In 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:
At street corners and in courtyards, hastily covered with sacking or blankets, lie hundreds of corpses. Some died in the first day's fighting and had sprawled in the blazing sun for four days. The stench was overpowering. Everywhere on the fringes of the casbah and inside it were houses wrecked by mortar and artillery fire. Swarms of large black flies buzzed over pools of blood in the streets....
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