WAP99030403 - 04 MARCH 1999 - WASHINGTON, D.C., USA: Retired Supreme Court Associate Justice Harry A. Blackmun (right), shown here in a 1986 file photo with Justice Byron White, died March 4, from complications arising from hip replacement surgery, at the age of 90. Blackmun was the author of the controversial 1973 decision legalizing abortion. (UPI Photo/Files)