* Overdue: Former U.S. Atty. Gen. Edwin...

* Overdue: Former U.S. Atty. Gen. Edwin Meese’s book contract for his Washington memoir has been canceled. “The problem,” said an editor at Henry Holt publishers, “is we simply haven’t gotten the material.” The manuscript was due last May. David Stockman, Ronald Reagan’s first budget director, criticized Meese in his memoir, saying Meese “entombed himself beneath a pyramid of paper and disorganization.” Meese could not be reached for comment Monday.

* Hart to Heart: Gary Hart, former presidential candidate and one-time Democratic senator from Colorado, was in Moscow Monday to meet with Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze. The Soviet news agency Tass said the two men discussed Soviet-U.S. relations and world political and economic issues. The report called Hart “a prominent politician” and made no mention of the Donna Rice matter that ended his presidential bid.

* Out of Orbit: John Glenn, Democratic senator from Ohio and one-time astronaut, traveled in the Soviet Union last week with less luck than former colleague Hart. Glenn said he was reminded that while he was the first American to orbit the Earth, Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin orbited the planet 10 months earlier in April, 1961. “It came as a shock when the Soviet Union went ahead of us,” Glenn recalled.

* Comeback Trail: Marion Barry is accepting donations again for his re-election campaign, his top political aide, Anita Bonds, said in Washington. Barry told a television reporter Monday that “he now feels good enough about his recovery” from what he has admitted are alcohol problems to seek a fourth term. After his arrest in a hotel room, where federal agents claim that they videotaped him smoking crack cocaine, Barry recently completed what he says was alcohol abuse treatment in Florida.