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...Uncle Chou. Guard members are drawn almost exclusively from families of party members, workers, peasants or soldiers. So far, the Guard units seem to take orders only from party headquarters in Peking, but a relationship appears to have developed between the Guards and the army. A number of local army commanders have been appointed "instructors" of newly organized Red Guard corps...
Other victims were the usual intellectuals and teachers, whose mortality rate has always been high in China: Ho Luting, president of the Shanghai Musical College and composer of The East Is Red; Philosopher Feng Ting of Peking University; Opera Singer Chou Hsin-fang (rumored to have committed suicide). Even President Liu Shao-chi, 68, who had long been listed as Mao's most likely successor, was dropped from his No. 2 spot to a distant eighth in the succession ratings. Events reached a climax at last month's secret Central Committee meeting, from which Lin emerged even more...
...leader 19 years after he was born in Twisting Dragon Hill, the son of a felt-factory owner. In Manchu China, boys would be soldiers: off to Canton's Whampoa Military Academy went Lin, where he studied under Chiang Kaishek, in the company of such revolutionary notables as Chou...
...last week's speech, Lin praised Communism's power "for remolding the very souls of the people," and exhorted Red China "to strike down all bourgeois royalists, oppose all actions to suppress the revolution, and strike down all monsters and demons." Following Lin to the rostrum, Premier Chou Enlai, who retained his No. 3 position in the hierarchy, declared: "We must respond to the call of Comrade Lin Piao to apply Chairman Mao's works in a living...
...revolutionary purity and zeal that Mao values so highly. The son of a small factory owner in central China, the new No. 2 man attended Canton's famed Whampoa Military Academy, whose director was Chiang Kaishek. Young Lin, however, was apparently more influenced by one of his tutors, Chou Enlai. A colonel at 22 in the Kuomintang army, Lin defected to the Communists and later commanded the famed First Red Army group on the Long March to the shelter of Mao's redoubt in the remote caves of Yenan...