National Anti-Gambling Trend Emerging

In a New York Times editorial, columnist William Safire comments:

"...the moral blight of organized, big-league casino and riverboat gambling--and the public disgrace of state sponsored gambling--took a licking from people who have grown tired of being taken for suckers.

Despite more than $4 million spent by casino operators, gambling industry PAC’s and unionized croupiers, the voters in 23 elections and referendums decisively defeated proposals to make the get-rich-quick philosophy--with transfixed players tugging ever-hopefully at the one-armed bandits--their local way of life."