81.   Chirac said EU leaders pledged support for the rapid reaction force.

82.   Chirac said he expected a Security Council resolution authorizing the so-called rapid reaction force to pass as early as late Thursday.

83.   Chirac said he had expected a Security Council resolution authorizing the so-called rapid reaction force to pass as early as late Thursday.

84.   Chirac and Schroeder also proposed adapting Eurocorps, which includes France, Germany, Belgium, Luxembourg and Spain, into a future European rapid reaction force.

85.   Clinton said the rapid reaction force would make a U.N. pullout less likely but increase the capacity for a safe withdrawal if one were necessary.

86.   Detonations around the city later indicated more hits, apparently from the big guns of the rapid reaction force.

87.   Dubbed Task Force Alpha, it was the first deployment of a European rapid reaction force that was created in May to protect U.N. peacekeepers in Bosnia.

88.   Detonations around the city later indicated more hits, either by NATO planes or the big guns of the rapid reaction force.

89.   Early Friday, the U.N. rapid reaction force, dug in on Mount Igman southwest of Sarajevo, also resumed shelling of Serb positions in the city.

90.   European nations hoped the rapid reaction force would strengthen the peacekeeping mission in Bosnia, which has become the target of harassment by both warring sides.