March 29, 2002

Article on advertising and marketing war in soft drink industry in India to attract young consumers; Coca-Cola Co and PepsiCo Inc are leading campaign to gain market share in India's $1.2 billion soft drink market (M)

Issue of men coaching women's basketball is debated as Duke University prepares to face Oklahoma University and Connecticut University prepares to face Tennessee University in NCAA women's national semifinals; photos (M)

Six thousand workers go on one-day strike at Royal Philips Electronics NV and threaten to stop work again next week if company does not agree to larger wage increases; unions want 3.5 percent increase, but management is offering only 2 percent; Philips becomes latest large European company to announce that it will adopt generally accepted accounting standards that are used in US (S)

Benetton Group says fourth-quarter profit fell 2.3 percent because it overestimated demand for Rollerblade in-line skates that had to be sold at discount to clear inventories; profit dropped to 64.4 million euros ($56 million) in quarter from 65.9 million euros year earlier; graph (S)

Federal officials say they might have access to much more smallpox vaccine than was thought, finding that could change their options in responding to terrorist attack with smallpox; Aventis Pasteur, drug company, says it has more than 85 million doses of vaccine, which has been stored, frozen, for decades, and that tests show vaccine is still effective; most health officials do not advocate resumption of mass vaccination against smallpox, because vaccine itself can kill and cause injuries; but disclosure that vaccine supplies are more abundant than had been thought is likely to reignite debate about how government should prepare for what is considered remote possibility of terrorist attack involving smallpox; photo (M)