European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - June 23, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Pago 8 the stars and stripes . Thursday june 23,1994 warnings on airman not heeded by James Wallace Seattle Fost  . Air Force psychiatrists who examined Dean a. Mellberg on three occasions during his two year military career recommended each time that he be discharged because of mental problems but their recommendations were not followed Mellberg a a service record shows. It was not until May 23 that Mellberg after he was examined a fourth time was involuntarily discharged for what his record describes As a a personality  at the time Mellberg was stationed at Cannon fab near Clovis . On monday Mellberg 20, returned to Fairchild fab outside Spokane wash., where he had been assigned before Cannon. It was at the Fairchild Hospital last summer that maj. Thomas Brigham a psychiatrist had examined the airman and recommended he be discharged. At tin afternoon monday Mellberg walked into the Hospital carrying a chinese made Mak-90 semiautomatic assault Rifle. His first target was Brigham. When the shooting spree stopped about five minutes later Brigham and three others were dead including capt. Alan London a psychologist who also had evaluated Mellberg. Twenty one others were wounded. Some remained in critical condition tuesday night at Spokane hospitals. Among those killed according to the new York times were Christine Mcca Ren an 8-year-old girl accompanied by her baby Sitter and Anita Linder the wife of a retired Serviceman who was be lived to be in her 40s or 50s. The wounded included a 5-year-old girl and a 4-Ycar-old boy the times reported. Mellberg was shot to death by a Security policeman near the Hospital. Based on a review of cuber go a military record and on interviews a profile emerged tuesday of a Man who could not get along with others. The first psychiatric recommendation that Mellberg was not suited for military service came while he was in Basic training in july 1992 at Lackland fab near san Antonio he had been in the air Force Only a few weeks. Volunteers from Fairchild fab wash., Are among hundreds who donated blood tuesday after the shooting rampage at the base. A Dean fought real hard to stay in the service Quot said Robert Macnaughton director of Public affairs for Wilford Hall the military Hospital at Lackland. Macnaughton said he does not know Why the psychiatric recommendation was not followed and Mellberg was allowed to Complete Basic training. But he offered this explanation a patients have rights. You arc dealing with some very Complex  in August 1992, Mellberg was sent to Lowry fab in Colorado for advanced training As a precision measurement equipment Laboratory specialist. He Learned How to calibrate various instruments used at air Force bases. Mis first assignment after training was at Fairchild in april 1993. Two months after Mellberg arrived he was examined by Brigham after the airman Roommate complained about Mell bergs excessive masturbation. According to Mellberg a a service file Brigham described the airman in a medical report As paranoid and recommended he be discharged. Brigham sent him to Wilford Hall for further examination and treatment because facilities at Fairchild were limited. The Texas doctors who evaluated Mellberg from september until december 1993 also recommended he be discharged Macnaughton said. A they concluded he had a definite impairment in social interaction and verbal communication a Macnaughton said. The disorder started in Early childhood Macnaughton said. Instead of being discharged however Mellberg was reassigned in Early March of this year to Cannon fab. Nearly three months later he was finally discharged against his will. A frankly our doctors had decided he had a Strong sense of duty and patriotism a Macnaughton said. A a there a no question that Dean Mell Berg did not want to get out of the air  officials at Cannon would not say what events led to Mellberg a discharge. The former airman a parents Lois and Gary Mellberg live in Lansing Mich. A woman who described herself As a family Friend answered the phone at the Lansing residence and said the family has collected extensive files about their songs problems in the air Force. Some of the records including medical reports were obtained under the Federal Freedom of information act the woman said. The woman declined to give her name. She read portions of letters that she said were written about Mellberg by his Roommate at Fairchild by Brigham and by the staff judge advocate at Fairchild the top judicial officer on base. A military source familiar with Mell bergs service file confirmed the authenticity of the three letters. Gao protests condition put on arms Sellers by John m1ntz Washington Post Washington a Israel Egypt Greece and Turkey should be barred from requiring . Defense contractors to spend billions of dollars in those countries As a condition for Selling .-financed weapons to them a study says. The practice Means that . Defense workers lose jobs to workers in those nations said the general accounting office Congress investigative Arm. The payments called a offsets a Are Legal and they Are Standard practice whenever . Or european defense companies sell wares to another nation. The buying government demands that As a condition of a Sale the Selling firm must hire local companies or buy goods in that country. Offsets can amount to 70 percent or 80 percent of the Sale Price. Defense companies Settle offset debts in Peculiar ways often Selling or trading them. They have endowed educational foundations and built Power plants and. Roads throughout the third world. Some have had to buy hams from Poland and arrange tourist visits to Greece and Yugoslavia. They have bought furniture and chocolate All Over Europe. Malaysia is requiring Russia to buy tons of Palm Oil to close a Sale of Mig-29 jets. The Gao is raising questions about Only some off sets those in which the United states gives or lends Money to foreign countries under a program requiring them to buy . Weapons. The main recipients a Israel Egypt Greece and Turkey a have received $60 billion in such Aid since 1975. A House Energy and Commerce subcommittee chaired by rep. Vardiss Collins d-lll., planned to hold a hearing wednesday on offsets in those four countries. A americans pay twice a Collins said. A first when . Taxpayers give or lend these nations Money and second when . Firms to win contracts paid for by the . Funds must spend Money there american workers Are losing jobs.�?�. A Joel Johnson International vice president of the aerospace industries association a . Trade group also was critical. A Why should we pay for the privilege of putting jobs offshore Quot Johnson said. Johnson is one of the few . Industry figures who publicly criticize offset demands. . Firms dislike offsets but done to complain  of alienating foreign customers. Quot a of the so billion in military Aid to the four nations the Gao scrutinized a Sample amounting to $11.6 billion. Gao investigators found that As a condition for those governments1 buying that amount of . Gear . Companies had to spend $4.7 billion in those countries a meaning that on average . Companies had to pay Back 41 percent of their contract amount. The report does no to describe deals specifically but Industry sources said a main  its study was general dynamics  sales of f-16 fighters to Israel and Turkey. A while offsets Are an integral part of the world marketplace a the Gao report said a they Are not needed to assure a Sale and May not be appropriate when the purchasing country is using .  the israeli embassy declined to comment on the report. Marvin Klemow a spokesman for Israel aircraft industries a government owned firm said most of the $1.8 billion in military Aid the United states gives Israel annually is spent in the United states not Israel. Israeli firms that get subcontracting business from . Defense companies a learn their keep providing High Quality workmanship at Low prices a he said. Quot a the . Is committed to helping Israel not Only militarily but  Mcdonnell Douglas corp. Declines to say How much it will spend in Israel to ensure its $2 billion Sale of f-15 fighters there but Industry sources say it is in the hundreds of millions of dollars