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- WORLD, Page 45World NotesBRITAINCity of Filth
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- Sidewalks littered with rotting garbage and crumpled
- packaging. Roadsides strewn with sodden mattresses, broken
- chairs and abandoned supermarket carts. Concluded a report by
- Britain's Royal Fine Art Commission last week: "London has
- become dirty, degrading and depressing."
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- The commission attributed the filth in the British capital
- to a lack of personal discipline on the part of its 6.8 million
- inhabitants, and targeted everything from fast-food
- establishments to dog owners as contributors to the squalor. It
- went on to suggest 120 ways for London to clean up its act.
- Among them: bigger litter bins, special cleanup crews to swoop
- in and clear out debris, and rebates on civic
- garbage-collection fees in exchange for cleaner sidewalks.
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- Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher immediately threw her
- support behind the proposals. If the mess is not tackled
- voluntarily, she said, the government will seek tougher laws to
- do so.
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