"The UN Information Service is not a rapid-response force."

The team is a rapid-response force of specially trained correction officers and supervisors who deal with inmate fights and critical incidents in the County Jail.

Defense Secretary William J. Perry predicted today that the Serbs would challenge the rapid-response forces as soon as they are in place.

We must put a multilayered aircraft, satellite, and ballistic missile defense system in place immediately and rebuild our rapid-response intercontinental heavy-strike forces.

They and others are discussing the possibility of forming a rapid-response force, among several options, as the Bosnia situation deteriorates rapidly.

Russian military officials have cast the move as one intended to bolster security along Russia's southern flank by creating a rapid-response force with Central Asian allies.

What's also needed is a rapid-response force of doctors, nurses and aid workers, ready to rush to a stricken area as soon as the need arises.

Marines in the next few days will relieve a brigade of the 82nd Airborne Division in southern Iraq, allowing the rapid-response force to head home.

Instead of helping the Americans with rapid-response forces in Iraq and Afghanistan, we should set up a European rapid-response force to deal with natural disasters.

But Defense Department officials today ruled out participation in a rapid-response force proposed by France.