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.

However, since the contras failed to win widespread popular support or military victories within Nicaragua, since opinion polls indicated that a majority of the U. S. public was not supportive of the contras, since the Reagan administration lost much of its support regarding its contra policy within Congress after disclosure of CIA mining of Nicaraguan ports, and since a report of the Bureau of Intelligence and Research commissioned by the State Department found Reagan's allegations about Soviet influence in Nicaragua " exaggerated ", Congress cut off all funds for the contras in 1985 by the third Boland Amendment.

As a vanguard of the official U. N. force, a force of about 1, 000 U. S. Marines arrived in Haiti within the day, and Canadian and French troops arrived the next morning ; the United Nations indicated it would send a team to assess the situation within days.

The Puntland Intelligence Agency ( PIA ), a covert organization supported and trained by U. S. counter-terrorism agencies based in Djibouti, also indicated that over 70 salaried Somaliland soldiers had fought alongside Atom's militiamen during the Galgala operation, including one known Somaliland intelligence official who died in the ensuing battle.

Four FDA-cleared WNV IgM ELISA kits are commercially available from different manufacturers in the U. S., each of these kits is indicated for use on serum to aid in the presumptive laboratory diagnosis of WNV infection in patients with clinical symptoms of meningitis or encephalitis.

With regard to the potential for exposure to chemicals in the workplace and MCS, the U. S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration ( OSHA ) has indicated MCS is highly controversial and there is insufficient scientific evidence to explain the relationship between the theorized causes of MCS and its symptoms.

A report by the U. S. General Accounting Office indicated that Raúl Salinas had transferred over $ 90 million out of Mexico and into private bank accounts in London and Switzerland, through a complex set of transactions between 1992 and 1994.

Latell states that the evidence indicated that the assassination operation was similar to other assassination operations Cuban intelligence had been involved in, and that Somoza was a long-time nemesis of Castro after he provided critical support to the U. S. in preparing for the Bay of Pigs Invasion of Cuba in April 1961.

In particular, minority tendencies in Britain around John Lawrence and the U. S. around Bert Cochran that supported entrism " sui generis " hinted that Pablo's support for their views indicated that the International might also demand Trotskyists in those countries adopt that tactic.

Florida officials indicated they intended to allow U. S. Sugar to process for six more years before dismissing its employees and dismantling the plant.

The 1860 U. S. census indicated that Genesee County had a population of 22, 498 of Michigan's 750, 000.

In the U. S. most plants and seeds are indicated for a particular climate by the USDA Hardiness Zone.

Special census estimates in 2005 indicated 81, 393 residents, and in 2006 the U. S. Census Bureau's American Community Survey estimated a population of 92, 559, with 35, 842 households and 20, 979 families in the city.

This equation tells us that the growth of money wages rises with the trend rate of growth of money wages ( indicated by the superscript " T ") and falls with the unemployment rate ( U ).

For instance, Bob Lutz, a long-time skeptic of hybrids, indicated he expects hybrids " will never comprise more than 10 % of the U. S. auto market.

One target was the Washington, D. C., house of U. S. Attorney General Palmer, where the explosion killed the bomber, who evidence indicated was an Italian-American radical from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

His investigation indicated that despite claims to the contrary,? no U. S. forces had looted the building ?, and that there were three separate thefts by three distinct groups over the four days.

Research conducted by Freedman for the U. S. Army indicated that larger feet may still have smaller arches, toe length, and toe-breadth.

During the late summer and fall of 1967 both South Vietnamese and U. S. intelligence agencies collected clues that indicated a significant shift in communist strategic planning.

However, the U. S. figures were very different from preliminary estimates in September 2003 by the head of the UN Office on Drugs and Crime in Colombia, which indicated that output in Peru and Bolivia may have risen by as much 21 %, or 150 km², so far this year.

After an intelligence agent from the PRC gave U. S. agents papers which indicated that they knew the design of a particularly modern U. S. warhead, the FBI started an investigation codenamed Operation Kindred Spirit to look into how China could have obtained that design.

" The press release also indicated that Sarah Lawrence " plans not to participate in the peer reputational survey or data collection for U. S. News and World Report ’ s rankings " as, according to Myers, " by submitting data and the peer reputation survey we have tacitly been endorsing these rankings all the information we have provided to U. S. News in the past will be available to the public through other channels.