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Show Cheo Myo Suit To Farmington Cheo Hyo Suk, a handicapped han-dicapped orphan from South Korea, will be able to come to the United States to be adopted adopt-ed by a Utah family as a result of a private bill passed this week by the House or Representatives. CONGRESSMAN Gunn McKay was instrumental in obtaining passage of the bill. This bill overcomes two hurdles which would have kept the 15 yeai old girl from being adopted by Mr. and Mrs. Theodore Thatcher of Farmington. The first provision of the bill allows Hyo Suk to be classified as a child despite her being a year older than the Immigration requirements. THE SECOND provision waives the limitation on the number of children a family can adopt. McKay worked with the House Immigration Subcommittee and the Judiciary Committee to bring the bill before Congress before the session ended. Without this action, Hyo Suk would have had to wait until next year to have the bill . reconsidered. Hyo Suk faces extreme hardship in Korea. There, both orphans and handicapped persons are considered non-persons. non-persons. At the Sang Sae Rehabilitation Center where she lives, she has been denied a good environment, proper nutrition, support and love. THE THATCHER family of Farmington hope to provide Hyo Suk with the love she has lived so long without. Mr. and Mrs. Thatcher have six natural na-tural children and two adopted adopt-ed children from Korea. One of the adopted children was with Hyo Suk at the center in Korea. It is the family's desire that the two children be reunited. |