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     1        brochures.
     2        A.  Yes, from talking with the various companies,
     3        including McDonald's, it was clear to us that the
     4        companies knew that their food was not nutritious in the
     5        sense that I have been using it, and this memo gives
     6        further support for specific knowledge on the part of
     7        McDonald's prior to that meeting and certainly prior to
     8        the 1987 advertising.
     9
    10   Q.   Just one point of procedure I forgot to bring up.  The
    11        press cutting that was referred to earlier regarding -- it
    12        was July 10th 1986 -- the distribution of ingredients
    13        brochures.
    14
    15   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  You have a copy.  Are you going to ask about
    16        that, Mr. Rampton?
    17
    18   MR. RAMPTON:  No, my Lord.
    19
    20   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  I had better have a look at it then.
    21        (Same handed)
    22
    23   MR. MORRIS:  We can just put it behind Mr. Gardner's
    24        statement.
    25
    26   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  What I propose to do is, I am going to mark
    27        mine 191A.  I am going to put it in volume VI A behind the
    28        letter of 21st July 1986 purely and simply because the
    29        second paragraph of that letter says, "according to press
    30        reports", and this appears to be one such report.
    31
    32   MR. MORRIS:  May I just ask the witness, for the record, the
    33        quotations from you in that press report, are they
    34        accurate quotations?
    35        A.  I do not have one before me.  Could you read it out to
    36        me?  (Handed to the witness).
    37
    38   Q.   As far as I can see, it is only one small quote in the
    39        second column.
    40        A.  I believe I was the only person at the Texas Attorney
    41        General's office that Mr. Hidlay spoke with prior to
    42        writing this article.  I, therefore, believe that his
    43        reference in the preceding paragraph was just the quotes
    44        there that said "Texas Attorney General Jim Mattox said
    45        through an assistant that the McDonald's" -----
    46
    47   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  You need not dwell on it.  The only reason
    48        was there appeared to be a reference to a document which
    49        we have not got.  If Mr. Rampton is not going to seek to
    50        make anything of it and you have not particularly wanted 
    51        to get anything from him, I do not suppose I shall.  But 
    52        that is the where I put it in case we need to refer to it 
    53        in the future.
    54
    55   MR. MORRIS:  Thank you.
    56
    57   MS. STEEL:   We went through the letter of April 24th which the
    58        Attorney General's office of Texas wrote to McDonald's.
    59        Was that, in fact, the first communication that you had
    60        with them concerning this advertising campaign?

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