Word: sharkey
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Funds are now being sought to finance the students' training and living expenses, and to purchase teaching materials. About $10,000 is needed to support six volunteers and the project director, Mary Varella, a former SNCC worker, according to Joel Sharkey, NSA National Affairs Vice President...
...Joel Sharkey, NSA's national affairs vice-president, was critical of the actions by the two schools. "If they are unhappy with present policies of NSA, they are certainly not going to accomplish anything by withdrawing," he said. "If the more conservative schools choose to disaffiliate because of disagreement on political issues, the result of their action can only be the further liberalization of NSA policies...
...withdrawal of the two "prestige" colleges was not a serious blow to the prestige of NSA, Sharkey said. "Dis-affiliations are common in the Fall, when each school is faced with the NSA membership dues...
...Sharkey said he did not consider Dartmouth a heavy loss because "they have not had an active campus committee there for the past three or four years." But Sharkey added that the withdrawal of Yale was a "disappointment" to the national office, since there had been a small core of students there who had "worked very hard in NSA programs...
...response to a tip and covered the latest Buddhist suicide by fire. While the press corps tried to comply with the crowd's pleas-"Take pictures! Tell Mr. Kennedy!"-plainclothesmen moved in to confiscate their cameras. As they tried to protect their equipment, Grant Wolfkill and John Sharkey of NBC and David Halberstam of the New York Times were beaten; all three required hospitalization. Secretary of State Dean Rusk and Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge made a prompt protest to the Vietnamese government...