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.

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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.

According to the U. S. State Department, " U. S. relations with Burkina Faso are good but subject to strains in the past because of the Compaoré government's past involvement in arms trading and other sanctions-breaking activity.

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.

He enlisted in the Army during World War I after graduating college, and again in World War II at the peak of his career, when he directed 11 documentary war films for the U. S. government's Why We Fight series, winning an Academy Award for one and a Distinguished Service Medal when the war ended.

The paper breaks down IQ averages by U. S. states using the federal government's National Assessment of Educational Progress math and reading test scores as a source.

All participants and managers are volunteers, though their work is usually funded by their employers or sponsors ; for instance, the current chairperson is funded by VeriSign and the U. S. government's National Security Agency.

A calculator for any latitude is provided by the U. S. government's National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency ( NGA ).

Earlier that year, Francis Baring and Company of London had become the U. S. government's official banking agent in London.

Elena Kagan, who had presented the government's case as Solicitor General of the U. S. and who was nominated to succeed Justice Stevens, supported Kennedy's ruling in her arguments that pointed out that the ruling spelled out for prosecutors and defendants just how the right against self-incrimination applies in such cases.

Many of these were under contract by the U. S. government as part of the espionage program Stargate Project, which terminated in 1995 having failed, in the government's eyes, to document any practical intelligence value.

In 2003, Abdullah's new policy was reflected in the Saudi government's refusal to support or to participate in the U. S .- led invasion of Iraq.

* Mark V-by Sebastian Shaw for U. S. government's Project Wideawake.

" He produced videos detailing the government's actions at Waco and handed out pamphlets with titles like " U. S. Government Initiates Open Warfare Against American People " and " Waco Shootout Evokes Memory of Warsaw ' 43.

* November 25 – John Lennon returns his MBE medal to protest the British government's support of the U. S. war in Vietnam.

While his announcement of the government's plan to put a man on the moon drew all of the attention, in the same speech he announced his intention to spend over $ 100 million to strengthen U. S. special operations forces and expand American capabilities in unconventional warfare.

On July 18, 2007, Rep. Peter DeFazio ( D-OR ), a member of the U. S. House Committee on Homeland Security, requested the classified and more detailed version of the government's continuity of government plan in a letter signed by him and the chairperson of the House Homeland Committee, which is supposed to have access to confidential government information.

Later in the war, Wallace directed the U. S. government's secret efforts to aid Mexico in expelling the French occupation forces which had seized control of their country in 1864.

" Successive U. S. administrations have sold arms to the ROC in compliance with the Taiwan Relations Act despite demands from the PRC that the U. S. follow the legally non-binding Three Joint Communiques and the U. S. government's proclaimed One-China policy ( which differs from the PRC's One-China Policy ).

NARA also stores classified documents and its Information Security Oversight Office monitors and sets policy for the U. S. government's security classification system.

When the film was released, the U. S. government's Office of Censorship declined to approve it for export overseas during wartime, because of the " long sequence showing life in a prison chain gang which is most objectionable because of the brutality and inhumanity with which the prisoners are treated.

The Lord Advocate rejected Dalyell's plea, saying that the Home Office and the English courts have the jurisdiction over the demand of the U. S. government's extradition demand regarding Coleman, and that the Crown Office and the Scottish Office had no authority over the case.

Scandal rocked the royal family again in 1976 when it was revealed that Prince Bernhard had accepted a $ 1. 1 million bribe from U. S. aircraft manufacturer Lockheed Corporation to influence the Dutch government's purchase of fighter aircraft.