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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Foreign diplomats reported yesterday that Chairman Mao Tse-Tung and Premier Chou En-lai have successfully crushed a plot to oust them from power in China led by Defense Minister Lin Piao...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Plot to Unseat Mao Foiled as Lin Piao Dies in Air Crash | 11/10/1971 | See Source »

...Cultural Revolution. For nearly two years she was out of the limelight. But the current issue of the English-language propaganda magazine China Pictorial features eleven color photographs reportedly taken by the multifaceted Mme. Mao. One was an unusual portrait of Mao's long-missing heir apparent, Lin Piao. Lin, who was last seen in June, was pictured reading the Chairman's Little Red Book-but without the army cap that he almost always wears to hide his balding head...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Alive and Well in Peking | 10/18/1971 | See Source »

Other signs point to Nixon's reluctance to hand over Taiwan, Dr. Paul Lin of McGill University, Canadian citizen who lived in China from 1949-64 and spent five months there in 1970 notes that America is still building up B-52 bases on Taiwan. In addition Dr. Lin stresses that the recent Japanese-American agreement returning Quemoy-Matsu to the Japanese escalates China's encirclement. The agreement returns Quemoy-Matsu to the Japanese fully armed with American arms and personnel. On the other hand, Nixon might well have calculated the treaty as a bone thrown to the Japanese...

Author: By Tom Crane, | Title: Nixon's Trip: The China Puzzle | 10/15/1971 | See Source »

...Little weight is now given to early speculation that the crisis had been set off by the death or illness of Mao, though he is 77 and a reputed sufferer from Parkinson's disease. Nor do Sinologists believe that his tuberculous heir apparent, Defense Minister and Vice Chairman Lin Piao, 65, has died. Mao, it is true, has not been seen in public since August, and Lin was last seen in June. But Chinese diplomats insist that the top two men in the party hierarchy are in reasonably good health...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The World: More Pieces in the Chinese Puzzle | 10/11/1971 | See Source »

Premier Chou Enlai, 73, leader of the moderate forces, is believed to have a powerful ally in Army Chief of Staff Huang Yung-sheng, 66, who has closely cooperated with Chou in restoring order during the post-Cultural Revolution "reconstruction." Huang may now aspire to Lin's job of Defense Minister...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The World: China: Signs of Internal Strife | 10/4/1971 | See Source »

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