Kazakhstan, with its rough edges, faces election

By: International Herald Tribune, November 25, 2005 Standing beside Condoleezza Rice, the U.S. secretary of state, when she visited Kazakhstan last month, President Nursultan Nazarbayev said he "wholly and truly" supported freedom of speech in his country. Six days later, the police seized 50,000 copies of Svoboda Slova, an opposition newspaper whose name means freedom of speech. DD 016 11/28/05