i know that with the wittman's, they live in modest homes in brooklyn, they were a family of carpenters, the father, wald, george, they built houses and sold them and live in these very small dwellings and a lot of questions have arisen to the family know that what was what we would now call homosexual. the word didn't exist in the early 19th century. and of course there has been a long scholarship denying that whitman was homosexual and then sinking that well, during the civil war he sublimated that uncouth urge to be other man i discovered he had a very active love life while he was a nurse. but i got back

recession disproportionately affect urban blacks and latinos and cities were teaming with on and wittman eager to earn a living the straight and drug cutting or defending territory where it was sold. the economy need the pick me up selling coke provided. the banking industry had been banged up by the recession and was glad to have influx of capital brought by the cocaine is. the economist reported 44 miami banks were given international charters in 1982 compared to ten in 1978. another 46 banks open branches in miami during that period at least 40 banks refused to report cash deposits of more than $10,000 as required by law throughout the 70's and into the 80's. and at least four banks authorities estimated worth of and controlled by. as the trade spread across the country dealers daudistel other banks eager to deal with cocaine cash. much of the money that went to farm producers ended up in the american economy will work for the panamanian branches of u.s. banks. by the late 80's a few banks had become under suspicion as money laundering became a blatant. but the penalties were laughabl

i'm going to keep -- [inaudible] >> barbara wittman, and i am a trade economist who served as the tradeestern hemisphere for the state department for four years. the striking point that i welcome from ed gresser is there will be action on both preferences and fda. now murphy talked about the standing as 114th out of 121 countries. and about fact there have been six positive votes that grant tariffs to the u.s. and since we pressed one reciprocal agreement. the one fundamental point we've been addressing a long time as we were very nice about getting lots of poor countries access to the markets and what has been the goal of all of the reciprocal fta to convert a one-way street to a two-way street the benefits our exports. now, the general comment about fda -- fta the fact is i've worked 40 years and multilateral negotiations of one kind or another and you never get there at the table with everybody. you get there one by one. if you have to do it with fta before you have a common basis of understanding you can do it with everybody, great. what i'm looking at now in fall or early next year

tom wittman. if i understood you correctly when you were talking about the group of suspects rounded up an international connections you said they had other issues that go along with the arab-israeli conflict and you said one thing they have issue with is the suez canal. i should know this but what is the issue with the suez canal? >> i guess the suez canal we have infrastructure for using force and my interpretation is iran expecting certain moment with either israel or the united states or both of them and they were putting the the groundwork from egypt to upper egypt to sudan to yemen in order to respond. if you make a kind of military scenario if somebody went and attacked iran and nuclear, you know, facilities and iran would like to respond they have a number of choices. they have a number of choices to do it in iraq and in the gulf region or far away places it depends on appreciation and estimation of the american power distribution in the region and what we think is an intention of the unit