What was going on when I was born?

A second 16-year-old was arrested yesterday in the murder of Stephen Zwickert,the Queens honor student who was killed May 15 on his way home from a high school prom. The first suspect had surrendered to the Queens District Attorney last Thursday.

NORFOLK, Va., May 26 President Carter promised today to support increases in pay and benefits to retain experienced servicemen, making his pledge to more than 6,500 Navy enlisted men and officers who returned to Norfolk today after almost nine months at sea and to the throngs of friends and relatives who lined the docks here to greet them.

The Koch administration is discussing with Federal officials the possibility of putting into effect, as early as next year, Federal loan guarantees for New York City that originally were not expected to be used at all.

SEOUL, South Korea, Tuesday, May 27--South Korean troops seized full control of the rebel-held center of the southwestern...

HOUSTON, May 26 George Bush ended his grueling two-year pursuit of the Republican Presidential nomination today, and said he would ask his delegates at the national convention to cast their ballots for Ronald Reagan.

A NEW and more systematic search is under way to find the Tasmanian tiger if, that is, there are any of these large marsupials left to be found anywhere...

It was a fine day for a parade yesterday, and there were lots of them, up Riverside Drive to the Soldiers and Sailors Monument on 89th Street, down Metropolitan Avenue in the Forest Hills section of Queens and through Brooklyn's Starrett City and on Staten Island.

MIAMI, May 24 Among the signs that clutter the walls of the Haitian Refugee Center there is one that serves as a somber testament to a continuing struggle: "In Haiti," it says in French, "there are terrible things one does not see on travel posters."

Faced with a weakening economy, business executives, like consumers before them, have begun to cut back on spending, postponing and canceling optimistic plans to build plants and to acquire new production equipment.

GRIM evidence of ancient savagery a mass grave containing the skeletons of at least 486 murdered and mutilated men, women and children has been found near the banks of the Missouri River in South Dakota.

AT 6:30 P.M. on a Friday, students and some faculty members at the University of Nebraska in Lincoln met for a last-minute briefing on a carefully rehearsed exercise that was to take place the following day. The plans called for a simulated incident of international terrorism.