NOTEBOOK/MILESTONES	MARCH 16, 1998 VOL. 151 NO. 10
	Milestones By HANNAH BEECH SENTENCED. NUI ONOUE, 68, sleight-of-hand Japanese investor who secured loans to bankroll her lavish stock portfolio with forged deposit certificates, to 12 years' imprisonment for fraud and breach of trust; by the Osaka District Court. Investigators discovered that the ex-restaurateur--reportedly once the nation's single largest investor--had bilked $2.2 billion in loans out of banks with her fraudulent papers. Onoue's excesses earned her the moniker "bubble lady," after Japan's wildly inflated 1980s economy. DIED. CLAUDIO VILLAS BOAS, 82, crusading Brazilian anthropologist who defended the leafy homeland of indigenous Amazon tribes from deforestation; in Sao Paulo. Together with his brother, Orlando, Villas Boas tried initially to protect Indian land rights, but as development continued to encroach un-checked, he resigned himself to teaching native peoples how to adjust to life on newly created reservations. DIED. HENRY STEELE COMMAGER, 95, leading American historian whose belief in Jeffersonian ideals inspired countless history majors; in Amherst, Mass. An eloquent champion of the U.S. Constitution, Commager used the venerable document to attack both McCarthyism and the Vietnam War. He called it the "greatest monument to political science in literature." ARRESTED. ALFONS GOETZFRIED, 78, former Gestapo foot soldier, for allegedly shepherding some 70,000 people to their deaths at a Polish concentration camp; in Stuttgart, Germany. Convicted of war crimes by the Soviet Union, Goetzfried was locked up in a Siberian gulag until 1958, but he returned to Germany in 1991. AWARDED. To CECILE, ANNETTE and YVONNE DIONNE, 63, the three surviving Dionne quintuplets, $2.8 million in compensation from the Ontario government for exploiting them in the 1930s as unwilling headliners at the "Quintland" amusement site; in Toronto. The tourist attraction earned the province millions of dollars in revenue, but the sisters currently live in poverty in Montreal. APPOINTED. KIM JONG PIL, 72, a conservative pillar of South Korea's former dictatorships, as acting Prime Minister, by President (and ex-dissident) Kim Dae Jung; in Seoul. As founder of Korea's Central Intelligence Agency, Kim has been implicated in several assassination attempts of the very man he has now been appointed to serve. AWARDED. To ALAIN DUCASSE, 41, an unprecedented six stars for gastronomic excellence at his pair of eateries, Louis XV in Monte Carlo and an eponymous bistro in Paris; by the newest version of the Michelin guide. The haute rating vindicates the French chef, who faced accusations that his restaurants suffered from Ducasse's bi-weekly 1,900-km commute. RE-ELECTED. EZER WEIZMAN, 73, plain-speaking Israeli President, to a second five-year stint in the largely ceremonial post; in Jerusalem. The popular ex-fighter pilot staved off a challenge from ruling Likud party candidate Shaul Amor to triumph in a surprisingly close 63-49 parliamentary vote. --By Hannah Beech TIME CAPSULE Does the strong showing by Gerhard Schroeder of the Social Democratic Party in recent state elections signal the final chapter in the long reign of German Chancellor HELMUT KOHL? "Helmut Kohl, 42, looks...more like a genial university professor than one of West Germany's most ambitious young politicians. He does...have a doctorate in political science and history from Heidelberg, but he long ago decided that he felt more at home on a political rostrum than a pedagogue's podium. Kohl joined the Christian Democratic Union at 17 and was only 29 when he was elected as a...representative to the Rhineland-Palatinate Lantag...Proud of his quick rise to political prominence,...Kohl admits, 'Every politician, unless he is a saint, seeks self-confirmation in politics. But after all, if you are going to be successful in politics, you must be popular as well.'" --TIME March 26, 1973
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