Word: lin
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...since 1966, when Mao launched the convulsive Cultural Revolution in an effort to shake out the "revisionists" and strengthen his own slipping grip on the party machinery. The whole shebang very nearly came apart last September when an abortive barracks coup by his own Defense Minister and heir apparent, Lin Piao, forced Mao to ground the entire Chinese air force for weeks, and subsequently to cashier several Politburo members and carry out a sweeping purge of top-rank military...
...Chou En-lai are trying to put China's fractured leadership back together. Late last month, in an effort to convince the outside world that harmony had returned to Peking, Chinese officials began speaking openly for the first time of the events of last fall, confirming many details-Lin's attempts on Mao's life, his death in an air crash in Mongolia while trying to flee-that had filtered out of China long ago (TIME...
Peking has never publicly revealed the fate of former Defense Minister Lin Piao, Mao's heir apparent, who mysteriously disappeared last summer. Party officials were privately told that Lin was killed aboard an aircraft that crashed in Mongolia in September. Now a fictionalized version of his possible fate seems to have been spelled out in the revolutionary opera On the Docks, as performed by a troupe of Peking opera players in Shanghai...
...warehousekeeper the main villain; he has been upgraded to a traffic-control man, and is an active saboteur. At the end he tries to sneak aboard a "foreign freighter" from "northern Europe" but is captured after a fight. This would change a major detail in the story of Lin's attempted defection. The opera says, in effect, that he was intercepted trying to board the aircraft that crashed in Mongolia, and was arrested after a bloody battle at Peking airport...
...party journal Red Flag ran the full libretto of the opera, along with a commentary noting that the traffice-control man's crime was maintaining "illicit relations with foreign countries"-precisely the charge that had been made repeatedly against Lin Piao...