Word: piao
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...least one troublous area: Red China and Formosa. His speech, delivered in Manhattan at the twelfth annual conference of the Far East-America Council of Commerce and Industry, came against the background of Red China's saber-rattling tenth anniversary fete fortnight ago, when Communist Defense Minister Lin Piao, with Khrushchev on hand, condemned the U.S., proclaimed that nobody would be permitted to interfere in Peking's "liberation" of Formosa...
Most important casualty of the purge was Defense Minister Peng Teh-huai, 58, a tough-minded, nearly illiterate soldier's soldier who fought United Nations forces to a standstill in Korea. Peng's replacement: Marshal Lin Piao, 51, a graduate of Chiang Kai-shek's Whampoa Military Academy and a Communist since 1927. Gaunt, balding, intelligent, Lin Piao commanded the Red forces that cut to pieces the best U.S.-trained Nationalist divisions in Manchuria in the late '405, was Peking's first choice to command Chinese "volunteers" in Korea, but was soon hospitalized-whether from...
After he got Chou's cables, Hammarskjold flew to Stockholm to join the Swedish Academy of Letters (replacing his late father, Hjalmar Hammarskjold, Sweden's World War I Premier). While there, he lunched with Keng Piao, Red China's ambassador in Stockholm, to make practical arrangements for the trip and perhaps to set up a deal with Keng Piao's master. He is scheduled to return to the U.N. briefly this week, to leave shortly after Christmas for the 12,000-mile flight to Peking's marble halls and flinty masters...
...Were you sent into the jungle by an agent of the Chinese Nationalists?" "No," said Piao...
That was all there was to the trial. The verdict: guilty. Sentence: death by strangulation, to be carried out on the spot. A length of rattan fiber was wrapped around Piao's neck; two comrades seized hold of each end of it and pulled hard. After a while, Piao was dead...