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with no way to get through the teeming streets.
Her friend Ron commandeered a bus and brought the American teachers to the airport. They passed bloody students, frantic parents, and hordes of horrified journalists who could do nothing to stop the troops from firing on unarmed strikers in the square. Ms. Mannon believes that hundreds were killed in this way, and many others driven into hiding.
‘Even after twenty years of working for the government, I still feel responsible when an American citizen is disappointed in us,‘ said Jim Blubaugh.
He, too was deeply touched by events that coincided with his visit, as chief of a State Department team doing a routine inspection. ‘I saw the goddess of democracy being built/ he said. ‘I’ll never forget it.‘
Embassy life in China, even in the comparatively modern city of Beijing, he said, is filled with hardship and obstacles. Buildings are heavily bugged, accomodations are crowded, food is scarce, and telephone service unreliable.
Blubaugh related a fascinating story of failed diplomacy. ‘A secret letter, drafted in the strongest of
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