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...early as next year, during the shuttle's scheduled fourth flight, it will carry an experimental military payload in its cargo bay: infra-red and laser tracking devices designed to guide future shuttle pilots to orbiting satellites for repair or retrieval-or perhaps for destruction. The experiment's disclosure has already brought a pained outcry from the Kremlin. Though the Soviets are actively experimenting with military lasers, they charge that the U.S. is planning to introduce laser weaponry into space...
...longer, thousands of travelers took to their cars. But just as rush hour reached its bumper-to-bumper peak, a 4-sq.-ft. section of cement roadbed in the southbound lane of Manhattan's elevated West Side highway suddenly collapsed and tumbled to the ground below. While a repair crew patched the hole with a metal plate traffic backed up for three hours. Said one fatigued driver who reached his office at noon: "It's like Berlin after the war. Nothing works...
...meet federal and state standards. Some of the nation's worst bridges are also heavily traveled ones. In River Rouge, Mich., the Miller Road Bridge links a huge Ford Motor factory with Interstate 94. A city engineer describes it as "utterly dangerous and in bad need of repair...
...York City is in a class by itself. Last year the metropolis had 547 water-main breaks that cost $60 million to repair. Potholes and other road defects prompted 1,941 property damage claims totaling $20.9 million. The ramshackle subway system is notoriously unreliable. Three weeks ago, a train bound for Manhattan from Queens broke down, stranding 1,500 passengers in a tunnel under the East River for more than an hour. Concerned New York businessmen are banding together to lobby for change. One group called Business for Mass Transit has taken advertisements in the New York Times to deliver...
...cost of reversing this kind of urban decay is too high for many city treasuries. Officials in New Orleans believe that it would take $200 million to repair the city's crumbling streets, but only $32 million is now available for the job. One estimate of the cost of modernizing Baltimore's sewer system comes to $1,880 for every man, woman and child in the city...