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New England veterans’ protests of Jane Fonda’s planned filming of “Union Street” have spread to the town of Holyoke, Mass. The city’s aldermen were expected late Tuesday to pass a resolution objecting to Fonda’s shooting this summer in the area because of her 1972 visit to Hanoi during the Vietnam War. Veterans groups in Holyoke and nearby Chicopee, Mass., and Waterbury, Conn., have likened Fonda’s Vietnam-era anti-war actions to the infamous anti-Allied World War II propaganda broadcasts by “Axis Sally” and “Tokyo Rose” in Europe and Asia. Holyoke Mayor Martin J. Dunn has told the protesters he plans to stay neutral on the issue because “it is a free country.” MGM has predicted the film would pump at least $2.5 million into the economy in the Holyoke-Chicopee area.