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...lawyer to help out widows like his mother; instead he had to work in a bank to support the family. Though baptized a Catholic, Palau attended a tiny Evangelical chapel and was educated at an Anglican college. He began small-time preaching stints as a youth. Later he attended Multnomah School of the Bible in Portland, Ore., where he now lives with his American wife Pat and their four sons...
This feminine capacity to dispel male anger (also observed in studies of aides in mental wards) may be due to the value system of male criminals: assaults on male authority figures are ranked high. Policemen are often attacked "because it is heroic," says Ronald G. Talney of the Multnomah County, Ore., sheriff's department. But policewomen might avoid such assaults simply because "it is cowardly to attack a woman, even though she is a police officer." Actual incidents seem to support Talney's view: a child-beating suspect who had twice resisted arrest surrendered peacefully when Private Mary...
...grass roots, it seemed only right that handsome, hardworking Donald Hamerquist should be rewarded with an official role in Oregon's Democratic establishment. Thus a year ago, he was allowed to run unopposed for the post of committeeman for the 400th Precinct in Portland's Multnomah County and was duly elected 88 to 0. Hamerquist's harmony with the party was unbroken until last March, when an FBI informer revealed that he was a card-carrying member of the Communist Party. To the consternation of the Democrats, Hamerquist readily admitted to being a Communist and said that...
...were finally rescued by the legislature, which passed a bill prohibiting a person from holding office for one political party who is also a member of "another party." Last week, as a petition was filed under the new law to bring about Hamerquist's recall, the Marxist from Multnomah County was in Manhattan to discuss his next move with the Communist leadership. "The only thing that I can't understand about all this," he said, "is why nobody has talked about recall of my wife. At the same time that I was elected a committeeman, she was elected...
WILLIAM J. BRADY, M.D. Multnomah County Coroner Portland, Oregon...