In 1959 Mao had appointed a tubercular army marshall, Lin Piao, to take over the Defense ministry. Lin had been a brilliant strategist against the Japanese and the Nationalists and had a number of ...

Such clashes would severely test all the remarkable devices Mao and Defense Minister Lin Piao have developed in the last seven years to tighten their political grip on the military. Since Lin ...

Subtitled "The Chief Mandarin Asked For Rebellion". On the cultural revolution and the development of ultra-left thought in ...

The People’s Liberation Army, under the leadership of Mao’s new heir-apparent, Defense Minister Lin Piao, has played a leading role in the cultural revolution and has been held up for ...

Many China-watch ers think that fissures have developed in the ranks of both the P.L.A. and the Red Guards, reflecting the struggle for power between Mao and Defense Minister Lin Piao on the one ...

A purge of high-ranking Communist officials such as Peking Mayor Peng Zhen, the promotion of others such as Lin Piao to the number-two spot in the hierarchy of power behind Chairman Mao Tse-tung ...

mountains in Szechwan province as a refuge for Chairman Mao Tse-tung and his deputy Lin Piao in the event of an attack. But U.S. sources have been told that underground headquarters have been dug ...