51.   Japanese Ambassador Morihisa Aoki, as well as other Japanese diplomats and businessmen were among those seized during a reception at the embassy residence.

52.   Japanese Foreign Minister Yukihiko Ikeda left the Peruvian capital Sunday to return to Tokyo following three days of discussions on the hostage crisis at the Japanese embassy residence here.

53.   Komura leaves Monday for Peru, Cuba and the Dominican Republic in the hope of facilitating a resolution to the hostage standoff at the Japanese embassy residence in Lima.

54.   Leftist rebels holding the Japanese embassy residence freed a Peruvian national police general who was wheeled out on a stretcher and driven away in an ambulance early Sunday.

55.   Meanwhile, police were busy registering all residents of homes on blocks surrounding the embassy residence and negotiating venue.

56.   Military activity around the Japanese embassy residence forced the International Committee of the Red Cross to briefly suspend its work inside, a spokeswoman said Friday.

57.   Meanwhile thousands of Peruvians prepared to march through the capital to the Japanese embassy residence to demand a peaceful and quick resolution to the standoff.

58.   Meanwhile, in Lima, leftist guerrillas occupying the Japanese embassy residence released Guatemalan ambassador Jose Maria Argueta in an apparent gesture of goodwill recognizing the peace process.

59.   Near the embassy residence, relative calm was broken when police arrested a Japanese national, apparently a tourist.

60.   Near the embassy residence, relative calm was broken when police arrested a Japanese national, apparently a journalist.