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 main sources for gem material are Brazil and the U. S .. Australia, France, Germany, Namibia, Norway, and Spain have also produced gem quality amblygonite.

Many, many other Star Trek zines followed, then slowly zines appeared for other media sources, such as Starsky and Hutch, Man from U. N. C. L. E.

Total official development assistance from all sources was more than $ 100 million in 2001, with nearly 90 % of that total coming from the U. S.

* List of Himmler speeches This list of Himmler speeches includes online sources and material in the U. S. National Archives.

Adams sat for the earliest confirmed photograph still in existence of a U. S. president in 1843, although other sources contend that William Henry Harrison had posed even earlier for his portrait, in 1841.

His first film was a puppet play short, A Girl at Dojo Temple ( Musume Dojoji 1946 ), which was confiscated by the interim U. S. Occupation authorities under the pretense that it was too " feudal ", though some sources suggest the script had not been approved by the occupying authorities.

They hypothesize media ownership by corporations, funding from advertising, the use of official sources, efforts to discredit independent media (" flak "), and " anti-communist " ideology as the filters that bias news in favor of U. S. corporate interests.

Provides links to U. S. military sources.

However, for many reasons, fuel cells were not well-developed until the advent of manned spaceflight ( such as the Gemini Program in the U. S .) when lightweight, non-thermal ( and therefore efficient ) sources of electricity were required in spacecraft.

Official U. S. government sources

The U. S. used the codename " Magic " for its decrypts from Japanese sources.

In February the following year, China's alleged role in the campaign finance controversy first gained public attention after the Washington Post published a story stating that a U. S. Department of Justice investigation had discovered evidence that agents of China sought to direct contributions from foreign sources to the DNC before the 1996 presidential campaign.

In 2006, medical exposure constituted nearly half of the total radiation exposure of the U. S. population from all sources.

As a publication of the U. S. Government, prepared by an agency of the U. S. Government, it appears to be mostly available as a public domain resource, but a few items are derived from copyrighted sources: where this is the case, there is an attribution to the source.

There is a constant rumour that the U. S. Army Air Force spared the town due to its scheduled function as a postwar HQ, but USAAF sources claim this to be a myth, arguing that Wiesbaden's economic and strategic importance simply did not justify more bombing.

According to the U. S. National Fire Protection Association, candles are one of the leading sources of residential fires in the U. S. with almost 10 % of civilian injuries and 6 % of civilian fatalities from fire attributed to candles.

On June 22, 1989, Agence France Press referred to " the Chinese army's assault on the demonstrators in and around Beijing's Tienanmen Square, an operation in which U. S. intelligence sources estimated 3, 000 people were killed.

Orange County was formerly a center for the building of warships, and there is still a large U. S. Navy ghost fleet ( reserve fleet ) in Jefferson County-from which currently, many old warships are being cleaned of water pollution sources and then scrapped for their metals.

Of these sources the U. S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission has estimated that within the U. S., approximately one source is lost, abandoned or stolen every day of the year.

) Highly readable guide to the rhetoric of clear thinking, frequently updated with examples of the opposite drawn from contemporary U. S. media sources.

Other sources of cryptic crosswords in the U. S. ( at various difficulty levels ) are puzzle books, as well as UK and Canadian newspapers distributed in the U. S. Other venues include the Enigma, the magazine of the National Puzzlers ' League, and formerly, The Atlantic Monthly.