‘Cleopatras’ join protest
NZPA-PACarmarthen, Wales Twenty “Cleopatras” — farmers’ wives and daughters dressed as the Queen of the Nile — took milk-baths in tubs towed slowly through the Welsh town of Carmarthen yesterday in protest against proposed cuts in Britain’s Common Market milk quota. The police said that traffic had been snarled for the three hours the I.skm con-
voy of trucks, tractors, and trailers bearing tubs snaked through the town. “Cleopatra was the only woman who struck fear into the Romans, and I think it is the farmers’ wives who can make this Government think again,” said Thelma Williams, aged 45, who sat shivering in 136 litres of cows’ milk clad in a bikini, black wig, and beads. Legend has it that the Egyptian queen bathed in ass’s milk to make her skin more beautiful.
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Press, 18 May 1984, Page 6
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