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than the poor in Mexico City." Work Wilb the 'Trash People' In Mexico City, the Missionaries of Charity wor~ with the basureros (tt'a~h people), who live on the dg of the city's garbage dumps and depend on the trash thrown by others to eat and survive. Sister Selma said U.S. groups bring food and clothing to the order's house in Colonia Postal on a regular basis. "We live on divine Provider\ce,·• Sister Selma said. "Jesus ha• e n very good to us. What w t, we give to the poor." Mother Tol't'M WO.s born Agnes Qgn h11 UoJ 1>1hlu In Skopje, Alba: 111a. !Jlch l! now part of Yugosla- via. After joining the Sisters of Loreto in 1928, she worked in Ireland and then in India, where she founded the Missionarie~ l)f Charity in 1950. there a~ l\CW more than 50 schools, orphe.!11!.tts and houses for the poof Ill more than 30 countries. Sh1> tills t ceived many awa~~ fol' tier work, lnclud- Wg l~IJ P2f." Jahn xxm Peace • r!?.P m 1911 and the Presidential Medal of Freedom.in 1985. The order is building a shelter for the sick and homeless in Colonia Murua, but Sister Selma iia,~ !ih~ doesn't know when it Will be completea· llilR l\ilP' lhe nuns try to >Hl!i!l n!e SplYltlJal needs of tll!! re P,l'l W~O live in Tijuana's tm!Jr a1•e11s ahd lo distribute food and clothing that the order collects from Americans.

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While Mother Teresa's message was mainly one of love and P.r~yer, she f~rcefully reiterated her longstanding oppos1tion to abortion during her presentation at USD. She first reminded her audience that yesterday was the feast of the Visitation, which recalls the New Testament ~c~?~nt of. how t~e unborn John the Baptist "leaped for JOY m Elizabeth s womb at the news that her cousin Mary, was to give birth to Jesus, the savior. ' Mother Teresa said it was "strange" that God used an unborn child to herald the coming of Christ when today "the mother herself kills her own child" in the "terrible thing" known as abortion. "Abortion has become the greatest destroyer of peace because it destroys two lives, the life of the child and the conscience of the mother - that little child that was created to love and to be loved for greater things, de- stroyed by its own mother," she said. '"Let us for one second in silence thank our parents for wanting us, for loving us, for giving us the joy of living for we too, if they had aborted us. we would not hP hPr~ today."

''&:e how all that is c~nnected to together?" she said, wearing the famihar white sari and dark blue sweater and grasping her ever-present rosary beads. ' Urgmg the USD crowd to spend some time at least once a week "alone with Jesus" and to teach their chil- dren to pray, the ~!bani~ nun added: "Pray the rosary together and you will receive the love and the joy and the peace that comes with it." She repeated her love-prayer theme later at Our Lady ~f the Angels parish school, where she accepted a paint- mg and several prayer cards from parochial school pu- p!ls. "Ask your father and mother to teach you how to pray the rosary and always together . . . " she told the children "I will pray for you that you will learn to pray becaus~ prayer will give you a clean heart and a clean heart can always see Jesus.'' The Rev. Ramon Maruffo, Our Lady of the Angels pastor, told a crowd of about 150 that Mother Teresa's ideal of love is ''a prayer in motion for the needy of the world."

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SANDIEGODAILYTRANSCRIPT What Attorneys Learned FromBeing Jurors 55 Mr, l ttorn ·y tlr,n' view a tnal from th i•y ·sofajuror. r ig Rigg .,nd Gre1tg very easy for juror he would have made the same decision. Not Jimenez.

On the Move: Susan Finlay (Uajversi!l_ of San Diego Law School) has been elected presiding judge of the South Bay Municipal Court for 1988-89. She was ap- pointed to the bench in March 1980 and was the presiding judge in 19B2. She is the current associate dean of the California Judicial Col- lege. John Monks, associate dean of ortheastern University School of Law in Boston, assumes his new post today as president of Western State University, with campuses in San Diego and Fullerton. Monks received his J .D. from Nor- theastern after spending 15 years in marketing in New York City. Patricia Meyer has become a partner in Mike Aguirre's firm, which is now named Aguirre & eyer. She has worked for Aguirre for five years. "Can you imagine someone who has lasted five years with me?" asked Aguirre. Brant Noziska (USD) and Kevin Quinn (Cal Western) have made partner at Thorsnes, Bar- tolotta, McGuire & Padilla. Linda Beliveau (UC Davis) has joined Jennings, Engstrand & Henrikson. • * * The Judicial Fellows Program - patterned aft.er the White House and Congressional Fellows - is looking for persons who have an interest in judicial administration. Two fellows will spend a year beginning in September 1989 at the Supreme Court and the Federal Judicial Center. For information write Vanessa Yarnall, Associate Director, Judicial Fellows Pro- gram, Supreme Court of the United States, Room 5, Washington, D.C., 20543, or call (202) 479-3374. The deadline for applications is Noy 15, 1988. /

to get lost m the barrage of testimony," he said. "The threshold for boredom ib ex- tremely low." Obiecttons "went right over the jurors' heads. "Jurors are visually 01 iented and want to sec pictures of the case. A vanely of thmgs keeps their attention ." Exhib1t11 are very helpful and "r hevP boredom," said Higgs - like the picture of the dead woman. The I,,,~ questioning - whether it's voir dire or eJCammation of witne s - ts brief and lo the Don't wander "If you can tele- graph to the Jury without giving away your case it would be very hPlpful," said' Higgs, who has done defense work much of his career but two years ago switched to the pl11int1ffs side. And sarcasm, "when used was generally ineffective." Higgs considered Deputy Dis- trict Attorney Denise McGuire's openmg tatement the "best thing in the trial." It was "brief and to the point. It was organized and she knew where she was going." While an attorney may think that jurors occasionally doze off, Relyea maint med that "they watch everything and notice ev- erything about attorneys," even talking " about them in the hallway." While they may burst out laughing about omething an at- torney did in the courtroom - did you see those exhibits fall off the chalkboard? - they "do their best to keep an absolute poker face in the courtroom." Why didn't Cordileonc excusp Relyea? HtR Juror profile included some- one who believ(•d in personal re- Hpons1b1ltty and was physically ac- t1vp Although Cord1l,·one ran a r1sk that R1•lyea might tnke over the Jury, ht• concluded that he would be nn 1mpart1alJuror. He also felt that Relyea - be- cnu~e he was a runner and ub. cr1bed to an outdoors maga - might ~- nhjt, to understand ariium •nt th t the plaintiff could huvc done more to haMtcn her point, he was reminded . .J....

"I thought that somebody like Higgs would be able to sift through the technical difference," said Jimenez, who's been with the Of. fice of Defender Services for three years after being in private prac- tice for nine. "He was caught up in the emotional aspects." "I kind of made a mistake." What about a juror's privacy? "The jury selection process is re- ally an intrusive process," said Relyea. There is a "real fear of talkmg in a courtroom full of strangers." Both Cordileone and Porter "ac- knowledged the intrus10n" and emphasized they were not trying to pry - which was good - but you couldn't escape the questions. For instance, where did Relyea shop. what magazine~ did he read, what were his bumper stickers, hobbies, "what do you do in your spare time?" Jurors were "part of a very big system that has control over you," said Relyea. "You bond immediately. You know you're in the same boat and can't talk to anybody else." Aside from the familiarity being the rea- son for this closeness, it also "might be boredom." The jury returned a verdict against Safeway for about $50,000, less than what the arbitrator had awarded, noted Cordileone. Neither Relyea nor Higgs was the jury foreman. • . * In Apnl Alan Douglas gave notice that come October he was bowing out as a pro tern referee at Juvenile Court. He didn't know exactly what he wanted to do with his life but the present job wasn't it, not with the staggering caseloads and accompanying stress. Shortly thereafter he walked in - to an interview at the downtown courthouse and something told him that "this job is yours if you want it." He QOW supervises 20 Superior Court research attorneys - a job which "pull~ in all of my experi- ence and expertise." • • •

R<-ly a, both of H1gg.. Fletch r & Mack, did and cami• w ,y wilh f cmatin • perHpe live . one, which th y prohahly nev r would hav guim·d as lrml lawy<'rS. It was their first t1m ',1 Juror~. "I didn't ex~•cl to be named to the jury," said Higg , who's be n pr 1ct1ctn!( for 17 year . "EvPry I ,wy ·r I talk ·d tow amaz d." This w H th ·econd trial for murder c . • th first having been overturned on appeal, and 1t end d in a m1 trial. According to d n. attorney John Jim nez, a third i~ ct for later this month. Reiyea's ca: w s a trip nd f II involvmg S11fcw y. par11do,c- 1cal position," aid Rely a, who OC· casion.illy handle~ the. typeH of c.i •:1. "Th y have the most power und the least power." They decid the verdict but it's Judge who decides when to arriv 111 the mornmg, when to t ke a hrmk and when to go home at night. MoRl will let you know that jury duty is " a pretty big int ·rruption of their life," but once picked "this was truly a solemn responsibility." "A complete change seems to lnk • plnrl'," 111d R(•lyca ,Joe Cordileonc of Hinchy, Witt(', Wood, AndPrson & Hodge", who repre cnted Safeway, 1md sole practitioner Loui!'la Porter, who reprc ented the plaintiff, both did n good Job of acknowh•dging th(• disrupt 10n m the Juror ' hve~. Rely a fC'lt, which "went n long way with lhr.iuror " While the ca wn not ns com phc, led a many, it was "v1•ry, '',Juror. re plac d in

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we5day, June l, 1988 >LOCAL BRIEFS Rev. Cahill will leave USD to be parish priest . The~~k. Cahill, athletic State linebacker Kevin Maultsby and di.rector at the U~rsity of San a friend pleaded guilty to charges of Diego for the past mne years, yester- misdemeanor assault on a former da'y sali1 lie will become a parish roommate. pries~ at the Guardian Angel Cathe- The 20-year-old Maultsby and co- dral m Las Vegas. defendant Manuel Hernandez-Shute ''I'~.e ne_ver ha~ a par~~ exper_i- Jr. entered their change of pleas be- ence, said Ca~1ll, .55, an~ this fore Municipal Court Judge Frederic should be something different. L. Link in connection with an inci- . The church Cahill will .serve _is dent involving Maultsby's former ~1ght off th~ Las Vegas Strip and m roommate, Marc Sievers. its. collections. accepts gambling Under terms of the plea bargain, chi~s r~ c~os. ~n La.s Vegas, the defendants face no more than one C~h1ll said he will .be m residence at year in county jaii and a fine. accord- Bishop Gorman High School, where ing to Deputy District Attorney Rob- he .expects to do some college coun- ert Eichler. In return for the guilty selmg. pleas, kidnapping, robbery and false Cahill said he expects to begin bis imprisonment charges were dis- duties in Las Vegas between Aug. 15 missed. and Sept. 1. He said his successor, to Authorities said the incident oc- be selected by a faculty committee curred last Dec. 11 after a ring disap- headed by Thomas Burke, USD's vice peared during a party at Maultsby president of student affairs, likely and Sievers' apartment complex. will be chosen by Aug. 1. Authorities said although the thief

T he Mission: After a private luncheon and public speech to 6,000 yesterday-at.11SD's Torero Stadium, Mother Teresa took her profo~ndly simple message to her favorite audience: the children The 78-year-old wonder _ who · seems designed to bend to children found them at Our Ladies' School m the Sherman Barrio. At her request, the stop was a late addition to an already-crowded itinerary. The school principal, John Doyle, is the son of her San Diego friends and ho.sts, Dr. Anita Figueredo and Dr. Wilham Doyle. And the frail messenger seemed to take strength from the youngsters. Her lesson was d1rect: Love. Love begins in our homes. We find it by praying together. Mother Teresa was suffering from a cold yesterday. And she was running a fever. But she gave her entourage the energy to keep a grueling schedule. And betwee~ stops, she sat on the bus conductmg the business of expan.~ing her mission in San Diego and T1Juana. "Does she take naps to renew her energy?" someone asked Dr. Doyle as the bus was about to leave the school. "As far as any of us can tell," said Doyle, "she doesn't sleep and she doesn ·t eat."

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was not identified, Sievers allegedly paid Maultsby $40 toward the value of the missing ring. Authorities said restitution was slow in coming and Maultsby al- legedly got Shute to beat up Sievers, who then was taken to an automated teller machine where he allegedly was forced to withdraw $400. After Sievers was dropped off at a friend's home, Maultsby and Shute were arrested in connection with the incident. Link scheduled a July 6 sentencing date for Maultsby and Shute.

Cahill is one of the few priests serving as athletic director at a Catholic university. He came to USD in 1978 from St. Viator High School in Arlington Heights, Ill., where he was the school's athletic director for 14 years and president for two years. After a year at USD, Cahill went on a sabbatical leave for a year, then re- turned as athletic director.

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