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age 4/The Battalion/Monday, November 14,1983 oreans honor First Lady United Press International SEOUL, South Korea — A torus of 2,000 South Korean School children sang “God Bless tmerica” Sunday as a gift to Jancy Reagan in a surprise en- ling to a busy day for the First tdy. While President Reagan toured military bases at the tense " /Demilitarized Zone separating the two hostile Koreas, Mrs. .Reagan watched Korean danc- r jing, met prominent Korean -women and visited an orphan age to which she donated a piano. The visit to the Seoul Boys Town, run by Rev. Aloysius Schwartz, a Roman Catholic priest from Washington, D.C., featured ballet and Korean song and dance performances in the orphanage auditorium. Mrs. Reagan received warm applause when Father Schwartz announced that the new piano on the stage was a gift from her. She threw a kiss to the children as she walked from the stage to " m A. Shanmugam, M.D. DIPLOMATE OF THE AMERICAN BOARD OF INTER NAL MEDICINE ANNOUNCES THE OPENING OF HIS OFFICE at Bryan Professional Building 1301 Memorial Drive Bryan, Texas 77802 SPECIALIST IN DIABETES, THYROID DISORDERS, CALCIUM, CHOLES TEROL, OBESITY, INTERNAL MEDICINE and HORMONE DISORDERS OFFICE HOURS BY APPOINTMENT TELEPHONE 775-1757 IF NO ANSWER 775-3133 an audience seat to watch the performances. At the end of the perform ance, the priest said the children had prepared two gifts for Mrs. Reagan, “one for the eyes and one for the ears.” An 11th grader, Kim Chang Mok, presented Mrs. Reagan with a color portrait he had painted showing the Reagans in traditional Korean garb. Then, Father Schwartz said “Mrs. Reagan, please accept our second gift.” At that, the 2,000 children in the auditorium stood up and sang “God Bless America.” suit and bundled in a black over coat and red and brown scarf against the 30-degree weather, began the day by meeting Lee Soon Ja, wife of President Chun Doo Hwan. The two first ladies stood in the chill by the National Museum on the grounds of the Kyongbok Palace and watched traditional Korean folk dances by colorfully clad Korean youths. As the song ended, the first lady blew another kiss-to the chil dren and left. Mrs. Reagan, clad in a tweed The two first ladies then went inside the museum to tour an exhibit of Korean celadon cera mics, and to attend a reception for 140 prominent Korean and foreign women hosted by Mrs. Celene Walker, wife of U.S. Ambassador Richard Walker. DEFENSIVE DRIVING COURSE NOV. 15th & 16th 6-10 p.m. RAMADA INN Pre-register by phone: 693-8178/846-1904 FEE $20 Course now required New class fills fa by Edye Williams Battalion Reporter When Dr. Hottel-Burchart arrives at Texas A&M this spring, she will have no prob lem filling her classroom. Sev eral potential students, some from as far away as Hearne, Hempstead and Milano, already have inquired if and when the class she will teach will be offered. The course is listed as Ling uistics 625 and is part of the English as a second language glish as a second language be certified in that area. To com ply with the ruling, the En glish department and the Educational Curriculum and Instruction department have revised the certification program. in the afternoon evenings so thost teaching positionstji; working while they their certification. program. A recent Texas Education Agency mandate requires that high school teachers of En- The program, which con sists of four classes for 12 hours credit, has been de signed to help the teacher already out in tne field. Those teachers must go back to school to obtain their certifica tion in order to continue teaching. Classes will be offered late Guy Bailey, assist! fessor of linguistics, program hasbeenine. for a while, but untilili JjQtGnSl\ mandate there wert many interested ] ■ A defensi Bailey said the d* Age n. offered so teacherscani n.m. The co endorsement w «||„ eanor trail they attend classes4 r: discount on . summer, or in foursQ da Inn The otherwise. nre-register ~ Inn at 5 p.n Breakthrough reporte in hydrogen research Former Ticket Defferral and 10% Insurance Discount United Press International LOS ALAMOS, N.M. — Los Alamos National Laboratory sci- firi entists say the successful firing of both amplifiers of the world’s largest carbon-dioxide laser is a benchmark in a national prog ram to produce high-yield ener- Aors seniors vet med :VW«A Don forget have your pictures taken before Thanksgi«d»»S the year xx&mi. booh! 1700 S. Kyle behind Culpe^ located at 1 / wo- ^ Nov . 14 from 6756 or 845-2681 Dec 9 ’ Pavilion Dec. 5-9. m at their office Nov 28-Dec. 2 and at the .ifttu |C.E. Lot, I lecture tonig f rom plentiful hydiv jl* 88 /’ 1 h <i 1 he two 1‘2-beam,,Christian F, tive-sized amplifier^ Everyone is last week for the firstt3L|i integrated mode, viE§g beams delivering powg pUj] n ^ n target vacuum systoj runusv said. The Antares sntag over two acres, w >Ul*w The Dec experiments in coiwt! ^ Paul Ti sion reactions. humanities If uncontrolled,iti wd j S p ea k > lions produce their public, explosions, but saentagi controlled fusion is tli| future productioni |) /r abundant energy. ri OICS. Measurements onl^. lines last week verified:# of 18and20tem«« Dr . D ia watt equals one mi I recei "‘"This event effect^ ^e. h Tlu the completion of tr teac; hing a construction prograi: f orm t j ie , permit initiation of avtm G hi ra d< sive target ex pen men;: a( | ( i ress 0 during fiscal l-M. « architectu Reichelt, Antares o F and a tori manager. ture with “This milestone ( arcitectur have been accomphshede frarnpi the efforts of a lot of n«- he Ross cated workers, he Dec embe are really a terrific teas f uture c \- c Commissioned in 1 cost of about $6D|yt Antares is the fourthgti' Jprfjy) of high-power, short-pus - bon-dioxide lasers develp,-. Los Alamos. , Jd It is part of the natioif Junioi tial fusion program, su; land take by the federal Energy! 1 Associate ment, to study thepte and Dec thermonuclear weap laboratory scale. Ultimately, scientists! OOC1C provide a controllable^ 1 thermonuclear power If mercial application. piede In layman’s terms,tfaj . sodet y^ fusion research is tod 25 ^ ^ terns that will result in every T non of more power fr ^ 1 reactions than is requirdi q [ crate .he power-pro- X mechanism. But theent quirement is enormous may require systems eve ^ subj than Antares. office The hydrogen fuel cat' traded easily f rom wa | must be subjected to' energy to “fuse,” orjotn lei of its atoms. Lasers are used topw ertial f usion by compress heating atoms of deute* tritium — isotopes ofbvi — confined within tiny|* lets known as microbal Mirrors focus the laser on these targets, collapf inner shell and compr ess . fuel, causing the atoms 1 and produce energy. Police beat AH1 AN1 AIL The following incidej reported to the Univers 1 Department on Friday THEFT: ,•< • A blue 10-spe ed ; from between dormit° rl ■ O • A white 10-speed ’ from the front or Building. BURGLARY: • $85 in cash from ar Briggs Hall. • Ceiling tiles from' 1 ford. ARREST: • A person waS f rr nia j stealing four pizzas fr 0 Hu. vehide parked Coun'! } ro' ; AN' AN' AN' AN AN AN Ali lot east of Hart was taken to Brazos OTHER: , ,,i • A man touche , women in the chest an jjl areas when they ' vere «• ’Kyle Field, Univers'd said. The police found Lhe women pl an t0 charges. • A fire alarm on ; floor of Sterling C ' ^| t ») rary was activated, bn 1 false alarm.