Kuwait, Egypt, and Greece

In January 1, 1991, U.S. warplanes attacked Baghdad, Iraq as I interviewed Kuwait oil barons in Egypt for Sunset Magazine. My mission with Lane Publishing in Menlo Park started out in Athens, Greece as soon as I got out of college for winter break. Before flying to Cairo, Egypt. Kuwait business men moved. To much attention was placed on them in Cairo. To this day, I have never seen a more paranoid bunch of investors. Trillions of dollars in oil were at stake. The globe wanted fuel. The fuel must flow. Iraq accused Kuwait of drainage. Oil was removed from Iraq by drilling underground into Iraqi oil fiends. The submerged surface drilling meant that American technology could drill into Iraqi oil fields under the earth and drain the vast pools from Kuwait. So oil officials that ruled Kuwait knew Iraq was furious. The rich hid out with their families. I went to summer school with many of the elite in 1988 on the coast of the Mediterraneans shore near Monte Carlo at the University of Languages in Nice, France. There were language students from the CIA in the states and Interpol in Lyon, France. So as soon as San Francisco State University’s semester ended, I was asked to board an international flight to Frankfurt, Germany January 1, 1991. From Athens, I flew alone to Cairo, Luxor, and boarded a ship to Aswan, where the Kuwaiti families were protected on an island with me in the middle of the Nile Delta. I have been interviewing characters ever since. That is why I love Las Vegas. Celebrities come here to me. I don’t have to go to them. Every one enjoys traveling to Las Vegas.



Reporting from Egypt in January 1, 1991 for Sunset Magazine