Shelah has shown that Suslin's hypothesis does not imply every Aronsza
jn tree is special. We improve this result by constucting a model of S
uslin's hypothesis in which some Aronszajn tree has no antichain whose
levels constitute a stationary set. The main point is a new preservat
ion theorem, the proof of which illustrates the usefulness of certain
ideas in [8, Section 1].