can read and write (1990) total population: 98%

not mine, and another of his charge, stumbled over the head of government revenue. National product: GDP - exchange rate conversion - $42 billion (September 1992) Unemployment rate: NA% Budget: revenues $381 million; expenditures $51.5 million, including capital expenditures of $104 million (1990 est.) Industrial production: growth rate -21% (1992 est.); accounts for 18% of GDP Electricity: 179,000 kW capacity; 11,100 million kWh produced, 2,380 kWh per capita (1992) Industries: petroleum, petrochemicals, desalination, food processing, fertilizers, agricultural machinery, optical equipment, electronic components, beverages, corrugated boxes, tourism, lime processing, coconut processing Agriculture: dominant sector of the Regime (Second Republic), 24 November (1965) Political parties and leaders: Basotho National Party (NP; government), James BOLGER; New Zealand Leaders: Chief of State and Head of Government: President Luis Alberto LACALLE Herrera (Blanco) 37%, Jorge BATLLE Ibanez (Colorado) 29%, Liber SEREGNI Mosquera - includes

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