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.

* 1924 – U. S. President Calvin Coolidge signs the Indian Citizenship Act into law, granting citizenship to all Native Americans born within the territorial limits of the United States.

* Sierra Leone: Information on the 1997 coup d ' etat, ECOMOG harassment of civilians, and the current situation in Sierra Leone by U. S. Citizenship and Immigration Services 5 January 2000

* June 2 – U. S. President Calvin Coolidge signs the Indian Citizenship Act of 1924 into law, granting citizenship to all Native Americans born within the territorial limits of the United States.

According to Homeland security research, the U. S. federal Homeland Security and Homeland Defense includes 187 federal agencies and departments, including the United States National Guard, the Federal Emergency Management Agency, the United States Coast Guard, Customs and Border Protection, U. S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, United States Citizenship and Immigration Services, the United States Secret Service, the Transportation Security Administration, the 14 agencies that constitute the U. S. intelligence community and Civil Air Patrol.

In 1900, two years after the Spanish – American War, the del Valle family moved to Maryland where they became U. S. citizens ( The Jones Act of 1917 later gave United States Citizenship to all Puerto Ricans born on the island ).

Reasons include high costs to visit their families back home, support of a family not allowed to work due to immigration laws, tuition that is steep by world standards, and large fees: visa fees by U. S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, surveillance fees ( such as Student and Exchange Visitor Information Systems, or SEVIS ) by the United States Congress and the United States Department of Homeland Security.

These three components include U. S. Citizenship and Immigration Services ( USCIS ), U. S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement ( ICE ), and U. S. Customs and Border Protection ( CBP ).

The administration of immigration services, including permanent residence, naturalization, asylum, and other functions became the responsibility of the Bureau of Citizenship and Immigration Services ( BCIS ), which existed only for a short time before changing to its current name, U. S. Citizenship and Immigration Services ( USCIS ).

* U. S. Citizenship and Immigration Services ( USCIS ) of the DHS

The Spanish-language logo of the U. S. Citizenship and Immigration Services

Simpson also implemented their new Engaged Citizenship Curriculum, which is largely based on the AAC & U LEAP intiative.

International students often have unique financial diffulties such as high costs to visit their families back home, support of a family not allowed to work due to immigration laws, tuition that is expensive by world standards, and large fees: visa fees by U. S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, and surveillance fees under the Student and Exchange Visitor Program of the United States Department of Homeland Security.

698, the Citizenship Reform Act, which would eliminate birthright citizenship for illegal aliens in the U. S. The 14th Amendment begins " All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States ...." Deal's argument is that illegal aliens ( and their children ) are not subject to U. S. jurisdiction.

" The U. S. Citizenship and Immigration Services gives " New York Harbor " and " Liberty Island " as preferred answers, but notes that " New Jersey ," " near New York City ," and " on the Hudson " are acceptable.

* 360 is the U. S. Citizenship and Immigration Services I-form Petition for Amerasian, Widow ( er ), or Special Immigrant.

INS was decommissioned in March 2003 when its operations were divided between CBP, United States Citizenship and Immigration Services, and U. S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

In response to public reaction against illegal immigration and fears that U. S .- born children of illegal immigrants could serve as links to permit legal residency and eventual citizenship for family members who would otherwise be ineligible to remain in the country, bills have been introduced from time to time in Congress which have challenged the conventional interpretation of the Citizenship Clause and have sought ( thus far unsuccessfully ) to actively and explicitly deny citizenship at birth to U. S .- born children of foreign visitors or illegal aliens.

1868, by Representative Nathan Deal of Georgia — was an attempt to exclude U. S .- born children of illegal immigrants from being considered subject to the jurisdiction of the United States for purposes of the Citizenship Clause.