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<text id=90TT2640>
<title>
Oct. 08, 1990: American Notes:Alaska
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<history>
TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1990
Oct. 08, 1990 Do We Care About Our Kids?
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<source>Time Magazine</source>
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NATION, Page 55
American Notes
ALASKA
Baying at The Moon?
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<p> Ever since President Richard Nixon fired him as Interior
Secretary in 1970, Walter Hickel has coveted the Alaska
governorship he gave up to go to Washington. He has tried
everything short of a coup d'etat to reclaim it--Republican
primaries, write-in campaigns, even lawsuits. Last week, at 71,
Hickel found yet another way to pursue his goal: he became the
candidate of the Alaskan Independence Party, a fringe group that
wants the state to secede from the U.S. Hickel named as his
running mate state senator Jack Coghill, 65, who defected from
the No. 2 spot on the Republican ticket.
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<p> Distancing himself from his new party's secessionist whims,
Hickel hopes to ride a wave of discontent with Republican
candidate Arliss Sturgulewski, a state senator who supports
legalized abortion and opposes capital punishment. G.O.P.
officials fear Hickel might win enough votes to hand a November
victory to Democratic candidate Tony Knowles. But one
Sturgulewski supporter, senate president Tim Kelly of Anchorage,
shrugs off the Hickel-Coghill threat. Says Kelly: "You've got
two old dogs who want to bay at the moon one last time, but
their time has gone."
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