The World - News from April 3, 1987
Former Rhodesian Prime Minister Ian Smith was suspended for one year from Zimbabwe’s Parliament because of statements he made in Johannesburg opposing economic sanctions against South Africa. After stormy debate, the Parliament voted 38 to 10 for a government-sponsored motion to suspend Smith, who defended his right to criticize Prime Minister Robert Mugabe’s government. Smith, 67, led a white settler rebellion against British rule in Rhodesia in 1965 and headed the white-minority government of Rhodesia until it became black-ruled Zimbabwe in 1980.
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