'To the Docks'

At noon Sunday, 1000 protesters jammed into Faneuil Hall to hear Arthur MacEwan, assistant professor of Economics, Rep. Robert F. Drinan (D-Mass.) and libertarian Karl Hess call for Nixon's impeachment and attack his energy policy.

Another 3000 demonstrators, turned away at the door, chanted anti-Nixon slogans outside as the first snow of the season began to fall.

When the speech in Faneuil Hall ended an hour later, a Peoples' Bicentennial official got up on stage and shouted "to the docks," and the 400 demonstrators began the half-mile march to the Congress St. bridge at Boston Harbor to watch the tea party reenactment.

While the snow turned to freezing rain and a chilling wind whipped through the downtown streets, the marchers slowly made their way to the decks, picking up new recruits along the way. By the time the first protesters reached the docks and joined 6000 others already there, the line stretched six city blocks.

Once they reached the water's edge, the marchers tore down part of a chain-link fence and quickly swarmed around all sides of the dock.

They watched the City of Boston's official reenactment of the tea party impatiently and booed enthusiastically while Peoples' Bicentennial leaders stationed in a nearby building broadcast excerpts from some of Nixon's old speeches. They were anxious for the political protest to begin.