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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.
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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.
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WARSAW — The Polish
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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.
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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.
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