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Shards of broken glass covered a wide area.A greater tragedy was narrowly averted The Desperado is on an industrial estate. A hundred yards away stands a petrol station on one side, and a busy discotheque on the other. At the moment of the explosion, the disco was crammed with some 500 people.Police did not exclude the possibility that the disco was the real target. Merseburg is in Saxony-Anhalt, a region notorious for neo-Nazi violence The prime suspects in any arson attack are neo-Nazis. But since all the guests of the Desperado were Germans, a racist motive was initially excluded.One theory was that the club had been punished because the owner did not pay protection money to one of the criminal gangs operating in the area.

The police did not rule out this possibility.The other possibility was that the bombers were targeting not the Desperado, but the neighbouring discotheque. No one claimed responsibility for the attack, and the bombers' intentions remain unclear.. THERE IS still a year to go before the candidates are chosen, but Al Gore, Vice-President and the Democratic front-runner, is hitting problems. Mr Gore has had trouble separating himself from the President, and now Bill Bradley, his only opponent for the Democratic candidacy, is putting on a strong show of raising funds.

Tensions between Mr Gore's team and advisers to President Bill Clinton are getting out of hand, according to newspaper reports over the weekend. And the problem is becoming more personal: the President has been offended by the way that Mr Gore is to distance himself from the personal scandals of last year. Mr Clinton has "bridled at how freely Gore has spoken publicly recently of his displeasure about the president's relationship with former intern Monica Lewinsky", the Washington Post reported yesterday. The New York Times said on Saturday that Mr Clinton was "hurt" and "very upset". "I felt what the President did, especially as a parent, was inexcusable," Mr Gore told journalists just before he declared his candidacy earlier this month.

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