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- <title>
- Mar. 12, 1990: American Notes:Florida
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1990
- Mar. 12, 1990 Soviet Disunion
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- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- NATION, Page 25
- American Notes
- FLORIDA
- Making Rap An Issue
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- <body>
- <p> Hurt by the collapse of an attempt to increase restrictions
- on abortions and an image of indecisiveness, Florida's
- Republican Governor Bob Martinez will have trouble winning a
- second term. He is trying to boost his chances by leaping on an
- unlikely issue. He has asked the state prosecutor to bring
- obscenity and racketeering charges against a popular rap-music
- band, the 2 Live Crew, for recording an album whose title, As
- Nasty As They Wanna Be, aptly describes its contents.
- </p>
- <p> Last month a judge in Fort Myers found probable cause that
- the songs were obscene. The ruling gave Martinez grounds for
- ordering a criminal investigation of whether the album was being
- illegally sold to minors. Says 2 Live Crew's lead singer, Luke
- Skywalker, "I figure it all to be real political."
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- </body>
- </article>
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