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.

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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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* 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.

Michael Chertoff, then-head of the criminal division of the U. S. Department of Justice, then directed the prosecutors to offer Lindh a plea bargain, to which, Lindh would plead guilty to two charges: — supplying services to the Taliban (,,, and ) and carrying an explosive during the commission of a felony ().

Elena Kagan, who had presented the government's case as Solicitor General of the U. S. and who was nominated to succeed Justice Stevens, supported Kennedy's ruling in her arguments that pointed out that the ruling spelled out for prosecutors and defendants just how the right against self-incrimination applies in such cases.

U. S. Attorneys who prosecuted Whitacre ; two prosecutors from the Canadian Department of Justice ; several Senators and Congressmen ; Cornell University and Ohio State University professors ; Major League Baseball Hall of Famer Harmon Killebrew ; Chuck Colson ; and numerous top executives of corporations.

The original prosecutors were Herbert E. and Sue K. Hicks, two brothers who were local attorneys and friends of Scopes, but the prosecution would be ultimately led by Tom Stewart, a graduate of Cumberland School of Law, who later became a U. S. Senator.

U. S. prosecutors accused key executives of Daimler, Daimler subsidiaries, and Daimler affiliates of illegally showering foreign officials with money and gifts between 1998 and 2008 to secure government contracts around the world.

U. S. prosecutors further alleged that some bribes were paid through shell companies based in the U. S. " In some cases Daimler wired these improper payments to U. S. bank accounts or to the foreign bank accounts of U. S. shell companies in order to transmit the bribe ," the court papers said.

U. S. District Judge Richard Matsch refused, however, to impose the $ 14 million restitution asked for by prosecutors, saying he would not sentence her to a " life of poverty.

The U. S. prosecutors claimed the accused were writing down number codes received from Atención, using Sony hand-held shortwave receivers, and typing the numbers into laptop computers to decode spying instructions.

In May 2007, the U. S. filed an action against the Holy Land Foundation ( the largest Muslim charity in the United States at the time ) for providing funds to Hamas, and federal prosecutors filed pleadings.

Following her child's death, D ' Aquino was rearrested by the U. S. military authorities and transported to San Francisco, on September 25, 1948, where she was charged by federal prosecutors with the crime of treason for " adhering to, and giving aid and comfort to, the Imperial Government of Japan during World War II ".

As part of a plea deal between the defense and federal prosecutors, federal Judge Dale Kimball gave Barzee credit for seven years that she already has served, the U. S. attorney in Utah said.

" Hitchens responded by standing by his criticism of Sheehan and then defending his deposition to U. S. House of Representatives prosecutors regarding Blumenthal during the impeachment of Bill Clinton and his critical review of Said ’ s book, Orientalism ( Hitchens stating that the review was determined by the 25th anniversary of the book ’ s original publication and not the state of Said ’ s health ).

The 2004 election became a focus of media attention again in early 2007 when news broke that eight federal prosecutors including John McKay, U. S. Attorney for the Western District of Washington, had been fired.

The government prosecutors stated that the military tactics which the cadets were taught was for the sole purpose of overthrowing the Government of the U. S. A jury of seven Puerto Ricans and five Americans voted 7-to-5 not guilty.

Despite many instances of electoral fraud internationally, in the U. S. a major study by the Justice Department between 2002 and 2007 showed of the 300 million votes cast in that period, federal prosecutors convicted only 86 people for voter fraud – and of those few cases, most involved persons who were simply unaware of their ineligibility.

During a sentencing hearing in August 2003, U. S. District Judge Suzanne Conlon told prosecutors they had “ failed to connect the dots ” and said there was no evidence that Arnaout “ identified with or supported ” terrorism.

He has also been accused by prosecutors of profiling Martin, and he is being investigated by the U. S. Justice Department for possibly committing a racial hate crime.

The U. S. Attorney for Nevada at time of the investigation was Daniel Bogden, who was one of seven federal prosecutors forced out of his job by the Bush administration in December 2006.

In 2004, the U. S. District Court for the Central District of California granted Tak Sun Tan's habeas corpus petition, finding that prosecutors had manipulated the jury's sympathy by presenting false evidence.

However, as with most felony offenses in U. S. jurisdictions, a person charged with this offense can strike a plea bargain with prosecutors, and may be eligible for only a misdemeanor conviction.

In October 2011, at the start of the Court's term, the U. S. Supreme Court ( which had earlier rejected an appeal from Smith in June 2011 ), responded to a federal claim filed by Smith saying his right to confront witnesses at trial was violated when prosecutors introduced DNA evidence against him.