THE WEEK

□ Senator Hart had a private three-and-a-half-hour meeting with Mr. Gorbachev in Moscow, and in Azusa, California, a man discovered a human finger in a can of Mexican stewed tripe. While no link between these foreign-policy failures has been established, investigators plan to question Ollie North.

□ By a vote of 24 to 17, Senate Republicans have chosen Senator Jesse Helms ranking minority member of the Foreign Relations Committee, upsetting Senator Richard Lugar. Helms’s edge in seniority proved decisive, but much more than protocol was at stake. Lugar is no liberal, receiving only a 10 per cent ADA rating, but he seems jelly-like at times, and he was indecently enthusiastic about the South African sanctions, a freebie issue for domestic consumption on which most pols voted cynically. Senator Helms will be a much more forceful spokesman for the Reagan agenda. The State Department is not celebrating.

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□ Senator Hart had a private three-and-a-half-hour meeting with Mr. Gorbachev in Moscow, and in Azusa, California, a man discovered a human finger in a can of Mexican stewed tripe. While no link between these foreign-policy failures has been established, investigators plan to question Ollie North.

□ By a vote of 24 to 17, Senate Republicans have chosen Senator Jesse Helms ranking minority member of the Foreign Relations Committee, upsetting Senator Richard Lugar. Helms’s edge in seniority proved decisive, but much more than protocol was at stake. Lugar is no liberal, receiving only a 10 per cent ADA rating, but he seems jelly-like at times, and he was indecently enthusiastic about the South African sanctions, a freebie issue for domestic consumption on which most pols voted cynically. Senator Helms will be a much more forceful spokesman for the Reagan agenda. The State Department is not celebrating.