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...complete 'walk,'" said one defense attorney. "The other defendants should get the same thing. How can they be tried when all they really did was try to protect Nixon?" In ordinary legal proceedings, the leading member of a criminal group is most actively prosecuted and gets the stiffest sentence if convicted. Now that the highest-ranking person in the Watergate affair would go free, it seemed doubtful to many lawyers that any jury would send his subordinates to jail. The pardon also raised a question about the fate of the nine who have already been sent to prison...
...know," to a term of 20 months to five years in prison. Ehrlichman was convicted last month on conspiracy and perjury charges growing out of the burglary of Daniel Ellsberg's psychiatrist's office in September 1971. (Ehrlichman will appeal the verdict.) The sentence was the stiffest yet received by a presidential intimate for crimes growing out of Watergate and related events...
...other races, the junior varsity met their stiffest test of the year, but prevailed over the Princeton J.V.'s by 3.8 seconds...
Connecticut should provide the stiffest challenge to Radcliffe. Connecticut thinks it can go all the way this year: it beat Yale earlier in the season by seven seats, while Radcliffe edged the Elis only by a narrow two-seat margin...
...while the Big Green should not prove to be a factor, the Engineers could give the Crimson its stiffest test of the year...