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Hart gains strange allies in strange places Late Saturday morning my roommate drove me downtown, where he works everyday. Gary Hart was on his way there too, to speak for about half an hour — if you count the press con ference he held afterwards. “My brother likes Hart," said Royce, who, God bless him, had left the house early just so I could hang around the mall for over an hour and drink four cups of coffee. reporter's notebook brooks dareff I'd never met Royce's brother, but I did know that he was older than Hart. I knew too that he's always been the surrogate father of the McClain clan. “And he's a Republican, always has been," my room mate said. "He voted for Nixon, for Goldwater, for Reagan." Gee, I thought, as we ap proached 18th Avenue, that's strange. I thought Yuppies were the only Republicans who liked Hart. Being a somewhat groggy but always probing reporter, I pro pped up in my seat, straighten ed my tie, and took note. "Why?" I asked. Royce gave me that sly, sar donic smile of his. In this case it told me something vague but sublime was coming. "He says he's 'his kind of guy,' " he said. "He's disenchanted with Reagan," my roommate added, "over Lebanon and Central America." Photo by Michael Clapp Sen. Cary Hart addressed 3,000 people in the Eugene mall Saturday, urging them to look ahead to "politics of a new generation." Left with this I walked to the mall, where I saw Brian, who was dressed in a nice brown suit, but was unhappy. On Fri day the Hart people had asked him to be one of the chauffeurs in Hart's motorcade, and that morning, at 8 a.m., he was told they already had three chauf feurs too many. While we had coffee I chatted about Hal Mc Clain's disenchantment with Ronald Reagan. "My father is too," Brian said. "He thinks Reagan is getting a little out of hand. I don't know what he'll do. Maybe he'll just sit this one out." I began to get an eerie feeling. Ghosts of old Republicans were haunting what was supposed to be a Democratic function. After the speech — most of which I'd read in The Oregonian that morning — I mingled with the crowd, and heard wind of another Hart Republican, a local candidate who I'll call X, from X's campaign manager. "I almost got X up there in troducing Hart," the campaign manager said, beaming proudly. I never did nail those ghosts down, but at the Hart press con ference, KEZI's Bob Zagorin tried to get Hart too. "Senator, in Oregon we have a senator, Mark Hatfield, who some people feel might do well in a national election but can't get a Republican nomination because of the structure of his party. Some people feel the same way about you, that your appeal is broader than the Democratic party, that you may not be able to achieve the nomination. Do you feel that way at all, do you think the Democratic Party is too narrow based?" "No, not at all," said Hart, who as a candidate, is not sup posed to be pessimistic. Brooks Dareff is the Emerald's associate editor for politics. • Socks • Sweats Sportswear • Shorts University Merchandise mm HPH* VS puncAou StdumtA ScUt 7fUrtcA*»uU4€ m 13th & Kincaid ■1 m M-F 7:30-5:30 ^0^0 SAT 10:00-3:00 BOOKSTORE Supplies 686-4331 t Oroonn DaiIv FmenlH PUO=; BOOKSTORE OVERNIGHT PHOTO PROCESSING color prints only In by 2:30 p.m. Out by noon Coupon expires 5/21/84 T-shirts, jogging shorts. Coupon expires 5/21/84 Coupon expires 5/21/84 Coupon expires 5/21/84 2'x3’ Poster Black and Whits • Made from color or black and while pictures • From your photograph or slide up to 8x10 Coupon expires 5/21/84 ■■■■■■■■■■■■ ■ |^^V13th & Kincaid If liM-F 7:30-5:30 SAT 10:00-3:00 BOOKSTORE Supplies 686-4331 sportswearTsRoc^ioclrs^iwealshrrt^ Section A. Paee-3