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Show The Salt Lake Tribune NATION/WORLD Sunday, August 30, 1998 A3 Death Cannot Stop Planes, Talks At Standstill In NWStrike Mother Teresa’s Work Charity goes on even without nun’s inimitable grace THE SOCIATED PRESS. powers to her four counselors CALCUTTA, India — “Mother Teresa: In,” says a wooden board on the wall outside Mother House. Inside the three-story. gray- washed building, nuns in the fa- miliar blue-bordered white saris bow their heads at her marble “The order is going on in the samedirection, the direction that Mother Teresa gave it,” said the Rev. Edward le Joly, an 89-year. old Jesuit priest who worked with Mother Teresa for 40 years. “The new superior-general have the gifts and graces which tombstone, decorated with orange carries on in the spirit of Mother destitute and dying from Caleutta’s nooks and alleys. tested in a controversy surround ny offer shortly before th ike deadlineof 12:01am. El Saturday Sister Nirmala’s toughness was I'mnot going to play ing the first anniversary of Moth- In homes the nuns run across about who's going to call wh arly these guys walked out er Teresa’s death. A group of Calcutta devotees formed a Mother Teresa Memorial Committee. wounds and leaking bladders. At from corporations to mark the anniversary by erecting a statue and naming a street after her. WhenMotherTeresa died Sept. 5 at age 87, some people feared the Missionaries of Charity would shrivel without her dynamic lead- ather/TheAssociated Press All Washed Up A womanfrom Rocky Mount, N.C., reads on Pine Knoll Shores among tires washed up onthe beach from an offshoreartificial reef site after Hurricane Bonnie sweptalong North Carolina's shoreline. Bonnie inflicted an estimated $ 1 billion in damages in the state, much ofit to crops. Meanwhile, Hurricane Danielle plowed across the Atlantic on Saturday with top sustained winds of 80 mph, and was not expected to threaten the Bahamas or the mainland United States. High waveswerelikely along the southern Atlantic Coast during the weekend. shield Mother Teresa's name fromuseacross the world, either bywell-intentioned admirers or order has added nearly 20 new by unscrupulous people seeking centers since its founder's death and will have 614 homes around the world by year’s end. Charitable contributions and other donations have increased since Mother Teresa died, the or- handouts air traffic: and Memphi: provided they are ready to abide by certain conditions that will be stipulated,” Sister Nirmalasaid She also expresses determina- der says, although its books are not open to the public. Sister Nirmala waselected su- tion to be aggressive on issues that were close to Mother Tere- perior general of the order six months before Mother Teresa, its found died. Despite Mother sa’s heart, such as opposing abor- tion and birth control. Someold associates of the or- Tere: support, she began her six-year tenure with several disadvantages. She stepped into one of the der say it may evolve as years mostvisible positions in the Cath- olic Church outside the Vatican, but few people except her nuns could even identify her. There were fears she would be more senior nuns, several of whom had been seen during the years as possible successors to Mother Teresa and who handled most of the day-today administration. has emerged with a distinctive style. keeping the superior-general the pivot of the order but delegating THE ASSOCIATED PRESS QUITO, Ecuador — A Cuban commercial airplane burst into flames during takeoff and slammedinto a soccerfield Saturday high in the Andes mountains, killing at least 71 people, authorities said. TheRu made Tupolev-154 aircraft owned by Cubana de Aviacionclipped the top of an auto me- tified with Mother Teresa becom- chanic’s shop beyondthe end of the runwayat the ing moreflexible. Quitointernational airport, witnessessaid. The nose and front part of the plane disintegrated in the crash. ‘The jetliner barely missed a heavily traveled ave nue at the end of the airport runway in a middle “The sisters are doing the job they were doing earlier, but the class neighborhood 9,300 feet above sea level. It was en routefirst to Guayaquil, on the Ecuadorean coast andthen on to Havana. Theplanehadjust started taking off when at least one motor failed and the aircraft crashed several charisma of Mother Teresa was hundred yards beyondthe end of the runway, Red special,” said a volunteer cleaning a young boy’s infected legs at Cross official Galo Leoro said, Gen, Osvaldo Dominguez, director of the Civil Avi- one of the order’s homes. “We miss Mother,butlife goes on. Paul International Airport Northwest is the nation’s sixth largest airline in termsof passen gers and its fourth-largest in ation Office, said there were 76 passengers and 14 erew members on board. Hesaidat least 19 foreign carries near 1,600 flights in North Americ; a Europe, Asia and Ind ers were killed, including Cubans, Chileans, Italians. Spaniards, one Argentine and one Jamaican. Red Cross workers in red uniforms dug through the charred wreckage for survivors, while firefighters sprayedjets of waters on the smoking ruins to prevent further explosions. Ecuador television stations reported that at 2 service had beenhalted on Thurs day Before the strike started Northwest had canceled 400 flights for Friday and Saturday giving many passengers time to rearrange their plans. day, downfromthe usual 80,000 “There must be many dead, but there are also said Jeff Hamiel, executivedirec survivors. I pulled one person out alive,” said civil defense volunteer Hugo Albuja Channel 10televisioninterviewed Cuban survivor Hernan Boada whosuffered a broken ankle Before we heardthe roarofthe crash, wefelt the plane risea bit andburst in flames. There were three explosions,” Boada said. “I saw other people wrappedin flames jumpfrom the plane Civil-aviationofficials did not specify whetherthe deathtoll included peoplekilled on the ground A local radio station reported that four people died whentheplane struck the mechanic's shop, but that could not be confirmed. One womansaid three of her children, who wereplaying near thecrashsite weremissing tor of the Metropolitan Airports Commission. 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It “We are considering allowing the use of Mother's name by schools, colleges and institutions, Airports were quietat thethre morethan three-quarters of the punch, slammedthe fund raising in Mother Teresa's name But she knowsthe order cannot But the order is thriving under her successor, Sister Nirmala, a Hindu-born Indian convert to Roman Catholicism. The 4,000-nun tk of takes twoto dance said Paul Omodt, a spokesman fo! the Air Line Pilots Association cities where Northwest contri Sister Nirmala called a news conference and, in a statement packed with politeness as well as ershij n Aust ack in . It opened a bank account and collected donations orphanages and schools, children swarm around matrons, laughing and puffing at colorful balloons. 64, union rejected a last-minute ¢ Teresa.” the teeming city, volunteersflit around patients’ beds tending worm-eaten limbs, festering Nirmala, tion whenthat would happer: laws of the Catholic Church and but their mission remains the same: Rescuing the suffering, Sister shortly before struck, but there w not need them because the con- gregation goes on accordingto the clogged streets. Mother Teresa mayhave died, by sume negotiations t Mother Teresa had. But she does flowers and candles. Then they step out into Calcutta’s traffic- overshadowed their way Saturday to get they wantedto go does not |