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Wednesday, March 23, 1983/The Battalion/Page 5
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|ood self-sufficiency key
o future, speaker says
Twin girls
may share
one heart
United Press International
EL PASO — Doctors Tuesday
continued their examinations of
newborn Siamese twin girls
whose internal organs — includ
ing their hearts — may be
joined.
The twins were delivered by
Caesarian section Sunday night
at Newark Methodist Maternity
Hospital and were rushed to the
intensive care unit of Provi
dence Memorial Hospital.
The mother, Maria Dolores
Hernandez, 26, of Juarez, Mex
ico, was listed in good health.
The twins, who weighed from 5
to 6 pounds each and were
joined from mid-breastbone to
just above the navel, were listed
in stable condition.
by Patti Schwierzke
Battalion Staff
biggest problem facing
xiety today is finding a way to
jfA,, nhance the world’s ability to
m. i r ;ed itself in the decades ahead,
egg Specialist in agricultural
l v lechanization said Tuesday.
Dr. BensonJ. Lamp, the busi-
ri n fjj) ess planning manager for Ford
irijL raflor operations, spoke on the
ast, present and future of agri-
ultural mechanization worl-
wide as the second lecturer in
tie Agricultural Engineering
Hslnguished Lecture Series.
. “It is easy to get down in the
uOMilips when talking about agi i-
ulture today,” Lamp said. “No
ne is making much money in
" ,Cf gikulture. We need to find
Pprou solutions.”
The most obvious way to en-
tance the worldwide capacity to
people is to provide proper
ncentives for the producer,
' a lw iamp said. And the l>est incen-
llon - iveivould be a decent price for
ssma iisfcroduct, he said.
rsonnt Oilier solutions offered by
maiK .amp included:
srt • irying to solve political and
jolly issues:
• not using embargoes as
traegic policies;
• leveloping and using better
ecinologies;
• developing better teaching
nethods;
• avoiding being part of the
iroblem;
• accepting innovative ideas;
• casting off obsolete
■ei
approaches that worked in the
past but are stagnated today;
• talking about the real issue
and avoiding narrow issues.
“In my opinion, the United
States should use the clear
strategic advantages that agri
culture produces to hook the
Russians,” Lamp said. “This
would be the best deterrent.”
He said everyone, not just the
College of Agriculture, should
be involved in solving the
world’s capability to feed itself.
He also said that the goal of col
lege professors should be to con
tribute to graduates who have
learned the thrill of learning.
Professors and students need
to test ideas, look for the best
solution and reach out and
“Give a man a fish and he can
live for a day. Teach a man to
fish and he can live for a life
time.”
Braniff plans jet sale,
liay get $80 million
% United Press International
i is hole DALLAS — Bankrupt Bra-
304lli:niff International will receive
earth ni °re than $80 million by selling
a third of its entire jet fleet to
iivitfj People Express Airlines Inc., if a
federal bankruptcy court
approves the deal.
Vfhe deal would double the
I size of People Express, a small
iU3J but profitable airline based in
ll^wark, N.J., that provides ser
vice along the Eastern Seaboard.
h wK eW l 3 * e k x P ress ail( l Braniff
1 ^ Monday announced an agree-
the balance of the lease on the
747.
People Express also plans to
purchase a Boeing 727-200
simulator, some ground equip
ment and spare parts, as well as
technical assistance, flight train
ing and maintenance service
from Braniff.
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tnent in principle for the sale of
20 of Braniffs Boeing 727-200
"i ^iti|prafts for $4 million each.
^WBraniff Chairman Howard
1 Putnam said the sale of the air-
xraft was a step toward the air-
ce ' line’s resolution of its bank-
' on “ruptcy.
■Braniff filed for reorganiza
tion under the federal bank
ruptcy law's last May with almost
Si billion in debts.
M. Braniff also will lease a
Boeing 747-200 to People Ex
press.
Gwslii The agreement is subject to
■ican'approval by federal bankruptcy
judge John Flowers in Fort
[i diai^ ort h, and federal approval for
eextfPeople Express to provide non-
■awlkstop Newark-London service.
Vavnt Delivery of the aircraft is
c'luh’sscheduled between November
1983 and March 1985. The
proposed lease is for five years,
expiring September 1988. Peo
ple Express will pay $50,000 a
month until September 1983,
d and then .$250,000 monthly for
“The sale of the aircraft,
when combined with the con
tinuing maintenance and train
ing services, provides a signifi
cant step in the resolution of
Braniffs bankruptcy and the
development of continuing
businesses for our reorganiza
tion,” Putnam said.
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