Word: politburos
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...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...
...member of the Politburo's powerful Standing Committee since 1958, Lin in recent years has become Red China's leading Mao-based military strategist. His treatise, "Long Live the Victory of People's War," which was published last year, evoked startled interest in both Communist and non-Communist camps. Its thesis: that the poor nations of the world will isolate and overthrow the rich nations, just as China's peasants isolated and overthrew China's cities...
...TIME, May 13). Quick-witted and confident, Peng was known to Westerners as Peking's "smiling mayor" and had risen to become first secretary of Peking's Municipal Communist Party Committee and a high-ranking member of both the national party's Central Committee and the Politburo. Then two months ago, Peng suddenly dropped from public view. Last week Peking radio finally broke its silence by announcing the appointment of Li Hsueh-feng, a 60-year-old party wheel horse, as Peking party boss, replacing Peng. Almost certainly, Peng would also be booted from the Central Committee...
...LEADERSHIP. Mao Tse-tung is in his 73rd year, and his health seems ever more precarious. The Politburo averages 66 years of age, the Central Committee more than 60. Says Columbia University Professor A. Doak Barnett, a leading China expert: "This means that one can say, with actuarial certainty, that before very long virtually the entire top-leadership group will disappear during a relatively brief period, with results that will be felt at every level of the country." The leadership's ideas are also aging. Practically all of the top men are first-stage revolutionaries who made the Long...
...Poet-Scientist Kuo Mojo (TIME, May 13). Latest victim of the "rectification campaign" aimed at restoring rigid Mao-think is Teng To, a sometime litterateur and secretary of the Peking municipal party organization. Also missing from public view and mention: Peking Mayor Peng Chen, 67, an upper-echelon Politburo member who was long regarded as a contender for Mao's chair when he dies. Peng's top adversary is Defense Minister Lin Piao, 57, who reappeared from a long absence along with Mao last week, and whose army newspaper, Chiehfang Chun Pao, has been leading the criticism...