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DATE: Saturday, March 15, 1997               TAG: 9703170042
SECTION: NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL   PAGE: A-3  EDITION: METRO 
DATELINE: DREW, MISS.

MISS. CIVIL RIGHTS PIONEER SHOT, KILLED AT HOME

A civil rights attorney who was the second black to attend the University of Mississippi was found shot to death at his home, and a judge immediately slapped a gag order on investigators.

Cleve McDowell, 56, was found dead early Thursday after relatives called police to say the door to his apartment was open and his car missing.

McDowell, a public defender in Sunflower County for three decades, entered the University of Mississippi Law School in 1963, a year after James Meredith became the first black to enroll.

-ASSOCIATED PRESS

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KEYWORDS: FATALITY