Word: lin
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Being named as a potential heir apparent to Mao is a parlous honor in China today. That was the position held by the late, disgraced Lin Piao, who, according to Chou, promoted the heresy of "the naming of only one successor." Chou confirmed publicly for the first time the story of the former Defense Minister's death last year in a plane crash in Mongolia (TIME, Nov. 22) and threw in some previously undisclosed details. As Chou told it, Lin had plotted to assassinate Mao and seize power in 1971, after he came under criticism in the party...
Secret Documents. The secret order was reported to the party leadership and specifically denied by Lin's wife when she was asked about it. That "showed he was up to something," said Chou, "but at the time we were not sure how big the scheme was." So all airplanes in the country were ordered grounded, and Lin "fled in great haste, fearing that he might be caught if he fled too late. Actually, we did not at all think of arresting him. We only wished to know what he wanted that plane...
...Lin and a few fellow conspirators took off in the Trident, but without the navigator and radio operator, who refused to disobey the order grounding all aircraft. Over Outer Mongolia, the plane ran low on fuel; and the pilot, unable to locate a runway, tried a forced landing. The plane caught fire; and the nine persons aboard were burned to death, though "it was still possible to identify them," said Chou. Another group of conspirators took off from the Peking suburbs at roughly the same time in a helicopter, the Premier revealed, but they were forced down...
Eventually, history judges a country as much by its cuisine as by its politics. As Lin Yutang rhetorically inquired: "What is patriotism but the love of the good things we ate in our childhood...
...SECRETARIES AND SUBORDINATES. I do not approve of having one's own wife working as office manager of her husband's work unit. In Lin Piao's place, Yeh Chun [Lin's wife] is the office manager. His subordinates have to go through her to consult with him on any question. [Yeh and the subordinates have since been purged.] To do any real work you have to rely on yourself: move your own hands, see with your own eyes, mark documents in your own handwriting. Do not rely on secretaries! Do not let secretaries have...