The Michigan Daily - Monday, September 8, 1997 - 5A inued from Page 1A Buckingham Palace. Networks undoubtedly will produce souvenir montage videotapes of last week's memorable images, and - for this tale more than most - the format till be apt. The first week of September 1997 in Britain is foremost a dizzying series of scenes that whizzed by in the way that *y information-age high tragedy can. First, the breaking news: Diana's new boyfriend, playboy Dodi Fayed, had been killed with his driver in a horren- dous car crash in Paris. The princess was injured, but she managed to walk away. Wait - her injuries were actually serious, but she was alive. And then, hours later, she was dead, in a crash per- haps caused by the paparazzi who pur- sued her so obsessively for so long. ~he revisionism kicked in before her Wdy returned to England later that day. Gone were the questions about whether Diana was embarrassing the crown with her Fayed fling -and jet-set ways. Gone were the snipes about her anxiety, her manipulativeness, her I- gotta-be-me charity work. How, Britons asked, could this be possible? She was our 36-year-old princess - the mother of our future *g. Her eyes shone so bright and she was so alive. After a long, bumpy road, she had found happiness. Each day brought new images: Prince Charles bringing her body home from France. Earl Spencer, Diana's brother, saying the media has "blood on its hands:' Princes William and Harry, somber and empty-eyed, leaving their Balmoral Castle retreat. Revelations that the chauffeur, Henri Paul, was drunk. Paparazzi detained. Tears fell as far away as Indonesia. And the building masses of flower- bearing mourners, clustering outside Buckingham Palace and forming seem- ingly endless lines to sign condolence books outside St. James's Palace, where Diana's body rested in a chapel. Then, Saturday, the most memorable images of all: The throngs of faithful silently watching her cortege pass. The card on her coffin: "Mummy." Her loved ones and loved causes in Westminster Abbey. Elton John's reworked version of "Candle in the Wind." Earl Spencer's piercing eulogy, a pointed screed against tradition and media. And her long, slow, inexorable ride north to a tiny island in a tiny lake on the grounds of an ancestral home. That day alone, a crescendo to the week, perhaps changed things most of all. "The idea that national pride and dig- nity may only be conveyed by cold obe- dience to precedent and protocol could not survive the week," Patrick Collins wrote in a column in The Mail yester- day. "It had perished long before the close of the day." The concerns of ordinary Brits were not buried with Diana on Saturday. Indeed, the past week's nascent changes may reach far into the country's future. Last week has changed - for better and worse - the causes Diana support- ed. Left without a powerful living advo- cate, they nonetheless will benefit greatly from Diana in death. It changes her sons, one of whom is destined to rule Britain. How will her death change the direction of his growth? AP PHOTO The casket containing the body of Diana, Princess of Wales, is carried into Westminster Abbey during funeral ceremonies in London on Saturday. India pays respect to Mother Teresa CALCUTTA, India (AP) - Barefoot paupers, movie stars and gov- ment leaders wept and prayed beside 'lother Teresa's body yesterday, paying their respects to a woman who embraced both the poor and the power- ful. The Nobel laureate and nun lay in state at one of Calcutta's oldest and largest Catholic churches, in a fashion- able neighborhood that contrasted with the slums where she toiled during life. "Mother Teresa, we will always love Oi,' read a handwritten poster hanging from the neck of one grieving child. Mother Teresa, who died of a heart attack Friday night, lay under a glass case on a platform draped in the white and blue colors of her Missionaries of Charity order, her hands folded across her chest. Mourners including barefoot pau- pers, government leaders, a former uty queen and an Indian musician,, d quickly through the church, stop- ping for just a few moments before the body. Mother Teresa's funeral Saturday will be ield in the 10,000-seat stadium where Pope John Paul II addressed the faithful during his 1986 visit to India, a spokesman for Calcutta Archbishop Henry d'Souza, Father Ambrose, said Sunday. Members of the Missionaries of f arity said Mother Teresa would be ried in the courtyard of the order's headquarters, on the edge of a Calcutta slum: Prime Minister I.K. Gujral, who vis- ited St. Thomas' Church where Mother Teresa lay Sunday, said that just as India had Mohandas Gandhi to lead the fight against poverty, hunger and injustice in the first half of the centu- y, so it had *Mother Teresa to carry on that fight in the latter half. Gujral has called for a state funeral, meaning Mother Teresa will be given the full military honors normally reserved for heads of state. That also makes it likely presidents and prime ministers from around the world will attend. The frail, 4-foot-I1-inch nun was born in Albania but had become an ian citizen. She had suffered heart Woblems and other ailments for years and gave up leadership of her order in March. Mother Teresa, who said she saw God in every suffering human being, began her charity work with just a few helpers in this eastern Indian city five decades ago. ' Her order now has more than 4,000 nuns and runs 517 orphanages, homes r the poor, AIDS hospices and other charity centers around the world. One man who broke down in tears after seeing Mother Teresa's body said the Catholic nun's compassion tran- scended religious boundaries. "She worked for the people and never thought about whether we were usim or Himnu" sid Mouiam police officer on motorcycle, as bells pealed in St. Thomas' Church and anguished wails rose from mourners. Mourners began gathering before dawn, and by the time the coffin arrived, the line snaked half a mile along the sidewalk in front of the chapel. Even there, the importance of caste and privilege in India was inescapable. Politicians and high-ranking bureau- crats roared to the front of the line in bulky white official cars, and strode into the chapel through a special entrance. 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