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THE BATTALION FRIDAY, OCTOBER 30, 1981 Page 13 Features 'e buried '"•ethinj ’Pened," fob sav- of banks ' e secur- nployees 1 women ) be cap- fie was 'S near wscatcl fd to be og. I Id le. I was the fed- ayed a 'Ron and wdure, ailhouse ie would ' capital ssissippi ce.” He groups meriean interfer- can’t file ts to be i federal i be will if being (federal ic in 10 but -12 re been ain "be , Pruett pe who le. He uld kill 1 would Pioneering police captain looks back Women officers assuming equal United Press International LOS ANGELES — Connie fipeck, the police department’s irst female captain, remembers rearing skirts to work in 1957 be- ause women officers were not ssued uniforms. They didn’t handle liquor store itickups, homicides and hostage apers, either. Today, in a more liberated lolice department, she still wears Iresses on the job. She also com- nands about 225 officers in the Fernando Valley as head of he uniform and traffic divisions of he police department’s West Val- ey station. Speck, 49, climbed the ranks om rookie to captain in 23 years. )n the way she had four children and raised six, made it through law chool, and overcame a bout with Icoholism. She was a rookie in the ’50s hen Los Angeles policewomen worked as matrons in the jail or on patrol in the juvenile division, handling child beatings, molesta tions and other sex offenses. Her first assignment was juve nile patrol — in street clothes. “We’d roll on all the hot shot calls, she said. Women were not dispatched to handle rough calls in those days. “Everybody thought, including me, that women can’t do the job of a police officer, being in a uniform in a black and white car, answer ing all these robbery calls,” she said. “Now I see women doing it. ” Speck said her upbringing and culture required women to do feminine things. Being a cop did not fit the image. But attitudes, even at the police department, have changed with the times. In 1975 the City Coun cil decreed that women there would be treated equally. Speck was no bra-burner. Being a woman in a man’s world of guns, suspects and crime meant doing her job and going along with the system. “I lived within the system,” she said of her steady climb to a $50,000 per year police job. “I didn’t make any waves.” While some other female offic ers stayed in traditionally woman- oriented jobs, Speck set her sights on advancement. She was promoted to captain Oct. 5, 1980. Earlier this year, a second female LAPD officer made captain. “Women are attracted to police work,” Speck said. “Those who are generally have aggressive ten dencies. But if they are not strong enough, they don’t get past the (police) academy.” There are about six women in her command and about 300 female officers in the entire LAPD, said Speck, whose hus band, Dale, retired from the police department as an assistant chief and is currently an attorney with the California Attorney Gen eral’s office. “I am watching the women going out there and doing it and talking to the officers who work with them, ” she said. “To see their attitudes change is interesting be cause most of the women, like most of the men, can do it. Some women can’t; some men can’t.” Astronaut Truly anadian bionic has n j arm United Press International CAPE CANAVERAL. Fla. — For about 36 hours during the up- oming second flight of the space huttle Columbia, astronaut tichard Truly will become a man iith a bionic arm. The arm is a remote manipula- ir built in a Canadian $100 mil- ion development effort and don- ted by that country’s National ssearch Council as its contribu- m to America’s new orbital msportation system. But in space it is capable of picking up objects that are up to 60 feet long, 15 feet wide and weigh as much as 65,000 pounds. The machine will unload future itellites in orbit and eventually • P ill reach out and grab some for I :,urn t° Earth. In the flight start- I1.v|irNov. 4, the manipulator will it have a satellite to launch but ill be exercised in virtually every ration. Bruce Aikenhead of the Nation- 'Research Council said it likes to I chuckle^]) thg device an “arm” and the :scription is apt in many re- lects. y iata He then it all, fie- is laid fa iding aid is. lost oflis than It Like a human arm, the 50-foot- mg manipulator has a rotating loulder socket, an elbow joint at moves in only one direction, id a wrist that has two joints and loves both ways. The arm is powered by six built- he livint* electric motors. It is equipped replacinj ithaclosed circuit television sys- with cameras at the elbow and icw l) room During Columbia’s launch, the remote manipulator folds and is carried in a cradle mounted inside the left side of Columbia’s cargo bay. The shoulder joint of the arm is linked to a bracket mounted at the top of the left side of the cargo hold at the forward end, near Col umbia’s cockpit. Astronauts have three means of controlling the arm. An automatic system allows it to be manipulated through preprogrammed man euvers by a computer. With a manual system, Truly will move the arm through its sequence, us ing his hand and arm to maneuver the manipulator. The third system is a backup and includes a separate electro nics system in case the primary wiring fails. The likeness to the human arm ends at the wrist. In place of a hand, there is a grapple. This was designed to meet NASA specifica tions for loading and unloading satellites in orbit. It will function only on satellites equipped for pickup by the grapple. The arm was built by Canada’s SPAR Aerospace Ltd. of Weston, Ontario. Although it donated the first arm to NASA, the agency has ordered three more at a cost of $65 million. And the company hopes to sell more. Pitcher perfect Kf £ L ERLANCER THE EXCEPTION jjjjjjUlUliUU GRAND OPENING CONTINUING 3 I three k) ceilin! ristand a light atop each camera. aroJ shedk -old (rat he dro« ” Harvey uid move lole yea 1 r fixed »f for a ne* The arm, made largely of raphiteand honeycomb metal, is ;onaspe- fiy 15 inches in diameter and eighs less than 1,000 pounds. Aikenhead said if the shuttle is to be used by the U. S. Air Force to attempt to retrieve hostile milit ary satellites or old satellites not equipped for pickup, a different grapple system will have to be de veloped. 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