Word: piao
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...rudely shouldered out of China's presidency by his own protege, Liu Shao-chi, who championed work incentives and other "revisionist" economic innovations that were anathema to Mao. Isolated in the party chairmanship, Mao looked for a means of regaining power-and found the army. With Lin Piao, the army chief, he planned the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution, which would use the exuberance of the youthful, radical Red Guards to shake up the party-and shake out Liu and his group...
Since then his role in the country's affairs has grown even more decisive. The reason is the power struggle that came to a climax last September in a violent purge of hundreds of officials allied with Defense Minister Lin Piao, Mao's designated successor as party chairman and the No. 2 man in the hierarchy...
...days' State Department tour of the United States studying racism would he be content, say, with seeing only Roy Wilkins and not talking to Huey Newton and Angela Davis? He assumes that Mao is right? Has he talked to any of the followers of Lin Piao or Liu Shao Chi? Was there comradely debate? Did he ask to read their documents? Yet he has seen the truth and the light...
...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...