Word: piao
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...speculates that Lin Piao fell from favor because he was in sympathy with the U.S.S.R. Lin Piao was the acknowledged leader of the Left forces who unleashed the Cultural Revolution. Before him there was Liu Chao Shi who was denounced because he was in sympathy with the Soviet Union. But Liu was the acknowledged leader of the right-wing forces. Never mind the contradiction. After all, Mao Tse Tung believes in contradiction, if simple logic does not. But how could one ever know? Was there open debate? Was there party democracy? Has he read Lin's documents...
...those tumultuous years has been assiduously repaired. The lovely kilometer-square campus of spacious groves, fields and ponds is quiet, bucolic and rather sleepy. Appropriate to the gentle pastoral setting, it was the radical student faction which lost out in 1967. The army of Gen. Huang Yung-sheng, Lin Piao's closest associate, intervened province wide on the side of law-and-order and Party control...
...Piao, war hero, defense minister and the man whom Mao Tse-tung personally anointed as China's future leader only 2½ years ago, is politically finished and very possibly dead as well...
From sources inside China and probably fairly high in the Communist Party hierarchy, Western experts have learned that the top men in Peking-perhaps including Chou En-lai himself-have been convening secret meetings of party officials to relate the "sins" of Lin Piao. One such meeting of 200 Communist leaders was held in Canton three weeks ago. Lin's sins are said to include no fewer than three attempts on Mao's life over an 18-month period...
...dismissed with a laugh the rumor that Lin Piao had been killed in a plane crash while attempting to flee after an abortive coup. "It was intended to give a feeling of insecurity and instability to influence the U. N. vote," he said in an interview before the lecture...