●● ✦ T HE S UNDAY J OURNAL ✦ LOW KEY ◆ J ANUARY 8, 2006 Supreme Court nominee S ECTION Alito shows you don’t E DITORIALS ✹ 2 have to be loud to make an impression & The West B DIMENSION ◆ B8 New Mexico Readers Gave Mountains of School Supplies

efore the eye can take in the totality of JIM BELSHAW floor. it, the smell of the room in the market- Stacks of other supplies spread out from the ing section of the Albuquerque Pub- backpacks — writing tablets, water colors, lishing Company makes its presence modeling clay, tape dispensers, crayons, chalk Bknown. It’s the smell of new school stuff — new and pencil sharpeners that spill over the sides pencils, new crayons, new paper — all manner of large boxes. of blank slates waiting for a kid to fill in a future. Scissors, brought in one by one, fill a box. When the eye catches up to the smell of Next to it, an entire store display of scissors sits newness, an appreciation for thoughtful intact, the whole thing donated in one fell generosity permeates the room as well. Of the Journal swoop. In November and December, I wrote three " A box full of pens still in their original columns concerning a request from U.S. Army packing makes me wonder how one might say Maj. Bob Bateman in Baghdad. He and a to collect supplies and ship them. “Paper-Mate” in Arabic. ADOLPHE PIERRE-LOUIS/JOURNAL handful of American officers and enlisted How much did you give? A multicolored stalagmite of three-ring Last month, Betty Sanders dropped off 10 soldiers had begun what he called a “de facto Here’s one measure: So much that the Journal binders rises from the floor. A box of erasers, a backpacks filled with school supplies at the adoption” of a Baghdad school. will hire professional packers to put it all Albuquerque Publishing Company. Sanders is box of calculators, staplers, staples, push pins, They needed school supplies. You responded. together. protractors, compasses and stacks of one of many who have donated school supplies Albuquerque lawyer Bill Snead offered $1,000 Along one wall of the marketing office, a for children in Iraq. to help pay shipping costs. The Journal offered mountain of backpacks spreads out onto the See IRAQI on PAGE B4

JOSH STEPHENSON/JOURNAL The Rev. Millan Garcia elevates the consecrat- ed host, the body of Christ, for the congrega- tion to venerate as altar servers hold his vest- ments and ring a bell at San Ignacio Church. Latin Mass Volcanic rock in the foreground and the rising Sandias in the background illustrate two dominant features of the Rio Grande Rift. Attracts Worshippers

■ About 75 people regularly attend RIFT ZONE the rare, traditional Catholic Albuquerque is the perfect spot to watch the planet pull itself apart service held at San Ignacio Church

Story by J OHN F LECK ■ Photographs by P AT V ASQUEZ-CUNNINGHAM ■ Of the Journal B Y P AUL L OGAN Journal Staff Writer orth America is tearing apart, Sandra Conlee says the hour drive from Santa right beneath our Albuquerque Fe to Albuquerque is worth it so her family can feet. attend a Latin Mass. The valley slicing down New “I’m tired of the liberalism,” Conlee says. “I Mexico’s middle is opening ever like the old conservative rite.” Nso slowly, a rift in Earth’s crust. Conlee, her husband and four children were You don’t need to wave goodbye just yet, among about 50 people who attended Mass last but if you live on Albuquerque’s West Mesa, Sunday at San Ignacio Church. Numbers were the Sandias are ever-so-slowly pulling away down a little because people were out of town, from you. Along the tearing edges of deep says the celebrant, the Rev. Millan J. Garcia. crust, magma is slowly burbling up from Participants follow the Latin Rite service with below. a Latin-English missal, which notes when to Rio Rancho is headed west, while kneel, stand and sit. Albuquerque’s northeast heights heads east. Through the service, organ music accompa- “Effectively, New Mexico is encroaching on nies singers. Everything is in Latin except the Arizona and Texas,” said geophysicist Greg priest’s sermon. Anderson. When Garcia sings, “ Dóminus vobíscum,” the On geologic time scales — and by choir and congregation respond, “ Et cum spíritu “geologic,” scientists mean “very, very, very tuo.” long” — North America seems to be Translation: “The Lord be with you.” “And splitting, and we’re living on the seam. with your spirit.” For centuries, Latin was the Roman Catholic “What we’re seeing here,” explained Church’s universal language. But the Latin Mass University of New Mexico geophysicist was pushed to the side in the 1960s when Mousumi Roy, “is parts of North America reforms of the Vatican II council allowed the trying to break apart.” service to be conducted in native languages. You cannot see or feel the Earth moving Perched on a tripod embedded in bedrock, this GPS instrument is part of a suite of instru- Latin is considered a dead language but flick- beneath your feet, but you can see its results ments measuring ground motion in New Mexico. ers like an unquenchable flame at 600 churches — the valley of the Rio Grande, the jutting in the United States and Canada. crest of the Sandias, the volcanoes dotting ern side — the Sandias and Manzanos, for Many of the Archdiocese of Santa Fe’s 300,000 the valley’s west side. example — are also a result of the complex members probably don’t know about San Igna- Now a loose-knit team of researchers is processes happening beneath Earth’s sur- cio’s uncommon Mass. Archbishop Michael trying to determine how fast it is happening. face as the crust thins. Sheehan allows Garcia to celebrate the Latin “The rates are very slow,” Roy said, “and But what scientists know so far is based Mass in the archdiocese each Sunday at noon. so they’re very difficult to measure.” largely on a static picture — looking at the When supporters placed an advertisement in But with a network of new detectors now landscape today for clues to what happened the Albuquerque Journal about a Latin Midnight being arrayed around the state, the in the past. Roy, Aster and Davidson are part High Mass on Christmas, he says, attendance scientists think they have a shot. of a new generation of scientists who finally doubled. have the tools to watch the slow-motion An average of about 75 people have attended Think of it like pizza change in Earth’s crust as it happens. each Sunday’s Latin Mass during the past five To help think through what’s happening, years, Garcia says. grab a big slice of pizza — it’s got to have a University of New Mexico geophysicist Very slow motion Catholics who favor the Latin Mass are hope- lot of gooey cheese — and begin pulling it Mousumi Roy is leading a team measuring Compared to the Rio Grande Rift, the See LATIN on PAGE B5 apart. See the way the cheese stretches and movement of the Rio Grande rift. action in places like California and Alaska is thins? Scientists say that is what is happen- positively speedy. ing beneath our feet. The pizza metaphor isn’t perfect. It doesn’t Plop down a global positioning system In our case, the thinning cheese is the Rio explain a lot of the results — the volcanoes Some Vatican II changes satellite receiver in Alaska, Anderson said, Grande Rift, running from a narrow gap in along the rift’s western margin, for example, ■ and within a matter of weeks it will have Mass is said in the community’s language southern Colorado down through the broad created where the rift has weakened Earth’s moved enough for him to measure. valleys of central and southern New Mexico. crust and allowed magma from below to rise ■ Altar and priest face the people It’s been happening for millions of years, a to the surface. ■ More community involvement in sacramental slow opening in Earth’s crust. The line of mountains along the rift’s east- See RIFT ZONE on PAGE B4 rites

■ More lay people involved in services B4 T HE S UNDAY J OURNAL NEW MEXICO & THE WEST ●● A LBUQUERQUE,JANUARY 8, 2006 States Near Agreement To Share River Water

B Y K ATHLEEN H ENNESSEY am more than optimistic that we Colorado River system. At voirs, Lake Mead and Lake resolved. She said Nevada was deal is based on ideas, not num- The Associated Press will meet the Feb. 2 deadline.” issue is how to allocate water Powell. willing to agree to put aside its bers. Officials from the seven riv- from the river when flows are “We want to be operating as a plans to tap the Virgin River “It’s still fragile. The devil is LAS VEGAS, Nev. — Repre- er-basin states spent nearly low and reservoirs can’t supply system, rather than as two sep- and pay for improvements to still in the details, so we’re sentatives for New Mexico and two days behind closed doors normal amounts to each state. arate reservoirs,” he said. the lower-basin system if it was putting the details together,” six other Western states that trying to compromise on a Water officials, who have In the past, the states have compensated with water. said Herb Guenther, director rely on the Colorado River said drought-management plan that been working on the plan for sparred over various issues, The states also have been of the Arizona Department of Friday that they are on track to will pass federal muster. Nor- more than a year, remained including Nevada’s attempts to searching for ways to increase Water Resources. meet next month’s deadline for ton has said she wants the plan tightlipped on details of the feed its growth by tapping into the amount of water in the sys- Committees will meet turning over a water-sharing in place by the end of 2007. If emerging agreement, saying tributaries. Upper-basin states tem by cloud seeding or throughout the month to calcu- proposal to Interior Secretary the states want a say in the they did not want to sabotage have argued that those rivers desalinization projects. Mulroy late water availability and use Gale Norton. process, they have to submit the deal. should be considered part of said some of the plans for aug- and to work out technical issues. “I think the states have an their plan by early next month. California’s representative, the Colorado River system and mentation techniques are like- Representatives from Colorado, agreement in concept on all the Under a 1922 compact, the Gerald Zimmerman, said the count toward Nevada’s water ly to be detailed in an agree- New Mexico, Utah, Wyoming, difficult points,” said Pat Mul- states are allotted a portion of states were moving toward try- allotment. ment worked out after the Feb- California, Arizona and Nevada roy, Southern Nevada Water the 15 million acre-feet of ing to improve management of Mulroy said she was confi- ruary deadline. are planning to meet again at Authority general manager. “I water assumed to be in the vast the river system’s two reser- dent the issue would be Officials said the tentative the end of the month.

ROBERTO E. ROSALES/JOURNAL Albuquerque lawyer Bill Snead, pictured here at the Albuquerque Publishing Company, donated $1,000 to help pay costs to ship school supplies to children in Iraq. Iraqi School To Receive Supplies

PAT VASQUEZ-CUNNINGHAM/JOURNAL from PAGE B1 spectrum. Their generous Geophysicists Charles Hutt, left, and Greg Anderson explain the instruments being used to measure the spreading of the spirit transcends political Rio Grande Rift. construction paper. labeling. A shelf lined with more One of the people who came bottles of white glue than I’ve to the Journal with backpacks ever seen in one place. Next and supplies was Betty to it, a box stuffed with glue Sanders. sticks. Two boxes are filled with “drug rep” pens, the “It made me think of when I freebies pharmaceutical sales was a kid at the start of every representatives hand out in school year,” she said. “I’d get physicians’ offices. a new cigar box, and I would RIFT ZONE get new pencils and crayons. from PAGE B1 millions of to detect the motion in about lines of GPS instruments Someone carefully put That stuff represented years, creat- two weeks, he said. across the state: one across together large, sturdy plastic possibilities for me. It made Anderson works for ing new But in New Mexico, the containers labeled “Teacher the rift near Taos, a second me think I can do something superconti- movement is much slower. Kits,” each filled with UNAVCO, a Colorado-based in the Albuquerque area and great with this stuff. Maybe I nents, or Estimates vary because it materials suited for the nonprofit institution hired by a third near Las Cruces. never did it, but the hope was slowly break is so difficult to measure. person standing at the front of the federal government to Meanwhile, north of Socor- there. apart. “We don’t know what the the classroom. erect the “Plate Boundary ro, a team of researchers led Observatory.” Parts of actual rates are,” Roy said. The Albuquerque Del Norte “I thought about those California, Scientists’ best guess is by Susan Bilek at the New (Iraqi) kids and all the Using GPS receivers and Mexico Institute of Mining Chapter of the Rotary Club other instruments spread for example, ANDERSON: that the rate here is less than reported shipping 497 pounds ugliness that goes around are moving and Technology and Andrew across western North Ameri- Instruments 1/10 inch per year. At that of school supplies. Classrooms them” she said. “I remember north, and in rate, their highly sensitive Newman from Georgia Tech ca, the observatory is trying should begin collected supplies, and people as a kid being so excited at somewhat of GPS instruments should be have begun measuring the the start of every school year, to measure, in a comprehen- to detect took their grandkids shopping a hurry in able to begin detecting move- thinking I could do something sive way, how the continent’s upward bulge created by to show them what it felt like geologic motion after ment after about two years, great for me. It made me various bits are moving 2 years magma beneath Socorro. to give. terms — Anderson said. The bottom line, UNAV- think of all the great things I about. about 2 inch- Here’s what was missing in In addition to the Plate CO’s Anderson said, is that could do with clean paper and The idea that continents es per year, about as fast as Boundary Observatory all the e-mails I’ve received sharp pencils and unused one of the only ways to move has been with us since your fingernails grow. instruments being spread and conversations I’ve had crayons.” the 1960s, when scientists Up in Alaska, the move- across New Mexico, Roy and understand what is happen- over the past month — the realized the solid earth ment is even faster — as colleagues at the University ing today in plate tectonics is politics of the Iraq war. to plant instruments all over Write to Jim Belshaw at The Albu- beneath us is really moving much as 2 { inches per year. of Colorado won funding Not one person spoke of it. querque Journal, P.O. Drawer J, all the time. Continents bump That’s enough motion for from the National Science the landscape and start mea- Not a word. I don’t have a clue Albuquerque, NM 87103; telephone up against one another over Anderson’s GPS instruments Foundation to set up three suring. about where any of those — 823-3930; e-mail — people stand on the political [email protected]. Railroad Killer’s Execution Set AROUND NEW MEXICO Journal Staff and Wire Reports arrested about 1:15 p.m. at his Angelique Gutierrez, was Truth or Consequences home released to a halfway house Drifter Linked in the death of Richard Collett, after appearing Dec. 30 before 300 To Deploy police said. Chief Magistrate Lorenzo To 14 Slayings From Holloman An arrest warrant issued for Garcia. Glover charged him with an FBI agents who investigated HOLLOMAN AIR FORCE open count of murder, the robberies said they B Y J UAN A. LOZANO BASE — Holloman Air Force conspiracy to commit murder, suspected Hyatt, who has The Associated Press Base will deploy about 300 intimidation of a witness and previous arrests for bank HOUSTON — Condemned airmen starting Sunday to false imprisonment. robbery, was coaching Dutch, serial killer Angel Maturino locations in the Middle East, Two other men were whom they dubbed “the Resendiz, the Mexican drifter central Asia and Africa. arrested earlier. rookie” because of his youthful dubbed the “Railroad Killer,” With the latest deployments, William Read, 61, was appearance. was scheduled Friday to be Holloman will have about 500 booked into the Sierra County executed on May 10 for raping people serving outside the jail Thursday on an open count Firefighter Faces and killing a Houston doctor. southern New Mexico base by of murder, conspiracy to commit murder, intimidation Charge of DWI Maturino Resendiz’s lawyer, the end of February, said Brig. of a witness and false Jack Zimmermann, objected to Gen. Kurt Cichowski, A 14-year veteran with the imprisonment, while Jimbo the setting of the execution commander of the base’s 49th Albuquerque Fire Department Hall, 34, was arrested date while an appeal before the Fighter Wing. was arrested for drunken dri- Wednesday at his Elephant 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Some of the troops will be ving after he was stopped ear- DAVID J. PHILLIP/THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Butte home on an open count Appeals is pending, but prose- gone into June, he said. ly Thursday morning, KOAT- of murder, kidnapping, cutor Roe Wilson argued that Condemned serial killer Angel Maturino Resendiz, a Mexican Deploying airmen will be TV reported. conspiracy to commit murder, the appeals process could con- drifter dubbed the “Railroad Killer,” is escorted from a Houston from squadrons across the intimidation of a witness and Richard A Griego, 39, was tinue even with an execution courtroom after learning Friday that he is scheduled to be exe- base, including medics, civil false imprisonment. stopped just after 2:30 a.m. date set. cuted May 10. engineers, logisticians, near the intersection of Coors mechanics and administrative Collett was found dead “It is time. We need to carry and Montaño, according to personnel, Cichowski said. Tuesday. Investigators believe out the sentence and justice before state District Judge Bill Texas and the nation during the court records. Griego faces Meanwhile, about 40 he was beaten and cut Monday needs to be served,” Wilson Harmon. spring and early summer of charges of DWI first offense, a Holloman airmen from the evening. said. Maturino Resendiz, wearing 1999. Between May 2 and June lane violation, no car insurance 49th Security Forces Squadron dark-rimmed glasses with his 15 of that year, authorities said and a signal required before Maturino Resendiz got the will return to the base Tuesday 3 Plead Not Guilty gray beard and hair, answered he killed four people in Texas turning. name the “Railroad Killer” after about seven months in no when Harmon asked if he and two more in rural Illinois. To 10 Robberies Griego’s arrest is the second because he was linked to 14 Iraq. They are to arrive aboard had anything to say. The Border Patrol had picked for the fire department in slayings in Texas, California, a military aircraft about 4 p.m. Three people accused of Florida, Georgia, Kentucky and Maturino Resendiz was con- him up for illegal entry that participating in 10 recent months. In October, Illinois near the rail lines he demned for the 1998 murder of June 2 near El Paso, but he was Albuquerque bank robberies in Damion Jenkins, 27, was rode nationwide. He has Dr. Claudia Benton, 39, who taken to Mexico and released. 3rd Man Arrested November remain in custody arrested for DWI. claimed to have committed was raped, stabbed and beaten Immigration officials said they In T or C Death after entering not guilty pleas Fire Chief Robert Ortega even more. in her home in West University were unaware the man — who Friday in federal court. told KOAT-TV that the depart- Three people who attended Place, a wealthy enclave within used numerous aliases — was TRUTH OR George Marvis Hyatt, 39, ment conducts its own investi- the hearing said they came Houston. on the FBI’s 10 Most Wanted CONSEQUENCES — State Marc Matthew Dutch, 22, and gations in these instances and from Mexico to represent the At his Houston trial in May List as Rafael Resendez- police say the final person Consuelo Reanea Vaughn, 31, that both men have been killer’s family but would not 2000, defense lawyers argued Ramirez. sought in the death of a 35- appeared before U.S. pulled off active duty. identify themselves. Thomas he was innocent by reason of He committed four slayings year-old Truth or Magistrate Judge Don Svet on The case against Jenkins is Konvicka, whose mother, insanity. Prosecutors said he after being released. Six weeks Consequences man was a Dec. 26 indictment charging pending. Griego is expected to Josephine, was killed in June had personality defects but was later, he crossed an interna- arrested without incident them with a series of robberies appear in court later this 1999 in Fayette County, also sane. tional bridge into El Paso and Saturday. starting Nov. 12. month, according to court attended the brief hearing His spree swept fear across surrendered to a Texas Ranger. Daniel Glover, 46, was A fourth defendant, records.