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The Santa Fe New Mexican from Santa Fe, New Mexico • 6

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A4 THI NEW MEXICAN Santa, March 13. IMI Jobless toughman dies after competing in fight Iranians demonstrate Japan leader to visit U.S. WASHINGTON (AP) Japanese Foreign Minister Maaayoihi Ito, opening high-level talks with S. officials, Is hoping to keep a large foothold In the giant American market for hla country automakers as the Reagan ad-mlnlitratlon considers seeking a curb on Japanese cars. The auto Import Issue was expected to dominate Ito meetings today with Secretary of State Alexander M.

Haig Jr. and special trade representative William Brock. Ito meeti Tuesday with President Reagan. Before leaving Japan, Ito expressed sympathy lor the plight of the U.S. auto Industry, which lost $4.2 billion last year, and said he favors voluntary restraints by Japanese automakers.

He added, however, that the principle of free trade must be maintained. In Tokyo today, Chief Cabinet Secretary Kllchl Mlya-zawa said Japan would take no action on the "considerable sacrifice" Involved In limiting imports until It hears "what Washington has to aay." Ito (aid he hopes the auto question will be settled before Prime Minister Zenko Suzukls May 4 visit to Washington, tober In Pontiac, has a top prize of $50,000. Miller knocked out one opponent Friday night and his first opponent Saturday. "The audience went crazy over him. They gave him a complete standing ovation," said Robert Law, Miller's uncle.

Miller had been seeing double and had been dizzy after the first bout Saturday. Yet he started the second. Between fights, he complained of fatigue, said his brother, Robert Miller Jr. "The big man who was running it said to my brother, You have five minutes. My brother said, I'm too tired.

How about giving me 10 minutes?" Robert Jr. said. Miller then was knocked down several times, and when his nose began to bleed, the referee called the bout. When the fighter threw up, a doctor in the audience said Miller should be hospitalized. "Theres not much question about what killed him," Cambria County Coroner John Barren said.

"It had to be caused by a blow to the head. These guys fight with gloves and they have kidney belts and protection In the groin, but theres no helmet on the head," Barron said. "Thats what I cant understand. Even the pros wear that (In practice), and the pros are trained to slip a punch. When you get a 220-pounder throwing haymakers, wow!" Officials st Memorial Hospital said Miller, who lived outside this southwestern Pennsylvania city, died at 8: 15 a m.

Sunday. "I bad reason to believe he was hurt In the first round. I went to one of the local promoters. I told him somebody should look at him. He said, Dont worry, Ronnie's tough," Law said.

JOHNSTOWN, Pa. (AP) Ronald Millers relatives tried to talk the 5-foot-7 former Marine out of competing In a local fight, but he was unemployed and desperate for the $500 prize money. As Miller zeroed In on his third opponent in the Toughman Championship fight, his nose started to bleed and he got sick to his stomach. Early Sunday, after emergency surgery, the 23-year-old man died of brain hemorrhaging, authorities said. "I tried to talk him out of it But he was desperate.

He needed the $500. He thought he had a chance, but he was too smaCL" said Millers father, Robert Miller, who weighed 169 pounds, started three bouts at the Johnstown War Memorial, where preliminary competition was conducted In the Third Annual Toughman Championship. The title fight, scheduled for Oc LOS ANGELES (AP) About 1,200 Jeering demonstrators, supporting and opposing Iranian leader Ayatollah Ruhollab Khomeini, clashed Sunday In MacArthur Park, briefly closing a section of Wllshlre Boulevard with scuffling that resulted In eight arrests. Two antl-Khomelnl demonstrators were tossed Into a lake Inside the park west of downtown when they entered the area where their opposition had gathered, police said. One man was trested for a broken nose.

Police said most of the arrests msde during the confrontation were for Investigation of assault with a deadly weapon after rocks were thrown at either officers or civilians. One man was arrested after he allegedly punched a police captain In the face. Hundreds of supporters of the Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini and members of the Communist Revolutionary Party gathered and began chanting "Death to fugitive criminals" hours before a scheduled 11 a.m. demonstration In the park by the antl-Khomelnl Iranians In Exile, police said. Police Capt.

Robert Taylor said his officers had confiscated Items such as tear gas, bottles, pipes and chains that could be used as weapons from the pro-Khomeini demonstrators. One mans nose wss bloodied In a fight, but no major Injuries were reported. Taylor blamed the pro-Khomelnt demonstrators for most of the violence. Mother thrown toleath CORPUS CHRJSTI, Texas (AP) A man accused of throwing his mother from an eighth-floor hospital window while shouting "Hallelujah" allegedly told police he did it because she "was keeping Jesus from returning to the world, officers said. Police said they probably would seek a psychiatric examination for the man, whose name has not been released.

Formal chargea would be prepared today, said police. Poor have highest rate of cancer CITY LIGHTS during the annual American pie below poverty are at Cancer Society science greater risk of dying from writers seminar. "Poverty cancer, more resources should not be an offense should be devoted to the punishable by death. group of highest risk," "If the 25 percent of peo- Freeman said. the theatre CINE chances of survival.

And in the United States, one-quarter of the population lives below the official poverty line, Dr. Harold P. Freeman said Sunday. The problem of cancer survival Is not race as much as economic level, he said 'DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. (AP) In most wars, generals concentrate their forces where the threat is greatest.

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