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<p>A group of demonstrators broke away from the huge crowd at San Francisco's Civic Center area at the end of Sunday's anti-war march and clashed later with police on Market Street during a 4-hour confrontation marked by hit-and-run vandalism.</p> <p>Members of the group broke windows at several businesses and on a pair of police cars during their rampage. They spray-painted buildings and other objects with graffiti. They burned trash, climbed onto a cable car, and later tossed bottles and other objects at mounted police who were trying to control them.</p>

<p>San Francisco -- Saturday's anti-war demonstration in San Francisco will send protesters on a different route from the one followed in past peace events, organizers said Monday.</p> <p>Activists are asking people to meet at 11 a.m. in Civic Center, then march to Jefferson Square Park near the corner of Turk and Gough streets, said Bill Hackwell, an organizer with International Answer, one of the main coordinators of the event.</p>

Message Found in E-Mail. Leftists in the Houston area are planning an anti-war protest. Message is in Unedited Form. ------------------------------------------------- Hello, Everyone-- The deployment of scores of thousands of U.S. troops to the Persian Gulf region is an ominous signal. After killing more than one million Iraqi people through "low-intensity warfare" and economic sanctions during the last decade, the U.S. Government appears ready to launch an illegal, immoral, and imperialist invasion of Iraq. At the same time, immigrants in the U.S.--especially from Arab, Muslim, and South Asian backgrounds--are facing a growing wave of government repression. Surveillance, profiling, and detentions based...