Egypt's president promises to respect courts  In this photo
released by the Egyptian Presidency, Egyptian Field Marshal
Hussein Tantawi, left, President Mohammed Morsi, center, and
Chief of Staff Sami Anan, right, attend a ceremony at an Air
Force base in Cairo, Egypt, Tuesday, July 10, 2012. AP Photo
(CBS/AP) CAIRO - Egypt's Islamist president says he's committed
to uphold court verdicts - an attempt to ease tensions over the
fate of the country's parliament.  Mohammed Morsi's statement
Wednesday came one day after the Supreme Constitutional Court
ruled against his decree to call the house into session despite
a June 14 ruling by the same tribunal that the legislature was
invalid because a third of its members were elected illegally.
The military dissolved parliament the following day.  Morsi said
in his statement he called parliament to session "so there
wouldn't be a power vacuum in terms of legislation," the Egypt
Independent reports.  Morsi's decree heightened tensions with
the powerful military.  The s