European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - April 19, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                By Carl Milliard associated Pressa mow settled Gary Haft. Wary of Nis Iron runner Lalus in the i98a president race. Is pairing the lessons he Rarned a Amsl Walter Moj Clale to 84 to Good use. Asa result of Nawang been through n once and knowing what to a Pecl personally physically and intellectually tic is a fal mow locus cd and Al ease with  says Hal Haddon a Denver lawyer longtime halt of find and his National political Coor Malor. He has a Belle acne o Pace. Until you to been through i once you Don t know How wenching it can  Hart who formally announced his candidacy for lha 19ej8 democratic presidential nomination last week has been through ii. Three years ago Harl was the Long shot candidate of new ideas who very nearly spoiled Mondale s sure thing candidacy. Mondale his Campaign in trouble rotted questions about Hart s substance into a quip borrowed from a to commercial and asked where s the beef at the same Lime. The Colorado senator was pulled Wilh questions about his age it had been repeatedly misstated to Hart publications. His name Jit was changed from Halfpence and a Campaign thai sometimes seemed out of control. Mondale regained momentum and won the nomination on the first ballot at the demo Eralic National convention in san Francisco. People no longer asked Gary who Bui Harl was left with other problems the Foremost one being a $4.7 million Campaign debt and a raft of angry creditors we re going to pay our debt and we re going to do it without one cell of special inhere is political action committee Money Harl vowed. The Deb is Down lo$1.3 million and Harl. 50, now jokes about calling himself a grass tools politician. That s another name for someone who does t have much  in january 1986, Harl announced he would not seek a third term in the Senate freeing him to work Loward the while House since Ihen. A i has acted the part of a presidential candidate to be. He has paid extended visits to Iowa and new Hampshire places where his popularity will be put to the lest Lisl in 1988. And to important Southern primary states and to a variety of foreign countries. Billing himself As a serious thinker with the experience and the Best plan Lor the nation. Hart told Farmers in Iowa recently the real test is who is Best prepared to govern this country. Everyone who comes to this stale asking for help should meet a Standard beyond the tactics of politics or the slogans rhetoric they should Lay out a vision for Iho nation s future Al Home and abroad " Hart has carefully assembled an Agenda to National defense education Trade and agriculture and has Creole a lax a Empl foundation o showcase his a riots and he has meticulously put together a Campaign organization opening his National Headquarters feb 2 in Denver with 20 Lull time staffers operating a presidential Campaign Fiam denser gives Hart a ready made urn photo Gary Hart no hat been through one pret Lentiel Campaign Knon what to Spect the experience has helped him w at Date  experience paves the Way for Gary Hart Western Retreat from the Rigours of campaigning and from the Glare of  publicity. Despite hts Small town upbringing in Olla a. Kan., Hart has Fried hard id cultivate an image of a Western statesman in Cowboy Bools. The Day after he announced in 19b6 that he would not seek another Senate term he in vied reporters to his Home on troublesome Gulch in the Mountain Foothills West of Denver. There reporters were provided a glimpse of Harl the Western Man warming himself before a lire lecturing on National affairs. It can t stand As a serious indictment of Harl that he hoped up the weekend business or ear and Eye Cal Chang effect mole Denver Post political columnist Leonard Larson but it s fascinating As he still searches Lor himself in his performance As a serious National politician " this same pm Shanly Loward Western images prompted had in his 5,000-word essay on his Hie one wan s Luck which first appeared in the Boston Globe to Decotie an encounter with a Timber Oil to Yards Tram chg door of his troublesome Gulch Home Denver newspaper pundits noted that the Timber Woll has bean virtually extinct in the West since 1930 and that perhaps the Wolf Story was meant to be taken allegorically. Larsen suggested that perhaps when Hart was a boy. He had been tricked by his older sister into believing that cows Wera wolves and that Hart now mistakes cows for Roivos. Harl went Home to Ottawa recently. Where As a youth he was Gary Hartpence. During his visit he again and again extolled the importance of his Small town upbringing. In a speech to townspeople Hart was on the verge of Leais As he expressed gratitude tar the values instilled by his parents who died in 137? Hart has said that compassion Lor the poor was impressed on him Al an Early age by his parents and by Iho evangelical Church of the Nazarene to which he belonged later this Altitude was reinforced when he worked on construction and Raik Oad craps with Blacks Ana hispanics during Summers we tic to was m College and graduate school. I Learned Basic economics. The values of the collective bargaining system and the difference Between capital and labor Hart wrote in one Man s Luck " i saw men in their mid 60s, a year or to Short of Roii Dement working harder than to can Agurs under the 110 degree Kansas  Harl studied philosophy literature and religion Al Bethany Nazareno College outside Oklahoma City Thoira. He Mol nil Buluro wife. Loo and two months after graduation they married determined to teach philosophy and religion Hart went to the Yale school of theology and there Learned a was belter suited Lor Public service work than Academia he applied to the Vale us school and was accepted. Alter Law school. The Harts went to Washington where Gary Hart worked As an attorney Cor the Justice and Interior department for three years Ihen decided logo West to join a Denver Taw firm. Hart traces his interest in Poi pics to John Kennedy s Call Lor americans to embrace Public service. In 1968, he helped democrats organize Colorado for Robert Kennedy s presidential Campaign. And in 1970 he began Volunteer work Lor George Mcgovey. By 1972, Hart was running Mcgovern s presidential Campaign which won a Slun Rong nomination Victory and then went Down to a landslide defeat against Richard Nixon. L was a Small step for Harl to become a candidate Mysell. In his first election in 1974, Hart look on Peter Dorn Nick the respected Republican senator aided by allegations never proven that Dorn Nick had somehow been involved in laundering milk cooperative contributions to the 1972 Ninon Campaign and an anti olympic referendum. Hart won a big upset in the traditionally Republican slate beating Dominick try a 146,000 vote margin. Six years later he was reelected. It was an unexpected achievement Tor a Man who As a youth had Little aptitude and no personality for the political game a boy whose highest elective office had been vice president of his Junior class in High school. Now Hart laces an entirely Diller enl problem. He must focus on Over coming 3 major Campaign flaw in 19b4 ins inability to make his substance overshadow his style and personality Haddon believes Hart already has surmounted this obstacle in effect answering the Mondale question of where s the beef he really has set the table in terms of a substantive Agenda Haddon said. He s made a huge Effort to do so Wilh his foreign policy speeches his military Book his educational pieces and his economic pieces. Ii the press does t want to see the substance it s because it s Loo difficult to do  and Hart s trip to the soviet Union fast december had a variety of benefits some of them simply personal. It gained him Confidence in his ability to negotiate with Mikhail Gorbachev said Haddon of Harl. He did t come away with anything Concrete. But he did come away with a Sensa he could communicate and be his equal in the ability to  Hart s Campaign acknowledges the candidate s status As a front runner bul no one is shouting it from the mount Amlous he s very Well aware thai you Vegol to earn this thing and he s going to run his classic grass roots kind of  said Haddon that s in Only Way he knows How Torun " Paga 18 the stars and stripes sunday april 19,1987