusation stemmed from a Bardot letter published last year in a French newspaper decrying Muslim sacrificial slaughter of sheep, likening it to pagan rituals.

RECOVERING. DESMOND TUTU, 65, Nobel Peace Laureate, retired Archbishop and chairman of South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission; from surgery to remove most of a cancerous prostate gland. Tests indicated the cancer had not spread.

DIED. CURT FLOOD, 59, doughty former St. Louis Cardinal centerfielder; of cancer; in Los Angeles. Flood defied baseball's hallowed reserve system in 1969 by refusing to be traded from St. Louis, and later, in a case that went to the Supreme Court, sued for antitrust violation. He lost, but his singular challenge paved the way for the 1975 agreement permitting players to become free agents.

DIED. RICHARD BERRY, 61, singer and composer; in his sleep; in Los Angeles. He wrote Louie Louie, the raucous, unintelligible rock-'n'-roll anthem that inspired many risque versions and attracted the attention of the FBI, which launched a two-year investigation of the lyrics. In 1956 the Louisiana-born Berry sold rights to his works for $750 but finally regained royalties in 1986 of some $2 million.

DIED. LAURENCE AUSTIN, 70ish, silent-film devotee; of gunshot wounds inflicted during a holdup in his theater; in Los Angeles. The son of pre-talkie actor William Austin, he owned the only theater in Los Angeles that played films made in the era before sound.

DIED. ADRIANA CASELOTTI, 80, the voice of Snow White; of cancer; in Los Angeles. The teenager edged out 150 others to be the voice Walt Disney chose as the sweetly beguiling heroine of his 1937 Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs.

DIED. COLONEL TOM PARKER, 87, Elvis Presley's impresario; of stroke complications; in Las Vegas. The onetime carnival barker discovered Presley in 1955 and then masterminded the King's career while taking oversize percentages for himself. After Presley's death in 1977, his heirs sued Parker, and in 1982 the flashy pitchman relinquished all future income connected with his client. DIED. JULIA BOGGS, 95, party doyenne; in Washington. From the 1940s until 1972, the North Carolina-born Boggs was housekeeping supervisor for the Supreme Court, arranging the Justices' dinners and teas, and later became a behind-the-scenes manager of parties given by prominent Capitol hostesses.

DIED. EDITH HAISMAN, 100, oldest Titanic survivor; in Southampton, England. In 1912, at age 15, she sailed with her parents on the doomed vessel, and afterward spent a lifetime recalling the night when she and her mother watched from a distant lifeboat as the liner sank, with her father aboard.