If you've just tuned back in to Nicaragua (as the airwaves slowly drain of The Summit), those aren't re-runs you're watching, folks. Not that there isn't a certain sense of deja vu. The Sandinistas just shot down another American, this one named Denby, who was connected with the contra resupply network. Only last Christmas it was a captured flyboy named Hasenfus who was in the news, released as a "good-will gesture" by President Daniel Ortega. And there were fresh claims this week that the "humanitarian" aid to the contras, approved just months ago, is once again being used - as it was in 1985 - to slip weaponry into the jungles. Makes you wonder whether the networks are planning a sequel to the Iran-contra hearings for next summer.
In Passing . . .
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Just across the river from Philadelphia's proposed, but stalemated trash- to-steam plant, the City of Camden has won approval for a $96 million trash plant. It will burn trash from Camden County's 26 municipalities - communities that are currently trucking the stuff to Western Pennsylvania, just as Philadelphia used to truck its trash to New Jersey.
Meanwhile, in Harrisburg, a House committee stripped an amendment that would have allowed county governments to bar New Jersey (and Philadelphia) trash. So New Jersey can keep dumping in Pennsylvania while Camden builds a plant that might take some trash from Pennsylvania.
Is this what they call recycling?
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Roxborough's Sen. M. Joseph Rocks, the Republican-turned-Democrat-and-now- once-again-turned-Republican, has switched parties in the middle of his term. He had little choice after figuring wrong and backing GOP mayoral candidate Frank Rizzo.
"I know that critics will charge that this is no more than opportunism . . . ," Rocks told reporters. And on this count, Sen. Rocks had things calculated exactly right.
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