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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.
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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
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.