Those less willing to trust the rebels demand direct British rule by an Executive Council made up of British colonial civil servants. They assert that independence for Rhodesia is unthinkable ...

The failure of British policy toward Rhodesia was equally apparent in London, where the House of Commons held its stormiest session since the Suez crisis of ten years ago.

"There will be no African rule in my lifetime," said Rhodesia's Prime Minister Ian Smith. "The white man is the master of Rhodesia, has built it and in tends to keep it." In ...

The Rhodesian army is equipped with armored cars and automatic weapons and backed by an air force with French helicopters and British jets. Even more tragic, Rhodesia holds a strangle-hold control ...

Smith became premier of the British Crown Colony of Southern Rhodesia in April 1964. On Nov. 11, 1965, he issued a declaration of independence.

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 ...

British control of the region extended over successive decades, and area became known as Rhodesia after 1895, with Southern Rhodesia denoting Zimbabwe and Northern Rhodesia covering Zambia.