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HARARE, Zimbabwe — Ian Smith, Rhodesia's last white prime minister whose attempts to resist black rule dragged the country now known as Zimbabwe into isolation and civil war, died Tuesday at age ...

Jeering at the British demand that Rhodesia’s blacks should be given increased voting rights, ... More than 1,000 black political leaders are either in jail or in isolation camps.

WASHINGTON – Ian Smith, the steely prime minister of Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) who unilaterally declared the former British colony's independence in 1965 and spent 14 years defying international ...

But Northern Rhodesia’s black leaders want total power, and its whites are not prepared to relinquish any. As the constitutional talks in London dragged on for weeks, ...

Donal Lamont, 92, a Roman Catholic bishop expelled from white-ruled Rhodesia in 1977 for opposing its racial policies, died Aug. 14 in Dublin, Ireland, of causes associated with aging.

Ian Smith, Rhodesia's last white prime minister whose attempts to resist black rule dragged the country now known as Zimbabwe into isolation and civil war, has died at age 88.

Abraham E. Abrahamson, 36-year-old president of the Jewish Board of Deputies of Southern Rhodesia and a member of the local Zionist executive since its inception, was named a member of the Cabinet ...