21.   The United States has long sought the establishment of a rapid deployment force in the gulf region but has been denied a permanent base by Saudi Arabia.

22.   The U.N. rapid deployment force, Nunn said, could help reduce the risk to any U.S. troops used in an overall NATO operation to withdraw peacekeepers.

23.   Their more advanced rescue sub may not have been ready for rapid deployment.

24.   The United Nations has no rapid deployment force, and multinational peacemaking has been discredited in Somalia and Liberia.

25.   Then, with all their armies, rapid deployment forces and air forces, they decided they could not handle it without U.S. air and land power.

26.   A rebel statement released in Lisbon, Portugal, urged the rapid deployment of U.N. military observers to hot spots such as Uige and Huambo.

27.   As part of its Army After Next Project, the defense forces have identified more rapid deployment as one of the challenges for the next century.

28.   Both the government and the rebels have repeatedly requested the rapid deployment of an armed U.N. peacekeepers to separate and disarm the rival armies.

29.   Brahimi, before meeting with the former monarch, told reporters that a new U.N. Security Council resolution would be needed for a rapid deployment of a U.N. force.

30.   Britain and France already have begun discussing a rapid deployment force for Bosnia, and Britain has begun beefing up its personnel on the ground.