Word: heir
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...same time, Defense Minister Lin Piao, Mao's heir apparent, tried to instill greater discipline within the army...
Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution has all but destroyed the last vestiges of social order. In fact, Mao's "closest comrade in arms" and heir, Defense Minister Lin Piao, admitted via wall poster that "the entire country is now in a state of civil...
...mainland, Chiang can only guess like everyone else. His one hope is that he will still be around when-and if-the Nationalists ever return. In case he is not, Chiang, now 79, has already made provision for the transfer of power to his oldest son and political heir: Chiang Ching-kuo, 56, Taiwan's Defense Minister. Late last month, at the annual meeting of the party's Central Committee, 600 KMT delegates voted Chiang-and hence his successor-the right to appoint a special national security council with sweeping emergency powers. Such a council would...
...Besides, the Met, which moved last September to its new $45 million Lincoln Center home, desperately needs the $488,000 annual rent it will collect from developers planning to erect an office building on the site. Even so, as wreckers began tearing up the roof and stage, A. & P. Heir Huntinqton Hartford, 55, perennial patron of lost causes, warned dolefully: "This is going to give America a black eye for years to come...
...shots of Sun Yat-sen's founding of the Kuomintang, and of his 1925 funeral; and there is a portrait of 33-year-old Mao the next year, already glowing eerily with fanaticism. The impressive wedding ceremony of Sun's Wellesley-trained sister-in-law to his heir, Chiang, is followed by Mao and Chiang on screen together, toasting each other at the 1945 truce conference arranged by U.S. Ambassador Patrick Hurley...