DIED. Emmitt Douglas, 55, civil rights activist and president of the Louisiana National Association for the Advancement of Colored People since 1968, who in 1956 initiated the lawsuit that desegregated Baton Rouge schools, and in 1971 was charged with inciting to riot during a demonstration against the shooting of two young blacks by white policemen; of a heart attack; in New Roads, La.

DIED. Jonas Robitscher, 60, Emory University professor and forensic psychiatrist who explored the legal and social ramifications of the science in such books as Pursuit of Agreement: Psychiatry and the Law (1966) and The Powers of Psychiatry (1980); of cancer; in Atlanta.

DIED. James ("Jumbo") Elliott, 66, track and field coach at Villanova since 1935 who led the Wildcats to eight National Collegiate championships and coached 28 Olympians including five gold medalists; of a heart attack; in Juno Beach, Fla.

DIED. John S. McCain Jr., 70, salty, hard-driving four-star admiral and World War II hero who was commander in chief of U.S. forces in the Pacific during the Viet Nam War; of a heart attack; aboard a military plane while returning from a trip to Europe. The son of a four-star admiral, McCain served as a submarine commander during World War II and was appointed commander of naval services in Europe in 1967. McCain, who retired in 1972, maintained that the U.S. was engaged in a "wet war" for naval superiority with the Soviet Union, whose growing fleet of submarines posed "a direct threat to our free use of the oceans of the world."

DIED. Oetje John Rogge, 77, former Assistant U.S. Attorney General who in 1940 won convictions that helped break up the political machine of former Louisiana Governor Huey Long, and who three years later unsuccessfully sought to convict 33 pro-Nazi Americans of sedition; of cancer; in New York City. Rogge was dismissed by Attorney General Tom Clark in 1946 for making public a report that accused 24 Congressmen of collaborating with a Nazi agent.

DIED. Edward Lasker, 95, German-born chess champion who won the United States Open title five times between 1916 and 1921, and who wrote several chess books, including the classic Modern Chess Strategy; in New York City.

DIED. Claude Auchinleck, 96, British field marshal who in 1941 opened the North African campaign that led to the defeat of German Field Marshal Erwin Rommel; in Marrakesh, Morocco. After winning the first battle of El Alamein, Auchinleck was relieved of his command for refusing to counterattack Rommel west of Cairo.

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