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When Alaska Governor Walter Hickel was elected last November as the candidate of the Alaskan Independence Party, nobody expected him to do much to further its secessionist platform. Nobody, that is, except a vocal faction of the tiny fringe party. Angry that Hickel has not done enough to detach Alaska from the U.S., the group is mounting a campaign to have Hickel and Lieutenant Governor Jack Coghill recalled from office, charging that their nomination was illegal...
...deny that this is yet another Milli Vanilli episode of the puppet masters being tangled in their own strings. "We've always been in Martha's corner," Cole maintains. "Her new gripe is that she wasn't in the video. She sued us the day after she did the ((vocal)) session! If someone is trying to burn your house down, do you invite them for dinner...
...subjects women to public humiliation but also discourages others from coming forward, an opinion widely shared by police, prosecutors and rape counselors. A Senate committee found that while 100,000 rapes were reported last year, up 6% from 1989, as many as 1.9 million still go unreported. The most vocal critics of the disclosure this week fear an increase in underreporting. "Just start publishing and broadcasting their names and addresses. That'll do it," said Ann Seymour, a spokeswoman for the National Victim Center...
...major blame for this tedious production lies with Tennessen, who did an admirable job organizing a 60-piece orchestra, but does a less admirable job coordinating the actual performance. Short bursts of orchestral music which punctuate the vocals are invariably marred by sloppy entrances and exits. The players are tentative on softer passages and overpowering on louder ones. The off-stage chorus, microphoned in, is almost always off-balance and off-sync, and the vocal "jazz trio" is dull and lifeless...
Among the most vocal critics were those who said disclosure would disclosure women from reporting rapes by having their identities revealed...