1.   Assemblyman Robert Straniere, a Republican, reintroduced a secession bill this year, though it has no chance of passage.

2.   The dreaded secession bill still passed the Legislature last week.

3.   The secession bill promises to rip L.A. apart and make the San Andreas Fault look like crack in the sidewalk, say critics.

4.   Vance Amory submitted the secession bill to the Nevis parliament late Tuesday, nearly a year after his first bid for independence was rebuffed by the opposition.

5.   Nevis Premier Vance Amory said in a radio broadcast Monday he had instructed the legal office to prepare a secession bill.