Milestones

By Melissa August, Harriet Barovick, ELIZABETH L. BLAND

Indicted. David Chalmers Jr., 51, owner of Houston-based oil company Bayoil USA; on charges of funneling millions of dollars in secret kickbacks to Saddam Hussein's regime to secure oil deals under the U.N.'s scandal-ridden oil-for-food program, depriving the program--set up to protect Iraqi citizens from U.N. sanctions by allowing Iraq to sell oil and use the money for food and medicine--of funds that should have gone for humanitarian aid; along with two other Bayoil executives; by federal officials in New York City. Those charged denied any wrongdoing.

Pleaded guilty. Eric Rudolph, 38, to the 1996 bombing at the Atlanta Olympics and attacks on abortion clinics in Atlanta and Birmingham, Ala., and an Atlanta gay club, leaving a total of two dead and more than 150 injured; as part of a deal to serve four life sentences instead of facing execution; in Atlanta and Birmingham. Rudolph, who was caught in May 2003 after spending five years hiding in the North Carolina woods, disclosed the location of 250 lbs. of dynamite he had hidden there. His primary motivation, he said in a rambling, unrepentant statement released after his pleas, was to "confound, anger and embarrass" the U.S. government for legalizing abortion.

Died. Andrea Dworkin, 58, provocative feminist author whose writings--against pornography in particular--dramatically influenced and often polarized the women's movement of the 1970s and '80s; in her sleep, of undisclosed causes; in Washington. Ignoring critics who mocked her uncompromising polemics and unapologetically unfashionable appearance, she drew on her experiences as a battered wife and rape victim in such books as Woman Hating and Intercourse. She wrote that pornography was a "celebration of rape and injury to women," sexual intercourse a "means of physiologically making a woman inferior" and marriage a "license to rape." By all accounts a gentle, soft-spoken person, she repeatedly said she did not hate men, just the subjugation of women.

Died. Johnnie Johnson, 80, thumping boogie-woogie blues and early rock-'n'-roll pianist who on New Year's Eve 1952 gave Chuck Berry his first break, in Johnson's popular trio, and later, as Berry's bandmate and co-writer, shaped the rock legend's inventive sound; in St. Louis, Mo. Johnson, for whom Berry wrote Johnny B. Goode, slammed the keys on such tunes as Maybellene, Rock & Roll Music and Roll Over Beethoven. Johnson later backed John Lee Hooker, Eric Clapton and Keith Richards, and in 2001 was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

Died. Maurice Hilleman, 85, low-profile microbiologist credited with developing some 40 vaccines--a record--and saving more lives than any other 20th century scientist; in Philadelphia. Persuaded to go to college by his brother, who thought he should aim higher than his job as a clerk at a local J.C. Penney, the Montana farm boy eventually took what turned out to be a three-decade-long job at pharmaceutical giant Merck & Co. he developed eight of the 14 vaccines currently recommended to protect children against measles, mumps, hepatitis A and B, and chickenpox.

Died. Archbishop Iakovos, 93, primate of the Greek Orthodox Church in North and South America for 37 years, noted for leading the church into mainstream religious life; of a pulmonary illness; in Stamford, Conn. a Vietnam War protester who also marched with Martin Luther King Jr. in Selma, Ala., he championed ecumenism; met with Jews, Muslims and Protestants; and in 1959, after the enthronement of Pope John XXIII, became the first Greek Orthodox Archbishop in 350 years to meet with a Roman Catholic prelate.

By Melissa August, Harriet Barovick and Elizabeth L. Bland