1.   But her real strength lay in bringing together influential figures from both sides and providing a congenial atmosphere over dinner at the embassy residence for productive talks.

2.   He was escorted back to the embassy residence and held under armed guard.

3.   The Japanese government, whose sovereignty extends to the embassy residence in Lima, had pleaded with Fujimori to end the crisis peacefully.

4.   Police freed a Japanese journalist and his Peruvian interpreter after holding them for five days for sneaking into the rebel-held Japanese embassy residence.

5.   A hostage was wheeled out of the rebel-held Japanese embassy residence on a stretcher Sunday and taken away in an ambulance.

6.   Broadcast images of the Japanese embassy residence were supplanted by those of the presidents being whisked by black limousine through cheering crowds on a whirlwind schedule.

7.   Foreign Minister Yukihiko Ikeda will meet Saturday with the three ambassadors released late Friday from the Japanese embassy residence seized by terrorist rebels, a Japanese government official said.

8.   It blamed the government for the use of terror against civilians but said Tupac Amaru was willing to negotiate its departure from the embassy residence.

9.   Japan says it opposes the use of force, and in theory it has the last word because the embassy residence is technically Japanese territory.

10.   Japan says it opposes the use of force and in theory it has the last word because the embassy residence is technically Japanese territory.