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The article said that Jordan, which borders Iraq, has seen no signs of American military preparations and believes the United States may be deterred from fresh action by Iraq's intensive preparations over the past nine months for a "final showdown."
In La Stampa of Turin, Boris Biancheri, an Italian ex-ambassador to both the United States and Britain, accused the United States of "giving world public opinion the impression that the showdown with Iraq reflected not so much respect for U.N. resolutions as a wish to end a match with Saddam Hussein that had been left unfinished by Operation Desert Storm."
The final showdown — at Culloden in 1746 — saw the Jacobite army slaughtered.
A piece recounts the Scrabble showdown between the world's best players and a computer programmed with all the words in the Scrabble dictionary.
The paper sees in the end-of-the-day exchanges between Starr and Clinton's personal attorney David Kendall "a dramatic prime-time showdown of legal heavyweights."