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Banquet bird MMMfl SportsQub members invited WKBPJBI Baltimore pitcher Mike Bod-- i TTOft Bi dicker to be their guest at the itJ B WTueesfdroamy fBanonddbiocyketro tfoalrdmohfahndj W'WWmil I . Rwjie of the Year, and 1J i what life under former Oriole &&. J manager Earl Weaver was P 1 Yummy yams dnMfipF ;' Are most sweet potatoes stuck WKHBqBjjjjtC' ' in a yam? Grocers who call HHhDW& f sweet potatoes yams are usual-- ORHHMj ly wrong. What they call yams JHBHwPii are actually sweet potatoes. IShHk ffi Confused? Learh the difference igSLHGflKr 1 between a yam and a sweet po-- gMBBUttBmi I tato and how to prepare some WmttHBE ' 1 of these tasty potato dishes. !$ p! lIHHRp I jf .$ o( ttmto " KP r r r " " 1908- 198- 3 76th Year No. 73 Good Morning! It's Wednesday, December 7, 1983 10 Sections 66 Pages 25 Cents 9lHBSEHR. KHfltKfilMHB fiin& S HamsL JjttBaSjgflBWyBgmah flHH aiLRLnf . dRafEflHB HiHflBHIWQKmHB34vn'f- k- fI'pHJBz WBBBBHHUHHBhMWPBPff fa'Btrr THBawbiMhMsBbHwpI fTitiPWfiPpTtBr" lfiwfMSI-- iI ? rBiHBWwIBIITbWHmMaBinbiPlBhBinmBfMfbfwtbBi" bHbf! H! PMmMl. MMryrMtpMmiiifrfiy & fo.'' Hm1JQKBSfsLXHfmlKMm! n. AmfkKlYnttSlJHHWSKSTMHSSHPSHw& u- i-. NKvvJHHLBLcMSHgShTmrrH1S ' BsHBBeHlBBBRBtBt9BS3ifvBHHBKSff PcnwH1dBSB) BBBSIiiHBFm3Bt, FywuH4BHKiMHWBBEB9MBMSPIBBMBre0fKcOHWg AtWSSPt9PBhBlTk'ltBiptKiBBBHI9HBBBB. IfIcBMSB3t'W4BJBI HBBBMrJjgBBB3iMjtt MWBBgJBKfc P- 3ftBBBBBHBaRBBB- ? WH EflB9wKSflBBt tHBBIH PWyBBWBr icv.!? 3lflBliSa,?. i3L vr a. i. BBBBlWiMKwHPwHBBwHBFBBf" VDiHHJBHEkHRJBBHKi BSssh KSSSiRS3fl& i! aflvi 9Q9HHiB( SHBiBHBHBKiHflB nTsHPQBt. vl. wBi B 25v " BSrssB JSSKjis& LaSILBHHLLIHLLHHLKs? H39flSIBuHB'QBBf H5i VB? S 2HBz'c!$ iEKHBBMBE? Jim Ltmon Barry Tice, Rock Bridge High School's tie guy, and some of his 200 ties . Tice's ties Rock Bridge student loves tying one on every morning By April Adler Mlssourian staff writer Barry Tice collects ties like most kids collect baseball cards. A year ago, he only had one now he has more than 200 and feels naked without them. " Everybody knows me," he says. ' Tm probably the most rec-ognized person at Rock Bridge.' ' Tice says he's worn a different tie to school ever since he had to dress up for a yearbook photo last year. The 17- year-- old high school senior says it's become a habit Fnends, neighbors and teachers often contribute old and battered ties to Tice's arsenal. And the worse they appear, the greater his infatuation. Tice says he looks for ugliness, stain content, width and length when buying used ties. The shorter and fatter the better. " So, I'm a non- conformis- t," he says. Tice owns a few designer ties, but no tie clasps. He says that he is automatically lured to the tie coun-ter the instant he walks into a de-partment store. Tice, who has a part- tun- e job at a local store, says he is usually broke so he doesn't have the money to spend. " I've spent $ 25, maybe $ 30 tops," Tice says. But he would consider unloading the collection for a cool $ 3,000. Storing 20 pounds of ties can be cumbersome, but Tice has a sys-tem. There are two pdes: the " has been worn" pile and the " has not been worn" pile. Tice says he remembers which ties he has worn, and insists he has only worn two ties more than once. That was when he ran out of his " has not been worn" pile. He im-mediately restocked, purchasing 99 ties for $ 1. The college- boun- d senior says he has only stained one be. Generally, Tice doesn't wear a jacket to go with his ties. He is equally at ease in a T- sh- irt and be as he is in a three- piec- e suit. When deciding which tie to don in the morning, Tice says he chooses the one that clashes the most " If it matches too well," he says, " I'll put it back and pick another." It certainly would be a difficult task to color coordinate psychedel-ic shades of yellow, orange and guorwpleers. with owls and stripes and " With ues as ugly as these it seems to be a waste to try and match them," he says. " Most you couldn't match anyway." Air war intensifies in Lebanon BEIRUT, Lebanon ( UPI) U. S. " Marines unleashed missile and tank fire Tuesday to silence new attacks by Syrian- backe- d Druze Moslem mi-litias and Damascus said American air strikes had put it " in a state of war" with the United States. , The struggle in the air also re-sumed, with Syria downing an Israe-li drone over eastern Lebanon. Dam-ascus said it destroyed a second pilotless spy plane over southern Syria, but Israel denied the claim. U. S. warplanes were reported back flying reconnaissance missions over Lebanon despite the threat of Syrian antiaircraft fire that downed two American jets Sunday Washington said top- secr- et nego-tiations were under way with the Syrians to gain the return of a cap-tured American airman, Lt. Robert Goodman, and the body of Lt. Mark Lange, who was killed when their plane was shot down. Syria said Monday Goodman would not be returned until U. S. troops leave Lebanon but offered to hand over Lange's body to the U. S. Embassy. An American spokesman Syria downs spy drones; holds pilot refused all comment on the sensitive discussions. At the White House Tuesday night, national security adviser Robert Mc- Farla- ne said President Reagan's special Middle East envoy, Donald Rumsfeld, would return to the region " in the next 24 hours" to resume peace efforts. McFarlane told NBC News he be-lieves there is soil a " prospect" to secure the withdrawal of foreign forces from Lebanon, saying the country's problems " are not irrecon-cilable." - In the northern port of Tripoli, Syrian troops and pro- Araf- at Mos-lem gunmen waged a fierce hour- lon- g battle, with shells falling inside Lebanese army barracks and near PLO chief Yasser Arafat's head-quarters. Six people were killed and five wounded during the afternoon fight-ing that engulfed six neighborhoods in northeastern Tripoli before a cease- fir- e agreement was reached at dusk. As darkness fell across the Marine compound around Beirut airport, the Americans came under " heavy con-centrated machine- gu- n fire from for-tified positions," Marine spokesman Maj. Dennis Brooks said. There were no Marine casualties in the new attack. The Marines, still shaken by at-tacks that killed eight men and wounded two others Sunday after the air strikes, fired back with four gre-nades, a round from an M- 6- 0 tank, a 66mm anti- tan- k round and a single anti- tan- k Dragon missile. " All fire ceased as soon as we re-turned, the fire," Brooks said. The fire came from the Druze- con- troll- ed fulls to the east of the Ma-rines. The leader of the secretive re-ligious sect had called earlier for more fighters to combat the United States. Druze leader Walid Jumblatt, touring villages in his mountains to the east of Beirut, was quoted by the conservative International News Agency condemning President Rea-gan. " Holding the gun is the sole guar-antee of our survival," Jumblatt said. Syria also kept up its verbal at-tacks on Washington in the wake of Sunday's unprecedented American air strikes against Syrian troops, asking " how the master of the White House can ride both the horses of peace and war at once." " What concerns us is our fight to defend our soldiers and national and regional borders," a Syrian radio commentary said. " It is the Ameri-can administration that chose to put itself into a state of war and con-frontation with us." Official Beirut radio reported 10 planes from the multinational peace-keeping force flew reconnaisance missions, sweeping from the sea across the mountains. Christian Phalange radio identified at least some of the Jets as U. S. F- 1- 4s Kitchen crazy hLdIII Al " Buck" Larson is relishing --. JkSSKB a lifelong love affair with cook- - & 3 r 16 ing. As the chief culinary artist mjjjifiS'!, jB fhoarppNieorwewlThs, ettinhge ccouusltdonm'terbse' WUBf 4 8i? i Hm appetites with the aroma of a HbBH I smoke- cure- d ham or a barbe- - HHr-- B i qfuee- bawst- edof his scpruomrkptiroouasst. reFciopresa, BHa& HHSvrtam1H II see Page 3B. v3K38! V ! I $ 300 million tax bill approved by Senate; voter OK required By Lindsay Psterson and Mary Kaull State capital bureau JEFFERSON CITY - The Mis-souri Senate reversed itself Tues-day, giving first round approval to a $ 300 million tax package that would impose a 10 percent surcharge on in-dividual income taxes but would re-quire voter approval in February Just a day earlier, the senators de-feated a similar proposal whose only differences were that the increased taxes would have gone into effect early next year with voter approval scheduled in April 1985. Under the package passed Tues-day, the tax plan would go into effect m April if it receives approval Feb. 7. A second legislative vote on the measure, which is required, should come today. It then would go to the House. Gov. Christopher Bond has warned legislators that without a tax in-crease, $ 63 million would have to be cut from state services. Before Tues-day's vote, Bond walked the Senate halls andtned to rally support. At least one senator theorized that pressure applied by the governor ac-counted for the vote switch- over- s. " The change is a result of sheer pressure," said Sen. Emory Melton, R- Cassv-fllle The provision to seek voter ap-proval in February succeeded in bringing around at least two Repub-licans, who were among seven sen-ators who changed their votes to en-able passage of the bill. But ore of the Republicans, Sen. Fred Dyer, R- S- t. Charles, insists he didn't switch his vote. Neither he nor his constituents want a tax increase. Several senators, including Der, argue that immediate budget cuts are not necessary " I think the state is in good shape right now " al-though he said new rev enues would be needed for fiscal year 1385 Key House leaders Tuesday seemed pleased with the turn of events House Speaker Bob Griffin, D- Camer-on, said the Senate had tak-en the " big step" by voting for a measure that includes an income- ta- x increase Griffin, however, said he still sup-ports a $ 335 million House proposal that calls for tax reform, including graduated increases in the individu-al and corporate income taxes " The surcharge simply aggravates an in-adequate system that we're trying to improve now," he said If the Senate gives its package fi-nal approval today, Gnffm said he would send it to committee on Thurs-day, and the measure might then be ready for debate on the House floor Monday Griffin said a House tax measure would be substituted for the Senate plan when the bill reaches the lower chamber. But House and Senate leaders now agree that any tax plan will include a provision for voter ap-proval. After Senate debate on the amended bill, several senators said any revenue- producin- g measure should first be put to the voters " Once a vote is taken, we'll know a lot more about where we stand on taxes," Dyer said He said a vote against a tax increase may be an in-dication that people want budget See REVENUE. Page 8A ROTC remembers Vietnam- er- a MIAs By Barbara Rehm Mlssourian staff writer Louise Van Hoozer strained to check her emotions as she faced the audience gathered in a University auditorium. It was tough. Her topic, Americans still missing in Vietnam, has a personal tie her brother. In June 1968, his F4D Air Force jet was shot down. He was de-clared missing in action. Since that day, the Savannah, Mo., resident has channeled much of her energy into the resolution of questions surround-ing American servicemen still unac-counted for in Vietnam. " I've spent 15 years of my life with this, and I think I know it inside and out," Van Hoozer told her audience last Sunday The Arnold Air Society, a service organization with the University's Air Force ROTC program, spon-sored the gathering, which featured several speeches and a candlelight service to emphasize the need to ac-count for the MIAs. Van Hoozer is regional coordinator for the National League of POW- MI- A Families Founded in 1970, league membership has grown to 1,400. All are relatives of the miss-ing. The group is committed to the re-turn of 2,500 Americans reportedly being held prisoner in Southeast Asia. Sunday's program in Columbia coincided with similar POW- MI- A league meetings nationwide. Van Hoozer estimates the number of gatherings " ran into the thou-sands." Declaring she " loves this coun-try," Van Hoozer detailed the histo-ry of the league's efforts to what its members perceive as government inattention to the MIA issue De-scribing the league as a " burr under the government's skin," Van Hoozer expressed some optimism when she spoke of recently renewed govern-mentinterest in MIAs. " We have been assured that this is DKDE17 a top national priority," she said According to a " POW- MI- A Fact Book" published by the U S Depart-ment of Defense in 1983, the govern-ment has received more than 1,840 reports from Indochinese refugees about missing Americans The books states that the reports, the uncooperative response of the governments in Southeast Asia and the fact that " some of the missing initially survived the incident in which they were lost, preclude rul-ing out the possibility that Ameri-cans may be alive " Accordhng to the book, 52 Missour- lan- s are among the 2,500 men unac-counted for in Vietnam " We know there are people over there We know they are being mis-treated We want the American peo-ple to help us," Van Hoozer said She said the North Vietnamese are " interested" in how the American people feel a bout the missing men Wearing one of the once- popul- ar POW- MI- A identification bracelets, this one bearing her missing broth-er's name, Van Hoozer said it is dif-ficult to focus public attenbon on the MIA issue when the world confronts so many major problems " Now that the war is over, it's easy to forget, unless you have someone over there," Van Hoozer said As the candles were lit, the names of the 52 missing Missounans were called off. Van Hoozer expressed her feelings when she heard the narrator read her brother's name. " At last some-one besides the family was remem-bering my brother is not home " Americans can show their concern for men soil missing in Vietnam by sending the MIAs Christmas cards in care of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam, United Nations represen-tative, 20 Waterside Plaza, New York, N. Y. 10010
Object Description
Title | Columbia Missourian Newspaper 1983-12-07 |
Description | Vol. 75th Year, No. 73 |
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Columbia (Mo.) -- Newspapers Boone County (Mo.) -- Newspapers |
Coverage | United States -- Missouri -- Boone County -- Columbia |
Language | English |
Date.Search | 1983-12-07 |
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State Historical Society of Missouri University of Missouri School of Journalism |
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Item.Transcript | Banquet bird MMMfl SportsQub members invited WKBPJBI Baltimore pitcher Mike Bod-- i TTOft Bi dicker to be their guest at the itJ B WTueesfdroamy fBanonddbiocyketro tfoalrdmohfahndj W'WWmil I . Rwjie of the Year, and 1J i what life under former Oriole &&. J manager Earl Weaver was P 1 Yummy yams dnMfipF ;' Are most sweet potatoes stuck WKHBqBjjjjtC' ' in a yam? Grocers who call HHhDW& f sweet potatoes yams are usual-- ORHHMj ly wrong. What they call yams JHBHwPii are actually sweet potatoes. IShHk ffi Confused? Learh the difference igSLHGflKr 1 between a yam and a sweet po-- gMBBUttBmi I tato and how to prepare some WmttHBE ' 1 of these tasty potato dishes. !$ p! lIHHRp I jf .$ o( ttmto " KP r r r " " 1908- 198- 3 76th Year No. 73 Good Morning! It's Wednesday, December 7, 1983 10 Sections 66 Pages 25 Cents 9lHBSEHR. KHfltKfilMHB fiin& S HamsL JjttBaSjgflBWyBgmah flHH aiLRLnf . dRafEflHB HiHflBHIWQKmHB34vn'f- k- fI'pHJBz WBBBBHHUHHBhMWPBPff fa'Btrr THBawbiMhMsBbHwpI fTitiPWfiPpTtBr" lfiwfMSI-- iI ? rBiHBWwIBIITbWHmMaBinbiPlBhBinmBfMfbfwtbBi" bHbf! H! PMmMl. MMryrMtpMmiiifrfiy & fo.'' Hm1JQKBSfsLXHfmlKMm! n. AmfkKlYnttSlJHHWSKSTMHSSHPSHw& u- i-. NKvvJHHLBLcMSHgShTmrrH1S ' BsHBBeHlBBBRBtBt9BS3ifvBHHBKSff PcnwH1dBSB) BBBSIiiHBFm3Bt, FywuH4BHKiMHWBBEB9MBMSPIBBMBre0fKcOHWg AtWSSPt9PBhBlTk'ltBiptKiBBBHI9HBBBB. IfIcBMSB3t'W4BJBI HBBBMrJjgBBB3iMjtt MWBBgJBKfc P- 3ftBBBBBHBaRBBB- ? WH EflB9wKSflBBt tHBBIH PWyBBWBr icv.!? 3lflBliSa,?. i3L vr a. i. BBBBlWiMKwHPwHBBwHBFBBf" VDiHHJBHEkHRJBBHKi BSssh KSSSiRS3fl& i! aflvi 9Q9HHiB( SHBiBHBHBKiHflB nTsHPQBt. vl. wBi B 25v " BSrssB JSSKjis& LaSILBHHLLIHLLHHLKs? H39flSIBuHB'QBBf H5i VB? S 2HBz'c!$ iEKHBBMBE? Jim Ltmon Barry Tice, Rock Bridge High School's tie guy, and some of his 200 ties . Tice's ties Rock Bridge student loves tying one on every morning By April Adler Mlssourian staff writer Barry Tice collects ties like most kids collect baseball cards. A year ago, he only had one now he has more than 200 and feels naked without them. " Everybody knows me," he says. ' Tm probably the most rec-ognized person at Rock Bridge.' ' Tice says he's worn a different tie to school ever since he had to dress up for a yearbook photo last year. The 17- year-- old high school senior says it's become a habit Fnends, neighbors and teachers often contribute old and battered ties to Tice's arsenal. And the worse they appear, the greater his infatuation. Tice says he looks for ugliness, stain content, width and length when buying used ties. The shorter and fatter the better. " So, I'm a non- conformis- t," he says. Tice owns a few designer ties, but no tie clasps. He says that he is automatically lured to the tie coun-ter the instant he walks into a de-partment store. Tice, who has a part- tun- e job at a local store, says he is usually broke so he doesn't have the money to spend. " I've spent $ 25, maybe $ 30 tops," Tice says. But he would consider unloading the collection for a cool $ 3,000. Storing 20 pounds of ties can be cumbersome, but Tice has a sys-tem. There are two pdes: the " has been worn" pile and the " has not been worn" pile. Tice says he remembers which ties he has worn, and insists he has only worn two ties more than once. That was when he ran out of his " has not been worn" pile. He im-mediately restocked, purchasing 99 ties for $ 1. The college- boun- d senior says he has only stained one be. Generally, Tice doesn't wear a jacket to go with his ties. He is equally at ease in a T- sh- irt and be as he is in a three- piec- e suit. When deciding which tie to don in the morning, Tice says he chooses the one that clashes the most " If it matches too well," he says, " I'll put it back and pick another." It certainly would be a difficult task to color coordinate psychedel-ic shades of yellow, orange and guorwpleers. with owls and stripes and " With ues as ugly as these it seems to be a waste to try and match them," he says. " Most you couldn't match anyway." Air war intensifies in Lebanon BEIRUT, Lebanon ( UPI) U. S. " Marines unleashed missile and tank fire Tuesday to silence new attacks by Syrian- backe- d Druze Moslem mi-litias and Damascus said American air strikes had put it " in a state of war" with the United States. , The struggle in the air also re-sumed, with Syria downing an Israe-li drone over eastern Lebanon. Dam-ascus said it destroyed a second pilotless spy plane over southern Syria, but Israel denied the claim. U. S. warplanes were reported back flying reconnaissance missions over Lebanon despite the threat of Syrian antiaircraft fire that downed two American jets Sunday Washington said top- secr- et nego-tiations were under way with the Syrians to gain the return of a cap-tured American airman, Lt. Robert Goodman, and the body of Lt. Mark Lange, who was killed when their plane was shot down. Syria said Monday Goodman would not be returned until U. S. troops leave Lebanon but offered to hand over Lange's body to the U. S. Embassy. An American spokesman Syria downs spy drones; holds pilot refused all comment on the sensitive discussions. At the White House Tuesday night, national security adviser Robert Mc- Farla- ne said President Reagan's special Middle East envoy, Donald Rumsfeld, would return to the region " in the next 24 hours" to resume peace efforts. McFarlane told NBC News he be-lieves there is soil a " prospect" to secure the withdrawal of foreign forces from Lebanon, saying the country's problems " are not irrecon-cilable." - In the northern port of Tripoli, Syrian troops and pro- Araf- at Mos-lem gunmen waged a fierce hour- lon- g battle, with shells falling inside Lebanese army barracks and near PLO chief Yasser Arafat's head-quarters. Six people were killed and five wounded during the afternoon fight-ing that engulfed six neighborhoods in northeastern Tripoli before a cease- fir- e agreement was reached at dusk. As darkness fell across the Marine compound around Beirut airport, the Americans came under " heavy con-centrated machine- gu- n fire from for-tified positions," Marine spokesman Maj. Dennis Brooks said. There were no Marine casualties in the new attack. The Marines, still shaken by at-tacks that killed eight men and wounded two others Sunday after the air strikes, fired back with four gre-nades, a round from an M- 6- 0 tank, a 66mm anti- tan- k round and a single anti- tan- k Dragon missile. " All fire ceased as soon as we re-turned, the fire," Brooks said. The fire came from the Druze- con- troll- ed fulls to the east of the Ma-rines. The leader of the secretive re-ligious sect had called earlier for more fighters to combat the United States. Druze leader Walid Jumblatt, touring villages in his mountains to the east of Beirut, was quoted by the conservative International News Agency condemning President Rea-gan. " Holding the gun is the sole guar-antee of our survival," Jumblatt said. Syria also kept up its verbal at-tacks on Washington in the wake of Sunday's unprecedented American air strikes against Syrian troops, asking " how the master of the White House can ride both the horses of peace and war at once." " What concerns us is our fight to defend our soldiers and national and regional borders," a Syrian radio commentary said. " It is the Ameri-can administration that chose to put itself into a state of war and con-frontation with us." Official Beirut radio reported 10 planes from the multinational peace-keeping force flew reconnaisance missions, sweeping from the sea across the mountains. Christian Phalange radio identified at least some of the Jets as U. S. F- 1- 4s Kitchen crazy hLdIII Al " Buck" Larson is relishing --. JkSSKB a lifelong love affair with cook- - & 3 r 16 ing. As the chief culinary artist mjjjifiS'!, jB fhoarppNieorwewlThs, ettinhge ccouusltdonm'terbse' WUBf 4 8i? i Hm appetites with the aroma of a HbBH I smoke- cure- d ham or a barbe- - HHr-- B i qfuee- bawst- edof his scpruomrkptiroouasst. reFciopresa, BHa& HHSvrtam1H II see Page 3B. v3K38! V ! I $ 300 million tax bill approved by Senate; voter OK required By Lindsay Psterson and Mary Kaull State capital bureau JEFFERSON CITY - The Mis-souri Senate reversed itself Tues-day, giving first round approval to a $ 300 million tax package that would impose a 10 percent surcharge on in-dividual income taxes but would re-quire voter approval in February Just a day earlier, the senators de-feated a similar proposal whose only differences were that the increased taxes would have gone into effect early next year with voter approval scheduled in April 1985. Under the package passed Tues-day, the tax plan would go into effect m April if it receives approval Feb. 7. A second legislative vote on the measure, which is required, should come today. It then would go to the House. Gov. Christopher Bond has warned legislators that without a tax in-crease, $ 63 million would have to be cut from state services. Before Tues-day's vote, Bond walked the Senate halls andtned to rally support. At least one senator theorized that pressure applied by the governor ac-counted for the vote switch- over- s. " The change is a result of sheer pressure," said Sen. Emory Melton, R- Cassv-fllle The provision to seek voter ap-proval in February succeeded in bringing around at least two Repub-licans, who were among seven sen-ators who changed their votes to en-able passage of the bill. But ore of the Republicans, Sen. Fred Dyer, R- S- t. Charles, insists he didn't switch his vote. Neither he nor his constituents want a tax increase. Several senators, including Der, argue that immediate budget cuts are not necessary " I think the state is in good shape right now " al-though he said new rev enues would be needed for fiscal year 1385 Key House leaders Tuesday seemed pleased with the turn of events House Speaker Bob Griffin, D- Camer-on, said the Senate had tak-en the " big step" by voting for a measure that includes an income- ta- x increase Griffin, however, said he still sup-ports a $ 335 million House proposal that calls for tax reform, including graduated increases in the individu-al and corporate income taxes " The surcharge simply aggravates an in-adequate system that we're trying to improve now," he said If the Senate gives its package fi-nal approval today, Gnffm said he would send it to committee on Thurs-day, and the measure might then be ready for debate on the House floor Monday Griffin said a House tax measure would be substituted for the Senate plan when the bill reaches the lower chamber. But House and Senate leaders now agree that any tax plan will include a provision for voter ap-proval. After Senate debate on the amended bill, several senators said any revenue- producin- g measure should first be put to the voters " Once a vote is taken, we'll know a lot more about where we stand on taxes," Dyer said He said a vote against a tax increase may be an in-dication that people want budget See REVENUE. Page 8A ROTC remembers Vietnam- er- a MIAs By Barbara Rehm Mlssourian staff writer Louise Van Hoozer strained to check her emotions as she faced the audience gathered in a University auditorium. It was tough. Her topic, Americans still missing in Vietnam, has a personal tie her brother. In June 1968, his F4D Air Force jet was shot down. He was de-clared missing in action. Since that day, the Savannah, Mo., resident has channeled much of her energy into the resolution of questions surround-ing American servicemen still unac-counted for in Vietnam. " I've spent 15 years of my life with this, and I think I know it inside and out," Van Hoozer told her audience last Sunday The Arnold Air Society, a service organization with the University's Air Force ROTC program, spon-sored the gathering, which featured several speeches and a candlelight service to emphasize the need to ac-count for the MIAs. Van Hoozer is regional coordinator for the National League of POW- MI- A Families Founded in 1970, league membership has grown to 1,400. All are relatives of the miss-ing. The group is committed to the re-turn of 2,500 Americans reportedly being held prisoner in Southeast Asia. Sunday's program in Columbia coincided with similar POW- MI- A league meetings nationwide. Van Hoozer estimates the number of gatherings " ran into the thou-sands." Declaring she " loves this coun-try," Van Hoozer detailed the histo-ry of the league's efforts to what its members perceive as government inattention to the MIA issue De-scribing the league as a " burr under the government's skin," Van Hoozer expressed some optimism when she spoke of recently renewed govern-mentinterest in MIAs. " We have been assured that this is DKDE17 a top national priority," she said According to a " POW- MI- A Fact Book" published by the U S Depart-ment of Defense in 1983, the govern-ment has received more than 1,840 reports from Indochinese refugees about missing Americans The books states that the reports, the uncooperative response of the governments in Southeast Asia and the fact that " some of the missing initially survived the incident in which they were lost, preclude rul-ing out the possibility that Ameri-cans may be alive " Accordhng to the book, 52 Missour- lan- s are among the 2,500 men unac-counted for in Vietnam " We know there are people over there We know they are being mis-treated We want the American peo-ple to help us," Van Hoozer said She said the North Vietnamese are " interested" in how the American people feel a bout the missing men Wearing one of the once- popul- ar POW- MI- A identification bracelets, this one bearing her missing broth-er's name, Van Hoozer said it is dif-ficult to focus public attenbon on the MIA issue when the world confronts so many major problems " Now that the war is over, it's easy to forget, unless you have someone over there," Van Hoozer said As the candles were lit, the names of the 52 missing Missounans were called off. Van Hoozer expressed her feelings when she heard the narrator read her brother's name. " At last some-one besides the family was remem-bering my brother is not home " Americans can show their concern for men soil missing in Vietnam by sending the MIAs Christmas cards in care of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam, United Nations represen-tative, 20 Waterside Plaza, New York, N. Y. 10010 |