Wooden U-2 model-one of two used by Powers when he testified to the Senate Committee.

After being debriefed extensively by the CIA, Lockheed, and the Air Force, on March 6, 1962, Powers appeared before a Senate Armed Services Select Committee hearing chaired by Senator Richard Russell and including Senators Prescott Bush and Barry Goldwater Sr.

The Delegated Powers and Regulatory Reform Select Committee of the House of Lords issued a report concerning the use and drafting of such clauses, an issue its chairman remarked " goes right to the heart of the key constitutional question of the limits of executive power ".

* Guide to SIs and other forms of delegated powers to Government Departments from the House of Lords's Delegated Powers and Regulatory Reform Committee, April 2005.

In a meeting of the Executive Committee, Venizelos expressed his opinion that the island was not in essence autonomous, since militarily forces of the Great Powers were still present, and that the Great Powers were governing thought their representative, the Prince.

Venizelos suggested that once the Prince's service expired, then the Great Powers should be invited to the Committee, which, according to article 39 of the constitution ( which was suppressed in the conference of Rome ) would elect a new sovereign, thereby removing the need for the presence of the Great Powers.

Such committees included a Committee on Fundamental Rights, the Union Powers Committee and Union Constitution Committee.

* William Powers ( politician ), Chairman of the New York Republican State Committee

Pašić compromised, signed the Declaration and began to work behind the scenes in an attempt to discredit the Yugoslav Committee, lest the Allied Powers regard the Committee as the rightful government-in-exile at the coming Armistice.

After his country was defeated by the Central Powers and signed the Treaty of Bucharest, he left for Paris and London, organizing a Romanian National Committee to campaign for Greater Romania during the Peace Conference.

Committees can be appointed, as most are, from the House of Commons, like the Foreign Affairs Select Committee, from the House of Lords, like the Delegated Powers and Regulatory Reform Committee, or as a " Joint Committee " drawn from both, such as the Joint Committee on House of Lords Reform.

He chaired a Cabinet Committee to contemplate the use of the Emergency Powers Act against strikes in the transport industry.

On the other hand, Bill Powers, chair of the New York Republican State Committee, said the report " once again makes us question " the believability of Clinton, and Congressman Rick Lazio, her Republican opponent in the Senate election, said " We believe that character counts in public service.

* The International Committee of the Red Cross ' commentaries to the Geneva Conventions state that Article 49, paragraph 6, " is intended to prevent a practice adopted during the Second World War by certain Powers, which transferred portions of their own population to occupied territory for political and racial reasons or in order, as they claimed, to colonize those territories.

* Union Powers Committee Jawaharlal Nehru

( 1 ) The Principal Allied and Associated Powers confer a mandate on one of their number or on a third power ; ( 2 ) the principal powers officially notify the council of the League of Nations that a certain power has been appointed mandatory for such a certain defined territory ; and ( 3 ) the council of the League of Nations takes official cognisance of the appointment of the mandatory power and informs the latter that it council considers it as invested with the mandate, and at the same time notifies it of the terms of the mandate, after assertaining whether they are in conformance with the provisions of the covenant.

In preparation for peace talks with the representatives of the German government and the representatives of the other Central Powers, Leon Trotsky appointed his good friend, Adolph Joffe, to represent the Bolsheviks at the peace conference.

On 7 April the Civil Authorities ( Special Powers ) Act ( Northern Ireland ) 1922 came into force, and the Belfast government though prohibited from raising or controlling a military force appointed Major General Solly Flood as a military advisor.

Following the catastrophic defeats of France's ally Romania at the hands of Central Powers in late 1916, that forced the capital Bucharest to be evacuated, Joffre was appointed as head of the French Military Mission aimed at reforming the Romanian army.

According to the Organic Statute the head of the province was a Christian Governor-General appointed by the Sublime Porte with the approval of the Great Powers.

Paul von Hindenburg had recently been appointed commander of the Central Powers along the Eastern Front.

The Great Powers appointed him as representative for Albania in the International Commission of Control.

Newly appointed team captain Sheldon Keefe led the entire OHL in scoring, winning the Eddie Powers Memorial Trophy and the Jim Mahon Memorial Trophy for his 48 goals and 73 assists on the season.

Prince George of Greece, the second son of the King of Greece, arrived on 21 December 1898 as High Commissioner appointed by the Great Powers to rule Crete, which was now de facto autonomous, although under Ottoman suzerainty.

During the Great War, in 1915, after defeating the Russians, the Central Powers occupied the whole territory of the former Congress Poland and appointed two Governors General: a German ( Hans Hartwig von Beseler ) in Warsaw and an Austro-Hungarian ( Karl Kuk ) in Lublin.

From 1899 to 1903, Powers served as the Crown Solicitor for Queensland, and in 1903, he was appointed as the first Commonwealth Crown Solicitor.

Nevertheless, Hughes was pleased with Powers ' work, and Hughes opinion was undoubtedly influential when the Fisher government appointed Powers to the High Court of Australia in 1913.

Powers was the only solicitor to be appointed, and remains the only Justice ( with the exception of the initial three ) to have not argued a case before the court.

The Greek administration of Smyrna was appointed by the Allied Powers following Turkey's defeat in World War I and the seizure of Smyrna.

In 2008, Powers was appointed to the rank of Chevalier de la Légion d ' honneur in France ’ s orders of chivalry.

In 1833, Otto von Wittelsbach, a son of Ludwig I of Bavaria and Therese of Saxe-Hildburghausen, became King of Greece after he was appointed by the Great Powers.

* Austin Powers, fictional character in films, created and portrayed by Mike Myers

* 1960 – Cold War: in Moscow, Russia, Soviet Union, downed American U-2 pilot Francis Gary Powers is sentenced to ten years imprisonment by the Soviet Union for espionage.

* 1941 – World War II: The Ustashe, a Croatian far-right organization is put in charge of the Independent State of Croatia by the Axis Powers after the Axis Operation 25 invasion.

From October 1784 to September 1786 he was employed by Nepean, who was in charge of the Secret Service relating to the Bourbon Powers, France and Spain, to spy on the French naval arsenals at Toulon and other ports.

No territorial changes were made to either country, but the Bulgarian unification was recognized by the Great Powers.

The Great Powers, most notably France and Austria-Hungary, reacted to this diplomatic sensation by trying to dissuade the League from going to war, but failed.

The Secret Treaty of 1892 required both Russia and France to mobilize immediately followed by a commencement of action against the Triple Alliance if any member of the Triplice mobilized, and so, soon all the Great Powers of Europe were at war except Italy.

The developments that led to the First Balkan War did not go unnoticed by the Great Powers, but although there was an official consensus between the European Powers over the territorial integrity of the Ottoman Empire, which led to a stern warning to the Balkan states, unofficially each of them took a different diplomatic approach due to their conflicting interests in the area.

A Resolution under the Church of England Assembly ( Powers ) Act 1919, directing that the Measure should be presented to His Majesty, was passed in the House of Lords by a large majority.

Despite occasional entanglements with European Powers such as the War of 1812 and the 1898 Spanish-American War, U. S. foreign policy was marked by steady expansion of its foreign trade and scope during the 19th century, and it maintained its policy of avoiding wars with and between European powers.

The weakness of Germany's strategic position was exacerbated by the rapid collapse of the other Central Powers in late 1918, following Allied victories on the Macedonian and Italian fronts.

The occupation and reconstruction of Germany by the Four Powers in the period immediately after the end of World War II brought a major and long-lasting change to the economic conditions under which the industry in Germany had previously operated.

During World War II, the Axis Powers in Europe, led by Nazi Germany participated in the extermination of millions of Jews and others in the genocide known as the Holocaust.

In 1941, Alfa Romeo was confiscated by the fascist government of Benito Mussolini as part of the Axis Powers ' war effort.

Powers ’ U-2, which departed from a military airbase in Peshawar, Pakistan and may have received support from the US Air Station at Badaber ( Peshawar Airbase ), was shot down by an S-75 Dvina ( SA-2 Surface to Air ) missile on May 1, 1960, over Sverdlovsk.

Powers ' U-2 plane had been hit by the first S-75 missile fired.

Powers was interrogated extensively by the KGB for months before he made a forced confession and a public apology for his part in espionage.

On August 17, 1960, Powers was convicted of espionage against the Soviet Union and was sentenced to a total of 10 years, three years in imprisonment followed by seven years of hard labor.

In 2010, CIA documents were released indicating that " top US officials never believed Powers ’ account of his fateful flight because it appeared to be directly contradicted by a report from the National Security Agency, the clandestine US network of codebreakers and listening posts.

Powers was survived by his wife, two children, Dee and Francis Gary Powers Jr., and five sisters.