61.   Nestor Cerpa Cartolini, the Tupac Amaru leader inside the embassy residence, is a former union organizer.

62.   Police since have been busy registering residents of homes on blocks surrounding the embassy residence and negotiating venue.

63.   President Alberto Fujimori took a victory lap of the grounds of the Japanese embassy residence Tuesday, embracing security forces after they ended a protracted hostage standoff.

64.   Prime Minister Ryutaro Hashimoto acknowledged late Tuesday that he had not been informed in advance of the raid on the Japanese embassy residence, considered Japanese territory.

65.   Protesters regularly march past the Japanese embassy residence to air grievances to packs of reporters.

66.   Ricardo Siha, a second-generation Peruvian and an editor at the newspaper Peru Shimbum, said that he knows many people inside the embassy residence.

67.   South Korea on Wednesday lauded the Peruvian government for its successful rescue of hostages held since December in the Japanese embassy residence in Lima and said nothing justified terrorism.

68.   The area linking El Biar to the Hydra district houses several embassy residences.

69.   The house is just across the street from the embassy residence.

70.   The International Red Cross has been talking to the neighbors of the embassy residence in hopes of finding a house.