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Under “the businessmen’s Prime Minister,” Dr. Mahathir, Malaysia has achieved remarkable prosperity as the economy built on the gains of the earlier post-war decades.
But the vindication that Mahathir probably imagined for himself--a triumphant recovery in Malaysia, while its more orthodox neighbors continued to languish--hasn't quite played out.
Elections are due to be held in 2000, and the issue of who will succeed Dr. Mahathir has already begun to come to the fore in political debate.
Combined political and economic strength set a sound base for Datuk Seri Dr. Mahathir bin Mohamad, when he took up office in July 1981.
In our staged "dialogue"--which was played out in semi-public, in front of a disturbingly obsequious audience of a hundred or so businessmen--Mahathir continued to sound a minor-key version of the conspiracy theme, insisting that capital controls were necessary to protect small countries against the evil designs of big speculators.