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...recent Christian Democrat documentary, entitled D'Aubuisson Naked, showed film clips of the rightist leader making public threats against political and religious figures who were later assassinated or attacked. Images of the bodies or funerals were spliced into the film. Among the victims: the late Archbishop Oscar Arnulfo Romero, who was assassinated by a gunman while saying Mass at the altar on March...
...Major Blowtorch for his reputed skill at interrogating with that instrument. Former U.S. Ambassador to El Salvador Robert E. White, testifying before a U.S. Senate Committee, said that there is "evidence, if not 100% conclusive, that D'Aubuisson and his group are responsible for the murder of Archbishop Romero." White also linked D'Aubuisson to the right-wing death squads, a charge that D'Aubuisson denies. He has been accused of plotting to overthrow the present junta but never brought to trial...
...Roberto d'Aubuisson, the candidate of the far right, is determined these days to soften his image as a gunman. He rose in Salvadoran society by attending his country's military academy, a traditional route to the top. After the 1979 coup that removed General Carlos Humberto Romero and installed a reformist junta, D'Aubuisson was purged from the army by the new government. Excerpts from D'Aubuisson's session with TIME Mexico City Bureau Chief James Willwerth and TIME's Timothy Loughran...
...charges that he has been associated with death squads, was involved in the murder of Archbishop Oscar Romero and is the front man for El Salvador's powerful oligarchy. It was to be expected that I would be attacked with these false words because we were the first to recognize what was coming over our country. We interrupted the plans they [the "subversives"] had. They focused their attention on us. But have they presented proof of their charges...
...Salvador. It looked at first like a victory for democracy. The coup that toppled rightist Dictator General Carlos Humberto Romero in October 1979 established a "progressive" junta that included civilian leaders. Trying to satisfy peasant expectations, the military-civilian junta later launched an ambitious reform program; it nationalized the core of the banking system and expropriated many of the larger estates for redistribution among the campesinos...