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2 THE PLAIN DEALER INTERNATIONAL TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER -h 9, 1997 Mother Teresa to have high honors State funeral to have military trappings By DONNA BRYSON ASSOCIATED PRESS CALCUTTA, India Mother Teresa, whose message of peace and compassion went beyond the boundaries of creed and nationality, will go to her burial place on a gun carriage, draped in the Indian flag. 'The military trappings of Saturday's state funeral might clash with the image of the Nobel Peace laureate, but church leaders said yesterday it was just the government's way of giving Mother Teresa its most prestigious farewell. "The Rev. Anthony Rodricks, an aide to Calcutta's Roman Catholic archbishop, Henry D'Souza, acknowledged there had been objections to the gun carriage. "People might think of war when they see a gun carriage, but this is not the way it should be taken," he said.

state funeral is the highest honor the state government can give mother, and that is the spirit in which the ceremony should be taken." "Mother Teresa transformed a few shelters and schools for Calcutta's poor into a worldwide charity before her death Friday of a heart attack at age 87. "Many of those whose lives she touched will join high-ranking church and state officials as the casket is moved to the funeral site. As she lay in state yesterday at Calcutta's St. Thomas' Church, the love this frail woman inspired was evident. Mourners gave ushers roses to be brushed against the glass case enclosing her body, then took them home as keepsakes.

Other flowers left at her feet later were made into a huge heart -shaped arrangement on the lawn outside the church. Mother Teresa's body will be taken from St. Thomas' to the sports stadium where the funeral will be held. Some 12,000 people will be able to attend the funeral, which will be addressed by Sister Nirmala, who took over earlier this year as head of the Missionaries of Charity, and foreign and Indian dignitaries none as yet named. Rodricks said the pope's envoy, Indian Cardinal D.

Simon Lourdusamy, would celebrate Mass at the funeral service. He said Archbishop D'Souza may join the cardinal. More than 20 cardinals and bishops from around the world will join in the 90-minute Mass. The body will then be taken to the Missionaries of Charity order's headquarters for private burial, attended only by nuns and high church officials. Some in Calcutta's Catholic community are not pleased with the burial site.

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Haitian ferry sinks, kills hundreds NORTON Miami 50 miles By MICHAEL ASSOCIATED PRESS Map detail Atlantic 50 km MONTROUIS, Haiti A se- Ocean verely overloaded ferryboat cap- to Atlantic sized when passengers CUBA Ocean rushed one side as was coming into terday, killing, as many as 400 DOMINICAN REPUBLIC port on Haiti's central coast yespeople trapped inside the vessel, DOMINICAN survivors said. Hundreds CUBA REPUBLIC made it to shore. Ferry The 60-foot boat was certified sinks to safely carry between 80 and 260 people, according to varying Gonave HAITI estimates. About 700 had been Island jammed aboard, police and coast guard said. Thousands of Haitians wailed in the pebbled beach of this fishing village as U.N.

divers Caribbean Port-au-Prince and a half-dozen fishing boats offshore for Seu searched 200 yards victims. Others helped carry bod- ASSOCIATED PRESS ies shore. from coast guard boats to year-old civil engineer. copters U.S. Coast hovered Guard above the spot gone into service only 10 days and U.N.

heli- The brand new ferry it had where the ferry, The Pride of Go- doors earlier that had were no life bolted jackets, shut pre- and nave, disappeared of its passen- vented many passengers from esin 75 feet of water as hundreds gers screamed below-decks. caping, Joseph and other boat was overloaded. vors said. When it maneuvered to disem- The ferry sank early yesterday everybody ran to one side in the Saint Marc miles Channel northwest off of bark, and the boat tipped over," said Montrouis, 50 survivor Benjamin Joseph, a 38- Port-au-Prince, Haiti's capital. WE'LL HELP YOU ZIP RIGHT THROUGH TO YOUR CUSTOMERS.

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