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<text id=89TT1142>
<title>
May 01, 1989: American Notes:Idaho
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<history>
TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1989
May 01, 1989 Abortion
</history>
<article>
<source>Time Magazine</source>
<hdr>
NATION, Page 43
American Notes
IDAHO
Dearth of a Nation
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<p> The occasion: a parade in Coeur d'Alene, Idaho, honoring
the 100th birthday of Adolf Hitler last week. The host: Richard
Girnt Butler, 71, leader of the white-supremacist group Aryan
Nations. The invited guests: young skinhead toughs whom Butler
wants to recruit to his bigoted cause. A 21-year-old Californian
identified himself as "Whiteman." At a press conference he
defined the skinhead philosophy as "retaliation for all the
years of being beaten down by other races." He went on to
predict that "a new generation has to come. The skins are the
next wave."
</p>
<p> Despite Whiteman's fervor, Butler -- explaining that he did
not want to risk exposing his followers to an "AIDS-infected"
mob -- decided to call off his parade after local human-rights
activists promised to bring in up to 3,000 protesters to stage
an opposition march (1,200 showed up last Saturday). Butler had
to settle for a diatribe-filled "skinhead seminar" attended by
a pathetic audience of some 50 racists at his nearby compound
in Hayden Lake.
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