SOVIET INDUSTRIAL OUTPUT UP IN FIRST QUARTER
  Soviet industrial output in the first
  quarter of this year grew by 2.5 pct compared with the first
  three months of 1986, Tass news agency reported.
      A regular meeting of the Politburo heard that in March,
  industry achieved the average daily rate needed to fulfil
  annual targets.
      Quarterly plans were exceeded in the fuel and power sector
  and agriculture, where output grew by 8.7 pct compared with the
  same period last year, it said. Plans were not fulfilled by the
  engineering and building ministries, the chemical and timber
  sectors, rail transport and light industry, it added.
  

