They estimated that with Mr. Vanegas's decision to stop fighting, there are between 800 and 1,500 Indian guerrillas still in the field.

But for more than a year, Indian guerrillas have been largely inactive.

Several hundred Indian guerrillas have laid down their weapons and taken advantage of a Government amnesty.

They said in interviews that they feared the new group would be more disruptive than the Indian guerrillas have been.

"The Indian guerrillas were armed residents of the area, but the F.D.N. is made up of outsiders," he said.

The storybook plight of the Harvard lawyer and the Indian guerrilla has captured the imagination of many people in the United States.

The agency, he said, had tried to force the Indian guerrillas to put themselves under the leadership of the main contra movement.

The killers are said to be people hostile to Indian guerrillas based here in the southern state of Chiapas.

Nothing got past her Indian guerrillas.

Sandinista troops burned many of the villages to the ground to prevent Indian guerrillas from using them as bases.