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Survivors include four children, Mary Moriarty of Albany, N.Y., Rita Sargis of Vienna, the Rev. Frank Desiderio of Los Angeles and Matt Desiderio of Philadelphia; two sisters; six grandchildren; and two great-grandchildren.

-- Patricia Sullivan

Thomas P.H. 'Harry' DunlopForeign Service Officer

Thomas P.H. "Harry" Dunlop, 73, who served 33 years in the U.S. Foreign Service and was a country director for Romania and South Korea, died Feb. 1 at his home in Alexandria. He had coronary artery disease.

Mr. Dunlop retired in 1993 as director of the East Asia Pacific/Korea office. His overseas postings as a political officer included Yugoslavia, Vietnam and Korea, and in Washington he was detailed to the Defense Department and the Office of the Director of Central Intelligence.

Thomas Perrin Harrison Dunlop was born in Washington and raised in Asheville, N.C. He was a 1956 cum laude international affairs graduate of Yale University and was elected to Phi Beta Kappa.

He spent a year in Berlin as a Fulbright scholar and was an Air Force intelligence officer in France and Germany before joining the State Department.

In retirement, he monitored civil rights abuses in Yugoslavia for the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe and participated in reviewing State Department documents for declassification.

He received a master's degree in linguistics from George Mason University in 1996 and spent a few years teaching English as a second language at Lado International College in Rosslyn.

He had been separated for 15 years from his wife of 39 years, the Rev. Betty Preston Dunlop, a United Methodist minister. She lives in Edgewater.

Survivors also include three children, Navy Lt. Preston Dunlop of San Diego, Alexander Dunlop of Washington and Angela Dunlop of Fairfax County.


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