Gloria can stay—for nowAFP  BY THE tumultuous standards of the
past few months, it has been a good week for Gloria Macapagal
Arroyo, the embattled president of the Philippines. True, half
her cabinet called on her to resign over allegations that she
had rigged her election victory last year. But the country's
Catholic bishops, a more influential force, did not. True, plans
to impeach her when Congress begins its next session on July
25th appear to be gathering pace. But for the time being, at
least, the president still seems to command the allegiance of a
majority of lawmakers, rendering her dismissal by Congress
unlikely. Events are moving ever faster and more unpredictably,
but Mrs Arroyo is far from finished.  Several opposition parties
called for a huge rally in Manila's main business district on
July 13th to demand the president's resignation. But in the end,
only about 30,000 people turned out—many more than at previous
protests, but far short of the hundreds of thousands who
demonstrated against two pr