Word: caribbean
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...flunkies spring hurler "Wild Thing" Vaughn (Charlie Sheen) from the slammer, take a veteran catcher (Tom Berenger) out of exile from the Mexican Leagues and find a voo-doo-worshipping Caribbean slugger (Dennis Haysbert), who can slam fast balls into left field but fans at any curve ball...
According to officials, Constanzo commissioned Kilroy's abduction by ordering his followers to "go out and bring in an Anglo male." Constanzo, who as a youth in South Florida reportedly practiced Santeria, the Caribbean voodoo, led the crazed rituals that accompanied the bloodletting. In the killing field, police found dozens of long candles as well as garlic, peppers and scores of half-burned cigars -- the accoutrements of an African offshoot of Santeria known as Palo Mayombe...
...Escaping to any Club Med in the Caribbean...
Quinn noted that the epidemic in most Latin and Caribbean nations is far behind Africa's, but there are troubling signs that it will follow a similar course...
Quinn said poverty levels and a high frequency of prostitution in some Latin and Caribbean countries may also contribute to the transmission of AIDS as a heterosexual disease...