Nation IN BRIEF : FLORIDA : Noriega Witness Kept Some Drug Profits

Federal prosecutors let him keep some of the millions he made in drug trafficking, a witness at the trial of former Panama strongman Manuel A. Noriega testified in Miami. Steven Kalish, 38, testified that he had made a deal with Noriega to launder his profits. He estimated that he had made $20 million as a drug trafficker. He and Noriega had just concluded a deal to handle all of the Medellin cartel’s money-laundering when he was arrested in Tampa, he said. Kalish entered into a plea bargain that will free him in 1993.