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...Chen, 25, taught at a language institute and Wu, 27, worked as an industrial designer in the Hunan city of Changsha. Unhappy with their prospects, they began taking seriously stories about Shenzhen, about the wealth of jobs, high salaries and ample living quarters. Wu traveled 450 miles by train to Shenzhen and quickly found a job in an electronics plant. His wife, fluent in English, was hired by the same company as an interpreter. This summer the pair moved to Shenzhen and a life of few regrets. "Prices are a bit higher, but so are our salaries," Chen Li says...
NATION: Elite warriors train to counter terror and fight dirty battles 16 The Administration beefs up the military's Special Forces, but critics question whether they are ready for quick and sure action. Progress intrudes on Palm Springs, President Reagan's New Year's desert retreat. Senator Gary Hart, announcing that he will not run for re-election in Colorado, looks toward the White House in '88. New York City braces for an international literary gala...
Special Forces play several different roles. In a conventional war, small teams of a dozen men are supposed to penetrate behind enemy lines, blend in with the natives and cut off lines of supply and communication. To train friendly forces in the art of guerrilla warfare, the Army has sent hundreds of teams to 60 nations in the past six years--more than twice as many as it sent overseas during a comparable period in the 1970s...
...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 the rail system never got off the drawing board, the Southeastern Michigan Transportation Authority decided to take...
...million in private development. They trust that when the construction quandaries are finally resolved, Detroit's monorail will emulate the success of similar systems in Toronto and Vancouver. George Pastor, president of Urban Transportation Development Corp.-USA, the company that is building the People Mover, claims the train will pay its own way within three years of start-up. "These systems are cheaper in capital and operating costs than traditional transit systems," Pastor insists. "When you subtract all the nonsense that occurred throughout the tragic history of this project, that will still be proved." --By Richard Stengel. Reported by William...