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Being named as a potential heir apparent to Mao is a parlous honor in China today. That was the position held by the late, disgraced Lin Piao, who, according to Chou, promoted the heresy of "the naming of only one successor." Chou confirmed publicly for the first time the story of the former Defense Minister's death last year in a plane crash in Mongolia (TIME, Nov. 22) and threw in some previously undisclosed details. As Chou told it, Lin had plotted to assassinate Mao and seize power in 1971, after he came under criticism in the party...
Just before China's Defense Minister, Lin Piao, staged an abortive coup d'etat last fall, Chairman Mao Tse-tung made a month-long tour of the provinces, informally telling party leaders about his continuing political troubles with his subordinates and his clashes with Heir Apparent Lin. A transcript of Mao's rambling remarks, circulated by Peking's Central Committee last spring, was smuggled to Taiwan, where it was released last week. Excerpts...
...ARMY. Lin Piao says that the People's Liberation Army was created and led by Mao, but is commanded by Lin. I say that what has been created [by the people] cannot be commanded by one person-even...
...SECRETARIES AND SUBORDINATES. I do not approve of having one's own wife working as office manager of her husband's work unit. In Lin Piao's place, Yeh Chun [Lin's wife] is the office manager. His subordinates have to go through her to consult with him on any question. [Yeh and the subordinates have since been purged.] To do any real work you have to rely on yourself: move your own hands, see with your own eyes, mark documents in your own handwriting. Do not rely on secretaries! Do not let secretaries have...
...when Mao launched the convulsive Cultural Revolution in an effort to shake out the "revisionists" and strengthen his own slipping grip on the party machinery. The whole shebang very nearly came apart last September when an abortive barracks coup by his own Defense Minister and heir apparent, Lin Piao, forced Mao to ground the entire Chinese air force for weeks, and subsequently to cashier several Politburo members and carry out a sweeping purge of top-rank military...