MILESTONES

By DANIEL EISENBERG, TAM GRAY, ANITA HAMILTON, NADYA LABI, JAMIE MALANOWSKI, ELIZABETH RUDULPH, ALAIN SANDERS, JOEL STEIN AND STEVE WULF

BORN. To ELISABETH SHUE, 34, fetching Oscar-nominated actress, and her husband DAVIS GUGGENHEIM, TV director; a son, Miles William; in Los Angeles.

PLEADED GUILTY. FREDERICK WILLIAMSON, 60, former president of the company that sold tainted Mexican strawberries in the U.S.; to conspiracy and making false claims; in San Diego.

AILING. EUGENE MCCARTHY, 81, former Minnesota Senator and five-time anti-war presidential contender; due to complications arising from an ulcer and a bad back; in Washington.

DIED. LEON FORREST, 60, ambitious novelist whose stream-of-consciousness works explored black history; of cancer; in Evanston, Ill. Forrest traversed generations to examine slavery in The Bloodworth Orphans; in his masterwork, Divine Days, he devoted 1,138 pages to a week on Chicago's South Side.

DIED. ROD MILBURN, 47, genial 1972 Olympic gold medalist who won the 110-m hurdles at Munich; from falling into a railcar full of caustic chemicals while on the job; in Baton Rouge, La.

DIED. EDDIE ARCARO, 81, masterly jockey whose style, spirit and heritage made him the Joe DiMaggio of his sport; in Miami. Only Arcaro has ridden two Triple Crown winners--Whirlaway (1941) and Citation (1948).

DIED. BOB JONES JR., 86, unreconstructed chancellor of the Christian Fundamentalist Bob Jones University; in Greenville, S.C. Jones reportedly once compared Pope John Paul II to the devil.

DIED. JAMES LAUGHLIN, 83, maverick publisher; in Norfolk, Conn. (See Eulogy below.)

DIED. LILLIAN PARKS, 100, White House seamstress turned scribe; in Washington. Hardly a tell-all, My Thirty Years Backstairs at the White House did depict F.D.R. as a skinflint and Eisenhower as a bully.