61.   In the last four years, Indonesia has passed legislation protecting press freedoms and new national and regional newspapers have appeared.

62.   It is surely not press freedom as Westerners know it.

63.   It makes press freedom advocates chador.

64.   It was also an object lesson about the evolution of press freedom in Mexico.

65.   It was cast entirely as a business advisory group, while the White House clearly intended it to focus on press freedom.

66.   It has been a year of diminishing press freedom and rising human-rights violations.

67.   It was recently accused of attacking press freedom by withholding newsprint and serving crippling tax notices on a newspaper chain that did not obey demands to fire critical journalists.

68.   Its rulings have repeatedly defended free speech, and recently it established a special rapporteur to investigate violations of press freedom.

69.   Journalists and opposition party supporters warned, however, that the new law still infringes sharply on press freedoms.

70.   Khatami may want more press freedoms and an easing of the social strictures imposed by a aging revolutionary leadership that clings to power.