Day 246 - 09 May 96 - Page 56


     
     1        representative interjected and said -- I do not know, I
     2        have no reason to think it did not happen in that way, but
     3        I do not remember the occasion.
     4
     5   Q.   Is there anything in there you disagree with or say "No,
     6        that is not true"?
     7        A.  No.  I do not materially disagree with anything there.
     8
     9   Q.   OK.  I think we can leave that then.
    10
    11   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  Then in section C, Mr. Harris, was it?
    12
    13   MR. MORRIS:  Yes, it is the second one.
    14
    15   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  C2.
    16
    17   MR. MORRIS:  From The Financial Times, Clay Harris is, or he was
    18        when he interviewed you on the 14th December 1990, (the
    19        second page), the Consumer Industry's Editor and on the
    20        third page is the actual article that was printed.  Can you
    21        read the front page and the second page and say whether
    22        they are accurate as far as you can see, or if there is
    23        anything incorrect, please point it out.
    24        A.  What I am reading is the one that starts out FT 14th
    25        December 1990.
    26
    27   Q.   Yes.  The cover with it just to verify?
    28        A.  OK.
    29
    30   Q.   The page before.
    31        A.  In the paragraph that says: "The  Company will have an
    32        equity stake", I do not know if that is true or not.  It
    33        may very well be true.  As to "undertaking an active
    34        management role in marketing the products", I could not
    35        confirm or deny that either; I just do not know.  This
    36        relates to the US company it says, yes?
    37
    38   Q.   If you look at the first page, it says: "I confirm that
    39        I wrote the attached article which was published in The
    40        Financial Times on December 14th, 1990. The information
    41        stated within it were based on an interview I had with Paul
    42        Preston at McDonald's Head Quarters in East Finchley on
    43        December 11th, 1990", so it is based upon, he says, what
    44        you have told him.
    45
    46   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  You are then being asked to read the page
    47        after that, not the newspaper article, because that has
    48        clearly been very much homed down either by Mr. Harris or
    49        some sub editor who thought his original article was far
    50        too long, so you are being asked to read the one you are 
    51        reading now, yes. 
    52        A.  OK.  I think the gist of the article is right.  I do 
    53        not ever remember saying we would have an equity stake, but
    54        I cannot remember that I did not say it.  I know at that
    55        time we had active discussions with companies about trying
    56        to model something here exactly after what they had done in
    57        the United States.  That was certainly the intention.
    58
    59   Q.   Right.
    60        A.  But it did not happen.

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