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| Please can we have our bells back? ravaged Philippine town asks U.S. Thursday, Nov 21, 2013 11:15 PM PST  By Nathan Layne BALANGIGA, Philippines (Reuters) - In the devastated coastal Philippine town of Balangiga, a Roman Catholic belfry with a maroon steeple rises from the rubble, a battered symbol of resistance for a people with mixed feelings about the U.S. military now helping them survive. After one of the world's most powerful typhoons roared across the central Philippines and killed more than 4,000 people, U.S. military helicopters are flying in aid to desperate regions such as this once-picturesque fishing village of 12,600 people in ravaged Samar province. Animosity has festered for more than a century over the ultimate insult: seizure of the town's church bells by U.S. troops. Marciano Deladia, a chief aide to the mayor, and other residents are thankful for the U.S. packets of rice and other food. Full Story | Top |
| Please can we have our bells back? Philippine town asks U.S Thursday, Nov 21, 2013 03:57 PM PST  By Nathan Layne BALANGIGA, Philippines (Reuters) - In the devastated coastal Philippine town of Balangiga, a Roman Catholic belfry with a maroon steeple rises from the rubble, a battered symbol of resistance for a people with mixed feelings about the U.S. military now helping them survive. After one of the world's most powerful typhoons roared across the central Philippines and killed more than 4,000 people, U.S. military helicopters are flying in aid to desperate regions such as this once-picturesque fishing village of 12,600 people in ravaged Samar province. After months of bloodshed, animosity has festered for more than a century over the ultimate insult: seizure of the town's church bells by U.S. troops. Marciano Deladia, a chief aide to the mayor, and other residents are thankful for the U.S. packets of rice and other food. Full Story | Top |
| For whom the bell cracks; Harvard sues over defective clapper Thursday, Nov 21, 2013 12:42 PM PST Harvard University has sued an Ohio company, saying a defective bell clapper sold by the company broke an 81-year-old, 5,000-pound (2,268 kg) bell dedicated to the memory of its students who died in World War I. The 377-year-old Ivy League university located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, sued Commercial Music Service Co of Lancaster, Ohio, contending that a new clapper it installed in 2011 produced a two-foot crack that changed the deep, resonant tone of the bell, creating a louder and harsher sound. In papers filed on Monday in U.S. District Court in Boston, Harvard said the company, formerly called Chime Master, had started servicing the bell in 2006 and persuaded the university to buy a new, custom-made clapper even though it knew there was a spare. An attorney for Commercial Music Service, John Jarosak, declined to comment on Thursday. Full Story | Top |
| Boeing cargo jet takes off after mistaken Kansas landing Thursday, Nov 21, 2013 12:09 PM PST By Alice Mannette WICHITA, Kansas (Reuters) - A Boeing cargo jet that was stranded overnight at a Kansas airport too small to handle the giant aircraft took off safely Thursday and landed a short time later at what had been its intended destination, officials said. The Dreamlifter bound for McConnell Air Force Base in Wichita, Kansas, had inadvertently landed instead at the nearby Colonel James Jabara Airport run by the city, according to a statement by Boeing Co spokesman Doug Alder. Airport officials and spectators applauded and sighed with relief when the massive plane's wheels left the airfield about 16 hours after the erroneous landing. City officials said the 235-foot (72 meter) Atlas Air 747 Dreamlifter landed at Jabara late Wednesday by mistake, but did not say what led to the error. Full Story | Top |
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