Good news if it holds up.BEIRUT, Lebanon Mar 21, 2005 — Seeking a way out of political deadlock, the anti-Syrian opposition softened its tone Monday and urged Prime Minister-designate Omar Karami to form a new government to ensure parliamentary elections are held on time.
Opposition leader Walid Jumblatt shelved for now his demand that pro-Syrian President Emile Lahoud step down immediately. But a waterborne demonstration Monday showed the opposition's rank-and-file have not give up their demands for Lahoud to resign.
About 200 opposition supporters staged a protest in some 50 speedboats and yachts in the St. Georges Hotel marina, near the site of a massive explosion that killed former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri and 17 others on Feb. 14 and set off intense anti-Syrian protests in the country.
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