1.  Increased cooperation among the member countries on defense, Patten said, could only strengthen the European component of the alliance, not weaken it.

2.  Balanzino called for new efforts to build a reinforced European component of NATO.

3.  Eighty-five percent of the value of the forklift parts will be European components, while engines will be imported from Japan, Toyoda Automatic Loom officials said.

4.  Astronauts Greg Harbaugh and Joe Tanner meanwhile began the fourth spacewalk late Sunday to replace a European component of the telescope.