Called to do the honors from the roadside restaurant he owns, Edward (“Lofty”) Milton, 54, Rhodesia’s part-time public executioner, was professionally incapable of understanding the commotion.

When the British declared their array of embargoes against rebellious Rhodesia, the moment of truth that would bring down Ian Smith’s white regime was expected to arrive when the tobacco crop ...

All mutual trade has been cancelled by Britain, and Rhodesia will be crippled by the embargo on petroleum when her ten weeks' supply runs out. But the consensus of the white populace is not yet ...