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Soviet industrial production was 0.1 percent lower in January than it was in the same month last year, with particularly poor results in the key machine-building sector, according to figures released by the Central Statistics Board. Machine-building, a priority sector in Kremlin plans for economic revitalization, was 4.7 percent below target and fell 7.9 percent short of January, 1986, output. The data showed that 77 percent of state enterprises failed to meet delivery obligations, and eight of 15 Soviet republics, including the highly industrial Russian Federation and the Ukraine, produced less than they did last January.
