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)Jaiti's po~erty beckons USO director. . '° " 'This is a celebration; one of our sisters is gmng f God. We have lO sing ' " Then followed a rend1t1on o "Auld Lang Sync" in four languages- - the only tune By Joyce Carr o--< Southern Cross -21,J ...J

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everyone in the group knew. The girl died as_ her peers watched and wondered how soon they wouldJom her, she Sister McMonagle lauded the missionary wor done by people of many denominat10ns .She "."as particularly impressed by Sister Joan, an Episcopalian nun who has operated the St. Vinc~nt de ~aul Center for deaf, dumb, blind and maimed children smcc 1940. The center is the youth's home, school and hospital. "Everyone in Haiti knows Sister Joan," -: now suffering from cancer and confined to a wheelchair, she said. h t One day an uprising occurred near the center, t a police were unable to quell, Sister Joan wheeled herself to the scene, raised her hands and told the mob of hundreds their noise was intensifying the pam of the children who had umlt-rgone surgery that day. "The_ whole crowd dispersed in J,·ad silence," the speaker said. . . . When Sister McMonagle joins the m1ss1onanes m Haiti, she will find faith practices that are worlds apart from the worship seen in The Immaculata and Founders Hall. C h I' b t "Ninety-five percent of the Haitians are at o 1c, u only 10 percent understand what that means," ~he said. The people combine Christianity with voodooism and African superstition. It is common for a Haitian to atten?. a voodoo ceremony - with animal or human sacnhce - one evening, and attend Mass the next morning, she _added. Sister McMonagle told the Southern Cross she will _w?rk with Father Frechette, a Dominican and B~ned1ctme Sister and three female volunteers in estabhshng the school and orphanage for 1,000 children. Of what ages? "From birth to as long as they w~nt to tay " The home will follow Father Wasson's pracuce of ~ee~ing family members together. '.'A!l t_he c~i,ldren h~ve is their blood relationship with their siblings,. she said. The nun will enter a country marked by v10lence an,d strained church-state relations. More than 300 of Haiti s 325 Catholic parishes called on_ citizens t? boycott theJan. 17 election won by Leslie Mamgat, who 1s regarded as the military's candidate. The election, originally slated for Nov. 29, 1987, was called off after gunmen killed 30 people, two of them inside churches. . , But this turmoil does not deter Sister McMona~le s resolve to serve the Haitians, whom she calls "beauuful, gentle, artistic, warm people." emg said. kb ·

OLD TOWN _ For nearly a deca~e, Sister V_irginia M M 1 RSCJ director of constituent relations at c onage, , · h USD' the University of San Dieg?, has worked Y(!_l 1ITar s trustees, administators, advisory boards and aux1 1ary groups. . . • · h k f Next month she will fly to Haiti to assist m t e _tas o building an orphanage and school an_d_ a hospice for children dying from AIDS and malnutrition. The nun revealed her plans to Serra Club ~embers at their Jan. 27 luncheon meeting at Padre Trails Inn . . It was Sister McMonagle's love of ~orkmg m ducation combined with over 30 years experience m the ~eld, 1ha~ led to her present position. She was the founding principal of the former Academy of the Sacred Heart in El Cajon. . It was the persistent persuasion of two priests that led her to give up this post. Franc_iscan Father W1lli~m Wasson and Passionist Father Richard Frechette, who house and educate youth in Mexico and Hoi:iduras, repeatedly asked the nun to help them extend their work to Haiti. Her decision was not as easy one. It took several turns _ from refusal, to reluctance, to openness, to acceptance. She said "yes" during a retreat she made last summer after visiting Haiti. "I feel a s1rong call," she told the Se~r3:11~- "!here_a~~ so few of us free to go to help ... even 1f 1t s httle bit .. If the venture proves too physically demanding, she will return to her USD position. . , The 66-year-old nun will leave .San Diego s usually balmy weather for Haiti's steamy climate with 99 percent humidity and temperatures from 99 to 120 degrees, she said. h ·11 h 1 Land for the orphanage and school s e w1 e J:> oversee was purchased in the coole~ foothills some 40 miles from Port-au-Prince, Haiti's capital. . Sister McMonagle's new home_is over 3,000 miles from the lush landscaping of Alcala Park where her apartment is located. . Describing conditions in Haiti, she painted a picture of poverty and squalor. . . The average annual mcome 1s $370;_ only 150,000 of the country's 7 million people have an mcome. H~f the population is under age 16. Many die from mal?utrmon, unable to survive on a diet of cornmeal, she sa•?· . Few crops can be grown because the country s topsoil was washed into the ocean after Haiti=~ felled the tre~s-~o obtain charcoal to cook with, she explained. And Ha1t1 s

q :f~ Go zaga Un10D POKA E Gonzaga a ed a 14-0 run midway ond half to pull away en route to 70-52 victory over USO last night m West Coast Athletic Con- ference b ketball. The Toreros (9-11, 1-6) trailed, 3&.32, wtth 16:23 to play when Gonzaga (11-9, 2-5) produced its run. Forward Danny Roe's la:, u ,.Qt Jhe 10 50 mark capped the run and gave Gonzaga a -~2 lead. arty Muon's thr e-po nt field goal pulled USO to 52- 41 with 8. 9 left, bnt the Toreros could get no closer Munn led the Toreros with 19 points. Jim Pelton was th~ only other Torero to score m double figures, with 10. unn and John Sayers h d a team-high five re~ounds. Guard Doug Spradl y led Gonzaga with 20 points, Roe cored 18. USD trailed 29-20 with two minutes left m the first half before b~kets by Munn and Sayers cut the defic1_t to five at halftime USD scored six of the first e1~ht pomts in the econd half to trail, 31-30. But Spradley hit a,three- •pomter and two free throws to mcrease Gonzaga s lead to 36-30 just before the 1 -0 run. through the

Sister Virginia McMonagle: 'I help in Haiti. fishing industry has been destroyed by Florida's sports fishermen . · l'k Water is as scarce as food. "Finding water 1s I e finding gold," she said, adding that it can be purchased from trucks for $1.80 a quart. . Haitians flock to gutters, as though they "."er~ oases m the desert. Here babies are bathed and dnnkmg w~t r obtained. Sister McMonagle described a man draggm_g himself on his stomach toward a gutter to fill his Styrofoam cup with water to drink. She illustrated the plight of thousands of abandoned babies. "The night before I left ~aiti, I found th:ee naked babies in an abandoned field ' - new?o':1 tw_ms and a 3-year-old, she said. After explainmg their s1tuatw_n t o women at a priest's house, "they shrugged their I . ? , ,, shoulders, as if to say, 'What e se 1s new. , Just as vivid is the nun's memory of Mother Teresa s hospice in Port-au-Prince_ where all the men and half the women and girls were dymg of AIDS. . She told of a 14-year-old dying girl covered with a yellow mosquito netting that could _no,\ protect her from the "10,000 flies under it and over it: Father Frechette anointed the girl and anounced,

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three-pointers. Center Jim Pelton was the only other USD player in double figures with 10. Junior guard Doug Spradley led all scorers with 20 points, eight coming during Gonzaga's 19-2 burst. Danny Roe scored 18 for the winners and Todd Franklin added 11. USD attempted only four free throws on the night, none in the second half. Gonzaga hit 10-of-15 free throws. "It's interesting we didn't shoot any free throws in the second half," said Egan. USO was to travel today to Port- land, where the Toreros will take on the University of Portland to- morrow night. The Pilots occupy the WCAC cellar at 0-7, one game behind the Toreros. Portland is 5- 15 overall.

Tnbunl' St.Jlf Report One bad stretch. Make that one disastrous stretch. That was enough to han USD a 70-52 loss at the hands of Gonzaga University last night at Spokane, Wash. USD pulled to within one point of the Bulldogs, 31-30, with 17:52 to play in the game. Then came the drought. USD was outscored 19-2 in the next seven minutes as Gonzaga took a 50-32 lead. USO never was able to get closer than 11 the rest of the way. . USD slipped to seventh place m the eight-team West Coast Athletic Conference at l ·6. The Toreros are Hl overall. Gonzaga improved to 2-5 in conference, 11-9 overall. The Bulldogs are 8-1 at home. Regarding his team's problems

Toreros hurt by bad stretch. whlie being outscored 19-2, USO coach Hank Egan said, "We got out of our offense and tried to do things on our own. We were hurry- ing to a butt-kicking. We were hav- ing trouble with man and zone de- fense. It didn't matter what they did." Senior forward Marty Munn, making only his fourth start of the season, led the Toreros with 19 points. He also had a team-high five rebounds. Munn was 8-of-13 from tile field, including 3-of-6 on

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/ Robin Allen's shot at the buzzer of the sec- ond overtime led Gonzaga to a 69-67 victory over USO (7-13, 3-3) at the ....,.....,__.QJ.J Sports Center'. Jane Gilpin led the Toreras with 22 points. The Lady Bulldog are 14-6 and 7-0 in the West Coast Athletic Conference.'-', S- ') USO baseball - Doug Kline had fourliits, including a three-run home run in the third inning, to lead visit- ing UC Irvine past USD, 9-3, in the Toreros' season opener. Dave Rolls hit a bases-empty homer for USD. The Toreros face visiting UCLA today at 2. -;.,omens' basketball -

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P neli ts square off over federal drug-testing plan , .._r195 By John 'McLaren No evidence exists of widespread drug abuse ment's largest unions, said the administration's ernment. Tnban Staff Writer by government workers, he said, adding: "The drive to rid the federal work place of drugs, Weckstein predicted that the bringing to- top U.S. Justice Department official and problem will not disappear through random announced in a 1986 executive order, was "poor gether of a variety of federal officials, labor e leader of a 700,000-member federal union testing of a sampling representing less than public policy'' and a "wasteful program creat- leaders and academics will result in more give tangled here yesterday over the Reagan ad- one-half of 1 percent of the population." ed for publicity purposes." and take in future negotiations between gov- mmistration's push for a drug-free federal Sturdivant and Willard, who was substitut- Willard, however, said the tests are neces- ernment managers and civil-service employ- work place, ing for his boss, Attorney General Edwin sary so that drug habits can be detected in the ees. Saying that illegal drug use costs the U.S. Meese, took part in a panel discussion with early stages, before an abuser becomes in- "Most federal workers now cannot bargain economy..$50 billion a year, Richard K. Willard, William Wiley, an employee-relations officer volved in accidents or crime. over anything basic to their jobs, such as how a istant attorney general in charge of the de- for the Navy here, who said random testing "An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of much they will be paid and their fringe bene- partment's Civi! DivISion, defended plans to will begin soon for between 80,000 and 100,000 cure," he said. fits," he said. "Mostly they deal with fringe subject federal workers to random urinalysis civilian employees of the Navy. Sturdivant took an opposite tack, charging matters, such as who gets what parking when drug testing begins later this year m Donald T. Weckstein, a Uniyersity of San the administration with stripping the budget of space." many US. agencies. 01ei:o law professor who was conference co- $800 million for drug-related law enforcement, Weckstein said USO also will publish a Willard told a national labor-relations con- chairman, said about 350 people attended the drug treatment and drug education. record of the conference that will include the ference at the Kona Kai.Club on Shelter Island conference. The sessions here may have been "We believe the problem can be beaten and full submissions of participants that, "1f anything, the federal sector is behind unique, he said, in bringing together federal liberties retained at the same time," he said. · the times" in screening employees for drug labor and management officials to consider The two-day conference, which ended yes- "We expect it to be a very important refer- use. ways of opening negotiations on wages and terday, was co-sponsored by the Labor Depart- ence," he said. However, John Sturdivant, executive vice benefits. ment, the Federal Mediation and Conciliation USO was able to join with government agen- president of the American Federation of Gov- "There was general recognition that we've Service and the Center for Law-Management cies in bringing the conference to San Diego ernment Employees, said the tests would con- got to move to increase issues over which bar- and Employment Law at USD. The occasion because the school has an especially strong stitute an abuse of individu:i.l freedom While gaining can take place," Weckstein said in an was the 10th anniversary of the ClVll Service labor-relations program, Weckstein said, with not making much of a dent in the drug problem interview. Reform Act, a landmark statute t!iat overhaul- part-time faculty members such as Willard "that touches the lives of us all." Sturdivant, speaking for one of the govern- ed employment practices of the federal gov- Wirtz, a former secretary of labor.

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