Nation IN BRIEF : ARIZONA : Indians Guarding Gambling Machines
From Times Staff and Wire Reports
Twenty to 30 Yavapai Indians stood guard on the Ft. McDowell Indian Reservation over video gambling machines they saved from seizure by FBI agents enforcing new reservation gambling regulations. After spending the night outside the casino known as “The Fort” watching locked vans holding 300 gambling machines, the Indians asked tribes in the state to camp with them. The 25 to 50 agents were allowed to leave after Gov. Fife Symington engineered a 10-day negotiating period.
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