* Encouraging Salvadorean recruitment of moderate, reformist personnel for diplomatic representation.

* Providing logistical support and orientation through US embassies and missions.

* Actively encouraging increased diplomatic support from sympathetic Latin American and other allied governments.

* Discouraging resolutions and other diplomatic initiatives critical of current government or possibly contributing to the legitimation of opposition forces.

* Activating mechanisms to disrupt opposition efforts to obtain international support and legitimacy and to limit the impact of such efforts.

* Creating favorable conditions for other countries' involvement in support for US initiatives in the OAS and the UN in relation to the situation in Central America.

Closely monitoring and feeding US and world media coverage of the region and publicizing widely US confidence in and support for current process in El Salvador.

3. Strengthening counter-insurgency capabilities of armed forces through:

* Increased training for middle and low ranking officers.

* Improving military infrastructures for more effective urban and rural combat communications and for rapid troop deployment.

* Setting up adequate supply lines and stockpiling material in cooperation with regional and extra-hemispheric allies.

* Providing strategic and tactical command advisory assistance.

* Increasing cohesion and coordination among various command structures within Salvadorean armed forces.

* Seeking to bring under unified command the paramilitary units operating in the country.

* Establishing and/or improving communications and cooperation among armed forces and paramilitary organizations in Guatemala, El Salvador and Honduras.