July 23, 1997

Cold soups have become food of choice of many New Yorkers on hot summer days; drawing; photo; recipes (M)

Federal agents arrest 16 members of armed gang accused of selling heroin, cocaine and weapons from public housing project in Newark (New Jersey Daily Briefing) (S)

Seven FCC National Bank executives participate in daylong team-building workshop at Cooking by the Clock, Manhattan cooking school, testing theory that learning to work together in kitchen will enhance collaborative skills in office; photos (M)

House and Senate Republicans say they resolved nearly all differences between their tax bills and will present united front in talks with Clinton Administration; adopt some stands that are closer to House bill, which Clinton rejects, and away from Senate bill, which Administration favors as starting point for talks; reportedly retain House bill provision to let investors subtract effects of inflation from capital gains and maintain their opposition to making more low-income working families eligible for proposed $500 per child tax credit (M)

Effort to extradite from California to Mexico two suspects in Sept 1996 murder of anti-drug prosecutor Ernesto Ibarra Santes has become cautionary tale about collaboration between law enforcement systems with vastly different standards for interrogating witnesses and building cases; key witnesses say they were tortured, and secret documents from another Mexican drug probe contradict some of evidence Mexico provided to support extradition of Alfredo Hodoyan Palacios and Emilio Valdez Mainero; case has broad implications in light of United States bid for extradition of many Mexicans charged with crimes in US; photos (L)