<span style="color: #222222;">Ramsey Clark, an outspoken activist for many causes and a harsh critic of US policy, has died at his Manhattan home. He was 93. He was 39 when Johnson made him attorney general in 1967, the second youngest ever.</span><br />” <span style="color: #222222;"> </span><br />” <span style="color: #222222;">Clark fought racism and the death penalty, and represented declared foes of the United States including former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic, Sheik Omar Abdel Rahman and Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein.</span><br />” <span style="color: #222222;"> </span><br />” <span style="color: #222222;">In courtrooms around the US, Mr Clark defended antiwar activists. He charged the United States with militarism and arrogance, starting with the Vietnam War and continuing with Grenada, Libya, Panama and the Gulf War. He visited Iraq after Operation Desert Storm and accused the United States of war crimes. Clark also represented dissidents in Iran, Chile, the Philippines and Taiwan, and skyjackers in the Soviet Union.</span><br />” <br />
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Ramsey Clark, attorney general under Johnson dies at 93