61.   Big guns of the U.N. rapid reaction force hit Serb artillery and mortars ringing the Bosnian capital.

62.   Bosnia and Croatia are blocking the full deployment of a U.N. rapid reaction force designed to protect peacekeepers, U.N. Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali said Friday.

63.   Bosnia and Croatia maintain that the rapid reaction force is not covered by the terms of peacekeeping missions in former Yugoslavia and say a new agreement is required.

64.   British Defense Secretary Malcolm Rifkind said Britain and France would establish a rapid reaction strike force to protect peacekeepers.

65.   Both ministers denied that creation of the rapid reaction force meant the United Nations was taking sides in the conflict.

66.   Britain and France announced they were creating a rapid reaction strike force to protect U.N. peacekeepers in Bosnia.

67.   Britain and France are seeking U.N. support for the reaction force.

68.   Britain and France compose the core of the newly formed rapid reaction force, which France wants to use for such a move.

69.   Britain and France will establish a rapid reaction strike force to protect United Nations peacekeeping soldiers in Bosnia, Defense Secretary Malcolm Rifkind said Wednesday night.

70.   Burns declined to specify whether the United States was pressing for the rapid reaction force to have the authority the deal aggressively with Serb interference with the U.N. mission.