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Compaq terminates employee positions at Houston headquarters
tails of the cuts, which will total 1 7,000 jobs, world's second-largest computer maker
or about 20 percent of the companies'85,500 behind IBM. ,
total payroll. Most of the cuts will come at The Digital deal followed Compaq s 199/
purchase of Cupertino, Calif.-based Tandem
Computers, a maker of big business comput
ers, for $3 billion.
"Integrating all Compaq manufacturing
operations into a single, cohesive organization
is essential as we build the future Compaq,"
Eckhard Pfeiffer, president and chief executive
officer, said.
The goal of the manufacturing consolida
tions is to deliver 95 percent of all products
anywhere in the world in five days or less, the
computer maker said.
Compaq said some Houston assembly lines
would be closed while warehousing and lo
gistics are realigned to consolidate regional
distribution and direct-ship orders from the
factory to retailers and resellers.
HOUSTON (AP) — Compaq Computer
Corp. is closing six plants overseas and elim
inating 5,000 jobs, 600 of them at the for
mer Digital Equipment Corp. facility in
Marlboro, Mass.
In Monday's announcement, Compaq said
it is eliminating 1,000 jobs at its headquarters
in Houston.
The moves are part of a previously an
nounced cost-cutting drive following Com
paq's acquisition of Digital and Tandem
Computers.
Most of those being laid off at Marlboro
are administrative workers. The facility
there was headquarters for Digital's manu
facturing operations.
Most Digital workers in Massachusetts are
administrative or in engineering, sales and
customer service.
The announcement provided the first de-
Digital, which had 54,000 employees when it
was acquired by Compaq earlier this month.
"This is not new," Compaq spokesman
Alan Hodel said. "It's a detail under the
bigger picture."
Two plants will be closed in Scotland and
one each will be shuttered in Brazil, China,
Singapore and Taiwan. Compaq also is clos
ing operations in Australia, Brazil and Japan
that handle final assembly of computers for
shipment to customers.
Monday's announcement describes lay
offs first announced June 12 after Digital
shareholders approved Compaq's $9 bil
lion purchase of the Maynard, Mass.-based
computer maker, ending Digital's 42 years
of independence and making Compaq the
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ber of people sickened by bad
Galveston Bay oysters has risen to
at least 128, more than double
from late last week, state health
officials said yesterday.
David Estlack, of the Texas
Department of Health's
Seafood Safety Division, said
none of the illnesses so far has
been serious. At least 1 8 of the
cases involve raw oyster dinners
in Florida restaurants.
The most recent count was up
21 from Monday.
Health officials last week issued
bulletins that the oysters were
tainted by a bacterium called Vib
rio parahaemolyticus.
Wholesalers are tracking
shipments to restaurants
around Texas and to Louisiana,
Florida, Colorado, New Mexico
and California and warning
them not to serve the shellfish
raw. The bacterium is killed by
thorough cooking.
So far, the outbreak is the sec
ond-largest of its kind in the na
tion's history. Last year, 208 peo
ple in the Pacific Northwest were
sickened by oysters tainted with
the bacterium. One person died.
Symptoms from the ailment
range from diarrhea
and fever. H
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with liver problems,im
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users of steroids, asfol
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this month, officials sail
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salty water around oyste
Galveston Bay.
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