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Press, 13 November 1981, Page 6

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170-year war ends . Denmark’s longest and most peaceful war has ended after a little isolated town in southern Spain decided that 172 years were enough. The town council of Huescar rescinded a declaration of war on Denmark made in a fit of patriotism on November 11, 1809, after the Scandinavian country concluded an alliance with Napoleonic France. Busloads -of Scandinavian tourists came from nearby holiday resorts to celebrate the occasion and the Danish Ambassador in Madrid (Mr Mogens WandelPetersen) inaugurated a “Calle de Dinamarca” (Denmark Street) as people drank wine and danced in the town square, dressed as Vikings. The war between Denmark and the farming town of 10,000 in the mountains north-east of Granada was never fought. The only town in Spain to declare war on Denmark forgot all about it until the declaration was found in the town’s archives earlier this year. — Madrid. Israeli court uproar Four Palestinian guerrillas have been . found guilty of killing six Israeli settlers in the West Bank town of Hebron last year, the worst attack on Israelis living in the occupied territory. Pandemonium broke out in the military courtroom when the prosecution asked for life imprisonment rather than the death penalty. After the session enraged settlers tried to assault the defence attorney and an observer from the International Red Cross. The prosecutor (Captain Haim Greenwald) pressed to explain why he had not asked for the death penalty, replied that those were his orders and he was not emKiwered to explain policy. — ablus. Anti-torture code The International Red Cross has urged the United Nations to adopt an international convention against torture, which it said was being practised to an alarming extent in many countries. A resolution, presented at the Red Cross conference in Manila by the Red Cross societies of Sweden and Switzerland, noted that “torture is condemned and forbidden by international humanitarian law, international instruments relating to human rights and the general principles of international law.” Yet, it said, “despite prohibition, torture is practised to an alarming extent in many countries.” — Manila. Paisley summoned The Rev. lan Paisley has been ordered by the Speaker (Mr George Thomas) to attend the Commons on Monday to say whether he called the Prime Minister (Mrs Thatcher) “a liar and a traitor” in Parliament. Press reports attributed the remark to Mr Paisley when he and a fellow Democratic Unionist member, Peter Robinson, staged a Commons protest shouting at Mrs Thatcher and then walking out during her statement on her recent talks with the Irish Prime Minister (Dr Garret ■ Fitz Gerald). Mr Thomas told the Commons that Mr Paisley’s alleged remark, made from the side gallery above the main Commons chamber, was not heard by him, members, or by Hansard, the official Parliamentary report. — London. Students expelled Sixteen students have been expelled from South Africa’s leading university for theological studies for attending a strip show. They were brought before a disciplinary committee at the Potchefstroom University for Christian Higher Education in the south-west Transvaal after a party to celebrate the end of the academic year. They had hired a stripper to entertain them in factory premises well away from the university. — Johannesburg. Priests jailed Two Catholic priests have been jailed for eight and 5-% years on charges of antiState activities by a court in the central Yugoslav town of Mostar, the national news agency, Tanjug, has reported. Tanjug gave no other details. Relations between the Yugoslav Communist authorities and the Catholic clergy have become strained after Albanian nationalist riots in the southern autonomous province of Kosovo last spring in which at least nine died. — Belgrade.