Word: lin
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...some sensational exposes. Notably, they brought to light the letter written by Mao Tse-tung to his wife in the midst of the Cultural Revolution in which Mao complained about the personality cult that was being built around him and sharply criticized his then heir-apparent, Defense Minister Lin Piao...
...Central Committee circular of last summer, which found its way out of China only recently, reports on production declines in key industrial areas, as well as popular disaffection with Mao's latest ideological movement, the campaign to discredit Confucius and through remote guilt by association, former Defense Minister Lin Piao...
...this will be hidden during Kissinger's four-day stay. But the issues are too important to remain under wraps for long. Key positions in the military hierarchy, including the jobs of Defense Minister and Chief of Staff, have been vacant since Mao's onetime heir-apparent, Lin Piao, allegedly attempted to assassinate the Chairman in 1971. Apparently the party and the army have been unable to agree on suitable candidates for these very powerful posts. That alone spells serious trouble for the leadership's efforts to pull the country together in preparation for the time when...
...possible that a better cast could have read more dramatic tension between the lines. The one glimmer of hope in that direction comes from an outstanding job by Lin Kosy as a fantasy-spinning child. She takes a potentially pedestrian part and makes it fly, in a technically superb performance. Her fifteen-minute sequence is almost worth seeing for its own sake. But the remainder of the cast is undistinguished. Joanna Temple accentuates the already brittle, shrill tenor of Toni's role. Sheila Greene as Nina does little to pry her part loose from its rather uninspired box. Only Joan...
...campaign against Confucius and Lin Piao, which, according to People's Daily was "personally launched" by Mao Tse-tung, did more than just lower the status of the army. Although apparently intended by Mao to combat ideological backsliding, the campaign quickly became tangled in the question of succession. Chiang Ching and her radical cohorts, who had faded from view since their days of pre-eminence during the Cultural Revolution, seized on the campaign to enhance their own political positions. They used the confusing but time-honored Chinese tradition of attacking the living by drawing carefully worded analogies...