European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 28, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse                                The St and St wipes Fum Ltd by May Colleg tuition Aid plan underwire critics say Middle class getting left out by Karen of Witt taif new York time Washington the Bush administration will submit a plan to Congress this week to increase Federal College tuition Grants for the poor anti  them for about 400,000 students whose families earn More than $10,000 a year. The plan which would begin in fiscal 1994, has already met with heavy criticism in Congress As lawmakers prepare to take up the plan which is part of an overhaul of the Federal higher education act Many Are sharply divided with the administration Over who should Benefit front Federal Aid for a College education the poor and Middle class or Only the very poor. The chief Federal program for undergraduates known As fell Grants now provides $5.3 billion in Aid to 3.4 million col lege student. Mostly from families earning $35, a year or less. The Bush administrations plan would eliminate nearly 12 percent from eligibility. In All Federal programs provide $11.6 billion in Grants and Loans to 6 million students at nearly 8.500 institutions across the nation. Although Only the Broad outlines of the administrations proposal have been made Public education Secretary Lamar Alexander told House speaker Thomas by attending less expensive state and s. Foley last month that it would seek to Community colleges where yearly tuition month. Alexander testified that Given Bud get restraints the administration preferred to focus Aid on the poorest students to give them Access to higher education. A we want to concentrate student financial Aid on the lowest income families a Alexander said. A a that a putting our Money where it will do the  while borrowing to pay for a College education was a never easy Quot he said mid dle income student s can minimize Loans raise the maximum Pell Grant by 54 per cent to $3,700 a year. Total spending on higher education would increase to $12.6 billion in fiscal 1992 from $11 billion in 1991, but the number of students who receive financial Aid would drop from 6 million to 5.7 million. At a House subcommittee hearing this is $2,000 or less. But leading members of d l Ord. I Mich. Chairman of the House. Education and labor subcommittee responsible Lor Aid to higher education. L Ord a panel is holding hearings in the next several months  reauthorization of the higher education act of 1986. Liven some republicans have been critical of the administration proposal. Rep. Marge Roukema r-n.j., said the administration plan a would present a serious erosion of Middle class students and their Access Quot to higher education. The main purpose of the higher education act is to Aid College students bang the drum quietly Mitchel Valdez 5, heats the Bass drum while his 3-year-old brother Gregory takes a break from saturdays Indianapolis 500 festival Parade they both belong to the boy scout band. See stories on the race in sports. By Lawrence k. Altman the new York times Washington a vice president Dan Quayle a wonders whether the thyroid ailment that struck president Bush and his wife May be linked to the a a ancient plumbing in the vice presidential residence Quayle a press Secretary says. When Bush was vice president from january 1.981 to january 1989, the Bushes lived at the Century old House on the grounds of the naval Observatory in Northwestern Washington. The thyroid condition Graves disease was diagnosed first in Barbara Bush and then the president after they moved to the White House in what doctors called an extraordinary coincidence. Now Quayle and his wife Marilyn Are wondering whether the plumbing might have had something to do with it said the spokesman David c. Beckwith. A at this Point it is just talk a said Beckwith. He added that the Quayle might ask whether it would be prudent for engineers to inspect the House which has Lead pipes. Although it is rare for both husband and wife to contract Graves disease since it is not known to he communicable scientists have never linked it to Lead. The disease named for a 19th-Century Irish physician is a disorder that forces the thyroid gland to produce excess hormone. It has caused double vision in mrs. Bush and an irregular heartbeat in the president. The president is being treated with iodine drops after swallowing a radioactive iodine cocktail May 9 White House doctors have declined to comments recently on mrs. Bush scare. Independent scientific reports have linked it to a common bacterium Persinia enteric Oliviea. And a virus. But the findings have not been confirmed. Researchers who reported evidence of a virus said it appeared to be of a it Emily known As retroviruses but the scientists were not Able to identify a specific retrovirus. Congress say they will not go along with a through federally guaranteed Loans and proposal that essentially transforms a direct Grants. Major part of the higher education pack sen. Claiborne Pell or a for whom age into a poverty program. The Grant program was named said that the a emr. Joe six pack does no to want to sup administrations plan was a moving in report programs that his family does no to seem Eisely the wrong directions and that larger to get anything from a said rep. William Grants for More students were  Blaze forces Camp Road to be shut from wire reports Cooper Landing Alaska a raging a wildfire forced the emergency  of a major Highway and the evacuation of 200 memorial Day campers in the Kenai National wild Etc Refuge. A. By mid Altemoos officials had ordered the campers out of the hidden Lake area and the Midden Lake Campground after the fire reached the Kenai River near Skislak Lake. By 4 p.m., the fire had jumped the Kenai River and Alaska state troopers ordered the Sterling Highway closed. The Highway links Anchorage and Kenai. It is heavily travelled especially on Holiday weekends. 1 he fire had burned about 6,000 acres by sunday afternoon up from 4,900 acres by saturday. About 275 firefighters were on the lines sunday. One firefight or reportedly suffered minor Burns saturday hut no other injuries were reported. Two air tankers and five helicopters were helping to fight the Blaze.23 Hurt in prison fire Attica . A Twenty three officers and inmates have suffered minor injuries in a cell fire. At the Attica correctional facility. A prison officials said 16 officers and seven inmates were treated for smoke inhalation after saturdays fire in the d Block.  is under investigation. ,. One cell was damaged by fire and two others in the Honor Block suffered water damage. The prison fire department extinguished the Blaze. Officials ruled out electrical defects As a cause of the fire but said it started near some cell wiring and damaged the electrical system in the  be got 22 cells on that circuit that we cannot use temporarily,�?T.�?T said state corrections department spokesman James Flateau. He said the electrical circuit controls the opening and Locking of Cellblock doors. The fire came nearly a year after a major Dis turbanic at the maximum Security  journalists criticized or is Barre a. A reporter commen Ruf in a Schorr accused television journalists of blurring the line Between fantasy and reality in tr>nig.t0 Nia a news More entertaining than life. It is a world where a journalist forced to use the tools and techniques of entertainment finds reality under constant threat in the ceaseless of tort Tor something More dramatic More confrontational and More violent than what usually happens in real life a he told graduates of Wilkes University on saturday. Lisbeth Bamberger Schorr received honorary degrees from the University in Eastern Pennsylvania