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...Richard Lugar, R-Ind., revealed the plan not long after the State Department raised the possibility that the U.S. Embassy in Managua may be shut down and accused Nicaragua of refusing U.S. officials consular access to American Eugene Hasenfus, captured when the airplane crashed Sunday in southern Nicaragua...
Acting State Department spokesman Charles Redman said the embassy delivered a diplomatic note Tuesday to Nicaraguan officials requesting consular access to Hasenfus, the lone survivor of the crash Sunday of a cargo plane in southern Nicaragua...
Lugar said Reagan Administration policy toward Nicaragua is effectively in a sort of "limbo" because Congress has not given final approval to $100 million in U.S. aid to the Contras. That money for that aid program is contained in a pending catchall money bill...
...plane was on a mission to resupply Nicaraguan rebels but the Reagan Administration has said it had no connection with the U.S. government. Nicaragua has said the plane was on a CIA-sponsored mission...
President Reagan said his administration had known that American citizens and private groups were trying to help antigovernment rebels in Nicaragua but he denied anew that the plane had any connection to the U.S. government...