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Fred the Red Shirt wrote:

What was the issue in Paris that the NV refused to accept before
Linebacker II, and to which they agreed afterward?

None. The only changes to the document signed in January 1973 and the one
agreed upon in October 1972 was some wording.


So in 1973 did NV abandon an issue they had been holding out for?
If not, why'd they walk out?

I had thought that the last dividing issue was the presence of NVA
troops in South Vietnam, e.g. the "Parrot's Beak". South Vietnam
refused to sign the treaty unless the the NVA troops withdrew and
NV refused to withdraw them. Ulitmately, South Vietnam relented
and the treaty was signed.

Have I got that wrong?

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FF