Roanoke Times
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DATE: TUESDAY, December 14, 1993                   TAG: 9312140130
SECTION: SPORTS                    PAGE: B-3   EDITION: METRO 
SOURCE: From Associated Press reports
DATELINE:                                 LENGTH: Short

DURAN STILL FIGHTING

Not from an opponent, but for office in his native Panama.

"My mother asked me to run for the Senate, to run for the people of Panama," said Duran, who will fight his 100th bout as a professional tonight in Bay St. Louis, Miss. (9 o'clock, ESPN cable). "I know the people, know what it is to be poor. The people need me, they need somebody just like them."

Duran grew up the Panama slum of Chorillo. Fighting was a way of life.

If he becomes Sen. Duran, "Of course I will keep on fighting," he said Monday through an interpreter. "My mind is OK, and I'm very well taken care of. There is a time limit, but I don't know what it is."'

Duran will continue a colorful career that began in 1967 when he meets 21-year-old Tony Menefee tonight at Casino Magic.

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POLITICS