Salvadoran officials say their country is an active part of the United Nations and believe in the world body's effort to rebuild Iraq.

Salvadoran officials offered to place a facility here, saying they wanted to contribute to regional security.

Salvadoran officials and business leaders have also objected to monitors Gap has hired to police working conditions.

Salvadoran officials say they resent the failure to credit the army for cooperating.

It is already confronting a deepening economc crisis that many Salvadoran officials fear could drive peasants into the guerrilla ranks.

Salvadoran officials openly predict that the insurgency will be the next casualty of the decline of the Soviet bloc.

So far, neither Salvadoran officials nor their United States advisers seem to want a harsh crackdown.

Salvadoran officials have said that 500,000 of their countrymen, representing about 10 percent of the population, may be living in the United States.

Salvadoran officials believe the entry refers to the first leader of the land-redistribution program in 1979, Enrique Alvarez.

Salvadoran officials emphasized today that their political situation could not be compared to that of Peru.