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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.

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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.
Alaska has a longer coastline than all the other U. S. states combined .< ref >
* 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.

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Hostilities began on April 12, 1861, when Confederate forces fired on a U. S. military installation at Fort Sumter in South Carolina.
For example, the analysis of the debris at the testing site of the first U. S. hydrogen bomb, Ivy Mike, ( 1 November 1952, Enewetak Atoll ), revealed high concentrations of various actinides including americium ; due to military secrecy, this result was published only in 1956.
It hit number 1 in the UK singles chart in April 1972, spending 24 weeks total on the charts, topped the RPM national singles chart in Canada for three weeks, and rose as high as number 11 in the U. S. It is also a controversial instrumental, as it combined pipes with a military band.
* 1974 – Vietnam War: the U. S. Congress places a $ 1 billion dollar limit on military aid to South Vietnam.
When it was first adopted by the U. S. military, a Honeywell engineer sat in the back seat with bolt cutters to disconnect the autopilot in case of emergency.
This form of guilty plea has been frequently used in local and state courts in the United States, though it consists of a small percentage of all plea bargains in the U. S. The form of plea is not allowed in courts of the United States military.
* 1918 – The Battle of Ambos Nogales takes place between U. S. forces and Mexican Carrancistas aided by German military advisors.
Agent Orange is the combination of the code names for Herbicide Orange ( HO ) and Agent LNX, one of the herbicides and defoliants used by the U. S. military as part of its herbicidal warfare program, Operation Ranch Hand, during the Vietnam War from 1961 to 1971.
According to Robert Longley, " Clinton and Gore were responsible for pressing almost all federal agencies, the U. S. court system and the U. S. military onto the Internet, thus opening up America's government to more of America's citizens than ever before.
During World War II it was occupied by the U. S. military.
Most is from the U. S. military occupation of the island from 1942 to 1946.
Brunei's armed forces engage in joint exercises, training programs, and other military cooperation with the U. S. A memorandum of understanding on defense cooperation was signed on November 29, 1994.
Using a small Department of Defense International Military Education and Training ( IMET ) budget, the U. S. Embassy has established English-language courses at an LAT military base, and has brought LAT officers to attended officer basic training courses in the U. S. The government of Burkina Faso has also accepted additional U. S. training assistance in counter-terrorism tactics and humanitarian assistance.
* Birth Control Device, slang for GI glasses, those issued by the U. S. military
In the United States, it was a controversial battle because of the island's questionable strategic value and the high casualty rate, which was the highest for U. S. military personnel of any battle in the Pacific War.
The center for U. S. military biological warfare research was Fort Detrick, Maryland.
The US military has specialized units, which can respond to a bioterrorism event ; among them are the US Marine Corp's Chemical Biological Incident Response Force and the U. S. Army's 20th Support Command ( CBRNE ), which can detect, identify, and neutralize threats, and decontaminate victims exposed to bioterror agents.
The medal is the fourth-highest combat decoration and the ninth highest U. S. military award in order of precedence.
Thus, a number of Allied soldiers received the Bronze Star Medal in World War II, as well as U. N. soldiers in the Korean War, Vietnamese and allied forces in the Vietnam War, and coalition forces in recent military operations such as the Gulf War, Operation Enduring Freedom and the Iraq War.
It provides a two-to three-page summary of the demographics, geography, communications, government, economy, and military of 267 entities including U. S .- recognized countries, dependencies, and other areas in the world.
: The U. S. does not recognize the renaming of Burma by its ruling military junta to Myanmar and thus keeps its entry for the country under " Burma ".

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