Sun International to purchase Vegas' Desert Inn GC Starwood gradually is pulling LAS VEGAS — Sun Interna- Nevada gaming officials esti- developed Strip land. out of the casino business. The H.R. 1592 aims tional Hotels Ltd., which oper- mate it will take 12 to 16 months to The Las Vegas Review Journal company recently reached ates casinos in the Bahamas, At- process Sun International gam- and Las Vegas Sun report that agreement to sell Caesars World, to end unfair lantic City, and on the Mauritius bling licenses. In the meantime, Sol Kerzner, sometimes referred Inc., including Caesars Palace and Comoros Islands in the In- the 715-room Desert Inn will con- to as a visionary and fearless Hotel on the Las Vegas Strip, for pesticide dian Ocean, is expanding to Las tinue to be operated by Starwood. developer similar to Steve Wynn, $3 billion cash to Park Place Vegas. The company has The purchase includes the is talking with Starwood about Entertainment Corp. Starwood assessments reached agreement to buy the hotel-casino's 140-acre, 18-hole, joint development of 350 time- acquired the Desert Inn Resort WASHINGTON — In an Desert Inn Resort on the Las championship Desert Inn golf share units behind the Desert and Caesars Palace in Las Vegas effort to ensure the full and Vegas Strip for $275 million cash course on the Strip as well as an Inn Golf Course along Paradise when it purchased ITT Corp. for fair implementation of the from Starwood Hotels & Resorts. adjoining 32 acres of prime un- Road, one block east of the Strip. $13 billion in 1998. Food Quality Protection Act (FQPA), H.R. 1592, 'The Regulatory Fairness and Openness Act of 1999," has been introduced in Congress. The proposed bill main- tains the fundamental goals of FQPA but requires the Environmental Protec- tion Agency (EPA) to use reliable information and sound scientific data to assess the usage of pesti- cides under FQPA. The 1996 FQPA law dra- matically changed the way pesticides are evaluated for risk, allowing the EPA to use unscientific assump- tions and models in safety assessments. Under H.R. 1592 superintendents will continue to have access to effective, reliable pesti- cides as long as they meet rigorous scientific safety standards after full and fair review by the EPA. As a result of the 1996 FQPA law, two classes of chemicals important to su- perintendents, organophos- phates and carbamates, are under scrutiny at EPA. GCN changes Continued from page 3 Respond 2 Is tional correspondent shortly af- specifically designed ter graduating from Earlham College in Richmond, Ind., in for treatment of 1997. He spent close to two years some of the most in Southeast Asia researching challenging tisrffgrass the economic impact of golf and soil symptoms course development and re- ported for GCNL on the state of and landscape the industry. conditions including: Since his return stateside Overbeck has been contributing • Localized dry spot to GCN and working for two of • Missed irrigation United Publication's other news- • Compaction papers since last November. As associate editor, Overbeck • Drought stress will continue to cover interna- • Thatch build-up tional golf course development • Uneven areas as well as the supplier business • Mounds and bumps and the new product beats. Levans spent three years as a • Slopes reporter at The Pittsburgh Press • High traffic areas before joining the staff at United • Damaged areas caused Publications, the parent com- by tree roots pany of Golf Course News. Prior to his tenure as editor of Golf • Damaged areas caused Course News, Levans was respon- by mower scalping sible the editorial launch of HME News, a business newspaper in the medical equipment industry, the company's most successful (800) 847-6417 start-up. CIRCLE #105 .