Word: lin
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...contrast to the snow above, the fighting on the mountain was already having a profound political effect. Syria's President Hafez Assad, in Moscow last week on a six-day visit, got the kind of reception reserved for much more impor tant chiefs of government. At a Krem lin dinner for Assad, Soviet Party Leader Leonid Brezhnev promised the Syrian President unlimited amounts of Soviet planes, missiles and other armament to replace Syrian losses to Israel in the October war. The reason, Brezhnev explained, was that the Russians were not able to accept the status quo in the Middle...
...very least, there were strong indications last week that the war of words and ideas was building toward a climax. Wall posters in Shanghai, long a center of radical activity, promised that the campaign directed at Confucius and former Defense Minister Lin Piao would soon turn to specific attacks on individuals and organizations throughout China...
Unquestionably, the castigations of Peach Mountain were related to the anti-Confucius, anti-Lin Piao campaign that has been unfolding in China during recent months (TIME, Feb. 18). But it also raised a larger question that has puzzled China watchers since the movement began: Just who is in charge...
Many observers believe that a group of radicals in the Politburo, headed by No. 3 Man Wang Hung-wen, a leader of the radical cadres in Shanghai, and Mao's wife Chiang Ching, have been trying to use the Confucius-Lin campaign to gain leverage against Chou-possibly with the goal of determining who will eventually succeed the aging...
...many ways he is. And that late "bourgeois careerist, renegade and traitor" Lin Piao is far from being the only one to fall under his influence. As the mounting ideological attacks on the "four olds" (old thought, old culture, old customs and old habits) indicate, the traditional Confucian values have died hard in China and remain an obstacle to the success of Mao's revolution...