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As U. S. Ambassador to Mexico, Morrow was, unfortunately, instrumental in bringing U. S. State Department aid in the form of armaments and aircraft to assist the Bolshevik-inspired, anti-Christian government of Mexican President Plutarco Elias Calles which helped end the Cristero War of 1926 to 1929, an uprising and counter-revolution against the Calles ' government's war against Christianity.
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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.
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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.
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* 1988 – President of Pakistan Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq and U. S. Ambassador Arnold Raphel are killed in a plane crash.
* Peter Jay's appointment as British Ambassador to the U. S. by his father in law, the then Labour Prime Minister James Callaghan.
The first U. S. Ambassador to the Republic of Djibouti arrived in October 1980.
Their second son, John Sheldon Doud Eisenhower, was born on August 3, 1922, while they were in Panama ; John served in the United States Army, retired as a brigadier general, became an author and served as U. S. Ambassador to Belgium from 1969 to 1971.
In 1989, U. S. Ambassador Charles Price and British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher dedicated a bronze statue of Eisenhower in Grosvenor Square, London.
* George F. Williams, U. S. Representative, Ambassador to Greece and Montenegro, known as " the sage of Dedham.
In January, 1952, Capra was requested by the U. S. Ambassador to India to represent the U. S. film industry at the International Film Festival to be held in India.
The U. S. Ambassador to Grenada is resident in Bridgetown, Barbados.
The guerrillas then concentrated their attacks in Guatemala City, where they assassinated many leading figures, including U. S. Ambassador John Gordon Mein in 1968.
" In February 1979, U. S. Ambassador Adolph " Spike " Dubs was murdered in Kabul after Afghan security forces burst in on his kidnappers.
U. S. Ambassador to Pakistan, Cameron Munter, told Radio Pakistan that " The attack that took place in Kabul a few days ago, that was the work of the Haqqani network.
An explosion midflight over the Sahara Desert in Niger caused the aircraft to break up, killing all 156 passengers and 15 crew members, including the U. S. Ambassador to Chad Robert Pugh.
* 1929 – An agreement brokered by U. S. Ambassador Dwight Whitney Morrow ends the Cristero War in Mexico.
* 1968 – U. S. presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy is shot at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles, California by Palestinian Sirhan Sirhan.
* 1922 – In Washington D. C., U. S. Secretary of State Charles Evans Hughes and Dominican Ambassador Francisco J. Peynado sign the Hughes-Peynado agreement, which ends the United States occupation of the Dominican Republic.
* 2003 – In an effort to discredit U. S. Ambassador Joseph C. Wilson, who had written an article critical of the 2003 invasion of Iraq, Washington Post columnist Robert Novak reveals that Wilson's wife Valerie Plame is a CIA " operative ".
Madeleine Albright ( U. S. Ambassador to the U. N .) claims to have answered ( when she should have challenged ) a loaded question on 60 Minutes on 12 May 1996.
ISBN 0-674-65001-8 ( Ambassador Benedick was the Chief U. S. Negotiator at the meetings that resulted in the Protocol.
On Thursday, May 17, 2012, the White House Press Office announced that President Barack Obama had nominated Derek Mitchell to the U. S. Senate for confirmation to serve as U. S. Ambassador to Burma.
The U. S. Secretary of Commerce canceled a planned trip to Nicaragua, with the U. S. Ambassador in Managua saying, " It isn't the appropriate moment for the visit.
The U. S. Ambassador was recalled for consultations for four months after the execution of the Ogoni Nine on November 10, 1995.
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