Their vote is less evenly spread across the country than support for the old Alliance was.
But the 50-year-old alliance now faces its hardest peacekeeping task in a landscape of mines, charred bodies and burned villages.
Indeed, the incident rocked the 50-year-old security alliance between Tokyo and Washington, a defense cornerstone in the region.
Potentially even more significant is the year-old Symbian alliance a joint-venture between Psion, an innovative British hand-held computer firm, and the three biggest mobile-telephone makers, Nokia and Ericsson of Europe and Motorola.
Ahmed Wali Massoud, a senior figure in the old Northern Alliance, says Mr Rabbani had been pressed by the president himself to grant the urgent request for a meeting, and had rushed home from abroad to attend.
If France could block the club's expansion, that might then let it push for a tighter Union of 15, still centred on the old Franco-German alliance.
British Airways and American Airlines have cleared a big hurdle in their two-year-old bid to form an alliance.
Riza's role in setting up the Alliance was intertwined at least briefly in early 2005 with Giandomenico Picco, whom Annan also tapped as a link between the old Dialogue and the new Alliance.
That would not be easy if he were linked to old school, professional politicians such as Gianfranco Fini of the National Alliance or Pier Ferdinando Casini, a Christian Democrat.
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Clint Bolick, head of the Alliance for School Choice, one of the organizations supporting this suit, compared the old solution to a car company's selling a lemon to a buyer and being rewarded with more money.
There are rumors that Silvio Berlusconi, like the phoenix of old, is rising from the ashes and closing the gap, perhaps forcing the necessity of an alliance with his rivals and Prime Minister Mario Monti.
While the Peronists hanker for a deal with the conservative wing of the government, Domingo Cavallo and Gustavo Beliz, former Menem ministers who have formed their own grouping, have praised Mr Alvarez's stand against old-fashioned pork-barrel politics and evidently believe they could work with the modernising wing of the Alliance.
The old Loral acquired Ford's satellite unit in 1990, and Globalstar emerged in its present form through an alliance that Schwartz struck with a few engineering firms and, most importantly, several large wireless providers.
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