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PETERSBURG, FLORIDA, MONDAY, MARCH 18, 1985 U.S., Canada to study acid rain together toiPiniaidl Jaslhios Wbt)D( BylWIICHAEL PUTZEL Associated Preu QUEBEC President Reagan and Canadian Prime Minister Brian Mulroney launched their St. Patrick's Day "Shamrock Summit" Sunday with an announcement designed to smooth over the issue of acid rain, the single greatest irritant in U.S.-Canadian relations. The two leaders said they would exchange special envoys to examine the sensitive environmental issue and report back within a year. "Together, we will find an answer to this problem," Reagan said after a half-hour meeting with Mulroney. Mulroney, who stated that the pollution problem was going to be the top issue for him at the summit, called the move "a significant step forward.

The President and I are confident that this approach will produce real results." However, there was no commitment in the two men's statements to a full-scale cleanup program similar to what Mulroney had been seeking in advance of Reagan's goodwill visit. REAGAN NAMED former Transportation Secretary Drew Lewis as his special envoy, while Mulroney named former Ontario Premier William G. Davis. It was apparent that the two envoys will have no authority to act on the acid rain problem, but instead will report to their respective leaders with recommendations. A similar joint effort set up when Reagan visited Canada four years ago collapsed shortly afterward.

Please see REAGAN, 10-A -3" ivX. I In. "Vlr 3X 1 Kjscs'Vir St. Ptrbur TimM LOUIE FAVORITE Debris from homes hit by Sunday's tornado is scattered over residential area on Venice's Peppertree Road. Inside: Conditions have to be right for tornadoes to form, 14-A Photos of tornado damage and map of area hit, 11 -A 300 homes, businesses damaged or destroyed Shultz: Arms pact broken by Soviets Compiled from Times wire WASHINGTON Secretary of State George P.

Shultz on Sunday accused the Soviet Union of violating an existing arms-control agreement and of approaching the new arms talks in Geneva as a propaganda exercise. Shultz said that Soviet development of the SS-24 mobile intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) breached the SALT II agreement's ban on new ICBMs, but conceded that Moscow considers it a "modernization" of an existing missile, which would be permitted. The new weapon is similar to the American 10-war-head MX, which was originally designed as a mobile missile. The Reagan administration, however, decided to base the MX in fixed silos because it was unable to devise an acceptable mobile basing scheme. "TO ME, (the SS-24) is a' clear new missile," Shultz said, though "there are questions about whether in a purely technical sense it fits within treaty language as might be interpreted by a lawyer." Shultz's tone was harsher than that he and other top administration officials have adopted since Mikhail S.

Gorbachev succeeded the late Konstantin U. Chernenko as Soviet Communist Party leader. At a press conference Friday, for instance, Shultz carefully avoided Please see SHULTZ, 1 0-A By MARK M. NELSON St. Petersburg Timet Staff Writr 73, who woke up in time to move his wife Evelyn to an interior wall of their house while the tornado passed.

"But it sure did rip things up." While the Fultons escaped with only a few scrapes, their next-door neighbor, Ja-qub Sieniawski, 66, was killed when his roof collapsed at 346 Peppertree Road. Pepper-tree and Redwood roads were "the most heavily damaged. Also killed was Dorothy A. Tarayella, 65, of Steubenville, Ohio. Mrs.

Tarayella and her husband Salvatore were traveling south on U.S. 41 and stopped at the Albertson's parking lot to catch a nap, sheriffs spokesman Lt. Bill Stookey said. Their camper was destroyed and Mrs. Tarayella 220 houses were damaged, some heavily.

Gov. Bob Graham signed an executive order Sunday afternoon declaring a state of emergency and ordering the Department of Transportation (DOT) to assist with the cleanup of debris. THE TORNADO touched down at the east end of the Venice airport but did only minor damage there. It then moved quickly to the Jacaranda Plaza shopping center, which was virtually destroyed, along with a string of car, tractor and recreational vehicle dealerships on U.S 41 near the U.S. 41 bypass.

The residential area was the last hit. Victims said they could not believe how a tornado that passed through so quickly could do so much damage. "It didn't last long," said Oscar Fulton, "It's one of the worst disasters I have ever seen." McElmurray said she walked the devastated area early Sunday morning. She called an emergency session of the County Commission at the Albertson's supermarket at the intersection of U.S. 41 and Shamrock Boulevard which was in the path of the tornado but escaped heavy damage.

The sheriffs department had set up its command post there early in the day, coordinating more than 20 government and voluntary agencies that aided victims, cleared streets and guarded houses against looters. Officials with the Sarasota County property appraiser's office said 55 houses and 30 businesses were destroyed by the tornado that moved in from the Gulf of Mexico shortly before 5 a.m. Another 200 to VENICE A tornado swept through a heavily populated area of southern Sarasota County before sunrise Sunday, killing two persons, injuring 41. and damaging or destroying about 300 homes and businesses. I The twister ripped through an affluent subdivision called Venice Gardens, tearing off roofs, flipping cars and destroying buildings in a path several blocks wide and more than a mile long.

Officials called it an economic disaster for Sarasota County and estimated damages "in the millions." "It was just like someone had come along and dropped a bomb on the whole area," said Jeanne McElmurray, chairwoman of the Sarasota County Commission. 1 Please see TORNADO, 14-A TV Ban sought on mandatory retirement By IRVIN MOLOTSKY New York Times nd loans vings ed in Ohio to st ay clos Washington Post most of his major achievements." Business groups, including the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and the National Association of Manufacturers, and many colleges and universities favor keeping the current law, which permits nonfederal institutions and companies to establish a mandatory retirement age of 65 for executives and 70 for other workers. THE LAW FORBIDS the federal government to establish a mandatory retirement age for its own employees. Mark A.

de Bernardo, manager of labor law for the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, said that removal of an employer's right to require retirement actually would hurt older workers because "it would subject them to much more rigorous performance reviews." "Instead of a set and dignified retirement age, you would have employers, in effect, forced to fire older workers," de Bernardo said. "They would have to Please see RETIRE, 1 4-A WASHINGTON In Congress, in the courts and before federal agencies, advocates for the elderly are mounting a campaign against laws that permit employers to set mandatory retirement ages. "It is very important as a matter of principle," said David M. Certner, a lobbyist for the American Association of Retired Persons, which opposes mandatory retirement ages.

"Otherwise, you are saying that anyone over 70 is not competent to work. The real question should be whether the person can do the job." Rep. Claude D. Pepper, who is 84, has reintroduced his bill outlawing mandatory retirement. "He wasn't elected to Congress until he was 62," said Pepper press aide Rochelle Jones, "and he feels that if he had been forced to retire in three years at 65, or later at 70, he wouldn't have accomplished Rep.

Claude Pepper, 84, feels that if he had been forced to retire, he wouldn't have accomplished most of his major achievements. Times EH0ES? Earlier Sunday, meetings intensified as the hours slipped by, and at 6 p.m. CST (7 p.m. EST) 17 pizzas and several cases of soft drinks were delivered as Celeste huddled with top state officials and legislators. The governor reportedly was considering allowing about 40 of the strongest state-chartered thrifts to reopen today while keeping their weaker colleagues closed.

That plan was expected to meet widespread opposition from affected institutions, however. Representatives of about a dozen out-of-state banks have come to Ohio to look into buying the institutions, said Jerry Austin, one of the governor's top political advisers, but none has offered to purchase the entire group. Meanwhile, more than 550 calls an hour flooded a telephone hot line set up across the street from the state capitol to answer questions from worried depositors about the bank holiday. Celeste, using emergency powers, ordered the bank holiday at 7:30 a.m. Friday after $60 million was withdrawn from privately insured institutions Thursday.

Federally insured banks and savings and loan associations remained open. THE RUN came in the wake of the collapse nine days ago of the Home State Savings Bank, which has 33 branches in Cincinnati, Dayton and Columbus. Depositors at about a third of the state associations have been protected by the Ohio Deposit Guarantee Fund, a private insurance firm. But Home State losses were expected to deplete the $130-million in the fund. CINCINNATI Seventy-one privately savings and loan associations," jshut down Friday to prevent a run on deposits, will remain closed today while a special session Sf the state legislature considers proposals to yeopen them, it was announced late Sunday anight.

Gov. Richard F. Celeste, who met nonstop tfor hours with legislative and financial leaders, arrived here late Sunday night to make the announcement at an airport news conference. The governor said that legislators will be asked to approve measures that would allow Hosed institutions to reopen after they have applied for federal insurance protection and wet certain financial criteria. The governor told the news conference that hoped legislation would be approved within 48 hours and that the majority of the closed 'thrifts should be reopened "in a matter of days, not weeks." CELESTE SAID he would be "disap-'pointed if many of the didn't open before the end of the week." The "bank holiday" began last Friday.

He said he had presented his reopening plan to about 125 savings and loan association executives earlier in the evening and they indicated general support for it The plan apparently emerged Sunday after Ohio commercial bankers refused requests from the governor to take over the troubled thrifts, and federal banking officials balked at putting the institutions under federal Resigning Fotomat chairman says firm is poised for strong comeback, Monday business magazine Iraq claims its forces killed 1 5,000 Iranian troops in fierce fighting over the weekend, 7-A Ann Landers 3D Bridge 8-D Business 1 -24-E Chess 8-D Classified 9-25-C Comics 9-D Crossword 8-D Directory 2-A Editorials 12-A Horoscope 9-D Jumble 8-D Letters ISA Obituaries 9-B Parimutuels 26-C People 3-A Sports 1 -9. 26-C Television 7-D Theaters 6-D a suburb of Santiago, said the victim had been left homeless by the previous tremor. The National Seismological Institute said Sunday's quake measured 4.5 on the Richter scale in Santiago, the capital. Meanwhile, an explosion briefly blacked out Chile's National Stadium Sunday night as 75,000 spectators were attending a 1 986 World Cup qualifying match against Ecuador, witnesses said. Electricity supplies were restored 10 minutes later.

Chile won 6-2. Another quake shakes Chile; minor damage, 1 death reported An earthquake shook central Chile Sunday, two weeks after a major Chilean quake killed 1 46 people and caused widespread damage. Only minor damage was reported in the new quake, but residents fled their homes in panic and one 32-year-old woman, Mercedes Soto Araya. died of a heart attack as the quake struck, authorities said. Authorities in Renca,.