Word: lin
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...risen rapidly since last August to become one of Mao's inner circle as party propaganda chief. Tao Chu appeared at a rally in the company of Chou Enlai the same day that he was criticized on Peking's walls. Since even Lin Piao, Mao's new heir apparent and chief hatchetman for the revolution, has on occasion been the object of a nasty poster, it may well be that anti-Maoites have been doing some midnight scribbling of their...
...Characters. Many China-watch ers think that fissures have developed in the ranks of both the P.L.A. and the Red Guards, reflecting the struggle for power between Mao and Defense Minister Lin Piao on the one hand and President Liu Shao-chi and Party Secretary Teng Hsiao-ping on the other. The fissures apparently have regional roots. So long as the Red Guard rampages affected only national interests or the artifacts of the past, no one much cared. But when local property and the jobs of local party functionaries were threatened, resistance rose...
Sharp and bloody clashes between anti-Mao army units and pro-Mao Red Guards have been confirmed in half a dozen provinces. While pro-Mao Red Guards continue to flood Peking with "big character" posters denouncing Liu and Teng, some anti-Lin posters have mysteriously begun appearing. One version of the struggle has it that Lin in fact wants all the Red Guards out of Peking except the ones he can count on; he has urged the latter, privately, to stick around. The indisputable fact is that, for all the railings of the Guards against them, both Liu and Teng...
...Soviets, says West Berlin Kremlinologist Richard Loewenthal, "regard the extremists- the Mao-Lin Piao faction-as very actively anti-Soviet, and they have recently lost hope that in the struggle inside China the extremists can be defeated." Ironically, what worries the Russians most is not a major Chinese attack, but gradually expanding Chinese guerrilla infiltration of the porous border area. As the Russians are uncomfortably aware, the Chinese have for years laid claim to thousands of square miles of land that now lie within the Soviet Union, and still record it on their maps as Chinese territory...
Last week the 15 hardy souls along with 1,500,000 other Red Guards were trundled by truck through Peking's Tienanmen Square. There stood Chairman Mao himself, who recently so reticent, managed to mutter: "Long live the Chinese people!" Lin Piao, Chairman Mao's closest comrade-in-arms, paid special attention to the new Long Marchers. With swarms of Red Guard visitors still in the capital, he said he was in favor of such treks-"as long as they are conducted in a planned, organized and well-prepared...