Word: california
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...past month, Native American reservations in California, including the Barona, Viejas and Sycuan bands in San Diego County, have been required to remove video gaming machines, the high-profile and high-profit instrument of their gambling revolution. As reported in the August 9 San Diego Union-Tribune, the removal comes as the first painful step in a compromise arranged by U.S. Attorney Alan Bersin, who acknowledges that only Governor Pete C. Wilson has the power to negotiate an all-encompassing agreement that can guarantee a role for Indian gaming in California's future...
...then, is Wilson forcing on-screen poker machines to deal a premature last hand? In interviews, Wilson has said he is simply doing his job, that he is following a court decision in June that deemed slot machines illegal in California...
...until 1934, with the Wheeler-Howard Act, did the American government again recognize any right of the Native Americans to any tribal identity or land holdings. Roughly a century after the original devastating program for "Americanizing" the Native Americans, the same ugly scenario is being played out in California: a Native American attempt at self-sufficiency is held up by a state government bent on meddling with success...
...vote software was first released four years ago. Lee Valentine '93-a Harvard Graduate School of Education student consulting for the makers of Acu-vote--said the software has been used the New York City board of education and by California Citizens for Proportional Voting, a watchdog group...
...donor drive has met with success wherever it has been attempted, organizers said. At the University of California Berkeley, 989 Asians were registered as donors. Similar initiatives have been organized by Kuo's friends in Washington, D.C., Philadelphia, Chicago and San Francisco...