Word: schoenman
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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SOMEWHERE in the back of their minds, many students have drawn on an image of the ideal revolutionary--a cold, analytical man who can nevertheless shift gears to deliver spellbinding orations. Ralph Schoenman fits that picture...
...Schoenman, Bertrand Russell's aide and organizer of the tribunal which "tried" the United States for war crimes in Vietnam--can publicly denounce "U.S. imperialism" or "corporate capitalism" with appropriate emotion...
...private conversations, Schoenman presents another face. He modulates his voice carefully, ticking off the effects of U.S. anti-personnel weapons in a professorial, almost bored tone: "the guava bomb ... steel slivers, each one kills at 150 yards. The fields are pockmarked." Speaking from a profile position, Schoenman attempts to mesmerize the listener. He turns his hands over gracefully, or twists his head slightly to emphasize a point. Only furtive glances from his dark eyes to assess the impression he is making jar the effect...
Divorced. Ralph Schoenman, 32, Brooklyn-born secretary to British Pacifist Bertrand Russell and organizer of last May's Stockholm circus "trial" that convicted the U.S. of "war crimes" in Viet Nam; by Susan Goodricke Schoenman, 25, his wife of five years; in Bournemouth, England. In granting the divorce on uncontested grounds of cruelty, the judge noted Schoenman's "sexual aberrations" and his habit of "refusing to wash or bathe except on very rare occasions...
...Hartford, Conn., last week, Mitchell's lawyers wanted to call a variety of witnesses, including a U.S. Navy pilot now a prisoner in North Viet Nam. Ho Chi Minh, it was said, would release him to testify. The defense also wanted to call government officials from Hanoi, Ralph Schoenman, a Brooklyn expatriate who is chief lieutenant of Bertrand Russell's "better-Red-than-dead" campaign in London, and Staughton Lynd, the Yale assistant professor of history who, like Schoenman, recently visited North Viet Nam (and last week brought suit in Washington to win back the passport he forfeited...