What was going on when I was born?

BAGHDAD, Iraq, Jan. 20 Iraq will maintain its current high level of oil production this year to help developing countries, not to make up for the decline in Iranian production, senior officials in the oil ministry have disclosed.

A State Supreme Court justice has held that New York City bears a share of the liability for damages which could total millions of dollars in the 1973 collapse of the former Broadway Central Hotel. Four persons were killed in the collapse, and about 40 people were injured.

Officials of the United States Olympic Committee said yesterday that they interpreted President Carter's proposal that the Olympic Games be transferred from the Soviet Union as an indication that the United States would go through the "proper channels" in such an effort. The officials said that they would therefore try to enlist the support of other nations to move the Games.

WASHINGTON, Jan. 19 Two weeks after President Carter placed a partial embargo on grain sales to the Soviet Union, the program to ease the impact on farmers remains mired in technical difficulties and threatens both to place a drain on the Federal Treasury and to raise food prices for consumers, according to Administration and private experts.

LONDON, Jan. 20 With the Marsh McLennan Companies considering whether to go ahead with a hostile bid for the C.T. Bowring Company, Bowring executives may be musing about how disloyalty was punished in centuries past.

PASADENA, Calif., Jan. 20 They had to battle off the ropes in the fourth quarter to do it again, but the winners and still undefeated champions of Super Bowls are the Pittsburgh Steelers.

BELGRADE, Yugoslavia, Jan. 20--President Tito's left leg was amputated at noon today to avoid a spread of gangrene that jeopardized his life, his doctors announced.

The New York Region Econometric Model developed by the Wharton Econometric Forecasting Associates of Philadelphia is a computer program that uses 1,500 equations and 1,400 variables to define the interaction of the economy of the metropolitan area and its relationship to the rest of the nation.

PASADENA, CALIF. WHEN the third quarter ended Sunday in Super Bowl XIV, the Los Angeles Rams were leading the Pittsburgh Steelers, 19-17, and as the offensive unit moved to the other end of the field, Fred Dryer stood on the sideline and surveyed the situation.

PASADENA, CALIF. TERRY BRADSHAW seemed to have a tennis ball in his cheek, yet he kept stuffing more eating tobacco into the bulge. "My Christian brethren," said the bornagain Christian, "don't like my chewing tobacco."

WASHINGTON, Jan. 20 The Carter Administration has informed Egypt that it will ask Congress to approve an additional $1.1 billion in military credits over the next two years to allow Egypt to buy F-16 fighter planes and other sophisticated American military equipment, officials said today.

Word has been sent to Bogota and Rabat. Negotiations are under way with Uganda and South Korea. Columbia University is not pleased; neither is New York University.