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Robben W. Fleming, 93, Led University of Michigan in Days of Unrest

Robben W. Fleming, who as president of the University of Michigan in the late 1960s and â??70s steered it through a turbulent era of student protests, using his labor negotiatorâ??s skills to help defuse crises before they could turn violent, died Jan. 11 in Ann Arbor, Mich. He was 93.