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...outdone by ABC's partnership with John Ehrlichman, CBS will create its own docu-drama based on Watergater John Dean's Blind Ambition. Event-loving NBC plans almost as many of these high-budget miniseries as its network rivals combined. Among them: 79 Park Avenue by Harold Robbins, Arthur Hailey's Wheels, James T. Farrell's Studs Lonigan, plus a biography of Martin Luther King...
...fate of two men Nixon said he had considered pardoning was decided instead by the Supreme Court last week. There would be no review, said the court, of the convictions of John Ehrlichman and H.R. Haldeman-or of former Attorney General John Mitchell. All three had been convicted on Jan. 1, 1975 of a total of 14 felonies for their roles in the Watergate coverup, including obstruction of justice, conspiracy and perjury. They were sentenced to prison terms of from 30 months to eight years, with no possibility of parole for 2½ years...
...Supreme Court's decision meant that it could be only a matter of weeks before Haldeman and Mitchell go to jail. Ehrlichman has been convicted besides of conspiracy and perjury in the illegal plumbers' operation, and began serving a 20-month to eight-year sentence on those charges last October, at Arizona's Federal Prison Camp at Safford. Last week his Washington attorney said his client would not make further appeals on the new decision. Lawyers for Mitchell and Haldeman said they would ask the Supreme Court for a rehearing; only two such petitions have been granted...
...fourth show Nixon discusses Agnew's resignation, unresolved questions about his personal finances and why he did not pardon his two top aides. Bob Haldeman and John Ehrlichman. He also vents his anger at The Final Days, the bestselling account of his downfall by the two Watergate reporters, Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein. He calls the duo "trashy people who wrote a trashy book," and pointedly notes that his wife suffered a stroke three days after she read...
...ideas. Even staff members are barred from the Justices' conferences. So there was considerable embarrassment inside the pillared courthouse after National Public Radio Correspondent Nina Totenberg, 33, revealed that the court had tentatively decided, 5 to 3, to reject Watergate cover-up-conviction petitions filed by John Ehrlichman, H.R. Haldeman and John Mitchell, and that Chief Justice Warren Burger was lobbying members of the majority to hear their arguments (TIME, May 2). Attorneys for the defense suggested that the news leak, which Totenberg claims originated with "seven separate sources," may have prejudiced their clients' chances by freezing...