What was going on when I was born?

TEHERAN, Iran, Jan. 30--Foreign Minister Sadegh Ghotbzadeh said today that "sooner or later, somewhere in the world, Canada will pay" for having smuggled six members of the American Embassy staff out of Iran in violation of "international laws."

WASHINGTON, Jan. 30 (AP)--The Government's index of leading economic indicators was unchanged in December following two months of sharp declines, pointing to a general slowdown in economic growth in months ahead.

WASHINGTON--In the Tungurahua province of Ecuador, it is asserted, "some 16,000 rural families will benefit" from a World Bank loan of $18 million providing farmers with credit, roads, irrigation works, clinics and safe drinking water.

The Westinghouse Electric Corporation, the nation's second-largest manufacturer of electrical equipment, yesterday reported a net loss of $73.9 million for 1979, reflecting extraordinary uranium-related losses.

WASHINGTON, Jan. 30--The domestic steel industry, in the wake of the huge fourth-quarter loss posted by the United States Steel Corporation, is calling for major changes in Federal trade,...

PARIS, Jan. 30--Looking bright and alert, Yves Saint Laurent unexpectedly bounded down the runway of the Hotel Intercontinental after the miniskirted bride, wrapped in a cocoon of white organdy, signaled the end of his spring and summer couture fashion show. This wasn't the recluse or the ailing designer about whom people whispered a few seasons back.

RAY BROOK, N.Y., Jan. 30--The Olympic delegation from China arrived at Olympic Village today, the first team from the People's Republic ever to compete in a Winter Games and the first to take part in any Olympic Games since 1952.

WASHINGTON, Jan. 30--The State Department said today that heavy fighting was taking place between Vietnamese troops and Cambodian forces opposed to the Vietnamese-backed Phnom Penh regime in an area close to refugee camps straddling the border between Cambodia and Thailand.

It is time once again for that biennial New York drama, the city labor negotiations, which formally begin today when negotiators from the municipal labor coalition, representing 215,000 municipal workers, sit down with the city's bargainers. If events unfold as both sides hope, a new contract will be worked out by June 30, when the present contracts expire.

AUDREY LOVE met her husband on the boat from Peking to Tianjin in 1931 when, just out of Smith College, she was journeying with her mother to India "the other way round." When he turned up later in Paris, leaning on a Chinese lacquer cane outside the Ritz, she knew she was going to marry him.