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Article: SAFIRE'S GAMBLING COLUMN COULD HAVE USED FIGURES.(MAIN)

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December 12, 1996
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Byline: GARY L. BURHOP Vice President, Harrah's MEMPHIS TN

William Safire's latest column on gambling (Nov. 21) indicates that the anti-gambling lobby could use some remedial work on addition and subtraction.

Safire opines that aside from pro-casino victories in Michigan and Arizona, other Election Day referenda on gambling ``took a licking from people who have grown tired of being taken for suckers.'' Let's go right to the numbers. Voters in every Louisiana parish with riverboat casinos approved the continuation of casino gaming, by margins as large as 71-29. In the aggregate, Louisiana ...

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