4 Page 2 - The Michigan Daily - Tuesday, September 11, 1984 ANNOUNCING THE Physicist denies being 1984 TUESDAY LUNCH - FORUMS r s mn libel suit 12NOON AT THE INTERNATIONAL CENTER 603 E. MADISON STUDENTS, FACULTY, COMMUNITY - WELCOME SEPTEMBER 11 "THE SOVIET UNION: IMPRESSIONS OF A JOURNALIST" Speaker: DON FABER, Editorial Writer and Columnist for THE ANN ARBOR NEWS who spent 3 weeks in the USSR and Eastern Europe in June, 1984. SEPTEMBER 18 "PERSPECTIVES ON ISRAEL TODAY" "Settlement and School for Peace for Arabs and Jews in Israel" Speaker: Dr. Len Suransky, UM Faculty member and educator. "peace Prospects in Israel" Speaker: Richard Cleaver, Peace Secretary, American Friends Service Committee SEPTEMBER 25 "KORtA:' FUTURE PROSPECTS AND HOPES" Speaker: DR. SEONG SOO HAIN, UM Professor of Dentistry and Anatomy, from Korea OCTOBER 2 "U.S. ELECTIONS: PERSPECTIVE AND POSSIBILITIES" Speaker: DR. MICHAEL TRAUGOTT, Senior Study Director, Associate Research Scientist, Center for Political Studies, Institute for Social Research, UM Tuesday Lunch Forums are sponsored by ECUMENICAL CAMPUS CENTER THE INTERNATIONAL CENTER CHURCH WOMEN UNITED IN ANN ARBOR ATLANTA (AP)-Physicist William Shockley told jurors hearing his libel suit that atnewspaper article about his genetic theories had falsely portrayed him as a "rabid, anti-black who. is in favor of eliminating the black race." "I am not an intellectual racist or any other kind of racist," the 74-year-old scientist told a six-member jury in U.S. District Court. SHOCKLEY, who shared a Nobel prize in physics in 1956 for his role in the invention of the transistor, is seeking $1.25 million in damages from Cox En- terprises Inc. and Roger Witherspoon, a former reporter for The Atlanta Con- stitution. Shockley claims the article libeled him by comparing his proposal for voluntary sterilization of the "genetically disadvantaged" to ex- periments carried out in Nazi Ger- many. Witherspoon asserted in the article, published in 1980 by The Constitution, one of the newspapers in the Cox group, that Shockely's proposals were "reworked Hitlerian experiments." UNDER QUESTIONING from his at- torney yesterday, Shockley described that characterization as "a damnable, evil lie," and said he believed genetic experiments carried out by German scientists were "hideous and horrible." Shockley's proposal would provide bonuses to certain non-taxpaying in- dividuals of child-bearing age who' volunteered to be sterilized. The amount of the bonus would vary based upon scientific estimates of an in- dividual's capability of transmitting such genetically carried illnesses as sickle-cell anemia, epilepsy and Hun- tington's chorea. In addition, Shockley has proposed increasing bonuses by the amount an individual's intelligence quotient falls below the 100-point level deemed nor- mal intelligence for whites. PREVIOUS witnesses in the trial, which began last Wednesday, have said that would make 85 percent of the black population in America eligible for the program. Shockley, whose degrees are in physics, not genetics, said yesterday that he believes blacks as a group are intellectually inferior to whites as a group because of a long-existing 15- point variance in intelligence scores, which he traces to genetics. On the witness stand, Shockley in- sisted Witherspoon was wrong in describing a goal of his proposal as the sterilitation of a large portion of the black race in America. He said he has never made the statement, attributed to him in the article, that he believes "blacks are reproducing themselves into oblivion. " He has said he views American blacks as the group most threatened by what he calls dysgenics, which he defines as "retrogressive evolution caused by excessive reproduction by the genetically disadvantaged." Under cross-examination, Shockley conceded he had no degree in genetics but insisted that he applied scientific principles in researching his theory. Subscribe to The Daily Phone 764-0558 IN BRIEF CompIled from Associated Press and United Press international reports Romanian leader to visit Bonn BONN, West Germany - Romanian President Nikolai Ceausescu, again defying Soviet pressure, will visit Bonn despite abrupt cancellations of trips to West Germany by two other East bloc leaders, officials said yesterday. West German government spokesman Juergen Sudhoff also said a plan- ned meeting late this month at the United Nations between Foreign Minister Hans-Dietrich Genscher and his Soviet counterpart, Andrei Gromyko, remained "firmly scheduled." Doubts about the two diplomatic contacts with the East bloc were raised Sunday when Bulgarian chief of state Todor Zhivkov suddenly scrubbed a scheduled Sept. 19-22 trip to Bonn. The move came a week after the surprise cancellation of a long an- ticipated visit from East German leader Erich Honecker. Asked whether the Oct. 15-19 Ceausescu visit was now imperiled, Sudhoff said: "I think you already have the answer." He then quoted a Romanian Embassy spokesman in Bonn who said earlier, "Of course the president is coming." Israelis hit suspected PLO camp BEIRUT, Lebanon - Israeli warplanes bombed a suspected Palestinian position yesterday, warning guerrillas against expansion and a Moslem leader. against deploying suicide troops. The Lebanese military command said one man was killed and another wounded in the predawn raid on the town of Bhamdoun, 14 miles east of Beirut in the central Lebanese mountains. The Abu Mousa group - dissidents in Yasser Arafat's Fatah faction of the Palestine Liberation Organization - announced the Israelis had hit one of its bases, killing one of its officers and wounding two guerrillas. The Lebanese command said air-to-ground missiles fired by the Israeli planes demolished an ammunition dump, but it did not say whose dump it was. In Tel Aviv, the Israeli command said its pilots scored "accurate hits" on a three-story building which it said was used as a command post by a Marxist Palestinian guerrilla group, the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine. Scientists approach AIDS vaccine SAN FRANCISCO - Scientist said yesterday they have moved a giant step closer to producing an experimental vaccine against AIDS, following their success in cloning genes of the virus believed to cause the deadly disease. "We think as a result of the cloning that in six to eight months we will have a diagnostic product available, and within that time ... we will be in position to begin evaluating a vaccine," said Dr. Lacy Overby, vice president of Chiron Corp., the Emeryville-based company that' announced the breakthrough. The vaccine would not cure the disease, he said, but would protect healthy people against it. AIDS, or acquired immune deficiency syndrome, destroys the body's ability to fight disease, leaving it susceptible to rare cancers, pneumonia and other infections. It most often strikes homosexual men, intravenous drug abusers, hemophiliacs and Haitians. It also has striken a handful of men and women who received blood from donors with the disease. Using recombinant DNA techniques, researchers planted the suspect virus's genetic material into bacteria and a special class of virus. These organisms then created more of the suspect virus's genes as they reproduced. GM makes broad proposal DETROIT - General Motors Corp., hoping to avert a weekend strike, gave the United Auto Workers union yesterday what it called a costly and "far-reaching" job security proposal that would protect "a significant num- ber" of jobs. GM chief negotiator Alfred Warren said the proposal, addressing the UAW's No. 1 bargaining issue, was delivered in late afternoon. The union caucused behind closed doors at GM headquarters and declined immediate comment. The UAW and GM are working against a Friday midnight deadline, when their present contract expires and a walkout by 350,000 union members becomes a possibility. Warren called the proposal "complex," but not so much that it would prevent a contract agreement by Friday night. He would not release details of the proposal, saying only that GM con- siders it to be "probably one of the most far-reaching and one of the most important offers we've ever made to the United Auto Workers." "We think that it addresses the needs of our employees," Warren said. WMU faculty goes on strike The faculty at Western Michigan University went on strike in a contract dispute yesterday but university officials said they planned to use ad- ministrators and substitutes to keep classes open for 18,000 students. Elsewhere, strikes by more than 2,700 teachers in eight Michigan school districts continued yesterday. More than 56,000 students were affected by strikes in Grand Rapids, East China, Anchor Bay, Saline, River Rough, Gull Lake, Atherton and Bronson. WMU officials said they expected a number of the 740 striking professors to cross the picket line. Other classes would be manned by substitutes and administrators, they said. The walkout came after the faculty union rejected the administration's latest contract offer, officials said. 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