Ian Smith, who died Tuesday at 88, was the prime minister of Rhodesia and an ardent advocate of white rule; in 1965 he unilaterally declared independence from Britain, and over the next 15 turbulent ...

Black African leaders used to call Sir Roy Welensky a white elephant and cheered when the Central African Federation, of which he was Prime Minister, broke up last New Year’s Eve. Now some wish the ...

Turned down flatly by Britain, condemned by an almost unanimous resolution (107 to 2) in the U.N., threatened with sanctions that could wreck Rhodesia’s prosperity, Prime Minister Ian Smith flew home ...

Ian Smith, 88, 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 sanctions and ...

Nov 20 - The former leader of white-ruled Rhodesia, Ian Smith, has died in South Africa aged 88, the British Broadcasting Corporation reported on its website on Tuesday. Here are some key facts about ...

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 yesterday. He was 88. Smith, who ...

Smith unilaterally declared independence from Britain on Nov. 11, 1965. He then served as the prime minister of Rhodesia from 1965 to 1979 during white minority rule. The country failed to gain ...

As a young reporter, David Dimbleby made three Panorama films on Rhodesia between 1967 and 1968, following its Unilateral Declaration of Independence. This three-part series tells the inside story of ...