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<LEGEND>
This schedule contains summary financial information extracted from Entergy
Gulf States, Inc. financial statements for the quarter ended March 31, 2000
and is qualified in its entirety by reference to such financial statements.
</LEGEND>
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<NAME> ENTERGY GULF STATES, INC.
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