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Despite alert farmers, the tree thieves are still reaping a rich harvest. Mill owners are too happy to see black walnut logs to ask embarrassing questions, and new state laws designed to reduce tree rustling are proving hard to enforce. Thieves at work near Monroe, Iowa, added insult to injury. Spotting a black walnut tree near a house, they noticed that the residents were not at home. In felling the towering tree, however, they sent it crashing onto the house, causing $2,000 in damage. Undaunted, they cut off the top of the tree, took the trunk and left...
...Council formed a subcommittee on cable television at Owens' suggestion. Contrary to normal Council procedure, Mayor Barbara Ackermann, a member of the CCA slate, passed over Owens and named Councillor Robert Moncreiff chairman of the subcommittee. Owens protested loudly and Ackermann replied that the maneuver constituted a "studied insult." Since that time Owens has attempted through several different motions to have himself named chairman. His proposals have usually wound up sitting on the table for weeks as other councillors seemed reluctant to take sides in what was becoming a personal dispute between the mayor and Owens. Owens does not hide...
...impact on his people. Alluding to the Sudanese custom of slitting an animal's throat when butchering it for a feast, he said that the commandos had "slaughtered their hostages like goats." Then, he added, they had left their corpses "to rot" for more than one day (an insult to the Moslem practice of burying the dead within 24 hours). Sudanese law provides for capital punishment in first-degree murder cases, but Middle East observers think that heavy prison sentences are more likely...
...employees are scattered among 27 member firms that make everything from diodes to diapers, but they can sing the company song, vacation at company resorts and enroll in Mitsubishi-sponsored haiku-writing and flower-arranging courses. Yet for years Mitsubishi executives have stewed over an insult to the ideal of togetherness: some 80,000 Mitsubishi workers are unmarried...
...ultimate insult, really, is to be ignored. Cheshire should know that...