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Under The Gun. There was a certain inevitability to the military's new power. During the uncultured excesses of the Cultural Revolution, Red Guards encouraged by Chairman Mao Tse-tung smashed much of the country's administrative machinery. In its place, regional power centers appeared. Of the 29 Revolutionary Committees that administer China today, 20 are controlled by army officers and the balance are run by men known to sympathize with the army's aims. The party now has become all but subordinate to the army, in clear contradiction of the Maoist dictum: "The party commands...
...army's influence was most apparent in the newly elected Central Committee: of its 170 members, 105 are either soldiers or civilians with solid military backgrounds. Its meeting in Peking last week to elect a new Politburo and Standing Committee produced several surprises. Mao was, of course, re-elected chairman, and newly anointed Successor Lin Piao was chosen as the only vice chairman. However, Premier Chou Enlai, who had long clung to his ranking as third in the power hierarchy, was listed with two others as simply a member of the Standing Committee. China watchers saw this...
Distaff Power. The Politburo selections are equally intriguing. Besides the five Standing Committee members, 16 ordinary members were named-and nine were from the military. Among other Politburocrats were Chiang Ching and Yeh Chun, the wives of Mao and Lin, five holdovers from the previous Politburo, and Yao Wenyuan, rumored to be Mao...
When some move up, others must move down. Three of Chou's closest associates were dropped, among them Foreign Minister Chen Yi. All three had come under heavy Red Guard fire over the past three years, and analysts believe that Mao, despite Chou's attempts to protect them, decided that they were dispensable. In general, the Politburo now seems divided into three main groups: the Mao-Lin section (twelve members), which retains control; the People's Liberation Army segment (six members), which mistrusts Lin because he espoused the extremism and instability of the Cultural Revolution...
HONG KONG--The Peking, People's Daily reported that Red China's barbers recite Mao Tse-tung's thoughts and slogans without stop from the first to the last snip of their shears...