Yemeni leader Ali Abdullah Saleh, under opposition pressure to stand down, said on Wednesday he will freeze constitutional changes that would have seen him become president for life.On the eve of a "day of rage" called by civil society and opposition leaders, Saleh told parliament he had also put off controversial plans for elections in April, and appealed for an end to street protests.
"I will not extend my mandate and I am against hereditary rule," said Saleh, who has been head of state of the Arab world's poorest nation for decades but whose term is due to end in 2013.
He had an epiphany overnight.
I suppose he figured if the US was dumping Mubarak, he didn't stand a snowball's chance in hell of resisting in his own country.
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