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By The Associated Press Edited by Jennifer Mlratsky News Digest ^vNews... €$ in a Minute Montana says farewell SAN FRANCISCO — Smiling broadly and maintaining his poise, Joe Montana made his retirement official Tuesday. For a quarterback whose trademarks were grace under pressure and resilience in the face of injury or defeat,quittingwas harder than winning any of his four Super Bowl championships for the San Francisco 49ers. “It is true, I will be retiring from the NFL,” Montana said before heading for a downtown plaza to say goodbye to thousands of fans. “I feel I’ve had 16 wonderful years... I reached the point where that day happens when you wake up and all of a sudden you realize it wasn’t as much a game as it was work. It felt like a job.” “I was afraid of his getting hurt,” said Joe’s mother, Theresa. “He’s got a long life to live and he’s got his children and if he’s in a wheelchair what can he do?” Montana denied reports that his wife Jennifer had demanded that he quit or that he was upset with the Kansas City Chiefs. Prisoners kept from diplomat BAGHDAD, Iraq — A Polish diplomat looking after U.S. interests in Iraq was not allowed to see two Americans in Abu Ghraib prison Tuesday, the day set by Iraqi authorities for his weekly visit to check on them. No explanation was given as to why Ry szard Kry stosik was prevented from seeing the Americans in the Baghdad prison. In Washington, State Department spokeswoman Christine Shelly said the Clinton administration was “extremely disappointed that the Iraqis have reneged on their promise to allow weekly visits.” “The government of Iraq has an obligation under international law and convention to allow access to the detainees. We expect the govern ment of Iraq to meet this obligation,” she said. The Americans — David Daliberti, 41, of Jacksonville, Fla., and William Barloon, 39, of New Hampton, Iowa—were arrested by Iraqi border guards on March 13 when they strayed into Iraq while trying to visit friends at a United Nations post near the frontier with Kuwait. Nebraskan FAX NUMBER 472-1761 The Daily NebraskaniUSPS 144-080) is published by the UNL Publications Board, braska Union 34, 1400 R St., Lincoln, NE 68588-0448, Monday through Friday during academic year; weekly during summer sessions. Readers are encouraged to submit story ideas and comments to the Daily Nebraska phoning 472-1763 between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m. Monday through Friday. The public also access to the Publications Board. For information, contact Tim Hedegaard, 436-9258. Subscription price is $50 for one year. Postmaster; Sen jnd address changes to the Daily Nebraskan, Nebraska Union 34,1400 R St..Lincoln, NE 68588-0448. Second-class postage paid at Lincoln, NE. ALL MATERIAL COPYRIGHT 1995 DAILY NEBRASKAN z! fS Ready to let your hair down? Earth Day Lecture with Robert Bullard Thursday • April 20 • 7:30 Nebraska Union FREE for UNL Students w/ ID $3 Public Hair Raising Fun! 3031 0 Street 477-0313 10% Off Anything in the store. Saturday • April 22 Whittier Field • 23rd & W Streets 11:00 Nebraska v. Air Force 1:00 Minnesota v. Air Force 3:00 Air Force v. Creighton UUlUuS 5:00 Nebraska v. Minnesota (Offer expires 4.28.95) y Good Luck to the ^ UNL Women's Soccer Team! Twelve-year-old activist slain ISLAMABAD, Pakistan—When Iqbal Masih was 4 years old, his par ents sold him into slavery. For the next six years, he remained shackled to a carpet-weaving loom most of the time, tying tiny knots hour after hour. By age 12, he was free and travel ing the world in his crusade against the horrors of child labor. On Sunday, Iqbal was shot dead while he and two friends were riding their bikes in their village of Muritke, 22 miles outside the eastern city of Lahore. Some believe his murder was carried out by angry members of the carpet industry who had made repeated threats to silence the young activist. “We know his death was a con spiracy by the carpet mafia,” claimed Ehsan Ullah Khan, chairman of the Bonded Labor Liberation Front, a pri vate group that fights against child labor in Pakistan. A man known only as Ashraf, a laborer in Muritke, was arrested in connection with the shooting, but has been released, Khan said. The killing came only months after young Iqbal had attracted international attention. At a labor conference in Stockholm, Sweden, last November, he spoke about the horrible conditions faced by child workers, who toil for long hours in unsafe conditions and earn as little as one rupee — three cents — a day. “We had to get up at 4 and work 12 hours,” Iqbal told the conference, barely tall enough at the time to peer over the podium. “We were chained to the looms, but after work, we were usually released and could go home to sleep.” When he was 10, Iqbal contacted the BLLF and was able to escape the Twelve-year-old activist slain Iqbal Masih who spoke out against child labor abuses in Pakistan was gunned down Sunday in his village, after receiving several death threats from people in the carpet-weaving industry. Iqbal Masih • Sold by his parents at age 4, for less than $16 • Worked as a carpet weaver, shackled to a carpet loom, from age 4-10 • Earned one rupee a day, about $3 • November 1994: Spoke on the working conditions of child laborers at an international labor conference in Sweden. • December 1994: Received the Reebol Youth in Action Award in Boston. Child labor and carpet factories An estimated 6 million children age 14 and younger work in Pakistan in carpet factories, brick-making plants, on farms and as servants. • Children work as many as 12 hours a day, waking up at 4 a.m. • Child carpet weavers are chained to looms • In carpet factories, the air is full of dust causing breathing difficulties • The government barred the practice of bonding children as laborers in 1992 - the law remains largely unenforced Why children carpet weavers? • Cheap labor • Seldom complain about abuses • Tiny fingers can make tight knots factory. He still owed his boss 13,000 rupees—the equivalent of $419—a huge sum considering he earned only one rupee a day. Khan said Iqbal’s campaign against child labor had led to the closure of dozens of carpet-weaving factories in his district. Need vigorous exercise to extend life CHICAGO—Run! No, walk. No, run! The latest in a spate of seemingly conflicting studies says that to live longer, you must exercise vigorously, not just moderately. Lately, many exercise advocates, including the government’s Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, have been pushing moderate activity. But that won’t boost longevity, judging from 26 years of data on 17,321 healthy male Harvard alumni who graduated between 1924 and 1954, researchers report in Wednesday’s issue of The Journal of the American Medical Association. “We found that only vigorous ex ercise was associated with lower mor tality, and nonvigorous exercise did not at all reduce mortality rates,” said Dr. I-Min Lee, assistant professor of medicine at Harvard and lead author of the study. Vigorous exercise was defined as any exertion that required at least six times as much energy as resting. That included walking 4 to 5 mph, jogging, swimming laps, playing tennis or even doing heavy chores around the yard —if they truly were heavy chores, like building stone fences, and “not just puttering around,” Lee said. The study did not spell out exactly how much of any specific activity would constitute vigorous exercise. Rather, the study said the most active group of men burned 12,600to 14,700 calories a week. That’s equivalent to walking briskly 4 to 5 mph for 45 minutes a day, five days a week, Lee said. She hastened to add that moderate exercise has many other benefits — improving quality of life, promoting physical well-being, enhancing the ability of older people to accomplish daily tasks, regulating blood pressure and averting diabetes. “I don’t want to dissuade couch potatoes from exercising,” Lee added. “I strongly believe that any exercise is better than no exercise. But for per sons who can exercise at a higher level, why not do that? Because our data indicate they might live longer than other people.” In the study, the most active group of men had a 25 percent lower risk of dying over the 26 years than the least active men, Lee said. The difference in risk was calculated after adjusting for differences that might have af fected risk — age, smoking habits, high blood pressure, diabetes and the early death of one’s parents. 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