Word: liens
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...lien, 63, Vice Premier and commander of the Peking Military Region. Once a peasant guerrilla fighter, Ch'en rose through the ranks of the Red Army. His support was probably essential in Hua's lightning coup against the radicals...
...week's end new details of the incident began to circulate. According to informed East European sources, Chiang Ch'ing had tried, even before the death of Mao, to persuade Peking Regional Military Commander Ch'en Hsi-lien to help her organize a coup d'etat, but Ch'en went and informed Hua of the danger. Another story from Peking claimed that Mao's scheming widow had even launched an abortive attempt to assassinate Hua. Whether these rumors are true, or simply lies leaked by the moderates to justify a pre-emptive move...
Meanwhile, the position of the professional army remains a mystery. While party leaders and the heads of government ministries were turned out for the pro-Mao demonstrations last week, several key military commanders were absent. Among the most important was Ch'en Hsi-lien, commander of the Peking military district, a member of the Politburo and widely regarded as the country's most powerful general. In the past, the army often favored the kind of moderation practiced by Chou and Teng. The fact that it is staying aloof from the current struggle may be bad news...
...become, in fact, an anarchist and a tax resister. As much out of sheer angry cussedness as conviction, he admits, he refused to pay the Internal Revenue Service a penny in 1966; nor has he given them any money since then. The IRS, in response, slapped a 100% lien on any money Hess earns and any property or savings he may have. So Hess lives mainly by barter, trading his welding skill directly for food, clothing and shelter...
Like other dissident Russian authors, Vladimir Maximov, 44, has a well-earned lien on the attention of U.S. readers: Western sympathies are automatically stirred by anyone who tilts a pen at totalitarianism. As his writings during the post-Stalinist thaw grew increasingly cool toward Communist ideology, Soviet authorities turned frigid. Maximov's support of party nonpersons, including Alexander Solzhenitsyn, finally brought about his own forced exile to Paris last year...