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...SHOWDOWN...
Butler to push Baghdad's buttons The U.N.'s chief weapons inspector heads for a showdown with Iraq. Will force be used...
...Lipinski, 15 (rid of her final baby molar only last year when she won the U.S. Figure Skating Championships). Hordes of sponsors and adoring young fans are choosing sides. Even bookstores are battlegrounds, with Lipinski's Triumph on Ice taking on Kwan's Heart of a Champion. A real showdown, though, took place last week at the 1998 Nationals in Philadelphia, from which only one could emerge with bragging rights as America's best at the 18th Winter Olympic Games in Nagano, Japan...
...says, is that Saddam Hussein continues to restrict the operations of U.N. weapons inspectors, and the belief that force ? or the threat of force ? will be necessary to force Baghdad to allow inspectors access to sites it has declared off-limits. ?The ground is being prepared for a showdown,? says Dowell...
Iraq Blocks U.N. Inspectors Former Marine Captain Scott Ritter finds himself accused as a spy by Iraq. By targeting this Gulf War vet, Saddam may just have given the U.S. its first hero in the showdown...