What was going on when I was born?

Detente or no detente, war at the northern tip of the Persian Gulf apparently was too risky for the superpowers. So when Secretary of State Edmund S. Muskie and Andrei A. Gromyko, the Soviet Foreign Minister, met in ...

WASHINGTON IRAQ'S war against Iran, whatever its short-term implications for the Persian Gulf region, seems to mark another historic turning point in the Middle East. Unless Iraq's military moves suffer an unexpected setback, President Saddam Hussein appears destined to become a powerful political and military voice in the region.

MIDDLEFIELD WHILE the Republican and Democratic candidates for the United States Senate occupy the limelight, Louis Zemel, candi date of the Citizens Party, says he is the "still, small voice" of reason in the campaign.

EL. DOCTOROW is an astonishing novelist--astonishing not only in the virtuosity with which he deploys his mimetic and linguistic skills, but also in the fact that it is impossible to predict even roughly the shape, ...

WADING RIVER EACH weekday morning, Bart Morrison waits with his 5-yearold for the school bus, which will take the boy from his home in Wading River to elementary school in Riverhead--13 miles away.

SALAMCI, Iran, Sept. 27--The Iraqi soldiers sweeping through Iran's southwestern Khuzistan Province are spread across the desert here in a string of tanks, armored personnel carriers, artillery pieces and temporary encampments.

On the first visit to any country there are sights that cannot be ignored: the Tower of London, the Eiffel Tower, the Coliseum, the Acropolis, the Pyramids of Giza. In Ireland the Blarney Stone, the lakes of Killarney and the Book of Kells are musts for most visitors. But when we drew up the itinerary this year for our first trip to Ireland we gave priority to Macgillycuddy's Reeks, a mountain range in County Kerry.

Three months before my husband and I were to leave for a month-long trip to France, his doctor put him on a diet that seemed insultingly anti-gallic--the rigid, highly restrictive Pritikin regimen.

LOS ANGELES, Sept. 27--Ronald Reagan, who had been a strong opponent of Federal loan guarantees to New York City, came out today against a measure that would restrict the city's access to $900 million in loans.

It is a magnificent manor house, according to the advertisement by the London concern of Knight Frank Rutley. It was the home of the earls of Dunraven, in County Limerick, Ireland. Besides the manor house, there are two secondary houses, a farmhouse, three ...

PORT WASHINGTON FOR generations, New York builders hauled away tons of fine white sand from the deep pits near Hempstead Harbor for use in brownstones, apartment houses and even the World Trade Center. Now a pro posal to reverse the one-way traffic and haul coal ash into the sandpits has drawn protests from local environmentalists and legislators.