European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - October 20, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 8 the stars and stripes sunday october 20, 1991 Only 87 kuwaiti Oil fires still burning by Youssef m. Ibrahim the new York times Riyadh saudi Arabia a less than eight months after most of its Oil Wells were set ablaze by withdrawing iraqi troops causing one of the worlds great environmental and economic catastrophes Kuwait has put out most of the fires Oil Industry officials in the Region said last week that All the fires would be extinguished sometime in november. More than 700 Wells were sabotaged. Yet the Speed with which they have been brought under control and the $1 billion Cost so far have surprised Many Industry experts. Back in february most of these experts had predicted that it would take two years and several billions in dollars to restore the country a once thriving Oil Industry. A was of today we have Only 87 Oil Wells on fire a a senior kuwaiti Oil executive said in a Telephone interview a and they Are being put out at the rate of two to three a  kuwaiti Oil minister Hamoud Al Ruba told the kuwaiti parliament earlier this week that 28 teams of Oil Field firefighting specialists will Complete their work Well ahead of a dec. 23 conference of Heads of state from the Gulf cooperation Council. The Council is an Alliance made up of saudi Arabia and five smaller countries on the arabian Peninsula. Kuwaiti and saudi official said they expected Kuwait soil exports to increase to 550,000 barrels a Day by years end and 1.3 million barrels a Day by december 1992. Before it was invaded by Iraq in world August 1990, Kuwait pumped 2 million barrels daily. Kuwaiti officials estimate the total Cost of the iraqi sabotage to be at least $22 billion including wasted Oil and damage to the pipelines pumps and wellhead in the Oil Fields. A the recovery has been much faster than what most people expected and it comes at a time when the world Oil markets can use More Oil to Dampen the Rise in Oil prices a said Pierre Terzian editor of Petro strategies a Paris based Oil Industry newsletter. A movie company re enacting the failed soviet coup gets puzzled looks and worried comments from  coup May be coming to Heaters around the world Moscow apr tanks rolled through Moscow Friday and a Man who looked remarkably like russian Republic president Boris n. Yeltsin raced to the parliament building to rally the masses. Shooting broke out but Only with cameras. The soviet coup May be coming to a theater near you. More than a few muscovites got a Jolt on the startling first Day of shooting of a $14 million movie. A we re redoing the coup Quot grinned danish director Jan Jung standing on Moscow a Kutuzov sky Prospect As 11 soviet t-72 tanks on flatbed trucks and 10 armoured personnel carriers played havoc with midday traffic. The trucks unloaded the tanks on the Busy downtown Street in preparation for a scene depicting the Start of the failed aug. 18-21 coup by communist hard liners. Harried police tried to direct traffic around the armoured column and Gawker lined the sidewalks. The tanks were parked just a few Hundred Yards from the Moscow River Bridge that was barricaded with buses to prevent troops from reaching the russian parliament where Yeltsin had marshalled the opposition. Jung said buses will be used to again barricade the Bridge and 4,000 extras will be hired for the resistance scenes in front of the parliament building. A it took a Long time to get government approval a he said. Jung said he wants Yeltsin himself to play the gripping heart stopping scene in which he mounted a tank outside the building to declare his opposition to the coup. A a we re negotiating a the director said. For other scenes however a double is being used. The ersatz Yeltsin heavily made up but fitting the physical proportions crammed himself into a Small soviet car next to the tanks and headed for parliament. Jung said the film will focus on the heroic efforts of everyday soviet citizens during the dramatic moments that transformed the nation. Jung who has directed 40 films said the movie is being put together by Panorama films International the producers of the Academy award winning movie Babette s foist. He said it is a russian american danish production. Shooting of the film is expected to last two months half of it in Moscow.2 killed by bomb in office of Turkey s ruling party from wire reports Istanbul Turkey a a time bomb blew up at an office of president Turgut Ozalis motherland party two Days before general elections killing a police officer and a Security guard police said saturday. The attack was one of four bombings late Friday night in Istanbul. It raised fears that today a parliamentary election could be marred by violence. No one was wounded when firebombs were thrown at the prime ministry archives building and a military base. A passer by suffered minor injuries when explosives blew up at a tax office. Dev sol or revolutionary left claimed responsibility for the bombing at the motherland party office in the suburban District of Kartal. The claim came in a Telephone Call to the Istanbul daily Hur Riyat. The leftist underground group has targeted turkish military officials and killed several americans in Turkey earlier this year to protest the . Role in the persian Gulf War. Ozal supported the Allied Effort against  knocks out Generator Moscow a fire broke out at a Power station in a densely populated Section of Moscow Early saturday morning knocking out one of six Active generators but causing no injuries the station director said. Nestor serb Tyannikov general director of the heat and electrical Power station no. 16 in Northwestern Moscow said the Blaze in Turbo Generator no. 6 was extinguished within five minutes by local firefighters. The Independent news Agency inter fax quoted a firefighter As saying the Blaze began when an Oil pipe that feeds Oil into the bearings of the generators engine began to leak. As a result insulation covering the machine room ignited encompassing the 48-Square-Yard room in flames inter fax said. Officials at the Plant said More than 80 firefighters came to the  whale on the Barbie Cape town South Africa its of to Barbecue giraffes and rhinos but the government has rejected an application by some fishermen to catch and Cook a whale on the spit. The department of environmental affairs turned Down the request because the whale is a protected species the South african broadcast corp. Reported Friday. The fishermen May have been prompted by the highly publicized Barbecue of a Giraffe in May and by the announcement last month that a White Rhino would be  of two murdered German police found Bielefeld Germany apr the remains of two police officers missing for a week after they were lured into a trap and killed were found Friday when a suspect in the Case led investigators to a site where they were buried police said. Andreas Wilkening 34, and Jorg Lorkowski 30, were lured to a Rural area near Bielefeld Early last saturday after a caller telephoned police to say he had hit a wild animal with his car. The two policemen never returned Bielefeld police said. Searchers found their burned car a with gunshot holes a near a British military training area in sen Elager but no sign of the men. Sen Elager is in nor Rhein westfalen. A massive search involving 3,000 searchers and British air Force jets taking infrared photos of the Countryside failed to turn up the men. Police said they were finally led to three suspects when someone recognized the voice of one of them in the recorded conversation of the Man calling in the alleged Accident with a wild animal. Three Brothers identified Only As Dietmar j., 29 Manfred 26 and Ludwig 25, were arrested on wednesday. On Friday police said the oldest brother led them to a grave in a densely wooded area on the British training area where the bodies were buried. Police said Dietmar  Had been released last month after serving a 10-month prison sentence for robbery. They said he admitted killing the men and his Brothers helped hide the bodies. The murdered men were both married and each had two Young children