Word: lin
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Halperin at the Brookings Institution, the scholars who have consulted with the Government's China watchers have become nearly unanimous in depicting China as a relatively defensive, inward-looking, less-than-bellicose land. Says Halperin: "There was an enormous change from the time McNamara and Rusk were quoting Lin Piao as the new Mein Kampf to the time Nixon and Kissinger came...
...tactical airlift wing at Ching Chuan Kang, made up of about 4,500 men and four airlift squadrons with a total authorized capacity of 64 Hercules C-130 aircraft, used to transport troops, medical evacuees and heavy equipment. There are also about 1,300 men headquartered at Shu Lin Kou Air Station and a detachment of two F-4 Phantoms at Tainan. Nuclear weapons locations are, of course, among the most highly classified secrets, but it is almost certain that there are none on Taiwan...
...spot in the party hierarchy by 1967, when the Red Guard rampages reached their peak. ∙ Four years and several purges later, the Politburo's key committee has been whittled down to just three men: Mao Tse-tung, who heads the party; Defense Minister Lin Piao, No. 2 in the party and Mao's designated heir; and Premier Chou. Because China's presidency is vacant-no successor has been named for Liu Shao-chi, angrily deposed by Mao as a "revisionist" in 1967-Chou is the top man in the Chinese government, and the man with whom...
Pleasing Prospect. It has not been lost on Defense Minister Lin Piao and the other moderates who run China these days that the Chinese economy moves ahead only when Maoism, with its disruptive emphasis on "struggle" and its relative indifference to rates of production, is throttled. Last year China harvested a record 240 million tons of grain; many more such crops will be needed if Peking is ever to feed its population (which is still growing at 2% a year) and industrialize as well. Thus the prospect is for an extended pause in the effort to remake the Chinese mind...
...more militant prisoners carried on endless legal colloquies and insisted upon "noncooperation with the system," which meant rejecting food, water, blankets and tents. It also meant refusing to participate in the lengthy legal processing that began in the late afternoon. One of the hard-core-dubbed "Lin Piaoists" by someone within the compound -seemed a bit subdued when he realized what he had let himself in for. "If I don't sign the paper and be fingerprinted," he muttered, "I could be in here forever." A girl roamed through the crowded area crying, "New York region, where...