1.   Andrei Krestyaninov, a commander of an elite rapid reaction force leading the attack, the Itar-Tass news agency reported.

2.   Developed countries speak of rapid reaction forces as the future of their military strategies.

3.   The sirens went off, and we were loaded into trucks and told we were going out there as a reaction force.

4.   The system efficiently delivered the rapid reaction force it was designed to produce.

5.   The proposal for the rapid reaction force was not intended to suggest that NATO might undertake out-of-area military commitments.

6.   A WEU rapid reaction force could, however, operate outside the NATO arena.

7.   American troops will make up a quick reaction force to back up or rescue any part of the U.N. force that comes under attack.

8.   Annan, nevertheless, repeated his call for a rapid reaction force to be sent to the country.

9.   Annan has received no response to his appeal for a well-equipped rapid reaction force.

10.   A government statement said the German force would support both the newly established U.N. rapid reaction force in Bosnia and any NATO plan to extricate U.N. peacekeepers.