The appointment of U Thant of Burma as the U.N.'s Acting Secretary General -- at this writing, the choice appears to be certain -- offers further proof that in politics it is more important to have no influential enemies than to have influential friends.

With the neutralists maintaining pressure for one of their own to succeed Mr. Hammarskjold, U Thant emerged as the only possible candidate unlikely to be waylaid by a veto.

U Thant of course, will hold office until the spring of 1963, when Mr. Hammarskjold's term would have come to an end.

the West may or not remain satisfied with the kind of neutralism that U Thant represents.

If Af are the projections associated with the primary decomposition of T, then each Af is a polynomial in T, and accordingly if a linear operator U commutes with T then U commutes with each of the Af, i.e., each subspace Af is invariant under U.

Near Q, both curves can be represented by analytic functions of U.

In a neighborhood of Q the difference between these functions is also a single-valued, analytic function of U.

The restrained gyro-stabilized platform with reasonable response characteristics operates with an approximate equation of motion, neglecting transient effects, as follows: Af where U is a torque applied about the output axis of the controlling gyro.

Lincoln's assassination was the first assassination of a U. S. president and sent the nation into mourning.

Lincoln has been consistently ranked by scholars and the public as one of the three greatest U. S. presidents.

In 1846, Lincoln was elected to the U. S. House of Representatives, where he served one two-year term.

Lincoln also supported the Wilmot Proviso, which, if it had been adopted, would have banned slavery in any U. S. territory won from Mexico.

Lincoln disapproved of slavery, and the spread of slavery to new U. S. territory in the west.

Douglas ' provision, which Lincoln opposed, specified settlers had the right to determine locally whether to allow slavery in new U. S. territory, rather than have such a decision restricted by the national Congress.

In late 1854, Lincoln ran as a Whig for the U. S. Senate seat from Illinois.

After the state Republican party convention nominated him for the U. S. Senate in 1858, Lincoln delivered his House Divided Speech, drawing on: " A house divided against itself cannot stand.

The stage was then set for the campaign for statewide election of the Illinois legislature which would, in turn, select Lincoln or Douglas as its U. S. senator.

Douglas said that Lincoln was defying the authority of the U. S. Supreme Court and the Dred Scott decision.

The U. S. Navy illegally intercepted a British merchant ship the Trent on the high seas and seized two Confederate envoys ; Britain protested vehemently while the U. S. cheered.

He argued before and during his election that the eventual extinction of slavery would result from preventing its expansion into new U. S. territory.

Anthropologists ' involvement with the U. S. government, in particular, has caused bitter controversy within the discipline.

Austin is the capital of the U. S. state of Texas.

The world's smallest known vertebrate, Paedophryne amauensis, sitting on a Dime ( United States coin ) | U. S. dime, 17. 91mm, for scale

The land went through several administrative changes before becoming an organized ( or incorporated ) territory on May 11, 1912, and the 49th state of the U. S. on January 3, 1959.

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* U. S. House Committee on Agriculture – Glossary of agricultural terms, programs and laws

* Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990, U. S. law that prohibits discrimination on the basis of disability

* Anti-Deficiency Act, U. S. law that prohibits the federal government from incurring debts not authorized by Congress

In the U. S. federal court system, criminal defendants must file a notice of appeal within 10 days of the entry of either the judgment or the order being appealed, or the right to appeal is forfeited.

Many U. S. jurisdictions title their appellate court a court of appeal or court of appeals.

* U. S. Diplomatic Security Service ( DSS )

*** U. S. Diplomatic Security Service ( DSS )

* Diplomatic Reception Rooms, U. S. Department of State

* Protection, which entails ensuring the safety of current and former national leaders and their families, such as the President, past Presidents, Vice Presidents, presidential candidates, visiting heads of state, and foreign embassies ( per an agreement with the U. S. State Department's Bureau of Diplomatic Security ( DS ) Office of Foreign Missions ( OFM ), etc.

* U. S. Diplomatic Security Service ( DSS )

The small group of agents hired by Lansing would eventually become the U. S. Diplomatic Security Service ( DSS ) many years later.

* U. S. Diplomatic Security Service ( DSS ) Website

* U. S. Diplomatic Security-Office of Foreign Missions ( OFM )

Most important public figures such as heads of state or governors are protected by several bodyguards or by a team of bodyguards from an agency, security forces, or police forces ( e. g., in the U. S., the United States Secret Service or the State Department's Diplomatic Security Service ).

Several nights later, Ted Koppel, then the network's Diplomatic correspondent to the U. S. State Department, took over as anchor.

The majority of civil service appointments in the U. S. are made under the Competitive Service, but certain categories in the Diplomatic Service, the FBI, and other National Security positions are made under the Excepted Service.

* Diplomatic Reception Rooms, U. S. Department of State

* U. S. Diplomatic Security Service-Mobile Security Deployments ( MSD )

Diplomatic relations with the U. S. were maintained, despite an immediate cut-off of all U. S. aid.

* Diplomatic List: Order of Precedence and Date of Presentation of Credentials ( for foreign diplomats ) from the U. S. State Department website

For example, while offensive counterintelligence is a mission of the US CIA's National Clandestine Service, defensive counterintelligence is a mission of the U. S. Diplomatic Security Service ( DSS ), Department of State, who work on protective security for personnel and information processed abroad at US Embassies and Consulates.

* U. S. Department of State, Diplomatic Security Service ( DSS )

* Diplomatic Security Service, an agency in the U. S. Department of State

In 1996 he served as the head of the U. S. delegation to World Intellectual Property Organization ( WIPO ) on the December 1996 Diplomatic Conference on Certain Copyright and Neighboring Rights Questions.

Yardley's second book, Japanese Diplomatic Codes: 1921-1922, was seized by U. S. marshals and never published.

* Mobile Security Deployment, the U. S. Diplomatic Security Service's Special Ops / SWAT unit

The British embargo on wool and wool clothing exports to the U. S. prior to the 1812 British / U. S. war led to a " Merino Craze ", with William Jarvis of the Diplomatic Corps importing at least 3, 500

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