What was going on when I was born?

When President Carter suddenly dismissed several Cabinet members and reshuffled others last summer in a dramatic reorganization of his Administration, Rosalynn Carter was widely credited with playing a key role in the decision-making that led to the move.

"They couldn't develop my son's potential." Jonnie Marshall said of the New York City public schools, "and they were well on the way to damaging him as a student."

Negotiations between striking transit workers and the Metropolitan Transportation Authority remained deadlocked yesterday. Both sides held firmly to earlier positions on wage increases and the critical issues of productivity and what the unions describe as "givebacks."

EVANSTON, Ill., April 4--Carlos Torres, a leading suspect in bombings by the Puerto Rican terrorist group F.A.L.N. in New York City, Chicago and Washington, was among 11 people arrested here today, the Federal Bureau of Investigation said.

WASHINGTON, April 4 Unemployment edged upward and total employment declined nationally in March, largely as a result of workers' being laid off, the Labor Department reported today.

WASHINGTON, April 4 Prices at the wholesale level continued to rise last month at an annual rate exceeding 18 percent, but the March increase of 1.4 percent was slightly less than that of the two previous months, the Government reported today.

WASHINGTON, April 4 Fighting between Soviet troops and insurgent forces in Afghanistan has reached an apparent stalemate, with major cities, towns and lines of communication under Soviet control, but with the bulk of the countryside still held by rebels, United States Government officials said today.

Labor negotiations are seldom what they seem. The transit negotiations are like that an interesting ritual in which the characters are not the enemies they seem, in which management and the...

LLANRWST, Wales, April 1 Militant Welsh nationalists have mounted a campaign of arson to drive the English out of their homeland.

BOGOTA, Colombia, April 4 (UPI) Leftist guerrillas released two of the six remaining nondiplomatic hostages from the Dominican Republic Embassy today, but they showed no willingness to free any of the 19 captive diplomats soon.

HAVANA, April 4 Cuba announced today that it would no longer grant safe conduct to "antisocial elements" who wished to leave the country and that it would no longer keep armed guards outside the Peruvian Embassy to try to prevent Cubans who wished to leave from seeking refuge there.

LUSAKA, Zambia, April 4--The leaders of eight black African nations arrived here on Monday, met privately with President Kenneth D. Kaunda of Zambia on Tuesday and signed a declaration Tuesday night to work together to lessen their economic dependence on South Africa. The last of the important visitors was gone by Wednesday morning.