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.

In a 2005 U. S. governmental report, antisemitism is defined as " hatred toward Jews — individually and as a group — that can be attributed to the Jewish religion and / or ethnicity.

* 1987 – The U. S. Department of Justice bars the Austrian President Kurt Waldheim from entering the United States, saying he had aided in the deportation and execution of thousands of Jews and others as a German Army officer during World War II.

" However, some U. S .- led Baptist and other fundamentalist denominations still believe it is their duty to engage in what they refer to as outreach to " unbelieving " Jews.

The Jewish refugees who were interned came from Germany, and the U. S. government didn't differentiate between ethnic Jews and ethnic Germans ( Jewish was defined as religious practice ).

Over a million Jews served in every branch of the allied armies, mainly in the Soviet and U. S. armies.

In the diaspora, U. S. Jews now dominated the Zionist movement.

Immigration to Panama are represented by ethnic groups in the 19th and 20th centuries: British and Irish, Dutch, French, Germans, Italians, Portuguese, Poles, Russians or Ukrainians ( a large number are Jews ), U. S. Americans and West Indies / Caribbean ( esp.

With most widespread practice in the U. S, becoming the Reform Judaism, it doesn't require or see the Jews as direct descendants of the ethnic Jews or Biblical Israelites, but rather adherents of the Jewish faith in its Reformist version, in contrary to the Orthodox Judaism, the mainstream practice in Israel, which considers the Jews as a closed ethnoreligious community, with very strict procedures of conversion.

In 2000, there were 360, 000 Haredi Jews in the U. S. ( 7. 2 % of the total Jewish population ).

Many of the new immigrants dropped their traditional customs and laws, both out of choice ( the U. S. offered them a chance to escape what they viewed as the constraints of religious identity ) or not ( Jews refusing to work on the Sabbath were almost always fired at the end of the week ;; the large majority of those who desisted from working on Saturday had to face the formidable challenge of finding new work each week ).

On 23 December 1972, Palme ( then Prime Minister ) made a speech in Swedish national radio where he compared the ongoing U. S. bombings of Hanoi to a number of historical atrocities, namely the bombing of Guernica, the massacres of Oradour-sur-Glane, Babi Yar, Katyn, Lidice and Sharpeville, and the extermination of Jews and other groups at Treblinka.

In the U. S., the Christian right is an informal coalition formed around a core of white evangelical Protestants that draws " support from politically conservative Catholics, Jews, Mormons, and occasionally secularists " who share their goals.

Most of the characters in the novel are Jewish, and the reader gets a vivid picture of the lives of assimilated Jews in the U. S. A.

In May 1999, the U. S .- Azerbaijan Council sponsored a seminar to discuss relations among Azeris, Jews, and Israel.

In the U. S., Thompson launched an appeal which raised more than $ 40, 000 in a few weeks: she asked that Jews not donate to the fund, so that the Nazis could not attribute Grynszpan's defense to a Jewish conspiracy.

; 1975: President Gerald Ford signs legislation including the Jackson-Vanik amendment, which ties U. S. trade benefits to the Soviet Union to freedom of emigration for Jews.

" The name change was also part of a larger trend by Jews to assimilate in the U. S. by taking American-sounding names.

He also understood that Americans loved their sports heroes and if Jews wanted to be embraced in the U. S. they would have to assume such places in society.

Initially, not much of the klezmer tradition was maintained by U. S. Jews ; there were only a few Yiddish folk singers.

Civil Religion in the U. S. was originally Protestant but brought in Catholics and Jews after World War II.

France has, in fact, a higher rate of " favourable views of Jews " than the U. S. ( 82 %, slightly higher than 77 % in the U. S .).