The Boston Globe, July 27th, 1991
In Beijing's Museum of Revolutionary History, on the east side of Tiananmen Square, there are several photographs in which one man, clearly important in the scene, is not identified. The man's appearance is so distinctive, however, that he is easily recognized as Lin Biao, the Chinese military leader whom Mao Zedong designated as his successor. Lin died mysteriously in 1971, apparently in a plane crash in Mongolia as he was fleeing to the Soviet Union after an abortive coup attempt. For 20 years, Lin has been a nonperson, unmentioned in histories and unidentified in photographs. Now, with litt...
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