The latent goal of the Americans was to get the Soviet Union to reduce production of heavy industry.

Since then, while the Soviet Union has not significantly reduced its navy, it has cut back on overseas operations.

Since 1983 the Soviet Union has reduced the number of African countries receiving its military aid to 7, from 22.

The Soviet Union, which is exporting about 2.6 million barrels a day, may also reduce its exports, oil officials from Egypt and Mexico said.

The report also predicted that the Soviet Union would reduce its sugar imports.

The Soviet Union recently reduced the number of crimes punishable by death from 18 to 5.

The Soviet Union significantly reduced the export of titanium during the late 1970s, so the manufacturers of the F-16 used aluminum instead wherever practical.

This ceiling would require the Soviet Union to reduce its forces in Eastern Europe by some 325,000.

Oil analysts say the Soviet Union has reduced investment in the oil industry, which long absorbed 40 percent of the nation's industrial investment.