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- NATION, Page 55American NotesALASKABaying at The Moon?
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- 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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- 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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