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hmdh. n7 it I. 1 1 'Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers' is one of more than 40 movies coming in the next six weeks. A recap. TERRY LAWSON, IE if Here are the planning tips, recipes, tools and practical advice you need to survive as the chef for Thanksgiving Day.

rooD, 1G '1 FOR GUARD YEARS 7 1 Setoit Jfree Mum METRO EDITION 35 cents 50 cents outside 6-county metro area TUESDAY Nov. 19, 2002 www.frccp.com id (own revival is facing challenge from city blight U.S. eonirt clears way for spyii Government's victory has others worried HOMELAND SECURITY Warnings keep police in the dark By BEN SCHMITT, NANCY A. YOUSSEF and JOHN MASSON FREE PRESS STAFF WRITERS By SHANNON MCCAFFREY FREE PRESS WASHINGTON STAFF HUGH GRANNUM Detroit Free Hress WASHINGTON In a decision that will greatly expand the government's surveillance authority, a federal appeals court ruled Monday that the Justice Department has broad powers to use wiretaps and other means to combat terrorism. A special three-judge panel overturned a May decision by the secret Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court that certain surveillance provisions in the USA Patriot Act infringed on citizens' privacy.

It was the first time the appeals panel had overturned a ruling by the ultra-secret Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, which had sought to impose restrictions on how and when surveillance authority could be used to track foreign agents. Monday's decision essentially means the government will face fewer hurdles when it seeks to listen to telephone conversations and read e-mails in- Kewan Covington, 23, a Wayne State University student, pays $25 a month for his apartment, which is subsidized, in the 70 West Apartments. The building, reflected in the window of the Children's Center of Wayne County, is at the center of a rehabilitation dispute. Apartment buildings plagued by drug sales hamper gentrification As chairman of the Detroit Police homeland security committee, Deputy Chief Ronald Haddad knows just what to do to discern the terror alert level that the country is under. He picks up the newspaper or turns on the news.

"When the national alerts come out, they're by way of the media," Haddad said Monday. "With the information that is being shared, it is quite vague, at times." Created eight months ago to alert the public to potential terrorist threats, the color-coded warning system is under fire from some national and local law enforcement officials. Complaints are that the system is not specific enough when it comes to warnings, especially when it comes to regions of the country. By ALEJANDRO BODIPO-MEMBA FKhE I'RtSS STAFF WRITER million Detroit High School for the Performing Arts going up on Selden Avenue. It didn't even seem to matter that the City of Detroit owned 71 W.

Willis for five years or that a national nonprofit human services organization owned 70 West Apartments for nearly a decade, renting its 185 units as real-life reminders of the tensions that arise when a wave of change washes up against a wall of blight. Until recently, it didn't seem to matter that the buildings were steps from the Children's Center of Wayne County's new campus, around the corner from popular nightspots like the Union Street Saloon and the Majestic Cafe and 1,000 feet from the $100- "Any time of night you go out from 9 p.m. to 3 a.m. is when it's heaviest you're going to get approached by someone looking for some dope or someone selling," said Kewan Covington, 23, a Wayne State University nursing student who lives in 70 West. His building and another directly behind it at 71 W.

Willis are more than notorious magnets for drugs and prostitution. They're "Wliat 's up, playa? What do you need?" That's how a lot of conversations start at nightfall outside 70 West Apartments on West Alexandrine, between Woodward and Cass in Detroit. The answers range from drugs to sex to both. Please see ALERT, Page 3A Please see SPY, Page 3A Please see MIDTOWN, Page 5A TV news poised for change Prostate cancer is rife in the state, metro area Viacom plan likely to affect channels 50, 62 HOW THEY RATED WITH VIEWERS Newscasts at Viacom-owned Channels 50 and 62 attracted the fewest viewers in the Detroit market, according to the October ratings report from Nielsen Media Research. By JOHN SMYNTEK FREE PRESS STAFF WRITER Only D.

C. has a higher rate; figures for blacks alarming CHANNEL ANCHORS RATING SHARE 10 p.m. By PATRICIA ANSTETT FREE PRESS MEDICAL WRITER 10.4 5.8 Perkins, Gayle Hupe, Terrell 2 WJBK-TV(FOX) 7.0 50 WKBD-TV (UPN) 3.9 11 p.m. 4 WDIV-TV (NBC) 12.5 7 WXYZ-TV (ABC) 9.9 62 WWJ-TV (CBS) 3.6 "We need to educate more men to come in early." DR. ISAAC prostate cancer researcher and survivor 21.6 17.0 6.2 The report reflects a major improvement in how cancer cases are counted in the United States, said Tommy Thompson, U.S.

Health and Human Services secretary, in releasing the 292-page report. The report covers 37 states, six metropolitan areas and Washington D.C., reflecting cancer diagnosed among 78 percent of the U.S. population. It uses 1999 data, the latest available, gathered by the National Cancer Institute and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Data improvements stem from a 1994 law to help states upgrade cancer registries.

Up to now, the government's cancer statistics have been much more limited, covering 14 percent of the population living in metro areas like Detroit, which has had a cancer registry since 1973. Detroit-area cancer specialists say Harlan, Scillian Gordon, Lewis Makupson Channel 62 is pulling out of the local news business, and Channel 50 will soon farm out its news-gathering to local media giant WXYZ-TV (Channel 7). The changes mean that Detroit is one the verge of losing one TV news provider while another expands its reach. According to multiple industry officials, Viacom will likely cease local news operations on the two Detroit stations it controls UPN affiliate WKBD-TV (Channel 50) and CBS carrier WWJ-TV (Channel 62) and contract with another local station, most likelv ABC affiliate WXYZ-TV (Channel A ratings point equals 18,700 metro Detroit TV households. Share is the percentage of viewers watching TV at that time.

Tri-county Detroit and Michigan have catapulted to an unwanted distinction: More men here get prostate cancer than anywhere else in the nation except Washington, D.C., a new federal report says. Prostate cancer occurs even more often among African-American men, says the report issued Monday by two federal agencies. "This is another wake-up call," said Ray Demers, director of the Josephine Ford Cancer Center at Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit and a respected cancer statistician. "Now we have to figure out why there's such a racial disparity." ing news operations in Detroit from four to three, taking the lowest-rated player out of the game. It would be a major coup for 7), to produce a 10 p.m.

newscast to air only on Channel 50. Local news would no longer appear on Channel 62, according to tentative plans. The deal would reduce compet Please see TV, Page 2A Please see CANCER, Page 5A i ly.viNi.T.w-, A.M. SHOWERS Then partial clearing. Body Mind 1H Comics 7E.8E Horoscope 3E Obituaries SB Bridge 3E Corrections 2A Jumble 5F Sports 10 Business 1C Crossword 7E The List1 2E TechToday 2A 44 1 36 CONTACT VS Delivery: 800-395-3300 Classified: 586-977-7500 News tip: 31 3-222-6600 800-926-8237 INDEX Volume 172, Number 199 O2002 Detroit Free Frew hx Printed the United States 6 40788H 1 1 000I Weather, 7E.

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