1.   Witnesses said some of the rebels posed as champagne-carrying waiters to get into the embassy residence compound in the upscale San Isidro district.

2.   Defense Agency Vice Minister Naoaki Murata said one of the two once worked at the Japanese Embassy in Lima and is familiar with the residence compound.

3.   On Sunday, a hostage was seen removing batteries from cars trapped in the yard of the walled residence compound, possibly to supply power for the broadcasts.

4.   Red Cross officials have been delivering food to the hostages, but said sanitary conditions were deteriorating rapidly in the residence compound.

5.   Higa said she will continue to go to the center to support friends whose loved ones remain in the residence compound until the hostage crisis is finally resolved.

6.   Hirata was taken out of the residence compound in a National Police ambulance and was admitted to a local hospital, paramedics said.

7.   Hirata was taken out of the residence compound in a National Police ambulance.

8.   Hirata was taken out of the residence compound in a National Police ambulance, but Red Cross officials could not say what ailed him.

9.   ICRC chief Michel Minnig reentered the residence compound Friday afternoon after meetings with Japanese Foriegn Minister Yukihiko Ikedo and government negotiators.

10.   In a walkie-talkie interview, rebels inside the Japanese embassy residence compound said that they would respond momentarily.