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' .o.__ ......1. _....., --_.. _ .... ._-...... ,-""'-...... __- . .. ,"' .. _-,..... _- - ( REVIEWS The Plumber's Kitchen: The Secret massive and obviously difficult research fifteen, he joined the regular Army but Story of American Spy Weapons, by which provides good solid data in a field was discharged when his age was Donald 8. McLean, Nonnomt TeebnJcaI which has been prefunctorliy ignored by discovered. Publications, P.O. Drawer N-2, authors not willing to do the homework. He served the Cuban exiles in Florida Wi ckenburg, AZ 85358, $12.95, 8¥.!" x 11", as a gun runner, organizer and guerilla 282 pp., 132 pbotograpbs and The Zambed Salient: Conflict in fighter. When the Vietnam conflict illustrations. Southern Africa, by AI J. Venter, Devin· threatened he reenlisted in the Army and There has always been a gaping hole in AdaiR, Old Greenwich, cr 06870, $12.50, put in for combat duty in Southeast Asia. weapons' history, that of clandestine 5W' x SW', 400 pp. He was seriously wounded when his weapons, and this Venter, a member of the editorial staff helicopter was shot down in the Central very thoroughly of SOLDIER OF FORTUNE and veteran Highlands, where he served with the researched and African war corres· famed First Cavalry Division. After his well-illustrated rtI ll(lf1 II.. ' pondent, evaluates • &IflIIWI In .,..... wounds healed he became an instructor volume goes a long the ideals and at the famed Reconnaissance Conunando way toward filling ~,. - capabilities of the ( Recondo) School at Fort Carson. the void. TIle black African' revo­ Colorado. Since his discharge he has reviewer has read 1. 9 lutionaries, whe­ served with distinction first as deputy virtually all the ther he be con­ and then W'ldersheriff in Teller CoW'lty, works printed in the ~ 't ducting terrorist Colorado. English language raids into northeast Arthur matched wits with the Ton Ton during the 20th Rhodesia or intent century on the Macautes, the assassination trigade of on laying death­ Haitian Dictator Francois Duvalier in subject of weapons, but this fresh volume dealing landmines 1963, to spirit Clement Benoit, fonner held a surprise or revelation on nearly in the Caprivi Strip. Counsel General, out of Nassau to the every page. Primarily a history of what­ A lucid picture is presented of how the safety of the United States. when-why and by-whom of the special Communist world - China, Russia, Cuba weapons developed for the secret Office and Algeria support the Thrust into the limelight by this ac· of Strategic Services (and largely still in revolutionaries with weapons and tivity, Arthur was approached by a group use by the C.I.A.), this book presents training, as the conflict gives every in­ which offered him $90,000 to assassinate technical and historical data in a very dication of expanding into a gigantic race Castro. He turned his back on the entire palatable combination; the hard tech w ...