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Part of the problem was certainly the chaos caused by the campaign to criticize Confucius and Lin Piao-and by sly indirection, Chou En-lai-that peaked last year. Mass meetings, rallies and indoctrination sessions took workers away from production. According to the secret documents, workers made wage demands under the cloak of political grievances, and a number of cadres left their jobs to avoid getting involved...
...Chien-ying, 76, was appointed Defense Minister, a post that had been vacant since 1971, when Lin Piao died in a plane crash after allegedly trying to assassinate Party Chairman...
...some sensational exposes. Notably, they brought to light the letter written by Mao Tse-tung to his wife in the midst of the Cultural Revolution in which Mao complained about the personality cult that was being built around him and sharply criticized his then heir-apparent, Defense Minister Lin Piao...
...Committee circular of last summer, which found its way out of China only recently, reports on production declines in key industrial areas, as well as popular disaffection with Mao's latest ideological movement, the campaign to discredit Confucius and through remote guilt by association, former Defense Minister Lin Piao...
...will be hidden during Kissinger's four-day stay. But the issues are too important to remain under wraps for long. Key positions in the military hierarchy, including the jobs of Defense Minister and Chief of Staff, have been vacant since Mao's onetime heir-apparent, Lin Piao, allegedly attempted to assassinate the Chairman in 1971. Apparently the party and the army have been unable to agree on suitable candidates for these very powerful posts. That alone spells serious trouble for the leadership's efforts to pull the country together in preparation for the time when...