Word: lin
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...accent of the festivities was on the People's Liberation Army, and not on the Red Guard units that dominated last year's celebration. In fact, Mao said not a word; he left the speaking to Defense Minister and Heir Apparent Lin Piao. Lin's message: Now is the time to ease up on the Cultural Revolution and consolidate. "The revolution," said Lin, "has won a decisive victory. It has spread to the whole of China. Hundreds of millions of people have been aroused...
...painter, though a good artist, was a bad man who demanded bribes from the girls and painted only those who had a yen for him. When the most beautiful candidate of them all (Lin Dai) refused to pay him, he painted an ugly picture of her, and it was three years before the Emperor accidentally ran across...
...China. In 1960, he first reported the sure sign of a Sino-Soviet split: an exodus of Russian technicians. In 1966, he was the first to report the downfall of the once-powerful Peking mayor, Peng Chen. While other China-based correspondents hesitated, he reported flatly that Lin Piao had been picked as Mao's successor...
...revolution through a three-way alliance between party members, Red Guards and the army. The result has been a three-way brawl. Now, in what amounts to a coup within a revolution, power has largely passed to the 2,500,000-man army of Vice Premier Lin Piao...
...against Li. The peasants were not impressed, and in fact attacked the Red Guards, producing rioting and bloodshed. So serious is the trouble, and so vital is Szechwan as a litmus of the Maoist aspirations, reported Radio Moscow, that last week Mao dispatched his No. 2 man, Defense Minister Lin Piao, to the troubled province. It did not say whether he was to act as executioner or mediator...