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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...
...same day, Iranian television cameras recorded a macabre scene at the top of the landing ramp. Gunmen wearing hoods pushed two hostages out through the door and handed a bullhorn to one of them. The man, who was wearing a white shirt, nervously introduced himself as the U.S. consul in Karachi and pleaded with negotiators to yield to the hijackers' demands. He said that they had begun a "countdown," and warned that "they are serious about their threats." The hostages were taken back inside the plane, but five minutes later the man in the white shirt reappeared atop...
...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...
Approaching the screen adaptation of Malcolm Lowry's complex novel, one anticipated a worst-case scenario in every sense of the word. The last gloomily adventurous 24 hours of the onetime British consul in Cuernavaca, which begin on the Mexican Day of the Dead (and on the eve of World War II as well), are an invitation to the portentous. But for once the simplifying narrative imperatives of the screen and the imperatives of the talent assembled for the effort) have served a difficult book well. In recounting what is either an ascent to Calvary or a descent into...
Traveling to Bermuda is a tradition that started around 25 years ago, according to Isaacs, and for many it will be the high point of the long tour. Events there will include a party at the U.S. Consul-General's residence and a private boat cruise around the island...