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     1   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  We will see how we go.  You may have a good
              point, but when I read "We are not able to spell out the
     2        company's plans", in ordinary English to me at the moment
              that can mean "I physically cannot do it", or "I do not
     3        propose to do it"; just as you learnt something
              confidential and you say:  "I am not able to tell you
     4        about that".  Of course, you physically can tell someone;
              what you mean is that, for various reasons, you do not
     5        propose to.  You are suggesting it means they were saying
              they physically could not do it?
     6
         MS. STEEL:   It says:  "We reported we would not be able to
     7        spell out the company's plans".
 
     8   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  Yes.
 
     9   MS. STEEL:   I put the question about why not put that you are
              not willing to spell out the company's plans?
    10
         MR. JUSTICE BELL:  Yes.  There we are.
    11
         MS. STEEL:   Do you think we could have the five minute break
    12        now?
 
    13   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  Yes.  We will have our break now.
 
    14                       (Short Adjournment)
         (11.35 a.m.)
    15   MR. MORRIS:  Just very briefly to wind up this, the brochures
              issue.  When you had the meeting with the Attorneys
    16        General which you attended regarding the national
              distribution of brochures, do you feel they took no legal
    17        action because in the end, as you were making national
              distribution, as you say, that really they were doing what
    18        you wanted them to do anyway?  You had the same goals,
              basically, national distribution?
    19        A.  The meeting which you characterise concerning the
              brochures, I recall, was called to discuss -- that was the
    20        series of meetings they had with a number of different
              quick service restaurant organisations in order to discuss
         their outlook on labelling and for us to express ours
              also.
    22
         Q.   Would you say you had the same goals then basically as
    23        them?
              A.  In terms of informing greater information to the
    24        consumer, if that was their goal, the answer is yes.
 
    25   Q.   Was that the impression you got?
              A.  Yes, the impression -- the impression, I recall, was 
    26        that they wanted greater information for the consumer. 
              That also was the --- 
    27
         Q.   Your goal?
    28        A.  -- the goal of the Federal Governmental authorities at
              that time also.
    29
         Q.   The meeting you had with the New York Attorney General you
    30        felt you had the same goals with them as well, when you
              had the meeting earlier?