1.  Among Khatami supporters, the prevailing view was Khamenei and his allies saw profound dangers in a new showdown.

2.  A new showdown over Iraq is something that the Clinton administration has, by most accounts, sought desperately to avoid in an election year.

3.  After an impressive victory in the House, campaign finance reform is headed to a new showdown in the Senate.

4.  Yeltsin faces a new showdown with parliament this week after outraging lawmakers by dismissing the popular prime minister, Yevgeny Primakov.

5.  But Croatian army crossings into Bosnia heightened concerns of a new showdown.

6.  His position could set the stage for a new political showdown with the Kremlin.

7.  Like a recurring nightmare, Prime Minister John Major faces a new parliamentary showdown with anti-European rebels who could bring down his unpopular Conservative government.

8.  The bid to exclude Americans and Britons could trigger a new showdown between Iraq.

9.  The daily patrols of Serb armored vehicles and truckloads of gun-toting Malisevo policemen through area villages send children scurrying and have raised fears of a new showdown.

10.  The Iraqi leader is engaged in a new showdown with the United States over U.S. weapons inspectors in his country.