For lanky, red-haired Gene Wirges, 34, running the weekly Democrat (circ. 3,600) in Morrilton. Ark., has been a basic course in the varieties of violence.
His home has been stoned; on occasion, friends have felt it necessary to stand all-night guard, shotguns at the ready. Wirges has been shot at, beaten, and threatened so persistently by anonymous telephone callers that he once sent his wife and four children to live for a while in the com parative safety of Little Rock, 35 miles to the southeast. But the campaign of terror, far from scaring the Democrat's spunky editor and proprietor, has only...
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