Day 278 - 11 Jul 96 - Page 10

     
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     2   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  You see "fourth largest" and there are five
     3        lines in quotes there.
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     5   MR. RAMPTON:  I will not read it again but you can always read
     6        it to yourself.
     7        A.  Yes.
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     9   Q.   That is completely different, is it not, from what is in
    10        your defence?
    11        A.  It is different, I don't know about completely
    12        different.
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    14   Q.   No, can I ask you please to--
    15        A.  But I did not write this defence.
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    17   Q.   Can I ask you, please, to pass on in that pink file now to
    18         -- bear with me a moment -- tab 48 would you?
    19        A.  To where, sorry?
    20
    Q.   48, please?
    22        A.  In tab 1A?
    23
    24   Q.   In pink 1A, yes, please.  You will see this is an expanded
    25        or enlarged version of the A5 short leaflet.  Mr. Atkinson
    26        has written "October 16th 1989" on it, but one can see that
    27        he is right.  One turns over the page where one sees the
    28        date for the fayre is given as Saturday 21st October, which
    29        was 1989?
    30        A.  Yes.
    31
    32   Q.   I am interested, Miss Steel, in the first page of this
    33        leaflet?
    34        A.  Yes.
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    36   Q.   Against the triangle starting, "McDonald's owns vast tracts
    37        of land in poor countries like Costa Rica"?
    38        A.  Yes.
    39
    40   Q.   Did you have any evidence that McDonald's owned land in
         Costa Rica?
    42        A.  Me, personally?
    43
    44   Q.   Yes?
    45        A.  No, I have never been there.
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    47   Q.   No.  Did you have any grounds for thinking that McDonald's
    48        owned land in Costa Rica?
    49        A.  I did not write the leaflet.
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    51   Q.   Okay.  Then it says this?
    52        A.  If other people write leaflets then, you know, as long
    53        as they are things that accord generally with the sort of
    54        things that I have read before, I am inclined to believe
    55        them.  You know, when I read a newspaper I don't believe
    56        everything I read, but unless there is something which
    57        makes me think, oh, that sounds unbelievable, I, you know,
    58        I generally would believe what I read.  I think, you know,
    59        that is how most people probably operate because if you
    60        walked around not believing anything you read just because