OTHER NEWS - June 25, 1996

Comparator Executive Resigns: Richard E. Floegel has resigned as president and chief operating officer of Comparator Systems Corp., according to a document filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Floegel joined the Newport Beach company a year ago. He has said in recent interviews that he was unaware of any alleged improper activity at Comparator, a maker of fingerprint scanning devices. Last month, the SEC filed a sweeping lawsuit against Comparator that accuses the company of lying about its finances, stealing its key product from a Scottish professor and marketing that product’s technology as Comparator’s own and bilking investors by selling millions of shares of virtually worthless stock. Neither Floegel nor other Comparator executives could be reached for comment. The SEC suit also seeks to bar three Comparator executives, including Chief Executive Robert R. Rogers, from ever serving as officers of any public company. Floegel is not named in the suit. Rogers has denied any wrongdoing.