Effort to Evacuate Sick Doctor Delayed
From Times Wire Reports
Blowing snow and low visibility forced a rescue team to postpone until today at the earliest a risky flight from the edge of Antarctica to the South Pole to evacuate a sick American doctor.
Ronald S. Shemenski, 59, is the only physician among 50 researchers working at the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station. He is suffering from pancreatitis.
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