World IN BRIEF : BRITAIN : Anti-Tax Protesters Clash With Police
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From Times Staff and Wire Reports
Demonstrators threw firebombs, cans and bottles at police during a march in London against Britain’s controversial poll tax. Police said 11 people were injured and 120 arrested. The clashes began after 2,500 demonstrators left a peaceful anti-tax rally at Brockwell Park in south London and marched to nearby Brixton Prison, where they started pelting police with debris, Scotland Yard said. The widely unpopular community charge, known as the poll tax, levies a fixed charge on every adult in a district, instead of only property owners.
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