Word: ye
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Oldest of the six-man group is Marshal Ye Jianying, 86. From the Communist uprising in Canton in 1927 to the coup against the Gang of Four in 1976, Ye was central. He now carries no official title, is ailing, will almost surely be replaced soon. He too bears wounds. His son, an aviator, was forced to stoop labor during the Terror. Overworked, exhausted, beaten, the son one night put his hand into the gears of a threshing machine; the hand was mangled. That son will never fly again. So Ye does not forget...
There is as yet no authentic story of the night of the coup and there may never be. Ye Jianying and Li Xiannian, both old marshals, led the coup. But I rest my knowledge only on the sum phrases I squeezed out of the deputy chief of staff of the army at the time?General Wu Xiuquan, now retired and old. "We controlled the garrison," he said. "We moved into Zhongnanhai (the imperial quarters). No bloodshed, no resistance. We arrested the four, one by one, in their homes." The people of China had had enough of the madness and violence...
...Biao was not merely China's Defense Minister, he was Mao's officially designated political heir. But in mid-September 1971, Lin suddenly disappeared. Peking first ignored the matter publicly, later claiming that Lin, his wife Ye Qun and his son Lin Liguo had died in an airplane crash in the Mongolian People's Republic. They had, the Chinese asserted, been fleeing to the Soviet Union when their British-built Trident ran out of fuel...
...Seek and ye shall find...
...DISAPPOINTING that, despite the coziness, many actors need a microphone to be heard One of the few who do not need help is Sam Scalamoni. When he first appears in the back of the dark theater singing "Prepare Ye the Way of the Lord" and sporting a multi-colored tailcoat, Scalamont fills the house by himself. Scalamont, cast as both John the Bapost and Judas, nandies madness subtly the switch from Christ's right-hand man to His betrayer, gradually separating himself from the other joyful, rag-clad actors. He easily outshines James Weatherstone, who is uninspiring as Jesus...