Lin Piao

British

/ ˈlɪn ˈpjaʊ /

noun

1908–71, Chinese Communist general and statesman. He became minister of defence (1959) and second in rank to Mao Tse-tung (1966). He fell from grace and is reported to have died in an air crash while attempting to flee to the Soviet Union

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There has also been a continuing editorial onslaught on the surviving supporters of Lin Piao, Mao's disgraced former heir, who was killed in a plane crash in Mongolia in 1971.

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Chou also remained in the background after 1969, when Lin Piao was moving to enlarge his power.

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Assumed to be Acting Defense Minister since the fall of Lin Piao.

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Mao's version of the downfall of Lin Piao to her admiration for Garbo and Chaplin.

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Peking has never publicly revealed the fate of former Defense Minister Lin Piao, Mao's heir apparent, who mysteriously disappeared last summer.

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