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.

On October 10, 2000, Clinton signed into law the U. S .– China Relations Act of 2000, which granted permanent normal trade relations ( PNTR ) trade status to People's Republic of China.

In the Soviet war in Afghanistan, the Soviets countered the U. S .– backed Mujahideen with a policy of scorched earth, driving over one third of the Afghan population into exile ( over 5 million people ), and carrying out widespread destruction of villages, granaries, crops, herds and irrigation systems, including the deadly and widespread mining of fields and pastures.

On January 1, 2009 the U. S .– Iraq Status of Forces Agreement entered into force.

Although its constitution and government policy preclude an offensive military role for Japan in international affairs, Japanese cooperation with the United States through the 1960 U. S .– Japan Security Treaty has been important to the peace and stability of East Asia.

The United States Department of State characterizes U. S .– Kiribati relations as " excellent ",.

* Treaty of Washington ( 1836 ), a U. S .– Native American ( Ottawa and Chippewa ) treaty

Rudolph retired from track competition in 1962 at age 22 after winning two races at a U. S .– Soviet meet.

* Canada, Chile thwart U. S .– Brazilian plan, AP news article

) The twin communities of Colorado City, Arizona and Hildale, Utah, Bountiful, British Columbia, and sites in Mexico are historic locations of several Mormon Fundamentalist sects. Mormon fundamentalist leaders and individuals have been charged under Mann when " wives " are transported across the Utah-Arizona state line or the U. S .– Canadian and U. S .– Mexican borders.

In 1978, for example, Brzezinski traveled to Beijing to lay the groundwork for normalizing U. S .– PRC relations.

During the 1970s and 1980s, at the height of his political involvement, Brzezinski participated in the formation of the Trilateral Commission in order to more closely cement U. S .– Japanese – European relations.

He played a leading role in normalizing U. S .– PRC relations and in the development of joint strategic cooperation, cultivating a relationship with Deng Xiaoping, for which he is thought very highly of in mainland China to this day.

In 1990, Menem's Foreign Minister, Guido di Tella, memorably pronounced the U. S .– Argentine alliance to be a " carnal relationship.

Crossing the line of the present-day U. S .– Canadian border from British Columbia, Thompson wanted to expand the North West Company further south in search of furs, primarily beaver.

The community of Grand Portage is located 34 miles northeast of the city of Grand Marais ; and 6 miles southwest of the U. S .– Canadian border.

The Great Northern's 4-8-4 S-2 " Northern " class locomotive # 2584 and nearby sculpture, " U. S .– Canada Friendship " at Havre, Montana

Throughout the decades of the U. S .– U. S. S. R.

The arms purchase was a response to the US arms embargo ; the Árbenz Government resupplied the Guatemalan armed forces, because it was convinced that a U. S .– sponsored paramilitary invasion was imminent.

From 1966 – 67, a series of surplus modified Redstones called Spartas were launched from Woomera, South Australia as part of a joint U. S .– United Kingdom – Australian research program aimed at understanding re-entry phenomena.

Lawton was given orders to head up actions south of the U. S .– Mexico boundary where it was thought Geronimo and a small band of his followers would take refuge from U. S. authorities.