Day 276 - 09 Jul 96 - Page 24


     
     1        A.  Yes.  If I just say, in the third statement of Alan
     2        Clare, paragraph 6, just to say that he later said that he
     3        had observed that the drawers was in fact marked McDonald's
     4        -- MuckDonalds -- just to say that there was never, in all
     5        the time I have been to Caledonian Road, there has never
     6        been a draw marked 'Mcnasty'.
     7
     8             Just going to the photographs behind Mr. Claire's
     9        statement, in photograph No. 5.  I mean, obviously, there
    10        are various posters all over the place, but just to point
    11        out that the kind of yellowish poster that is by the edge
    12        of the door, not the main door, the--
    13
    14   Q.   Yes?
    15        A.  The door through to the other room, that is level with
    16        the Yale latch, or whatever you want to call it, that
    17        poster is an IMF poster.  It is actually IMF World Bank
    18        Funding Global Oppression and Starvation.  Just to make the
    19        point that obviously it was not a new campaign, and the
    20        photograph was actually taken on a previous IMF
    21        demonstration.  The other one is in photograph 7.  That
    22        drawer 1 was urgent letters, drawer 2 was McDonald's
    23        inquiries, drawer 3 was the not so urgent general, other
    24        inquiries by IMF about the borders campaign, about all the
    25        other things.  And then the fourth was one for answered
    26        letters.  His key is incorrect, because he says that there
    27        is one drawer for letters regarding McDonald's then another
    28        one -- sorry, he says there is one drawer for letters
    29        regarding McDonald's which need to be answered by people
    30        like Paul or Andrew, and there is another one about
    31        McDonald's in general.  There was only one McDonald's
    32        drawer.
    33
    34             What happened was that letters that were complicated
    35        would just be left at the bottom of the drawer for
    36        Mr. Gravett to deal with when he came in and that in
    37        photograph No. 9, as I think it was Miss Laporte said, or
    38        Mr. Gravett, I cannot remember, there was a box which was
    39        used for stores which had a wide variety of leaflets in it.
    40
    41   Q.   There was a box what?
    42        A.  The McDonald's fact sheets box was the box that was
    43        used for stores.  It was not full of McDonald's
    44        fact sheets, it was full of a variety of the different
    45        leaflets which the group had which would be taken to stalls
    46        and it would have a collecting tin in it as well and
    47        probably the group's banner used to get kept in there some
    48        of the time as well.  It was basically because the group
    49        reused, you know, everything that came into the office, so
    50        just to make use of an odd box.  And where the other label
    51        is on No. 7, which says "anti-McDonald's leaflets
    52        fact sheets", there would not have been the fact sheets
    53        because they were not, there would not have been hardly any
    54        left by this stage, and in fact I think they may have been
    55        the aims and objectives leaflets, because there was always
    56        an over-abundance of them knocking around for some reason.
    57
    58             Yes, in the key to photograph 10, in the key there is
    59        a No. 10 on the drawer, the international reference drawer,
    60        and it is labelled as the "anti-McDonald's international

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