President Disallows Using Force in Crisis
From Times Wire Reports
The government will not use force to free 72 hostages held by leftist rebels except in “an unmanageable emergency,” and it does not expect that to happen, President Alberto Fujimori said. Fujimori, in Bolivia to brief President Gonzalo Sanchez de Lozada on the hostage crisis, said after a meeting with Sanchez de Lozada that Japan and Peru are united in seeking a peaceful solution to the standoff at the Japanese ambassador’s residence in Lima, the Peruvian capital.
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