Lebanon’s pro-Syrian president, under pressure from anti-Syrian groups to step down, said Saturday he would stay in office until the end of his term but proposed early parliamentary elections as a way out of the presidential stalemate. President Emile Lahoud also rejected calls by some anti-Syrian leaders for Hezbollah to disarm in line with a 2004 U.N. resolution, stressing that the anti-Israeli militant guerrilla group should keep its weapons until a peace settlement is reached for the Arab-Israeli conflict. Full Story