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Article: Casino Issue Further Stalls Housing Plan for Tribe Elders in Rhode Island.

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October 10, 2002
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Byline: Paul Davis

Oct. 10--PROVIDENCE, R.I.--The Narragansett Indian tribe should be allowed to finish a stalled plan to provide affordable homes for the tribe's elders, a Justice Department lawyer argued yesterday.

Town and state officials want the tribe to sign an agreement promising it won't build a casino on the 32-acre housing site near Route 1 in Charlestown. The tribe bought the land 11 years ago.

"So long as it is housing, we have no problem," Bruce Goodsell, Charlestown's assistant attorney, told U.S. District Court Judge Mary M. Lisi. "But there is no doubt the Narragansett Indians want to build a casino" in Rhode Island, he said.

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