Word: piao
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Chien-ying, 74, vice chairman of the party's Military Affairs Commission. Assumed to be Acting Defense Minister since the fall of Lin Piao. Yeh is a real power behind the throne because the continued blessing of the military may be crucial to the success of Chou's American initiatives. A representative to the U.S.-sponsored Nationalist-Communist peace negotiations in 1946-47, he was at Chou's side during the Kissinger visits and will be again during the Nixon summit. He is one of ten remaining full members of the Politburo...
...rudely shouldered out of China's presidency by his own protege, Liu Shao-chi, who championed work incentives and other "revisionist" economic innovations that were anathema to Mao. Isolated in the party chairmanship, Mao looked for a means of regaining power-and found the army. With Lin Piao, the army chief, he planned the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution, which would use the exuberance of the youthful, radical Red Guards to shake up the party-and shake out Liu and his group...
Since then his role in the country's affairs has grown even more decisive. The reason is the power struggle that came to a climax last September in a violent purge of hundreds of officials allied with Defense Minister Lin Piao, Mao's designated successor as party chairman and the No. 2 man in the hierarchy...
...fell, but control of the party still eluded Mao's grasp. It passed instead to Lin Piao's now highly politicized army, which eagerly stepped in to take charge of the country when Red Guard rampages began to threaten total chaos...
...days' State Department tour of the United States studying racism would he be content, say, with seeing only Roy Wilkins and not talking to Huey Newton and Angela Davis? He assumes that Mao is right? Has he talked to any of the followers of Lin Piao or Liu Shao Chi? Was there comradely debate? Did he ask to read their documents? Yet he has seen the truth and the light...