Salvadoran rightist leader linked to Romero slaying

March 18, 1982

The Boston Globe has obtained evidence -- long alluded to, but never actually published - linking the leading extreme-right candidate in El Salvador's March 28 election, Roberto d'Aubuisson, to the assassination in March 1980 of Archbishop Oscar Arnulfo Romero, as well as to an enormous paramilitary operation with connections in the Miami underworld.

The papers were seized when Mr. d'Aubuisson was arrested in May 1980. A US State Department source said the documents were considered 'px -O ernal matter, '' according to the Globe. Mr. d'Aubuisson has never been arrested in connection with the assassination.