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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
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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.
However, a background study,
“Economic Justice: An Evangelical
Perspective,” which expresses only
the view of its author, the Rev.
Richard Niebanck, will also be distri
buted as an aid for congregations in
studying the proposed statement.
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