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Peking has never publicly revealed the fate of former Defense Minister Lin Piao, Mao's heir apparent, who mysteriously disappeared last summer. Party officials were privately told that Lin was killed aboard an aircraft that crashed in Mongolia in September. Now a fictionalized version of his possible fate seems to have been spelled out in the revolutionary opera On the Docks, as performed by a troupe of Peking opera players in Shanghai...
...party journal Red Flag ran the full libretto of the opera, along with a commentary noting that the traffice-control man's crime was maintaining "illicit relations with foreign countries"-precisely the charge that had been made repeatedly against Lin Piao...
...President), who covered China for six years as a TIME-LIFE correspondent and impressed his colleagues at the first press luncheon by asking a waitress in Mandarin to bring him green tea. But the Chinese proved courteously unenlightening to everyone. "A question about what happened to Deputy Premier Lin Piao," wrote Peter Lisagor of the Chicago Daily News, "produces a polite reminder to eat your spinach...
...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...
...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...