THE WEEK

□ “The Foreign Service,” writes Perry Shankle, president of the American Foreign Service Association, in a letter to the editor in Newsweek, “will serve this Secretary of State as loyally as it has past secretaries.” We feared as much.

□ We don’t know whether George Bush made a brilliant move or simply lucked out with the nomination of Richard Cheney. Questions linger about the failure of Bush or his aides to understand the depth of Senate resistance to Tower. Cheney, who is more conservative than Tower, is expected to win confirmation more or less unanimously. He has been steady in support of the Contras, firmer than Tower on SDI, and has the record of a smart, principled conservative. He fulfills even the new moral standards of 1989, and has been happily married for years to the admirable Lynn Cheney, chairman of the National Endowment for the Humanities. Welcome aboard.

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□ “The Foreign Service,” writes Perry Shankle, president of the American Foreign Service Association, in a letter to the editor in Newsweek, “will serve this Secretary of State as loyally as it has past secretaries.” We feared as much.

□ We don’t know whether George Bush made a brilliant move or simply lucked out with the nomination of Richard Cheney. Questions linger about the failure of Bush or his aides to understand the depth of Senate resistance to Tower. Cheney, who is more conservative than Tower, is expected to win confirmation more or less unanimously. He has been steady in support of the Contras, firmer than Tower on SDI, and has the record of a smart, principled conservative. He fulfills even the new moral standards of 1989, and has been happily married for years to the admirable Lynn Cheney, chairman of the National Endowment for the Humanities. Welcome aboard.