Word: lin
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...days straight chanting insults at the lat est round of "ambitious right-wingers" - the term invariably used against the enemies of Chairman Mao Tse-tung. This time, there was one significant change. The targets of the taunts, far from being right-wingers, were three top lieutenants of Lin Piao, China's leftist Defense Minister and the heir designate of the 74-year...
...three, all of whom were removed from their posts, were important men indeed: General Yang Chengwu, who as acting chief of the general staff had been second only to Lin Piao in the military hierarchy; General Yu Li-chin, the political commissar of China's air force; and General Fu Chung-pi, commander of the army's vital Peking garrison. All three had taken an active part in the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution that has been tearing China apart, and all three were appointed to their jobs by Lin Piao...
...Last week, as the semiannual Canton trade fair opened a month late, heavily armed soldiers patrolled the fair site with fixed bayonets-the first time in the fair's eleven-year history that such protection has been felt necessary. "Now we must rely on the army," Defense Minister Lin Piao said recently, "and it must not make mistakes...
...Chinese did not come at all, but they were not silent for the occasion. The New China News Agency denounced the Soviet leaders as "something filthy and contemptible-like a dog's dirt," and Defense Minister Lin Piao accused them of bringing about "an all-round capitalist restoration in the Soviet Union." Then, even as glasses clinked in the Kremlin, both the Chinese and the Albanians called upon the Russians to overthrow the "renegade revisionist clique" in Moscow. With comrades such as these, the Soviet leaders were probably grateful when a cordial message arrived from Lyndon Johnson, offering "heartfelt...
Death on TV. They have indeed been aroused, but not quite in the way that Lin and Mao would have wished. Some Sinologists, taking advantage of National Day to sum up their feelings on China, are now convinced that a halt has been called to the Cultural Revolution-but that the chaos and dis order it has spawned among China's restless masses are far from finished...