Lebanese Leader Stays Amid Calls To Quit
His Syrian backers are packing up and leaving, a fellow Christian politician is calling for his resignation and his opponents are telling jokes about him at huge anti-government rallies. Throughout, President Emile Lahoud hasn’t flinched. Lebanon is in the throes of worst political crisis since the end of the 1975-90 civil war but the president’s response so far has been for the most part silence. Full Story