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There was little evidence against the Communist jungle-fighter, Piao, except that he was occasionally noisy and sometimes insubordinate, that he once lit a fire when his commanding officer told him not to and that, in the early days of liberation from the Japanese, he had been befriended by Chinese Nationalists. Nevertheless, the rumor spread that Piao was a spy. His trial took place in the middle of the Malayan jungle...
...guilty?" asked the prosecutor. "No," said Piao, whose hands were tied behind his back...
...Communist General Lin Piao, Mao's No. 1 man, came to address the group. "All you comrades came here for the Revolution, right...
...entail higher taxes and greater economy in state industries. Capital for the operation: the people's savings and the workers' sweat. Coinciding with Kao's appointment was a power-ingathering order abolishing six regional government and military administrations (including Kao's own at Mukden, Lin Piao's at Hankow) in favor of centralization. China was set to get its long overdue industrialization the hard way, but so far there is nothing to show that Kao Kang's shuffling dragon is clothed in anything more than paper...
Washington intelligence officers think that the new Chinese offensive is commanded by Liu Po-cheng, wily leader of Red China's Second Field Army and, until recently, military boss of southwest China. Liu succeeds Lin Piao, whose Fourth Field Army has been severely mauled in the Korean fighting. (Other U.S. sources in Tokyo believe that Lin is still somewhere in the Red high command...