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President Emile Lahoud is clinging to power in Lebanon as pressure increases for his resignation after a U.N. probe suggested he had possible links to the assassination of a former prime minister. With his Syrian allies no longer in control of the country, the former army commander’s days in power should appear numbered. But he has refused to step down, and the drive to oust him has become tangled in Lebanon’s slippery sectarian politics. Full Story