European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - March 8, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 8 a a the stars and stripes thursday March 8, 1990 a Bristol policeman lies unconscious after being punched and kicked by protesters outside the City is Council  protests disrupt meetings of City councils across England London apr police arrested 21 anti lax demonstrators outside a Community Council meeting in Bristol on tuesday and protests brought Council business to a halt in Norwich and Maidenhead. Councils deliberating their assessments under the new Community lax also were disrupted in Bradford Birmingham Exeter and Worcester said Britain a Domestic news Agency press association. Four constables were injured during five hours of protests in Bristol police said. Scuffles broke out after the crowd Learned that the Council had set one of the highest taxes in England. Prime minister Margaret Thatcher s government introduced the new tax which is assessed against every adult to replace the property tax. The tax is intended to make it Clear to voters whether their local Council members Are frugal spenders. The average English household will pay $280 More under the new tax than under the property tax an increase from $837 to $ a i 2, British broadcasting corp. Radio reported tuesday. However the charges vary widely from Community to Community. Quot the lesson will be Learned that it is the labor opposition party authorities which Are the High spenders and it is the conservative ones which look after their constituents a Thatcher told the House of commons on tuesday. However thatchers popularity has suffered because of the new tax and Many people have joined the revolt. The Council in Norwich abandoned its meeting when about 200 people in the Public gallery shouted abuse tossed rubbish and Tore up Council agendas. Quot the Council chamber looked like it had been covered in Snow Quot said Council member Chris Wright. An estimated 2,000 demonstrators outside chanted Quot no poll tax Quot and Quot Thatcher  it is called a poll tax after a tax levied on individuals in the Middle Ages. The Maidenhead Council also halted its meeting when a crowd of about 700 stormed the building. Police reported two arrests. At least 40 protesters forced their Way into a reception area and television coverage showed them flinging documents out the windows. In the Northern City of Birmingham a conservative party Council member and two teen age aides held doors shut to keep out demonstrators according to press association. There were no arrests. Hand clapping protesters disrupted a hearing in Bradford where teachers also walked out tuesday to protest spending cuts made to keep Down taxes. World today Pope plans 7-Day tour of Mexico Curacao in May Vatican City apr Pope John Paul u will visit 11 cities and towns in Mexico during a seven Day tour in May and Stop briefly in Curacao in the West indies the Vatican said wednesday. The May 6-14 trip will be John Paul a 47th pilgrimage and his second to Mexico. He is visiting Czechoslovakia april 21-22. The Vatican issued a schedule for Mexico that included stops in Mexico City the Gulf port of Veracruz and Durango Chihuahua and Monterrey. On his Way Back to Rome John Paul is scheduled to Stop May 13 in  Prober in Romania Given of for 2nd year Geneva up a the . Commission on human rights renewed the mandate of its special investigator on Romania for another year wednesday to help Bucharest establish the full Observance of Basic rights. The 43-nation commission agreed that it was a necessary to encourage a social order based on full respect for human rights and that investigator Joseph voyage could provide valuable assistance to the Bucharest government. First appointed in March 1989, voyage was barred from visiting Romania by late dictator Nic olae Ceausescu. Voyage made the trip in february after the overthrow and execution of Ceausescu at Christmas. He reported to the . Human rights body at its annual session which ends Friday that there were flagrant violations under  pakistani judge cleared of drug charge London apr the court of Appeal on wednesday freed a pakistani judge serving a 10-year jail sentence for heroin smuggling and quashed his sentence. Syed Iqbal 40, a civil judge from Lahore has maintained his innocence since his arrest in August 1987 when he arrived at London a Heathrow Airport for a vacation. The pakistani judge said the 6 pounds of heroin found in his suitcase had been placed there without his knowledge by a an  the trial judge who heard the Case in july 1988 refused to allow evidence from a Lahore Pakistan police inspector who said two men had confessed to switching Iqbal a  moslem urge holy War against Israel Amman up a Jordan a moslem brotherhood called in a statement for a jihad or holy w a against Israel. The brotherhood which is not allowed to operate As a political party but has Legal status As a charitable institution also has called for Arab and islamic Unity to better confront the jewish state. A the liberation of All Palestine from the Mediterranean sea to the Jordan River is the responsibility of All Arab leaders and people a the statement said. It called on jordanians to a unite under islam to build and prepare for the jihad against  countries criticize . Sea dumping the Hague Netherlands apr Britain came under heavy fire from its european neighbors wednesday for dragging its feet in the cleanup of the North sea one of the world s most contaminated Saltwater bodies. At a conference on North sea pollution Here Norway Sweden and Denmark sharply criticized the British government for its failure to halt sea dumping of Industrial waste and sewage by the end of last year. In a letter to British environment Secretary Chris Patten his three scandinavian counterparts expressed a a dissatisfaction with London a announcement it plans to phase out Industrial waste dumping by late 1992 or Early 1993. S. African police fire on rioters Johannesburg South Africa apr police fired on thousands of protesters who attacked and burned government buildings tuesday in the Black Homeland of . Five people were reported dead and up to 500 injured. The clash began after up to 50,000 protesters in the nominally Independent Homeland a the second to erupt in violence in four Days a attempted to stage a March to demand its reintegration into South Africa and the resignation of the territory s president. Police using rifles and tear Gas guns opened fire after protesters set fire to Public buildings and vehicles in Garan Kuwa in the Homeland North of Johannesburg local officials said. The new rioting erupted As South african troops restored order in the Piskei Homeland on the Southeastern coast after rioting in the Wake of a military coup. South african officials said Piskei was Calm and no unrest was reported wednesday in that territory the Piskei military government seized Power Sun Day in a bloodless coup and allying itself with the an a apartheid african National Congress declared to Sci favor of reintegration into South Africa. South Africa established the homelands in an at tempt to create separate tribal based states for b a while Whites would retain control of National pop and the Economy. Anti apartheid activists contend the Homeland were established in an attempt by the White Mino a government to restrict Blacks to the most isolate a underdeveloped parts of the country and deny citizenship. About half of South africans 28 m Blacks live in the 10 homelands whose Sovereign not recognized abroad