 in Political Science at Tufts University in 1959 and a master's degree from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy in 1960.Lord worked as Assistant to the Director at the East-West Center in Hawaii, and as program officer at the Fulbright Program for professors in Washington, D.C.In 1962, as refugees surged into Hong Kong, Bette's mother, Dora Bao, conceived and carried out a plan to get her third daughter, nicknamed Sansan (Putonghua, "Sānsān", "Threethree") (Jean Bao) out of the People's Republic of China.