The Michigan Doily - Friday, September 5, 1986--Page 13 Court threatens TV producer 4 .r * .a ." r ' 5 / } sL~. ~.~ . '4} k M~~ > ~ y 'Ik I ~, i. Associated Press Singed An unidentified man pushes Veronica Burton of Boston off her roof just as flames begin to engulf her during a two-alarm fire. She was hospitalized after the fall. ' Soviet evacuation failed DETROIT (AP)- Authorities may seek this week to enforce a contempt order sending a Detroit Television producer to jail if he refuses to turn over taped interviews to a grand jury, a prosecutor said Wednesday. Wayne County Circuit Judge William Giovan cited Bradley Stone for contempt March 18 and ordered him jailed if he refused to hand over the interviews with teenage gang members. THE STATE Court of Appeals ruled Aug. 19 that television and radio news reporters cannot protect their tapes or refuse to divulge their sources under Michigan's shield law. Lawyers for Stone, a producer for WJBK-TV, filed an appeal with the Michigan Supreme Court and requested a stay of the contempt order. "I anticipate that sometime this week we will seek to enforce the contempt order unless a stay is granted by the Supreme Court," said Patrick Foley of the Wayne County Prosecutor's Office. Prosecutors agreed Aug. 27 to wait seven days before attempting to enforce the order, said Zan Niccoli, lawyer for Stone. "WE CERTAINLYhope to hear from the state Supreme Court on our request for a stay," Niccoli said Wednesday. "We're}hoping to hear something favorable sometime today." Stone declined to comment on the case. Under the contempt order, Stone would be jailed until he submitted the tapes or until the grand jury's term expires on Jan. 7,1987. The grand jury was investigating the fatal shooting of Michigan State Police Trooper Paul Hutchins in Detroit on Aug. 29,1985. Grand jury subpoenas were served on WJBK-TV to demand the station's written, filmed, or recorded material relative to a series on Detroit gangs. Stone had said he promised anonymity to some of those inter- viewed. The shield law covering newspaper reporters "makes no mention of television or radio reporters," the state appeals court said. Doctor says hospitals should ban smoking BOSTON (AP)- A telephone company's success in banning smoking on the job should encourage hospitals to prohibit cigarettes, too, a doctor says. Dr. Michael Martin of the University of California in San Francisco said that in the six months since Pacific Northwest Bell barred smoking in its facilities, the results have been impressive. No one has left as a result of the policy, no lawsuits have been filed, and the workers unions have supported the measure. Martin, along with Dr. Annette Fehrenbach of the phone company and Robert Rosner of the Smoking Policy Institute at Seat- tle University, described the results of the policy in a letter published in Thursday's New England Journal of Medicine. They predicted that the experience will almost certainly encourage other large companies to consider such a ban. "If widely adopted, these policies might have a dramatic effect on the nation's smoking habits," they wrote. "The - oretically, they would encourage people to quit smoking by increasing the social pressure against it and by restricting the time available for it." They said that although some hospitals have already banned smoking, all hospitals should consider doing the same. Hey, couldn't yoO benefit from learning to read and study more efficiently and effectively? Take SPEED READING & STUDY SKILLS * WASHINGTON (AP)-Soviet cauthorities had to scrap their prepared emergency plans and start from scratch to evacuate +235,000 people after the Chernobyl -nuclear accident, U.S. experts who attended an international ;conference said Wednesday. "None of their emergency plans (were adequate to the circum- stance...The plan they looked at first they had to throw out," *Harold Denton, director of reactor safety for the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, told the NRC at a Briefing-on the conference held by the International Atomic Energy Agency. Denton said Soviet delegates to the meeting, which ended last weekend in Vienna, said the major lesson they learned was that "there is an absolute need for a single coordinating auth- ority...one person in charge." Some 1,000 buses were used to evacualate 135,000 people from an 18-mile zone near Chernobyl, the site of an explosion and fire that began April 26 and sent a plume of radiation around the world. 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