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...make matters still worse, New York has been facing a congressional mandate to equip subway stations and buses for the handicapped. The MTA estimates that this would cost $1.4 billion over the next 30 years, plus $100 million a year in operating funds. The Reagan Administration may relent and allow New York to provide special but separate facilities for the handicapped...
...Iowa and New Jersey, out of mothballs in the ports of Philadelphia and Bremerton, Wash., and put them back in service. He would do the same with the aircraft carrier Oriskany, now in Bremerton. It will take at least two years and cost more than $860 million to re-equip the vessels, which are up to 38 years old. But, claimed Weinberger, "no other ship in any modern navy is as impressive or as survivable as the battleships of the Iowa class...
...first glance the warehouse, with its mounds of gas-mask bags, ponchos, entrenching tools, field jackets, might be confused with some kind of Army-Navy store. Over the past few years Roller has acquired enough military surplus to equip the national guard of a modest-size Central American dictatorship. G.I. helmets and uniforms, for instance, are much in demand as props for high school drama departments...
...those forces are not available. The NATO members have only a limited ability to rearm, resupply or even communicate with one another. Says U.S. Under Secretary of Defense Robert Komer: "We still plan, configure, size, train and equip our forces nationally, as if each of us were going to fight the common enemy alone. This is a recipe for disaster." The Carter Administration has successfully pressed its allies to take some steps toward integrating NATO's forces. The President and Brown also won agreement from each NATO member to increase its annual defense spending by 3% in real terms...
...Republic to fatten depleted coffers. Partly as a result of the bank raids, the Republic has built up its own surveillance of the border region. In early September Prime Minister Charles Haughey's government announced that Dublin will spend $240 million to deploy more helicopters and spotter aircraft, equip special detective teams with Israeli UZI submachine guns, use unmarked police cars and-shades of The Informer-pay more money for inside tipoffs...