Word: communists
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...might be, there remained great doubt that the U.N. fact-finders would be able to document the charge of intervention in Laos to the satisfaction of the world's Foreign Offices, not a few of which would much prefer not to know what Peking and Communist North Viet Nam are up to in Laos. The chairman of the U.N. party, Japan's Shinichi Shibusawa, promised that the subcommittee would "go wherever it had to"-thus quashing earlier reports that the investigators would not stir out of Vientiane into the mysterious northern jungles where the Communist attacks are concentrated...
...wingers, led by veteran 68-year-old Suehiro Nishio, who has the support of more than a third of the Socialist members of the lower house of the Diet, promptly walked out of the hall, agreed to return only on condition that the left wing stop pushing its pro-Communist foreign policy and "class party" domestic line...
...fired from their jobs. The causes of the shakeup, though not divulged by Peking, seemed clear: the humiliating failure of "the great leap forward," the enforced revision of phony production statistics (TIME, Sept. 7), popular antipathy to the vaunted rural communes, and growing strain between Red China's Communist Party and army...
...purge was Defense Minister Peng Teh-huai, 58, a tough-minded, nearly illiterate soldier's soldier who fought United Nations forces to a standstill in Korea. Peng's replacement: Marshal Lin Piao, 51, a graduate of Chiang Kai-shek's Whampoa Military Academy and a Communist since 1927. Gaunt, balding, intelligent, Lin Piao commanded the Red forces that cut to pieces the best U.S.-trained Nationalist divisions in Manchuria in the late '405, was Peking's first choice to command Chinese "volunteers" in Korea, but was soon hospitalized-whether from wounds or tuberculosis, Western intelligence...
Except for Peng Teh-huai, most of last week's casualties were second-level officials of the Foreign Office and other non-military departments. Their crime seems to have been "rightist opportunism," Communist jargon for those who argued that Red China's economic leap forward should be executed in slower and more orderly fashion. Though Peking is now grudgingly "tidying up the communes," discarding the wasteful backyard pig iron furnaces and giving its weary and befuddled population something of a breathing spell, it cannot admit failure. Neither can Red China's top leaders, still apparently unaffected...