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Ronald Smothers, Times Reporter Who Covered Protest and Politics, Dies at 79

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In a career that included 35 years at The New York Times, he chronicled the Rev. Jesse Jackson’s 1984 presidential run and the bombing at the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta.

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