1.   Both premiers previously had agreed to make peace with thousands of others of war-weary rebels and struck tacit military alliances with various factions.

2.   Kohl hammered the Social Democrats for forming a tacit alliance with the former East German communists to govern the eastern state of Saxony-Anhalt.

3.   Kohl is also expected to criticize the Social Democrats for a tacit alliance with the former East German communists to govern the eastern state of Saxony-Anhalt.

4.   Soon after the Cambodian peace accord, the tacit alliance between ASEAN and Beijing broke down, with countries rushing to normalise their relations with Vietnam.