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STIN (AP) — A legislative
lonsor of pari-mutuel betting
ed Thursday that surrounding
ates do not want Texans to ap-
ove race track wagering and are
tting up money to defeat the bal-
proposition.
“W< know what pari-mutuel will
ito our surrounding states,” Sen.
,H. Harris, R-Dallas, said.
’hev’re not going to like it, that’s
. They’ve been drawing off
ur’population base. It’s our turn.”
Harris said surrounding states
at already allow pari-mutuel wa
gering, are obviously spending
money in Texas.
Dallas-based Texans Who Care,
an anti-betting group, claims that
pari-mutuel betting is a dying indus
try. But Rep. Lloyd Criss, D-La Mar
que, said the total amount wagered
at tracks had risen 49 percent over
the past decade.
Attendance at horse tracks last
year totaled 70.5 million, making it
the nation’s No. 2 spectator sport,
Criss said.
“That doesn’t sound like an un
healthy industry to me,” he said.
Also, he said, greyhound atten
dance has increased 131 percent in
the past 20 years, and the amount
wagered has gone up 511 percent.
“No greyhound track in the United
States is having economic trouble,”
Criss said.
Rep. Debra Danburg, D-Houston,
said racing and wagering already are
going on. “The two things that are
not going on are” there is no state
oversight and “we’re not getting the
money,” she said.
Other proposed ammendments
are also being debated. The West
and South Texas Chambers of Com
merce endorsed the pari-mutuel
proposition .
The chambers also backed Refer
endum 1 on Tuesday’s ballot, which
would keep the State Board of Edu
cation an appointed body rather
than having it elected.
The Texas Department of Mental
Health and Mental Retardation
urged voters to support Amend
ment 8 on the ballot, which would al
low the state to sell $500 million in
bonds for prison, mental health and
youth facilities.
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fxas soldiers ‘stay in step’ with other troops
special NATO deployment of U.S. forces
|QRT HOOD (AP) — Trooping across Eu-
ln NATO training exercises, Texas soldiers
in step with the thousands of other sol-
ers, says Fort Hood commander Lt. Gen.
rosbie E. Saint.
Jie of the big successes that I’m proud of is
at we jut Killeen and Central Texas on the
?’ Saint said. “There aren’t many people in
orthern West Germany that haven’t heard of
^■orger ’87, in which nearly 78,000 interna-
onal troops took part, featured a contingent of
20,000 Fort Hood soldiers and nearly 11,000 Na
tional Guardsmen and Army Reservists.
The complicated maneuvers were the largest
deployment of U.S. forces to Europe since World
War II. Saint said all the American soldiers came
home safely, and no equipment or vehicles were
lost.
“I still have about 2,000 soldiers over there, so
it’s not over until it’s over,” Saint said. “The last
plane comes in Nov. 4.”
Saint said that given the huge logistical task the
maneuvers entailed, they went off smoothly.
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onstrated their professional competence.”
Members of the Committee for Disarmament
in Europe, many of whom were from Warsaw
Pact countries, visited some of the maneuvers,
but not all the secrets of the NATO forces were
deployed.
“I didn’t show them all my cards,” Saint said.
“They left wondering what we can do.”
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