SPORTS 2 Castlégar News June 29, 1988 Navratilova goes for ninth title LONDON (AP) — Martina Navratilova, playing on “instinct and guts” and driven by a quest for a record { ninth singles title at Wimbledon, staged a remarkable S comeback today to reach the semifinals for the 11th ' year in a row. Navratilova lost the first set and was down 4-2 in both the second and third sets, but rallied to defeat unseeded Roz Fairbank of South Africa 4-6, 6-4, 7-5. : I just refused to lose,” Navratilova said. “I just i didn’t give up. I wasn't going to lose yet.” : Dreams of the first Grand Slam sweep by a man since 1969 vanished on Centre Court as ninth-seeded : Miloslav Mecir of Czechoslovakia beat second-seeded Mats Wilander of Sweden 6-3, 61, 6-3 in the 5 quarter-finals. Wilander had won the Australian and French open ? tennis titles, but is not strong on grass. Mecir won 21 points in a row on serve to go from a 2-1 lead in the second set to 4-3 in the third. Wilander's chase of the Slam, last din point for 5-2 in the second set but netted an easy forehand volley. In the third set, at the same stage, she men's tennis by Rod Laver in 1969, evaportated before the service returns and passing shots of Mecir. Leading 3-0 in the first'set against a player ranked 48 places below her, Navratilova’s game fell apart. Fairbank came back to win the set, then went ahead 4-2 in the second set before Navratilova rallied to even the match, then went up a break in the third set before she broke for the final time. Fairbank hasn't won a tournament since 1983 and never had won so much as a set aginst Navratilova in six previous meetings. But on a hazy afternoon, she gave Navratilova all she could handle. The match turned on two games. Fairbank had a sent a backhand volley long, then had two more chances to go up 5-2 but blew them both. STRETCHED STREAK On a day when the men's quarter-finals also-were on the schedule — Navratilova — who set a record last year with her sixth consecutive women's singles title — stretched her Wimbledon winning streak to 46 matches. The last player to beat Navratilova at Wimbledon was Hana Mandlikova, who scored a 7-5, 4-6, 6-1 victory over her in the semifinals in 1981, This year, Navratilova is chasing another place in tennis history, trying to break the tie of eight singles titles she shares with Helen Wills Moody. She also is trying to hold off the charge of Steffi Graf, who is seeking the tennis Grand Slam after victories in Australia and Paris, On Tuesday, old-timer Jimmy Connors went out fighting. Connors, the street-wise veteran of Wimbled ran out of comebacks against a West German with a rocket serve. He wasn't named Boris Becker, Manip" Kuhnen, unseeded, unheralded and un- in any major upset the 85-year-old American on Court No. 2 in a match that lasted 4'% hours. DOESN'T QUIT “He's the biggest fighter of them all, he never gives up,” Kuhnen said after his 5-7, 7-6, 7-6, 6-7, 63 fourth-round victory that was interrupted by rain Monday. It finished Tuesday night in gloom and, for the fifth-seeded Connors, despair. GETTING READY . . Otters assistant coach, gives his - Trevor Seville, Robson River swimmers a few words of advice during warm-up for Beaver Valley swim meet Saturday. Photo by Rick Anderson GENE UBRIACO Penguins hire coach PITTSBURGH (AP) — Gene Ubri. aco is leaving one of the worst teams in professional hockey to coach what he said might be one of the best The Pittsburgh Penguins’ new general manager, Tony Esposito, ended his 10-week search for a new coach Tuesday by hiring Ubriaco, 50, to replace the much-criticized Pierre Creamer. “I just had a feeling the way Gene Ubriaco came across and the way he knows the game he's a great teacher — that he was the right man for the job,” Esposito said “I have that feeling in my stomach, that he’s the guy.” Ubriaco, a veteran minor-league coach who was beginning to fear he would never coach in the NHL, said a team blessed with talent such as most-valuable-player Mario Lemieux and all-star defenceman Paul Coffey belongs in the playoffs. “Obviously, we've got to win,” said Ubriaco, coach of the Baltimore ? Skipjacks of the American Hockey League for five seasons. “We want to be ambitious and aggressive, and my job is to get out there and show you we can do that Creamer was fired after the Pen guins missed the playoffs for the sixth straight season, despite a 36-35-9 record that was their best in nine years. Creamer had two years left on a three-year contract that pays him $100,000 a year. Esposito, who grew up with Ubri aco in Sault Ste. Marie, Ont., said he consulted with NHL executives be- fore deciding Ubriaco had the proper blend of bench coaching skills and teaching ability. SEEKS SUCCESSOR Esposito, hired in the spring when Penguins’ owner Edward J. DeBar tolo demoted former general man. ager Eddie Johnston, spent weeks seeking Creamer’s successor, al though Creamer officially was not fired until earlier this month. 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The Skipjacks were 0-20-1 in their first 21 games, a sharp reversal from their 16 consecutive victories under Ubriaco at the start of the 1984-85 season. “No one knew we had the longest winning streak in hockey until we had the longest losing streak,” Ubri: aco said. “It was a tough year, but people were very supportive.” “He's (Ubriaco) a pretty tough guy if he can get through with the players he had to use last year,” said Es- posito, whose final choice was be. tween Ubriaco and Muskegon coach Rick Ley. Ubriaco began his playing career in the AHL in 1960 and played in Pittsburgh for both the Penguins and the AHL Hornets. His coaching career began in 1972-73 as an assistant coach with Lake Superior State College. He also has coached in the IHL, Eastern Hockey League and the Central Hockey League and spent several years as a salesman Angling policies reviewed The provincial government has be- gun a review of policies and legis- lation for regulating freshwater an. gling guides. “This review will provide the future framework for -a rapidly growing industry which provides a vital service to recreation and tour- ism throughout the province,” Parks Minister Bruce Strachan said. “The review is intended to result in better standards and direction for the angling guide industry while maintaining high quality fishing op- portunities for provincial residents and ensuring that our fisheries re- source is used wisely.” During the review, ministry offi cials will seek input from the guiding industry, anglers and the general public, and licences for new guides will not be issued in certain areas of concern, including the Skeena, Nass, Dean, Blackwater and Bella Coola rivers. There are currently nearly 400 angling guides and assistant angling guides across the province who hold permits issued by the ministry under the Wildlife Act. NHL officials argue job-rating system TORONTO (CP) — The union for the NHL's referees and linesmen says the league's proposal for a new system to rate on-ice officials could lead to firings based on personality rather than performance. The issue dominated a four-hour meeting Tuesday. When it was over, both sides said it was too early to predict if the officials would strike before the + 1988-89 season. The current agreement expires Aug. 31 and talks have been ad- journed until Aug. 8. Spokesmen for the NHL Officials’ Association emerged from Tuesday's meeting, to say it has offered a counter-proposal on job rating that “seeks a greater respect and under- standing in all phases of their (the officials’) service to the game.” The two sides haven't discussed money because the association says the system for rating referees and linesmen is a more important issue. The league says it wants the right to terminate the contract of any official, regardless of seniority or past performance. Under the current agreement, the NHL can dismiss, with cause, an official in the bottom third of a broke up last time” on June 16, Ber- tuzzi said. Dave Newell, an NHL referee and said the ratings system iled with input from league supervisors, owners and other on-ice officials. WANTS CHANGE The new league proposal would have the ratings system determined by Jim Gregory, vice-president of hockey operations, John McCauley, the director of i and the league's proposal of ratings is too subjective and might lead to im- proper punishment of officials. Newell and two linesmen refused to work the fourth game of this year’s Wales Conference final after the New Jersey Devils obtained a league's officiating supervisory staff. “We believe that the NHL, in its desire to alter the ratings process and to have greater hire-fire author- ity, builds in a system of retribution where personality clashes play a greater role than performance,” said James Beatty, a Toronto lawyer who is the officials’ chief negotiator. Larry Bertuzzi, a Toronto lawyer on the league’s negotiating team, said the officials have countered with a proposal that would leave the league owners responsible for 60 per cent of the ratings and the officials responsible for the rest. “Having seen the proposals, we're further apart than we were when we Cincinnati Reds end losing streak By The Canadian Press Owner Marge Schott gave her Cincinnati Reds an emotional pep talk before Tuesday's game against the San Diego Padres and it appar ently paid off. The Reds and free-swinger Tracy Jones changed their ways, ending a six-game losing streak with just the medicine Schott prescribed. Jones turned patient in the ninth inning, taking a tempting slider for ball three, fouled off four two-strike pitches and finally forced in the winning run with a bases-loaded walk to edge the Padres 4-3. Left-hander Danny Jackson, 8-4, pitched a six-hitter for the win. Mark Grant, 1-6, took the loss. Elsewhere in the NL on Tuesday, it was: St. Louis 5, Montreal 4; Chicago 6, Philadelphia 4; New York 5, Pittsburgh 2; San Francisco 13, At- lanta 7; Houston 4, Los Angeles 3. In the American League on Tues- day, it was: Baltimore 7, Toronto 0; Detroit 6, New York 1; Boston 6, Cleveland 1; Chicago 4, Kansas City 3; Texas 6, Seattle 0; Milwaukee 4, Oakland 1 and Minnesota 8, Cali- fornia 2. order to allow Jim Schoenfeld to coach. Schoenfeld had been suspended for verbally abusing referee Don Koh- arski after Game 3. Newell, the league's most senior referee, has claimed he was pun- ished for his actions when the NHL didn't choose him to officiate any games during the Stanley Cup final. “What they are proposing now is a system that really expands potential for this kind of action,” Newell said in a statement released by the asso- ciation. 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TRANSACTIONS rdinale ploce pitcher Scon Terry on # let: ectivate pitcher Denny Cox trom n Colgery Stampede: Goon Tiger-Cats releose linebackers Mork Locher ond George Varon ond hicher Frank Maroceo. iders odd Miche! Benson ond Troy Wright to weining comp rosie wide recewer Borry McGeochy el Doneid 16 one. Mortord me aroun thatthe tear han been sold pending approval team s 16 com munity portnere te Donald G. Coned end Richard Calgary Flames re se Fight winger Lonny Me ‘yer «; BENEATH THE SEA . . . Lieut. Rob Quaia of Castlegar on board the HMSCS Onondaga where he works as a combat engineer. SUBMARINE NO PLACE FOR WEAK-HEARTED extent to my daily stress and aggravations,” confides Quaia, 30. However, other factors add to the stress of daily life on a sub only 90 metres in length. Living quarters are cramped. Some of the crew bunk right up against Mark 375 torpedoes valued at $1 million —- That translates to sleeping with 145 kilograms By TRISH KNIGHT Patrolling the Atlantic in one of Canada’s three conventional submarines is an unusual line of work. “I wouldnt recommend this job to the weak- hearted and don’t come down for the pay,” insists Lieut. Rob Quaia nearly 5,000 kilometres from his home in Castlegar. Quaia is a combat engineer on the HMCS Onondaga based out of Halifax. He is responsible for the maintenance of the anti-submarine detection equipment. This job is made more difficult by the age of the sonar and radar on board. Most of the equipment in the Canadian Navy is older than the sailors constantly trying to maintain it. One naval frigate commander explained how much of the equipment is ‘agricultural;’ meaning that most things can be fixed with a very large screw driver. “It’s like a farm’ tractor, you are continually maintaining it with a little bit of bailing wire.” Other modern nations rely on small microchips for their sensitive electronic naval warfare equip- ment. Canada is dependant on hundreds of relatively large vacuum tubes no longer manufactured in North America. However, each tube does carry a three-month guarantee from the country of origin: the Soviet Union. “The age of the submarine does add to some plosive. Quaia’s longest stretch at sea was for Pe days. “Let's face it, you put 65 guys in a can like this in the middle of the ocean for long periods it gets very trying. Constantly you're in peoples’ way and they in yours.” Each person on board is allowed one gallon of water a day for washing. The crew insists that you can remain as clean as you want to be. However, showering as he know it does not exist. Quaia explains: “After my first 42-day trip I was very glad to be ashore. I was very dirty and hadn't had a shower for a long time.” The lieutenant adds, “If | remember correctly the first shower I had was better than sex.” Quaia has spent five years on the “O” class conventional, submarines and feels it has been worthwhile. Despite the uncomfortable conditions these men consider themselves an elite force. However, he notes: “I will be staying on for another year and that will be enough, thanks.” In an age of microwaves and VCRs the lifestyle on the Onondaga seems less than ideal. Understand- ably, Quaia is looking forward to new Canadian nuclear propelled submarines. However, even if this controversial program is finally given the go-ahead it will be at least 10 years before the first one will be commissioned. Book tells of injustice By BRYAN BRUMLEY Associated Press PEREDELKINO, USSR — Ana. toly Naumovich Rybakov, still ener- getic at 77, jumped up and pulled a bundle of papers from one of the shelves that line the study of his cottage in the forested writers’ colony outside Moscow. Carefully, the novelist laid the bundle on the desk next to the window, untied the string and pulled out two covers of the largest Soviet literary magazine, Novy Mir, one from 1966 and the other from 1978. In the soft light, filtered through the trees, Rybakov held up first one and then the other of the blue sheets of stiff paper, tracing with his gnarled finger the underlined an nouncement that the journal would soon publish Children of the Arbat, his novel of the Great Terror waged by dictator Josef Stalin in the 1930s. Both times, in 1966 and 1978, publication was blocked by the men in the Kremlin, men who rose to power under Stalin. Rybakov's patience paid off. More than 21 years after it was written, Children of the Arbat was published last year in the literary journal Druzhba Narodov (Friend ship of Peoples), as part of Mikhail Gorbachev's campaign to reform the tyrannical system created by Stalin. The novel has since appeared in hardback editions, and was published in English in the United States last month by Little, Brown and Co. The book looks more deeply than any other yet published in the Soviet Union into Stalin's mind and meth- ods, the pettiness and arbitrariness that guided his followers, the inno- cence of his victims and the terror he created. It tells the story of Sasha Pank ratov, a young man of 23 who, like Rybakov, was sentenced without trial for a crime he never committed and sent to Siberia for three years of cold and lonely exile. Rybakov grew up in the apartment building inhabited by most of the book's characters, No. 51 Arbat Street, an old shopping street in downtown Moscow that was at once popular among the Communist party elite and among fashionable young people. Rybakov is working on the sequel, 1935 and Other Years, which will continue the story, and like Children of the Arbat, will give intimate por- traits of Stalin and his lieutenants and describe how he terrorized his deputies and the country. “The entire nation lived in fear,” said Rybakov, his craggy features grim beneath a balding pate and grey hair. “Only one person thought for himself. “Everyone else abandoned free thought.” WRITES NOVEL Hardback and paperbound editions of the book are expected to reach 3.5 million copies, he said, a phenomenal circulation in the Soviet Union, where a run of 100,000 is considered generous for works of fiction. The book disappears from stores before it reaches the shelves. The only places it can be found in Moscow are in hotel shops open only to foreigners and at a special store on Kropotkin Street that accepts no rubles, only western currency. On the black market, it sells for 30 rubles (about $62 Cdn), more than 10 times its retail price. Children of the Arbat deals largely with the purges within the Com munist party, and only mentions in passing a far bloodier episode — the 1929-32 collectivization of agriculture which caused a famine and, estimates by western scholars indi cate, claimed eight million lives. Rybakov said he'll explore this in greater depth in his next novel. “Who will take land and cultivate it if he fears that someone will’ take it away from him?” 300 attend WKPL session Nearly 300 people attended two open houses June 22 and 23 in Kelowna and Winfield to give West Kootenay Power their views on the proposed gas/oil turbine generating plant. Company officials said that res. ponse to the proposal from Kelowna residents was more positive than had been expected. “We haven't had time to review the response forms completed at the open houses yet,” senior vice-presi dent Stu MeKay said in a prepared release. “But it seems that people living in Kelowna are divided down the middle on the issue. McKay added that many of the turbine’s supporters are retired people who want to keep their power rates low and who believe that their environmental concerns have been addressed. By contrast, most respondents living in Winfield opposed the tur- bine. “West Kootenay Power- anticipated that Winfield would find little reason to support the proposal as most are not served by the company and would not benefit from lower electricity costs,” the company said in its release. WKPL officials say they found that is with Ok idents provided a number of valuable sug: gestions and valid criticisms. “We feel that_more people under- stand why we have proposed the turbine,” said project manager Al Dube, “how it fits into our long term plans and why other apparently ob- atternatives were not vious However, Dube acknowledged that some people remain convinced that the turbine will cause pollution. He said West Kootenay Power has always been open about the potential costs and benefits of the proposal, but added that “based on our best evidence, the turbine would enable all of our 100,000 customers to benefit from low-cost and reliable power without threatening either public health or the environment of Kelown: West Kootenay Power says it will spend the next several weeks an alyzing responses from the open houses and newspaper advertise- ments before deciding on its next steps. ss. june 29,1968 Castlegar News 59 LOS ANGELES Life in the Big Orange Editor's note: A high price is paid for the prosperity of Gos Angeles: smog, crime and wall-to-wall traffic This is part of a series on what lures Canadians to California. By STEPHEN NICHOLLS Canadian Press LOS ANGELES — As the dawning sun creeps over the Puente Hills, traffic is already. crawling along the San Bernardino Expressway into Los Angeles. Life in L.A. is hardly life in the fast lane for millions of motorists who face the daily traffic snarls that plague an overburdened road system. Traffic is only one drawback to life in the Big Orange. For the t of tr lanted C: who make their home in the Greater Los Angeles area, crime, smog and costly housing are among the darker shadows in the California sunshine. ‘Life in L.A. is hardly life in the fast lane’ Ah, but that sunshine. An average high year-round of 22.5 C, with only about three dozen days of rainfall. Compare that with Montreal's average high of 10.5 C and Vancouver's 172 days of rain. And palm trees everywhere — stubby, spiny ones framing buildings, or towering tufts lining major boulevards. LIKE MOVIE SET Nestled in these semi-tropical climes are the manmade beauties, the hallmarks of opulence that have become associated with southern California. The sprawling mansions of Bel-Air, the chic boutiques of Beverly Hills, the lavish shops of Rolls-lined Rodeo Drive. “One thing that surprised me about California was that it looks just as it does in the movies,” says June Pinheiro, a 28-year-old screenwriting student from Montreal. It's not all palms and panache. First and foremost, the metropolitan area of Los Angeles is big — about 10,500 square kilometres, or more than 15 times the size of Metropolitan Toronto. Clusters of highrises mark the commercial cores of the various communities that comprise Greater Los Angeles. Enveloping each nucleus is a mass of low-rise buildings sprawling outward, entwining with the of the next NOBODY WALKS In a city this huge, says Montreal-born dancer Helene Trudeau, “It’s not a life without a car.” As the lyrics of a once-popular song noted, “Nobody walks in L.A.” “Basically, I've had two lives here — before my ear, and after I got my car,” ex-Quebecer, Natellie Beausoleil. Weaving through the mass of concrete and palms are more than 1,000 kilometres of freeways. That's a lot of highway, but in an urban area of 12.5 million people, it's not enough. On most highways, rush hours last from 7 to 10 a.m. and 3 to 7 p.m. But on the busier freeways, traffic can slow to a snail's pace in the middle of the day or night. “A lot of (commuters) get up at four or five o'clock in the morning,” says Debbie McLaughlin, says another Angeles, motorists frequently encounter rush-hour gridlock” — where cars are backed up through intersections, so no cross-traffic can move. “You build your life around it,” says Bill Sobel, a Toronto-born lawyer who lives in the Hollywood Hills. “If you accept the premise that everywhere you go in Los Angeles, it takes you half an hour, it’s not that onerous. The city is so spread out, you tend to build your life in a certain region so the traffic isn’t a big hassle.” City officials are cracking down on motorists who venture into intersections before the way is clear. Other hopes for some relief are pinned on the construction of a new freeway and a $4.5-billion US subway system. But some say those measures will be little help. “This city is going to come to a grinding halt unless the powers that be can really diversify the transportation systems and direction of urban growth,” says architect Michael Shaver, from Prescott, Ont. “They really have a disarray in the planning of this city.” NOGROWTH URGED Those concerns have sparked a substantial no-growth movement in California's urban areas. Those pushing for tighter controls on develop- ment say the systems of roads, sewers, water and other services cannot handle more people. One of the more’odious byproducts of the traffic and industrial development is air pollution. Robbie Cantor, a secretary from the Ottawa area, complains about days when she “can barely see four blocks because it’s solid smog. “People talk about second-hand smoke, but I'm fairly certain that just stepping outside and taking a good whiff of the air is probably doing you more damage than any cigar in the next room,” she says. RANDOM SHOOTING Cantor, who moved to Los Angeles after marrying an American, is also unnerved by the crime. “If you can manage to get through a single day in downtown Los Angeles without seeing someone getting busted for something, you're doing well. “The (police) helicopters go over my place at least once a week, with the searchlights on. They're looking for someone.” Shaver and his wife were shot at by a sniper. “It was just a random shooting off the roof of an apartment building down on to the street,” says Shaver. “I was out of the car, sol got shot at first. “I got back to the car, but by the time I did they had shot the door.” A recent television report claimed the chances of being murdered are greater in downtown Los Angeles than in war-ravaged Beirut. HUNDREDS KILLED Street gang wars in the slums of south Los Angeles have claimed nearly 500 lives in the past year and a half, with public fear growing as gang-related killings spill out of the ghettos into neighboring areas. Some Canadians also criticize the social attitudes of native Californians, calling them cliquish and superficial. But others, like Vancouver-born actor Bruce Greenwood, dispute such observations. “Not everybody is plastic, by any stretch,” says Greenwood, who portrayed the narcissistic Dr. Seth Griffin on TV's St. Elsewhere. “A lot of people are working on themselves. This is a rich y, where people start thinking publisher of a California paper for Canad: “They're on the road by 5:30. And-then they have to leave by 3 p.m. in order to miss the traffic.” TRAFFIC CHAOS City driving can be worse. In downtown Los more about being than having.” And that sunshine. Don't forget the sunshine. “The weather IS fabulous,” says Greenwood. “The blue sky always lifts your spirits.” Cities locked in ‘war’ Pesticide use major concern By SUZANNE SOTO WINNIPEG (CP) — Chemical warfare isn't restricted to war-torn countrieS — it's a fact of everyday life in many major Canadian cities, says a Winnipeg born environmentalist. “In Winnipeg, and indeed across Canada, the same chemicals used in Third World war zones are used to supposedly kill insects,” Irene Paparo-Stein said in a recent interview. “While chemicals in war zones kill people outright, the diluted pesticides here kill people slowly.” It's a view vehemently opposed by government officials and ch: facturers » who say that when used properly, their products are as safe as any other substance or drug on the market today. But the outspoken Paparo-Stein is convinced that every spring and summer, as cities undertake pest control programs, millions of Canadians are exposed to dangerous chemicals which may be killing them. “The epidemic of cancer, netvous system and cardiovascular diseases has placed an overload on public health services,” she has written in a new book titled Cities Under Siege, published last month by Atlantic Press Publishing of Toronto. “This is mainly due to the heavy use of chemicals generated by the summer-long spraying programs in our cities and towns across this country.” In her book, Paparo-Stein describes how she and her two young daughters, twins Lisa and Libby, became violently ill in the spring of 1973 after a city worker sprayed the insecticide methoxychlor on trees outside her Winnipeg home. AIMED AT WORMS The chemical was intended to kill cankerworms, which devour leaves on trees. If severe enough, an infestation can eventually kill a tree. Paparo-Stein says that after the spraying, her heart and her head began to pound, and she was overcome with nausea and muscle spasms. Although she recovered momentarily, she says she and her nine-year-old daughter Lisa developed hepatitis, which a Winnipeg doctor linked to the methoxychlor. But an official with Health and Welfare Canada's pesticides division, which tests pesticides and contam- inants for safety, has difficulty believing methoxychlor was behind the hepatitis contracted by Paparo-Stein and her family. “I have never heard of any such reference, eve: Len Ritter, the head of the division, said about the link between the illness and methoxychlor. Hepatitis can occur when chemicals attack the liver, Ritter said, but it takes repeated doses at extremely high levels. He said he didn't think the kind of spraying undertaken by cities, which spray once, maybe twice in a year, would lead to hepatitis or other illnesses. Randy Gadawski, the City of Winnipeg’s- entomologist, is also skeptical of Paparo-Stein's claims. “There is absolutely no evidence, that I've seen, to suggest that synthetic sprays have the effects she describes in her book,” said Gadwaski, who is in charge of the city's annual spraying program. ‘ARE SAFE’ He admitted that inhalation of a pesticide results in a general feeling of malaise, especially on people very sensitive to toxic chemicals, but he has heard of no long-term effects caused by isolated spraying. “In terms of safety to the general publi¢, I think these chemicals are very safe,” he said. Comments like these make Paparo-Stein, 48, a thin woman with piercing blue eyes and a deep, authorita- tive voice, angry “Chemical companies have millions of dollars invested into this and they'll do anything to get their products declared safe,” she said. She added that multinational chemical makers often buy their way into approval by government agencies regulating their products.