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...country where Mao once said that "the gun must never be allowed to command the party," the army has, in fact, taken almost complete control. China watchers in Hong Kong reckon Huang now to be the second most powerful military man in China, after Defense Minister Lin Piao, who is Mao's heir apparent...
...army's rise to power is largely a result of the keen ambition of Lin Piao. The longtime defense chief knows full well that his chances of succeeding Mao some day depend on close ties with the army commanders in the provinces. It became Huang's task, when Lin promoted him to Chief of Staff 15 months ago, to strengthen those ties. Along the way, Huang has been making some ties of his own. To sidestep the aging marshals in the Peking Pentagon known as the Military Affairs Commission, Huang set up a small administrative office, from which...
...common knowledge that alcohol, in moderation, has therapeutic effects-as a releaser of emotional tensions, for instance, and as a mild sedative. Drink also serves society through the simple but significant camaraderie of the cup. In a recent experiment, Dr. Ching-piao Chien, a senior psychiatrist at Boston State Hospital, tested this function of alcohol on geriatric patients. Chien staged his study in the hospital sunroom, which had been converted for the experiment into a pub. His subjects were 40 male inmates (average age 73) suffering from depression or mental deterioration stemming from senility...
...China is emerging from its internal preoccupations−with a vengeance. Mao last week issued a rare personal statement calling for a worldwide "revolutionary struggle against U.S. imperialism and its lackeys." Flanked by his heir apparent, Lin Piao, and by Cambodia's deposed Chief of State, Prince Norodom Sihanouk, the Chairman appeared on the red-lacquered rostrum in Peking's Tienanmen Square during a mass rally protesting the U.S. role in Indochina. His statement, which was read to the throng by Lin, claimed that the U.S. had been reduced to "utter chaos at home and extreme isolation abroad...
...STAR, after burning brightly for 15 years, finally burst like a supernova in the turbulence of the Cultural Revolution. As events began to heat up in mid 1966, Lin Piao called T'ao to Peking. There, as Lin's trusted comrade from the Fourth Field Army, T'ao became the number four man in China...