REED SAYS IT HAS NO COMMENT ON HARCOURT RUMOURS Reed International Plc <REED.L> said it had no comment to make on U.K. stock market rumors that Harcourt Brace Jovanovich Inc <HBJ> may make a bid for the company in order to escape unwelcome offers from Robert Maxwell's British Printing and Communication Corp <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.