May 27, 1991

Because of holiday production requirements, The Times is printed today in two sections. SportsMonday begins on page 25, Business Day on page 33.

The Bush Administration will submit a plan to Congress this week to increase Federal college tuition grants for the poor and eliminate them for about 400,000 students whose families earn more than $10,000 a year. The plan, which would begin in the 1994 fiscal year, has already met heavy criticism in Congress. As Congress prepares to take up the plan as it overhauls the Federal Higher Education Act, many of its members are sharply divided with the Administration over who should benefit from Federal aid for a college education: the poor and middle class, or only the very poor.

A New Suspect in India The Indian authorities are seeking a man believed to have accompanied the woman suspected of killing Rajiv Gandhi in a suicide bombing. Page 3. Eager to Hear 'Dismissed!'

Ethiopian rebels captured the operational base and headquarters of the air force today, destroying the Government's main line of defense for the capital, Government officials said. Concerned by the steady rebel advance on Addis Ababa, senior American diplomats led by Herman J. Cohen, the Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs, made contact with the rebels in London tonight and urged them to halt their offensive to give peace talks a chance to forge a transitional coalition government, a Western diplomat here said.

Before video rental outlets, taverns, a golf course, a 22-bed jail, a courthouse and holiday gridlock came to this slice of ancient America, the biggest diversion was the crash of waterfalls on granite walls. Overwhelmed by the symphony of water on rock in Yosemite Valley, John Muir, a founding voice of the conservation movement, said, "No temple made with human hands can compare."