Word: lin
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Lin's seven columns soon isolated the Nationalists in their cities and drew them out for costly battles that chewed up whole divisions without gaining ground for either side. Bled and battered, the Nationalist-held cities began to fall: by October 1948, Lin's forces held Mukden, Changchun and the Liaotung Peninsula, and had killed or captured 400,000 of Chiang's troops (including 36 generals replete with their arsenals). Then, advancing an average of six miles a day, Lin struck out for Peking, which fell 1"5 weeks later...
Within the year, Lin and fellow Red army marshals-Liu Po-cheng ("The One-Eyed Dragon"), Chen Yi and Peng Teh-huai-had captured all of China, and the grand guerrilla mystique of Mao had proved victorious over the enemy, which outnumbered the Reds 2 to 1. Then, like some ghostly hero whose legends demand his presence only in times of great crisis, Lin Piao dropped from prominence...
...disposition of Lin's army is essentially defensive, with troops stationed at the points where China's leaders fear assault. The two biggest troop concentrations, totaling 800,000 men, are in the industrial northeast-around the Manchurian factory complexes and facing the Soviet border-and on the Great Plains between the Yellow and Yangtze rivers. Some 600,000 more troops are stacked up like nice neat boxes along the eastern coast from Kiangsu to Kwangtung province, with a 200,000-man bulge directly across from Formosa. Surprisingly enough, there are no more than 200,000 soldiers along...
...terror and the Stalin period of the Russian Revolution tried to find new inspiration through purges and mass hysteria, Mao is attempting the same thing through the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution. But sheer will power, even when wielded by men as fanatically dedicated as Mao Tse-tung and Lin Piao, rarely wins out over the historical thrust of a people and culture as strong as China's. The raucous voices of the Red Guards could well be the death rattle of a revolution...
...century and a 1905 hookup with the radical left's "Wobbly" movement and its leader, William ("Big Bill") Haywood. In 1917, Haywood jumped a $20,000 bond and fled to Russia rather than face charges of violating the Espionage Act. Half his ashes now rest in the Krem lin Wall, the other half in Chicago. As recently as 1950, the Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers were-mostly at the insistence of the United Steelworkers-thrown out of the C.I.O. on charges of being Communist-dominated...