His differences with important potential allies in the Panamenista Party make an alliance unlikely.
Clearly, figuring out how to make an alliance work is increasingly important.
They even persuaded Mr Garang to make some sort of an alliance with the opposition movements in northern Sudan.
For the U.S., the key to convincing those countries to act as an alliance is to make the case to them that there in danger from Iran's expanding influence in the region.
On Tuesday morning, if all goes according to plan, an Alliance truck will make its massive confetti run at the crack of dawn, delivering huge bundles of paper before the roads are closed.
Toshiba this month announced an alliance with Siemens to make 3G phones.
An increasing number of Argentines, except (not surprisingly) the politicos, perceive that the only way to make our economy viable is to enter into an immediate full alliance with the U.S., including a free-trade agreement, with or without Mercosur, and then to dollarize the economy.
We should make it clear to our NATO allies that if they want to maintain an alliance that is increasingly irrelevant there are going to have to be some changes.
So they've tried to create some programs, one called the Free File Alliance, which enables software companies to become part of an alliance that the IRS, the federal government, has created to make their software easier.
"In the last half-hour I received an instruction from the Kuwait Government, that we are contacting the alliance to make everything possible to transfer the case to Kuwait as soon as possible, " Dr Ahmed al-Shatti told BBC television.
In seeking to make a breakthrough, the Alliance is helped by the UUP's continuing unfinished quest for an identity, and hindered (especially in East Belfast) by any Robinson bounce back.
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