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...Bizerte last week, as French and Tunisian troops observed an uneasy ceasefire, they were burying the dead. On the scene, TIME Correspondent Edward Behr reported...
Seated in a Lincoln sedan flying the U.N. flag, Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjold drove through the battle wreckage of Bizerte. Along the way, Tunisian troops presented arms. When the car reached a French roadblock, a paratrooper flagged down the Lincoln. "Who is this personage?" he demanded. Unimpressed on learning Dag's identity, the private poked his head inside the car, ostensibly looking for weapons. Then he ordered the chauffeur to open the trunk compartment. White with anger, Hammarskjold snapped: "You are probably unaware of the fact that I have diplomatic immunity." Replied the paratrooper: "I have my orders." While...
...pools of blood in the streets. For 24 hours after the ceasefire, ambulances, lorries and mule carts brought out the dead and dying. In Bizerte hospital, the wounded lay shoulder to shoulder on mattresses in the corridors. From a personal count of the dead, I estimate that the official Tunisian figure of 670 is accurate, with 1,115 wounded. Civilian casualties outnumbered military casualties...
...sympathies of the U.S.. torn between big ally France and small friend Bourguiba (U.S. aid comprises 60% of the Tunisian government's budget), was as divided as its arms-which both sides are using against each other. Disregarding U.S. pleas that the dispute should be settled between themselves, Bourguiba demanded an emergency session of the U.N. Security Council, where Tunisia accused France of "premeditated aggression." France's U.N. Ambassador Armand Bérard retorted that the Tunisian events were "tragic and regrettable," but that "a minor pretext was used by the government of Tunisia-some minor work...
...CLAUDIA CARDINALE is a new sex bomb, deliciously ticking. With an Italian father, a French mother, a Tunisian birth place and a Sicilian girlhood, she is a 22-year-old gift from the Mediterranean Sea. with dark hair, burnt-olive skin, perfect white teeth and a profile that drops exquisitely across her Palladian nose, mouth and chin, then pours forward boldly before it plunges past an urn of hips to the floor. Daughter of a railroad worker, she has been to all the right schools: a Sicilian beauty contest, the Venice Film Festival, the cover of Paris Match. French critics...