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Sleeping wnn me enemy newspaper The underdog Las Vegas Sun is being inserted into the rival Review-Journal. By Ja m e s R a i n e y T im es S ta ff W riter LAS VEGAS — This city’s two daily newspapers have been bat­tering each other for more than half a century — chasing the same stories, fighting over the best journalists and slinging ° published insults in the particu­larly plain-spoken manner that Las Vegans seem to love. So it represented a unique break with tradition last October when an accord launched the joint delivery of the two papers —* the hard news, Libertarian-lean­ing, advertising-fat Las Vegas Review-Journal wrapped each morning around the feature-ori­ented, politically liberal, finan­cially struggling Las Vegas Sun. Economic necessity forced the two papers into a single bun­dle of newsprint. But if the first five months of joint delivery are any indication, hard feelings and rival views of this booming city will live on. And j ournalistic qual­ity, often suspect, just might get a boost. “I just wish it weren’t in our newspaper,” Review-Journal col­umnist John L. Smith said of the Sun. “If you get beat by them, it’s right there, in your face. And if you beat them on a story, so what? You just beat the insert.” Jon Ralston, a television and newsletter commentator who writes a column for the Sun, re­torts that the long-dominant R-J has done little to improve cover- [See Vegas, Page E16]