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                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: THURSDAY, February 20, 1992                   TAG: 9202200176
SECTION: NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL                    PAGE: A-2   EDITION: METRO 
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BRIEFLY . . .

Dr. Merrick Smith, identified by the Department of Veterans Affairs as the nation's oldest veteran, has died at age 106. He served 18 months as an Army physician in Panama during World War I.

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