Delete a photo permanently after selecting in album view

In iPhoto 11 in Lion 7.1, I know that if I select some photos in an Album (that is, in single Album view) and delete them, they will be deleted from the Album only, not from iPhoto itself. In other words, the photos will remain in Photos view:
I can of course search for the identified photos in Photos view, but that means noting (in single Album view) the photo numbers assigned by my camera (eg., P6160092) to each photo and then, for each photo, changing to Photo view and searching for a photo and deleting it. Time-consuming, inelegant and tedious.
Doing the selection in single Album view is important because I will often want to delete neighbouring (repeat or faulty) photos, or the nearby originals of a panorama created from them. Deleting quite a large number of photos is important because it is so easy to take many versions of a scene.
Therefore, what I would like to do is to select them in single Album view and then tell iPhoto to delete them not only from that Album but also from Photos view (and therefore delete them from the computer).
I was able to do that in an earlier version by selecting the photos on Album view, then pressing CMND OPTION DELETE, then CNTRL-CLICKING on iPhoto's Trash icon and choosing "Empty Trash". I haven't dared do this on my present collection in case something goes badly wrong. "The Missing Manual" is no help here.
So, how can I do that please?
Also, I note that if photos are displayed in Events view, the resulting Events are not in alphabetical order (like I have my list of albums) which seems unhelpful. So what is the point of Events view if it simply duplicates the list of Albums?

You ask:
So, how can I do that please?
But you have already answered:
selecting the photos on Album view, then pressing CMND OPTION DELETE, then CNTRL-CLICKING on iPhoto's Trash icon and choosing "Empty Trash".
Sorry but I really don't understand what you're asking.
Regards
TD

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