Deng’s success lauded

Press, 28 December 1985, Page 5

Deng’s success lauded

NZPA-AP New York “Success,” a magazine that celebrates capitalism, announced yesterday that it had selected the Chinese leader, Deng Xiaoping, as its success story of the year. Mr Deng “has been counted out a half-dozen times — finished politically, disgraced, imprisoned, deprived of food, subjected to physical punishment. And yet he keeps coming back,” the magazine said in a

profile that will appear in its January-February issue. The article by a former “New York Times” correspondent, Harrison Salisbury, described Mr Deng as “bold and innovative” and said that he “has put China on a new and successful fast track, and he has not hesitated to borrow from the West.”

The result: “The whole Chinese economy has surged forward: peasants are buy-

ing tractors, trucks, TVs; tens of thousands of small businesses are springing up; the biggest building boom in the country’s history is under way. “Although we are a magazine that celebrates capitalism, we’ve chosen the world’s leading Communist because his perseverance, courage and promotion of free enterprise make him a universal role model,” said the editor-in-chief, Scott Degarmo.