Word: assaults
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Maria Shriver were hounded by two photographers. After hitting the couple's Mercedes, the photogs shoved a 59-year-old school employee. The police began a search for the two, but last week the guerrilla lensmen turned themselves in, anticipating charges of hit and run, reckless driving and assault...
...still a risk. The assault could have turned into a bloody disaster. But it didn't. It was a triumph--for Fujimori and for his much criticized military. Only 15 minutes after the commandos blasted and shot their way into the building, 71 of the hostages were free, all the guerrillas were dead, and only one prisoner and two soldiers had been killed (another soldier died several days later...
...rebels seized the embassy residence during a gala cocktail reception, Cerpa had demanded the release of 400 of his comrades who were locked in Peru's harsh prisons. That, Fujimori vowed, he would never agree to. He gave the negotiations a try, if only to mask preparations for the assault. He arranged the promise of safe passage to Cuba for the rebels if they wanted it and appointed Archbishop Juan Luis Cipriani as a special negotiator. After the raid, as the Archbishop expressed his sympathy to the families of the dead, he covered his tear-filled eyes with his hand...
...Fujimori went it alone. He first set Feb. 15 as D-day for the assault, the military official told TIME. But the February attack was called off because the guerrillas and hostages were shifting positions inside the building and intelligence could not pinpoint them. He then chose a date in early March, which was put on hold after Cerpa either heard the noise of the tunnel construction--the army tried to mask it with martial music on blaring loudspeakers--or was tipped off about the digging. Cerpa halted talks with the government's mediators and moved the hostages upstairs...
After Fujimori set the date for last week's assault, the army managed to smuggle at least 11 listening devices into the residence. Some were tiny, matchstick-size two-way microphones that allowed intelligence officers to communicate with the military and police commanders being held inside. The gizmos were carried into the building four days before the raid by intelligence agents posing as government doctors there to check on the hostages' health. The devices were supplied by the cia, according to the military official, and were concealed in personal items, like books, guitars and thermos bottles, that were supposedly sent...