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Press, Volume CXV, Issue 33957, 25 September 1975, Page 17

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Charity appearance

The American entertainer Danny Kaye, has flown tc Britain to “borrow” the Lon-

jdon Symphony Orchestra He will be taking the baton I from the orchestra's regular Iconductor. Andre Previn, for I part of a charity concert , which will be attended by 'Princess Margaret. Mr Kay 'has raised £2.5m for charities by guest conducting. Tickets for the concert, in laid of the Variety Club of 'Great Britain, cost up to I £5O.- —London. Teacher fasts A Vienna schoolteacher. :Miss Johanna Steindl, aged 32, has begun a hunger strike in Stephan Cathedral ‘ in protest against a decision by the Soviet Union authorities to turn down her lequest for an entrance visa for Russia to marry a Soviet Union publicist, Alexander Sokolov, whom she met I when she was t eaching in 'Moscow for a year.—Moscow. - i Officer's confession A Portuguese Left-wing officer has claimed full responsibility for the recent theft of more than 1000 Army rifles here, saying that he had handed them out to “revolutionary workers." In la radio interview Captain Alvaro Fernandes, an influential member of Portugal’s Copcon internal security command, said that he stole the guns while they were being taken from a Lisbon ammunition depot to two Leftist regiments.— Lisbon. Torture allegation Left-wing Peronists allege that hundreds of Argentine political prisoners are being tortured in prisons throughout the country, the tortures ranging from burning with acids to drug treatments and fake executions. The Leftwingers have urged the Peronist Government to appoint a committee of inquiry. — Buenos Aires. Plea to Suharto The Swedish Pen Club has sent a telegram to President I Suharto of Indonesia, who | will celebrate his tenth year I in power on September 30, asking him to free imprisoned writers and journalists. The telegram mentions in particular the novelist. Pramoedya Ananta Toer, who, the club alleges, has been allowed no contact with his family for 10 years, and who has not been allowed to read or write since he was detained on the island of Bum. —Stockholm. Protest in France France's Left-wing trade union groups have held demonstrations throughout the country to press their demands for higher wages, shorter working hours, and retirement at 60. — Paris. Land loss Fewer Britons should be given burials in future because they are taking up too much space, according to the president of the Federation of British Cremation Authorities, Mr Jack Roberts. “Cremation is not only more hygienic and less harrowing for the mourners, but save Britain 300 acres of land each year," he said. — London.