Word: foreign
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Harvard officials continued to lead American academics' efforts to support China's embattled pro-democracy movement yesterday, while foreign embassies ordered their citizens out of Beijing after Chinese army troops sprayed a diplomatic compound with gunfire...
Soldiers in Beijing sprayed bullets at a diplomatic compound and several other buildings in a foreign residential area, almost hitting two children of a U.S. embassy official. The embassy ordered the evacuation of all dependents of staff members, and thousands of foreigners went to the airport hoping to get tickets...
...addition, the Chinese Foreign Ministry said the U.S. decision to stop arms sales and military contacts in protest of the bloody crackdown was a "detriment to bilateral relations...
Ronald Dumas, the French foreign minister, declared in Paris that China was "on the verge of civil war" and the French Embassy staff would be reduced "to the indispensable minimum...
...Haverford College and earned an M.B.A. from Harvard in 1947. He has served as partner or director of numerous business concerns and as trustee for Haverford, Bryn Mawr College and the Carnegie Corporation. He has co-chaired the Republican National Finance Committee, and served on the Council on Foreign Relations and the Georgetown Center for Strategic and International Studies...