Judgment Day: Oregon Republican Sen. Bob Packwood...

Judgment Day: Oregon Republican Sen. Bob Packwood has been ordered to pay $2,500 per month in alimony to his wife of 26 years, Georgie, who was asking $4,000 a month in support. In addition, the judge awarded more than half the couple’s assets--estimated at $260,000--to the senator, but said Georgie Packwood’s smaller share would be equalized by the proceeds from the sale of their $800,000 house in Bethesda, Md.

* String Him Up: “It’s amazing how many people will turn up for the hanging of a governor, even when it’s only a portrait,” Atty. Gen. Dick Thornburgh quipped Friday when his official portrait as governor of Pennsylvania was unveiled in Harrisburg. The portrait, which will hang in the executive offices of the state Capitol along with those of other former governors, was unveiled by the attorney general’s grandson, 3-year-old Richard L. Thornburgh II.

* Pop Goes the Wally: Alaska Lt. Gov. Jack Coghill’s office has moved to remove entrepreneur Chris Main’s new candy sucker from the market. One of Coghill’s complaints about the Wally Pop, named for Gov. Walter J. Hickel, is that its packaging includes the state seal, an Alaska map and the words “Official Alaskan Wally Pop.” Main, who faces six months in prison and a $500 fine, said he thought the seal was in the public domain. “I only did this for fun,” he said.

* Freedom Fighters: U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services Louis Sullivan, on a visit to South Africa, compared anti-apartheid leader Nelson Mandela with slain U.S. civil rights activist Martin Luther King Jr. “I believe that (they) made this troubled nation the crossroads of freedom,” Sullivan said in a talk to a King memorial service attended by about 300 people in South Africa’s largest black township of Soweto.