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- DIED. Ernest N. Dutch Morial, 60, first black mayor of New
- Orleans, from 1978 to 1986; of a heart attack after an attack
- of asthma brought on by 10 degrees weather; in New Orleans. A
- civil rights lawyer who won suits to end segregation in the
- Crescent City's schools, taxis and airport, Morial in 1967
- became the first black in Louisiana's House of Representatives
- since Reconstruction and later served on the state appeals
- court.
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