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.

During World War II, it built ships as part of the U. S. Government's Emergency Shipbuilding Program, and swiftly filled requests for " Liberty ships " that were needed during the war.

Liberty Films was closed in April 1951 and the former film was sold to U. M .& M.

Liberty Incident: The 1967 Israeli Attack on the U. S. Navy Spy Ship.

* Israeli communications said to prove IAF knew Liberty was U. S. ship, Yossi Melman, Ha ' aretz, October 4, 2007.

Various U. S. companies produced the Liberty L-12 ; the Curtiss NC Flying boats, including the four V12 engine powered NC-4, the first aircraft to make a transatlantic flight.

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* October 28 – In New York Harbor, U. S. President Grover Cleveland dedicates the Statue of Liberty.

Several Allied ships were sunk in the overcrowded harbour, including the U. S. Liberty ship John Harvey, which was carrying mustard gas ; mustard gas was also reported to have been stacked on the quayside awaiting transport.

Even though these records were never licensed for sale in the U. S., they were heavily imported through jazz shops like Commodore and Liberty in the late 1930s and were sold through the 1940s and into the early 1950s.

Sign for interchange at southern terminus of Route 21 along southbound U. S. Route 1 / 9 ( Pulaski Skyway ). Route 21 heads north from the Newark Airport Interchange with U. S. Route 1 / 9 and U. S. Route 22 in Newark near the Newark Liberty International Airport on the six-lane, divided McCarter Highway.

*, U. S. Liberty Ship

Liberty County is a county located in the U. S. state of Montana.

It is named for the U. S. cavalry commander Colonel Alexander W. Doniphan ( 1808 – 1887 ) of Liberty, Missouri, who played an important part in the Mexican-American War.

Liberty County is a county located in the U. S. state of Georgia.

Fort Stewart is a census-designated place and U. S. Army post primarily in Liberty County and Bryan County, but also extending into smaller portions of Evans, Long, and Tattnall Counties in Georgia, USA.

U. S. astronaut Gus Grissom, native of Mitchell, Indiana, in front of the Liberty Bell 7 capsule, in which he became the second American to fly in outer space

According to the 2010 U. S. census the population of North Liberty had increased to 13, 374.

Liberty Township is a civil township of Jackson County in the U. S. state of Michigan.

Liberty Township is a civil township of Wexford County in the U. S. state of Michigan.

Transportation links between the growing metropolis and Liberty increased with the addition of State Route 10 in 1922 and its conversion to U. S. Route 69 in 1926.

In 2005, the town was proposed as the site of the Lost Liberty Hotel, a farmhouse owned at the time by U. S. Supreme Court Associate Justice David Souter.

New Jersey Transit bus service connects Freehold with towns along U. S. Route 9, Newark Liberty International Airport and New York City, to Philadelphia ( via transfer in Lakewood ) and to Six Flags Great Adventure located in Jackson Township.