Word: piao
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Internal struggles for power in China during the '60s and '70s have resulted in the "equivalent of three Watergates," Fairbank said, referring to the fall of Liu Shao-chi (1967), Lin Piao (1971), and the so-called Gang of Four...
...appointments already made by party leaders. More time was needed to elect delegates to the congress, said Hua, because of relentless "interference and sabotage" by followers of the Gang of Four, headed by Mao's widow Chiang Ch'ing and the Antiparty Clique of the late Defense Minister Lin Piao...
Wang has also been credited with bringing down Defense Minister Lin Piao in 1971. According to the official Chinese version, Lin had been caught plotting against Mao and was accidentally killed in a plane crash over Mongolia, probably while fleeing to the Soviet Union; in fact, Western specialists have suspected the "crash" was the result of sabotage - Wang's work, in short...
...Piao's] men drew up a sketch map of our residences and were going to attack and bomb them and finish us off all at once." More pointedly, she said that during the time Lin Piao's men controlled their residence he arranged for toxic substances to be added gradually to the meals consumed by Chairman Mao and her. They became ill, and she remained ill, especially neurologically, during most of 1969. Only recently had she recovered, she added...
Chiang Ch'ing then went on to say, "Comrades like the Premier and myself were on the side of Chairman Mao. They [Lin Piao's Ultra-Left] set fires everywhere, and we acted like a fire brigade. [In 1971] Chairman Mao continually advised the Premier on how to deal with such clashes, but Mao's ideas were not easily carried out. During the peak of the crisis she flew to the side of the Premier several times to help "cool things down." Constant threats, divisiveness among the people, and conspiratorial actions made it almost impossible for them...