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- Nov. 12, 1990: Died:William French Smith
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- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1990
- Nov. 12, 1990 Ready For War
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- <source>Time Magazine</source>
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- MILESTONES, Page 86
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- <p> DIED. William French Smith, 73, who served Ronald Reagan as
- a personal lawyer in California and then as U.S. Attorney
- General; of cancer; in Los Angeles. As Attorney General from
- 1981 to 1985, Smith championed efforts to weaken civil rights
- laws and antitrust enforcement. His most historic act:
- advocating the appointment of Sandra Day O'Connor as the first
- female Justice on the U.S. Supreme Court.
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