Searches for the Model I Charged Higgs with OPAL Detector at LEP               
  
Using 175 pb^-1 of data recorded with the OPAL detector at                     
189 GeV center of mass energy, we have conducted a search for                  
Model I charged Higgs production, which assumes that all of the                
fermions couple to the same Higgs doublet, making H^+ -->                      
W^* A^0 the dominant decay mode at high tan(beta).                             
We have performed a new multichannel analysis to identify candidates           
for such W^* mediated three-body decays and combined the results               
with that of a previous search for H^+ --> tau nu                              
and H^+ --> q qbar in order to scan the Model I                                
parameter space as a function of tan(beta) and the H^+ and                     
A^0 masses for evidence of charged Higgs production.                           
  
 Parallel session :11                  
 Plenary  session :7a