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Part of the problem was certainly the chaos caused by the campaign to criticize Confucius and Lin Piao-and by sly indirection, Chou En-lai-that peaked last year. Mass meetings, rallies and indoctrination sessions took workers away from production. According to the secret documents, workers made wage demands under the cloak of political grievances, and a number of cadres left their jobs to avoid getting involved...
Chou also remained in the background after 1969, when Lin Piao was moving to enlarge his power. Last year, when his program of pragmatic economic policies and his rehabilitation of formerly disgraced bureaucrats came under radical assault, he once again assumed a low profile. The ideological campaign to discredit Confucius and Lin Piao was used by radicals like Chiang Ching and Yao Wenyuan to attack the Premier, obliquely but unmistakably. Among other things, the campaign implicitly sliced at Chou by accusing Confucius of having "called to office those who had retired to obscurity," an allusion to Chou's rehabilitation...
...Chairman Mao. The movement careened out of control. Exhorted by Mao to "learn revolution by making revolution," the youthful Red Guard attacked "old customs" and destroyed ancient art and cultural works. Rallies replaced work; schools and universities closed. Mao had to turn to the army, led by Defense Minister Lin Piao, to re-establish order...
...Chien-ying, 76, was appointed Defense Minister, a post that had been vacant since 1971, when Lin Piao died in a plane crash after allegedly trying to assassinate Party Chairman...
...Kenneth C. Edelin (pronounced Ead-e-lin) was still slouched over the second wooden desk at the front of the Suffolk County Superior Court courtroom, standing trial for manslaughter for an abortion he performed on October...