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.

At the American publisher's insistence, Burgess allowed their editors to cut the redeeming final chapter from the U. S. version, so that the tale would end on a darker note, with Alex succumbing to his violent, reckless nature — an ending which the publisher insisted would be ' more realistic ' and appealing to a U. S. audience.

In 2000, after the U. S. version of the CBS program " Big Brother " premiered, the Estate of George Orwell sued CBS and its production company " Orwell Productions, Inc ." in federal court in Chicago for copyright and trademark infringement.

) The Beatles did a cover version of " Words of Love " that was a close reproduction of Holly's version, released on late 1964's Beatles for Sale ( in the U. S., in June 1965 on Beatles VI ).

However, with the exception of the Grammy Award-winning " Nightshift " (# 3 in the U. S., a tribute to Marvin Gaye and Jackie Wilson ; in 2010 a new version was recorded dedicated to Michael Jackson ), the band never achieved the same level of success it had enjoyed with Richie.

In the United States, SAA International Ltd manufacture a 150 ft · lb crossbow-launched version of the U. S. Army type classified Launched Grappel Hook ( LGH ), amongst other mine countermeasure solutions designed for the middle-eastern theatre.

Though they used the original Japanese show as the medium for the dub, some of the voices seem to sound like the U. S. version ( e. g., Taichi having an adolescent's voice instead of a kid's ) or completely original to the dubbing crew ( e. g., Gabumon's deep, grumbly voice ).

Following a five-year break Enya released the album A Day Without Rain in 2000, featuring 37 minutes of new material ( 34 minutes on the U. S. version ).

The U. S. received a special version of this release ( Amarantine – Deluxe Collector's Edition ), which also included three postcards and a copy of Roma Ryan's book Water Shows the Hidden Heart, which is referenced on the original album.

The Governments of the FSM and the U. S. signed the final version of the Compact of Free Association on October 1, 1982.

The media, in an attempt to explain the ideology of Ayatollah Khomeini and the Iranian Revolution to a Western audience described it as a " fundamentalist version of Islam " by way of analogy to the Christian fundamentalist movement in the U. S. Thus was born the term " Islamic fundamentalist ", which would come to be one of the most common usages of the term in the following years.

A smaller version of the M16A2, the M4 carbine, is widely used by U. S. and NATO tank and vehicle crews, airbornes, support staff, and in other scenarios where space is limited.

The American version was released on VHS by GoodTimes Entertainment ( which acquired the license of some of Universal's film catalogue ) in 1987, and then on DVD to commemorate the 35th anniversary of the film's U. S release in 1998.

All subsequent versions of the film released in the U. S. have been given this title as well, including The Terror of Godzilla version.

All Gundam Wing episodes have been released on VHS and DVD in the U. S. Differences between the two video systems is that the episodes on VHS contain the edited version while the episodes on DVD contain the uncut version.

Another version of Hahn – Banach theorem states that if V is a vector space over the scalar field K ( either the real numbers R or the complex numbers C ), if is a seminorm, and is a K-linear functional on a K-linear subspace U of V which is dominated by on U in absolute value,

** The Mole ( U. S. TV series ) U. S. version

This version remained the primary infantry rifle of U. S. forces in South Vietnam until the end of the war in 1973, and remained with all U. S. military ground forces after it had replaced the M14 service rifle in 1970 in CONUS, Europe ( Germany ), and South Korea ; when it was supplemented by the M16A2.

An English language version was later released in the U. S. by Walt Disney.