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This item has not been digitized in its entirety. The original item is available for research and handling at the UNLV University Libraries. Additional digitization is available upon request. Please contact Special Collections to request additional digitization or with any questions regarding access at special.collections@unlv.edu. ?√ß?√ß?√ß Business I Section I BUSINESS EDITOR: Doug Puppet, 383-0258. E-mail: Doug_Puppel@lvrj.com Saturday, January 17,1998 a Las Vegas Review-Journal and Las Vegas Sun Page 1D IN BRIEF /Jubilee?╟╓ producer /sues Bally?╟╓s Grand ' A production company filed a Copyright-infringement lawsuit Pri-r,day that accuses Bally?╟╓s of failing to pay royalties for use of its ?╟údubi-- lee?╟Ñ show. m\ Donn Arden Productions filed the complaint in U.S. District Court against Bally?╟╓s Grand and Grand ..Resorts. , The lawsuit claims Arden, a respected producer and director of I live stage shows and revues, entered into a contract in August -'11972 with the defendants?╟╓ predecessor, MGM Grand Hotel, i i According to the complaint, .Arden agreed to create and direct "two production shows for the hotel Mb exchange for weekly royalty 'payments. The contract also required the hotel to give Arden ^credit in all publicity, the lawsuit "claims. ?╟úJubilee?╟Ñ opened at the MGM "Grand in December 1980. According to the lawsuit, the hotel agreed * to make weekly royalty payments of $1,500 for the entire run of the I show, with a 10 percent annual ?╟≤cost-of-living increase. The hotel merged with Bally?╟╓s in June 1986, and the lawsuit claims Bally?╟╓s stopped making royalty ?╟ payments after Arden?╟╓s death in November 1994. It also claims the '^defendants have removed the Arden name from all the show?╟╓s 1 publicity. ?╟≤ Best Buy to build California warehouse L DINUBA, Calif. ?╟÷ Best Buy ^Company Inc. says it will build a &$35 million distribution center in Sthis rural San Joaquin Valley town, jf The company plans to start con-Jfstruction this spring. The distribu-igtion center is expected to create 180 jobs, company officials said Thursday. The 600,000-square-foot facility will replace a much smaller center in the Southern California community of Ontario. The new center will provide products to Best Buy stores in California, Nevada and Arizona, officials said. The Minneapolis-based company has 285 stores in 32 states. Proposal could help Indian casinos ?√φ Suggested regulations would allow approval for Indian gambling halls without the states?╟╓ consent. By Tony Batt Donrey Washington Bureau WASHINGTON ?╟÷ The Department of Interior proposed regulations Friday that would allow Secretary Bruce Babbitt to approve Indian casinos without the consent of states, although officials acknowledged that opposition in Congress may derail the plan. The proposal drew harsh criticism from Reps. John Ensign and Jim Gibbons, both R-Nev., who called on Babbitt to resign. Earlier this week, Nevada?╟╓s senators said they will sponsor legislation to block it. But Interior officials said Babbitt was trying to be fair to Indians unable to interest states in negotiating casino compacts.^ ^ Robert T. Anderson, a counselor to Babbitt and a member of the Bois Forte Band of the Minnesota Chippewa Tribe, said the proposed regulations are necessary ?╟úbecause states could effectively block all (casino) gaming activity by tribes by simply refusing to negotiate at all.?╟Ñ Anderson emphasized that state officials would not be cut out of the negotiations if Babbitt intervenes, saying the secretary would seek their opinions in developing any gaming procedures that might ensue. Tribes applauded the proposed regulations. ?╟úThis is good news,?╟Ñ said Ron Allen, president of the National Congress of American Indians. ?╟úThe states Will finally have to live up to their Please see INDIAN/2D ijiiws im ;ir VMk +? ?╟ Cvp -'5?╟÷ V* *y\ p * ^-v ***&#?·#& ** ?√ßHI HH" ill I "f smm ,.v- , 'y ?√ß tn ?╟≤ - Iflr v I ;-:a m. A resort development group that includes Nevada?╟╓s former U.S. Attorney B. Mahlon Brown III has purchased 39 acres shown from atop the Craig L Moran/Review-Journal of land on the Strip. The land is nearby Sahara looking west. Resort planned near Sahara ?√φ Developers want to build a hotel on the Strip and say details will be forthcoming. By Monica Caruso Review-Journal A development group plans to open a new gaming resort later this year on the Strip and Sahara. the intersection from Sahara owner William Bennett. Although financing isn?╟╓t in place, Brown said sources of funding are already approaching the group. ?╟úThey?╟╓re knocking on our door,?╟Ñ he said. Brown would not comment on details of the sale or the proposed resort, which he said yyill have a approvals by a variety of government entities, including the state?╟╓s Gaming Control Board and the Nevada Gaming Commission. Other partners are Barry Schlesinger, president of Heit-man Properties Ltd., a Los Angeles-based real estate development company;] and Billy Bob Barnett, former owner of Billy Del Webb land deal scrutinized ?√φ Critics say a federal land program is prone to political influence and is too generous to wealthy developers. By Jeff rey Tay lor Wall Street Journal Gary Ryan was the federal government?╟╓s top land manager in Las Vegas back in 1994 when he was summoned to a meeting with Sen. Harry Reid, D-Nev. The senator wanted to talk about a deal involving 4,700 acres of prime federal land. Arizona?╟╓s Del Webb Corp., which wanted to acquire and develop the acreage, had filed an application under a program in which the government swaps chunks of public land for privately held parcels that it deems environmentally sensitive. When he arrived for his meeting with Reid, Ryan also found a lobbyist for Del Webb waiting for him. Over the next couple of years, Ryan would get to know the lobbyist, a burly man named Donald Moon, very well. To consummate the proposed land swap, Ryan says, Moon ?╟útried to push the envelope at every opportunity,?╟Ñ frequently invoking the names of Reid and another of his friends, Interior Secretary Bruce Babbitt. Reid, too, minced few words in arguing for the deal. The Del Webb land exchange, the senator told Ryan, was ?╟úto be put on the top of the pile and not have to go to the end of the line.?╟Ñ BRUCE BABBITT Interior secretary inrif nl->r