Day 249 - 14 May 96 - Page 53
1 ARNI?
2 A. Because by then I had already decided that I would
3 carry out an inquiry to determine who the authors,
4 publishers, distributors, of the pamphlet were. Well,
5 I had decided -- I had been given instructions to do that
6 by Paul Preston.
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8 Q. You had a meeting with -- this is going back to this
9 meeting we were talking about -- this discussion with other
10 senior people at a media meeting; what was the outcome of
11 that discussion?
12 A. Keep it under observation.
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14 Q. Whose advice was that?
15 A. That was decided between Starman and myself.
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17 Q. That was it?
18 A. Yes.
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20 Q. Keep an eye on it?
21 A. At that time, yes.
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23 Q. Did Mr. Starman contact you again about how things were
24 going, whether there was any progress or any news?
25 A. No, not until after we had served writs. I do not
26 think I saw Dick -- I might have seen him but we did not
27 discuss this.
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29 Q. OK. The next action -- I think, perhaps, the best thing is
30 if you tell us the next thing that happened after this
31 meeting, this discussion with Dick Starman and other
32 people?
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34 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Can you put it another way? Do you remember
35 anything of significance happening between the events you
36 have been telling us of and the October '88 protest?
37 A. No, other than that the document itself was getting
38 even more widespread, not just the leaflet. That is the
39 whole point, not just the leaflet, but literature arising
40 from that leaflet containing the text or the cartoons of
41 that. It clearly was having an effect. It was getting a
42 lot of support world wide.
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44 MS. STEEL: That worried you, did it?
45 A. It worried me because I remember, for instance, getting
46 a call from Australia and they were asking me whether
47 I intended to do anything about it. I also had a call from
48 a franchisee in New York who asked me whether I was going
49 to do anything about it. So that was concerning. But at
50 the time I had a lot of other work going on as well.
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52 Q. OK. If you could take us through what happened in relation
53 to the fayre, the London Greenpeace fayre?
54 A. Right.
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56 Q. Hang on, because we have done -----
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58 MR. JUSTICE BELL: I do not want him just to repeat. If there
59 are particular matters you want to check, please do. But
60 I do not really want Mr. Nicholson just to go through what
