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...Piao, war hero, defense minister and the man whom Mao Tse-tung personally anointed as China's future leader only 2½ years ago, is politically finished and very possibly dead as well...
From sources inside China and probably fairly high in the Communist Party hierarchy, Western experts have learned that the top men in Peking-perhaps including Chou En-lai himself-have been convening secret meetings of party officials to relate the "sins" of Lin Piao. One such meeting of 200 Communist leaders was held in Canton three weeks ago. Lin's sins are said to include no fewer than three attempts on Mao's life over an 18-month period...
...dismissed with a laugh the rumor that Lin Piao had been killed in a plane crash while attempting to flee after an abortive coup. "It was intended to give a feeling of insecurity and instability to influence the U. N. vote," he said in an interview before the lecture...
...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...