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.

The failure of the independence negotiations between Britain and Rhodesia in London last week and reports coming out of that Central African country make it apparent that a unilateral declaration ...

The writer comments on her memory of the racial situation in Rhodesia when she lived in Salisbury when her husband was a Cultural Affairs Officer for the U.S. Information Service (1960-63).