DIED. Ralph Lazo, 67, a non-Japanese American voluntarily interned in a World War II relocation camp; of liver cancer; in Los Angeles. When the internment of people of Japanese ancestry began in California in 1942, Lazo, who was of Mexican and Irish descent, decided to go with his Japanese-American friends to the Manzanar Relocation Center. He later explained, "These people hadn't done anything that I hadn't done except to go to Japanese language school." Lazo was subsequently drafted by the Army and was awarded a Bronze Star for heroism in combat.