Under fire from the West, Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili sought to defuse an explosive political conflict by calling an early presidential election and promising to quickly lift a state of emergency.
He also offered minor concessions Thursday to the opposition, whose protests in the center of the Georgian capital were violently broken up a day earlier by riot police using tear gas, rubber bullets and water cannon.
The protesters were demanding electoral changes that the opposition says will give them a greater political role.
But the pro-Western president, who is seen as a strong U.S. ally in the former Soviet republic, is expected to …
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