University Dailv Kansan / Tuesday. November 5, 1991
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Pit stop
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Snow geese from the Hudson Bay stop at MoKan Lake, east of Lawrence on Kansas Highway 10. The geese were resting and eating before heading to the Gulf of Mexico for the winter, said Richard Johnston, curator of the Museum of Natural History. More than 1,000 geese were feeding at the lake yesterday.
Radio therapist spoke of suicide as rational escape
The Associated Press
OVERLAND PARK — Radio talkshow host and psychologist Marshall Saper, who apparently committed suicide this weekend, often spoke of suicide as an understandable escape, a colleague of his said.
"I heard him say many times, 'Given enough stress, all of us will break,' said W.H. Gunn, a psychologist and assistant clinical professor of medicine at Kaiser Medical Center. "And he did not 'all of you' it. 'It was all of us.'"
Saper's body was found Sunday morning, the day before he was to face a civil trial alleging he had sex with a patient.
Saper, who had hosted a show on KCMO-1M in Kansas City, Mo., since 1980, was found about 6:30 a.m. in a driveway at Humana Health Center by a hospital employee, said Overland Park Police Sgt. Larry Cohen.
"From what we saw at the scene, this one could be a suicide," Cohen said, adding that he did not know why Safer was at the medical building.
Saper, 52, of Kansas City, suffered a gunshot wound to the chest, police. A small-caliber revolver was found at the scene. What appeared to be a suicide note was found at Saper's house.
An autopsy was expected to be released today.
Another colleague of Saper's, who also hosted his own talk-show at the station, said he was surprised by the apparent suicide.
"He believed in people's ability to reach down inside," said Dr. Kip Wendler, an Overland Park psychiatrist, who described Saper as a "pull yourself up by your bootstraps kind of guy."
A lawsuit filed in Johnson County District Court by a Leawood woman and her husband alleged Saper exploited his doctor-patient relation to the woman was vulnerable to his suggestions, including that they have sex.
Referring to the allegations, Gunn said, "You add to that some kind of public image insult and you are making a mistake for taking the course that he took."
In Saper's 1984 book, "Talking To Myself," he wrote that "rational suicide presents a conscious attempt to solve a problem when death seems a more reasonable solution than life. I understand the motivation behind that act."
Stories about the lawsuit were reported by news media the day before his death. He had denied the woman's claims as recently as Friday.
"I met with him both Thursday and Friday morning to let him know that the station was 100 percent behind him," said Skip Stow, KCMO vice president and general manager. "All he could think about was going in and vindicating himself and winning this case."
In addition to the lawsuit, Kansas state officials had investigated a complaint by the woman that Saper violated federal laws governing licensed psychologists.
The Behavioral Sciences Regulatory Board in Topeka was to hold a hearing to decide whether to revoke, suspend or place conditions on Saper's Kansas license.
The woman's lawsuit, filed in 1989, alleged that during a 1984 therapy session at Saper's Kansas City office, she suggested he have an affair with him, adding that if she agreed, he no longer could be her therapist.
The woman alleges she began a sexual relationship with him in October 1985 and continued it weekly for four years.
Saper's show drew about 80,000 listeners a week. Earlier in his career, he provided psychology services to the Kansas City Police Department and taught at the University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Medicine.
Hearing of KC kidnapping suspect set to determine when he will return
The Associated Press
SPRINGFIELD, ILL. — The man accused in a series of abductions of little girls could be returned to Kansas City, Mo., as early as tomorrow to face charges.
William A. McClinton made his first appearance before a federal magistrate yesterday in Springfield. U.S. Magistrate Charles Evans scheduled a hearing for tomorrow to set bond and determine whether McClinton should be returned to Kansas City to face a federal kidnapping charge.
The government moved that McClinton be held without bond, said Patrick Chesley, the assistant U.S. attorney handling the case in Springfield.
McClinton, who was arrested Saturday in Springfield after an Illinois State Police trooper saw him driving erratically, faces state charges in Kansas City of kidnapping, indecent exposure and sodomy. He faces a fed-
Man accused of four abductions of children is being held without bond in Illinois.
Illinois.
eraliknapping charge because one of his victims was taken across the Missouri-Kansas state line.
McClintney, 26, is suspected of four abductions that began Sept. 14 and terrorized the Eastside Kansas City community.
The girls were snatched on their way to school and held for several hours before they were released. In the latest incident, a 6-year-old girl was taken as she waited for the school bus with her 7-year-old brother on Oct. 25.
An intensive manhunt lasted throughout the day before a delivery man found the girl standing alone on a street corner in Kansas City, Kan. During the search, a man who seemed to fit a police drawing of the suspect was beaten by a crowd.
McClinton sped up when the trooper tried to stop him, and a short chase began with McClinton traveling up to 90 mph. The chase ended on a Springfield street when McClinton's car collided with a police car.
McClennan apparently was headed for Chicago when a state trooper saw him driving on Interstate 55 at only 35 mph.
Three of the victims were sexually molested, police said.
The car McClinton was driving was believed to have been stolen in St. Louis.
McClinton is charged with several traffic charges and possession of a stolen vehicle in Illinois.
Klan activity investigated in Germany
BERLIN — The chief federal prosecutor is investigating Kluix Klan activity and a reported recruiting drive for possible links to terrorism, an official said yesterday.
But the prosecutor's representative, Hans-Juergen Foerster, said the probe of the white supremacist group is at a preliminary phase and was far from being an official prosecution. He said the prosecutor often investigated reports indicating organized terrorist activities.
Some KKK members reportedly have said they were trying to build their ranks in Western Europe. German authorities, already grappling with a wave of neo-Nat violence and attacks on foreigners, were alarmed by the presence of Klan activities last month.
"We are checking whether there's an offshoot (of the Klan) here or not there'a terrorizing us we're supporting." Forster said.
Germany's domestic intelligence agency said it had not classified the KKK as a terrorist group.
Der Spiegel magazine last month said the U.S.-based KKK was recruiting members among neo-Nazis and other extreme right-wing factions in Germany.
Foerster said he could not say how many members the Klan may have recruited in Germany.
Spiegel reported the Klan sponsored a rally marking the 102nd anniversary of Adolf Hitler's birthday in April in the western German town of Herford. The magazine also claimed police found KKK stickers during the arrest of three men who allegedly attacked a home for refugees.
Last month, the KKK held a cross-burning rally outside Berlin. The event was reportedly organized by Dennis Mahon, described by *Der Spiegel* as a leader of a small Klan group in Oklahoma and Missouri. It said Mahon had been making a "propaganda tour" in Germany in late summer.
Welt am Sonntag, a respected Sunday newspaper, reported that Mahon recruited 15 members in Koenigs Wusterhausen, the Berlin suburb where the cross-burning took place.
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