European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - July 13, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                July 1985 the stars and stripes Page 5 rues experience7 99yearold recipe brings Back classic formula Atlanta up coca cola officials have admitted they misjudged americas passion for Coke when they changed the taste of the soft drink and said their decision to reintroduce old Coke was a humbling a groundswell of negative reaction since the taste change for the 99yearold soft drink was revealed in april prompted coca cola officials to announce wednesday they Are bringing Back the original Coke As coca cola the simple fact is that All of the time and Money and skill poured into consumer research on the new coca cola could not measure or reveal the deep and abiding emotional attachment to original coca cola Felt by so Many said Donald coca cola presi Dent and chief operating coca cola classic will be sold alongside the new Coke at the same Price on supermarket company officials on Wall investors welcomed the news by pushing coca cola Stock to its highest level in 12 years when it jumped wednesday to and was up another 1 a in trading Industry analysts expressed Surprise at the move and said it was in direct response to protests engineered by angry Coke drinkers reacted to the new Coke with Boycotts and even a thousands of Consumers wrote and called coca cola Headquarters in Atlanta to express their one letter likened changing Coke to god making the grass another dear chief we knew we would hear howls from certain quarters but the passion for original coca cola was some thing that caught us by Keough said at a news some critics say coca cola made a marketing some cynics say we planned the whole the truth is we Are not that dumb and we Are not that its been a humbling the latest development in the billion year Industry caused rejoicing in All Corners from the pro testing Consumers to coca cola bottlers to cokes chief rival in cola it took us 87 years to get the first Victory and less than 87 Days to get the crowed Roger Pepsi president and chief executive weve been going eyeball to eyeball with them coca cola for 87 years and they blinked and changed their less than 87 Days they changed it Back if they keep doing things like we May not need a marketing Coke officials maintain new Coke is the company flagship drink and predicted eventual Success for the a photo new which was accidentally discovered by re searchers working on a formula for diet in company officials said they made the formula change because Market research indicated Consumers liked the tastes of the new Coke better than the but recent surveys by other agencies show different including a Chicago research firm which revealed 59 percent of soft drink buyers who have tasted the new Coke liked the original formula while claiming that sales of the new Coke in May exceeded company Coke officials said june figures were clearly below Navy investigating malaria death of Sailor on Cruiser by Norman Black Washington a the Navy has opened an investigation into the june 17 death of a Sailor aboard the Cruiser trying to determine whether the ships Hospital corpsman misdiagnosed his Petty officer Mark a sonar technician from Green died at sea last month from the effects of what an autopsy determined was according to a spokesman for the Pacific Fleet in Hon the master chief Petty officer Thomas confirmed in a Telephone interview that an investigation into the circumstances of Merciers death was now being conducted by Commodore Bernham Mccaffree the commander of amphibious group Streeter declined to discuss details of the investigation beyond saying it would probably not be completed for another two to three another Navy source who asked not to be named that the Hospital corpsman aboard the Worden apparently had failed to recognize that Mercier and a cremate were suffering from the medical Michael has been relieved of his medical duties but is still aboard the Worden for the time the source the which does not carry its own has yet to return to its Home port in Honolulu since the incident the part of the Battle group accompanying the aircraft Carrier was operating in the Northern arabian sea at the time of Merciers it had paid a fou Day port Call May 2125 to along with the Constellation and other Streeter As a result of the port five other sailors besides Mercier contracted the spokesman one was on the while the other four were aboard the All Are either fully recovered or recovering he according to an account published by the newspaper Navy times and subsequently Mercier was initially diagnosed As suffering from tonsillitis and was treated for his condition initially but he then suffered a relapse on june 17 and began although the Worden was operating in the Vicinity of the which had doctors on no re quest apparently was made for additional the source while suffering from a vomiting died later that Day when his jaws locked efforts by nearby bunk mates and the Hospital corpsman to revive him were according to the navys Pacific Fleet has recorded 56 cases of malaria so far this the last malaria Case to result in a occurred in he Sands of time in the stars and stripes 40 years ago july 1945 the 3rd Fleet task Force is Riding somewhere off japans Southern its actions cloaked in a Security while jittery Tokyo Broad casters warned that new assaults were expected at any 30 years ago july 1955 Clark and Kay the former wife of California sugar heir Adolph Spreckels were married in 20 years ago today july 1965 the first Large contingent of combat infantrymen men of the 1st inf div have landed in Cam Ranh South the landings will bring the total of troops in Vietnam to 10 years ago today july 1975 the portuguese military in Lisbon threw their country into one of its worst political crises in recent ousting the socialists from the government and placing the army on Pickering gets Senate nod other Safe nominees okd Washington a the Senate approved nearly two dozen state depart ment nominations thursday including Thomas Pickering As ambassador to is ending a two week struggle with conservatives Over the in addition to the list of officials winning approval on routine voice vote included Elliott Abrams As assistant Secretary of state for inter american affairs and Nicholas an aide to former president Richard As ambassador to the nominations had been pending since late last when Jesse r sought to Block confirmation until the Reagan administration found jobs for six conservative officials at the state depart Helms said he was pleased with the developments resulting from talks with Dep Uty Secretary of state John but declined to say specifically that the six conservatives had been Given assurances of new the confirmation of the 23 officials left four nominations still Senate majority Leader Robert said the Senate would consider their cases next they include Richard nominated As ambassador to West Germany after serving As assistant Secretary of state for Canadian and european affairs in the first Reagan administration Edwin Corr As ambassador to Al Salvador Rozanne ring Way As successor to and John Ferch As ambassador to in has drawn opposition from who believe he has not taken a Strong enough position on arms control