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.

7 ( Zondervan, 1985 ): 15 ; he cites Harrison, R. K. < U > Introduction to the Old Testament </ u >.

In response to suspected biological warfare development in Nazi Germany, the U. S., U. K., and Canada initiated a biological warfare development program in 1941 that resulted in the weaponization of anthrax, brucellosis, and botulism toxin.

Research carried out in the U. K. during World War II left Gruinard Island in Scotland contaminated with anthrax for the next 48 years.

Considerable research into biological warfare was undertaken throughout the Cold War era ( 1947 – 1991 ) by the U. S., U. K. and U. S. S. R., and probably other major nations as well, although it is generally believed that such weapons were never used.

In 1972, the U. S., U. K., U. S. S. R., and many other nations signed the BWC, which banned " development, production and stockpiling of microbes or their poisonous products except in amounts necessary for protective and peaceful research.

" By then, the U. S. and U. K. had transparently destroyed all their bioweapons stockpiles.

More generally, compact sets can be separated by open sets: if K < sub > 1 </ sub > and K < sub > 2 </ sub > are compact and disjoint, there exist disjoint open sets U < sub > 1 </ sub > and U < sub > 2 </ sub > such that and.

In the U. K. and Ireland milk chocolate must contain a minimum of 20 % total dry cocoa solids ; in the rest of the European Union the minimum is 25 %.

The announcement was made along with US President Bill Clinton, and U. K. Prime Minister Tony Blair.

The same year saw the release of " Kung Fu Fighting ", performed by Carl Douglas and produced by Biddu, which reached # 1 in both the U. K. and U. S., and became the best-selling single of the year and one of the best-selling singles of all time with eleven million records sold worldwide, helping to popularize disco music to a great extent.

In May of that year the Russians agreed to sign a treaty giving independence to Austria, and paved the way for a Geneva summit with the U. S., U. K. and France.

Eisenhower responded with the formation of SEATO ( Southeast Asia Treaty Organization ), alliance with the U. K., France, New Zealand and Australia in defense of Vietnam against communism.

* 1848 – California Gold Rush: In a message before the U. S. Congress, US President James K. Polk confirms that large amounts of gold had been discovered in California.

Though this method of serving beer did not take hold in the U. K. until the late 1950s, it did become the favoured method in the rest of Europe, where it is known by such terms as en pression.

* 1995 – U. S. President Bill Clinton became the first President to visit Northern Ireland.

The intense secrecy surrounding the base, whose very existence the U. S. government did not even acknowledge until 29 September 1995, has made it the frequent subject of conspiracy theories and a central component to unidentified flying object ( UFO ) folklore.

The U. S. government did not acknowledge the existence of Area 51 until 29 September 1995.

In 1995, U. S. and NATO aircraft attacked Bosnian Serb targets to halt attacks on U. N. safe zones and to pressure them into a peace accord.

Clinton deployed U. S. peacekeepers to Bosnia in late 1995, to uphold the subsequent Dayton Agreement.

The film was released on VHS in the U. S. in 1992 by Fox Video and re-released in 1995 under the " Twentieth Century Fox Selections " banner.

* Müller U. B., Die Offenbarung des Johannes, Güttersloh 1995.

Populations recovered and stabilized, so the species was removed from the U. S. federal government's list of endangered species and transferred to the list of threatened species on July 12, 1995, and it was removed from the List of Endangered and Threatened Wildlife in the Lower 48 States on June 28, 2007.

Since 1995, Costas has also hosted NBC's coverage of the U. S. Open golf tournament.

Ownership of the Amiga line passed through a few companies, from Escom of Germany in 1995, and then to U. S. PC clone maker Gateway in 1997, before an exclusive lifetime license was made to Amiga, Inc., a Washington company founded by former Gateway employees Bill McEwen and Fleecy Moss in 2000.

In 1995, Devo reappeared with a new recording of " Girl U Want " on the soundtrack to the movie Tank Girl.

Four years after Shepherd Moons she released The Memory of Trees ( 1995 ), another Top Five success in both the UK and Germany, as well as her first Top 10 album in the U. S. Singles released from the album were " Anywhere Is " and " On My Way Home ".

In the case of the U. S., some historians credit sound with saving the Hollywood studio system in the face of the Great Depression ( Parkinson, 1995 ).

From 1938 until 1995, the U. S. Supreme Court did not invalidate any federal statute as exceeding Congress ' power under the Commerce Clause.

Singer wrote the " Leipzig Declaration on Global Climate Change in the U. S ." in 1995, updating it in 1997 to rebut the Kyoto Protocol.

A legal minimum wage of 36 gourdes a day ( about U. S. $ 1. 80 ) was set in 1995, and applies to most workers in the formal sector.

Since 1995, Hungary has pegged the forint against a basket of currencies ( in which the U. S. dollar is 30 %), and the central rate against the basket is devalued at a preannounced rate, originally set at 0. 8 % per month, the Forint is now an entirely free-floating currency.

Oxford U. Press, 1995.

* 1995 – Downed U. S. Air Force pilot Captain Scott O ' Grady is rescued by U. S. Marines in Bosnia.

Ashcroft previously served as the 50th Governor of Missouri ( 1985 – 93 ) and as a U. S. Senator from Missouri ( 1995 – 2001 ).

Cambridge U. Press, 1995.

Cambridge U. Press, 1995.

For several years, U. S. News & World Report, the QS World University Rankings, and the Academic Ranking of World Universities have ranked MIT's School of Engineering first, as did the 1995 National Research Council report.