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Santa Fean authors book about grandfather’s service in WWI

Mayor launches anti-bullying effort First step involves bringing together community leaders and organizations to create solutions. EDUCATION, A-8

Inspired by diary, writer retraced the footsteps of his mother’s father By Robert Nott

Can rocks and droplets cure climate? Once considered the stuff of fantasies, geoengineering solutions are now being discussed seriously. LIFE & SCIENCE, A-9

Lose the race, but don’t lose your way T wo men with similar names stood out this year in New Mexico elections for what they did and didn’t say. Allen Weh and Alan Webber each left a mark without winning a race. Weh, a Republican, lost the U.S. Senate election to incumbent Democrat Tom Milan Udall. In doing Simonich so, Weh took the Ringside Seat lowest road of any candidate in the state. That covers a lot of ground, all of it muddy and treacherous. A business executive from Albuquerque and a retired colonel in the Marine Corps Reserve, Weh insisted he was running a clean race despite the evidence against him, all of it coming from his own mouth. Speaking of Udall, Weh told a gullible interviewer for Radio America, “I’ve made no personal attacks on the man and don’t intend to, and don’t have to.” No, Weh didn’t have to, but he did. He sent direct-mail ads to New Mexico’s military veterans that revived the spirit of the late U.S. Sen. Joseph McCarthy of Wisconsin. McCarthy tried to advance himself by claiming others were enemy sympathizers. Weh, a poor student of history, copied McCarthy’s failed blueprint. His ad said: “While Allen Weh was

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When new Army recruit George A. Carlson left his home in Denver by train for Camp Funston in Kan-

sas late in March 1918, he wrote the first short entry in his diary, ending it with, “Had a nice time on train, after all the blues had passed.” Just over five months later, he used the diary to report his first experience under artillery fire during the Saint-Mihiel offensive in France. He made no mention of being brave or afraid. By Nov. 1 of that year, he wrote that such bar-

The last of the Kings?

rages were “nothing new to us.” Carlson’s diary ends in early February 1919, a few months after World War I came to an end on Armistice Day, Nov. 11, 1918. On that day, he wrote, “We sure were surprised after eleven o’clock when we could hear no more guns firing.” By June 1919, Carlson was back

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After big loss, experts doubtful Gary King will seek office again, foresee possible end to family’s long involvement in N.M. politics

Jeffrey Lowdermilk

Santa Fean wrote a book about his grandfather’s World War I experiences.

Trouble finding targets impedes airstrikes ISIS leader reportedly injured in weekend raid By Eric Schmitt The New York Times

Gary King, son of former Gov. Bruce King and nephew of former legislator Don King, speaks to supporters in Albuquerque after winning the Democratic gubernatorial primary in June. ASSOCIATED PRESS FILE PHOTO

By Steve Terrell The New Mexican

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ary King’s loss to Susana Martinez in the governor’s race last week wasn’t just the end of a campaign. It could be the end of a New Mexico political dynasty. King, a Democrat who has served as attorney general the past eight years, is the son of Bruce King, who served three terms as governor in a span of three decades. Martinez, even though she relentlessly pummeled King during the campaign, paid tribute to her opponent and his family during her victory speech last week. “I also want to recognize Gary King and the King family for their legacy of public service to the

state,” Martinez said. “The King family has dedicated a half century to public service, and for that, they deserve our sincere thanks.” The Kings are a ranching family from Stanley, a small rural community in southern Santa Fe County. But beyond their cattle, the Kings are better known for the politicians they have produced. Bruce King began his political career in 1954 when he won a seat on the Santa Fe County Commission. By the end of that decade, he won a seat in the state House of Representatives, where he eventually became speaker. Don King, brother of the governor, was elected to the Legislature — first the House, then the Senate — in the 1970s. Gary King’s cousin David King also was involved in politics, get-

Former Gov. Bruce King, right, shakes hands with Lisa Jennings of Animal Protection Voters as he makes his way to hear Gov. Bill Richardson’s State of the State speech in 2008. Bruce King served three terms as governor. LUIS SÁNCHEZ SATURNO NEW MEXICAN FILE PHOTO

ting elected state treasurer and later winning a seat on the Public Regulation Commission (after he switched parties and became a Republican). Gary King, one of two sons of Bruce King, won his father’s old House seat in 1986 and held it until the end of 1998. His cousin, Rhonda King won Gary King’s old House seat, which she held between 1999 and 2012, when she decided not to seek another term. Gary King is the last of his family currently holding public office. His brother, Bill King, who served as an unpaid legislative liaison during his father’s last term as governor in the early ’90s, has not shown much public interest in politics in recent years.

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WASHINGTON — More than three months into the U.S.-led air campaign in Iraq and Syria, commanders are challenged by spotty intelligence, poor weather and an Iraqi army that is only now starting to go on the offensive against the Islamic State, meaning that warplanes are mostly limited to hitting pop-up targets of opportunity. Weekend airstrikes hit just such targets: a convoy of 10 armed trucks of the Islamic State, also known as ISIS or ISIL, near Mosul, as well as vehicles and two of the group’s checkpoints near the border with Syria. News reports from Iraq said the Islamic State’s leader, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, had been wounded in one of the raids, but U.S. officials said Sunday that they were still assessing his status. In Iraq, the air war is tethered to the slow pace of operations by the Iraqi army and Kurdish forces. With relatively few Iraqi offensives to flush out militants, many Islamic State fighters have dug in to shield themselves from attack. The vast majority of bombing runs, including the weekend strike near Mosul, Iraq’s second-largest city,

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INSIDE u Libyan city becomes first outside Iraq or Syria to join Islamic State ‘caliphate.’ PAGE A-5

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U.S. government struggles against cyberattacks Workers accidentally granted hackers access to systems in at least half of the cyberincidents reported since 2010 By Martha Mendoza

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The best-selling author speaks about and signs copies of his books at a fundraiser for Veterans Helping Homeless Veterans, 5-6:30 p.m., Owings Gallery, 120 E. Marcy St., donations welcome; contact New Mexico Coalition to End Homelessness for information, 982-9000. More events in Calendar, A-2 and Fridays in Pasatiempo

A $10 billion-a-year effort to protect sensitive government data, from military secrets to Social Security numbers, is struggling to keep pace with an increasing number of cyberattacks and is unwittingly being undermined by federal employees and contractors. Workers scattered across more than a dozen agencies, from the Defense and Education departments to the National Weather Service, are responsible for at least half of the federal cyberincidents reported each year since 2010, according to an Asso-

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ciated Press analysis of records. They have clicked links in bogus phishing emails, opened malware-laden websites and been tricked by scammers into sharing information. One was redirected to a hostile site after connecting to a video of tennis star Serena Williams. A few act intentionally, most famously former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden, who downloaded and leaked documents revealing the government’s collection of phone and email records. Then there was the federal contractor who lost equipment containing the confidential information of millions of Ameri-

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Specialists work in September at the National Cybersecurity and Communications Integration Center in Arlington, Va. A $10 billion-a-year effort to protect sensitive government data is struggling to keep pace with an increasing number of cyberattacks. ASSOCIATED PRESS FILE PHOTO

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