In 1970, the Japanese Consul-General in Sao Paulo, Nobuo Okuchi, was kidnapped by Brazilian revolutionaries.
In Los Angeles, Consul-General Ya'akov Dayan was interviewed last year on a local radio show.
And Sir Charles Wilson, who was Britain's consul-general in Anatolia at the time, may well have had a license for his excavation, said Hall.
Peta Conn, consul-general for New Zealand in New York, gathered some of the facts, which she shared at a New York City screening of The Hobbit.
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Ambassador James Cunningham and Jerusalem Consul- General Daniel Rubinstein have met repeatedly with relevant government ministers to express US opposition to all construction in Jewish neighborhoods built since 1967.
With the Swedish consul-general negotiating, this truce was then extended into the next day and from the Prefecture to include other key buildings that had been occupied by the Resistance.
In a 2003 attack on the British consulate in Istanbul, a suspected Islamic militant rammed an explosive-laden pickup truck into the main gate, killing 58 people, including the British consul-general.
Late last year, Akiva Tor, Israel's Consul-General in San Francisco opposed a resolution put before the Jewish Federation board to boycott all groups that support boycotts and divestment from Israel.
Speaking on Russian state television, the consul-general in Milan, Alexei Parmonov, named the dead as Denis Kravchenko, Irina Kravchenko, Vyacheslav Sleptsov, Yulia Yudina, Lyudmila Yudina and Rafilya Pshenichnaya, AP reports.
When it emerged that Ramesh Vassen, a party hack named last month as consul-general to Mumbai, had been disbarred as a lawyer for stealing clients' money, the government refused to sack him, on the ground that he was a good chap who deserved a second chance.
Irena Wiley, wife of the sympathetic Vienna-based Consul General John Wiley, sent away for Chicago and New York phone books so that prospective emigrants could track down relatives, real or imagined.
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Last year the State Department declared Venezuela's consul general in Miami persona non grata -- Latin for unwelcome or unacceptable person -- and expelled her from the United States.
It seems the ambassador felt compelled to meet with the Turkish consul general that evening for the purpose of damage-limitation following the compromise of the secret weapons pipeline Chris Stevens was then running to Syria.
Tripoli, Libya (CNN) -- Gunmen targeted the car of the Italian consul general in Benghazi, Libya, on Saturday as he was leaving the consulate, the latest in a series of attacks targeting foreign missions and security officials in the eastern city.
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