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...known as the Detroit People Mover, originally planned to open this month, is behind schedule, over budget, shoddily built and, critics say, unnecessary. Many Detroiters, whose only other public transportation is a creaky bus system, scorn the People Mover as "a rich folks' roller coaster." Says Ralph Stanley, the Reagan Administration's top mass-transit official: "It could be the nation's least cost-effective transit project in the last 20 years...
...Motor City, where the car is king, has steered away from any large-scale mass transit since the Michigan legislature unsuccessfully proposed a subway in 1905. But in 1982, after Congress overrode Reagan Administration objections, both Detroit and Miami were given a green light to begin work on People Movers. The Detroit project, 80% federally funded, is one of the first U.S. tests for the innovative train, which works something like a horizontal elevator, the cars powered by electromagnetic thrust. Originally, Detroit planners hoped the People Mover would link up with a proposed area-wide light-rail commuter system. Although...
...Palestinian problem that underlies the current epidemic of terrorism. As the U.S. aircraft carrier Coral Sea left Naples with its support vessels to begin what U.S. officials called "routine operations in the central Mediterranean," the widespread assumption was that the Navy was getting into position in case President Reagan gave the order to strike at Libya...
...Ronald Reagan realized that a half-day summit with Mexican President Miguel de la Madrid last week could not begin to resolve differences between their two countries. So he used his four-hour stopover in Mexicali to drive home U.S. concern over Mexico's $96 billion foreign debt. The U.S. has been urging Mexico to cut government spending and increase private investment. De la Madrid told Reagan that Mexico was making "increasingly strenuous efforts," but was hampered by factors like the dropping world price of oil. The Mexican President seemed close to endorsing a plan by U.S. Treasury Secretary James...
...there was little progress on other bilateral issues. Reagan reiterated his concern over cross-border drug trafficking and his frustration with Mexico's backing of anti-U.S. resolutions at the United Nations and its support for Nicaragua's lefist Sandinista regime. De la Madrid reminded Reagan that the U.S. and Mexico must sometimes take separate paths. Said he: "Our political and economic reality cannot be identical." THE PHILIPPINES No More Mrs. Nice...