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| | TIME Magazine Archive Article -- A Successor Generation -- Sep. 23, 1985 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26) |
 | | No one, perhaps, understands the fate that may befall a leader's policies after his death better than Deng Xiaoping, who was twice purged by Mao Tse-tung but bounced back in 1978 to begin dismantling Maoism. |
 | | Not long after Deng came to power, he told a gathering of top officials that choosing his successors was "a task of century-long significance." Since then, he has taken every possible precaution to ensure that Dengism will outlast him. |
 | | Deng began his effort by abandoning the personality cult and dictatorial... |
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