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More is at stake than the gambling industry, with revenues of as much as $300 million, which has flourished on the U.S. side of the reservation since bingo parlors were introduced in 1986 as a quick and easy way to fund tribal welfare programs. "It's a question of who is going to have jurisdiction and under what conditions" over every aspect of reservation life, says Ron LaFrance, acting director of the American Indian Program at Cornell University. A bitter power struggle between three competing tribal councils has been exacerbated by disagreements among a maze of U.S. and Canadian government...
Mohawks who live on the Canadian side enjoy less autonomy than their American counterparts. Their only attempt to launch a bingo operation was quickly shut down in 1984 by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. The casinos on the U.S. side are also illegal. But that has not kept thousands of gamblers from both sides of the border away from the blackjack, roulette and baccarat tables at six gaudy gambling palaces. Since last June, federal and state law- enforcement officials have repeatedly raided casinos, confiscated cash and removed slot machines in an attempt to keep gambling within legal bounds...
...remain in the dining hall and see if we can find some feet on the furniture. Bingo! Not only do I see feet on the chairs but in some isolated cases, upon the table. this action is not only inexcusable but obnoxious to the person who will next sit at that seat or the dining hall worker who will clean the table...
Michael Moore is a funny man -- and also an angry one. But when you've seen this movie, you have to wonder: Is he entirely honest? One hates to raise this question, since anyone who is willing to run bingo games to help finance his movie has the makings of a folk hero. Especially when his completed picture becomes the talk of the film-festival circuit and achieves what few documentaries ever do: distribution by a major studio, which is said to have paid $2 million for the privilege...
...quake's intensity, though it measured only 5.5 on the Richter scale, vs. 7.1 for the tremor that rocked San Francisco Oct. 17. The principal damage occurred in the heart of the city of 430,000, where the Newcastle Workers' Club collapsed, trapping staff members ) and morning bingo players. Emergency personnel were flown from Sydney to help with rescue efforts, but by week's end the city was still crippled. Preliminary estimates set the cost of the destruction at more than $1 billion...