And they question the ability of the Bosnian Government, once NATO forces leave, to patrol the narrow swath connecting the city to the main body of Bosnian Government-held territory.

The food was then trucked - after arduous negotiations with the Government - by an Ethiopian church group through Government-held territory into the rebel-held province of Tigre.

The present map, with its little islands of Government-held territory, would be a recipe for harassment and, as Mr. Shultz said, guerrilla war.

Its mosque is gone, replaced by a dismal little square, and its bullet-scarred Muslim homes are empty or occupied by Serbian refugees from Government-held territory.

But military activities within the no man's land separating the Government-held territories from those of the Bosnians Serbs are prohibited.

But in general the Serbs appear to have pushed old men, women and children into Government-held territory while killing a large number of men of fighting age.

Many were killed, but most were herded across front lines into Government-held territory.

Eventually, Mrs. Hadzic and her daughter were taken up to the front line near Kladanj and made to walk down into Government-held territory.

The last NATO checkpoint, at the entrance to Government-held territory, is unmanned.

Until now, however, the refugees had always been in Government-held territory.