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     2   MR. RAMPTON:  Do you have yellow 14?
     3        A.  Yes.
     4
     5   Q.   Would you please turn to tab 53?  Would you just please
     6        look at it?
     7        A.  Yes.
     8
     9   Q.   Do you notice its date? It is April 21st 1983?
    10        A.  I have May.
    11
    12   Q.   That is the top right-hand.  That is the date of receipt.
    13        The date of sending appears to be April 21st 1983.  Would
    14        you just, please, read it to yourself and tell me when you
    15        have finished and then I will ask you a question.  You will
    16        notice it comes from somebody called Richard Lowe who is
    17        expressed to be the Managing Director of McDonald's Costa
    18        Rica.
    19        A.  Yes.
    20
    21   Q.   Do you think you have seen that letter before or not?
    22        A.  I do not remember it.
    23
    24   Q.   Can I ask you, please, to turn to tab 64?  This comes from
    25        the same gentleman.  It is a month later, 25th May 1983.
    26        It is addressed to Fred Turner at McDonald's Oak Brook.
    27        Again, please read it to yourself concentrating on the
    28        third paragraph.
    29        A.  I have a vague recollection of this memo.
    30
    31   Q.   Do you know or do you think or are you uncertain whether
    32        that is one of the documents that you mentioned when you
    33        were here in December?
    34        A.  Yes.  I remember we had some discussions about some
    35        meat companies exporting to ----
    36
    37   Q.   That is what the cross-examination was about, the
    38        suggestion being that Coope Montecillos had exported beef
    39        for use by McDonald's in the USA.  You remember that?
    40        A.  Yes, right.
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    42   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  So in answer to Mr. Rampton's question you
    43        think this may have been one of the documents you saw, do
    44        you?
    45        A.  Yes.  What I distinctly remember is that it was
    46        addressed to Mr. Fred Turner and I remember seeing BK, that
    47        they were supplying to Costa Rica, from Costa Rica to them.
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    49   MR. RAMPTON:  You can put that one away, please, Dr. Gomez
    50        Gonzalez, whether it is permanently or not I am afraid 
    51        I cannot tell you at the moment.  I want to take up some 
    52        more recent things.  Can I ask you this first.  Looking 
    53        into your recent memory and calling to mind as much of that
    54        film that we looked at this morning and this afternoon as
    55        you can, you will recall that you said in answer to his
    56        Lordship that you thought the spread out or density of
    57        animals in the feed lots was fairly typical, yes?
    58        A.  Yes.
    59
    60   Q.   Leaving that on one side, what, if anything, in that film

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