Word: piao
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Foreign diplomats reported yesterday that Chairman Mao Tse-Tung and Premier Chou En-lai have successfully crushed a plot to oust them from power in China led by Defense Minister Lin Piao...
...reports said that when the plot was exposed, Lin Piao and some of the higher military conspirators tried to escape to the Soviet Union in an air force plane which crashed in the Mongolian Republic...
Vogel said yesterday that Lin Piao's death will cause "the decline of the army's role in political life." Vogel added that the Chinese withheld the facts of Lin Piao's death from the world as "a precaution" against "the discontent and unrest" which any transition of this importance might lead...
...Cultural Revolution. For nearly two years she was out of the limelight. But the current issue of the English-language propaganda magazine China Pictorial features eleven color photographs reportedly taken by the multifaceted Mme. Mao. One was an unusual portrait of Mao's long-missing heir apparent, Lin Piao. Lin, who was last seen in June, was pictured reading the Chairman's Little Red Book-but without the army cap that he almost always wears to hide his balding head...
...weight is now given to early speculation that the crisis had been set off by the death or illness of Mao, though he is 77 and a reputed sufferer from Parkinson's disease. Nor do Sinologists believe that his tuberculous heir apparent, Defense Minister and Vice Chairman Lin Piao, 65, has died. Mao, it is true, has not been seen in public since August, and Lin was last seen in June. But Chinese diplomats insist that the top two men in the party hierarchy are in reasonably good health...