Word: blankstein
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Pickets in ever mounting numbers also appeared in front of South African consulates in New York, Chicago, Seattle and Houston. In Boston, some 80 members of TransAfrica, the umbrella organization directing the national movement, picketed the offices of Attorney Richard Blankstein, the honorary consul for South Africa. After a brief shoving match with police, three protesters gained entry to Blankstein's building and met with him. They emerged 24 minutes later with his signed resignation. In San Francisco, members of a longshoremen's union refused to handle cargo from South Africa carried by a Dutch ship until shipowners...
...before moving to Deak-Perera, protestors succeeded last week in getting South Africa's honorary consul in Boston, Richard K. Blankstein, to resign after protesting in front of his office...
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