Word: liu
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...mood forced any change in the top leadership. At 76, Mao remains China's unquestioned ruler. Last month he was given the title "Supreme Commander of the Whole Nation and the Whole Army," and a new constitution will soon name him head of state, the title held by Liu Shao-chi until he was purged in 1966 as a Soviet-style revisionist. But beneath Mao and his heir apparent, Defense Minister Lin Piao, 63, China's leadership is rapidly changing. At almost every level of administration, the radicals who were riding high during the Cultural Revolution are losing...