Word: callison
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Because of the rapid exodus, U.S. Government officials were caught unprepared, and have fallen behind in the processing. "Organization!" scoffed Stuart Callison, an Agency for International Development official assigned to Pendleton. "We beat the first load of refugees here by an hour and a half. That's how organized we are. I haven't the vaguest idea what's going on. I get all my news out of the Los Angeles Times." William Wild, another AID official who is in charge of the Pendleton operation, considered himself in business once he was able to lease a small...
...David E. Callison, 46, a Portland, Ore., cop for 22 years, has spent hours nose-to-nose with campus protesters and watched many a truncheon thudding against student skulls. So one day last spring Callison was both alarmed and relieved to learn that his 22-year-old daughter Liz, a senior at the University of Oregon, had just survived her first sit-in demonstration unscathed and spent a night in jail for trespass. "All we wanted was a chance to talk to the president of the university," she said. "We waited peacefully for 36 hours. When the police came...
...trouble is that Liz yearns to bring "the system" to a screeching halt at once. After her arrest, she told Callison: "We have to close down the university and start all over." Callison good-naturedly threw up his hands: "Wow, Liz, are you dumb! Just like that, huh? Close the university. Wow." She told her father that he and his fellow cops ought to be out cracking the heads of industrial polluters, not the young. He replied that "a policeman has to enforce the law that the majority approves." At one point, he said wearily, "If you only knew...
...sense they are, and in the case of the Callisons, the father has just as much to teach as the child. A rare cop, Callison attended the University of Portland for three years before dropping out in order to support his family by pounding a beat. As president of the 655-member Portland police union, he knows precisely how to use power to effect change. In a recent display of leadership, he coaxed and pressured Portland officials into giving the cops higher pay and better working conditions. At any moment, a word from him would have triggered a police strike...