The stakes were rising in Ian Smith’s daring game against the British. Rhodesians jammed the downtown streets of Salisbury and Bulawayo in a carefree holiday shopping spree, while shopkeepers ...

As prime minister in 1964, Ian Smith declared what is now Zimbabwe independent from Britain. HARARE, Zimbabwe -- Ian Smith, Rhodesia's last white prime minister, died Tuesday at age 88. His attempts ...

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 ...

Judging by the lessons of history, Harold Wilson’s effort “to get the rogue elephant back under control”—as the Times of London last week described British sanctions against Rhodesia—will not be easy.