Word: lin
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Such clashes would severely test all the remarkable devices Mao and Defense Minister Lin Piao have developed in the last seven years to tighten their political grip on the military. Since Lin became Defense Minister in 1959 he has tried to turn the PLA into a "Great School" of Maoist thought. He and Mao disapproved of the 1950's soldier, whose mind was directed toward tactics more than politics. The two of them could, with more justification than the Pentagon, use as their slogan for the 1960's: "Join the NEW Army." It is possible, from the scattered evidence...
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...
...authenticity of poster accounts is as gnawing a problem for foreigners as it is for the Chinese in the streets. After nearly a year's practice at poster exegesis, Sinologists have developed some rules of thumb. When such officials as Mao, Lin Piao or Chiang Ching are quoted directly, the gist of their remarks is likely to be true. So are reports of high-level government meetings and accounts of the arrests of individuals. Less reliable in their detail are reports of bloody clashes, though they undoubtedly indicate that trouble of some sort took place. Attacks on individuals named...
...assembly lines last fall, with their little, red pocket versions of Mao's works, some ugly clashes took place. Chou Enlai, always the mediator, stepped in and decreed that Red Guards were henceforth to refrain from interfering in industrial production or farming methods. But at the same time, Lin made plain to the Red Guards that the retreat was only temporary so far as Mao's grand scheme was concerned...
...such roundups would be fairly easy. Not so in the provinces, where conservatism is strong and resistance to the revolution is greatest. Because so much of the People's Liberation Army has its roots in the provinces, there is no assurance that it would necessarily take orders from Lin Piao in a showdown. Bloody clashes between army units and Red Guards were reported last fall in a few places, and since then Lin Piao has pointedly not used the army in the struggle. Reason: Lin fears that its use might trigger full-scale civil...