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Friday, January 26, 1984/The Battalion/Page 5 Continental negotiations with pilots break down locaust. used Rea*,, President; Tuesday lIn e inrej;, 'eechoneai ' someta. : his reso ies." change," in a siait •she rhetJ ister AnJ rent speJ (I a | del behelii •S- Persl ssiles siaiiJ e dismani Jones gin injection, ij flail wideltij i/ure. M es gave t at madeC hild died® ntonio I United Press International HOUSTON — Negolia- |tions between Continental Airlines and its striking pilots bunions broke off Thursday when it was determined by a mediator that both sides were deadlocked on a back-to-work agreement. Talks had resumed Thurs- | day u\ Los Angeles with the Air Line Pilots Association, but after two and a half hours of discussions, mediator Ben jamin Aaron, a University of Southern California law pro fessor, said there was no reason to continue because neither side would budge. Continental spokesman Bruce Hicks said the company was ready to negotiate a “flexi ble, innovative” contract, but “we could reach no agree ment.” Hicks said the pilots were demanding that Continental displace all pilots hired since the strike began in October and refurlough a number of pilots who had come back to active staff. They also asked to demote pilots who had been promoted during this time period, Hicks said, and the Continental spokes man Bruce Hicks said the company was ready to negotiate a “flexible, innovative” contract, but “could reach no agreement.” company would not do it. “Just as in December, when the last negotiations broke off over this issue, we again felt we could have reached an agreement on wages, work rules and productivity. But this back-to-work demand that would displace the active employees who have kept this company alive and saved thousands of jobs was the overriding issue,” Hicks said. Meanwhile, negotiations with the Union of Flight atten dants, which began Tuesday, continued Thursday in Houston. Continental filed for Chap ter 11 reorganization Sept. 26, cut its payroll by two-thirds and used lower paid em ployees to start flying a re duced schedule. Pilots and flight attendants struck the airline in protest, and went to bankruptcy court seeking to have Continental’s reorganization thrown out as illegal. A judge recently ruled Continental’s bankruptcy is proper. Bankruptcy Judge R.F. Whelessjr. ordered both sides to try to reach an accommoda tion before a scheduled hear ing next week on Continen tal’s petition to officially void its labor contracts as too ex pensive. Continental unofficially already has voided those con tracts. us denied! tiling but t >r diildlio I in Kemi th several iId. All the A&M pr<?f works on soil tester By LESLIE MARTIN Reporter As a graduate student at Texas A&M in 1971, Dale Pen nington designed a lift device for an automated soil tester. But school and work took priority over the development of his in vention, so he wasn’t able to work on it again for more than a decade. “I had to choose between finishing school or the soil tester and I decided that getting my degree came first,” Pennington said. He received a bachelor’s de gree in agricultural education and a master’s and doctorate in evelopment oundation Meeting the needs of soil science from Texas A&M. The desire to finish his inven tion stayed with him though, and now 13 years later the dream has become a reality. The first soil testing machine, built from items around Pen nington’s house, has been in use since May at the Agricultural Extension Service laboratory in Lubbock where he works. It frees the employees from the monotonous task of testing some 4,000 soil samples the lab receives in the busy months of January and February. This is the busiest time of the year for the lab because farmers want their soil tested before they buy fertilizer for that season. The machine is a motorized assembly line that moves the soil samples through the testing pro cess. The lift Pennington de vised while at Texas A&M plays a vital part in this process. It low ers a probe into the sample to determine the amount of nit rogen nitrate in the soil. Pennington call& his inven tion the Lubbock Automated Soil Analysis System. He recent ly built a second model and up graded the first one. Someday he hopes to have four machines that will tie into a computer sys tem, but that will have to wait. “We are receiving no finan cial help right now,” he said,“I am funding the project on my own.” Pennington is busy con tacting people in hopes of obtaining a grant to continue de velopment of the machine. He also has begun the paper work to patent the invention that had its beginning so long ago at Texas A&M. r>oc I Todail and Tomorrow” Office of Development Texas A&M University 610 Evans Library ? 845-8161 :xk: ot*c rxK Company C’s Comedy Production of Missiles of October or was it Beer Bottles of October written and directed by Jim Burford Jan. 26, 27, 28 Feb. 3,4 Thursday nite at 9:00 pm Friday nite at 9:00 & 11:00 pm Saturday nite at 9:00 & 11:00 pm at Baker Street Bar & Restaurant Call for Reservations 696-1439 The Day After’ shown in Poland taken toil 1982.staB nd suffered United Press International which ti| spiraton WARSAW — The Polish nesreDonf!' niiliur y Thursda y. accused r .Washington of planning a nuc lear strike in a statement timed tine miss tobuild interest in the first show ing in a Communist state of the Hj.S. nuclear war movie “The ne daysii h, HolUj hehadfoJL. . r . ■ • Day After. a j. 1 M Qn the day Polish television ^as screening the ABC turn de picting a nuclear holocaust in ... ,,. jCansas, top army analyst Col. ti te J * azimierz i\| oz ki said the world in the topi] ;r fromtlxi jvas faced with a tremendous * u ls j a " military buildup, eged 7 r irsday, ait ifiedjonet to a gn the proci shed in : surger) Swartzmaj t at the U| dth Scienttl mio, saidM md other riptionofi relaxant s There is only one conclusion that can be drawn after seeing this film: A nuclear holocaust will spare nobody and the coun try which triggered it will be wiped from the surface of the world, ” the independent newspaper Zycie Warszawy said. ■ gave thefc T Jones, lay, a path! i nder <i| aat she clu in the cai» ath after!' ;l attorney ;• the baby’L ; | withaleJ# nylcholinej; - s no exaggeration to say i Kagan 1 ^ wor i c i never faced a ogjst w more dangerous situation since 11 I its formation than that with ’ . which it is confronted now,” sl . lt . (II1 |' , Hozki told the state-run PAP ugindrf 1 ™ 5 a S enc y- ned body 6;. “American commanders and war theoreticians assume that a possible war will open with a strategic nuclear strike designed to instantaneously destroy the defense capability of the War saw Pact nations and crush any will to resist,” said Nozki. Nozki, a senior research analyst at the army’s General Staff Academy, added that “a massive use of nuclear weapons on the territories of the socialist states, including Poland, is ex pected to secure victory for the West.” “This is why the introduction of the new American missile sys tems in’Avestern Europe is being watched with such concern. They are to deliver nuclear war heads against our towns of un paralleled power,” Nozki said. The Nozki interview made no mention of nuclear missiles de ployed by the Soviet Union. His remarks, prime-time tele vision announcements and mostly anti-Western press com ment on the dangers of nuclear conflict over the last few days built up interest in Poland for, the broadcast of the controver sial film. “There is only one conclusion that can be drawn after seeing this film: A nuclear holocaust will spare nobody and the coun try which triggered it will be wiped from the surface of the world,” the independent news paper Zycie Warszawy said. The movie, which features shocking scenes of mass destruc tion, has been shown in many western European countries but never before at full-length in a communist country. EVERYTHING YOU ALWAYS WANTED IN A BEER. AND LESS.