NBC Evening News for Friday, Mar 13, 1981
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(Studio) Senator Mark Hatfield's announcement of Reagan administration's plans for economic aid to El Salvador and sends warning against Vietnam-like involvement there reported.
REPORTER: Roger Mudd
(DC) Secretary of State Alexander Haig's announcement that acting Secretary of State John Bushnell's recent remark concerning media coverage of El Salvador was off the mark reported [Courtesy "MacNeil/Lehrer Report", HAIG - denies efforts to manipulate press; explains Bushnell's comments; comments on USSR -Poland relations.]
REPORTER: Marvin Kalb
(Studio) El Salvador President Jose Napoleon Duarte's allegation that wealthy citizens of his nation living in Miami, Florida, are bankrolling terrorism reported.
REPORTER: Roger Mudd
(Miami, Florida) Former United States ambassador Robert White recalled supporting claim that wealthy El Salvadoran expatriots are financing right wing terrorism; details given, films shown. [El Salvador Freedom Foundation spokesperson Ian McKENZIE - denies such backing.] [Exiles Enrique ALTEMORANO and Orlando De SOLO - criticize US-backed regime.] Duarte said naming De Solo family in Miami as among those financing terrorism.
REPORTER: Phil Bremen
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