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From his Denver jail cell, the nearly bald, swastika-tattooed murder suspect spoke the sort of poker-faced lunacy that the nation hoped it had left behind. "In a war," said Nathan Thill, 19, explaining why he shot defenseless Mauritanian immigrant Oumar Dia, "everyone wearing an enemy uniform is an enemy and should be taken out." Dia's "uniform" was apparently his skin color. Thill's "war," of course, existed only in his head. Or did it? Last week, after attacks on civilians and police by short-haired haters that left two people dead, one paralyzed and parts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ROCKY MOUNTAIN HATE | 12/1/1997 | See Source »

...then, the police had another murder on their hands. Last Tuesday, they say, Thill and suspect Jeremiah Barnum, 23, bullied Dia, a hotel housekeeper, at a bus stop and knocked off his hat. When nurse's assistant Jeannie VanVelkinburgh picked it up for him, Thill opened fire. Dia died in minutes; VanVelkinburgh, a single mother of two boys, is paralyzed from the waist down. "It wasn't a planned thing," Thill told local station KMGH-TV. "Drank a little bit. I'm a deep thinker. Walked through town with my gun in my waist, saw the black guy and thought...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ROCKY MOUNTAIN HATE | 12/1/1997 | See Source »

John Wilcox Thill...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jan. 23, 1984 | 1/23/1984 | See Source »

Business that donated to CARB did so to protect their interests, spokesmen said. "We saw it as an expense--we wanted to do it in the business interest, not the philanthropic or public interest," said Robert Thill, a spokesman for American Telephone and Telegraph Co. (AT & T) which donated $5,000 to CARB...

Author: By Laura E. Gomez, | Title: Corporations Helped Halt Nuclear Free Cambridge | 12/13/1983 | See Source »

Tripartite. In Milwaukee's normally Republican, heavily German Fifth District, isolationist ex-Congressman Lewis Thill was trounced by six-foot, ruddy Andrew Biemiller, 38, a man of three parties. Biemiller was first a campaign manager for Socialist Norman Thomas in 1932; then a Progressive floor leader in Wisconsin in 1541; a Democratic jobholder ($4,600 a year in WPB) until he ran for Congress...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New Faces | 11/20/1944 | See Source »

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