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...tung is still his nation's leader and a vigorous one at that. - Mao's army is the chosen vehicle of a sweeping change he has decided to impose on his 750 million people. - Mao's anointed heir and chief instrument, Defense Minister Lin Piao,*59, has emerged as the redeemer of the revolution...
...rose to power over these bodies were all outsiders to the central party organization: Tao Chu, 60, fanatical head of the Central-South regional bureau, who assumed control of the propaganda apparatus; Chen Pota, 62, Mao's longtime ghostwriter, who now bosses the Red Guards; Lin Piao himself, who, though a Politburo member since 1950, has never been deeply involved in the party machinery...
Birth of a Tiger Cat. The rise of Lin Piao to the penultimate rung on the Peking ladder of power is itself the story of the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution. No one in his native Hupeh province would have expected him to become a guerrilla leader 19 years after he was born in Twisting Dragon Hill, the son of a felt-factory owner. In Manchu China, boys would be soldiers: off to Canton's Whampoa Military Academy went Lin, where he studied under Chiang Kaishek, in the company of such revolutionary notables as Chou...
...Whampoa, he changed his name from Yu-Yung (Fostering Demeanor) to Piao (Tiger Cat). With that, he sprang into the field, and by the late 1920s, he was a regimental commander for the puritanical Communist General Chu Teh, whose political officer was a plump, moonfaced youngster named Chen Yi, now Peking's Foreign Minister. Many of Chu's 40,000 troops were armed with bows and arrows, and his artillery consisted of hollow logs loaded with rocks and scrap metal. The troopers sang Chinese versions of Dixie and raided Nationalist camps on feast days in order...
...Dragon"), Chen Yi and Peng Teh-huai-had captured all of China, and the grand guerrilla mystique of Mao had proved victorious over the enemy, which outnumbered the Reds 2 to 1. Then, like some ghostly hero whose legends demand his presence only in times of great crisis, Lin Piao dropped from prominence...