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NATION PageS THE BATTALION Coca-Cola to lay off 6,000 www. spnngbreak.. sopadre.com Find Out What’s Under Those Togas! Join us Saturday, February 5th for "Roman Ruins," the newest in our series of fun Murder Mystery Dinners. You are a guest at the Roman villa of renowned poet Flabbius Corpus. Flabbius has asked you and the other guests to help him celebrate his newest poem, "Rome Wasn't Bilked In A Day." But, Flabbius is detained. Being murdered tends to make you late. Who finalized Flabbius? Licentius Caesar? Maximus Testosterus? Or, just maybe it was you! You'll love this new, fun Murder Dinner. Mystery It's only $85 per couple. Wonderful food, but you will have to stop laughing to eat. For reservations or more information, please call Designer Events at Messina Hof (409) 778-9463, #34 ATLANTA (AP) — Coca-Cola plans to eliminate 6,000 jobs, its biggest employment cutback ever, as part of a ma jor restructuring at the world’s largest soft drink maker. The cuts announced today will affect 2,500 positions at the company’s Atlanta headquarters, 2,700 overseas and 800 jobs around the United States. Coke estimated that the cuts will save $300 million. The size of the cuts surprised many analysts who had pre dicted Coke would trim 2,000 to 4,000 jobs. It is the latest move by the company to boost its profits since President Douglas Daft was designated to become chairman and CEO after its April shareholders’ meeting. Daft has been trying to decentralize Coke’s operations so the company can react more quickly to problems that arise in its markets around the world. Today, he said product recalls in several European coun tries last year had been “a wake-up call” that made compa ny officials realize they were not well-prepared to deal with local situations. More of the company’s international officers will be sent out of Atlanta to the areas they oversee. Daft, who will succeed M. Douglas Ivester in the com pany’s top posts, called the cuts “painful both for those with in the company who will be directly affected and for those responsible for making this decision.” Coke also said it will take an $800 million charge before 1 taxes this year to cover costs of the realignment. Laid-off ! workers will be offered severance packages, outplacement and counseling. Daft said the decision was made after a six-month, com prehensive review of the company’s entire operation and the realization that Coke needed to restructure its operations. “This was not a targeted number. There was no sense of saying we need to reduce X number of positions,” he said this morning. “The concept was w hat business structure do w e need for the future? And once you do that... then you come up w ith a new organizational structure and that’s where you put your people, and then you come up with a number.” Coke recalled beverages in Belgium and France this sum mer when people complained of illness after drinking the prod ucts. Coca-Cola-produced mineral water was recalled twice in Poland, when a customer found mold in a bottle and later due to bacterial contamination. The recalls were only part of Coke’s worldwide problems last year. Takeover attempts of the French brand Orangina and Coke leaves a bitter taste Coca Cola announced Wednesday that it' its global work force, with its Atlanta headc Atlanta headquarters About 6,200 employees I I The company Quarterly finar Jan. 26 ck>M $63.06 1 Cadbury Schw eppes’ overseas brands a ulatory concerns in Europe. And in th former and current black employees I for racial discrimination. 1 oday s announcement came as Co quarter earnings of 31 cents per share lyst forecasts of 30 cents per share. ; L) -Co JFK assassination films donated DALLAS (AP) — An amateur cam eraman’s now-famous home movies of President John F. Kennedy's assassination have made their way back to the Dallas plaza where the 1963 shooting took place. The survivors of Abraham Zapruder have decided to give their last original du plicate of the film and its copyright to the Sixth Floor Museum, named after the sixth-floor window where Lee Harvey Os wald fired the fatal shots. The donation represents a potential windfall in licensing income and prestige for the 11-year-old Dallas museum, which stands next to the spot where the president met his demise. It is owned by the city and the county. “This is a coup,” Jeff West, the muse um’s executive director, told today’s The Dallas Morning News. “It’s truly transfor mational for us, and it secures our future, not just financially but historically.” In a written statement about the muse um gift, the Zapruder heirs said the deci sion keeps alive the family’s desire to pro tect the film from exploitative tactics. “The guiding principle for the use of the film, established by our father and grandfather at the outset in 1963, was the balance of respect for the sensitive nature of tlie images with appropriate access by the public,” the statement read. The family said it decided on the do nation because it had confidence museum Imimstrators shan edged to meet the nik . the Zapruder fain tin stand nd hi er. essmakcr, was the only person to ivcoid the entire sequence o! JFK’s assassination w ith his 8mm camera. The Zapruder family announced their intention to transfer the copyright s own ership to a public institution in August, al ter an arbitration panel ordered the U.S. government to pay the heirs $16 million plus interest for the original film. The Assassination Records Review Board in 1997 declared the film the per manent possession of the people of the United States. News in Brief HnitM.laY. J; Baby suffocates on Pokemon toj INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Ai month-old Ooy suffocstGd int^ crib on a Burger King Pok&ncr ball - the subject of a natxr wide recall after a similar dear last month. Zachary Jones was found des Tuesday of what an autopsy dete mined was asphyxiation, sat Deputy Police Chief Lana Seta der of suburban Lawrence. The toy — a hollow plasticbs that opens clamshell-style - had been left in Zachary's crib? his step-grandmother. Sheer- back later to find him withhj the ball covering his nose a 1 ; mouth. 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Givir| lions of children annual flu s’ raises questions of logistics.s: ty and cost-effectiveness. “I don't think there willb: change in the recommendaf until all those issues ; thrashed out," said Dr. Keijifv da, chief of epidemiology in" influenza branch of the Cer? for Disease Control and Po tion, which conducted oneoi- studies. New guidelines for Megan’s La* TRENTON. NJ. (AP) —Alec al judge has ordered New Je* to rework its sexual offender? fication law. known as “Megs Law,' and threatened to shuttT the notification process if (Xt 5 cutors can't put tighter control who receives the information. Responding to a class act lawsuit filed by the state Defender’s Office, U.S. Dist' Judge Joseph Irenas said^ : Jersey had failed to impleir consistent standards of Iw tifications are conducted. He ordered state Attor General John Farmer to re** the law and issued an orde halt all sex offender notifi tions, but he agreed to dela) implementation to give Farf a chance to appeal. 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