THE WEEK

□ Who says William Lucas was done in because of his race? His lack of civil-rights experience would have been a fatal disqualification for any non-Kennedy.

□ Thanks to the perfervid reactions of the President, the Congress, the major networks, and two thousand newspapers to a single murder (which could not have been prevented) by a small group of fanatics, the hostage value of every American in the Middle East has doubled. Party of God, meet of Orgy of Publicity.