European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - August 14, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 6 the stars and stripes . Sunday. August 14.1994 bureaucracy cited in killings at base Washington a bureaucratic lapses obscured warning signs that an air Force enlisted who went on a murderous shooting rampage in june was unstable and unfit for military service according to a report on the incident. Air Force Secretary Sheila Widnall re leased findings Friday of a two month investigation into the june 20 shooting that left four dead and 23 wounded and ended when Security police killed the shooter former airman Dean a. Mell Berg. The report also backed Mellberg service records showing that he was repeatedly recommended for discharge be cause of mental problems but the recommendations were not followed. It was no until May 23 that Mellberg after he was examined a fourth time was involuntarily discharged for what hrs record describes As a personality  the scooting incident took place at the Hospital at Fairchild fab Wash. In the stars and stripes 10 year Sago aug. 14,1984 the 1984 sum Mer olympics in los Angeles ended with the United states carrying off More Gold medals than any nation has Ever won. 20 years ago aug. 14,1974 the Senate de sense appropriations subcommittee recommended a Cut of More than $5 billion in the current Pentagon Bud get. 30 years ago aug. 14,1964 the . Com Mander in Cyprus said he believed the current cease fire was Only a breather and predicted further Trou ble Between greeks and turks on the Island. 40 years ago aug. 14,1954 the Senate overrode president Eisenhower s personal plea and rejected a com Promise nuclear Energy Bill to License private nuclear plants and provide More information to . Al lies. World War ii 50 years ago today aug. 14 supported by heavy air bombardment. Canadian soldiers Advance to. Within nearly 5 Miles of Falaise but . Troops at Argenta turn eastward leaving a 20 mile Gap at the end of the Falaise pocket that will allow tens of thousands of germans to escape from Normandy. British planes drop ammunition and other supplies to polish resistance fighters besieged in Warsaw by the germans. Source 2194 Days of War. W. H. Smith or blisters inc. The world almanac of world Wartt. Bison books corp., 1981 a a management review commissioned by Widnall found several problems in the course of Mellberg s air Force career air Force regulations on How to Han dle such cases Are unclear. After an evaluation of Mellberg Las january and because of vague language Mellberg was reassigned rather than Dis charged. Records of Basic training for Allen listens Are destroyed after a Short time. At various Points in his evaluation Mellberg had Access to his records and some parts of his records were missing. Widnall approved several recommendations of the review team intended to Clear up some of the problems that sur faced in the Mellberg card among other changes records on Basic training willbe kept for three years the policy allow ing patients Access to their own records will be reviewed and medical forms in cases where discharge is recommended will be clarified. Computer blamed for delay in guard pay Washington a nearly 1,000army National guard members owed benefits from As far Back As last fall will have to wait until autumn to get their Money. The problem a computer glitch the Pentagon is investigating How changeover in computer systems led to a yearlong delay in payments to some 900 army National guard members anymore than 7,000 vendors nationwide. No theft or fraud is suspected. But the computer glitch led to Between $90 Mil lion and $100 million in delayed pay ments said maj. Toivo Nei spokesman for the National guard Bureau in Washington. " the guard now plans to make Good on the payments when the next fiscal year begins oct. 1. It is a nationwide situation Nei  re trying to get the problem corrected to have everybody paid by Early next fiscal year.,. There is an investigation going on to determine exactly what  1 investigators have concluded that the source of the problem is a computer sys tem at the defense finance and accounting Center at fort Benjamin Harri son in Indianapolis. A spokeswoman forthe accounting Center had no immediate comment. During a changeover in computer sys tems some codes were not properly fed into the system leading the financial people to believe there was More Money in the system than there was. So we spent More than we had Nei said. The payments owed to National guar members involve extras such As enlist ment or re enlistment bonuses and Stu Dent loan repayments As opposed to  of a Range of goods and services to the guard also were affected. Because the guard miscalculated the amount of funds it had available it mad commitments to More purchases from vendors and benefits to guard members than it could actually afford. The Des Moines Register reported the problem Friday. Margarita Espinoza s daughter delivered by caesarean Section rests in a Losangeles Hospital Friday. Mom baby survive it s a Miracle los Angeles a for sever Al Days after she underwent a combined heart bypass emergency caesarean Section and Hysterectomy Margarita Espinoza s Only View of he Newborn daughter was a Polaroid photo by her bedside. But by week s end the 38-year-Oldmother was out of intensive care and had finally seen her tiny 2-Pound, 6-ounce premature baby it s a Miracle. I thank god i alive and i thank god my baby s alive Espinoza said. On Friday or. Ismael Nuno re counted the 6/2 Tricky hours when operating room doctors did t know i the Mother would survive the trauma of heart surgery or if they could save her 30-week fetus. Everybody was really quiet. You could hear a pin drop said Nuno a cardiac surgeon at the Hospital of the Good Samaritan. When the baby started crying everybody started cheering. At least we had one life going. The Deal was to get the second one  Fiat was late monday. By Friday the Outlook was pretty Good. All things being equal the Way things look right now i think we redoing to have two survivors Nuno said. Espinoza had no history of heart disease and was seven months preg Nant when she began having Chest pains and trouble breathing aug. 2.she was rushed to St. Francis medical Center where doctors resuscitate her and determined she had suffered a massive heart attack. When cardiologists at Good Sama Ritan took Over her care monday or. Ray Matthews did some diagnostic tests and found her arteries blocked. Told that immediate surgery offered the Only Chance to save her life and that of her baby Espinoza agreed to undergo the combined triple bypass a Margarita Espinoza 38, recovers in a los Angeles Hospital Friday after giving birth by cacs Arcan Section and surviving a Hysterectomy and heart bypass. And surgical delivery of the child. In addition doctors persuaded Herto undergo the Hysterectomy to keep from bleeding to death because oxblood thinners needed in cardiac sur Gery. Although it would prevent he from becoming pregnant again she agreed because she already had two children 5 and 8. Just 45 minutes after seeing mat thews Espinoza was prepped for sur Gery. Doctors administered anaesthesia and opened up her Chest. Before Nuno stopped her heart or. Mar Dwight delivered the baby. The tiny child needed Brief resuscitation from the effects of her Mother s anaesthesia before she was rushed to the neonatal intensive care  Dwight removed Espinoza s uterus Nuno stopped her heart an performed a three vessel bypass. Espinoza suffered from dissected coronary arteries which occur when a tear in the lining of the arteries allow blood to go into a false Channel and Block off its own flow