<D>Textbook situation: your negotiating partner has thirty hostages. The building is jumpshielded and it's rigged to explode if tampered. How do you resolve the situation? Easy. Send in a maintenance person to tamper with the locks. When the building blows, have Public Relations blame the terrorists. Lickety split. No loose ends. That's the Nataka way.<p>- Nataka Negotiator's training manual -</D>