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To: Grainne who wrote (13789)	4/17/1998 2:40:00 PM
From: Zoltan!	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 20981

Governor Rips Into "Georgia" Jane Fonda It's been nearly 30 years since Jane Fonda ignited her first political firestorm, but the Oscar-winning workout queen clearly hasn't lost her incendiary touch. Georgia Governor Zell Miller yesterday blasted the actress for comments she made at a United Nations forum earlier this week that compared the Peach State to third-world countries. Fonda's remarks - which also included observations that "in the northern part of Georgia, children are starving to death. People live in tar paper shacks with no indoor plumbing" - infuriated Miller, who dashed off a sharply worded letter addressed to Fonda at the CNN building in Atlanta. "Your statement that 'Georgia is like some developing countries' is simply ridiculous and reflects a prejudice I am shocked to learn you hold," wrote Miller in a rebuttal that went on to boast of Georgia's job and population growth. While he conceded that "teen-pregnancy rates remain a serious problem," the governor noted teen births had dropped 9 percent in the last six years. Fonda yesterday apologized for her statements: "I was wrong. I should not have said what I said.... My comments were inaccurate and ill-advised." Taking a personal tack, Miller's letter went on to imply that the movie star wife of media mogul Ted Turner inhabits an ivory tower. "Maybe the view from your penthouse apartment is not as clear as it needs to be." "Finally, I personally feel used and betrayed," he continued. "I have bent over backwards to work with you, sometimes to my detriment... I have encouraged your efforts against teen pregnancy. For you now to turn around and say such things about Georgia is personally offensive to me." For all her criticism of Georgia during her UN talk, which centered largely on adolescent-pregnancy prevention, Fonda stressed that she loved her adopted state. "I'm proud to be living there, and that's the truth... But we have very special problems that some of you can recognize." Miller wasn't the only Georgian infuriated by Fonda's comments. "Did she say that?" asked an unidentified man at the Atlanta Mayor's Office, noting that Turner pledged a billion dollars to the UN last year. "Why don't they put their money where their mouths are and give some cash to fix up Georgia's problems." This is hardly the first time Fonda has found herself embroiled in controversy as a result of her involvement in hot-button issues. A longtime social activist who has supported numerous antiestablishment causes, the actress earned the pejorative moniker "Hanoi Jane" for her 1972 visit to the Communist capital during the war in Southeast Asia, when she posed at the controls of a North Vietnamese anti-aircraft gun. She apologized some 16 years later. - Sandra Contreras tvgen.com I think the Georgians know better than Jane.