ABSTRACT
The Paris Peace Agreement was signed on 23 January 1973; a truce went into effect on the 28th. President Thiêu was particularly unhappy with this, especially as it allowed the continued presence in the South of some 300,000 Communist troops. The Provisional Revolutionary Government (PRG) controlled wide swaths of territory in South Vietnam, especially that adjacent to Laos and Cambodia, significant portions of the Central Highlands and parts of the Mekong Delta. The RVN controlled the eastern portion of the country, the cities and most of the Central Highlands. North Vietnamese troops remained in Laos, contrary to an understanding Kissinger thought he had obtained from Tho.1
