ice with scuba gear now he prefers to ride over the top with a special sledge and a parachute good milosevic almost what i like about kites sledging is that you have a choice of parachutes or a three metre parachute is good for strong winds up three to six to seven metre parachute is the right size for milder winds this one is nine and a half metres their case for any weather conditions or all of them will kill you forward you won't get you. by might be a good one you're catching the wind is what i enjoy most of all it is like riding a giant horse galloping up breakneck speed you go i am carried away by a feeling of exhilaration because i am fully aware of the infinite power of nature's forces well they could pulverize my yacht sledge and kite in no time i make mincemeat out of me but yesterday. the weather on the white sea often changes abruptly but after a long struggle a leg is finally able to catch the wind. witnesses . to history in the making of. testimony. ten stories that shapes two thousand and eleven on our t.v. . beluga trainer alexander biologist natalia are cut off from civiliza

the revolutions in eastern europe east germany czechoslovakia romania all the uprisings against milosevic in belgrade when movements like these begin you never know where they're going even the leaders don't know where they're going i was sitting in a room in leipzig on the afternoon of november ninth one nine hundred eighty nine with the leaders of the east german opposition and they were saying that perhaps within a year there would be free passage back and forth across the berlin wall within a few hours the wall didn't exist so i mean that's a small illustration of the fact that even the purported leaders of populist movements like this one have no idea where it's going to go we're all hoping that it becomes so powerful and so immense that it begins to shift power away from the one percent back to the rest of the citizenry when you compare this moment to what we saw going on in the one nine hundred sixty s. here in america i think the sixty's were different. the status the new left in the sixty's was largely a middle class phenomenon. it was severed from labor labor did not support. th

for example, milosevic has invaded bosnia and has not been stopped. the euphoria makes you say let's disarm. after world war i, we disarmed too quickly. the americans left europe. had they stayed in europe, there would never have been world war ii. we mustn't make that mistake this time. there's a war in bosnia. the gulf war came after the end of the cold war. on the other hand, the end of the cold war has facilitated some peace processes like the one in the middle east between the palestinian people and the jewish people. but in the whole of my life in politics, the unexpected happened. whether it was the invasion of the balkans or kuwait or the libyan raid we suddenly had to do it. thank goodness we had the wise foresight to see we had all the right weaponry, in the navy, army, and air force, the right aircraft, the right ships, the right missiles, the right and latest technology. it's that which helped to bring the cold war to an end without a shot being fired. that and s.d.i. so, we must not go into a euphoric phase now. at the end of the collapse

milosevic has stepped down. that's one less polysyllabic name for me to remember. [laughter] [applause] you know what this world really needs? it really needs more world leaders named al smith. [laughter] >> it is an honor to share the dais with the descendants of the great al smith. al, your great, great grand father was my favorite kind of governor. the kind who ran for president and lost. [laughter] >> about 15 minutes left. glen in freeland, michigan, you are on the contenders. please go ahead. >> thank you very much. the question i have is with all the anti-roman catholic racism and his being the first major american presidential party candidate that was roman catholic and everything, how much international attention did this get? specifically, did the pope at the time ever weigh in or comment on any of the campaign he ran or anything like that? thank you very much. >> thank you, glen. beverly gage, if you want to start? >> right, well, in terms of polls you didn't really have the same kind of polling mechanisms you have today so these things are a little bit