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A WORD ABOUT SPELLING -- HOW ELSE ARE YOU GOING TO LOOK IT UP?

For the record. It is spelled "Cumbey" and NOT Cumby.

JAVIER AND ME -- AN INTRODUCTORY HISTORY

I have followed Javier Solana's blossoming career with great interest since initially discovering him via the internet on November 22, 1995, five days before the Barcelona Process opened with the convening of the first Barcelona Conference on November 27-28, 1995. I am a Michigan, U.S.A. attorney who has long combined interests in history, politics, and religion. He deserves far more serious scholarly and biographical attention than he has received to date.

It was also November 22, 1995, via a CD Rom collection of stored business articles that I discovered Javier Solana sent Spanish warships against Canada in March 1995. You may read his account of it in his own words here:

Constance E. Cumbey -- A Little About Me:

I originally hail from Fort Wayne, Indiana where I was born and raised. I have lived in Ohio and came to the State of Michigan in 1965. I am married and am a grandmother since this past November when we welcomed Zander Cumbey into the world, my son's first progeny. I am a practicing attorney since 1975, perhaps better known since 1982 as an author and lecturer. My first book was released in 1983. It was subsequently translated and published into German, Norwegian, and Dutch. I practice law in Oakland County, MIchigan in the Detroit metropolitan area. I have practiced over the past 30 years in many of courts in our beautiful state, including Wayne County (Detroit), Oakland County, Macomb County, Washtenaw County, West Branch, Gaylord, Rogers City, Hillsdale, Charlevoix, etc. I have served terms as a national officer of the National Association of Women Lawyers. Prior to undertaking a secondary career as an author which placed me on a national lecture circuit in the USA for 7 years, I chaired the Family Law Committee of the General Practice Section of the American Bar Association.

Prior to becoming a lawyer, I held several political appointive positions including: Administrative Assistant and Legislative Analyst to the Speaker of the Michigan House of Representatives; Executive Assistant to the Mayor of the City of Highland Park, Michigan. While in law school, I served as a paid consultant to the Governmental Efficiency Subcommittee of the Senate Appropriations Committee of the Michigan State Senate.

I stumbled onto the New Age Movement as a political and even religious force in 1981. Searching for a book I could read that would explain what appeared obvious to me -- I discovered no such book existed. I therefore started researching and writing THE HIDDEN DANGERS OF THE RAINBOW: THE NEW AGE MOVEMENT AND OUR COMING AGE OF BARBARISM. When many elements which were the subject of my research ran worldwide newspaper ads on April 25, 1982 proclaiming THE CHRIST IS NOW HERE, the press started looking about for information. It turned out I was about the only person who had collected significant amounts of information on the subject and its players. A former New Ager, a Detroit Free Press reporter, wrote a major story about both the worldwide ads and my work which ran on a 1 1/2 page spread in the Detroit Free Press on May 5, 1982, only a few days after the ads appeared. My phone did not stop ringing thereafter and I delegated my large law practice to another and took seven years to attempt to educate people on what this movement was all about and its "hidden dangers" -- unknown to many of its well meaning, enthusiastic participants. I returned to the active practice of law in 1989, but have kept abreast of the subject. I have used the internet with advantage since approximately 1992-1993.

My husband and I are animal lovers. I am presently supervised as of this writing by our two Lhasa Apso dogs (one age 16 1/2, the other 11) and our surviving 20 year old black male cat, "Guy." We, as well as our animals, are clearly survivors!