Caught in the Cross-fire at Bizerte.

Discusses the crisis generated by the Bizerte war and its role in the political upheavals in Tunisia. Increased power given by President Habib Bourguiba to element centering around the trade unionists which favors a more neutralist Tunisian foreign policy; Economic problems of Tunisia; Bourguiba's demand for French evacuation from Bizerte; U.N. Security Council's efforts to address the Bizerte crisis; U.S. position based on a dogmatic misunderstanding of the options it had; Immediate beneficiaries of the post-Bizerte political realignment in Tunisia.