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.

The island is managed by the U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service as an insular area under the U. S. Department of the Interior and is part of the Pacific Remote Islands Marine National Monument.

The Virgin Islands of the United States ( commonly called the United States Virgin Islands, U. S. Virgin Islands or USVI ) are a group of islands in the Caribbean that are an insular area of the United States.

District courts in three insular areas — the United States Virgin Islands, Guam, and the Northern Mariana Islands — exercise the same jurisdiction as Article III U. S. district courts.

The United States Department of the Interior ( DOI ) is the United States federal executive department of the U. S. government responsible for the management and conservation of most federal land and natural resources, and the administration of programs relating to Native Americans, Alaska Natives, Native Hawaiians, territorial affairs, and to insular areas of the United States.

On a conservation front, the Golden Eagle is itself unintentionally contributing to the conservation crisis of another animal, the Island Fox ( Urocyon littoralis ), a small insular relative of the Gray Fox ( U. cinereoargenteus ) found only in the Channel Islands of California.

Since the U. S. Virgin Islands is an American insular territory, the national anthem is still The Star-Spangled Banner.

Some agencies of the United States government, such as the United States Environmental Protection Agency, still use the term protectorate to refer to insular areas of the United States such as Puerto Rico and the U. S. Virgin Islands.

However, neither fate seems likely to occur in the foreseeable future to the five remaining major unincorporated U. S. insular areas: American Samoa, Puerto Rico, Guam, the U. S. Virgin Islands, or the Northern Mariana Islands.

It also became a crime to speak against the U. S. government ; to speak in favor of Puerto Rican independence ; to print, publish, sell or exhibit any material intended to paralyze or destroy the insular government ; or to organize any society, group or assembly of people with a similar destructive intent.

The U. S. currently administers 16 territories as insular areas:

* List of rivers in U. S. insular areas

* Commonwealth ( U. S. insular area )

An insular area is a United States territory that is neither a part of one of the 50 U. S. states nor the District of Columbia, the federal district of the U. S. They are called " insular " from the Latin word insula (" island ") because they were once administered by the War Department's Bureau of Insular Affairs, now the Office of Insular Affairs at the Department of the Interior.

Residents of insular areas do not pay U. S. federal income taxes but are required to pay other U. S. federal taxes such as import / export taxes, federal commodity taxes, social security taxes, etc.

The U. S. State Department uses the term insular area to refer not only to these territories under the sovereignty of the United States, but also those independent nations that have signed a Compact of Free Association with the United States.

U. S. insular areas can be incorporated territories ( i. e., incorporated within all provisions of the U. S. Constitution ) or unincorporated ( areas in which the U. S. Constitution applies partially ).