8 - The Michigan Daily - Friday, December 5, 1997
LOCAL/STATE
prepares for
ung's funeral
Drug task force
targets Detroit area
DETROIT (AP) - Yesterday, the
day before thousands were expected at
Greater Grace Temple for former
Mayor Coleman Young's funeral, Roy
Harvey came to the church to see what
his chances would be of getting in to
today's service.
'it's going to be a celebration - it
won't even be like a funeral," said
Harvey, who exchanged greetings with
Young a few times as a boys basketball
coach for the Police Athletic League.
"He did all that he had to do."
At Greater Grace yesterday, workers
tested microphones, erected broadcast
antennas and placed security barriers to
prepare for the service to honor
Detroit's longest-serving mayor.
"We've never had an event of this
sort," said police Chief Isaiah
McKinnon, who met at the church to
discuss security for the many digni-
taries who are attending the event.
The service, expected to last about 2
1/2 hours, will include two songs sung
by Aretha Franklin. Scheduled to attend
are Gov. John Engler, Mayor Dennis
Archer, former Gov. William Milliken
and Transoortation Secretary Rodney
Slater, representing President Clinton.
Twenty-one speakers are to give two-
minute speeches.
About 3,000 people will sit in the
main sanctuary, with 20 percent of
the seats reserved for family, friends
and dignitaries. Another 1,500 will
watch on closed-circuit television in
the church's auxiliary room.
Churches across the city will show
the service on big-screen televisions.
Ray Washington, director of security
at Greater Grace, said thousands
more likely will be standing outside
the church, where they will be able to
listen to the service over loudspeak-
ers. At 9 a.m. today, those waiting in
line will be issued passes to enter the
church.
Peter Stroh, who will represent the
business community at the funeral,
said he planned to speak about the
mayor's lifelong fight against dis-
crimination.
"He fought for equal opportunity for
all," Stroi said. "If it hadn't been for
him, Detroiters wouldn't have had the
opportunities that many of them now
enjoy."
DETROIT (AP) - Bolstered by a
national designation as a high-intensity
drug-trafficking area, law enforcement
authorities in southeastern Michigan
are coordinating a renewed assault on
drugs.
The designation in June by the
White House Office of National Drug
Control Policy came with a S2 million
federal grant. and includes Wayne,
Oakland, Macomb and Washtenaw
counties.
"It's a federal empowerment zone
(for) fighting drugs," Wayne County
Sheriff Robert Ficano, who chairs the
task force, told The Detroit News for a
story yesterday
Since 1990, the drug policy office
has designated 22 high-intensity areas.
Support has grown to $162 million
nationwide, up from $25 million seven
years ago.
The southeastern Michigan task
force is targeting 32 major drug traf-
ficking organizations, 17 groups that
support those organizations and 17
gangs involved in drug distribution,
according to a report released
Wednesday at the close of a two-day
conference in Washington.
Southeastern Michigan has
become a major transportation, dis-
tribution, importation and money
laundering area, the study sai
Those activities are aided by thW
region's extensive interstate free-
ways, a 700-mile international bor-
der and the state's waterways.
Ficano, who attended the
Washington event, said the task
force will initially concentrate on
Detroit, Ecorse, Hamtramck,
Highland Park, Melvindale, River
Rouge and Redford. The plan calls
for a sweep of drug houses and
street dealing.
The programs also will include treat-
ment and recreation, preventative steps
that will work in concert with more tra-
ditional police work.
"From a law enforcement standpoint.
it's not realistic to think you're going to
build more prisons and solve the drug
problem," Ficano said.
"The long-range plan to solve the
drug problem is treatment and recre-
ation and starting to change peoples@
behavior," he said. "It's like a three-
legged stool. Each leg is necessary so
the stool doesn't tip over."
AP PHOTO
Former Detroit Mayor Coleman Young will be buried in a sarcophagus placed on
top of a concrete base in Detroit's Elmwood Cemetery.
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