Date: Wed, 8 Jan 1997 14:05:08 -0800
Subject: M-G: Reporters Kidnaped from Peru Hostage Scene



News from Peru Support Committee / Detroit
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Authorities Seize Japanese Reporter And Interpreter

                            
LIMA, Peru - Peruvian anti-terrorist police Tuesday
kidnaped a Japanese reporter and his Peruvian interpreter
off the streets after they spent two hours inside the
Japanese ambassador's residence in Lima where 74 hostages
are being held, local television and radio said.

Live images from the scene showed the two men being
driven away in a white car which local media said 
belonged to the anti-terrorist police. 

Radio station RPP said cameras and notebooks were
confiscated from the two men.

Red Cross officials with whom the two spoke before
being driven away could be seen in conversation with 
cops at the scene.

The Asahi TV reporter and the interpreter had earlier
walked up to the besieged residence, apparently after
avoiding police cordons by going through a private house,
and were let in by MRTA members.

Meanwhile, the dictator Alberto Fujimori repeated his
position against "giving in to blackmail from the terrorists".

"The life of the hostages is assured - their physical
well-being - because there are not going to be acts of
blood," the dictator Fujimori said Tuesday as he
took a tour of a shantytown and prison in Lima to demonstrate
that life in Lima was going on as usual, with no change
in poverty or oppression in the nation's capitol.

There was no immediate official confirmation that the
two men had been arrested. 

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Peru Support Committee / Detroit
Jan/08/97


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