European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - May 14, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Inside stripes Dat Distant Hammer Battle on pages d Bella Napoli the most inter Esting City in daily Magazine d Boston celtics beat 76ers in playoff Page 21 the 27 Andis ripes authorized unofficial publication for armed forces May 1985 Dow end q 8693 a communists fail in Effort to take top spot in Italy Rome up Early returns from nationwide local and regional elections Mon Day indicate that Italy communist party has fallen far Short in a bid to become the country 1 political the vote instead appeared to be an endorsement of socialist prime minister bet Tino praxis Cente left coalition and the economic reforms it has attempted to enact Over communist computer projections gave first place to the centrist Christian the dominant Force in italian politics since world War ii and the major party in the governing officials said final returns from the 15 86 provinces and cities would not be available before Early based on partial returns of voting for Region Al councils in 452 of 500 pollsters projected percent for the Christian democrats and percent for the the communists projection claimed percent of the vote to percent for the Christian democrats praxis socialists and the other coalition the social republicans and liberals also showed gains or held their the communist vote was Down from its percent in the last regional elections in its percent in the 1983 parliamentary elections and the percent it polled in the european parliament elections a year when the party emerged As 1 nationwide for the first the Christian Democrat vote was Down from percent in but better than its percent in 1982 and 33 percent in although the italian communist party is the largest in the West and has maintained strict Independence from it had ranked second behind the Christian democrats and has been excluded from the Cabinet since political observers attributed the communists win a year ago to a wave of sentiment Over the death of the charismatic communist Enrico Only six Days before the and to the fact that the vote did not directly affect the Alessandro Berlinguer had served notice that if the communists finished first in the local and regional he would Call for Early parliamentary the communists had expected to win votes with their fight against the Praxi governments efforts to hold Down inflation by trimming costo living pay the Neo fascist italian social movement also appeared to be making modest gains in regional voting and scored a Surprise Victory in the Northern City of the City Council returns there were Complete be cause the voting was held Only on sunday instead of on sunday and monday As in the rest of the released from prison a photo Gary Dotson hugs his at her country club Home after his release from where he had been serving a 25to 50year sentence for Dotson sentence was commuted by James Thompson after Bis alleged Cathleen Crowell recanted the Testi Mony that convicted him six years ago and said the rape never took Thompson refused to Grant Dotson an outright saying he was not convinced Webb was telling the truth but he said keeping Dotson in prison would serve no useful Kohl stresses jobs after grave defeat Bonn up a crestfallen Chan cellar Helmut Kohl on monday signalled Quick government action to combat High joblessness in an initial response to his Par Tys crushing Rebuff in Germany most important state it was a grave i cant talk around Kohl told a news called by his Christian democratic party to assess the results of sundays decisive elec Tion in nor Rhein former Chancellor Willy Brandts opposition social campaigning among jobless workers on the bitter theme of the new rolled up percent of the vote in a state that contains the de pressed Ruhr Industrial Region and is Home to nearly three out of 10 West voters reelected the states popular so Cial democratic Premier Johannes who must now be considered a potential challenger for Kohl in the next general elec Tion in february we Are considering a list of measures for improving the situation on the Job mar Kohl confided to that was always my its not that we got this idea from the state but that it strengthened our acknowledging voter dissatisfaction with his National governments policies on culture and unemployment rates that exceeded 10 percent last said potential voters abandoned his party on the Christian with the unprepossessing Bernhard Worms heading the state Sank to percent of the vote from percent four years Brandts party boosted its voting strength for percent in the 1980 state election while the rival greens failed to get the 5 percent vote needed for Kohl renewed his criticism of who lost his pounded the table and accused the Chancellor of lying to the Public As the two participated in a televised postelection panel discussion Sun Day this behaviour is incomprehensible to one can Only shake ones said Kohl who triggered the Row by accusing Brandts party of primitive anti Ameri Brandt blamed Kohls party and its combative general Heiner for engineering a Well publicized snub he received from president Reagan during his recent state Kohl reacted angrily when the former Chancellor called Geissler the worst Rab ble rouser in this country since Hitler propagandist Joseph