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FORMER LEBANESE PM MEETS WITH LAHOUD
Lebanese President Emile Lahoud (L) walks out his office after a meeting with former prime minister Omar Karami (R) at the presidential palace in Baabda near Beirut, October 21, 2004. President Emile Lahoud was set to appoint Omar Karami as Lebanon's prime minister on Thursday, a move that could strengthen Syria's role in Lebanon in the face of international pressure on Damascus to quit its neighbor. (UPI Photo/Mohammed Tawil)
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WASHINGTON, Nov. 26 (UPI) -- The deadline set by the Lebanese Constitution for the country's Parliament to elect a new president expired at midnight Friday. No consensus was reached and the departing president, Emile Lahoud, handed the task of insuring Lebanon's security to the army. He called it a "temporary measure." But in Lebanon, temporary measures have a bad habit of being more than temporary.
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BEIRUT, Lebanon, Oct. 22 (UPI) -- The Lebanese parliamentary vote for a new president was postponed Monday until next month by National Assembly Speaker Nabih Berri.
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