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THE BATTALION
MONDAY, MAY 4, 1981
Page 7
Texas firm installs armor
to protect against attacks
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United Press International
CARROLLTON — A tiny spe
cialty auto firm’s business is boom-
. o , thanks to political unrest, ter-
i rorist attacks and kidnappings all
over the world.
Tetradyne Corp. produces pro
tection — armoring vehicles to
withstand assassins’ bullets and
terrorist ambushes.
Company officials say orders
have been pouring in from all over
the world — especially from the
Mideast and Central America —
cars that have been modified
with steel armor, special deadbolt
locks and protective glass.
The work doesn’t come cheap:
costs range from $11,000 for in
stalling the most basic protection
in a van to $40,000 for overhauling
a luxury limousine. Neither price
tag includes the cost of the basic
vehicle.
“We don’t ask too many ques
tions,” said Tetradyne sales mana
ger Robert Soussi. “But I need to
know, if not which country, which
area of the world is involved. ”
Soussi, who speaks English,
French, Spanish, Italian and Ara
bic and handles most of the nego
tiations over the telephone, said
the firm needs to know at least the
general area where the vehicle
will be used so that the type of
protection installed will fit the
type of attacks common to that
area.
He said the caliber of bullets as
well as the motivation behind
attacks vary from place to place
and the firm has different levels of
protection suited to each.
“We have all the statistics, all
the information,’’ he said. “For ex
ample, we know that kidnappers,
in countries where company and
government officials are often kid
napped, allow themselves two and
a half minutes to carry out the mis
sion. Otherwise they abort.’’
Company officials refuse to re
veal the specifics of their customer
list and say they often don’t know
themselves who the vehicle is for,
since arrangements are often
made through middlemen.
Aside from the basic armor plat
ing welded into a car to keep it
from buckling in a rollover or
crash, Tetradyne offers sirens,
loud speakers equipped with tape
recorders that call for help in the
appropriate language, outside
speakers that allow communica
tion with attackers, two-way
radios, gunports for shooting back
and even a grenade launcher.
The company, with 40 em
ployees, turns out about 40 cars
per month. Soussi said customers
include U.S. grocery store chains
that transfer large amounts of
cash, oil companies with overseas
operations, banks, and numerous
government officials.
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United Press International
WASHINGTON — Rep. Phil Gramm, D-Texas,
said Sunday he believes there is “a good chance” the
Democratic-controlled House will approve Presi
dent Reagan’s revised budget proposal by 20 or 30
votes this week.
The House is debating two major proposals: a plan
to be introduced by Gramm and Rep. Delbert Latta,
R-Ohio, that modifies Reagan’s budget proposal by
cutting an additional $6 billion from the budget, and
a Democratic alternative that would restore some
binds to social programs.
A floor vote on the plans is expected Tuesday or
Wednesday. Of the total membership in the House,
there are 243 Democrats, 191 Republicans and one
independent.
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But he added, “I think we are building momen
tum, and I think that there is a good chance that we
are going to win by 20 or 30 votes.”
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leaders that they are also gaining momentum for the
Democratic alternative plan, Gramm said, “I think
that we are in good shape.
“I think that their talk about gaining momentum is
pretty reminiscent of our talk early in the Vietnam
War about how we were going to have the boys home
by Christmas.”
Gramm said there is “a distinct possibility” Rep.
Dan Rostenkowski, D-Ill., chairman of the House
Ways and Means Committee, will compromise with
the Republicans on a tax cut bill rather than face
defeat of his one-year tax cut plan. The administra
tion has proposed a three-year tax cut bill.
Gramm said he believes liberal Democrats are
making House Speaker Thomas O’Neill, D-Mass.,
their “whipping boy.”
“They want to say, ‘Well, it is not that our prog
rams don’t work anymore, but it is that we got this
old white-headed man who’s not dynamic enough
and who’s not the strong leader we need right now.’
“I think that is unfair and totally unfounded,”
Gramm said.
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STANFORD, Calif. —
Surgeons hoped to remove Stan
ford’s second heart-lung trans
plant from his mechanical respir
ator this weekend in a crucial test
to see if he can breathe on his own.
The patient, Charles Walker,
30, of Binghamton, N.Y., re
ceived a new heart and new lungs
in a four-hour operation Friday,
and his condition remained critic
al but stable Sunday.
The operation was performed
just 54days after Stanford Medical
Center performed its first such
procedure on Mary Gohlke, 45, a
Mesa, Ariz., newspaper execu
tive.
Gohlke has set a world survival
record for a heart-lung transplant
recipient, and the success gives
hope heart-lung operations may
become reasonably safe.
Walker’s new organs came from
an undisclosed donor. Because of
a congenital heart defect. Wal
ker’s blood was not properly ox
ygenated.
This condition led to pulmon
ary hypertension and resulting de
terioration of both his lungs and
his heart. When he was 13, he was
told he had the lungs of a 90-year-
old.
In recent years Walker, an
embalmer, has spent most of his
time in bed and has been given
weekly blood transfusions. With
out the transplant, he was given
less than a year to live.
He was awake but sedated Fri
day, and he was visited by his
mother, June Spangenberg, and
one of four brothers.
Gohlke has been slowly regain
ing her strength. She walks about
her room and makes several short
trips each day down the hall. Her
physical therapy includes lifting 3-
pound weights and she may be
able to leave the hospital in
another month.
Three heart-lung transplants
were performed more than a de
cade ago at other institutions. The
longest survivor only lasted 23
days and the procedure was aban
doned.
The operation was attempted at
Stanford because of the availabil
ity of a new drug, cyclosporin A.
The drug suppresses the body
immune reaction to foreign tissues
without devastating its ability to
fight infections.
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Summer heat may repeat
United Press International
The sizzling heat wave of 1980 — which
browned out vast areas of Texas, killed cat
tle and poultry, drove some farmers toward
bankruptcy and monthly electric bills to
unheard of figures — is threatening to stage
a comeback.
While weather experts are stopping
short of outright predictions that the sum
mer of 1981 will be as bad as 1980, they
point out that the warmer-than-normal
weather predicted for May and June could
be a signal of higher temperatures later on.
“It does indicate we should all start
watching the situation very closely,” said
Dr. Robert Livezey, a long range weather
forecaster with the Climate Analysis Cen
ter in Washington, D.C. “We should stay
on the alert. This isn’t one of those years
you can shrug off. ”
A more ominous warning is being sound
ed by the Texas Department of Water Re
sources.
“We are quite dry at the present time
and we need rain badly,” said water depart
ment spokesman Herbert Grubb. “Unless
we get it, we have another disaster in the
making. ”
Last year’s devastating drought and
heat, from which farmers are yet to fully
recover, saw temperatures hit at least 100
degrees for as many as 42 days in a row. For
metropolitan areas, that meant scattered
water shortages, astronomical utility bills,
frayed tempers and power cuts.
Water experts are worried that if rainfall
levels drop this year as they did last year,
the state’s 70 or so major reservoirs will be
down to about half of their capacity by the
end of summer 1981.
“There has been more rapid growth in
our metropolitan areas than anticipated,”
Grubb says. “It’s a statewide problem. We
have grown more rapidly than water sys
tems have been expanded to keep up with
growth.”
Grubb warned the problem may become
even more serious in rural and agricultural
areas.
“Because it was so dry last summer and
this winter, the soil is extremely dry. That’s
why even when it’s raining we are not get
ting a lot of runoff (which helps to fill lakes).
The rains we have had in the last several
weeks are wetting the top few inches of the
soil,” he said.
“Further north, where only the topsoil is
wetted, unless the rains keep coming, the
moisture (remains) very shallow and the
water will be quickly used up by plants and
dried out by the sun,” Grubb said.
If that happens, he said, “we would have
a repeat of serious drought on the farmer
and the rancher.”
Recent rains didn’t help matters much.
Experts at the Texas Agricultural Extension
Service in College Station say some of the
rains were accompanied by high winds and
hail which inflicted severe damage to crops,
especially in Uvalde County.
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