Word: lin
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Lin Piao...
...Lin Beow...
...filed onto the reviewing stand to the martial strains of The East Is Red. Sinologists studied the standing order for clues as to who was up and who was down in the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution. But the order seemed unchanged from last month's rallies: Defense Minister Lin Piao was ranked No. 2, Premier Chou En-lai No. 3. There was, however, one surprise: Madame Sun Yatsen, the widow of the founder of the Chinese Republic, who has been denounced by the Red Guards as not being revolutionary enough, was on the stand in a place of honor...
Soviet Walkout. Though some Red Guards had clamored for Mao himself to speak on National Day, he remained silent. Instead, Lin Piao once again talked for him. Lin lauded China's economic situation ("prosperous and full of vigor"), described the world climate as "excellent" for revolution, and called the U.S. and U.S.S.R. conspirators in "plotting peace swindles for stamping out the Vietnamese people's revolutionary struggle." As a result, the diplomats from the Soviet Union and six other Communist countries walked out of the celebration...
...example, last week began with editorials in People's Daily, the official party publication, ordering the Guards drastically to curtail their activities, and to leave the peasants alone to reap the harvest. Yet later in the week at an other monster rally, under the smiling gaze of Mao, Lin Piao congratulated the Guards for "acting correctly." Following Lin, Chou managed in one speech to tell the Guards to 1) stay away from the farms, and 2) go and help with the harvest...