European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - December 22, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Friday december 22,1989 the stars and stripes pages operation just cause Marine wanted to get on with the Job we re Here to do. By the associated press a Marine killed in wednesday s . Invasion of Panama had been eager to get on with the Job we re Here to do a Friend said. But relatives of a slain sol Dier who remained in the army despite their pleas say they arc angry. My own opinion i think it was Stu pid said Andriana Perez sister of Cpl. Ivan d. Perez who died during the . Strike in Panama. My father is very very angry. We Don t know How we feel right now " pure. 22. Of Pawtucket ., had been in the army for four years and his sister Adriana said he could t have been happier. He loved it so much she said that when he lost sight in one Eye last year he turned Down the army s offer of an honorable discharge. He wanted to keep  she  told him to get out. He had a Chance. He just really enjoyed being there. Ever since lie was a Little kid. He wanted to be a  meanwhile the wives of paratroopers involved in the operation were told wednesday that their husbands would not be Home by Christmas. There was no Way to Tell when they d be Back said Suzanne Thornton one of the military wives who attended a Brief ing at Fon Bragg n.c., Home of the army s 82nd airborne div. Barbara Rogers said officials con firmed that her husband sgt. Buck Rog ers was involved in the operation which was no Surprise to her. She said officials gave the wives something of a Pep talk. They told us it s like they were train ing for a big football game and this is the football  she said. I know that sounds crazy but it s  Thornton said it was comforting to hear any news. We were worried want ing to Kivow something she said. In Greenville. ., Al Isaak the father of Marine Cpl. Garreth c. Isaak. One of 15  killed in the operation said in a Telephone interview that his son had left on a three month tour of duty in Panama in late october. Isaak based at Camp la june.  had been scheduled to return Home in january and would have turned 23 on dec. 28. Al Isaak said he spoke in his son about a week ago. Two Days ago the family received a letter dated dec. 10. He said he was anxious to get on with the Job they were there to do. Said Bob Jones a Friend who read the letter. Jones said Isaak was referring to . Military intervention in Panama. At the Uso lounge at Charleston International Airport in South Carolina an air Force representative announced that military charter flights scheduled for Early wednesday thursday and Friday had been cancelled said lounge director Peter Wells. We be got a huge amount of people in the lounge trying to gel  Many waiting for a flight to Panama he Saij. Pentagon releases names of 4 killed Washington api the Penta gon wednesday released the names of four of the 15 sen iceman killed in action in Panama. Additionally 59 people were wounded one w As missing and an unidentified female civilian dependent was reported killed. Here arc those identified Cpl. Garreth c. Isaak. A Marine born on dec. 28. 1966, and a native of Greenville.  Isaak entered the Marine corps on May 29, 1985. And was stationed at Camp la june. . Cpl. Ivan d. Perez 22. Of Pawtucket  Perez an army infantryman based at fort Polk. La., entered the serv ice in 1985. Pal. Scott Lee Roth. 19, of kill can. Texas. He was a military policemen stationed at fort Hood Texas. Specialist Phillip s. Leai 21, West Minster . He was an infantryman based at fort Lewis Wash. Pentagon officials said they would re lease the identities of the other casualties after their families had been notified. A . Helicopter Flics Over a burning building quarters Complex in Panama City wednesday. Near the Panama defense forces head japanese language study growing rapidly on campuses Washington a the study of japanese is growing in popularity faster than any other Lan Guage on . College campuses but a major National program is needed to expose students to non european tongues according to a new study. Conducted by Johns Hopkins University foreign language specialist Richard d. Lambert for the american Council on education the study said traditional West european languages Are still favourites among University students. In 1986, 20.4 percent of those surveyed at 13institutions were taking Spanish. 16.8 percent French and 7.1 percent German. Italian was the Choice of 2.4 percent of University students surveyed and russian the Choice of 1.8 percent. But the study released wednesday found that 31 percent of . Institutions where students spend four years do not require foreign language study. More than two out of three University Stu dents 69 percent take no language instruction at All or Only an elementary course. Japanese was chosen by 2.2 percent of students at 11 universities offering it. Japanese has tripled in the last three or four years Lambert director of Johns Hopkins National foreign language Center said. Mandarin chinese was being studied in 1986 by 2.1 percent of students at 10 universities. Arabic was the Choice of 0.5 percent of the students at five universities offering it. While you still get the bulk of students coming in and continuing in French. German and Spanish you arc getting some diffusion in the colleges and in High schools he said. One problem Lambert said is that students take language in the 9th and i oth grades and then it goes allow in the 11 the and 12th grades the final two Steps of secondary education and is not built upon at the col lege  you have got a lot of students getting a Little bit of language he said. What is clearly needed for collegiate level foreign language teaching is a major National Effort dedicated to introducing major change and up grading the  Cha Hdson time in the stars and stripes 40 years ago today. Dec. 22, 1949 movie Star Clark Gable 48, was married to lady Sylvia Stanley the 39-year-old widow of Douglas Fairbanks or. In a Surprise ceremony near Santa Barbara. Calif. 30 years ago today. Dec. 22, 1959 five Western foreign ministers agreed to propose to the communist bloc that general disarmament negotiations be started before the East West Summit conference planned for april 27 in Paris. 20 years ago today. Dec. 22. 1969 East Germany made Public a draft treaty it wanted West Germany to sign in effect giving the East germans full recognition As a Sovereign state. 10 years ago today. Dec. 22, 1979 the United states will ask the United nations to vote economic sanctions against ran president Carter announced. It was another major step in his Battle to pressure that country through peaceful Means to release 50 american hos tages