Word: yao
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...Yao Ming...
...much for the public account. Enter Yao Ming-Le, the mysterious author of this book's version of events. Drawing on an impressive familiarity with the intimate workings of China's armed forces and security services, Yao offers a tale of conspiracy and bungled planning: Lin never died in the plane crash in Mongolia. He and his wife were murdered on Mao's orders. The executions took place, in Yao's version, after a dinner of sea cucumbers and tiger's tendons at a secret military hideout reserved for China's top leaders outside...
...very engrossing, but is it true? The reader is unfortunately told nothing about the pseudonymous Yao except that he is "a citizen of the People's Republic of China." Much of his account, moreover, rests on purported access to the memoirs of an official, top-secret investigator of the real events, who is also conveniently dead. The photographs in the book, taken from the official, secret Chinese investigation, are certainly authentic, but copies of them are also probably in the hands of half a dozen of the world's intelligence organizations...
Even the most senior foreign correspondents in Peking were hard pressed to recall any incident to match it. Emerging from two days of discussions with British diplomats last week over the future status of Hong Kong, Chinese Negotiator Yao Guang was besieged so vigorously by reporters from Hong Kong that he was almost knocked to the ground. The startled Yao retreated to the safety of a staircase. "All I can say," he volunteered, "is that the talks are useful and constructive, and we will resume our talks on the 25th of July." With that, the flabbergasted Yao fought...
...onetime movie starlet, Jiang beguiled Mao sufficiently to become his fourth wife and, from 1966 to 1976, the remorseless doyenne of the Cultural Revolution. During that purge, the Gang of Four (Jiang; Zhang; Wang Hongwen, 48, now serving a life sentence; and Yao Jiang in court Wenyuan, 51, serving 20 years) was responsible for some 35,000 deaths. They persecuted former Head of State Liu Shaoqi and vilified China's current leader, Deng Xiaoping, 78. Following the group's 1976 arrest one month after Mao's death, Jiang was reviled as a "white-boned demon," a perfidious...