INTERNATIONAL NOTES: The Sporting Life

South Africa is finding itself hard put these days to keep its sporting citizens and their money at home. Apartheid laws forbid both miscegenation and public socializing between the races within the republic. Every kind of gambling except horse racing is banned. Even Playboy magazine is prohibited from sale or distribution under the Obscene Publications Act. The natural result of such strictures is that more and more South Africans are beating a path to three adjoining black states for fun and games.

First, the Royal Swazi Casino opened six years ago in the Kingdom of Swaziland's picturesque Ezulwini Valley. It proved...

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