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Bellotti's polls have the incumbent enjoying a healthy lead, 68 percent to 10 percent. Bellotti campaign manager Dan Davenport said, "We're going to win but we would like to break the state record of 74.9 percent...
...Adventist Church is normally the most doctrinally placid and prosperous of faiths. Lately, however, it has fallen into unaccustomed uproar. For starters, church members are suing Adventist officials in an Oregon court for fraud and breach of fiduciary trust, stemming from the 1981 bankruptcy of fellow Adventist Donald Davenport, a Los Angeles developer. The suit charges that without adequately checking Davenport out, Adventist clergy blithely invested church trust funds with him and urged church members to make their own investments. As his empire collapsed, Davenport supposedly used newly raised moneys to cover payments due to previous investors...
...first surprise for Commanding Officer Charles Taylor (Peter Friedman), a West Pointer, is to meet Captain Richard Davenport (Charles Brown), the black officer assigned by the Army to investigate Waters' murder. Almost inadvertently, he says to Davenport: "Being in charge does not look right on Negroes." Besides, the prime suspects are local stalwarts of the Ku Klux Klan. What Deep South white man would testify before a black? Davenport is a seasoned skirmisher on the color line. He is adamant, but scrupulously fairminded...
What follows is a kind of courtroom trial in which Davenport interrogates everyone and reconstructs the crime in flashback. The flashback is a tell-and-show device. It can be used with fluid emotional mastery, as Arthur Miller used it in Death of a Salesman; here it seems more like a dry studied exercise on a schoolroom blackboard...
...Pierson-Davenport 24, Eliot...