REED SAYS IT HAS NO COMMENT ON HARCOURT RUMOURS
  Reed International Plc &lt;REED.L> said it
  had no comment to make on U.K. stock market rumors that
  Harcourt Brace Jovanovich Inc &lt;HBJ> may make a bid for the
  company in order to escape unwelcome offers from Robert
  Maxwell's British Printing and Communication Corp &lt;BPCL.L>.
      A spokeswoman for Reed said earlier analysts forecasts that
  a bid for Reed will have to be about 700 mln stg were totally
  unrealistic, adding that its current market is about 2.7
  billion stg.
  

