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Page 2 ? September 5, 1984 Dateline THE GAMECOCK Controversial racial to be aired in libel Associated Press Atlanta ? Jury selection gets under District Court for the trial of a $2.5 mil by Nobel Prize-winning scientist Williai Cox Enterprises and writer Roger Witli The trill, expected to last up to six d Shockley with a forum to air his contrc blacks are genetically inferior in intellig his proposal for a voluntary sterilizatio Shockley, a 74-year-old professor err engineering at Stanford* University, el lawsuit that Witherspoon who is black article published in 1980 in The Atlantc ui 11 iv i is. w in 11 iv v ua giuuj;. The article, entitled "Designer Gen described the scientist's racial theory sterilization bonus plan, which Shockly of ending what he calls "dysgenics" evolution caused by excessive repi genetically disadvantaged." The sterilization plan would provide people who agree to sterilization one* u ~ ^ ~ ~ xi i u i ucui mg age. i lie uuiiuj?cj> wuuiu ue parents based on the "best scientific genetically carried disabilities such as cell anemia, epilepsy, Huntington's chc said, provided that no bonuses would who pays federal income taxes. Shockley also proposed in his volunta that potential parents who agree to st $1,000 for each point that their IQ is b Shockley, who won the Nobel prize i in the invention of the transistor, claims ed him in the 1980 article, which incluc "The Shockley program was tried i \\/ ArM \\/or II url-w-?n c^ionf ictc unrlnr f '? vi iu ?? cu u, wiiiwii .iviv.ui i. 11.? uiiuv.1 i government experimented on Jews and fort to study genetic development." Shockley contends in his lawsuit that ed as a 'Nazi' or of approving the Na World War il is comparable to being fal murderer or approving mass murder." Shockley could not be reached for lawsuit, but he has told reporters in the a courtroom hearing "to the degree tha and enlightenment is beneficial." "One factor that did influence me in that the question of race differences is s as repugnant," Shockley said in a recen Terrance Adanson, one of the lawyer H nfornricnc inrl \\/it ln>rcr\r\/An Lv 111 v. i \ * aiiu ?? iiiivi ucviiiicu before the trial. But Witherspoon, who writer in Atlanta, defended his article in filed in U.S. District Court in the case. | FREE ( H Buy any Large Pizza KJI rv r ? //o Irizza raciory ouper with your favorite s( order a med FOREVE I\ I Dine In - Take Out Delivery PIZZA SUBS ? mmmerm way today in U.S. llion libel suit filed ".- ~ n shockley against terspoon. ays, could provide ?versial theory that ence to whites and n program. leritus of electrical aimed in his 1981 , libeled him in an i Constitution, one les By Shockley," and his voluntary proposed as a way ? 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