April 16, 1970

IT was one of those evenings where everybody loved ev erybody aise, but the most spectacular love song was re served for the end, when Pablo Casals conducted 100 cellists on the stage of Phil harmonic Hall in his own “Sardana” The occasion was a benefit concert for the American Symphony Orches tra Free Concerts for Chil dren and the United Nations International School. It was indeed an occasion with par quet tickets priced at $125 (a gross of $151,000 was taken in). And, above all, those 100

Mins Com of Council of Eur, 15-2, adopts resolution asserting Greek regime engaged in 'torture and ill treatment' of pol prisoners; makes pub rept drafted in '69 by Eur Human Rights Comm detailing alleged misdeeds by regime, meeting, Strasbourg; resolution calls on regime to abolish torture and other ill treatment, release immediately persons detained under adm order and restore without delay human rights and fundamental freedom; rept says comm heard allegations of torture by more than 200 detainees, including Mrs A Tsirka, who said she was tortured while pregnant; says comm examined 30 cases, established torture in 11 cases and found evidence corroborating complaints in 17 others; concludes there was no danger of Communist takeover at time of coup; asserts regime violated Eur Conv on Human Rights; meeting chmn G Thorn (Luxembourg) comments; opponents of regime hope action will further arouse pub opinion against it and that it will be dissuaded from taking further harsh measures against dissidents; France and Cyprus did not vote for resolution; Theodorakis, in message read by Servan-Schreiber in Strasbourg, deplores prison and concentration-camp system in Greece; Servan-Schreiber scores France for not voting for resolution

withdraws as gubernatorial candidate; por

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Gov Rockefeller and Mayor Lindsay weigh tentative pkg of new taxes and revenue measures including revised numbers type of lottery calling for daily drawings and tickets selling for 25c; annual yield of $40-million anticipated