LOTTERY PLAN FOR NEW BALLPARK REJECTED IN

     Legislators in Northern VA dropped their plan to create new
instant lottery games to pay for construction of a new baseball
stadium, thus "jeopardizing" William Collins' bid to buy a team
this year.   The proposal to pay for a $250M facility through
$10M in lottery proceeds "apparently was dead on arrival" in
Richmond.  Without the lottery, the stadium authority "is under
intense pressure" to develop an alternative funding plan so
construction can begin by March '97.  Collins' group "will have
far more difficulty" now luring an existing team, as MLB owners
have said a financing plan, or "at least solid support for one,"
must be in place before move to VA (Eric Lipton, WASHINGTON POST,
1/20).