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...calls. He publicly promised that "no student will be forced to leave the U.S. against his will." (One Chinese student, however, sharply reminded a Senator that Bush broke an earlier promise: "He promised no high-level contacts with China" but within a month secretly dispatched National Security Adviser Brent Scowcroft to Beijing...
Last week Scowcroft and Secretary of State James Baker joined Bush's lobbying campaign by phone, while G.O.P. Chairman Lee Atwater and Vice President Dan Quayle prowled for votes in the corridors and cloakrooms of the Capitol. Even Richard Nixon phoned wavering Senators to say that Sino-American relations would suffer if Bush was defeated...
Bush had long opposed the bill because he said it would interfere with his Chinese foreign policy. But ever since Bush sent National security Advisor Brent Scowcroft to China last summer--shortly after the Tiananmen Square massacre--his detractors have accused him of pandering to Chinese hard-liners...
...That's a fairly narrow part of his whole relationship with the United States," said Scowcroft...
...possible similar use of U.S. force against other unfriendly leaders in other countries, Scowcroft said Panama was unique...