Day 140 - 22 Jun 95 - Page 30
1 MS. STEEL: She says in the second paragraph: "We are in the
2 process of reviewing the executive summary of your study
3 and will be submitting to your our responses and question
4 several of the shareholders who have contacted me. I
5 believe we cannot make a valid judgment about the Company's
6 report without seeing it."
7 A. That is correct.
8
9 Q. "Therefore I request again that you permit the full study to
10 be reviewed by even a few of us with the agreement that it
11 will not be submitted to either the campaign or the media."
12 A. That is correct. I think I just mentioned to you that
13 I had met with Sister Marie-Lucy; I did not have the
14 complete study at that time; and, subsequently, I offered
15 it up to her as a result of her request that she would like
16 to see more.
17
18 Q. Why did you not have a copy of this full study at the time?
19 Do you mean you had not seen it before that time?
20 A. My recollection is that we had the complete study.
21 I think we had the complete study. I am trying to
22 remember. I am almost positive we did; yes, I am sure we
23 did. She asked for a great deal of information beyond the
24 study as well. We had approximately a three/four hour
25 meeting to go over everything that I had brought with me on
26 that occasion; and they indicated they wanted to think
27 about what they had heard, what they had seen, and they
28 would get back to me for additional information.
29
30 Q. So you did have the complete study at the time?
31 A. I am pretty sure I did, sure.
32
33 Q. Why did you not give her a copy?
34 A. Because I did not think she was interested in the
35 complete item, that the summaries would be sufficient, and
36 if they had any specific questions beyond that, I would be
37 delighted to deal with that.
38
39 Q. It says here: "I request again that you permit the full
40 study to be reviewed." It does not sound like she did not
41 want a copy of it?
42 A. As I said to you, she requested to have more
43 information, and this was her letter following up, asking
44 for it.
45
46 Q. Why did not you give these community groups a full copy of
47 the -----
48
49 MR. JUSTICE BELL: I have not yet been told -- or I may have
50 been and, if so, I have already forgotten it -- what
51 happened when you offered her the full report.
52 A. She -----
53
54 MR. JUSTICE STEEL: Let us get the facts, as Mr. Stein says
55 they are; and then you can challenge them if you think they
56 are wrong.
57
58 THE WITNESS: Subsequent to the letter, she and I had two or
59 three conversations by 'phone, and I answered various
60 questions that she raised and offered to hold another
