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...famous for her reserve, had to apologize to her adopted state last week after comparing Georgia to a Third World country. Addressing a U.N. function, she said that in northern Georgia, "children are starving to death. People live in tar-paper shacks with no indoor plumbing." This incensed Governor Zell Miller, who's from those parts. "Maybe the view from your penthouse apartment is not as clear as it needs to be," he groused. Fonda apologized instantly, saying her remarks were "inaccurate and ill-advised." Peachy...
DIED. FERDINAND PORSCHE, 88, who helped his father engineer the Volkswagen Beetle (at Hitler's behest) and later created the wildly popular and profitable German sports car that bears his name; in Zell am See, Austria...
Next year's political model may resemble a 61-year-old businessman named Guy Millner. In 1994, armed with $1.6 million of his own money, Millner jumped into Georgia's gubernatorial race and won the Republican primary before losing narrowly to incumbent Democrat Zell Miller. Two years later, Millner ran for Georgia's vacant U.S. Senate seat--again gaining the G.O.P. nod, and again falling short in the general election. Political wags figured he was finished, or possibly broke--Millner had footed $6.4 million of that campaign's costs. But this summer Millner surprised them and announced his candidacy...
...Relative value. Many housing markets only recently emerged from the ashes of that mail-the-bank-the-keys, late-'80s decline. So there's little risk of a new meltdown. The renowned real estate bargain hunter Sam Zell has been building one of the nation's largest portfolios of apartment buildings. Meanwhile, the way the sky-high stock market has been bouncing has some folks fretting that a tumble is in store. This may be a good time to take some stock gains and invest in larger quarters. "It's a way to diversify," says Bob Van Order, economist...
...example, Pepper got the idea that clandestine Army units were stalking King from a sensational series of articles by former Memphis Commercial Appeal reporter Steven G. Tompkins, who now serves as a spokesman for Georgia Governor Zell Miller. In 1993 Tompkins wrote, "On April 3 [the day before the killing], King returned to Memphis. Army agents from the 111th Military Intelligence Group shadowed his movements and monitored radio traffic from a sedan crammed with electronic equipment. Eight Green Beret soldiers from an 'Operation Detachment Alpha 184 Team' were also in Memphis carrying out an unknown mission." Although Tompkins wrote that...