er PAGE 6, THE HERALD, Tuesday, May 15, 1978 -Moro’s Christian Democrats Italy’s election score high in ROME (AP) - Initial returns from Italian local elections showed a strong swing today to the Christian Democrat party. whose leader, Aldo Moro, was slain by the terrorist Red Brigades. : As the votes were being counted, the Brigades struck again, seriously wounding an official of a car factory in Bologna. : In the northeastern city o Trent, partial returns from Sunday's voting showed the Christian Democrats scoring a strong increase in their share of the vote while the Communists and Socialists lost some ground. Political analysts had predicted a strong sympathy vole for the Christian. Democrats after the Red Brigades kidnapped and killed former premier Moro, the president of the party, but the shift seemed to be stronger than predicted. Moro, 61, was kidnapped March 16. His bullet-riddled body was found in Rome last week after the government refused to deal with the terrorists who demanded the release of some of their comrades. The government is Ghristian Democrat but is supported in Parliament by the Communists, the nations’s second-largest party. IN the main voting centre of the Trent area, Rovereto, the Christian Democrats increased their share to 45.7 percent from 39.1 per cent in 1974 local elections: the Communists dropped to 17.8 from 18.5; the Socialists fell to 11.7 from 14.4. The rest ; of the votes were divided among smaller parties, with none getling more than 10 percent. The trend was similar in other towns reporting from the area, with the Christian Democrats taking 51 percent in Avis, 33.2 percent in Besenello, 70 percent in Amblar and 42.5 percent in Telve. Trent was the only area reporting returns this morning, with voting con- tinuing during the day in 800 other cities. A total of 3.8 million voters, or 10 percent of the national total, cast ballots. Jn the Bologna incident, police said three men and a woman jumped out of a car, shot 48-year-old Antonio Mazzotti as he was entering Former CIA director admits his mistakes NEW YORK (AP) - In the days when the CIA’s paramilitary skills were freely in use around the world, he sent the first sabotage teams into North Vietnam, From those clandestine beginnings grew the intense U.S. bombing of North Vietnam and the com- mitment of 550,000 U.S. ground troops. The man who admits to starting it all, William Colby, later director of the CIA, now believes it was all a mistake. Tn his book published today by Simon and Schuster, Honorable Men: My Life in the CIA, Colby argues that “whether we would have won or lost,”’ the only way to have sensibly fought the Vietnam war was at the village level as a politicl struggle against the Com- munists, using only Viet- namese forces. Colby went on to play a major role in counter- insurgency and pacification programs in Vietnam, but in his book he clearly believes that it was then a lost cause. As CIA station chief in Saigon in 1963, Colby writes of attending a. Hawaii con- ference where plans were ' discussed tostep up the war. He says he tried to con- vince then-defence secretary Robert MacNamara that the sabotage teams sent into North Vietnam had disap- peared quickly from radio contact and possibly were captured “and that putting such teams into the north did not and would not work,” Colby says that Mac- Namara “‘listened to me with a cold look and he rejected my advice.” “The desire to put pressure onto North Vietnam prevailed, and there and then the United States military started the planning and activity that would escalate finally to full-scale air atlacks," Colby criticizes the late BAPTISTS LED BY WOMAN CAMBRIDGE, England (CP) — Nell Alexander, 63, of Cambridge, recently became the first woman president in the 166-year history of the Baptist Union of Britain and Ireland. She vas installed at the union's annual meeting at West- minster Abbey in London. ie << president John F. Kennedy for going along with “what 1 still consider the worst mistake of the war, the American-sponsored overthrow of President Ngo Dinh Diem.” But Colby also believes thal Kennedy ‘would at the very least, had he lived, recognized the futility of a Massive miltary buildup as a way to fight a guerrilla war,” Weeds Burning You Up? Try Using New Strategy The Northern Gardener hy Dave Havard Some of the newer ways for batiling weeds may not be suited to Jawns. After all, it’s hard to imagine running a flame thrower ar laser beams across the lawn, or herding new “livestock” selections (no matter how discriminating) across nicely kept turf! But maybe something will evalve from the specialized techniques now being tried! What If we could stimulate all of the weed seeds-in the lawn to sprout at once! Then they could be zapped with a weed killer to their considerable embarrassment, or be nudged towards slaughter by lethal winter weather against their better instincts. Chemicals that encourage sprouting are being looked at quite serinusiy. Or maybe marginal! species can be turned more susceptible to winter-kill with a spray. (In some climates you can eliminate fall fescue from blue- grass this way, simply by fertilizing the lawn heavily.) A“vitamin” could perhaps be developed for grass ta make It Invincible to killing sprays strong enough to finish off all else. A technique of this sort has already been worked aut for oats - So that the ones wanted are chemically protected and the ones we don't want aren‘t. And, of course, specialized insecis or other predators are continuously being discovered which are able to feed on certain species only. Why not weed- muchers that don’t care for lawngrass, like the parasites we turn loose to control some insect pests? Nevertheless, the best weed control of all for lawns, a thick, flourishing turf - is not likely fo be superseded soon. If you want to keep weeds reliably under control, make the lawn so dense that weeds have neither the space nor sub- stance to succeed. A sprouting weed can seldom compete against vigorous grass! High class cultivators bred specificatly for turf can help, especially when properly fertilized. Tall mowing makes lawngrass that much more competitive: lawns mawed two inches tall may have tenfold fewer weeds than tufs scalped at an inch or less. Most of today’s lawn cultivars are bred not only for ‘den- sity, but for low stature that lets much vigor-promoting green leaf escape the mower. They tolerate disease, for the mest part, and they are responsive to fertilization. And for emergencies there are excellent backup alds, including an assortment of selective herbicides suches as the 2,4-D combinations that kill broadleaf weeds without injuring lawn-grasses. 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On the eve of the showdown vote, scheduled for late today following several hours of debate, Carter sought support from a number of senators for his $4.8-billion plane-sale proposal. He telephoned them Sunday from the presidential retreat at Camp David, Md., where he spent the weekend. Then, in a statement issued before he returned to the White House, Carter said he thinks the Senate will approve the proposed sale to Israe, Egypt and Saudi Arabia. The president said he has been ‘impressed by the sincere desire of senators I have talked with this weekend to rise above partisanship and political concerns." He called the sales “crucial to our efforts to secure a just and lasting peace in the Middle East.” Senate Democratic leader Robert Byrd of West Virginia also foresaw vie- tory. “I think we have to votes to allow the sales to go forward,” he said. Two opponents, mean- while, predicted a close vate. Republican Senator Jacob Javits of New York said the resolution to disapprove the sale would be decided by “one or two votes on either side.” And the assistant Democratic leader, Senator Alan Cranston of California, said the situation in the Senate is “extremely fluid,” Cranston broke with the administration on the plane deal, saying the White House offer of 20 additional planes later on for Israel was ‘insufficient.’ He also said the assurance that the planes sold Saudi Arabia would not be used against Israe was "undependable."’ : Carter wants to sell 60 F- 158 to Saudi Arabia, 50 less advance FSEs to Egypt and 14 F-15s and 75 F-16s to Israel, Meanwhile in a letter to Carter released Saturday, King Khalid of Saudi Arabia said he wants “to emphasize that the planes are being acquired for defence” and that his country urgently needs the planes “because of the continuing, and recently stepped-up, Communist expansion in the area.” His remarks came shortly after Carter told a group of editors that Cuban military forces are operating in South Yemen. The House of Represen- tatives international relations committee votes on the plane sale Tuesday. Unless both houses disap- ve, the say by May 28, Carter is free to go ahead with the sales. SAVE THOSE SOCKS Worn-out socks and sweaters, cut round and round in continuous strips, are great for making hooked rugs. CERY iT, IT'S CHEAP Anempty wine bottle filled with cold water makes an excellent pastry rolling pin. PARTICIPATE IN CANADA'S EMPLOYMENT TAX GREDIT PR¢ neers meme ite nti saices Fett deal he Government of arate ther Canada has introduced the Employment Tax Credit Program to stimulate employment in the private sector by providing a tax rebate for business. Here's how it works. 1. If an employer expands his normal work force by hiring an unemployed person through a Canada Manpower Centre/ Canada Employment Centre, and the job has been created as a direct result of the Employment Tax Credit Program, the business is eligible to claim the tax rebate. 2. Almost any business that’s been in operation for more than one year is eligible 3. The rebate is calculated at 81.50, $1.75 or $2.00 per hour. This rate is determined by the geo- graphic area of Canada in which the new employee will be working. 4. The rebate is deductible from federal income taxes payable but must be added to the " business's taxable income. Unused | amounts may be carried forward for up to five years. 5. A claim may be made for up to 40 hours work a week for each new employee for a period of up to Centre. iv Employment and Immigration Canada ‘Bud Cullen, Minister nine months. 6. Each new job must be full-time. Nor- mally no less than 35 hours a week. And that's it, essentially. The program has been designed to work with a mini- mum of red tape. All employers should bynowhavere- ceived a booklet tie: gives all the detaii: ~~ of the program. If it’ has not been received, employers should contacta —: m local Canada Man- — power Centre/Canada Employment a “a aa The Employment Tax Credit — - Program. It's ready to go to work for Canada. And for you. Empltolet * Immigration Canada Bud Cullen, Ministre