Passages

Ron Ziegler, 63, press secretary during the Nixon presidency. The regime’s voiceduring Watergate, he dismissed it as a ‘third-rate burglary’.

Bishnu Charan Bandopadhyay, freedom fighter and trade union leader.

Awarded
Aung San Suu Kyi, the $1 million Free Spirit prize, by Freedom Forum, US.

Reopened
The Charminar, though only till the first floor, 16 years after it was closed when a family committed suicide by jumping off it.

Dissolved
The state of Yugoslavia. Renamed Serbia and Motenegro—after the regions that constitute it—it adopts a new federal charter.