saloon album... tear-jerkers and cry-in-your-beer kind of things". Also in 1981, Sinatra was embroiled in controversy when he worked a ten-day engagement for $2 million in Sun City , in the internationally unrecognized "independent" bantustan Bophuthatswana , breaking a cultural boycott against apartheid-era South Africa. (See Artists United Against Apartheid ) Bophuthatswana's president,