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...Kristina Perkin turned in an outstanding performance, going 4-0 in her individual bouts...
While scientists and politicians debate the merits of SDI, companies are plunging fearlessly ahead with their Star Wars research. Says Gaynor Kelley, president of Perkin-Elmer, a high-tech firm based in Norwalk, Conn.: "We see SDI as a chance to generate hundreds of millions of dollars in business over the next five to ten years." Such payoffs are far from a sure thing, but it is a business opportunity too great to ignore...
...seemed to be a glaring example of the West's inability to keep sensitive high technology out of the hands of the Soviets. Last March, Favag S.A., a Swiss electronics firm, ordered two machines used in the production of microcircuitry from Perkin-Elmer Corp. of Norwalk, Conn. After receiving guarantees that the equipment would not fall into Soviet hands, the U.S. Government approved the sale. Favag, however, promptly shipped the machines to a second Swiss company, Eler Engineering, which is reported to be a channel through which East bloc countries obtain Western technology...
...cause of that fuss was the disappearance of two projection mask aligners (price: $250,000 each) made by Perkin-Elmer Corp. of Norwalk, Conn. The automobile-size machines, called Micralign 200s by Perkin-Elmer, are used in the manufacture of microcircuitry for everything from digital watches to missile guidance systems. Designed ten years ago, the equipment has since been superseded by more advanced models. Nonetheless, the Commerce Department has it on a list of equipment banned for export to Iron Curtain countries. Commerce analysts estimate that 70% of computer microchips made in the Soviet Union are turned out on Western...
...Perkin-Elmer certainly had no intention of doing that last March, when the company received a routine purchase order for the machines from Favag S.A., a medium-size electronics company in the Swiss watchmaking town of Neuchâtel. Recalls Perkin-Elmer Vice President James P. Gregory: "We are fully aware of the importance of this equipment. We did not know Favag, so we reported the order to U.S. Customs, to the Commerce Department and to the FBI." After months of investigation by U.S. agencies, the sale was approved by the Commerce Department; the Micraligns were snipped to Switzerland...