SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
                            Washington, D.C.

LITIGATION RELEASE NO. 16105 \ aPRIL 5, 1999

Securities and Exchange Commission v. David W. Hall, et al., 98-10325AAH (MCX)
(C.D. Cal.) (filed December 22, 1998)


     The Commission announced today that Robert J. Neprud has agreed to
settle charges alleging insider trading in the securities of Norand
Corporation.  On December 22, 1998, the Commission filed a complaint in
the United States District for the Central District of California
alleging that Neprud, an assistant controller at Western Atlas Inc.,
misappropriated confidential client information by tipping defendant
David W. Hall about Western Atlas’s upcoming tender offer for Norand
prior to the official announcement on January 22, 1997.  The complaint
further alleges that David Hall tipped his father, his brother, his
cousin and his cousin’s father-in-law, one of whom caused four other
individuals to trade.

     Neprud consented, without admitting or denying the Commission’s
allegations, to a final judgment entered on March 22, 1999:  (1)
permanently enjoining him from violating Sections 10(b) and 14(e) of the
Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (Exchange Act) and Rules 10b-5 and 14e-3
thereunder; (2) ordering Neprud to pay a $60,000 civil penalty pursuant
to Section 21A of the Exchange Act, and (3) ordering him to cooperate
with the Commission in this litigation.

     The Commission’s action against the remaining five defendants is
pending.

[See also Litigation Release No. 16009]