European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 28, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 8 the stars and stripes thursday. September 28, 1939 bahrainis in a lather As soaps slip away Manama Bahrain a just As american television viewers arc beginning a new season of . Ewing intrigues and Angela planning plots their agitated fans Here arc suffering the pain of soap opera withdrawal. It s a hard comedown for viewers who for the past few months have enjoyed an almost non Stop run of Dallas dynasty knots Landing and Falcon  Channel 55. Bahrain s government run English language television network presents the shows nightly instead of once a week As in the United slates. This Means an entire season s 30 instalments Are shown in one month. Hamad Al Mutlak director of foreign program Ming said this has enabled the network to catch up with the series in the Stales whereas they previously lagged As much As two seasons behind. Falcon Crest ended this month Wilh Angela Channing s claim on inc Tuscany Valley Vineyard again in double and her son Richard headed for jail. Because the shows must be Scal off for subtitling in arabic it will be sometime next summer before local viewers find out what happens next. While dedicated fans May look in vain for accept Able Sussli tics. The end of the american soaps docs not mean ice vision in this desert Region has become a  to fare in the persian Gulf in fact might be considered Couch potato heaven with perhaps More to choose from than in most countries including the United states. Top documentaries and educational programs from american Public television s smithsonian world to Britain s All the world s a stage run in prime time along with bbl shakespearean dra Mas "60 minutes sitcoms cop shows wildlife pro Frame movies and minis pics from the United talks Britain Canada and Australia. Foreign to addicts might find the periodic prayer intermissions on Gulf networks a Bil disruptive and icy might be annoyed by the Odd transitions that result from moslem censors excising scenes of kissing and what one local to producer called the passion Alc  the  on inc other hand there s hardly More than a hint of advertising. Ads on Bahrain to run in two minute Commer Cial Breaks once or twice an evening. Viewers Here May also watch to from Qatar Dubai. Saudi Arabia even from Iran depending on their antennae and the Region s freakish atmospheric conditions. The other arabic countries also have a wide Range of programming for foreign As Well As local viewers. Saudi Arabia s Aramco station which basically serves the Oil company s foreign employees brings top sports events from abroad. It is currently show ing this year s National basketball association finals. The saudi channels offer news in arabic English and French and last week gave their late night audiences the videotaped confessions with English voice Over of 16 kuwaitis convicted of terrorist bombings in Mecca just hours Afler icy were All beheaded. Americans make up a relatively Small segment of the foreign audience. But since Dallas was first shown Here in 1975. The . Soaps with their fast paced plots and Lively characters in Lux urious sellings Are inc most popular programs Mulla said. World today 2 arrested at Border with Ltd soaked stickers Dusseldorf Wesl Germany a customs agents near the Border with Holland intercepted two Wesl germans trying to smuggle in Ltd soaked into stickers bearing the image of soviet Leader Mikhail s. Gorbachev authorities said wednesday. Agents at the Ellen Emmerich Border crossing found 130 sheets of Ltd treated paper with Gorbachev s image stamped on to look like decals according to the regional customs office Here. Two West German workers with the civilian serv ice the government s alternative to compulsory Mili tary service were taken into custody after a search of their sports car turned up the contraband. Customs agents said the Gorbachev Stamps were similar to some previous drug smuggling attempts in which pictures of Batman goofy and the movie figure . Have been used to disguise Ltd doses and pro Mote illegal drug Trade among children and teen agers. Niger s Constitution receives voters approval Niamey niger a voters in this landlocked african country have approved a new Constitution pro Viding for a gradual end to 15 years of military Rule. Interior minister attach a dark orc told a news con Ference that Only 0.72 per cent of the 3,300,000 votes cast in sunday s referendum were against the new Constitution. At a general election scheduled for dec. 10, the re turn to constitutional government will be completed. Gen. All Saibour is running unopposed for re elec Tion. He was picked by his fellow army officers As president in 1987, when Gen. Scoyni Koun Chc died after 13 years in office. Spain Morocco planning to hold annual summits Madrid Spain a Spain and Morocco have agreed to hold annual summits Between their Heads of government a practice Spain had previously limited to its european Community partners. The decision aimed at placing the two countries often Rocky relations on a firmer footing came As King Hassan ii ended a three Day state visit to Spain the first to his neighbor across the Strait of Gibraltar since he assumed the throne of Morocco in 1961, officials also signed accords to step up military co operation guarantee Spanish investments in Morocco and to continue feasibility studies on the construction of a fixed link under or Over the Strait to connect Europe and Africa. Spain administered what is now Northern Morocco under an agreement with the French who established a protectorate there in 1912. Morocco became Independent in 1956 under Hassan s father Mohammed v. Open agrees to increase output with quota to satisfy everybody1 Geneva Switzerland a open ministers on wednesday reached an agreement designed to increase the Cartel s current Oil production quota while keeping prices firm in the coming months an official said. Members of the 13-nation Cartel agreed to lift the output ceiling of 19.5 million barrels a Day in the final three months of the year. Iraqi Oil minister Issam Al Chalabi Saiu. But he declined to say How High it would he  new ceiling however would probably be below the 22 million barrels a Day open is already producing As a result of overproduction by Kuwait and the United Arab emirates. Al Chalabi. Emerging from meetings with ministers from saudi Arabia and Kuwait also refused to say whether the ministers had worked out a formula for meeting some members demands for a higher share of open s production. We solved a Good Deal he said. Maybe Well leave something for  the ministers of the organization of Petroleum exporting countries set up a meet in late november to plan their production strategy for 1990. Open Secretary general Subroto of Indonesia said the ministers rescheduled their final round of talks from Early evening to mid afternoon. He declined to elaborate. The officials were studying an unexpected proposal from Iran to Sec if it could form the basis of a Compromise. Iranian Oil minister Gholamreza a Azarch said a Ceil ing of21.5 million barrels a Day would satisfy  the iranian plan also would revise most members shares in the production pie. Kuwait and the United Arab emirates which have been overproducing to press their demands for bigger output slices would get More. Other countries shares would be  country is assigned an individual output quota based on its percentage share of the total. For example saudi Arabia the Cartel s no. I producer has nearly a 25percent share of the total Supply. Libya s Oil minister Fawzi Sha Shuki called the iranian plan unacceptable in its present form. Libya wants to get any increase Kuwait docs. The ministers have been meeting since saturday to find a Way to raise their output ceiling in the last Quarter with out sending prices tumbling. Since july the Cap has been 19.5 million Barr casaday. Crude prices have held fairly steady in recent  the average Price of a Basket of seven crude monitored by open has been about a Dollar under the Cartel s Bench Mark of $ 18 a barrel. Open members Are Algeria Ecuador Gabon. Indonesia Iran Iraq Kuwait Libya Nigeria Qatar saudi Arabia the United Arab emirates and Venezuela. And a Bone for each of my friends ass Jim in Heim a dog s life can be great if you believe this Lucky fellow at a Seaside Brasserie in Knoke Belgium. The High living Pooch seems to be waiting for the Waller to serve his table companions