Milestones

By Melissa August, Ann Blackman, Val Castronovo, Matthew Cooper, Tam Gray, Daniel Levy, Ellin Martens, Anne Moffett, Bill Syken and Josh Tyrangiel

SETTLEMENT PROPOSED. FOR 1,281 ATTICA INMATES, in a 25-year-old class action that stemmed from guard-inflicted beatings after the 1971 upstate New York prison uprising that left 43 dead and 80 injured; for $8 million from the State of New York, by a federal judge's order; in Rochester, N.Y.

INDICTED. JAMAL ("Shyne") BARROW, 19, aspiring rapper and protege of Sean ("Puffy") Combs, in the Times Square-area nightclub shooting that wounded three and brought a fleeing Combs and actress girlfriend Jennifer Lopez to a Manhattan precinct for questioning; for attempted murder; in New York City. Lopez testified before the grand jury. So did Combs, who faces possible indictment for illegal weapons possession. Combs is also the target of lawsuits by two of the victims.

FLED. UGYEN TRINLEY DORJE, 14, one of Tibetan Buddhism's highest reincarnated lamas; in an eight-day trek that began with climbing out his bedroom window while Chinese guards slept and escaping from Tibet over the Himalayas to Dharamsala, India. His departure is a blow to China's attempts to co-opt the Tibetan faith.

CHARGED. YUN SOO OH PARK, 50, a.k.a. "Tokyo Joe," with fraud; by the Securities and Exchange Commission; in New York City. Park charged online subscribers for stock advice, then traded ahead of his picks, making "substantial profits," said the SEC.

DIED. DON MARTIN, 68, Mad magazine cartoonist whose wild-haired, rubber-faced creations suffered miserable, grotesque, almost palpable fates (Splop! Shklip! Pwang!) and influenced scores of young cartoonists, including The Far Side's Gary Larson; in Miami.

DIED. ADAM YARMOLINSKY, 77, one of the brightest of the "Whiz Kids" brought in by Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara during the Kennedy Administration, later an architect of Lyndon Johnson's War on Poverty programs, Harvard professor and an expert on arms control; in Washington.

DIED. ADMIRAL ELMO ZUMWALT JR., 79, Chief of Naval Operations during the Vietnam War; in Durham, N.C. (see Eulogies).

DIED. PATRICK O'BRIAN, 85, Anglo-Irish author of high-adventure novels of the British navy in the Napoleonic Wars; in Dublin (see Eulogies).