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STATE HISTORICAL GOClSTt HtTT & LOWRY ST. i bii'v rjCJUUMBIAl HO i 65231 iKfcS" Mierugan ? 1 14 1 8WKyo2mEingT 20 ET 24 I Iowa 10 I Georgia JTI Army 10 Nebraska 7 Califrnia 13 73rd Year - No. 307 Good Morning! It's Sunday, September 13, 1981 6 Sections - 60 Pages - 50 Cents Tigers battle tlie Army As the crowd roars, below, and the Sat-urday afternoon struggle begins, Miz- zou- ' s tiger mascot, right, dons a field jacket, helmet and toy rifle in honor of the visiting cadets of Army. Shane Abel, 11, gets a laugh from the bulky tin pot, which was too small to fit on the tiger's head. Melissa Cole, the woman inside the tiger, said her costume was lacking. " I wanted to do MacArthur," she said, " but I couldn't find a pipe." Get details of the game on Page 1 B. r i i '-- I Isasight The mystique behind Mengel By Adrians Reyneri Missoatian staff writer A medical student fails to describe the correct procedure for examining the knee. The professor interrupts class, climbs onto the seminar table and plants himself in front of the un-prepared student. Rolling up his pants leg, be asks the student to demonstrate a proper knee examina-tion. Dr. Charles E. Mangel's students learn one thing quickly: nothing less than excellence is tolerated. Mengel insists on excellence not only from his students and staff but also from himself. He is a nationally known oncologist and hematologist and a respected teacher. Among some other administrators, residents and faculty, Mengel is re-garded as abrasive, physically threatening and intolerant. He at-tracts great loyalty and great antag-onism. So when Dean Charles Lobeck dis-missed Mengel as chairman of the department of internal medicine at the University's School of Medicine, a whirlwind of protest followed. Res-idents, doctors being trained in spe-cialized fields, staged a work alow- - ' He loves to take a sailboat out farther than you should and stay there.' down and backed off a two- da- y walkout only after an appeal by Mengel. Some colleagues of Mengel threatened to resign, and some of them took their complaints to Chan-cellor Barbara Uehling. A delegation of residents met with two of the cura-tors. At a faculty meeting following the Mgniggl, Dean Lobeck asked the faculty to bury the issue and be-gin planning for the 1962- 8- 3 year. The faculty, in part, has complied. But while the dispute is going behind closed doors, Mengel, who will re-main on the faculty at least tempo-rarily, will continue to influence the debate. Mengel, out of town on a pre-viously planned vacation during most of the controversy, has been unavailable for comment. During the past several days, the Columbia Missourinn has spoken with dozens of administrators, faculty and staff about Mengel. The portrait that emerges is as complex as the institu-tion in which he works. Mengel is both physically and mentally imposing. At 6 feet, 2 inch-es ( 1.85 meters) tall and weighing 220 pounds ( 99 kilograms), Mengel looks like a linebacser. " Dr. Mengel looks like he could be playing college football some-where," says Dr. Don Miller, a Jef-ferson City physician who trained under Mengel. Mengel's steel- blu- e eyes can " burn a hole right through you," says resi-dent Dr. Stefan Davis. " It's impossible to walk past Dr. Mengel and not notice him," says Dr. Carol Loeppky, chief medicine resident. " He plays a game of looking straight at you. Direct eye contact is his style." Part of Mengel's vitality stems from his love of the outdoors. Dr. Phillip Anderson, dermatology de-partment bead, says, " He's the type of person who likes to dig in the earth and plant fence posts. He finds solace in the water and trees. He loves to take a sailboat out farther than you should and stay there. ' ' Mengel's imposing presence is in-- Dr. Charles M. Mengel tensiSed by his theatrical gestures. " Dr. Mengel has a large behav-ioral repertoire," says resident Dr. David Mackey. " He has a tremen-dous command of behavior and is very effective at communicating his ideas." Mengel can be " anyway he wants to be," Mackey says. " He can be ex-tremely charismatic. He can be abrasive. He can be friendly when he wants to. He can be Joe in the streets ( See MENGEL, Page 8A) Polish workers threaten strike; maneuvers end From car wire services WARSAW, Poland The largest Soviet military maneuvers ever staged near Poland ended Saturday, but the Kremlin stepped up its prop-aganda campaign against the Solida-rity union as Polish steelworkers and university professors declared strike alerts. The Warsaw regime, faced with unprecedented demands from Sol-idarity for free elections, civil liber-ties and other political reforms, also pressed its criticism of the indepen-dent labor union, warning that the " enemies of socialism" risked a " to-tal confrontation" with Communist authorities. But a day after circulation of a Sol-idarity declaration calling for de-mocracy in Poland, attention was fixed on the enigmatic reaction of the Soviet Union. In a new twist, meetings of factory workers across the Soviet Union were organized by authorities on Friday and again on Saturday to dis-cuss the Polish crisis and condemn Solidarity in a series of " open let-ters" given wide circulation in the official Soviet press. The latest such letter, from work-ers at the Kirov tractor plant in Le-ningrad, said the " malicious lead- Iers- " of Solidarity were trying to push Poland " off the socialist road. " Let no one have any doubt that we shall not leave fraternal Poland i'atAbtetlhuercsiai, m" etbteimbeet, tetrhseaiSdo. viet news agency Tass announced the end of the largest military maneuvers ever conducted near Poland an eight- da- y exercise by 100,000 troops cli-maxing in a mock invasion by Soviet marines of a stretch of Soviet coast-line only 60 miles ( 96 kilometers ) from Solidarity headquarters in the Polish port of Gdansk. The air, land and sea maneuvers involved the largest Soviet fleet ever assembled in the Baltic Sea, includ-ing the aircraft carrier Kiev. " The objectives set at the exer-cises have been attained," Tass said. ' The troops, naval forces and headquarters taking part in the exercises are returning to places of their permanent stationing.'" A day after Solidarity ended its first national convention in Gdansk, publishing its seven- poi- nt manifesto calling for democratic reforms, the union announced that workers at the huge steel mills in Warsaw, Krakow and Czestochowa had scheduled strike alerts to begin Sept. 18 be-cause of the government's alleged failure to make good on agreements signed last August. Warsaw Radio said professors at Krakow's Jagiellonian University and at the Mining and Foundry aca-demy also had declared strike alerts to protest changes in a draft bill on higher education. The radio announced more bad economic news, saying doctors in the eastern city of Bialystok could no Vanger pecfiocm aeen& naa Vwcmae of a shortage of surgical gloves. Sickmann candid about hostage crisis By Tanya Barrientos Missourian staff writer ST. LOUIS For former Ameri-can hostage Rocky Sickmann, the 444 days he spent as a captive in Iran now seem like " a movie I saw and you didn't." He has been able to turn his back, he says, and walk away from the epi-sode as easily as wafting out of a theater. But for some of the 52 other hos-tages, turning away hasn't been so easy. A recent study by a presidential commission in Washington, D. C., stated that several of the former hostages are suffering psychological side effects from their ordeal, according to a recent Washington Post article. While some of the hostages' testi-monies before the commission were laced with stories of flashbacks, marital problems and phobias they hadn't experienced before Iranian militants seized the American em-bassy, Sickmann says he feels good enough to turn down psychiatric treatment. ' The doctor who examined us in Wiesbaden ( West Germany) calls once in a while to see if I want to talk, but I've said no," he says. The commission, which was formed by the Carter administration and continued by President Reagan, is trying to determine if the hostages should receive monetary compensa-tion from the federal government. Although Sickmann admits he re-ceived some telephoned threats when he first returned from Iran, he says they have all but disappeared. He sometimes gets edgy when cars slowly drive by his house, he says. But he insists he feels healthy and believes he was not mentally scarred by the crisis. Sickmann, who resigned from the U. S. Marine Corps last spring to take a job as an advertising account executive for KMOX radio, is living a life that seems to confirm his be-lief. He speaks candidly about the hardships he faced as a hostage, but doesn't like to dwell on them. " I've been so busy I don't even think about ( See SICKMANN, Page 8A) Reagan tax cuts will add to state's budget woes By Tom Cohen State capitol bureau President Reagan's tax cut program will create further revenue problems for Missou-ri state government, which already has been crippled by severe revenue shortages, according to several budget analysts. The Department of Revenue projects a $ 7 jniMcm loss this year, and as much as $ 30 million next year. An independent group called Citizens for Tax Justice, opponents of the federal tax cut, reported Missouri would lose $ 318.8 million over the next sir years. Because they are unsure of the exact fi- nan- cial impact of the tax cut program, ana-lysts would not speculate on what measures would be necessary to offset the losses. Missouri's corporate and individual taxes are based upon the same guidelines for taxa-ble income used by the federal government. As a result, income which was exempted by Congress in Reagan's tax cut program also was exempted from state taxation. " It just stands to reason there will be losses," said Bryan Omburn, manager of the Individual Tax Bureau for the Department of Revenue. " No one knows bow much. It's a very transitional time now." The state revenue projections, upon which this summer's budget cuts were based, tried to include the effects of the Reagan tax cuts, said Stephen, Bradford, administration com- nussicn- er. " We did that to the best we can," Bradford said. " We are watching the cash position on a daily basis. No one knows for sure what will happen." Bradford added he thought that meeting the projected 11.7 percent revenue increase for this year " would be an accomplish-ment." The flip side to projected losses is in-creased sales tax revenues spurred by more spending of saved tax dollars. While spend-ing probably will increase, the resulting rev-enue is not likely to exceed the losses, according to budget analysts. " Missouri will certainly lose money," said Ed Robb, director of the research center at the University College of Business and Pub lic Adminstration. " There's no way sales tax receipts will offset income tax losses." The two federal tax changes which will most erode the state tax base therefore cutting revenue collections are a tax cut for married working couples and accele-rated depreciation allowances for business-es. Working couples will be able to subtract 5 percent of the lesser- earnin- g spouse's in-come, up to $ 1,500, from their taxable in-comes this year as partial relief from federal taxes. The deduction becomes 10 percent, up to $ 3,000, next year. The state processed 700,- 0- 00 joint returns from working couples last year. Businesses will be able to subtract from their taxable incomes a larger percentage of depreciation on their equipment and prop-erty under the federal tax cut measure. The Missouri legislature tied the state's in-come and corporate taxes to the federal gov-ernment's definition of taxable income in 1968. The act was designed to simplify Mis-souri tax returns. That act and other state tax laws are now under review by interim committees of both the Missouri House and Senate. However, any plan by the interim committee would re-quire passage by the General Assembly, which does not convene until January 1982. Most of the Reagan tax cuts take effect Oct. lot this year. . ( jjMH Index Bsdcgressd ..-- - . r5 Classified . WC Real Estate Tm SB9StS ...... . .. MB Imsid tday Boom in the Ozarks The Claris used to mean fishing camps and a remote lake. Now it's developed into a plush resort area. On the lake's 50th birthday, people find other reasons to visit the area. Find cat more on 7C. i Reaping the harvest Although most Missouri farmers have not had a very profitable growing season, a number of under- the- tabl- e horticulturists are raking in $ 800 a pound for that felonious flower, marijuana. Today's Vibrations tells of two of these new- wa- ve fanners, who have successfully acclimatized powerful Indian ganja to the Missouri soil and who are now ! reaping the monetary as well as aesthetic bem.' ts. Iib wsa Monday Noon Columbia Water and Light Advisory Board meets at the Flam-ing Pit. David WoUersheim, board chairman, will speak on ' Colum-bia's Future Power Supply." 8: 30 p-- m. Jesse Auditorium. Speech by Gloria Steinem, editor of Ms. magazine. The event, sponsored by the MSA Speakers Committee.
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Item.Transcript | STATE HISTORICAL GOClSTt HtTT & LOWRY ST. i bii'v rjCJUUMBIAl HO i 65231 iKfcS" Mierugan ? 1 14 1 8WKyo2mEingT 20 ET 24 I Iowa 10 I Georgia JTI Army 10 Nebraska 7 Califrnia 13 73rd Year - No. 307 Good Morning! It's Sunday, September 13, 1981 6 Sections - 60 Pages - 50 Cents Tigers battle tlie Army As the crowd roars, below, and the Sat-urday afternoon struggle begins, Miz- zou- ' s tiger mascot, right, dons a field jacket, helmet and toy rifle in honor of the visiting cadets of Army. Shane Abel, 11, gets a laugh from the bulky tin pot, which was too small to fit on the tiger's head. Melissa Cole, the woman inside the tiger, said her costume was lacking. " I wanted to do MacArthur," she said, " but I couldn't find a pipe." Get details of the game on Page 1 B. r i i '-- I Isasight The mystique behind Mengel By Adrians Reyneri Missoatian staff writer A medical student fails to describe the correct procedure for examining the knee. The professor interrupts class, climbs onto the seminar table and plants himself in front of the un-prepared student. Rolling up his pants leg, be asks the student to demonstrate a proper knee examina-tion. Dr. Charles E. Mangel's students learn one thing quickly: nothing less than excellence is tolerated. Mengel insists on excellence not only from his students and staff but also from himself. He is a nationally known oncologist and hematologist and a respected teacher. Among some other administrators, residents and faculty, Mengel is re-garded as abrasive, physically threatening and intolerant. He at-tracts great loyalty and great antag-onism. So when Dean Charles Lobeck dis-missed Mengel as chairman of the department of internal medicine at the University's School of Medicine, a whirlwind of protest followed. Res-idents, doctors being trained in spe-cialized fields, staged a work alow- - ' He loves to take a sailboat out farther than you should and stay there.' down and backed off a two- da- y walkout only after an appeal by Mengel. Some colleagues of Mengel threatened to resign, and some of them took their complaints to Chan-cellor Barbara Uehling. A delegation of residents met with two of the cura-tors. At a faculty meeting following the Mgniggl, Dean Lobeck asked the faculty to bury the issue and be-gin planning for the 1962- 8- 3 year. The faculty, in part, has complied. But while the dispute is going behind closed doors, Mengel, who will re-main on the faculty at least tempo-rarily, will continue to influence the debate. Mengel, out of town on a pre-viously planned vacation during most of the controversy, has been unavailable for comment. During the past several days, the Columbia Missourinn has spoken with dozens of administrators, faculty and staff about Mengel. The portrait that emerges is as complex as the institu-tion in which he works. Mengel is both physically and mentally imposing. At 6 feet, 2 inch-es ( 1.85 meters) tall and weighing 220 pounds ( 99 kilograms), Mengel looks like a linebacser. " Dr. Mengel looks like he could be playing college football some-where," says Dr. Don Miller, a Jef-ferson City physician who trained under Mengel. Mengel's steel- blu- e eyes can " burn a hole right through you," says resi-dent Dr. Stefan Davis. " It's impossible to walk past Dr. Mengel and not notice him," says Dr. Carol Loeppky, chief medicine resident. " He plays a game of looking straight at you. Direct eye contact is his style." Part of Mengel's vitality stems from his love of the outdoors. Dr. Phillip Anderson, dermatology de-partment bead, says, " He's the type of person who likes to dig in the earth and plant fence posts. He finds solace in the water and trees. He loves to take a sailboat out farther than you should and stay there. ' ' Mengel's imposing presence is in-- Dr. Charles M. Mengel tensiSed by his theatrical gestures. " Dr. Mengel has a large behav-ioral repertoire," says resident Dr. David Mackey. " He has a tremen-dous command of behavior and is very effective at communicating his ideas." Mengel can be " anyway he wants to be," Mackey says. " He can be ex-tremely charismatic. He can be abrasive. He can be friendly when he wants to. He can be Joe in the streets ( See MENGEL, Page 8A) Polish workers threaten strike; maneuvers end From car wire services WARSAW, Poland The largest Soviet military maneuvers ever staged near Poland ended Saturday, but the Kremlin stepped up its prop-aganda campaign against the Solida-rity union as Polish steelworkers and university professors declared strike alerts. The Warsaw regime, faced with unprecedented demands from Sol-idarity for free elections, civil liber-ties and other political reforms, also pressed its criticism of the indepen-dent labor union, warning that the " enemies of socialism" risked a " to-tal confrontation" with Communist authorities. But a day after circulation of a Sol-idarity declaration calling for de-mocracy in Poland, attention was fixed on the enigmatic reaction of the Soviet Union. In a new twist, meetings of factory workers across the Soviet Union were organized by authorities on Friday and again on Saturday to dis-cuss the Polish crisis and condemn Solidarity in a series of " open let-ters" given wide circulation in the official Soviet press. The latest such letter, from work-ers at the Kirov tractor plant in Le-ningrad, said the " malicious lead- Iers- " of Solidarity were trying to push Poland " off the socialist road. " Let no one have any doubt that we shall not leave fraternal Poland i'atAbtetlhuercsiai, m" etbteimbeet, tetrhseaiSdo. viet news agency Tass announced the end of the largest military maneuvers ever conducted near Poland an eight- da- y exercise by 100,000 troops cli-maxing in a mock invasion by Soviet marines of a stretch of Soviet coast-line only 60 miles ( 96 kilometers ) from Solidarity headquarters in the Polish port of Gdansk. The air, land and sea maneuvers involved the largest Soviet fleet ever assembled in the Baltic Sea, includ-ing the aircraft carrier Kiev. " The objectives set at the exer-cises have been attained," Tass said. ' The troops, naval forces and headquarters taking part in the exercises are returning to places of their permanent stationing.'" A day after Solidarity ended its first national convention in Gdansk, publishing its seven- poi- nt manifesto calling for democratic reforms, the union announced that workers at the huge steel mills in Warsaw, Krakow and Czestochowa had scheduled strike alerts to begin Sept. 18 be-cause of the government's alleged failure to make good on agreements signed last August. Warsaw Radio said professors at Krakow's Jagiellonian University and at the Mining and Foundry aca-demy also had declared strike alerts to protest changes in a draft bill on higher education. The radio announced more bad economic news, saying doctors in the eastern city of Bialystok could no Vanger pecfiocm aeen& naa Vwcmae of a shortage of surgical gloves. Sickmann candid about hostage crisis By Tanya Barrientos Missourian staff writer ST. LOUIS For former Ameri-can hostage Rocky Sickmann, the 444 days he spent as a captive in Iran now seem like " a movie I saw and you didn't." He has been able to turn his back, he says, and walk away from the epi-sode as easily as wafting out of a theater. But for some of the 52 other hos-tages, turning away hasn't been so easy. A recent study by a presidential commission in Washington, D. C., stated that several of the former hostages are suffering psychological side effects from their ordeal, according to a recent Washington Post article. While some of the hostages' testi-monies before the commission were laced with stories of flashbacks, marital problems and phobias they hadn't experienced before Iranian militants seized the American em-bassy, Sickmann says he feels good enough to turn down psychiatric treatment. ' The doctor who examined us in Wiesbaden ( West Germany) calls once in a while to see if I want to talk, but I've said no," he says. The commission, which was formed by the Carter administration and continued by President Reagan, is trying to determine if the hostages should receive monetary compensa-tion from the federal government. Although Sickmann admits he re-ceived some telephoned threats when he first returned from Iran, he says they have all but disappeared. He sometimes gets edgy when cars slowly drive by his house, he says. But he insists he feels healthy and believes he was not mentally scarred by the crisis. Sickmann, who resigned from the U. S. Marine Corps last spring to take a job as an advertising account executive for KMOX radio, is living a life that seems to confirm his be-lief. He speaks candidly about the hardships he faced as a hostage, but doesn't like to dwell on them. " I've been so busy I don't even think about ( See SICKMANN, Page 8A) Reagan tax cuts will add to state's budget woes By Tom Cohen State capitol bureau President Reagan's tax cut program will create further revenue problems for Missou-ri state government, which already has been crippled by severe revenue shortages, according to several budget analysts. The Department of Revenue projects a $ 7 jniMcm loss this year, and as much as $ 30 million next year. An independent group called Citizens for Tax Justice, opponents of the federal tax cut, reported Missouri would lose $ 318.8 million over the next sir years. Because they are unsure of the exact fi- nan- cial impact of the tax cut program, ana-lysts would not speculate on what measures would be necessary to offset the losses. Missouri's corporate and individual taxes are based upon the same guidelines for taxa-ble income used by the federal government. As a result, income which was exempted by Congress in Reagan's tax cut program also was exempted from state taxation. " It just stands to reason there will be losses," said Bryan Omburn, manager of the Individual Tax Bureau for the Department of Revenue. " No one knows bow much. It's a very transitional time now." The state revenue projections, upon which this summer's budget cuts were based, tried to include the effects of the Reagan tax cuts, said Stephen, Bradford, administration com- nussicn- er. " We did that to the best we can," Bradford said. " We are watching the cash position on a daily basis. No one knows for sure what will happen." Bradford added he thought that meeting the projected 11.7 percent revenue increase for this year " would be an accomplish-ment." The flip side to projected losses is in-creased sales tax revenues spurred by more spending of saved tax dollars. While spend-ing probably will increase, the resulting rev-enue is not likely to exceed the losses, according to budget analysts. " Missouri will certainly lose money," said Ed Robb, director of the research center at the University College of Business and Pub lic Adminstration. " There's no way sales tax receipts will offset income tax losses." The two federal tax changes which will most erode the state tax base therefore cutting revenue collections are a tax cut for married working couples and accele-rated depreciation allowances for business-es. Working couples will be able to subtract 5 percent of the lesser- earnin- g spouse's in-come, up to $ 1,500, from their taxable in-comes this year as partial relief from federal taxes. The deduction becomes 10 percent, up to $ 3,000, next year. The state processed 700,- 0- 00 joint returns from working couples last year. Businesses will be able to subtract from their taxable incomes a larger percentage of depreciation on their equipment and prop-erty under the federal tax cut measure. The Missouri legislature tied the state's in-come and corporate taxes to the federal gov-ernment's definition of taxable income in 1968. The act was designed to simplify Mis-souri tax returns. That act and other state tax laws are now under review by interim committees of both the Missouri House and Senate. However, any plan by the interim committee would re-quire passage by the General Assembly, which does not convene until January 1982. Most of the Reagan tax cuts take effect Oct. lot this year. . ( jjMH Index Bsdcgressd ..-- - . r5 Classified . WC Real Estate Tm SB9StS ...... . .. MB Imsid tday Boom in the Ozarks The Claris used to mean fishing camps and a remote lake. Now it's developed into a plush resort area. On the lake's 50th birthday, people find other reasons to visit the area. Find cat more on 7C. i Reaping the harvest Although most Missouri farmers have not had a very profitable growing season, a number of under- the- tabl- e horticulturists are raking in $ 800 a pound for that felonious flower, marijuana. Today's Vibrations tells of two of these new- wa- ve fanners, who have successfully acclimatized powerful Indian ganja to the Missouri soil and who are now ! reaping the monetary as well as aesthetic bem.' ts. Iib wsa Monday Noon Columbia Water and Light Advisory Board meets at the Flam-ing Pit. David WoUersheim, board chairman, will speak on ' Colum-bia's Future Power Supply." 8: 30 p-- m. Jesse Auditorium. Speech by Gloria Steinem, editor of Ms. magazine. The event, sponsored by the MSA Speakers Committee. |