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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Mike wants to get rid of the perception that Boston politicians don't care about western Massachusetts," Bamberger says...

Author: By Joe Mathews, | Title: Barrett, Campaigning For Governor, Begins Foot Trek Across Mass. | 7/23/1993 | See Source »

Officials in the offices of the state's two United States senators indicated their bosses did not have opinions on Weld's proposal. State Sen. Michael Barrett '70, a Democrat who represents Cambridge, was in western Massachusetts campaigning for governor yesterday and could not be reached for comment...

Author: By Joe Mathews, | Title: Casino Boats to Cambridge? | 7/23/1993 | See Source »

Reaction to the aliens act has been swift and shrill. In the northeast border region around Narva, where ethnic Russians constitute 95% of the population, local Russians plan to hold a plebiscite this week on the question of regional autonomy -- a move the Estonians have denounced as "unconstitutional." Western governments have voiced concern about growing discrimination against minorities. But the harshest rebuke has come from Moscow, where Foreign Minister Andrei Kozyrev denounced the law as "quiet apartheid" and "ethnic cleansing in white gloves...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Aliens in a Land They Call Home | 7/19/1993 | See Source »

...regulations, deportations and gunboats to do so. The poor but eager migrants have become the main targets of murderous racial attacks on foreigners and xenophobic political movements in a dozen countries. With reception facilities overburdened, unemployment rates climbing to a national average of 10% and voters shouting in protest, Western governments are calling a halt. From Sweden in the north to Greece in the south, the Continent echoes with the sound of doors slamming shut...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Europe Slams the Door | 7/19/1993 | See Source »

Overwhelmed by migrants, Western Europe moves to bar them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Magazine Contents Page | 7/19/1993 | See Source »

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