Word: lin
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...powerful Standing Committee of the Politburo, only two, Premier Chou En-lai and Defense Minister Lin Piao, survive...
Their fall from grace indicates that Mao and Lin are under mounting pressure from the regime's comparative moderates, who want to get China back on course after the excesses of the Cultural Revolution. Chief among them is Premier Chou Enlai, a pragmatist who holds no truck with the Cultural Revolution and himself barely escaped the Red Guards' condemnation. Chou recognizes the practical necessity of compromise to hold China's 750 million people together...
...chances of compromise, he demanded the removal of the military leaders who had egged on the Red Guards to their excesses. To the astonishment of professional Sinologists, he was joined by Mao's wife Chiang Ching, who surfaced last week after a two-month "rest" to denounce Lin's purged officers as "counterrevolutionary, double-faced, rightist conspirators." The army's new chief of staff will be General Huang Yung-sheng, 62, who, as commander of the Canton military region, had constantly maneuvered to oppose the Red Guards...
...moment, however, the party seems less concerned with persecuting Liu than with ridding itself of the extreme leftists in its military establishment. Party wall posters now hint that Public Security Minister Hsieh Fu-chih, another Lin Piao loyalist, may lose his job. And the official New China News Agency, covering a reception for 10,000 army officers given last week by Map, made it clear that many of those invited would soon become victims of the purge. The agency found only ten of the officers secure enough in their jobs to be mentioned by name, whereas in the past...
More Sly. The Chicago Daily News was one of the papers that welcomed Bobby's candidacy editorially; its columnist Mike Royko, on the other hand, compared the presidential race to a baseball game being mismanaged by a fellow called Big Lin. "Bobby walked around telling the other guys what a mess Big Lin was making. But he didn't say anything to Big Lin." Only Eugene, who "wore glasses, read books and played the piano," had the nerve to tell off Big Lin and pop him in the nose "Suddenly Bobby shouted: 'Don't worry, Eugene...