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US envoys scramble to ease crisis surrounding Chinese dissident’s escape

The Obama administration scrambled Sunday to contain a burgeoning diplomatic crisis between the United States and China, dispatching a senior diplomat to Beijing to discuss the fate of a blind dissident who fled house arrest last week.

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