What was going on when I was born?

DELAWARE TOWNSHIP THE farms, fields and streams, grazing cattle, sparsely settled land and vast skies remind some visitors to this Hunterdon County area of rural England.

NEW YORK A FEDERAL appeals court has rejected the sex-discrimination charge of a teacher who said the University of Con necticut had refused to give her tenure because she was a woman and an advocate of women's rights.

TEHERAN, Iran, July 26--President Abolhassan Bani-Sadr, in an apparent compromise with his fundamentalist Islamic opponents, today nominated the national police chief, Mostafa Mir-Salim, to be Prime Minister.

The New York State Legislature, now in recess, has gone through another session without acting on proposals either to ease the way for communities converting to full-value assessment or to divert the movement. So far almost a third of the state's cities and towns have made the transition, some under court order.

VALHALLA BALLOONS, crepe paper, records, games, ice-cream sandwiches and a lot of cuddling by mothers--it could have been a child's birthday party.

SYOSSET DESPITE an agreement with the Baptist Medical Center of New York, there are still some obstacles to the transformation of Syosset Hospital from a 221-bed proprietary institution to a non profit, community hospital--a change sought by members of the local community.

From a quay in the seaport of Cobh, I looked out over the sheltered harbor that curved away to the left and right and out to the narrow passage through which the ships sailed to Britain, the Continent and America. Behind the quay, the sun stole in and out of light clouds to play on the greenish customs ...

BOISE, Idaho, July 26--A team of seven plainclothes law officers swept through and searched a Boise television station today, seizing duplicate copies of unedited news videotape shot inside the Idaho State Penitentiary while a riot was going on there this week.

JERICHO, L.I., July 26--Sally Little, the South African who won the Ladies' Professional Golf Association championship last month, said today, "I trust my golf game more under pressure than I used to."

ST. HELENS, England--The torch will be passed at Pilkington Brothers Ltd. this September when Antony Pilkington takes over the chairmanship from his distant cousin, 60-year-old Sir Alastair Pilkington. The event is notable in that Mr. Antony--as he is known ...

LINCOLNVILLE, Me., July 26-- Richard I. Queen stepped out into the cool coastal Atlantic air early this morning, heard the chatter of birds, took in the riotous greens and yellows of a New England summer, then broke into a little jog.