After months of talking, by a bold stroke of sudden violence he had freed the hostages held by left-wing gunmen in the Japanese ambassador's residence.

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He meant in their own suite and in the permanent 42nd-floor residence of the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations. (I didn't get to see it because the current ambassador, Susan Rice, is living there now.) Mr. Blauvelt estimated that it is double to triple the size of the Presidential Suite, with a very large dining room.

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When a smaller guerrilla group kidnapped 72 people attending a reception at the Japanese ambassador's residence in Lima in 1996, he organised a dramatic rescue after a four-month siege.

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