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Mr. Desmond Lee referred to the case two years ago where the Attorney General sent a warning letter to a newspaper concerning

a report in which they said that packets of soft drinks had been

poisoned. Mr. Lee said that subsequently a man was arrested and convicted in correction with the matter, so that the original report

was not untrue after all.

I think Mr. Lee must be confusing two different ouses here.

It is certainly true that there has been a case recently in which

paokata packets of soft drinks were found poisoned. The incident two years

ago, however, when a waming letter was sent to a newspaper, was an

entirely separate netter, The report in question there was undoubtedly

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