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Temporarily united by a common target, the competing Democratic candidates for president lashed out Friday at congressional Republicans who blocked efforts to restrict sales at gun shows, effectively blaming them for future carnage on America's streets and in its schools. "What is the Congress doing?" a heated Vice President Al Gore rhetorically demanded, speaking in Los Angeles before several hundred Fairfax High School students and supporters in a midday rally in the school's gymnasium.

Vice President Al Gore's campaign chairman, Tony Coelho, has not fully repaid a $300,000 personal loan that was cited in a stinging government report alleging U.S. mismanagement at a world's fair in Portugal, Coelho's lawyer acknowledged Monday. State Department investigators have said taxpayers may be liable for any unpaid balance on the personal loan Coelho took out while he was commissioner general for the U.S. pavilion at the fair in Lisbon.

Vice President Al Gore's campaign chairman, Tony Coelho, has not fully repaid a $300,000 personal loan that was cited in a stinging government report alleging U.S. mismanagement at a world's fair in Portugal, Coelho's lawyer acknowledged Monday. State Department investigators have said taxpayers may be liable for any unpaid balance on the personal loan Coelho took out while he was commissioner general for the U.S. pavilion at the fair in Lisbon.

Temporarily united by a common target, the competing Democratic candidates for president lashed out Friday at congressional Republicans who blocked efforts to restrict sales at gun shows, effectively blaming them for future carnage on America's streets and in its schools. "What is the Congress doing?" a heated Vice President Al Gore rhetorically demanded, speaking in Los Angeles before several hundred Fairfax High School students and supporters in a midday rally in the school's gymnasium.