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.

Ian Smith, the last prime minister of white-ruled Rhodesia, has died. Longtime friend Sam Whaley said Smith, 88, died at a clinic near Cape Town, South Africa. He had recently suffered a stroke.

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