21.   The hostage-takers were said to have told him in advance of their plans to invade the embassy compound.

22.   The hour passed without incident, and investigators said they found nothing suspicious in a search of the embassy compound.

23.   The former U.S. embassy compound, where American hostages were held captive for more than a year, is now a school for the Revolutionary Guards.

24.   The students, who asked Clinton for help in getting resistance leaders out of jail, were still encamped in the embassy compound Wednesday night.

25.   Today, the shells of some of these buildings are visible from the embassy compound, which has retreated to a more strategic hilltop overlooking the sea.

26.   Vietnam is about to hand the embassy compound back to the United States.

27.   We were taken by the embassy compound for a look, but all we could see was a wall, still covered with incendiary English-language slogans.

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

29.   Outside the beseiged embassy compound, a choir sang Christmas carols to the remaining hostages spending the holiday in captivity.

30.   Outside the embassy compound in downtown Tehran, marchers doused American flags with gasoline and set them aflame.