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The schedule contains summary financial information from Trump's Castle
Funding, Inc. This data has been extracted from the Consolidated Balance Sheets
and Consolidated Statements of Operations for the three and six month periods
ended June 30, 1997 and is qualified in its entirety by reference to such
Financial Statements.
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