Word: import
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Soon. With his penchant for obfuscation, De Gaulle phased out Pompidou in such a manner that the import of the affair was open to varying interpretations. After national elections, the Premier is required by law to hand in his and his government's resignation. De Gaulle used the procedure to dump Pompidou, but then cast the situation in another light by including in his farewell letter an intriguing line: "Dear Friend, hold yourself in readiness to fulfill any mandate the nation may one day bestow upon...
...France. Last week, as the Common Market prepared to take the historic step of eliminating all remaining internal tariff barriers, the French acted according to form. Faced with a worsening balance of payments problem, Charles de Gaulle's government marred the milestone by announcing a protectionist package of import quotas and export subsidies...
...carefully avoided ruling on the constitutionality of the law, but it left little doubt about its opinion. It cited Griswold v. Connecticut, a 1965 Supreme Court decision holding that married couples cannot be prosecuted for using birth-control devices because there is a substantial right to marital privacy, "The import of the Griswold decision," said the Seventh Circuit, "is that private, consensual, marital relations are protected from regulation by the state...
...enforcement officials. Japan, with 100 million people, allows only 100 of them to own pistols, for shooting matches. Britain authorizes their use on pistol ranges and almost nowhere else. But in the U.S., 70% of shooting deaths are caused by handguns. Often the weapon is a cheap, .22-cal. import. In Houston, where 244 murders were committed in 1967, a tinny .22 known as the "Saturday-night special" figures in a disproportionate number of killings. In Charlotte, N.C., foreign-made light pistols are known as "hand grenades" among police because they are likely to explode in the user's grip...
...import boom is the result of a three-year-old U.S. Canadian trade agreement that, by eliminating all tariffs on cars shipped across the border, has created a vast if little-noticed common market now accounting for fully one-fifth of the two countries' $14 billion in annual trade. Traffic within that market runs both ways-the U.S. last year imported 318,000 cars from Canada, exported 239,000 to its neighbor in return...