Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - September 8, 1997, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free september India poor Hail nun revered Mother Teresa to receive stat funeral Preuter India Barefoot movie stars and government leaders wept and prayed beside Mother Teresa body paying their respects to a woman who embraced both the poor and the the Nobel laureate and nun Lay in state at one of Calcutta oldest and largest Catholic in a fashionable neighbourhood that contrasted with the slums where she toiled during Mother who died of a heart attack Friday Lay under a Glass Case on a platform draped in the White and Blue colours of her missionaries of Charity her hands folded across her a mourners some kneeling in the including Barefoot government a for Mer Beauty Queen and an Indian filed quickly through the stopping for just a few moments before the Mother Teresa funeral saturday will be held in the stadium where Pope John Paul ii addressed the faithful during his 1986 visit to a spokesman for Calcutta archbishop Henry father said members of the missionaries of Charity said Mother Teresa would be buried in the courtyard of the orders on the Edge of a Cal Cutta prime minister who visited Thomass Church where Mother Teresa Lay said that just As India had Mohandas Gandhi to Lead the fight against hunger and injustice in the first half of the so it had Mother Teresa to carry on that fight in the latter Gujral has called for a state Funer meaning Mother Teresa will be Given the full military honours nor Mally reserved for Heads of there will also be no official entertainment and flags will Fly at half she touched people of All faiths associated pass a photo mourners View the body of Mother Teresa at Thomass Church in Calcutta Mast Mother Teresa had planned to Lead interfaith prayers at Thomass for the Princess of Wales on Satur the same Day a massive funeral was held in London to mourn dianas death in a Paris car the nun was born in Albania but had become an Indian she had suffered heart problems and other ailments for years and gave up leadership of her order in testimony Mother who said she saw god in every suffering human began her Charity work with just a few helpers in this Eastern Indian City five decades her order now has More than nuns and runs 517 Homes for the aids hospices and other Charity centres around the Pope John speaking at Castel Gondolfo in Italy in his first sunday address after Mother Teresa death said she leaves us the testimony of the love of god transformed her life into a total gift to her Broth ers and one Man who broke Down in tears after seeing Mother Teresa body said the Catholic nuns compassion say Farewell mans Best Friend and hello to w i n n i p t g i o Toronto one Way from 99 99 Calgary one Way from Ottawa one Way from new bookings taws and Airport it at these fares Are limited Early its always to lose a faithful Friend but equally exciting to make new one Welcome to Vista etl Canada newest Low fare were ready when Yog Are to take yes where you want to Fly for Call us today and Well jump through hoops to make your next trip As relaxing and enjoyable As it should Call 188826vista or Call your travel agent i swim is now ohm Tiu i m Bays a transcended religious she worked for the people and never thought about whether we were Muslim or said Mohin who uses Only one Mother Teresa died at the quarters of her missionaries of Char where she lived in a simple her body Lay in the orders dimly lit surrounded by flow ers and praying but the Chapel was too Small to accommodate so the Public viewing was her body was moved Early yester Day in a White escorted by a police officer on As Bells pealed in Thomass Church and anguished wails Rose from mourners began gathering before and by the time the coffin the line snaked a Kilometre along the sidewalk in front of the even the importance of caste and privilege in India was politicians and High ranking bureaucrats roared to the front of the line in Bulky White official and strode into the Chapel through a special shop owners and Stu a woman weeps after the body of Mother Teresa passes by on its Way to clerks and children in starched sunday Best waited Buncom Plain ugly while their line moved in spurts for the however to see Mother there Are so Many people said Indrani a people loved her so they want to see her at even if Only for a India a Vendor displays photographs of Mother Teresa alongside brightly coloured prints of hindu gods and As if in testimony to the late nuns conviction that Good deeds fld piety transcend religious Barri a roman Catholic who began what was to become a worldwide charitable order if predominantly hindu Mother Teresa was sometimes accused of seeking there were rumours never substantiated that she administered Catholic rites to dying hindus at her Homes for the and baptized mus Lim children in her but she was no said Naveen her longtime Friend and i once asked her bluntly do you convert Chawla recalled in an inter View a Day after the 87year old nun died of a heart she of course i i con Vert you to be a better hindu or a bet Ter Muslim or a better once youve found its up to you to decide How to worship although she herself remained almost fiercely roman she was Able to reach out to people of All and the faithless As said a Mother Teresa did not explicitly seek new but her example was sister the woman who took Over As head of her Charity this is a former hindu who took Mother Teresa As her Model when she converted in her Mother Teresa travelled the world promoting conservative Catholic Val calling abortion murder in the womb and opposing neither Are proscribed by hinduism or though both carry social stigma in when religious tensions erupt into violence in the clashes usually pit hindus against members of the main religious but suspicion that estimated at just two per cent of the population of 970 Are seeking converts occasionally has led to Road rage on the Rise in a fast paced society Driver blowups linked to two thirds of Highway deaths in by Bill Taylor Toronto Star Toronto this is life approaching the 21st Century hungry nuke a meal in the bored with whats on to reach for the feel like Reading m9use your Way onto the Quick and but now its time to go to work or pick up the kids or chill out at the you get in the head for the Highway sit Chok ing on exhaust fumes and Stop Start ing your Way through there Are Road tailgating twits and wingnuts weaving from Lane to is it any wonder you feel like getting out of your car and deck ing the next Guy who honks his Horn in Road rage is bad enough on the country congested roads with motorists ramming one another or during it out in the Middle of traffic have prompted two in the United Congress is examining the problem of aggressive driving that has led to gunfights and in Road rage is a demand for less crowded but less Supply than there because of government Cut backs on Road driving has harder instead of easier and were not used to that happening in our Ted Lintner is a 23year vet eran of the Ontario provincial police and a member of its Highway rangers special enforcement in no but my theory is that were still suffering from that me generation he people get into their cars and they Only think about they forget that there Are people in those other other Peoples mothers there not just horrific stress management expert ten Thomas says driving stress turns into anger often because people feel relatively Safe in their Aitto mobiles they have until Treyve started seeing these horrific stories about what can Lintner believes that while there May be More Road rage the percentage of Road users involved is probably about the its worse in the sense that theres has said aggression plays a part in almost Amer ican Highway deaths a year two out of three of the 1996 a six year study of traffic Acci dents by the american automobile associations foundation for traffic safety has documented an increase in aggressive driving of seven per cent a human beings Are says one of the British Many Drivers admit to haying chased after a Driver to teach him a this is comparable to the manner in which a defending animal will Chase an attacker out of its David of the foundation for traffic has warned you Are playing russian Roulette if you raise a Middle Finger to another a Motorist who was pushing his stalled car out of traffic in was recently shot and critically wounded by another Driver who thought he was taking too the foundations study cites racism in some incidents but says Domestic violence can also play a when the flames of passion Burn when love turns to spouses and lovers Are increasingly us worse in me sense mat Mere s their Raee on the Road ass Sass theres a growing Imp be says from its attributable to a couple of things our generally rushed sense of our busier our Reliance on labour saving but Tubeo we get out on the Road and we fall victim to Back Ward Supply Arad demand Taberes in a Orui slow traffic tests Cut there is no single profile of a Road in 86 documented Inci dents Between 1990 and 1994 the aggressor was Between and one of these was soy Earold movie Star Jack in february 1984 his Mercedes was Cut of Fin us Angeles traffic by Robert Blanks Mercedes Nicholson jumped from Bis car at a red Light and smashed Blanks Windshield and dented his roof a nine ;