What was going on when I was born?

VENICE, June 12 West European foreign ministers reached substantial agreement tonight on the text of a declaration calling specifically for the Palestine Liberation Organization to take part in future Middle East peace negotiations.

A $13.6 billion budget containing $141 million in tax increases was approved late last night by the New York City Board of Estimate and the City Council. It included increases over the Mayor's original proposal in funds for education, the police and possible wage rises.

WASHINGTON, June 12 In the second such move in two weeks, the Federal, Reserve today lowered the rate it charges banks for loans by a full percentage point, to 11 percent.

ALBANY, Friday, June 13--A tentative agreement was reached late last night to subsidize much of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority's $388.6 million deficit, thus holding the increase in New York City's bus and subway fares to 10 cents.

THE Eagles may be the quintessential Southern California rock band of the 1970's, but by now it can claim the status of America's most popular group.

The Chrysler Corporation's financial rescue plan, carefully crafted by Congress over several months, has run into strong opposition from a small group of banks. Many of these are European banks, but a few American institutions are also resisting the plan.

Who would have thought that the insignia of a penguin, a rooster, a fox or an alligator could transport a simple cotton shirt from the confines of a sports arena onto the chests of middle America?

About 10 times a year, in a courtroom at 26 Federal Plaza in lower Manhattan, taxpaying Davids without lawyers confront Internal Revenue Service Goliaths, challenging I.R.S. rulings that the taxpayers owe the Federal Government more money.

There has been a noticeable drop in gasoline prices in the metropolitan area for the first time since last summer's gasoline shortage, New York City's Consumer Affairs Department said yesterday.

Millions of Americans are increasingly concerned with good nutrition and keeping fit. Yet it is not clear that their interest in health and nutrition has spread through broad segments of the population, or even that those people who say they are interested in improved nutrition have altered their eating habits.

Tens of thousands of interstate commuters packed buses and trains yesterday and endured hours of delays on the first day of what both sides said could be a long strike by carmen of the Port Authority Trans-Hudson Railroad.

Martha Wright's singing career has been so interwoven with her relationship with Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II that it was inevitable she should be part of a salute to the musicals they produced.