A life remembered beneath the headlines

Today has proved one of the more hectic news days for the national and international scene in some time. The morning commenced with Andrew Card tendering his resignation as White House Chief of Staff. Before long, riots erupted in Paris. And by day's end, the Israeli election was producing some rather potent results.

Each of these stories is enough to hold down the lead column in any normal morning's New York Times and each is deserving of the ink it has now claimed as its own.

But in all of this, the death of Caspar Weinberger has been somehow lost by relative standards, relegated to inferior consideration with promises of an obituary in tomorrow's newspapers placed too low on the new agenda only because of this storm of current events.

History will show that Mr. Weinberger was one of the chief architects of the Reagan administration policy that led to an end of the Cold War. He is very much an American patriot and ought to be remembered as a man who served his country with honor and dignity.

It is always sad when the passing of great individuals must be eclipsed by even more momentous events on the world stage. And while such is certainly the course this story must run by necessity, it is nonetheless an occasion to perhaps read deeper into the pages of tomorrow's newspapers and offer some appreciable remembrance of a great man.