The World - News from Oct. 18, 1985
A week after sending the first shipment of renewed U.S. aid to Nicaraguan contras, Reagan Administration officials in charge of the program said they are not sure what happened to the supplies. Honduras officials said that the shipment was seized and will be returned to the United States. But rebel leaders insisted that the supplies have reached their base camps on the Honduras-Nicaragua border. The office in charge of the program in Washington said it is “double-checking” on the fate of the shipment, which left New Orleans on Oct. 10.
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