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...sign of relief from the political convulsions that gripped the nation. If anything, the purge was likely to grow more intensive. A new list of the top leaders announced by Radio Peking signaled the downfall of some, the rise of others. The highest riser: Defense Minister Lin Piao...
Fittingly, Lin Piao's anointment as heir apparent to aging (72) Chairman Mao came at a vast pep rally for the cultural revolution. Foreign diplomats and journalists were not permitted to attend, but they could watch on television as 1,000,000 demonstrators carrying Red banners and pictures of Mao marched past Peking's Gate of Heavenly Peace. There, in the words of the official news agency, stood Lin, "shoulder to shoulder" with Mao, smiling and waving to the crowd...
...China "to strike down all bourgeois royalists, oppose all actions to suppress the revolution, and strike down all monsters and demons." Following Lin to the rostrum, Premier Chou Enlai, who retained his No. 3 position in the hierarchy, declared: "We must respond to the call of Comrade Lin Piao to apply Chairman Mao's works in a living...
Ousted Executioner. The army's elevated role has moved Defense Minister Lin Piao, 59, into favored position to succeed the 72-year-old Mao. Lin's position was buttressed by last week's announcement that Marshal Lo Juiching, chief of the army general staff and leader of the massive executions in the mid-1950s (TIME cover, March 5, 1956), had been replaced by a Lin protégé and thus presumably purged. Lo made the mistake of arguing that the army should stay out of politics...
...China watchers are coming to believe that the reported purges reflect a far wider struggle to succeed ailing Mao Tse-tung. The faction currently in the ascendancy seems to be using its opportunity to junk allies of the losers, but among the gainers almost certainly is Defense Minister Lin Piao. Travelers recently returning to Hong Kong from China report having seen posters declaring "Long Live Chairman Mao! Long Live Lin Piao...