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Newspaper

Independent

Location

Long Beach, California, United States of America

Date

Dec 16, 1974

Page

2

Boston Tea Party protest marks 201st anniversary

About a dozen People’s Bicentennial Coalition members dumped bags of colored leaves from the Beaver II into Boston harbor in a protest over high sugar prices. The event drew about 100 onlookers as demonstrators also burned effigies of Agriculture Secretary Earl Bulz and demanded his firing. Last year’s action targeted oil costs at the same site.

Boston People’s Bicentennial Coalition Coalition

Greek president resigns as Greece names provisional leader

Greece accepts General Phaedon Gizikis’s resignation ending seven years of military rule. A provisional president will serve until Greece’s first elected president is chosen, with Premier Constantine Karamanlis’ New Democracy party expected to nominate a successor this week.

Athens Greece Phaedon Gizikis Constantine Caramanlis Gizikis Umfil Caramanlis New Democracy Party

Presidential swap joke at Fort de France summit

At the Ford Giscard d Estaing talks in Martinique Nicole Seguin, a red haired French press aide, drew attention as Nessen joked about trading aides. Ford later named Peter Dominick as the new ambassador to Switzerland.

Sident Ford Valery Giscard d’Estaing Onry Kissinger Ford Nessen Giscard d’Estaing Miss Seguin The Elysee Press Service Sen Peter Dominick Colorado

Bride Former Miss America Terry Meeuwsen Weds in Candlelight

Former Miss America Terry Anne Meeuwsen wed Sunday at a Milwaukee suburban country club in a candlelit ceremony attended by about 700 guests. She exchanged vows with Tom Camburn a 38 year old Milwaukee factory sales manager. The 25 year old former DePere resident hinted at Los Angeles work after the Caribbean honeymoon. In separate coverage Mardian and Parkinson defend themselves in the Watergate cover up trial with witnesses, signaling possible end by Christmas. Jay Welch resigned as Mormon Tabernacle Choir director after five months on the job succeeding Condis who led 17 years.

Terry Anne. Meeuwsen Milwaukee Wis Tom Camburn DePere Los Angeles Caribbean Watergate Robert C. Marcian Kenbin Wpgon Court House Mardian Parkinson John N. Mitchell HR. Haldeman John D. Ebslichman Jay E. Welch Mormon Tabernacle Choir Welch Richard PL Condis Condic

Russians sought for clowning at Moscow circus

The Soviet Komsomolskaya Pravda reports the Old Moscow Circus received 32,000 applications for 15 clown openings. The clown school trains in fall technique and in esthetics philosophy and psychology. Applicants include factory workers and youths seeking a career in comedy.

Komsomolskaya Pravda Moscow Clown School Soviet Union Mark Mestechken Circus Ayho Sone Mestéchken

Ethel Kennedy Hosts Christmas skating party at Bed Stuy center

Ethel Kennedy hosted her annual Christmas skating party at the Bedford Stuyvesant Restoration Center in New York. She praised hosting locally instead of Manhattan and noted nearby kids could reach the rink quickly. The event marks a shift from Rockefeller Center to the center, a project favored by the late Sen. Robert F. Kennedy.

Ethel. Kennedy Manhattan Mrs. Kennedy New York Bedford-Stuyvesant Restoration Center Wight Rockefeller Center Bedford Stuyvesant Center Robert F. Kennedy

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