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...places, but stressed the fact that this is a problem all over the Back Bay area and that Harvard is making progress with control, making that a "number one priority." He noted that the city has the power to close down any food establishment within city limits which is "overrun" by an infestation problem--but "that depends on tabulation...

Author: By Bill Tsingos, | Title: Rats in Your Dining Hall | 3/7/1989 | See Source »

...those sardine cans?" says Baker suddenly. "The illegals have been by. They come through here and at other spots on their way in. If we don't get a handle on Third World debt, we'll be overrun by Mexicans coming here to work. It's got to be one of our main priorities . . . Bill Bradley and I disagree about how to deal with the debt problem. He wants to force the banks to restructure debt. I say that's probably unconstitutional, and even if it isn't, the only way we can do things like that is through voluntary...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Playing for the Edge | 2/13/1989 | See Source »

...selection of a funeral delegation touched a nerve in the Netherlands, which lost 30,000 people as a result of the Japanese occupation of the former Dutch East Indies, now Indonesia. Veterans groups are demanding that the delegation leader rank no higher than ambassador. China, overrun and occupied by the Japanese for nearly a decade, put off naming a delegation, but officials there say top leaders will not go to Tokyo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Japan A Delicate Burial | 1/23/1989 | See Source »

...terrorism, rolled up the welcome mat. Despite entreaties by the Rockefellers, who handled the fallen Shah's finances and provided him with a live-in public relations man, and Henry Kissinger, President Jimmy Carter kept the door shut. This position hardened after the U.S. embassy in Tehran was overrun and the hostages taken in November...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Royal Pain | 10/24/1988 | See Source »

...fully restored, within a year, rail passengers will continue to use a dreary annex built in 1975, when Park Service officials turned the main station into a tourist-information bureau. The National Visitor Center, both conceptually and physically a bust, was closed in 1981. Soon the place was overrun by bums, rats, pigeons, toadstools...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Design: America's Great Depot Gets Back on Track | 10/10/1988 | See Source »

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