It is hardly by chance that at just this moment rumours have begun to circulate that Mr Lafontaine might move to Brussels in 2000 as the next president of the European Commission.

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Rumours is just a different version of rock and roll, I think.

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Whether they're true you're not sure because sometimes it's just a bunch of rumours so unless you get a factsheet or facts they will remain rumours.

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There have also been rumours that the gunman could have been influenced by a shooting in the US state of Alabama just several hours earlier in which 11 people were killed.

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