Billionaire's purchase of paper seen as a power play

Las Vegas

TWO days after Sheldon Adelson's lawyers lost in their attempts to have a judge removed from a contentious lawsuit that threatens his gambling empire, a call went out to the publisher of this city's most prominent newspaper.

Almost immediately, journalists were summoned to a meeting and told they must monitor the courtroom actions of the judge and two others in the city. When the journalists protested, they wer…