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.

For the U. S. Government's scientific enterprise, a significant impact of NAPAP were lessons learned in the assessment process and in environmental research management to a relatively large group of scientists, program managers and the public.

Under the 1999 U. S. Government's Leadership and Investment in Fighting an Epidemic ( LIFE ) Initiative, CDC through the BOTUSA Project has undertaken many projects and has assisted many organizations in the fight against the HIV / AIDS epidemic in Botswana.

During World War II, it built ships as part of the U. S. Government's Emergency Shipbuilding Program, and swiftly filled requests for " Liberty ships " that were needed during the war.

This was codified in the 1792 Mint and Coinage Act, and by the Federal Government's use of the " Bank of the United States " to hold its reserves, as well as establish a fixed ratio of gold to the U. S. dollar.

The U. S. Government's National Information Assurance Glossary defines strong authentication as

The U. S. Government's removal of Native American tribes from the southeastern United States to " Indian Territory " did not take into account how that would impact the lives and attitudes of the nomadic tribes that already used the same land as their hunting grounds.

This action showed the U. S. government's influence over the Mexican Government's decisions, sparking broad controversy over the bill.

According to a report by the U. S. Government's National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, among 10 different classes of passenger vehicles, " very small cars " have the highest fatality rate per mile driven.

Assured by the U. S. Government's promises of peace, most of the warriors were off hunting buffalo, leaving only around 60 men, and women and children in the village.

* U. S. Fiscal Commission Suggests Killing OPIC-The Government's Cash Cow

The early institutions it set up have served as models for current organizations: the UN's World Health Organization, set up in 1948, is modeled on the International Health Division ; the U. S. Government's National Science Foundation ( 1950 ) on its approach in support of research, scholarships and institutional development ; and the National Institute of Health ( 1950 ) imitated its longstanding medical programs.

Approach, departure and enroute traffic control in the surrounding Oceanic Sector is provided by New York Air Route Traffic Control Center ( ZNY ), under an agreement between the U. S. Government's Federal Aviation Administration and the United Kingdom.

The U. S. government makes clear its objections to the Government's harsh and oppressive treatment of religious minorities through public statements, support for relevant U. N. and nongovernmental organization ( NGO ) efforts, as well as diplomatic initiatives towards states where religious freedom is a concern.

* USAID — U. S. Agency for International Development — The U. S. Government's primary development agency

At the time that the original WEP standard was drafted, the U. S. Government's export restrictions on cryptographic technology limited the key size.

* Jackson, Helen H. A Century of Dishonor: A Sketch of the U. S. Government's Dealings with Some of the Indian Tribes ( 1881 ) online edition

* Authority to Operate, U. S. Government's final approval for a system or program to operate in a given environment

The U. S. Government's hostility to the election of Allende in Chile was substantiated in documents declassified during the Clinton administration ; involving the CIA, which show that covert operatives were inserted in Chile, in order to prevent a Marxist government from arising and for the purpose of spreading anti-Allende propaganda.

In 1955, he formed Allied Crude Vegetable Oil Refining Corporation and other related companies to take advantage of the U. S. Government's Food for Peace program.

Secure Terminal Equipment ( STE ) is the U. S. Government's current (), encrypted telephone communications system for wired or " landline " communications.

It is an operating system that uniquely complies with the software assurance requirements of RTCA / DO-178B Level A for safety and reliability, and the information assurance requirements of the U. S. Government's Separation Kernel Protection Profile ( SKPP ) for security.

In April 2004 an Immigration Judge in Boston issued an order granting Akhmadov asylum in the United States ; that ruling became effective in August 2004 following the U. S. Government's abrupt withdrawal of its notice of appeal of the Immigration Judge's decision.