To protect Rhodesia against an imagined invasion, convoys of troops were ordered to dig in along the Zambesi River border with Zambia, causing President Kenneth Kaunda nervously to declare a state ...

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.

JOHANNESBURG, South Africa -- Ian Smith, the last white minority leader of Rhodesia, who vowed that blacks would not rule his country "in a thousand years," died Tuesday in a clinic outside Cape ...

Not in Rhodesia, however. In Zambia ... Tanzania’s President Julius Nyerere, who had broken off relations with Britain, demanded that the British use civilians instead of military personnel for ...

Ian Smith, the former prime minister of Britain's rebellious colony of Rhodesia, who once promised that white rule in Africa would endure for 1,000 years, died Tuesday in South Africa. He was 88 ...