northernmost point a group of sportsmen skiing in the mountains has been hit by an avalanche rescue as of the karol regional rescue services receive request for assistance they do not know how long it will take them to reach the scene a lot depends on distance the terrain and weather conditions they have vivid memories of what happened to a group of skiers from some peaches book a few years ago januvia of each is one of those who know all too well what the full force of an avalanche feels like. to through as i approach the edge to get ready for the descent. you know i was knocked over with such force from my gloves and hat in the shuttle and everything became unfastened. i sensed i was tumbling down at top speed with an enormous mass of something pressing on me it was like being under a stamping press. i cannot say how long all that lasted i was told the avalanche was on the move for only four or five seconds but to me it seemed like an eternity with enormous blocks of snow and ice reduce everything in their path to smithereens they sweep away trees and destroy buildings at one point i felt as if i

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so he called the president to tell him he had met karol wojtyla, the arch bishop of cack cow and he had been named pope. and president carter has this wonderful quality of being exuberant and exaggerating people's relationships and he got off the helicopter and he came down and the press asked him about how he felt about it and he said, it's just wonderful, the new pope is a very close, personal friend of dr. brajinski and he was slightly embarrassed by that. then he was invited to the white house and it really was a sensational event and i will never forget, it was a gorgeous, gorgeous day and he had on his white robes and the wind caught the back of it and it's kind of a cape and it came up. so it looked like he had a halo, and it was really kind of the beginning of my thoughts about him as a really holy man. i saw him when he came to the's coast another time when he went to san francisco to sell brate the -- celebrate the founding of the united nations. and my last meeting with him was in 1998 and it came about as a result of the fact that the pope had been to cuba and we were very i