Day 245 - 07 May 96 - Page 28


     
     1        A.  About press releases?
     2
     3   Q.   About what the Company was going to put out in terms of the
     4        trial?
     5        A.  No, not until the end, not until they had determined
     6        what they were going to do, brought it to me, I had a
     7        read.  We talked briefly through it and we went forward.
     8
     9   Q.   Who was it that you talked about it to?
    10        A.  The entire Communications Group, Mike, Edwina and
    11        others.
    12
    13   Q.   Right, so you had a meeting with all those people present?
    14        A.  I do not recall that they were all present.  I took
    15        advice from counsel.  I assured myself that -- that was
    16        maybe why they sent the press release out from that fax
    17        number.  They may have been with counsel at the time,
    18        I really do not know for sure, I can only hypothesise --
    19        what we were doing was right, correct and proper
    20        considering where we had been, what had happened over the
    21        years, and that which was contained in your own material
    22        released from the first of the year in 1994, including your
    23        background document on Greenpeace, London.
    24
    25   Q.   But at this meeting, did you specifically ask about all
    26        these points or did you just assume that they were all be
    27        true?
    28        A.  Ms. Steel, I cannot remember whether I asked about
    29        every paragraph or every line on that page or not.
    30        I assured myself that my people had done their very best in
    31        putting together a document which accurately spoke to the
    32        issue to counter balance that which you yourselves were
    33        putting out.
    34
    35   Q.   Does Mike Love still work for McDonald's?
    36        A.  Yes.
    37
    38   Q.   What is his position now?
    39        A.  He heads communications.
    40
    41   Q.   What about Miss Bensilum, does she still work for
    42        McDonald's?
    43        A.  Yes.
    44
    45   Q.   What is her position now?
    46        A.  She works for Mike.  She is his assistant.
    47
    48   Q.   Why is it that they have not come to court to give evidence
    49        seeing as they might know a bit more about it?
    50        A.  The issue, I think, is probably best covered by me as 
    51        the buck stops here. 
    52 
    53   Q.   So you are responsible, but before you came into the
    54        witness box you did not bother to find out all these points
    55        that you could have quite safely assumed you would have
    56        been asked about?
    57        A.  Ms. Steel, I assured myself that what was on that paper
    58        was accurate and had been put together with the correctness
    59        and we went forward on that basis.  My people had no reason
    60        whatsoever to not tell me the truth as they understood it

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