Word: lin
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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...
...work" to return to their barracks no later than Feb. 20. Peking's wall posters and newspapers warned of the dangers of an "armed palace coup" and hinted darkly that some army units may not be totally loyal to the Mao line. The return to barracks could provide Lin & Co. with an opportunity to refresh the army's memory on matters of Mao-think...
...last month or two, the words have been backed by new power. She is now the deputy director of the Cultural Revolution's subcommittee and the sole adviser to the People's Liberation Army purge group. Today she seems to stand second, behind only Army Head Lin Piao, in providing leadership and impetus for the Maoists...
Beneath these demands lay a clash between two different personality styles. P'eng, to some extent, represented the "experts," those who thought the most valuable men to China were the trained and ingenious technicians. Mao Tse-tung, who loathed the "expert" ideal, dismissed P'eng and replaced him with Lin. Mao's ideal man was the "red," a man of lower class background who believed, like Mao, that will power and unquestioned loyalty to socialism and to China would together win the world...
...Lin solved the conflict through compromise. True to Mao, he intensified the ideological education of soldiers, but at the same time accelerated work on the atomic bomb and began to devote more time to military training...