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...country changes course The winds of reform have swept over China with unequal force. Sichuan is a showcase for the new agriculture, Shenzhen is a magnet for foreign investment and a high-tech boomtown, but Shanghai remains peculiarly impervious to Deng's goals...
...from computer technology to rock music are like nothing they or their hosts have seen before. Neither is the willingness of intellectuals, like Deng impatient with ideology, to discuss how much of it can be dumped in the interest of still faster growth. It is primarily because his continuing reform of China and Marxism holds more promise for changing the course of history than anything else that occurred during 1985 that Deng Xiaoping is TIME's Man of the Year...
...office voluntarily on his Vice President, George Bush, though only for eight hours, while surgeons removed a cancerous growth from Reagan's colon. The President recovered quickly and apparently completely, but apart from the summit his political momentum seemed to wane. Reagan's success in pushing a tax-reform bill through the House at year's end demonstrated that he is hardly a lame duck yet. Nonetheless, whether he can win a final bill at all close to his desires--or indeed any bill--is one of the major questions of 1986. Spy scandals, headed by the exposure...
...been unwilling to modify in any essential way the system of centralized state control of every aspect of economic life fashioned by Joseph Stalin; he has been trying only to make it work better. While promising to "restructure" the economy, Gorbachev pointedly avoids using the word reform, apparently because it implies a more drastic change than any he is ready to contemplate...
...carefully planned changes were part of the quiet revolution now taking place throughout China. In factories, on farms and in government offices, ambitious and reform-minded young men and women are steadily moving up. They are frequently better educated than their elders and eager to use their skills to get ahead. Over the next 20 or so years, they will help determine whether Deng Xiaoping's vision of an economically advanced China succeeds or fails...