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Hostages hear of rescue via radio
Peruvian guerrillas were playing soccer when attack began
The Associated Press
LIMA, Peru — Tipped by a hidden radio receiver that rescuers were about to blow their way into the Japanese ambassador's home, one of the 72 hostages thought it was a joke — gallows humor. For another, the three-minute warning seemed like an eternity.
The floor suddenly buckled beneath the rebels from a blast set off in a tunnel dug under the reception hall, and 140 commandos rushed in with guns crackling. After four tense months of captivity, the hostages were free, and all 14 of their guerrilla captors dead.
Also dead were two soldiers and one hostage, who reportedly suffered a heart attack after being wounded. But exactly how did Peru's security forces pull off araid that rivaled some of the most stunning hostage rescues in years?
Downstairs in the reception area, eight rebels wearing the T-shirts of their favorite Peruvian teams were having fun, playing four-on-four soccer with a makeshift ball.
With patience, detailed planning and even a bold warning to the hostages just before the raid.
"We'll free you in three minutes," authorities reportedly told a retired naval officer who had been able to hide his radio receiver from rebels the entire four months he was in captivity. The hostage, identified by Lima's El Sol newspaper as retired Adm. Luis Giampetri Rojas, quickly passed the word on to the others.
For Bolivian Ambassador Jorge Gumucio, the wait seemed like forever.
Another captive, Roman Catholic priest Juan Julio Wicht, had just finished a game of chess when someone whispered that the rescue was imminent.
"He tells us that they're going to free us in a few minutes; everything will be OK," he said. "I thought it was a joke because we made a lot of black-humor jokes."
But Wicht told Peruvian television that he noticed a lot of troop movement around the residence, more than usual, while the guerrillas were on the ground floor.
The rebels, many of them teenagers, had been careless. Frustrated by months of being cooped up in the mansion, they had been playing soccer for 20 minutes.
Suddenly the floor exploded. Police had burrowed under the building during the months since the Dec. 17 takeover, monitoring rebel discussions and movements and planting explosives in the tunnel.
The surprised soccer players — which included rebel leader Nestor Cerpa — grabbed their weapons and tried to run for the stairs, but soldiers gunned them down, President Alberto Fujimori said yesterday at a news conference.
Commandos entering through upstairs windows and from the roof cornered the three guerrillas who were watching the soccer game from upstairs and another three who were on guard.
One soldier pushed open a door and was felled by automatic rifle fire from a rebel inside. Another was shot dead as he ushered Foreign Minister Francisco Tudela, one of the top-ranking hostages, to safety across the roof.
But the commandos were everywhere, blasting through the front door, blowing a hole in the roof and even popping up like moles out of a tunnel that let out in the garden.
Unlike the rebels, some of the hostages were ready. They sprawled on the floor and covered their faces so guerrillas couldn't identify the higher-ranking captives for what they feared would be an execution.
"Don't move, don't move," Japanese Ambassador Morihisa Aoki warned other hostages as they lay choking on billowing smoke while explosions shook the walls.
Elite commandos had plenty of time to plan their split-second raid. And they were painstaking — reportedly slipping unnoticed in civilian clothes into houses near the compound during several weeks and training at a crude wooden replica of the ambassador'shome.
Fujimori said commanders had been in the well-ventilated tunnel since Sunday, awaiting the order to attack.
The newspaper La Republica said professional miners had started building the tunnel in January, with four-man teams working in four-hour shifts.
In March, the rebels said they could hear the tunnel being dug and angrily cut off talks.
For Peru's security forces, it was a big boost after an inconclusive 1995 border war with much-smaller Ecuador, as well as the intelligence lapses that allowed guerrillas to seize the ambassador's home in the first place.
Emotional testimony planned to open trial
Survivors, rescuers to take witness stand after opening remarks
The Associated Press
DENVER — Seeking to stir jurors' emotions early, prosecutors intend to open their case against Timothy McVeigh today by calling Oklahoma City bombing survivors and rescuers to describe their ordeal.
Opening statements from both sides are expected to last at least half a day, after which prosecutors will call their first witnesses.
"The focus will be on the moment of the bombing," a source familiar with the government's strategy told The Associated Press, "The first witnesses will be victims and law enforcement types."
Prosecutors also plan to play news videotape of the frantic aftermath of the April 19, 1995, bombing that blew apart Oklahoma City's nine-story federal building, killing 168 people — including 19 children.
law professor William Pizzi, a former federal prosecutor. "It is an attention-grabber. It's a crime of singular magnitude in our history. This is what this case is really about."
Timothy McVeligh
"It makes sense to begin in that way," said University of Colorado
The emotional atmosphere in the courtroom will be heightened by the presence of the 12 or more victims who will be seated in the audience, in partial view of the jury. Previously, only one or two victims have attended the laborious jury selection process.
McVeigh, who turned 29 yesterday, could get the death penalty if convicted of murder and conspiracy in the deadliest act of terrorism on U.S. soil.
Prosecutors intend to show that McVeigh embraced a culture of hate, racism and anti-government fervor, and bombed the building in retaliation for the fiery government siege at the Branch Davidian compound near Waco, Texas.
Christian Coalition to lose Ralph Reed
Leader developed conservative voice
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — Anxious to take a more direct role in Republican campaigns, Ralph Reed said yesterday he was resigning from the post he used to build Pat Robertson's Christian Coalition into a conservative political powerhouse.
When Robertson offered him the job in 1989, religious conservatives often were treated as marginal or nominal forces in American politics, Reed said. But he said those voters had helped Republicans gain control of Congress in 1994 and now
With Reed as its executive director, the group grew into a major force in Republican and national politics. Its influence was felt in races for school boards and local GOP posts as well as in contests for governor, the U.S. Congress and president.
must be considered one of the most potent and well-organized forces in American politics.
Along the way, Reed emerged as one of the conservative movement's leading strategists, shrewd and cutthroat at times, pragmatic at others, always with a boyish face and easygoing manner that critics say helped mask what they considered an extremist. Christian Coalition agenda.
"Pat Robertson just lost the most talented front man any politician could ever want," said Carole Shields, president of the liberal People for the American Wav.
Reed, 35, said he would step down Sept. 1 to launch Century Strategies, a political consulting firm. Reed said he would assist conservative candidates in 1998 and 2000 and that he had no plans to run for office.
Reed will remain on the Christian Coalition board and assist in the search for a successor, who will inherit the organization as the 1998 election cycle takes shape.
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