1.   Few diggers have the licenses the law now requires, conceded Ken Gegbai, the executive director of the Indigenous Miners Movement, a group to protect miners.

2.   He also said federal laws make it difficult to sue the U.S. Mine Safety and Health Administration, the other government agency responsible for protecting miners.

3.   Morgan also testified in behalf of Navajo uranium miners and their survivors, saying federal officials had known about mine radiation dangers but had failed to protect the miners.

4.   The laws the NBA players are using in bargaining with David Stern were created to protect coal miners.

5.   Last year police arrested a medicine man as he prepared a charm to protect four miners accused of killing a taxi driver.

6.   The Bush administration will let stand Clinton-era regulations aimed at protecting coal miners from particles in diesel exhaust.

7.   The Bush administration is putting in place rules proposed by President Clinton to protect miners from diesel exhaust.