Word: newstour
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...factor in this year's selection was the five-day visit to China last October by the TIME Newstour of civic, academic and business leaders and Time Inc. editors. After viewing some of China's free-market experiments and spending more than an hour with Deng, the tour participants agreed that the country's transformation far surpassed their expectations. Says Senior Editor Henry Muller: "In addition to the physical dimension--the construction and the traffic--we were struck by the openness and pragmatism of the officials we met. They subjected us to none of the ideological rhetoric you get from...
...that Deng does not relish self-promotion is an understatement. He has never held any of the official titles usually associated with national leadership. "People wanted me to be Chairman of the party, but I told them I was too old for that," Deng recently told a TIME-sponsored Newstour. "Then people wanted me to take the post of President, and I said no, I wouldn't do that." The Chinese press refers to him simply as "paramount leader." But that modesty is hardly for lack of a life that has been interesting, both in the usual sense...