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.

The Iranian recipients promised to do everything in their power to achieve the release of the U. S. hostages.

As Nicaragua's government collapsed and the National Guard commanders escaped with Somoza, the U. S. first promised and then denied them exile in Miami.

* 1969 – U. S. President Richard Nixon was inaugurated in January 1969 ; promised " peace with honor " to end the Vietnam War.

Roosevelt, acutely aware of strong isolationist sentiment in the U. S., promised there would be no involvement in foreign wars if he were re-elected.

( Partly because of KMT corruption and anti-democratic regime, and partly because of the uncertain U. S. foreign policy towards Communism between 1945 and 1950 ); Communist land reform policy promised poor peasants farmland from their landlords.

The liquidity discount is the reduced promised yield or expected return for such assets, like the difference between newly issued U. S. Treasury bonds compared to off the run treasuries with the same term remaining until maturity.

Front 242 promised a new U. S. tour to perform new material from these releases.

The U. S. Embassy in Saigon was privately supportive of the aim as Taylor and Khánh had become implacable enemies, but they did not fully back the move as they regarded it as poorly thought out and potentially a political embarrassment due to the need to use an American plane to transport some plotters between Saigon and Washington, and as a result, they promised asylum only for Hương if necessary.

In the Romanian general election of November 1946 that the Soviets had promised the western allies, the Romanian Communist Party ( PCR ) was trounced, with U. S. embassy estimates of the bloc receiving only about 8 % of the vote compared to 70 % for the rival Peasant Party.

North Korea has argued that the U. S. has failed to fulfill its promises in the disarmament process, having not removed the country from its " State Sponsors of Terrorism " list or sent the promised aid to the country.

Referring to the U. S. government's treatment of immigrants in the wake of September 11, the statement accuses the U. S. government of creating " two classes of people: those to whom the basic rights of the U. S. legal system are at least promised, and those who now seem to have no rights at all ," and evokes " the infamous concentration camps for Japanese-Americans in World War II.

He promised that he would ask Congress for money to build up U. S. forces in South Korea if the agreement broke down.

The KV-1210 was introduced in limited numbers in Japan in October as promised, and in the U. S. as the KV-1210U the following year.

The text cited the Charter as the authoritative statement of the joint commitment of Great Britain and the U. S. " not to admit any economical discrimination of those defeated " and promised that " Germany and the other states can again achieve enduring peace and prosperity.

On February 2, 2012, U. S. Senator Chuck Schumer, Chairman of the Rules Committee, promised hearings on this issue and that " overwhelmingly " the bulk of contributions are going to support Republican candidates, owing in part to Democratic positions against continuing tax breaks to the wealthy.

This strong wording seems to imply that without being allowed to use Kwajalein under the terms that the U. S. specified in its original 2003 Compact of Free Association revision, the U. S. may withhold its promised funding to the entire nation.

Furthermore, many Iraqis felt this new government was not selected in a democratic manner as the U. S had promised, but rather was simply a different form of dictatorship led by the U. S.

U. S. President Bill Clinton pressured Hussein to start peace negotiations and to sign a peace treaty with Israel and promised him that Jordan's debts would be forgiven.

The provisional government began training a security force intended to defend critical infrastructure, and the U. S. promised over $ 20 billion in reconstruction aid in the form of credits against Iraq's future oil revenues.

In the U. S. presidential election of 1920, the Republican Party returned to the White House with the landslide victory of Warren G. Harding, who promised a " return to normalcy " after the years of war, ethnic hatreds, race riots and exhausting reforms.