1.  However, several WEU member states, notably France, wanted to go further by creating a specifically European force within the WEU context but formally outside NATO.

2.  The British frigate, HMS Avenger, is to join a European naval force to enforce sanctions against Serbia.

3.  The formation of the new European sales force is a clear indication of the potential that has been identified there.

4.  A small European force that draws on NATO resources is exactly what many in Washington would like to see in Bosnia next year.

5.  But having the new European force take on the Serbs on is exactly what the UN wishes to avoid.

6.  Diplomacy may eventually have to be supplemented by some form of European peacekeeping force, to supervise the disarming of civilians and re-establish civil authority.

7.  European forces combined with American air support could have liberated Kosovo.

8.  France has sent thousands of peacekeepers to Bosnia, and dispatched troops to a European force to reinforce them.

9.  In addition, Copithorne said Gilead would acquire a European sales force in one fell swoop.

10.  Indeed, the atrocities in the Boxer affair were carried out not by Chinese fanatics or imperial conservatives, but by members of the European expeditionary force.