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Page 16 THE BATTALION WEDNESDAY, APRIL 16, 1980 Making connectors growing concern United Press International NEW YORK — There’s a small U.S. industry manufacturing low in sertion force connectors for electro nics applications: not glamorous perhaps, but prestigious. Some 15 small- to medium-size companies make the devices with an esoteric sounding name that are real ly just a very sophisticated version of an ordinary electric plug and wall socket. Their combined sales probably are not much over $100 million annual ly, but the industry is growing rapid ly: Its product is vital to national de fense, the space effort and the com puter industry. The connectors also are made in several other advanced countries but the American technology in making them enjoys so much prestige that British, French and German com panies have been trying to buy some of the American companies, accord ing to Michael Offerman, chief tech nical officer for Industrial Electronic Hardware Corp., New York, one of the leaders in the field. Offerman said the Europeans so far have not been able to buy any company large enough to be a mar ket factor. Possibly, he said, the American firms feel the federal gov ernment would step in to block any sale to foreign interests for defense Lutherans go economist THE BATT DOES IT DAILY Monday through Friday with the wire netting. The whole de vice is made of beryllium copper, brass and gold. It costs 50 to 100 times as much as an ordinary elec trical connector. The electronic connectors are turned out in a bewildering array of assemblies and multi-layer boards incorporating enough connectors for anywhere from a handful to several hundred circuits. They are used in aircraft, missiles, military “secured communications systems,’’ military computer applica tions and to a lesser extent in com mercial computer hardware. Lately, Offerman said, the market is expanding for low insertion force connector assemblies for use in a wide variety of instrument and test ing equipment for both military hardware and industrial machinery. Caviar conspirators arrested United Press International LONDON — A group of Soviet fishery officials could face the death penalty in a multimil- lion-dollar caviar swindle that in volved sending the expensive de licacy out of Russia labeled as “smoked, seasoned herring,” a prestigious British newspaper says. Once outside the Soviet Un ion, the product was sold on the world market at the going price for the gourmet appetizer. The Fisheries Ministry em ployees, who took an enormous rake-off in the scam and stashed their profits in Swiss banks, went undetected for 10 years, the Financial Times said. The newspaper said more than 200 employees of the Fisheries Ministry were arrested, and more than 150 of them may face the death penalty for “economic crimes involving foreign cur rency.” In what was described as one of the “most serious economic crimes in Soviet history,” minis try officials struck a secret and illegal deal with an unnamed Western firm to export caviar labeled as “smoked, seasoned herring,” the newspaper said. Economic crimes involving foreign currency if big enough are punishable by death in the Soviet Union, and such executions took place during the rule of Nikita Khrushchev 20 years ago. The swindle involved the Okean stores in Moscow, the newspaper said. The report said the Soviet Foreign and Fisheries Ministries refused comment on the alleged arrests, but an official in the In ternal Affairs Ministry conj he was working on an invj tion into Okean stores. The investigation hasj going on since February lif following the resignatiojl Fisheries Minister Aleia;|§ Ishkov, the paper said. 1 Apart from the 200 ttlu Moscow, hundreds morJ 1 volved in processing, pact,;! distributing in the provinJf have been detained and MJ restaurateurs are alsoimplis the report said. Offerman explained that an “ordinary electrical connector works only because it carries current of 6 to 120 volts and up to 60 amperes. It is too crudely built, and must be plug ged in witb too much force, to sustain a connection at extremely low cur rent rates. “The low insertion force connec tor, on the other hand, must be sen sitive enough to carry currents mea sured in thousandths of a volt and ampere. It must be tiny enough so that hundreds of circuits can be con nected in a few square inches and must require almost no mechnical force to make the connection.” There are many types of connec tors. Offerman’s firm makes one it calls Hypertac in which the recepta cle has a network of wires inside re sembling an hourglass. The wires are gold-plated at the waist of the hourg lass and the pin of the plug is gold- plated at the point where it will mate United Press International The Lutheran Church in America, largest of the nation’s major Luther an bodies, is considering a social statement that challenges the assumption of U.S. capitalism and denies private property as “an abso lute human right.” The 20-page proposed statement, “Economic Justice: Stewardship of Creation in the Human Commun ity,” is currently being distributed among the denomination’s 3 million members and will be voted on at the LCA’s June 1980 convention. At the heart of the document is a description of justice defined as “what God’s love does when many neighbors must be served with li mited resources.” But while the heart of the prop osed statement is a discussion of eco nomic justice, the draft mentions neither socialism nor capitalism by name. LCA officials, however, said the draft currently being circulated was a significantly revised version of an earlier one which was sharply critical of the Western consumer ethos and disputed the assertion that “the ideology of free enterprise is a ‘Christian economics.’” The earlier draft, according to Dr. William Lazereth, director of the LCA’s Department for Church in Society, “attempted a description of economic life in North America, por traying its strengths and weak nesses.” When it was circulated, however, there was sharp criticism from the LCA membership that it was “not as objective as it purported to be.” “There’s not a working consensus in the LCA on how sick the North American patient is,” Lazereth said. The draft, going to the convention for its approval as a policy statement, lays dovCm ethical principles against which to measure any economic system. 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