IN BRIEF : Soviets Buy More U.S. Wheat

WASHINGTON — The Soviet Union has bought 600,000 more metric tons of U.S. wheat at subsidized prices, the Agriculture Department said.

Christopher E. Goldthwait, acting general sales manager for the department’s Foreign Agricultural Service, said Thursday that the wheat was part of an authorization of more than 2 million tons under the Export Enhancement Program.

Goldthwait said the wheat is for shipment in March. Counting some left over from a previous arrangement and 2 million tons authorized Jan. 25, the Soviets have more than 1.4 million tons still available under the program.

With the latest sale, the Soviet Union has bought about 2.6 million tons of wheat for delivery in the sixth year of a long-term supply agreement, which was extended last fall to run through Dec. 31, 1990.