AFGHAN GUERRILLAS PERSEVERE SOVIETS EMPLOY NEW TACTICS.(Main)

Byline: Randolph Harrison Orlando Sentinel

Scarred and blinded by soldiers who tried to burn him to death, Anar Gul symbolizes both the hope and the despair of the Soviets trying to subjugate Afghanistan.

Because they caught his convoy of guerrilla fighters re-entering Afghanistan, he is evidence of the success of new Soviet tactics emphasizing raids and ambushes to disrupt resistance operations.

But they failed to kill him. And Gul's determination to return to the fight is a manifestation of the indomitable will that has confounded would-be conquerors of Afghanistan for more than 2,000 years.

Lying on his back in the Afghan Surgical Hospital here, speaking through an interpreter, Gul said his group was ambushed by a Soviet special forces unit in a small valley where they had no room to turn around.

"I jumped from my truck and …